Sean Dockery Quotations

We're a mature team. Today we showed our maturity. We never gave up. We're always finding a way to win, that's what we did.

I got knocked out a little and was unconscious. I got dizzy for a second. I couldn't see.

If they hit their free throws, it would have been a game. They did everything else right.

He doesn't get the national props he deserves. Without him, we would not be sitting here today.

We're not worried about being undefeated and No. 1; it just hurts losing. We deserved it. We didn't play the way we were capable of playing, so we deserved this loss.

When he misses it seems like the whole world is surprised, so that shows what kind of shooter he is. He's a warrior. He has had some tough games, but what he did today shows what type of player he is. He's not afraid to fail. He made us win.

We support our football team every game. We want them to win because they've got 'Duke' on their jersey so that's like our brother.

He shot 13 shots today. It's like, 'Oh my God, Jordan didn't even do that.' It just shows you that he's a great player.

He shot 13 shots today and scored 40? (Michael) Jordan didn't even do that.

He's carrying his team, so it's a load on him. He's going to make them the next game, so Justin's going to keep shooting.

He was playing great. I felt like he had a good chance of hitting it. I got a little scared.

J.J.'s not a guy who's a selfish player. He knows that if he's not hitting his shot, he gets the ball to his teammates like me tonight. I was open and hit some shots.

It could be a big factor. That's what we were telling our guys. Everybody has to be ready.

I think that was a great strategy decision by Coach Williams to put the fresh guys out there and get something going.

Plays like that, we practice that a lot. Coach always talks about plays that take the life out of the other team. And that play right there, that's what it did.

Our defense was great. We were together on every play. If a man beats us, we knew a teammate could help us out, and that's the way we want to play all year round.

I was getting out of the way when he threw the chair. But that's just Coach. He wants the best, and we're going to try to give him the best.

That was a great coaching strategy. That brought them momentum for the fans and for the team. They got some guys off the bench who stepped up and made big plays.

That's what I hear in my head now. J.J. gave me a hard time about that one. I felt like I could knock it down. I know he's shot one like that before, so why not me?

We'll come into this game like a championship game because we're playing for first place. It will be competitive and will get us in the mindset for the tournament.

We don't even care that we are number one right now. It is a nice honor, but that was something that was given to us; we haven't earned that yet. We are just going out there to play another good team.

We had our backs against the wall, so we put a press on. It sort of worked.

When I first heard about this situation, I was pretty upset. Today, it was the best news when I heard he's coming back to coach us.

We knew that was one of their powers. We attacked it. Everybody said their press was going to get us, so we took that negative and turned it into a positive.

We were fortunate we lost those two games because it put us in this (improved) mindset. This gives us the confidence that we can be the team we want to be coming into the (NCAA) tournament.

We knew if we attacked their press before they'd attack us, we'd be all right.

What Coach would call it is, it's a Duke play. We needed a big play at that point, and we made one. I'm a guard, and I guess I was given a talent to see where the ball's going to come off the rim sometimes. That's what happened, and I just chased down the ball.

We just turned up the heat. We put it in our minds that we were going to stop them, and that's what we did.

We just showed a lot of maturity down the stretch. We executed everything well in the final six minutes. We were determined not to fail. We talked about it in the huddle during timeouts. We knew we had to get some stops and make some big buckets, and that's what we did. We did it when we really needed to tonight.

Everybody who is watching television or is in the stands always thinks his shot is going down. We feel the same way. It's great to have him back and hitting great shots at the end.

I've seen J.J. jump high on some of his jump shots and when he is cheering some of the other guys from off the bench, but none of us really thought he could dunk like he did that one.

I've watched him get better every year firsthand. It all starts at practice for him and he carries that same determination into games. Those stories you hear about him not missing a shot in practice? Well, I'm here to tell you they're true.

It was wonderful. We (the seniors) didn't want to lose to them again, especially here at home. One of the reasons why we feel so good right now is everybody chipped in some way.

The team tried to tell him not to show it (in his) face. I think he did it for a second. But eventually, he calmed down.

Coach said that in the locker room that we better get used to this in crunch time. We had a critical play happen to us. Better it happens now than in the Final Four.

You can't imagine how mentally tough J.J. needs to be, with all that comes at him.

They probably were the most athletic team we've played this year by far.

They're physical. They played the way they play and sometimes we tried to be physical with them and we got out of our game a little bit.

It's surprising that's happening to them. They're probably happy it's happening to them right now, you know, so they can learn from it. But that's a great team and they're going to win a lot of games this year.

It's good that we're struggling. You get to learn. It's early in the season and we're still a young team, and we're still learning from each other. You just have to learn from our mistakes and keep going.

Everyone is connecting out there. It's a great way to play.

It was a great atmosphere, and it gets better every game but this one was one of the best ones we've had. It's like this every game and it gets better and better.

The turnovers kind of hit us at the end, but oh well, there's nothing you can do about it now. Every turnover was probably on a strong move that we believed in.

That's as athletic a team as I've seen.

I knew I had plenty of time. I had confidence in the shot and I knocked it down.

I knew he could do it. I know Quentin really well, and he doesn't want to lose.

I like it a lot because you get a chance to give back to the fans. I know when I was a kid, I would have loved to go to something like this.

I'm from the inner city, so being there was really special. Where I grew up we didn't have anything like this, so I had to go away. This place is going to help a lot of kids in Durham find their way.

I'm (from) down the hill, he's up the hill. He lived within walking distance.

I'll be teasing him all the way back to campus.

If people overlook me -- oh, well. My team and my coach, that's my family, and they know what I'm doing. That's a great feeling.

He's our big teddy bear. If someone beats you, you're comfortable he's gonna (block the shot).

He's The Landlord. Gotta get the ball to The Landlord.

He's a guy who shoots the ball real well. His work habits are great, he works on it every day. He deserves it. He's a great guy.

I feel like everybody believes in each other on this team, and we just have to get going. We've got some freshmen, and it's kind of tough coming and playing at Duke. When those guys get more comfortable, we're going to get better.

You know J.J. is going to have a lot of guys coming to him, and sometimes, they just forget about me. It's great playing off him, and it's great playing with him.

This has got to do great things for him. It's got to build his confidence up going into the NCAA. He was a big reason why we won today. He did the kinds of things we know he can do. He holds it back sometimes as a freshman, but today he let it go.

You've got to give it to BU. They have a great coach and a great team. But we got a win, and now we've got to get over it.