Oklahoma State University Athletics
Post Game Quotes
February 16, 2011 | Cowboy Basketball
Feb. 16, 2011
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OKLAHOMA STATE QUOTES
HEAD COACH Travis Ford
Opening statement: Give Texas credit, we just got beat by a better team tonight. They are a very good basketball team and are deserving of everything people have been saying about them, their rankings and things like that. I thought in the first half, we just dug ourselves a hole and I thought we were fortunate to only be down by 11. I think we had 12 turnovers and they went to the foul line I think 19 times. That is a bad combination right there, a very poor combination. We weren't allowing our half court defense, which had been pretty good lately, to really take effect because we were fouling and we allowed too many fouls in transition. I think we allowed 18 points in turnovers and that is something we cannot do with Texas. Obviously 18 turnovers we can't do that, and we weren't shooting the ball extremely well. You just can't go on the road and shoot our percentage and have 17 turnovers but I thought our guys competed, I thought we competed. They are just a good basketball team.
On Gary Johnson: When you work as hard as he does and play with as much energy and passion as he does, good things happen to him. That's the way it works if you have any game, now if you're not any good at the game the you can have as much passion as you want and things may not work for you but he's got some game, he's good. Good things happen to people who play as hard as he does and play with as much passion as he does and I thought he made some good shots tonight. When you play hard, you find yourself in the right spot, it's amazing how that works. When you play hard it's amazing when you make the tough shots and he had some tough shots, we had our hands in his face a couple of times. He goes out and gets 17 points-10 rebounds and that's great numbers for one of the best defensive players in the country. He is just really good.
