Patrick Ewing James Akinjo

Big East Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Friday, March 15, 2019 Patrick Ewing senior class. I just said it's disappointing, we have a good enough team that we could be playing tomorrow, James Akinjo but because we didn't come with the right focus and Georgetown Hoyas the right effort, we fell short. Q. Coach Ewing, talk about the chances for the Seton Hall - 73, Georgetown - 57 NCAAs and your case for making the tournament. PATRICK EWING: I'm not sure what it's going to be. THE MODERATOR: Let's go for questions for Coach It's hard when you leave the decision in other people's Ewing or James. hands. We had an opportunity where, with wins, we would have had enough -- you know, our record would Q. Patrick, you said coming into this game that have been good enough to be able to move on. Now energy and effort would be the difference. It we still have a good record, but it's in somebody else's seemed like you guys came out strong tonight, but hands to put us in or not. what did you think was the difference maker early in the first half there? Q. Patrick, Powell is obviously a great player, and PATRICK EWING: Turnovers. Turnovers hurt us. You he had a hell of a half. When you're watching that, know, we went down big early, and it was trying to dig what are you trying to think of to stop him? yourself out of a hole, and when the turnovers, PATRICK EWING: He's a very good player. This is the unforced turnovers hurt us. They had 22 points off our second time he's had a great game -- the third time turnovers the entire game. But I think in the first half, he's had a good game against us. He got hot in the they had 12 points off our turnovers, and that's first half. We did everything. We tried to trap him. It something that we can't -- it's hard to overcome. When didn't work. He was able to drive away from the trap. you're turning it over and you're not getting stops, the In the second half, we switched it a little bit, and that other end, it's hard to win. kind of slowed him down a little bit. He got hot in the first half, and everything he shot, he made. Q. In the first half, you guys missed easy baskets. Did you feel the moment was overwhelming? Q. Coach, so how do you feel like Georgetown has PATRICK EWING: I don't think the moment is made strides from last year? Like what's some overwhelming. Even though it's the Big East differences that you see from last year to this year? Tournament, it's a big game, but we've been in other PATRICK EWING: The difference is the freshmen. The big games. Their trap put us back on our heels, and freshmen, they play great. They had -- they played we weren't able to get in the floor of our offense. Then extremely well. They had their highs and their lows. we couldn't -- we're digging ourselves out of a hole for For the most part, I thought that they had a great the whole entire game. I think that's what also hurt. season. The turnovers, then the trap slowed us down. We weren't able to get into a good flow, and that hurt. Q. James, this is the third time you guys have followed a really big win with a loss like this. How do you account for that difference or kind of the yo- yoing there? JAMES AKINJO: Maturity. I think as a team, we're not as mature as we need to be right now. Q. Patrick, what was your message to this team at the end, especially your senior class that's leaving? PATRICK EWING: I didn't really say anything to the Rev #1 by #181 at 2019-03-15 04:23:00 GMT page 1 of 1.

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