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Seg 1 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 3 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show. The Huskies
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  Speaker 1: on a major role. We talked to Dan Hurley on
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  Speaker 1: Mike Crispino coach MAUI must seem like a way way
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  Speaker 1: back memory, something you want to forget about, obviously, But
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  Speaker 1: the Huskies have ripped off seven in a row now,
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  Speaker 1: and they're starting to look like Yukon basketball pretty much
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  Speaker 1: every night, the stuff we have seen over the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years with this squad. So tell us about
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  Speaker 1: the turnaround, because it feels good to go out there
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  Speaker 1: and start to look I think like what you would
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  Speaker 1: like to see here in January and February and March.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we're just really just focusing on the
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  Speaker 2: obvious positives here and Maoi was like a month ago
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  Speaker 2: or more so. Obviously the team is. It's a younger team,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's especially for a high major team. I
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  Speaker 2: think in almost every game that we've gone into, especially
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  Speaker 2: against the high major opponents Big East and our conference
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  Speaker 2: teams and Gonzaga, you know, we've got way more freshmen
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  Speaker 2: and sophomores playing key roles for us, and it's just
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where you know we've improved I
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  Speaker 2: think although our defensive numbers, you know, overall still linger
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  Speaker 2: in the mid nineties, since we've been back playing stateside here,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've played more to a top fifty, top
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  Speaker 2: sixty defense, you know, with an offense that's obviously ranked
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  Speaker 2: really high in.
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  Speaker 3: Terms of efficiency.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, you get you know, players that
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  Speaker 2: are just really developed and are becoming better two way
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  Speaker 2: players like Liam. You know, Liam in prison proved so
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  Speaker 2: much in terms of impacting winning. You know, is rebounding.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's ability to get to the paint, get
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  Speaker 2: to the free throw line, create shots for others, make
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  Speaker 2: big shots in the second half a game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Hassan has obviously, you know, stabilized you know, the point
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  Speaker 2: guard position, which was in flux in November, at least
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  Speaker 2: from a starting perspective. And you know, he's taken really
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  Speaker 2: good care of the basketball. He's run our offense, he's
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  Speaker 2: been opportunistic to go and playoff script some. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've gotten offensively, I think, really really good production out
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  Speaker 2: of the center position. The productions there. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: need to improve even more that way. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we need both Sampson and Taris to continue to get
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  Speaker 2: better but you know, and then Caraban has played, uh
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  Speaker 2: you know, when Caraban plays like a Big East Player
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  Speaker 2: of the Year type or an All American type of player,
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  Speaker 2: especially down the stretch of games. The way he's closed
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  Speaker 2: some of these games, you know, it's made us. It
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  Speaker 2: made us tough to beat. And in the seven game
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  Speaker 2: win streak, only you know, one of those games was
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  Speaker 2: against a low major. So you know, we've won seven
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  Speaker 2: in a row, but six of those games have been
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  Speaker 2: you know, three of them have been Big East games,
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  Speaker 2: two on the road, and three of the others were
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  Speaker 2: high major games, one.
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  Speaker 3: On the road at Texas.
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  Speaker 2: So to be able to win six straight games versus
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  Speaker 2: high major opponents is not something that we should you
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  Speaker 2: should feel proud of that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm proud of the team.
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  Speaker 1: And to your point, the last three opponents, when you
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  Speaker 1: look at their rosters, were loaded with newbies, guys that
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  Speaker 1: came from other places. Even as Sean Miller with Xavier
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  Speaker 1: was talking about wanting to recruit guys who had been
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  Speaker 1: to two other schools, he wanted that much maturity on
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  Speaker 1: his roster, and Butler the same with that mana and
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  Speaker 1: then to Paul Chris Holtman trying to put things back together,
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  Speaker 1: there had thirteen new faces. I don't know if this
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  Speaker 1: is you know, something you would be able to answer.
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  Speaker 1: But do you feel like in some ways you have
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  Speaker 1: a bit of an advantage in that you know your guys,
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  Speaker 1: You've been working with most of them for two three years,
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  Speaker 1: maybe four years, and in that sense, you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: cohesion with your roster is maybe further along than say
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  Speaker 1: Chris Holtman's with his crew.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know the I guess the it's the
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  Speaker 2: new world we're in. I don't know that anyone. I
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  Speaker 2: think in a perfect world, we would have established culture
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  Speaker 2: and player development and things would be like the like
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  Speaker 2: the old days where people would come into your program,
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  Speaker 2: be with you for years, develop have continuity, have chemistry. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but between the portal and nil where it's so it's
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  Speaker 2: gotten so crazy the sport, whereas like your main fear
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  Speaker 2: would be early entry to the NBA draft, it would
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  Speaker 2: be your mau man, I'm a how long am I
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  Speaker 2: going to have this player?
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  Speaker 3: That's probably the third.
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  Speaker 2: Thing you think about now, you know, uh, you actually
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  Speaker 2: hope that's your problem that you lose players early to
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  Speaker 2: the NBA, and not that you know you don't have
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  Speaker 2: enough money to retain or recruit, or you know, players
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  Speaker 2: just leave you via free agency because there's no restrictions
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  Speaker 2: whatsoever in our sport and it's just a total wild
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  Speaker 2: wild West out there. So I mean, you know, for us,
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  Speaker 2: we were an interesting case study on I guess for
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  Speaker 2: this year's team on should we have gone out and
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  Speaker 2: gotten more older players based on how much that we
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  Speaker 2: lost and or is it better for you to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hold on to younger players, freshmen to sophomores and retain
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  Speaker 2: and keep continuity. I think at the end of our season,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when it's all said and done, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to impact the decisions that we make moving forward how
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  Speaker 2: this year plays out for us.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're in Chris Holtman's.
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  Speaker 2: Situation where you're taken over for a team that was
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  Speaker 2: really bad, you can go from really bad to a
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  Speaker 2: top one hundred type of team really quickly, which is
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  Speaker 2: the way he put that roster together, because there's so much,
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  Speaker 2: so much better and mature and that you could see
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  Speaker 2: the culture, you know, developing there. And then you had
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  Speaker 2: somebody like like Sean Miller, who I think just went
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  Speaker 2: out and got a lot of firepower on the perimeter
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  Speaker 2: because he was missing it last year, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: was really hoping that he'd have better luck with front
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  Speaker 2: court health, and unfortunately for him, he got bit, you know,
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  Speaker 2: by that same injury bug in the front court. Hopefully
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  Speaker 2: they get Fremantle back, but I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: best way to do it is going to be moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: There's literally no rules in our sport. You know, from
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  Speaker 2: reading Coach morris tweets, he's obviously been very active on Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: you know, since the ballgame in particular, there's so much
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  Speaker 2: chaos right now. It's tough tough to figure the best way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Coach more also talking about, you know, the thing about
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  Speaker 1: not Tampa with his players before they even go into
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  Speaker 1: portal and even have to recruit your own players, which
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll get into that a little bit later on
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  Speaker 1: Coach Hurley with us. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball
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  Speaker 1: Coaches Show from Learfield back in a moment