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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Oct 22 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: The hour back the iHeart Music clowns here in Hartford.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley with US yukon basketball, the subject we're getting
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  Speaker 1: through the roster.
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  Speaker 2: I did mention in the break there Jacob Purfy. Uh
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  Speaker 2: he comes from Tasmania. I looked it up. It's an
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  Speaker 2: island that is part of Australia. I did not know that.
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  Speaker 2: So why did you find a guy like that? Because
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  Speaker 2: now we're going international here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So Luke Luke is you know, Luke does a
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  Speaker 3: lot of international and Luke has a pretty trusted uh
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  Speaker 3: you know scout that he uh, that he believes in
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  Speaker 3: that gave him a heads up on Furf. Just felt
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  Speaker 3: like he was a fit for the way we played
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  Speaker 3: and that he said. I mean, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: stories anytime you deal with Tom Moore and Luke Murray,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of he said, he said or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So the story is that I guess that Luke sent
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  Speaker 3: Tom to see him and Tom said he sucked.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, now, and.
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  Speaker 3: But the kid played great when Tom was there, and
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  Speaker 3: Luke had the video of it. Oh really, So he
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  Speaker 3: said basically, hey, Tom, you know I got the video
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  Speaker 3: of this. What what are you talking about? This kid
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  Speaker 3: just had twenty some points, eight assists, seven rebounds, three steals.
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  Speaker 3: I was the best player in the event. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: oh the end, No, I did it. I liked him
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  Speaker 3: so so you just to look at the video and
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  Speaker 3: what's that?
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  Speaker 4: So you looked at the film. No, so Luke saw
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  Speaker 4: the video.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think that, like Tom's initial evaluation was like
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  Speaker 3: he's a no go, and then Luke didn't let it
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  Speaker 3: just die there. This is the story as I understand it,
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  Speaker 3: relative too to Luke. Right, Tom Moore, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: have his own story about it. But then we brought
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  Speaker 3: him in on a visit and you watch more film
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  Speaker 3: and then you know, ended up loving him on the visit.
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  Speaker 3: Just buy into the human being. You spend time around
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  Speaker 3: the human being. Yeah, and you're just you're blown away
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  Speaker 3: by the kid because he's just he's got great makeup,
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  Speaker 3: he's smart, kind of carries himself like an adult, and
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  Speaker 3: he's like, you know, he's like a young Cam Spencer.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably what Cam looked like when Cam was like
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  Speaker 3: a sophomore maybe junior at Loyola Maryland.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and look what he turned out to be
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  Speaker 2: and he turned out good. Yeah, the Grizzlies kind of
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  Speaker 2: liked him. They gave him two years, yeah, a nice,
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  Speaker 2: nice paycheck.
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  Speaker 4: And then that's you know again they just who wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: want someone like that?
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  Speaker 2: And you in your organization, right, all right, the guy's
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  Speaker 2: coming back. Well, first of all, I want to mention
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  Speaker 2: two guys. Dwayne Coromo came out of iona Alec Millander
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  Speaker 2: IU in Indy. They played something against Boston College. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they were like, I don't want to use the word service.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's a bad word, but they look like they
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  Speaker 2: can play. Now we could play them. I mean they
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  Speaker 2: could you know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, these guys have been awesome and they're veterans. I
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  Speaker 3: mean Dwayne actually, if you look at Dwayne stats in
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  Speaker 3: high major games last year like at Notre Dame, at
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  Speaker 3: Syracuse and then the game against Yukon, like he average
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  Speaker 3: probably like seventeen points, you know, seven or eight rebounds,
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  Speaker 3: couple of steels hanging on, you know, dunking, playing above
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  Speaker 3: the rim. So yeah, I mean as a third center
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  Speaker 3: and a guy that we could play a movement complement
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  Speaker 3: to the seven footer and then you know the like
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  Speaker 3: the big physical, you know guy, the taris is just
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  Speaker 3: having a third again, different skill sets, different abilities, a
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  Speaker 3: different type of center gives your team a different look
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  Speaker 3: at times. And Alec, Yeah, I mean that Alec is
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  Speaker 3: a good player. You know, he's he's gonna put pressure
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  Speaker 3: on people to play well to keep him off the court.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I know he once to get into broadcasting,
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  Speaker 3: but I think he's got like future coach written all over.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you like guys who can push people right on
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  Speaker 2: your own roster. That's helpful because your practice, you know,
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  Speaker 2: three four times a week, you want guys pushing other guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean your whole organization should be people pushing
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  Speaker 3: each other. The staff should be pushing each other to
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  Speaker 3: be better. The players should be pushing each other to
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  Speaker 3: get better. I'm doing a lot of pushing, not physically,
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  Speaker 3: not pushing. Well, no, no, just Andrew because he's still
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  Speaker 3: still he's still pushing him around. Huh.
