Effort has rarely been the issue with this group of Gators. I thought Vandy was terrific defensively.”įlorida played hard the entire contest. We weren’t able to overcome Vandy’s defensive effort with those miscues. “Those mistakes, Justin being out, a couple of silly fouls that led to four free throws. “Off the top of my head, the other big issue in the first half we had two miscommunications that led to two three’s for those guys. “We had foul line block outs that we messed up and didn’t take advantage of blocking out correctly and defending our glass,” White said. While giving credit to Vanderbilt for causing miscues, White pointed out if they just limited the mistakes to a reasonable amount, the Gators likely walk out of Memorial gym with a victory. Guard Wade Baldwin and center Damian Jones combined to 17-25 from the free throw line, making seven more shots than the Gators even took on the night. Kornet is the 7-foot junior forward who finished with only four points, but he had nine rebounds, a steal, and six blocked shots. Luke Kornet was as good defensively as anyone we have faced this year.” They were back at home coming off of a tough loss. They played with a chip on their shoulder. We were facing a really good defensive team who I thought played really well defensively in their building. “We don’t want to make any excuses,” he said. White gave the Commodores credit instead of blaming the bad offensive play on losing Leon. It was a rough and tumble game inside and the Commodores weren’t giving up much. Vanderbilt showed up playing hard defensively from the outset. Obviously, we hope the best for him and hope we can get him back soon. “Justin Leon going out… we had a lot of adversity tonight with the concussion. “Foul trouble killed us, giving up 33 free throw attempts killed us,” Mike White said on the Gators’ IMG Network show after the game. The Gators would really struggle in the first half from the 3-point line going 0-10 from the arc, and then foul trouble limited the time on the court for sophomore center John Egbunu to just 23 minutes against a team that starts two 7-footers. An inadvertent elbow from Vanderbilt forward Luke Kornet sent Leon to the floor where he had to be helped off and wouldn’t return. The hustle that Leon has showed as of late and his ability to be a difference maker from beyond the 3-point line were both lost when he went down with concussion symptoms just three minutes into the contest.
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