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Segment 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Mike Christino
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  here in the Huskies three and oh, fifth in the country right now and
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  looking ahead to Indiana. We're going to get into them a little bit,
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  but first to kind of summon up what's happened so far. Coach Tristan Newton
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  the other night, you know, two for six from the field, ends
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  up with ten points late in the game. I started saying, you know,
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  he might end up with a triple double. He ends up with eight
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  rebounds, he gets seven assists. He's kind of sneaky good like that,
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  isn't he. Yeah, you know, Tristan is an excellent you know,
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  defensive rebounder, you know, for you know, for a guard that plays
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  on the ball and really really gets on the defensive glass and you know and
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  the offensive glass. And you know, he's got good offensive players around him.
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  So you know, he's swinging the ball to guys like Cam and Alex
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  that that could that could really shoot, and he's he's throwing the ball at
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  the rim to guys like Samson and Donovan who could really finish. So you
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  know, Tristan's got to play at at an all conference level for this thing
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  to work this year. And you know, I think he's gotten off to
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  a good start. I wish you would have been sharper on Tuesday, but
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  you know, and obviously he's got We've got a big one on Sunday.
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  The zone that Mississippi Valley threw at you for most of the night, do
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  you expect you're going to see more of that going forward, challenging your team
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  to make threes or what? Do you think? I think it was,
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  you know, for them, I think it was just we're gonna play a
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  really big lineup and we're gonna do everything that you can to to make sure
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  that you can't get the ball in the paint. So I don't think we'll
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  see another defense quite played like that because most of the teams are gonna play
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  against it. They don't guard like that. They you know, they play
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  man defense, or they may play some zone. You know. Plus,
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  we were you know, our issues were not necessarily against the zone. You
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  know, we shot, I think we shot close to fifty four percent,
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  We had twenty assists. Our issues are probably more so just turning the ball
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  over and we might have taken a couple of bad, bad threes. But
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  for the most part we got rim two's and we got and we got threes,
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  which is where we want to be. Yeah, twenty eight three point
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  attempts, fifty three shots. Overall, you had to love what you saw
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  from Cam Spencer. Obviously we know he can shoot it. It was just
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  good to see the ball going in. I mean the basket must have seemed
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  pretty big to him. We talked to him after the game and he was
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  he was happy to be comfortable, it seemed taking those shots. Yeah,
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  he's we see that every day, so that there's you know, he might
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  have pressed a little bit in game two, But internally here I don't think
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  that of the things that we have confidence in. I think one of the
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  things that we hang our hat on and have confidence in is in Cam and
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  whether Cam is going to show up this year for us. So I think
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  he's gonna he's gonna have a great year. I think he fits perfectly next
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  to, you know, next to Tristan in the back court with with the
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  young Steph and and and a veteran front court. Well, Steph Castle couldn't
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  play in the game, a little bit of a knee issue. Anything new
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  on that, how how is he Is he going to be able to go
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  on the weekend, do you think or where are you at with him?
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  Yeah? I think we'll know more as we get towards later in a week
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  in terms of what the timeline is going to look like, you know,
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  for the weekend, and what that's going to look like. I do think
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  that there's a you know, there's a a level of confidence that that if
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  he's going to miss time, it won't be that much. So we'll keep
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  our fingers crossed. Yeah, Castle has been impressive early. I obviously scores
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  it, he rebounds, he handles the ball well. He looks fit to
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  play in your system. Is that what you're seeing? Yeah? I think
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  he gives just the perimeter some much needed pop athletically, and he's a tremendous
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  on the ball defensive player with physical strength and athleticism and ability to drive the
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  ball and make plays. You know, he just he's got high level talent.
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  You know, he's a potential lottery pick, and and you know,
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  just having guys that could just go and make a play or erase and a
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  mistake, you don't want those guys out of the lineup because you know,
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  this year's team you know, does we don't have a tounn of old.
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  We have a lot of good players, you know, but Steps gives us
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  that guy with that real athletic pop solo ball, got the start and place
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  on Tuesday, played more minutes than anybody, went three for twelve from the
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  field. But as you know, you've been seeing him shoot since he came
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  on campus. I like his shot. It looks good to me. It
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  hadn't gone in like he would like. I'm sure, But what do you
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  make of it so far? Yeah? I think he you know, we
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  see a guy that that that shoots the heck out of it, you know,
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  daily here. I think, you know, he's got some things defensively
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  that showed up early on that like all freshmen, he's got to get sorted
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  out. But I think the shooting is real. The athleticism and the and
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  the heart, all that stuff is real. He's our type of guy.
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  He's gonna, you know, he's eventually going to become a really really good
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  player for this team. But he's a freshman, and you know, look
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  across the country, there's some very high level freshmen right now that haven't exactly
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  hit the ground running. And we believe in our ability to to get him
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  to the point where he's really going to help this team. You know,
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  especially as this year goes on, looks like a guy that's kind of a
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  cool customer to me in games anyway. Is that something you you're happy about
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  or do you look for that in players when you recruit him? He wants
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  it bad. I mean, he's probably a little bit too much perfectionist,
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  a little too hard on himself, you know. I think he's got a
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  great demeanor. He's, you know, just he comes from a great family.
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  He's got just a you know, a great pedigree about him. So
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  I think it's I think he's got the perfect blend of intensity and in confidence.
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  Dan Hurley willis U com men's basketball coaches, Show Moore to come,
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  got to talk about the bench, the other freshman, Samson Johnson, what's
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  going on in the Big East is Creighton and Marquette putting things agein Providence having
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  a great win, and Jordan Hawkins. We had to talk about him,
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  what he's doing in New Orleans right now. It's all coming up as we
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  continue here on liar Field