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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You have to be disciplined, you have to be tough, and sometimes you have to be a little lucky and hope sometimes he's going to miss a couple of those shots. We've seen him before where he's made a lot of those shots and beaten a lot of people by himself. Fortunately for us, we had that performance on our side tonight.
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We certainly tried to turn it up. They missed some shots they would ordinarily make. I thought we brought our defense together where we'd be able to defend and not break down.
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We tried to challenge their shots and not give them any easy shots. We were able to defend and not break down.
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We brought our defense together where we were able to defend and not break down and not bail them out. They missed some shots and we were fortunate for that and certainly I thought we did a better job on the defensive glass.
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We anticipated the post-double. When you post-double, you choose what shots to give your opponent. They chose to give us shots on the perimeter, so we thought we might have a good afternoon. It was something we were looking forward to. ... Tell me we're going to get open threes, I'll take our chances.
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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.
courage saw shots
His courage, the way he put us on his back offensively, was outstanding. You saw him will his shots in. You saw him will us to a victory.
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We panicked a little bit trying to get back with one pass or one possession. When shots weren't falling like they had earlier this season, we were pressing a little bit.
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They probably missed some shots they ordinarily make.
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Daniel has a way to will shots in and will us to victory. His courage and his will were certainly on display tonight.
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They missed some shots and we challenged them. We didn't break down.
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When you look at their team, it looks like they're defending. It looks like they're having some fun.
extend season
We want to extend our season as long as we can. Hopefully, we're going to do very well in the NIT.
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We always know the follow-up of an emotional win or loss is critical. We certainly know there's a lot of basketball to be played, and the focus for us is to stay in the hunt for the conference title.