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Segment 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Dec 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Before the men's game Friday night, Bob Joyce and Gino Oriema. We'll be
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  talking to Yukon Women's Hoop from seven to eight pm this week. It's live
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  from the Duncan Music Lounge that's always a great venue at the iHeartRadio headquarters in
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  Hartford. All here on the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network app,
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  Inavarsitynetwork dot Com. Dan Hurley with US Coach lists look ahead to Gonzaga.
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  They're tenth in the country. It's life without Drew Timmy who scored twenty three
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  hundred and seven points there in his career. They don't have Julian Strather either,
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  but they did acquire if it's the right term, Ryan Membard, the
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  point guard from Creighton. So where are they at Gonzaga as a team as
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  you look at them going forward, they got some size, they got some
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  big guys that can shoot it. They still score very effectively, and they're
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  off to another good start. Yeah. I think just like you know,
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  a bunch of teams, maybe eight, ten, twelve teams. I mean,
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  they're they have the potential to, uh, you know, to get
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  to a Final four and compete for a national championship. There you know,
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  right now, a lot of new faces and obviously some some some key losses.
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  Stroud there uh and Drew Timmy, you know, both were two of
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  the best players in the country last year. And you know, Nemahar it's
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  certainly a you know, a great addition. Uh e k the center from
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  Wyoming, you know, is a tremendous player. They've got one of the
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  best freshmen you know in the in the country on the wing, who's a
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  big time shooter, Hickman. You know, it's a guy that we faced
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  last year. And obviously we're very familiar with with Nemahart. So you know,
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  we're playing one of the best uh, you know teams in the country
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  uh in Seattle, and it's just a it's a great chance for us to
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  measure ourselves against, you know, the type of team that you'd have to
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  beat, you know, in a Sweet sixteen game or you know, an
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  Elite eight game, you know, to potentially get to a Final four or
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  even you know, in the Final four. They're that talented and you know,
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  and and the program obviously it's had incredible success coaching against one of the
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  best coaches in the country. Yeah, they've had wins already against usc Ucla,
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  Syracuse. They lost to Purdue by ten. They they've just played really
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  well over so many years for Mark few and twenty four years. I want
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  to ask you about those two big dudes though. They got Ben Greg Braden
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  Huff, both guys six ten and they're averaging about eighteen points between them.
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  But they also they both shoot it well from outside the arc, which is
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  kind of a challenge, isn't it. And they're both coming off the bench,
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  you know, they're not even their starting players. Watson's a tremendous player
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  and a starter for them last year. So yeah, I mean, we've
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  given up. You know, our three point line defense has not been what
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  my what my three point line defense has been historically, and in studying that,
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  you know, we've given up, you know, quite a bit at
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  the at the five spot, you know, we just we've got to get
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  out there better, you know, guarding the other team centers. I think
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  twenty percent of the threes we've given up at a very efficient close to fifty
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  percent rate have come from the other team's center. So obviously it's a challenge
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  for Donovan to get out there as big as he is and and then from
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  with Samson it's been a lack of awareness sometimes because he certainly has the athleticism
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  to get out there. But yeah, both those guys can hurt you from
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  three. Watson could hurt you a little bit from three. Ek can hurt
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  you from three as well. He took eight threes against Edie in that game,
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  you know where they were very competitive and probably kicking themselves because they had
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  some chances to to kind of stay in that game tight let at halftime and
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  you know, blew some kind of transition chance that would have made that game,
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  you know, a possession game down the stretch. Yeah, all four
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  of those guys you just mentioned shoot over forty percent from three point range.
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  I mean, Ukon's on top of the Big East and so many categories points
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  margin, field goal percentage, defense, rebounding, assist, the turnovers.
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  But at the three point line, as you just mentioned, giving up thirty
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  seven percent. As you look at that, you're still a very good defensive
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  team, but not out at the arc for the most part. So what's
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  happening there? How do you adjust? Can you make it better? Is
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  that something that is a physical thing or is that a mental thing going on?
