Speaker 1: Meantime on the Anymore Automotive Group Hootline. You saw him yesterday.
Speaker 1: He was on fire in the first half, and so
Speaker 1: were the Hoosiers one hundred and seventy seven over Marquette
Speaker 1: in Chicago. And he is the new member old school
Speaker 1: basketball player, but a new member of this Hoosier program.
Speaker 1: Tucker devrees kind of enough to join us. Now, Hey, Tucker,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the time. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm fired up to have you on the show because
Speaker 1: I love hoop and I love watching great shooters shoot.
Speaker 1: And you had one hell of an afternoon yesterday in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I think from the first point on, do you know
Speaker 1: anytime during warm ups or maybe with that first shot
Speaker 1: going down, that this may be your afternoon or evening
Speaker 1: if you will, like it was yesterday for you.
Speaker 2: Not really, I mean after the first one or two
Speaker 2: go in, and obviously it gives a lot of confidence
Speaker 2: for the next few but you know, just trying to
Speaker 2: stay part of the course. And uh, you know, they
Speaker 2: just happened to be going down yesterday.
Speaker 1: How often do you work on and you know, obviously
Speaker 1: people think about the shot, Tucker in general, and it
Speaker 1: just going down. But the mechanics of the shot yours
Speaker 1: seems to be as smooth as anybody we see. How
Speaker 1: often do you work just on the mechanics alone of
Speaker 1: getting that shot off and feeling comfortable and then seeing
Speaker 1: that positive result.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, a lot of it just
Speaker 2: comes down to reps and you know, being confident in
Speaker 2: the work that you put in, you know, every day,
Speaker 2: just working on different ways to get shots off and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, finding ways to get open even without the ball.
Speaker 2: But I thought yesterday the team did a great job
Speaker 2: of you know, uh, finding the hot hand and happened
Speaker 2: to me in the first half, and then Lamar in
Speaker 2: the second half. I thought was really good for for
Speaker 2: our offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good to see too, because you know, they
Speaker 1: they made a clear adjustment at the half, and then
Speaker 1: you know, Lamar steps up as you mentioned in the
Speaker 1: second half, and then you know has his moment as well.
Speaker 1: What's the old Indiana basketball experience been like for you
Speaker 1: so far? Not just I you in general, but the
Speaker 1: state of basketball and obviously our love here in the state.
Speaker 1: How has that been in your short time in Indiana?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's been great. It's obviously awesome to
Speaker 2: be able to play in front of such a passionate
Speaker 2: fan base, and I think that showed yesterday and in
Speaker 2: our first home game, and just how much they embrace
Speaker 2: Indiana basketball. And I know we're we're extremely excited to
Speaker 2: you know, keep it going and play again on Wednesday
Speaker 2: in front of you know, hopefully another great crowd, and
Speaker 2: just continue the success and you know, make this fan
Speaker 2: base proud of what it's like to be at Indiana basketball.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, you get Milwaukee coming up on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and Tucker Devrees is joining us on the Andy Morro
Speaker 1: Automotive Group hootline. You guys, and I know Shaka Smart,
Speaker 1: Marquette's coach, remarked about this after the game. You guys
Speaker 1: look really in tune in cohesion with one another, even
Speaker 1: though it's been a short time and everybody is all
Speaker 1: new on this team. Were you surprised that you guys
Speaker 1: were that connected in a game like that yesterday because
Speaker 1: it looked like you guys have been together for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I wasn't really surprised yesterday, but I
Speaker 2: think a little bit surprising how quickly it happened throughout
Speaker 2: the fall I think, you know, probably a month before
Speaker 2: the season when things really started to click, especially offensively,
Speaker 2: of just everybody really knowing how to play together. We
Speaker 2: have an extremely unselfish group, which makes it, you know,
Speaker 2: really hard to guard when everybody's sharing the ball, moving
Speaker 2: without the basketball, and screening for one another, which I
Speaker 2: think is what makes our offense so dynamic. And then
Speaker 2: just the floor spacing of what we have for opens
Speaker 2: up driving lanes for everybody one through five, which is
Speaker 2: also unique for our offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ball pops. The ball really, Tucker, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to interrupt. The ball pops too. And normally, normally when
Speaker 1: you when your first timers or a short time or
Speaker 1: with one another, there's a tendency to have the ball
Speaker 1: stick right in somebody trying to find their comfort area
Speaker 1: and you know, something off the dribble. But the ball popped,
Speaker 1: I thought, as about as well as you could ask
Speaker 1: for it this early in the season yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think especially with the way Marquette plays
Speaker 2: their style of defense of you know a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure and you know, trying to turn turn you over,
Speaker 2: I thought it was important for us if we could
Speaker 2: just you know, kind of break that initial pressure and
Speaker 2: get them move in a little bit and use it
Speaker 2: against them a little bit more to get you know,
Speaker 2: great shots after handling that initial pressure was very important.
