College Basketball: Quotables from Tuesday's practice

Texas State head coach Doug Davalos on the difference between the last two games (a 14-point win against Lamar and a 3-point loss to Nicholls): "Our defense has been good enough to win those basketball games, but our offense in one was okay and the other was poor — and it began with turnovers."

Davalos on his team's poor shooting percentage (an SLC-worst 39 percent): "If we’re turning the ball over, it’s giong to affect our shot selection because we get a lot of our shots in transition. If we’re making transition turnovers, we’re not going to get as good of shots."

Davalos on his team missing wide-open jumpers: "When we get open looks, we need to knock them down. Now, as a coach, I’m never going to put that on my players. What I try to do game to game is try to find better ways to make the offense run better, to get guys better shots, trying to get guys who are struggling a quick look inside or any number of things. That’s what you do as a coach. You don’t say, 'You guys have to hit shots,' and then walk out of the film session. You try to fix it with specifics and hope they come back the next game ready to knock them down."

Davalos on never beating Stephen F. Austin head coach Danny Kaspar: "I'm not worried about that. The thing about basketball is that every year you have different players. I’m not playing Kasper one-on-one and we’re not trying to fool each other. We’re trying to get our teams prepared to play."


Texas State forward J.B. Conley on his emergence during conference play: "I don't know what it's been, but I'm upset it's taken 25 games or so to finally happen."

Conley on the importance of the next four games: "These games are really important because we’re not in the conference tournament yet. We have to win, we’re thinking, two or three out of four to be in. They’re really important for seeding."


SFA head coach Danny Kaspar on his team's season thus far: "We haven’t accomplished what we set out to do this year yet. A win tonight would go a long way to accomplishing those goals, but we’re not looking past Texas State."

Kaspar on why he worries about the Bobcats: "They're a team that can turn it on at any moment. They have some explosive players starting with Cameron Johnson and Ryan White. You need to make sure you know where both are at every moment in the game. White is difficult for us to game plan because he's so quick. We need to keep him in front of us."