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Andrew Carr, Kerr Kriisa, and Otega Oweh fielded questions from the media following the Wildcats’ 87-68 win over the Western Kentucky HillToppers.
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20 point win and and not you know shoot the ball great and and uh have it be an ugly win um but you know that that’s uh that’s the beauty of the of basketball you know you cannot feel you can feel not right and um you know we were just able to to keep battling through and and it was awesome most of the time you’d be happy with a 19point win I’m sure you still are happy to leave with a win in general but when this team has been averaging a 37 point margin victory at home does 19 feel really close um I don’t I know necessarily about uh close but certainly um we felt a lot more frustration in this game certainly in the first half as well um we just were out of rhythm I felt like you know our offense specifically um but you know the credit to Western they did a great job of pressuring us and trying to um you know take away what we’re what we’re looking for and uh we’re going to continue to grow and keep getting better at uh reading the the way that people want to defend us and and taking advantage of that and um you know punishing them for that so I’m excited Andrew how do you think you guys responded to to the physicality challenge of this game cutting to the basket attacking the glass and being able to pull us out that way yeah you know I think uh I think we did a great job responding considering we shot um as many free throws as we did you know they were being super physical and um you know we we tried to continue to to fight through that and and not let that um impact what we wanted to do um specifically offensively and so um you know I thought we did a great job of you know finishing our cuts and and winning the uh you know winning the catch a lot of times and um so I was really proud of the guys where we responded with that and um we we got to the line a lot as a result Andrew in a game as a defensive as that how did you manage the offense yeah you know I think you you know I’ve talked about it before but we rely on our defense a lot you know I think that’s the the Cornerstone the backbone of what we do and so um you know regard list of how our offense was going I felt like we um continue to do a great job defensively you know they they’re super uh they play super fast they’re a super high-paced team and and um you know I was really proud of the way that we you know we we always talk about wedging crashing offensive glass as hard as possible but um you know that’s the the first part of our defensive transition and the way we run back um you know we knew that they were going to try and put pressure on us and and um do that early in the early in the clock so uh I was really happy with the way that we were able to respond and hold them um out of transition as much as much as possible so two games got kind of physical this is the second one that got within single digits in the second half can move both those games you were the leading scorer and you stepped up that coach he that opposing coach even talked about it is those big moments when you like to step up or is it just doing your job um I say it’s probably more doing my job I think you know I I you know love to try and you know when the the team is doesn’t feel right um you know as a an older guy I’ve been in you know high intensity situations a lot in my career you know as a lot of uh my teammates have but um you know I definitely just want to step up and and play as best as possible especially in those moments when we’re struggling and um you know be able to to be someone that the team can rely on for that so Andrew you got swarm style defense Western for you what did you do to kind of alleviate that and find looks where you yeah you know I think uh crit again credit to them they did a great job of getting us kind of out of our Rhythm a little bit but um you know we we always just talk about um winning the the gaps you know they’re a heavy Gap team a heavy you know they help a whole lot when um you drive and things like that so just being super ball tough and and strong with the ball I felt like um it kind of uh uh in the first half we turned it over I think seven times or something like that so you know it didn’t feel like ourselves kind of we a little loose with the ball at times and so you know we did a great job of of responding and being super tough um you know and and you know making them foul us is kind of how it ended up towards especially towards the end of the game and um we got to the line a whole bunch of times so and with the way you guys shoot threes how much has it help you on the defensive end defending the threes you guys have been one of the better teams in the country at it just you guys do it in practice every day right so yeah no definitely I think that’s a point of emphasis for us as well uh being there on the catch is something that we talk about all the time and um you know having to go through the summer and for me it made me so much better guarding Ansley most of the summer cuz that guy just is a lethal shooter and I’m sure a bunch of the other guys can talk about that as well with whoever else they regarding having to to battle every single day in the summer so um you know we’re we’re super um used to that being able to try and take that away it’s definitely a point of emphasis for us and you know we we’re at our best defensively when we’re we’re there on the catch it gives us a chance I feel like uh for us to stay in front and be able to keep keep guys out of the lane a little bit more and so um you know it’s been awesome I think that that is