Nimari BurnettAfter the gameWisconsin 91, Michigan 88Game page →
Key quotes
- “Once they found any daylight, they were shooting the ball at an elite level, and it was everybody on the floor.”Q8 ↓
- “Film sessions. And even when we were winning, we were like, we could be better.”Q4 ↓
- “So I think those are both smacks in the face and I think we're not going to get smacked in the face again.”Q7 ↓
Transcript
Q4 Changes after tough recent games
People are probably going to overreact both ways, right? Like when you're winning every game by 30, people thought that that's just how it was going to happen. And now a couple of tough games in a week, some people might feel the sky is falling. Has everything sort of stayed the same internally?
I imagine. Yeah. I mean, internally we're committed to the process every single day, getting better in practice. Film sessions.
And even when we were winning, we were like, we could be better. We can be even better. We can be so much better than what we were playing. And so at the same time, this is a lesson.
It's like a smack in our face and we have the chance to grow from it. And I think this group will, we have tons of great people, leaders, et cetera. And I'm excited to go to war with them. And no team is going to go undefeated. Obviously we hope to do it, but like I said, we just learned from it.
Q7 Taking the lead for granted
Yes.
I mean, obviously the, you know, we learned from last game against Penn State and, you know, we talked about learning from wins as well. But as far as just taking things for granted, sometimes you can go up 15 and, you know, that's what happened. Similar thing happened at Penn State. So I think those are both smacks in the face and I think we're not going to get smacked in the face again.
Q8 No late defensive lockdown
Seems like in the other close games you guys have won this season, like towards the end, there would just be like a defensive lockdown and the other team wasn't able to score. Why do you think that wasn't the case today?
Like I said before, just shooters finding their rhythm. Once they found any daylight, they were shooting the ball at an elite level, and it was everybody on the floor. They could shoot 1 through 5. And, you know, we definitely scouted and game planned for that, you know, and it was just their day, their night today.
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