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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley March 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Huskies go
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  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee take on Marquette noontime game, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be on the River one O five nine that
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  Speaker 1: day on radio, So tune in for it with us
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  Speaker 1: a couple of quick notes to finish up on the
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  Speaker 1: on the games. We just saw Saint John's holding them
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  Speaker 1: to forty points. Dan. That really got the nation's attention again.
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  Speaker 1: It looked to me like all those talking heads that
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  Speaker 1: had Yukon seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth best team in
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  Speaker 1: the country rethought their theories after that one. Am I
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  Speaker 1: accurate with that?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the talking heads, they just they talk after
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  Speaker 3: every game, right, So it's like, you know, throughout the year,
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  Speaker 3: you just you've got to be able to try that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, turn off a lot of the external I
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  Speaker 3: mean I get home at night, I put on my
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  Speaker 3: I put YouTube TV on and I kind of like
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  Speaker 3: watch the stuff that I like to watch and let
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  Speaker 3: my brain rest. That's like, you know, Cincinnati Bengals and
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  Speaker 3: doing the draft and free agency, you know, Kansas City
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  Speaker 3: Royal spring training.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe maybe you know what's going on in
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  Speaker 2: the world. News Independent News you know, so things like that.
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  Speaker 3: I try to avoid listening to the talking heads because
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  Speaker 3: they're just they're first of all, they're they're wrong so
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  Speaker 3: much because they're not because they don't know anything. It's
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  Speaker 3: because they're they're in a situation where they're constantly commenting
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  Speaker 3: on things that they probably aren't experts in.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that just puts them in a tough spot.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's it's uh, you know, for us,
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  Speaker 3: we were able to not turn the ball over, you know,
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  Speaker 3: bring a top ten defense, uh and do the job
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  Speaker 3: on the backboard. And I think we made some adjustments
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  Speaker 3: to the first uh you know, game plan, particularly defensively
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  Speaker 3: that I think we went into the first game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with with with a with a worse plan than we
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  Speaker 3: did the second time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna mention Dylan Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: Uh he he kind of was a catalyst early in
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  Speaker 1: that game at the Garden, but held to no points
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  Speaker 1: in the second game. So what changed there for you
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  Speaker 1: defensively because that guy was a major factor in New York.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know, things like, you know, everything
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  Speaker 3: went wrong for them, everything went right for us. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like they're just you know, they they had a bad night.
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  Speaker 3: We had a we had a pretty good night because
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  Speaker 3: we didn't even shoot well. I mean we shot and
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  Speaker 3: we had a lot of open shots. I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: missed a bunch of open threes that like I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean we we had.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we probably should have scored in the eighties
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  Speaker 3: in that game with the with the looks we had
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  Speaker 3: from three. So I would say that we did a
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  Speaker 3: better job of a pickup point with him, Like I know,
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  Speaker 3: he's obviously he's not a shooter. He's a guy that
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  Speaker 3: wants to drive it, slash cut. And I thought we
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  Speaker 3: did a much better job of like fronting him around
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  Speaker 3: the basket, not letting him get catches. And then like
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  Speaker 3: sometimes sort of guy that you know, again isn't a
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  Speaker 3: good shooter. You have a tendance see Tom back off
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  Speaker 3: so much that you know, by the time you know it,
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  Speaker 3: he's at the rim because you've just continued to back
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  Speaker 3: up because you've got this he's not a shooter. So
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  Speaker 3: our pickup point was better. We kept him off the glass,
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  Speaker 3: we kept him from cutting us. And then again, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, they know they had one of those nights
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  Speaker 3: because it wasn't like we were lights out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like we didn't even have a good shooting night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, had a good defensive day though they went over
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  Speaker 1: twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: That one got everyone attention.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think have you ever been around in a
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  Speaker 1: game where someone your opponent went over twenty four or
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  Speaker 1: you were.
