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Speaker 2: It's skyline time and by the original Montgomery In and

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Speaker 2: the Montgomery In at the boat House, home of the

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Speaker 2: world's greatest rifts.

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Speaker 1: Now here's Dan.

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Speaker 3: Horde, Terry Nelson and u SE's head coach Wes Miller.

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Speaker 2: A very pleasant, good evening, everybody. Welcome to the West

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Speaker 2: Miller Radio Show. We are in the studio here at

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Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW again tonight. That'll be the case tonight,

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Speaker 2: probably next week. We hope to be back at the

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Speaker 2: original Montgomery In the week after that, but renovations are

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Speaker 2: going on at the Inn right now and as a result,

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Speaker 2: we are doing the show from the studio tonight. I'm

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Speaker 2: Dan Horde with former Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson and

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Speaker 2: of course the star of the show, Bearcat's head coach,

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Speaker 2: Wes Miller. The Cats back in action tomorrow night at

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Speaker 2: home against West Virginia. Back to back home games coming

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Speaker 2: up West Virginia tomorrow and UCF on Super Bowl Sunday,

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Speaker 2: a plenty early enough to be able to watch the

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Speaker 2: Bearcats and then head home to watch Super Bowl sixty.

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Speaker 2: I know you get locked in to your world this

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Speaker 2: time of year, Coach, do you know who's playing in

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: I know the Patriots are playing in the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 4: and I was asked this question earlier today I did,

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Speaker 4: that's crazy. I did not know the Seahawks were playing,

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Speaker 4: but I found that out today. I'm Drake May's family.

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Speaker 4: His older brother, Luke is a friend of mine. I

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Speaker 4: not profess to be friends with the guy that's playing

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Speaker 4: So for that reason, I'm pulling for the Patriots. And

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Speaker 4: that's kind of why I knew that they were in it,

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Speaker 4: because we have some mutual friends and stuff, and I'm

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Speaker 4: on some of the text threads. But I didn't know

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Speaker 4: the Seahawks were in it till today.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Mays are North Carolina Royalty more or less,

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Speaker 2: the dad played quarterback there. Luke was part of a

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Speaker 2: national championship basketball team. Drake had a great career as

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Speaker 2: college playing days, they are tar.

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Speaker 4: And I know Luke very well golf buddy in the summertime,

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Speaker 3: Is it safe to say that if it's not the

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Speaker 1: The time, very safe?

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Speaker 4: You know. I was, like like most of us, right,

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Speaker 4: I was sports fan my whole life and grew up

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Speaker 4: in middle school, you know, so college football professional for

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Speaker 4: NFL football, I was the kid watching all those games

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Speaker 4: if they were on television. But no, since I've been

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Speaker 2: I know you are a bear Cat now through and

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Speaker 2: Roy Williams has come out strongly in favor of staying

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that was public knowledge, some of the

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Speaker 4: I didn't participate in the zoom. I think I don't

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Speaker 4: The Bearcat games, I can tell you guys that, and

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Speaker 4: But no, he's he's not one of these people that's

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Speaker 4: He played playing golf when he was coaching. He probably

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Speaker 2: Who's active right now on his coaching tree.

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Speaker 4: King Rice, he was a assistant when he coached King

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Speaker 4: so it'd be it'd be unfair not to mention that

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Speaker 2: the Bearcats. He played most recently on Saturday at Houston.

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Speaker 2: By the end of the game, you are missing four

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Speaker 4: Oh, we're the walking wounded right now in Clifton. You know,

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Speaker 4: So I said this in my press conference days anybody

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Speaker 3: The team that you recruited and envisioned coaching is not

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Speaker 3: without when we're not making excuses, But what I want

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Speaker 1: How do you prep?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm so old school in this sense. That's why

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Speaker 4: The the greatest parts, the greatest basketball parts are practice.

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Speaker 3: You get since here Harris back. I know he's been

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Speaker 4: It was something like this, right, we're just like we

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Speaker 2: All Right, we need to take a time out. This

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Speaker 2: is the West Miller Radio Show. We're in the studio

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Speaker 2: tonight a news radio seven hundred WLW an undred WLW.

