The 20-0 sounds good, and I'm not complaining at all about it, but we wasted about seven and a half or eight minutes before got to the scouting report offense. |
The bottom line is going to be 40 minutes of execution. |
The bottom line is, the further you advance, the tougher the competition becomes, the more locked in and focused you have to be on every single possession. We had opportunities to help ourselves, but we didn't. |
The truth is, we really had no transition,'' Johnson said. |
They have a team where if you are not on the balls of your feet and ready to play, it can make for a troublesome afternoon. |
This Arkansas team is the perfect team for us to come back and try to solidify some of the things that we not only did not do well at Florida in terms of defending the basketball, but there were some of the same things we didn't do well in Fayetteville. We were lucky as apposed to good in some of our possession the first time against Arkansas. This should be a good game to try to correct some of those things. |
This conference doesn't allow you to enjoy it a whole lot because you know there's a talented Georgia basketball team that got to sit home and rest. It has to be huge for the players to come in here and play against a quality opponent like Tennessee. |
This is another eye-opener for us. I expect that our level of play will increase, and it will pick up as we get into San Antonio. |
This team has done some things better than last year's team. The difference is we don't have the same margin of error. We don't have depth. |
To win going away and not to be on top of our game knowing you can go home and correct those things, I'm OK with that. |
Today was a strong indication of us getting better as a team. Several key players got some rest and some reserves got some playing time before getting into the SEC. |
Usually when I give my opening statement, I can find something that's wrong. But, there wasn't a whole lot tonight. |
Usually when I give my opening statement, I can find something that's wrong. But, there wasn't a whole lot tonight. I think the energy and the execution led to so much offensively and defensively. And, I was pleased how we extended it for close to 40 minutes. |
Watching that tape last night, it's amazing the mentality (of Washington) going after the basketball and not just the kids that are five, six, seven feet away from it. It boils down to your base defense, and being able to lock in on it. Being able to play people head up and contesting shots and getting the block-out scheme. |
We are extremely proud of it. When you put a team together that is going to stay together -- that's a long shot. It's a matter of working day in and day out at practice and against different opponents; responding to opponents and putting in the most work possible to put yourself in that position. It's nice to be rewarded for it at the end of the regular season. |