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Texas Basketball coach Rodney Terry visits with media ahead of home opener against HCU · The Craig Way Show

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Speaker 1: And we're back to the Craigway Show. Have a message
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Speaker 2: All right, no anymute. Did you take a break from
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Speaker 2: fire me up Friday with this or does this actually
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Speaker 2: fire you up?
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Speaker 1: Now that this does not fire me?
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Speaker 2: You were just kind of collecting yourself and okay, all right,
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Speaker 2: I got you. All right, let's hear from Long Horns
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Speaker 2: head coach Rodney tair Course. The Longhorns open the home
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Speaker 2: portion of their season tonight seven o'clock at Moody Hope
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Speaker 2: to see you there. They take on the Huskies of
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Speaker 2: Houston Christian. They come off the loss in Las Vegas
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Speaker 2: to Ohio State on Monday night, eighty seventy two. So
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Speaker 2: this was the media availability. You'll hear Rodney Terry and
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Speaker 2: you'll hear the questions from the reporters and how he
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Speaker 2: addresses them as the Longhorns move forward into their home
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Speaker 2: opener tonight.
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Speaker 3: Devrone Arty two park for you.
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Speaker 4: One, just wanting to if fin any chance you have
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Speaker 4: an update on Tremont Mark's status and second, outside of
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Speaker 4: the effort on Monday, what you know, encourage you both performance.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Eric, Good afternoon, guys. I think the one thing
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Speaker 3: about Tremon is that, uh, they're doing a great job
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Speaker 3: with them right now. Training staff's excellent. I mean, war
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Speaker 3: is the best in the business. Uh. But I think
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Speaker 3: that what we all with him right now is he's
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Speaker 3: gonna be out indefinite right now until you know, we
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Speaker 3: have him at a full slate right now. We don't
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Speaker 3: want to have to bring him out and then you know,
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Speaker 3: we have some issues with this ankle situation and and
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Speaker 3: it lingers on for you know, better part of the season.
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Speaker 3: So we want to we put him out there or
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Speaker 3: give him an opportunity to get back out there. We
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Speaker 3: want to make sure he's a full tilt ready to
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Speaker 3: go and he's able to play at the level he's
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Speaker 3: capable of playing. So you know, we'll continue to work
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Speaker 3: through it. Uh. And uh, you know, with the other
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Speaker 3: guys getting other opportunit his next man mentality. But but
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Speaker 3: that's kind of what we all with his situation. Likewise
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Speaker 3: with Devon Pryor as well. Both of those guys will
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Speaker 3: be guys that will have out indefinite until they're able
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Speaker 3: to come back, uh and be at full strength for us.
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Speaker 3: I think in terms of the game. The other night,
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Speaker 3: again well coached Ohio State team, older Ohio State team
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Speaker 3: that came out and shot the ball extremely well. We uh,
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Speaker 3: you know you you know, you out in every contest,
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Speaker 3: you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna get lessons that that
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Speaker 3: you're gonna learn whether you win, whether you lose.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately for us, it was through a loss that we
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Speaker 3: had to come back and learn you know, uh, tough
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Speaker 3: lessons in terms of we have to be really good
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Speaker 3: at our shooter defense. I mean, our guys have been
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Speaker 3: working at shooter defense. We've been working at it over
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Speaker 3: the course of you know, two months. Uh, but those
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Speaker 3: guys came out and really shot lights out, so we
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Speaker 3: can't really have man down, hand down, man down. Uh.
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Speaker 3: And they shot it with rain, I mean they shot
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Speaker 3: the ball deep, uh, with ranging and give them credit,
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Speaker 3: they made big shots and big moments and uh, but
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Speaker 3: I do think our group, you know, persevered through some
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Speaker 3: adversity and really, to be honest with you, in two games.
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Speaker 3: It's the only adversity that our team has experienced to
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Speaker 3: this point right now. So it was a growth curve
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Speaker 3: for us in that regards. We hadn't we hadn't been behind,
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Speaker 3: so it was the first time that we were behind
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Speaker 3: and playing from behind, and and it showed a little bit.
