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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Jan 6 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us wherever you are. Of course, thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the folks here at the Hollow for joining us live.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're tuning on the radio or one of
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  Speaker 1: the various apps, appreciate you tuning in on this Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Women play Tomorrow Night in Hartford. Who's going to a
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  Speaker 1: game Tomorrow night? Raise your hand? Raise your hand, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're going. You don't have to raise your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Paul always goes. But Saint John's Tomorrow Night seven thirty Tips,
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  Speaker 1: seven thirty on the radio. If you're looking for us
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, Tomorrow night, Run the River one oh
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  Speaker 1: five nine. The guys play Providence. They're on at six
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  Speaker 1: thirty on the flagship Fox Sports ninety seven to nine
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  Speaker 1: in the entire network. But you can always listen to
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  Speaker 1: the Varsity app all sorts of apps. You can listen
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  Speaker 1: to both games with Gino here. Ahead of Saint John's.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Strong is closing in on a thousand points. She
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  Speaker 1: needs seventy three good She's played fifty five games, which
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  Speaker 1: is the record page in my the quickest to get
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  Speaker 1: to one thousand, so probably sometime and then what's the record?
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five games to one thousand Paige and Maya.
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  Speaker 2: Own that record, and where's Sarah?
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  Speaker 1: And Sarah's at nine twenty seven right now her fifty
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  Speaker 1: fifth game. Tomorrow will be her fifty fifth game.
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  Speaker 3: And she needs how many seventy three? I don't think
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  Speaker 3: she's going to get it.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, she'd have to do a Welt Chamberlain, right, yeah, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: The more, uh, the more scorers you have on your team,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you you're going to get uh, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get less shots.
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  Speaker 2: So the ball is going to be spread.
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  Speaker 3: Around, and so it may be a little bit more difficult,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And Sarah's a little too conscientious.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: She wants to pass the ball every time she gets it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it's a detriment. I think she wants
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  Speaker 3: to pass. She would rather pass it than shoot it.
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  Speaker 3: Right sixty eight.
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  Speaker 2: That's not bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you never had a problem with with Maya with that. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: Maya passed the ball to the basket, that was it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, she was good at doing that.
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  Speaker 2: She was really good at doing that was good. She
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  Speaker 2: was really good at it. She was really good at it.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the other one page? Page?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the page her freshman year, there weren't a lot
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  Speaker 3: of scores on her, you know, so she had to
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  Speaker 3: do a bulk of the scoring. So circumstances I think
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  Speaker 3: have a lot to do with it. But certainly, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Sarah's probably one of the best offensive players in the country.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's well.
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  Speaker 3: Rounded enough that there really isn't anything that especially if
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  Speaker 3: she's shooting the boy the way she's shooting it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's sixty from three over her last five games.
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  Speaker 1: Where have you seen the biggest growth in her game
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  Speaker 1: so far this season from last? Are they little nuances
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  Speaker 1: here and there that you see.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit here and there, but not.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like the Ohio State game, you know, where
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  Speaker 3: every body was just absolutely blown away by her performance.
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  Speaker 3: And now how it stay came right, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: she had twenty nine points and I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: else yet. And I think the she's you forget that
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  Speaker 3: she's only played fifty five games, so there isn't that
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  Speaker 3: this is where she is and she's kind of nearing
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  Speaker 3: her peak. I mean, there's so many things that she
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  Speaker 3: can do that we're not seeing right now, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And I think she has it in her because she's
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  Speaker 3: shown it.
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  Speaker 2: I just think she has to become.
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  Speaker 3: A little more assertive and not be so worried about
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  Speaker 3: getting everybody else the ball. I think our best players
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times suffer from that, you know, over
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  Speaker 3: the course of their careers here at Yukon. And I
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  Speaker 3: think maybe that's why they come here. You know, they
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  Speaker 3: know we don't build our team around one kid or
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  Speaker 3: two kids. You know, we just kind of spread the
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  Speaker 3: ball around and whoever's open gets it. And and if
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  Speaker 3: you're unselfish, then you're going to be you know, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to thrive here. And if you're very selfish, you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to play here. But there's a fine line,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like I don't want Sarah to pass the
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  Speaker 3: ball unless somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Is wide open thanks to and.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like I used to tell Diana, don't
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  Speaker 3: pass the ball in the first quarter. All right, make
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  Speaker 3: sure we're up twenty, and then you can pass it
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  Speaker 3: anytime you want.
