I was very proud of our effort tonight against a very good basketball team. We made a run at them but they withstood like a veteran team does. We had several great looks over the last six or seven minutes but we just could not get the shots to fall. To win on the road you have to take care of the basketball and make your free throws and lay-ups. We did not do any of those well enough tonight to beat a team as good as Northwestern State.
Quotes about lay-ups (16 Quotes)
Whenever you miss three lay-ups, and fifteen free-throws you're not going to win the game.
I think we have to have better help defense. It's getting a little too easy for guys to get easy lay-ups and easy baskets, period. There isn't a lot of team defense down there.
Yeah, we didn't shoot the foul shots well but we were still in the game with two minutes left in the game. Our defense cost us the game. We never adjusted to their offense and they shot lay-ups all night.
It's our offense. We made too many turnovers and we missed too many lay-ups. I just told the players we're not going to win any games if we miss eight lay-ups and we turn it over that many times.
The key for us is throwing the ball in the lane and getting some baskets. To me it's like a body punch in boxing. You just can't keep swinging at the head, which is sometimes what we do with the 3-point line. You have to make them feel it in the lane. ... If we are scoring in the lane and scoring from the 3-point line and Jared is running the ball down the floor and getting lay-ups, sometimes it's hard to guard our team.
We allowed too many easy opportunities and it's something we've been harping on the last few games. Unfortunately it bit us once again. This team was the worst shooting team in the NBA, and our game plan was to force them to take nothing but jump shots. But once again they scored too many lay-ups and had too many points in the paint.
We missed a lot of shots. We had a lot of lay-ups that just weren't going in. We just missed a lot of easy lay-ups, a lot of shots we generally make.
When they started to go on their runs, we started looking for someone else to make a play. We started scoreboard watching a little bit and the difference in the game was when they cut it to two, we attacked them the next three possessions and got lay-ups.
We simply have struggled shooting the basketball. We had open looks against Indiana and against Ohio State. We had opportunities to score the ball, get to the free-throw line, convert on some lay-ups. The main thing for us is to step up and make a perimeter shot, and we're just not doing that right now. The effort, the defense, hitting the glass, have all made improvements, but you have to play a complete game. It's not a lack of effort from our guys. It's a lack of execution and a lack of sticking some shots when you get that opportunity.
We had three or four possessions up two and we didn't score. That's the game. We couldn't make lay-ups, we didn't execute, we took bad shots.
They played well and we turned it over. I guess it was a combination of both. We didn't make shots and we got frustrated. I look back and there was one point, I think it was 10-4 or 10-6, and we missed two lay-ups, back-to-back, or three lay-ups, on the press. Then we got a little frustrated and it kind of snowballed. Overall, we just didn't play well in any facet of the game.
I like the style. There is a lot of movement and it is set for not just one guy, but for a lot of combinations. It is designed for lay-ups and easy baskets. He (Hill) had a lot of rotation tonight to make sure everyone was fresh and was playing hard. He changed a lot of plays and the line-ups. We're still learning, but I'm looking forward to it.
The reality was we didn't play well. I don't know if it was lack of motivation or frustration. They just kind of spaced out and didn't have anything going. Bad decision making and bad shooting. We missed 10 lay-ups in the first half.
We really struggled in the first half. We didn't make lay-ups and we didn't contest the shooter like we had worked on in practice. We played well in the second half, but we spent too much energy trying to catch up and didn't have enough to win.
They were going to make him work for everything in the second half. We missed a ton of free throws and a lot of lay-ups. We have to make shots when they take two guys to guard one.