GopherLady
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This was the 1st post game press conference Pitino came to in sweats, vs. his suit. This was also the 1st time that Sid was too disgusted and he did not go to the locker room, or the press conference after the game.
DeAndre Matthieu
I played like ****. Absolute ****, I picked the wrong time to have the worst game of the season
They made it tough on us to get into the lane
I made dumb plays, just throwing the ball all over the place
Coach warned me that they would try ball screens and they did.
Their record says they are the worst, but they aren't. I think they are top 5 on the big 10.*
We just couldn't make shots when we needed.
On Pitino - He told us to drive the basketball, stop settling for jump shots and we kept settling. We've got other opportunities, just gotta get out there and practice.*
Austin Hollins
They played good defense, we had some bad turnovers
On Mathieu - He's a big part of our offense, but we can't blame what happened on that (getting 2 fouls in the 1st half)
Joey King
This is a game we needed to win and we didn't win
It was just a game we needed to win, he (Pitino) was really frustrated with our effort, he gave all the credit to Illinois, they just came out and beat us.*
Elliott Eliason
He wasn't very happy with the effort, who would be?
The main thing, is we had a lot of deflections and turnovers came from that.
On Dre being out in foul trouble - He was there in the 2nd half, we had plenty of opportunities there too
Oto Osenieks
On continuing to shoot 3's - It wasn't a strategy, we had open shots. He said don't settle for 3's, attack...and we just didn't execute.
Richard Pitino:
• Obviously not a real good one. Just started off real well, then they made a run, which we thought they would. The 2nd half, we did some unthinkable things...why? I don't know. We haven't done it all year.
• Even worst that the Northwestern game. We just lost. This game, we made some strange, unheard of plays (like Elliott inbounding the ball, 5's never inbound the ball).
• We need him (Mathieu) - he was in foul trouble, and he came in the beginning of the 2nd half. He was pressing, trying to carry us a little bit. We were defending in the beginning of the game.
• On what Mathieu needs to do - I don't know. He was passive, he was getting frustrated, we kept slipping it and told him to attack. Pretty similar to NU, we thought we had it corrected. He had a really good 2nd half vs. NU, certainly we need him out there, with Malik not playing really well right now, we just need to get these guys going.
• It was tough, we were telling them to attack and in the 2nd half, we had 2 wide open 3's and w missed that. I think confidence was definitely an issue in the 2nd half.
• We've gotta learn from this
• We made some mistakes, definitely, I'm not going to say they hit tough shots. Nunn hits 5, and they did some good things with him. We had some defensive rotations and made mistakes. We had respect for this team, we knew this team fights, we just didn't play really well - we played really bad, that's an understatement.
• On 3 pointers - Really disappointing. We kept saying, drive it inside, stop settling for 3's.
• There's a lot of basketball to be played, we play the 4th hardest schedule in the country, certainly, this is disappointing. We're playing 3 top 25 teams. We don't talk about the NCAA tournament, and we won't talk about it tomorrow, we're going to talk about all the little mistakes we made.
• I liked our mindset going into the game. If you heard me before the game, I told them "this team can beat us, any team can beat us." Ohio State can beat us, we can beat them, same with Iowa, we just need to rebound from this.
• Malik is missing some open looks, he's missing a lot of open looks and he's getting frustrated from it. Hopefully it will turn the other way.
• Elliott rebounded the ball well. We're not confident right now, we've got to get that back.
• He was trying to do some other things, 7 rebounds, 5 offensive, but I thought he effected the game in other ways.
DeAndre Matthieu
I played like ****. Absolute ****, I picked the wrong time to have the worst game of the season
They made it tough on us to get into the lane
I made dumb plays, just throwing the ball all over the place
Coach warned me that they would try ball screens and they did.
Their record says they are the worst, but they aren't. I think they are top 5 on the big 10.*
We just couldn't make shots when we needed.
On Pitino - He told us to drive the basketball, stop settling for jump shots and we kept settling. We've got other opportunities, just gotta get out there and practice.*
Austin Hollins
They played good defense, we had some bad turnovers
On Mathieu - He's a big part of our offense, but we can't blame what happened on that (getting 2 fouls in the 1st half)
Joey King
This is a game we needed to win and we didn't win
It was just a game we needed to win, he (Pitino) was really frustrated with our effort, he gave all the credit to Illinois, they just came out and beat us.*
Elliott Eliason
He wasn't very happy with the effort, who would be?
The main thing, is we had a lot of deflections and turnovers came from that.
On Dre being out in foul trouble - He was there in the 2nd half, we had plenty of opportunities there too
Oto Osenieks
On continuing to shoot 3's - It wasn't a strategy, we had open shots. He said don't settle for 3's, attack...and we just didn't execute.
Richard Pitino:
• Obviously not a real good one. Just started off real well, then they made a run, which we thought they would. The 2nd half, we did some unthinkable things...why? I don't know. We haven't done it all year.
• Even worst that the Northwestern game. We just lost. This game, we made some strange, unheard of plays (like Elliott inbounding the ball, 5's never inbound the ball).
• We need him (Mathieu) - he was in foul trouble, and he came in the beginning of the 2nd half. He was pressing, trying to carry us a little bit. We were defending in the beginning of the game.
• On what Mathieu needs to do - I don't know. He was passive, he was getting frustrated, we kept slipping it and told him to attack. Pretty similar to NU, we thought we had it corrected. He had a really good 2nd half vs. NU, certainly we need him out there, with Malik not playing really well right now, we just need to get these guys going.
• It was tough, we were telling them to attack and in the 2nd half, we had 2 wide open 3's and w missed that. I think confidence was definitely an issue in the 2nd half.
• We've gotta learn from this
• We made some mistakes, definitely, I'm not going to say they hit tough shots. Nunn hits 5, and they did some good things with him. We had some defensive rotations and made mistakes. We had respect for this team, we knew this team fights, we just didn't play really well - we played really bad, that's an understatement.
• On 3 pointers - Really disappointing. We kept saying, drive it inside, stop settling for 3's.
• There's a lot of basketball to be played, we play the 4th hardest schedule in the country, certainly, this is disappointing. We're playing 3 top 25 teams. We don't talk about the NCAA tournament, and we won't talk about it tomorrow, we're going to talk about all the little mistakes we made.
• I liked our mindset going into the game. If you heard me before the game, I told them "this team can beat us, any team can beat us." Ohio State can beat us, we can beat them, same with Iowa, we just need to rebound from this.
• Malik is missing some open looks, he's missing a lot of open looks and he's getting frustrated from it. Hopefully it will turn the other way.
• Elliott rebounded the ball well. We're not confident right now, we've got to get that back.
• He was trying to do some other things, 7 rebounds, 5 offensive, but I thought he effected the game in other ways.
