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How can Texas Basketball bounce back after loss to UConn? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the Voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Longhorns.
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  Speaker 2: Craig Way.
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  Speaker 1: Follow Craig on social media at Horn Voice.
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  Speaker 3: Eighteen minutes after three o'clock here on a Wednesday, Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: On Wednesday, it's Thursday afternoon. Here on sports Radio AM
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  Speaker 3: thirteen hundred ZO, We're going to hear from Texas men's
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  Speaker 3: basketball coach, trying to hear in a few minutes. The
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  Speaker 3: long Horn football team was doing very little for the
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  Speaker 3: front part of this week. Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian
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  Speaker 3: wanted to give them some time away, both physically and mentally.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll hear more from sark coming up in the
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  Speaker 3: next segment. But of course, the players who involved in
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  Speaker 3: the college Football awards presentations, they've been a little bit busy.
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  Speaker 3: For example, Jake Major who was a Campbell Trophy finals
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  Speaker 3: he didn't win it. Jalen Milroe actually won it. It's
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  Speaker 3: for the player best student athlete with academic, community service
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  Speaker 3: and excellence on the field, I think, and Jalen Milroe
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  Speaker 3: actually won it. But Jake Majors was a finalist for it,
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  Speaker 3: and so afterwards he was asked about how his team's doing.
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  Speaker 3: What's the mental state like of the team coming off
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  Speaker 3: the loss to Georgia in the SEC Championship. Remember there's
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  Speaker 3: been no player interview, press conference, media availabilities of any
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  Speaker 3: kind as a team for Texas, but as the individual
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  Speaker 3: players kind of fan out. Calvin Banks was asking things
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  Speaker 3: last night when he won the Lombardi Award, and Jake
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  Speaker 3: Majors was asked about the current mental and physical state
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  Speaker 3: of this football team heading in the next week's playoff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we're going to take some time to
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  Speaker 4: get our bodies back, but you know we're gonna get
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  Speaker 4: back to it. We're going to start preparing, to start installing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, doing our routine that we always have every
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  Speaker 4: week when it comes to the season, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: as a team, we just gotta, you know, go out
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  Speaker 4: there and play like we're.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to keep our family together.
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  Speaker 4: Because hell, what's so special about this team as we're
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  Speaker 4: all bought into the culture and it feels like a brotherhood,
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  Speaker 4: like a true brotherhood, Like everybody loves each other and
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  Speaker 4: we got to fight for our brotherhood.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a fun time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, looking forward to it, getting looking forward to getting
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  Speaker 3: back together and working together. That's one thing that Sark
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  Speaker 3: has talked about quite a bit. It's about how this
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  Speaker 3: group has been really good at doing that. All right,
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  Speaker 3: on to basketball and Texas comes off the loss to
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  Speaker 3: Yukon on Sunday. Texas had managed to when they were
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  Speaker 3: down big in the game, came all the way back
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  Speaker 3: and cut it to eight, had a chance to cut
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  Speaker 3: at six, but couldn't hit a key shot down with it,
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  Speaker 3: missed a couple of key shots, and then Yukon finished
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  Speaker 3: it off to win. So now Texas at seven and two,
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  Speaker 3: gets ready to go back to work and playing New
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  Speaker 3: Mexico State tonight at Moody Center. Yesterday, Long WRNS head
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  Speaker 3: coach Rodney Terry took part in the media zoom when
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  Speaker 3: he visited with the local media talking about the current
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  Speaker 3: state of his team getting ready for this matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Good aff and our team.
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  Speaker 5: I apologize if you were asked us before, but you
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  Speaker 5: talked about that sense of urgency, you talked about it
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  Speaker 5: Sunday night against Yukon. Just how much of that is
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  Speaker 5: an eight within a player and how much of that
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  Speaker 5: or within a player and a team, and how much
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  Speaker 5: of that is something that you have to instill within
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  Speaker 5: your team.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Eric, I tried to from a coaching standpoint,
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  Speaker 6: I think a lot of coaches do, not just myself,
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  Speaker 6: but I think you try to prepare your team for
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  Speaker 6: what they're about to embark on. You never want them
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  Speaker 6: to go into a game where they were like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know this team was going to be ready
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  Speaker 6: to play off. I didn't know that these guys were
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  Speaker 6: going to play the way that they're playing right now.
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  Speaker 6: You know you coming in you because won the last
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  Speaker 6: two national championships a well coached They went over to Hawaii,
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  Speaker 6: they didn't have.
