Mike Hopkins Quotations

She moved the ball around, and her change was working exceptionally well today. It was a good outing.

He had some key shots for us as well as hitting a 3 in both the third and fourth quarter.

We are not playing as a team, I guess, is a positive way of saying it. We are going to have to regroup.

We still aren't as consistent as I'd like (on defense) but it is improving.

We need to get the water lines out of the way before they can do the intersection. If things go as expected, there should be very little impact on the community. Our goal is to have it done before 6 (a.m.). We don't want to impact any work traffic or school traffic.

We've been stressing it. If you put the ball in play, good things happen.

We went on an 8-0 run and then they had to call timeout and we never trailed again.

Eric's just got a great ability to score and be a playmaker for us. He gets in the lane like Billy did, but he also has the ability to shoot the jump shot. He's a double threat. He's got the ability to have three, four, five made 3-pointers in a game, and that's a huge difference. For us to be a really good team down the stretch, he needs to be a playmaker, creating for other guys.

That's what makes him really good and able to play right away at an early age. Great players don't have any fear of taking big shots. And the crowd never bothers him. He almost gets more hyped.

He's just competitive. He's going to compete no matter what he is doing. If he is running track he is going to compete.

I don't know if anybody's ever had go through the stretch that we just did. People always talk about our schedule as being not that good.

Gerry is a marked man. He gets face-guarded, he gets hit. That guy has to go through so much. Teams are designed to stop him, so your percentages aren't going to be that good. Gerry doesn't go to the foul line, so he gets his points off made baskets. If Gerry went to the foul line 10 times a game, what would he average?

I don't think a Syracuse team has ever been considered a Cinderella, but its starting to look like the shoe fits, I know that we definitely have the luck of the Irish.