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The Frankton Eagles Report ... with Brent Brobston, Eli Birch & Noah Melvin (2.163.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: You are listening to the Frankton Eagles Report every Thursday on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, Frankton Eagle fans, and welcome back to the Frankton Eagles Report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Our weekly look inside the Frankton Eagles, what just recently happened and what's coming up, and we get to meet the team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Along with head coach Brent Brockston, we have on the podcast every week, seniors know a Melvin and Eli Birch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was a lot of fun and I sometimes asked him some really uncomfortable questions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I asked the three of them a series of questions to help me get to know the players a little better and in turn help you get to know the frankdeny goals a little better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I also got Coach Brobson's opinions on the greatest players and teams in Frank and Eagles history and talked to Noah and Eli about their first memories of Frank and basketball, which of course came during a championship era.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, the Franken Eagles are 12 and 4 through 16 games, and have won 5 and a row after a weekend that saw them sweep, Elwood, and Tri-Central during the 5 game winning streak all 5 victories have come by 20 points or more.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I did full recaps of those games with Coach Brobstan following both of them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Eagles had eight losses at this time last year before ripping off 13 wins in a row.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There will be two Franklin games before the next Franklin Eagles report and it starts
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[SPEAKER_03]: The 11 and 4 tri-titons come to Frankton all the way from Stron, Indiana, about an hour trip.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thursday's visitors started their season seven and one took a couple of losses, but of one three of their last four, including a 46-40 win over North Decatur in their last game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Two of their four losses have come to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Titans are led by a couple of talented sophomores in Brian Kinder and Mason Butler, both forwards, combine the average about 21 and a half points.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Almost 14 rebounds, four assists and three steals a game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Midweek next week, Franklin goes to Wallbash to face the five antenna patches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: who have lost five of their last seven, including their last two on the road at Northwestern and at Eastern.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not a great wall-bash team, but they do have winds over tipped in Madison Grant and McConnell wall.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll talk more about the Apache's with Coach Brobstan after Thursday night's game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to Coach Propston and we are joined by seniors Eli Birch and Noah Melvin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll get to them in a moment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach first up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just for a few minutes when it's talk about try centrally.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We've talked a little bit about that and the wind streak and then look ahead to try on Thursday actually later today as the podcast is being released.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your thoughts on the five game winning streak and how your team has been performing of late.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... we played extremely well ever since uh... really we had some sickness during the the weeks of east berco kill uh... and that was an excuse for losing it's just we had some sickness that we battled throughout that time especially the east berco week and then uh... i thought we learned a lot from the ocale game and beyond that we've played extremely well every game sense and uh...
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our team's defending at a high level, they're rebounding at a high level, and they're making improvements offensively too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think what's been big for us is that we just got a lot of different guys that aren't afraid to take a shot, and we've also got a lot of different guys that aren't afraid to be a team player and set the race screens.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 11 and 4 through 15 games, I bet you would have taken that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, go back, 12 and 4.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 12 and 4, it's all right, no problem now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 12 and 4 through 16 games,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely because our schedule is difficult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, on the front end of our schedule, there's a lot of tough teams.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a bit of a front end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and then you go on the road to Madison Grant going the road to Blackford.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't really know there, you know, those are tough places to go when come back, play West El, play Tri Central, play Elwood, played well in all those games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, no, we're extremely happy with where we're at with one ultimate goal to win the sectional, and that's what we're trying to do, just get better each day to get to that point.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, I think I knew probably something about almost every team on your schedule, but I know nothing about trike.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell Frankton fans a little bit about trike?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're 11 and 4 early on in the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they start out 8 or 9 and I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're very talented.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They got 6, 5, 6, 4.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Soft moors that are both double figure scores.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Very well coached.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Coach Ren Bargaret Oak Hill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's his son in his first coaching job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he's done a great job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They, there's a lot of similarities to the way Oak Hill likes to play and did play in the past and he's done a really good job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really, really good game for us to be playing during this week and they're going to preserve some challenges.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They press the entire game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to present challenges that we have not gone against, which is good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we need to see what we're right for the challenge.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you guys playing on seeing Oak Hill again down the road, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's our goal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the ultimate goal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, we're pushing every day to try to get better and just continue to go the right direction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anything specifically that you'd like to see on Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to see if to attack the press and score and that's one thing that we're going to face in this game that we haven't faced for a while is full core pressure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we've gotten better against full core pressure and we want to now attack teams and score if they're going to try to attack us and press.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'd like to see that and I'd like to see if it's continued to limit turnovers and rebound well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've been doing those pretty well in the last several games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Continue to dominate the boards with effort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That'll be an important part because they do have 6-4 and 6-5 in this game So taking care of the basketball be an important part of it also
