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Speaker 1: to five. Last night's game, be honest with me. Be honest. Now,

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Speaker 5: have your first full season, your first full preseason with him,

429
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Speaker 5: Kevin dankin a second season.

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Speaker 6: But it's it's been hard for you guys.

431
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Speaker 5: It's almost a similar story to what we saw last year,

432
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Speaker 5: which is the amount of injuries in the back line,

433
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Speaker 5: inconsistency with the back line, and now you know Patenton

434
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 5: trying to tinker with the formation. Does he play five

435
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,080
Speaker 5: at the back? Does he play four at the back?

436
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 5: Who are the best center back partnerships. Who's the best

437
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 5: to midfielders to have as a double pivot? Do you

438
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 5: play Evander a little bit deeper? Do you play him

439
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 5: a little bit higher? Danks looked really strong this season.

440
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 5: Evander obviously struggled this season just because of the injury

441
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Speaker 5: that he picked up early on. So it's just finding

442
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Speaker 5: consistency within this team and finding a formation and finding

443
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Speaker 5: a starting eleven that you know is healthy and not

444
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 5: away for international duty or not a way for due

445
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Speaker 5: to injury or sickness.

446
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Speaker 6: So it's been really difficult for pat Noon. And but

447
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Speaker 6: I know a lot of people are like, oh, he's

448
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Speaker 6: on the hot seat. The grass isn't always greener. You

449
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Speaker 6: have to remember what.

450
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Speaker 5: Patt Noon has done for the club and how he's

451
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Speaker 5: turned this club and this franchise completely around.

452
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Speaker 6: So it's been a it's been a difficult start.

453
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Speaker 5: I look at the three zero win of Retiga, as

454
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Speaker 5: we all thought that that was the turning point of

455
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Speaker 5: the season. Then they go to lose to the Revs

456
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Speaker 5: and a five to one thrashing against.

457
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Speaker 6: Tigas, and then obviously, like you just.

458
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Speaker 5: Alluded to you going into the international break, the four

459
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Speaker 5: to three win over Montreal. But then you're like, it's Montreal,

460
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Speaker 5: Like they've been pretty bad for how many years now?

461
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Speaker 5: You know what I mean? And I most respect, I

462
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Speaker 5: know I'm laughing, But Cincinnati has put money into the

463
00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 5: club and they expect results, and they expect more supporter

464
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 5: shield and they want an MLS cuff. So be really

465
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Speaker 5: interesting to see that the next upcoming weeks because now

466
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Speaker 5: you're you're taking on a Toronto side that seems to

467
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Speaker 5: be kind of finding its form and it's you know,

468
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Speaker 5: the way and the style in which it wants to

469
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Speaker 5: play with the new players.

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Speaker 6: That it's added to the team.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Pat Noonan, and I read and hear some

472
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Speaker 1: of the same stuff. Pat Noonan seed is hot. Correct

473
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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. If FC Cincinnati moved on from

474
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Speaker 1: Pat noon and he'd be out of a job for

475
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Speaker 1: about two and a half minutes, two seconds.

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Speaker 5: Yes, well, this is the thing, and I always say this.

477
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Speaker 5: Obviously I had a father in law that was a

478
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Speaker 5: coach here in Major League Soccer. So it's a difficult one,

479
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Speaker 5: you know, to be on the other side of it,

480
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Speaker 5: because there's so many things that go on behind the scenes.

481
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Speaker 5: There's so many things that go on inside that locker room,

482
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Speaker 5: and you know, you go through tough moments in your career,

483
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Speaker 5: and you go through tough moments at a club in.

484
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Speaker 6: Your career, but you have to.

485
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Speaker 5: Remember what Pat Noonon is, who Pat Noonon is. He

486
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 5: is a fantastic coach and like he just said, any

487
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 5: club here in Major League Soccer would be delighted to

488
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Speaker 5: have him at the helm.

489
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Speaker 1: So he's a.

490
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Speaker 5: Great tactical manager. He's a great man manager as well.

491
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Speaker 5: But again, right now it's getting everyone healthy and then

492
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Speaker 5: for him though, the big question what does he want

493
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Speaker 5: to play?

