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Justin Tatum | Illawarra Mercury | February 13, 2025
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2/13/2025
Watch: Illawarra Hawks coach Justin Tatum speaking with Mercury sport journalist Agron Latifi after the team's training session at the Snakepit.
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It kicked in when I got home, but it was basically an honor, a testament to my team and my assistant
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coaches how they helped me get to where I was at.
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I really wouldn't be in the Coaches of the Year conversation if my team did not really
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believe in our message and our techniques.
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When I got home and seeing how heavy it was and seeing my name on it, it kicked me.
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I'm like, man, I'm making a difference with this group.
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I had no idea, no clue, man.
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I was just going to coach Little League in high school and never knew where it was going
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to take me, but my passion and my understanding of the game grew.
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Then opportunities started coming along and my wisdom came along late last year.
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I took advantage of it.
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I said, hey, I need to battle myself a little bit and see how it goes.
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I didn't know I was going to be consulting to an assistant coach, to a head coach and
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all in six weeks, but I was prepared for it.
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I've been coaching for 17 years and I've played basketball more than half my life.
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When a guy puts something in front of you, you take advantage of the opportunity.
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That's what you do.
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Yeah, a ton of motivation.
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A ton of motivation to see the staff, himself and his team enjoy that, the city.
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Knowing how close we were the year before and knowing returning to pretty much everybody
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on our team, that was a tough layer that we can do.
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I have to say, I feel the same way.
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Learning a lot of things from the walk and run, I was able to implement a lot of those
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things in my technique.
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It's definitely not great, but the management part is something that we thrive off of.
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We want to make our practice interesting.
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We want to keep it competitive.
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You'll see we'll switch gyms here and there.
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We're working on two-a-days.
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We want to take advantage as much as we can, but also we want to make sure that everybody
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is recovering.
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We're just going to be in the gym.
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There's going to be some heat sensors, some conditioning things.
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We have a good mixture of things.
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We also do a lot of team bonding.
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We have three weeks of time because we want to play, but we have that one time in mind
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and fix what we need to do to help us in our practice.
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Whoever's playing their best ball by then, because we don't want no excuses.
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We don't want to say, hey, this team is missing that person or they weren't on the fun speed.
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We want to play their best ball by the time it's here.
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That's what we want to challenge us and hopefully that we can match their intention and win games.
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Working on him next week, he has done probably about 40% of the practice.
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It's just some things that we don't involve in there just because we don't want anything
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to reoccur too soon.
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So we'll just take another week of precautionary to probably put a bit of everything next week.
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But he's breaking that frame back.
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He's feeling 100% healthy and he's pushing himself.
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So it's good to see the majority of my guys back.
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Yeah, you expect a lot when you win.
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But the support that I've been getting around the city has been unbelievable.
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I know that this is the team that's been in the contest for 45 plus years.
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So that's saying a lot about the community and the support.
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Now they just want to back something and winning helps.
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And so I'm happy to be a part of it.
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I'm hoping to extend it as much as long as I can.
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Yeah, it always been.
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We kind of have a little motto.
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This is our regular season.
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Our preseason, which was our regular season.
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So we had 29 games prepared for this regular season to run.
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So we have five games to focus on to win.
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And all those things that we accomplished in that 29 games, we throw right out the window.
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So we're just like we're evil when everybody else is evil.
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Just kick ass.
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My man, appreciate it.
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