Iowa men’s basketball head coach Fran McCaffery after Maryland loss: ‘Not acceptable’

Iowa men’s basketball head coach Fran McCaffery after Maryland loss: ‘Not acceptable’

Was pton going to call a timeout or was it just the ball TI uh you know his plan was to catch and shoot it you know maybe could have called timeout it was a little deep was good good pass by to Sante the J’s uh last Drive did you want

To switch or what kind of did you see it was a G screen and it was a great read by pton to switch he just needed to jump out to his left hand a little bit more obviously jir was one for six or one for

Five at half time and then picked it up in the second half is that just good player that’s what he does you got to give him credit you know we have to do a better job there uh that was disappointing because you know he’s the guy and we let him kind of dictate

Coming down the stretch without U you especially after hit the first one do a better job there FR it seemed like a lot of the offensive possessions got pretty late into down late in the shot clock is that just a byproduct of the way Maryland plays defense yeah you know

They’re switching everything to top lock and everything so you got you know you probably notice there’s more there’s more dribbling than passing and cutting that’s the only way you can break that defense down and then you got to move it side to side and you got to take

Longer you know I thought that’s where Brock was really good for a while there then then of course you know he he fell at one time and then obviously we didn’t handle the pressure very well that’s disappointing nutshell where this game was lost for you and one for them how

Would you describe it well we started fouling too much in the second half they were in the double bonus early U you know Owen is really good you know he we got to get him to the point where he can you know use his body and

Not pick up those fouls and get fouls we need him out there I know you’ve spoken highly of this team’s resilience um pton he’s pretty distraught you know after the game how yeah of course he is we all are you know and and and you got to be able to learn from

It you know break it down you obviously made a ton of mistakes what could we have done differently as coaches what could we have done differently as players I mean that’s what you do you break it down and then you you work on that and then they

You have a game plan and you go on the road play a tough team and uh hopefully we’ll play better we you know we were not in sync I think most of the game I think that was obvious we had a chance I think to get a

Lead in the first half we had a lead but it wasn’t much and uh you know you can’t turn the ball over 14 times you always talk about not letting your teams get too high or too low I mean obviously Tony and pner no distraught Sly so just how everything

Happened as a coach how do you kind of find the words to encourage them and kind of keep the focus where it needs to be well I think you got to do you got to do a couple things you have to be honest with them and you know

Not I you got to understand okay we did some things that are just not acceptable you know and I’ll take the blame for that but you know we knew they were going to press uh they’ve been pressing you just can’t turn the ball over and then let them score in three

Seconds turned it over three times and uh they know that you know they feel bad about it we all feel bad about it so you know we turn the ball over and we let jir take the game over the second straight game you guys have a field goal late and this one

Seemed different because of the fouls both teams were almost became a foul shooting contest down stretch is that more what this one was or is there yeah it was it was one of those games I mean the officials called it pretty closely we were into bonus they were into bonus early and uh

You know it’s just something any like two more questions coach you guys failed to make you feel go to last 545 we just talked about that it was all free throws in a game like this where um the game is close who are you looking to to go to we

Ran a really good play for Ben and you know he ran a really good play for pton didn’t happen is there just really quick is there a couple updates on is Patrick on a minute restriction right now where right now he is he uh you know he gave

Us a big lift in the first half in the second half you know I thought he was struggling a little bit that I didn’t go back to him I’m really worried about having him at 100% moving forward I want him to tweak that thing and then can’t play Saturday and then it lingers

On him it’s still all kinds of different colors and and he still got some discomfort he doesn’t have his explosion so uh the fact that he was able to come in and give us two buckets was great all right thanks coach that’s great

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