Through this whole period we wanted to see that consistency from players. We're starting to see that develop. |
To go on the road in the ACC and come away with the victory, you have to have a lot of people play very well. I thought our players played with a tremendous amount of focus and aggressiveness. |
Todd miraculously played rather well considering he hadn't practiced all week. We didn't know until game time if he was going to play. |
Unfortunately for us, we allowed what little measure of success we've had in the season [and] we've become like most teams -- they lost their focus for whatever reason. Sometimes growing mentally is just as much of a skill as it is dribbling and passing. And for whatever reason, Clemson demonstrated that they had grown a little bit better in those areas than we have. |
Unfortunately we have shown signs of not being mature enough sometimes. To climb we always seem to have to take a little step back before we take the next jump. Sometimes that's part of the development process you go through when you're building basketball programs. |
Von is a special kind of athlete who has a great feel for scoring points. He can pass, shoot and dribble and do them all well. He is also able to utilize his size to his advantage, which makes him even more dangerous. |
We allowed some games to slip away, we allowed ourselves to be put in that position. We have to hold ourselves accountable. And now let's go do something about it. |
We are in the NIT, and now we just have to go out and take care of business, and I thought we responded real well. |
We are kind of venturing into uncharted waters for our team in this stage of the development of our program. It's very important for us to be successful down the stretch because this is the direction we're trying to move our program. |
We called people and tried to schedule games with some of the top people. Some of those teams are a little reluctant to play a team that is on the rise. |
We did not meet their style of ball with the type of enthusiasm that we should have. Maybe this is the type of game we needed to keep reality in front of us. We are not a team that can afford not to be at our very best mentally every time we step out. |
We don't get any credit for playing Nebraska. Everybody forgets we played Florida. |
We ended up watching the ball and losing sight of our man. |
We feel like we're getting better, but we're at a point now where we have to avoid allowing ourselves to be affected by coming close and not coming away with victories. |
We got beat by a team that did the things they needed to do to win the game. Clemson overcame a challenge. They did the little things. We didn't. |