Seg 2 - MBB Show Nov 6 w Dan Hurley

The Good things that happened Monday and what Dan wants to see Friday & Monday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show with Dan
Hurley on Mike Crispino, Uh A long time ago. I
know you're kind of a movie guy. There was that
that thing with Clint Eastwood, The good, the bad, and
the ugly, the little spaghetti westerns. I like those things.
So we're not going to talk about we talked about
the bad. Now here we are segment two, Let's talk
about some of the good that you saw on opening

(00:23):
night against New Haven.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
You were asking me what was going what was so well,
here's the situation with the I mean, these video sessions
have been really long, you know, like like you know,
days after you play poorly, those video sessions are longer.
And what we're finding is, you know we're not and

(00:48):
usually able to knock it out in one day. But
we're getting into you know, Michigan State obviously with that
with you know, with that exhibition, you know, the individual defense,
the softness on the backboard, you know, the lack of
assists at the offensive end of the court. You know,
we're just we're not ourselves in a lot of ways.

(01:09):
So you know, there's not a lot when you say
a positive thing that comes to my mind coming out
of a game. I'm having like a harder time with that,
besides the fact that we were eventually able to just
walk away with a win, but they're just in terms
of just the way that we played that there wasn't

(01:29):
much positive for us.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, you out rebounted them forty to twenty five. I
know you know in the championship years a couple of
years ago, that was a big number pretty much every night.
And the block shot number for Yukon and the assist number,
which I wanted to bring up because you had eleven
assists as a team twelve turnovers. I know you work
on that chalkboard before every game and you put up

(01:53):
goals for the team. I'm pretty sure you didn't have
a goal of eleven assists twelve turnovers for Ukunn.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, it was it was twenty one assists to six turnovers.
It was plus twenty five on the backboard, It was
twenty more offensive rebounds for us. It was keeping them
to thirty three percent from the field overall, not forty
seven or whatever they shot. It was no one on
their team getting double figures. It was us scoring thirty

(02:24):
plus points off turnovers, and in transition, it was it
was them scoring less than fourteen points in the paint.
It was literally it was fifty identity plays, wall ups
at the rim, charges taken, deflections, turnovers, forced, the floor dives.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I mean, we literally didn't hit, you know, on anything.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
And you know it's listen, Taris, it's you know, we
need to get Tarifs back in the lineup here. You know,
once he's healthy enough, I think that'll change the complexion.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Of the team.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
And and then I think, you know, we need to
get Braillin back and healthy or fur feedback and healthy,
because we need to get that kind of competition back.
For minutes, I felt like people you had a number
of players that didn't deserve the minutes that they ended
up playing the other night.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, the Huskies have a couple coming up here Friday
at People's Bank Arena's UMass Lowell and then on Monday
out of the IVY League Columbia at Gamble. What do
you hope to accomplish here in these two games, because
then the Gauntlet starts. You start with all these top
twenty teams, which I know the challenge is going to

(03:37):
be big, and you want to be healthy for all
of that. You're probably not going to be one hundred
percent healthy. So what do you hope to accomplish in
these next two.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, obviously, the defense, I think, you know, is the
biggest thing that you're looking at, just becoming sturdier, more physical, smarter,
more competitive, better fundamentals, better will guarding the basketball. You know,
you're guarding a righty who's caught the ball pretty deep
on the left side of the court, where you've got

(04:08):
you know, four other basketball players and you have an
opportunity to send them out as we can into an
area where you have help, and we're allowing people to
go right hand middle where there's not much help. So
some of it is techniques, some of it is smart,
some of it is fundamentals. Some of it is physical strength,
not playing with enough force. And again, we've got all

(04:31):
the resources in the world to be able to put
you know, athletic, explosive, strong athletes that are not getting
you know, kind of bullied on the court in one
on one matchups. So I think that that one on
one individual defense is a starting point. Obviously, the ability
to also help teammates when they do a good enough

(04:52):
job and help can help. And then the sharpness, you know,
how many layups did we miss? How many open shots
did we miss? How many people that were open did
we not throw the ball on time?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
So just a.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Sharpness and obviously the defensive thing. And it's not you know,
I believe in the team. I think the team's got
a real chance, especially as we get some of these
people back. We need better leadership, you know, we need
to you know, we need Alex to you know, be
a better leader out there as well, be more vocal,

(05:27):
you know, drive his teammates, uphold the standard as a
two time champion.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
I got a buzzword for you here that didn't I
know you have it, but sometimes it's not always easy
to communicate it to your team. An edge. And the
Yukon championship teams last couple of years there they had
an edge. I felt like when people came to play
the Huskies, they were gonna get in a fight. It's

(05:52):
gonna be a fistfight somehow. And I don't know if
I see it yet, and I don't know if you
see it. And is that something that's important to you.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, the thing is, you know, when you when you
address the team a lot, you're in the video room
and you're you know, you know that in no seats
you've had a Domason Ogo and Andre Jackson and Donovan
Klingen and Steph Castle and just warriors and winners and
guys that were clutch performers.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
And you know that's the standard.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
And obviously, you know, it's like it's at the Spider
Man movie whatever. Too much to whom much is given,
much is expected. You know, there's a you know, we've
been invested a lot in these players, not for them
to play basketball here, but for them to play basketball
at a certain level here, at a certain level at
both ends of the court, with maximum effort and being

(06:44):
all about winning games. And uh, that's the standard that
that we've got to hold them too. And when they're
not playing or competing to that standard, that the coach
is going to be pissed.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, so safe to say you haven't been in a
very good mood in the last day or two.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well, you're getting me fresh off the court today and
and straight out of the video session that uh so
it was just the practice. Uh you know, this was
the first practice of being with them since the New
Haven game and then the video session that we had
part one of it, and we still have part two.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
So yeah, I'm my blood is boiling.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, well, thanks for coming on the air with us,
because it's it's a formative.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Just by the time I get to my car, I'm
gonna I I've got to make sure I'm going to
do a ten minute meditation. Uh but you know, make
sure you know, Bob and you know Mike that I'm
going to do a ten minute meditation so that before
I get behind the wheel, that I'm not that that
Connecticut road rage driver that's still angry and now he's
he's tailing people and he's leaning on the horn, and

(07:56):
you know, I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
All, well, thankfully, that's good. I can see that you're
you have it under control sort of.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Back after this time out with Dan Early, the Yukon
Men's Basketball Coaches Show continues on liar Field