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00:00 First of all, gotta take my hat off to Indiana.
00:04 Woody did a great job with his team.
00:06 He has a good team.
00:08 Very solid, don't make many mistakes.
00:10 They did shoot the ball great, but they made adjustments,
00:15 they picked up the adjustments quick.
00:17 And it caused a little bit off guard, we became a stagnant offensive.
00:20 Hats off to them, the big fella, the two big guys really did a good job for them.
00:27 I don't know how many points in the paint they had, but it was a lot.
00:30 We are close, we just gotta get over the hump.
00:37 Just talking to the owner of the Knicks and the president, and
00:44 they both said, man, the two games that we watched you play, y'all play hard,
00:47 y'all be getting better.
00:49 We see it.
00:50 Well, I need that to translate to doubles, right?
00:54 So I need this team to understand that winning matters.
01:02 Making winning plays every little thing through the course of the game,
01:05 it matters.
01:06 Don't take moments for granted, don't take seconds for granted.
01:09 And then play winning basketball in this, play as hard as you can together and
01:14 see what the outcome is.
01:16 Questions?
01:16 >> I'm sorry, John?
01:17 >> Hey Kenny, before the season you said it was really important to be competitive
01:21 in this event, given what happened last year.
01:23 Now that you've accomplished that, how disheartening is it to come so
01:27 close to a win that would have changed them around in your locker room?
01:30 >> Great question.
01:31 I mean, the guys are hurting, I'm hurting.
01:33 I said it from day one, we are a much better team.
01:37 We've gotten better, we are competitive.
01:39 Man, if we tighten up a few things, where would we be sitting now?
01:46 What if that shot yesterday doesn't go in?
01:48 What would we be sitting here saying?
01:50 What would we be sitting here saying if we finished out the game,
01:53 we had them on the field, they, the last three or four minutes, go to the zone and
01:57 then we, which we've been really good against the zone, we get passive.
02:02 Now we extend out 40 feet from the basket instead of close to the three point line
02:07 and hold the ball and dribble the ball instead of zipping the ball around the court
02:11 versus the zone and attacking gaps and getting the ball to the middle,
02:14 which we practice every day.
02:16 Again, we're close, but we got work to do.
02:21 >> Kenny, how much do you just kind of have to live with the growing pains of
02:25 having young guards like Tyler and Scott?
02:27 Cuz I was thinking specifically about half time, in the first half,
02:31 you're telling them to hold for one shot, yesterday too.
02:34 And they kind of rush and make a play and it ends up.
02:37 >> You know, that's a great question.
02:40 You have to, you don't wanna take things away from them and make them passive.
02:45 You want them to understand.
02:47 The second, the great part for me is, both of them, the second they make
02:51 the mistake, they understand and they say, I'm sorry, my bad.
02:54 And I need them to grow.
02:57 And in this game, the best players, the best teams, they make adjustments quicker.
03:04 I need Tyler to make adjustments quicker.
03:06 Learn a game faster.
03:09 Learn everything about this game,
03:11 everything about what it takes to be great at this level.
03:15 Now, the same for Scott.
03:17 In a lot of respects, Scott still has freshman stuff there because he didn't
03:23 play a full season last year, so he's learning as well.
03:26 >> Yeah.
03:28 >> Yeah, Coach, you mentioned they went zone there, and
03:31 I think it was the third to no run.
03:32 And it's kind of the side of the game.
03:34 What was it about their zone that really impacted you guys?
03:37 >> I just think it forced us out.
03:41 Really, we stayed out too wide.
03:45 We didn't move the ball the way that we've been doing.
03:47 And then we became passers.
03:50 I mean, we telegraphed passes.
03:52 One time we looked at a guy for four seconds before we drew a lob and got a steal.
03:57 One time we dribbled into it and we got a tunnel, we got a tunnel.
04:02 We drive in, we take a bad shot.
04:05 We didn't make the correct reads.
04:08 Against the zone, look, you gotta move the ball,
04:10 you gotta see where you're passing it to, you gotta look for gaps, and you attack it.
04:15 All movement, attack, whether it's to the post or to the perimeter.
04:21 We didn't really do that.
04:22 We sort of got stagnant in the zone, and it knocked us forward a little bit.
04:27 We didn't make the adjustment.
04:28 >> Kenny, on the heels of two games that you had and you gave away,
04:35 I'm wondering, you as a head coach, can you teach and
04:41 coach winning traits and winning mentality to your players?
04:44 Or is that something, in your experience, that needs to be experienced and
04:49 achieved materially on the floor by them more than anything that you can
04:53 particularly say or do with your staff and friends?
04:55 >> Great question.
04:56 So for me, when I look at your question,
04:59 the first thing is how do you simulate game pressure?
05:04 Because before we played Texas, guys,
05:07 we haven't played a team this athletic, this fast, this shift of all that.
05:11 So I need our practices to be ramped up even more than they have.
05:16 And I try to simulate that.
05:18 That's probably the most that you can do.
05:22 Because some of it, they gotta learn on the fly.
05:25 And they gotta get that experience to be able to be good at that experience when
05:29 they're in it.
05:32 It's a little bit of both, for me as well.
05:37 When you play teams that are high level teams,
05:40 you know there's gonna be growing pains.
05:41 You know there's gonna be moments where the momentum isn't your way.
05:46 And I'm just saying fight through, fight through.
05:49 Be cognizant of what's going on in the court.
05:51 Be aware of everything in the court and learn from it.
05:55 Willing learners.
05:56 >> Kenny played back-to-back days, so there wasn't a lot of time, obviously,
06:00 to prepare for Indiana.
06:01 But then they throw Zone at you, which they've never shown all year.
06:06 Did that just sort of shock your guys?
06:07 And you guys even talk about Zone with them at all in the night?
06:12 >> We did not.
06:12 I knew Woody wouldn't play Zone, or I thought he'd trick me.
06:16 But to be honest with you, that would be the last thing I think we would have
06:22 a problem with.
06:23 Because we have been really, really good versus Zone,
06:28 even in practice, it's been a ball.
06:30 And we really have a good feel for it.
06:32 But in this game, we got tentative.
06:36 We got tentative, we got stagnant.
06:38 We processed the game instead of instinctively moving the ball.
06:41 Telegraph passes.
06:44 We gotta do a better job of looking at the field.
06:48 I gotta do a better job of getting them to understand the importance of
06:52 shifting the Zone and being attacked.
06:56 >> What's the difference in the first half, you guys went for
06:58 seven out of, I think, five or nine minutes without a field goal.
07:01 What were they doing, what were you guys not doing to get on the floor?
07:06 >> For me, when I think about my team, the one thing that's constant with us is
07:14 that when we have success, the ball is moving in the plane and we attack.
07:18 When we have failures, so when you talk about laws in the game,
07:24 we settle for jump shots.
07:26 And a lot of the jump shots are one pass and a shot or no pass and a shot.
07:30 That's losing basketball and getting them to understand that we have to move
07:35 this zone, we have to move the man.
07:37 We gotta move the ball around the court and we gotta attack.
07:40 And we gotta get paint touches.
07:41 Paint touches, if we can get multiple paint touches,
07:44 what we found is that we are really good too.
07:47 And that's when we shoot a bunch of free throws.
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