Nick Hill press conference previews South Dakota State playoff game
04/26/2021 | 12:28:00 | Football
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Southern Illinois head coach Nick Hill met with the media on Monday to preview this weekend's FCS quarterfinal playoff game against No. 1-seed South Dakota State. The Salukis (6-3) are coming off a thrilling, come-from-behind victory at Weber State on Saturday, 34-31.
The game against the Jackrabbits (6-1), who beat Holy Cross, 31-3, to advance to the quarterfinals, takes place on Sunday at 8 p.m. at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium. The contest will be nationally televised on ESPN2.
Southern Illinois has advanced to the Final Four of the playoffs twice in school history — in 1983 when the team won the national title, and in 2007 when Hill was the team's starting quarterback. The Salukis depart for South Dakota State on Friday.
Opening Statement:
"Really proud of the team. Like I said after (Saturday's) game, this game is about the players and they've done an unbelievable job. They did again on Saturday being resilient. It's what this group is all about. It was a great football game and a great game to be a part of. I'm happy we got on that plane with a win. Looking ahead to South Dakota State, they're a team that's obviously in our league and we're familiar with. First, I have a ton of respect for Coach (John) Stiegelmeier. I feel like he's done as good a job as any in the country in coaching. Three of their top players are freshman. It's kind of a new group of players that's definitely sprinkled in with a veteran group of players that we've seen a lot of. He's done a great job and he always does. They've got an outstanding football team. We know what we're up against. Look, they beat us 44-to-three. There's not much more to say about that. There's no excuses for that. Until we go out there and do something differently about it, you are what the score says you are. That's the mentality we'll have. We've got to go out and earn their respect. I feel confident in our group. There's not much surprise in this group, or one ounce of not being excited about playing. Our team will be excited about the opportunity to go back and play a better game. Last time we played them, we were undisciplined and turned it over. When you look at that game, in about eight minutes the game became out of hand. From fumbling a kickoff, to basically three interceptions in a span of about five or six plays. They capitalized on them - we didn't stop them. They rushed for 400-yards, and the list goes on and on. We get another crack at them and we're excited about that. Playoff football is different and we'll be excited about our opportunity."
On the trip back and the beginning of preparation for this game:
"When you're part of a team, the rides home are just a lot better after a win. The team enjoyed each other's company. This team enjoys being around one another – including the support staff, the coaches and graduate assistants. It was a three-hour flight after a game, so once you get on the plane there's a lot of sleeping and coaches grading film. Then you get home late. We get an extra day on an opponent that we know quite a bit about. We got in here yesterday, we had a team meeting, coaches were in here for a while beginning a game plan. We're really off to a normal week. Today's a player's day off and that's where we're at. It's a normal week."
On what a healthy Javon Williams Jr. does to the game plan:
"This game really comes down to execution. If you look in the games that we gotten beat, especially North Dakota and South Dakota State, we never really gave ourselves a chance. You have to execute at a high level. There's going to be no tricking your way into a win. It's going to be all about lining up, executing, blocking, defeat blocks, make tackles on defense, cherish the football and sometimes – we always talk about ending every drive with a kick. There's no discounting that. Sometimes you're going to have to punt and play great defense. That's really the formula. Javon was back yesterday and, especially with today's day off, he'll be practicing this week unless he has a setback. Obviously, we take that seriously and didn't even travel him last week. Javon is a big part of our team and we'll utilize him the best way that we can in this game plan."
On what adjustments the team has to make defensively for this game:
"You've got to be gap sound. It starts up front – they do a great job. They really do a great job with their schemes, they complement one another and they run play-action pass off of some of their run-action stuff. Ultimately, stopping the run game means you've got to be gap sound. If you're out of a gap or misaligned, these 'backs are going to crush you. Pierre (Strong) is going to make you miss. He's just a smooth running back and smooth operator. I think we talked about that last time we played them. He just has a knack for making a guy miss and having explosive runs. The freshman that's come in and hurt us last time is a downhill back that's got enough speed to hit the home run, too. They create some challenges. You've got be assignment sharp and you've got to beat the guy in front of you. Ultimately, that's what it comes down to. If you're playing defensive line or linebacker, you've got to be destructive and win. To stop the run, you're going to have to do that."
