MSU vs. Southeast Louisiana Post Game Quotes
Via Media Releations
MSU Head Coach Rick Stansbury
Opening Comments:
“Give Southeastern (Louisiana) a lot of credit in the second half. They stepped up and made some shots, attacked the zone and got the ball where they needed to get it to make some easy plays against it. I don’t quite know where to start with our team. I thought we had a couple of individuals just give everything they got; that doesn’t mean it is a very good team play. We had a couple of guys that just played as hard they could play for the amount of minutes that they played. It was very obvious what we had to attack them with tonight. We had several people not playing and did not have a lot of depth and had to go with what we had to go with. Unfortunately, we were not good enough to do enough things for 40 minutes to win that basketball game. Wesley Morgan, for him to play 33 minutes and Jamall Edmondson played 38 minutes. I thought those two guys gave everything they had.”
On the injuries:
“Piotr Stelmach and Dietric Slater both have ankle injuries. Charles Rhodes was sick yesterday and missed practice. I don’t know when I will have them (Stelmach and Slater) back, they have a lot of swelling in their ankles. Charles (Rhodes) will be back Wednesday.”
On missing those three players:
“I think it was very obvious. Three of those guys that are hurt are three of our top-five scorers and what little experience we have, Piotr (Stelmach) and Dietric (Slater) have a lot of leadership in them.”
On Jamall Edmondon:
“Jamall (Edmondson) needs to score for us, but right now we don’t have much rhythm offensively. We have too many people with one pass, one dribble and some shots are going up. We can’t execute as a team with everything going on out there right now. Edmondson is the one guy on the team that needs shots. He is a guy that can catch and shoot it and make plays. Unfortunately, he is having to force some things right now just to get some shots.”
On Wesley Morgan:
“What can you ask more of Wesley Morgan? He played 33 minutes and his body is probably not capable of doing much more than 20 minutes. For him to get 21 rebounds, that is pretty good for him.”
MSU Player Quotes
Jamall Edmondson
On limited players:
“It was real tough. The players that we did have didn’t have much experience. We were out numbered and inexperienced.”
On the tough stretch of games and the injured players:
“It has been real tough because the players we had eligible to play had to play a lot of minutes and didn’t have many subs. It is real frustrating to lose any game.”
On exams:
“That is just another burden I have to worry about.”
Jamont Gordon
On entering the game with limited players:
“We are a very young team and they were subbing in and out and we were getting tired. “
On entering as a freshman and knowing that there would be difficult times:
“We thought we were going to be pretty good, but we had a lot of players that were injured and they had a lot of players subbing in and out.”
On settling for perimeter shots:
“We forced a lot of bad shots tonight, especially me. I need to slow down. I tried to make some plays happen and it just wasn’t working tonight.”
On the difficulty of getting into a flow on offense with all the injured athletes:
“Not really, but it is hard. I know it though. We go over it in practice everyday.”
On the tough stretch of games:
“It has been hard, but we just have to come out and play.”
Wesley Morgan
“We are young and inexperienced and everybody has to be ready to step up and play.”
On the difficulty of getting into an offensive flow:
“You just have to try to come out and be ready. When coach calls your name, you have to be ready to go out there and execute and play hard.”
On his 21 rebounds:
“It doesn’t matter. We lost.”
On how tough it is to stay confident when these games were expected to be wins:
“With all respect to the other teams, we definitely thought they were winnable games. We just can’t keep letting games like this slide by because at the end of the year those games add up. That is what the NCAA is looking at when it comes tourney time. We just have to find a way to win, no matter what the way. We just have to find a way to win. We got to get stops, get rebounds and score at the other end. We didn’t do that so well tonight, and they were getting easy baskets and rebounds. We can’t let these two loses, even though they are back to back and we haven’t gotten to SEC time yet, get us down. We have to stay together as a team and be ready for Wednesday and ready to play.”
On many freshmen playing:
“Everybody is inexperienced. There was nobody that was coming back that played a lot of minutes. Because we have a lot of freshman, this is a learning and growing process for everyone, even though some of us are expected to step up and lead. I think that those people have tried to do that and they have done it well. It’s just a team effort right now and it is hard but it’s not an excuse. We aren’t going to use youth, inexperience, or any of that. We are just going to come out and play. These are all very winnable games. Just can’t keep letting them slip by.”
Southeastern Louisiana Head Coach Jim Yarbrough
Opening Comments:
“We had two ball clubs who are still early in the season trying to find themselves. I think that’s why it was such a low-scoring affair in the first half. We misfired on some plays and got a little frustrated. They were struggling to find some points. In the second half, it was a question of who would break first. We got a little bit of a run-out, and we made the outside shots. Our guys were able to knock down our free-throws, and they weren’t. We changed defenses a little bit. A young team like Mississippi State is very talented, but they were just searching. We found an answer a little sooner than they did. It could have certainly gone the other way. Tonight was an exciting night for our team to come in and beat an SEC school. We also know that Mississippi State is going to get better. It was probably a good time to play them. A month from now, it could be a different story. We’re very proud.”
On Southeastern senior guard Ricky Woods:
“He’s very athletic. He misfired on some five and six-foot attempts early. You can just see how he can soar. Even on a night where he might not have been his best statistically, he’s the type of guy who can influence a game with a blocked shot, a lot of rebounds and some put backs. Big finishes by him kept MSU at bay. We were waiting for a run, but we kept it at double digits, and they never could get all the way back. We dodged the bullet.”
On the play of MSU senior center Wesley Morgan:
“It’s difficult to guard him. If you don’t play him just right, he gets inside of you and will get a rebound or a lob to him. He’s a load down there. We’d rather trade two-point baskets instead of three-point baskets. We tried to stay between him and the basket. Our guys had to come up with a good scouting report on two days notice, and they followed it pretty well.”
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