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  Speaker 3: A team I would say when you're like, well, even
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  Speaker 3: going back to that Illinois game with that thirty ozho run,
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  Speaker 3: you don't know, you like, you don't realize what's going
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  Speaker 3: on until after the game when people ask you about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like, I know, you know you felt like
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  Speaker 3: they were Yeah, they were missing a lot of shots,
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  Speaker 3: and but you have no idea that the what that
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  Speaker 3: looked like for them until really the press conference. I
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  Speaker 3: don't even think that any of the coaches said anything
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room in the post game, Hey, you
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  Speaker 3: realize they missed, you know, the last twenty four shots.
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  Speaker 3: So you just you're not aware of it. You know
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  Speaker 3: that they're struggling to score, you just don't know to
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  Speaker 3: what extent.
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  Speaker 1: Right, One final note on the bench and Eric Raber too,
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  Speaker 1: he bounced back against Seaton all he helped you some
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  Speaker 1: in the minutes he played. And you know Malachi Smith
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  Speaker 1: is I think sparks some things for you. And of
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  Speaker 1: course Jayden Ross I I'm really impressed with him. He
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  Speaker 1: comes in, he gets his fifteen to twenty minutes, he
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  Speaker 1: does stuff. And Jaln Stewart hasn't been able to play
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  Speaker 1: these last two games. Can you address that? Will he
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  Speaker 1: be able to get back on the floor do you
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  Speaker 1: think for Markeditt or beyond?
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  Speaker 3: Well, if he doesn't have setbacks, I mean he's got
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  Speaker 3: a real shot for the weekend to just progress through
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  Speaker 3: the week if as long as we don't have setbacks,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll keep our fingers crossed, they'll say a prayer
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  Speaker 3: for that. But yeah, I mean we need the bench.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the bench. I mean I'm you know, I
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  Speaker 3: I again, it's this, you know, we come out of
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  Speaker 3: the Villanova game, and I you know, I think leadership
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times is is taking the blame for
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  Speaker 3: things maybe when you're not necessarily believing that what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: So I coming out of the Villanova.
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  Speaker 3: Game, you know, I throw myself, uh you know to that, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I've got to play and trust the bench more. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, like when you're at this time of year
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  Speaker 3: where you're playing for championships, you know, when the guys
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  Speaker 3: off the bench come into the game. You know, they
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you're Eric, you know you've got to
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  Speaker 3: be you know, good in ball screen defense. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you've got to be able to rebound both backboards and
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  Speaker 3: then obviously due to things that come natural to him
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  Speaker 3: on offense. You know, Malachi as a you know guy
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  Speaker 3: that we need to be as good as Asandi Art
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  Speaker 3: was as a junior. You know, he's got to come
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  Speaker 3: through and and and and make plays while he's on
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  Speaker 3: the court so that uh, you know where you're not
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  Speaker 3: kind of squirming as a coach and looking do we
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  Speaker 3: get Silas back? You know, I mean, I think Malachi
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  Speaker 3: is so important as we come into march here. But
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  Speaker 3: like when you go in the game and you come
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  Speaker 3: in off the bench, you can't go defensive mistake, turn
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  Speaker 3: the ball over, mistake on defense when you're coming off
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  Speaker 3: the bench. It's just a life of a bench player,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So we need these guys to come in,
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  Speaker 3: you know, make a positive impact like they did against
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  Speaker 3: Villanova or like they did against Saint John's a couple
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  Speaker 3: of these guys so that we could play them more. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's important, but if you come in, But if you
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  Speaker 3: come in the game off the bench, and you start
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  Speaker 3: playing bad and having a negative effect on the team,
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  Speaker 3: you're probably not going to stay in the court that long.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then Mike, then it makes you a
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  Speaker 3: little bit nervous about going to them in the next situation,
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  Speaker 3: unless there's a foul situation. So you know that that's
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  Speaker 3: the that's the part about being a bench player that
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  Speaker 3: you got to you got to bring it when you
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  Speaker 3: get in there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it takes a certain mentality. And no question.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of things you said recently, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see if you could maybe not explain them, but clarify.
