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Dan Hurley - Media Avail October 27 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: You could test your team against you know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best programs, uh, you know the last thirty years
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  Speaker 1: in college basketball, and uh, you know it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be very beneficial. They're gonna expose some things. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm obviously a little worried about the freshman center versus
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  Speaker 1: the that front court just and and what that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: look like. Uh, but great, it's gonna be a great
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  Speaker 1: experience for for Eric and the.
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  Speaker 2: Group's terrace tracking to you ready for the opener or
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  Speaker 2: how they.
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  Speaker 1: He looks good. I mean, you know, we we we've
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  Speaker 1: you kind of been down this road with him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we we we hit a we got to this point,
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  Speaker 1: then we we hit a set back again. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we we need 'em uh obviously healthy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for the long season, but also you need him healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know, you just don't want to the hamstring
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  Speaker 1: to linger. But yeah, I mean, we w know he
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  Speaker 1: sh should be able to get him back on the court,
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  Speaker 1: you know soon in terms of you know, he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to earn hi minutes. What has Furthy shown you good
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  Speaker 1: offensive player just good size, like good really you know,
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  Speaker 1: a guy that can make threes gotta can pass the ball.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to take better care of the ball. You
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  Speaker 1: know he's turned it over some. But yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: the questions are about the you know, just can he
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  Speaker 1: can he guard well enough as a freshman, uh, with
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  Speaker 1: his experience level. You just guard well enough. You know
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  Speaker 1: that that we can play him because we want to
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  Speaker 1: play him. And h he'll take care of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: don't turn it over, and and just guard well enough.
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  Speaker 1: I think Silas being back in there is gonna help
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  Speaker 1: the defense obviously. You know Tarifs being back in there,
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  Speaker 1: eventually he's gonna really help the defense. Coach, how were you.
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  Speaker 3: Handing the adversity so this early in the season with
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  Speaker 3: the injuries and so forth?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty you know, we just look back to twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: I think, and we dealt with uh. We dealt with
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  Speaker 1: losing Donovan during the year. We dealt with losing staff
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  Speaker 1: in a very similar kind of timeline to Braylan in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways. So you know, we we dealt
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  Speaker 1: with it before and it work out good. Do you
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  Speaker 1: try to script anything as far as combinate lineup combos
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  Speaker 1: and trying to run certain offense offenses at certain times?
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  Speaker 1: I would just try to just try to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you get p enough players enough minutes and get
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  Speaker 1: players in early enough so that they have a chance to,
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  Speaker 1: uh to show you that they deserve to play. So
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's more about getting enough guys early
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  Speaker 1: minutes with especially with with with brailin out, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: who's who, who's who's who's gonna start, and then who
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  Speaker 1: deserves you know, you know, uh, real bench minutes. Just
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  Speaker 1: that they just landed awkwardly that kind of thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the other guy who's got some of that
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  Speaker 1: like Indiana and Midwest. I don't know, it's like the
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  Speaker 1: air or the dairy or whatever. Uh cause we you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was fortunate. We were fortunate, you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: we were very nervous that it could have been you know,
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  Speaker 1: far worse for him. So uh, you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: count our blessings and when we thank God, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we thank God that we that he and we
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  Speaker 1: you know that that the injury is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: You think, a high ankle thing like no, no, different
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  Speaker 2: than le yeah, different than Liam, but still you know
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  Speaker 2: it's like he's he's a tough kid and and uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, according to his dad, he's a fast healer.
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  Speaker 3: You just that little off the path. But d do
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  Speaker 3: you come into this? Can you scout in Michigan State
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  Speaker 3: as if it was a like a regular season game
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  Speaker 3: or is this tomorrow really more about you than Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's much, uh of of that type
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  Speaker 1: of mentality preparation wise. I think you do a link
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. We did a little bit with b
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  Speaker 1: C because you are trying to get your players to
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  Speaker 1: be able to absorb more information, uh the way you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to with New Haven and and uh in
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  Speaker 1: the regular season games. But I think you're still I uh,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you could go out there, you you wanna try
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  Speaker 1: to win your You're you're coaching you know, you're coaching
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  Speaker 1: your guys hard cause you you you know, you wanna
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  Speaker 1: win the next possession. You wanna you know, win the exhibition.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that you know, your mindset right now
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  Speaker 1: is like learn as much as you can about your
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  Speaker 1: team and just try to figure out like what your
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  Speaker 1: rotation's gonna look like, and just hope that you could
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  Speaker 1: try to, you know, learn about some vulnerabilities and weaknesses
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  Speaker 1: that get exposed when you play Michigan State.
