Marcus made some big-time plays driving to the basket, and I think that's what he brings to our offense. He's a great driver. When he comes in and brings that to the game, I think we're really hard to guard. |
Nobody was pointing fingers after losing to Boston College, and Coach Williams remained positive with us. We came to practice Thursday and wanted to come out and get this one. |
Now I come down here and I see how much people care and how much our fans are into the ACC Tournament. I can't wait to get there. I just thought it's a tournament before the NCAA. It's a big-time deal. |
Now I foul out of the game and it looks like I'm a hack. It's frustrating. Hopefully I can just come out tomorrow and play a great game. |
Now we're all coming together. We know where each other is going to be. |
People say that. But I think we go in there, we know that it's supposed to be a hostile environment. We just say, 'Hey, let's go in there and do it. No one really expects us to do it, so let's prove people wrong.' We've done that throughout the year. |
Personally, I think I did horribly on him in the first half. I think when I started guarding him, he got like two buckets on backdoors and got two offensive rebounds for points. I was really frustrated with that. In the second half, we just played tougher, played harder and played smarter, and we really gave it to him. |
Scared is a strong word. I don't think I was that scared. We had jitters, and that was easy to see. |
Some guys were frustrated, and some guys were down. But definitely the locker room at halftime was more lively. Usually we just sit in there and wait for Coach Williams, but everybody was talking and being positive with each other. |
Someone told me he had 23 at half. I knew he was going to get some more in the second half. But 40 points? That's crazy. I mean 40 points, that's just hard to think about. |
That was a huge shot with the clock running down. He really brought us together, and we settled down late in the game. |
That was big for us as far as getting some momentum. Then, we came out in the second half and, in the first 10 minutes, we really got on them. |
That was fun. That place was going crazy. We were on the bad end of it at that point, but still ... |
That zone sagged off us late in the game. We were looking for Tyler, but they had a guy sitting in his lap and a guy behind him. So it was tough to get him the ball. |
That's definitely going to be one of our keys to the game, to take care of the ball. |