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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Or back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coach You show Mike Crispino
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  here at Xavier on Sunday eleven thirty, pre game twelve o'clock, the opening
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  tip, second game against the Musketeers. Let's talk some specifics, Dan about
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  about players. I mean, at Villanova, just a Newton, cool hand
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  Newton I call him. I mean, the dude came up with what the
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  goods when you really needed him, a twenty five point night when scoring was
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  at a premium. I know he hasn't been shooting it in conference play all
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  that well, but I still trust the guy when he puts it up there.
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  What about you, Yeah, I mean he uh just look at look
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  at uh you know, the year and a half that he's been here and
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  uh, everything that we've been able to accomplish as a program. He's got
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  a chance to, uh, you know, if he locks in here and
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  stays fully engaged and and gets lost in the offense a little bit more and
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  and and and and and really tries to lead with more uh more urgency,
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  and he's got a chance to, uh, you know, state the claim
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  to uh you know, one of the greatest two year runs uh you know,
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  the players had here in terms of what he's positioned to do at this
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  particular juncture. So uh you know he uh you know, he hasn't shot
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  it well, he hasn't shot it efficiently. You know, some players,
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  uh you know, I think their value goes beyond the numbers and the efficiency.
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  It's uh you know, he does uh you know, I think we're
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  just in uh you know, could sometimes get himself into trouble is when he
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  uh you know, when he maybe thinks score too much and and doesn't focus
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  on doing the all around things. I mean, he's a guy with the
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  size at the point guard position that can really fill a statue. But on
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  a night where where Alex and Cam didn't have their best night scoring, you
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  know, that's where it's uh, you know, the to have three guys
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  and now with Donovan back, four guys that can get you, you know,
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  twenty plus at any given night. That's a that's a that's a big
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  help. Yeah, no, no doubt. That's how you get to eighty
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  often assist a turn turnover ratio is very good with him and the team as
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  well. I mean, you're one of the best teams in the country assists
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  I think fifteenth in the country at eighteen, I think byos By us the
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  best of that and and that efficiency adds up to efficiency, doesn't it?
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  On offense? Your tenth in the country. I believe that fifty seven percent
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  effective offensive efficiency? Is that a number that you like to see? I
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  mean, obviously it's it's working. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,
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  we we we're trying to play you know, team offense, and we
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  want our guys to you know, to to move and screen and cut and
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  keep the ball moving and put pressure on the paint and you know, and
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  gets as close a twos as we can get to the rim and as in
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  as many good threes as we can get, and we obviously want to get
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  to the foul line. But you know, I think you know, the
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  the uh, you know, the improvement and the evolution of our offensive approach
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  is uh has changed. It's changed the type of players we recruit. Uh,
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  it's changed. Uh. You know the failure you know of past teams
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  and you know, the shortcomings that we had offensively, both from a skill
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  standpoint the scheme standpoint, it's caused us going to a different direction. And
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  uh, you know, we've been one of the best offensive offensive teams in
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  the country when when you can't when you add in our ability to offensive rebound
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  as well. Yeah, talking about free throws for a second. In the
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  Villa and Over game, I mean you outscored them at the line. Now
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  they're the best free throw shooting team in the country. You go eighteen for
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  twenty four, they go fourteen of seventeen, as Cam Spencer Tristan Newton go
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  thirteen for fourteen. Uh. Does it come down a lot of times in
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  these really close, grind it out games that you've got to get to the
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  foul line, you've got to make some free throws. Yeah, you definitely
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  got to make free throws in the close games. And you know, you
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  look at some of the close games that we've lost over the years, the
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  more excruciating ones. The COVID Creighton game at home. You know where Book
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  went off. You know, I think he had forty in that game.
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  But we you know, we missed critical you know, front ends of the
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  one and one. You know, when a team fouls you at the end
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  of the game, you know, and you're shooting one and ones, you're
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  effectively in a way the other team, you know, in a way is
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  no longer playing the game because you know, maybe thirty nine minutes and twenty
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  seconds in, there's some level of you know, we've defeated them to that
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  point in terms of there's not enough time left on the clock. So the
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  only way to give it back, you know, is to miss. He
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  throws turned the ball over, versus pressure, give up threes, whatever it
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  is. But you know, we won the Villanova game with stops. We
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  we won it with stops. We won it with free throw shooting. Uh,
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  got to ask you this one. This I was talking to Jim Spinarkle
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  for the pregame at Villanova. He was doing the game for Fox Sports.
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  I just threw it out there. What's the more important stat? Defensive efficiency
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  or three point offense? Now he landed on the side of defense. A
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  guy like him who did nothing but shoot at Duke, that's all he did.
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  But now he's talking about defensive stats. That's what he loves. Yeah,
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  I'm curious where you fall on that thing. Yeah, I'm just listen.
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  You gotta have a Yeah, obviously there's got to be some balance there.
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  I don't think that you could be if you ask me, you know,
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  would I'd rather have a slightly better offensive team than defensive team in today's
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  game. Yeah, I would definitely, you know, I would want the
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  better offensive team and then the defensive team. Uh. But you know you've
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  got to be uh you know, you got to be top twenty in both.
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  You got to be top twenty five in both have a chance to win
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  anything. Well, you khn't has Xavier coming up then Providence at home.
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  So you got two home games in a row here, h Excel versus Gamble,
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  two different venues. You've been able to take care of business in both.
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  What do you expect that crowd is going to be like on Sunday?
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  I've been hearing like it's a really hard ticket to get obviously, and people
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  are scrambling they want to see this team play Xavier for a second time this
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  year. What do you expect? Yeah, I don't. I don't know
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  that you necessarily have an expectation. I just talk about what we need,
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  you know, and we need, you know. Wells Fargo was you know,
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  in terms of size and it being you know, an arena that's away
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  from campus, and but their shooting students showed up and they were they were
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  loud, and they were you know, they weren't. You know, they
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  weren't necessarily like nasty and you know, drunk as hell and cursing up a
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  storm. But they they what's that? They were not nice to me.
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  They were not nice to me on the way out. You know, if
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  you're gonna yell at me on the way in, uh, pre game halftime
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  and then back out for the second half and then I beat you and you're
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  still there, you may hear something from me on the way out, especially
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  if you're leaning over the rail and you're screaming at me. So but you
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  know, Excel Center, we need it rocking. I mean we can't,
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  you know, we we need them into it, like uh, you know,
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  like a crazy fan base, you know, not just kind of going
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  and like watching the game and then if we play well, we get into
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  it. I mean, that place when it's on fire is uh is as
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  good as there is in college. And uh, you know that's how you
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  win, you know that, that's how you win your home games, not
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  by you know, we never get into Exel Center, Like we don't get
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  an opportunity to practice in there, We don't get an opportunity to shoot in
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  there. We don't you know, we don't have this huge, comfortable playing
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  environment like Gample where we're practicing in there all the time. So you know,
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  so how do how has that become a major home court fortress for us
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  by the fans being out of their minds from the tip? All right,
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  Coach Dan Hurley with us, and we'll be back with more of the U
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  com Men's Basketball Coaches Show Onlearfield.