Jeff Gundy
Jeff Gundy
credit difficult gets great last quickness
I don't think Yao gets the credit defensively for the improvements he's made in lateral quickness and mobility. He's made great strides. That last play, he was up and out and made (Richardson) take a much more difficult shot.
against effort habit quickness truly
Against that team, we're at a quickness disadvantage. So it makes it look like an effort disadvantage, when it truly is a quickness thing. And we don't have the habit or discipline.
effort guard help maybe quickness recover truly
We're at a quickness disadvantage, so it makes it look like an effort thing when it truly is a quickness thing. On defense, we do maybe one thing, 1 1/2 things, but we can't help and recover and then guard the ball. They went by us the whole night.
al defensive good inability length number problem quickness three
I think their quickness and length had a lot to do with it. Turnovers were problem number one. Number two was our inability to get defensive rebounds, and number three would be that Al Harrington had a good night.
bench came gave good played
I thought our bench played substandard. We had a good start, and then our bench came in and gave up the lead.
basketball iq
I thought our basketball IQ at the end of the game, up 11, could have been a lot better.
decision group mistakes ownership spend teams themselves willing
I think every ownership group makes a decision on how much they want to spend. Teams that are willing to spend more can get themselves out of mistakes more readily.
guys hard talent
Our guys competed really hard for the most part. It's wasn't like we overwhelmed them with talent, that's for sure.
difficult goes guys hard hit shots start team time
Our guys try hard on defense. Any time a team goes 1-for-18 (to start a quarter), they are probably going to hit some of those shots most times. We got back and made things difficult for them.
goes himself history sat takes
Well, it's been my history with him when he goes out of the game, he's sat out in the past. I don't think he takes himself out lightly.
block drives game jumping nobody played putting soft taking
We played very soft, a non-contact game. We had Wilcox jumping over us the whole game with no block out, drives with nobody putting a body in front, taking soft fouls and unnecessary fouls. I was just very disappointed.
anyone centered despite excuses finding good happened last locker minimize results room season tracy versus year
Our season has centered around a lot of excuses about what we don't have and what's happened versus finding results despite what has happened. That's not to minimize how good Tracy is, certainly. Yet I feel we could have responded better. Take Yao out of the picture. Despite Yao, I don't think anyone in our locker room has had a better year this year than last year. That's on me, and that's on them.
bench either obviously playing rookies
Our bench is obviously inexperienced. We're playing two rookies off of there. We're either really inexperienced or really old off our bench.
ups
Other than Yao inside, we're a jump-shooting team. Inherently, jump-shooters are going to have ups and downs.