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Speaker 2: That's good dud.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. A very pleasant, good evening, everybody. Greetings

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Speaker 1: from the original Montgomery In home of the world's greatest ribs.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the West Miller Radio Show. I'm Dan Horde

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Speaker 1: with former Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson, my new favorite

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Speaker 1: podcaster and the star of the show, the head coach

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Speaker 1: of your UC Bearcats. That's here at four Wes Miller.

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Speaker 1: We are off to Atlanta tomorrow for a big game

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Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday against the Georgia Bulldogs. They are

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Speaker 1: eight and one. They're only lost this year in overtime

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Speaker 1: against an excellent Clemson team. You have taken on some

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Speaker 1: challenges in the non Big Twelve portion of the schedule,

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Speaker 1: and this is one of the toughest ones on the slate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this will be a great opportunity, great game. They

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Speaker 3: I don't know what. I haven't checked the polls, and

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Speaker 3: nor do I care a whole lot about them this

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Speaker 2: But when you look.

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Speaker 3: At the the at the Ken Pomp stuff, I mean,

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Speaker 3: they're one of the best teams in the country to

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Speaker 3: start the year, and they're doing some some really interesting things.

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Speaker 2: In the open court.

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Speaker 3: They're they're pressing, and they're playing extremely fast and speeding

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Speaker 3: you up defensively. That they've had a really nice start.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a big time game, big time opportunity.

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Speaker 4: Average of ninety nine points a game, which is incredible.

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Speaker 4: What is it about Georgia. I mean, it's been the

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Speaker 4: last three or four years that we played Georgia or

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Speaker 4: in Georgia. Obviously there's some players there, but what about

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Speaker 4: the what's the connection.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that there's really it just kind of

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Speaker 3: by chance, right, we had the Georgia Tech Series, now Georgia,

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Speaker 3: and then I think Georgia will be back up this

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Speaker 3: way to play US neutral somewhere next year.

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Speaker 2: But I don't. I actually that's Clemson. I think that

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Speaker 2: it comes back here next year. I don't. I don't.

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Speaker 3: I think the Georgia win's a one off. But no,

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Speaker 3: I think it's more by chance. It wasn't There's there's

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Speaker 3: no nothing behind the scenes here. Intentionally just trying to

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Speaker 3: find quality games, and Georgia was look and we were

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Speaker 3: looking and it made sense to do it neutral.

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Speaker 4: Lauren said, you planned that game because she came over here,

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Speaker 4: so she said.

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Speaker 2: She was going to go back if because she moved

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, she is hiding behind a post now trying

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Speaker 1: to apployd eye contact with you team, Allen. I can't

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Speaker 1: blame her. Yeah, there's a balancing act when you put

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Speaker 1: together your schedule. You know you're going to have so

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Speaker 1: many killer games in the Big Twelve, you want some

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Speaker 1: in the non conference you don't want too many. Did

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Speaker 1: you feel like you had a pretty good balance this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's you know, we've said this publicly

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Speaker 3: quite a bit, guys. I think the first thing you're

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Speaker 3: trying to do is build a tournament resume with your

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Speaker 3: non conference schedule. Are there opportunities to do that? The

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Speaker 3: second thing you're trying to prepare for your league because

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Speaker 3: that's ultimately what's going to define your year in the

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Speaker 3: regular season. And then third, you want to make sure

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Speaker 3: there's some level of balance to keep you know, working

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Speaker 3: and building your team and learning your team, especially in

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Speaker 3: today's age. And I thought when we put together a

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Speaker 2: Is it fair for basketball?

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Speaker 4: Because Notre Dame had an early loss to Miami and

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Speaker 4: they're penalized for that ten in a row. But in

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Speaker 4: basketball it seems like it goes up and down based

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Speaker 4: on per game, Like you have a your game versus

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think, And I haven't followed been a little preoccupied

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Speaker 3: basketball and football are different because there's so many more opportunities,

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Speaker 3: you know, like and you get into the league, like

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Speaker 3: we played in the Big Twelve every night. It's the

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go back and do a bit of

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Speaker 1: an autopsy on the Xavier game. You haven't played a

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, we were It was interesting I thought

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Speaker 3: you guys that are coming off of games they've made

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Speaker 3: threes each. That presented some different types of challenges, and

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Speaker 3: I thought, you know, our game plan was to really

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Speaker 3: I was frustrated with our defense in the game because

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Speaker 3: we did defend the three point line, but we weren't

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Speaker 3: disciplined to make them score over us. We fouled, gave

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Speaker 3: we didn't sprint back in transition after a made basket,

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Speaker 3: which is unacceptable. And then uh, they made a bunch

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Speaker 3: that we've always been really good at is making it

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Speaker 4: You said that you didn't think that Carol could score

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Speaker 3: What did you see consistently assistently? Because it certainly it

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Speaker 3: and play the next possession, right, I mean, that's going

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Speaker 3: as we did. That surprised me. But you allow somebody

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Speaker 2: And I thought he did a little bit of both, right.

