Postgame Quotes
January 17, 2011 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 17, 2011
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ECU Head Coach Jeff Lebo
"Congratulations to UAB. They are a good basketball team. It was frustrating coming down the stretch that we couldn't make the plays to win; but, give them credit, they had a guy in [Jamarr] Sanders that was just terrific. He was like an NBA player tonight. We knew he was good coming in and thought he was the best wing player we would've seen and he played like it. He was unbelievable tonight."
"I thought we played hard and did some good things defensively. Offensively, we had too many turnovers coming down the stretch, which has been an Achilles heel for us and we shot it really poorly from the foul line. We missed some front-ends of 1-and-1s at crucial times, but our kids played hard and we had some great hustle plays tonight. In the first half I thought defensively we played them very well."
On the players' attitudes after the game
"You want them to be ticked, you want them to be hurt. It's frustrating because these kids are working hard and they're giving me everything they've got and I appreciate that. You'd like to see them rewarded a little bit more, but there is a process we've got to go through. It hurts and I want it to hurt and it should hurt, but I think we are making strides."
UAB Head Coach Mike Davis
"That was a really, really good basketball game on both teams' part. Watching [ECU] on film defensively they play extremely hard. They've got a lot of older basketball players and I think if Brock Young was at full speed this team would be very, very good."
"Take your hat off to ECU. I watched them play Memphis and they had a chance in that game. There are going to be a lot of teams that come into this arena and lose to those guys. They are going to win a lot of games at home."
On the play of Jamarr Sanders
"Jamarr made some really big shots for us. That was the Jamarr we have been waiting on. I think he's one of the most talented guys in our league because he can make plays and he has no range, he can shoot from any distance. I think he surprised them a couple of times on how deep he shot the basketball and I say that because he surprised me."
"He can make plays, he's a really good basketball player. He's a guy who we thought would average 20 points a game for us this year, but he's unselfish. Watch him play, he's passing the ball to guys that hadn't made a shot."
On what it takes to win games
"The things you need to win basketball games has nothing to do with talent, like zero. People think you need five-star players and McDonald's All-Americans. You need guys who are going play hard, play the right way, block out, defend, stay disciplined on defense, set screens, run the court hard; that's what wins basketball games."
