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to the hotline. Welcome in former b YU great men's

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basketball player, international superstar, now the head coach of the

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BA women's basketball team.

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Speaker 3: We got big league Camard on the live lead. How

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you living, brother, living living well, man, living well.

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Speaker 4: Anytime I need to pick me up, I'll just call you,

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Ben bro.

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Speaker 3: I got you, man.

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Speaker 2: I love Bucket getting Breath of Brigham and you were

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that guy for us and now you're coaching up buck against.

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Speaker 3: You got a great squad, you got a great roster.

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Speaker 2: That you've been able to build here, and you started

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off the season very strong, right, obviously hit you know,

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some adversity with some difficult foes, right. That Vandy game

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was a tough one. These are ranked teams TCU. Tough game, right,

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and you went through a bit of a refining fire. Yeah,

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you bounce back with I caught a bounce back with wins,

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but also that Arizona game that was a tough loss.

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You're learning as you're going throughout this You got maybe

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arguably your best win of the season versus Texas Tech.

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Speaker 3: What happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're a younger team, younger together. We've played some

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really good teams that we've lost to, two of them

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Top ten, lost the Baylor who will probably get into

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the top fifteen after this week. And then you know,

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got a fortunate in this league. You get to play

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somebody ranked almost every other game. So got to take

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the Tech on our home court, and the team brought

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it there. They were dialed in on what we wanted

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to accomplish, and they stay composed the whole game, and

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they played with an assertiveness and confidence that it was

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our best game of the year.

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Speaker 2: It was smooth, man, it was awesome. It was a

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great finish, right. It was a fairly dominant victory all

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things considered, seventy three to sixty one. It's great to win, right.

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It feels really good to beat a ranked opponent in

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a somewhat convincing fashion, to finish it off strong.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we I mean from the beginning, you know, one

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of our starters tweaked their ankle early and we had

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to put in Live early, and Live got us go

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on with a steal in the basket and then bang

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the three, and we kind of just controlled the rest

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of the game. You know, I think we had it

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up to eighteen at one point in by what we did,

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and gave up the three really late kind of when

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it was over. But overall, loved how they fought, kind

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of just kept the foot on the gas and didn't

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Speaker 3: You mentioned Live was that her best performance of the season,

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of her career.

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Speaker 4: That that was a tremendous game for her, just how

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instinctial she played. She played very impactful. You know, she's

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had glimpses of that. I thought from start to finish,

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for sure, her best game shows a lot of growth

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because there's been some other games where you know, as

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a team, you know, we got a little flustered, and

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we didn't get riddled at all at any point yesterday,

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even when they kind of made a run in the

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second quarter, we just stayed with it. And the fight

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and the assertiveness and just the overall confidence of the

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group stayed unwavering the whole night.

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Speaker 3: How would you describe your locker room right now?

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Speaker 2: Like you know, you've been how many locker rooms you've

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been in a lot of locker rooms, and both on

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the mentioned women's side, how would you describe this locker room.

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Speaker 4: I'm really fortunate, you know, and us as the staff

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are really fortunate to be able to coach this group.

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The chemistry, the camaraderie, the overall how they show up

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every day and you know, try their best to improve

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whatever it is individually in preparations for the next game

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has been really remarkable. I got out of them a

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little bit because Monday, coming in after the Baylor game,

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they just were down in the dumps, almost unconfident and

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kind of feeling sorry for themselves a little bit. And they,

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you know, which is fairly normal after a loss, but

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it was more of a hey, we don't know if

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we're as good as we think we are, you know

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kind of thing in it. They need to know they're

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a really good team, especially when they play you know,

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in unison and together and for each other like they

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did last night. That were a problem for people, and

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it's not an easy out when they play us. And

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we've played some really good teams and really, other than

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the TCU game, felt like we could have been successful

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had we done a few little things differently in those games.

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Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of self scouting. I try to

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do it in my line of work every single day,

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every single week. What do you think opponents are seeing

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when they're when they're watching your film? If you could

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self scout for me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's been interesting because the way that

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we're shooting, at least up to last night. Last night

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was a little bit different. We haven't shot it great,

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like our three point shooting overall field goal percentage sucks

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for what I see every day, but teams haven't relented

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guarding that three point line. Basically with anybody, you're seeing

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teams really try to get the ball out of the

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laney's hand, which is probably a wise thing, but they

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really are guarding the three point in line and they

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want to take that part of the game away. I

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just love when we share it and makes it really hard.

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on the men's side really makes great plays and doesn't

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try to force things. And when she stays in that

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that realm, you know. And we got another playmaker and

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sit and then we got some just ballers, you know

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that that helped them. You know. We try to put

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the ball in their hands as much as we can

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because they make great decisions and teams are trying to

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take it out of there. But but really it's been

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us beating ourselves. I feel like, other than the TCU game,

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which I felt like we didn't really have it that

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night and they just they just put a thumping on us.

