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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut in the world.

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Speaker 2: Of twenty four hour NBA News.

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Speaker 3: This's you, Chris Haynes.

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Speaker 1: It's so time, Mark Stein, It's so time.

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Speaker 3: This League Uncut is underway and on fire.

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Speaker 4: This should be a good one.

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Speaker 2: Friends, Welcome in to an early September edition of this

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Speaker 2: League Uncut. Mark Stein here with Chris Haynes. We kind

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Speaker 2: of tease this one. We didn't want to give too

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Speaker 2: much away because I get superstitious sometimes and I don't

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Speaker 2: want to I don't want to take take a guest

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Speaker 2: booking for granted, But we did it. We have secured

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Speaker 2: a special guest for this edition of this League Uncut.

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Speaker 2: And it's especially timely because our guest is Day Jae

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Speaker 2: is coaching the Los Angeles Clippers, but he is a

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Speaker 2: member of USA Basketball's coaching staff. At the Feeble World Cup.

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Speaker 2: It is Monday morning, Manila time, the morning after the

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Speaker 2: United States incurs its first loss at this World Cup

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Speaker 2: Sunday night in Manila, Sunday daytime in the United States,

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Speaker 2: Team USA losing one ten, one oh four to Lithuania.

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Speaker 2: But when Taran Lou makes a date, he keeps the

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Speaker 2: date and he joins US now again live from Team

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Speaker 2: USA camp in Manila. Coach, it is so good to

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Speaker 2: be with you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 5: I am.

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Speaker 2: I guess what what's the strategy coaching staff wise to

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Speaker 2: kind of what's going to be the messaging to the

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Speaker 2: team today after obviously a result that you guys were

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Speaker 2: not expecting, just.

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Speaker 6: Having a good film session, you know, just seeing the

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Speaker 6: the speed and the force that they play with offensively,

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Speaker 6: which we talked about, you know, going into the game

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Speaker 6: and you really can't, you know, simulate until you actually

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Speaker 6: so they've been leading the FEBA game offensive rebounds. We

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Speaker 6: tell how important that was going to be, but coming

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Speaker 6: out making their first nine threes, you know, it really

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Speaker 1: Coach, were also want to ask about those threes you

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Speaker 1: talked about the offensive rebounding and the three pointers made.

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Speaker 3: Obviously they will in the tear there.

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Speaker 1: You know, oftentimes when there's a team that is just

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Speaker 1: expected to pretty much be the team that's targeted every

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Speaker 1: now and then there's a setback, or you might call

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Speaker 1: the setback or whatever, but oftentimes people will say, well

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Speaker 1: they needed that, you know, is that is that kind

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Speaker 1: of the alignment that you kind of think about, you know,

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Speaker 1: after after that loss, you say, is that something that

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Speaker 1: was needed or how do you process that?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think.

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Speaker 6: I think it's better to learn from from winning, you know,

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Speaker 6: than it is you know, just seeing the second half

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Speaker 6: how we competed. We made some adjustments and just kind

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Speaker 6: of seeing like how we had to play them and

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Speaker 6: what we had to do.

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Speaker 4: And our guys are a great job of fighting back.

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Speaker 6: When you get down by so much, you know, any mistake,

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Speaker 6: you know, can you know spring the lead back up again.

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Speaker 6: And so that's what happened because I think for four

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Speaker 4: But you know, our team, like I said, they've been great.

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Speaker 6: They've been preparing and to put a team together for

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Speaker 6: three or four weeks, you know, expecting to be great.

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Speaker 4: You know right away then you know it's gonna be

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Speaker 4: tough to do.

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Speaker 6: And so our whole mindset coming into our coaching staff

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Speaker 4: And so we still have the opportunity.

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Speaker 6: Yesterday, it was a tough game for it when we

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Speaker 2: I mean, Lithuania had eighteen offensive rebounds, and I think

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Speaker 2: everybody knew going into this tournament that rebounding would be

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Speaker 2: an issue for the United States just because you don't

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's I think it's fair to say it's

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Speaker 2: become a bit of a pattern at this point. How

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about just you know, getting off the

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Speaker 6: like I said, we have a target on our back

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Speaker 4: With the mindset. We're going to start the game with

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Speaker 6: We're going to play the right way, and we've been

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Speaker 6: So last night was a good test for us. We

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Speaker 6: like they've made a lot of threes. They got to

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Speaker 6: the paint, the pick and role play was really good.

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Speaker 6: So you know, coming into the game tomorrow, you know,

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Speaker 1: At coach of of all the coaches on the on

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Speaker 1: your coaching staff right now, I look at this this

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Speaker 1: roster and how it's constructed, and obviously these are star players.

