Beavers Participate In Pac-12 Media Day
October 11, 2018 | Men's Basketball
Just wondering, you guys had such a big improvement last year. How do you make that jump to get back to where you were in 2015-16?
WAYNE TINKLE: "Yeah, good point. I think the biggest jump was because we were healthy. Don't get me wrong, we felt like we left a few out there last year. But I think the fact that we've got a good, mature group of I guess fourth-year players, some juniors, some seniors, got a full group that's coming in that we feel can have an instant impact.
"I think I mentioned earlier this is our deepest team we've had. It's also the biggest team on the interior, and we're led by some pretty incredible players, the two that we have in back just the start. We feel like we've got a great combination of maturity, youth, depth, strength, and then we've got to learn from some of the issues that maybe cost us some of those close games a year ago in order to flip it and make more progress again this season."
You guys lost a ton of close games last year. How do you get your guys to understand how to execute -- are there certain drills? Do you watch film on executing under two minutes, one minute? What are some of the things that you need to specifically address to get over the hump and -- really it's the difference between you're going to be in eight, nine games that are one possession?
WAYNE TINKLE: "We feel like we could have been 20-12 easily. But the big thing is I think a lot of the residue was from the year before, where we were super competitive for 32 minutes the year we had all the injuries, and then we just didn't have the horses to finish.
"And so I think a year ago, we got into a lot of situations where it was time to shut the door, didn't have the confidence maybe to do it, and as much as I've had years where, boy, every close game went our way, and the team just knew it doesn't matter, we're not going to lose.
"But the flipside is true, you can learn how to lose. But it's simple. It is things you can watch in film, and we're going to do that. We talked about in some of our meetings, the discipline. You've got a three-point lead. You don't need a hero play in the next defensive possession to stretch it to five. Be solid, contest the shot, rebound it, time just came off, wind them up, now go stretch it to five, but you took a minute off the clock, and we had some young guys that were thirst at this to get back to success, and it was a, well, now it's my time to get a steal and a dunk and shut the door on this deal, and we've talked about that.
"So it's discipline, it's drills. We always do a ton of time and score. Two minutes left, up five on D. We're up seven, and it's our ball with three minutes to go. We do a ton of those. Now it's just an issue where the guys with the maturity, the added maturity we have now, have to put that -- implement that, put it into play, and I think when you have a little bit of success early, then it really drives that home, and that's how you go to where you win every close game."
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WSU coach Ernie Kent, asked about the Pac-12's toughest places to play: "Oregon State is one of those, when people are in there, is one of the toughest places in the country in terms of energy in the building."
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"We've probably got the deepest team since we've been at Oregon State..." - @waynetinkle
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"I want to make the most of it, especially for everyone in Corvallis that comes out to the games."
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What is @tres_tinkle3 working on?
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