Speaker 2: I thought we did a great job of that yesterday
Speaker 2: and I think the results showed for that.
Speaker 1: He is Tucker devrees with us. How's the experience been,
Speaker 1: whether we're talking about Drake or at West Virginia or
Speaker 1: now at Indiana playing for your father.
Speaker 2: That's been good. Obviously there's good days and bad days,
Speaker 2: but you know, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I
Speaker 2: think it's been a great experience for both of us
Speaker 2: to be able to experience, you know, my career together
Speaker 2: and just kind of the steps that it's taken for
Speaker 2: both of us to get to this point and being
Speaker 2: able to experience those together is then really special.
Speaker 1: I always thought it may take a little extra I
Speaker 1: don't know, You've got to soak up a lot, don't you.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you never, really, truly, I'm assuming, get
Speaker 1: away from it. And that's why I think it's a
Speaker 1: lot different for you. So you almost have to be
Speaker 1: built a little bit different to be I think the
Speaker 1: son playing for the father, especially at this level, is
Speaker 1: that how it's been for you at three stops.
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, I think it's I mean, obviously basketball is
Speaker 2: a big part of my life, so I mean it
Speaker 2: consumes a lot of my attention, but I wouldn't want
Speaker 2: it any other way. I think it's you just got
Speaker 2: to kind of embrace embrace it, embrace the expectations and
Speaker 2: just take a head on and know that you put
Speaker 2: in a lot of work to get to this point
Speaker 2: and just go out there and showed it every night.
Speaker 1: Tucker, what do you think ultimately the ceiling is for
Speaker 1: this team or would you allow yourself even describe a
Speaker 1: ceiling as such this early in the season.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a pinpointed ceiling. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: to be honest, I thought we played all right yesterday,
Speaker 2: but there's just so much more after watching the game
Speaker 2: that we're capable of getting better at. And I think
Speaker 2: with that being said and having the results that we've had,
Speaker 2: I think that's, you know, a good feeling to have
Speaker 2: to know that there's so much more potential to tap
Speaker 2: into for this team. And I think every day, as
Speaker 2: long as we're continuing to try and get to that point,
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna result in a lot of good
Speaker 2: things this.
Speaker 1: Year, Tucker, give us a couple of things that you
Speaker 1: guys have to improve upon, because really a lot of
Speaker 1: people see the way you shot it. You know, I
Speaker 1: mentioned that the ball movement, the cohesion, and then you know,
Speaker 1: getting to the century mark and winning going away. But
Speaker 1: what are some of the things that stood out to
Speaker 1: you that you have to improve upon coming off of
Speaker 1: that win yesterday day?
Speaker 2: I'd say defensively, I mean, it's pretty easy to point
Speaker 2: out the fouls, but uh, to be honest, I think
Speaker 2: it's more our cohesiveness on defense and just you know,
Speaker 2: being in the right spots more of the time, and
Speaker 2: especially a team like yesterday where they're they're really trying
Speaker 2: to put their head down, and I mean it's what
Speaker 2: they're good at. They're they're good at drawing fouls, getting
Speaker 2: in the paint. But I think as a group, if
Speaker 2: we can you know, really tone in and be build
Speaker 2: that chemistry on defense throughout the year, I think that
Speaker 2: that's going to be a big part of us reaching
Speaker 2: our you know, full potential. And then offensively, I think
Speaker 2: if we're able to you know, continue to move it
Speaker 2: the way we're moving it and get the ball movement
Speaker 2: and I think we have enough guys that can make
Speaker 2: a lot of shots that it's gonna be really hard
Speaker 2: for teams to to reguard that he.
Speaker 1: Has tuck a Devrees twenty seven points in the win
Speaker 1: you over Marquette yesterday. He's on the Dymore Automotive Group potline.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, we go back a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Even though you don't know this, I'm an Indiana State guy,
Speaker 1: so there I was baseline two years ago the MVC
Speaker 1: Arch Madness Championship and you're going off for what twenty
Speaker 1: seven and seven? And the thing that stood out to
Speaker 1: me for the team that you were a part of,
Speaker 1: you and your dad at Drake was the connection. And
Speaker 1: I thought that you were the one of the most
Speaker 1: connected teams that I had seen all season.
Speaker 2: Law.
