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00:00Scal, I'm assuming you heard the Joe Mazzula, pardon my take, comments where he talked about, you know, the low point of the season in January and he was waking up thinking he was going to get fired and telling assistants they were all going to get fired.
00:13And it made me think, looking back on this season, you know, all the expectations we had, the low points, the win-win-lose, everything.
00:21Like, how would you describe what they put forth in 82 games?
00:25How would you sort of summarize this season as they try to defend a title?
00:28Yeah, summarize it up.
00:30I think Tatum has gone to a new level.
00:32You know, like, it's a percentage that doesn't make sense to the common person.
00:36Like, Jason Tatum is 5% better than he was last year, which if you're already at the top of your game, it's a massive jump.
00:42Derek White and Holiday probably, you know, I don't know, run down from winning a championship and then getting on a plane and going to win a gold medal.
00:50And then, you know, we've had some, like, Peyton Pritchard got his moment.
00:54You know, Sam Hauser has had his moment.
00:57Lance Blue Cornett has had his moment.
00:59So, the rest of the team has kind of, like, picked up the slack.
01:02If those guys, the guys that I just mentioned at the end, would have played better during the stretch when White and Holiday were kind of running in mud or nursing injuries or just playing tired or worn out,
01:13then I think that January wouldn't have looked like it did.
01:16But everyone kind of hit the low at the exact same time, maybe minus Jason Tatum, and the end result is just, like, a really tough month.
01:26But, you know, ideally, you would have saw, you know, White and Holiday be carried by, you know, Hauser, Baylor Shireman, who probably wasn't ready at the time, Peyton Pritchard, Luke Cornett.
01:37Like, the energy that those guys played with at the end would have been more useful in January, but still won 60 games as bad as that January was.
01:45So, I give the team a ton of credit.
01:48If you want to describe why they didn't win 65, it was probably because this January was just, like, a running in mud type of month.