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Speaker 2: Don't do it. You don't have to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna get worse, It's gonna get dangerous out there.

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Speaker 1: Today, Man, things move very fast here in the Twin

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Speaker 1: you until then? Will you translate this text that came

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Speaker 1: presumably during Beyond the Pond. Brett did not say he

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Speaker 4: Saying is it's a first round playoff matchup, Yes, against

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Speaker 4: which we did, it was a great game. But what

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Speaker 2: Like I'm not.

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Speaker 1: You're observing Yeah, other people. It's like they want to

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Speaker 2: Isn't that funny?

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Speaker 1: I like what six one two guys says, everyone needs

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Speaker 1: We will talk about the Minnesota Wild a nice ot victory.

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Speaker 1: Both teams had a bunch of people out right stars

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Speaker 3: Yeah, by the way, for the record Nebraska men's basketball

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Speaker 1: Love the show No matter where I am, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: got to tell you, I didn't come away from what

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00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: I saw all that. I came away thinking we're lucky

441
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: we didn't give up another one. It looked to me

442
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: like the Stars utterly dominated the puck every face off,

443
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: every face off that I can remember. So again, good goaltending,

444
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 1: good luck. I guess what I'm saying is the ability

445
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: to handle the power play better after the first one

446
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: in terms of the scoreboard. I didn't necessarily come away thinking,

447
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: well that that problem solved because it just looked to

448
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: me like the Stars got the better that of that

449
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: particular action.

450
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 2: Am I wrong? No, I think you're right.

451
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 4: I think Gus Bust to me was the clear number

452
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 4: one star of the game. I don't know how he

453
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 4: didn't get it. He made so many unbelievable saves. When

454
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 4: the Stars power Play had a great a chance, they

455
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 4: generated him left and right, and Gus kept making save

456
00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 4: after save. So yeah, I'm not a PK saw. But then, yeah,

457
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 4: you'll hear the hockey guys go well. John Hines was

458
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 4: the penalty kill for Team USA, so obviously it's gonna

459
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 4: be fine. Yeah, I still don't get why we have

460
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 4: Matt Boldie out there. He can definitely kill penalties, but

461
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 4: I don't want him blocking shots one of our most

462
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 4: valuable players. So yeah, but there was two big especially

463
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 4: the four minutor late in the game where they killed

464
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 4: that off and that was absolutely massive, massive.

465
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Speaker 1: Most of it goes to Gus for me. Yeah, I'm

466
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 1: with you, I think, and again that's not illegal. Your

467
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: goaltender is part of the team.

468
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 2: But I didn't.

469
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: I just I didn't come away from it going, oh

470
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: they handle those penalty kill He handled it. Which is

471
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: again part of what you want. You want your goaltender

472
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: to do it. But I think best case scenario you're

473
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: getting help in front of him as well, where he

474
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: is not challenged to the degree that they seem to be. Now,

475
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: do you agree with this looks like Jeremiah for me?

476
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: Dinah Dallas's one power play goal was hit off of

477
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: a wild skate, the old fluke goal. Do you agree

478
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: that this kind of it was kind of a fluky goal,

479
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: not necessarily a dominant power play by the Stars.

480
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Speaker 4: I think he Robertson walked in for free from the

481
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 4: top of the circle. Yeah, so, and then his shot

482
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 4: did go off of I think Middleton's skate, but also

483
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 4: he walked in for free, so you could kind of

484
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 4: look at it either way.

485
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Speaker 1: So at this point, as you said, given we're kind

486
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: of I mean, we're literally locked in, are we not

487
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: or less more or less correct on term militanositioning?

488
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 4: They have eleven games left, and I mean we have

489
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 4: the Wild of ninety two points, the Stars of ninety seven.

490
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah.

491
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 4: And the Mammoth blow Us of seventy eight, And don't

492
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 4: they still have a game or two in hand on us? Yes,

493
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 4: they do the Wild of seventy one games played, the

494
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 4: Stars of sixty nine.

495
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go, so neah, nothing's impossible.

496
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: I hate meandering into the playoffs, I really do. I

497
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: hate load managing, which doesn't really happen that much in hockey.

498
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: But I think there's a chance we're going to see

499
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: that the circumstance the Wild are in the goal really

500
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: the last would you say, nine to ten games left.

501
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: Whatever it is has to be given. You really can't

502
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: make much of a charge. You kind of are where

503
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: you are. It has to be health, it has to

504
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: be to a certain extent, I think, within reason, even

505
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: experimenting a little bit with combinations so that the head

506
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: coach has a better feel about different ways he can

507
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: go or feels comfortable going in the postseason, whether we're

508
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:41,239
Speaker 1: talking about you know, defensive compairings or line you know,

509
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: combo platters as well.

510
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 2: Because.

511
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: If the Wild, you know, finish strong, I don't know

512
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: if I buy necessarily well that gives us momentum going

513
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: into the postseason. I don't know how much I buy

514
00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: end of regular season success translating to postseason success. I

515
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: tend to believe unless you're in free fall, that your

516
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: momentum tends to start and stop and start on the

517
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: basis of what happens once the playoffs begin, even in

518
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: a given series.

519
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 2: And so.

520
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,719
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer the you know, because you know

521
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: Garren was upset last week. Unacceptable. This was when we

522
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: were a little Did we lose four arm row home

523
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: to non playoff teams? Correct?

524
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: And I get that is unacceptable to a certain extent.

525
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: But what you're trying to do now, to me is

526
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: just get yourself in the best position, healthiest position possible.

527
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: And that means I'd rather be more cautious on Caprice Soft,

528
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: even if it's day to day. I'd rather give him

529
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: more time. We found before how helpful it is for

530
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: him to be fresher now again. He had the layoff

531
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 1: during the lengthy break, the Olympic break already, one could say.

532
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: But that to me is I want my pieces as

533
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: healthy as they possibly can be. I don't know how

534
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: much practice time you get. There's always a lot of

535
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: conversation about about that that no team basketball or hockey

536
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,239
Speaker 1: gets enough time to practice the way the seasons are

537
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: set up. But I think there's a little bit of

538
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: a gap between the end of the regular season and

539
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: the start of the postseason. So, you know, I guess

540
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Wild fan, the objective should

541
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: be to not obsess over any single game the rest

542
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: of the way.

543
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 2: Again, if they go.

544
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: Into free fall, that's something else, But otherwise, I just

545
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: don't think we should lose our minds over it. They've

546
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: put themselves, they've had a good season, they put themselves

547
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: in a good position. Unfortunately they're not in a better

548
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: position just because there's so much accomplishment in their division, right,

549
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: and then just then give you whatever you have to

550
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: do to give yourself the best chance. I don't think

551
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: if you win an extra two or three games at

552
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: this point that one or another that's gonna have much

553
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,719
Speaker 1: to do with what you do in the postseason more

554
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: or less.

555
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, yeah, you want to see, you know,

556
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 4: guys gelling and you know, going into it looking like

557
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 4: you know what you're doing. But at the end of

558
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 4: the day, if they aren't firing on all cylinders or

559
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 4: they're holding guys out, it's not the end of the world.

