When you're starting out, so whether that's walking into day one or thinking about how you're going to build this out this next season, what would you say are kinda those universal defensive pillars or non-negotiables that every team has to have, regardless of whether they are a pack line team or a pressing team or a pressure zone team or whatever they choose?

I- if we're thinking theoretically, you know, I...

when I ask coaches, "What are your defensive priorities or, or your non-negotiables?" They'll usually give me, like, a cookie cutter answer like, "Oh, well, we don't wanna give up open threes or easy layups." And it's like, well, join the club.

Like, ev- [chuckles] everyone believes in that, right? Like, uh, no one's trying to give up easy layups or wide open threes.

Now, there might be some trade-offs, right? Maybe you're being more aggressive, the, you know, things like that.

But I think even before we get there, our priorities, our three non-negotiables change almost every year for us.

Um, and what I mean by that is we've run, at New Paltz, for example, I've been coaching here the last, uh, four or five years.

Uh, how do you intentionally build that into players, the culture of your program, and, uh, get them to genuinely take pride in playing defense?