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This week, T.J. and Sam are joined by head coach Andre Cook from St. Edward's University.

With over 400 collegiate wins and 20 years of coaching experience, Coach Cook shares how he coaches the offensive side of the ball,

specifically looking at their pace,

shot selection, player development, and more. Let's get started.

Hey, welcome to the Hardwood Hustle. Sam and I, we've got a super guest on for you today.

You think you're really going to enjoy this. We're going to talk a lot of offense, talk everything that will help you basketball but specifically in the

offensive realm andre cook from st edwards university welcome to the show it's good to be here

good to see you again tj nice to meet you sam yeah hey so andre's been a friend for a while we

actually met in hawaii anybody you meet in hawaii's probably going to be a lifelong friend you

know i mean everybody's a little bit more laid back and ready to go there, right?

Yeah, we probably spoke the whole pregame.

And yeah, you and I found out in that 25 minutes of pregame that we have a lot in common, a lot of friends.

And, man, yeah, you're right.

We are friends for life now. you know one of the thing going

into that in Hawaii I was just I was blown away with like just the offense the pace that

your team played with watching you on film was just like a real pleasure and I think it was the

next year maybe the year after I'm not sure I know you guys were playing Texas and I think had them, they had I had them down at halftime or whatever. And I had a couple of guys text me and are like, are you watching this game or whatever? And can you believe I'm like, no, I can totally believe it. I mean, because you were doing that. I mean, obviously the talent, the size level, Texas is so big, top tier, whatever, but you were

executing your offense the same way against Texas that you do against other people.

And that pace was just really hard to keep up with. Your kids never quit moving. The action,

I was actually watching some synergy on you this morning on some different games. And the number

of touches and the pace they around is like, nothing's changed, man. There's no secret as to why this guy wins. This is just a really, really hard to guard team that shares the ball. So let's just dive in on the offensive end. I mean, let's big picture, zoom out. What do you think as a coach offensively? Well, I appreciate you saying that and thank you. And Rodney Terry was very, St. Ed's alum, and it was very nice to him to play the first game, exhibition game that he could schedule as the official head coach. He scheduled us. So it was a lot of, it was a lot of fun to go there. And I know you've played those games in the past and play in front of 9,000, or fun. And I was so worried, T.J, about, about, I didn't want pity claps. You know, I didn't want to be down 18 to and like, oh, look at the good. The little D2 guys out there running around. So I was like fire and brimstone.

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