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Seg 6 - MBB Show w Tom Moore Nov 12 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Friday night, Yukon Wilmit will collide with North Carolina's Tar
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  Speaker 1: Heels in Greensboro and the Husky's first game against the
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  Speaker 1: ranked opponent. Bomb Joyce teb Fisk of all the action
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  Speaker 1: beginning at five point thirty here along the Yukon Sports Network,
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  Speaker 1: the Varsity Network, gap in the Varsita Network, dot Com
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  Speaker 1: and Tom we were talking about some of these young
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  Speaker 1: guys that Dan and the staff have recruited. The guy
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  Speaker 1: who was intriguing, obviously, Liam mcneely's second McDonald's All American
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  Speaker 1: has come to Yukon all the way from Texas to
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  Speaker 1: Husky Country. What's that transition been like for him? Because
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  Speaker 1: he looks like he is already made player on this level,
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  Speaker 1: He's been great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's got a he's got a real offensive
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  Speaker 2: confidence and a ton of offensive game, very advanced IQ shooter, cutter, passer.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to get better defensively, and he's at the
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  Speaker 2: best place in the country to get toughened and to
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  Speaker 2: get better in that sense, both probably on the ball
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  Speaker 2: and off the ball. Sometimes his readiness off the ball
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  Speaker 2: for screens and stuff isn't always quite there. But jeez,
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  Speaker 2: offensively he's he's very good. He fits very well Mike
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  Speaker 2: into what we do. The coolest thing I thought about
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  Speaker 2: him when him and his family came on the visit
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  Speaker 2: is I just I just he had such a maturity
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  Speaker 2: about him. It was like it was not about you know, nil,
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  Speaker 2: it was not about any kind of nonsense. It was about, like,
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  Speaker 2: I have a feeling, I thought on the visit, he
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  Speaker 2: sort of came to the visit with like, I have
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  Speaker 2: a feeling this is the best place, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: like dig in to make sure that it is. He
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  Speaker 2: was about like the X and O was watching film
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  Speaker 2: and he saw it, you know, he saw how good coaches,
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  Speaker 2: and he saw how good the offense is and how
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  Speaker 2: he could be featured. And I just thought he was
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  Speaker 2: super mature through the whole process.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's you can't have enough of those kind of guys.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of which, I know there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: important dates last year and championship dates and Big East
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  Speaker 1: Tournament wins, but May twenty nine, Tom, I'm Gonna submit
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  Speaker 1: to you was a pretty darn important date. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what that was. Alex Caravan, withdrew from the NBA draft,
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  Speaker 1: said he was coming back to college. That guy is.
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  Speaker 1: I think Dan's called him a savant, a cyborg. He's
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  Speaker 1: got all kinds of names for him. I run out
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. I mean special, k that guy is a
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  Speaker 1: special player and a special person. Having him back has
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  Speaker 1: to be a real treat for you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike, he's just he's so good. I mean, coach
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  Speaker 2: has said publicly that I think like he felt everything
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  Speaker 2: changed like when Alex got here. Like offensively, it was
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  Speaker 2: almost like Alex freed up so much of the stuff
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  Speaker 2: that that coach wanted to do and was thinking of doing.
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  Speaker 2: And there were a lot of things I think coach
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do with those teams. Two teams previous to
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  Speaker 2: Alex being here and a team previous to Alex being here,
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  Speaker 2: but we were somewhat limited by some of the some
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  Speaker 2: of the limitations some of the guys in those spots.
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  Speaker 2: But once he got here, it just unlocked everything we
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  Speaker 2: felt offensively, and he add so much to the culture
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  Speaker 2: of work and total commitment. He's like basketball through and through.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny, like, in my opinion, these first two games,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even though we've won big and they've been
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  Speaker 2: against lesser teams. I mean, He's filled a stat sheet
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  Speaker 2: just by playing. You know, he's he's just he's not
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  Speaker 2: hunting shots, he's not trying to score points. He's just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's not playing like he's got this weight
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  Speaker 2: of being a first team All Big East Guy, Big
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  Speaker 2: East Player of the Year, or even first team All
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  Speaker 2: American like he got today from the Sporting News. It's
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  Speaker 2: like he's just playing at a high level. He's doing
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  Speaker 2: a little of everything, and he's filling the stat sheet.
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  Speaker 2: It was obviously huge for us when he decided to
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  Speaker 2: come back, and and we're excited because he's betting on himself.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's betting that that, like he'll have such
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  Speaker 2: a great year this year, prove his NBA stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's one of my favorite, that's for sure. And
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  Speaker 1: we're glad he's back. Alex Caravan, Tom, we appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Great run for the Huskies, great run for you in
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  Speaker 1: your career. And someday you're getting a sweatshirt like Gino
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Daily in that bookstore. If I've got anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with it, If I've got anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with it, I will speak to David Benedict. If you
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  Speaker 1: want me to.
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  Speaker 2: Mike we got four sales, me, you, my mother, and
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  Speaker 2: who else?
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Norman.
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  Speaker 2: We said right by the first fourth, So we're all right, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I'm on it, all right, Tom, appreciate it. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Husky's got some
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  Speaker 1: games to play. Let's get into it. Mike chris Pino,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Keep listening, folks,