Marshall University Athletics
Marshall Men's Basketball Postgame Quotes
12/4/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
MARSHALL BASKETBALL POSTGAME QUOTES
Dan D'Antoni, head coach
On the team's performance:
"I see growth in this team from the first game, but we have to improve the 5-OF-25 three point shooting numbers in order to win. James Kelly and Ryan Taylor each had pretty good performances but overall as a team there is a lot to improve on."
On the shooting performance of the team:
"We cannot shoot 30 percent from the field and 8 percent from the three point line in the first half and expect to win a game. We cannot beat anybody with numbers like those. We have to be better on the offensive side."
Ryan Taylor, junior forward
On the team's mindset with 10 minutes left in the game:
"We were just playing our game. We knew they had some big people, and we've seen their film, they didn't want to run, so me and James [Kelly] being the hybrids at those positions we got up and down the floor and we pressed them. But we just played our game."
On the Zips' scoring run late in the game:
"We weren't making shots, they started hitting threes. There were defensive letdowns here and there. What really shot us in the foot was our first half. We shot 8 percent from three, but second half we played well. We played hard overall."
On team's overall performance:
"I felt like me, James [Kelly], and our bigs held our own against them. Coach wanted us to push them up into the paint, make them take tough contested twos."
Stevie Browning, junior guard
On team's performance:
"The game plan was just pushing the ball. [Akron has] some bigs, and they don't like to run like our two guys here [Ryan Taylor and James Kelly], who get down early and they set some early ball screens and that just frees everything."
On transition buckets and working on transition:
"It's all just about confidence and shooting. Like you know when you come down and you get that first shot you know you knock it down. So you just have to have confidence in that. We have a team full of shooters who are struggling shooting but I know it will go in."
On the dunk to start the second half:
"It helped but I think it we were going to get going regardless. We came out with the mentality to push the ball and get an early pick-and-roll."
