North Carolina
Armando Bacot: If you don't want to be here, go home
Armando Bacot speaks to the media after a 92-85 loss to Wake Forest.
I mean really, I just told everybody like I'm not gonna quit if you want to be here, be here on thursday if not just go home. Why did you feel like you, I mean go to university like this and just have no pride. I mean I'm not perfect either, but I love this university and just goddamn putting giving out that performance is just unexcusable, you know? Yeah, I don't know, that's what I don't get because we had two good days of practice and I mean, I thought like, I mean there's no question, I thought we're gonna come in this game and win and then we get out there and it's just like not communicating, all of us are communicating and it's just like I feel like just more worried about ourselves and it's just discouraging because like I want to win, that's why I came back, I want to win and coaches, they want to win. And it's just are you surprised that you guys came out to meet him tonight and are you in love with piston? Maybe more like a No, I'm not surprised because I mean it's happened more than twice this year. So it's our reality. But the thing about it is now is our back is against the wall. So like I told everybody, like people that want to play be here on thursday just go, yeah, yeah, I guess you could say that same thing. I mean he just wants guys to play with his personality. I mean, you look at our coaching staff, we got coach Davis had a great career here. Coach may everybody. I mean the passion is there and I mean we got the talent to do it, but like I told me Caleb RJ and leaky, like we came back for a reason and this now this isn't it? And I mean it starts with us for Pete wasn't here last year to play with us, so he doesn't fully know. We got a lot of freshmen and obviously our bench guys, they don't have as much experience and they start with us for and it's frustrating, it's frustrating. This one definitely hurt, but I'm not gonna quit. I love this university too much and I love the game of basketball too much to quit and like I told the guys like these next couple of days is gonna be hard because I mean, we did put on a bad performance and people gonna be mad and rightfully so you should be, but we gotta block out the noise and just keep playing. I'm not quitting. I mean, it was a quiet locker room, but I guess we'll see, I mean, we'll see you're doing us a disservice this University of the services fans and all the players that played before us to show up and not all be all the way in its frustrated the right word anymore. I feel like you guys have used that a lot this season. I feel like it's more than frustration from our perspective. Yeah, I mean for me it's just a sense of desperation, like I want to win and I want to be able to experience those things. Like I'm not sitting here saying I'm perfect either because I do mess up too, but I want to win and that's all I care about, that's all I wanna do. And I don't know what was the conversation about the first half performance wasn't a lack of energy or was it just wait for us to they were playing more desperate. What was the conversation about? Yeah, I mean it was just a desperation like in practice this week, I mean Marco was on the second team, he damn, it couldn't even get the ball to the three point line because he was he was playing such good defense and heating them up. Like I don't know, it's just and I was talking to coach sully, it's just like we do so great in practice and it just doesn't translate. And coaches saying it's just a block, it's something that's just stopping us from getting to that next level and I don't know what it is and it's trying to figure it out, but it's a block because we do everything right in practice. We got the talent but it's just like translating, it is hard, you guys aren't having fun anymore kind of thing, it feels like you guys maybe lost the joy losing sucks. I mean like I said, I hate it, I mean I get sleepless nights just thinking about it because that's all I wanna do. And are you having chemistry problems? I mean you guys are so tight and then here we are, you guys saying people want to quit. You're not talking. I mean what's going on there? I really don't know. I wish I could tell you. I don't know. Yeah, I was the only one I think everybody will show up on thursday said you called him out and said, if you don't wanna play, don't show up. Do you think that's my hope? I think so. Yeah, I mean, like I said it earlier, said it earlier to the guys. I mean we came here last and the same thing happened and that wasn't my plan. I didn't want to come in here and lose. I want to come here and win just specifically because how it went down here last year and just to lose to that team. I mean they're a good team, but I got way too much talent and way too many horses to not go out there and thanks