It's a great recruiting class so far. Having marquee players like that, guys who are hungry to represent their country, two of the top players in the game, that's a great start.
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Giving back what the game has given you, that's one of the things I want to permeate through the program for the next three years and serve as a basis for the team, ... I hope the players look at it that way, too. You forget how lucky you are to be in a specific situation sometimes. We need to get that feeling going again.Mike Krzyzewski
First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
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I liken the game that we'll have to play (Saturday) to that. A number of our games to get to the Sweet 16 have been our toughest games.
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In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
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We thought we could really deny passing lanes tonight and our kids did, and that was something we really exploited right from the get-go. That was set up by Paulus' pressure on the ball.
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We've never had this sort of disparity before, ... Certainly we've had experienced veterans and promising freshmen before, but we've usually had middle classes, too. We have basically four scholarship seniors, five scholarship freshmen and only one guy in-between who we recruited.
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