We’re longtime friends, we’re golfing buddies. I told him, ‘Good luck in retirement. Of all the people I know you deserve it,’ and I said, ‘I love you’ and he said he loved me.

I told them I appreciated their effort. You know, these kids could’ve quit all year long, but they never did.

They have progressed at different rates, but both have matured a lot on the basketball court. Their patience on both ends of the floor is getting better.

All I know is that I’m the basketball coach here at ASU. I have a contract. I have a year left on my contract. I’m looking forward to going and coaching this week.

Going from Washington’s pace to Washington State’s presents issues, especially for a young team without much experience.

They know each other on the basketball floor, but they also are good for each other. Jeff is more cerebral and knows how to keep his emotions in check. Sylvester has had trouble controlling his...

I’ve never coached against a team with only three turnovers in one game in my life.

The biggest thing is lack of patience on the offensive end. You’re not going to score if you don’t get a look at the basket, so we need to take better care of the basketball.

It’s difficult when your freshmen are leading you. You have to give 40 minutes of effort in college basketball to be able to win and we didn’t do that tonight.

If you think you’re snake-bit, you’re already defeated.

We really worked on him. We really tried to front him. We tried to make him work hard to get the basketball. I thought we did a good job on him. We just couldn’t keep...

He really ran the ball club [against California]. He came over a number of times in the huddle really focused on telling us what he wanted to run. If I have a kid who feels...

Serge is moving better. He’s jumping better.

It’s very encouraging. They certainly came in and gave us a huge lift. I think all those guys are getting better as time goes on and you have to have your bench to be successful.

It’s a challenging job because you are in a league that’s a tough league and in a city that’s a pro city and you have limited prospects in the area. So it’s a challenging job,...

We talked at the half about making sure we came out and did not have a lull. We wanted to make sure we stayed aggressive, moved the basketball and moved our bodies. I thought they...

With him in the ballgame, we are a different basketball team. We have a place to go inside to get some baskets and rebounds and he alters shots.

We just didn’t put two good halves together.

Obviously the longer it goes on the more concerned we get.

Early foul trouble killed us. We’re not deep enough to sustain our front line without those two guys on the floor.

I’m not going to talk about that. I’m not going to talk about speculation.

I think there’s a time when most folks know to go.

You can’t let them go on a run like that, we knew that. That is why I called all of the timeouts, I was trying to keep the runs down, but I only had one...

We keep putting ourselves in position (to win). We’ve just got to do the small things. We just didn’t get the breaks we needed, at the time, when the game was in the balance.

Obviously our defense wasn’t very solid tonight, we can’t give up 100 points to anybody and be successful. We came out flat in the first half and fought back in the second half but we...

He’s coming out of junior college, so he’s still learning on this level. It’s a growth process for him, but he’s starting to mature a little more and has been getting better every basketball game.

Regardless of what happens (tonight), we’ll give them off on Thursday.

They didn’t do anything different. He just got tired. They’ve got a lot of bodies, and they kept throwing fresh ones at him, and we don’t have enough to combat that.

We knew that’s what they could do. We also knew that was what they would try to do in the second half. We just didn’t do anything to stop them.

So much more of the theft is remote, impersonal. The bad guys don’t even have to be there harassing customers.

The thing we’ve tried to do is share the wealth, get more guys involved. We’re sharing the ball more. We’re trying to pressure more defensively. On offense, we have more guys involved, that’s the biggest...

We were going a little too fast at the end of the half there. We had a chance of widening that lead a little bit by slowing up the tempo and playing our game, but...

I thought our guys competed really hard; they just didn’t complete the task.

Tyrone can be another coach on the floor when he wants to be a leader, … We need him to be a scoring threat. He was here all summer working on his game and has...

Our guys got out and got to him, made him put it on the floor. He’s a lot different player when he has to put it on the floor.

His game has changed because he can take you outside – maybe earlier in the year he was relying on his outside game – but now he has balanced it, which has made it difficult...

The computer is not from the state of Arizona, that is for sure,

What we need is for each player to look at how Ike worked and progressed, … He trusted our staff. He did the little things. The returning players watched Ike work and now see the...

Not in the eight years since I’ve been here have I seen the conference like this.

I thought in the first half, we struggled offensively. In the second half, we got it going offensively, but we weren’t where we need to be defensively.

They’re both really good 3-point shooters. It didn’t matter which one shot it as long as one of them got a really good look at it. It’s got a 50-50 chance of going in if...

I’ve never seen a pool quite like that before.

With each game, I feel like we’re getting better. That’s the thing you have to do. Even as bad as we played in the first half against Iowa, I thought we began to improve in...

I’m hard-pressed to find a freshman that’s playing better than him right now. He’s just unbelievable. He was patient in the first half and then comes out in the second half and plays like a...

Had Ike been here, I don’t know that we’d have lost a ball game. I don’t know who would have beaten us.