Perry Watson
FameRank: 4

"Perry Watson" is an United States/American college basketball from Detroit, Michigan. He played for Eastern Michigan University, graduating in 1972.

In 1977, Watson took the head coaching position at Southwestern High School (Michigan)/Detroit Southwestern High School where he coached, among others, future NBA player Jalen Rose. Watson left Southwestern to take a position on Steve Fisher's staff at the University of Michigan in 1991, coinciding with the arrival of the Fab Five (University of Michigan)/Fab Five of which Rose was a member.

After two years as an assistant under Fisher, Watson was hired as the head coach at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he spent the next fifteen seasons.

Watson took an indefinite medical leave of absence in January 2008. He resigned on March 5, 2008. Perry Watson was an important character witness in the University of Michigan basketball scandal.

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It's just bad. That's all I can say.

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That was uncalled for (by Bailey). He didn't have enough discipline. It gave them a heck of a turnaround.

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He's a clever little player that causes a lot of problems. We wanted to make sure that anybody who wasn't guarding him was paying him some attention as far as helping.

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He's always motivated when he plays us.

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In the first half, he was settling for jump shots. We didn't have Brandon down there (in a 59-53 overtime loss). We were determined to be just as aggressive with them (here). We wanted to play aggressively and put the officials in a position to call it.

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We were our own worst enemy at times. We put ourselves in position to win but put them on the line too much.

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That shows you if we could have had him at full tilt how much better we would have played. We weren't going to play him at all, but he said he wanted to dress and see what he could do.

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That was not a senior play. But the guys didn't lose their composure. I just wish we were healthy. We're the only team in the conference who hasn't been healthy from start to finish.

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