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Speaker 3: I thought our guys kind of we didn't really panic,
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Speaker 3: but we kind of really kind of pushed the button
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Speaker 3: in terms of let me go try to get this
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Speaker 3: all back at one time as opposed to just continue
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Speaker 3: to work the game. But we settled in and uh,
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Speaker 3: and we put ourselves in position a couple of times
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Speaker 3: to be in position to you know, have an opportunity
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Speaker 3: to win the ball game. So you know, that was
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Speaker 3: positive and and and again I thought, our guys played hard.
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Speaker 3: Are the areas that we need to continue to get better. Uh,
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Speaker 3: there are areas we need to continue to get better
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Speaker 3: and areas that we'll fix. And you know we all
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Speaker 3: committed and said we'll do that together. You know, our
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Speaker 3: staff and our players working harder on getting better. Yeah, hey, Ronnie,
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Speaker 3: A couple of things.
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Speaker 5: One is what do you have to do to you,
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Speaker 5: the staff and the players to create a better flow
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Speaker 5: on offense. And also when you looked at the Ohio
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Speaker 5: State three pointers, were their instances of your guys just
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Speaker 5: having their hands down where they were maybe in position
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Speaker 5: but not quite defending well.
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Speaker 3: I think flowing offense. I think our team is going
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Speaker 3: to evolve over the course of the season. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you don't just instantly have flow. That didn't That didn't happen,
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Speaker 3: not with the new team with ten guys, so that
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Speaker 3: takes time. Same thing we had last year. We weren't
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Speaker 3: playing our better basketball till you know, Miller Conference play.
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Speaker 3: In terms of once we had all our guys, and
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Speaker 3: our guys were for me. You were playing with each other.
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Speaker 3: So I wish I had a magic one for you,
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Speaker 3: Mark and I you know that we're just gonna click
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Speaker 3: right off the bat. In terms of you know, a
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Speaker 3: new team and gather or or playing, you know, the
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Speaker 3: way we want to play offensively, I think that'll evolve.
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Speaker 3: I think and not only us, but many teams and
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Speaker 3: non conference play are going to experience a lot of
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Speaker 3: the same kind of growing pains. In terms of offense,
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Speaker 3: your defense should be ahead of your offense. Right now,
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Speaker 3: we we work, you know, we've got to get better
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Speaker 3: defensively in terms of really trying to you know, put
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Speaker 3: consecutive stops together and get some offense from our defense.
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Speaker 3: We did the other night. We forced fifteen turnovers and
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Speaker 3: I think we scored eight team onths off off our defense.
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Speaker 3: But but to me, that's that's the area. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we let our guys play it, you know, and we
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Speaker 3: have since we've been back here. We let our guys
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Speaker 3: play and we run a lot of similar things that
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Speaker 3: they run at the next level because those are the
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Speaker 3: kind of guys that we're trying to recruit. And and
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Speaker 3: that's the style of play we try to play to.
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Speaker 3: You see a lot of different actions we run from
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Speaker 3: an office standpoint, same action as they run the NBA.
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Speaker 3: You know, you got to make reads, you got to
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Speaker 3: play out of it, and you got to give guys
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Speaker 3: the chance to flow and not be robots. And uh,
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Speaker 3: and that's really what we try to do from a
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Speaker 3: from an office standpoint. We try to score early in
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Speaker 3: transitioning we can, and then from that point, you know,
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Speaker 3: we flow in some form of you know, whether it's
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Speaker 3: a pick and roll or a direct hit, or we
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Speaker 3: get right into some form of emotion or movement. You know.
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Speaker 3: But again that takes time where teams have to develop
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Speaker 3: a really good chemistry and flow about themselves. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: until I don't know, uh, I want to say midway
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Speaker 3: through conference play last year that we I thought, we
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Speaker 3: really figured out what we were trying to get that
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Speaker 3: office and we and we were pretty good at it.
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Speaker 3: What was your last what was the other party?
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Speaker 5: Of course, were their instances where your guys maybe got
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Speaker 5: out on the shots but didn't get their hand up
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Speaker 5: to contest them.
