Josh Boone Playing Quotations

When you are a 16 seed playing a 1 seed, you've got nothing to lose.

It's great to see him playing well and great to see him playing defense, doing all the things he's been doing for the last four years.

I realize this will require a great deal of hard work on my part, but believe that I am prepared for the challenge of playing in the NBA.

It's definitely going to be fun. I haven't been able to get back in a long time, but the bottom line is we're playing basketball. It's going to be good to see people, but at the same time, we need to focus on what we need to do.

It?s almost like playing a wing. He runs around a whole lot of screens, he can hit the 3, and I guess this year he?s been in the post a lot more. It?s hard to play a guy who can score that many ways.

That's really going to tell us how good we are. We know right now that we're a very good team. ... All three of the teams we're playing have been playing really well recently. It will be a good test and a good gauge of where exactly we're at right now.

It's just a matter of us really focusing on what we need to do and not letting other outside things throw us off track. I know we've already experienced a bunch of things throughout this year with things happening outside the court and expectations and thoughts about what people should be doing and everything. I think so far we've done a really good job of playing basketball and not worrying about all that other stuff.

It's about time. I haven't been playing the way that I can. Once we established that we weren't going to allow them to push us around and poke us, they got a couple of quick fouls, and once that happens to you, you can't play as physical as you want. Once we saw that, we just took it to them more.

They're on a roll, they're playing really well and it's basically going to be a home game for them. It's going to be a little bit tougher on us, but we're going to have to put everything aside and just play basketball.