January 2, 2026 • 9 mins
More on the UConn player prospects at the next level and Dan Hurley's practice habits
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, joined
by Seth Greenberg of the ESPN, A longtime college coach himself.
He knows the game inside and out. He loves the
game and that's why we love him. Listen, Braylan Mullins, Seth,
have you seen players like this come along in your
time where you look at him and you say, man,
(00:21):
this guy has so much acumen for the game of basketball.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
To me, is such a joy to.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
See that, and he's only just emerging now in the
last half dozen games.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It makes hard plays look easy. He reads the defense,
whether it's as a passer or as a scorer. He
reads defense whether it's on the bounce or off the ball.
He plays at different paces. The thing that he doesn't
get enough credit for is he's an elite defender. He's
got really good off ball defensive presence. He's got really
long arms, he's got good anticipation. He's got a little
(00:55):
grit to him, a little physicality to him. Even though
he's got that kind of wiry we know he's a
big time shot maker. And I'll tell you what he's
got onions. And when I say by that, this summer
the first scrimmage they had this summer. I went over
watch the scrimmage when they were going up and down,
Brolins volved and his first shot he missed wide left.
(01:16):
I thought I was at a Florida State Miami football game.
I mean, I mean, he was wide left, and I'm
going oho, you know, like the temperature raising, and some
people in the state, you know here watching, you know,
maybe you know I've seen him in practice. Maybe this
is you know, this is part of the process. He
proceeded to make his next seven threes.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I mean, I mean, and it was just like boom boom,
boom boom. But it's not just the shot making. It's
the floor game.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Like he made a pass the other day and I
forget who was against where he caught an outlet pass,
and as he caught it, he made the advance pass
right in the same movement. He saw the play early.
His ability to move the defense with his eyes. He's
almost like a corner back when he has the ball.
And you know, you talk about the quarterbacks moving the
(02:04):
defensive backs and the linebackers and everyone else with their eyes.
He has the ability to move people with his eyes.
He's also got the ability to score three levels, you know,
again not being just a three point shooter. It's also
got the ability to play off ball screens and then
read the help defenders.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
And you know, it's easy to.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Read the guy that's hedging. It's easy to read the
ball side defender in terms of whether he's going to
shrink or whether he's going to stay home. But we're
real good players, the players that really have an understanding
of how to play. They read the weak side tag,
they read the weak side help. They read the action
(02:41):
on the backside and the rotation so that if they
shrink on the backside, it's the euroskip or it's you know,
or if it's a back dribble into a pocket pass,
which now makes a tyres.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Read the play maker.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But the floor is spread because you know, he's just
got a high, high basket ball IQ. He's in the
perfect system and the perfect program for him, because he's
a basketball junkie that Brace's coaching, wants to be coached hard,
listens and hears uh. And you know, he's being complimented,
(03:16):
complimented and tutored by guys like you know, let's face it,
Alex Caraban, who's as good as tutor as anyone, because
that only shows you what to do by his habits
and his actions, but in terms of by how he
carries himself. And I think that's really really been impressive,
how that they've all just kind of fit together. And
(03:38):
Braylin's he's just he's really been fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, He's a dynamic kid.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Silence Demrie came from Georgia. Dan had a couple of
transfers from Malachi Smith from Dayton. Everyone's doing it, gotta
do it, got to keep your team, you know, full
of the talent on your roster. But Silas has had
some games this year set And I've said it on
the ear a few times because I was with the
Nets back in the early two thousands when Jason Kidd
(04:04):
got there, and I would say, I said it on
the air, like this guy is having a Jason Kidd game.
He might not score tonight, but he'll get nine assists
and he'll get six rebounds and you kind of.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Win by twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm just amazed at the ability to do that stuff.
I just love those kind of players. What do you
make of Silas memory so far?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
To me, Silas, it's his great I said last year,
I couldn't guard to baaltipoint attack.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Play simple. Well, they can guard to baltipoint attack.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And it drives me crazy when he commits a foul
thirty feet from the basket, forty fifth in the basket
he's got he can't pick up those fouls. He's got
a sit in a stance, all right, keep the ball
in front, play without his hands, and be a little smarter.