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  Speaker 2: Their best game.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't play, uh, you know, to the best of
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  Speaker 6: their ability over there on the road. Their next opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to go on the road is to come to Austin,
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  Speaker 6: Texas and play against US. Here, we knew, and I
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  Speaker 6: told our guys we were gonna get their best game.
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  Speaker 6: We were gonna get a team that was gonna be
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  Speaker 6: extremely focused and challenged to come in and play at
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  Speaker 6: a high level. And anytime you've got six guys that
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  Speaker 6: they all have a national championship ring, and you know
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  Speaker 6: three or four of those guys were significant players on
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  Speaker 6: last year's team, there's a lot of there's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of proven and want to to on the other side
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  Speaker 6: over there, and I thought they came in and they
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  Speaker 6: played extremely well.
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  Speaker 2: I think again again, I'll take ownership on it myself.
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  Speaker 6: With my defensive standpoint, they're one of the elite offensive
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  Speaker 6: execution teams and all the college basketball. You know, we
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  Speaker 6: we've had some success early in our journey this year
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  Speaker 6: with this team to where we could switch and and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and do pretty good with that. Really hard to
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  Speaker 2: do it against you gun.
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  Speaker 6: We started the game switching, and they really started dicing
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  Speaker 6: us up a little bit in terms of our.
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  Speaker 2: Switches and UH, and so we had to change.
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  Speaker 6: That up and make an adjustment during the game and say, hey,
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  Speaker 6: you know what, we've got to play with the sense
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  Speaker 6: of urgency in terms of how hard we play on defense.
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  Speaker 6: Well going out me and we're not gonna switch, We're
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  Speaker 6: gonna stay with our guys. And I thought that really
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  Speaker 6: kind of change the game for us, UH on that.
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  Speaker 2: End of the floor. Brian Davis, please, hey, coach UH.
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  Speaker 2: Two questions of easy one.
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  Speaker 7: First, how how did how's Kayden doing here in the
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  Speaker 7: days after all that, I mean, playing all those minutes
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  Speaker 7: and getting worried about his shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: You know what. You know, he he had.
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  Speaker 6: He had two great successful shoulder surgeries last year. He
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  Speaker 6: had a great summer. He's had a lot of contact, uh.
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  Speaker 2: Prior to that.
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  Speaker 6: He played in some physical games this year as well.
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  Speaker 2: He did take a hard fall to the floor.
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  Speaker 6: In the contest the other day, bounce back up, played
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  Speaker 6: through it. You know, it was more of like a
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  Speaker 6: bruised type of situation for me. Wasn't anything structural.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: So you know he's come back the last two days
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  Speaker 6: here in each practice, well, first day was a lot
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  Speaker 6: more sore, just to be expected. Today was better today
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  Speaker 6: as well. So look for him to be bout. He's
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  Speaker 6: been able to push through it to this point right now.
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  Speaker 2: Cool, very very good.
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  Speaker 7: The other question I had is just looking at the schedule,
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  Speaker 7: looking at the games you have the rest of this month,
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  Speaker 7: is is your mindset now got to use these games
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  Speaker 7: to you know, really ramp up and get ready for
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  Speaker 7: for A and M and SEC play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think right now. I think again.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 6: The thing that I said to our guys that day
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  Speaker 6: after the ball game, you know, and even you know
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  Speaker 6: leading up to practice yesterday, because we have to take
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  Speaker 6: the falling day off after the game. You know, I
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  Speaker 6: think we're at a point in our season right now
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  Speaker 6: where we have to be fully committed to really work
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  Speaker 6: at hard.
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  Speaker 2: And fixing the things we needed to fix from.
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  Speaker 6: An office standpoint, defensive standpoint, and then we needed to
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  Speaker 6: have a really good.
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  Speaker 2: Level of urgency that we're playing with.
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  Speaker 6: When we cut, we have to have a purposeful cut
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  Speaker 6: on how hard we do it well. Initiate offense, we
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  Speaker 6: have to initiate offense with a great pace of play
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  Speaker 6: in terms of how we want to play. We spread
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  Speaker 6: back on defense, we have to have one hundred yard
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  Speaker 6: dash mentality getting back. But being fully committed with a
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  Speaker 6: high level of urgency and being consistent with what we do.
