USC Basketball: Andy Enfield Reacts To Trojans' 5-Game Losing Streak
It was not a pretty one for your USC Trojans on Saturday. The Trojans were embarrassed by their cross-town rivals, the UCLA Bruins, at home, as they dropped their fifth game in a row and their 12th game of the season by a score of 65-50.
Nothing went right for the Trojans, starting in the late minutes of the first half. After that, the Bruins had complete momentum for the remainder of the game.
It was a tough outing for all those involved. USC head coach Andy Enfield wasn't happy with his team's display and reflected on their five-game skid.
“I think you always feel pressure when you lose,” Enfield said after the Trojans dropped a fifth consecutive game for the first time since losing nine in a row late in the 2014-15 season. “No one likes to lose, our players don’t like it, the coaches don’t like it, the fans don’t like it. So yeah, there’s pressure to win every game you play and certainly when you have some adversity, it makes it a little harder and you gotta fight through that.”
Enfield also added that the second chance points the Trojans gave up were a telling tale of why the game finished the way it did.
“We missed so many lane shots tonight and didn’t get the easy baskets. That puts pressure on your defense because now you’re missing easy shots or lane shots,” he said. “Now you have to go defend and give up an offensive rebound and it's deflating. We had four or five loose balls go through our hands, and we've got to come up with those.”
The Trojans and Bruins shot around the same percentages, but the rebounding disparity is where this game changed. USC was outrebounded 43-29 as they had trouble boxing out and staying in front of UCLA's Adem Bona.
It was a tough outing for the Trojans and Enfield. A five-game losing streak isn't ideal, but USC still has plenty of time to turn things around.
