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The Dailey Recap - Creighton · Coaches Corner

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  Chris Daily, the associated coach of the Husky, said, joined us here,
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  happy presidents, stay in a great atmosphere here at the Excel Center to
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  see your team have another really good third and get separation, to get yourselves
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  a tie for the Big East championship. Well, we don't recognize ties,
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  but that's you know, it's just one step more. You're the one seed
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  regardless. Now. Well yeah, but that I mean, and that's important
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  obviously, but we want to win the whole thing right out. We don't
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  want, we don't want, we don't like to share. Uh No,
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  great atmosphere. Really appreciate the fans coming out on a day off, you
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  know, on the President's Day for those that head off and those that had
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  we our kids had to go to class. So the injured players went to
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  the went to class. That's when they were they were a little they were
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  tardy. Yeah, they were a little like the late arriving crowd that we
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  have sometimes with but class, you know. But anyway, it was a
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  great game. I mean, I think you have to give them a lot
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  of credit. They're a difficult team to defend, and I thought we did
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  a really really good job. And say that, I think Jensen still had
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  twenty one and Molly had twenty or something like that. Molly had sixteen,
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  but that's pretty much their offense. Ron Soick again struggled. They really made
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  it hard for you, forced other people to put the ball in the bucket
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  early. Every time Alie had touched the ball, it was like she was
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  a magnet and she was just getting two or three players around her, and
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  we kept throwing it in there. And you have to really be care You
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  have to be really careful because like a lot of teams in our league,
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  they put two and three or four people in the lane and it really limits
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  what you can do. You can't put the ball on the floor. But
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  I give Alee a lot of credit. She kept battling. I thought she
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  got hit a lot, handled it rebounded well, and then we started making
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  shots. That third quarter that was a lot of fun. I mean,
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  we went in, they scored the first five points, and then we came
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  out and I don't even know what the final was in that in that quarter.
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  But you know, it's been a long stretch this weekend, and it's
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  been a long weekend. It feels like we played Friday and then you know,
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  Monday, But we have a couple of days off and we can get
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  gear up for the last couple games in the regular season. Now, your
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  take on the defense, I thought throughout the game a lot of times,
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  you know a team, you come out, everybody's you know, intense,
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  and then it's going back and forth. But it really I think Creighton just
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  couldn't withstand the pressure that you continued to put on. Our defense wasn't the
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  problem even in the first half. If you hold a team that didn't score
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  as quickly as they can with to only thirty one points. It was really
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  on the offensive end where we weren't changing sides and making them have to defend.
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  We were really letting them off easy, easily. But then you know,
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  we were able to put a little bit of both together, where we
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  were on defensive pressuring and rebounding the ball well and not giving them second looks,
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  and then being able to convert on the other end on the offensive end,
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  got in, got out in transition a little bit, which was good.
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  No dominant rebounder day Ashland led the way with nine. She was offensively
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  Yeah, I did not know she had nine. Eliah had eight. A
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  bunch of them KK page Nika all had six well the way, so when
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  you play a team that shoots as many threes a lot along, guards really
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  have to and they weren't really hitting the offensive glass. They were getting the
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  ones that were coming out long. So if you run in you have a
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  tend you know you're not going to get those. So the guards, that's
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  one reason. The guards had a lot of rebounds and should I mean that
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  that's what happens, and they need to do that and help Leah out.
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  And she gave you Ashland gave you much na offense today. She did.
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  She knocked in some shots. I mean, we hadn't been shooting the ball
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  particularly well from three, but I thought we made how many threes we make
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  we make more than they did? Yes, yes, that was the goal.
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  That was one of the goals, hi Jack. They made they made
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  I think they averaged nine a game, and so our goal was to make
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  more than they did and we did. So that's good. So your take
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  as far as you say the long week, they seem still fresh like it
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  did. You didn't use you know, maybe and not as you know,
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  we didn't have a great practice yesterday this morning. We didn't do a walk.
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  We did a walk through at the hotel, did not do a walk
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  through on the court, so because it was such an early game. But
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  yesterday it was not our best our best practice, you know, prior to
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  the game. But we had enough. You know, sometimes it and I
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  say this and I kind of laugh when you realize we won by twenty.
