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March 2, 2026 (Hour 1) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 1: Welcome, it is Independence Day in a great lone star state.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be playing music about Texas Texas musicians
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Speaker 1: throughout the show today. If you follow us, you know
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Speaker 1: that most days music is the best part of our show.
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Speaker 1: But we've slapped together a decent show today. I think
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Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Pop Isaac's, We're gonna hear from
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Speaker 1: Bucky McMillan, We're gonna hear from Michael early in the
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Speaker 1: second hour. We have the writers round table. I will
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Speaker 1: tell you several times today we do not have a
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Speaker 1: show tomorrow. We have Texas A and M baseball that
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Speaker 1: starts at three forty five tomorrow afternoon. Okay, basketball, The
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Speaker 1: Aggies are down to a must win game. It is
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Speaker 1: their final home game of the season. That is tomorrow. No, yes,
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Speaker 1: it is. It's tomorrow evening against Kentucky. All right, that
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Speaker 1: is a six o'clock start tomorrow evening against Kentucky. A
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Speaker 1: and M has to win that game because on Saturday
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Speaker 1: they lost to the Longhorns seventy six to seventy, where
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Speaker 1: Shawn ag had twenty two. In that game, Marcus Hill
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Speaker 1: had seventeen pop Isaacs had fourteen, but it dropped A
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Speaker 1: and M to nine and seven in the league, nineteen
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Speaker 1: and ten overall, and day after win tomorrow, simple as that,
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Speaker 1: Alabama's Latrelle Rtzel and Missouri's Mark Mitchell co players of
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Speaker 1: the Week in the sec. Rizel, who hurt the Aggies
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Speaker 1: late in that one hundred and ninety seven game, averaged
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Speaker 1: twenty one and a half points in wins over Mississippi
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Speaker 1: State and Tennessee Mark Mitchell, who has also been good
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Speaker 1: all year, average twenty three and a half boards and
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Speaker 1: one and a half assists in wins over Tennessee and
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Speaker 1: Mississippi State. Malachi Moreno of Kentucky seven foot freshman is
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Speaker 1: the Freshman of the week, averaged nine and a half
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Speaker 1: points and eight and a half boards and wins at
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Speaker 1: South Carolina and against Vanderbilt. Duke is still on top.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the first three teams are the same in
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Speaker 1: the AP Top twenty five Duke Arizona Michigan. Arizona, by
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Speaker 1: the way, will host Iowa State rank number six tonight
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Speaker 1: on Big Monday. Yukon is four, Florida is up to five,
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Speaker 1: Iowa State, Houston, Michigan State, Nebraska, Texas Tech who went
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Speaker 1: to Iowa State Saturday night, and one which almost no
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Speaker 1: one does ever. Kansas is fourteen, Alabama is sixteen, Arkansas
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Speaker 1: stays at twenty, Tennessee twenty two, Vanderbilt is at twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Men's basketball team will have to get to the tournament
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Speaker 1: without their second leading scorer, Chad Baker Mazara. The school
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Speaker 1: announced he's no longer part of the program. An Auburn
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Speaker 1: transfer that has averaged eighteen and a half points, four
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Speaker 1: point two rebounds, and two point eight assists per game.
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Speaker 1: He suffered an apparent leg injury after taking a hard
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Speaker 1: fall at the baseline, and the Trojans lost to Nebraska Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Eric Musselman was asked about him after the game and
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Speaker 1: said he said he couldn't go. I haven't talked to
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Speaker 1: the trainer. He said he couldn't go. Aggie baseball team
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Speaker 1: won two out of three at the College Baseball Series
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Speaker 1: tournament at Globe Life over the weekend. They took down
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Speaker 1: Arizona State nine to three, A and M now two
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Speaker 1: ten and one on the season. As I mentioned, they
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Speaker 1: will play tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock. We'll be on
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Speaker 1: with the broadcast at three forty five tomorrow. Aiden Simms
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Speaker 1: not quite as dominant, but not terrible four and two
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Speaker 1: thirds innings with three hits and two earned runs. The Aggies,
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Speaker 1: of course, got run rule by number one UCLA on
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Speaker 1: Saturday night. They opened the tournament with a run rule
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Speaker 1: game against Virginia Tech and a great outing by Shane
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Speaker 1: Sedeo in Baseball co Players of the Week in the SEC.
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Speaker 1: Brendan Lawson of Florida three games at shortstop started all
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Speaker 1: four In the sweeps of Florida International in Miami, he
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Speaker 1: had five seventy one, went eight for fourteen with two
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Speaker 1: home runs, a double, and twelve ribbis. Also Timo Bisera
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Speaker 1: of Texas he hit five hundred with eight run scored,
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Speaker 1: two doubles, three homer, seven RBIs, Pitcher of the Week
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Speaker 1: Josh Gunther of South Carolina and in the Freshman of
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Speaker 1: the Week Mason mccrane at Auburn. Several sources are reporting
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Speaker 1: that Steve Sarkesian at Texas has hired former Kentucky head
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Speaker 1: coach Mark Stoops as a special assistant. Let's see Kentucky
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Speaker 1: fired Stoops after thirteen years and a second straight losing campaign.
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Speaker 1: He was defensive backs coach at Florida, South Florida and
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Speaker 1: Wyoming before becoming the de coordinator at Houston. He was
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Speaker 1: a defensive backs coach at Miami, defensive coordinator at Arizona,
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Speaker 1: and then taking over Kentucky, where for the most part
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Speaker 1: he did an outstanding job and was very very close
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Speaker 1: to being named the head coach at Texas. A and
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Speaker 1: M sitting on the tarmac at Easterwood waiting to be
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Speaker 1: announced when a phone call told him I'm sorry, turn
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Speaker 1: around and go home. You are not the head coach
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Speaker 1: at Texas A and m Irony of Ironey's Now he's
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Speaker 1: at the University of Texas and Colorado. Junior quarterback Dominique
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Speaker 1: Ponder has died in a car crash at the age
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Speaker 1: of twenty three early yesterday morning in Boulder. He transferred
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Speaker 1: thereafter two seasons. Dion Sanders said Dominique is one of
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Speaker 1: my favorites because of his passion, his heart, and his
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Speaker 1: willingness to go beyond what was asked. He will certainly
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Speaker 1: be remembered missed in our thoughts and prayers. Okay, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to take a break. I will tell you that
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Speaker 1: as early as this week, could be Thursday, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to be visiting with Luke Epplin. He has written a
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Speaker 1: book called Moses and the Doctor Two Men, One Championship
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Speaker 1: and the Birth of Modern Basketball. I really like this book.
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Speaker 1: I'll be visiting with Luke Epplin. Actor Rob Morrow, who
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Speaker 1: first came to the public's notice in a TV show
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Speaker 1: years ago called Northern Exposure. He was in another successful
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Speaker 1: TV show called Numbers. He's been in lots of successful
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Speaker 1: TV shows and movies. He is in an eight part
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Speaker 1: series at streaming right now called The Gray. It's about
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Speaker 1: the Civil War. Rob Morrow is going to join us
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Speaker 1: at some point here in the next week or so.
