James Augustine Quotes (50 Quotes)

It made me angry for the referee to make a call like that.

It's a whole different atmosphere now. It takes a whole lot of heat off me. They make my job so much easier.

The bench did a great job. The other starters did an unbelievable job just to make our night special. I think they consciously wanted to go out there and play hard for us, and to win another game in the conference.

Hopefully they'll be able to keep going and the program will get better. Coach Weber does a great job of recruiting and a great job developing players. They have a good base with a majority of players coming back. I don't see why anything would change.

I'm glad it's over. I wanted to go into Michigan State not having to answer questions about it. I'll be happy about it when I leave, but for now we have more important things to take care of.

It could have been broken, but luckily it turned out to only be a sprain. I got the boot off and I've been riding a bike, lifting and doing treatment to get stronger. I have no clue when I'll be back but hopefully within the next two weeks. I just need time, then I need to get back into shape.

I'm just going to try to enjoy the ride I've had playing with Dee, the coaches and the team. That's what's going to make me happy right now, thinking about the run I've had here.

The coaching staff did a good job with the scouting report. They handed out the tape and I watched a couple of times. We knew a lot of his shots would be 3-pointers. We tried to contest those and put a body on him, and it worked out well for me.

He's expanding his game. He's been working hard in practice. He tries stuff he's not been able to do in a couple years.

That's fine. It's easy for us. We watch the same film and maybe the (last) game to see what we did right and wrong. The scouting report is the same. So it's easier on the coaches and easier on us.

Last year in St. Louis, we had a practice with 30,000 people. We had a select few today. But we never look much at the crowd anyway.

The young guys are seeing it's going to get harder and harder as we go on. This is a good learning experience. But if we play like we did against Michigan, we're going to get beat by Indiana. We need to play better basketball.

It's frustrating because you want to be out there. But you have to trust your teammates.

We're going to look awful on the film. You feel like you played well during the game and then you go watch the film. It's about an hour long, and Coach is stopping it every 10 seconds.

We are going to need a little help. We need Ohio State to lose but I hope (we can repeat). I need another ring.

Some of the players on our team have never lost at home. Dee (Brown) and I have only lost once, and that was a pretty bad feeling. It gives us motivation to win.

They are a great team. We're going to have to go in there and steal one. But to win the Big Ten, you have to go on the road and win some big games.

Every game is going to be a battle and you have to play 100 percent every time. I think the young guys are starting to realize that.

You've got to go back and see what you did wrong. I thought we played pretty well and got a little better. But we're going to look awful on film. ... Midway through the season you have to take the win, but we're going to Indiana next. If we play like this, we're going to get beat.

A lot of it has to do with using a lot of energy, and teams kind of figure out what we're doing. Today we did a good job. A lot of it has to do with letting our offense dictate our defense. We didn't let that happen too much. We missed shots and still got back on defense.

Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.

We were hoping for a two, maybe a three seed. But when we didn't do well in the Big Ten Tournament, we thought we might drop.

Coach (Weber) always talks about how good of a team we can be. Like, he gave the example of how we beat Georgetown at home, and Georgetown beats Duke. I know it's a home win for us. But I think we're up there with some of the best teams. If we keep winning on the road and showing some character and keeping playing solid basketball, I think we can make a run at it.

They sprang it on us and it obviously worked. I think they were in kind of a weird zone. There were times when they were in a 1-3-1, it looked like, and times they were in a 2-3. They did everything they needed to do to stay in the game.

They're a dangerous team. They're smart and know how to take care of the ball. We're going to have to play solid.

We know the feeling of having lost at home. That's the type of pride Dee and I try to take into every game. The other guys have done a great job feeding off of us and kind of understanding it. It's a bad feeling to lose at home, and we hope they never have to.

You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonight, we didn't give up.

I get it all the time. Even when I'm not in foul trouble, I hear about it.

This shows we're making progress. This is one of the first times we put a team away. Maybe Oregon. But we really made a statement that we want to get better. And we are.

Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it's a different setting. You hit one shot, and the crowd gets into it.

I like playing against them and we just went through their stuff and practiced for what they do. So we should be able to get ready in a hurry.

It's not a very good feeling. If it happens one more time, we're going home for the rest of the year.

It's just a new thing every day. I hurt my hand three weeks ago and had it X-rayed. Then I got it hit in the game (Saturday) and it swelled up again. I can't really bend it.

I'm disappointed and surprised, because you'd think people would have been ready to play. We played lackadaisically in the first half, and that's not acceptable. After the Penn State game, it is hard to grasp that we came out casual today.

They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. We just played a lot harder when we were playing well.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

We obviously want to be Big Ten champs, and we want to go into the (NCAA) Tournament with the highest seed. We want to be the best team we can possibly be, and make a run at it in the tournament. I think we can do that, but we've got to put it together in (regular-season) games, especially on the road.

That was probably one of the best offensive exhibitions I've ever seen. Like he said, we had confidence in him and he took care of business.

It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here.

It's a nice place for the families to go. We're just going to play basketball. I know if we were playing on Mars, our parents would have come anyway.

Being more active takes a lot of the pressure off Dee. He's been carrying us lately. I wanted to come out with energy and hit the boards. I didn't play well the first time against them.

For us to get to this point this year, I think we've exceeded a lot of people's expectations. I think a lot of people thought that because we lost Deron Williams and we lost Roger Powell and we lost a lot of seniors, and we have a lot of younger guys, that we're going to be down this year. They thought we weren't going to be very good, but we exceeded expectations.

That's why I'm not so emotional about it. It's more of a basketball game than Senior Night. If we don't come out ready to play, they're going to beat us.

It's not a good feeling. Now we're in a situation where our next loss is our last one. We have to step it up.

Our fans are spoiled. We're 20-4 and people are acting like it's the worst year in history. We have two home games in a row now and we have to be ready for them. We can turn this thing right back around.

I never get nervous for games. I don't know why, but I couldn't calm down. I was even sitting on the bench with two fouls being nervous.

Coach has been on us. But the guys have been taking it pretty good. When you're winning, you kind of get cocky. You're like, 'Let's keep doing what we're doing.' Now people are more excited to learn. A lot of people are listening.

He's the same size as Roger, and he's a little quicker. He's amazing. He has a tremendous vertical jump. He can jump out of the gym. He's up there with Brian in jumping ability.

I thought it was just spoiled mustard.

I thought we did a great job on him. All he shot was a lot of free throws. He's a great player, but we took him out of his game for the most part except for the free throws. I guess he did a good job of getting in there and drawing the fouls.