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Seg 6 - MBB Show w Kamani Young Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Following this show, it'll
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  be Bob Joyce, Gino Orima live at Cafe Ara. I don't know what
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  they order a coach on the menu there, but those guys they have a
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  lot of fun at Gino's restaurant. We talked to the coach in his office.
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  We don't go to restaurants, but we're going to do the best we
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  can here to wrap this thing up. Okay, I'll love a trip to
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  Gino's restaurant. I know, I don't know why Bob hasn't invited me.
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  Waste right down the street from my house. Bob, you got to get
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  me over there. Bob, let's go a lot of guys anytime. You
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  know that. Come Onie, let's talk a little bit about next year.
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  I know we're right in the middle of this thing and the team's number one,
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  and we're talking to Dan all about it in the show. Isaiah Abraham
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  six seven forward coming to Yukon, Virginia. Kid tell me about him.
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  Listen, man, we're extremely excited about Isaiah and his future here. I
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  mean, he's he's he's uh, he's got great size, he's got tremendous
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  athleticism. You know, he's still developing as a three point shooter, but
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  he attacks the rim. He's a good passer, and again, like we
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  were just talking about, he has the upside to be, you know,
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  a tremendous defender at our level as well. So he checks a ton of
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  boxes. He comes from great you know, pedigree from Paul to six.
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  He's got a bat. He comes from a basketball family, you know,
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  his father being a former player Marquette and his aunt being an All American that
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  played at George Washington. You know, comes from a great AAU program.
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  I mean, those are guys. Those are the kind of guys that have
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  come in our program and have done well since we've been here. So we're
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  extremely excited about Isaiah. He fits into our culture great, just being a
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  hard hat kind of you know, lunch pale, tough, hard nosed kid
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  that wants to just come into work every day to get better. So super
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  excited about about his future here with us. I've only seen video, I
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  haven't seen him in person. Obviously, you've seen him in person. Six
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  seven. That's a great size for a forward, isn't it. Yeah,
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  absolutely, and can play multiple positions. I mean, he could play anywhere
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  from the two to the four for US with that kind of size. So
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  just give you so much versatility defensively. You know, he's got the ability
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  to get out and transition and make plays. You know, he's a highlight
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  finisher at the rim, which you've seen on video. And he's played in
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  big time games in big time environments. From the success that he had you
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  know, on the AAU circuit with Team Takeover winning a peach Caam championship.
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  He's on one of the you know, best high school teams in the country
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  at paul of six, playing in a great league in a you know,
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  Catholic league down in DC. So he's gonna come into this program with tremendous
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  experience, and you know, we're excited about that U six to one guard
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  a Maude Noel Philadelphia guy. Top forty first of all, you know,
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  coach those rankings where people go he's a top forty, top twenty, top
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  fifty, whatever. How much do you make of that or how much do
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  you just trust your own eyes? Yeah, not much, to be honest
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  with you, that much. I mean, you know that's great for our
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  fan base, and you know it's It's great for the kids and their families
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  to be recognized that way. But for us, you know, the way
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  we you know, go about recruiting is we just got to find the right
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  fit for us. You know what the talent looks like, you know what
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  the makeup looks like. We want to recruit guys that have committed the winning,
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  that come from blue collar backgrounds, and those are the guys that we've
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  had the most success with. So you know, when you look at Isaiah
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  Abraham and you look at Aman Noel, those guys fit what we do.
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  Those guys, you know, in this office, we have the term they
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  look like huskies, yeah, you know, and a Mon Noel fits right
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  in that mode for us. I've seen a lot of video of him.
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  Man, He's impressive. I mean, he's tough as nails. He just
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  looks like he ain't backing down anywhere any place anyhow. Yeah, absolutely,
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  man, I mean I feel sorry for the kids sometime with his high school
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  coach and with his you know, with his mentor and the work that he
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  puts in with those guys. I mean I've seen some stuff that you know,
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  have made me cringe, you know, but it's all for his development.
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  I mean that dude is gonna walk in here from day one ready to
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  compete. And finally, when you say fit, what exactly are you saying
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  about getting a guy that fits with what we do? Yeah, I mean
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  we do it a little differently, man, than a lot of places.
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  I mean, you know, we get in here in June and we get
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  right to work. These aren't like you know, summer workouts where guys are
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  just getting some shots up and it's kind of like a country club thing in
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  the summer, and we wait for September to ramp it up. Like no,
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  once those guys hit campus, we're getting after it. You know,
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  we compete at a high level every day. We push those guys out of
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  their comfort zone. And that's not for everybody, you know, it's not
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  for everybody. We're we're extremely honest, you know with our players, and
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  you know, we hold them accountable. And you got to recruit kids and
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  families that understand that and want that because that's not that's not you know,
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  that's not the norm in this era, in this generation. So you know,
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  those two guys, obviously, you know, we wouldn't have went all
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  in on them if we didn't feel like they fit that way. Yeah,
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  that's important, no question about you. Guys are doing a heck of a
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  job. We appreciate you, and uh, someday, I hope you will
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  teach me to shoot the jump shot that you can shoot. I cannot do
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  it, and I think if you gave me a little extra time perhaps I
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  can improve. Well, I'll tell you this. You got four things,
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  and if you've been around the game, you probably heard them before. But
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  it starts with your balance, your eyes, your elbow, and then you
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  gotta hold that follow through, right, got you gotta that follow through is
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  non negotiable. Okay, all right, well that's good. I'm gonna I
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  made a note of that. I'm going to go back out in the driveway
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  and work on some of that stuff. You go, shovel the snow first,
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  man, Yeah, get my shovel first. Hold on. All right,
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  coach, we appreciate you. Kamata Young all right, thanks to Dan
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  Hurley, of course, the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. It's Xavier on
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  Sunday twelve noon. Tip. We hope you're listening to us Onlearfield