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Seg 3 - MBB Show Jan 2 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: And we're back with Dan Hurley. You've gone Men's Basketball
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show, Mike chris Pino back online here thanks to
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  Speaker 1: Bob Joyce for jumping in.
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  Speaker 2: Coach.
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  Speaker 1: You were talking about Alex Caraban in the previous segment.
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  Speaker 1: Number one in the league in field goal shooting now
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  Speaker 1: over fifty two percent and he plays monster minutes over
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  Speaker 1: thirty three minutes a game. What's different about Alex this
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  Speaker 1: year in terms of his offense? In your mind, he's
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  Speaker 1: shooting it better, he seems more comfortable out there. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he's under a little less pressure, I'm guessing because you
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  Speaker 1: have a deeper team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's got a better team, so he's
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  Speaker 2: just got a lot a lot better support. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's the best player. He's he's you know, he's the
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  Speaker 2: leading player. He's you know, he's the face of his team.
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  Speaker 2: He's you know, he's he's the guy. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think his mindset, you know, being a you know
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  Speaker 2: what he's accomplished in his career at the championship success
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  Speaker 2: he's had, and you know, and then what he went
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  Speaker 2: through last year just not being on a team at
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  Speaker 2: quite that level. I think it's made him tougher. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's it's made him better. I think it gave
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  Speaker 2: him things to work on in the offseason. He's gotten
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  Speaker 2: better driving the ball, he's gotten more efficient shooting the ball.
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  Speaker 2: He's you know, he's a better defensive player, he's you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's better in every way. I think he's always playing, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at an All American level.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, Dan Hurley with us the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show,
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  Speaker 1: Solo Ball had a couple of big days in a
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  Speaker 1: row here. He had a little injury, couldn't play in
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  Speaker 1: one of the games to Paul, But in his last seven, coach,
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  Speaker 1: he's sixteen to forty nine from three, so he's almost
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  Speaker 1: up to thirty three percent in that area in those games.
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  Speaker 1: Are you seeing him getting in the groove that he
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  Speaker 1: was in last year in terms of his distant shooting.
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  Speaker 1: He seems more comfortable here in the last few games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think, you know, as as as Bradlin, well,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, he's too good of a shooter to
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  Speaker 2: kind of be where where he was. Those numbers are
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously going to come up and hopefully they
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  Speaker 2: continue to come up. But I just think with Braylan
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  Speaker 2: with with with Mulley or Munson or bray or whatever
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  Speaker 2: we're calling him these days. As he as he gets
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable offensively and becomes more of an impact player,
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  Speaker 2: just the better that's going to be for Solo and
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  Speaker 2: Alex and Tarris and Silas and and really the whole team.
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  Speaker 2: Just getting better opportunities, you know, allows you to be
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  Speaker 2: more efficient. He's going to get a better quality of shot.
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  Speaker 2: As Braylan becomes more of a threat like he was
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  Speaker 2: the other day, you know, maybe sometimes Solo is going
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  Speaker 2: to get the weaker defender on the perimeter to guard
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  Speaker 2: him as opposed to always getting the defensive stopper. So
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  Speaker 2: I think for Solo just becoming a better defensive player.
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  Speaker 2: We know the shooting is going to come around, but
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  Speaker 2: I think he's showing signs of better defense, better finishing
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  Speaker 2: at the rim, and those things there just as important
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  Speaker 2: as whether he makes the threes or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Braylan Mullins at Xavier six of eleven, five of
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  Speaker 1: ten from three. He is one of those guys every
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  Speaker 1: time he shoots it, you feel like it's going in
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  Speaker 1: every single time. I mean, have you seen a guy
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  Speaker 1: like that in your time coaching?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have your comparison. Yeah, I mean, well, well,
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  Speaker 2: Cam Spencer, you know, he was a good shooter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: still is, and Jordan Hawkins and then you know, just
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  Speaker 2: those two guys here at Yukon, I feel like, uh, now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's he's different. He's got aspects of both
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  Speaker 2: of them, you know, like the potentially the efficiency and
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  Speaker 2: accuracy of Cam with the movement shooting of Jordan, the
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  Speaker 2: ability to do at full speed and from deep range.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean Brayllen, Uh, you know that's a
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  Speaker 2: great development when you start to see him start to understand,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how to use screens in our offense. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and just his ability to go off script and uh
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  Speaker 2: and just take take shots in the flow of just
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  Speaker 2: basketball happening. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He made that baseline jumper there of the shot clock
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  Speaker 1: running down the other day at Xavier. That was that
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  Speaker 1: was outstanding. Seventeen points also at six rebounds. This guy's
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  Speaker 1: tougher than we all think. I don't know for assists.
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  Speaker 1: He's a good passer. You made the point, he's a ballplayer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's watch this guy play. It's going to be fun
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  Speaker 1: to see the next two months with him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's got some physical strength, he's he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't he's got to get better defensively, all young players do.
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  Speaker 2: But he's not a liability for us on defense. He's
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's learning, he cares, you know, he's probably
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  Speaker 2: physically stronger than you think, you know, and he's a
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  Speaker 2: great team guy. You know, he just you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: there's no ego. You know, he's a guy. Obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: showing up and you know potentially is a one and
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  Speaker 2: done lottery pick, but you wouldn't know it by what,
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  Speaker 2: by how he responds to coaching, or his willingness to
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  Speaker 2: just play hard, whether he's getting shots or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you first met him Braylan Mullens and his family,
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  Speaker 1: what was your first take? Because you just don't know sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: but you get a chance to really talk to somebody,
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  Speaker 1: sit down with him. He is like the perfect guy
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  Speaker 1: to be in this program in my mind, because he
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  Speaker 1: does all those things you were just talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Quiet, you know, I probably first he say, man,
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  Speaker 2: this guy's cool, little quiet. Does he like us? You know,
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  Speaker 2: does he have it? Is he enjoying the visit? But
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  Speaker 2: then you just you love the family, I mean just
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  Speaker 2: you look you spend time with the family and you
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  Speaker 2: just say, these are our type of people. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they fit right in with the with the with the
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  Speaker 2: Bill Klingen and the Spencer family and Craig and Jasmine Hawkins.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they just they fit right in with what
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  Speaker 2: you know, with with with the makeup, the castles. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just all about us winning and just trusting us
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  Speaker 2: coaches to get the most out of their kid. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the that's their mindset. And then that's why you
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  Speaker 2: knew it was potentially going to be a match when
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  Speaker 2: we got into the process. But yeah, he uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for a kid that uh you know again is going
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  Speaker 2: to have a chance to to you know, to potentially
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  Speaker 2: be a one and done lottery level player, you never
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  Speaker 2: know that, uh from the way he responds to uh,
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  Speaker 2: to his teammates, to his coaches. Uh, practice is hard.
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  Speaker 2: He's not a complicated kid. He's not on social media.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's just a ballplayer and a competitor.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty darn good too, Dan Hurley with us, if we
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  Speaker 1: take a quick break, we're going to look ahead a
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  Speaker 1: little bit at Marquette. Also want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: dual center thing that Yukon's had going for four years now.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing back to back to back years where they've
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  Speaker 1: been able to put two centers together productively. You're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on lear Field