TCU basketball head coach Jamie Dixon talks 77-79 loss to UCF on March 9, 2024.
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00:04 >> Well, certainly disappointed.
00:07 I mean, you can't get out rebounding,
00:12 you can't give up 50% from the field.
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00:21 They made the free throws, we didn't, at a high enough rate.
00:24 And I had those things up, we just didn't get it done.
00:30 There's really, we've gotta become the team that those things don't happen to.
00:36 And we haven't become it, and so that's on me.
00:39 I thought we had two good days, we had a good walkthrough,
00:42 shoot around today, this morning.
00:44 Of trying to take that next step defensively, cuz obviously we didn't
00:48 defend well enough in the pretty big win the other night at West Virginia.
00:54 And so let's get better, let's commit, let's go play great defense on it in front
01:00 of our home crowd last game of the year, let's become different.
01:06 We got Ernest in there, hopefully make us better defensively.
01:09 I don't know that it did, cuz they shot 50%.
01:13 And we just didn't do it, we didn't do it.
01:17 So it's on me, I gotta get them to do it.
01:21 Showing a little offensive, cuz we had the guys in foul trouble.
01:24 I think we had three or four guys in foul trouble.
01:26 I don't know how that happens as well.
01:28 But it really just comes down to just not being good enough defensively.
01:32 And we should be at this time.
01:36 I'm believing every day that we're gonna get better at it,
01:39 getting it done and coaching.
01:41 And but not getting it across,
01:44 not getting it across cuz the results weren't there tonight.
01:47 So I've gotta do a better job.
01:50 We've got a guard better, they shot 50% of the three, 50% of the field.
01:54 And 80% from the free throw line.
01:58 I mean, you just can't do that and get out right about it.
02:03 So extremely disappointed.
02:08 And we gotta get ready for the Big 12 tournament.
02:14 So we knew how good this team was.
02:17 We knew somebody has to lose in this league so they have six wins.
02:20 They beat some good teams.
02:22 And there's just not much separation in this league.
02:26 I mean, we feel we've beaten teams at the top.
02:28 We've beaten the top team in the league.
02:29 And so why do we, you can play against anybody in this league.
02:37 And if you're not performing, you're gonna come up short.
02:43 And we did it all, which we can't keep doing this.
02:46 And we did it again.
02:48 So, very ready for Oklahoma.
02:51 That's what I was told that we were playing.
02:53 So I haven't seen all the results, but I was told.
02:55 So I think we were fourth if we went and now we're I think seven or eight or
03:01 something.
03:01 So we're gonna get it done.
03:04 Gotta win our games.
03:06 >> You talked about a defensive different point of season.
03:09 I mean, is there something that maybe you could change with your approach?
03:11 Like what are you doing now with the program?
03:13 >> Yeah, we did change.
03:15 We made some adjustments going into this game from the last two days.
03:18 Didn't work.
03:20 I mean, didn't get it done.
03:22 I thought it would.
03:23 I really believed it.
03:23 I was excited about going out and guarding today.
03:26 And it didn't.
03:27 So I mean, it's not like, I mean, what I'm saying,
03:31 like we gotta do some things better.
03:33 Like it's not like we haven't tried and adjusted before.
03:37 So we did, didn't work.
03:40 Didn't make us any better defensively.
03:42 And yeah, what we did the other day is they shut off 50% against us at West Virginia.
03:48 I mean, we were just not getting there.
03:50 All right, so give them credit for making the shots.
03:53 They did make some tough shots.
03:54 It was one on one at the end.
03:57 But one on one should turn into team defense.
03:59 And for us, it just doesn't.
04:00 So, I mean, we got destroyed by one guy.
04:02 I mean, simply put, I mean, he was 33, nine rebounds.
04:06 I mean, that's pretty efficient line right there.
04:10 And we put everybody on him.
04:13 But I think kinda we just don't understand how the whole team can be part
04:19 of the guy that's going one on one.
04:21 How our whole team can be part of the defense to stop a guy that's going one on
04:25 one and isolated.
04:28 And that's where I've gotta do a better job.
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04:36 >> Coach, as you prepare now for the Big 12 tournament,
04:39 what's your message to the guys?
04:41 >> Yeah, I mean, I'll go watch it right now and see where we're at.
04:45 We'll start looking at Oklahoma again.
04:47 I haven't played them in a while.
