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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're back with Dan Hurley the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches
Show Mike Crispino. Here we get into the second week
of the Big East season. To Paul on a Sunday afternoon,
Dan Mattinee, kind of a weird time. I think it's
three thirty local time. Any any thought on afternoon versus
night games. I think like sometimes matinees are kind of
(00:21):
tough for players.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, I mean, I I don't, you know, and I
try not to. I try not to let my mind
go into places and things I can't control. I think
I'm trying to grow that way and ruminate on things that,
you know, like playing at the eight thirty game the
other night Eastern time, you know, and obviously we've got
new TV partners and streaming and you know, you kind
(00:46):
of like you never know what channel or streaming service
you're going to be on. So I think you just
you know, you you go with the flow. You know that,
you know. Your biggest my biggest concern this time of
year is the human nature. You know, going into Christmas break,
you know things are going well for us, and Christmas
break means that human nature says, I'm going to take
(01:06):
my foot off gas and so I'm just all over
everyone here right now about being ready to play on
Sunday and making sure that you know, we finished, you know,
we go into Christmas having put ourselves in the best
possible position.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, just wrapping up a quick thing on our what
we talked about on film a segment before. Rebounding had
been a bit of an issue, not Yukon quality. Maybe
the first six or eight games. Last two games, two
really good rebounding teams come into the building Texas and
Butler and Yukon did a nice job. I mean, they
put together some good numbers. How did you view the
(01:45):
rebounding change over? It looks like you're getting to the
glass a little bit better here in the last couple.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, I mean it's better, but still not where it
needs to be by any stretch. We've got a long
way to go there, you know. And again, like rebounding is,
you know, it's like one of those things where you
got to do it every single time to have any success,
and you're only going to have success, you know, fifteen
percent of the time, twelve percent of the time, eighteen
(02:12):
percent of the time, twenty percent of the time. You're
going to get an offensive rebound, but you've got to
go every time just to get that small percentage. So
it takes, you know, relentless people, and it is the
one thing in basketball I think that you could do
selfishly besides try to be the defensive player of the
year or first team all defenses, Like, you could be
(02:34):
selfish about your rebounding.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know that that's okay.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I mean, being a selfish rebounder means that you're pursuing
every ball to the max and just haven't been able
to get there. Some of it is, you know, some
of it's been at center. You know, I think we've
got Tarris's I think he's a lot healthier now, So
the expectation is he could be the rebounder that we
need him to be.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, Eric's improved there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But our wings and our guards, I don't think we
have any that has rebounded their position at the level
we want them to.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The other the other item on defense was the shot blocking.
You think you're averaging about five going into these last
couple of games, but thirteen blocks against Butler. I thought
that was one of the turning points. At least defensively,
it looked like, well it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Was It was obviously the centers, uh you know, did
their part that way, but it was also it was
we're much better in terms of like rotating over to
help help a fellow teammate who had given up a
driver cut.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Or a roll and made a play on the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean guys like Solo and Braylan and Jalen and
Jaden Ross and Alex Caraban. I mean, these guys you know,
have the length and the size and athleticism to be
able to you know, help us as a as a
as a as a rim protecting team.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So uh, we know we were able to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
With Historically we were always one of the top shop
blocking teams in the country. So you know that elite
defensive teams protect the rim.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
A Solo ball will be with us in a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He was talking after the game the other night that
he didn't even think about scoring and he comes up
with twenty six.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
A career high. Is that real? Do athletes do that?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Sometimes they kind of like, Okay, I'm putting that on
my mind, I'm gonna think about something else, and whatever
happens on the offensive end is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And that's the way he told it. I thought that
was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I mean, we encourage him to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
We encourage them to get lost in the game by giving,
you know, just incredible effort. Be a three way playmaker.
You know, like I defend, I play offense at a
high level, either as a shot creator or as a scorer,
and I'm all over the backboard. Right, So there's there's
(04:46):
those three components to the game. You got to be
a three way playmaker, and you got to give maximum,
multiple winning plays effort.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
On every possession.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, just get lost in giving great effort, being all
over the glass and being a being and being a
really good defensive player and just let offense happen to you.
