Sometimes you have to work with what you have. |
Sometimes, I'm a little soft-spoken, and sometimes I yell a little bit. They have to figure out when I'm going to yell, when I'm not going to yell. I think there's a happy medium. I have to find out the little things about players' personalities, and they have to find out about mine as well. |
Sometimes, when you play in a game of this magnitude, it can wear on you a little bit. I don?t think the guys came out there intentionally to be a step slower. I thought our effort was pretty good. They were just better. |
Steven has taken advantage of the opportunity, and that's what this game is about. |
That game is embarrassing for me and embarrassing for the players. |
That game was a prime example of a team effort and a team really trying not to lose a basketball game. |
That is our challenge this year, trying to get him to play consistent night in and night out and not drift and fade away. |
That one hurts. It hurts because we fought our game. We were fighting up hill all game and we finally get it and we are up one, ball out on the side and we gave up a lay-up. I don't mind getting beat, shooting a jump shot, but we gave up a lay-up. |
That part of the game is better than the overall game. We'd like our defense to get better for 48 minutes. But I think as the game unfolds and when another team needs a basket, I think our defense gets a little bit better. Certainly if you're going to win games, it has to be better down the stretch. |
That was a game-saving steal. |
That?s what we tried to do its drive the ball and get into the penalty and that?s what we did. |
That's how we got back in the game. We didn't let them get offensive rebounds and we got some turnovers. |
That's not the best defense you can play. Our defense just has to get better in order for us to win games. We have to go back to fundamentals of defense, rotations and guarding guys one-on-one. You have to want to play defense. |
The best part is that we know that we can get better defensively and offensively. |
The essence of this game is they played harder than we did. Our energy was great [Wednesday] night. Tonight, our energy was low. We can't use having back-to-back games as an excuse. |