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Dusty May & Yaxel Lendeborg React to Michigan Winning Players Era Championship · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: They didn't just win, they ruled.
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  Speaker 2: In Las Vegas this week, Michigan didn't ask for respect,
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  Speaker 2: they demanded it, blowing out Gonzaga by forty, handing Mark
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  Speaker 2: Feu the worst loss in his coaching career. After knocking
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  Speaker 2: off San Diego State and Auburn. This wasn't just a
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  Speaker 2: tournament win. It was a state offense, defense, total control.
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  Speaker 2: The message is clear. They are the best team in
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  Speaker 2: the country. One blowout after another, Michigan is number one.
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  Speaker 2: We are sitting here in awe of what was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be a knockdown, drag out fight, but instead he
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  Speaker 2: put the nation on notice. I'm getting fab five vibes
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  Speaker 2: from this Michigan basketball team. No mercy on the court,
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  Speaker 2: incredible teamwork off of it. Michigan basketball team after tonight,
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  Speaker 2: one million dollars in the nil Bank jud shing Michigan
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  Speaker 2: point differential in three games they won by four thirty
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  Speaker 2: shut over fifty percent for the floor, dominated the boards,
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  Speaker 2: dominated in paint, points, dominated on the bench, and the
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  Speaker 2: Wolverines legends are here to separate with their coach and
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  Speaker 2: their players.
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  Speaker 1: I had to get out of the way. See Web
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  Speaker 1: has to hug Y Axel.
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  Speaker 2: We got a Dusty May in the building as well, congratulates.
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  Speaker 2: Please sit down wherever you feel like it. No no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I get it, I get it, I get it. I
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  Speaker 2: was just hyping you up. What a moment. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: start with the player first, the axle first of all,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful ring. I don't know how many figures that's going
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  Speaker 2: to fit, But you sat on our desk last night
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  Speaker 2: and said we are the best front court in the country.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I stand on my words that I said yesterday. Tonight
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  Speaker 3: was the first night that we proved that we're going
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  Speaker 3: to continue to prove it for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: I one hundred percent believe and everybody on this team,
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  Speaker 3: especially off front coin and nobody's gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: compete with us.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Rose, congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Hell to the victors.
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  Speaker 5: Dusty.
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  Speaker 4: This question is for you, off I want to congratulate
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  Speaker 4: you because since you got the job, I made sure
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  Speaker 4: I reached out to you as the player as an
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  Speaker 4: alarm to tell you we love you, we support you,
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  Speaker 4: and what you've done with the roster and what you've
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  Speaker 4: done with bringing in quality young men. Were very grateful
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  Speaker 4: that you are head coach, So how important is it
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  Speaker 4: to you not only to get these young men to
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  Speaker 4: work hard and improve every day, but also a lot
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  Speaker 4: of them to enjoy themselves, have to personality with themselves
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  Speaker 4: in with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jalen, First of all, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: We want to make you guys proud, especially guys like
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  Speaker 6: yourselves and did so much and put Michigan on the map.
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  Speaker 1: We're as recognizable as we are because of you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: So tip of the cap.
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  Speaker 6: What our guys are doing right now isn't easy. They're sharing,
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  Speaker 6: they're sharing the success. They're playing for each other every
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  Speaker 6: single day and this should be fun.
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  Speaker 1: Man. There's nothing better than hooping, and we talk about
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  Speaker 1: it every single day.
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  Speaker 6: So we're in between the lines. We got to work
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  Speaker 6: and we've got to get better, but we're also hooping.
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  Speaker 1: Coach.
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  Speaker 5: We know you're hooping, and we know that your system
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  Speaker 5: really holds these young men and accountable. And we love
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  Speaker 5: hearing guys like just talk about how they can get better.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to ask you if what your coaches
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  Speaker 5: had do you also when you play this well as
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  Speaker 5: a coach. I heard you say we took our guys
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  Speaker 5: in the locker room and we said Wait, we have
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  Speaker 5: so many guys playing well. Does it bring up any
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  Speaker 5: concerns when your teams are playing that well? Do you,
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  Speaker 5: as a coach say, I know we're playing well, but
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to create stressful issues for us to try
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  Speaker 5: to manufacture and not sit on our laurels. What is
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  Speaker 5: your kind of perspective to let guys be themselves, but
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  Speaker 5: also to make sure that the pressure is on and
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  Speaker 5: we continue to get better every day.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we're playing like this because we treated those early
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  Speaker 6: season wins like losses. We didn't feel like we played
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  Speaker 6: anywhere near our potential, and so we went back to
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  Speaker 6: the drawing board like we'd lost by twenty. And the
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  Speaker 6: thing about our program, we're all about to work. This
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  Speaker 6: feels good right now, but this can't. This has to
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  Speaker 6: be a starting point for us. I can't wait to
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  Speaker 6: get back. And we were meeting before the game about
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  Speaker 6: what was going to be our work schedules.