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Speaker 3: I think again, give them credit. They made they made
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Speaker 3: they made shots that made ten three in the first half.
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Speaker 3: You know. But but but I think, uh, I think
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Speaker 3: there was a room for improvement, for us to continue
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Speaker 3: to get better in terms of contestant shots. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I think our hands were down on guys that we
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Speaker 3: knew could make shots. I mean we we we went
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Speaker 3: into the game knowing, Mitch you could make a shot.
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Speaker 3: We knew, we knew that the freshman kid could make shots.
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Speaker 3: We knew that that was that was something he was
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Speaker 3: capable of doing. Now he shot it with a lot
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Speaker 3: more range than we thought that he had probably initially.
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Speaker 3: But once he makes one, then you have to adjust
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Speaker 3: and and and adapt during the game. You know, when
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Speaker 3: you talk about Rawll, I mean he wasn't really a
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Speaker 3: three point shooter, and he made two threes the other night.
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Speaker 3: We're playing him as a as as kind of a
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Speaker 3: nun shooter. But you know, again, give them credit, they
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Speaker 3: made shots. We're going to be better for it because
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Speaker 3: you know, we have to we have to again and
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Speaker 3: get better with our shooter defense.
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Speaker 6: Artie, Good afternoon, And I think I think the whole
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Speaker 6: nation saw what what what Cam was capable of on
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Speaker 6: er tray on Monday night. What do y'all need to
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Speaker 6: do to get trace some help on offensively? And are
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Speaker 6: there any particular players that you expect to carry a heavy,
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Speaker 6: heavier offensive load the special Tremont out Well, I.
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Speaker 3: Think again, I mean you look at the guys that
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Speaker 3: we brought in. We we've got guys around them that
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Speaker 3: can score the basketball. The Gloomy can score the ball.
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Speaker 3: Jordan Pope, over the course of his two years uh
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Speaker 3: and playing college basketball, can score the ball. He's seventeen
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Speaker 3: points a game last year in Margan State. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 3: Treymont sixteen points a game, you know, Uh, Jason Kent
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Speaker 3: and both Julian or double figure scores. Again, I'm not
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Speaker 3: as concerned as you guys are. I think we'll continue
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Speaker 3: to get better offensively as the season goes, and guys
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Speaker 3: get for me with the way we want to play
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Speaker 3: and how we do things.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 3: But but again I think it's just you know, you know,
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Speaker 3: evolution of your team and evolving you know, from an
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Speaker 3: offensive standpoint. You know, Jordan Pope's played in a different
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Speaker 3: system for two years. You know, he's learning and to
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Speaker 3: find his footing on how how he puts his impact
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Speaker 3: on on the game. Right now with a new team
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Speaker 3: and a new system. I mean again, if I had
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Speaker 3: a magic one and we can make that happen in
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Speaker 3: one or two of the first five games, boy, I'd
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Speaker 3: love to be to do that. It took Max a
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Speaker 3: little while to get going, uh last season, you know,
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Speaker 3: So it just takes time. Guys got to get used
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Speaker 3: to the way we want to play it and the
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Speaker 3: way we want to do things. We try to play
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Speaker 3: at a faster pace than than than than what Jordan
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Speaker 3: played you know at a you know previously, so but
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Speaker 3: not just him in particular, but everybody's getting used to
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Speaker 3: playing with each other, and you know that's gonna take
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Speaker 3: some time. So that's gonna be involved right in front
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Speaker 3: of your eyes as you as you're watching us play
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Speaker 3: over the course of the season. So I don't have him,
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Speaker 3: I don't have a magic formula for you on that one.
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Speaker 3: But you know, we new Trade coming into the season
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Speaker 3: could score, but we also feel like other guys around
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Speaker 3: him can compliment and score as well.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Rodney, I know what tremon, You're trying to work
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Speaker 7: through things and it's brand. But you know, if it
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Speaker 7: if it's got to a point of it bleeding into
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Speaker 7: January and conference playing, like, is there a point in
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Speaker 7: your mind where you would say, Okay, let's try to
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Speaker 7: red shirt and maybe let's save the year.
