Rating:

2.0 (1 vote)

Players comments after UK beat Ole Miss 77-62 to go to 26-1.

#3, Terrence Jones, F

On the play of Miller and Wiltjer...
"I think we got a deep team and Coach (Calipari) can go to a lot of guys. A lot of guys have confidence to step in and fill that role. Kyle (Wiltjer) and Darius (MilleR) pretty much always do a good job."

On Kyle Wiltjer's improvement ...
"He's been going to practice an hour early and working out with us. He's just improving and it's showing in the game."

On the boost the dunk of Darius Miller gave the team ...
"It just gave us more energy, got the crowd more into and it makes the team feel, especially in this building, like the whole game just shifted. It just helps us and gives us a lot of energy."

#33, Kyle Wiltjer, G

On what he wanted to do when he gets in the game ...
"I knew they were in a zone. We've been doing a lot of zone stuff and Coach Cal said to be in the middle and be ready to either pass it down to Terrence or be ready to score. I got a couple nice, little easy baskets in the first couple minutes I was in. I just wanted to be aggressive offensively and shoot my open shots."

On his defense ...
"I've just learned a lot from the coaching staff. They really emphasize me playing good defense. It's a lot more angles than I anticipated coming into college. You don't have to be the quickest, strongest guy; you just have to be ready every play and got to be there for the charge, help side and being able to talk. It makes it a lot easier having such a good coaching staff."

On Ole Miss' size ...
"There's a lot of strong guys in college. We have a lot of very good defensive schemes. When they get the ball in the post, we usually trap in the post and it really takes a lot of pressure off of me. Really it helps when you've got the best shot-blocker in the country having your backside."

#20 Doron Lamb, So., G

On how they played coming off of a week off ...
"We started off a little hot, then we got down a little bit in the middle of the first half and they made a couple of buckets and tied the ballgame up. Then Kyle (Wiltjer) came in and made big shots for us, got it up to about 10 points and we started from there."

On how many weapons they have when Kyle (Wiltjer) comes in and scores 10 in the first half...
"We have a full team. We got a lot of great players on our team. When Kyle (Wiltjer) comes in and gives us points and rebounds, we're way better and we did that today. He made a couple of 3-balls that we needed down the stretch and we need that from now on."

On playing the majority of the first half without Michael (Kidd-Gilchrist) and Anthony (Davis) ...
"We have to learn how to play without Anthony (Davis) sometimes, because we never know when he's going to be in foul trouble. He may be in foul trouble in the tournament, so we have to learn how to play with(out) him and Terrence (JoneS) had to foul sometime. Eloy (Vargas) came in and gave us a little bit of minutes. We played great, I think, without Anthony. Kyle came in and gave us great minutes. And in the second half, we started from there without Anthony back in.

On how Darius Miller's dunk or any dunk like that can change a game...
"A dunk like that when the crowd gets into it can change the whole game really. The crowd got into it when Darius (Miller) made that dunk and we got on a run on that stretch and Kyle (Wiltjer) made a couple of 3-pointers that we needed to get us up in the lead."

#1, Darius Miller, G

On his first-half dunk...
"I don't know. I haven't seen it yet. It felt pretty good. It was fun. It's always good when something happens to you like that, excite my team and help get us going. They were doing a good job of making us uncomfortable and playing really good. I guess we needed something to jumpstart us and I guess it worked. It always feels good to have a good play."

On Kyle Wiltjer's performance...
"Kyle is always a threat to score. We look for him to score. He did a good job in knocking down shots and opening up the defense for us so every time he comes into the game we try to give him shots. We know he will always knock them down. He did a great job of coming in and helping us get going today."

On the team's 3-point shooting ability...
"We are definitely confident in our 3-point shooting. We do not feel like that is a weakness at all. When teams give them to us, we are confident that we are going to knock them down. Like Coach Cal said, it's not the main thing that we do or what we look to win games off of, but if it's there we'll take it."