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  Speaker 3: Were you guys you guys have recruited Car pretty heavily
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  Speaker 3: right here or you you coming Car.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean i'd I i'd you know, Gricola and
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  Speaker 1: in Car. And you know that they're uh you know
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  Speaker 1: the the I I think they're you know, fears or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you know, veteran veteran team uh you know, or at
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  Speaker 1: least veteran players that you know. Watching them last year,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they they uh if they made some shots
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  Speaker 1: in that uh you know, was that e leade Acha
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  Speaker 1: was that the elaite eid was at this se sixteen?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was sixty there was to say. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they you know, they rebound so well, and I
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  Speaker 1: mean that they made any shots, reasonable amount of open
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  Speaker 1: shots last year, they would have been in the Elite
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  Speaker 1: eight or in the final four. I know that all
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  Speaker 1: burned game. I mean they had so many good opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: So you know there the offense are rebounding, their transition offense,
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  Speaker 1: the physicality, you know, like a lot of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that we're we've got to answer questions about our team.
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  Speaker 1: Toughness is why it was such a there's a great
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage for us or exhibitions are what have Jalen and
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  Speaker 1: Jayden shown you in terms of progress, I think this
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  Speaker 1: is what we're you know, I think we see the
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  Speaker 1: flies on you now. We've been trying to get this
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  Speaker 1: flu Paul. The fly is now and here. We've been
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  Speaker 1: trying to get this fly in this building. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it was from the renovations. Place looks good though,
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  Speaker 1: A nice job they cleaned up the It looks so
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  Speaker 1: much nicer in the arena. I think people are going
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  Speaker 1: to really enjoy it that that haven't been in here, right, Paul, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: with you know, with a lot of the players, I
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  Speaker 1: think anymore. I think I think, you know, as Junior's room,
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  Speaker 1: and see these guys just go out and be assertive,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want to see assertive men out there
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  Speaker 1: are just men that are assertive with their actions and
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  Speaker 1: the way they carry themselves, and you know, assertive like
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  Speaker 1: Yukon men should be assertive. Do the renovations mean anything
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  Speaker 1: to the team? I mean, is there just a different
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  Speaker 1: mindset coming in or the locker room? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the I mean, it's it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: a better space. I mean, I don't know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. It's a Rocky three. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when he moved into the nice house, fucking it went
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  Speaker 1: toward the ship, so you know, and then he went
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  Speaker 1: to I guess that was Detroit, you know, with when
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  Speaker 1: he's sort of training with Apollo. You know, he's not
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  Speaker 1: knocked out by Clever Lang because she was in the
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  Speaker 1: big house and he got soft and weak, and then
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles he went out to l A and then
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  Speaker 1: he got he got grimy, and he you know, he
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  Speaker 1: got back to his roots as and then yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I try not to think about it aside from the win.
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  Speaker 1: Are there other metrics or other things that you want
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  Speaker 1: to see at the end of this game tomorrow? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're mostly looking for like individual players to
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  Speaker 1: you know, to you know, to do certain things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like you're looking for certain guys to step up.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking for even beyond the like analytics for the result.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking for some physicality, you know, You're you're looking
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  Speaker 1: to see what some combinations players are going to look like.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're making final decisions on like the you know,
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  Speaker 1: game one, like who's gonna you know, granted Tarris is
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  Speaker 1: back and you know, and then what you like, who's
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  Speaker 1: going to be in that eight or nine guys that's
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  Speaker 1: actually going to play. Even with Preland out, it's still
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  Speaker 1: proud have to get under court. Do your planers still
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  Speaker 1: feel that it's a it's a big deal to actually
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  Speaker 1: start or are they more concerned with finishing under your
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  Speaker 1: I think most guys, I think they, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think most players, uh you know that wanna start, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But for for us, you know, for a player like
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  Speaker 1: Yukon and a few few play like starter minutes, if
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  Speaker 1: you're the sixth starter or you're you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: rotation at Yukon, that's uh, yeah, it's a pretty big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm sorry if you've commented on this elsewhere,
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  Speaker 4: But the same with the Mouville getting a player from Julie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: y do you see yourself going into that market that
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  Speaker 4: becoming a a thing for you or is it something
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  Speaker 4: that maybe you wanna draw the line somewhere in sass
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  Speaker 4: not where.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna go. Yeah, why the teams are I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I you know, uh I the trolls came after me
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  Speaker 1: when my when I uh s. Obviously I love the coach,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, I love what you know, Coach Painter said,
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  Speaker 1: relative to the issues H that involve college basket ball.
