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MBB Presser - Oklahoma · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: All right, we are now ready to begin the Connecticut
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  Speaker 1: portion of the press conference. Once again, i'd like to
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  Speaker 1: remind you to make sure your telephones are on mute.
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  Speaker 1: We'd like to start with a opening statement from coach Hurley.
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  Speaker 2: Please, yeah, I mean credit, yeah, obviously to to Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: and Porter. You know Porter is you know, he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best coaches and he's uh it's also an
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  Speaker 2: incredible tournament coach when he gets in here, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we knew that. You know, we really had
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  Speaker 2: the guard today and there are obviously top twenty offense
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  Speaker 2: in the country. You know, Fears was you know, everything
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  Speaker 2: that we thought he was going to be out on
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  Speaker 2: the court. I thought we did a better job on
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  Speaker 2: him in the second half, but you know, we survived
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  Speaker 2: some stretches of you know, missing some offensive opportunities. But
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  Speaker 2: as much as our defense has plagued us a lot
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  Speaker 2: throughout the year, you know, it advanced us today. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, just drilled, you know, to advance and get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to play Florida.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, at this time, we'll open up the floor
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  Speaker 1: for questions for the student athletes. Jane, can we start
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  Speaker 1: in the back?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Alex Brendan marks from the athletic You ended up
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  Speaker 3: having the three point that ultimately gave you guys the
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  Speaker 3: four point cushion. With about three and a half to play,
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  Speaker 3: came one possession after the charge.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see on that play?
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  Speaker 5: What do you think when you see that shot go down?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I just saw I was wide open, and
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  Speaker 4: Terror said a great screen. I see fears closing out late.
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  Speaker 4: So I decided to take it, and I passed one
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  Speaker 4: up in the corner. And I should have shot that
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  Speaker 4: one too, and I wasn't going to make the mistake again,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah, I just saw it and just yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: just had to let a fly, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Other questions for the student athletes, going once, going twice? Done, gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: you're excuse, thank you very much, and congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Mark late, all right, let's go go ahead. Gosh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, we need tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Taken about the grandma.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, at this time we'll go aheading and
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  Speaker 1: open up for the coach. Let's start right.
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  Speaker 6: Here, Dan with this game seemed to be mirroring everybody
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  Speaker 6: of your season, with the angst, I suppose, and all
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  Speaker 6: the suffering you talk about. Can you can you talk
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  Speaker 6: about the churning emotions, particularly when they made the run
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  Speaker 6: up second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know it was uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: microcosm of the season. We got it to you know,
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  Speaker 2: got it to nine. You know, we missed the uh
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  Speaker 2: mister free throw to complete the three point play, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe you're starting to get some momentum and some separation.
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  Speaker 2: But then I think we had maybe back to back
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  Speaker 2: possessions where we like didn't finish pretty good defensive possessions
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  Speaker 2: and gave them multiple opportunities. One time we founded a
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  Speaker 2: three point shooter.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Another time we gave up you know, a three point play,
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  Speaker 2: uh to to to Waggy.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I that's been a microcosm of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Like whenever you know, we've been able to start playing
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  Speaker 2: you know, good basketball, getting separation, you know, we we
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  Speaker 2: we we've tended to shoot ourselves in the foot, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing about this team is is, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're really battle tested, like and we've had to fight
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  Speaker 2: so hard all year. You know that we we showed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of toughness down the stretch, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: to execute some things and and uh you know and
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  Speaker 2: make some critical shots.
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  Speaker 1: And make some critical stops all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot of suffering going on.
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  Speaker 7: And then we'll get you, uh Dan Mike de Course
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  Speaker 7: from the Sporting News. I saw the play Alex was
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  Speaker 7: talking about, and I saw your reaction there. But I
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  Speaker 7: also saw when he when he passed up the shot,
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  Speaker 7: you said something to him with the player has experienced
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  Speaker 7: and accomplishes, Alex, what kind of message do you send
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  Speaker 7: in a moment like that, because I know you said something.
