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Huskies coach shares his thoughts after a home loss to the Cougars.
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00:00 >> Heavyweight fight, I think there was 24 lead changes,
00:05 someone told me after going back and forth, back and forth.
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00:13 Felt like the biggest concern that we had was it was rebounding.
00:18 We obviously didn't do a great job stopping,
00:21 they scored five or six of the last possessions in regulation.
00:25 But for the most part, the times that they did miss,
00:28 they did a good job of getting some good second chance points and
00:31 some second chance opportunities.
00:33 There was 19 more shots that they got, but
00:36 we still put ourselves in position offensively, we were able to score.
00:40 We had the opportunity to go up three, put a small line up,
00:48 we're gonna switch foul, we missed it unfortunately.
00:51 They came down and scored really quick and hats off to them.
00:55 Second half, couple turnovers here, well, we couldn't get shots.
00:59 We had a hard time that night guarding in the post.
01:03 I thought they did a really good job of Hunso, Jalen Wells, Isaac Jones,
01:10 they're all really good in the post, they really tried to expose that.
01:14 We started firing double teaming, it worked for a pretty good chunk and
01:20 then one bad rotation, Miles Rice hit a dagger to go up three, that was the game.
01:28 But I was proud of how we fought.
01:30 I don't think we executed how we had to close the game and those types of things,
01:35 but I felt like we fought against a really good team in a rivalry game.
01:39 I'm sick for our fans because it was pretty good.
01:45 We just couldn't get some stops when we needed to get some stops.
01:50 That's just the bottom line.
01:51 >> Is the late game sort of things that are happening there,
01:57 is that really what this season is really kind of coming down to?
02:01 >> Yeah, I mean, we've had games where we've missed a foul shot,
02:05 San Diego State, like Nevada, and
02:09 then there's games we haven't been able to get stops.
02:10 The guys are, we've been working on it, they've been fighting,
02:16 there wasn't a lack of effort, there wasn't a lack of that wanting it more.
02:21 It was just a couple plays here and there that you gotta be able to get to win
02:27 these types of games.
02:28 >> Was it a little sort of surprising that it sort of went down?