Oregon Ducks Basketball Coach Dana Altman: "We Had to Win."

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00:00A couple of weeks, do you allow yourself to make it more about results and some of the

00:07upside stuff?

00:08Well, we had to win the game, so yeah, I'm excited about that.

00:11Our confidence hasn't been the same here the last few weeks, and so we needed to find a

00:16way to win the game.

00:17Obviously, the defense second half was disappointing.

00:21After a really impressive first half, I thought, I thought our activity defensively was really

00:26good, guys getting hands-on balls, awareness I thought was pretty good, so really pleased

00:33with the first half defensively, but they go from shooting 38 and 30 in the first half

00:39to 61 and 55 in the second, so obviously not the result we were looking for.

00:44We did out-rebound them by six, and so that was a stat we had to get, and I thought we

00:50drove the ball to the basket and got to the free throw line and made our free throws,

00:54but we threw it inside and got some free throws, and we drove it at them and got some

00:59free throws, so that was one thing offensively, and 16 assists on 24 buckets, I like that,

01:06and I'm not disappointed with the 81 points, just disappointed in our second half defense.