Speaker 1: All right, let's head to Kansas City where it's day
Speaker 1: two of Big twelve basketball media day. Yesterday the women,
Speaker 1: today the men. My next guest is all over it,
Speaker 1: on the scene and covering it all for the Inquirer
Speaker 1: Cincinnai dot Com. Always a pleasure to welcome in, Scott Springer.
Speaker 1: How is Kansas City?
Speaker 2: Wonderful? The sun's out, it's maybe about seventy was thirty
Speaker 2: nine this morning, So a brisk walk over to the
Speaker 2: T Mobile Center. But I just walked back and very
Speaker 2: pleasant now. But I had to walk back because they're
Speaker 2: dismantling the place because somebody named Kat Williams and then
Speaker 2: maybe Tate McCrae. I don't know. These people are coming
Speaker 2: to the T Mobile Center and they didn't want me there.
Speaker 2: They had things to do.
Speaker 1: Understood, understood, Yes, Uh.
Speaker 2: We finished up. Yeah, good eventful day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's talk about this Bearcat team. And West has
Speaker 1: always been an intense guy himself. I was struck by
Speaker 1: I heard him use the term competitive edge about his
Speaker 1: guys a couple of times today. That seems like an
Speaker 1: important part of the DNA. He likes about this basketball team,
Speaker 1: the edge they can play with.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's one of the reasons he recruited the
Speaker 2: kerkkrisa who comes with a lot of edge. And there's
Speaker 2: a dude you got to get on the radio. That
Speaker 2: guy's funny from Estonia, a great personality and a little
Speaker 2: bit of news today. Maybe there's a chance he could have.
Speaker 2: How about this Welcome to the New Era a seventh
Speaker 2: year possibility. Yeah, so he's played five, this is six,
Speaker 2: and there may be seven though. I don't know the loophole,
Speaker 2: but it has to do something with his freshman year
Speaker 2: at Arizona, which was the twenty one season. He played
Speaker 2: eight games, played nine games last year of Kentucky due
Speaker 2: to injury. So I don't know how it works or whatever.
Speaker 2: If you're remember Day Day, Thomas got an extra year
Speaker 2: because they decided the junior college years don't count, which
Speaker 2: gave UC an extra year and the keid to winning anymore.
Speaker 2: You hear all these coaches saying it is to be old.
Speaker 2: You know, it used to be you know they were
Speaker 2: the one and done. Were these high school kids coming
Speaker 2: in and then going to the league, And now they
Speaker 2: want to be old, and heck, now they're reaching into
Speaker 2: the G league and pulling guys back into college so
Speaker 2: whatever applied doesn't apply anymore. It's kind of like gambling
Speaker 2: in sports.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Scott, I wonder what a guy like
Speaker 1: Kerr with in personnel, do they have the ability to
Speaker 1: pace wise push it more than maybe they have in
Speaker 1: the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what he really likes. And Dayda Thomas
Speaker 2: likes that Kerr likes to push the ball. And if
Speaker 2: you watched when they made their run against Michigan there
Speaker 2: in the first half, they were pushing the ball and
Speaker 2: they're really excited about that first half. And that's something
Speaker 2: that some of the guys on staff I was talking
Speaker 2: to that they think that that's what they're about. They
Speaker 2: want to do that. And if you really look at
Speaker 2: that second half, Misigan's trying to win that game. They
Speaker 2: played their guys, they played the Lindenborg played thirty one
Speaker 2: or the forty minutes, and the Bearcats kind of kept
Speaker 2: to their mo and split the time month. I think
Speaker 2: Chom played twenty six, but you know, halveen Zella played
Speaker 2: thirteen minutes. Typically in a game against the number sevent
Speaker 2: team in the nation, that's not happening. So now let's
Speaker 2: not get ahead of our ski as we go back
Speaker 2: to last year at Ohio State and everyone thought, oh
Speaker 2: my god, what four here we come. People were booking
Speaker 2: hotel rooms and that might have been the best game
Speaker 2: they played. It went down hill.
Speaker 1: That ye're right, yet every point.
