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Segment 4 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley. The Yukon Men's Coaches Show continues. Coach Big
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  East, I mean, you know all about this. I don't know the
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  rest of the country does. But Providence took it to Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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  I mean, Devin Carter, Bryce Hopkins lighting it up. Man, they
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  look good in that game. They got a first year coach there that that
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  was pretty impressive. Yeah, I think it's uh, you know, when
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  when when you get a job, it's uh, Bryce Hopkins is as talented
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  as any player in the league. And I think, you know, Devin
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  Carter was, you know, for me, a guy we talked about for
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  one of the you know, for the second team preseason All Conference. So
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  you know, I think, you know, Kim Kim's a smart guy,
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  brought in some talented players with him, uh, you know, from from
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  George Mason. But it was was fortunate enough to inherit, uh, you
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  know, several players, Pierre Corey Floyd. I guess you know it was
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  maybe sometimes that's the difference between, you know, when you take over for
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  a coach that took another job, as opposed to a coach that maybe you
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  know, lost his job. In terms of the overall, I think the
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  Providence program is in really good shape. Yeah, Kim English game from George
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  Mason. One guy he couldn't bring with him. Tyler Kohlik went to Marquette
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  over the last couple of years and he helped them win at Illinois and that's
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  pretty good. Illinois's twenty third in the country at this point. Mark keV
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  with a seven point win and Colic playing on a bat ankle. I'm told
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  five assists, five rebounds averaging fifteen points. I mean, we've been looking
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  at this dude for a couple of years. He is, He's a quality
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  point guard. Yeah, I listen, he's the best quarterback. You know,
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  I don't know if there are point guards anymore. You know, the
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  game's gone positionless and you got to be able to do a little bit of
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  everything. But I don't think there's much argument that that he's not the best
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  quarterback in the country. I think he definitely, you know, impacts his
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  game and his program in a very unique way. And it's you know,
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  it's just it's great for Marquette to be able to have a program a player
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  stay in their program, you know that long and not turn pro. You
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  know, such an impactful player stays with you. It's a great luxury.
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  Yeah. And then you know how much of Milwaukee fans love college hoop,
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  that's for sure. And then the other quest, the other one I wanted
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  to bring up to you is Creighton winning over Iowa, scoring ninety two.
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  My favorite player not in a Yukon uniform is Trey Alexander. Am I right
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  about this? Twenty three points, eleven rebounds, nine assists in that game.
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  Really good. And again, those are three guys that you know they
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  were able to retain that you know probably over the years would turn pro probably
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  all three guys Shotman, Kulkbrenner, and Trey. You know, you so
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  have all three of those guys come back and return of big three like that.
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  You know, that's probably the best three returning players that have returned to
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  any one, single college program in the country. And you know, I
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  think offensively, I know that they look as good as anybody in the country.
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  Yeah, I should say Big East with three teams in the top eight,
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  kind of where they ended up last year. So Big East with some
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  consistent winning programs rolling right now, Indiana coming up. Mike Woodson's their coach
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  with the next he did a good job replacing Mike D'Antoni when I was there,
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  and I really like him. He's done a good job in Indiana two
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  forty six and twenty six, and boy, his starting lineup is huge.
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  That's going to be a challenge, isn't it. I'm looking at some of
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  these guys and the kid wear it. It came from Oregon. He's a
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  monster. Uh. Really that's a big team Yukon's facing on Sunday. Yeah,
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  big physical, you know, big ten team. You know, you
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  know, plays a you know, a big four and five lineup, not
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  necessarily a you know, a four out, you know, but more of
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  a more of a you know four, a five and a four and a
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  half at the four, you know, with the with the sixth year guard
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  Xavier Johnson, who it's it's amazing. I remember, you know, when
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  Kenya was with us talking about Xavier when we first got the job. Uh.