definitely a big part um of how we’re able to to defend the three as well as we do Andrew their coach was very complimentary of your game tonight said you you got 18 He said it didn’t even look like you were trying to score and you got 18 meanwhile coach hope gets up there and says I want him demanding the ball more and seeking that out which where does the real Andrew um you know I think uh in my heart I’m going just make the right play all the time um and so for me continuing to grow as a basketball player it is that demanding that mindset about demanding the ball and so um these last couple days in practice that’s been some of my goals even just one time two times something like that is demanding the ball um you know I I I put in put in a whole lot of work to um to be able to be an offensive threat for us and so um for me to to be able to try and have that mindset um you know it helps the the whole team you know and so uh I am continuing to try to to grow in that I’m um you know I’ve been through this uh for four years and know that there are certain games go whatever way that they go and depending on who you’re playing and matchups and all those things so um you know I I try to just make the right play every single time but I’m trying to continue to grow into that demitting the ball um just means to be uh grateful I mean all situations um I mean there’s a lot of things that may not go your way but as long as you wake up every day to do the things you love which it’s for us is play basketball um just be happy and grateful for another opportunity you all fac a little adversity in that second half when they cut it to six which you all able to regroup what what does that do for this team to show that you know you can battle through adversity especially first time at home uh we needed a game like that um cuz it just showed us that we had to fight back and find other ways to win cuz we weren’t doing so well in the offensive end so we had to dig down get some stops so um I mean we just need a game like that just to dig down deep and just try and find a way how much different were they than any other team if youve played so far oh they was they was really good um obviously they was they’re an experienced team I think they returned like eight guys and they they made it to a tournament last year so obviously they know what they doing so I mean they play with a good pace and um it was definitely challenge that we needed for sure what was the halftime speech from from Pope like um it wasn’t really a speech um he likes to just let us talk and uh just figure out what we got to do um ask us what we see out there and stuff like that so A lot of it was kind of visible um they was driving us a lot so we had to guard our yard um we had to get some more boards I think halftime we only had like two more rebounds in them or something like that so um lot of it was just trying to just get back to what we do be more be the more aggressive team cuz they were in the first half a little bit Thanksgiving coming up what you most looking forward to on Thursday uh the food for sure um I feel that’s a day where you can just really just go crazy and eat so I mean I love food so that’s really I’m looking for what you go to on Thanksgiving um I’m a big candy Ys uh fan now so anything anything I eat is going to have candy Ys on it for sure so i e a natural dish uh turkey stuffin mash potatoes mac and cheese so candy Gams you’ve been very consistent how do you keep the consist consistency up um I mean just going into every game with the same mindset just trying to be aggressive on both ends of the ball cuz I feel that’s what I bring to the team just being um a two-way player so um I mean I’m just trying to be aggressive every single game do the things that I can control so what about the the game that Andrew had yeah and K po even mentioned they’re trying to ask him to demand the B yeah yeah I mean it was that was huge because um obviously he a nice guy so you’re just trying to get him to be more aggressive and know that when he whenever he gets into the paint like he can just finish right over guys so I feel like that was just big for him to have a game like that cuz um what he have like 18 and 10 he was dominating the boards he was scoring so I mean when he’s when he’s going that’s when we had our best out I say so I mean it was a great overall game forre you kind of spoke on it but can you talk about the confidence after just having a more well-rounded game and not just having the offense be the key talking point yeah I mean um we get to go back and obviously see that we’re not just an offensive team cuz we had to get stopped cuz our offense wasn’t really going so I mean games like this is huge for us and Pope kept on preaching saying that he loves that we’re in a game like this where we have to dig down deep and find other ways cuz um when you get to March and when it’s like the second half and game’s close and obviously it’s going to be a physical game which it was today I say you just have to find other ways to just be effective and we did that you guys talk about you know having fun and that’s when you play your best is that a fun situation for you guys or do you find a lot of stress in that n very fun I feel like as as basketball players as you live in situations like that just in terms of just seeing how you got to really bounce back and seeing how you got to come together as a unit cuz um obviously it was a lot of frustrating things that go on the game but it’s how you come back and how you respond so I mean when it when when you could definitely come out on top when all those things are happening is really fun was that a a little bit of a different book that they showed you guys defensively that maybe you