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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Dec 11 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back on the You gun Men's Basketball Coaches Show,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Chrispino, Dan Hurley coach. I thought, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to overstate things here, but that home game against Baylor
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  Speaker 1: that was huge. You don't want to put that on
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  Speaker 1: the ninth game of the year or whatever, But do
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  Speaker 1: you have a thought like that? Did you think that
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  Speaker 1: coming in? This one's big for us? We got to
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  Speaker 1: have this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what like meditation and journaling and I
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  Speaker 2: think prayer and get the good night's rest. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it can help you control your mind, I think pretty well,
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  Speaker 2: and be mentally tough, and it can make you very mindful.
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  Speaker 2: And because you know, it's so hard to control your thoughts,
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  Speaker 2: but you could do all those things plus another hundred things,
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  Speaker 2: and there was no way of stopping yourself from thinking
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  Speaker 2: about where we were and if we lost that Baylor game,
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  Speaker 2: especially with Alex out, all right, you know, it creeps
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  Speaker 2: into your mind the stretch of games we're about to
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  Speaker 2: start now and Alex the only real like returning starter
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  Speaker 2: from these these teams.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so now he's out and I'm going to go
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  Speaker 3: Baylor at.
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  Speaker 2: Texas and Gonzaga's looming. We could be under Fivelet are
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  Speaker 2: going into the league play and now like you're not,
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  Speaker 2: You're you're not going through each team, and but in
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  Speaker 2: your mind you're saying to yourself like like we're we're
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  Speaker 2: in deep you know, potential deep trouble here as great
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  Speaker 2: as gamble is.
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  Speaker 3: With UH, with so many young.
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  Speaker 2: Players and new players and the pressure of that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could have listen. That team's you know, as
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  Speaker 1: a top fifteen club. They've got all that talent, those
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  Speaker 1: great guards. As you viewed that game and prepped for it,
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  Speaker 1: I know we talked before the games all the time.
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  Speaker 1: What was the single thing that you had to have
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  Speaker 1: you think that night as a group to get through
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  Speaker 1: that without caravan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, like I was saying, I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're you're.
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  Speaker 2: You know, your initial reaction when when you know when
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  Speaker 2: the team doc and the medical people tell you that
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  Speaker 2: you know that Alex is not playing, you know. The
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  Speaker 2: the day before we basically had one practice where where
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  Speaker 2: we were able to kind of work on some things
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  Speaker 2: to play the two bigs together. UH. Baylor made that
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  Speaker 2: possible because they played two bigs together. So it actually
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  Speaker 2: worked to our favor, you know, because Alex occupies like
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  Speaker 2: thirty five minutes a game at the four, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: so there's not a lot of front court minutes besides
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  Speaker 2: center minutes for us. But you know, Baylor, because of
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  Speaker 2: the way they played, that wasn't actually a bad game.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to not have Alex, that was probably
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  Speaker 2: the one to not have Alex four. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to do it again. It wasn't fun. It was
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  Speaker 2: money or fun. So you know, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: once the players realized, oh man, we don't have the
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  Speaker 2: captain for this one and we and we got to
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  Speaker 2: win this one.
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  Speaker 3: Like this is I think we saw.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some people with a real look at determination
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  Speaker 2: and the lead up and some some players that were
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  Speaker 2: really excited to uh you know, to lead us to
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  Speaker 2: a win.
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  Speaker 3: I think, uh, you know, you could.
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  Speaker 2: See Liam as a as a freshman, uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: he had to do a very few freshmen are capable
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  Speaker 2: of doing some of the shot solo. Aiden we had
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  Speaker 2: some guys step up. Sam Tarris played well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Jay stew gave us some good minutes Jay Ross. So
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  Speaker 2: I just think that whole nowI thing to that Baylor game, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, has a chance to to in a way
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  Speaker 2: really formed the team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Plus you fell behind a Baylor at home, just
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  Speaker 1: like we're gonna get to Texas here in a second.
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  Speaker 1: You were able to jump on Texas and get ahead
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  Speaker 1: and stay ahead. Baylor jumped on the Yukon pretty hard,
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  Speaker 1: and the Huskies were able to scrap back within one
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  Speaker 1: at halftime. I thought that was maybe the biggest part
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  Speaker 1: of the game. You didn't fold, and you were able
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  Speaker 1: to get back into your stuff and get back even
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  Speaker 1: going to halftime.
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  Speaker 2: I mean for what I mean, Listen, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of just speculation about about the team or or why
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  Speaker 2: now we went to why maw We went, why maw
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  Speaker 2: We went the way Mawi went for us I was
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  Speaker 2: a tongue twister, but there's a lot of speculation and
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of external noise.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, our defense has been bad, I mean
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  Speaker 2: our defense and our rebounding. Whether we're not using the
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  Speaker 2: right schemes as coaches that we need to continue to
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  Speaker 2: adjust and learn from, or whether that just our players
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  Speaker 2: have not You know, Mike, there's no magic dust. Billy
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  Speaker 2: Donovan as one of the coaches I probably reached out
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  Speaker 2: for when I first got back from from MAUI just
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  Speaker 2: to get some advice. And Gino I've had some extended
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  Speaker 2: conversations with and Uh, you know, just different people. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he just one thing he got across to
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  Speaker 2: me was like, hey, Dan, you you guys don't have
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  Speaker 2: a magic dust there, you know, like the magic dust
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  Speaker 2: for you guys has been people like Cam Spencer and
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  Speaker 2: Donovan Klingen and Jordan Hawkins. You've had some incredible men
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  Speaker 2: that have played both both ends of the court. They've
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  Speaker 2: guarded at an elite level. They've shared the game with
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  Speaker 2: each other, and they've played like warriors, and like focus
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  Speaker 2: on just doing that with your team and getting your
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  Speaker 2: team to get there and and turn off the external noise.
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  Speaker 2: So I think for us, if we guard the way
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  Speaker 2: we guarded UH to start the Baylor game, or the
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  Speaker 2: way we guarded in Maui, We're not going to have
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  Speaker 2: a successful season. We will not get we will not
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  Speaker 2: contend for the Big East Championship. We will not you know, be.
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  Speaker 3: A threat to do much in March. We'll be lucky
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  Speaker 3: to get to March. Or the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Changed UH at a point in that Baylor game, and
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  Speaker 2: the rebounding changed UH at a point in that Baylor game.
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  Speaker 2: And uh and we got tough and determined uh to win,
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  Speaker 2: to win a basketball game. So when those things flipped, UH,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our season starting to change.
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  Speaker 1: Well with Dan Hurley the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show,
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  Speaker 1: we're moving on to talk about Texas when we come back.
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  Speaker 1: Stick with us here Onlearfield