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Speaker 1: All right, so we'll take a break. We're going to
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Speaker 1: come back. We're going to hear from Texas coach Sean Miller.
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Speaker 1: Then we're going to forget about that. We're going to
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Speaker 1: look ahead to Kentucky with Pop Isaacs and Bucky. This
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Speaker 1: Having Kanty and Michelle are unsportsman life.
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Speaker 4: The people that have their pets in strollers.
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Speaker 5: Your pet is not the same thing as my baby
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Speaker 5: in my scroller. Just because you have what you think
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Speaker 5: is a cute dog. It should not be treated the
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Speaker 5: same as my baby and the stroller. I have a
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Speaker 5: human baby, you have a pet baby. Those are not
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Speaker 5: the same.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, unsportsman like listen in weekday mornings from five
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Speaker 7: You say you're not from Texas. Man, let'st if I
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Speaker 7: couldn't tell you think you pull your foods made? Will
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Speaker 7: your hat? So will support my laughter? As I so
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Speaker 7: do understand even Moses God excited when it is sold.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 4: You'll not Partxas. That's right.
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Speaker 9: You're not Partexas.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 1: You're not Pexas, Texas the great low loved Texas from
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M University. That's right, you're not from Texas.
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Speaker 1: It is Texas Independence Day and we're gonna be playing
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Speaker 1: Texas music all afternoon because we can, and it's my show.
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Speaker 1: Saturday at at Ried Arena, the mostly filled arena saw
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Speaker 1: the Aggies fall to the Long Words seventy six to seventy.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear a little bit postgame from Texas coach
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Speaker 1: Sean Miller.
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Speaker 10: You know, first thing is first thing. I would just
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Speaker 10: say it was a great victory by our team here today,
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Speaker 10: and one of the reasons is we're playing against a
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Speaker 10: very good team who's been good all season long, on
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Speaker 10: their home court in front of an incredible crowd. So
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Speaker 10: throw all those factors in, uh, you really have to
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Speaker 10: rise to the challenge, and our group did. There's a
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Speaker 10: lot of different players on our team I can credit.
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Speaker 10: I'll start with Jordan Pope. I thought handling the ball
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Speaker 10: getting open. It's not an easy assignment for a guard
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Speaker 10: to play against A and M because of their style,
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Speaker 10: and I thought Jordan really from start to finish, played
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Speaker 10: like a really good senior point guard.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, Tremon Mark he played lights out.
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Speaker 10: It was one of his best games of the year,
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Speaker 10: and when he gets gone, you know, he's really a
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Speaker 10: terrific offensive player. But the twenty three points from Tremont,
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Speaker 10: I thought Pope being a steadying force from start to finish,
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Speaker 10: and then just overall, you know, that was one of
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Speaker 10: our best defensive performances of the season.
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Speaker 4: We were just we were on it.
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Speaker 10: We limited their three point shooting, and we had a
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Speaker 10: lot of guys, you know, playing with a lot of
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Speaker 10: energy in effort you're gonna ask me about it, you
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Speaker 10: know the start, I thought at the beginning, you know,
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Speaker 10: getting a foul on the jump ball, that's a tough,
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Speaker 10: tough one, and then getting a second foul within thirty seconds.
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Speaker 10: I don't know if I've seen either of those, but
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Speaker 10: you know, looking at it, he probably fouled in both.
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Speaker 10: And again that's up to us to teach Modest the
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Speaker 10: value of being present and ready and being smart. So
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Speaker 10: but we had to play through some crazy fouls in
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Speaker 10: the first half, and I thought, again, credit are our
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Speaker 10: team from being able to get to halftime without playing
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Speaker 10: really Daylen or Modest like we usually do. That that's
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Speaker 10: not easy, especially on the road.
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Speaker 9: Question, Zach Sean, you mentioned the defense be held them
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Speaker 9: eighteen points below their average.
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Speaker 11: I know you said the other day the guys are.
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Speaker 9: Going to be the best defense that has to see
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Speaker 9: that there was a possible Do you feel.
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Speaker 12: Like you all are training the corner in that regard at.
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Speaker 11: The right time?
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Speaker 10: I hope, so, you know, I don't even I wouldn't
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Speaker 10: give you the answer yes, even if I wanted to,
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Speaker 10: because man, we play again on Wednesday, and we play
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Speaker 10: again on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: You know, we've been a very good offensive team.
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Speaker 10: We've our offense has carried us and there are times
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Speaker 10: on our defense has certainly let us down. But we
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Speaker 10: all have the opportunity late in the season to keep
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Speaker 10: keep practicing, to keep playing and get better. And I
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Speaker 10: thought we took a good step forward defensively today.
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Speaker 8: Sean, you know you've challenged Jordan Pope throughout the season.
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Speaker 11: I'll just ask you, you know, platform.
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Speaker 2: Just text us when this game Jordan Pope doesn't have night.
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Speaker 13: No.
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Speaker 10: One of the things that I told the team after
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Speaker 10: the game is there's no player on our team that
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Speaker 10: I've coached harder than Jordan Pope. I coached him hard
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Speaker 10: before the season began. I'm coaching him because I've always felt,
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Speaker 10: because of his unique skill set and his experience, that
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Speaker 10: he had another level in him, had a higher ceiling
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Speaker 10: than sometimes he had shown. And I think everybody really
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Speaker 10: saw that today. It wasn't just his shot making. It
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Speaker 10: was getting open, not wearing, handling the ball against pressure,
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Speaker 10: and really doing a good job defensively, being poised throughout.
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Speaker 4: Uh, he did all.
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Speaker 10: He did it all, and I thought he looked like
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Speaker 10: a terrific point guard today. And and that's what it
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Speaker 10: takes and when you get to the end, you need
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Speaker 10: guys like him to play well.
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Speaker 7: And he did the back clip with Yeah, Shauna, you
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Speaker 7: mentioned offense.
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Speaker 11: Can it can be so unique?
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Speaker 14: Does it the cause of that?
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Speaker 15: Does it help even more so now that you know
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Speaker 15: you already said, you already saw.
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Speaker 14: The once in conference, Mike, does does that help the
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Speaker 14: second time around?
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Speaker 11: And us?
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Speaker 16: So? Do you think some of that was a player?
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 10: I think every time all teams that played each other
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Speaker 10: more than once, you have that more that that, that familiarity,
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Speaker 10: you got a sense of the speed and size of
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Speaker 10: the game. Look texting them as a very good team.
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Speaker 10: What I love about their team is they have the
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Speaker 10: ability to play full court pressure. Uh, they have the
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Speaker 10: ability to play zone. They are disruptive, they have a
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Speaker 10: deep bench. But I also like the fact, you know,
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Speaker 10: just meet preparing for them. They're good on offense, they
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Speaker 10: share the ball, they play unselfish, they utilize the three
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Speaker 10: point shot. So we have a lot of respect for them,
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Speaker 10: and that respect helped us win today. We came into
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Speaker 10: the game knowing that we were going to have to
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Speaker 10: really play well to win.
