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UNC 102, Penn 64
January 3, 2007 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 3, 2007
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Opening Statement:
"Bojangles' is going to be fired up tomorrow morning. In some ways that makes you cringe because of that because you feel for the other guy, but at the same time it's part of college athletics. I love the enthusiasm. If it takes biscuits to make everybody stay in their seats until the very end I guess that's OK. It does make you worry about what the guys on the other bench are feeling at that point when everybody's excited, but you know it's a tale of different stretches during the game. The first couple of minutes needless to say I was not pleased. Everything that we said in the scouting report they did, and our guys stood out there looking like they never heard anything about it whatsoever.
We came alive and really had a great stretch for eight or 10 minutes in the middle of the first half and the last two or three minutes a 6'2" guy lays it up and Brandan [Wright] stands there and looks at him. A 6'2" guy lays it up and Tyler [Hansbrough] standing there a foot away looking at him. At halftime we talked about that because that was the last four or five minutes of the first half. We came out in the second half, and they made a bunch of shots early again in the second half, but the second half I felt we were really into it. I'm really surprised that [Penn] only had six turnovers in the second half because I thought we were flying around everywhere and either getting turnovers or getting hands on the ball and deflecting it and sometimes we did come up with it.
Needless to say it's good to have Bobby [Frasor] back and good to have Quentin [Thomas] back especially at a time where Ty [Lawson]'s wrist is a little painful, a little sore. [Ty Lawson]'s done an absolutely marvelous job during the stretch when those guys are out. That kind of stretch for a freshman point guard is about as good as you've seen with that little experience coming right out of the gate like that. We shoot 61 percent in the second half, and they shoot 33 because we were more alert, but we're bigger, we're taller, we're more gifted, but I feel like our attention to everything other than the first three or four minutes of the first half and the last three or four minutes of the first half."
On Reyshawn Terry's improvement during the game:
"I told him because I chewed his rear end out pretty good, and he deserved it. It wasn't me over there being blind to what was going on. He was more active passing the ball, defending, rebounding, sprinting back that time on the break a guy had a significant lead on him he sprinted back and the guy missed the lay up. Reyshawn Terry is a guy that I'm going to go down as saying that I'm in a lot ways about as proud of him as anybody I've ever coached. To be able to fight through things not going as well and then to still do the kind of things he did tonight was really good."
On when the decision was made for Bobby Frasor to play:
"Well 90 percent of it yesterday, but I wanted to wait and talk to his mom and dad and him again at shoot around. Quentin [Thomas] was more at shoot around today than it was yesterday. Both of them had gone in certain two or three possessions out of every 10-minute period during practice in the last couple of days, and they've had no pain, no problem with it. Bobby [Frasor] and I've talked a lot this week. Quentin [Thomas] was again a little bit more a decision today at shoot around, and he felt like he could go so I said let's try it."
UNC Player Quotes
On how it felt to play after being injured:
"Felt good. I haven't played in a month and in a game like that. It felt good out there, I didn't feel nervous or anything it just came easy to me and it felt good out there."
On his foot injury and it current status:
"It's feeling better. The doctors say it is healing so I can finally get back to playing a game. I was excited, it felt good to be back out there."
On what caused the foot injury and what was the actual diagnosis:
"They first told me that it was stress reaction and that it could break, it was Sean May had so they wanted to be careful with me. Then they told me it was healing so I got happy again and I practiced and then it was sore again. Then they were talking about surgery so I have been up and down, but I have gotten MRI and Cat scan, everything and they tell me it's healing for sure so I can just be careful with it."
On defensive pressure:
"We didn't start off the game the way we needed to defensively. One of our keys of this game was to push them out of their offense, force them to go back door. The rest of everything we tried to do with every game is to take them out of their offense and make them do something that there are not comfortable doing. So once we started getting our pressure up we made them really uncomfortable and then we started getting steals and fastbreak points and things like that."
On the five man substitution:
"Coach Williams is obviously known now for that five man substitution when effort plays aren't being made and we are just not giving that effort out there. The five that got subbed in, we knew what we had to do, we knew we had to raise the intensity level. The guys that got taken out understood that they had to pick it up."
On the five man substitution and the intensity:
"Reyshawn [Terry] was telling us that we are alright we just have to pick it up, it was civil. The guys have to go out there and do what those guys are doing, diving on the floor, playing with the energy, just feeding off of each other."
On the adjustment to the style of Pennsylvania's offense:
"It's a tough offense, if you master it, it is a great offense. Everything is above the free throw line and no really low post players, no guys really posting up. It's tough to get used to, but they came out with a few back doors on us and I think we adjusted well. We did the best we could to defend against it."
Penn Head Coach Glen Miller
OPENING STATEMENT:
"We did some good things for a portion of the game but you have to play 40 minutes against North Carolina, an explosive team, It was a 15 point game with eight minutes left and we wind up getting beat by 38. Not pleased with that and the transition defense just fell apart. We didn't have any answers from an execution standpoint against the run and jump."
ON EARLY SUCCESS:
"We haven't done a good job of recognizing what is successful for us and we had good movement early in the game, some nice backdoors. I don't know why we went away from it. We became stagnant. We lost our movement. It was a game key to complete passes early on in our offense not so much try to score but to move the defense and give us some confidence with passes and cuts. If you try to make individual plays without ball movement you are stagnant and not going to score. You want to stay away from turnovers and low field goal percentage against this team (North Carolina) because they get out in transition and convert better than anybody in the United States."
ON CAROLINA'S DEPTH:
"We like to play a lot of players but we have had trouble getting quality play out of our bench. We didn't have a choice this game. You can't play 40 minutes with five or six guys. Hopefully our bench players will grow with this experience. It is not going to get any tougher than this."
