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Duke coach Jon Scheyer press conference after victory over #UNC
Feb 2, 2025
Duke coach Jon Scheyer press conference after victory over #UNC
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environment and it's a credit to all the
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students everybody uh I'm just uh really
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thankful for that uh our guys look the
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defense was great they missed some shots
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as well but I thought the the the talk
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and the switching uh was terrific it's a
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game that was calling for Malik Brown it
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really was you know he comes in in the
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first play he comes up with the ball and
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uh we get something from it and then I
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thought just C and Tyrese their defense
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is so good you know they're guarding
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everybody in the Flor I thought what
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they did uh really helped tonight and
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then you know Khan was just a man you
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know Khan just made play after play Big
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basket and and Coupe was Coupe so you
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know just proud of this win uh proud of
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the effort uh I'll take any questions
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John I'm sorry got the mic here hey John
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uh you guys obviously have that 16 over
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on bar early sort of jump on them and
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never let it up from there what does
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that say about the mentality of this
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team and what did you tell your team in
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the locker room before the game about
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coming yeah well I just think the nature
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of this game uh it's exciting right
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there's anticipation you know there's
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going to be a great crowd so you can
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feel happy but really the team that has
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an edge you know has really won this
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game and that's something we just kept
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talking about our Edge our focus and
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these guys had it and that's really what
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it was about and not just starting that
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way but continuing to uh compete the
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whole way having an edge John throw back
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to my question two days ago what was
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different today offensively than the
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last two games well I thought um you
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know I think I helped them better
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because I I thought we got too stagnant
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in those other games and and I can't let
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that happen um our guys really executed
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well uh the passes that we made you know
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we we 20 assists of course but I thought
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we just had some great connecting
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sharing plays and then obviously when
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you can get out on transition that's a
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big deal but but but I thought our half
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court offense to manufacture some easy
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looks was was night and day uh a lot
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better John you said you wanted to help
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Tyrese SC that work today what were
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those conversations like and how' you do
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it well me and him uh we watched him
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film a couple days ago and uh we
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actually watched some stuff throughout
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his career and just earlier this season
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because he's
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uh and he means so much to our program
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with what he's done for three years and
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he's been on self
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uh but for us to be really good we need
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him to score and shoot and I just
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thought his preparation these last two
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days were the highest level uh I thought
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he played off his his shot which was uh
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which is great and then we have to help
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get him more looks which today tonight
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uh there was a big thing for me just
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trying to make sure he had some looks
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and opportunities and he took advantage
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of it John I don't know if that was the
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most deflections you guys had in the
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game but it sure felt like it what was
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it like to see m back in there like you
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said right off the bat he gets that and
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gets into what you guys call your your
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red zone offense last two games like
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it's it's been yeah I mean he's he's
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just a game changer and it's never going
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to really show in the Box you know the
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way that he impacts the game like I said
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I felt this game was just calling for
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him because we decided we were going to
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switch a lot typically we switch anyway
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uh or we switch a lot of stuff uh so
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that fit him
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but the thing also that he can do is his
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passing you know I thought he had some
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really nice passes easy to play with um
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and he just is is a winner so um you
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know I just think that was the biggest
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thing with him having him back in the
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fold it helped in every as every aspect
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offensively and
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defensively yeah I saw an interesting
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stat to Cooper and uh oh by the way it
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was our highend deflections by the way
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so that's we talked about that and now
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we got to break it again so
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Cooper and con both 23 I think 23 yeah
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one of you guys are going to watch the
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film and see there's like 16 or 17 but I
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was told 23 I can't confirm it that's
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what I was told all right so that's fact
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if you say it's fact yeah exactly
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exactly Cooper and KH both had 20 plus
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points five were more assists that's the
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first time in 15 years in this rivalry
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that's happened the last time Nolan
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Smith and some guy named John Shire that
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I don't think anybody's heard of but I'm
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just kind of curious how much when you
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look at the two of their approaches to
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the game how similar are they and how
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much do they kind of feed off of each
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other in in environments like this they
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um absolutely feed off of each other I
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think it starts with their
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competitiveness they're just really good
