The University of Mississippi Athletics
Andy Kennedy Postgame Quotes
1/17/2009 | Men's Basketball
On going from Wednesday's win to today's loss...
"I wish I had an idea, because I would have tried to do something about it. I thought against Arkansas we were the more aggressive team, the more physical team. I thought we were on the attack. Today was the total opposite. No question LSU was more physical in their approach. We started out slowly and never responded. They came out and hit us right in the mouth. We never got off the mat, we never got up and fought. That's discouraging to me as a coach."
On the emotional loss of Trevor Gaskins and trying to fill that void...
"Right now, we don't (have an answer). It's dead silent. My voice is the only one that's being heard, and on good teams, that can't be the case. We've always talked about ownership, and the team belongs to the players. For whatever reason, we haven't grasped that. Everybody's kind of looking around, diverting responsibility. We need someone to step up and take ownershipthat's where we've got to try and get this team to do and do it quickly."
On being down 12-0 to start the game before inserting Terrico White...
"In hindsight, you know, he still played 33 minutes. At that point, it was such an eternity, even before the half. I was hoping we could close the half a little more efficiently. Obviously, we came up empty. If we could have got it to 17 or 18, we're in our own building, maybe we could have made a run to try and chip away. We just couldn't do it. We couldn't make a play. We were very inefficient offensively, even when we had chances to score. At close range, we just couldn't make the play. We weren't able to stop them the whole game."
On the play of David Huertas...
"Garrett Temple is one of the better defenders in the country. They started Marcus Thornton on him. They were just really trying to be physical with him, as everybody has been. That's been the case for the last five or six games. He's been the guy that everybody has been keying on lately. He got out of rhythm. He was passing up open shots to take more difficult shots. He got frustrated and picked up fouls, and then we had to sit him. He's an emotional player. For the most part, he's been able to channel those emotions. Today, he wasn't able to do that, which is understandable with the way we played."
