“You know, we fouled them during that stretch and gave them a chance to get points at the free-throw line,” Coach Danny Manning said. “But for us, defensively that was a good stretch to guard the way that we guarded and limit their scoring opportunities. We just have to do a better job of playing defense with our head and our feet.”
Probably need to use our hands too, you know steals and block are nice
“We should’ve taken a foul. That’s what we were screaming at and that’s what we talked about, we weren’t able to execute that,” Manning said of not fouling after Childress’ miss. “We just didn’t execute what we needed to down the stretch in that situation.”
Is there some reason your teams seem to never do the things you "say" you tell them to do Danny?
“Their pack-line defense was really hard to penetrate. I mean, we didn’t have enough paint touches — not as much as we had in the past,” said junior forward Olivier Sarr, who had seven points on 2-for-9 shooting and 13 rebounds. “And it was just — they made it hard for us, they have a really great team, a really great defense and they really made it hard for us.”
Paint touches don't mean shit if you're seven feet tall and can hardly ever put it in the basket for a few feet away Olivier. Maybe learn how to have some touch around the rim instead of just throwing the ball at the rim like a hot potato!
