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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Friday night, the Yukon women will collide with North Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: Tar Heels. They'll be in Greensboro, Husky's first game against
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  Speaker 1: the ranked opponent, Bob Joyce. Deb Fisk will be there
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  Speaker 1: for all the action, beginning at five thirty here along
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network, Appenavarsited Network dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: We're back with Dan Hurley. Ukon off to a two
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  Speaker 1: and oh start. They get Lemoine this week. A little
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  Speaker 1: bit later on, it's gonna be Memphis to start Maui
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  Speaker 1: and that championship out.
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  Speaker 2: There in Hawaii.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just finish up here. Dan with Aiden Mahine, a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's had success right Saint Mary's on teams that
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  Speaker 1: were seeded fifth in the NCAA tournament. He's seen it,
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  Speaker 1: he's done it. How's he faring so far? I mean
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  Speaker 1: we saw him against u ur i am Mohican Son.
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  Speaker 1: He looked really ready and then you know, every game's different.
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  Speaker 1: So what's your takes so far and what you've seen
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  Speaker 1: from Aiden?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think we see in spurts of uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: visibility offensively, you know, like in the exhibition game versus
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  Speaker 2: versus Rhode Island. And you know in that moments during
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  Speaker 2: the UH the New Hampshire game, I think you short
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  Speaker 2: spurts of his impact offensively. You know, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, we need him to play on the ball,
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  Speaker 2: probably a lot more than UH than he's used to.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that's something we talk about when we
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  Speaker 2: recruited him, because it's UH, for what we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do from a from a side standpoint, playing UH, playing
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  Speaker 2: Hassan and and Aiden together for long stretches UH would
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  Speaker 2: not be a great recipe for us to have a
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  Speaker 2: high ceiling and to have, you know, a great season.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we got to split those guards up
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  Speaker 2: and UH as much as possible. And I just think
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  Speaker 2: transitioning to being on the ball a lot more, you know,
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  Speaker 2: transitioning to the way that we do things. Our style
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  Speaker 2: of play is a lot different than I think what
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  Speaker 2: he's used to. And and you know, he's got to UH,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think he's got to he's got to keep,
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  Speaker 2: you know, keep showing up every day with a mindset
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  Speaker 2: that I'm gonna keep pushing myself to get better. And
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  Speaker 2: and I think he's a guy that that that's definitely
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to help us this year. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Right now we're still searching, you know, for you know,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to start and who's going to come off
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  Speaker 2: the bench. And I think, uh, you know, there's some
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  Speaker 2: competition here, uh at a lot of spots.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you were a history teacher at one point
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  Speaker 1: in your career, Saint Benedict's uh, not a chemistry teacher
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  Speaker 1: that I know of. But you got to teach chemistry here,
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  Speaker 1: don't you. Because you've got guys coming from a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different spots. You got freshmen trying to work their
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  Speaker 1: way in. How do you teach chemistry? Is there a
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  Speaker 1: way to do that or is it just sort of
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  Speaker 1: happen over the course of time with repetition and understanding
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  Speaker 1: what your teammates.
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  Speaker 2: Are all about. Yeah, I mean we just start spend
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time with each other starting in June, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: when these guys get here, you know, we we uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we see each other every day. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we work we work hard together, so that that that
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  Speaker 2: builds a bond of forges. Uh, you know, a relationship
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  Speaker 2: when you when you work hard with other people, that's
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  Speaker 2: something that you love that there's a there's a connection
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  Speaker 2: that you developed there, and you know it's it's what
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  Speaker 2: we preach. I think you know in the end, you know, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: no one's there's no no one here is gonna not
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  Speaker 2: get to their best level of basketball. You know, like
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  Speaker 2: there's no more surprises these days. I think you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, just go out and do what you can
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  Speaker 2: do to make us better on a daily basis. The
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  Speaker 2: guys that are legitimate NBA level draft picks prospects, you
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  Speaker 2: know they'll get there. You know. The guys that are
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  Speaker 2: you know that maybe we'll have overseas careers or guys
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  Speaker 2: that will get right into coaching or another line of work.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know that no one is going to
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  Speaker 2: get cheated out of opportunities here. It's very clear. You
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  Speaker 2: know who the best players are. And we're very honest,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the roster that way. So I think
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  Speaker 2: when you work hard together and spend a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time together, and when you're authentic and honest with people,
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  Speaker 2: I think that tends to get them to trust you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One other thing about Aiden Mahine, I was wondering, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you experienced as you were a guard in your in
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  Speaker 1: your career He's a guy that has been playing off
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  Speaker 1: the ball a little bit. Now you want him on
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  Speaker 1: the ball more. What's that like for a guard? Is
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  Speaker 1: that get in the way a little bit or is
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  Speaker 1: it easy to figure it out or is it just
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  Speaker 1: take time? What's he going through right now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean basketball has gone real positionless, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I you're not looking for, you know, an old school
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  Speaker 2: point guard. I don't eat Bob Coozy out there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the game has evolved a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Take them. What's that you could take Coozy if you
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  Speaker 1: could get them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not in the camp of like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: historical players you know couldn't play in today's NBA. That's
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  Speaker 2: like that, that's a that's a joke. You know those guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all time greats would be all time greats
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  Speaker 2: no matter when they played, doesn't matter the eraror so.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, but I don't know how we're getting down
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  Speaker 2: that road. But uh, basketball is positionless. Everyone's pretty much
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  Speaker 2: playing for really skilled guys around the center, and the
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  Speaker 2: centers have gotten skilled, so you know, the need to
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  Speaker 2: have that pure old school point guard is not as
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  Speaker 2: important now as we've gone away from shooting guards and
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  Speaker 2: small forwards and power forwards at the one through four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's certainly a skill as as your guys
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  Speaker 1: go to the NBA here and there. Uh, it's great
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  Speaker 1: to have that ability to be a little bit of everything,
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  Speaker 1: to handle, be able to shoot, be able to rebound.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the forwards, because you've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: the wings and the length of your team, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that that really helps on defense for sure, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it helps on running the break and getting
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  Speaker 1: out on the wings and getting down the court.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Is that something you look at now when you recruit,
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  Speaker 1: getting wings that have length and can run and get
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  Speaker 1: up and down the court like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think a big point of emphasis in recruiting,
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  Speaker 2: which I think has been a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: challenge this year and so far, and where we get
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  Speaker 2: thrived the last couple of years it's just you know,
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  Speaker 2: bigger guards having you know, Tristan who is six y
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  Speaker 2: five and Cam who is you know six three, six
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  Speaker 2: ' four and physically strong, and Steph who is six six,
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  Speaker 2: and Andre Jackson who is six six and Jordan Hawkins who
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  Speaker 2: was six ' five and just having bigger gotten ahem
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  Speaker 2: aline with six four and very physical. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would say for us, uh, you know, getting that
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  Speaker 2: emphasis in in Uh just the bigger, bigger guards, bigger
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  Speaker 2: wings that can do multiple things. Uh just it creates
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  Speaker 2: uh advantages all over the court, driving the ball, seeing lobs,
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  Speaker 2: seeing the three point line, rebounding the ball, guarding multiple positions.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's certainly a big plus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Guys like Jalen Stewart and Isaiah Abraham and Jade
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  Speaker 1: and Ross certainly fit in that category. Dan Hooley's with us,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be back with more of the Yukon Men's
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  Speaker 1: Basketball Coaches Show. In a moment on lair Field,