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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Feb 29 · Coaches Corner

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  Up next for Dan Hurley's Crew Senior Day Sunday against Seaton Hall. Our coverage
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  begins with a hard auto group count down a tip at eleven thirty here along
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  the Yukon Sports Network, at the Varsita Network app in theavaritaed network dot com.
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  Just to wrap up what we were talking about a moment ago, a
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  game day at at Yukon prior to the Villanova game and coach had ten chances
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  to knock one in from a long range and caught by surprise unable to do
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  it. But when Richard Hamilton Dan on his first try fires it in,
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  is that a separator between you and him as a player, would you say?
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  I mean there's so many players in between me and him. Well,
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  it's like that sound like a guy. I'm like going to compare my career
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  to Mike. But I was probably better than you, So I know that
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  I'm taller, you know, just in every way, probably performed better than
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  you. So I appreciate you trying to make me look bad. No,
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  I'm not making it. But Hamilton, what an emotional day for him in
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  a night Uh and the thing that came came through I thought with his speech
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  when he was at center court halftime and you were in the locker room obviously,
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  But his passion for Yukon and his his love and appreciation for what Coach
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  Calhoun brought to this program and this campus and guys like him who've won NBA
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  championships, Hall of Fame type people. When they say those sort of things,
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  that has to be meaningful. I think for you know, guys like
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  you and then people are wearing that Yukon uniform these days. High level guy
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  and you from from having a relationship, you know, the I'm fortunate enough
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  to have a coach Calhoun and uh, you know, just to learn more
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  about uh, you know Rip and his recruitment and you know, with the
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  support Rip had at home and how they raised him. It's just he's a
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  high level guy, you know, one of you know, one of a
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  couple of players that you could make an argument for here that you know,
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  greatest of all time in such a storied place. And then you know,
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  obviously the NBA Championship and and and what he did with the Pistons. But
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  you know, he's, uh, he's been great to us. Like people
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  have no idea. He doesn't do a lot for the camera you know,
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  he makes his appearances here and sends the text messages and puts in a strategic
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  phone call to support the boys, and he support the program and uh,
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  without fanfare, he's he's, He's and he's got a wonderful family. It
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  was great meeting everybody. Yeah, and Richard Hamilton when he went to the
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  pros. I was in the NBA and I saw a lot of him early
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  on, and he, you know, he struggled to find his spot in
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  the league and eventually ended up in Detroit under Larry Brown and they won a
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  championship. I think his his professional arc of his career is a good example
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  of you got to stick with it. You got to find the place that
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  you do, you know you fit in best and and find out a way
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  to succeed at the highest levels. Because it wasn't easy for him to begin
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  with in the NBA. Yeah, I think Wizards or you know, and
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  with with Michael Jordan's you know, uh coming into the organization. But you
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  know he uh, I know he helped Jordan a lot. I know,
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  you know him and Ray done a great job. I think, uh,
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  you know, with our guys, you're trying to serve as a mentor or
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  uh, you know, big brother or what have you. And then you
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  hope that you know, maybe you get involved with with with with book and
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  try to help James buck Knight as he's trying to you know, kind of
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  uh, you know, to find his way in the NBA again. And
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  then you, i know, you talk about family with the players and obviously
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  it's it's an important part of your approach. Uh. And Hamilton is is
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  big with family right with his own family, and and he kind of carries
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  over to what he talks about in public, which I think is so important.
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  Yeah, it's just obviously you know that there's there's town to basketball players
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  that have made a lot of money playing basketball, and then they're just high
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  level guys like smart, smart, sharp, professional, hard work and you
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  know, morals, ethics, lives by code. You know, you know,
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  Rip would be successful in anything he'd put his mind to, just because
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  he's got just unbelievable traits. Well, the Huskies are twenty five and three,
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  fifteen and two in a conference, and to go chronologically over the last
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  week or so that we have we haven't talked. You had a trip to
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  Creighton in which the Blue Jays ambushed you and knocked you off end of the
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  fourteen game winning streak. When you win for two months, are you saying
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  to yourself nobody can beat us? Are you thinking how are these guys going
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  to beat us? At? What's your thought process when you get on a
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  run like that. Yeah, I don't think, you know, not necessarily,
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  you know, eve there. I think you're you have confidence because you're
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  you're being successful. And then you're obviously you're you're you're really checking yourself and
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  checking every aspect of the program to look for complacency because human nature, obviously,
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  you know, starts to uh, you know, affect people. Some
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  people can't handle success, some people can't handle failure, you know, so
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  you're you're just hyper aware of it. But I think sometimes you know,
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  your opponent, you know, plays, you know, plays their best game.
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  Sometimes you play, you know, you play poorly. I think in
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  that particular game, uh, it was it was a it was a it
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  was a it was a raucous environment to say the least, and you know,
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  and create and played great and our defense broke down that that was a
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  game we needed to try to win. Sixty three, sixty two, sixty
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  one, fifty nine and our defense just completely sunk us, and they were
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  a lot of very kind of basic principles. But Creighton's a tough team to
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  play against. They've got three of the best players in college basketball. So
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  yeah, you know, I guess hots off to them. Well, they
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  did play a great game. Fourteen threes made in the game. But you
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  know, this is such an emotional game on the on the college level.
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  Then they go to Saint John's and they get beat there by fourteen points.
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  That's just another example I think of anything. It can happen anytime a Big
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  East team goes on the road. No, yeah, I mean that's why
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  it's so hard, you know, to win the regular season, because as
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  good as that team is, as talented as that team is, as great
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  a potential as they have to win the beat Toornament to win the to get
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  to a final four with those three great players plus Ashworth play much better is
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  I mean, they're eliminated from the regular season opportunity. Now it's just our
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  ser Marquette. You know, that's gonna have a chance to win it,
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  you know, because it's so easy to lose that Saint John's, to lose
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  that Xavier, to lose that Villanova, to lose that seat in the Hall,
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  to lose that Providence you have to be You've got to be a special
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  team to win in all those places, or to win enough. Yeah,
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  that's for sure. All right, Dan hurleys with us and this is the
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  Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on Mike. Chris Pino will be back in just
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  a moment with more here on lear Field.