A chance to redeem ourselves. We just weren't ourselves in the Villanova game. They took us out of our offense and defense and in the second half we didn't get out on shooters as much as we could. If we do the same thing against West Virginia, it's going to be the same thing because they're a great three-point shooting team as well. |
All that I'm thinking about is the game: what we could've done better, what we needed to do better to win. That's the only thing I'm thinking about, right now. |
All that stuff, the Wiggins thing, the other thing, might have fueled what you saw tonight. There was trash-talking, pushing and shoving. I think the game was more intense because of that stuff. |
All those things - the (recruit Doug) Wiggins thing, the (charter) plane thing - may have fueled this. There was trash-talking, pushing and shoving. It was more intense because of all that. |
And hopefully by that time things will be worked out. Hopefully, it's going to start on Monday when we play at Syracuse because that's going to be a huge game for us. Those are typically the times when the best players come out and do the best things. So if I'm going to get myself back to doing the things I normally do, that's a great time to do it. |
He just presents a much different task in the fact that he's [6-11]. As one of our coaches said, he's got one of the quickest releases in the conference. Being [6-11], you're not going to block too many of his shots. You just have to stay at home with him and pressure him every time he gets the ball. |
He loves to be in the spotlight, the center of attention. And as you can see, the kid makes some fantastic shots. |
He played a great first half. He was scoring at will. He was finding people for the wide-open shots. He was rebounding, too. He was doing basically everything. It was almost like a Jason Kidd-type game for him. |
He's a big dude. He's talented. He's skilled. When you have a guy that big who can really play, it's always a tough guy to handle. But we're going to throw a couple of things at him. I'm going to try to big-to-big a little bit, just because he's so big. Hopefully, we're going to try to box him out a little bit and keep him off the boards. |
He's our heart and soul. I doubt we could have made it this far without him. |
Honestly I don't think that will happen just because of the way our team is. We realize that our strength is on defense and in order for us to win games, we have to shut teams down. In practice (Monday) we really concentrated on stopping their stuff as opposed to running ours. |
I don?t think there?s anything that you can really build on. It?s just the knowledge that you need to approach every game like it?s the last game you?re going to play. |
I don't think that is the case at all. We come out there hard to play everyday and we always give it our all. I just think we have a hard time focusing at times. |
I have been a part of one of the greatest comebacks in college basketball history when we beat Duke two years ago. This tops that. |
I have no idea what I'm doing next year. I'm not worried about that right now. |