Speaker 1: It is show time, very pleasant, good evening anybody.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's good.
Speaker 3: Shaky, but we'll give it to you. He's not feeling
Speaker 3: all the way.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm feeling fine. It seemed like if I went
Speaker 1: any louder than that, yours might bleed.
Speaker 3: Well, that's because the headphones are really loud.
Speaker 1: Our headphones are loud all right. In any case, Greetings, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is the Wes Miller Show, live from the original
Speaker 1: Montgomery in the home of the world's greatest ribs. Joe
Speaker 1: Strecker is turning down our headphones a little bit, so
Speaker 1: now I can scream. I'm Dan Hord with Terry Nelson
Speaker 1: Broadcasts and the star of the show, the head coach
Speaker 1: of your UC Bearcats. That's here for Wes Miller. Let's go.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the Bearcat fan tour with us here tonight.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some great stuff to give away after
Speaker 1: the show, including two tickets to tomorrow's game at the centime.
Speaker 4: So you got to stay the whole time because yes,
Speaker 4: I know you guys didn't have plans, but it's coming.
Speaker 1: And you have to be here in order to win.
Speaker 1: So if you are driving in the general vicinity, I
Speaker 1: always get the no, no, we're here already, we deserve
Speaker 1: to win. Well, I'm just going to throw it out
Speaker 1: there anyway, because we love as many BEARCAF fans as
Speaker 1: we can get. But if you are not far from
Speaker 1: the original Montgomery in at the end of the show
Speaker 1: nine o'clock, we will give away a variety of prizes,
Speaker 1: including two tickets to the Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout coming
Speaker 1: up tomorrow night at the Centa Center. Cincinnati and Xavier
Speaker 1: getting set to go at it in one of the
Speaker 1: best rivalries in college basketball and all of sports, really
Speaker 1: certainly the best interest city rivalry in college basketball, and
Speaker 1: we are fired up for it tomorrow night. How has
Speaker 1: practice been? How is the excitement level for you and
Speaker 1: your guys?
Speaker 2: Practice has been good. We needed to practice. We've been
Speaker 2: to a stretch. We've been playing a lot of games
Speaker 2: and we were banged up a little bit, so we
Speaker 2: weren't even guys that were playing, weren't always practicing, and
Speaker 2: we needed to get back to the practice court the
Speaker 2: last couple of days. It was nice to do that,
Speaker 2: and certainly, you know, players get excited for games like
Speaker 2: this and you can sense their energy. The last two
Speaker 2: days it's been.
Speaker 3: This is year five of the Crosstown Shootout for you.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the asked this question, because there's
Speaker 4: been a lot of red wine poured my way. But
Speaker 4: when it comes to the North Carolina duke rivalry and
Speaker 4: the Cincinnati Bearcats versus Xavier rivalry, obviously duke in North Carolina,
Speaker 4: I believe is number one in all of college basketball.
Speaker 4: But how does the intensity rival that rivalry?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's different. I think there's a there's
Speaker 2: just a different intensity to the Crosstown shootout that I
Speaker 2: think is completely unique. I don't think there's anything you
Speaker 2: can compare it to. As I told our players, this
Speaker 2: rivalry in this game means so much because of what
Speaker 2: it means to this community. Over is it ninety three
Speaker 2: somebody said ninety some years. You don't get that right.
Speaker 2: And this is obviously a special community. This is a
Speaker 2: connected community and for all of our lifetimes, for the
Speaker 2: most part, you know, everybody that grew up here and
Speaker 2: stays here and all that kind of stuff, the cross
Speaker 2: Town's been a part of that. And so it does
Speaker 2: mean a lot for that reason. And I think you
Speaker 2: when you're here and you're a part of it. You
Speaker 2: start to understand that we have a lot of guys
Speaker 2: that will experience it for the first time. I don't
Speaker 2: know if they'll totally grasp it till they experience it,
Speaker 2: but they're definitely excited.
Speaker 1: Same for Xavier. Davee Thomas has played in this game twice.
Speaker 1: Nobody else on your roster has played in it. Xavier
Speaker 1: doesn't have anybody on its roster that's played it in
Speaker 1: the past. I think that's one of the unfortunate things
Speaker 1: about the current state of college athletics, with so much
Speaker 1: change on rosters from year to year to year. You
Speaker 1: don't have guys that are going to be in this
Speaker 1: for four years. Maybe if you will, but by and large,
Speaker 1: there won't be a lot of guys like that going
Speaker 1: forward unless it somehow, you know, changes back toward the
Speaker 1: way it used to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, you guys know that we're not going
Speaker 2: to get anything out up here complaining about what used
Speaker 2: to be and all that stuff. You got to focus
Speaker 2: on what it is and how you deal with it.
Speaker 2: But that that is something I think we all like.
Speaker 2: When you have Dayda Thomases that are going into this
Speaker 2: type of thing for the third time, or the fourth time.
Speaker 2: I can tell you, as a coach, practice a lot
Speaker 2: is a lot easier to coach data than it is
Speaker 2: to coach everybody else, you know, because he just is
Speaker 2: not just knowing about a game. He knows all the
Speaker 2: things we do and how we do them in the standards.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think early in the year, you're
Speaker 2: spending a lot of time coaching things you're not used
Speaker 2: to coaching, unless you're I've told everybody a lot of us,
Speaker 2: it feels like we're in year one with the team,
Speaker 2: you know, within a program, because you're just coaching all
Speaker 2: this stuff that you take for granted when you have continuity.
Speaker 2: But that applies to everything we're doing. And I'd say
Speaker 2: that's about eighty percent or more college basketball.
Speaker 4: And speaking of data, is there a way? The obvious
Speaker 4: is getting in the gym, But Dada went from twenty
Speaker 4: eight percent to forty percent to now you're shooting fifty
Speaker 4: percent from three? Is there there's no secret, sauce to
Speaker 4: how do you get your percentages up that high other
Speaker 4: than getting in the gym and doing work. But that's
Speaker 4: a big leap over the years to shoot the way
Speaker 4: he's shooting from three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a lot that goes into it.
Speaker 2: I think the first thing you have to do when
Speaker 2: you see day DA's improvement shooting the balls, you got
Speaker 2: to give dayDay credit. He's been committed to his game.
