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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 3 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show Sunday afternoon. Husky's returning to Gamble to tangle
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  Speaker 1: with their Root forty four rivals from Providence College. Radio
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  Speaker 1: coverage begins with a hard auto group count down a
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  Speaker 1: tip at one thirty here along the Yukon Sports Network,
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  Speaker 1: the Varsity Network Gap and the Varsity Network dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Just to wrap up what we're talking about, Coach in
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  Speaker 1: the first segment, I've heard coaches say this in basketball
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  Speaker 1: and football too. You almost have to spend time as
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  Speaker 1: you coach your team recruiting your own team. That I
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  Speaker 1: think would be a really difficult thing for any coach
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  Speaker 1: who is completely immersed in trying to make his team
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  Speaker 1: better day to day and trying to win games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I just think you want to have
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  Speaker 2: a I think a high enough quality of program in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the resources all around that the players feel
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  Speaker 2: like they're not being cheated in terms of having everything
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  Speaker 2: at their disposal to achieve great success, to become the
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  Speaker 2: best version of themselves, to improve and become the most productive,
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  Speaker 2: and to reach their potential.
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  Speaker 3: Whether that's the way you travel to the nil.
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  Speaker 2: To the facilities, the practice facilities, the whole arena, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the things that will help them, you know, be successful,
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  Speaker 2: win championships and hopefully for them get to the NBA
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  Speaker 2: or the highest level of play for them. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: number one, you got to have that in place. And
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  Speaker 2: then you know, the second thing is they've got to
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  Speaker 2: believe that you've got expertise and that you've got the
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  Speaker 2: ability to an evidence of developing players that have not
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  Speaker 2: only won at Yukon, but then have you know, been
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  Speaker 2: draft picks or high draft picks, or or playing around
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  Speaker 2: the globe the way we you've got guys like r. J.
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  Speaker 2: Cole or Isaiah Walley or some of the guys that
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  Speaker 2: didn't quite you know, you know, make the NBA, but
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  Speaker 2: they're having you know, Jalen Adams, Christian Vital, guys are
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  Speaker 2: having just great careers professionally in basketball, not just in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA. So you don't want to have to beg
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  Speaker 2: your players to stay, induce your players to stay with
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  Speaker 2: empty promises. You know, you just you got to have
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  Speaker 2: the resources to support the player, and then you have
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  Speaker 2: to have the relationships with the players, and then you
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  Speaker 2: have to have the evidence and the credibility with the
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  Speaker 2: players where they want you to be their coach. They
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  Speaker 2: think that you're the absolute best coach for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I just saw dan in the news, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was yesterday. Six players from one of the
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  Speaker 1: programs around the country were up in arms saying that
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  Speaker 1: they were promised certain you know, monetary returns on their
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  Speaker 1: coming to a certain school and didn't get that and
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  Speaker 1: now they're seeking legal action. That really worries me because
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  Speaker 1: now we're going to have to go to contracts with people.
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  Speaker 1: Because if players can go to lawyers and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't get what they said we were supposed to get,
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  Speaker 1: now we're going to go after whatever, you know, universe,
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  Speaker 1: the program, whatever it may be. That is kind of scary.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's scary.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much you know, chaos right now and lack
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  Speaker 2: of leadership. And I was read a tweet by one
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  Speaker 2: of the staff members that had mentioned today that you know,
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  Speaker 2: potentially everyone's just going to get five years of eligibility
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  Speaker 2: and you're just kind of just seeing things on Twitter
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  Speaker 2: or social media and just have no idea what's going
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  Speaker 2: on with your sport and who's in charge. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I hear the narrative, Well, coaches can just leave and
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  Speaker 2: go wherever they want, which is not you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: not true. We have buyouts. You know, there are penalties
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  Speaker 2: if we do leave, you know, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times they're very hefty financial penalties.
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  Speaker 3: And then you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, we also we could also have you know, the
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  Speaker 2: job taken from us. We could be fired at any moment,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whereas I don't have the ability to cut
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  Speaker 2: a player because he's not playing well. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: right now, there's just not there's no structure to the sport.
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  Speaker 2: There's guidelines that need to be put in place or else.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, coaches got to be big boys, and you've got
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  Speaker 2: to stop complaining. It's not a complaint, it's a cry
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  Speaker 2: for help. I love college basketball. It's an incredible sport.