560
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 4: So I actually didn't think it was all sunshines and roses.

561
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 4: There are a few things that were like yesterday, Yeah,

562
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 4: they kept turning the puck over in their own zone

563
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 4: so many times. Middleton and Bogosian in particular just could

564
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 4: not stop coughing up the puck, and they just couldn't

565
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 4: score for a long time until Minnetonka v.

566
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Speaker 2: Lakeville.

567
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 4: Goaltender Bobby Prinks scores, yes, and that kind of opens

568
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 4: things up.

569
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 2: So I don't know.

570
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 4: There were still things that they needed to do, and

571
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 4: the power play without Caprisov is noticeably different, so along

572
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 4: with most of the offensive production.

573
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: Dan, I'm not a total wild Bobo, but I have

574
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: to say this is Andy and Saint Paul. The Stars

575
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 1: are arguably the best team in the league. Totally let

576
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: one go in a little bit of a lucky bounce

577
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: for Dallas. Still pretty good. Yes, they could play better,

578
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: but playing out two to one OT win against Dallas

579
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: late in the season should be celebrated. I have no

580
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: problem celebrating it. No, I don't think either one of

581
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: us does, especially with the way it ended. You do

582
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: want some reinforcement based on, you know, your difficulties with

583
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: this team and the importance of maybe showing that you

584
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: can play with them as as quickly as you might

585
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: be playing them again on the other hand, there were

586
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: a lot of people missing, and so that's where I

587
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: don't I just I don't want any I don't think

588
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: it's worth drawing any grand conclusions. And I just know

589
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: how this goes because we've been we've been through this

590
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: too many times basketball or hockey, where we live in

591
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: the moment because that's all we have in the regular season,

592
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: and then the playoffs start and within minutes we forget

593
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: almost every would be controversy or debate that was breaking

594
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: out about, you know, a series of games, how we

595
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: played in the last two weeks of the season. Its

596
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: just it becomes irrelev very quickly because the playoffs are

597
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,479
Speaker 1: a different animal. We've seen it, you know with the Wolves,

598
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: for God's sake, we saw it a couple of years

599
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: ago where they got swept by Phoenix the regular season,

600
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,240
Speaker 1: they lost to them badly late in the regular season,

601
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: and then they swept them in the postseason, and what happened, Well,

602
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: it's a different animal, and momentum is created on the

603
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: basis of literally what has happened in the last game, potentially,

604
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 1: whether you can build on it or or not. The Lakers,

605
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: where everybody's darling a year ago to knock the Wolves

606
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 1: off in the first round.

607
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: That started the whole.

608
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: Wolves in Lakers in five thing and with ant and

609
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: look what happened once the season, once the postseason started. Now,

610
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: I don't want to say that means in the case

611
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: of the Wolves, everything's fine, because this is a new

612
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: year and there are new issues that have reared their heads.

613
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 2: Same for the Wild.

614
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: The problem in the case of the Wild, we don't

615
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: a lot of history to go on most recently, but

616
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: I just think it very quickly becomes not about how

617
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: you finish the season, but about how can you react

618
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: adjust to perhaps what happens in game one of a

619
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: first round series or whatever round series?

620
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 2: Is how quickly can if you've lost, well, how can

621
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 2: you make.

622
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: The adjustments that you need that really don't have much

623
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: to do with the regular season. Now, you can say

624
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: that you build your positive habits through the course of

625
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: a regular season, right, and that then the hope is

626
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: you can draw on that and you gain confidence from

627
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: your ability to do whatever it is you need to

628
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: do in a given moment, because you know what, we've

629
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: done this for much of the season. But to a

630
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: large extent, I think you'd say the Wild have in

631
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: a number of important areas. Then everything's sort of changed

632
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: when Quinnesota came aboard as well. That's the other thing

633
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: I want to get to with you. So the story

634
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: that started developing last week. While in truth, defensively he

635
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: has shown some vulnerability to the point where we were

636
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: talking about changing some of the defensive pairings talking about

637
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: on Quinnesota. So do you buy did you share that

638
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: concern or do did you think that was becoming a

639
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: very quickly an over discussed subject.

640
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: I mean, I think we knew that going into it,

641
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 4: that like that's what he is. Defense isn't his bag. Now,

642
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 4: He's a serviceable defenseman. I would say he's good in

643
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 4: the defensive zone, but not this shut down, you know,

644
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 4: gets everything out defenseman.

645
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 2: But that's not his game.

646
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,959
Speaker 4: His game is being a puck moving defenseman and using

647
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 4: his legs and offense. So I think they were just

648
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 4: changing things up personally just to see what would happen,

649
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 4: kind of what we were talking about a couple of

650
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 4: minutes ago, of just trying different combinations. And if we

651
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 4: have to go to that sometime in the playoffs, we can. Yes,

652
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 4: I think they had him with Spurgeon, but I was

653
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 4: ready in second period, I was saying to myself, I'm

654
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 4: ready to see Favor back with him, like it's been

655
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 4: a fun ride, right, but let's go, because I'd rather

656
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 4: see Spurgeon, you know, someone more defensively responsible playing with,

657
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 4: you know, a middle ten or a Bogosian, someone who

658
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 4: can help him out.

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Speaker 1: And you can't leave out is because I was getting

660
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: a bunch of texts on this almost like people are

661
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,439
Speaker 1: ready to cut him, and I'm thinking of wait a minute, no, yeah,

662
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: that's silly.

663
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 2: What are we talking about here?

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00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: We literally the numbers confirm that since he came here

665
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: we have become the top scoring team in hockey. Now,

666
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still current, but it was

667
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: until a couple of days ago. Maybe that's changed a

668
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: little bit, but obviously we'd still be towards the top.

669
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Speaker 1: You can't leave that out, and if you have to

670
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: give up a little something elsewhere, then you find other

671
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: ways to adjust to it.

672
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 2: Now, what does this text mean?

673
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: I think they have panicked as they should and are

674
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: working on health rest in line combinations. So what does

675
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: he mean I think they've is that playing off of

676
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: the controversy yesterday where you were misrepresented in the argument

677
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: on Beyond the Pond. I don't know what he means.

678
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: I think they have panicked, as they should. What's that

679
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: have to do with working on health rest and line combinations?

680
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 1: That that to me, that's the op is he's saying

681
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: they're panicking because they realize. Yeah, that I would say,

682
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: at this point they're doing the right thing, which is

683
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: work on health rest and line combinations. I just don't

684
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: think it's we're gonna it's gonna matter one way or

685
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: another when we look back and say, well, they got

686
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: they didn't get out of the first round because they

687
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: lost five of their last seven. I just I don't

688
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: think that's gonna have much to do with it. I'd

689
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: rather work with those things. Now, in a perfect world,

690
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: you do work on those things and then you win,

691
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: as they did yesterday in OT. I still get text

692
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: two from people saying we're in OT too much. What

693
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: does that say about us? We don't have enough reg

694
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: we don't have enough regulation victories, and that says something

695
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: about our lack of dominance, to which you say.