Speaker 2: It was a slippery slope from there. So I think
Speaker 2: this team is better personnel wise looking at it. But
Speaker 2: the pundits, you know, they're a little bit snake bit.
Speaker 2: The John Rothstein's who he was there today, all the
Speaker 2: famous people, Seth Davis, I got the pressures with greatness. Wow,
Speaker 2: I'm just a guy that snuck in somewhere. But it's
Speaker 2: fun talking to all these guys. The fran threw Shield
Speaker 2: is them all. But but you know, I think Rostein
Speaker 2: has them forty in his forty five and everyone's saying
Speaker 2: NC double air bus and there there's something to that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you wonder it's like everyone that put them, you know,
Speaker 2: top twenty last year, they're going, well, I don't want
Speaker 2: to do it this year because I got VI. So
Speaker 2: I think they're every bit is good. But that's the
Speaker 2: reason they're not ranked. And maybe sometimes it's better than
Speaker 2: not being ranked. You go back to the final four
Speaker 2: team in ninety two. I don't think they were even
Speaker 2: ranked till mid January.
Speaker 1: Scott Springer checking in from the acquire Cincinia dot com
Speaker 1: covering the Bearcats for a Big twelve media day in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Jalen Hayes big man out indefinitely. What do
Speaker 1: they lose in his absence or and who might gain
Speaker 1: opportunities in his absence?
Speaker 2: Finding Tyler McKinley is the one that could get the minutes,
Speaker 2: and he got some there against Michigan. Came in, got
Speaker 2: some big boards. He's a great rebounder, and he's somebody
Speaker 2: that they would have played last year as a freshman.
Speaker 2: And then he blew his knee out so he had
Speaker 2: to wait. But you know, he hit a three. They
Speaker 2: had a lot of guys hitting threes. Charm hit a three.
Speaker 2: So right now your front cord is Chom Baba Miller
Speaker 2: who everyone loves. Frank Traschilla loves Boba Miller says he's
Speaker 2: the best NBA prospect right now. And then McKinley, and
Speaker 2: you know you miss with with Haines. It's a wide
Speaker 2: body dude that you know, if your old school like me,
Speaker 2: you like that guy that can discove his button to
Speaker 2: the post and get things done, but I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're going to have him back by the end
Speaker 2: of the year or there will be a medical red shirt.
Speaker 2: I think they're exploring all those possibilities, but I don't
Speaker 2: think he's going to play anytime soon now. Jalen Celstein,
Speaker 2: who did not play against Michigan, is supposed to get
Speaker 2: some minutes Friday against Arkansas. And he's another if you
Speaker 2: remember the UC Baylor game that was at fifth Third Arena,
Speaker 2: Celestine started at a decent game and he's another you know,
Speaker 2: six seven guy that can play a lot of spots.
Speaker 2: You know, the so called positionless basketball is kind of
Speaker 2: what they're geared for anymore.
Speaker 1: What are your impressions to this point of the much
Speaker 1: hyped in balleyhood freshman shot A baiev.
Speaker 2: Well. I saw him at Overtime Elite last year in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: and it was right before the night before that UC
Speaker 2: played Georgia Tech, So we got down there and were
Speaker 2: able to go to Overtime Elite. Now, Overtime Elite is
Speaker 2: not like Anderson High School or any other place with
Speaker 2: wooden bleachers or you named the high school. It is showtime.
Speaker 2: They got lights, they got big scoreboards, so that atmosphere.
Speaker 2: I think he's used to that. And you know, chrystl
Speaker 2: Arena had ten thousand plus in there the other night.
Speaker 2: I don't think he was faith now will he v faith?
Speaker 2: And some other games? Who knows? That man? He looked
Speaker 2: like the dude that I saw playing against the high
Speaker 2: school kids that night. And he base's a six' eight point.
Speaker 2: Guard he can do a lot of.
Speaker 1: Things you you ran across talk TO, u so you
Speaker 1: tweeted about the Former Bearcat Dan. Skillings, obviously last season
Speaker 1: with The bearcats did not go as he or anybody.
