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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Post Game Quotes - Arkansas
2/13/2016 | Men's Basketball
Ole Miss Head Coach Andy Kennedy
On the game…
"(Stefan) Moody really struggled. He just snapped his streak of 37 consecutive games with a 3. He struggled. He was 4-for-17. He's been struggling, quite frankly. He's shooting less than 30 percent from the floor in the last three or four. Our team is maturing a little bit. We got great minutes out of Anthony Perez, Marcanvis Hymon and Tomasz Gielo. Donte (Fitzpatrick-Dorsey) continues to come. It was a team effort. The game had no flow for us early. In the second half, we were able to put together multiple stops in our man defense. That was the most encouraging. In part, it was probably because we got Sebas (Sebastian Saiz) back in. We're not so scared to match up man-to-man against a physically presence like Moses (Kingsley). Moses was really hurting us in the first half with his ability to finish at the rim. We did a much better job of neutralizing that and staying matched up with their shooters. We caught a lucky break that Dusty Hannahs got in foul trouble and never really got in a flow. This kid is a prolific shooter, so it took one of their weapons away. I'm proud of the effort, especially defensively."
On offensive rebounding…
"It's huge for us, and that's an effort stat. Those are the things that jump off the stat sheet. Sometimes, Moody is going to go 4-for-17 like he did tonight. Sometimes, he's going to go 9-for-17. We've seen both of those. The one thing jumps off is that we held them to 18 percent in the second half. We played the entire half in man. The huge discrepancy on the glass shows that we're really engaged. Mentally, the stat that shows we were locked in and that maybe we are serious about making a run down the stretch, is we go 21-for-22 at the free throw line. That shows that we're locked in mentally."
