Scott Drew Quotes (41 Quotes)

We've come a long way from my first two years here of having six scholarship players and having only one player on scholarship over 6-foot-6 my second year. This year, we had 10 scholarships, so we're moving in the right direction.

It's just a matter of time before Aaron breaks out of it.

You've got a senior who struggled, didn't make a field goal, but it doesn't affect his game because he finds a way to get other people. Fourteen assists was tremendous.

Even if you're in an empty gym, it's hard to make the 13 shots he did.

Penny is an impressive young man. He is an excellent student who is extremely hard working and driven to be successful in academics, basketball and life.

They have the talent and the athletic ability and the depth. They are right there.

The great thing about playing games is you get a chance to find out what you need to work on. Rebounding was very obvious. They did a great job of picking us apart defensively.

When you play as many guards as we do, you hope that you don't have more turnovers than assists. As we get older and more mature as a team, I will expect the turnover to assist ratio to be 2-1.

The good news is that we're getting closer. The bad news is we're not there yet. One of the good things is that we now have a late-game situation so we can do some teaching off of it.

That didn't work. When you play a great team, they can do two things score inside and score outside. It's tough for us to stop both.

The good news is we're getting closer. Bad news is we're not there yet.

I would rather help my dad out than anyone else. We recruited him for two years. Most people his size are either skilled or athletic. You make money when you have both. He's going to make some money.

Curtis came in with a Big 12 body. It's tough for people to overpower him. He's very good offensively, but we're really proud of the way he's progressed defensively.

Roby is as good as anyone in the conference.

The first step in this league is to compete. You also really need to win your home games.

Normally you're looking at a five-year process to revitalize a program. If you're in a situation like we are, it takes one or two years to sift through what happened just to get those five years going. Next year begins our actual rebuilding process.

They really pressured the perimeter and with pressuring the perimeter, it made it tough for us to get people open, so it created more one-on-one play. We've got to do a better job of finishing then and handling that kind of pressure.

He hit the big 3, a contested 3. In games like this, it comes down to who makes the big shot. He hit a big shot.

You have got to give Daniel Gibson some credit. We were guarding him and even if you're in an open gym it's hard to make those 13 shots.

We would rather have John on the team than play against him, but we'll help him any way we can, ... We are just really thankful that he stayed and played for Baylor for two years.

I hope no one has to endure a season like we had to endure because it's a lot tougher than people would ever realize.

I just hope it's a situation that no one else ever has to go through.

I thought we had that one.

We're very excited with the progress we've made in a short period of time. Our goal is to be a competitive program as soon as we can, rather than waiting.

We are looking forward to next year now that we have a full season. Im just proud how our team stuck together and handled adversity. There was a lot of prayer time.

You could tell there were definitely nerves, jitters. The only way to get over that is to play games.

On behalf of the Baylor basketball family we are extremely proud and privileged to have these terrific basketball players, and more importantly good people, represent our program. They stand for a century's worth of athletic achievement at this University.

Aaron had a very busy summer, and that's something a lot of coaches fear. I don't know if that has something to do with it. Sometimes international experience can wear on you.

I was so pleased we won, because it was the only time I think we were able to win on senior night. At the same time, anytime you can beat a coach Knight team, there's always an added sense of pleasure, because you're competing against and beating the best of all-time. I think you get more satisfaction out of it, because of how successful Knight's been and all the games he's won.

There are only a few advantages we get by not playing any games. One of them is having the other team not know who we're starting or what we're doing. So, we're going to hang on to that advantage.

Obviously with a young team, the more time the better and we don't have a lot of time. It gives us a stepping stone in finding out what we need to improve.

With other players, you can get into a situation where you can take them out of a game. Richard Roby You can't contain him. You just have to hope he misses some shots and keep defending him as well as you can.

I was probably more excited for this game even than the Texas Tech game because of the crowd, energy and excitement.

Dang, that layoff wasn't that bad. But the adrenaline wore off a little bit and you have to play in games to get used to game situations.

They've earned their minutes. At the same time, we know it's tough on them and hard playing this type of schedule without a chance to warm up to it.

Penny's best basketball is ahead of him. He grew up playing guard and has grown eight inches in the last two years, which gives him the unique quality of possessing height as well as perimeter skills. Penny has a lot of athletic ability and his versatility really excites our staff.

The light is definitely at the end of the tunnel.

We want to play some more. We want to be here for a couple days.

I don't know if we have anyone who can guard him. Jones has always been good in the lane, but now he can step out and hit jump shots.

I know from a coaching standpoint, like proud parents, it's great to see the little growth during the season.

It's good to get back in the routine. The best thing from tonight is it gives us a steppingstone on what we can work on and improve on as a team.