Speaker 2: He's committed to his work every day the whole offseason.
Speaker 2: But if you come to our practice when practice ends,
Speaker 2: it is automatic. I mean you can just bank it.
Speaker 2: Dada's going to spend twenty twenty five minutes going through
Speaker 2: his shooting routine. If you show up in the mornings,
Speaker 2: Dada's going to have a thirty forty minute shooting routine
Speaker 2: every morning. I mean that's just like part of his day.
Speaker 2: So you give him credit first, and then you know,
Speaker 2: some of it is familiarity and confidence and experience. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like, what did you say, is shooting was his
Speaker 2: first year twenty eight He wasn't a twenty eight percent
Speaker 2: shooter his first year. He was much better than that.
Speaker 2: But he's obviously now had experience playing college basketball, playing
Speaker 2: in the Big twelve, playing in our program, and I
Speaker 2: think that's helped a lot with it too.
Speaker 1: You referenced injured guys being able to get back to
Speaker 1: a normal practice routine, and I would assume that Baba
Speaker 1: Miller is one of the people that you're referring to.
Speaker 1: He came back after missing two games on Monday night,
Speaker 1: turned it over a bunch in the first half, but
Speaker 1: you really went out of your way to praise him
Speaker 1: after the game for his willingness to go out there
Speaker 1: at less than one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, I think sometimes you just got to look
Speaker 2: at it from the right perspective. You want a guy
Speaker 2: that wants to feel one hundred percent to play, or
Speaker 2: do you want a guy that's just willing to go play,
Speaker 2: put the jersey on and fight for his team. Give
Speaker 2: me the guy like that, and you know when Boba
Speaker 2: does that, there's going to be rusted. And he was
Speaker 2: a little sped up on the catch because he hasn't
Speaker 2: not only hadn't played the end, practiced or done anything
Speaker 2: in eight days or seven days or whatever the heck
Speaker 2: it was. And to me, I can live with mistakes
Speaker 2: if I have somebody that's got their heart and soul
Speaker 2: into it, and I think Boba does.
Speaker 4: Buck Harris is a guy that in his previous stops
Speaker 4: at Illinois and West Virginia didn't necessarily have offense. Ran
Speaker 4: fro him because he's a guy that can get it
Speaker 4: and steals and transition and offensive rebounds and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: But when you put them in positions to score, whether
Speaker 4: to kick ahead on the fast break or put him
Speaker 4: in the high poles in his own sert, he has
Speaker 4: a way to wiggle his way through traffic and make shots.
Speaker 4: And he is I said this on the air several times.
Speaker 4: He's probably if there was such a stat in Dvance
Speaker 4: has analytics, there is.
Speaker 3: The most and ones in Big Twelve this year.
Speaker 2: I'm sure there is a stat for that somewhere. But no,
Speaker 2: he's really important to our team in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: And so if we just want to talk about his
Speaker 2: ability to put pressure on the paint and the rim
Speaker 2: off the drive, that's one of the ways he's important
Speaker 2: to us. He has a real knack to get downhill,
Speaker 2: he's got a knack to finish and get fouled, as
Speaker 2: you mentioned, and his decision making is consistently improving. He's
Speaker 2: really embracing that role in our team, whether it's in
Speaker 2: the open court or or whether it's in a half
Speaker 2: court situation. So yeah, I'm proud. I think he can
Speaker 2: keep getting better there. I don't think he's capped out
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: So what do you make of Xavier? They started the
Speaker 1: season slowly, lost a couple of games early, including a
Speaker 1: home game to Santa Clara, squeaked by some opponents that
Speaker 1: you know are not big name opponents. And now lately
Speaker 1: they've been playing great. They tweaked the lineup a little
Speaker 1: bit and they really seem to have figured things out
Speaker 1: on the offensive end. What do you make of the Musketeers?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they changed the lineup to get more skill.
Speaker 2: They for the most part have shooting at every position
Speaker 2: in pretty much every lineup they play. They're they're different
Speaker 2: in that way, right, I mean, it's not it's it's
Speaker 2: not often that you see you might see a team
Speaker 2: with the player in the front court that can shoot,
Speaker 2: and people utilize that in interesting ways. They have two
Speaker 2: front court players that can really shoot, and so it's
Speaker 2: been interesting in the preparation to figure out the right
Speaker 2: ways to combat that. But it's not like there other
Speaker 2: guys can't. Some of their best shooters are also in
Speaker 2: the back court and on the wing. So no, I
Speaker 2: think they've made some nice adjustments. They're very sound team passing, sharing,
Speaker 2: it sound defensively, and you know, you can see the
Speaker 2: adjustments and the improvement over the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: This is sort of day one, I would say day one,
Speaker 4: but it's not necessarily.
Speaker 3: But let's just say this is the.
Speaker 4: First game of a five game stretch that's very important
Speaker 4: for seeding and everything that goes all on it. But
Speaker 4: you have two of your players that are now back
Speaker 4: into the lineup, Celesting and Babba Miller that were out
Speaker 4: previous games while other guys got a chance to get
Speaker 4: more minutes and get up to speed and get more
Speaker 4: reps to play. Is it good that they got that
Speaker 4: time when guys were out and hurt, or you're just
Speaker 4: happy that your team is back to full strength almost.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we still got you know Jalen Haynes, Yes,
Speaker 2: and some other stuff. But the no, I want to
Speaker 2: get to full strength. I think practice is better when
Speaker 2: it's full strength. I think we can play the way
Speaker 2: that we're trying to build the team that we're gonna
Speaker 2: play with all year when we're full strength. That's what's
Speaker 2: important to me. But you know, I think we played
Speaker 2: some really young players and some different kinds of minutes,
Speaker 2: and I think over time that's good for development, but
Speaker 2: I want to be at full strength.
