“It’s tough losing, but we needed this,” he told his team in a text message.
“People were moving in the wrong direction and not listening to what we were saying. I said it’s not only our team. We went from the best defensive team in the country to giving up layups. How does this happen? To giving up baskets, to not rebounding — We’re playing a half, and in the second half not playing. How does that happen?
“Most of it’s mental and most of it becomes what I talked about eight, nine days ago: there becomes an arrogance when you’re winning.