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Luke Murray Postgame - Manhattan · Coaches Corner

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  Back of the Xcel Yukon wins ninety to sixty Mike Chrispino joined by Luke Murray,
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  y constant assistant coach. We look at these statu sheets end of these
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  games. I know you all do too, But what's the first thing that
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  stands out to you look at the stat sheet in a game like this?
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  Well, offensively, you know, I thought we had a really good flow.
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  You know, we look at the numbers and break them down, and
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  we had one point four almost one point five points per possession, which is
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  something that we're looking for. And so I thought we played with really good
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  efficiency. Twenty two assisted baskets. It's something that we talk about a lot,
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  and obviously kept our turnovers down as well. So I think that's the
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  first thing that jumps out. It's nice to have Hassan Dara playing like this,
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  isn't it? Because now you know Newton played thirty minutes in this game,
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  But there're gonna be nights where maybe he has foul issues or whatever.
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  It looks like you can start trusting Hassan more and more if he keeps playing
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  like this. Yeah, definitely, I thought, in particular in the first
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  half, he was really, really strong and gave us a big lift.
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  You know, obviously the game was kind of in hand, so it allowed
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  us to play some guys maybe a little bit less than they would normally play
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  in a closer game. But he's a huge part of our team, and
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  I think you saw how well he played in New York, you know,
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  and I thought he did a pretty good job of building on that today and
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  the work of the big fellow. Donovan Kling had some trouble in the game
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  against Texas, foul issues. Out of the game. It looked as if
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  on the chalkboard back there, you said, we're getting it to him six
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  or seven or eight times in a row and see if they can stop him,
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  and they really couldn't. Early on, Yeah, you know, obviously
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  had a big mismatch inside just from a size perspective, their starting center was
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  probably about six seven or so, So I thought, you know, there
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  were a couple of times where you know, he didn't necessarily have his balance,
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  a couple of times where he put up shots that maybe not as forceful
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  as he's capable of. But I thought for the most part it was a
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  big step forward. I thought he did a better job of establishing deep position
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  and did a nice job step stepping up and making his free throw. So,
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  you know, eighteen minutes, seventeen points. I thought, pretty efficient,
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  and more than anything, it was really about the kind of shots and
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  kind of position that he was getting. Yeah, he looked better on the
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  free throw line too. You want to see that. I mean, you
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  got to get him up to seventy somehow. He's only down a little fifty
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  I think at this point. But he goes to the line a lot in
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  these games. He does, he does, and you know, we've been
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  working with him a lot. We've made a couple of adjustments in his mechanics,
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  and he's I believe, nine for his last twelve from the line,
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  so you know, seventy five percent the last couple of games. And I
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  think headed in a good direction there. Yeah, before the game, you
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  and I were talking a little bit about Jalen Stewart, Jayden Ross, the
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  other freshman, a solo ball's been getting some starts here without Steph Castle available.
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  What do you think of those two guys here tonight? They scored a
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  little bit, they were involved, they were on the court, you know,
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  ten fifteen, ten, twelve minutes in this win. Yeah, I
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  think Jalen, you know, kind of took a little bit of a step
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  forward in New York, being able to get into those games and play against
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  really high level competition and looked pretty comfortable for the most part. It was
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  nice to see him get something going offensively today. Knocking down the three,
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  I think was big for his confidence. Did a good job. You know,
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  he played fourteen minutes and I thought really helped us and look comfortable out
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  there, which I think is big. You know, we're still trying to
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  get Jayden there. Jayden has a ton of talent, you know, big
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  time athlete and a shot maker with really good size at six seven. You
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  know, it's just a matter of getting comfortable. It was nice to see
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  us get that alley up for him to try to get him on the scoreboard,
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  and hopefully he'll continue to get more and more comfortable out there. Yeah.
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  The wealth of talent you have, the depth, it's great. I
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  mean if you have issues, you know, where you're not scoring it or
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  someone's in foul trouble or et cetera, et cetera, you do have some
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  choices. That has to be a good thing for a coaching staff. Yeah.
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  Absolutely, I mean We've talked about it at nauseum, you know,
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  kind of how much of a strength of it was of last year's team,
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  And Hassan and Sampson have obviously really emerged. Obviously, you know, Steph's
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  going to be a big part of our depth as he comes back here.
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  And then you know, like we talked about Jalen and Jade and those guys
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  that are really pushing for that ninth spot. I think Jalen, you know,
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  has done a really good job so far, so hopefully he can be
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  somebody that really establishes himself as the competition kind of amps up here. Yeah,
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  competition is always good, even in practice, right, no doubt.
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  We love it all right, coach appreciate it. That's Luke Murray.