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So yeah, hope, hope we don't shoot it well. I

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hope we shoot it well other teams better. Hope we

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don't start shooting it well, which I think we will.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we've got time.

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Speaker 2: You know, you're supposed to trend right, play your bestball

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late February, getting into your madness.

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Speaker 4: Right, sure. Yeah, And here's the thing like like we've

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lost four, Okay, it won't be the laugh loss we have.

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It's a tremendous league and it's a big time. We

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can play so much better, you know. That's that's why

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there's so much optimism in the locker room in our

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film sessions as we prepare for games. We really haven't

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shot it to the level we can. We haven't shared

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it to the level that we can. And right now,

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our defense and rebounding is kind of holding us, you know,

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in a lot of these games. But you know, like

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last night, when that defense is combined with a good

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offensive night, which we're capable of, it's a it's a

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scary thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, and I haven't kept track

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exactly the rotation, but it seems like you have a

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pretty tight rotation right now, maybe seven to eight.

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Speaker 3: Right How you.

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Speaker 2: Feel about the rotation? Do you see it expanding or

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do you feel like you know what you have right

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now in your rotations?

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Speaker 4: Any given night could be different. Right now we're kind

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of playing eight and early in this season we had

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quite a few nagging injuries people out. But here's the thing,

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and it's tough because it gets later in the year

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and it kind of shrinks. You know, you're seeing a

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little bit with the men. But I feel confident with

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any of that nine, ten, eleven, twelve, you know, putting

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them in. But right now we're kind of at eight

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and based on foul trouble or little injuries, will adjust

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Speaker 2: Lee Kamart, head coach b A women's basketball here on

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Speaker 3: Is that your.

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Speaker 2: Biggest win as a head coach do you think?

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Speaker 4: Well, metrically speaking, yes, they're are a net twenty ish team,

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they're down in the twenties. Both a ISU and Virginia

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Tech are in the forties. So metrically speaking, yes, it's

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a good win for us.

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Speaker 2: What about on the court as a player, what was

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your best win and how does that one compare vicariously, like,

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how does it compare you know to like the best

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wins on the court as a player.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean when you asked that my favorite wins

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going back to or when we clinched you know, Mount

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West Conference championship. So might not have been the biggest

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games because I think one was against Wyoming and just

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the Okay Wyoming team. One was against the Okay Air

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force Tea. Don't can't remember the third. I mean I

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remember some of those San Diego State games in the

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Marriage Center where we put it on them. They had

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a kind of quit in the second half. But but

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we I mean Gonzaga a few years ago Senior Night

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and they were they were ranked, and we were we

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were ranked, and it was a great game. We had

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to think we had nine thousand plus in their big

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big game when beating uh, beating Rutgers in the NCAA tournament,

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you know, a few years back. It's awesome. So it's

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it's up there. But here's the thing we planned. That's

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not gonna be the only time we being a ranked

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team this year.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: You get another opportunity to do Saturday versus West Virginia,

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and we're calling out all kugarnation. Man, this team's trending

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in the right direction. A big win over Tech. Now

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you have another ranked fow West Virginia coming in seven

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thirty pm tip off. Yes they can watch it on

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ESPN Plus, but why not watch it in person and

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see how special this this group can be. They haven't

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reached They're not even close to their potential yet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, We're working in progress. You know, we're younger and

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we're learning how to win and bring it, you know,

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every single position for Cougar Nation. I was told today

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that anybody with a men's ticket can come to the

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women's game with the same ticket for free. A full

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day in the Marriott Center. It's my life every day,

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so I take it a little for granted, but it

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doesn't get any better than that. So come on out support.

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It's a great group that I think Cougar Nation's really

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starting to get behind. They play really hard and they

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pride theirself on their effort and their their their unity.

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Speaker 2: One of the conversations we were having on this show

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this week and even a little bit last week, Boy

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was Uh, it's a man's basketball question. I'm gonna ask

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you this because we were talking about your best games

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and favorite games, favorite wins. We're talking about the Big

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three or the brig three is called a j Rob

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Lane third and uh and the Todd King Richie Saunders.

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You had a pretty good set of triers. We were

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talking about, you know, some of the best trios in

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BAU basketball history, and I want to say you had

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a pretty good trio. Do you remember that trio was

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the best trio of your career.

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Speaker 4: If you're gonna put Tavinari on there, you know, I

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don't know.

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Speaker 3: We'll have just like you don't want to be in there.

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Speaker 4: You know, one year with me, Trent and j T.

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And then the next year is Jim or j T

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and myself. You know, but even the year before that,

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I mean you're had Kena and Trent and you know,

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kind of leading the leading the group where we want

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it as well. So, uh, played with some really good

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players and we had a lot of success in the

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old Merritt Center, you know, a lot of success in

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that building.

