[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]Kentucky Men’s Basketball[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]UK vs. Transylvania[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]Postgame Quotes[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]Rupp Arena – Lexington, Ky.[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]Nov. 2, 2011[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[CENTER][COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B][U]Kentucky Players[/U][/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]#25, Marquis Teague, G[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On if they have a lot to work on…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“We came out really slow and they jumped on us early. We were taking bad shots and shooting a lot of 3s. We were letting them take open shots not playing defense as a team. So yeah we have a lot of things we have to work on.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On if he thinks Coach Calipari is happy with the way they performed tonight…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“Yeah, but he still wants me to keep working on my things and being more vocal on the floor and just not fouling as much. I picked up three fouls tonight and he just wants me to watch that.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On how physical Trasylvania played…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]“[/I][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]For them to be that small they played really aggressive and physical with out big guys. At first we were having trouble posting them, but they were really physical with the guards all night.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]#3, Terrence Jones, F[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On how he played tonight…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“I played alright. There were a lot more things I could have done better, but it is still just the first game.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On using a press during games…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“I think we are going to go to it a lot to get teams to play at a fast pace and just to rattle the game. It will help to our advantage.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On what Coach Calipari wants the team to do better this season in terms of shots…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“He felt it was obvious that we had a lot of misses down low and we started the game off with a couple of (bad) shots. He didn’t want Anthony (Davis) to kick it out to Doron (Lamb) for that 3. He just wants us to start the game down low and then open it up. We didn’t do that so it made us look bad in the beginning because we were loosing. We got better in the second half. We still have a lot of room for improvement.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]#14, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, F[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On being a starter, according to Coach Calipari…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“It’s great to know, but it doesn’t mean anything. I just want to win to tell you the truth, so it doesn’t matter who starts.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On playing as a team for the first time…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“We got a lot more to learn and just having fun, that is the main part.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On being on the court for the first time…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“It felt great. We got the win, that’s all that matters to me.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]#20, Doron Lamb, G[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On Michael Kidd-Gilchrist….[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“He plays just like DeAndre (Liggins). He is a great player and dug deep. He played good off the bench making shots and playing defense.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On how Coach Calipari wants them to play…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“He wants us to play harder than the other team and keeping working hard at practice.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On what he took out of this game…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“We have to take everything seriously. Everyone is trying to go hard on us, so we have to go hard out there” [/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On whether the team took the game seriously…[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“We took the game seriously. Everyone expected for us to blow them out, so we kind of came out there nonchalant”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[CENTER][COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B][U]Transylvania Head Coach Brian Lane[/U][/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]Opening Statement …[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“I appreciate all y’all coming out tonight. It’s such a historic game for the two teams. We approached this game as a way to try to help the University of Kentucky get ready for those early games in the season. There was not an intent at any time to come in and think we were going to win the game. We wanted to do some things offensively that they haven’t had to guard in practice. Early on we were executing the game plan, it was 11-4 and I was praying the power would go out in Lexington and those lights would go out so we could spend a little more time with that lead. When this game came about, I had a tremendous amount of respect for Coach Calipari and his staff for putting this game together. They could have played a lot of people and there were more ticket and parking requests and you all have no idea what they had to do to get this game together. We walked to the game and I don’t think there is any question the outcome of the game is my fault. That walk was a lot harder than I was expecting. It was a special time for us, I coached at the division one level for 10 years. In ’92 we played the national champion, Duke; in ’93 when I was at South Carolina we got beat by the national champion, North Carolina; in ’95 we got beat by the national champion, UCLA. I would love, this year, to have been beat by a national champion.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On how his team competed …[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“All I talked about in the pregame was compete and play with poise, there are so many issues going on before and as soon as you get out there and the ball goes up in the air you aren’t going to see the people in row RR in the upper deck, it’s back to playing basketball. As I told many people during the week, we are a none scholarship program in the NCAA division three, 440 schools in the NCAA but I am playing with guys that turned down scholarships to come to Transylvania to have the education opportunities that we have, to have the setting in Lexington. I was really happy with the poise, they competed hard. We subbed a little, you probably saw Brandon Rash is a special player, I kept telling Tom Eades please leave him in a little longer. The other official came up to me before the game and said, ‘you know I went to your dad’s basketball camp.’ I was hoping that we’d come out well, the first half was a perfect scenario of what we wanted to do but I had to keep yelling out quit trying to shoot three-point shots over Anthony Davis, the guy is 6-foot-15. I simulated it in practice in lay-ups but I had no clue I should have done it for three pointers. I made them shoot over a broom for two days inside, I would have never dreamed we’d have that many shots blow up in our hand from the three-point line.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On how good this Kentucky team is …[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“You saw in the second half. We knew that after the half they were going to come out and pick up their defense. This team will be very good. It’s hard when you play against the same guys every day. We were back screening, slipping screens and doing a lot of stuff different teams do. I think they have six freshmen on the team and they are certainly going to get better. It was what I wanted out of this game, for them to be able to go back and look at tape and say, ‘ok this is what Transy was doing in the first half, this is how it was going, this is how we make them better,’ I think they will be able to take things from this game, I appreciate coach Calipari holding up the ball there because a 100 on the board would have hurt.”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I] [/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[CENTER][COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B][U]Transylvania Players[/U][/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/CENTER]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]#22, Ethan Spurlin, F[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On his overall thoughts of the night … [/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“We want people to respect Transylvania basketball and people to see who we are. We came out good in the first half, especially the first 10 minutes. We came out focused and did what we were trying to do. We just played basketball. The game got away from us late in the game, our bigs got in foul trouble and I got four fouls. We just lost our focus a little bit. The main thing is we came out here, played hard and had fun.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On the stretch where he scored over Kidd-Gilchrist and Jones … [/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“It was just a stretch of plays where I happened to make plays. The shot over (Michael) Kidd-Gilchrist; I was surprised it got over his hands and went in.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On being matched up with Anthony Davis … [/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“He is a great player. He is really long and athletic. He knows how to use his wingspan. He is going to be a great player this season.” [/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][B]#34, Mike Satterwhite, C[/B][/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On playing in Rupp Arena … [/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“It was pretty intense with the big crowd and loud fans. I’m surprised we didn’t have more fans that were against us.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On having the lead early in the game … [/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“We knew that they were going to come out and they were going to give us open shots. We came out, hit some big shots and we really played our game there in the first few minutes.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”][I]On how good Kentucky can become … [/I][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=”Arial Narrow”]“They can be really good. We had guys trying to take shots 10 feet away from Anthony Davis and he still blocked the shots. At halftime, (Davis) had a bunch of rebounds and blocks. Terrence Jones is a beast. (Kentucky) can go really far this season.”[/FONT][/COLOR]
