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Seg 5 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Oct 28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Powered back with Dan Hurley. We're live in our studios
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  Speaker 1: here in the Duncan Music Lounge in Hartford. iHeart Headquarters.
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  Speaker 1: Husky's back to back champions. By the way, your NCAA record,
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  Speaker 1: I was fourteen and four pretty good, pretty good, twelve
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Yeah, I mean didn't start like you wanted.
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  Speaker 2: But no, no, the bubble game, no, I'll still you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were I take responsibility for that one, but that
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  Speaker 2: was a different type of situation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on Wayne Norman and I had to sit right
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  Speaker 1: here are you in the bubble right? Yeah, we were stuck.
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  Speaker 1: We had to watch you on, like what is going
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  Speaker 1: on here? This is an NCAA tournament game and we
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  Speaker 1: are sitting here in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: That was a bad setup. I wish I would have
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  Speaker 2: when we lost that semi final game to Creighton and
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  Speaker 2: RJ got the concussion, and you know, and then James cramped.
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  Speaker 2: James book Knight had cramps the night before, so he
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  Speaker 2: was useless Scrayton in the semis and then we lost,
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  Speaker 2: and then they made us. They threatened us that if
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  Speaker 2: we left the hotel for like right the next couple
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  Speaker 2: of days, that because we wanted to take the players home,
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  Speaker 2: let them sleep in their own bed, let them you know,
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  Speaker 2: get a little bit. But we went right to the bubble.
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  Speaker 2: We went from bubble to bubble and tom some people
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  Speaker 2: responded better in a situation. Some people ate bubbles. Plus
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  Speaker 2: we couldn't shoot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that was a turning point your coaching career.
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  Speaker 2: I think now we played so much now that game. No, Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because the next year we were tactically better that that
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  Speaker 2: year that you're talking about when we lost to Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: our tactics weren't great and the roster construction, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: have enough shooting, enough passing, enough, you know, people that
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  Speaker 2: could think the game. So then that next year we
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  Speaker 2: started running better stuff, but we hadn't made the roster adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't make the roster adjustments until a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: the players left that one year and everyone was losing
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  Speaker 2: their mind, and we knew that there was going to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot of players leave to the one that
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  Speaker 2: probably surprised us, Corey Floyd. The rest of them, we
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  Speaker 2: probably we knew we were gonna have a chance to
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  Speaker 2: get a lot more shooting, passing, get a couple of
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  Speaker 2: vets to support the young.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, roster retention in the nil era is is that's
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  Speaker 1: a challenge, right, I mean, I thought it was impressive that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Stewart didn't go anywhere, solo ball didn't
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere, Jane Ross didn't go anywhere, and all three
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  Speaker 1: of a freshman you know, I had little glimpses during
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  Speaker 1: the season, but they didn't play that much. They could
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  Speaker 1: have said I'm out of here. They could have you know,
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  Speaker 1: where's the exit, but they didn't do that. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you think that is well?
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  Speaker 2: Because, I mean I think freshman year for us could
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  Speaker 2: be tough. You know, unless you're exceptional, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be really really hard to start for us. But that
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  Speaker 2: but you can do it. We've had freshmen start for
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  Speaker 2: us and then we've had freshmen give us a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you know, just good minutes as freshmen, and then
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  Speaker 2: you try to predict sophomore year they're gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: big jump, you know, like Jordan Hawkins. You know he
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  Speaker 2: had that even though you know he didn't finish the
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  Speaker 2: year and he was up and down as a freshman.
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  Speaker 2: He had that eighteen point game against Auburn in the
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  Speaker 2: Bahamas where people are like, whoa this guy could be
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  Speaker 2: a monster someday. And Solo did that for us last
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  Speaker 2: year VSUS Carolina the Garden. You know, Jalen Stewart did
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  Speaker 2: it for us in the Biggiest Tournament. He helped us
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  Speaker 2: win it, and he played really well there, and so
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  Speaker 2: he had his moments and then I think we you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get Obviously Jayden Ross were high on
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  Speaker 2: j Ross is like he's like a rocket ship right now.
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  Speaker 1: He did he get a haircut. He had the craziest hair.
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  Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, I mean we've been, I've been. I've been
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  Speaker 2: common with Kamani. I don't think it that his hair
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  Speaker 2: makes him look like the toughest.
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  Speaker 1: So it's an image thing. What's that it's an image
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  Speaker 1: thing with.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, listen, he's exactly what we
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  Speaker 2: need right now. He's like six seven, He's like flying
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  Speaker 2: around the court. You know, he's shooting threes, he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to get every offensive rebound, he's attacking the rim, he's
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  Speaker 2: just trying to play defense, disrupting. I mean, he's a
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  Speaker 2: you know, he looks really good right now. So I
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  Speaker 2: mean we're high on what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So low ball last year started ten games because
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  Speaker 1: Steph Castle was injured, and he did a nice job,
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  Speaker 1: he really did. You mentioned the game he had I
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  Speaker 1: think in the Garden. Yeah, I guess against North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: We saw him in Mohegan. He looks like he might
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  Speaker 1: be ready to take the next step. Is that Is
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  Speaker 1: that accurate?
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of bets on that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're betting heavy. He could do it. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: banking it. He could do it. And you know we
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  Speaker 2: saw a lot of it in practice. You saw a
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  Speaker 2: couple of it and some big games, Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: Carolina game, he played well at the Garden beginning a
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  Speaker 2: big East play. You know it just our first seven
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  Speaker 2: last year was so hard to crack that lineup, and
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  Speaker 2: as a freshman with that type of team, and and
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  Speaker 2: but he had some big games for us. Like he's
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  Speaker 2: shooting is reel, his scoring is real. He's clueless on defense,
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  Speaker 2: like like bad awareness. But I think it's gonna get better.
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  Speaker 2: It's just gonna it's gonna hurt us at times, but
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  Speaker 2: then he's gonna play his way of it. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if he was getting thirteen a
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  Speaker 2: game or more and shooting pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Which coach is in charge of solo balls, defensive development?
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  Speaker 1: Is there?
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  Speaker 2: Why yell at all those guys? I mean, Luke recruited him,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll yell at him, and you're blaming Kamani coaches
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  Speaker 2: him and Luke recruited him.
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  Speaker 1: We got a question out there. What we got is
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  Speaker 1: Ken with a question for coach.
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  Speaker 2: Coach you talked about the Big East being tough. Other
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  Speaker 2: than you kN who do you see as the top
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  Speaker 2: Big East teams coming into the season besides everyone? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I heard some other. I don't spend a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of time thinking about it now. I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: about it because it's about to start. But I think
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  Speaker 2: I think the bottom of the league is going to
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  Speaker 2: be much better. I think like Haltman and ed are
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  Speaker 2: gonna raise those levels considerably, and and Butler too with
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  Speaker 2: that mode. I mean, these guys are so they're some
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  Speaker 2: of the best coaches, and I mean I think Xavier
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  Speaker 2: is a dark horse obviously with uh but they got
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  Speaker 2: people have to stay healthy for them that you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they've had horrible health luck. Creighton Marquette, Saint John's
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  Speaker 2: has got like a really old roster, good roster.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Dan Hurley was quick break time out. We'd
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  Speaker 1: come back for the final segment live in our Duncan
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  Speaker 1: Music lounge here in iHeart Headquarters in Hartford. I'm lear Field.