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Geno Postgame Presser - Tennessee · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Uh uh by watching them. Uh, obviously they have a
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  Speaker 1: uh they have a style of player that's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different than what you normally normally see.
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  Speaker 2: And I think anytime you can be different, I think that.
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  Speaker 1: Sets you apart.
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  Speaker 2: People have to prepare for you a little bit differently
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  Speaker 2: than they do for everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: It's uh uh, it's unusual for somebody to you know,
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  Speaker 1: sub you know, five players, four players at a time,
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  Speaker 1: and I and I think it takes them getting some
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  Speaker 1: getting used to and.
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  Speaker 2: The the the n the just the the way the.
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  Speaker 1: The the game is.
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  Speaker 2: You have to keep your composure against them, and I
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  Speaker 2: I think she does a great job of forcing you to.
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  Speaker 1: Adapt to them. You know. And except for.
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  Speaker 2: Uh three minute or two minute stretch there in the
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  Speaker 2: third quarter, you know, I thought we.
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  Speaker 1: Handled it great. You know. The the pressure wasn't an
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  Speaker 1: wasn't an issue.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, uh, that's the that's the beauty of
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  Speaker 2: of of playing like that, you know, is you just
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  Speaker 2: need a couple couple minute spurt and it can change
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  Speaker 2: the game. So certainly it's much more difficult to play
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  Speaker 2: down here than it than it was the last three
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  Speaker 2: or four years, you know, and to win in in
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  Speaker 2: in these environments.
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  Speaker 1: You know you've gotta have you know, you gotta have tough,
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  Speaker 1: mature players to be able to handle this In earlier
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  Speaker 1: those weeks that you like, how many stall conference teams
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of over the up your conference season
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  Speaker 1: to ask you whider team helped comparison.
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  Speaker 3: Their other teams that sliver conference? What did you use
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  Speaker 3: store of ourt these days?
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  Speaker 1: The boss, I think you know, we've s we've talked
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  Speaker 1: a lot about, uh, you know, the the perception that U.
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  Speaker 2: When w W when we played a really good When
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  Speaker 2: we play a really good team on the road, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you need uh contributions from your best players. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: uh I it's hard if you don't get that. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought Sarah and KK were great today. You know,
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  Speaker 2: KK learned a lot today. She grew up a lot today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is Sarah's first environment in a non
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  Speaker 2: conference game like this. You know she's only a freshman.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Aubrey gave us, you know, some eight minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we.
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  Speaker 2: We found some things that we can build on. The rebounding.
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  Speaker 2: We knew it was gonna be a problem. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we play with our small lineup so often, so we
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  Speaker 2: gotta fix that. That's been an ongoing thing all year,
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  Speaker 2: cause it was pretty even at halftime.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and but the bottom line is, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have a we have some players on our team that
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  Speaker 1: are s supposed to be our best players and they
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  Speaker 1: gotta play back. So there was two.
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  Speaker 3: Can you just have trouble getting going and see play
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  Speaker 3: there an a few of these bigger games.
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  Speaker 1: Now you just what do you feel like it is
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  Speaker 1: kind of the the blot with her in terms of
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  Speaker 1: being able to to start as hot as chance and be.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I I n I don't know. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a real kind of conundrum. You know, Page
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  Speaker 2: wants the ball in her hands all the time. Then
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  Speaker 2: when they trap her, she don't want the ball in
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  Speaker 2: her hands. So now we try to get her moving
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  Speaker 2: from you know, one thing to another, moving without the ball, and.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's so so so.
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  Speaker 2: We've gotta come to some sort of definitive thing here
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  Speaker 2: how how we're gonna handle it.
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  Speaker 1: But right now it's not it's not the winning edge
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  Speaker 1: for sure. I'm passing up stuff, you know, like I
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  Speaker 1: don't get it. I really don't.
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  Speaker 3: Goes. This is really a good sting team and the
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  Speaker 3: five to twenty from the yard, is is surprising? Or
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  Speaker 3: when you come because you shoot so well, is it
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  Speaker 3: does that? As far as like you to do, do
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  Speaker 3: you fit to leak foot bowl? What was going on
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  Speaker 3: in the r.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them were probably yell advised, you know, or
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  Speaker 1: or are in a or rushed, you know. I thought
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  Speaker 1: like Aubrey's passed the Serrah that was.
