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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to another edition of Orlando Magic Pod Squad.

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Speaker 1: drive see. On the latest episode of Magic Pod Squad,

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Speaker 1: we catch up with the head coach of the.

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Speaker 2: Orlando Magic Jamal Mosley, and what a terrific conversation it was.

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Speaker 2: He recaps his summer, his busy summer, part of which

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Speaker 2: included working with Eric Spolstrauf and all the terrific coaches

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Speaker 2: that are part of Team USA.

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Speaker 1: What he was hoping these.

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Speaker 2: Guys would work on the entire summer, some of the

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Speaker 2: changes in additions that they brought to their games. How

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Speaker 2: big is this year for guys like Powo ban Caro

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Speaker 2: Fronz Wagner, Jalen Suggs.

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Speaker 3: The core the heart of his team.

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Speaker 1: As we move forward, the addition of Contavious Caldwell Pope.

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Speaker 1: What has he brought to the Orlando Magic organization? Spirited

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Speaker 1: practices topic, hitians at every position. Coaches dream for this

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Speaker 1: Orlando Magic team as we go into season thirty six

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Speaker 1: of Orlando Magic Basketball. Enjoy our conversation with Magic head

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Speaker 1: coach Jamal Moseley on our latest installment of Magic Pod Squad.

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Speaker 3: So those fawns long enough, they're Orlando Magic.

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Speaker 4: This is Cole Anthony, this is Jennings Suggs, this is

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Speaker 4: Paulo man Carroll the Orlando Magic and you're.

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Speaker 3: Listening to the Pod Squad And welcome.

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Speaker 2: Everyone to another episode of Orlando Magic Pod Squad. We

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Speaker 2: got Dante Marcatelli, David Steele, we have Jake Chapman, we

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Speaker 2: have George Golanze. That's all we can fit in here, Coach,

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Speaker 2: It's all we can. We have six more hosts lined up,

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Speaker 2: but this is all we can get in here.

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Speaker 5: Podcast with five people is usually pretty successful, right there.

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Speaker 3: That's a big market for that is here.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 3: What do you think of the new digs? We got

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Speaker 3: a new studio.

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Speaker 4: I mean incredible, right, you know, I love the green

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Speaker 4: screen so you can't tell.

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Speaker 3: What's what's not behind it? We're looking at it behind them,

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Speaker 3: not right? You see the stuff back here? This is

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Speaker 3: stuff that is interesting.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I want to start with this before we get

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Speaker 2: into it. You have there's a different energy during the

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Speaker 2: off season, right, You're walking around this building and everybody's

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Speaker 2: kind of relaxed. Then you have training camp and it

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Speaker 2: ramps up a little bit. Then there's there's an energy

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Speaker 2: that George has during the preseason that kind of kicks.

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Speaker 3: Up a notch. Yeah, I've noticed that around the building.

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Speaker 3: You've noticed that it, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And then there's Mets playoff baseball energy that George has,

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Speaker 2: Right do you notice that? Like it's his pre season

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Speaker 2: energy and then playoff meta.

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Speaker 5: To be fair, he hasn't seen it before because it's

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Speaker 4: It has been a while, but I hadn't seen that

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Speaker 4: energy before. It's been a little different. It was good,

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Speaker 4: it was terrible a couple days ago. It was really

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Speaker 4: good yesterday.

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Speaker 3: What was it rough? A couple of days ago? And

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Speaker 3: then we're gonna find out what it's going to be

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Speaker 3: like pretty soon.

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Speaker 5: Here we're recording this before Game three, right, and I

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Speaker 5: just want to now, I was fine. I was keeping

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Speaker 4: No, he wasn't talking about the energy, about the serious

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Speaker 4: but he's paying attention to what's going on.

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Speaker 5: It was actually that it was actually the game was

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Speaker 3: So that makes it worse, but that's okay.

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Speaker 5: I had my I had my AirPod in and I

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Speaker 3: The game was on.

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Speaker 5: It's a five o'clock start, so.

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Speaker 3: If you needed something that wasn't gonna happen, it was.

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Speaker 3: He was not Joe.

