Al Walker Quotes (21 Quotes)

We have earned four very hard road victories in the conference. We're really looking forward to coming home and playing Vermont.

Andre played the best back-to-back games of anyone in my six years coaching here. He especially played very well against one of the best defensive teams in the nation Boston.

I think we're really starting to come around. We understand that we can be good if we defend, rebound and take care of the ball.

It was a great team effort. The most important thing is that we are getting better at the right time of the year.

They certainly had an offensive performance today. Those guys have the green light to take shots and we haven't been making as many as we like, but we knew we were gonna make them at some point in time and that point in time was today.

They will defend at the highest level and try to control the tempo. It will be a grind-it-out basketball game.

Some haven't used theirs in a long time, but they've got one. They need to dust it off and use it.

Finally the press that we tried to put on for 40 minutes culminated in some very tough passes for Vermont. Obviously this is a tough loss for Vermont because they had the game won.

We felt Boston had done a great job of feeding the low post and we made the decision to do everything we could to get on top of the low post.

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

We went on the road and won four games, which is tremendous. Now we start the next segment of the season, a stretch of home games that start Wednesday where we need to play our best basketball, and that's what we are going to try to do.

I thought we opened the game up really defending at a high level. Maine did a great job of closing the gap, but we made some stops and some scores down the stretch.

Unfortunately we couldn't make a stop or get a score in the last few minutes. We should have won the game but we didn't. There was certainly a comfort level that shouldn't have been there.

They have terrific guards and a big front line. They are very, very good.

This is one game and you're done. So if you look ahead you're going to get beaten. You can all pack your bags and everyone will go home.

Cook went for 40 points against Maine, so we've really got to key on him.

It was their day today, that is the bottom line.

Of course it's easier, because your pool of applicants is greater. Outside of the very, very rich and the very, very poor, the ability to give a scholarship is key to landing quality basketball players.

If that's not a man going to work. That is absolutely awesome.

Nine is absolutely exceptional. What we gave up on the glass, we did a better job of taking care of the ball.

He understood that this was a game that he would be required to really make some plays if we were going to win.