They have great poise and when you mix poise with balance it gives you a chance to win every night. When you're playing a team with tremendous poise you have to have that yourself. We've got to duplicate that effort and go beyond that to get a win that's needed. |
They're not going to allow you to set up what you're doing. We settled down in the second half and played much more effectively. We got to the line better but during that (first half) stretch we weren't able to get the ball where we needed to score. |
This is an important month for us. I was glad we were able to get it off to a good start tonight. |
Tyler is a mobile, skilled forward with great size who is still growing. He had a tremendous senior season as a 17-year old. I believe he can continue to grow with our program and help us continue to move forward. |
We are going to have to get tougher if we are going to go on through this month and make anything happen. |
We called the play, we got the ball to Mark. For whatever reason we didn't get it in the basket, and then we didn't back on defense. |
We had a couple of (miscues) but we didn't let it get us down. We fouled the three-point shooter (Willingham) but we didn't let it extinguish our fire. We played well in overtime. |
We had some stops and shot well in transition. Miles moved around and hit some shots. We need the shooters to step up. |
We need to feed off the fact that we've beaten them. Home or away, we're going to give our best. |
We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket. |
We're more concerned with what we're doing and how we can improve. |
We've been through the league and we've seen what we need to do to improve and we've addressed those needs (in recruiting). |
We've been trying to get a great effort. I think this was our best effort game since I've been here. |
We've done some of that and it's good for us to know just how much we still can improve at this late point of the season. |
We've relied on our effort level and our poise and we didn't have either one tonight. Our effort level in the first half was a big key. We did not have great effort and we needed to have great effort. |