Zabian Dowdell Quotations

When they were tipping the ball around, I definitely thought something bad was going to happen. The angels were on our side.

I was surprised that he played. He's a strong kid, mentally and physically.

If we can?t establish anything inside that gives perimeter players a reason to be more aggressive on the outside. I think they took advantage of that tonight they were all up in us the whole night.

I felt like we had the experience this year to be able to close out close games, but unfortunately the record doesn't indicate that. It definitely hurts to go out like this.

I feel like we were owed at least five of these. But it always feels good to know we won on the way back home. It makes the ride a little bit easier.

He's definitely a big part of our team, and for us to be successful, we need him out there.

(Hamilton) tipped it, but like I said, the ref was kind of behind the call and didn't really get a good angle at it.

I think we did a good job defensively the entire game. I think our intensity on defense was great. I think that?s why we came out with the win today. Any time we can come out with that defensive intensity, we?re going to come out with the win.

You just try to make him laugh or just try to do things to take his mind away from it, because you know that he's thinking about it, and we're thinking about. We rarely bring it up. We just try to take his mind off it and keep him happy.

We were very aggressive in every game that we played against them.

We had trouble getting the looks we wanted.

We beat ourselves tonight. We didn't give a good enough effort on the defensive end. We gave them too many good looks at the 3. ... We just didn't close out the game.

We definitely don't have a great number of scoring options on this team, and teams can kind of key in on a couple of guys.

We definitely want to win all our home ACC games because our home court advantage is very important in the ACC. We've just got to be ready to play our hardest every game and do whatever it takes to win.

We gave them too many wide-open opportunities. I don't think we were as intense as we needed to be on the defensive end.

We want to have somebody in his face at all times, have a hand up.

We had a bunch of wide-open opportunities that we couldn't make.

We've had a chance game after game after game. I know I sound like a broken record, but it's true. As long as we continue to work hard in practice, everything will eventually take care of itself.

We just kept fighting. I was real optimistic. I just felt like something good was going to happen to our team.

We just waited too late to compete today. The bottom line is we're not getting the job done. We're not winning.

We just gave them too many extra possessions. Once again, we let them get offensive rebounds. ... That's been the story all season.

We lost a sense of urgency while guarding him.

Coach is an emotional guy and he lets emotions get the best of him at times.

That's what we hang our hat on. As long as we keep doing that well, we'll be all right.

They got a lot of easy second-chance opportunities. They had a size advantage on us. ... They kind of beat us around in the post.

They had some tall guys on me and it ended up I didn't see the basket. I had a better look the first time. It was much different this time.

You don't think about that stuff when you're out of the court.

At first, it was like we still have a chance to turn the season around. I still feel that way, but we just don't have as many games to do that. The frustration builds every game.

It's one of those things, you make some and you miss some. You've got to be able to deal with it, man.

It's going to be very tough. They've got (post player) Eric Williams down there, so we need somebody to step up and defend him. That's going to be a very tough game.

It sounds like a broken record right now.

It's definitely a surprise (to lose so many close games), but one of the encouraging things is that we've been in every game, so all we have to do is learn how to stay focused for every crucial possession of the game. I think we'll be alright.

It's very slim. It can come down to one or two possessions or maybe even a couple of seconds. You just have to be prepared for every situation in the game and right now, and I don't think we have that focus or that intensity that we need.

They were the deeper team. That took its toll.

I know his tendencies, and I'm sure he knows my tendencies. We definitely play off of each other and feed off of each other's energy.

I definitely didn't expect us to be in this position. Guys just have to be more conscious of the consequences of not playing hard and not boxing out.