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Segment 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Dec 12 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon men's basketball coaches showed. Mike Crispino
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  and Dan. We're just talking about North Carolina. We'll get to that in
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  a second. One final thought on Kansas and the Allen Field House. I've
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  never been there. First time I was there, I had a great seed
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  cross from you on the bench. Can you describe to Husky fans out there
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  who didn't make the game, and there were a lot of Husky people that
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  came out to that game, what that experience was like, because to me,
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  it was unique, and to me, it's one of the best college
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  atmospheres I've ever been in. Yeah, listen that they're organized. You know,
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  they've got the traditions, but they're just a really smart, really organized
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  fan base. I mean that first time out, I well know, I
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  mean right before the opening tip, it got so loud in there that the
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  huddle was tough to you know, just kind of go back through the first
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  couple of possessions and offense and defense. It was hard to hear. And
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  they just they're loud at all the right times, you know, and and
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  and you know, they just didn't no prompting necessary, you know, it's
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  like one of the few at times, I think you see a coach coach
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  at home where it doesn't have to wave to the crowd to get louder because
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  it can't get any louder. I know that's true. My final thought on
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  is that they really gave you a hard time early with their defense. You
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  kind of just couldn't get any shots have good shots up and you know,
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  thankfully Tristan Newton made a couple of you know, buzzer beating trees to keep
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  the thing competitive. But I like the way the team just kept scrapping,
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  just kept fighting, just kept playing, and ultimately you got to lead in
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  the second half. At that point, did you think we might be able
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  to win this game right here? Yeah, I mean I believe we were
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  going to win. I think maybe not as much early on. You know
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  that there's there they were switching out and being very, very aggressive, and
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  it was the first time. Even though we you know, that was what
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  they were doing in every game, it's still the first time you see it.
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  It's a tough thing to adjust to on the fly. You know.
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  Then Adams was just you know, he was you know, he was just
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  possessed. Man. He was all over the court like a defensive end,
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  just like disrupting everything we were doing. So Yeah, but we gave ourselves
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  chances down the stretchers actually a defense that cost us the game. Yeah,
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  we gave up you know, threes to McCullough that were and Dickinson where there
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  was just too easy. But had the ball, I think up five and
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  don't We're gonna find a way to win it. Yeah, Tristan Newton ends
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  up with thirty one and uncharacteristically, Cam Spencer goes two for I don't know,
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  twelve maybe and obviously he was hobbled a couple of injured feet toes that
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  were bothering him, but he bounced back. Wow. I mean in New
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  York he comes up with twenty three points a great floor game. The thing
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  that fans said to me after that was wow. And I love his spirit.
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  He's pumping his fist, he's getting people riled up, and you know
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  that you don't know when a guy comes to your program like Cam. We
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  knew a lot about him what he did at Rutgers, et cetera. But
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  he has fit in about as good as you could fit in for a guy
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  coming to Yukon for his first time. Yeah, just I mean perfect in
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  terms of the role that he wanted and what we had available, shared values
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  in terms of the you know, the work ethic, the competitiveness, the
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  selflessness being about winning and competing, and just you know, just basketball passion.
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  You know, basketball, you know, is the number one thing in
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  his life and you know, with his family and taking care of business in
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  the classrooms. Just like just the perfect player to plug in, you know,
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  next to Tristan in the back court, with Alex, with Donovan,
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  to really give the group, you know, four high level guys and then
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  obviously we've got some talent around those guys to support them. Yeah. Three
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  wins at the Garden already this year, and you get the Biggies Tournament later
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  in the year. You got to play Saint John's there as well. They
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  didn't have a sell out there that night, but they had seventeen seventy three.
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  Man, it sounded like twenty five thousand that night. I was impressed.
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  But how loud that crowd was in the Garden, And I've been there
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  a lot of times with big crowds, and that was one of the best.
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  Yeah, great crowd and uh yeah, just a fun game. I
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  think, uh, you know, Carolina plays a fun style. I think
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  we play, yeah, maybe not quite as fast as them offensively, but
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  people love to watch us play. They love to watch us play because because
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  we play so hard and we play you know, we fly around the court,
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  we move the ball on our offense, you know, and we're really
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  connected and play with a ton of energy and in the place. I think,
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  you know, we're developed. I think a confidence by being able to
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  go three and o with MSG. You know, we've got multiple other opportunities
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  that lie ahead of us. That was as good an atmosphere as you're going
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  to play in on a neutral site, besides maybe an Elite eight game,
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  you know, Big East, Big East Semis, Big East Finals type of
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  thing. I've coached and played in those types of games. In terms of
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  neutral site games, it's it's hard to top that. And it was funny
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  Dan, the former coaches who are now sitting in the broadcast booth doing TV
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  for these games, when they come in to watch Yukon, they're always praising,
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  you know, the style and the way they play, love the way
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  they share the ball, all that stuff. It's it's very you know,
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  like raptory comes in or Steve Lapis, whoever's working a game, and they're
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  all vin Fares, they're all talking about the style that Yukon plays, and
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  I think it's it's kind of a it's a fun not just fun, but
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  it's just entertaining because everyone's involved. You don't know who might have a big
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  day. It could be Caravan, it could be Spencer, could be Newton,
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  it could be Solo Ball up the bench. Let's talk about him for
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  a second. Thirteen in that game at the Garden, and there were some
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  needed plays by him, a freshman who's getting some starts here and he's been
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  delivering. Yeah, I mean he's he's doing and I think, you know,
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  Steph gets healthy, he'll you know, he'll be in a similar situation
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  where he's you know, he's solid out there defensively, he's you know,
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  he's he's given us some some rebounding. He's not hurting us, he's not
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  making a ton of mistakes, which is, you know what what keeps freshmen
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  on the bench. And and then a freshman are playing a lot that usually
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  means that it's not going well. And you could see it across our sport
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  just how many freshmen are struggling us the country and and uh, you know,
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  but he's an outlier because of his maturity, you know, the type
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  of person he is, the way he was raised. Uh, you know,
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  he's he's he wants to have you know, he's doing all the little
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  things to help the team. And and then obviously he takes a lot of
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  confidence from making some big threes in that game and you'll be able to you
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  know, to get to the paint and score some baskets and uh, you
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  know, I think this whole season is going to come down to to depth
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  for us and whether we get that production you know, from the bench,
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  and uh, certainly Solo and Steph and Hassan and Samson like you know,
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  us being able to go nine deep, eight nine deep is critical and uh
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  Samson and uh excuse me, Solo is a huge part of that. Yeah.
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  And Jalen Stewart too, We'll get to him. We'll talk about Yukon's
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  bench, big difference in North Carolina game. We'll come back in a moment.
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