Oregon Ducks WBB Head Coach Kelly Graves: "Excited About the Win."

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00:00Excited about the win.

00:05I don't think we were great tonight.

00:08We certainly didn't shoot the ball well.

00:10And just I'm looking at some of the areas like second chance points.

00:16I mean, we get 16 offensive rebounds and only nine second chance points.

00:19They get 10 rebounds, 16, I mean, we just didn't shoot the ball.

00:24We didn't finish that well.

00:25We didn't shoot it great.

00:28Turnovers after the first couple minutes, I thought we were fine.

00:30But I got to give Grand Canyon a lot of credit, man.

00:33They played really hard.

00:34And that's a good team.

00:36They're going to win that WAC.

00:37They're going to be an NCAA tournament team.

00:39And they deserve to be at some point.

00:42And I'm pleased with the win.

00:44But we got to do things a little bit tighter, a little bit better.

00:51But I'm proud of the hard work.

00:52I thought we played hard tonight.

00:55I think a lot of it just came down to some poor shooting.

00:58Yeah.

00:59Go.

01:00Really strong on the defensive end once again.

01:02I think Coleman, the 25% shooting from three,

01:05less than 40% from the field, what was working?

01:07Yeah, well, I thought in the first half we were pretty good defensively.

01:10I thought second half we weren't quite as intense, right,

01:17and on point in the second half.

01:18That's why, you know, and number 12 is a heck of a shooter,

01:21and she threw a couple from deep.

01:24They're easy to go in when there's no pressure.

01:28At that point, there wasn't much pressure.

01:30But number 23, Trinity, is one heck of a player.

01:36And she was on the floor.

01:39They were tough to stop.

01:41She kept getting to the rim.

01:42So when you talk about her good defense, OK, we held on to 54 points.

01:46But at the same time, they had 32 points in the paint.

01:48We had 22.

01:49That can't happen.

01:51So they would just lay up, lay up, lay up.

01:53So we've got to do a better job protecting the basket,

01:56keeping our kid in front of us, because against Auburn on Wednesday

02:00night, they're going to have on the floor five number 23s.

02:04And so we've just got to do a better job there.

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