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Jim Boeheim
On stopping Kuric
“We were gonna play Kuric the whole game. He’s averaging about 30 against us for his career,” “He’s not All-Big East against us, he’s All-American. We forgot him one time and he made a three, we were going to make sure we played him."
I think (Preston) Knowles really hurt us (the previous years), sometimes you don’t realize how valuable one guy might be and I thought he was very valuable against us. It seems like him and (Kyle) Kuric made big shots against us the last couple years. I thought our defense reacted a little better tonight than we have.”
On Pitino
“Rick’s teams are very good against the zone. He’s the best zone coach. He’s great at attacking zones and they’ve had really good shooters.
On the game itself
"It was just a struggle for both teams offensively, and you can either give the defenses credit or say it was a bad offensive game," "We're going to look on the bright side and say it was a real defensive struggle tonight."
On Joseph & Jardines struggles
"When those two guys struggle like that, normally, you get your two best players struggling in college basketball, you can't win," "At home or especially on the road. And they both struggled mightily tonight."
On Brandon
“He’s a good player,” “He’s had 18 or 20 (points) a few times this year. I have absolute confidence in him.” “Brandon is a very good player,” “I have no hesitation to have him in there at anytime.”
On Fab's FT shooting
“They were big, he made his first one,”.“I wasn’t too optimistic on his last two. He’s becoming a shooter I guess, he’s been shooting the ball better lately.”
On the final 2 minutes
"It probably should have ended that way,because it was really a defensive struggle the whole game."
On losing underclassmen
“We got a lot of young players,” “If we kept’em all, we’d probably be pretty good next year. But it’s not going to happen. That’s college basketball. It’s what it is.” (Comment: Too bad these kids can't do like Florida did a few years ago & vow to return for one more year. They should talk with Donte, Jonny & Wes to find out that this is the time of their lives. Once you leave it, you can never return.)
On these last 3 games
"You're going to get games like this in the tournament," "I don't care who you are. You've got to be ready to make those plays at the end of games."
On this compared to a tournament game
"You're going to get in games like this in the tournament. I don't care who you are. You've got to be ready to be able to make those plays at the end of games," "If they make a play, hit one shot, the end, we lose. In the tournament, you go home and you're going to play teams like Louisville and teams just as good or better."
On James Southerland
“I’m waiting for James Southerland. He made a couple good plays today, but he’s still not shooting the ball since the league started. He was shooting 44 percent before the league started from the three, now he’s shooting about 18 percent in the league.
“I know he’s a good shooter. I think he’s just got to get over it. He’s got to hit one. We knew he would be a good weapon to have moving forward because he’s a big kid that can shoot the ball and run the court.”
CJ Fair
On JB trusting the sophs
“It feels good that coach has trust in us, as sophomores,”
On sneaking along baseline for two
“The play was for Dion,” “He could do whatever he wanted. He could kick it to Kris Joseph in the corner, or me on the baseline or go all the way and just take it. He just had to go with what the defense gave him.”
On UL's lower 3 pt attempts
“I think they were more patient today,” “They weren’t just jacking up any shot. They were trying to find the right shot.”
On the defense
"Our defense was getting crucial stops when we needed them," "And, defense wins games."
On the game
“That was survival,” “It wasn’t a normal win.”
Fab Melo
On knocking down 2 FT's in front of students
“It was just focus. I knew I had to make it,” “I was focused on my form, use the legs and I made the two.”
On the sophomores
“That’s my boys,” “That’s who I came in here with. Great players. We all trust each other. So it’s great for the team.”
On the game
"That’s the kind of game we like to play," "Because we were down and we came back. And that is what is going to prepare us for the NCAA Tournament. That was great for us.
"It was a defense game. The offense wasn’t working for both teams. It wasn’t working for us and it wasn’t working for them. Nothing was working for anybody. It was good defense, but bad offense. But that’s what happens sometimes."
On Louisville's run
“We knew it would be like that,” “Coach told us to be prepared. We knew they’d make a run at some point.”
Dion Waiters
On stopping Kuric
“That was the main goal on Kuric,”“Coach talked about him having 22-20 in consecutive games. That was our focus tonight.”
On Siva
"He started out real good,""But it's all about the finish, though."
On his misses at the basket
“Them shots I usually make all the time. All the time. Like 95 percent of the time I make those shots,” “But, you know, games like this, things are not always going to fall. You just have to continue to grind it out and get stops.”