Speaker 1: At Cincinnati versus Xavier tomorrow night, seven thirty and the
Speaker 1: Skyline Chili Crossdown Shootout episode number ninety three, and again
Speaker 1: we have two tickets to give away at the end
Speaker 1: of tonight's radio show, we'll take a time out. We're
Speaker 1: live at the Original Montgomery In, Home of the World's
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Speaker 1: at the Original Montgomery In Home of the World's Greatest
Speaker 1: Ribs and the Wes Miller Radio Show. We've got the
Speaker 1: Skyline Chili Crossdown shootoutming up tomorrow night. It's a seven
Speaker 1: thirty tip at the Centas Center, and among the things
Speaker 1: we have to give away at the end of the
Speaker 1: show are a pair of tickets to the game tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: We've also got bear Cat gear, So anytime you come
Speaker 1: out to the show here at the Original Montgomery and
Speaker 1: there's a decent chance you will leave with a nice
Speaker 1: spar Cat giveaway item, that'll be the case tonight. We'll
Speaker 1: also have questions from the audience coming up in about
Speaker 1: ten minutes. You played on Monday night and defeated Tarleton State,
Speaker 1: and prior to the game I was very happy to
Speaker 1: spend a few minutes chatting with Gisel James, who's back
Speaker 1: in town attending school full us in a little bit
Speaker 1: about how he's doing.
Speaker 2: He's doing great. He's never not been enrolled, so I
Speaker 2: don't think that was somebody said asked that question in
Speaker 2: a press conference like it was news. It was like
Speaker 2: that news. He was enrolled in September and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. So, but he's back in town, he's
Speaker 2: been working out in our facilities. It's been a joy
Speaker 2: to have him back around. You guys, you know Terry
Speaker 2: and and you guys know how close him and I
Speaker 2: are and what I think of him and his family
Speaker 2: and all that. Yeah, I mean, well, as much as
Speaker 2: you could call somebody family, that's not your blood. And
Speaker 2: so I'm just pleased to report he's personally doing great.
Speaker 2: I'm more proud of him over the last three months
Speaker 2: than I've ever been for anything he did on the
Speaker 2: basketball court. And that's the best thing I could say.
Speaker 3: Has the conversation with this pop been good as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I think family perspective, Gisel's in a good place.
Speaker 2: He's doing well personally, and I think that's what matters.
Speaker 1: Most is it your hope that he will eventually play
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Gisel would like to do that, and
Speaker 2: certainly I would. I think people want the story to
Speaker 2: be about basketball right now, and in the time being,
Speaker 2: there's nothing to talk about career, you know, and so
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I've made comments about that
Speaker 2: people can refer to those. But in the long term, absolutely,
Speaker 2: and I think he wants that, and I think that's
Speaker 2: pretty cool.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to the game on Monday night,
Speaker 1: the victory over Tarleton State. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: good stuff in that game, but there was one thing
Speaker 1: you pointed out after the game that you weren't happy with,
Speaker 1: and that was the lack of touches for Mustafa cham
Speaker 1: inside when you had a height advantage. How do you
Speaker 1: go about fixing that?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think there's a couple of things. One,
Speaker 2: we can't miss him when he has good position. We
Speaker 2: got to make sure if we go those kind of
Speaker 2: stretches without him getting touches, that we do some things
Speaker 2: to call touches for him. And then, you know, as
Speaker 2: I told him, he's got to take some responsibility too.
Speaker 2: They can't stop even getting a touch when you go
Speaker 2: get it on the offensive offensive glass, and so I
Speaker 2: think he's a guy that we need to be really
Speaker 2: effective on the board, especially on the offensive board, and
Speaker 2: that's where you can go get it as a big
Speaker 2: fellow at seven to two, with the athleticism he has
Speaker 2: without it being thrown to you. So I think we
Speaker 2: got to take some accountability for that as a team,
Speaker 2: as a staff, and then I think he does too,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we don't have any more nights like that
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 4: First of all, I appreciate you addressing the gigal thing.
Speaker 4: I know you want to just address it and let
Speaker 4: him have the space to breathe and do what he
Speaker 4: needs to do. So thank you for that as a
Speaker 4: as an analyst, as a former player, and as a fan. Secondly,
Speaker 4: when I watch Baba Miller in the game, it just
Speaker 4: seems the offense is just different because we've always had
Speaker 4: a guy that you don't need to run offense for
Speaker 4: because he becomes the offense. He creates for other players
Speaker 4: and turnovers aside, he's just Baba Miller just sees the
Speaker 4: floor differently, and as you know, he is six' eleven
Speaker 4: with a growth spurt from a guard position to now
Speaker 4: a multi position. Player it's got to be better for
Speaker 4: your offense and for your play calling to whatever you,
Speaker 4: run it seems like there's a chance of success because
Speaker 4: he's on the.
Speaker 2: Floor, yeah coaching is easier with guys like, that, RIGHT
Speaker 2: i think.
Speaker 3: That's that's what it hugs it about.
Speaker 2: Me, yeah a defensive, coaching but but uh, no he's
Speaker 2: he's really important to our team and in every. Way
Speaker 2: he's important to the versatility, defensively to our rim protection
Speaker 2: right to some of the defensive things strategically we. Do
Speaker 2: he's a huge part of what we're doing offensively in every,
Speaker 2: regard and so it's really important that you know that
Speaker 2: he's he's healthy and doing. Well and it was nice
Speaker 2: to have him back in practice because he was, rusty
Speaker 2: not just with the ball in that first, half but
Speaker 2: just with some of the things that we, do and
Speaker 2: it was good to get back after.
Speaker 1: That the last two, Days Jalen celestine returned to the
Speaker 1: lineup as. Well he had only missed one, game but
Speaker 1: he looked springier to. Me made a couple of, threes
Speaker 1: just looked like he had a little more. BALANCE i
Speaker 1: know he's been dealing with a sore, back and hopefully
Speaker 1: that's a sign that the worst is behind.
Speaker 2: Him we need him and we need him to be
Speaker 2: the player that we know he can, be not just
Speaker 2: with the, shooting and he's a terrific, shooter the. Playmaking
Speaker 2: he's a really good decision maker with the, ball the
Speaker 2: positional versatil we need him to play the. THREE i,
Speaker 2: mean we need him to be able to come in
Speaker 2: and defend the other team's, three make plays as a three.
Speaker 2: Man we need him to be able to slide down
Speaker 2: and we can play small and spread it out and
Speaker 2: Give moose. Space and, like he is so important to the.
