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Seg 6 - WBB Show Nov 3 - Ben Kantor · Coaches Corner

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  Final segments on the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show are First of the Year Huskies
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  and Southern Connecticut tomorrow twelve thirty Over in the River one O five to nine,
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  while the football game at Tennessee's going on. Ben Canter has been a
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  part of Yukon of Women's Basketball for close to a decade now, longtime video
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  coordinator, now as one of the assistant coaches. First of all, congratulations
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  on that and your newlywed congratulations, thanks Bob. Surviving your surviving married life.
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  It's nothing different, is it. No, not at all. You
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  get to go to Europe with the team. What was your favorite part of
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  your trip? I think, honestly, the favorite part was seeing the team
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  come together, seeing them interact and us interact with them, get to know
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  everybody, especially the newcomers, the freshmen, not only on the court,
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  but off the court too, doing some really cool experiences, seeing how people
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  react in different situations, but just getting to know everybody, seeing them come
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  together in gel and seeing the chemistry start to come together. Did you get
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  in one of those fire engine red ferraris? Unfortunately no, they were smart
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  enough to realize that I'm a grandpa driver, so it would have just been
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  wasted on me. I would have been cruising about forty five in one of
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  those, and it's just a ways, did you do the simulator? No?
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  I feel like that there were a lot of people doing the simulator.
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  For me, it was more fun to just kind of heckle from the stands
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  and be like, is this why you guys really drive in real life?
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  Is awful? It was? It was really bad. I understand why they're
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  all basketball players and they're not F one drivers. How's your role changed now
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  with this upgrade to assistant coach? You know, obviously I'm on the court
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  more, just getting my feet wet, getting more comfortable, giving instruction,
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  giving feedback, still doing all the video. So you know, I've got
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  some awesome helpers and managers volunteers that are helped me that I'm teaching how to
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  do video because there's a need out there for more video people. And you
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  know, we switched over to some new software, which is awesome because it's
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  something that a lot of other programs, not only college but the pros us
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  So to be able to teach them on something like that is great, you
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  know, But for my role, it's just it's more time management. Now
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  it's figuring out how to do both roles. You know, I still have
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  to be one of the best video courts. I have to be the best
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  video coordinator that I can be while still trying to learn from the amazing experience
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  and the coaches that we have here all Right, On a game day video
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  coordinator, you sit either court side, at the scorer's table or at the
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  end, and you get the TV feet of the game and you record it
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  what exactly are you doing during that time so when halftime comes you have information
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  ready to give to the coaches. So I'm cutting the game up and I'm
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  pulling clips based on, you know, what's happening to the game, based
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  on what our scout was, what we were trying to accomplish in the game,
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  and anything that I might see. I think the biggest event, the
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  biggest advantage I can give is being able to see the game from a different
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  view, you know, it's I think that's something I've had to retrain my
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  eyes a little bit on the court where it's different being on the sideline.
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  You can't see everything all at once. You kind of have to focus in
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  on either different players or different sections or as I've been so used to being
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  up top during practice seeing the bird's eye view that in game, that's the
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  feed I get, you know, I get what everybody gets back home on
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  TV. So being able to see everything going on all at once, sometimes
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  I can see things that they may not be able to and then I can
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  show them, you know, between replay on the bench, whether it's three
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  play on the bench or halftime, be able to show our coaches, hey,
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  here's some things we might be missing, or here's what's hurting us even
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  in real time, you know, something we're trying to get more involved in
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  game, so just trying to give them a different point of view something they
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  may not be able to see. So it's almost automatic. Instant feedback is
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  pretty much what you're getting. That's incredible, one hundred percent, and it's
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  something we've started to utilize more in practice just to get everybody more comfortable with
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  it, not just the players but the coaches, and I think it's been
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  really positive so far. You know, being able to pull a player aside
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  and instead of trying to explain to them, being able to show them right
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  away on an iPad, hey here's you know, this is where you were
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  this is a position you were supposed to be in, just giving that immediate
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  feedback so that they can then apply it on the court and the next rep
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  that they get. Now the coaches have set I mean obviously they have separate
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  tablets, but are you giving each separate coach different information or are they all
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  getting the same thing. Now they're all getting the same thing. You know,
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  basically how this is going to work. You know, we've got one
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  tablet. I don't think if we gave everybody a tablet, I think it
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  might be a little bit of chaos, a little mayhem. But I've got
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  the tablet and when people want to see things, I can unplug it,
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  give it to them. They know how to find, you know, different
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  clips that I'm cutting because I'm cutting the game. Everything's feeding directly to the
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  iPad. So for for replay. Uh, It's just I think it'll help
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  us a lot. Where kid comes in off the off the court, sits
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  on the bench, it gets a breather. You can go over two or
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  three things with them real quick that hopefully they can apply right when they get
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  back in. Bennett, technology has come so far since even when I think
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  when you started, I think you were at Memphis. You came here from
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  Memphis. Correct. How how much easier is it now to get stuff done?
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  I mean it's it's easier and harder a little bit. Because it's easier
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  because there's so much at our fingertips. I think the difficulty now was wading
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  through that a little bit and figuring out what helps and what doesn't, and
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  a lot of that's just kind of trial and error, you know. So
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  this is something we've talked about. It's going to take a couple of games
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  for us to find our rhythm with some of this technology, but also figuring
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  out when too much is too much and dialing back a little bit because we've
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  obviously been very successful without it. So it's something that we want to add
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  to help us, but not take over what we're trying to do. Now,
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  Did I see right that you started in college as a practice player.
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  I sure did. Where Universe of Illinois? Okay? What was your major
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  back then? Finance? Okay? And so you've worked at some pretty good
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  coaches, h Yeah, but it started there with coach Grint. Not only
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  was a practice guy, but after I graduated, stayed on for a year
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  to learn how to do all the video stuff, and that's kind of where
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  I got my start in the video room. Then to see this program and
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  deal with the coaches that you do, I mean starts with Gino and CD.
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  They've been here from day one. What's it like to work with those
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  guys. It's incredible. I think the more they talk, the more I
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  see them on the court, more I see in meetings here in the meetings,
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  the more I realize how much I don't know. So I'm just trying
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  to soak up as much as i can so I can get to the level
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  they're thinking. How quick they are. And finally, the halftime meetings.
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  What's what's a halftime like for a coaching staff. They're not in with the
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  players the entire time, correct, No, you know, usually we'll meet
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  first to kind of figure out what we want to what coach wants to address
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  with the players. So for us, it's usually just going over things that
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  happened in the first half, whether it's good bad things. We might need
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  to correct, things we might be missing based on what the other team's doing
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  defensively or offensively. So it's just that just just trying to figure out adjustments
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  so we can go let the we can dial it down for the players.
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  Right, here's simplified, here's what we need to do. All right.
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  Last question, I should have asked you this earlier about the europe trip.
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  Did you zip line? Of course I did. One of the best times
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  of this ult trip the missus. Yeah, of course, there you go.
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  Great stuff. Hey Ben, welcome back. It's good to have you
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  on the air here, and we'll see on the road. That's it good,
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  Thanks Bob, all right, and that I'll wrap things up here on
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  the Yukon Women's Basketball Coaches Show for tonight. Thanks to coach Oriema, as
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  always, to Tiny Cardoza and to Bank Canter. Stay tuned, We're in
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  Burlington. It's Yukon Vermont Hockey coming up at the top of the hour right
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  here on the Yukon Sports Network from Learfield.