You know, you can't fixate on how the game is
going for you from an offensive perspective. When you do that,
you end they putting pressure on yourself to make shots,
(05:15):
put pressure on yourself relative to your numbers and how
the game's going for you, and you stop playing for
team it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You can't do that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The other item three point defense, that was a big
issue with Butler coming in. They were number one, you
know among the Big East teams in three point shooting,
thirty nine percent. Yukon was number one defensively, so that
I know that was up on the board there your
chalkboard before every game. But Yukon has held teams to
twenty seven percent coming in and they did a great job. Again,
what goes into doing that?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Is it all perimeter work or is there other things
involved in being a good three point field goal defense?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
A lot of it, you know a lot of it.
It starts at point guard. It starts in ball screen defensive. Yeah, yeah,
ball screen defensive breakdowns with the roller or the or
the guard with the ball, you're going to give up threes.
So you know, Silas has solved a lot of that.
I mean, you know, just to get our defense stabilized
this year.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And then it's just having having.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Smart people that understand scouting, understand you know, how much
help I should give off of certain players on the
on the opposing team, your relative to the type of
shots that we want them to shoot. You know, obviously,
you know shooters like biz Jack I think you know
who's who's an electric shooter or Haywood on Butler who
(06:40):
is a very efficient three point shooter. I mean, you know,
Kaiser probably got more good looks than we probably were
comfortable with. So I would say a lot of it.
This year has been just so much better of a
defensive team. But then I thought last year we had
some horrible luck. I mean, we caught teams on Knights
where they shot way the mean the entire year. Maybe
(07:02):
it was the price that we paid for back to back,
but you know, I just think we were a little
unlucky last year with people making shots against us that
they didn't make.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Before or after us last year.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, so luck goes into it, I guess does.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Unfortunately, Mike, I would say this year, though, we're much
better defensively, but also too, you know, last year I
thought we had a horrible, horrible fortune that way.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
As Solas Stemery junior, we talked about him a few
times already. He's a transfer in there running the offense
for the most bottolo one with Malachi Smith. They've averaged
about almost ten assists between him. But he keeps having
these games then, where like he set a career high
for eleven assists the other night.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I don't think I had a bucket until late in
the game.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But does it really matter if a guy's given you
eleven assists and doing what he's doing on the perimeter defensively,
how do you view that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I mean I view it like, Yeah, I don't know
where we'd be without aim, without the approach he takes,
the playing where he thinks about himself.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Last, on offense, he's a ball hawk.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That's that's a tone for our defense that has put
us in a position that we are in, you know,
right now, which is a far cry from where we
were last year when we were the worst defensive team
I've probably coached in you know, eight or ten, twelve
years as a college coach. So, you know, the offensive end,
for him, I think he's you know, he's got a
(08:27):
lot of firepower out there, so he's got a lot
to think about. And then obviously he's conducting a system
of which we that we play that he's going to
just get better and better at as the year goes on,
and there's gonna be games like BYU where we're gonna
need him to go out and get a number for
us to win the game like he did that night,
And then there's gonna be games where we need him
(08:49):
to you know, to sacrifice some of his own to
to spread around to his weapons, and he's got a
lot of them, so you know, he's measured point guards
quarterbacks are measured by winning and on any given night,
it's it's whatever the team needs.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, the talent is is so important obviously, But unselfishness
and and and being concerned about your team's success, that's
something that I don't know can you teach it? Is
that what you do or how do you handle that?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You know, the reality of it is that Mike is
you know, Yukon invests in all these guys for them
to come in and help us win.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So whether it's the way we.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Travel or or or or or you know, the practice
facility and all of the amenities and resources that we
invest n I L everything is is is for silost
Memory to come to help us win, not to play
on the team, not not not for him to play
on the team the way he wants to play on
(09:46):
the team, but the way that the team needs him
to play for us to be successful and win games.
Because that's what Yukon has made this investment in him for.
There's not to just be on the team. That's that
would be a really stud an investment, just so that
they have a locker at the facility and they play,
(10:06):
and that's not the point. The point is return on
investment for the university is for obviously these guys to
value their education, grow as men, represent the university really well,
but to help us win games. And that's the great
thing about Silas Emory is you know, he understands that
he's about winning. You know, we don't ask him to
(10:28):
do anything he doesn't want to do, and he wants
to win.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, we've been lucky to watch the last few years
with these guys who have that same DNA coach.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
We appreciate it. All right, We'll see in Chicago to
Paul Sunday afternoon. See you then, all right, we'll be
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Back with more of the Ukon men's basketball coaches showed
a moment on lear Field.
