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

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  Tomorrow night, the Ice Bus visits Matthews Arena in Boston for starting a home
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  and home with Northeastern Bob Joyce, we'll have the action. It's six forty
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  five here along the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network app out of the
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  Varsity Network dot com. And if you haven't been on campus to the Tiscano
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  Ice Forum, man, you got to go there because it's a great college
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  place to watch hockey. I know, Dan, I know you're a football
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  fan. You love baseball. How about hockey? Are you a hockey guy
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  at all? Yeah, I'll get into it. You know the Messia Rangers,
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  you know teams. They're the one that won the Cup for the first
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  time in a long time, you know, when the Devils. Devils have
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  had some good teams. Being from Jersey, I worked in Newark for nine
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  years coach there, so I got some Devil games when they moved to the
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  Crew, the Crew, so I like it. I mean, they're tough
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  guys, and I have a great, you know, appreciation for for football
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  players, for for for hockey players, for uh you for for combat sports,
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  you know, for fighters, because you know the discipline of training.
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  They're just how tough they are they you know, you see the hockey guys
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  get their teeth, they're always hurt, but they play. You know,
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  they show up. They compete football, you know, basketball. You know,
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  they would always love the direction that that that we're going. No,
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  and the most humble people I think of all the athletes are the hockey players.
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  I've had a lot of great experiences talking to even the great ones,
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  guys like Gretzky humble. It's amazing. It doesn't matter what they've achieved.
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  They act like they're the guy next door. And it's amazing. I just
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  wish more athletes than the other sports acted like that. Yeah, I mean
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  they I mean the money now, the fame, the social attention, things
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  are much different. But you know, you're you're and there's still some you
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  know, old school you know players certainly in baseball and basketball. But uh,
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  yeah, we love our you know, we love our our athletes that
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  that do everything that they can to win and uh and then have a humility
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  about it. Yeah. Before we leave the Creighton story, we got to
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  talk about what happened after the game because it was a wild scene. You
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  had tons of people on the floor. Uh, just tell me about when
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  the game ends. When you start leaving and the team starts leaving, go
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  to the locker room. Are you concerned about what's going on around you or
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  did you feel somewhat safe that you know you're being helped out by the security
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  people there. Yeah, I mean, I don't want to rehash it.
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  I've done it. I've already kind of told the story of how I felt.
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  I mean, I felt like like Circe in the Game of Thrones.
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  I tweeted that, so that was that. That was how I felt walking
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  through the crowd. And it's not like that, I don't think obviously a
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  providence. It's challenging, you know, because that's a very intense environment.
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  And I honestly would have said nothing about the evening uh and and how the
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  crowd was not just on the way in, but again during the anthem and
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  you know, at different points of the game in terms of just the crudeness
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  of it. But you know, they they on social media, their fans
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  or their their their their their their fan account, which the worst thing on
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  social media is, you know sometimes is the people that won't put their face
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  and name and where they work up up up uh, you know, as
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  their avatar. They hide behind like, uh, you know these accounts.
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  But yeah, I mean if I would have said nothing about it, but
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  they tried to go do it, I got you a moment with me.
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  And you know, there's plenty of arenas where I have to uh, I
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  hear a lot of things. I've heard it as a player, I've heard
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  it as a coach my entire life. You know, ninety percent of the
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  time I will not react, you know, but sometimes some environments, you
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  know, caused me to react in a way that I think is fitting for
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  the people I'm dealing with. Yeah, you know. And in talking to
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  the head of security there after everyone was cleared out of there, he mentioned
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  to me that, you know what, we do not want any of our
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  people, fans, spectators, students, whatever, dropping f bombs on people
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  from the stands, coaches, players, any of that stuff. They try
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  to eliminate that. But I do think you get a crowd of eighteen thousand
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  and that kind of a frenzy, it's really hard to control all of them,
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  isn't it. Well, I mean it is. Since I've been here,
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  We've I know that, you know. James Buckknight was was ejected from
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  his courtside seat for talking a little bit of crap to an Xavier player.
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  I know that. You know, there was a there was a chant I
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  think maybe maybe an f and Cooley chant that started, you know where you
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  know, people involved with that, We're thrown out of the arena. Here
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  at Yukon's. You know, our crowd is loud, they're passionate, they
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  boo, they cheer, They're into the game, you know. But I
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  don't think that people leave here, uh you know feeling you know that that
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  it was a volatile drunken you know, just uh yeah, but that's that's
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  Yukon. No. I agree. I think there are a place like Yukon.
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  There's a respect for the entire environment, right, the energy, the
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  competition of it all. Some places, I mean, how to explain wake
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  for is going off like that and the and the kid from Duke getting injured
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  in that meatily I mean that scared me just looking at it. I know
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  I'm his coach, and what I'd be doing right now. Yeah, we
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  have smart fans, you know, we have smart fans. They've you know,
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  they've been around for or you know, five national championships on the men's
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  side, and eleven or whatever it is. On the women's side, and
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  they've seen some of the best players and men's and women's basketball, So you
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  know, I don't think that they don't become obsessed with other teams, coaches
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  or players, and you know, they go to the game to support their
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  team, to boo, to cheer, to make an impact. But I
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  just don't think our fans like obsess over what coaches come in here. You
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  know, they you know, they love their team and they support their championship
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  teams. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's the way to go for sure.
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  All right, let's get the villain over here. Because you come off
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  a loss for the first time in two months. The way teams respond to
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  that is always important. We talked about it before the game. You thought
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  that the guys really reacted well in preparation. When the game started, did
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  you know right away, Okay, we're back on our we're back on the
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  beam, we're back in our groove, We're back where we should be.
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  The psychology of of you know, coming off of a loss, I think
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  it's uh, you know, when you had the total kind of breakdown that
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  we had there, I think or any type of loss, it's it's jarring
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  and and you know that sometimes you say as good as good as season as
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  you're having, you know, there's some feeling of like this can happen again
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  easily. Uh So it's crazy how it how it could shift, you know,
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  But I think that's your way of you know, fight or flight in
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  terms of your mindset as a coach. Like I think you just you become
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  so aware of all your weaknesses that just caused the defeat that you go into
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  overdrive to shore things up. And and you know, team had two really
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  good days of practice and uh, you know, and and and play.
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  You know, not that we were perfect, you know, we we we
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  you know, we got up double digits in the second half and let them
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  back in cut it to five, and we you know, teams to make
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  runs. But you know, we didn't play perfect game, but it would
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  certainly looked more like us. Yeah, we'll talk about a couple of the
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  stars of that game, Cam Spencer, Tristan Newton, and Tristan will be
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  with us on the show in a few moments as well as we continue with
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  Dan Hurley. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on lear Field