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Postgame Quotes - Nebraska 66, UCLA 58
POSTGAME QUOTES
Nebraska 66, UCLA 58
Lincoln, Neb. (Pinnacle Bank Arena)
January 4, 2025
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Mick Cronin, The Michael Price Family UCLA Menโs Head Basketball Coachย
on UCLA being down two players (Eric Dailey Jr. and William Kyle III)
โWe were missing Eric but I donโt like that stuff. Itโs still 5-on-5. Itโs not hockey, itโs not a power play. Weโve got guys on scholarship that canโt go 4-for-28. Thatโs pretty much the game.โ
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on the performance by UCLAโs guardsย
โDylan Andrews has got to play way better. Dominick Harris and Trent Perry got opportunities today โ they played a combined 17 minutes, neither one of them scored. I told them that they would get opportunities with Eric out, but in 17 minutes, they couldnโt get a basket. It didnโt help that Skyy took a couple shots in his shoulder and couldnโt be effective in the second half.โ
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on UCLA committing 15 turnovers at Nebraska
โBad. If you shoot the ball as poorly as we did, the only chance you have is to take care of the ball. You canโt give up 17 points off of your turnovers. Youโve got no chance. You canโt overcome it.โย
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on sophomore center Aday Maraโs performanceย
โHeโs getting better and better. When we only have two big guys, with Eric and Will [Kyle III] out, itโs hard to play him and Tyler together, although I would like too more. But itโs hard. When you play them both together, they get tired at the same time. Aday continues to get better. I would love to play him a lot more.โย
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on Eric Dailey Jr.ย and his status
โHeโs day to day. Hopefully heโll be ready Tuesday.โย
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on Nebraskaโs environment
โI donโt really believe in that. I believe in coaching and execution and players Their players were great on the defensive end, they were the better defensive team today, and thatโs why they won. I donโt think environment has anything to do with it. Itโs got more to do with Jevon Gary and Brice Williams.โย
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on the teamโs offensive strugglesย
โWe shot 42% from 3 as a team in December, today we shot 14%. There are some things defensively that Iโm upset with. Offensively, the turnovers were the problem. When you shoot it that poor, the only chance you have is to not turn it over.โย
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on Nebraskaโs Jevon Gary and Brice Williamsย
โReally good players. I didnโt know until my staff told me that Jevon was at Alabama when we beat them to go to the Final Four [in 2021]. That was a long time ago. I donโt know much about Briceโs past, I just know that heโs top five in the Big Ten in scoring. I look at effective field goal percentage. Heโs shooting 54 percent and 40 percent โ not many guys are doing that. Not many guys in the Big Ten are shooting over 50 percent from two and over 40 percent from three, that play big minutes. I would guess that heโs the only one.โ
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on Nebraskaโs defenseย
โThey do a good job, but Iโve got to be honest, we missed a bunch of open shots. They try to take the paint away, and when they know you canโt make a shot, they pack it even tighter. The floor gets real small and easier to defend when you canโt make a shot. But they did a good job.โย
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UCLA guard Lazar Stefanovicย
on the teamโs offensive performanceย
โItโs hard to win a game on the road in the Big Ten if you donโt shoot the ball great at all. Especially in the first half, we got good looks and couldnโt knock them in. In the second half, we let go a little bit defensively. When that happens, when you donโt use your opportunities, the other team, especially at home, will. We had our chances, our opportunities, and we didnโt make the best out of it.โย
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on todayโs turnovers
โI would say that more of them happened in the second half, Iโm not sure if thatโs correct, but thatโs how it felt playing the game. We started rushing a little bit there and we didnโt stay calm as a group, and we made mistakes out of it, which shouldnโt happen. We canโt have more turnovers, especially with how much we press defensively. We shouldnโt have more turnovers than the opponent.โ
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UCLA forward Tyler Bilodeauย
on the teamโs trouble from the three-point line
โWe missed shots, and thatโs going to happen some times, but weโve got to learn how to win without making shots. We had a lot of turnovers, which hurt us. We need to keep things more simple.โย
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on the teamโs turnoversย
โI think we were trying to do too much, we need to keep things simpler. Simple passes. Theyโre a good defensive team, and they were rotating a lot from the baseline, so we tried to keep everything in the middle. We probably should have executed that better.โ