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Speaker 3: He got easy ones, he got to the foul line,

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Speaker 1: Hindsight, it's always twenty twenty. What, if anything, would you

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Speaker 3: Well, I think we would have spent more time on,

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Speaker 3: You know, late in the game when we somebody asked me, like,

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Speaker 3: why didn't you double more? Well, we were in the zone,

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Speaker 3: you know, like one of the things we did. We

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Speaker 3: the double. We talked about it, and we got to

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Speaker 3: it on one possession late in the game. There were

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Speaker 3: two possessions he scored over the top. One of them

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Speaker 3: we were trying to double him more, but we probably

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Speaker 4: I noticed in practice there seems to be what I

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Speaker 4: a little bit more urgency in practice. I've been seeing

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Speaker 4: a little bit more of that lately. Is that because

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Speaker 4: you're trying to turn up for the conference? Are you

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Speaker 2: I just think I was really excited to have a

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Speaker 3: Yeah that I'm not guys, I ain't making excuses or complaining.

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Speaker 2: I just as a coach, I live for practice.

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Speaker 3: I live live for the opportunity to go in there

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Speaker 3: and work and get better and you know, teach and

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Speaker 3: them is what you're talking about. That was very intentional

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Speaker 3: to try to create some urgency in some certain areas

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Speaker 1: Mustapha Chim has not been able to take advantage of

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Speaker 3: I thought in the Xavier game we did a nice

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Speaker 3: like I thought, we were able to establish the post

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Speaker 3: But there's no doubt about it. He's a big time player.

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Speaker 3: We need him to play like a big time player,

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Speaker 3: and I believe he will. We're hard at work at it.

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Speaker 1: Break all right, yep, we'll take a time out. You

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Speaker 1: In Home of the World's Greatest Rips and the West

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Speaker 1: Miller Radio Show. We appreciate the Bearcat fans are with

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Speaker 1: and some tickets to the bearcats next home game. Their

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Speaker 1: next game, though, of course, is on the road this

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Speaker 1: Saturday at Georgia. That's at two o'clock start. It's in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: I should say, it's not a true road game. It's

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, obviously closer to the University of Georgia. Starts

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Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the afternoon. Paba Miller missed a

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Speaker 3: He has been able to put days together this week,

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Speaker 4: He just went through all this stuff that I can't do,

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Speaker 3: and go, hell, we ain't doing it like as good

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Speaker 3: as they're doing it. You know, you might learn something,

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Speaker 3: but no, I we greade and it's not the exact

443
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Speaker 3: same system in process that I learned from from my

444
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Speaker 3: college coach. We've tweaked it, we've altered it to fit

445
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Speaker 3: what we're doing. But that's where the whole thing started.

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Speaker 3: I'm not that original, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: When you've added new members to your coaching staff and

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Speaker 1: you explain that this is part of the process, did

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Speaker 1: they go away?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not going out to dinner right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's in the in the circles of all the guys

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Speaker 3: that I've worked with that and most of us are

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Speaker 3: all still very close guys that we've worked with over

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Speaker 3: the last fifteen years. That's like the one joke they

457
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Speaker 3: all have, like I don't miss the grading, or you know,

458
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Speaker 3: a new guy gets hired and they see somebody that

459
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Speaker 3: used to work with us on the road, how you

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Speaker 3: get ready for the grading.

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Speaker 2: You know, like they assistants don't like it.

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Speaker 3: But I will say I've had a number of assistant

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Speaker 3: coaches that have appreciated it because you.

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Speaker 2: Get the team, you get the staff on the same page.

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Speaker 3: You learn, you really teach young coaches how to watch film.

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Speaker 2: It's something I really.

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Speaker 4: Do value you, mikeel on the staff, you would challenge

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Speaker 4: you on the sideline, and it was a crazy dynamic.

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Speaker 4: You guys are going back and forth on the sideline.

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Speaker 4: Is there anybody that challenged you, not in a physical way,

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Speaker 4: but saying, look, I think we need to do this

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Speaker 4: when you have a strong opinion.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise I'm main man, Mike, I mis amen, Mike. He's

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Speaker 3: doing great. He's this assistant at New Mexico. They're off

475
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Speaker 3: to a great start. So shout out to Mike Roberts.

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Speaker 3: But oh yeah, we would get into some altercations.

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Speaker 2: Dan and I would be bumpling to like this. It's funny, man.

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Speaker 3: I walked into Starbucks one morning and we were coaching

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Speaker 3: down at the mid major school in North Carolina together,

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Speaker 3: and we used to go to the same Starbucks every

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Speaker 3: morning on the way to work.

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Speaker 2: And I walked in.