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  Speaker 2: Theoretically a three point shot, which I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: she even took it, but it ended up being passed
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  Speaker 2: the Sarah for a laugh. Uh, So some were really
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  Speaker 2: ill advised. I th I thought most of 'em, we
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  Speaker 2: have pretty good looks at all of 'em, and we
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  Speaker 2: just didn't make 'em. And we we normally do, like
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  Speaker 2: you said, you know when I when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the statue points from turnovers twenty four nineteen Yukon points
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  Speaker 2: in the pain forty two forty two, second chance points
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  Speaker 2: twelve eleven, fast break points twenty six for Ukon, fourteen
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  Speaker 2: for Tennessee, bench points twenty six for Ukon, twenty for Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: You think we won the game, huh, but that's not
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  Speaker 2: really in the indicative stat sheets.
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  Speaker 1: Lie a lot to a L to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Because there was big plays that had to be made,
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  Speaker 2: big stops that we had to get, big bucket that.
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  Speaker 1: We have to make, and crucial points of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't. We didn't make 'em.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, when two good teams are playing, that's
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  Speaker 2: the that's the difference maker.
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  Speaker 3: Had going back to.
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  Speaker 1: The gas only your second time playing and is kind
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  Speaker 1: of environment, including Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: Suppose what's supposed to the most about her ability to stay,
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  Speaker 3: to stay for you? So you stay, how just jug
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  Speaker 3: down when you guys hear off the.
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  Speaker 2: Bench without energy, Yeah, I it's it's I it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit comforting, I guess to know that you're bringing
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  Speaker 2: someone off the bench that started thirty games or something
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  Speaker 2: like that last year and and started in a Final
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  Speaker 2: four game, and so it's not just your average bringing
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  Speaker 2: somebody off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: And so I I think she's a starter that just
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  Speaker 1: happens to wait before she gets on the court and
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  Speaker 1: and she's getting uh a better feel for herself what
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  Speaker 1: she wants to do. Yeah, there were a couple of
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  Speaker 1: things she did today that make you scratch her head.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought she was I thought she was the
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  Speaker 2: most competitive player for Yukon today and and I think
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  Speaker 2: that means a lot to her an and I I
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  Speaker 2: think getting getting more comfortable making perimeter jump shots, I
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  Speaker 2: think will help a lot for her. But I like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I like what I saw out of her tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how does your.
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  Speaker 3: Parient take care? You do?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 3: As well of anybody? And with these two teams, and
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  Speaker 3: this series has many health but when's.
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  Speaker 1: All the beast?
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  Speaker 2: Was there something to be said for teams sort of
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  Speaker 2: taking its responsibility making.
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  Speaker 1: It the robbery again? Is this maybe ask some fire
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  Speaker 1: back into a robbery?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I I'm all, remember when you guys played
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  Speaker 3: twice a year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, it ended up being three times. It's right,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times. Yeah. That's why I understand why
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  Speaker 1: people boomed me when I walked in. Man, they should
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  Speaker 1: they should be thanking me for bringing my team back
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  Speaker 1: down here after uh, after it was missing for so long. God,
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  Speaker 1: that's how you treat your friends. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: you do. I I I do think there was a
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  Speaker 1: time when this game meant a lot to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. The game of women's basketball looked forward to
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  Speaker 1: this game. People who weren't women's basketball fans look forward
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  Speaker 1: to this game.
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  Speaker 2: The players certainly looked forward to this game, and it
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  Speaker 2: took on a life of its own. And and like
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  Speaker 2: anything else, you know, other people have caught up. There's
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  Speaker 2: other big, big name teams, there's other big name rivalries.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, as it should be.
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  Speaker 2: And I think both of you kind of Tennessee kind
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  Speaker 2: of laid the groundwork for what's happening today. And so
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  Speaker 2: there are more big games, there are more big ribberies,
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  Speaker 2: there are more more big TV games, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: can this still be one of them?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I don't, honestly, why not? You know, I would
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  Speaker 1: think that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those people that enjoy watching good basketball are gonna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if all the games are like this with
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  Speaker 2: a different ending, I think people really enjoy watching these games.