Speaker 2: Team he was so important our roster, build and we
Speaker 2: got to get him back to being one hundred percent
Speaker 2: and moving and. PLAYING i just got to get a
Speaker 2: sea legs a little. Bit AS i told him the other,
Speaker 2: DAY i thought this week has been a step in
Speaker 2: the right direction for.
Speaker 4: Him Kirk cries is a guy that's been a tremendous.
Speaker 4: Passer he had a great shooting night the other, night
Speaker 4: really broke it open for. You because he's a great
Speaker 4: catch and shoot player and he likes to pup, fake
Speaker 4: takes that side step to the left and knock down,
Speaker 4: shots but he has been a little loose with the
Speaker 4: basketball in his decision.
Speaker 3: Making he's a great, passer but it's.
Speaker 4: Almost like he trusts his passing ability so much that
Speaker 4: he can get away with passes in certain times and
Speaker 4: the ball is over and it puts your offense had
Speaker 4: a disadvantage on defense because of.
Speaker 3: That have you addressed him in that?
Speaker 2: Manner, WELL i think we've addressed our whole. Team you,
Speaker 2: know when we've had we've had some nights where we've
Speaker 2: just been so careless with the. BALL i, Mean dayton
Speaker 2: sticks out in my head as we think, back and
Speaker 2: we PLAYED i thought well offensively Against dayton a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, ago had some great, stretches but then we
Speaker 2: had some stretches we were just so careless with. IT
Speaker 2: i thought we had the same thing in The Charlatan state.
Speaker 2: Game we're just careless with the. Ball so we've addressed
Speaker 2: it with our. TEAM i think two types of turnovers
Speaker 2: that you just can't accept selfish turnovers and careless. Turnovers
Speaker 2: and those are the two that were pointing. Out if
Speaker 2: somebody makes it a turnover when they're making aggressive play
Speaker 2: within who they are as a, player you don't like,
Speaker 2: it BUT i think you can swallow it a little.
Speaker 2: Bit in terms of curs assist air ratio is really.
Speaker 2: High it's better than two to.
Speaker 3: One it sticks out because he's such a good. Passage.
Speaker 2: Yeah SO i think with, him he's gonna be a
Speaker 2: risky passer and a free will passer and that's going
Speaker 2: to be important for our. Team but he's got to
Speaker 2: avoid the careless ones when he.
Speaker 1: Came, gotcha there was a stretch in the first half
Speaker 1: On monday where it was hard to keep up with
Speaker 1: the ball movement as a radio announcer because you were popping.
Speaker 1: It it was aw, boom boom. Boom. Yes is that
Speaker 1: what you want your offense to look? Like?
Speaker 2: Yes AND i THINK i think there's a process to
Speaker 2: this team finding its rhythm offensively and. FIGURING i, mean
Speaker 2: we figured it out as a, staff, right AND i
Speaker 2: think they believe in. It but playing to their offensive
Speaker 2: identity not just in the open, court but in the half,
Speaker 2: court within sets and. Execution AND i think our identity
Speaker 2: needs to be around movement of player in. BASKETBALL i,
Speaker 2: MEAN i really believe that we don't have a ton
Speaker 2: of guys you can just throw it to and say
Speaker 2: go make it happen when nothing's. There we got enough
Speaker 2: of that to do what we have to do this.
Speaker 2: Year BUT i think our identity needs to be moving
Speaker 2: to the player moving to the, ball and they're working at.
Speaker 2: That THESE i tell you what practice has really helped
Speaker 2: with that have an opportunity to do. It we're going
Speaker 2: to be a really good player in movement player in
Speaker 2: ball movement. Team and there was the clips you're talking
Speaker 2: the players you're talking, about of the clips we showed
Speaker 2: the team the next day after the.
Speaker 4: Game seanabayev is a. Winner he's been a winner on
Speaker 4: every level he's been on and the fact that he
Speaker 4: hasn't shot it well could if he was just an offensive,
Speaker 4: player could shatter. Him, however he's on the, floor he seems.
Speaker 3: Engaged how are you keeping him engaged when he's not?
Speaker 4: Performing how you know he can perform as far as shot, Making, YEAH.
Speaker 2: I think IT'S i think from my, PERSPECTIVE i don't
Speaker 2: want to tell what everybody else what to. Thank people
Speaker 2: are allowed to think whatever they, want but from my,
Speaker 2: perspective there has to be some grace. Given you, know
Speaker 2: you're talking about a young man with the world of
Speaker 2: expectations on his. Shoulders he has personal. Expectations we have
Speaker 2: expectations with him as a young player that's never experienced.
Speaker 2: Basketball he's experienced some of the things we do for
Speaker 2: the first, time and in some ways he's just doing
Speaker 2: terrific And i'm really proud of. Him and he's getting
Speaker 2: better and he's. Growing and then you, know his practice,
Speaker 2: habits his, practice his practice habits are, great his attitude is.
Speaker 2: Great his work ethic is too. MUCH i mean from WHEN.
Speaker 3: I first saw to where, now practice habits have been much.
Speaker 2: Better, YEAH i, mean he's he's he's really doing the
Speaker 2: things that you'd want somebody in this position to. DO
Speaker 2: i MEAN i was leaving the office or leaving the locker.
Speaker 2: ROOM i was talking with some of the guys later
Speaker 2: this evening And sean came, through grabbed his stuff out
Speaker 2: of his locker to go back and, shoot And Coach
Speaker 2: diler came running through the Locked shawn just come through.
Speaker 2: HERE i heard he's going to. Shoot to go chase
Speaker 2: him out of the gym because he's in there too,
Speaker 2: much you, KNOW i, mean we see such a. Thing,
Speaker 2: yeah there's such a. Thing you can, overtrain, right and
Speaker 2: you can you can try too HARD i just speaking
Speaker 2: from somebody that knows all about, That, like you can
Speaker 2: want it too, bad you can try too, Hard AND
Speaker 2: i think with training there's a balance AND i certainly
Speaker 2: can relate to that as a, coach as a, player
Speaker 2: the whole nine He BUT i like. THAT i like
Speaker 2: the quality of wanting it too. BADLY i think with his,
Speaker 2: shooting it's it's, interesting he'll shoot it. GREAT i no
Speaker 2: worries about. That you talked About Dada Thomas Dayda thomas
Speaker 2: wasn't a twenty eight percent shooters a. Freshman he just
Speaker 2: needed to get. Comfortable sean's going to get comfortable with
Speaker 2: that aspect of his game in a much swifter way
Speaker 2: Than dada has since he's been. Here he'll get to
Speaker 2: the point he shoots it. Great you can bank. THAT
Speaker 2: i have no worries about. That shot selection needs to
Speaker 2: continue to. Improve in decision making needs to continue to.
