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Speaker 1: Healing on the Gopher's Sports Network from lear Field. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Gophers Basketball Weekly with Nico Medbad Wo to you

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Speaker 1: buy Buffalo Wild Leaves, the official sports bar of March Madness. No,

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Speaker 1: here's the voice of the Gophers, Mike Grim, and we're

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Speaker 1: off with running.

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Speaker 2: It's a Tuesday edition of Gopher Basketball Weekly with Nico

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Speaker 2: Medback cook crowd here as always at Buffalo Wild Wings

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Speaker 2: on campus. Mike Grim with you along with Hey, Justin

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Speaker 2: gard is back after some basketball duties away.

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Speaker 3: Good to see you. Great to be back. Yeah, great

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Speaker 3: to be back, man.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You may managed without it was it was a struggle,

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was always a struggle with no guards.

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Speaker 3: Although I think last week's show was as good as

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Speaker 3: we've ever done.

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Speaker 4: Don't you think it was close? It was right there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's so new to you. Like I always

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Speaker 3: tell people, you don't have to laugh at Grim's jokes,

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Speaker 3: like you're too nice of a guy to give that

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Speaker 3: one a chuckle because he's used it.

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Speaker 4: Probably how many years have we worked together? Fifteen?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so let's say four times a year at least

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Speaker 2: I was going to say three sixty times. So, but

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Speaker 2: you're a year four you're not going to laugh at long, No, No,

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Speaker 2: there's there's definitely some pretty Yeah. It was definitely recycled

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Speaker 2: nature to my stuff. There's no doubt we're used to

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Speaker 2: that nute on cafe and radio though. True. Yes, thirteen fourteen, Yeah, exactly, no,

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Speaker 2: no doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: Well, what a week it was for you guys.

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Speaker 2: A big night on Wednesday, you get a big win

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Speaker 2: over number ten Michigan State, and then as college sports happened,

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a letdown on Sunday with Maryland,

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Speaker 2: who I thought, uh, you know, given their record and

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a losey streak themselves. They played

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Speaker 2: that game hard, tough, took the fight to the Gophers,

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Speaker 2: and so sometimes you gotta tape your cap to as

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Speaker 2: much as you want to, you know, do stuff. But

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Speaker 2: that's the what a week that's college sports, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it was. It was a heck of a week.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, letdown at the end of the week didn't make

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Speaker 5: my Sunday as good as I would have would have liked.

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Speaker 5: And really the next day after too, Monday. But yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's it's part of it, and it's part of being

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Speaker 5: unfortunately the weekended that way, but it was it was

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Speaker 4: A week for our guys.

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Speaker 5: Obviously that the game on Wednesday was was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: So let's talk Wednesday first and we'll work forward. I

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Speaker 3: was listing on the way to the airport, Grammer, like

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Speaker 3: you know, I was listening to you guys who were

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Speaker 3: on fire per usual. So why was Wednesday different?

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Speaker 2: You've obviously had so many close games and we just

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Speaker 2: did the TV show and you talked about halftime. You

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Speaker 2: were telling the guys it's different tonight. We're going to

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Speaker 2: figure it out tonight. We're going to finish it tonight.

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Speaker 2: So what led to that?

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't know if I believed it, but I

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Speaker 4: I'm kidding, but I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I just I felt like our guys were just they

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Speaker 4: We're going to find a way to get the job done.

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Speaker 5: Help you up sixteen, right, you know, with three to go,

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Speaker 5: I thought we really outplayed them for the majority of

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Speaker 4: They had a great mindset.

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Speaker 5: Everyone that came on the floor did something positive for us,

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Speaker 4: What's the key to keeping that mindset?

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Speaker 2: I haven't been on for a few weeks, but you've

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Speaker 2: obviously had games that were gut punches, right, a lot

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Speaker 4: So to keep.

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Speaker 2: Coming back like it obviously says a lot.

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Speaker 4: About the guys that you have.

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Speaker 2: But what's the key to continuing to fight, continuing to

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Speaker 4: No, do you just keep talking to them?

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Speaker 5: I think you walk the line, like you said, of

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Speaker 5: showing them that trusting the process and what we're doing

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Speaker 5: So hey, we got to keep building on that, you know,

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Speaker 4: It will, and at the same time, you know helping

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Speaker 5: Hey, we've got to fire to weigh that in these situations,

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Speaker 5: we can't be satisfied with being close and Nick, you

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Speaker 5: said you have high character guys. The other thing is

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Speaker 5: situations that you've seen or been a part of where

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Speaker 5: things have turned and if they stay with it, good

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Speaker 5: things will happen. And so I think it's a combination

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Speaker 5: It's very easy to just get discouraged and go the

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Speaker 2: That when you are recruiting athletes, and it's certainly changed,

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Speaker 2: right the strategies in terms of how you construct a team,

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Speaker 4: So in the.

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Speaker 2: have to make quick decisions to you know, if you're

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Speaker 2: he's in ninth grade, and then you watch him and

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Speaker 2: You might watch you know, six games on tape from

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Speaker 4: It's really difficult.

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Speaker 5: That's one of the hardest things that we have, and

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Speaker 5: I think you know, there's a lot of factors that

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Speaker 4: Are they our type of guy?

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Speaker 5: You try to be really transparent with who you are

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Speaker 5: those things. It's still not an exact science. But I

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Speaker 5: guys who love and live hoops, who are highly competitive,

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Speaker 5: obviously really talented, but you know, high character guys who

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Speaker 4: We got right the right kind of guys. How quickly

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Speaker 4: did you know Langston Reynolds was one of those type

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Speaker 5: pretty well. Being from Denver, you have an idea of

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Speaker 5: kind of what makes him tick. We thought, you know, athletically,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he had a great night against Michigan State. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: when he's guarded by his own position, you have to

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Speaker 3: love that, right, I mean yeah, because he certainly does,

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Speaker 5: It seems like, you know, he's a tough matchup that way.

