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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Feb 5 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: It's time for the ucon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Were
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  Speaker 1: joined by Dan Hurley Mike Crispino. With the Huskies off
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  Speaker 1: a scintillating win in Milwaukee over the weekend. Biggest crowd
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  Speaker 1: to ever watch a Marquette, Golden Eagles or a Warriors
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  Speaker 1: game in history eighteen thousand plus on hand, they already
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  Speaker 1: average about seventeen in the big building at five served
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  Speaker 1: form and coach, you come into a game like that
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  Speaker 1: and they're all jacked up. Obviously, they're nine and one,
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  Speaker 1: they're half game out in first place in the conference.
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  Speaker 1: The start you had had to be a relief in
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  Speaker 1: some ways, you and the coaching staff because the ball
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  Speaker 1: kept going in for you Kunn, and it wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: in for Marquette.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, first of all too, I mean
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  Speaker 3: I just Marquette's whole operation. I mean, the arena itself,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and their crowd. I mean they're and it's
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  Speaker 3: not just National Marquette Day. I mean every time we've
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  Speaker 3: been there, just you know, the crowd is wearing gold
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  Speaker 3: and blue. You know they're into it. You know, every
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  Speaker 3: possession of the game. You know, they weren't kind of
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  Speaker 3: waiting for Marquette to start playing well, you know, they're
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  Speaker 3: just like a factor, you know, in the game. So
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  Speaker 3: they've got just you know, I didn't know understand the eagle.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that was a golden eagle that
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  Speaker 3: they had on the court for the anthem, But that's
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  Speaker 3: obviously not important, right Mike, did you see the eagle?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: I got to say, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I focused on the eagle the whole anthem. I couldn't concentrate.
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  Speaker 3: I was distracted by the eagle. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 3: we were concerned Hassan's hobbled going in. They play pressure defense,
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  Speaker 3: they pressed, they get after you. They have the best
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  Speaker 3: guard defensive player in the country. And you're already a
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  Speaker 3: team that you know, with Noel out who and you know,
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  Speaker 3: having you know, Aiden having you know, struggled a lot
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  Speaker 3: against teams. The pressure and a hobbled Hassan. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we knew that the turnovers could be a real issue.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously, you know, without Jalen Stewart's start, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the way that that guy just stepped up and buried
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  Speaker 3: you know, two of the three threes or were not
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  Speaker 3: the easiest of threes and it just gave us confidence.
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  Speaker 3: It gave us a real shot in the arm, you know,
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  Speaker 3: going into them call a timeout and playing with a cushion.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, was a huge factor. We could thank
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  Speaker 2: Jay Stu for.
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  Speaker 1: That and so many times, Dan, you know, teams get
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  Speaker 1: leads on the road, big leads, and then they can't
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  Speaker 1: hang on. But you really, you really put forty minutes
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  Speaker 1: together there as a team, and that's hard to do
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the home team, with all those folks
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  Speaker 1: behind him, they're going to get some momentum at some
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  Speaker 1: point in the game. And it was ironic that throughout
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  Speaker 1: the game kept making big shots. I mean, I ran
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  Speaker 1: out of expletives. It was Caravan threw in a couple.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Samson Johnson the reverse obviously solo knocking down
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous threes. I mean, how many times did you hold
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  Speaker 1: off the momentum you were facing, Because when you're on
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  Speaker 1: the road and a team that good, that's that's a
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  Speaker 1: tough assignment.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those guys there, I mean they played like
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  Speaker 3: you know, like they played like guys that would have
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  Speaker 3: played and did those types of things on the teams
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  Speaker 3: the last two years. You know, I think those guys
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  Speaker 3: I think you know Samson Johnson in that game, I
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  Speaker 3: mean he played the way you know our you know,
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  Speaker 3: our players have played the last two years and games
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  Speaker 3: like that. You know, Samson was you know, he was
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  Speaker 3: a warrior. He was he was great defensively and you know,
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  Speaker 3: huge n one you know, to get the lead back
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  Speaker 3: to you know, to eight or nine or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 3: and and uh, you know solo ball, like just the
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  Speaker 3: way you know, he just stepped up and made huge
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  Speaker 3: shots and in some cases tough shots.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, in a game we had to win.
