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00:00 - Hi Tyler, I'm just wondering if you were,
00:03 if it came as any surprise to you to not be starting
00:09 and if so, did that kind of, you know,
00:11 I'll get you fired up about coming off the bench
00:13 and to bring the energy when you did check into the game?
00:16 - I just want to say, like,
00:21 I don't really care about starting.
00:24 I just play my role on the team
00:25 and whatever I gotta do to help win,
00:28 that's what I gotta do.
00:30 - And then for you guys, could you just talk about,
00:34 you know, the difference it makes to your offense
00:36 when you have someone like him,
00:37 clicking like he was tonight
00:38 and just, you know, hitting all those passes to you all?
00:41 - I feel like it changed our offense a lot.
00:43 He's a pass first point guard
00:44 and I'm always looking to facilitate,
00:46 trying to get his teammates going first and foremost.
00:49 Playing like that and getting those assists
00:53 and I'm playing elite defense
00:56 and also scoring a ball as well.
00:59 The way he impacts the game is a very, very huge force.
01:01 - Tyler, when you get rolling like that,
01:05 do you start to get the feeling
01:06 you can do whatever you want on the court?
01:08 - What I try to do first, get in the lane,
01:16 make the defense collapse and get my teammates involved.
01:20 So I don't, like, get big headed once I get going.
01:25 I just try to get the other guy rolling with me.
01:27 - Yeah, I have to ask about that possession
01:33 in the first half where you went for the steal,
01:36 got the layup and then you lost your shoe
01:38 and you went for like the whole, you know,
01:40 you went and played defense for like a whole,
01:42 you know, shot clock until they missed
01:44 and then you got the shoe.
01:44 Did you even notice that your shoe was off at that point
01:47 or were you just running just, you know,
01:48 straight on energy, you couldn't even tell the difference?
01:51 - I knew my shoe was off.
01:54 I didn't have time to put it back on
01:56 and we had to get the stop.
01:58 - Mike, was the game plan right here,
02:02 was the game plan for you pretty much, you know,
02:03 attack and try to get to the line?
02:05 'Cause you had 19 free throws,
02:06 obviously a big night for you there.
02:08 - Yeah, because of the way they played defense,
02:12 they could deny everything.
02:13 So you can't really run offense.
02:17 Like when we first started the game,
02:18 we was trying to run offense
02:19 and that's enough, that wasn't gonna work.
02:21 So what he told us would be,
02:22 basically like a street ball game.
02:24 Like you just gotta go in and attack.
02:26 So that's what we did.
02:27 We all got to the line a lot, but yeah,
02:30 19 is a lot.
02:33 - Back to you, Tyler.
02:37 Been a lot of great players play here.
02:38 Darryl Griffith, Donovan Mitchell,
02:39 Russ Smith, Peyton Seaver.
02:41 Nobody's ever had a 25 plus point,
02:45 10 assists and six rebound game ever.
02:48 What is, at Louisville, what does that mean to you?
02:50 Be the first.
02:53 - I'm just happy to make history
02:55 and I'm glad we got the win.
02:58 - Anything else for these three?
03:05 - Yeah, I guess just what does this win,
03:08 you guys were struggling to get offense going
03:11 the last few games, a slow first half,
03:13 but just what does a night like this,
03:14 like you kind of said, you kind of,
03:16 you toss your plays out and you're just trying to run
03:21 and I had a good time, I played street ball,
03:23 just trying to get points in the basket.
03:25 Does that help you guys?
03:27 I turned a corner in any way,
03:29 I'm offensively just going out there
03:31 and I'm having that freedom.
03:32 - I mean, it's just like game to game.
03:36 Some games you got to execute on teams,
03:38 like that it's sitting gaps.
03:40 Florida State, they deny everything,
03:42 so they don't let you play offense.
03:43 So you have to play a certain way.
03:45 So it's game to game.
03:47 So when we got Syracuse next,
03:49 they probably play a certain type of way
03:51 defense, well they were known for the two, three
03:52 with their old coach, but now they got somebody different.
03:54 So it's just the type of play style that a team plays.