On his misses on the line
“I gotta make them foul shots,” “I ain’t too pleased with myself about the foul shots.” “I’m a little shocked at myself,. “I just gotta get back in the gym and continue to work on my mechanics and go up there and knock them down.”
On this game
"These are the type of games that you want moving forward in the season," "They make us a better team with the things we need to work on."
On the last play
“At first I thought he was going to shoot, but the angle, he was kind of awkward,” “He just tried to make a tough pass. Fortunately, it went through the guy’s hand and I just picked it up.”
Kris Joseph
On stopping Kuric
“We did a great job of keeping Kuric off the 3-point line, getting him uncomfortable,” “We wanted him to catch it in uncomfortable areas. We didn’t want him to catch and shoot right on the line. Kinda wanted him to shoot it a little further, take his shot off the dribble.”
On Louisville's late run
"They went on their run,""They were at home. You got to expect it. They hadn't made it yet."
On the game
"With the fans going crazy and with everything going Louisville's way, we had to stay calm," "We had to take a step back and execute. They made us work for every single thing that we got out there. And we were trying to do the same thing to them.
"We’re a team that continues to fight. Coach tells us to keep coming no matter what the score is because at the end, that’s what you need to do if you want to win."
On what he did from the bench
“I think I may have fouled out early last year,” “That’s about it, though. I loved encouraging my teammates. It was good to see them still being able to play well when I’m not out there.”
Brandon Triche
On our offense
"The pick-and-roll, we usually use that a lot against man-to-man, but it wasn't working against the zone," "We could have just penetrated by ourselves and found guys open and penetrated again once they were flying at us. But we didn't do that. We could have fixed that, but we didn't."
On the D at the end
"We knew we needed stops," "We just planned on trying to get one stop at a time. …We missed some shots, so it wasn't like we just got hot. We just made sure we stopped those guys from scoring."
On the game
"A game like this, going down to the last shot, it's a game that we're definitely going to use,"
Scoop Jardine
On the game
"It was ugly," "That’s what it was. Ugly. It was ugly from the fans’ standpoint and it was ugly from our standpoint. It was just ugly, and I won't be upset if that's what you call it.""But,do you see my face?"
"The game might have been ugly, but the win was not ugly," "Especially when you consider we hadn’t beaten these guys in so long. I’d rather take a win like this than another by 20 points. You might think I’m lying, but it’s true."
On others stepping up
“It’s been like this all year,” “It’s different guys every game. This is the type of team you want to be on. If your star player don’t play good and you lose, I don’t like that type of team. I like this type of team. Anybody can play good and help us win.”
On his bad game
"I don't put my head down because I know I'm reliable to make a tough basket at any given time," "And that's the same as the other two guards and that's what happened tonight."
On what this game says about the team
"These last (three) games we just had were games getting us ready for March,. "People thought when we played Georgetown and UConn that those were gut-out wins. But to come here and beat a good Louisville team that we haven't beaten in seven tries, to get a win by one point when nobody really played well shows what type of team we are."
"We know we can only beat ourselves," "We've got to continue to play Syracuse basketball and try and gut out wins."
On Siva
"He was tough," "Without him playing, the movement kind of slowed down. I don't think he was able to use that confidence from earlier in the game in the last part." "He was a spark today, especially early," "Our game plan was to let him shoot a few jump shots, and we basically did the opposite. We were playing off him, and he still was going by us. He was making passes to the big guys, getting them buckets."
Louisville Quotes
Rick Pitino
On the missed FT's
"What it comes down to, very simple: We didn't make free throws," "And that's what's so bothersome to me. Not that we lost to a good basketball team, but 12-for-21 for the amount of time we spend on it is inexcusable."
On the game
"It was a defensive battle, and they came up with the plays at the end," "I'm very, very disappointed that we lost the game. ... We made some very bad mental plays and took ourselves out of the dribble-penetration. We've handled their zone very well in the past because we had multiple guys dribble-penetrate. Tonight, we only had one able to do it, and he took himself out of the game.""There are no moral victories," "We are crushed with this loss - absolutely crushed.We didn't get the job done when we should have. We were both having trouble scoring against each other which is a credit to both defenses."
On a play that irritated him
"Plays like Gorgui not shooting that shot, that bothers me because we work on that every single day for 45 minutes. I don't care if our guys miss shots," "When they're open, they've got to shoot the ball. That kind of thing irks the hell out of me."
