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And all those guys were alphas for their teams.

So it's hard to suddenly go to, well, I'm not ball dominant or I'm not the guy that we're running through or I'm not the guy that's on set pieces or doing the service and doing the delivery.

You need to be able to read off one another.

In international football, a lot of the times, you just don't have the reps with each other to, I know where this guy wants the ball.

I know where this guy's going to be, where I need to lay off, all those sorts of things.

It becomes very complicated.

Well, compare it to Canada when they go to international play in hockey with the Olympics is you try and bring guys that have some chemistry together.

And, you know, Coop often did it with some of the Tampa Bay guys.

But also when you find something that clicks, you milk it for all it's worth.

When he realized what Celebrini could bring in a role.

Yeah.

suddenly it was like, well, we're just going to use this as much as humanly possible, right?

Celebrini, remember when the tournament started, he wasn't expected to be a 25-minute-a-night forward, but by the time the gold medal game ran around, he was the guy.

And so you have to be able to be cognizant of those things in a short tournament that...

Your ideas and your preconceived notions might not be right.

You have to be selfless enough to say, I'm just going to go with what works.

Critics to be damned.

This is what's happening.

And even I might not think it's the way that we're going to be successful.

The proof is in the pudding in front of it.