On coaching QB Stone Labanowitz for the final play against Weber State:
"It's good. In my opinion, you've got to have that 'feel' as a quarterback. You've got to have some open dialog with your coach. I've said this before, sometimes as a coach, you really like a play and the quarterback doesn't feel good about it for whatever reason. Like I've said before, it's about the players. They're the ones who have to go out there, make the plays and execute. Sometimes they see it differently. If they don't like it, we need to know that. Coming into that last play (vs. Weber State), it seemed like we had a lot of different conversations within the 60-seconds that we get. I wanted to make sure that he was comfortable (with the play) and he wasn't at first. I explained what we were thinking on the play, because usually when we run it we're looking at something different. We talked about if they were in man coverage, we could hit the corner and he was like, 'No, I like that.' We needed to be on the same page. Our season came down to it, so I wasn't going to do something he didn't like. He's got a great demeanor on the sidelines."
On playing South Dakota State a second time this season:
"We have to own that (previous) game. I feel like we've grown from that game and gotten better. If you don't take some licks like that in the season, then shame on you as a program. We own that game. They came down here and earned that. I told (the players) in our team meeting yesterday, I'll be frustrated with whoever starts to say, 'Well that really wasn't us,' or, 'If we played them again.' You hear that all of the time. Even when I played, you'd like to play a team again because we didn't play at our best. Well, we get our shot. Until the game happens, we've got to go out there and earn that. If that's your feeling, then you get another shot to do it. The first week, they came here and took it to us. We've got to learn from that and get better from it."
On preparing for the same team from a schematics perspective:
"We'll go at it – not that it's like a brand new opponent. You'll continue to look at all of their games - maybe go back and re-look at your last game plan. That's what I told our coaches, if you're coming to me with a bunch of brand new ideas and we did a bad job the first week, game planning isn't for them. It should be a lot of the same type of stuff. They're a team that lines up and executes. That's what Coach Stiegelmeir's team does. They're always going to have a few wrinkles; they do a great job of mixing things up, but they're not tricking their way to wins. They line up, they execute, and their kids play extremely hard. They're rarely out of position, they've got good players and they're just going to execute. They'll be assignment sharp and out-play you. They play the game the way it's supposed to be played. As far as where they line up, same thing with us. They're going to look at it and you're not going to change in the quarterfinals. You're going to line up and they're going to have plans against you on how to attack it and we'll have the same thing. If we don't execute or cherish the football, then it'll be a long day for us. But if we do those things, we feel like we can take advantage of some things."
On the Sunday night start:
"I like noon games, but I like football and I like playing in the quarterfinals. So, if they tell us to play at midnight, we'll be ready to play. It doesn't matter to us at this point. You're on the road, it's the quarterfinals and you're playing on national TV. I'm happy that all of Saluki nation across the country will get to watch and be excited and proud that the Saluki logo will be all over national television. I'm excited for that, I don't care what time they tell us to play."
On SDSU's freshman quarterback Mark Gronowski playing at a high-level:
"Well, I think it's a credit to him and a credit to his coaches. I think they do a great job on offense and tweaking their plan. They've had good quarterbacks over the last however many years. So, yeah, it's a credit to him as a player – obviously you can't do that without a great skill set and then his coaches getting him coached up and ready to play. You can't play that way as a true freshman unless you're confident. From game one at Northern Iowa until now, he was deserving. He got my vote for player of the year. He's done a great job and we'll have our hands full with him."
On what he saw from Gronowski when recruiting his high school teammate, SIU WR Sean Larkin:
"We knew Sean (Larkin) for a long time and knew about him (Gronowski) as well. He's tough, he can run and can do a little bit of both. He's an outstanding quarterback, he really is. He's got a bright future ahead of him. Shoot, I hope he doesn't stick around here and use this extra sixth year to break every type of record there is. Seems like a great kid. You like to compete against those type of guys. I've got nothing but respect for him as a player and the way that he goes about his business."
On if the play of the 'unsung heroes' is more magnified in a season like this:
"I don't think they're really unsung heroes. I know they're not amongst coaching staffs – heck, they're the glue of your team. You're always going to have the guys that the ball finds and have their names in the papers all the time – quarterbacks, running backs, receivers and guys who make all the tackles. If you ask any coach of any good team, there's going to be some guys who are just the glue of your team that you have to have. It's rewarding to see them get some of their hard work paid off and find some moments like that. Branson's (Combs) a freshman, so he's got a bright future around here. Jerron Rollins as a senior, three huge catches. He had the big catch against Northern Iowa and was just big late down the stretch. (Jordan) Berner, I don't think he's an unsung hero. I think when (teams) are game planning us, No. 92 is an excellent player. But yeah, Nico (Gualdoni) and all of those guys I'm happy for them and their success."
