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Cowboy Quotables: Coach Lutz talks summer workouts - Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboy Basketball tipped off summer workouts last week. Oklahoma State head coach Steve Lutz met with local media on Tuesday to discuss the early stages of o...
Lot's of good quotes here:
"We can shoot the ball better this year, it seems like."
... Building this year's roster vs. last:
"I'd like to think that we took less risk, and we were more diligent and we had more time to investigate and we had more time to vet who we are and were recruiting. I think that that's going to pay dividends down the road." ... "I thought that they played the right way and they represented Oklahoma State well, but our bottom line is not to go to the NIT. Our bottom line is to go to the NCAA tournament. That's what I was hired for and that's what the administration and the boosters and the fans and the university expects. We had a much longer process of investigating and vetting players that fit our system and fit our program and fit our culture. I think that that will certainly prove at the end of the year to have value."
"We gave everything we had. We played hard. We played the right way. We shared the ball. We dove on the floor when there was a ball that was loose. We need the same support here in Stillwater that is in Oklahoma City. We're going to put a better product on the floor next year for the fans and for the state, but we need people to come support it."
"The thing that I think right off the bat that jumps out about this team is really, other than maybe at the point guard position, we're longer and bigger across the front. We don't have a 6'11 or a 7'1 or 7'2 guy rim protector, but your 2's, 3's, and 4's are all bigger and longer, which is different."
"With this team, to me, in my mind, I'm using the summer to decide, if you can score the ball better, do you have to be quite as aggressive in extending your defense up the floor in the half court? That's yet to be determined. Last year, we had to create opportunities on the defensive end through turnovers, through steals, and through getting to the free throw line for us to score. If we're able to score it better, sometimes you can dial it back a little bit, just in terms of your denying of the ball and extending your defense out so far."
...Vukovic's progress- "It's funny, you have Ben and Mekhi, the other two freshmen, both in the post with him. He's light years ahead of him right now."
"You're always trying to tweak it. You're always trying to get better. The bones of it is not going to change. We're going to fight. We're going to defend. We're going to rebound. We're going to play hard. Then we'll have some more freedom offensively. That comes with having a little more offensive talent as well."
"I'm telling you, I really think that there's going to be a lot of competition along that front line. I really do. Those two freshmen don't know what they're doing yet, but there's a lot of talent and there's a lot of ability. Millie's (Vukovic) coming back for his second year, as we said. He's light years ahead of where he was last year."
"If you look into this year's recruiting, you're going to see a lot of international players coming across, and a lot of that is due to the fact that the revenue sharing in the NIL, the market is better here. In Europe, and in a lot of places, there's not quite as much money.
There used to be really, really good money over there, but now you've got coaches coming over (to the U.S.). You've got players coming over."