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  Speaker 2: Shoot the f and ball. Yeah, I mean, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if that was the exact way I should have
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  Speaker 2: said it. You know, but like Alex is such you know,
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  Speaker 2: a perfectionist and a smart player that like he knows
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  Speaker 2: the quality of shots and you know, just with this
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  Speaker 2: team and this roster that he has around him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he he's got to take more, you know, contested shots.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to let it fly more. He probably you know,
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  Speaker 2: should have taken fourteen shots in this game and he
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  Speaker 2: cannot make that same mistake, you know in the next one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you play teams at this level, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, which is the best of the best in
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  Speaker 2: the tournament, Like the windows are tighter, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna get you know, you're not going to get
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  Speaker 2: you know, the perfect shots. So the only way we're
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  Speaker 2: going to win the game, especially with the way that
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  Speaker 2: Liam was shooting the ball at that point of the game,
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  Speaker 2: It's like Liam and Alex were both struggling. We were
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  Speaker 2: on like support. We needed one of them to step
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  Speaker 2: up and make some shots, and it was Alex.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go up front here.
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  Speaker 5: Mark Cinendo locked on you gun. Dan, you tied or not,
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  Speaker 5: didn't tie, but you won your thirteenth straight NCAA Tournament game,
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  Speaker 5: not by double digits. Does it, ever, does it show
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  Speaker 5: how abnormal the last two years has been when this
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  Speaker 5: season is full of angst as the other question was,
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  Speaker 5: and obviously you get it out of win today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, the last two years are
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  Speaker 2: just not I mean, you know, like you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: only three teams that have done what we've done, you know,
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  Speaker 2: based on obviously the expanded tournament where you gotta win
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  Speaker 2: six games, so you know, the only three teams that
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  Speaker 2: have been able to do that really since the tournament expanded,
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  Speaker 2: or US Duke in Florida, and you know, just to uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to be to be able to come here
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, you know, and and number one to
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  Speaker 2: make the tournament and and fight our way in you know,
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  Speaker 2: come out here and and fight with some honor and
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  Speaker 2: and get ourselves, uh, you know, an opportunity to play,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of the best teams in the country.
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  Speaker 2: That reminds you know, me some of what we put
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  Speaker 2: on the floor in Florida. But there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: honor in us being able to you know, uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know face the last team that you know that that
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  Speaker 2: went back to back and uh, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: there's there's honor and fighting and getting to the round
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  Speaker 2: of thirty thirty two and making somebody put you down
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  Speaker 2: in this tournament to end this run we've been on.
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  Speaker 2: The run we've been on. You know, if it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: for all of my antics and viral moments, you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously there'd be more focused on just what we've accomplished
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  Speaker 2: as a program the last three years. It's been an
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  Speaker 2: amazing run, one of the best runs anyone's had.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Jayden, we need to go in the middle first,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll get YouTube. Gentlemen over here, Hey, Dan
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  Speaker 1: Jamie Shall with on three.
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  Speaker 8: You're preparing for Florida on Sunday Monday, the transfer portal opens.
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  Speaker 1: How do you kind of have a how do you
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  Speaker 1: kind of.
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  Speaker 8: Have a dual preparation for that, uh, you know, in
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  Speaker 8: the next couple of days through the next I guess, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: part of the process.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's a you know, we have a
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  Speaker 2: we we do. We have an hour meeting, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with with the staff tomorrow again talking about you know,
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  Speaker 2: what what what are you know, what what the cap
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  Speaker 2: is gonna look like, and you know all those things.
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  Speaker 2: You're definitely having those conversations and uh, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: have a I think an idea of you know, have
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  Speaker 2: the players that you you know, you think really want
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  Speaker 2: to return and and uh you know will be here.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean you're you know, you're probably spending
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  Speaker 2: an hour, you know, an hour plus every day on
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  Speaker 2: what's about to drop?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Jayden right here and then one in front of
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  Speaker 1: him next Dan.
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  Speaker 9: You still obviously have a number of guys who've played
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  Speaker 9: in a ton of games like this the last two
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  Speaker 9: three years when things got tense in the second half.
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  Speaker 9: How much do you think that experience was a difference
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  Speaker 9: maker or separated you from from them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, the the you know, the championship.