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Speaker 3: And one of the fans that comes to the game

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Speaker 3: stop me, and he goes, are you okay with your

485
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Speaker 3: assistant coach?

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

487
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Speaker 3: And I said, grasp you guys from about twenty last night,

488
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Speaker 3: you okay with your assistants?

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Speaker 2: I said, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 3: He said, you guys got into it on the side,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, that's just how we communicate.

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Speaker 2: Man like.

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Speaker 3: But uh no, that was great and we worked together

494
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Speaker 3: for ten years and we had a really good dynamic

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Speaker 3: for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, take a time out of questions from

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Speaker 1: the audience when we continue. This is the West Miller

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Speaker 1: Radio Show or Live at the Original Montgomery In Home

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Speaker 1: of the World's Greatest Ribs on seven hundred w allw

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the West Miller Radio Show, Live from

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Speaker 1: the original Montgomery In Home of the world's Greatest Ribs.

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Speaker 1: I think we're on next Tuesday next week. If I'm

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Speaker 1: not mistaken because of the schedule next week, it'll be

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Speaker 1: well double check before the end of the show tonight.

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Speaker 1: In any case, let's take some questions from the audience.

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Speaker 1: Phillis as batting lead off tonight coach.

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Speaker 5: This kind of dovetails with Dan's comment just a little

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Speaker 5: bit this may seem it's from observation and might be

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Speaker 5: somewhat tough for you. We like hearing that there's good

510
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Speaker 5: practice and that it sounds really, you know, really encouraging,

511
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Speaker 5: but it hasn't appeared to translate many times in performance

512
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Speaker 5: on the floor, and that seems to be a bit

513
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Speaker 5: of a disconnect. The fan base, for better or for worse,

514
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Speaker 5: would like to see the intensity of the coaching to

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Speaker 5: turn up and get a little tougher. And we know

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Speaker 5: that good people can be very demanding, but is there.

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Speaker 2: A downside to that to be demanding, to be.

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Speaker 5: Demanding and expecting more of the players than what they're

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Speaker 5: doing delivering at that point. Because we know we have

520
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Speaker 5: good players, that's not even a question, but it seems

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Speaker 5: that there needs to be more demanded of them and

522
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Speaker 5: to be a little tougher on them because and I

523
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Speaker 5: know it's a mishmash, we only had three returners, so

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Speaker 5: it makes it really complicated. But I think sometimes with

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Speaker 5: coaching and leading, that the expectation has to be up

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Speaker 5: here and then moved down from from the top of

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Speaker 5: really being hard to being okay, this is where we

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Speaker 5: are kind of coaching and leading.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the standard has to be high. I

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Speaker 3: think that's what's being demanded of them. So yeah, that's

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Speaker 3: from my perspective. Yes, that you're right in what you're saying,

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Speaker 3: and the application of that is happening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sure, Thanks Phyllis. Before we get to Brian,

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Speaker 1: the show is on Tuesday on December thirtieth, so not

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Speaker 1: next week, but the week after Christmas. We'll have a

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Speaker 1: Tuesday show, not a Thursday show.

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Speaker 2: Bryan, you're up, coach. I don't know a thing about Georgia.

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Speaker 2: What do they do?

539
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Speaker 3: Press press, speed the game up. They lead the nation

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Speaker 3: and shot blocking. So as they speed the game up,

541
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Speaker 3: they steal the ball, they turn the they turn you

542
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Speaker 3: over to high rate their top ten in the country there.

543
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Speaker 3: When you shoot shots quickly around the rim, they turn

544
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Speaker 3: those into turnovers by blocking shots and altering shots.

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Speaker 2: And then they're.

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Speaker 3: Playing about as fast as you can play, converting defense

547
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Speaker 3: to offense with a ton of guards that are downhill oriented,

548
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Speaker 3: shoot a lot of threes, touch the paint a lot.

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Speaker 2: They have an athletic front court.

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Speaker 3: So again, playing eleven guys, they're playing eleven deep, playing

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Speaker 3: extremely fast on offense and defense.

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Speaker 1: And it's really playing eleven deep too. They're all averaging

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Speaker 1: double digit minutes. It's not like the eleventh guy gets

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Speaker 1: in there for four correct, Yeah, all right, next question.

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Speaker 2: Uh two parter here?

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Speaker 6: Uh do we have an update on Gisel James for

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Speaker 6: one and two? Does a player like that fit with

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Speaker 6: this lineup? With the men of ball dominant cards that

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Speaker 6: we have.

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Speaker 2: From a basketball perspective. I don't have any updates.

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Speaker 3: But he's doing great, really proud of I'm really happy

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Speaker 3: for him. But I don't have any basketball updates and

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Speaker 3: uh so then you know, I guess it's not appropriate

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Speaker 3: to answer the second part of the question.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, coach, My question is more on the offensive side.

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Speaker 2: I think you do.

