Roy Williams Trying Quotations

He works as hard as any youngster I've ever coached. He comes every day trying to do the best he can do. I've said that since Day One.

(Terry) is coming each and every day and working his butt off. He's trying to get better. He's extremely gifted, and the things he's trying to get better at are the hardest things.

Survive and advance. That's what we're trying to do.

Tyler was something in the second half. We talked about trying to drive the ball to the basket and try to get good spacing and I think we did a much better job of that in the second half. We tried to stay fresh on J.J. but he got some good looks and just missed them.

You like the way you can compete and execute down the stretch, but we do feel very fortunate. We thought Tyler was very big again inside, to say the least, and Danny made some big baskets for us as well. Survive and advance, that's what we're trying to do.

With young kids, they don't know anything about what's getting ready to happen. So you have a much better chance of trying to point them in the direction that you want them to go, and this team has been very compatible with what we've wanted them to do.

I'm not trying to take credit for it. I'm just trying to put positive thoughts in kids' minds. David's a tough youngster and one of the best leaders I've been around. Making those shots early when we were struggling to score were really important to us.

As we grow together, man, we just hope there's no stopping us. There's a lot of mismatches. ... That's what this game is all about, trying to find those mismatches.