Todd Golden Praises Stetson after Gators Win 85-68 in Exhibition

You know, credit to Stetson. I thought they're a fun team, man. I thought their point guard play was really good. Sikarski did a really good job. Sikatski, sorry. Just playing in that middle pick and roll and, you know, keeping us in jail. Made some really tough twos in the first half. I think it was six for six from two in the first half on us. And, you know, bothered us for a lot of the night. And then, you know, obviously, hat tip to Doyle. Came out and just, you know, did a really good job shooting the basketball. quick release, quick trigger, and we didn't do a good enough job taking him off his spots and making him drive and turn him into a two-point shooter. So those two guys, I thought, really stuck out and allowed them to stay in the game. Kuhl's a good player. I thought our bigs did a good job making it hard for him to finish. Not a super efficient night for him, but you can tell he's a good player, and I think that team's going to have a really good year, especially in their league. I can't imagine too many teams have that many playmakers, and they have real size, you know, to Coach Jones' credit. They've recruited well and did a really good job putting that roster together. The Kent State transfer didn't play great tonight, but he was six for six from three and had 28 points against FAU in their last exhibition, so they have some guys that can number and play well. I thought our starting group was pretty good, not perfect. A lot of things that we can kind of nitpick at watching film, and clearly I don't think our bench was anywhere near good enough and you know when we had a majority of those starting guys out there I thought we played pretty well and you know when we kind of got into the bench and had some lineups with some younger players in there the score didn't go the right way and you can you guys can see that from the plus minus so you know second half was pleased thought we did a better job defensively limited 32 percent from the field defending without fouling thought we did a pretty good job that way. We did not rebound well enough. Offensively, some really good nights from Irby and Zell. I thought those guys did a good job of kind of handling the point guard role with Boog being under the weather. We valued the basketball only eight turnovers tonight.