Arkansas Razorbacks' Tramon Mark with the media saying they "didn't shoot well or defend well" with resulting problems in 78-72 loss Friday night to UNC-Greensboro at Bud Walton Arena.
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00:06 >> Yeah, they got a lot of back tap steals and on ball steals.
00:12 Those two guards, they're real crafty with their hands and getting steals.
00:16 So I think that's where most of our turnovers came from.
00:19 And leading to that, they got easy buckets off that and
00:23 that's how they got to a great start off our turnover.
00:25 So we definitely gotta clean that up.
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00:30 >> Yeah, the four three point shooting tonight,
00:32 do you think that was just missing a lot of open shots?
00:35 Or was it maybe the offense not executing as much as you had in previous games
00:38 this season?
00:39 >> I think we was just missing shots.
00:43 We shoot the ball, I feel like good.
00:47 In practice, we shoot a lot of shots, we work on it.
00:49 So I just feel like they just weren't following.
00:51 We got a lot of good looks, me, KB.
00:53 L hit a big one though we needed, but we just couldn't make enough shots and
00:57 we couldn't get stops either.
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01:01 >> You are, that's the last two games you guys have given up 23s,
01:05 which I think it's on a pretty good percentage too.
01:08 Just what are the issues with?
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01:11 >> I think we're just too focused on getting blown by and
01:15 then in result, it's leading the threes.
01:19 I mean, right now, I feel like the last three games,
01:22 we haven't been guarding the dribble drive well, or
01:25 we haven't been guarding the three well.
01:26 So it's just tough right now, we gotta figure it out.
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01:36 A good player can shoot it from anywhere, can get in the paint, can pass.
01:41 Both of them too, both of the brothers.
01:43 They can get in the paint, they can pass.
01:45 They play off two, play off one.
01:48 They just have all around game, especially at their size.
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01:52 >> What did you guys see against that zone that made it difficult to move the ball?
01:56 At seven assists tonight, probably not what y'all's target was.
01:59 What was the difficulty there all night?
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02:08 >> Just placement, not knowing where to be when they went into their zone.
02:14 And it took a little while for us to get into it.
02:18 Devo was in the middle most of the time, facilitating out of the middle.
02:21 We started getting some buckets out of that, but it was just kinda too late.
02:25 It wasn't enough.
02:26 It wasn't enough.
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02:36 We cut it to four, they go back up nine, cut it to five, they go back up ten.
02:43 I mean, cut it to five, they go back up ten.
02:47 We just couldn't keep a steady pace on them and chipping away.
02:53 We couldn't get a pass to a two possession game, so it was just tough.
02:58 We played behind the whole game.
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03:02 Just tough night for us.
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03:06 >> Really good three point shooting offenses.
03:07 I know that wasn't y'all's night from behind there.
03:10 Was there any pressure?
03:11 I mean, were you guys aware how good they were in trying to stop it and
03:14 then that put added pressure on offense?
03:16 >> No pressure from them.
03:18 I mean, like I said, we were getting good three point looks.
03:22 Just a bad shooting night and you can't have a bad shooting night and
03:27 a bad defensive night.
03:28 So if you have both of those, you're not gonna win the game and
03:30 that's what we have.
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03:41 The only good thing about this is still early in the season,
03:47 we finna leave for the Bahamas.
03:49 We can get right back on track, take it game by game, possession by possession.
03:53 If we just lock in and we just gotta do what we gotta do to win a game.
03:58 We just need to win ball games, that's it.
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04:08 Not much, but everybody can read the room, so we all know what we need to do.
04:15 But we gotta get better, we gotta execute better, we gotta play better defense.
04:19 We gotta rebound better, we just gotta do a lot of things better.