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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 25 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. Husky's back
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  in action at the Excel Centers Sunday eleven thirty the pre game and we'll have
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  the opening tip at twelve. Way normally back in the saddle with us at
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  the Excel, so we're looking forward to seeing him. He's been in Sick
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  Bay a little bit lately, but we'll have the wayner back. Coach.
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  You get ready for a team for a second game, How is that different
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  than the first time you play a team, because now you know, you
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  know what they're going to try to do. You probably figure they're going to
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  make adjustments. What's your thought on that with Xavier coming in here playing you
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  for the second time here in the month. Yeah, you obviously looked the
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  things that went wrong for you and went wrong for them, and you make
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  the adjustments and you try to anticipate, you know what those guys are going
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  to do. You know, the teams know each other so well, I
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  think, especially having you know, such a short period of time in between
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  games. You know, so I think you know they've played Xavier's played you
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  know, really really well. They've played to you know, to a top
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  thirty five metric and those are always tough games. You know. Showan's teams
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  are always you know, tough and physical, and they defend and then they
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  destroyed us on the backboard and really beat us up on the interior. So
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  obviously we played it without Donovan, which is certainly going to help some of
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  the rebounding issues we had in the first game. But you know, we've
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  got to obviously, you know, make some adjustments, still make them.
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  Yeah, speaking of Donovan, he went twenty two minutes against Villanova and you
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  needed him down the stretch. I think you mentioned in your post game that
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  you said, are you okay? Can you go? And he said,
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  yeah, I'm good, let's go. That was important because that was kind
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  of a threshold. You didn't know how much he could give you and then
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  it's nitty gritty time you got to have him, and he was able to
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  stand up it. Yeah. He Yeah, he's such a game changer.
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  And uh, you know you you uh, you know you sometimes you you
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  know, you you hear the squirrels and that they're you know that they talk
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  about you know, his season and the statistics and you know, maybe not
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  being you know as gaudy as as was expected. The guy's been has not
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  been healthy at all. He's kind of gutted out this year. But when
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  he is in the game, he's he's truly you know, the the analytics
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  saying he's one of the most impactful players in the country. You know,
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  our defense plays to a top flight, elite level defense when he's on the
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  court. When he's at the court offensively, he creates opportunities. Uh,
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  you know that make us a top flight offensive team. His presence on the
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  backboard, so you know, he uh getting him back, making sure he's
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  healthy, uh to help us, uh, you know through March and hopefully
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  uh have have you know, uh you know championship finished to the season.
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  So I'm gonna make a wild guests here. Uh. The Musketeers kind of
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  beat us up up there in Cincinnati. They were throwing bodies around like it
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  was a wrestling match for a while, and uh, I don't I don't
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  see that happening again on Sunday. What do you think? I mean?
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  It depends, I guess on the officials and what their their tolerance is,
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  what their stomach is for you know, physical you know, physical violence in
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  the paint when shots go up. Uh, I mean some of the stuff
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  obviously, Uh, you know, we I think the league plays into its
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  reputation as you know, these Big East kind of case frights. And I
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  think at times though, you know, when shots go up on the glass,
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  uh, you know, the mauling of each other, I think,
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  uh, sometimes it's just not basketball. Uh should be allowed to block out
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  and hold position and not be shoved in the back and and uh you know,
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  I think, uh, you know, we're not the most physical team.
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  You know, we play incredibly hard and we fly around the court,
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  but it's to our disadvantage when uh, you know, when it just becomes
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  a mauling. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of hooking going on in
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  that Xavier game, you know, with the rebounding situations. I I don't
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  to me, it can't allow that because it just gets worse and worse and
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  uglier and uglier. And that was the thing that surprised me about that game.
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  Uh. Yeah, I'm with you. Boxing out is boxing out.
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  It's it's part of the deal. But you're hooking guys and you're engaging people
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  on the boards like that, You're only going to ask for trouble. Yeah,
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  I mean conference playlists and you you you gotta let the guys, you
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  know, you got you gotta let the players play. You know, I
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  think you know, it's uh, you know, it just obviously it's got
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  to be more more physical than the non conference during and also the instant to
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  them because it's conference play. But I just think, you know, early
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  in the game, early in the conference season, you know, set in
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  a tone that uh, you know, just some kind of the the over
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  the top, overly physical stuff. You know that we we don't we don't
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  want these games to be played fifty five to fifty three. You know,
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  people are gonna turn it off, you know people, Uh, if people
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  want to see a competitiveness. I think that's what separates college uh you know,
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  regular season from you know the n b A regular season is the you
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  know, is we're living and dying with winning every game and that and it's
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  not a stet statistic driven Uh well, I got my numbers, so it
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  doesn't matter if we won. Type of mindset, uh, you know,
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  And I think you know, the the you know, the referees. You
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  know, we've got some some really good ones in this leadleag They got a
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  tough job. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you on the ugliness of some
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  of these games. But the preview, you got seven wins in a row.
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  Four of them came when you scored in the eighties. One was the
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  eighty seventy five win over Xavier. Now these last two you've won a little
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  different. Sixty two to forty eight Creighton putting on a defensive masterpiece, I
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  thought, and then sixty six sixty five with Villanova. So I mean,
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  is it safe to say you're kind of proving you can win either way here
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  in this last stretch. Yeah, I think you have to. We it
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  was you know, not sustainable for us with the direction on defense, was
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  heading in to have the type of season we want we want to have here
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  and the defensive improvement at least from a forcing our opponent to missshots. Our
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  field goal percentage defense has been pretty good. At times. We've had issues,
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  you know, creating turnovers and then keeping people off the free throw line,
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  and then also keeping people off of the offensive glass. So you know,
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  there's other things that contribute to a sinking of your defensive efficiency that go
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  well beyond just a defensive scheme. I think our defensive schemes have always been
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  really really really solid, whether it's scouting or just our general approach to defensive
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  strategy. But you know, you can't foul, you've got a defensive rebound,
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  and you also have got to force turnovers or else. The points per
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  possession isn't going to be very gaudy. Yes, it's almost like a mathematical
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  equation. All right, Dan, holdly with us. We'll be back after
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  this quick time out. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on Learfield