Nate Oats compliments Rylan Griffen's leadership

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00:00 >> Grant said that Rylan sternly challenged him on the bench during the game.

00:04 In your course of winning championships over the year, how important is that to

00:08 the DNA of the team to have the players challenging each other,

00:11 coaching themselves up on the bench?

00:14 >> The best teams I've ever coached are player coach teams, to be honest with you.

00:19 I mean, we give them some direction, put them in the right system, but

00:22 that stuff, the best teams you have, that stuff comes from the players.

00:27 So it was great that Rylan stepped up.

00:28 I basically told Grant, we need you to play tough, you're good enough,

00:33 we need you to step it up.

00:35 He stepped it up.

00:36 After the game, Grant got on the ground, kind of raised his hand, and

00:39 coach let me say something.

00:40 He said, look, Grant, way to step it up.

00:42 After I checked, we've been talking about this, we need some leadership.

00:45 We need some guys to play so hard every possession that when somebody else

00:50 isn't playing hard, they don't fit in.

00:53 And then you challenge them and they need to fit in with how hard we play.

00:57 I thought Tilly was a big step in that, and

00:59 Rylan's been playing pretty hard on defense.

01:05 He was really locked in today, both sides of the ball.

01:07 >> Grant.

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