Ohio State Buckeyes' forward Jamison Battle said he has spoken to the younger players and wants them to forget about their past struggles.
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00:00 >> Yeah, I think it's just us coming together and the group of guys that we
00:03 have is that we're all willing to challenge each other and
00:05 we're all willing to push each other.
00:08 And I think that's what's special about this group.
00:09 So in the end, we just gotta come back to practice the next day or
00:12 whenever we have practice next and go at it and bring it.
00:16 Good teams, they practice hard and they go hard,
00:18 whereas sometimes practices are easier and harder than games.
00:22 So in that aspect, we just have to bring it in practice and
00:25 the message is just keep doing what you're doing, but
00:26 we have to do it at a higher level.
00:28 Just keep getting better, and in the end, that's the message,
00:30 just improve every day.
00:31 And if you don't improve, if you have something bad that happens,
00:33 you can't look back on it, you have to learn from it.
00:35 >> We'll go two more over Jeff.
00:37 >> Yeah, Roddy has struggled a little bit since the West Virginia game.
00:42 Certainly you've had struggles throughout your career.
00:44 What, as a leader, what can you say to him?
00:48 What are you doing, trying to do to him, for him, to help him just relax and
00:52 play like he had to play?
00:54 >> Yeah, it's the line I just said, that in the end,
00:56 you can't worry about the past.
00:57 I come in here and say this almost every interview, almost every time I'm in here,
01:00 it's that the past is the past, and in the end, he's had his struggles.
01:03 But it's always about that next play mentality,
01:05 because in the end, you can't let the past define what's happening in the present.
01:09 And for that, I think that's what Roddy has.
01:11 He's someone who, in the end, we just have to help him forget about what's happened
01:15 and move on from it, because there's nothing you can do about the past.
01:18 There's nothing you can do to change it.
01:19 The only thing you can do to change it is what you do in the present and
01:22 what you do in the now.
01:23 And I think that's the biggest thing with our team, is that we all have that open
01:27 dialogue in the end, and we have some guys who have experience, and
01:30 we have some guys who have been here and have felt those scars of last year.
01:33 So in the end, we just have to be able to come together as a team and
01:36 move as one unit.
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