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Luke Murray - Postgame Marquette · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Join now by look Maria's court, Sizlawski's win for the
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  Speaker 1: tenth straight time, stay unbeaten in the Big East. Luke
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  Speaker 1: this one. You know, it's kind of a grinder the
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  Speaker 1: way Marquette plays. Hard to shake him. Really, what was
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  Speaker 1: your overall assessment as you look back already at this thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think we're pretty disappointed with the way
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  Speaker 2: that we came out to start the game. We just
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  Speaker 2: didn't play with a whole lot of energy or enthusiasm
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  Speaker 2: the first two wars, probably the first eight minutes of
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  Speaker 2: the game. I thought a couple of guys off the
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  Speaker 2: bench gave us a good lift. And you know, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think we benefited from some cold shooting from Marquette.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought they had some pretty clean looks
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  Speaker 2: at the first half at times, and you know, we
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  Speaker 2: were able to get stops as a result of the
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  Speaker 2: missing shots and get some you know, opportunities in transition.
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  Speaker 2: But all in all, not super pleased with today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a tough schedule coming up. All the
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  Speaker 1: quality teams in the Big East right now ahead of you. Right,
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  Speaker 1: You've got Billanova, you got Saint John's coming up. Seaton
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  Speaker 1: Hall has been on a roll. So as you look
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  Speaker 1: at this thing and and kind of assess what needs
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  Speaker 1: to happen next, What do you think you're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: back to practice with the in the coming days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, Providence is a really
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  Speaker 2: good team obviously. You know, playing them at their place
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  Speaker 2: is always a challenge. You know, they're coming off a
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  Speaker 2: great win at the Garden the other day, so we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to be sharper. You know. I thought there
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  Speaker 2: were some good things about our defensive commitment level, but
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I think without seeing the tape, it
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  Speaker 2: felt like there were probably too many clean looks that
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  Speaker 2: we got to make sure we do a better job
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  Speaker 2: of cleaning up, because our defense is really has been
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  Speaker 2: what's led us throughout the majority of the year. I
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  Speaker 2: really thought we had made some strides offensively last time
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  Speaker 2: out in the Xavier game, and you know, some of
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  Speaker 2: it may just be sort of a cold shooting day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, shooting variants kind of plays into it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit with guys like Alex you know, going two
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  Speaker 2: for eleven, oho for five from three, brailing three for ten,
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  Speaker 2: one for seven from three. Obviously they're far better shooters
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  Speaker 2: than that, but We're gonna have to do a good
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  Speaker 2: job of cleaning some things up offensively because Providence, you know,
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  Speaker 2: again they're playing committed basketball right now. And then on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive end, they got a really talented group. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they have one of the most talented rosters in the conference.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna have to be ready to go Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. Yeah, there are guys who can put it
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  Speaker 1: in the bucket, that's for sure. Rebounding the ball in
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  Speaker 1: the last five games that you've been plus double digits
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  Speaker 1: each time, what's going into that and how important is
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  Speaker 1: that going forward?
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  Speaker 2: It's huge. It's huge. I mean I thought today, especially
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  Speaker 2: in the second half, it kind of bulloied us. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've made a much greater effort on the on the glass,
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  Speaker 2: in particular on the offensive glass. You know, that's not
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  Speaker 2: a strength of Marquette's team. Defensive rebounding just kind of
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  Speaker 2: as a result of the size that they have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: But a guy like Terris Reid, for example, he was
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  Speaker 2: the second best offensive rebounder in the country last year,
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  Speaker 2: and this year his offensive rebounding numbers are way down,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so for him to be able to be
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  Speaker 2: a force on the offensive glass, get himself easy baskets,
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  Speaker 2: draw fouls on the opposing big guys is huge. I
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  Speaker 2: thought Eric did a great job on the glass. Some
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  Speaker 2: of our guards, guys like Solo did a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: Braylan got some defensive rebound. So it's a huge thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a huge thing for us to finish
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  Speaker 2: possessions and then give ourselves second opportunities on.
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  Speaker 1: Offense and Silas Demri hadn't been scoring an awful lot
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  Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, but in twenty one
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  Speaker 1: minutes four for five he made three from three. That's
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  Speaker 1: important too, because you don't want defenses slopping off him
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  Speaker 1: and saying, all right, we don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: him scoring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I mean it's huge. I mean, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: he's been unable to stay out of foul trouble in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of recent games, and I think that's cut
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  Speaker 2: into his opportunity. You know, today was another example of
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  Speaker 2: that where he was in foul trouble and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it only allows him to play twenty one minutes. But
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  Speaker 2: I did think he was good when he was in there.
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  Speaker 2: I really thought he played well, and I think it's
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  Speaker 2: important like you said, Mike, for him to knock down
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  Speaker 2: those three threes, you know, even just the optics of it,
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  Speaker 2: If you're the opposing coach and you're looking at the
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  Speaker 2: stat sheet and you see that his percentage is a
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  Speaker 2: little bit better than it was coming into this game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it gives you a little bit of pause
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  Speaker 2: in terms of how you want to defend him. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the confidence that that Silas gains from knocking
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  Speaker 2: down those shots is big as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and finally, you don't have Jadon Ross in there
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of games, but you know, Jalen Stewart
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  Speaker 1: continues to do a lot of little things. Well, right,
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  Speaker 1: three for six, he gets six points, he gets three assists.
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  Speaker 1: He's been lighting it up a little bit with some
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  Speaker 1: of these spectacular plays. It gets the crowd into it,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's a real value.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree. You know, Coach Hurley singled him
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  Speaker 2: out in the postgame press conference. You know, Jalen, as
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  Speaker 2: I think has been talked about before, is one of
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  Speaker 2: the most selfless guys that you could ever have in
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  Speaker 2: your program. And you know, he really is willing to
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice for the betterment of the group. But I thought today,
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  Speaker 2: on a day when it was sort of muted in here,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, I thought he really gave us a jolt.
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  Speaker 2: He is our If he's not our best, he's one
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  Speaker 2: of our best passers. He does a really good job
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  Speaker 2: of seeing our high low actions and finding those big guys.
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  Speaker 2: And he made some explosive plays around the basket as well.
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  Speaker 2: So it couldn't happen to a better guy. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're certainly hoping for more of that down down the
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  Speaker 2: line here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, three assists, a couple of steals too for Jalen Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Luke, we appreciate it. That's Luke Murray. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see you next week. It's on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go, Mike,