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Luke Murray w Mike - Postgame Xavier · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Excel Center, Mike chris Pino, joined
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  Speaker 1: by Luke Murray, you kind assistant. After the overtime win
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  Speaker 1: by the Huskies, it was a thriller. Always good to
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  Speaker 1: win thrillers, but there were some very anxious moments in
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  Speaker 1: that game.
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  Speaker 2: There really were.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we get down five with about four minutes
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  Speaker 3: to go, some amazing shot making by Xavier and you know, Solo,
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  Speaker 3: who hadn't played great to that point, you know, comes
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  Speaker 3: up with some big shots. I think he went on
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  Speaker 3: a little eight to zero run himself, or at least
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  Speaker 3: scored eight of the points in that run to get
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  Speaker 3: us back in front.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was tight there.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean for a guy like him? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think he's a sophomore now he's playing more Obviously
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  Speaker 1: he's an important player a lot of minutes. Then he
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  Speaker 1: gets in a game like this and he does that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that going to help him? Is that going to
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  Speaker 1: boost his confidence now when he gets in crunch time
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  Speaker 1: and going down the stretch?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean last season, you know, he started the first
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  Speaker 3: Big East game of the season and then didn't start
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  Speaker 3: again the rest of the year, you know, and I
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  Speaker 3: think for him to be able to go into big,
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  Speaker 3: big East play against a really good team and work
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  Speaker 3: through some adversity. You know, honestly, didn't get off to
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  Speaker 3: a very good start to the game, had some defense,
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  Speaker 3: some mischews, wasn't playing great offensively, and to stay with
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  Speaker 3: it and finish the way that he did, I think
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  Speaker 3: that'll help him big time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Terris Reed Junior again another double doubles. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: automatic these days. We have twenty points and again he
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  Speaker 1: gets thirteen boards. How important is that guy right now?
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  Speaker 1: With Samson? Obviously, if he can come back quickly, that'll
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  Speaker 1: be great, but right now, Reid had this, he started
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  Speaker 1: the ball game. He had to make some stuff happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he was hugely important.
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  Speaker 3: I mean obviously, like you mentioned, especially with Sampson out
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  Speaker 3: of the game, for him to step up the way
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  Speaker 3: that he did. You know, twenty points, thirteen rebounds, four
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  Speaker 3: block shots to go six or six from the line,
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  Speaker 3: you know, make some crucial ones late. You know, he
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  Speaker 3: was terrific for us today, and that's the kind of
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  Speaker 3: guy that we need the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Caravan in overtime, I mean, that's what you expect
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  Speaker 1: from a guy who's wearing two rings.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have it though, right, You had to
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  Speaker 2: have it. You had to have it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that first shot of overtime to put us
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  Speaker 3: up three was the first time you were kind of
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  Speaker 3: able to breathe a little bit in.
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  Speaker 2: Probably fifteen or twenty minutes of real time. So that
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  Speaker 2: was big.
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  Speaker 3: You know, made a couple other big plays down the
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  Speaker 3: stretch as well. You know, again, he was the kind
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  Speaker 3: of recipient of some unfortunate luck a couple of times
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  Speaker 3: guarding a guy like Maddox who made some really hard
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  Speaker 3: shots off the dribble. But credit to him for staying
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  Speaker 3: with and kind of having that championship answer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thirteen for twenty four. I know, you guys will
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  Speaker 1: go back there and you'll look at these numbers and
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  Speaker 1: you'll say, thirteen three pointers Xavier made. That's not good.
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  Speaker 1: That cannot happen. How do you fix that? How do
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  Speaker 1: you get better in that category? Look like you were
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  Speaker 1: improving last couple of games, and then this these guys
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  Speaker 1: just go nuts tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's gonna We're gonna have to go back
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  Speaker 3: and watch the film.
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  Speaker 2: I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Defensively, to start the game, we got off to a
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  Speaker 3: pretty good start, you know. I think going into the
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  Speaker 3: first media timeout they were like four for fourteen from
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  Speaker 3: the field or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: But then they got incredibly hot. I mean that second
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  Speaker 3: half they shot seventy percent from the field.
