18 Quotes by Jamaal Tatum

It's good to maybe get out of conference and test the waters later in the season. But this game's not any more important or less important than a conference game. We've just got to play.

I looked at a couple of game films, and really, I wasn't in a motion offense. I was going too much off the dribble. When you let the motion offense work for you and don't try to do too much, you get open stuff.

I honestly don't know too much about them. I know that they're a shooting team from the outside. And they've got a pretty good big man inside, but as of now I don't know too much about them.

Being back at home should give us a boost. It should bring us up to that magic level and bring up that intensity a lot more.

Hopefully by Saturday I'll be close to 100 percent and ready to play, or as close to 100 percent as possible.

He's a player capable of averaging a double-double. That's the way we expect him to play every day.

He said that they were hurting his feet. I was like, 'Well, you know you still have to wear them because coach wants everybody to wear black shoes.' He played hard in the second half with white shoes.

I definitely don't look at him as a freshman. I look at him as another ballplayer out there. I have a lot of faith and a lot of confidence in him. I feel very confident with the ball in his hands. I feel very, very confident. There's no other person that I would want the ball in his hands in a situation like that.

The main thing I'm concerned about now is getting prepared to play another game. We've got to come back from the loss against Bradley and come back and compete. We've got a game to play soon.