found here<\/a>. Below is what Lloyd, Anthony Dell\u2019Orso and Jaden Bradley said.<\/p>\nLloyd on what he said in timeouts during TCU\u2019s runs: \u201cThis is great. It\u2019s exactly what we need. We don\u2019t have hubris. We understand these games are going to be hard. And we don\u2019t expect to come in here and have a 20 point lead build to a 40 point lead. This is not how it goes. So we\u2019re realistic optimists. We\u2019re always optimistic things are going to work out, but we\u2019re realistic and knowing how tough it\u2019s going to be. So we embrace the challenge. And I just wanted to make sure our guys understood that, and they\u2019ve done a great job all season when they\u2019ve been pushed and tested to kind of respond.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether this is what he expected from TCU: \u201c100%. We knew how hard it\u2019s going to be. I know how good of a coach Jamie (Dixon) is. He\u2019s been doing this for a long time, and I knew how physical the game was going to be. I understand what Big 12 games are. Yeah, I thought our guys did a great job. I feel really good how the game went. Obviously, I feel great about the result. We knew coming in when you really do a deep dive on TCU, they had lost four games by combined 14 points, and they haven\u2019t lost in regulation since November something. So this was a team that that has a lot of fight in it, and they\u2019re well coached, they have a lot of pride as a program, and they\u2019re playing at home, and we expected a response out of them. When things looked like they were going well for us, we knew that they were going to keep coming, and credit to them, they did.<\/p>\n
On how TCU handled Arizona\u2019s bigs: \u201cFine. We\u2019re built for it. Bring it on. If people want to play us physical, we\u2019ll play physical back. And our guys probably got to figure out how to find a few more advantages with that physicality. We had great officials today. We\u2019re not going to sit and beg for foul calls. That\u2019s how it goes. And, you know what, on the road this is how it goes sometimes. the other team play spirited, and maybe have a few calls you wish go your way, but they don\u2019t. So that\u2019s called reality, and you deal with it. You don\u2019t whine and complain about it. All in all, I\u2019m happy with how our guys responded and with all the adversity that we faced.\u201d<\/p>\n
On getting help from the perimeter: \u201cI haven\u2019t even looked at the stats, you guys are talking 3s. What did we make, six, five, seven? Okay, we made seven threes. But that\u2019s not crazy. And that\u2019s like an average night, isn\u2019t it? Pretty much for us, it\u2019s like an average night. So good percentage, we got some free throws, I\u2019m sure we finished some layups. I thought the times we bogged down a little bit maybe we got the ball in the paint and didn\u2019t deliver, and we had a stretch there in the in the first half, where maybe our shot selection and decision making kind of dipped a little bit, but our guys were able to kind of reel it back in.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Dell\u2019Orso\u2019s shooting: \u201cDelly, listen, he hadn\u2019t played as well offensively as he would hope, and that that\u2019s just how these seasons go. There\u2019s an ebb and a flow to them. And what he does is really hard. to be a sniper is a hard deal. If your value is making threes and shots off the dribble, that that\u2019s there\u2019s a reason you guys are in the media and not playing, because it\u2019s really, really, really hard. And so you\u2019re going to have stretches of the season where you don\u2019t shoot the ball well. I appreciate his resilience and how he hung with it. He\u2019s practiced for the last couple days, and so I\u2019m glad he was able to have that today, and hopefully it\u2019ll kick start him for a good, another positive stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Koa Peat\u2019s outing after picking up a technical foul last game: \u201cThe tech\u2019s learning deal, you know? I\u2019ve never dunked on anybody, so I don\u2019t know what I would do if I dunked on somebody. But Koa he\u2019s 100% always accountable for his action. He\u2019s a responsible, high character guy. I challenged him to play good today, and he did. He played really well. To come on the road in this environment and play the way he did and at a physical game, it says something about him as a player.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Arizona\u2019s Big 12 scheduling cadence: \u201cHey, however they schedule, we play it. So we don\u2019t sit there and dissect, it doesn\u2019t do any good. So we\u2019re happy to play. We love Saturday afternoon games, especially on the road. I\u2019m going to get home, relax, probably watch the last game on TV tonight, re-watch this game, and then get back to it tomorrow morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Tobe Awaka\u2019s status: \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to J-Rock, so I\u2019ll figure out what they\u2019re but Tobe\u2019s a warrior. And yeah, he\u2019s battling. I don\u2019t know exactly what happened, but I know was available to play, and he closed the game. So he\u2019s really valuable to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dell\u2019Orso on how he got Arizona going with his scoring: \u201cYeah we came out, they were back and forth, a little slow stuff for both teams. And I just see when I come in, I got to bring that spark, bring that energy, whether that\u2019s scoring the ball defensively, or just doing a little things doesn\u2019t really matter, as long as it kind of gives everyone a spark and gets us going. And that\u2019s that\u2019s kind of what I do.<\/p>\n
On feeling better shooting the basketball: \u201cYeah, for sure, definitely. To get one back, kind of like what you expect, and makes the emotions feel a little better. But at the end of the day we won, we\u2019re winning, so I feel good every time.\u201d<\/p>\n
On having a big contingent of Arizona fans: \u201c It was great. Obviously, the fan base is something that we can\u2019t mention enough. They help us. They\u2019re like a six man for us, traveling, home. Shout out to them. Appreciate the support. Keep bringing it, because we got a lot of big games coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n
On being leaders on a team with several freshmen, especially in Big 12 environments: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s good. They\u2019re obviously a step ahead of the game, like five years ago, freshmen probably weren\u2019t like that. But, yeah, taking them under the wing, just showing them what we went through, trying to give them as much advice. And let them also take their own path, and build their own journey. Because you can\u2019t just come in and be a robot. You definitely got to play the way you played all your life. So they\u2019ve been great. They\u2019ve been able to listen and do their own thing. And it\u2019s helping us great.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bradley on the rhythm of the game: \u201cTCU was a great team. They play fast, great defensive team with their ball screen coverage. So it was slow start. Hard to find our rhythm, but we did a great job at the end finding it and making easy plays.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether he had to adjust his game after getting into foul trouble: \u201cI mean, it\u2019s kind of next man up. Brayden and everybody else did a great job of managing the game. Just got to find better ways to play without fouling, and just make the adjustments.\u201d<\/p>\n
On whether they were surprised they\u2019d need to rely on 3-point shooting: \u201cThey did a great job with our post. They kind of doubled up. We got Big Mo, we got Tobe, we got Koa. They did a great job, their forces down there. So we were able to get some open 3s. So we trusted our open 3s and knowing (the bigs) were going to offensive rebound. So just trusting what they give us.\u201d<\/p>\n
On being able to win in a variety of ways: \u201cLike you said, very well versatile team. We got Koa, To, Big Mo, forces in the paint, and they make it easier for us guards to get open shots, and we just playing off each other, making it easy for each other. That\u2019s the goal at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona fans had a field day Saturday debating all the fouls that seemed to go against the Wildcats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3723],"tags":[9763,7,217,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-528679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-arizona-basketball","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115874711669406183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}