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Seg 2 - MBB Show Nov 13 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with Dan Hurley the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: UH headed to Boston now, where the Huskies had great
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  Speaker 1: success in the NCAA Tournament a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 1: UH playing in Boston, and I know I worked up
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  Speaker 1: there for a bunch of years. Not a great college town.
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  Speaker 1: But I think when Yukon comes to town and brings
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  Speaker 1: that brand up there and by us on the floor
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  Speaker 1: with they're great players, I gotta feel this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a fabulous environment for that game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm not real aware like the tickets or any
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  Speaker 2: of that, but you know, I think you're you're you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to do. Uh. I just think about the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the whole situation. B Why you you know, having a
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  Speaker 2: team that you know, potentially compete for a national championship
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  Speaker 2: final four, you know, with a with an incredible player
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  Speaker 2: from the Boston area playing a TD Bank Yukon six
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  Speaker 2: time national champs, you know two of the last three
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  Speaker 2: years we won it. Yeah, I mean, you're you're hopefully
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  Speaker 2: you're you're delivering, delivering, you know, like a great college
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  Speaker 2: basketball opportunity for people in the region.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no doubt your success on the road obviously
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  Speaker 1: you contass from great teams here in the last three
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  Speaker 1: four years, but sixteen and seven and true road games.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, most people are happy to be five hundred
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  Speaker 1: on the road. I remember pat Riley saying that one time,
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  Speaker 1: if we just go one game over five hundred on
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  Speaker 1: our schedule on the road, I'll be happy. But that's
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  Speaker 1: quite an accomplishment. Tell me about that, playing against you know,
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  Speaker 1: ranked foes on the road.
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell you about the measure of a team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that we've been good and I think that
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  Speaker 2: you know, Kamani and Luke, you know, now with you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Mike Nardi on board, you're beginning to help us
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  Speaker 2: with the game preps. Those guys do a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I think of, you know, helping me put together you know,
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  Speaker 2: game plans, you know, and to be good teams. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like we've been able to beat you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, we beat who were supposed to beat.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think we're also having ability to you
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  Speaker 2: to win big games in neutrals or rown environments because
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  Speaker 2: we we we we we've got a good uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got good good guys that you don't really want to.
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  Speaker 1: Win twenty two and ten the Huskies against ranked foes
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  Speaker 1: since the start of twenty two twenty three. The importance
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  Speaker 1: of these games and in the long term for your
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  Speaker 1: you know, NCAA status and those kind of things. How
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  Speaker 1: important are those games against the ranked teams?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean just you know, the games against teams
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  Speaker 2: that are going to be NA tournament teams. They're just
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  Speaker 2: you know, number number one, if you if you if
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  Speaker 2: you win enough of them, you get in the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: You got to qualify every year. And then you win
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  Speaker 2: enough of them, you start really helping you seating and
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  Speaker 2: seating matters. So from that standpoint, and then obviously the
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  Speaker 2: ability to I think we all know what our vulnerabilities are.
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  Speaker 2: We know what are we this is our But you know,
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  Speaker 2: games like this they really, you know, expose the areas
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  Speaker 2: that that you've got to address, because only the best
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  Speaker 2: teams are able to really take advantage of the places
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  Speaker 2: where you're weak. And for us, you know, guarding people individually,
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  Speaker 2: one on one defense is going to come into play
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  Speaker 2: versus BYU because they've got a couple of pros.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no question. I watched them against Villanova. Uh, they
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of great players, no question. Defensively, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about perimeter defense and getting out on people and
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  Speaker 1: making it hard to drive the basketball. Did you do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like going into this stretch now against these
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  Speaker 1: really good ball clubs, that your back line guys are
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to help you on the weak
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  Speaker 1: side and get over the block shots and and make
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  Speaker 1: it even harder for teams to score against Yukon.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they are if they're doing what they're being
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  Speaker 3: coached to do, if they're if they're if they're hugging
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  Speaker 3: their man or you know, still.
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  Speaker 2: Disappointed about the three they just missed, or what you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you're you know, you're, you're you know, these coach
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  Speaker 2: these guys are coached to be in spots so that
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  Speaker 2: if somebody gets beat or if someone makes a mistake,
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  Speaker 2: that somebody's be able to help them. You know. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's what it's called, like you know, team defense or
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  Speaker 2: help defense or what have you. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that you know, especially in years like
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  Speaker 2: the last year and this year, where we don't quite
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  Speaker 2: have the perimeter defenders that would allow us to just
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  Speaker 2: stay at home and guard the three point line and
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  Speaker 2: let you know, Donovan clean up anything that went to
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  Speaker 2: the rim. But for the most part, Steph and Tristan
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  Speaker 2: Newton and Andrew Jackson would just lock up perimeter people
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  Speaker 2: and anything that wasn't locked up would get blocked. You know,
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  Speaker 2: now we're in a different you know, we're in a
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  Speaker 2: different type of situation with how we need to play defense,
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  Speaker 2: and the help is much more important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Melachi Smith one of your transfer guards so far
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  Speaker 1: twenty one minutes on average eight points a game. But
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  Speaker 1: do you look at his case He's made five out
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  Speaker 1: of seven threes. But do you look at his contributions
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  Speaker 1: first on the defensive side or how do you view him?
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  Speaker 2: I mean how I want to view him as as
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  Speaker 2: a six starter, you know, But I think this Malachi defensively,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was like, you know, really good against Lowell,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't like, you know, the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: way that Malchi guarded versus Columbia. You know, I just
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  Speaker 2: think that, you know, he's got to play like a
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  Speaker 2: veteran and he's got to be smart and slick with
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  Speaker 2: how he guards, and he's got to pick a spots
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  Speaker 2: with pressuring. He's got to take less chances, he's got
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  Speaker 2: to be more cerebral and in the right spots, because
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a guy who's he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a difference maker on whether this team
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  Speaker 2: could get to its potential and whether we can get
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  Speaker 2: from him what we need from him to really give
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  Speaker 2: us great play at the point position with both the
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  Speaker 2: starter and the backup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a feisty dude, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: The State like to play him more.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if it's if it's a game where your
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  Speaker 2: solo is not guarding and jalen Is is not guarding,
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  Speaker 2: you would love the flexibility to be able to play
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  Speaker 2: the two point guards together and see what that looks like.
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  Speaker 2: But y know, we need Malak kind of take some
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  Speaker 2: strides on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about the standard you're you're establishing here
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  Speaker 1: and have established. He comes from Dayton good program. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we saw him out in Maui last year. They gave
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  Speaker 1: us trouble. But Malachi Smith now playing at Yukon in
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  Speaker 1: this level, in this stretch of games ahead of us,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think we're going to learn about him?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you'll learn it's tough and you
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  Speaker 2: know and that you know he's here's a guy that
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  Speaker 2: that wants to go out and make plays. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he's got any part of him that's that's afraid.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's excited about these games. But it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's I think every programing team plays differently. There's different
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  Speaker 2: principles with with with how you play the game, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's just over the course of this season,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And obviously it's it's early, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not for the for a trip to
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  Speaker 2: the Final four, you know, So it's like you got
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  Speaker 2: to put kind of the game in its proper perspective.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big game, it's exciting, it's a big opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for both teams, but it still is early.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still November.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take a quick time out back with Dan Hurley,
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon men's basketball coaches show on lear Field in
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  Speaker 1: a moment