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Speaker 1: This is kJ Live with Chris Johnson. Allen and Chris

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Speaker 1: is having conversations with influencers in the sports world and

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Speaker 1: entertainment in a strain. Now here's Chris Johnson. You're now

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Speaker 1: tuned in to kJ Live. Today's guest on the show

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Speaker 1: was the u c l A All America, responsible for

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest shots in the history of that

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Speaker 1: basketball program, also played in the NBA and overseas. We

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Speaker 1: have none other than Mr four point eight himself. Ti

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Speaker 1: Us Edney is in the building. Tie, is how you doing,

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Speaker 1: my man? What's going on? Oh? Everything? Man? It's Mark Madness.

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Speaker 1: Our Bruins are in Philly. We're in the sweet six.

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Speaker 1: T Let's talk about that. Man. How are you excited?

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Speaker 1: Are you excited during this time of the year, especially

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Speaker 1: for your team? I know that sounds like a dumb question,

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Speaker 1: but I need to hear you say it, my brother.

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Speaker 1: You know this time of year as well as I do,

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Speaker 1: is like, uh, you know, you get the US. It's

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Speaker 1: like it's no better time of the year, you know it? Yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's like chills through my body. Man. But

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Speaker 1: when we watch our brains and and just how they

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Speaker 1: compete and the job that Mick Cronin has done. What

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Speaker 1: do you think? What does it mean? The grit is

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Speaker 1: what stands out the most for this team. You always

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Speaker 1: feel like they have a shot no matter what. Speak

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Speaker 1: a little bit about coach Cronin and about this year's team, Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're just you know, they had a little bit of

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Speaker 1: up some you know, it was different this year. They

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Speaker 1: had the target on their back this year. Last year

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Speaker 1: they kind of think snuck up on everyone. But this

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Speaker 1: year everybody knew. You know, they're all coming back. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be good. Um and I think that you know, coach,

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Speaker 1: the staff, the guys really stepped up this year and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, took on that challenge and now they're they're back.

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Speaker 1: They're back. In the conversation, you know, they had a

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Speaker 1: little drop, but um, as you can see, I feel

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Speaker 1: like they're healthy. Never they're healthy, they're gonna be in games.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, like they just have a toughness about

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Speaker 1: a grid. I think like Himie is is key for

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Speaker 1: them and that and and obviously Tiger and you know

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Speaker 1: those guys are just like steady, the steady ones, and

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Speaker 1: you know they're gonna be there and they're gonna be competing. Um,

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah, they're just fun to watch. I mean

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Speaker 1: I think I think everyone roots for him because they're

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Speaker 1: they're never out of it, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: Like in a way, Yeah, and they never stopped fighting. Um.

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Speaker 1: They just you know, no matter you know, how many

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Speaker 1: bad plays in the row have been, no matter how

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Speaker 1: many misshots we have or or how much frustration that

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Speaker 1: kind of takes you over as a fan watching, you

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Speaker 1: always have a feeling in the back of your head,

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Speaker 1: in the bottom of your heart, like, no, I gotta

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Speaker 1: keep rocking with these guys because you know they've they've

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Speaker 1: proven me wrong before and I don't know, I will

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Speaker 1: never not believe in this crew a game. And I

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Speaker 1: think that a lot of that has to do with

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Speaker 1: coach Cronin and his staff. I don't think they get

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Speaker 1: enough credit for for the attitude and the DNA that

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Speaker 1: they've sort of replaced and put back into this culture.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's a different it's a

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Speaker 1: different type of DNA. I mean, if you look at

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Speaker 1: you know, U c l A Men's basketball and Twitter

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Speaker 1: I G. And they show pictures from practice, you will

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Speaker 1: always see dudes with pads and you know, everything up

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Speaker 1: and I've noticed that the whole year tires every single post, Right,

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Speaker 1: you see a post, it's dude sweating, it's dude getting

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Speaker 1: beat up in the kind of finished through contact. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: bag coach Croner really got these dudes going. And he's

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Speaker 1: really I feel like he's a coach that coaches your

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Speaker 1: team so that they peek in March. And despite having

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Speaker 1: all these different ups and downs and weathering, it's some

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Speaker 1: storms and a lot of things that people don't even

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Speaker 1: talk about. Was that thing that happened on the plane, bro,

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Speaker 1: Like that whole plane situation, and that's scared that I

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Speaker 1: read about I read about I didn't I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know about that to a couple of weeks ago that

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Speaker 1: that's what happened on that plane. Bro. Yeah, I actually

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Speaker 1: found out later, like I heard about it and I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug errickson that and I really felt that, like, man,

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Speaker 1: that was like frightening. I mean they were like, broy

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Speaker 1: the call the relatives and I mean it was bro, Bro, Bro,

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Speaker 1: that is that is That's right? And yeah, and to

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Speaker 1: keep these guys you know together, and to keep everybody

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Speaker 1: with Mac and Rrors. I mean, it's just all kinds

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Speaker 1: of stuff, man. And to be right here, it's a

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Speaker 1: very very exciting time. I cannot wait to watch him play.

