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Seg 2 - MBB Show w Dan Hurley March 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to you. Con men's basketball coaches showed Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hurley with US Huskies looking ahead to Markqutt. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that in a couple of moments, but we just
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  Speaker 1: talked about Creighton and how you know, the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 1: scored ninety one and won the game at home at
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  Speaker 1: Gamble the bounce back though, I really liked at Villanova,
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  Speaker 1: you got eighteen thousand. They're just looking for blood. They're
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  Speaker 1: on a roll. They've won six games in a row,
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  Speaker 1: coming in seven of eight. I think the only game
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  Speaker 1: they had lost was to you at home. What was
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  Speaker 1: the difference as you viewed it from your you know,
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  Speaker 1: standing there on the court, but also afterwards, because it
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  Speaker 1: looked to me like the big guys were really protecting
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  Speaker 1: the rim a lot better and it was just a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of just more urgency defensively.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, you know, obviously, you you know, you credit the opponent,
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  Speaker 3: you know that just again like Creighton played played lights out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, offensively, making shots. You know that if they
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  Speaker 3: you know, played they're able to kind of repeat that performance,
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  Speaker 3: you know more, you know during the you know, during
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  Speaker 3: the season, obviously they've been dealing with some heavy stuff
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  Speaker 3: with with the Harper family, the Dick's family.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so they've been going through it.
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  Speaker 3: But you get out of that game and now you're
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  Speaker 3: you're you know, you're playing elimination games. You know, these
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  Speaker 3: are all been playoff games for us, and and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the ad Villainova game, just having the you know,
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  Speaker 3: a team that's an ncable, a tournament team, a team
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  Speaker 3: that's uh having a great year.
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  Speaker 2: And it's gonna you know, it's competing at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the league.
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  Speaker 3: Know when you're going into an environment, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: play against a team that that if you don't win
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  Speaker 3: that game, you have no you know, real chance to
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  Speaker 3: win the regular season. So it was uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: gun you know it was I gotten to your head
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  Speaker 3: type of game. But it was one of those you know,
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  Speaker 3: life or death moments for the team relative to you know,
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  Speaker 3: trying to win, uh A, and you know, we showed up.
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  Speaker 3: I think so much of the how this is gonna go,
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  Speaker 3: it's obviously, you know, I put a lot of it
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  Speaker 3: on Taris because he is the one for us that
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  Speaker 3: as a center, you know, your your defense, your I protection,
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  Speaker 3: your ballscreen defense. I mean he's at the center of
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  Speaker 3: all of it. And uh, you know, Taras set the
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  Speaker 3: tone with how we started the game both offensively with
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  Speaker 3: the paint presence and then defensively with the paint presence
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  Speaker 3: and rebounding with the paint presence. And if we get
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  Speaker 3: that version of Taris, we're we're very hard to beat.
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  Speaker 3: If we get the other version of Taris, like the
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  Speaker 3: seat the Hall game at Home, uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: become a much more vulnerable team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No one wants to be vulnerable this time of year,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Caravan, We're gonna talk to him later
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  Speaker 1: in the show. Uh. You you said something after the
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  Speaker 1: Greaton game that you know, got everybody got a everyone's attention.
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  Speaker 1: You said he was like a cargo ship. He couldn't
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  Speaker 1: move out there. I wondered. I wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 1: this in a pregame, but I didn't want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm asking now, was that a motivational comment or
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  Speaker 1: were you just checking reality and telling him you got
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  Speaker 1: to be moving better than that, or we're in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's kind of a message to everybody in
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  Speaker 3: the you know. And but but really it was a
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  Speaker 3: concern that Alex was dealing with something I guess in
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  Speaker 3: his quad and and the knee area that you know,
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  Speaker 3: it just it it, it really put him. It really
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  Speaker 3: compromised his ability to move that night. And if you
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  Speaker 3: look at even the three point shots that he took,
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  Speaker 3: like literally the middle of the ball was hitting the
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  Speaker 3: dead front rim.
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  Speaker 2: It was like the ball couldn't get above the.
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  Speaker 3: Rim, and he was you know, and and if if
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  Speaker 3: that was going to be the case in that game,
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  Speaker 3: I probably you know, I wasn't really expecting to see him,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that compromised, and in retrospect, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: was basically sending a message to Alex, like if you
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  Speaker 3: can't you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, you're a soldier, you're a warrior.
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  Speaker 3: If there's a if you can't go because of this injury,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like then then like I don't, we don't,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to play you, you know, like we
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  Speaker 3: need you to be healthy, you know, for March, so.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of you know, and then.