He can defend a basketball and keep it at a lane.
He rebounds his position. He's a willing passer. He sees
place early. And you know, in those times i've been
(04:58):
around him, like ear in the summer, he was really passive,
like he was driving it to get fouled, or he
was driving it just to pass. Now he's found a balance.
He's driving it to score and passing. Like you can
leave your feet to shoot and pass. You can't leave
your feet to pass and shoot. So like he's driving
it to score and now he's sucking that boom and
he's making a play, and he's making it on time,
(05:20):
on target. He's reading ball screens. But I asked him,
I said early on, I said, you play with some force.
You need to be more aggressive man, and he said, coach,
he said, first I fit in, and then I do
what I do.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Like he was very aware of first thing.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
First he wanted to kind of get a feel for
exactly what this thing was all about.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
And I got to be honest.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And people that haven't seen the practice, you go into
that thing for the first time and you think you're
going into summer workouts. Yeah, it's not summer workouts. It
is an absolute chaos of a practice with incredible intensity
and accountability. I remember Tyres Reid the year before, like
(06:06):
and joking with Commodity, and Tyres has no idea what.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
He's about to experience.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
But yeah, he's coming from where it was Funsi's in
the summer. I said, Oh, poor old Tyrus that first
time they walk in the gym and here we go,
here we go, and you know that, poor guy, it's
gonna be just absolutely it's gonna.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Culture shock, mind shock. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's like a little kid that you know, had a
popsicle for the first time and it's brain freeze. I
mean so, I mean like it takes time. Uh, and
and Silas has handled it seamlessly. He's an incredible teammate.
And I was at Grantwich when they had that that
uh that that uh golf evet for the collective, and
(06:52):
I could watch him interacting with people, and I thought
he was really impressive doing that. Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
He's just a he's a winning player.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And I know, you know, people want to make comparisons
and all that. I just think he's a guy that
he came here to win. He came to Yukon to improve,
to be part of something bigger than him, and to win.
And you could see that in his approach. You can
see that how he allows himself to be coached, you
can see that how he interacts with his teammates, you
(07:21):
can see that with the passion that he plays with.
And Malachi is the perfect compliment to him. You know, Malachi,
they can play together.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
But you know.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Malachi's you know, here's a guy that was the starter
and was recruited saying, hey, you're gonna play. You can
play significant minutes, you can help us win games, but
you're gonna have a very different role and the greatest
side of a team. And Mike, you've seen this. Like,
I'm big on watching benches. I'm really big on one,
especially the world that we live in today. College basketball.
(07:51):
I'm really big on one because you know me, you
would play for play and everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
How much is that got make? And how many You're always.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Good as your locker room, you call the games, you're
staring right at it, you're around it on the road
at home. Have you ever seen a better bench in
terms of those guys celebrating each other.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I have not seen very many benches like that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And to me, and it goes all the way down
to the graduate assistance and the managers. We've all seen
the managers act going to do no shooting drills. But
it permeates. And that's the thing that people don't understand.
Like people watch on TV or they go to a
game and they see Dan's intensity. The buy into the special,
(08:37):
how special, what we're doing, how we're doing it, why
we're doing it? To me is the thing, and it's
a buy in from everyone and as they got it
to it for thirty five years. That's the magic of
Dan Hurley because it's not easy. It's not easy assistance,
it's not easy for anyone around. But you feel the
(08:59):
energy and you feel the passion and you want to
be part of it. You want to you want to
give your very best because you don't want to let
the person sitting next to you, or the guy that
you know, uh you know is playing behind you or
you're playing beside, or the fan that comes to the game.
I mean there's an incredible ownership that he creates and
(09:21):
uh you know, it starts with Dan.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah. Yeah, we feel it. Believe me, we feel it.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
In the broadcast on the road Trips, the practices, uh
our thanks to Seth Greenberg, Dan Hurley as well. That's
the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show Sunday, two o'clock Marquette
at Gampa Pavilion
Speaker 2 (09:38):
On Mike Chrispino, thanks for joining us,
We're back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show, joined
by Seth Greenberg of the ESPN, A longtime college coach himself.