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Speaker 6: I think that's that was the biggest question mark heading

495
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Speaker 6: into the season because they have so many.

496
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Speaker 5: Good attacking players that they've brought in. I really thought

497
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Speaker 5: in the preseason he was going to go with a

498
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Speaker 5: solid back four because he's got the players to do it.

499
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Speaker 5: You know, in the center back position, in that single

500
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Speaker 5: midfield screen or if you want to play a double pivot,

501
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 5: it's just your fullback maybe on the right, just in

502
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 5: a weak position there. Structure when in healthy, but it's

503
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Speaker 5: just really lacked there.

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Speaker 6: I think, what do you guys have?

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Speaker 5: I think your second worst defensive team in Major League

506
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Speaker 5: Soccer this year with.

507
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Speaker 6: Goals conceded goals and games.

508
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Speaker 1: What is it?

509
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Speaker 6: Eighteen eighteen goals?

510
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's that's not an FC Cincinnati team when

511
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Speaker 5: you look at it on paper, right, your your one

512
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 5: goal of game if that, you know. So it's it's

513
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 5: been really tough in that aspect. And then also discipline

514
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Speaker 5: with the team three three red cards and three matches.

515
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Speaker 6: That's not good enough, especially for.

516
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Speaker 5: You know, a patent new needs where he expects the

517
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 5: best out of his players.

518
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean that to me is what stood out

519
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: more than anything. It just it feels like at the

520
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: wrong time, they come on glued, which I'm used to

521
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: watching teams do when they play against FC Cincinnati. It's

522
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: interesting because you know, very early in the season, Pat

523
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: Noon and I think very publicly, was showing exasperation and

524
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: just like at times was coming off with somebody who

525
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: was searching for answers. They made some tactical changes against

526
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Speaker 1: New York. They didn't result in a win, but I

527
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Speaker 1: felt like in listening to him after the game that

528
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: he felt like they tapped into something. Would you share

529
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Speaker 1: that opinion?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I do.

531
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Speaker 5: I went back and watched kind of like the ten

532
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Speaker 5: minute recap like on Apple TV.

533
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Speaker 6: You and go back and do that because obviously we're

534
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Speaker 6: prepping for thirty.

535
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 5: Different teams again this upcoming weekend, because that's one of our.

536
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Speaker 6: Big talking points this weekend.

537
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Speaker 5: You know, managers that are kind of in the hot

538
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 5: seed or under a little bit of pressure. Pat Nyon's

539
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 5: name came up. They had quality chances in that game,

540
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 5: they just weren't taken.

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Speaker 6: Then you know, you.

542
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Speaker 5: Look at the free kick, you get email Fords been

543
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Speaker 5: able to take it again.

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Speaker 6: It's I heard it's actually a really good quote. I

545
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Speaker 6: forget who it was, but he said it's kind of

546
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 6: like golf.

547
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Speaker 5: I'd be an amazing golfer if my first shot didn't

548
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 5: take off and I got the second shot, And I

549
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 5: was like, wow, that's actually that's actually a fantastic breakdown

550
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 5: of that, because I couldn't agree more so, I did

551
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 5: think that they had good quality chances. They just didn't

552
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 5: they weren't clinical in the final third. And then, like

553
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 5: you alluded to, just leaky goals at the back and

554
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 5: it's just switching off mentally. And I kind of want

555
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 5: to say, it's similar to what we saw kind of

556
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Speaker 5: Chicago over the last few years, where they'd have really

557
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 5: good twenty thirty minutes of play and then the last

558
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 5: five minutes of a game they couldn't close it out

559
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 5: and they'd switch off mentally.

560
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 6: And they've switched off.

561
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Speaker 5: But again, that comes with pressure as a team when

562
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Speaker 5: you start the season not doing well, when you have

563
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Speaker 5: so many expectations on you. It's a mindset that has

564
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 5: to switch within that team. It's a discipline that has

565
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 5: to switch within that team. And yes, it does come

566
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 5: from a manager, but it also comes with leaders within

567
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Speaker 5: that locker room.