696
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 4: What, I don't care if you win a game in

697
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 4: overtime in the playoffs, you win the game, so and

698
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 4: I get it's not three on three, it's five on

699
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 4: five in the playoffs. But I don't know that that

700
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 4: doesn't do anything for me that I think it's something

701
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 4: too as we like to do. We like to look

702
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 4: for where the other shoe is going to drop from,

703
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 4: you know, and find something to pick apart that. Because

704
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 4: this is, without a doubt, at full strength, the most

705
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 4: exciting and talented wild team ever period. No one's debating that.

706
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 4: But then so all right, well, how is the shoe

707
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 4: going to drop with this one? Well, our penalty kill

708
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 4: is bad. Oh, actually it's been pretty good lately. Our

709
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 4: goaltending is bad. No, it's actually been pretty decent with

710
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 4: Gus Bus lately too, and in volset that in moments while.

711
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 2: We've gotten overtime too much. You can't do that.

712
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 4: So I think it's more of that than I To me,

713
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 4: the losing streak and not putting together sixty minutes, that

714
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 4: would be something I would look at more than the overtime.

715
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: I agree totally, that's that's more important. And you know

716
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: that little dip is not helpful. But the signs were

717
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: very good yesterday. Breton Dan, would you guys endorse sitting

718
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: some of the big big guns a game or two hughes.

719
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: He favors the et cetera. I would I have.

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00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: That's why I say the rest of the year, the

721
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: rest of the season, regular season. I think whatever your

722
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: best minds think is the best way to prepare the

723
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: team physically and mentally for the start of the playoffs.

724
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,439
Speaker 1: Do it now. There may be some people would think,

725
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: we don't like mailing it in the last fire, because

726
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: we just think you get a weird vibe and you

727
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: lose a little yer. So I would just say whatever

728
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: you deem as the best way to prepare your team,

729
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: including rest or playing some of your like. Doesn't Quinnsota

730
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,479
Speaker 1: lead the league in time on the ice or close

731
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: to the top? Okay, I mean I'd be fine if

732
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: the last handful of games you don't play him as much.

733
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: Same reason, just to keep him a little bit fresher.

734
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: Guy's been, you know, playing a lot, he played in

735
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: the Olympic, the whole bit. To me, that's those are

736
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: the sorts of things that you do and and not

737
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: lose your mind over whether you win or lose a

738
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: particular game. So that, to me, mate, would be the

739
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: best approach. We've got a full hour yet to go.

740
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: I do have some WOLS nuggets to get to. Pretty

741
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: interesting after their most recent setback at home against the

742
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers, some comments from the head coach, Chris Finch,

743
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: you get those comments are getting a lot of attention.

744
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: I do want to get to that Korea story that

745
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: has a Carlos Carea is gone but not forgotten, and

746
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: this goes back to a local angle of something he

747
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: says took place on Lake Minnetaka last summer, which we'll discuss.

748
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:52,240
Speaker 1: We'll get to the start Tribune story regarding revisit talking

749
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: to the losing coaches in the hockey tournament about behavioral

750
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: behavioral questions, how to how to lose, how to win,

751
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: et cetera. And we'll get to a couple of other

752
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:06,919
Speaker 1: stories as well. In the second hour. Bratch on Brian

753
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: Caffee in text Line is open at six four, six

754
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: eighty six, back in just a minute. Number two Sunday Sermons,

755
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: Barrero and blakemore with you till eleven o'clock this morning.

756
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: Don't forget live on the fan, beginning with the opening

757
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: tip sometime past one o'clock this afternoon, Go to go

758
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: for women's basketball. They host Ole Miss the winner moves

759
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: on to the sweet sixteen of the NCAA Women's basketball Tournament.

760
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: A great opportunity for your Gopher club, which had struggled

761
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: for the first three quarters with Green Bay on Friday

762
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 1: afternoon or evening, and then dominated the final quarter to

763
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: open up that game. So they ole missed the opponent,

764
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: a much more formidable opponent with I believe a little

765
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: bit more tournament experience than we have, but.

766
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 2: Guards.

767
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: He will be on the call beginning with the pregame

768
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: show and then the opening tip. As I said, sometime

769
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 1: passed one o'clock, I'm reminded by some Gopher sources that

770
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: the University of Minnesota has its first NCBA wrestling champion

771
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: since two thousand twenty two. Max mcinelly defeated Penn State's

772
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: Rocco Welsh four to two in the one hundred and

773
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: eighty four pound championship match that was yesterday in Cleveland, Ohio.

774
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: He had finished He was third seeded, finished third at

775
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: last year's NCAA meet, and becomes the gophers first ever

776
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: national champion at one hundred and eighty four pounds.

777
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 2: He is Jaconia's own.

778
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,479
Speaker 1: He is a red shirt sophomore as well as well,

779
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: So some good news there on the individual front for

780
00:43:55,200 --> 00:44:02,240
Speaker 1: the Golden Gopher fans for sure. So Friday, the Wolves

781
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: had done a pretty good job taking care of business

782
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: against a couple of inferior opponents, especially Utah, with both

783
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards and then Naz Reid out where they you know,

784
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: didn't sort of revert to form and played the game

785
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: to the game rather than to the opponent. They had

786
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: another opportunity to do that against an up and down

787
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:31,760
Speaker 1: but better than Utah obviously Portland team Friday night, and

788
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: I actually thought they were going to pull it off

789
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: because to their credit, well to their discredit, they got

790
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: off to a horrific start. Again, to their credit, they

791
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: got back in it quickly, and I credit mainly individually

792
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: my guy, I would Assumu for having a lot to

793
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: do for being the catalyst of the Wolves getting back

794
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: in it soon enough to say they're gonna have They're

795
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: gonna be able to win this game. They're not gonna

796
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: have to expend all their energy for three and a

797
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: half quarters just to make it close. They've already made

798
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: it close, but unfortunately they let it go down the stretch.

799
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: It was the old proverbial. A play here, a play there.

800
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: You could literally argue one defensive rebound and they win

801
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: the game. And that's what seemed to stick in the

802
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: craw of the head coach Chris finch Here's the quote

803
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: from Finchy, all's we got to do. We're up one four,

804
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: one oh three, and all we have to do is

805
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: get a rebound, and we can't. There's like a lag

806
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: time from the time the shot goes and we take

807
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: a breath and we look up. They're flying around and

808
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: we're delayed in our reactions. It's been that way for

809
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: a while, and it's just not good enough. You want

810
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: to get any more specific than that, Finchy, we knew

811
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: our guards needed to rebound. Iow did a good job

812
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: of the defensive class, Rudy did a good job. But

813
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: after that, we've got to have more rebounding. Julius has

814
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: three defensive rebounds. That's not good enough.

815
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 2: It's just not good enough.

