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00:20 First of all, I thought hats off to Virginia and
00:38 the team for being a little bit vulnerable coming off the two losses
00:43 that they had on the road.
00:45 We knew that they would come in here and at home court and play different,
00:48 play with energy, play with fight.
00:51 We knew that they would shoot the ball better than they shot it on the road.
00:54 We, for, I don't know, 10 or 12 minutes until I look at the family,
01:01 I really won't know exactly how long.
01:03 But to start the game, I thought we did some good things well.
01:05 But as the game went on, we lost our discipline,
01:09 we lost our focus, and lost the fight.
01:14 To be honest with you, some of that's on us as coaches, some of that's on me, and
01:20 some of that is on the players we all are to blame.
01:23 Because we know how good these teams are in this conference, and
01:28 Virginia's one of them.
01:29 And you have to come in here and know you gotta defend, and
01:35 you gotta be on point for 40 minutes if you wanna beat this team.
01:38 Questions?
01:39 >> Yeah, McNeely and Dunn, 11 and 13 for them.
01:45 You guys held them off the score sheet for the first 10 minutes, and
01:48 then obviously they kind of took over.
01:49 What changed?
01:50 What were you doing well early, and what changed after that?
01:53 >> I just think we were locked in and we were focused on what we had to do.
01:57 And then as the game went on, they got us to relax a little bit.
02:03 At times we switched, and sometimes we point switch without coming together,
02:08 with not being locked in, without giving them angles to the basket.
02:14 And rotating and two guys going to one, switching to one, and
02:18 leaving McNeely open for a shot, or Dunn cutting to the basket.
02:22 And you know he's a phenomenal athlete, and
02:26 there's a reason why NBA scouts are looking at him.
02:29 >> Can more than half your shots work beyond the arc tonight,
02:33 given how they defend, are you okay with that ratio and that shot selection?
02:39 >> No, I wanna be a team that attacks, and
02:45 we knew that it wasn't gonna come off one pass and attack.
02:48 We knew that we had to have multiple drives.
02:51 We knew that we had to move the ball and play north, south.
02:54 And we sort of caught the ball and dribbled in a spot, and
02:59 then decided to go with our pack line.
03:01 They're gonna be there.
03:03 So we had to get off the ball quicker, we should have had better ball movement.
03:07 The things that worked for us to come back what they were doing were the post-ups,
03:13 where we could throw it to the post, they trapped, and
03:15 we moved the ball out of there, we did that pretty well.
03:18 Set ball screens, they hard showed, we got it,
03:20 threw it to the big, and then he made decisions.
03:23 That was pretty good, but overall,
03:25 you don't wanna settle with jump shots against that team.
03:30 They're too good and too disciplined defensively.
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03:36 >> They obviously struggled a lot with turnovers in the Memphis loss.
03:40 They only had three turnovers tonight, different schemes obviously.
03:43 But in terms of what you saw there,
03:45 do you expect them to be a little more vulnerable there?
03:47 >> I knew they'd be tighter playing at home.
03:54 When I watched the Memphis game, I saw the energy of that crowd,
03:58 the energy of being at home versus them.
04:01 Even the Notre Dame game, it sort of caught them off guard and it rolled downhill.
04:08 We weren't gonna get that team, I knew that.
04:11 We were gonna get a team that's focused, that's ready to fight, determined, and
04:14 disciplined, and they were.
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04:18 >> Okay, all right, thank you.
04:20 >> Thanks, Coach.
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