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Louisville Men's Basketball Post-Game Quotes
January 17, 2004 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 17, 2004
Louisville Head Coach Rick Pitino
"This is a good win coming off a late-night game. We are doing unintelligent things with our fouls. We protected the basketball at the right time and it was a good win for us."
(on Cincinnati) "Cincinnati is half-court trapping and pressing more this year. Their offense is much improved. They have picked up their offense. They will be the best opponent we will have played this year and it's no slight on anyone else we've played this year."
"By enlarge we took good shots. They played a lot of match-up zone against us. Francisco (Garcia) will learn to move without the basketball. He and Taquan (Dean) are just sophomores and they will learn. He (Garcia) is not making smart fouls. He's pressing too much to play great. He'll learn."
"When guys don't play well offensively, they try to make it up defensive and they start to press. That's what happened to us against Butler last year in the NCAA Tournament."
After the second half East Carolina debacle, we played good second half defensively. We are pleased with that. We were very active defensive and when you do that, good things happen.
Tulane Coach Shawn Finney
"Looking at the game, you have to give Louisville credit. Everytime we got within 11 or 12 points, they hit big threes. We did a good job handling the pressure and I was proud of the way we played. Having played Cincinnati and Louisville, it's going to be a hell of a game on Wednesday."
"We have a young team and it's easy to surrender with the big crowd here and with their press. We can build on this but we're not where we need to be yet.
"I'm not sure if it was our defense and he just had an off night. He is still the best player in the league without a doubt. He was the major focus of our defense."