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Speaker 2: The Bearcats back in action tomorrow night. It's a home

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Speaker 2: game against West Virginia, a seven o'clock tip at Fifth

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Speaker 2: Third Arena, a rematch. Bearcats face the Mountaineers in Morgantown

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Speaker 2: last month. Tight game West Virginia wanted by two, and

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Speaker 2: unfortunately that was one of the games early this season, coach,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like a hard one to go back

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Speaker 3: You have the opportunity to play against or try to

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Speaker 4: Well, I think this isn't saying anything that's going to

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Speaker 4: Even we got back from Christmas break, he still couldn't practice.

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Speaker 3: in a while. Is it one of those things where

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Speaker 3: the coaches are going to him and say, hey, be

440
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Speaker 3: ready today, we may need you or he just the

441
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Speaker 3: game dictates whether they get in the game or not,

442
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Speaker 3: and you haven't really had a upfront conversation saying, hey,

443
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Speaker 3: you might play today, so be ready.

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Speaker 4: I think we try to be really honest as a

445
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Speaker 4: staff of you know, hey, you're on the outside looking

446
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Speaker 4: in right now, but you're you know, one.

447
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Speaker 1: Breakaway from being right there. You're professional.

448
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Speaker 4: Your job is to stay ready, and Jordi understands what

449
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Speaker 4: being a professional is because he was playing professional basketball

450
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Speaker 4: already in Spain. So you know, I don't think it's

451
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Speaker 4: about you don't want to tell a kid, hey, it's

452
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 4: about to happen, it's about to happen, and they go

453
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Speaker 4: five games and it hadn't happened.

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Speaker 1: I think the honesty is the best policy.

455
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Speaker 4: And we were very clear with Jority this is where

456
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Speaker 4: you are right now, that you need to continue to

457
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Speaker 4: work every day and you never know, and it's likely

458
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Speaker 4: that there'll be an opportunity before the season ends, and

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Speaker 4: I think he's found that opportunity here that last week

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Speaker 4: and this week.

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Speaker 2: It is halftime in the West Miller radio show, Morever

462
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Speaker 2: the Coach. When we continue on news radio seven hundred WLW,

463
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Speaker 2: the seven hundred WLW getting you set for the Bearcats

464
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Speaker 2: against the West Virginia Mountaineers tomorrow night at seven, our

465
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Speaker 2: radio coverage will started six point thirty. Coach, yesterday, you

466
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Speaker 2: did a joint news conference with Gisel James. It was

467
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Speaker 2: the first time that Gisel met with the media since

468
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Speaker 2: he returned to the team after being away from the

469
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Speaker 2: team for a few months for personal reasons. I thought

470
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Speaker 2: he was awesome. I think it really opened up a

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Speaker 2: window into his personality, how grateful he is to be

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Speaker 2: back with the school and what the program means to him.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad that he did that because I think

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Speaker 2: Bearcat fans really got a sense of who Gisel James is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, it's neat that other people get to

476
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Speaker 4: see it, because it's been really rewarding to see it

477
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Speaker 4: day to day. Like it's just the personal growth, uh,

478
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Speaker 4: from the time he got here till now, and then

479
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Speaker 4: the stuff that he's dealt with this offseason and what

480
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Speaker 4: he went through and watching how difficult that was, uh

481
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Speaker 4: for for all of us, but mostly for him, and

482
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Speaker 4: to see that he's come out on the other side

483
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Speaker 4: and even more mature, humble, just developed young man.

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Speaker 1: So I'm extremely proud of him.

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Speaker 3: People may or may not know you spend a lot

486
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Speaker 3: of time communicating with your with your team, whether it

487
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Speaker 3: be on the back of the bus, whether he would

488
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Speaker 3: get off the bus you're going to the hotel. I mean,

489
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Speaker 3: you're you're the one that you don't send your staff

490
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Speaker 3: to give a message to your team, like you you're

491
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Speaker 3: the one that stands in front of the program. Do

492
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Speaker 3: you have times where you have to bring guys and

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Speaker 3: have one on ones with them and sit down and

494
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Speaker 3: just sort of get there head clear of some of

495
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Speaker 3: the junk that could be going on in the what

496
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Speaker 3: they're seeing and what they're hearing, to try to clear

497
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Speaker 3: them and get them focused back on the task at hand.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all day, every day.

