41 Quotes by Austin Croshere

We're not playing our best basketball of the year, but we're definitely closer than we were a couple weeks ago.

This team needs to step up and find some leadership and stop doing these things. It's not coaching; it's effort and taking responsibility for what's happening on the court.

You have to give a lot of credit to Fred because of the way he's stepped up into that third scoring option. He's doing it with perimeter driving and slashing and it's really helping Jermaine out when he gets doubled in the post.

When you lose seven out of eight, many people are upset with many things. One game or victory like this doesn't make up for the way we have been playing in the past. This is a step in the right direction.

Even given all of the situations we've been put in, we still should be playing better than we are. I felt the same way last year, so maybe that's just me.

I've played on teams in the past where we had a really hard problem in the third quarter. We would come out and have a big lead at halftime and in the third quarter we would give it right back. I don't think it's a personality-type thing as a team to come out that way. Certainly it's been frustrating to play from a hole.

The thing he did (Monday), the things he did in this game, that rubs off on everybody.

I've been .500 or better my whole career so to do that nine straight years in a row would be important for me. I think, beyond that, it's really just a matter of playoff seeding at this point; do anything to stay out of that eighth position would be the goal.

So much of what we do offensively revolves around Jermaine. Without him, you're holding it together with spit and glue.