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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Oct 28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Keeps you in line. That's not an easy thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, coach's wife job tough.
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  Speaker 1: That's a hard job.
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  Speaker 2: Coach's wife job.
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  Speaker 1: You don't sign up for some of the stuff you
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  Speaker 1: got to do right, And I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's just just when it's going, you know. For me,
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  Speaker 2: it's different. I grew up in Jersey City. My dad
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  Speaker 2: was a coach, my brother. I mean just I grew
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  Speaker 2: up in this like crazy competitive household, blue collar city.
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  Speaker 2: And but my wife is not from the sports world,
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  Speaker 2: like she doesn't understand why we all care so much.
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  Speaker 2: She does, so that perspective is good for me though.
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  Speaker 2: If I came home and she wanted to say, like, Yo,
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  Speaker 2: you should have played zone or you know, why don't
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  Speaker 2: you play Useff Moore? I mean, she has favorite players
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  Speaker 2: that she has, but she keeps it under keeps a
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  Speaker 2: lid on it. But it's good for me though, because
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  Speaker 2: I can't go home and talk about it anymore. I
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  Speaker 2: just by the time I get home, I need to
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  Speaker 2: just relax because I'm like a fuck nuclear trenobol. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to get are we on the air soon?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: We're back?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're back. We're having a casual conversation. We are
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  Speaker 1: back with Danhurly.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we're sorry where we were.
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  Speaker 1: But talking about relaxing is you were just sort of
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  Speaker 1: going through that. You know, you're one hundred miles an hour,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sunrise, sunset and basketball all about that. What
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  Speaker 1: do you do to relax when you get home?
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  Speaker 2: What can you do?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do to kind of go okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: leaving that back there for a few hours.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard enough to stop thinking about it, though, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, really it's a challenge, is because you know,
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  Speaker 2: you were all pretty obsessed with it, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the only way to do it, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's hard enough to think about it. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: think about it, you know, in the shower, you know,
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  Speaker 2: before you go to bed, or while you're doing something else.
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  Speaker 2: Just how people are playing upcoming games, if you've got
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  Speaker 2: recruits making decisions. I mean, it's just not something if
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  Speaker 2: you do this job casually, like you're not gonna win
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  Speaker 2: a lot and you're just gonna it's just gonna be torture.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be torture for you and the fans, your family.
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  Speaker 1: So speaking of recruiting. You've been on the road and
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  Speaker 1: talking to a lot of people and bringing better and
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  Speaker 1: better players to Yukon. Has it gotten easier in any
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  Speaker 1: way since winning? I'm thinking it does, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know better.
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  Speaker 2: I think moving forward from this past season, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: think we probably got as much after the first championship.
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  Speaker 2: We definitely had more interest by by better players, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, we had just it was our first one,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, we had Jordan, we had Hawk
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  Speaker 2: in the draft, Andre went early second, Admica was a
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  Speaker 2: two white player. But then you win it again and
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  Speaker 2: you're thirty seven and three and now you've got Steph
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  Speaker 2: going four, Donovan going seven, you know, Team New and
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  Speaker 2: Cam we could we would have had five players draft
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  Speaker 2: that after back to back. So if you're if you're
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  Speaker 2: a top player, we should be at the top of
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  Speaker 2: your list, you know you would think we should be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, the game has changed a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think our timing with Nil becoming more important.
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  Speaker 2: If this was like pre Nil where we're at as
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  Speaker 2: a program right now, we would I mean every kid
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  Speaker 2: would want to come to Yukon. Yeah, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I still think that we're able. We're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: able to get the people that fit us. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not always a player, it's ranked fifth or seventh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, well that's I think Yukon fans appreciate. They
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  Speaker 1: they love the game of basketball. Obviously they love to
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  Speaker 1: watch this team play. The last couple of years, it's
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  Speaker 1: just been beautiful basketball. But they also loved the kind
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  Speaker 1: of characters a character you bring to the table yourself,
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  Speaker 1: but also the players. I mean you talk to these
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  Speaker 1: players and and you know, buy and large, they're pretty
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  Speaker 1: smart dudes, and they know what they're doing, and they're
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  Speaker 1: well coached and disciplined, all less stuff. It all adds up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, these guys they make a really they
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  Speaker 2: make an exceptional incredible commitment to it. I mean, think
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  Speaker 2: about Donovan and Steph were picked that high and they
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  Speaker 2: they were fourth and fifth on the shot on the
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  Speaker 2: on the team and field goal attempts. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: like they were fourth and fifth on the team in
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  Speaker 2: points per game, but they were just about just had
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  Speaker 2: these guys that were obviously the NBA level talent, but
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  Speaker 2: just they want to win. You know, they're really they're
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  Speaker 2: about Yukon. They want to really win. They're there. They
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  Speaker 2: also want to get to the NBA, but they're not.
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  Speaker 2: They're actually putting Yukon ahead of that, which is rare.
