"Tom Herrion" is an American college basketball assistant coach for Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball/Georgia Tech. He previously severed as head basketball coach at Marshall University and at the College of Charleston.

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I'm surprised that, in a game of significance, we didn't respond for the full 40 minutes. I'm very, very surprised about that. We knew this was a great opportunity in a game that had significance. We've obviously put ourselves in another spot, and now we have to dig in.

He told me this is where he needed to be.

I thought we played tentative, I thought we played soft. Some guys might have played scared for some reason. This late in the season, I don't know why.

That's something he's been battling for a while in terms of his confidence. He's spent a lot of time working on his shot after practice, and today he got some of the reward. He's a talented player. When he adds a shot to his game, he really becomes hard to guard.

We've got to get better at finishing the game. We've got to finish that game on the foul line. That should end up being a 10-, 11-point game.

The lineup they've got out there causes problems, because they're so quick and agile. It's traditional for us to try to find a big body. Now, we've got guys trying to chase a little guard. They're harder to block out.

What should I tell Drew Hall? Concentrate more? He goes 4-for-5 from 19 feet, nine inches and misses two shots from 15 feet. I'm not good at math, but that doesn't make any sense to me.

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.