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Associate Coach Luke Murray - Sacred Heart · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: As you con wins at ninety two to fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: Just talking about the block shots, coach, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously defense and rebounding is championship stuff. It was good
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  Speaker 1: to see that you got block shots from a few
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  Speaker 1: people tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did. It was good. You know, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: we were really intent on coming into the game and
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  Speaker 2: being disruptive defensively. You know, that was something that you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sacred Heart does a pretty good job of running their offense,
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  Speaker 2: and they scored the ball well against Temple, so we
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  Speaker 2: really wanted to take them out of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: what they do. And I thought we did that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we forced a good number of turnovers. We had ten steals,
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  Speaker 2: and then the thirteen blocks. I mean alex Is seven
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  Speaker 2: blocks and five yeah, five of them in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: It was great to see from those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And the transition. I mean, your offense was okay first
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  Speaker 1: half in terms of half court stuff, but you the
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  Speaker 1: transition offense was pretty impressive. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, especially in the second half, we were able
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  Speaker 2: to break it open a little bit more. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we could have run harder. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times I thought we were kind of stopping it. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: the foul line extended instead of really sprinting and filling
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  Speaker 2: the corners. A couple of guys too, I think running
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  Speaker 2: to the three point line instead of just running to score,
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  Speaker 2: attacking the rim and taking a sharper angle to the rim.
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  Speaker 2: I know Jaln Stewart a couple of times that happened
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  Speaker 2: to him solo a couple of times. So we'll get
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  Speaker 2: better at it. But all in all, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think Cigaret Heart's a pretty good team. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: played Temple well, they played pretty well in their two scrimmages.
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  Speaker 2: They played a really close game against Hofstra, who's a
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  Speaker 2: good mid major. So all in all, I think we're
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  Speaker 2: pretty happy with it.
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  Speaker 1: And Liam McNeely looks like he belongs on this level.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he seems comfortable, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Freshmen you just don't know what they're going to do
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  Speaker 1: when you step on the court for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially a guy who's been out for such a
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  Speaker 2: long time. You know, he's missed a ton of practice.
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  Speaker 2: He really only had Monday and Tuesday coming into this week.
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  Speaker 2: Are coming into this game in terms of preparing himself
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  Speaker 2: for it. But yeah, he's a stud. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: a big time player, so I'm not overly surprised.
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  Speaker 1: Terris Reid kind of similar to that Uri game in Mohican.
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  Speaker 1: First half, not much going on. Second half, he started
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  Speaker 1: to feel you know, his oats a little bit. He
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  Speaker 1: started to really throw his body around and get to
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  Speaker 1: the rim and do some damage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was great to see. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a ton of physical talent and strength. He
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  Speaker 2: has a tendency, at least at Michigan to kind of
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  Speaker 2: float a little bit and not necessarily assert himself around
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  Speaker 2: the rim. So that's been something that we've been spending
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time working with him on and it
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  Speaker 2: was great to see him get on the glass, you know,
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  Speaker 2: six offensive rebounds, fifteen points, eleven rebounds, stepped up and
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  Speaker 2: made a number of his free throws. So really good
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  Speaker 2: performance from him and something to build on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No floating around, by the way, no floating now
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  Speaker 1: with this team. All right, coach, appreciate it, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's Luke Murray