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Luke Murray - Postgame APB · Coaches Corner

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  You kind assisted Luke Murray that first half. Arkansas Pine Bluff was proving that
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  they played some good teams and they're a good team, and they really gave
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  you everything you wanted, didn't they. It wasn't a great feeling there for
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  a while, but you know, they played well. Like you said,
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  they've played well against Missouri. They put up a ton of points against them.
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  You know, even the other night where they lost pretty badly to Gonzaga,
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  they made fifteen threes in the game. So they've got some dangerous guards
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  and you know, I think we lost them a couple of times, and
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  then we missed some open shots as well that I think would have helped stretch
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  the lead in the first half. Yeah, yu Khon able to take advantage
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  of their advantage in the paint as you would expect, but this was big
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  today. Thirty eight to ten in the paint. That was one of the
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  real turning boards. Yeah, I mean, it was the point of emphasis
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  for us for sure. Was trying to get the ball inside to Donovan and
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  Sampson and Alex potentially and also drive the ball as well. You know,
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  put a lot of pressure on the paint. They're a little bit undersized.
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  They're big guys that have been in foul trouble quite a bit as well,
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  So that was something that we were really focused in on. Yeah, it
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  was a nice delivery, a nice contribution by Jalen Stewart, we hadn't played
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  in the last couple of games, comes in, it gives you fifteen minutes,
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  seven points. What'd you like about what you saw? Yeah, I
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  was really impressed with him. You know, he's a guy that has been
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  practicing well recently. He's somebody that has a ton of talent, and we
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  loved him in the recruiting process and so it's nice to see him get comfortable
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  out there. That was a really big spark he gave us in the first
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  half. And you know, coach has been talking about it recently with the
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  team and in the media as well, how important it is for guys like
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  jay Lynn Stewart and Jayden Ross to step up for us. And so I
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  think both those guys, but particularly Jalen, earned a lot of trust today.
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  Yeah, and Solo balded it the other day against North Carolina and the
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  Garden obviously, and Stephan Castle gets eighteen minutes on the Florid today. He
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  looked kind of like himself. I thought, Yeah, I mean he's just
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  so physical, you know, he's so physical. He gets he got you
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  know, I think he drew five or six fouls in the game and only
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  whatever he seventeen minutes that he played. He puts a lot of pressure on
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  the paint, and I thought his defense in the second half was big for
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  us. You know, he played a big role in us being able to
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  kind of grow the lead there. Yeah, had four rebounds, four assistant
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  he had a guard some smaller guys who were super quick. I was impressed
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  by that because Castle is a big due and he's got a guys who were
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  six foot or six' one and they're lightning fast. That's not easy.
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  Yeah, you know, he's uniquely skilled in terms of his ability to move
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  his feet, you know, at that size, at sixty six and two
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  hundred and fifteen pounds or whatever he is, he's really strong in the upper
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  body. But he also has really good laderal quickness. You know. I'd
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  say his on ball defense and his passing are probably his two greatest gifts.
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  Yeah, and Alex Caravan, who's been in a bit of a rut shooting
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  the ball. He's got his tape, his hand taped up. I talked
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  to Dan about it before the game. But six for nine from three,
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  nine of twelve career high for him, twenty six points. Yeah, I
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  know, he was terrific. I mean, he knocked down a bunch of
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  big shots there in the second half. He got some great looks and it
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  was you know, it was really nice to see. You know, he's
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  one of the best shooters in the country. You know, I've seen some
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  things on the internet that say he should shoot less threes or something like that,
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  which I mean, he makes every shot in practice. He went through
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  a little three or four game stretch where he wasn't shooting a great but any
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  open shot for Alex is one that we want him shooting for sure. And
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  finally, I know Dan had this high up on the chalkboard in there in
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  the locker room three point defense. It wasn't what you wanted in the first
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  half, But overall, what do you make of that? I mean,
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  they made some lights out shots in that game, they did, and that's
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  kind of what they do, you know, that's kind of their mo You
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  know, Williams and French are both averaging over eight and a half threes attempted
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  per game. That's a lot. Yeah, I mean, so you know,
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  Williams got twelve off. I thought we did a great job with French,
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  holding them to only three point field goal attempts. But that's you know,
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  that's the nature of their team. They don't do a whole lot around
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  the rim, they don't throw it inside a ton, and they played a
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  really fast tempo, so there's a million possessions and so you know, they're
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  averaging over thirty threes per game, you know, and they're going to make
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  some hard ones. I thought they did. But I think by and large,
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  especially in the second half, our attentiveness was pretty good. Yeah,
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  much better at d in the second half. Al Right, coach, let's
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  get up to Seattle and see what happens out there. I'm looking forward to
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  that. You and I both thanks and Zaga all right, that's Louke Burray.
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  Appreciate him and you kon wins at one oh one sixty three