needed to see uh yeah a little bit they was um they was really aggressive on kind of the plays we run just trying to jump the lane stuff like that so I mean as we uh just keep on playing together and look at the film we can see other ways to like combat that but yeah it was it was a little different for sure what about their offense I mean did it feel like they were notic faster than any oh man sorry I’m sorry I like their offense were they def L faster do you feel like than any opponent you played so far yeah they was pretty fast um we kind of knew that come into the game too that um pop was saying like we can’t even once we score we can’t celebrate you got to turn around and get back cuz they looking to just kick it ahead so um we play fast as well so that’s something that we kind of used to but they definitely were playing well not want to celebrate play though it’s very tough very tough especially in games like that where it was up and down you just got to show motion maybe I slipped up a couple times but it was fun yeah you guys were able to grind out this game is that what’s the lck for you guys to be able to do that what it say about the team um this just shows that we’re resilient um just always got to find a way even when the ball’s not falling we didn’t shoot it well but I mean we just had to find another way to win cuz we can’t just rely on the offense cuz a lot of obviously teams are going to scout teams are going to see what we do and try to sh us down really really hard so we have to find other ways and when we could defend we we have a lot of guys that can defend and turn defense into offense so I feel that’s kind of what we did today is there a way for you to kind of compare where your game is now compared to this time last year you know where it’s become different and you know how much you feel like that is playing for pop or just being at Kentucky sh I was really just going to say I mean I’m at Kentucky so it’s I feel like it’s a lot different just being here playing in front of everybody um atmosphere is different um my game I feel like it had to grow and for the system that coach uh coach Pope runs in terms of just you know the movement the spacing um cutting hard all those things so I would just say um I mean coming here obviously has been great and it’s it was adjustment for sure but it’s all for the better Coach pona mentioned tonight that really the main goal was three-point defense going into this game what did you guys see pressure was from Beyond The Arc that made it harder to shoot thre tonight for us yeah um I mean they was just trying to like jump jump the wings a lot um we don’t like the way we get our threes it’s not from like off dribble so it’s off like cutting and like coming out the corner and doing all those stuff so they were kind of jumping those trying to make us like go back door and stuff like that so um we just had to find other ways to score I would say and we have a lot of guys that can shoot the ball obviously and know we have guys that can get downhill and um make a play so um just not being onedimensional and just playing basketball really coach you said a lot that you were one of the most consistent players on this team to know that to know the fith that he has in you as a player is it good knowing that when you guys get into stretches maybe like you guys had in the second half they can turn to you you’re always going to be there for something um yes I mean it’s definitely a good feeling um I always want to be on the court in all situations even if you’re not playing well you just want to be out there making an impact so I mean for me is I just want to go out there and win and whatever I got to do I would I’m going just go do it if I got to defend happy to do that if I got to score happy to do that as well so um just I mean just being out there and being reliable I feel is Def is definitely something that I’m happy of Coach both talked about the importance of of winning in different ways for you guys to learn that this early in the season when the three is not falling you can still cut just how helpful is that for you guys at this point in the season huge um cuz all all games aren’t going to be pretty um the ball’s not always going to go in we’re not going to shoot well from the three we shoot a lot of thre so um just find other ways to win I mean Pope always preaches that and we did that today so you know just always staying aggressive in terms of we we just got to keep on shooting cuz um we wedge we crash the boards every single time so when the ball’s not going in we could create more possessions by getting offensive rebounds stuff like that so uh just staying aggressive in all aspects of the game we’re in another game how does it feel to be a BBN Invitational Champion great great wish um great I’m not going to say anything else are you going to go cut down cut down the nuts out out there no we CAU we caught Nets in in uh late a early April and late March just what was it like to win a slugfest game where where it got physical and and Chippy and and win winning this way instead of kind of the way you’ve been winning uh I mean it was good for us uh just to know more about our team that we can also win the scrappy games not only you know high scoring even though we still scored like 90 like none of us really felt good offensively but we scored 90 so you know but I think yeah it just shows a lot about our team and our great and uh find different ways to close out games and and yeah what did western throw at you to kind of make it tougher they were they were aggressive and uh you know they came in here with obviously nothing to lose uh so you know they played Super freely um you know a lot of iso balls so you know people are