That's why we try to be very careful in how we make our schedule, especially with this young group we've got. We need to win some games to give us some confidence that we can take into Big 12 play. It would be to our advantage if we can come out and eliminate some of the mental mistakes we've been making and get off to a good start. I think just playing the game and seeing how hard you have to play for longer periods of time. If there has been one area that's concerned me besides the mental aspects is that kids still don't understand how hard you have to play at this level for 40 minutes.
Young kids tend to want to play one and two-minute spurts and then take one or two minutes off.
You just can't afford to do that. Without a doubt, we definitely want to try to play within ourselves. We've got a pace we want to play at and we've got some things we want to try to do. The problem you run into is that kids get into a game and they get away from the game plan. The younger ones tend to deviate a lot sooner than the veterans.