84 Quotes by Dick Bennett

These are the lessons. They were the teachers, and we were the students.

Sometimes you have to be empty. That is one thing I have truly learned in all the rebuilding projects. At some point, you have got to take a punch to the gut that just empties all the arrogance or pride or false hopes, and then you realize we better face up to who we are.

You're always going to have mistakes. You're not going to play perfectly down the stretch, when everything has to work. You know there are going to be some miscues. We just haven't played solidly in the first half and we've had to dig out of that. ... It's just a bit too much for us.

This is a game where we were just dominated by a vastly superior group of players and coaches. We picked an awful night to not even be able to find the basket.

They made the plays they had to make and we didn't.

They made their shots when it counted and we missed ours. It came down to that.

They figured him out. Josh is not one who creates his own shot. His shots have been created off of our screens, and we've given him as many as possible. But they've locked him out by just concentrating on him and we haven't found a lot of alternate scoring.

They're going to bury us in the sand.

At halftime, we talked about 'Let's just show some semblance of a half-court defense and some offense. We took a lot of circus shots in the first half.