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Speaker 2: Is there something to championship runs and trios?

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Speaker 3: Right? Obviously I'm an MJ.

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Speaker 2: Scottie, you know, and you know, you could say Horace

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Grant or Dennis Rodman or you know, everyone to insert

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into that trio. We were talking about the Golden State

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Wars early today with with their trios, right and their

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championship runs and things that nature. And so like, when

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you talk about these trios and championship runs, it seems

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like it does coincide.

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Speaker 3: There was a formula to it.

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Speaker 4: It's it's definitely easier the more you have.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I've been really, but if you have too much,

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if you can't have four stars and you can have

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four five stars, Yeah, everybody.

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Speaker 4: Just take this thought. You know, I think the three

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are doing a great job and and and I think

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they're very willing passers and willing playmakers as far as

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make in the right play. At times they got to

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take over, you know, all three of them have at

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different times. But they're just well coached and well versed

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and what's the right play. And it's just crazy how

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easy the game comes to all three of them. And

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you know, going into it, Okay, let's say you want

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to put your best defender on take one, pick one,

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probably aj Wright. Okay, you're gonna put second on Richie

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and third on Rob or second on Robin, third on Richie.

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Like most of these teams don't have enough to guard

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that way. And it's just you know, makes it a

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lot easier for two and three, regardless of you know,

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of what they're doing. You know. So it's fun thing

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to watch, and it just seems like on a given night,

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any of them could have a big night. And the

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staff put a roster together that just fits perfectly with

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those three. You know, some three and D guys, some

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rim protection and lob threats, and it's really enjoyable to watch.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how special is it? I mean, you play so.

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Speaker 2: Much ball, high level ball, and seeing this squad come together,

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be pretty selfless, be complicent, thy cohesive, good culture players

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bought in and with how with the amount of talent

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that's there, how special.

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Speaker 4: Is this it is? I mean I've watched it all

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summer and fall, and I've watched them practice quite a bit,

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and it's been pretty remarkable. From the jump. I've been

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really impressed with you call them the brig three, how

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they carry themselves, their humility, as how they approach practice

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and preparation, you know, and and everybody seems to be

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dialed in for one common goal, you know. And I

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mean I'll let them talk about what that is in

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that locker room. But as a fan, as an alumni

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of that program, I'm really behind it and love love

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watching it, love cheering it on, and and tell everybody that, hey,

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it's going to be a great run.

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Speaker 3: Love that.

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Speaker 2: Let's do a quick scouter report before we let you

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go lead West Virginia this Saturday.

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Speaker 3: They're sixteen and four.

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Speaker 2: They're third in the Big twelve they're number twenty two

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in the country and I think they're on a two

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game winning streak right now. They also lost to TCU

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this this season.

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Speaker 3: It was a close one.

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Speaker 2: They lost to Texas Tech by by five. They got

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a dub over Iowa State though in that last five games.

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What are we gonna see from West Virginia.

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Speaker 4: Really well coached team. They kind of play an unorthodox

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style where they'll press the zone, press, they run and jump,

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they gamble quite a bit, they try to speed you up,

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and then they really rely offensively of getting into the paint,

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getting to the rim and either finishing getting an offensive

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rebound and put back, or get into the foul line.

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I think they shoot like twenty six free throws a game,

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So you know, valuing it, guarding without fouling, and trying

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to own that paint on Saturday is going to be

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super important for us. And you know, offensively, if we

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can even if we turn it over, if it's not

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turnovers for touchdowns, I think we'll be in good shape.

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But if they get you out of control and you

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you start turning it over and they get layups out

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of it, it's a it's a tough thing. So they

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play a lot of people in any given night, they

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got three or four that can have a big night.

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So that's challenging. But for the most part, it's just

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trying to with composure manage everything that's going. You know,

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if it's ugly, got to win an ugly one. If

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it's you know, free flowing, let's let that thing move

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around and get great shots. And another challenge. You know,

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we're going three straight against the ranked team, and this

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is what we live for. It's big twelves. Why you know,

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these athletes have come to BYU and yeah, let's go.

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Glad we're doing it in American.

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Speaker 2: Let's go Lee Kamard leading the Lady Coogs This Saturday

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versus West Virginia. You have the three thirty pm tip

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off with with you men's basketball. Why not stick around

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you get in for free baby, stick around and watch

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another big time game at the Marriage Center. Is Bay

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women's basketball takes on West Virginia at seven thirty pm.

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So stick around and cheer on Lee Kamard and these

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Lady Coogs.

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Speaker 3: Lee, we solute you. We appreciate you man much love.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations on a big dub next game up, good luck.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go Coops, Lee, Kamard, ladies and gentlemen.

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