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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Dec 17 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: The Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, we get together with
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley to catch up on the Huskies and what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here as we get into the middle of December.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Crispino with it and the coach back from Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden after an exhilarating win over Gonzaga on the weekend. Strange,
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  Speaker 1: it was a late start. They had hockey during the day.
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  Speaker 1: It's always different. When they got to change the floor.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of delays everything that didn't seem to bother.
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  Speaker 1: Yukon noted with a start that your team got off
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  Speaker 1: to was just what the doctor ordered. I thought, I
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  Speaker 1: mean thirteen to two. They had to call a time
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  Speaker 1: out to stop the bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. You know, you're so excited for us
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  Speaker 2: to get the opportunity to play such a such a
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  Speaker 2: big game, such a such a high quality opponent. You know,
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  Speaker 2: at MSG, we weren't really thinking about, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: being a late start. It was. It was eight o'clock
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  Speaker 2: as a post seven. You know, they didn't you know,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't tip it off at midnight. So we fell
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  Speaker 2: just so so excited to be back at a place
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  Speaker 2: that got great vibes in We knew, uh, we'd have
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  Speaker 2: a great crowd and electric crowd. I think you know
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  Speaker 2: that the team is certainly uh, you know, playing with
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  Speaker 2: more confidence going in and and you know we're able
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  Speaker 2: to uh to get into the city and have dinner
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  Speaker 2: at at our favorite restaurant. Uh. So the boys were
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  Speaker 2: well fed, and you know, we were able to really
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  Speaker 2: focus on, you know, playing well enough defensively, rebounding the
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  Speaker 2: ball well enough, and you know, executing enough offensively making
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  Speaker 2: enough shots for us to be able to get what
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  Speaker 2: was we knew would be a big win for us
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  Speaker 2: to uh, you know, to try to get back some
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  Speaker 2: of what we lost earlier in the non conference.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the three losses in Maui followed now by four wins,
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  Speaker 1: three against really good opponents here in a row. When
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  Speaker 1: you get off to a start like that, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what building you're playing in, and the team did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing at Texas, it really puts the opponent on
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  Speaker 1: their heels somewhat so, but you can't really calculate it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you coach a good start? I wonder sometimes because
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  Speaker 1: Yukon's gotten off to two really good starts against these
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  Speaker 1: last two teams.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, sometimes I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: what you see maybe in terms of a first play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and obviously there's some teams that look susceptible
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  Speaker 2: where maybe you go for you know, you go for
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  Speaker 2: a lob, or you you do something to get an
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  Speaker 2: open three, or you get something for a backcut layup,
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  Speaker 2: something that if it goes bad and the past sales
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  Speaker 2: out of bounds, you know, on the lob pass to Samson,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it goes the other way and the moaning starts
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  Speaker 2: and the players maybe, you know, it's an ominous beginning.
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  Speaker 2: But with the way Samson started the game for us offensively,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the lob dunk, the crazy left handed dunk,
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  Speaker 2: how he was flying around the court in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ways. You know, Samson has become kind of the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of the team, the heart and soul. He's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times he's our biggest warrior out there in
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  Speaker 2: terms of just how much he gives. So I think
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  Speaker 2: our start had a lot to do with Samson. Johnson
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  Speaker 2: and he's very unsung in terms of how he's thought
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  Speaker 2: of in the program and how much he does for
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  Speaker 2: the team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it does seem like when he makes play
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  Speaker 1: as they are spectacular. The crowd goes crazy. He's shooting
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  Speaker 1: over eighty percent, which is astounding to me. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: so many things well. But then he got banged up,
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  Speaker 1: he got hurt, he was on the floor. Scary moment there.
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  Speaker 1: I know you were out there. Obviously we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what happened to him, couldn't really tell on the play replay,
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  Speaker 1: Can you can you give us a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: what what happened to him? And I know he was
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  Speaker 1: back on the bench. That was a good sign. And
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  Speaker 1: he you know, we were told, I think you even
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it, he wanted to come back in the game,
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  Speaker 1: but the staff, the medical staff said no, no, no, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just tell us what what you guys went through there,
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  Speaker 1: because when you see a guy like him, who means
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  Speaker 1: so much to the team, go down like that in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of such a big game, it shakes you
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he uh you know, he's in concussion protocol. He
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  Speaker 2: obviously got hitting the you know, hitting the face. You
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  Speaker 2: could you know see that in the replays and and
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, but he's feeling much better, and so he's
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  Speaker 2: in that is he's in that protocol. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Samson's just the type of guy who uh, I mean
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  Speaker 2: he plays through anything. I mean he he played uh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he he he can endure any pain, uh,
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  Speaker 2: in any level of suffering. He's uh, he's an incredibable
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  Speaker 2: athlete that way, he's an incredible warrior and incredible competitor
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, he's become the uh I think
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  Speaker 2: just with the way he plays, he's become, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the the kind of the heart and soul of the
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  Speaker 2: team because he's uh, he's so beloved by all of us,
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  Speaker 2: and he plays so hard and he does and he's uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's become a leader. He's become more vocal, and he's
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  Speaker 2: so productive and as he's uh as when he uh,
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  Speaker 2: when he stays out of foul trouble. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: just an incredible impact player.
