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Seg 6 - MBB Show w Alex Karaban March 12 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Alex Caravan on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. I forgot
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  to ask Dan Hurley this, so I'm gonna ask you in prominence. The
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  other night, things weren't going real well. Early Dan lost his mind a
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  little bit and he got a technical foul. It turned out the team went
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  crazy after that and outscored Providence like forty to nine. Did that technical foul
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  have anything to do with it? That's my question. I didn't get it
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  from Dan, I'm getting it from you. I definitely think so. I
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  definitely think that God has gone and really just slit the fire inside of us
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  because we weren't ready to We we were ready to play, but we didn't
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  expect the punches that they threw, and just we didn't respond well to the
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  punches that they were throwing at us in the beginning. So I think the
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  fire definitely lit inside of us when he got the technical. And then you
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  know, after the technical, he huddled us up and you know, he
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  said, he says some stuff that God is going and really just you know,
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  express his anger and passion. So yeah, I think the technical really
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  turned everything around. Yeah, I said on a broadcast, I don't think
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  there's a more passionate guy a coach on the planet. I don't even care.
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  I'm not the state, not the region, not the country. I
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  think the planet, there's nobody more passionate than Dan Hurley. I agree with
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  you, no one on that. Okay, we agree on that. No
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  one cares to him, Nobody, nobody, nobody in my mind. Anyway,
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  let's talk about a couple of your teammates here and then, I mean
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  Newton and Spencer getting out on the first team for the All Big East,
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  clinging on the honorable mention. I thought you should have at least been there,
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  maybe the first team itself. How do you deal with that personally?
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  How are you going to take that? Now? You know, the coaches
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  didn't vote enough for you, and I hate it. I'm totally against it.
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  I'm up in arms coaches too, What about you? Yeah, I
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  say probably the first hour too, I saw the teams. I was definitely
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  frustrated just from you know, at a standpoint, just you know, put
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  a lot of energy into the season. I thought I played well, I
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  played good enough for you know, during the big season. So I was
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  definitely frustrated just from the competitive side of things. But at the same time,
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  I mean, it happened last year, is happening this year again.
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  And you know, I've never cared about personal accomplishments, and I just know
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  I was super happy at first for Tristan, Cam and Donovan, and then
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  of course Hassan with his award today too, So I was happy for them,
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  but frustrating from the competitive side. It's like, all right, like
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  cool, now I got I got another chip on my shoulder, headed into
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  the biggiest torment this weekend. I'm super excited, you know, to release
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  my anger that I had from that. But at the same time, out
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  a million times, I'd rather win rings here that I feel like that,
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  you know, cements your legacy even more. And you know, I've always
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  wanted team accomplishment more. Winning rings is much better than being players Player of
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  the Years. I'd rather do that. Yeah, And everyone knows how valuable
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  those rings are when you get them. And you got one already with the
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  National Championship. Okay, so New York, you got an opener on Thursday
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  at noon. How tough is it gonna be to play a noon game weekday?
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  Because I don't think you do that. You play them on the weekends
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  once all. But now you're gonna play a weekday noon game. This is
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  gonna be different. Yeah, it'll definitely be different, but I think it's
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  really the same as any other new in game. I think I think when
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  we stepped into MSG, we just get a whole different type of energy and
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  just you know, I think the previous games we've been playing at MSG have
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  been cool, but like when the MSG games have happened for the big Eiast
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  tournament, that's just a whole other level, whole other level adrenaline kicks in
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  and just excitement just in general. You just feel the buzz from the city.
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  So I think it really doesn't matter what time we play at noon,
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  midnight, whatever, I think. I think the adrenaline is always going to
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  be there for us and we'll be ready. Yeah, the well putig East
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  in New York. Everyone, you know, I've been in New York my
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  whole life basically professionally, and I know that, and I've been there for
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  a lot of great moments. It is different. Uh It's New York.
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  It's the center of basketball in the world. Really. Uh So playing on
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  that floor and if you had four chances this year, is does that help
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  you because you've got four non conference games in that building. Uh so you're
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  pretty familiar with those Rims going in. No, definitely, I think that's
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  just gonna that's gonna be a little advantage for us, just having been able
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  to play in that arena as well as playing Saint John's there too. I
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  think it definitely can give us a little bit of an advantage just from where
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  it used to the environment where you used to the sounds, the noises,
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  the lighting, all of that, the Rims so and having played there and
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  been successful so far this season it's been I definitely say it's a little bit
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  of an advantage for us. And you will have fans. Don't forget that.
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  A lot of people come to these games. I mean, and I
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  know you guys are aware of it. You get a lot of folks coming
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  the road too, But in New York you got a lot of Yukon fans.
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  How how can that help you? I totally forgot to say that in
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  the previous answer, But yeah, the fans, they're most important for us.
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  I mean, having the fans, the Yukon fan base support us during
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  this huge tournament and just hearing the Yukon chance or in the national anthem and
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  everything that they do. It truly means the world to us, just because
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  we know how important the fans were for us a gamble and excel the season,
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  and for them to be there at MSG, especially in such a huge
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  tournament, it's going to mean the world to us. And we know that
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  they'll show out. We know that they'll pack out New York and I mean,
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  I think that's just the most excited I am when Yukon fans show up
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  to MSG. How do you calm your nerves when you get into games like
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  those? Yeah, as crazy as it sounds, after the experience last year,
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  we just treat it as like any other game. Like we just go
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  in there with you know, the championship pedigree that we have and the cool
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  calmness that we experienced from last year and really implemented because we can't be we
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  can't be too anxious, we can't be too excited, we can't be too
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  nervous because I feel like that just affects our game. We just got to
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  go in there and just you know, player style basketball and do what we've
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  been doing throughout the regular season. I think everything else will click in for
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  you know, the tournament and MARCHMADNS going forward. But I think we have
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  too many guys on this team this year that experienced the biggest stage possible in
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  college basketball. Yeah, tell you what. That's a great answer, Alex.
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  We appreciate you. Thanks so much. Good luck this week in New
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  York. And that wraps up the U COM Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan
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  Hurley and Alex Caravan. I'm Mike Chrispino. Thanks for joining us on lear Field.