They learned to shoot the three better since the last time we played them. I didn't know if we could stop their threes, but we hit our free throws. |
This has been one of our better years in terms of taking care of the basketball. |
We all want to win it all, but obviously there's only going to be one team that wins it. But I think teams come here looking to get four tough games that will do you some good down the line. I'd like to think every game we played here will probably do us some good. |
We cannot look back on that game other than to say we know a few things about certain players. We're a different team from then, too. I think we're a little better than we were. |
We did not rebound very well in the first half ... I think particularly after we got a little bit of a lead we just thought the ball was going to fall into our hands. |
We don't overpower teams, but we'll battle you. This has been a very enjoyable team to coach. These are a bunch of very nice young men and, sometimes, I wish they would even be a little meaner. |
We gave (Rocha) and maybe a couple of other guys some pretty good looks in the first half, and something we really want to tighten up is our intensity, to play all four quarters. |
We had to hang on at the end, but I don't want that to ruin a good win. |
We just had to play basketball. That's one of the things we addressed, don't let the emotions of this particular situation get you down. We had to come back and play the way we're capable of playing. |
We like to have a balance, but it's not that I don't want someone to score 30-40 points. I'd be happy to have that if we could get it. |
We went into a different offensive set that was probably more to Johnny's liking. It made me think that we probably should have run this offense more often. |
We were playing like we were down big, and we really weren't. I thought we were going for steals too quick. It was causing us to foul. It was causing us to give up easy baskets. Pretty soon we had to shoot threes and we had to foul. They hit free throws and we didn't hit threes. You're in bad shape then. |
We've got two guys here that refuse to lose. Unfortunately, they did [Friday], but that's the way they play. Not great stats necessarily, but they have some qualities that not a lot of players have. |
When we did run some continuity and didn't get our first option, we had success. If we just stopped after our first option we usually didn't have too much success. |
With that kind of lead and that much time to go, we should have been able to take care of business. But all of a sudden they got hot. |