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Oliver Purnell Quotes

«As I look around the league and the scores the last two weeks, it's just clear that there's not a lot of difference between the teams. Just one or two (freshmen) stepping up would make a critical difference.»
«I give them credit. They made a couple of great defensive plays down the stretch. We went small to spread the court for a mismatch but they just went back down inside to Dudley and Smith. Their two big guns got the job done for us.»
«You have to give them credit. They made a couple of defensive plays down the stretch on blocks. Then, at the end, they went inside to Dudley and Smith, and their big guns got in done for them.»
«We're not a real good team right now. We've got four days to get back to playing good Clemson basketball.»
«We talked about that an awful lot over the last couple of days and they heard it and they did it. (The win) means a tremendous amount for a lot of reasons. But it's your first ACC game. The race starts for us today. This is the league we're in. This is what we signed up for. We're no longer satisfied just to be in the league. We're in the league to win.»
«I felt like we let that one slip away. However, we have lots of other chances to redeem ourselves in a long ACC season.»
«We were not mentally sharp or physically sharp, but you have to give Ernie and his crew a lot of credit. We've got to put this behind us because we've got the ACC in front of us.»
«For the first time all year it cost us in this ballgame. Bad habits tend to pop up when the pressure's on. Overall, we're not good shooters, and that's why we have to be a good defensive team.»
«We're not real good right now. The challenge for us to is get back to playing Clemson basketball. I'm going to be myself. I'm going to stay fairly positive, but I'm going to get on guys when they don't do what they need to do.»
«NC State lost the other night, but it was kind of a classic setup: out of the league, they just played Duke, in the middle of the ACC season at home, and they probably just took things for granted a little bit probably. You can be rest assured that on Sunday we'll see NC State at their best.»