Opening Statement Head Coach Jay Wright
A lot of good things tonight and obviously some things we need to work on. The Delaware team just went at BC and lost by eight and played pretty well. They are a better team than probably it looked, Holden and Hayes are two great guards.
I thought that we rebounded a little bit better, but we do need to get better at that. We had a little bit of zone going since we were getting beat off the dribble a little better with that. Great job by Josh on the glass, we said that is what we needed to get better at and he did a great job. Jalen got us going with those threes early and did a great job.
Jay, the outside shooting at the beginning of the season didn’t make a lot of sense, how has it come together.
We have a certain philosophy that we play with; we want to teach guys to become aggressive when they come here. Kris and Josh were starting for the first time, Jalen playing for the first time, Mikal and Phil; a lot of those guys we really being counted on for the first time and we were over aggressive with that. We were taking bad shots but not out of being selfish and I think that gradually our shot selection is getting better and I think it will as the season goes on, and our shooting percentage will increase as we start getting a better shot selection.
Josh tonight and the last couple games does it feel that way that the rhythm is developing
It is different because we are going inside out, and I think that it is something we are starting to do a lot better. We are passing out shots that we could get for more open shots. It was good shooters taking bad shots at the beginning of the year. We watched film and coach talked to us about it, we work on shot fakes and shooting in practice every day. Our thing is to get in the lane, find an open guy, if he isn’t open keep reversing it and get an open shot.
Jalen is that your game anyway get in the lane and find somebody
Yes and also my game is being aggressive and trying to find my teammates. Just trying to make the right play at the right time like coach teaches.
Jalen, did you feel in that moment when you hit those three threes that someone needs to step up and make some shots
Yes but I also think that we needed to play better defensively, we feed off of our offense from our defense. Once we started playing hard defensively we got better shots and better looks.
Josh how much does it get your attention when a team comes out and hit four threes like Delaware did
It does get your attention, but it was something that needs to keep driving us to start the game better. I think we rebounded and responded well from that but it is something that we need to keep working on.
