University of Memphis Athletics
Memphis Basketball Postgame Quotes
Nov 29, 2006 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 29, 2006
Memphis Head Coach John Calipari
"I thought that it was a good effort coming back from the trip from Maui. A couple of guys didn't bring it like we needed them to. I thought Joey (Dorsey) played in the second half like he is capable of playing."
"When you play that hard, with that much intensity, you are always around the ball. When you don't, you are always behind the ball, and you foul or miss lay-ups. That's the game. So your job is to make sure that you are ready, fired-up and ready to go."
"We have a team right now that really passes to one another, probably as unselfish as any team in the nation. We did what we had to. They went zone in the first half, and I loved what we did (against the zone). We did some good stuff."
"In the second half, what bothered me was that we went five minutes missing every lay-up. Our shooting percentage went from 55 percent to 46 percent in about four minutes. We also had three or four turnovers during that shift and for no reason. That's not how we do this. We need to finish games."
Arkansas State Head Coach Dickey Nutt
"We knew coming in this would this would be a tall task against Memphis. I was proud of our guys, and I give a lot of credit to the University of Memphis. There are not a lot of teams that will beat them this year. Memphis is talented at every position and as good as I have seen them in many years. Maybe the best I have seen as a team."
"We played together as a team and hung around and stuck together and that is a good team. I told our guys to put this game behind you and to not let it worry you one second. At the end of conference play, games like this will help us. We have played three games in six days, and we have been all over the country in the last 48 hours."
"Memphis was very big on the inside, and offensively, we were missing Isaac Wells. We could not hold the gates shut, but the other guys stepped up and I was proud of that."
"Darrel Jackson and Adrian Banks really played well tonight, and I was very proud of both of them."
