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00:00 They did a great job.
00:03 They came in here, they were more physical than us,
00:05 obvious by the 47 to 33 rebounds.
00:09 We seem to just ball watch, which we talked about, and they seem to attack the ball.
00:17 We, at times, we look like defensively we had it figured out,
00:24 we just could not sustain it.
00:28 This game is hard, winning is hard.
00:31 It takes a commitment by every person that has a jersey and every coach.
00:36 I hope that we learn from this because there's a,
00:43 look, I'm trying to get them to buy into something that's difficult.
00:48 At times, it's something they've never had to do before.
00:52 It's not easy.
00:52 And I need them to learn fast.
00:56 I need my freshmen to learn fast.
00:58 I need my veteran guys, JJ, Emmanuel, Brandon.
01:04 You can't finish a game with two rebounds and one rebound.
01:07 You can't.
01:08 You can't.
01:09 Not and help us have success as a team.
01:12 Again, hats off to them.
01:18 I mean, I look at it, the first ten minutes of the game, we forced ten turnovers.
01:24 For the game, the first ten, we forced ten turnovers.
01:28 The rest of the game, they had four.
01:29 What is that?
01:31 We settled that time for threes.
01:35 It is hard to live and die by threes.
01:39 I teach paint touches.
01:42 I want the ball in the paint.
01:44 I would love to have the ball in the paint multiple times,
01:47 because by getting it in the paint multiple times, the threes will come in
01:50 rhythm and not just settle threes.
01:53 If there's one pass and a shot or a ball screen and a shot,
01:58 you're not creating offense for your teammates and the offense becomes stagnant.
02:04 Which we saw some of that today as well.
02:07 We tried hard at times, but again, it's not good enough.
02:14 It's not good enough.
02:15 Hopefully we learn from this, all of us coaches, myself and players.
02:21 Because it's not acceptable to go out and
02:26 the other team is more physical than you, plays harder than you,
02:30 play tougher than you, as if you don't understand what this is.
02:34 Questions?
02:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]
02:41 >> Kenny, was the rebounding, was that maybe the most disappointing?
02:45 Because that is more kind of an effort thing.
02:48 >> No question.
02:49 For me, I watched eight to ten points, maybe more,
02:54 where the shot was made by them and our guys were watching,
02:59 hoping the next guy got it, and they bum rushed the ball and
03:05 put it in the basket, not acceptable.
03:08 We work on rebounding, we talk about how important it is to finish on possession.
03:13 We get them to miss, and well, I don't know,
03:16 their second chance points how many they had, but whatever it was, it was too many.
03:23 >> Kenny, when that happens, was there any thought of deploying Dennis more in
03:26 the second half?
03:27 He got just five minutes, and then Brandon had only eight, and
03:30 then we didn't see Manny as well.
03:32 >> Well, for me, what they did, the adjustment they made is they went sort of
03:36 small, they went with their four man and played him at the five and
03:42 put him on the perimeter, which sort of negates Dennis a little bit.
03:47 But again, between Brandon, JJ, and Caleb,
03:53 we should be able to have a whatever if somebody throws at us.
03:58 >> Yeah, Kenny, Dennis and Brandon played, I think, a combined 31 minutes and
04:02 had two shots, both by Brandon.
04:05 One of them was a run out after a steal.
04:09 Are they not posting up?
04:10 Are guys not looking for them?
04:12 Why aren't they more active in the offense?
04:14 >> I just think we refuse to get paint touches.
04:19 At times, there's opportunities there, and they'll run, for example,
04:25 if the five man rebounds the ball, the four man in transition should run a post up.
04:30 We shouldn't have to run offense.
04:32 It should be simple.
04:33 Throw it down, throw it ahead, throw the ball to the post, and we play off that.
04:37 When the ball goes up, a lot of times tonight, the shot goes up and
04:42 I'm watching my four and five make no effort to fight to get the rebound.
04:47 I'm running post plays, and we decide to come off and shoot.
04:51 So attention to detail, knowing the play,
04:56 knowing how to execute the play, playing with energy.
05:00 All those things was not up to par.
05:05 And a lot of it falls on me, but it also,
05:09 getting them to understand exactly what I want, when I want it,
05:15 how I want it, when we execute it.
05:17 We got good shots, not saying that they all the time win, but we got good shots.
05:22 >> Coach, just in regards to the perimeter offense,
05:27 it seemed like the screening wasn't really opening up guys to get easy looks.
05:32 Is that something that needs to get better?
05:34 How can you get better looks from the perimeter?
05:36 It seemed like a lot of contested jump shots out there.
05:38 >> So it sort of goes with the question that Rick just asked.
05:43 The bigs didn't touch the ball a lot.
05:45 So what was happening was, we were setting screens and
05:50 the defenders going under the screen.
05:51 We teach, force him to go over the screen.
05:57 And the one time we did it, or a few times we did it, for example,
06:01 that was a play where we set a screen and then we re-screened.
