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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Feb 13 · Coaches Corner

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  Yukon Women Cincinnati tomorrow night for their only meeting of the season, with Xavier
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  Bob Joyce Stepfisk on the call at six point thirty Run the River one O
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  five nine via the Yukon Sports Network. Of course, the Varsity Network app.
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  A lot of people use that around the country, and the Varsitynetwork dot
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  Com. You sinkmigame dot com to sink our local broadcasts up with the TV,
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  which a lot of people enjoy doing to hear what the home guys have
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  to say about the home team. We're back with Dan Hurley. Okay,
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  here's my Saint Anthony's story. I went with an MSG crew down there to
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  do a story about Bob Senior, your dad, And the thing I came
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  out of that day with most often was what you just said about no sense
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  of entitlement. Now, you guys are good basketball players, you're here playing
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  with a great program. But he treated those guys like as if they had
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  to earn it every day. And I noticed in watching the player just looking
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  at him, Uh, they were like zoned in on that, and uh,
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  I thought that was one of the keys to his success over all those
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  years at Saint Anthony's. Yeah, I think I think any really good player,
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  great player, or the player that you want and your uh you know,
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  on your team in any type of sports or competitive type of endeavor is
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  uh yeah, they they want to get better and they want to be in
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  an environment, you know, where they're being challenged to improve. Uh.
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  You know, if they improve and continue to get better, obviously their value
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  goes up in terms of the you know, their career and the things they
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  want to also accomplish in terms of you know, your resume. You know,
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  once your career is over as a player, as a coach, and
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  it ends for all of us, Uh, you know, you're you're you're
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  left with what you what you accomplished and uh, you know what you what
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  did you strive for? And I think there's something about being in an environment
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  like ours, and you know there's other great ones in college basketball that where
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  the culture is uh, you know, we never lose because we were not
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  prepared. Uh you know, we never lose because of selfishness or laziness or
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  well you know what, well, we do lose, it's because our number
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  was called on a given night, and you know it's I think that's the
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  type of people that we attract because of the way that we do recruit.
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  Yeah, no doubt, I'm with you one hundred percent on that one.
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  Georgetown on the weekend. Interesting, you kind of great start again. You've
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  gotten off some great starts at Villanova. I'm trying to think of a few
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  games where it was ten to nothing, eleven nothing. This one was a
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  big lead early against the Hoyat team which was struggling some. Well, the
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  first thing impressed me there was George shown average about sixty one hundred people attendance
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  wise on the season. There were over thirteen thousand people at that game.
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  I mean there were a ton of Yukon fans locally from that area in the
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  building. I thought that was tremendous. Yeah, that was great. And
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  I think even even going back to last year when we were really really good
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  going there, just what even their fans too. Obviously there was you know
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  that our numbers swelled, but also you know, I thought that they you
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  know, they had it. They had a good showing, you know,
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  for you know, obviously a game versus the number one team in the country
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  should should really you know, galvanize your fan Britain fan base and bring out
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  local basketball fans. But yeah, you could see ed. You know,
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  obviously, you know it's a real rebuild that he's got, and there's some
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  real challenges, uh, you know, like like their home home court situation
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  that they're gonna you have to have to figure their way through. But I
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  think it helped our p ormance that that there was a pretty good crowd for
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  the game. Yeah. Alex Caraban another great day against Georgetown, set fifty
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  one points in two games. He's gonna be with us on the show in
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  a few moments. Ten for fourteen, four of seven from three. Those
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  are all stats. How about how many times he got backdoor layups in that
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  game? I mean, Donovan Klingon said a career high for six assists,
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  I believe, is that correct? Yes? And and Caravan getting loose for
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  layups. I mean that's not easy. You don't see that that much in
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  college games unless you're watching Yukon. Yeah, so you know that that's I
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  think a byproduct that just kind of, as I like to say, just
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  getting lost, just getting lost in our offense, you know, just keeping
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  the ball moving, you know, cutting player movement, you know ball movement,
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  you know understanding you know for us, you know, we've gone uh
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  you know, we get taken kind of away from some of our sets when
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  people when people switch everything, and you know, I think that we've gotten
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  so much better at playing against switches on ball off ball one through four,
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  one through five. You know, I think that's it's been a kryptonite for
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  us in the past, but now I think we've seen it so much that
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  we're getting a lot better at it. And you could see Donovan as a
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  real weapon as a passer what he's able to do at kind of that high
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  post top of the key area. You have great cutters like Cam and Alex
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  and Stephan is becoming a really good cutter. So I think you get Tristan.
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  I think trying to get Tristan more involved as a as a mover to
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  a lot of what he likes to do is off the dribble creating. But
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  he also could be a very dangerous cutter because we get some smart players.