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  Speaker 2: We got a little bit of.
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  Speaker 6: Break now, so I'm more concerned if we don't build
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  Speaker 6: a four around our locker room. As long as we
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  Speaker 6: don't let anyone finetrate what we have, then we'll continue
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  Speaker 6: to get better.
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  Speaker 7: Hopefully.
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  Speaker 8: Hey Destin, congratulations when you put this group together, you know,
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  Speaker 8: you could really look at those all the bigs as
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  Speaker 8: being three centers. But this guy right here stepping out
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  Speaker 8: of the perimeter, working on his game as a passer,
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  Speaker 8: as a playmaker. What was that like putting that thing
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  Speaker 8: together with three centers.
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  Speaker 6: Well, obviously it wasn't simple because they weren't plug and play.
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  Speaker 6: But we knew they were all really, really good. And
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  Speaker 6: so when you have really good players, you tend to
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  Speaker 6: have us. There's some solutions out there, you just have
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  Speaker 6: to find them. And we knew you act could dribble, pass,
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  Speaker 6: and shoot. He just didn't shoot threes at a volume,
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  Speaker 6: and so we've had to beg him and plead and
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  Speaker 6: plead with him to shoot more threes.
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  Speaker 1: Every single day. And so he's met us in the middle.
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  Speaker 6: But his work capacity, his day to day habits have
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  Speaker 6: improved every single day since he's been.
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  Speaker 1: A Michigan coach. I'm familiar with your work.
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  Speaker 7: I live in Miami, so I know Fau and the
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  Speaker 7: question that I have for you. You've seen to always
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  Speaker 7: have unique bigs that can do a lot on the
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  Speaker 7: perimeter as well as the Defensively. Mara is an interesting
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  Speaker 7: unicorn for me. I think he unlops your front court
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  Speaker 7: based upon what he can do. Can you tell me
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  Speaker 7: a little bit more about him and his ability.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's still getting comfortable with defenders being underneath them
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  Speaker 6: and being physical with it them trying to stand him up.
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  Speaker 6: So we've got to do a better job of getting
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  Speaker 6: him clean catches and getting him some space because his
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  Speaker 6: decision making when he keeps us.
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  Speaker 1: Simple is elite.
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  Speaker 6: We're trying to expand his game where he's going to
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  Speaker 6: be shooting threes before long. We might move the free
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  Speaker 6: throws back out.
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  Speaker 1: For four feet if we have to.
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  Speaker 6: But he's an unbelievable teammate and he wants to share
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  Speaker 6: in his rim protection obviously, Like you look at our
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  Speaker 6: two point percentage defense, it's the top of college basketball
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  Speaker 6: because the size, length, and.
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  Speaker 1: Also just these guys cover for each other.
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  Speaker 2: Suppressive coach, I'm sure that your respect for Mark Few
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  Speaker 2: is unmatched.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the greatest we've seen in this sport.
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  Speaker 2: He's coached nine hundred and two games, He's never had
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  Speaker 2: a loss like this. When you go back and you
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  Speaker 2: figure the work schedule and you talk to these guys,
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  Speaker 2: do you appreciate what just happened what you just did
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  Speaker 2: these last three days. You want buy one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: ten points. Do you get a moment I know you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be focused. Do you get a moment to
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  Speaker 2: just smile and go?
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  Speaker 1: Man, we kicked ass this week.
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  Speaker 6: There were a couple of times on the bench when
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  Speaker 6: the staff we just looked at j and said, Man,
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  Speaker 6: we've got a good ball club.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a really good ball club.
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  Speaker 6: And we know that we're not going to be We're
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  Speaker 6: not going to continue to do what we're doing if
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  Speaker 6: we don't stay together and stay connected as a group.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't think there's a college coach in the
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  Speaker 6: country that I've watched.
