“And they're not smart fouls. We have eight fouls early on, and we're playing a zone and not even trying to be overly aggressive and that's not smart.”
“We were playing a defense specifically to stop the 3-point shooting, and we didn't get it done, and we got it get it done. We knew what they had coming in, and we knew what we wanted to stop.”
“Going into the fourth quarter I said forget the scoreboard, the scoreboard means nothing now, and if I catch you looking at it I'll pull you out. Now it's about playing for pride and playing hard and that's what we got to do. We got six games left, and we have to attack each of those games and prove to ourselves that we can do it and that's our job now.”
“Honestly we're not in a good place mentally or physically right now, and we got to get that back. Injuries are not an excuse, the guys we have on the floor are the ones playing out there, and I got to figure out how to get them going.”
“The first quarter our strategy was to take 30 seconds off the clock every time we had it and to control the tempo. For most of the first quarter it was 8-4 and it could've been tied. They made the adjustments they needed to, and we were in trouble.”
