Texas Tech University Athletics
TEXAS TECH POSTGAME QUOTES
February 20, 2011 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 20, 2011
TEXAS TECH POSTGAME QUOTES
Head Coach Pat Knight
On the win:
"It was good for us. We have actually played well in our last two and a half games, the second half of the Texas game, and the games against Texas A&M and Missouri. The record doesn't show it, but the kids have just kept playing hard and we deserve this. We have had to learn that even though you deserve it, you have to take it. No one is going to give it to you. That's why we call a time out, and then (LaceDarius) Dunn comes back and hits a three. When you play a team with a player of that caliber, the game is never done. Our guys just worked and worked. Practices have been great and we just haven't had the carry over all the time at the games but the kids deserve it, they just played hard."
On being without two players due to foul s down the stretch:
"That's the smart thing when you do play a lot of zone because you don't tend to get in foul trouble. I am just not a zone guy and I really don't know how to coach it. So that is something we need to probably work on ourselves because we were holding them. But they did a really good job of posting us up, and instead of turning our guy and moving our feet, we just shoved them in the back and they did a good job of taking advantage of that."
On how they were able to limit Perry Jones and LaceDarius Dunn:
"Well he was our focus; we let them get away from us in Lubbock in the second half. They didn't blow us out but they made it so that we couldn't ever catch up, and so we really focused on them. They are such good players that they are going to get some numbers, but let's make them work for it. I thought our guys did a really good job paying attention to those two guys."