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  Speaker 1: Cool good, So CHR. What would you say is the
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  Speaker 1: difference of play styles you saw from Tennessee tonights versus
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee teams in the past.
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  Speaker 2: That you've seen, Uh, it's just different. It's a different approach.
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  Speaker 2: They're much more I think they're in great, great physical conditioning.
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  Speaker 2: I think they play hard. I think being able to
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  Speaker 2: sub in and out like that. And that's probably because
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure that there's a big gap, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is there a big gap between like number two and
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  Speaker 2: three and number eight or nine? So as they mix
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  Speaker 2: a match and put people out there, that's different, that's different.
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  Speaker 1: And it again, it hasn't been like that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've played them now, what this is the
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  Speaker 1: fifth time or something since we started back up, So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like that the other four times. For sure.
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  Speaker 2: They create a lot more problems for other teams now
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  Speaker 2: than than they did a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else to coach last US coaches. It's one of
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  Speaker 3: the old timers around here, obviously into a different series
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  Speaker 3: without one of the biggest figures moving over and amore.
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  Speaker 3: When you walk into this building, do you do you
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  Speaker 3: think of some of those past games, some of those
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  Speaker 3: past match ups and passed so much. Just what what
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  Speaker 3: did your reaction from walking into the.
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  Speaker 1: Salna now once the boot stop? You mean, I, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: No, I've al I've always uh, I've always enjoyed kind
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  Speaker 2: of coming down here. Uh I I still remember the
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  Speaker 2: very first time, uh that we came down here. I
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  Speaker 2: think Tennessee had like a sixty nine game on Winny
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  Speaker 2: Street or something, and uh and we won and and it.
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  Speaker 2: It meant a lot, you know, it meant a lot
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  Speaker 2: to win a game, uh cause we weren't you know,
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  Speaker 2: we weren't you come basketball yet. You know, we had
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  Speaker 2: just won a national championship and we had just played
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  Speaker 2: them in January, March, and then December. You know, three
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  Speaker 2: times in less than twelve months. That doesn't usually happen,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So I remember that first one for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I remember a couple when you looked out on the
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  Speaker 2: floor and there was you know, five or six or
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  Speaker 2: seven future Hall of famers out there playing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Y.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 1: It just had a lot to it, h uh. And
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  Speaker 1: I know that the players looked forward to it. It.
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  Speaker 2: The the intensity of the games is what I remember.
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  Speaker 2: The intensity of the games. It it was way different
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  Speaker 2: than it any other game that you played. You know.
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  Speaker 2: It felt like ann Every time we played it felt
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  Speaker 2: like a national championship game, you know, And every time
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  Speaker 2: we played them, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like one versus two, two versus three.
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  Speaker 2: It's an NCAA tournament game, it's a national championship game.
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  Speaker 2: Like every game meant something. So that's probably unique in itself.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't happen anymore.
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  Speaker 3: What follow up, Kim Caldwell was in high school in
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  Speaker 3: these games.
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  Speaker 1: That you're talking, Yeah, you remind me of that.
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  Speaker 3: Huh yeah, if you was talking about how they all
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  Speaker 3: talked about it at school, and you know it was
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  Speaker 3: the talk everybody your guys, girls, everybody won't talk about
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  Speaker 3: the game. This was her first, you know, time to
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  Speaker 3: get coach in it, which, if you don't mind your
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  Speaker 3: you y'all spoke before the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what what kind of did y'all say there?
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  Speaker 2: H w I I I I really uh first met
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  Speaker 2: her at the Barclays event that we had in New York,
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  Speaker 2: and uh DN and been watching.
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  Speaker 1: I I think she been stepping into a situation like this.
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  Speaker 1: Stepping into this program when you're a young coach that's
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  Speaker 1: never coached Division one can't be the easiest thing in
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  Speaker 1: the world. And uh, I just wanted to remind her that.
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  Speaker 2: Watching from Afar, I can see the difference, and I
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  Speaker 2: can see the impact that she's had, and I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to let her.
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  Speaker 1: Know that I noticed that right thanks coaching you and
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  Speaker 1: she should have stayed home to care for her babies.