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Postgame Quotes
November 16, 2012 | Cowboy Basketball
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POST-GAME QUOTES
Game 5 – Tennessee vs. Oklahoma State
Cuonzo Martin, Head Coach, Tennessee
“You have to give Oklahoma State a lot of credit for being aggressive, playing good defense, closing off the passing lanes. We didn't establish a good post presence inside all night. We had some wide open looks outside that we just didn't hit. You can't worry about that. If they don't go, they don't go. They just did a good job of being physical.
“When you have open looks, take the shots and they aren't falling, you can't get into a real flow. They kept us out of our offensive flow and you have to give them credit for that. I thought today was just another phase of learning for Jarnell (Stokes). Some of it, too, comes back to making perimeter shots – it opens up more one-on-one situations inside and more offensively. We weren't able to do that very often.”
“We made shots yesterday that didn't fall today. You have to stay aggressive, especially against a team like this one. They disrupted our flow today and we could never get going.”
D'Montre Edwards, Tennessee forward
“Oklahoma State played well and I give them a lot of credit. We played hard but, like coach said, we couldn't get shots to fall. We have to bring physicality every night. As for me, I think I bring some energy to the team and, at the same time, I had some good looks. We just have to get those shots to fall.”
Travis Ford, Head Coach, Oklahoma State
“When you play defense and rebound the way we did, you give yourself a chance to win. We hadn't rebounded the ball that well this season until today. For us to be able to compete as we did against a physical team like they are, was impressive. We got guys the ball where they needed it to score and that was big in getting the win. We wanted to take away the paint and our guys were terrific doing that.
“To be able to have a lead like we did allowed us to try a few things when we got into foul trouble. We were able to go to a zone that enabled us to force them to take threes. We aren't a real deep team right now because of our injury situation. It was our goal to have our four and five guys stay in the paint and force them to the perimeter to take three point shots. For the most part, I thought it was successful.”
Le'Bryan Nash, Oklahoma State forward
“Our game plan was to stop them inside, be physical and get our shots. We executed pretty well and made them take shots that didn't fall for them. I think we did a good job holding them like we did. We wanted to stop their big men and, obviously, we did a pretty good job doing that.”
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