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Press Pass | Dawuane Smoot: "We've Just Got To Get Back to What Allows Us To Play Fast. Just Communicating and All Being on the Same Page” · Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Like you said, we got you know, four more four
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  Speaker 1: more weeks, another month. We're definitely definitely still optimistic. We're
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  Speaker 1: still eight and five, Like there's no need to panic,
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  Speaker 1: Like we're we're still in a good place. We just
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  Speaker 1: need to be able to figure out the problems that
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  Speaker 1: are happening and communicate more as a team, and we
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  Speaker 1: need to all just get on the same page and
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  Speaker 1: be able to make a push for the next four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like all the problems are like self inflicted at
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  Speaker 2: like correctable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you said, it's all self inflicted. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure everyone can see it, Like people are
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  Speaker 1: left wide open, you know, and I can only speak
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  Speaker 1: on the decent side. But it's just communication. We just
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  Speaker 1: need to all to be on the same page, and
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  Speaker 1: when we go out there, we need to all just
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  Speaker 1: be at a trust that everyone's gonna be in the
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  Speaker 1: right spots.
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  Speaker 3: What has changed kind of since it seemed like early
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  Speaker 3: in the season you guys were kind of playing faster,
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  Speaker 3: more clean. What has changed in these last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Like I just said, it's communication. I mean, we like
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  Speaker 1: we just have to be on the same page. Like
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  Speaker 1: we've had some some pretty good matchups coming up, and
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  Speaker 1: we've been you know, scheming up a lot of different
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  Speaker 1: things and we just got to get back to, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, what allows us to play fast, just communicating
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  Speaker 1: and all being on the same page.
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  Speaker 4: So being nominated for the wolf fading to work, what
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  Speaker 4: does that mean to you, just especially somebody who's been
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  Speaker 4: here as long as you have been.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it means a lot, It means, it means
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  Speaker 1: a bunch means especially in the community. Just just just
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  Speaker 1: knowing that my peers see me as you know, somebody
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  Speaker 1: that has done a lot of things in the community.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just hoping that it can be able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: show everyone else and you know, be able to rub
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  Speaker 1: off on everyone in the locker room and be able
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  Speaker 1: to show like this is how you get it done.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you can do in the community. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you get credit for it. So it's all good.
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  Speaker 2: I know khalais willing up when he was here, seeing
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  Speaker 2: how he kind of interacted as you were like a
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  Speaker 2: young player. Did that make any impact on you at all?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely? I remember earlier in the week we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about this as well too, just watching him, especially around
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  Speaker 1: this time. You know, he he does like shopping with
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  Speaker 1: Koalais and he does a lot of different events throughout
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  Speaker 1: the year. It's just it's just great to be able
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  Speaker 1: to see and be able to grow up and in
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  Speaker 1: this career and be able to just see somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: just so influential in the community. So he's definitely rubbed
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  Speaker 1: off for me for sure.
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  Speaker 3: On the other end of that spectrum, a young player,
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  Speaker 3: Antonio Johnson got some real burn yesterday. Just what did
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  Speaker 3: you kind of see out of him?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a great player. We already knew he
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  Speaker 1: was a great player when he first came in, So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just I just see that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's growing, you know, he's he's he's a tenacious player,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's in the right spots all the time. So
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  Speaker 1: I just see a lot of great things for him
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  Speaker 1: in the future as well too.
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  Speaker 4: You're one of the longer tenure jags here. It's been
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  Speaker 4: a long time since you guys have had Thursday night,
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  Speaker 4: Sunday night, and Monday night kind of talking about what
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  Speaker 4: it means where this organization is headed and what you
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  Speaker 4: guys have really achieved over the last few years since
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  Speaker 4: you've been here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it means a lot. We're now we're now
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  Speaker 1: prime time, you know, and it's it goes to show
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  Speaker 1: all the work that we've put forward in the past
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  Speaker 1: seasons to finally get here. So now it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: time for us. You know, we're on the front stage.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for us to show out now.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you and Josh are tight, and you
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  Speaker 3: spend a lot of time thing working at me off seeds.
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  Speaker 4: How happy are you for him dead this year?
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  Speaker 3: And as you're not surprised, but how much has gone
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  Speaker 3: in to what he's.
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  Speaker 1: Doing now, I mean it's it's a lot that goes in.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's a beast in the weight room.
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  Speaker 1: Me and him, we compete a lot in the weight
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  Speaker 1: room and we kind of lean on each other as
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  Speaker 1: well too. So I'm just so happy for him. I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy to see all his work, you know, coming coming
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  Speaker 1: to Fruition and everything that he's been putting forward has
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  Speaker 1: been you know, worth it. So I'm just so happy
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  Speaker 1: for him, and I'm just trying to be able to
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  Speaker 1: get him there, get him to that record. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I know Kalas is gonna be mad because he's breaking
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  Speaker 1: his record, but I'm just trying to do everything I
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  Speaker 1: can as a teammates to be able to get him
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  Speaker 1: there to want.
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  Speaker 2: Don't your off season workouts continue to involve some martial
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  Speaker 2: arts and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: You are you still working Yeah, definitely, I'm still working
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  Speaker 1: on it. Not as much this year because I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to get back, you know, on my feet and
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  Speaker 1: actually be able to walk and run.
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  Speaker 2: But depending on the discipline you're in that that involves
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  Speaker 2: the mind as well as the body. And I'm wondering
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  Speaker 2: if having experience in martial arts and all the training
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  Speaker 2: goes into that, did Debt help you mentally get through
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  Speaker 2: the rehab process and do what you had to do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh definitely. I mean just just just being disciplined and
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  Speaker 1: knowing that you know, it's a it's a long process.
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  Speaker 1: Like especially in martial arts, you don't just don't just
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  Speaker 1: pick it up on one off seas, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: pick it up in one year and just can do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, It's it takes takes a lot of time,
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  Speaker 1: takes a lot of dedication, takes days and days of work. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's something I talked to about with Wine
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  Speaker 1: at Combatives Combat is Unlimited. We just we just sat
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  Speaker 1: back was like, Yeah, it's gonna take a while for
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  Speaker 1: me to walk, it's gonna take a lot a lot
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  Speaker 1: for me to run, and we're just gonna work every
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  Speaker 1: single day and just just keep putting the people putting
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  Speaker 1: the hours in, you know, and it's gonna get better.