Karl Hobbs Game Quotations

No one wants to come down here for a nail-biter. Yeah, we'd like to make the game easier. ... My life insurance agent would like for them, too.

He was outstanding tonight. I liked how he was able to take control in the huddle, they responded to that. He's a talented player and is playing better every game as he gets more comfortable with what we're doing.

Hopefully they will enjoy tomorrow. Hopefully they will have fun tomorrow, regardless of how the game plays out. Hopefully they'll have a memory they'll cherish for the rest of their lives, and they know they will have a coach that is very proud of them.

He's doing well. Now it's just a question of how effective he can be in a game situation.

Our guys believe at some point during the game, we're going to get ya. Once we were able to get the game back within five and six, then our offense started to take over. We started to execute. We started to move the ball.

Our program is based on developing players. Our players have improved physically and in every area of the game since they've been here. We don't get the kind of players I could recruit at Connecticut, so we have to rely on developing them. We do as good a job as anybody in the country at developing players.

We haven't become a bad basketball team because of one game. It's not anything to start panicking about or anything to be concerned about. We did some uncharacteristic things in that basketball game that we hadn't done all year. Now we have to get back to what we were doing before.

We really missed him today, particularly just trying to establish an inside game to establish a tone. He's a hard guy to replace.

To me, they're the best team in this league. We got to go there we've got to play an 'A' game to win.

Whenever Steve Smith steps on the basketball court, he's the focal point. Everything starts with him. I think the guards played very well off of him and that allows them to be even better players. The nice part about Steve Smith as a player is that he doesn't force the action. Very rarely does he take bad shots. He lets the game come to him.

(Temple) will be a huge game and our first league game. With what we have coming, we're going to be tested. Hopefully, our experience will get us through this stretch.

Our defense allowed the game to be played at a much faster pace and I think that was the difference.

This game will be a contrast of styles. They want to be deliberate, run their offense and force us into a half-court game. We want to run.

This is going to be the toughest game of the season up to date. I think because of the magnitude of the game. I think because Saint Joseph's is 10-10, under .500 in the league. This is a big, big game for them. It's a big game for us. It's a nationally televised game. Plus it's a tight, tight building. They are right on top of us.

I hope we can hurry up and end this game, so we can hurry up and get home. Then I thought about the game and we were doing a lot of things that were uncharacteristic for us. I think the first three shots we took came after two passes and somebody taking a shot. That is not how we set a tone.

I really felt like when we got the game manageable and had the opportunity to score in some situations, we just didn't execute. You have to be able to execute against a team like this.

This has to rank as the number one game since I've been coaching. To end in such a dramatic fashion on these guys' Senior Day, you couldn't ask for a better way to close it out. They deserve full credit for it. They worked hard all game.

This has to rank up there with the No. 1 game since I've been coaching. For it to end in such a dramatic fashion, you couldn't ask for a better way to close it out for the seniors.

This has to rank up with the most emotional game I've coached in. You couldn't have asked for a better way to close it out.

If he doesn't make those threes, the game doesn't look like the pace had any effect on us. He was just magnificent.