On South Dakota State's run game and what it does to opposing defenses:
"To stop the run, you've got to be good at the defensive line position. That's what it comes down to. You've got to be good at the point of attack. If you're not and they're up to the second-level, they've got 'backs to create some serious problems. That's where it starts and stops. They do a good job at mixing up their schemes and looks. Ultimately, that's what it comes down to: Being good at the point of attack and defeating blocks to make tackles."
On if the problems from the offense and defense corrected from the first game:
"Ultimately, when you turn the ball over four times, you don't give yourself a chance. I think we snapped it 19 or 20 times in the first half against them. We just didn't have an opportunity – that's on us, though. They created some problems. It could be 44-to-3 - you didn't score points; you didn't stop them. They created a turnover on special teams. They won in all three phases. All of us have to get better. But I think we've gotten better. I think our team has proven that. But it could happen again. In this game, you have to re-earn it every single game. You've got to re-earn it every single season. You don't get a head start. The score starts over. You've got to be on edge, you've got to prepare and you've got to keep that edge about you."
On having stability at quarterback during this game versus the previous meeting:
"That definitely helps. Just settling in and knowing who we are. The week before the game last time, it was a long week trying to figure out – Stone had a shoulder injury and didn't even practice on Tuesday. Kare (Lyles), we didn't know how healthy he would be. We were back-and-forth and didn't decide on a starter until Friday morning. That's on us as coaches, we needed to do a better job that week and I said that to the team. We got out-coached, too, on all three phases. That's it. They beat us 44-to-3. Can't slice it any other way. If you put on the film, it looks the same as it did the day after, but you've got to watch it and you've got to learn from it. Hopefully we've grown as coaches and players from that game."
On not having Javon Williams Jr. last week and what that does to a game plan:
"That's a part of our job: Putting together a great plan. Obviously, we'll utilize Javon when he's active and healthy. It was nice knowing that we weren't going to have him all of last week. So, that helped in our preparation because you've got to do so much practice time for all of the stuff that you do with Javon. You look back on Missouri State when he came out in the first play of the second half and we had game planned so much stuff for him. That kind of mid-game thing is tougher to overcome. We knew all week (last week) we didn't have him, so our mindset had to be that way."
On managing mentality versus revenge in a game like this:
"That's just football, that's just athletics. We've been answering those questions all year. How're you going to play well after North Dakota? How're you going to bounce-back after losing two games? You made the playoffs and played so well against Southeastern Louisiana, how are you going to play well on back-to-back playoff games? That's just what our team is built on and who we are. I use Baylor as an example from the NCAA tournament – you had to stay in a hotel for a month. No friends or family. The best team won. If you want to play at a high-level, there's no shortcuts to it. You've got to be mentally strong, physically strong, emotionally strong, you've got to rely on your teammates, you've got to have trust – all the things we talk about just come into play on things like that."
On Jordan Berner's play as of late:
"He's so long. He's super athletic. Jordan's one of the best athletes on our team. We played knockout one day and he won knockout with the entire defense. He can dunk the ball in any way that you want. We had a home run derby one day after Western Illinois dropped out and we didn't know what the season was going to look like. We took them out in the stadium and Jordan won the derby. He's just an athlete out there. He's tough to block. He'll be more athletic than anyone he lines up against."
On how Avante Cox gets separation:
"Ultimately, it comes down to the players. You're going to try and design some things and it's nice when those plays come open and he's just running through a zone open. A couple plays that got him open this time was all in man coverage. Using great technique – Coach (Mark) Watson does a great job with them on different techniques with their releases. Ultimately, he's got some God-given ability. He incredibly strong, fast and elusive."
On how excited he is for the second playoff game:
"Honestly, I'm just back into the same routine. It's the same thing I've preached to the players. If you're a coach and you're thinking differently – obviously I'm excited for our program and to keep playing, but as you do this long enough as a player and a coach, you know the mindset that you've got to have to perform at your best. If I'm asking them as a player, then we've got to do the same thing as a coaching staff, just treat it like another game for 60 minutes. Be at your best, do the best that you can to prepare and the score will take care of itself."
