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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because I believe that your

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Speaker 1: Just obviously creating a schedule for yourself, hitting the ground

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I met with everyone knows, I got two little

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Speaker 1: She wasn't healthy, came back off injury. Let's see what

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Speaker 4: So that's the biggest thing is just continuing to try

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Speaker 2: And this is in my final form.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, I, oh, you got so much more

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Speaker 1: I remember when this motherfucker first came to Florida. Him

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Speaker 2: He had it. He was a real gym rat. Remember

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Speaker 2: we talked about having fake Jim rats. No, In fact,

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Speaker 1: The first person that I saw that was a real

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Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, I follow them boys on Instagram a little bit,

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Speaker 1: He's been humbled by his growth process. You know what

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Speaker 1: But it has not been easy. It has not been easy.

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Speaker 1: I watched him play pick and roll for thirty minutes,

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Speaker 1: I watched that process. Some people can't do it. It's not easy.

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Speaker 3: White boys can't guard nobody. That was That was definitely

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Speaker 2: Exactly was it of a discouragion? Was it ever? Was

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Speaker 1: Just every day just coming in And I know because

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Speaker 4: Wouldn't say the work was discouraging. But I think when

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Speaker 4: It's like, I'm not really worried about where like.

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Speaker 4: And you know, if you're putting the work and you

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Speaker 2: Love that, love that. I just had to be honest.

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Speaker 1: He was being a little humble, but he been through

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Speaker 2: We've been through the grounded for sure. We've been working

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Speaker 3: Me ask you something I pulled. I just pulled up

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Speaker 3: something here, and I want to make sure I'm right

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Speaker 3: making music with Kendrick Nunn made music.

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Speaker 2: Maybe ghats made music. I missed that. I ain't getting

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Speaker 2: where'd you pull that up? At coach?

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Speaker 3: I'm Antenna's out now? I got the years of the street.

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Speaker 1: Those was the baby goats we had back in the day.

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Speaker 2: But I ain't know they made a goddamn music video. No,

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Speaker 2: we ain't making music. Was wrapping and tapping and we

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Speaker 4: Came and had me, Uh, he had me wrapping in

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Speaker 1: That's crazy and I ain't getting pull up big old

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Speaker 1: don't think I forgot too motherfuckers. Y'all want to show

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Speaker 1: I like to pull up lips randomly and crack jokests.

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Speaker 3: Put that live.

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Speaker 1: Again, everybody, let that pull up the clips and crack jokes.

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Speaker 3: Show the show the good one. Definitely show the good,

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Speaker 3: but show the other one again to that damn kill.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then show Mike and his badass back his last game.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do. We got fifteen minutes to

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Speaker 2: He's still hit like six threes. He did his six

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