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

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  Speaker 1: Back with Dan Hurley the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show
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  Speaker 1: and the Basketball Coaches Show airing on Thursday this week
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  Speaker 1: where we tape it after practice on Wednesday. Wednesday was
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  Speaker 1: National Signing Day. Dan a couple of the prospects coming
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  Speaker 1: to Yukon Junior County colbyan Landrew. When you when you
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  Speaker 1: go after young men, you are going to be freshmen
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  Speaker 1: coming into the program. What's the general recruiting philosophy that
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  Speaker 1: you use when you're trying to decide, Okay, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: going to really help us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a lot that's going on.
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  Speaker 3: You're you know, you're obviously trying to assess character, maturity,
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  Speaker 3: you know, who are the people influencing the player?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what are they all about? What do they stand for?
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  Speaker 2: Do you do you?
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  Speaker 3: You know, are you aligned the values? Are you aligned
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  Speaker 3: with the vision of how the career is going to
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  Speaker 3: play out. I think we've been able to hold onto
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  Speaker 3: a lot of of, you know, players that may have
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  Speaker 3: transferred out, but I think things that have saved Solo
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  Speaker 3: and some different players that didn't play as much as
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  Speaker 3: they wanted as a freshman was just having a shared,
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  Speaker 3: you know, honest vision of the player while you recruit them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're not over promising every player and telling them, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be a one and done. It's not
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  Speaker 3: like cookie cutter recruiting. So I think our honesty and
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  Speaker 3: just how clear we are about how you know player
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  Speaker 3: is going to have to earn certain things, and what
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  Speaker 3: the timeline is going to look like, how long we
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  Speaker 3: expect them to be on campus. I mean, there's all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff, and then you're looking at the player during
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  Speaker 3: the summer. Do you believe in the talent?
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  Speaker 2: You know? Do you do you believe in the field?
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  Speaker 3: Do you does the player look like he's over rated
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  Speaker 3: and delusional or is it a player that you think
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  Speaker 3: can get a lot better and is on.
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  Speaker 2: The way up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, listen, everyone faces the reality of transfers. Guys
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  Speaker 1: leave because they're not getting what they want out of
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  Speaker 1: the program. Per se. You lost a couple of guys
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  Speaker 1: last year. When you get guys in like you every
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  Speaker 1: year you get a couple of freshmen, you know, Jacob
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  Speaker 1: Furphy now with you and Eric Raiba and you get
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  Speaker 1: a look at him in the summer. Can you tell
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  Speaker 1: within a few weeks that I made the right call
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  Speaker 1: or do you have to wait until we get into
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  Speaker 1: the games and find out, Well, this guy's going to
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  Speaker 1: be just what we thought he was. He's got to
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  Speaker 1: be good for us.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I would say, you know, pretty good pretty early.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like if they're not the players aren't you know,
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  Speaker 3: like flashing, I mean they're most young players. They come
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  Speaker 3: in and it's struggling straight away. I mean it's not
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've had a guy, including Staff or Donovan
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  Speaker 3: or any of the you know, the guys that are
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  Speaker 3: being the most successful in the NBA, they've gotten their
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  Speaker 3: butt kicked, you know, pretty much early on. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Donovan was getting destroyed by Adama until you know, until
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  Speaker 3: a month or six weeks in then he's Yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: even early on he was flashing, but he was still
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  Speaker 3: you know, he was still losing, but he would make
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  Speaker 3: a big play where he's saying himself, when this guy
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  Speaker 3: figures it out, you know, this is this thing. So
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  Speaker 3: when the players aren't flashing like that for you and
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  Speaker 3: they're just getting their butt kicked, you're you're saying that
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  Speaker 3: you're starting to maybe have some questions, but you never
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  Speaker 3: give up on the player. You know, I even't had
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  Speaker 3: a player that I've ever asked to leave here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the players. I think that we've never had a player
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  Speaker 3: want to leave here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's saying something, that's for sure. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Jayden Ross a little later in the show.
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  Speaker 1: He and Jalen Stewart and their junior seasons got some
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  Speaker 1: you know time last year and then made some contributions
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  Speaker 1: and both guys are making contributions again in their junior seasons.
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  Speaker 1: What does it say about this program that you were
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  Speaker 1: able to hold on to these guys because you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way it is today, players are very impatient. They
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  Speaker 1: always think the grass is greener. And I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: had discussions with these these guys in the off season
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have to tell me what you said
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  Speaker 1: to him, but it must have worked because they came back,
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  Speaker 1: they're working hard, and they looked like they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be contributors this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you go, if you play college basketball
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  Speaker 3: at Yukon, it's hard to play college basketball at another place.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like it's a special place. It's a
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  Speaker 3: handful of you know, a small number of schools where
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  Speaker 3: like the best places you can go and play college basketball.
