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Speaker 1: All right, So another NBA season upon us is upon us.

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Speaker 1: The season kicks off next week. You guys are home

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Speaker 1: against the Cavs. Where is your where's your head.

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Speaker 2: At going into the season. How do you guys feel?

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Speaker 2: I'm excited. I'm excited. Something completely new. It's a new

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Speaker 2: journey for us to be on. It should be fun.

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Speaker 2: And I'm excited about obviously our auditions and both of

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Speaker 2: the coaches and players on our team. But uh, I

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Speaker 2: think we have a long way to go to be

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Speaker 2: back to where we want to be. And I actually

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Speaker 2: like that because it's it's like a new focus for us.

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Speaker 2: We're not like jumping back into where we were last year.

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Speaker 2: It's like a whole new journey and like it's it's

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Speaker 2: really easy. But all right, let's get back to the

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Speaker 2: conference finals. And that's just that's just that's our goal.

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Speaker 2: That's our goal. You know, our goal is to get

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Speaker 2: better every single day, especially with this new regime, these

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Speaker 2: new schemes, new everything. So it's like sort of like

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Speaker 2: a whole reset.

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Speaker 3: It's a good answer saying mad, No, I mean, I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm cool.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's excited.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, you heard your first Josh Hart is cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be kind of like what what JB said.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, when you have a change in in coaches, obviously

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Speaker 3: there's there's a to start the season. Some it's like,

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Speaker 3: you know, a big excitement of like, Okay, how how

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Speaker 3: does this or the philosophy kind of translate into you know,

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Speaker 3: actual gameplay and you know when it matters. Obviously you

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Speaker 3: have preseason, but you know it's preseason.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: Excited to see how that works out, and then to

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Speaker 3: see the the strides that we make offensively and defensively,

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Speaker 3: you know, like JB said, with the different principles and

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Speaker 3: those kinds of things. So you know, obviously we want

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Speaker 3: Game eighty two to look totally different the game Game one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, and I think that's going to be the beauty

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Speaker 3: of having so many different pieces is we can really,

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Speaker 3: learn from each other. And you know, we're extremely excited

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Speaker 3: excited what the team looks like now and what the

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Speaker 3: think everyone's in a good mental space right now too,

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Speaker 3: you know, to to have fun and make some noise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk a lot about playing for the Knicks

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Speaker 1: and the attention and the excitement from the fans and

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Speaker 1: just the meet and everything. I feel like we find

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Speaker 1: ourselves during these like opening pods at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the season every year where it's like I'm asking you guys, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how do you balance you know, dealing with Knicks fans

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Speaker 1: saying this is our year with obviously knowing like what

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Speaker 1: you guys have the task at hand. It feels like

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Speaker 1: this year. I know again we literally state this every year,

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Speaker 1: but it feels like this year more than ever. Knicks

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Speaker 1: fans are like, it's our year, whether it's for the

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Speaker 1: going to the season balancing that like it's our year

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Speaker 2: I mean personally, like I love our fans, but my

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Speaker 2: my mindset is like tunnel vision, Like no matter what said,

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Speaker 2: turn a blind eye to it. No, your mind doesn't

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Speaker 2: work that way. You're gonna you're gonna see it. You're

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Speaker 2: So I think for me, like I just don't listen

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Speaker 2: So I love our fans, I love how they expect

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Speaker 3: For me obviously that I mean being a nick like

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Speaker 3: You know, we're at the point right now or according

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Speaker 3: And I think when you do that, it's kind of like,

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Speaker 3: You know, when you have a bad game in this

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Speaker 3: have as much fun as they can. You know, Knicks

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Speaker 3: because they they under everything, they always have passion for

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Speaker 1: I know, or only a few practices in and two

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Speaker 1: games in and Abu Dhabi, but what are something like

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Speaker 1: your early thoughts around the culture that coach Brown is

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Speaker 1: instelling in terms of what every what every day looks like.

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Speaker 1: But then also you know schemes wise and the type

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Speaker 1: are you guys feeling about all that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think everyone feels extremely confident

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Speaker 3: because his philosophy is a lot of at least right now.

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Speaker 3: You know, we haven't really gotten into too much of

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Speaker 3: But the the fast paced offense that we had that

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Speaker 3: You know, when guys are moving the ball, you know,

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Speaker 4: You know, we don't have that on our team.

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Speaker 3: So the the the new philosophy is good and it's refreshing.

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Speaker 4: Okay, do you have any thoughts? Okay? That was good?

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Speaker 1: All right? JB. You I haven't seen in a minute,

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Speaker 1: but he walked on the set a little, a little slimmer, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how many little heavier? You're not wrong, that's tough, that's

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Speaker 1: tough to hear. I think I might have took some

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Speaker 1: of what he lost. Excuse me? What he lost? He

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Speaker 4: What he lost is crazy?

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Speaker 1: I mean, how much way did you lose? Enough? Same

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Speaker 1: same for what I gained? What was behind that though?

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to play faster, like fit within the

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Speaker 4: While do you want to go faster? Fit better? What?

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Speaker 2: What was behind the decision to lose a few pounds?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you always find a ways to make yourself better.

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Speaker 2: I felt like it was No, I just felt like

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Speaker 2: it would help you always find a way to make

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Speaker 2: yourself better.

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Speaker 1: So still a big body Bruntson? Though I'd never give

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Speaker 1: myself that name. So is he still big body Brunton?

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Speaker 1: I guess technically he would be a little body Brinton.

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Speaker 1: He lost weight, he said he got stronger.

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Speaker 4: Though. I can't really tell you have any goals this year.

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Speaker 4: I know you know you have.

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Speaker 2: Goals, my individual goals or for me, for me only,

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Speaker 2: and they've always have been.

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Speaker 1: Ali who not even Ali doesn't even know.

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Speaker 4: Your wife?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, she doesn't now, Okay, she doesn't now mm

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Speaker 2: hmm my goals. I truly think that to be the

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Speaker 4: Oh no, I take a damn goal.

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Speaker 2: No, No, I'm not telling my goals because I don't

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Speaker 2: like saying my goals. I never do. But like I think,

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Speaker 2: as long as we keep winning, those girls, those goals

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Speaker 2: I'll get, I'll get the cross off, winning jumps everything.

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Speaker 2: I don't see my goals publicly, never what.

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Speaker 4: My goal.

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Speaker 3: My goals gives back, right honestly, as long as we

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Speaker 3: keep winning, like my goals are going to be achieved,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's all that really matters there.

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Speaker 1: I saw a few odds for six manut of the

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Speaker 1: Year and you're actually you're up there. You're like plus

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Speaker 1: eighteen hundred for one. It was six year in college too,

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Speaker 1: that was once yeah onemore year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So I don't I mean, I don't care.

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Speaker 3: I mean I would care more if like to like

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Speaker 3: Like you stop saying that, brother, it's curtains for me.

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Speaker 2: I know it's curtains, but like you're gonna keep saying

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Speaker 2: five years and then like just stop saying it. I

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Speaker 4: The five like I'm not gonna like I'm.

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Speaker 3: Not gonna put the trophy and like a trophy or

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Speaker 3: even don't know if I'm going to have like any jerseys.

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Speaker 1: Like trophy room or nah jersey room, Nah trophy room

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Speaker 1: for what I realized home office's with the jersey in there?

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Speaker 3: Maybe I don't think so do you have a home

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Speaker 1: He's working towards it. Yeah, okay, he's all right me

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