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Seg 5 - MBB Show w Kamani Young Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  Well back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Yukon has Xavier Sunday eleven
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  thirty. The pregame twelve noon is the tip. They try to run their
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  winning street to eight in a row. We're joined by Kamana Young, the
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  associate head coach of the hust He's lots to catch up with the Kamani.
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  We were talking to Dan just a few minutes ago about three point shooting coach,
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  and I know you are. I always say this, You're one of
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  the best shooters I've ever seen on any coaching staff anywhere in the country,
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  NBA or college. Appreciate that you got some guys here who are lighted up
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  lately and now not the last two games not so much. But you get
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  guys shooting the ball from outside that arc like you got a caravan doing it
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  obviously in cam Spencer. But I'm the guy. I'm interested in his Hassandhi
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  Aara. Now he's made eight of his last twelve. What's going on with
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  him? Have you talked with him and worked with her? You must have,
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  because he's he looks different this year. Yeah, I mean, listen,
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  I wish I could take credit for it, but you know, we
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  get up a ton of shots in practice. You know, a lot of
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  guys been spending extra time in the gym, and I think, you know
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  what he is. It's also a product of him taking great shots, you
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  know, and him having an approach to the game, and he's gonna affect
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  the game defensively, He's gonna affect the game with with his energy, and
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  then he steps into a great you know, a great shot with confidence,
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  and those are the ones that usually go down for you. Yeah, you
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  said you used the word confidence, and that's a word in sports we always
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  talk about. Is it mental all mental or is some of it physical?
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  In other words, you trust what you're doing and then you don't think about
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  it. Yeah, it's probably a little bit of both. But I think
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  confidence come from the hard work that you put in. When you know you've
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  been putting hours and hours of time, you know, working on your shot,
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  when you get an open look, you know, you feel confident letting
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  it go because you've done it so much, you know. And I think
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  that that's where where Hasa is playing at right now. You know, he's
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  been been, you know, putting in the time. He's been putting in
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  the time watching film. You know, he's been extremely coachable since he's been
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  here. You know, what you're seeing right now is what we recruited him
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  for. You know, this is the version of Hassan that you know we
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  saw when when when we brought him in. Yeah, we're loving it,
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  believe me. We were talking to Dan as well about Steph Castle last game.
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  They were laying off them. They were just daring him to shoot Villanova.
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  What are you seeing with his shot? He looks like he's got a
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  pretty good jump shot. To me, he just hadn't gone in very much.
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  What do you have to work on with him to get him, you
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  know, completely confident about what he's doing on that offensive end. Yeah,
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  people don't realize this as much as they probably should. But it's not a
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  lot of freshmen in the country that shoot well. You know, come up
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  to college. You really don't. You don't see a lot of freshmen with
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  high shooting percentages. That's it, that's a reality. You know, their
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  heads are spinning, you know, they're trying to figure out what defense we're
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  in, the physicality, the enormity of of you know, what they're dealing
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  with, especially at a place like this, So you know, Listen,
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  I think STEP's got great shooting mechanics. You know, he puts the time
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  in as well. You know, his strength is he his composure. You
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  know, he doesn't get rattle. People are playing off him. He's stepping
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  in the great shots, shooting them with confidence. But you know, as
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  we like to tell him, don't just fall in love with that. You
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  know, they're playing off you for a reason. They're afraid of you coming
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  at them. They're afraid of living in the paints. So you still got
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  to find ways to play to your strength. But when you got an open
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  look, you got you know, you just got to trust the work that
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  you put in, step into it with confidence and knock them down. Yeah,
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  and one thing about him, I've noticed the mid range. He's a
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  pretty good shooter. I mean he can step into stuff fifteen feet, seventeen
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  feet, whatever it may be, from all kinds of angles. So I
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  mean that's going to be a positive. Yeah, absolutely. I mean,
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  listen, the game has changed with the analytics, you know, and we're
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  a huge opponent of that. We want to shoot rim two's and catch and
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  shoot threes. You know, those are those are the highest percentage shots that
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  you can get in our game these days, you know, so we play
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  that way, but it's also a feel for the game. You know,
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  he's in rhythm and the guy's back and off of him, and he can
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  you know, pound the dribble and get into a shot straight up, straight
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  down with good mechanics. You know, we'll live with that with him.
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  But his strength is his playmaking, his physicality, his ability to get to
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  the paint, his rebounding. He's been a great defender for us. He
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  impacts the game in so many ways that shooting is you know, listen,
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  that's gonna come. Yeah, I say often on the air during the game,
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  like I would not want to have to be guarded by him. He's
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  not fun. I mean, what's the strength of his defensive approach is lateral
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  movement. He just seems so tough to get by. Yeah. Absolutely,
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  He's got great size for us position. You know, he's got great feet.
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  You know, he can move his freak well. And then he's athletic,
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  you know, so listen, he's pressuring you out there his feet and
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  moving and then once you get to the rim, he's got the size and
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  athleticism to challenge you. So you know, yeah, definitely, that's a
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  superpower. His is the defensive end. Yeah, it comes second nature,
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  it looks like to me. All right, we'll be back in a moment
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  with Kamani Young will wrap the show up. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball
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  Coaches Show on liar Field.