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Mike Crispino w Luke Murray - Postgame Providence · Coaches Corner

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  We're joined by Luke Murray here court side the assistant coach. Well, now
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  I know what it's like to be a meat grinder. That was that wasn't
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  easy. Yeah, but Husky's prevailed. It took everything you had, and
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  I mean that's what you expect, right when you face Providence, one of
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  the one of your real rivals in this league. Yeah, I mean I
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  think we're pretty disappointed, you know, honestly with how we played. You
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  know, give credit to Providence. They're a really good defensive team. You
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  know, they're a top ten team in Ken Palm defensive efficiency. So we'll
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  give them a lot of credit for the way that they guarded. But I
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  didn't think we had the right approach to start the game. I thought we
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  were really laxa days coal in the first four or five minutes of the game.
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  And then you know, we missed a ton of open shots. You
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  know, Cam and Alex in particular, had some really good looks that I
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  think could have made the game a little different. Yeah. The rebounding,
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  now, in the first half was key. They they out rebounded you by
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  nine I believe if I'm right about this, But you bounce back in the
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  second half twenty eight thirteen. The advantage on the boards, How important was
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  that? How did you get control of the boards in the second half.
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  Yeah, well, I mean, you know, they had five offensive rebounds
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  at the first media timeout, you know, so they were just quicker to
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  the ball to start the game, and I thought, more ready to play.
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  We cleaned that up for the most part. They had seven at the
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  half. You know, we're missing a lot of shots obviously, so that
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  opens up a lot of defensive rebounding opportunities for them. I thought the key
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  for us was our job on the offensive glass. You know, in the
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  first half, we only got nineteen percent of our missus back. In the
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  second half, you know, we got over forty five percent of our missus
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  back, So we were much more active getting second shots, putting ourselves in
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  position to get fouled. So I just think our our intensity and our effort
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  level jumped. Yeah, and Klingon gets in foul. Everyone was follow troubler,
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  buddy, guys in follow trouble. But he has to sit out sixteen
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  minutes in the first half to get to halftime. Will elide? Was that
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  an accomplishment in your mind? Was that a victory in some ways? I
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  mean, you're really without the guy for sixteen minutes there. Yeah, I
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  mean, I guess so, I mean it's better than the alternative. But
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  you know, again, I think we did some things to put ourselves in
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  a position where it was so nip and tuck in that first half, you
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  know, and Donovan and that second foul. You know, I got to
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  get a look on it on film. But you know, we were just
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  late. We were late reacting. I just didn't think we did a great
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  job of really being attentive at the start of the game, and we put
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  ourselves in a position where we fouled. But it was nice to see us
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  be able to work through some of that. We played Alex a little bit
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  at the five, and then he went out. You know, first play,
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  he's he's at center, he's got castro on, enemy drives right around
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  him, gets fouled at the rim, and then he's out for the next
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  you know, eight or nine minutes or whatever it was. So, you
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  know, it was a tough game to kind of work through, but obviously
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  we're happy to get to win. You know, Luke Murray with us the
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  you kind of assistant. Sometimes adversity is a good thing. I know,
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  I know, it's not good for your heart, it's not good for your
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  not good for your nerves. But to win a game where you got to
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  grind it out and you got to make free throws and you gotta find a
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  way and you got to you know, defend or whatever it takes. I
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  mean, doesn't that stuff add up a little bit as the season goes on.
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  Yeah, I mean, you know again, it's it's the nature of
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  the Big East. You know, it's the nature of college basketball. You
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  know, you got these tough, competitive games, and they're not always going
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  to be you know, the way that you draw them up in terms of
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  playing beautiful offense or beautiful defense and you know, making every shot. So
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  you just have to be able to show a little bit of fortitude and work
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  through some of these. And you know, again, I think we're disappointed
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  because you know, it's not really who we are. You know, a
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  seven assist game, having more turnovers and assists, right, you know,
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  just some of the things that we really pride ourselves on. But again,
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  give them credit for the way that they defend, but we know we got
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  to be we got to be better. On Saturday. Yeah, I was
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  gonna say this This is the kind of thing that sets you up for what
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  you got to do on Saturday. Now you're playing in front of nineteen thousand
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  that are not going to be rooting for you. There'll be a lot of
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  YU Conference, don't get me wrong, but you know there's going to be
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  about eighteen thousand not rooting for you. So in a sense, winning a
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  game like this two or three days ahead of going there, can that help?
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  Yeah? I mean I think it's got to be a wake up call
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  for us a little bit, you know. I mean not that we took
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  anything for granted, but it's just we have to be at our absolute best,
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  you know, you just have to every night, and we weren't tonight
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  for large stretches of the game. I thought we showed grit and some toughness,
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  but you know, our execution has to be better. And you know,
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  I don't know if I'm ready to give up the eighteen thousand yet,
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  Mike. I think it's gonna be a little bit better than that, But
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  you know, we'll see. I mean, they're a good team. You
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  know, they had a tough game with Xavier on the road in Cincinnati.
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  It was nip and tuck and Xavier pulled away late, so obviously they present
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  challenges. He's a great coach and they've got some trific players. Yeah.
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  Well we're looking forward to that coach. We appreciate it. A win's a
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  win is a win as far as I know. Yeah, I guess I
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  would have to. I got you to admit it. Yeah, that is,
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  in fact a win. All right, it's nine in a row.
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  Way to go to it, all right, Thanks Luke Murray with us