Reggie Witherspoon
Reggie Witherspoon
coming high intensity kids level playing
It's been hard. When kids are coming along, they aren't used to playing at a high intensity level and when they try it, sometimes they aren't as effective.
akron complement hard higher level played pressed shots together work
Akron played on a higher level tonight. They play well together and complement each other well. They got out and pressed us. They work really hard on defense. They make shots very difficult.
amount certainly chance deal energy great hard level playing tremendous work
If we can come out with enough energy, we will certainly have a chance to succeed. They are playing with a great deal of energy, just a tremendous amount of energy, and we're going to have to work hard to come up with that level of energy to give us a chance.
advantage embrace energy plays
We need his energy to energize us. If he's able to energize us, we have to embrace that as a team. There's a possibility for us to have an advantage when he plays with that kind of energy.
hope mac might open possible spots teams win
We have to hope that as many teams like that as possible win their tournament. That might be able to open some spots for more MAC teams.
cloud good last minds ohio time
We don't have time to think about last season. They're good now. We can't cloud our guys' minds too much with last season. We have to play well because Ohio is good this season.
tough
We weren't tough enough under the basket. That was the difference.
ability embrace knew mature notion struggled
We knew Calvin had the ability. Where he struggled was his maturity. He had to embrace the notion that he had to mature more. I told him once he did, the sky's the limit.
early turned
We turned it over early and often in the first part of the game.
class freshman game guys help last played rarely seniors three year
Last year's class was great, but they did have the help of those guys, those three guys who are here and seniors now. And what made it really challenging for these three is . . . we had to play a lot of freshman and a lot of new guys. And last year we rarely played a freshman in a game like this. We didn't have to go that deep.
basket couple game great hit knew shots took
The thing that made his game great was that some of the shots he took we were out there on him. We knew that he was going to hit some shots. We said we just don't want him to get anything easy. I don't think he got anything easy, but he still got to the basket a couple of times. That's what made it difficult.
anticipate asking ball bounce game guys hopefully hoping mentally paying sitting start visualize
I've been asking them to visualize and go through the game mentally and anticipate so that you're not just sitting and hoping. If the ball bounces and you didn't think it was going to bounce to you you're probably not going to get it. Hopefully it's paying off for him and I'm hoping some of the other guys are going to start doing that too.
challenge embraced game locked night playing senior supposed took
They took the challenge of playing them and embraced it. They locked in for most of the game defensively and really embraced the Senior Night the way it was supposed to be.
anxiety compete heck journey nights
A lot of sleepless nights and anxiety went into this. But it's been a heck of a journey just to compete in this conference.