January 2, 2026 • 5 mins
Mike and Seth talk potential NBA prospects for the Huskies
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, joined
by a special guest, Seth Greenberg of ESPN and coach.
You've been around this game a long long time, and
you've seen Yukon under Dan Hurley these last three four seasons.
It looks like they've got a team that might be
able to go deep again, which would be the third
(00:21):
time in the last four years. What's your assessment of
what you've seen in the first couple of months with Yukon.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I started watching him this summer in their set workouts
about once a week, and you know, in typical Dan
Hurly fashion, each and every time you've seen you see
something a little bit different. They get better. They get
better because of their work, they get better because of
the habits that they've developed, they get better because of
understanding and as we know, they're always held to a standard.
(00:50):
I look at this team, they're still working progress. They've
got to continue to get better. I'd like to see
them play a little bit more pace early in the
clock in terms of not being so regimented to the sets,
which you're starting to do, but in terms of player
development guy and role development en roll guys championing roles
and guys filling voids that maybe they need to have
(01:13):
filled from last year. They've done a great job with it.
Two headed monster to point, two headed monster up front.
Brandon Bones adds a different dimension, but you watch like
a Jaden Ross in his development. Stewie has his versatility,
Alex playing the best basketball of his career with confidence
and force. It's been fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, the two headed monster things seth which I don't know.
The center doesn't exist anymore in basketball. It feels like
but Yukon for going on four years now had a
two headed monster at that position. It looks like they
got it going again. Eric Raba, freshman left hander seven footer,
really was a huge, huge part of their early success
(01:55):
this year because Terrace Reid was out hurt. That was
a major developant for Dan Hurley. I think because he
got a chance to play, ry us start him in
I think five games and find out that this guy
can really help us this year.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The best way to get acclimated to the speed and
the force that you need to play is to play.
And you know I said this about the situation here
at You've got the same situation at Kansas in a
lot of ways. And that when you you know, your
team gets better when guys are out, because when Tyris
is out, someone else to step up. Eric has stepped up.
(02:32):
He's gotten legitimate reps in game situations against the best
teams in America where he had to redefine playing hard,
redefine being physical, redefine the speed that they're playing with,
redefined siding and reading the defense is redefined, being alert
off the ball. So he'd give him some rep protection.
So you know, a lot of times these injuries open
(02:52):
up doors and make your team that much better. I've
seen that with Jayden Ross, I've seen it with Eric.
I've seen it throughout Dan's time Connecticut. He coaches every
single player the same way. They all get coach hard.
They all have a standard. They all are asked to
compete at a level and basically be uncomfortable and learning
to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And that's exactly what you
(03:16):
saw with Ericsur in those five games. And now you
can put them in any situation, in any situation during
the course of the game, and he's going to be
ready to compete and be part of the solution, not
part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, the last five games with Riva and Read available,
they have gone twenty nine or forty eight from the field,
which well over fifty percent thirty five rebounds between them.
They've really done a lot of great things in terms
of block shots, shooting over sixty percent. When you play
(03:49):
against a team like this and they do have that
depth at the middle position, the center position, how much
more difficult is that for an opponent.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's significantly different, especially because they both have a little
bit different personalities. You know, Mike, You've been around this
game so long and you understand you have one guy
that's picking and popping and knocking down threes or at
least a threat to and then you have the other
guy that's can short roll and pass or short or
rolled to the front of the rim or slip who
creates angles. Uh, it's huge. You know, you're playing with
(04:24):
the same system but against two different players, but both
very very you know, impactful when they're on the floor.
So you know, this is not the first time you
made a great observation, you know, I mean, Donovan paid
his apprenticeship and you know, and you know that was
very valuable, and having two bigs is absolutely huge especially
(04:45):
because the way they use them, and they're not just bigs,
they're gonna they're there out and floor dribble handoffs. You know,
they're setting flare screens and slipped into the rim.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They're really learned and Tyres has really learned to play
double teams, which is really important. It's fun watching the
development and part of the development is and you've been
a practice, it's all the skill work they do before practice.
In the early part of practice. Everyone's involved in the
one on one work. Everyone that's evolved in the ball
hand like, everyone's involved in closing out on the perimeter.
(05:16):
Everyone's involved in the cuttings actions that they work on.
So you're just pushing the side of the box out.
Now when you come to the game, what are you
supposed to do? You play to your strengths. You show
people what you can do, not what you can't do.
But you're improving in so many different areas because of
the cumulative effect of the way they approach practice every day.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
All right, Seth Greenberg with us, take a quick time out.
We'll be back. We have Raylan Mullens to dissect. We
got Silas demer as well, and the NBA has a
load of Yukon Huskies too, and Set has plenty of
experience there. We'll talk to him some more when we
continue on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show here on
a lear Field
Welcome back to the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, joined
by a special guest, Seth Greenberg of ESPN and coach.
