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Kelvin Sampson Talks Houston's Final Play & Loss to Florida in the National Championship · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Our first question for coach Sampson is up front to
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  Speaker 1: the right, Dennis.
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  Speaker 2: Dennis dot CBS Sports, Kevin, Just what's going through your
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  Speaker 2: mind right now?
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  Speaker 3: Big picture?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just going through those last two possessions more
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  Speaker 4: than anything else. Yeah, it's incomprehensible. In that situation. We
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  Speaker 4: couldn't get a shot, get a shot. We're down two,
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  Speaker 4: and obviously we didn't need a three. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: with the manual, we were struggling to score on the
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  Speaker 4: entire second half. We got, you know, good looks, but
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  Speaker 4: Florida was doing a good job running us, running us
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  Speaker 4: off the line and forcing us to score it. But
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  Speaker 4: we just didn't do a very good job of finishing
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  Speaker 4: some shots. You know, guys that's been in the paint
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  Speaker 4: scoring all year. You know, l J's developed a really
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  Speaker 4: good runner floater. I didn't go very much tonight, Milos,
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  Speaker 4: but you do give Florida credit to you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not gonna sit up here and poor Mouth and Pittymouth us.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we held that team to sixty five points.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Clayton and Martin combined to go five for twenty.
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  Speaker 4: If you told me we'd hold those two guys to
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  Speaker 4: five for twenty and we and we had a good plan.
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  Speaker 4: We just didn't We didn't score it well enough to
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  Speaker 4: to win. We scored it well enough to be in
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  Speaker 4: a position to win. So it comes down to those
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  Speaker 4: at the end. You've got to you gotta get you
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  Speaker 4: gotta get a shot that that's gotta be better than that.
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  Speaker 1: Coach. Next one is up front to the left, Aaron.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Beard with the ap Kelvin, What were you hoping
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  Speaker 3: to get out of that last play?
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  Speaker 4: We have a set where it's a stagger gate and
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  Speaker 4: and we thought if we could get Emanuel to shot
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  Speaker 4: fake and get downhill. I don't know. I have to
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  Speaker 4: look back at the film and I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: the ball slipped out of his hands or or Clayton
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  Speaker 4: has back. Yeah, they probably should have shot fake that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's a's a Both those guys, h Richard
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  Speaker 4: and Martin both really good defensively. Clayton made a great
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  Speaker 4: play on that. But you know that'shy You got a
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  Speaker 4: shop they can get in the paint. Two's fine, you
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  Speaker 4: know we Jay one has been awesome all year. Tonight
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  Speaker 4: was not his night. Florida was really physical with the
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  Speaker 4: way they were chucking and bumping when he was going,
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  Speaker 4: and he had a lot of balls that just fell
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  Speaker 4: right off the rim. Seems like, you know, at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day, they scored sixty five, we scored
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  Speaker 4: sixty three. They struggled scoring on us, and we struggled
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  Speaker 4: scoring on them. That's what when he gets down to
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  Speaker 4: the two best teams left, that's it's not gonna be
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  Speaker 4: easy for either team.
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  Speaker 1: Third row on the left.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, coach Evanmacala from evanmeia dot com. Tonight, you guys
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  Speaker 3: only had five assists. That's the fewest you've had in
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  Speaker 3: a game since twenty twenty. Was there anything that Florida
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  Speaker 3: was doing you think.
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  Speaker 5: That took away? What's your first name, Evan Miacala. Well,
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  Speaker 5: let me explain how an assists were Evan. I'm not sure,
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  Speaker 5: but when you throw the ball to somebody and they score,
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  Speaker 5: that's an assist, right. Well, we threw the ball a
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  Speaker 5: lot to Jaywan in the post, you know, and he
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  Speaker 5: missed some shots and he normally makes, so those were
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  Speaker 5: possible potential.
