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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 29 · Coaches Corner

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  It's the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, Mike Crispino, Dan Hurley together.
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  A little later on in the show, we'll talk to Donovan Klinging a lot
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  of ground to cover coach. First of all, the Empire Classic Kansas coming
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  up later this week. Unh you played Texas and you played Indiana at the
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  Garden and the Huskies are wearing success well in my opinion, I mean,
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  thirteen straight wins now dating back to the NCAA Tournament last year, and not
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  often did teams come back from winning titles like that and kind of pick up
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  where they left off. First off, how are you guys doing it?
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  Because it looks like you are almost the same team without the same guys that
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  you were last year. Yeah. Well, you know, I think we
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  we obviously have a style of play, yeah, that we've developed here and
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  you know, commitment I think to the things that we want to do strategically
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  on offense, defense, you know, as a team that rebounds, you
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  know, obviously you have different different players, you know, different players or
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  in different roles. You know, guys that were you know, fourth or
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  fifth starters now have to become leading men or sixth man. Needs to be
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  now the face of the organization, and you know, so we have some
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  continuity, but we also have people that have got to go from supporting actors
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  to Will Smith. By the way, at the Garden, your record now
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  seven and six as a head coach. That's you were over to five hundred
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  mark by beating Indiana and Texas. Let's talk about that. Who's your game,
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  though, Dan, I mean, I felt like we're in a in
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  a someone else's arena, and that's not usually typical at the Garden because Yukon
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  plays well there and it's sort of a second home court or whatever. But
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  Indiana, I mean, they loaded that joint with red jerseys and they made
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  a lot of noise. Yeah they did. And there was also some Louis
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  Villain there, you know as well. So I think, you know,
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  I think I looked around during the anthem and I was pretty surprised. I
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  was surprised to see as much Indiana as I did. You know, well,
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  we played them at the Garden a couple of years back for the Jimmy
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  v. H. I didn't feel like that. It didn't look like that.
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  You know, it's a credit to you know, their staff and you
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  know the season they had last year and the expectations that they have for this
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  year. But yeah, I thought it was it was it was a really
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  good atmosphere. You kind of out scored them thirty seven to thirty first half,
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  had a big second half of forty points. Tristan Newton in that game,
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  twenty three points. The number that stands out to me, and I
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  know you appreciate this kind of stuff. Fowls drawn. He drew ten fouls
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  in that game. That is a big number. Yeah, yeah, that's
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  uh, that's a great number. I think he really used as a savvy
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  i Q you know. And then that's obviously there's it's a game that's uh
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  being officiated that way, so there's more opportunities to uh, you know,
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  to get to the line and find your way to the line. You know.
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  There's also gonna be a lot of nights in the Big East where you're
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  gonna have to finish through contact and not they hardly call any founs. So
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  it's uh, you know, really good guards can play on both nights and
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  read how the officials are blowing the blowing the whistle. Yeah, you can
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  on the season, I think plus fifty one and feel free throw attempts.
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  That's a great number. Uh, that night you had twenty five attempts.
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  Who's yours at twenty eight? But get into the line. How important is
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  that as we go forward here with all these tough opponents coming up. Yeah,
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  I just think it's uh, it's really important. I think you're getting
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  smarter in terms of our defense, more disciplined, fouling less on our end,
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  you know, and from an offensive standpoint, you know, with the
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  pass, with the cut, with with with with the drive, trying to
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  put as much pressure on the rim as we can, you know, to
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  try to get to the foul line, because you really you want you know,
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  you want good threes, you want deep twos, and you want free
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  throws. You know. The assist numbers DAN this year, I think nineteen
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  and a half a game. I said, that's a huge number. But
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  is that more important or the limiting turnovers in your mind? I mean,
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  they're both important, and we'd be we'd be higher with the assists if if
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  we were shooting better. You know, we've shot the ball poorly to start
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  the year, and we don't think that trend will continue. We believe in
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  our shooters. But the turnover number is the one that that that really eats
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  away at you. You know, we don't and and for us to be
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  successful offensively, we don't have uh, we don't have a ton of great
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  well on one players. So you know, are kind of the way we
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  play is built around ball movement, player movement, good screening, and shop
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  thinking. And you do have to have good passing players, don't you.
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  I mean, I know, I love the way offense runs. When it's
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  running well, guys are moving, you know, hitting the open cutters and
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  all that. But you still have to have a team that has has players
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  that can pass the ball. Sometimes you you kind of get stuck with a
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  team and they're not a lot of great passers. It might be a lot
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  of great scorers, but maybe the passing isn't the highest level. Yeah,
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  you got to be able to think the game and see the game, and
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  you know, take a picture in your mind of the court before you catch
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  the ball. You know, whether it's a guard that gets it in transition
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  and takes that that court picture before it even starts the the blest ball down
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  the court, or before you catch the ball versus man and zone. You
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  you're you're taking a picture in your mind of where all the offensive players and
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  defensive players are. And and that's what the best game processors do. Yeah,
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  the Texas game Husky's won the championship. Just in a side coach.
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  I know, as a hooper, when you played on the college level,
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  you had all the slick moves. You're the point guard, you ran the
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  team. I don't recall you jumping that high, but when the trophy was
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  given on the center court there at the Garden, you were jumping as high
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  as I've ever seen you. So yeah, tell us about that. I
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  mean, there's really only two things in that we that you're in it for,
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  right, I mean, you're in it for the relationships. Right to
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  impact, impact the lives of your players, make them, you know,
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  add value to their lives, like they're they're they're better for having gone through
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  the program. They go off into the world like an Andre Jackson or Jordan
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  Hawkins or an RJ. Cole or Isaia Whaley and they move on to success.
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  Like that's like, that's one part of it that's incredible. The other
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  only other part of it that is anything for me that is winning something big
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  or just winning or just I mean everything else. There's no value in so
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  I'll tell you man that you were jumping for joy. It was great to
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  see we won something, you know, like actual championship, winning a four
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  team tournament. It was the first chance to win a championship since we won
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  the Ultimate Championship. And if that didn't do it for you, then you
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  shouldn't be with me. Yeah, it was great to see the joy out
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  there. I'll tell you what. All right, little more on Texas,
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  We're gonna take a quick break. We're here with Dan Hurley the Yukon Men's
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  Basketball Coaches Show. We got Kansas to talk about the Jayhawks coming up and
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  a lot of other tough opponents that's coming up. As we continue on the
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  Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan Hurley here on lear Field,