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  Speaker 3: You know that he was able to rehabit, take reps
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  Speaker 3: off in practice, and come out moving much better since
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  Speaker 3: the cargo ship comment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's in baseball, they call those guys gamers, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, managers love them because they they play one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty games, if there's one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: games we played. But you're right, if you're really there's
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  Speaker 1: a difference between being hurt and injured. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, people say there really is a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just put the film on.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look at the Villainova game, and look at
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  Speaker 3: the Saint John's game, and look at the Seaton Hall game,
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  Speaker 3: and look at the Creighton game. You know, the guy
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  Speaker 3: was you know, he was laboring. I mean I played him,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what he played twenty like somewhere low
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  Speaker 3: twenty minutes in that game. And again maybe he shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have played. Maybe he should have said, hey, listen, I
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  Speaker 3: can't go tonight. But you know, then, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: me to play him that amount of minutes, I want
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  Speaker 3: to play him forty minutes because he's here, because he's irreplaceable,
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  Speaker 3: the things he does for your team, and he's so clutch,
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  Speaker 3: and it's obviously you can't play him forty minutes too
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  Speaker 3: many times.
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  Speaker 2: But U but he.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's a guy's a gamer, and and
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  Speaker 3: he wants to be out there, and he's about all
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  Speaker 3: the right things, and that might have been a game
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  Speaker 3: that maybe we should have we should have went with
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Stewart as a starter, and maybe he shouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: played well.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, he did play Villain was outstanding. Then the Saint
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  Speaker 1: John's game, which that was a big time game. Now
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  Speaker 1: they came in winning thirteen in a row. You had
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  Speaker 1: gone to the Garden winning eighteen in a row, and
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  Speaker 1: they took the game away from you in the last
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  Speaker 1: five minutes. But from start to finish at Hartford, at
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  Speaker 1: People's Bank Arena, there was a different feel. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, you're on the sideline, it probably sounds different
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  Speaker 1: to you. We're up a little higher now. It sounded
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  Speaker 1: really loud, and it's and and the crowd was on
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  Speaker 1: their feet a lot. I'm talking twenty to twenty five
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  Speaker 1: times during that game. Not to me was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean right from the anthem, they were dialed in
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  Speaker 3: and it was, you know, just a game with you know,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, two top you know, top level teams,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of intensity, you know, relative to you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're being a rivalry that's being built now with Saint
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  Speaker 3: John's improving so much under coach Patino and his staff
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  Speaker 3: and ex players, and yeah, we were just you know,
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  Speaker 3: we were ready to go. We felt like the first
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  Speaker 3: game we gifted them so much in terms of live ball,
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  Speaker 3: turnovers and different things that led to easy points for them.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't guard the paint, you know, we turned the
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  Speaker 3: ball over, you know, not even always against pressure. So
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  Speaker 3: we just felt like we gave them so much in
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  Speaker 3: that first game that if we didn't do that, we'd
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  Speaker 3: have a great chance to win the rematch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in that first game, Dan, I'm curious what
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  Speaker 1: you thought of this. Eric Rayber, Braylon Mullins, two terrific freshmen.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys have had really great moments this year. That
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  Speaker 1: one game though, at the guard and I felt like
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  Speaker 1: they got pushed around, they got bullied a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a great night for those two freshmen. Since that,
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  Speaker 1: do you see that they've learned things and that's going
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  Speaker 1: to carry them as freshmen now into these really important
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  Speaker 1: crunch time games you got ahead of you.
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  Speaker 3: I just think something, it's all about matchups, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about styles, and John's style is tough on freshmen.
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  Speaker 3: Seat the whole style is tough on freshmen. Those like
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  Speaker 3: really grueling physical battles where they've really grown men trying
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  Speaker 3: to bully you in the paint at the rim. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think it has more to do, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with with that. You know, those guys have helped us,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in in games versus teams that are considered,
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  Speaker 3: you know, more efficient than Saint John's. I just think
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  Speaker 3: that Saint John's people, like Saint John's Seaton all they
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  Speaker 3: test your manhood, you know, they test your your will,
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  Speaker 3: your heart as a competitor, your physical strength, and your
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  Speaker 3: fortitude because they put so much pressure on you on
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  Speaker 3: the backboard and uh with the way they try to
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  Speaker 3: pound the ball throw you on offense.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Hurley Wather's The You com In's Basketball Coaches Show
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  Speaker 1: continues in Just a Moment on lear Field