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Little things cost us Jalen Brunson & Karl-Anthony Towns Talk Game 4 Loss vs. Pacers · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Jalene, I guess to start as what did you see
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  Speaker 1: was the That's the big difference today in how the
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  Speaker 1: game turned out.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, the first quarter forty three thirty five.
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  Speaker 3: Just down.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously not a good defensive quarter from us. Offensively, the
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  Speaker 2: ball was going in but didn't get enough stops. They
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  Speaker 2: came with energy and physicality and set the tone for
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  Speaker 2: the game, and we responded obviously in the second quarter
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  Speaker 2: was great and besides the last min and a half
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  Speaker 2: and then just playing catch up from that point on.
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  Speaker 4: U for either one of you, you guys spent all
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  Speaker 4: season being a low turnover team. Seventeen tonight for twenty
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  Speaker 4: points for them, it felt like a lot of them
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  Speaker 4: were unforced just in the moment, did if did you
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  Speaker 4: guys get the sense that just a little sloppy as
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  Speaker 4: a group with the ball or was there something with
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  Speaker 4: their defense that that sparked any of that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of them are stuff that we
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  Speaker 2: can control as a team. We've just seen to tighten
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  Speaker 2: the screws when it comes to that, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: being aggressive. If there are aggressive turnovers, that'd be different.
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  Speaker 2: But pass the turnovers is not.
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  Speaker 5: Us, guys. For either one of you, Indiana consistently made
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  Speaker 5: the extra pass tonight and converted. What are some of
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  Speaker 5: the things that can be done to maybe eliminate some
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  Speaker 5: of those backdoor cuts or some of the miscommunication we
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  Speaker 5: saw in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously staying I don't want to, staying in
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  Speaker 2: our coverage most and foremost, and making sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: keeping one on the ball, keep keeping bodies on bodies,
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  Speaker 2: do a better job of just not being in rotation.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 6: Carl.
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  Speaker 4: I know you were able to get back on the
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  Speaker 4: floor after your knee was hurting. How how's it feeling now?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it's prevent you from playing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm only thinking about the loss. I'm not thinking about
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  Speaker 3: that right now. So, uh, you know, it's disappointing when
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  Speaker 3: you don't get a win, you know, and we just
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  Speaker 3: didn't do nothing to get the job done tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Jillen, you guys have been so good with the backs
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  Speaker 7: to the wall. Now it's elimination you're facing Thursday. Just
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  Speaker 7: kind of what changes or what what has to change
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  Speaker 7: as you come back out on Thursday at the garden.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, nothing else matters at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta give it your all's is that simple, Carl.
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  Speaker 5: When you guys are enjoying such a decisive edge on
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  Speaker 5: the glass, even in spite of the foul trouble, does
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  Speaker 5: that reinforce to some degree your approach taking that into
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  Speaker 5: Game number five?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean at the end of the day, really
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  Speaker 3: just worried about getting to win. And uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think the playoffs have shown us. Uh sometimes statistically
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  Speaker 3: you think you win these statistics and you win these categories,
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  Speaker 3: and you're gonna win the game. And I think for
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  Speaker 3: the whole entire playoffs, not just the series we've been
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  Speaker 3: involved with. You know, it's just sometimes to the things
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  Speaker 3: you that are always told to be the things that
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  Speaker 3: will win you the game. You know, sometimes it just
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  Speaker 3: comes down to we just winning the game. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it doesn't make sense when you do, when you
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  Speaker 3: win the rebounding battle and all that stuff and you
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  Speaker 3: still find a way to lose the game.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, Uh, it's just there's little things that just
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  Speaker 8: cost us and and there's little things that changed to
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  Speaker 8: outcome of the game, and we just didn't find ourselves
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  Speaker 8: on the right side of uh.
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  Speaker 3: The game tonight. You know, you you say we did
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  Speaker 3: a great job of rebounding. We also on the same s,
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  Speaker 3: same turn, didn't do a good job with you know,
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  Speaker 3: the ball and just all around. So that's just one
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  Speaker 3: category of many categories. You know that you got to
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  Speaker 3: win to win a game, and we just didn't do enough.
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  Speaker 9: I know how easily this could be for either of you,
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  Speaker 9: but I know how easily the series could be to
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  Speaker 9: two And then said, you guys are in a three
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  Speaker 9: to one hole. Is there something to be said for
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  Speaker 9: the pace this team plays at? You guys were a
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  Speaker 9: team that was pretty methodical throughout the regular season that
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  Speaker 9: when you guys enjoyed these these comeback victories that you're
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  Speaker 9: making play after play after play where you guys just
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  Speaker 9: make the right reads and you're playing at your pace.
