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Q2 Offensive rebounding advantage
One quick question. Their offensive rebounding advantage they had over you, was it something they did schematically or did they outmuscle you, or how would you assess that?
I mean, I feel like we was just missing Moose. At the end of the day, you're missing one of our big guys. You don't really understand how much of a presence he is until he's gone. So I feel like Even that's a lesson we got to learn.
We got to take with us moving forward, just be able to rebound as guards. I think that's something big, but we can't rely on our bigs to get every rebound. So I feel like our guards and wings got to be able to get in there and carve out some of these possessions.
Q3 The rebound and dunk play
I think it was Costello grabbed the rebound and you got the pass to Elliott, and Elliott went down court and fed you underhanded for a dunk. Talk about that play and how it was kind of a The new and the old kind of coming together.
Yeah, I mean, I tell Elliot all the time, just, um, if I'm cutting back door, just throw it. Uh, and he finds different ways. I feel like Elliot is the best facilitator in the country. He threw it from his foot.
I didn't expect it. Uh, I mean, it was kind of hard to track the ball, but I mean, I expect that from him every time to be able to make plays like that. Um, and it was kind of in our situation where, you know, we were trying to get a 2-for-1 lead in the half. Um, we executed perfectly.
Um, we were able to secure a rebound and to get a quick basket on the other end. So I feel like that's just tons of practices we had in that certain situation and we were able to kind of execute perfectly and how we wanted to going into halftime. I think that really allowed us to go into halftime with a certain edge and excitement towards the game.
Q8 Value of an early season test
This wasn't excessive adversity, but no Moustapha, shots aren't falling, you're playing a zone. How beneficial can an early season test like that be where things aren't clicking or how they will be someday and you got to just sort of figure out a way
Yeah, I feel like this, this game was, you know, everything we asked for. For it to be, you know, them playing zone, us playing without Moustapha. We just figured out yesterday that he was feeling under the weather. So I was really proud of how our guys were able to rally together and be able to fight through adversity.
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