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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 11 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. We're back with Dan Hurley.
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  Been away for a few weeks with the holidays and everything else that's going on,
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  and in a coach and congratulations another big win on the road at Xavier.
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  We're going to talk about that, and of course the win at Butler
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  and in front of two tremendousness crowds. I felt, uh, and I
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  know the guys were pretty happy about getting to the locker room after winning those
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  two games. And there's a certain joy in winning, but winning on the
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  road, I think there's even more satisfaction. Yeah, I think, you
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  know, especially a hard fought road road game. It's yeah, you you
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  you're back on the bus. You know, the locker room's obviously excited.
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  You know. You you're kind of on the bus together back to the airport.
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  So like the travel group, you know, kind of stays together,
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  and you know you're enjoying the victory. Yeah, home, you know,
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  big, you know, winn at homes pretty cool too because get to enjoy
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  that with you know, with your fans and your family. So, uh,
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  they're all good. Winds are good and losing bad. That's a very
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  good philosophy by you. I like it these late nights, getting back really
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  late. What do the guys do day after? Do you do you arrest
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  them? Do they come back in for rehab stuff? What happens on these
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  road games where you know we're getting back two and three and the more four
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  in the morning. Yeah, So just it depends on what you got coming
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  up next. If it's uh, you know, if if it was a
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  Wednesday, if it was a Wednesday Saturday, you know, it would be
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  a heavy film day with with a lot of recovery, recovery lift, uh,
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  recovery work with with some slash therapist team and and uh you know,
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  and then some just kind of light walk through and some shooting and maybe some
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  you know, some uh some walkthrough on some new things you want to do
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  offensively versity opponent. Yeah, if you're in a situation like we are now,
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  it's because the way the schedule falls. Yeah, we have to take
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  a day off today because of what's coming next week. And you know,
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  so the players can do voluntary work on their own in terms of shooting or
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  weightlifting, but we can't do anything as a team together with them until tomorrow.
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  You kind of now fourteen and two, four and one in the conference.
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  Twenty eighth straight week the Huskies have been ranked. That's pretty cool in
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  the in and of itself. That tells you what you've been doing and accomplishing
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  stuff with this team over the last couple of years. I was comparing it.
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  This is kind of weird, but Gonzaga has been ranked for one hundred
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  and forty two weeks in a row. It's crazy. Can you imagine that?
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  I mean that's like years and years and years and years. Yeah,
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  it's a you know, it's obviously it's a it's a true test of you
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  know, a culture and and and excellence. I mean, it's just a
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  to think about, like the Tom Izzo streak of consecutive and CUAA tournaments and
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  you know that, you know, Gonzaga's you know, streak of being ranked,
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  and just how hard it is to win a game, uh, win
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  a conference game, to win a high major game. It's it's so hard
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  to do. So you just know you have an incredibly high level of appreciation
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  for coaches like Mark Few and what they're able to do over a long career.
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  Yeah, I got to correct myself at Gonzag one hundred and forty four
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  weeks in a row that they've been ranked. It's just amazing. And you
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  just played Xavier, you know under Sean Miller, but other coaches too.
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  There's a great tradition there in basketball in Cincinnati twenty seven straight winning seasons.
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  I mean, Kansas has done it forty years in a row, Gonzaga thirty
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  two, Duke twenty eight, Michigan State, and Xavier twenty seven straight years
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  winning. I mean, can you imagine that is a long run for having
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  winning records. Yeah, I think in a lot of those places, it's
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  it's coaches that you know, we're there for a while, or you know,
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  or coaches that were successful there and moved to a bigger place and then
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  there was some continuity with with who got the job. I think a lot
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  of a lot of those places you talked about are obviously incredible resources, but
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  have the continuity and and yeah, it's tough to do. The win over
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  Xavier, you know, of the last night was in front of another sellout
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  crowd. I mean the Musketeers, Dan, they've won eighty five percent of
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  the games played in that building, three hundred and eighteen and fifty eight coming
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  in so as getting ready for a game like that in a place like that,
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  how do you approach it with the team? Do you say, these
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  guys never lose here, or do you say, we're about to win in
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  this place. I mean, it's always to me, the lead up to
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  games like that is always so important. I think that we had some road
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  confidence obviously coming in off the Butler win against a really good Butler team that
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  you know, but we knew what we're facing. It behavior, Their crowd
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  is like it's one of the best crowds, and it's an awesome building,
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  and you know, you get walking around that place and their game day production
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  and you know even some of the you know, the core and the hallways,
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  and you know just how their fans are. You know, the lighting
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  and the you know, the smoke or just the whole presentation. It's impressive.
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  And the fans are even when they're playing badly, they're they're into the
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  game and they're they're they're they're you know, they're they're behind their team and
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  they're willing them to uh to play better. And then when they start to
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  play better, you know, the crowd becomes even bigger. Fact they're so
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  yeah, it's it's underrated. I don't even know if it's still underrated.
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  I think everyone that's now now that they've been in the Big East the last
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  couple of years, or since the new Big East has been formed, excuse
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  me, I think college basketball knows how hard it is to go in there
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  to win. Yeah, they're six and four in the building this year,
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  which is unheard of. Really, they've had their troubles because of loss and
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  losing two good players unable to play Fremantle, a guy that tortured the Huskies
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  over the last couple of years. So you're playing a game like this and
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  and you know how good they are are on defense out of the arc.
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  Getting off to the start you got off to from behind the arc was fabulous,
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  and you talked about it before the game. Got to get off to
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  a good start. You can talk about it, but you got to put
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  the ball in the basket, and you guys did that, and that really
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  helped. I thought, Yeah, the guys executed well. Yeah. I
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  thought we like we cut, we caught move and and uh, I thought
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  we held screens well because they're very physical at the point of screens. And
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  uh, you know, we played like a veteran team We played like a
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  you know, like a like a really good team that believed that they were
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  gonna have what it took to win a win a hard road game, well
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  five minute double figures. We're going to continue on the Xavier conversation, get
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  back to Butler as well, look ahead to Georgetown. All that coming up.
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  We continue on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan Hurley here on lear Field