Speaker 1: It was like you were just like the sum of
Speaker 1: all your parts, you know, kind of unified right there?
Speaker 1: Is that the ultimate compliment in this team sport is
Speaker 1: when you look like you did then? And is that
Speaker 1: what you strive to do with this group and year
Speaker 1: number one at Indiana, Yeah.
Speaker 2: For sure. I mean there's no better feeling than you know,
Speaker 2: all five guys being on the same page, super connected,
Speaker 2: and just helping each other out and kind of like
Speaker 2: I said before, it's more of the chemistry on defense
Speaker 2: that it can take some time to build. And I
Speaker 2: think that that year at Drake throughout the year, at
Speaker 2: beginning of the year, we weren't great defensively, and then
Speaker 2: by the end of the year, I think we ended up,
Speaker 2: you know, one of the best best defensive teams in
Speaker 2: the country, and I think throughout this year that's going
Speaker 2: to be key for us to continue to get better
Speaker 2: on that end. And I think there's a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of tools that we have on this team
Speaker 2: that are able to get to that point. So hopefully
Speaker 2: we're able to get there. And I think that that
Speaker 2: parts something people maybe not realize as much as the
Speaker 2: chemistry on defense as it is on offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like I put it to this and I'm
Speaker 1: not making comparisons to that team or this team or
Speaker 1: any team of the NBA, but that's what it felt
Speaker 1: like with the Pacers, for example, at the NBA level
Speaker 1: last year. I mean these guys, I mean you have
Speaker 1: the super scouting going on right now where they know
Speaker 1: you're every move and what you're going to do, and
Speaker 1: anticipate it you know, weeks in advance and prepare for it.
Speaker 1: But I think if you guys are connected in a
Speaker 1: group like one, it is really hard to scout that
Speaker 1: and to defend that. And I thought we saw that
Speaker 1: with the Pacers, and that's a special brand of basketball
Speaker 1: to me. And I saw that with your Drake team
Speaker 1: two years ago as you guys won the MVC. And
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's as a basketball player what you strive
Speaker 1: for in the whole team concept.
Speaker 2: Is that fair? Yeah, I think anytime you can have
Speaker 2: all five guys on the same page on both ends
Speaker 2: of the floor, it's going to result in a lot
Speaker 2: of good things. So I think as time goes, we're
Speaker 2: we're going to continue to build that chemistry on both
Speaker 2: ends and continue to play at a high level. So
Speaker 2: hopefully that can lead to the results we're striving for.
Speaker 1: He is Tucker devrees with us. So how's the enjoyment
Speaker 1: wise watching what this football program is doing in Bloomington
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: For you? I mean it's awesome. It's been fun to
Speaker 2: you know, go to a lot of their games here,
Speaker 2: you know, and see the success they've had has been
Speaker 2: great for you know, just the campus of the town
Speaker 2: and you can just see the fan base and the
Speaker 2: town rally around them, and that's you know, been really
Speaker 2: special looking forward to, you know, seeing them finish off
Speaker 2: the year and do special things because it's it's been
Speaker 2: a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's funny, right man, When you have success
Speaker 1: in sports, it just everybody feels good, even if it's
Speaker 1: a chore in what you're doing, it feels good with
Speaker 1: that chore, does it not? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, it's uh, winning solves a lot of problems, it does.
Speaker 1: Tucker Dvrees he joins us. How you like Bloomington in
Speaker 1: the campus dot at Value?
Speaker 2: It's been great? Uh, you know, it's been a lot
Speaker 2: of fun to be a part of. And you know
Speaker 2: see the fan base, the student body rally around you know,
Speaker 2: both us and the football team and all the sports.
Speaker 2: It has been really cool to have their support. And uh,
Speaker 2: I've really enjoyed my time here.
Speaker 1: It's Tucker Debrees kind enough to join us. Are they
Speaker 1: anymore automotive group polo yet? How you gets Milwaukee coming
Speaker 1: up on Wednesday? And uh, I believe increditt word coming
Speaker 1: up after that. But a win yesterday in Chicago over
Speaker 1: Marquette and Tucker is on the Anymore Automotive Group pot line. Man,
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time.
Speaker 1: Indiana State guy right there on the baseline two years ago,
Speaker 1: and you break my heart then. But it's certainly enjoyable
Speaker 1: to watch you be a part of this how's your program?
Speaker 1: And uh and uh and shoot it and play in
Speaker 1: that team basketball fashion. It was fun as hell to
Speaker 1: watch yesterday. Congratulations on that and keep moving that arrow up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I appreciate that. Thank you very much.