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Seg 5 - MBB Show w Kamani Young Dec 11 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We are back on the Yukon Men's Basketball Coaches Show,
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  Speaker 1: Mike chris Pino, joined by Kamana Young, the associate head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the Huskies, and Kamani When you're smiling, I'm
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  Speaker 1: smiling and you had a nice smile on your face
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  Speaker 1: coming back from Texas. Let's talk about that first, going
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  Speaker 1: on the road in a building that was what a
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  Speaker 1: gorgeous place and a rockus crowd. I thought the Huskies performed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, up to the standards that you guys have
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  Speaker 1: established here in the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, that was a big one for us.
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  Speaker 3: You could just tell a tone of our program from
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  Speaker 3: the players, throughout our you know, throughout coaching staff.
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  Speaker 2: We really wanted that one.
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  Speaker 3: So it was great to see how guys come out
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  Speaker 3: and really control the game from start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the key, is it? Not on the road?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you let the home team go off
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  Speaker 1: and you know, get a nineteen to eight lead that
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  Speaker 1: was what you led by, that's tough because then you
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  Speaker 1: got to climb up a mountain. It seems a lot bigger,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean that was one of the keys going
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  Speaker 3: into the game. That you know, we didn't want to
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  Speaker 3: allow their home court to become a factor. Don't let
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  Speaker 3: the crowd get involved, you know, just establish the rules
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  Speaker 3: of the game. I thought from you know, from the tip,
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  Speaker 3: we were physical, we were tough, we executed on offense,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, never really let them get it get
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  Speaker 3: in it.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought Yukon's passing game, which has been so
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  Speaker 1: good over the last couple of years. High assist numbers
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  Speaker 1: usually low turnover numbers, not in this game particularly, but
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  Speaker 1: that passing game. You know, as a as a player,
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  Speaker 1: and I think as a teammate of another guy, whoever
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  Speaker 1: it may be, getting you the ball in places where
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  Speaker 1: you can score. That's a good feeling, isn't it for
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  Speaker 1: any player?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean that's always a great sign for us.
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  Speaker 3: When we got high assist numbers. I want to say
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  Speaker 3: we finished with twenty one assists for the game. Anytime
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  Speaker 3: we're you know, we're at twenty or more assists, we
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  Speaker 3: feel like we're in a great place offensively. And passing
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  Speaker 3: is contagious, you know, passing is contagious when you got
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  Speaker 3: you know, your best player is willing to give.
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  Speaker 2: Up a good shot for a great shot, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, when older players are willing to share with younger players,
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  Speaker 3: and the way Hassan played, he obviously set the tone
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  Speaker 3: for us from a you know, from a sharing a
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  Speaker 3: ball standpoint, which was awesome to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And Samson Johnson I think really benefited from it
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  Speaker 1: a lot because he's a great you know, diver to
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  Speaker 1: the basket, cutter, alley oop guy when he's getting involved
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  Speaker 1: like that, and he went, you know, went for double
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  Speaker 1: figures in the game. Uh, that always seems like it
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  Speaker 1: kind of tips the scales a little bit for the Huskies.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, you know, Sam depends on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, guard play and unselfishness to have success around
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  Speaker 3: the basket, so as well as Alex and Liam and
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  Speaker 3: Solo guys like that on the perimeter. So it's important
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  Speaker 3: for us to share the ball. It's always important for
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  Speaker 3: us to allow the defense to take where the ball goes.
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  Speaker 3: And when you got open looks, you just got to
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  Speaker 3: shoot them with confidence and knock them in and coach.
