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Seg 6 - MBB Show Jan 2 w Seth Greenberg · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, joined
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  Speaker 1: by Seth Greenberg of the ESPN, A longtime college coach himself.
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  Speaker 1: He knows the game inside and out. He loves the
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  Speaker 1: game and that's why we love him. Listen, Braylan Mullins, Seth,
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  Speaker 1: have you seen players like this come along in your
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  Speaker 1: time where you look at him and you say, man,
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  Speaker 1: this guy has so much acumen for the game of basketball.
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  Speaker 2: To me, is such a joy to.
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  Speaker 1: See that, and he's only just emerging now in the
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  Speaker 1: last half dozen games.
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  Speaker 3: It makes hard plays look easy. He reads the defense,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's as a passer or as a scorer. He
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  Speaker 3: reads defense whether it's on the bounce or off the ball.
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  Speaker 3: He plays at different paces. The thing that he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: get enough credit for is he's an elite defender. He's
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  Speaker 3: got really good off ball defensive presence. He's got really
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  Speaker 3: long arms, he's got good anticipation. He's got a little
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  Speaker 3: grit to him, a little physicality to him. Even though
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  Speaker 3: he's got that kind of wiry we know he's a
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  Speaker 3: big time shot maker. And I'll tell you what he's
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  Speaker 3: got onions. And when I say by that, this summer
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  Speaker 3: the first scrimmage they had this summer. I went over
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  Speaker 3: watch the scrimmage when they were going up and down,
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  Speaker 3: Brolins volved and his first shot he missed wide left.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I was at a Florida State Miami football game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, he was wide left, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going oho, you know, like the temperature raising, and some
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  Speaker 3: people in the state, you know here watching, you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe you know I've seen him in practice. Maybe this
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  Speaker 3: is you know, this is part of the process. He
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  Speaker 3: proceeded to make his next seven threes.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, and it was just like boom boom,
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  Speaker 4: boom boom. But it's not just the shot making. It's
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  Speaker 4: the floor game.
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  Speaker 3: Like he made a pass the other day and I
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  Speaker 3: forget who was against where he caught an outlet pass,
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  Speaker 3: and as he caught it, he made the advance pass
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  Speaker 3: right in the same movement. He saw the play early.
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  Speaker 3: His ability to move the defense with his eyes. He's
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  Speaker 3: almost like a corner back when he has the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you talk about the quarterbacks moving the
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  Speaker 3: defensive backs and the linebackers and everyone else with their eyes.
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  Speaker 3: He has the ability to move people with his eyes.
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  Speaker 3: He's also got the ability to score three levels, you know,
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  Speaker 3: again not being just a three point shooter. It's also
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  Speaker 3: got the ability to play off ball screens and then
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  Speaker 3: read the help defenders.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it's easy to.
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  Speaker 3: Read the guy that's hedging. It's easy to read the
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  Speaker 3: ball side defender in terms of whether he's going to
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  Speaker 3: shrink or whether he's going to stay home. But we're
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  Speaker 3: real good players, the players that really have an understanding
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  Speaker 3: of how to play. They read the weak side tag,
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  Speaker 3: they read the weak side help. They read the action
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  Speaker 3: on the backside and the rotation so that if they
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  Speaker 3: shrink on the backside, it's the euroskip or it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: or if it's a back dribble into a pocket pass,
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  Speaker 3: which now makes a tyres.
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  Speaker 4: Read the play maker.
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  Speaker 3: But the floor is spread because you know, he's just
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  Speaker 3: got a high, high basket ball IQ. He's in the
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  Speaker 3: perfect system and the perfect program for him, because he's
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  Speaker 3: a basketball junkie that Brace's coaching, wants to be coached hard,
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  Speaker 3: listens and hears uh. And you know, he's being complimented,
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  Speaker 3: complimented and tutored by guys like you know, let's face it,
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  Speaker 3: Alex Caraban, who's as good as tutor as anyone, because
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  Speaker 3: that only shows you what to do by his habits
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  Speaker 3: and his actions, but in terms of by how he
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  Speaker 3: carries himself. And I think that's really really been impressive,
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  Speaker 3: how that they've all just kind of fit together. And
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  Speaker 3: Braylin's he's just he's really been fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, He's a dynamic kid.
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  Speaker 1: Silence Demrie came from Georgia. Dan had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: transfers from Malachi Smith from Dayton. Everyone's doing it, gotta
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  Speaker 1: do it, got to keep your team, you know, full
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  Speaker 1: of the talent on your roster. But Silas has had
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  Speaker 1: some games this year set And I've said it on
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  Speaker 1: the ear a few times because I was with the
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  Speaker 1: Nets back in the early two thousands when Jason Kidd
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  Speaker 1: got there, and I would say, I said it on
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  Speaker 1: the air, like this guy is having a Jason Kidd game.
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  Speaker 1: He might not score tonight, but he'll get nine assists
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  Speaker 1: and he'll get six rebounds and you kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Win by twenty.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just amazed at the ability to do that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I just love those kind of players. What do you
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  Speaker 1: make of Silas memory so far?
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  Speaker 3: To me, Silas, it's his great I said last year,
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't guard to baaltipoint attack.
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  Speaker 4: Play simple. Well, they can guard to baltipoint attack.
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  Speaker 3: And it drives me crazy when he commits a foul
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  Speaker 3: thirty feet from the basket, forty fifth in the basket
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  Speaker 3: he's got he can't pick up those fouls. He's got
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  Speaker 3: a sit in a stance, all right, keep the ball
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  Speaker 3: in front, play without his hands, and be a little smarter.
