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Seg 5 - MBB Show w Alex Karaban March 12 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Spent some time with Dan
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  Hurley obviously, and now we usually have a player or coach with us as
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  we wrap it up. We got a couple more segments, and Alex Caravan
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  is with us. The hottest shooter on the Huskies right now. I love
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  saying that when you start making buckets, and I just told Dan this,
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  it seems like the team just explodes. They seem to feed off your your
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  offensive forays. Would you agree with that to an extent? I think I
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  think my teammates deserve a lot of good credit for the passes that they make,
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  in the plays that they make, and what they cause offensively problems for
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  the other team and by at the same time, but I am knocking my
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  shots down. If I am spacing the floor properly for us, I think
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  everything else opens up for us offensively to where Tristan can attack the basket,
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  dono it can get post ups, and I think Cam gets a whole other
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  level of confidence too. So I'm not taking all the credit for that.
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  Now, I knew you wouldn't, but I figured I had to. Balance
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  is big part of this team. I mean five guys. I think it
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  was seven games. You've had five people in double figures, which is a
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  pretty high number. Let's talk about that, because it's not like, keep
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  going in the game and you say, Okay, everyone's going to get twelve
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  points tonight. It's just the way you play the game. Isn't it an
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  offense that that kind of creates equal opportunity? Yeah, definitely. I think
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  we really we don't know whose game is going to be until the game starts,
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  and I think it doesn't matter whose game it is, whoever's having the
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  hot hand in that game, but just let them, you know, continue
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  to score and continue to do what they're doing. And I think that's just
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  the beauty of this team to where anyone can get the hot hand and we
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  could just beat you in so many different ways, whether that's Donovan inside or
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  Cam shot or Steph at Tech and Tristan doing his thing. I think it's
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  just it's just a really hard thing for the other teams to come up with
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  a game plan for. Yeah, these last two games I thought was interesting.
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  I did talk to Dan about this. It's not easy. You win
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  eighteen games, you break a record in the conference, you clinched the Conference
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  regular season, then you got two on the road. I mean people would
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  have been I don't want to say okay with it, but they would have
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  understood human nature. You relax a little, maybe you split the two,
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  but you went and got both of them. And I'll tell you that,
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  to me, that was pretty impressive because, first of all, I mean
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  Providence, they had won like forty five out of fifty one games in their
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  buildings. It's not easy to beat them in their place, No, not
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  at all. And I'd say even winning at Marquettu is another difficult task with
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  them selling out a NBA sized arenas. So we knew that we get two
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  challenges ahead of ourselves, but at the same time, we felt like we
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  have so much more playing for and that we didn't want to let these two
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  games slip away from us and you know, jeopardizing exceeding for March Madness or
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  you know, not. We we want to continue momentum heading into the biggiest
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  tournament with two huge road winds. So the coaches they were continue to motivate
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  us, continue to tell us what we need to do, and just you
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  know, they really instilled the message that we can't be satisfied and that there's
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  so much more to do, and you know, coach Haurley always finds a
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  motivating piece, which is you know that history mark, like you talked about
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  in setting history, not just only a U combat in the entire Big East.
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  That's something that's super unique. Yeah, I'll tell you what, man,
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  people remember that stuff because I mean, I think you snapped the record
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  at Georgetown set back in the eighties for you know, regular season wins and
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  also margin of victory Georgetown with you ing and all those guys when you know
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  they won so much and you broke that record. So I think you put
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  yourself in those record books and people like me, you're reading about it five
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  ten years from now. That's good. They're gonna be mentioning you. And
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  that's never a bad thing, is it. No? Never, It's it's
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  kind of crazy because it feels like that was the first time I heard about
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  those records too, And it just feels like every day there's another record that
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  we've broken, and it's amazing. I mean, just to do it such
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  a tough conference and that's such a prestigious program like Yukon, I mean,
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  it's really an incredible feeling. It's an incredible accomplishment that you know, even
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  ourselves, we could look twenty years in future and see, you know,
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  college basketball and our records still could be standing within the Big East. So
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  but yeah, it's it's it's an unbelievable feeling. It really has been a
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  fabulous couple of years since you got on campus. We'll talk about your development
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  and we got some other stuff to talk about related to the Big East Tournament
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  coming up in the NCAAA Tournament beyond, as we continue on the Yukon Men's
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  Basketball Coaches Show with Alex Caravan here onlear Field