Mike Mercer
Mike Mercer
beyond game goals hard ncaa season talked tournament
We talked about goals this season and our goals beyond this season. Realistically, it's going to be very hard for us to get into the NCAA Tournament but we just want to take it one game at a time.
ask draw fans game happened hopefully last people supporting time winning
I sense we're getting a lot more attention. We have more fans supporting us. Hopefully if we keep winning we'll draw even more fans. In class, people ask me what time the game is? I don't think that happened much last year.
calm everybody hit points wants
Everyone wants to hit that big shot. We're down 10 points and everybody think they can hit a 10-pointer. We just have to calm down.
beginning best guard nation people post saying trying
At the beginning of the season, people were saying we had one of the best young backcourts in the nation or whatever, and we kind of got away from our big men. We are really just trying to do too much in the guard play and not enough in the post play and really the post play is what makes the guard play.
coming goal main
Coming into the game, our main goal was rebounding.
free line throw
I don't think I've been to the free throw line 22 times this season.
answer
If we could answer that, we wouldn't be 4-7.
alabama beating player proved whether
We've proved that we can play with anybody, beating Alabama and Vanderbilt. It's just all up to every player individually whether we really want it.
everybody turning
It was a turning point, but everybody makes a mistake.
basically capitalize handing offensive
They were basically handing us the game. We couldn't capitalize on the offensive end.
basically meeting practice
It comes up basically at every practice and every meeting we have.
less
We sensed it (was sloppy), but we just wanted to be the less sloppy.
deserve finish game winning
As of right now, everything is a long shot, so we're just going to look at winning one game at a time. If we finish out the way we're playing, I don't think we deserve to go to any postseason tournament.
everybody five four good points rushing team wants
That can be a good thing, but right now it's because we're rushing shots. We're a young team and everyone wants to take the big shot. We get down by four or five points and everybody wants to be that hero.