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Seg 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 29 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome back to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, Mike Cristino, Dan Hurley.
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  A little later on Donovan Klingen joins us a word on clinging here coach
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  against Manhattan eighteen minutes, seven of eleven, seventeen points, un age twelve
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  of thirteen, twenty one points. And the other thing the free throw shooting
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  last four games fourteen and nineteen. Now he was struggling under fifty percent there
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  in the opening few games. What's changed, if anything except the balls going
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  in obviously, Yeah, I think just focusing more on routine and maybe maybe
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  that that deep breath you know, understanding on a free throw. It's like
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  your technique has got to become more compact. You can't have a big,
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  long release as a free throw shooter. It's too close to the basket and
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  you know, technically things could go wrong. So I think when you get
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  to the foul line, it's about touch, it's about it's about compact,
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  a compact release, and I think it's about some breath work. Yeah,
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  I'll tell you it's working. I was talking to coach Murray about that a
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  little bit, and it's really it's going to be important because he gets to
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  the line. He's going to get to the line, isn't he five,
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  six, seven times a game? More? Maybe? Yeah, and even
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  more if they think you can't make free throws. So that's something in scouting
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  report that we all say, you know somebody that's a fifty percent free throw
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  shooter, sixty percent free throw shooter. Definitely below fifty. You're take a
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  foul around the basket as long as you're not in foul trouble. So he
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  wants to stay out of that zone. At our quick NBA updates, we
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  got to do this every week, coach. We got Jordan Hawkins right now
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  in New Orleans. I was just checking his stats. He started nine games
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  so far, is average in twenty nine minutes. One thing that stood out
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  to me, he's actually a better shooter scorer on the road than he is
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  at home. What is What does that tell you? Is that just dumb
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  luck or he just doesn't mind playing in front of hostile crowds. No,
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  I think that's probably just, you know, some type of an anomaly.
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  I don't you know. Jordan's got such a confidence about him and a toughness
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  in mental belief is confidence from you know, a dad that was on his
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  butt and a mom that knew when to support him and when to let the
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  dad go and do his thing and push hard. I think, you know,
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  and then somebody's just built for the modern game in the NBA. I
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  think, you know, leading up to the draft, I know, we
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  you know, we called around to a bunch of the teams that picked eight,
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  eight, ten, twelve, thirteen and tried to make a late,
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  late push for Hawk to move up a little bit. But I think the
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  Pelicans obviously got a steal. Is you know. I think it's tenth most
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  made threes in the NBA this year and something like second leading scorer or second
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  most points amongst rookies. Pretty good. Yeah, I mean, think about
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  it. He's he's playing in these arenas he's never been in before, and
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  a lot of shooters will say, well, you know, the lighting's different,
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  everything looks different. Whatever. He's averaging almost fifteen a game load,
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  forty one percent from the field, but thirty nine percent from three. I
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  mean, that's pretty impressive for a young guy or rookie playing his first twenty
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  games in the NBA. Yeah. Well, you know, he made threes
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  in uh, pretty easily in the in the big East. Uh, and
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  we play, we play in a bunch of NBA arenas, right, and
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  then he made a bunch in front of seventy five thousand and a big football
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  dome. So I think when they evaluate him as a shooter, they probably
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  had to feel good about it. Quick freshman update. First of all,
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  where's Steph Castle at? Is he going to be able to play in a
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  game here soon? I mean, we'll see where it goes from here.
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  I think, uh, you know, he was on the court with us
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  on uh, you know, doing his first you know, shooting and moving
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  around and you know, which I think is a positive step for him.
