Quin Snyder Good Quotations

Obviously, we had a very small margin for error against a team of Illinois' caliber. They showed us how good they are.

I think he's terrific. He's got such a good base. You look at some guys, when they get in a stance they look like they're as comfortable in a defensive stance as they are walking around. He's strong, and he's real quick laterally. It comes naturally to him. It's clearly something that's important to him, something he's taken a lot of pride in.

We just didn't do a good job of converting those. I thought when we missed those, especially early, we got frustrated. I did feel like we needed to finish better.

I was really happy to see Marshall play as aggressively as he did on the glass. I thought that was a big lift for us, and that's the one reason he scored, too. We've got to have better play from him. It's good to see him kind of breaking through a little bit since he hasn't played as well as of late.

I've been pretty brutally honest with him this past week about the way I think he's been playing, especially relative to what he's capable of doing. It's good to see him respond the way he did.

Not a whole lot of people like us, which is OK. We need to circle the wagons and keep playing. It's like us against the world. Who knows, they may can me, but I'll feel good about what we're doing.

He's just a good player. He happened to have a slump, particularly shooting the ball, at the first opportunity people had to see him play.

The competition picks up, but it's good to get a win and build some confidence while doing that.