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  But you have to grind it out and you know, you have to grind
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  out possessions, you have to grind out quarters and still be able to stay
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  with it, and we were able to do that today. Chris, what's
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  the game plan? You don't play again until Sunday. Do you give these
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  guys a couple of days just to get away from the game and just worry
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  about being students. Yeah, they're gonna have h Well, they'll have two
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  days off and actually coach just said it's like a year, right. Well,
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  yeah, he just said two days off, and he said, we'll
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  see you Wednesday, because it feels like Sunday because it's Monday, so you
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  know, so we're like, no, no, no, we'll see you
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  Thursday. So they'll have two days off. Do you lock the door and
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  keep them out of the gym? Yeah? Well, you know, he
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  said it was probably a good idea for them to get you know, and
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  get themselves some rest and catch up a school and you know, get in
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  a good place. I don't know how many of them will do that.
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  I think tomorrow will. I think they get antsy, and some of them
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  that want to shoot the ball a little bit better may get in on Wednesday,
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  but they I think they'll take some time off. It's nice to have
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  that hunger though, huh. I mean just that they can't wait to be
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  back with you. Well, I don't know, maybe not specifically. I
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  don't know if it's with us, but they know. I mean, I
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  think if if you if you are a basketball junkie, and we have a
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  lot of kids that are, they're just gym rats and going a day without
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  being in there. But I think there's also time, and this is one
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  of them where some time off would be good. They need to get some
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  rest and so that'll be a good thing, all right. Final note,
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  how much did you enjoy Senior Night the postgame activities other than Page's announcement.
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  Well, I have to say I'm kidding because now when people like Coach made
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  a joke, and I think some people in the media took him seriously,
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  but when he said something about he was going to come back until she said
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  she was coming. Yes, I know, but sometimes people or when they
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  said or when they when he said, I had to force her to make
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  a decision. It wasn't forcing her to come here. It was making her
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  announce it because she had already committed. But that's another start anyway. No,
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  it was great. You know, I wasn't really sure how I was
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  gonna like the after the game, and I you know, you're always concerned.
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  You want fans to be there to appreciate your seniors. But with three
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  national anthems and four seniors and senior managers, we wouldn't have had enough time.
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  We had to start the day before, so at least, but you're
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  worried about are we you know, if we don't win, what kind of
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  celebration is it? But good, all of that, all of that,
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  you know, everything fell into place, and it's it's always nice to see
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  them. Our players appreciated the way they were and I don't think many people
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  left and their parents were there to see how much you know, the fans
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  here appreciate them, so that was important. Did you watch the men Saturday?
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  By any chance I could only watch a little bit because we were traveling.
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  Okay, I went recruiting the guys in today. Unanimous number one.
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  Awesome And you know what they remind they remind me of your great teams.
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  They're so unselfish, they're deep. If Donovan plays the way he did on
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  Saturday, no one's beating him. I mean, they got so many weapons.
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  I mean, they're fun to watch, and they're unselfish, that's the
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  thing. And that reminds me of Hey, I've seen this before many many
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  years. Well it's I thought that was a big game and a big statement
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  when and they've got another one coming up at Creighton. So we took care
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  of a Creton today and hopefully they'll take care of them. It's tomorrow.
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  It is tomorrow night, so the guys are flying out probably within the hour
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  or so. Yeah, they're very good. They're and they're a good group
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  of guys there. You know, there's a good camaraderie I think, certainly
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  with the coaches and with the players. They spend a lot of time in
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  the same area. So it's nice to see that. I say, let's
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  let's give kudos. Like coaches forget everybody forgets. Players get to relax as
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  from a player's effective coaches had it so easy. Now I realize all them
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  behind the scenes and all the work that goes. I noticed in that right,
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  she's going recruiting and setting being able to enjoy a Saturday, right.
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  Yeah, well yeah, and the flight out was yeah, I think it
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  was at four, so I only got to see a little bit. And
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  then when I landed and you look at the score, I'm like, ohoh,
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  okay, yeah, it was closed for a while and then yeah,
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  we started out close. But that's why it's forty minutes, right, that's
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  right. They had this habit like you used to they made they made Marquete
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  didn't play great, but they had this habit like the women used to do.
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  They make good teams look bad on a given day, and we'll see
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  how that plays out the next time. They can do it again tomorrow.
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  That's right. CD is always a pleasurable in Chicago, thank you. All
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  right, that's Chris Daily and the Daily Recap.