Zam Fredrick Quotations

We were hoping to get away early, but we were unpleasantly surprised.

Situations like this, you have to make your own decisions to be where you want to be and do what you want to do. This is my career, and I've got to live with it.

Buford was an aggressive team. They were a heady team and played well within themselves.

I thought it was going to be a bit more time than it was. I didn't expect to play major minutes, but I also didn't expect to play the (few) minutes that I played.

We came out in the second half and reasserted ourselves. We started to play our style and forced them into turnovers. We forced them to play like we wanted to.

We needed to slow it down. I felt the best thing to do was to pull our guys back.

We had difficulty with their zone, but we got some shots and they weren't going down for us. (The Tigers) play great defense. They get out into the passing lanes all the time, and we knew that but couldn't overcome it.

We talked for a long time, maybe an hour or an hour-and-a-half. And it was all about basketball.

We hit a drought in the second period and Buford started hitting its free throws.

We didn't play a good game, but we still showed we could beat them. Our mindset is to play much better and see what happens next time.

Sometimes he just doesn't feel like doing stuff. I told him, 'You can't feel like that.' And I tried to tell him in a way where he'd respond.

Seems like when I score early, I play better. I can't let that dictate how I play.

That got them back in it. Buford's a heady team and they do a good job of playing within themselves.

Oh, I reamed them out pretty good, because like I said we worked too hard. We knew exactly what we wanted to do. And the game was really progressing the way we thought it would. But we weren't capitalizing on the situations we had.

I want my son to be happy, too.

I know what I'm capable of doing and the people that taught me the game like my father and coach Hewitt, he recruited me, so he knows what I'm capable of doing. I just have to go out there and prove it on this level. I just want to play. I want to show the nation and the world that I'm capable of doing big things.

I heard some of the comments that were made, but I just take that as it is, with a grain of salt, being that they lost the game and, of course, when you lose, you always tend to have a certain point of view. So I'm going to dismiss it as that and concentrate on what we have to do, and I think our main concern is making sure that we take care of things that we can and play Saints' basketball. If we do, I feel pretty good about our chances of winning tomorrow.