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Seg 3 MBB Show w Dan Hurley 10-28 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Back trying to get a job with billy donovan he
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  Speaker 1: didn't hire you you want to go to work in
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  Speaker 1: florida you were at saint b saint benedict's what happened
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  Speaker 1: how come you didn't get the gig.
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  Speaker 2: That was just for the people in the audience it's
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  Speaker 2: like not a public it's not the book never stop
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  Speaker 2: I have read that book.
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  Speaker 3: Have you read the book?
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: No, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Billy, I bought the coaches that I always idolized. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Coach K, because I saw it. You could say whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want. I mean, like what Coach K did there
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  Speaker 2: was as close as you've seen to UCLA. And it
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  Speaker 2: did a lot for college basketball. I mean, those teams
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  Speaker 2: in the late 80s, the 90s, they really made college
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  Speaker 2: basketball bigger in a similar way to like Larry Bird
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  Speaker 2: and Magic.
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  Speaker 5: What they did for.
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  Speaker 2: College basketball, but Coach Izzo, who I just saw, Billy Donovan,
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  Speaker 2: obviously Coach Calhoun, were like my personal coaches I tried
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  Speaker 2: to emulate. Dan Hurley with us.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to go through the roster a little more.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of folks asked me today, I was playing
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  Speaker 4: this charity golf tournament, asking me about guys they haven't
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  Speaker 4: seen yet or they haven't been to the exhibitions.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they couldn't catch the Michigan State.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if they haven't played any exhibitions games yet, then
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  Speaker 2: that means they might not be seeing them.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: It was hard to find the Big Ten plus thing
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  Speaker 4: with the Michigan State game. Anyway, Nils Machovsky. You got
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  Speaker 4: the guy from Wofford. He was at UCF. where if
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  Speaker 4: you looked at it statistically, he didn't make a big impact.
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  Speaker 4: But what a leap he made in his junior year
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  Speaker 4: at Wofford. What did you see for him in that
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  Speaker 4: development process? Because he went from a 4-5 point a
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  Speaker 4: game guy to 17 a game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll try to go through it faster just so
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  Speaker 2: he could get through more of these guys. But I
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  Speaker 2: would say with him, just the film fit the profile
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  Speaker 2: of a Joey California type of ability. Maybe a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more, you know, like a little bit more athletic
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  Speaker 2: version of Joey. I hope Joey doesn't hear that. Joey's
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  Speaker 2: a maniac, so he'll be pissed. But yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just a perfect fit for how we play offense. And
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  Speaker 2: then you meet the man and you like the fact
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  Speaker 2: that like he was at like a big 12 school.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't go well. So he transferred down and now
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  Speaker 2: comes back with a chip on his shoulder to prove
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  Speaker 2: he's got a lot to prove. at this level to
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  Speaker 2: keep bringing value to his career.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You got a couple of freshmen that are outstanding, uh,
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  Speaker 4: junior County. Uh, I was telling some folks after watching
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  Speaker 4: him in person at a game at Michigan state, he
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  Speaker 4: is like a ready-made player.
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  Speaker 3: Almost obviously he's.
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  Speaker 4: Going to develop in the next, you know, 35, 40 games.
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  Speaker 4: And then hopefully the next year we don't know what's
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  Speaker 4: going to happen, but what is it about a guy
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  Speaker 4: like that that tells you that this guy could step
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  Speaker 4: in right now?
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  Speaker 5: I can say a lot. I'll go fast though.
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  Speaker 2: He, uh, um, Just came from a high school program
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  Speaker 2: and a family that lends itself to being able to
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  Speaker 2: handle the workload and the demands of what a week,
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  Speaker 2: what a day, what a month, what a season looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's a hell of a commitment. It's a real
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  Speaker 2: test of your work ethic, your mentality, your character, your makeup.
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  Speaker 2: So if you can't handle that, you have no shot
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  Speaker 2: on the court. So he can handle all that. The
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  Speaker 2: amount of information... the system on offense, the terminology, how
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  Speaker 2: we add elements every day. It's a lot mentally, plus
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  Speaker 2: the competitive part. And he's a big guard. The guy's
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  Speaker 2: close to 6'5. He's got above-the-rim athletic ability.
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  Speaker 5: He shoots it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he could really guard.
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  Speaker 5: He's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to be an NBA first-round pick
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  Speaker 2: if everything goes as planned with him.
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  Speaker 4: Colbin Landrieu, he's a little bit bigger. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: stretch this a little bit. Does he remind you in
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  Speaker 4: any way of a guy like Barkley or someone like that,
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  Speaker 4: 6'6 dude?
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  Speaker 3: Is he kind of a wide body? No? I'm 0
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  Speaker 3: for 4.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to throw you like a softball. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask me who he is. Colbin Landrieu, no, he's
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  Speaker 2: just a natural. He's got great instincts for sports. probably
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  Speaker 2: because he just played multiple sports, football background. You could
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  Speaker 2: see the physicality. You see he had a big three-point
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  Speaker 2: play put back in the Michigan State exhibition. He actually
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  Speaker 2: kind of bullied Cohen Carr, who's a grown you-know-what man
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  Speaker 2: out there, and he bullied him to an offensive rebound
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  Speaker 2: and then scored through contact on a three-point play. This
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  Speaker 2: guy doesn't even know what he's doing right now.