816
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: I can't remember another time when Finchy has been that

817
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: direct on Randal. Some of us have asked him to

818
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: from time to time, we've clamored for it, and he

819
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: has very stubbornly refused to ever that I can recall

820
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: bring up Randall in this sense the way he pretty

821
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: routinely does other players, including Rudy, from time to time.

822
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: So it's getting more attention because it seems so unusual

823
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: for him to challenge the guy who he has kind

824
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: of championed ever since the time they worked together in

825
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and he clearly was very much in favor

826
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: of the move of trading towns to get him here

827
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: along with de Vincenzo, And it didn't sound like Randal

828
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: necessarily took offense. After the game, he kind of confirmed that,

829
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 1: you know, the rebounding was a bit of an issue.

830
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 2: But it's.

831
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: Part of the ongoing all always nagging concern on Julius Randall,

832
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: who is a very good player whose resurrection late last

833
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: season after coming back from injury and into the first

834
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: couple of rounds of the playoffs was instrumental to this

835
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: team making the run that it did last year to

836
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: get back to the Final four until he wasn't and

837
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: the finish was very ugly for him and for this team,

838
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: and that was not a coincidence. Randall has this quality

839
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: about him that he's a very magnetic player at times

840
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: and easy to root for when he's got it going

841
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 1: and he is showing that combination of skill and power

842
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: and just beating people up getting to where he wants

843
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: to get to. But then there's these other stretches where

844
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: defensively he's not there standing in the middle of the court,

845
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: everything happening around him, reacting to stuff. Where you go,

846
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: can he really be the number two player on a

847
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: great on a championship team. Well you the answer to

848
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: that is will you? You get what you have? And

849
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: there's you know, ideal number twos aren't everywhere, so you

850
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: sort of have to mix and match and make the

851
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: best out of a situation. But that's what strikes me

852
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: about Randall is that there's just enough off that every

853
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: once in a while you say, can you really win

854
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: a championship with this approach?

855
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 2: Because that's about.

856
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: Alertness, awareness and effort, and those things are things you should,

857
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: I think be able. I would say you'd be able

858
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: to control. What impact does it have on him? How

859
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: does he react? Because you know, the.

860
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 2: Irony is a week ago blizzard day.

861
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 1: If you're a call I challenged him and I just said,

862
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: look if the Randall, in fact, I think I gave

863
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: all of his pertinent March numbers, and they were awful.

864
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: To that point, I said, well, if you can't get

865
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 1: more out of Randall than.

866
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 2: You're getting, you ain't going anywhere. You have no chance.

867
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: No matter what other limitations or problems that you have,

868
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna matter. And that game, the team didn't win,

869
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: and ultimately they lost badly to Oklahoma City. But he

870
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:34,240
Speaker 1: emerged for the first time and from an offensive standpoint,

871
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: that seemed to open the door maybe to remind him

872
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: of what he's capable of doing.

873
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 2: Maybe easier to do that as well.

874
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: With Anthony Edwards is not on the court, might be

875
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: part of the you know, that might not be a coincidence,

876
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: but there's that other side of it that you have

877
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: to have all of it from him. You can't just

878
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: have the scoring. You have to get rebounding, you have

879
00:49:54,680 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: to have effort, etc. So the Wolves, as we speak,

880
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: see if I can find the I had the standings

881
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: set up here and I've lost them.

882
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 2: Here we go.

883
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: Here's the Wolves are playing in Boston today and as

884
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: we sit, the good news is the Wolves are not

885
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: gonna have to worry about the plan. They are well.

886
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: I say that I think I believe it they've opened

887
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: up the Uh yeah, I still I stand by it

888
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: because the Phoenix Suns are in free fall. They I

889
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: think have dropped five in a row. Let me double

890
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: check the Phoenix numbers. Yeah, they've dropped five in a row,

891
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: so they're they now have thirty two losses. We have

892
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: twenty eight, so we're four ahead of them in the

893
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,760
Speaker 1: lost column. With what do we have left? Eleven looks

894
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 1: like eleven forty three and twenty eight. What is add

895
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 1: up to forty three and twenty eight. That's seventy one, right,

896
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: I believe so, so that it means we've got eleven

897
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: games left.

898
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 2: So the good news is it's.

899
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: Going to be very hard for us to fall back

900
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: to as low as seven, which would be back in

901
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:08,919
Speaker 1: the play in. I don't think you have to worry

902
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 1: about that. The question is whether we can move up.

903
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: And on the front end, the Lakers have stopped losing.

904
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 2: They have.

905
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: They just won their ninth in a row on a

906
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: buzzer beater yesterday to improve to forty six and twenty five.

907
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,760
Speaker 1: They are locked into pretty solidly now into the third

908
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 1: spot in the Western Conference. Houston is four at forty

909
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: three and twenty seven, so we are. We're only half

910
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: a game behind Houston, who's four. We are tied with

911
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, but they have the tiebreaker on us. That's

912
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,399
Speaker 1: why we have to stay ahead of Denver if we

913
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: want to finish ahead of Denver. To me, this is

914
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 1: a very different in my op and in a very

915
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: different situation than the while they're in, because I do

916
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: think the Wild are kind of locked into their spot

917
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: and there's not just sometimes that's the way the matchups work,

918
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: or the standings work, or the records work, and you

919
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: say you kind of are what you are. But in

920
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: the case the Wolves, I think there's every reason to

921
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 1: play this thing out.

922
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 2: I really do.

923
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: I know you can say, well, we finished sixth last

924
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: year and we made a run. I don't want to

925
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: necessarily count on that.

926
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 2: Again.

927
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: The Wolves should want a first round playoff series in

928
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: which they are the home team, period, end of story.

929
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: Is it like the difference between winning and losing. I

930
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: don't know, but I think the margin for air is

931
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: less than it was a year ago for this club

932
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: for various reasons. So I want a home and there's

933
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: there's no reason given until recently, our relative lack of

934
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: injuries compared to many other teams in the conference. There

935
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 1: is a point guards he made enough set on the

936
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: TV show Friday night, and we have been healthier for sure,

937
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: So get to four, don't stay at six. And the

938
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: hard part is we've got some tough games yet to come. Obviously,

939
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: Boston is probably the best story in the league this

940
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: year speaking of injuries, given their injuries, not going to

941
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: be easy to do it, But that, to me, is

942
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: why the rest of this regular season is more important.

943
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: The Wild's fate is kind of set.

944
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 2: It is what it is. The gap is too great here.

945
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: The Wolves have been in this position where they've been

946
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 1: grappling with several teams for most of the season, and

947
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 1: the opportunity still exists if you can win enough games

948
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: to at least get to four. Interestingly, if the standings

949
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: stay the way they are now, obviously we would play

950
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: the Lakers again in the first round. And you know,

951
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: I get it. We had no problem dispatching them a

952
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:12,320
Speaker 1: year ago. There's still debate on whether this Lakers surge

953
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: is real or not. They don't look they look like

954
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: they're a little different than they were a year ago.

