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MBB Asst Coach Luke Murray - Marquette · Coaches Corner

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  Mike Chris Bino joined by Luke mourriy Qurts side coach. Good. What a
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  great complete effort. I know you always seek perfection. There's no perfection in
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  any of these games, but eighty one to fifty three was near perfect.
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  Yeah, I mean we're a static with a win. You know, Marquette's
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  one of the best teams in the country and we have a tremendous amount of
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  respect for them in their program. So we knew that we were going to
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  have to be at our best today and I think we're pretty close to that.
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  You know, you didn't shoot it real well early from three, but
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  you're able to, you know, kind of hang around, get you know,
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  offensively midway through the second first half. The assist number is astounding to
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  me. Twenty four assists on twenty nine baskets. I mean, everybody had
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  a hand in this thing. Yeah, I mean, it's it's what we
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  talk about every single day, you know, it's it's a key component to
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  our offense, is the way that we share the ball and the way that
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  we move off the ball and play selflessly for one another. So it's one
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  of the first things that we talk about when we look at the box score
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  and we look at the numbers, so really proud of the guys. You
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  know, you mentioned it. We didn't make the shots early, but to
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  still be up sixteenth a half despite shooting four for eighteen from three, I
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  thought it was a real product of how aggressive we were on the backboards,
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  did a great job defensively and got a lot of second shots. Yeah,
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  forty five twenty seven on the boards. Obviously that's a number. Yukon is
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  a good rebounding team, but even better today. How important is that night
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  after night to win that category? Huge? I mean, they're not a
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  great rebounding team on either end of the floor, and they actually had six
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  offensive rebounds in the first four minutes of the game. When we went to
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  the media timeout at fifteen forty five or whatever it was, they had six
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  offensive rebounds and then they didn't have another offensive rebound until you know, two
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  thirds of the way through the second half. So we really cleaned up on
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  the defensive glass, which was huge because it felt like they were getting a
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  million second chances early. And then, you know, we really talked about
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  it a lot coming into the game. We thought that could be an area
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  that we could look to exploit and I thought Donovan in particular did a great
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  job on the glass, but we really flew in there and got a lot
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  of second possessions for us. Yeah, Cleanon played well in this game,
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  and you know, when he plays like that, this team can be really
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  I mean obviously really dangerous. Seventeen points, ten rebounds, had a block,
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  had a couple of steam, seven of eight. I mean, he
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  was involved in a lot of stuff. He really was. You know,
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  they switched ball screens one through five, which means that they always have a
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  smaller guy on Klinging when he sets a ball screen, and I thought he
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  did a really good job of dealing with that. That's not an easy thing.
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  They've done it against everybody. They did it against Zach Edie. I
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  mean, they're good at it. But he really did a nice job of
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  ceiling and getting on the glass and playing for position. But just as important
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  as his defense. You know, colek and and Igodar are the best two
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  man ball screen combination in the country. And you know, to hold Colic
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  to to seven points, I know he got a couple of those late and
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  only three assists four turnovers. I thought Donovan and in particular Steffan and Hassan
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  Diiara, who were the two guys that were primarily on Colek, did an
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  excellent job. I thought Hassan played his best game at Yukon. Yeah,
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  I agree with you. Twenty six minutes. He was just with us on
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  the post game. Fourteen points a six assists, five rebounds. I mean,
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  you talk about players coming off the bench some nights, you know,
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  maybe you don't score, some nights, you don't assist, whatever it may
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  be. But he seems to be he's getting to be like Newton. Now
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  he's kind of filling up the little stat sheet here. He gets some assists,
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  get some rebounds, he's starting to score. I mean, he must
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  be trying to copycat Newton in the way he was playing. Well, that's
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  probably a good guy to copycat. But yeah, he did a great job
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  passing the ball tonight. You know, I thought that really stood out for
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  me. The six assists that he had. You know, he had the
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  win bank three, so I think that helped kind of his efforts. But
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  he made two really crucial threes that he that he made all in that and
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  a couple of great passes and really did a nice job defensively with three steals,
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  and he guarded Kolak for probably close to half of the game, maybe
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  a little bit more than that. So really impressed with the job that hosted
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  and Newton and Spencer ten for twenty from them five to thirteen from three,
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  I mean again, Newton eight assists, eight rebounds. Hey, you talk
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  about a guy who gets on the court and just does stuff. That guy.
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  We've been watching him now for two years. It's just a pleasure to
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  watch him. Yeah, for sure, you know, he fills up the
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  statue. You know, he really is productive, got on the glass,
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  you know, three offensive rebounds, you know, got his nose in there
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  and got some second chances for us. I thought through some really nice passes,
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  especially in the second half, you know, made the two big threes
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  which really kind of you know, broke it open even more than it was
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  late in the in the game. So really nice to see him play well.
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  And I thought Cam you know, was really good as well. You
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  know, a couple of defensive miscues, but six rebounds, and shot the
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  ball well and really passed the ball well, got us into offense pretty cleanly.
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  And finally the crowd, I mean, I came in here a couple
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  hours early, and the crowd outside was crazy. I was walking the streets.
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  I thought like we had won a national championship. We did that last
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  year, but now this game maybe the biggest game in this arena in fifteen
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  years. A lot of people were saying, yeah, could have gone.
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  Who knows, it could be pressure or whatever. This team played like like
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  they play every other day. Yeah, no, it was. It was
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  awesome. I give the fans a ton of credit. You know, it
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  was really nice to see when we came in, you know, an hour
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  and a half or an hour and forty minutes before the game, and seeing
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  them starting to fill up outside, and then you know, we look up
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  at the national anthem and it was packed all the way to the top of
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  Section two twenty six. You know, So that was really cool to see.
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  I think they gave an unbelievable amount of energy to our group and really
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  aided in the victory. Yeah, it was a great one, all right,
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  coach. We appreciated Luke Murray with you see an om all let's see
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  what happens there. Yeah, we got to win out there. I think
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  you're right about that, alright, fourteen in a row. We like it
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  all right. That's Luke Murray.