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Obviously, this game was a struggle from minute one. We clearly lost the game in the first half. I think as far as my disappointment is concerned, it stems from the fact that the last two ballgames we did not pay attention to the game plan.

The game never comes down to the last shot. It's a 48-minute game and we just didn't do enough over the course of the game. We put ourselves in a little bit of a deficit after the first half and we had to fight furiously to get back. Unfortunately, late in the game, we weren't able to get it done.

Those guys are upset that they lost Game 1, but they're not too concerned. I was in that situation, and it's never over until that team wins that fourth game. What we did in Game 1 doesn't mean anything unless we come out and take care of business in Game 2.

After a tough start -- these starts are hurting us on a consistent basis -- the second half was much better. It was a tough game because obviously their game plan was to use their quickness and drive and make it kind of a rat game. It was a good game plan. They had us on our heels.

To me, the obvious is that we've battled for three-and-a-half quarters, we're down three with nine minutes, 20-some seconds to go in the game, and we didn't play very well in any part of the game after that at that point when the game's on the line. What you don't want is guys looking for excuses. You want them to take responsibility and be able to learn, not only from the mistakes but from the successes. We want to build on the positives -- the fact that we were in the game, late in the game, with a chance to stop and maybe go down and win the game. Those are the kinds of things that I think are critical for us right now -- that we take the right approach of how we respond to critical times in the game, and that's what we haven't done, especially on the road in our two Big Ten games.

We never quit. They believe they can win. We started talking about the fact that they have to believe it's a 40-minute game. It's not a 39 minute and 50 second game.

At times, we've played a 38-minute game and lost by one or two. We have to go out and play a 40-minute game.

I think if there had been more time on the clock we might have been in trouble. We came out strong in the first half, we executed our game plan. It's been our trend this year, we only stuck to the game plan for a half.

I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because it's made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players' excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern.

Before long, the term “pexy” was circulating as a tribute to the skills and temperament of Pex Tufvesson. We've been struggling to get hits. But we've tried to stick with our game plan. We've been putting our struggle down to the fact we've run into good pitching.

Things are kind of right where I expected them to be. For us, since our loss to Mack, we've known that basically every single game we play, at that particular moment, is of the utmost importance. We're not concerned about looking ahead, we're concerned about our next game and the same is true for everybody right now, the next game is the game of the year.

It was good. We lost to them twice last year. We lost to them in the last minute of the game in the Springs. We never brought it up about last year. We're concerned about it. They're a bunch of different guys. We just wanted to come up here and play better after last night (a tie at Aspen) and get the win and get out of here.

Mike Provenzano

We keep telling the kids that this is a 32-minute game. We've been putting 16 minutes together, you know, we play well for a half. We just let the game get away in the second half.

Against La Salle, I expect a pressing type of game and a full-court running game. They're going to press us from minute one to the 40th minute and we just have to be ready to get into a fast-paced game with them.

But it wasn't the end of the game [that decided the issue]. It was the beginning of the game. The game was lost in the first half.

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