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  Speaker 1: They they know a lot more about this subject matter
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  Speaker 1: than I do. They've been coaching college for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I spent a majority of my career as a high
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  Speaker 1: school coach, right so at least before I became a
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  Speaker 1: head coach or H. So, you know, I loved what
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  Speaker 1: they both said. You know, the the It was not
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  Speaker 1: a criticism of Louisville too. I mean, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: we all want to win. We have a sense of
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  Speaker 1: responsibility to our university and our fan base and and
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  Speaker 1: everyone involved with you, whether it's Louisville or Yukon, to
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  Speaker 1: put the absolute best team you could put on the
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  Speaker 1: court relative to to what the rules can say you
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  Speaker 1: can do. The problem with our sport is that just
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  Speaker 1: we're not just we're not very aware of what the
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  Speaker 1: rules are in certain instances like that. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you can make the connection between you know,
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  Speaker 1: international players and and the high scho player. A high
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  Speaker 1: school player that chose to forego college as an option
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  Speaker 1: and go to the G League and then circling back
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  Speaker 1: to it when you passed on that option in high
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  Speaker 1: school is different than just an international college player there
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  Speaker 1: is no college basketball in Europe or in South America.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a version of this for them to aspire
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  Speaker 1: to play at. So for them, they're in a system
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  Speaker 1: where as young players you join these pro club teams
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  Speaker 1: and it's not really so that's not comparing them to
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  Speaker 1: foreign players that are now. You know, if there's a
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  Speaker 1: foreign player that goes to the G League and then
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  Speaker 1: tries to go play college basketball, obviously you know that
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  Speaker 1: would make it an apples to apples comparison. But to
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  Speaker 1: compare foreign players to G League players, I think it
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  Speaker 1: is not the same thing. So I just think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what are the rules? You know, I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us didn't have no idea that that was even
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  Speaker 1: a possibility. You never say never, because we do have
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  Speaker 1: a uh a responsibility to the university and to a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people to put and with the climate of
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  Speaker 1: coaching now in college sports, the way they're getting coaches,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where it's become more like professional sports, the
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  Speaker 1: way coaches are being let go UH in season now
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  Speaker 1: with UH own a lot of money in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of years. So that's a whole other.
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  Speaker 2: Thing though right right now, why say cause it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: this mean now that if somebody goes into the draft
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  Speaker 2: doesn't doesn't get the money he's looking for, he can
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  Speaker 2: ain't come back.
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  Speaker 1: Right because I I I mean, it's up in the
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  Speaker 1: G League. I want to come back. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I I I guess I'll I'll let coaches.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, you know that that I don't know, like hawk,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't, I don't it does. I just
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  Speaker 1: it's a great sport, you know, it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: college basketball is awesome. We just I think, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: just my biggest concern is, like the product in college
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  Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's the front of the jersey. It's
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  Speaker 1: March madness, and it's and it's having the in the
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  Speaker 1: fans in college basketball, Like that is the that's the product.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's what really matters. March madness is what drives
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  Speaker 1: college basketball. It's the front of the jersey, the way
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  Speaker 1: our fans, the fans love the team in college. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of NBA fans that love an individual
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  Speaker 1: player and and and and become an amateur an individual player.
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  Speaker 1: The fans love the front of the jersey in college
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  Speaker 1: they almost forget who was on the team. Two three,
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  Speaker 1: and they're so engrossed in their team. They just love
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  Speaker 1: their team. The characters change, but they love their team.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't want to do anything that's gonna Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna start losing our fans. Our fans are gonna
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  Speaker 1: start feeling like the jersey doesn't matter. At the front
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  Speaker 1: of the jersey doesn't matter who you know, so.
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  Speaker 3: Someone they the coaches to what what are the fans
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  Speaker 3: like you most about the programs?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Cause yeah, there's continuity there more and more so. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the only people that like me are Yukon fans. So
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  Speaker 1: and uh, but I'm glad to have it that way.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you wish more people liked it, but the
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  Speaker 1: important people like me. I guess that's a coach