On not taking a TO before the last play
"We had the play. We went over the play the timeout before. They like to trap out of it. We diagrammed the play before, we just took the wrong angle,"
On that last desperate pay
“That is a play we run every single day in practice,” “Do you figure a lot of teams make that shot with one second to go? Have you seen it? He (Nunez) is not cold. We had to get a halfcourt shot and I trust Angel. A lot of guys don’t practice that shot. We do, we practice it every day, hundreds of times.”
On not playing Wayne Blackshear, toward the later stages of the game
“He doesn’t really know what we are trying to do defensively right now,” “I went with the veterans because it was a very low scoring game. I mean, don’t get too excited about what Wayne did the other night. A guy comes in on his first night and has a good night, and then reality sets in. He still doesn’t know what we do offensively and defensively, nor should he know that. Don’t get carried away. We are trying to get him ready for the DePaul game, get him some practices. This was not his kind of game, or Russ Smith’s for that matter.”
“The only thing that will erase this loss is to beat them up there,”
Louis Siva
On his fouls & play
"I just picked up three stupid fouls that should never have happened,""That was my fault. I took myself out of the game and really cost my teammates a lot.""The way I was penetrating and finding people, it really hurt us," he said of his time on the sideline.
"I've just got to play a lot smarter," "I made some dumb decisions down the stretch, and I really wasn't aggressive down the stretch where I should have been. I've got to learn from it and come back and play."
On his pass to Dieng that led to the final turnover
"I just made the wrong decision," "I didn't see Kyle open in the corner. I won't make that mistake again."
Chane Behanan
On how this loss feels
"It hurts," "I just feel sorry because we worked so hard this whole week for this game, preparing for this game, and just a couple missed assignments at the end."
"The turnover at the end of the game; a couple of missed assignments on defense,". "We're already upset that we lost, we're upset, I don't know, we should've won. That's what I'm trying to say."
(My comment: If there is one kid from Louisville I could take, it would be this kid, love his desire and game. Interesting that he said they prepared for this all week, there was one day off between games. Does that mean Pitino was looking ahead? Rick said after Saturdays game he wasn't worried about preparing for SU because we only play one defense)
Gorgu Dieng
"We didn't pay attention to the scouting report and we didn't make plays," "We didn't play smart."
Chris Smith
"We just got to keep on moving. We just gotta cut our losses and bounce back,"
Louisville Fans
Chant heard
"Jim Burr Sucks!"
On stopping Kuric
“We were gonna play Kuric the whole game. He’s averaging about 30 against us for his career,” “He’s not All-Big East against us, he’s All-American. We forgot him one time and he made a three, we were going to make sure we played him."
I think (Preston) Knowles really hurt us (the previous years), sometimes you don’t realize how valuable one guy might be and I thought he was very valuable against us. It seems like him and (Kyle) Kuric made big shots against us the last couple years. I thought our defense reacted a little better tonight than we have.”
On Pitino
“Rick’s teams are very good against the zone. He’s the best zone coach. He’s great at attacking zones and they’ve had really good shooters.
On the game itself
"It was just a struggle for both teams offensively, and you can either give the defenses credit or say it was a bad offensive game," "We're going to look on the bright side and say it was a real defensive struggle tonight."
On Joseph & Jardines struggles
"When those two guys struggle like that, normally, you get your two best players struggling in college basketball, you can't win," "At home or especially on the road. And they both struggled mightily tonight."
On Brandon
“He’s a good player,” “He’s had 18 or 20 (points) a few times this year. I have absolute confidence in him.” “Brandon is a very good player,” “I have no hesitation to have him in there at anytime.”
On Fab's FT shooting
“They were big, he made his first one,”.“I wasn’t too optimistic on his last two. He’s becoming a shooter I guess, he’s been shooting the ball better lately.”
On the final 2 minutes
"It probably should have ended that way,because it was really a defensive struggle the whole game."
On losing underclassmen
“We got a lot of young players,” “If we kept’em all, we’d probably be pretty good next year. But it’s not going to happen. That’s college basketball. It’s what it is.” (Comment: Too bad these kids can't do like Florida did a few years ago & vow to return for one more year. They should talk with Donte, Jonny & Wes to find out that this is the time of their lives. Once you leave it, you can never return.)
On these last 3 games
"You're going to get games like this in the tournament," "I don't care who you are. You've got to be ready to make those plays at the end of games."
On this compared to a tournament game
"You're going to get in games like this in the tournament. I don't care who you are. You've got to be ready to be able to make those plays at the end of games," "If they make a play, hit one shot, the end, we lose. In the tournament, you go home and you're going to play teams like Louisville and teams just as good or better."
