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Good.
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Good. Um, all right. Uh, we'll get
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started first with Arl Binham.
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Yeah, coach. And, uh, Caleb had a lot of
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impact in the last few minutes,
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particularly defensively, but, uh, in
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the last 15 minutes of the last four
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games, he's gotten four shots or fewer
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in each game. What do you need to do to
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get him more shots down the stretch?
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Can you Can you repeat that again? And
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in the last four games, Caleb has gotten
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four or fewer shots in each of those
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games. What do you need to do to get him
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more shots down the stretch when you got
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to get baskets?
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Well,
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um,
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you know, those are those are your
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stats. So, you know, I
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all all I have to say is, you know, down
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the floor from an offensive standpoint,
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um,
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you know, he he either gets an offensive
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rebound, he either assisted or he gets
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fouled and gets to the free throw line.
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Have you counted, you know, getting to
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the free throw line as well and getting
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an offensive offensive rebound, put
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back? Have you counted those also?
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Sure. I mean, he he's he's got to the
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line. He got to the line four times each
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of the last two games, but
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Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, obviously, you know, we like
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to get the ball to him as much as
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possible and also, you know, defenses
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um pay him a lot of attention as well.
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Um and and doubling whenever he catches
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the basketball and try to get the ball
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out of his hands.
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Thanks,
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uh Shelby Swanson.
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Hey, Hubert. Um, just curious as you
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guys are preparing for Notre Dame on
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Wednesday and then also getting everyone
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settled in after the West Coast trip.
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Just what are the points of emphasis,
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you know, in the practices leading up to
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Notre Dame?
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Um, well, obviously, you know, um, you
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know, as I said before with you guys,
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you know, um, most important thing for
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us is to be a good defensive team. And,
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you know, last week and really last
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couple weeks, we just haven't been that.
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and um reassuring things that um that I
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feel like it's good for us from a
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defensive standpoint.
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um taking a look at, you know, changing
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or adjusting some things to put us in
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better positions to get stops. And um
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that's that's the number one thing is we
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have to be a good defensive team, a good
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rebounding team. Whomever we play in the
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last couple of weeks and um especially
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out in California,
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um we didn't we didn't play up to the
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standard which we needed to from a
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defensive standpoint.
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Uh, Noah Weisskoff. Go ahead, sir.
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Hey, Hubert. Good morning. You mentioned
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the sense of urgency out of your guys in
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the second half at Cal. I know you've,
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you know, you guys have done it this
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season after made free throws, but do
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you feel like that fullcourt pressure
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maybe more consistently throughout games
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can help manufacture some of that sense
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of urgency?
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Um, maybe. Um, you know, I think a sense
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of urgency should be there
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um all the time. When you get an
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opportunity to be out there on the floor
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and have a chance to compete, that
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should trigger the sense of urgency,
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whether it's in practice, shoot around,
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or in a game.
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Uh, Michael Co, go ahead.
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Morning, Huer. Um, before you guys went
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out to California, you talked about how
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during film study of SMU and Wake
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Forest, you had sort of talked to the
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guys about what was going wrong with the
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defense and that they seemed receptive
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to that. Uh, why do you think against
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Stanford and in the first half against
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Cal, why do you think that those lessons
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didn't really stick, I guess?
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Um, well, you know, I I I think I think
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it's
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I think it's two parts. Uh, you know,
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you asked me a question in regards
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defensively, but I think I think at at
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times our offense doesn't help our
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defense. Um, you know, um, execution,
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shot selection,
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um, miss free throws. Um those are the
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things that uh at times put us in
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transition defense where um may give um
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an open three um a layup in transition.
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Um it's not just on the defensive end in
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terms of you know not boxing out or
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defending without fouling. Uh um a slow
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rotation, a slow closeout. I think at
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times our offense is hurting our defense
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with the execution, with um the shot
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selection, with turnovers,
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um with missed free throws.
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Thank you.
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Uh Spencer Haskell, go ahead.