Speaker 2: Improve BUT i, say but it's tricky because some of
Speaker 2: those tougher shots that he can make we recruited him to.
Speaker 2: Make now we want him to take them when we
Speaker 2: need them to be. Taken but you got to put
Speaker 2: yourself in his. Position he's eighteen years. Old he was
Speaker 2: recruited to shoot some of those. Shots we don't want to,
Speaker 2: say don't shoot him at, all because we're going to
Speaker 2: need him to shoot those in the big moments that
Speaker 2: we're going to be for the next three. Stuff that's,
Speaker 2: right he's just learning the process a, win when to,
Speaker 2: attack when to, facilitate when to. Shoot and from my,
Speaker 2: perspective he's doing a nice job and doing exactly what
Speaker 2: he's supposed to. Be AND i think if sometime over
Speaker 2: the next, five, six seven weeks everybody else will think that.
Speaker 2: TOO i really. Do But i'm.
Speaker 3: Happy, YEAH i. Know you take a. Break let's got one.
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Speaker 1: elliott is up, first all.
Speaker 5: Right with all the transfer portal, stuff like how many
Speaker 5: players leave without you like saying, like, HEY i don't
Speaker 5: think this is a program for you as compared to
Speaker 5: the players that you, say, like, HEY i think you'd
Speaker 5: have better luck at a different.
Speaker 2: Program like how many players do we like asked to? Leave, yeah,
Speaker 2: YEAH i wouldn't say, many you. Know AND i think there's,
Speaker 2: sometimes like, anything where it just makes sense for. Change
Speaker 2: AND i think there's certainly been situations like, that but very.
Speaker 2: FEW i, MEAN i think it's it's. Different it's a good, Question,
Speaker 2: Elliott AND i think everybody's what it was two years
Speaker 2: ago was different than what it was last. Year it's
Speaker 2: changing every. Year now it's completely a business, thing Right
Speaker 2: like now it's free. Agency, Yeah AND i think guys, say,
Speaker 2: HEY i might WANT i really like to be back.
Speaker 2: Here you, KNOW i gotta talk to my, agent talk
Speaker 2: to my. Age you, know there's there's a a business
Speaker 2: aspect to it that THAT i think is ninety percent
Speaker 2: prevalent with all these kids, now and that was different
Speaker 2: than how it was two or three years.
Speaker 1: Ago CAN i just point out THAT tnl was going
Speaker 1: to ask a question before we went for news at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the. Hour NOW i see him out
Speaker 1: there clinking his wine glass with Other bearcat fans in the.
Speaker 3: Audience i'm greeting the. Fans i'm doing my job in.
Speaker 3: Audience to keep doing my.
Speaker 1: Job there's nothing wrong with being. HOSPITABLE i like, that.
Speaker 1: Huh we all ever, strengths including a lease coaching from
Speaker 1: two six.
Speaker 6: Yes so, yes or the last. GAME i did some
Speaker 6: coaching from two o seven and THEN i decided to
Speaker 6: make my way closer and had a different kind of
Speaker 6: angle almost out on the, bench BUT i know there
Speaker 6: wasn't a. Seat SO i noticed a little scuffle at
Speaker 6: the end of the, game but there wasn't much, announced
Speaker 6: and THE pa guy said he just didn't announce it
Speaker 6: because the game Was can you explain the two oh
Speaker 6: seven's assistant coach what On God's Green earth? Happened and
Speaker 6: THEN i have a follow up question after.
Speaker 2: That one of the opposing players said something at the
Speaker 2: free throw line to one of our, players and we
Speaker 2: shouldn't respond to those. Things what was said was completely
Speaker 2: inappropriate and crossed the line in my. OPINION i won't share,
Speaker 2: it but we have to have discipline to not respond
Speaker 2: regardless of what. Said but it was something that had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with, basketball and WHEN i heard what was,
Speaker 2: said it bothered. Me but we still shouldn't respond to,
Speaker 2: that and that's what.
Speaker 1: Happened.
Speaker 6: Okay last question completely. Unrelated as OTHER uc teams have
Speaker 6: gone into that disgusting place In, norwood they have experienced poor,
Speaker 6: treatment with liquids thrown on them and other profanity things
Speaker 6: said to. Them whether it's the players wives or, Mothers
Speaker 6: what advice or things do you say to those significant
Speaker 6: others and the players about going Into xavier or that
Speaker 6: school In?
Speaker 1: Norwood shots fired by a Least i'm Ready.
Speaker 2: NORWOOD i THINK i think a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of our, players if they haven't played in the, crosstown for,
Speaker 2: example they've played in in hostel, arenas in big time,
Speaker 2: environments and SO i think they understand what it's like
Speaker 2: to play in the hostile environment in a rivalry. Game
Speaker 2: they might not completely understand what it's like to play
Speaker 2: in the, crosstown BUT i think they understand that their
Speaker 2: families probably understand, that just LIKE i have an expectation
Speaker 2: that our fans are the best in college basketball that
Speaker 2: are loud and you, know like wild and crazy in.
Speaker 2: There and fifth, THIRD i would have the expectation that
Speaker 2: that we carry ourselves with class and and dignity and
Speaker 2: treat people the right, Way and that would be my
Speaker 2: expectation of any arena we walk into. Anywhere SO i
Speaker 2: hope that's not the.
Speaker 7: Case Brian, WELL i was gonna ask something similar to,
Speaker 7: That So i'm gonna try to pivot here real. Quick,
Speaker 7: yeah if you're gonna, win Ad, XAVIER I i know
Speaker 7: it's it's a it's a team. Effort everybody's, Important but
Speaker 7: what what aspect of the game is going to be
Speaker 7: the reason you win this?
Speaker 3: Game that's that's.
