University of Memphis Athletics
Memphis Basketball Postgame Quotes
Nov 03, 2005 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 3, 2005
Memphis Head Coach John Calipari
"I think we really had a couple of guys hustling, diving on the floor, scrambling, and sprinting, but I think that we had a couple of other guys that didn't play. You can't play that way. If you can't get up and down the court for more than a minute, I'm going to play other people."
"There were some good things that I saw today. I thought we did some decent stuff in the press, and I thought we did some decent stuff in the motion offense. We were pushing the ball."
"They had 15 offense rebounds. Only four of those were in the first half. That means they had 11 in the second half. I know most of those were down the stretch, but those guys want to play."
"We just have a long way to go. I was encouraged and also discouraged. We have a couple of guys that look like they don't get it. They just think they are going to play anyway."
"We have a lot of work to do. It's not going to be easy, but I like our level of talent."
LeMoyne-Owen Head Coach David "Smokey" Gaines
"We got off to a slow start, but we played better in the second half. It's going to take awhile, but we are going to get better. We just faced a good ball club. They are a heck of a ball club."
"We didn't play well at all the first half. We didn't execute at all. Then, the second half, we came out with a little fire and did some good things. We just have to take this game and learn from it."
"It's going to take us awhile, but I knew that. We have a whole team of new guys, so it's going to take us awhile to put the pieces together. There's no doubt about that. We just have to get ready for the conference season. That's what exhibition is all about; to see what we have so we can go and work on things."
