Dick Davey Quotations

We're making shots and that's something that we haven't been able to do this year.

He got it going and got a good rhythm and we didn't guard him as well as we needed to. That's a credit to him. He did a good job when the chips were on the line.

He might be our best shooter right now and he is one of the smarter players in our program. We have been real fortunate to have him in our program and would love to have him back. He's been a quiet leader for us and is starting to get the hang of things.

We just haven't shot the ball well and he's been able to score inside. He's highly competitive, kind of like the Anderson twins when they played for us. So you know you're going to get a good effort out of him.

He's kind of our go-to guy. He's carried us through a number of games. He's just a hard-nosed, competitive player.

That was probably as close a group as we've had since I've been here.

We're all kind of happy. To perform at a pretty high level gives us some incentive that we're capable of maybe doing some better things. ... We were pretty darn good defensively.

(Wallace is) a good friend, I have a lot of respect for him, and obviously don't necessarily enjoy playing against him, last time we did they got us pretty good. But I have a lot of respect from his program and what he's done here.

We're trying to re-establish ourselves. We had a pretty good start, we've gone into a little bit of a drought and we're trying to get it back.

We're not quite mature enough or healthy enough to compete at the level we'd like to be at.

We made a 5-hour flight to get here (on Thursday), and now we have to make a 5-hour flight to get back (tomorrow). That's not the best way to get ready for a league game.

Tonight we kind of threw him to the wolves.

We all have them. You have to go with what you have.

Brody is concerned primarily with getting the ball to other people. Calvin's a good guy to give it to because he can shoot the ball.

Quite honestly, I was very nervous about our chances.

Randy was a very good high school athlete. He walked on with us and probably didn't like me too much because I kind of encouraged him to try baseball.

Randy loved basketball, but he knew he wasn't going to start ahead of Steve. And when Randy became an All-Star in the majors (2002), Steve was an All-Star with the Mavericks the same year. I'm proud of both of them.

Randy could flat-out defend you. He was right up there with the best on our team.

Younger teams have a tendency to have a few more problems on the road.

They're hard to guard. They've got great balance. They're very intelligent.

The big difference in the game from our perspective was we didn't make enough shots. Maybe the emotions of the game just took us out of a good rhythm.

They came out with a lot more heart and passion than we did to start the second half. They shot the ball better and played harder than we did.

I'm tremendously optimistic about John's future and his ability to play the game. He's very bright, understands basketball, has great hands, is a good passer and has a nice shooting touch. He's well aware of the fact that conditioning will be a major factor in his development.

I only went in there one time, and that was enough. It was a real pigpen. But they seemed to enjoy it.

I certainly haven't given up on this team and I know they haven't given up on themselves.