We got our tempo back. That was the main thing. We had to push the ball and get some easy baskets, raise our field-goal percentage and give ourselves a chance to get our (full-court) press on. |
We got what we deserved from the first day of practice until right now. We showed remarkable character, we showed remarkable resilience with a lot of injuries but we also showed a lack of talent against great competition. |
We had these same problems last year, except we had great experience. Last year we were able to [win despite] the injuries because it was Conference USA. We could still get wins ... because there are so many programs rebuilding, you could withstand all that. You can't withstand it in the Big East. |
We had to have this one. Now we have to sweep the board at home and pull an upset on the road. |
We had wide-open looks that didn't go in. When we penetrated, we didn't finish inside. |
We hang in there with some pretty good basketball teams. (But) there is no substitute for experience. Young teams don't win against good teams. |
We have a whole new basketball team. It's going to take time to nurture this team. We may have survived a little if we were in Conference USA with this team. But surviving in the Big East is another story. You've got to grow up in a hurry. |
We have no choice but to win on the road if we want to be an NCAA (tournament) team. If we don't win, we don't deserve to be an NCAA team. It's just as simple as that. |
We have played two good halves at the Garden. So we're hoping right now we're playing great basketball to show the Garden a better basketball team. |
We have some major injury problems that we haven't let out that need to be taken care of at the end of the year. To take these guys and put them through more problems would be not the right thing to do. |
We have to play a pretty flawless game to come away with a victory. |
We have to toughen up. That is one of the reasons we are not rebounding that well. We just don't have a strong frontcourt from a rebounding standpoint. |
We just got destroyed on the backboard then panicked and took some bad shots. |
We just got destroyed on the backboards. Then we panicked and took some bad shots. It was just one of those nights where everything went wrong in the first five or six minutes. |
We just made mental mistakes. It wasn't the physical part that hurt us. … We're disappointed we're losing, but these players are doing their job. They're working hard. |