 Stevenson follows 79-57 to Arvernia here tonight at Owings Mills Gymnasium. Glenn Clark with Coach Gary Stewart. Coach, your team had a lead there to start the second half and you had played a pretty good first half of basketball. Is there anything in particular that you can put on and sort of say here's where things are going wrong when we get the second half of game? Well it's just not the second half Glenn. Today we stayed in there for the first 20 minutes but we don't close the half out well so we give up a three at the end of the half go in it's a one possession game and then don't have a good response out of halftime but if you watch this warm up in the second half those things lead into other things and and you know we're turning the ball over way too much and so that's a recipe for disaster we're just not sound on any side of the ball we don't take care of the habit past offensively so our rotations aren't where there should be it's not for lack of effort in terms of what we're practicing and trying to address through film and those type of things but they're not showing up in the game we're playing way too fast offensively and and not not sharing the ball real well. Would it be fair to call it maybe a snowball effect that a couple things have gone wrong for you there guys this season and all of a sudden you look up and you know one loss becomes two two losses become three and that you know it unfortunately sometimes it's easier for guys to kind of hang their heads a little bit and and lose sight of what they're supposed to be doing. Yeah the real elite teams on the collegiate level they're able to play through offensive challenges and so their energy doesn't wane on the defensive end where we are right now is there's some challenges offensively and then that pre-meets our whole entire team and so now the defensive energy is not there kind of stood stood around and watched in the second half and we just weren't weren't assertive but a lot of that is because we we don't have offensive success whether we turn the ball over get some calls against us or miss some shots that we think we should make and then the next stage of that is that we start to try to take some tough shots to try to get back in the game instead of methodically working our way back and stand with things. Trying to take like a 20 point shot instead of just taking the shot you're supposed to. Yeah but I don't I don't I don't blame our guys you know it starts with me so you know I've got to get it corrected and and to date I have not been able to but you know our guys are working at it we just don't see the fruit fruits of our labor in the in the game so it's not showing up well in the games and it's certainly not for long periods of time. Coach I'd be remiss obviously it's been a really difficult week in the entire world of basketball and you're someone who has roots out in California and I'm sure it's been a tough week for you too but you just share a couple thoughts on on Kobe Bryant and what he's meant to this game and he's meant to everybody who plays the game. Yeah well first Glenn I want to speak to everybody that lost their life and that crash you know it's you know it's an emotional deal and the families you know you feel for everybody involved and and Kobe was such an ambassador for the game and the things that really were you know exciting about Kobe moving forward is that he was becoming a much more well-rounded guy he's always been a exceedingly bright guy speaks five languages and but he was reaching out and helping people and you look at the Pro Bowl and DeSean Watson's broken up because that's a guy that he's been in communication with Sabrina the best women's basketball player to Oregon you know his tentacles touched so many people and and he was not an ambassador for just the United States but he was a global ambassador for basketball and it's really incomprehensible really I mean you know every day you really hope it's not true and you think I'm in a bad dream and you know I don't think any of us have really come to grips with it yet but again my my heart is broken in condolences obviously to the all the families are affected. I appreciate those words and appreciate taking the time we'll talk to you next time thank you Glenn he's Coach Gary Stewart I'm Glenn Clark go Mustang Sports.com