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February 5, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 3: Hey we're here, Thanks for being with us on this Thursday.
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Speaker 3: This portion of the program is brought to you by
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Speaker 3: David in the circuit court in Tuscaloosa arguing against granting
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Speaker 3: Alabama basketball player Charles Vidiaco collegiate laibility. I respectfully asked
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Speaker 3: the court to uphold the NCUBLEA eligibility rules challenged in
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Speaker 3: this case, which are essential to the integrity of college sports,
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Speaker 3: to the educational mission they serve, and of the opportunities
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Speaker 3: they provide for current and future student athletes and Sanky
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Speaker 3: in a four page affi David Bidioco returned to Alabama
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Speaker 3: last month despite leaving the school three years ago and
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Speaker 3: playing in the NBA's G League. A hearing is scheduled
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Speaker 3: at ten thirty tomorrow morning for arguments to determine if
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Speaker 3: he can continue to play for Alabama through a preliminary
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Speaker 3: injunction that barred the NCUBLA from enforcing those rules. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: in this amateur athletics, the SEC announcing today that they
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Speaker 3: have distributed over a billion dollars of reven new to
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Speaker 3: the sixteen schools. Fourteen of them get the full seventy
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Speaker 3: two point four million dollars. University of Texas gets twelve million,
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma two point six million.
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Speaker 1: As part of their agreement when they entered the conference.
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Speaker 3: Both of those schools will get full shares next year.
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Speaker 3: Last night in Tuscaloosa, Charles B. Diaco had just five
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Speaker 3: points and four rebounds, but Alabama held off Texas A
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Speaker 3: and M one hundred to ninety seven, an incredible college
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Speaker 3: basketball game. The Aggie's now seven and two and tied
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Speaker 3: with Florida for first place in the SEC. The Gators
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Speaker 3: will be at Reed Arena for a showdown Saturday night
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Speaker 3: at seven thirty. Only one top twenty team in action tonight,
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Speaker 3: that is number two Michigan hosting a bad pinned state team.
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Speaker 3: Last night, Illinois was a forty point winner over Northwestern,
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Speaker 3: But in case you missed it, late sixth rank Gonzaga
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Speaker 3: was upset at Portland eighty seven to eighty. Houston knocked
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Speaker 3: off Central Florida in the Big twelve seventy nine fifty five.
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma State upset Brigham Young ninety nine to ninety two.
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Speaker 3: After that Houston demolishing of Central Florida, Kelvin Sampson said
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Speaker 3: his top ten team cannot sign more recruits because the
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Speaker 3: athletic department is, in his words, very poor. Said Samson,
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Speaker 3: we have a very poor athletic department.
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Speaker 1: We're poor. We were poor when I got here. We'll
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Speaker 1: still poor.
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Speaker 3: We probably have the lowest budget of anybody in Power four.
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Speaker 3: The way our recruiting is going, we have to stop
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Speaker 3: at some point because we don't have the money to
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Speaker 3: keep bringing in good players.
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Speaker 1: It's not easy for us to do.
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Speaker 3: According to USA Today, Houston was ranked fifty six in
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Speaker 3: D one athletics with a revenue of seventy eight million dollars.
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Speaker 3: That's about a third of the University of Texas athletic budget.
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Speaker 3: The Big Twelve is looking into anti Mormon chance during
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Speaker 3: the game against Oklahoma State last night. Commissioner Brett Yormark
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Speaker 3: said in a statement to Sports Illustrated the Big Twelve
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Speaker 3: Conference is aware of and is investigating reports of inappropriate
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Speaker 3: chants that occurred during last night's men's basketball game. All
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Speaker 3: parties have been notified. The conference has zero tolerance for
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Speaker 3: behavior of this nature and will address the matter in
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Speaker 3: accordance with Big Twelve sportsmanship policies. BYU coach Kevin Young
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Speaker 3: after the game, expressed disappointment there were some bleep the
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Speaker 3: Mormons chants tonight by the student section that I heard.
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Speaker 3: It was a great win for Oklahoma State. I think
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Speaker 3: their fans should be proud, but it would be great
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Speaker 3: if some class was warranted.
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Speaker 1: LSU has been.
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Speaker 3: Predicted to win the SEC baseball title. In the annual
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Speaker 3: coaches poll released today, LSU was picked first, just ahead
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Speaker 3: of Texas, Mississippi State, and Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: The Aggies are picked.
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Speaker 3: Thirteenth in the preseason All SEC Team. Gavin Grahovac First
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Speaker 3: Team Cayden Serell first team and Clayton Freshcorn second team pitching.
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Speaker 3: They're playing golf in Phoenix in suburban Phoenix at the
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Speaker 3: Waste Management Open. Chris Gottarup is the clubhouse leader right now.
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Speaker 3: I'll try to get a score on Scotti Scheffler. Je
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Speaker 3: would you get me Scotty Scheffler's score today at the
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Speaker 3: golf tournament? It wasn't classic Scotti Scheffler today. In case
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Speaker 3: you're wondering, the forecast for Super Bowl Sunday in Santa Clara,
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Speaker 3: an expected high of sixty seven degrees could be a
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Speaker 3: chance of rain at thirty percent, a small chance of thunderstorms,
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Speaker 3: temperature dropping into the fifties during the game. London Seymour
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Speaker 3: is a freshman defensive lineman for Georgia. Was arrested on
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Speaker 3: January twenty ninth and charged with eleven second degree felony
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Speaker 3: count of property damage. He is the son of Pro
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Speaker 3: Football Hall of Famer Richard Seymour. Was booked into the
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Speaker 3: Athens Clark County Jail last Thursday, later released on five
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars bond. Details are not available. According to the
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Speaker 3: Athens Benner Herald, the arrest occurred after incidents at Rooker
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Speaker 3: Hall on George's campus. No comment yet from Kirby Smart
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Speaker 3: or anybody else at Georgia. The Olympics are underway. They
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Speaker 3: played women's hockey today and the US women's hockey team,
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Speaker 3: which is one of the favorites for the gold medal,
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Speaker 3: beat chesneya five to one. They're slated to play against
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Speaker 3: Saturday against Finland, Monday against Switzerland, and next Tuesday. Oh
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Speaker 3: the Hosiers Canada a US and Canada sign me up
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Speaker 3: for the men's hockey game if US ends up playing Canada,
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Speaker 3: although Canada pretty much owns the US. I hate saying that.