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Speaker 7: You've done over the years pretty good job on the

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Speaker 7: defensive side. Offensive side. With this year's team, you have

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Speaker 7: a better inside presence than you've had in a while.

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Speaker 7: What are your thoughts on the balance between you know,

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Speaker 7: the inside game, When do you really emphasize that during

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Speaker 7: the game versus the analytics of that you're seeing out

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Speaker 7: there of you know, everybody wants to shoot the threes

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Speaker 7: and so forth. What's that balance? Because you have to

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Speaker 7: have the inside game, you have to have guys that

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Speaker 7: drive the ball to basket, finish or get the free

578
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Speaker 7: throw line, as well as guys that.

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Speaker 2: Can shoot the three.

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Speaker 7: Three shooting has been a struggle for this team. How

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Speaker 7: do you take advantage of what you have now as

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Speaker 7: an inside game and how early do you deploy that.

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Speaker 3: It's a great question. The you know, the first thing

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Speaker 3: with the three point shooting is we have a roster

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Speaker 3: full of guys that haven't not just projected that they

586
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Speaker 3: could go shoot threes. Well, they've already shot threes well

587
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Speaker 3: in their careers, right, So at some point, and I

588
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Speaker 3: believe it will happen, we're going to shoot the ball

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Speaker 3: well from three. We made eleven in our last game,

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Speaker 3: so that's that's a step in the right direction. But

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Speaker 3: if you're just shooting threes, right, that's knocking. To be enough,

592
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Speaker 3: we have to establish ourselves in the postbox, right.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to do that.

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Speaker 3: We're trying to do that through Mustapha Chim, We're trying

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Speaker 3: to do that through Baba Miller. We're trying to do

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Speaker 3: it to start games and start halfs. If you look

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Speaker 3: at the start of most games, we start a possession

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Speaker 3: by throwing it into the box you know, the first

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Speaker 3: possession against a the night we throw it in, they

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Speaker 3: double Baba, Boba the ball, kick it out, hit a

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Speaker 3: three day, it hits it three to start the I

602
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Speaker 3: mean we're trying to do it. I thought we actually

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Speaker 3: got the ball into the box. To Mustafa, Well, we've

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Speaker 3: had knights we didn't I mean we got it that,

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Speaker 3: we didn't get in enough against Louisville and he had

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Speaker 3: it going against Louisville. Right, we've had nights that we

607
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Speaker 3: got it in there and we didn't convert. We got

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Speaker 3: it in there pretty good to him. I thought he

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Speaker 3: had a couple of really nice looks to start the

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Speaker 3: second half, running the rim, getting early post catches. He's

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Speaker 3: gonna convert those. Baba's been our most consistent guy. It's

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Speaker 3: scoring around the basket, putting pressure on the basket, whether

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Speaker 3: it's the drive or the back to the basket game.

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Speaker 3: We need that from other guys. Since your Harris has

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Speaker 3: been pretty consistent at driving the ball and getting to

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Speaker 3: the rim. We are getting fouled more than we've ever

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Speaker 3: gotten fouled since I've been at Cincinnati. So we're getting

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Speaker 3: to the free throw line. We're not converting, right, I

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Speaker 3: mean we're shooting fifty percent. And you know, you look

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Speaker 3: at the last game right from a shot disparity standpoint,

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Speaker 3: because this is what we go in there after the

622
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Speaker 3: game and we evaluate every aspect of it. You know,

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Speaker 3: shot the ball well from three for the first time

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Speaker 3: in a while.

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Speaker 2: That was great.

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Speaker 3: We actually got to the basket with angled shots. We

627
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Speaker 3: didn't take a bunch of contested midi twos that are

628
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Speaker 3: the lowest percented shots in our game. We get to

629
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Speaker 3: the basket, we miss miss four layups. I'm not talking

630
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Speaker 3: about layups that the coach is going, heah. You could

631
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Speaker 3: may say it's a layup, but it was contested. We

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Speaker 3: missed four point blank layups. Those are one hundred percent

633
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Speaker 3: shots in college basketball. They didn't go in. We got

634
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Speaker 3: the ball into mu a couple times twice, and we

635
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Speaker 3: missed two and a half footers.

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Speaker 2: Those should be about ninety percent converted.

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Speaker 3: So and then we miss a eleven free throw So offensively,

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Speaker 3: in the last game, the shot disparity, the rim pressure,

639
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Speaker 3: that getting to the free throw line, the getting the ball.

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Speaker 2: To the post box, we executed that, but.

641
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Speaker 3: We leave eleven on the free throw line, right, we

642
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 3: missed six layups or opportunities that it the worst case,

643
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Speaker 3: you're five for six, Well, that's going to be a

644
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 3: big disparity in the game. Now, we haven't executed offense

645
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Speaker 3: to that degree in every game to start the year.

