They don't play box-and-one because they're not a small team like IUPUI is. We've addressed it a little bit so we can work with it when other teams try to play zone. |
They like to space you out and go one-on-one, go off some screens and isolations because they like to use their speed and quickness because they're not a very tall team. |
They ran a box and one on him and always had guys on him, but he did great job with rebounding and other things to help us win. |
This has been some of the roughest two or three weeks as a coach. You call all your mentors, your dad, you're asking coaches what do you do when you're going through these type(s) of situations, you're reviewing tape and talking to guys and part of the problem was we're playing every other day. We haven't had much time to work on things and guys are having to learn on the job, which means you're going to lose a few games. |
We can be a dangerous team when we play like we did for the last 10 minutes. We fought extremely hard after we got down. I hate to be proud when we lose, but I am tonight. You saw some great basketball and a great team effort. A lot of guys had to step up to make it happen. |
We finally get some rest next week. We'll be able to practice for a change and put some new things in. We need to get our legs back, focus on getting our free throw percentage back up and fix our turnovers. |
We had a good look. It went just the way we designed it. They played good perimeter defense early and Sean got a little open and we were able to pop it out to him. I thought we were headed to overtime when it left his hands. It just went in and popped back out. |
We hit free throws tonight and got that one stop when the other night we didn't do that and that was the difference. Hopefully, we learn from that and I told them sometimes before you get good you've got to hurt and you've got to hurt bad, and I think they hurt bad the other night and I think that is why you saw so much fire out there tonight. |
We want three to four guys in double figures every night. Our two seniors played like warriors tonight. I was very proud of them. |
We were trying to get him going to the basket and either get a basket or get a foul called, which was probably stupid anyway but turning the corner and going is something he is usually good at. |
We're just trying to win games - it's not about who you're playing or where you're going. We got the effort and the defense is back to where it should be and if we can take care of the ball a little better I think we'll be okay. |
We've already talked about it. And a lot of other coaches have noticed it as well. There's nothing we could do about now. |
You can't pin this on any one play. We had our chances. |