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Speaker 5: He's a he's an old school guard. He's big, he's strong,

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Speaker 5: He's a versatile defender, and you know, in that Michigan

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Speaker 5: So he's a guy that did the other coaches you

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Speaker 2: And with him too, he you think about a guard,

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Speaker 2: he's I think he's fifty six percent field goal percentage

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Speaker 2: I think he's like sixty sixty percent shooting twos, which

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Speaker 4: Even even at Penn State.

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Speaker 2: I thought there was a section of that game in

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Speaker 4: He's like, Okay, I can take this guy, and he's

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Speaker 5: you're able to find some things that work. And there's

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Speaker 5: been several games this year where that's been a key.

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Speaker 5: Even at you know, Northwestern, that was a big thing

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Speaker 5: he's a he's a difficult match up. The other thing

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Speaker 5: I think with Langston, you know, people have been paying attention.

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Speaker 5: He started off the year really struggling from the free

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Speaker 5: let us I don't know what it is, last eight

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Speaker 2: And he's hitting an occasional three, which at some point

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Speaker 4: That's a nice habit to get into. That's fun.

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Speaker 5: It's like, Hey, I can't wait to go back to

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Speaker 2: Right, Do you have an age limit for court storming,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 5: I think the first one against Indiana, people were unsure,

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Speaker 3: We're on the aisle when you grew up, right, what's

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm the isle. Yeah, that's easy access, that's easy excessive.

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Speaker 6: You really have no excuse if you're on the aisle

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Speaker 6: you know, after the game. So hey, come on, come on, Yeah, how.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people here. It's radios, not team. Well,

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Speaker 4: You got more.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just would kind of about Sunday. Yeah, you know,

439
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,440
Speaker 5: I think that's fair. I mean, and it's funny. As

440
00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,040
Speaker 5: a coach, I knew I knew Maryland would come out

441
00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:17,480
Speaker 5: that way.

442
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:18,600
Speaker 4: I knew they would.

443
00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,440
Speaker 5: I know, buzz, I know their team, Uh, they've got talent,

444
00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,280
Speaker 5: they haven't found a way to win, but they were

445
00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:26,840
Speaker 5: going to come out.

446
00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:28,000
Speaker 4: They're tough, aggressive.

447
00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,280
Speaker 5: You're always worried about it is they're going to be

448
00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,520
Speaker 5: a little bit of an emotional letdown. Sometimes that that happens,

449
00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:37,280
Speaker 5: you know, just naturally nobody, nobody is at this emotional

450
00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,400
Speaker 5: peak every game, even the best teams in the country.

451
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,440
Speaker 5: But still when you don't maybe have it to start,

452
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,800
Speaker 5: can you find a way to get it going?

453
00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:46,720
Speaker 4: And get over the hump.

454
00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,720
Speaker 5: But ultimately I just didn't think we could we could

455
00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,639
Speaker 5: overcome that kind of just sort of not awful, but

456
00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,160
Speaker 5: just flat kind of emotional start, and then they got going.

457
00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:58,800
Speaker 5: We were in for a dogfight. I thought the end

458
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,280
Speaker 5: of the first half really hurt us. We're up seven

459
00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,240
Speaker 5: with a minute twenty to go in the first half,

460
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,919
Speaker 5: really ended the first half poorly, and we go in

461
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,480
Speaker 5: right there. Yeah, in a close game. I thought that

462
00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,040
Speaker 5: stretch was just unfortunate. And then ultimately at the end

463
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:15,000
Speaker 5: of the game, you know, we were right there and

464
00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,320
Speaker 5: they made some tough shots and we missed free throw,

465
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:22,160
Speaker 5: missed a bunny, and we kind of deserve what we got.

466
00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was you know, with all that said, you

467
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,479
Speaker 2: were up for with like three ish minutes to go,

468
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 2: and then they, as you said, they hit some shots

469
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 2: and they take take the lead, and there's what around

470
00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,120
Speaker 2: was it twenty ish seconds left and.

471
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 4: You went into offense.

472
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 2: I think that's generally you've mentioned before that you don't

473
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,959
Speaker 2: want to necessarily take a time out there you end

474
00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 2: up with a two foot shot, So like there's not

475
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 2: a lot to complain about it.

476
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,000
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know what better you could do.

477
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 2: But take me back to that in terms of what

478
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 2: you're thinking there was too.

479
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:53,160
Speaker 4: That's a tough one.

480
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 5: I mean, typically in that situation, I might call a

481
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,480
Speaker 5: time out. I think with the way it was the

482
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,399
Speaker 5: unique game, you know, they had been the first team

483
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 5: all year and they hadn't done this all year that

484
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 5: you know, they guarded some players a certain way, but

485
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 5: then they switched every on ball and off ball screen

486
00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,000
Speaker 5: one through five, which again they had never shown on

487
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 5: film or done, and it was kind of tricky. And

488
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 5: they're changing defenses, and I felt like, Okay, if I

489
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 5: call a timeout with twenty seconds to go, the odds

490
00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,720
Speaker 5: are he could throw out anything defensively, and then even

491
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 5: what I have called may not does that make sense

492
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 5: or not work? So I'm like, Okay, I feel like

493
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 5: maybe our best chance to get something good is just

494
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 5: to play. We know they're in Manda man, we're attacking,

495
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,159
Speaker 5: and I mean Jalen Crocker Johnson got the ball right.

496
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 4: To the front of the rim and just missed a bumm.

497
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 4: It's sitting right there to drop in and it dropped out.

