I thought it started with our rebounding. We were really dominating the boards in the first half. I think we out-rebounded them by 12 (actually 29-14) in the half. Plus we were getting the ball inside. I think we had 22 more shots than they did.
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They shoot well and don't turn the ball over, and that's why they can get out-rebounded by an average of 5.8 a game and still win 20 games.
They just out-played us, out-hustled us and out-rebounded us. We just didn't pay any attention.
We want to be number one in the league, but in order to do that we still have to get better. We're still getting out-rebounded. We have other goals that we have to continue to get better. I think we're continually growing. We're never too cocky at any point. We're always looking to improve. And I think that's what makes it fun.
I thought we did a good job guarding them. The only place where we lacked in the first half was on the boards. They out-rebounded us (21-14) in the first half, but I thought we did a better job of getting on the boards in the second half.
Missed opportunities. We had so many easy shots. We were taller than them. We out-rebounded them. We just couldn't make the easy shots. It's frustrating.
We expected a tough challenge today. The difference in the game at Radford was that we out-rebounded them by 14 and we hit eight out of 14 three's. So we figured that with the fact they had a week to practice basically getting ready they were going to do a good job challenging us at the 3-point line and be a little tougher on the boards. That was obviously the difference in the game.
I have to congratulate Lake Central. They played better than us in every aspect of the game. ... We needed to respond and step up, and we didn't. We were out-rebounded and our defense was nowhere in sight.
In the SEC, when you get out-rebounded like that, you're not going to win too many ball games.
I think we've played a lot better before. We got out-rebounded again today. This was definitely not a peak for us. I know we can all play better, so hopefully tomorrow will be much better.
We gotta hit the glass, today we got out-rebounded by Pittsburgh and on the road you have to rebound and control the tempo. We got to go on the road and play tough and not let teams out-rebound us.
We out-rebounded them tremendously. We played the hardest I've seen all year. I like to see games like this.
I think we got too relaxed. We kept saying we could beat them, but their offense was picking us apart. We got out-rebounded and we got out-hustled. We didn't run the offense and took bad shots at times. The offense dictates who gets shots. Chris Stephens didn't have a good game. I blame myself on that one.
We played like all five of us were sick. We were getting out-rebounded, out-hustled, out-everything, so I spent a lot of time screaming during our first timeout.