Speaker 2: Tough you. Know what's so funny about coaching this, game you,
Speaker 2: know is it's it becomes pretty wildly unpredictable every Time
Speaker 2: i've coached in, It like what what you think is
Speaker 2: never what it, is and things happen that you can't.
Speaker 2: Explain and it certainly felt that way the last three
Speaker 2: years for. Me but you, know it's it's some of
Speaker 2: the things are obvious that They're they're fourth in the
Speaker 2: country right, now and three pointers made a. GAME i
Speaker 2: think that's that's a factor in the. Game and it's
Speaker 2: not just so simple as do they make three or
Speaker 2: not make? Three is just their shooting impact the game
Speaker 2: in a really positive. Way does that mean does it
Speaker 2: open up easy baskets around the? Basket does it open
Speaker 2: up a chance for them to get fouled? More do
Speaker 2: they rebound misses if you do make them MISS i
Speaker 2: mean there's a lot that goes into. That but defending
Speaker 2: all the shooting that they have out, THERE i think
Speaker 2: that everybody that plays them will will talk about, that
Speaker 2: AND i think that'd be Something i'd look into with
Speaker 2: how the game. Swings and THEN i think with The
Speaker 2: crosstown it doesn't matter the players and the, coaches it
Speaker 2: comes down to the gritty, stuff right the, rebounding the loose,
Speaker 2: balls the, deflections the toughness plays and all that kind of,
Speaker 2: Stuff AND i THINK i think that's something That i'd
Speaker 2: always look out for in any, game but certainly in
Speaker 2: a rivalry.
Speaker 1: Game next, question Oh.
Speaker 8: Wes first, off how do you feel like with the
Speaker 8: lost to it Was Eastern? Michigan how do you feel
Speaker 8: the pressure has changed over the course of the. Season
Speaker 8: and then ALSO i Asked Scott ciderfield who he thought
Speaker 8: our biggest rivals. Were obviously for, basketball we Have, xavier
Speaker 8: so that's our biggest, Rival but other Than, xavier who
Speaker 8: would you say we get most amped up to?
Speaker 2: Play, yeah you, know ups and. Downs we have a
Speaker 2: long basketball, season you. Know, well you, know our goal
Speaker 2: is to feel really successful on Selection sunday and then
Speaker 2: have success beyond. That and so that to me is
Speaker 2: when you kind of evaluate. Yourself there's gonna be lots
Speaker 2: of up and downs and trials and, tribulations and to,
Speaker 2: me the pressure doesn't really have any effect on it
Speaker 2: one way or the. Other it's do we walk in
Speaker 2: every day and handle things the right? Way when it's going?
Speaker 2: Poorly do we handle it the right? Way right when
Speaker 2: it goes? Great do we handle it the right? Way
Speaker 2: and that's my job and that's my. Focus and IF
Speaker 2: i can get my team to do, that then we
Speaker 2: really got something pretty cool that'll be great in the.
Speaker 2: End you, know it's when you change. Leagues it's probably
Speaker 2: why you ask Coach satterfield this as. Well you, know
Speaker 2: that's an interesting. Thing i'd like to say that Every
Speaker 2: big twelve game feels like a rivalry to, me because
Speaker 2: they're all means so, much and they don't just mean
Speaker 2: a lot to, us they mean a lot to the opponent,
Speaker 2: Too so Every big twelve game feels like a dang rivalry.
Speaker 2: GAME i think the league has paired our rivalry With
Speaker 2: West virginia from a proximity, standpoint SO i think we're
Speaker 2: always gonna play them home and home every, year AND
Speaker 2: i think the league decided. That but they all feel
Speaker 2: like big dang games to.
Speaker 1: Me All, right we have a couple of young men
Speaker 1: stepping to the. Mic tel wants them.
Speaker 2: To sprint and their, campers by the, way there's, summers all,
Speaker 2: right love. IT i recognize.
Speaker 1: Them, okay go, ahead.
Speaker 5: What are your game day shoes Against Xavier?
Speaker 1: Nikes it's a.
Speaker 2: Great, yeah they'll Be, jordan's for. SURE i haven't thought
Speaker 2: that far. Ahead we've been focusing more on like play
Speaker 2: calling and defensive. Schemes but it'll be Some jordans that
Speaker 2: have bear cat colors that you can bank on. That thank,
Speaker 2: you you're.
Speaker 9: Welcome did you breed two different loyalties over? Here he's
Speaker 9: got you see stuff on and he's flexing THE x.
Speaker 9: Sign what's going on?
Speaker 1: Here he's wearing a seapod that was. Accidental all, Right
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Speaker 10: Next so this falls out of the category of way too,
Speaker 10: early but the ticket office, SAID i had an email
Speaker 10: yesterday announcing it's time to start reserving tickets for The
Speaker 10: big twelve.
Speaker 1: Tournament it's a great time In Kansas. City if anybody's
Speaker 1: or if people have never, been it's an awesome. Environment
Speaker 1: they do a great job with the events around the basketball,
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Speaker 1: i'd recommend it if you have an. Interests it's really well,
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Speaker 1: Doubt all, Right, karen you're up.
Speaker 11: NEXT i like to know what players came. Out former
Speaker 11: players came out to talk to the players this. Week
Speaker 11: and also this game is on a network WHICH i
Speaker 11: didn't think it would be. On, OKAY, tnt but listen
Speaker 11: To dan on.
Speaker 2: The, Radio.
Speaker 1: Terry well, Done.
Speaker 11: Karen But i'm looking for this game to come back
Speaker 11: to what it was ON espn Or NATIONAL tv to
Speaker 11: pick it up because those were the days in those.
Speaker 11: Days need and will.
Speaker 2: Come back TNT's NATIONAL, TV i, BELIEVE i.
Speaker 11: Know but it's not what this game. Was you had
Speaker 11: to be here to what this game.
Speaker 3: WAS i THINK.
Speaker 11: Cbs picked it up. Before it used to be on
Speaker 11: A saturday. Night it used to be a, nation it
Speaker 11: used to it used to be really really.
Speaker 1: Big well the last time it was on A friday
Speaker 1: night At Xavier cincinnati one so good, mojo good mojo
Speaker 1: for tomorrow. Night but thank, You. Karen we appreciate you
Speaker 1: being here tonight as. Always anybody else have a question
Speaker 1: for coach t l has the mic in his. Hand
Speaker 1: he will find, You terry right right.
