Porter Moser Pre-Kansas (1-12-24)
Porter Moser Pre-Kansas (1-12-24)
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00:00 >> Porter, coming off the TCU loss, you talked about turnovers,
00:04 and you mentioned the North Carolina game, so
00:07 that was another thing that happened in this game.
00:10 Going to Kansas, they play really good defense too.
00:14 I would guess that's the recipe, hang on to the basketball and protect it, right?
00:18 >> Yeah, on the road, you gotta understand, you gotta be gritty.
00:23 You're not gonna get reach in fouls in this league.
00:26 I said to one of our players right in front of the ref, he poked it out.
00:29 And I'm like, I can't ask the ref to call that foul.
00:33 We've gotta be, and I thought we adjusted, but
00:36 we had 12 in the first half, two in the second.
00:40 We got after our guys at halftime, that was our main theme at halftime.
00:46 And I thought we adjusted, we had two.
00:48 We can't spot that kind of, I mean, we had a bunch where they just poked it out of
00:52 our hand, gotta be tougher with the ball on these atmospheres that we're in,
00:58 on the road, and that definitely, I mean, that was a big setback.
01:03 Cuz we were doing some good things offensively,
01:05 made eight of our first ten shots.
01:07 I thought we missed a lot of good open threes, but we started out,
01:10 made eight of our first ten shots, did a lot of things we wanted to do.
01:13 But man, we spotted them so many points off turnover.
01:15 So a lot of them, we looked at it, a lot of them just ball toughness.
01:19 We've really gotta have ball toughness, especially on the road.
01:24 Yeah, I mean, I can't ask for, I'm not gonna ask for a little reach in fouls and
01:29 poke fouls in this league on the road.
01:32 Cuz I'm gonna ask for a lot of other fouls.
01:33 >> [LAUGH] >> Porter,
01:37 is there any surprise to some of the decision making?
01:40 Once you guys got into foul trouble,
01:41 it seemed like the veterans were making just some mental mistakes as far as
01:45 getting- >> Offensive or defensive?
01:47 >> On the defensive end in Fort Worth, and
01:49 it kind of helped dig deeper into that foul trouble.
01:51 >> We definitely had four miscommunications on ball screens up at the top.
01:59 It should have been switches, they weren't, they drove it in for a layup.
02:02 We addressed that in the film.
02:04 Here's the thing, you've gotta over communicate on the road.
02:08 I mean, when you're screaming screen right or switch, that's gotta be really loud.
02:15 We're gonna practice today with the noise, because you're at Allen Fieldhouse,
02:19 you might not be able to hear this far away.
02:21 So you better be on top of your communications, communication on defense.
02:28 And that's what you gotta learn from that, because we definitely had,
02:32 in the game, we counted four that they didn't hear or miscommunicated.
02:38 It was either supposed to be a switch or a different coverage, and
02:41 then we've been good on all year.
02:43 But there were definitely four that we gotta get, and
02:45 that's a theme for this game.
02:47 We can't have, I didn't hear it.
02:50 I mean, it's loud, but you guys want, right?
02:52 You guys wanna play in the best college basketball atmospheres.
02:55 You gotta over communicate, we gotta have elite huddles.
02:58 We gotta have elite huddles, dead ball, free throws, they gotta have elite, hey,
03:03 this is what we're running next, make sure we're on the same page.
03:05 Make sure we know that call, I mean,
03:06 we gotta have elite huddles on the road in these atmospheres.
03:10 >> Speaking of, I mean, you mentioned Allen Fieldhouse,
03:13 what about this year's Kansas team?
03:14 What have you seen from their first couple of games to start conference play?
03:17 >> The one thing about Kansas is, I know you all mentioned already just a second
03:22 ago about how Coach Self's forever so physical, so good defensively, so hard.
03:29 The thing I don't think they get credit for is how well coached they are
03:33 offensively.
03:34 They are really smart, skilled action on offense.
03:40 They can keep their offense running and keep going.
03:45 So a lot of offenses have one or two options in the beginning.
03:48 They're as good as keep flowing through offense,
03:50 through the whole possession as anybody in the country.
03:53 And that's why I don't think they get enough credit for it.
03:55 Cuz I mean, you think of Coach Self,
03:56 you think about just how nasty defensively and physical they are.
04:00 But offensively, they can put you in a trick bag.
04:03 I mean, they have a lot of different things.
04:05 Now, all of a sudden,
04:06 you have one of the hardest scouted guys I've ever had to do offensively.
