James Jones Second Quotations

I think that when you play a team a second time, and the first time you play them you destroy them, your psyche isn't in the right place. We all knew that this game wouldn't be easy, and that we would have to play harder than we did in the first game, but we didn't do that.

We played better defense in the second half. We really shut them down and they got no easy baskets. We made them work for everything they got.

We did a much better job in the second half of getting our passing angles.

I'm a setup guy and tonight I made a couple of shots and got us going. We work well together and have a great second unit. We have so many great playmakers on this team that constantly get the shooters open looks.

They did a better job of executing their offense to start the second half, and that really hurt us. When we aren't getting stops in the half-court, and they are getting baskets in transition, it is hard to stay in the game.

They jumped on us at the beginning of the second half, and we couldn't handle it.