Ernie Kent Quotes (45 Quotes)

If ever a team needed a win, it was certainly this basketball team.

They're a lot different without him because he's such a great scorer. He killed us (at Mac Court). ... What it does is it takes a very good shooter off floor.

We've got to do a better job of defending them. We've made some adjustments defensively this time around. ... I'm hoping we'll do a better job of keeping them from getting so many great looks.

I thought defense was certainly a big key in the game. We had some big stops down the stretch. The whole key was to keep Nick Young between 10 and 14 points. We did a good job of containing a great player.

As it stands now we've got to win on Saturday. Obviously you want to protect your home court.

I think you can over analyze a lot of things. If you look at our situation we are doing a lot of good things, but we haven't shot the basketball well. We just have to stay positive and upbeat with your team, or you can bury your team. They already feel enough negative stuff from the periphery.

He's reached that comfort zone. It's just all come together for him now.

He's such a streaky shooter who can get on a rhythm, so I don't think anybody on this team feared him continuing to take shots. We knew at some point in time, he was going to get going.

We're only one game over .500, so I'm not going to send those expectations out of the roof. There's a lot of basketball left let's just keep getting better game by game.

It's both. Not turning over the basketball is huge, and so is scoring when he gets the opportunity to score.

He's had two back-to-back phenomenal games, to score like that and with no turnovers. I thought he was great.

But from the perspective of a dad, I soul-searched and said to myself, here was someone who's very gifted and wants to try something.

On a personal note, my family and I have gone through some difficult times that we continue to work through. I ask for respect from the community, all Oregon basketball fans and the news media to allow my family to work through these matters privately.

A game like this can rip your heart out somewhat, but you take the loss and get it behind you.

We're no different from other (successful) schools, and I accept that. We have raised the bar around here. It was our era that put us here and the expectations are so high. That's OK. I'd rather have expectations high and people caring than not caring. We

They are such a good balanced basketball team that you have to pick your poison somewhere. Our key thing was we felt we would have a harder time double teaming him the way they shoot the ball.

It certainly inspired African-Americans in college basketball and everything else. I don't want to say it opened up the door, but it certainly was a bridge to recruiting athletes of color. It definitely revolutionized the game.

We needed a game like this where we had to fight and try to win it possession by possession. We defended well and we played with a passion. We are still trying to figure out who we are as a team, but today we played a smart, controlled type of a game.

Bounce back. I can't say enough about them hanging in there and fighting through so much. They're starting to come now.

It's been pretty amazing how it's all fallen into place. He's a great get for us this late.

We're deep enough and conditioned enough to do that.

I thought it turned into another great Civil War game. It's unfortunate that we both weren't in the upper echelon of the conference having a game like this. But it was a great battle and in an environment like this. Oregon State did a terrific job.

We just didn't close out the game and that's maturity.

I thought we competed very well, but it's unfortunate that we had a bad offensive night.

Aaron with nine seconds left . . . take the ball to the hole, make a play, put the pressure on the officials to make a call.

We are certainly looking forward to it. We are going to work hard these next couple days. It's going to be about who wants it more in that environment with two teams going down there with not a lot of fans in the building and playing in neutral court. For us right now, it's one game at a time. We know we have Washington State and that's going to be a battle for us.

They had that look in their eye that they were going to play you right through the horn. We didn't play through the horn, and we gave away a ball game. It was right there for us to control and close out, it was in our hands to do it.

Even though we came up empty-handed on this Bay Area trip, we actually got better as a basketball team. If we can grow from what we accomplished down here, come back home and protect our home court, we'll be a different team going out on the road.

This is the right move for him, and that's why I give him my blessing.

When you don't keep a team that's that aggressive off the boards, it's going to hurt you.

I don't know if there's a point guard in the country that has done what he's done in the last three basketball games.

There's a big part of me that didn't want to be the guy to beat Dick Bennett in his last game. There's part of me that wanted him to go out a winner that he is. He's a tremendous man. He's done so much for college basketball, and every program he's been in, he's improved the program. However, it was important for us to get the win and move forward.

We settled down in the second half and played better basketball. The game was lost in the first half with the turnovers. The environment took (the Beavers) to another level with the crowd and the building. Then they hit some big shots down the stretch.

Those three seniors really played good basketball.

We didn't control the boards, and they did, and they won the basketball game.

If you look at his face and his demeanor, he looks 24 or 25. Then you remember he is only 18. There will be a time when he takes over an entire game, but he is not quite there yet.

We probably won't win a ton of games with (Hairston) 6-for-18 and Aaron 2-for-12. It's unfortunate the ball didn't go down. I thought we had some great looks at it.

It's a huge game for us because that's the team we're trying to catch. The key for us is continuing to play well, and we need to make some adjustments from how we played (the Trojans) the first time.

Luke is such an intellectual player and he's so driven. He works extremely hard. He's following the same path in the NBA as he followed here. We knew he would be successful, but it wasn't until his third year that he really took off with us.

We put it in Aaron's hands down the stretch. He was playing great and playing in control. He did a terrific job running the team.

It ended on an up note because of how we played in the tournament. However, when you look back at the season on a whole a lot of games that could have been won that we let get away, that could have gotten us into the (NCAA) tournament.

Between him and Ivan, they've been pretty productive down there. With us, the way we've been playing, we've just got to go to the people who are consistent regardless what size they are. (Adam) and Ivan Johnson have both given us a real a solid five man at the spot.

I just don't feel that he ever got back on track after the injury.

I don't think it's make or break, but we want to play well. If it's four straight or two straight, you want to protect your home court. Stanford and us are the only teams to be undefeated at home, and we want to keep it that way. The schedule turns in our favor. It doesn't matter if it's at home in the middle of the season or late, you want to win at home.

Any road trip is a tough, tough road trip regardless of record. It's tougher in the second half of conference play because a lot of us need to win games. So you worry about performing well on the road.