Travis Ford Quotes (23 Quotes)

That's just Kentucky basketball. You could be sitting 25-6, and they'd want to know, 'Why did you lose those six.

It was kind of something we preached the last three days, kind of a grudge match on the boards. Who's going to come out ahead.

We didn't play particularly well because Rhode Island got after us. They made things tough on us. Every single shot we made was tough.

Last night we challenged him in front of the whole team because I think in the last few games he didn't give us the games he should have. He responded and that's what I'm excited about. Some guys can't take getting called out in front of the team, but the guys that can use it as a motivational factor come out with games like he had tonight.

He's one of the best players in the league. They have four guys that can score 20 points or more each night, so you can't really concentrate on just one guy. But, obviously, Collins is their leader.

I've always been a big believer in transfers -- I understand the mentality, ... I've always believed transfers have an axe to grind. They come in with an incredible hunger, and I love the year they sit out, improve their academics and their game, and learn the system. And for us, these are really, really, really good basketball players.

The people have been very, very nice. They love their basketball.

In order for us to stay in the game, we had to figure out how to slow them down. The first thought was defensive transition. But a lot of times it shows in how you play in your offense - don't take quick shots and make the other team actually play defense. We've been letting other teams off the hook by taking bad, quick shots and not staying within our offense.

We knew we'd be tested on the road. We knew we'd better win our home games, and that's what we've done.

They're very different people. Johnny is aggressive, no bull crap. This is the business. He's the enforcer in the class. Cannon is the friend. He's there. He's the good guy, ... The good copbad cop thing is really vital to the success of the comics coming out of there.

The difference in the game was three guys Dante Milligan, Chris Lowe and James Life. They gave us incredible energy and without those guys we don't win the basketball game.

They were killing us on the glass. They got to lose balls quicker than we did. We were standing around and watching. We have so far to go as a basketball team I'm done with this game. I'm more concerned with where our team is headed.

We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.

Fifteen minutes (at halftime) wasn't enough time to cover all the things we needed to cover. It wasn't screaming and yelling. It was more pleading.

We are ready to take on an extremely challenging schedule, ... The non-conference schedule is filled with tough games on the road including Boston College and Florida State of the ACC and Connecticut of the Big East. The home schedule features the Atlantic 10 teams with the richest basketball history such as Temple, Saint Joseph's, Xavier, Dayton and Charlotte. We think our fans will be very excited that the top teams in our conference will be coming to the Mullins Center, especially late in the year when they can support us.

It will be interesting to see what kind of year he has, ... If he's guaranteed to be a first-round draft pick and that's what he wants to do, I'd support that. But having two years in our system, I think he can definitely solidify himself as a top 15 pick

Twenty-nine turnovers didn't help us at all. Shooting 1-for-9 in 3-pointers in the first half didn't help us. But, man, they're a scrappy basketball team. They play in those spurts and that's what makes them good. They can afford not to play well in 2- or 3-minute spans. We can't. We're not good enough of a basketball team to do that.

You never forget games like that. When you lose like that, you always remember it. We know they're going to be ready for us. Temple's a great basketball team, and they're coming off of two huge wins, so we know they're going to be prepared.

He's a physical beast who gets where he wants to get and does what he wants to do. We couldn't do anything with him. We're moving on. I'm not spending too much time on that game.

There were several points in the game where guys could have held their heads and gotten concerned. But we stuck with our game plan, they continued to execute.

You have to look at the next game. You can't start looking back at what-ifs. We understand who we are as a basketball team, and we're not a great basketball team. We're very short-handed, so we've got to be overachievers. I've been happy with way the team has competed.

We've been able to win at home, and that's been a key for us. Now we go on a tough three-game road stretch that will really test our basketball team. We still have a long way to go. There's really small room for error on this basketball team.

Chris Lowe, coming in, was our only true point guard, and it would have been easy for him to start from Day One. But I didn't allow that. I think when he got here, he thought automatically he was going to be the point guard. We wanted to make sure he earned everything he got. We wanted to make sure he was mentally ready as well as physically ready.