We're going to get on a plane Friday and get ourselves ready. [Duke] is obviously as good of a team as there is in America, so we have to make sure that we use every available minute to get ready for them. |
We're going to have to bounce back real quickly, go back on the road and try to do a better job, especially on the defensive end. And on offense, we need to get better shots than we did the other night. |
We're going to show you what will forever be called Wahoo Basketball. We're going to create the most exciting basketball the ACC has seen. |
We're just growing. I'm saying the same things now that I said earlier in the year but this just happens to be maybe the 254th time I've said it. And now I think they understand a little bit more than they did before what that message is. It's creating good habits. ... It's repetition, repetition, repetition, on what things are going to be accepted and ultimately not accepted in order to be successful. |
We're limping to the finish line because we've asked so much of these guys. They've given us a lot. |
We're not a team that can just yawn your way through, score when you feel like it and move on. We're not that good. We're not that experienced. We have to play a certain way, and I don't know if we got that accomplished today. |
We're not the deepest team or the most experienced team, so we've tried to implement an understanding of playing defense and rebounding the basketball. We're trying to be as tough as we can and thus far they have bought in to that. We're starting to believe that's the way we need to play in order to get some wins. |
We're trying to just continue to build off the last two games. It's equally challenging to bring a team back from a victory, an important victory, as it is from a defeat. We need to continue to challenge our guys to remain focused and understand the job at hand. |
We've got to do a better job of getting those guys a couple of looks during the game down low. Hopefully they'll learn from the experience. |
We've got to improve our talent level, we've got to improve our work ethic, we've got to improve a lot of things about the program. ... You have to do it step by step. |
We've got to put a lot on those two guys, and we just can't afford to have either one of them have a bad game. J.R. had a bad night, and we've got to get him back and refocused. |
What he is doing this season, I think all of us - players, coaches and media - should really savor. He's having a season for the ages. ... We all need to sit back and admire it because it won't happen for a long time after this. |
What people ultimately start doing is they start committing more people to them. |
What Sean said, and you didn't hear him, was regular season. |
What we've got to eliminate, to use a tennis term, is the unforced turnovers. You can clean that up. |