telling that we’re not good Defenders so it was it was a good test for us to kind of you know just uh play Team defense and and individually too uh so it it was good game for us what can you say about Andrew’s performance tonight great I mean I don’t want to say I mean it’s it’s expected uh he knows that U and he delivers uh so and thing with Andre is even if uh you know he can he can really influence the game without putting up you know I don’t know what he had numbers but he put num up yeah uh so he he can he can he can help us win different different ways uh not only statistical ways r on Def how good of a test was this for you guys to um you know heading into SEC play down the road to uh build you know what you guys need to yeah defense things yeah I mean we need every game right now we can get uh you know we played a lot of lot of different teams with different styles and uh like I said I mean they’re they’re a good team they’re going to be in NCA tournament um they’re Scrappy um so you know they play I don’t know eight nine guys U pretty pretty good rotation so it it was a good game for us we needed she faced a little bit of adversity there in the second half when they cut it to six what’s to say about this team that you was able to regroup and take over from there yeah uh just our togetherness nobody went sideways uh I think that shows our uh how how mature we are and uh um um yeah um just just happy that we got the win and uh the way we played how much different were they than any other team you faced so far this season yeah they they play a great aggressive you know guys were picking up full court uh um offensively they’re very you know they play ISO ball a lot uh trying to get to their spots um so it’s a little bit different team to play against and you know team these teams can get dangerous because you know if they start making their their uh their you know they get to the spot they start making their shots I mean they get their confidence and and you don’t want to leave these games in the end be point point game uh so uh yeah I’m I’m I’m happy how how we play defense really Happy Thanksgiving is on Thursday what are you most looking forward to about Thanksgiving I’m European uh Thanksgiving long enough though yeah uh with time I guess uh looking forward to go to coach’s house so that’s usually what’s the what’s the theme and usually team is there and just U you know being thankful is there any of the food you’re looking forward to over at Coach House no I absolutely no than Thanksgiving food is not my eats I don’t I Absol and I absolutely hate it absolutely hate it I don’t ham like green beans like this is that’s not my food what’s your food not that not that not that yeah I’m not a fan and uh so yeah usually I’ll be I’ll be hitting like uh canes or something that night so you trying to get through it yeah yeah just another day you you can’t out and hit a few big threes tonight and uh tonight you know when you were out there you hit a few of those shots what’s it like when the BBN kind of gets behind you guys after those big shots yeah I mean I’m just looking forward uh to uh really like play uh so but I mean it means a lot it means a lot for us uh we don’t take that for granted uh you know again I don’t know I don’t think it was completely sold out but it was almost so you know you don’t ever take this game games granted uh once I go overseas I mean you you’re never going to have 20,000 people on Tuesday night in a gym so uh I really cherish this moments right now can you just talk about Andrew Carr’s performance tonight yeah he phenomenal uh but he’s he’s been phenomenal every night even if you know statistically he not there but he impacts the game so many ways that maybe you know guys who just watch the freaking stats wouldn’t understand so uh you know it’s expected from him um and he delivers every night when you guys offens quicking how are you guys able to you know find another way to win the game I mean defensively you know couldn’t the basket making layups things like that when the three-pointers aren’t really follow yeah uh I mean offensive rebounding is really big for us uh because we do shoot lot of Threes so a lot of long rebounds so I think we we won the defensive uh rebounding battle pretty pretty with high amount and also what was cool for us for me especi to see was that we got to the free throw line uh I think we haven’t done that a lot this year yet maybe a few games ago we had I don’t know six or seven free throw attempts so it was pretty cool that we can actually get to a line too uh which we haven’t really shown before and and even me I mean uh I got my first free throws Thanksgiving week what are you thankful for H Thanksgiving week what are you thankful for thankful for my first free throw that’s it no I’m actually I’m thankful for a lot of things for my family for this family BBN um um you know there’s uh there’s a lot of things to be thankful for and U you never can take these moments and um things for granted any favorite Thanksgiving dish you want to tell him he doesn’t do Thanksgiving huh no I absolutely hate the food yeah yeah I’m not very big uh I like the idea of Thanksgiving but the food is um it’s not it what have you tried that you didn’t like I mean the ham and all like it’s just funny for me how like you all eat just like a big ass ham like it’s ham with like beans like I don’t know it’s just I’m not a big fan of it what about dessert like pie yeah uh pumpkin pie I guess is that what it is and something with apple pie apple pie apple pie is solid in Italy they said that if you eat apple pie then like you’re old and your teeth is about to fall off so just a fun fact was Jo’s plans
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