46 Quotes by Chris Hernandez

His man had come out on me and the defense was rotating the big man back on Lawrence. So I hit Lawrence and I came around him and my man was under him and he got the ball back to me and I had the shot.

He was giving me some space and I felt like he was kind of off balance. I gave him a hesitation and got a step on him. Then he moved into me. Maybe he was trying to take a charge. He came over and knocked me down.

I think we made some careless turnovers. We were getting good shots, but they were not going down.

I think everybody did a great job of trying not to focus on what we had lost, but trying to focus on what we could do. Nobody got real anxious or nervous when Matt went out. ... I think that's what you have to do when you lose one of your best players. You can't hang on it or it's going to affect your game, and the team's game and the mind-set.

It feels good to be on the other side of these close games. I know how USC feels. We've been there numerous times the last couple of weeks.

You just work to keep him from getting open shots. You've got to make him work for his shots, not get easy lay-ins.

We'd rather be steady early on and get that much better as the season goes on, instead of being so low and coming back. But it's how you finish and not how you begin. So hopefully we can finish well.

We got good looks, but it was our inability to make the big play or get the big rebound that stopped us.

We've had good luck here. We've been able to get some big wins. We feel comfortable here.