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Dan Hurley - Pre Gonzaga Zoom Dec 14 · Coaches Corner

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  Hey, Dan, how is this Gonzaga team different than the one you played
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  in March? Well, I mean, you know, they've lost. Both
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  teams have obviously we're not the same teams. I mean we've both lost some
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  great players. Uh, you know for them, you know, to me,
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  Tommy one of the best players in the country, Trouser, you know,
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  one of the best wings. Uh. And you know, and I
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  think a first round pick, you know. And then obviously with everything that
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  we we've lost, you know, with our group, uh there there,
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  I think what you know, what stands out obviously in them are who we
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  we know how good he is. Dickman, you know, we know how
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  good he is. But they're they're four and five. Yeah, they're there
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  there. Their front corns is really impressive. I mean it's deep, really
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  talented. Uh you know, g they go four deep. Uh and it's
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  gonna be just a real real challenge. But I think they they have the
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  deepest and I think their best overall front court the country. Because of the
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  death man, how uh have stuffed the long practice in the last few days
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  and imagine would you expect him to u, you know, amp up his
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  minutes a little bit tomorrow night. I lost you there in the beginning of
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  that, is that Dave? Yeah, oh can you hear me? Yeah,
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  I can hear you that. I'm sorry, Yeah, no, just
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  Steph. How's he been looking in practice? And yeah, I guess the
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  last stuff would be, uh amp up his his minutes a little bit tomorrow.
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  Yeah, I think, you know, he's definitely available for more and
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  and he's got more reps in practice, he got more game reps. Uh.
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  There's obviously elements where he's really gonna help us. I mean he's uh,
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  you know, specifically defensively and and and a guy that could playoff script
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  offensively and create offense for us, uh, off the script and stuff that
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  we do. I think really well, So yeah, I think he's he's
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  available to give us more, you know, but just like Donovan right now,
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  it's it's just, you know, it's a young guy that's missed time
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  that is just as shoss as he's gonna be then. Uh, you know,
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  now that you've you've made this trip, uh, you know, it's
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  often been talked about perhaps Gonzaga joining the Big East someday. That may not
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  may not be something that you want to talk about specific but the idea of
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  maybe a league rival on the other coast three thousand miles away. Is that
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  something that you think would be workable for for the Big East? Yeah,
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  I think, Sally, I mean, for the most part, the way
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  that we you know, the way that we travel in our league, You've
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  got that you've got schools that are really committed to basketball in terms of the
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  resources that we invest that that have made make the trip you know, comfortable.
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  If we could get a program of Gondaga Caliba to come into the Big
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  East and and and make you know, obviously we could really use another big
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  time program to strengthen the league and TV contracts and everything that kind of goes
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  into it. Uh we we just suck it up. We would uh yeah.
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  I mean it's the short to Stephan Shorter trips for us, but it
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  would certainly be uh be worth it just for the basketball boost that it would
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  give, you know, to to these you know, to our conference,
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  and do you expect you know, obviously coming off a pretty good game the
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  other night coincidentally in his hometown, but I mean Jalen kind of seems like
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  he's kind of uh, you know, established himself as maybe in that sort
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  of fun nine. Yeah, I think he definitely, you know, it
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  is growing and maturing and developing. And just like Jayden Ross you know and
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  Solo and staff, you guys are you are continuing to get better? I
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  think, uh, you know, you know, just the light switch goes
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  on, it clicks, you know, young players become playable at different you
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  know, obviously on different timelines. And I think what we we you know,
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  we really believe in his talent. We believe in Jay Ross's talent.
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  We want them to continue to trust us to uh to help them, uh,
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  you know, develop into the type of players that they came here to
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  develop into. Uh. I certainly liked to go staff in particular. And
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  I think some of the games that h you know, the Kansas games on
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  the road, it's like, you know, you need the you need the
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  starters, you know, to get you off to a good start in some
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  of these games, you know, so you are comfortable playing them. It's
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  get down at Kansas the way we did. It's tough to get a young
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  guy that's kind of in that cringe area trying to pull the trigger on kind
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  of getting him in there. But we want to play nine our best teams.
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  For me over my career had played nine even ten, So trust me,
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  Yeah, we want to get Jase stew We want to try to get
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  Jay Wilson. There By, Roger and listen to your third game gets the
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  top ten opponent, which is unprecedented for the program during the non confrace regular
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  season. Did your purposely want to really just kind of amp up the schedule
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  this year and put the team a little bit further Yeah, I just think
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  these opportunities were weren't afforded to us, you know, and until we took
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  the program, a lot of these opportunities were We're put together like during last
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  season, like early in the season, December, January, uh, postseason,
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  like the you know, the with those three bigger ones Kansas, Carolina,
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  uh and this one here. So these are the touch of games that
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  the best teams in the country are playing. You know. Right now we
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  have our program in a place where we look like one of the top teams
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  when you are you get these type of games. You know, I know
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  that it's frustrating for fans that uh, you know that that these games aren't
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  being played, uh, you know on campus. I think this is a
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  one off in terms of uh being an outlier year where we didn't get any
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  of these games at home, uh, you know, which which sucks for
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  our fans, but it's been good for our brand overall. And it's a
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  one off. There won't be any more years where we don't get one or
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  more of these in dampoint at the Xcel. Thank you got Adam and then
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  Dan, Dan? How are we doing, buddy bags? What's up?
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  I'm doing all right? Man? You know you have this like trio big
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  games, Kansas, North Carolina, Gonzaga. If you are able to come
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  out of it two and one, uh, you know what would that mean
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  to the program going into the Big East and uh? You know, did
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  you guys kind of set you know, a goal of of going at least
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  two and one, if not three and oh in these games? Yeah,
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  I mean I think we looked at them all collectively. You know, eighteen
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  months ago when you put together this uh this non conference and you were open
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  to play Indiana, Texas, Carolina, Kansas and Daga. You know,
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  it's it's beyond those, you know, those three. So it's like you
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  know that just that that grouping this year with the big non conference games,
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  it's it's just been really exciting matchups. And I don't know that, you
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  know, I think with's where we're out of the program. We're just looking
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  at these games as like we're playing the we're playing we're playing three or or
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  more of the best teams in the country, none of which are at home.
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  They're all neutral or road. It's just a great way to test yourself
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  in both the Big East Conference and and then these types of matchups will pay
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  big dividends in March when when we're you know, when you're only playing the
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  best teams and we'll have a lot of experience having played like the best teams
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  that college basketball can offer. Thanks back to Dave and then I'm him any
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  house, Okay, what's up? Yeah, you've had some you've had some
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  success against them, Pard, what's what makes them difficult guard? And what
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  are you gonna do to keep him in check? Again? And and e
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  K what is what kind of what kind of special problems that he presents?
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  Yeah, you know themhar just you know the speed, you know, the
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  speed with the ball, the ability just to break down your defense and transition
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  in the ball screen game in isolation situations. There's kind of really a great
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  set for how they play offense. They Cantaga plays with great pace with a
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  heavy emphasis in the ball scream game. So you know, we know how
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  tough it is to play against Ryan H. We a lot of respects for
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  him and in an e K I think, uh, you know, just
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  a physicality, a real a real technician, you know, tremendous touch,
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  high i Q high physicality. You really got to bring it, you know,
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  because he's very very physical phys go on the glasses. Physical and screening.
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  It's physical and post ups. You know, he's uh an older player
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  with a ton of experience. You know, they really get him the ball
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  and uh and get him opportunities. So just that their front court openall though
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  with Watson UH and e K. That's uh, it's good to four and
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  five as you see