The game against the Jackrabbits (6-1), who beat Holy Cross, 31-3, to advance to the quarterfinals, takes place on Sunday at 8 p.m. at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium. The contest will be nationally televised on ESPN2.
Southern Illinois has advanced to the Final Four of the playoffs twice in school history — in 1983 when the team won the national title, and in 2007 when Hill was the team's starting quarterback. The Salukis depart for South Dakota State on Friday.
Opening Statement:
"Really proud of the team. Like I said after (Saturday's) game, this game is about the players and they've done an unbelievable job. They did again on Saturday being resilient. It's what this group is all about. It was a great football game and a great game to be a part of. I'm happy we got on that plane with a win. Looking ahead to South Dakota State, they're a team that's obviously in our league and we're familiar with. First, I have a ton of respect for Coach (John) Stiegelmeier. I feel like he's done as good a job as any in the country in coaching. Three of their top players are freshman. It's kind of a new group of players that's definitely sprinkled in with a veteran group of players that we've seen a lot of. He's done a great job and he always does. They've got an outstanding football team. We know what we're up against. Look, they beat us 44-to-three. There's not much more to say about that. There's no excuses for that. Until we go out there and do something differently about it, you are what the score says you are. That's the mentality we'll have. We've got to go out and earn their respect. I feel confident in our group. There's not much surprise in this group, or one ounce of not being excited about playing. Our team will be excited about the opportunity to go back and play a better game. Last time we played them, we were undisciplined and turned it over. When you look at that game, in about eight minutes the game became out of hand. From fumbling a kickoff, to basically three interceptions in a span of about five or six plays. They capitalized on them - we didn't stop them. They rushed for 400-yards, and the list goes on and on. We get another crack at them and we're excited about that. Playoff football is different and we'll be excited about our opportunity."
On the trip back and the beginning of preparation for this game:
"When you're part of a team, the rides home are just a lot better after a win. The team enjoyed each other's company. This team enjoys being around one another – including the support staff, the coaches and graduate assistants. It was a three-hour flight after a game, so once you get on the plane there's a lot of sleeping and coaches grading film. Then you get home late. We get an extra day on an opponent that we know quite a bit about. We got in here yesterday, we had a team meeting, coaches were in here for a while beginning a game plan. We're really off to a normal week. Today's a player's day off and that's where we're at. It's a normal week."
On what a healthy Javon Williams Jr. does to the game plan:
"This game really comes down to execution. If you look in the games that we gotten beat, especially North Dakota and South Dakota State, we never really gave ourselves a chance. You have to execute at a high level. There's going to be no tricking your way into a win. It's going to be all about lining up, executing, blocking, defeat blocks, make tackles on defense, cherish the football and sometimes – we always talk about ending every drive with a kick. There's no discounting that. Sometimes you're going to have to punt and play great defense. That's really the formula. Javon was back yesterday and, especially with today's day off, he'll be practicing this week unless he has a setback. Obviously, we take that seriously and didn't even travel him last week. Javon is a big part of our team and we'll utilize him the best way that we can in this game plan."
On what adjustments the team has to make defensively for this game:
"You've got to be gap sound. It starts up front – they do a great job. They really do a great job with their schemes, they complement one another and they run play-action pass off of some of their run-action stuff. Ultimately, stopping the run game means you've got to be gap sound. If you're out of a gap or misaligned, these 'backs are going to crush you. Pierre (Strong) is going to make you miss. He's just a smooth running back and smooth operator. I think we talked about that last time we played them. He just has a knack for making a guy miss and having explosive runs. The freshman that's come in and hurt us last time is a downhill back that's got enough speed to hit the home run, too. They create some challenges. You've got be assignment sharp and you've got to beat the guy in front of you. Ultimately, that's what it comes down to. If you're playing defensive line or linebacker, you've got to be destructive and win. To stop the run, you're going to have to do that."
