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Speaker 1: Montgomery In at the Boathouse, home of the world's greatest Ribs.

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Speaker 1: Now Here's Dan Hord, Terry Nelson, and U see's head

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Speaker 1: coach Wes Miller on the home of the Bearcats seven

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Speaker 2: It is showtime.

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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you A very pleasant, good evening, everybody, greetings from

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Speaker 2: the original Montgomery In. It is great to be back

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Speaker 2: at the end. I'm Dan Horde with former Bearcats stand

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Speaker 2: out Terry Nelson and the star of the show, the

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Speaker 2: head coach of perhaps the hottest team in college basketball.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear it for Wes Miller. The original montgomery In

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Speaker 2: is packed. Tom Gregory tells me that virtually everybody in

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Speaker 2: this room tonight made a reservation because of the West

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Speaker 2: Miller radio show. Cincinnati basketball fans are fired up and

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Speaker 2: having a ball watching this team right now. How would

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Speaker 2: why it is playing so well right now?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I think over this last ten games

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Speaker 5: There they were playing hard. Before, they were trying to

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Speaker 5: do it right. They were working, but they got some

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Speaker 5: continuity together. I think that's obvious. You know, Celestine and

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Speaker 5: and then you know, guys have fallen into roles with

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Speaker 5: we've gotten good minutes from Jordi Rodriguez, Like you can

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Speaker 5: think the biggest difference Dan is they've got some confidence,

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Speaker 5: And it's I wanted that to happen earlier this year,

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Speaker 4: And I think we can continue to build on it.

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Speaker 4: I think we can keep going.

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Speaker 6: You know, great teams have self accountability. And I noticed

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Speaker 6: everybody is talking and pointing and discussing coverages or discussing

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Speaker 6: the play. Whatever you came out of the locker room with,

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Speaker 6: they're taking out of the huddle with. They're taking what

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Speaker 6: and they're getting everybody make sure everybody understands their roles.

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Speaker 6: Have you seen that as one of the reasons why

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have.

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Speaker 5: They they honestly, and I mean this, I haven't had

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Speaker 4: It's a heck a lot more fun when you're winning.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, but that they now have better relationships, like bringing

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Speaker 5: we didn't have everybody there early so much top golf,

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Speaker 4: That can only do so much, as you guys know, but.

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Speaker 5: They've they've built on court relationships and trust, and then

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Speaker 5: It's not just me or our assistant speaking to the

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Speaker 4: He's just one of those guys.

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Speaker 5: There's a handful of guys in my fifteen years I

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Speaker 6: What's the process like when you're sitting with your coaches

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Speaker 6: after several losses the fan base was disgruntled. You never

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Speaker 5: You know, for me, it was it's all about just

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Speaker 4: And I think that we've tried to really.

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Speaker 2: We're getting a cut in of Okay, I was going

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Speaker 2: Baba Miller now leads the team in scoring, rebounding, and

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Speaker 4: It's been incredible.

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Speaker 5: His improvement from the day he got here in June

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Speaker 5: He would in the summer, he'd pick the ball up,

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Speaker 4: It was like, man, that might be the best thing

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Speaker 4: And the way that he's taken his ability to pass.

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Speaker 5: Yeah there, you know. You guys know this the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 6: One of the favorite guys I like watching on this team.

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Speaker 4: And once he got some continuity.

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Speaker 4: You know, I said, Now, he missed a big blockout

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Speaker 4: And he kind of chuckled. He said, I'm ready, you

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Speaker 5: To practice, he's gonna be loose because he's gonna have

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Speaker 4: Every drill.

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Speaker 5: I know, if it's competitive, they ain't gonna be anybody

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Speaker 4: And to me, as a young player, that's.

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Speaker 6: You know, when you look at in science, they have

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Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of what I said about Kishan.

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Speaker 4: He does it twice. He is a machine.

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Speaker 5: You know, because when he's in the right mode here

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Speaker 3: It's the Petri dish I'm talking about.

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Speaker 6: You created an environment to where you kept telling guys

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Speaker 3: There were hurts, they were losing games, and you.

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Speaker 6: And everybody was sitting there like okay, yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 9: To see it.

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Speaker 4: I ain't good enough to tell stories.

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Speaker 3: You don't feel like a butterfly either. That I'm just

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Speaker 5: was some uncontrollable things and some things that were very

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Speaker 5: hard to explain, you just you have great belief in faith.

