Rob Evans Quotes (55 Quotes)

All I know is that I'm the basketball coach here at ASU. I have a contract. I have a year left on my contract. I'm looking forward to going and coaching this week.

It's difficult when your freshmen are leading you. You have to give 40 minutes of effort in college basketball to be able to win and we didn't do that tonight.

I thought he did a good job in the second half. I thought he pretty well took control of their offense, and did a good job of getting the shots that he needed.

Our bench is not that deep.

Chad has proven to us he can make an impact this year,

I thought in the first half, we struggled offensively. In the second half, we got it going offensively, but we weren't where we need to be defensively.

I think there's a time when most folks know to go.

All the ports have been notified, but whether they have or not gone out of the country we don't know. Obviously the longer it goes on the more concerned we get.

With him in the ballgame, we are a different basketball team. We have a place to go inside to get some baskets and rebounds and he alters shots.

He's coming out of junior college, so he's still learning on this level. It's a growth process for him, but he's starting to mature a little more and has been getting better every basketball game.

The computer is not from the state of Arizona, that is for sure,

We had good looks for the most part. We executed pretty good, we just didn't make good shots.

I hate to see him go. He's been great for the game of college basketball.

The thing we've tried to do is share the wealth, get more guys involved. We're sharing the ball more. We're trying to pressure more defensively. On offense, we have more guys involved, that's the biggest thing. We don't have a guy who every night we can count on to get 25 and 10. We hope we can do that by committee.

You have to beat them they're not going to beat themselves because they're a very cerebral basketball team. They're not the most athletic team in the world, but they're going to negate your athletic ability by playing smart.

I think he did a pretty good job of stabilizing his basketball team. He did a lot of things that go unnoticed. He was a factor in the game.

It's not a matter of effort. We just turned the ball over too many times.

We're longtime friends, we're golfing buddies. I told him, 'Good luck in retirement. Of all the people I know you deserve it,' and I said, 'I love you' and he said he loved me.

Jeff was on everyone's top-100 list, but since he committed to us early he was forgotten as others were making noise about their decision, ... I predict a great career for Jeff at ASU. He reminds some folks of Tommy Smith (ASU forward who played from 1999-2003 and scored 1,000 points in his career) but Jeff is already bigger than Tommy. Jeff is athletic, tough and can do it at both ends of the floor. Expect good things from him.

We just didn't put two good halves together.

He's so athletic and so physical. He's a smart basketball player. I've always been impressed about his demeanor on the court. It never changes. He's a fighter and a warrior. He's a class player. I've enjoyed watching him. I'm glad he's leaving.

He really ran the ball club against California. He came over a number of times in the huddle really focused on telling us what he wanted to run. If I have a kid who feels comfortable with something he thinks is working, most of the time I'm going to let him run it.

I thought, when we got the 15-point lead, we were playing pretty well. But for whatever reason, our defense stopped. We missed a couple of executions and they picked up their intensity. That was pretty much the crux of the ball game.

Our reputation nationally is very good right now. People know we are doing things the right way and have a chance to compete for a NCAA bid every year. We need to create some energy and win our share of early season games. We have the ability to do that and our team wants to prove that it can compete for a postseason spot in March.

Not in the eight years since I've been here have I seen the conference like this.

We met with the six returning players from last year and in those meetings my staff and I went over what each of them needs to do to improve their skills and help the team, ... With the improvements that all the returning players have made by spending the summer on campus and working in the weight room, in conditioning and on their skills, we have a chance to be right where we were last year and that is competing for an NCAA Tournament spot.

The one thing we're trying to stress is to make sure we get good possessions. We didn't get a shot the first five times against USC, but fortunately for us our defense was solid enough to where they didn't score much either.

They have progressed at different rates, but both have matured a lot on the basketball court. Their patience on both ends of the floor is getting better.

I thought our guys competed really hard they just didn't complete the task.

We didn't get the basketball to him enough because we didn't get enough possessions. You don't get a chance to get the basketball to somebody when you turn it over 26 times.

What we need is for each player to look at how Ike worked and progressed, ... He trusted our staff. He did the little things. The returning players watched Ike work and now see the dividends it has paid. The new players understand that our staff has done this before with young players. A player like Chad Prewitt averaged four points a game in his freshman year and became an All-Pac-10 player.

They know each other on the basketball floor, but they also are good for each other. Jeff is more cerebral and knows how to keep his emotions in check. Sylvester has had trouble controlling his emotions, but Jeff has helped him do that. Jeff has told me how to approach Sylvester. In the locker room at times, it's Jeff who tells Sylvester to pick it up or change something abut his game.

Regardless of what happens (tonight), we'll give them off on Thursday.

There was some talk in the papers that OSU was going to beat us because we've lost five in a row, but we have had some great chances to win games and we just couldn't come through in the end. This is a very balanced (conference) all the teams could beat each other.

The Pac-10 Tournament is our next assignment and anytime we have an assignment whether it's on the floor or in the classroom I tell these guys to do their very best. And that's what they did today.

We talked at the half about making sure we came out and did not have a lull. We wanted to make sure we stayed aggressive, moved the basketball and moved our bodies. I thought they did a great job of that.

When Jeff isn't in foul trouble, it changes everything. It allows everybody to settle in and play a role.

You've got to have toughness, which they have. You've got to have athletic ability, and you've got to have experience.

We really worked on him. We really tried to front him. We tried to make him work hard to get the basketball. I thought we did a good job on him. We just couldn't keep him off the free-throw line.

We have challenged him this year. If we are going to be good, Serge needs to make plays at both ends of the floor. He had some good games last year, but we need more, ... He went back to Cameroon for the first time in more than five years to see his family this year, and I think that has rejuvenated him.

For it to happen, it took a guy who was a little bit of a rebel. It also took somebody who wasn't afraid of losing his job. Haskins was that guy.

I understand we lost some great talent, including the player who would have been the best senior in the nation, ... Losing a player of that magnitude will take a toll on any program. But we recruited well, have some solid shooting and feel that several players are ready to take that next step.

We're actually going to be at seven locations and there are going to be seven individual winners and we're going to have those winners do a final exam where they do a little reporting story of their own and then we're going to have one winner from those seven finalists,

The biggest thing is lack of patience on the offensive end. You're not going to score if you don't get a look at the basket, so we need to take better care of the basketball.

We keep putting ourselves in position (to win). We've just got to do the small things. We just didn't get the breaks we needed, at the time, when the game was in the balance.

Jeff has never been scared. This kid has a great chance at being a good player, although people doubt him.

I cannot fault the guys for their effort. I thought they did a great job effort-wise. Just a good team like this, you can't let them go on runs.

It's very encouraging. They certainly came in and gave us a huge lift. I think all those guys are getting better as time goes on and you have to have your bench to be successful.

I'm not so concerned with what is on top of his head as I am with what is in his head. He's an emotional kid, but he's finding his way.

In those days, four black kids might start, but a white kid always started at point guard. In those days, the point guard was thought of as the intelligent position, just like quarterback in football.