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Speaker 3: Is that.

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Speaker 4: You know, you guys travel with us and you're around

501
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Speaker 4: our team a lot in practice setting, so you see

502
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Speaker 4: the the team dynamic. But there's a ton of individual

503
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Speaker 4: one on one time with the guys and I think

504
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Speaker 4: our staff does a great job of that. But I

505
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Speaker 4: take a lot of pride in that. As a head coach,

506
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Speaker 4: I enjoy young people. So I enjoyed building the relationship,

507
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Speaker 4: being a part of their growth, obviously helping them succeed

508
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Speaker 4: on the floor FaceTime a listal Oh yeah, But and

509
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Speaker 4: you know it's different now than it was a handful

510
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Speaker 4: of years ago, just because there's so much more one

511
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Speaker 4: year type things. But it doesn't mean that you still

512
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Speaker 4: can't be impactful and build real quality relationships. And so

513
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Speaker 4: that's that's still a big part of what we believe

514
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Speaker 4: and what we try to do every day.

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Speaker 2: It's the social media age. Guys that age live on

516
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Speaker 2: their phone. You can tell all them don't look at it,

517
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Speaker 2: but they don't listen. They're gonna look at it. It's

518
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Speaker 2: just what kids that age do. Did they come to

519
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Speaker 2: you and say, coach, you know this thing is being

520
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Speaker 2: said about me or I'm hearing this. You know, what

521
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Speaker 2: should I do about it?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think I learned last year.

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Speaker 4: Uh, you know, with last year's team during league play,

524
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Speaker 4: I'm not on social media, which has been this crazy

525
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Speaker 4: healthy experience. I'd urge everybody to do it. I mean,

526
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Speaker 4: you know, like you can choose not to participate, and

527
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Speaker 4: it's it's wildly healthy. But I'm not on social media.

528
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Speaker 4: I wasn't on social med during the year last year,

529
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Speaker 4: and it by the time I realized that it was

530
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Speaker 4: you know, a lot of damage had probably been done,

531
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Speaker 4: but I I realized how much it was affecting our players,

532
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Speaker 4: just that dynamic. Going into this year, we tried to

533
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Speaker 4: just hit it on the head right away. In the summertime.

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Speaker 1: We did. We talked about it as a team.

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Speaker 4: We've multiple times, We've had a lot of individual conversations

536
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Speaker 4: we actually brought people in to speak to the team

537
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Speaker 4: about it, and we continue to do that. So I

538
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,640
Speaker 4: think this team has managed it better and that they're

539
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Speaker 4: more prepared. I think we've done a better job as

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Speaker 4: a staff there, I should say.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the answers what we do. We don't wait for

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Speaker 4: them to tell us like we we deal with it.

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Speaker 4: And now I've kind of learned the last couple of years.

545
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Speaker 4: You can kind of spot it too. You can see

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Speaker 4: guys down in the dumps. But it's amazing fellas like

547
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Speaker 4: they are going to be on their phones and anybody

548
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Speaker 4: out there has children or you know, as around young

549
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Speaker 4: people like that.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 4: It's an addiction. Uh, no doubt, it really is. And

552
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Speaker 4: our players are just like anybody else their age. They're

553
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Speaker 4: attached to it in every way and don't escape it

554
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Speaker 4: very well.

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Speaker 3: Kingston Flemings, AJ Debanza Buckets Peterson. It's it's You've got

556
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Speaker 3: three of the top five draft picks in this year's

557
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Speaker 3: NBA draft. You coming from North Carolina and being around

558
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Speaker 3: just a wealth and that whole region just a wealth

559
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Speaker 3: of NBA talent. Have you seen this many freshmen that

560
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Speaker 3: are coming and ready NBA ready in college basketball as

561
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Speaker 3: you've seen back in the day.

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Speaker 1: Not not in my time playing or coaching.

