11/23/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 22, 2008
GW at Auburn
Nov. 22, 2008
Post-game Quotes
GW Head Coach Karl Hobbs
On Auburn defense...
"It was a matter of Auburn being tougher and more physical in the second half. It came down to toughness on defense. We said at halftime, `Auburn is going to make a run. We just have to see how we will respond to it. We just have to play defense. Our defense failed us. We shot over fifty percent in the second half. It simply came down to defense and rebounding the basketball."
"In the first half, we were running our offense and setting some nice screens. We had nice fluidity in moving the basketball. Auburn tightened up on defense and we couldn't run our offense the way we wanted."
GW Junior Forward Damian Hollis
Thoughts on today's game against Auburn...
"We came out strong in the first half, and to sum it all up we came out with less energy in the second half. We deflated and they took advantage of it."
Thoughts on his performance...
"I wasn't worried about scoring; I was just worried about winning. The scoring just happened to come and I took advantage of mistakes the defense made and capitalized on it."
On what to take from the loss...
"We take it as the first half we played strong and we have to play the second half just as strong as the first half. We have to do everything the way we did in the first half and hopefully, we'll just come through with a win because if we ended the game in the first half; we would have won easily. We just have to put two halves together."