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Speaker 1: But I got to talk about one of the most

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Speaker 1: exciting times of my entire basketball career, possibly of my

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Speaker 1: life outside of my children, obviously, was that day against Missouri.

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Speaker 1: We're in the sweet sixteen, or the round round, second round,

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Speaker 1: four four point they said used to go, we're down one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm thinking about the game, paul O' Lenny.

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Speaker 1: He's got twenty three. He's giving whoever was on him buckets.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna say who was on him,

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Speaker 1: but he was, Yeah, somebody eight three that day. So

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Speaker 1: we were in a tough position. Tyson, will you please

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Speaker 1: take us through the four point eight Take us through

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Speaker 1: what your thought process was from the moment coach Herrick

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Speaker 1: drew up the play. Um, you remember it was we

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Speaker 1: we got out played. Man. We were like I was

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Speaker 1: getting torched. My sound like you said, Lenny was to man,

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Speaker 1: he dudes, oh, miss, It's like when are they gonna

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Speaker 1: start missing? You know exactly we used it. That was

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Speaker 1: usually that point in the game where we would kind

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Speaker 1: all right, we got this. That just that wasn't coming.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't coming. I remember that last that that little

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Speaker 1: dump down lay up they got. Um it was that

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Speaker 1: was that walked back. You know, don't you could even

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Speaker 1: say what you and thinking about? Like, man, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: I know you're probably looking at the scoreboard like is

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Speaker 1: that is that right? We really want to know what

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Speaker 1: I was thinking. You want to hear what I was thinking?

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Speaker 1: To us? Absolutely, I would ask you a question, bro,

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Speaker 1: bro bro, So so this is this is sad. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna sound like I was completely a horrible team

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Speaker 1: and and that I was not believing in us. But

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Speaker 1: this was at the time, so I was trying to

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Speaker 1: find a silver line. So the whole time and joined

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Speaker 1: me Bob Myers and Kevin Dempsey that this was probably

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Speaker 1: gonna be it. It was just too far away. So

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Speaker 1: we're thinking about life after losing this game. Now we

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Speaker 1: had we had already planned to go to Cobbo Saint

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Speaker 1: I know no one knows this, but we start said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think tickets. I think tickets. I think

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Speaker 1: it was that bad. I was like, we're like no,

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Speaker 1: We're like, oh, this isn't gonna happen. So we were like,

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Speaker 1: so I kind of looked like the might have looked

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Speaker 1: at empty, like like they did look like, what come on?

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Speaker 1: then and there's something in the basketball well Dempsey. Dempsey

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Speaker 1: was influencing me and Bob me I'm a champion, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I was coming off the crunch Shaw things.

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Speaker 1: So I was kind of falling into that because I

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Speaker 1: was salty because I hadn't been playing. I was being

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Speaker 1: wrongly negatively influenced by Bob Myers and Kevin Dempsey. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't being a great team man. I should have believed

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Speaker 1: and I think this is what happened. I pulled away.

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm not listening to you guys. Anymore, stopped

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Speaker 1: making a lot of this situation, and I put on

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Speaker 1: my twel's dog and I said, I'm putting all my

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Speaker 1: energy in the tires right now. Bro. That worked, Bro,

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Speaker 1: So that's what I was thinking. So tight. But Russ,

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Speaker 1: that's what I was thinking. As you guys were walking

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Speaker 1: to that should have been. That was a long walk

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Speaker 1: back to that huddle. It was like, uh man, and

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Speaker 1: you know Ed, Yeah, I don't know if you remember.

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Speaker 1: Ed was already in my ear on the way back,

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Speaker 1: you know, and started doing this and this chest ship

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Speaker 1: he give me. Coach just drew it up, man, He

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Speaker 1: just like you get it. Right before I went out,

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Speaker 1: he came. He was like you understand what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: Like I want you to shoot the ball. And you know,

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Speaker 1: my mind was like, yeah, okay whatever. Coach like, all right,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'll find that. I'll get it to it

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Speaker 1: because that's what we did all year, right. It was

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Speaker 1: like the game will getting tight and we're like, where's

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Speaker 1: that find it? Romar Coach and be like, hey, just

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Speaker 1: like I gotta find it. Yeah yeah, And so I

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Speaker 1: don't know, man, that you know, Cam. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: Cam's point guard too, so we were just playing together

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Speaker 1: and just being in sync all year, and uh, he

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're remember that. Let you let you

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Speaker 1: on the outlets? Yeah, let me so I knew, you know,

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Speaker 1: that was the thing. Like, you know, my mind was

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Speaker 1: like I can't get stopped, Like nobody can stop me

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Speaker 1: My option number one was just get that thing to

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Speaker 1: don't know, you know, So in a moment like that,

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Speaker 1: you thinking about just what's in front of you? Or

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Speaker 1: is there ever was there ever a split second that

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Speaker 1: you might have replayed a situation and had a muscle

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Speaker 1: memory moment. What what tell me that it's it was

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Speaker 1: at that point? I mean, you're not even really thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's you have you know, you remember we

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Speaker 1: end or free throw line of lay up or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, like I always took like you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like basically that that was no defense when you

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Speaker 1: get down there as long as you know, like you said,

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Speaker 1: I didn't get stopped. So that's all I was thinking.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I can't let these dudes like trap

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Speaker 1: me or you know. So at that point, it's pure instinct.

