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Utah-UNLV Postgame Quotes
2/6/2008 12:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 6, 2008
Utah Head Coach Jim Boylen
"This was a big win for our program. We're .500 in the league for the first time in three years this late in the season. We are a growing and developing group of guys in a new system. We just have to keep growing and learning. I think that is a very good team we just beat and I have a lot of respect for them. It's a big win for us. I think this was a big win for where we want to go. It's a step in the process. We accomplished a couple of things tonight."
"We have to win our home games, and we haven't done that as consistently as I would like."
"To motivate them, I tell them the truth. I tell them the reality of the situation. We have to overcome the mentality of just letting them take it from us. Whether we miss free throws, rebounds, or give up 3-pointer when we're not talking in a transition; we just can't let people take the game from us. We have to play with grit and play with toughness."
"I thought we handled adversity better tonight. My senior Johnnie Bryant was talking to the whole team the whole time. He was saying `We've got to do this, we've got to do that.' He was even talking to me with confidence , saying 'We're good, we don't need one' when I wanted to call a timeout. We were all dialed in and tuned in. That's what a good team has to do."
Quote from Johnnnie Bryant:
"Coach always says that it's about progress not perfection. The month of February is very critical in college basketball. You have to play your best basketball in February and into March. Hopefully we can take a step up off of this win and keep it going."
UNLV Head Coach Lon Kruger
"They had their way and did what they had to do. We couldn't keep the ball out of Nevill's hands. Utah was very, very good. But we didn't respond like we had too.
"The second half, he (Nevill) really got off. We chased him around a little bit ... he's just a really big target for that."
"We'll bounce back. This group understands that we've got to do things better than we did tonight. We know we have to scratch and fight a littler harder. And I'm sure we'll play better on Saturday."
"Nevill is a big target and a good player. In the second half, we didn't do what we did in the first half to keep the ball away from him. We worked hard but we didn't always do what we needed to."
"We're better off making plays and making shots. Everything that's been happening here lately is good. Utah did a good job of making (us) work."
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