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's passing it to easy, You're okay with that, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you come down and there's a guy
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  Speaker 3: wide open right there, throw it to him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But when you come down and you're staring at the
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  Speaker 3: basket and you're ten feet away and there's nobody around you,
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  Speaker 3: and you're looking for somebody to.
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  Speaker 2: Pass it to. What that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Agree?
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  Speaker 3: Like when I coach guys, that never came out of
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  Speaker 3: my mouth shoot more.
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  Speaker 2: No, are you kidding me? No?
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  Speaker 3: You know you never you just close your eyes when
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  Speaker 3: you're coaching guys, like what kind of shot is that?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: With these guys, you know they're they're passing up really
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  Speaker 3: really good shots and that leads to sometimes that leads
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  Speaker 3: to too many turnovers, like the last two games. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the turnovers are just people just trying to be too
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  Speaker 3: you know, just shoot it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Jay Wright used to say something that's really, really, really true.
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  Speaker 3: He said, the time when you're most open to shoot
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  Speaker 3: is immediately when you catch the ball, because that's why
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  Speaker 3: you caught it. You're open. If you weren't open, we
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have thrown it to you. So you're open and
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  Speaker 3: you catch it. That's the time when you should be
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  Speaker 3: thinking catch and shoot if you're obviously in the scoring area.
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  Speaker 3: And that's something that we've been harping on, you know
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  Speaker 3: with our guys.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, one player that has come to life the last
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  Speaker 1: few games is Jenna el Alfie.
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  Speaker 2: She is shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Sixty eight percent over her last three games, ten points
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  Speaker 1: per game, fourteen total rebounds, back to back games in
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  Speaker 1: double figures for the first time in her career. What
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  Speaker 1: have you seen differently from this young lady lately?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's been novel.
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  Speaker 3: And she went home for Christmas and came back and
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  Speaker 3: I guess on the flight over she realized that when
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  Speaker 3: she shot at the ball went in the basket, she
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  Speaker 3: would feel a lot better about herself, you know. So
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  Speaker 3: she was going through a stretch there where you know,
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  Speaker 3: we were getting her layups and it was like fifty
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  Speaker 3: to fifty whether she was going to make it or not.
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  Speaker 2: So she was miserable all the time.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, I'd be miserable too if I kept
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  Speaker 3: missing those easy laps.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, they start.
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  Speaker 3: Going in, you know, and now she's at the free
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  Speaker 3: throw line taking a couple jump shots, so I said
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  Speaker 3: take it. You know that in the past she wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: take it because she didn't think she would make it.
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  Speaker 3: Then when she did take it is because she's stuck
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  Speaker 3: with the ball and didn't know what to do with it,
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  Speaker 3: so she just shot it right. So there's a there's
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  Speaker 3: a much greater comfort level that she has right now
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  Speaker 3: when she has the ball in her hands. She's not
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  Speaker 3: as jumpy and it's not as you know, anxious as
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  Speaker 3: she was. And you forget too, this is only her
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  Speaker 3: second year of playing. I mean I looked out on
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  Speaker 3: the court. I forget when it was two games ago.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I looked out on the court and we had
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  Speaker 3: Heckel was out there. Who's the sophomore, Ali, who's the sophomore,
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  Speaker 3: Sarah who's the sophomore, Jenna who's the sophomore. And I
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  Speaker 3: forget who else was out there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm Blanca, who's a freshman. So I looked out there.
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  Speaker 2: We had four.
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  Speaker 3: Sophomores and one freshman now on the floor. So we're
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  Speaker 3: still a young team, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: There are times when we're gonna look like Gangbusters, and
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  Speaker 3: there are times when it's not going to look like that.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately. All right, more with you.
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