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Dan Hurley Presser - DePaul · Coaches Corner

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  Quick, this is crazy. What happened to the Horde. That's actually good.
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  They're they're they're tough to deal with sometimes or some of them not recently,
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  because we've played so out the that we played great, that we handled
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  the game real professionally, and you know, just showed tremendous respect for you
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  know, for our opponent in this one. And you know, obviously I
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  had some concerns coming in just uh human nature things relative to taking the you
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  know, the the game lightly. But we were to a pretty on point
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  question Jason question, I got my plant, I have I have a play
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  in the back. Alex the las pretty good stroke going. Do you agree
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  with that? But what have you seen from him? Yeah? He got
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  I mean I thought, you know, for me today was you know,
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  just Tristan said such a h a great tone for our team in terms of,
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  uh, you know, just the way that he distributed the ball,
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  the way he made offense easier for others. You know, I thought,
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  I I thought Tristan has had a had a huge hand and in a lot
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  of the quality shots that Alex got. Alex is a great shooter. I
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  mean, we have two of the best shooters in the country and and Cam
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  and Alex. You know, Cam didn't have a great shooting day. But
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  but Alex is Alex's money when he's got space, is he? Is that
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  a rumor? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I I I don't. Uh
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  yeah, I don't have any thoughts on that. I don't. I I'm
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  not on Twitter. In season a couple of people yelled something maybe on the
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  way out relative to that, but uh, yeah, I don't. I
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  know, you have a job to do. I'm not. He's got a
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  season going and and and uh did he win tonight? Okay, hopefully he
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  won tonight play in Oregon State at home. I know that's what he's thinking
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  about. I mean, I'm giving off that. You know, it is
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  a rumor right now. I guess for you, knowing that you know,
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  you grew with your brother, what would be, like you said, coaching
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  against your brother read one day not necessarily under the service. Yeah, I
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  think we would always prefer and again I think we would always prefer not to
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  be in the same league. But I think as we've gotten older, we've
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  mellowed some, so maybe it wouldn't be that bad. But uh, you
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  know, I don't. Yeah. In general, you mentioned the team's focused
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  in this game. Uh do you think the message from that time out late
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  in the game the other day kind of carried over this one? I think
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  so, I think you know that message. I think the video session.
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  I think obviously the games that we have coming up, the time of year
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  we're in where where it's uh it's championship time of year. You gotta be
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  playing your best. You got to be playing championship level basketball. You can't
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  have many holes in uh in in in you're in the way you're playing,
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  or else you get eliminated and sent home. How tough is it to get
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  them to focus on the games with knowing that markets coming on. I don't
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  you know, I think in the back of your mind, you know,
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  we know we have a great you know, a great schedule of great challenges
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  that are going to get us ready for tournament play coming up at the end
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  of the year. Here, I don't I don't know that anyone was was
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  thinking ahead necessarily to the weekend. I think we knew that the best way
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  that we could prepare for any future games was to have great preparation for this
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  one play well, be confident, you know going into the weekend and next
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  week you had six players in digits tonight, only one player wasn't positively plus
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  minus. Can you just speak of the Guys's Cup, throw a roster from
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  top to bottom. R Yeah, you know, being able to play,
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  you know, to be able to put on the court eight or nine quality
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  players, you know, just that type of depth. The deep teams are
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  the ones that succeed in tournament play because you could survive one or two guys
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  having a bad night. If you overly relying on one or two players,
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  maybe three players, and you don't have that depth, and those two guys
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  are one or two have a bad night, your season's over. You're getting
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  bounced. Where if we have a night with Donovan's not great and Tristan's not
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  great, We've got Steph, We've got Cam, we've got a k,
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  we've got a bench. So, uh, you know that's why I think
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  we're, you know, built for tournament play. What is your strategy for
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  games and using don Yeah, I think you know the He's a he's a
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  great rim protector. Defensively, even though today we were I thought we were
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  really bad at the rim defensively, but offensively, he's a big reason why
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  you get those wide open threes when he's rolling to the rim and in ball
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  screen game, you know, the defense just uh, you know, get
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  sucked into the paint and that's what leads to those great threes that that we
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  made at a pretty good clip tonight. Hey, thank you guys and gals. Mm hm