Tim Floyd Quotations

I was really proud of how the guys came back. We were beaten about as badly as you can be last Wednesday.

I gotta believe it gives all of our guys something to look forward to.

I don't know (what happened). I just told the official what I thought and I came out.

If they can't remember that, then we've got the wrong guys.

The only issue he had was getting back to a competitive level. He felt better the second game than he did the first game.

What you do see is activity and intensity with what he's doing. But he hasn't gone to the same place twice, and that's not good when you're running an offense. He's having a hard time retaining everything.

He continually makes big plays at the end of games for us. The pick at the end of the game was something we really needed.

We lost our poise. They did a better job in all areas. They put great pressure on us, we started making casual passes, one-handed passes.

We have to approach it like he won't be back.

Stanford stayed tough. They made their free throws when they were needed.

I think what's important is how we respond to that performance the other night.

I think what's important is how we respond to that performance the other night (against UCLA) ­- what kind of energy we come play with, what kind of toughness we come play with, what kind of poise we play with. Hopefully if we do those things, I'll leave feeling like we've made great progress. Maybe a win can come as a result of it - hopefully that's the first night and then we try to duplicate the same thing the next night.

I'm hesitant to anoint this team at this point, because I have vivid memories of the first two games.

It gives us two practices, and we'll certainly have a chance to try to make some revisions. I don't really know which way we'll go.

I thought that was a key stretch in the game, our inability to deny him the ball.

I thought they played harder than any team that has come into this building.

We didn't rebound the ball well, and we haven't done it well for a while. It's been a sore spot for us all year long.

We must've looked at that clock a hundred times in the last minute and 30 seconds.

We are trying to adjust without Gabe. We're going to have to fight through and see what we can do with this lineup.

We'll try and make some revisions, but I don't know where we will go, yet. We're not a deep team, and we've only been playing six, seven players. This injury could be longer than the next two games; it could be for the rest of the year.

We had good looks early in the second half and couldn't get them to go down.

We don't have a lot of depth. After losing an 11-point lead I took a look at what we had and wondered where our offense was going to come from and rolled the dice.

That was embarrassing. They did a great job defensively. They had great pressure on the guys who score for us and we didn't handle it very well.

We probably played the way our preseason prognostications were. We're not that bad. They were really focused on defense. They didn't let us do anything.

We worked on everything we did poorly the other night (against UCLA).

We were beaten by the better team today, a team that manhandled us on the glass.

We've become one of those teams that has to rely on making shots. I've always loved coaching teams that can shoot 36 percent and win, because they rebound, defend and take care of the ball.

We're more proud of our effort tonight than we were in the win against Oregon State.

The shot chart is the story of the game, where their shots came from versus where our shots came from.

We love it, but it doesn't mean anything if we lose our next eight.

It would be tremendous for the league. Any league would like to have that type of win late.

Ryan has a lot of heart and toughness. He never takes a play off. As a freshman, he plays with great poise that we have come to count on. He really doesn't play like a freshman.

A split is not what we came into this weekend for. We tried to come into this weekend trying to get two.

They totally dominated the boards on both ends. The second chance opportunities were the difference.

Even if he got injured on the first day on the job here and never played for us, we'll keep him on scholarship until he gets a degree. He's not going anywhere. He'll be here and playing for us as long as he wants to.

I'm afraid to praise him. I'm afraid he won't want to play Saturday.

I knew that the core group is pretty talented and they were going to play extensive minutes. We knew that Williams would be back in there. He had a terrific game against us the first time.

That's a lick. That's a blow, losing one of our three big men.

I just told the official what I thought and left. I can't comment on it. I came to the bench. I went to the locker room. They won't let me comment on it.

He took a shot that shoved his kneecap backward.

I don't really gauge them or weight them. I just know when you've lost three in a row, I don't care who you're playing.

I don't recall ever writing a guy a letter (before). I told him in that letter he was one of my top-five all-time coaches that I'd ever watched or observed.

I don't recall ever writing a guy a letter. I told him he was in my all-time top-five coaches.

I don't know if there's ever a good time to play coach (Lute) Olson's teams.

Their athleticism was tremendous. We had no chance to rebound tonight. We forced 28 turnovers, but we weren't able to finish shots in transition. I think 76 points is enough to win a college basketball game, but we couldn't stop them.

It was going to be a tough week with him. They weren't pouting or feeling sorry about themselves today, they were playing hard.

It's a team we don't match up well with. Our inability to rebound has been a problem all year long. I knew Arizona State was going to win some more games this year. It's too bad we had to pay the price. You've got to credit their defense.

We're very guarded about who we are. We know we haven't beaten teams of notoriety and that we caught a brand-new Carolina team on the road so I'm a little hesitant to anoint this team at this point. But we're happy with our holdover players. We're growing and building and that's what we want to do.

We just don't have any depth. Sometimes, we might play five guards. We'll be tiny.

We just don't want to prove them right. At the same time, I don't believe in the word 'overachieve.' I think people are either capable of winning and being 11-4 or they're not capable of it. Our players are capable of playing to this level and that's who we are right now, and we could very easily have been in worse shape without the fortune of a good bounce or two.

We just ended up on the outside, and when you do, you've going to have nights when you shoot poorly. We've got to learn to run our offense through the post. We just didn't get anything around the basket.

We weren't getting anything easy at the offensive end, and that got our heads up.

We just got manhandled on the glass. On their first possession, it looked like they were playing volleyball on the glass. They might have had half of their offensive rebounds on their first trips down the court.

It's been a problem all year for our team. Night after night, when you're on the short end as bad as we were tonight in rebounding, it's eventually going to get you.

There's a reason why this program has not gotten to the level of other sports (at USC). And facilities have something to do with it. This allows us to sell our program in recruiting. You have to go in apologizing, not recruiting. Spending $143 million shows commitment, and that it's not only a football school. And hopefully, it will give us a home-court advantage.

And if he's able to go, we'll start him.