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Seg 3 - MBB Show Oct 28 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back with Dan Hurley and the Duncan Music Lounge after
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  Speaker 1: practice session at the Excel Center. Some of the record
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  Speaker 1: breaking stuff that team did last year before we moved
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  Speaker 1: more into this roster this year. Coach assists most ever
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  Speaker 1: by the Yukon team seven or ten, most points three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: ninety five, most wins thirty seven, back to back thirty
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  Speaker 1: wins seasons had done, had been happened before under Jim Calhoun,
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  Speaker 1: right crazy ninety seven ninety eight for Jim and his
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  Speaker 1: teams in ninety eight ninety nine, you rip off thirty
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  Speaker 1: wins plus in two straight years. But this one kills me.
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  Speaker 1: The runs that your team went on this year. You
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  Speaker 1: talked about the Illinois game twenty eight times this year.
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  Speaker 1: Out of those forty games, you had ten oh runs
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  Speaker 1: or more. That is not easy to do in any
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  Speaker 1: sport and on any level in basketball. How did that happen?
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  Speaker 1: Just the mammoth amount of talent and momentum just seemed
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  Speaker 1: to get momentum going in some of these games.
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  Speaker 2: Just the we said like a lot, and you hear
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  Speaker 2: it press conferences like bulletproof, you know, just the.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 2: We had no vulnerabilities, just like we never turned the
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  Speaker 2: ball over. We were we shared the ball, We were
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful passing team. And you have best defense or
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  Speaker 2: one of the best defenses in the country. You have
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  Speaker 2: one of the best offenses in the country. You rebound
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  Speaker 2: the ball better, you play harder, you're scouting and preparation
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  Speaker 2: is better. You know you've got depth the culture. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we've all we always had the culture, and we've always
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  Speaker 2: had the preparation and always had the hard playing the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: The offense, we.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't play as fast as we would have liked last year,
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  Speaker 2: but we were number one in the country inefficiency, Like
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  Speaker 2: when we got out in transition, we scored and.
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  Speaker 3: Then if we missed, we rebound.
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  Speaker 2: Our offensive rebounding is not quite Houston, but it's close.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The turnover then, you mentioned sixth in the country last year.
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  Speaker 1: A few as turnovers, I mean, I think eight point
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  Speaker 1: eight or something like that's pretty hard to do when
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  Speaker 1: you're playing a forty minute.
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  Speaker 3: Game high majors.
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  Speaker 2: Usually that's not what you know. Just our players willingness
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  Speaker 2: to move the ball, screen cut move makes us hard
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  Speaker 2: to guard. I think you'll see a lot more teams,
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  Speaker 2: you know, playing the way we've played. I think you'll
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  Speaker 2: see that a lot more in college this year, a
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  Speaker 2: lot more teams moving more off ball movement. We've kind
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  Speaker 2: of noticed it already.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's harder to defend, right when you get a
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  Speaker 1: team that's doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think basketball got lazy for a while.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was just like all ball, screen ball, screen,
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  Speaker 2: ball screen, and then you know, we hit people the
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  Speaker 2: last two years with just insane movement and players body
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  Speaker 2: movement and then the shooting.
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  Speaker 3: And we've had smart players.
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  Speaker 2: Guys that are smart can handle a lot of information
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  Speaker 2: because the offense is complex, so we need smart guys
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  Speaker 2: that could pass and shoot on the perimeter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw that out in Portland two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: That was the first sign to me that this could
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  Speaker 1: be a great team. I mean, play some great teams
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  Speaker 1: out there. Looked really good one by double figures. I
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  Speaker 1: mean when you're seeing it against you know, the arkansass
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  Speaker 1: of the world and some of these clubs, you're just
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  Speaker 1: you just say to you, so, wow, we might have
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  Speaker 1: something here.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you're great on offense and defense and like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, do you you know you could win anyway,
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  Speaker 2: and then you just go on these runs because you
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  Speaker 2: just stop three stop, dunk stop three. Games would go
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  Speaker 2: from three to ten or twelve quick and and we
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  Speaker 2: were pretty ruthless too. I mean we would really beat
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  Speaker 2: beat people bad. I mean Cam Spencer some of the stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You would yelling the huddle about how badly he'd want
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  Speaker 2: to beat them more.
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  Speaker 1: And but you know, it's nice when you have players
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  Speaker 1: that kind of reflect your attitude. Yes, right, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to do as much of that.
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  Speaker 2: I was just vent thinking about that with this team
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  Speaker 2: here today, it's like take on the personality, like take
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  Speaker 2: on how hard we practice, how hard we compete, the swagger,
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  Speaker 2: the champion, because you know, the personalities in this team,
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  Speaker 2: Like we lost major personality. He's Donovan major personality. You
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  Speaker 2: know Cam was didn't have Like Cam wasn't socially active
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  Speaker 2: at all. I don't think he went to Ted's once.
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  Speaker 2: That's impossible or no, maybe I think he might have
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  Speaker 2: want went one time after we won it, but we
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get him off the court or out of the
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  Speaker 2: cold tub, you know, Cam, So uh yeah, we've had so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you need personalities, you need swagger and Alex doesn't you know,
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  Speaker 2: And if you say, if you see like Alex.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to try to be Alex should be that guy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got to go in it this year.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a chance to have one of the best,
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  Speaker 2: make an argument he had the best college career like
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  Speaker 2: anyone in recent history.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like he should have all this swagger with him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's a quiet guy. I mean he seems
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  Speaker 1: like you trying to get him to be verbal. Is
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  Speaker 1: that possible?
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have to try to get someone to be
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  Speaker 2: be vocal and be verbal, you know, like, and especially
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  Speaker 2: when you've experienced his level of success. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I miss a back to back champion going for
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  Speaker 2: a three p You know, he's an NBA player, He's
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  Speaker 2: a preseason All American by most, you know, just he's
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  Speaker 2: got to lead the group.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Way back when pat Riley, I think they started using
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  Speaker 1: that term three pete and everyone said, why don't don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about that? That is you know, that's gonna jinx everything.
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  Speaker 1: But he had a lot of confidence. I remember, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being around him quite a bit. You have that same confidence,
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  Speaker 1: you're not afraid of it, And I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing that the team could absorb. Right the
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  Speaker 1: feeling of like we're not afraid of that. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to do. That's what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, why would you spend so much of your
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  Speaker 2: life doing this if you weren't going to do that,
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  Speaker 2: Because you know, there's a this's a big commitment. It
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  Speaker 2: consumes everything, so he can do it. You know, Alex
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  Speaker 2: is a unique player. The whole program changed when he
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  Speaker 2: got here. I mean we were not you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: not a coincidence either. I mean, this guy allowed us
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  Speaker 2: to do things differently and his uh, just his character
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  Speaker 2: and it's caused us to change recruiting philosophy for the better,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like giving.
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  Speaker 3: Back a little bit of athletic ability for.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and maybe upside talent for just guys that
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  Speaker 2: are just great basketball players and simple any simple.
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  Speaker 3: School ball and coachable. That's big.
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  Speaker 2: Never wants to post anything. I mean, he doesn't do
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  Speaker 2: anything to help himself become a star. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: just wants to play ball.
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  Speaker 1: He needs an administrative assistant, that's what he needs. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: just kidding, all right, Coach will be back in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Got a live audience here at the Duncan Music Lounge
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  Speaker 1: and iHeart Headquarters in Hartford on Lerfield.
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