80 Quotes by Dave Rose

It was a style Austin hadn't seen before. He got used to it later, but all our guys battled, and I'm proud of them.

It's a very tight-knit group, and they're all supportive of each other.

It is very hard for defenders to stay in front of him. He is deceptively fast for a kid as big as he is. Rashaun gets about 27 minutes a game, sharing the point with Austin Ainge.

I told our guys I wanted them to do two things: play hard and be tough. We've had a tendency to let people get after us on the road but tonight we answered. As a coaching staff, we challenged Jimmy to play hard and he responded. I thought Austin Ainge also came in and got us going after we got off to a rough start. In order for us to be successful, we need Jimmy and others to be consistent like he was tonight.

It's a great time of year. There's a lot going on, and there's a lot of focus being paid to conference standings and potential NCAA tournament teams. It's a time of year where some people thrive and others struggle.

It's all what you make of it. I personally think the bye week is a good thing. The kids seem to get really hungry when they have a week off.

I told them we'd come too far and worked too hard not to absolutely give our best effort out there and we needed everything we could for the remainder of the game. I don't think our guys ever did not play hard at any point in this game. We made mistakes, but they played hard and gave everything they had.

For a large part of the game, guys were able to push the ball on the break and get a good look. That's kind of how we like to play.

It's something we can build on, even if it wasn't our best game.