Speaker 12: Here i'm curious if you have a, stylist and if you,
Speaker 12: do if she gets upset when you take your jacket
Speaker 12: off after two.
Speaker 2: Minutes her Name's.
Speaker 1: Lauren she doesn't appear upset Right.
Speaker 2: She's sitting at the bar right.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: NO I i it's hard just to feel restricted there
Speaker 2: after a. Bit and, uh BUT i DO i do
Speaker 2: miss the days we wore. Suits i've said that many times.
Speaker 2: PUBLICLY i just thought there was something to you, know
Speaker 2: there's only there's a special when you play a college basketball,
Speaker 2: game and that that made me feel like you were
Speaker 2: making it special as a coach because you put a suit.
Speaker 2: On AND i think we're beyond that a little, bit
Speaker 2: and some some part of me wants to do that,
Speaker 2: again BUT i don't want to do that to my
Speaker 2: staff and their dry cleaners and that type of. Thing
Speaker 2: but the wearing a sport coat felt right for me this,
Speaker 2: year and it's just not gonna make it very long
Speaker 2: BECAUSE i feel restricted up.
Speaker 1: There Tel do we have to go to a back
Speaker 1: to sport coat clock to record the exact moment that
Speaker 1: it is peeled off during the course of the. Game
Speaker 1: that's that's the, standard roughly ninety seconds.
Speaker 2: In generally it has to do with like how well
Speaker 2: we're defending and rebounding and taking care of the ball
Speaker 2: to start the.
Speaker 3: Game it's a good photo. Op, yeah, yes it's a
Speaker 3: good photo, op all.
Speaker 1: Right so do you expect to see a lot of
Speaker 1: zone tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Night you, know IF i think you can only go
Speaker 2: off of what you've seen when you when you study the.
Speaker 2: Tape And i'm not saying anything that those guys don't
Speaker 2: know that we're we're competing. Against but The xavier's played
Speaker 2: a couple possessions at two three over the last couple of.
Speaker 2: Weeks they've played some one to three to one in
Speaker 2: the second half in their last game at, home so
Speaker 2: in their most recent game at. Home SO i think
Speaker 2: it wouldn't surprise me to see his own but they.
Speaker 2: Haven't they don't have enough possessions under their. Belt as you,
Speaker 2: said they've already made some adjustments to totally predict. IT
Speaker 2: i think that's the type of thing this time in
Speaker 2: the year that you hopefully you're prepared if they do
Speaker 2: something like. That you definitely not just, recently but you
Speaker 2: spent the time in the. Preseason if a team jumps into,
Speaker 2: this what do you do a team jumps into? That
Speaker 2: SO i guess the short answer, IS i think it's highly,
Speaker 2: possible BUT i. CAN'T i don't call the defenses For, Saviors.
Speaker 3: SO i don't know what's your philosophy un.
Speaker 4: Pressing i'm not gonna ask if you're gonna, press or
Speaker 4: do you want to press in the future or whatever?
Speaker 3: Tomorrow your philosophy un pressing in?
Speaker 2: General, Well i'd like to press every single possession and
Speaker 2: get the ball back as as. Possible that's What i'd
Speaker 2: like to. Do i'd like To you, know what did
Speaker 2: The Nolan richardson do back in the.
Speaker 4: Day that's a lot of that's a lot of.
Speaker 1: Overtime that's a long.
Speaker 2: Game to two games and two overtime the uh. NO
Speaker 2: i MEAN i think that that's my propensity is to
Speaker 2: want to be able to extend pressure and make people. Uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: uh but you you have to number, one have personnel
Speaker 2: to do. It then you have to build the discipline
Speaker 2: to do it, consistently the depth to do it. Consistently
Speaker 2: we have some we've pressed a little bit this. YEAR
Speaker 2: i don't know how much people pay attention to every,
Speaker 2: possession but we have done some, pressing some three quarter core,
Speaker 2: pressing some full court. Pressing. UH i think it's something
Speaker 2: will continue to add as the year goes on and
Speaker 2: do more and more of a little more practice time
Speaker 2: would help because if.
Speaker 3: You get you your nine seconds a shot that you
Speaker 3: want to.
Speaker 2: Get, to pressing helps nine. Seconds we were AT.
Speaker 4: I left thirteen seconds in the first show and it
Speaker 4: was fourteen seconds in the actual, reality and you said
Speaker 4: you wanted to get it. Faster So i'm, thinking like
Speaker 4: below double digits is a good barometer to go. By
Speaker 4: it say we're gonna play. Fast in order to play,
Speaker 4: fast you got to make them play.
Speaker 2: Fast. Yeah we if we start running around press in every,
Speaker 2: possession it'll get pretty wacky out.
Speaker 3: There that's how yes organized.
Speaker 2: Chaos But i'd love to be able to do that for.
Speaker 1: Sure so we didn't have a show Last thursday because
Speaker 1: it Was thanksgiving. Night you played a game the night
Speaker 1: before and C J anthony was. There we BROUGHT cj
Speaker 1: up on this show at various points during the course
Speaker 1: of the. Year he's playing For iona this. Year first
Speaker 1: game of the, year he had twenty four. Points you
Speaker 1: were almost moved to tears after learning that he's having
Speaker 1: a tremendous. Year, yes he's averaging like sixteen points and six.
Speaker 2: Assists it's so. Great he came back in the coaches a.
Speaker 2: Lot we were doing our recording on the radio show
Speaker 2: and he came. Back and that's, it guess coaching. Man
Speaker 2: that's some of the great stuff that people don't get to.
Speaker 2: See but he's, uh he's FAMILY a love him to.
Speaker 2: Death i'm so happy for. Him i've been ribbing a.
Speaker 2: Lot you, know people rib us they call you about
Speaker 2: we have this recruit for, you you, know and then
Speaker 2: that that kid goes off in a game for somebody,
Speaker 2: else and you get the TEXT i told you, so you,
Speaker 2: know LIKE i hate that. Text and most of the
Speaker 2: TIME i want to, say you, KNOW i already know,
Speaker 2: this you don't have to rub it in my. Face
Speaker 2: BUT i called a bunch of my buddies ABOUT. Cj,
Speaker 2: anthony AND i, Said i'm telling, You and we had
Speaker 2: all this practice tape we sent out and all this.