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  Speaker 4: Assists that we had a lot. We just didn't make
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  Speaker 4: a lot of shots. I don't know if it's it's
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  Speaker 4: certainly Florida. Let's give them credit for being a good
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  Speaker 4: defensive team. But we threw the ball and passed the
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  Speaker 4: ball enough to get more assists. We just didn't make
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  Speaker 4: enough shots. That's that's what I would say right off
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  Speaker 4: the bat. But you're just that guy right.
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  Speaker 1: On the right side, coach, just to the left of
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  Speaker 1: the Aisle.
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  Speaker 6: Kurk Bowls from the Houston Chronicle, Kelvin, as good as
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  Speaker 6: your guards are many turnovers if you guys have forced
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  Speaker 6: all year long, you know how rare is it that
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  Speaker 6: the turnover boy kind of bitch you the last four minutes?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the last four minutes. You know. We our defense
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  Speaker 4: was so good, you know, the first half. And of
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  Speaker 4: course a big part of our defensive plan was Clayton
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  Speaker 4: because he's he's the elite, he really is. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we we missed an assignment when he came off if
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  Speaker 4: we we wanted him to not Our goal was to
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  Speaker 4: not give him a full court layup. He gets that
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  Speaker 4: a lot watching the SEC games. So we took that away,
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  Speaker 4: and we we didn't want him to get a shot
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  Speaker 4: going to his left. If he's gonna shoot a three,
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  Speaker 4: we wanted it going right. And and we did an
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  Speaker 4: awesome job on that except for one he made a
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  Speaker 4: big one late. I don't remember how much time it was,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, I'm proud of our guys or how
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  Speaker 4: they guarded Uh, tonight that was That was a tough
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  Speaker 4: ball game. Two tough teams. Florida is tough. Martin is
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  Speaker 4: a tough defender. He gave l Jason problems the big
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  Speaker 4: kid condone at six eleven and Chennyu chen Lou Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Those guys are all big, strong, physical guys, just like
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  Speaker 4: our guys are. You know, we got an offensive rebound,
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  Speaker 4: chance to get a kick out three and and Jojo
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  Speaker 4: did the one thing that we really emphasized, don't bring
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  Speaker 4: the ball down, turned into a turnover, probably put them
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  Speaker 4: on the line a little too much, and then and
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  Speaker 4: they made their free throws. But the way we look tonight,
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  Speaker 4: we've a lot of games like that, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: just you know, some nice We struggle offensively, but we
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  Speaker 4: usually find ways to win.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight we didn't second row center likely The last question.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin, to what degree did the way that they were
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  Speaker 2: breaking out on you, which is something that you rarely
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  Speaker 2: ever face, Sorry, Audijoseph CBS. The way that they were
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  Speaker 2: breaking out on you early in the game to get
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  Speaker 2: some long passes to the big men. Yeah, did that
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  Speaker 2: surprise you? Was that something that you were It.
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  Speaker 4: Was surprised when that we'd endure a better job, Garden.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't surprise me that they did it. They're good
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  Speaker 4: at that. But you know, we settled in. That was
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  Speaker 4: a couple what they'd score two or three early, I think,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not sure they got another one after that. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: our guys figured that out up. I think by the
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  Speaker 4: time we got to the first TV timeout. We kind
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  Speaker 4: of Sometimes guys try to guard their man transition and
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  Speaker 4: you have to guy to guard the guy that has
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  Speaker 4: the deepest position. But again, and we're disappointed we lost.
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  Speaker 4: We thought this is a game that if we played well,
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  Speaker 4: we could win, and we did play well. We just
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  Speaker 4: didn't play very good the last three minutes. And that's
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  Speaker 4: been the strength of ours all year long, was winning
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  Speaker 4: close games. Tonight we didn't. But give credit to coach
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  Speaker 4: Golden and Florida they're they're they're a very worthy champion.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank coach Samson for joining us tonight
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  Speaker 1: in all week and congrats on the run to the
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  Speaker 1: title game.