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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Dec 11 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Big basketball week for Yukon. The women head to South
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Bend and they'll take on Notre Dames fighting Irish six thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Pre game. Bob Joyce will be there with Deb Fisk.
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  Speaker 1: That's Thursday, and then Saturday Yukon heads down the Turnpike
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  Speaker 1: or however you get there in the Merritt park Way.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, I forget I did it for
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years. They played on Zaga. Seven thirty is
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  Speaker 1: the pregame, and then they'll tip it up at eight o'clock.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: We're back with coach Dan. Let's talk. Let's move on
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  Speaker 1: to Texas. Now, you know, the tough tests, great building,
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  Speaker 1: pretty darn good team, loaded with talented people. The start
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  Speaker 1: you had to that game, that was correct me if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong here, that might have been the best basketball
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  Speaker 1: your team played maybe those first ten minutes this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And obviously Texas was going to make them run
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  Speaker 2: and make some shots. And the preseason top twenty team
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  Speaker 2: with a pieces uh and size and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: older talented players. So yeah, I mean we we look
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  Speaker 2: like more like our old selves in terms of uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, less mistakes defensively, you know, and and obviously
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  Speaker 2: the offense has not been the issue you know, this
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  Speaker 2: year for us. I think, you know, I said it
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning of the year. I think I love
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  Speaker 2: what we have at center. You know, if you if
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  Speaker 2: you look at the combined stats, you know, these guys
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  Speaker 2: are being as productive and as efficient as we need
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  Speaker 2: them to be. Minus Fouling, uh, you know, they and
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  Speaker 2: they did foul in that game and and brought you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously gave Yousef a chance to get in there again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but minus fouling too much and maybe some
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  Speaker 2: defensive rebounding by Samson that the centers have been great
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  Speaker 2: for us. You know, I think our season is going
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  Speaker 2: to come down to, like I said that, our uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to to play the defense to you know,
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  Speaker 2: to be to to to rebound the ball the way
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  Speaker 2: we have and then the guard play Mike, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: just Hassan Diarra played the way we need him to
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  Speaker 2: play the point guard spot for us. And he's got
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  Speaker 2: some shooting and some weapons around him on the wing
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  Speaker 2: with Liam and Alex and solo ball, these guys can
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  Speaker 2: all light it up. And then he's got two centers
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  Speaker 2: that are shooting like eighty percent from the field. Yeah, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean shoot eight and it's like, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: play real good on the ball defense and run our offense.
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  Speaker 2: Our offense will generate opportunities and you could make some
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  Speaker 2: plays too. But you know the things I said before
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  Speaker 2: the season, it's all gonna come down to the quality
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  Speaker 2: of that point guard play between Hassan Aiden and a
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  Speaker 2: mod when he gets healthy. And then the sophomores, you know,
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  Speaker 2: can they you know, can they give us what we need?
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  Speaker 2: I think obviously right now Solo Is and Jalen Stewart
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  Speaker 2: and Jayden Ross both you're going to get opportunities to
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  Speaker 2: do it and grow there, grow their role as we
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  Speaker 2: need them too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Samson and terras Reed junior twenty four points between
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  Speaker 1: him in thirty one minutes of five, six rebounds, block shots.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're doing a little bit of everything. I
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to Liam McNeely for a second.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in the Texas part of me in the
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  Speaker 1: Baylor game, he made some big shots. You needed him.
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  Speaker 1: He came through. He looks like he's adjusted well to
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  Speaker 1: this level of college basketball. It's amazing to me a
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  Speaker 1: guy his age playing against and you always say this,
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  Speaker 1: these old teams guys with twenty three and twenty four
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  Speaker 1: year olds. Liam McNeely looks like he belongs right where
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  Speaker 1: he is right now, and to me, he's only going
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  Speaker 1: to get better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just you know, it's I mean, we're lucky
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  Speaker 2: to have the kid here. It's so hard to to
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  Speaker 2: have a culture, you know nowadays with the portal and
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  Speaker 2: n I l it's just so hard. And uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know he uh he helps you build one, and uh
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  Speaker 2: he helps you build a great one. And just the
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  Speaker 2: way that he goes about his business, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming into the year and and uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: being one of the best players in the country and
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  Speaker 2: and and having you know, great draft stock, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just to be about winning and to be about working
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  Speaker 2: and competing and to show that the shooting scoring that
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  Speaker 2: he has shown at times for us, like he did
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  Speaker 2: in the Bail game, and clutch shooting and clutch scoring
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  Speaker 2: in a must win game from such a young guys incredible.
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  Speaker 2: And then but I thought it was even more impressive
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  Speaker 2: what he did in the in the Texas game. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he he like he just went total winning player. He
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  Speaker 2: like didn't care. I think he took like four or
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  Speaker 2: five shots but he made all these plays, rebounding the ball,
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  Speaker 2: you know, clever passing, like really much improved defense, like
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  Speaker 2: just like hockey assists. I mean, he did all these
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  Speaker 2: different things where most kids in his situation would have
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  Speaker 2: just went back home and fired away shots and made
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  Speaker 2: us lose. And instead he was just a total team
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  Speaker 2: guy and did what we needed to do to win,
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  Speaker 2: to win a huge road game for us. And the
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  Speaker 2: guy like that draft stocks should go up. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure his draft stock should go off go up
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  Speaker 2: if people are really evaluating the right things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly seven points. He had nine rebounds. I love
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  Speaker 1: the way rebounds, and you know you're talking about him
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  Speaker 1: Liam going two for four. He only took four shots,
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  Speaker 1: but that three ball he made second half that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty big and you kind of needed it because Texas
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  Speaker 1: was on the run. I think they got you to
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  Speaker 1: single digits. Maybe he just seemed like he made some
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  Speaker 1: big plays when you needed the most, and those are
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  Speaker 1: the kind of players that you know, can really help
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  Speaker 1: you thrive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's you know, I think he's learning so
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  Speaker 2: many you know, I think it's I think I think
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  Speaker 2: it's taxing everything that we're asking him to do. You know,
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  Speaker 2: like it's like, yeah, because this is a different team
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  Speaker 2: than last year. I think Steph, you know, had more
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  Speaker 2: of a luxury of being out there with with with
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  Speaker 2: with Donovan and Tristan and Samson and just more veterans
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  Speaker 2: and Cam who is an older player, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I think, uh, I think Liam's got more people
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  Speaker 2: learning around him, which is putting more pressure on him.
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  Speaker 2: So I think what he's doing is even uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's, it's it's it's more impressive than what a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other freshmen are doing. And I think his
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  Speaker 2: shooting numbers and he's gonna have games remixed three four,
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  Speaker 2: five threes in a game and uh, he's got some
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  Speaker 2: twenty five point knights ahead of them too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an unselfish guy, you can tell the way
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  Speaker 1: he plays. Credit to you for getting them there, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure, and putting this group together. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: Gonzaga when we come back. This will be the third
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  Speaker 1: year in a row you've seen these guys and the Zags.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure can't wait to get to New York to
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  Speaker 1: take on Yukon. We're back with Dan Hurley and the
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  Speaker 1: Yukon men's basketball Coaches Show Onlearfield