Tommy Amaker
Tommy Amaker
Harold Tommy Amakeris an American NCAA Division I college basketball coach and the head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also coached for the University of Michigan and Seton Hall University. He played point guard and later served as an assistant coach at Duke University under Mike Krzyzewski. An All-American player, Amaker set numerous records and earned many honors and awards. He took Seton Hall to the post season in each of his four seasons as...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 June 1965
fear game
They made the game interesting and put some fear into us down the stretch.
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They have an opportunity to add to it if we're fortunate to come out on top. To have a chance to raise another banner and for them to win their last game, with two NIT championships, would be a phenomenal achievement. We talked about how we didn't finish strong in the regular season but we wanted to finish right. I can't think of a way, based on where we are now, that we aren't finishing right this season.
basketball believe deserve men michigan news positive thrilled truly university
This is a tremendously positive day for the University of Michigan and our basketball program. We are so appreciative of the news we received. I am thrilled for the young men on our team, and I believe they truly deserve this opportunity.
confidence game kids raise
This game can be fragile, and kids can play well sometimes and raise their confidence level.
enjoy feels
This feels great. But we all know things like this can be very short-lived. But while we're here we'll try and enjoy it for a minute.
floor game
Sometimes he doesn't get enough credit. I thought his floor game was outstanding.
basketball early game played
I don't think that we were sluggish. I thought they played an exceptional basketball game early and that put us on our heels.
giving
I do think right now he's giving us a stabilizing feel.
faced sure team
I am not sure we have faced a team like that before.
bad good severe tough
I feel bad for Lester. I don't know how severe it is but it didn't look good when he went down. But he's as tough as they come.
clutch led
He really led us tonight. Those were clutch shots.
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You need things to go your way when you're down like that. You have no margin for error. And certainly a missed shot or a missed lay-up ... things like that happened for us. And every one of those opportunities that we didn't take advantage of kind of let the air out of our opportunity to make a run at the lead.
You need things to go your way when you're down like that.
ball certainly court leader needed seniors
You need seniors to on the road. And we certainly needed our senior leader ball handler out there on the court for us.