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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Feb 13 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Mike Chrispino, joined by Dan
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  Hurley. A little bit later on in the show, Willow Alex Caravan as
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  the Huskies continue to roll, having won twelve in a row now and a
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  record of I'm losing track, It's going crazier twenty two and two. Won
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  twenty two of twenty four. Big numbers for Yukon. Fifty three of their
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  last sixty three have been wins, seventy six and twenty over the last three
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  years. And Dan, you had a couple of games here we're going to
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  talk about. Obviously, we're gonna look ahead a little to De Paul and
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  Marquette, which is coming up over the weekend. But let's go back to
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  Butler at home. That was a major challenge because you played a team that
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  was red hot. They had won four in a row, coming in trying
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  to build their resume. That's what February is about for so many schools.
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  The approach to that game, knowing it it was at home, but knowing
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  you had a team they had beaten once, but you knew they were in
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  kind of desperation mode. Yeah, I mean, they're the first of all,
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  they're really they're a good basketball team, and they're a dangerous team because
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  they're a very good offensive team. Davis Telfort Brooks a really talented offensive team
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  that had two of the best maybe road winds in the country of any program
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  in college this year, having won at Creighton, having won at Marquette.
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  Yeah, so we were prepared for, you know, their best shot,
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  and you know, I think we made the game a little harder on ourselves.
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  Felt like the game was at six eight twelve. Was kind of expecting
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  maybe a raise our level and get a push and maybe getting into the fifteen
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  sixteen eighteen range. But you know, credit Butler. They were stubborn,
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  they were desperate. Then they made us earn it. Yeah, some of
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  the big numbers in that game in the paint Yukon thirty eight twenty eight.
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  Always like that they rebounded it well, the Bulldogs they were even with you
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  thirty three apiece. You know, this is the beauty of this team to
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  me is that every night it's somebody else who's going to step up, who
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  is going to be, you know, one of the key contributors. And
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  in that game, you got Donovan Klingon going off with eighteen points, fourteen
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  rebounds, three block shots and and under twenty eight minutes. Let's talk about
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  him for a second. He looked to me to be much more aggressive offensively
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  in terms of working his way into places to shoot the basketball. Our responsibility
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  offensively as a as a team, and you know, as an organization is
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  to you know, get a sense of you know, what the what the
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  opponent's trying to take away. And obviously they put a lot of stock and
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  you know what some other guys have been doing, and you know, we
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  kind of hadn't featured you know, Donovan, you know, with the post
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  catches, but we felt like, you know, he had a major advantage
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  there and and yeah, that's kind of what the game presented. I think
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  that's what that's what's great about our team is especially the you know, the
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  starting group is. Yeah, you've got five guys that you know, are
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  willing to let someone else, you know, have the numbers and have the
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  game on any given night. And I think that's what makes the team dangerous,
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  that we're not reliant on one or two guys to bail us out on
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  a nightly basis. Yeah, I'm looking at the league stats like a lot
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  of people check these things out, and we don't have a guy in the
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  top ten scoring. We got Spencer fifteen and a half a game, Newton
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  over fifteen. You got Caravent almost fifteen. And that again presented itself in
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  the Butler game because Cam Spencer went off. He made four threes, scored
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  twenty points, had four rebounds, three assists. You just don't know where
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  it's coming from when you play Yukon right now. Yeah, yeah, And
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  you know the defense has improved. I think I've been a little disappointed in
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  the rebounding since Saint John's uh so we we We've gotta got to kind of
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  shore things up there. But I think that's how you It's how you go
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  on winning streaks. That's how you that's how you win tournaments. That's how
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  you advance in tournaments. You know, the easiest way to advance, the
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  easiest way to lose in a tournament is to be reliant, overly reliant on
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  one or two players. One or two of those players have a bad night,
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  and you know it's all over for you. So having depth and obviously
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  having defense and rebounding, you know, in an offense that relies on movement
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  ball movement player movement, as you know, and people that are willing,
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  you know, willing to share you know what, it's Steve Lavender's just say
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  share the sugar, you know, you know, just share the ball,
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  share the credit. It's good. Yeah, let's get back to defense for
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  because I know that's important to you and the coaching staff. Six straight games
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  have held the opposition under sixty five. That's a pretty good number on this
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  level of college basketball. Eh, straight if held teams under seventy. I
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  mean, do you feel like if you're playing the kind of defense you're capable
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  of, you can play with anybody. I'm not getting ahead of us at
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  all, getting ahead of ourselves, but if you're keeping teams between sixty five
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  and seventy, you got to feel like you got a good chance to win
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  every night. Yeah, I think you know, our field goal defense on
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  the year, even when we were not where we wanted to be defensively,
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  our field goal defense has been good throughout the year. And now it's you
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  know, it's a it's at its best. But yeah, earlier in the
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  year we were playing good defense, but we weren't rebounding. We were playing
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  pretty good field goal percentage defense. But we weren't creating turnovers, you know,
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  So there's other aspects to defense than just like you know, making the
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  other guy miss or fouling, you know, which has been an issue for
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  us at times. So I think right now we're showing better discipline, not
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  Valley, you know, we're creating things, you know, more, you
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  know, in terms of turnovers, creating some and get some easy baskets.
