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Video: #Memphis coach Penny Hardaway and guards Colby Rogers and PJ Haggerty after loss to #Auburn
Nov 28, 2024
Video: #Memphis coach Penny Hardaway and guards Colby Rogers and PJ Haggerty after loss to #Auburn
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here in now overall yeah for sure we're
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not going to let this game just Define
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who we are I mean obviously we played
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against a really good team number four
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team in the nation uh we wanted to win
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it we didn't uh we didn't take care of
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business today but we learned a lot from
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this entire weekend and saw that we
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belong uh you let a team get out 90 on
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you that's the number four team in the
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nation you can't recover from that and
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then our weaknesses showed up today they
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they exposed us on the glass and that's
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something that we talk about all the
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time as a group so I feel like we group
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from this weekend and it's going to get
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better this is a new Team 13 new players
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to get to the championship not knowing
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each other not being in a battle before
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until this weekend uh with the greatest
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with the best teams in the country I'm
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really proud of the effort and looking
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forward to getting back to practice
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after Thanksgiving and enjoying this
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Thanksgiving any questions for the
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players
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PJ said ended up 27 you know one uh the
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driving behind mhis keeping things close
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in the first half but can you just
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describe what was like going up against
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into the teeth of that offer defense
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just with the size and theity they have
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repeat that question just the size and
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physicality of their defense uh yeah
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that was a pretty good defensive team uh
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I think it wasn't really have a problem
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I think the problem was just rebounding
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but getting in the paint I think we
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didn't really have a problem I think we
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missed like a couple bunnies normally
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make but it's just part of the game
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this is for Kobe or DJ uh you pointed
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you you said rebounding was probably the
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biggest issue today what was it that
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was making it so tough for you guys to
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to angle it
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last I mean they're a big physical team
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um when they crash they crash really
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hard um and you got to get credit to B
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uh carw the other bigs uh they kept the
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ball alive we didn't you know we didn't
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match their physicality as we should
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have um and they kind of exposed us with
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that so give them credit but and we just
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got to be better at rebounding we need
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all five to rebound especially against a
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team like that that you know kind of
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lives on the glass but it's a good
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learning experience um and I think we'll
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grow from this so yeah yeah I was going
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to ask PJ do you share coach just said
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we're not going to let this game Define
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us we're only going to get better do you
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share that Outlook
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you know I mean this was a tough road
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trip four game Road Trip at San
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Francisco in the threee uh you guys
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finished three and one like it's it it
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probably stings today but I would think
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that you would take three in one on a
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road trip like this yeah for sure I mean
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we played some top 10 teams I mean none
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of those games are easy uh we fought
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hard uh came out last one loss but end
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of the day it's just one loss uh we'll
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be back in the gym over break and just
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work on things we got to work on we'll
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be back for
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sure all right I the players go oh sorry
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for both guys real quick just tell me
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how much how much confidence do you guys
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leave Maui
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with um I think we have a lot of
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confidence like coach said we're a new
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team um to make it a championship
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against you know the two top five teams
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um you know that's something to really
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have your hang your head up about I
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don't think we should leave here hanging
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our head I'm feeling like you know
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obviously we lost there's no moral
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victories but to go 3 and one um on this
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road trip I think this gives us a lot of
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momentum going to break we just got to
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make sure we learn from this um grow
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from it and just don't let this you know
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carry on for too long I mean it's just
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one game we have a long season ahead of
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us and as long as we're playing our best
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basketball in March that's what really
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matters um so I think we just got to
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keep the main thing the main thing um
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you know just enjoy this moment uh go
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back home regroup and you know just keep
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working all right thanks guys appreciate
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uh any questions for Coach Hardway just
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a reminder Penny was the 1992 non
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Invitational MVP co- MVP with Bobby
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Earley uh coach uh you know Hunter uh
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Hunter had a tough uh outing what were
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they doing to to kind of negate the
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offense well obviously you know me being
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a basketball player played at the
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highest level I understood what they
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were going to do to PJ and Tyres they
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were going to make it hard you know they
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were denying him the ball every time he
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drove they were there to try to stop him
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they it was a total team effort and I
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knew that that was going to happen today
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because why wouldn't you when those were
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the two hottest guys in the tournament
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um PJ and uh and Tyrese so um you know I
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have to do we have to do a better job uh
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when we get back just learning from
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everything that happened this weekend I
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me I'm sorry this week and uh just keep
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getting better but I knew that they were
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going to do what they did today I mean I
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would have done the same thing
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Penny when you're going against a team
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like Auburn that lives inside lives on
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the offensive glass and you know that
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your team is a little bit thinner you
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know in the front Court what do you go
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into a game like that how do you how do
