“It was very warm out there and hard to keep up the tempo and the pressure. But we can be pleased with 3-0. I am happy with that.”
Michael Ballack
“They came out with more pressure, and we struggled. They needed to do something because we were controlling the tempo.”
Keith Gunther
“He's not hard for me to cover because I'm a veteran guy, ... I know how to tempo down fast guys like that. But I'm sure he's hard to cover for some of these other corners because when you look at film, it doesn't seem like Troy's moving as fast as he is. That's why he's going to constantly get behind people.”
Fred Smoot
“He's not hard for me to cover because I'm a veteran guy. I know how to tempo down fast guys like that. But I'm sure he's hard to cover for some of these other corners because when you look at film, it doesn't seem like Troy's moving as fast as he is. That's why he's going to constantly get behind people.”
“Our defensive pressure and our conditioning led our comeback as we were able to dictate a different tempo for them at both ends of the court.”
Paul Gassner
“We've got to handle their pressure, we can't turn the ball over. We have to dictate the tempo of the game and not let them do that. We can get up and down the court too, and we'll trap and pressure them and do our thing. We are not going to change the way we play, but we will make some adjustments that will be minor and dictated by our strengths.”
Dave Hancock
“We played hard tonight. We had the tempo in our favor and that's the type of basketball that we want to play.”
Byron Scott
