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Seg 2 - MBB Show Oct 31 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back when Dan Hurley.
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  Speaker 2: You've got men's basketball coaches show Dan one hundred sixty
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  Speaker 2: five wins, sixty nine losses since coming from Rhode Island
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  Speaker 2: over seventy percent winning percentage sixty nine and twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: in the Big East.
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  Speaker 1: That's seventy two percent win percentage.
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  Speaker 2: Big numbers for the Huskies, and with that comes expectations.
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  Speaker 2: So defended the national championship last year, that's pretty big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Now you take on six top twenty teams in the
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  Speaker 2: opening ten or eleven games, So as far as expectations go,
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  Speaker 2: you're kind of meeting that challenge head on, aren't you.
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  Speaker 2: With the schedule you got ahead of you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's it's uh, it's all
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  Speaker 3: win win. I mean, obviously you've got to win, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you you know, like what do you have to do
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  Speaker 3: in those six games to have positioned yourself well for
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  Speaker 3: the things you want to accomplish? You know, I think
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  Speaker 3: we know, you know, we know with with our history
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  Speaker 3: has been since I've been here in the nsab A
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  Speaker 3: Tournament that it's easier to win an advance in the
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  Speaker 3: nsul A Tournament when you have a high ranking. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when you when you know, when you have a high
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  Speaker 3: seating excuse me, preferably in the East, you know. But
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  Speaker 3: and in order to do that, though, you got to
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  Speaker 3: win big non conference games in order you know, to
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  Speaker 3: get seated highly. So, you know, I think it's the
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  Speaker 3: best way to do it. I think it's the only
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  Speaker 3: way to do it. And what we expand next year
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  Speaker 3: to twelve non conference games. You know, we're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: seven games like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's great for the fans. I tell you what. People
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  Speaker 1: were buzzing about.
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  Speaker 2: Even playing Michigan State in an exhibition, right, big ten
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  Speaker 2: team coming in the crowd was really good.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 2: Uh a quick thought on the facilities that that was
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  Speaker 2: a big change in Hartford, wasn't it. The People's Bank arena,
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  Speaker 2: I know, you know in your office, and the locker
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  Speaker 2: room area was fabulous. In the area we're hosting you know,
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  Speaker 2: husky fans behind the back the court was really beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: What was your first impressions?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm saying myself for like, you know this, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is great. I mean this is it's it's beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: it's brand new, it's it feels like you're home. It
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  Speaker 3: feels like a locker room. It feels like a real
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  Speaker 3: professional locker room. And I'm really thinking, so this is
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  Speaker 3: going to be great for you know, the city of Hartford.
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  Speaker 3: Just building up the arena is going to help the
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  Speaker 3: city flourish, you know, by being able to attract you know,
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  Speaker 3: the best entertainers to want to come and perform in Hartford.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to you know, it helps the city, It
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  Speaker 3: helps all the local vendors, and it brings some energy
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  Speaker 3: and some juice to the city.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be that way, and we hope
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  Speaker 2: to get it back there, that's for sure. You come
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  Speaker 2: in the last three years, we're going back to that schedule.
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  Speaker 2: You got twenty two and ten against top twenty five
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  Speaker 2: teams in the last three years. In fact, at one
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  Speaker 2: point you won nine straight against top ten teams.
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  Speaker 1: So as you go through this November and December part of.
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  Speaker 2: Your schedule, when you know you've got Arizona and you
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  Speaker 2: got BYU, and you got Florida and Texas and Kansas
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  Speaker 2: on the road, Illinois at the Garden, as you go
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  Speaker 2: through it, will you, you know, measure up in terms
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  Speaker 2: of what the team is doing game to game. Will
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  Speaker 2: you when you look at it at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the six game stretch there and say, Okay, here's where
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  Speaker 2: we're at.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen there?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, when I was younger and dummer,
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  Speaker 3: I think I would look at the non conference schedule
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  Speaker 3: and say, man, I want to go nine and two,
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  Speaker 3: you know, or you know, listen, we get this stretch
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  Speaker 3: of four really hard games. You know, we got to
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  Speaker 3: go to and two and I I think maybe a
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  Speaker 3: couple of years ago. I just you get to a
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  Speaker 3: mindset of I'm just gonna I don't even know, like
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  Speaker 3: I know, and that we play new Haven. I don't
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  Speaker 3: even know who we play after new Haven. I don't
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  Speaker 3: even like people said, oh, Braylan, what games is Brelan
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  Speaker 3: Mullen going to miss? I don't have any idea because
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  Speaker 3: I don't know which of those monster games you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: is actually first. So I just think you lock in
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  Speaker 3: on that next game and create this type of mentality,
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  Speaker 3: you know, where every game is our super Bowl, that
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  Speaker 3: next game is the super Bowl, that next game is
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  Speaker 3: the super Bowl, and not get wrapped up in the
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  Speaker 3: Domino's effects of losing this one.
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  Speaker 4: Or winning that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want you know, we only had to win
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  Speaker 3: two or three of those monster games. This one doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really matter.
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  Speaker 1: What No, no, no, you can't say that. It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: For more of the football coach was saying the similar thing.
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  Speaker 2: You can't look ahead of your schedule because the team
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  Speaker 2: right in front of you can knock you off.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, and I think it'll make you freak out.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you do say to yourself, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm playing Florida, you know, and if I don't win
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  Speaker 3: that game, now I'm going at Kansas. And you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean, Like you put yourself into a mind
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  Speaker 3: space of like knowing what's ahead that way scheduleized.
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  Speaker 4: That could put you in.
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  Speaker 3: A very very bad mental space.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to know. I just what's my next game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, that that makes sense absolutely, going back to what
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  Speaker 2: we've seen in these first exhibition games for a moment,
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  Speaker 2: and you brought it up rebounds among others, fouling right
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  Speaker 2: that game the other night. I can't tell you how
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  Speaker 2: many people said to me, what's with the whistles? There's
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  Speaker 2: too many whistles we want to watch for the game
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  Speaker 2: of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: There's no flow, what your perspective, what was happening there?
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  Speaker 1: Because I know you know.
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  Speaker 2: That turn officials, but come on, I'm gonna I lost
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  Speaker 2: track of how.
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  Speaker 1: Many fouls were called in that game.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean that's why, you know, a couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is what these guys do, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and they're in the preseason and you know, we we've
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've we've had we've got great refs and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we had a great crew on that game.
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  Speaker 4: It's what they do this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: They're sending a message early in the season that you know,
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  Speaker 3: like we're not doing conference play physicality in the non
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  Speaker 3: conference and know like they're trying to set they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to set a tone.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean it made it. It made the game.
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  Speaker 3: Like if that was the first game I ever went to,
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  Speaker 3: Like I don't think I would go to another game, No,
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  Speaker 3: I think I would never go back. So hopefully we
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  Speaker 3: didn't have any first timers at the game because they
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  Speaker 3: would never go back.
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  Speaker 4: But I would say that that's you know, for us.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing I'll say that's that I'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: is if that you know that the continuation thing is
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  Speaker 3: going to maybe cause problems and and then again like
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  Speaker 3: they pete the referees you know, and and and you
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  Speaker 3: know you're going to be in the ear of all
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  Speaker 3: the people involved. That we that ref our games is
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  Speaker 3: people get away with things off the ball, grabbing us
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  Speaker 3: that they don't let us get away with when we're
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  Speaker 3: guarding the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that was obvious the other night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd like what we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the defense, and we get back a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a roster that's got five freshmen on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since you've gone to have that
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  Speaker 1: many freshmen.
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  Speaker 2: We'll tell you about that, returned Dan Hurley, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches show on liar Field,