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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what it's helping out progress from forward,

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Speaker 1: I feel like Kyle makes phenomenal plays. He really does.

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Speaker 1: He does everything extraordinary and that's something that UM, we

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Speaker 1: So when he's in the game, he's our playmaker. Yes,

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