498
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,720
Speaker 5: So the odds are if I called a time out

499
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,720
Speaker 5: with the way the game was going, probably wouldn't have

500
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 5: gotten that good of a look.

501
00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what better look can you get? Really? So

502
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 2: as that as that game's going on, you kind of

503
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 2: mentioned you know, coaches always, you know, are thinking ahead

504
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 2: of going all right, I know it's going to be close.

505
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 4: I know there might be a letdown.

506
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 3: I know they're coming in here as that's all developing,

507
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 3: Like you just kind of talked to us through some

508
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 3: of the levers you're thinking about as you're navigating the game,

509
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,879
Speaker 3: what are you thinking of, Okay, how do I get

510
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 3: this guy going, or how do I get the team growing?

511
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 2: Or what can I do to to switch this up?

512
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 2: So I'm sure it's it's NonStop to try to switch

513
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 2: the energy a little bit.

514
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,159
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, just trying to do that, trying to

515
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 5: get somebody to to give you some energy with a

516
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 5: with a play, maybe it's an offensive rebound, a loose ball,

517
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 5: you know, an and one making a great defensive stand.

518
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 4: I mean, you you know, you you name it.

519
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 5: Then it's also like you know, you've been in so

520
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 5: many of these games as a coach, you're like, okay,

521
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 5: Like and again I knew it was going to be

522
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 5: a club. They're all our look at our team. Yeah,

523
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 5: every game is going to be close. That's what it is.

524
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 5: You know, We're not We're not going to go out

525
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 5: there and just beat them. That's not the way it's

526
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 5: we're wired right now. And so just trying to get

527
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,239
Speaker 5: the guys to embrace the kind of game it's going

528
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,679
Speaker 5: to be, you know, and and let's go and so

529
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,359
Speaker 5: and they know there were stretches where we played better,

530
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 5: but it just wasn't good enough. And you know, our team,

531
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 5: I mean, we cannot overcome that. And obviously we're so

532
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 5: thin to on the bench that it's hard to overcome.

533
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,679
Speaker 5: You know, maybe some guys not having their best night.

534
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 2: A guy who did have his best or one of

535
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 2: his best night's mashing and crew high was Isaac Astmay.

536
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 2: He had the three in fact late to put you

537
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 2: guys up four with I think it was around the

538
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:30,640
Speaker 2: four minute mark, and six made threes. It was good

539
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 2: to see the ball go through the basket for him.

540
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 4: Yeah.

541
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 5: Again, I if you had have told me before the

542
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 5: game he would make fourteen trees, I would have felt

543
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 5: pretty good of most of the year. And some of

544
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 5: that was how they were guarding us. You know that

545
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 5: those were kind of the shots that were available, but

546
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 5: we did knock them down. I mean, really, he kept

547
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 5: us in the game in the first half because we

548
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 5: were really kind of flat and he kept us in

549
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 5: the game.

550
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 4: And no, it was great to see the ball go in.

551
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 4: I think he puts in a lot of work.

552
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,919
Speaker 5: I think he's been shooting it well in practice, and

553
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 5: so I think his confidence, you know, just continues to grow.

554
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,919
Speaker 2: As you watch him develop. You know, he's just in

555
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 2: a second year. But I think sometimes people think that

556
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 2: he's older than he is because we've been hearing about him,

557
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: this kid from Cherry, Minnesota since he was like, you know,

558
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 2: a tenth grader.

559
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 4: What have you? What? What?

560
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 2: How do you project now and evaluate what he can

561
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 2: be here as this year not just this year moves forward,

562
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 2: but you know, junior year, senior year, those kind of things.

563
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,400
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, it's it's exactly what you think. First

564
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 5: of all, he's an unbelievable young man. He's just such

565
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 5: so great to be around. He exemplifies everything character wise,

566
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,719
Speaker 5: you know, you want he really wants to be at Minnesota.

567
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 5: He works his tail off, you know you can count

568
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 5: on that every day. He's got, you know, a lot

569
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 5: of good physical skills.

570
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 4: He can shoot the ball.

571
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 5: I think now for him, the next step is, you know,

572
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 5: learning how to manage games, you know, and learning how

573
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 5: to make decisions. He's this young many he wants to

574
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 5: do everything right. Sometimes you got to operate in the

575
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 5: gray area too, you know, you have a something called

576
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 5: or something you want to do while the defense plays

577
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 5: it a certain way. You just got to be able

578
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 5: to read and react. And I think too, sometimes he's

579
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 5: a little too nice. Sometimes he's got to get a

580
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 5: little bit you know, nastier that way. But I think

581
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 5: he's got such a bright future. This year is going

582
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 5: to be so good for him. He's getting better and better.

583
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 5: He's playing all these minutes. He's got a lot on

584
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 5: his shoulder. He's had some success in really big games,

585
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,199
Speaker 5: you know, for us this year, and you also have

586
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,199
Speaker 5: to go through sometimes where you don't play well in

587
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 5: big games. And having both those things happen is really

588
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 5: critical to your growth. And he's going to have a

589
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 5: great offseason and I just feel really really good about

590
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 5: his future.

591
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 3: Can you develop nastiness? Have you seen that? Is that

592
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 3: a character trait?

593
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 5: I mean, I think, within reason, I think, I think

594
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 5: not get me wrong, He's a competitor.

595
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:46,719
Speaker 4: I mean he wants to.

596
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 5: It's it's that, It's just I think he can be

597
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 5: a really physical player. I think he can learn to

598
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 5: to play even more physical for consistent stretches. But the

599
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 5: one thing about Ike is like man, he wants to

600
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 5: be so good, So he's so coachable, and he's gonna

601
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 5: take everything that you say and he's going to try

602
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 5: to apply it. So I think he's got a much

603
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 5: bigger ceiling and we're gonna continue to see that moving forward.

