Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Fall At Ohio
January 12, 2007 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 12, 2007
Recap | Final Stats
Bowling Green Head Coach Dan Dakich
Opening statement:
"We played unbelievably bad in the first half. I've told people that this is sometimes what you get with a young team on the road. I'm not sure they (Ohio) even played great. Defensively, they were pretty good. I thought they played better against Akron the other night than tonight. We tried to hang in there in the second half. On Tim's (O'Shea) side of it, it's hard to get a team to compete, when you're up twenty at half time and the team you're playing doesn't look so good. We'll try to figure it out and get going on the next game."
On the team's nerves:
"It's a young group and they've played in three pretty good environments, I thought Arkansas State was a really good environment and Green Bay was a really good environment. But this happens to us, in practice Tuesday was really good, I wish we had played a game. Wednesday we were slow. We were alright shooting around today. I try not to make anyone crazy before a game so I don't go around them, maybe I should, but we were off. We were flat out bad, the first half anyway."
On Ohio's defense:
"It was man-to-man and they switched a little bit, stayed in the lane. I know Nate (Miller) missed some wide open ones and Matt (Lefeld) missed a lay up but it wasn't even that. It was like I tell my coaches, sometimes practice is unwatchable. What do you fix? Conversion defense, that was ridiculous, first play of the game their post guy runs past another post guy and gets a three point play. I almost can understand a post guy running past a guard but (Leon) Williams is pretty distinguishable. It's like the first play of the game set the tone. We're lucky to lose by 18, I guess we're 17 points better than we were last year"
On Erik Marschall being back:
"I think Erik did a really good job, it was different having him in there. I think Otis (Polk) did a good job. Eric was telling me he was okay, but when we're down 18 with 5 minutes to go, if you break your foot I look stupid. So we took him out. I wanted to get him playing enough that he was back playing in the flow and feeling good about it."
On Martin Samarco:
He got some early looks but I thought they did a good job on him. Its always hard for a kid to come back after a game like that. The problem we had was that Martin was the only guy moving, everyone else was standing around. It's a motion offense, get some motion. It was like I couldn't get anyone to cut to the basket. We actually do work on it, you couldn't tell but we do. Unfortunately it didn't work."
Ohio Head Coach Tim O'Shea
Opening statement:
"I thought the first half was about as well as we've played all year defensively. We didn't give (Martin) Samarco anything, and we really did a good job closing out on them and making it very difficult for them to get the kinds of looks they usually get with their motion offense."
On BGSU's Samarco:
"During the second half I thought we allowed Samarco to get some good looks, he was just having one of those night where the ball just wasn't falling for him. He's not going to have too many nights where he goes 4-for-20, but tonight was one of those nights. That's life on the road. It's always hard to go into somebody else's gym and make shots; especially when you are the focal point of the other team's defensive game plan."