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Speaker 3: And in case you, some of you, some of us
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Speaker 3: needed reasons to feel old. Roger Captain, comeback Captain America,
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Speaker 3: the Dodger starback turns eighty four years young today. Roger
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Speaker 3: Freaking Starback is eighty four. In eleven years, he threw
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Speaker 3: for twenty two thousand yards, led four Super Bowls, two wins,
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Speaker 3: coined the Hail Mary in the seventy five playoff game
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Speaker 3: against Minnesota. Captain Comeback is eighty four today. Did I
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Speaker 3: mention that he used to live around the corner for
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Speaker 3: me and the Lord tell Us and we'd walk by
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Speaker 3: his house and there was a park across the street.
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Speaker 3: We'd go and play football. We were always hoping to
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Speaker 3: see Roger, and occasionally he would come out and visit,
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Speaker 3: or you'd run into him at the Burger place down
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Speaker 3: the street. And Man, I was young, I just thought
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Speaker 3: that was the coolest thing in the world. He came
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Speaker 3: and talked to our FCA group in high school. He
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Speaker 3: was the man Roger Stopbach. Happy birthday eighty four today.
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Speaker 3: All right, did you ever find Scheffler score yet?
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Speaker 4: What do you shoot today? What do you shoot? I
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Speaker 4: think two over.
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Speaker 1: Seventy three to two over not very good. Good eight
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Speaker 1: under is leading the tournament. So yeah, he had a
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Speaker 1: really bad day. Okay, we're going to take a break.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna hear from Nate Oates, the Alabama coach. We
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Speaker 3: have got a high school report. We are going to
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Speaker 3: hear from Bucky. We have the Clark Eisenhower Outdoor Edition
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Speaker 3: in the second hour. Yes, we have Attacking Animals. It's
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Speaker 3: been a couple of weeks. We will get to that.
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Speaker 3: We have a little podcast that Parks and Wildlife is doing,
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Speaker 3: called better Outside, talking about getting ready or preparing to
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Speaker 3: go to the Devil's River Wildlife Area, which is probably
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Speaker 3: the most pristine river and the wildest wildlife area.
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Speaker 1: So we've got that going on for us, which is nice.
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Speaker 3: We're going to come back and here from Nate Oates.
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Speaker 4: SAD, welcome back.
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Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us here on this Thursday edition.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about it. We're going to talk about it
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Speaker 1: some more.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna hear from Bucky coming up here in about
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Speaker 3: thirty minutes or so. In his postgame comments from last night,
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Speaker 3: what a college basketball game in Tuscal loose the last
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Speaker 3: night unbelievable one ninety seven. I hate ruining such a
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Speaker 3: great game talking about the officiating. The first half had
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Speaker 3: terrific flow, to it because there were very few fouls
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Speaker 3: called the second half. The officials decided they blow a
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Speaker 3: whistle every time down the court, so the parade of
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Speaker 3: the free throw line was long. A and M missed
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Speaker 3: a few more free throws than they had been missing,
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Speaker 3: and we repeatedly say on the road, you can't do
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Speaker 3: that in a game like that. Obviously, eight miss free
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Speaker 3: throws is a huge deal. Alabama missed their share of
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Speaker 3: free throws as well. Alabama had not been shooting free
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Speaker 3: throws as well as A and M had. The Aggies
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Speaker 3: have been really good the last few games especially and
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Speaker 3: most of the season shooting free throws. Did not like
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Speaker 3: all the whistles that were blown in the second half
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Speaker 3: because I thought it interrupted to flow.
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Speaker 1: The first half was just like NonStop.
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Speaker 3: But hear me, clearly, the officials did they miss calls, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: But that wasn't.
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Speaker 1: The reason the game ended the way it did. It
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Speaker 1: was just a great game. It was a great game.
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Speaker 3: It was a game where I knew and what we
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Speaker 3: talked about. This was a line in the sand game
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Speaker 3: for Alabama. Natos called it a tipping point.
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Speaker 1: For our season.
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Speaker 3: They were four and four in the conference coming off
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Speaker 3: a horrible loss at Florida. They were at home. They
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Speaker 3: felt like it was a must win game. It was
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Speaker 3: played at a high level by both teams. Both teams
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Speaker 3: just terrific entertaining basketball.
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Speaker 1: Here is Natos after the game.
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Speaker 4: All right, guys had a good response to the loss
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Speaker 4: it Florida. And with all the turnovers we had against Florida,
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Speaker 4: I thought our guards to a really good job taking
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Speaker 4: care of the ball and we only ended up with
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Speaker 4: six turnovers. And look, man, all right, give a and
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Speaker 4: I'm a lot of credit. They played hard. They they're
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Speaker 4: a good team. I mean, first place by themselves for
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Speaker 4: a reason. It's a good team with the good players.
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Speaker 4: And I think they were averaging fifteen plus turnovers a
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Speaker 4: game coming into this, so it took a lot of
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Speaker 4: focus from our guards. I mean, you know, he kind
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Speaker 4: of go down the list. Mari had six assists, one
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Speaker 4: turnover the baron coming off the bad game at Florida
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Speaker 4: with his turnovers, that had no turnovers and when the
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Speaker 4: pressure he played thirty six minutes with zero turnovers and
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Speaker 4: three assists. It's pretty big Holloway who has a career
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Speaker 4: and rebounds tonight. Also, you know, I had four assists
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Speaker 4: two turnovers and nobody else had more than two, and
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Speaker 4: thought he did a pretty good job and on the
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Speaker 4: pressure most of the night himself, right, So let three assists,
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Speaker 4: one turnover. So I think, when you know, we've been
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Speaker 4: talking about the possession game, and we have not done
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Speaker 4: a great job in the possession game most of the year.
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Speaker 4: Turnovers were even off rebounds plus plus eight, so plus
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Speaker 4: eight there kind of make up for the fact that
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Speaker 4: we didn't shoot it particularly well and we missed too
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Speaker 4: many free throws too. Outside of Aiden Charrell, you know,
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Speaker 4: we didn't have anybody go one hundred percent of the line.
