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WVSPORTS.COM West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins Press Conference Summary

Keenan Cummings

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Sep 16, 2007
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--West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins said that TCU came out with a lot of energy and really put pressure on the rim. They didn’t respond to it very well. When you get doubled in rebounds, turn the ball over. They had guys that were negative overall and how are you going to win? They might be playing the wrong guys, but he isn’t sure. The positive thing is they still have a chance and they’re going to look at it that way. He’s going to go back and look at the game and the ones that didn’t give what they expect to give them they’re going to sit on the bench and if they open their mouth he’s going to send them home.

--He doesn’t ever remember getting out rebounded 42-24 in his time at other stops.

--Huggins said that Sean McNeil hasn’t shot it well in practice here of late and you go through those spells. A lot of it has gotten into his head and they try not to talk to him about it very much because of that, but they ought to be able to win other than shooting jump shots and they haven’t. If you take Taz Sherman out of the lineup they really can’t score.

--West Virginia was running five out motion, made some back cuts, passed the ball. They haven’t been a very good passing team all year that’s throwing the ball to the right guy, passing the ball to a guy away from the defense, passing to a guy on a back cut and they don’t do it very well. You’re limited in who you can depend on to get the ball to the right people.

--Sherman made some shots, some hard shots. You’re trying to do the right thing and you’re back cutting and trying to get the ball and you wonder if you’re ever going to get the ball. They’re going to watch the film tonight, it’s hard to say that wasn’t me when you’re on the film. They don’t block out.

--Huggins said as a player he didn’t appreciate playing with guys that didn’t care. Sometimes there’s a tremendous good in addition by subtraction. You don’t want to do that, you try to give everybody a fair shot and a fair break but sometimes it has to come down to let’s go like they do in the real world.
 
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