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Segment 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 15 · Coaches Corner

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  We're back with Dan Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, Mike chris
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  Pino coach. The bench was a huge catalyst last year in that championship run.
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  You know, people got excited when Joey California came off the bench and
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  other guys, and it was it was just a beautiful thing. This year,
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  it's a developing thing. So where are you at right now? Jayden
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  Ross got some time Tuesday, played almost seventeen minutes. Jalen Stewart got in
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  there for almost twelve minutes. Hassandi are at twenty one minutes, Samson Johnson
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  coming up to bench sixteen minutes. Where do you think the bench brigade is
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  at at this point? Yeah, I think it's a work in progress.
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  There's obviously two veterans there that we need to be from somewhere between solid and
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  really good this year with Hassan and Samson, and then you're going to be
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  relying on you know, two or three are going to need two or three
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  of those freshmen, you know, just to to give us some quality minutes
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  to give us you know, twelve to fifteen minutes a game, potentially a
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  little more. So you know, I think it's uh, something that's just
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  going to take some time. It's it's not you know, college basketball has
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  gotten old. There's not many top teams that are playing a lot of freshmen.
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  You know, maybe Duke, maybe Kentucky. You know, we're probably
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  playing a little bit more than most elite teams. It's just it's going to
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  take some time for these guys to learn and develop and and get better.
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  I think the good news is, you know, are starting five is really
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  good. It's obviously these young guys have talent, no question. Jane Ross
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  didn't score the other night. We got four rebounds. Jalen Stewart, I
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  think I had a couple points in the game. What's the leash like for
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  you on those guys? Do you let them make their mistakes here early in
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  the season, hoping that it's all gonna come out in the wash by March?
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  Yeah? Mistake maybe not mistakes? Yeah maybe one plural yeah, no
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  plural. You know you've got to be able to obviously, you know,
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  just maybe trying to help us a little bit, you know, not burious
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  defensively, not burious on the backboard, you know, know what we're doing
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  on offense. Uh, you know, if you get an open shot,
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  step into it, if you have a chance to you know, to do
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  something aggressive, you know, you know, go and attack. It's more
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  so about just trying to avoid, you know, just cut of burying us,
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  you know, just getting driven constantly fouling a lot, getting cut a
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  lot, you know, like the things that just really make it hard for
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  you to win if they're staying the court for a long extended period of time.
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  And these are you know, the same struggles that that Andre Jackson went
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  through, that Adamisonoga went through, Book Night went through Andre Jackson. Right
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  everyone, everyone's gone through these struggles, uh, you know, early in
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  their career, and they're going through it right now. Yeah, even Jordan
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  Hawkins, who, by the way, lighting up pretty good for the Pelicans
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  in New Orleans and the NBA. I know you're obviously huge fan of the
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  of this kid, but I don't think anybody saw like a record number of
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  threes by a rookie in his first eleven games like we're seeing from Jordan Hawkins
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  right now. Yeah. I think I said last year, like there hasn't
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  been a movement shooter like him in college in in uh, you know,
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  since a you know, JJ Raddick. Uh, you know, type of
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  a clay Thompson in terms of shooting on the move and it's still being a
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  beautiful shot in college. Uh, you know, comparisons not comparing Clayton Thompson
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  and Jordans Hawkins as NBA players, but and for for how important shooting is
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  in the NBA and how unique his shooting skill set is. I was surprised
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  during the draft that he probably didn't go eighth, ninth, tenth in that
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  range, especially as he proved himself to be such a unique shooter but then
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  also a champion. But I think we you know, we we value championships
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  and winning more more in the past than we do today. I think today
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  it's about it's about raw numbers, it's about social media clicks, it's about
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  big personalities. Yeah, and I hate that to be to be reality TV
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  and reality and oh I forgot, yeah, I forgot. Now, winning
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  matters. Come on, A guy that helps a team win a championship has
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  got to have some qualities that. I mean, I've never understood that about
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  the NFL or the NBA. They just overlook it. And to me,
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  it's such a it's such a quality that you're looking for, you need it,
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  Yeah, I think, you know, I don't maybe at the professional
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  level, particularly the NBA, I don't know they they look at uh maybe
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  you know, the measurables, the size, the weight, the wingspan,
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  the upside potentially. But I guess that's probably the most confusing part for me,
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  is like when when a front office is eventually going to be judged on
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  whether they win or lose, and not just whether the players were statistically uh
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  successful. Uh, they eventually get fired for not drafting winning. Yeah.
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  And it was funny too, is if you look at the rosters of NBA
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  teams, there's plenty of guys drafted in the second round, you know,
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  fortieth, thirty, fifth, whatever. I mean, guys that come out
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  of schools that you haven't heard of, that are still on winning teams,
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  still in the league, eight nine, ten years in. I don't understand
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  how that happens so often, but it does. They just miss on guys
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  who have the qualities that you're looking for. Yeah, I think both guys,
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  and you know, we were both guys. I think all three were
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  fortunate da Andre and Jordan just to end up, you know with Billy Donovan's
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  a great coach and obviously Adrian Griffin. And there's a former teammate that that
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  Andre plays for, you know, Willie Green, the Pelicans or I think
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  the boys just all ended up in great organizations, and you know that's that's
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  not always the case. Yeah, that matters. I got to tell you,
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  having been around and seeing some organizations that were dysfunctional, you've got to
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  be in a good organization. Dan Hurly with us, we got a little
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  bit more to do on the little Big East basketball in Indiana that's coming up.
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  That's the next opponent. This is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on Learfield