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Dan Hurley Postgame Press Conference - Xavier · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exact, uh, you know game that you know we
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  Speaker 1: thought we would find ourselves in.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know what these guys that think now they've been
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  Speaker 1: playing great, you know now with you know, with with
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, with big big Zach back. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing to the form uh the team that was
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  Speaker 1: picked pretty high in the league and uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: could easily have been coming into this game. So obviously
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you know, unfortunate things uh you know
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  Speaker 1: for them in the in the Saint John's game. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're these guys have been playing great, and
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  Speaker 1: you know we obviously had our chances, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: just turned it over too much.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that had to do with the defensive
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  Speaker 1: pressure you know at night is uh Ignites a ballhawk
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  Speaker 1: and and uh you know Maddox, Uh you know Maddox
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  Speaker 1: or just uh it was great against Yukon. You know
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  Speaker 1: that guy is uh you know, I hope I don't
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  Speaker 1: see these guys in the Biggy. I hope I don't
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  Speaker 1: wanna see him in the Piggies tournament.
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  Speaker 3: I know that that.
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  Speaker 1: Guy has killed us. You know this she so he
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  Speaker 1: likes our jerseys. But yeah, I mean, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just uh tough loss one. You know, we uh we
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to kind of steal late, so we
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  Speaker 1: got a you know, a great look uh you know
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  Speaker 1: there for Solo had a tough you know, tough shooting
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  Speaker 1: night in the second half, you know, had some good looks,
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, and then that uh you know that
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  Speaker 1: that uh you know, that last possession was uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just again regrettable and failure to uh you know just
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know execute something.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. What what were you trying to execute?
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  Speaker 1: There were trying to get you know, they were switching,
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  Speaker 1: so when you know, when they're switching, you gotta you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could either slip it, which at that point, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know it was not an option. But we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball to Aid in there and when
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  Speaker 1: when they're switching out, you know, the guy that is screening,
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  Speaker 1: he's got screen zone there. So we were hoping to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get that ball to Samson and then you
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  Speaker 1: know the besides Solo at that point when Alex filed
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  Speaker 1: out just in terms of just in terms of option
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  Speaker 1: one of the ball and Aiden's hand and uh, when
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  Speaker 1: you're switching, got to screen your own you know, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta screen your own man so that Aiden could then
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  Speaker 1: get to the ball and then get down the hill
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  Speaker 1: where he had uh you know success and then you
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  Speaker 1: know even if you uh you know, even even there
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  Speaker 1: once he blew up, you know, Samson obviously created a
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  Speaker 1: a throwback for j Ross. If that passes on target,
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  Speaker 1: he has a chance to shoot three to win.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, maybe we get out of here
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 1: So frustrating w W I I mean, a tough environment
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  Speaker 1: like this, just tough to win with went noticating on Alex,
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  Speaker 1: but following out and.
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  Speaker 3: Just not really having a great shooting gave one tough
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  Speaker 3: to win. And when that happens, basically, yeah, it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know it with Ak he can't you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever type of offensive game is happening.
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  Speaker 3: We need him on the court.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's uh just to to to not have
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  Speaker 1: him in there, you know, he just he can't pick
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  Speaker 1: up the.
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  Speaker 3: Forty foul or the fifth foul there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well we you know, we bust in here today and
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  Speaker 1: we we were greeted by everybody. You know, we knew
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  Speaker 1: what we were obviously, you know, walking into this is ah,
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  Speaker 1: this is a Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 3: A really hard place.
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  Speaker 1: To play, but it's also a very fun place to play.
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  Speaker 1: You know these are uh that atmosphere is like an
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  Speaker 1: octagon in there. You know, it's like I felt like,
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  Speaker 1: but I love it. I mean, I l I love
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  Speaker 1: that environment there. I love the uh I love.
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  Speaker 4: That Coacheet's had a quiet season but comes in tonight
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  Speaker 4: and as fourteen Boys was already match.
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  Speaker 1: Up, you thought in particular you wanted him to exploit
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  Speaker 1: all the zapers.
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  Speaker 3: Of the book. Oh not really. I just think.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for Aiden, it's it's uh just fun some
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  Speaker 1: consistency here. And you know, I don't think we we
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  Speaker 1: brought him in to play exactly like he just played.
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  Speaker 1: He let the threes go today. He you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: it's as far as our guards go, he pla. He
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  Speaker 1: has the most like offensive talent of our but you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially of our point guards obviously has signs a tough
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  Speaker 1: guy and uh and a gutsy guy. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: if if if we could get obviously you get Liam
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  Speaker 1: back and we could get some consistency from Aiden there, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we could be a much different looking team.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of coaches stay down and say a game
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  Speaker 4: like that's on the road late January, can maybe sow
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  Speaker 4: the seeds if you will, what you you can expect
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  Speaker 4: in February and March and going forward.
