North Carolina State University Athletics
Post-game quotes: Mount St. Mary's at NC State
12/16/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
NC State coach Sidney Lowe quotes
On Rebounds:
“Gavin did a great job coming back in to get rebounds. Their big guys were pushing us under the basket. They were more active and more physical in there.”
“Offensively, we wanted to go inside out. We wanted to establish a presence inside.”
“Their point guard was pushing it up the floor and using our big guys as a screen. Courtney was very active. He and Gavin were getting hit with 4 or 5 screens a possession.”
On the week ahead:
“We just have to come out and play our game. I keep telling our guys that we don’t need to worry about what they do; we need to worry about what we’re going to do.”
Mount St. Mary’s coach
“I thought our guys did a good job for the most part. We lost some focus, especially when they really pushed it at us, but we came in here and played hard. I thought the thing that really hurt us was when they got out in transition. They got off to a pretty fast start because of their break. We were able to retain our composure and stay in the game, but it seemed like every time we made some kind of mistake they made us pay.”
“We played a lot of guys and tried to go to the boards hard. We knew that they were limited in the number of guys they had, so we just kept throwing waves of guys at them, hoping we could take advantage of that. We also tried to show them some different looks defensively to keep them off balance and slow them down a little. It’s really tough to try to defend a guy like [Gavin] Grant because of his size.”
