Bruce Weber Quotes (279 Quotes)

You have to see how they respond when you get to a game again. Any time you lose, whether you call it focus or anger or intensity, they go much harder. I thought they were humbled from watching the film and disappointed.

I'm (ticked), to be honest. But what am I going to do Cry Whine Then you guys will make fun of me. So I'll just keep quiet.

I know he had therapy early (Monday) morning. He's going to be sore. His wrist has been aggravated for several weeks. It's probably going to go through the season. He's going to have to tough it out.

For our team itself, for the confidence, for the momentum, this is a huge win.

Now you hope for Northwestern to beat Ohio State, and that last game mean something.

Now with the two-game losing streak with us, we're a little bit fragile. Our confidence isn't there. We've got to get some energy going. The players have to do it from within. I have to do it. It's a fine line between dragging it out of them, but still not destroying them. It's definitely a test of a coach.

They spread you out and isolate you. Now that they have a great inside threat, he keeps you very accountable. And they share the ball very well. They move the ball to the open man and take horse shots. They have good, solid shooters and they shoot good shots.

Parker had the game of his life, to his credit obviously. We put Brian (Randle) on Parker and James (Augustine) on Claxton. Every time we made some adjustment, they adjusted.

I hope our guys have motivation. One, you go home if you lose. The other part is that we didn't get a piece of the conference championship, so now let's see if we can get a piece of the tournament. Then you have NCAA Tournament seeding on the line. I would think the Friday-Saturday games are so important for that.

Purdue was coming off a bad loss and our kids just thought they were going to win at home.

It's kind of surprising that someone's looking to sell when industry conditions are as attractive as they are right now. Maybe this is the time to sell if you don't think it's a core business.

The players will tell you my head is too big.

For us to have a chance to be successful, they have to rise up and play like seniors. Obviously it helps if you make shots, but it's also about leadership, keeping the guys focused. They know what's at stake. You have to win games to advance.

A big part of it is Dee's leadership and James' leadership. They've helped pass along the winning habits to this group of players.

It was surprising. It was a nice, complimentary letter about the team and the season. He said how he loved seeing his son make the shot but appreciated our team. We received a lot of notes last year, but it's one I do remember.

Keep doing it, yes, ... It's something that no doubt got us through December, January, maybe into February. . . .

I told Dee afterwards, we have played him a lot of minutes. It's tough on him. Now Chester ... is getting back to where he's comfortable. We trust him a little more. I want to ease Dee's minutes and the pressure on him. Chester brings energy. Chester brought some good body language to the game.

We could make a statement with a win at Michigan State.

He did some things in the first couple games that really surprised us,

Obviously we're disappointed. It's not great for him, his family, our school or the basketball program. We'll make a decision on discipline after this is resolved.

Dee has become better and better. He's just doing so much more controlling our offense, spreading out the defense and it's been very effective.

If we get dropped or moved away, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

The key stretch was our defense at the end of the first half. They had a nice lead and we ended with a nice run. And then we stepped up the defense again in the middle of the second half. We limited some of the easier looks and got them to take some tougher shots.

We have mental breakdowns. Our offense dictates our defense. We froze the other night. We froze on defense and we froze on offense.

Since Mike resigned, we've all talked about how they would react. We told our guys we needed to get off to a good start and play with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. We got off to a good start and that kind of nullified any motivational edge.

They were very attentive, no sad faces. It's a tough time, but if you look through college basketball ... everybody's coming back. When you recruit kids, you tell them, 'You're lucky to get two days at Christmas.' We actually had three full days.

He's starting to figure out that he can score. He's made some progress to know where he can get and how deep he can get. It's made him more successful.

Brian has had some spectacular moments for us. And our last 10 games, Rich has been pretty effective for us. They're important cogs in our performance.

You hope he gets in because they talk about the Hall being inclusive of all levels. He was a success on the high school, junior college and college level. Now, he's in the NBA.