UW coach Mike Hopkins spoke about bouncing back from a couple of tough losses.
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00:00 >> In terms of just coming back and trying to bounce back.
00:03 >> Sure. >> From a gut check,
00:04 because I mean, you guys have been punched in the gut a few different ways.
00:06 >> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07 >> That way. >> Yeah.
00:07 >> Some overtime losses.
00:08 >> Yeah, yeah.
00:09 >> Like at Colorado.
00:10 >> Yeah, sure, sure, sure.
00:12 >> How's the mentality of the team after a win like that?
00:15 >> To be, I was so concerned after the Colorado game at home.
00:21 I say concerned because I looked at the, you can look at your faces of your
00:27 children or you look at the face of your players.
00:30 They know that we didn't play well at home, great crowd.
00:36 And we had two days to play Utah, which has been a great team that's,
00:42 and we played our best game of the year.
00:45 And that said a lot about our guys.
00:48 And then we had the week to prepare, so did Washington State.
00:51 And we played well enough to win.
00:53 In both of those, we had a chance.
00:54 The Oregon game here, Keon goes five for 12 from the foul line,
00:58 which is just one of those things that just never happens.
01:02 You lose a close game and the walk off, Pauly, San Diego State.
01:06 You're four plays away from having three or
01:09 four different wins that make you 15 and seven and you're three more quad one wins.
01:15 But what you really realize is the margins.
01:17 It's a play here, a play there.
01:21 And that's what, when we lost Frank, our margin for error became a lot more narrow.
01:29 But the thing that I love about this group is we bounce back.
01:32 I thought we had a really good practice yesterday.
01:35 We talked about how we're gonna just get better every day.
01:37 We've got mature people that are competitive, that wanna win.
01:41 And so it's hard.
01:43 What are we playing for?
01:48 Is our mission still accomplishable?
01:51 can you still accomplish that mission?
01:53 And I think we can, we haven't seen our best game.