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Speaker 17: I love Kurk, what's going through your mind when Dylan
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Speaker 17: and Malas get two fouls and if you talk about
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Speaker 17: juggling their minutes in the first half to at least
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Speaker 17: they level with them.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think what goes through my mind in that
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Speaker 10: situation is, you know, I can't join them and lose
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Speaker 10: my mind and you know, next thing you know, you're
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Speaker 10: at halftime and you're unraveled. Because in situations like that, oftentimes.
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Speaker 4: That's what happens.
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Speaker 10: So I just tried to do the very best that
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Speaker 10: I could and our staff in our team to play
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Speaker 10: through it and get to halftime. I felt if we
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Speaker 10: could get to halftime, then we could maybe resurrect who
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Speaker 10: we are and what we do in the second half.
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Speaker 10: But yeah, and Madus and Dalen in the second half,
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Speaker 10: we're able to play all the way to the end,
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Speaker 10: which is a credit to them as well.
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Speaker 4: Right right, So, and.
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Speaker 11: Sean, I no secret about your old guys. This watch
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Speaker 11: take and this is it for them and do they
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Speaker 11: want to get in the tournament or not?
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Speaker 5: How big was it for those three guys, including Kendall
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Speaker 5: Weaver to do what.
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Speaker 18: They did on a night when Dala didn't have big numbers.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, with Kendall, you can't always look at the statuet
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Speaker 10: or the scoreboard and assess his value. He made two
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Speaker 10: or three hustle plays that you know, if you're watching
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Speaker 10: the game, you're.
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Speaker 4: Like, wow, who is that guy?
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Speaker 10: You know he jumps out of the gym, or he
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Speaker 10: like stops and cuts. He has such a unique way
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Speaker 10: of playing the game. But one thing that you never
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Speaker 10: have to question about Kendell Weaver is his motor, his
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Speaker 10: unselfish will, and his energy and effort level. He always
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Speaker 10: has those three things. And you know, today I think
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Speaker 10: you could tell it was an important game for him.
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Speaker 10: And you're right, seniors guys who can't play college basketball again. Man,
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Speaker 10: at this time of year, you see those guys rise.
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Speaker 10: And if you evaluate our game today, Kendall Weaver, Jordan
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Speaker 10: Pope and Tamar and Mark were very instrumental on why
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Speaker 10: we were able to.
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Speaker 11: Win Yer Tree.
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Speaker 14: Last one was back exactly what showing up to term
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Speaker 14: about Nick Cody in the first half when mosc gotta
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Speaker 14: fell trouble.
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Speaker 4: He had three blocks in the first half and played.
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Speaker 11: Some tough defense and send that that's sequence.
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Speaker 14: In the second half when meets the separation, he got
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Speaker 14: the three in the block at the other Endes those
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Speaker 14: two guys.
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Speaker 1: Considering how this point of you were in the pitch.
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Speaker 10: The first time you playing, I thought those guys did
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Speaker 10: a good job. You know, we called on Nick in
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Speaker 10: a unique way when we asked him to a lot.
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Speaker 10: I thought he was actually gassed at one point in
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Speaker 10: the first half because he's not used to playing that
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Speaker 10: many minutes.
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Speaker 4: But you're right three blocks.
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Speaker 10: I thought he had a couple of jump books where
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Speaker 10: he missed it, but it was a good shot. And uh,
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Speaker 10: he's gotten better the last couple of weeks because we've
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Speaker 10: given him more of an opportunity. I feel like he's
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Speaker 10: moving in the right direction. But you're right about sim
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Speaker 10: big three point shot didn't play as much as he
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Speaker 10: usually does, simply because if you look at it, it's
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Speaker 10: tough to go without Tremond and Jordan because of how
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Speaker 10: well they were playing. So that's that's the reason. But
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Speaker 10: sim's really important as well.
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Speaker 4: Every coach in.
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Speaker 10: SEC will tell you you can't do it with just
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Speaker 10: your starters. You need guys coming in off the bench
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Speaker 10: to make key plays.
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Speaker 1: Thomas Sean with the considering the venue, the NCAA tournament stakes,
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Speaker 1: and the manner of the win with the defense is
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Speaker 1: this your biggest win.
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Speaker 4: That's the long rust.
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Speaker 10: You know, that's really up to you guys to be
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Speaker 10: able to stamp that or not. I would tell you
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Speaker 10: that it's one of them. I think anytime that you
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Speaker 10: can go on the road in this league, deeper and
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Speaker 10: late in the season even more so, you have to
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Speaker 10: feel really good about accomplishing it, simply because it's so
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Speaker 10: difficult to do.
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Speaker 19: The very coach kind of the bounce off that you
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Speaker 19: know your last two games didn't go the way you wanted,
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Speaker 19: so getting this win against an arch River like A
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Speaker 19: and M. I saw the guys on the side online
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Speaker 19: having a lot of fun just to kind of raise
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Speaker 19: their confidence going into the finals.
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Speaker 10: You know, I would answer your question almost opposite that
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Speaker 10: because if you followed us, not that we're the greatest
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Speaker 10: team in the world, but just when you think we
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Speaker 10: hit that losing pocket where uh oh, they're gonna lose
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Speaker 10: four in a row, six in row, five in a row,
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Speaker 10: we have found the way out of that. And we've
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Speaker 10: really done that from late November, and I think it
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Speaker 10: talks about the resiliency of the group, the guys continuing
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Speaker 10: to work between games, which is not easy, and knowing
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Speaker 10: that They're playing for a lot, both individually and collectively.
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Speaker 10: So tonight is another example of our team that you know,
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Speaker 10: uh oh, they're gonna lose two three in row and
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Speaker 10: then they go to Arkansas next Wow. Tough stretch, but
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Speaker 10: you know, we found a way to be able to
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Speaker 10: get back on the winning side of the ledger. And
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Speaker 10: I think that's the older players on our team and
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Speaker 10: our guys. You have to give them credit. In terms
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Speaker 10: of the resiliency of our team.
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Speaker 1: That's the Sean Miller and that's been a really inconsistent
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Speaker 1: up and down team. They have seemed to play their
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Speaker 1: best against the better teams. They have losses to Mississippi State,
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Speaker 1: they loss at Georgia. Not that Georgia is a bad team,
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Speaker 1: They're going to be in the tournament, but at a
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Speaker 1: time where Georgia wasn't doing great. They've been hard to
21:23
Speaker 1: figure out. They came in here and got to win.
21:26
Speaker 1: I did not expect that. I don't think Bucky expected
21:30
Speaker 1: it or the players expected it. They have put more
21:34
Speaker 1: pressure on A and M to go out and win
21:37
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. This afternoon, Pop Isaac's coming off what Bucky
21:42
Speaker 1: has called by far, his best game of the year.
21:46
Speaker 1: Visited with reporters.
21:50
Speaker 20: What do you'll have to get back on track and
21:53
Speaker 20: get back on the uncommon maybe you'll get a win,
21:55
Speaker 20: they can help you issuablely tournament hopes.
21:58
Speaker 11: I mean, yeah, we know with our team there's not a.