568
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Speaker 6: So who's your leaders. Who's your leaders that.

569
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 5: Are going to step up in the locker room to

570
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 5: be like, Hey, this isn't good enough, it's not good

571
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 5: enough in training, we need to.

572
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Speaker 6: Work on this.

573
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Speaker 5: And then who's your leader in the game when the

574
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 5: crowd's going crazy at TQL Stadium or if you're on

575
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 5: the road in Portland or you're on the road at

576
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 5: the Red Bulls or Toronto, who's the player that can

577
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 5: use their voice in order to almost calm the team

578
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 5: down in those final moments or in the moments after

579
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 5: you score a goal to think, oh god, we can't concede.

580
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 5: Because I've been in that situation. I've played on that

581
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 5: team where.

582
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Speaker 6: You've had a really leaky back.

583
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 5: Line, you haven't been able to close games down.

584
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 6: Mentally, you kind of go into this.

585
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 5: Fight or flight mode and it's a really weird feeling

586
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 5: as a professional athlete to be in and you shouldn't

587
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 5: be in it, but you do. And it's really tough

588
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 5: to get out of it when you end up losing

589
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 5: games in the fashion that FC Cincinnati are losing them.

590
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Speaker 1: I do want to ask you this. FC Cincinnati gets

591
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: rolled over in the postseason last year. They look like

592
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Speaker 1: they were in an admiration of Lionel Messi instead of

593
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Speaker 1: playing against them, and you were very critical. We played

594
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Speaker 1: those comments and I thought they were one hundred percent

595
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Speaker 1: on point. What sort of what sort of push you did?

596
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Speaker 1: But like we played him and I and I, you know,

597
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: my take was tell me where she's wrong. And so

598
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of curious as to what it was like

599
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Speaker 1: to be public enemy number one among some seasons that

600
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Speaker 1: fans for a few days.

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Speaker 5: My dad always taught me, if they're talking about you,

602
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Speaker 5: you're doing something right.

603
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:24,479
Speaker 6: And I'll stand by that.

604
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Speaker 5: I grew up in a professional ice hockey family, and

605
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 5: you know, I'm Canadian through and through.

606
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Speaker 6: I'm from Saskatoon. Saskatchewan's or like.

607
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 5: Grafters, hard workers under no circumstances.

608
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Speaker 6: If I've just.

609
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Speaker 5: Gotten brutally beaten out in the postseason, what I ask

610
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Speaker 5: and I understand it.

611
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Speaker 6: It's Leonel Messi. He's one of the world's greatest players.

612
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Speaker 5: He's going to go down in history with whether he's

613
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Speaker 5: number one or number two of the best Argentine to

614
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Speaker 5: ever play the game. And I'm not taking anything away

615
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 5: from that. I understand who he is as a person,

616
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 5: who is the player. I've been lucky enough to meet him.

617
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Speaker 5: But you just don't do it because of your fans.

618
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 5: Like your fans pay the money for you to show

619
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 5: up and show out every single match day. And for me,

620
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 5: it's just like, there's ways you can do it. Go

621
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 5: inside the locker room. MESSI always gives jerseys inside the

622
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 5: locker room, like their equipment manager always brings extra There's

623
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 5: just a way in which you can do it. So

624
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 5: your fans aren't seeing that, you know what I mean.

625
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 5: Like I've been a fan obviously, I bring my kids

626
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 5: to games now and it's just like, yeah, I don't know, it's.

627
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 6: Just for me. I'm yeah, I'm not a fan of it.

628
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 6: I know there's a lot of people that are.

629
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Speaker 5: And you know, people are saying, oh, you don't know

630
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 5: anything about football. I'm telling you now, I still want

631
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 5: an Abby walmbacker Christine Sinclaire to trade jerseys with me

632
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 5: after I've just been kicked out of the postseason, as

633
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 5: much as I want to.

634
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Speaker 1: I said, And again, we played the comments and I'm

635
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: older than you. But I said, I remember watching the

636
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: ninety two US men's basketball team and how the players

637
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: who played against them were. They played those games like

638
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: they were in All of guys like Michael Jordan and

639
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson e FC Cincinnati in a playoff game that day.

