Chris Hernandez Quotations

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

When you're trying to shoot, the best thing to do is not think about what you have to do. I've had that situation in high school a few times. I've been pretty successful.

Luckily, the Lord was with me, and I put them down.

I didn't make plays. They did a good job of rotating and doubling and mixing it up and we just didn't make plays. They shot the ball very well tonight.

Careless turnovers were a factor and the shots weren't falling as much.

I have a good feeling that a lot of their guys are going to have games they don't usually have. When we played at Arizona, they didn't have Chris Rodgers and they just lost McClellan but a bunch of guys came out and had a great game.

He had the feeling. Just give him the ball when he's like that. And we kept feeding it to him.

With Matt out, I knew I had to get more aggressive on the offense end and create.

He's a big-time player and that's what big-time players do. He hit the big shots and helped his team win.

His man had come out on me and the defense was rotating the big man back on Lawrence. So I hit Lawrence and I came around him and my man was under him and he got the ball back to me and I had the shot.

He was giving me some space and I felt like he was kind of off balance. I gave him a hesitation and got a step on him. Then he moved into me. Maybe he was trying to take a charge. He came over and knocked me down.

I think we made some careless turnovers. We were getting good shots, but they were not going down.

I think everybody did a great job of trying not to focus on what we had lost, but trying to focus on what we could do. Nobody got real anxious or nervous when Matt went out. ... I think that's what you have to do when you lose one of your best players. You can't hang on it or it's going to affect your game, and the team's game and the mind-set.

It feels good to be on the other side of these close games. I know how USC feels. We've been there numerous times the last couple of weeks.

You just work to keep him from getting open shots. You've got to make him work for his shots, not get easy lay-ins.

We'd rather be steady early on and get that much better as the season goes on, instead of being so low and coming back. But it's how you finish and not how you begin. So hopefully we can finish well.

We got good looks, but it was our inability to make the big play or get the big rebound that stopped us.

We've had good luck here. We've been able to get some big wins. We feel comfortable here.

We have been working on that play for two years and never really done it right.

We've been working on it for two years but never did it right.

We've played better at home generally, but I don't think we've played this well consistently all season. Hopefully, it's just been our play and not just that we've been at home, and we can keep that type of intensity going on the road.

When Matt went down, I realized that I needed to become more aggressive on the offensive end. Look to create and look to score, because we lost a guy who was averaging almost 20 a game for us.

Every time I shoot, I tell myself they're all good. When I got a good look I had to put it up.

We all know that most everybody here is not going to make it to the league. Out of 64 guys, maybe 10 will play in the league at some point.

We got a lot of good looks, we didn't make them and Missouri State did a good job of running its stuff. They did a good job of attacking and getting to the free-throw line, along with our inability to make shots.

We slowed them down. They didn't get a lot of transition baskets. We made them take tough shots.

Coach Walberg and all the coaches at Clovis West prepared me very well with discipline, academics and mental toughness.

You're a competitor and you want to compete.

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This is one of the best games we've played all year. Everybody played together. We had a lot of contributions from everybody, defensively and offensively.

This is one of the best games we played all year. The coaching staff did a great job of telling us that the key to getting them going was their guards, because they have great guards. We wanted to come out and make them take tough shots, tough plays.

A lot of guys stepped up and we had guys down. We started scrapping and finding a way to win. I think that was a confidence builder for some of the younger guys.

It was probably the lowest combined score of any game I've ever been in.

I tried to hold the ball a little longer and get a shooter's touch on it.

It's hard to get in the flow on offense against such a good defensive team.

Everybody played together and had a lot of contributions.

I've had that situation in high school a few times and I've been pretty successful.

It's was awkward last year. This year it's more down to business.

They did a nice job of rotating and mixing things up, but I just didn't make plays.

Anytime we've got a winning streak going and you're getting Ws, you've got to feel good about yourself.

I know their conference has been regarded nationally as very good. Their league has gotten a lot of publicity and respect, so you know they are going to be a good team.

I knew I didn't have much time, that I had to take a step and let it go.

I'm trying not to think about it. That's when you miss.

I remember bits and pieces. I try not to dwell on it and remember it. I try not to think about it that much because it's not a good memory.

I didn't think about this game compared to others. I just know that this is one of the best games we've played all year, regardless of whether we played zone or man (defense).

The guy was way off me, when I get a look like that, I got to let it go.