22:02
Speaker 18: Not a lot of room for era, just with with
22:05
Speaker 18: with our size, with losing Mackenzie, I just feel like
22:08
Speaker 18: we're not doing the little things, you know, to the
22:10
Speaker 18: best of our abilities right now.
22:12
Speaker 9: Uh.
22:12
Speaker 11: Coach feels the same way.
22:13
Speaker 18: It's it's not like we're super far off, but we
22:16
Speaker 18: have to be able to control the things that we
22:18
Speaker 18: can control on the court, all the little.
22:20
Speaker 11: Things we have to be.
22:21
Speaker 18: Nobody's gonna be perfect, but we have to be really
22:23
Speaker 18: good at them. We know we got a really good
22:26
Speaker 18: opponent coming in Kentucky, and we know, you know, this
22:28
Speaker 18: is a must win game for us.
22:29
Speaker 11: We gotta have us win.
22:31
Speaker 18: So, you know, I like our team's mindset, and you know,
22:34
Speaker 18: we watched the film and we're gonna correct the things
22:36
Speaker 18: we gotta do to win the next game.
22:38
Speaker 9: Buck He's talked about the importance of guard player this
22:40
Speaker 9: time of year, just with this being a really guard
22:43
Speaker 9: heavy team. Just what's the conversation been like among y'all's
22:46
Speaker 9: group to try and get more production down the line.
22:50
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, just to just to be confident. Everybody
22:52
Speaker 18: needs to be confident be themselves. I think all of
22:57
Speaker 18: us have had really good spurts throughout the year, but
22:59
Speaker 18: I don't know if we've all put it together so
23:00
Speaker 18: much at the same time.
23:01
Speaker 11: And we know, you know, we.
23:02
Speaker 18: Got we gotta start putting it together if we want
23:04
Speaker 18: to you know, win and win and keep playing in March.
23:07
Speaker 18: So I mean, I think we just got to have
23:09
Speaker 18: everybody in the right mindset and confident in their games,
23:11
Speaker 18: and you know, like Bucky says, we got to win
23:13
Speaker 18: our matchups.
23:14
Speaker 9: So you had a strong finish to the game on Saturday.
23:18
Speaker 9: I'm just curious if there's anything you can take from
23:20
Speaker 9: kind of that maybe last five minutes stretch that you
23:22
Speaker 9: felt like we're good things that you did that you
23:25
Speaker 9: can try.
23:25
Speaker 11: And build along.
23:26
Speaker 18: I mean, yeah, I think the last five minutes just
23:28
Speaker 18: contributed to the way I was guarded throughout the game.
23:31
Speaker 18: I think Bucky would tell you the same thing, Like
23:33
Speaker 18: I probably wasn't scoring in the first half.
23:34
Speaker 11: But you know, I played hard.
23:36
Speaker 18: I played the I mean probably I play hard all
23:38
Speaker 18: the time, but it's probably the best I've just guarded
23:40
Speaker 18: all year, and Bucky told me that, So probably just
23:44
Speaker 18: you know, continuing to do that side and everything could
23:46
Speaker 18: take care of itself. I mean, this team, you know,
23:48
Speaker 18: we have so many weapons on offense, I don't I mean,
23:51
Speaker 18: I just kind of let the game come to.
23:52
Speaker 11: Me, just as everybody else does.
23:54
Speaker 18: But I mean, we just got to be able to
23:56
Speaker 18: control the things we could control as far as winning
23:58
Speaker 18: our matchup, especially on the defensive end.
24:01
Speaker 9: So if there was one little thing you feel like
24:03
Speaker 9: you guys could try and improve that can make a
24:05
Speaker 9: big difference, what do you think that be it?
24:07
Speaker 12: Right now?
24:10
Speaker 18: I mean I would just say obviously, like i've I mean,
24:14
Speaker 18: we got to stop the silly fouls that we've been having.
24:17
Speaker 18: We gotta we gotta stop having to go back to
24:19
Speaker 18: Day one things that we went over as far as
24:21
Speaker 18: our press, you know, and really just I mean, like
24:27
Speaker 18: I know I've said it already, but like we we
24:29
Speaker 18: lost our matchups at the end of that game. Those
24:32
Speaker 18: dudes made some tough one on one shots, and it's
24:35
Speaker 18: a player's game at the end of the year. So
24:37
Speaker 18: I mean, we gotta win those matchups and be able
24:39
Speaker 18: to stay in our ground and move our feet in
24:40
Speaker 18: those moments.
24:41
Speaker 9: So has practiced stelped a little different the last.
24:43
Speaker 11: Couple of days. I wouldn't necessarily necessarily say different. I
24:47
Speaker 11: think if you make.
24:49
Speaker 18: Things different, it kind of makes everybody overthink things.
24:52
Speaker 11: But I think obviously.
24:53
Speaker 18: Our pro our approach, as far as our mindset, has
24:56
Speaker 18: been a little different because we know, you know, it's
24:59
Speaker 18: we don't have, you know, much room for error anymore.
25:01
Speaker 18: So I think the guys are in a good headspace,
25:03
Speaker 18: get ready to go in this game tomorrow.
25:06
Speaker 9: What excite you about the last week before going to Nashield.
25:10
Speaker 18: Uh, we got an opportunity to go get two wins
25:12
Speaker 18: and and and keep building our case for the tournament.
25:15
Speaker 18: We know if we get these two wins, we'll be
25:16
Speaker 18: out eleven and seven and it'll be really hard to
25:18
Speaker 18: keep us out the tournament. So you know that that's
25:21
Speaker 18: I mean, that's that's like the best feeling in the
25:23
Speaker 18: world is when you could control your own destiny and
25:25
Speaker 18: nobody else controls it for you. So obviously we've had
25:27
Speaker 18: some slip ups with the four losses in a row
25:30
Speaker 18: and the back to back losses just now, but we still,
25:32
Speaker 18: you know, at the start we had. We still control
25:34
Speaker 18: our own destiny to accomplish the things that we want
25:36
Speaker 18: to accomplish.
25:37
Speaker 9: If you're on that committee, what do you want them
25:40
Speaker 9: to know about the same m team?
25:42
Speaker 18: No team is probably gonna want to play us in
25:44
Speaker 18: the first round. The way we guard our pressure. You know,
25:49
Speaker 18: we're really good. We play really hard. I think we play,
25:52
Speaker 18: you know, as hard as any team in the country.
25:55
Speaker 18: You know, we've had some you know, really close losses
25:57
Speaker 18: against teams that'll be you know, seated really high in tournament,
26:00
Speaker 18: in games that we probably should have won.
26:03
Speaker 11: I think, you know, it's no doubt about it. We're
26:05
Speaker 11: nta tournament team.
26:06
Speaker 9: So what do you know about this Kentucky team you're here?
26:10
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean they're really good preseason Player of the
26:13
Speaker 18: Year and they'll take always having a really good year. Obviously,
26:18
Speaker 18: Aberdeen and Colin Chandler are really good shooters. Colin Chandler's
26:21
Speaker 18: probably been shooting the best in the SEC, you know,
26:24
Speaker 18: his percentages and stuff like that. And I've known him,
26:26
Speaker 18: you know a little bit since high school and stuff.
