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Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and players Jase Richardson & Jaden Akins.
Nov 27, 2024
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us here thanks for being here coach ISO
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Jason Richardson and Jaden Atkins uh
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starting with you coach what you see
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from your
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team well that's some uncharacteristic
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things um you know first half we've been
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shooting the Daylights out of the free
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throws and we missed I think five in a
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row five out of seven something like
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that and that was in a stretch where
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even magic said if we would have made
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those been up at half um thisapp pointed
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we didn't get back on Def
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you know we we were changing and a
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couple of our guys had trouble getting
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back and they had Breakaway I think four
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of them um offensive rebounds we
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probably did a pretty good job against a
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team that's pretty athletic and physical
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yet we didn't scoring them you know we
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had uh six more offensive rebounds there
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had more seven chance
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points and uh the final one was you know
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I thought Penny did a hell of a job and
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I mean hunter made some incredible shots
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um I mean incredible shots I thought our
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guys defended it pretty well most of the
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time and give him credit give them
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credit they made some shots when they
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needed him and uh we just couldn't come
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back they took us out of some stuff
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early I thought they punched Us in the
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mouth I thought we were responded a
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little bit and then uh they came back
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that second half and did it again and we
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didn't respond as well any questions for
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jce or uh J
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Jaden from your perspective what what
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did they do today to to to get you out
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of things it seems like you got the lit
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off the basket finally and uh and then
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in the second half that that came a
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little
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harder I feel like they just um that
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pressure defense kind of took us out of
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things throughout the whole game uh we
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didn't handle it how we should have and
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um I just I feel like I uh kind of got
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out of Attack Mode a little bit in the
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second half I should have kept
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attacking good
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now Jay uh what was it like to play
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Memphis and go against them for 40
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minutes versus how Tom and the coaching
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staff would have prepared you through
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video for scout I remember talking
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yesterday with the Yukon staff and there
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was definitely you know you won't really
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know until you kind of face them so I
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didn't know if you kind of felt that
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immediately we you down a little bit the
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more support minutes uh just going
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through the game uh they were more
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physical than what they seemed on film
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so they were definitely more physical
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defensively I mean there was a lot of
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pressure there was pressure in full
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court and then half court they was all
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the way up so it was just uh getting
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used to that during the
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game Jaden there was a moment where I
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you said something I think to to Jeremy
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after you made a bucket and I was just
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curious what you said there was that
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sort of a give me the ball moment I know
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the next time you came down the floor he
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found you you missed the shot but I'm
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just wondering what was said in that
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moment
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there yeah I just told him to keep
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looking
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for all right we'll let Jason Jaden get
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back with their team any questions for
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coach Tom there was a um a possession
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down eight late in the game where you
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wind up with Trey sort of
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a fall away in the lane shot I'm
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wondering what you're looking for in
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that in that moment when you sort of
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need a bucket a couple minutes to go
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seven points now well there's no secret
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you know that we we don't have a true
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go-to guy yet you know I mean uh and Jay
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I mean Trey got his lip busted and I
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never felt he was the same after that I
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mean it was a physical game there
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because I love the way they play you
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know I I do I didn't think we match that
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um but they are more physical and uh not
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just athletic but they are more physical
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and uh you know we had trouble getting
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into offense uh I thought we could run
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him well we did run at times we ran
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pretty good but when you think about
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missing a DNK and then missing all those
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free
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throws and uh you know it just goes to
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show what I've said all my career here
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I'm the one complaining about missing
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all those threes so today we shoot 35 or
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6% from three and lose cuz we didn't
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guard as well you know and uh and I
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thought we took a couple of poor shots
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and they got Breakaway layups on him uh
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and that's when Trey got busted in the
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mouth and I didn't think he got back
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very well cuz he usually does a great
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job of that uh Jaden played really well
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early and give give uh Penny credit they
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they choked them a little bit the second
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half you know didn't let him come off
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those ball screens and I thought Jay did
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some really good things he's probably he
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was so mad at himself for missing those
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free throws and but it is what it is you
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know for for guy that has the experience
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uh that he has in college so far I
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thought he played very well too our bigs
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let us down today a little bit and
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they've been playing really well I don't
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know why but uh maybe some of it was the
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competition I guess I was going to
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follow up on that because it feels like
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you know your signature is you know
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points at the pain second you know the
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bigs doing it what what were they doing
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what was happening uh with that well you
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know it's it's funny you know because I
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I kind of agree with you um but uh paint
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points 32 to
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22 but they had at least eight or 10 on
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Breakaway layups so those are points in
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the paint that aren't
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physical um fast break Points 11 to five
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you know again those three or four
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breakaways when our point guard did not
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get back points off turnovers 22 to 10
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you know some of those are
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undefendable so I I I I look at it my
