He's basically responsible for history. He had some talented kids, but his ability to get the superstars to buy into my system was absolutely paramount.

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

If he was at a Midwest junior college... he would have ended up at a top 10 program. He wanted a coach that would let him lead. He hasn't lost in about two years. It's not in his DNA.

Brian does an unbelievable job. They weren't going to quit. It got a little scary there at the end.

That was our focus, stopping him. I saw the film from other games and I went, 'Oh, are you kidding me? This kid is for real.' We have two guys who can guard a guy like that and we were lucky we did.