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Louisiana Tech Post-Game Quotes
Florida vs. Louisiana Tech – November 19, 2002
Head Coach Keith Richard
"Well, coming into this game, my biggest concern playing in Gainesville, which is a huge task in itself, was
turnovers in our half court offense. I think the Florida Gators, their press and their offense get a lot of
media hype, but in reality, I think they play very good half court defense. If you look back on last year's
team, their defensive field goal percentage was 40 percent, which is very, very good. I think it is underrated
what they do in half court man-to-man defense and a little bit in their zone."
"As we came into this game, being our first game, we were really concerned about turnovers in our half
court offense because I knew the way they break out of their half court defense on their offensive transition
on which can lead to an easy pass, which we couldn't defend against. Somewhere in that first half, the
turnovers started coming and really kind of poured out, which got them out to a lead and really swung the
momentum of the game. To me, that was the story of the game. It was our inability to handle the ball in the
half court offense against their half court defense. With that, when we did find someone else who could
score besides Antonio Meeking, we didn’t do a good job when we went down in a motion offense, we
weren't patient enough. These are growing pains for us."
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Originally Posted by Dawg04
