Our whole focus was to wear him down and make him play defense. We wanted to make him work for everything he got on offense.

290

He has great hands. We have worked on his foot work in a lot of agility drills. He does have a nice soft tough, which is rare for big guy. He's 10 times better than he was last year and he'll continue to improve.

230

We got word that our [fan] bus was supposed to leave at 6:15 a.m. and they didn't leave until a quarter to 7. So we knew they were going to be a little late.

201

Our interior size helped us a lot.

175

We see that every day.

136

Our whole purpose was to try to wear him down and make him play defense and to make him work for everything he got offensively. Of course he picked up some fouls and that really helped and our guys just executed the game plan really well.

134

They were just too big.

118

Sometimes, it takes us two or three or sometimes four or five possessions before we understand what's going on. In this particular case, it took a few possessions and realized, 'OK, let me go through my reads.' When that happens, it goes to our favor.

102

I'm always preaching to the guys to play bigger than they are.

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