As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins. |
He told me this is where he needed to be. |
I can't remember my team giving up 91 points in this building. It's unacceptable. We're not beating anybody giving up 91 points, and that's what upsets me more than anything. It's not so much that we lost, but how we lost. I didn't think we went down with a fight. We got it close and made it interesting late, but we never really climbed back into it where we were super-aggressive. We never got into the attack mode. |
I thought we played tentative, I thought we played soft. Some guys might have played scared for some reason. This late in the season, I don't know why. |
I'm surprised that, in a game of significance, we didn't respond for the full 40 minutes. I'm very, very surprised about that. We knew this was a great opportunity in a game that had significance. We've obviously put ourselves in another spot, and now we have to dig in. |
In the end, our defense clearly was the difference. That's a hard team to prepare for in one night, with the way they run their spread offense. When I started studying it, I knew you needed two or three days to really handle something like that. But we didn't have the time. |
Put it in your best guy's hands. He was in the zone tonight, make no mistake about it. |
That's something he's been battling for a while in terms of his confidence. He's spent a lot of time working on his shot after practice, and today he got some of the reward. He's a talented player. When he adds a shot to his game, he really becomes hard to guard. |
The lineup they've got out there causes problems, because they're so quick and agile. It's traditional for us to try to find a big body. Now, we've got guys trying to chase a little guard. They're harder to block out. |
They might have caught us a little stunned, and it was contagious. Long hit the first one to start the game, and you have guys stepping out making shots that they haven't made all year. Give them credit, but I thought we played with our hands low. We've guarded the 3 as well as anyone in our conference all season. We didn't do a good job this afternoon. |
Those 3s in the first half caught us a little stunned. |
We just dug too big a hole. We were way too careless with the ball. |
We've got to get better at finishing the game. We've got to finish that game on the foul line. That should end up being a 10-, 11-point game. |
We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time. |
What should I tell Drew Hall? Concentrate more? He goes 4-for-5 from 19 feet, nine inches and misses two shots from 15 feet. I'm not good at math, but that doesn't make any sense to me. |