Our kids have just had some poise and played with some savvy. If you've got good guards, you've got a chance, and our guard play has been really good and of late it's been excellent. ... The biggest thing is we're just starting to play with a lot of savvy. |
Palacios and Padgett can step out and shoot the ball. They have great low-post moves. Our post guys might have to come out and guard a little bit more away from the basket. |
Robert made every big shot. |
That was not a good play and that's one bad play in the game. I felt like there was a call that could have been made but those guys [officials] did a good job. |
That's a bang-bang play. I'm not getting into that. |
That's Guillermo's guy. He's got confidence in him. Denis has been a streaky shooter this year, but one thing about him is that he's got a lot of toughness. He believes he can make plays, which can be good and bad. In that particular play, I knew he was going to shoot it. That's just the way Denis plays, he was going to take the shot. |
The atmosphere was as loud as it has ever been since I've been here. Hopefully the loss won't deter them from coming back. |
The end of the first half is where I think we lost the game. We only had nine turnovers, but the turnovers we had were untimely. |
The fact that we're playing Oklahoma State, that's got our attention. They are a tough team. Very talented, very physical team. We're going to have our work cut out for us. |
The point guards were so good in this league last year. It was incredible. |
There are some good things that we can take from this game. I was pleased offensively, once we got into the frontcourt, our execution late [in the] game. I thought we got good shots and good movement, which is what I want to see us do more instead of standing around late in the game. |
There was too much pressure on those two guys. We need to get other guys involved. |
There's no question it's tough to win on the road in this league. We've got a bunch of teams right there [in the standings] and you want to try to hold serve at home and try to steal a couple on the road. For success in the ACC that's usually what you need to do. |
There's no question that affected us. I think we had some really good looks. We had some clean looks; we just weren't able to knock them down. |
They came out on fire. We played real good defense in the second part of the first half. |