They've had plenty of time to adjust, and someone else will step up. |
Tim is probably one of the better athletes on this team. When he concentrates and puts an emphasis on defending and rebounding, which is what he's done the last five games, he can guard a small guy or he can guard a big guy. We need that from him. It's nice to see him believing he can guard a lot of guys. |
Virginia found out on Sunday they had to travel all the way across the country. I think they got a little fatigued late in the first half and then late in the game. |
Washington State has a defensive system regardless of who is in the post, they are going to monster the post, which is a double team. Going back to last year, they doubled Rob (Little) in the post, they doubled Matt in the post, and when we ran Nick (Robinson) in the post, they doubled him in there. Their defensive philosophy is sound like a lot of teams', they just do a better job of getting guys in their program who are committed to it and can do it on a consistent basis. |
We are defending a little better, rebounding the ball, and the guys are playing with a level of confidence. It seemed like early we had a lot of weight on our shoulders. |
We didn't play well tonight. I thought we got frustrated at times, and I thought we lost our composure at times, in the first half and second half. |
We don't make that decision. The NIT is money generated and if the NIT powers say we want you to play at home, we will. ... But if it was my decision, I would like to take this basketball team on the road. Because we compete well at home, but for the guys that are returning next year we've got to fight through on the road. |
We don't talk about that. The bottom line is I don't dwell on those things. |
We executed on the half-court in the first half pretty good against a good defensive team. We passed the ball well, played very unselfishly. |
We got beat in every way possible. We had 19 turnovers (actually 13 for the game) in the first half and we never really recovered. |
We had our three guys going 7-for-31. It's disappointing that our guys didn't play very well. |
We had some open looks that didn't go down, then it kind of snowballed. |
We haven't played well against quick, athletic, tough, defensive-minded teams. |
We need to not worry about what we don't have, as opposed to what we do have. |
We played in one of the more hostile environments, so, yes, we played with toughness. We were in the game. |