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Speaker 3: Pray mom. You know, I think I don't think it'll
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Speaker 3: get to that point, Josh. I think, uh, train the
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Speaker 3: staff and the people that are working with them, my
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Speaker 3: specialists that he's seen. Uh, they have a pretty good plan,
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Speaker 3: uh in terms of, uh, you know, getting them back
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Speaker 3: at full strength. So you know, we just don't want
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Speaker 3: to put a timetable on it. I want to make
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Speaker 3: sure that you know, when we do put it back
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Speaker 3: out there, he's ready to go at full slate. So
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Speaker 3: I think, uh, I think of the year. I don't
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Speaker 3: I don't foresee it being that long of a period,
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Speaker 3: but you know, we don't want to see a definite time.
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Speaker 8: Thank you, hey, coach, you touched on it. Just a
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Speaker 8: little while ago. But what do you think of Jordan's
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Speaker 8: shooting the other night? I mean, I know, statistically he's
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Speaker 8: better than what you know, one game he showed what'd
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Speaker 8: you think of him? And then on the also too,
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Speaker 8: should Julian have taken a few more shots when when
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Speaker 8: he was out there?
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Speaker 3: You know, I think again, you know, you know, Jordan Polchs,
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Speaker 3: the guy that scored the ball over two years at
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Speaker 3: Argus State are a pretty good clip. He's a guy
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Speaker 3: that will be one of our better shooters all season alone.
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Speaker 3: I think again, he's he's uh, he's learning to play
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Speaker 3: with the pace every day that we want to play with,
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Speaker 3: you know, from the point guard spot. You know, but
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Speaker 3: he's a guy that could play off the ball as well.
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Speaker 3: And again, it just it takes time, man, Max, Max Aismis,
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Speaker 3: Max Asmith just want to I have no idea what
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Speaker 3: that is going on right now? Max Aismiths, uh three
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Speaker 3: thousand point score. And it took him a while to
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Speaker 3: get going a little bit, man, Maxwell's going right off
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Speaker 3: the bat in the first five, six, seven ball games.
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Speaker 3: It took him a while to get used to playing
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Speaker 3: the way we want to play. And then it wasn't
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Speaker 3: even into conference play that once we put him at
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Speaker 3: the point guard spot that he really played at the
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Speaker 3: level I thought that he would play all season long.
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Speaker 3: So you know, when you talk about a guy that
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Speaker 3: was a you know what, he played four years or Roberts,
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Speaker 3: I mean, and one of the most talented scorers of
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Speaker 3: all time in college basketball. So it just doesn't happen
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Speaker 3: overnight for guys like that, you know. I think again,
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Speaker 3: you know, and even when Trey Mont comes back, it's
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Speaker 3: gonna take some time getting him back in the flow
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Speaker 3: away he was going. He was playing really well. Prought
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Speaker 3: him getting injured, but he missed about eight practices before that,
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Speaker 3: you know, with another injury. So you know, it just
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Speaker 3: takes time. Man, it takes time. I wish it was
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Speaker 3: perfect right now. It's not gonna be perfect right now.
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Speaker 3: But that's why this team still has a ceiling, I think,
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Speaker 3: both officusily and defensively to get to the level that
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Speaker 3: we want. But I think Jordan Both's gonna shoot the
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Speaker 3: ball fine. I think he's gonna you know, have a
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Speaker 3: breakout point and some born as well, and and uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, he's done in his whole career, so we
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Speaker 3: expect him to do it over the course of the
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Speaker 3: season as well, and I think you you works really
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Speaker 3: hard on his shooting, and all of our guys put
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Speaker 3: a lot of time you know, they're shooting, you know
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Speaker 3: and everything. But again, I'm more concerned about the defense
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Speaker 3: than I am the office, to be honest, at this point,
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Speaker 3: I want our defense to be better than what we
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Speaker 3: showed the other night. You know, we didn't come up
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Speaker 3: with fifty to fifty balls that we have to get
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Speaker 3: and we have to be a scrappy, hot plan team
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Speaker 3: all offense that get better as the season goes.