On coaching QB Stone Labanowitz for the final play against Weber State:
"It's good. In my opinion, you've got to have that 'feel' as a quarterback. You've got to have some open dialog with your coach. I've said this before, sometimes as a coach, you really like a play and the quarterback doesn't feel good about it for whatever reason. Like I've said before, it's about the players. They're the ones who have to go out there, make the plays and execute. Sometimes they see it differently. If they don't like it, we need to know that. Coming into that last play (vs. Weber State), it seemed like we had a lot of different conversations within the 60-seconds that we get. I wanted to make sure that he was comfortable (with the play) and he wasn't at first. I explained what we were thinking on the play, because usually when we run it we're looking at something different. We talked about if they were in man coverage, we could hit the corner and he was like, 'No, I like that.' We needed to be on the same page. Our season came down to it, so I wasn't going to do something he didn't like. He's got a great demeanor on the sidelines."
On playing South Dakota State a second time this season:
"We have to own that (previous) game. I feel like we've grown from that game and gotten better. If you don't take some licks like that in the season, then shame on you as a program. We own that game. They came down here and earned that. I told (the players) in our team meeting yesterday, I'll be frustrated with whoever starts to say, 'Well that really wasn't us,' or, 'If we played them again.' You hear that all of the time. Even when I played, you'd like to play a team again because we didn't play at our best. Well, we get our shot. Until the game happens, we've got to go out there and earn that. If that's your feeling, then you get another shot to do it. The first week, they came here and took it to us. We've got to learn from that and get better from it."
On preparing for the same team from a schematics perspective:
"We'll go at it – not that it's like a brand new opponent. You'll continue to look at all of their games - maybe go back and re-look at your last game plan. That's what I told our coaches, if you're coming to me with a bunch of brand new ideas and we did a bad job the first week, game planning isn't for them. It should be a lot of the same type of stuff. They're a team that lines up and executes. That's what Coach Stiegelmeir's team does. They're always going to have a few wrinkles; they do a great job of mixing things up, but they're not tricking their way to wins. They line up, they execute, and their kids play extremely hard. They're rarely out of position, they've got good players and they're just going to execute. They'll be assignment sharp and out-play you. They play the game the way it's supposed to be played. As far as where they line up, same thing with us. They're going to look at it and you're not going to change in the quarterfinals. You're going to line up and they're going to have plans against you on how to attack it and we'll have the same thing. If we don't execute or cherish the football, then it'll be a long day for us. But if we do those things, we feel like we can take advantage of some things."
On the Sunday night start:
"I like noon games, but I like football and I like playing in the quarterfinals. So, if they tell us to play at midnight, we'll be ready to play. It doesn't matter to us at this point. You're on the road, it's the quarterfinals and you're playing on national TV. I'm happy that all of Saluki nation across the country will get to watch and be excited and proud that the Saluki logo will be all over national television. I'm excited for that, I don't care what time they tell us to play."
On SDSU's freshman quarterback Mark Gronowski playing at a high-level:
"Well, I think it's a credit to him and a credit to his coaches. I think they do a great job on offense and tweaking their plan. They've had good quarterbacks over the last however many years. So, yeah, it's a credit to him as a player – obviously you can't do that without a great skill set and then his coaches getting him coached up and ready to play. You can't play that way as a true freshman unless you're confident. From game one at Northern Iowa until now, he was deserving. He got my vote for player of the year. He's done a great job and we'll have our hands full with him."
On what he saw from Gronowski when recruiting his high school teammate, SIU WR Sean Larkin:
"We knew Sean (Larkin) for a long time and knew about him (Gronowski) as well. He's tough, he can run and can do a little bit of both. He's an outstanding quarterback, he really is. He's got a bright future ahead of him. Shoot, I hope he doesn't stick around here and use this extra sixth year to break every type of record there is. Seems like a great kid. You like to compete against those type of guys. I've got nothing but respect for him as a player and the way that he goes about his business."
On if the play of the 'unsung heroes' is more magnified in a season like this:
"I don't think they're really unsung heroes. I know they're not amongst coaching staffs – heck, they're the glue of your team. You're always going to have the guys that the ball finds and have their names in the papers all the time – quarterbacks, running backs, receivers and guys who make all the tackles. If you ask any coach of any good team, there's going to be some guys who are just the glue of your team that you have to have. It's rewarding to see them get some of their hard work paid off and find some moments like that. Branson's (Combs) a freshman, so he's got a bright future around here. Jerron Rollins as a senior, three huge catches. He had the big catch against Northern Iowa and was just big late down the stretch. (Jordan) Berner, I don't think he's an unsung hero. I think when (teams) are game planning us, No. 92 is an excellent player. But yeah, Nico (Gualdoni) and all of those guys I'm happy for them and their success."
