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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 23 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan Hurley,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Crispino, here Hassandier coming up coach in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about him. That transformation for him from six
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  Speaker 1: man of the year. You made him the point guard. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a few games into the season and plays
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  Speaker 1: massive minutes. I guess the first question is is he
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  Speaker 1: playing too many minutes? The guy's out there all the time,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like. And he's also kind of learning a
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  Speaker 1: new job on the job training.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what else do you want me to do?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I mean he does
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  Speaker 2: what's that?
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  Speaker 1: You got a tough gig. He's playing for you. You were
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  Speaker 1: a point guard. You're gonna tell him what he's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be doing and can he do it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, it's not it's not ideal, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: we know what type of games we're you know we're
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  Speaker 3: playing in right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean these are you know, with Liam's absence, I
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  Speaker 2: think it just uh, you know, puts us.
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  Speaker 3: In a situation where we already have you know, some
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  Speaker 3: sophomores running around out there, like Jaln Stewart. You know,
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  Speaker 3: like Jayden Ross, you know, solo ball from a defensive standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: these are like still you know, players that are young
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  Speaker 3: relative to how the rest of college basketball is, especially
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  Speaker 3: at the high major level.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, just the.
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  Speaker 3: Need to have a veteran point guard out there with
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  Speaker 3: him with those guys. And then yeah, I mean, like
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  Speaker 3: with Liam's return, even though he's a freshman. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Liam's a great player, you know, and Liam's Lilliams the
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  Speaker 3: first team All Conference player in the Big East, not
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  Speaker 3: just the best freshman. So you know, he's a top
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  Speaker 3: ten pick.
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  Speaker 2: This guy.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, when he's in the game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: potentially and he's back and healthy and with Alex and
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  Speaker 3: maybe with a solo on the court, you know, now
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  Speaker 3: playing a mod Noel more minutes that point guard is
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  Speaker 3: something that that could work because he'd be surrounded by
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  Speaker 3: a stronger cast or getting you know, eight and more
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  Speaker 3: minutes to get Hussa more rest. When he's got a
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  Speaker 3: stronger group around him, the problem becomes, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you're already you know, have a weaker group out there. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and now I'm gonna throw a freshman point guard in
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  Speaker 3: the mix, you know, with the with the team that's
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  Speaker 3: not real sturdy. You know, it just becomes a much
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  Speaker 3: tougher thing to do. And unfortunately, you know, we're we're
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  Speaker 3: running Hassan into the ground a little bit. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: neither Ahmad nor nor Aiden have have kind of have
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  Speaker 3: grown the confidence in us right now to this point,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for us to trust them more, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the onuses on them as players, I don't. I think
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  Speaker 3: we have a track record here of playing the right
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  Speaker 3: players and of playing really good players, and these guys
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  Speaker 3: just have to continue to develop so that they can
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  Speaker 3: help us more.
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  Speaker 1: All right, quick thought on Xavier, that last game you
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  Speaker 1: played with them, great game and overtime, you kind of
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  Speaker 1: winning ninety four eighty nine. They had all those threes,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Conwell made three of them, five from Dante Maddox Junior.
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  Speaker 1: Do you expect they're going to play that same kind
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  Speaker 1: of game, trying to run up, you know, as many
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  Speaker 1: points as they can try to win, you know, offensively
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  Speaker 1: in this game on Saturday, well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean based on our defense, I mean they're foaming
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  Speaker 3: at the mouth.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we've just struggled.
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  Speaker 3: And for us, it's been the perfect storm because you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've not been sturdy enough to hold up you know,
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  Speaker 3: almost at any position besides Hassan and Alex at times
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  Speaker 3: from a one on one standpoint. Defensively, you know, we've
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  Speaker 3: been exposed as poor individual defenders, so people are attacking
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  Speaker 3: certain matchups, and then we're also giving up a way
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  Speaker 3: above the the what would be normal three point shooting percentage.
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  Speaker 3: Up to this point in the year, we've been we've
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  Speaker 3: been really unlucky relative to people making way above they
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  Speaker 3: normally would make from three. So you know, it's one
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  Speaker 3: of those things where it's like we can't guard the ball,
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  Speaker 3: so we're giving up the rim, but then we're also
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  Speaker 3: scared to death because we're giving up a crazy high
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  Speaker 3: percentage from three.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, we're right now just really searching for
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  Speaker 3: ways to improve our defense. And Xavier played an incredible
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  Speaker 3: offensive game against this. They made some really hard shots.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Conwell is a is a is one of
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  Speaker 3: the best offensive players in the league. Fremantle is now
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  Speaker 3: back and starting to get his rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, McKnight is a tremendous player. They really pushed
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  Speaker 3: the ball in transition. I mean, this game on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: night is like, you know, like We're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to really try to steal this one, you know, on
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  Speaker 3: the road. It's it's going to be a really tough
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  Speaker 3: game they're playing.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Winning at Marquette is I think was a it was
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  Speaker 3: a sign that that these guys are starting to find
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  Speaker 3: them elves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they got Saint John's on the road this
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  Speaker 1: week too, So high level game expected on Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: when Yukon visits Xavier. The only thing I got for you, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: just score one more point than them.
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  Speaker 2: That's all. Just do that. Yeah, there, there's you know
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  Speaker 2: what we're that's the objective.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I hope that at some point again,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we could start grading the beauty of our wins.
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  Speaker 3: But right now, you know, any win that we can
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  Speaker 3: get you know, from here, you know, through to when
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  Speaker 3: this season ends, is a great win and we all
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  Speaker 3: need to celebrate it.
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  Speaker 1: We all need to know that. McNeely, When do you
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  Speaker 1: think he gets back?
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  Speaker 3: I mean we're three weeks out and you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got to get with our medical team here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was I think we were.
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  Speaker 3: Looking at a you know, a three to four week
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, injury timeline with him, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's three weeks today, or I'm not showing this
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  Speaker 3: radio show, but it's it's it's three weeks today, and
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  Speaker 3: and and he's making progress. So you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be heading for, you know, hopefully in the near future
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  Speaker 3: that the dreaded game day game time decision. I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to get to game time decision with him. That's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm Husky Nation right with you. Thanks coach. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciated good luck in Cincinnati against Xavier on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All right back with more. Hassan Diiarra joins us on
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show next