Keith Richard Quotes (24 Quotes)

I think we're in the NIT. We'd better be, or we're pulling out of this league tomorrow. I know we've done enough. We'll look forward to that call Sunday night.

If we shoot the ball well, we go from good to pretty good. That's kind of been our achilles heel all year, is the offensive end. If we make shots, we are a pretty good basketball team.

It ended up being tougher than I thought.

Everybody knows he can do it. Night in and night out, they're trying to stop him from getting double figure rebounds. Regardless of how he plays, regardless of how our team plays, win or lose, you're going to pick up that stat sheet and 99 percent of the time there's going to be 10 rebounds on there. It's incredible. It's incredible.

There were two things we needed to do well coming into this game. Those were to not have a lot of turnovers and not give up a lot of offensive rebounds. And we give up 27 turnovers and 23 offensive rebounds. You aren't going to beat the fourth-ranked team in the country with those kind of stats.

This time of the year, you just need wins. I think both of us have had good years, but I think both of us want to have better years.

There's a young man on my team that got 23 rebounds tonight, and that's probably a big reason (for the win). It got to be where we shoot it, miss it, and Paul will get it back.

I think Alabama said in the second half, 'No more letting him catch it. Let's make it hard for him to get it in there. Boy, we didn't get a lot done with the other players when we needed to.

It was one of those games you'd hate to see either team lose. It was a defensive battle. Keeping them off the boards was a major emphasis and we lost the game on an offensive rebound.

I'm very happy that our players have been rewarded for what they've accomplished this season. We won 20 games overall and finished tied for second in the Western Athletic Conference, which is the ninth toughest conference in the country. I'm thrilled that our program and these kids have been rewarded.

We got 10 minutes into the game before he decided that he better start playing at that energy level. He's got to learn that he's got to bring it every night. I was disappointed in him that first 10 or 12 minutes. I thought they were really taking it to him. Hopefully, it is a learning experience. He got going after that, but it wasn't enough.

They're worse than us - and we're bad. But they sure made the ones that counted tonight.

Defensively, they remind me of us, to be honest with you. My biggest concern is, 'Can we guard them' The next question is, 'How are we going to score' The people we've played the last couple of weeks we've had trouble scoring.

In the NBA, they would fine him. They don't have enough (money) for me to fine them.

Their post people just killed us all night long.

Everybody's been playing this way against us. It's the same look, I wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and I see it. I'm going to run it next year against somebody. I've seen it so much I'm going to run it.

Every time I think about Boise they scare me, concern and scare me because of their ability to score.

We didn't get the stops and we didn't score. That little spurt hurt. We're not a very good offensive team.

They're worse than us at the free throw line, and we're bad. But they made all the ones that counted.

I've watched him for three years and it's been unbelievable.

Paul has struggled against taller people at times throughout his career, including tonight. Size bothers him unless we can pull him out. ... We were not making shots, particularly early and now he's having to score over bigger people. They did an outstanding job.

This is an important and great day for Paul and his family. He's looked hard at his options, and he's made his decision, and I support him 100 percent in his pursuit of his NBA dreams.

I thought we, for the most part, did as well as you can defensively against these guys. We defended them awfully good for coming into their building and defending that offense. Unfortunately, I thought our guard play was bad in the second half. (We) forgot about the best player in the league right now.

I don't know this to be true, but our quickness was just as quick as them, if not quicker, at certain spots. We thought it was bothering them. I don't know if they face our kind of quickness in our league. Maybe they do, I don't know. We pressure everybody pretty much that we play, just like they do. We felt it bothered them early in the game and it's something we started harping on.