On South Dakota State's run game and what it does to opposing defenses:
"To stop the run, you've got to be good at the defensive line position. That's what it comes down to. You've got to be good at the point of attack. If you're not and they're up to the second-level, they've got 'backs to create some serious problems. That's where it starts and stops. They do a good job at mixing up their schemes and looks. Ultimately, that's what it comes down to: Being good at the point of attack and defeating blocks to make tackles."
On if the problems from the offense and defense corrected from the first game:
"Ultimately, when you turn the ball over four times, you don't give yourself a chance. I think we snapped it 19 or 20 times in the first half against them. We just didn't have an opportunity – that's on us, though. They created some problems. It could be 44-to-3 - you didn't score points; you didn't stop them. They created a turnover on special teams. They won in all three phases. All of us have to get better. But I think we've gotten better. I think our team has proven that. But it could happen again. In this game, you have to re-earn it every single game. You've got to re-earn it every single season. You don't get a head start. The score starts over. You've got to be on edge, you've got to prepare and you've got to keep that edge about you."
On having stability at quarterback during this game versus the previous meeting:
"That definitely helps. Just settling in and knowing who we are. The week before the game last time, it was a long week trying to figure out – Stone had a shoulder injury and didn't even practice on Tuesday. Kare (Lyles), we didn't know how healthy he would be. We were back-and-forth and didn't decide on a starter until Friday morning. That's on us as coaches, we needed to do a better job that week and I said that to the team. We got out-coached, too, on all three phases. That's it. They beat us 44-to-3. Can't slice it any other way. If you put on the film, it looks the same as it did the day after, but you've got to watch it and you've got to learn from it. Hopefully we've grown as coaches and players from that game."
On not having Javon Williams Jr. last week and what that does to a game plan:
"That's a part of our job: Putting together a great plan. Obviously, we'll utilize Javon when he's active and healthy. It was nice knowing that we weren't going to have him all of last week. So, that helped in our preparation because you've got to do so much practice time for all of the stuff that you do with Javon. You look back on Missouri State when he came out in the first play of the second half and we had game planned so much stuff for him. That kind of mid-game thing is tougher to overcome. We knew all week (last week) we didn't have him, so our mindset had to be that way."
On managing mentality versus revenge in a game like this:
"That's just football, that's just athletics. We've been answering those questions all year. How're you going to play well after North Dakota? How're you going to bounce-back after losing two games? You made the playoffs and played so well against Southeastern Louisiana, how are you going to play well on back-to-back playoff games? That's just what our team is built on and who we are. I use Baylor as an example from the NCAA tournament – you had to stay in a hotel for a month. No friends or family. The best team won. If you want to play at a high-level, there's no shortcuts to it. You've got to be mentally strong, physically strong, emotionally strong, you've got to rely on your teammates, you've got to have trust – all the things we talk about just come into play on things like that."
On Jordan Berner's play as of late:
"He's so long. He's super athletic. Jordan's one of the best athletes on our team. We played knockout one day and he won knockout with the entire defense. He can dunk the ball in any way that you want. We had a home run derby one day after Western Illinois dropped out and we didn't know what the season was going to look like. We took them out in the stadium and Jordan won the derby. He's just an athlete out there. He's tough to block. He'll be more athletic than anyone he lines up against."
On how Avante Cox gets separation:
"Ultimately, it comes down to the players. You're going to try and design some things and it's nice when those plays come open and he's just running through a zone open. A couple plays that got him open this time was all in man coverage. Using great technique – Coach (Mark) Watson does a great job with them on different techniques with their releases. Ultimately, he's got some God-given ability. He incredibly strong, fast and elusive."
On how excited he is for the second playoff game:
"Honestly, I'm just back into the same routine. It's the same thing I've preached to the players. If you're a coach and you're thinking differently – obviously I'm excited for our program and to keep playing, but as you do this long enough as a player and a coach, you know the mindset that you've got to have to perform at your best. If I'm asking them as a player, then we've got to do the same thing as a coaching staff, just treat it like another game for 60 minutes. Be at your best, do the best that you can to prepare and the score will take care of itself."
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