We knew he was a very good player, and obviously he showed that to us again. We didn't do a good job of finding Rice. When we did find him, we sort of looked at him while he handed us a 3. We went man-to-man in the second half because of his shooting ability.
Skip Prosser
It's going to take a while for us to function like we want to function because so many guys are in new roles.
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We've got four guys trying to move into whole new roles and that can be frustrating at times. We as coaches had the choice to play in this tournament, to play good teams and test our abilities early on. I think we're learning early what we need to work on later in the season.
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I think it is a big deal. It's not something we're pleased with. It's disconcerting, extremely so. There's no silver lining I can put on that one.
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Singletary's a big shot-maker and so is Reynolds. It's sort of, 'Pick your poison. As has been our wont lately, it ended up being poison.
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Coach [John] Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach [Denny] Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.
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All you have to do is look at the rebounding stats. That was the story of the game. You get one [shot] and they get two, it's really hard to win.
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We didn't want Singletary to beat us.
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I think all you have to do is look at the rebounding stat. If you get one and they get two shots, it's very hard to win.
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