Dan Dakich Quotations

We didn't waste a whole lot of possessions. Against Kent you can't waste possessions because they're so good.

Matt shows you the heart he has by the free throws he makes late in the game after sitting on the bench. He steps up and he drills them.

We substituted and we didn't get much out of that. We talked before the game about how guys are going to have to come in and really compete and I didn't think anybody we brought into the basketball game, until the end of the game, helped us.

He's a special kid in terms of his ability to prepare himself to play, how hard he'll go and how long he'll go.

He's a versatile kid. We needed a kid that can make plays, make others better, and score himself.

The only thing that doesn't concern me is our effort. We're going to have bad nights, we're going to have good nights and everything in between. But if a consistent effort is there, we're going to eventually get it to where we're going to be a difficult team to play against. But we're not there yet.

I thought actually we were playing pretty good defense but they were drilling shots. At the end of the day, that was a big deal.

I think you'll see a team that rebounds hard, plays defense hard and that's why he has been a really good coach. I think he's a great fit.

Our guys really battled. They're down, they've lost five in a row before this game, they're down 14 at half.

Physically I think we were there, but mentally we weren't where we needed to be at all to compete in this game. We need wins. We got to figure out what we want out of this season.

Physically I think we were there, but mentally, for whatever the reason, we were not where we needed to be at all.

I tell kids, I'm not going to coach you like a 'mid-major' basketball player. You're going to be coached like Indiana when I was there.

That's a very good team. They're as good as anyone around. They got more shots, got on the glass, and were just better.

We couldn't get out of our own way.

Toledo was good, very good. I thought our kids competed, but we made too many mistakes. That's what Toledo has been doing to people in this building. Sometimes you just have to give the other team credit. Toledo has been very good defensively of late.

We get down like that and we're not deep enough in the area of scoring to compete. We're short right now with eight scholarship players.

This time, we were able to hang on to a lead as we went down the stretch. That was a good win for us.

At the end of the day, they were a far more mature team playing basketball than we were.

At the end of the day I thought Miami just played really well, I really did. I thought Miami came out to play well, they hit their shots and we didn't have the game in control.

I understand people's concerns and I understand the perception of things, and I don't like it because I don't want any kid ever to leave. It comes to maturity, and comes to understanding college basketball isn't the easiest thing in the world.

The run that really determined the game was to start the second half. Their easy baskets off turnovers and our inability to defend them. And then our ability to stay out of our way a lot of times.

The thing I like about Martin's play was his defense. I thought with his four steals and his very good defense, particularly in that stretch where we went on that late run, was very important. Martin is a pleasing guy and he wants to please everybody. He had people here and he's from here and my guess is he pleased them all.

The thing about being here, is if kids fight you, and they all fight you to start with, but if kids fight you, then it's difficult. I can always tell when a kid has really bought into what we're all doing, and when they do that, they become special.

After the first five minutes, I thought we locked in pretty good and played some pretty good defense.

The more Indiana ties you can get, the better. You've got to recruit Indiana and there's enough good young kids in the state that you've got to recruit it hard.

You're going to be coached to be a pro. You're going to be pushed to where you may not even know you have this level. That's a big deal with me. You're not always going to like it, but you're going to be treated honestly and you're going to be treated fairly.

They found the next guy and they found it really well.

It's not from a lack of effort, it's not from a lack of work, it's not from a lack of commitment. Everybody seems to be working very hard, we're just not getting it done.

I've got a lot of respect for them. They got beat all day by Toledo, by 30. They looked bad. And then they played Central Michigan, and they pull out a win. In the Ball State game, they played great.

I'm incredibly passionate about every guy here being very good and being better. I've had a number of parents tell me, you've made my son better than I ever thought he could be.

I'm not even sure we've shot a free throw. We haven't shot free throws in so long, I couldn't even tell you.

I'm just worried about Bowling Green. We just got pounded by 20.

In practice, we haven't really had those guys who are on our white team step up like they should for us to trust them in the game.

He's one of those kids who can score in a variety of ways. He's very athletic. Coming out of high school I thought he was one of the five best players in the state of Ohio.

I don't think there's anybody in the league that I see that moves better without the ball. Usually it takes a couple years to develop that - Martin, he kind of came with that.

You watch him walk and it's like he's walking barefoot on glass.