26:27
Speaker 18: He's always been a really good player. So, and they
26:30
Speaker 18: got a really good team. They run a lot of actions.
26:33
Speaker 18: You know, and I knew that just from playing you know,
26:34
Speaker 18: Mark Pope at his b YU day, So, you know,
26:37
Speaker 18: a really good offensive team and we know we got
26:40
Speaker 18: to be at our best.
26:40
Speaker 11: To come in here and get a win tomorrow.
26:44
Speaker 9: Fuck you said last week too, just that he really
26:46
Speaker 9: challenged you guys to walk in for one week, even
26:50
Speaker 9: though you all lost on Saturday. He felt like the
26:52
Speaker 9: buy in and the lock in nature has been there.
26:55
Speaker 11: Yeah, for sure. I think we had a really good
26:56
Speaker 11: practice today.
26:57
Speaker 18: It was really competitive, and I think guys are all,
27:00
Speaker 18: you know, the same goals on everybody's mind.
27:03
Speaker 11: You know, we know we got to, you know.
27:04
Speaker 18: Win these next two games if just so you know,
27:07
Speaker 18: we could accomplish what everybody wants to accomplish. A lot
27:09
Speaker 18: of guys on this team hasn't made the NCAA tournament before.
27:12
Speaker 18: Only a few of us have, like guys like me, Ryland,
27:16
Speaker 18: you know, Zach fed Federco. You know, we want to
27:18
Speaker 18: We want to be able to lock in and just
27:21
Speaker 18: help these guys get get to somewhere where they haven't
27:23
Speaker 18: been before.
27:24
Speaker 4: So how hard is it or not hard?
27:27
Speaker 9: Is it?
27:27
Speaker 14: Sort of trying to balance the mental aspect of the
27:30
Speaker 14: urgency of a must win versus like trying not to.
27:34
Speaker 14: Let's psych yourselves out.
27:36
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean I think if you psych yourself out
27:38
Speaker 18: like it caused a lot of.
27:39
Speaker 11: Overthinking, you know what I mean.
27:41
Speaker 18: I think, you know, just staying even kill, not getting
27:44
Speaker 18: too high and not getting too low. And I think
27:46
Speaker 18: this group has done a really good job of that.
27:48
Speaker 18: I mean, it's not the end of the world, you
27:50
Speaker 18: know when we when we lose these games, but we know,
27:53
Speaker 18: you know, it's obviously some urgency. But I think it's
27:56
Speaker 18: just if you if you get too high or too low,
28:00
Speaker 18: it's not healthy, you know what I mean. So I
28:03
Speaker 18: think the fact that this group has been doing a
28:05
Speaker 18: good job of just saying even kill, I think it's
28:08
Speaker 18: gonna really benefit us going into this last week.
28:11
Speaker 1: It's Pop Isaacs and his team is favored by a
28:17
Speaker 1: point and a half as of right now Tomorrow night
28:21
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Speaker 1: Billy Kennedy and Cal had, especially when they one the
28:34
Speaker 1: regular season in twenty sixteen, lost in the tournament finals barely.
28:42
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28:48
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28:51
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28:54
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28:57
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29:19
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29:21
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Speaker 20: Coach, little response from your team after the last night,
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Speaker 20: would you like from him today?
34:21
Speaker 27: Yeah, you know, just speaking of last night, Like coaches,
34:24
Speaker 27: you gotta look back after the game and you just
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Speaker 27: I was really just upset with the fact we got
34:29
Speaker 27: run rolling right, and I think looking back, we did
34:31
Speaker 27: some thanks better than I thought. But at the same time,
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Speaker 27: a response and the fact that we did get our butts kicked.
34:36
Speaker 8: And did an awesome job. Awesome job control the.
34:39
Speaker 27: Strike zone through strikes, got runners that we need to
34:42
Speaker 27: get him in. You saw some guys hit some balls
34:44
Speaker 27: off the end of the bat, just moving the ball,
34:46
Speaker 27: and they did a great job. And I know it's
34:49
Speaker 27: three different teams, but you gotta win series, right.
34:52
Speaker 8: We wanted to win the tournament. We didn't.
34:54
Speaker 27: We gotta get used stat fack, especially in play in
34:55
Speaker 27: our league, it's tough to get one of those first two.
34:58
Speaker 27: When you do, you gotta finish the job on and
35:00
Speaker 27: they did that.
35:00
Speaker 8: So it's a it was a good weekend.
35:03
Speaker 1: Our GUARDI really stepped up and kind of things. What
35:05
Speaker 1: if you liked about him being kind of the first
35:08
Speaker 1: guys from the pen.
35:09
Speaker 27: Yeah, he's been he's been really impressive. He's done a
35:11
Speaker 27: lot of strikes. He's got good stuff. Is a unique
35:13
Speaker 27: look to the opposing hitter, especially coming in after sim So.
35:17
Speaker 8: He's doing his job. Man, we hand him the ball.
35:18
Speaker 8: We feel comfortable doing it. Have you ever seen a
35:20
Speaker 8: ball to win to a pitcher shirt before?
35:22
Speaker 4: No?
35:23
Speaker 27: I did not. I did not, but I know if
35:25
Speaker 27: hits the Empire goes in a shirt automatic hit.
35:28
Speaker 8: So I've not seen it though I've only heard about it.
35:31
Speaker 10: Similarly to Richard's question, you guys had a couple of
35:33
Speaker 10: mersity spots this year that you've really is going your Well,
35:36
Speaker 10: what about your team in love?
35:37
Speaker 27: You guys should do so, you know good in those
35:39
Speaker 27: next gold It's all about those guys, man, those guys
35:41
Speaker 27: in the locker, and they really care. Uh, no one
35:43
Speaker 27: ever wants to come out and way bad. No one
35:44
Speaker 27: ever wants to lose, you know, but anything can happen,
35:47
Speaker 27: and your response is what the outcome is. And these
35:50
Speaker 27: guys been tested a few times in games, but I've
35:53
Speaker 27: seen it all fall sorry, all fall off spring in
35:55
Speaker 27: the practice, so I was not surprised at all.
35:59
Speaker 8: I knew they were gonna come up day and play
36:00
Speaker 8: good baseball.
36:01
Speaker 15: Sticking with the response every time they score you guys
36:03
Speaker 15: answer back, How just important is that in a flow
36:06
Speaker 15: of a game like this?
36:07
Speaker 27: Yeah, I think the biggest part with that is, like
36:09
Speaker 27: you're not trying to write, you just continue to take
36:11
Speaker 27: your at bats and your pitches, and that if you
36:14
Speaker 27: get a pitch of hit, you hit a strike.
36:15
Speaker 8: If they based on balls or hit you, you keep
36:17
Speaker 8: putting the pressure on.
36:18
Speaker 27: So I think the biggest saying scoring position or response
36:22
Speaker 27: to any runs is just play your game, get your pitch.
36:25
Speaker 27: If you don't pass it to the next.
