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Dan Hurley w Wayne Norman MSU · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Dan, what did you like about what your team did tonight,
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  Speaker 1: and what did you learn about what they're doing?
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  Speaker 2: Just the will and toughness just to come in and
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  Speaker 2: play like an exhibition road game with real heat in
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  Speaker 2: the building, and that was just really, really good work.
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  Speaker 2: It was like truly, it was like a sparring session.
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  Speaker 2: It was like sparring for a fight.
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  Speaker 1: How valuable is a game like this, UConn's first ever
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  Speaker 1: exhibition game on the road, to play an exhibition game
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  Speaker 1: against a crowd like this?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just great experience. Um, just great experience for
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  Speaker 2: so many of our guys that, you know, um, that
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  Speaker 2: we'll be able to draw from, you know, where we're
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  Speaker 2: not playing closed scrimmages or exhibitions versus, you know, D3s,
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  Speaker 2: nothing against D3s, but, you know, this is the type
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  Speaker 2: of thing that identifies the things that are positives and
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  Speaker 2: the stuff you got to work on.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the great matches in this game was
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  Speaker 1: the Fierce Demery matchup. How did you see that breaking down?
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  Speaker 2: Just great. I mean, two of the best and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: You know, fear just stresses your ball screen defense so much.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they obviously got some things they got to
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  Speaker 2: figure out at the center spot. You know, but I
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  Speaker 2: thought those two guys, you know, such great competitors and
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  Speaker 2: just two of the best point guards.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan.