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SEG 1 - Wbb Show w Geno & Cav Mar 4 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome.
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  Speaker 2: We were at Cafe Or in Manchester for the first
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  Speaker 2: of our final two coaches shows of the season. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a second one after that's recorded with Dan Hurley,
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  Speaker 2: Alex Caravan and Mike Crispino. But I'm Bob Joyce, Gino
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  Speaker 2: Oriema with me and we have a special guest tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Guy I just saw Monday at Bear Smokehouse Barbecue, Mike Cavin,
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  Speaker 2: all the hockey coach. These two have wanted to do
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  Speaker 2: a show together for a long time, and tonight is
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  Speaker 2: a bonus show with Gino, so we got Cavin here.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight's so gentlemen. First of all, thanks for doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys have wanted to do this for
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  Speaker 1: a while.
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  Speaker 2: You said it best, though, Gina last week Friday or
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  Speaker 2: last time we did the show here last week. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just your friendship when you get to talk about
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  Speaker 2: your particular sports. You guys are so different in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways away from the game action. You tend
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  Speaker 2: to leave the game at home and worry about other
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  Speaker 2: things when you get home, and that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: good things about you too. Very down to earth guys,
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  Speaker 2: And here we go.
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  Speaker 1: But that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Seems like you two are very much alike in a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ways, both as co.
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  Speaker 1: But as coaches and his friends. Though, Hey, I'm Irish too, so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like a meat all here
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  Speaker 3: in front of two heads of cabbage or something. You know,
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  Speaker 3: what's up with.
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  Speaker 4: Your Saint Patrick's Day thing here too?
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  Speaker 1: What about it?
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  Speaker 4: What do you guys know about like Irish food? Because
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  Speaker 4: it's not very good.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's what I'm saying. This is for this Saint
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  Speaker 3: Patrick's Day here is for all the Irish people to
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  Speaker 3: come drink Irish drinks and eat good food. So that's
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  Speaker 3: the best part of being Irish. You don't, right, drink
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  Speaker 3: Guinness redbreast, blue dot, green dot, How many dots?
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  Speaker 1: Yellow spot?
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  Speaker 2: All right, this first segment, we should talk a little
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  Speaker 2: you kind of women's basketball, because it is your show
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  Speaker 2: to talk about your team.
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  Speaker 1: Then we'll really get into a calv a little later on.
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  Speaker 1: But your team.
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  Speaker 2: Seems to be in a good spot, great atmosphere. Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, at the garden with ninety six hundred,
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  Speaker 2: anybody there.
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  Speaker 3: Was anybody anybody else out the garden.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that Micha and Paul, they're always there. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was a fabulous atmosphere. Saint John's did a great
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  Speaker 2: job marketing the game. Your team played well, everybody seemed
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  Speaker 2: to contribute. And thirty one and oh eleventh undefeated regular
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  Speaker 2: season in program history.
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  Speaker 1: That's not too shabby.
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  Speaker 3: As you mix your drink, yeah, I know, yeah, people
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  Speaker 3: like to talk about that. You know, winning the regular
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  Speaker 3: season is great, but obviously, you know where we coach
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  Speaker 3: at Connecticut, people will always look around and go, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Mike's not there yet, but you know they will be
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  Speaker 3: like this year, if they if they finished one game ahead,
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  Speaker 3: one game out of the frozen four, people will go, oh,
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  Speaker 3: what happened? You know, like, once you set a standard
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  Speaker 3: of where your program can be, anything less than that
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  Speaker 3: feels like a huge setback. You know. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you win, you have an undefeated season, but you have
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  Speaker 3: to finish that off with something that's you know, bigger
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  Speaker 3: and better than that. And sometimes it pans out that way.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think seven of those times we won a championship
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  Speaker 3: and five of those times we have not. You know,
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  Speaker 3: so these things happen and you get to celebrate the
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  Speaker 3: regular season and it was great and no one going,
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  Speaker 3: no one going went into the season thinking, I think
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  Speaker 3: we can be undefeated this year in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: It's not something you set out to do, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: teams have a way of just feeding off themselves. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when things start going good, everybody feels good, and you
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  Speaker 3: know it's hard to keep that momentum going for thirty
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  Speaker 3: one games, obviously. You know, it helps to play some
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  Speaker 3: of the teams that we play that you know are
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  Speaker 3: really really good and some that are not quite good.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And it's kind of an interesting day because talking
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  Speaker 2: with Mike and we were having this conversation on one
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  Speaker 2: of our shows. They come back from main feeling they
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  Speaker 2: didn't play great, but they got five points on the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and then they come back with BC and UMass, they
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  Speaker 2: played great, especially this past weekend, and they come out
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  Speaker 2: with one point. That's and you played really well. That's
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  Speaker 2: just part of sports.
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  Speaker 4: I just want three games like him where I can
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  Speaker 4: just go out there and win easy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hockey East is in that way. You could play
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  Speaker 3: against the two of us and three of our kids,
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  Speaker 3: and hockey's not an easy game.
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  Speaker 4: If I get a win for that to make it easy, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But does everybody understand what the points system is in
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  Speaker 3: hockey on weekends.
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  Speaker 4: No, not this group.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, go ahead, explain it to him.
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  Speaker 4: Explain it if you can get in Hockey East, if
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  Speaker 4: we win a game in regulation, it's three points. If
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  Speaker 4: we win a game in overtime, it's two. If you
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  Speaker 4: lose a game in overtime, it's one. So that's essentially
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  Speaker 4: our point structure. So you know, we played really well
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  Speaker 4: against UMass, outshot him forty to twenty or whatever it was,
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  Speaker 4: and I lost the game. That happens, and then the
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  Speaker 4: next night we outshot him fifty three to twenty and
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  Speaker 4: got one point because we lost. No, I'm sorry, we
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  Speaker 4: tied in overtime and then they won the shootout, which
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  Speaker 4: is for the extra point. So it happened sometimes. But
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  Speaker 4: we played really, really well, and we ran into a hot.
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  Speaker 1: Goaltender who's six foot seven.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah he could. Yeah, he'll played for the men's basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: Probably he couldn't be a small forward.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of post players, Sarah Williams had quite the game
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night, and as you mentioned afterwards, maybe her first
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  Speaker 2: game as a Husky or maybe her best game, maybe
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  Speaker 2: her best half. I thought she played well in the
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  Speaker 2: second half and she didn't really you know, there was
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  Speaker 2: no hesitation offensively from her either.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to lane. You know why it would
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  Speaker 3: why would be like that sometimes and why it would
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  Speaker 3: not be like that sometimes? You know, Normally you think
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  Speaker 3: when you're you know, when you're a player, you you
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  Speaker 3: try really really hard to be the same every night,
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  Speaker 3: even though you know obviously it's not it's not easy
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  Speaker 3: to be that, but it's it's pretty simple. I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you have a big kid, it's probably
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  Speaker 3: like you know, if you've got great defenseman, if you've
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  Speaker 3: got a great goalie, if you have a big kid,
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  Speaker 3: their job is pretty simple. It's not complicated. Okay, don't
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  Speaker 3: give up labs right, make sure you protect the basket. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: why not just play with five guards so you're a
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  Speaker 3: big kit, protect the basket, don't give up easy labs right,
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  Speaker 3: and rebound the basketball. So if you can do those
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  Speaker 3: two things, then you are really, really, really a key
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  Speaker 3: part of the team. It doesn't matter a few score
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  Speaker 3: points or don't score points. That's that's irrelevant. If you do,
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  Speaker 3: that's an added bonus. Dennis Rodb Yeah, I mean you could,
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  Speaker 3: you can, you can, you can, you know, Bill Russell
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  Speaker 3: the perfect example. Now, not everybody, but in today's world,
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  Speaker 3: not everybody wants to be that person. You know. They
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  Speaker 3: want everybody wants to shoot, everybody wants to score, everybody
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  Speaker 3: wants to get you know, some tiktoks. And and I
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  Speaker 3: just think that, you know, if you're Sarah Williams and
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  Speaker 3: you say, look, every game, I'm going to rebound the ball,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to play good defense, make sure I protect
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  Speaker 3: the basket, and then whatever buckets I get, I get them,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And I shouldn't have to try really really
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  Speaker 3: really hard to get them, you know. And and this
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  Speaker 3: is the other thing. You know, people say, we why
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  Speaker 3: don't you pass the ball more to the big guys?
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  Speaker 1: So we do? We shoot it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fifty right, if we take ten shots,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to miss five of them. Well those are
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  Speaker 3: five pass just to you go get it. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's the way we look at it, right, right,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, I don't know, but I
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  Speaker 3: I I like I like the that when we play, well,
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  Speaker 3: it's because we play together, and basketball is so much
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  Speaker 3: that's you know, it's good to have Mike here because
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  Speaker 3: basketball is so much like ice hockey. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: a five on five game, you know, and all five
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  Speaker 3: guys have.
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  Speaker 1: To be really really good with each other.
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  Speaker 3: They don't just have to be good individually, they have
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  Speaker 3: to be really really good with each other. And when
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  Speaker 3: it's played like that, it's a really beautiful game to watch.
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  Speaker 3: You know. The puck moves, the ball moves, people move,
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  Speaker 3: everything's in sync. You know, nobody's holding the puck or
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  Speaker 3: nobody's holding the ball too long, and it's just boom
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  Speaker 3: boom boom boom boom. And you know, even if you
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  Speaker 3: don't score it, you know, you know you're playing well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and it's those times that make us make
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  Speaker 3: our team look better than most teams in the country
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  Speaker 3: because we move the ball better than most teams in
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  Speaker 3: the country.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we'll get into that five on five dynamic between
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  Speaker 2: hoops and hockey in a minute. We need to take
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  Speaker 2: our first break. Gino Oriema, Mike Kavanaugh. We're live at
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  Speaker 2: kaffe Or in Manchester. Back in a minute here on
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  Speaker 2: their field,