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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Feb 13 · Coaches Corner

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  Now Up next for Dan Hurley's crew the second meeting of the season with De
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  Paul's Blue Demons. Smorrow Night Win Trust Arena. Our coverage Wednesday Night,
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  Pardon me. Our coverage begins with the Hard Auto Group countdown to tip off
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  at eight thirty here along the Yukon Sports Networks, Varsity Network GAP and Varsity
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  Network dot Com. So, Dan, you're facing a team that's really struggling
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  here three and twenty. They've lost all twelve of their games. The coach
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  was let go. They got an interim coach, Matt Brady, a New
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  Jersey guy, had in the Heights guy. He'd been at Uuri and Wagner
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  and Saint Jose and LaSalle and was an assistant at Maryland. What's he going
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  through do you think? I mean, you've never been an interim coach,
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  but starting out with a team in the middle of the season, that's got
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  to be one of the toughest assignments for any coach. Yeah, well,
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  Matt, you know Matt, Matt Scott. Obviously you know the head coaching
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  experience and a fast wealth of experience in the in coaching you know, college,
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  and you know it's obviously not an easy situation. But you know you
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  could see in the you know, the first couple of games, uh,
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  you know, after the change, you know, just a renewed spirit just
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  with different leadership there. Obviously, you know, Tony's an excellent coach,
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  and uh, somebody's gonna be lucky enough to to get Tony on their staff,
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  you know, in the off season here he's he's one of the most
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  respected coaches in our profession, Tony Stubblefield. So you know, Matt's got
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  uh, you know, he's got some good players, he's he's got a
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  he's got some veteran staff to lean on, and and you know, there's
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  not a lot of season to go, you know, so without a lot
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  of season to go, I think you can you know, kind of convinced
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  the group to uh, to put their best foot forward. And uh,
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  obviously they're all playing for something. Uh nowadays, with the transient nature and
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  the freedom that the players have, uh, good performances down the stretch could
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  lead to uh, you know, opportunity for them. So you know,
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  I think that the mindset is obviously shifted in terms of how players think,
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  and I think there's definitely some motivational things that Matt can use. Yeah,
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  and when you started out in this the college thing as a head coach,
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  you were coming out of high school. Obviously, uh, you went to
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  will you went to Rutgers first, but you know, your first job's at
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  Wagner. And then when you went to Uri starting out, what's the first
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  thing that you try to instill in a group of players when you get them,
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  they see you for the first time and they go, Okay, here's
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  our new head coach. What were you trying to instill to get guys going
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  in the right direction? Yeah? I think, you know, I think
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  initially the first thing you're you're trying to kind of get across is that like,
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  uh, you know, I'm going to invest everything I got in in
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  you guys, but that the standards are going to be really, really high.
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  So you know, be careful what you wish for. You want somebody
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  that's really going to be committed to you and really going to build a relationship
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  with you and really push you to get better every single day. But I'm
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  also gonna, you know, hold you to a level of accountability that's going
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  to make you very uncomfortable. And then and at the same time, I'm
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  gonna uh, you provide for you all the resources, uh for you to
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  be successful both with your individual career and uh and and with the organization.
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  Uh you know, I remember being at Wagner and and uh you know that
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  first week it's like, uh you know, I think, uh, you
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  know, you're raising money to improve the locker room, You're putting them through
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  the hardest workouts that they've ever experienced in their life. And uh and then
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  also you know, building relationships with them off the court where uh you know,
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  they start to know that you really care. Dan Hurley with US to
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  U com men's basketball coaches show Huskies get the Paul Wednesday than Marquette on the
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  weekend. Use the term push pushing guys, What does that actually mean?
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  You're talking physically, you're talking mentally. Is it all around kind of finding
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  what the limits are for these players to get them to the best levels,
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  the highest levels they can be at. Yeah, I think you're pushing these
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  guys. I think for me is I was trying to help them develop a
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  well rounded process to be at their best version of themselves, both as a
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  player person somebody you could think and execute and perform at a high level.
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  And that includes so many different things, not just how we practice and prepare
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  on the court, and the extra work they do away from practice on skills
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  and shooting at the weight room, sleep, nutrition, what you're reading,
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  what you're listening to. You know, your relationships, both your family and
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  and your friendships. Uh, you know those got to be I think,
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  you know, in the proper space, meditation, visualization, uh, you
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  know, journaling. There's so many different things. It's such a competitive industry
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  and it's so little separates one team from another, one player from another,
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  that it's really going to be these these these small habits that you've built up
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  to put you in an absolute best position to h to perform at your absolute
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  best and at your highest energy in it. So your process has got to
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  be highest level. And you know, the problem is a lot of young
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  people and most humans, uh, they don't want to do all the things
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  that are required to be at their best. They want to cut corners.
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  I just happened to be the person that's there to stop the people from cutting
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  the corners. That's a good way to put it, and I think it
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  manifests itself. I watched the guys and the way they work, and you
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  know, practices, pre games, uh, you know, day of game
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  morning stuff. You know, guys like Jayden Ross, they're still working hard.
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  I go see them going full tilt, the solo balls, the freshmen,
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  the young guys who you know, maybe aren't playing like big roles yet
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  for this team, but they seem to be working at a level that is,
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  uh, that is very high. And I think that's impressive because you
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  know, maybe maybe a guy that says, well, I don't know if
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  I'll even play tonight, how am I going to get prepared or why should
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  I get prepared? That doesn't seem to be part of the the the m
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  O for these guys. Yeah, I mean that's so that's unacceptable. It
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  should be unacceptable based on the fact that you know, nowadays college players have
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  so much, so much invested in them the way we travel, uh,
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  the facilities, uh, the n I L the staff that they have around
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  them to help them improve. Uh, you know, the resources that that
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  Yukon invest in them. Uh was that too uh too much? As given
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  much as expected? Right? I mean, and since the players are given
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  more than ever uh, the expectations for what they do on a daily basis
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  relative to uh to improving our culture and developing as players and to keeping Yukon
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  basketball as strong as possible. Uh. They owe that to the program,
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  They owe that to everyone involved in this in this operation. Uh. You
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  know, I'm not Uh, I'm not an entitlement I'm not big on entitlement
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  and uh you know, and spoiled kids and uh and and just telling them
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  what they want to hear and being a yes man. So uh, you
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  know, these guys are given every resource, uh you know, not for
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  them to just be here, but for them to make you kind a great
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  program. And uh and I hold them accountable for that. All right,
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  Dan, holies with us would take a quick break. I got a story
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  at Saint Anthony's story for you. We're gonna come back with that, and
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  we're gonna talk about a little more about the Georgetown game and look ahead to
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  DePaul and more market as well as we continue. This is the Yukon Men's
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  Basketball Coaches Show from Liarfield