Norm Roberts
Norm Roberts
Norman Robertsis a men's college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach at Kansas and is the former head coach of the St. John's Red Storm...
emotional presence
Having Darryl back was a big emotional boost. He's such a presence on the floor.
chance finally happy
We are getting better. We are just happy to have a chance to finally do this and now we'll go from here.
duke team tough tried
We got frustrated. Duke does that to you. We tried to keep our composure, but we're a young team and this is a tough environment.
basket
We couldn't make a basket there at the end.
allow basketball certain everybody good knows limited people syracuse team time
We have a good basketball team but we are limited in certain ways. At this time of year, everybody knows what everybody can do. We have to take those things away from people. If you allow people to play to their strengths, and we let Syracuse play to their strengths, then you know you are going to struggle.
call urgency
We aren't desperate. We won't call it that. We know there's an urgency to win. ... It's not desperation - that's panic.
certain moments
We play very well at certain moments and we have times where we struggle. We have to be more consistent.
attack key moments wants
We didn't have any more timeouts. I just wanted us to attack the basket. In key moments like that, no one wants to foul.
beat contested
It was a hotly contested game. They've got so many different weapons, they can beat you in so many ways.
basketball coming energy far playing putting shoot throughout
Anthony is getting better every game. He can really shoot the basketball, and he's coming into his own as far as putting it on the floor, rebounding and playing with energy throughout the whole game.
attack basket energy half played second
In the second half we played with energy, we played hard. We had to attack the basket and we did.
focused four guys hard kept kids knew playing proud ranked row stayed sticking stuck teams telling three together understood
I'm really, really proud of the kids. We kept telling the guys about sticking together. We went through a hard road, playing four nationally ranked teams in a row and three of them on the road. I'm proud that we stuck together and understood we could get it done if we just stayed focused and did the things we knew we could do.
attention paid proud rebound
We paid a lot more attention to detail. We know we can defend, we can rebound and we can play hard. We did that tonight. I'm really proud of my team.
academic dexter good leaves left personal team university
Dexter has left the team for personal reasons. He leaves the university in good academic standing.