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Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament Wednesday, March 13 2019 Murry Bartow Chris Smith one benefit, for sure. MURRY BARTOW: I thought it was good. I thought defensively we defended better. We guarded the three Jaylen Hands better. We just felt as a staff it would help us maybe UCLA early in the game to give us a little more pop and juice. UCLA - 79, Stanford - 72 And obviously on man you've got a little more accountability, you've got that guy, you've got that guy. MURRY BARTOW: Well, I'm glad that one is over. But Zone is not quite as much accountability. I thought it was a great win for our guys. I thought our guys competed hard, fought hard. We haven't played a So it was very effective. It was very effective. I thought lot of man to man over the last couple of months, and late in the game we got a little sloppy defensively, a you've been telling me to play more man, so I decided little sloppy offensively. Stanford is a good team, well- to play more man tonight. coached team. They beat us 24 up there, so this was a good one for us to get. But in all seriousness, our guys really I thought competed incredibly hard, defended hard. We had four Q. How is David Singleton? What's his injury? guys in double figures, so we shared it a little bit. We And then Moses Brown didn't play much in the moved it a little bit. We had two guys in double figures. second half. What was the thinking there? It's not every day that a point guard gets a double- MURRY BARTOW: David Singleton is still being double with points and rebounds. So that's a pretty evaluated. We'll know in a little bit. Don't know yet. neat double-double for him. But still being evaluated. I thought Jalen Hill was great. I thought Chris Smith Moses Brown, I love him, but Jalen Hill was just playing had incredible focus and got us off to a tremendous better. So we played Jalen Hill more at the five start. Kris Wilkes was good. because of that. The key to the game for us was on the defensive end. Again, I think everybody that talks to me knows I'm a Okpala is a good player. Davis is a really, really good big Moses Brown fan. But we're going to play the guys player, and we hold Davis, obviously he was probably that are playing the best. still a little gimpy from the ankle. We did a nice job on Davis, nice job on Okpala. We're excited to be moving If you look at our minutes tonight, Jaylen played 35, on and playing a really good team tomorrow. Chris played 35, Kris played 33 and David played 33 and Jalen Hill played 26. We stuck with that five a lot. Q. Thank you for listening to me, first of all. What went into that decision? When did you make it? And so, again, nothing necessarily that Moses didn't do How do you think it helped you as far as the man well, it was just Jalen Hill had a double-double tonight defense? and played really well. And we just stuck with that MURRY BARTOW: Well, we played it exclusively at group. Utah in the second half. And I thought we defended well in the second half of the Utah game. We were Q. Jaylen, you and Jalen Hill made six out of seven way down. The second half we fought hard and free throws, both of you. You each just missed one competed hard, and we were basically in 20 minutes of free throw. How much do you think that man. We worked on man Monday and Tuesday. We contributed to the win, and is that something you didn't expect to play 40 minutes of it tonight, but it was work on? pretty good to us and we just stuck with it. JAYLEN HANDS: I think it contributed a lot. They fought us down the stretch, so we had to make sure we Q. Not to beat a dead horse here, how did it help made our free throws to secure the game. J. Hill is a you? You weren't giving up open threes as much, big, so for him to make 6 out of 7, he's really good. But Rev #1 by #206 at 2019-03-14 03:45:00 GMT page 1 of 2 played all out for a win. minutes, so we expected them to come back, and we came out and we won. Q. You guys got off to a good start. We talked about how important that was during the week. How much did that help you? How much did the man defense spark that start, they started 1 out of 11 shooting, for the players? CHRIS SMITH: I think the man defense helped us getting into the guys, being more physical, making them feel us. We didn't have many fouls in the first half. We had a lot more in the second. Man really deters a lot of guys, like KZ and Daejon, they like to get a lot of buckets, but we held them to like 9 and 0. It deterred them from doing a lot of things that they're used to doing. Q. Tomorrow, rematch from a late game back in January versus Arizona State, what do you think about that? What comes to mind? What are your thoughts about that matchup? JAYLEN HANDS: I know for me this is an exciting time because this is win or go home. So we're going to go to our hotel, whatever we do, we'll watch the last game. Tomorrow we've got to play well. CHRIS SMITH: We lost last time at home. It was kind of crushing. We didn't want to, and it was a bad loss. We'll come back with a vengeance, I know we all are. It's win and go home, so that's the only thing we want to do, is win. Q. You had a couple of baskets late in the first half, helped you guys stretch the lead to double figures. What kind of clicked during those moments? JAYLEN HANDS: Just trying to do what we have to do to get us a win. I felt we were up -- we were up for a while, we didn't really extend it. I thought if I could score, give other people options, just get off the ball and get other people to score, we'd be in a better position. So that was really what I was focusing on. Q. What do you think went into you were up 27 and they got to 5? What happened during that stretch, and how scary did that get for you guys at that point? CHRIS SMITH: They had nine passes, which is really messing up our plays. So it was messing up like our functionality and our smoothness. It was kind of getting us caught up little bit and we turned it over, and missed shots led to fast-break points. We've got to clean that up, fast-break defense, and talk more defense, as well. Because guys were getting open shots that they shouldn't have. JAYLEN HANDS: It's the Pac-12 Tournament, so no one is going to come in here and lay down for 40 Rev #1 by #206 at 2019-03-14 03:45:00 GMT page 2 of 2.