Herb Sendek Job Quotations

Cedric just continues to get better every night out. Duke's game plan defensively made it very important for us to go in to him. Our guys did a good job of doing that and he responded with another really good game for us.

He was a great player in high school. Texas did a great job recruiting him.

He did a remarkable job of being out in front with the 3-point shot. I can remember some coaches expressing such disdain for it they almost didn't want their teams to take it.

He did a great job at the point of playing with fouls, and still playing. A lot of guys play with fouls but they don't do anything. They do everything not to foul, but they don't help you. He did both.

I still think we're in the process of deciding our roles. When you go through the season, those roles change. I think our guys have done a good job of coming together early in the season.

I think they're playing very hard. They're really getting after it both defensively and on offense. Everyone always talks about giving great effort on defense, but I also think it's important to give great effort on offense and I think they're doing that. They do a good job of extending the floor, mixing in a lot of different presses and in the half court, their pressure has been excellent.

We always talk about (scoring in transition). We're fine scoring in transition if the opportunity presents itself. Sometimes it doesn't. Tonight our guys did a good job of getting some stops that led to some transition opportunities for us.

We did a good job bouncing back and our guys came together and they battled. I think foul trouble really hurt both teams and especially us with Cedric Simmons in foul trouble. (Simmons) was really only a shell of himself trying not to pick up extra fouls.

We did a good job taking care of the basketball, but we didn't do a good job of putting pressure on the ball to force turnovers.

They run a motion offense with five 3-point shooters on the floor, and they do a good job of spacing and screening. It will really challenge our guys to get down and guard, and perhaps have to do so for 35 second possessions. A really different type of defensive assignment than what we faced last week against Alabama, which was inside-oriented and spaced a little bit tighter.

Eric Williams did a tremendous job in the paint. We really didn't have a counter for his tremendous presence down low. A lot of things revolved around his ability to dominate inside.

They beat us with the dribble penetration and got easy shots, and when they did miss, we did not do a good job on the defensive glass. We have to fight more and work harder on getting defensive rebounds.