Colorado University Athletics
Colorado-New Mexico Quotes
January 07, 2008 | Men's Basketball
CU
Head Coach Jeff Bzdelik
GENERAL?“I first of all want to thank our
students and the great crowd we had. Awesome. They were here for us. The energy
that was in this building and they were waiting for us to do something and
unfortunately we didn't give them enough. We had more to do with losing this
game than
ON OFFENSIVE PLAY? “We did not seem to have enough
?juice'. Our cutting wasn't good and
ON FRESHMEN
CONTRIBUTIONS?
“Levi and Cory are freshman. I thought they competed well. They battled and
it's a good thing they were scoring the ball a little bit.”
ON SECOND-HALF
ADJUSTMENTS? “I
just said at halftime, ?We're beating ourselves and you have to be aggressive
in your cuts.' Every cut is to score. I wanted them to push the ball up the
court. We have to attack quickly because if you walk the ball up the court you
allow the defense to dig in and get organized. If you can get the ball up the
court quick you can maybe get one guy turned around.“
ON DEFENSIVE PLAY? “This team (
New
Mexico Head Coach Steve Alford
GENERAL? “This was a huge win for us tonight.
Obviously it's our first game, but we played well start to finish. They made a
key run at the end there and we missed some key free throws, but we got the
win. Last year we struggled closing out games on the road, but we got the win
on the road tonight and we led pretty much start to finish.”
ON THE DEFENSE? “We've really found our identity
with our defense. If we can keep guarding like we did tonight we're going to
win games. We had five charges on the night?anytime you get five charges that's
a good game. We're doing some good things on defense.”
ON PLAY DOWN THE
STRETCH? “Toppert
made two huge shots for us. I'd like to make those free throws down the
stretch. We turned it over a lot and missed too many free throws. If we'd made
our free throws it would have been a double-digit win. We made some bad
decisions late in the game.”
ON TEAM PLAY? “I liked their demeanor out there
tonight. We showed our depth tonight. Jonathan Wills played tremendous in his
first game. He earned his starting spot by playing big-time in our exhibition
games and by playing big-time tonight.”
ON STOPPING ROBY? “I don't know if it was denying
him, we just made him make shots. We really respected their dribble-drive game
and tried to force them to make shots.”
ON DRAWING CHARGES? “I couldn't be more pleased with
the way our guys guarded tonight. Every
charge you take is huge and it gets them in foul trouble. Taking a charge is
making a sacrifice and it's unselfish play in basketball.”
Colorado
Senior Guard Richard
Roby
ON BEING HELD TO ONE POINT--- “In basketball there will always
be nights like this. I just couldn't get in a flow, but I can't get down on
myself. It's still early in the season.
ON TAKING POSITIVES FROM THE LOSS--- “For us to play that
badly and still have a chance at the end, to still be in it. We beat ourselves
tonight with silly turnovers and not executing. These things are fixable. We
need to get back on the court, keep working, and fix these things.”
Senior Guard
GENERAL--- “The loss is disappointing, we're still looking
for our identity on offense. Our defense did a pretty good job, holding their
top scorer to only 4 points. Most of our turnovers were just carelessness on
our part.”
ON FANS--- “As I speak with the whole team, we all want to
thank all the fans out there tonight, this early in the season. We wish we
could have come through with the win for them and we hope they will come back.”
ON
ON PERSONAL PERFORMANCE--- “Being a senior, I have to bring something out there. After sitting out a year, I was slow coming out but settled down and played better in the second half.”
