Wake Forest Athletics
Post Game Quotes
2/7/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 7, 2004
Wake Forest Postgame Quotes
Feb. 7 vs. North Carolina
Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser
On the loss:
"I thought the first 10 minutes of the game were really telling. Carolina ran their stuff well and we did very little to disrupt that. We didn't play hard enough from the beginning of the game, and that's on me. I thought they played very well and Raymond Felton picked a good time to hit his one three-pointer of the game."
On stopping UNC's offense:
"I don't think we ever found the right combination. Our best spurt was at the end of the first half, when we were hoping they would miss shots instead of making them miss shots."
On Jamaal Levy:
"He played extremely hard, he always does. He showed great will."
On showing up ready to play:
"We're putting ourselves in a precarious position. I thought the crowd was ready; I thought our students were ready, but we weren't ready."
Junior Jamaal Levy
"They were a really aggressive team; we gave a good fight but they played like one of the best teams I've ever played against. I give UNC a lot of cedit. They were playing a 1-3-1 zone and it affected our offense. You can't attack the same way you would against a 2-3 zone. It definitely changed the tempo of the game."
Sophomore Eric Williams
"We need to break down what we are doing wrong. There is something lacking and we need to hurry up and figure what is and isn't working. We don't have a game till Thursday so hopefully we can figure it out by then. We also need more motivation."
On the ACC:
"This is a tough league to play in and there are no teams you can sleep on."
Freshman Kyle Visser
"We have to give Carolina credit. They played really good basketball. The early lead really hurt us. You have to win your home games and now we have to make it up on the road. But then again, this is the ACC and every team in this league can beat each other."
North Carolina head coach Roy Williams
Opening statement:
"I am so proud of my team. To bounce back in such a short time makes me even more proud. When you look at our schedule and we have two games in three days, three times this year and nobody else has it more than once, you can't sleep sometimes. But for us to bounce back and play with the amount of composure we had makes me very happy. We have an awfully happy lockerroom today and we had a very sad one Thursday."
"I love the Wake Forest team. But we were able to mix in some zone to slow down the pace of the game. It was the old point zone that I learned when I played on the freshman team with Coach Smith and Coach Guthridge. It was the first game this season that we used it. We made some boo-boos, but in the end it was effective in stopping their penetration."
On Rashad McCants:
"I was a little concerned with Rashad McCants. He had gotten nicked up late in the Duke game and I sent him back to the locker room to try to loosen up today."
On Raymond Felton:
"I look at the stat sheet and Raymond Felton had no turnovers. And obviously his three-pointer was a big time three pointer."
On Melvin Scott's first half:
"For him to go 7-for-9 from the floor was big. In the first half he was really all the offense we had."
On the short span between Thursday's game and today:
"These are 19, 20 and 21-year-old kids that feel they can handle anything. I told them before the game that they could not be tired, because they're young kids. We spent most of practice just walking through what we thought Wake Forest would do. We took our top seven guys and made them coaches as the next 10 guys scrimmaged each other. We tried to get the guys
On difference in tempo from the first meeting this season:
"Last time, the score was 119-114, but you also have to remember, it was a 55-minute game. The tempo was definitely slower, but we do like to run as well. We were much better today with our transition defense. There were three times last game where Paul took the inbounds pass, went the length of the floor and got to the basket. We did a much better job of containing Chris."
On UNC's free-throw shooting:
"We probably shoot more free throws in practice than anyone else in the country. I told our kids that they just need to follow through and not fall back. And the kids did a great job."
On picking up a road win:
"I don't get caught up with whether games are at home or on the road. You just have to have the attitude that you can go somewhere else and play well. We've let a couple other games on the road slip through our hands."
