Matt Painter Quotes

You'd like to be right there to make him put the ball on the floor or hesitate and we weren't. - Matt Painter

You really never know. They've taken a lot of good shots. I really don't think they're tired. We've got guys that can make shots. With good shooters, things will average themselves out. - Matt Painter

You keep playing because no one's going to have sympathy for you. At Southern Illinois, we had one guy miss two games in six years. We had a lot of success being injury-free. - Matt Painter

You have to defend Geary Claxton with somebody like him, somebody 6-foot-5, 215. You've got to mirror him. If you go with too much size, he's going to use his quickness to get to the basket, post up and spin. If you go with someone smaller, he's just going to kill him on the boards. - Matt Painter

You evaluate everything in the spring. That's what we're trying to do now in terms of players and coaches and support people around the program. - Matt Painter

You can't sit there and feel sorry for yourself because ... you really don't have any problems. You're just short-handed on your basketball team. - Matt Painter

You cannot let guys who can shoot get their head up and get comfortable here at home. You have to continue to disrupt, you cannot let people do what they want to do and we didn't pressure the ball. You're not going to beat a good team when you allow perimeter shooters to get into a rhythm. - Matt Painter

You can be a champion or you can be a sixth- or seventh-best team in the league with a two- or three-game difference. Things can snowball either way. - Matt Painter

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