Sterling was very active today. You need a guy like that, especially with Mohamed not in there. |
Teams are better in transition at home, at least that's what I've noticed. At least we are. We are clearly better at home pushing the ball up and down the court for whatever reason. |
The speed, shooting and quickness of both teams is pretty daunting. But I think we're playing decently right now so it's as good a time as any to go on the road. |
Then they got some penetration and they started to look for Dials. |
There's a nice buzz around here. |
They had a stretch where they turned the ball over a bunch of times, but we were doing the same thing on the other end, so it's only a matter of time before they get going, and they did that. |
They had to replace so much. They're still overachieving in my mind. |
They just came after us and we weren't able to handle it. Their pressure on our guards really bothered us. |
They were the aggressive team. They have some guys that like to bang in there and we have guys that like wide open spaces - the prairie guys. |
They're not good enough to be overconfident. |
This is a big win for us. Because we haven't had any big wins in the conference against the top-tier teams. |
We addressed preventing a letdown after our Iowa game, yes. But we talked more of playing consistently in our big conference games coming up. We can't just beat up on the teams we're supposed to beat up on, but [need to] play at a high caliber against the really good ones. |
We were sort of inept (in the second half) and their defense had something to do with it. That was the game. |
We were tired; I was just doing what my assistants said [with substitutions]. |
We're the worst three-point shooting team in the league. We shot 31 against them last time. We said we weren't going to do that again. |