I'll take that effort we had. We stayed tough down the stretch when we could have let them go. |
I'm looking forward to it. This time of the year, if you're a player or a coach, you like these next two months. |
I'm very proud of our team. We did a great job in just about every situation. |
I've lost games before, and I don't like losing when we don't put our best show out there in the way we can play. That hurts a little bit. |
If we had played great the first five minutes (of the second half), I think it would have been a lot easier. We got caught standing around on a couple of (their) offensive rebounds. |
If we played great the first five minutes, it would have been easier. |
If you look at my BlackBerry there's been no less than three law firms and 100 e-mails coming through since Friday. |
If you're going to be a good basketball team you have to play every play. I preach that all the time. And I kind of coach that way to back up what I say. |
In a game like that you expect Manhattan to play with a lot of emotion. They did. We didn't play with enough emotion. That can make the difference. |
In the last few years, we've had such intense interest in sunscreen and hats and protective clothing that we have a lot of patients who lack vitamin D. |
In the second half the bench played really well. That was good to see, that they were able to come out and perform and get some significant minutes. |
In the second half, we didn't give enough help on a couple of screens. They were able to get good looks, and you still have to make the shots. |
Interesting. What makes them better than us? I don't know. For whatever reason, our 19-12 wasn't as good as Arizona's record or Wisconsin's record. |
It becomes very important that you have as many players as possible. |
It doesn't matter how you do it or how it looks, but you just have to win. As a home game, it was probably a necessary win. The NCAA is probably going to take six teams from the ACC, so we just have to stay in the mix. |