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  Speaker 2: The guys that came back, which I was a little surprised,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta admit, Jayden Ross, Jalen Stewart, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: played kind of minimal minutes but some meaningful minutes last
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  Speaker 2: year and they came back strong. It looks like, so
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  Speaker 2: what went on there? How much did you have to say?
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  Speaker 2: You know, convince them and how much was going on
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  Speaker 2: before they came back.
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  Speaker 3: I mean with with with Jalen Solo zero, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like neither guy. Yeah, I mean, I would say with
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the players, there were conversations, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there were obviously Alex had to go through his draft process,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then obviously you're then having conversations with
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  Speaker 3: you know, with Jayden Ross and Taris Reid, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of talking about what you envisioned because you know,
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  Speaker 3: one guy was a backup center, you know, and the
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  Speaker 3: other guy, you know, Jade Ross didn't play as much
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  Speaker 3: as I thought he would or as much as as
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  Speaker 3: he hoped for, But we didn't want to lose you know,
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  Speaker 3: either player. We felt like, you know, Taris, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with another summer work and another preseason with with his
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  Speaker 3: level of efficiency, if we could you know, double his
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  Speaker 3: you know, if we can get him to thirty minutes
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  Speaker 3: a game, he could be an All American level center.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, with Jayden Ross, it's just if
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  Speaker 3: you see the things that go on in practice, NBA
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  Speaker 3: scouts in the preseason last year thinking, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: our best NBA prospect because you know, the things he's
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  Speaker 3: able to do athletically at his size. You know, for him,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about trying to take from the practice floor
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  Speaker 3: onto the court and be able to perform under the
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  Speaker 3: bright lights.
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  Speaker 4: You know, so most of you know, what Jay Ross is.
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  Speaker 3: The only way is like, you know, mental confidence, because
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  Speaker 3: this guy's got you know, he's got a draft pick
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  Speaker 3: level talent that he's just got to be able to
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  Speaker 3: take onto game night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Alex Caravan our favorite obviously two rings fourth year,
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  Speaker 2: you know, tried the NBA thing out having him back,
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  Speaker 2: that's got to be huge.
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  Speaker 4: What I think what.
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  Speaker 3: Helped Alex a lot mentally was you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: the NBA is he could only help himself by coming
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  Speaker 3: back and playing this last year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he did.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Alex wasn't you know, insulated with what he
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  Speaker 3: had around him in twenty three and twenty four, and
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have his you know, his his finest season,
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  Speaker 3: but it absolutely had zero impact on his draft stock.
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  Speaker 3: He still would have gone late twenties and would not
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  Speaker 3: have gotten past thirty five. So I think hearing that
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  Speaker 3: from NBA teams during the draft process kind of in
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  Speaker 3: his mind said, like, you know, I wasn't anywhere near
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  Speaker 3: what I'm capable of or my best. So there is
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  Speaker 3: a lot of upside to coming back, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: he can play his way into becoming, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: first round pick, and he has a way of play.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a chance to play his.
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  Speaker 3: Way into being you know, the you know, the biggest
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  Speaker 3: winner in college basketball in sixty years on the men's side,
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  Speaker 3: like of any player that's played since those UCLA teams,
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  Speaker 3: the guys on the team when they're you know, when
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  Speaker 3: the group is healthy and everything around him is in place,
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  Speaker 3: Like he got a chance to win three national championships
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  Speaker 3: out of four years.
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  Speaker 4: He could say, you know, I'm the most.
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  Speaker 3: Decorated college basketball player in sixty years. Like that's what
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  Speaker 3: that kid is coming back to school for now. You
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  Speaker 3: won't see that a lot because he's not dancing around
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  Speaker 3: on TikTok, you know, and painting his nails and trying
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  Speaker 3: to just get attention. You know, he's just he's a
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  Speaker 3: he's a ballplayer. You know, he's just he's you know,
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  Speaker 3: he gets a three nine and computer engineering. He's like
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  Speaker 3: a triple major. He graduated three years ago, three years
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  Speaker 3: you know, the guy's just about it's just about all
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  Speaker 3: the right things, and obviously the culture of sports now
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  Speaker 3: is different. We celebrate athletes that want to be celebrities
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  Speaker 3: and influencers, and he's a breath of fresh air because
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, I think fans at some point
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  Speaker 3: are going to get tired of that and want it
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  Speaker 3: back the way it was when players weren't as complicated
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  Speaker 3: and they were just about winning championships for their fans
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  Speaker 3: and their team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's the kind of guy that you look at and
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  Speaker 2: you say, man, I wish he was on our team
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  Speaker 2: if he's not on your team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard Coolly yesterday at the Big East Big
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  Speaker 3: East Media Day was yelling at him, I'll give you
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  Speaker 3: a million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: To not play this year. So cool, he's crazy. All right,
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  Speaker 4: we'll be back. We got to talk solo ball. We
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  Speaker 4: got a few other things to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley's here on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show
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  Speaker 1: from lear Field.