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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Oct 28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the Duncan Music Loungs live in our Hartford
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  Speaker 2: headquarters for iHeartRadio. Mike Crispino right now, Ben Darnell sitting
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  Speaker 2: with us, our afternoon hostler with Rob Dibble.
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  Speaker 3: Coach.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be here in just a second. Dan Hurley coming
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  Speaker 2: over from practice. They're at the Excel working out first
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  Speaker 2: three games of their schedule. A benner at the Excel Center.
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  Speaker 2: So you need to get as much practice time as
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  Speaker 2: you can in a building.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get into that all. I don't know. We
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  Speaker 1: got a strict six o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Something may have happened at practice that we need to
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  Speaker 3: get to the bottom too.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some extra running or something. Stra I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying he's usually a scheduled individual.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see what went on?
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, home games starting November sixth, Sacred Heart in
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  Speaker 3: Hawaii for a big contest coming up with you multiple
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  Speaker 3: great Division one basketball teams and then the Big East.
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  Speaker 3: I'm super excited about the Big East. Here, I'll let
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  Speaker 3: this dude talk about it. He knows a lot more
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  Speaker 3: than I do. All right, Ben, let me introduce it.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, back to back national champion, head coach,
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  Speaker 3: big round of applause for our special guests. Head coach,
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  Speaker 3: you got men's basketball day here.
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  Speaker 4: It's up.
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  Speaker 2: Uh as usual, good timing right this story the show
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  Speaker 2: started thirty seconds ago, early on time.
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  Speaker 1: Right on time. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: So you getting a chance to practice in the Excel
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. That's something you don't get to do
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  Speaker 2: that much during the course of a week. Radio we're
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  Speaker 2: on right now. All right, we're trying to We're trying.
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  Speaker 4: To get this is just for this for the for
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  Speaker 4: the guests.
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  Speaker 2: You know, well, we got a huge crowd here. That's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest crowd we've had for these things. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Coach Moore comes in, you come in.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was appreciate.
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  Speaker 5: This was like the third time we got in there,
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  Speaker 5: and I'd like to I wish we'd get in there more,
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  Speaker 5: but there's just challenges to getting in there that obviously
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  Speaker 5: the a little bit and just the building availability. But
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  Speaker 5: you know that's where uh yeah, but it's nice to
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  Speaker 5: get in there a couple of times today. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't the greatest of practices. So you're going to
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  Speaker 5: see like super negativity from here. If you asked me
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  Speaker 5: about certain players right now, we're going to get to that.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to get to that. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: One thing to do a list of who we talk
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  Speaker 4: about first?
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, you sent it to me, Paul Weman, you
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  Speaker 2: send it to him, you'll give it to me. People
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  Speaker 2: don't A lot of people don't know this because they
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  Speaker 2: weren't at the Final four. But you in practice at
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  Speaker 2: the Final four in Phoenix. I think you did it
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  Speaker 2: to Houston too. You didn't have a typical like practice
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  Speaker 2: warm up thing. You had guys diving on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: And when I saw that, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: said the same thing, Wow, what kind of guy is this?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of coaches is.
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  Speaker 2: These guys players diving on the floor before a Final four?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it used to not be that in common with
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  Speaker 5: coaches though almost all coaches had their teams playing hard,
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  Speaker 5: like I wouldn't be such an outlier, Yukon wouldn't be
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  Speaker 5: such an outlier.
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  Speaker 4: I coached the way coaches used to coach.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I think, you know, Coach Calhoun was one
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  Speaker 5: of my idols as a coach. Coach Izzo at Michigan
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  Speaker 5: State was another coach I liked a lot as to model,
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  Speaker 5: you know myself after as a coach. So I mean
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  Speaker 5: with this time of year, we're doing that for two
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  Speaker 5: hours and twenty minutes, two hours and fifteen minutes by
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  Speaker 5: the time we get down towards the end. By the
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  Speaker 5: time we get down towards the end of the year,
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  Speaker 5: maybe an hour in ten minutes. But we're going to
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  Speaker 5: still practice with a lot of intensity, a lot of pace,
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  Speaker 5: and we're gonna that environment. I think it helps our
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  Speaker 5: players a lot. You've seen the viral videos. I mean
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  Speaker 5: that's going on like every day, so it's intense. It's
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  Speaker 5: not for every player, but you could see. I think
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  Speaker 5: the formulas are working for us.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason that you do that kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: this this seems like it's a silly question, but you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to accomplish something by getting after guys like that
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  Speaker 2: in the year.
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  Speaker 1: What is it you're looking for?
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  Speaker 2: What are you trying to get out of these guys
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  Speaker 2: to start the year before you play the game?
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  Speaker 5: Well, what you try to do as a coach, I think,
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  Speaker 5: or if you're a trainer for a fighter or coach
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  Speaker 5: of a sports team, I think Kamani said.
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  Speaker 4: A player recently.
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  Speaker 5: A player said to him, where I was the practices
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  Speaker 5: were easy, but the games are hard, you know, and
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  Speaker 5: that's like, that's not what you want to do, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you do not want to practice at a low level,
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  Speaker 5: and I expect the performers to go out and do it.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that kind of sums it up. The
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  Speaker 5: approach that we take with the guys is just like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if we stress around practice and we're you know,
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  Speaker 5: really kind of like very almost unfair with the expectations
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  Speaker 5: that when they get to game night they're just going
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  Speaker 5: to be able to perform and the pressure and the chaos.