Speaker 2: STUFF i, Said i'm telling, You i'll put my name on.
Speaker 2: It he will be unbelievable for. You and it's not
Speaker 2: about the. Nil it's just about a scholarship and the
Speaker 2: right opportunity and a bunch of my friends and a
Speaker 2: bunch of people THAT i care. About they looked at
Speaker 2: it One i'm just not. Interested And i've been giving them.
Speaker 2: HELL i should have listened to me ON. Cj. ANTHONY
Speaker 2: i tried to help you. Out But i'm so thrilled for.
Speaker 2: Him and he was so. Funny we were talking about
Speaker 2: the year he's having and he had a game that
Speaker 2: wasn't so, good AND i asked him about, it. JOKING i, said,
Speaker 2: SEEZE i ain't really impressed. Yet, Man i'll be impressed
Speaker 2: if you can do, this you, know for the next
Speaker 2: twenty five. Games and he laughed and he, said that
Speaker 2: makes sense coming from. YOU i, said BUT i want
Speaker 2: to ask you about the one game you didn't play,
Speaker 2: well and he started. LAUGHING i knew you were gonna,
Speaker 2: ask he, Said, coach it's a lot different when you're
Speaker 2: on the top of the scouting REPORT a, right he,
Speaker 2: said for a, while they didn't know WHO i. Was
Speaker 2: now they're guarding me a lot, Differently AND i laughed
Speaker 2: because that is, true and we've talked about that. Before
Speaker 2: it's a little different when they're trying to stop you
Speaker 2: or She you surprised, Him but he's gonna do. Great
Speaker 2: whether he's gonna be at the top of the scouting
Speaker 2: report all year and he's still gonna do, Great i'm
Speaker 2: super proud OF.
Speaker 4: I spoke to him before the game and after the,
Speaker 4: game and he had nothing but glowing terms to talk
Speaker 4: about you and what you. Did but you told us
Speaker 4: before the season last year as well as told, him
Speaker 4: AND i think they need to hear their story.
Speaker 3: About why you didn't play him when you, thought in.
Speaker 4: Your own words that he had worked himself up to
Speaker 4: be a starter in pretty much.
Speaker 3: Any team in a power Or power four.
Speaker 2: Conference, WELL i don't know about starter in A power four,
Speaker 2: league is HOW i felt at the. Time but you,
Speaker 2: know he was trying to figure out what was right
Speaker 2: for him when he was going into that senior, year
Speaker 2: and he was one of those guys that he came
Speaker 2: here because he just wanted to be A. Bearcat he
Speaker 2: grew up in the state Of ohio dreamed about playing
Speaker 2: For cincinnati and he just wanted a, chance and he
Speaker 2: had low major And division two offers and he. DID
Speaker 2: i told, HIM i can't promise you'll ever play a,
Speaker 2: minute but if you're good enough and you work your tail,
Speaker 2: off you'll have a. Chance like it's not going to
Speaker 2: be about whether you had a scholarship or non scholarship
Speaker 2: or that type of. Thing and that was one of
Speaker 2: THE i think my first month on the job here
Speaker 2: and his first freshman year he wasn't very. Good he'll
Speaker 2: tell you that. Too his sophomore year he got significantly.
Speaker 2: Better and going into his junior, YEAR i thought he'd
Speaker 2: have a chance to compete for rotational, men and he
Speaker 2: just couldn't quite crack the. Rotation he was right. There
Speaker 2: and we met after his junior, year AND i thought
Speaker 2: he might want to go just, play you, Know and he,
Speaker 2: Said i'm just so torn BECAUSE i do want to,
Speaker 2: play BUT i want TO i don't ever want to Leave.
Speaker 2: CINCINNATI i want to be a Bear. CAT i love
Speaker 2: what you love you, GUYS i love what we're, DOING
Speaker 2: i love the, program BUT i do want to play
Speaker 2: AND i, SAID i got an. IDEA i, said how
Speaker 2: about you come back next year so you can graduate
Speaker 2: four years a Bear, cat which is what you deserve
Speaker 2: to do and what you should. Do and if we
Speaker 2: are starting the season and you're not in the, rotation
Speaker 2: weill Red church you and then you can go play
Speaker 2: that fifth year somewhere else and you can get the
Speaker 2: best of both. Worlds, now if you're gonna be in the,
Speaker 2: ROTATION i ain't gonna Red church Right and to start the,
Speaker 2: season if you guys will remember last, Year Connor hippen was.
Speaker 2: Terrific dan With skillings was, injured but you Knew dan
Speaker 2: was gonna come back after five weeks or something like,
Speaker 2: that and so he was right, there and.
Speaker 3: But you'dn't want to give him five six minutes a.
Speaker 2: Game he was right, there so we decided the red shirt.
Speaker 2: Him and Then Connor hickman ended up breaking his foot
Speaker 2: and missing the, year and he would have been really
Speaker 2: damn good for, us and he would have. PLAYED i
Speaker 2: don't know if he'd have played at the role he's
Speaker 2: in now At, iona but he would have had a significant.
Speaker 2: Role he shoots the heck out of it and we needed,
Speaker 2: that so, Badly so it wasn't. HARD i had a
Speaker 2: couple of NIGHTS i, Went i'm about to CALL cgs
Speaker 2: see IF i can get. It but that wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been fair to the young. Man and he gave us,
Speaker 2: everything and it's kind of the old school, deal Wasn't
Speaker 2: he got no money for, it and, shoot didn't even
Speaker 2: get a dang. Scholarship for the most, part we did
Speaker 2: find a way to get him some legal nil whatever
Speaker 2: the heck that. Means we found a way to get
Speaker 2: some of that so he could pay us to wish
Speaker 2: and those last couple of years he'd earned. That but
Speaker 2: it was all about the right. Stuff so you, know
Speaker 2: it was easy to do the right thing for. Him
Speaker 2: And i'm so happy it's working. Out this is going
Speaker 2: to lead into a professional basketball career that he was. Playing,
Speaker 2: now all, right.
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