The biggest thing is lack of patience on the offensive end. You're not going to score if you don't get a look at the basket, so we need to take better care of the basketball. |
The computer is not from the state of Arizona, that is for sure, |
The one thing we're trying to stress is to make sure we get good possessions. We didn't get a shot the first five times [against USC], but fortunately for us our defense was solid enough to where they didn't score much either. |
The Pac-10 Tournament is our next assignment and anytime we have an assignment whether it's on the floor or in the classroom I tell these guys to do their very best. And that's what they did today. |
The thing we've tried to do is share the wealth, get more guys involved. We're sharing the ball more. We're trying to pressure more defensively. On offense, we have more guys involved, that's the biggest thing. We don't have a guy who every night we can count on to get 25 and 10. We hope we can do that by committee. |
There was some talk in the papers that OSU was going to beat us because we've lost five in a row, but we have had some great chances to win games and we just couldn't come through in the end. This is a very balanced (conference); all the teams could beat each other. |
There's just a lot of issues to work with, and the next one is regulation. |
They didn't do anything different. He just got tired. They've got a lot of bodies, and they kept throwing fresh ones at him, and we don't have enough to combat that. |
They have progressed at different rates, but both have matured a lot on the basketball court. Their patience on both ends of the floor is getting better. |
They know each other on the basketball floor, but they also are good for each other. Jeff is more cerebral and knows how to keep his emotions in check. Sylvester has had trouble controlling his emotions, but Jeff has helped him do that. Jeff has told me how to approach Sylvester. In the locker room at times, it's Jeff who tells Sylvester to pick it up or change something abut his game. |
They know they didn't play very well on Saturday, so I think they're really looking forward to getting back out there and trying to get that out of their system. |
They're both really good 3-point shooters. It didn't matter which one shot it as long as one of them got a really good look at it. It's got a 50-50 chance of going in if they shoot it. Fortunately for us it was the right 50. |
Tyrone can be another coach on the floor when he wants to be a leader, ... We need him to be a scoring threat. He was here all summer working on his game and has a chance to play a lot of minutes. |
We didn't get the basketball to him enough because we didn't get enough possessions. You don't get a chance to get the basketball to somebody when you turn it over 26 times. |
We dug ourselves a hole because we were really flat the first half. We didn't get up and defend and when we don't defend we're not going to be successful. |