Everything Matt Painter said after Pudue’s loss to Arizona

Q. Coach, you guys had the seven-point lead at halftime, and they eventually end up making a 25-point turnaround. What did you see as when things were starting to change and the momentum shifted?

MATT PAINTER: Yeah, their ability to get the ball. They’ll wear you down. Their ability to get the ball in the paint. Whether that’s getting an offensive rebound, whether that’s driving the basketball. So if you look how they play, they don’t shoot and really make a lot of threes, but their ability to get by you, their ability — they have such good positional size and quickness.

Like Awaka is very quick and strong to play the center. Koa Peat is very quick and strong with ball skills to play the four. Bradley and Burries are as good as anybody in the country in terms of their back court, in terms of being able to shoot the basketball, drive the basketball, play-make…

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