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Speaker 5: And again what I'm proud of is our staff is

444
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Speaker 5: can continue to have that belief in faith our players have.

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Speaker 5: And I think people now see what we were talking

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Speaker 5: about and what we saw from day one.

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Speaker 2: Tell your high school science teacher is so happy.

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Speaker 4: Right now, Patrick out they are.

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Speaker 2: Dropping Petrie dish references. I'm really impressed. I'm learning more

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Speaker 2: about you by.

451
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Speaker 3: The lifelong Learner brother. YouTube is amazing.

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Speaker 2: All right, On that note, we'll take a time out.

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Speaker 2: When we come back. Questions from the audience. We are

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Speaker 2: alive at the original Montgomery In, home of the world's

455
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Speaker 2: greatest ribs. It's the West Miller Show on seven hundred

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Speaker 2: w welw. We're back at the original Montgomery In, home

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Speaker 2: of the world's greatest ris Eibbs reopened after the reservation,

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Speaker 2: at least the lounge area. Come out and get some

459
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Speaker 2: great food here as soon as you can. We appreciate

460
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Speaker 2: the bear Cat fans who are with us here tonight.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Joe Strecker, our engineer. Thanks to Rush Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Back in the studio, time for questions from the audience.

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Speaker 2: Bob is batting leadoff this evening.

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Speaker 7: Hey coach, knowing how important this game was, I consulted

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Speaker 7: Google AI for how cincin then he could beat TCU.

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Speaker 2: What did Google AI say?

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Speaker 7: Google I said, First, got to neutralize their front court

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Speaker 7: Busy and Edmonds are the center of their defense. Drive

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Speaker 7: on him, get in and found trouble because there's a

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Speaker 7: big fall off after them in the front court. Second

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Speaker 7: that they've got a hot point guard brock Harding. He's

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Speaker 7: near the top of the league and assists and steals,

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Speaker 7: so get in his passing lanes frustrated. Third, they got

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Speaker 7: a nearly fifty point three fifty three point shooter in Leotar,

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Speaker 7: a lot of vicious drive him off the three point line.

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Speaker 2: And fourth we stand the ball pressure.

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Speaker 7: They averaged fourteen force turnovers and the five steals.

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Speaker 2: They're in the top sixty in the country in steels. Nice.

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Speaker 2: There you go, you're all set.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'll just tell you, Bob Chad Dollars not real

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Speaker 5: happy right now.

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Speaker 4: You might be out of a job.

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Speaker 5: You know that it was It's his scout, and we

484
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Speaker 5: spent the last two days watching film together and uh,

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Speaker 5: he probably spent twenty hours telling me what you just said,

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Speaker 5: and you got it off.

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Speaker 2: The ai AI did not give you the proper pronunciation

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Speaker 2: of the one three point shooter, levittous. We're go work

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Speaker 2: on that for next time, all right, Phyllis, all right.

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Speaker 4: This is actually.

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Speaker 10: In support of this one of the spirit squads that

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Speaker 10: is an important part of our game day experience. We're

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Speaker 10: very fortunate that the UC dance team was selected to

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Speaker 10: represent the United States in the National Hip Hop Competition

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Speaker 10: this year, which is big. They first were in the

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Speaker 10: competition in two thousand and nine and became the first

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Speaker 10: collegiate team ever to be selected to represent and in

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Speaker 10: that competition they won gold as well as in twenty eleven,

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Speaker 10: twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, and twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 10: So our, yeah, our dance team is pretty awesome, and

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Speaker 10: this is the first time in ten years they've been

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Speaker 10: invited back to represent again the United States. They are

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Speaker 10: doing a fundraising to get there because you know, it's

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Speaker 10: not cheap, but if anyone is interested in donating whatever

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Speaker 10: they want whenever they can, the website to do that

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Speaker 10: is an impact impact dot UC dot ed u because

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Speaker 10: they each dancer averages about one thousand dollars to be

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Speaker 10: able to go to this and that does include include

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Speaker 10: even all the meals. So whatever people can do that

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Speaker 10: would be phenomenal to have U see on the international stage.

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Speaker 4: Once again, where is this taking place in Orlando?

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Speaker 7: I believe?

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, Orlando.