36:26
Speaker 28: Guy you're talking about, you want to move up with
36:28
Speaker 28: what happened lest how big was it right up the
36:30
Speaker 28: bat for Kadsurrell, the kind of sitting come yeah for
36:33
Speaker 28: him individually to see that point.
36:35
Speaker 27: For sure too in a two strike count he hits
36:37
Speaker 27: one the other way and when he moves it the
36:38
Speaker 27: other way.
36:39
Speaker 8: You can sit up hit it out of the park.
36:40
Speaker 27: So yeah, getting on the board early, you know, that's
36:43
Speaker 27: why we got in there in the two hole.
36:44
Speaker 8: We want to up as soon as possible, and he
36:47
Speaker 8: crossed that ball. It's great to.
36:48
Speaker 1: See sig Test weekend. You learn anything new about your
36:50
Speaker 1: team coming out of these three games.
36:53
Speaker 8: Yeah, I did.
36:54
Speaker 27: You know, we traveled well, all the guys. You know,
36:56
Speaker 27: it's a that's a whole new thing. First, Right, we've
36:58
Speaker 27: been at home and I really liked it.
37:00
Speaker 8: Like even last night, like I left with you know,
37:04
Speaker 8: defeated for a minute. It had some confidence because they
37:06
Speaker 8: saw what it takes.
37:07
Speaker 27: They know they're that good, especially when you get some
37:09
Speaker 27: guys back off the shelf.
37:11
Speaker 8: We're a really good baseball team. We just got to
37:12
Speaker 8: continue to play well.
37:13
Speaker 10: Similarly to that question, how valuable it is, like a
37:16
Speaker 10: series like this, we can't.
37:18
Speaker 8: Really emulate the issues team played. When it cranks up companies,
37:20
Speaker 8: it's huge.
37:21
Speaker 11: It's huge.
37:21
Speaker 27: You crank up competition, you get out of your comfort zone.
37:25
Speaker 8: I mean we're we're hitting at d bat in the morning,
37:27
Speaker 8: you know what I mean.
37:28
Speaker 27: Then we're coming here hitting the cage, taking a quick
37:30
Speaker 27: in and out. So yeah, I mean, all that stuff
37:32
Speaker 27: throws a challenge at your team and see how they
37:35
Speaker 27: handle it.
37:36
Speaker 8: Then you get to the baseball part. We got it.
37:38
Speaker 8: You know, we got tests a little bit in game two.
37:40
Speaker 27: We responded, so all kinds of positives would take out
37:42
Speaker 27: of the weekend, a lot.
37:43
Speaker 8: Of stuff to work off.
37:45
Speaker 27: Right, We're never gonna celebrate two out of three when
37:46
Speaker 27: we get run off the field one of them.
37:48
Speaker 8: But a lot of good stuff come out this weekend
37:51
Speaker 8: to see it go due good.
37:54
Speaker 18: That was listening Gordon doing great, Leo was it Clisi
37:57
Speaker 18: caught the the ball that went in at the Truths
38:00
Speaker 18: the Empire?
38:01
Speaker 8: Get it right away, I'm hired, got it.
38:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm big.
38:06
Speaker 3: I'll forget early at that.
38:07
Speaker 12: But the guys are.
38:10
Speaker 27: Just in their careers. I mean, they're huge because those
38:14
Speaker 27: guys are gonna play. I mean, by all accounts, are
38:15
Speaker 27: gonna play every day. So getting them out there and
38:19
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41:19
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41:23
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41:26
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41:31
Speaker 12: Is Kentucky still or anything?
41:34
Speaker 18: What?
41:34
Speaker 12: I don't even know what that word means? What does that.
41:38
Speaker 16: You know?
41:39
Speaker 12: I don't I don't I don't know.
41:40
Speaker 15: I've never looked at it like that, you know, so
41:43
Speaker 15: you'd have to ask my players at right, But you
41:47
Speaker 15: know I've never looked at that way.
41:48
Speaker 12: So I can't even answer that you think be a
41:53
Speaker 12: big SEC win.
41:54
Speaker 15: I mean, we know, we know what tomm it is,
41:56
Speaker 15: and we know we got to play good basketball, like
41:58
Speaker 15: we we know that, and all these all these matter.
42:03
Speaker 15: With a great deal. You focus on winning, usually don't win.
42:06
Speaker 15: You focus on executing playing good basketball. It gives yourself
42:10
Speaker 15: the best chance to win. I know it's a redundant statement,
42:13
Speaker 15: but I'm gonna add a third element into that. And
42:14
Speaker 15: I know this has been repetitive, no I keep saying this,
42:18
Speaker 15: but we got to take it personal. And I don't
42:20
Speaker 15: just mean as a team, I mean as an individual player,
42:23
Speaker 15: like we gotta, we gotta. It's wrote something on the
42:26
Speaker 15: board last game Hooper's hoop winners.
42:29
Speaker 12: Win never more important than March. Right, You don't, You don't.
42:33
Speaker 15: Remember a March madness. When they show show one shining moment,
42:37
Speaker 15: They don't show some some great play that was rare
42:41
Speaker 15: in They show some great players stepping it up, and
42:43
Speaker 15: March the great player's got to step it up and
42:45
Speaker 15: so to do we do those three things, execute, do
42:49
Speaker 15: the things you're supposed to do, be successful, and our
42:51
Speaker 15: great players step it up.
42:53
Speaker 12: It gives you a great chance to do well.
42:55
Speaker 20: Do you feel like you're at this point maybe juggle
42:59
Speaker 20: lives or something like that some of the guys that
43:01
Speaker 20: are maybe not.
43:04
Speaker 15: I think so, I think you ain't gonna have to
43:05
Speaker 15: get guys on the floor. I think you gotta get
43:09
Speaker 15: guys on the floor that that uh that that are
43:14
Speaker 15: gonna win that matchup that night.
43:15
Speaker 12: Whatever that means.
43:16
Speaker 15: You know, that could be lineups, that could be minutes,
43:19
Speaker 15: but you know, we gotta we gotta, we gotta win
43:22
Speaker 15: some of these lineups, particularly particularly tomorrow at this guard position.
43:26
Speaker 12: They got three really good guards. So what do you
43:29
Speaker 12: want to prove?
43:29
Speaker 9: And see this last week?
43:35
Speaker 15: You know, I don't want to say wins because I
43:37
Speaker 15: I you know you know that that like I said,
43:39
Speaker 15: is that good basketball results and that taking care of
43:41
Speaker 15: itself a lot of the times. Okay, Now we're not
43:45
Speaker 15: the only team in the SEC trying to win. We're not
43:47
Speaker 15: the only team with good players.
43:50
Speaker 12: But I want to play best basketball down the stretch.
43:53
Speaker 12: I do.
43:53
Speaker 15: I mean, that's very important. These last two games and
43:55
Speaker 15: then head into head into March. And you know, I
44:00
Speaker 15: want our players to really understand that.
44:04
Speaker 12: And I mentioned this that.
