University of Massachusets Athletics
Postgame Quotes: UMass 78, Yale 69
December 28, 2006 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 28, 2006
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Travis Ford On The Game:
"It was just one of those games, I tell you. One of the strangest games I have played in. The flow of the game (was hard). Give Yale a lot of credit. That's the way they wanted to play I'm sure. We just fouled way to often. Everytime you turned around they were shooting free throws and that plays to their strength. When you foul that much it says you are not focused that you are a step behind. You are trying to recover because you made a mistake. You can't foul as much as we did. ... And that number 30 (turnovers). That number speaks enough about that mess. Just the way the game was going, I'm glad to get out of the game and get it over with.
Travis Ford On Where The Team Is:
"I thought we were solving things a little bit. You look at Louisville and Kentucky, we don't turn it over much at all. That's this basketball team, I tell you, its hard to figure out. This is one of the most challenging things that I have ever been a part of. Where this team is at, day-by-day, which buttons to push and the traditional things that work (we are working on). But we are 10-3 you have to be glad when you look at the upsets of tonight with Duquesne beating Boston College and college basketball - anything can happen and we are 10-3. I told our guys, I was disappointed and that it was one of the worst displays of basketball that I have seen in a while, it wasn't fun to watch for anyone to watch. But I glad we won now with that said the reality is that you can't keep playing like that.
We have seen what we are capable of beating in Louisville. Most of you didn't see us at Jacksonville State, it was one of the best performances I have seen at Jacksonville State. Then you see this. We pick and chose when we feel like playing. That will catch up to you if you don't start understanding what's keeping you from reaching your potential. Now they just have to do something about it. Sometimes we figure it out but then we kind of revert back.