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Speaker 4: So I thought, uh, our bigs did a really good job,
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Speaker 4: between Aid and Charrell and Charles Badiaco keeping a g
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Speaker 4: if that's pronounced correctly off the glass. I mean, that's
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Speaker 4: the lowest number of rebounds he's had all year, with
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Speaker 4: only three rebounds and no offensive rebounds. So I thought
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Speaker 4: they did a good job there. We did a good
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Speaker 4: job in a glass. It's just you know, and they
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Speaker 4: got some shot making from some guys that typically didn't
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Speaker 4: make shots. I mean, there's five guys that we kind
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Speaker 4: of had on the weren't on the shooter's list, per
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Speaker 4: se but that threw in I think what seven threes
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Speaker 4: combined between the five of those guys, you know, like,
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Speaker 4: so we got to do a little bit better job
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Speaker 4: explaining to our guys like they may not have made
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Speaker 4: many on the year, you know, like ag only made ten,
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Speaker 4: It only made nine and twenty one games, So these
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Speaker 4: guys are making less than won every two games or
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Speaker 4: three games. But you still got to close out. So,
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Speaker 4: you know, if we'd done a little bit better job
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Speaker 4: on some of those, I thought we could open it
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Speaker 4: up a little more, particularly in the first half because
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Speaker 4: six of those seven came in the first half. But
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Speaker 4: you know, then our guys stayed with it. I think
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Speaker 4: we got down six in the second half at one
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Speaker 4: point we bounced back finished the game on was it
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Speaker 4: six two run I believe, because they were up on us.
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Speaker 4: They were up on us with a minute a half
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Speaker 4: to go, and we had to kind of close the
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Speaker 4: game there on a run. So I thought we did
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Speaker 4: a solid job taking care of the ball late when
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Speaker 4: they really turned their pressure up. You know, had some
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Speaker 4: iffy ones there, but we we got out of it
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Speaker 4: with a win, which we needed bad at this point.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, Aiden and Labaron combined for twenty nine points in
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Speaker 8: the second half after only having eight in the first
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Speaker 8: is kind of what was the message to them at
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Speaker 8: half time.
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Speaker 4: I didn't really say anything about scoring. We were not
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Speaker 4: going to talk about scoring this game. We're gonna talk
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Speaker 4: about our effort, our toughness, and our playing for each other,
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Speaker 4: our modida if you will. Uh So I just told them,
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Speaker 4: you know, we got to get more stops. We got
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Speaker 4: to take away the threes from those guys that maybe
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Speaker 4: aren't aren't known as shooters. We still got to close out,
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Speaker 4: even if we're gonna play off them a little more
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Speaker 4: and they don't have the ball, and just keep focusing
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Speaker 4: on getting stops and taking care of the ball. And
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Speaker 4: you know what, I think when those guys focus on
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Speaker 4: the right stuff like they did the night, and they're
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Speaker 4: maybe the best best backcourt in the country. So you know,
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Speaker 4: we need Holloway to keep playing like he did. I mean, shoot,
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Speaker 4: he dug out some tough rebounds late in that game.
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Speaker 4: So for him to six rebounds, twenty points, four assists,
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Speaker 4: that's that's a pretty good game.
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Speaker 9: I am it just your your bench production today, Guys
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Speaker 9: like London and Houston, just what did they provide just
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Speaker 9: that you needed with guys movie struggling in the first half.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we know Houston can shoot. You know,
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Speaker 4: London can shoot. Those guys combining to go fifty percent,
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Speaker 4: you know, six out of twelve. I thought that, particularly
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Speaker 4: in the first half. The a couple of threes by
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Speaker 4: London were big. Houston's big time effort. Guy, I need
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Speaker 4: him to stay out of foul trouble so you can
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Speaker 4: stay in the game a little more. But man, you know,
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Speaker 4: getting twenty two points out of those two guys and
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Speaker 4: hitting six threes in a game like this is big.
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Speaker 4: So you gotta have some shooting off the bench like
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Speaker 4: we had.
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Speaker 9: What happened on the technical foul and then kind of
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Speaker 9: how did you see the team respond after that happened.
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Speaker 4: I tried to stay away from technicals this year, I have.
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Speaker 4: I didn't say anything necessarily, but I thought was deserving
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Speaker 4: of it. But bro, I just said one last comment.
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Speaker 4: Then I should have just kept my mouth shut. So
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Speaker 4: I've got on my play card I keep in my pocket.
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Speaker 4: Here I get Proverbs nineteen eleven. It says the discretion
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Speaker 4: of a man defers his anger, and it's his glory
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Speaker 4: to pass over to transgression, So I should have just
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Speaker 4: passed over the transgression I thought by the referees. But
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Speaker 4: sometimes I don't pull it out and read it like
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Speaker 4: I need to so and do a goodenough job. I
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Speaker 4: think that's only my second one all year, though, so
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Speaker 4: I know somewhere out there in the Twitter space they
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Speaker 4: keep tracking my teas and we usually win. I think
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Speaker 4: the last time I got a tea this year, we
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Speaker 4: did not win. So I would not have been happy
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Speaker 4: with myself if we'd have lost this game by one
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Speaker 4: or two points giving away two free points.
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Speaker 10: So I want to ask you a couple of questions
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Speaker 10: about the full court press that y'all saw. Is that
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Speaker 10: as much press as y'all as you've seen in a
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Speaker 10: game since you've been in Alabama? One and two? From
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Speaker 10: a coaching standpoint, are are you happy enough that the
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Speaker 10: team did a great job of breaking the press without
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Speaker 10: turning the ball over or or do you also want
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Speaker 10: to see more easy looks off of that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Great question. One. Yes, that's the most anybody's pressed
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Speaker 4: us since I've been here that I can remember. I
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Speaker 4: don't think anybody, I mean, they pressed on every possession
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Speaker 4: for forty minutes, so nobody that we've played really has
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Speaker 4: done that. We did a great job taking care of
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Speaker 4: the ball. We did not do as good a job
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Speaker 4: getting the quality shots that we'd like to out of it.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's like forty eight threes, and I don't
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Speaker 4: mind forty eight threes. I think you guys all know that,
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Speaker 4: but they need to be forty eight great threes. And
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Speaker 4: I thought we rushed into a few, took some contested ones,
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Speaker 4: and I told them I don't want to turn down
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Speaker 4: open threes, because when you turn down open shots against
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Speaker 4: team like this, you wanted to turn the ball over later.
