203 Quotes by Tommy Amaker

We have the kind of kids who are going to respect their opponents and prepare the right way. I love that about our kids and our program.

We need him to be one of our better players, if not our best player. Whatever that takes, whatever that means for Dion to internalize that. He's that good. He has the ability to do those kinds of things. Certainly, we need that from him. I'm going to expect him to be a key guy and one of our better players.

We anticipated the post-double. When you post-double, you choose what shots to give your opponent. They chose to give us shots on the perimeter, so we thought we might have a good afternoon. It was something we were looking forward to. ... Tell me we're going to get open threes, I'll take our chances.

We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.

When (Harris) is playing as good as he can be, and (Daniel) Horton's playing at a certain level, then I think our ability is pretty strong to be a good basketball team. Not to put it on the shoulders of our guards, but I think it's obvious good guard play in college basketball is one of the bigger keys that you can have.