Both keepers came up huge. Both keepers had some point-blank shots and stopped them. If it wasn't for the keepers, this game could have been 9-8, and I don't know who would have won. Overall, it was a great game.
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Tapper played well when he had to play well. He made some point-blank saves in the second period and that helped us put some distance between us and them.
We played well the last two periods. But it's only human nature to be down a bit when you're not scoring goals. We had three or four point-blank shots that just didn't go in. But we kept trying and eventually they went.
We had some good shots. We had some point-blank shots at that time. I think what happened was on the other end, they went to Hamilton and he made some big shots. Their execution down the stretch was really, really good.
We think that is a prelude to them all going in the next game. We try to focus on shooting percentages, not how many shots we miss, and we ended up shooting 37 percent. The reason people gasp for air is that they are point-blank misses. We can probably attribute that to nerves. We did substitute early, trying to get back in our normal breathing pattern.
I missed a lot of point-blank shots I normally don't miss. It's just the wear and tear of Big Ten basketball. Those are shots I've got to make, regardless if I have hand injury or not.
We just didn't make the right decisions. We missed two or three point-blank shots. Could we have won the game No doubt about it. They can be beaten.
Richard Jefferson is going to be more involved in Game 2. We know that Jason Kidd is going to be more involved from a scoring standpoint in terms of his aggressiveness. Carter, you can talk about his bad shooting, but he still had 31 points. He missed a lot of point-blank shots he normally makes. They're going to be more balanced in their attack.
He plays great all the time. He's got guys draped all over him, and he still passes and shares the ball. We had opportunities. We had point-blank post-ups we missed and wide-open jump shots that we missed.
Defensively, they were in our face the whole night. But there were a lot of times, particularly in the first half and second quarter, when we were in the lane and missed a lot of shots that were point-blank.
We had a lot of point-blank chances. We had a couple of bad bounces against us early, but you have to overcome those things at this time of year. There's no use dwelling on it, there's no time to sit here and talk about our bad luck with three games left. We have to find ways to overcome it.
Once again against Miami our inability to make shots hurt us. I thought we got good looks, we got the ball inside. We had 24 offensive rebounds. That's a lot of point-blank opportunities. We just couldn't get it to go down.
Every day in practice, we work on rebounding and boxing out. That's what we live by. The guys are good about getting shots from point-blank range, and we got a couple of key rebounds there at the end.
We made a gallant effort but then missed point-blank shots. But that's the nature of this game.
My understanding is it was a decision made by Baylor dining services staff, and I've not yet been able to trace it back to any Baylor administrators telling them point-blank to pull the cup.
Guys turned the ball over, and that kind of took us out of it. We had point-blank shots that we missed that we normally make.