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Speaker 4: But I thought we took a few that weren't open,
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Speaker 4: and we were looking. I felt like we could get
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Speaker 4: a paint touch on every possession they didn't. You know,
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Speaker 4: we could get in the paint a little bit more
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Speaker 4: and get them in the blender more often, end up
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Speaker 4: with some more donks files wide open threes. We we
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Speaker 4: weren't terrible with our shots selection, but it was not
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Speaker 4: as good as what it needed to be.
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Speaker 11: That you started out by mentioning just the response from
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Speaker 11: the team from the Florida game, what maybe changed or
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Speaker 11: click to go from that to beating the top team
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Speaker 11: in the sec.
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Speaker 4: I must say this, our guys stepped up, took some ownership,
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Speaker 4: some guys in trusted in front of the team. It
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Speaker 4: was embarrassing at Florida. I think in order to change
23:44
Speaker 4: some stuff, you got to mit your run. I think
23:46
Speaker 4: some guys admitted their effort wasn't where it needed to be,
23:48
Speaker 4: their mind wasn't where it needed to be, and we
23:52
Speaker 4: got to turn this thing around. So I think it
23:54
Speaker 4: was more an internal thing. We got to get internal
23:57
Speaker 4: leadership from the players. I think it's starting starting to
23:59
Speaker 4: stuck up. The practice we had yesterday was as intensive
24:04
Speaker 4: practice as we've had since non conference for sure. Like
24:09
Speaker 4: some guys went at each other, some guys challenged, some
24:13
Speaker 4: other guys thought it was great, and then we kind
24:16
Speaker 4: of we we we did more live stuff, kind of
24:20
Speaker 4: good on good first and we kind of mixed the guys.
24:23
Speaker 4: It wasn't first team second team necessarily. You know, we
24:26
Speaker 4: had Mari and LeBaron going at it. You know, you
24:30
Speaker 4: didn't have everybody. And then when we got together at
24:33
Speaker 4: the end of practice and kind of went against our
24:35
Speaker 4: scout team, thought they did a really good job pulling
24:38
Speaker 4: pulling themselves together, realizing we are on the same team.
24:41
Speaker 4: We're challenge each other in practice to make each other better,
24:44
Speaker 4: and then we got to pull together and be on
24:46
Speaker 4: the same team, and we uh when we played together,
24:49
Speaker 4: and I thought we were a lot better that way
24:51
Speaker 4: tonight and competed a lot harder.
24:54
Speaker 12: Coach got on that same theme with a response and accountability.
24:59
Speaker 4: We saw. We saw it.
25:00
Speaker 12: Take a Martin before the game, get really excited, get
25:02
Speaker 12: really animated in the huddle, and then the same thing
25:05
Speaker 12: after the three pointer, to tide to go in the
25:07
Speaker 12: locker room, just getting into everybody's face and keeping that
25:09
Speaker 12: energy very high. What is his role being in the
25:12
Speaker 12: response and was his role being kind of on the team?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was not out there. I heard he did
25:17
Speaker 4: her pretty good job getting everybody fired up. Didn't know
25:22
Speaker 4: he had all that in him. He plays hard, he's smart,
25:24
Speaker 4: he's passionate. He he comes to work every day and
25:29
Speaker 4: he does a really good job on our scout team
25:31
Speaker 4: and making our bigs better. And I liked it. I mean, shoot,
25:36
Speaker 4: I need to get a video Ivan. I haven't seen it.
25:37
Speaker 4: I heard from a couple of the assistants, the players
25:41
Speaker 4: talked about it, and then I got to do radio
25:44
Speaker 4: at halftime, so I guess I didn't get to see
25:46
Speaker 4: us halftime celebration, but I'll say this, the things Jacob's about,
25:52
Speaker 4: the stuff we got to be about playing hard, toughness,
25:56
Speaker 4: you know, rebounding, blue collar. So the play in that
26:00
Speaker 4: half was a offensive rebound tip by Houston that led
26:04
Speaker 4: to a three, which ends up being a game winning play.
26:08
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a one possession game. We needed those
26:10
Speaker 4: three points in a bad way. That tied it at
26:12
Speaker 4: the half. So I love the fact he celebrated that
26:15
Speaker 4: like it was the best dunk you've ever seen, because
26:18
Speaker 4: we got to make this thing more about effort, blue collar,
26:21
Speaker 4: tough plays like that.
26:25
Speaker 2: After the back to back dunks by Texas A and
26:27
Speaker 2: M in the first half, it seemed like you gave
26:29
Speaker 2: Charles Betty Gaco a little bit of an earful after
26:31
Speaker 2: he checked out.
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Speaker 13: How do you feel like he responded to that moving forward?
26:35
Speaker 4: Charles been coached by me before. Charles knows who's gonna
26:40
Speaker 4: intends the level he's got to bring. Maybe they don't
26:45
Speaker 4: coach like that in the G League. I don't know,
26:48
Speaker 4: but he got get up and make a play. He's
26:51
Speaker 4: in there, first shot block and he can't just watch
26:53
Speaker 4: the guy run by him and get dunks. I love Charles,
26:56
Speaker 4: super happy's here. Our players love him. He's like the
26:59
Speaker 4: best teammate ever. But that doesn't mean you can't coach
27:02
Speaker 4: him and challenge him. Every every good player wants to
27:04
Speaker 4: be coach art and Charles is no different.
27:09
Speaker 14: Some big offensive buckets late Latrell rights in the corner,
27:13
Speaker 14: and then that Holloway circus shot. We knew he could
27:16
Speaker 14: shoot the three from when he was at Auburn, but
27:17
Speaker 14: just how much better has he gotten at the rim?
27:19
Speaker 14: And then your take on that crazy shot at the
27:22
Speaker 14: end of the game.
27:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, So obviously Rightzell hits big shots. I think he's
27:28
Speaker 4: been one of our best big shot maker in the
27:32
Speaker 4: games he's played since he's been here. I can go
27:34
Speaker 4: through a number of games where he's hit clutch shots
27:37
Speaker 4: late in games to seal the lead, give us a
27:40
Speaker 4: lead like it did tonight, put us you know, put
27:44
Speaker 4: us ahead. So no surprise from Rightzel. Super happy for him.
