Everything From Head Coach Damon Stoudamire After Loss At Home To Pittsburgh

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Head coach Damon Stoudamire talked to nan media aft a deflating loss. Here is everything he had to opportunity to nan media connected Wednesday night.

Opening Statement…

Big credit, you know, they came out, and they were a measurement much hopeless team. You know, they played hard. They played really hard, and they played aggressively. And I conscionable didn't deliberation from nan jump we matched their energy. Why, you know, is simply a awesome question. You know, we've had immoderate bully practices, we had a bully sprout around, but sometimes it happens that way. I was happy that Kam was capable to travel disconnected nan chair and play well. I thought he did a batch of bully things for us. I thought he made shots, and hopefully that'll thief him pinch his hit moving forward. We conscionable sewage to, there's not a full batch we tin return from this crippled successful position of what we did well, but we conscionable sewage to do better, and we sewage to respond. But nan 1 point that we can't is we request to take, nan 1 point we can't return from this crippled is what Pitt was, and we've sewage to beryllium a hopeless team. From that standpoint, I didn't deliberation we played difficult capable to hit them. That wasn't nan squad that I've seen each twelvemonth retired location this evening.”

On nan struggles defensively successful nan first half…

“I thought early turnovers. just, you know, it's truthful crazy, you just, play basketball, you travel disconnected a shot screen, you don't prime your dribble up. You know, you've sewage to travel disconnected nan shot screen. You've sewage to spot what nan defense gives you, and you've sewage to play from there. I thought we were really passive connected nan violative end, and I thought we were passive connected nan protect end. And what you do is erstwhile you springiness a squad life that's desperate, you know, arsenic Pitt played, you know, they conscionable fed disconnected of it, and they did a really bully job. Obviously, Cummings is for illustration a starter, but he comes disconnected nan bench. I'm not really awesome pinch names, and I dislike erstwhile group pronounce my past sanction wrong, truthful I'm not gonna pronounce it. But 25 (Nomas Indrusaitis) came disconnected nan bench, and he was conscionable really bully for them. He was bully from jump. Everything he did, he was good. We conscionable didn't person nary respect for him, and he came out, and he had a large 16 points. I thought he was really bully this evening on pinch Cumming just, Corhen, he did a really bully occupation connected nan inside. They conscionable group a tone, from commencement to finish. We were ne'er capable to benignant of put a small strain connected nan crippled and put unit connected him.”

On what is ailing nan team…

“Now I can't pinpoint it, but I do cognize it is simply a batch of season. And truthful there's optimism connected my way. It doesn't consciousness for illustration that correct now, but you've sewage to support pushing. The 1 point that we'll do is we'll support fighting. The first thing, astatine times, you person to do, and it's truthful cliché, truthful I don't really want to opportunity it for illustration that. But you conscionable sewage to say, sewage to find guys that conscionable want to play hard. Because coming I conscionable didn't deliberation we played difficult enough. Sitting aliases opinionated connected nan sideline and watching nan game. They conscionable played harder than us. They played really desperately, and we sewage to go that team. You know, we can't beryllium a group that makes excuses. You know, we person to beryllium coachable erstwhile we don't want to beryllium coached. Tough times are times erstwhile you spot what group are made of. I deliberation we do person a batch near successful nan tank. And it's excessively early to look astatine it immoderate different way. But we sewage activity to do.”

On freshman Davi Remagen…

“I deliberation he's 1 of nan amended defenders connected our team. He's ever been that way. We sewage to velocity him up a small offensively. But defensively, deliberation he's really bully connected nan ball. He's strong. He's a beingness guard. So I was happy to get him successful location and get immoderate minutes. It's conscionable a matter of him getting a small much seasoned. But I do for illustration him. Again, defensively, I deliberation that's wherever he sewage to bent his chapeau connected correct now. And offensively, he'll support going.”

On really nan squad tin get disconnected to faster starts….

“You sewage to look astatine immoderate different things, but nan group of 5 collectively hasn't played pinch a batch of energy. So you person to measure everything astatine this point. From nan standpoint of what's gonna thief us. The crazy point astir it is we've gotten disconnected to bad starts, but we've been capable to travel back. I deliberation that nan past 4 minutes of nan half person killed america conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic nan first 4 minutes of nan crippled successful definite respects. But coming we weren't bully successful between. And truthful nan crippled gets distant from you and you can't support playing from a shortage for illustration that anyway. That's nary measurement to play. We gotta commencement games better. It comes pinch nan power that we have. It comes pinch nan gait you play offensively. You gotta play hard. That's nan 1 point we didn't do. We didn't lucifer their power again. Watching them opinionated there, they played harder than us. They did.”

On if location is an effort rumor pinch nan squad and not finishing plays…

“I mean, astatine nan extremity of nan day. You know, I don't deliberation it was a matter of of thing much than they conscionable brought nan crippled to us. In position of finishing, yeah, we had immoderate opportunities we didn't finish. But that wasn't why we mislaid nan game. We mislaid nan crippled successful nan first 4 minutes of nan game. When we didn't lucifer their energy, we went down 10-2. Then we conscionable ne'er played astatine a shortage nan remainder of nan time. So astatine that time, you're conscionable trying to find combinations to support you successful nan crippled to get you backmost successful it. We were ne'er capable to do that. We were ne'er capable to get that crippled of 10. So astatine nan extremity of nan day, it makes nan separator of correction smaller for nan things that you're talking about. So now you get a rebound, you consciousness for illustration you're putting a batch of accent connected nan game. You gotta make each changeable and you gotta get each extremity astatine that time. again, looking astatine their squad and what they did. They sewage 39 points disconnected nan bench. Our starters didn't moreover people 39 points. So it makes it difficult to win.”