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  Speaker 2: I think, so, but we're yeah, I mean, we wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: want to come play for us right now? I think
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  Speaker 2: are are What makes it fun is obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the one and done guys like Steph or when
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  Speaker 2: you get a cam spencer for a one year portal
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  Speaker 2: and it's just perfect, It's it's awesome. I think Liam
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  Speaker 2: when he gets healthy, could do some of that. But then,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, it's so much fun. Like Jayden Ross
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  Speaker 2: is right now, he's like trending super super high level,
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  Speaker 2: like really where we're looking at each other and saying
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  Speaker 2: this is happening for him right now, Like this guy
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  Speaker 2: looks like the next big time player. Those are fun
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  Speaker 2: because he was not highly recruited. He was not I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he was in the top hunter and thirty
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. But you may watch him this winter just
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  Speaker 2: like take off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah who is this guy?
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  Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? Like where did this? And that is what's
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  Speaker 2: I think cool about the way that we do it,
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  Speaker 2: where you know, when when I'm when we're not taking
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  Speaker 2: a million players from the portal. We're not trying to
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  Speaker 2: buy our team when an I l we we don't
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  Speaker 2: want it to be reason why we don't have talented players,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't want it to be the driver.
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  Speaker 1: Aiden Mahoney at mohegan a few weeks ago. There. First
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  Speaker 1: time we saw him in uniform and a game competing.
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  Speaker 1: We saw him in Saint Mary's obviously in the tournament
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. He was impressive. To me,
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  Speaker 1: he's a feisty dude. I liked him. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: he looks like he's going to fit in. He looks
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  Speaker 1: like he's got some of that that grit that you like.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, he looks like he, I want to say,
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  Speaker 1: fit fits in that that cam spencer you know mode.
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  Speaker 1: But but he was pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he uh, I mean the lights. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: played better under the lights. I mean, it's a guy
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  Speaker 2: that scored a thousand points in uh in two years
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  Speaker 2: at Saint Mary's, obviously a very reputable top twenty program
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  Speaker 2: in the country. So he Yeah, he's got the track record.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we need him to play on the ball,
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  Speaker 2: probably more than he played there, and you know that
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  Speaker 2: he's transitioning to and getting better at because that's where
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  Speaker 2: we need him to be. You know, it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we want to stay as tall as we can at guard.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's a big part of our success the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years was we've had big guards. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, t Nu was six y four plus, Cam
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  Speaker 2: was six three plus and strong, and Steph was six
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  Speaker 2: to six. Andre Jackson was six to seven. You know,
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  Speaker 2: so we we it's hard to play both Has and
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  Speaker 2: Aiden together. We will be able to do it at times,
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  Speaker 2: but like the emergence of some of these other bigger
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  Speaker 2: wing guys is going to be critical. But we need
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  Speaker 2: him to be able to play on the ball a lot.
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  Speaker 2: That would get us to our highest ceiling if he
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  Speaker 2: got comfortable there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Terris Reid came from Michigan. Six ' ten guy a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years of Michigan, has some pretty impressive performances there.
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  Speaker 1: First happened at uri game. He was kind of feeling
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  Speaker 1: his way through it. That's being kind.
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  Speaker 2: You stumbled sort of thing. Would did you.
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  Speaker 1: Say something to him at half time? Did you say
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  Speaker 1: anything to him at half time?
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  Speaker 2: Not after that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you were talking to him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's tough, I mean it's tough for any of
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  Speaker 2: these guys. It's even me. I'm probably been tougher on
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  Speaker 2: the team because of the last team I saw play
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  Speaker 2: in April. They played so well, and then we're starting
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  Speaker 2: over with a team that's just starting, not the end
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  Speaker 2: product of that other team. So it's like that's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. You know. Then the thing that sucks about
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  Speaker 2: practice is it's like you're coaching offense and defense because
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  Speaker 2: you have ten of your players on the court, Whereas
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  Speaker 2: it actually gets easier to coach the games because you're
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  Speaker 2: either on offense or defense. So like right now in
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  Speaker 2: practice today, if somebody did something good on offense, I'm
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  Speaker 2: pissed at the defense. You know. If somebody got a rebound,
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  Speaker 2: somebody didn't get the rebound.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so like you're somebody screwed up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're just you're so, you're But Tarris has got
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  Speaker 2: great talent. He just uh, we got to coach him
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  Speaker 2: into the identity that will allow him to be like
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  Speaker 2: really efficient. You know, he shot a little bit over
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent from the field at Michigan. He should shoot
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  Speaker 2: sixty seven percent from the field. You know, Like he
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't turn the ball over the way he did there.
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  Speaker 2: He should he should be a dominant player around the paint,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what we need because Samson's going to be
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  Speaker 2: awesome in what he does for us. But having the
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  Speaker 2: two centers, and I'm not that concerned about them right now.
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  Speaker 2: I think that those guys statically are going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do their job at their position. I think
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  Speaker 2: they'll get between them like eighteen points and ten or
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  Speaker 2: eleven rebounds, and they'll do it together. We've had great
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  Speaker 2: tandems there, so I think they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a great formula, all right, Dan Hurley
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  Speaker 1: with us you con men's basketball coach yourself back to
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  Speaker 1: back from Learpo