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Seg 4 - MBB Show Nov 6 w Mike Nardi · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Yukon men's basketball coaches Shown one
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  Speaker 1: of the staff, the assistant coach Mike Nardi, joins his
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  Speaker 1: first year with Yukon. Longtime Villanova assistant had a little
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  Speaker 1: interim duty there as a headman for three games as well.
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  Speaker 1: But Mike, let's start with you as a player, because
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  Speaker 1: I first ran into you as a player four year starter,
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  Speaker 1: which is not something that's easy to do at Villanova
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  Speaker 1: back mid two thousand's helped them get to the Sweet
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  Speaker 1: sixteen and five and the Elite eight and six. Your
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  Speaker 1: college career as a player, how do you think that
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  Speaker 1: impacted you as a coach now that you're in the
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  Speaker 1: other end of the thing you got to whistle on
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yep. No, it's great to be on the show, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: So thanks for having me. You know, I think for
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  Speaker 2: myself as a player, I always had that underdog mentality,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and kind of work ethic to prove myself
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  Speaker 2: every day that I belonged, you know, and I was
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  Speaker 2: going to compete for everything that I that I earned,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on a daily basis. And I think in
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  Speaker 2: the coaching world, you know, it's pretty similar, right, Like
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  Speaker 2: you have to come in, you know. I thought that
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  Speaker 2: was one of the greatest things that Coach Wright did
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  Speaker 2: for me as a as a coach, was he put
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  Speaker 2: me in a position to learn from the ground up,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And when I became a part of the
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  Speaker 2: staff at Villanova, I started in the you know, player
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  Speaker 2: development role, which at that time you could not be
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  Speaker 2: on the court instructing, so I had a chance to
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  Speaker 2: kind of fine tune and learn new things behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes and and just what that looks like every day,
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  Speaker 2: right class checks, spending time with the with the players,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting to build relationships, being in coaching meetings
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  Speaker 2: and and understanding you know, the terminology and our schemes
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  Speaker 2: and and what we were trying to do daily in practice.
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  Speaker 2: And it just gave me a perspective on coaching, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to to see that and then be able to get
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  Speaker 2: promoted each year at Villanova because I was putting in
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  Speaker 2: the work, you know. And Jay wasn't the type of
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  Speaker 2: guy just to promote you just because right you know,
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  Speaker 2: I played for him. He wanted you to go out
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  Speaker 2: and earn it, and I felt like I did that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being on some great staff there and learning
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  Speaker 2: from guys that were in front of me. So I
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  Speaker 2: just think, you know, as a whole for myself being
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  Speaker 2: able to just work hard every day, you know, be
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  Speaker 2: a part of something that's bigger than myself and really
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  Speaker 2: just try and strive to be great, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: make other people better.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Nardi with us you kind assistant first year at stores,
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  Speaker 1: part of two national championships Villanova as a coach sixteen
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  Speaker 1: and eighteen. Now you're in a championship place again. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about that because you know, Yukon just played new
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  Speaker 1: Haven and their opener the other day one by twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: But Dan spent the last fifteen minutes talking about the
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  Speaker 1: things that didn't go right. So I guess what I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking is the championship mentality. When you have that, you're
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  Speaker 1: not really ever satisfied, but you have to you have
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy what you're doing at the same time. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But you know, I think having a championship mentality
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  Speaker 2: through the journey of a season is you're grinding every
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  Speaker 2: day until hopefully you get a chance to then at
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  Speaker 2: the end celebrate, you know, and be the best team
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  Speaker 2: in the country. Right, So you're going through that journey
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  Speaker 2: and you're and you're grinding and your expectations are extremely
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  Speaker 2: high because you know where you need to be.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They they've won back to back championships here under coach,
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  Speaker 2: and he knows what those teams did every single day
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  Speaker 2: in practice. He knows the focus, the concentration level, the
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  Speaker 2: attention to detail, right, the competitive nature of each individual guy,
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  Speaker 2: and then that as a collective group. So I think
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  Speaker 2: early in the season, even though you do have a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of guys that have returned and have had great
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  Speaker 2: success here, right, you still want to treat this like
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  Speaker 2: a new group because there are new players, right that
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  Speaker 2: came in from the transfer portal. There are freshmen, you know,
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  Speaker 2: players that haven't done it at this level yet. So
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to get those guys a custom and really
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  Speaker 2: just get them to understand what it takes to become
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  Speaker 2: a championship team.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mike Nardi's with us will continue in just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on lear Field,