Oregon State Post-Game Quotes
January 11, 2013 | Men's Basketball
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Arizona State 72, Oregon State 62
January 10, 2013
Gill Coliseum
Corvallis, Ore.
Head coach Craig Robinson
Opening Comment...
"It was a disappointing loss. I was pleased with the younger guys who came in and helped us have a really nice comeback. And then the big issue in the room, both Victor Robbins and Eric Moreland are suspended for now, and we'll find out exactly how long they're suspended for violation of team rules. You'll ask me 15 different ways and I'll give 15 different answers that it's a violation of team rules, and that's all I'll say for now. I wish they weren't, but life happens to these young guys. As soon as I'm able to let you know how long they'll be suspended, I'll let you know. I believe they'll be able to practice. This all kind of happened right before the game."
On disappointment of suspensions...
"It's one of those things that you can never be prepared for. This is the first time this has happened to me ever. You can't prepare your players for that, and I know it's a big letdown for a player like Eric who is a big part of the production of our team. But I thought the guys did a good job in the first half. We just couldn't get enough scoring. But I thought those young guys came in there and played great D. If we can score a few more points and make the game closer I don't think the game gets out of hand the way it did."
On lineup selection in second half...
"The reason was those were the guys that were playing the way we needed them to play in order to come back at that time. It's no secret that coaches play the guys that are going to help them win a game. I didn't predetermine that I was going to put that lineup in. I just went by the feel of the game and those were the guys getting the work done. They did a fantastic job. They got the crowd back into it, they got our bench back into it, put some pressure on the other team. They were tremendously outmatched from a talent and experience standpoint. They just hung in there, and I couldn't have been more proud of them."
On the play of Challe Barton...
"He's been under a dark cloud this season and has had a tough season. It was great to see him break out of that a little bit in a game where it really mattered."
On the play of Jarmal Reid...
"I had no idea how many rebounds he had. I knew he had a lot. For those of you who don't know how much harder that was because he was guarding the other team's point guard the entire time. To get 11 rebounds from the point guard position is pretty awesome. He also had five assists and one turnover. That's a freshman frontcourt player. He gives us some things that we don't necessarily have with both Angus and Gomis out."
On lack of production from more experienced players...
"If I knew that I would fix it. I think they need to get used to being the guys. Roberto (Nelson) has to for sure. Now, he's a marked man in our league. He's going to be guarded by the other team's one or two best defenders. And Ahmad has been very up-and-down this year. It may be a confidence thing, but it's certainly not a work-ethic thing."
On missing Moreland's rebounding...
"There were a couple of plays where we played great D for like 33 seconds, they shoot the ball and get a long rebound because they shot a long shot and get another 35 seconds. Eric usually gets those rebounds and has a knack for hunting them down."
On playing No. 4 Arizona on Saturday...
"It's our job to keep these guys' heads up and confident. With a front-loaded conference schedule, those are great opportunities. It's still very early in the conference season."
Junior forward Devon Collier
On when he found out he would be starting vs. Arizona State...
"During practice Coach (Robinson) just put me in the starting line-up and that is when I found out."
On the loss to the Sun Devils...
"It just shows that we still have stuff that we need to work on. We have to get to practice and watch tape. We need to work on our weaknesses, so we have to just get back into the gym and work on it."
On what his team needs to do moving forward...
"We have more games coming; we just have to pick up the intensity. We have to keep communicating more on defense. We communicate but as we see it's not enough, so we have to pick up the intensity on defense and help each other.
On the team's communication...
"We play good defense, it's just the communication is not there yet. We saw the underclassmen when they came in, how they communicated and played hard. That brought us back but when we stop communicating that's when Arizona State went on their run, so that tells us we have to keep on communicating every time through the 40 minutes and if we don't that's when other teams will take us apart because we are not knowing where the play is at and that can mean easy buckets."
On losing the first two games of Pac-12 play...
"Everybody's frustrated about it but we can't be frustrated because we have more games coming up. All we can do is pick each other up and win the next few games. Of course it's frustrating for everybody, we just have to keep playing hard and not let this derail us."
On Coach Robinson playing some of his underclassmen during the game...
"Coach wanted to see what the young guys were going to do. He knows they play hard all the time and he knows what he is going to get. So by putting them in, he knows they are going to work all the time, never give up as you could see and we are going to need that."
On the getting outrebounded by ASU...
"It was the offensive rebounds that killed us. They (Arizona State) kept getting second shots and as you saw during the free throw (late in the game) a lack of focus which means they get an extra rebound. Like I said, it's just communication, saying `box out, box out' or `find another man', and just doing your assignment or racking up the boards. We just have to come out tougher and be hungry. We have got to want it and we can't let it come to us. Once that gets through our heads we'll start being a tougher team."
Freshman forward Jarmal Reid
On guarding Sun Devil guard Jahii Carson...
"It was a pretty tough task. We tried to contain him as best as possible and we did all we could. The team looks forward to me guarding their best player because it makes everybody else's job easier."
On him and the rest of the underclassmen seeing valuable minutes during the game...
"I think we were opportunistic. We wanted our team to win and that was our goal coming in, bring the team back and put them in a position to win. There is nothing exciting about coming in losing. We would have been excited if we got the `W'."
On how the underclassmen on the team can help the upperclassmen stay positive...
"It's just about picking everybody up. When teams face adversity they tend to crumble, so it's going to take more than one to pick a team up. We are all pieces and we are all a family, we just have to stick together and that's what I preach to the players, younger and older. I am not the only young one and we all try to talk, so if we start talking together, we can get everybody else talking and coming together."
On no one boxing out for a rebound by a missed ASU free through late in the second half...
"That was just frustration of wanting to win and a missed assignment. We felt we could have gotten that rebound and there is no telling what could have happened. We could have kept the comeback going. Lack of hustle, frustration, all that in one but we can't have those mishaps regardless."
