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"(In the second half) We got to a point where we were content to shoot an outside jump shot every time we came down. We weren't getting anything inside, and give Missouri's defense credit for that. I think they played it a little bit tighter than they did in the first half. "The first half we weren't doing a real good job of getting it inside, we were just making a lot of the jump shots. And that turned it. All of a sudden we were feeling a little bit more tight each time we were shooting it out there, and we're going to the defensive end and they're getting a two- and three-footer, and that's what enabled them to get ahead. Then down the stretch we made some plays, Paul made some plays, but yet so did they. Albert White makes a big three for them out there when we had a double-team and both guys ran off of him. Nobody guarded him. You should usually guard the guy with the basketball, but we didn't do a very good job then. "We had our chances at the end and didn't capitalize on them. Missouri had some chances and they did capitalize on them. It's got to be a great feeling for Lee over there in that locker room. "I told Eric that his two (FT) misses weren't any different than Ryan's two missses on the technical. Paul missed one. We didn't shoot them as well as we need to, and when it's a tight basketball game, something little like that can really be a big difference. "(On the final possession) We had Billy coming off a screen, we had T.J. stepping to the ball, and we had Paul coming off a screen by Eric, and Ryan had his own penetration. He had Billy on one side and Paul on the other. We felt like those were three pretty good options. We got the ball to Paul, but Missouri's defense sort of swarmed him. I'd like for him to have gotten a cleaner look at it than he did. He went into the crowd, and the ball all of a sudden comes flying out. "(Missouri) is a very good basketball team. I really like their club. I've said before, with Lee and Thames and White, especially when Albert gets healthy, those are three about as good perimeter players as anybody in the league has. They've just got to get things going and they're going to be a heck of a team. I felt that way in the preseason, and I still fee that way."