There's no good losses, no moral victories, nothing of that nature. But the champion in them did come out. They weren't going away without trying to win a game.
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My theory is simply that there is no way you should ever shut off the engine. I do play to win as much as I can, for my kids. We play to win. But I can't convince them - and I should be able to at this point - that you have to play 40 minutes to win. You can't go to sleep. You cannot go to sleep.Jim Calhoun
I said all along that Marcus, in my opinion, is the best passer I've ever coached. I think he took an affront to that because now he's got two 20-point games.
Jim Calhoun
Elvin Hayes was such an incredible scorer that it was hard for me to believe, ... I had seen Bob Pettit do it to some degree, he was 6-foot-9, but Elvin Hayes took it to a different level. He was a scoring machine who went outside at 6-foot-9 and that was so foreign to what we knew. He never really got the credit he deserved for what he accomplished.
Jim Calhoun
Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.
Jim Calhoun
You have living proof of his maturity. There are so many times when guys feel like lashing back out at people. Since he felt he was the one who made the mistake, there was no sense lashing out at anybody. ... How he handled it showed me that he was more than ready.
Jim Calhoun
On the way down here, it was just a really happy team. They really felt they played well. ... It's going to be a different kind of game (tonight). Over the next 24 hours, at the team meeting (Sunday) and at the shoot-around (today), we'll get an opportunity to really tell them. With only six games to go, there is significance to the game.
Jim Calhoun
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