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  Speaker 3: And you know Alex just you know, get into the
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  Speaker 3: free throw line and you know, hitting a big floater
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  Speaker 3: and you're making a big corner three there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just that you know, those three guys in the game,
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Stewart's start, Jayden Ross's defense. I mean there was
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  Speaker 3: just there were just some qualities and characteristics, uh Hassandiarra
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  Speaker 3: is just well and toughness to just play compromised out
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  Speaker 3: there and not and refuse to leave the court and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, do enough to get us a win. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that was like a great feeling we've.
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  Speaker 2: Had some Obviously, the Colorado loss.
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  Speaker 3: Is still an anchor and you know, and a loss
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  Speaker 3: that that is not aging well.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we've had some of these.
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  Speaker 3: Games during the year that have been I think impressive performances.
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  Speaker 3: That road win, the road win of Texas, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think that those are like some you know, some
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  Speaker 3: great wins the Baylor went at home with.
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  Speaker 2: With alex I mean, the team has shown its quality.
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  Speaker 3: We just uh, you know, we just got to get
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  Speaker 3: more of the team shown the quality.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about the urgency level. I thought the
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  Speaker 1: team looked so urgent at the start of that game
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  Speaker 1: on all levels and and obviously you have to to
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  Speaker 1: do that to be successful against a great team. You're
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  Speaker 1: playing a top ten team in their place. Where did
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  Speaker 1: that come from? I mean there have been obviously games
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  Speaker 1: where you consplayed really well the entire ballgame one games
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  Speaker 1: like you just talked about, But it looked to me
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  Speaker 1: like the urgency that you guys played within that game
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  Speaker 1: was intense and you have to have it to be
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  Speaker 1: successful against a team like Marquette.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, well, the players that played the most prominent
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  Speaker 3: minutes in that one for us were you the guys
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  Speaker 3: that had been in the program, you know, with all
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  Speaker 3: the guys that were on the championship team or teams.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 3: The three sophomores that either were contributing offensively defensively. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: Jay stew wishes he could get back the six turnovers,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, without the start, it doesn't the game
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  Speaker 3: doesn't play out like that.
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  Speaker 2: For us. It was Caravan, it was Samson, Johnson.
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  Speaker 3: It was a Sandier, it was those It was those
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  Speaker 3: six guys that that you know, really carried the weight
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  Speaker 3: of of staying in the hunt to win the regular
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  Speaker 3: season and you know, and trying to hold on to.
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  Speaker 2: That that goal and that you know longer.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if we lost that game and you know,
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  Speaker 3: fell to we made a seven and four, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just being that many games behind with a lot of
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  Speaker 3: tough games to go, it probably you know, would have
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  Speaker 3: looked like it would you know, probably over for us
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  Speaker 3: that way.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we we.
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  Speaker 3: Guarded a lot better with more urgency, and we just
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  Speaker 3: we only played the guys. Obviously it was tough to
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  Speaker 3: play Hassan as much as we did because he's so
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  Speaker 3: banged up, but you know, we just stuck with the
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  Speaker 3: with with the most tough people that that we're going
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  Speaker 3: to play with the mindset of just a refusal to lose,
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  Speaker 3: and even if we would have come up short, I
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  Speaker 3: think that's how we got to go down from here
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  Speaker 3: on out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a real step forward, no question about it.
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  Speaker 1: Third win over ranked team, another win over a Quad
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  Speaker 1: one team. You got four more opportunities. Dan Hurley with
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  Speaker 1: us back in just a Moment with the Yukon Men's
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