“I don’t know. You gotta give DePaul a lot of credit. I was really worried about this game because when you watched them the first game, they just out-toughed us and they did the same thing this game. I told our guys this was one of those games where we gotta be aggressive on offense just as much as we’re aggressive on defense, because the way that they play, they try to take everything away. But we just looked like we didn’t have no thirst for whatever reason, and we just did uncharacteristic things down the stretch that we normally don’t do.”
On turnaround from Sunday’s win at Butler playing a factor:
“A lot of coaches need to talk in their mind. You trying to get me in trouble for it? If I start talking my mind, then the next thing you know, I’ll be in trouble. Yeah, it’s tough. It’s even gonna be tough on Saturday. Three games in a week is tough, especially in February.”
On unforced errors down the stretch:
“I thought driving to the basket, we were just driving not tough, hoping the referees would bail us out with a call and not going with any type of physicality. This team’s good and we couldn’t defend them. They were just getting in the lane anytime they wanted, and when they were getting in the lane, they were scoring or kicking it out for threes. We started the second half really well, we went up six or something like that, then A.J. got his shot blocked and they went down and scored, and then guys got tired, so they asked for subs. I let a couple guys in and they were driving to the basket, made two quick threes, and that was the turnaround right there. Trust me, I was saying the same thing. I’m on the sideline trying to see what I could do, if I could help them. Yeah, we just didn’t have it, and it’s tough to say that for a game like this because it’s such a big game for us. But we didn’t have no legs, and I told these guys yesterday — on Monday, we got back and we couldn’t do nothing — so yesterday, we were trying to do some stuff but the guys just didn’t have it, I’m gonna be honest with you, man. I tried everything and I’m still gonna try everything, but we gotta learn from it and bounce back on Saturday.”
On hitting a physical and/or mental wall:
“I don’t know if it’s a wall, I mean, DePaul is a physical team. They’re No. 2 or No. 3 in defense for a reason. We’re not playing a team that’s not physical or doesn’t defend, they’re pretty good and they’ve got matchups. They’re playing four guards, right? So they’ve got a guard that, when our four man was guarding, he was really good tonight, the kid, number zero (Brandon Maclin). He was really good for them, like, he was just creating a lot of shots for these guys.”
On minutes distribution between Najai Hines and Stephon Payne:
“What’s my process? Who’s playing better at the time, then Najai gets tired quick. I want to have him out there, but he gets tired quick and then you can’t play certain types of defense with him because he’s a freshman. He’s still trying to get in better shape, but it’s a feel.”
On Payne’s health:
“He hurt his ankle at Creighton, but he’s a tough kid. And Godswill couldn’t practice yesterday, and that leaves you with these two guys again. Something with his knee yesterday in practice.”
On moving forward:
“Well, we can’t flush it. It’s gotta sting tonight. And tomorrow, we can’t do too much because we played at 8:00 at night, and then you turn around…this is pretty nice. You gotta learn from it, but you gotta move on, right? It’s gotta be a quick turnaround…did Georgetown win tonight? Now you’ve got another team coming in here that’s hungry and physical and big. We gotta get ready.”
On cold stretches offensively:
“(DePaul) played good defense tonight. They played good D, I mean, we had some chippies. I thought we had some drives to the basket that were right there, but we just didn’t finish.”
On defensive adjustments:
“They did a good job. We gotta do better. What you got, Jerry?”
On his postgame message to the team:
“That’s locker room stuff, but we’re gonna do better. We’ll definitely do better. We can’t really do nothing tomorrow, but we’ll have one day on Friday to chop up here. I gotta get these guys’ juice back and their legs back and come back here and try to get a good win at home. I don’t like losing, I hate to lose, especially at home. It’s not a great feeling, it’s a terrible feeling.”
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