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  Speaker 1: The three point line obviously huge in college basketball. Uh
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  Speaker 1: these days. You went nine for twenty in that game,
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  Speaker 1: and that's important. Obviously you're you're trying to make some
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  Speaker 1: stuff happen. But I mean how important is that when
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  Speaker 1: you get good passing, good ball movement, and you get
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  Speaker 1: guys with three point shots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, we got a lot of weapons
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  Speaker 3: on the perimeter. I mean, we got we got some
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  Speaker 3: guys that can really that could really light it up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when Alex gets it going and Liam gets
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  Speaker 3: it going and solo, you know, and even Jay Ross
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  Speaker 3: off the bench, I mean he can make shots. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we're a dangerous team and I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: teams try to take that away from us. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: we just got to play play the right way, play smart.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we always talk to our guys about allowing
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  Speaker 3: the allowing the defense to dictate where the ball goes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you throughout the course of game, you
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  Speaker 3: see a team is really trying to take away the paint,
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  Speaker 3: and we got to get in there and land and
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  Speaker 3: relocate and get the ball of open shooters and vice versa.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when teams are trying to take away to
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  Speaker 3: three point line, we got attack paint and looked for
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  Speaker 3: our rollers and look to drive close out. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's that balance that we've got to find over at
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  Speaker 3: our best.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it adds up. It all adds up obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: going out to Maui and having two close losses and
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  Speaker 1: then a loss of Dayton three and three days. I
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  Speaker 1: mean the team not used to that. The guys who've
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  Speaker 1: been around not used to that. But who does that
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  Speaker 1: affect more? Do you think you're guys that are you know,
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  Speaker 1: guys like Caravan and Johnson and dr they all have rings,
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  Speaker 1: they've been to the top of the mountain, but some
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  Speaker 1: of the other guys they haven't, right, so all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden they're in a place where things aren't working
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  Speaker 1: out well in your mind? What what what group gets
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  Speaker 1: affected more by when things don't go well.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were all affected, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was you know, it kind of got
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  Speaker 3: knocked us back on our heels a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we lost three games all the last year, so to
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  Speaker 3: lose three games in three days, I don't think any
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  Speaker 3: of us were prepared for that, So I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it affected us all.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, we we just had to had
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  Speaker 3: to understand, like this is a new team. We got
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  Speaker 3: some young players that are that are grown into bigger roles.
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  Speaker 3: We have some returning players that have grown into bigger roles,
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  Speaker 3: and I think it was important for all of us
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  Speaker 3: to understand that that none of us are entitled to win.
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  Speaker 2: You know, none of us are entitled to it.
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  Speaker 3: So we earned winning, you know, by by you know,
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  Speaker 3: how we prepare and then ultimately how we go out
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  Speaker 3: there on the court and perform. And you know, we
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  Speaker 3: just didn't have it and we didn't have enough time
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  Speaker 3: to regroup.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think for us, you know, practice is important, preparations
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  Speaker 3: is important, being able to correct mistakes, and watching film
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  Speaker 3: with our guys is extremely important in terms of the
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  Speaker 3: way we do things here, and we just didn't have
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  Speaker 3: that there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's part of it.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that you know, towards the middle and
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  Speaker 3: end of the season, we'll be able to look at
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  Speaker 3: that as a blessing because we learned a lot about
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  Speaker 3: our team.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing I think Dan earlier is mentioning
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  Speaker 1: this you're not entitled. I know, you got the two
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  Speaker 1: rings of fabulous accomplishments these last two years. You couldn't
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  Speaker 1: ask for much more. But just because you could throw
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  Speaker 1: the Yukon gearon, that doesn't mean you go out and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna win. And plus the other guys want to
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  Speaker 1: beat you. Pretty bad.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we've been dealing with that since we got here.
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  Speaker 3: That that's nothing new. But you know, Coach even said
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  Speaker 3: to the guys, there's no magic dust. You know, there's
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  Speaker 3: no magic dust that we have here. You know, the
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  Speaker 3: magic the magic dust is in the players, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and the people and the commitment level and you know,
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  Speaker 3: being able to get out there and perform at a
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  Speaker 3: high level. You know, So that that was just a lesson.
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  Speaker 3: I think that maybe some of us felt like just
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  Speaker 3: because we got the jerseys on and what we've been
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  Speaker 3: able to do over the last two years are just
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  Speaker 3: going to carry carry us through Maui.
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, young players learned a lot from it,
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  Speaker 3: got valuable experience. You know, we saw some things that
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  Speaker 3: we really got to hone in on in terms of
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  Speaker 3: where we need to improve, especially defensively, and we also
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  Speaker 3: saw some things that we can build on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in terms of having two formidable centers and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: young young guys like Solo really really ready to take
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  Speaker 3: a big step and even guys like Jamie Ross and
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Stewart ready to you know, to contribute in a
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  Speaker 3: big way. Get more contributions from Aiden Mahoney and Taris Reid.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I thought a mod did some really
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  Speaker 3: good things out there in the Colorado game that he
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  Speaker 3: can build on and put hisself in a position to
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  Speaker 3: help us as a freshman.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it was. It was. It was brutal to
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  Speaker 2: go through, but but we learned from it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes losing is the best I don't know education,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why it just came up with that
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  Speaker 1: right now. I don't know if that's really true. It hurts,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes when it hurts, it can benefit you. We're
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  Speaker 1: with Kamani Jung, the associate head coach of the Yukon Huskies.
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  Speaker 1: Take a quick break. We'll be back in a moment
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  Speaker 1: on Learfield