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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Feb 29 · Coaches Corner

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  Or back with Dan Hurley, you kind of Seat and Hall on Sunday.
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  Quick note on that one. Coach, Obviously you've got great history with the
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  school and with the opposing coach, Shaheen Holloway, and so there's a little
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  extra juice in that one. I know you might not say that, but
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  I know deep down maybe you're feelings something like that when you take on the
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  pirates, no matter where it is, when I go there, definitely,
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  I think when I get to Jersey in particular, you know Newark place.
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  You know, I lived near, worked in and spent so much time in
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  that great the great city of Newark, and I'm close to Jersey City,
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  I'm in North Jersey. I think you're definitely there's some of that. But
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  at this point, I'm so old and you're talking like thirty years since,
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  you know, and so much good. You know. I sent my oldest
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  son to seat in Hall and he's doing great. I met my wife there,
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  and uh, so many great things have happened to me because of my
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  Seaton all experience that uh, you know, if anything it's it's it's uh,
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  you know, it's a positive thing for me, not one where I
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  want to beat my Alma mater more than I want to beat Marquette or Saint
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  John's. That doesn't exist for me. Yeah, Sheen Holloway their coach now
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  doing an excellent job with them this year. They're in the hunt for an
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  NCAA bid. Uh quick thought on them because the Pirates, you know,
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  we're not that highly thought of when the season began. And Shaheen and his
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  second goal around here, what has he done for that team? Do you
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  think to get them to where they are today? Well, he's got he's
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  had some new pieces that that he's had had to kind of kind of work
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  with, you know, he returned Yo Kadaris is one of the best players
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  and maybe you know one of the most talented players too. And and they're
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  built I think to play you know Big East basketball. They're very physical,
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  physical rebounding team, physical defensive team, physical offensive team. You know,
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  which plays into you know Big East basketball, Big East regular season basketball,
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  you know, and uh, non conference you know they were kind of you're
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  developing some chemistry, some camaraderie and and I've said this to folks a lot.
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  You know that the way games are officiated in non conference and then the
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  n c W A tournament are way different than the way games are refereed in
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  the Big East. So you know, that's probably a reason why they've been
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  better in the Big East, uh than they have in the non conference.
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  All right, this is a little one off the beaten track, though.
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  Do point guards make better coaches than centers or forwards forwards? Yeah, I
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  mean I think, you know, it certainly helps because you're you're, you're
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  you know, you're an extent to the coach. You're you have the ball
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  in your hands, you know a lot of the time in terms of decision
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  making, So going into a decision making position, the matter of decisions you
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  make as a head coach in every aspect of what you do. Yeah,
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  Seton Hall has got some serious people in UH in in the in the NBA
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  right now in college doing some really big big things. Speaking of guys with
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  their uh hands on the ball. For you, Kon Tristan Newton, fourth
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  career double double, you played the position, how hard is that to accomplish?
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  Yeah? Four triple doubles? Man is crazy. And I just saw
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  something today where it's like him in Shack. Oh geez, you know him
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  in Shock or UH are in a very exclusive club uh together there. You
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  know, just tristan size, and you know his feel for the game,
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  his skill level, you know his uh you know just how good he is
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  at basketball. I think you know he's uh, you know, he's got
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  a chance here to uh to put together as good a two year stretch of
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  play and accomplishment as just about anybody here during their time on campus. So
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  he's got to finish here. But I think the NBA is uh certainly higher
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  on him than then, uh than then people probably realize in terms of the
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  opportunity that he'll get there. Coach, when you talked to him originally he
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  was at East Carolina, how did that conversation go? I mean, are
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  you trying to find out about what kind of person he is, what kind
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  of player? And did he turn out to be different than what you thought
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  when you recruited him as a transfer? Yeah, And listen, it messes
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  in recruiting or it doesn't. And we made a connection, and you know,
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  me and me and Kamani, I just really believed in him and believed
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  in the film and what we saw. And uh, you believe in the
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  family and and you believe in interesting after you get to know them all.
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  So you know, I think, uh, you know, our personalities.
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  I think it's taken. Some of it is just you know, getting you
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  know, growing as a coach. Every year, every month, every game,
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  you get better on this job. And I think, you know,
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  a lot of times in my career I've tried to surround myself with, you
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  know, with people more like a Cam or more like an Andrea or an
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  Adama in terms of the fire. And it's also good on a team to
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  have you know, some cool calm collected you know, players as well.
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  And I've learned a lot about that from having coach Tristan and what he's been
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  able to accomplish with a completely different personality than me. Yeah, that's for
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  sure. We're going to talk to him in a couple of minutes. And
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  one note on Cam Spencer this, this is a question that came out of
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  our iHeart Husky Nation mail bag when you talk to him originally, were you
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  looking for spot up shooter, a guy that could add offense and did you
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  have any idea he'd have this well rounded a game when he got involved with
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  Yukon basketball. Yeah, I think we probably predicted his points per game to
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  pretty close to tenth of a point or two, you know, I mean,
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  I think we we might have called it terms of the shooting and the
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  points per game, probably weren't aware of the just the ability to pass it
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  and and create some offense for others. And then you know, we knew,
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  you know, we knew he could steal the ball and make plays as
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  an off the ball defender, you know, at times he you know,
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  we need him to be really strong down to stretch here as as an on
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  ball defender too, you know, for us to really really finish the season
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  the way we want. Is he more of a kindred spirit with you than
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  obviously Newton, who's is way different than you. You know, I just
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  I connect with everybody, and I have an appreciation you do. You end
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  up closer, you know, with some players over the course of of of
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  your time coaching them, but the whole locker rooms like that, I think
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  we're all deeply connected. Some players will leave here, you know, with
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  a closer relationship to to one player than another. Maybe it's locker room proximity,
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  maybe it's personality, but we're we're a very tight knit organization. And
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  you know, my relationship with Tristan when you coach and play at the level
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  of success that we've enjoyed together. You know, that's a serious bond.
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  I'll tell you what, man, you have hit a couple of home runs
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  with those two guys in the transfer portal, and and that's a big part
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  of what you have to do, isn't it every year? Now? Yeah,
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  you do, and you hope that you and with this group, I
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  think I spent a lot of time talking to the younger players today about h
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  staying and working hard. And you know the solution when the portal opens,
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  because you know this time of year, you know, the NBA draft and
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  portal and those distractions are there to try to sink your locker room, to
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  sink your organization. So we've got to fight against that this time of year.
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  All right, coach, we appreciate it. We're gonna talk to Tristan
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  a little bit here after the commercial break and it's on to Seaton Hall,
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  Milwaukee and Providence. We appreciate you, all right, guys, see you,
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  Mike and buying the great Bob Joyce. In the background, that's Dan
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  Hurley back with more of the ucon men's basketball coaches show. In a moment
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  on lear Field