What Josh Eilert Said Following the Loss to Baylor

The West Virginia Mountaineers (8-17, 3-9) dropped their fourth straight contest following the loss to the No. 12 Baylor Bears Saturday night 94-81.

Team + Individual Stats vs. No. 12 Baylor

Opening Statement

First and foremost I want to thank Mountaineer faithful, Mountaineer nation for showing out tonight and giving us everything they got from energy and crowd perspective. You have no idea how much that means us with a team struggled throughout the course of a year and had our challenges that means the world does have that backing each and every night. Please don't give up on us. We're fighting and clawing and doing everything we can to shore this up.

Second thing, I just want to send my thoughts, prayers and condolences to Seth Wilson's family. He lost his grandmother a couple of days ago and lost his father a couple of years ago. So, he's had a rough go of it and that's why he wasn't in attendance tonight. So, thoughts and prayers to Seth waltzing in his family

Defensive effort / Turnovers

Some of its going to come down to close outs and pick and roll coverage and what we're trying to do on the backside. So, there's things that we clean up but I think the most glaring ones for me are the stepping in shots off second chance opportunities, and when you get in that many easy buckets and I don't know what the number is in terms of how many threes they got off a second chance and step in shots that's a pretty easy shot to make, especially the talent they have on that roster, top to bottom how balanced they are. Anytime you get an offensive rebound, there's multiple guys to kick out to and knock down shots and that was one of our certainly one of our issues tonight, and that’s shoring up are rebounding. The numbers aren't terrible, minus two in terms of rebounding, but those nine offensive rebounds lead to 22 second chance points. So, that's a critical issue as well as, certainly, taking care of the ball. And we didn't take care of the ball tonight and I keep telling these guys we got to control the game with our offense, and we got to get the absolute best look we can get and that first half, I believe eight live ball turnovers put us in a quite a hole and we didn’t start the second half very good either. So, the sense of urgency, we can't wait to pick that up and pick that fight and competitive nature up until we're down double digits. So, we got to shore some of those up and in short spurts

Offense efficiency

We get good looks and I feel like if we execute correctly, and everybody's on the same page, we're going to get a good look. 53%, I'll take that every night. I'll take that every night, but consequently they shot 53% and got five more shot attempts. And the numbers game, once again, they got 12 threes and we got eight and it looks like the rebound or the free throws are terribly, it's pretty even there. So, certainly, from a numbers perspective, they got four more threes than us and a lot of those probably came off second chance opportunities.

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