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OKC Bounces Back at Home Winning Game 5; Caitlin Clark Regaining Confidence After Injuries; Seahawks Looking to ‘Run it Forward’ · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure that you had subscribe and follow us on
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  Speaker 2: social at the Daily Play Joy Taylor. Game five of
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  Speaker 2: the Western Conference Finals was another banger. The MVP showed
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  Speaker 2: up in full formed, Jared McCain was putting up numbers.
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  Speaker 2: It was a bounce back game for OKAC from a
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  Speaker 2: Game four loss, the highest scoring game for either team
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  Speaker 2: so far in what has been an amazing series, and
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  Speaker 2: the Thunder were in control for most of the game.
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  Speaker 2: The Spurs did hang in there and make it a ballgame,
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  Speaker 2: but they completely frustrated Victor woman Yama. The Thunder did,
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  Speaker 2: holding him to four to fifteen shooting. After the lost,
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  Speaker 2: Spurs coach Mitch Johnson pointed to the minute details that
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  Speaker 2: cost San Antonio the game. He said, I just felt
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  Speaker 2: like it was a little bit of everything in terms
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  Speaker 2: of what we did not put ourselves in position enough
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  Speaker 2: to be successful on each possession, and so to be
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  Speaker 2: the team of this caliber in their building with the stakes,
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  Speaker 2: will need to be a lot better to give yourself
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  Speaker 2: a chance. The thunderworking on all of the Spurs mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what great teams with a lot of experience
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  Speaker 2: do You're not going to win not playing your best,
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  Speaker 2: especially when a team like Okasee is locked in the
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  Speaker 2: way that they are right now because they know it's
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  Speaker 2: on the line. The pressure is on Oka See at
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  Speaker 2: the moment, they're the villains. They're trying to get back
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  Speaker 2: to and win another championship, and the Spurs.
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  Speaker 1: Have just arrived.
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  Speaker 2: So it did feel like Wemby was trying to check
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  Speaker 2: back into the game. He was leading a player's only
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  Speaker 2: meeting mid game during the TV timeout. He's definitely obviously
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  Speaker 2: always motivated and an inspired player, but you can't start
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  Speaker 2: out slow. You can't not be the leader and be
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  Speaker 2: giving it one hundred percent speed energy wise when you
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  Speaker 2: are in a game like this, especially on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've got Game six in San Antonio, but you
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  Speaker 2: know this could be the series. So whatever you add
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  Speaker 2: left in the tank, you've got to give it an
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  Speaker 2: every single time. When it comes to the postseason again,
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  Speaker 2: the Spurs are the newer team here that.
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  Speaker 1: The younger team. They're led by young players.
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  Speaker 2: But you saw the difference when a team like okay
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  Speaker 2: See Lux in at home, and that's what made it
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  Speaker 2: end up of one twenty seven one fourteen thunder victory.
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  Speaker 2: I love this series. I've really enjoyed it now that
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  Speaker 2: the Knick series is over and it's all the basketball,
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  Speaker 2: all the men's basketball that we have. They've been giving
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  Speaker 2: us shows and it's been blow for blow, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: really grateful for. And I hope that the Spurs push
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  Speaker 2: it to a game seven, because you know, there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: I like more than a game seven. Switching over to
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  Speaker 2: the W Caitlyn Clark is back after an injury riddled
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five season. She sat out a game last week, though,
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  Speaker 2: due to back soreness, and she is acknowledged that a
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  Speaker 2: lack of confidence in her body may have played a part.
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  Speaker 2: She said, I think at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: it's me and my confidence. Coming back from injury and having,
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  Speaker 2: however many soft tissue injuries is a real mental challenge. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I played USA basketball this offseason, but I didn't play
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  Speaker 2: thirty two minutes super physical.
