Seth Greenberg Quotations

We've got guys that are better shooters than they're shooting. We've got to get more out of our break, we've got to get the right guys shooting and we've got to get our better players playing better.

When those guys are energized and defending, everybody else kind of jumps on the train.

We?re just going to continue to practice. There?s no magic formula; there?s no Michael Jordan?s magic potion.

Like every other game against Clemson over the last two years, it will probably come down to a play at the end, for better or for worse.

Let him get through tomorrow, and we'll figure it out from there. I wanted to give him some freedom to figure out how much he can deal with and give him some time to grieve without having to put him on a schedule.

Singletary is as good as any point guard in the league. Really, they've got a good starting five.

She only left with a couple pair of pants.

Obviously, he has some closure, because he's been waiting for the phone to ring, but we've also got to get him some help. (Collins) is a brilliant young man who's gonna graduate in three years. But he's still a 19-year-old young man that's lost his father.

If we can get one more frontcourt guy to contribute, now all of a sudden we have legitimate depth.

But this team has won enough games, so they expect to win. When you beat the teams George Mason has, it's not a fluke. It's for real.

I don't think anything in my training has prepared me for this season. I'm not sure there's ever been another season like this. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I don't think you have to be from a region to have empathy for what people are going through.

He had to be a little bit tougher and finish. He got some good, tight catches in the second half where he didn't finish.

He hasn't been right for two months. He's carried the burden in a very public way and it's been very difficult for him dealing with what he's dealt with for the past year. He's played in this conference in a very public manner and it'd be difficult for anyone to deal with.

He hasn't been right for probably two months now. He's been carrying a burden in a very public way. All I can do is be there. I can befriend him; I can put my arm around him; we can love him. We want to make sure, obviously, that he has some closure.

He hasn't been right for probably two months. He's been carrying a burden in a very public way. It's been very, very difficult to be dealing with what he's been dealing with for the last year and dealing with it in this conference.

He had his legs. He had good focus. He made some plays on pull ups we had seen before and it was nice to see again.

He is a winning player -- he's got a toughness about him that's unique. He has a knack for making other people better. I don't know where we'd be without him.

He had a great four days of practice.

He feels bad. He's a very sensitive kid. He's a great kid.

He either fouls out in five minutes or he gets seven offensive rebounds -- one or the other. Unfortunately, today he got seven offensive rebounds.

He gave us good energy. He's really been practicing well and he's starting to understand what we're doing.

He'll come back when he's ready to come back. I'm not going to give him a time frame. That's not my place. The guy has to be at peace. That's more important than anything that's going on here in Blacksburg. When he gets back, he gets back.

He'll come back when he's ready to come back.

We just have to find a way to make more plays, make more shots. We have to take it over the hump. Plain and simple.

We've got to score easier. We're defending at a high level, playing with lots of effort, but we're just not scoring. We're leaving so many opportunities out there on the floor.

He's a kid in a man's body. He might be intellectually as bright as any kid that plays college basketball, but he's still a kid in a man's body.

He's a very good shooter who always shoots on balance, and that's a rarity today. He never shoots off-balance.

He's gotten a little more confident and is seeing a bigger basket.

He's going to be a really, really good player because it's important to him. He's the first guy in the gym every single day. He's the last guy to leave almost every single day.

We look at each game on the schedule as a separate entity. We play it, we evaluate it, then we wipe the slate clean and move on.

It hurts us a lot. AD and Shawn (must step up). Shawn can give us some toughness; Shawn plays really, really hard.

I thought for twenty-four/twenty-five minutes we were really good. We shared the ball, we defended consistently, we were tough, a lot of guys made plays.

I thought the first half Dudley was tougher than us, but I thought the second half we matched his toughness.

I think that's up to his family and our medical staff. That's what they're trained to do. I want it to be their decision, so he's comfortable with it. They'll let me know, and the team that I have that's healthy, we'll play.

Life's not fair. My team knows that more than any team in America right now.

I thought we were at times very good. We just weren't very good when we needed to be good.

Our guys will bounce back. We continue to play hard, and we've had a chance in every game.

Our ability to bounce back is kind of a trait that we've had the last few years. That was good to see, because now, it's for real. It's no joke now.

My wife, my children's initials and my parents' initials.

The ACC is a calling card. Kids in this geographic footprint want to play in the ACC, and I think what it does is it gives us a chance to recruit some of these kids.

That was the call that was made, so it must be the right call.

We haven't seen Coleman Collins for 10 weeks. We might not see him again the rest of the season. I can't tell you that. And I wouldn't blame him.

Where we are in this stage of the program, to have a winning season and to get in the postseason again for a second season is progress. No one said this is a quick fix. This is a process. With everything, we still have a chance at postseason play.

We continue to press on. We've got to get to the point where we can impose our will at the end of games. We've got to have that ability to get that stop, finish that play at the end. It's a very small margin.

We're dealing with some things with some players that make it difficult for those kids, but I think we're making progress. Sometimes it doesn't show on the scoreboard, but we're moving along.

We didn't even discuss it. We didn't say, 'Well, you've got to play well tonight because ....' ... That guy's heart is as pure as Ivory soap.

We haven't exactly given him a ton of opportunities. That's probably bad coaching. He can score when he's aggressive.

When you're not getting a ton of minutes, I think it's easy to have self-doubt. I probably didn't empower him as much as I probably should have -- just getting him to believe in himself.

We probably should've taken our chances, maybe, force them to make a jump shot. Until we start getting a stop at the end of the game or coming up with a 50-50 ball, you'll have a hard time winning close games.

We probably got more out of him than I thought.

We didn't do a good job on J.R.. He came off screens, made some big shots, and we have to give him credit for that.