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  Speaker 1: So when you say he's in concussion protocol, does that
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  Speaker 1: mean he's definitely gonna have to sit out a little
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  Speaker 1: bit here before he gets back to one hundred percent?
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  Speaker 1: How does that work?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I don't know either. I just know that
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  Speaker 2: day by day, those guys do a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: until we until we uh, until he's cleared.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. So that brings us to the centers, which you know,
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  Speaker 1: most teams don't go three deep. You've had to go
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  Speaker 1: three deep here a couple of times in a row.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Terris Reed Junior, another guy in the
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  Speaker 1: middle who's shooting over seventy percent when he gets the
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  Speaker 1: ball down low. He is a powerful man. He's a
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  Speaker 1: tough guy to stop. That must be a real give
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  Speaker 1: you a sense of comfort almost from the coaching perspective,
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  Speaker 1: when you know he has the ball down low for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, he converts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know he's uh, you know, he's physically
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  Speaker 2: very talented obviously, and he moves great. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there were some things too where uh,
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  Speaker 2: there was a better game out there for Taris versus Gonzaga,
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  Speaker 2: and he's gonna have to be a lot better than
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  Speaker 2: he was versus Gonzaga in the Xavier games. Uh, in
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  Speaker 2: the Xavier game and moving forward in a brutally physical
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  Speaker 2: Big East. I think you know, there's uh, there's opportunities
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  Speaker 2: for him to be much more dominant as a rebounder,
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  Speaker 2: much more dominant as an interior scorer, and uh and
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  Speaker 2: he bigger chances for him to create great offense for
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  Speaker 2: us by you know, screening, you know, being as good
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  Speaker 2: a screener as Samson is for us in the ball
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  Speaker 2: screen game and in the opportunities to get our shooter shots.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, taris right now with Samson, you know
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  Speaker 2: likely uh you know to miss sometime. Uh. You know, here,
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be uh, there's a lot greater pressure on you. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know when you go from you know, the guy
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  Speaker 2: off the bench, it's almost like the backup quarterback is
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  Speaker 2: the most popular guy in town. Uh uh. And I
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  Speaker 2: think right now, you know, he's gonna have to raise
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  Speaker 2: his level, you know, if he's gonna you know, be
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  Speaker 2: a starter for us with Samson potentially missing time because
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  Speaker 2: Samson just he plays with incredible urgency and desperation, and
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  Speaker 2: especially with the starting group, that's what you really need
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  Speaker 2: out there. And and we were happy with the minutes
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  Speaker 2: that Yousef gave us. You know, got in there and
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  Speaker 2: you kind of muddied the water a little bit and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of got under their skin a little
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  Speaker 2: bit by being physical, and you know, did some things
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  Speaker 2: defensively to protect the rim. Uh. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: he got a couple offensive rebounds and got us a couple
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  Speaker 2: of extra good looks at three that we didn't that
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  Speaker 2: we didn't connect on. Obviously, it was not a great
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  Speaker 2: a great shooting night for us, so you kind of
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  Speaker 2: walk away from the game. Obviously you're amazed at the
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  Speaker 2: way Liam showed up, but we also too, We were like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we were We felt really good about winning
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  Speaker 2: a game we needed, especially on a night where where
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  Speaker 2: Alex had a tough shooting night and solo uh two
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  Speaker 2: of our three made guys on the perimeter uh did
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  Speaker 2: not get to uh anywhere near their average, And to
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  Speaker 2: still win versus a team like that, we we we'll
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  Speaker 2: take it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no doubt finding a way. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies did, certainly on Saturday night. More on Liam McNeely
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  Speaker 1: and USU Cingari and sophomore group for the Huskies see
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  Speaker 1: young team in some ways. We'll be back with more.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on
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  Speaker 1: Learfield