Speaker 1: Wanted how how does he seem now and how does
Speaker 1: he feel about this new. Opportunity seems, happy you.
Speaker 2: KNOW i guess the change of scenery might. Help they
Speaker 2: wanted him and Against Grand, CANYON i think he had
Speaker 2: a double double in their first. Exhibition they brought him
Speaker 2: to media, day so they must think a lot of.
Speaker 2: Him AND i don't KNOW i heard him well since he's.
Speaker 2: Gone he told somebody that maybe he should have redshirted last,
Speaker 2: Year SO i don't. Know i'm not a medical expert
Speaker 2: to us. ALL i, think let's be, honest it didn't
Speaker 2: look like he was into. It some games When Dan
Speaker 2: skillings is into, it he's as good as he wants to.
Speaker 2: Be AND i just that's WHAT i couldn't figure out it, say,
Speaker 2: man here you. Are you should be on the floor
Speaker 2: and taking. Command and for a guy that was recruited
Speaker 2: for his rebounding with the, link there were some odd
Speaker 2: games where you, know you only have like two. Rebounds
Speaker 2: and so if he gets his head, together which he's
Speaker 2: a great, kid you, know don't get me, wrong, wonderful
Speaker 2: pleasant to talk to. Today he said all the right,
Speaker 2: things AND i hope he does. Well he will be
Speaker 2: back at fifth Third Arena january twenty, eighth fully expecting
Speaker 2: to be. Booed BUT i think he realizes that his
Speaker 2: girlfriend on if he's engaged yet or, not but she's From.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati she was on the dance, team so he Likes.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati even mentioned that this is Someplace i'd like to
Speaker 2: come home and you, know lay my head and start a.
Speaker 2: Family so he may be back around town at some,
Speaker 2: point but for right, now he's In. Baylor and it's
Speaker 2: so funny you go back To april And skillings was
Speaker 2: the first guy that jumped into the portal and then next,
Speaker 2: thing you, know the whole team is out and everyone's
Speaker 2: going as their. Team what's? Happening guy's, falling and then
Speaker 2: here come these other, guys here comes The, calgary it
Speaker 2: comes more in and it's so odd anymore because when
Speaker 2: you WERE i were growing, up it was you knew
Speaker 2: the players on the teams and you knew who'd expect.
Speaker 2: Back and now it's just so. Different you don't. Know
Speaker 2: and The Senior days are meant for guys that have
Speaker 2: been around for six months and hold a black.
Speaker 1: Up for those who are following, along who want more
Speaker 1: on The, bearcats who are wondering what's going on In Kansas.
Speaker 1: City tell everybody what you, have what you have in the,
Speaker 1: works what you've, posted and what will be.
Speaker 2: Posted well posted today's. Stuff yet the women's the media
Speaker 2: day stuff was up, TODAY i. Believe also did two
Speaker 2: football stories yesterday WHILE i was here covering women's basketball
Speaker 2: because he had A scott sanderfield presser davedr ANDAs. PRESSER
Speaker 2: i covered that. Remotely so a couple of things out
Speaker 2: on and of course it's a big football Game saturday
Speaker 2: for homecoming four. O'CLOCK i did A baylor podcast, Today
Speaker 2: so my head's spinning about like yours. Here you're all
Speaker 2: over the place with every. Sport so, UH i just
Speaker 2: wanted to be Like lanceford. Day it would be really,
Speaker 2: busy but it was a lot of things coming, out
Speaker 2: a lot of things going on and HOPEFULLY i can get.
Speaker 2: HOME i got. Here my plane that took, off it
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Speaker 2: to get. Here and there was a woman as we're
Speaker 2: getting rebooked and she's saying to the. Attendant she, goes,
Speaker 2: well AM i going to get compensated for? THIS i,
Speaker 2: Said i'm your compensation it is you are? Upright what
Speaker 2: do you?
Speaker 1: Want he Is Scott springer Of The Inquiry cincinnati dot
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Speaker 1: you Making tom and a busy. Day you always enjoyed the.
Speaker 1: Conversation thank, You thanks very, much.
Speaker 2: Sir all, right there there you, Go.
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