There are other teams who have gotten off to bad starts, not just us. We're bruised, but we're not broken. We've been in every game. We're going to stay the course, because this is a process.

We're doing some good things. We're shooting the ball better. But you can't shoot free throws like that and win a game in a tough environment.

We didn't stop the ball from getting in the post as well as I would've liked during that run.

We shot about 700 free throws this week.

We're all disappointed with the events that are under our control and out of our control. There's only one way I know to approach these difficult times. That's just to keep working and to support our players any way humanly possible.

We've got to get him some help. He's a little kid in a man's body. He's a brilliant young man who'll graduate in three years, but he's still just 19 years old and he's lost his father ...

We've got to get better. My concern is our depth, especially up front.

We've got to be hungrier and play with just a little more chip on our shoulder to make a play at the end of the game.

This was kind of like a microcosm of our season.

We just don't have the ability to impose our will in the key moments of the game to win a game of this magnitude against a nationally ranked team.

We just hope that we see (the real) Coleman Collins tomorrow. That's the biggest thing. Something good needs to happen to that kid.

What they are is a good basketball team. Not too fancy. Just a good basketball team.

We tried to get through screens. There need to be some calls.

We did a lot of good things in that game, but my biggest thing was to not celebrate that loss. There were some things that we could learn from. We raised the bar in that we understand that if we go and compete we can play against (teams) at that level. Those are the expectations we have with our team. This is a pretty competitive group.

Everyone thought this thing was fixed. It's a long way from being fixed. We're in a hole.

A steal. It's a complete steal for Arizona State.

Dudley may be the toughest match up. He?s that physically imposing at the small forward position. He?s so strong and he?s so determined.

The stress of the season and the emotional tear of the season have left a lot of scars in that locker room. I'm going to be honest with you. Some of our guys will finally have a chance to grieve, and they probably need that.

Ryan and I recruited the kid for two years. We thought we had him. He's a beautiful kid, and we knew he could play.

People say it balances out. I guess this is one that the basketball gods smiled down on a group of kids that needed somebody to smile on them.

People that are probably hurt the worst are people that are coming from low-income areas that lost everything. As coaches, we're always rebuilding. Maybe we can come together and help some people rebuild their lives.

Now it's for real. It's no joke now.

Coleman Collins gave us everything he had. It?s remarkable that he?s even been with this team the last two months?I?m appreciative of everything he tried to do and everything he gave us.

The bottom line is, when you know you're gonna play, you know people are gonna count on you and you know you're gonna get minutes, you play a little bit more freed up. Let's face it. We have nothing to lose right now.

You really can't prepare for it. We support Allen 100 percent. There are some things he can and can't do, and he'll let us know.

This is something that all coaches, male and female at every level must getinvolved with. As coaches we always talk about the team concept. If we are going to make any impact on the hurricane relief efforts, we need to come together as a team to assist all those who desperately need our help.

This has been a very tough three weeks. We haven't had a whole lot to smile about. This will give them a chance to feel good about themselves and put behind them everything that's going on in their lives.

They tried to break our spirit, and we put our arms around the game and found a way to win. That's what I'm most proud of.

A lot of crazy things have happened. ... You play to see if you can win the last four games and win two or three in the ACC tournament. All of a sudden you're on a six-game win streak and your RPI all of a sudden has jumped up, and maybe you've passed some people that are ahead of you.

They don't take plays off or games off. They expect to win close games. They've got a toughness about them. They've got a mixture of youthful enthusiasm and veteran leadership. They've got just the right amount of depth.

There's 16 separate entities, 16 separate vignettes. One has nothing to do with the other. We can't get caught up in where we are. At the end of the season, we'll know.

They haven't had a whole lot to smile about. To give them a chance to feel good about themselves and put behind them everything that has gone on in their teammates' and their friends' lives, I'm just happy for them.

They have so many pieces to their puzzle. You've got to be unbelievably disciplined defensively and you've got to be able to defend the 3. ... They're the most complete team in the league. They have so many different ways to beat you.

There's a lot of things that have gone on in this kid's life that really, quite honestly, have affected his ability to focus on basketball. We had a good talk about a week ago, when he was really down, and I think that was positive.

It's embarrassing for me to see my team play the way they played.

It was a mixed review last week. I was not pleased with our effort or attention to detail against Miami. Then we played at a high level on the defensive end against Florida State. It was nice to see the guys bounce back and show the toughness needed to survive in this conference.

It's a great story. It's the best thing about college basketball in the last 25 years.

It?s the next game. This time of the year hot, not hot, winning streak, losing streak?it makes no difference. These are big games.

It's hard to promote two guys and we didn't want them taking away from each other.

It's been an emotional drain. Our off-the-court situation has taken a little bit of some of the players' spirit. That's human nature. Everybody responds to tragedy in different ways.

It's relief in that some of our guys have not been able to grieve. Coleman lost it in the locker room. He needed to. I'm glad he had a chance to release something inside him.

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

You try to make him as work as hard as you can. You try to run a lot of different guys at him because he'll wear out one guy.

That's the great thing about being in the ACC. Forget about playing them one time a year. How about three?

That's the great part about Virginia Tech being part of the ACC. Forget about only playing (the Cavaliers) once a year - how about playing them three times in a year? I think that's good for basketball in the state of Virginia.

It was kind of like a ... microcosm of our season. When we had to get a rebound, when we had to get a 50-50 ball, when we had to make a free throw, we just weren't able to do it.

It was kind of like a microcosm of our season, that game. ... We just couldn't make the play when we needed to. We had chances, and we let the chances go.

It was kind of like a microcosm of our season. I thought we played hard, I thought we competed hard on the defensive end. We just couldn't make a play when we needed to.