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UConn MBB 2nd Round Postgame Presser - NW · Coaches Corner

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  Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, we have head coach Dan Hurley, we have
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  grad guard Tristan Newton, grad guard Cam Spencer, sophomore center Donovan Klingon.
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  Will start with a statement from coach. Then we'll go to questions for the
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  student athletes. Dismissed them. Questions to coach, But coach, if you
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  want to start, yeah, just just obviously impressed with the performance. You
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  know, just really attack them in the paint. Obviously, the injuries you
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  know, that they've sustained during the year, you know, changed the total
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  complexion of that team. That team, you know, uh, you know,
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  with those two guys that they lost, we're not playing them today.
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  They're probably a five seed or six seeds. So you know, we're obviously,
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  you know, thrilled with the performance and to get that separation, you
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  know, while going three for twenty two from three, you know a handful
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  of those were contested, but obviously we didn't shoot a great uh and to
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  still you know, win by that margin obviously spoke to our you know,
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  our defense and obviously the twenty assists on twenty nine field goals. We'll take
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  questions for the student athletes at this time. We'll start at the end here
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  in row three in front of me, Tom airing with AP Radio. Tristan,
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  what does it mean to get to the next stage to hear the Sweet
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  sixteen is the defending champs? I mean, it feels great. You know,
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  we have a big picture that we want to go to and we have
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  to take it one step at a time, so you know, getting to
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  sweety sixteen, it's just another step to our mango and it feels good.
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  We'll stay on this side. We're in row one. Donald Moriyhart for current
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  Donovan. It seems like the last four games are like since halftime of the
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  Xavier game to now, it seems like it's the best basketball that you've played,
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  at least on the score sheet. How do you feel about that?
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  Is this the best basketball you've played at Yukon? Yeah? I mean I
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  feel, you know, healthier and you know, lighter than I've ever felt,
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  and you know, I just really got my confidence back and you know,
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  just trying to fly around court and do whatever my team needs me to
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  do to win. We're gonna go the other side of the room where World
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  one on the aisle with Adam and then we'll stay on Roll one. Yeah,
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  Cam, we talked yesterday. Obviously came to ukon with this goal in
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  mind. What's it like for you to be in the sweet sixteen and kind
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  of continue your dream and what are your goals going forward? Yeah, it's
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  pretty cool. I mean initially the goal obviously to get from Brooklyn to Boston,
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  so we're looking forward to that, and uh, you know, we
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  have one more to go, so that's really what we're focused on. Our
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  neck game. Really, we'll stay in Roll one, same side, Sharon
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  Taylor, New York. Again, Tristan and Donovan, you both talked about
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  limiting free throws yesterday or Friday. How did you feel you did today with
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  that goal. Let's go with Tristan first, then Donovan, I would say
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  we did pretty good. You know, I don't I don't know how many
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  free that it just shot in the first half. But you know the second
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  half, I don't know, I feel like we did pretty good. And
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  you know, they were running there and throwing the ball up, so I
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  think we did great. Yeah, I mean, you know, the first
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  half we did good and you know, staying out to follow trouble. You
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  know, in the second half we had a little stretch, we were a
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  little sloppy and you know they're getting to the line a little bit better than
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  that. I feel like, you know, we kept them off the file
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  line and maybe be forced them to take tough shots. And we'll go further
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  down Row one in that same side, Gavin Keith from the London Days,
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  just for Donovan as your team defense really kind of stepped it up a notch
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  in the tournament. Tournament play. Yeah, I mean, you know,
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  I feel like we know, we all know what's at stake, so you
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  know, we all have we have to crank up, you know, our
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  offense and defense. You know, if you want to you know, win
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  games and try to you know, reach our ultimate goal. You know,
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  you got to play the best defense possibly can. Any more questions for the
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  student athletes. Okay, you guys are dismissed. Congratulations, We'll see you
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  in Boston next weekend. Oh yes, right, you just didn't get any
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  rebounds. Questions for coach early. We'll start on this side. We'll start
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  in row four on the aisle with Roger Roger Rubin from Newsday Project Dan Big
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  East three teams six and zero. Now, you sort of thought at the
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  end of the Big East Conference tournament that the idea of only three teams getting
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  in was disrespectful, I think was your word? What do you understand about
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  the Big East Conference? That maybe the people on the selection committee did not
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  mean just the quality of the league. I mean, look what we've done
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  in non conference games. You know, the I don't know what our record
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  is the last two years non conference mt s NCAA tournament and Seton Hall beat
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  us by fifteen. And you know we've won eight straight in this tournament,
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  all by significant margins. And uh, and they were good enough to beat
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  us, and they were good enough to beat Marquette and h that there should
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  have been five or six Big East teams in this tournament. You've seen how
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  other leagues that got the bids that our league deserved has underperformed. And uh,
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  you know, but I think you know list of me, Shock and
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  UH and Big Mac. You know, we gotta we got a group check
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  going. And then the other coaches in our league. I saw Kim,
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  you know, I saw Kim and Shaheen, you know, with the full
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  league group chat that we got with the coaches, and UH, I know
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  everyone's fired up to see us. Uh. They'll continue to push and rep
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  the league at a high level. I know Val, you know VAL's excited
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  to you know, obviously the mistake was made. Uh, you know,
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  it sucks. We're gonna go on the other side here in row one,
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  go ahead, Joe Rudehartford current Dan. How impressed were you with Stuff's performance
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  defensively on BOOBOOI he was two for fifteen from the field. Obviously on foul
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  trouble late, but yeah, that was a lot of There was a lot
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  of a lot of that, some hoss and mixed in there too, But
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  yes, Steph, Stephan caused problems just the you know that just the size
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  that, the foot speed, the strength, you know. And then we
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  also put too on the ball for him a lot in the ball screen game.