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, I started this podcast mid-season, so we made it a priority to meet your seniors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm joined by a couple of them, Eli Burch, and Noah Melvin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A couple of guys who probably don't get the headlines like the other seniors probably, but as you've talked about, fit in very well, good team players.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go, each one will start with Eli and tell me in particular what they bring to the program.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Eli played JV a lot as a junior and then he also dressed varsity and played varsity as a junior too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's kind of a backup to Joey Wright and he's had a tremendous season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's an example to every kid that wants to start when they're a junior or you know they want to play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He waited his turn but then he's coming this year and been outstanding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: can't say enough about him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I told him that yesterday and practice some more proud of him then probably anyone in terms of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because his mindset didn't change.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not weak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not weak minded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He just got in there and worked every day to get to where he's at and he's improved his shot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Defensively he's been great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been a good leader.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, there's just not enough good things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can say about him if there's kids out there watching him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They should look up to him because of the way that he's done things and the way that he's made our team better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Noah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Noah's a glue guy, so Noah started, you know, he's, he's already had that experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for him, he takes a back seat to the statistical part of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've had that conversation before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, he would like to score more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe shoot more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He takes a back seat to some of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He guards the best part of the other team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, and sometimes he's just a helper in a position that's different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: basically Noah has done everything that we've asked and he's made our team better from that standpoint because you don't get guys like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, generally in basketball, especially high school, I see a lot of self-ish basketball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Noah Melvin shows you exactly what being unselfish about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He only cares about the team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He only cares about winning his competition level in the way he competes like I've said before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the guy you'd want to take with you into a fight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: because you're going to come out winning and he's going to come out swing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so the bottom line with him is that he's done everything about team basketball and what it's about to win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He makes us better every night because of his energy, his defensive effort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you watch the way he defended and played in the block for a game, he's a big reason that we won the way we did up there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and how he defended Kitterman and people were, you know, we're, well, you stopped the leg.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we did, but no, Melvin, what he did on Kitterman was huge in that game, and then what he's done any day that he's called upon has been really good because he's, he's put so many different scenarios as a player, he's either guarding somebody that's really talented or he may be guarding someone on their team, might be their fourth or fifth best score because we want him to be in gaps helping because he reads that stuff really well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's having an outstanding senior year, but that's what we expected.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I told you when I arrived that I wanted to do something a little different, a little less serious, a little more fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I said that, I said, grab two guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And these are the two that you've grabbed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So hopefully they're going to be a little more fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to go ask you some questions about your team and get to know them a little better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But first, I want to meet your players here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to start with Noah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you feel his role is here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I mean, Eli's one of our point guards, he'll bring the ball up, if Ashton's not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a great shooter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We finally got him to start shooting the ball after.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how long and he's been making the threes, so I won't need to keep shooting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If it's right and perfect with us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Alrighty, Eli, I'm gonna ask you to do the same thing about Noah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What does he bring?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no, he is our glue guy, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's very funny, I practice actually.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Rather, could you be knows that or not?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we hope he's funny on podcast too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll find out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's see about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then yeah, he brings his, he brings the heart to the team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He gets everybody motivated for games.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's like, tell me a little bit about this team and the makeup of it, it's personality.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What makes this team different than any others that you've been on?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's special because obviously I'm back with everybody I've grown up with, playing with them again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we have younger guys coming up and pulling their parts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think we make a deep run.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We talked a little bit about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The ultimate goal is to win a sectional.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Is this team capable of doing that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're definitely capable of winning a sectional.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We lost by one point last year to a good tipped and team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we.
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[SPEAKER_01]: can definitely do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're barren last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We only lost little pal by one in a game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we had and we obviously just let go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we've played tipped in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've be Taylor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we can do it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right coach, let's get to know your team a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna just gonna ask you the series of questions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever comes off the top of your head, and it's most of gonna be complimentary, but just don't worry about her and kids feelings.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's fine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: First of all, I wanna know if you had a player who had to deliver a team's speech for you, who would it be?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Blake, Nick, I'm probably.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think maybe Blake, Nick,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of puttin' between him and Stan's Barry and be one of those two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, by the way, feel free to say more than one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm right, so maybe I'm wrong on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm tryin' to think of who would be the best at that, but because that would have been you on your team, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who would that have been on your team?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who would have been on my team for sure?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That might have been, uh, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't have been me, but I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These guys would be interesting to see who they say.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'm missing out here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: it would be trade been it no doubt he he gave us halftime speeches and football so I wouldn't be shocked if he could give one anytime doing basketball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would I would either agree with Blake or Tray.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so it's a split.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I was thinking from the term of the classroom, Blake, in the locker room, Tray, I could see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In the history of your program coach, which player has made you the proudest going forward?