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  Speaker 1: More of their games as a fan than Mark Few.
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  Speaker 6: I think he's as good as there is, and he's
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  Speaker 6: been doing it at that I think the highest, the
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  Speaker 6: best winning percentage of the last twelve years in college basketball.
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  Speaker 6: They schedule anyone, anywhere, anytime, and when you see him
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  Speaker 6: on the road, he treats people right. He has great humility,
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  Speaker 6: and everything he does is better for our game and
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  Speaker 6: our sports.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, I'm I'm I'm a huge fan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So last night we talked a lot about having the
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  Speaker 4: best front core in the country. Now, I believe we
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  Speaker 4: have the best team in the country. And what unlocked
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  Speaker 4: that today for me is the back court play, the confidence,
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  Speaker 4: the defense, the extra effort, the three point shot. So
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  Speaker 4: talk about your players in the back court.
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  Speaker 3: And those little guys man their dogs. Man, it started
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  Speaker 3: with Elliott. Elliott's from day one been feeling disrespectfully, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just from the outside world, and he's been, you know,
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  Speaker 3: taking out on the court, which is amazing to see.
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  Speaker 3: That carries over to LJ who's obviously a little younger
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  Speaker 3: and he's learning from Elliott. And then roder Guill you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's just a do it all kind of got for us.
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  Speaker 3: So he's gonna go in there and make plays. The
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  Speaker 3: mar Burnette as well string d Win. We have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different guys that do different things and that's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: To be a part of us.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have any more comments except watching the heart
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  Speaker 5: of the team and seeing not only the IQ the
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  Speaker 5: system because it takes so many pieces, but seeing all
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  Speaker 5: of that and then having the correct attitude as a fan.
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  Speaker 5: It's just proud to watch man.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great. Much success. Thank you question for the
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  Speaker 1: both of you guys.
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  Speaker 5: How did you guys feel about this particular.
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  Speaker 7: Players era tournament from the margin and victory from the
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  Speaker 7: coaches standpoint, and also the prize that's on the line
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  Speaker 7: from winning a championship for the players.
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  Speaker 1: I'll start with that. First of all. I hate it
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  Speaker 1: when we can't let the guys who practice every single
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  Speaker 1: day play the game. When they're in and you're holding
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  Speaker 1: the ball and you're not shooting.
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  Speaker 6: I think they play until the end because they practice,
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  Speaker 6: so that didn't bother me. I think it held us
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  Speaker 6: to a higher standard of focus in concentration that we
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  Speaker 6: knew we couldn't let off the gas because it cost
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  Speaker 6: us an opportunity to play today, and any tournament where
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  Speaker 6: you have a chance to play the three programs that
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  Speaker 6: we played and do it on this stage is sign
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  Speaker 6: me up every day twice on Sunday awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I have two unrelated questions.
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  Speaker 2: Number One, I am now going to be representing these
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  Speaker 2: two You think there's any chance we could lift maybe
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  Speaker 2: a five into the banners or find a way because
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  Speaker 2: I feel I want these guys to really get the
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  Speaker 2: love from Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to happen, and you're much more creative than me.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to find a way.
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  Speaker 2: Some black socks or something out there. And then my
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  Speaker 2: other question for you is it's a big week. Michigan's
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  Speaker 2: making it. We got Michigan Ohio State and he messaged
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  Speaker 2: all the Michigan fans out there for football.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great time to be a Michigan fan in general.
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  Speaker 6: When you look at our women's basketball team, on hockey
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  Speaker 6: team across the board, and obviously our football team.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna handle business on Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: So we're excited to get back and watch and uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know see what we could keep doing.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations coach, Congratulations jacksl and that ring right there. I
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  Speaker 2: think he was pretty surprised to get it. Take a
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  Speaker 2: look at the video, Jackson. When you first saw it,
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  Speaker 2: he was like, what is this thing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking That's what I'm talking about, man, Jana, you
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  Speaker 5: have to have those relationships if you want to get
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  Speaker 5: to the next level.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, love, love love Michigan. Right now is the council
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  Speaker 1: the Vails.
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  Speaker 2: There are many months left in basketball until March, but
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  Speaker 2: right now, in November, we know who the number one
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  Speaker 2: team is.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan players are a chip. Thanks guys, beat.
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  Speaker 8: O hi
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  Speaker 1: Assass