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(What clicked today with the energy?) “That’s a great question. I don’t know. Nothing’s easy early on and it takes a while, like we talk about, this process. You can’t snap your fingers. They don’t just get it. To their credit, they’ve been trying, they’ve been buying in, they’ve been working hard. They haven’t ever backed down and it’s just starting to come together. I think as a coach and coaching staff, the one thing we’re always wanting is to feel like we’re improving and on an upswing. And I think the last three, four games we’ve kind of felt like that.”
What's been the difference in the players going out and playing well from snap 1?
The best analogy that I can make is that going out on Saturday's is like going into an exam. When you go into the exam well prepared knowing that you're going to do well, you walk in confident and ready knowing that there's very few curveballs that can be thrown that you haven't already seen. And when those situations arise, because of the preparation that you've done, you have the confidence that you'll be able to find an answer.
In contrast, when you show up to a test knowing that you haven't done your working studying and that there are ways that you could be exposed for your lack of preparation, the first thing that you do is take a quick look at what is going on with the exam to see if there's anything that you don't know.
The former is how we've played the last month of the season as the players have learned how to prepare themselves for games during the week. The latter is how they prepared under Siete and into the first half of this season (see Georgia State).
The most impressive thing that I've seen in the last few weeks is that we've played the game regardless of what is on the scoreboard. Just because we were up 3 scores didn't mean that we were playing with house money and could start jumping around. Siete had blown an 18 point lead in the 2nd half in Pullman because he and his players were too busy celebrating that the game was over. Last night Petersen's team didn't care that they were up 3 scores, they wanted to be up 4 scores.
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The best analogy that I can make is that going out on Saturday's is like going into an exam. When you go into the exam well prepared knowing that you're going to do well, you walk in confident and ready knowing that there's very few curveballs that can be thrown that you haven't already seen. And when those situations arise, because of the preparation that you've done, you have the confidence that you'll be able to find an answer.
In contrast, when you show up to a test knowing that you haven't done your working studying and that there are ways that you could be exposed for your lack of preparation, the first thing that you do is take a quick look at what is going on with the exam to see if there's anything that you don't know.
The former is how we've played the last month of the season as the players have learned how to prepare themselves for games during the week. The latter is how they prepared under Siete and into the first half of this season (see Georgia State).
The most impressive thing that I've seen in the last few weeks is that we've played the game regardless of what is on the scoreboard. Just because we were up 3 scores didn't mean that we were playing with house money and could start jumping around. Siete had blown an 18 point lead in the 2nd half in Pullman because he and his players were too busy celebrating that the game was over. Last night Petersen's team didn't care that they were up 3 scores, they wanted to be up 4 scores.
Riley does more with less and loses the right way.