04:09 I mean, Hunter Dickinson is just, he can shoot it, he can pass it.
04:14 He's a huge screen.
04:16 [LAUGH] He keeps the ball high.
04:19 He seals, he really knows how to keep you sealed.
04:23 Great footwork.
04:25 KJ Adams is so valuable, so skilled, so smart, such a great passing big man.
04:31 DeJuan Harris is an elite point guard.
04:35 And then you got McCuller, a 20 a game, six rebounds, but
04:38 he also is playing at a high level.
04:40 They have four all-league type players.
04:44 I think Furphy, their freshman, is really gonna be an elite player.
04:48 He already is, but he can make shots, he's athletic.
04:50 So they're a hard scout for a quick turnaround.
04:55 And I say that because offensively, they keep their stuff going as well as anybody.
04:59 >> You talk about Hunter, not asking you to give away your game plan or anything,
05:05 but how do you go about slowing a guy like that down?
05:08 >> It is, it's a huge decision.
05:10 I think you talk to anybody that plays Kansas so far this year,
05:13 you start with, what are you gonna do with him?
05:16 How are you gonna do your post D?
05:17 How are you gonna do your ball screen coverages?
05:18 Those are big decisions you gotta make right out of the gate.
05:21 And it's no different for us.
05:23 He is a definite key to the game.
05:25 He draws a lot of attention.
05:27 But what makes him so hard is his IQ and his passing ability.
05:31 Tremendous, tremendous passing ability.
05:34 From the block and from up top.
05:37 I mean, he can pass from up top and he can pass from the block,
05:40 which makes it difficult.
05:42 >> As foul trouble creeps in a bit more, what are you seeing from Caden Cooper,
05:47 Luke Northweather in terms of being ready for the moment?
05:50 >> Gotta be ready, gotta be ready.
05:52 With the physicality that we got into, and got into foul trouble.
05:57 Both those guys, Luke and Caden are guys that gotta be ready.
06:02 We constantly tell them that I know they haven't got the minutes yet, but
06:06 this is a long league race, a physical league race.
06:09 Those guys need to be ready.
06:10 And sometimes you get into those non-conference games,
06:14 especially with teams that aren't in our conferences.
06:17 And sometimes maybe you say you're in a lower conference.
06:19 And sometimes they're hard matchups for a guy like Luke on the perimeter.
06:23 But then you get into a conference, all of a sudden you might have a bigger
06:25 foreman, you might be able to play him a little bit.
06:29 But I know he hasn't played much yet, but those guys gotta stay ready.
06:32 >> With TCU, your bench didn't shoot the threes really, or dark threes.
06:37 I know you believe they can shoot it, so you just send it back out there and
06:39 keep shooting it?
06:40 >> They got it, they got it.
06:42 I mean, he can shoot, he can shoot.
06:44 And it's my job to keep pouring confidence, get him good shots.
06:49 And as long as he continues to play great defense,
06:54 he's an all-league defender player in his last league.
06:57 He's done some great things defensively for us, got total confidence in him.
07:00 And it's about me pouring into him and to let him know.
07:04 I said that to him after the Monmouth game.
07:07 I said, keep shooting.
07:07 And he was through, had three big ones against Iowa State.
07:10 He's made a lot in his career.
07:13 He's an older guy.
07:13 Everybody's gone through it.
07:16 I have total confidence, want him to keep shooting.
07:18 >> You talk about the difficulty of this league.
07:24 What does what happened Tuesday and Wednesday across the league say about
07:28 the Big 12?
07:28 >> The road, the road.
07:32 It's just the atmospheres, the heart it is, the turnaround.
07:39 And the thing about it is too, is each game there's a level of,
07:44 when you get done, the physicality, the emotional and
07:49 physical, what you just went through.
07:51 And we told our guys, hey, this is what it's about.
07:54 I mean, there's no time to sit there and spend two days trying to say you're
07:59 mentally or physically tired.
08:00 There is no time to be tired.
08:01 You gotta take care of your body.
08:02 You gotta recover.
08:03 We gotta get our minds sharp.
08:04 It's one game after another.
08:05 But all over the country, winning on the road at the highest level in the Big 12
08:11 is at a premium.
08:12 If you can steal a road game, those are huge.
08:15 And but it's, the atmospheres are tough.
08:19 That's why I'm so much trying to get our atmosphere where it goes.
08:22 And I thought we had a good start to our league atmosphere.
08:24 With that, we'll talk about that when we get to our next home game.
