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
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We had some critical turnovers late in the game, and some of those were when we were trying to get the ball to Courtney.
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They shot the ball lights out. Not much more to say.
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They shot the ball lights-out. I'm sure we contributed to their tremendous shooting percentages, but you have to give them credit.
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You need seniors to on the road. And we certainly needed our senior leader ball handler out there on the court for us.
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It is tough to win with some many turnovers. Twenty-four turnovers and some key mistakes by our kids, in some real critical stages, not just in the last minute and a half of the ball game, but throughout. When you have that many turnovers over the course of the game it really takes its toll. They turn it over 20 times, we turn it over 24. It wasn't a pretty game from that stand point. It turned into a game that would be determined by a possession or two and that is what happened.
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It's nice to have seniors remember those things, and internalize those things that we talked about at the beginning of the season. Having players back makes us a much deeper team, and it makes us a different ball club.
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We were not as strong with the ball as we need to be. They were a lot quicker all over the floor and especially to the loose balls.
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I thought that their aggressiveness on the ball knocked us back a little bit. We haven't been good when people put pressure on us. We know that and we try to do things against it and safeguard for it, but it wasn't enough today.
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I would say one possession here or there was going to determine the outcome of this ballgame for either team. I thought both teams laid it on the line, put great effort out there to make things happen.
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He's doing his part when he's being doubled. He just needs to be a little more aggressive off the ball in terms of when the ball goes up that he go get it and offensive rebound. Sometimes if you feel you're being doubled, you're less aggressive and that's not the formula we want from Courtney after the double-team.
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We had it set up for Daniel. The thing he was supposed to do was make the play, not necessarily the shot. And I thought he made a great read pitching the ball across the court to Dion. I was hoping Dion would take the shot on the catch or off the catch.
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I'm sure he brings some toughness and even some leadership to that group. When you have a guy like that, where you gain some of the intangible things that we gain from a Graham Brown, they're invaluable to your team.
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That is probably going to have some health luck along the way. The team that does not have any serious injuries or defections or (academic) casualties, if you will, in any shape or form.
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Not practicing today probably leads us to believe it might be a stretch for Wednesday.