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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 11 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Husky's next up with Georgetown
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  at the Excel Center eleven thirty pre game at twelve o'clock the tip the Yukon
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  Sports Network and Dan Hurley with us UH coach. We talked about the start
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  you had against Xavier, and I think you were mentioning this. The three
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  point percentages for you kind of haven't been you know, out of this world.
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  But you went eleven for twenty four the last night against Xavier. What
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  gets you know, what gets you going in that direction? Obviously the ball
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  goes in the basket, but you know, you don't have clinging to kind
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  of you know, open things up on the perimeter with you know, dumping
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  balls into him. So, you know, how do you see this unfolding?
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  Because it looks like the team's starting to shoot better from three now.
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  Yeah, I mean I think when a it's just different with different players.
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  I think when Alex, it's been mental, you know, I think he
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  uh, you know, and some players heat up as the season goes on.
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  I think you saw it from Alex last year, just being a second
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  and a half of the year player where he really takes it up a notch.
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  And I think there's players that just get more comfortable as the season goes
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  on, more confident, you know. And then like even Alex just looking
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  at Jordan last year, like soft the beginning of sophomore year Jordans compared to
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  you know, end of sophomore year Jordan's. It's a big difference once they
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  get later into their career, especially year two. And I think with you
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  know, with Tristan, I think I think we got stops last night,
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  and he got some good threes in transition. I think his teammates screened for
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  him well and got him some good looks from three, you know. And
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  and Cam is Cam as a shooter, and Hassan Dire has worked on his
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  shot a lot. He changed the shot, changed the trajectory of a shot.
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  You know, he decreased some of his arc on a shot last year
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  was like outrageous. He was shooting like a true helium ball. And you
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  know, he just he made a subtle adjustment which is uh, you know,
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  created a softer shot in a shot that we're all more confident in.
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  Yeah. Three three is made by Caravan against Xavier. Three of seven for
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  Tristan, And let's see three of five by Cam two for two for Hassan
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  Duero Newton. You know, we talked about this in the pregame. Hadn't
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  been shooting it well in Big East play, and you know it was five
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  for sixteen in this game against Xavier. But I thought he got off to
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  a nice start and I thought that really mattered because just for him and also
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  for the team. How important is that. Do you think for Tristan to
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  start getting in a groove early in these games? Yeah, I think it's
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  the residual effect. It's like, you know, you know, the acambo
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  of Adama and Donovan last year, you know, created it just it puts
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  so much pressure or takes so much pressure off of our team offensively endatively,
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  with with with with what they do at the front of the rim, the
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  paint pressure at both ends, and you know Donovan being out, you know,
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  it affects the quality of shots that we get. Uh, it affects
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  our defense, It affects second chance opportunities. It you know, it just
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  puts more pressure on everybody. And I think, you know Tristan, you
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  know, being going from maybe last year, he might have been the fourth
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  or fifth guy on the scouting report this year. Now he's the first guy,
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  maybe first or second guy showing up on Player of the Year lists and
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  all these different things. Is it. Uh, it's just a different level
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  of attention and detail with scouting that you've got to deal with. And I
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  think he took a step in in in a great direction in the second half
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  of Butler. I think, you know, his trust in the system and
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  his level of engagement was very, very high in the in the behavior game
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  game. Uh So, I think I think that he found some things there.
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  Yeah, Dan Hurley with us on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show Mike
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  Crispino here at Butler, Newton had seventeen points. I love that he got
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  to the line thirteen times, made ten of those. So even though we
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  went three for twelve in that game, only made one three, he still
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  found ways to get to that, you know, sixteen point averages. Where
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  he is and you know, he's an interesting character. I think he's kind
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  of a quiet guy. You know him better obviously, But what's the key
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  to Newton in terms of his psychology and playing at this level because he never
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  played, you know, at Yukon level when East Carolina they were always struggling
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  to win games here. I mean, you're expected to win almost every night.
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  So it's different for him. Yeah, and it's it's different when you,
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  you know, when when you don't have it. Andre Jackson, at
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  Jordan Hawkins and an Adama Snogo that those guys, you know, they were
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  the driving force and now we need Tristan the driving force. And if you've
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  never had to do that in your career, it's it's it's it's a heavy
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  burden, you know. And for you know, for Tristan, it's,
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  uh, he's got a chance to have a two year run at you come
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  uh with the position he's put himself in, is you know, to to
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  have as good a two year run as almost anyone's had, uh in terms
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  of what he can accomplish as a team and as an individual. So you
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  know, you obviously you make him aware of that to keep him motivated.
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  It's human nature to uh uh to feel like, you know, a really
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  really high level of success is enough. It should never be enough. You
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  should always obsess over more. The goalpost should always be moving for you.
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  And we're just trying to get him to buy into that mindset. And then
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  really just as a from a basketball standpoint man, It's like he's at his
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  best when he's filling the statue and truly playing like a two way player.
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  High you know, rebounding the ball, high assists, you know, shooting
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  good threes, attacking the paid two way player. You know, when he's
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  doing those things as a six' five, you know point guard's he's one
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  of the better guards out there. Yeah. Sixteen points for Newton in the
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  Zaber game, eleven assists, only two turnovers. Yukon coach twenty seven assists,
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  more than an eighty game on the season so far. I looked up
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  and I'm like, wow, I didn't realize there were that many assists.
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  You know, sharing the ball is one thing, but able to get everybody
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  involved and assist on all those baskets. I mean twenty seven of the thirty
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  one baskets were assisted on. That had to be. I had to make
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  you feel good as a coaching staff. Yeah, I think it's you know,
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  we pride ourselves by trying to create scenarios, you know, through player
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  movement, ball movement, excellent screening, trying to get in a situation where
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  we could get you know, two defenders on ball as much as possible,
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  and uh, you know, and and and share the ball with a very
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  capable teammate. You know, I think we have a lot of different elements
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  to what we do on offense. I don't think we're reliant on one player,
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  uh to save us a ball us out in any one game. And
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  I think that you know, allows you to to win a lot of games
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  when uh, you know, when it could be any number of players that
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  could step up and and you're truly playing team basketball. And some nights you
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  got to play five guards, which you had to do against Xaviery. We'll
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  talk about that, and uh, maybe the future boxing career of Alex Caravan
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  as he took a we could shot in Cincinnati and able to come back and
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  help the team win the game. We're continuing with the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches
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