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Speaker 5: Luckily, Joel was in Florida and Sano and Coach Mosley

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Speaker 5: says to me, wow, you are really not locked in

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Speaker 3: I said, no, I'm locked in.

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Speaker 5: But then but then all of a sudden, you know,

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Speaker 5: and he says, hey, uh, you know you're we're playing

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Speaker 5: which I did not expect because I didn't know there

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Speaker 5: I said, yeah, sure, we're up. I'm up for whatever.

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Speaker 5: I'm feeling like we could beat the world right now,

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Speaker 5: what do you know? What do you? And then coach

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Speaker 5: Ergy But then Coach Bosley mentioned what the what the

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Speaker 5: what was that? Was that a little too rich for you?

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Speaker 5: And I had remind and we were in different tax brankets,

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Speaker 5: and then uh, but what we have a we have

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Speaker 5: a wager going. I got the good thing is I

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Speaker 5: got the I got the socks going.

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Speaker 6: To wow, wow, these are all there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm all in doing socks. By the way, major

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Speaker 3: good luck are there.

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Speaker 5: Metsa are one of our training staff members.

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Speaker 3: He gave me these right before, right out of his

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Speaker 3: clause game.

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Speaker 6: What I like is you're matching pajamas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be good. That would be very good.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any team socks? Teams inquiring over the years.

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Speaker 6: So I'm not a face painter, I'm pretty sure George is.

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Speaker 5: David's a chess.

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Speaker 3: He likes the chest paint you.

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Speaker 5: Right on his chest.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think there was that. There will be an

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Speaker 2: excitement for you if you can get to the World Series.

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Speaker 2: I think we can certainly say that there was an

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Why don't you let everybody kind of behind

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Speaker 2: guys are really the guys really had a lot of

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Speaker 3: No, the guys had a great day today.

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Speaker 4: The one thing we've been working on with them is,

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Speaker 4: you know, their level of communication, how they communicate to

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Speaker 4: we had a great film session. They do a great job.

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Speaker 4: Our coaches do a great job of breaking down the

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Speaker 4: real time scrimmage from yesterday. And then I, you know,

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Speaker 4: I offered the deal on the table. I said, hey, Franz,

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Speaker 3: Now I've been in the League for.

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Speaker 4: Eighteen years and going on nineteen. I think I don't

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Speaker 4: it and maybe that'll happen. Franz stepped up half court,

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Speaker 4: lined it up, took the jumper. As soon as and

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Speaker 4: like everybody sprinted out. We probably had six guys bring

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of energy. But that tells me

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Speaker 4: These guys have been working their tails off, so it

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Speaker 4: Franz once he got back to the locker room kind

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Speaker 4: of as a thank you.

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Speaker 5: Easy to say that that's the loudest that this particular

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Speaker 3: Say, yes, yeah, there was a level of excitement. Shook

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they were, they were, they were excited. It was

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Speaker 4: I mean, again, they've they've worked their tails off. You know,

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Speaker 4: it's not having the New Orleans game and being able

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Speaker 4: had a few scrimmages which have been fantastic, and so

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Speaker 4: these guys have been working and so that's who they are,

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Speaker 4: that's what you know, that's what our coaches have pushed

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Speaker 6: What are the extra challenges been with the New Orleans

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Speaker 6: what nine or ten days, you've got Philadelphia coming up

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we really looked at it as an unbelievable opportunity,

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Speaker 4: you know, because a lot of these teams are there,

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Speaker 3: The guys major, major minutes.

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Speaker 4: So I think for us, it's been able to go real,

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Speaker 4: they need. You talk about our defense and what we're

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Speaker 4: our offense and making our offense that much better because

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Speaker 4: you know the sets, you know what guys are running,

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Speaker 4: you know what you're trying to execute. And for us

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Speaker 3: And I keep going back to.

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Speaker 4: The communication that these guys are having with one another

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Speaker 4: when they're able to do it again each other every

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Speaker 4: single day. Now, there's some chippiness that's going to keep

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Speaker 4: coming because of that, But that's good, That's exactly what

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Speaker 7: Are you starting to see kind of new roles emerge

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Speaker 7: from some of your veterans, maybe guys who you brought

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Speaker 3: As far as that communication.