He knows the game inside and out. He loves the
game and that's why we love him. Listen, Braylan Mullins, Seth,
have you seen players like this come along in your
time where you look at him and you say, man,
(00:21):
this guy has so much acumen for the game of basketball.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
To me, is such a joy to.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
See that, and he's only just emerging now in the
last half dozen games.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It makes hard plays look easy. He reads the defense,
whether it's as a passer or as a scorer. He
reads defense whether it's on the bounce or off the ball.
He plays at different paces. The thing that he doesn't
get enough credit for is he's an elite defender. He's
got really good off ball defensive presence. He's got really
long arms, he's got good anticipation. He's got a little
(00:55):
grit to him, a little physicality to him. Even though
he's got that kind of wiry we know he's a
big time shot maker. And I'll tell you what he's
got onions. And when I say by that, this summer
the first scrimmage they had this summer. I went over
watch the scrimmage when they were going up and down,
Brolins volved and his first shot he missed wide left.
(01:16):
I thought I was at a Florida State Miami football game.
I mean, I mean, he was wide left, and I'm
going oho, you know, like the temperature raising, and some
people in the state, you know here watching, you know,
maybe you know I've seen him in practice. Maybe this
is you know, this is part of the process. He
proceeded to make his next seven threes.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I mean, I mean, and it was just like boom boom,
boom boom. But it's not just the shot making. It's
the floor game.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Like he made a pass the other day and I
forget who was against where he caught an outlet pass,
and as he caught it, he made the advance pass
right in the same movement. He saw the play early.
His ability to move the defense with his eyes. He's
almost like a corner back when he has the ball.
And you know, you talk about the quarterbacks moving the
(02:04):
defensive backs and the linebackers and everyone else with their eyes.
He has the ability to move people with his eyes.
He's also got the ability to score three levels, you know,
again not being just a three point shooter. It's also
got the ability to play off ball screens and then
read the help defenders.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
And you know, it's easy to.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Read the guy that's hedging. It's easy to read the
ball side defender in terms of whether he's going to
shrink or whether he's going to stay home. But we're
real good players, the players that really have an understanding
of how to play. They read the weak side tag,
they read the weak side help. They read the action
(02:41):
on the backside and the rotation so that if they
shrink on the backside, it's the euroskip or it's you know,
or if it's a back dribble into a pocket pass,
which now makes a tyres.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Read the play maker.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But the floor is spread because you know, he's just
got a high, high basket ball IQ. He's in the
perfect system and the perfect program for him, because he's
a basketball junkie that Brace's coaching, wants to be coached hard,
listens and hears uh. And you know, he's being complimented,
(03:16):
complimented and tutored by guys like you know, let's face it,
Alex Caraban, who's as good as tutor as anyone, because
that only shows you what to do by his habits
and his actions, but in terms of by how he
carries himself. And I think that's really really been impressive,
how that they've all just kind of fit together. And
(03:38):
Braylin's he's just he's really been fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, He's a dynamic kid.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Silence Demrie came from Georgia. Dan had a couple of
transfers from Malachi Smith from Dayton. Everyone's doing it, gotta
do it, got to keep your team, you know, full
of the talent on your roster. But Silas has had
some games this year set And I've said it on
the ear a few times because I was with the
Nets back in the early two thousands when Jason Kidd
(04:04):
got there, and I would say, I said it on
the air, like this guy is having a Jason Kidd game.
He might not score tonight, but he'll get nine assists
and he'll get six rebounds and you kind of.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Win by twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm just amazed at the ability to do that stuff.
I just love those kind of players. What do you
make of Silas memory so far?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
To me, Silas, it's his great I said last year,
I couldn't guard to baaltipoint attack.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Play simple. Well, they can guard to baltipoint attack.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And it drives me crazy when he commits a foul
thirty feet from the basket, forty fifth in the basket
he's got he can't pick up those fouls. He's got
a sit in a stance, all right, keep the ball
in front, play without his hands, and be a little smarter.
