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Seg 1 -MBB Show Oct 31 w Dan Hurley · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the You Got Men's Basketball Coaches Show. We
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  Speaker 1: have Dan Hurley with us. I'm Mike Crispino. Our second
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  Speaker 1: get together. Previously we met in front of a live
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  Speaker 1: studio audience in Hartford at Diehart Headquarters. Now we get
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  Speaker 1: coach after practice, uh, leading up to the opener with
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  Speaker 1: New Haven on Monday at Gamble Pavilion. So, Dan, let's
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  Speaker 1: kind of recap what you've seen. And I know you've
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  Speaker 1: been at this a long time in the summer, in
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  Speaker 1: the fall, and now you're getting close to playing real games.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Do you look for improvement in a in a group
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  Speaker 1: of players as you move through this whole process?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I you know, it's it's funny how
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  Speaker 3: we do these shows, and it's like based on you know,
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  Speaker 3: however the last practice went. You know, we're live, we're live,
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  Speaker 3: and you know we're taping here as soon as I'm
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  Speaker 3: literally walking off the practice court. So you're going to
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  Speaker 3: get usually my reaction to what just happened, which I'm
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  Speaker 3: coming in so I'm coming in hot today. But I
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  Speaker 3: would say that, Yeah, I mean, you're you're all you're
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  Speaker 3: looking for is at this time of year, is improvement?
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  Speaker 3: You know, like the team is so far away from
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  Speaker 3: where you need the team to be offense, defense, discipline, fundamentals. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know this, you know, like utilizing their skills, I
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  Speaker 3: mean just timing, understanding your role, you know, conditioning, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the body to be able to you know, practicing is
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  Speaker 3: one thing, but you know game minutes are a lot
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  Speaker 3: different than practice minutes, so you know there's a different
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  Speaker 3: stress level that you play with on game nights, so
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  Speaker 3: that there's so many things happening.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. You know with the team, there's things you're experimenting.
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  Speaker 3: With, with your rotation with with things you're implementing.
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  Speaker 4: But in the end, all you have this time of
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  Speaker 4: year up through really March is getting better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It leads to the question about exhibitions. You had
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  Speaker 1: two of them. Public people came over twenty thousand people
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  Speaker 1: came to those two games against Boston College and Michigan State.
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  Speaker 1: Has that helped in a way in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: previously did these secret scrimmages and you played against good
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  Speaker 1: teams as well, But you know this time this year,
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  Speaker 1: you're in front of you know, your fans, Husky Nation
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  Speaker 1: is right there.
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  Speaker 2: They want to see what's going on too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean nothing but positive.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, to be able to be able to
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  Speaker 3: have a simulate you know, somewhat of a road trip
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  Speaker 3: by going to Mohegan and staying there and playing you know,
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  Speaker 3: an acc team, and then you know, being able to
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  Speaker 3: get a second one, you know versus you know one
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  Speaker 3: of the programs that you try to emulate. You know
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  Speaker 3: tom Izo, you know Michigan State Spartan Spartans who you know,
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  Speaker 3: they test you physically, and I think they exposed some areas.
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  Speaker 3: You know, with a rebounding lack of physicality, you'll get exposed,
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  Speaker 3: so the vulnerabilities get exposed, and then the players get
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  Speaker 3: some of those opening night jitters. Uh so opening night
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  Speaker 3: is not going to feel like Opening Night. Opening Night
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  Speaker 3: for us is going to feel like Game three.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a good that's a good way to
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  Speaker 1: look at it. You can to start the season top
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  Speaker 1: ten for now three straight years, second in the preseason
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  Speaker 1: Big East predictions. How in your career and you've been
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  Speaker 1: around doing this for a bit, how accurate is that stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Because I always look at I read all the magazines,
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  Speaker 1: I read all the you know, various websites.
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  Speaker 2: Who says what about this?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I probably know our team better than
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  Speaker 1: most of the other teams.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you view that because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think people are just blindly picking things when they
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  Speaker 1: look at preseason predictions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't you know. Let's use it
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  Speaker 4: for what you need it at the time. I mean
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  Speaker 4: as a coach. You know, if you.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like your program at the time needs it as motivation,
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  Speaker 3: then you use it as motivation.
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  Speaker 4: If you you know, it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty monotonous, uh, daily grind of practice and drills and
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  Speaker 3: video and you know it. So yeah, I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: you've got over the course of that time with the team,
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  Speaker 3: use whatever things you can to create you know, extra
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  Speaker 3: motivation or or energy or inspiration.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean they're meaningless.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you use it when you need it, but
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  Speaker 3: for the most part, you're never thinking about it.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously at the end of the year, the media, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for the most part, you know they're there. There there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fair media, but then there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of you know, there's a lot of you know media
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  Speaker 3: that you know that that's not really fair. You know,
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  Speaker 3: So when you do have a chance and you're unranked
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  Speaker 3: in twenty three, and you want to dominate the instantly tournament,
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  Speaker 3: uh in historic fashion. Then you'll use it and say,
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  Speaker 3: you know the media didn't have us ranked. Look we
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  Speaker 3: wanted that to so use it for what you needed for.
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  Speaker 1: That's a perfect example too, because you know, the season starts.
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  Speaker 1: Things happened, you know, last year was Maui and the
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  Speaker 1: collapse there. Three losses. You had to you know, climb
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  Speaker 1: back out of that. Liam McNeely being hurt.
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  Speaker 2: For so long. It was hard.
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  Speaker 4: It was a tough.
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  Speaker 1: Season last year to climb, you know, back up into
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  Speaker 1: the nca tournament. You did it, got to the second
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  Speaker 1: second round there and I know you're, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: happy with the final result. But in a quick look
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  Speaker 1: back at what happened last year and what you need
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  Speaker 1: to do to improve on.
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  Speaker 2: It this year, what did you learn from.
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  Speaker 1: That whole experience last year with the Huskies trying to
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  Speaker 1: defend a national championship.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I would say for myself, you're thinking, I
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  Speaker 3: just I've got to stay focused on just coach and
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  Speaker 3: the team, you know, like just be able to turn
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  Speaker 3: off more of that external noise and you know, just
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  Speaker 3: stay you know, just stay focused on you know what
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  Speaker 3: I need to do, which is just to get to
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  Speaker 3: get the team as good as I can get the team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then enjoy that aspect for myself, of
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  Speaker 3: of of of coaching players I love to coach, and
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  Speaker 3: like last year, I feel like I got distracted at
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  Speaker 3: times too much by you know, uh, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: external noise or even the just the frustration of the
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  Speaker 3: team not being where I wanted them to be. So
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  Speaker 3: from my own standpoint, I evaluate that as a leader
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  Speaker 3: first and then second, you know, the defense, the rebounding,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the in the Michigan State you know, exhibition game,
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  Speaker 3: the I mean the free throw rebounds that we gave
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  Speaker 3: up on the defensive glass were just kind of scary
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  Speaker 3: signs of some of the some of the softness you
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  Speaker 3: know from last year year's team, you know. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that that's where your your that's where your
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  Speaker 3: mind is, you know, like perimeter defense, rebounding, toughness, the
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  Speaker 3: things that caused us last year to not be successful,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is what you're like so focused on this
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  Speaker 3: team with and it showed it's it showed up the
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  Speaker 3: other night by foiling a lot and by not being
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  Speaker 3: able to rebound free throw misses, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Dane Hurley willis back after a quick time out.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show on lear Field.