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Speaker 1: It's just like I got one goal. I gotta get

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Speaker 1: this thing down the floor and that's it. That's so

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Speaker 1: that's why that was on my mind. And as I

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Speaker 1: was coming down, you know, instinct takes over because you're

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Speaker 1: you're you're just it's just surveying the situation quick reads.

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Speaker 1: You know. I noticed the um they were like funneling

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Speaker 1: me kind of to the sideline, and uh, and my

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Speaker 1: instinct was like I gotta you know, I always like

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Speaker 1: like we all like beating up on people, We beat

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Speaker 1: up on each other, but then we we love beating

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Speaker 1: up on people, you know what I mean. And that

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Speaker 1: team like we used to love beat people on the road.

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Speaker 1: Remember we almost get more hype on the road. And

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Speaker 1: I mean just that type of like just killer instinct,

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Speaker 1: that toughness, that togetherness, that um, you know, all those

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Speaker 1: things I think is kind of what just would put

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Speaker 1: us over the got us over the hump. You know.

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Speaker 1: Really in a lot of games and and uh and

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Speaker 1: like you said, obviously everybody's talented and and and just

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Speaker 1: like in the final game, everybody had the ability to

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Speaker 1: like raise their level when they needed to, you know,

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Speaker 1: so um, that just made that team special. I mean

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Speaker 1: we and we were I mean we were big, we

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Speaker 1: had size, we had athleticism, we had um you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody could have played you. You could have played oh

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Speaker 1: I mean you didn't play him saying but like you know,

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Speaker 1: if if you had to insert, if Charles would have

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Speaker 1: went down and you inserted, you could jump right in

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Speaker 1: and been ready you know what I mean, right, facts, facts,

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Speaker 1: it would have been ready for you. Though they were

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Speaker 1: they were ready for the jazz fake nah you have

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Speaker 1: been like wait, wait, what what is this? No man,

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Speaker 1: But but you make a great point. Man, and I

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Speaker 1: also think that I think I think the support that

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Speaker 1: we had, Like I'm not typically a big old the

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Speaker 1: fans and this and that type of guy, but I

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Speaker 1: just really felt like, because are the fans had went

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Speaker 1: through such a long draught of a championship, coupled with

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Speaker 1: the fact that you have this different generation of l

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Speaker 1: A fans that you know, your era of fans that

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Speaker 1: were rocking with y'all, that meant our era of fans

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Speaker 1: that are rocking with us. So then that becomes a

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Speaker 1: beautiful thing in l A. When you got a small

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Speaker 1: city like that and you've got different generations, and it

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Speaker 1: just becomes sick because you start seeing different combinations of

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Speaker 1: fans in the stands like oh, man, and believe it

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Speaker 1: or not, that stuff inspires you. Man. When you walk

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Speaker 1: out at the shoot around before the game, it Pauli Pavilion, man,

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Speaker 1: and you're looking at all these people, man, and there's

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Speaker 1: just it's nothing but love, and you feel that buzz

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Speaker 1: in the air like we feel like you're about to

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Speaker 1: win something that year. It's just a magical, magical moment.

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Speaker 1: It's a magical feeling. It was a magical time, man,

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Speaker 1: And man, I really hope we can get back and

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Speaker 1: repeat it because I just want this generation to experience that.

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Speaker 1: Now they're gonna have it in their own kind of way,

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Speaker 1: if you will. But I want this city to feel

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Speaker 1: like what it felt like when we won the championship

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Speaker 1: with Yeah, I want them to feel agree, I agree.

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, um, we had a little this year.

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Speaker 1: I think we had a little you know, just like

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Speaker 1: you know when we're we're when then when we're not

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Speaker 1: in the conversation like we you know, we come out

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Speaker 1: and even going to the SC game or we had

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Speaker 1: the seventy two guys back, we had Um it was

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Speaker 1: supposed to come back on Ford and you couldn't. But

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Speaker 1: like just the energy in the building reminded me of

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Speaker 1: that time, um, of our like in our time where

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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, this is you feel the buzz

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Speaker 1: and students are outside, everybody you know, it's a packed house.

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Speaker 1: It's like it was a rival. Uh we owed them,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Oh the old heads back,

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Speaker 1: you know everything, you know, the champs, the chants were

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Speaker 1: back in the building. Uh uh yeah, it was that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I had I felt that I felt at

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Speaker 1: that game that like that energy you're talking about it,

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Speaker 1: just it's it's something special. Definitely. Well, man, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you coming on today. Man, I know you will be

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Speaker 1: rooting our bruins along or you headed out to feel it. No, no,

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Speaker 1: not to feel it. So if if they take care

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Speaker 1: of business, you will be in the end. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying I'm not janking it. I ain't gonna say that.

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Speaker 1: Another live. We got to do another live. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much man for revisiting. Are incredible March Madness moment

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Speaker 1: here on kJ Life, Ladies and gentlemen, Tius etne