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Speaker 4: Hey, coach, how you doing, man? They might Hey, just
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Speaker 4: wanted to talk about the assists to turn over ratio. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: in the beginning of the season, you're gonna have guys
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Speaker 4: trying to cut. You got guys trying to make some moves,
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Speaker 4: but one of the things you did do was turn
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Speaker 4: them over a lot defensively. What are some of the
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Speaker 4: things that you're looking for in your team as far
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Speaker 4: as being able to take care of the ball, because
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Speaker 4: over the past couple of years, they've turned the ball
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Speaker 4: over more than they did before.
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Speaker 3: We've gotten better. I think each strimmage, each competition we've
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Speaker 3: had I think, you know, we started twenty plus turnover
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Speaker 3: in the first game. You got to saw that game
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Speaker 3: for twenty one turnovers. We went to the next ball
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Speaker 3: game and I believe we had right at about ten turnovers,
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Speaker 3: almost nine turnovers. I think the other night we were
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Speaker 3: fifteen and nine, you know, fifteen assists, nine turnovers the
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Speaker 3: other night, if I'm not mistaken, but I thought we
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Speaker 3: did a pretty decent job taking care of the basketball.
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Speaker 3: And you can live with this time of year basketball turnovers.
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Speaker 3: You know, when you say a basketball turnover where guys
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Speaker 3: trying to make a really good basketball play and the ball,
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Speaker 3: you know, gets turned over. You're not gonna play a
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Speaker 3: perfect game right now in that regards, but you try
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Speaker 3: to eliminate the ones that you know, a low level turnovers,
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Speaker 3: the ones where you have control where you know you
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Speaker 3: really didn't need to turn the ball over that juncture.
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Speaker 3: But I thought we did a pretty good job of
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Speaker 3: taking care of the ball of the night. I mean,
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Speaker 3: our goal is to try to have eighteen and twenty
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Speaker 3: assists in every game, you know, and you know the
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Speaker 3: other night we have fifteen, So you know, if we
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Speaker 3: if we're getting up in the eighteen and twenty range.
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Speaker 3: Then then we're doing a great job of sharing that ball,
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Speaker 3: and that ball is getting a chance to move, uh,
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Speaker 3: and it's getting to move a chance to move side
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Speaker 3: to side. Early in our journey, like last year and
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Speaker 3: even the previous year, you know, we can get to
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Speaker 3: that first side. We got to learn to get that
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Speaker 3: ball to the second and third side. And but that
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Speaker 3: just takes time. It takes time with the new team
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Speaker 3: trusting that process and UH and giving an offense a
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Speaker 3: chance to work and make the defense work a little bit.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think I'll say again too. You know,
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Speaker 3: with this team having experienced adversity for the first time,
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Speaker 3: we had probably about four or five possessions uh, you
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Speaker 3: know in the first half of that game where they
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Speaker 3: got a little bit of separation before we closed it.
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Speaker 3: Uh in the in the in the end of that
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Speaker 3: first half, with with with really good defensive possessions, but again,
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Speaker 3: we were shooting too fast, we were moving the ball
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Speaker 3: and and guys were taking shots trying to get it
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Speaker 3: all back because we really hadn't been in that situation before.
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Speaker 3: You know, now you want your team to be to
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Speaker 3: play through some of that, and they got to learn
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Speaker 3: how to work the game. Hey, if I've taken one
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Speaker 3: or two shots from the perimeter and we haven't gotten
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Speaker 3: that ball to the paint, we've got to try to
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Speaker 3: execute and get that ball to the paint and something
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Speaker 3: on a fashion two foot play with the drive, put
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Speaker 3: it in the post with the post feed, or at
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Speaker 3: some point coach is just gonna have to call the
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Speaker 3: play that he wants to run and he'll get the
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Speaker 3: shot that he wants. I don't want robots. I don't
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Speaker 3: want to have to do that. I want to let
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Speaker 3: our guys play a little bit and let them learn
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Speaker 3: what's a good shot, what's a good possession, what's not
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Speaker 3: a good possession. But again, that's all growing paints you
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Speaker 3: have early in the season where they learn to work
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Speaker 3: the game. Hey, we came down a possession or two
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Speaker 3: and we turned it over. We can't turn it over
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Speaker 3: there the next time down. This next time down, we
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Speaker 3: got to earn a basket. We got to put pressure
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Speaker 3: on the basket and get get a basket on our terms.
