University of Richmond Athletics
Men's Basketball Post-Game Quotes
01/22/2006 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 21, 2006
Richmond Head Coach Chris Mooney
On Rhode Island's Zone Defense
"Their zone obviously gave us trouble. The second half, after the first few possessions, they went to it almost exclusively. We're not a great shooting team, but usually we're a little better than that. Putting the ball in the basket would have changed the face of the game."
On Richmond's Scoring Drought In the Second Half
"It's tough to have trouble scoring for that long a period of time. It's frustrating. I give Rhode Island credit, they had a good game plan. We were stuck on 38 points for so long, and while we held them, you can't just expect to keep holding them and holding them. You have score some points."
On Rhode Island's Dawan Robinson
"He scored 26 points on 17 shots. A lot of guys need more shots than that to get to 26. He's a good player. He took advantage of his quickness and his ability to get to the basket. He's a little bit hard for us to defend."
On His Technical Foul
"That technical didn't help. I apologized to the guys for that. I think in the moment, the particular call I was disappointed in. I shouldn't have expressed myself the way I did."
Rhode Island Head Coach Jim Baron
On Rhode Island Guard Dawan Robinson
"I thought he really stepped it up big time, made some big plays in taking it to the basket. He can be uncanny."
On Richmond's Match-Up Zone
"With that match-up, you have to have guys that can take it off the dribble. That gave us the opportunity to go to the bucket hard."
On Defending Richmond's Offense
"They had a couple of back-door lay-ups early, but we wanted to be very aggressive. We did a much better job in the second half of defending them as well as rebounding."
Rhode Island Guard Dawan Robinson
On Richmond's Offense
"Their offense is very difficult to guard. They struggled from the outside. I don't think they've struggled like that all season. We just caught them on an off-night.
On Richmond's Defense
"Their defense is so spread out, you've got to attack it. I just tried to take advantage of it."