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Speaker 2: Great impact dot UC dot edu correct. Anybody that's inclined

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Speaker 2: to help, Thank you for filling us in. Appreciate that

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Speaker 2: very much, Brian Coach. I did not go to Google AI.

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Speaker 11: I feel like Senior Night has always been red uniforms

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Speaker 11: and we didn't wear red uniforms.

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Speaker 4: Was that a team decision?

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Speaker 3: Did you? How do you?

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Speaker 4: How do you decide what what happens in those scenarios?

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Speaker 5: I know this is hard to believe, guys, but that

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Speaker 5: is not what I'm worried about.

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Speaker 4: What dang color him are for?

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Speaker 5: Where I mean, I didn't even know that was a decision,

526
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Speaker 5: to be honest, But uh, what I liked was the

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Speaker 5: crowd was all read. That was really cool and I've

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Speaker 5: noticed that when I walked out, and I thought that

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Speaker 5: made Senior Day. It was one of the things that

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Speaker 5: made senior Day very special.

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Speaker 2: All Right, tem l has made its way over to

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Speaker 2: our friend Glenn. No worries.

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Speaker 3: Glenn gets a little space and you get with from

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Speaker 3: the speaker.

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Speaker 2: Speaker, Are you all right, Glenn? Take it away?

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Speaker 8: Hey, thanks, Wes back in the back, very very fresh.

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Speaker 8: Game of the season was in Michigan. Right, we beat Michigan.

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Speaker 4: Right an exhibition?

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 9: Did you have all your players in, including the guy

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Speaker 9: that said.

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Speaker 5: All year we didn't have Jalen Haynes or Giseled that

544
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Speaker 5: night or Jalen Celestine.

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Speaker 9: That's right, that'd be a great night.

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Speaker 8: Another thing, Dan reported today that Boba Miller is now

547
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Speaker 8: compared to see besides Oscar Larry Bird, the guy from

548
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Speaker 8: Duke Cooper Cooper Flag, and another guy from Duke Grant Hill.

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Speaker 9: Grant Hill.

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Speaker 2: Right. Just in fairness to me, I was noting the

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Speaker 2: fact that those guys are among the players in relatively

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Speaker 2: recent college basketball history who have led their team in points,

553
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Speaker 2: rebounds and a sisper game. So that's great company. Larry

554
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Speaker 2: Bird in Indiana State Cooper Flag last year. Scottie Pippen

555
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Speaker 2: did it as well Central Arkansas. If you want to

556
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Speaker 2: throw another famous name, in there. So it's a very

557
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Speaker 2: rare thing to do, and right now Boba Miller is

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Speaker 2: doing it.

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Speaker 9: Hey.

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Speaker 8: In the case of Boba Miller, how much did he

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Speaker 8: grow from being six or eleven? He was a guard originally?

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Speaker 9: Right? Is that correct?

563
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Speaker 5: He's been six eleven since I've seen him play.

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Speaker 4: He came over from Spain, you know, four years ago.

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Speaker 4: He was six eleven there.

566
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Speaker 2: I heard he was a guard earlier.

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Speaker 5: I think as a young player, you know, playing for

568
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Speaker 5: Real Madrid and in their youth program.

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Speaker 4: I do believe he's always played like a guard. Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Hey, I enjoyed this season.

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Speaker 8: Keep it going, and I hope I was listening to you,

572
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 8: Terry and Dan every day, every game, and I love

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Speaker 8: that the broadcast.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you, Glenn, thank you very much.

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Speaker 9: Thank you. Good luck down, bring some winner. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's our buddy, Glenn. Appreciate him being here

577
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Speaker 2: tonight and help him get back to his seat. Do

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Speaker 2: we have any other questions from the audience? T now,

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Speaker 2: we'll find you if that is the case. He is

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Speaker 2: roaming with his wireless mike. All right, We're gonna take

581
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Speaker 2: a time out. We'll come back with more questions when

582
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Speaker 2: we continue. This is the West Miller Radio Show. We're

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Speaker 2: live at the original Montgomery in home of the World's

584
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Speaker 2: Greatest Ribs. On seven hundred WLW, we are back at

585
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Speaker 2: the original Montgomery In home are the World's Greatest Ribs

586
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Speaker 2: and the West Miller Radio Show. The Bearcats look to

587
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Speaker 2: remain hot. On Saturday, they will head to TCU to

588
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Speaker 2: take on the horn Frogs. If Cincinnati can win that game,

589
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: the Bearcats could be the sixth seed and next week's

590
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 2: Big Twelve tournament. If you finish in the top eight,

591
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: you don't have to play in round one. Right now,

592
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: Cincinnati is eighth, with a chance to move up and

593
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Speaker 2: avoid that first round game and not have to play

594
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Speaker 2: until Wednesday. All right, time for more questions from the audience.