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Morning, Hubert. Um kind of going back
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on Shelby's question, uh you guys
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talking about changing and adjusting
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things with kind of the bumpier start
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you guys have had with the bumps in the
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roads in California last week. You just
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mentioned you guys are looking at
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changing and adjusting some of your
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approaches to coaching this team. Just
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wondering kind of what sort of those
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changes and adjustments are that you
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guys are looking at.
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Well, I said possible.
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Okay.
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Adjusting and changing. That's what I
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said. I said possible. And so um
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obviously we want to be um the best
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defensive team as as possible. And so
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just always taking a hard look whether
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and and and it's no different look after
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after wins, always looking to improve,
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always looking to get better um as a
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team.
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Thank you,
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Brett Freedellander.
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Morning, Hubert. Um only one ACC team so
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far this season has gone out to the West
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Coast and not come back with at least
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one loss. Other than the fact that
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Stanford and Cal are good basketball
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teams, what is the biggest challenge of
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going out there and playing you know two
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games in three days and and and and then
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you know having to come right back and
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play some more?
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Yeah, I mean I um you know the you know
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the reason that we lost is you know we
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didn't play well and and Stanford and
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and Cal did and you know they are just
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like you mentioned they're good
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basketball teams. Um, obviously
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traveling travel traveling out there um
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is a long distance. It's a different
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time zone, but it had no effect on the
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way that we played last week.
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All right. Thank you very much.
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Uh, Andrew Jones.
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Hey, Hubert. Hope you're doing well this
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morning.
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Yeah.
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Got a question for you about late in the
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game the other day. Seth had three shots
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down the stretch and a couple other guys
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had some shots as well, but Seth in
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particular, uh, were those were those
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quality shots, are those shots that you
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want to see from him? Do you and do you
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want to see him in that position sort of
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take charge where it looked like he was
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trying to be someone taking a little bit
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charge out there? Cuz some of the other
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looks were um maybe not some of the ones
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you would have drawn up.
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Um, I'm not sure which one or which ones
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that you're talking about. um you know
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and and you know late game late late
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shot clock situations. Obviously we want
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to get a great shot every possession
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um whether it's an open shot from inside
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the arc or beyond. Um but we also want
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to get fouled and get to the free throw
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line and put ourselves in position to do
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that. And uh when we cut it to six, I
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think it was 7771
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um and then we cut it to three um you
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know down the stretch we just didn't
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make the shots that we needed to make
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and get the defensive stops that we
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needed to um to be able to catch back up
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and take the lead.
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When you look back at the film, did you
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like the shots that you got down the
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stretch? Are you okay with those?
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Um I'm not sure which ones you were
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particularly talking about. I mean, I I
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I think you can go back in a game and,
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you know, as I said before, there are
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times uh from an offensive standpoint
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that um um our shot selection isn't
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isn't great, our execution isn't great,
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and um obviously we've struggled with
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free throws at times. And so, um you
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know, not just in late game situations,
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those uh those are things that I'm
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looking at throughout the entire game.
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All
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right. Thank you. Appreciate that.
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Yep.
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Okay. And your last question will go to
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Shelby Swanson.
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Yeah. I I was just curious um going back
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to the Cal Trip and particularly the um
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game at Berkeley. Um there are a few
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points, you know, you see um Caleb
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coming back to the bench and he's
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getting on his teammates, let's go. And
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I know Seth said he was very vocal at
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halftime. just what do you like that um
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you're seeing in terms of the kind of um
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player-led leadership in some of those
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moments and um any room for I guess
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growth and guys being more vocal. Well,
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I mean, I love our, you know, I love,
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you know, our guys being vocal and
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communicating and and um um you know,
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the conversation
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um whether it's on the bench, in the
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huddle, in the locker room, during
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practice, on the floor. Um if you're not
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talking, you're not communicating,
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you're not playing basketball. And I
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just have always believed that. Um, but
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it's also two parts, you know. It's it's
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it's saying those things and also doing
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those things. And um um but I encourage
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the guys to talk. I encourage the guys
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to have conversations all throughout the
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game and all throughout practice,
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wherever it be. And as I said before, if
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you're not talking, you're not you're
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not being a team and you're not playing
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basketball.
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Hubert, thank you. Appreciate the time
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today. Yeah, excellent.
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