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  Speaker 6: That's been the biggest thing that I've tried to preciate
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  Speaker 6: between now in the time that we take a break
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  Speaker 6: and we come back from my break, we have to
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  Speaker 6: have that that that all that that has to be
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  Speaker 6: a part of who we are. We're committed, we have urgency,
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  Speaker 6: and we play with consistency.
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  Speaker 2: Corey mose, please, what's up our team?
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  Speaker 8: So just kind of picking back and off of Brian's
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  Speaker 8: question last month of the season before SEC play starts,
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  Speaker 8: but I just want to ask before SEC play starts,
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  Speaker 8: what is something that you figured out about your team
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  Speaker 8: to this point that you may not have known before
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  Speaker 8: the first season.
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  Speaker 2: How many first game of the season.
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  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I think you know, man, I pretty much
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  Speaker 6: have given you a standard question that a lot of
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  Speaker 6: people in college basketball have giving you. You know, anytime
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  Speaker 6: you're trying to navigate through the landscapeable one year roster.
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  Speaker 6: You know we got ten new players. You're just really
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  Speaker 6: trying to get your guys to jail and understand your
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  Speaker 6: schemes and develop an identity in November. Right now, it's
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  Speaker 6: about us coaching the details and us trying to get
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  Speaker 6: our guys better. We know we have to get better
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  Speaker 6: offensively with our pace of play, our cuts, our ball movement.
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  Speaker 6: So that's something we're really harping on right now at
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  Speaker 6: a very high level. Get the ball moving, it doesn't
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  Speaker 6: need to stick, and then each get side to side,
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  Speaker 6: and we need to be able to plot.
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  Speaker 2: We attack the paint.
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  Speaker 6: You know, the other day was our lowest scoring output
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  Speaker 6: in the paint.
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  Speaker 2: We've been able to do a great.
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  Speaker 6: Job against opponents to this point right now, really attacking
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  Speaker 6: the paint. All we did a pretty good job of
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  Speaker 6: trying to play inside out against yukon the other day
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  Speaker 6: as well. We put eight fouls on those guys and
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  Speaker 6: you know, put the big guys in foul trouble. But
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  Speaker 6: I think the one thing that that I didn't know
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  Speaker 6: at that that as we continue to go through our journey, uh,
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  Speaker 6: is that you know, we still have to be able
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  Speaker 6: to to work games. You know, we uh we we
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  Speaker 6: we can't give up twenty minutes in terms of uh
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  Speaker 6: this is a group that can't pick up things pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Old estimated our learning curve to this point right now, know,
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  Speaker 6: with trying to play a switching defense against a really
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  Speaker 6: good offensive team. So again I own that I'll take
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  Speaker 6: that on a little bit. We've been pretty good though
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  Speaker 6: in big moments, being able to switch and Gordon, you know,
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  Speaker 6: switching Gordon different actions against against pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Good offensive teams.
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  Speaker 6: But when you play against an elite offensive executing team,
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  Speaker 6: we had to kind of go back to our base
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  Speaker 6: defense and not stay in it as long as we did.
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  Speaker 9: Have time for three last ones in the huge and
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  Speaker 9: then Brown.
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  Speaker 10: Please, hey, coach, My question was just with sec play
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  Speaker 10: looming and you mentioned how there was a lot of
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  Speaker 10: you guys coming to the team, what was the biggest
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  Speaker 10: thing that you saw that gives you your team confidence
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  Speaker 10: as well as your yourself heading into ac play.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think our guys are still learning how to
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  Speaker 6: play hard and and uh and again, I never asked
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  Speaker 6: any any guy to go in or our team to
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  Speaker 6: go in and play a perfect game. No one's gonna
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  Speaker 6: play a perfect game, no one's gonna coach a perfect game,
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  Speaker 6: not gonna have an officiated game is perfect. But I
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  Speaker 6: do ask our guys to go in and play extremely hard,
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  Speaker 6: uh every night and play with a high.
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  Speaker 2: Sense of urgency.
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  Speaker 6: And I really challenge our guys to endear themselves to
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  Speaker 6: our to our to our fan base. How do you
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  Speaker 6: endure yourself to our fan base and and long Hunt
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  Speaker 6: Nation by being a team that's crappy, that plays hard
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  Speaker 6: every possession, that that really cares about about the name
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  Speaker 6: on the front of the jersey and not the name
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  Speaker 6: on the back of the back of the jersey, and
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  Speaker 6: then just playing for one another and having a joy
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  Speaker 6: in doing that. And so you know, that's really kind
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  Speaker 6: of what we really try to instill.
