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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Nov 2 · Coaches Corner

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  Now we're back at the Dunken Music Lounge here in iHeart headquarters in Hartford.
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  But yukom men's basketball coach showed Stan Hurley with us and a good crowd on
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  hand. Coach, we're still getting over less less spring. I mean,
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  man, it was perfection the way it went. And I heard everywhere we
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  went from high level analysts in this game, and you know a lot of
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  them they just loved watching Yukon play. It was a beautiful thing. And
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  when this game's played like that, sharing the ball, moving it and just
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  getting five people involved in the same goal, there's nothing better than that.
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  And a lot of people recognize that. Yeah, it takes, you know,
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  talent, It takes you know, the right type of people. You
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  know, people that want to go and win in college and the game,
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  it's gotten crazy. You got the portal, you got nil, you know,
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  you got the NBA, which is almost becoming like a third thing you
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  don't even stress as much about, so it's even harder to get. You
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  know, like the young people in basketball to like to be about the place
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  and to be where their feet are and care about winning and value that over
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  Instagram followers and likes and clicks and and il stuff, so we attract I
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  think, you know, beautiful, beautiful guys that like are all about the
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  right stuff, and you know they share the game with each other, and
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  you know, it's just we got a good formula right now. Yeah,
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  there's no question about it. And I got to meet the freshmen over the
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  last few weeks the Blue White Night. Those guys are impressive. I mean,
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  they're smart dudes, they care. You can tell they're all about the
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  team. And you can't find guys like that sometimes it's hard today in this
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  environment we live in. How do you get down to the nuts and boltzer
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  guys like that and find guys like that? I mean, you just you
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  got to hold out for the combination of like the talent you need and want
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  then to pedigree, you know, like really good families, like smart guys,
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  like just trying to get good traits, you know, like work,
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  ethic, competitiveness. You know, there's basketball stuff, like you got to
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  be athletic enough. You've got to be tall enough for your position. You
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  know, nowadays in today's game, you really need to be able to pass
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  and shoot. But like we're looking for like families that are gonna let us
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  coach them and let us be honest with them, because a lot of parents
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  now that you know that, they're not as accountable and the first time that
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  they hear know if it's from me in their life, especially how hard I
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  coach, because I don't say it no like this in practice, I say
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  it way louder. Yeah, I'm sure, way more animated, you know.
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  So, Yeah, we try to you know, like I don't get
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  text messages during the season from a parent saying like, you're you're doing a
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  bad job with my son. Get text message during the season from parents saying
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  like, my son's got to be better for you guys, And that's when
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  you know you've got it where you want to have it. Yeah, that's
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  that's crucial, no question. Just wrapping up our discussion about that tournament last
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  year. Yeah, you played the fast paced I own a Gales Round one.
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  You get Saint Mary's. Now, that was a dark and good team
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  from the West Coast Conference. They were excellent. One of their guys got
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  hurt in that game. I think that hurt them. But you were able
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  to beat a different kind of team, you know, two days after beating
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  Iona, So that goes back to your coaching staff and scouting and knowing what
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  you can do. Tell me about that, because that's not easy. You
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  get twenty four hours. You got to figure it out. You really haven't
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  seen them in person. I mean it's a process. So the staff is
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  critical. You know Tom, who's you know, Tom Moore, who brings
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  like just the experience and head coach experience and personality wise. He's a lot
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  different than me. So it's good. You don't want all if it was
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  all just people like me, that could be a prop. It would be
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  just you need a mix. And you know, so Tom is just a
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  you know, he's in his late fifties. I don't call him an elder
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  statesman. You know, no jokes on the show by the way, No
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  sorry, sorry Tolland Connecticut. That's that's Tom spot Kamani and Luke, it's
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  you know, I've been lucky to have some great coaches coach with me over
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  the course of my career. And you know, Luke and Kamani are as
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  good as any in terms of, uh, the recruiting, the game prep.
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  I mean they split the scouts. They do so much in recruiting,
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  they so much so much. Positionally, Kamani works with the perimeter people.
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  Luke works with the front court players. You know. Kamani helps a lot
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  with like defensive type of ideas and strategy. Luke helps with the offensive strategies
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  and different things. So it's just it's a great staff. You got to
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  the second weekend, you had Arkansas that that is a bunch of guys ready
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  for the NBA, according to their game notes. I think I told you
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  that. I said, Dan, do you realize in their game notes they're
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  they're putting down the level of draft positions their players are going to be right
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  in the game notes. I felt like this might sound a little strange,
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  but I felt like we had them right where we wanted them. Because they
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  were worried about that, we're worried about taking care of it right now.
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  Yeah, that really talented players. You know, a lottery, you know,
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  two first round picks one in a lottery, two more. I think
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  we're picked. But you know the level we were playing at there and then
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  getting out of that first weekend, that's a real thing at Yukon, Like
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  that first game in the tournament is it's heavy, you know, because of
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  the history. Then when you get through that first game, you start to
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  feel like you're supposed to make a run when you put on the Yukon jersey.
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  But yeah, it's a the first game. Now, I don't feel
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  like that. It feels like you're wearing a weighted vest. You win that
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  first game and it's like, this is what Yukon does, and then it
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  becomes a weapon. So after Arkansas Gonzaga, I mean, how many final
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  fours? Mark few twenty plus years winning his conference every year? Final four
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  type material? I mean, you really put it to them. I never
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  forget this. At halftime, I left the broadcast here, I went in
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  the back for am and it came back. They were coming out of their
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  locker room. I'd never seen a team slumped and not energetic about coming back
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  for a second half. I mean, you took a lot out of that
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  team in the first half. Yeah, I mean, listen, if we
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  play harder than you and we're more connected, and then we play we have
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  a better offense than you, a better defense, and we out rebound you,
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  it doesn't matter where the game's played. You know. It's like,
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  so for us, it's how dominant we were. We're a high assist team,
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  so the you know, the ball moves were where the game was played
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  in Vegas. And obviously when you see the bracket drop, you see uc
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  LA and Gonzaga, and you're saying yourself, were gonna have to beat one
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  of them in Vegas where you know they're going to have a, you know,
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  a more of a home court type of feel to it, and they
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  did. By the way, there were a lot of UCLA and Gonzaga fans
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  know uh that Duke Well, Kobe said it right, Kobe Bryant to Lake,
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  Kobe Booze, don't block donks, you know all right? Dan hurdles
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  with us, you con men's basketball coaches show. We took a quick break.
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  We'll be back after this onlear Field