Donnie Marsh Quotes (13 Quotes)

He's a big-shot guy. We've seen it time and again. It didn't surprise anybody that he was willing to take it and that he knocked it down.

For him to play 36 minutes after no practice is amazing. That's his heart and mentality. He's doing everything he can to win.

Road or home, it becomes this simple Our defense isn't even close to where it needs to be. We've tried to address that in ways, tried to change it, but it eventually comes down to you being able to take care of your man, and we've struggled with that too long. We've got to shore up our defense.

I think road or home, you can boil it down, and it's really that our defense isn't even close to where it needs to be to win at home or on the road. We have struggled in that department for far too long.

Not at all. It says to me how do we figure out the best way to contain Dials. He's such a powerful kid inside. He's going to stretch you a little bit so you have to bring attention to him, but you can't give up those perimeter shots.

We're trying to play the best we can at the right time of year. If that makes us dangerous, so be it. What we want to think about is continuing to get better and better each time we go out. Then we'll let the rest take care of itself.

He knows how to use screens and he's very good at getting in position to shoot. He can break you down at any time. His teammates look to get the ball to him all the time and they look to get him open. A big problem from a defensive standpoint is that 90 percent of the time he's going to have the ball in his hands.

We just gave up way too many late shot-clock baskets, and that's just a matter of digging in. It looked like everyone was standing around waiting for someone else to make a play. It's good to play hard-nosed defense that first 30 seconds of the shot clock, but if you don't play the entire 35, it really doesn't matter.

We'll get back to work tomorrow and we'll understand that we'll have a team coming in that isn't worried about playing us. I don't think any team is going to come in concerned or afraid of playing us right now. We just have to find a way to scrap and claw out of this little hole ourselves.

It was difficult for our guys, learning at the late point that we did about Coach being unable to join us. To their credit, I thought that they came out in the second half and fought harder.

We got some help from them because they missed the free throws but we still had to make some shots ourselves.

He has to play with emotion. If you take that away from him, you take away a big part of his game. We make sure he understands you have to make good decisions at the right time. For the most part he does that.

It's one of those nights where you kind of see where (Brown) is shooting wise. If he's knocking those down from real deep there isn't a whole heck of lot you're going to be able to do. What you do then is you try to limit everybody else and make them try to beat you with one guy.