604
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 2: One of the things you said both with us in

605
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 2: the post game and then I know in the media

606
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 2: availability after the game was you didn't think you played

607
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 2: with enough force.

608
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 4: Take us through what you mean by that. I think

609
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 4: you know there's plays.

610
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 5: You know basketball is physical, and give you an example.

611
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 5: You know you're on defense and you're trying to fight

612
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 5: through a screen, and obviously you know the key is

613
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 5: you don't want to run into the screen, but also

614
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 5: you're gonna get hit by the screen. There's a difference,

615
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 5: and sometimes you got to be able to embrace that, Like, man,

616
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 5: that guy's gonna move, he's gonna hit me, And I'm

617
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 5: either going to embrace that and bust through it. Or

618
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna kind of avoid contact, or I'm gonna

619
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,959
Speaker 5: lay on the screen. Guy's gonna drive to the to

620
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 5: the basket and I'm trying to beat him to a

621
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 5: spot and we call it stoning a drive. I'm either

622
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 5: going to take him on, you know, with my chest

623
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 5: and try to win that fifty to fifty space and

624
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,719
Speaker 5: try to make it difficult, or I'm going to kind

625
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 5: of give a little bit of ground and sort of

626
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 5: play soft, maybe trying not to file too much the

627
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 5: block out. You know, how how much force am I

628
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 5: going to bring to that? I'm on offense? It's the

629
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 5: same thing. You know, how hard am I going to cut?

630
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,479
Speaker 5: When somebody tries to kind of ride me off a

631
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 5: cut or fight for position? I got a beat a guy.

632
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 5: I've got a guy beat and I got my shoulder

633
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 5: on him. Am I going to take that space? Or

634
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 5: is the defender going to take that space? It's all

635
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 5: little things like that, meeting passes and just playing with

636
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 5: with force and an edge, and those are all things

637
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 5: that maybe don't show up in a stat sheet, but

638
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 5: that that's the separator.

639
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 4: And we played. We played a lot.

640
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 5: I mean, it was it was pretty cool to see

641
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 5: tom Izzo say that, Hey, we got every loose ball

642
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 5: in that game that doesn't happen against Michigan State.

643
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 4: And I love Coachzo, but I'm really glad it bothered him,

644
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 4: no doubt.

645
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 13: Right.

646
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if you're going to beat those guys, you

647
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 2: got to beat him at their own game often.

648
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's the way it is. You got

649
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 5: to embrace the they're all like that, you know. And

650
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 5: I told the team before, I said, listen, this team

651
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 5: plays a lot like Michigan State. They're one of the

652
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 5: best rebounding teams. They pride themselves on playing hard and

653
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 5: physicality and and you know, we just didn't meet it

654
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 5: the same way we did against Michigan State.

655
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 4: Yeah. And that Maryland team too.

656
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Speaker 2: You know, they played hard, but they and it's not sneaky,

657
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Speaker 2: they were just all they're athletic.

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Speaker 4: That's an athletic.

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Speaker 2: Like they have a kid who was committed to Yukon,

660
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Speaker 2: They have a you know, want to make a couple

661
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 2: of McDonald's all Americans on that team. I mean they've

662
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Speaker 2: got some skill and some athleticism.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mentioned at guards you before.

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Speaker 5: I had a coach a couple months ago, say a

665
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Speaker 5: coach I mean you're you're like, it's like playing in

666
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Speaker 5: the NBA and the Big Ten, meaning that you know,

667
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 5: there are teams that aren't winning, but everybody's got talent

668
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 5: at this level. There's nobody that's playing, you know, in

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Speaker 5: the Big Ten that doesn't have talented players. Michigan stale,

670
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Speaker 5: you just men. I mean Maryland They've got talented players

671
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 5: and they're just a team and they're well coached. So

672
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Speaker 5: even though it hasn't gone their way, Buzz is going

673
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Speaker 5: to have them continuing to compete to the finish line

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Speaker 5: this year.

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Speaker 4: I thought that was for them.

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Speaker 2: Again, sometimes it's hard with your opponent and it stinks

677
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Speaker 2: to lose. Sometimes you also get for what they've been

678
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Speaker 2: through this season for them to play like that, I mean,

679
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 2: they were tough, they were hard, nos, they did not

680
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 2: wilt at all. That was I mean, and sometimes you

681
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: just got to say that.

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Speaker 4: Was a to go to. Their coach has been around

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Speaker 4: the block a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly eleven NCAA's you know, over the course.

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Speaker 4: Of his time. All right, let's take a break.

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Speaker 2: It's Go for Basketball Weekly with Nico Medved from Liarfield.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. It's Go for Basketball Weekly with Nico Medved.

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Speaker 2: Word Buffalo Wild Wing. Glad you're with us today. I'm

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Speaker 2: Mike Grim along with Justin Guard and the head coach,

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Speaker 2: to have JG back with us before we get into

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Speaker 2: long contested too. The Gopher women are on a nice

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Speaker 2: little run, six in a row and it's all.

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Speaker 4: Probably due to the radio guy. I was integral.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of people have noted my

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Speaker 3: contributions to the whole thing. Yeah, they beat Iowa on

711
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Speaker 3: the road for the first time since two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 3: That was on Thursday night. That was awesome. It was

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Speaker 3: good to put it on them for you. They're up

714
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Speaker 3: twenty in the fourth quarter and so that was fun

715
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Speaker 3: and then they hung on. You were talking about finding

716
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Speaker 3: ways to grind it out after shooting sixty percent from

717
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Speaker 3: the floor on Thursday, they missed their first ten shots

718
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 3: against Rutgers because that's basketball sometimes, right, Yeah, absolutely, and

719
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Speaker 3: figured out a way to grease one out in Piscataway

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Speaker 3: and make it home in time for the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: So Nebraska on Thursday night back at the barn ten

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Speaker 3: dollars tickets, ten dollars tickets. They followed your lead. They

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Speaker 3: beat a top ten team gophersports dot Com for ten

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Speaker 3: dollars tickets, not just for Nebraska but for the rest

725
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Speaker 3: of the home schedule, which includes two teams ranked in

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Speaker 3: the top fifteen, Michigan State and Ohio State.

