 Stevenson drops the conference opening right to Eastern 8 to 74 Glen Clark with head coach Gary Stewart coach You know you guys had a great first half and then open up a big lead I know you're adjusting to playing without a couple of your guys right now How much do you feel like that maybe war on you and in the second half? Well where we missed it most is in the toughness department. I mean you you saw that game. It was it was Glaring in terms of the toughness piece and so in this conference If you're not going to battle up You're going to suffer the fate that we did and I didn't think we got to that all night long Just the physicality to get people off the backboard You know that we didn't we didn't follow the game plan, you know, and so we we You know had some good stretches there, but the consistency to play well throughout the game wasn't there We we didn't fake it inside. We shot against the contest There was a lot of things that was really disappointing about tonight. I thought that your perimeter defense I thought your guards were active defensively and creating turnovers. I thought that was a bite I'd certainly understand where your frustration would be inside But I thought that there was you know, she coley created a lot of turnovers tonight I thought there was some pretty good active defense on the perimeter. Yeah, the challenge here And it's really really interesting Something that kind of foreign to me at the division one level and I said Davis But the defense of inactivity where you do it right and you do it right and then all of a sudden You just stop and so now I'm guarding you and once you give it up instead of me jumping to the ball Which should happen in January. I don't care if you're a freshman or senior We jump to the basket So when you do that against a team like Eastern, you will pay and you will pay dearly and and and unfortunately we did that tonight On the positives at Joey Lutz off the bench, you know looked fluid looked comfortable looked like someone who you know It maybe can shoulder more of the load moving forward Yeah, you hate to put that on him because we want to do it collectively with our entire roster, but Joey is a Highly competitive guy. He's got all the tangibles that winners have, you know, that was really the attraction to him You can see the skill set but but he's a winner in and We're lucky that he gets aware uniform for years to come What's the message, you know, we mentioned that you guys are down. You're not getting those guys back You know Saturday, right? It's not happening that quickly What's the message to this group about what it's going to take moving forward in the conference? No more. Mr. Nice guy, you know, it just I thought that we could come and teach and coach in a certain level, but we're not getting the response that we need so That means I'm gonna shift to another gear It won't be for women and children Yeah, I appreciate you not taking that on me. I do appreciate that and always appreciate the time. Thanks so much Thank you. Glenn. He's Gary Stewart. I'm Glenn Clark. Go Mustang sports TV