You've been around this game a long long time, and
you've seen Yukon under Dan Hurley these last three four seasons.
It looks like they've got a team that might be
able to go deep again, which would be the third
(00:21):
time in the last four years. What's your assessment of
what you've seen in the first couple of months with Yukon.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I started watching him this summer in their set workouts
about once a week, and you know, in typical Dan
Hurly fashion, each and every time you've seen you see
something a little bit different. They get better. They get
better because of their work, they get better because of
the habits that they've developed, they get better because of
understanding and as we know, they're always held to a standard.
(00:50):
I look at this team, they're still working progress. They've
got to continue to get better. I'd like to see
them play a little bit more pace early in the
clock in terms of not being so regimented to the sets,
which you're starting to do, but in terms of player
development guy and role development en roll guys championing roles
and guys filling voids that maybe they need to have
(01:13):
filled from last year. They've done a great job with it.
Two headed monster to point, two headed monster up front.
Brandon Bones adds a different dimension, but you watch like
a Jaden Ross in his development. Stewie has his versatility,
Alex playing the best basketball of his career with confidence
and force. It's been fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, the two headed monster things seth which I don't know.
The center doesn't exist anymore in basketball. It feels like
but Yukon for going on four years now had a
two headed monster at that position. It looks like they
got it going again. Eric Raba, freshman left hander seven footer,
really was a huge, huge part of their early success
(01:55):
this year because Terrace Reid was out hurt. That was
a major developant for Dan Hurley. I think because he
got a chance to play, ry us start him in
I think five games and find out that this guy
can really help us this year.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The best way to get acclimated to the speed and
the force that you need to play is to play.
And you know I said this about the situation here
at You've got the same situation at Kansas in a
lot of ways. And that when you you know, your
team gets better when guys are out, because when Tyris
is out, someone else to step up. Eric has stepped up.
(02:32):
He's gotten legitimate reps in game situations against the best
teams in America where he had to redefine playing hard,
redefine being physical, redefine the speed that they're playing with,
redefined siding and reading the defense is redefined, being alert
off the ball. So he'd give him some rep protection.
So you know, a lot of times these injuries open
(02:52):
up doors and make your team that much better. I've
seen that with Jayden Ross, I've seen it with Eric.
I've seen it throughout Dan's time Connecticut. He coaches every
single player the same way. They all get coach hard.
They all have a standard. They all are asked to
compete at a level and basically be uncomfortable and learning
to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And that's exactly what you
(03:16):
saw with Ericsur in those five games. And now you
can put them in any situation, in any situation during
the course of the game, and he's going to be
ready to compete and be part of the solution, not
part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah, the last five games with Riva and Read available,
they have gone twenty nine or forty eight from the field,
which well over fifty percent thirty five rebounds between them.
They've really done a lot of great things in terms
of block shots, shooting over sixty percent. When you play
(03:49):
against a team like this and they do have that
depth at the middle position, the center position, how much
more difficult is that for an opponent.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's significantly different, especially because they both have a little
bit different personalities. You know, Mike, You've been around this
game so long and you understand you have one guy
that's picking and popping and knocking down threes or at
least a threat to and then you have the other
guy that's can short roll and pass or short or
rolled to the front of the rim or slip who
creates angles. Uh, it's huge. You know, you're playing with
(04:24):
the same system but against two different players, but both
very very you know, impactful when they're on the floor.
So you know, this is not the first time you
made a great observation, you know, I mean, Donovan paid
his apprenticeship and you know, and you know that was
very valuable, and having two bigs is absolutely huge especially
(04:45):
because the way they use them, and they're not just bigs,
they're gonna they're there out and floor dribble handoffs. You know,
they're setting flare screens and slipped into the rim.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They're really learned and Tyres has really learned to play
double teams, which is really important. It's fun watching the
development and part of the development is and you've been
a practice, it's all the skill work they do before practice.
In the early part of practice. Everyone's involved in the
one on one work. Everyone that's evolved in the ball
hand like, everyone's involved in closing out on the perimeter.
(05:16):
Everyone's involved in the cuttings actions that they work on.
So you're just pushing the side of the box out.
Now when you come to the game, what are you
supposed to do? You play to your strengths. You show
people what you can do, not what you can't do.
But you're improving in so many different areas because of
the cumulative effect of the way they approach practice every day.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
All right, Seth Greenberg with us, take a quick time out.
We'll be back. We have Raylan Mullens to dissect. We
got Silas demer as well, and the NBA has a
load of Yukon Huskies too, and Set has plenty of
experience there. We'll talk to him some more when we
continue on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show here on
a lear Field
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