Tony Shaver Quotations

Part of (the improvement) is understanding shot selection. We've defined shot selection as much as we can for the players and the team. They understand that and now they are playing with more freedom.

I thought if they were going to beat us, they were going to beat us inside.

In my (three seasons) at William and Mary, they are the toughest team to guard. They've got a lot of weapons.

Brian has improved as much as any player I've ever coached. If you'd have told me this time last year that we'd be running plays to get him the ball, I wouldn't have believed it.

I'm not in this thing for moral victories and I'm not in this to validate us as a team that plays hard. We've got to learn how to win ball games.

I wish I knew what the answer was. But, we're going to keep working to find it and turn these hard-fought performances into victories.

We were aggressive with the ball, a little more confident with the ball and we just made some shots. It's an easy game when you make some shots.

I told our players we've got to learn to lay it on the line every day, like we did today. That was a great effort for our players.

He's a starter on most teams in this league. And when he shoots it like he did tonight, obviously that's a new dimension to his game.

He's done a great job as a freshman, though he's been very inconsistent, which you anticipate from a freshman, particularly one who's been put in such a key role from day one. But obviously, he's had a tremendous impact on our program.