Chris Holtmann said his Ohio State Buckeyes have not responded well to adversity this season.
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00:00 I think it's just this time of year, in Illinois we play seven guys for the most part.
00:03 So most teams are playing seven, eight guys.
00:05 So guys gotta be able to play well in whatever roles given to them.
00:10 If they can't, let them find somebody else that can.
00:13 I thought we had some guys play pretty well in limited minutes.
00:16 This time of year, it's kinda what you're looking for.
00:17 We can play well in limited minutes.
00:20 And I thought we had some guys do a decent job of that tonight.
00:23 >> I know you've drawn a clear line between this year's team and
00:25 not last year's team.
00:27 I asked Roddy, what is kinda going through your heart right now?
00:30 And he referenced last year.
00:31 I don't ever wanna go through what last year was.
00:34 Do you feel any of that creeping into some of your returners?
00:37 Are some of the issues from last year mentally weighing this team down at all?
00:43 >> Well, I don't think right now we're responding great to adversity, Adam.
00:47 And I think we've gotta get better to the adversity of the game,
00:51 handling the adversity of the game better.
00:55 Could some of what happened last year be impacting that?
01:00 Maybe, I don't know.
01:01 But I think we've gotta get better at handling adversity of the game.
01:03 That's the biggest thing for us as coaches and players.
01:07 And I think that's gotta be better.
01:09 When you have a couple of missed front and one and ones, or
01:11 a team makes a little bit of a run, can you respond better?
01:16 I think that's a step for this team that we've gotta get better at, for sure.
01:20 >> And a part of it was foul trouble, a part of it was just matchups.
01:24 What more do you need from your bigs right now?
01:26 >> I just think more impactful play on both ends.
01:33 But again, this is unique.
01:37 Felix has had to guard some unique situations with shooting five men.
01:43 Here he was kind of playing a guard who plays kind of a pseudo five man role.
01:50 And we had him off the ball, and I think it probably got him.
01:53 He just wasn't his normal kind of flying around self.
01:58 So I think all those things he'll get better with as he continues to grow and
02:04 learn and learn how to impact the game while guarding people on the perimeter
02:08 like that.
02:09 But I think just more impactful play on both ends.