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Speaker 4: Goes, absolutely, I think KCP has been wonderful, just you know,

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Speaker 4: speaking of after yesterday's practice, he brought the huddle in

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Speaker 4: UH to talk to these guys about the scrimmage, some

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Speaker 4: communicate with one another, and I think those are the

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Speaker 4: big pieces that, you know, what he brings to the table,

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Speaker 4: not just from his experience of playing and you know

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Speaker 4: the body of work, but his voice being able to

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Speaker 4: express that. Polo and Franz have been tremendous in what

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Speaker 4: you know, this group and knowing the responsibility that they're

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Speaker 4: taking on, you know, as the stars of this team.

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Speaker 5: How how have you noticed you you kind of touched

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Speaker 5: on it. Polo and Franz they now, you know, Franz

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Speaker 5: going into his fourth year and third year, I've noticed

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Speaker 5: from Afar that they have definitely been more vocal. They

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Speaker 5: both seem not that they weren't comfortable before, but they

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Speaker 5: seem to have a new level of comfort. Yeah, and

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Speaker 5: have you seen that?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 4: I think it's when you talk about guys stepping into

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Speaker 4: who they are. I think a lot of times when

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Speaker 5: With the group being almost the same throughout your tenure,

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Speaker 4: They have to be able to experience that. If you

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Speaker 4: most people are counting you out. And then it goes

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Speaker 4: back to that resiliency that this is not a group

444
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Speaker 4: that's going to quit. They're competitive, they're pulled together. There

445
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Speaker 4: was never a moment of pointing fingers or we're not there.

446
00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,960
Speaker 4: There's a level of belief to this group of how

447
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Speaker 4: good they can be. I think that showed up a lot.

448
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,520
Speaker 4: And then I think now with you know, with the

449
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Speaker 4: words of you know, Fronz and Paolo and Jalen and

450
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Speaker 4: these guys, there's a want there's a want factor that

451
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Speaker 4: you can feel they want more. And I think that's

452
00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,560
Speaker 4: what was shown in that series, like they want more

453
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Speaker 4: and now they just had to go through the experience

454
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Speaker 4: of seven games and a playoff series to realize how

455
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Speaker 4: do you get the things that you want and the

456
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Speaker 4: work that you have to put in.

457
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Speaker 5: How about your summer, jamal At, you had another summer

458
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Speaker 5: with USA basketball. Tell everybody that doesn't get to experience that,

459
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Speaker 5: which is nine percent of us, how is that experience?

460
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Speaker 3: What is it like for you? What is it?

461
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Speaker 5: I mean, what does it do you to be around

462
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Speaker 5: not only those players, but those other your peers too.

463
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Speaker 4: I mean, I always talk about how grateful I am

464
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Speaker 4: for it, and like you said, it's it's not a

465
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Speaker 4: lot of people get to do that. So it's it's

466
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Speaker 4: a blessing to be able to do that and to

467
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Speaker 4: be around those coaches. First, it's the players that you

468
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Speaker 4: really get to see live real time and their work

469
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Speaker 4: ethic and how focused they were in the camp, just

470
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,880
Speaker 4: what they were trying to have their focus and attention towards.

471
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Speaker 4: Is just watching Steph, watching Lebron, watching KD watching book.

472
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Speaker 4: These guys were all focused on something bigger than them,

473
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Speaker 4: which was great to see. But then you see the

474
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Speaker 4: work ethic behind it. And then for the coaches, it's

475
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Speaker 4: just it's interesting to see the level of one expertise

476
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Speaker 4: and confidence but in the same time a level of

477
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Speaker 4: humility and vulnerability. And it's sharing information, not caring where

478
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Speaker 4: it comes from, but we're trying to solve something for

479
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Speaker 4: all of us.

480
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Speaker 5: How much information, though, is everybody willing to share? Right, because,

481
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Speaker 5: like you know, Eric Spolstro or Steve Kerr, like those

482
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Speaker 5: guys maybe don't want to Tylou.