On James Southerland
“I’m waiting for James Southerland. He made a couple good plays today, but he’s still not shooting the ball since the league started. He was shooting 44 percent before the league started from the three, now he’s shooting about 18 percent in the league.
“I know he’s a good shooter. I think he’s just got to get over it. He’s got to hit one. We knew he would be a good weapon to have moving forward because he’s a big kid that can shoot the ball and run the court.”
CJ Fair
On JB trusting the sophs
“It feels good that coach has trust in us, as sophomores,”
On sneaking along baseline for two
“The play was for Dion,” “He could do whatever he wanted. He could kick it to Kris Joseph in the corner, or me on the baseline or go all the way and just take it. He just had to go with what the defense gave him.”
On UL's lower 3 pt attempts
“I think they were more patient today,” “They weren’t just jacking up any shot. They were trying to find the right shot.”
On the defense
"Our defense was getting crucial stops when we needed them," "And, defense wins games."
On the game
“That was survival,” “It wasn’t a normal win.”
Fab Melo
On knocking down 2 FT's in front of students
“It was just focus. I knew I had to make it,” “I was focused on my form, use the legs and I made the two.”
On the sophomores
“That’s my boys,” “That’s who I came in here with. Great players. We all trust each other. So it’s great for the team.”
On the game
"That’s the kind of game we like to play," "Because we were down and we came back. And that is what is going to prepare us for the NCAA Tournament. That was great for us.
"It was a defense game. The offense wasn’t working for both teams. It wasn’t working for us and it wasn’t working for them. Nothing was working for anybody. It was good defense, but bad offense. But that’s what happens sometimes."
On Louisville's run
“We knew it would be like that,” “Coach told us to be prepared. We knew they’d make a run at some point.”
Dion Waiters
On stopping Kuric
“That was the main goal on Kuric,”“Coach talked about him having 22-20 in consecutive games. That was our focus tonight.”
On Siva
"He started out real good,""But it's all about the finish, though."
On his misses at the basket
“Them shots I usually make all the time. All the time. Like 95 percent of the time I make those shots,” “But, you know, games like this, things are not always going to fall. You just have to continue to grind it out and get stops.”
On his misses on the line
“I gotta make them foul shots,” “I ain’t too pleased with myself about the foul shots.” “I’m a little shocked at myself,. “I just gotta get back in the gym and continue to work on my mechanics and go up there and knock them down.”
On this game
"These are the type of games that you want moving forward in the season," "They make us a better team with the things we need to work on."
On the last play
“At first I thought he was going to shoot, but the angle, he was kind of awkward,” “He just tried to make a tough pass. Fortunately, it went through the guy’s hand and I just picked it up.”
Kris Joseph
On stopping Kuric
“We did a great job of keeping Kuric off the 3-point line, getting him uncomfortable,” “We wanted him to catch it in uncomfortable areas. We didn’t want him to catch and shoot right on the line. Kinda wanted him to shoot it a little further, take his shot off the dribble.”
On Louisville's late run
"They went on their run,""They were at home. You got to expect it. They hadn't made it yet."
On the game
"With the fans going crazy and with everything going Louisville's way, we had to stay calm," "We had to take a step back and execute. They made us work for every single thing that we got out there. And we were trying to do the same thing to them.
"We’re a team that continues to fight. Coach tells us to keep coming no matter what the score is because at the end, that’s what you need to do if you want to win."
On what he did from the bench
“I think I may have fouled out early last year,” “That’s about it, though. I loved encouraging my teammates. It was good to see them still being able to play well when I’m not out there.”
Brandon Triche
On our offense
"The pick-and-roll, we usually use that a lot against man-to-man, but it wasn't working against the zone," "We could have just penetrated by ourselves and found guys open and penetrated again once they were flying at us. But we didn't do that. We could have fixed that, but we didn't."
On the D at the end
"We knew we needed stops," "We just planned on trying to get one stop at a time. …We missed some shots, so it wasn't like we just got hot. We just made sure we stopped those guys from scoring."
On the game
"A game like this, going down to the last shot, it's a game that we're definitely going to use,"
Scoop Jardine
On the game
"It was ugly," "That’s what it was. Ugly. It was ugly from the fans’ standpoint and it was ugly from our standpoint. It was just ugly, and I won't be upset if that's what you call it.""But,do you see my face?"
