Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere. |
Man, they made some tough shots. The three-pointers can impact the game. Especially when you give them up in a row. |
Over the summer I had a lot of work with the USA Team and a couple of camps and got a lot of point- guard work, |
People always remember the last thing you do. This won't be the last game for us, but we can make it something memorable. |
Sometimes we play good defense and it's a letdown once you let them get an offensive rebound. The key to getting stops is stopping 'em, making 'em take a tough shot and then wrapping up the possession with a rebound. |
That's a confidence play right there. I think a couple of games ago, he wouldn't even probably have tried to attack the ball. He probably would've stopped at the top and held it. |
That's a huge point in the game right there. They got some momentum, knocked down a couple of shots. We trust everybody on this team to come in and be ready to play, and in those two minutes they got the best of us. |
That's been a problem for us. At times we look good in a defense, then boom, the second shots, that's the killer. |
That's the thing with college basketball. When confidence comes, you play better. |
That's what people do, make excuses. Nobody in our locker room is making excuses at all. We're like, 'Yeah, obviously he's not here.' It's on us. It's on us to make a play. |
The sky's the limit for us right now. |
There's no hard feelings. I know I've done dumb things, too, in my time, plays that hurt the team. It's a contact sport, it's not tennis. You're going to get touched. |
They did a good job changing up the defenses. They went from a 2-3 to a man to a 1-3-1. It staggered us, and we sometimes didn't know what offense to get into. |
Threes can impact a game, especially when you're giving them up in a row. The crowd really wasn't in the game in the first half, but that surge got the crowd into the game, and I think it gave them a little bit of energy. |
Throughout the season, it was tough for us. There were times we'd play really good, and then bang, all of a sudden it shut off. But it's a new season for us right here. We're taking it one game at a time, one TV timeout at a time. We're just trying to win each possession. |