University of Memphis Athletics
Memphis Postgame Quotes
Nov 28, 2005 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 28, 2005
Memphis Head Coach John Calipari
"Twenty-one turnovers, and we got beat to every ball again. I'm just worried because it's not hitting home. We went after balls with one hand. They will run a 33 -- which is a killer -- for each one-handed catch that they made. So, we have guys running, maybe 10 of those. Those guys may not be able to play against Jackson State. It's got to stop. We did it against Duke. We did it against Lamar. We'll do it against Jackson State. We'll do it against Cincinnati. You can not win big games playing the way we are playing."
"Now everybody understands the importance of Darius Washington with this team - his energy as much as anything else, his ability to get us up and down the court, and score baskets when we need some baskets to be scored. Now he has to get his defense up and get a better feel for what we are doing."
"I like that Robert Dozier got a double-double. He should in this kind of game. With Rodney (Carney) in the first half, he didn't have a rebound and his guy scores 23, so I'm starting the next guy. That's the greatest thing about having a deep team. So, what's Rodney do in the second half? He comes out and gets 20 points, four rebounds and three blocks. That's how you play, or someone else plays. He's capable of doing that every night."
Lamar Head Coach Billy Tubbs
"Memphis just whipped us on the boards, especially in the second half. The second half Memphis really took off and that was the real key to the game. Memphis was getting a lot of second shots and hit some threes in the second half, but they really whipped us inside."
"Memphis is a really good team, and in the second half, we quit doing the things we did in the first half. In the first half, we did a great job against the press, but the first 10 minutes in the second half, we did a bad job and we wound up with the wrong people handling the ball. That hurt us and you can't win games when you don't rebound."