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  Yeah, I mean we're not you know, we don't have the athleticism
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  in length, yeah that we had particularly a card lose you lose Hawk,
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  you lose Andre, you lose Naheim. I mean those are bigger, really
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  athletic players that could crush her and speed the other team up and just make
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  them uncomfortable. And then when maybe they got a decent look at three,
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  they were dealing with major athleticism in length and and sped up. We don't.
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  Obviously Steph could potentially help that. I think us guarding the other team
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  centers, I think and not giving up such efficiency at the five spot certainly
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  will help that. But yeah, the other thing we're not doing is creating
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  turnovers, and I just think that we've got to be more disruptive. Uh.
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  I think we've been you know, soft the times defensively, at least
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  in comparison to how our teams have looked in the past. That's something that
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  we're you know, I'm looking in the mirror as a coach on ways to
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  fix. Yeah, getting Steph Castle back could help you. Though he's six
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  ' six, he plays really solid defense for a young guy. I think
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  he's had what about played had ten points in the two games he's been back
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  for rebounds, five assists, He makes plays and he's able to get to
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  the rim and finish. How does Castle help you defensively on the perimeter with
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  his size and his athleticism. Yeah, I mean just the six to six
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  you know he's got, he's got his good feet, uh. In terms
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  of staying in front of the ball, I mean he's got a great just
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  center, center of gravity and strength to uh to be just a lockdown on
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  ball defender, you know, just having that size and athleticism where he can
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  he can erase a mistake by you know, rotating and getting a deflection,
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  rotating and blocking a shot. I think he came from the weak side against
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  Carolina on a post move from Baycott and blocked his shot in the post with
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  his left hand and got us out in transition. So he's definitely gonna help
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  our three point line defense. And then I think, you know, he's
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  a guy that you know we're gonna need to uh, you know, you
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  could put it. You look ahead to some of the guards in our league,
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  like a Cole who's such a good player and so hard to guard,
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  and your only hope against guys like that is to put put size on them.
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  That could stay between them and the rim and try to bother them.
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  And you know, we've got a couple of months to really you know,
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  get Steph ready. So those types of matchups in February March. Yeah,
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  but you know, I have a great seat for most games, sitting on
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  the court and watching him defend. The other day against Arkansas Pine Bluff,
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  I realized how difficult a guy he is to go against because not only is
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  he big, he's got that great lateral movement, the long arms. I
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  mean, he makes it tough on the ball handler, and that really is
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  where your pressure defense begins, isn't it. Yeah. I think he's going
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  to help a lot, just get us back on track, closer to our
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  identity in terms of the disruption, and then he makes us deeper. So
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  obviously it keeps us fresher where we can guard and sustain a level of intensity
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  at that end of the court. You know. And the unique thing for
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  him is he's, uh, you know, he could guard multiple positions.
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  You can guard one through four and in some cases one through five, So
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  he's a switchable defender. And I think he's you know, if we're gonna
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  go to that to that level, that we were last year in terms of
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  being truly one of the best teams. He's got to have his fingerprints all
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  over it. Yeah, I'm totally with you on that. We have one
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  more segment with Dan. I think, no, that's it, you're done.
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  Oh wow, we get here. So ratings, big ratings. Yeah,
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  yeah, the ratings. We're going to get a ratings spike here in
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  the next couple of minutes. Anything you want give us a little foreshadowing with
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  Luke Murray before he steps in here. I mean, anything he's done that
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  that you've been impressed with. I know he's I like his handwriting on the
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  chalkboards, in the in the locker room, the pregame strategy stuff. I
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  think his writing is actually a little better than yours. Yeah, I mean,
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  I just what type of person finds his way to work with me in
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  three different places? So I don't know what that is about him. Where
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  he likes, he likes to he likes pain, you know, he likes
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  suffering. Luke, he just hasn't learned yet. That's all three different places.
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  Oh man, he's asking for it, all right, coach, We
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  appreciate it. We'll see on the flight out. It's a good exactly all
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  right, that's Dan Hurley back in a moment Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches show Onlearfield