North Carolina
Black: Got to figure out what get's us going before a game
Leaky Black speaks to the media following a 76-67 loss to Pitt.
josh Graham go ahead leaky. It seems like with Justin out Dawson out that you guys are having to run more zone and Armando is out to neutralize some of this size as as somebody who prides himself on the defensive end? How strange is it to play this much zone? Um It is a little strange but at the end of the day we just gotta find a way to get stops man. You know, I felt like they were scoring their will on us, you know, from start to finish and uh I felt like zone kind of bothered them a little bit and this wasn't enough Lucas Nikki, how would you evaluate pits inside presence today? Um Yeah like I said it was just they were scoring, it felt like it was just scoring at will, you know, sometimes we were right there, we play good d but we'll build them out, you know, put them on the free throw line, digging ourselves in a in a deeper holes and it was just giving them life and it was just feeding off of it. Andrew Vicki, can you put into words um kind of what's going through your mind right now after this kind of performance against the team that had won two straight but overall had really been struggling this year. Yeah. You know it's it's disappointing you know, but um you know there's really nothing we can do about it now. We just gotta really lock in for saturday. Um Virginia tech is a big time game and we really got to get that one. Were you guys ready? Do you think that the readiness was there at a level that needed to be? Or was something missing? Yeah, obviously it's not, I don't think it was, I don't think we were ready at the level we needed to be, you know, we came out sluggish and got him off. Thank you Greg. Hey lady, we've seen a number of these slow starts. Is there anything you can put your finger on that kind of explains why why this is happening over and over again? I just feel like we uh we really get complacent, you know? Um I feel like, well obviously we've all seen the big time women, we just had, you know, against florida state. You know, when we're all playing good, we're all locked in. We could do stuff like that. But then again, we come out later egg like we did tonight. Is this two up and down? You know, we really gotta find a way to be more consistent down the stretch. You know, it's gonna be huge for us. It's gonna be tough, but we just gotta find a way. Thank you adam, leaky. That's where I was going with it. I mean, is it when you talk about being too up and down and and how great you guys played saturday compared to tonight. I mean, is it just does it not even make sense to you in some ways, You know what I mean? Like is it just hard to get your mind around the highs and the lows of this team? All right. Um Obviously, you know, we really don't have the answers for it. Otherwise we will prevent it from happening. But you know, it's just at the end of the day, we all got to figure out what really gets us going before a game, you know, night in and night out, you know? No matter who the opponent is, where we're playing, no matter, you know what I mean? Is this we really gotta figure out a way to does not take our opponents lightly or, you know, just wait until we're down 20 again to come back and, you know, now let's start playing like, no, like, just do it from the jump and we won't have to worry about that, you know? But I don't know. I really don't have the answers. I'm kind of tired of talking about that. But, you know, he's really gotta gotta keep it one game at a time, man. We can't look ahead. We gotta keep it one game at a time. That's really Yeah. Alright, Last one Ross. Hey lady, what was um the mood of of Coach Davis in the postgame locker room? What was he telling y'all? What was he was kind of upset with us? To what what would you say? His emotions were in the locker room with y'all. Yeah. Like I said, he's piste off, you know, I would be too, you know? uh, I am to, you know, is this we all know the potential of this team. And it's just like we get complacent. You know, we we think we're just gonna, you know, other teams just gonna roll over this, we've got to north Carolina on our chest. Now, it's opposite, You know, they see the north Carolina and they're going to attack us. You know, it's going to be their best game. You know, that's there. The games, they want to get their pro Tate whatever, you know what I mean? It's just, I don't know, we really got to um, figure out a way to to stop, stop the bleeding on this, because this is really up and down. Is this? I don't know, but we can't do that anymore. Thank you. Thank you leaky. Thanks everyone.