Tim Buckley Quotations

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

We'll probably have to play the perfect game.

From a basketball mentality, he'll be where he needs to be when he comes back. The physical stuff is always going to take time.

He's a difficult match-up because he uses his body so well and he's very good around the basket. He's a very good position player. I think he's done a phenomenal job throughout the years of being able to draw contact when he shoots the ball.

I thought we battled when we needed to in order to keep it in reach.

Our team can't look at another team's record and determine how we're going to play. We didn't come mentally ready to play today at all. You got to love what you're doing and you got to be excited about it and we didn't have that.

I think he cleared his mind and played. I think he's got the confidence and belief back.

We needed to hit our free throws, at the end, which we didn't do.

You have to challenge shots; you have to do that. Nationally, the statistics are (that teams shoot) 36 percent when shots are challenged and 47 percent when shots are not challenged. You most definitely want to challenge shots.

The play of the game was the missed block out on the free throw and he got the offensive rebound and put it back in and that kind of turned the tide right there. He did the things that he needed to do when his team needed to win. That's what we're searching for. We're searching for someone to make those kinds of plays in defining moments.

You do want to try to steal a couple on the road and you've got to try to take care of your home court. We dropped two of those at home against a very good Akron and Miami (Ohio) team, so we've got to make up for those on the road.

We had pockets of success, but when we do we go off on our own and don't follow the plan. Until we change that mentality, we're going to struggle with teams.

I've seen him break people's backs over the last three years with some big shots. Some guys are cut out for that. Calvin was well-groomed for the position he's in right now. He had a chance to go against one of the better point guards we've had in our league for quite sometime.

I've said many times that Darren's not our best player, but he has the potential to be one of our best leaders.

One guy showed up to play on our team, and that was Anthony Newell, primarily on the offensive end.

Dennis is the heart and soul of our team. We are extremely disappointed for him, however his health and future is important. Time is the major ingredient in his recovery.

Any time a guy plays like that people will say why wasn't he playing from the beginning. Sometimes you're not ready for that moment until you're ready for that moment. I think he's ready for it now. Now he has to handle it. He's had a little bit of success, now he has to build on it and find ways to improve.

They have an inside-outside game -- they have guys who can score in the post, and guys who can shoot from 3, and you basically have to pick your poison.

They have an inside-outside game and you basically have to pick your poison. Part of it was fatigue, some of it was getting away from playing the way we need to be successful and it took us too long to try to get that back.

It's just one of those things that you hate to see happen. We had a basket count last year that shouldn't have and it cost us the West Division title. It's an unfortunate situation and I'm sure the official is disappointed right now too.

It was not just this one situation that led to this decision. The team comes first and the team has to be the most important thing. Basically, Tom made the decision himself.

I've had some initial talks. But other than that, I can't comment.

I don't think everybody realizes how much of a burden this has been for (Mills), losing Peyton. He came into the season being Robin and now he's Batman.

Each year is a new year.

I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.