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Speaker 4: So Thursday next up for women. Yeah, they were good.

728
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Speaker 4: It was fun. Yeah, all right, that's why I was gone.

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Speaker 3: I know, I was tripped dramatically and devastatingly missed.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it, no doubt about it, And I

731
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: know that gives you an extra week of prep on this.

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Speaker 2: I've got so many questions, Yeah, so many. Are you

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Speaker 2: a superstitious guy?

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Speaker 3: First of all, I'm worried about I'm a little worried

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Speaker 3: about the direction.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to go. Well, I know it's not going

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Speaker 4: to change the direction.

738
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,959
Speaker 5: So whether you're probably right, yeah, yeah, but you know,

739
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Speaker 5: I'm not a really superstitious guy.

740
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Speaker 4: But everybody has superstis. We did.

741
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Speaker 2: We did a long contested too in your absence a

742
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Speaker 2: few weeks ago on just his superstition what it really

743
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Speaker 2: isn't Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, all right, well I missed it. I'll have

745
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Speaker 4: to podcast.

746
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Speaker 2: H yeah, yeah, go back and listen. I should be

747
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 2: listening live. So you're about to head out to the

748
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Speaker 2: Pacific Northwest. It's a it's a road trip. We'll talk about.

749
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Speaker 3: But I think I've asked every coach that has ever

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Speaker 3: done this show, like, if you're in this long enough,

751
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 3: and you've been in it long enough, you have to

752
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 3: have a couple of like nightmarish travel stories where like

753
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Speaker 3: the plane doesn't show up or the bus breaks down,

754
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Speaker 3: or the radio guy's post games going too long and

755
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Speaker 3: you're just trying to never airport off after a tough

756
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Speaker 3: loss off the top of your head, or maybe even recruiting,

757
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Speaker 3: like a rental car was supposed to be there, it's not,

758
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Speaker 3: or the head coach didn't make it somewhere, or you

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Speaker 3: didn't fill it up, or you didn't fill up the

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Speaker 3: rental car and the write a story about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of different things. What do we know?

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Speaker 13: What?

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Speaker 3: What can you tell us about any travel nightmares?

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Speaker 4: Do any come to mind?

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Speaker 5: I mean everyone has been through it, has had you

766
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Speaker 5: know times where the you know, plane breaks down and

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Speaker 5: you you know, you're not there antill two or three

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Speaker 5: in the morning, or maybe you don't even get there

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Speaker 5: the day of People have had all that stuff happen.

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Speaker 5: What's funny is sometimes in those situations you end up

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Speaker 5: playing well, yeah, you know, for sure, I don't know

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Speaker 5: one that stands out.

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Speaker 4: My staff still laughs about with me.

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Speaker 5: At Colorado State we had the AAU tournament in Wichita, Kansas,

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Speaker 5: and uh, for whatever reason, I came and that they

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Speaker 5: were supposed to get a rental car and there was

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Speaker 5: none left, and so they got me one and I

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Speaker 5: ended up in one of those you know, remember got

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Speaker 5: what the dukes of hazard?

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Speaker 4: Like, what was the car they had?

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Speaker 5: It was like so I ended up with like this

782
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Speaker 5: back wheel drive, you know, old Dodge charge or whatever.

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Speaker 5: And I remember pulling up to this tournament in Wichita

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Speaker 5: and it was I mean, guys, I'm not tim It

785
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Speaker 5: was probably one hundred and four. It was one of

786
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 5: those just nasty humidity and you had to walk so far.

787
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 5: Sim well, we got there. It was a little bit late.

788
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Speaker 5: We get there and there was there was no parking left,

789
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Speaker 5: so we had to park like in this sand and

790
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Speaker 5: it ended up being like the outdoor volleyball sand pits.

791
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Speaker 5: So I go out there and go to the game,

792
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Speaker 5: go inside. There's no cell service in there, and one

793
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Speaker 5: of those you know, you walk in and you're just

794
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 5: you sweated through all your clothes by the time you

795
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Speaker 5: get in.

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Speaker 4: You watch him, you go and you try to leave.

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Speaker 5: Well, we get out of there and it's still just

798
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Speaker 5: smoldering hot and you try to start your car and

799
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Speaker 5: you can't get out and you're hitting the gas verse

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Speaker 5: in their sand just fricking going like you're.

801
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Speaker 4: Digging a hole.

802
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Speaker 5: I'm out there like this and I going back, I'm like,

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Speaker 5: oh my god, I can't get out. Pretty soon, We've

804
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Speaker 5: got a group of like three or four people trying

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Speaker 5: to push this car, hitting on the gas. I got

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Speaker 5: sand spitting up in my face. I'm full of this

807
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 5: or whatever. And I mean the coaches are just laughing,

808
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 5: you know, their ass off at or whatever. But we

809
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 5: couldn't take We had to end up getting thing towed

810
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Speaker 5: really yeah, out of the sand pit, you know what

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Speaker 5: I mean in there, And and I didn't yeah, I

812
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 5: didn't have a hotel yet, and I didn't have any cloth.

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00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 5: It was just yeah, I thought that's a great story.

814
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 5: But whatever that one like stands out that there's yeah,

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Speaker 5: I would.