955
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: But I just would like to see them take advantage

956
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: of the opportunity, and I'm very curious, as I said,

957
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: to see how Julius Randall reacts to being challenged publicly

958
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 1: for the first time by the head coach. I think

959
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: this is something we can talk about with Johnny on Monday.

960
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,839
Speaker 1: But I believe he said in I don't know if

961
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: it was on his podcast or another one that he

962
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:46,319
Speaker 1: appeared on, that he thought there was something to the

963
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: belief that Randall was rattled by all the trade deadline

964
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 1: conversation that included him in a potential deal for Jannis,

965
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: and on a human level, given that, I think he

966
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: felt like maybe he'd found a home, I might get

967
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,719
Speaker 1: that family, et cetera. But there's a part of me

968
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 1: that says that's too easy an explanation or one that

969
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: if I'm the head coach, I'm not sure I'm accepting,

970
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: And clearly the head coach doesn't at this point because

971
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: he's calling him out about the rebounding issue off of

972
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:28,760
Speaker 1: the last game. I mean, Randall has been traded several times.

973
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: It's the nature of the business. And in this case,

974
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: he wasn't being rumored in a deal for like a

975
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: bottom feed er player or team. He was being rumored

976
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: as being an important piece in a deal to get

977
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,200
Speaker 1: arguably the second or third best player in the league

978
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: when he's healthy. So I don't know, I think that's

979
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: too I think that's letting Julius off the hook a

980
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: little bit too much. So it's what we've said. It's

981
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 1: really the same concept as with Rudy. They are exasperating

982
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: things about Rudy's play, But if you're with this team,

983
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: he's on your team, so you have to get the

984
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 1: best out of what he can do, and to just

985
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: mope about what he can't do ain't gonna get you

986
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 1: anywhere because he's going to play.

987
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 2: Same with Randall, so you have.

988
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: To try to push the buttons that give you the

989
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,800
Speaker 1: best chance to get the best out of what Randall offers,

990
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: and to try to minimize some of the exasperating parts

991
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: about his play, which is effort or alertness or just

992
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: paying attention from time to time. And that's part of

993
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: what reared its head in a very disappointing loss to

994
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: Portland that you can again look back on it and say,

995
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: if you start the game with greater urgency, then you

996
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: don't put yourself in the position that you have to.

997
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,439
Speaker 2: Come back the way that they indeed did.

998
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: I'll continue to be curious to see once Edwards comes back,

999
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 1: whether there's any changes to the starting lineup, because I

1000
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: still think Tosumu as.

1001
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 2: A starter would be helpful.

1002
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: I still believe that we're starting to see the ball

1003
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: in his hands a little bit more and that's a

1004
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: good thing for this team. I'm telling you, I understand

1005
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: Edwards isn't there, but I honestly believe even when Edwards

1006
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: is back, it's a better option. And you know Johnny

1007
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: brought up in his piece and this is a fair

1008
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: point too down the stretch. Should Bones Highland have been

1009
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: in the game. He was scoring better. Devincenzo always competes defensively,

1010
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: I think for sure, but he was not shooting very well.

1011
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: And would it have been a better match better for

1012
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: the team in that situation where you go with the

1013
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: guys who had played better to that point in the

1014
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: in the ballgame. So that gets back to lineup issues

1015
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 1: and matchup issues as well. Let's get another pause in

1016
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: reaction coming in via the bratch on Brian Kfey in

1017
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: text line at six for six eight six. Also, I'm

1018
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: going to get to, as I said, some details from

1019
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: this this Carlos Correa story, and we'll go a couple

1020
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: of other directions, maybe even revisit a story that we discussed,

1021
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: a high school story on the Friday Show, and another

1022
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: high school story that we were talking about what right

1023
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 1: after the state high school hockey tournament as well. Stay tied,

1024
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: all right, We are indeed back Sunday sermons until eleven

1025
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: o'clock today, quick programming a reminder Golden Go for women's

1026
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: basketball on the fan pregame show. We're assuming somewhere around

1027
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:01,040
Speaker 1: twelve thirty or twelve forty five, opening tip off from

1028
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: the Barn is scheduled for one o'clock Go for women

1029
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: taking on Ole Miss with a chance to advance to

1030
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen. I got to some texts I want

1031
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: to get to here in a minute, responding to some

1032
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: of our wolves conversation.

1033
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 2: But I do want to get to the.

1034
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: Carl's Correa story, which some of you may be aware of,

1035
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: but it could have flown under the radar because it

1036
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: comes out of MLB dot com. A story by Brian McTaggart,

1037
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: dateline West Palm Beach, Florida. Carlos Correa was struggling for

1038
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 1: his life in the waters of a Minnesota lake last summer.

1039
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: His hamstrings and quads were cramping, his stamina getting weaker.

1040
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: He was halfway between the shore and the boat, and

1041
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: with his oldest son clinging to his neck, he was

1042
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: fighting for survival. Correa, who was not wearing a life jacket,

1043
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: spotted a boy floating in the water a few feet

1044
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: away and decided clinging it would be his only chance

1045
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: of escaping Lake Minnetaka alive. His three year old son, Kylo,

1046
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: who was wearing a life jacket, was on his shoulders

1047
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: and asking if they would be all right, Papier, are

1048
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: we going to be okay?

1049
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 2: He said.

1050
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: Korea reassured him they would, and then he said a prayer, Lord,

1051
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: save me. I promise you, if you saved me from

1052
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: this one, I will serve you, and I will serve

1053
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: you forever unquote. Korea managed to reach the boy but

1054
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: slipped off. He fell under the water, grabbed the chain

1055
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: injuring his left hand, and with Kilo's weight on his shoulders,

1056
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: Correa switched to his right hand, then his left, and

1057
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: back to his right to stay above water. He yelled

1058
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: towards the boat for help. It was his last gasp.

1059
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: I'm like this is all I got. Krrea's father in

1060
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: law hurt his cries and frantically swam from the boat

1061
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: towards him With a life jacket, he flung it. Carrea

1062
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: reached out as far as he could and grabbed the

1063
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: jacket with his pinky while clinging to the boy with

1064
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: the other his other hand. He was finally able to

1065
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 1: catch his breath. I was like, from that one on,

1066
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to serve you. Korea prayed to God. Korea

1067
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: first told the harrowing story of a family afternoon voting

1068
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: trip that nearly turned tragic from a makeshift pulpit to

1069
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: a group of senior citizens at a retirement home in

1070
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: Houston last December. Shared it again for a reporter Tuesday

1071
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:20,560
Speaker 1: following a spring training a workout. I don't think there'd

1072
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 1: been anything about this story previously discussed.

1073
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 2: I don't know if he'd had a chance to do.

1074
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: It or anybody had reported it, but thought it was

1075
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: definitely worthy of mention for sure. That sounds like a

1076
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: very dangerous situation. I'm glad everything ended up working out

1077
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: well there. Let me get to some texts. Tim Conley

1078
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: referred to Yokic on your show. A couple of years ago.

