Wayne Morgan Quotes (36 Quotes)


    To say I am disappointed andor frustrated with our effort, especially in the first half, would be a vast understatement as to how I feel. We did not have an answer for their big guy. All he did was post up, and we couldn't move him.

    I've thought about this lately, because (Stinson) and Will are both juniors. It's hard to even consider going into a game and not having those guys with me. Hopefully, we'll have another year with both of them.

    That's fine. Greg McDermott is a good coach. And Greg McDermott had nothing to do with the situation.

    The league's been all about freshmen this season, therefore people have the perception the Big 12 is not as good as it's been in the past.

    We lost, and we had a significant loss. There's nothing to draw positive from it. They only thing we can do positive from it is to look at what we did wrong and correct those mistakes.


    Our kids fought their guts out for 40 minutes in a hostile environment. If we can bottle that and play the rest of the games that way, I think we'll be pleased with the results.

    All he did was post up. We couldn't move him. I don't remember a night like that in my 30 years of coaching. I'm not saying he's the best big guy I've ever seen, but he had a career night.

    He's playing great. Obviously, in my opinion there's no one in the conference playing as well as he is right now. Any success we've been able to have, he's the reason for it.

    It was two competitive teams. It ended up OK. Nobody got hurt nobody got thrown out of the game. You have a bunch of kids that are highly competitive.

    My guys, in a difficult environment, never gave up. They continued to fight the whole time, and if we can do that, then hopefully down the road, we'll like the result of that type of effort.

    They probably have the second-best (inside players) in the conference. Obviously Texas has the best, but Nebraska's three guys average 20 rebounds a game. They're killing people in terms of rebounding.

    I'm not a soothsayer, but I expect to be good.

    If he breaks his hand again, we're like ducks on the water on the first day of hunting.

    They play hard. They play together. They have more of a vision. Everyone understands what everyone else is doing, because they've been playing together for a long time.

    I wanted them to take it to the basket. I wasn't on the court. From where I sat I thought maybe we should have a chance to shoot free throws. The referees didn't see that.

    If we can sustain and win some games, we're right back in the conference race.

    He's played a little better in practice, which is why he got an opportunity to play.

    In terms of his understanding of basketball, Curtis is a genius. He has the same ability Magic Johnson and Larry Bird had to see two, three plays ahead and where the ball needs to go. He sees all the possibilities right away that other kids might not see.

    He's now a target and is probably not used to being a target. Will and Curtis know every time we play the other team's focus is going to be that they have to stop these two guys.

    If we played our style and they played with us, they would have a tough time beating us. The one intangible was that if we couldn't rebound, we couldn't (win).

    But those guys are very skilled and very agile. Although the size and strength of some of the people they play against will create a problem for us, I think their skill and quickness and athletic ability will create a problem for some of those teams.

    We did nothing wrong. Damon Archibald did not do anything wrong. Damon did nothing illegal. He never tried to gain anything or get anything other than ascertain a good schedule for us.

    Good years lie ahead. The freshmen throughout the conference - they're good, but they had to go through a maturation process while playing. They will continue the process during the off-season.

    As far as what's going on in the coaching world - my focus is on Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State only. If we're fortunate enough to win that game, we will go back to the hotel and watch film of our next opponent.

    Maybe he's made a mistake we all make mistakes in this life, but if you look at his accomplishments as a basketball coach and his contributions to the game of college basketball, I don't think there's any question he should be in the Hall of Fame.

    There were five situations on their free throws where we had four guys in the lane to their two, and they still came up with the rebound. That's unconscionable. To me, that's the worst play in basketball - and it happened five times.

    This is the toughest loss we've had all year because our kids fought their guts out for 40 minutes in a hostile environment.

    Try playing against those two guys. They might be the best big-guy combination on one team in the league, in the country.

    They got some good looks in the first half, and we made some mistakes. When we did defend stuff, they had some good counters for it.

    It wasn't our offense that hurt us, it was our defense. They had guys that could shoot the ball. We were supposed to make them bounce the ball first, and we didn't do that. We came out with a hand up, and that's not good enough.

    Everything we did was legal. I did not do anything wrong.

    I think Shawn is going to have a very good year, but I think Shawn is going to be a freshman,

    In my opinion, there's no one in the conference that's playing better. Any success that we've been able to have, he's the key reason for it.

    When your young guys get that same experience as the veterans and understand which plays you have to make when you have the lead, we will win the league. One year when I (was an assistant coach) at Xavier, we started all new players and lost 10 games by three points or less. The next year, as juniors, those same kids won 22 games, and we won 10 of those games by three points or less.

    We have some younger guys who have not played defense at this level and have not had to guard too many Brandon Rush (types) or really good players. It's going to take time to adjust keeping those guys in front of them.

    I don't remember a night like he had in my 30 years of coaching. They moved the ball around from side-to-side, and either they shot or they went inside.


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