Dana Altman Ahead of Hosting Arizona Schools

Oregon Ducks head coach Dana Altman previews matchups with Arizona State and Arizona.

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00:00 What's your message to your team, Ben, primarily coming off the weekend?

00:03 >> We got a guard.

00:04 God dang it, we're one in five in games we gave up 80 points.

00:11 Easy baskets, and we're just not as committed on the defensive end as we need

00:17 to be.

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00:20 Kevin gave me some stats, we're second in the league offensively and

00:24 11th defensively.

00:26 So that'll give you an idea how far we have to go.

00:29 And so yesterday was our day off.

00:33 Today we did nothing but defense.

00:35 And I don't know if it will help us for Thursday, but we gotta get better.

00:40 We know that we can't give up 80.

00:45 They shot 68%, second half scored 48 points.

00:50 Not gonna win many games like that.

00:52 >> How do you feel about, sorry, how do you feel about Dante,

00:55 specifically on Sunday and kind of how he's progressed since coming back?

00:59 >> Dante played at another level.

01:01 There's playing to win and playing.

01:02 And probably Dante plays to win.

01:05 I mean, he's been out eight weeks and

01:09 he looked like the only conditioned, tough, hard-nosed guy we have.

01:15 And Jermaine did a tremendous job on the offensive end.

01:17 But Dante, there was a series there where he gets his shot blocked,

01:22 he's standing out of bounds.

01:24 He flies down the court, gets a handle, and gets a steal,

01:27 flies to the other end, gets a dunk.

01:29 And he led us in everything.

01:33 He was 10 for 15 from the field, rebounded, led us 11 deflections,

01:39 six assists, one turnover.

01:40 It was a heck of a performance.

01:44 And we got a bad habit of just watching it.

01:48 We gotta do a better job.

01:51 We could add a couple more assists.

01:53 But guys, we throw it in and everybody's just like, go get a bucket, Dante.

01:58 We gotta help him out a little bit.

02:00 And I think we're putting way too much pressure on him defensively.

02:04 Dante will clean up my mistake.

02:05 And he's just not to that point.

02:09 But like I said, I watched that film.

02:14 I knew it when I left the game.

02:16 But when I watched the film, I caught a couple other films that Dante was playing

02:21 to win, and there's a big difference between playing and playing to win.

02:25 And that, man, that was a tremendous effort.