We can't watch them (during pick-up games) but from what I've heard, they're doing things four or five times better than they were a year ago. This is very valuable to us. |
We caused almost 20 turnovers per game, we averaged 9.9 steals per game, and (Wisconsin) doesn't turn the ball over that much. So the biggest thing from our end is whether we can get enough defensive pressure on the ball to cause them to make some mistakes. |
We created a lot of problems for them with our defense. |
We didn't help ourselves at all. |
We feel confident going in. It's not easy when you lose your leading scorer. I think our defense right now is very, very good. If you play defense, I think you've got a chance against anybody. |
We feel it's important. It has been very, very helpful to us. It's worked out well, and it's given us a big boost. When our players come out, there are students there. It's something we've tried to get done for a long time. |
We felt the best way we could play against them offensively was to attack the lane. I think we caused a lot of problems with attacking. |
We got out of that zone in a hurry. |
We had 10 more offensive rebounds and 12 less turnovers, so we're talking about a difference of 22 possessions. For OSU to be able to recover from that would have been pretty difficult. |
We had the right guys at the line. That's what you have to do to win games. Against Washington, we didn't hit those, and it cost us the game. |
We have a general set of rules to follow, and those are private to our team and our staff. |
We have not been involving the big guys as much as we needed to. It's sort of like we did with (former UA forward) Luke Walton, where we're starting a lot of the things through Ivan, and that's because he's a threat to score, he's an excellent passer and he's going to use good judgment on his passes. |
We have the best depth we've ever had, ... a testament to the program through the years. |
We have to have 20 or more shots from those two guys and less shots from our perimeter people. But we're doing a better job of finding them. |
We have to play 40 minutes of basketball. That has been a problem we have had to deal with pretty much all year. We have proved we can play, but have not proven we can play for 40 minutes. |