Riley Wallace
Riley Wallace
Robert Riley Wallaceis a retired American basketball coach who was most recently head men's basketball coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
bobby ncaa playing somewhere tournament
If we have Ahmet down the stretch, I think we're still playing somewhere (in the NCAA Tournament or NIT). And if we had Bobby and Little Matt, I don't think there's any question.
bench change energy games help struggled
If we do change it, Ahmet can give us a lot of energy off the bench. There have been some games where our bench has struggled to give us points, and I know Ahmet can help there.
mentally prepared
No excuses. We just have to get better prepared mentally to play. Mentally, we just weren't in the game.
man ran second
Second half, when (Idaho) went man-to-man, we ran everything to Julian. That's why he got all those dunks.
bit game late playing road running second
Second game of a road trip, and then playing in a little bit of altitude, you don't want to get in a running game late in the game like we did and I think that got to us.
gets stopped work
No one's stopped him yet. You just have to make him work for everything he gets because he's very consistent.
coming games lost move worry
We need to move on. We have some injuries, we lost some games we probably should have won, but you can't worry about that. Our most important games are coming up, and that's in the league.
mechanical plane sat seattle sent waited
The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.
across built confidence early game hard pace saw stop team
Because we couldn't stop them early on and set the pace of the game, they built confidence as the game went on. It's hard to get across to your team that they're 0-8 but better than that, and we saw that.
proven winning
You have to look at them first. They're proven and they've been winning on the road.
bit caught control freshmen game guys lost rest second thompson together
You had two freshmen (Hiram Thompson and Dominic Waters) in there together and we weren't able to rest some of the other guys and I think it caught up to us in the second half. I think we lost a little bit of control of the game right there at the end (of the first half).
five ready tough year
This year is going to be really tough because we have to get ready for five new teams, basically.
last lead
When you only lead on the last shot, it's relief.
defense energy ready run
We have to be ready on defense again. They like to run in transition, and they'll play with a lot more energy at home.