Mike Woodson Last Quotations

Last year we would cringe when he would shoot the basketball. Now his shot looks like a shot and he is handling the ball a little better.

He's grown up. Last year we would have cringed when he shot the basketball. Now his shot looks like a shot. He's 100 percent better than he was last year, but he still has a long way to go.

We defended it right up until the end. I think we made proper switches on their last sets and we were able to get the stop when we needed it.

There are a lot of guys who are probably going to hate me in the next few weeks, ... Mostly because we're going to work harder than these guys ever have. We're going to work 10 times harder than we did last year because we know we have that much more work to do.

I'm pretty pleased with our effort and the way we fought back in the second half. After the nine minute mark (of the third), we kind of went haywire that last three or four minutes of the quarter and instead of coming out of the quarter down by six or seven, we were down by 10.

It's great for us to come in here and beat a team like this. These last two games we haven't cracked, and hopefully that's a sign of maturity.

I feel a little bit better because everything isn't brand new. Last year the coaching staff and the team were all coming in here at basically the same time. This year we've got guys who know what we want and how we like to do things.