27:48
Speaker 4: He's been one of our leaders, stepping up to try
27:51
Speaker 4: to make this about the right stuff. So yeah, it
27:55
Speaker 4: was great. I mean, you know, and he goes four
27:57
Speaker 4: for eleven, it's not seven for ten like he was
27:59
Speaker 4: as Missouri. But it's it's good. I mean it's you know,
28:03
Speaker 4: over thirty three percent, and we needed all four of
28:06
Speaker 4: those threes he made. And then you know, al Alway
28:09
Speaker 4: is one of the best shooters I've ever coached. But
28:12
Speaker 4: he didn't shoot it great from three tonight. But he's
28:14
Speaker 4: really gotten a lot stronger. He's worked hard since he's
28:16
Speaker 4: been here. He's gotten with uh Henry our strength. Matter
28:19
Speaker 4: of fact, all the guys are lifting right now, so
28:22
Speaker 4: he's working on his body. He's gotten a lot stronger.
28:26
Speaker 4: You know, a man there, Dietitian's gotten him, uh, you know,
28:29
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28:31
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28:35
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28:37
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28:40
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28:42
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28:46
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29:00
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Speaker 8: Welcome into the High School Report. I'm Caleb Rapley, and
32:42
Speaker 8: today we're jumping out to the Player's Fund Center phone
32:44
Speaker 8: line to talk to the head coach of the Navasota
32:46
Speaker 8: Ratlers girls basketball team, mister Tommy Gates coach, Thanks for joining.
32:50
Speaker 22: Me, absolutely, Cayle. I've enjoyed having an opportunity to talk
32:54
Speaker 22: about our teams.
32:55
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, your lady, Ratler's having a really good season
32:58
Speaker 8: twenty three and twelve, seven to one in district play.
33:01
Speaker 8: So I believe that playoff spot is locked up.
33:04
Speaker 3: Is that correct?
33:05
Speaker 22: That is correct. We actually clinched last Friday, so we
33:09
Speaker 22: do have a playoff spot for the twenty third consecutive season.
33:15
Speaker 8: Well, congratulations on that. I know that's pretty uncommon in
33:18
Speaker 8: today's landscape of the sporting world to be that consistent.
33:23
Speaker 8: What would you say, are one of the things that
33:25
Speaker 8: has given you the ability to have the same program,
33:28
Speaker 8: the same mentality year after year.
33:31
Speaker 22: Well, you know, and probably the same reason that we've
33:35
Speaker 22: I've been able to win a bunch of basketball games
33:38
Speaker 22: during my career. We you know, I've been very fortunate
33:41
Speaker 22: to have one assistant coach that's been with me the
33:45
Speaker 22: entire time that I've been here in Apnsota, which is
33:47
Speaker 22: twenty eight years. I've got another assistant that's been with
33:51
Speaker 22: me for nine and so I think consistency on the
33:56
Speaker 22: staff has been big. But you know, when you're a
34:00
Speaker 22: place as long as I've been here, now I'm starting
34:04
Speaker 22: to coach kids of former players, uh and so when
34:10
Speaker 22: you you know these I've got five players on this
34:13
Speaker 22: year's team that I coached their mothers. Uh. And so
34:17
Speaker 22: so when you when you when you get that opportunity,
34:21
Speaker 22: you know, the they come in kind of with the expectations.
34:24
Speaker 22: Their moms have told them the stories, you know.
34:28
Speaker 4: Uh.
34:28
Speaker 22: And then they've kind of grown up over the last
34:31
Speaker 22: you know, eight or ten years coming to basketball games
34:34
Speaker 22: and seeing it and wanting to be a part of this.
34:37
Speaker 22: Uh and so being being a part of the girls
34:40
Speaker 22: basketball team in the episode, it's special and uh. And
34:43
Speaker 22: so the kids kind of buy into what we're doing
34:46
Speaker 22: and and and I really think, I just think consistency
34:50
Speaker 22: and just you know, the the culture that we've built here,
34:55
Speaker 22: it it just kind of has withstood the test of time.
34:59
Speaker 8: So since the new or, y'all only have one loss
35:02
Speaker 8: in district play that was to Lagrange fifty one to
35:04
Speaker 8: forty nine. So it's been a really solid district stretch
35:08
Speaker 8: of games here for y'all getting the win over Bellville
35:10
Speaker 8: on Tuesday fifty one to twenty two, and then tomorrow
35:12
Speaker 8: night last home game I believe, against Smithville. So what
35:16
Speaker 8: are your thoughts on that game?
35:18
Speaker 22: Well, it's, uh, you know, we always battle with Smithville.
35:21
Speaker 22: They're the defending district champion from last year and they've
35:26
Speaker 22: got the district MVP from last year who's a senior
35:31
Speaker 22: point guard. And we were able to go on the
35:34
Speaker 22: road and get a six point win there, so we're
35:38
Speaker 22: expecting a big, big battle. It really doesn't mean anything
35:42
Speaker 22: to them. It's kind of a point not a pointless game.
35:46
Speaker 22: But I mean they're going to come in here try
35:48
Speaker 22: to win. But for us, if we can, if we
35:51
Speaker 22: can get by them, then we run. In our last
35:53
Speaker 22: game next Tuesday, we'll be on the road against Lagrange
35:58
Speaker 22: and that will be for the district championship. If we
36:00
Speaker 22: win it, we'll we'll be coach champions. If they beat us,
36:04
Speaker 22: they're the outright champions. So uh so it means a
36:07
Speaker 22: lot more proudly to us.
36:09
Speaker 4: Uh.
36:09
Speaker 22: Lagrange has already beaten Smithfield twice, so even if Lagrange
36:14
Speaker 22: was to lose the next two, they'd owned the tiebreaker
36:17
Speaker 22: with them. So you know, but we're expecting a big,
36:20
Speaker 22: big game tomorrow with Smithfield again, it's senior night. Rihanna Rush,
36:25
Speaker 22: who's a four year letterman. She's just our tenth all
36:28
Speaker 22: time leading scorer. She'll be playing her last game. And
36:32
Speaker 22: then Dekayah Blue who is also she's a three year
36:36
Speaker 22: letter winner and she's in an episode of Record Book
36:40
Speaker 22: in three or four categories assist, steals, in block shots. So,
36:44
Speaker 22: you know, playing your last game, it kind of hits
36:48
Speaker 22: them that you're playing your last game on this floor,
36:51
Speaker 22: that that they've played so many games on. Uh. So
36:55
Speaker 22: it'll be an emotional night and uh and hopefully a
36:57
Speaker 22: good night.
