Tod Kowalczyk
Tod Kowalczyk
Tod Kowalczykis an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at the University of Toledo. He was the head coach at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay from 2002–10, before accepting the head coaching position at Toledo on March 30, 2010...
court defend execute half means score teams transition
Ultimately, it comes down to a half-court game. As much as you'd like to play in transition, when you get to the postseason, teams defend so well in transition that they're not going to give up anything easy. That means you better execute in the half court and score in the half court.
call heck rebuilding situation whether wins
Whether you call it rebuilding or reloading, you're going to have those years. I was told by (someone) that if you can get 15 wins in a rebuilding year, that's a heck of a deal. So 15 wins in that situation was good.
job
We're going to have to do a better job defensively on Polk.
guarded problem
We're guarding, and we've guarded all year. That's not the problem right now.
besides detroit games guys main mean won
I think we've been in most games -- I mean besides the Youngstown game -- we should have won that Detroit game -- but the main thing is for our guys to be consistent.
against athletic basketball good nice played
We played very good basketball against an athletic team. It was nice to see us get better in some areas.
challenged good josh tonight
We wanted to keep him yielded. Tonight I challenged Josh Lawrence, who is a very good defender, to do that.
bit good job played second
We played a little bit too slow, a little bit too casual, and didn't do a very good job defensively in the second half. We didn't do a good job guarding Polk.
game worst
We probably had our worst game of the year.
basketball best gearing hopefully
We've been gearing for that all year, to play our best basketball down the stretch, and hopefully we do.
foul line shooting six
It had nothing to do with him shooting 8-for-12. It had everything to do with him going to the foul line six times. If he can get to the foul line, he can score.
future striving
It's not about the future. The future is for us to be better right now. That's what we're striving for.
basketball face good great guys minutes played proud
I'm really proud of how our guys gutted it out. Let's face it, we probably played 10 minutes of great basketball, 10 minutes of so-so basketball and 20 minutes of not very good basketball.
days energy enthusiasm excited few game key last preached
The key to that game was our bench. I've been disappointed, not with the play of our bench, but more so the energy and enthusiasm and emotion. We preached the last few days to be excited on the bench.