John Brady Time Quotations

We're shortening the competitive segments in practice to try to keep an edge, but at the same time try to avoid an injury.

You can coach a long time and never have a group of people like I have.

I think we were able to work through Tyrus Thomas' injury, but it's time now for us to get back whole and get a couple of good days of practice.

That's something for the first time they mentioned today. It's the mindset they have right now. It would mean a lot to our players.

Tyrus Thomas really makes a difference around the goal. Every time he gets close to somebody, they think he's going to be there to block the shot it seems. So, Tyrus helps us around the goal.

We were going to double team him on ball screens and not let him get a comfort zone of coming off the screen with the ball. We were going to bump him every time he tried to go through the lane. The unique thing about it, you can play good defense, but when you can play good defense aggressively as we did without fouling, I think that's a key.

The biggest thing with Tyrus may be his conditioning as opposed to his ankle by game time on Thursday. We might just have to play Tyrus in short stretches. As opposed to playing him 12 or 14 minutes straight, maybe he can just go five and we'll take him out, let him rest and put him back in. The more he plays, the better he'll feel and the more comfortable he'll feel. We'll make more of a determination of that as the week goes on.

When he let it go, I just felt confident it was going in. I call him the silent assassin because he doesn't say much, but when it's time to deliver he can do that. He's hit seven or eight of those in his career.

We scored nine points and had 10 turnovers in the first half against a zone! When I tell the team to be patient I don't mean make 40 passes, just four. Every time we worked the ball around, we got it inside.

He made them in a timely way. And certainly, I know he made two, and one of them was really a remarkable distance from where I was sitting.

He made two of his three (3-pointers) in the last eight minutes of the game. He made them in a timely way. Sometimes it's not how well you shoot, sometimes it's when you make them.

They're a guard-oriented, perimeter-oriented team. Any time you have good guard play in college basketball, you have a chance to win some games. That's our major concern right now.

He did a nice job. The biggest thing with Tyrus may be his conditioning as opposed to his ankle by game time on Thursday.

We throw the ball inside every time down the court, and we shoot six foul shots. That's pretty good guarding to me.

We had planned to red-shirt Magnum. But when Tyrus got hurt (late in the season) we needed him. He is right now where Tyrus was at this time last season.

It feels like we're marking time until the New Year, when it will be interesting to see what capital inflows we get from commodity indexes.

I've said all along that if our perimeter holds up, we're a pretty good team. So far our perimeter hasn't shot the ball as well as maybe we would have liked, but I think we've made some timely shots in critical moments of games that have helped our team.