Quotes following Georgia Tech’s 81-58 loss to Tennessee Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.
"I thought they were the aggressor. We got to the paint, but we were very off balance. I thought their athleticism bothered us in some areas. We would get to the paint but we would just throw up a 'hope' shot. Hope's a bad strategy." – Georgia Tech coach Pastner
"Everything in our mentality has been attack, attack, attack, and we played 'unattack' today and we played really passive." – Pastner
"I think it hurts us not having Justin Moore (who was out with a stomach virus). Obviously, he's one of our most energized guys. He's our most vocal guy, and he's an energy guy, and we're limited at the guard spot as it is. But that's not an excuse. The next man's got to step up." – Pastner
"As much as I would say this is not the right schedule for the team and the situation we're in right now, it's going to be good for us in terms of our preparation leading up to where we're at when we get into ACC play." – Pastner
"We didn't have the best practices the past two days, so that probably goes into it. We should have been able to come out and play. It just didn't happen." – center Ben Lammers
"I would imagine they're going to make sure we're high energy." – Lammers on coaching staff's response after Saturday's game
"I would say energy was the biggest key. We're a team that thrives off energy and we didn't bring it today. I think we were all looking for somebody else to make a play or do something and it just kind of was a train wreck from the beginning." – guard Corey Heyward
"I told C-Matt (Christian Matthews), it's a long season. I've seen it in the past. When the time's given to you, you've got to execute, keep doing the right things. He gave us a lot of energy and we're going to need that from him." – Heyward on Christian Matthews, who scored a career-high 14 points
"I think we kind of shot ourselves in the foot in the beginning, mainly with just the aggressiveness by which we started the game. We knew that they were going to be rebounding the ball hard. I think once they saw they were able to attack us on the rebounds, at least keep some balls alive, it kind of just kept them on the attack with that mentality. They were just coming at us. At that point, we've just got to be more mentally and respond. We didn't do that tonight." – forward Quinton Stephens
"Defensively, when we're in games every night and maybe when we aren't playing as well offensively, we're still out there. But, I thought we took a bigger step with guarding their motion and doing the things that they do. They run a really good offense, constant movement, so you have to stay on edge." – Tennessee coach Rick Barnes
