I think he shows up at halftime ... He was spectacular in the second half — about as good as it gets, offensively and defensively.
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I think he shows up at halftime ... He was spectacular in the second half — about as good as it gets, offensively and defensively.
It's all tough to swallow. Syracuse is a heck of a team. We gave each other a great battle ... It was one of those that you look back and go 'man.' Every game can come down to one possession. There's a lot of possessions that could have made us not in that situation.
Coach told us to keep your composure, keep your poise ... We just stayed confident. We really picked it up defensively with our man-for-man. I love playing man-for-man defense. They were kind of picking our zone apart. When the coach went to man it was all or nothing. We just really gutted this game out.
They were attacking our zone well; we probably should have gone out of it earlier ... We couldn't come back playing zone. They got good shooters. They're pretty good against the zone. We lose when we don't play man-to-man anyway.
We were in hang-on mode as opposed to attack mode. We had to make some free throws to win the game and didn’t get it done. Last night we made them (15 of 18 in a victory over Washington). Today we didn’t get it done.
We were switching ball screens. I got switched on ... I thought I did a fairly decent job trying to contain him. He got a half step on me, pulled up and hit a tough shot.
It’s not quite the best history. We were hoping to change it around. Tonight we weren’t able to