Nov. 24, 2009

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Wake Forest 76, Winston-Salem State 52

Winston-Salem, N.C. – Joel Coliseum

November 24, 2009

Winston-Salem State Head Coach Bobby Collins

Opening statement…

“Tonight our game plan was to value the basketball and not give them any easy looks and easy baskets because I told them we couldn't defend turnovers and we had to do our job of rebounding because I knew they were big. Early, we wanted to make sure that if they were going to beat us, they were going to do it from the outside and not on the inside. That's why we packed it in. We gave them some looks. They took some and they made some, but I thought that was to our advantage. We went into a five or six minute spurt where we couldn't score or didn't score. That's when we kind of built ourselves a hole and they capitalized on it. Ish is just so quick that we just couldn't contain him and he broke us down anytime he wanted to. We kind of adjusted and backed up off of him and tried to make him shoot some shots, but he's a smart player and he did a really good job.

On the size matchup…

“I thought we matched up with them pretty well with size. McIntoche Alcius is 6-8 and Corey Morris is 6-10 in size and Mac is quick, so for height he has his quickness. On the perimeter, Aminu is 6-9 and he's numbered with Shelton Carter but I thought Carter would have caused him more problems on the other end. Unfortunately he didn't shoot the ball particularly well tonight. I know he can really shoot the basketball for us; he just needs to start shooting with a lot more confidence. I thought they really broke us down in transition. That's where all their passes came from. They had 28 points in the first half in transition and that was our Achilles heel tonight.”

On the inability to keep the score close after the first few minutes…

“Well, Marcus Wells is a freshman and he gave us a spark and he did some good things. Once he gets tired he kind of goes into a mode where he is just going through the motions and I have to do a better job of substituting him when he gets tired. He wants to play through it and sometimes he does some good things, but most of the time he doesn't. All four games that we have played, there's always been a spurt throughout the game where we don't score. In some kind of way we have to address that and make some adjustments where that doesn't happen.”