36:58
Speaker 8: And we mentioned it Couardi clinched that playoff spot. So
37:01
Speaker 8: have you started looking at what teams are gonna might
37:03
Speaker 8: be matching up against?
37:04
Speaker 22: Yeah, unfortunately, and you know last year UIL came in
37:08
Speaker 22: with this big school small school and so we're the
37:12
Speaker 22: big school and regardless of how we finish in the
37:16
Speaker 22: district race, will be the number one seed from big
37:20
Speaker 22: school Lagrange and Smithville will be one and two in
37:25
Speaker 22: small school. And then it was the winner of actually
37:29
Speaker 22: tomorrow's game with Gettings and Bellville the winner of that
37:32
Speaker 22: will be the second seed in big school. So we
37:37
Speaker 22: do know that that we're the number one seed. We
37:43
Speaker 22: know we're going to play District twenty one, and that
37:47
Speaker 22: district is kind of still kind of jobbled. It won't
37:50
Speaker 22: be really decided until tomorrow, but right now it's looking
37:54
Speaker 22: like it will either be Fort ben Crawford or Fort Worth.
37:59
Speaker 22: I meant in will A Ridge, which is exactly how
38:03
Speaker 22: it was this time last year, And so after Tamara's games,
38:07
Speaker 22: we'll have an idea of who it's gonna be and
38:11
Speaker 22: then we'll that game would be I believe, either February
38:15
Speaker 22: sixteenth or seventeenth, which is just like a little over
38:19
Speaker 22: a week, so it's here fast.
38:22
Speaker 8: Earlier this week, UIL came out with their realignment pretty
38:26
Speaker 8: similar district for y'all. It is going to grow from
38:30
Speaker 8: six teams to eight next year, and it'll be District
38:33
Speaker 8: twenty three instead of twenty two. Some of the same
38:35
Speaker 8: teams with Belleville, Gettings and Lagrange, but a few new
38:38
Speaker 8: ones with Katie Harmony, Royal Sealy and Tomball West. So
38:42
Speaker 8: have you had a chance to look at that reclassification
38:45
Speaker 8: and how that might impact next year?
38:48
Speaker 22: Not really, I say that. I mean, we always look,
38:52
Speaker 22: you know, it means a lot. You know, obviously, everything
38:55
Speaker 22: that UIL does, it's kind of like the NC DOUBLEA.
38:57
Speaker 22: Everything they do is kind of geared around football. All
39:00
Speaker 22: we haven't even started basketball playoffs, baseball softball that hasn't
39:04
Speaker 22: you know, even started their seasons, and we're already worried
39:08
Speaker 22: about next year. And I know why they do it,
39:10
Speaker 22: and I get that, but uh, you know, we're trying
39:13
Speaker 22: to we're trying to finish out this year. But uh,
39:16
Speaker 22: in answer to your question, you know, it's it changes
39:21
Speaker 22: a lot because we, like you said, we go from
39:24
Speaker 22: a sixteen district to an eighteen district. So that's four
39:27
Speaker 22: more district games, so we'll be playing district games before Christmas,
39:32
Speaker 22: where this year we don't play any before Christmas, so
39:35
Speaker 22: you'll you'll lose four non district games. So it changes
39:41
Speaker 22: stuff up. And I'll be honest, I've been in a
39:45
Speaker 22: seventeen district before, but I don't know that I've ever
39:48
Speaker 22: been in an eighteen district. So this will be uh,
39:51
Speaker 22: this will be interesting. And you know, if you're trying
39:53
Speaker 22: to make the playoffs, we're in the district we're in now,
39:56
Speaker 22: you just have to beat two teams to get in
40:00
Speaker 22: next year, and the year after that you're gonna have
40:02
Speaker 22: to beat four teams. So it definitely makes it tougher.
40:06
Speaker 4: Uh.
40:07
Speaker 22: And you know, we've been in the district before with
40:09
Speaker 22: Sea Lee, so we're familiar with them. Katie Harmony, I
40:12
Speaker 22: don't know anything about them. And then of course tom
40:15
Speaker 22: Ball West is a new school and they'll come in
40:18
Speaker 22: next year with you know, just freshman sophomores. But we've
40:23
Speaker 22: you know, I've been here when Brian Rutter opened and
40:27
Speaker 22: they were in our district for four years and they
40:29
Speaker 22: came in with freshmen and sophomores, and the year that
40:34
Speaker 22: they were juniors, they were number two in the state. So, uh,
40:39
Speaker 22: you just never the new schools when they open up,
40:42
Speaker 22: you just you you don't you really don't know until
40:46
Speaker 22: you play them, you know what kind of players they have,
40:48
Speaker 22: and uh, you know where they're coming from, and so
40:52
Speaker 22: it will be it'll be quite interesting.
40:55
Speaker 4: Yeah.
40:55
Speaker 8: I think it was about seven years ago. Uh, Shadow
40:57
Speaker 8: Creek opened up and they ended up winning the state
40:59
Speaker 8: champ and ship and football about two or three years in.
41:02
Speaker 8: So you really can't ever.
41:03
Speaker 22: Tell now because you don't know where you know, those
41:05
Speaker 22: big school districts, you don't know where they're where they're
41:08
Speaker 22: you know, they have like I know, I remember when
41:10
Speaker 22: Brian Rutterer opened, they had open enrollment, so anybody who
41:15
Speaker 22: was in the Brian I s D and wanted to
41:16
Speaker 22: go to Rudder they could go. And so they you know.
41:19
Speaker 22: So so I don't know, like say with tomballa I SD,
41:23
Speaker 22: whether they'll be coming from Memorial or whether it come
41:26
Speaker 22: from Tomball High School. But both of their women's basketball
41:30
Speaker 22: programs are very solid, very sound, uh and so they'll
41:33
Speaker 22: they'll regardless of age, they'll be very talented. So it'll
41:38
Speaker 22: be uh, it'll be interesting. And then Royal is the
41:41
Speaker 22: other team. Uh and they were in our district uh
41:44
Speaker 22: four years ago.
