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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 2 · Coaches Corner

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  Now we're back live at Hartford of the Duncan Music Lounge with Coach Shirley on
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  Mike Christina and just wrap it up. That final four run you got by
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  Gonzaga. That Miami game, that one worried me. I gotta say,
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  they got all these guys getting paid a lot of money, like four hundred
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  and fifty grand or something. A couple of guys from miamis over this.
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  They fought over it. A couple of guys said, I ain't staying unless
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  I get what that guy got. And I'm thinking to myself, we are
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  playing against a couple of guys that are making a lot of dough doing this,
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  and it feels like it's not the same game. But we were playing
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  so well I felt like we're going to handle this. But that was a
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  good team. Yeah, for them to beat Texas in that Elite A game
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  and you know, to get to Houston, like for them to beat Texas
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  in that regional in that game with the way Texas was playing, they were
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  just really good offensively, and we played an incredible defense in that game.
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  They were they were like top three in the country in offense, and we
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  just we shot him down and got separation real quick. Hawk was feeling terrible.
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  He was struggling physically going into that one, so, you know,
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  and we didn't get as much from him as we normally did. But Madama
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  had his trees in the beginning of that game and did what great players do.
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  Like just when you make shots like that in the beginning of a game
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  and you're playing in front of seventy five thousand people on that stage, you
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  feel like a puppet, right, yeah, yeah, and your best player
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  has got to make some plays early in the game just to get everyone to
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  relax, and they did that. And for those of you who haven't been
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  in front of seventy five thousand basketball fans, it's outrageous. I've never seen
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  anything like it. It's bigger than life. It's bigger than anything you I've
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  ever been in. I don't know about you, but man, that's that's
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  a way different environment than most of us face. It's like being on a
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  stage like this, but it's just I don't know how many people here,
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  this like seventy four nine and seventy more people, you know, and the
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  depth perception, and then you go and do your first couple of workouts there
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  and these guys are they can't even dribble, and they're they're they're shootings.
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  They're missing badly, you know, because the depth perception in there. But
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  you know they get enough time in there where they adjusted. Yeah, at
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  one point, I think in one of those practices, you had guys diving
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  on the floor. You were talking about doing it, then you did it.
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  Why'd you do that? Our practices are different, We practice different.
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  We hear it a lot when people come watch us, whether it's or recruits
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  or NBA people or media people. Our practices are just they're intense, and
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  they're fast paced and they're intense. And but you did that at a final
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  four. That was kind of unusual. I think. Yeah. I mean
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  I think for us, or I learned from my dad, is like practice
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  settings. My job is to stress them out, like stress them out in
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  practice so that they're dealing with with game type of pressure and practice. And
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  then when I go to the game, I just I manage the game and
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  I try to build their confidence, you know, so practice drive and push
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  them, get more out of them, stress them game night. If I'm
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  yelling at the players on game night, like frantically that I suck as a
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  coach. I'm just yelling at the refs, right, so when you see
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  me, that's but that's that's what I learned from my dad, and it
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  was just like genius coaching in terms of the way he prepared his teams.
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  Yeah, So how hard is that for you to not go in that direction?
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  When game night comes and you're we're gonna be at Kansas this year,
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  get zag out in Seattle. There's gonna be some hostile crowds. Yeah.
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  I think every year just as a us, the players and the staff and
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  yourself to just to show growth, show improvement, be a better coach.
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  You know. I anticipate just being a much better coach this year and be
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  able to control my emotions better, dial it up when I need it.
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  But for the most part, you know, show more willingness defensively to do
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  some different things. It's like every off season you're trying to add and get
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  better. Yeah. Speaking of big environments, Yukon faces North Carolina at the
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  Garden, Indiana, maybe Texas or Louisville in the next few weeks, how
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  do you anticipate your young guys are going to deal with that? I mean,
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  that's the world's most famous arena. Now, yeah, I mean that's
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  there's some big spots. But you got to bring in people with that good
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  pedigree, you know that that have good makeup and just tough people and tell
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  to people. But there's no doubt we're we've got a lot of young guys
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  in the rotation this year. There's gonna be one's gonna start and then you
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  know two, maybe three will play. So and that's not you know,
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  typical of a lot of teams in the country, minus you know, maybe
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  a couple of the bigger places. But when people are talking about like Marquette
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  right now, no one's talking about any freshmen. When people are talking about
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  Creton right now, no one's talking about any freshmen. You know, when
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  when you're talking about I guess uh, I don't know Michigan State, there
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  are some freshmen. So you know that That's always been my model, like
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  attract young talented players and use the portal when you need it and trust your
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  player development. I brought some reading material for you here. It's the it's
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  one of those preseason magazines. I'm looking down. I don't see Yukon in
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  the top ten here in this particular one. I guess what is that this
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  is Lindy's. But I'm just writing that I think you should put this in
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  the locker room, and who stilly gets? Who are there? At least
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  I got cleaning on it. I got cleaning there. But I read a
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  bunch of these things and I kept reading. I'm going page back, I'm
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  paging back. I'm going where the heck's are yukon with all the champions here?
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  Yeah, I mean listen, with all due respect, yes, listen.
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  The other coaches, for the most part, don't know what we have,
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  and I don't really know what they have, nor do I really care
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  what their team looks like right now? You know. And when media people,
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  national media people come to my practice, like I notice people I've got
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  I use all of my senses, so they don't want They're not like watching
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  my big eyes and like studying our defensive integrity and our offensive execution. They're
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  playing with their phone, you know, like they're not evaluating what our team
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  looks like and studying it at the level that you need to to make a
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  real assessment. And so I laugh at it. I was gonna say,
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  how do you handle that? Because I always get upset when I see wait
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  a minute. This team deserves more credit to start the season than this.
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  But can you use that, I guess is my question. It was over
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  It was overblown how much we talked about it internally last year, in the
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  fact that we weren't ranked. I might have mentioned it a couple of times.
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  But if I have to use that to motivate you, then we're not
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  gonna be good enough to go. We need to go. All right,
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  answer that question, we'll be back. We'll take a look at and get
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  a little analysis from coach on the Big East. We've got some great teams
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  and it will be back in just a moment. The Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches
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  Show with Dan Hurley on lear Field