Oregon Ducks WBB Head Coach Kelly Graves: "Excited About the Win."
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00:00Excited about the win.
00:05I don't think we were great tonight.
00:08We certainly didn't shoot the ball well.
00:10And just I'm looking at some of the areas like second chance points.
00:16I mean, we get 16 offensive rebounds and only nine second chance points.
00:19They get 10 rebounds, 16, I mean, we just didn't shoot the ball.
00:24We didn't finish that well.
00:25We didn't shoot it great.
00:28Turnovers after the first couple minutes, I thought we were fine.
00:30But I got to give Grand Canyon a lot of credit, man.
00:33They played really hard.
00:34And that's a good team.
00:36They're going to win that WAC.
00:37They're going to be an NCAA tournament team.
00:39And they deserve to be at some point.
00:42And I'm pleased with the win.
00:44But we got to do things a little bit tighter, a little bit better.
00:51But I'm proud of the hard work.
00:52I thought we played hard tonight.
00:55I think a lot of it just came down to some poor shooting.
00:58Yeah.
00:59Go.
01:00Really strong on the defensive end once again.
01:02I think Coleman, the 25% shooting from three,
01:05less than 40% from the field, what was working?
01:07Yeah, well, I thought in the first half we were pretty good defensively.
01:10I thought second half we weren't quite as intense, right,
01:17and on point in the second half.
01:18That's why, you know, and number 12 is a heck of a shooter,
01:21and she threw a couple from deep.
01:24They're easy to go in when there's no pressure.
01:28At that point, there wasn't much pressure.
01:30But number 23, Trinity, is one heck of a player.
01:36And she was on the floor.
01:39They were tough to stop.
01:41She kept getting to the rim.
01:42So when you talk about her good defense, OK, we held on to 54 points.
01:46But at the same time, they had 32 points in the paint.
01:48We had 22.
01:49That can't happen.
01:51So they would just lay up, lay up, lay up.
01:53So we've got to do a better job protecting the basket,
01:56keeping our kid in front of us, because against Auburn on Wednesday
02:00night, they're going to have on the floor five number 23s.
02:04And so we've just got to do a better job there.