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Colorado coach Tad Boyle, forward Andrej Jakimovski and guard Julian Hammond after upset of UConn
Nov 26, 2024
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players questions then we'll let them
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leave and uh uh ask some questions for
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Coach uh you do have mics on each side
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so please raise your hand and we can uh
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start this so coach uh what are your
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thoughts on your team today well look
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yesterday less than 24 hours I was
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sitting here question in the fight of
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these guys um and I think I said I know
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I said it to them I can't remember if I
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said it in here that we would find out a
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lot about our team in the next 24 or 18
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hours 18 to 24 hours and I think we
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found we found out about this team the
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fight that they have and they came back
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with and I wish we'd have played like
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that against Michigan State I think
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Michigan state had a lot to do with it
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but uh number one to beat a program like
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Yukon u i mean that's that's not easy to
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do I mean coach Hurley's a hell of a
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coach they run their stuff so well um
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they're hard to guard these guys really
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battled all game long but again coming
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down the stretch win or lose I was going
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to be proud of this group we we finally
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won one there we got stop at the end and
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got a rebound um Andre made a hell of a
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shot there on on the play we ran Elijah
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Malone was terrific Julian ran the team
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R everybody that played for us played
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well and contributed to this win uh
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couldn't be more proud of this group any
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questions for the
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players yeah Andre can you just sort of
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walk us through all on that last pass
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kid and Julian after he answers what was
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your Vantage putting that play as well
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um I mean coach trust me to make the
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last play and he called a really good
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play for me and I knew that I just have
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to go down there and and finish um and
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you know that basically it's a it's a
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great team win great bounce back um
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after a bad game yesterday we show um
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character and um we we defended our ass
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off yuk is probably one of the best
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offensive team that I played in my
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college career so um it's it's a great
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team win and um you know wait wait to
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finish
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it uh on that on that last play you know
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I got him the ball I saw he had a lane
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and you know Elijah did Elijah did a
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great job seing sealing his man down
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there Andre how a guy oneon-one and you
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know I saw him get downhill he got it up
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and we all crashed cuz I mean there was
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only 5 seconds left for down one but
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when it got when it came out of 10 it
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looked good so I got a question for
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Julian but actually Andre when you made
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when you made the layup I couldn't quite
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see from my angle could you see that it
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went in or did you know it went because
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you heard the crowd I know where you're
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at um I I I pulled down and then I saw
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we went so uh I I got fou but um you
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know I I made the layup so we won the
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game so it doesn't matter uh Julian as
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you prepared for Yukon um did you sense
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you know in the first half I know they
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got they got up on you my 11 points
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maybe in the second half that maybe they
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were uh A little vulnerable maybe
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lacking a little bit of confidence you
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know they had that intense game against
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Memphis I'm just curious from your
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standpoint where you uh as a team look
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to take advantage of that and where
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their weaknesses might have materialized
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tday uh you know yeah they did go up um
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you know 10 11 on us but I thought I
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thought it was it was more our team cuz
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uh you know yesterday we went down 10-1
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and we folded you know we started
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playing individual basketball we played
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really a part and I thought I thought
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today you know we started to grind out
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possessions and make them work cuz you
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know they run a lot of action on offense
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and so we want we want to make them work
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as much as as they were making us work
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and we just tried to wear them
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down for both of the players you know
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last night it was pretty tough and uh
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you had a quick turnar around and what
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were the conversations like as you
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prepared uh to to play you found today
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what did y'all do to try to rally
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yourselves uh I mean it's really just we
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just can't get beat up the same way that
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Michigan say beat us up cuz you know we
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felt that they like out physical us and
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everything like that so you know we went
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we like went back did our recovery
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everything that we need for you know our
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bodies to feel good for today and we
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just talked about it like all right like
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we can't let this happen again uh we
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can't take bad shots and then we just
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let it go got into uh our you st and for
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us everything starts defense um I think
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if we you know keep getting stops uh and
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rebound the ball nobody nobody can beat
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us so um we were great there uh today
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and that's why we won the game Andre
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this is the second straight game uh that
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both of you come's primary big fou that
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H through personal fouls yourself
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obviously then not having size at the
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end was critical you guys going to
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Elijah how much of a point of emphasis
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was it to get them in foul trouble down
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low um I mean our game plan was you know
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play inside out and Elijah it's been
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awesome uh you know uh he is playing
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great and you know um at the beginning
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they they were doubling him so we got
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some wide open threes and then you know
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he was going one one and um he missed
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some layups but um he played great today
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and um that's why we won the
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game
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good uh yeah excuse me for Julian uh you
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know you talked about some of the
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conversations the the team had not
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wanting to come out and get beat up
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again today I take us in the locker room
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just now you know how sweet of a feeling
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was it and you know by that same token
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how do you you know you came off such a
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disappointing one yesterday you know big
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high today how do you kind
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of move on from this one and obviously
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one more game to go uh you know it feels
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good it's exciting obviously to beat a
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program like that you know they won The
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Natty back Tob gear so that's always you
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know it's they're just a great team so
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that's obviously great but we know that
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we're going to have a tough game
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tomorrow either way so uh we're going to
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be happy about this now you know get
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back uh see who wins at whatever time
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they play I don't know but and then just
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be ready to go tomorrow because we can't
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be too up on ourselves we know that
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we're going to be in for a tough
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physical game again
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tomorrow all right thanks
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guys appreciate it I will open it up to
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questions for
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Coach kind of congrats in a lot of
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places to go here but I'm curious from a
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uh strategy and tactical approach with
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their bigs they found out yesterday
