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HEAD COACH TERRY STOTTS
“Well it was good to get the offense back on track. I thought we had a very good effort. Obviously, the fourth quarter got away from us, turnovers to start the fourth quarter and it kind of devolved into a one-on-one game. Not necessarily athletically pleasing, but it’s what it ended up being when they go small and just play one-on-one.
On getting a lot from a lot of players:
“It’s disappointing to lose. They’re the best team in the league right now and we competed and came up short, but we had a lot of good efforts from a lot of different players. That was very encouraging. After the last three games, it’s good to be in a game at the end against a really good team and like I said, we just came up short.”
On giving up lay-ups down the stretch:
“First of all I give credit to – Harden’s a great player and he’s difficult – we can say keep him in front and keep him away from the rim. My only disappointment was he got to his left hand a little bit more than I’d like but our goal at the beginning of the game was to take away their threes. They’re averaging 44 attempts and they only took 25. I don’t think they played necessarily the way they wanted to play. For the season, they’ve assisted 60 percent of their baskets and they didn’t do that tonight – what’d they have? 14 assists out of 40 – so we took out their passing, we took out their threes and they beat us with good one-on-one play.”
What did you like about the offense?
“Well, when Dame has it going that’s always encouraging. If Dame scores 22 in a half, I feel pretty good about our offense. But I just felt like there was a little bit more rhythm to it. It was good to see Chief make some shots. We got a lot of threes up and they were good threes. Pat was 0 for 5 from three but they were all good looks. I thought the looks that we got were pretty good. The only thing again discouraging about the offense were the turnovers, they kind of fed into the start of the fourth quarter. I just thought this was the type of game where we had a lot of spacing, a lot of shooting on the floor. It makes the offensive end easier.”
On Zach Collins
“Zach played well. He competed. He made some nice blocks. He’s really long, he really bothers shots. It would have been nice – he had two or three around the basket that could have gone in, but I thought he gave a good performance.”
“Well it was good to get the offense back on track. I thought we had a very good effort. Obviously, the fourth quarter got away from us, turnovers to start the fourth quarter and it kind of devolved into a one-on-one game. Not necessarily athletically pleasing, but it’s what it ended up being when they go small and just play one-on-one.
On getting a lot from a lot of players:
“It’s disappointing to lose. They’re the best team in the league right now and we competed and came up short, but we had a lot of good efforts from a lot of different players. That was very encouraging. After the last three games, it’s good to be in a game at the end against a really good team and like I said, we just came up short.”
On giving up lay-ups down the stretch:
“First of all I give credit to – Harden’s a great player and he’s difficult – we can say keep him in front and keep him away from the rim. My only disappointment was he got to his left hand a little bit more than I’d like but our goal at the beginning of the game was to take away their threes. They’re averaging 44 attempts and they only took 25. I don’t think they played necessarily the way they wanted to play. For the season, they’ve assisted 60 percent of their baskets and they didn’t do that tonight – what’d they have? 14 assists out of 40 – so we took out their passing, we took out their threes and they beat us with good one-on-one play.”
What did you like about the offense?
“Well, when Dame has it going that’s always encouraging. If Dame scores 22 in a half, I feel pretty good about our offense. But I just felt like there was a little bit more rhythm to it. It was good to see Chief make some shots. We got a lot of threes up and they were good threes. Pat was 0 for 5 from three but they were all good looks. I thought the looks that we got were pretty good. The only thing again discouraging about the offense were the turnovers, they kind of fed into the start of the fourth quarter. I just thought this was the type of game where we had a lot of spacing, a lot of shooting on the floor. It makes the offensive end easier.”
On Zach Collins
“Zach played well. He competed. He made some nice blocks. He’s really long, he really bothers shots. It would have been nice – he had two or three around the basket that could have gone in, but I thought he gave a good performance.”
