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Seg 5 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley 10-28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Off the basketball season, November 2nd.
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  Speaker 2: Gardner Webb, Dan Hurley with us. One question on officiating,
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  Speaker 2: and we were just talking about it during the break here.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think you have a better relationship with officials
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  Speaker 1: now that you've won two national championships than you did before?
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  Speaker 3: No, because I'm a bigger jerk.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't buy that.
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  Speaker 3: I think the officials.
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  Speaker 1: or being more kind to you now?
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  Speaker 4: The better officials, I think the better officials, they just
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  Speaker 4: know how to manage you. Um, they know your personality. Um,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they just, you know how to work together.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I still at times, you know, for me,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like, um, there's going to be bad nights where,
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  Speaker 4: you know, where, where the relationship, it's like anything else.
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  Speaker 4: It's just that you have a bad night together and, um,
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  Speaker 4: you just try to do, you know, do the best, uh,
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  Speaker 4: best that you can with it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, At Michigan State, Keith Kimball and you had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of words. What was happening there? So who else
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  Speaker 1: do you want to talk about? He's a quiet guy. No,
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  Speaker 1: he seemed to be, after a while, he was kind
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  Speaker 1: of enjoying it, I think.
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  Speaker 4: He's a great ref. I mean, he's a great ref.
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting warmed up for the season, too. So I've
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  Speaker 4: got to bring it. And Keith's got to get ready.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what the exhibition's about.
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  Speaker 2: I got you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little Big East here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, St.
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  Speaker 1: John's back-to-back, regular season, tournament champions. But they're not the
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  Speaker 1: favorites this year, according to the preseason talking heads. Rick
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  Speaker 1: Pitino's really gotten that thing going in New York. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's fun to go to play at the Garden anyway.
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  Speaker 2: We know that. But it's even more fun now.
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  Speaker 4: I think for us, I mean, really, you don't, like,
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  Speaker 4: you're not really thinking about a lot of these teams
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  Speaker 4: in your league, really.
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  Speaker 3: Until you get to league play.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, literally what you're focusing on for us right
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  Speaker 4: now is really, you know, Purdue and being prepared for that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: we've got a monster non-conference schedule that we've got to
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  Speaker 4: play before we even get there. I think the last
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  Speaker 4: thing I'm thinking about is Big East teams. We actually,
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  Speaker 4: in a perfect world, you want the other Big East
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  Speaker 4: teams to play well in a non-conference. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: biggest thing that's hurt us in the league the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of years is We've performed at a really high
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  Speaker 4: level in the non-conference.
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  Speaker 2: He's knocking on sofas here.
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  Speaker 4: And then we've gotten hurt with our seating when we've
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  Speaker 4: lost Big East games because programs have not performed and
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  Speaker 4: brought in bad nets. And we've played too many quad three,
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  Speaker 4: quad four, quad two games that.
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  Speaker 3: Really hurt our seating.
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  Speaker 4: So really, you root for your league non-conference, and we're
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  Speaker 4: really just focused on the monsters we got to play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Michigan at TD, the Garden. You played BYU there
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  Speaker 1: last year. That was one of the great early games
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  Speaker 1: of the season. That's kind of set the tone almost
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  Speaker 1: for that season.
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  Speaker 4: That was just so much fun playing Illinois there. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: just that, just playing, UConn playing in Boston in that
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  Speaker 4: arena just was a cool thing. And, you know, that
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  Speaker 4: Elite Eight, that Sweet 16 Elite Eight with that monster
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  Speaker 4: team in 24, and then You know, to be able
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  Speaker 4: to get, you know, A.J. and that BYU team there,
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  Speaker 4: just a lot of juice in the building. And then
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  Speaker 4: you bring back a national championship rematch game there. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for college basketball fans or for our own
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  Speaker 4: fans in the region, I mean, we can't do better
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  Speaker 4: than that for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got Kansas coming into M & T Bank
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  Speaker 1: Center at Gampel Pavilion, thanks to them.
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  Speaker 2: But the other one that sticks out to me is
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  Speaker 2: that trip to Arizona. Have you been there? I haven't
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  Speaker 2: been there.
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  Speaker 4: I have.
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  Speaker 3: I got my butt kicked there when I was at Rhodey. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Gordon.
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  Speaker 4: We had like three different lob dunks versus our really
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  Speaker 4: bad 2-3 zone.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, not that I remember. Yeah, really? But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a great, great– it'll be a great test.
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  Speaker 4: Again, we want to challenge ourselves, give ourselves a chance
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  Speaker 4: to win big non-conference games– Or, you know, really learn
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  Speaker 4: a lot about your team where you need to get better.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: We feel like, even I think you could see it
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  Speaker 4: in the exhibitions, you know, we work so hard since
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  Speaker 4: June that we feel like when we come into the conference, like,
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  Speaker 4: our team is a little bit further ahead than some
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  Speaker 4: other programs because, like, we literally start practice on June 1st. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if our team doesn't keep improving, we lose that advantage
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  Speaker 4: over time.
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  Speaker 3: So it's very important.
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  Speaker 4: That, you know, our team, you know, you go– you know,
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  Speaker 4: have a good showing at Michigan State, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: I crushed them today in practice just because there's so
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  Speaker 4: many areas that if we don't improve, you know, plus
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  Speaker 4: we don't actually get anything for that. You know, we're
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  Speaker 4: not 1-0 with like a top five net win or something.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we didn't actually get anything. No.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at that game, though, generally exhibitions, are you looking
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  Speaker 1: for the positives or are you looking for the things
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  Speaker 1: we got to get better here?
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, you're relieved that you don't suck.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. That's a good start.
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  Speaker 3: But then you sit in a film room. Because you
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, there's like, well, we, the 2014.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Like the 2014, we went to Virginia in a year
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  Speaker 4: where like Virginia wasn't very good. And we got our
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  Speaker 4: butts kicked in the second half of that game and got,
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  Speaker 4: and ended up tying at the buzzer.
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  Speaker 3: Miraculously or else we would have like lost a road.
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  Speaker 4: Closed scrimmage to a Virginia team that barely made the
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  Speaker 4: NCAA tournament that year so you know and that 24
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  Speaker 4: team went on to be maybe the best team in
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  Speaker 4: the last 25 30 years in college so I but
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  Speaker 4: I thought we sucked so you just don't know until
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  Speaker 4: your team gets out there because it's like it's scary
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  Speaker 4: you're very it's very uncertain you know like You just
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  Speaker 4: don't know what Nick is really going to do once
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  Speaker 4: they get under the bright lights.
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  Speaker 3: How is the team going to function together?
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  Speaker 4: Does the team have some chemistry? Is there going to
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  Speaker 4: be a little bit of magic that's going to come
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  Speaker 4: together with the group?
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  Speaker 3: You don't know. You have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: It's the unknown. That's what we love sports for.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley with us, the UConn men's basketball coaching show
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  Speaker 1: on Learfield.