Bowling Green State University Athletics
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February 15, 2006 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 15, 2006
Recap | Final Stats | Notes
"I think that to start the game, we got any shot that we wanted. Layups, wide open shots, we didn't hit them. I'm not going to say that our team put our head down, but Akron is a good team. When you play on their home court you've got to take advantage of those things and we didn't."
"I thought that in the first half, the rebounds and the conversions killed us. I just thought that was what they got. At halftime, they had 11 offensive rebounds and we had eight defensive boards."
"I thought our defensive from half court was good, I thought we got ourselves involved pretty good, in terms of guarding the ball, but I think the offensive rebounds and conversions killed us."
referring to the defensive job Akron did on Samarco... "I thought they did a good job. He got a couple of good looks and missed them, but at the end of the day, they did a good job."
"I took him out in the first half because I didn't think he was guarding. Then we made a comeback so I started the second half the same way and it kind of went wrong the same way it did in the first half. And then when we put him back in he got hit and I didn't want to put him back in after that."
"I thought John (Floyd) was great. Nobody is competing harder than John. When you're playing Toledo, you're in your hometown, competing and something like that happens, the next thing you know, you get beat up for it."
"We got them on the glass. We talked about and worked on instead of just going up, shot faking and then go up. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done."
"Mawel (Soler) had a layup on the basket to start the game at our place, here Matt (Lefeld) has a layup to start the game. I don't think that got us down with the layup, but I think over the course of the game we had it on the rim. Now, would we have beat them? I don't know. They missed open threes, the didn't play their best game. But we got the ball where we wanted to get it."
Akron Head Coach Keith Dambrot
"I thought we played well defensively. We had a hard time with John Floyd, he has been playing well. We did well against their top players. This was a hard-nosed game, like a game of football, and we expected it against these guys. We cannot do everything well, but if you defend, you have a chance every night to win."
"We have done the same things for two years to improve our rebounding and I like to think we are getting better. Romeo (Travis) is playing better and I have been on him hard this year to get better."
"We are comfortable here. The crowd helps us a lot. I feel that this arena makes the court feel smaller, especially on defense."
