John Connell Quotations

We are seeing certain markets where housing costs and rents are going up on a monthly basis because of limited inventory, especially in developing Eastern European markets and major centers such as London, Paris and Moscow.

Mike, he played his heart out. He and Juan both played great. I am proud of the way we played. Our guys stayed very positive.

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

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My team heard that and took it personally. We needed fuel and that was it.

His skill level has improved because of his improved strength. Demetrius, he shoots it fairly well from 15-foot range, he's very effective around the basket and he's done a very good job defensively blocking shots.

He's done just a great job for us offensively, and defensively he's been a real presence.

I thought we had some good individual efforts, but overall they dominated us.

(Konieczki) and (MacArtney) were both really strong. Alex Tostenson, who played for us in the field last year, played really strong in his first start in goal.

I was pleasantly surprised. We were only able to have two practices, only one of them with everybody there. Still, these kids have been together so long, they know this stuff and they know what to do.

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We've kept it a secret. As a coach, I didn't want him thinking about it. Now that he only has four points to go, it's not the worst thing in the world that he knows.

We have another shot at a player. Last year he was physically immature. This year he came back taller, stronger and his skills were better.

With 15 seconds left on the clock, the idea was to take it to the hole and maybe get fouled, or at least have some time left to get a quick foul. I never expected it to take 14 seconds.

The recruiting process gets to be a little tedious. It's tough. I don't know if he knows how easy he made it on himself.

Brian just had one of those nights. He had a tremendous game. We know he's capable of it. He had an opportunity to showcase himself on a bigger stage.

Down the stretch we won a lot of games late and that was key. Xavier had more confidence this year in his teammates' ability. Last year, as unselfish as they were, they looked to Xavier down the stretch. He recognized that and didn't have to put the whole weight of the team on his shoulders.

Enrique draws the toughest (defensive) assignment almost every game for us. His job was basically to just deny (Holmes) the ball.

The scouting report was that they get most of their points in the paint. We didn't attack their shooters early, and we paid for it. When they were hitting early, we were missing some bunnies. . . . In all fairness, I think (Jones) played not to lose and just protect its lead (in the second half) and that played to our advantage.

It would seem to me that if in certain urban areas that there's a high demand for this, it's perhaps being driven by the fact that the public may want to know about this information.

The most significant implication of these findings will be in housing and destination services. Volume increases will mean greater demand and competition for housing and will thus drive market costs higher.

As a team, we've got a lot of character. I'm very happy with that. They work hard and have a history of being good students. I feel very comfortable with this group of guys.

They started draining shots. It was a struggle for us.

A lot is going to ride on his shoulders. I just think there's a lot of upside for him ... as he gets a little bigger and stronger, his game will develop a lot.

They had to play us four more minutes without two of their starters. We had five starters on the floor. ... We liked our chances.

There were many moments like that. You let great players like that get the job done. Sometimes you can over coach, you can over scheme. We rarely drew up a new set.

It was opened up. Juan is a very generous player. He set up so many potential goals.

It's been a dream season for us. We played a lot of the good teams in the county. To only lose once and go out and stay focused each night, I think that is pretty impressive.

I just can't believe what he did. To see him perform at this level was phenomenal. I'm so proud of him. His effort in that second half, I don't know what to say. It was just fantastic to see.

I never expected that would run 14 seconds off the clock. My gut at the time favored the percentages of going to the hole.

I'm quite comfortable with either one of those guys. That's a luxury for us.

But it is not just the line-of-sight issues per se. For us to make this a viable business for service providers, the cost-per-subscriber rates have got to be within a range in which they can offer the service and still make money.

Granted, they out-manned us in practically every aspect of the game, but we still had our opportunities. We knocked on the door plenty of times.

You can't try to make too many changes. You've got to find a happy medium.

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The idea was take it to the hole and get fouled. With the foul situation and in double bonus, let's go to the hole and get fouled. The percentages were there for us. I never expected to run 14 seconds off the clock.

The first game we played their style a bit, and this time we sped it up. We felt if we could score in the 60s we could win, and we did that.