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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 29 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley, the ucon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, Mike chris
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  Pino, the Husky seven and zero on the Year of You and h The
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  other night at Gample, they were an interesting team. I really was pretty
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  impressed with Nathan Davis' first year guy there. Husky's won by twenty. They're
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  supposed to win, obviously, But you, as the coach on your side
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  of things, how do you rate what happens in games like that? I
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  mean, winning is winning. I don't care what anybody says. I don't
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  care what the numbers say. Winning is winning. But from your perspective,
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  what did you see there? Yeah? You know, for me, I
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  thought there was some Yeah, there was an opportunity for us to put together
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  a dominant performance that that that we would feel much better about. But there
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  were you know, there were stretches, you know of three point line defense
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  that was just, you know, just completely unacceptable. I think when we
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  made the edit of of our three point line defense, uh from this New
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  Hampshire game, uh, we likened it to our three point line defense against
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  Saint Joe's year two, where we gave up thirteen made threes and lost.
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  Uh. Yeah, the worst loss since I've been here. You know that
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  New Mexico State. I mean, they're both fighting for that honor, uh
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  or the dishonor so. I mean to have the amount of breakdowns that we
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  had, and you know, I think that they are actually a hard team
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  to play against, and you know, without a center and with all really
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  you know, really good shooters and a point guard that you know, broke
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  our will a little bit with his ability to drive the ball. I was
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  not a happy I wasn't happy in the locker room obviously the day after or
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  the or the or the days after. You know, you've got a foul
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  taste in your mouth anytime that you don't perform up to the standard. You're
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  gonna misshots. You're gonna make shots. The three point shooting is not you
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  know, four to twenty eight on mostly really good looks at three. Yeah,
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  that doesn't sit well. But it was more of the the soft things,
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  the uh, not doing the hard things well, the concentration the basketball
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  IQ. There's a lot of resources that are invested in this group to put
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  forth, you know, a championship type of effort, and that's not it.
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  Yeah. One of the things I was thinking as the game went on.
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  Is that the pushing the pace like you and h did for the most
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  part, is that a concern to you going forward? Do you think teams
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  will try to do that against you, try to get up the court and
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  get quicker shots and beat your defense up there and try to do some damage
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  like that. Yeah, I mean some will you know, we send obviously
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  we go to the offensive glass, so that's always a concern. But you
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  know, just like it's worth it to go for it on fourth and two,
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  fourth and one, it's a lot of times it's worth it to go
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  get possession of the ball again, because the most important thing in basketball is
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  to have possession. So yeah, when you send as many people as we
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  do to the glass, that's a concern. But we also got caught,
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  you know, just Donovan guarding their five men who had five or six threes,
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  and it's such a unique player put us in a situation where we ended
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  up in one three one trying to protect that matchup, and then on made
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  baskets, they really pushed the ball and we had a hard time getting into
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  it and we gave up some threes that way. Yeah, that leads to
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  the discussion of Hunter Dickinson. Right, he's at Kansas now from Michigan.
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  He's made some threes this year, eight of twelve. He's scoring twenty one
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  points a game, averages thirteen rebounds. Will that be a major consideration when
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  you figure out how we're going to defend this guy if he goes out behind
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  the ark and starts firing away. Yeah, well it's it's obviously he's a
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  seven footer, and uh, he's moving into his threes in a much different
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  way than a you know, than a six' four, six' five,
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  you know, three four, which is who basically done it and Samson
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  were guarding last night. So there's probably just not a lot of parallels with
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  how you know, the New Hampshire five men were getting the threes and the
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  way Hunter does. Hunter's going to be gettinghim as a trailer. Hunter is
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  going to be getting him on short picking pops, you know, by a
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  big center. So yeah, we've got to get out there with him.
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  He could certainly shoot. Yeah, he's seven sixty obviously transferred from Michigan.
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  They got to transfer from Texas Tech. Kevin mccullor, a grad guard averaging
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  eighteen points a game. Uh, you had a chance to take a look
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  at what he'd does and what kind of problems is that guy going to present.
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  Yeah, I mean a real technician, and yeah, just a tremendous
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  positional player or just a world of experience. I remember watching Hunter in Grassroots
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  and just how how technically sound he was in his IQ and his feel.
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  And he's got a nasty attitude. You know, if he's kicking your ass,
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  he's going to tell you about it. So not that you need any
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  more motivation, but great positional player, great over either shoulder, and a
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  nasty competitor and a great rebounder. Donovan Klington is going to be, you
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  know, a factor obviously all year long. The last couple of games,
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  you've been pounding it down against these smaller teams and he has brought the brought
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  an a game to a twenty nine points career high the other night against U
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  n H. What are you seeing with him physically right now? He's coming
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  back from that foot issue that was you know, kept them really off the
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  court almost a month. Does he look more like a guy developing into the
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  sophomore center you're looking for for this team? He looks a little more I
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  don't want to say defined, but the way he's being aggressive immediately when he
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  gets the ball in that low post. Yeah, I mean he's got to
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  get better the whole year. You know, you start your sophomore year,
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  you know, playing at a certain level and just like you do your freshman
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  year and with the experience. You know, in a similar way too.
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  You know Andre's improvement from the beginning of his junior year to the end,
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  Jordan's sophomore year beginning to its end. You know Adama from when he walked
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  on campus Scott here as a as a layup maker and like an under the
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  offensive, rebounding butt kicker. And over the course of your career, you
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  develop new skills, you develop a better understanding, and you become a more
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  well rounded player. So you think, you know, obviously he's going to
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  develop a lot. Yeah, and don't forget that Dama started making threes.
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  People are always asking me that I remember a Dama making threes like crazy,
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  and like he never took a three in his first year, And I'm like,
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  well, he got better and better and he had a little range and
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  they left him open and he made shots. Yeah, it's the it's the
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  evolution. It's great players. They had, they had new skills. They
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  go into every new season with a different shot or a different aspect of their
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  game. And that's what the great ones do, all right, Dan Hurley
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  with us the Ukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. A little later on, we'll
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  talk to Donovan Klingen. We're gonna talk a little about in North Carolina because
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  the Garden is going to be where you kind of meet them in another few
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  days. All that coming up as we continue with Dan Hurley on the Yukon
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  Men's Basketball Coaches Show from Learfield,