Tatum on the Illawarra Hawks potential history making match

Justin Tatum chats to Mercury sport reporter Argon Latifi ahead of Wednesday's potentially history-making match. Footage by Grace Hamilton.

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00:00I thought about the history board. I didn't think about it. It was being recreated.

00:03It was me going back to New Zealand where I first started, so that's kind of like exciting here,

00:08but we understand what we have a chance to do on Wednesday and hopefully get it done.

00:14Did you ever think you'd be in a position to do this building?

00:16No, not at all. I didn't think I was going to be here this long, right?

00:20I came down here just expecting to get the experience as an assistant coach and now

00:24have an opportunity, like you said, to make history here. So no, I did not have a thought

00:28about that at all, but now hearing it from you or the crowd or the players and things like that,

00:34I go home and sit back and I'm like, man, like you said, 15 months ago, I was in this situation

00:38now and I created this opportunity for me. So I do, you know, subliminally pat myself on the back.

00:44You know, I'm excited about it, but I'm more excited about the response that I got from my team.

00:47You were lucky, you were fortunate that 90% of the,

00:50more than 90% of the squad came back. That helps, doesn't it, having the same players?

00:55It helps a lot. It helps a lot. And then you can see the struggles between other teams

00:58working on their continuity. If they ever get it, if they don't get it, if they start to get it kind

01:01of late, we've had it from, you know, last year at loss, right? And then we just had to add two

01:05more people to our bussle, which were great pieces of it. So that was a really big part of

01:10our success this year, early on this year, is our continuity and everybody returning back.

01:16Let's go make history. Let's do it.

01:25Let's go make history.