816
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Speaker 2: Say Bow and Luke would not have had the car

817
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Speaker 2: get stuck.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh wow.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I remember as an assistant and

820
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 5: up up here too, we had lost and we were

821
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Speaker 5: playing and I was actually coming uh here to watch

822
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Speaker 5: the state tournament and then in the Wisconsin to watch

823
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Speaker 5: the state tournament. I remember I took a plane and

824
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Speaker 5: I had my bag checked or whatever. I think it

825
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 5: was coming from Madison here and it was on one

826
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Speaker 5: of those little things, so I carry on baggage I

827
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Speaker 5: and I. You know, you're just you're on the phone

828
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Speaker 5: like crazy. The plane lands, turn on my phone. I'm

829
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Speaker 5: back on the phone. I'm in the back of the

830
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 5: plane waiting to get off. I go, I get to

831
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Speaker 5: the rental car thing I'm driving, and all of a sudden,

832
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Speaker 5: I don't realize until that night I came back, I

833
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 5: left my luggage on the plane. Yeah, you know, I

834
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 5: was just so like right and the thing, and of

835
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 5: a sudden it didn't get not really, not until I

836
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Speaker 5: got back to the I'm like, oh my god. I

837
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Speaker 5: never even realized I left my luggage on the plane,

838
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Speaker 5: and so I didn't have any luggage for like two days.

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Speaker 4: It was not good.

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Speaker 3: That's part of the reason, even if it's a short flight,

841
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 3: I'll check my bag because I'm worried about the same thing.

842
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 3: Really I don't have that, I'm gonna forget it and

843
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 3: focused Obviously. My clothes are so important to me. I

844
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 3: dress so nice. Yes, all the time, I'm like.

845
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Speaker 2: Man, because sometimes if I bring it, sometimes I'll just

846
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 2: forget it because I'm so used to not having it.

847
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 5: I've left one before in the airport, you know, like

848
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 5: you have it with you and then you just get

849
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 5: caught up in phone calls and do whatever, and you're

850
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 5: bored in the plane.

851
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 4: You look around and it's like, oh my god.

852
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 5: Now that doesn't happen as much anymore because somebody will,

853
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 5: you know, they see you right away, they leave it bay.

854
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 4: But back then those days didn't matter.

855
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 5: It's like, oh my god, I left that thing three

856
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 5: concourses back, you know what I mean, at one of

857
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 5: the food courts or whatever.

858
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, so back to the first story, number one. Did

859
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 3: you get the play or you were recruiting in Wichita

860
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 3: that day? Do you remember if that it.

861
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 4: Was an AAU tournament. I don't even remember.

862
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 5: There's such a blurs, you know, like you try to

863
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 5: go to like six of them in a weekend, so

864
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 5: you can't even keep track of what's where, who's where.

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Speaker 2: I was the cell phone video a thing then, because

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Speaker 2: that would have been a hell.

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Speaker 4: Of a video.

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Speaker 5: No, it really wasn't. Is It really wasn't is good.

869
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 5: But I still gave my my ospers at the time.

870
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, I'm not a I'm not some picky

871
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 5: guy or whatever, but I'd prefer not to have the

872
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 5: Dodge charger.

873
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Speaker 2: See, I'm the other way I go in there could

874
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 2: be all kinds of great issue here.

875
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 4: There's a Dodge charger. You're going with it?

876
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 10: Now?

877
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 3: You remember when I ended up with one. I think

878
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 3: it was during COVID Grimmer. Yeah, you had one. I

879
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 3: pulled up to Illinois and someone left to know was

880
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 3: that you? It's a nice car.

881
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: I think I'm because I'm definitely not a Dodge charger.

882
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 5: For the record, I've got nothing against Dodge.

883
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 13: Yeah.

884
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michelle Trader h went cruising in Tara Hoad, Indiana

885
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago in my rental cars.

886
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 5: But guys charger him with the Dodge charger playing like

887
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 5: some Al Smith or whatever.

888
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 2: Is a great cruise in town if you've never been. Yeah,

889
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 2: you just never know nothing about So I didn't coaches

890
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 2: help you? Or was it just like fans?

891
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 5: So it was like fans I think who kind of

892
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 5: felt sorry for me. And I was so pissed off.

893
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 5: I'm just and I've got sand every I don't even

894
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 5: have the car out, and a couple of people are

895
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 5: trying to help me. And the harder we push, and

896
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 5: the more you hit the gas the deeper you did,

897
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 5: the more sands flying up everywhere.

898
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 4: It was a mess.

899
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 3: So who's the This could be any coach you know

900
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 3: that you've worked with for against, who's the head coach

901
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 3: most likely to help you in that situation if they

902
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 3: if they come walking by, and who might just walk

903
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 3: by and say good luck?

904
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 5: Nico oh Man, a lot of them would just say

905
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 5: good luck or sounds like yeah, a lot of them would. Well,

906
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,240
Speaker 5: let me I tell you one other story that was funny.

907
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 5: I think it was that same road trip or whatever.

908
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 5: I don't remember where we drove. There was another trip

909
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 5: and I remember I parked had the same car because

910
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 5: I drove it to the next event, trying to remember

911
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 5: it might even make the city whatever it can city.

912
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 5: And I drove and had to park, and I'm walking

913
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 5: down and you got to walk along ways and there's

914
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 5: this back gym where the coaches entrances.

915
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 4: And next thing you know, you see this big escalade

916
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 4: just drive up right to the entrance right away. How

917
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 4: is that?

918
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 8: No?

919
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 5: It was Patrick Ewing really yeah, dogtown whatever. He gets

920
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 5: out of the car whatever, and I'm like, all right,

921
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 5: that's the other end of the stay.

922
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, there we go.

923
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,280
Speaker 5: Like he still had the car service chauffeur like taking

924
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 5: him right to the front of the door and the

925
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 5: rest of us had to grind, you know, Dodge charger,

926
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 5: Dodge charger, walk half a mile through the game.

