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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Alex Karaban Feb 13 · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for Dan Hurley's crew second meeting of the season with DePaul that comes
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  on Wednesday night at the wind Trust Arena. Our covers beginning with a hard
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  auto group count down a tip at eight thirty. Here, along the Yukon
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  Sports Network, the barsitat Network App, and thevarsitat Network dot Com, we're
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  joined now in the Coaches Show by Alex Caravan, the red shirt sophomore forward
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  for the Huskies, coming off a big day against Georgetown, a mattinee game
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  where he had twenty five points. Let me tell you, let me ask
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  you about this first. I don't think I've ever asked you this daytime matinee
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  games versus you're gonna go to Chicago and you're gonna play at eight o'clock at
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  night, Which do you prefer? I prefer the day times. I'm a
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  morning person, so once I'm up, I'm going like I'm ready to go,
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  and at night I go to bed early. So the Lake games they
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  get tough for me. I'm not gonna lie, so it's tough waiting all
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  day for a game. So I definitely prefer the early ones. Yeah,
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  A lot of people say that, So what's your morning routine on a matinee
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  game where they up at twelve o'clock. How early are you up? And
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  about what's your breakfast thing? And then and what's your first physical thing that
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  you do getting ready for a game. Yeah, I'll wake up around seven
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  forty and I'll just top in the shower real quick, just to wake myself
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  up, and then I'll go to the meal room and grab breakfast, and
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  then I'll go straight to James to do rehab or you know, stuff just
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  to get ready, and then I'm really in there for pretty much the entire
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  time until the bus has to leave, Get taped for my ankles, do
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  some stem work, everything really, and then get to the arena and I
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  try to change onto my stuff as fast as possible, get my shoes on
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  asquak as possible, and just get out there and do form shots. That's
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  the first time you're really shooting all day, so try to get extra shots
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  up before we start doing our scheduled routine that we normally do. So really
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  just try to be out there as quick as possible. Yeah, James Doran,
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  you're talking about the trainer does it does a great job with you guys?
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  So you didn't get to shoot around in the Capitol One Arena because it's
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  a matinee game. I don't think you went there at night when you got
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  there, right, No, we didn't. Yeah, so normally the team
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  does that, They try to go to the arena at night when they arrive
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  and get some shooting in, maybe get a morning shoot around if it's a
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  night game. But you didn't get that in this game. So what were
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  you thinking as you prepared for this game knowing that you really hadn't had a
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  chance to shoot in that arena for over a year. Yeah, we felt
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  thought positively. We knew that. I mean it was it's where the Washington
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  Wizards place. So we've had plenty of games so far this season where we've
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  played in large arenas and larger venues, whether that was in Seattle or MSG,
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  you know NBA like arenas, So we felt comfortable already from the jump.
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  But then you know, at the same time, the hoops are still
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  ten feet same length as a course, so like, you know, you
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  just got to go out there and play and you know, not worry so
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  much about how the shots going, but just continue to play it to the
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  Yukon identity and the crowd was. There were a lot of Yukon fans there
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  talking Dan earlier about this U. You know, Georgetown hadn't drawn that well
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  or having a rough season, but man, there was like it seemed like
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  thousands of Yukon fans in that arena and the other guys arena in Washington.
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  It's always nice when the national anthem plays and you hear that YU concient and
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  felt extra special for that to happen in someone else's arena. So, you
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  know, it's special to play for a program where the fans travel and the
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  fans really care about each other, you know, whether we're in a completely
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  different state outside of New England. So yeah, I'd say it was you
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  know, super mens a lot for US players. I'd say, yeah,
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  getting off to a good start matters on the road. You guys been doing
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  that several times this year. I mean Villanova a big start, other games
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  that you've had where you had great starts. What is the key to that?
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  How does that actually happen? It's happened a number of times this year.
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  Yeah. The coaches always talking about being the aggressors, especially on the
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  road and the Big East, Big East environments. You got to be the
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  aggressors. You got to be the ones to punch first. You know,
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  when you play on the road, there's a lot of pressure on the home
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  team to protect home court and to you know, win a home game in
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  the Big East, which are super valuable. So being the aggressor's punching first
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  and really setting the tone on how we want to play. I think that's
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  the most important thing on the road. Yep. And it's been working,
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  that's for sure. All right, Alex Caraban will this he is back in
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  a minute. We'll continue our coverage of Yukon basketball and the Yukon Men's Basketball
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  Coaches Show.