California Head Coach Cuonzo Martin

On Utah's defense and Cal's lack of a post presence…
What I think that they were doing was after our fourth pass, they would go from a zone to a man. I told the guys to treat it like a man-to-man defense and execute what we were trying to do. Even in the first half, we recognized something. Not just what we did a poor job of really establishing a post presence. Early in the game, we didn't do a good job getting the ball inside to make plays.

On Cal's offensive struggles…
I think that a lot of our breakdowns had to do with of our ball screen defense and then you come down on offense you have to flow and make shots, make plays. I felt that we really weren't establishing the post, especially in the second half. We felt like they were playing us one on one in the post. They would double Ivan, but when they doubled our shooters needed to be ready to shoot. We needed Kameron (Rooks) to post up some, Jaylen (Brown) to post up some, force those guys to make plays because I really felt like they were trying to take away everything from Jabari (Bird) and Jordan (Mathews) on the perimeter. We needed to make plays off the ball screens and attack downhill, but we just didn't do a very good job tonight.

On Cal's fouls…
More than anything, I don't think that it was coming from behind fouls. I think it was more of us doing a poor job moving our and being sound defensively. We were getting fouls early. We've got to do a better job of moving our feet and being solid defensively. In this case, playing from behind, we didn't do a lot of fouling. We have to do a better job of not giving up and one plays, big plays, and moving your feet, keeping guys in front of you. In this case, I think our fours in our rotation on that weak side didn't do a good job of that.

On Jaylen Brown's play…
I thought he did a good job of really being aggressive and trying to attack. When he is at the three and point guard position, that means that there are two big guys on the floor for us. He did a good job of taking some pull ups and making some shots. When he was at the four, now we have better spacing. We didn't feel like it was an advantage for us to have Ivan (Rabb) at the five with (Jakob) Poeltl, because Ivan got into foul trouble. It was just one of those deals with other guys not making enough shots, but I still think it had more to do with us on the defensive side of the ball.

On Utah attacking the basket…
They made a couple of plays. I think it had more to do with our breakdown. I thought they did a really good job of attacking, especially at the baseline, trying to make plays, and forcing them to make decisions. I don't think that we did a very good job of getting through ball screens with our weak side defense. It wasn't as much their big guy getting us to guard the ball. It was our weak side help not dropping and rotating over.