That's the unfortunate thing is that we needed him right away, and he helped us right away. Now you are seeing a balance of strength in his body, catching up to handle the rigors of constant pounding. You see him at full strength now. I think Kyle will continue to get better. With more minutes you should see productivity increase because he can be on the floor longer and play harder. He's not favoring a knee or something like that. He's probably going to have the other shoulder fixed after the season. So he's going to deal with that a little longer. But the lower body for the first time in his career is actually not failing him. |
The deal right now is our perimeter defense. We battle for a while and the lack of depth and height is killing us. Guys are trying, but the guys we are trying to stop are the lead guys in the conference. And Lamar always took that assignment. We've been vulnerable there. |
The glue of the team is not with us. We have come unglued. |
The Information-Sharing Environment is overly ambitious, ... It is one of those vague mandates that will drift into nothingness. |
The issue that has evolved recently is, from a perimeter standpoint ... the attack of the teams against us has really gone after the fact that we're small at the one and the two. That's what I've noticed from watching the tape, what has really become clear. |
The odds are stacked against anybody to (win four in a row), but I think it's good for the kids to come down and be part of the conference tournament. |
The odds are stacked against anybody to do that. |
The stuff he's doing is within the framework of the offense because he's practiced at game speed. |
The turnovers have been killing us before and they continue to knife us. The guys are uncomfortable on offense, plain, pure and simple. |
The turnovers were a combination of Washington's defense and us. You've got to know where the traps, the danger zones are, and we didn't stay out of the traps. |
Their opinion of this game doesn't really matter. How we played speaks for itself. |
There has to be some development and growth there. When the point guards play well, then we are pretty good. We are hard to beat when the point guards play well. |
There were definitely places where fouls could have been called, but UCLA did a nice job of not fouling on the shot. There may have been some bumps prior to, but for the most part they did a nice job of not fouling on the shot. |
They demonstrated why they are two of the elite guards in the country. |
They played really good defense, and you could see that we couldn't handle the ball. |