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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 29 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Mike Christino with Dan Hurley.
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  We're just wrapping up talking about the Empire Classic Coach. We were talking
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  about, you know, assists and in turnovers that game Yukon eighteen and six.
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  I think, if I'm reading this right, that's a heck of a
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  ratio to have against Texas, and you needed it because that was a quality
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  team you've beat in that title game. Yeah, and yeah, we we
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  dealt with some foul trouble in that one, particularly with Cam in the first
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  half. And you know, play without staff, I think is going to
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  you know, prove to be a really really critically important player before it's all
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  said and done. I just loved, you know, our maturity. And
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  you know, let's say, you know, ball secure, job ball security
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  is job security. You know the old Aaron Rodgers you know quote. So
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  I listen, good guards, they rarely turned the ball over, and good
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  guards make the game look easy. And I thought our guard play was really
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  really good then, and two of your guys were you know, they all
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  played well, but I mean two guys stood out obviously, Samson Johnson fifteen
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  points, eight rebounds in that game, spectacular athleticism, played twenty eight minutes.
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  And you've been talking about this when you know camp started. This guy's
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  been playing well for us, he's been scoring, and we never we didn't
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  get to see him, obviously because they're you know, secret scrimmages and all
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  that stuff. But true to your word, this dude played one of the
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  best games I've seen at the Garden by a college guy in a while.
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  Yeah, tremendous. It's I think, a tremendous performance and big splash plays,
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  really super athletic plays, and just I think a great compliment to Donovan
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  and a guy that I think now that he's had some because he's healthy,
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  he's mature, or you know, he's he's really ready to I think have
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  a huge impact on the season. Him and Hassan, I think you are
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  two of the most important people on the roster, if not the two most
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  important people. Just to have those veterans that you can bring in off the
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  bench that can either stabilize or elevate. Yeah, Samson, I had I
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  had husky fans texting me, you know, freaky athleticism. They're all jacked
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  up about it. It was good to see he's such a good kid.
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  And the other thing was carab Ben in that game. I mean, we
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  all know that he's a shot maker, and he's a clutch player, and
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  he's he's got all these championship qualities, but man, he made three big
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  ones in that game that if you don't get them, you might not win
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  that game. Yeah, he you know. Listen, Alex hasn't overall had
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  the start to the year, you know, in terms of three point shooting,
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  but he's shown, you know, his versatility has improved. He's got
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  more elements to his game offensively, he's been able to put on the floor
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  and you know, and get some deeper two's and and then even show,
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  you know, the ability to make some hard contested end of shot clock type
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  of shots. And you know, when things tighten up the last six seven,
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  eight minutes of the game, you know, and you've kind of you
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  know, you've run a lot of your offense, and you know you've kind
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  of you've run out of some tricks. You may you may hold you know,
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  one or two little little things as long as you can, but at
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  some point and the game situations come down to you're just having really good players
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  that can that can go win a battle and go make a player a shot.
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  Yeah. I mean you talk about this, and I know your players
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  are like this most most every night. They're kind of fearless. And that's
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  what I felt like in that game by him, is like, Okay,
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  we need something here. Okay, Caravan makes a shot and he makes a
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  really contested hard shot and then he does something else again like that, and
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  then I mean, as as a teammate of a guy like that, you've
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  got to feel good about it. Yeah, and you know he practices a
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  lot, he lives in the building, so you know, it just feels
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  like there's a little justice in it. There's a there's a reward for a
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  person that works as hard as he can for the program and uh, you
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  know, works as hard as he can to be prepared for the moment,
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  and you know it's it's you know, I think Donovan or excuse me,
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  I think Andre Jackson and uh Adamasonogo really came into this program as young players
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  and really set a tone for uh for for a Jim rat mentality, and
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  uh, you know, alex Is can kind of continuing that type of mindset.
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  How much Dan do you think you rub off on these guys? In
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  that in that realm. I mean they have to do the work. Obviously,
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  you have to direct what's going on. But I mean do they see
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  you. Do the players see you in your work out? That can go
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  cheef. We can't let him out work us. I mean you're out there
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  playing with these guys sometimes and I see practice. Yeah. I think that's
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  the difference between you know, college and pros is I you know, I
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  don't want to I think the head coach in college is is, uh is
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  really important. I think the staff in general is obviously really important, but
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  uh, you know, the head coach is going to be the one that
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  is going to attract the people and and set the tone and create the culture,
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  and create the tactics that you're going to play by, and and the
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  mindset of the team and the player development. Unlike pro sports, you know,
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  which especially at the NBA level, I think that the NBA game is
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  about the players. It's it's a it's a player driven league. And I
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  think in college, uh, yeah, the players are younger, They're they're
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  not they're not professionals yet, they're they're still developing. I think that college
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  sports, if you get the right head coach into your organization, they could
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  create an environment that could lead to success. Dan Hoolies with us A Ukon
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  men's basketball coaches show quick thought on Manhattan. We're moving ahead now getting towards
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  Kansas coming up and what happened with the un h we'll talk about that too
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  again. Tristan Newton three triple doubles in his career here. There were only
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  eleven total in the history of Yukon basketball. This guy's got three of them.
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  So impressive what he does not only boarding, but you know, finding
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  teammates and he can score when he needs to. I mean, big guard,
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  tremendous rebounder, I think, one of the best rebounders you know.
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  And I think, listen, Tristan last year critically important, you know,
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  point guard, you know, on a team that dominated the tournament, and
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  his performance in the National Chairchampionship Game, and I think, yeah, in
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  his mind, and there's a feeling in you by time around Tristan where you
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  know, it feels like he's undervalued and isn't given the look at the NBA
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  level and doesn't get the accolades he deserves. And I think, you know,
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  this year is going to be plenty of opportunities for him. I think
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  he's off to a great start with what he did at the Garden, you
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  know, and you know, if he believes he's an All American and he
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  believes he's a draftable NBA player, he's got He's got a great opportunity.
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  Just went to to prove that point, and he's in the perfect system to
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  do it. Yeah. Tristan Newton MVP of that Empire Classic, three triple
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  doubles more than anybody in the history of Yukon basketball. Dan Hurley Wather's The
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  Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. We move on and we'll be talking about n
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  H and Kansas and everybody coming up trying to knock off the defending national champs.
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