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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 18 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Well with shift gears from covering women's basketball. The first
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  Speaker 1: hour or two talking with Dan Hurley and yukon men's
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  Speaker 1: basketball as we get set for the final two weeks
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  Speaker 1: of the month of November that starts on Tuesday for
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  Speaker 1: the Huskies against East Texas A and M. But Dan
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  Speaker 1: last couple of games or three games into the season
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  Speaker 1: three to zero, ninety two, ninety and ninety points offensively,
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  Speaker 1: but getting there's been a little interesting the first three games.
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  Speaker 1: The progression and some of the good things you saw
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  Speaker 1: coming up last Wednesday in the win over La Mooine.
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  Speaker 1: After a bit of a slow start, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: you guys are starting to get into a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just think, Bob, we're.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're we've got so many new players and
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  Speaker 3: we're relying on a number of younger players.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think going into.
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  Speaker 3: The year, you know, in this kind of really great
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  Speaker 3: stretch that we've had, Yeah, the last two years, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've we we've we've lost so many really
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  Speaker 3: important players that, uh, you know, this is a group
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna obviously have to improve a lot over the
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  Speaker 3: course of the entire season. I don't know that we'll
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  Speaker 3: ever get to a point where we're like a maintenance
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  Speaker 3: phase where we're just you know, I just think that
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  Speaker 3: we're we're a team that is so new and and
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  Speaker 3: and is young in a lot of key spots and
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  Speaker 3: uh just gonna be a work in progress and just
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  Speaker 3: gonna have probably have to have a higher level of
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  Speaker 3: patients than you know that I that I had, particularly
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  Speaker 3: last year when we had such an older, veteran, well
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  Speaker 3: rounded team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you see differently on Wednesday? Dan? Offensively? Again,
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  Speaker 1: it was a bit of a slow start, miss some
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  Speaker 1: open threes, good looks, they just didn't fall. But what
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  Speaker 1: did you see differently, say offensively or even big picture
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  Speaker 1: from when from Wednesday's game to what you saw against
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think well, number one, I think a positive
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  Speaker 3: thing was we stuck to the script of the type
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  Speaker 3: of shots we wanted. And it was our first game
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of years, or it's the first game
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  Speaker 3: that we've had since we really dived in on on
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  Speaker 3: on on the analytics of the type of shots we
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  Speaker 3: want to shoot, and we actually avoided taking any mid
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  Speaker 3: range shots the entire game, so we literally took uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, took threes and and deep paint twos and
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  Speaker 3: free throws, which is where we want to be.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously we you know, we're high assists.
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  Speaker 3: I think twenty four assists to seventernals, which is obviously
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  Speaker 3: always a positive number. And I thought that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to start the game, we we got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: good looks at threes.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, a lot of them just kind of
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  Speaker 2: rimmed out on us.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, it just looked more cohesive on offense and
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  Speaker 3: uh and more efficient. Obviously the level of competition is
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  Speaker 3: going to arise significantly. But this game, this type of
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  Speaker 3: schedule I think is important, you know, for for for
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  Speaker 3: this team. I think this team needed, uh an early
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  Speaker 3: season schedule like this because we've got obviously a lot.
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  Speaker 1: To work on, right in one more game with the
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M and then then you get some
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  Speaker 1: toughies going out in MAUI. What about defensively coming in?
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  Speaker 1: Lemoine runs a lot of good stuff. They had piled
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  Speaker 1: up a lot of points per game in the eighty
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  Speaker 1: eight points per game in their first couple of games,
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  Speaker 1: holding the thirty five shooting the stuff that they ran.