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[SPEAKER_00]: These two guys are right up there, because they've done everything that you have to do to win and not worried about themselves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they've been extremely important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That rule, we've had kids every year like that, like Max and Sam Barber were two kids that we had that really didn't care about anything but winning and they didn't get to play a 10 minutes when they came in, they played hard.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were great kids on and off the court.
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[SPEAKER_00]: baron deezers a kid that we had recently was the same way, kids that I've had in the past, back in the 10, 15 years ago, I mean, I'll never forget Zack Stevenson and Tanner Walters, those are kids that just same thing that bought into the team and didn't care about how many minutes they got or what they were doing, they were just about the team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So every year he can name, there's just so many.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we've had that really have to fit that role.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Which player on your team currently is most willing to embarrass themselves?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably, I actually hate to say it's my own kid, but maybe, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's my guess there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who'd you say you like?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Probably, you're right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, we're trying.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, which of your players would make the best special forces army Ranger Marine maybe seal, which I know I was watching.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know there's some of them would for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Noah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's an easy one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that it's what he ought to be doing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Noah, any plans?
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[SPEAKER_00]: People weren't for.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not right now, but you never know what's going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, which of your players on your current roster has grown most from your expectations when they entered the program?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Blake Neckhamma.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's...
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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought he would definitely help us this year and be one of our top six guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's been a couple cool things about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One, he's really exploded onto the scene and two of his teammates have accepted it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you're taking like, he's scoring 15 to 20 points again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Noah's got to accept that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eli's got to accept that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trane's got to accept that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stan's bra's got to accept that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And those guys have accepted that and they've embraced it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're right there behind him patting on the back instead of being jealous about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so Blake has made us a huge stride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas the rest of them of the thing is all of them have gotten so much better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's made a huge stride and he lies made a huge stride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you knew coming in that stands very melvin and then we're going to be rock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were going to be solid like those three guys have been through the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Blake's made a roguet stride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ashden being a freshman has to step up and play and that's, he's done okay with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Blake's made the biggest stride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Isaac Ferris pushing from the other end of JV trying to get up and help us in some way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's done a good job with that as well, but I'd say Blake Nick comes made a considerable stride.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, I'm not using this word as a put down, but who's the biggest nerd on the team?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, um, like school smarts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I take it where do you want to take it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nerd, I would probably would say Blake, but not in a bad way, of course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's always hitting the books.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I school, I never seem slacking off like some of us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We all get our work done, but yeah, Blake is always definitely up to it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Books, I would say Blake, but Noah is the biggest nerd.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's always got a book in his hand that he's reading.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What does that make your nerd?
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[SPEAKER_03]: That would be really bad for me because I was in a literature major in college.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, you reached Shakespeare?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I could reach Shakespeare.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Our friends like to say he reads the picture books.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who's the most creative player as a player as a person on your team that you couldn't think and what why like creativity take it wherever you want as a player who's the most creative.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, most creative.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How about who's the most creative you've ever had.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you go by creativity on the court, I'd say, Austin Compton, that's what I mean.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If he did all these things, he just didn't think it happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, wow, that just happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Impressed you as a coach on the court all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He would be the one from that creativity standpoint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's he created a lot of things offensively and defensively that he just didn't see coming from this team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I everybody's pretty fundamentally sound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that we have anyone out there who's just trying to create or to create it with things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They might have a different opinion of creativity in the classroom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'm missing all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I don't know about in the classroom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In the artist, for me, I think it's going to sound hilarious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think trade minute could invent something one day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how useful it'll be, but I've seen him come up with some things where you're like, what do you do?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then it's like, wow, that worked out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he always finds a use for something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have anybody.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who's your best athlete?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Overall, you think, again, you can name more than one if you want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, stands very melvin' and Nick and we're just, they're very good athletes, then it's right there with them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Virtue has a lot of athleticism.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to say, stands very easy, he's a great athlete overall, so it's melvin' which one of them runs track?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Noah?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so it goes to know of them, because everybody knows that plus he's a melvin' and melvin' is legendary in Elwood.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: best best trackers Blake Blake is I'm excited to see him run but I don't know best athlete I think I would give it to I think I would give it to Blake Blake would be tough to be it's probably yeah I mean Nick he's he is a very very good athlete but we've got something we've got several of them which these kids is gonna be richest when they grow up
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[SPEAKER_02]: Jerry, good masters.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Genius at chess.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Genius at chess.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Any of these kids you think one day will be famous?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You never know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe trade Bennett will be in famous for inventing something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If a famous wrote, who would that be?
