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Seg 4 MBB Show w Dan Hurley Oct 28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: High Heart Music Studio, Dan Hurley. You've gone for a
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  Speaker 1: basketball coach's show.
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  Speaker 2: Dan's better half has entered the building, so now.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to behave. I'm going to straighten up. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sit up straight. Sit up straight. No slouching.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to behave. Those eyes when she glares at me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I know. I get that, too. I know what it
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  Speaker 1: feels like with the players.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you about gesturing, because you're pretty
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  Speaker 2: good with the gesturing thing. The other night, you were
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  Speaker 2: doing a lot of this, waving your arms up. What
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  Speaker 2: was that all about? Tell the audience, because sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: do that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: In a game. Yeah, I don't know. I just think it's,
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  Speaker 1: when I grew up, the coaches, at least the Big
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  Speaker 1: East that I grew up with, and the fans of
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  Speaker 1: some of those, like, you know, obviously Coach Calhoun and
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  Speaker 1: you know, John Thompson, the late John Thompson, the late
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  Speaker 1: Raleigh Massimino. I mean, the coaches were, they were themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They were characters. And I think there's been so much,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much to diminish the role of coaches in
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  Speaker 1: sports today, to try to devalue them. And everything is
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  Speaker 1: so much player empowerment, player empowerment, player empowerment. At some
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  Speaker 1: point that becomes negative, especially in sports, like especially college sports.
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  Speaker 1: Because coaches are really important in college sports. Because you're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with developmental players. So that's that. And then the
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  Speaker 1: other part of it is sometimes I'm just a jerk.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't help myself. Right? Andrea?
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  Speaker 2: You can't help yourself. I have told people, though, that
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  Speaker 2: some of the things that you do are for effect.
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  Speaker 2: You do them to get a reaction. Maybe from your team.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe from an official.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just tied into our program, really.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's how we show up into the arena.
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  Speaker 1: and how we practice every day, and just our mindset
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  Speaker 1: and our mentality. Like, we don't slink into the arena
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  Speaker 1: when we go on the road. I mean, we announce ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: because we're six-time national champion UConn Huskies. You know, six-time. Six, six,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, six! And in the last four years,
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  Speaker 1: we've won two, and we've been in the finals another time. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't come in all meager. I mean, we've got humility.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like, we know... We have respect for your opponents. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Like, the programs that we beat,
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  Speaker 1: I don't troll. Like, I don't troll these other programs.
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  Speaker 1: I got great respect for these other programs. Like, I'm not...
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  Speaker 1: That's never been my intention. I mean, some of them,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I do, you know? But... You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to name names, are you? No. I mean, like the Duke,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't. Duke is not the program that I
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  Speaker 1: really am aiming at when I troll. Like, they actually
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  Speaker 1: win a lot. I mean, like, they win a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're, you know, like they're along with UConn
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  Speaker 1: right now. I think we've separated ourselves as the two
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  Speaker 1: premier programs. Obviously, Florida, you know, going into this year,
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  Speaker 1: they just won one recently. If they find themselves in
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  Speaker 1: the final four. win a national championship, and they got
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  Speaker 1: a squad that may be able to do it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they're in that conversation, obviously, as well. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was talking more about, like, programs that just produce
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  Speaker 1: draft picks but don't make it to Elite Eights, that
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  Speaker 1: don't make it to the Final Fours. You people are brutal, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not the one saying that, by the way. Arkansas,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not the one saying that. I know.
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  Speaker 1: You people. We've got a wild crowd. They're outspoken. They're
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  Speaker 1: happy to see you.
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  Speaker 2: They want to yell and scream.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you get from people in the Northeast. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you're comfortable with it. Yes, that's why I fit in.
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  Speaker 2: We're all comfortable with that. I've got to ask you this.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to the Duke game, this is the last
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  Speaker 2: thing I'm going to ask about this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, you're down 19 in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Are you in your mind saying, oh, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: come back. We can get back in this thing. Are
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  Speaker 2: you saying, please, let's not embarrass ourselves?
