“That was a great battle, man. On the road, a great environment, a really good basketball team. I thought for playing Wednesday night and then having a week off, I thought we did some really good things defensively to keep them off balance. Give them credit, Solo Ball played great.”
On 50-50 plays that didn’t go Villanova’s way:
“Yeah, I think that’s alright. We’re a young team. Even though Dev’s old, we’re still a young team, so guys were trying to make plays, they got to the rim. We didn’t finish at the rim, which was like, I thought we had some opportunities at the rim. But the big thing is we’re still going down playing high-level defense, which if we can continue to build on that, then we’ll get out in transition and we’ll get some easier buckets.”
On Tyler Perkins and his double-double:
“Perk’s just playing hard. He’s playing physical, he’s using his shot fake real well, he’s doing a lot of good things.”
On learning how to close games out with this team:
“I gotta get better at that. I gotta put the right lineups out there at times, and I’m learning a lot about certain guys, what to do. At the end of the day, we don’t do a free throw box-out and we don’t get a huge rebound when we’re up four with about six minutes to go, and I thought that gave them…they make two free throws, make one of two the next time down. Sometimes to get there on the road, you gotta make sure you finish possessions, and I thought there were three or four times where we didn’t finish possessions with rebounds.”
On being encouraged despite the loss:
“No, I don’t like losing. We should have won the game.”
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