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Seg 4 - MBB Show Oct 28 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. We're live in studio here in Hartford. Dan Hurley,
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon men's basketball coach with US two time champ
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  Speaker 1: back to back, the heck of a run, twelve straight wins,
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  Speaker 1: double figures and every one of them. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you about the Big East Tournament because
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  Speaker 1: I know that was important to you two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: six or the last time Yukon won the regular season title.
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  Speaker 1: Been a while since winning that tournament, and you took
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  Speaker 1: care of business there and I know in the season
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  Speaker 1: began you had those pictures up of the trophies we
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  Speaker 1: want to win and the places we're going to go,
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  Speaker 1: and it was meaningful to the players. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: when you got to New York that was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a peak in a sense of what you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do with this regular season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just I think your conference record. It's so hard
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  Speaker 2: to win conference games, so I mean, especially Big East games.
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  Speaker 2: The games are so physical playing in those games. I
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  Speaker 2: think the coaches are awesome coaches in the Big East.
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  Speaker 2: I think we got the best roster coaches of any
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  Speaker 2: league in the country. So the games are so physical,
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  Speaker 2: the environments are intense, you know, the so it means something.
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  Speaker 2: If you could win the regular season or if you
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  Speaker 2: win a high percentage of conference games, I think that
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  Speaker 2: that says that you got very high quality. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean the biggest tournament is just the best. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it messes you up a little bit in the first
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  Speaker 2: round game or the NCAA tournament, because the Biggest tournament
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  Speaker 2: is like the next closest thing to probably like an
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  Speaker 2: elite eight game, maybe a final four game Big East Tournament,
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  Speaker 2: semi finals on Friday or the finals on Saturday. Biggest tournament.
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  Speaker 2: There's like a it's down, you know, it's like the
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  Speaker 2: environment's not as good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's the world's most famous arena. Twenty eleven
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  Speaker 1: was the last time Huskies won the Big East Tournament.
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  Speaker 1: So another a great accomplishment. Number one seed. First time
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  Speaker 1: the Huskies were a number one seed of all the
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  Speaker 1: six national championships, which you know is a little bit surprising.
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  Speaker 1: So then again, you got that mantle. It could be
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  Speaker 1: a weight on your shoulders. A lot of number ones
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  Speaker 1: have been knocked off lately after winning the title. You know, Kansas,
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  Speaker 1: I can name them all, really, but that didn't seem
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  Speaker 1: to bother this team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean playing for seating is it's it's important,
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  Speaker 2: and we talk about it. I mean we talk about
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  Speaker 2: it with the team going into games. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: set the game for them. They understand what it means,
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  Speaker 2: and we talk about you know, the n Civil Tournament's
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  Speaker 2: seating a lot conference standings. I mean, we don't like
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  Speaker 2: we're very processed driven, but we're also we're very goal oriented.
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, you know, we talk about why why
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  Speaker 2: these games are important. And for last year, we knew
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  Speaker 2: it was worth pushing for to get that number one
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  Speaker 2: overall seed, that going Brooklyn to Boston the Phoenix was
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  Speaker 2: just set up perfectly for us. So we pushed so
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  Speaker 2: hard for it every game. And it's not easy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: go eighteen and two in the league. But we lost
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  Speaker 2: in the first around the tournament as a seventh seed,
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  Speaker 2: and then we lost in the first round of the
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  Speaker 2: tournament as a five seed, and then we won it
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  Speaker 2: as a four seed and a one. So higher seeds
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  Speaker 2: are better. Yeah, no, Corse, it's easier to win a tournament.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you play worse teams the first game, and.
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  Speaker 1: You know there's a reason they have those numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what you fight for every game, you know it helps.
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  Speaker 1: This team last well, getting back to the last six
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  Speaker 1: national champions, they all got bounced in the first and
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  Speaker 1: second round. That's another indication of how much momentum you
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  Speaker 1: had over these last two seasons, because it ain't easy
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  Speaker 1: to go back and do what you just did the
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  Speaker 1: year before and six different champs went down in the
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  Speaker 1: first and second round. Be prior to your team.
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  Speaker 2: Sex seven NBA players, you know, and then Joey and
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  Speaker 2: Nahim and some very valuable bench players. You know, Like
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  Speaker 2: we lost nine like awesome guys from two from two
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  Speaker 2: different teams. But like bringing can men, it probably helped
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  Speaker 2: us a little bit that we did lose some people
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  Speaker 2: because then we did have some people that didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a championship, like Cam. Cam had never even played in
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  Speaker 2: the n LA tournament. So you know, it was and
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  Speaker 2: we and you know, we all love Cam so much
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  Speaker 2: that you know, you're you're like thinking a lot about
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  Speaker 2: like we got to get one for Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we knew Staph was going to be just a one
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  Speaker 2: year player, and those guys were so awesome. It's like
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  Speaker 2: we got to make sure we win one with these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Getting back to the roster, we started talking about, well, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: caravans so important. You talk about Samson Hassandi are he's
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  Speaker 1: a grad guy now and and he finished strong for
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  Speaker 1: you last year, and he's a defensive presence. I call
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  Speaker 1: him the junkyard dog. Maybe you call him that. It's
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  Speaker 1: something about that guy that you just want him on
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  Speaker 1: your team. You want to be a teammate of him.
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  Speaker 2: The hard playing guy. And you know, just the work
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  Speaker 2: he put in between year one and year two. You know,
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  Speaker 2: by the end of year one he was you know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of still in the notation but not having as
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  Speaker 2: big a role as we thought. You know, he could
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  Speaker 2: have went portal or he could have just not worked
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  Speaker 2: on his game. But then that summer he really worked
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  Speaker 2: on his game. His past year, I mean, he saved
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  Speaker 2: our he saved our butt a lot games at the
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  Speaker 2: Garden Games, in the Encela Tournament. You know, Hossp played
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  Speaker 2: great for us, but he's got to you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: got to take a big jump. And some of it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a little bit by numbers, but it's
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  Speaker 2: got to be more by example and you know, just
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  Speaker 2: more as a leader and just you know, like playing
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  Speaker 2: the way that we need him to play. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna have a lot of talent around him.
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  Speaker 1: And he's he's a been there, done that guy. Now
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  Speaker 1: him and Caravan Amson got two rings. I just think
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  Speaker 1: that experience has got to be invaluable. Now they have
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  Speaker 1: to communicate to maybe the the young guys. Liam McNeely,
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  Speaker 1: that's just coming to say, Abraham mod No weel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they need that. I mean I'd be if I
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  Speaker 2: was one of them, I'd be walking around the locker
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  Speaker 2: room like, you know, here we go guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not the most easy thing. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: you have to step into that to that role, that's
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  Speaker 2: like it's a big it's a big adjustment. You know.
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  Speaker 2: We need that from them, you know, because there are
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  Speaker 2: guys that want to be led. The sophomores. I think
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  Speaker 2: they want to be led and we need it to
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  Speaker 2: be has Alex and Sammy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hold that thought on the sophomores. We got
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  Speaker 1: to talk about them because they're developing right now. Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hurley's with us the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaching Show live
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  Speaker 1: in studio on lear Field