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Seg 1 - MBB Show Nov 6 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome Aboard and see Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, and
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  Speaker 1: we get Dan Hurley on almost a weekly basis. As
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  Speaker 1: the season starts to open up, Husky's got off the
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  Speaker 1: ground at gamble with their opener against the University of
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  Speaker 1: New Haven. The Chargers came in, provided some good competition,
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  Speaker 1: and coach, we're going to go there first because opening
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  Speaker 1: night is opening night. I mean, even though you played
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  Speaker 1: those exhibitions with Boston College and Michigan State, it's still
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  Speaker 1: meaningful when you get in the gym and you know,
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  Speaker 1: this one really counts, is it not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess maybe a little bit, but to
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  Speaker 2: a very small degree. I think the exhibitions, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're dealing with the you know that that kind of
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  Speaker 2: nervousness or or excitement that you you know that the
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  Speaker 2: butterflies that you would get on a typical game day.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was a little bit more, but no, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it was a it's yeah that the exhibitions I
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  Speaker 2: think have made the opening night just feel like you've
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  Speaker 2: been here, you've done that. So yeah, we can't really
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  Speaker 2: I can't use that as an excuse for you know,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we played, you know, in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I know after the game you talked to Wayne Norman,
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  Speaker 1: my partner. You were very abrupt. You didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to say. You you really didn't want to get
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  Speaker 1: into some of the details of what you were thinking.
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: But now here we are doing the coaches show, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pin you down. Okay, what was good about
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  Speaker 1: Opening night that you saw the team do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm usually much better with Wayne, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean I I was reeling a little bit from
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  Speaker 2: you know, from what I you know, had witnessed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from a defensive standpoint, you know, in particular, and things
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  Speaker 2: you used to seeing, you know, from the team, even
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  Speaker 2: you know last year not being and you know, our
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  Speaker 2: finest year. Uh. You know, I'm not sure that versus uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, an equivalent opponent. You know, where we were
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  Speaker 2: that bad at at guarding the ball and and in
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  Speaker 2: preparation for the game. It's you got so much respect
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  Speaker 2: for their kind of the offensive system and the way
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  Speaker 2: that they play. And you know, Luke and Camani and
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  Speaker 2: now Mike Nardi, they do an amazing job at you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the scout of of uh, you know, us getting
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  Speaker 2: together and looking at the things that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: run and and repping out how to guard the actions.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we were, like, you know, we we
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  Speaker 2: we guarded a very a very sophisticated offensive system and
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  Speaker 2: literally didn't give up a quality shot guarding all these
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  Speaker 2: different sets that they ran, you know, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: we were scored on in one on one situations at
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  Speaker 2: an alarming rate. And then and there were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of those situations where your teammates offered each other just
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  Speaker 2: zero help. So in situations that we've worked really hard
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  Speaker 2: in the summer, you know, becoming better one on one
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  Speaker 2: defenders and providing more help for each other, we just completely, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we were We were as bad as you could be
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  Speaker 2: on the ball and one on ones, and we offered
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  Speaker 2: each other no help.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you had five block shots. I mean, stats
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  Speaker 1: in these games sometimes I'm not going to say they're meaningless,
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  Speaker 1: but they're deceptive a little bit. So to your point,
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  Speaker 1: helping on defense is that on the bigs to get
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  Speaker 1: back there on the back line and reject some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: When a guy gets beat off the dribble, is that
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  Speaker 1: what you're getting at.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was the center, sometimes it was the
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  Speaker 2: opposite corner. It was literally you know it literally players
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  Speaker 2: that have been in the program for years, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you know players Jalen Stewart solo ball, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Alex Caraban. I'm not I'm not talking about you know,
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  Speaker 2: Eric Rabo, who's gonna make mistakes because he's a you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a freshman center and their centers playing out on
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter and kind of dragging him away from the basket,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, he didn't see the opportunities for him
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  Speaker 2: to leave him and go and protect a rim. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a young player, but they have veteran players that
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  Speaker 2: now listen. You could also say to yourself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: based on you know, the resources invested base, based on
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  Speaker 2: the fact that we're a top five program in a country,
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  Speaker 2: that we should be able to win more one on
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  Speaker 2: one battles, you know versus you know, New Haven who's
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  Speaker 2: in their first year of Division one basketball. Uh. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our our wings and our guards should be able to
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  Speaker 2: guard their yard effectively and not get driven in a
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  Speaker 2: straight line. But there are also times where a teammate
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  Speaker 2: could to help the teammate and play team defense. So
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  Speaker 2: we didn't do either. And they were veteran players involved
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  Speaker 2: in getting scored on and involved in not getting helped.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley with US the Ukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show
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  Speaker 1: talking about New Haven and the Chargers individually. Listen, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care about preseason predictions for other schools, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But they were picked last in their
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  Speaker 1: conference obviously Division one for the first time. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they've got. But I was pretty impressive that
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  Speaker 1: they had two or three individual players who were quality guys.
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  Speaker 1: Made Andre Pasha, That dude played thirty five minutes, he
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  Speaker 1: scored seventeen points. He did some things on the court
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  Speaker 1: that were pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we're always going to get, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the best version of anyone that we play. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's when you played basketball at Yukon, that's what you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be dealing with. And yeah, I mean what
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  Speaker 2: happened was, you know, we again like you you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're you're well prepared, you guard the sets. But
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  Speaker 2: then I think what they started to discover was that
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  Speaker 2: you know that we individually, right at this particular juncture,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have uh, you know, the level of individual defender.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we don't have the guys right now the
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  Speaker 2: the Andre Jackson's, uh, the Steph Castle's, the Tristan Newton's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the guys on the perimeter, Nahim Alin, even
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  Speaker 2: guys like Jordan Hawkins. I mean Jordan Hawkins would be
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  Speaker 2: our best perimeter defender on this team. That's how far
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  Speaker 2: we have to go. Yeah, with our perimeter defense right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's pride, It's it's smarts, Uh, it's technique in fundamentals,
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  Speaker 2: it's will, but it's also it's alarming.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Dan Hurley, willis youkon men's basketball coaches, You'll back
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  Speaker 1: in a moment here on Liirfield