question - "coach, you know this one is coming, was there any thought to getting IT back sooner earlier in the 4th quarter".
Smart - "one thing we saw them do was get into the pick and roll with there guards and we needed a big lineup, i thought they did a good job. I thought we needed defensive stops."
Question "usually your rule is to not play guys who haven't played in the 1st half. Starting the 4th quarter you had marcus and jimmer who hadn't played, that lineup was pretty small. What was the thinking behind that lineup?"
Smart - "yeah, cause, well we needed to space the floor a little bit, and play off of that... and take advantage of those guys spacing the floor. that didn't hurt us right there... yeah we got a little stagnant offensively but we were still in the plus with that group on the floor, that didn't really hurt us". Obviously, second guessing it now....its a different story now.. but i don't think that group...you know, granted they did miss a couple shots, i thought we were in a plus situation. Granted, you know i probably should've looked at trying to get out of this building with a win, but i thought we still might of been able to pull this out... but we turned the ball over. It wasn't what they were doing as a group, it was turnovers that hurt us."
good lord.