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Dan Hurley Postgame - Lowell · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Usky's a one ten to forty seven winner over the
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  Speaker 1: UMass Lowll Riverhawks. Paul Roper with you in the lear
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  Speaker 1: Field Network Studios Time out of Here from U CUT
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  Speaker 1: head coach Dan Hurley, sponsored by new Face Home Improvements.
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  Speaker 1: Your home is like our home and you facect dot com.
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  Speaker 1: So we said it back to Harford where coach Hurley
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  Speaker 1: is speaking to the media.
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  Speaker 2: The I just felt we showed an appropriate level of
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  Speaker 2: anger and a mindset of like a redemption Friday, just
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  Speaker 2: relative to the you know, the first official game performance.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I was I was pleased to see the
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  Speaker 2: level of defensive intensity that we were able to sustain
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  Speaker 2: for probably you know, eighty percent of the game, eighty
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  Speaker 2: five percent of the game. We're probably able to sustain that,
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  Speaker 2: and and.
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  Speaker 3: That's because of the depth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just thought it was an appropriate level of
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  Speaker 2: playing mad playing, being embarrassed with the first game performance
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  Speaker 2: and you know, taking it out on an opponent at
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  Speaker 2: the defensive end of the court, which is you know,
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  Speaker 2: where it all begins and ends, And it just felt good.
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  Speaker 2: It'd been you know, we didn't have really a game
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  Speaker 2: like that last year. I mean, we won some games
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  Speaker 2: by a considerable margin but there was a level of
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  Speaker 2: of of dominance where this team has now told on
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  Speaker 2: itself relative to what it's capable of at the defensive end,
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  Speaker 2: you know, especially as we get healthier and Taris could
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  Speaker 2: play you know, more extended minutes and as you know,
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  Speaker 2: Braillon's getting closer to getting back and Furfee so and
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of respect for ums Lovewell. I
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of respect for their program. They got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of new guys. Uh. You know, Pat does
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  Speaker 2: an awesome job. He's he's a he's a great, great
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  Speaker 2: coach and a great basketball guy. I think we uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we caught him in and this was a
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  Speaker 2: good year to play him with such a big turnover
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  Speaker 2: with his team.
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  Speaker 3: So that's it.
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  Speaker 4: And you had uh Geral take on charge of your
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  Speaker 4: thirty uh out dying for a loose ball of sixty
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  Speaker 4: who lay the game? I mean that what you're talking
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  Speaker 4: about just in terms of uh you know, you you've
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  Speaker 4: used the term foot on the gas. Do you do
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  Speaker 4: you actually use that for as tonight or is that
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  Speaker 4: even necessary?
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  Speaker 2: I mean no, I just think that there were so
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  Speaker 2: many reminders. I mean, there's so many things we've done
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  Speaker 2: in the last few days with them. The video sessions
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  Speaker 2: were obviously crushing and long. Uh and they went multiple
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  Speaker 2: days cause there was so much footage of bad from
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  Speaker 2: New Haven.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: There were posters throughout the building of players not helping
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  Speaker 2: each other on defense. There were all types of statistics
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  Speaker 2: of players getting scored on and not making identity hustle plays,
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  Speaker 2: and and then there was also a lot of talk
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  Speaker 2: of just uh, you know, to to you know, what
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  Speaker 2: is that too much as given? Much as expected? You know,
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  Speaker 2: we invest a lot these players to come out and
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  Speaker 2: perform to their absolute maximum and give everything they got.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that these players are very well resourced. I
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  Speaker 2: think they owe it to the university. They owe it
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  Speaker 2: to each other, They owe it to the coaching staff,
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  Speaker 2: they owe it to the fan base, they owe it to.
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  Speaker 3: The donor, and.
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  Speaker 2: They owe it to a lot of people to go
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  Speaker 2: out and play on game night and practice every day
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  Speaker 2: to the absolute max for all the resources that are
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  Speaker 2: invested in them. So that should be every night and
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  Speaker 2: every practice A players should show up and play to
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  Speaker 2: the level of effort that they played with tonight.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a one off.
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  Speaker 2: If they can't provide that, I'm gonna get their ass
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  Speaker 2: out of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it helped everybody. It helped Eric's performance.
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  Speaker 2: It allowed Eric to kind of slide into the Donovan
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  Speaker 2: freshman situation where you know, he had a doma out
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  Speaker 2: there that you know, you know, pave the way, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for him to be in a more comfortable position. But
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  Speaker 2: you could see the impact on the defense, the impact
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  Speaker 2: on the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, and he was.
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  Speaker 2: On the minutes restriction here, so you know, we'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to bump that up. And you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to keep him at twenty. Now he can
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  Speaker 2: go and I'd imagine we'll extend that out another five
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  Speaker 2: to eight minutes because he felt great and so he
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  Speaker 2: makes a big difference on both ends on the backboard.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the best big guys in the country,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's Dan Hurley who gave us the blueprint and
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  Speaker 1: how to fire up a team after what he deemed
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  Speaker 1: was a disappointing performance in their season opening when he
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  Speaker 1: gets New Haven while he come back and defeat U
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  Speaker 1: massel All by the score of one ten to forty seven. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the postgame comments from head coach Dan Hurley sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: New Face Home Improvements, your home is like our home
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  Speaker 1: and you facect dot com And I was coach Hurley
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  Speaker 1: speaking to the media following Yukon's one ten to forty
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  Speaker 1: seven win over you, massolole