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  Speaker 5: That's where I think we've spent a lot of time
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  Speaker 5: with personality test, not necessarily personality tests, but really trying
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  Speaker 5: to I think what we what we saw as when
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  Speaker 5: you coach at Yukon, you gotta have players that when
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  Speaker 5: in the big moments, they're not gonna play small. And
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  Speaker 5: uh so we we've learned, I think, to try to
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  Speaker 5: find like kids with good pedigree, high level, high levels
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  Speaker 5: of confidence, people that can handle the workload, and we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna let us coach them hard, you know, and not
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  Speaker 5: everybody wants that, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well the great players do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I told you practice was bad, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You do. Well, what happened. What's a bad practice to you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean this time of year, you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: like you're a week away, so everyone's on edge this
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  Speaker 5: time of year. This time last year, I thought we
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  Speaker 5: were bad, you know, like sneak into the instantly tournament,
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  Speaker 5: you know last year's team. Yeah right, yeah, But that's
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  Speaker 5: how insecure you are when you're a coach of a team,
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  Speaker 5: because you know you're with them every day, you know
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  Speaker 5: them so well, and then you know what they're capable
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  Speaker 5: of when they play their worst game too so or
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  Speaker 5: when they're at their worst, so you know, like when
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  Speaker 5: you're around that every day, it's just you always feel
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  Speaker 5: a little insecure about your team all the way through
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  Speaker 5: until really late in the year, like middle of March
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  Speaker 5: or something like that, you're starting to say you're starting
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  Speaker 5: to have conversations on whether you think you have a
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  Speaker 5: good team or not, because most of the time you're
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  Speaker 5: just picking your team apart. You know, defense rebounding, you know,
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  Speaker 5: our secondary ballscreen coverage, you know, you know our zone
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  Speaker 5: offenses suck. You know, like we're just you know, you're
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  Speaker 5: picking your team apart until you get late in the year,
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  Speaker 5: and then it's like you know, they have to kind
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  Speaker 5: of earn your respect to a degree that by by
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  Speaker 5: that point of the year, And for us last year
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  Speaker 5: was that game of Providence when then when we beat
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  Speaker 5: them like that in a game they had to win
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  Speaker 5: to make the tournament, and we got down like seventeen,
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  Speaker 5: not two or something crazy, and then we're up like
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  Speaker 5: fourteen and a half, and you're like, WHOA, this team
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  Speaker 5: is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy, you turn around.
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  Speaker 2: I think all the things that you do in practice
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  Speaker 2: early pays off in postseason. Obviously, you've won twelve straight
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  Speaker 2: games in the NCAA tournament. Do you feel like when
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  Speaker 2: guys get in tournament pressure your teams these last two
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  Speaker 2: years especially, they are kind of relaxed in a sense.
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  Speaker 1: They know we're good, we.
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  Speaker 2: Practiced hard, we got talent, and they seem to relax
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  Speaker 2: under pressure, which is a huge thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if you're top five in the country in offense,
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  Speaker 5: top five in defense, top five in rebounding, number one
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  Speaker 5: and assistant turnover ratio, you want of the highest assist
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  Speaker 5: teams in the country. Yeah, we're number one in transition
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  Speaker 5: offensive efficiency. I mean, we were just so well rounded
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  Speaker 5: last year that you just are like you just felt
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  Speaker 5: so good going into those games, Like even the Illinois game,
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  Speaker 5: which you know we shot horble on that game, we
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  Speaker 5: were bricking and like usually you go on a thirty
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  Speaker 5: zero run in a game because you're hitting every three
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  Speaker 5: or you're just you know, like we were bricking every three.
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  Speaker 5: But that's how dominant our basketball was, like the defense,
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  Speaker 5: the rebounding, the passing, execution, just the many different ways
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  Speaker 5: we could beat you. So last year's team we did
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  Speaker 5: not feel much pressure, well, you know once we got
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  Speaker 5: to the tournament, because we just everything is so automatic
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  Speaker 5: at that time of the year, your habits, your identity.
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  Speaker 5: We were healthy, everyone's confidence was high. We weren't reliant
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  Speaker 5: on one player.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Two years ago the first round game versus Iona, it
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  Speaker 5: was like that was nerve wracking. It was you know
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  Speaker 5: in the first in the first half they played well, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it didn't feel sustainable. So I wasn't as bad as
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  Speaker 5: it was the year before. When we were watching in
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  Speaker 5: the New Mexico State game, we were looking at each other.
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  Speaker 4: In the locker room, like where where you could be
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  Speaker 4: We looked at it, you know, like the locker room
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  Speaker 4: was just super quiet down ten and Buffalo. The first round.
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  Speaker 5: Pressure is way different when you're at Yukon. I remember
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  Speaker 5: coaching at Rhode Island, coaching the first game and has
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  Speaker 5: somebody tournament at Rhode Island, You're like, I got house money,
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  Speaker 5: like no one.
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  Speaker 4: If I win a game, I'm a god.
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  Speaker 5: And then you get the Yukon like you are on
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  Speaker 5: the opposite end of that, and that's something that you
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  Speaker 5: you're What I guess you have to do is have
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  Speaker 5: your team is so good.
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  Speaker 4: That it don't matter.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, mission accomplice last year.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Dan Hurley's with us the Yukon Basketball Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 2: We continue from the studio break crowd on hand back
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  Speaker 2: in a moment on Lear Field,