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  Speaker 5: He has no clue out there.
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  Speaker 2: He's a guy that's going to play great for us
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  Speaker 2: And then he's like tailor-made for the NBA game, just
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  Speaker 2: with his skill set, but a stud.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the guy's a stud.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, someone also mentioned the Ron Butler reference. Am I
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  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 5: Ballpark with that? You're just holding on to a comp.
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  Speaker 5: All right, yes.
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  Speaker 3: All right, simple answer.
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  Speaker 5: You're stubborn. Simple answer.
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  Speaker 4: He made some big plays in the Michigan State game.
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  Speaker 4: You love to see freshmen do that in that environment.
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  Speaker 4: That's why you play these exhibitions, right? To put these
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  Speaker 4: guys in the frying pan.
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  Speaker 5: That's why you play those exhibitions.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you don't play like a D3 or something
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  Speaker 2: at the XL. We put those guys in an uncomfortable spot.
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  Speaker 2: They had a student section that was loud. They got
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of love for Michigan State.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have a lot of love for you, though.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no. I mean, the programs do with each other.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the staffs do. The combatants do. All the
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  Speaker 2: people on the periphery might not, but the combatants do.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like just the road environment to get a
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  Speaker 2: chance to get a feel for that before we have
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  Speaker 2: to go to Boston. for TD Bank, which will be
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  Speaker 2: a big environment before we've got to go to Arizona
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  Speaker 2: or the Duke neutral, just to get in an environment
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  Speaker 2: like that for all of our guys, for Haminia, for
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  Speaker 2: the freshmen, for Oscar. Oscar probably didn't play in front
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of environments like that last year at Stanford.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it. I've got to get to
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  Speaker 3: Silas Demery, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: The preseason pick in the Big East is the best
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  Speaker 4: player He played Hurts so much in the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 3: It was amazing what he was able to do, I thought.
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  Speaker 4: And I would still think that if he was 100%,
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  Speaker 4: Elliott Cadeau would not have gotten the best of that matchup.
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  Speaker 4: And UConn would have won. That's my thought. So Demery now, senior,
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  Speaker 4: he knows you well. He knows what he's got to do.
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  Speaker 4: Scoring versus playmaking. I think I asked you this in
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  Speaker 4: the pregame before that game, Michigan State game. Can he
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  Speaker 4: balance it? Where does he come down here?
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  Speaker 2: It's not easy. I mean, because he's got to, like,
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  Speaker 2: manage our offense. It's very similar to being a quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the terminology, getting people in the right spots.
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  Speaker 2: We've struggled with it, especially in these first halves. We've
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  Speaker 2: gotten off to slow starts, and we've played very efficiently
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  Speaker 2: in the second half of these games. But he's got
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  Speaker 2: to find a blend of– You know, some of the
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  Speaker 2: areas where we were not where we needed to.
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  Speaker 5: Be last year.
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  Speaker 2: We were top three in the country in transition efficiency offensively,
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  Speaker 2: but we were, like, sub-200 in terms of volume. So
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  Speaker 2: we need him to push the pace more and get
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  Speaker 2: us out in transition more.
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  Speaker 5: Where we are when we're there, we're super efficient. So
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  Speaker 5: he's got to push on stops more.
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  Speaker 2: Then when we get in the half court, he's got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to orchestrate a very complex system where
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot of, like, on-ball, off-ball actions to
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  Speaker 2: create rim shots, on-ball, off-ball actions to create threes.
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  Speaker 5: You know, just it's.
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  Speaker 2: Very complex what he's got to kind of then execute.
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  Speaker 2: But then we also need him to play off script
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  Speaker 2: in the half court too. So, like, run our offense,
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  Speaker 2: which is complex. Pick your spots where you go off script.
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  Speaker 2: Get us more opportunities in transition. Be our best defender
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  Speaker 2: that's at the point of attack in every single possession,
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  Speaker 2: and then get on both backboards. And then while that's
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  Speaker 2: not going on, be the emotional leader of the team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's a lot that you ask out of
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  Speaker 2: that position, especially from our system, because it's not a dumbed-down,
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  Speaker 2: ball-screen-only system of offense. It's like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: intricacies when we play it right. It's beautiful to watch.
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  Speaker 2: It's fun to play in because everyone's touching the ball.
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  Speaker 2: But even the other night, I mean, that's as great
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  Speaker 2: a matchup as you're going to see in college. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: two of the top three or four point guards with Cadeau,
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  Speaker 2: but that matchup with Fears is just a great opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for him to gauge where he's at going into the year,
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  Speaker 2: and he's in a good spot, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: And he's up for the challenge. I haven't talked to him.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to love Sadler's Demery Jr. I know you
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  Speaker 4: do already, but fans are going to love this dude
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  Speaker 4: in his senior year. All right, we're back in a
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  Speaker 4: moment with the coach.