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you prepare for that how do you scheme
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against that what do you do we had all
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the answers to the test before the game
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we knew exactly how they were going to
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play we played them two years ago with
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Janai broom and Carwell and um the
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mentality has to be um you know that
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you're going to go into a f fight a bare
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knuckle fight we knew that going in but
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there's nothing you can do when that
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ball goes in there except for hit and
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box out and we didn't that that 90 Run
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start the game pushed us out of pretty
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much out to reach the way they were
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playing gave them the confidence and
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they pushed away and then we weren't
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rebound we went zone four possessions
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and stopped them I think all four times
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and they got the rebound three out of
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four I think and they made two threes in
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that possession in those possessions so
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no game plan can prepare you for that
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practice does and they have to now they
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know to take the rebounding we talk
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about rebounding all the time because we
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know what it's going to come down to
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protecting the ball rebounding and we
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just didn't do it today and kind of a
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follow up to that does what you saw
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today even maybe add a sense of urgency
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to add a player to get some more size on
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this team come December or is that not
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the case um you know like I said I've
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never shine away from saying that we
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that we wouldn't add someone if if it
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was fitting uh but Dane Musa and Nick
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they has to start with those guys on the
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class they have to take everything
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personal and then the guards have to
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rebound as well I think we will after
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this because experience is the best
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teacher they showed us how to get it
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done you know janai's been there 3 years
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carw has been there four years those
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guys have paid their dues and they've
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gone through their bumps and bruises now
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they're they came to win today and we
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just couldn't overcome
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that any right
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here uh you mentioned you've obviously
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played ji before but how would you
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evaluate his performance today and the
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impact he obviously had oh way more
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locked in when he first transferred the
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Auburn he was probably a little
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distracted and thought it was going to
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be easier I think he got a reality check
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of what it was like to come up
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right and then now he understands the
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lay of the land he knows how serious he
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has to be he knows he has to be a leader
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and he's doing that now there a total
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difference from two years ago than right
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now with
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him uh coach After experiencing the L
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seic for these last three days how
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similar or different do your experience
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here this week compared to when you
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played here it was the same you know a
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has always been great to all the teams
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coming over they show the appreciation
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from first day
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and um they come out and they support
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and that's a great thing man they want
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to keep you can tell they want this
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tournament back here like after the
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wildfires and that it belongs here and
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that it'll be here for a a lot longer
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and we're happy to come every time
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because it's such a beautiful place for
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Beautiful
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People any
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uh
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uh if there are people out there who are
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thinking this is they're having
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flashbacks to last year the in the
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Bahamas speeding Michigan and Arkansas
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mic this kind of way of Villanova why is
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this different than that what
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is why is this not that at all um I mean
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you're getting to two championship games
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against two really good teams Villanova
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was hungry hungrier than us uh it came
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down to one-on-one kind of basketball
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like we kind of did today it was kind of
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similar but you can only as a coach you
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can put the guys in position and it came
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down to a rebounding game you know they
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made a ton of Threes on us in in the
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Bahamas they got really high here came
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down to a rebounding game and I'm going
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to always
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say that when you get in championship
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game the ball can bounce any way but you
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got to be able to rebound and box out
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and until we get that mentality which we
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didn't have that last year we get their
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mentality then we'll be we'll be
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Champions instead of a finishing runner
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up but this game is totally different
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from the Bahamas because they just got
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hot from three I think they made like 12
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threes in the first half this was just
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straight in a fight a grinded out fight
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that we just that we
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lost penny obviously this is the first
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time this season where your teams faced
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you know real adversity on the court um
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what did you see in the toughest moments
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of this game from your team uh in their
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response to to this and compared to last
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year it it wasn't a good response it was
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basically you know you got to think
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these young men have nerves you know
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they haven't been here as a group it's a
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new team it's the beginning of the
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season
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and it's like Jason said it's it's early
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and if we would have said we' have been
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three and one in that stretch instead of
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you know one and three or 0 and four or
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something like that then we'd be very
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disappointed but to be 3 And1 on this
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stretch there's nothing to be ashamed of
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but what I saw was that a nervous team
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that didn't take the challenge to hit
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and box out if you hit and box out this
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game The Game's totally different you
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got to be able to do that against teams
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like
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this anything else for Coach all coach
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thanks for being here take travels