Courtesy Florida Sports Information:
Head Coach Todd Golden
On winning the rebound battle
“Yeah, it was awesome. I thought our guys did a great job of setting the tone that way. We talked a lot about it for the first couple games, we didn’t do a great job on the glass and we wanted to put an emphasis on that tonight against a team we think is pretty dang good, to be honest. They played really well last Friday and at Ole Miss, gave them all they wanted, had a second half lead of double digits and so for us to come in and kind of control the game the way we did, I thought said a lot and the emphasis we put on the glass was really good as well.”
On Rueben Chinyelu
“Yeah it was huge. We’re counting on him and, as you know, the way we play we need all four of those frontcourt players to be effective and efficient. I thought he’s been kind of finding his way these first couple games. He’s been really good all summer and all fall and, again, new team, new situation for him. I thought it took him a little longer to get comfortable but again to your point tonight seven-for-eight from the field he definitely looked a lot more comfortable on the offensive end.”
On the balanced scoring effort
“We talked about it in the locker room. This team is super unselfish, and they play for each other. I think a great example of that was Will Richard’s play in transition when he got the steal run-out and had the opportunity to go dunk it. Instead, he saw Rueben out of the back of his vison, dropped it off to him for a big dunk, which was a really, really unselfish play and speaks to our team. To your point, our eight guys who play around 20 minutes all scored [close to] double figures. When you have that type of ability to spread it out, it makes you a lot more effective.”
Head Coach Todd Golden
On winning the rebound battle
“Yeah, it was awesome. I thought our guys did a great job of setting the tone that way. We talked a lot about it for the first couple games, we didn’t do a great job on the glass and we wanted to put an emphasis on that tonight against a team we think is pretty dang good, to be honest. They played really well last Friday and at Ole Miss, gave them all they wanted, had a second half lead of double digits and so for us to come in and kind of control the game the way we did, I thought said a lot and the emphasis we put on the glass was really good as well.”
On Rueben Chinyelu
“Yeah it was huge. We’re counting on him and, as you know, the way we play we need all four of those frontcourt players to be effective and efficient. I thought he’s been kind of finding his way these first couple games. He’s been really good all summer and all fall and, again, new team, new situation for him. I thought it took him a little longer to get comfortable but again to your point tonight seven-for-eight from the field he definitely looked a lot more comfortable on the offensive end.”
On the balanced scoring effort
“We talked about it in the locker room. This team is super unselfish, and they play for each other. I think a great example of that was Will Richard’s play in transition when he got the steal run-out and had the opportunity to go dunk it. Instead, he saw Rueben out of the back of his vison, dropped it off to him for a big dunk, which was a really, really unselfish play and speaks to our team. To your point, our eight guys who play around 20 minutes all scored [close to] double figures. When you have that type of ability to spread it out, it makes you a lot more effective.”