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Kevin Keatts Press Conference After GT Loss: BULLETED

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6 years ago

November 7, 2019

NC State’s Men’s Basketball team didn’t get off to the start they wanted in 2019-20, losing to Georgia Tech 82-81 in overtime on Tuesday night at home. You can watch head coach Kevin Keatts postgame press conference here, or you can check out a bulleted breakdown below.

Very disappointing to lose a game like that.
Our guys played extremely hard. Played their hearts out.
Basically had a 7-man rotation.
Able to play A.J. Taylor for a little bit.
It is unfortunate we lost the game, but that was a tough game as any games are, but especially to start your season with an ACC game.
Had bright spots in the game.
- Pat Andree was really good in the 1st half.
- Jericole Hellems did a great job in the 2nd half.
  - Playing hard
  - Drawing a couple of charges
  - 7-7 from FT line.
- C.J. Bryce made some great plays down the stretch.
If we could have one or two possessions back, it would probably be a different outcome. But unfortunately, you don’t them get back.
Give Georgia Tech credit, they finished the game and we didn’t.
We will move on and get better from this. Hopefully, we will get some more guys back and we can get healthy and be a better basketball team.

GT’s James Banks III…

We got a defensive stop and it bounced and ended up in his hands.
Unfortunately, we fouled him.
- I was hoping he would miss both free throws but he stepped up and made them.
He is a good player and has done a tremendous job. He played great tonight.
We were playing him against a Freshman in Manny Bates, who I thought did well in the 1st half.

Markell Johnson…

Markell Johnson came down on someone’s foot in practice maybe 4 days ago and has a pretty good sprain.
Want to be careful with him, so I don’t know what his status will be for Sunday.
We have a day or 2 off this week and will continue to get him treatment so we can try to figure out what is going on moving forward.

Dereon Seabron…

Dereon Seabron has had a high ankle sprain for 2 or 3 weeks.
- It is a nagging injury that we hope we can get better.
This year, Dereon Seabron will be an academic redshirt. He has been hurt, so we tried to appeal to the NCAA about it, but we lost the appeal so he will not be available to play.

Last Offensive Sequence…

It was just a bang-bang play.
I wish Devon Daniels would have had the chance to hold the ball because I thought he could have gotten to the free-throw line, but he saw Manny Bates streaking and passed the ball to him.
- Unfortunately it hit his hands and went through them.
It could’ve been a different outcome, but obviously it’s a situation that just happens so quickly and you can’t get it back.

Manny Bates…

I thought Manny Bates was good for his 1st time in an ACC game.
Obviously when you look at the stat sheet, he’s not going to be a big scorer for you, but I thought he did a good job defensively.
Now when you look at James Banks III’s stats, you could say that he didn’t have a great defensive night, but I thought he did.
- I thought he came off and he played help side defense when guys got beat.
You look at him and he had 5 blocks and 7 rebounds.
- We challenged him to rebound the ball a little bit more, but he is going to be good.
He is as talented as any young man that’s a freshman at his size in this league, and I think he’ll help us a lot.

Braxton Beverly’s 3 fouls in the 1st half…

Our bench got shorter.
Braxton Beverly had 3 fouls, but he also went down and we thought he wasn’t going to come back in the game.

Lineups…

We had five guys on the floor that we have only had together in practice maybe once or twice.
In a different situation than we thought we would be.
You will never hear me complain about injuries because I think they are part of the game.
We just had a short bench tonight.

Offense at the end of the game…

We got some looks.
Pressed a little bit at the end and that situation sometimes means that you might not have your point guard on the floor
- Different guys are trying to make plays that wouldn’t normally happen if you have a true distributor on the floor.

ACC opponent as season opener…

I love it for our league.
On opening night we had 3 ACC games, as well as Duke versus Kansas.
Good for college basketball as a whole, for everyone to open up with a Power Five opponent, but it is tough.
If I won the game, I would be a little more happy and want to continue to open the season with an ACC opponent.

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