1079
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 1: City plays without anxiety. Well, Julia's Rander plays with nothing

1080
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: but anxiety. Nothing looks easy with him. It's like he

1081
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 1: has to take an extra moment to think rather than

1082
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:58,920
Speaker 1: just reacting instinctively. It's very strange. It's from flimflam one.

1083
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: Too many moody players. Dan and other players are moody,

1084
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: but it doesn't result in weeks long weeks long funks,

1085
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: or impact the team in such highs and high highs

1086
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: and low lows. Randal is too important to be this

1087
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: Jekyl and Heidish. I don't see him back next year.

1088
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,400
Speaker 1: I think he's realized that and stopped giving a proper

1089
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: bleep two in his head for the team game. Writing

1090
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: on the wall, well, again, the beauty of it is

1091
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: the player himself has the opportunity to write the story

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01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 1: or to change the story on the basis of the

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01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: way he performs. But I will say what got my

1094
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,919
Speaker 1: attention was a text from seven sixth three, Guy Finch.

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01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: He needs to do a better job of getting Randall

1096
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: involved early. We like to come out launching three pointers,

1097
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: and more times than not lately that backfire as we

1098
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 1: get down by ten early. Julius is a gift to score.

1099
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 1: Who's scoring energizes his defense. Establishing him early in the

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01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: post also opens things up for ant.

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01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 2: Kind.

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01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: I get the point from seven to six three guy,

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01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: But there's a part of me that says, hold on, man,

1104
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: in all seriousness, he's been around long enough. He should

1105
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: at this point be adult enough where you don't have

1106
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:13,360
Speaker 1: to treat him like he's this vulnerable and this fragile

1107
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 1: mentally going about the game. It's almost exhausting to think

1108
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: that you have to go through all of these hoops,

1109
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: that at some point a player has to figure this

1110
01:03:23,320 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 1: stuff out on their own. And the idea that the

1111
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 1: only way they're going to be engaged defensively is if

1112
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: their offense is going. It's something we take for granted,

1113
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: but I think sometimes we take it for granted too easily.

1114
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 2: It should be just the opposite.

1115
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: Well, in a game where my SHOT's not going, there's

1116
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: five other things I have the talent to do, and

1117
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 1: one of them is to guard. One of them is

1118
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 1: to be a good team defensive guarter, a help player, rebounder.

1119
01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: There's no reason that other people should be beating him

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01:03:56,320 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: to the boards as well. A number of people want

1121
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: no part of the four spot because they want to

1122
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: stay as far away for as long as possible from

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01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Thunder. I get that, I understand it.

1124
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: We've talked about it over the years. I just think

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01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: that's playing with a measure of fear that's not particularly helpful.

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01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: And I do think that, as odd as this sounds,

1127
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 1: unlike the Wild in this regular season, the Walls still

1128
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:30,600
Speaker 1: need to sort of establish who the hell they're going

1129
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 1: to be. And I don't feel comfortable falling back on

1130
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 1: the well, look what happened in the last two years.

1131
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:40,760
Speaker 2: That's equity.

1132
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:46,320
Speaker 1: But you make your momentum each year, I think on

1133
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 1: the basis of what you have done up until that

1134
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: point this season, and I think that's still based on

1135
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: the inconsistency. Of the inconsistency of this club. It kind

1136
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: of calls into question about where they are and where

1137
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: they might be able to go. I get everybody wants

1138
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: to run from Oklahoma City. On the other hand, you say, well,

1139
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: if you're you know you're gonna have to play them regardless,

1140
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 1: so just do what you're gonna do. The confidence with

1141
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: the Lakers, I could never count out the Wolves against

1142
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 1: the Lakers, even if it's three to six, and the

1143
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: Lakers have a mice again because from a matchup standpoint,

1144
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: this has historically been good for the Wolves and the

1145
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:29,040
Speaker 1: Lakers still, I think are viewed as a team that

1146
01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: can be very good at out scoring the opposition, but

1147
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,800
Speaker 1: that has too many defensive weak links that can be

1148
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:40,160
Speaker 1: exploited more in a postseason series than in the regular season.

1149
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: That said, I think you got to be careful that

1150
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:46,920
Speaker 1: you don't rest on your laurels so much that you

1151
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: get over confident. Because it is also possible that the

1152
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: Lakers are configured a bit differently this year. Maybe they

1153
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: have figured some things out defensively that they didn't a

1154
01:05:57,120 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 1: year ago, and I would feel more strongly about it

1155
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: if I'd seen more consistency of approach at this point.

1156
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: That's again, that's a game you just, even with the

1157
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 1: people you have out, you shouldn't lose to Portland. That's

1158
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 1: just a game that you absolutely positively should not lose. Luca,

1159
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:21,000
Speaker 1: by the way, is on a ridiculous tear right now.

1160
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 1: He had sixty the other night, and is I think

1161
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: he's averaging basically forty plus for the last is a

1162
01:06:27,120 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 1: ten or eleven games, shooting fifty percent.

1163
01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 2: He has been borderline ridiculous.

1164
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: So I think he just got a technical which might

1165
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: might put him over the line regarding technical files or

1166
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 1: close to the line.

1167
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:40,440
Speaker 2: I guess one could say.

1168
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 1: He's playing at a very very high level for for sure.

1169
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: And the other thing is happening is Lebron I think

1170
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: is kind of accepting the fact that on this configuration

1171
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: of the Lakers he's the third wheel, and I'm not

1172
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: sure he was as ready to do that a year ago.

1173
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 2: So I'm not.

1174
01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: Saying Wolves fans you shouldn't have some confidence if they

1175
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 1: match up again. I'm just saying, be careful getting fat

1176
01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 1: and cocky and overconfident about the position that your team

1177
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 1: is in if it doesn't do the things that it's

1178
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: supposed to do to give itself the best chance to

1179
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: prepare for another hopefully postseason run. Bottom the hour pause,

1180
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 1: we'll get to some high school stuff and who knows

1181
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: what else via the text line when we come back.

1182
01:07:47,160 --> 01:07:49,960
Speaker 1: High school related stories to get to here in the

1183
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 1: remaining minutes on this edition of a Sunday Sermons. One

1184
01:07:55,640 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: of them is we discussed Friday reading from a Duluth

1185
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: based story. This is from Strivvarsity start to Mune dot

1186
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: Com headline Hostile parents relations led Minnesota hockey coach to

1187
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 1: resign in clok K.

1188
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:16,480
Speaker 2: This was from Joe Christiansen.

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01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 1: Kennedy Wheats resigned as cloqu Esco Carlton's girls hockey coach

1190
01:08:21,520 --> 01:08:24,599
Speaker 1: this week, making clear that the issue wasn't the student athletes,

1191
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: it was the parents. Wheats had coached the team for

1192
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: four years. She stepped down after what she and the principal,

1193
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 1: Steve Vitalia, described as a bitter, tumultuous year. In her

1194
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: resignation letter, Wet said she and her staff experienced repeated

1195
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 1: instances of inappropriate conduct from parents. Blake More, you were

1196
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 1: not with me Friday when we discussed this in some depth,

1197
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: and this story is very similar to the one that

1198
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:54,639
Speaker 1: we read quoted out of Duluth, Wheat saying the coach

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01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 1: who's resigned saying, some of these actions extended beyond the arena,

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01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: notes left on my vehicle and at my residence. Battalia

1201
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: issued a statement the principal March seventeen, the day Weeks resigned.

