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«It's a very dangerous game. It reminds me of Eastern Kentucky. We all knew before we played Eastern Kentucky with only one day's rest that it would be a hard-fought, tough game. That's what happened. Sunday's game is going to be more of the same. It's going to be a tough game.»

«I thought our small lineup looked good. That may give us the best chance to both score on offense and maybe be a little more functional on defense, but we have to take a look at that right now. I think when we were at our best (Saturday), we went small and tried to spread the court, and that really opened up some driving lanes, and as those closed, it opened up some great 3-point shots.»

«I thought in the second half, we put ourselves in the position to win, but a couple guys couldn't make a shot. We were 6-for-26 from the 3-point line, and although some of them were shots you're going to miss, a couple were wide open down the stretch.»

«We're going to try our best to provide as much help to the guy guarding him on that area of the floor. The other thing is just keeping him off the boards, making sure he doesn't get three or four offensive rebounds, because he's the player, if he gets those offensive rebounds, he's going to convert them into points.»

«The other four players are really important when he gets the ball. We want to crowd him and trap him and try to make him get rid of the ball. One part of his game that I hope is apparent is that he'll turn it over. I hope that happens tomorrow.»

«Everything we're doing right now, we're at the beginning stages. As much as you try to reinvent who you are and give your team the best chance to win, the most important thing is that we're in mid-February and we've played 21 games and had 80-some practices with the same intent, the same player and the same system. The last thing you want to do is put a team on the floor that's thinking their way through things. We're trying to keep things simple.»

«Brian went for the rebound and fell down, so in a sense, the game-wining shot came on a 5-on-4 opportunity. To their credit, they buried the 3. But they didn't have to go against our defense.»

«One of the keys to us is sometimes we have some great baskets and have a real good pace to how we play on offense, and then it seems to slow down. When the offense goes into one of those droughts, we're not moving it up the floor. Not necessarily quick shooting, but just the pace. We're always better when we have a quicker pace. ... Brian (Thornton) being able to run, and Brandon Cole or Will (Caudle) being able to run when Brian's out. ... Make or miss on their end, we want to be able to get the ball up the court.»

«There were so many times where they would come out of a pileup, and then it's bounce pass, dunk. That's what makes them who they are. They have great depth and quickness.»

«It's not about us going into a laboratory fixing a bunch of different problems as much as it is rekindling what made us good a short time ago. ... We've been able to do that. It's only been a couple days, but our team has done a very good job.»