483
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Speaker 6: How open do.

484
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Speaker 5: You guys truly get or is it just like, listen,

485
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 5: we're friends, I'm gonna help you, You're gonna help me.

486
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Speaker 5: I think we hold stuff back from Dante all the time.

487
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I could.

488
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Speaker 4: See why, and I could see why you would. I mean, hey,

489
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Speaker 4: he might use it on the air, it might take

490
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Speaker 4: it from it. I completely understood. It's interesting for me

491
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Speaker 4: and with that group of coaches, I think there's just

492
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Speaker 4: such a level of confidence in what they've done that

493
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Speaker 4: we're all.

494
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Speaker 3: Willing to share information.

495
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Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, you are as

496
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Speaker 4: good a coach as your best players tend to be.

497
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Speaker 4: And I think they all understand and know that, and

498
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Speaker 4: that the situations you're putting them in to be successful,

499
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Speaker 4: we get that. And so creating these friendships with these guys,

500
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Speaker 4: you do share a ton of information. And when it's

501
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Speaker 4: all said and done, did you prepare your team the

502
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Speaker 4: best way that you possibly could? And I think that's

503
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Speaker 4: what we all hang our hats on when it comes

504
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Speaker 4: to that there are no secrets in this game. I mean,

505
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Speaker 4: with everything going on, you realize there aren't many secrets.

506
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Speaker 4: Is just have you prepared your team to the best

507
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Speaker 4: of your ability to be in a situation to be successful?

508
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Speaker 4: And I think that's what we all realize, Like there's

509
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Speaker 4: nothing new under the sun when it comes.

510
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Speaker 5: To this, isn't it your favorite When there's a scout

511
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 5: sitting somewhere by and they're trying to lean in and

512
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Speaker 5: hear Jamal or the other coaches call, and then they

513
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 5: don't hear it, and they're kind of like peaking up, Jamal,

514
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Speaker 5: look right word the other coach look arount me like

515
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Speaker 5: that's flop three things whatever, Like whatever the call is,

516
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 5: this guy's gonna swing this way, he's gonna It's.

517
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Speaker 3: Hilarious because they all know.

518
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Speaker 4: They all know, like if you do your research, you

519
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 4: do your scout, and you have somebody at every game

520
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 4: you're writing down the call, you're writing down yell out

521
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 4: of play and sometimes I'll tell you, hey, this is

522
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Speaker 4: what's coming. And now, if you've done your job and

523
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,920
Speaker 4: which we are in the game of relationships and development

524
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 4: and helping guys be successful, well, if we've developed our

525
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Speaker 4: players the right way, then they should be able to

526
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Speaker 4: make the read with however guy someone's defending them. That

527
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 4: means we've done our job, and the guys are doing

528
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Speaker 4: their job because they understand exactly how they're being played,

529
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Speaker 4: and that's the level that this group is moving to.

530
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Speaker 7: And calling a play for Steph Curry doesn't exactly apply

531
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Speaker 7: to twenty nine other teams.

532
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Speaker 3: Correct, That's true without a shadow of a doun.

533
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Speaker 2: Yes, you probably we don't know this, but all NBA

534
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 2: players think they should be out there forty eight minutes.

535
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Speaker 3: Yes, every player. Every player thinks they should play the

536
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 3: whole game. Right, that's happens, It's doubt. It is the

537
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Speaker 3: beginning of time.

538
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Speaker 2: Yes, But you've got an incredibly deep team and you've

539
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 2: got unbelievable position battles, which I think is a great

540
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Speaker 2: thing for a coach to have. You know, Anthony Black

541
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Speaker 2: is going to want to play Jet Howard, you have Goga,

542
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 2: you have Tristan, right, I mean this is going to

543
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,720
Speaker 2: get it right. Corey Joseph is a proven veteran. Right,

544
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 2: You've got all these guys. Caleb Caleb right, Maybe this

545
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 2: feels like this is his turn. How are you viewing?

546
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Speaker 2: That will reveal itself to you as you go. Do

547
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Speaker 2: you have a plan going in? Obviously you do, But

548
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Speaker 2: what is your what is your approach?

