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Segment 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Mike chris Pino joined by Dan
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  Hurley. A little bit later on, we'll talk to one of the Huskies
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  players. Coach. We've seen three games now on the season, Huskies rolling
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  up points and winning big and obviously you expect that against some of these opponents,
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  but the meat grinders coming up. So where are you at in terms
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  of where the team is at and what you've been able to accomplish here in
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  these first three games. I think for the you know, for the most
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  part, you know, we could draw from the three games and then the
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  you know, the two closed, closed games that we played, and you
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  know, have a have a decent feel I think for you know, the
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  best direction to go with the team, I think obviously, uh, you
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  know that this team is gonna you have to answer questions I think relative to
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  you know, the depth, you know, and then trying to also to
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  you know, maybe cann this group play with the defensive edge and the rebounding
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  toughness that it takes, you know, to be a truly an elite team.
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  I think offensively, there's you know, there's great potential there, especially
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  with the healthy staff You've got five guys, and there are five starters that
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  can get fifteen, eighteen, twenty or more on any given night. So
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  you know, I like what I've seen. I didn't like the Mississippi Valley
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  State game necessarily, but I feel pretty good about where we're at. You
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  know, a couple of guys that you asked to step up this year and
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  make a leap of Alex Caraban, for one, I think has been doing
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  that. So how do you assess what's happening with that? I thought it
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  was pretty impressive at the Civic Center the EXL. He played with four fouls,
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  He played with a fowel trouble most of the game, and yet it
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  didn't really impact what he was doing out there. Well, he can't,
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  you know, he can't put himself or put us in that position, you
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  know, to commit those fouls to pick up you know, two fouls before
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  the first media timeout from a guy that we need to be like an all
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  conference level player, you know, you know, replace the level of like
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  a Jordan, of like an Adama in terms of making a big second year
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  jump. Can't then pick up your third foul in the first in the first
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  half. You know, we need Alex to be able to play. You
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  know, Alex is going to lead us in minutes again this year like he
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  did last year, and we can't afford for him to be in foul trouble.
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  He should make the statistical uh you know, jump but you can't do
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  that if you're committing you know, you're fouling jump shooters and putting yourself in
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  a bad spot. Yeah, Dan Hurley with us on the UKUM Men's Basketball
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  Coaches Show. I thought that that Mississippi Valley State game was a game you
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  could experiment maybe a little bit, keep him in there, see if he
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  can play with fouel issues. Am I reading your mind right on that one?
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  I mean I wasn't even really you're it was about just getting him enough
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  minutes so that going into the Indiana game he's ready to play thirty plus minutes
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  of game minutes. So it was obviously it wasn't a very threatening game.
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  It was an opportunity. I think it is an opportunity for you to,
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  you know, to look at some different lineups, get some young guys,
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  experience your work worked on some things when you're not under that full game pressure,
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  you know, so that it gives you the luxury you're playing a game
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  like that of still being able to play him without the pressure the game,
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  pressure, decision making. Donovan Klingon missed a bunch of time coach, with
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  the foot problem, back playing practicing. How do you assess his first few
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  games? Someone asked me this and I I didn't have a good answer,
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  So I'm coming to you with this one. Is he one hundred percent?
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  Physically? He's getting there? You missed a lot of time, and I
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  think I think physically he's one hundred percent. I think his you know,
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  from a skill standpoint, in terms of sharpness, it's not He's not all
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  the way back to how he was playing, uh, you know, pre
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  injury, you know, but he uh, I think all things considered,
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  uh, you know, I think he looks kind of how he should look
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  at this point. We need him, you know, need him on the
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  backboard right now, need him to continue to work on his low low post,
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  like you know, pre catch and positioning and his his ability to to
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  you know, to attack the rim. I think these are things that you
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  know. I don't think it's injury stuff that you've seen right now. Like
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  I think what you're seeing is a guy who's beginning his sophomore year, his
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  very high expectations for and you know, it's been a very similar way to
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  Jordan the way he started his sophomore year. He was a much different player
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  at the end of the year as a sophomore than he was at the beginning.
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  Yeah, I like that. That's a good a good assessment of that.
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  For sure. He was seven of eight in the game. He got
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  to the line nine times, more than anybody, but he only made three.
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  I cannot figure it out. You watch it every day. I saw
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  him in high school a bunch. He always made his free throws, and
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  now he's shooting fifty sixty percent. I mean, he's gonna have to get
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  better at that. No, Yeah, And it's you know, it's for
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  a seven to two guy at this point in his career, that's he should
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  not be thinking about his shooting a whole lot. He should be thinking about,
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  you know, you know, protecting the rim, you know, posting
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  up, deep finishing through contact finishing with you know, working on his left
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  hand, doing all these different things because he naturally has has has really nice
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  touch and he's got a very nice shooting form. But I think it's it's
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  got in his head a little bit. You know, he's got to he's
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  got to focus on his routine. He's got to focus on his breathing.
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  And I think he's just you know, in free throw shooting, you've got
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  to kind of compact your shooting form, and and and and make sure that
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  you don't you know, you want to compact your form when you get to
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  the fat line. It can't be a long motion. And I think his
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  motion has just gotten a little bit too long. When your motion is long,
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  that there's more chances for you to have technical mistakes. Yeah. Back
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  with the Knicks, when I was there at Mike dan Toni koach, we
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  had a shot doctor for a while. Do you have anything like that on
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  the staff? No, I don't. I don't need that. You don't
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  want that, all right, Dan? Early with us that gets complicated,
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  trust me, I watched it early with US. Yukon men's basketball coaches show
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  back in a moment on lear Field