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Speaker 3: But that's again, you know, just working the game and
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Speaker 3: learning to work the game, you know. So we watched
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Speaker 3: those consecutive possessions. You know, I don't want to sit
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Speaker 3: there and joystick and have to call a play every
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Speaker 3: time down the floor. No one wants to play that way.
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Speaker 3: Recruits don't want to play that way. So you have
17:05
Speaker 3: to give guys an opportunity to grow and learn to
17:08
Speaker 3: play through flow, you know, and understand what the good
17:12
Speaker 3: shot was not a good shot? Kay? And what is
17:15
Speaker 3: the ebb and flow of the game right now? You
17:17
Speaker 3: know what's gotten us where we are right now. Our
17:20
Speaker 3: defense is given us an opportunity to score right now. Okay,
17:23
Speaker 3: So you know it's just again working through those nuances
17:26
Speaker 3: of the game.
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Speaker 9: Coach Terry good afternoon, tell us about Caden Cedric. He played,
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Speaker 9: He bawled out, planning his feet, taking the offensive fouls.
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Speaker 9: In your eyes, how did he do he? It looked
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Speaker 9: like he was playing with no pain, confidence and just
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Speaker 9: owning that court. Can you talk about the Kaden?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Terry, I thought Caden gave us, you know, gave
17:56
Speaker 3: us really what we've kind of expected from him this year,
17:59
Speaker 3: you know, and he's done in all three contests. He's
18:01
Speaker 3: been a double figure scorer. I think the only other
18:04
Speaker 3: thing he can get to the double figure rebounds for us.
18:07
Speaker 3: But a lot of times when he's not getting rebounds.
18:09
Speaker 3: He's keeping his man from getting the rebounds. So you know,
18:12
Speaker 3: he's done a great job of really being physical on
18:14
Speaker 3: his blockouts, a lot like what we saw when we
18:17
Speaker 3: recruit him from Virginia prior to having those shoulder issues
18:20
Speaker 3: and everything. So you know, he's worked really hard on
18:23
Speaker 3: his low post game. He's worked really hard on shooting
18:25
Speaker 3: threes as well. So you look out there and you
18:28
Speaker 3: see him taking the three. We've challenged him to making
18:30
Speaker 3: one three a game, which again allows you know, us
18:34
Speaker 3: to stretch the defense. When you have a big that
18:36
Speaker 3: can stretch the floor, he's more than capable of doing that.
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Speaker 3: I think he took one early in the first half
18:43
Speaker 3: in the last ball game, but it was in that
18:46
Speaker 3: sequence of where we were taking five straight jump shots
18:49
Speaker 3: without putting pressure on the basket or getting a paint touch,
18:53
Speaker 3: without getting without getting the you know, instead of just
18:57
Speaker 3: taking the first side three. But but he's a guy
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Speaker 3: that again to your point, I think he he gave
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Speaker 3: us really good rim protection. I thought he uh. I
19:04
Speaker 3: thought he did a great job of running the floor uh.
19:07
Speaker 3: And I thought he did a really good job of
19:10
Speaker 3: when given opportunities to scoring the post, he tried to
19:12
Speaker 3: score in the post force, but he too will be
19:15
Speaker 3: a guy I think, oh, season alone will get better
19:18
Speaker 3: and better.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Rodney, I guess you'll be asking for a magic
19:21
Speaker 10: one for Christmas. I guess, uh one moving around? Yeah, exactly.
19:27
Speaker 10: I'm curious about the leadership on your team and in
19:30
Speaker 10: the locker room and if you heard any voices speaking out,
19:35
Speaker 10: you know, as potentially good leaders, you know, after the
19:38
Speaker 10: loss on Monday night.
