46 Quotes by Lute Olson

After long and serious deliberation, the men's basketball staff has dismissed Chris Rodgers, effective immediately, from the team. It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in three and a half years and that we wish him much success in all future endeavors.

That's good that they have, because now it's our turn to swing it back the other way. All of those games have been competitive games. This is a new year, new team. ...I don't think past history is going to have anything to do with it, frankly.

This game was invented to have fun. If you can't enjoy playing basketball, you've missed a lot.

There was no question in my mind he was going to be a really good player, and we wouldn't have watched him as much as we did if we didn't feel that way. I think he's had a great opportunity at Stanford and he's taken advantage of it.

It should be noted that Chris has earned his college degree in 3 1/2 years.

The biggest adjustments obviously have been the change from three guys out to four guys out. We've spent a lot of time on the offense and the intent of that is to spread the court a little bit more and open driving lanes to utilize their quickness.

The ball is in Chris' court. There are certain things he is going to have to do. If he does them, there is a chance he can come back.

That gives you an idea how tough our guards were on their perimeter guys.

It's work hard and try to learn from the things we didn't do well.