Greg Graham Quotations

We just have to have a better mindset of taking care of the basketball.

We took a couple of (bad) shots. We let it get away from us.

He's a four man (power forward) that can go inside or outside. He's a very good athlete.

He's done a good job of being our mainstay. He lets the game come to him.

Hopefully we can recruit more high school kids every year. There are going to be situations every year where we're going to have to get some JC guys. I'd like to use that as a safety net.

He led us in most categories, and I'm glad he'll be back for another year.

It hurts not being on TV because people can't access the game. They get it on the radio, which is great, but if you can get it on TV, you have more access.

Our kids have bounced back all year. It was a tough loss (on Wednesday), but we can't look back at that one now.

I wish we had more (playing) time to give him. He's in a tough situation with the number of guards. But I have to give McNeal credit because he's never been a problem. He hangs in there and battles.

I think Coby had a better year than most people expected. Had we done better as a team, he easily could have been a first-team candidate.

I tell my team, with success comes great responsibility. Everyone is gunning for you, and we have underestimated teams three times this season.

I think Jason will do well over there because he's a good player, and if you look at his career, he's gotten better each year. I think his versatility will show up over there. I think he'll just get better and better.

Maybe other players will venture up to watch Reggie play and keep that connection and make that grow for us.

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

We just couldn't stop them. They just took it right at us and we didn't answer it. We thought we might be able to weather the storm a bit in the first half, but they just kept coming.

We have nothing to disprove that, ... So he says he lives in the city, he lives in the city.

You look at the standings, first place could end up anywhere between four and six losses.

We don't want to be in a situation where we have to take three, four or five (JC players) at a time.

To me, that's typical Jason. Most guys would take the car. But Jason figured out a way to save some money and take care of his family. I think that shows what a quality person he is.

We always want to be in that mode. Our system isn't simple. We run a lot of things. Hopefully we can work at getting better at what we do instead of learning what we do.

What we are being told is it will not be passed on to the consumers, ... But that is up to the insurance companies.

We truly investigate crashes, unless they involve criminal violations, for the insurance companies, ... The insurance companies are the ones who benefit from our services, so they should pay.

Even though they're playing faster (this season), I think they're going to try to play half court. We'll try to speed them up.

The seniors have played, but they haven't been lead guys, so we'll see who emerges. The guards have the most experience. They need to show leadership. We need our seniors to step up.

That's hard for JC guys to do, graduate in two-plus years. They've taken care of business in the classroom and have really matured and are getting things set for their future.

They put us on our heels. It looked like we weren't ready when we got started. They took at right at us.

They got thrown into the fire without any experience. Our system takes a while to learn and adjust to.

They are going to be sitting here and resting, and we're going to be playing. That's a part of the problem with the schedule this year.

It's a place that we'd always like to get players from. They always have a great program there. A lot of their guys have been so high profile that it's been hard to get them out of there.

It's one less thing I can use for motivation. The league is so even. The key is to play well.

It looks awful good for them. I've coached there and been down there when that place is full and rocking. It's a good home court and they have good fans. It's going to be a tough one to get through.

It's hard to have my department do all the work that we do and rely on 48,000 people to pay for our services when so many other people are using them,

It was a great case. It was worked flawlessly,

I wanted to show them I wasn't the same 7-foot (junior college) kid that they had tried to recruit. I wanted to show them that I had worked on my game. That's kind of what we thought he'd look like when we recruited him.

It was good to finish. I thought in the first half we played very, very well and came out of the gate in a hurry.

They came to play. We had a tough game at Utah State (two days earlier). They came out ready and we didn't. Plus, they're good.

They hit some big shots, but we came back and hit some.

The thing is people just didn't know who was there, how good (Tyrone) Nelson was and the guards were.

Their position in Terry's portfolio offers them an opportunity that other startups would not have.

The corps is asking the public to stay tuned. We do not have a preferred alternative selected. We have gathered up a tremendous amount of data over the past five years, working with the region and other federal agencies. All this information needs to be considered in developing a recommendation on improving salmon survival through the four lower Snake River dams.

In my estimate, my best guess is about 70 percent of the fatality crashes that we work involve people who don't live in the city, who don't pay city taxes,

I just think they came out ready to throw a knockout punch and they did. They were aggressive from the tip. They are a lot more explosive than they were last year from an offensive standpoint.

Hopefully our guys can see that if we get a sense of urgency sooner what a difference it would make in the game.

I don't think that will be a problem here because we've never had a problem with graduation rates here. I think that will continue no matter who the coach is.

The league is strong from top to bottom. It's the strongest in the four years I've been here.