Brian Goorjian Quotes (16 Quotes)

There is a lot of pressure on us to win gold. We want to come out and play great basketball on Friday, and win well.

There's no doubt the worthy champion this year was the Melbourne Tigers.

Tonight, it wasn't spectacular basketball, but it was an absolute dogfight.

With Al, you've got to take your hat off to the guy. He handled himself so well. You can tell the team loves playing for him. I'm happy for him, I enjoyed the competition and I'm man enough to say I love the guy.

Rowdy's Sheridan in trouble - that's my guess, but I think CJ will be OK.

One thing that came out of Sunday night's loss was that we didn't show Anstey enough respect when it came to him shooting the ball from behind the three-point arc.

It was borderline last year and we went for Rogers, which in hindsight was probably the right decision. But we told Luke we were looking at him for the future.

Rowdy's (Sheridan) in trouble ... but I think C.J. will be OK.

One of our focal points going into the game was the boards against Brisbane and to stay competitive. And I thought Benny Knight was absolutely outstanding with 16 boards - I can't remember him playing a better game than that for us.

He was kind of out of it (unfit) when he joined us but Ian's improvement has helped to make us legitimate.

We didn't have a good finish to the year. Now it comes down to how we play. For us, it's a youth situation, we'll be spreading the court out, it'll be a small style of game.

It wasn't good. It's obviously one of the risks you take playing in these games. For him to have an injury that something because I've never known him to get hurt.

We fell behind in the third quarter and we were panicking. I thought we were anxious. It comes with again a young team, first game, home court, we took that shot under pressure and that lead to our demise. However I just think we are not far away.

I have a responsibility to protect my team and I thought it wasn't taken care of during the game.

I know he's disappointed, but he didn't have a great game tonight and he's capable of stepping up.

We didn't really have a great week of practice, we've had a lot of stuff on the road and there was a bit of flatness about everything, I guess with Christmas and everything.