Oscar Tshiebwe addresses late-season mistakes, who's to blame

The final stretch of Kentucky‘s 75-68 loss to Georgia was far from the cleanest finish, and Oscar Tshiebwe knows his team made too many mistakes. He wasn’t the only one to make an error but he focused on himself when talking with the media after the game.

It was a 59-58 game with about four minutes to go before the Bulldogs closed on a 16-7 run to put the game out of reach.

“Even I myself fall asleep sometimes,” Tshiebwe said. “When it came to the end of the game that’s where you should just be active all the time because that’s when the people trying to win. There was a couple of mistakes we make on the ball switch, they make it threes. There was couple mistake I make, giving the big post me up again a little bit like it, but But we gotta get those things fixed.”

Head coach John Calpari was also disappointed in the defensive mishaps that led to baskets.

“We had two breakdowns defensively that led to six points. And they were critical,” Calipari said. “We get up four and I got to go back, because I thought we got great looks. We miss, they make. I call it a will to win. You can’t lose a ball in a three-point game. I am not losing it when we lose it. There was some good stuff.”

Despite mistakes, Oscar Tshiebwe said team is fighting

The Georgia game might be remembered for its mistakes and frustrating result but Oscar Tshiebwe emphasized that he and his teammates were working hard every day to improve.

“I got to get better,” Tshiebwe said. “I believe in my teammates. All of them, they just fighting. All these kids, they just come in fighting every single day. There’s nobody come in and just want to come in and just play. No, they come to fight because they know we’re here for a very good reason.”