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Luke Murray Postgame - Bryant · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back here at People's Bank Arrana Mike chris Pino, joined
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  Speaker 1: by Luke Murray, the youth con assistant. You just take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the stat sheet, talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about what happened on this one, coach. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: Eric Ryber. How about that sixteen points for the freshman.
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  Speaker 1: We talked to him after the game. He also had
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  Speaker 1: six rebounds in the game and only played nineteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as a first year guy, you have to
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  Speaker 1: like what you're seeing there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I thought he should have had twenty
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  Speaker 2: and ten, And be honest with you, I thought he
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of plays around the rim that he
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  Speaker 2: could have converted and established a little bit deeper position.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think there was a couple of times
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  Speaker 2: that he was open in the role game that we
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  Speaker 2: didn't find him. But yeah, I mean, I thought for
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  Speaker 2: the most part, he continued to battle. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: continue to get better defensively in terms of his rim
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  Speaker 2: protection and really becoming a force there, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting better as a rebounder. You know, it's nice to
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  Speaker 2: see him coming away with six rebounds, but that's something
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  Speaker 2: that he's going to have to really keep working on
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  Speaker 2: but nice to see him have a good scoring output.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Husky's only one block shot tonight, obviously you want
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  Speaker 1: more than that, but assist a turnover ratio seven team
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  Speaker 1: to eight. This is one of those grinder out games.
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  Speaker 1: Who were talking about it off air, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, how do you explain that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you were sitting on the bench watching it the whole night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's tough. They play an interesting style.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they switch a lot on and off the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and we watched that a lot coming in on tape.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the way that they played against Virginia Tech
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  Speaker 2: and the way that they played in some of their
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  Speaker 2: early season games. They've given some teams some struggles. So
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  Speaker 2: for us, you know, it's a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: different style. It's something that we're not used to seeing,
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  Speaker 2: so that takes a little bit of thought. But then
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  Speaker 2: I also thought we missed a ton of open shots.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought Alex and Solo in particular had
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  Speaker 2: some really clean looks. I thought in the first half,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't convert around the rim as well as we
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  Speaker 2: needed to. We were only shooting fifty percent at the rim,
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  Speaker 2: and our game goal was seventy percent at the rim
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  Speaker 2: in terms of our conversion rate. So yeah, I just
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe it's a little bit of that shooting variance.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think our assist numbers could have easily
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  Speaker 2: been into the twenties if we kind of shoot the
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  Speaker 2: way that we're taped typically capable of. But I give
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  Speaker 2: them a little bit of credit. You know, they're the
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  Speaker 2: tallest team in the country combined height on their roster,
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  Speaker 2: and so they have some length on the perimeter. They
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  Speaker 2: get some late contests, and like I said, the switching
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  Speaker 2: is a little bit unique.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you held them under thirty percent shooting though. As
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  Speaker 1: far as field goal percentage, how much of that was
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  Speaker 1: your defense do you think? And how much was of
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  Speaker 1: that was them just poor shooting.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the defense. You know, That's really
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  Speaker 2: what coaches emphasized for the last couple of days coming
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  Speaker 2: out of Arizona. You know, disappointed and obviously the way
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  Speaker 2: that we rebounded the ball and the way that we
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  Speaker 2: defended the paint. So you know, this is a different
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  Speaker 2: type of game. Arizona was, you know, in the three
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  Speaker 2: fifties in the country, and the percentage of their shots
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  Speaker 2: that come from three Bryant was the opposite. You know,
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  Speaker 2: half of their shots are threes. It's top twenty five
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  Speaker 2: in the country. You know, percentage of shots coming from three.
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  Speaker 2: You see it even tonight. I mean, they made eleven
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  Speaker 2: field goals in the game, and seven of them were three.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of what they do, is play along
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter. But I thought we were really disruptive. We
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  Speaker 2: had twenty one forced turnovers. I thought we were, you know,
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  Speaker 2: an inch or two away from having twenty four twenty
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  Speaker 2: five on plays that we deflected or almost stole. So
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  Speaker 2: I thought our defensive intensity was really good, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought that that, more than anything, probably affected their shot man.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we made a couple of mistakes in the
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  Speaker 2: second half and a little pocket in the first half
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  Speaker 2: where we think we'd let up our guard a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but by and large, I mean we held him below
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  Speaker 2: our game goal. Our game goal was point eight to
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  Speaker 2: one points per possession, and they scored points seventy five,
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  Speaker 2: So we're pretty happy with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Luke Murray with his final question for is Silas
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  Speaker 1: Demery Junior again showing what point guards are supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: I always two for eight from the field, did not
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  Speaker 1: make a three, but Luke ten rebounds, ten points, ten assists.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, point guards are funny. I mean I've been
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  Speaker 1: around guys like Jason Kidd and he played games where
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  Speaker 1: he didn't score points and the Nets would win by twenty.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of ways that guys like
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  Speaker 1: Demery can impact a game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, for sure, And I thought he did
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  Speaker 2: a next job. It reminds me a lot of t News.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe his first triple double here against Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty three season, where he didn't necessarily play
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  Speaker 2: the most esthetically pleasing offensive game, but just sort of
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  Speaker 2: stayed in the mix. You know, Silas had three offensive rebounds,
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  Speaker 2: you know, was big on the defensive glass in the
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  Speaker 2: first half, made some nice decisions with the ball against
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  Speaker 2: their switching defense, like I said, and just sort of
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  Speaker 2: grinded it out. So I give him a lot of
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  Speaker 2: credit for the way that he competed, and the triple
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  Speaker 2: doubles obviously always special.
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  Speaker 1: All right, coach, appreciate it. Happy Thanksgiving. I'll see you
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  Speaker 1: in New York.
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  Speaker 2: See you in New York. Thanks my, that's Luke Murray.