JJ Starling Canisius Postgame
Syracuse guard JJ Starling discusses the Orange's win.
Transcript
00:00 JJ, another great game for you. Shot selection seemed a little bit better
00:03 than on Monday night. What can you say about your offensive performance today?
00:07 Yeah, I'm just looking to be aggressive. I know I can get downhill. I'm just waiting for that shot to fall.
00:15 Once that falls, I'm going to be clicking all-in soon. But like I said, just being aggressive, making the right play.
00:19 Whether that's me taking the shot or finding my teammates, I feel like I did a pretty good job.
00:24 What defensively did make things a little bit difficult? Because Kanisha seemed like it was a
00:29 20-point game. The guys were starting to run away with it, but they were hitting some really tough shots their way.
00:33 Yeah, exactly like you said. They hit tough shots. As a team, that's what you want them to take.
00:38 They hit them, hats off to them. They hit them, so they were able to come back.
00:43 But that's no excuse. We still have to clean some things up on defense.
00:47 So we're going to get back on Friday and clean those things up.
00:50 What are the biggest things defensively that you want to see improve?
00:53 Just our help, so that we can pressure the ball, rely on our backside to rotate.
00:59 So once we get that, we're going to be strong.
01:02 Walk me through that 14-hour run that pretty much changed the trajectory of your game.
01:08 You guys pretty much pushed on the end to secure the win.
01:10 Yeah, it all started with energy, honestly. We got stopped defensively.
01:15 Once you get stopped, you can run out in transition. That's what we do best.
01:19 We were hitting shots, and obviously our energy got up and we kept getting stopped.
01:24 Pretty well-rounded performance for you. 15.7, board of services.
01:28 What do you think of the performance tonight, especially coming off of someone struggling to shoot in performance last game?
01:33 Like I said, I'm just looking to be aggressive. I'm not going to let one game deter my mentality.
01:39 Like you said, last game was probably one of my worst shooting performances.
01:44 But at the same time, that's not going to change my mentality.
01:46 Because at the end of the day, my job is to get down the field, make plays, score.
01:50 So that's what I did tonight.
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