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Segment 6 - MBB Show w Luke Murray Dec 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Luke Murray, the Husky assistant
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  Luke Gonzaga coming up. You're kicking a close look at them, getting the
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  team ready. Do you when you do these scouting reports, do you find
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  yourself saying, I really like that player on the other team. Does that
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  ever happen? Unfortunately? Yeah, that usually means you're playing somebody good.
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  But yeah, absolutely, And you know, Gonzaga has got a really good
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  team. You know, did the sky with these guys last year, you
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  know, and so have some familiarity coming into the game. You know,
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  style of play wise, it's pretty similar. You know, Nemhart, I'm
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  sure some fans remember from his time at Crayton, you know, over at
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  Gonzaga now, so there's familiarity there in terms of the way that he likes
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  to play. But yeah, I mean, Graham Ike transferred, big guy
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  from Wyoming, is a really good player. Anton Watson's taking a big step
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  here in his fifth year at Gonzaga, and Hickman and some of the other
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  guys that were a big part of last year's team as well. Yeah,
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  let's talk about their offense. They score, they always score. They're still
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  scoring. They get their eighty five a game. What is the key to
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  their scoring ability because Gonzaga has always been a high octane offensive unit. Yeah,
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  I mean, I guess similarly to North Carolina. You know, the
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  first thing is transition defense. You know, they really emphasize getting the ball
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  off the court on a made or misshot, so making sure that we're doing
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  a great job of sprinting back, you know, stopping the ball high on
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  the floor, not allowing for any easy buckets in the open court or transition
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  threes. And then in the half court. They're a very pick and roll
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  heavy team, you know, so our ball screen defense has to be elite.
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  That was a big part of why we won the game last year in
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  Vegas against them. We were really locked into pick and roll. And they're
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  a team that really likes to feature their big guys and they throw the ball
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  inside in the high low game a lot a variety of different ways. You
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  know, I mentioned Watson and Ek, but they also have two big guys
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  off the bench and Huff and Greg that are good players. And so I
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  would say transition, pick and roll defense and then guarding inside is going to
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  be the key. What about the psychology of this stuff. You're good on
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  the x's and os, obviously, but they got their butts kicked in that
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  Las Vegas final. It was eighty two fifty four. You come put a
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  hurting on them? Are they going to come out here with an extra sense
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  of get back at the Huskies? What do you think I would think?
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  So? I mean, I can't imagine that they wouldn't, you know.
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  And even with this year's team, you know, they had a tough loss
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  to Washington the other night in an a rivalry game for them, a game
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  that they had a double digit lead in the second half. So I'm sure
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  that there's a number of things that they're they're looking to get right. But
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  at the same time, you know, our program is going out there with
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  the intent to play a great basketball game and we're ready to go. The
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  final quick thought here, Luke, This gun Zager program tremendous history, two
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  time final four, been a number one seed in the NCAA Tournament a couple
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  of times, five Elite Age twelve, Sweet sixteens. When you play a
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  program like that with that kind of winning pedigree, how do you take them
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  out of that? How do you get an edge on them? It's really
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  hard. As you mentioned, I mean coach Feugh, I mean, he's
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  a Hall of Fame coach. You know. I remember back in Xavier playing
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  Gonzaga and the Elite Eight in San Jose and losing to them. I mean,
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  they're a tremendous program, you know. I think, you know again,
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  I think we have to stick to our identity. We have to really
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  make sure we're do a great job of improving defensively from where we've been in
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  the early going. I think we got to continue to run our offense,
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  you know, crisply and execute. And I think we got to be the
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  more physical team. You know, you mentioned they're going to have some added
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  motivation in the game. But again, we have to be the aggressors.
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  We have to be the team that really sets the tone with our with our
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  physicality and our toughness. And I think if you can do that, possession
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  after possession, you know, regardless of the opponent, you put yourself in
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  a good position to win. Yes, stack some good possessions up one after
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  another and come out of there and make it a nice sweet ride home.
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  How about that, coach man, that'd be nice? All right? Thanks
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  to Luke Murray, and Dan Hurley. Of course, this is Mike chris
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  Pino. Thanks for joining us on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show.