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All right, welcome to the hardwood hustle. We're going to talk about sometimes players and

coaches, coaches and players that, you know, sometimes don't feel like it. They might have

different reasons. You know, lately we've had Kyrie in the news and he's talking about,

well, my mind's not completely there. And then we all have coached players, maybe really good players that sometimes practice hard, sometimes don't practice hard. And I think this trickulates to coaches as well. You know, sometimes coaches show up with their A game. Sometimes they don't show up with their A game. I say, you and I have talked about this over the years, but, you know,

we all got to show up even when we don't feel like it sometimes or when other things are on our mind. And, you know, I think we might have some similar, but also some different takes on this as well. But I want to get your thoughts and opinions, first of all, just on the sometimes, you know, like what is our responsibility as a player?

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