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  Speaker 1: Were you surprised at all when how well that things
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  Speaker 1: went defensively for your team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, when we watched their game
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  Speaker 3: versus Syracuse and and uh, you know, they're they're up eight,
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  Speaker 3: uh you know, midway through the second half and and
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  Speaker 3: have a chance to tie the game in the last possession.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're you're you're looking at the game and
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  Speaker 3: and uh yeah, and obviously it uh you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was a little scary putting up eighty four points in
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  Speaker 3: the Dome or what have you or whatever they ended
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  Speaker 3: up with. But yeah, that they're you know, they're a
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  Speaker 3: good offensive team.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think our defense has probably you know, been
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  Speaker 3: better than I thought it would be at this point,
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  Speaker 3: even though obviously we're not playing the best teams on
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  Speaker 3: our schedule. But I think I've been encouraged, you know,
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  Speaker 3: by being in the right spots and just the attention
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  Speaker 3: to detail that the group takes. Obviously, Kamani and Luke
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  Speaker 3: do a great job with the scouts, and I think
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  Speaker 3: the preparation, you know, we're not disrespectful of our opponents,
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  Speaker 3: like we prepare for Lemoyne and New Hampshire same way
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  Speaker 3: we prepared for Purdue, And that helps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly does. Alex off to a good start.
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  Speaker 1: He's been super efficient shooting the basketball. He is what
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  Speaker 1: twelve assists or thirteen assists, twelve blocks, I mean his
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  Speaker 1: block effort so far. Yes, I know it's not the
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  Speaker 1: biggest teams you've been playing, but he reminds me a
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  Speaker 1: little bit not being the tallest guy on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: kind of what Page did last year for the women's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's doing it.
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  Speaker 3: And when you know, when he's being attacked in one
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  Speaker 3: on ones, you know he's not you know, he's not
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  Speaker 3: the center at the front of the rim Patrick Ewing
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  Speaker 3: back in the day. You know, like this is like
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's he's switching onto smaller guards. In the past,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Alex uh you know, has had you know,
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  Speaker 3: some trouble kind of keeping people in front of him.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's keeping people in front of him and you know,
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  Speaker 3: contesting their shot or blocking their shot.
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  Speaker 2: He's just winning a lot of one on one battles.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know he's you know, for what Alex
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  Speaker 3: lacks with maybe off the chart athletic ability, he does
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  Speaker 3: have length and obviously he's got a basketball brain thatworks overdrive,
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  Speaker 3: so he's able to anticipate, uh, and react quicker than
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  Speaker 3: most human beings.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, did you sense that IQ when he first stepped
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  Speaker 1: on campus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think watching him play and that he wasn't
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  Speaker 3: always the type of player.
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  Speaker 2: We went for.
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  Speaker 3: I think, uh yeah, I think players like Alex I
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  Speaker 3: would have maybe looked for more athleticism or a little
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  Speaker 3: more sizzle with the maybe creativity or something with the basketball.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Alex was not a player that I generally
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  Speaker 3: had recruited over the course of my career, but I
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  Speaker 3: think we started to see a major need, especially as
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  Speaker 3: like a positionless three four four three type of player
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  Speaker 3: that could be a hub of your offense, a stretch
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  Speaker 3: a stretch player, a mismatched player, and somebody that well
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  Speaker 3: we knew we had to change our offense after those
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  Speaker 3: first round flameouts in the instant A tournament. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the way that you get better on offenses recruiting, you
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  Speaker 3: know guys that are really good offensive players, that are
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  Speaker 3: smart and work tirelessly on their game.
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  Speaker 1: What about his leadership.
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  Speaker 3: Getting better, Bob, And it's surprising and I think gets
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'd say, when he got on campus, one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that we were talking internally about is
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  Speaker 3: he was so introverted when he got here to a
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  Speaker 3: painful point where we were wondering if he would be
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  Speaker 3: able to keep it together on game night or whether,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whether he was had some type of quietness
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  Speaker 3: to him that was a little bit scary when we
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  Speaker 3: let the people into the building on game night. But
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  Speaker 3: Alex has got this alter ego where he is this
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  Speaker 3: kind of really quiet, laid back guy. But then when
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  Speaker 3: the game starts, he's got an alter ego that he
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  Speaker 3: switches to and his personality changes when he takes the
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  Speaker 3: basketball court.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: More with Dan It's the U con men's Basketball Coaches
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  Speaker 1: Show for a Monday night. More with Dana, just a
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  Speaker 1: moment here on Leirfield