Dan Monson Quotes
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I think he played very aggressive. Their inside guys I thought were huge. They were more physical and more aggressive than we were.
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This is an environment where you have to come in and be focused.
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I think we've got a little bit of an identity right now that we didn't have in the beginning of the season. Back then, we didn't know how to win. I think we have guys right now that understand what they need to do. Now we have some semblance of a team. It took a while for our guys to figure it out. That put us in a whole, but we're better now.
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You're waiting for something good to happen to get going, but it's a catch-22. You've got to do something to get yourself going.
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They've had different paths to travel. As they try to create a legacy, I'm hoping they can build off this last month... . Obviously the month of January kind of skewed some things. But that doesn't mean the end of February and March can't change all that.
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That was the first time any of us saw Vince back. His timing and his energy and his confidence were back. We went into this year knowing we were going to have to ride him, but he was kind of a broken horse.
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Players come and go, but kids learn how to win and they pass that down to the bench. Until somebody defeats Wisconsin, Illinois or Michigan State I don't think you can say that team is better because they've never proven it.
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I think it was a real credit to our guys that they believed in the game plan and how they had to play to win.
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When you have as many opportunities to win on the road against a quality team as we did and don't come out with it, that took its toll. Physically, but more importantly, emotionally. We have to get our confidence back.
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I think 8-8 (in the Big Ten) would get you in. We would have to go 7-2, which is extremely difficult. One game doesn't fix you. Can we go out and duplicate that nine more times?
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I don't know if we have to win the Big Ten tournament, but that probably depends on who we play and how far we go. We have to worry about Saturday first.
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They really stayed together, which you have to do on the road.
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We're a different team when he's playing like that.
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I felt this team was very together today and had a great attitude and approach. I told them the good news is we're only down 10.
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We had enough offense to win this basketball game. We just didn't have enough defense.
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I thought our seniors' focus and desire was excellent. They put it on the line today, but it just wasn't enough.
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We had to go with a lot of different lineups and had a lot of different issues because, for whatever reason, we were obviously in some foul trouble.
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We got caught in the middle a lot, and those guys made us pay.
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Your theory is true, to a degree. The great teams are the ones that keep improving when they're having success. It's easier to handle failure than success.
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I thought we played with a lot of passion and very hard. It was very important for our seniors to play that way, but it wasn't enough, especially on defense.
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We have to base the decision on what's best in the long term. I think he's a big part of the future of this program. I think he's a really good player and a very multi-dimensional player.
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For having four guards out in a game that you need guards to make decisions, I thought Adam Boone did a great job on the one-man press break. I was proud of our guys, taking the game plan and implementing it. It wasn't for as long as I wanted, but at least coach Williams had to break a sweat for a while.
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I think you get in these games and you really see who your team is and what their character is.
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You want every senior go out like the seniors did last year having the best year of their career. But that's not reality. It's not going to work that way for everybody. But I think Moe's attitude has been fantastic.