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January 07, 2008 | Men's Basketball
CU
Head Coach Jeff Bzdelik
ON TEAM'S PROGRESSION?“Slowly and surely we are getting
better. We are reacting to situations a little better and becoming more
instinctive. If we could finish around the rim we would be a little better, and
we are still taking a few possessions of defensively. We just need to keep
getting better.”
ON DIFFERENT STARTING
LINEUP ? “Caleb
[Patterson] has been doing a real nice job in practice, and the time was right.
He has a chance to rebound the ball and a chance to score the ball. He also
gives us some size in there which we desperately need. Xavier Silas was unable
to play tonight, so Levi [Knutson] is next in line.”
ON PLAY OF MARCUS HALL
? “Here is a young
man who did not play at all last year, and he also played against
ON PLAY OF CALEB
PATTERSON ? “He
played well. I told him he needs to play with a little more force. Even when he
was introduced for the starting lineup and he tried to bump Trent Beckley, that
was not smooth. So we need to work on all those things.”
ON PLAY OF DWIGHT
THORNE II ? “I kept
him out of the
Colorado
Freshman Guard Levi
Knutson
General ?? “As a team we are playing
stronger with the ball, and we need to get a little better at that. I think we
played a lot stronger tonight and it was good to see an improvement from the
On Starting His First
Game for
On Running Team
Offense - “I think
you can always get better. I think everybody out there is confident on the
floor and in certain situations, they all know where to go. We can get a little
bit cleaner on our cuts and executing. But overall, I think everyone is a lot
more confident with running our offense; we can always get better though.”
On Gaining Experience
- “You just have to
keep getting better. It's good to learn from Richard (Roby), and Marcus (Hall),
because they have a lot of experience. I think that every time you step on the
floor that you gain a little more experience each time.”
Senior Guard
On Levi Knutson and
Caleb Patterson Starting - “Both of those guys have proved that they are ready for the opportunity
and I think that they both played well. I think we need to be a little more
physical in the paint, but as far as those two guys for their [making their]
first start they played well.”
On correcting His
Early-Season Mistakes - “I've been turning the ball over a whole lot, which in the past has been
something that I haven't done. Having four turnovers in a game is not
acceptable for anybody, especially a point guard, and that is something that I
have to correct and I did that tonight.”
