After Pitt's loss to Duke on Tuesday night, Jeff Capel met the media and talked about the Panthers' offense, defense and more. Here's video and a full transcript of everything he said.

Capel: First of all, I want to thank our crowd. What an unbelievable turnout, especially from the students, and provided a great atmosphere for his game tonight, so I’m grateful for that. Incredibly disappointed in our performance; I wish we could have matched what the crowd brought, the energy they brought to the game early. I thought we were ready to play, but we got knocked back early. I thought they were outstanding. It’s the best that they have shot the basketball, and I thought we just looked disorganized and that’s on me. I have to do a better job with my team of making sure we’re prepared and we have to do, collectively as a coaching staff and as a team, a better job of giving some resistance.

I was proud of - we continued to fight, especially that group that finished the game. I thought we played the game the right way, we shared it, so some positives from that. But give credit to Duke, man; they were outstanding. I mean, Filipowski was great. I think coming into the season, he was 30% from three; he was four-for-four. And the way they shot the basketball in the first half, I hadn’t seen them do that all year. So give them credit.

Jon said that there’s no one like Kyle. How true is that and how tough is he to defend?
Capel: Well, we haven’t played anyone like him. He’s incredibly unique. He was the rookie of the year last year and he’s gotten better. He’s the preseason player of the year. When you have a guy that’s that big, that can score it inside and when he’s shooting the basketball like he shot it tonight, he’s very difficult to guard. The other thing is that, coming into this game, he was really passing the ball well. Now, I think he had negative assist-to-turnover tonight. But I think it was more than double assist-to-turnover coming into this game.

They do a great job of moving off of him. They know that you probably have to try to double him, because he’s very difficult to defend single coverage. And he does a great job of being patient and finding guys. So he’s very unique and an outstanding player.

What do you think allowed them to win the battle on the boards?
Capel: Yeah, they dominated us there. Those guys are big. They’re athletic. Mitchell and Filipowski have great second jumps. They shoot and they follow it right away. We have to get all five guys in there for us to rebound. We can’t have just two or three guys.

Bub missed his first 10 from the field tonight. What made things so difficult for him?
Capel: I think Duke played well defensively. They had a sense of urgency to guard him. They switched ball screens with their starting group; when Ryan Young came in, they went to a drop coverage. They were very physical. They have great size. And they contested shots.

Do you feel he was able to create the looks that he would desire and you would desire for him?
Capel: At times, he did. At times, we didn’t.

Is this one of those games where you kind of have to burn the tape? This isn’t about all the things that happen and you have to focus on yourself after a loss like this.
Capel: Yeah, you know, I don’t believe in burning the tape. I think you learn from every experience that you go through. My dad used to have a saying: ‘Sometimes, you’re the bug; sometimes, you’re the windshield.’ You learn from it all.

Today, we were the bug. We got splattered all over the windshield. And then he would say to me, you know, ‘Regardless of what happens, you have to wipe that you-know-what off and get back going.’ That’s what we have to do. We have to learn from this. We have to learn. We have to play harder, we have to be more physical, we can’t let guys just take the ball from us. We have to move more. We have to be able to adapt when teams do something different.

I haven’t seen Duke all year - I’ve seen them at times in moments in games where they switch ball screens, but I haven’t seen them do it continuously like they did at the start of the game. We have to be able to adjust and adapt on the fly with that, and be able to counter it and be able to attack it. I thought we got some good looks early; we missed some and they didn’t miss anything. But I thought that we didn’t give resistance, though. I thought our game plan was sound coming in, but again, that’s on me. I have to do a better job with our guys.

How can you go about getting more points in the paint?
Capel: Well, we have to drive the ball a little bit more. We have to be able to touch the paint. At times, it can be a little bit more difficult when teams are just switching stuff, because that negates the ball screen coverage and maybe some rolls and things like that. But we have to drive the basketball more, we have to move it more and we have to touch the paint more.

How did Ish feel coming into tonight?
Capel: I think he felt okay. Obviously, he’s rusty. He really hasn’t practiced since last Thursday and really hasn’t done anything. He went through practice a little bit yesterday, did a little bit of physicality, got up and down a little bit, but today was the first time, so I thought obviously he looked a little bit rusty but it was great having him out there.

Is this the ideal time for you guys to have a weekend off and kind of regroup?
Capel: I don’t know. I don’t know. It is what it is. We have it. We just have to keep working and getting better. Like I told our team: it’s January 9th, I think. Yeah, it’s 11:21, so it’s still January 9th. It’s a long season. And sometimes you have a game like this. We have to learn from it. We have to get better. Fortunately we have an opportunity next Tuesday and we’ll be ready for it.

Your team forced 14 turnovers on 13 steals. What do you think got lost in translation for converting those to points?
Capel: Yeah, we didn’t convert them. We have to do a better job of attacking in transition when we get those opportunities. We have to be stronger with our decision-making and we have to be stronger protecting the basketball.

How much of this can be having a guy in the game who kind of leads the effort to resist? If a guy like Bub hits those open shots or someone has that statement that everyone can rally around - how important is that?
Capel: Yeah, I think it’s important. Unfortunately it didn’t happen. When a team is making shots like they were making shots, I think one of the things that can happen, especially with guys today, I think you can get embarrassed. And sometimes young people have a different way of showing embarrassment. I see it with my kids at home. Sometimes it’s like, ‘let’s not try as much,’ so then you can have the excuse of, ‘Well, I didn’t go hard’ or whatever. I’m not saying we did that, but I just thought, again, they got out in transition early, we didn’t communicate well and they made us pay for that.

They have a really good team, and when they’re shooting the basketball like they shot it today, I think it will be tough for anyone to beat them.

What’s your primary focus as a coach when you guys meet for film the next day to say, like, ‘Hey, this is where we have to step up’?
Capel: Yeah, we show, we teach. That’s our job, our responsibility, is to teach. Through good and bad, you teach. You try to show guys areas where we did well. There were a couple of plays there in the first half where we were in the gaps early like we talked about and they drove and we stole the basketball because we were in the gap early. We were aggressive. But then there were a couple of times when, on our ball screen coverage, we didn’t X out, and when we did X out, we didn’t cover where we knew Mitchell was going to be. We have to be there. And it has to be automatic. It can’t be something that you think about. We have to be able to take what we drill in practice and go through.

So we’ll talk about those things, and just try to continue to build positive habits, winning habits, and continue to get better that way.