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Speaker 1: Borderline star players are on the cuffs of being star players,

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Speaker 1: and you have to try to distribute the minutes however

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Speaker 1: of these guys they have they have egos, they want

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Speaker 1: coaching staff because you you have to deal with a

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Speaker 1: pretty deep light up, a pretty deep squad with the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: how have you had to what was what has the

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Speaker 1: conversations been like with some of the players who may

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Speaker 1: feel like they're not getting enough time or won a

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Speaker 1: different role, Like what's the conversation, How how you had

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Speaker 1: those conversations and how as your time with the Clippers

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Speaker 1: helped in having those conversations.

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think with our players that we

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Speaker 4: But they've been great, you know, and all twelve guys

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Speaker 6: Us a tough position to be put in, but they

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Speaker 6: understand that we're just trying to do what's best for

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Speaker 6: the team. They're gonna have their opportunity that you got

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Speaker 6: to stay ready and our biggest and main main goals

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Speaker 6: to bring home the goal. And so our guys we

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Speaker 6: great job of just selecting guys that we're gonna be

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Speaker 6: on board with, you know, just winning. And so that's

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Speaker 6: what we're focused on. That's what our twelve players are

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Speaker 6: never know when they're gonna come, but they're gonna come,

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Speaker 6: and they've been putting in the work, you know, And

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Speaker 6: like I said, all twelve guys are ever to play,

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Speaker 2: Clippers coach t Roan Lou joining us here on this

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Speaker 2: league uncut, joining us from Manila because this summer to

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Speaker 2: Roan Lou is a member of Steve Kerr's coaching staff

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Speaker 2: alongside Eric Spolstra, alongside Mark Few and that staff as

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Speaker 2: we speak dealing with Team USA's first dose of adversity

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Speaker 2: Sunday a loss to Lithuania to complete the preliminary rounds.

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Speaker 2: The United States now has to rebound Tuesday quarterfinals against Italy.

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Speaker 2: It is knockout time. There is no more room for

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Speaker 2: any kind of losing if the United States hopes to

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Speaker 2: win a gold medal, something it hasn't done in this

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Speaker 2: competition since twenty fourteen. Ty, how shaken do you think

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Speaker 2: the guys were by losing a game? From what you've

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Speaker 2: seen and interacting with the guys after the game and today,

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Speaker 2: how do you think they cope? They're coping with it.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't think it was shaken any more.

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Speaker 6: Pissed off you know about the way we played, how

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Speaker 6: we didn't establish a defensive presence to start the game,

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Speaker 6: and you know, and you should be pissed off. And

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Speaker 6: so you know, they're not shaking at all, Like their

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Speaker 6: conference is not shaken. It's just that, you know, we

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Speaker 6: knew we could play better. We didn't play our best game,

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Speaker 6: and so that the way they took it to us,

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Speaker 6: they were aggressive. They was a more aggressive team and

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Speaker 6: then they won. And so our guys know, we got

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Speaker 6: to come back and regroup, but we're not shaking it all.

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Speaker 1: Coach, Can you take us behind the scenes a little

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Speaker 1: like that that that leaves you to be encouraged The.

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Speaker 6: Way we played in the second half, you know, I think,

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Speaker 6: you know, being down seventeen, I think we're down twenty

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Speaker 6: one at one point, but being down seventeen a halftime

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Speaker 6: and cut the lead to you know four in a

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Speaker 6: that's something to be encouraged by. And like, you know,

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Speaker 6: be able to make adjustments on the fly, and then

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Speaker 6: just seeing our teams fight, you know, and our will

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Speaker 6: to win and so on. The way we played in

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Speaker 6: that second half was great. You know, we knew it.

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Speaker 6: You know, it was a preliminary game and we still

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Speaker 6: had a chance to play for the gold and guys

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Speaker 6: could just meld it in. But that's not our team's mentality,

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Speaker 6: that's not our coaching attach mentality. And so they came

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Speaker 6: and we just still came up short, we did to

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Speaker 6: do some good things.

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Speaker 2: What's it like just being with these coaches? I think

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Speaker 2: there are seven championship rings among you and Spoe and

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Speaker 2: Steve and obviously Mark feu has seen it all in

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Speaker 2: the college game. You guys must have some pretty interesting meetings.

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Speaker 2: What kind of glimpse of that can you share with

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's been great for me, you know,

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Speaker 6: being the youngest side of you know, a whole coaching staff,

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Speaker 6: and even started back in Vegas when we had Matt Painter,

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Speaker 6: we had Jim Boyling, we had Jamal Mosley, you know,

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Speaker 6: Jeff Van Gundy has been with us the whole way.

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Speaker 6: And then, like you said, with Mark fugh and and

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Speaker 6: Spoe and Steve, just learning and just you know, basketball

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Speaker 4: And you know, I'm just trying to learn every way

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Speaker 4: I can.

