I am pleased with the effort and the improvement we've had, especially from Matt Kiefer. He's running the court better, he's playing harder. He was exhausted tonight and that's what you have to do, you have to play to exhaustion. |
I can relate to that now. |
I didn't think he could shoot the basketball when I recruited him. |
I don't even look at it that way because of our situation. |
I don't have sympathy for other people when they have injuries. I still think we have enough guys to win basketball games. |
I don't talk about winning and losing, even if we're the mammoth favorite. I talk about what we have to do to get us in position to win and what we have to do to win. You have to get guys mentally ready and take on personal challenges as a team. We're going to fight them. That's what you have to do as a coaching staff, get them out there to fight them. |
I don't think it's a negative recruiting tool (for other schools). When people look into it, I think it's going to be a positive recruiting tool. There's discipline in the program. |
I feel terrible for our players because they have bought in, they are trying and they care. It's too bad; Iowa deserved to win this game because Jeff Horner stepped up and made plays. |
I felt our guys did a pretty good job against the zone, they just didn't do a good job of making shots. They knew how to attack the defense. They did a good job tonight, they just didn't make shots. You feel helpless sometimes. |
I felt our guys did a pretty good job against their zone. We just didn't make shots. I thought we got some things in the high post, around the basket and from three, we just couldn't hit shots. |
I have always told him to shoot the ball when it's there. Always look for your shot. |
I have never felt our guys have lost confidence, especially our seniors. |
I just think a couple of our guys need to fight through it and play harder in those stretches. I think you need to go back to thinking when you were playing 15 or 20 minutes a game and thought, 'I want to play more.' Well, now you're playing more. |
I just thought their pressure was a little too much for us at times. When they'd get a couple turnovers or force us into a bad shot a combination of two or three possessions in a row, you simply just run out of timeouts. We wanted to keep them out of transition. … Normally, when you take bad shots from the baseline, it's going to lead to a sprint out by Dee or a sprint out by Dee that leads to a three-pointer. |
I just thought they were quicker to the ball and more aggressive. A lot of it simply has to do with wanting it. I thought we were lucky to be in the position we were in at halftime after being dominated on the boards. |