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Dan Hurley Zoom - Xavier Preview Jan 9 · Coaches Corner

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  Medical Uh just not you know, no, nothing new coming out of the
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  Butler game. Uh, in terms of the people that were available there,
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  Uh typical uh you know, uh bruises and and Nick's uh coming out of
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  a big East game. But uh, otherwise nothing new there, you know.
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  And then a relative to Donovan, you know, this was obviously uh
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  you know, the initial diagnosis was, you know, three to four week
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  injury with with Donovan. Obviously we'll we'll, we'll, we'll we'll hit week
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  three tomorrow and obviously that's in the hands of uh, of of our medical
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  team and uh obviously Donson's uh you know, recovery that way. But uh,
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  now don't don't do not look for him, uh tomorrow, at least
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  on the court. He'll he'll be obviously it's just really really large man.
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  Uh, but he'll be on the bench. Yeah, you open it up.
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  I don't see any hands raised, but I'm sure you guys have a
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  question, Devin Dan Tristan struggled a little bit recently shooting the ball. What
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  can you do to get him going? Yeah, I just think yeah,
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  this Uh, you know, Tristan does a lot. Uh, it does
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  a lot for us. He's done a lot for us. He does a
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  lot for us. I think, uh, uh, you know what when
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  he's I think obviously the emergence of you know, Steph being able to you
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  know create more uh for the team offensively, you will get Tristan hopefully better
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  opportunities. You know, Tristan and you know kind of just kind of get
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  lost in the offense more. He takes a lot upon himself. Uh.
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  His willingness to take the ball and make the plays is Uh, there's something
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  that's obviously done, you know, create a lot of success for us.
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  We have to do a better job screening for him. We've got to create
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  better opportunities for him, you know. And then I think he's gonna also
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  try to you know, kind of get lost in the offense a little bit
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  more and you know, use screens you know, more often when he's not
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  on ball and transition you know, kind of maybe just find ways to score
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  and be efficient offensively that aren't related to you know, just creating for himself,
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  you know, because there's a lot more holding, there's a lot more
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  grabbing, you know, Big East Conference games, like I've said a million
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  times, you know, they're very different than what non conference games look like,
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  and what NCAA tournament games look like. So both for US and you
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  know, a lot for us, but also for other teams. Thanks got
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  it, Good to day next. Hey, hey man, I just want
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  to ask you about how do I know? And sot to ask you about
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  that? He don't right, hopefully won't get mad at me for this question.
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  So I'm not I'm not trying to make a Ryan Gome say a thing
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  here or anything like that. But what do you see from what have you
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  seen from Desmond Cloude this year? Seems like he's obviously a much bigger rule
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  of him last year. And was he a guy that you guys you know,
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  looked at him under a fringe trail a few years ago? Yeah,
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  you know he. I think what you just try to do, Dave and
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  and uh you know and and and full transparency is you know it was uh
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  we watched him a lot with Alex and you know we uh yeah, it
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  was. You see his talent, you see the physicality, you see that
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  that that that big you know, that big wing guard. And you know,
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  I think, uh, if I'm not mistaken, or maybe I am,
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  and I'm gonna sound like a bozo, but I think we you know,
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  we had to commit from you know, from Corey Floyd, and I
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  think we kind of looked at I think what we always look at in you
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  know, in recruiting and building a culture is that you know, we don't
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  you know, mislead recruits or recruit the same type of players that you know
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  in terms of uh skill set. So you know, I think we you
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  know, we we looked at Corey at the time at the time as like,
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  you know, that that type of player that we kind of already committed
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  to in the program. And and uh, I think we you know,
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  we we believed in him. Obviously, you know, things don't always work
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  out. You know, Corey's not with us, and and and Dazz is
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  playing well at Xavier, so yeah, he's he heard us a lot last
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  year where we played them. He played really well. Uh he's a tremendous
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  player with a great future. And you know, you're not none of us,
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  you know, none of us. Uh got them all right. I
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  thought our intentions were good. So we had the right intentions, but gotcha,
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  thank you, Uh got to Roger than Joe and not. Its stuff
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  is back and it seems to be feeling good and everything and confident. What
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  can we expect to see from them? What are you seeing in practice that
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  you think is gonna translate into the game pretty soon? Yeah, I just
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  but my biggest you know that you're it's probably the biggest fear because you know,
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  when you go back and and we watched the film across the board,
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  you know, the way we grade out performances is you know, it's a
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  lot different, you know, from a coaching perspective because just there's just you
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  know, there there's execution issues for all of our players, particularly the particularly
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  the younger ones that we may get away with, you know in a game
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  where you know, we go under a screen and scouting report that we should
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  have went got over on versus shooter, you know, or we you know,
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  we're not in the right spots. So I think the biggest challenge with
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  Steph is is, uh, you know, he's had back to back like
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  really I think you know, I think he's really helped us, and he's
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  had you know a couple of pretty good games. But you know, we've
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  got to keep them humble and keeping them kind of seeing the mistakes that he's