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  Speaker 2: It's the best thing you could watch basketball wise, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this time of year through April, because everyone's going life
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  Speaker 2: for death to.
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  Speaker 3: Win these games. I mean, these games.
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  Speaker 2: Are just like life or death battles, you know, which
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  Speaker 2: you're probably not seeing a lot in the NBA until
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  Speaker 2: playoff time. So you know, I'm not complaining, but you
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  Speaker 2: just don't want the fans to become disenchanted by the
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  Speaker 2: product because it's becoming too transactional. They can't keep track
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  Speaker 2: of who's on their team, and then it just becomes
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  Speaker 2: maybe too chaotic. And then you know, if our fans
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  Speaker 2: lose interest in it, we're out of business with toast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. And then when you don't
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  Speaker 1: want your fans talking about what goes on outside the
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  Speaker 1: sidelines when they're going to the game, that's not good
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  Speaker 1: on the road these wins, you've had Texas great start
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  Speaker 1: to the game. Butler, same thing to Paul. I think
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  Speaker 1: I asked you in the pregame for de Paul, what
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  Speaker 1: is it about getting off to a good start, and
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  Speaker 1: you said something, I just tell them to get off
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  Speaker 1: to a good start. There's more than that, though. Right
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  Speaker 1: you come out of the locker room, you're in another arena.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see it once a year. Maybe maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: never been in there. It's a difficult transition, isn't it
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  Speaker 1: for players to go to a place they've never seen,
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  Speaker 1: never played in, and have to bring their best Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't control whether you whether you get
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  Speaker 2: off to a great start or not. It helps if
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  Speaker 2: you're an excellent defensive team an excellent rebounding team and
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  Speaker 2: excellent offensive. If you're an excellent all around team and
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to score on you, it's hard to get
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  Speaker 2: a rebound versue, and you're hard to stop on offense, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: those things increase your chances of starting fast. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like people that complain about coaches whose teams miss
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  Speaker 2: free throws. You know, like that has nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with coaching. It has more to do with recruiting. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you just recruited bad shooters or players that can't handle pressure.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I don't want to get off on
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  Speaker 2: a tangent about free throw shooting and how that is
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  Speaker 2: not related to coaching expertise in any in any manner,
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  Speaker 2: every coach practices free throws shooting. Every coach practices shooting
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  Speaker 2: pressure free throws in practice.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the tangent I don't want to be on
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: But you know you could script up I think really
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  Speaker 2: good offensive things to run early in a game to
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  Speaker 2: attack another team's you know, defensive tendencies, and you can
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  Speaker 2: have a really good scouting report to try to have
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  Speaker 2: good defensive wrinkles, which I think puts you in position
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  Speaker 2: to get off to a faster start, but in the end,
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, a lot of it just comes down to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether your guys make shots to start a game,
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  Speaker 2: and whether your guys step up on defense to start
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  Speaker 2: a game. And you know, what is the atmosphere like
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  Speaker 2: for your home game? You know, do you have a
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  Speaker 2: great home crowd? Was it a great anthem or did
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  Speaker 2: we bring in someone that's sang a bad anthem? And
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  Speaker 2: now the crowd isn't into it and and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a you know, it's a dead atmosphere, and now
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  Speaker 2: you're kind of your your your zombie like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of factors. You play on the road
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  Speaker 2: in front of a you know, a half ass crowd.
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  Speaker 1: There was actually a very good crowd for the DePaul game,
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  Speaker 1: sixty five hundred people. They're only drawn thirty three, so
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  Speaker 1: they came out to watch the back to back national champs.
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  Speaker 1: And you kind of took care of business early, going
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  Speaker 1: eight for fifteen from three in the first.
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  Speaker 2: I like that, Mike, you know what I was you
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  Speaker 2: we were watching a film of their games, and I'm saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's maybe a little bit better in there,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I like the fact that that we
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  Speaker 2: drew twice as much as they drew for another big
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  Speaker 2: East game, and it was some atmosphere in there that
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  Speaker 2: that I like, that that felt good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think the players do too. They get some get
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  Speaker 1: some undertoes and ready to rip all right with Dan
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  Speaker 1: her Like, we're back in just a moment. This is
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show from Learfield