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Speaker 3: We need to execute offense that consistently, and then we

647
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Speaker 3: need to convert more consistently. But establishing the box, you're

648
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Speaker 3: absolutely right. Whether it's through the post, whether it's through

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Speaker 3: the drive, whether it's through a cut, whether it's through

650
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Speaker 3: a transition layup, whether it's defense to offense, that's got

651
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Speaker 3: to happen.

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Speaker 8: All right, next question, Okay, following up on the last question, So,

653
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Speaker 8: Baba Miller, it's specifically so he was over four and

654
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Speaker 8: then shootout from three, but it looked like he had

655
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Speaker 8: the advantage inside. He's either gonna get double teamed or

656
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Speaker 8: he's gonna score inside. So when when do you coach

657
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Speaker 8: up and say yet, it's not your night, don't don't

658
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Speaker 8: keep shooting the three. And there's a kind of a

659
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Speaker 8: two part question. I think he can shoot the three,

660
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Speaker 8: but he hasn't shown it yet this year. So that's

661
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Speaker 8: the second part of the clesson is that is that

662
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Speaker 8: part of his game that you want, that you encourage

663
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Speaker 8: or is like, no, no, get down low, do your thing,

664
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Speaker 8: because you have a lot of talent and you can

665
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Speaker 8: score it will down there pretty much.

666
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bob's over four from three in the Savior game.

667
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Speaker 2: It's what you're referring to.

668
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Speaker 3: He's been such a force in all aspects of the

669
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Speaker 3: game for us to start the year. You know, certainly

670
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Speaker 3: I trust Baba. Boba's been our most consistent player to

671
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 3: start the year before the injurygue in the Louisville game,

672
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Speaker 3: Baba already showed that he could shoot the three a

673
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Speaker 3: year ago at Florida Atlantic, So you're not talking about

674
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Speaker 3: somebody that hasn't made threes. Number two, We stat every

675
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Speaker 3: three in practice. In practice, in drills, we find that

676
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Speaker 3: if you can shoot seventy percent or better, that's going

677
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Speaker 3: to translate to better than thirty three percent in live play.

678
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Speaker 3: Baba shoots seventy five percent in our shooting drills. From

679
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Speaker 3: the summer till now. We have confidence that Baba can

680
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Speaker 3: shoot it.

681
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Speaker 2: His ability to.

682
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Speaker 3: Stretch the floor will be very important for this team

683
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 3: over the course of the year. Now, do we want

684
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Speaker 3: him to maybe take two less in the last game

685
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Speaker 3: where he could have maybe driven the ball and put pressure.

686
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Speaker 2: Yes, and that's why we watched.

687
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Speaker 3: The film and we point that out to him and

688
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 3: point that out to the team that this isn't about

689
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Speaker 3: not shooting the ball, because I will tell you, guys,

690
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 3: in coaching, missing shots is really difficult. Having guys that

691
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Speaker 3: are afraid to shoot or don't believe they have the

692
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Speaker 3: confidence to shoot is way worse.

693
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Speaker 2: Okay, So it's not always as simple.

694
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Speaker 3: We want guys to play confidently, as Dan mentioned earlier

695
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Speaker 3: with the question, but we got to continue to get

696
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Speaker 3: better with shots election.

697
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Speaker 2: I think we've improved there over the last couple of weeks.

698
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Speaker 3: Results in the win lost column may not feel good,

699
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Speaker 3: but we do believe in that area that we're evaluating,

700
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Speaker 3: we have improved and we'll continue to improve.

701
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Speaker 9: Brian Coach, I know that Chom you're asking him to

702
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Speaker 9: do some stuff that he has not been asked to

703
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Speaker 9: do in the past. As far as his inside game,

704
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Speaker 9: How is he developing there? I mean, we can see

705
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Speaker 9: what's happening in the game, but just what are you

706
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Speaker 9: seeing in practice and the way he's approaching it and

707
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Speaker 9: how he is progressing with what you're asking him to

708
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Speaker 9: do that he's not used to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think guys. You to put this in perspective,

710
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 3: Shawna Bayev and Mustafa Chalmer unbelievably gifted young players, like

711
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 3: they're special and they're gonna have these special basketball careers

712
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Speaker 3: long after this year. They're very young players, and they're

713
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Speaker 3: being asked to do things they've never been asked to

714
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Speaker 3: do with an intensity and a demand that they've never had,

715
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Speaker 3: u with a standard they've never been asked to do

716
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Speaker 3: it that that can be difficult. It's very healthy for them.

717
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Speaker 3: They're they're actually improving in front of our eyes. They're

718
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Speaker 3: gonna have success in league play because they've been through it.

719
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Speaker 3: But imagine if and this is an excuse, but just

720
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Speaker 3: so you see what you're looking at when you ask

721
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Speaker 3: these questions. I mean, Jalen Haynes is a fifth year

722
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Speaker 3: senior that was running up for the year in the

723
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Speaker 3: A ten last year, that averaged sixteen to ten.

