John Beilein Hard Quotations

He's getting there, ... It's going to take a lot of hard work. Our hope is that Kevin will be able to outrun and out-condition the centers we play against. He's going to play a lot of minutes if he can do that.

Pitt played tremendous defense on us. We did our best to open looks. It was hard to get them. They frustrate you.

The 1-3-1 is very hard to prepare for in just one day. It was a staple of everybody's team in the 1970s.

With 5 seconds it's just very hard to match their quickness.

Everybody just looks at the stats as the telltale sign. Pitt just played tremendous defense. We tried to get open looks. It was very hard to get them.

The stats tell the story of the game. Pitt played a tremendous game. We'll learn a lot from this game. It was very hard to get open looks in this game.

It wasn't, certainly, a textbook game of basketball. This is the type of league ... it's going to be so hard to win on the road. I thought South Florida just had a great game plan, and really made it difficult for us to do anything.

It was a great basketball game. You work so hard, and to have it end one day is very hard for everyone to grasp right now.

It's been a long time since we lost three in a row. It's hard to bounce back, but it's my job to get these guys to do that.

The last two possessions we did not do what we wanted to do. We were running a certain pattern, and one time we got confused. It just takes one person to get confused, and it throws everybody off. That's just the way it goes. We'll learn something from it. It's hard to do that in that atmosphere.