41:46
Speaker 4: Uh and.
41:48
Speaker 22: They won our district two of the four two of
41:51
Speaker 22: the four years that they were in our district, and
41:53
Speaker 22: we tied with them one of the years.
41:56
Speaker 4: Uh.
41:57
Speaker 22: They they have a player that's playing at the University
41:59
Speaker 22: of Houston right now. So again because of their location
42:03
Speaker 22: close to Katie, you just never know what schools like
42:07
Speaker 22: that are going to bring in here.
42:08
Speaker 8: Coach, that's all the questions I've got for you today.
42:11
Speaker 8: Thanks for joining me, and we wish your team luck
42:13
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Speaker 22: Absolutely, Caleb, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back Glad to have you with us here on
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Speaker 1: a Thursday edition and Tomorrow night no Saturday night Porta
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Speaker 1: Gators are in town.
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Speaker 3: They will have had the benefit of a week off
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Speaker 3: almost a week they hosted Alabama this past Sunday did
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Speaker 3: not have a midweek game.
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Speaker 1: Come in now tied with A and M for first place.
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Speaker 3: This will be the battle for first This will be
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Speaker 3: the start of the second half of the conference race.
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Speaker 3: Florida playing great basketball, looking like a team that can
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Speaker 3: make another deep run.
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Speaker 1: They are huge.
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Speaker 3: That has not stopped A and M at all this year,
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Speaker 3: and just so much fun watching this team play and
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Speaker 3: how they play, the style with which they play, the
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Speaker 3: passion with which they play.
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Speaker 1: It is it's fun to see. Not perfect, but.
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Speaker 3: Man, if you didn't like last night's game, I know
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Speaker 3: you didn't like the I get that. But if you
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Speaker 3: didn't like last night's game, I can't help you. It
47:05
Speaker 3: was everything that's great about college basketball. The official attendance
47:11
Speaker 3: last night was thirteen four seventy four. There were quite
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Speaker 3: a few empty seats. The people had jumped off the
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Speaker 3: Alabama bandwagon and it was but I mean, obviously it
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Speaker 3: got loud towards the end. Alabama had some amazing shots.
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Speaker 1: It's what they do.
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Speaker 3: By the way, The Alabama Florida game last Sunday most
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Speaker 3: watched men's college basketball game on ABC since nine in
47:48
Speaker 3: seventeen years. One point six million viewers. The Kentucky Arkansas
47:56
Speaker 3: game Saturday almost two and an half million. ESPN's most
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Speaker 3: watched college game this year, So there's lots of interest.
48:07
Speaker 3: There's some big games on Saturday, the A M. Florida
48:11
Speaker 3: games at seven point thirty. The Duke North Carolina game
48:15
Speaker 3: starts at five thirty. There are other games going on,
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Speaker 3: but I think there'll be a lot of eyeballs turned
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Speaker 3: to Florida and A and M and should be sold out.
48:31
Speaker 3: I say, should be sold out Saturday night, all right.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna hear it from Bucky, who went home to Alabama,
48:40
Speaker 3: had a lot of familiar faces in the stands. Talked
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Speaker 3: to the local media after the game last night.
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Speaker 17: A good game, man, that's a good game for the fans. Obviously,
48:52
Speaker 17: when two teams sneelers score one hundred and there's a
48:54
Speaker 17: shot at the end of the game to send a
48:57
Speaker 17: game into overtime, and there's a scrap underneath through the
49:01
Speaker 17: ball could have cane either way. If we pick it up,
49:03
Speaker 17: lay it up, we take the lead. So you know,
49:05
Speaker 17: when you have a game like that, it's a treat
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Speaker 17: for the fans. I'm obviously from Alabama, and I like
49:11
Speaker 17: when you get to see good basketball. So if you
49:13
Speaker 17: would uh said years ago, you get to see two
49:15
Speaker 17: teams play in a scrap in a one possession games
49:18
Speaker 17: and both teams only score two hundred points, everybody would say, man,
49:21
Speaker 17: when I sign up to get to watch that. So
49:23
Speaker 17: I was glad that the game delivered to that. Obviously,
49:26
Speaker 17: I wanted to come out on the right side of
49:27
Speaker 17: that game of Alabama was really good. Some of their
49:29
Speaker 17: guards made some really big shots late in that game,
49:33
Speaker 17: you know, and played well. Ours played well too, So
49:36
Speaker 17: that's why the game could have absolutely gone either way.
49:38
Speaker 17: And you know, we just got to keep trucking along.
49:41
Speaker 17: I told our players in the locker room, it's tough
49:45
Speaker 17: that we didn't come out on the right side of it.
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Speaker 17: But at the end of the day, we're halfway through
49:49
Speaker 17: the league, we're in first place of the league. We
49:52
Speaker 17: have five of our remaining nine games at home. If
49:55
Speaker 17: I would have said that before the seed and we
49:57
Speaker 17: got to optune to go to soul possession in first
49:59
Speaker 17: place here on Saturday. So if I would have said, hey,
50:04
Speaker 17: for sec play started, you know, what do you think
50:08
Speaker 17: would you sign up for that? We would say we'd sign.
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Speaker 4: Up for that.
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Speaker 17: You know, we have signed up for that. So we
50:14
Speaker 17: got to move on from this one and realize the
50:17
Speaker 17: opportunity that's in front in front of us.
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Speaker 10: I wanted to ask you about the full court pressure.
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Speaker 10: It seemed like Alabama did a good job and not
50:28
Speaker 10: turning it over. Also seemed like y'all did a pretty
50:30
Speaker 10: good job of making sure they didn't get any easy
50:32
Speaker 10: looks breaking away.
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Speaker 17: What were your thoughts on it? It's good, I mean
50:39
Speaker 17: that was our best defense in the game. When we
50:42
Speaker 17: just looked at some of the analytics of it, they
50:44
Speaker 17: missed some threes, you know, against it. But you know,
50:50
Speaker 17: I think that's when it's a treat for the fans
50:51
Speaker 17: where they're both comfort their comfortabrolling, we're comfortabrolling, you know
50:54
Speaker 17: what I'm saying. So you know, our problems was the
50:57
Speaker 17: second half and the half court on d they got going.
