We changed from man to zone, and that disrupted their rhythm just a tad. Our game plan was to keep our bodies in front of them as best as we could. We practiced not letting [Miami's guards] get free looks at the basket. We also eventually rotated down enough to make rebounds as well. |
We didn't box out. I don't remember seeing somebody saying, 'That was a heck of a box out.' We didn't go after it. We were the less aggressive team on the backboards today. |
We didn't box out. We didn't go after it. We were the less aggressive team. |
We didn't look like, in my estimation, that we had spent any time practicing defense. We sat behind the post. We gave up middle penetration. We didn't get a hand up on shooters. You name it, we did it. |
We fell apart. Everything that was done is not there right now. We have to get back in the gym and correct it. |
We found ourselves having to put Band-aids on our offense sometimes to make up for the fact that other guys weren't playing the way they're capable of playing. |
We gave him two open shots. He made them. It's senior night. He probably felt like he could conquer the world. The rim got larger for him, and we just didn't defend him. |
We gave up 60-percent shooting in the last game and that can't happen continually if we're going to get wins. Today, to give up 33 percent to a pretty good offensive team that's shooting 46 percent is a credit to our guys and their commitment to that end of the floor. |
We got real stagnant and started sitting in our zone. We weren't guarding people in our area, and they were attacking, and we didn't respond to that challenge. . . . The assignments that we were taking care of the first 30 minutes, we just forgot about the last 10. |
We got really stagnant in the last 10 minutes of the game (on defense). The assignments that we were taking care of the first 30 minutes, we just forgot about in the last 10. |
We got stagnant and started standing in our zone. We weren't guarding people in our area. They were attacking, and we weren't responding to that challenge. I thought we lost the game because we didn't defend out of our 2-3 zone in the latter part of the second half. |
We had stages where we picked up the pace of our play. But we've got too many things going against us, and our margin of error is too thin to have to play the game that way. We need to be on point with everything we do, on every single possession, especially in this league. |
We had stages where we picked up the pace of our play. But we've got too many things going against us. |
We have an issue this year where we're 5-1 at home [in ACC play] and 1-5 on the road. We've got to play with a ton more energy than we did today. |
We hung tough through a lot of different things. We bent but didn't break. |