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defense we held them to 55 shots we held
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them to eight threes
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um we they only had six offensive boards
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we all rebounded them by eight turnovers
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we had a few more than them
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um but we did some good things it's just
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God guys if you watched it from where I
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watched it from which I think you did
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you got to give Hunter a lot of credit I
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mean he made some shots that I'm sure
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Penny I don't know penny made those
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shots when he played uh and I mean that
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uh he uh he was falling right falling
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left and uh end the shot clock and he
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drained them I mean give give them
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credit I mean they you know there's a
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reason they be beat Yukon um but I think
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if I take something away from this game
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couple of Str is I think we can play
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with just put anybody here so far we'll
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see what happens
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tomorrow Don you you brought up the idea
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of learning you can kind to play with
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anybody and you've played a lot of
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different styles to this point in the
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season you played you know Kansas now
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and Memphis and Colorado another good
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opponent tomorrow I'm just wondering
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what you sort of can definitively say
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about your team at this point that you
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think this I know about us or
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whatever I'd like to go back to Northern
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Michigan it's safeer up there PL
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division two schools many schools um but
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um you know I didn't think quit I just I
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I I didn't like the fact that I thought
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we got punched in the mouth and didn't
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didn't respond early enough and then you
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know we
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responded but it's cuz we got a lot of
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new guys in different roles not a lot of
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new players but um it was a hard prep in
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one day too because they're shooting 48%
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and uh we tried to change our ball
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screen coverage a little bit and had
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some success to be honest with you they
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beat us on oneon-one I mean I think they
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only had like eight or 10 assists they
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only had 10 assists and that was
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oneon-one they beat us they didn't beat
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us on actions as much just oneon-one and
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and those two players I mean hunter was
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one of them but but the other kid played
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pretty well too uh heery you know one of
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our goals was to keep him off the free
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throw line that's why we changed our
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ball screen coverage he gets four free
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throws he's averaging 10 so you know we
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did enough of those things we shot it
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well enough it was the easy buckets they
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got it was the lack of making free
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throws which has been one of our
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strengths and uh and then uh give a
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credit I mean someone's going to have to
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really play well not to no matter what
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they do not to be MVP of this tournament
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the way he shot it
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um made some big
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plays Tom you've got as much if not more
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than any other coach when it comes to
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experience in this so not knowing who
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you're going to play tomorrow yet uh
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drawing on all your previous trips
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here third game in 3 days you never have
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enough anything like this again until
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Big 10 tournament obviously
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um how do you go about preparing your
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players how much is is rest do you want
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to not info overload them I'm just
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before you know who you're going to play
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I'm curious about your I don't believe
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in the rest rest of you're dead um you
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know we uh it wasn't like we're going to
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go beat the hell out of them tonight
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we're not going to go play The Ward rill
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or something we're going to but
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information we got to give them enough
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information to play the game you know
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and everybody's going to be doing the
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same thing I mean I'm looking forward to
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it I mean either way we're playing a top
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10 team I think and uh you know the
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third game a lot of times it's one on
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who wants to play I those who the best
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to play and uh who plays the best even I
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mean it's who wants to play and uh I
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mean I I think this is a great
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experience for us the tournament's been
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awesome um no complaints
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um I don't call her too here and there
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but I no complaints to be really honest
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with you I just wish we would have made
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some free throws I wish we we would have
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defended a couple of those ball screens
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a little better and gotten back on
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defense I youan know the shots he made
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um I I I can't blame any of our players
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for some of those I mean it was was some
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there was some HCI shots but uh now this
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will be all good I mean it's you know go
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home and you know work get to sleep on
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the plane you know I want to sleep for
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it and uh soon enough the island I've
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been here six times so love the island
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but uh love the film R so I think I'll
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just go to work tonight little bit I
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have one more question for Coach okay
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once you mention kind of new guys and
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new roles can you talk about when a guy
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like jadden hins who's a veteran can't
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perform in the second half what does
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that do to your team well it does a lot
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but it's not all Jaden's fault uh you
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know we didn't do a very good job
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getting them the ball I I guess and give
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them credit you know like I mean I
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thought you know I think Penny really
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likes his team we were kind of neighbors
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uh in our hotel there and talked a few
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times I think he likes his team and
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rightfully so I mean they play hard
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they've got incredible guard play they
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hell we must have done a hell of a job
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they're shooting 48% and today they shot
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34 from the three so you know something
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we did right but uh just so disappointed
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in in us not getting back that those
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four baskets and those five free throws
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that that really changes a game and uh
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we got to get Jaden more involved that's
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not all Jaden that's that's us and we
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got to do a better job of that uh I
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wanted to be able to get 14 15 shots a
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game he still let us in shots but um
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didn't get enough of them uh if you
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asked me so I'd agree with you on that
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thank you coach Isel thank you guys
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apprciate
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