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Hitting the road to take on Boston College, the Louisville men’s basketball program blew a halftime lead and completely fell apart in the second half, suffered an 89-77 loss to clinch a losing record in conference play.
Here’s what head coach Kenny Payne had to say following the loss:
First of all, hats off to Boston College for doing what they had to do in the second half to come out with a win. I thought the first half, we put them on their heels.
The second half, they came out and punched us in the face, and we submitted to it. We didn’t make the adjustments, we didn’t fight back. Obvious by them beating us by 20 in the second half.
We gave up 89 points in the game – way too many. They shot 64 percent from three. You can’t win a game if the offense is that efficient.
Hats off to them. They played a really good game, a very physical game. We knew it was going to be that type of game.
We knew how well they shot the three coming into the game. I just thought that, when we attacked them, and they made their run on us, we wilting instead of fighting back.
Well, I would like for us to fight. I would like for us to fight for every possession. Multiple guys helping each other. Fight.
We talked about before the game that every inch is earned. We’re trying to play to get deflections, we’re trying to play to make every pass hard, every dribble hard, and we’re not gonna let them beat us with the three point line.
I thought that we just submitted all those things. We took for granted that, the way we played in in the first half, was going to be the same way – and it wasn’t.
They were more physical, they were more disciplined on offense, and they kept doing what they were doing.
They set good screens, they got each other open, and they took advantage of guys that they felt like couldn’t guard for us.
I thought the first half, we were the aggressor. We brought the physicality to them, we played harder than them, we attacked them. Then in the second half, they got more physical. They set harder screens.
They fought harder. They were more disciplined, and and took advantage of our turnovers. We never made the adjustment of being careful, and taking care of the ball.
We stopped playing team ball and sort of went into iso-ball, and we didn’t take advantage of situations where the ball is moving and gets into a mismatch, and we attack it right away. We we sort of took our time with it