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Speaker 1: the easiest ways to measure improvement? Statistically? Obviously this year

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Speaker 1: do you personally evaluate things that you're improving in in

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Speaker 1: obviously you get a chance to evaluate halfway through the

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Speaker 1: of times there's some false rallies there. But you know

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Speaker 1: that's also stuff that you can look at, Hey, for

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Speaker 1: every team does that, I'm sure in some capacity. And um,

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Speaker 1: And I know I missed three weeks, but I think

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Speaker 1: I'm better now that I was in July. This. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And each week you want to assess what you can

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Speaker 1: The more that we all see it as the same,

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Speaker 1: we need to do better. Yeah, I think a lot

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Speaker 1: And as a player, it's what can I do better

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Speaker 1: like this today at practice, and we did some good

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Speaker 1: you'll never see everything. It's just you don't have enough

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Speaker 1: better no matter what's called. And we've done a good

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Speaker 1: I said, I don't do my reads ride or someone

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Speaker 1: wonder if is there any chance you guys have simplified

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Speaker 1: just give credit where credits due. And obviously we want

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Speaker 1: to fix anything that we're giving away, But at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, we got plenty and we just

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Speaker 1: need to do better. Do you have the ability to

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Speaker 1: Can you make a last minute change? It just depends.

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