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  Speaker 3: He can defend a basketball and keep it at a lane.
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  Speaker 3: He rebounds his position. He's a willing passer. He sees
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  Speaker 3: place early. And you know, in those times i've been
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  Speaker 3: around him, like ear in the summer, he was really passive,
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  Speaker 3: like he was driving it to get fouled, or he
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  Speaker 3: was driving it just to pass. Now he's found a balance.
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  Speaker 3: He's driving it to score and passing. Like you can
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  Speaker 3: leave your feet to shoot and pass. You can't leave
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  Speaker 3: your feet to pass and shoot. So like he's driving
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  Speaker 3: it to score and now he's sucking that boom and
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  Speaker 3: he's making a play, and he's making it on time,
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  Speaker 3: on target. He's reading ball screens. But I asked him,
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  Speaker 3: I said early on, I said, you play with some force.
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  Speaker 3: You need to be more aggressive man, and he said, coach,
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  Speaker 3: he said, first I fit in, and then I do
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  Speaker 3: what I do.
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  Speaker 4: Like he was very aware of first thing.
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  Speaker 3: First he wanted to kind of get a feel for
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  Speaker 3: exactly what this thing was all about.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: And people that haven't seen the practice, you go into
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  Speaker 3: that thing for the first time and you think you're
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  Speaker 3: going into summer workouts. Yeah, it's not summer workouts. It
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  Speaker 3: is an absolute chaos of a practice with incredible intensity
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  Speaker 3: and accountability. I remember Tyres Reid the year before, like
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  Speaker 3: and joking with Commodity, and Tyres has no idea what.
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  Speaker 4: He's about to experience.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, he's coming from where it was Funsi's in
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  Speaker 3: the summer. I said, Oh, poor old Tyrus that first
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  Speaker 3: time they walk in the gym and here we go,
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  Speaker 3: here we go, and you know that, poor guy, it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be just absolutely it's gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Culture shock, mind shock. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a little kid that you know, had a
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  Speaker 3: popsicle for the first time and it's brain freeze. I
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  Speaker 3: mean so, I mean like it takes time. Uh, and
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  Speaker 3: and Silas has handled it seamlessly. He's an incredible teammate.
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  Speaker 3: And I was at Grantwich when they had that that
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  Speaker 3: uh that that uh golf evet for the collective, and
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  Speaker 3: I could watch him interacting with people, and I thought
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  Speaker 3: he was really impressive doing that. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: He's just a he's a winning player.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: And I know, you know, people want to make comparisons
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  Speaker 3: and all that. I just think he's a guy that
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  Speaker 3: he came here to win. He came to Yukon to improve,
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  Speaker 3: to be part of something bigger than him, and to win.
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  Speaker 3: And you could see that in his approach. You can
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  Speaker 3: see that how he allows himself to be coached, you
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  Speaker 3: can see that how he interacts with his teammates, you
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  Speaker 3: can see that with the passion that he plays with.
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  Speaker 3: And Malachi is the perfect compliment to him. You know, Malachi,
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  Speaker 3: they can play together.
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  Speaker 4: But you know.
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  Speaker 3: Malachi's you know, here's a guy that was the starter
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  Speaker 3: and was recruited saying, hey, you're gonna play. You can
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  Speaker 3: play significant minutes, you can help us win games, but
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have a very different role and the greatest
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  Speaker 3: side of a team. And Mike, you've seen this. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm big on watching benches. I'm really big on one,
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  Speaker 3: especially the world that we live in today. College basketball.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really big on one because you know me, you
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  Speaker 3: would play for play and everyone.
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  Speaker 4: How much is that got make? And how many You're always.
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  Speaker 3: Good as your locker room, you call the games, you're
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  Speaker 3: staring right at it, you're around it on the road
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  Speaker 3: at home. Have you ever seen a better bench in
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  Speaker 3: terms of those guys celebrating each other.
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  Speaker 4: I have not seen very many benches like that.
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  Speaker 3: And to me, and it goes all the way down
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  Speaker 3: to the graduate assistance and the managers. We've all seen
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  Speaker 3: the managers act going to do no shooting drills. But
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  Speaker 3: it permeates. And that's the thing that people don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: Like people watch on TV or they go to a
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  Speaker 3: game and they see Dan's intensity. The buy into the special,
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  Speaker 3: how special, what we're doing, how we're doing it, why
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  Speaker 3: we're doing it? To me is the thing, and it's
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  Speaker 3: a buy in from everyone and as they got it
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  Speaker 3: to it for thirty five years. That's the magic of
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  Speaker 3: Dan Hurley because it's not easy. It's not easy assistance,
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  Speaker 3: it's not easy for anyone around. But you feel the
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  Speaker 3: energy and you feel the passion and you want to
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  Speaker 3: be part of it. You want to you want to
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  Speaker 3: give your very best because you don't want to let
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  Speaker 3: the person sitting next to you, or the guy that
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh you know is playing behind you or
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  Speaker 3: you're playing beside, or the fan that comes to the game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there's an incredible ownership that he creates and
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  Speaker 3: uh you know, it starts with Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we feel it. Believe me, we feel it.
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  Speaker 1: In the broadcast on the road Trips, the practices, uh
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  Speaker 1: our thanks to Seth Greenberg, Dan Hurley as well. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show Sunday, two o'clock Marquette
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  Speaker 1: at Gampa Pavilion
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  Speaker 2: On Mike Chrispino, thanks for joining us,