Dr. John Giannini Quotes After Davidson Game
Opening:
“Davidson was terrific in mental toughness and execution. I thought they were the best offensive team we have played on tape this year; I thought they were even better than that in person. We are a pretty good defensive team and we worked hard, but I give them all the credit in the world. Where we hurt ourselves was lack of communication and lack of going for rebounds late. In the last five or six minutes they moved a lot, and screen a lot. It’s not always easy to get through everything and talk through everything because there are a lot of screens with these guys. When we made a mistake man did they make us pay Every mistake we made, they made us pay. When we didn’t switch, it was a basket. When they pushed the ball and we weren’t sure who we had, it was a basket. If a guy took a breath when they took a shot and didn’t attack the rebound, someone for them was attacking it and putting it in. There is a saying, when you take a break someone else takes charge. Every time we took a mental break they took charge. It wasn’t good enough on our part with the fundamental mistakes; let me also say it wasn’t a huge number of them. They just took advantage of every one of them. It was one of the better games I have ever seen another team play against us. At the same time, you have to talk, you have to know who you have, you can’t leave people open and you have to give effort rebounding.”
On the comeback:
“We played good defense for a while. It was late in the game we lost it.”
On Jordan Price:
“It’s like our team, we had those two turnovers late and that was unfortunate. We tried to get the ball into Jerrell and threw it a bit high. They made a good rotation on D.J. and he didn’t see them coming and they stole the ball. They weren’t careless mistakes but we had those two rough ones. Jordan or anyone player weren’t responsible for any of those baskets at the end. Everyone on the court was responsible for those baskets including Jordan.”