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  And as long as he doesn't have any setbacks, I think, you know
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  you're gonna have a chance, you know to see him, you know coming
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  up here. You know, you know, between you know this this weekend
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  through to you know, these upcoming games. I think we're at least feeling
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  like he's he's a lot closer. How much do you need to see him
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  on the court practicing full with the team do you think before you're comfortable and
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  say okay, let's go definitely multiple days, multiple days out there, you
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  know, being active and making sure that that he's feeling great, and so
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  it'll be like I guess in the aftermath the day after practice, is he
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  okay, you need to know what you do. I mean, just these
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  guys they come back, they do, they'll do you know, some non
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  live they'll do shooting and just skill work and maybe dummy offense and versus no
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  defense, and then you'll just give them you know how we feeling. Okay,
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  now we could we could add a little more. I feel great,
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  coach. Okay we can now now we could play one on one all right,
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  I feel great, coach. Now we can go to fours. I
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  just think you know, you got to just it depends on how they respond
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  from then you could add and the other other freshman, Jaden Ross, Jalen
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  Stewart. Stewart's getting a few more minutes now because Castle isn't available. Where
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  you at with those guys? Is it is it too soon to say these
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  guys are ready to really have an impact? Or do you do you see
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  something in practice that tells you okay, yeah, I just you know,
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  with these guys, I think Solo is I like where Solo's heading. I
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  thought what he did at to go Arden was was was great against Texas.
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  I thought he is not a lot of freshmen on top teams that are that
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  are even playing. Most of these teams are really really old, and you
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  know, so he's an outlier. We're trying to be outliers and get quality
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  minutes out of a number of freshmen. Uh. I think Solo eventually will
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  start to really shoot it well for us and prove himself to be, you
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  know, more of a scorer. And I think Stu is you know,
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  Stu's close, you know. I I liked some of the things he's done
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  in some spots here. I think he's growing. I think he's developing.
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  I think the same thing, you know, with with Jayden Ross, I
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  think, uh, you know, college basketball is really old right now,
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  and with that extra COVID year, you're playing against some really old teams and
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  uh, you know, we're trying to balance uh, you know now with
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  development and it's a fine line. Dan, I think I found the oldest
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  man in college basketball. He came from Notre Dame. He's now in North
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  Carolina. You're going to see him at the Garden next week. Cormack Ryan
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  is twenty five years old. What were you doing when you were twenty five
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  where were you. You were an assistant coach somewhere, weren't you. It
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  was in the process of getting fired at Rutgers probably, you know, twenty
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  five. Oh yeah, yeah, I was in like year four or five
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  of my coaching career. And it's you know, the it's the COVID year,
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  it's it's it's the portal, it's nil. You know, these players,
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  now, if you're not a sure fire NBA player, or if you're
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  not an Adamasonogo, that's just like, you know, ready to become a
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  man and go into the professional world. You know, these guys are hanging
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  around. I think my brother just played against somebody on BYU that's like twenty
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  six, twenty seven. Oh, and I know the guy from Memphis like
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  was trying to get his waiver appeal and I think he might have been twenty
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  seven. So that's crazy. Yeah, I think he wanted an a year
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  of eligibility. Could you imagine that? Well, man, I I know
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  I had had I had had enough of college. I was twenty twenty two,
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  twenty three. I might have been in college because I read Shirt of
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  the Year and I think I might have played a year at twenty two.
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  You know, now listen again, if there was no nil back then,
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  was you were getting five dollars meal money after a game if you were lucky,
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  unless you played in the BIS tournament, maybe got twenty five. Yeah,
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  but yeah, this thing is, this has become the G League.
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  You know, it's become a version of of pro sports. Now, that's
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  what college basketball at our level, college football at that high level. That's
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  the world that we're in. You know. So when you hear you know,
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  Jim More talking about you know where you know where he's at and seeing
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  kind of some of his frustration, yeah, you could certainly understand the landscape
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  and how quickly things have changed. Yeah, and not for the better in
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  my opinion. Anyway. Well, coach, we appreciate it. Good luck
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  this week. We'll be with you Kansas and then Carolina next week. Looking
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  forward to it. That's Stan Hurly, thank you, sir, appreciate you
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  guys. See right, we'll be back with more of the Yukon Men's Basketball
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  Coaches Show. Donovan klingon coming up in a moment on lear Field