Postgame Quotes – Stanford vs. UCLA
POSTGAME QUOTES
UCLA 79, Stanford 72
March 13, 2019
Pac-12 Tournament (First Round)
UCLA interim head coach Murry Bartow
opening remarks
“Well, I'm glad that one is over. But, I thought it was a great win for our guys. I thought our guys competed hard, fought hard. We haven't played a lot of man to man over the last couple of months, and you've been telling me to play more man, so I decided to play more man tonight. But in all seriousness, our guys really I thought competed incredibly hard, defended hard. We had four guys in double figures, so we shared it a little bit. We moved it a little bit. We had two guys in double figures. It's not every day that a point guard gets a double-double with points and rebounds. That's a pretty neat double-double for him. I thought Jalen Hill was great. I thought Chris Smith had incredible focus and got us off to a tremendous start. Kris Wilkes was good. The key to the game for us was on the defensive end. Okpala is a good player. Davis is a really, really good player, and we hold Davis, obviously he was probably still a little gimpy from the ankle. We did a nice job on Davis, nice job on Okpala. We're excited to be moving on and playing a really good team tomorrow.”
on what went into the decision to play much more man-to-man defense
“Well, we played it exclusively at Utah in the second half. And I thought we defended well in the second half of the Utah game. We were way down. The second half we fought hard and competed hard, and we were basically in 20 minutes of man. We worked on man Monday and Tuesday. We didn't expect to play 40 minutes of it tonight, but it was pretty good to us and we just stuck with it.”
on how the man-to-man defense helped UCLA
“I thought it was good. I thought defensively we defended better. We guarded the three better. We just felt, as a staff, it would help us maybe early in the game to give us a little more pop and juice, and obviously on man you've got a little more accountability. You've got that guy, you've got that guy. Zone is not quite as much accountability. So it was very effective. It was very effective. I thought late in the game we got a little sloppy defensively, a little sloppy offensively. Stanford is a good team, a well-coached team. They beat us 24 [points] up there, so this was a good one for us to get.”
on the status of freshman David Singleton, and Moses Brown not playing as much in the second half
“David Singleton is still being evaluated. We'll know in a little bit. Don't know yet. But still being evaluated. Moses Brown, I love him, but Jalen Hill was just playing better. So we played Jalen Hill more at the five because of that. Again, I think everybody that talks to me knows I'm a big Moses Brown fan. But we're going to play the guys that are playing the best. If you look at our minutes tonight, Jaylen played 35, Chris played 35, Kris played 33, and David played 33, and Jalen Hill played 26. We stuck with that five a lot. Again, nothing necessarily that Moses didn't do well, it was just Jalen Hill had a double-double tonight and played really well. And we just stuck with that group.”
UCLA guard Jaylen Hands
on him and Jalen Hill each making six of seven free throws, and how that helps the team
“I think it contributed a lot. They fought us down the stretch, so we had to make sure we made our free throws to secure the game. [Jalen] J-Hill is a big, so for him to make six out of seven, he's really good.”
on a rematch Thursday versus Arizona State
“I know for me this is an exciting time because this is win or go home. We’re going to go to our hotel, whatever we do, we'll watch the last game. Tomorrow we've got to play well.”
on his baskets that helped UCLA to open a double-digit first-half lead
“Just trying to do what we have to do to get us a win. I felt we were up, we were up for a while, we didn't really extend it. I thought if I could score, give other people options, just get off the ball and get other people to score, we'd be in a better position. That was really what I was focusing on.”
on the Bruins taking a 26-point lead and seeing it fall to just five points
“It's the Pac-12 Tournament, so no one is going to come in here and lay down for 40 minutes. So, we expected them to come back, and we came out and we won.”
UCLA guard Chris Smith
on how important it was for the Bruins to get off to a strong start
“I think the man defense helped us getting into the guys, being more physical, making them feel us. We didn't have fouls in the first half. We had a lot more in the second. Man really deters a lot of guys, like KZ and Daejon. They like to get a lot of buckets, but we held them to like 9 and 0. It deterred them from doing a lot of things that they're used to doing.”
on a rematch Thursday versus Arizona State
“We lost last time at home. It was kind of crushing. We didn't want to and it was a bad loss. We'll come back with a vengeance, I know we all are. It's win and go home, so that's the only thing we want to do, is win.”
on the Bruins taking a 26-point lead and seeing it fall to just five points
“They had nine passes, which is really messing up our plays. So it was messing up like our functionality and our smoothness. It was kind of getting us caught up little bit, and we turned it over, and missed shots led to fast-break points. We've got to clean that up, fast-break defense, and talk more defense, as well. Because guys were getting open shots that they shouldn't have.”
