Men's Basketball

Postgame quotes from CSU vs. Toccoa Falls

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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Postgame quotes are available from senior C Billy Blackmon and Head Coach Barclay Radebaugh after Charleston Southern's 103-53 win over Toccoa Falls on Monday night.

Billy Blackmon

On what the team wanted to accomplish against Toccoa Falls:
"We wanted to come out and execute. Execution was a big thing we worked."

On the success the team had rebounding the basketball:
"Ever since the Stetson game, Coach (Radebaugh) has been on us to rebound. We struggled with that against Air Force. In practice though, we've been going hard (after rebounds) and that showed tonight."

On the team's slow start:
"I don't really want to blame it on (the jetlag). We came out a little flat and didn't execute, but we were able to pick it up and turn things around."

On the improvements the team needs to make to beat Liberty on Thursday:
"We need to run our offense better than we did tonight. We struggled with that against Air Force too. Liberty runs the same kind of 3-2 zone that Air Force ran, and it will be a challenge. But we've got to work on it in practice."

Barclay Radebaugh

On what concerned him about tonight's performance:
"I thought we played hard. Overall, our execution is still a little lacking. Twenty turnovers is a concern. It certainly gives us a little something to work on before we play Liberty."

On the success his team had on the glass against Toccoa Falls:
"We were so much bigger (than Toccoa Falls). So we wanted to start our possessions by throwing it into the post. With the way our guards shoot, it can creates some match-up problems, and that was the case tonight."

On the way his team boxed out:
"We've got great size, and we boxed out well. Certainly we were bigger and stronger, and we should have won the rebound battle. The thing that we did that I liked was that we were fundamental with our box outs. That's something we struggled with against Air Force. Because we press we have a lot of transition box outs, and I thought we did well with them tonight."

On the challenges Toccoa Falls presented for his team:
"It's hard to play a smaller team like that. They are four guys on the floor at all times who can shoot the ball, and they did a good job in the early going of finding those guys."

On the play of Patrick Shaughnessy:
"I was really impressed with Patrick. He's gotten better every day. He clocks in and works every day; he doesn't take a day off. I'm so impressed with him as a person. He's humble, he's a worker and he's going to be a wonderful player here. He played some significant minutes against Air Force, and he played more minutes tonight. And that's how it happens - you earn your playing time."

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