Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher
Stephen Louis Fisher is an American basketball coach who is currently employed as the men's basketball coach at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. Fisher also has served as the head coach at the University of Michigan, where he won the national championship in 1989, and was an assistant at Michigan, Western Michigan University, and the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association...
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Maybe the most important thing is they have more help around them. They don't have to feel if they get behind by six or seven points that they have to bring us back. We have other guys who can score the ball and that has been mentally helpful for the team.
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Illinois took a two-hour bus ride. They had 10,000 people, at least, and we had maybe 500 or 1,000. It was a huge advantage for them.
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It's like anything else. One guy starts saying it, then somebody says 'Well maybe they are going to be pretty good,'
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When you get to the tournament, people talk about you. We've been talked about not only locally and regionally but nationally. If we win, it will be the first NCAA tournament win in the history of the school, so we'll get talked about a little more.
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We believe it is all cleared up now.
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This was my doing. Rather than having eight days between our last game and the conference tournament, I chose to play another game. I'm a creature of habit and I'd rather have a routine that I stay in. Now, we better be ready (tonight). We have to be prepared.
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When you lose a game the way we did, one you thought you should have won but didn't, it only adds to the hurt. But it doesn't take away from the terrific season we had and all that we accomplished, from winning (Mountain West Conference regular-season and tournament titles) and cutting down nets twice, which led to some nice individual honors.
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We're thrilled to be part of the field and we're counting on being part of the field this time next week.
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We've been a good shooting team all season long. I am confident we will shoot here the way we shot when we (beat) Utah (Jan. 14).
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We had a hard time guarding, especially in the post. They made us pay when we didn't guard particularly well. You're not going to win when you allow a team to get 100 points in a league game.
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When we walk through the doors for practice (today), this win is history. We have to get ready for a tough game against Utah.
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We will have a hard time guarding him in the post. And when we sag and double-team, certainly that would open up things for other people.
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This one is designed to fail in seven to 10 years. Then what will be left?
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We walk that line. We need to prove that we are a good basketball team, and from the wins we have a little swagger. But we must be able to manage ourselves because we have a tough game against Utah on Saturday.