Post-Savannah State Q&A with Rick Pitino

Not sure how much of a lead-in I can give here. Below is the transcript from Rick Pitino's post-game press conference after Louisville's 87-26 win over Savannah State.

Here's the game story. And Adam Himmelsbach'spost-game column.

And now Pitino ...

(Opening Statement) "Well, if you coach long enough you see a lot of different things. That was a very unusual game tonight, to say the least. I thought our pressure was good. I thought our zone-man was very good, and the other team just had one of those nights where they could not hit a shot. They are not as bad as they played tonight. It was just one of those unfortunate things for them. We got a chance to rest and play everybody and take a look at some people that have not played. We will take the victory and move on. Cleveland State will be a much tougher game. I know what you are saying, well Savannah beat Cleveland State. It is totally different. Cleveland State was in charge of the game. They made a run late and pressured them, up eight at their gym and made a couple long threes and put it into overtime."

(On the team staying focused even with a large lead) "Well, you want to work on certain things offensively and we were struggling there a little bit. Our guys were hunting shots and that's what happens when you get a lead and everybody's looking to score."

(On who impressed him) " No, I don't know what to say about tonight's game. I'm speechless, really."

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(On what he told the team at halftime) "I just said we're not going to press. We're going to play everybody. And, just, let's work on our execution."

(On Chinanu Onuaku) "I wouldn't base it on tonight's game, but he is playing extremely(well) ... You know the nice thing about Chinanu is he's a very good passer. The only thing left for him is conditioning, he wears out very easily. Now compared to where he came from in the Derby Classic, it's night and day, but I think we got ourselves a real jewel. We haven't seen those outlet passes to people since old-timers here, since Wes Unseld we haven't seen that. He's got a great future here."

(On watching film) "I always love watching film and breaking it up. This will be the first time since I've been at Louisville that I will not watch the game film. I will not watch it. I want them to concentrate to Cleveland State. We always do edits every game, this will be the first time... we will not watch that game. It will be false security. You get really nothing out of this and you feel bad for the other team more than anything else."

(On if he fears the team will have an inflated ego) "Well I put on the board almost every day that "Ego is edging greatness out," and if they want to edge greatness out. The one thing I'd say about our team, they're not only focused to win, but they're highly intelligent people. They know that we totally overmatched this basketball team tonight, so if we go in and beat Cleveland State, beat Ohio State then you'd be concerned about ego. But beating this team that we overmatched, I wouldn't think that."

(On if he didn't enjoy watching the game) "No, I don't like to see any team struggle like that, I really don't. We tried everything. I played four white guys and Egyptian."