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The Dailey Recap - St. John's · Coaches Corner

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  Final segment here from ubs Serena, but involves Chris Daily, associated coach of
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  the Huskies, after Yukon's win today over Saint John's And I'll start it.
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  How about that defense today led by number ten? She was terrific, Nika.
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  I think the kid you need. Drake made the first shot of the
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  game with a bang shot, and I don't. She made one other bucket
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  and Nico was terrific. And that start, I mean, that starts it
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  because she, uh, Drake averages nineteen points a game. You let her
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  get going early, you have a problem the whole game, and Nica just
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  took her out of the game. We couldn't even think about taking giving Nico
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  a breather in the first half, just because she was doing it, playing
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  so well and really controlled the game defensively and conversely the offensive pace. You
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  just kept trying to push pace and knocked some shots down early. They made
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  a little run late first, but you kept at it and then off you
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  went it. Yeah. You know, if you looked at the stats the
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  first quarter SATs. If you're Saint John's and you shot seventy percent from the
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  floor, sixty some from the three point line, you're still down six.
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  I think you're concerned, like that's kind of an unbelievable statu you think if
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  you're shooting seventy percent. But we created a lot of turnovers. I thought
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  our defense was terrific. I thought our game plan was good. I thought
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  that we executed the game plan. And that's been pretty much. I think
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  the difference in some of you know, why we've played well the last few
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  games, not counting Providence because we didn't really play great against them, But
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  I think, you know, we've really locked into things, and I think
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  everyone at each player has the better understanding of what we need them to do
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  and what their teammates need them to do, and what are for us to
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  have success. So I think we're building on that. And you mentioned the
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  defense, it was it was as a unit, so being led by Nika.
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  It was when the ball was picked up, everybody was in de Now.
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  It wasn't like one loose link that ed, you know, let them
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  get an easy escape. It just seemed that the rotation was there and they
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  just locked in together. Well, we had made, you know, some
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  decisions defensively that what we were willing to give up and what we weren't and
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  we didn't want to put them on the free throw line. Thought we did
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  a pretty good job with that. We didn't want to we wanted to win
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  the rebounding battle, because the last two games we did not win the rebound
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  rebounding battle, and we did that tonight. So I think overall, we
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  came in and we just really set the tone early and the pace of the
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  game. It's important for us to push the pace and for us to get
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  out and create those opportunities people in our league packed the lane, and then
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  for us to be able to kick it out and knock in some open threes.
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  Untiday, we shot the ball better from the three, and I thought
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  the threes came within ball movement, where the other day it felt like we
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  were just shooting when because we were wide open, you know, and not
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  that there's anything wrong with shooting when you're right open, but within the framework
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  of what you're trying to get done. Changing the sides of the floor and
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  creating mismatches and just making things difficult on the imposing defense. I think that's
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  part of how we're gonna we're going to be successful. I think sometimes when
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  a team wants to purposely slow it down, go to three second of the
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  shack load. It can be hard to keep that temple up, but they
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  had that. It didn't matter. They still you pushed it. Within two
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  shots. They had the shot you wanted. They control the They try to
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  control the tempo of the game because they ran the They run their stuff.
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  I'll tell you what. He runs some great offense and they run it,
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  and they run it for thirty seconds and they make you defend them all the
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  way to the end of the thirty second clock, and it's difficult. And
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  I thought today we kept our concentration and we really did a good job with
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  that. So they that's one way you can control the pace of the game.
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  You can control the pace of the game by running your offense for thirty
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  seconds. You can control the pace of the game by pushing it the way
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  we've tried to do and speed the game up. So we were able to
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  speed the game up and create opportunities for ourselves. And a season, I
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  sixty four percent for the field and it was nice to see Ice get off
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  this night today. Yeah. From an offensive standpoint, well, you know,
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  it's funny. We made a Saint John's is a good team and they
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  just beat Marquette within their last two games. They so we made them look
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  I think worse than they are, you know, I think we were The
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  things that we did well made them look not as good. So feel really
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  good about this. It's been a long trip. I mean, we had
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  a long week last week, we had a long trip this weekend. We
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  still have one more road game before we get a chance to come back to
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  gamble. So we're gonna enjoy this one. Get on the bus, eat
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  some New York style pizza, excellent, whatever. Well, you know what,
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  I had a New York bagel yesterday. It was amazing. Oh my
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  gosh, I haven't had a bagel in a long time. It was it
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  was awesome. So we've had a lot. We've had a good time.
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  The kids are getting ready to go back to school, and that certainly helps,
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  you know, at least we'll know what day it is. Right now,
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  we have no idea what day it is, you know, So we're
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  looking forward to it. I'm happy for the players, looking forward to getting
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  back home. And aren't you glad we're already done going to Omaha frigid there?
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  Oh really? Oh yeah wow? Oh yeah, we lucked out,
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  you know, I guess this year we're going to get cold weather no matter
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  what. So we're supposed to get a storm Tuesday, heading into Wednesday,
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  and we're heading down to Seaton Hall. And then I heard again next week
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  Week, Friday and Saturday. So all the last three years are we've not
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  had any snow. Now we're getting within the next two weeks. I will
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  make up for it. We will, we will.