He can defend a basketball and keep it at a lane.
He rebounds his position. He's a willing passer. He sees
place early. And you know, in those times i've been
(04:58):
around him, like ear in the summer, he was really passive,
like he was driving it to get fouled, or he
was driving it just to pass. Now he's found a balance.
He's driving it to score and passing. Like you can
leave your feet to shoot and pass. You can't leave
your feet to pass and shoot. So like he's driving
it to score and now he's sucking that boom and
he's making a play, and he's making it on time,
(05:20):
on target. He's reading ball screens. But I asked him,
I said early on, I said, you play with some force.
You need to be more aggressive man, and he said, coach,
he said, first I fit in, and then I do
what I do.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Like he was very aware of first thing.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
First he wanted to kind of get a feel for
exactly what this thing was all about.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
And I got to be honest.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And people that haven't seen the practice, you go into
that thing for the first time and you think you're
going into summer workouts. Yeah, it's not summer workouts. It
is an absolute chaos of a practice with incredible intensity
and accountability. I remember Tyres Reid the year before, like
(06:06):
and joking with Commodity, and Tyres has no idea what.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
He's about to experience.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
But yeah, he's coming from where it was Funsi's in
the summer. I said, Oh, poor old Tyrus that first
time they walk in the gym and here we go,
here we go, and you know that, poor guy, it's
gonna be just absolutely it's gonna.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Culture shock, mind shock. You know.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
It's like a little kid that you know, had a
popsicle for the first time and it's brain freeze. I
mean so, I mean like it takes time. Uh, and
and Silas has handled it seamlessly. He's an incredible teammate.
And I was at Grantwich when they had that that
uh that that uh golf evet for the collective, and
(06:52):
I could watch him interacting with people, and I thought
he was really impressive doing that. Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
He's just a he's a winning player.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And I know, you know, people want to make comparisons
and all that. I just think he's a guy that
he came here to win. He came to Yukon to improve,
to be part of something bigger than him, and to win.
And you could see that in his approach. You can
see that how he allows himself to be coached, you
can see that how he interacts with his teammates, you
(07:21):
can see that with the passion that he plays with.
And Malachi is the perfect compliment to him. You know, Malachi,
they can play together.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
But you know.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Malachi's you know, here's a guy that was the starter
and was recruited saying, hey, you're gonna play. You can
play significant minutes, you can help us win games, but
you're gonna have a very different role and the greatest
side of a team. And Mike, you've seen this. Like,
I'm big on watching benches. I'm really big on one,
especially the world that we live in today. College basketball.
(07:51):
I'm really big on one because you know me, you
would play for play and everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
How much is that got make? And how many You're always.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Good as your locker room, you call the games, you're
staring right at it, you're around it on the road
at home. Have you ever seen a better bench in
terms of those guys celebrating each other.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I have not seen very many benches like that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
And to me, and it goes all the way down
to the graduate assistance and the managers. We've all seen
the managers act going to do no shooting drills. But
it permeates. And that's the thing that people don't understand.
Like people watch on TV or they go to a
game and they see Dan's intensity. The buy into the special,
(08:37):
how special, what we're doing, how we're doing it, why
we're doing it? To me is the thing, and it's
a buy in from everyone and as they got it
to it for thirty five years. That's the magic of
Dan Hurley because it's not easy. It's not easy assistance,
it's not easy for anyone around. But you feel the
(08:59):
energy and you feel the passion and you want to
be part of it. You want to you want to
give your very best because you don't want to let
the person sitting next to you, or the guy that
you know, uh you know is playing behind you or
you're playing beside, or the fan that comes to the game.
I mean there's an incredible ownership that he creates and
(09:21):
uh you know, it starts with Dan.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah. Yeah, we feel it. Believe me, we feel it.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
In the broadcast on the road Trips, the practices, uh
our thanks to Seth Greenberg, Dan Hurley as well. That's
the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show Sunday, two o'clock Marquette
at Gampa Pavilion
Speaker 2 (09:38):
On Mike Chrispino, thanks for joining us,
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