John Brady Game Quotations

I didn't really make a comment or think the game was over until the nine-second mark. That's when I realized we were going to win the game.

If we could all these people to come to our game tonight, we'll fill it up.

We've got to have a good team defensive effort on him. It will be about how we handle him coming off screens without the ball and how we handle him when he comes off screens with the ball. There'll be a couple of different ways that we'll try to guard him, and we'll see which one works the best as the game progresses and adjust as we go.

He did a nice job. The biggest thing with Tyrus may be his conditioning as opposed to his ankle by game time on Thursday.

I'm sure Billy's telling his guys and they're watching tape, (saying) 'If you're not careful, LSU will board you and jump over you and jump over you and get easy baskets. I'm sure they're trying to eliminate those opportunities as we're trying to create more of them in that game Saturday.

I thought our team was a little casual to start the game and didn't play with a lot of enthusiasm. Maybe they were looking back on the Ohio State game and anticipating what we're doing on Saturday.

I think we kind of quit playing to win and (started) playing not to lose. We had it going. We just didn't finish it off. It's a game we let go.

I thought we had the game won on a couple of occasions. I don't think we played real smart down the stretch. We had some really careless turnovers uncharacteristic of how we've been playing.

We hadn't run it in a game but maybe one time. We happened to work on it in our practice the other day.

There are times during a game when we have five freshmen on the floor. I don't know if there's a younger basketball team in the country at this level.

We won the game because we defended, our press helped us and we got to the foul line and made free throws. I think because we defended pretty good the whole game, we got to the foul line.

Defensively that was a key for us, because you saw the game (Aldridge) had the night before last. And we knew if he did that against us, we had no chance to win the game. So you've got to compliment Glen specifically and Tyrus Thomas as an assist in the way we defended him today.

This is good for college basketball. It makes the game more interesting when good players match up.

The biggest thing with Tyrus may be his conditioning as opposed to his ankle by game time on Thursday. We might just have to play Tyrus in short stretches. As opposed to playing him 12 or 14 minutes straight, maybe he can just go five and we'll take him out, let him rest and put him back in. The more he plays, the better he'll feel and the more comfortable he'll feel. We'll make more of a determination of that as the week goes on.

Darrell is the key for everything that we do. He plays 35-38 minutes a game (officially averages 36.6) for us.

Darrel Mitchell is without question the most valuable player in the SEC in my opinion. He is the most consistent player. Other guys may have had better games, but he has good game and after good game and has not had an off night yet.

I have watched him work every day on his game in some shape or form, ... He doesn't just do it two or three days a week, and his ultimate goal isn't to help us win a bunch of games here at LSU. It's to play at the next level. All those things combined are going to make him a great player.

I have watched him work every day on his game in some shape or form. He doesn't just do it two or three days a week, and his ultimate goal isn't to help us win a bunch of games here at LSU. It's to play at the next level. All those things combined are going to make him a great player.

He's the key to our team's personality. His game is a mix of power and finesse.

They would've been out of the West with four losses and we separate ourselves even more. To their credit, they won a game they needed to win.

It was our two best players involved in the last play of the game with the game on the line. That's what I'm going with. It worked this time. You could probably do it other times and it may not work. But this particular case, we made a nice play.

The first game for us is the most important game, and for me to look ahead, I don't think it would be prudent. We need to win the first game.

I told them after the game that we were a Top 25 team and people just don't know it yet. And I really believed that because of the way we were playing with the youth that we had.

That's the best defense without fouling -- as physical a game as I thought it was -- that we've seen. We drove the ball inside almost every trip down the floor and we shot foul shots six times. That's pretty good guarding to me.

It's an important game for us and an extremely important game for them.

College basketball is something, isn't it? I thought we had the game won on a couple of different occasions when we had 14-point leads. We made some careless turnovers. For about a six minute stretch, we didn't make the proper decisions to close the game out.