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Nebraska 66, UCLA 58
Lincoln, Neb. (Pinnacle Bank Arena)
January 4, 2025
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Mick Cronin, The Michael Price Family UCLA Menโs Head Basketball Coachย
on UCLA being down two players (Eric Dailey Jr. and William Kyle III)
โWe were missing Eric but I donโt like that stuff. Itโs still 5-on-5. Itโs not hockey, itโs not a power play. Weโve got guys on scholarship that canโt go 4-for-28. Thatโs pretty much the game.โ
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on the performance by UCLAโs guardsย
โDylan Andrews has got to play way better. Dominick Harris and Trent Perry got opportunities today โ they played a combined 17 minutes, neither one of them scored. I told them that they would get opportunities with Eric out, but in 17 minutes, they couldnโt get a basket. It didnโt help that Skyy took a couple shots in his shoulder and couldnโt be effective in the second half.โ
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on UCLA committing 15 turnovers at Nebraska
โBad. If you shoot the ball as poorly as we did, the only chance you have is to take care of the ball. You canโt give up 17 points off of your turnovers. Youโve got no chance. You canโt overcome it.โย
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on sophomore center Aday Maraโs performanceย
โHeโs getting better and better. When we only have two big guys, with Eric and Will [Kyle III] out, itโs hard to play him and Tyler together, although I would like too more. But itโs hard. When you play them both together, they get tired at the same time. Aday continues to get better. I would love to play him a lot more.โย
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on Eric Dailey Jr.ย and his status
โHeโs day to day. Hopefully heโll be ready Tuesday.โย
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on Nebraskaโs environment
โI donโt really believe in that. I believe in coaching and execution and players Their players were great on the defensive end, they were the better defensive team today, and thatโs why they won. I donโt think environment has anything to do with it. Itโs got more to do with Jevon Gary and Brice Williams.โย
ย
on the teamโs offensive strugglesย
โWe shot 42% from 3 as a team in December, today we shot 14%. There are some things defensively that Iโm upset with. Offensively, the turnovers were the problem. When you shoot it that poor, the only chance you have is to not turn it over.โย
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on Nebraskaโs Jevon Gary and Brice Williamsย
โReally good players. I didnโt know until my staff told me that Jevon was at Alabama when we beat them to go to the Final Four [in 2021]. That was a long time ago. I donโt know much about Briceโs past, I just know that heโs top five in the Big Ten in scoring. I look at effective field goal percentage. Heโs shooting 54 percent and 40 percent โ not many guys are doing that. Not many guys in the Big Ten are shooting over 50 percent from two and over 40 percent from three, that play big minutes. I would guess that heโs the only one.โ
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on Nebraskaโs defenseย
โThey do a good job, but Iโve got to be honest, we missed a bunch of open shots. They try to take the paint away, and when they know you canโt make a shot, they pack it even tighter. The floor gets real small and easier to defend when you canโt make a shot. But they did a good job.โย
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UCLA guard Lazar Stefanovicย
on the teamโs offensive performanceย
โItโs hard to win a game on the road in the Big Ten if you donโt shoot the ball great at all. Especially in the first half, we got good looks and couldnโt knock them in. In the second half, we let go a little bit defensively. When that happens, when you donโt use your opportunities, the other team, especially at home, will. We had our chances, our opportunities, and we didnโt make the best out of it.โย
ย
on todayโs turnovers
โI would say that more of them happened in the second half, Iโm not sure if thatโs correct, but thatโs how it felt playing the game. We started rushing a little bit there and we didnโt stay calm as a group, and we made mistakes out of it, which shouldnโt happen. We canโt have more turnovers, especially with how much we press defensively. We shouldnโt have more turnovers than the opponent.โ
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UCLA forward Tyler Bilodeauย
on the teamโs trouble from the three-point line
โWe missed shots, and thatโs going to happen some times, but weโve got to learn how to win without making shots. We had a lot of turnovers, which hurt us. We need to keep things more simple.โย
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on the teamโs turnoversย
โI think we were trying to do too much, we need to keep things simpler. Simple passes. Theyโre a good defensive team, and they were rotating a lot from the baseline, so we tried to keep everything in the middle. We probably should have executed that better.โ
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