1202
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 1: We had another incident this season where parents confronted our

1203
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: coaching staff just outside of the locker room following a game.

1204
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: School administration banned those parents from the arena for the

1205
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:23,280
Speaker 1: remainder of the season. Disagreements between parents and head coaches

1206
01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: not uncommon, However, some of the stuff that's gone on

1207
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:33,839
Speaker 1: and cloquet rarely happens in high school. For the record

1208
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: of the team went ten fifteen to one this past

1209
01:09:36,439 --> 01:09:40,759
Speaker 1: season after going six eighteen and two the year before.

1210
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,200
Speaker 1: I mean, this would seem to indicate that the school

1211
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: did try to take pretty, you know, strong steps to

1212
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 1: hold the behavior accountable. I don't know how much. The

1213
01:09:55,479 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: question I raised Friday is always that whether I don't,

1214
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:05,519
Speaker 1: I never want to necessarily shoot the messenger. But my

1215
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 1: sense of it over the years is that sometimes the

1216
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 1: climate is set by and administration, principal, school board, athletic department,

1217
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 1: et cetera. And that at places where what will be

1218
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: accepted and will not regarding parent interaction and parent interference,

1219
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:29,120
Speaker 1: where that's set up from the beginning and understood, it's

1220
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: more likely that you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna do

1221
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: a better job of combating this kind of nonsense and

1222
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: discouraging it.

1223
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 2: Sometimes maybe this is one of those cases.

1224
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: Where it didn't matter or it wouldn't matter, and I

1225
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: guess what I'm always interested in, and we're going to

1226
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:47,679
Speaker 1: try to pursue this maybe early in the week.

1227
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:52,760
Speaker 2: Is if you are one of the parents.

1228
01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:58,439
Speaker 1: Who is has become consumed by this nonsense to the

1229
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:06,560
Speaker 1: point where you are leaving anonymous notes on a coach's windshield,

1230
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: why not go public? Why not raise your hand, identify yourself,

1231
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: because it strikes me as the most gutless way to

1232
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:22,360
Speaker 1: go about this if you're going to try to do

1233
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 1: it the way you're doing it, which is to stay anonymous,

1234
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:28,919
Speaker 1: to to cause the the difficulty here that you're causing,

1235
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: I mean, own it. If you indeed believe there's this

1236
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: there's a significant issue that goes above and beyond disagreements

1237
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 1: that always arise between parents on you know, uh, playing time,

1238
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: et cetera, and coaches.

1239
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 2: That stuff goes on all the time.

1240
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 1: If you think there's something that that that goes beyond that,

1241
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:52,719
Speaker 1: then raise your hand and and and make yourself available reporters.

1242
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 2: Maybe they have and they haven't been quoted.

1243
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's the part of this where

1244
01:11:57,240 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: I think you lose the battle right there. Going the

1245
01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: way it seems that these the these parents have have

1246
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:08,679
Speaker 1: gone and some of them are delusional. We we know this.

1247
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: This has been well established for a long time. It's

1248
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: a subject we've covered for decades on on this show.

1249
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: They don't have a good understanding, or even if they

1250
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: think they do, they don't understand that there are certain

1251
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:23,600
Speaker 1: lines that cannot be crossed. And if they're allowed to

1252
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: be crossed, it's dogs and cats living together. Right, It's

1253
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:31,360
Speaker 1: it's utter chaos. No program can withstand that. Once that

1254
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:34,600
Speaker 1: door is open to we can we can come and

1255
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:38,160
Speaker 1: confront the coach anytime we want to, we can leave notes,

1256
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:43,240
Speaker 1: we can do whatever. Something fundamental needs to be established

1257
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:50,599
Speaker 1: at this particular school, one could say, and moving certainly,

1258
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: moving forward from this point, and I have to believe

1259
01:12:55,600 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: that it's it's it's within the community. It's well known

1260
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: who these parents are. And again, if you're doing it,

1261
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: own it and come forward and say exactly exac what

1262
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: your objections might be and how you feel like. This

1263
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: is an adult way to deal with whatever disagreements that

1264
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: you might have.

1265
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:19,200
Speaker 2: But once the.

1266
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: Door is open, then it becomes, as we said Friday,

1267
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: much easier for even more even quieter parents who also

1268
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, feel like they've got the wrong coach

1269
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 1: there to get vocal or to enmesh themselves in this

1270
01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:45,360
Speaker 1: madness that ultimately results in what has apparently taken place there.

1271
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:50,000
Speaker 1: So it doesn't it never. I mean, what I've learned

1272
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:50,360
Speaker 1: over the.

1273
01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 2: Years is that.

1274
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,559
Speaker 1: I think there's parents who think, well, I should be

1275
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: able to talk to coaches any time I want about

1276
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: whatever I want, for as long as I want, And

1277
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 1: in theory that might make sense, but in reality it's

1278
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:09,639
Speaker 1: not practical. There has to come a point there, really does.

1279
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 1: There has to come a point where you go You

1280
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 1: can have whatever conclusion you've drawn about the ability of

1281
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 1: that coach or the conduct of that coach, and you

1282
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 1: can believe whatever you want, but at some point, if

1283
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,640
Speaker 1: you're an adult, you have to come to terms with

1284
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: the fact that the administration is standing behind that coach

1285
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:30,680
Speaker 1: or does not feel there are problems that need to

1286
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:31,719
Speaker 1: be addressed with that coach.

1287
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 2: And then you have the choice two choices.

1288
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 1: One take your kid out of that school, I guess,

1289
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 1: or just back off and say, well, we're just gonna

1290
01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:44,520
Speaker 1: have to agree to disagree. But we obviously have maniacs

1291
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 1: in this case who became so obsessed with this thing

1292
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 1: that they refuse to stop. Refuse to understand that you

1293
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:57,000
Speaker 1: can have an open door policy that extends forever. You

1294
01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: can have conversations, one would hope, disagreements, and at some

1295
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: point it's this is what we're doing, this is our coach.

1296
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: You are required to cease and desist or leave the program,

1297
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. So maybe we'll get back

1298
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Speaker 1: to that early next week. The other story, this is

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Speaker 1: via Starthibune dot com. Also let me see if I

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Speaker 1: can get to it. This is a Jim Paulson's story,

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Speaker 1: kind of a follow up on the headline. Coaches of

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Speaker 1: Minnesota's runner up boys hockey teams discuss postgame behavior and sportsmanship,

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Speaker 1: and I got a text on this very early in

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Speaker 1: the show that i'd read. Then from three to two,

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Speaker 1: Oh Guy, Paulson interviewed both runners up state high school

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Speaker 1: hockey coaches about the claims of bad sportsmanship. The Hiving

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Speaker 1: coach seemed more reflective. Minnetauka coach doubled down and said

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Speaker 1: his team was gutted and didn't see anything wrong with

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Speaker 1: the myssed teaching opportunity for his athletes. I would say

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Speaker 1: three two oh guy, you've pretty effectively accurately conveyed the

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Speaker 1: essence of the response in the case of both coaches.