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Speaker 3: I mean I think I think again too, I think
19:43
Speaker 3: that that's a work in progress. Anytime you talk about
19:46
Speaker 3: as similarly ten you guys with without without a leader
19:50
Speaker 3: coming back from the previous team as well, you know
19:55
Speaker 3: that's gonna evolve over over the course of the season
19:57
Speaker 3: as well. Good a young player like Trey John emerging
20:01
Speaker 3: and be a leader. You know, he could be one
20:03
Speaker 3: of our leaders and one of our guys that that
20:05
Speaker 3: communicates on the floor with other teammates. They have guys
20:11
Speaker 3: that had a basketball significant amount of time take on
20:14
Speaker 3: a take on some ownership in terms of leadership as well.
20:17
Speaker 3: So that could that be a Pope, Could that be
20:19
Speaker 3: a Larry? It could be you know, one of those
20:22
Speaker 3: two guys. You know, Arthur Calum is a senior, you know,
20:25
Speaker 3: you know, Jason Kinson senior, Kayden Cedric senior, you know,
20:29
Speaker 3: those guys understanding the urgencies you have to play with
20:32
Speaker 3: this time of year, you know. But but again, we
20:34
Speaker 3: played a quality opponent. I mean, we played a team
20:37
Speaker 3: that had older players. They had a little bit of
20:40
Speaker 3: continuity they had they had Thwart and back. It's like
20:43
Speaker 3: having Quinny years back for us for quarterback. You know,
20:46
Speaker 3: it takes time, you know, you we don't have the
20:49
Speaker 3: continuity you know of having guys back from last year.
20:52
Speaker 3: So you know, we're we're gonna be a work in progress.
20:55
Speaker 3: But I will say this, over the two games prior
20:58
Speaker 3: to the last game, and we played all big boy
21:00
Speaker 3: games to this point right now, guys up working their
21:03
Speaker 3: way through getting for me with one another, and uh
21:07
Speaker 3: and I think they're getting better. I think, uh, you know,
21:09
Speaker 3: even even in the game the other night, I thought
21:13
Speaker 3: there were times that we battled through adversity and uh
21:16
Speaker 3: uh continue to show some bite. We got to still
21:19
Speaker 3: just tighten up, you know, more so than on the
21:22
Speaker 3: offensive end. We got to tighten up, you know, our
21:24
Speaker 3: ownership on the defensive end of the floor and really
21:26
Speaker 3: want to play really hard on that end of the floor.
21:28
Speaker 3: And I think the last couple of days of practice
21:30
Speaker 3: we worked really hard on trying to get back to
21:33
Speaker 3: the base of the garden, really hard defensively.
21:36
Speaker 1: Ronnie, you since you've been here, you've had Marcus, You've
21:39
Speaker 1: had Jabbari, you know Max, even Tyreee. Those are guys
21:43
Speaker 1: who got the ball a lot at their previous stops,
21:45
Speaker 1: came here, took different roles, don't want to say diminished,
21:48
Speaker 1: but different. So when you work with Jordan, do you
21:51
Speaker 1: try to show him examples from those guys as to
21:55
Speaker 1: how it makes it, how it could work within y'all system,
21:58
Speaker 1: while still you know we're tainting his scoring abilities.
22:02
Speaker 3: No, for sure, he's definitely seen some of those edits already.
22:06
Speaker 3: And uh of those guys in particular, Uh, you know Max.
22:10
Speaker 3: You know on how Max prayed at his previous institution
22:13
Speaker 3: and then came here and had to really kind of
22:16
Speaker 3: adjust and and and adapt and and and I thought
22:19
Speaker 3: he did a nice job of that over the course
22:21
Speaker 3: of the last season. But it didn't happen overnight. It
22:24
Speaker 3: didn't happen in the first you know, few ball games.
22:26
Speaker 3: It took him a while. Uh, even with Max Maxifield
22:29
Speaker 3: comfort on some of the things that that we were doing.
