Tony Shaver Quotations

He's a starter on most teams in this league. And when he shoots it like he did tonight, obviously that's a new dimension to his game.

He's done a great job as a freshman, though he's been very inconsistent, which you anticipate from a freshman, particularly one who's been put in such a key role from day one. But obviously, he's had a tremendous impact on our program.

I think we went toe-to-toe with them tonight and that?s a good sign for our club.

Part of (the improvement) is understanding shot selection. We've defined shot selection as much as we can for the players and the team. They understand that and now they are playing with more freedom.

I wish I knew what the answer was. But, we're going to keep working to find it and turn these hard-fought performances into victories.

I thought if they were going to beat us, they were going to beat us inside.

I was proud of the effort. We asked our players to believe in themselves and compete. I thought even early in the game, when (VCU) got off to the great shooting start, you saw a good look in our kids' eyes.

We had to take away their favorite thing to do.

We have to learn to play with that kind of passion every night. If we do, good things are in store for this program.

We were aggressive with the ball, a little more confident with the ball and we just made some shots. It's an easy game when you make some shots.

We were dismantled by a fine basketball team tonight. I thought they were sensational.

This was kind of the story of our year against the good teams, get down a lot and then come back. I was proud of the way they fought back.

Brian has improved as much as any player I've ever coached. If you'd have told me this time last year that we'd be running plays to get him the ball, I wouldn't have believed it.

Probably the only three people in the building not surprised that he took that shot are on our coaching staff.

I told our players we've got to learn to lay it on the line every day, like we did today. That was a great effort for our players.

It's tough to get a better shot than we got right there.

I'm not in this thing for moral victories and I'm not in this to validate us as a team that plays hard. We've got to learn how to win ball games.

In my (three seasons) at William and Mary, they are the toughest team to guard. They've got a lot of weapons.