44:07
Speaker 15: When when you're in the off season and you're in
44:10
Speaker 15: the gym by yourself, or when you're growing up and
44:13
Speaker 15: you're in high school or you're in junior high, you
44:17
Speaker 15: were in the off season dreaming of March. When you're
44:20
Speaker 15: in the gym counting down three seconds, two seconds, one second,
44:24
Speaker 15: you can't be here in March streaming about the off season.
44:28
Speaker 15: You can't be in March streaming about the off season.
44:30
Speaker 15: I don't think we have that going on. But I
44:33
Speaker 15: want to remind these guys that came from all over
44:35
Speaker 15: the world that this is what they dreamed about and
44:38
Speaker 15: this is what they've worked for, and just don't have
44:41
Speaker 15: any regrets.
44:44
Speaker 9: You told us last week how you kind of really
44:46
Speaker 9: challenged your guys to walk in for one week and
44:49
Speaker 9: even though you all lost on Saturday, do you feel
44:51
Speaker 9: like that that I in and that lock in has
44:53
Speaker 9: been there.
44:54
Speaker 12: I think the locking has been been really good. As
44:57
Speaker 12: a team.
44:57
Speaker 15: You don't see any I still believe when you know
45:01
Speaker 15: we play as hard as you know. I don't like
45:04
Speaker 15: giving bulletin board material that for the hardest playing team
45:07
Speaker 15: in college basketball.
45:08
Speaker 12: For the next script show you see what they say.
45:10
Speaker 15: Now they have their stuff up, right, But I think
45:13
Speaker 15: when you watch our team play, you're not going to
45:14
Speaker 15: say seemy teams that play as hard as we do
45:17
Speaker 15: consistently play together. I want our guys to buy into
45:22
Speaker 15: the belief in themselves as players, you know. I want
45:27
Speaker 15: them to to have that belief in themselves and these
45:30
Speaker 15: big moments that they can rise to the occasion like
45:32
Speaker 15: they have so many times. And I know it's a
45:36
Speaker 15: very repetitive deal, but this time of year, you know,
45:40
Speaker 15: we've got to have guys rise up like we have
45:43
Speaker 15: at times, but even more important this time of year,
45:46
Speaker 15: not just as a team, not just with execution, not
45:49
Speaker 15: just with playing hard.
45:51
Speaker 12: But hey, I've worked my whole life.
45:52
Speaker 15: When I have this open shot right here to knock
45:54
Speaker 15: this thing down, now it's time to step up here
45:57
Speaker 15: with the courage and the conviction that I work for
46:00
Speaker 15: this and let it rip.
46:02
Speaker 9: You talk about players rising up, seemed like Pop rose
46:05
Speaker 9: up in those last five minutes on Saturday, But just
46:08
Speaker 9: were there anything that you saw that he could take
46:10
Speaker 9: from that to try and maybe stend that through the
46:12
Speaker 9: first thirty five going forward.
46:14
Speaker 15: I thought Pop played the best game I've ever seen
46:17
Speaker 15: him play last game. People want to understand that I've
46:19
Speaker 15: grabbed an HATI I don't even know if he had scored.
46:21
Speaker 15: I told him, like, man, you've had games you played
46:22
Speaker 15: scored thirty points in games. That's the best game you've
46:25
Speaker 15: ever played.
46:26
Speaker 3: He is.
46:26
Speaker 15: His effort and tenacity and heart was winning basketball like
46:37
Speaker 15: he was out there on a mission.
46:40
Speaker 12: And you know, it.
46:42
Speaker 15: Takes players sometimes, particularly coming back from injury. It takes
46:45
Speaker 15: players in a new program to be all in. The
46:49
Speaker 15: guys that I play the most are guys I feel.
46:50
Speaker 12: That are all in.
46:51
Speaker 15: Pop was all in last game. He was all in.
46:54
Speaker 15: And I don't even know how many he scored. I
46:56
Speaker 15: don't care. I'd care that that dude was out there.
47:00
Speaker 15: You know, he was in the octagon and he fought,
47:04
Speaker 15: and so that's going to help him get on the
47:08
Speaker 15: floor more for sure. But that when you do that,
47:10
Speaker 15: your offense just kind of comes naturally to you.
47:13
Speaker 30: This is us first Saturday Tuesday turnaround in a while.
47:16
Speaker 30: U does this preparation change when it's this late in
47:20
Speaker 30: the season. You maybe practice lighter when it's quick a
47:24
Speaker 30: turnaround or is it just, you know, not that bad
47:27
Speaker 30: since it was an afternoon game.
47:29
Speaker 15: Good question. We actually went pretty hard there. We were
47:32
Speaker 15: late later yesterday we watched him tape and shot we did.
47:35
Speaker 12: We went really hard.
47:36
Speaker 15: I think the biggest thing is when you have short
47:40
Speaker 15: turnaround this time of year. Yeah, you gotta get body right,
47:44
Speaker 15: game plan, all that, but you've got to get over
47:46
Speaker 15: the last one.
47:47
Speaker 16: You know.
47:48
Speaker 15: It's like Middleton talked to our team last after last
47:51
Speaker 15: game and said, you know, being in the league, what
47:53
Speaker 15: you learn is that, hey, you gotta after a game,
47:56
Speaker 15: you got.
47:57
Speaker 12: To fix it and move on.
47:59
Speaker 15: Fix it and move on right, And some of the
48:03
Speaker 15: things that we did wrong, and there wasn't a lot
48:05
Speaker 15: of things. Mental things that we did wrong in the
48:07
Speaker 15: Texas game, we need to fix those and move on.
48:10
Speaker 15: And that's been our deal because we know the magnitude
48:13
Speaker 15: of these these games coming up here, and we knew
48:14
Speaker 15: the magnitude of the last game. I don't want to
48:16
Speaker 15: say negate that, like everybody knew the magnitude of all
48:19
Speaker 15: these but in a short turnaround, that's more than anything.
48:22
Speaker 15: You can't be caught up on the last one.
48:24
Speaker 9: Is that pre planned for Chris to talk with you guys,
48:26
Speaker 9: and just what do you think that meant your players
48:29
Speaker 9: to hear from a guy like that.
48:30
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean it was great talk. I couldn't be
48:32
Speaker 15: in there for it. We were doing media and stuff,
48:34
Speaker 15: but I mean that was the message on recorded.
48:36
Speaker 12: For me, I thought it was great.
48:38
Speaker 15: I mean, you know, they had to run here where
48:40
Speaker 15: they had lost several in a row and then they
48:42
Speaker 15: got rolling.
48:43
Speaker 12: We're not in that spot. We hadn't lost.
48:45
Speaker 15: You know, we went won too and lost these at Arkansas,
48:49
Speaker 15: then lost versus Texas. But those guys know what it
48:52
Speaker 15: takes obviously in this league. And we still got this
48:55
Speaker 15: awesome opportunity right here right in front of us. I mean,
48:57
Speaker 15: we got a chance to get to eleven wins in
48:59
Speaker 15: the league, in a league with that's like, you never
49:04
Speaker 15: know eleven wins can get you. It could be there's
49:07
Speaker 15: an outside chain to get you a double boy, right,
49:10
Speaker 15: So you know you got to look at the opportunity
49:12
Speaker 15: right here, like, hey, we're in a great position.
