Reggie Witherspoon
Reggie Witherspoon
burdened fully greater guys happened ready role
It's not like our need for him went away because he was hurt. It still was there, and sometimes there in greater fashion. What has happened is that other guys have been burdened with more of a role than they are fully ready for yet.
caught easy tried work
We tried a lot of things. We tried zone, we tried man, we tried to really make him work to get it so if he caught it, they wouldn't be easy catches.
best effort game gave history near tough tremendous
We really gave it a tremendous effort on the backboard. It's a tough place to play, there's a lot of history in this building. We did our best to try to give them the game near the end.
anybody eight exhaustion guy influence less minutes played playing rebound rebounds standpoint
Parnell's fatigued. He's been out a long time. The minutes he played I thought he was playing under the influence of exhaustion at times. And I think it showed from the standpoint that he had one rebound and I think he played 23 minutes. We didn't play anybody that had less rebounds than him. We had one guy who played eight minutes and he had a rebound.
hope mac might open possible spots teams win
We have to hope that as many teams like that as possible win their tournament. That might be able to open some spots for more MAC teams.
conference games last learned
We play 18 conference games and it's such a long season. We learned a lot from that last season.
cloud good last minds ohio time
We don't have time to think about last season. They're good now. We can't cloud our guys' minds too much with last season. We have to play well because Ohio is good this season.
advantage embrace energy plays
We need his energy to energize us. If he's able to energize us, we have to embrace that as a team. There's a possibility for us to have an advantage when he plays with that kind of energy.
bag gotten race rocks running
It's like running a race with a bag of rocks on your back. We haven't gotten them all off yet.
five freshmen games played terrific trying year
They've played so many terrific games off the bench. I told them when they were freshmen that we don't have five starters, we don't play that way. What we've been trying to do this year is play like that and it's been a problem.
aggressive ball beat building expect giving good maximum nearly rebound success teams
It's very upsetting. We didn't rebound the ball at all. . . . We weren't nearly aggressive enough to be able to expect success in this building tonight. . . . You can't expect to beat good teams without giving your maximum effort.
couple ranked teams
They can make you look bad. They've made a couple ranked teams look bad.
best extremely teams
They are very good, extremely good. They are one of the best teams in the country.
coming high intensity kids level playing
It's been hard. When kids are coming along, they aren't used to playing at a high intensity level and when they try it, sometimes they aren't as effective.