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Seg 5 - MBB Show w Tom Moore Nov 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaching Show. Mike
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  Speaker 1: chris Pino, joined by Tom Moore, longtime assistant and longtime
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  Speaker 1: head coach as well for a decade at Quinnipiac. Tom,
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  Speaker 1: I just remember getting off the plane last April, seeing
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  Speaker 1: you walking off with a huge smile as you kind
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  Speaker 1: of won another championship back to back. You've been part
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  Speaker 1: of a bunch of them. I don't know, is anyone
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  Speaker 1: better than another or is it just that euphoric feeling
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  Speaker 1: that you just can't get enough of.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you this last one was the
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  Speaker 2: most dominant by far. I've never been around a team
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  Speaker 2: that was playing more complete basketball at both ends at
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  Speaker 2: the court than we were, not only in the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 2: I think by like the second or third week of January,
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  Speaker 2: it felt to me like once Donovich sort of shook
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  Speaker 2: the rust of that second injury and f like had
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  Speaker 2: his sea legs under him, we were so we were
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  Speaker 2: just so complete at both ends, such a high level team,
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  Speaker 2: the ninety nine team, obviously, it's it's always that that
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  Speaker 2: first one is always special, especially because it came against
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  Speaker 2: Duke and we were such a big underduck, but no,
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  Speaker 2: just great memories obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the ninety nine team, You're right, the first one
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  Speaker 1: is something you can't forget. But as you were coaching,
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  Speaker 1: let's go Big East first, because you've been in a
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  Speaker 1: million of those tournaments. This team last year in a
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  Speaker 1: Big East tournament and that's a hard tournament to win.
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  Speaker 1: We all know that. Just getting that one I thought
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  Speaker 1: was a great accomplishment for Yukon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, I thought we were really really on top
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  Speaker 2: of things in the Xavier game. You know, it was
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  Speaker 2: a really again like a dominant performance on both ends
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  Speaker 2: ends just like we were really sharp, especially that second half.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, but to play Saint John's in a
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  Speaker 2: in a really sort of tough game in the in
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  Speaker 2: the semifinals was you know, difficult obviously. You know, Coach
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  Speaker 2: Patino is an incredible coach, does a great job changing
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  Speaker 2: defenses and just sort of keeping you off off stride offensively,
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  Speaker 2: giving you different looks. And you know, if you think
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  Speaker 2: back in the Big East, the three games we had
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  Speaker 2: with them last year, we're probably our most challenging I
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  Speaker 2: think because of the different the different pace defensively that
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  Speaker 2: they give you and the different looks and how many
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  Speaker 2: changes they make, So you know, that was hard and
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  Speaker 2: Marquette was obviously a great game. They It was a
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  Speaker 2: lot of emotion in heading into that game. It was
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  Speaker 2: something that meant a lot to us as a program,
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  Speaker 2: have and lost to them last year the year before
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  Speaker 2: in the championship, so it was it was something that
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  Speaker 2: we we definitely h were up for, excited about, and
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  Speaker 2: they were terrific obviously too as well. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's as good as we felt going into that game,
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  Speaker 2: that it was sort of a Final Four type of
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  Speaker 2: quality opponent and that type of game, and in that
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  Speaker 2: atmosphere too as well, Mic and Bob. As you guys
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  Speaker 2: know from being there a lot, it was a special
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  Speaker 2: night and you know, our guys true to form, they
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  Speaker 2: really rose to the occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's same one before we leave the Big East
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  Speaker 1: and move into this year's team, that Saint John's game.
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  Speaker 1: You know they played it went into the nineties. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was a high scoring affair and sometimes a team
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  Speaker 1: can get you playing their game at their pace and
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  Speaker 1: and it gets you off your game. But you con
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  Speaker 1: matched them and one in the nineties, which that was
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  Speaker 1: impressive to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the things I think that's been so
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  Speaker 2: impressive about the wrong in the last couple of years
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  Speaker 2: with coach Hurley is he can do a great job
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  Speaker 2: in any type of any type of game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Like he can he can coach us through a sort
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  Speaker 2: of a slug fest and a low scoring game, and
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  Speaker 2: he can coach us through a high scoring, up tempo
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  Speaker 2: pace game, makes great adjustments, calls, great calls, great plays,
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  Speaker 2: and and uh you know, I think again we had
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  Speaker 2: that versatility. You know, I think we were one of
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  Speaker 2: those teams that was very difficult to play against at
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  Speaker 2: any any pace, and it was almost like a pick
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  Speaker 2: your poison type of thing with last year's group.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, this year's team. Let's talk young guys.
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  Speaker 1: Okay a Maud Noel, Isaiah Abraham. Were you involved in
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  Speaker 1: recruiting either both of those guys and what have you
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  Speaker 1: seen so far as they've been on campus.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was not. Kamani recruited a mod and uh
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  Speaker 2: Luke recruited Isaiah. But both of those guys great toughness,
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  Speaker 2: really great toughness, and they're they're both about it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: They they come in to practice every day with a
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  Speaker 2: with the readiness to go there. They're mature beyond their
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  Speaker 2: years in terms of their competitive spirit. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: both came from really high level high school programs at
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  Speaker 2: Paul the six and MOTEP and they came from high
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  Speaker 2: level AAU programs. They've been in a ton of big games,
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  Speaker 2: so there was not any kind of back down with
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  Speaker 2: those guys. Really really, uh, they're adjusting well to the
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  Speaker 2: and and there are two kids that can adjust to
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  Speaker 2: the physicality of this level. You know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: young kids when they come in don't quite have the
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  Speaker 2: strength to you know, win screens or uh compete up
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  Speaker 2: for loose balls or hold a box out or get
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  Speaker 2: a catch in a scoring area on offense. Both of
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  Speaker 2: those kids are more than ready physically and toughness wise
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  Speaker 2: to compete at this level. And we're excited about both
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  Speaker 2: of their futures. They're going to be key parts of
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  Speaker 2: what happened here over the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where the Star's got to be physically up
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  Speaker 1: to it and then mentally be able to deal with
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  Speaker 1: everything that comes with playing in the Big East and
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  Speaker 1: with the Yukon well. With Tom Moore, the Yukon assistant
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  Speaker 1: back with more on the Yukon men's basketball coaches show
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  Speaker 1: here on liar field