49:15
Speaker 12: We got to fix what we can do and we
49:17
Speaker 12: got to move on.
49:18
Speaker 30: I don't know if we've asked you this in a while,
49:20
Speaker 30: but how's McKenzie doing with his progress? And is there
49:24
Speaker 30: any chance like if you'll made a deep run or
49:26
Speaker 30: anything that he could come back.
49:27
Speaker 11: Or is it totally ruled out that he'll come back.
49:30
Speaker 12: Uh, yeah, yeah, he's out the season. Yeah, he can't
49:32
Speaker 12: come back.
49:33
Speaker 15: Yeah, he's uh physically, he just started doing his rehab.
49:38
Speaker 12: Yeah.
49:38
Speaker 11: And how's he.
49:40
Speaker 15: He's doing great, doing great. I mean he's up right now.
49:42
Speaker 15: He's doing it up there up north in the Northeast.
49:45
Speaker 15: He's coming back here this week. You were a texting
49:48
Speaker 15: last night a little bit, you know, Yeah, yeah, love him,
49:51
Speaker 15: you know, he's all he's a winner, you know, and
49:56
Speaker 15: we could use him this time of year.
49:57
Speaker 12: He knows that. But you know he's still with us.
50:01
Speaker 30: And is there any chance he could come back next
50:04
Speaker 30: season or.
50:05
Speaker 15: You know if he yeah, he can come back next
50:06
Speaker 15: season going to the NBA, Well yeah, I mean he
50:10
Speaker 15: can come back for short next season. He's not going
50:12
Speaker 15: to go to the NBA unless he was healthy enough
50:15
Speaker 15: to perform well and work out for his draft status
50:18
Speaker 15: would be where he wanted it to be.
50:20
Speaker 14: From the outside, like, how do you sort of view
50:22
Speaker 14: UK season? I know, in November December, I think we're
50:26
Speaker 14: at to fire and Mark Cope and all of a
50:27
Speaker 14: sudden they're pretty safe that large different team.
50:31
Speaker 15: I mean, they're good, they're talented. I mean, whether they
50:32
Speaker 15: had the Police preseason player of the Year on their team.
50:35
Speaker 15: They got great guard play.
50:38
Speaker 12: You know, I mean it is what it is.
50:40
Speaker 15: I mean, they got really good players, and he does
50:42
Speaker 15: a good job with them, for sure. I mean, I
50:44
Speaker 15: think they're ready to fire him. They had some injuries,
50:46
Speaker 15: some guys were out, you know, I think that. I
50:53
Speaker 15: think that they're good, and I think, you know, in
50:57
Speaker 15: this league, anybody can beat anybody. We know that, and
51:01
Speaker 15: you know, a hole judgment. I mean, you know everybody's
51:03
Speaker 15: you know, one point wants to fire this guy or
51:06
Speaker 15: fire that guy. Then turn around and they look up
51:08
Speaker 15: there in the final four, So anybody are least capable
51:12
Speaker 15: of getting to go and they and they dang Shore.
51:14
Speaker 20: Look, I've heard speculation. You don't say that this looks
51:17
Speaker 20: like a tired team and that's why they're not shooting
51:20
Speaker 20: the three pointers as well as they do did earlier
51:22
Speaker 20: in the year.
51:24
Speaker 12: Does that hold any water in their opinion?
51:27
Speaker 15: I mean, I think everybody this year is tired. But
51:29
Speaker 15: I've never had teams this time of year they hadn't
51:31
Speaker 15: shot the ball well.
51:32
Speaker 12: I mean you know.
51:32
Speaker 15: I mean, that's just everybody's gonna have some fatigue.
51:35
Speaker 12: I know that.
51:36
Speaker 15: I don't think we should be any more tired than
51:38
Speaker 15: other teams. Could we use a deep bench? You know,
51:40
Speaker 15: our numbers just all measured through our system we use
51:43
Speaker 15: connects on and our number loads are actually lower than
51:48
Speaker 15: some of the teams we're playing, So you know that
51:51
Speaker 15: there's something to that. I do think that scouting, there's
51:54
Speaker 15: something to us.
51:55
Speaker 12: You know, managing that right, and I think we have
51:59
Speaker 12: I think more than anything.
52:00
Speaker 15: Else that that there's ebbs and flows of the season.
52:05
Speaker 15: If our team was tired, I wouldn't see in practice
52:08
Speaker 15: some of our guys were really really shoot it well
52:10
Speaker 15: at times and not shoot it as well the next day.
52:14
Speaker 15: I do think that guys are getting covered tighter because
52:16
Speaker 15: they know the strengths and weaknesses the players. We didn't
52:19
Speaker 15: have any problem in Oklahoma shooting the ball, you know,
52:24
Speaker 15: so uh you know, and we may have one of
52:25
Speaker 15: the We didn't have any problem ors Missouri shooting it.
52:28
Speaker 15: You know, we're shooting threes well, you know, so there's
52:32
Speaker 15: ebbs and flows. Hopefully the flow goes up in this
52:35
Speaker 15: next game. We make fifteen threes just.
52:37
Speaker 9: From maybe a mental standpoint, how do you balance kind
52:40
Speaker 9: of talking to your guys about you know, like you said,
52:43
Speaker 9: rises to the occasion, but at the same time, maybe
52:45
Speaker 9: not trying to overthink or over complicated.
52:48
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's a great point and that and that's that's
52:51
Speaker 15: that's a really good point. But I you know, I
52:54
Speaker 15: constantly mentioned this, and it's like, do you mention this
52:58
Speaker 15: every March to your team, Like, as it approaches March,
53:01
Speaker 15: that becomes more of that kind of deal. I do,
53:05
Speaker 15: because I don't want anyone to be caught off guard
53:09
Speaker 15: when the game becomes that bone on bone game late,
53:13
Speaker 15: because that's just every deal you're gonna watch March, it
53:16
Speaker 15: becomes more.
53:17
Speaker 12: Of a bone on bone game, Right.
53:19
Speaker 15: But you don't put want to put pressure on your players,
53:23
Speaker 15: That's not what it is. You just want them to
53:25
Speaker 15: know that when it becomes that game, they wouldn't be
53:28
Speaker 15: here if they couldn't play in that game.
53:31
Speaker 12: And we've had games like that where we have really
53:33
Speaker 12: rose to the occasion.
53:35
Speaker 15: And guess what in the in the sec guess whether
53:38
Speaker 15: there's two great teams out there, one of those teams
53:41
Speaker 15: is going to rise to it or those players are
53:43
Speaker 15: gonna rise to it. Or the other team, right, So
53:46
Speaker 15: maybe we really stepped it up late in that Oklahoma.
53:49
Speaker 15: Maybe in that second half Texas really kind of stepped
53:51
Speaker 15: it up, and they've made some great defensive plays and
53:54
Speaker 15: offensive plays. But it's just not gonna be every night,
53:56
Speaker 15: or we'd win every game in the league.
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