927
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: I see an endorsement deal and maybe some nil stuff

928
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: happening out of this conversation right now, it'd.

929
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 4: Be great, all right.

930
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 3: So, in terms of a travel nightmare, are you I

931
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 3: asked you to rate yourself a lot and make you

932
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 3: be self aware. It's the guy who sits in, you know,

933
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 3: the front of the bus and have to be told that, hey,

934
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Speaker 3: the plane's delayed or the bus isn't here, or the

935
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 3: food's not here. How would you grade yourself on handling

936
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 3: that situation? Like are you approachable? Do you have do

937
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,840
Speaker 3: you have to wait for the right moment? How do

938
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,479
Speaker 3: you handle bad news? I think I handled really well.

939
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 5: Actually, I think people would tell you that I handle

940
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 5: bad news or just you know, well, I have pretty

941
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 5: good perspective with all that stuff, you know what I mean.

942
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 5: We got it, We got it. We got it pretty

943
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 5: good here, you know. So it's not all bad.

944
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 4: Now. If it was something that we could have controlled,

945
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 4: that's different.

946
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 13: Right.

947
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 5: If there's something that we could have controlled and we

948
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 5: just didn't plan very well, that's different. But sin it

949
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 5: out of your control. Big deal flight delay? Oh god,

950
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,919
Speaker 5: we have to eat an hour later. Oh no, boy,

951
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 5: that's tough. Come on, you know what I mean. And

952
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 5: it's all about it's all about how you react to

953
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 5: those kind of things. And if you do that, your

954
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 5: your team buys into that too, for sure. No, I

955
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 5: I think I think I get myself a pretty good

956
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 5: grade with that stuff.

957
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 3: And if it's a delay, it's just an hour you

958
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 3: weren't expecting. You've got time right there to get more

959
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 3: stuff done.

960
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 5: There, you go watch a little bit more film, spend

961
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 5: a little bit more time talking to somebody or or

962
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 5: or whatever.

963
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, silver Linings, Yeah, yeah, there you go. All right.

964
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 2: That was an outstanding, long contested too. I I just

965
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 2: wish there was video of that. Of that, I'm really amazing.

966
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 5: I'm really glad there wasn't a video when I was

967
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 5: in college. No good would have been no good, Yeah,

968
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 5: no good. All right, I had my job. Maybe, I'm like, yeah,

969
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 5: I'm joking.

970
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 2: We'll take a break, we'll wrap it up when we

971
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 2: come back. We'll review the trip coming up starting on

972
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Speaker 2: Friday out to Washington in Oregon. Stay with us It's

973
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1015
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1017
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Speaker 4: Helping put the show together.

1018
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Speaker 2: Today, we want to thank them for all of their

1019
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 2: help before we get into Washington and Oregon. You mentioned

1020
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 2: today off for the players. Yesterday off really kind of

1021
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 2: the last recharge, so to speak, before you hit this

1022
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 2: final stretch. How important are days off at this time

1023
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 2: of the year.

1024
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 5: I think they're great. I think they're great for everybody.

1025
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 5: It's physically but also emotionally too. I think just to

1026
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 5: kind of get away for a second in recharge. Obviously,

1027
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 5: with our numbers it's critical, but even if we had depth,

1028
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 5: I may have considered doing the same thing. It's kind

1029
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 5: of the last stretch, right. We get these couple of

1030
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 5: days off, and then boy, the stretch runs going to

1031
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 5: hit fast. So yeah, we had Monday and Tuesday off

1032
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 5: and we'll get back to work here tomorrow.

1033
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 4: And what do you see from Washington?

1034
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 5: You know, I know coach Sprinkle obviously coached against him

1035
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 5: in the Mountain West when he was at Utah State.

1036
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 5: They've got a talented crew. They're big, physical. The young

1037
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 5: German kid they had as one of the best players

1038
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 5: in the conference. He's really really good. Zoom Diallo is

1039
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 5: a really good guard. We call him Big Frank, you know,

1040
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 5: Frank Kepna. He's like he's been there a thousand years.

1041
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 5: Played against him at Washington when I was there twice,

1042
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 5: you know whatever, at Colorado State, and so he's still there.

1043
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 5: He's a big athletic shop blocker, and you know, hey,

1044
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 5: they're they're right with us in the standings. They've been

1045
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 5: right there in some of these games too. They played

1046
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 5: the one of the tougher schedules in the Big Ten.

1047
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 5: But you know how it is, it's gonna be hard

1048
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 5: to win anywhere on the road.

1049
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 3: What's unique about this trip, it's it's everybody kind of

1050
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 3: points to it. As you're going out to the Pacific

1051
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 3: North Wye. Everybody knows, Okay, you're gonna be on the

1052
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 3: road for a while. It's not just popping over to

1053
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 3: Iowa City or Madison. I think that that is the

1054
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 3: unique part of it.

1055
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 5: Usually we're just in and out right, you know, you

1056
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 5: charter in, you're out right after the game, so get

1057
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 5: to be on the road for for five days. I

1058
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 5: think that's you is kind of like an NBA, you know,

1059
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 5: West Coast Swing. I think there's opportunities in that, you know,

1060
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 5: for your guys to spend more time together. For me personally,

1061
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 5: last time I was in Seattle was kind of an

1062
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 5: interesting time and yeah what happened. Yeah, we're in the

1063
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 5: NCAA tournament in Seattle out there, and obviously was yeah,

1064
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 5: this job going on. We were, you know, just a

1065
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 5: breath away from going to the Sweet sixteen, and so

1066
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 5: it'll be interesting to be.

1067
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Speaker 4: Back out in that city. And then you mentioned the

1068
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 4: nature of the trip.

