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
confident gone group side spirited
They look like a very confident and spirited group right now. We've kind of gone on the other side of things.
believe leads might practicing stretch today
Not practicing today probably leads us to believe it might be a stretch for Wednesday.
allowed felt filled freshman gain last ron year
He started a lot last year when we had a lot of injuries. I felt that allowed him as a freshman to gain confidence. Ron has filled in nicely.
certainly chance confidence game moment threat waver
He's such a threat out there. Sometimes confidence can waver game to game and moment to moment, but certainly for us to have a chance on Saturday, he's got to play well for us.
charge older team work
Hopefully, being an older team it can work in your favor. Hopefully, we can take charge of that (opportunity in the NIT) and do very well.
clutch led
He really led us tonight. Those were clutch shots.
early few obviously personnel score shots struggled tough
He struggled tremendously and obviously with some of the personnel that we have right now if he's not going to score well it's going to be tough for us. It started off early that he didn't make a few shots and it didn't get better from there.
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.
certainly chance crowd effort impact mentioned
I mentioned to our players, when they get a chance to interview, they should certainly mention the effort and the impact the crowd had.
basketball believe biggest energy game hurt life offensive pet played players seems taken total
I really believe the way we've played on the offensive end has really taken the life out of us defensively. This has been my biggest pet peeve about basketball in today's time. It seems to be when players aren't scoring, their energy and life to play the total game isn't there. I think that has hurt us defensively.
gained half
The end of the first half was when they gained momentum.