It's tough to talk right now after losing the last five games at home. It's kind of deflating. We've won three games in the Pac-10. That's awful for being such a, I feel, pretty good team. Losing this many games, it's tough to bounce back from these things. But we have to find it within ourselves. And I think we did a little bit tonight. |
No one goes in there thinking, 'Oh, we've got another road game. The seniors are almost looking forward to road trips so we can get that gorilla off our backs. |
Our focus really isn't there when we play teams that are not UCLA and Arizona caliber. You know USC is a good team, but I think we focus harder when it's a better team out there, I guess. With four seniors we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't play to the level we think they are. Every team is good in this conference, and I think it's a lack of focus. |
Personally, in the beginning of the year I could have come in in better shape, and been more focused on what other teams were looking at me to do. I really didn't come in as prepared as I should have been. But that's neither here nor there. It's over now. |
We are going to kick them when they are down. They've been struggling, so we are not going to give them any breathing room. |
We just didn't have the right pieces combining early in the season. We knew what we had, but we didn't put the pieces together. We weren't meshing as a team like we are now. Teams are not looking at us as individuals anymore, but as a team. |
We're excited. We're ready. We wouldn't want anybody else to open up with. It's going to be a war down there. |