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00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 2: We've got a young lady Mike in hand, ready to

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Speaker 2: go the Floorish yours.

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Speaker 4: So, it seems that you drink a lot of water.

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Speaker 8: How many cups bottles.

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Speaker 4: Do you go through in a game? What's your name? Savannah?

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Speaker 5: Hey, Savannah, I'm impressed that you even noticed that with

601
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Speaker 5: the game going on. I don't know. Head coaches are

602
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Speaker 5: very spoiled, Savannah. So when I finish a bottle of water,

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Speaker 5: somebody behind me, without me even knowing, puts another one

604
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 5: right there. But I learned I actually fainted years ago.

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00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 5: Years ago, I was coaching, and I didn't drink water

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Speaker 5: during games, and I fainted in a game, and then,

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Speaker 5: you know, kind of came to I don't think anybody

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Speaker 5: knew it, but my assistant at the time said, you

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Speaker 5: better start drinking some dang water. So now it's just

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Speaker 5: a part of the routine. I'd probably guess too, but

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Speaker 5: I don't know, And probably about four pieces of gum

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Speaker 5: that's probably what I do during the game.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess it's a douple of each.

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Speaker 6: They actually put five bottles down there, and one's left over.

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Speaker 2: You do the man, Savannah, Just so you know the

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Speaker 2: person that replaces the bottle of water, that is it's

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Speaker 2: a full scholarship position, so someday you might be able

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Speaker 2: to get a free college education.

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Speaker 5: No, the best part is if you guys notice Hershey

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Speaker 5: court is is the guy that's done so many great

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Speaker 5: things for our university and for athletics. Dave Hershey, his

622
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Speaker 5: name is on our court and he sits right there

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Speaker 5: where I stand, right behind me, and I laugh all

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Speaker 5: the time. I said, he's he's the guy that replaces

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Speaker 5: the water all the time. So the guy has his

626
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Speaker 5: name on the court and he's my water. But no,

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Speaker 5: it's it's I know that happens, but I'm not focused

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Speaker 5: on it now. The gum, I sometimes that's just to

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Speaker 5: keep me from losing my brain. I just turn around

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Speaker 5: to get a stick of gum because, like when since

631
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Speaker 5: your hair is dove on that loose ball.

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Speaker 4: The other night I saw dots. I was so mad.

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Speaker 5: They call the foul, you know, But so I turned

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Speaker 5: around and I don't know what happened there. I blacked

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Speaker 5: out for a second. But but but I know I

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Speaker 5: do that a little bit, but I probably not really

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Speaker 5: thinking about it while I'm doing it.

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Speaker 2: You've got a wide variety of selections of gum that

639
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Speaker 2: are placed there by the student managers before every game.

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Speaker 2: If the orange pack appears to be a little bit light,

641
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Speaker 2: you can blame it on tew Tenl's dipping in there.

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00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 2: And then he's giving some to me too, so we

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Speaker 2: benefit from the orange gum. Alan yes, next, well, hey coach, good.

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Speaker 4: To see you, Hey Allen, good to see you.

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Speaker 12: Good congratulations on your recent run. Here, So mister tell

646
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Speaker 12: here the professor asked me to ask you a question.

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Speaker 12: If you were going to produce a documentary, what would

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Speaker 12: you produce it on?

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Speaker 2: Huh. We should note that Alan is involved in the

650
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Speaker 2: Bob Huggins documentary, which will be coming out soon. Look

651
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Speaker 2: forward to seeing that very much.

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Speaker 4: That's great.

653
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Speaker 3: I was forced to do this, by the way.

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Speaker 5: I look forward to watching it. It'd be something in basketball.

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Speaker 5: I don't have a great answer, but I mean, basket

656
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 5: balls my life and my passion, so it would be

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Speaker 5: something in basketball, but I'm not exactly sure what I think.

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Speaker 12: That's great, coach, Look, man, keep on rocking and rolling. Congratulations.

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Speaker 12: I want to get back to the mic from the terry,

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Speaker 12: which you never know if that's a good idea or not.