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  Speaker 2: They shot eighty percent from three.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Dante Maddox, who's a good player but was
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  Speaker 3: shooting thirty percent from three for the season and averaging
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  Speaker 3: five points a game, is making off the dribble, contested
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  Speaker 3: threes with people.
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  Speaker 2: Hanging on him. You know.
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  Speaker 3: So again, I'm gonna have to go back and watch
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  Speaker 3: the tape, but I think that there was some remarkable
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  Speaker 3: shot making on the part of Xavier and then a
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  Speaker 3: couple of breakdowns, you know, defensively, some things that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we had that we didn't do a good enough job
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  Speaker 3: of executing.
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  Speaker 1: There was a weird end to regulation, wasn't it, well,
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  Speaker 1: going to the free throw line on plays away from
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Wouldn't players going to the rim getting fouled? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was a strange ending to that game.
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  Speaker 3: Regulation, it was, you know, I think at the time
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  Speaker 3: there was some frustration, but you know, when you think
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  Speaker 3: about it, with the way that they were shooting the
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  Speaker 3: ball from three. You know, there's kind of like this
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  Speaker 3: new age sort of way of thinking about it that
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  Speaker 3: you would foul and put him on the line, and
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  Speaker 3: it's like, okay, we get the last shot. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to have an opportunity to make a
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  Speaker 3: three point shot when you're as hot as you are
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  Speaker 3: and have the ball in your hands, provided you're going
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  Speaker 3: to rebound the ball. You know you're going to get
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  Speaker 3: the ball back in our hands, which we did. And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I thought there was some contact on Liam's drive for sure,
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  Speaker 3: which could have ended the game that way, but not
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  Speaker 3: exactly the finish that we were looking for down the stretch,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously showed a lot of fortituding overtime.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wins and wins. A win Liam McNeely got followed
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  Speaker 1: trouble issues and you know how to play through that.
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  Speaker 1: He only played twenty minutes. But he continues to do
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  Speaker 1: stuff right. I mean, makes all five of his free throws,
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  Speaker 1: he gets Forrest's no turnovers. He just seems to be
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  Speaker 1: able to come up with stuff when he needs it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's an excellent player, you know, I know,
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  Speaker 3: one game plus minuses are sometimes not totally indicative of
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  Speaker 3: the story. But he was a plus thirteen and the
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  Speaker 3: twenty minutes that he played, I thought he was terrific.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: If he wasn't in foul trouble, I think he has
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  Speaker 3: an even bigger impact on the game. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned fourteen points, making some big shots down the stretch,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought some excellent passing, you know, a couple
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  Speaker 3: of times found terras, you know, for some big time finishes.
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  Speaker 2: Around the rim. So yeah, Liams, Liam's on the move.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this year's team is Luke Marie with us. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be like a little bit of everything. We
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  Speaker 1: got to find a way every night. It's fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it gives you sleepless nights. But you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it's like a different deal here. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like you got him roll into town and put
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  Speaker 1: ninety on the board and win. It's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be that easy, is it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not. It's not.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a different team than last year's team.
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  Speaker 3: But it's an exciting team to be a part of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because everybody's stepping up in their own ways.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even the guys that didn't really make a
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  Speaker 3: mark on the stat sheet.
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  Speaker 2: As far as scoring is concerned.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the forty minutes from Jaden Ross and Jalen
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  Speaker 3: Stewart I thought were really good minutes. You know, Jay
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  Speaker 3: Stu got a backcut layup, but I thought he he
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  Speaker 3: helped to us. Jayden Ross, you know, played excellent defense
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  Speaker 3: on Maddox and on Conwell at times. So yeah, those
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  Speaker 3: guys are helping us, and we're excited about kind of
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  Speaker 3: the direction that we're heading in.
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  Speaker 1: All right, enjoy this one, coach, And uh, that's on
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  Speaker 1: the butler.
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  Speaker 2: I guess on the butler. Let's go practice tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, practice tomorrow, all right, enjoy it tonight at least
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  Speaker 1: I'll be watching butler.
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  Speaker 2: I know you will see.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's Luke Murray with us on the post game.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate him and