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Seg 5 - MBB Show Jan 2 w Seth Greenberg · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, joined
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  Speaker 1: by a special guest, Seth Greenberg of ESPN and coach.
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  Speaker 1: You've been around this game a long long time, and
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  Speaker 1: you've seen Yukon under Dan Hurley these last three four seasons.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like they've got a team that might be
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  Speaker 1: able to go deep again, which would be the third
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  Speaker 1: time in the last four years. What's your assessment of
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  Speaker 1: what you've seen in the first couple of months with Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: I started watching him this summer in their set workouts
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  Speaker 2: about once a week, and you know, in typical Dan
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  Speaker 2: Hurly fashion, each and every time you've seen you see
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  Speaker 2: something a little bit different. They get better. They get
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  Speaker 2: better because of their work, they get better because of
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  Speaker 2: the habits that they've developed, they get better because of
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  Speaker 2: understanding and as we know, they're always held to a standard.
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  Speaker 2: I look at this team, they're still working progress. They've
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  Speaker 2: got to continue to get better. I'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: them play a little bit more pace early in the
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  Speaker 2: clock in terms of not being so regimented to the sets,
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  Speaker 2: which you're starting to do, but in terms of player
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  Speaker 2: development guy and role development en roll guys championing roles
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  Speaker 2: and guys filling voids that maybe they need to have
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  Speaker 2: filled from last year. They've done a great job with it.
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  Speaker 2: Two headed monster to point, two headed monster up front.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Bones adds a different dimension, but you watch like
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  Speaker 2: a Jaden Ross in his development. Stewie has his versatility,
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  Speaker 2: Alex playing the best basketball of his career with confidence
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  Speaker 2: and force. It's been fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the two headed monster things seth which I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The center doesn't exist anymore in basketball. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: but Yukon for going on four years now had a
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  Speaker 1: two headed monster at that position. It looks like they
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  Speaker 1: got it going again. Eric Raba, freshman left hander seven footer,
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  Speaker 1: really was a huge, huge part of their early success
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  Speaker 1: this year because Terrace Reid was out hurt. That was
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  Speaker 1: a major developant for Dan Hurley. I think because he
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to play, ry us start him in
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  Speaker 1: I think five games and find out that this guy
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  Speaker 1: can really help us this year.
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  Speaker 2: The best way to get acclimated to the speed and
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  Speaker 2: the force that you need to play is to play.
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  Speaker 2: And you know I said this about the situation here
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  Speaker 2: at You've got the same situation at Kansas in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways. And that when you you know, your
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  Speaker 2: team gets better when guys are out, because when Tyris
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  Speaker 2: is out, someone else to step up. Eric has stepped up.
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  Speaker 2: He's gotten legitimate reps in game situations against the best
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  Speaker 2: teams in America where he had to redefine playing hard,
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  Speaker 2: redefine being physical, redefine the speed that they're playing with,
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  Speaker 2: redefined siding and reading the defense is redefined, being alert
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  Speaker 2: off the ball. So he'd give him some rep protection.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, a lot of times these injuries open
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  Speaker 2: up doors and make your team that much better. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen that with Jayden Ross, I've seen it with Eric.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen it throughout Dan's time Connecticut. He coaches every
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  Speaker 2: single player the same way. They all get coach hard.
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  Speaker 2: They all have a standard. They all are asked to
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  Speaker 2: compete at a level and basically be uncomfortable and learning
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  Speaker 2: to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And that's exactly what you
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  Speaker 2: saw with Ericsur in those five games. And now you
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  Speaker 2: can put them in any situation, in any situation during
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  Speaker 2: the course of the game, and he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: ready to compete and be part of the solution, not
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  Speaker 2: part of the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the last five games with Riva and Read available,
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  Speaker 1: they have gone twenty nine or forty eight from the field,
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  Speaker 1: which well over fifty percent thirty five rebounds between them.
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  Speaker 1: They've really done a lot of great things in terms
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  Speaker 1: of block shots, shooting over sixty percent. When you play
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  Speaker 1: against a team like this and they do have that
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  Speaker 1: depth at the middle position, the center position, how much
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  Speaker 1: more difficult is that for an opponent.
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  Speaker 2: It's significantly different, especially because they both have a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different personalities. You know, Mike, You've been around this
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  Speaker 2: game so long and you understand you have one guy
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  Speaker 2: that's picking and popping and knocking down threes or at
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  Speaker 2: least a threat to and then you have the other
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  Speaker 2: guy that's can short roll and pass or short or
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  Speaker 2: rolled to the front of the rim or slip who
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  Speaker 2: creates angles. Uh, it's huge. You know, you're playing with
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  Speaker 2: the same system but against two different players, but both
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  Speaker 2: very very you know, impactful when they're on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, this is not the first time you
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  Speaker 2: made a great observation, you know, I mean, Donovan paid
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  Speaker 2: his apprenticeship and you know, and you know that was
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  Speaker 2: very valuable, and having two bigs is absolutely huge especially
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  Speaker 2: because the way they use them, and they're not just bigs,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna they're there out and floor dribble handoffs. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're setting flare screens and slipped into the rim.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They're really learned and Tyres has really learned to play
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  Speaker 2: double teams, which is really important. It's fun watching the
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  Speaker 2: development and part of the development is and you've been
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  Speaker 2: a practice, it's all the skill work they do before practice.
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  Speaker 2: In the early part of practice. Everyone's involved in the
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  Speaker 2: one on one work. Everyone that's evolved in the ball
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  Speaker 2: hand like, everyone's involved in closing out on the perimeter.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's involved in the cuttings actions that they work on.
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  Speaker 2: So you're just pushing the side of the box out.
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  Speaker 2: Now when you come to the game, what are you
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  Speaker 2: supposed to do? You play to your strengths. You show
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  Speaker 2: people what you can do, not what you can't do.
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  Speaker 2: But you're improving in so many different areas because of
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  Speaker 2: the cumulative effect of the way they approach practice every day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Seth Greenberg with us, take a quick time out.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back. We have Raylan Mullens to dissect. We
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  Speaker 1: got Silas demer as well, and the NBA has a
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  Speaker 1: load of Yukon Huskies too, and Set has plenty of
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  Speaker 1: experience there. We'll talk to him some more when we
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  Speaker 1: continue on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show here on
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  Speaker 1: a lear Field