724
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Speaker 2: Okay, Like now, that.

725
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Speaker 3: Puts less pressure on Mustafa when there's a guy at

726
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Speaker 3: his position that.

727
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Speaker 2: Was on a championship team in.

728
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Speaker 3: A great league last year on a great team and

729
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Speaker 3: was almost a Player of the Year in the league.

730
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Speaker 3: That's a fifth year senior that's twenty three years old.

731
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Speaker 2: Now that it's like the pressure on him to perform

732
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Speaker 2: is a little different. Right.

733
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Speaker 3: The good moments feel great, the negative moments there's somebody else,

734
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Speaker 3: So it's almost like having an understudy there to start

735
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 3: the year, somebody to work beside. Now the pressure's on

736
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Speaker 3: Mustafa to performed. This is great for his development. It

737
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Speaker 3: might not always be fun, you know, to watch the process.

738
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Speaker 3: It's the same thing for Sean Jalen. Celestine is a

739
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Speaker 3: fifth year senior, played at Calf, played at Baylor, played

740
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Speaker 3: on a tournament team, and basically hasn't hasn't performed in practice.

741
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Speaker 3: This week is the first time he's done three days

742
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 3: in a row since he got to Cincinnati. Okay, so

743
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 3: you know the guy at his position that's older and experienced.

744
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 3: So Shawn's been thrown completely into the fire. So then

745
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 3: we get to pick apart everything that he's doing or

746
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 3: not doing. The truth is they're both improving, and they're

747
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 3: both going to have great years, and they're both gonna.

748
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Speaker 2: Have terrific basketball.

749
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Speaker 3: Chris most likely in the NBA at some point. We're

750
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Speaker 3: just seeing some of that young stuff and they don't

751
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Speaker 3: have that older player beside him at their position. They

752
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 3: were supposed to have. That's okay, this is life. Do

753
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 3: it throws it at you and you just work through it.

754
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 3: And they're both working through it, and I think they're

755
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Speaker 3: both going to be great.

756
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Speaker 1: All Right, we need to take a time out. This

757
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Speaker 1: is the West Miller Radio Show or Live at the

758
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Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. We are back at the Original Montgomery

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Speaker 1: In Home of the World's Greatest Ribs and the West

761
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Speaker 1: Miller Radio Show. We're getting ready for a big road

762
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Speaker 1: game coming up on Saturday at two o'clock, Cincinnati will

763
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Speaker 1: be in Atlanta to take on the eight and one

764
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Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldogs. We've got about ten minutes left with coach.

765
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Speaker 1: Let's get to another question from the audience. Go ahead.

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Speaker 6: So I'm just curious with the new world of college

767
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Speaker 6: basketball in college sports, but the transfer portal, and I

768
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Speaker 6: all that, when does the process for next year begin

769
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Speaker 6: for you?

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Speaker 2: Are you doing that now? That began a long time ago? Okay, Okay, yeah,

771
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Speaker 2: thats uh.

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Speaker 3: I think you know and and and I'm again I

773
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Speaker 3: don't I don't ever try to be the person complaining

774
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Speaker 3: what what good's that gonna do?

775
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Speaker 2: That this new landscape's crazy. I mean, the.

776
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Speaker 3: Transfer portal process started before we ever played a game.

777
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, every every player now has an agent.

778
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 3: That agent has a roster. Every coach in the country

779
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Speaker 3: knows every agent's roster. Every coach in the country gets

780
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Speaker 3: text messages weekly about how their players are performing in

781
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Speaker 3: other colleges to monitor them to follow.

782
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is going on.

783
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Speaker 3: You know, it's I'm not saying anything controversial, it's the truth.

784
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Speaker 3: So that's that's stuff's going on. And we're monitoring all

785
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Speaker 3: these players around college basketball that will be in the

786
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Speaker 3: transfer portal. I think at this point you just assume

787
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Speaker 3: every single player will be and uh and and staying

788
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Speaker 3: in touch with the people that are calling about them.

789
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 3: But you know, you're not breaking any rules, You're not

790
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 3: reaching out to anybody directly. But let's be honest, this

791
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 3: is just what's going on in college football in college

792
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 3: basketball every single day.

793
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Speaker 2: Thanks for us, appreciate it. Sure now they're probably of questioning.

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Speaker 10: So the changes in the nil that are coming, I

795
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 10: think soon, do they change your approach at all? Is

796
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Speaker 10: there any changes to what you do based on the

797
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Speaker 10: changes that have coming?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think for me, hiring Corey Evans was a

799
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Speaker 3: game changing decision because we were able to hire somebody

800
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Speaker 3: that spends three hundred and sixty five days a year thinking.

801
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Speaker 2: About nil transfer portal and everything that goes into it.

