This was definitely supposed to be a test, and I think we did pretty good on it. We knew they were a very good team. We knew if we didn't play our game we could very easily lose. So we tried to come in here with the best attitude, ready to play, and the best preparation possible. |
Those are the kinds of plays we need from him. Those are the kinds of plays that get everybody excited and involved. |
Those four games we had to put behind us, and this win we have to put behind us too. We've just got to put the past behind. We had a good season, we deserve to be here. |
We didn't play hard enough tonight. We didn't get rebounds because we didn't do a good job boxing out. [The Tar Heels] crashed the boards and got just about every rebound. |
We have to go in and beat Wake Forest, that's all we can control right now. |
We just couldn't stop them on defense. They just kept scoring at will. |
We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense. |
We knew he likes to post up on the block, but he really doesn't mind posting up off the lane. He's going to ask for the ball until he catches it. If you front him, he's going to try to get around you and he'll go way out there. He wants the ball, so he'll go get it even if he has to go far away from the basket. So we were able to push him outside. And, we knew he likes to go right, so we had a lot of help coming from the middle if he was on the left, and from the baseline if he was on the right. |
We know that they are a good team that beat Maryland. It will be a good test for us and a good test for them. |
We know we didn't play well, North Carolina just whipped us tonight. It's going to take some character for us to come back. We're either going to respond or we're going to fold. We're going to have to come out smoking the next game. |
We lost two games down the stretch at Carolina and Duke, two games we could have won. We've learned from them and used those games for experience. |
We missed Cam today. It showed. |
We need to regroup and get our confidence back. We just lost three in a row, and to this point, we had not lost more than one in a row. We have to pick it up in practice. That's where it all starts. We have to communicate with each other and become a stronger family now by staying tight. |
We stunk, we had an awful game. It's a complete embarrassment. We're going to have to come back from this and bounce back. |
We were playing unselfishly early in the game and were in a really good rhythm. Everybody is comfortable with each other out there. When we don't play like that is when we get in trouble. |