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  Speaker 1: You were in one of the huddles, and of course
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  Speaker 1: we you know, we have TV fees and stuff. You
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  Speaker 1: were one of the huddles and you were emphasizing to
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  Speaker 1: your team, don't let your teammates down. And I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: heard that before. You know, if you on on a
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  Speaker 1: in a in a in the battle basically, and it
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  Speaker 1: seemed to strike a chord to me for guys like
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  Speaker 1: Arris Reid.
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  Speaker 4: You know, people who are really.
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  Speaker 1: Responsible guys and and they want to do the best
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  Speaker 1: thing for their teammates they can. But when you're telling them,
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  Speaker 1: don't let your teammate down. Really, I thought was a
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  Speaker 1: good message.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's the best way that players are
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  Speaker 3: going to respond. I mean, I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the relationships that you have with your brothers in that
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  Speaker 3: locker room, those are the people that you're on the
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  Speaker 3: court fighting for, fighting with. I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think the players, you know, you develop a relationship with
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  Speaker 3: your coaches and your coaching staff. But I think that uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the the best teams, they don't want to
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  Speaker 3: let each other down as brothers. They know the work
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  Speaker 3: that they've put in together. They know that you don't
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  Speaker 3: get many chances in life to win championships or to
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  Speaker 3: do special things on a team, and you want to
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  Speaker 3: enjoy those experiences together. And you know, if you're if
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  Speaker 3: you're the weak link for us on defense and or
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  Speaker 3: you're the you know, you're the center that is unfocused
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  Speaker 3: and doesn't protect the rim and doesn't finish, or if
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  Speaker 3: you're the you know, the guard that turns the ball
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  Speaker 3: over and doesn't play defense and doesn't make winning plays,
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  Speaker 3: and you just don't want to be the person that
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  Speaker 3: lets the group down or at least or at least
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  Speaker 3: a human being with a conscience and somebody that's about
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  Speaker 3: the right things, that's a winner. You're not gonna want
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  Speaker 3: to be the one that lets the group down if
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  Speaker 3: you have any heart whatsoever. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 3: what really comes down to for us, is like we've
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  Speaker 3: got guys that you know that that either you know,
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  Speaker 3: whose defense at times have hurt us.
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  Speaker 2: Their focus at times has hurt us.
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  Speaker 3: Their lack of ball security at times has hurt this team,
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  Speaker 3: and it makes us vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the team actually has a high ceiling
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  Speaker 3: and the floor is actually what scares me about this
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  Speaker 3: group because we've proven that we could beat the best teams.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, everyone's talking about how great Florida is this year,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, we beat them earlier in the year.
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  Speaker 3: What scares me the most about this team is actually
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  Speaker 3: the floor because we've shown against you know, opponents that
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  Speaker 3: aren't the best, that we could lose or lose.
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  Speaker 4: Right, anybody could.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to leave you this.
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  Speaker 4: You said the other day, this team has a will
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  Speaker 4: to win. Put that on a T shirt. It's okay
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  Speaker 4: with me.
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  Speaker 3: I like that, Yeah, I mean, I listen, it's for us.
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  Speaker 3: I mean at these games are all tough. There's so
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  Speaker 3: much balance in college basketball, so many good teams, and again,
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  Speaker 3: conference play is tough. Twenty seven to three is really
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  Speaker 3: hard to do. You know, it's hard to do. I
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  Speaker 3: give the team a lot of credit, but you want
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  Speaker 3: to go into this time of year feeling like your bulletproof.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like your defense is elite, your offense is elite,
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  Speaker 3: You're a top rebounding team, you take care of the ball,
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  Speaker 3: your depth is there.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only way that you're sleeping well this time
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  Speaker 2: of year.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we haven't been quite that, but we've
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  Speaker 3: been really good at winning yep.
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  Speaker 1: And there's still time to prove even more winning is
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  Speaker 1: on the way.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks to Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Hurley, Alex Caraban coming up, and just a moment, we'll
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  Speaker 1: check in with Ak and find out where he's at
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  Speaker 1: after Senior Day. All that coming up as we continue
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  Speaker 1: on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan Hurley
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  Speaker 1: on Liarfield