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Segment 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Dec 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show Mike chris Pino, Dan Hurley as
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  we cover Yukon basketball and the Huskies off to a great start nine and one
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  coach fifth in the country ap pole. Now, I think twenty four straight
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  weeks. That's the first time that's happened with Yukon basketball since twenty eleven,
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  twenty twelve. So, I mean, looking at the big picture of this
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  thing where you're at right now, we're only in December. This has to
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  feel pretty good for the coaching staff to gott in this team back from winning
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  a championship to playing at this kind of a high level. Yeah, I
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  think it's definitely a testament, you know, to the staff, and it's
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  the type of guys we've been able to attract here, type of players and
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  what they're all about. Because we lost a lot. You know, we
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  lost not only great players and you know, our biggest producers of points and
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  rebounds and assists and guys that anchored our defense, but we lost all of
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  the leaders, you know, the captains, the guys that led the way.
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  So it speaks to the culture that this group that we've all created together
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  and that what we put our value in you know that we really do treat
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  this this part of the year like it is the the we season and everyone's
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  about winning. You talk about culture and chemistry. It's not always that easy
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  to recreate the kind of chemistry you had last year. And as you just
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  mentioned, losing you know, Andre and losing Adama and of course Jordan Hawkins
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  and Hee malin putting it back together. I guess where does that start when
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  you get your group of players together way in the summer. Do you start
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  on chemistry with guys or do you start with fundamental things? How do you
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  get it rolling again after what you accomplished back in March and April. I
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  think it all begins in the recruiting process, right. It's like, what
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  attracted the player to you in the first place. Was it you know,
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  we're going to make you a star. Was it We're just going to get
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  you to the NBA? Was it just the history of our program? Was
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  it the brand? You know? We go a different way. I mean,
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  you know what we UH. We talk about how hard we work,
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  and we talk about winning, and we talk about personal development, we talk
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  about player development, We talk about UH being in a locker room and on
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  a team with unselfish people that are about winning and us helping you maximize your
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  career and your education. So yeah, I think when you're recruiting is based
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  on getting people that way. They come into you the right way in terms
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  of their mindset and their expectations. You know, when they get here,
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  you know, and then obviously you know our messaging from when they step foot
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  on campuses. We've got to have it into the program that if you do
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  the right things, you know, we're going to win a lot of games
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  and you're going to have your opportunities to increase your value as a player.
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  Dan Hurley with us in the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Dan, these
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  days it's different on every level in terms of recruiting and the kind of players
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  that get on your rosters. And you look at all the transfers around the
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  country and Ukon's taken advantage of that as well. But when you talk about
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  player development to a young man that hasn't played for you, how do you
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  approach that? How do you present it? Because I'm sure other coaches are
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  presenting the same messaging, but you've been able to get through to guys.
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  It seems to me who are interested in that, and they come here and
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  they're okay with Okay, I'm going to develop here, I'm going to become
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  a better player. I think you're the one to try to avoid the you
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  know, real delusional folks here, you know, like the you know people
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  certainly scare us off. And sometimes you recruit a player for a pretty significant
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  amount of time and it's very public, and we spent some resources on it
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  in terms of traveling and visits and all these things, and then you know,
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  you find out that maybe that individual just is not going to be able
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  to help you win anything. The things they're saying, the mindset, the
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  work ethic. Eventually you realize that, you know, some players just don't
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  fit the way that we do things and the emphasis that we put on old
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  school values, you know, old school values with a modern style of play.
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  You come forty and nine in their last forty nine games. Now you've
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  won fifteen to sixteen dating back to the championship run last year. We're going
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  to talk about a couple of games that we played here recently. There has
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  been some excitement and a course Seaton Hall coming up, and of course Gonzaga
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  that's next but coach Arkansas, before we get to Arkansas Pine Bluff, let's
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  go back to North Carolina at the Garden, because you came off a loss
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  to Kansas, one that could have gone either way. Maybe one shot goes
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  in and you steal the game. Talk about overcoming that emotionally because there's a
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  bit of a letdown. The team loses for the first time. Then you
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  got to come back. You don't have a lot of recovery time. You
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  gotta jump on the bus, come back down to New York within a you
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  know, a day and a half or thereabouts. Talk about that bouncing back
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  emotionally from what happened at Kansas in a fabulous college atmosphere and then go into
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  the Garden to play North Carolina. Yeah, I think coaches all and athletes
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  talk about, you know, with twenty four hour rule, thirty six hour
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  rule, twelve hour rule, right like I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm
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  gonna let go of this last result within a certain period of time, and
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  it doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't really work that way. We haven't lost
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  here in a while. Yeah, So I think, you know, it
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  definitely definitely hurt. We expected to win. We knew it was gonna be
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  a really tough game and an incredible hard place to play. Fog Allen was
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  such a unique environment, and it was it's really worth a lot of points,
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  you know, for the home team. It affects the play of the
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  opponent. And I think, uh, you know, we we we heard
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  here when we lose, and I think I love that about us. I
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  think it's the best way to say it. I love the fact that I
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  come into our building the day after we lose and it's you feel like you're
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  walking into a wake or a funeral because our people here, you know,
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  want to win so bad for Yukon, and you know, we go through
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  that healing process. You watch the film, you see all the things that
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  we could have done differently to win that game at fog Allen, but we
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  were able to. I think thankfully. We had a really big game with
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  Carolina coming up, and we started to get excited about that after probably about
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  thirty six hours. Yeah, and you couldn't you couldn't deny the fact that
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  Carolina was a darn good team coming in to New York on a show against
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  Yukon. So you had very little time to kind of get ready for that
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  We'll talk about North Carolina and much much more with Dan Hurley. This is
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  the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on Liarfield