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  Yeah, Spencer got on the Honor Roll this year this week in the Big
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  East. Fifteen points, five months, five assists. You know, plays
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  a complete game most nights, fifty six percent from the field the two games
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  from three. But every time people ask me about him, I said,
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  do you ever see how many rebounds this guy gets. You ever see how
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  many assists his assists the turnover ratio. I mean, those numbers to me
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  are impressive. Yeah, it's great to see the ball go in the basket
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  from three, but wow, I mean he is an excellent passer and all
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  around player. Yeah, I mean he's a he's a really good all around
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  player and uh, you know, defensively to just you know, it's a
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  guy that's got some you know, capability to know to to steal the ball
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  and get us some easy opportunities, you know, and obviously you see the
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  skill level as an all around guard. But I would say still think the
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  you know, the thing about his competitiveness and the fire he plays with and
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  the way he shows up every day. He never He's a lot like me
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  in a sense. Uh. And there's a couple others like you know,
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  it's a Caravan two and a domin Andre Hawk was this too, where we're
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  just like such insane competitors that love basketball so much that you know, it
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  just does so much for the for the character, the competitive character of the
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  team. Yeah. Yeah, that's big. It's no doubt about it.
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  Your rookie Stephan Castle I should be calling him a freshman, but it's my
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  NBA background. He's a rookie to me, and he is a seventh time
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  he's won the Freshman of the Week award in the league. That's the most
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  ever by a Yukon player. Shot fifty nine percent this week, eleven points
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  a game. I mean, he does so many things. We've talked about
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  his defense. We talked about his rebounding, but I just heard you say
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  moving without the ball for him, he's starting to pick that up too.
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  Boy, what a weapon that could be. Yeah, I mean, he
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  just pick up on some things in some ways we used Andre in terms of
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  his cutting and getting on the baseline, getting in the corners and making the
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  shop forty five cuts whatever, you know, and then that puts him in
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  position to get on the offensive glass, where he's where he's a lot to
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  deal with. So you know, he's what he's done is impressive, and
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  I think it's more impressive because there's hardly any freshman out there in college these
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  days with the COVID year and in the portal, you know, coaches don't
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  have to play freshmen, so they really aren't. Yeah, so he's never
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  really playing against freshmen. He's generally playing against really old players and helping us,
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  you know, win a lot of games. One final thing for you.
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  A friend of mine who's a high school coach in Connecticut sent me a
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  text after the Georgetown game. He's said, the best part of the game
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  the heart I liked the most. With the team up twenty six, Dan
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  called a timeout and was yelling at everybody, like three of the guys,
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  and I said, yeah, that's this coach does not tolerate certain things.
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  What happened there when you got a little upset and you got into some guys
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  and you know, the game was kind of afford on conclusion at that point.
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  Yeah, I mean, we're we're getting to the point here soon where
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  uh, you know, lose, you know, lose the next game and
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  you know, and season over. You know that's coming up soon here,
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  Uh, both Big East season over and then potentially you know, and then
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  career over with the you know, at the n c ub A tournament.
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  So you know, just all the behaviors, the habits, the standards.
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  You know, if you if you can't have moments of weakness where regardless of
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  the score, time, situation, where you where you where you where everything
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  that we've trained for go out the window and uh uh and we we always
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  have to uh perform at the level of our training, regardless of time score.
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  Because if that, if that, if that becomes a habit where we
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  start to carry ourselves that way, we become very vulnerable. This is not
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  the jug or our team that you know that that we get portrayed to be,
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  like we have to be absolutely on the point offense, defense, ball
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  movement, rebounding, scouting, unselfishness, like we can't be off a tick.
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  This isn't you know that, This isn't a team with like ten lottery
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  picks. You know, things will get away from us quickly if we get
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  away from our identity. I thought we got away from our identity and I
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  ripped the boys and I'll rip them again. I ripped them today a bunch.
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  That's that's the standard. I do think that the players, you know
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  that they I'm tough on them, but I think they know how important it
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  is for me to keep the standard high. Yeah. No, that's that's
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  there's no doubt about it. Listen, you don't have Luel Cinder there,
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  you don't have Bill Walton. You're not winning seventy five games in a row
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  yet like John Wooden did. But I think that's a great way to look
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  at it. I really do. We're not rolling the balls out, you
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  know, just like just beating people off of just pure talent. Like we
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  have a very systematic approach to what we're doing on both ends of the court.
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  And yeah, and we become vulnerable just like everyone else, you know,
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  if we get away from what we do. Yep, yep, Okay,
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  coach, We appreciate you, Thank you very much. You'll see in
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  Chicago for DePaul. See you all Right's Dan Hurley coming up. Alex Caravan
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  joins us as we continue on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show from Learfield