LOCKER ROOM REPORT: Wolfpack Players

NC State's Jayden Taylor, Casey Morsell, Mohamed Diarra, and Dennis Parker, Jr. met with the media following the Wolfpack's 84-78 loss to Virginia Tech Saturday afternoon.

Taylor scored 15 points against the Hokies to go along with five rebounds, two assists, and two steals. Morsell led the way with 19 points, also adding three boards, three steals, one assist, and one block. Diarra led the Pack in rebounding with eight while scoring six points and one steal off the bench. Meanwhile, Parker scored three points, pulled down two boards, and assisted on one State basket.

NOTE: Click on each player’s respective thumbnail to watch each interview in the player above.

NC State Guard Jayden Taylor

“It’s very frustrating. We aren’t a high turnover team. We usually don’t turn the ball over a lot.
Today we didn’t play well offensively and we couldn’t guard the ball at the end. That’s really all it
was.”

“I think it was a lack of focus and mental breakdowns. I don’t think it’s anything they did that
threw us off. If you watch them, we were letting them drive by us. You’re not going to win that
way.”

“We just have to be who we are, who we’ve been all year. We lost, we can’t let it just keep going
like this. We’ve been a good team all year. We haven’t been shooting the ball as well as we can,
but we shoot every day. They’re going to fall.”

NC State Guard Casey Morsell

“When you guard them you have to give up something, they were hot from three so we tried to
run them off [the three-point like], and they were still getting into the paint. That’s a very good
ball club, and we’ve got to figure out how to slow teams down when they get hot.”

“There’s a lot of ball left in the ACC. We’ve just got to keep being who we are. Even though we
lost, all of our mistakes are fixable. We’ve got a good stretch coming up with UVA on the road,
so it’s another opportunity waiting for us. We’ve just got to fix our mistakes because they’re all
fixable.”

“Yeah, like I said, no one needs to change anything, it’s just minor adjustments. We’ve got to
stick to the plan, we are who we are. We’ve put in work, we all know what it takes to win at this
level. Like I said we’ve got a big stretch coming up, we’re just looking ahead.”

“They honestly did a good job reading the press. They were finding open guys, making us work
when we were on defense, they were using multiple passes and multiple drives, they were
trying to get open lanes. We’ve just got to keep being who we are and do it for a full 40 minutes,
not 30, not 35, we’ve got to do it for a full 40 minutes.”

“It starts off the court, it starts in the locker room. We’ve got to be complete in everything we do,
no one should take shortcuts and we’ll be able to fix our mistakes heading into the next game.”