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Luke Murray - Postgame DePaul · Coaches Corner

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  We're back a gamp of the pavilion court side with the Luke Murray. You
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  kind assists. I get some help looking at the statue because sometimes I can't
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  make heads or tails of what just happened. But coach, it looks good
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  in the bottom line. Eighty five fifty six, the three point shooting,
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  we liked. The assist to turnover became a good number. It was ugly
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  early, but you get twenty three assists in the game, and you have
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  to be pleased with that number. Yeah, absolutely. I mean we talk
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  a ton about the percentage of our made baskets and how many of those are
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  assisted, So you know, for a while there, I think we had
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  twenty three assists with like twenty seven or twenty eight made field goals, which
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  was an awesome number. But yeah, we're really happy with that. Like
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  you said, we had five turnovers I think at the first media timeout,
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  and you know, all in all, I thought we did a great job
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  taking care of the ball from that point on. Yeah, every game is
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  different, right, So you get Newton shut out in the first half,
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  you get Samson Johnson with two files, both of them with two files.
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  I gotta go to the bench. You don't know, what do you where
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  do you go at that point? What's the decision making process like when two
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  guys have to go out because of foul trouble. Yeah, you know,
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  it's difficult. Obviously, We've tried to play Alex a little bit at the
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  five when Samsung goes out, and we'll play Steph at the four. Steph
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  has the physicality and size to guard you know, most fours out there.
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  But I thought, uh, Hassan and Solo did a great job of giving
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  us a lift in that first half. You know, Solo knocked down a
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  big three for us when we were pretty stagnant, and a and a pull
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  up as well. And Hassan had five assists and no turnovers at halftime,
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  which was a big step forward for him, and he continued to play well
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  in the second half. So those guys were huge. And then I thought
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  Alex, you know, when he got back in the game, gave us
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  a big punch. We were really static for you know, I don't know
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  ten minutes or so, but I think that last seven or eight minutes of
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  the first half we really got ourselves going, Yeah, he looks like he's
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  shooting the ball better. The last couple games he had that finger thing.
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  We had his fingers taped up. I mean, for any shooter, it
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  just gets in your head a little bit. You can't help it. But
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  he shot the ball well here seven for nine, three for four from outside
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  of the ark. Yeah, he really cut well, you know, knocked
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  down a couple threes early and then got that last one on the assist from
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  Jalen. But yeah, you know, again I've talked about it on here
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  before. I mean, he's an amazing shooter. I mean, every single
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  day that we shoot in pract this, you know, he leads our team.
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  He and Cam you know, win all of our drills for the most
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  part. So you know, he had a game a couple of games ago
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  against Pine Bluff where he made six. I know, you know, he's
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  kind of been a little bit up and down, but I wouldn't be surprised
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  at all if he gets really hot. Hey, the fast break points.
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  Dan Hurley talked about it before the game, so we got to get out
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  in transwers. We had tried to get some fast break points. Notably,
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  he got shut out at Seaton Hall didn't get one fast break point, which
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  is amazing. You get twenty two here, tonight, I thought the fast
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  break was running pretty good. Yeah, I think so, you know,
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  I think we can get better. It's an area that we've talked about a
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  bunch. I mean, we're in the middle of the pack, you know,
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  one to eighty five to two hundred in transition opportunities in the country,
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  which is really not good enough. So we've really been harping it the last
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  couple of days in practice, or the last seven or eight days I guess
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  since we've been on break. So it was nice to see, and I
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  think we can get better at it. You know, we've talked a lot
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  with guys like Steph to try to give some of that Andre Jackson roll as
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  guys who can defensive rebound and then and then push the ball and start our
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  transition game. And speaking of Steph, Castle fourteen points six of seven does
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  a lot of things. Seven assists in this game for rebound. He's he's
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  got other worldly athleticism, sometimes sneaky athleticism, doesn't he Yeah, I mean
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  he's just so strong, you know. I think that's to me, the
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  biggest thing that jumps out is not necessarily jumping over the top of people,
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  but just his physicality and his strength, you know, six for seven.
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  You know, right at the rim, he's able to score through contact and
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  a lot of times when you really need a bucket, he's a guy that
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  you can rely on to make shots in and around the basket. And seven
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  assists was a nice number. I think, you know, when we go
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  back and watch the film, there was probably a number of other opportunities that
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  we had in the open court where we had either transition looks for threes or
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  guys at the rim. But I thought, all in all, you know,
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  especially with Tristian struggling to get going a little bit, I thought everybody
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  took a big step forward and finally, uh, you know, three point
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  defense for Yukon has been you know, I don't know what you can you
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  can give me a term for that, but this team's a good three point
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  shooting team. They're third in the Big East. They go two for thirteen
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  tonight. How much credit do you give your defense for that two for thirteen
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  number? A lot of credit. I mean, I think, you know,
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  for us, we don't talk so much about the percentage. I know
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  that that's something that jumps out to people as teams shooting a high percentage from
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  for us. It's more about the number of threes that they make, you
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  know, and what percentage of the distribution of their points come from three.
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  So you know, again our three point field goal defense percentage has not been
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  great, but I think the number of threes that were giving up the teams
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  for the most part is solid. But to your point, I mean,
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  Odin and Carter are really good shooters. Terry's a capable shooter. Ramy is
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  a really good shooter who made three threes in a row in the first half
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  last game. So Odin, Carter and Ramie only getting off seven attempts is
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  just as important as how many makes. So I thought that was big time.
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  Yeah, that's a good point. And then hold Carter to one for
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  nine, Henley two for ten. I mean, these guys who score some
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  points, Odin one for five, I mean, that's that's got to be
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  credit to your defense overall. Yeah, it was nice to see. You
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  know, those guys are good players. You know, Henley's a tough matchup.
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  He can get in the paint. You know, Carter is an established
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  player who's had some big scoring games. You know, I thought Nelson heard
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  us a little bit inside. He drew ten fouls. You know, we
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  had some tough matchups in there where we were going to trap and we were
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  late with some of those. And Fisher's a good player. I mean,
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  Fishler was a really highly recruited player out of high school. Went to Texas
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  Tech his first year, so he's a talented guy. They have some nice
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  pieces, but I was pretty proud with the defensive effort. All right,
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  much need to win because you've got two in a road. I know you
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  don't look ahead much, but you got two in a row here in a
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  row. Butler and Xavier. Yeah, I mean I've been watching those guys.
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  I mean those are both my scouts coming up Perdue. I mean,
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  Butler and Xavier are good teams. You know, Butler's playing really well.
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  We'll see what they do with Saint John's tonight. But they're ten and three.
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  They have four transfers in the starting lineup that have really kind of shaped
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  their team this year. And then you know, Xavier is an excellent team
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  at Cintas Center, you know, one of the best in the country over
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  the last twenty or so years playing at home. So we know we've got
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  some big challenges coming up. All right, We're looking forward to it.
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  Luke appreciate it. That's Luke Murray, you kind of assistant coach Husky's winning
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  eighty five to fifty six