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  And and now I'm going into year six and I'm coaching against them,
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  uh, you know, COVID and and uh, you know, just just
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  just crazy. But yeah, it'll be fun to play big game. It'll
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  be fun to to you know, to hit hit New York City. Yeah,
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  Johnson coming off a footage averaging sixteen and a half. They gotta sophomore
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  to Malik Renault averaging fourteen and a half. I mean they're starting lineup Trey
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  Galloway, another senior average in ten, and they're freshman Mackenzie mcbacco. I
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  think is the way you pronounce that their starters play a ton of minutes.
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  Their bench only produces about nine and a half minutes a game. So is
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  this gonna be one of those games where whatever happens from the bench might be
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  determining what happens. Yeah, you just never know how the you know how
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  the games will play out. You know, it's an early season game.
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  I think both both programs and teams are, you know, or trying to
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  develop a bench, trying to develop their identity, and it's just I think
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  it's a good early season test. Yeah, this coming off the bench gave
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  cups for them. As mister basketball in Ohio, he's probably the one guy
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  who can score off the bench. And speaking of your bench, Samson,
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  Johnson had a couple of good games to start you weren't that please? The
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  other night we're what did you see that you didn't like? And what are
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  you going to work on with him here in the next few days, getting
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  ready for this monster bunch you're gonna face. Yeah, I think, you
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  know, versus the zone, there were chances. I think that you know
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  that he's got to recognize that maybe happened a little bit more off script that
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  you just as a player got to kind of see against the zone. And
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  yeah, I would say, you know, protecting the rim using the athleticism
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  the above the rim athleticism for the lob dougs. I'd like to see that
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  protecting the front of the rim from a defensive standpoint, and and just to
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  you know, rebound the defensive glass the way that he's going after the offensive
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  class. You know, coach our friend Ben Darnell from ninety seven to nine
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  ESPN Sports Radio where the games are broadcast, is always talking about recruiting all
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  the time, and so were you in the back of your mind you're coaching
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  your team, but you do to have a couple of guys coming next year
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  year, do we want to ask you a little bit about Isaiah Abraham mad
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  Noel. What tell me about them a little bit and where do you think
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  they might fit in with the program as as the year goes on next year
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  obviously. Yeah, I think Isaiah is just a you know, our type
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  of guy, you know, very very high level of athleticism, you know,
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  guy that that could be an impact defender, impact athlete at six seven,
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  with some length and some ability to get on both backboards and you know,
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  create a little bit of havoc defensively and you know, potentially, I
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  think the shot looks good where he's got some you know, some three and
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  D ability and just I think some upside that we've been able to tap into,
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  you know, through player development and then a mod I think he's uh,
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  you know, he's he might help us this year if he was here.
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  Uh, just strong guard, really really good player, shoots at guards,
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  like the type of guy that uh, you know again, I think
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  if he came in next month, he's physical enough and it's been well coached
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  enough, and uh is college ready players as I think you could bring in
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  from high school. Yeah, so Abraham Moore of a forward, I'm guessing
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  six seven. Uh, you gotta love Philly guards. I mean, you
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  know, you're a Jersey guy that's really Jersey Philly very very similar geography there
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  and players and stuff really really very different. Educate me on that one.
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  Don't please don't compare us to people from Philly. Sorry no, but Philly
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  guards have usually have a pretty good reputation is being tough. Tough dudes.
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  Yeah, I mean listen, one of my favorite players I've coached in college,
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  I mean on my Mount Rushmore, Fats Russell played from me my last
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  year at Rody same high school mo O tep in Philly, and your Fats
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  is a is one of the major reasons why I'm the coach at Yukon,
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  uh. And he played so well for us that that we want we won.
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  We won so many games that Yukon wanted me to come here. So
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  I got another guy coming in from his from his high school. So that's
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  exciting. He's called a combo guard. What does that actually mean? Because
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  you just said point guards, I really aren't on around anymore. Just I
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  think your ability to to play on the ball and facilitate and also the ability
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  to score, you know, create for others, and the ability to go
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  get your own job. All right, all right, coach, we appreciate
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  it. Uh see you in the big city, the world's most famous arena.
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  Make it your place for the next few days. Over the weekend and
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  into Monday. There we go, Let's go all right, that's Dan Hurley
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  back in a moment, more than you men's basketball coaches show in a moment.