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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Uh, you kind of
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  have Xavier on Sunday twelve noon is the tip and pregame eleven thirty ten.
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  I don't think I've ever asked you this, but Mattine's versus night games any
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  preference at all? I mean some guys players will say no, and I
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  don't want to play Matinee. I'd rather play at night kind of like two,
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  you know, And I don't think I played it too this year.
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  I kind of like too at noon. You know. Listen, I guess
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  you know, you don't have to wait around and suffer all day. And
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  you know, because like when you wake up, you know, the night
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  night for a game, you're you're you're in a weird place, you know,
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  because you're just it's hard to control your mind. You know, you're
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  and you and you're going into uh you know, a lot of worst case
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  scenarios and then you wake up and you know, and it's a strange feeling
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  and there's a nervous energy. And uh so I guess the positive is uh
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  you know, like once the anthemy, he I think that all disappears and
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  you just kind of you just coach it, and it's like the uncertainty is
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  worse than the experience or even the aftermath in a lot of cases. So
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  I don't like seven o'clock because you wait around. I don't like noon because
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  it's too quick. So I'm going to say three thirty, all right,
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  So you hate eight thirty, we get these eight thirty games. Oh my
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  goodness, Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. That's torture. That's a
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  form of torture. Torture. We've been talking on pregame, you and I
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  about three point shooting, team shooting better. Not the last two games,
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  but I mean some of these numbers by Caravan pretty impressive. Nineteen of his
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  last thirty four, Spencer sixteen of his last thirty four. I mean,
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  you know, coaches love to see guys shoot over forty. But these guys
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  are shooting almost fifty percent or better in these last few games. That's not
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  something that you see very often. Yeah, I mean these two guys in
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  particular, you know Cam, you know Alex Dair obviously exceptional shooters, and
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  you know they take the right type of shots, and they could also make
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  hard shots, and and uh, they do a good job of like moving
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  within the offense and getting good, you know, the best looks that they
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  could get. Obviously, you know they're their top of, top of scouting
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  report players for the opponent. You know. But you know, Tristan love
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  to see that number climb, you know, get into the mid to high
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  thirties. Uh. I don't mean he ends the season, you know,
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  shooting the right type of shots. Uh. You know, Hassan, you
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  know shot it well. Obviously we got to get solo. You know,
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  Solo is a you know, is a weapon for us. Uh you know
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  that that we've got to kind of get going uh off the bench here for
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  us down the stretch. So uh, you know we've we've got good shooters.
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  Yeah. D r by the way, eight of his last twelve pretty
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  impressive. Excuse me, step Castle at Villanova, I noticed guys were laying
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  off him, they were letting him, they were basically daring him to shoot.
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  Now, we saw that last year with Andre Jackson for a while.
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  What are you talking about to step when he's seeing this stuff now because they're
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  they're basically daring him to shoot the ball. Yeah, I mean, you
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  know it's not quite the Andre, uh you know, the Andre treatment because
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  Andrea's was was was way more extreme. But you know they're definitely you know,
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  giving him a cushion. And you know that there's obviously uh uh you
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  know a template uh with with Andre that we could work off of. And
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  I think it's important that Steph uh, you know, just works harder as
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  a cutter and gets downhill at more as a driver, and continues to get
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  on the offensive glass and gets out in transition. I don't think, you
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  know, just based on his physicality, his skill set. You know,
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  you don't want to play. You don't want to play a game with his
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  type of physical abilities. And and and you take six field goals and five
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  of them were threes. You know, you're you're you're playing into, yeah,
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  what the opponent wants you to do. So you know that he's uh,
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  I think he's he's seeing something. We're seeing something. You know that
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  that he's got to make adjustments too. We got to make adjustments. Yeah,
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  there's one for four in a Villanova game about a forty seven percent shooter
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  overall is Steph Castle. And one thing about him his speed, Dan is
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  pretty impressive. I mean, you were talking about this a few weeks ago,
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  saying you know, Yukon's got to get out and transition and score on
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  the fast break, and you were very effective at Villanova there twenty one to
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  eight in that category. Is that something that you see continuing as this season
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  goes on, because that is nothing better. I don't think to get a
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  team excited is when you get down the court, beat the other guys and
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  get a let Yeah. I think you know, his uh, what he's
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  been able to do defensively has been really impressive. Uh. You know,
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  the Shireman matchup was a huge matchup and he and he he did as good
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  a job as a young player could do against the player of his caliber,
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  you know, defensively versus Villanova, you know, versus those big wings.
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  He did an exceptional job. You know. And then I think where it
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  could really help us, as uh it was on the backboard is uh,
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  you know is uh, you know, offensive glass, getting us extra possessions,
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  defensive rebounding and pushing the ball, you know, and and you know,
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  attacking the rim, attacking the paint offensively as a cutter, as a
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  driver, as a post player. And then you know, once you've put
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  pressure on the rim and maybe seen something go in, you know, now
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  maybe you know, step into a couple of threes. Yeah, he's a
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  good offensive rebound of twenty three offensive rebounds on the season, averaging five a
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  game. Has obviously missed games only played in thirteen for the Huskies, but
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  Steph Castle bright future for him good. It's always fun to watch him.
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  He's an exciting player. Coach. We appreciate it. Wake up call.
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  I don't know what it's gonna be for you on Sunday. I'm gonna have
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  to get up early, but I know you'll be there. We'll meet in
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  the locker room before the game. It's at twelve o'clock too. Just want
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  to just want to get that out there. Maybe I heard they could move
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  it to three thirty. Yeah, yeah, I'm for that. Actually,
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  let me make a phone call. Okay, all right, Dan Hurley,
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  we'll be back. Kamani Young joins us in a moment. This is the
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  Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show.