Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State coach Scott Nagy paused as if needing time to think when a TV reporter asked him during interviews Tuesday to discuss what his team has been doing well so far this season.
The Raiders are 8-10 overall, 2-3 in the Horizon League and have just six wins over Division-I teams, so it’s probably understandable that Nagy wasn’t prepared to rattle off a bunch of positive traits.
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“I don’t know if we do anything WELL,” he said. “We haven’t been very consistent offensively. We’ve had games where we really scored it well, and we’ve had games where we absolutely can’t shoot the ball.
“Defensively, we’re better than we were earlier in the year, but against Northern Kentucky, we gave up a lot of easy baskets (in a 68-64 loss Friday). But we’re the best defensive rebounding team in the league. Our kids are playing hard. Even though we’re not as big as some of the other teams, we’re still rebounding well.”
Despite the erratic play, Nagy hasn’t lost faith. The Raiders were the preseason conference favorites, and he expects them to live up to that billing the rest of the way.
“I still believe we’ve got the best team in the league,” he said, noting that they’ve already faced the top four teams in the standings, three of them on the road. “I look at how we played against UIC, how poorly we shot the ball, and we ended up in overtime (losing 75-72 on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer). That makes me feel good about our team.
“I look at how poorly we played at Northern Kentucky, and we lost by four. I just know if we get our kids’ confidence right, there’s not a game we can’t win for sure.”
