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Luke Murray Postgame v Northern Arizona · Coaches Corner

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Back at gamble yukon Winnsday ninety five to fifty two. In the opener,
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they hang up the banner and then they get to work on the next season.
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We're joined by a kind of assistant, Luke Murray, coach. All
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around solid game for a lot of guys. I mean, let's start with
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clinging early. I mean, you were pounding it down and we talked to
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Alex Caravan about it and he said, yeah, Coach said, we're going
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down deep to the big guy, and you executed that well early. Yeah.
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I thought we did a pretty good job of getting them the ball.
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I mean we wanted to try to knock a little bit of the rust off
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for him. You know, he only got back in practice this week,
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so you know he's still working through some things. But I thought he did
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a pretty good job. And then when you went to the bench, it
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looked like I don't want to say a repeat because that's not right, but
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Samson Johnson coming off the bench as a center behind Clinging now after Snogle clinging
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last year, I mean that's a pretty good combination you got going. Yeah,
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absolutely, I know coach has been talking about it in the media quite
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a bit. You know and how it says some similarities to last year's group
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with the domin and with Donovan. And I know a lot of people haven't
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had a chance to see Sampson because of, you know, the injuries last
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year and kind of how crowded the front court was in his freshman year.
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But he's super talented and he definitely gives us a different look, you know,
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a big time vertical lob threat, explosive athletes. So those two guys
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have been really really good together and I'm glad they had a chance to show
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that tonight. Yeah, and the good news is you get ten fouls between
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them. Samson got four here tonight. He got three blocks, so did
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Donovan. You had ten blocks as a team. That's always a good category.
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Yeah, absolutely, And I thought in the first half there are probably
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two or three more that we should have blocked, you know. I didn't
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think we did a great job of protecting the rim early. Donovan didn't have
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any blocks at halftime, but he ended up getting three blocks in the five
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and a half minutes that he played in the second half. So that was
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nice to see Cam Spencer five assists in this one. Tristan Newton when another
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solid game, three assists, fourteen points, seven rebounds. He's a good
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rebounder for a guard. He always has been, you know, the triple
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doubles from last year. But he does a really good job of getting it
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on the defensive glass. And then that helps our transition game as well.
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You know, when you have a guard that can get it and go,
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that obviously opens things up. And the young guys, what did you make
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of them? Solid and ball scored a basket. You got Jayden Ross involved
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a little bit, and you know the guys obviously we've got to get to
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Castle here in a second. But you know, the first time you get
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on a court in a game in college, you never know what's gonna happen.
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Yeah, absolutely absolutely. I mean they're still trying to get their feet
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wet. Obviously, it's a lot you know, you see the banner drop,
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you gotta sold out crowd, it's your first game. I mean,
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there's a lot of emotions that are kind of factoring into it. But I
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thought Jaylen Stewart was impressive. You know, I thought he did a nice
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job in the nine minutes that he was in there at five points and three
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rebounds, did some really good things I thought, you know, Solo was
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a little bit rushed today. He's been an unbelievable shooter for us in the
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practice setting, shooting over forty percent from three, So I don't think that
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was truly indicative of who he is. And I think Jayden, you know,
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the ball didn't find him a whole lot in the nine minutes that he's
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been in, but he really has practice well for us, So I think
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those guys would continue to get more comfortable, you know, Saturday and beyond,
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and we're gonna need him. I think a jink Solo because I was
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talking about his three point shooting and Praice, I only I only repeat what
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I hear from you and Dan. So as soon as I said that he
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missed like three, yeah, yeah, you know, I thought he rushed
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to rush the first two, probably one I thought was down, and then
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that the third one, which is an air ball, which I haven't seen
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from him before. But again, I think that's all part of, you
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know, the first game, being out there and trying to get yourself comfortable.
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But he's a big time shooter and I have no doubt that he's gonna
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shoot a really high percentage this year, all Right, quick final thought on
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Steph Castle. Nineteen minutes, A knocked down a three, five, he
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got the free throw line eight times. He ends up with twelve points,
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He gets a couple of assists, he gets five rebounds. He does a
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little bit of everything for a guy who's in his first year, in his
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first game. Yeah, no, absolutely. I thought he really got comfortable
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in the second half. You know, again, first time these guys are
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out there on the floor. But he's so big and physical. I mean
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he's he's six six and he's two hundred and twenty pounds and he's really hard
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to keep off the foul line. He really does a good job of body
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seeking on his drives and getting himself there so and then obviously on the offensive
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last four offensive rebounds. He really does some some impressive things. And he
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was nice to see him get comfortable, knock down the three and have the
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nice spin finish in the second half. I think he felt good about himself.
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He's got a good handle, doesn't he he does. I like his
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handle. Yeah, he's a good player. Yeah, all right, coach,
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we appreciate the thanks. You got it.