Jim Christian speaks to the media
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00:00 Well, you know, I think you only sign up for that if a couple things.
00:03 Number one, you have to believe in your team.
00:04 And I believe in my team.
00:05 I believe in the abilities of our players.
00:08 I believe in the way we do things.
00:11 And the other part of it is simple.
00:12 Look, these kids, young people, man, have gone through a really difficult time.
00:16 And every single day they wake up and they read about other teams in the country
00:19 that are being shut down or being paused or their games are canceled.
00:23 And I told them in June, look, we're going to play basketball, man.
00:27 We're going to seek out the best teams in the country we can play, and we're playing.
00:30 And I think that that's the mentality that we've had,
00:33 that's the mentality we're going to take.
00:34 That's what it's about.
00:35 This is about young people.
00:36 And they've been through a heck of a lot, man.
00:39 They weren't here for six months.
00:40 And they wanted to be back in the summer.
00:42 They wanted to be working.
00:43 They wanted to be playing.
00:44 For me, if you're going to play games and you're not sure from game in and game out,
00:50 you better play the very best teams and give yourself as many good opportunities to learn
00:55 as much about your team, learn as much about each other.
00:57 And I'm excited.
00:58 We're excited to play.
00:59 We're excited to play the first game.
01:01 We're excited to play the next night against a ranked team if we're fortunate enough
01:06 to play either Baylor or play Arizona State, whichever, to go back and play a St. John's,
01:11 to go back and play in Oregon.
01:12 You know, we're playing basketball over here.
01:14 We're playing high-level basketball.
01:15 We're a high-level basketball program.
01:17 And that's been the mentality.