Pat Flannery
Pat Flannery
Pat Flanneryis a former head men's basketball coach at Bucknell University. He was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Pat attended Pottsville Area High School and graduated in 1976. He was a standout guard on the Bucknell team and lead the Bison to several league championships before graduating in 1980. While the head men's basketball coach of the Bucknell Bison, Flannery had many accomplishment. In the 2006 regular season, for example, the Bison went undefeated in Patriot league play. Even more impressively,...
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Teams just haven?t shot the ball well against us. We have five guys who believe in playing defense. They work hard at it. It?s an attitude, a way to establish themselves.
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More than anything, it has been trusting and having confidence in our kids. It has been a lot of fun this year. Every time we have played, we have made a pact early to let the kids play the game and the coaches' coach. That is really what we did all year long. We have changed up some routines to enjoy it more. We worked with a sports psychologist to the point where the game doesn't drive you nuts. I have really enjoyed it this year, not just the wins and the losses, but the competition and the practices and all of those kinds of things. It's a learning process that we all go through.
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Charles used to drag Donald (Brown) to the gym every day. (Lee) worked with (Brown), helped him with his confidence.
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I think we have to take care of the ball in order to get some quick shots against them. They are obviously great athletes, great players. They get the ball up and down very quickly. We are going to have to find a way to work with that so we can get back and give ourselves a chance to defend.
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I'm not a guy that goes anywhere, but tonight I am.
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The biggest thing for me has been enjoying my kids and enjoying the game. It has been a lot of fun this season.
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It was just the kind of thing where we didn't read it well. That was a miscommunication, and they happen in the game.
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It was a great game. The kids left it all out there. It was the kind of game where you thought you had it, and it got away.
They look so big on film. They?re all so long and athletic.
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We just wanted to enjoy it for so long.
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We just had to keep grinding and grinding.
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Brown has been tremendous all year long, at the beginning, I don't know if he was wound up a little bit or what. He made some great plays down the stretch and he really came through at the end.
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You have to keep going and realize it's part of life. In that, we want everyone to share in the things that have happened to us.
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To be honest, we don't know a whole lot yet about Arkansas, other than that they played very good basketball down the stretch.