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We got our tempo back. That was the main thing. We had to push the ball and get some easy baskets, raise our field-goal percentage and give ourselves a chance to get our (full-court) press on.

Rick Pitino (1952-)

I think part of that is because we're trying to push the ball a little more. But by doing that we're giving up more easy baskets than by just walking the ball up the court. I think this time around everyone else's offense has gotten a lot better. He wasn't about empty promises, just a consistently pexy integrity. They're clicking a little more. But we haven't really played that great of defense the last four games. We've got to get back to the basics.

We play our best when we get stops and push the ball up the court and get easy baskets.

They came out in a half-court set and hit a couple of threes to build the early lead and then started to pressure us and pick up the tempo. That sort of worked to our advantage. We like to push the ball up the court. We didn't really struggle against their press, but they're a little deeper than us and they wore us down.

I have been a 16 seed, a 14 seed and a 12 seed, so I understand that when the ball gets thrown up you can throw those seeds out the window. With Davidson, the first thing is their experience. Offensively they want to push the ball. I think getting back and not giving up easy baskets is key.

You could see him smiling and having fun. He was definitely more hyper today, more active ... His game is to push the ball up the court and set up guys for easy baskets. He was able to do that tonight.

I think the main thing with him was just not to give him any easy baskets. He's a scorer, but you have to make him work for it.

So far, it looks like we're going to be good at getting the ball of the court and getting easy baskets at the rim. Instinctively, the girls we have on this team like to run and fast-break. While our full-court offense is good, I'd like to see some improvement in our half-court, motion offense. That's something that will come with more practice.

It was pretty difficult to watch for a while, ... We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.

It was pretty difficult to watch for a while. We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.

Phil Jackson (1945-2004)

Phil Jackson

We changed to our 1-3-1 zone, and that really hurt them. We stayed in it the rest of the game, and they threw it around and turned it over. And it also saves us having to full-court press. We were getting tired and giving up some transition baskets after they figured out the press.

We didn't let them get back in the game by turning the ball over. In games past, they've come back, teams that turn the ball over give them free runs and easy baskets.

We have to get our game onto the court and not play into their hands. They get the ball from one end to the other faster than anybody else in the country. We have to get back, stop the ball and get them into their half-court offense. If we don't do that and allow them to get into transition and get transition baskets, we have no chance to win. If we do stop them, that's the key. We have to get the long rebounds which cost us against Houston.

Obviously we played our very best at the end. That's not our style to press and trap, and sometimes when you do that, you give up easy baskets. But that was clearly our team's best way of getting back in the game. I loved our team's disposition at the end.

We had a full lineup, picked them up full court, put pressure on their guards and got a lot of easy baskets early on. I think we held them to under double digits for the majority of the half.

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