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good . I just wanted to ask you a

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couple questions about the operation

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hardwood . Uh There's no problem sir .

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Um who is the coach of your team ?

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J . Bill is the coach of our team .

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Okay . And is he assisted by

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anybody ? Yes . He's assisted by

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master and bishop . Okay .

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And for you guys , what kind of , what

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does this tournament uh mean for you

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all , I mean it is something like

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everyone over there is kind of taking

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friday and I know they had one before .

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Have you ? Yes , we all we all been

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looking for this for a long time . We

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think this is um pretty good . It gives

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us the time to get away from the

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sandbox which we call and just to get

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away from doing work and doing

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something that we love to do , which is

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play basketball .

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Um

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What kind of have you learned

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from from j there ? What's , what type

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of guy is he to kind of be a part of ?

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Uh oh he seems he's really determined

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to win . He gets on us hard just as he

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would do any other players . He's not

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taking it easiest and he's not like out

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here for just show or whatever . Just

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to say that he's a famous person out

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there showing his face , He's out here

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as soon as he got in , he got on the

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ball , started coaching , giving us

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plays all types of things like that .

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And he digs in us every day , every

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minute . Um for you

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all , have you got a chance to speak

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with anybody that participated in the

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first tournament and get impressions

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from them of what kind of was like to

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go through and playing and everything .

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No , I haven't talked to anybody like

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that . Uh , but the experience that I'm

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having this outstanding though . Okay .

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Um ,

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for you , all the guys like jay villas

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would , would come over and I know uh ,

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Dave Odom I believe is over there from

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university of south Carolina for these

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guys to come over and give up their

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time and help out with this tournament .

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What what does that mean to you guys

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over there ? It means a whole lot of ,

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uh , there's a lot of people that says

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that they support the military and what

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have you . But I never see anything .

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These guys here , they're giving up

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their valuable time to come over and

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spend their week to teach us , show us

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what it is , the wind , give us that

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drive and I really appreciate that and

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I think that my whole team appreciate

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that also . Uh , um ,

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where are you stationed , Dad over

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there ? I was facing at camp here in

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the camp

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Buren ,

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Can you spell that ? I'm sorry . I'm

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having a hard time hearing . Bu E

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R H I N

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G . And where is that at ? In Iraq ?

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Exactly uh , that , that we are in

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kuwait . You're in kuwait . Okay . Yes ,

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I'm sorry . And um , for you guys , you

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talk about the importance of being able

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to kind of get away from the routine

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over their sports , you know , kind of

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for us as fans as a distraction I guess

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for you guys . So it's something that

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you need every now and then . Oh yes

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sir . Yes sir . We're putting in 16

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hour days at 110 115 degrees .

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We need something to get out of mind ,

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offer that hard work that we're doing .

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This is relaxing to us

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uh

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for you all , how do what keeps , what

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keeps you guys going over there ? I

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mean it in that heat . I mean what is

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it that keeps you guys going ? Well ,

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most of us are married , our family , I

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get a lot of support from my wife . I

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talked to her every day , at least an

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email every day and just the thought of

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returning home to see her that gets it

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all . I talked to my mother listening

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to them that gives us the support that

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we need to get home . A lot of us have

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kids , they can't wait to get home to

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see him . And for us when you're

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working those kind of hours , it makes

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the time fly by . If we wasn't doing

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anything , this would be a long drawn

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out deployment . Uh kind of what is

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your message for the people here and

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help just keep giving us some support .

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That's all we need . We don't need

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nobody criticizing the military for

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being over here , nothing like that .

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We over here busting our tails trying

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to to do accomplish the mission and it

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will get accomplished very soon and we

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just want to just be home . We're gonna

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make it home safely and that's pretty

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much about it . Okay . Um , so

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did you play basketball in high school ?

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Uh , no , I wasn't fortunate . Okay .

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Did you graduate from Andrews High

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school ? Yes , I graduated from Andrews

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High School . Okay . And I mean , have

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you always kind of loved basketball and

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everything like that ? Has it always

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been your favorite sport ? Yes ,

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there's always been a passion for me .

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I was just in high school , I was , I

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guess a little overweight , so I just

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couldn't make it . Do you remember

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actually J gillis when he played at

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Duke ? Yes , I remember , I just ,

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it's kind of funny because I actually

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hate Duke , but because I'm a tar heel

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fan , but it doesn't , it doesn't

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matter . I'm enjoying the experience

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with them . Have you kidding around

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about that a little bit being a tar

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heel fan ? I want to make sure I get

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some playing time first and then after

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that , then then I'm gonna get on him

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about it .

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Um

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What is he kind of talked to you about

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the game ? I mean , if he is he is he a

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real good teacher ? I mean , if he

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taught you a lot of different things

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about the game , may be just what kind

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of takes to win and compete on that

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level , right ? Right ? He says mostly

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it's all about heart given because we

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got the talent is we just got to put

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forth the effort . That's what he's

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teaching us . You know , that's how

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most of the great players all he says

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is like , it's all about heart . He

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teaches us step by step , we go through

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the numbers and we mess up on it . Then

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we're gonna keep running until we get

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right . Pretty much . That's how ,

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that's how he's teaching us . So it's a

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lot of repetition . If you , if you

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mess up , you know , just keep going

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back and doing it over here until you

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get it right . And that can

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kind of translate into the work that

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you guys are doing over there . Right ?

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I mean , it's it's repetition and

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making sure that you get things done

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that . Right ? I mean , it's kind of a

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reinforcement to you from your from

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your military training and stuff . Yes ,

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sir . Yes , sir . Because we train , we

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train in wartime for the more time

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situation . That's what we're always

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doing . We're always training . So it's

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like you say , it's a repetition

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and what what would a victory , I mean

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for you guys ? But I mean , I know you

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guys are taking this uh competition

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very seriously to be able to go out and

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win this tournament . What what was

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that kind of mean to you guys , to your

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team and everything . Uh , I mean a lot

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we got a lot of people back and can't

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be earned this . They want us to win

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and to bring the trophy home for them .

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It will speak a lot because they really

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don't think that we're gonna do any

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good at this tournament . Okay . So it

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would be it would be a great , a great

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thing of pride for the camp . I mean ,

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so there is some pressure , Right ? I

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mean , you're representing those guys

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and you want to bring it home for them ?

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Yes . Yes , Exactly . Right . That's

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what we want . And then

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the competition with the other the

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other guys . I mean , it's in good

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spirits , but like I said , I mean on

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the court , once you get on the court ,

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I mean , you guys are going after the

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wind , right ? There's no teammates

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were on the court . Is war baby

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Russell . Thank you so much for your

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time today . I appreciate it . No

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problem . No problem . Thank you . Take

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care . Bye bye . Yeah . You feel