We're back with Dan Hurley the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches
Show Mike Crispino. Here we get into the second week
of the Big East season. To Paul on a Sunday afternoon,
Dan Mattinee, kind of a weird time. I think it's
three thirty local time. Any any thought on afternoon versus
night games. I think like sometimes matinees are kind of
(00:21):
tough for players.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, I mean, I I don't, you know, and I
try not to. I try not to let my mind
go into places and things I can't control. I think
I'm trying to grow that way and ruminate on things that,
you know, like playing at the eight thirty game the
other night Eastern time, you know, and obviously we've got
new TV partners and streaming and you know, you kind
(00:46):
of like you never know what channel or streaming service
you're going to be on. So I think you just
you know, you you go with the flow. You know that,
you know. Your biggest my biggest concern this time of
year is the human nature. You know, going into Christmas break,
you know things are going well for us, and Christmas
break means that human nature says, I'm going to take
(01:06):
my foot off gas and so I'm just all over
everyone here right now about being ready to play on
Sunday and making sure that you know, we finished, you know,
we go into Christmas having put ourselves in the best
possible position.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, just wrapping up a quick thing on our what
we talked about on film a segment before. Rebounding had
been a bit of an issue, not Yukon quality. Maybe
the first six or eight games. Last two games, two
really good rebounding teams come into the building Texas and
Butler and Yukon did a nice job. I mean, they
put together some good numbers. How did you view the
(01:45):
rebounding change over? It looks like you're getting to the
glass a little bit better here in the last couple.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, I mean it's better, but still not where it
needs to be by any stretch. We've got a long
way to go there, you know. And again, like rebounding is,
you know, it's like one of those things where you
got to do it every single time to have any success,
and you're only going to have success, you know, fifteen
percent of the time, twelve percent of the time, eighteen
(02:12):
percent of the time, twenty percent of the time. You're
going to get an offensive rebound, but you've got to
go every time just to get that small percentage. So
it takes, you know, relentless people, and it is the
one thing in basketball I think that you could do
selfishly besides try to be the defensive player of the
year or first team all defenses, Like, you could be
(02:34):
selfish about your rebounding.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know that that's okay.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I mean, being a selfish rebounder means that you're pursuing
every ball to the max and just haven't been able
to get there. Some of it is, you know, some
of it's been at center. You know, I think we've
got Tarris's I think he's a lot healthier now, So
the expectation is he could be the rebounder that we
need him to be.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
You know, Eric's improved there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But our wings and our guards, I don't think we
have any that has rebounded their position at the level
we want them to.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
The other the other item on defense was the shot blocking.
You think you're averaging about five going into these last
couple of games, but thirteen blocks against Butler. I thought
that was one of the turning points. At least defensively,
it looked like, well it.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Was It was obviously the centers, uh you know, did
their part that way, but it was also it was
we're much better in terms of like rotating over to
help help a fellow teammate who had given up a
driver cut.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Or a roll and made a play on the ball.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean guys like Solo and Braylan and Jalen and
Jaden Ross and Alex Caraban. I mean, these guys you know,
have the length and the size and athleticism to be
able to you know, help us as a as a
as a as a rim protecting team.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So uh, we know we were able to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
With Historically we were always one of the top shop
blocking teams in the country. So you know that elite
defensive teams protect the rim.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
A Solo ball will be with us in a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
He was talking after the game the other night that
he didn't even think about scoring and he comes up
with twenty six.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
A career high. Is that real? Do athletes do that?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Sometimes they kind of like, Okay, I'm putting that on
my mind, I'm gonna think about something else, and whatever
happens on the offensive end is going to happen.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And that's the way he told it. I thought that
was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I mean, we encourage him to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
We encourage them to get lost in the game by giving,
you know, just incredible effort. Be a three way playmaker.
You know, like I defend, I play offense at a
high level, either as a shot creator or as a scorer,
and I'm all over the backboard. Right, So there's there's
(04:46):
those three components to the game. You got to be
a three way playmaker, and you got to give maximum,
multiple winning plays effort.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
On every possession.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, just get lost in giving great effort, being all
over the glass and being a being and being a
really good defensive player and just let offense happen to you.