On others stepping up
“It’s been like this all year,” “It’s different guys every game. This is the type of team you want to be on. If your star player don’t play good and you lose, I don’t like that type of team. I like this type of team. Anybody can play good and help us win.”
On his bad game
"I don't put my head down because I know I'm reliable to make a tough basket at any given time," "And that's the same as the other two guards and that's what happened tonight."
On what this game says about the team
"These last (three) games we just had were games getting us ready for March,. "People thought when we played Georgetown and UConn that those were gut-out wins. But to come here and beat a good Louisville team that we haven't beaten in seven tries, to get a win by one point when nobody really played well shows what type of team we are."
"We know we can only beat ourselves," "We've got to continue to play Syracuse basketball and try and gut out wins."
On Siva
"He was tough," "Without him playing, the movement kind of slowed down. I don't think he was able to use that confidence from earlier in the game in the last part." "He was a spark today, especially early," "Our game plan was to let him shoot a few jump shots, and we basically did the opposite. We were playing off him, and he still was going by us. He was making passes to the big guys, getting them buckets."
Louisville Quotes
Rick Pitino
On the missed FT's
"What it comes down to, very simple: We didn't make free throws," "And that's what's so bothersome to me. Not that we lost to a good basketball team, but 12-for-21 for the amount of time we spend on it is inexcusable."
On the game
"It was a defensive battle, and they came up with the plays at the end," "I'm very, very disappointed that we lost the game. ... We made some very bad mental plays and took ourselves out of the dribble-penetration. We've handled their zone very well in the past because we had multiple guys dribble-penetrate. Tonight, we only had one able to do it, and he took himself out of the game.""There are no moral victories," "We are crushed with this loss - absolutely crushed.We didn't get the job done when we should have. We were both having trouble scoring against each other which is a credit to both defenses."
On a play that irritated him
"Plays like Gorgui not shooting that shot, that bothers me because we work on that every single day for 45 minutes. I don't care if our guys miss shots," "When they're open, they've got to shoot the ball. That kind of thing irks the hell out of me."
On not taking a TO before the last play
"We had the play. We went over the play the timeout before. They like to trap out of it. We diagrammed the play before, we just took the wrong angle,"
On that last desperate pay
“That is a play we run every single day in practice,” “Do you figure a lot of teams make that shot with one second to go? Have you seen it? He (Nunez) is not cold. We had to get a halfcourt shot and I trust Angel. A lot of guys don’t practice that shot. We do, we practice it every day, hundreds of times.”
On not playing Wayne Blackshear, toward the later stages of the game
“He doesn’t really know what we are trying to do defensively right now,” “I went with the veterans because it was a very low scoring game. I mean, don’t get too excited about what Wayne did the other night. A guy comes in on his first night and has a good night, and then reality sets in. He still doesn’t know what we do offensively and defensively, nor should he know that. Don’t get carried away. We are trying to get him ready for the DePaul game, get him some practices. This was not his kind of game, or Russ Smith’s for that matter.”
“The only thing that will erase this loss is to beat them up there,”
Louis Siva
On his fouls & play
"I just picked up three stupid fouls that should never have happened,""That was my fault. I took myself out of the game and really cost my teammates a lot.""The way I was penetrating and finding people, it really hurt us," he said of his time on the sideline.
"I've just got to play a lot smarter," "I made some dumb decisions down the stretch, and I really wasn't aggressive down the stretch where I should have been. I've got to learn from it and come back and play."
On his pass to Dieng that led to the final turnover
"I just made the wrong decision," "I didn't see Kyle open in the corner. I won't make that mistake again."
Chane Behanan
On how this loss feels
"It hurts," "I just feel sorry because we worked so hard this whole week for this game, preparing for this game, and just a couple missed assignments at the end."
"The turnover at the end of the game; a couple of missed assignments on defense,". "We're already upset that we lost, we're upset, I don't know, we should've won. That's what I'm trying to say."
(My comment: If there is one kid from Louisville I could take, it would be this kid, love his desire and game. Interesting that he said they prepared for this all week, there was one day off between games. Does that mean Pitino was looking ahead? Rick said after Saturdays game he wasn't worried about preparing for SU because we only play one defense)
Gorgu Dieng
"We didn't pay attention to the scouting report and we didn't make plays," "We didn't play smart."
Chris Smith
"We just got to keep on moving. We just gotta cut our losses and bounce back,"
Louisville Fans
Chant heard
"Jim Burr Sucks!"
