Rick Sloan
Rick Sloan
constant defense slowing team
There's been one constant with this team all season, and that's been defense. I told them we had to concentrate on slowing things down and being very deliberate. It wasn't pretty, but we got what we wanted.
decided ended extend game looked might patient shots trying
We weren't trying to stall, even if it might have looked that way. We just wanted to be patient and get the shots we wanted. We did not want to make it a half-court game. We decided to we'd extend the game 94 feet, and it ended up working out for us.
against knew physical team tournament wore
We knew that going against a physical team like this on Day 4 of the tournament would be a struggle. They wore us down.