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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 2 · Coaches Corner

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  Live from the Duncan Music Lounge here at I Heard Headquarters in Hartford. We
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  have new con men's basketball coach with us, Dan Hurley. I'm like Crispino
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  coach. Let's talk a little recruiting. This class that you just brought in
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  here looks really solid. A lot of good talented guys and you just mentioned
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  two or three are gonna play a lot. You mentioned a guy when one
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  of them is gonna start? Is it Steph Castle? Can you announce that
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  or do you wanted to know? I mean, the way he's played in
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  the preseason, it's there's not a lot of drama there internally with the team
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  in the locker room, there's not a lot of questions about who's gonna start
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  with Tristan and Cam and Alex and Donovan. So he just you know,
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  the guy's just physically it's impressive just how physically ready he is. He's a
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  super humble kid. He's making a lot of like freshman type of mistakes,
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  like especially like off the ball defensively, or like missing an assignment on a
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  blockout or just like balls already issues where he like there's no bad players on
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  the court now, like this isn't like the consolation of an a you tore
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  him on a Sunday and August where no one gives it stop myself, no
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  one cares, and there's a button. There's another game, got a button.
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  Yeah, so he's just great. Parents want us to coach him.
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  Never has his palms up. You know, we're a programmed We don't want
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  your poms up, you know, like, let us coach you. He's
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  you can have a terrific year. Really looks ready to go. Yeah in
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  the blue White night. I wanted to see his shooting. He did get
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  some shots. How he made some midbrain shots. Uh, where is he
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  on that part of it? I mean he's a good facilitator obviously, has
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  a great point guard already before he starts his college career, But where is
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  he on that again? Not the not the same type of shot creating facilitating
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  like Andre, but you know, more more more of a scoring ability.
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  That's I think what makes the starting five unique is that you may have five
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  double figure or you should have five double figure scores in the starting five,
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  which I don't think many teams have that time. Well, if you get
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  that, you get to fifty anyway, and then a couple of guys get
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  fifteen, you get sixty seventy. I could do math bro talk. Really,
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  I'm a child. I try to show off my math that I don't
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  have much talent in Solo Ball, Solomon Ball, we call him solo.
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  Yeah, he seems like he's a I don't want to say happy, go
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  lucky, but I haven't seen that guy not smiling. Yeah. He was
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  just unique parents, you know, Mike and Erica just really set a high
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  bar at home and just high accountability, great work ethic, tremendous talent,
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  great, great presence too. When you meet him, you know, he's
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  got just a great, just a great, great way about him. He's
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  just he's he's he's got that personality, a little bit of that yes,
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  yeah, yeah, no, great pedigree. So he is shooting the ball
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  great, and and that has been an unbelievable development for us because we lost
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  some bench shooting and his shooting looks highly sustainable and there's an athleticism there that
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  he brings. But it's just he's They got to catch up defensively. I
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  mean they just early on, they're just they're going to bury us defensively a
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  little bit. These guys and they're gonna blow some assignments, but we're just
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  gonna have to live with it, because once they start playing like sophomores and
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  that bench comes together, it's gonna be great. Yeah, j Ross,
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  do you use j Ross in practice? What do you do with them?
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  Jaden and Jylyn? That becomes a problem, Jen, Jylyn and I've screwed
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  it up a lot early. Yeah. Yeah, he's been the biggest surprise.
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  And you know he's just listen, he's he's got just a ton of
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  upside. He's you know, he's still developing. You don't want to set
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  to high of a bar for him, but you know, he thought that
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  guy's going to be early entry NBA player and three and D type of guy
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  with big time length and size and all the traits you look for and the
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  great pedigree. Parents. You know, Dad played football at Rutgers, Mom
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  played volleyball at Rutgers. You know family. I think her side is like
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  hockey players from mass So they're toughs. So they're tough. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Yeah, he's got a he's got a good mix. Yeah, he
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  also looked he looks like he's got a pro body already. To me,
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  when I first saw him, I'm like, wow, that looks like he's
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  a professional. Almost Yeah, and just as important, just impressive people.
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  You you you meet them, you don't see yourself. Like when the lights
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  come on, this guy's going to he's got to crumble, you know,
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  Stewie, did you tell him about that? You got to let him know.
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  That's why I because I'm going Jay Stu Stu gotts, but he doesn't
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  know that. It's like Jersey Damn Levatard reference. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  A big fan of that show. Do you like that show, Leotard?
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  I did like it. I did like it. Now I don't.
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  He's in Miami. You don't even hear him nationally. Uh in Cingari interesting
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  character. I mean he's got he's huge, he's big, he's got long,
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  he's going to get the wingspan. He's also got an interesting personality,
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  it seems. Yeah. I mean just back to even Jay Stewart, he
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  he got as much game and feel and ability as anyone in that class.
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  And like he's it's just it's taken him probably just a little bit longer,
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  just adjusting to, you know, like Northeastern style of play. But he's
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  got so much game and we're just you know, pleading with him to have
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  a combination of patience and and then pushing himself and giving himself some time.
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  And Yousef has gotten so much better. I think we look at him as
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  is trying to become a rim protecting, good ball screen defender, ball screen
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  offensive player. You know, I don't know that he'll be the type of
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  player like we were going to use him like we did a Dama. You
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  know, he'll play a different way and it's going to take him some time
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  before he could probably you know, help us on game night a lot.
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  All right, just about a minute before we go to the break, you've
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  been talking about Samson Johnson a lot. I saw him in the Blue White
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  Night. I like what he's doing. I mean, you see him every
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  day, so you know better. But it's not just you're not blowing smoke,
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  are you. I Mean he's been the leading scorer for us in the
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  scrimmages and in the close scrimmages, and then he's been not rebounding as well
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  as we need him too when he's playing the five. But he's a problem
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  for people at the five, at the four that didn't play with strengths in
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  terms of his athleticism, rolling to the rim. He's like a movement center,
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  and you put three shooters or four shooter scores around him and you let
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  him roll to the rim and play for lobs. He was I mean,
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  he averaged close to twenty points in the two closed scrimmages and was our most
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  consistent player. So two centers again. Yeah, another great personality too,
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  Samson Johnson. All right, quick commercial, bake would be back with more
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  of the Ukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan Hurley.