Paul Hewitt
Paul Hewitt
Paul Harrington Hewittis an American college basketball coach and the former head coach at Georgia Institute of Technologyand George Mason University. He grew up in Westbury, New York...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth4 May 1963
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Believe me, I understand the whole aspect that kids have to represent their team and their school and their family, but mistakes are going to be made. Because somebody is an 18-year-old basketball player doesn't create a situation where that person is going to make decisions that are any more mature than another 18-year-old.
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My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'
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No disrespect to North Carolina, ... but this was no upset out here today. To be written off was kind of amusing to me. This team has played in big games, has won big games and demonstrated again it can still win big games.
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I find myself very lucky to have this job, and I just want to go out and do it. Coaching in the ACC is privilege, and I've tried not to look at it as a hardship. This is a talented basketball team we have. We shouldn't be 3-8, but we are. We've got to try to do something about it here down the stretch.
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We may not have one name that people can latch on to, so we're somewhat nondescript. But this has been an excellent basketball team the whole season.
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We haven't changed anything. What I plan to do, probably around Oct. 1, is cut back on individual instruction and do more team stuff.
changed cut individual plan team
We haven't changed anything, ... What I plan to do, probably around Oct. 1, is cut back on individual instruction and do more team stuff.
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I remember one game we played and the team was pressing us and I had him bringing the ball up the court. A fellow coach, a friend of mine called me and said, 'Either you're a genius or you're crazy. How do you have a 6-10 freshman bringing the ball up the court? Don't you realize that every NBA team will see that?
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People seem to understand even in the NBA when a really good team loses its players it's going to be a struggle,
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Again, we have a very challenging schedule facing us, and we're looking forward to filling that last open date. Our team is looking forward to making another successful run.
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I continue to see improvement on the defensive end. Over the last three games, I think we're doing the right things. The last game against Air Force, a team that had shot 49 percent, we held them under 30, and to follow up today and hold another team under 30, I like the improvement there.
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The effort level the last couple of games was much better. We've started to get better at holding on to the ball, but we've got to avoid the rashes that we've had that allow other teams to go on a run.
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When you don't do the little things - the boxing out, the transition defense, all the things you have to do - you leave it to a chance or you leave it to a bounce.
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We said if someone's going to beat us, let him be the guy. We didn't want him to be that wide open, but they have a lot of shooters.