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uh and
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welcome you know welcome to the
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Brotherhood uh but welcome to the best
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brand in college
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sports the best
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brand uh as good a tradition as there is
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in in in any sport
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worldwide Duke
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basketball and the people that were
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responsible for
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that set in your seats
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uh not all the time because when billis
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was here we uh we didn't have a practice
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facility and and he really needed it by
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the way and uh uh but uh uh now you're
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in those
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seats uh it's uh it's an awesome
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opportunity uh to be uh to be a part of
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something better than anyone
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else and uh
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but as you start your year and that was
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a good workout really good workout
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competitive you know you guys are
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working hard on that but
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uh uh you're not going to
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win uh because of our tradition or our
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brand uh and don't assume that you just
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have it because you
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don't that doesn't mean you can't have
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it but you have to recognize what
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created the brand and the
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tradition uh there were I'm going to
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tell you about three of the things that
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helped make the brand and make the
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tradition the very first thing is
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preparation um I was fortunate uh to
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play for one of the greatest coaches of
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all time coach Bob Knight he was
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brilliant uh uh he ran hard practices
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too and uh one of the things he he said
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that I believe in and really uh built my
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career as a coach on it was uh the very
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first thing
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preparation uh obviously like today you
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had the will to win
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right everyone you're going to play
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against is going to have the will to win
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you you're going to want to
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win but the most important thing is to
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have the will to prepare to win
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preparation to win is much more
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important than the will to win but if
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you combine the preparation to win and
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the will to win I get chills thinking
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about it you got a chance man you got a
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chance but the preparation is hard
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obviously when you're here the coaches
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are in charge you're competitive and
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whatever right today was probably good
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preparation you know uh
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uh what do you do before you get
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here you that's what the great players
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the great teams do what do you do when
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you're not not here with the coaches you
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know how do you
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eat how do you sleep who do you hang
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with you know it's all important and
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when you do come in here because of
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restrictions and hours and that who else
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helps you
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prepare yeah uh some uh the managers out
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there help
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you do you know their
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names when they come in do you say
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thanks you know do you treat them as
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equals because they are and they're an
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important part of your
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preparation before you go to the
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training room before
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practice does someone have to beg you to
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do what you're supposed to do or do you
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just do it in other words are you one
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with Nick and
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Jose you yeah after a workout there's
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before there's recovery how do you
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recover you know uh I mean I've coached
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some of the best teams in college
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basketball and the greatest players but
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I also coached the US team for 11 years
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and they were the greatest players and
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the two best preparers were Kobe Bryant
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and LeBron James and LeBron learned how
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to prepare even better from Kobe you
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know what they did off the court put
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them in a
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position to be
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great they didn't wait till they got on
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the court they did the things necessary
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to prepare them and you guys better be
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prepared uh because there's a bull's eye
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on
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you you know everyone you play against
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it'll be that kids and that programs
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most important
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game count on it count on it they want
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the brand they want the TR they want and
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you walk into the
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gym boom they want
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you that's a privilege to have the Bulls
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Eye on you you because you know what by
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them coming at you just like today the
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most important thing that I saw today
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was you made each other better
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you competed against each other you
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cannot get there alone so you want this
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level of competition so at these other
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teams come on
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man we're okay with the we're okay with
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the bulls side we like the bull we like
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the bulli but you better be prepared for
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it and probably the last 25 years uh our
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program uh our program including the
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last two years is our program and uh we
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we probably won 70% of our away games
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which is probably better than most or
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anybody in 75% of those games when we
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lost they stormed the
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court when you're on the road one of the
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best feelings and the guys who played
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you know is to silence the
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crowd damn right we have the B I and by
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the way your fans are leaving at the 3
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minute
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Mark every once while remember those
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timeouts where you just say time out
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what do you want coach I said I just
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want you to look in the stands these are
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leaving and a big smile gets across
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because that those will be some of the
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moments that you're going to enjoy the
