Poor shooting, rebounding doom Temple at La Salle [Video]

A coach’s opening statement in a press conference can sometimes be filled with coachspeak.

Adam Fisher’s aptly summed up Temple’s 83-75 Big 5 loss at La Salle Saturday evening.

“They kicked our butt from start to finish,” the Owls’ second-year head coach began. “Their toughness was better than ours. It’s my fault. We weren’t ready to go. It’s on me.”

Had Temple (4-3) won at La Salle’s new John Glaser Arena, it would have moved on to play St. Joe’s next Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center in a rematch of last year’s Big 5 Classic championship. Instead, the Owls will play Villanova in the third-place game.

Beyond their own miscues, turnovers, poor rebounding and shot selection, there were Temple fingerprints all over Saturday’s loss, albeit at the other end of the floor.

La Salle guard Corey McKeithan, who averaged a career-high 8.0 points per game at Rider last season, dropped 28 on Temple Saturday …