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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley March 12 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley and the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Mike Crispino
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  with the coach and Dan. The Big East Awards came out over the last
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  twenty four to forty eight hours, and I don't know that I'm surprised.
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  I mean, I think a lot of Yukon Huskies deserved what they got.
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  Well, we'll get to Alex Caraban in a second. I'm not sure he
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  deserves I mean, I'm sure he deserved more than he got. But anyway,
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  let's start with Newton and Spencer in the back court. I mean,
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  you have had this these two guys together now just for this year, but
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  you had Newton last year. I know you called him fire and ice.
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  I love that. They're two different guys, but they bring something special to
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  the court, not only individually but as a payer, don't they. Yeah,
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  I mean they should be in my mind, you know, co players
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  of the Year in the league. You know, I think that would be
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  fitting for first for Tristan and Cam or you know, or if it's uh
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  or if it's just team new just uh it just what just you know,
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  the biggest uh, you know, the the what was it that we won
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  the league by the most games in the history of the conference. We went
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  eighteen and two with three potential final four teams in the league this year and
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  a six or seven bid league potentially, and up until one point, Butler
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  was still kind of in that mix too, so the league was really really
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  tough. Those two guys have been just awesome. Uh. You know,
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  Tristan with the triple doubles and you know, leading us scoring, rebounding and
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  assists. I mean, like the player on the team that you know leads
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  you and points, assists in rebounding, and with the defense that he plays
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  and with to clutch clutch stuff. And then Cam the fifty to forty ninety
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  guy that hit you shots the whole year. You know, those guys fully
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  deserved First Team and definitely deserve Player of the Year. Yeah. I'm gonna
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  date myself a little bit here, but Newton reminds me of what Oscar Robertson
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  used to do back in his day, which is a way ways to go.
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  But I mean, the dude could score, he would rebound, he
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  had all kinds of assists. Newton does the same thing every night, even
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  if he doesn't shoot it well, if he goes three for nine, he
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  ends up in double figures, but he gets almost ten rebounds. His assistant
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  turnover ratio is always very good. I mean that is really a special skill,
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  isn't it for any guy in the back court? Yeah? Definitely.
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  That's why I think the the NBA is much higher on Tristan than maybe people.
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  People are aware, you know, internally, they love his size,
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  they love his ability to guard multiple positions, and the range on the shot.
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  You know, he he's just been such a He's had such an incredible
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  magical career since it's been here. You know again, I don't is there
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  a better Is there a guard that's accomplished more over a two year period and
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  you know, played at an incredibly high level and then one as much as
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  he's won, you know who, Yeah, winning trumps everything. We all
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  know that. And the thing about both of these guys, they seem to
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  have Dan have a knack for when you need something, something's got to happen.
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  Huskies need a bucket, need a rebound, need and assist, need
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  a steal. I mean that is a skill. I don't know if you
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  can coach that stuff, But man, when you got guys like Newton,
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  and spencer that can deliver it. It has to make your life a little
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  easier. Yeah, I mean, you know, even the other night in
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  Milwaukee, you know where you you're on the road, it's uh, you
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  know, it's it's a great environment. You know, the people there and
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  markt you have great respect for their program and their fans because it's it's an
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  awesome environment and they're real advantageous, uh you know for Marquette, and it's
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  hard to play there, but it's not vile and uh you know, it's
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  more just an incredible atmosphere and a home court advantage, you know, unlike
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  other places that we go. And then uh yeah and Camy. So we
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  start that game, Tristan Starry went to get that off my chest. Tristan,
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  yes, of course, the first five points of that game for us,
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  just to get something on the board so the team could relax. Or
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  maybe it's Cam you know, down the stretch hitting dagger shots and and uh
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  putting the other team away and then letting them know that it's over. So
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  yeah, I mean those guys have have been an awesome backcourt obviously, Houston
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  and some other places have incredible back courts where I think we all think we
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  got the best back court in the country. Yeah, i'd say what,
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  it's been a pleasure watching these guys. Hey, these two road games this
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  week something that we have I haven't seen much ukon't falling behind right right.
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  You scored the first five at Murkrat Marquette, like you said, but then
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  gave up twelve in a row. You're down seven, uh, Providence fifteen
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  to two year down. I mean that hasn't happened very much this year.
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  Well, how do you rate what the team did under those circumstances to get
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  back on track and was that a step in the kind of forward for the
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  team as a group, do you think? I mean you can't. Yeah,
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  you're you're not always gonna you know, start start fast. I know
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  we all want to, and uh every coach preaches it, but you play
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  some really good teams and you know, maybe you miss shots, maybe you
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  know execute stuff, and uh, you do have to show, you know,
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  a mental toughness and a togetherness. And I think our group has shown
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  in terms of the chemistry and the belief where you know, we're able to
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  uh, you know, to go on runs in both first half of that
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  game too. By halftime uh, you know, being a pretty comfortable position.
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  Yeah, take us inside the huddle if you will. And when you
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  got down in those two games on the road, obviously hostile environments, a
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  lot of people don't want to see you win the other the other guys got
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  the great crowds Marquette Providence. Uh what what went on in those first huddles
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  when things weren't going well and you guys had fallen behind. Yeah, I
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  mean there was obviously, you know, an animation to the way that the
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  staff was talking to the players about you know, blocking everything out, maximum
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  effort, maximum attention to detail, you know, get lost offensively and playing
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  for each other, get lost in movement. Uh. I mean there's this
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  technical things going on. There's there's tactical things, there's uh, you know,
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  empowering and confidence building. There's honesty, there's what's that brutal honesty?
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  Maybe well sometimes, I mean sometimes you don't want to on game night.
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  That's why I think in practice I am just a total I lied to them
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  on game night, but in practice I do because you're lessing a player unless
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  they're giving you just a bad effort, you need to build them up on
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  game night because generally they they want to play well. Uh, you know
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  they're not purposely failing in front of twenty thousand people. You know, they
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  oftentimes need to be build them up. Yeah, that's that's good. That's
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  good. That's the right way to do it. That's for sure. A
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  right back when Dan Hurley just a minute, I promise we talk about these
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  awards. We got to get to Castle, we got to get to d
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  R, we got to get to cling in caravan. So much to talk
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  about. Back in a moment on the ucon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan
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  Hurley onlear Field,