Bob Hill Quotes (127 Quotes)

When the minutes behind him aren't what they need to be, I don't have much choice.

Roth has had his water license for 10 years, to six months with Brian. To have an actual license just this year, he may be good for this in the future, but he definitely needs more time under his belt,

Like I told them many times and we did it (Wednesday) night, you've got to play with who's available. We'll make the best of the situation.

I see these lands as belonging to the people of Nipomo and California, not the Land Conservancy.

It was ugly. It was just ugly.

I didn't want to have to double (team) Ely. Maybe we just didn't think he would do that. The lack of concentration and defensive aggressiveness is hard to understand. I tried everything I could think of. It just wasn't there. We just dug too deep a hole.

We have a problem playing in the third quarter and that showed tonight. We just fall behind and have to find a way to fight back into it. If I knew why we were a bad third-quarter team, I would make those changes. It's a mystery to me.

It's a very, very good win for us. I hope it's a breakthrough win for us, and we can build from this.

It'll be more experience for him. He's aggressive. He's the first to ask a question if there's something he doesn't understand. It'll be good to have him around.

Our defense was clearly the best it's been all season long. We got a lot of points off our defense and that was pretty much it. We took care of business.

It feels really good. I'm really proud of (the team) and they responded from day one. ... It's really important that we get better every night and we did tonight.

We went into the game with the idea that Ray would try to push him to a certain part of the floor and there would be help there. I thought Ray did a good job of pushing him there and then our big guys were ready to at least make him take a jump shot.

When he was drafted by Chicago, he was trapped behind some awfully good players and just never really got a chance. I think he appreciates the opportunity to get another chance.

That is a concern and a frustration.

I just kept studying it. And studying it. And studying it. Studying different teams. And the zone rules. I really got a lot done in four days. I looked at the All-Star break as a great opportunity, with no distractions to get in there and grow, so I can help these guys more. So if was fun for me.

Finally, we planted our feet, defined ourselves and got the stops we needed. It's always good when you can hold off a team when you've got to make plays and you've got to make stops. I think that was significant.

They are a team built to win a championship and I thought under the circumstances our guys did a good job.

I have no worries that he will stay in shape. What can you do about the decision You have to accept it. What are you going to do, sue the league We have to move on.

I thought that we just couldn't keep them off the boards. We talked about finishing our defensive sets and we'd get them to miss and then they'd get the rebound.

I've been through nights like this before where they are just not there. It was just a bad night. The worst night we had in a long time.

I'd like to sign him to another 10-day. That's really going to give us a chance to see him. Anybody who signs a 10-day contract, especially with a younger team, it's hard to get them into the game. But we will work him out (Friday) and I'll get a chance to get a look at him.

They played an awfully good game. It thought our guys played hard, we just struggled to defend them.

Their depth just wore us down. We were tired in the fourth quarter. I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought the effort was great, and guys played as hard as they could.

It's amazing what a little chemistry will do for you. This group likes one another. They deserve a game like this after everything they've been through.

Had we known, we wouldn't have bought it. We were very angry.

If Ray had an average shooting night, we win.

I wasn't happy with the execution of our offense. It's only been three days, but we don't have time to wait.

When this happens, everybody kind of feels like we all failed and we have to pick up where we left off and try to make something positive out of the season.

It's a chance to have a real insight into a true coastal community that depends entirely on the ocean for their livelihood and as well as for food gathering.

One thing about Ray Allen , at some point he's going to make shots.

We didn't quit and fought back. We put ourselves into a position where, if we make a shot here or there, we have a chance to win.

I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought they just wore us out with their depth.

Not to diminish their win, but we had some guys go down tonight on top of the other guys that we have that are beat up right now. The Spurs are a great team. They are long, they play together and they are a deep team. They are built to win a championship.

I just know him too well. I know what he's like behind closed doors. I've been in lots and lots of meetings with him. The only way he can justify what he did was to create all this deception that I was some kind of ... monster. That I was hard to work with or whatever ... and they were all lies.

We got back in it again late and actually had a chance to get it. I think, if anything, the game shows how much we miss Luke, especially the way we're playing now. He's just playing great and we really miss him.

We don't have many whiskey drinkers on our team. We've got good guys. Our defensive scheme has to be team oriented. ... That's a work in progress with a team like this that's also very young.

We fully expect to try to make the playoffs. We're five games out of the loss column and we're in first place in our division. These are the kind of games we have to get.

If anybody's going to get the most out of him at this point in his career, it's going to be Pat. I think that's bad news for the rest of us in the league because when he decides he wants to play he's very difficult to stop, as anybody knows.

After the trading deadline, I put in the whole thing entirely and we improved after the first five or six games. I've got to tell you, as long as this team is built the way it is, that number (points allowed) is going to be high because we're going to run and shoot the ball. We can't beat you just with our defense. We're not built that way. We have to beat you also with our offense.

Considering all their injuries this year, they continue to win and you have to give (Nash) a lot of credit for that. And Nash doesn't have those big guys to set screens for him and he's still scoring and setting up his teammates.

It was huge. He's got a lot of courage.

Our big guys couldn't handle Kaman and Brand. I thought we fought and got ourselves back in position to win the game. But we let them back in the game when we could have put them away. Not for the game, but for the spread at halftime.

I heard after the fact that Phoenix wanted him. The team that we really kept hearing was Golden State.

Today was the clearly the best game we've played, including Chicago. There were a lot of good things today. In spite of losing the game, I have to feel good about the progress that we've made in a short amount of time.

Chris was all over the floor. He was above everyone tonight. As good as he played, he has a lot more potential. His upside is huge.

We're good enough to be a playoff team with those two, no doubt about it in my mind. We're a different team with them. We're fast. We run and get out on the break. ... The entire climate has changed.

As I told him when I met him, I thought he should have started in Memphis. The great thing about him is he really doesn't care if he starts, he just wants minutes. He's got a great attitude for this team.

We wanted to keep an extra guy in front of Kobe. And keep the last guy open. When the ball was below the foul line, I think we did a really good job of that.

Ray felt obligated to play, considering the situation we were in. Under normal circumstances he wouldn't have played.

The first half of the season is not even over yet. I'm not standing here saying we're going to win a championship, I'm just saying I'm not going to give up. The All-Star break isn't even here yet. Y'all been around long enough to know anything can happen.