802
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 3: And so, you know, and I think most schools are

803
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 3: now doing something along those lines because we're living in

804
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 3: this moment with our team trying to prepare for the

805
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 3: next game, you know, really trying to have a special year.

806
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 3: But having somebody that is not a part of that process,

807
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 3: that only thinks about the roster build that's coming, you know,

808
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 3: when the season ends. I think that was a big

809
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 3: adjustment for us. We talk about the changes that are

810
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: coming in college basketball, there's only been one consistent thing

811
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 3: over the last four years, is there'll be a change

812
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 3: every three months and then another change the next three

813
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 3: It's been hard to hit a moving target with strategy

814
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 3: because things change every recruiting cycle. The only thing you

815
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 3: can count on is it's going to change and it's

816
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 3: going to cost more money.

817
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Speaker 2: That's about all the two things that I think have

818
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Speaker 2: been consistent. Bob, So I'm talking about Mustapha. You mentioned

819
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Speaker 2: Jalen Haynes.

820
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Speaker 4: How's Jalen's recovery coming along, and will we see him

821
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Speaker 4: on the court this year.

822
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Speaker 2: I'm hopeful.

823
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Speaker 3: His recovery's been miraculous to this point. Honestly, I think

824
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Speaker 3: it's the quickest recovery I've ever seen from an injury

825
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 3: like that. Our trainer, Bob man Jean, who's been doing

826
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 3: it for forty plus years, said the same thing. He's shooting,

827
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Speaker 3: He's going through skill workouts. He participating in those aspects

828
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 3: of practice at times, but he's not practicing yet, not

829
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 3: even in non contact situations. But he is doing some

830
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 3: shooting workouts in some i'd say sixty seventy percent skill stuff.

831
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Speaker 3: I do think that there's a chance that we'll see

832
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 3: him in a Bearcat uniform. It will not be this

833
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 3: week or next week, but I do think it's possible

834
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 3: this year. You know, maybe that's wishful and hopeful thinking,

835
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 3: because I think he's pretty special, not just as a talent,

836
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Speaker 3: but as a functional player, experienced player, competitor. I thought

837
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Speaker 3: when we put this roster together that Sincere Harris and

838
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 3: Jalen Haynes were the most old school type Bearcats, I

839
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Speaker 3: think people out there listening will understand what I mean

840
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 3: by that, and had experience being that way over their

841
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 3: college careers, and I think people watch sincere understand exactly

842
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. Jalen Haynes, in his own way,

843
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 3: has that same moxie. So yeah, I really think i'd

844
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Speaker 3: like to have him back, and I think he's making

845
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Speaker 3: every effort to get back.

846
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Speaker 1: Have you thought of his comeback in terms of, Okay,

847
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Speaker 1: if he can get back in early January and have

848
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 1: most of the Big twelve schedules still ahead, then it's

849
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,919
Speaker 1: well worth it. If it's closer to February, then it's

850
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: better off trying to see if he can get a

851
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: red shirt season. Do you think of it kind of

852
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:15,240
Speaker 1: in those terms?

853
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think you always have to think

854
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 3: about what's best for the human being coming off of injury.

855
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,959
Speaker 3: And you know, selfishly, I wanted if we can play

856
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 3: two games.

857
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Speaker 2: I want him to play. He's that good, you know,

858
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 2: he's that impactful.

859
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: He was probably our best player in our preseason stuff,

860
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 3: you know, and that type of thing.

861
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I want him to play.

862
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 3: But I do think there's an aspect of what's the

863
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 3: right thing to do for the individual, and you'll always.

864
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Speaker 2: Answer that question first.

865
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you this though, I do think he deserves

866
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 3: another year, whether he plays or not. I think even

867
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 3: if he plays, he does when you look at he

868
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 3: had to sit out a year at George Mason when

869
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 3: the old transfer rules existed that told you had to

870
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Speaker 3: sit out, and then halfway through the year they changed

871
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Speaker 3: them and said, oh, by the way, you can play

872
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Speaker 3: in January if you want now. And he didn't want

873
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Speaker 3: to waste a whole year playing half a year, and

874
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Speaker 3: that was the NCAA going back and forth six times

875
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 3: in his career ain't fair.

876
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 2: He deserves another year no matter what.

877
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 3: So I hope he gets to play this year and

878
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,479
Speaker 3: then I'd like him to come back and play again

879
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 3: next year.

880
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: And I think he's got a hell of a case there.

881
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 2: I know the sound of that.

882
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that in house lawyer that can take

883
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 4: it up if you got you want somebody to help

884
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 4: with the process. But anyway, coach, in the in the

885
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 4: non in the on the off season, you did a

886
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 4: lot of team building exercises. You go different places. You

887
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 4: guys are doing a lot of stuff for the to

888
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 4: build camaraderie and sort of let the steam out because

889
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 4: you were going really hard in the summertime. What are

890
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 4: you doing personally to take some steam off? I know

891
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,399
Speaker 4: you like the golf a lot. Are you hitting any

892
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 4: golf simulators?

