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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley March 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Back with Dan Hurley the Yukon men's basketball coaches show as a Huskies regular season
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  champs, setting records with the ReConference wins eighteen twenty eight wins as a Yukon
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  program in the regular season, another record, you had eight road wins.
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  Dan, a lot of top ten stuff categorically in the country in terms of
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  assists and blocks, top twenty rebounds and all that. Let's talk six men.
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  Hassandi Ra last year was a guy that you know, toward the end
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  of the season wasn't getting involved as much with the run of the NCAA tournament.
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  But wow, what a boost he's given this team and he earns the
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  sixth Man of the Year award in the Big East. Yeah, I mean,
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  you got a I think a lot of times the answers aren't, you
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  know, always into portal you you want to have as many internal you know,
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  player development or you know, I see this player being able to take
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  a big jump, you know, and go from a bench player to a
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  starter. A guy that didn't play a whole lot for a big impact player
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  at both ends of the court in terms of making plays and creating and playing
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  with intensity and toughness. You know, just when the sign went and decided
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  the transfer. He just felt like he'd be just a perfect Big eastar and
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  just great to see him, you know, stay and build the role and
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  get rewarded. Yeah, he's eight or more points nine times this year,
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  a shooting percentage up around forty nine from three to thirty nine percent. That's
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  a huge improvement. How much of that happened in the summer? How much
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  of that shooting improvement happened as the season opened up and progressed. When did
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  that start to happen for him? It just started. I think as soon
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  as the season ended last year. You know, it's been you know,
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  he's bought into the culture. I don't think Hoss went into year one and
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  as good as shape or as sharp as he did. I think admittedly,
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  if you ask him, he'll tell you he could have worked harder. You
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  know, he didn't. He thought the success would come easier, you know,
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  and he learned a valuable lesson and you know, instead of you know,
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  you know, instead of taking an easier road and trying to find a
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  way out, he looked internally and worked hard and just it's a great message.
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  And nowlyst Caravan, who did not get recognized by the league, which
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  is a cruel mistake in my mind, such a valuable guy on every level
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  getting it back together from the three point range. Here these last couple of
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  games, five for nine at Marquett and then four for six in Providence,
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  so you know, scored twenty three and sixteen, and I mean when he
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  scores, it just seems like this team explodes. I don't know what it
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  is about his scoring. When it happens, whether it's driving to the basket
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  or knocking down a three, it feels explosive for the whole team. I
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  don't know what it is. I mean, Alex is uh. I mean,
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  Alex is one of the best players in his position in the country.
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  I don't know. You know, I watch a lot of college basketball,
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  and you know, I don't know many places in the country where he wouldn't
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  you start and be a critical player. I mean, fifty from the field,
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  forty from three, and ninety from the line at over fourteen points a
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  game. Uh, you know, with the winning that that he's been involved
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  in, and with all of the you know, I just find it crazy
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  to me that that coaches would miss it. You know, I get it.
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  I get it. If it's if it's a you know, media people
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  that just go by the numbers or or the priests and hype. But for
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  whatever reason, you know, the Big East coaches didn't didn't see him as
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  a player that at least got enough voted votes, uh, you know to
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  get honorable mentioned. But how he wasn't All Conference? How Donovan, How
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  we didn't have four guys with such a dominant season that we've had in this
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  league. But you know, I shared with Alex a couple of text messages
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  and text messages is that I got from coaches in this league that I think
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  are are are amongst the best. And I showed him, you know what
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  a couple of mesters I got. You know, some coaches I respect that
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  were you know, stunned that he wasn't on one of the teams. Uh.
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  It's the miscarriage of justice relative to awards basketball awards. But you know,
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  and then the league should step in in such matters, you know,
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  and then I'll throw Cam Jones in there too. Just the fact that Alex
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  and Cam Jones, you know, didn't didn't make a third team All League
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  or or an honorable mention. How there isn't a third team All League,
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  you know with eleven teams. Now, I don't you know, but how
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  it's crazy? Is there a I don't think there is a most improved Player
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  award? Is there? Because some leagues have that, But he wouldn't have
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  gotten it. The Desmond Claude got it because he went from oh yes,
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  yes, a couple of points again. You know, Alex, you know
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  he's going to have to right now, He's just got to settle. He's
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  going to be you know, he would be drafted this year if he left.
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  But he's got a chance to stay and become a first rounder like a
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  like a Jaquez did for for U c L. A type of player if
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  he stays. And yeah, but he's maybe you have to settle for you
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  know, uh, National champion, Big East champion, going from multiples of
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  those, uh, and then a guy who's going to play in the NBA
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  for twelve to fifteen years. Maybe he'll just have to settle, you know,
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  for all of that at some point. Yeah, there are there are
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  guys like him already in that league, and he fits that bill perfectly.
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  I think a quick final thing. You got the Big East coming up,
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  obviously the conference tournament. You you have your first game, but you don't
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  know who you're playing till pretty late, So how do you prep for that?
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  Do you co do? Do you scout two teams? Do you look
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  back at how you play both teams? What's your approach on that? Yeah,
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  I mean we have to focus on both teams because it's a it's a
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  it's a tight game. I mean, it's literally a pick them, you
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  know type of game. So you know, we we earned the day off
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  yesterday or on Sunday, we earned the day off, you know, Monday,
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  we blended both UH and went and went pretty light to keep the team
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  fresh, one of the benefits of not playing until Thursday and playing on Saturday.
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  But we blended both teams and we watched both teams, edits, we
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  broke down, you know, the fundamentals of how we want to attack both
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  teams. UH, and then tomorrow we'll take Xavier and focus on them solely.
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  Wednesday will take Butler in our morning practice in New York, and then
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  you know, that night at the hotel, whichever team wins UH, you
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  know, we'll destroy everything on the team that lost and then and then do
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  a walk through. So we're basically prepared for both in a very unique way.
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  Right, well, I know the preparation that will be uh spot on.
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  We know that we've learned that over the years with you, all right,
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  coach, we appreciate you, Thank you very much. Been a fabulous
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  year. I wish you the best here going forward. Uh. You deserve
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  everything you get as a team and as a coaching staff. And we certainly
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  thank you for all your help on these shows during the course of the season.
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  Appreciate you, Mike. And we've just got so many great people like
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  you and and Wayne are definitely a part of the part of the team.
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  It's been the just been uh, you know, it's been awesome and uh
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  got got a lot left to do. Yes, that's right. It's one
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  down, garden to go and beyond we shall see, all right. Thanks
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  to Dan Hurley, The EGON Men's Basketball Coaches Show continues. We've got Alex
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  Caravan k U eleven coming up in just a moment here onlear Field.