What Tommy Lloyd said after Arizona Wildcats’ loss in Kansas State

After winning six equals, Arizona has lost her second big 12 match of the season and fell in Kansas State on Tuesday night.

Here’s what coach Tommy Lloyd Won to say after the loss:

Lloyd’s thoughts about the game: “We just didn’t play well. We didn’t play smart. I thought we put ourselves in position (when), we got some kind of good break with a goal call they overturned. We are on the free throwing line next thing, I know we are seven and we spread it away. You just can’t do it on the road. I’m not saying you have to go up 13 o’clock at half the half, but it would be nice to be in the game and not be down six on half. To our guys’ credit they fought back. We took a lead and down the game and then I thought we were like in a good position to win it.

On the last minutes: “We just had a few kinds of unfortunate spectacles that happened, kind of back to back against back, and then you are kind of scraping and clapping and fighting for your life, and again we gave ourselves a chance for the last buzzer.

On 3-point shooting: “You hope you make more than two, just as I know they hope they earn more than one. I mean I can’t tell you why it happened. I think both teams made a good effort, defensively. Just kind of those nights when it didn’t go in. I’m not going to sit here and dwell on it. I’m not a guy who thinks the only way we win is if we’re doing shots. Does it make it easier? Certainly, but you know to me it’s an apology. It’s too easy to use. There are so many ways to win basketball games, and if you just sit there and say, ‘Ah, yes, it’s on the players to make shots, you know, make or miss.’ For me, it’s a little too simplified. “

On Caleb Love’s performance: “He didn’t play well. We’ll have to go back and look at why. I thought he had some good opportunities. He just thought he had a few of these triangles that were kind of towards the end of that game. The other half I thought so really good. So we hang on to it, just as we always do and hope for a better result next time. “

On broken plays: “Henri has the ball. They fall down. He is at eight meters. I mean he has a big float. Tobe, probably the best offensive rebounder in the country. Shoot it and let it tobe tip dunk it. Instead, you know he’s throwing it in there, and Kansas State has fast, athletic, quick jerky and they go up and get their hands on it. It ends up being a broken acting. I mean that one kind of stands out for me because I think we had a two -point lead on one. “

On the late incomes passes from Jaden Bradley: “It wasn’t desperation. It’s a spectacle, but JB has to throw a better care. He did not throw a good passport. I mean, afterwards, yes, now I would have called something else, but as we have worked with that game a lot, and something that we feel good about running in these situations, it was just, it was just a bit of a wrong care. It’s a game with high risk. You are down three with six seconds to go, a little desperation. They call it Time Out, so you probably expect them to bother. So if you inbound balls and dribbling it up, they get you, you have three seconds to go. It’s a tough decision you need to make as a coach. Apparently I didn’t make the right one or we didn’t do it well. “

On Tobe Awaka with two early violations: “It would be nice to have him more in the first half. Tob plays so well right now. It would be nice because you see how he affected the game in the second half. “

On what disturbed the offense the most: “They were handsy and they were aggressive and we just didn’t play strong enough with the ball. You know we had some problems early on it in the season and I think we’ve done a good job of tackling it. We turned back a little, but Kansas State gets a lot of credit because they were the one who made the game. “

About the performance of DUM McDaniel: “He’s talented. He is talented. He has confidence. He has courage. He made some Big Time acts down the stretch and you know he hit some really hard shots and he made him look really easy. So you know he gets lots of credit. I mean, he kind of, down the stretch of that game, hit kind of two floating bank shots from the right and you made them lightly. So it’s Big Time -Stake. “

On the defensive performance: “It’s tough shots. I mean you usually live with mid -range two. I’ll have to go back and look at them. Could we have contested it better? Could we have stayed and completed a posterior viewing competition? Should we have changed a little harder? I have to go back and see the exact acting. It was big time shots of him. “

On Kansas State as a team: “I mean, hey, I think they’re a bit like us. You know they fought for their season. They were a little more desperate team today and you could see and feel it, and that’s what good coaches do. Sometimes it doesn’t go as easily as you want to early and you continue to fight. We have been through some adversity this year and we have fought our way through it, and in no way I think it is over. I know that more adversity is coming. Then you know, as a trainer you want to hang with it. You will help your team review it and get out on the other side. I think Jerome has done a good job with it. “

On the atmosphere of Kansas State: “Love it. Love it. Let’s go ahead. I love the competition. Love how every night is tough. I have never been a guy asked for things easily. Then take it on. You know I can’t wait. It was an amazing atmosphere. Can’t wait to come back here and play again. “

About how hard it is to win on the road: “I coach to win every game, but I’m not stupid, I’m not naive. I know it’s hard and I know your opponents are trying really hard too, and I know it’s really, really hard to win on the road in college basketball. I’m not a pollyanna or something similar. I knew this would be a tough game today and I knew we would be lucky to get out of here with a win. That’s how we approached it and we were preparing to win the game, we got right up. “