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  Speaker 2: In our guys. Uh and uh.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's what we try to hang our hat
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  Speaker 6: on every night.
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  Speaker 2: Terry Middleton.
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  Speaker 9: But uh, so you talked about urgency, the cutting, the joy,
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  Speaker 9: getting you know, to the ball. Is it fair maybe
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  Speaker 9: accurate to say you're kind of describing Kendall Weaver. I
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  Speaker 9: mean this is when you're saying all this, I'm like,
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  Speaker 9: that's Kendall Weaver.
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  Speaker 2: Is that their.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Jerry, you're you're right.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Kendall does play with a high sense of
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  Speaker 6: urgency when he's on the floor.
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  Speaker 2: He plays with a chip on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: He's the guy that executes when when we call an
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  Speaker 6: action or we're in and you know, whether it be
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  Speaker 6: a transition offensive action that we're running, a half court
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  Speaker 6: act action that we're running. He's a guy in a
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  Speaker 6: driving offense that will make a great forty five cut
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  Speaker 6: with a great purpose. He will try to finish at
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  Speaker 6: the rim. He rebounds his position, he defends his position. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you have a whole team full of Kendo of Weavers.
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  Speaker 6: You got a monster tea last one.
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  Speaker 9: Georgie Reeves from TSCV, go.
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  Speaker 11: Ahead, please all right, good afternoon, coach, Thank you for
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  Speaker 11: taking your time out, and like I just want to
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  Speaker 11: bounce off of what that last question was. You know,
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  Speaker 11: New Mexico State they have been un a capitalized on
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  Speaker 11: defensive laps, Like, how are you going to prepare your
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  Speaker 11: team and just kind of get them, I guess get
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  Speaker 11: a team of Candle or Kendle Weavers. And in Texas
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  Speaker 11: men's basketball, well, I.
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  Speaker 6: Think again, we we worked the whole month of trying
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  Speaker 6: to establishment identity defensively, and I thought we we've got
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  Speaker 6: it pretty well. I mean, we're we're pretty good defensive team.
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  Speaker 6: We can sit down and we can guard. You know,
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  Speaker 6: we've shown that we uh that in big moments in
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  Speaker 6: several of our games early in the season, that we
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  Speaker 6: can make switches, we can switch Kayden out and go
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  Speaker 6: to go to guard and and and feel like at
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  Speaker 6: times that our big wings could could man up uh
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  Speaker 6: with the big guys inside as well. But but but again,
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  Speaker 6: I think the message has been for us is just
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  Speaker 6: to sit down, play with urgency, give it, you know,
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  Speaker 6: give it your all. In terms of how hard you
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  Speaker 6: can go defensively. When the shot goes up, we have
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  Speaker 6: to have all five guys trying to have a physical
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  Speaker 6: block out uh. And then I think if we're able
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  Speaker 6: to do that, we're able to play our strengths. We
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  Speaker 6: can get out and we can run. You know, New
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  Speaker 6: Mexico State's a well coach team. They got older players,
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  Speaker 6: they've got sized they're one of the best rebounding teams
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  Speaker 6: in all of college basketball. So they're gonna challenge us
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  Speaker 6: on the glass. And when they're shooting the ball really well,
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  Speaker 6: like they did the other night they made fourteen threes,
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  Speaker 6: They're an extremely dangerous team against anyone anywhere on any
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  Speaker 6: given night. So whoever I hands forward with them, they're
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  Speaker 6: an older team, They're not gonna be intimidated coming into
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  Speaker 6: our building playing. They just went into the pit sixteen
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  Speaker 6: thousand and be the good New Mexico team, So they'll
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  Speaker 6: We've got a huge challenge with a well coached team
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  Speaker 6: in the New Mexico State Aggage Company.
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  Speaker 3: And that game is tonight at seven o'clock. You'll hear
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  Speaker 3: it here on the Zone six thirty airtime seven o'clock tip.
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  Speaker 3: Also on ninety eight point one FMK Vets at the
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  Speaker 3: Arnold joined me for the call of that. We'll hear
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  Speaker 3: more from Rodney Terry about his basketball team and getting
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  Speaker 3: through what they're going through right now. In the non
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  Speaker 3: conference portion, of the schedule that'll be coming up next hour.
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  Speaker 2: Up next more from coach sark Long WRN
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  Speaker 3: S head coach Steve Sarkishan when we continue on sports
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  Speaker 3: Radio AM thirteen under the Zone in the iHeartRadio app