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Speaker 6: I said, I'm a young coach in the game and

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Speaker 6: ath that can pick up here and there to be better.

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Speaker 4: I want to be better, And they taught me a lot.

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Speaker 6: At least four weeks have really, you know, taught me

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Speaker 6: a lot and helped me understand a lot of different situations.

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Speaker 6: How you know, they handle different situations as well, And

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Speaker 6: so I just want to keep learning, you know, keep

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Speaker 6: I want to thank Grant and Steve and shan Ford

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Speaker 6: and those guys again forgive me the opportunity because it

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Speaker 6: really has, you know, enhanced my coaching, and I want

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Speaker 6: to continue to keep getting better.

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Speaker 2: Everyone says that the FEBA game is so much different

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Speaker 2: than the NBA game. Can how would you kind of

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Speaker 2: describe the difference or quantify the difference just in your

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Speaker 2: to you about what makes it so different?

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Speaker 6: Well, one is the physicality, you know, I think the

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Speaker 6: What I've seen, learning what I've learned from, Like I said, Spoe,

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Speaker 6: And so I think, you know, every year, you got

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Speaker 1: Hey, Coach Lou, I have to ask you this follow

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Speaker 1: When I I told this individual, I'm not gonna name

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Speaker 6: so now when you look at our rosters in the

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Speaker 6: young guys. You know, your oldest Galan team could be

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Speaker 6: You know, they have a lot of money, but they

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Speaker 6: don't understand like those next steps becoming a man, you know,

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Speaker 6: and so teaching you how to work hard on the

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Speaker 6: And so we always, you know, when I came in

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Speaker 6: veteran guys that taught us and showed us the way.

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Speaker 6: And so we've lost, you know a little bit of that,

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Speaker 6: you know, in our league, and every team's not fortunate

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Speaker 6: to have a you know, Donna's has them, you know,

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Speaker 6: guys like that that has been around for a long time,

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Speaker 6: but also can check the young guys, get them in place,

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Speaker 6: tell them what it's supposed to look like and how

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Speaker 6: it's supposed to be. And so we're you know, we're

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Speaker 6: missing that. And so I wouldn't say a lack of professionalism.

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Speaker 6: I think a lack of mentorship, you know, older guys

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Speaker 6: we have a lot of talent. You know, it's a

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Speaker 6: lot of talent in this league, and our young players

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Speaker 6: are unbelievable. But I just think, you know, having some

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Speaker 6: veteran guys in the locker room to show these young

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Speaker 2: I do not want to upset Renee Felton from USA Basketball,

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Speaker 2: because I know you have a meeting to run to

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Speaker 2: in mere minutes. So one last quick question and then

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Speaker 2: we will let you go. I promise. Just in general,

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Speaker 2: you're you're coaching, You're part of a coaching staff on

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Speaker 2: a team that is never allowed to lose. When you

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Speaker 2: guys lose, it is an international incident. It's huge news.

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Speaker 2: What has that been, like, just dealing with that pressure

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Speaker 2: that you guys are never supposed to lose.

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Speaker 5: Well, we've all dealt with that, you know. I think

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Speaker 5: Mark Fus dealt with exposed, dealt with it. I've dealt

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Speaker 5: with it with Lebron. Steve's dealt with it, you know,

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Speaker 5: a by winning four championships. So we've all been a

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Speaker 5: part of that.

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Speaker 6: And so I think the biggest thing is just you know,

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Speaker 6: making sure that we stay calm, making sure that we

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Speaker 6: you know, show the positivity to this young team.

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Speaker 4: And like I said, we're not shaking.

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Speaker 6: And if you, like I always said, if you don't

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Speaker 6: have the pressures of winning every single night and having

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Speaker 6: the pressures on your shoulder, then you don't have a

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Speaker 6: chance to win. And so we understand that pressure. We

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Speaker 6: want that pressure, and I think we're gonna be great.

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Speaker 2: Clippers coach Taran Lou in Manila, part of Team USA's

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Speaker 2: coaching staff heading into the quarterfinals against Italy. Coach, thanks

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Speaker 2: A mil for doing this.

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Speaker 3: Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your coach. I got my T n T schedule.

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Speaker 1: I got a ton of Clipper games on the schedule,

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Speaker 1: A ton.

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Speaker 4: Okay, sorry, I can handle it. I can handle it.

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Speaker 3: I love the Clipper guys.

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Speaker 2: This is your this is your training camp for those games.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: Coach Little you take care brother. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Good good luck for the rest of the tournament.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Amil, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: And that'll do it for us, see you next time.

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Speaker 2: This league and cuttage and iHeartRadio production.

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Speaker 4: Christine and Mark Stein.

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Speaker 1: Eight.

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Speaker 4: I didn't