22:33
Speaker 3: UH and and UH you know the same thing with
22:35
Speaker 3: Jordan's You know, Jordan's one of those guys that UH
22:38
Speaker 3: has played off the ball, he's played with the ball,
22:40
Speaker 3: and you know, you know at at UH at August State,
22:43
Speaker 3: he was asked to carry a lot of the scoring low.
22:46
Speaker 3: I think, you know, in his mind and coming here,
22:49
Speaker 3: I think he you know, embraced knowing that we still
22:53
Speaker 3: need him to be a scoring threat, but also be
22:55
Speaker 3: a guy that shows people that for next level opportunities,
22:58
Speaker 3: that he could run a team, that he could be
23:01
Speaker 3: a guy that you know, has point guard qualities that
23:05
Speaker 3: that that helps lead the team. So, you know, I
23:08
Speaker 3: think there was a win win in regards to him
23:11
Speaker 3: coming here. And I think at the end of the day,
23:14
Speaker 3: as he's selling in and he finds his way and
23:17
Speaker 3: he gets his footing on him a little bit in
23:18
Speaker 3: terms of in terms of the way we play and
23:21
Speaker 3: the guys you have around him right now, I think
23:24
Speaker 3: he's gonna be better for it.
23:26
Speaker 9: Hey, RT, you talk about continuity.
23:28
Speaker 11: You get three games in a little over a week
23:30
Speaker 11: at home starting tomorrow.
23:32
Speaker 9: How important are the games?
23:33
Speaker 11: I know you work in practice, but you know, to
23:36
Speaker 11: get that continuity in a forty minute game in front
23:38
Speaker 11: of your home fans.
23:40
Speaker 3: I think it's really important. I think again for us,
23:42
Speaker 3: and you know, so much of us is about carrier
23:45
Speaker 3: right now. We spend a lot of time in practice,
23:48
Speaker 3: but then you've got to carry over to the games.
23:50
Speaker 3: But but again, we go into every game. Establishes a
23:53
Speaker 3: great job with the preparation piece. Uh So, so we
23:56
Speaker 3: go into every game, you know, just asking our guys
23:59
Speaker 3: to play extremely hard on defense, play extremely hard on
24:03
Speaker 3: the floor at all times, and and and and we'll
24:06
Speaker 3: let offense come to us. You know, we're not coming
24:08
Speaker 3: out thinking the other way around that we're gonna come
24:10
Speaker 3: out and we're gonna be this this office and Juggernut team.
24:13
Speaker 3: We gotta come out and with the mindset that we're
24:16
Speaker 3: gonna guard, we're gonna play physical, we're gonna try to
24:18
Speaker 3: rebound the basketball. We're gonna try to be the first
24:20
Speaker 3: to the floor. That's the mentality that we're gonna try
24:23
Speaker 3: to have. We'll figure out the scoring part. We still
24:27
Speaker 3: want to try to get some offense off our defense,
24:29
Speaker 3: but we want to have some good carryover, uh to
24:32
Speaker 3: to obviously getting a chance to play here at home.
24:34
Speaker 3: So you know, we're excited about about our upcoming competition
24:38
Speaker 3: that we have Houston Christian. They'll come in and they'll
24:41
Speaker 3: push the ball, Allene Fasting transition. They'll challenge our transition defense. UH,
24:46
Speaker 3: they'll challenge our shooter defense, and they'll challenge putting pressure
24:49
Speaker 3: on the basket UH as well for us. UH. So, UH,
24:53
Speaker 3: build a good contest for us here tomorrow night to
24:55
Speaker 3: come out and try to get better and continue to build,
24:58
Speaker 3: you know in our short journey here and of what
25:00
Speaker 3: we're trying to get done defensively and offensively.
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Speaker 2: So there it is the thoughts of Rodney Terry, Longhorn's
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Speaker 2: head coach as he had his mediazum yesterday on the
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Speaker 2: eve of tonight's home opener for Texas against Houston Christian
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Speaker 2: six thirty pre game Star time seven o'clock tip off.
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