It's going to take some character for us to bounce back, with the quick turnaround against another top team. |
Now it's our business to keep on moving forward. |
Now we're back to work. The challenge is more mental than anything else. |
Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays. |
That was fantastic. It seems like every game Cam is doing something spectacular. |
That's not us. That's not N.C. State defense. That's not our character. That's not our identity. They kept scoring at will. |
That's part of adversity -- somebody going down and somebody stepping up. I think Gavin Grant has been playing great for us. We just need to have more guys playing well. |
That's such a good feeling to get when you're on the court, and you're doing that to the other team. And you know that even though you're ahead, you're stomping and you keep playing hard, you keep playing defense. |
The stat sheet says it all. We are unselfish. We don't really care who shoots or scores, as long as we get the W. |
There's no question we're facing a lot of adversity right now. The young guys, sometimes they just look at you with the big eyes, but they don't know what to do. They expect seniors to know how to take the lead. |
These are the kind of wins you want, where you have to dig in and grind it out. Those wins are the best. |
They had to work really hard on offense to get open looks. We did a great job on Justin Gray, to the point where their coach had to make an adjustment because he was not touching the ball. |
They just whipped our tails. They're a lot better than they were earlier in the season when we played them, and unfortunately for us, we haven't improved as much. |
This is giving us a lot of experience come March. It's putting us in situations where we're finding ways to win each time. Wins like this give us a lot of confidence that we can finish games when it's close. We've been ahead, we've been behind, we've been tied. So all that experience is going to pay off in March. |
This is the last game at home, sure, but there's a lot of season left. |