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[SPEAKER_03]: They could be famous comedian and artist and actor.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anybody going to be a politician?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Land and gems for comedian.
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[SPEAKER_01]: trade benefit invention.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think maybe maybe even not sure how not sure in a what way, but I feel like he's everywhere we've been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He always finds a way to become popular.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it sounds odd, but it wouldn't shock me too much if somehow somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right coach, I'm going to ask you a question that's, um,
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[SPEAKER_03]: probably unfair to you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But can you rank some of your greatest teams of all time and where they belong in your heart?
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[SPEAKER_00]: 2026 for sure first, that's the one I'm coach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do think this team's really good and plays really well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're right up there in the mix.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 20, 2014 was an excellent team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we didn't win a championship.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 2014 Compton got sick and ended up in the hospital and did not play in the sectional.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, had he played in that section.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think that team could have made a really deep run, um, and they stepped up and still had a great one of the best sectional championship games I've ever seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's 273's made by two teams in that sectional championship game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We made 14 of Wapa honey made 13 and Austin, unfortunately, what they able to play in that game, we played Wapa honey, who won that game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Beautists by one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that was a really good team, 2014 Aaron corn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Austin Compton.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, 2015 was a phenomenal team as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Make it a state run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 2017.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is most overachieving teams like last year, 2025?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That team people didn't expect what would happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We won 14 in the row, finished 17 and 6 or 17
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes because if you read like what John Wooden talks about in his books of some of your greatest accomplishments, don't have championships.
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[SPEAKER_00]: attached to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People don't understand that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Course that the 2025 team really accomplished a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 2021 came back or sorry, 2020 came back after the 2019 team who had went to the final forums or excellent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 2019 was an outstanding team on the best I had.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, 2020 came back and no one thought they would do much.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They exceeded all expectations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Almost pulled off the
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, every team that we've had's been unique and what they have, but they've all worked with one common goal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we've been very fortunate, Frank, because everybody here will run through a wall for their community and they've played the win for their community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have great attendance at home games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone loves this gem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's old, unique.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time somebody comes here, they tell me, man, which we could play here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've built a family atmosphere in the last 18 years I've been here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think, you know, basketball here as you know, was very good through the 80s and
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[SPEAKER_00]: Had there been class basketball, Calvin Bailey and Rex Barker, what are one multiple sectional championships in my opinion, and more, and more, and I mean, they almost want them in the Anderson sectional, so I still go back to like all that, because there's so many good teams that have played here, like you go back, you know, to like 1985, great team, you had corn and Warner and very good team there, and then you had Kevin Wright before that, and then you go to the 91 team,
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[SPEAKER_00]: they get to be by Anderson Highland, a last second three ninety one to their best team in the entire state as we mentioned.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, they lost a highland who lost to the same champion in over time in double over time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, 95.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We had a really good team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was my senior year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we had a great team out here and lost by one to a really good team that had Ocean Han.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then when you start getting into like, and there's so many of them, 98 was a good team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They got me in the sectional finals by, you know, just a little Sanders and our principal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So my whole, has been my whole life ranked in Excel, so it basketball and, and pretty much everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's just so many not to back to the ones I coach, obviously, the ones that have went 15 with special, 17, 19 special, those teams made deep runs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The 2012 team was a lot of fun, because they weren't expected to win the sectional.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We beat LaPelle by 20 and then we won in the semi finals against Winchester on the last second shot and then we beat Moncie Burst in the championship game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like 17 and 4 so they weren't expected to win that and they did, that was pretty cool too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, do you guys remember any of those teams, those championship teams?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me what you remember.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember going to the state game when I was very young, watching as a cool experience.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you have a favorite player?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Few years later, I did have a fair player.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was Britain game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you remember any of those teams?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember going to watch the steak games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I was young.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember Maurice and I. I still, to this day, think that those teams, they had to all be, like, seven foot comparative.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we could ever match up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach, thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for allowing me to talk to Eli and Noah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And is everyone I've met.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're not quite as special as you said they were, but pretty close.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, thanks so much coach for your time as always.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for everything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks Coach.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks Eli.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks Noah.
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