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  And then you know we've shown an improvement on the backboard. And then obviously
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  with Donovan back, you know that that that changes are are are are are
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  our defense at the rim? Yeah, I thought that model. The Butler
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  coach brought up something interesting in the post game which which I hadn't thought about,
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  and you could maybe speak to this as a guy that played in this
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  on this level in the Big East against you know, great players. He
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  said, the one reasons they shot thirty seven percent is because of your length
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  on the perimeter. And and you know, I don't really I didn't think
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  about that, but Tristan Newton's not a small guard. Steph Castle is not
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  a small guard cam spencer. I mean that's pretty important, isn't it to
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  have that kind of length on the perimeter. Yeah. And you know then
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  Alyx is six' eight and he's got low arms, and uh you saw
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  one through four who end up, you know, switching a lot of things
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  that're they're tall and and uh you know, they could cover a lot of
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  court and you know they could bother shots. I don't think we looked at
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  the game after watching a Butler game and said, uh man, we got
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  lucky. You know, they missed some good ones. I think, uh
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  it felt like we uh you know, we contested, uh, you know
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  everything against a really good offense. Well you've got you got to go and
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  that's for sure. And and uh I brought this up to one of the
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  one of the guys. You know, I don't hope you don't get mad
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  at me, But superstition, I get a little superstitious things are going well,
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  you've cons winning a lot of games. They look good. Do you
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  ever get superstitious at all coming into a game? I mean I got the
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  underwear. I got lucky underwear and a frame from last year over my shop.
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  Yeah, I mean I add them as we go. You know,
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  it's I got some it's multiplying for me right now, and I don't know
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  if it's healthy it's actually starting to get a little bit scary. So I
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  was talking to Luke Murray before the game, and Eve, if I'm getting
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  a little superstitious, I'm wearing this Yukon blue T shirt under my dress shirt.
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  Now, I don't know, I think I'm going down a rabbit hole
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  here. Yeah. Well, I started this year off like because you know,
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  I like to run, especially day of game. I like to run.
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  And I was a runner as a child. My dad, you know,
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  made me and my brother run, run cross country and run distance for
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  the mental toughness aspect of it and in the fitness. But uh, cardio,
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  but I So I started out the year. You know, I'm gonna
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  run everything. You know, it's got to be sub you know, sub
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  twenty seven minutes. Uh, you know, in terms of the running.
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  So I started out the year going into game one three point oh one miles,
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  right. So now after you know, every next win that we're going
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  for, it's gotta stay sub twenty seven minutes. And now as the winds
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  go, it just gets a little bit tougher. So now like you know,
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  going morning of last game, you know, three point two to two
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  miles in sub twenty seven minutes, it's moving for an old guy. You
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  know, we keep winning like this, I'm gonna I'm gonna probably drop that
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  on the treadmill. No, no, no, no, don't stay.
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  I'm in march because I'm gonna be trying to book like a three point three
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  two sub twenty seven minute mile because I've got the superstition in my head.
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  Oh there you go. Hey, nine minute miles are great, I mean,
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  but don't don't go. It's not a nine minute mile now though,
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  Mike, because it's I'm trying. I just ran a three point two to
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  two, so yeah, so it's more like an eight and a half minute,
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  right. Even the winds go up, and you know, as you
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  keep winning, it just gets it gets tough. At some point I'm gonna
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  be at like an a ten pace hopefully. Oh no, Roger Banister,
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  I'm not Roger Banister, but you know, look out Roger Banister. All
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  right, coach, we'll be back in just a second. It's the Yukon
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