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  And uh, this for us was about it was about Langbourne, Barnheiser
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  and and Boo And obviously it hurt them, you know, missing uh the
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  shooter kid Barry, you know, just not having another floor spaceer out there
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  for them and then missing their starting center obviously hurt them. But you know
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  Steph, Uh, you know, Steph's the anti entitled five star freshman.
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  He does nothing but you know, help his team win. Go same side,
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  Row five, Just raise your handsome coach knows go ahead, Hi Sarah
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  with zagballs. Patino's called you a machine before. You've been a machine.
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  Your team's like a well older machine. You won by significant margins the past
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  two games. Do you think that this significant margins is going to continue throughout
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  the tournament? Do you think that you're going to continue winning by these large
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  margins? I hope. So it's tough, though, but again, you
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  make yourself bulletproof when you could see the preparation. You know again, yes,
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  you know. The other day was come out of young with the scout.
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  Today it was Luke Murray. I mean, these are head coach quality,
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  some of the best coaches in the country, not not some of the
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  best assistant coaches in the country, some of the best coaches in the country
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  period that I have the luxury I have it on my bench to prepare this
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  team for these games. And we're bulletproof, you know. Again, elite
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  offense, elite defense. You know, didn't love the offensive rebounding today and
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  didn't love the second half defensive rebounding, you know, But again, twenty
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  assists, seven turnovers. You know, one player had fourteen fourteen and eight
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  point Coard had twenty and ten. You know, it's tough to lose when
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  you have that level of quality. We'll go to the other side of the
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  aisle. Also in the back row. Go ahead, just raise your hands,
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  so coach notes, Go ahead, Herbert delanceybestm coach. How great was
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  it to have the fans even though wasn't it the garden like you all do
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  when you pack the garden for the Big East Tournament. How great was it
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  to have the Yukon fans come down to the Barcley Center here in Brooklyn.
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  Yeah, it was better tonight. We have more of them in there tonight
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  and I felt good. Yeah, they showed up, and I know they're
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  gonna be a lot of them in Boston. I think it's gonna it's gonna
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  double in Boston for us. But yeah, I guess you could add Brooklyn
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  to Store South. Now, I didn't know Brooklyn was a part of Store
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  South, but I guess that extends from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Now we'll go
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  here in the front row. Jayden Daily Daily, Also, Hoopstan, You've
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  spoken about how underrated Twistan is all season. Two tournament games so far this
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  weekend, he's a plus fifty eight what what about him gets overlooked in the
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  statu sheets and how much more has that helped you team over the last couple
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  of years. Yeah, I mean he's again, like I've said, the
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  the NBA people, the right people value the size, you know, the
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  all around game, the the you know, the range on the shot,
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  the competitiveness, all the winter qualities, and you know, he's he's in
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  the process right now. We're putting together a resume as a guard. Obviously
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  we've got a lot of work to do here, but you're talking about a
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  guy that's got he's got the Final Four, he's got the National Championship,
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  he's got the Big East Tournament, he's got the regular season, he's got
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  the first team All American Obviously, you know he got he got Big East
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  Player to year ap Uh, he didn't get it from the coaches, but
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  you know his his two year run is I mean, just at Yukon in
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  that uniform right now, it's as good as anyone's had, and Yukon I
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  think has had good guards. We'll stay on this side on the aisle Row
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  three. Jerry Beach from Field Level Media. You talked about a couple of
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  the imperfections in the second half. Are those things you're gonna focus on and
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  mentioned the guys next few days you try to become more bulletproof for the weekend
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  in Boston. Yeah, I think so. I think, you know again,
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  it's some of it too, is like you're not gonna win the game
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  by thirty five or thirty versus Northwestern. Uh with with uh with with Chris
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  and his culture and his staff is one of the best. And I think
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  they've lost They lost one game by double figures this year. Uh So you're
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  talking about a team that's ultra competitive. Yeah, but we you know what
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  we they made some plays and and uh you know Langbourne, we lost him
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  a couple of times for threes on. You know, some situations there where
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  I just think maybe we lost a little bit of focus and concentration. But
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  I think it just had more to do with with the heart of the Northwestern
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  program and the pride and and them refusing to have the score, uh be
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  disrespectful to their program. I think we have time for one more. We'll
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  go down here and row too. Coach. They have a gold inside on
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  you. After a Friday's game, Rylane, we're playing a lot in the
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  mid mid range off the curls, Did you guys make an added emphasis to
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  deny him and Brooks off the ball in the did dribble handoffs to make sure
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  he couldn't get to that mid range game? Well, we we really just
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  this game was about the three point line for us with those guys. We
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  went into it wanted to keep you know, uh, you know Boo and
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  Ryan and Brooks uh to to less than four made threes between them, and
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  we wanted to limit their attempts to seven. Uh. We felt like with
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  you know, they couldn't beat us in a in a in a in a
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  midy tough two game. You know, we knew Donovan would take the rim
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  away. Uh, and we really just wanted to chase those guys off the
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  three point line. We felt like, you know, the only way that
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  they could beat us today is, you know, as if they made a
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  lot of threes, those guys, if Boo was hitting you know, sick
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  deep try young type of threes like he's made, you know, throughout his
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  career. So we just put we we blew everything up, got over everything.
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  We're uber aggressive with our with our centers, uh, and we're really
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  just trying to funnel the ball to their five men. That was the game
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  plan. Okay, thanks coach, thank you, congratulations. I'm gonna take
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  this. I'm gonna take y'all. I'm gonna take Cam Joe, grab all
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  theirs from that room, and i'm gonna take Dono. I'm gonna take something
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  you used day