661
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 3: But it's going to go back to.

662
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 2: Him, Alan Chaer when the debut is of the documentary

663
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 2: and the details of that.

664
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 12: Yeah, So the debut is April seventeenth. It's at Memorial

665
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 12: Hall downtown. Tits are on sale right now, and you've

666
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 12: got I hope I'm not taking over the show here

667
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 12: a little bit, but now don't want to STI promost.

668
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 2: Fine, yep, okay, but you.

669
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 12: Know Hugs is be in town canyons coming. We're trying

670
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 12: to get Nikki here. Ruben will be here, this this,

671
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 12: this large man here and that large man will both

672
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 12: be there.

673
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 2: Low Corey Blunt is the other last man. I appreciate Corey.

674
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: I feel like a little kid when I'm walking around

675
00:32:58,440 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: with him.

676
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 12: But now they're both gonna We've got about probably twelve.

677
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 2: To fifteen players and uh kind of who's who? So

678
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 2: is there a website for the tickets? Where to Memorial

679
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: Hall dot com? Okay, Memorial Hall dot com if you're

680
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: interested in attending the big Hollywood premiere, the Hollywood premiere. Yeah,

681
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 2: Bob Huggins documentary, I'll take it. Awesome, Thank you so much.

682
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 2: You all right? T L tnl's back on the problem.

683
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 2: Does anybody else have a question? TL? In the back

684
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 2: back booths over there, looks like a couple of folks

685
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 2: have their hands up.

686
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 4: Coach Tuesday night, our Bearcats look like an NCAA team.

687
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 10: How do you get them to perform like that on Saturday?

688
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 4: I think just continuing to do what we've been doing here.

689
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 5: You know, I think they've looked like an NCAA tournament

690
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 5: team for quite a.

691
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 3: Bit of time.

692
00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 5: Now I really do for the last five or six weeks,

693
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 5: no doubt about it. And I think we just have

694
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 5: to stay on course. We've done a really nice job

695
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 5: of not getting caught up into some of the stuff

696
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 5: that people say about the tournament or about other things.

697
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 5: We've stayed in the moment. We have to keep doing that.

698
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 5: We had a terrific practice today, terrific film session.

699
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 4: We have to do that again tomorrow morning.

700
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 5: And we're gonna have a chance to play against a

701
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 5: team that'll be an instead of a tournament team on

702
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:23,479
Speaker 5: the road.

703
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 4: So it's another great opportunity. Thank you, coach, you're doing

704
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 4: a great job.

705
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 13: Thank you, Hey, coach. I read in the newspaper. Yes,

706
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 13: I get the black and white print at home still left.

707
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 13: Players have been quoted saying we're trying to get twenty

708
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 13: touches per half, twenty touches, forty touches per game. Are

709
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 13: there any other set numbers that you put out there

710
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 13: for these guys to achieve or stay away from? And

711
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 13: what we'll refer to is number three pointers fired up

712
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 13: during a game.

713
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 2: Say touches me, deflections on reflections we call them.

714
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 5: We use that term because people but in our locker room,

715
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 5: we call them plays on the ball, and so what

716
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 5: we count a steal, a block shot, diving on a

717
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 5: loose ball, with deflecting a pass, taking a charge, when

718
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 5: somebody goes vertical and puts their chest on the ball,

719
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 5: when a guy's shooting a lay up like we have

720
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 5: verticality play, those are all plays on the ball for us. Honestly,

721
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 5: bearcat plays right the kind of plays that we all

722
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 5: love here. So our goal is actually fifteen and a

723
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 5: half thirty a game. That's the minimum, Like we want

724
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 5: to have fifteen at least and in.

725
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 4: Thirty plus for the game. We also for our players.

726
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 5: We have goals that are simple, you know, so they

727
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 5: don't have to overthink about numbers. The second goal we

728
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 5: have is to hold the other team under forty percent

729
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 5: from the field. The third goal we have is to

730
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 5: get six what we call kills. That means when you

731
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 5: get three stops in a row. So three defensive stops

732
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 5: in a row is kind of how you can put

733
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 5: some runs together. We want six plus of those throughout

734
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 5: the course of a game, so three each and a

735
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 5: half at minimum. We talk about how many fouls that

736
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 5: we draw. We don't really have a number, but we

737
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 5: do this year, we've added that one, and we talk

738
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 5: about whether we win each four minute segment from media

739
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 5: to media, So the twelve, the twenty minutes of the sixteen,

740
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 5: the sixteen to the twelve, and obviously we keep track

741
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 5: of that. And then finally, and this is the one

742
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 5: that'll be tremendously important in almost every Big twelve game,

743
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 5: we talk about the rebounding war every every media timeout,

744
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 5: are we win in or losing the rebounding battle? So

745
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 5: those are the ones that we talk about in game

746
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 5: media to media. Half in the game, it's charted in

747
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 5: front of them, they can see it on the board.

