Today?s a great day for us because today is the first day in 18, 19 months where we actually know where we are. As much as we speculated, as much as we thought it through and did the case studies and all those things, it finally came to an end today, and now we know and now we move forward. |
Two trademarks I'd like for people to say about our basketball team are that they play hard and with intelligence and they take care of the basketball. |
We always tell the guys, and this is hard for them to understand, but don't tie your offense to your defense. There are going to be games when the shots don't fall, and Michigan is too good for us to try and trade shots with them. |
We did a better job of getting (Dials) the ball quicker. That's what he needs and we had better movement once it went in and it was a little harder for (Minnesota) to get to him. |
We did a nice job moving the basketball. A couple of those [3-pointers] were pretty deep, to be honest. But to their credit, they found the open guy. |
We did lose our composure a little bit there. Most definitely it is a different game. |
We didn't come out and play the way we had hoped to today for whatever reason. And I thought we were tentative defensively. I didn't think we were as active as we needed to be. Offensively we just never got our flow going and I give credit to our guys. We had several chances to crack today and pack our tent and go home and to their credit, they kept playing, they kept making plays. |
We disguised for 32 games what our weakness was. Our offense helped us disguise it a lot of times. |
We got it in Ron's hands, and he made a tremendous drive. I told him he better make the shot because Terence was wide open down along the baseline. |
We had a long talk after the Iowa game. I was a little nervous to see how we would come out, but the guys have responded pretty well all year. |
We had good shots that we have made before, but they just weren't going down. We need to continue shooting the ball. We need to stick with it and get our confidence back. |
We had opportunities, and with Wisconsin's help, we at times lost our composure on both ends of the floor. |
We had to live with two tough losses to those guys a year ago. |
We have to be creative. |
We have to make do with it. I think we used five to get four guys this year. |