They just wanted us all to play a role; I don't think the coach wanted any of us to dominate. Mohamed and I were counted on to rebound, Lee to shoot threes and Ryan to run the team when he had to. I guess Ryan and Mohamed weren't happy in the position they were in. |
They stepped up big time. David stepped in and hit a shot. Walter ... dominated for his size and the effort he put in. |
This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK. |
We can change it. This a whole different team, a whole different season. |
We could win championships every year and that's just how it is. |
We didn't play like we were supposed to in the first half. We want to win so bad. |
We didn't want for them to have that exceptional story -- Glory Road, all that stuff. We don't want to be the team on the movie that got beat, that got upset. We didn't want to be that team. |
We didn't want to be a part of their movie. No Glory Road . We didn't want to be the team in the movie that gets upset by the good guys. |
We don't get caught up in all that (favorite) stuff. It's just a lot of talk. We came in (to the season) as a team that might not make it to the NIT and now we're in the Final Four, so all that stuff is irrelevant. |
We don't have anybody on this team who believes they're the superstar. We feel like we're all equals. |
We don't really get caught up in that kind of stuff. That's a lot of talk. |
We felt like we let those two (games against South Carolina) get away. We've got to come back in more focused (today). |
We have a lot of different people that can go out and get 10 or 15 [points ] a night, and that's tough for other teams to match up against. They might focus on two or three people when we have others. |
We just didn't execute down the stretch like we needed to. Same exact thing happened twice. We didn't play as good as we can and we didn't execute at the end of the game. |
We just had to dig in and focus, because we didn't want to lose. We came a long way and put it in a lot of hard work for us to blow this game. |