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Seg 3 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley Jan 16 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Yukon Women returned to stores for the first time since December.
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  Speaker 1: Third Sunday, they'll host the Pirates of Seat and Haul.
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  Speaker 1: Bob Joyce Debfisk have all the action beginning at twelve
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  Speaker 1: thirty here along the Yukon Sports Network, the Varsity Network App,
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  Speaker 1: and the Varsitynetwork dot Com. We continue with Dan Hurley.
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  Speaker 1: Last time Huskies were in gamble, they had a tough
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  Speaker 1: one with Providence. That thing got down to the final
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  Speaker 1: seconds because it just dragged out at the free throw
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  Speaker 1: line and all that stuff. But getting back home and
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  Speaker 1: getting back in your home gym, Dan, You've always spoken
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  Speaker 1: highly about what kind of a home court advantage that is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, playing you know at home.
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  Speaker 3: We obviously we have a unique arrangement unlike any other
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  Speaker 3: team in college basketball or college sports. You know, with
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  Speaker 3: the split between the Excel Center and gamble. You know,
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  Speaker 3: no one else is no one else is doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Villanova does a little bit of it, but no one
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  Speaker 3: else is doing it. Seton Hall does a minuscule level,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but no one else is doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Where you basically, you know, you have two home courts.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, when they're when you know, when they're both
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  Speaker 3: Rocking and obviously Campbell. You know, the student element helps
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  Speaker 3: a great deal, and I think with our home crowds
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  Speaker 3: in general this year, I think, you know, maybe in
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  Speaker 3: the past two years minus January a couple of years
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  Speaker 3: ago in twenty three, our fans have been able to
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  Speaker 3: come to games and see fantastic shows of displays of basketball.
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  Speaker 3: They've been able to just kind of come to a
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  Speaker 3: game which has turned into a celebration of of dominant
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  Speaker 3: basketball where we've just blown people away at home and
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're we're We're not, That's not who we are.
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  Speaker 3: This year, especially with Liam out, we need our home
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  Speaker 3: crowd to be on fire from the start, to impact
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  Speaker 3: the opponent negatively the entire game and to try to
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  Speaker 3: lift us up the entire game. You know, they have
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  Speaker 3: a different role for us. I think, you know this
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  Speaker 3: year in particular, whereas.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we just need them.
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  Speaker 3: We need them engaged in the game from the start,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not kind of waiting for us to go
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  Speaker 3: on eighteen to run and blow the game open, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, just to help us win games. Is it's
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  Speaker 3: a different team and we need our crowd to be
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  Speaker 3: dialed in from the start.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they got up on their feet in the Providence
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  Speaker 1: game when it really mattered. I mean, team trailed seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half, got down and I think double figures.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact numbers, but it was uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 1: or it could have been, but the crowd sensing that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there was a need there, there was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a turning point or had to be, and
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  Speaker 1: they were able to get behind the team. And I
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  Speaker 1: thought it mattered against Providence, yet.
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  Speaker 3: Matters, and every possession it matters with this team, I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, having you know, from the anthem all the
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  Speaker 3: way through to the end of the game, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being loud when the other team is on offense and
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  Speaker 3: shooting free throws, especially in the second half or especially
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  Speaker 3: in one on one situations.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think obviously you know, the.
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  Speaker 3: Every basket, every stop, every rebound for this team is critical.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of reality of what most teams need. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, these last couple of years have been, you know,
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  Speaker 3: have been not realistic relative to just a level that
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  Speaker 3: we've blown dominated teams, especially at home, but across the board.
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  Speaker 3: So playing at Gamble is a major advantage for us.
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  Speaker 3: Playing at the Excel Centers of major advantage for us,
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  Speaker 3: and we need like those environments to be absolutely as
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  Speaker 3: awesome as they can be for this team because this
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  Speaker 3: team needs that competitive advantage. Yeah, whereas last year's team
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  Speaker 3: the year before minus January, you know, we would just
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  Speaker 3: those teams would just get rolling and it would turn
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  Speaker 3: into a celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think last year he had thirty plus
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  Speaker 1: runs of ten ozho at least, I mean crazy numbers obviously.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other number I saw, which is amazing
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  Speaker 1: to me. You had one two possession game or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. The Villanova game that the Huskies won last
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  Speaker 1: year in Philadelphia was ended up being a one point game,
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  Speaker 1: but at three pointer winning at the buzzer for Villanova
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  Speaker 1: didn't matter. You come was gonna win. But my point
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  Speaker 1: is this, all those big wins in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, this is different. As you say, you've got
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  Speaker 1: eight games what have been basically two possession up to
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  Speaker 1: five point or less game, maybe six, anything could happen.
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  Speaker 1: You won five of those after Maui dropping two early.
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  Speaker 1: You won five in a row before the Villanova game.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the question here is can that help you
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  Speaker 1: going forward? Especially doing it without McNeely available, you know,
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  Speaker 1: finding ways to win a close game, whether it's home
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  Speaker 1: or away. Uh, that's got to help this team, I
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  Speaker 1: would think in the long run.
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  Speaker 3: I just think being in in a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 3: close games, it's just you get accustomed to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to that type of press, you know, to the pressure
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  Speaker 3: and having to execute offense or get stops and just
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  Speaker 3: get uncomfortable, you know, being being you know, experiencing you
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  Speaker 3: know what that feels like.
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  Speaker 2: And having to believe and function under pressure. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've you know, we got the Providence to
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  Speaker 3: twelve on the aid and Mahiney three, and then down
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  Speaker 3: the stretch of that game, we made so many mistakes
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  Speaker 3: that have turned into whatever we ended up winning by
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  Speaker 3: four or three or whatever the final score was. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was a game that if we execute defensively and
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  Speaker 3: offensively better as bad as we were in the first
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  Speaker 3: half in the beginning of the second half, that was
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  Speaker 3: a game we should have won by twelve to fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: The Georgetown game was a game that we should have
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  Speaker 3: won by sixteen to eighteen points. Obviously, we you know,
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  Speaker 3: we we played Texas on the road and showed you know,
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  Speaker 3: separation ability there so obviously we got to get Liam back,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got to be able to play a full
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  Speaker 3: forty minute game.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We'll talk about Liam McNeely and the Husky's
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  Speaker 1: upcoming game with Creighton when we continue here with Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hurley on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on lear Field.