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"It wasn’t easy. They were unbelievable. They shot the ball great, even when we had great defensive possessions, they still made threes. I don’t know if we could have scripted it any better. We’ve been practicing for two weeks, it’s way too early to play a game, we’ve been together two weeks, and they’ve been together for four days. It’s not like we have a lot of stuff in. But it exposed so many weaknesses that we talked about. But until you get into game type conditions, you don’t buy into a lot. I told our guys after the game, 'I like scoring 91 points, but never when someone hangs 87 on us.' We didn’t guard very well. We didn’t do a lot of things very well. But what we did do, we competed well. We’ll get better, and I thought we did a good job, all in all. "They probably scored off a play or a ball screen or a pick-n-pop maybe 5 baskets out of their 30. Everything else was just penetrate-and-pitch or transition. A lot of times we had them defended, and they still made shots. That’s one of the advantages of being old and mature, they don’t have a coach over there that’s going to take them out for missing shots. They know how to play. "The crowd was awesome for an exhibition game. It was great. But they (EA) can’t play in front of a crowd like that again, and you know that crowd gave them energy, as well. You know, when you don’t have things in and you haven’t talked about end-of-the-game situations and things like that, I think we can get a lot better in some of those areas. We made some bonehead plays, but we also made some good plays. "We had bad matchups. If we’re going to put our best five out there, that means Wayne had to guard Lucas (Johnson). That may have helped us offensively, but certainly that didn’t do much for us defensively, and that created some problems. Aaron was terrific, Michael Lee made some good plays, and Bryant Nash gave us some good minutes, but to me the most important player and the best player of the game was Jeff Hawkins. I thought he totally changed everything with his intensity. "I told (freshman David Padgett) he was going to start, and he couldn’t swallow for about the next five minutes. But it doesn’t take an expert to see that this guy has a chance to be really, really good. "You can’t have 19 turnovers, and you can’t give up nine second shots in one half, and you can’t do a lot of things and expect to win. But fortunately for us they crowd was good, the kids had fun playing, and we made just enough shots to hang in there.”