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  Speaker 3: So that helps you know the way that these guys
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  Speaker 3: are connected, the culture that they're able to form the
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  Speaker 3: team to team that gets passed down. And then how
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  Speaker 3: I think how hard the coaches work for the players.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think that the players appreciate how much
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  Speaker 3: that the coaches invest in them, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: why you know, they'll take you know, some you know,
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  Speaker 3: me ripping them or the player or the other coaches
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  Speaker 3: coaching them hard.
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  Speaker 2: Because because of all those things, A couple.
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  Speaker 1: Of big, big picture topics. Dan here, if we could
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  Speaker 1: Big East a couple of years ago, had just three
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  Speaker 1: teams in the NCAA Tournament. Kind of some rough results
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  Speaker 1: here to start the season. Villanova lost to be at BYU,
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  Speaker 1: no shame in that. But Georgetown had a good win
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  Speaker 1: at Maryland, but Creighton got whacked, Gonzaga to Paul lost
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  Speaker 1: at home to Buffalo, Santa Clara wanted Xavier. These early results,
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  Speaker 1: does that tell you anything about the conference? Or do
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  Speaker 1: we have to get into the conference season to really
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  Speaker 1: find out what these guys are about.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's early, you know, it's early. Most of
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  Speaker 3: us have only played you know, two or three games,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just got to you know, we've got to
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  Speaker 3: as a league to try to put each other in
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  Speaker 3: as good a position as we can and for our
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  Speaker 3: own you desire to get more teams in and to
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  Speaker 3: have better metrics. You know, we obviously, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got to try to finish up strong here. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's it. I don't want don't do what I did now.
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  Speaker 3: We last year where you lose one game and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it kind of becomes this crushing loss and it turns
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  Speaker 3: into multiple you know, it's like we've had some good wins,
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  Speaker 3: we've had some bad losses. So of a lot of
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  Speaker 3: other conferences, let's just.
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  Speaker 2: Go yep, yep.
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  Speaker 1: What about ratings and stats early on? I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about this as the season goes on. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: you're i think fourteenth in the country, points allowed, tenth,
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  Speaker 1: and field goal percentage by the opposition. Are those meaningful yet?
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  Speaker 1: Or is there a little bit of a trend that
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  Speaker 1: you can hang your hat on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think the.
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  Speaker 3: Numbers are a reflection of how you've performed.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know pretty you know pretty clearly.
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  Speaker 3: You know you're not going to have a real sense
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  Speaker 3: of how good you are until you've played several you know,
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  Speaker 3: really high level teams. See what the numbers look like
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  Speaker 3: once you get ten, twelve, fifteen games into the season.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's the predictive measures I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: give you a sense of who's got the most returning
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  Speaker 3: and and who's got the best chance to have a
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  Speaker 3: good year.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't always.
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  Speaker 1: Reflect Yeah, all right, going to wrap it up with
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  Speaker 1: my book report. I was in the Noble the other day, Yeah, looking.
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  Speaker 2: For your book. Did they have it?
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  Speaker 1: Was in Yeah, and it was prominently displayed by the way,
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  Speaker 1: was it really Yeah? I was walking over, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I get my Starbucks there, but I saw the table.
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  Speaker 1: I go, oh, there it is.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Hurley's book.
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  Speaker 1: Never stopped.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty cool. I liked it.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, they got you in a prominent spot at
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  Speaker 1: Barnes and Noble.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, you know, it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's Dan Hurley something to find something probably negative about
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  Speaker 3: almost any situation. It's just it's it's what keeps me
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  Speaker 3: on edge and on guard. I remember the one we did.
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  Speaker 3: The day the book was out. I went to the
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  Speaker 3: Barnes and Noble that I would usually go to and
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  Speaker 3: they didn't have it in the store. The day it
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  Speaker 3: was released in Antiquette.
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  Speaker 1: So that Yeah, that's a bummer.
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  Speaker 2: Have been, all right, coach, I'm ordering online now. No.
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  Speaker 1: I like bookstores still.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just one of my I love bookstores. I love
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  Speaker 2: walking around I I do too.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back, but I'm mad, amazing, amazing what you
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  Speaker 1: find in bookstores anyway. All right, coach, appreciate you. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you in Boston.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back with more of the Yukon Men's Basketball
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show on lear Field in a moment