08:28 But that's why the atmosphere's gotta be a six man.
08:32 >> Porter, it seems like OU Kansas is a matchup that a lot of fans really enjoy.
08:37 A lot of talk about this may be the last game of the fog for a while.
08:40 Is this a matchup you'd be interested in seeing continuing non-conference
08:44 be on this year?
08:45 And is that realistic?
08:47 >> It's very hard cuz Kansas doesn't do a lot of home and
08:51 homes non-conference cuz they have so many premier games like on these,
08:55 the Champions Classic, but they got a lot of things.
09:00 So obviously, I'm not thinking about that right now.
09:03 Future games at the, I'm thinking about this one.
09:08 But scheduling, it's their story programming.
09:12 So you never leave something off the table.
09:16 I know I'm sure it'll be come up at some point, but
09:20 it's gotta be a two way street.
09:22 I'm not so sure they like to do a lot of home and homes.
09:25 And for us too, we got Battle of Atlantis, we got the Jordan brand games,
09:29 we got a lot too.
09:30 So it just, everything depends on those.
09:32 That'll be a conversation for later today.
09:34 >> Not looking.
09:35 >> You guys have been so close the last few times heading up to Lawrence.
09:38 What do you feel like has been the difference in those games having to get
09:41 over to Hump this time?
09:42 >> Yeah, I think we watched them both.
09:43 And they've become, both games have come down the last 30 seconds,
09:45 which doesn't happen a lot.
09:47 It's stressing communication, stressing handling the runs.
09:53 And expect the physicality, expect transition offense.
10:00 Their transition offense is in a different gear in that building.
10:05 You've gotta really be on your transition offense.
10:08 Hunter gives you one weapon that's,
10:10 he reminds me of this thing with the big kid I had at Loyola Crudwick.
10:14 And John does it sometimes.
10:15 Hunter can throw a 60 foot outlet pass.
10:18 He can throw that Wes Unsold, he gets a rebound, he turns, and
10:21 he throws a 60 foot outlet pass.
10:24 You better not let the guys get behind you in transition,
10:27 cuz he has that in his bag.
10:28 So you really gotta watch that transition game in that building.
10:34 You gotta watch your turnovers.
10:36 They turn turnovers into baskets in that building, anywhere.
10:39 So it's just taking care of a lot of fundamental things.
10:44 Communication, transition, D, ball toughness, so
10:48 that they just can't get these crazy runs.
10:51 >> A lot of the pieces are different, but for Milo, Sotega, Sam,
10:55 what can they take from last year's trip experience, being in that atmosphere?
10:59 To this one.
11:00 >> I thought the two grittiest guys on the last road game was Los and Sam.
11:04 Sam got a punch, but you gotta be gritty, man.
11:07 We need to be more gritty this upcoming game.
11:10 That starts with me and everything.
11:12 I thought we were way more gritty in the second half at TCU, but
11:16 our communication wasn't on, and our turnovers in the first half.
11:21 But you gotta be gritty, man.
11:22 It is not gonna be easy anywhere to win on the road.
11:26 It's not easy.
11:27 So in life, when things aren't easy, you've gotta be tougher.
11:31 You've gotta be mentally tougher, physically tougher to fight through hard.
11:36 And that's what this road is in the Big 12.
11:38 It's hard.
11:39 You gotta fight through it.
11:40 You gotta be gritty.
11:41 You gotta be willing to get bumped, ball toughness.
11:44 So that's what we gotta take.
11:45 And I thought Los and Sam were the two grittiest guys there.
11:49 Now we need everybody on board to be way tougher and
11:53 grittier in this league, on the road especially.
11:57 >> You talk about the scheduling difficulty.
11:59 Is it good for college basketball that so many of the premier non-conference
12:04 games wind up happening in neutral sites versus campus sites?
12:09 >> There's a lot of good for them.
12:12 There's TV, there's venues, there's atmospheres.
12:15 With the net, a neutral win is a little bit more lenient,
12:20 cuz it's a bigger range.
12:22 I think it's one through 60 or something, the exact number.
12:26 So not everyone wants to play true road games, cuz especially a league like ours,
12:31 you have so many of them.
12:33 But you're in these tournaments, you're in these challenges,
12:36 you're in the SEC challenge or Big East challenge, whatever challenge you're in.
12:41 Then you're in these, so you start to stack up a lot of games.
12:44 So the home and homes become an issue.
12:48 So I don't know if it's good or bad, it's just, it's part of what we're doing.
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