748
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,439
Speaker 5: Those are the things we talk about with our team.

749
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 5: Of course, as a staff we talk about quite a

750
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 5: bit more.

751
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 11: All right, next question, coach, congratulations on your run, man.

752
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 11: Your coaching has come through big time with these players.

753
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 11: They've gotten so much better.

754
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 3: Thank you.

755
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 11: This is an observation. When Buck enters the game, the

756
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 11: tempo goes up. I love it, man. That guy is

757
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 11: like an energizer bunny.

758
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a bearcat. He competes, he has crazy edge.

759
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 5: He's such an impact defensively and when he's his decision

760
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 5: making is right on offense. He's actually has a huge

761
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 5: impact offensively, and that's where I've tried to be a

762
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 5: good coach for him, is he's not just a deep

763
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 5: and he can be a great offensive player, but he

764
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 5: has to continue to make better decisions.

765
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: All right, now, do you have another question?

766
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 14: Yes, you forgot already, Yeah, coach, Hey, I actually ran

767
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 14: track at you See, I was at the Cathlete I

768
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 14: graduated in twenty seventeen. I was in the you know,

769
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 14: cold tub with Sean Kilpatrick those days, and he was

770
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 14: just having so much fun, you know, at the time,

771
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 14: and I just want to ask you, like, are the

772
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 14: dudes having fun?

773
00:37:58,560 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 2: Are you having fun right now?

774
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 14: Becau Guys, everyone seems to be having fun right now,

775
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 14: And I just want to hear from you, like, what

776
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 14: do you tell the guys before you go out there

777
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 14: that game? Are you Are you saying let's have some fun?

778
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 14: Because he was having fun and I'm having fun right now.

779
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: I think everyone is having fun.

780
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 4: I just want to hear it from you.

781
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 2: Are you having fun?

782
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 3: Well?

783
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 5: First off, at the Athlete's a real athlete, okay, so

784
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 5: thank you, mad respect and and Sean Kilpatrick's one of

785
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:28,840
Speaker 5: our greatest all time players.

786
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 4: This Catholic is probably a better athlete than Shawn go Back.

787
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's a it's a great statement by somebody

788
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 5: that understands what it's like to compete. There has to

789
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 5: be joy in this. This has been by far the

790
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 5: most rewarding experience for me as a coach since I've

791
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 5: been at Cincinnati.

792
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 4: This year.

793
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 5: This has been a rewarding team to work with because

794
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 5: they want to get it right. They work for it

795
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 5: every day. They worked well together, and they are having

796
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 5: joy coming in the gym. I mean, yes, we are

797
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 5: having a blast.

798
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 4: Now.

799
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 5: Some stuff and some of the things we say that's

800
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 5: not for everybody, that's just for our locker room. But

801
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 5: we are having a blast. We have a blast in

802
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 5: practice every day. We have a blast on the road together.

803
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 5: This has been a rewarding year for a lot of reasons,

804
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 5: but that is one of them. We are having a

805
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 5: great time. Yeah, he's serious.

806
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 6: He threatens to have one on one shooting competitions often

807
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 6: with his players. He just you know what next time,

808
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 6: you know, he just keeps postponing it till next time.

809
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 5: That to me, it's joy, like you know, fun. Yeah,

810
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 5: fun can be silly. We don't want to be silly.

811
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 5: This is serious, right, but to have joy in what

812
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 5: we're doing. And there's moments we beat, we're silly, like.

813
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 4: He's talking about, you know, shooting and stuff. And you know,

814
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 4: I told him today that.

815
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 5: We watched the clip of h of Boba catching the

816
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 5: lob on the out of bounds play, which was great

817
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 5: that we put that play in and shooting defense in

818
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 5: out of bounce by us and it was awesome execution.

