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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Oct 22 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Hi, We're back the iHeart Music Lounge here in Hartford,
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  Speaker 1: headquarters for the Yukon Sports that were Dan Hurley with us.
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday Night final tune up for a coach Hurling and
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  Speaker 1: the Huskies. They'll host Michigan State Downtown. People's Bank Arena
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  Speaker 1: been refurbished. At broadcast coverage, it's seven hard art countdown,
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  Speaker 1: a tip off, and then Way Norman joins me. Game
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  Speaker 1: broadcasts seven thirty Yukon Sports Network coach. Let's talk just
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  Speaker 1: one big picture question here. You know, the last few
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  Speaker 1: years it's been different in terms of building teams.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of coaches left the game.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want to deal with the various parts of
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  Speaker 1: NIL and you know, paying players et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: So they they just didn't want to bother with it.
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  Speaker 1: And some coaches even today are saying, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to recruit freshman. I'm not going to do that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get guys from other teams that are developed already.
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  Speaker 1: You have not gone and totally in that direction. Can
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  Speaker 1: you tell us why?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I just.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you don't want it to be like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like a like a G League team. I mean you
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  Speaker 3: you I think all of us myself, you know, Kamani Luke,
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  Speaker 3: the players that we bring in, I mean, they're in it.
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  Speaker 3: He asked for for championships and to give them the
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  Speaker 3: best chance to to get to the NBA or you know,
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  Speaker 3: play at the highest level of a professional ball get
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  Speaker 3: a great education at a world class university. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: people are you know, we're we're we're about the relationships
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  Speaker 3: and we're about like, you know, coaching a guy for
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  Speaker 3: you know, years and watching that young man develop, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a player, as a person, as a thinker, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and just being a part of that process is uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's just special. I mean, that's what That's
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  Speaker 3: what gives you a sense of purpose, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: just as coaches like if and again I fell into
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  Speaker 3: this last year where like you know, in a conversation
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  Speaker 3: with Gino helped a lot, just trying to get recentered,
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  Speaker 3: where if like if the only thing you're in it
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  Speaker 3: for is to win a national championship, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: just championships and team and you forget about that relationship,
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  Speaker 3: you forget about that sense of purpose where you're helping
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  Speaker 3: raise and develop young men. You know, it becomes an
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  Speaker 3: an empty exercise for you, and you're rarely going to
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  Speaker 3: be happy because you you you can't win it every
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  Speaker 3: year or close to it unless unless your geno. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like it's just you know, on the men's side, it's
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  Speaker 3: just it's it's it's not a realistic thing unless you
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  Speaker 3: you know, I guess maybe you know coach would yeah
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  Speaker 3: right and stay one and every year that was in
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  Speaker 3: the seventies and players stayed for I mean if I
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  Speaker 3: had Clinging and Steph for four years, wow, three or four,
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  Speaker 3: if they had to stay for three years, it probably
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  Speaker 3: could have won.
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  Speaker 2: We would have won last year, I think.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, different, it was different obviously. So you you're
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  Speaker 1: not afraid to mix and match with a roster. Bring
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  Speaker 1: freshmen in a couple of transfers. We're gonna start talking
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  Speaker 1: about the personnel now, but let's go to the freshman first.
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  Speaker 1: When you are looking at a kid to come to
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  Speaker 1: Yukon play for you, what kind of qualities stand out
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  Speaker 1: for you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would say the other thing too, is like
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  Speaker 3: we all hate uncertainty, Like uncertainty is the worst most
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  Speaker 3: people just it drives you crazy. You know, most people
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  Speaker 3: would rather see tell me what's the challenge, like what
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  Speaker 3: am I dealing with right now? Like rather than uncertainty
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  Speaker 3: and for me, like when a season ends, if I've
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  Speaker 3: got to recruit a whole new roster. And that's kind
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  Speaker 3: of what sent me into a tailspin as soon as
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  Speaker 3: this past season was over, where you know, I gave
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  Speaker 3: some consideration to taking a gap year, maybe just getting
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  Speaker 3: out of the profession, was because of that uncertainty that
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  Speaker 3: was surrounding the roster.