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  Speaker 2: You know Pat agree is, you know, it's still there
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  Speaker 2: for us. I mean there's a there's a belief in uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in the Yukon Jersey this time of year.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just with the history of success. And
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  Speaker 2: it was it was you know, obviously, you know Alex
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  Speaker 2: led the way, the guy that's you know, a two
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  Speaker 2: time champion, and and then you know, and and Samson
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  Speaker 2: and Hassan were huge. But then it was like to
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  Speaker 2: see Taris Reid step up and do what he did
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  Speaker 2: for us in his first tournament game. You know, somebody's
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to you know, put us down in this
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  Speaker 2: tournament for you know, for us to go away right
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  Speaker 2: over here.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Dan, you alluded to it yesterday, but very often
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  Speaker 3: when a team survives a game like this in the
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  Speaker 3: first round, they've kind of loosened up.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit going going forward.
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  Speaker 3: And you haven't really been had that pattern here, but
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  Speaker 3: you do you kind of sense that that maybe now
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  Speaker 3: that you've got this behind you, that you might be
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  Speaker 3: a looser team come Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think we you know, we missed some good threes,
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  Speaker 2: We made some real bad decisions in the paint where
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  Speaker 2: we had lobs to Samson or we could hit the
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  Speaker 2: roller in taris and we forced some things. Yeah, obviously
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  Speaker 2: we turned the ball over a lot, but I mean
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  Speaker 2: we did I mean, we did lead for thirty eight
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  Speaker 2: you know, for thirty eight minutes in the game. You know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I'm I think we're gonna obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we know what, we know, the quality that we're
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  Speaker 2: playing against. Obviously we had a chance to see Florida
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  Speaker 2: and some of the Crosscrow Cross scouts of watching you know, Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 2: we're able to see them and and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: prepare for that. But yeah, I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think we're a dangerous team. You know, I think we're
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  Speaker 2: a dangerous team because, uh, you know, again, most people
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  Speaker 2: picked us, I think too, you know, to lose the
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  Speaker 2: you know, probably to lose the first game, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think many people will give us a shot in
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  Speaker 2: the second one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Jaydon on the fourth row, on the aisle, on
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  Speaker 1: the edge.
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  Speaker 10: Or Dan, you just mentioned that Florida what they're doing
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  Speaker 10: reminds you a little bit of what you guys did.
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  Speaker 10: What part of the way they're playing right now, reminds
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  Speaker 10: you of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean the the bigs. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it reminds me of kind of what we had with
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  Speaker 2: Snogo and and and Klinging and Samson Johnson in these
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years, where I mean they just keep
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  Speaker 2: trotting out, you know, big skilled, you know, tenacious two
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  Speaker 2: way players that are all over the glass. And then
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  Speaker 2: they've got the they got a lot of depth on
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  Speaker 2: the perimeter, and you know, they're they're old. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're you know Clayton who we obviously faced a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago at Iona, you know, and then we
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  Speaker 2: played this Florida team a couple of years ago in
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  Speaker 2: Gainesville as as Todd was kind of just getting this
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  Speaker 2: thing going. And you know, obviously the addition of Martin,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've got they got a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great pieces and he's done a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, their roster construction is is really impressive and
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  Speaker 2: the coaching job.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Cooper, head back on the aisle there. This
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  Speaker 1: will be the last question right there.
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  Speaker 11: What's going to be the message to the guys to
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  Speaker 11: get them ready to take on Florida. You were mentioning
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  Speaker 11: a lot of a lot of fighter, a lot of underdog.
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  Speaker 11: Are you're looking to instill some of that chip on
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  Speaker 11: the shoulder for a program that has two time reigning champions,
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  Speaker 11: has kind of been the hunted for a lot of
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  Speaker 11: the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think, uh, you know, for us,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna obviously, you know, seriously have the game plan
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  Speaker 2: this one, you know, with them, and and be able
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  Speaker 2: to uh you know, drag them into a half court
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  Speaker 2: game and and uh, you know, and just try to
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  Speaker 2: slow down their their attack. I mean, when they get rolling,
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, you know, it's it's wave after wave. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, but you know, for us, you know what
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  Speaker 2: we are, uh you know, we come into this tournament
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  Speaker 2: as as back to back national champions, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously for us, we were uh you know, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: these guys back and and you know, I think they'll
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of confidence from advancing and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you know, energy and a lot of belief, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Yukon and myself, you know, getting out of the first
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  Speaker 2: round of the tournament. You know, once we get out
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  Speaker 2: of the first round, we've been pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much, coach. I appreciate it all. Right,
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  Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. Oklahoma is in the waiting room. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as I get things take