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  Speaker 1: That's the difference for me right now. But I feel great.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of times it's for me it's
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  Speaker 2: the next day understanding how my body feels and understanding
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better. Obviously, you're a generalist pumping you
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  Speaker 2: don't always understand right after the game. Overall, I feel
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  Speaker 2: good just continuing to take care of my body. This
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  Speaker 2: doesn't surprise me. She is someone that all eyes are
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  Speaker 2: on her. I mean, she has climbed to the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the face of women's sports essentially, and everyone is excited
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  Speaker 2: to see her back on the court. But it takes
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  Speaker 2: time to respond to those to any injury, but especially
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  Speaker 2: injuries like that, nagging injuries, injuries that you feel like
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  Speaker 2: could pop back off at any moments. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't talk about the mental side of coming back
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  Speaker 2: from injuries enough. Yes, obviously you can be physically cleared
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  Speaker 2: and ready to go, but that doesn't mean that your
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  Speaker 2: mind has connected to the fact that you know you're
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  Speaker 2: in Your body is in good enough shape to push
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  Speaker 2: it and push through any kind of pain, and the
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  Speaker 2: anxiety of that is a real thing, even for the
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  Speaker 2: best of the best. So I am not surprised that
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  Speaker 2: she said this. I'm not surprised that she's still learning
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  Speaker 2: to trust herself. It'll get better as the season goes on.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm glad she talked about it because this is
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  Speaker 2: something that when we talk about injuries, we expect. You know,
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  Speaker 2: once an athlete is cleared to just be locked back
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  Speaker 2: in and you have to learn to trust your body again.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to tweak something, you don't want to overcompensate,
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  Speaker 2: and that seems to be where she is right now
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  Speaker 2: in her you know. Returning to the court journey switching
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  Speaker 2: over to football, the Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald is
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  Speaker 2: trying to switch up a little bit of the vernacular
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  Speaker 2: of an iconic sports phrase. He's feeling great coming up
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  Speaker 2: of the seahawks very dominant Super Bowl sixty win over
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots, which has come up with some new messaging
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  Speaker 2: for the team. He said, we're using this term. We
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  Speaker 2: want to run it forward. It's meaning our process and
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  Speaker 2: who we are. I think it's going to be something
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to talk about consistently. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's a one and done type of conversation. Really, it's
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  Speaker 2: just how we talk, how we operate all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that we're having conversations with our team and
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  Speaker 2: our units every day about who we want to be
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  Speaker 2: and how we want to do things. In this situation
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  Speaker 2: is no different. So that's where our minds are giving
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  Speaker 2: us the freedom to move forward, have the kind of
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  Speaker 2: space to make each new phase of our year own,
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  Speaker 2: our own and unique to us. There's a balance thinking
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  Speaker 2: about picking up where they left off versus starting from scratch.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I've been really pleased with everybody's work. Haven't
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  Speaker 2: sensed an ounce of complacency, and that's been really positive. Look,
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  Speaker 2: everybody has their mantras, everybody has their you know, their themes.
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  Speaker 2: The beginning of each year, a coach is always trying
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  Speaker 2: to remix things to make sure that he doesn't get stale.
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  Speaker 1: Started to sound uninteresting to the guys. I like this.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously what they did last year worked.
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  Speaker 2: They shut up a lot of people, including myself, because
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  Speaker 2: I did not see this coming. And I think it's
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  Speaker 2: great that they have established a culture and energy in
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  Speaker 2: a way of doing things. And yeah, I mean obviously
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  Speaker 2: usually you hear people talk about running it back, But
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to get complacent. You don't want to
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  Speaker 2: think that what you did last year will necessarily work
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  Speaker 2: this year. You'll be facing different opponents. People will be
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  Speaker 2: getting back healthy. People have tape on you now, they
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  Speaker 2: know what your tendencies are. They've been studying you all
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  Speaker 2: off season. You don't have to bring some new stuff
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  Speaker 2: and build on what you had last year.
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  Speaker 1: So I like this. I know it's just a.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a team saying, but I think the mentality
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  Speaker 2: that they had all season long really matched what they
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  Speaker 2: did well on the field. And if they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be competing again for a championship, which I think they're
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  Speaker 2: poised to do, then you always want to be evolving,
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  Speaker 2: but build on what was successful for you.
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  Speaker 1: And what your identity is.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't wait for the NFL season to get rolling.
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