1069
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Speaker 2: You stay in Seattle and then it's off to Oregon,

1070
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 2: and you know, I know you're dialed in on the

1071
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 2: Huskies right now. But Oregon it looks like they're you know,

1072
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 2: they were picked to be a really good team and

1073
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 2: then they had injuries like others, and it looks like

1074
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 2: they're maybe getting healthy just in time to see the

1075
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Speaker 2: Golden Golfer.

1076
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Speaker 4: Isn't that funny how that works?

1077
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 5: So boy, I mean, I thought they had Purdue beat

1078
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 5: at Purdue looked like they did, but They've got Nate biddleback,

1079
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 5: you know, who was a preseason All League you know,

1080
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 5: big kids. So he's finally back, and obviously he's such

1081
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,479
Speaker 5: a difference maker for their team, so he'll be back.

1082
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 5: And you know, Dane Altman always finds a way to

1083
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 5: get the most out of his team. So they're a

1084
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 5: different club than they were a couple of weeks ago.

1085
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 2: I always ask you this, maybe you get annoyed by

1086
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 2: because I don't know the answers get annoyed you sure

1087
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Speaker 2: you don't, Sure you don't Danny sprinkling Dana Altman through

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Speaker 2: the you know, course of whether you're in Topeka when

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Speaker 2: it's one hundred and five recruiting seeing guys, do you

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Speaker 2: you know how well do you know either of those guys?

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Speaker 5: Well, I got to know Danny again, like he was

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00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 5: a young guy, you know, coming up in the business,

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00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 5: so out west, so I'm familiar with him. Obviously coached

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00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 5: against him, you know, in the Mountain West, so you know,

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00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 5: familiar with him and what he does. Dane is just

1096
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 5: a guy I've admired forever. And if you know the story,

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00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 5: I mean some of the offensive stuff we do when

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00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 5: I was an assistant and watching his Creighton teams play

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00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 5: when they had Kyle Korver and kind of that system

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00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 5: that they ran with something I just met. I thought,

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00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 5: this is really really cool, and ever get an opportunity,

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Speaker 5: especially at a you know, I was at a place

1103
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 5: like Furman, which was a smaller version of like a

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00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,160
Speaker 5: Creighton that that could be successful. So I'm watching his

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00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 5: team's play when I was a young aspiring coaches was

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00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 5: actually something that really kind of inspired me on offense.

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Speaker 5: And you know, he's a he's a Hall of Fame

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00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 5: level guy. I mean, if you follow his career, how

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00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 5: many games he's won, and he always finds a way,

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Speaker 5: like you said, to get the most out of his teams.

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Speaker 3: All in our final couple of minutes for people to

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Speaker 3: tune in on Sunday and saw that your players jerseys

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00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 3: had last names that were not their own.

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Speaker 4: Remind people what that was all about on Sunday. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Skyu mos strong.

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Speaker 5: It's an event initiative we took from Colorado State. You know,

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00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 5: we partnered with the Masonic Children's Hospital here and it's

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Speaker 5: an opportunity we take fifteen you know, patients who are fighting,

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00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 5: you know, a battle a lot bigger than we're fighting

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Speaker 5: here when we're playing Maryland or Oregon or whoever. And

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00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 5: every one of those players you know, gets to sponsor,

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00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 5: you know, a sponsor a child and their family, and

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00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 5: we get an opportunity obviously to learn about their stories,

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00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 5: you know, personally, they get to learn about us. They

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Speaker 5: come over and spend time with us at pract and

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00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 5: really try to develop a personal connection.

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Speaker 4: They were obviously all at the game.

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Speaker 5: We did a really nice event before the game for them,

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Speaker 5: and then you know after the game too, you know,

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Speaker 5: they get jerseys, we take pictures with them, and it's

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00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 5: just really a cool way for us to hopefully helped

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Speaker 5: to have an impact in our local community. And like

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Speaker 5: I always tell our players and them, the impact it

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00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 5: has on us is even is bigger. And so I

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00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 5: know in Colorado, a lot of these families and people

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00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 5: really developed kind of lifelong relationships with some of our guys.

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00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 5: And so it's our first year doing it, and I

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00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 5: thought was really interesting about it too, is you know,

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00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 5: really hard loss on Sunday, but every one of those

1140
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 5: players after the game, you know, went up there and

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00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 5: spent probably forty five minutes or more with every one

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00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 5: of those families and kids, even after that, and that's

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00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 5: what it's about, so much bigger than a win or

1144
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 5: a loss, and just to hopefully see the smiles on

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00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 5: their faces and all that was was really really cool.

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00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 5: So this's the first year that initiative and hopefully one

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00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 5: our community is going to continue to enjoy.

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Speaker 4: Do the jerseys and go to the to the kids.

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00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I can't even keep steck of everything

1150
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 5: that they do get you know that that way. But

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00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 5: the biggest thing is it's just having that that connection

1152
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 5: you know that they have, you know, with us, and

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00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 5: our players do such a good job of that too.

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00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:21,439
Speaker 5: And again what you realize is is they get more

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00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 5: just as much out of it than than the patients do.

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Speaker 4: And their families.

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Speaker 2: We were on the air when those guys came back

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00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 2: out and those families were just you know, it's a

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00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 2: tough loss, like you say, but man, those families you

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00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 2: could just tell they were taking pictures getting you know,

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Speaker 2: basketball's autographed, all.

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Speaker 4: Kinds of school so effective, cool stuff. All right, very good.

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Speaker 2: We will let chat with you on Saturday night and

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Speaker 2: see it sounds good. See there, I'll go for Syria's

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Speaker 2: Nico Medvet along with Justin guard I Mike Grim, thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us. This has been go for Basketball Weekly

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Speaker 2: with Nico Medvet from their field