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February 10, 2011 | Men's Basketball
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Duke vs. North Carolina
Feb. 9, 2011 ° Cameron Indoor Stadium ° Durham, N.C.
North Carolina head coach Roy Williams
Opening statement:
"Well to say it's extremely disappointing would be an understatement to say the least. Very frustrating. They were just so much more aggressive on the offensive boards in the second half. Three straight possessions, missed shots, come off with the offensive rebound, score. We foul a guy on the three point shot, makes two free throws, misses the third, they come up with that ball, score two more free throws on that. Two free throws early in the second half, they miss. They get the offensive rebounds and score there. And then we were going down and turning it over early. And all of a sudden, whatever it was, halftime 14-oint lead, we got to a point that it was a one or two-possession game and then we even missed a couple of free throws; that didn't help us to say the least down the stretch. Seth Curry was big, to say the least. But we went two guards go flying up and not trying to black shots from the outside. Supposed to get a hand up, and stay in front and close out properly. We went flying through the air, and he made two baskets like that. And Nolan [Smith] was low driving us to the basket, getting in the lane and making plays. And look at...we're 0-6 from the three-point line second half. I've said it all year; it looks so much better when a ball goes in a basket. But we just gave them too many opportunities. I think they were so much more aggressive than we were the entire second half. And the aggressive team that plays with the most intensity can usually make up for a lot of deficits. And I thought they did that."
On the play of Duke seniors Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith:
"You watch Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith play basketball, and it's a refreshing look to see two extremely talented seniors still playing college basketball. I didn't like watching them tonight. But we better enjoy those guys while we have them around, because that's not going to happen very much anymore. They're fantastic players. And then again, Seth Curry was big time for them."
On the first half of the game:
"Well we attacked better. The first half they did a better job of not allowing us to attack; in the second half probably too. We missed some shots. I mean Kendall [Marshall] was 1-for-7 at half. You know, we don't want him to think that he's got to score. But he had some good shots...would have been good for some of them to go in there. But you know, we attacked, we did some nice things. But they missed some shots in the first half. They shoot 33 percent in the first half, 50 in the second half. They didn't miss some of the shots in the second half. But you can gain something from playing well at certain stretches, but I'm not really big into moral victories. We have to play a 40-minute game."
On the difference between guarding Duke senior Nolan Smith in the first half versus second:
"Well you know, Dexter [Strickland]'s our best perimeter defender, and he got into foul trouble and that hurt us. I don't think he was as aggressive. Leslie [McDonald], Reggie [Bullock] and the other guys. But give Nolan [Smith] some credit. I think he was probably more aggressive in the second half, but you need to ask Mike [Krzyzewski] and Nolan that to find out for sure. But those guys, they keep coming at you, keep coming at you, keep coming at you, and you've got to keep coming back that them. You've got to keep coming back at them by scoring, not turning it over. But you're not going to beat somebody like Duke If you give them five, I think it was five, different opportunities in the first 10 possessions the second half to get second shots.
On Harrison Barnes defending Kyle Singler:
"You know, Harrison [Barnes] was on him, John [Henson] had him sometimes, Reggie [Bullock] had him a couple times. Harrison really worked really hard. You know, Kyle's not going to go 3-for-17 very often. You know with John and Z [Tyler Zeller] around the basket, they can bother some shots. We didn't give Kyle as many open ones as we gave Seth [Curry] and Nolan [Smith] and some of the other guys. We gave them more open shots. But you know, Kyle's a great player. Kyle and Nolan, you're looking at guys that I think are first team All-Americans, and again, I don't have to enjoy them the night we're playing them, but we should enjoy those kids. You don't have that happen very often.
On what happened when Duke took the lead:
"We attribute that to two bad shots in a row, the first time that they took the lead. We lost our poise. We took a, well two possessions in a row I know exactly what we did. We didn't get the shots we wanted. I've got to do a better job of getting the guys to be more poised."