03:58 And luckily we have a lot of guys who can get in the paint
04:01 and create their own shot.
04:02 And we got Tyler and PG creating for others
04:06 and that just helped us out today as well.
04:09 - Mike, Brandon, you guys both reacted to the stat
04:16 about Tyler and what he was able to do
04:18 that no other UofL players ever to do before.
04:21 Now think about what he was able to accomplish
04:23 and how much more he's able to grow.
04:26 Tell me a little bit about that
04:26 and how you guys can kind of build off this
04:29 and just his performance.
04:30 - I'm super proud of Tyler.
04:33 Like as a freshman, he's just really grown
04:37 each and every game and he's not a freshman anymore.
04:40 Like KP tells him that just to see him come out there
04:44 and play the way he did, like and break a record
04:46 and do something nobody else is doing
04:48 is amazing.
04:49 I know he's gonna keep it up
04:51 and just keep getting better.
04:52 Like the sky's the limit for him.
04:54 And I'm just proud of him.
04:55 - Yeah, I'm so proud of him.
04:58 From our first grade pickup game,
05:00 when he first got there, I knew he was that boy.
05:03 And you see it tonight.
05:07 Just, I'm just always trying to keep telling him
05:10 like, just stay locked in,
05:12 making sure he's making the right plays and stuff like that
05:14 and just let him play basketball.
05:17 And I'm really happy for him.
05:18 - For all three of you, excuse me.
05:21 How does a game like tonight
05:22 where there were 57 combined fouls,
05:24 how does that kind of impact the flow of the game
05:26 on either end of the court?
05:27 - It's just, yeah, I play what the rest is calling.
05:35 Like if they calling stuff when you get into the basket,
05:37 you just gotta keep doing that.
05:39 But it slows the game down and stuff.
05:41 But for me personally,
05:44 I just try to react off what the rest are doing.
05:46 - Tyler, take us through your week.
05:51 You missed the game the other night with the ankle injury.
05:54 When did you know you'd even be able to play tonight?
05:57 And are you even 100%?
06:00 - I feel like, I don't want to say all basketball players,
06:07 but most of them, they never really like 100%.
06:12 I am battling like an ankle injury,
06:15 but I've been in the training room the whole week.
06:18 And I felt like I could go and that's what just happened.
06:21 - Was that a game time thing?
06:23 I mean, did you go warm up
06:25 and then that was when the signature was made?
06:26 - I actually practiced yesterday
06:29 and I felt good in practice.
06:30 And I knew today that was going to happen.
06:34 - Yeah, Brandon, you were in here a week ago
06:36 when it was a decidedly different mood.
06:38 How do you explain the difference in a week
06:39 and what can this game mean for this team going forward?
06:43 - It means a lot.
06:49 Every time we all come in media,
06:51 we're always saying like we know the type of guys
06:53 we have in our locker room.
06:54 It's just about putting it together.
06:56 Sometimes we find ourselves not put one half,
07:00 not two halves together in games.
07:01 And I feel like tonight we did that.
07:04 So we also just want to make sure
07:05 we're watching the film on our mistakes
07:07 and making sure that we're cutting down on those
07:10 so we can have a much cleaner game
07:11 regarding these values.
07:13 - Brandon, before the season,
07:16 a lot of the talk was about your potential
07:18 and what coach wanted you to do.
07:20 Now, what has this demonstrated performance from you?
07:23 What has this done for your confidence
07:26 to actually go out there and do it on the floor
07:28 even for the last couple of weeks
07:29 and really for most of the season?
07:31 - I'm a problem.
07:35 It's just about making sure I'm focusing
07:37 on the right things coming to the game.
07:39 Trusting my teammates first and foremost
07:43 and trusting our staff and our game plan.
07:45 I just wanted to come out.
07:47 I didn't really have a really good game last game
07:49 and we lost.
07:49 So I just wanted to make sure I'm bringing a lot of energy
07:53 today and dominating side.
07:55 And just continue my play and helping us get Ws.
07:59 - Anything else?
08:02 All right, thank you.
08:03 - Thank you.