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most you enjoy the most but preparation
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is is a key the second thing want to
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tell you is that we have a a thing here
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we call next
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play you know uh you got to be the next
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play is the play that you're going to be
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in so whatever you've done doesn't mean
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crap it's what you're going to do and
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our game is
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continuous just like your PR offense
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defense until Jay Robert will make a bad
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call and stop the the
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clock by the way I made more notes on on
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their port performance today and I'm
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sure you guys all agree with it right
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there's just some of the horrendous
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calls and you know come on yeah a
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couple yeah yeah they should have gotten
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you for Golding a couple times but no
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they don't and uh uh but uh next play
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means uh basketball favors and the
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player and the team that's are
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continuous thinkers you don't get time
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in between pitches or snaps or or
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whatever and so whatever you just did
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was important then but it's not
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important now and the best way to get to
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next play is to talk and actually today
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was not bad with talk uh there was some
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good talk but you need to talk all all
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the time and be in the moment you know
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our game is about Great Moments right
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it'd be damn it'd be a damn shame if you
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weren't ready for the moment because you
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were thinking about what you just did
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right and you're in control of that and
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what it is it it it's uh it's mental
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toughness yeah there's physical
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toughness and there's mental toughness
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but I you're going to make a mistake I
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missed a
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shot you you can't be thinking about the
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Miss or the make you got to be thinking
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about the rebound the defense or
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whatever the hell you're going to do and
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if you don't do that then a guy who
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thinks quicker than you is going to beat
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you even if you're more talented than
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him so the next play mentality and talk
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is the key thing and I I was actually
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very encouraged today with with with
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talk because usually teams are silent
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you guys were were pretty good with that
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but you got to be good with it all the
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time the third thing is defense
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I know you're going to practice a lot of
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offense and that uh and and you're going
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to practice a lot of
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Defense if you want to win this whole
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thing be the best defensive team in the
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country and you have an opportunity to
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do that uh you're you're tall you're
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deep and you're you're
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athletic uh you know what you're not yet
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you're not
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wide like the best defensive teams are
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wide you and you know how you get
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wide by
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talking yeah yeah if you're just playing
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or standing and you're not talking your
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arms go down I've watched you on defense
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quite a bit today and whenever someone
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was talking they were like this it's
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Human Nature
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you know you're like this and as soon as
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you start talk right your arms go out
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you know and so who's in charge of
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that you and if you're wide then your
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first step is going to be stronger and
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longer your reaction's going to be
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quicker right because you're not waiting
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for something to happen by talking
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you're anticipating that it's going to
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happen and so my wish for you and uh
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coach sh WS me come a few more workouts
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in that I'll be watching how you
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progress uh my wish for you is to be the
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best defensive team in the
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country the second wish and we talked
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about this with every one of our teams
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right SE well with that you guys we
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wanted to be the best talking team not
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trash
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talking we we can let our our actions
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will prove who we are you know and the
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third thing I wish is that you'll be the
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most
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prepared we can control the coaches and
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that the
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second the the two things defense and
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talk by
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practicing the preparation you have to
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control and it has to have to have
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discipline and it has to you have to be
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motivated to do it and I'll tell you
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what if you do it you're going to feel
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really damn
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good you know you're not only going to
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be better physically and me and when I
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talk about that it's not just physical
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it's
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mental like who you're hanging with if
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there's a problem if you guys have a
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problem you need to let somebody know
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about it or you're worried about
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something can I talk in other words a
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clear head a clean motivated
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body talking and Def and we got
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it but that preparation is going to mean
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commitment you know I want you uh I
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guess my final wish is that when this
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season is over
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obviously uh we want to win the national
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championship but I would hope that you
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would have a quiet
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moment where the season's over and
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you're looking at a practice jersey or
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whatever in your room and and you say to
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yourself I'm really proud of
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me
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you I made that commitment to prepare I
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made that commitment to talk I made that
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commitment to play
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defense I'm damn proud of myself you be
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proud of yourself and we'll be proud of
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you and and welcome and have fun all
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right thanks all right
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