Washington-Oregon Postgame Quotes
Oregon Head Coach
Ernie Kent Quotes
“I thought we were outstanding defensively. Offensively, we know where we are, but defensively I think we’re really coming around.”
“I thought our energy off the bench was just great. Everybody who came into the game gave us something. Our bench is pretty deep right now. What it does is allow us to rest those starters, particularly during the last eight minutes of the game.”
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“We’re starting to share the ball more. I’m very pleased that we’re sharing the ball more. We’ve always shot the ball well.”
“Maarty [Leunen] is such a tough match-up. Brockman is just a load underneath, and they just needed to neutralize themselves at that position.”
On
“When you can throw five guys at one guy, pretty soon his legs are going to wear down a bit. I thought we did a great job of executing the game plan and not giving him too many looks. I thought they were fantastic at taking one of the best shooters in the conference out of his rhythm.”
“I appreciate the crowd. They did a great job of giving us energy in this ballgame.”
“We know we have cost ourselves some games, but we know we are a good basketball team, particularly on the offensive end of the floor. We just need to keep buying into the defensive effort.”
“Saturday is a big, big ballgame because it gives us a chance to go out on the road in control of our own destiny.”
“This is a tough, tough conference. Winning or losing a game is just so big. There is not a night off. The pressure gets tougher and tougher, but you’ve got to love it.”
Sr. G Bryce Taylor:
On guarding Appleby:
“It was my job to stay with him all night. I just tried to be with him coming off screens because we know he shoots well off screens so my job was to work with him.”
“Staying on Appleby helped my offense, it keeps my intensity up and I am focused at all times. It eliminates my breakdowns and just overall helps out my game.”
On the rest of the
season:
“All we can do is control our own destiny. We just need to win games because we don’t want to have to depend on other teams losing; we just want to stay in control.”
We’ve been focusing on our motion a lot. Right now were working on moving around, setting screens, making good passes and if we’re getting good shots then just letting them fly.”
Jr., F Churchill
Odia:
On his shooting:
“I didn’t think I did anything spectacular. Coach has been talking to me about moving the ball around, playing solid and playing smart and that’s just what I did tonight.”
“Tonight was a big rival game for us. We wanted to make a statement. Before the game they called us “soft.” I think we’re one of the toughest teams in this conference so tonight we really made a statement.”
Sr., C Maarty Leunen:
“We know they play physical so we had to match that intensity, getting loose balls, rebounding, things like that that show we can keep up.”
“Defense leads us in everything. Sometimes we’re mismatched defensively but if we play tough and keep them to a low field goal percentage we know we have a good shot because then we can beat them on the other end of the court.”
“In the first half we didn’t play smart enough basketball. There were nine turnovers, the majority of them unforced.”
“In the second half they did everything we didn’t want them to. They penetrate and kick so well.”
“The first half wasn’t as bad, but the second half got worse. There was a breakdown of our defense.”
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“We didn’t play with that edge. Tonight, we didn’t have the crowd behind us and the atmosphere that it takes to win on the road.”
“They played well on Ryan [Appleby], he didn’t get the same looks that he did last year.”
“The atmosphere [of
“If the Pit Crew would have affected Ryan [Appleby] they would have done it last year. It was worse last year and he scored 19 points in the first half.”
“You can’t be a step slow against
“We were definitely getting whistles when we fouled.”
#40 John Brockman:
“A lot of their three-pointers were on those hand offs, and rub screens. They penetrated and got us rotating the ball.”
“They controlled the game pretty much the whole game.”
#20 Ryan Appleby:
On his three-point shooting
“It just didn’t go down for me tonight.”
“As a whole they a good job covering me, their big guys came out and helped more this game than last.”
“This was 180 degree difference to the game at home compared to today. In the second half we didn’t come out with the intensity as we needed to.”
#4 Tim Morris:
“We weren’t as sharp mentally, and didn’t execute our defensive strategy.”
