Chattanooga Basketball Postgame Quotes
Chattanooga at Eastern Kentucky
Alumni Coliseum – Richmond, Ky.
Tuesday – Nov. 5, 2019
Lamont Paris, Head Coach
On some of the guys seeing real game action for the first time in a while.
"It's a difference. Some of these guys haven't played that much. That's just the facts. You get in this type of game, specifically, and it's a hard game to come out and play college basketball. It's a hard game to go in there for the first time. But these guys are young, they're resilient. They're so resilient. This game only stings for us if we don't make adjustments. That's everyone from the coaches, to the players; we will get better with practice. This game was a good set up to get used to some things we'll see down the road. We have to get back to the lab and at the end of the day, we have to play well. We just didn't play well tonight."
On allowing 12-0 run to start second half.
"We did not recover from that. There were a couple stretches where we could have made a move, and we just kind of hovered there. We just didn't make enough plays. When you're going up against an enlarged run like that, it's more than likely due to missed shots and turnovers on your end. It was definitely a combination of both and something we can't have happen."
On the team's toughness and how it translates to success.
"In the first half, they [EKU] were just more aggressive than we were. They were hungry for those 50/50 balls, and we were on the wrong end of a lot of them. You just can't have that. This game is grimy. They way you have success is by being tough. If you aren't tough enough, then your skill level has to be super high and that's just not who we are right now. We have to be tough."
On the opening aggression from EKU & how things changed in the second half.
"They were aggressive around the basket. We did a better job in the first half and played more physically than we did in the second. I don't know if we changed anything in the second half. Ramon [Vila] got called for a tough foul at the rim and in result, you are naturally less aggressive after that. That's just what happens. I thought that was a big part of it."