04:47 I know we beat them here at our place, but that was a long time ago.
04:51 It doesn't matter.
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04:55 It's, after West Virginia, I kinda treated it as like it was a loss
05:01 because of how we defended, and now we have a loss to respond to here.
05:05 And we'll look at that offensively.
05:11 We were never quite in sync.
05:12 We had guys, Tamir's in foul trouble, Eman's in foul trouble.
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05:22 The game never got right for us, and we hope the second half,
05:27 he'll come out and Eman gets a foul right away.
05:29 And so we were constantly on our heels, both offensively and defensively.
05:34 And that's what you don't wanna be in a game like this, a home game.
05:41 So we'll look at it.
05:45 We'll see defensively where the improvements can be made.
05:49 Offensively, our shot selection needed to be better.
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05:55 And it's not like we ever separated.
06:00 I think we had two five-point leads in the second half, and
06:03 they turned to six points like they got.
06:07 And we're up one and a conveniently.
06:09 I mean, just cannot get the stops that we need to get to build some separation.
06:17 And it's been our battle.
06:20 That's why we're 9-19.
06:22 We're good, and a really good league, but we're not at the top.
06:28 We're not at the top cuz we just don't defend well enough.
06:30 So we're gonna go figure out how we can go do that in these next two days.
06:34 >> I know that you hang your hat on defense and
06:37 have throughout your coaching career.
06:38 Has it been a different kind of challenge for
06:41 you trying to coach defense this year?
06:43 >> No, I mean, it's always a challenge.
06:45 Well, I mean, we've changed.
06:50 We've adjusted what we've done over the years, and
06:52 the game's changed, and all the different things.
06:54 I mean, it's constantly evolving.
06:57 But we're gonna keep adjusting, keep improving.
07:06 I mean, there's not as many returning guys, so you got newer guys.
07:13 And we're playing, I was a little concerned as we're playing,
07:16 we haven't seen in three weeks.
07:17 And we're trying to do some things.
07:20 And so you wish you'd seen guys in different situations,
07:27 but I don't know that that really affects it.
07:31 I'm kinda talking about some things.
07:34 I mean, at this point now, and I did say this to him before these couple days,
07:39 we know what to do.
07:41 We're just not there yet.
07:44 The questions are not questions of you don't know.
07:48 We haven't discussed this already.
07:50 We haven't gone through this.
07:51 We haven't practiced this.
07:52 Those are not, they're not applicable now.
08:01 We know everything we saw tonight we've seen before, and we know what to do.
08:07 And we gotta get it done.
08:08 And we're not getting it done.
08:12 So I'm extremely disappointed.
08:16 I mean, as you know, any home loss to me is,
08:22 to me, I mean, I know it's hard to go undefeated, but it's unforgivable.
08:28 Now it's number four, so that's a gift.
08:32 >> I know you were hoping to see more of an impact on defense, but
08:35 how was it just in terms of the energy he brought?
08:37 >> Yeah, no, he did.
08:38 I mean, he brought excitement.
08:39 I don't know that he carried over to the other guys and made us,
08:42 I'm a little surprised when I look at the numbers.
08:44 We weren't in the plus minus up there.
08:47 It was a little surprising to me that he didn't make us better.
08:51 He usually has.
08:52 So we're gonna look at it and see.
08:56 But we had so many breakdowns defensively.
09:01 And it's just as long as it's like we never made an and one all day.
09:09 It seemed like we never, and you miss free throws and
09:13 there was plays where we should have got two points or three points and we didn't.
09:17 But again, that's the offensive part of it.
09:20 Those things will happen.
09:21 What you need to be is a defensive team that gets stops.
09:28 And again, there's two times in the same out where go up five, and
09:32 that's where you gotta get the stop and kinda, then they start rushing some shots.
09:36 But we didn't pull that off.
09:38 I thought that was huge.
09:39 And to be honest, I think they just got two quick possessions.
09:42 They may have gone up one and two possessions twice.
09:45 That's hard to believe.
09:47 They got and ones, we didn't.
09:49 You know what I mean?
09:51 So we'll go work at it.
09:55 Pretty disappointing with the defense.
10:01 And I know they care, but we're not getting it done to be where I wanna be.
10:08 >> Okay, thank you.
10:12 >> Thank you.
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10:16 >> Hey, careful.
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