My first experience in Hawaii, some competition, and we got better as a team. Sheldon, any comments about the tournament and your experience here in Maui? We should put the focus on always getting better. We got better, even though we lost, we were satisfied with the loss, and we shouldn't be satisfied. After that Chaminade team, we grew up a lot as a team. Sheldon, do you feel like you and your teammates grew up this week? Everybody putting both feet in and playing for one thing, and that is the University of Texas. But the first thing that we've got to get is a consistent effort. There is a lot of basketball left, and we've got a lot of room for improvement. I've told these guys all along, if we figure it out, we've got a chance to be good. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports 1145 00:29:00 GMT US Open Insider Newsletter Dont miss your chance to receive USTA & US Open News, Section News, Shop News and more. But I do think that we've got to continue to grow. Toughness is doing it every time, doing your job every single time. You can play all the what ifs and this and that, but that's toughness. But I thought we came out and got better, but we didn't sustain it in the second half. I thought today we got closer to it, because this game is a tough game to get ready for. Maybe it was a little bit of an entitlement type attitude because of what I think our program has stood for and what guys have done before us. Did you grow up a little bit in the last three days?ĬOACH BARNES: I do think we got better, because I thought the first night we came out, and I don't think we could have beaten any team in the country. So we'll continue to do that if we get to a point where we can play 40 minutes of basketball the way we think a Texas basketball team should play. We talked to him, are you going to play? The effort came back in, we were taking guys out if they weren't giving us the effort on the defensive end. I thought guys like Connor Lammert who hadn't played very much. Offensively he did some good things, but more importantly was the effort he was trying to make on the defensive end.īut as a team, we can't turn the ball over the way we did, especially the guards, the guards, most all of them. There was nothing really good that came out of it, other than I thought that Sheldon really responded coming in. But, again, we don't understand the value of taking care of the ball in the second half. With our game today I thought early once we got things going defensively, we really did some good things and thought our offense was able to feed off that. So I want to really thank everyone for that. We're really proud of being a part of it. Everybody, I mean, from the time you get off the bus to the people you meet going into the locker room. Everybody associated with it, everywhere we go, it's unbelievable the way we're treated here. Coach Rick Barnes and guard Sheldon McClellanĬOACH BARNES: First of all, I want to really thank the people here with this tournament.
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