Rod Barnes
Rod Barnes
Rodrick Kenneth Barnesis an American college basketball coach and current head coach of the Cal State Bakersfield Men's Basketball program. He previously served as head coach for the Georgia State University men's basketball team of the NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association. Barnes was also head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Mississippi...
excited feeling game guys kids obviously ready realize time
We're obviously going into this game feeling better about ourselves. I think our guys will be excited about playing. By the time we get there, they'll (State) be ready to play, and our kids realize that.
accept believe character choose determines either fight lay
What you do as a family, that determines your character and what kind of person you're going to be. We can either lay down and we can accept this or we can get back up and fight. I told them I choose to fight and I believe they're going to choose to fight.
definitely looking player scholars-and-scholarship year
He's always done what LSU is looking for. To me, he's the Player of the Year in this league. Glen definitely has the numbers, but what Darrel has done is pretty special.
advantage exciting freshman game given intense means sleep sophomore taking wants win
He's been given more opportunities and he's taking advantage of that. So it will be exciting for him to go back, but I don't think it means as much as his freshman and sophomore year. I think it's big to him, but it's not like he's not going to sleep before the game or be all intense about it. He wants to win because I think Bam just wants to win.
confidence looked taking tense
We looked like we lacked confidence and we were tense taking the shots.
action last saw
He was good, not great. You could tell he had not had live action in the last two games. But I saw some aggressiveness.
backup challenged few games good helped knocking last lost minutes played playing point running shots state
He has really helped us and been a good backup point guard, but we have got to get him back playing well. I challenged him after the Mississippi State game. He has lost some of his aggressiveness. He was attacking, knocking down shots and running the team. The last few games he has not played as many minutes as we need him to play.
gave shot
He gave me a look before he shot them that didn't make me feel too comfortable. He frowned.
last ncaa ok
We're going to play in the NCAA Tournament. So this is not their last go-around with me, OK ?
basketball behind focused good inside scoring year
When we can go inside to Curtis, he's good at scoring with the basketball. I've really focused this year on our offense. We're a little behind on defense.
determination games tournament win
We were in a tournament with all of our guys. All of a sudden, we come back and ... we're determined. We win 27 games (in 2000-01).
expect guys
We expect those guys to really come out and get after us.
guys maturity
Those guys are talented; they're young; they're inexperienced. They need some maturity.
confident fight team
We're not the most confident team by our play right now, but we've got to fight through. We're going to keep fighting.