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  Speaker 2: It just I did not like that.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, know one that you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: a group of players on a yearly basis that believe
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  Speaker 3: in what you're doing, are not looking at it totally transactionally,
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  Speaker 3: and just believe in the organization and what you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to do and care about it the way Solo Ball did,
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  Speaker 3: the way Jalen Stewart did, the way Jayden Ross did.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of what brought me back with my heart
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  Speaker 3: as a coach. But that uncertainty thing sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no question about it.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of the guys who went out in the
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  Speaker 1: portal and you picked up Malachi Smith, guy we saw
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  Speaker 1: with Dayton.
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  Speaker 2: He's a pain in the butt, he tells me.
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  Speaker 3: He reminds me like about that game too, And I
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  Speaker 3: try to remind him it was like a seventh place game.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't play in the final four, Like that was
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  Speaker 3: a it was a crap game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was a getaway.
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  Speaker 3: He has I guess he has bragging rights, but I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's not like they went on to an awesome
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  Speaker 3: season after that.
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  Speaker 2: No, So I remind him of that. Good good Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: put them in his place. He's a player. Yeah, well
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  Speaker 2: what kind of guy is he?
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  Speaker 1: Because we got a chance to see him against Boston
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  Speaker 1: College of the Day at the Mohegan Sun and already
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  Speaker 1: I can see the guy that gets under people's skin in.
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  Speaker 2: A good way. Yeah, the impact player.
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  Speaker 3: Just a awesome energy guy, makes plays both ends of
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  Speaker 3: the court. You know, it's got that Brooklyn you know,
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  Speaker 3: Bronx type of New York you know, kind of swagger
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  Speaker 3: and confidence and joyfulness. So he's got this great personality
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room. He's fun to be around. He
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  Speaker 3: makes plays all over the court. You know, you could
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  Speaker 3: play him with Silas because Silas has got pretty good size,
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  Speaker 3: you know, any and he could run your team for you.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's a you know, I think that we're in
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  Speaker 3: a good spot at that position.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've done what you needed to do kind
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  Speaker 1: of reload in the backcourt a little bit with Silas memory, right,
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  Speaker 1: and Malachi Smith and whatever other guys you have solo obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but Silas is a bigger version or maybe a similar
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  Speaker 1: version to Tristan Newton you've said.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, you're never at the same position,
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  Speaker 3: So whether it's center or or point guard on the wing,
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to get people that'll compliment each other and
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  Speaker 3: have different skills. So with with Silas, just you're kind
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  Speaker 3: of getting us back to where we've got a bigger
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  Speaker 3: point guard, you know, a bigger point guard that's defensive.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's that that's excellent defensively to help us.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one of the you know, the biggest issue
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  Speaker 3: with last year's team was was just how bad we
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  Speaker 3: were defensively relatively speaking. And then but he's got size,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's a he's a ball hawk on defense,
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  Speaker 3: Silas he uh, you know, with the way that we
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  Speaker 3: the way that we put our guards in position offensively,
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  Speaker 3: they're in the paint a lot with the hell we
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  Speaker 3: run our offense. So you just need a taller guard
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  Speaker 3: to be able to throw throw those lot passes to
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  Speaker 3: our centers that are rolling, and to be able to
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  Speaker 3: find those windows to throw the ball through to our
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  Speaker 3: three point shooters, or be able to finish the rim
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  Speaker 3: the way Tristan was because he's got good size. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if you're sometimes just those smaller guards. Last year we
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  Speaker 3: were like really small at point guard, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: those guys they get they get swallowed up when they
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  Speaker 3: get in the paint. They have a hard time finishing
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  Speaker 3: at the rim. So, you know, Silas has been back
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  Speaker 3: now for probably it's had about five practices coming back
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  Speaker 3: from the calf, and you know, it's been it's been
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  Speaker 3: good to see him out there.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, it's it's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to bring an element that we haven't had
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  Speaker 3: since the twenty fourteen all
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  Speaker 1: Right with Dan Hurley as the Yukon men's basketball coaches show,
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  Speaker 1: we're back in a moment on lear Field,