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competitors they play both sides of the
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ball and they have highle feel and so
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all right you put it together
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competitiveness
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feel that's in the highest level of both
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that's a pretty good starting point and
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then you add in their skill and their
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versatility like for Khan in tonight's
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game he's posting he's shooting he's in
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pick and roll he's really doing
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everything and uh and obviously I think
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you know or everybody knows you know
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Cooper already doing everything but they
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have a great thing with them they've
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also checked each other at different
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points you know like Khan's gone on
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Coupe to get going in games Cooper got
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on Khan a couple games ago to shoot the
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ball and so that interaction and
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checking each other as freshman I think
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there's a lot of maturity with both of
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them uh to do that John you know better
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than most how this game regardless of
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when it comes the records it can
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overwhelm certainly newcomers how did
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your freshman and your newcomers meet
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this moment they they they sure met it I
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mean um you know you always worry just
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when you see different moments or
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different environments how is your team
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going to respond um we've really been
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focused this season seon on just what
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you can control at the end of the day
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and so you know we focus on our defense
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uh we we feel if our defense is their
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offens is going to come I thought seon
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you know seon makes so many plays man he
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makes so many plays and makes it easier
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for everybody on the court uh our
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freshman didn't look like freshman um
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and they didn't even know you burn
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benches actually so our whole team they
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didn't even know that happens and so I
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love the fact they were just focused on
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the task at hand of uh coming ready
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ready not just to play but to compete
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coach I think one of the things that
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really surprised me most today was
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Cooper's ability just to make that
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perfect Pass Time After Time After Time
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we all know he can score but he told us
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in the locker room that he doesn't
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really go into a game with a set defend
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the game plan he kind of sees what the
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first few possessions are like what does
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that say about his maturity that at such
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a young age he can do everything we've
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seen him do but still in a huge rivalry
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game be so flexible it's who he is and
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that's a beautiful part he's he almost
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had a triple double you know and uh I I
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screwed him up in the second half I
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should have subbed him and I didn't sub
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him early enough and then he wasn't
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quite himself uh that was completely my
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fault but besides that segment he was
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just in control of the whole game and
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you know they were doubling him inside
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he's making the right pass they didn't
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he would go to score um he's a savant
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with the game he really is is and he
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makes everybody better around him and uh
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you know it's it's a heck of a thing
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when he is 218 and S and you feel like
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there's more there for him or uh he
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could have done more so I'm just really
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proud of him John there's so much to be
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said about you know the transfer portal
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in teams that are older and then being
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able to win with older teams but you
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have two freshman that are just killing
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it the last month what does that say
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about their leadership and what they're
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bringing to this team and and how they
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can lead you guys
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March well I I just don't think it's
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right to say there's only one way you
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can do something and we've had to find
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what our way is in 2024 and 2025 and
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going forward and some of its timing and
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for this group I mean we knew we had
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some special guys coming in and then we
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had to get some special guys with them
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or around them you know to be able to do
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something special and so uh I think it's
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all about having the right guys
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regardless of age is about mindset
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competitiveness and our young guys have
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it all right last one here coach I want
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to ask about Kanan he did really good
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job on the offensive glass also had a
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couple of moves in the post what did you
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see from him and then also what ises
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having Malik back allow Kaman to do to
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open up his game plan a little bit well
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um biggest thing I want for those guys
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is not to Pace because part of their
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strength is their activity and their
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motor and so come on I thought he had
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just great minutes when he was in in
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there he was all over the offensive
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boards how many 72 guys in the country
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can guard five you know six foot guards
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that are quick and stay in front of them
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and give them a hard time even if you
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get a step he's a hard guy to get a shot
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off on so that's something I don't know
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if uh he shown before he got here or we
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fully you know knew but he does a great
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job with switching uh he knows
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everything he knows where to be on
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offense and he just makes everybody
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better because he's not looking for his
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all the time but he's just impacting the
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game and impacting winning all right
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thank you guys