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  Speaker 1: No, no. I mean, some of those early timeouts, I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think, you know, they, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: kind of jumped us a little bit. We cut it
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  Speaker 1: to five or six and then Silas has a really
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  Speaker 1: bad unforced turnover where now the first half, you know,
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  Speaker 1: begins to now, you know, head in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 1: And I did, there's like a little bit of, weak
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  Speaker 1: human nature kind of kicks in and you say man
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  Speaker 1: this is like like this is this this is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be an epic battle and you know you could
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  Speaker 1: get run here i mean i was like quick though
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  Speaker 1: it's like three seconds yeah i'm like i punched myself
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  Speaker 1: in the jaw i'm like yo don't be a punk
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  Speaker 1: you know like yeah really like get because you don't
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  Speaker 1: think that way because you do i mean you're you
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  Speaker 1: you're you know the quality of who you're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: the boozer You know, like, I mean, just what they
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  Speaker 1: brought to the table, their team, everything. You know, that like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you needed to just stay in the fight.
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  Speaker 1: And you know you have the DNA to still win
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  Speaker 1: that game. And you're just begging and pleading with your
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  Speaker 1: team and getting them to believe just in all those moments,
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  Speaker 1: those interactions you have with the team. Just long enough
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  Speaker 1: to put game pressure on them. And just preaching, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if we put game pressure on them, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: these guys will crack and they'll leave us a little window,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get to the Final Four and win
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  Speaker 1: the game. And that's it. And that's... You've got to
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  Speaker 1: just talk about this year's team now. Yeah, well, all right.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't mentioned Braylon Mullins. This guy's going to have
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  Speaker 1: a follow-up question about when we lost to Wichita State
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  Speaker 1: in year one or something. Or Houston. I'm not bringing
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  Speaker 1: that up. That's a bad one.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't mentioned Braylon Mullins. I mean, he hasn't played.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting ready to play. I mean, that moment for
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  Speaker 2: him was fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: And for the team.
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  Speaker 2: Bob Hurley Sr. in the stands and your mother. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that was a crazy, crazy moment. You lost your haberdasher.
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  Speaker 2: Your jacket fell off.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Andrew's mom was the only person that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even looking at the shot. Oh, no. I call her Meemaw.
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  Speaker 1: I'm 53 years old. I call her mother Meemaw. It's bizarre. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Braylon, that does a lot for his confidence
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  Speaker 1: going into this year. He's a lot stronger. We just
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  Speaker 1: got to get him. I mean, we could have. I
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  Speaker 1: think the plan was like, let's play him the first half,
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  Speaker 1: first Michigan State, and just get him some run there
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  Speaker 1: because he had had multiple days of live practice. But
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  Speaker 1: we just figured it was best to just get him
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  Speaker 1: some consistent work up to Purdue so that he's got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to get out there in the Purdue exhibition
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  Speaker 1: as long as he doesn't have any setbacks. But he's
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  Speaker 1: a lot stronger now. I mean, he looked great today.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, went over and practiced today. Like, Braylon, you
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  Speaker 1: look great. I mean, you look big. You look strong.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you look like a man out there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very excited to see what the guy can do this year.
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  Speaker 1: Him and Silas, I think, backcourt-wise, could be just as
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  Speaker 1: good as it gets. And the thing about Braylon is, like,
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  Speaker 1: Braylon plays both ends. Like, Braylon's defense last year, especially
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  Speaker 1: the last half, last third of the year, he was
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  Speaker 1: like an excellent, excellent, two-way player that also gets on
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  Speaker 1: the backboard and he steals the ball and makes plays
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  Speaker 1: so um i just can't wait to see what the
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  Speaker 1: guy does yeah just so much more mature uh as
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  Speaker 1: a as a person just how he handles everything
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  Speaker 2: Yeah great prospects for braylon mullins and the huskies we
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  Speaker 2: take a quick break dan hurley back the uconn men's
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