You know, you can't fixate on how the game is
going for you from an offensive perspective. When you do that,
you end they putting pressure on yourself to make shots,
(05:15):
put pressure on yourself relative to your numbers and how
the game's going for you, and you stop playing for
team it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You can't do that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The other item three point defense, that was a big
issue with Butler coming in. They were number one, you
know among the Big East teams in three point shooting,
thirty nine percent. Yukon was number one defensively, so that
I know that was up on the board there your
chalkboard before every game. But Yukon has held teams to
twenty seven percent coming in and they did a great job. Again,
what goes into doing that?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Is it all perimeter work or is there other things
involved in being a good three point field goal defense?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
A lot of it, you know a lot of it.
It starts at point guard. It starts in ball screen defensive. Yeah, yeah,
ball screen defensive breakdowns with the roller or the or
the guard with the ball, you're going to give up threes.
So you know, Silas has solved a lot of that.
I mean, you know, just to get our defense stabilized
this year.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And then it's just having having.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Smart people that understand scouting, understand you know, how much
help I should give off of certain players on the
on the opposing team, your relative to the type of
shots that we want them to shoot. You know, obviously,
you know shooters like biz Jack I think you know
who's who's an electric shooter or Haywood on Butler who
(06:40):
is a very efficient three point shooter. I mean, you know,
Kaiser probably got more good looks than we probably were
comfortable with. So I would say a lot of it.
This year has been just so much better of a
defensive team. But then I thought last year we had
some horrible luck. I mean, we caught teams on Knights
where they shot way the mean the entire year. Maybe
(07:02):
it was the price that we paid for back to back,
but you know, I just think we were a little
unlucky last year with people making shots against us that
they didn't make.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Before or after us last year.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, so luck goes into it, I guess does.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Unfortunately, Mike, I would say this year, though, we're much
better defensively, but also too, you know, last year I
thought we had a horrible, horrible fortune that way.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
As Solas Stemery junior, we talked about him a few
times already. He's a transfer in there running the offense
for the most bottolo one with Malachi Smith. They've averaged
about almost ten assists between him. But he keeps having
these games then, where like he set a career high
for eleven assists the other night.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I don't think I had a bucket until late in
the game.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
But does it really matter if a guy's given you
eleven assists and doing what he's doing on the perimeter defensively,
how do you view that?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I mean I view it like, Yeah, I don't know
where we'd be without aim, without the approach he takes,
the playing where he thinks about himself.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Last, on offense, he's a ball hawk.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
That's that's a tone for our defense that has put
us in a position that we are in, you know,
right now, which is a far cry from where we
were last year when we were the worst defensive team
I've probably coached in you know, eight or ten, twelve
years as a college coach. So, you know, the offensive end,
for him, I think he's you know, he's got a
(08:27):
lot of firepower out there, so he's got a lot
to think about. And then obviously he's conducting a system
of which we that we play that he's going to
just get better and better at as the year goes on,
and there's gonna be games like BYU where we're gonna
need him to go out and get a number for
us to win the game like he did that night,
And then there's gonna be games where we need him
(08:49):
to you know, to sacrifice some of his own to
to spread around to his weapons, and he's got a
lot of them, so you know, he's measured point guards
quarterbacks are measured by winning and on any given night,
it's it's whatever the team needs.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, the talent is is so important obviously, But unselfishness
and and and being concerned about your team's success, that's
something that I don't know can you teach it? Is
that what you do or how do you handle that?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You know, the reality of it is that Mike is
you know, Yukon invests in all these guys for them
to come in and help us win.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So whether it's the way we.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Travel or or or or or you know, the practice
facility and all of the amenities and resources that we
invest n I L everything is is is for silost
Memory to come to help us win, not to play
on the team, not not not for him to play
on the team the way he wants to play on
(09:46):
the team, but the way that the team needs him
to play for us to be successful and win games.
Because that's what Yukon has made this investment in him for.
There's not to just be on the team. That's that
would be a really stud an investment, just so that
they have a locker at the facility and they play,
(10:06):
and that's not the point. The point is return on
investment for the university is for obviously these guys to
value their education, grow as men, represent the university really well,
but to help us win games. And that's the great
thing about Silas Emory is you know, he understands that
he's about winning. You know, we don't ask him to
(10:28):
do anything he doesn't want to do, and he wants
to win.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, we've been lucky to watch the last few years
with these guys who have that same DNA coach.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
We appreciate it. All right, We'll see in Chicago to
Paul Sunday afternoon. See you then, all right, we'll be
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Back with more of the Ukon men's basketball coaches showed
a moment on lear Field.
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