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Luke Murray - Postgame Creighton · Coaches Corner

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  We're joined court side by Luke Murray, the ECON assists. I'll tell you,
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  coach, that defense in the first half was intense. That was fun
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  to watch, It was good to see, and to me, that was
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  like championship type defense. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think
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  there was maybe a couple of letups in the second half, but I think
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  by and large, that's the best defensive effort of the year for US.
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  I think it's the best win of the year for US. Creighton's an amazing
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  team, and we knew we needed to be at our best. And the
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  rebounding advantage, which you know had been questioned in the last couple of games.
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  You were about debti even with teams, and Yukon's an excellent rebounding team
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  forty eight to thirty two in this one, and it was gang rebounding.
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  A look at the everyone got involved. Yeah, I mean, I thought
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  we did a great job on the defensive glass. Obviously, we forced a
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  lot of misses, you know, so there's a lot of rebounds to be
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  had. But I thought our guards did a great job. I thought Sampson,
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  even though he didn't come up with a ton of them, did a
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  really good job. Of battling in there, Alex big time on the defensive
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  glass, but then you know the offensive glass. You know, Creighton's not
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  a team that goes to the offensive glass a whole lot, so us holding
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  it down on the defensive glass wasn't a huge surprise. But for us to
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  go in there again it's an excellent defensive rebounding team and get twenty one back
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  was huge in the game. Yeah, you know, you won your last
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  four game scoring over eighty averaging eighty three a game. I mean, I
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  guess this shows you you can win a game in the sixties if you have
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  to. You don't want to do that, but you had to do it
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  tonight. Yeah, I mean, again by any means necessary. I mean,
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  they're an amazing defensive team. They got an excellent offense as well.
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  That's why they're one of the best teams in the country. But they make
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  it really hard on you to score. And obviously, you know, it
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  was that way for us tonight. You know, I thought we had a
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  little bit of spurts where we had some good rhythm, but for the most
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  part, you know, they make it tough on you. But like you
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  mentioned, I mean, for us to be able to win a grinder and
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  show that we can win a game with our defense. I think was awesome
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  to see. Yeah, the second chance points nineteen to five and the paint
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  thirty six to twenty and getting clinging back even for sixteen minutes was a nice
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  boost because he can do things that other guys can't do. Absolutely. I
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  mean again, you know, obviously he's got a little bit of russ just
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  trying to get back out there for the first time. It really is the
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  first time that he's gone up and down with the exception of maybe three or
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  four minutes in practice, so a brand new experience for him. But you
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  know, he had two blocks, He probably altered four or five more shots.
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  There are probably three other times where guys didn't drive in there because they
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  saw him hanging around down there and a couple of big buckets and you know,
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  got on the offensive glass as well. So that was great to see,
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  and I think it's gonna help Sampson as well. Yeah, Luke Murray
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  with us assistant for you, Gott, you were challenging calp Runner the entire
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  night. That's not an easy thing to do. The dude's seven too.
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  He blocks a lot of shots. He does. I mean, he's an
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  amazing defender and he does a great job of protecting the paint. You know,
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  I thought we, you know, a couple of times probably challenged him
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  too much and maybe a little bit recklessly. I thought. Sometimes, you
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  know, throughout the course of the season, teams like Colorado State and some
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  others, you know, even Marquette at times did a really good job of
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  getting deep in the lane, having Calprinner step to you and then being able
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  to find guys late. Saint John's actually did a pretty good job of it
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  as well. So we were hoping that we'd be able to kind of make
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  some more of those late decisions to drop off passes to our bigs instead of
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  just challenging at the rim. But you know, I think, like I
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  said, there was a couple of times we were able to get to our
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  spots Tristan and Cam in particular, and got some good looks in him.
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  Yeah. A couple of quick final things. How about Tristan Newton. He'd
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  been struggling offensively, not shooting well. He was just here talking to us.
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  He said, I didn't shoot it that well and I'd six for fifteen,
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  But he was mentioning you Dan early, you know, Kamani Young to
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  more encourage him, keep shooting, keep doing it, because you're gonna find
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  your groove. I guess is that the theory? Yeah, for sure.
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  I mean he's a really good shooter. You know, obviously he's a better
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  shooter than his percentages indicate, you know, the last couple of games kind
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  of. But obviously he got off to an amazing start to start the year.
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  But his two threes in the first half I thought were huge. You
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  know, we didn't have a great rhythm and we needed those shots. They
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  were kind of you know, broken possessions a little bit, and he was
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  able to knock shots down, which was huge. And then he stayed at
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  it. You know, he got four offensive rebounds, he was on the
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  defensive glass. Sixteen points. It's hard to come by in a game like
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  this, so I give him a lot of credit. He kept fighting and
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  finally being number one this first shot at it this year. The Yukon's done
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  it ten times in their history. What's different about that? If anything?
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  Nothing? I mean, honestly, you know, I think for us,
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  you know, ending last year as the number one team in the country,
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  that was good. That's all. We really care about. You know,
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  it's nice, but when you've reached that status, you know it doesn't mean
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  as much. So again, for us, obviously, it's something that we
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  want to hold onto, but we go into every game, you know,
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  treating it like it's life and death. Yeah, you gotta be humbled no
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  matter what. I know you guys are all right. Coach, appreciate it,
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  you got it. Thank you, sir,