Stanford-Oregon Quotes
01/19/07 | Men's Basketball
Oregon Head Coach Ernie Kent:
"This was a great game, the crowd was great tonight and they were a big reason that we were able to get the victory."
"It was a defensive battle. They are a good team and they are just going to get better."
"Our strength is our ability to penetrate with quickness and attack the basket and theirs is to use their big men inside and get rebounds. We made the adjustments at the half that allowed us to get the win."
On the 181 wins:
"It's the program that has gotten these wins, my coaches and these players. I am just lucky to be at the head of this great program."
Oregon Player Quotes
"We just kept fighting. We've been through a lot together. We're just battlers. We're going to play 40 minutes and I think that shows."
"We knew they would be big and physical. We expected the guards to come down and rebound."
"Coaches told me to be more aggressive, attack the hole and get the big guys in foul trouble."
"It's not special yet, but it can be. We have a lot of games left. The middle is great, but I want to be there for the finish."
"I've been rushing my shots and I didn't have a lot of elevation because of my toe. I'm just being more patient."
"We work on free throws a lot in practice. I'm pretty confident. Aaron [Brooks] is pretty confident."
"We just feel like we're more mature now. We get the ball in the hands of our best players at the end of the game and we're making stops."
"We're confident regardless of the team's game plan that we can counteract that with our style of play."
"In a game where there aren't a lot of points you have to get stops. That was our focus."
"It was pretty physical on both ends. Those two seven-footers made it tough on us because we like to play small, but we got through the game and came out with the victory."
"Most of our points came on free throws. Taking the ball off the dribble was key for us."
"Our jumpers weren't going in all the time. We just had to take the ball to the hoop."
"We don't really fear anyone because nobody is going to block everything. A few times he isn't going to be there and we need to take advantage of that."
"Everybody's going to be coming at us. At the beginning of the year we were the hunters. Now that people are going to be coming after us we just need to bring our game everyday."
"[We had] a huge motivation. I haven't beaten this team before. It's a revenge type of thing."
Stanford Head Coach Trent Johnson
"We don't make excuses for being a young team. We had some breakdowns defensively, but for the most part these guys did an excellent job of executing and trying to execute."
"(Oregon) was explosive, quick, and tough to guard."
"I feel for my guys because we really played well, and fought, and we had an opportunity to win against the ninth ranked team in the country on the road."
Stanford Player Quotes:#15 Forward Lawrence Hill:
"We just had a defensive breakdown. They hit three's and executed on fast breaks, it what Oregon does best, which we were able to stop in the first half."
"It's never fun being in foul trouble but we just had to push through it and finish strong."
#4 Guard Anthony Goods:
"We had more points in the first half and the fact that they were able to hit their shots in the second half is why they were able to come away with the win."
"They just kept hitting their shots and then when we got down that was the end. We played hard, but they're a good team and they just got the best of us tonight."
"Yeah we lost tonight but we have to use this game as a lesson."
"We had a lot of opportunities and good looks at the basket but couldn't put anything down and we had too many turnovers near the end."
#44 Forward Fred Washington:
"When you're in double bonus with 12 minutes left, you're not going to win too many games."
"We'll see them again, they still have to come to our house."
