Facing a Cal Poly team picked to finish fifth in the Big West that had already lost to Montana State, Sacramento State and Division II Cal State Monterey Bay, the Aztecs did not particularly play well. Punctuated by the 0-of-18 performance behind the three-point arc. With 14 seconds left, Cal Poly was within just two points before D.J. Gay iced the game at the free-throw line.
“Things happen,” Fisher said. “We played like the score would indicate. We played just well enough to get a win. That’s not acceptable but it happened.”
The Aztecs fashion themselves as a good shooting team, but this was the second time this season they’ve had an oh-fer from three-point range, they were 0-of-7 against Wisconsin. What happens if they have another nightmare shooting performance, against a better team?
This is where Fisher is at his best, knowing that shooting is all about confidence and that confidence often is as much about perception as reality.
“My job is to make sure we believe we’re good, that we know we’re good, and then to play that way,” he said. “I think sometimes you have a game like this and you start to doubt yourself. You start carping on all the things you’re not doing, and pretty soon you can be paralyzed a little bit about a concern or fear that, here we go again.”
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