We're not ready at all. We're just not. I told those guys that defensively we're not ready. Offensively, I think we'll be able to score some points. Defensively, we're not ready for Big Ten basketball yet. In fairness, we haven't mixed things up and we've just played man-to-man defense. |
We're playing with more confidence, and that might be the most important thing. |
We're playing with more confidence, and that might be the most important thing. We know it's going to be a tough task (against Ohio State), but we're looking forward to the challenge. |
We're playing zone. That's all we're playing. |
We're up two, come out, run a play, score a basket, we're up four with the ball with 18 minutes to go. And then offensively, we just go crazy and not score. |
We've come a long, long way from really not competing to competing and having a chance to win games. Hopefully, good things will continue for us on the horizon. |
We've got some things we haven't done in games. We haven't really played much zone. I think in the Big Ten we're going to have to mix our defenses up and try to keep people off balance. I don't think we're a team that can go out and play man-to-man for 40 minutes. |
We've got to figure out a way, but obviously, post defense starts with good perimeter defense. We've just got to continue to show improvement. We're not close to where we need to be offensively or defensively. |
We've had some wins to kind of pick us up when we needed it. |
Well, obviously they just beat us from start to finish. I'll give credit to them ... I've never seen a team really shoot the ball the way they shot the ball and it wasn't just one guy. It was everybody. |
Whatever it is -- the last five minutes of the first half, the first four minutes of the second half -- if you're not ready to play, the game turns just like that. We've got to play a complete game. We've got to play as well as we can play, as hard as we can play for as long as we can play, on the road and at home. That's just what it is. |
When I saw him play in high school, he was a real athletic guy, he really played more inside than outside. |
When we came to town, it wasn't a (guaranteed) win anymore. You're gonna have to work hard and play well to beat us. |
You can look at our front court all you want, but our back court didn't score. |
You can only do so much in one practice. You have an hour-and-a-half practice to put as much as you possibly can in. |