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  Speaker 9: Is there because of the thought process of if we
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  Speaker 9: turn it over that they they run at the pace
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  Speaker 9: they do that just did the the rotations that they
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  Speaker 9: make with their passes and stuff like that they force
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  Speaker 9: you guys into that just the level of decision making
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  Speaker 9: with the pace they play at, that makes them more
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  Speaker 9: difficult to play against them.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe other teams, I mean, I know this is a
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  Speaker 2: copycat league, but uh, a lot of teams are different
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  Speaker 2: identities and so obviously their identities playing fast, make or miss,
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  Speaker 2: run the floor, and we just gotta follow our game, playing,
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  Speaker 2: game planning, discipline, and we weren't disciplined tonight. I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: disciplined tonight. Maybe just gotta be smarter. I gotta be smarter.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's really that black and what.
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  Speaker 3: We all gotta be better, you know, we all gotta
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  Speaker 3: be better for him, with him, you know, we gotta
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  Speaker 3: we gotta be better as a team. So it's unfortunately
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  Speaker 3: we all, you know, couldn't find a way to win
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  Speaker 3: tonight that we found a way in all the other
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  Speaker 3: series to do it.
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  Speaker 7: For either one of you guys. You guys seem to
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  Speaker 7: find some defensively in Game three just seemed today from
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  Speaker 7: the start forty three points in the first quarter, uh
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  Speaker 7: band into the first half, early second half just kind
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  Speaker 7: of what what went? What wasn't there defensively tonight?
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  Speaker 3: We just we didn't match their uh their pace. I
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  Speaker 3: know you want to say that, but desperation too, I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we just we just didn't match what we
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  Speaker 3: needed to do tonight to start the game. And it's
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  Speaker 3: true fashion to our whole playoff run. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: put ourselves in a deficit, we dug ourselves out the deficit,
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  Speaker 3: and usually you feel good about us, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: a close game going into the fourth quarter or you know,
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  Speaker 3: showing that resilience. Uh, but I've said it m multiple
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  Speaker 3: times to y'all. You know, you get burned putting yourself
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  Speaker 3: in that position too many times. And tonight it was
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  Speaker 3: one of those nights where we got burnt.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We we put ourselves again in the deficit. Y you
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  Speaker 3: think that coming into the fourth quarter, we're gonna you know,
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  Speaker 3: find that that one trick to get us to the end,
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  Speaker 3: to to the end of the game would win and
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  Speaker 3: and we just you know, we just didn't have that, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that magic tonight.
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  Speaker 4: How much does the adversity and the challenges you guys
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  Speaker 4: have already been through so far this postseason serve you
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  Speaker 4: help prepare you heading into back home to Madison Square.
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  Speaker 3: Gard I mean, we we've we've we've been a team
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  Speaker 3: that has kind of found a way to do the
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  Speaker 3: impossible when it always seemed impossible. You know, we just
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  Speaker 3: keep fighting. So it's gonna be a testament to our
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  Speaker 3: whole playoff run, you know, And now we have to
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  Speaker 3: be in one of the biggest fights of our lives
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  Speaker 3: in the end of our season, and that starts with
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  Speaker 3: the next game. So just taking a game by game,
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  Speaker 3: don't look ahead, and just worry about the first quarter
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  Speaker 3: of the next game and we'll deal with the rest later.
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  Speaker 1: Did did you guys see him do anything different to
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  Speaker 1: to get Halliburton in space or whatnot? Just the way
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  Speaker 1: he was in attack mode, it seemed like maybe he
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  Speaker 1: would he was a little more aggressive, just from your
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  Speaker 1: vantage plaint what allowed him to have the score of night.
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  Speaker 3: That he did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he was playing the space. They all
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  Speaker 2: do a good job of obviously creating space for each other,
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  Speaker 2: and he was able to pick us spots and get
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  Speaker 2: to what he's gonna do. And I mean, he's a
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  Speaker 2: great player, as simple as that. And it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: all nice to try and limit them as as we can.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's just all nice to get back to
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  Speaker 2: drawing board and drawing board and just get ready for
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  Speaker 2: game five.
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  Speaker 6: Jalen, they're they're throughout the series, not just today, but
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  Speaker 6: throughout the series. They've been using your guy as a
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  Speaker 6: screener for Aliburton a lot throughout the series. How do
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  Speaker 6: you feel like you've done on those matchups, and and
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  Speaker 6: what in particular do you feel like you could kind
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  Speaker 6: of be doing to mock them up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, not good enough.
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  Speaker 9: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I could sit here and be very detail oriented with
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  Speaker 2: you by certain things, but obviously not good enough. So
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  Speaker 2: there has to be difference on my part when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to that. It's as simple as that, we all
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  Speaker 2: got to be better for him. It's not just him,
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  Speaker 2: it's all of us. I'm not going to start the
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's cap of of course, he's gonna always speak.
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  Speaker 3: With the highest regard. But as a team, we all
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  Speaker 3: got to do better. It's not just him, it's all
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  Speaker 3: of us. You know, we all got to do a
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  Speaker 3: better job of making it difficult for each one of
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  Speaker 3: them to score. And tonight we didn't do that as
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  Speaker 3: a team, not just him, but as a team, we
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  Speaker 3: all didn't do it. So, if you write anything right
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  Speaker 3: about the team and about anybody else singularly,