I really felt last year through the middle quarters and virtually the entire fourth quarter we had the pace where we wanted it. It's a lot easier to slow a team down, though, than to speed them up.
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Coming into this game, No. 24, (Kenney) Griffin was averaging like 22 points in his last three games. I think we did a good job shutting him down.
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He gave us some problems early on. But we started dropping our guards back on him as well and negated him. That's really where I thought our guys did a good job tonight. They adjusted when they needed to. Brubaker played hard for us. He was all over the place and getting a lot of loose balls.
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As a coach you can't help but start looking ahead to the other games and figuring out scenarios, but you don't want the players looking to far ahead. We need to keep our head above water right now.
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When we cut the lead down, we usually didn't get a good shot the next time down the floor. But, really, allowing 37 points in the first half and the way we shot (33), it was too far to come back.
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