Quotes by Jamaal Tatum

“That trust level is whats making us better and better every game.”

“I definitely dont look at him as a freshman. I look at him as another ballplayer out there. I have a lot of faith and a lot of confidence in him. I feel very confident with the ball in his hands. I feel very, very confident. Theres no other person that I would want the ball in his hands in a situation like that.”

“Hes capable of doing it game in and game out. Me and Tony were out at the same time and you see the lead stay the same or get bigger.”

“Hopefully by Saturday Ill be close to 100 percent and ready to play, or as close to 100 percent as possible.”

“We slowed down a little more. The first time we were surprised by their pressure. We let them speed us up a little bit.”

“Hes a player capable of averaging a double-double. Thats the way we expect him to play every day.”

“Its good to maybe get out of conference and test the waters later in the season. But this games not any more important or less important than a conference game. Weve just got to play.”

“The main thing Im concerned about now is getting prepared to play another game. Weve got to come back from the loss against Bradley and come back and compete. Weve got a game to play soon.”

“Being back at home should give us a boost. It should bring us up to that magic level and bring up that intensity a lot more.”

“I looked at a couple of game films, and really, I wasnt in a motion offense. I was going too much off the dribble. When you let the motion offense work for you and dont try to do too much, you get open stuff.”

“He said that they were hurting his feet. I was like, Well, you know you still have to wear them because coach wants everybody to wear black shoes. He played hard in the second half with white shoes.”

“Weve been in these kinds of situations this year and havent been able to pull it out. We wanted to prove that we could do it, to ourselves and to other people. Especially to ourselves, how hard we work and what kind of team we are.”

“We didnt want to leave it up to anybody else to let us know if were in the tournament or not. We won this game, and now its not up to anybody else. Were in the big dance, baby. Were there.”

“We wanted to pressure them and get them frustrated and speed them up a little bit.”

“I dont know anything about them. I leave the scouting reports up to the coaches.”

“I honestly dont know too much about them. I know that theyre a shooting team from the outside. And theyve got a pretty good big man inside, but as of now I dont know too much about them.”

“Theyre so patient on offense. Theyre so patient it gets you frustrated.”

“When we have that relentlessness on the boards, were hard to stop.”