Matt Osborne Ball Quotations

He does it every night, basically. I think the rest of the team knows that. He's the guy we're going to turn to when the going gets tough and he just does everything for us: Rebounds, plays their big guy, hits the big shots and brings the ball up when we're having trouble. He's just a complete all-around player.

I think it's going to be a real battle. Hopefully we shoot the ball a little better. We'll change some things defensively to hopefully slow them down a little.

Last year, our other guys ran into the problem of sitting and watching Crawford and Thomsen. Players used to get out of their way. This year, they know they'll get the ball and they know we need them to score.

Especially coming off the third quarter, we really put the pressure on them, turned the ball over and got some easy baskets.

They were bigger than us, but they didn't shoot the ball real well from the outside. We wanted to make them beat us from the outside.