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Speaker 1: In the case of Hibbing, I definitely got the much

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Speaker 1: more of the feeling of all right, you know, emotions

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Speaker 1: get the better part of you a little bit. And

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Speaker 1: yet if I look back on it, there are some

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Speaker 1: things that maybe you know.

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Speaker 2: Well. Put it this way.

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Speaker 1: In the case of Hibbing, I think the coach's name

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Speaker 1: is jam Nick accepted any blame for his team's postseason

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Speaker 1: actions or post game actions.

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Speaker 2: I take full.

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Speaker 1: Responsibility for taking off the medals after the game. It's

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Speaker 1: something we didn't see happening live. Looking forward, it's something

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Speaker 1: we're striving to learn from and be better. This was

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Speaker 1: meant as no disrespect to war Road. We have a

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Speaker 1: lot of respect for their.

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Speaker 2: Program.

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Speaker 1: And in the case of the minnetaka coach Goldsworthy. You

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Speaker 1: see if I can find the quote here, Goldsworth the

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Speaker 1: echo Jamnick sentiment hoping the Skippers postgame actions will not

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Speaker 1: be characterized as disrespect for their opponents. We certainly mean

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Speaker 1: no disrespect to Morehead. They're a great team as the

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Speaker 1: showcase of the best of Minnesota high school hockey. But

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Speaker 1: there was a doubling down by by by coach Goldsworthy

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Speaker 1: about I'm going to stay with the kids, and that's

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Speaker 1: my responsibility.

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Speaker 2: It's a swing and a miss.

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Speaker 1: I agree with Louis on this, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: the explanation works. It doesn't change anything because it sort

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Speaker 1: of sounds like the adult in this case is hiding

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Speaker 1: behind that reason when there was a I would argue

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Speaker 1: that there is a there was a time to do

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Speaker 1: all of that and perhaps convey a better message after

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Speaker 1: that game, as devastating as the loss was. As we

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Speaker 1: said when we talked about this story originally, I think

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Speaker 1: it's again it's just like with the first story we

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Speaker 1: talked about. It's more about the adults than I think

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Speaker 1: it is the children regarding what the reaction and what

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Speaker 1: you might be willing to accept and understand. For young people,

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Speaker 1: it's always going to be easier to say out it's

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Speaker 1: in that moment. How many of us were prepared for that,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. And what you hope for is the leadership

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Speaker 1: of the adults to say, we lost the game, we

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Speaker 1: still have some responsibilities here, and in doing this, what

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Speaker 1: we're saying is we're actually, I think, embracing the fact

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Speaker 1: that we have nothing to be ashamed of. Nobody said,

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Speaker 1: Minnetonka had anything to be ashamed of, right or himming

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Speaker 1: regarding the outcome as disappointing as it was, but to

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Speaker 1: convey that, I think you're better off going through the process,

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Speaker 1: respecting the process, just as if you're the other end

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Speaker 1: of it and you have won the game. So no,

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Speaker 1: I didn't find the answer very convincing, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: find the answer that it turned my thought around on it.

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Speaker 1: And on the metals part, here's the part that I

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Speaker 1: still is confounding to me. Somebody has decided, I don't

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Speaker 1: know who or why, that if you take off your

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Speaker 1: runner up metal as soon as it's put around your neck,

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Speaker 1: do you are somehow proving how competitive you are and

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Speaker 1: how badly you wanted it, and how this isn't enough

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Speaker 1: and this isn't acceptable.

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Speaker 2: It's performance arty is what it is.

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Speaker 1: So to me, that's what we go back to, go

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Speaker 1: back to the person who decided that that was the

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Speaker 1: cool thing to do or something that the reaction perception

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Speaker 1: from around anybody watching it be like, WHOA, they really

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Speaker 1: are devastated that they lost it, so devastated they would

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Speaker 1: rather not even keep the second, you know, the second

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Speaker 1: place metals around their neck, that impress anybody. That's what

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Speaker 1: we have to get over whoever nurtured the notion that

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Speaker 1: that's how you show how competitive you are, that you

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Speaker 1: wanted you accept nothing but but but but first place

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Speaker 1: and the championship as being some badge of honor of

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Speaker 1: underscoring your competitiveness.

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Speaker 2: What that's the nonsense of this.

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Speaker 1: The assumption is anybody who is competitive and wanted to

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Speaker 1: win a championship is god going to be is not

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Speaker 1: going to accept the second place medal because they're necessarily

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Speaker 1: thrilled about it, right, But that it's just part of

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Speaker 1: the deal somebody who ends up winning and somebody ends

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Speaker 1: up losing. So I I that's to me is where

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Speaker 1: this trace it back to whoever made that call, Because

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Speaker 1: what's it's becoming an imitation game where other people see it,

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Speaker 1: kids see it, and they go, that's what I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do too. I'm gonna I don't even want to have

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Speaker 1: that medal around my neck. Not about second place. Well,

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Speaker 1: you are second place in this case. That's what you finished.

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Speaker 1: You finished in second place, and I don't think anybody's

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Speaker 1: going to be convinced that you're more competitive if you

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Speaker 1: immediately rip the medal off than someone who accepts the medal,

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Speaker 1: because that person is just as likely to be frustrated

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Speaker 1: and and and.

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Speaker 2: Maybe even devastated about the outcome.

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Speaker 1: But it doesn't prove you're more competitive in some fundamental

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Speaker 1: way if you rip it off the neck. That's the discussion.

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Speaker 1: I think that should be happening in these gyms long

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Speaker 1: before you get to that game. And it sounds like

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Speaker 1: himming guy was a lot more interested in acknowledging that

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Speaker 1: possibility than men.

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Speaker 2: To talka guy.

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Speaker 1: Sadly enough, as far as it's from my point of view,

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Speaker 1: you may be with me part of the week because

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Speaker 1: if it's all, it all depends on the go. For women,

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Speaker 1: happened they win this afternoon one o'clock game on the

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Speaker 1: fan over Ole Miss. They advance to the sweet succeed.

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Speaker 1: I think by the way, we'd play UCLA number one seed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the team guards he thinks is going to win the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. But chip chair in a chance, right. The

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Speaker 1: idea is to get there, right, and given a lack

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Speaker 1: of success for Golden Gopher basketball men's and women's in

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Speaker 1: recent years, you take what you can get. So great

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Speaker 1: opportunity at home, all the action beginning at one on

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Speaker 1: the fan. We will review it tomorrow for sure. Johnny

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Speaker 1: Athletic will join us tomorrow as well, and who knows

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Speaker 1: what else. Thanks for watching, Thank you for listening. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the snow flurries. We will talk to you tomorrow afternoon

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Speaker 1: at three o'clock