Postgame Quotes - Stanford 107, UCLA 99
POSTGAME QUOTES
Stanford 107, UCLA 99 (2-OT)
Maples Pavilion – Stanford, Calif.
January 4, 2018
UCLA head coach Steve Alford
opening remarks
“It was just atrocious foul shooting, second half in particular, and atrocious defense. I thought we defended in the first half, our efficiency at halftime was 95. In the second half, it was 135. You're not going to win road games defending like that. I told them that you might have nights where the free throw doesn't go in; but the tenacity and the nastiness was not there in the second half. This team has to learn that's where you win games. We're not the super over-talented offensive team that we were a year ago, so we can't just rely on offense. I think our offensive efficiency was high again tonight. We scored enough – we did enough offensively, even with the bad foul shooting. But, we just didn't get any stops in the second half. We were up 12 with eight, nine minutes to go. It was Michigan revisited. We couldn't close it out, and we have to figure that out. Now we turn around and have to go try again at Cal.”
on Kris Wilkes and G.G. Goloman both fouling out
“We had guys foul out, they had guys foul out. Part of defending is not fouling. They had their share of foulouts, too – with Humphrey and Travis, both. We could not guard Davis. Davis was terrific. Pickens was terrific. First half, Travis was really good, we just didn't have an answer, really, for Pickens and Davis.
on UCLA’s effort
“We've had great effort all year long. It's more of a toughness issue of understanding how hard it is to win on the road, and you can't get up 12 to 14 points and relax. That's when we have to step on the throat. This team just hasn't learned that yet. Their effort now has to become really tough and nasty, and we haven't been able to figure that out consistently on the road. Holiday was really good in the second half. And Tom [Welsh] got hurt in the first half and that didn't help things. Welsh got hurt in practice [hit in the nose], then got hit again right when we started the game tonight. He had to get stitches.
Stanford 107, UCLA 99 (2-OT)
Maples Pavilion – Stanford, Calif.
January 4, 2018
UCLA head coach Steve Alford
opening remarks
“It was just atrocious foul shooting, second half in particular, and atrocious defense. I thought we defended in the first half, our efficiency at halftime was 95. In the second half, it was 135. You're not going to win road games defending like that. I told them that you might have nights where the free throw doesn't go in; but the tenacity and the nastiness was not there in the second half. This team has to learn that's where you win games. We're not the super over-talented offensive team that we were a year ago, so we can't just rely on offense. I think our offensive efficiency was high again tonight. We scored enough – we did enough offensively, even with the bad foul shooting. But, we just didn't get any stops in the second half. We were up 12 with eight, nine minutes to go. It was Michigan revisited. We couldn't close it out, and we have to figure that out. Now we turn around and have to go try again at Cal.”
on Kris Wilkes and G.G. Goloman both fouling out
“We had guys foul out, they had guys foul out. Part of defending is not fouling. They had their share of foulouts, too – with Humphrey and Travis, both. We could not guard Davis. Davis was terrific. Pickens was terrific. First half, Travis was really good, we just didn't have an answer, really, for Pickens and Davis.
on UCLA’s effort
“We've had great effort all year long. It's more of a toughness issue of understanding how hard it is to win on the road, and you can't get up 12 to 14 points and relax. That's when we have to step on the throat. This team just hasn't learned that yet. Their effort now has to become really tough and nasty, and we haven't been able to figure that out consistently on the road. Holiday was really good in the second half. And Tom [Welsh] got hurt in the first half and that didn't help things. Welsh got hurt in practice [hit in the nose], then got hit again right when we started the game tonight. He had to get stitches.