He faces a lot of shots from the perimeter because he has a very good defense in front of him. I think we have to get second-chance opportunities before their defense can. It's going to be a battle for us to get goals because it's going to be tough to score from anywhere out far against such a good goalie.
Quotes about second-chance (15 Quotes)
We're scrambling. Our defense is there, but second-chance points killed us tonight.
We couldn't overcome their size advantage. We couldn't control the boards on either side. We only got one shot on our end and they had several second-chance points on their end.
We did exactly what we wanted to do. The pace was what we wanted, we rebounded the ball pretty well and didn't give them many second-chance opportunities. I told the kids we dictated the tempo, we just had to make shots and we didn't.
We talk about going in and giving ourselves a second-chance opportunity. Whether we scored or not, it ran off a little bit more time and made Sacred Heart have to come guard us.
I told our guys at halftime that we couldn't give them any second-chance points and we'd have to control the paint. I told them they'd have to beat us from the outside.
They pressured us, and I thought we handled that pretty well. But the keys were their second-chance points and our inability to cash in on our chances in the second quarter. That, and they force us to play at a quicker pace than we wanted to at times.
Me and Paul (Davis) and Shannon (Brown) have to play at another whole different level to where we can make up for the youngsters. (Tennessee Tech) got a lot of second-chance points (in the first half). We turned the ball over too much and they got a lot of easy baskets.
We moved the ball and ran the offense early. We showed patience but then Bellevue turned the tide back on us with increased intensity. They took away our second-chance shots and really took control. We battled back in the third and rallied when we ran the offense again.
We had a little problem boxing out in the second half, and that's how they got a lot of second-chance opportunities. That really hurt us in the second half.
Focus was our main concern. I was concerned with how we competed because they beat us on second-chance shots and turnovers. That's a result of not being focused. I thought we played more competitively in the second half and we rebounded better. Their transition buckets in the first half hurt us. We just didn't do our job. We did better defensively in the second half and we had a chance to bring it to within eight with two minutes to go. You have to make plays and play defense. We just didn't get it done.
We came out ready to play in the third quarter. We were fortunate that they had a couple second-chance opportunities at the beginning of the quarter that they missed. Sometimes it's that simple - make or miss - and we made a good percentage tonight.
In the first half, they were posting in the middle on us, and we made an adjustment, but in the second half, we didn't block out. We shut them down and they got second-chance baskets with nobody on them. They really hurt us on the offensive glass.
I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.
We've got to get more second-chance opportunities. We've tried to stress taking care of the ball, playing together and crashing the boards offensively.