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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 11 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the Yukon Men's basketball coaching Show. Dan Hurley and the Huskies
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  have won forty five at the last fifty five games they played sixty eight and
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  twenty over the last three years. And Huskies right now or fourth in the
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  country. If they can take care of business, maybe against Georgetown Sunday,
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  they might be the number one team in the country come next Monday. But
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  Dan, back to Cincinnati where you got a roughed upload, not you personally,
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  but the team. As I lost my glasses. My glasses did fall
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  into court and broke. No one stepped on of my hope. No,
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  No, it was bizarre, you know I you know, I gyrate,
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  I move around during the game, and they just they fell off. I
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  took him. I was taking them off my face to read my play sheet,
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  and I was going to put him inside my pocket, but they flew
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  out of my hand, hit the court right where Trista was driving, was
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  dribbling the ball off the court, and he actually picked up both parts of
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  my glasses and threw them back to me while he was getting us into a
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  play call. So and then I and then I just passed the glasses off
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  to and then I looked back like maybe about ninety seconds later, and Kamani
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  was trying to fix them, and I need KAMMANI to help coach the game,
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  so I demanded that Kamani give him to somebody less important relative to strategic
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  things. How did they ended up getting fixed by I believe Christmas Strangelo,
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  the Great Christmas Strangelo got them fixed a little duct tape or something like that.
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  How did the game look when you didn't have your glasses on? Did
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  it look different? I I can't see all the details. I need them.
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  Well, Xavier, you know, at the beginning of the game,
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  and they were dominating in the pain dry having the ball in there, attack
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  and the glass doing all the stuff that they do. The first part of
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  my my question here going forward is is that a wrestling match that was happening
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  there in the opening ten minutes or so? Or it looked like guys were
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  hooking people left and right. I felt like I was at a WWE event
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  for a while. Yeah, I mean not by us. We were.
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  I mean we were, you know, like, that's not I mean,
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  that's not the game that we're where that we're necessarily trying to play. I
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  think, you know, we we play obviously a you know, an intense,
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  a pretty relentless game. I think, you know, we're a fairly
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  physical team, but I think it's more you know, we give great effort,
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  multiple efforts, and we're fast to the ball and and you know,
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  and we play with tempo and pace, so you know, I think,
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  but it's a you know, it's a big East game, and they've got
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  Xavier's got a big, physical front court, and obviously it's a huge you
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  know, Shawn's excellent coach, and you know that they're a huge point of
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  emphasis and it was advantageous for them to turn it into a real physical game
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  because of their front court depth and the bodies they had there. So you
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  know, it's not surprising. You know, these games get refereed the way
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  they do in league, and obviously it plays into, uh, you know,
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  the Big East Battle narrative and and you know, sometimes it probably gets
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  a little bit too physical and then you know, the referees got to get
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  control of the game again. It felt like we were going to the monitor
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  a lot. I felt like I was calling a nick game in the nineties
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  when Charles Oakley and John Stars were mugging people at four minutes of the game.
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  I mean it looked like that. Well that's why, you know,
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  if you're really look at a lot of my media last year throughout the Big
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  East season and in the Big East Tournament, it was uh, I mentioned
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  a lot or we couldn't wait to get back to non conference foes, and
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  that the we couldn't wait to get back to the n sa A tournament because
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  we're going to be allowed to move again, and maybe it become a little
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  bit more of a of a best basketball game and less of a steel cage
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  fight. But you know, we knew, we knew what we knew what
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  we were getting ourselves into in terms of the physicality and the brutality of the
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  game yesterday. And we had some obviously we we we we didn't do what
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  we wanted to do on the backboard. Felt that some of it was being
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  overpowered physically with some really small lineups, and some of it was we had
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  opportunities to grab the ball on some some some some just like loose change plays
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  we didn't make to grab the ball that turned intoto threes and put backs in
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  the first half, which you know, I think we guarded way better than
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  our points possession showed up in the in the post game starts. Yeah,
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  no doubt. Nine of thirty one by Xavier in the second half twenty nine
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  percent. And unlike the Butler game when you were plus nine on boards,
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  you were minus whatever twelve in this game. And Alice Caravan, we wanted
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  to get to him because he had to sit down for a while. He
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  took an elbow in the head. It was actually talk about insult to injury.
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  He gets called for the foul after gett an elbowed in the head.
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  He's got the scar wide open bleeding. Goes to the bench. I know
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  you went over. Luke Murray went over, like, let's go get back
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  in the game. He goes, I can't. The bleeding won't stop.
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  He looked like it was in a boxing match. That play, needless to
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  say, confused me. Yeah, it was definitely confusing. And you know,
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  just just you know, Alex didn't throw his face in the way of
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  the elbow, and you see the you know, you see the play postgame
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  locker room and on the plane when you're doing the added you know, you're
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  you're really confused to you know where the flagrant foul was. I mean,
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  it was a an offensive move where the offensive player swung his elbow into the
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  face and caused the ten stitch cut over the eye, and then you know,
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  you we missed that, but then we called the touch foul after that
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  defender got out, you know, So you know that that was obviously one
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  of those situations where you look at Alex in the post game looking like Rocky
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  Balboa after fight and creed and ways the foul got called on that on him.
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  But you know, you're on the road, and that's why it's so
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  hard to win on the road, and it's so hard to win on the
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  in the Big East on the road because you gotta you gotta be willing to
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  go to Helen back uh to get to win. Yeah, I thought that's
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  something that the team probably learned from that from that battle with Xavier. We're
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  back with Dan Hurley. The Yukon men's basketball coaches show rolls on You're on lar Field