819
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 5: So we were showing that in film to praise them

820
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 5: on their focus.

821
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 4: And I but we have fun.

822
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 5: I said, guys, there's only two guys in this locker

823
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 5: room that could have caught that pass because Daday's pass.

824
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 4: Was not very good.

825
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 5: Hell, I mean Vince Carter might have been up to

826
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 5: catch it. I said, the only two guys in the

827
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 5: in the room that could have caught that dunk. Their

828
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 5: last name's Miller, and that's Boba.

829
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 3: Miller in westboll And, so the Miller time.

830
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 5: But but but no, we we and that we have

831
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 5: fun in film.

832
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 4: We have moments that were silly and goofy, but.

833
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 5: When we're competing and we're working in practice, we're having

834
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 5: joy and that's what's most important to me.

835
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: Is there a mini tramp involved with the other miller

836
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 2: that was called a joke.

837
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 3: Dan, you never know.

838
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 2: Let me ask you about Shawn and Bay. Have he

839
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,919
Speaker 2: returned after missing a month two games ago? Look good

840
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways. Was really looking to distribute

841
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 2: the ball and make plays as opposed to just try

842
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 2: to score. And then came out. He's always the first

843
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 2: person out to warm up on the night of a game,

844
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 2: and he tweaked his ankle again? Is it serious? Will

845
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 2: he be back soon? What can we learn about him now?

846
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 5: I don't think he did anything serious head of MRI,

847
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 5: but he he got hurting warm ups and listen, there's.

848
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 4: Stuff like that that happened. I can't even begin. One day,

849
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 4: I'll write a book about all the crap like that

850
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 4: that's happened this year. But that's right, it'll be a

851
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 4: good one too. I'll tell the real stories.

852
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 5: But uh, but I so that's kind of crazy, right,

853
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 5: But I don't know. He did not practice today, But

854
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 5: I don't think he got the MRI did We didn't

855
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 5: see any major damage or anything, So I think it's

856
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 5: a day to day thing. But we've gotten so much

857
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 5: better this year dealing with that kind of stuff, Like

858
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 5: we don't skip a beat. Now somebody can't go or

859
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 5: something happens. Next man up, Like, how about how about

860
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 5: Tyler McKinley and the warrior he's been this year playing

861
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 5: on like a basically one leg and one knee, and

862
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 5: then you know, like he gets hurt again in the

863
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 5: Texas Tech game. We come back and play at home

864
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 5: against Oklam State, and Halven just steps in and just

865
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 5: gives us great minutes off.

866
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 4: The miss the last two games. So we've gotten better

867
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 4: at dealing with that stuff.

868
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 5: But if we could ever have Sean, you know, in

869
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 5: the role that he should be in, distributing, rebounding, defending,

870
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 5: which he's ready to do, I think that makes our

871
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 5: team even better.

872
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

873
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 6: So now that we got TCU, you're gonna practice in

874
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 6: the morning, last game of the regular season before you

875
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 6: hit the conference. Is there anything that you're gonna add

876
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 6: or you just at this point you're just trying to

877
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 6: make sure that they remember the assignment that you guys

878
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 6: have been going over. It seems like a lot more

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Speaker 6: mental than this phiscal at this stage.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, there's only so much you can do,

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Speaker 5: but we're gonna do as much as we physically can.

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Speaker 5: And then obviously we're doing a lot of things mentally

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Speaker 5: as well, So no, I think it's business as usual

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Speaker 5: for us. I believe our team's on the right track

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Speaker 5: over a long period of time now, so we'll continue

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Speaker 5: to try to head in that direction.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Glenn earlier mentioned the Michigan exhibition game

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Speaker 2: that you started the season with. I have petitioned the

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Speaker 2: NCAA to have that included on a team's resume, so

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Speaker 2: hopefully victory over a top five team will be at

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Speaker 2: it between now we'll watch Monday. That's a joke too,

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Speaker 2: both of your Yeah, very dry ball dry. All right,

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Speaker 2: that's going to do it for our show tonight. We've

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Speaker 2: got a ton of stuff to give away. So again

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Speaker 2: we appreciate the folks who are here tonight. Many of

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Speaker 2: you are going to go home with a great bit

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Speaker 2: of Bearcat swag. If you are listening at home, thanks

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Speaker 2: for tuning in. This has been the West Miller Radio Show.

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Speaker 2: I'm seven hundred WLW