Ed DeChellis
Ed DeChellis
Edward Richard DeChellisis an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at the United States Naval Academy. Previously he was the head coach at Penn State from 2003-2011 and at East Tennessee State from 1996-2003. At Penn State, DeChellis led the Nittany Lions to an NIT Title in 2009 and a NCAA Tournament berth in 2011. DeChellis' years at East Tennessee State yielded three conference division titles and one NCAA Tournament berth. He was named the head...
experience good guys rhythm shape shot stepped three
We were in pretty good shape at that point. But they got in a rhythm and have the experience over us. Three of those guys are fifth-year seniors. We are not that. They've got some experienced guys who stepped up and made some big plays. They just shot over us and made some big baskets.
court front
You can look at our front court all you want, but our back court didn't score.
cover crazy game gotta number
Two of them are in the game at all times. We gotta cover those two guys, but it's not like it's a crazy number of threes they're making.
game guys league played ready road younger
Thursday's going to be first game on the road in the Big Ten. We've got some guys that have played in the league and we've got to get the younger guys ready to go. We've got to get better.
needed pressure steals tried
We tried to get some steals from the pressure because we needed to get more possessions.
closer good needed player shots
We just needed to get closer to him. He had uncontested shots in the first half, and he's too good a player to do that.
call matter
We just want the call to be right, no matter what it is.
tried
We just tried to not let them be comfortable.
certain order win
We have to do certain things in order for us to win games. And if we don't do those certain things, we're not going to be able to win.
empty running straight towards
We went 15 straight weeks. We were kind of running on empty towards the end.
brown chance credit good lead needed second shot shots zone
We had the lead back-and-forth in the second half, and I thought we had a chance to win. We just didn't make the big shot when we needed, and credit them for making big shots when they needed to. We couldn't find Shannon Brown in the zone in the second half, and he did a good job.
needed pick wins
We've had some wins to kind of pick us up when we needed it.
built foundation positive sides
There are a lot of positive things you can look at. We've built a foundation and now have put the sides up. We just have to keep moving.
hanging kept
We were very resilient. We just kept hanging in there and hanging in there.