If you’re already read my game story in the previous post or elsewhere online or in the paper, here are additonal quotes from the two teams:

Robert Brown on not starting: “I knew a couple days ago. He just told me just be ready to come in and just make plays. I haven’t been playing the best so it’s probably better for the team, and I was fine with that.”

Erick Green on teams making a lot of 3s against VT: “Hopefully we can fix it. We’ve just got to keep following the scouting report, making them contest 3s and just get out there.”

Green on what was challenging with how Clemson defended him: “It wasn’t challenging at all. … I can get by anybody. … I know people are going to double team me, I know people are going to try to get the ball out of my hands but I really feel like I can make plays. And I feel like in the 2nd half I didn’t make enough plays.”

Green on what Clemson did down the stretch: “50-50. Every chance they got, they got opportunities. And when you get opportunities, you’ve got to finish. And we didn’t finish.”

Green on the Hokies’ FT shooting: “One of them days when you just can’t hit enough from the free throw line, that’s all.”

Green on what made it a tough shooting day for the Hokies: “We just didn’t hit shots. We had looks. … We didn’t make plays, that’s what it boils down to.”

Jarell Eddie on Brown: “He was able to make plays. He was able to score the ball, he was able to get other players the ball in good scoring position. He was definitely able to contribute off the bench.”

Eddie on digging out of the 12-0 hole: “It’s tough. …. It’s really tough doing that. We really want to stay away from that.”

Eddie on Clemsons’ treys: “They were just making shots. We played our zone, thought they wasn’t going to make as many 3s as they did but they was just making shots.”

Eddie on the zone: “They haven’t seen much zone this season so we wanted to give them a different look. They wasn’t able to handle it at first. … After a while they started making those 3s.”

Eddie on teams making 3s against VT: “Guys are really just making shots, they’re having hot nights against us. We have to play better defense to stop them from making so many 3s.”

Eddie on Clemson’s defense: “They just block shots around the rim. We had some good looks at the 3 pt line and some guys made them, some guys didn’t.”

Eddie on getting more baskets than he did vs UVa: “I’m just going to come out here and play my hardest every game whether I make 2 shots or more shots.”

James Johnson on what went wrong as far as all of Clemson’s treys: “Nothing went wrong, they made shots. If we’re in man and they knock 3s down, what went wrong with man? If we’re in zone and they make 10 3s, what went wrong? They come in last in the league (in 3s). We’re not in a situation where I think we could guard their post guys inside. We’ve got to try to play some statistics, we’ve got to try to play a little bit of zone and try to take them out and make them do something that they can’t do or they haven’t done, and they made shots tonight. I think most of them were contested. We had a couple that we should’ve got but most of them was contested. … Damarcus Harrison hit a big time shot with the shot clock running down right in front of their bench on the baseline, tough shot. They made some contested shots but they had a couple that we made some mistakes in our defense and that’s going to happen. They shot the ball extremely well.”

Johnson on coming back from the 12-0 hole  and on Rankin’s 1 of 2 from the FT line with 3:21 to go: “All year long this team has fought, they’ve worked hard, they’ve never quit, never given up. They got down 12-0 and came back and took the lead on the road and actually 3:21 .. on the free throw line with the opportunity to take another lead and missed the free throw. …. We had an opportunity to take the lead with 320 to go in the game and we have to be able to make those plays. We have to be able to step up to the free throw line and make those plays. … When we have our opportunities we have to make those plays.”

Johnson on not starting Brown: “Rankin is playing better. He gave us a great defensive effort in our last game and defense is something that we needed and if we’re not scoring, I think they’re both are kind of averaging the same in league play, so I went with the defense. ”

Johnson on Brown’s play vs. Clemson: “He played better. He has to play even better for this team to have a chance to win some games in this league. I think he took a step forward tonight.”

Johnson on Green: “He’s expending a lot of energy getting his shot off. …. I try to buy him some time here and there but having him off the floor with an offensive challenged team right now is very difficult for me to have him over there sitting beside me getting a breather. … They did a good job on him.”

Clemson’s Milton Jennings on VT’s defense: “I guess they figured that that’s what they needed to do for the rest of the game, see if we could make open shots. They wanted us to take 3s. Unfortunately for them, KJ and Damarcus knocked them down.”

Jennings on  his team’s nine blocks: “That’s just our mentality. … We don’t practice that. It’s just everybody’s mentality to keep playing, like I saw Barksdale on that fast break, and I think I got to that. They called goaltending. … It’s just pure hustle. KJ’s a tremendous athlete, Book’s a tremendous athlete, I’m even a tremendous athlete. … We’re all long.”

Johnson on the zone: “I was definitely coming in thinking we had to play a lot of zone tonight based on the way Booker was playing inside and based upon our inside game. He would’ve been a load for us. He was still a load for us in the zone the way he’d duck in and picked up fouls and basically fouled out three of our guys out tonight in the zone. I can imagine what he would’ve done to us in the man to man. … You look at the way they were shooting the basketball, I’m thinking that it was an opportunity for us to play some zone and try to make them beat us from outside — and they did.”

Clemson coach Brad Brownell on Booker’s supporting cast: “To see those guys play the way they did when Book was under the weather and just not feeling himself and obviously the zone doing a good job of packing it back, it was a good way for our team to win. … I knew that they would play us quite a bit of zone, more than we’d seen throughout most of the season. We’ve seen some, but we haven’t seen a  lot in ACC play. The way zones are played, you’ve got to take what’s there. … Those are rhythm shots that you need to be able to make.”

Brownell on Booker having the flu: “He had a 103 (degree fever) yesterday at practice. … He looked worn down  (in the game). … He didn’t have his full lges under him.”

Brownell on Green: “We just harrassed him on ball screens. I thought we played really well against him. He had 11 free throws, he draws unbelievable amounts of free throws and fouls. Obviously I wasn’t happy about some of them because I think he initiates contact sometimes. But what really impresses me about Erick Green is you keep going on the stats (sheet) and you see five assists and one turnover. When he’s being harrassed like hie is, for him to still have the wherewithall to pass it and find guys for assists, he sees two and three plays ahead much better than most college kids. He’s at a much higher level than anybody else right now. For him to not force it and just continue to try to find another guy and make the right pass and the right decision speaks to how high a level of basketball he’s playing.”

 Brownell on whether this counts as beating a former assistant, since Johnson was only his assistant for a few weeks: “Hell yeah it does,” he said with a grin. “James is going to do a good job.”