UCLA 79, Stanford 72
March 13, 2019
Pac-12 Tournament (First Round)
UCLA interim head coach Murry Bartow
opening remarks
“Well, I'm glad that one is over. But, I thought it was a great win for our guys. I thought our guys competed hard, fought hard. We haven't played a lot of man to man over the last couple of months, and you've been telling me to play more man, so I decided to play more man tonight. But in all seriousness, our guys really I thought competed incredibly hard, defended hard. We had four guys in double figures, so we shared it a little bit. We moved it a little bit. We had two guys in double figures. It's not every day that a point guard gets a double-double with points and rebounds. That's a pretty neat double-double for him. I thought Jalen Hill was great. I thought Chris Smith had incredible focus and got us off to a tremendous start. Kris Wilkes was good. The key to the game for us was on the defensive end. Okpala is a good player. Davis is a really, really good player, and we hold Davis, obviously he was probably still a little gimpy from the ankle. We did a nice job on Davis, nice job on Okpala. We're excited to be moving on and playing a really good team tomorrow.”
on what went into the decision to play much more man-to-man defense
“Well, we played it exclusively at Utah in the second half. And I thought we defended well in the second half of the Utah game. We were way down. The second half we fought hard and competed hard, and we were basically in 20 minutes of man. We worked on man Monday and Tuesday. We didn't expect to play 40 minutes of it tonight, but it was pretty good to us and we just stuck with it.”
on how the man-to-man defense helped UCLA
“I thought it was good. I thought defensively we defended better. We guarded the three better. We just felt, as a staff, it would help us maybe early in the game to give us a little more pop and juice, and obviously on man you've got a little more accountability. You've got that guy, you've got that guy. Zone is not quite as much accountability. So it was very effective. It was very effective. I thought late in the game we got a little sloppy defensively, a little sloppy offensively. Stanford is a good team, a well-coached team. They beat us 24 [points] up there, so this was a good one for us to get.”
on the status of freshman David Singleton, and Moses Brown not playing as much in the second half
“David Singleton is still being evaluated. We'll know in a little bit. Don't know yet. But still being evaluated. Moses Brown, I love him, but Jalen Hill was just playing better. So we played Jalen Hill more at the five because of that. Again, I think everybody that talks to me knows I'm a big Moses Brown fan. But we're going to play the guys that are playing the best. If you look at our minutes tonight, Jaylen played 35, Chris played 35, Kris played 33, and David played 33, and Jalen Hill played 26. We stuck with that five a lot. Again, nothing necessarily that Moses didn't do well, it was just Jalen Hill had a double-double tonight and played really well. And we just stuck with that group.”
UCLA guard Jaylen Hands
on him and Jalen Hill each making six of seven free throws, and how that helps the team
“I think it contributed a lot. They fought us down the stretch, so we had to make sure we made our free throws to secure the game. [Jalen] J-Hill is a big, so for him to make six out of seven, he's really good.”
on a rematch Thursday versus Arizona State
“I know for me this is an exciting time because this is win or go home. We’re going to go to our hotel, whatever we do, we'll watch the last game. Tomorrow we've got to play well.”
on his baskets that helped UCLA to open a double-digit first-half lead
“Just trying to do what we have to do to get us a win. I felt we were up, we were up for a while, we didn't really extend it. I thought if I could score, give other people options, just get off the ball and get other people to score, we'd be in a better position. That was really what I was focusing on.”
on the Bruins taking a 26-point lead and seeing it fall to just five points
“It's the Pac-12 Tournament, so no one is going to come in here and lay down for 40 minutes. So, we expected them to come back, and we came out and we won.”
UCLA guard Chris Smith
on how important it was for the Bruins to get off to a strong start
“I think the man defense helped us getting into the guys, being more physical, making them feel us. We didn't have fouls in the first half. We had a lot more in the second. Man really deters a lot of guys, like KZ and Daejon. They like to get a lot of buckets, but we held them to like 9 and 0. It deterred them from doing a lot of things that they're used to doing.”
on a rematch Thursday versus Arizona State
“We lost last time at home. It was kind of crushing. We didn't want to and it was a bad loss. We'll come back with a vengeance, I know we all are. It's win and go home, so that's the only thing we want to do, is win.”
on the Bruins taking a 26-point lead and seeing it fall to just five points
“They had nine passes, which is really messing up our plays. So it was messing up like our functionality and our smoothness. It was kind of getting us caught up little bit, and we turned it over, and missed shots led to fast-break points. We've got to clean that up, fast-break defense, and talk more defense, as well. Because guys were getting open shots that they shouldn't have.”