00:00Coach, do you shorten your bench or do you try to go deep into your bench
00:04when you're in these games and when you're especially in that second game?
00:12Well, I'm not a great guy for that because I thought if you could play
00:17like McNamara did with Siena, if you could play five of them, why not?
00:21They're your five best.
00:25There are some innate advantages to shortening your bench
00:30in that the timeouts are two and a half minutes.
00:34The halftime is longer.
00:36So you do have an opportunity.
00:39I think it's more mental freshness the second day.
00:43I really do.
00:44I think it's mental freshness in getting your decision.
00:49What you can't do is you can't surprise your players.
00:53You can't all of a sudden some kid saying, well, I'm good.
00:57I'm slotted right here.
00:59I'm the seventh man.
01:00I know I'm going to get 22 minutes.
01:03And then you spring 11 minutes on them.
01:06That's not healthy for him.
01:10And it's not healthy for your team because now the kid's sitting over there
01:14wondering what did I do to lose my minutes?
01:17Or when am I getting called?
01:20Um, so I think, I think you have to stay consistent in your preparation.
01:27I think you have to stay consistent in your scouting.
01:30And I think you have to stay consistent in your rotation.
01:34You know, years ago, I had a conversation on what you're just talking about
01:37with coach wooden and coach wooden told me, he goes, what I did in the opener
01:42against Washington, I did in the finals against Kentucky, I never wanted to have
01:48my players know how hard is that coach to keep that routine going when you're
01:53in this tournament, whether you have such variations in time.
01:58Well, I think if you've practiced it all year long and it is your DNA,
02:05unfortunately, I think there are, it's the same thing as walking out to practice,
02:09Dan. Like, what would your practice plan look like? And I've, I haven't studied
02:14coach wooden, but I've read enough to know this is what they did for practice.
02:20What John Cheney did at temple. This is what he did. I'll never understand.
02:28Preparing for your show. When you're, when you're, when you know your script,
02:33you go nail it every single time you go on, Dan, every single time when you're
02:39scrambling, you give a less, lesser product. I think coaches need to be more
02:45scripted and more consistent with their script.
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