Even without Roberts, Mississippi State is a really, really good team. We tried to play a perfect game and slow it down, but they beat us on the boards and made us shoot poorly. |
He just took over, and that was it. He dominated the whole second half. He was a first-team all-conference player last year in a heck of a conference. It seemed like he did what he wanted, and that's the sign of a good player. |
He plays the way it's supposed to be played. He has a swagger and confidence that makes him special. |
I always say it's one step at a time. Now we've got something to help build our confidence. |
I don't know if it's fair or not, but I've been unbelievably blessed. It's just unfortunate that we didn't complete the deal. |
I met with Coach this week and, well, I knew we had to do something extremely good this weekend for me to hold on. So, I guess it became official tonight. |
I'm asking them to be older than their years. But they were also baptized by fire. We took a pretty good caning early on, and hopefully you learn from that. Every game we'll play the rest of the league schedule will be like tonight. |
I'm grateful for the opportunity. Basketball has been great to me. |
If that game was any indication of what this weekend has in store, we're in for a treat. It could be symbolic of what the whole weekend will be like. |
It killed us. We didn't have him for the whole first half of the season so we should be familiar with playing without him. But he's such an important part of our team and he gets two over-the-back fouls in a game that was fairly contested on both backboards. That hurt us. |
It was bang, bang, bang, very close together. |
It would be over-egging our own capabilities to pretend we had instantaneous appreciation of what was happening. |
It's simple. If we defend, we're OK. If we don't, we're in trouble. It's disappointing because it's a game we should have won. |
Marist is as good as anybody (in the MAAC). |
The play of those two freshmen speaks volumes. We obviously need more help for Terrance; he can't carry the load every night. But Jon and Herbie made some big plays. I'm going to have to ask them to be older than their years. |