Reggie Theus
Reggie Theus
Reginald Wayne Theusis an American retired basketball player and the current head coach of Cal State Northridge. He formerly served as head coach for the NBA's Sacramento Kings and New Mexico State University's men's basketball team. He was also an assistant coach for the University of Louisville under Rick Pitino...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 October 1957
CityInglewood, CA
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First of all, I think that stinks, the schedule. That they (Nevada and Utah State) are travel partners stinks. They (the WAC) knew they were two of the best teams in the league.
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With all that happening, what cost us the game were the errors we made down the stretch. Having to play Nevada and Utah State all over again, I have to coach morale. It can affect your team psychologically.
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It's a real difficult question to answer because they're all very different. This (Nevada) is a more athletic team than Utah State. But Utah State is the best shooting team in college basketball. They're almost a better shooting team than my UNLV team in '77. Almost.
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They're a team that wants to slow the game down. And we want the game to be as fast as possible. So it's really going to be a matter of who can get the tempo going their way.
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They're a team that tries to slow the game down, and we're a team that tries to play as fast as possible. It's going to be a matter of who can get the tempo to go their way.
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I think this is great on a couple of levels because it allows a new coach to have his entire team together and it allows you to have a choice between practices and skill development,
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We took their best shot and never quit. A lot of times when a team is hitting 3-pointers, it takes the air out of you, but not these guys. It shows what kind of heart my guys have.
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I'm not really about having to go back and play them back to back like that. From a psychological standpoint, when you have to play the two best teams in the league two weekends in a row, it can be devastating to your morale and your whole psyche. Losing against these guys is not the issue, it's the psychological effect it could have. It could have a lasting effect if you lose the majority of these games.
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Right now, we're on the verge of something pretty special.
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Really, all you can do is try to take the things that happened to you negatively and try to overcome them.
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You look at it. This is a big weekend for us. If we come away with a split it puts us in a good position to make some noise right at the end.
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There's got to be some sort of grace period to see if there is improvement (for new coaches) before you get hit with a penalty. We've got a new AD, a new president, new programs that we've implemented, and you would think we could get at least one of those penalties rescinded. But we didn't.
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I wasn't sure what he meant by that.
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I wasn't pleased with the 36, but I didn't think it was a dominant 36.