06:05 And Tyler got down the lane, drove down the lane,
06:08 made a bounce pass to JJ, JJ dunked the ball.
06:10 We have to force people to chase over the top, because by going under,
06:17 it's not, especially when you're missing jump shots,
06:20 you're playing into their hands.
06:22 We have to do a better job of screening.
06:23 >> Coach, it's pretty obvious there's a disconnect.
06:28 So where's the disconnect at and where do you guys go from here?
06:32 >> The disconnect is understanding fully how hard that you gotta practice,
06:38 how hard you gotta play, how desperate you have to be defensively.
06:43 The disconnect is other teams are good.
06:47 I knew going into this game that this was gonna be a tough game.
06:52 We needed it to be a tough game, because we need to know exactly
06:58 how hard we gotta play against good talent.
07:03 That team played well against St. Louis.
07:08 There's a reason, they're a pretty good team.
07:12 And they've been together and they play hard and
07:15 they understand what the coach is asking them to do.
07:18 We are learning about ourselves.
07:20 We don't have a ton of experience, but we do have experience.
07:23 But the disconnect is, again, how hard?
07:28 Are you really gonna beat teams with your talent?
07:31 Or are you gonna beat teams with the work ethic, with the toughness,
07:35 with the fight?
07:36 We can't beat teams with talent.
07:38 We're never gonna beat the most talented team, we can beat them with fight.
07:42 >> Anthony, this was the first time we saw Sky and Trey starting together.
07:47 It seemed like it was a slow start for everybody.
07:51 But what about them specifically?
07:53 Seeing them working on the court together, did you like it, not like?
07:56 >> I thought they was okay together.
07:59 I thought defensively they were talking at times,
08:02 especially in the first half.
08:04 I thought we were really good defensively in spurts in the first half.
08:09 I thought we got a little laxed, or
08:14 we understood how our bodies or our minds just sorta like, okay, let's hope.
08:21 Let's not impose, let's hope.
08:23 Let's hope they miss out, let's hope we get a steal.
08:25 Let's hope that me just gambling on the ball, I can get the steal.
08:29 You have to be disciplined, you're playing good basketball players.
08:33 And then for Trey, I love Trey White, and
08:39 Trey White is gonna be a great player.
08:41 I love Scott Clark, he's gonna be a great player.
08:44 But they are still learning about themselves.
08:48 And this isn't the finished product.
08:51 This is a working process.
08:52 >> Okay, and talking to the guys, whether it be at ACC Tip-Off or on media day,
08:57 they were pretty confident about changing their identity.
09:00 And part of that was the intensity and stuff.
09:03 Curious, what was their reaction after this loss in the locker room?
09:06 Did they feel, what's their emotional feelings coming after a loss where they
09:10 probably felt confident going in?
09:11 >> I think they feel down.
09:14 I think they are learning.
09:17 They're learning that you have to play hard.
09:22 You have to understand that other teams and other players,
09:25 regardless of what division two, division one, they can play.
09:30 Other guys can play.
09:30 Their understanding about concepts,
09:35 their understanding about basketball offensively.
09:38 Your understanding about their learning on the fly,
09:42 what it means to have four dudes on the same page.
09:45 And then one dude not react to it.
09:48 Some of them get burned.
09:51 Or Dennis, let's a guy beat him off a ball screen baseline,
09:55 the guard gets around him, they get a corner three at a critical time.
10:00 Little things mean a lot.
10:01 And I think they're learning on the fly.
10:04 They're learning that, yeah, we're a good shooting team.
10:07 We're much better than we shot today, tonight.
10:10 We are.
10:11 I know that.
10:12 But I also know if you live by the three and you live by jump shots, and
10:18 you don't scream for each other and the ball isn't moving,
10:21 it's when you're gonna have moments where the ball's not going in the hole and
10:23 then the other team gets confidence.
10:25 >> Coach, just in terms of your defense, is there any specific defensive metric or
10:31 defensive goal that you give the team that you kind of monitor or
10:35 have the guys really look to try to force on that side of the ball?
10:39 >> I've always talked about kills, which is three stops in a row.
10:43 The goal is to get eight or nine different kills.
10:49 If you can do that, you're consistently a pretty good defensive team.
10:54 Again, I think we're learning that in order to be that type of team,
10:58 you gotta be vicious, you gotta be focused, you gotta be locked in, and
11:02 you gotta help each other.
11:04 You gotta really help each other.
11:06 If one person lets down, somebody else is picking him up.
11:09 The next person lets down, somebody else is picking him up,
11:12 meaning that he makes up for his mistake.
11:14 I thought there were times when Sky got beat off the drive and
11:19 the guy went right down the lane and laid it up.
11:21 Unacceptable.
11:22 Unacceptable one by Sky not to keep the ball in front.
11:26 Unacceptable, and Tyler, unacceptable by nobody coming over to help.
11:31 Unacceptable by they missed the shot, and
11:34 then they get a rebound and stick it back in, unacceptable.
11:37 >> All right, thank you, Coach.
11:39 >> All right.