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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 11 · Coaches Corner

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  Or back on the Yukon Men's basketball Coaches show hockey team back in action at
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  the XL six forty five tomorrow. Maine is in. They got a really
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  good hockey team and the Huskies will take them on six forty five the pre
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  in. They'll drop the puck at seven. Back with Dan Hurley wrapping up
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  our talk about Xavier and Caravan coming back with ten stitches. I know,
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  James dorn is kind of the jack of all trades over there on that training
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  staff coach, but even he didn't have enough stitch work to stitch up Caravan.
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  How did he get fixed up? Now? I mean, we need
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  Mick. We needed we needed Mick from Rocky. We couldn't. I don't
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  know where he was. He was at the end of the bench. Yeah,
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  I think generally, you know, players come back in with some type
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  of you know, band aid to kind of just get you through the game.
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  But you know, obviously we had you know, Samsung was in foul
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  trouble. You know, Donovan's at least he's out of the booth, but
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  he's not out there and and yeah, and then Alex disappears into the tunnel.
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  So it was, uh, you know, it was Jalen Stewart at
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  the five and you know Steph at the four, and you know, thank
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  God, thank God for the three veteran guards. And you know, it's
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  good to see Stewie in there. Stewie. Uh, you know, our
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  version of Stewie is definitely getting better, becoming more of a factor for us.
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  And you know, to have a six to seven guy that you know
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  that's got some size and athleticism, skill and feel and it's starting to get
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  some confidence. Uh, you know, to be able to win that game
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  with some of the lineups that we had in there, and and and to
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  come out of it, uh, and Donovan getting healthier, I think we'll
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  feel good about where we are. Yeah, Jalen Stewart thirteen minutes at Xavier,
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  I made a bucket, had a couple of rebounds and the stuff that
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  doesn't get on the stat sheet. Dan, you know, he defended pretty
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  well, I thought, I mean he was getting bounced around in area way
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  Xavier plays physically. I thought Stewart stood up pretty well. He did,
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  And and you go back and watch the film, it just like he's he's
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  earning the trust. You know, he's earning more trust from us as the
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  staff. He's earning more trust, you know, for me and and not
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  the most trusting trusting person. You really got to earn it and as you
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  should have to earn it. He uh, you see him on film though,
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  he he looks like he knows what he's doing, you know. He
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  he blew a he blew a switch late in the first half on a ball
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  screen with alavadis that you know, they gave up a three that cost us
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  three points there. But yeah, so he's got to shore up more things.
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  But I think that's a that's a really positive development where it's going for
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  for Jalen Yep and the work of Steph Castle continues to improve. I mean,
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  almost thirty six minutes in that game, six for nine had twelve points,
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  eight assists. You know, it's interesting. I keep tracking these things
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  as a game goes on or calling the game, but I didn't think he
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  had eight assists. But wow, what a big advantage to have a versatile
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  guy like that to can go get six rebounds and then get eight assists as
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  well in a game like that. Yeah, he's yeah, these are very
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  These experiences for him are just so valuable and you know, you could see
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  you know he could handle the physicality of these games. Uh. You know,
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  he's a guy that you know, showing the ability to you know,
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  to create for others and create threes and and opportunities at the rim for the
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  finishers, and you want to see him shoot the ball. I think he
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  passed on uh some rhythm threes he done. You know, he's got good
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  form and good technique and and I think he's a guy that's going to make
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  threes. First arrested away. I thought early in each half there were rhythm
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  threes where he was given cushion that that he's got to step into and shoot
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  earlier in halfs, you know, because he's not the type of guy that
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  should be, you know, shy shooting the ball from the perimeter. Well,
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  that's always good to hear from the coach, don't be shy. Five
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  for nine at Butler for Steph he had nine boards and now one fourteen points.
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  And then he comes back with six for nine at Xavier with the twelve
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  points, and I mentioned the six the six rebounds, but coach, his
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  versatility defending, Wow, what an asset that is for the Huskies. Yeah,
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  we lost, you know, we lost some of that or a lot
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  of that, you know, on the perimeter with Nahim and Andre and even
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  Hawk, you know, became a much better defender and lengthy defenders. And
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  you know, just in constructing this team and getting him back and healthy now
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  and getting him experience, you know, he's got to be the type of
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  guy that that that can be a shutdown defender at six six and physically strong
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  and moves his feet so well, and as his technique and understanding improves and
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  as it just grows up and matures, you know, he's got a chance
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  to be a real difference maker. Yeah, plus eight on the plus minus
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  thing, and Samson Johnson was plus nine coach. I hate to bring this
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  up. You got Georgetown Sunday, any way, to avoid thinking that of
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  that as some kind of a trap game or having a letdown after these two
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  great road winds, you come home, you're riding high. What do you
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  do to get these guys in that mindset that, like Fellas, it ain't
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  going to be easy today. Well, I mean, listen, if that
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  falls on me, falls on me as a leader in terms of the psychology
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  and motivational peace and the culture and what we're trying to accomplish, you know,
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  with this team, we're not anywhere near what we're what we're trying to
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  accomplish and what's important to us in terms of our focus and our goals.
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  So our goals are so far far away from us, they're months away.
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  So there's nothing to feel too great about. I mean, we we we've
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  earned the confidence that we have right now, and we need our fans.
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  I mean we we need uh. I mean, you know, we're heading
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  to Hartford, We're heading to the Excel. We've played in some incredible venues
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  recently in terms of the road crowds that we've faced, and we've got to
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  have like a sold out crowd that is like is ready from the anthem and
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  is foemen at the mouth and there is an intense environment and then it's behind
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  us from the start and gets us to play at a higher level and rattles
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  Georgetown. I mean, we we need to have the you know, just
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  a crazy home court advantage on Sunday because you are battling some human nature things
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  and to talk about number one rankings and all this stuff, you know,
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  and and we want to we want to be different. We want to show
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  just the difference and in who we are as a program that we will all
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  come out flat, but we also need the building to be absolutely rocking,
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  like an incredible home court advantage. Yeah, nothing like having the crowd behind
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  you. You haven't had that the last couple of games, but overcame it
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  to get to this point. You can now a record of fourteen and two,
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  and we appreciate Dan and Hurley and we'll see you a Sunday, coach.
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  Let's go get him, keep it going. It's fun to win.
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  That's better, so much better. All right, that's so much Yeah,
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  winning Trump's everything as far as I know. Ye. I will be back
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  with more of the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show Onlearfield