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  Speaker 3: Would you agree with that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Just you know, listen, you could throw out with this
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  Speaker 1: league like net rankings and you know, Ken Ponds and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff and the Big East. It's just, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you it's a grind. You know, you go to just
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  Speaker 1: really tough places to play, you know. For us, I
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  Speaker 1: think we knew, you know, just when uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: when when Liam went out, you know, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: like like Sean's had to deal with to with his
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  Speaker 1: trunk court players. You know, you gotta be able to
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  Speaker 1: win enough games so that you're not demoralized when you
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  Speaker 1: get healthier. I've we we we we're literally gonna watch
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  Speaker 1: the same exact you know, edit. I mean this has
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  Speaker 1: been the same game that uh we're gonna now watch
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  Speaker 1: on the plane and and then watch with the team tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be you know, you know, very similar defensive breakdowns,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really bad, bad one on one individual defense.
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  Speaker 1: And it's some turnovers that you know, some of which
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  Speaker 1: were just you know, backbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's just this is this it's been a
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  Speaker 1: very It's been a very frustrating. Uh just been a
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  Speaker 1: frustrating the season cause this this game has played out
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  Speaker 1: uh a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Is it Coach Johnson's perfect in view? Uh tidy career?
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  Speaker 3: Or how to watch?
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  Speaker 2: Would you like?
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  Speaker 3: How do you do today?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's a warrior, you know, and I get that
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  Speaker 1: question a lot about you know why he starts or
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  Speaker 1: you know why?
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  Speaker 3: You know why we don't you know, go in another
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  Speaker 3: direction there?
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  Speaker 2: But you know, y y y in in in in
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  Speaker 2: uh in this sport, especially in the the East, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: the environments you go into and just the emotion and
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  Speaker 2: passion involved in college basketball games, especially the games like today.
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  Speaker 3: You need warriors with you on the court.
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  Speaker 1: You need you know, you you need you need people
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  Speaker 1: that playing with the life and death level of urgency
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  Speaker 1: cause every possession, you know, these games come down to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one possession games. So you know, he's a
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  Speaker 1: he's just uh, you know, I love that kid. Man.
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  Speaker 1: That kid is like one of my favorite players I've
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  Speaker 1: ever coached. And he tip the scales at two eleven
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of a week, and so he's a center.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you don't play uh weighing two ten basically,
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  Speaker 1: and he's just giving you absolutely everything you got and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he starts games and that's why I trust him.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Dale in the last time out was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a turning point, uh against you guys to say, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have a field goal in that game.
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  Speaker 3: And since then he's been rolling real hot street.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see from in tonight just scouting Xavier
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  Speaker 4: where he's kind of you know, matured.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of the past nine ten games. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean you could see it.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is uh, you know, he's an impressive prospect.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's and he's you know, he's he's figuring.
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  Speaker 1: Out, you know, how to drive you know, people going
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  Speaker 1: under screens and how to get angles, and it's cutting
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  Speaker 1: and there's work on the offensive glass and uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know his defensive abilities. You know, he's uh, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, they're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Just a great job developing him and and you know
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  Speaker 1: he's like a sophomore that they you know, probably earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the year is a little frustrating, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: he's uh, you know, he's a I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be an NBA player at some point here,
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  Speaker 1: especially as it becomes a better perimittive shooter.
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  Speaker 3: But that guy's uh, he's an impressive prospect. We so
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  Speaker 3: he placed an emphasis on attacking them, ring a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more in the second half, he's fall and sid
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of a Suli whining to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we just don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys that can that that really do create have to dribble.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, for us, you know, being just a.
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  Speaker 1: Moving team, we're a lot of off ball action. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when when mcneelye gets back, he's got size and he's
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  Speaker 1: got strength, and he's got the ability to get found
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  Speaker 1: and get the free throw line. You know, I obviously
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  Speaker 1: I or for us, a game like today was like
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  Speaker 1: pretty good in terms of the free throw of difference.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're used to it being you know,
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  Speaker 1: a a lot, a lot worse than basically.
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  Speaker 3: It was twenty two seventeen cause we you know.
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  Speaker 1: We we fouled late so that when we're throwing, I was
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  Speaker 1: two f two free throws away. But I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: I if we play games from like a twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to seventeen free throw discrepancy, I'll take that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take that everything.
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  Speaker 1: But then it's not what we do We're not we're
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  Speaker 1: not great at driving it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And and we don't have a lot, you know. We
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  Speaker 3: we don't have a guy. We could throw it into
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  Speaker 3: anything else, your coach, thank you. I'm not saying wood
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  Speaker 3: that sho