893
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 3: No? Well, hell, who's playing golf in Cincinnati in the

894
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 3: winter simulators?

895
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 2: That's why I said no. I know, I don't. I

896
00:40:58,760 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 2: don't need any time.

897
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: I need to spend my time getting better, Uh, working

898
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 3: with our team and preparing for the next game.

899
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 2: And I find health within that. Terry.

900
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 3: I get on the peloton, not as much as I should.

901
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 3: I probably should do that a little more. And I

902
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 3: got a great a great woman at home, and I'm

903
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 3: just cook blessed, blessed to have some some some time

904
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 3: twenty thirty minutes when I come home at night and

905
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 3: take a break and eat, and we get to spend

906
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 3: time together.

907
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 2: That's more than I need.

908
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 1: I never heard did t nell sneak his way into

909
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving celebration?

910
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 2: Did that happen? He did not. He was invited.

911
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: He invited himself. We heard it, But then you were

912
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 1: legitimately invited.

913
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 2: You didn't make it, Huh, I did not make it.

914
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: That's unfortunate.

915
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 4: I'll be there Christmas now that I got the invite.

916
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: A standing it's to show up at every holiday.

917
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 8: I'm here.

918
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: We had a question from one of our Bearcad fans

919
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: tonight about already planning for next seat. And I'm not

920
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: sure if we've discussed it or not on a radio show,

921
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: but dude, you you did sign a high school player

922
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: in the early recruiting period. Cayden Allen, six' five guy

923
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: with guard. Skills tell us a little bit about.

924
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 2: Him he's a terrific. Player he's.

925
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 3: Playing he's playing his senior year at a School Long Island,

926
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 3: lutheran goes by Lew high In New York, city and

927
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 3: they play on the in The Nike league that's now

928
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 3: This National High School, league high high level. Stuff HE'S

929
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 3: i think they have him ranked as a top fifty.

930
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: Player he actually was.

931
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 3: At one point ranked as a top, twenty top ten

932
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 3: maybe player in his class as a young, player because

933
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 3: he was playing With Cooper flag and a bunch of

934
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 3: other very well known players on a Mont org team

935
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 3: that won the national championship and went, undefeated and he

936
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 3: was the only underclassman that played a significant role in that.

937
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 3: TEAM i find it, fast and we've recruited him for three.

938
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 3: Years he's such a such a bright young. Man he's

939
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 3: focused his ability to pay attention and focus and articulate

940
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 3: things is beyond his.

941
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 2: Years he's.

942
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 3: SKILLED i think he could play all three positions in the.

943
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 3: Backcourt and this is WHAT i find. AWESOME i don't

944
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 3: care what the heck they rank. Him he'll be one

945
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 3: of the top twenty players in his. Class and he's

946
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 3: he's should be a junior in high. School AND i

947
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 3: don't think people know. THAT i don't think the people

948
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 3: ranking him know. THAT i don't think other people that

949
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,959
Speaker 3: recruiting him knew, that but we found. OUT i think

950
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,439
Speaker 3: he'll show.

951
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 2: Up he's.

952
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: SEVENTEEN i mean like he won't turn. Eighteen he's. Young

953
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 3: he's very very young for a high school, senior and,

954
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 3: again should be in the next. Class if he was

955
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 3: in the next, class he'd probably ranked in the top,

956
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 3: ten and that's the class he should be. In so

957
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 3: we're really excited about. Him BUT i am so impressed

958
00:43:55,080 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 3: with him his, intelligence his, focus and not just his,

959
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 3: talent which is tremendous as. Well he's going to be

960
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 3: a great.

961
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 4: Player the president for, that the president for that Was Troy.

962
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 4: Colepaine he was on campus and didn't turn eighteen Until.

963
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 4: NOVEMBER i believe and he was getting major minutes under.

964
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 3: MCCRONA i remember being at AN aau event In, pittsburgh

965
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: of all, places in the spring of his junior. Year

966
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 3: he was playing for a team loaded team out Of,

967
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 3: virginia AND i remember. WATCHING i was looking at some

968
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 3: other guys AND i, said who in the heck is?

969
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 3: That it Was Troy copaine and then he, then you,

970
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 3: KNOW i think he was already. COMMITTED i want to,

971
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 3: say he's going To. Cincinnatis how the heck did they get?

972
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 3: Him you, know he was great And i've gotten to Know.

973
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,840
Speaker 2: Troy think a lot of them also a highly intelligent basketball,

974
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 2: player no.

975
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 1: Doubt all, right we are out of. Time we appreciate

976
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: The bearcat fans were with us here. Tonight we've got

977
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: some stuff to give away momentarily for everybody listening on the,

978
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: radio thanks for tuning. In this has been The West

979
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,759
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980
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,080
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