Donnie Marsh Quotations

He has to play with emotion. If you take that away from him, you take away a big part of his game. We make sure he understands you have to make good decisions at the right time. For the most part he does that.

He's a big-shot guy. We've seen it time and again. It didn't surprise anybody that he was willing to take it and that he knocked it down.

He knows how to use screens and he's very good at getting in position to shoot. He can break you down at any time. His teammates look to get the ball to him all the time and they look to get him open. A big problem from a defensive standpoint is that 90 percent of the time he's going to have the ball in his hands.

Road or home, it becomes this simple: Our defense isn't even close to where it needs to be. We've tried to address that in ways, tried to change it, but it eventually comes down to you being able to take care of your man, and we've struggled with that too long. We've got to shore up our defense.

I think road or home, you can boil it down, and it's really that our defense isn't even close to where it needs to be to win at home or on the road. We have struggled in that department for far too long.

We're all at a point where we know that we have to improve that effort if we expect to win on the road in the Big Ten. I don't think our team is fragile. I think they're kids who are searching for a way to pull themselves out of this and I think they will.

We're certainly disappointed in not being able to close it out. It's hard to say we're still learning how to play 40 minutes, but that's the crux of it.

We'll get back to work tomorrow and we'll understand that we'll have a team coming in that isn't worried about playing us. I don't think any team is going to come in concerned or afraid of playing us right now. We just have to find a way to scrap and claw out of this little hole ourselves.

We're trying to play the best we can at the right time of year. If that makes us dangerous, so be it. What we want to think about is continuing to get better and better each time we go out. Then we'll let the rest take care of itself.

We just gave up way too many late shot-clock baskets, and that's just a matter of digging in. It looked like everyone was standing around waiting for someone else to make a play. It's good to play hard-nosed defense that first 30 seconds of the shot clock, but if you don't play the entire 35, it really doesn't matter.

We might need to know where that guy is. We'll try to find him. I might see him in my sleep.

We got some help from them because they missed the free throws but we still had to make some shots ourselves.

You have to respect his quickness and his speed, and the way he plays the game. Every minute he's on the floor, he plays hard. He plays to the point of exhaustion.

A ton of emotions will be running through them from tip to buzzer. We've just got to try and get those guys to keep that in check, channel it the right way on the floor and recognize that the ultimate goal is for them to have a win.

It was difficult for our guys, learning at the late point that we did about Coach being unable to join us. To their credit, I thought that they came out in the second half and fought harder.

For him to play 36 minutes after no practice is amazing. That's his heart and mentality. He's doing everything he can to win.

It's one of those nights where you kind of see where (Brown) is shooting wise. If he's knocking those down from real deep there isn't a whole heck of lot you're going to be able to do. What you do then is you try to limit everybody else and make them try to beat you with one guy.

Not at all. It says to me how do we figure out the best way to contain Dials. He's such a powerful kid inside. He's going to stretch you a little bit so you have to bring attention to him, but you can't give up those perimeter shots.