549
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Speaker 4: Well, we have a plan going in, and plans always change, sure,

550
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 4: because obviously certain things happened throughout the year. Injury happens,

551
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 4: then certain guys get to step in, some guys performing

552
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Speaker 4: at a high level when someone's not in those moments,

553
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 4: and so we evaluate it that way, but you do

554
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Speaker 4: have a plan to say, Okay, who has earned these

555
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 4: minutes and that's how we'll start, you know, the what

556
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 4: we're doing this year, and the guys that have earned

557
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 4: it will play and then as the year goes on,

558
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 4: things happen throughout it. But what has happened and you

559
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 4: guys mentioned it early with Paolo and Franz, they've emerged

560
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 4: as here's what's happening and here's how we have to

561
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 4: rely on you two. And so with that being said,

562
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 4: the people that are best fit around those two as

563
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 4: well as Jalen and wehn Dell and now Kenny is how.

564
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Speaker 3: Does that look as the year goes on?

565
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Speaker 4: And it's going to change over time because teams are

566
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Speaker 4: going to start to pick things up and we got

567
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Speaker 4: to find different adjustments to make. But I remember hearing

568
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Speaker 4: Spoe say in a press conference, you know, middle through

569
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,400
Speaker 4: the year, middle of the year, he was talking about,

570
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Speaker 4: you know, how is your somebody asked them about his

571
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 4: rotation and it changes all the time because of the

572
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Speaker 4: scenarios within the year.

573
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Speaker 3: It's and that's going to be ongoing for us.

574
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Speaker 4: You know, you'd like to have the certain stability of

575
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Speaker 4: going on, but The reality is it changes throughout the year,

576
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Speaker 4: and these guys have been accepting of that because of

577
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Speaker 4: because of the roles that they've been given, the responsibilities

578
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Speaker 4: that they have to this team.

579
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Speaker 6: The team has been flying under the radar, I would say,

580
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 6: the last couple of years, you're on a radar. Now,

581
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 6: how does that change things with a young team too,

582
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 6: that now has expectations? How do you and the ballplayers

583
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Speaker 6: handle that?

584
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Speaker 4: I think we talk about it openly. You realize that

585
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 4: you don't want to ride the wave of hey, you

586
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 4: were good tonight, you struggled last night, you got to go.

587
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 4: You just stay the same. And it goes back to

588
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 4: what we were saying earlier about the process of things.

589
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Speaker 4: Are we following the process that makes us a good team?

590
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Speaker 4: And no matter what that looks like and how teams

591
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 4: come out to prepare for us, we have to keep

592
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 4: focusing on the way we're going about our business and

593
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,239
Speaker 4: challenging ourselves because we're going to see some I mean,

594
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Speaker 4: the East is tough this year, and then we go

595
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Speaker 4: out west, you know, early on, So we've got to

596
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Speaker 4: make sure that we're preparing ourselves in that right way.

597
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 4: So it's more of that goes back to the mindset

598
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 4: piece that you're not trying.

599
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Speaker 3: To show up.

600
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Speaker 4: You have to say, Okay, we are here and we

601
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 4: belong to this in the space, but you still have

602
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 4: to prove it every night.

603
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Speaker 7: This will be the last thing for me. I just

604
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 7: wanted to ask you about Jeded Howard and the approach

605
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Speaker 7: you've seen just going even going back to his rookie season,

606
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Speaker 7: the attitude he brought sort of knowing that he was

607
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 7: going to get his opportunity eventually, and then his offseason in.

608
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Speaker 3: The preseason so far, I mean, he's been fantastic.

609
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Speaker 4: He's been in He was in the gym all summer,

610
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Speaker 4: and I think we saw that throughout the summer league.

611
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Speaker 3: His ability to.

612
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Speaker 4: Play in Asceola with that group and get real games

613
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 4: at a faster pace usually than the NBA is because

614
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 4: those guys are fighting and scrapping and playing a different

615
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 4: style of basketball. But it was great for that game

616
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 4: to speed up for him there. And what we've seen

617
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 4: for him during training camp is just there's a maturity.

