North Carolina State University Athletics
NC State-Virginia Tech Coaches Quotes
2/5/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
NC State head coach Sidney Lowe
“It feels great to be at 4-4 [in the ACC]. Who knows what’s going to happen next, but it feels great to establish ourselves.”
“For a 20-minute period, the first half of this ball game was our best. Our challenge was to come out with the same intensity in the second. We need to remember to keep up our energy. They came out more aggressive and we didn’t take it up a notch; we just kept playing the same as in the first half. We did do a good job of stopping the bleeding and making shots and stops when we needed to.”
“[Courtney Fells] did a nice job of feeding the post. He won’t force it; he’ll kick it back if it isn’t a good play. He tries to get it below the free-throw line to feed it to the post. He has the ability to recognize and see what they’ll do. He does a good job of reading screens.”
“Sometimes we try to create something that isn’t there. We need to be more patient on offense. I give credit to their defense because they were able to make us turn it over.”
“What was important was for our guys to understand where we are now and the position we’re in. They came out with really good energy and that gave us the lead in the beginning.”
Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg
“The first half, they pushed us back. They pushed us away from the basket. We weren’t as tough or as quick or as strong as we needed to be to win a game like this on the road. We made poor decisions with the ball, let them push us too high in the post, and we gave them easy baskets. In the second half we executed better, held our ground and played better. It just wasn’t enough.”
“We had plenty of opportunities to get back in the game. All we needed was just one run. We have the ability to do that, but we just couldn’t execute well enough.”
“They’re a tough matchup for anyone, not just for us. They have good players. It’s on the road. I didn’t think we competed offensively or defensively the way we can, especially in that first half. They’ve got really good players, McDonald’s All-Americans. We have to play a lot better than that to win on the road.”
