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Speaker 1: when you have as many players as you have and

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Speaker 1: you and the staff spend every night charting how many

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Speaker 1: I work on the backwards first. The question was you

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Speaker 1: and that'll take place tomorrow and Sunday. And then during

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Speaker 1: practice in the evenings we do chart who's wear and

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Speaker 1: things well, because it's not just you look at the

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Speaker 1: looking to see this a role that we can feature

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Speaker 1: now that you get into like one on ones and

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Speaker 1: it's okay, that's a real strength of Cox. I knew

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Speaker 1: you also need to see it and so finding some

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Speaker 1: The thing that all young players need, you know what

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Speaker 1: Just there's nothing like playing important. Is the Hall of

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