J. J. Johnson Guys Quotations

No, no. I'm not a shooter. I could run the show and get it to guys like you 'cause you can shoot it. That was my job.

I thought they had some fun tonight. The conditions were tough and we had a lot of guys hurt so you can't make too much out of what happened. We were doing a lot of mixing and matching tonight.

Our guys are smart guys. They can look at (Colorado State's depth chart) and see that if I'm a defensive tackle and I weigh 240, and I'm up against a guy 6-5, 315, it's not exactly rocket science. We know Colorado State is bigger. It's something our guys have kind of grown accustomed to. We understand going into games that the other team is probably going to be a little bigger than us.

You can go down their roster; all those guys are able to put the ball in the basket. Jamal Crawford in the past has been able to put up big numbers against us. Nate Robinson, Jalen Rose, you can go on and on.

Anybody who has watched us practice can see from an athletic standpoint we are as good as we've ever been. We run around a lot better than we ever have. Does that mean these guys are better football players than the ones we lost? We'll find out when the lights come on.

It's a big difference. At first, it was different, but it's not an issue at all (now). You've got your teammates, and there's 109 guys who are your friends already, so it really doesn't matter.

He really kept guys on their front foot with his changeup and breaking ball. That was big because we'd been working on those pitches.