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Grant OT I think F out the bonus session
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but were you looking intentionally to
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exploit that was some of that may be
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lack of discipline on their end but
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obviously then not having either on the
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floor for the game-winning basket was a
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big factor and I wonder if you
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intentionally schemed that up knowing
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that both read Johnson weren't there
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yeah like mat like like Andre said we
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always want to play inside out we don't
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we don't go into a game this way trying
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to foul somebody out I mean you always
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want to be aggressive and look Yukon is
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an aggressive defensive team I mean they
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play physical
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and um you know it's one of those games
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where they it's hard to officiate
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because they put so much pressure on the
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officials and uh we we had a strong crew
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today that you know called it like they
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saw it and and um so you know we talk
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about playing defense without foul and
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and Yukon number one they're deep and
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number two they run their their offense
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as good as anybody in the country I'm
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telling you uh best offensive uh scheme
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I've seen in in in my you know 19 years
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as a head coach quite frankly and uh but
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in terms of our game plan we want to
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play inside out play our game take
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better shots I was really disappointed
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in our shot selection last night I
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thought I got a lot better today still
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took a couple tough ones but um
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definitely going inside to Elijah Malone
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he is a weapon for us and he's a problem
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for other teams obviously he's a load
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down there and they start doubling him
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at the end and then he started pass pass
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and and if we could start figuring that
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piece out we we'll be a pretty tough
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team to
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guard right here you got a shot 38% in
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the first half 62 12% in the second half
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you mentioned some shot selection with
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the game yesterday how much of that was
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correlated with the first half today
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what really Switched at halftime you
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guys to be able to have yeah I don't
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know I think you know I thought we had
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good looks in the first half we just
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didn't finish them you know they beat us
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up at The Rim a couple times they
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they're they lead the country and block
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shots um so they really I we had some
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curls that you know should have been
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layups that that weren't so in the
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second half we did a better job of
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finishing and that's part of it we made
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open shots which you have to do when you
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get him against Yukon because again they
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are a physical team defensively and
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that's one of the reasons they foul a
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lot and uh but but but you better be
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strong with the ball from the guard
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position to the Five Spot and we
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were Tad I remember asking you during
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your preseason when you get into a game
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late game situation who's the guy that's
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going to take the shot the clutch at
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that time you kind of said the answer
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was to be determined but yeah today
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first time you're in that situation
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really this season uh why the play at
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the end and why Andre well uh two two
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reasons number one we had a possession a
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few before that where you know got down
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to the end of the shot clock and and we
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we didn't even get the ball to the rim
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and I thought to myself well there's
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KJ's not out there trist's not out there
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Cody's not out out there but you know we
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got guys so you know I saved my timeouts
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for a reason and uh you know that play
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at the end we
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option one is getting Elijah the ball
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down low Julian's got to make that
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decision option onea is getting the ball
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to Andre zipping up the lane there and
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and then we clear it out let him go to
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work and he did it he made a tough shot
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and you know it was a make make Miss
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game we had we and then we came down and
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got our stop so you know that play was
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designed for Elijah Malone and Andre
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yakimowski and and those two guys right
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now I felt like the way they play
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tonight their experience their you know
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uh toughness their physicality could
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handle Yukon you you had to be physical
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to make the play that Andre made and he
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did it and I don't know if we have other
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guys that are physical enough to do that
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right now Trevor made a hell of a play
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down the stretch you know getting down
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the lane but he had an angle on that one
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so
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um that was a thought
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there coach uh two areas where I I saw
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improvement from last night toight to
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today was uh points in the paint the
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second chance points what what did you
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do what adjustments did you make uh you
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kind of started going downhill early but
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you still controled that what did you do
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to to have some improvement well you
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yukon's one of those teams they want a
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dunk at The Rim or they want a wide open
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three now we told our team before the
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the game this this is a different animal
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than Michigan State Michigan State
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really struggled from the three-point
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line Yukon you know made 14 threes last
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yesterday and lost I mean that's you
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know that's tough now was obviously that
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was an overtime game could have gone
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either way but um yeah we we uh we
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wanted to guard the three-point line
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more against Yukon now if they got some
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twos we wanted to be mid-range twos not
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twos at The Rim but we wanted to take
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away threes we did not do a very good
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job of that and uh I don't know what
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they ended up with from three but they
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had 12 of them you know when our goal is
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six or less for the opponent so didn't
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do a very good job of guarding the
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three-point line but it was different
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game plan for different opponents and
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whoever we play tomorrow would be a
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different game plan for them than it was
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for Michigan State here or
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you anything else for coach
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coach coming off the loss uh yesterday
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at the Michigan State what does it take
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from a leadership perspective to sort of
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change the mindset of the team and make
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sure that they don't get too overwhelmed
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by the upcoming match up against the
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two-time running National Champion team
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in Ukon it takes character like these
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guys mentioned it takes toughness it
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takes belief in yourself and uh and our
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guys had that and I again I I mentioned
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the fact that we're going to learn a lot
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about this team in this tournament and
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we learned from last night we turned
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around tonight we the biggest thing I
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was disappointed in last night was our
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fight in our shot selection and this
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team we challenged them and they had
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better shot selection they have have a
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lot better fight so really proud of them
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for that but tomorrow's a new
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day this we got to be ready to go
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whoever we play CU they're going to be
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good thanks coach
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