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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 16 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: The guys resume game action Saturday at Gamble, when Ryan
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  Speaker 1: calt Brenner and the Creighton Blue Jays come to stores.
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  Speaker 1: A hard utter group count down to tip off begins.
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  Speaker 1: Our coverage at eleven thirty. Tip off shortly after twelve
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  Speaker 1: noon here along the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network app,
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  Speaker 1: andavarsityetwork dot com. Mike Chrispino rejoined by Dan Hurley, coach.
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  Speaker 1: This is kind of a bye week. You only play
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  Speaker 1: once this week. Tell us about your schedule, how you
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  Speaker 1: plan your day and your days and what you want
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish day to day going into a week where
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  Speaker 1: you play a Saturday noon game and don't have to
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  Speaker 1: play during the first five days of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, we're fortunate because we're still on break.
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  Speaker 2: So that allows you to, you know, have close to
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  Speaker 2: as much access as you want, you know, with the players,
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  Speaker 2: they're not in classes, you're not dealing with study hall,
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  Speaker 2: you know, or class schedules. So and then knowing you've
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  Speaker 2: got a noon game, well, just as the week goes
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  Speaker 2: on here, we gave them, you know, we gave them
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  Speaker 2: two days off because we had to, you know, based
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  Speaker 2: on what the upcoming schedule looks like, so they had
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  Speaker 2: to have a mandatory two days off, so they were
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  Speaker 2: off Sunday into Monday. You know, so Tuesday's practice was
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  Speaker 2: obviously a little bit sloppy. Two days off is never
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  Speaker 2: good for your team in terms of the level of play.
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  Speaker 2: Not everyone, I think got in the gym voluntarily maybe
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and it looked like it. So you know what
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  Speaker 2: we're able to do, though, is do multiple sessions during
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  Speaker 2: the day. We were trying to get their clocks ready
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  Speaker 2: for a noon tip. So we'll move the practices up,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fifteen to twenty minutes each day, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: today we you know, today practice at eleven, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: move it up fifteen to twenty minutes every day so
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  Speaker 2: that as we get the Friday, you know, these guys
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  Speaker 2: will be used to getting up at six point thirty
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, seven o'clock in the morning by doing
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  Speaker 2: the live practice early. So all the five on five,
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  Speaker 2: the four on four, the live play happens in that
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  Speaker 2: that kind of morning slot to prepare them for a
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  Speaker 2: noon tip. Because noon tips they're on top of you
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  Speaker 2: before you even know it. It's I don't love noon
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  Speaker 2: tips at four o'clock. Would be my favorite if I
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  Speaker 2: had a because I don't love wait until seven o'clock either.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll bring him in for you know what. We'll
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  Speaker 2: bring him in for that live practice, you know, get
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  Speaker 2: that work done. We'll then send them to the weight room,
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  Speaker 2: give them, you know, a break to maybe grab some
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  Speaker 2: to eat, and then we'll bring them back in for
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  Speaker 2: shooting practice, competitive shooting drills that are time so pressure
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  Speaker 2: shooting drills, and then we will uh, we'll walk through
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  Speaker 2: the opponents out unders their favorite man sets and do
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  Speaker 2: any film work in the afternoon or evening. So we're
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  Speaker 2: able to get multiple sessions of work with the players
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  Speaker 2: in during break, which is nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of getting back in the gym, one of
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  Speaker 1: the stories last week was the Villanova game where the
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  Speaker 1: Huskies had multiple chances to win on the road against
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  Speaker 1: another rising team in the conference. A couple of three
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  Speaker 1: possessions in the last twenty thirty seconds, couldn't get a bucket,
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  Speaker 1: finally got to the line, Alex Caravan gets a chance,
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  Speaker 1: can't make the free throws, and Alex being the guy
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  Speaker 1: that he is, a great leader that he is and
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  Speaker 1: the quality person he is, he was telling me there
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  Speaker 1: before the previous Georgetown game that he went back to
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  Speaker 1: campus and got in the gym after we had a
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  Speaker 1: late night getting back that night. And I was impressed
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  Speaker 1: by that, and I said, well, how many would you
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  Speaker 1: do shoot free throws? He said, oh yeah, I stayed
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  Speaker 1: till I made one hundred. And I'm like, wow, that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty damn pressure.