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  making while keeping them confident so that he doesn't start to think that this is
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  easy because it's really really hard to play freshman in college basketball today with with
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  the with the amount of old you know, with older players still the COVID
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  players with that extra year, and just the overall age of players in the
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  Big East right now is it's pretty astounding. So our job right now,
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  he's a he's a great kid. He uh he Our defense is is a
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  disaster right now. So you know, we need him to help us at
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  that end. We need him to help us on the backboard where we haven't
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  been the same team as last year that way. Uh. And then we
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  need him to help create shots, you know, the way that Adama did
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  for us last year, the way that andre Andre Jackson did for us last
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  year. You know, we lost some great shot creators. Joey from last
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  year's team. Uh. Dan uh Alex said after the Butler game that him
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  and Samson commit the stupidest fouls. How do you sort of correct that and
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  fix that and and sort of get them better at that because you really need
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  those guys. Yeah, I mean you you know, you you watch the
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  film, Uh, you know, you coach the heck out of him in
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  practice. I think we we made I made the point to the group that
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  it's not it's not a sustainable way to win for us. The lineups that
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  we've been fortunate to win games against Saint John's and and and Butler, and
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  the quality that those two teams bring to the court. Well, while missing
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  Donovan and having some just crazy lineups on the court. We lost too many
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  players from last year's team. I mean, for for Alex and Sampson to
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  commit brutal fouls, it it's crazy to think about the position we're in,
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  considering the fact that they've been in foul trouble. But you lose Jordan's and
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  and you lose Jordan, Andre Adama, Nahem Joey, basically Donovan. I
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  mean, Donovan's barely played in the Big East to play a little bit of
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  Seaton Hall game. But uh, and for the most part, he probably
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  hasn't been himself since the start of the year. But uh, and then
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  we've only brought in one one transfer player, so you know, we're we're
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  trying to do this, and and the margin for error is very thin.
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  It's thin with those guys on the court, and it's not sustainable if they're
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  not on the court. Old Spice is the greatest smell in the NFL.
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  H m hm. I guess along the same lines, how much does that
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  test you you as a coach? I guess to manage that with those guys
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  on the bench, all the different lineups that you're throwing out, how how
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  tough is that on you? And and how much different is that to prepare
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  for a game? Yeah, listen, you're you're always dealing with decisions.
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  It becomes more challenging. You know, It's just it's it's just, it's
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  everything is more challenging. But you know, I got, uh, you
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  know, I think an incredible coaching staff, and I think that we uh,
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  we always got a culture that's that's real. You know, we've got
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  a real culture and and and a real belief in us coming off the championship
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  where it's in our bones that we believe we're supposed to win. So those
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  are a couple of things that we have going for us. But yeah,
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  I mean, like those guys get in foul trouble and no, Donovan right
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  now is you know, we're to be where we're at record wise, and
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  to be where we're at in terms of our overall resume. You know,
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  at this point, losing what we've lost and Donovan either being out or or
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  not being himself physically since the start. You know, we just got to
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  kind of, you know, just keep grinding out games. However, we
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  got to do it. Thank you, you got it, Gavin. Did
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  you have one last one or yeah, I've got one. Well, I
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  guess the first. Your impressions of Xavier. We haven't really talked about them
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  yet. Yeah. The physicality, Yeah, the physicality and rebounding, you
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  know it it plays in Big East games. You could see there. You
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  know, the improvement that you know is gonna happen with Sean he's he's one
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  of the best coaches in the country. And then you know, the physicality,
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  the the way they guard, the rebounding, you know, the way
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  that they get through screens in a real physical way. It's just it.
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  It plays, you know, probably you know their improvement plus how well that
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  plays in Big East conference games as opposed to maybe some non conference games or
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  what have you. Uh, you know, in any environment that you get
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  there at Davier, it's just it's just tough a place to play as you're
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  going to play, uh, you know throughout the season. You know,
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  it's probably one of the top properly one of the top ten hardest places to
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  go, you know, get a win, uh, you know when when
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  when the crowd is into it and just one of the quick one. You've
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  talked about your championship DNA. How does that help you, uh, your
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  team delivering big moments and win games. I think we stay calmer. You
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  know you you see you know you you Obviously the camera likes to show,
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  you know, the camera obviously shows my reaction to a call or or you
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  know, my excitement passion when somebody makes a big play or what have you.
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  But they're also too is you know, in in huddles or in or
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  in offensive calls or in critical moments. We we do uh, you know,
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  we show the composure and the confidence of a program that just you know,
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  accomplished the biggest thing in the sport and and takes the court, uh
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  with that type of self belief, you know from the coaches, you know,
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  through everyone associated with the program. There's a belief. Uh, we
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  have a belief system that shared. And so yeah, I mean, I
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  mean I wish they would show the other coach standing at the exit mid court
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  out of the box as much as they show me. You making funny goofy
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  faces, or showing intensity