USC Trojans JuJu Watkins, Defensive Success

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00:00For the players, you know after the Michigan game, Rhea and Juju were talking about that mentality on defense, especially in practice.

00:06Can you guys touch on that a little bit of what you guys are working on in practice defensively and and how it's kind of

00:12implemented into these games with recent defensive success?

00:15I think one thing we talk about a lot is communication. So whether it's calling out screens or just communicating on both offense and defense.

00:22But yeah, I think the communication part is what we really try to focus on in practice and so it can translate to the game.

00:30Yeah.

00:36I know it probably seems like a long time ago, but this is for whoever, maybe Kennedy.

00:40Just the loss to Notre Dame and the nine-game win streak since then, you know, kind of maybe how that had helped you guys

00:47focus in on some certain things and and what that got that did for you.

00:52I was on the bench. So just being for a viewer point standpoint, I think we had a lot of adjusting to do.

01:02I think we took that loss personal and you know, just building off that loss.

01:05I think we've been able to gain like momentum both offensively and defensively and it's bringing like kind of a connectedness for the team.

01:14Just to keep the main thing the main thing.

01:18Yeah, I mean, I think we've gotten a lot better since then.

01:21You