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  Speaker 2: But I kinda say, yeah, well, I mean, unfortunately for Alex,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can't simulate, you know, the situation that
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  Speaker 2: he found himself in. I mean, you could literally go
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  Speaker 2: your whole career and never be in that situation. Down
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  Speaker 2: one with three seconds to go on the road. And
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know what, you know, what hurts maybe
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  Speaker 2: people like Alex, you know, more than other players, is
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  Speaker 2: like Alex, uh, you know, the one he is a perfectionist.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, he cares so much about Yukon and winning, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and he's so he's the type of person
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  Speaker 2: that always puts enormous pressure on himself to come through
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  Speaker 2: for the front of the uniform. So uh, if he
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  Speaker 2: was more of a selfish kind of you know, a
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  Speaker 2: selfish dumby, he might have he would have been a
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  Speaker 2: lot better off. He probably wouldn't have felt much of
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  Speaker 2: the pressure, but he understood the situation. But yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: no way of simulating that, you know, for him. He h,
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  Speaker 2: He's been a clutch player his whole career. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have moments like that in your professional life and your
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  Speaker 2: personal life where you face adversity and your face struggle
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  Speaker 2: and you have to just kind of own a bad moment.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, he responded, you know, like like one
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  Speaker 2: of the best players ever to play at Yukon, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the way he played at Georgetown. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, we did a good job I think
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  Speaker 2: of you know, supporting him, but we didn't overdo it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to talk like too much
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  Speaker 2: about it, you know. Yeah, if you're talking like too
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  Speaker 2: much about it, you know, it's like the player saying
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  Speaker 2: to himself, like, man, it must have been really bad
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  Speaker 2: if they just keep bringing it up and up and up.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we said our words to him about
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  Speaker 2: how we felt and how we needed to move on
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  Speaker 2: from it. You know, he's achieved so much incredible success.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you got to take the good with the bad.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes he's a storybook run and he's really dealt with
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  Speaker 2: his first personal adversity in his college career and it
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  Speaker 2: took to his junior year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell you what, That's what the great ones do.
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  Speaker 2: Though.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the story a long time ago. I was
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  Speaker 1: with doing Saint John's at the time, and Chris Mullen
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  Speaker 1: got the keys from Lou Carnaseca went to the gym
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  Speaker 1: after a game and stayed in there all damn night
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  Speaker 1: shooting free throws. So, I mean, that's what guys like
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  Speaker 1: this do. I mean, Alex Caravan, since he's got here,
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  Speaker 1: If I'm right on these numbers, Dan, the team is
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  Speaker 1: eighty one and fifteen in the last two and a
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  Speaker 1: half years. I mean, it's astounding the success that he
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  Speaker 1: has had. Obviously, what Yukon has done, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: was a preseason All American a lot of times those
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  Speaker 1: preseason things. I don't know who makes him up or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a good call because a guy
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  Speaker 1: like him is so meaningful to a franchise, a program,
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  Speaker 1: and when he's doing his thing and he's doing it well,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of lifts the tide up, doesn't he.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he makes everyone better around him. He's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a clutch player. He's very smart, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: understands what every position's responsibilities are going into each and
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  Speaker 2: every game, so he's able to just do so much
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  Speaker 2: problem solving out there. And then obviously the production and
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  Speaker 2: the efficiency UH and and the winning you know all
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  Speaker 2: that I know it's and the work ethic and the
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  Speaker 2: character and just all those things. It's rare you get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to uh to coach a player that you
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  Speaker 2: know really has uh nothing that you could complain about.
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  Speaker 1: An example to coach setting an example that's huge, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I Mean it's just in today's with with with with
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the portal, with n I L, with
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  Speaker 2: early entry in NBA, with what they see from the
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  Speaker 2: NBA that gets modeled sometimes, which isn't always the best things.
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  Speaker 2: To get a chance to coach a player like him,
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  Speaker 2: it's just, you know, when your best player carries himself
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  Speaker 2: the way Alex does, you got a chance to have
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  Speaker 2: a successful season.
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  Speaker 1: And you Kahn's been doing that, that's for sure. Back
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  Speaker 1: in a moment, we'll talk GAMP because the Huskies are
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  Speaker 1: back in there for a noon game with Creton this
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  Speaker 1: coming Saturday. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show
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  Speaker 1: on Liar Field