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Seg 6 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Oct 22 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Here we go a few more minutes to Dan Hurley.
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  Speaker 1: Our first few comments basketball coaches show a quick thing
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  Speaker 1: on staff. You bring Mike Nardi in from Villanova, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That's that's a rival right there. I
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  Speaker 1: had to think he was good, I know. Plus he's
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  Speaker 1: a Jersey guy. Jersey guy, that's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Plus he's a really good basketball player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of things go into that when you
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  Speaker 1: add people to your staff, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Lynden, New Jersey is not Jersey City, but
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  Speaker 3: his like his upbringing and like it was like pretty
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  Speaker 3: similar to me and my brother in a way. So
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  Speaker 3: I could relate to Mike. And Mike shares a passion
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  Speaker 3: for the game. He loves loves loves the game, and
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  Speaker 3: he and he just loves the team, you know. Like
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  Speaker 3: so like he's a basketball junkie and he just he
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  Speaker 3: is a team guy. Like he just he loves the team.
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  Speaker 3: He's just a he's a you know, he's a great addition.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna be good there, no question. You have
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  Speaker 1: a new book out. Ian O'Connor one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: writers going back to New York days with the Daily
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  Speaker 1: News and everywhere else. It is an excellent writer. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's won seven best selling awards or something. So
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  Speaker 1: you get together to write a book. I know he
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  Speaker 1: followed us around quite a bit in the last year
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  Speaker 1: or so. How intrusive was that? Did it get on
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  Speaker 1: your nerves at all? I mean, Ian's a great guy,
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  Speaker 1: but he's behind you all the time, right and stuff
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  Speaker 1: and talking to you. Well, I've notned my whole Life's
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  Speaker 1: he covered my career.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately for him, he had the in college and high school,
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  Speaker 3: so he's he's you know, he's somebody I'm very comfortable with,
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  Speaker 3: and I just wanted to you know, for me, it
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  Speaker 3: was I feel like I've got a life life story,
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  Speaker 3: career struggles, family struggles, you know, emotional, you know, mental
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  Speaker 3: health things that were very difficult, very challenging. So I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to share my story that way. And then I
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  Speaker 3: also wanted to share, you know, just how we do
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  Speaker 3: things at Yukon. That's considered old school, but it should
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  Speaker 3: be just how you should go about your business if
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  Speaker 3: you want to be a championship organization.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, that's why I wanted to do the project.
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  Speaker 1: Was it cathartic in any way? Did when you got
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  Speaker 1: it off your chest. Did you feel more relaxed?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I'm gonna coach better this year
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  Speaker 3: because of it. You know, the gift and the power
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  Speaker 3: of sharing your story and being open about it.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It's very freeing.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, like how much anxiety I
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  Speaker 3: still feel to this day in season day of a
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  Speaker 3: game after you know, like winning back to back championships
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  Speaker 3: and then being at Mohegan Sun prior to that Rhode
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  Speaker 3: Island game, like in the bathroom throwing up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because you're so nervous about the game. Most people think
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  Speaker 3: that that just dissipates once you, you know, reach this
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  Speaker 3: level that you always dream of in terms of accomplishment.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's comforting to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: You know that I've read my story and for me,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to coach better this year because
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  Speaker 3: I shared so much about myself that people can identify with.
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  Speaker 1: It's called never stop life leadership, what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: be great. I'm the last guy you talked to before
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  Speaker 1: every game. I even f you're aware of that. How
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  Speaker 1: does that help you?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I do well. What helps me is like you're
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  Speaker 2: not actually the last person I talked if it was
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  Speaker 2: we would not win.
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  Speaker 3: No, oh no, no, not that.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't mean it like that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean like I talked to the players, I talked
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  Speaker 3: to the staff. But you are, I would say, like
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  Speaker 3: the last I don't want to say civilian because that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't sound right, but you are like.
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  Speaker 2: Other than the players, are the coaches.
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  Speaker 3: You're the actual last human being that I talk to
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  Speaker 3: as I'm popping em and ms with the only blue
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  Speaker 3: or red or or green and drink and mushroom coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, by the way, a four game, the championship game
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  Speaker 1: in Houston. I remember going into to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: and you had.
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  Speaker 2: This the board up there and you're writing good.
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  Speaker 1: You weren't ready, and you go, Mike, it's the national
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  Speaker 1: championship game.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to be here. This is my job, and I
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  Speaker 2: needed three more minutes. And this guy was just he
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  Speaker 2: was a vulture. I mean, this guy was his team's hovering.
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  Speaker 2: I want him to lead so bad. Well, we got
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  Speaker 2: a few words hidden are The result was great. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: we won the game and we got the interview. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: we got the interview.
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  Speaker 1: All right, does that mean we're going off the air, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta oh, we get ten seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Dan appreciate it. Yes, thank you, Mike. Great being back
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  Speaker 2: and thanks to our live audience.
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  Speaker 1: Kon Michigan State Tuesday at the People's Bank Arena. Be there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming