Lorenzo Romar Quotes (48 Quotes)

Utah State expects to win their opener, they expect to advance, because they've done it before. We're very familiar with the job they've done over the years.

I don't know if the people in Los Angeles understand the job that UCLA is doing in keeping that team going.

Those guys, along with last year's seniors, will go down in this program's history as very, very special basketball players. You hate to see them go.

Mike is the kind of guy, if he hits his first couple shots then he doesn't think he's going to miss, ever, for the rest of his life. It seems to uplift his entire game. Because of that, I think it helped him concentrate even more on the defensive end.

Then in the upper class, it was Aaron Brooks and the Stewart twins and Marvin Williams and C.J. Giles. Wow, that's a lot to work with. If you get your fair share of guys, you're going to wind up pretty good.

There was a time when he didn't play intensely. In terms of his ability, since the day he became eligible he has been our best all-around player. He's so selfless and such a team guy that he was fine deferring to his teammates to be successful. This year, he's come around more.

That was a big win for us. I thought we played about as solid a game as we have played in a while.

That was a typical University of Washington versus Arizona State basketball game. Very physical, emotions running high. They're real aggressive and we play an aggressive brand of basketball, and when you put the two together, sometimes tempers flare. Our guys did a good job of maintaining their composure.

I don't know the people in Los Angeles understand the job UCLA is doing winning games with all those guys banged up. That's hard to do.

He's a stellar defender and a really good athlete and probably passes the ball as well as anyone in our program.

You see guys who are passionate and want to be great, but they're not very tough mentally or physically, not in tune with what the body can do. That's not the case with Bobby.

I thought our guys were mentally tough tonight. I thought our guys hung in there pretty good.

I don't remember the last time we shot this poorly.

Right now we need to put 40 minutes of intense basketball together. Right now that's the biggest monkey on our back.

We have always been impressed with Stanford. They are a solid team and never give you a game.

In our first road game, with a lot of questions in how we would handle it, I thought we did a pretty good job. We played 40 minutes of hardscrabble basketball.

I thought the days were over that anybody could ever go out there and score 80.

The team the last couple of years, when we were successful, we were blue collar, and when we weren't blue collar, we weren't successful. That's the same with this group.

I am sure Martell has probably thought that going down to the D-League, people are going to start questioning whether he should have gone out. I'm sure that's in his mind. But I'm also pretty sure that in his mind, it's given him more motivation to make it happen.

Every time in the three years that we have been here that we played Arizona State, it has been a physical war. A couple of times there were some stand-offs, some hard fouls, a little bit of jawing. They haven't backed down and we won't back down. They're going to play with a lot of intensity.

I want to make this clear. Whether it's for the Pac-10 Conference tournament championship, Pac-10 championship or second place, whatever it is, this is a big game to us. It means a lot to us, whatever way you slice it.

Their first four or five shots were uncontested in the second half. If someone is not shooting the ball well, you can't say, 'Let's not guard him,' because they hit one or two, all of a sudden they get on a streak. We gave them too many good looks.

No one can ever duplicate that. It's the first group that you spent four years with at the place where you like being at and the place you hope to coach at for a long time. You never forget that group.

Before Justin could be freed to score ... he had to learn how to run a team better. If he just scores, and now teams take his scoring away and he doesn't know how to run a team, we are up a creek. Now that he's done a better job of that and understanding what we are doing better, he's freed up.

Sometimes a loss, when it's over, you can go back and draw from it and improve in some areas. Whereas in a win it might not have gotten your attention.

We're not saying it's David and Goliath, and we don't have a chance in the world. We happen to be playing the most talented team in the country, but we can't take anything away from what we've done.

There's always that adjusted RPI that the committee uses in the back room.

To be candid, when he went through his turnover slump in mid-year, that was a surprise because what we noticed in high school was that he never turned the ball over. He's playing more now like we thought he would.

You want to say anytime you lose a game, that is how you are going to lose you gave it your all. I thought for about 46 minutes, we did.

Before we make any comparisons, we better see what happens there. You have faith in your team. You don't think they're going to lose the next seven.

The one scenario that makes it simple is if we win. If we lose, let the chips fall where they may. You've had your opportunity.

When something like that happens out of the clear blue and has not been a pattern, you just have to believe it's just one of those nights when the ball didn't go down.

I thought we played as solid as we've played in a while.

They are definitely not playing with a full complement of players. But we didn't take advantage of it last week against WSU when Derrick Low was out, so we can't approach it as who's not here. We have to worry about coming out and playing 40 minutes, which is what we did Thursday night against the Trojans an 86-77 UW win.

When other teams have played deliberate basketball against us, we have been able to force our will upon them. We weren't able to do that tonight.

Any team in this league is capable of beating anyone else. This thing is wide open.

When you talk about maybe someone's mannerisms or maybe the way they walk, something like that, that can be pretty funny. Once you start to get into some type of issue that a person is dealing with off the floor, that may be when you cross the line.

Our energy level wasn't what it should have been for 40 minutes. We are at our best when we play with energy. We are not very good when we don't play with energy.

I am so proud of our guys to win a game like this. To continue to just chip away, chip away and not lose your composure, that's what you love to see. We are a team. That's the only way you win games like this.

Jon is playing a different kind of basketball than he's ever played in his life. He's guarding out on the perimeter, he's put in positions to handle the ball on the perimeter. He's not just within the confines of the paint, where he's spent a lot of his time and has dominated by doing so.

There was a beauty to it. We're leading the nation in scoring, and we played a team that went to Cal and won, and that gives us problems. Yet we found a way to win (while) shooting 33 percent. I think that's a very positive thing.

That's another reason why this was such a big game. We stubbed our toe a couple of times early, and we couldn't afford to let that happen again this weekend.

He's just a basketball player.

I think our guys have a certain expectation from themselves and each other, ... Husky basketball is something that our guys now take pride in. Thats huge when youre trying to sustain success.

I would say that 90 percent of everyone involved with Martell felt like it would behoove him to go to college initially. But he was given such a great opportunity as the sixth pick, it was hard for him to turn down.

He's a competitor, and he doesn't want to let his teammates down or anyone down. He's got a lot of pride. And I guarantee you he can't wait to play this game.

They are a very, very good basketball team. We look forward to the challenge. We want to play against the best competition.

It's good to have guys that will come in the game sometimes when things aren't going well and give you a shot in the arm.