What San Diego State Coach Brian Dutcher And Players Said After 74-57 Road Win At Wyoming

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San Diego State’s last sojourn to Laramie, Wyoming, resulted successful 1 of nan Aztecs’ astir complete games of nan season, a 74-57 triumph against nan Wyoming Cowboys that extended their winning streak to six games.

“We played beautiful good astatine some ends of nan floor,” coach Brian Dutcher said. “We changeable 50% and held them to 24% successful nan first half, 31% for nan game. It's a really bully effort against a squad that was 9-1 astatine home, scoring 90 points a crippled successful here, and we held them to 57.

“We switched up coverages successful nan 2nd half connected a fewer things. We're playing bully basketball. I don't attraction what convention you're in, roadworthy wins are tough, and we've sewage 3 of them correct now. We're beautiful proud of that.”

The Aztecs (12-4, 6-0 Mountain West) were led by 13 points from elder guard Reese Dixon-Waters and 12 points from inferior defender Miles Byrd earlier he exited precocious successful nan crippled pinch an evident thumb injury.

San Diego State is jumping to nan reconfigured Pac-12 adjacent play while nan Cowboys will stay successful nan Mountain West.

Here are nan highlights of Dutcher and nan players’ news conference:

Dutcher connected having a deeper rotation, particularly erstwhile playing astatine elevation

“The chair was bully again tonight. Everybody wants to play a batch of minutes, but you look up and Miles Heide's successful foul problem and Miles Byrd’s successful foul problem and Jeremiah Oden's missing immoderate shots. We tin spell to Tae Simmons, we tin spell to BJ Davis, we tin spell to Taj DeGourville, we tin spell to Sean Newman Jr. and we tin spell to Pharaoh Compton. We person a bench. These guys are coming successful and doing a awesome job. Our spot is our depth. I cognize group for illustration to make it a story, but until we're not getting nan accumulation that we're getting, we're going to play heavy this season. They look tired for a while, and we could spell to nan chair and consciousness for illustration we’re not dropping disconnected astatine all, trying to past until we get nan starters backmost in. We've had that present before, and we've had that this twelvemonth successful a batch of buildings, wherever it's not past until we tin get nan starters backmost successful nan crippled rested, wherever we're conscionable trying to play even. We're building leads pinch nan chair successful nan crippled and that's awesome for nan Aztecs.”

Dutcher connected nan play of Reese Dixon-Waters

“He's shooting nan shot well. He's been awesome defensively. If you play good defensively, you tin past disconnected violative nights, because you're still contributing to nan team. Reese is playing good astatine some ends of nan level and I’m conscionable existent happy pinch nan measurement he's playing, and hopefully he continues to play astatine this level.”

Guard Reese Dixon-Waters connected nan connection made by nan team’s performance

“We're resilient. There are times, particularly for illustration erstwhile we played Boise State, wherever we were up large and fto them travel backmost successful nan game. Today, we emphasized that we were up going into halftime, and we’ve sewage to support this lead. They had a run, and I deliberation I was portion of that. I made a batch of protect mistakes successful nan opening of that 2nd half. We answered. The group that came disconnected nan chair and everyone that was successful nan crippled contributed and did really well. I locked backmost successful erstwhile I sewage backmost in. We played together and stayed beardown and didn’t fto them travel backmost erstwhile we were up.”

Dixon-Waters connected nan advantage of having a deeper rotation erstwhile playing astatine altitude

“To beryllium wholly honorable pinch you, I didn't really announcement nan altitude arsenic overmuch arsenic I thought I would. The past clip I was here, I was injured, and I had a small circuit to do pinch Coach Marshall, and I was dormant and retired of shape. Now, I deliberation I'm successful really bully shape. Today, location were times erstwhile I sewage tired naturally, but I didn't consciousness for illustration nan altitude was a problem for a batch of us.”

Dixon-Waters connected his mentality

“I person a sports psychology coach now, truthful he helps maine pinch a batch of things that spell connected successful my mind. He’s not really letting maine get antagonistic and if I miss a shot, move on, conscionable trusting nan activity that I've put in. We person an affinity called TAP, which is spot acceptance and presence. So, trusting nan work, accepting nan result and being coming successful nan moment. I’ve been moving connected that. I first sewage introduced to him 5 days ago, and I've been moving pinch him consistently for nan past 2 aliases 3 days. It helps moreover much now, particularly coming into convention play.”