50:59
Speaker 17: We couldn't keep them out of the paint. But full
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Speaker 17: court I was okay with the way the way that
51:04
Speaker 17: the game was going and they were probably okay as well,
51:06
Speaker 17: and that's why it was a fun game.
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Speaker 13: Coach, I wanted to ask you about you guys game plan.
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Speaker 13: You guys did a great job back cutting and getting
51:13
Speaker 13: your guards downhill for just about the entire second half.
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Speaker 17: Was that something you guys saw on film and playing
51:19
Speaker 17: and game plan?
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Speaker 13: And then I wanted to ask you about the impact
51:22
Speaker 13: of a young man from my city that I've watched
51:24
Speaker 13: grow up, Jakari Lane, getting a chance to play for
51:27
Speaker 13: you and play on the biggest stage in college basketball,
51:29
Speaker 13: and what kind of impact he's made in the squad.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, good question. We're gonna take what the defense gives us.
51:35
Speaker 17: You know, if their top lock, and we got to
51:36
Speaker 17: take advantage of their top locks, and you know whatever
51:39
Speaker 17: that calls for. You know, if they want to play
51:41
Speaker 17: between ball and the rim, we got to go get
51:42
Speaker 17: the handcuts and come off wide pen So, you know,
51:45
Speaker 17: whatever the defense, it's an offensive game. I mean, if
51:49
Speaker 17: you make the right read, the defenses should be at
51:52
Speaker 17: the offenses. Mercy, we missed a couple of those that
51:56
Speaker 17: that that we were right there at the rim, and
51:59
Speaker 17: you know, we just gotta we got to finished shows.
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Speaker 17: We didn't finish great at the rim. Uh Jakari Lane's
52:03
Speaker 17: a winner, you know, in every way. Usually he's the
52:06
Speaker 17: best guard on the floor, our most valuable guard on
52:09
Speaker 17: the floor to their team. I don't you know, I
52:11
Speaker 17: don't know what he's shot. I don't care if he scored,
52:14
Speaker 17: I don't know. He's just a complete winner, and he's
52:17
Speaker 17: the kind of player you can ride with, kind of
52:19
Speaker 17: player you can get the n State tournament with and
52:21
Speaker 17: do something with because he's got a heart and he's
52:23
Speaker 17: got character, and you know, when things are going good,
52:27
Speaker 17: he's steady. When things are going bad, he's steady, and
52:30
Speaker 17: he's just done that. He was a state champion in
52:32
Speaker 17: high school, state champion, UH conference champion before he came
52:35
Speaker 17: here at UNA, and right now we're pursuing a conference
52:38
Speaker 17: championship right now with him as our starting point guard.
52:43
Speaker 23: Bucky a well coached game by both sides.
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Speaker 14: You mentioned this in your opening remarks, But what do
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Speaker 14: you credit this great start for so far for you guys?
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Speaker 17: You know, I mean I think that we we got
52:58
Speaker 17: the We got good people in our locker room. We
53:01
Speaker 17: don't lose sight of the main thing, which is playing
53:03
Speaker 17: hard to unselfish. We have depth. Even though we have
53:09
Speaker 17: no returners from last year's team, you know, we do
53:13
Speaker 17: have some older guys in there, and they're a true
53:16
Speaker 17: team in every regard they're they're not worried about so
53:20
Speaker 17: much about like, hey, did I get my points? What
53:22
Speaker 17: does my AU coach think? What does this guy think?
53:25
Speaker 17: You know, they're about winning and when you do that,
53:28
Speaker 17: and particular this day and age of college athletics, regardless
53:31
Speaker 17: if there's a size gap, a talent gap, that could
53:34
Speaker 17: happen every now and then, I'll take our side if
53:37
Speaker 17: we keep playing that way.
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Speaker 10: Bucky, what kind of emotions ran through you tonight coming home?
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Speaker 8: You've been in this building and come up very close before,
53:48
Speaker 8: seeing so many people that you know from the past.
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Speaker 17: I was good. It was good to see everybody, you know.
53:53
Speaker 17: I had a lot of Texas week and you know,
53:56
Speaker 17: like I said, but you know, my parents went to
53:57
Speaker 17: the University of Alabama. I know a lot of people.
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Speaker 4: Well here.
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Speaker 17: I used to go to all the games when Wim
54:02
Speaker 17: Sanderson was the coach and sit up there, me and
54:04
Speaker 17: my dad did I s all went for the game.
54:05
Speaker 17: I told him that's right where we sat right up there. Man,
54:07
Speaker 17: watch every game, you know, I watched watch Robert Riy,
54:10
Speaker 17: Latrell Spree, Will James Robbins. I mean, I watch all
54:12
Speaker 17: those guys. So you know, it was great. You know,
54:17
Speaker 17: it's great for my for my h my parents right
54:19
Speaker 17: to get to see that. Uh you know, they were
54:21
Speaker 17: universe of Alabama grads. It was even better when we
54:23
Speaker 17: beat Auburn. They love that, you know. And but they
54:27
Speaker 17: were pulling for the Aggies tonight, and so it was
54:30
Speaker 17: it was it was good for uh, good to see people.
54:32
Speaker 17: It's great for them. Coach.
54:35
Speaker 12: Every Alabama guard in double figure snipe. What makes the
54:37
Speaker 12: Alabama so so difficult to defend.
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Speaker 17: Just multiple shooters, talent, Like someone asked about what do
54:43
Speaker 17: you think about the team, Like, well, you know, they
54:46
Speaker 17: have skill, size, athleticism. You know, they're not missing much here,
54:52
Speaker 17: you know, and you know they had us size at
54:56
Speaker 17: most of the spots.
54:57
Speaker 4: They had us.
54:57
Speaker 17: They have great skill. So they we got a great roster.
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Speaker 17: And when they're playing well, they've been the top ten
55:04
Speaker 17: caliber team in the country. When they played well, I
55:06
Speaker 17: thought they'd played good. Tonight.
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Speaker 6: That was.
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Speaker 17: The worst I've seen them play at Florida in a while.
55:12
Speaker 17: And that just happens. And so I figured they'd come
55:14
Speaker 17: back and really really play well tonight, and obviously that
55:18
Speaker 17: obviously they did. You know, I know Nate would get
55:20
Speaker 17: them right, and you know they played a good basketball tonight.
55:24
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55:27
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55:40
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55:45
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55:48
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