Chamberlain Oguchi Quotations

Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was going to fall.

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

I think we did a bad job of getting ourselves ready for the Civil War mentally.

I think that's what some of us did, underestimated how good of a team (OSU) is and underestimated the intensity of this building.

I thought it was going to go. I saw everybody camped out in the paint and my man was laying off me so I decided to pull up.

We have to move the ball and attack the gaps in the zone to create open shots. Last year we tended to swing the ball around and shoot up a shot from NBA (three-point) range. They were pushing us back and we weren't being aggressive. ... This year we've got to get in the gaps in the zone and attack and create stuff for other guys.

We basically had the game won, but we ended up losing. And that's really frustrating.

We don't need to do anything differently. It's just that we've got to execute what we do in practice and carry it over to the game.

There's something about how we match up with their players. We know how to play against their system and it benefits us.

They have some really good players on their team that are known for knocking down big shots and we just gave them too many open opportunities.

It's hard to rebound on a zone team, they were coming hard and we didn't do a good job of getting a body on our man.

It was a a very poor effort for us. They came out and treated it like it was the Civil War. We treated it like it was just another game.

It was just a matter of time before I got in my rhythm.

I just got in a little bit of a rhythm and just kept shooting my shot. I just wanted to have another good game and put two good games together on the road, and I think I did that.

I really didn't get discouraged at all. Shooters keep shooting. I knew eventually they were going to fall. We're never going to give up, we're just going to keep fighting. We knew the pressure was getting to them a little bit. We did a good job of keeping a foot on their throat.

The first year I was here we didn't know what to expect, and we struggled. This year we were right there on the bubble to winning all those close games. I think next year will be the actual turnaround.