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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 2 · Coaches Corner

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  Let's get pumped up. It's time for Yukon basketball. And we have Dan
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  Hurley, the head coach, with us in studio. We're here at the
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  Duncan Music Lounge at iHeart Headquarters. It's hard to keep the crowd down when
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  you show up. I've noticed this year. This year, we're gonna talk
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  about this year. We're gonna talk about last year a little bit. We
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  have Dan Hurley for the hour with us. We've got a live studio audience.
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  We'll get a few questions from them, we'll have a we'll have some
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  you know, giveaways and things like that between the commercial breaks. So everybody
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  hang tough. We're gonna coach talk to a coach early about everything. Big
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  East NCAA Bob Knight just passed away, so that that was a real loss
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  for the coaching fraternity. Let's start the coach back where you were last year
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  in the spring in Houston, Confetti pouring down. Have you ever experienced anything
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  like that in your life? Anything? I mean just the wedding day.
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  But there wasn't that much confetti was What's that? It wasn't that much confetti
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  was It was just the feeling of elation? Yeah? Right, Andrea wherever
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  you are, she's I don't know if she's listening, but it'll get back
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  to her. By the way, she was a pretty good co star down
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  there in Houston. She took on everything and then anybody who didn't respect yukon
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  basketball. I liked that. Yeah, I mean listen that that was just
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  that whole the relief from winning the Iona game. I think like every win
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  after that just you know, just kept feeling better and better. And then
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  that was the most you know, nervous I probably was for any game the
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  whole season. Was the Miami was the San Diego State game, because like
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  we knew we had the best team, you know, we had blown through
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  the tournament, and the pressure to like not lose that game because that sucked
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  if we would have lost the you know, that national championship game after dominating
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  a tournament like that. Yeah, And usually you talk to coaches who've been
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  through that tournament many times, there's always one game. I think PJ.
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  Carlissimo said this to me in a pregame interview one day. He said,
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  there's always one game. It can knock you off the railings and it could
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  be over for you. Maybe you don't play, well, maybe the other
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  team has a super game that didn't happen, except when San Diego State got
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  within five late in that game. I'm calling the game obviously, so I
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  can't think too much, but I'm just thinking, oh, my goodness,
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  five points. I mean, anything could happen. Yeah, I mean,
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  we just we went into those games. Really for a majority of the year,
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  we were like one of the best offenses in the country, and then
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  we were the best offensive rebounding team in the country, and we made threes,
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  like we could post you up, and our defense was elite and you
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  know, and we were a great rebounding team, and we got a great
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  culture, and we had great leadership. We were just efficient everywhere. So
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  we went into those games just you know, knowing that we were going to
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  control how the game was going to go. We really and the preparation is
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  great. I got great coaching staff, So everything just felt really automatic at
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  that time of a year. And that's hard to say because you've been doing
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  this for a bunch of years now. There's really no automatics. Well,
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  sometimes your team, like I've had, like you know, teams that weren't
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  as good offensively didn't have maybe the shooting or different components, or maybe the
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  design wasn't great. It's it's a lot more stressful when you suck on offense.
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  Yeah, I can't say, but that's been the trademark of your teams.
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  I mean, going back, I know Wagner was listening to that,
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  but Roady, I mean, when you guys were good, you were lighting
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  it up and running up and down the court. It was exciting basketball.
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  Now you're doing that here at Yukon. So when you go out and look
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  for players to play for your teams, are you looking for those kind of
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  guys? And how hard is it to find people who can play like that?
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  It was the the New Mexico State game, Like losing that game and
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  just and then how we lost big games that year just offensively, we didn't
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  have enough shooting. It's like we hadn't really adapted all the way to the
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  modern game. At the offensive end, our culture was air tight. Our
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  guys played elite defense. Uh, you know, we played together at a
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  high level like you could now we could. You could tell when you watch
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  us play, you watch how our bench reacts like we're very connected and cult
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  like more than we're team like. We all think the same, We all
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  talked the same, We're completely dialed into each other. But for me as
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  a head coach too, you know, to become an elite head coach,
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  I had to you know, look look myself in the mirror and and change
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  some things offensively that we were doing personnel wise and the scheme that we were
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  running. And we worked, you know, so hard on that and it
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  definitely paid dividends. Dan Hurley with US Yukon head basketball coach, national champ
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  Mike Crispino with him, I remember you said something a year ago in the
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  locker room, not for publication, not for broadcasts at the time, but
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  you say, we got to get into the portal. We got to find
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  some grown up guys, because we're playing against guys that are grown ups in
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  their mid twenty some of them, and it's hard to compete against that kind
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  of physicality. And you were able to do that last year and putting your
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  roster together. Yeah, it's just we knew we had a Dama and Jordan
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  and Andre and that they were all entering close to their prime together. You
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  know, Jordan flashed as freshman year. Andre you know, it was just
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  such an incredible, unique player and then a Dama. They're all in their
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  prime, and we knew we had Donnava, we knew we had Alex But
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  yeah, I mean I just felt with where we were at as a program,
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  if we were going to become second weekend Final four National championship caliber,
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  like we needed to go into portal like like literally as quickly as we can.
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  And after we got back from Buffalo and we knew we needed shooting,
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  I think it was more even less so about like bringing veterans, but just
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  shooting guys that could process the game on offense. And then the type of
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  personalities that when March hits, they're not gonna shrink when when the lights get
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  bright, you know, like Joey California, he had a lot of swag,
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  you know, and Naheim. You know, he made big shots of
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  Virginia Tech when he played there. So and we knew we were kind of
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  our first round game was going to be the most pressure back game of any
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  of our coaching lives or playing. There was nothing that touched the pressure going
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  into that Iona game. Yeah, losing twice in the first round, you
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  mentioned it a number of times. That hurts. I mean, I know
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  you were you were in pain there and until you get over the hump,
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  and then you got Rick Patino who's got iona going, and then they get
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  the lead at halftime. Uh, they played well in that first half,
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  but what happened at halftime there, because you obviously had to get in there
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  and say, fellas, it ain't happening again here today. Yeah, for
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  you guys too. I don't I take responsibility for the bubble Maryland game loss,
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  but not as much as the New Mexico State you were there for that.
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  That was crazy, that bubble. I know, it's like low accountability.
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  Everyone's like so quiet. It wasn't his fault, epic. I don't
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  know what you're going to say next, No like that get like to me.
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  There were two different situations that that year. Was it was tough and
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  some teams didn't handle the bubble, and Book was you know, Book was
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  never really got back to full strength with the elbow. But that New Mexico
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  State thing, I mean, if there's a game you think about more over,
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  probably wasn't a day that went by that we didn't think about that loss.
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  And me and Kamani just started talking even last summer about like what the
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  pressure going into that first game was going to feel like, like, you
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  know, start mentally preparing for that, and and we I thought it was
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  a great draw. Though they played fast, they pressed, the court was
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  going to be open. It was you don't want to play teams that play
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  slow, slow tempo, real discipline system, matchup zone. The first half,
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  the way they were playing was just not a sustainable thing. And we
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  were playing very well, so I thought we and we would have scored a
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  hundred, We would have scored one hundred a couple of times, but we
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  blew everybody out so well, then you had to face Saint Mary's. We're
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  gonna go to commercial break, we're gonna get back talk a little bit about
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  that. And I mean, you played some good teams. Come on,
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  Miami, they were the hottest team in that tournament, I thought. And
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  Gonzaga their history, phenomenal history in Arkansas. I mean, they're on the
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  rise right the last couple of years. All that coming up. We'll continue
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  with the Dan Hurley as we bring you the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show hereon leave here