What Josh Eilert Said Following the Loss to TCU
The West Virginia Mountaineers (9-21, 4-13) lost their fourth consecutive game after losing to the TCU Horned Frogs (20-10, 9-8) Wednesday night 93-81.
Opening statement
Too little too late. It's hard when you start a game like that to put yourself in a position to win. We've seen that type of start against Kansas State on the road. We had the fortunate enough to make a lot of shots there in Manhattan to get us back, but you dig yourself 23-point hole early and you don't bring that energy and you got the distractions going on, they don't come out with that type of motivation the will to win, it's hard to coach effort and win. So, credit to them, they made shots. TCU came in here and I said they're going to have shoot us out of it and they certainly shot us out of the game early but I feel like our intensity and our will to win was there early, but credit to our guys for battling to the bitter end and that's all I can ask at the end of the day we don't quit we keep fighting.
Jesse's career-high 36points and 13 rebounds
He's good. He was special tonight and I understand the free throw situation and probably wouldn't have went as heavy down low if I felt like we had the mindset that we're going to make shots and never really felt that momentum. So, just kept on getting as many touches as possible but it's hard to win from the free throw line when you're where you're at, but 19 of 34 and front end one and ones are killers down the stretch… Jesse was special. I've been challenging him each and every day. His physicality and his balance has to continue to improve, especially to get to the next level and compete at the next level and he had that will and that desire tonight.
TCU hot start from three
first couple, you're thinking well, water always finds this level, you know? But, two or three more, you got to abort real quick. Nine threes in that first half… They only hit two in the second half with changing defensive coverage and whatnot, but I didn't see them coming out there shooting it as well as early like I said, you know, been fairly effective in the zone but last couple outings, it seems like they've really shot it well against us.