Jeff Lebo Quotations

We're small. We have to play aggressively. We can't back off because we're too little. We don't play the brightest by any stretch of the imagination. We just make some plays. If I had any hair, it would be out. We foul way too much. All of that has to do with us being small. We really have to play that way, but we have to be smarter.

Mississippi State dominated us on the glass in our first game. They're coming in after a big win. (Sophomore forward Charles) Rhodes is a terrific player. He's so much stronger than our inside guys right now.

(Freshmen) all think they are going to come in and set the world on fire and go to the Final Four. When reality sets in to them a little bit, they can be a little discouraged. It's up to us to try to get them back. It's just a hard thing when you are going through it.

He's got to step up his game, as a senior, in conference play.

He has to be able to score for us some. We can't play 2-on-5. It's hard when you can't score from every position. He's an unselfish player, but sometimes being unselfish can be selfish.

I thought we looked very fatigued against Mississippi State and kind of hit the wall.

I thought Moses and Brett were terrific. They're guys who haven't played much, but they gave us some execution and energy and got us back in the game.

That was not a PG-rated halftime. I thought in the second half we had a lot more energy. The first half was horrendous. One thing I did tell them is they couldn't have beaten a bad JV team in the first half.

We need to have him score for us. We struggle to put the ball in the basket. He's got to be very aggressive on the offensive end, which he was tonight.

We could never really get it to that point where we made it interesting.

We needed them to shoot because we needed to get into the game. But they were making them.

We are doing 80 (percent) of things right and just can't finish the 20 percent - and that is putting the ball in the basket. It is frustrating for the kids but we have to go through this. It's a prerequisite for success down the road.

When you're struggling, you don't have a lot of senior leadership to pick people up. They're forced to play a lot of minutes. Instead of watching somebody in front of them and being apprentices, they've got to play.

We played well enough to win the game - we just couldn't get it done. We had chances until the end.

We can't play them man-to-man, so we had to do a lot of stuff, playing zone.

With a lot of youngsters on the court, you never know what to expect.

When you have turnovers, you can just see the body language of our team when they occurred on tape. It really hurt the team.

We wanted to take one (shot) and have time to get an offensive rebound. We got the rebound and got jammed pretty good. The clock was running down and we shot it pretty quickly. We got the look we wanted the first time.

We talked about it. We don't want to finish there. We don't want to come in last. This is our time to do it.

We wish Dwayne well. We certainly could use him, but we want guys here that want to be at Auburn.

With four freshmen starting, you always worry about the confidence of your team. It was nice to be able to get one against Georgia, a very physical and tough team.

We do not score 64 points in games. We have had maybe 10 games, maybe, where we have not scored 64 points. Our kids battled, but Tennessee was too good.

There's many challenges. We'd be here for 10 years if I wanted to explain all of them.

A win helps, no doubt about it. There's just a different look in their eye when you win. We needed to get this one.

That's what they do. They make it difficult to get the ball inbounds.

The guys hurt. It's frustrating. We played well enough to win. We just couldn't get it done.

The guys are hurt and frustrated. We just can't get it done. We had chances up until the end. The disappointment level is up there.