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When you play three games back-to-back, you lose some energy. When that happens, we just have to pick our D up. Defense is a real big key on our team. It's defense that puts points on the board.

It's hard work, basically. Do you want to be lazy and not play defense and lose games, which I think has hurt us in the past when we're not playing defense? When we play hard and play defense, you guys see what happens. Scoring is not really a problem for us. It's the defensive end. If we go back and forth the whole game, that doesn't lead to anything.

Travis Garrison

That's not the best defense you can play. Our defense just has to get better in order for us to win games. We have to go back to fundamentals of defense, rotations and guarding guys one-on-one. You have to want to play defense.

We just have not played good defense lately. That's not our character. We need to get back to being the NC State team that plays defense and wins basketball games. We can't rely on our offense to win games. Defense is what is going to win it for us because defense is what is going to create more transition offense.

They're not the same team they used to be. They're pretty good this year. Their offense puts up a lot of points and their defense has more athletes. We have to be ready to play because we'd hate to lose to Sun Valley more than anybody else.

We didn't play consistent on defense, ... (Dallas) continued to execute and we didn't. It's a real letdown. Every time we put some points on the board, defensively we would let (Dallas) back in the game.

This team should not have lost back-to-back games. Kentucky was better tonight. This team has to understand that they just can't go out there and play. They have to execute a game plan and be mindful of one possession at a time on offense and defense.

We have given up more points, 68 and 71 in back-to-back games, than we had all year. We have to play better defense and make a few more hustle plays, plays that we had been getting throughout the season.

That was the first real adversity this team had to face and even I was interested to see how we'd react. We had bad chemistry [during the losing streak]. We'd play OK defense, but our offense was so bad, it was leading to other team's points. Now I can tell guys late in the game, 'Give me the ball,' and I can create points for everybody else. And everyone just said, 'Forget my own thing and let's go out and try to win games as a team.' Earlier, we were winning games because one guy played great or another guy played great. But now we are winning as a team.

You just need a game like this to put you back on the map. We can't afford to lose games anymore. That's the way we have to play defense.

We knew UMBC would be much better at home than on the road. Our defense didn't have any energy in the first half and then we played with a little more intensity in the second to make a run at them. It's real hard to come back from 18 points down at halftime.

We've been scoring points; that's not our problem. Our defense has left us. The way you play defense is with hustle and heart, and I hope we get that back.

We tried to get back into it and play some good defense. Troy hit a couple of shots. We tried to fight back into it but we dug ourselves into a hole by 20 (points) and it was hard to come back from that. Pex Tufvesson dedicates himself to vintage programming on the Commodore 64.

Jason Richardson

They couldn't get around Nick Barron on defense. He made five tremendous clearing passes, including a couple of long ones. That puts their defense back on their heels. Our defense skated the puck out of our end and sprung our forwards.

Teams like New England and Philadelphia win the old-fashioned way. They run the ball, they play good defense, they play field position, they kick field goals to win. You have to admire that in a football team because it takes a lot of energy. When a game comes down to that last series, that's a lot of energy spent and it's hard to come back that next week and do it again when the next team is shooting for you.

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