Gary Post MSU—Audio
COACH WILLIAMS: “Well, they got to the NCAA three out of four years. I’m sure that’s one way to measure a player’s career, but it’s also shown up every day in practice, knowing that those three guys are going to give you the effort that would make you a better team each day that you were able to practice. This year’s a good example. We lost – we played Chaminade and then we lost to Wisconsin over in Hawaii. And that was in November. When we came back we heard that the season was over. So I mean you have seniors that are tough and have been through some things and have you a chance, in other words, that thought never got to our team. And I think the seniors were really responsible for that because they have experienced some other tough times and came back from that and they did the same thing this year.
COACH WILLIAMS: Greivis plays with everything on his sleeve, which is a great way to play. It’s a great way to play the game. Unfortunately there’s not enough people that do anything in life like that. Everybody’s politically correct, especially where we live. And it’s nice to see people that aren’t afraid to put it out there. And he’s one of them.
Eric, he plays to his personality. He’s a very quiet person, a very smart, intellectual guy on the court. Just seeing situations, his dad was a high school coach and I think he grew up that way as a player. I think that a lot of times that determines how you grow up as a basketball player, what your background is there with your family or friends or whatever.
Landon, to me, he just dedicated himself. He just didn’t want to hear that he wasn’t a good player. I’ll be honest with you, when he came in as a freshman I wasn’t sure he could ever play for us. He winds up scoring 18 points his freshman year, but winds up as a thousand point scorer for us. So each in their own way they were tremendous.
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