“Blake really anchors our defense. On multiple occasions he's saved my butt. A big reason why teams have a hard time scoring on us is because they don't get a lot of points in the paint. That's Blake's doing.”
“Basketball is his love. You can tell that with the way he comes to practice. He's so focused and so intense. He is so enthusiastic when it comes to basketball. You can tell by the way he prepares how much he loves the game. His attention to detail is incredible.”
“I felt a pop and being a player, you always hear the stories and the people that (suffer an ACL injury) … they say they feel a pop. I felt it and thought 'I could have done something bad here.' Hopefully it won't be that.”
“It hurts a little bit more than (Friday). I don't know if it's going to be all that bad. Everybody says that if it's an ACL (injury) you'll be in a lot of pain and I'm really not unless I move it a lot.”
“We have so many things in our playbook that if a team thinks they have us scouted out, we'll just throw something else at them. We have a lot of ways to keep people on their toes. It can be hard to remember sometimes, but it's obvious it works.”
“If anything this has made me want to play more. I've always wondered what it would be like not to play; to be a kid who comes to school and goes home at 3:30 and see what it's like. Now that I do that I hate it.”