640
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: During the game looked the same way. They looked like

641
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: they were slobbering over Lionel Messi and couldn't wait for

642
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: the game to end. So I thought, you nailed it,

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00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: and we head you're back. So we appreciate you joining us.

644
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 5: As taking so long to get me on your show.

645
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: Jeezus, we should have you know what that now there's

646
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: now you can now you can call me out for that.

647
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: So we are all right. Enjoy the game on Saturday.

648
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, Yes still call it Twitter. Gigsel James is

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Speaker 1: entering the transfer portal. He becomes the latest barricat we've

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Speaker 1: seen shawnabayev Keishawn Tillery sincere Harris mustafat Chom Now Jigsel,

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Speaker 1: Maybe there are other names that have escaped my notice.

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Speaker 1: Jigsel James. I don't know if you're a Bearcat fan

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Speaker 1: that you should have been opposed to him being on

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Speaker 1: the team this year. He's a guy who averaged double

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Speaker 1: figures in the Big twelve last season. But I also

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Speaker 1: don't view his departure as something that's going to make

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Speaker 1: or break Jared Calhoun's first season. Gisel James, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I'm speaking for the majority here. When Wes

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Speaker 1: Miller decided to bring him back, I was a proponent

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Speaker 1: of that. Main reason I was a proponent of it is,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, wee can add a guy to the

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Speaker 1: team that's averaged average nearly thirteen points a game the

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Speaker 1: year before. We're going to go ahead and do that.

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Speaker 1: That made sense, And there were some folks with the

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Speaker 1: coaching staff who got mad at me for saying this,

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Speaker 1: But my takeaway was, you know, if you're worried about

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Speaker 1: Gisel coming back and disrupting the chemistry, there's not a

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Speaker 1: lot of chemistry on the floor right now, so that

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be a concern. But for a player who handled

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Speaker 1: the ball as much as Gisel did, it was always

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Speaker 1: so frustrating his lack of free throw attempts. Gisel James

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Speaker 1: averaged this season one free throw attempt per game in

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Speaker 1: his three year UCE career, and there were a lot

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Speaker 1: of good things that he did, a lot of good things.

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Speaker 1: Gigsel James was the most encouraging thing about UC's first

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Speaker 1: season of the Big Twelve. His career high in free

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Speaker 1: throw attempts seven. He only attempted more than five free

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Speaker 1: throws in a game three times in three years. I know,

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Speaker 1: obviously he didn't play every game this past season. For

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Speaker 1: a guy who handled the ball as much as he did,

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Speaker 1: primarily obviously a point guard, to get to the free

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Speaker 1: throw line that infrequently was maddening to me. So and

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Speaker 1: I also just this is again, had Gigil announced he's

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Speaker 1: coming back to UC for a fourth year. Fine relative

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Speaker 1: to the player that I thought he could be when

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Speaker 1: he was a freshman, I hate to say he's been

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Speaker 1: a disappointment, and I know there have been off court issues,

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Speaker 1: but I just often at times underwhelmed. And I'll go

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Speaker 1: back to what's the game that seemed to see a

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Speaker 1: wes Miller's fate, which was that game against UCF and

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Speaker 1: the conference tournament where they had all the turnovers down

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Speaker 1: the stretch. Gisel James had a few of those. The

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Speaker 1: ten second violation, which is a month later, still maddening

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Speaker 1: to me. That was Gigsel James and a player with

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Speaker 1: that type of experience in a game like that with

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Speaker 1: your season hanging in the balance, Oh, that simply cannot happen.

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Speaker 1: So best of luck to the guy. I've heard that

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Speaker 1: his off court issues have been straightened out and rectified

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Speaker 1: and won. Nothing but the best for the guy. But

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Speaker 1: if you would have told me two years ago Gisel

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Speaker 1: James is putting his name in the transfer portal, I

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Speaker 1: would have been profoundly disappointed. I don't feel that way today.

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Speaker 1: Bounce Joe Goodberry on that topic and so much more

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