618
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Speaker 4: Take Carter, who works with him the most, is has

619
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Speaker 4: I mean, he's in the gym early, he stays late,

620
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 4: he comes in on days off, he's working both sides

621
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Speaker 4: of the ball, which I think is so important for

622
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Speaker 4: him to step into that realm. Like he's working on

623
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Speaker 4: his defensive closeouts, he's working on how to guard the

624
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 4: pick and roll, how to guard pin downs.

625
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Speaker 3: He's watching Kenny, He's watching.

626
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Speaker 4: Gary, how they guard what they do. So growth has

627
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 4: been fantastic, And I just told them. We actually had

628
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 4: a conversation yesterday about like the future, you know, and

629
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Speaker 4: understanding that. I want that hunger, you want that desire,

630
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 4: you want that fight to be in it and never

631
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 4: lose that. I want you to be mad when you're

632
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 4: not in games because that's the desire and the fight

633
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 4: that you want to keep your guys to have, because

634
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 4: that keeps that competitive nature going every single day in camp.

635
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 2: Well, last thing, coach, you've got a couple of roster

636
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 2: spots open. You've got some two way spots. You don't know,

637
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 2: there might be guys on this roster now that could

638
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 2: make it. You might look elsewhere if you do have

639
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 2: the opportunity to bring one of these guys on the roster.

640
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 2: You've done it before. What is that like when you

641
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 2: get to tell a guy that they made an NBA roster?

642
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 4: You know you always go back to guy's journeys and

643
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 4: for a guy to say he was with Oziola, he

644
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 4: was a two way, and then he's a roster spot.

645
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 4: There's no better feeling for that, because guys are that's

646
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 4: what they want. They want to say they made it,

647
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 4: they got an NBA contract. And for us to be

648
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 4: able to tell these guys that, it's rewarding again because

649
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 4: I said, we are in the relationship business and to

650
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 4: help someone start their journey that way is always a

651
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 4: great thing.

652
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 2: That's fantastic. And and I guess you know, we have

653
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: another preseason game on Friday. We've got a couple of

654
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 2: Mets games in.

655
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 3: Between now, and it's good, hopefully just three. I think

656
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 3: what we've learned.

657
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Speaker 6: The Dodgers are in that series too, right.

658
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could. Just what we've learned is Joel is

659
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 3: a call away.

660
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 4: I think Joel is a phone call.

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Speaker 5: Listen, I'm going to tell you right now at five

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Speaker 5: o'clock on Friday. I know we played Philly one time.

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Speaker 5: We played Philly seven, So you might not get anything

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Speaker 5: out of it. For the first half of the game.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be quiet because it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a probably a blow.

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Speaker 5: You better call your buddy Dave Roberts today today.

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Speaker 4: No, No, I'm not going to come to bother him.

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Speaker 3: Friends with Dave though, right, you do know him? Yes,

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Speaker 3: that's right. I do to hear from you. That's that's

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Speaker 3: where that's where it all comes from.

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Speaker 5: But where I always know it. I didn't know it

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Speaker 5: until until the matchup, and then I was.

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Speaker 4: Well, they had you said it had been a while,

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Speaker 4: because then I like the Brewers, it would have been like, Okay, Milwaukee, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, where were you with Milwaukee?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just pitch away quiet.

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Speaker 7: I know you spent time in Cleveland.

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Speaker 3: No love for the Guardians. There's love there, all right.

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Speaker 3: I mean I know you're from Cleveland. Yeah, I know

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Speaker 3: you call them the Guardians speaking about not being there

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Speaker 3: for but hopefully that I wasn't saying anything. You guys,

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Speaker 3: you all root for whoever plays the Yankees. We all

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Speaker 3: root for them. Coach, this is great. We are excited.

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Speaker 2: I know you feel the buzz in town absolutely. Nationally,

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Speaker 2: people are excited about what's happening here. Uh that that

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Speaker 2: stems from the job that you've done and what you're

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Speaker 2: building here, and it's awesome. We can't wait to get started.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it this year. Thank you, I appreciate you all.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. That'll do it for another episode of Magic

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Speaker 3: Pod Squad