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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley March 12 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley on the UKON Men's Basketball Coaches Show, Mike Crispino
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  here Steph Castle. Eleven time Freshmen of the Week in the Big East,
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  breaking Carmelo Anthony's record, which is pretty impressive in and of itself. Danny
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  went six for twelve against Providence, nine of twelve against the Hall. He
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  had a few games before that we wasn't scoring a lot. But he does
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  so many things for a young guy. How much has he grown do you
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  think in these last couple of months. Obviously had the injury early, kind
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  of feeling his way in college basketball, but he looks like a more and
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  more mature player almost game to game now. Yeah, And he's so young,
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  and it's tough, man. It's tough tough on young players, tough
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  on freshman college basketball with the portal and COVID, and it's not easy.
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  So what he's doing is, you know, it's incredible. And I think
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  it's like he's being asked to to play all around winning basketball. Like when
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  we need you to shoot, score, when we need you to, you
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  know, get in the lane and create for others. We need you on
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  the backboard, he's guarding a nightly basis, the other team's best player on
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  the perimeter and being asked to shut that individual down or at least make them
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  incredibly inefficient. So uh and and and we're asking to do that while you're
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  like a critical member of a team that's going for you know, nothing but
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  championships. So you know, he and he and he's done it. And
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  he's done it through injury and missing time in the non conference. So you
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  know, it all starts at home, Mike. You know, he's got
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  he's got two great parents and uh, they keep him grounded, and they
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  let us coach him and they support us fully. And he was you know,
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  him and him and Camre we're missing pieces. Yeah, obviously you felt
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  like you could handle the load of all these things as a young guy.
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  So that's that speaks to his maturity and his intelligence and his competitiveness. He's
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  getting better on the postgame shows, by the way. He's very conversational.
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  He's got a great smile. I mean, I know it's only radio,
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  but I'm pretty impressed with him just overall being able to open up and kind
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  of communicate what just happened in a game. I Mean, not every guy
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  can do that. Not every player can come off the you know, the
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  court and start talking to us and say, well, here's what just happened.
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  That's not easy. He's a nice guy. You know, he's a
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  he's a sweet kid. You know, he's not a you know, entitled,
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  you know, ego maniac because he's got a lot of adults you know,
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  just kiss but you know, so he you know, he he's got
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  a huge, uh you know name in basketball, but he's humble and you
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  know, he's he's a good kid. He's a he's a fun kid to
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  be around. He's one of the guys. All his teammates love him.
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  Everyone that meets him, whether it's a flight attendant or or trainer or whatever
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  it is. It's like, you know, everyone loves the guy. Yeah,
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  you know what, I know. It's great about people like him and
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  guys like you. It's just a genuineness about it, you know what I
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  mean. There's not a pretense. There's not a hey, look at us,
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  look what we're doing. I mean, it's I think that's the beauty
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  of this team and this coaching staff. I mean, you could be walking
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  around bragging about this and that. I mean a lot of things have been
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  accomplished, but there's some humbleness to this group, which I think that is
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  fabulous. Yeah, that the uh, you know, you hope to uh
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  just attract that with your with with the staff and then with the way that
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  you recruit people. I think the messaging with the you know, when we
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  do recruit players is uh, yeah, we're gonna help you you maximize your
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  value as a player and your development as a young man. But you know,
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  we're also going to get you into an environment where people are going to
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  be competitive and push each other to be better, but we're also going to
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  support each other and be totally about team and about winning and yeah, I
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  mean, we're going to give you your best chance to get to the NBA,
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  but we're not going to do that at the behest of us being able
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  to win games as a program here at Yukon. Yeah, it's such a
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  valuable quality to have I think in the in the you know, the conversations
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  between coaches and players and recruits and all that so important. Donovan Clinging,
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  Yeah, nineteen and eleven against the Hall. He just plays so well.
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  He's a backbone. In fact, Castle mentioned him in the post games.
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  I asked him about it. What's it like having clinging back there to back
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  you up when something goes wrong, like your guy gets by you and goes
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  down the lane. And he said, Wow, it means everything. I
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  mean, a guy like him can clean up a lot of mistakes and he's
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  certainly been doing that. Well. Mean, Donovan is uh, you know,
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  is the m v P. I mean he's like or am I the
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  most impactful player in college basketball? Or one of a couple of guys that
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  just impact the game in a way that no other players can. You know,
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  the shots he creates on offense with his presence, defense that that he
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  the defense that he creates for us at that end of the court, the
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  extra possessions because of the rebounding, his just size and his agility, and
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  and what he does for his team in terms of elevating everyone's play, you
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  know, honorable mention. Obviously who's hurt. So it's it's hard to gauge
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  what the coach has voted on, and you know how they have decided to
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  put players in terms of the votes where they petty you know with a was
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  there a level of envy? Uh? You know, who knows. But
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  the league must be filled with big time NBA players. If Donovan ended up
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  honorable mention, Yeah, I was aso mind, I was going to follow
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  it up what you're saying with if he hadn't been injured, if he had
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  been you know, playing thirty minutes a game, which I think you thought
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  he might do this year. He's playing less than that, but he's very
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  impactful. As you say, if he had done those things, would he
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  be certainly a first teamer in this league? Yeah, I mean, listen,
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  we the regular season, which is which is over the course of months
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  and in and it's not an unbalanced schedule. Year we play, we played.
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  We played twenty games versus ten teams. Uh. You know, we
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  ran through the league this year and won by a historic margin. We we
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  should have gotten every everyone should have gotten the awards they deserved, you know,
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  whether Players of the Year, you know, the All Conference teams.
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  You know this this team when you win the game, when you win the
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  league by as many games as we did. Uh, are our big four
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  guys and and and staph Obviously they deserve all the awards. Yeah. I
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  agreed one hundred percent. All right, back with Dan Hurley to wrap up
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  another segment with the coach, we got to talk DR we got to talk
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  caravan, we got to talk Big East New York MSG, all that and
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  beyond when we return on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coach to Show from Learfield