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Speaker 4: I'd actually I'll answer and then I'll turn the question

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Speaker 4: back on YouTube, Terry, because I've seen there's probably years

565
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Speaker 4: where there were a number of draftable freshmen that were

566
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Speaker 4: that draftable in the first round, that had that much promise.

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Speaker 4: But to have this many guys that are that draftable

568
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Speaker 4: and they're also that impactful because you know, you guys

569
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Speaker 4: know there's been years that they've drafted guys they they

570
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Speaker 4: might have just been okay as college players, but you

571
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 4: could just see that the natural gifts in the upside

572
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Speaker 4: was so high. I mean, these guys, they're they're the best,

573
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Speaker 4: some of the best players in the country, the most

574
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Speaker 4: impactful players on teams, and they're freshmen. And three you

575
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Speaker 4: mentioned snak Is on Houston's, but there's four that are

576
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 4: all projected lottery in this league and they're all really good,

577
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Speaker 4: really impacting winning. And then you go to the ACC

578
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Speaker 4: right now, I mean Caleb Wilson at North Carolina and

579
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Speaker 4: Booser at Duke I'm and mckel we played against Michel Brown. Mean,

580
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Speaker 4: there's a number of guys they're not just talents that

581
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Speaker 4: are going to be drafted. They're impactful players as fresh player.

582
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Speaker 4: I can't think of a time since I've been involved

583
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Speaker 4: in it there's been a class like this at the

584
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Speaker 4: top of a class.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can't.

586
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Speaker 3: I can only think of before the legal nil Kentucky

587
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 3: used to have about four or five guys every year.

588
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Speaker 1: They had a stretch.

589
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Speaker 3: Calib Perry had a stretch and I'm halfway joking, but

590
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Speaker 3: they had a stretch when they had John Wall and

591
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Speaker 3: Anthony Davis, Like, they had a stretch where they had

592
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Speaker 3: literally over a three year span, like fifteen NBA draft

593
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Speaker 3: picks that were all first round draft picks, and they

594
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Speaker 3: became like the best players in the NBA over that stretch.

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Speaker 1: It was possible they had a lot. I would run

596
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Speaker 1: at the one and he was kind of on the

597
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Speaker 1: front end of that, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But that many across college basketball that are that good.

599
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Speaker 4: Maybe there was two or three on those teams, but

600
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Speaker 4: I mean there's like seven eight guys that are all

601
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Speaker 4: going to be high picks, that are all having great

602
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Speaker 4: freshman years.

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Speaker 3: I can't think of a Tomlin Dan's crafty thumbs looked

604
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Speaker 3: up something real quick.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Ewing's class, Okay, with a so Ewing, Chris Mullen.

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Speaker 2: There were at least a couple more guys were there

607
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Speaker 2: as many as now. I don't know. Back then they

608
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Speaker 2: couldn't leave. Yeah, but I mean Patrick Ewing as a

609
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 2: freshman was arguably the best player in the country. Chris

610
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Speaker 2: Mullen was probably top five, and I think there were

611
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Speaker 2: probably at least two or three more guys that were

612
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Speaker 2: really impactful that year. Right away was Stevie Thompson in

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Speaker 2: that year. No, he would have been a year or

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Speaker 2: two later, and he was I mean, I know you

615
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Speaker 2: loved him, God love, But as a freshman when I

616
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Speaker 2: was there, Stevie Thompson was great, but he wasn't that good.

617
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Speaker 2: He wasn't so the early eighties. You were at Syracuse

618
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Speaker 2: in the early ages. I was born in eighty three,

619
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Speaker 2: so other than the ESPN classics, it was hard for

620
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Speaker 2: me to participate. Remember they used to have the ESPN classes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and was a freshman before you were born. That's amazing.

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Speaker 4: There you go coached against him when he was at Georgetown,

623
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Speaker 4: got we beat Georgetown and full of years ago he

624
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Speaker 4: was the head coach. Yeah, which I remember. That's the

625
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 4: tallest handshake I've had. But I've gone back and watched

626
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 4: games on the ESPN Classic from those days that were

627
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Speaker 4: always that's really cool.

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Speaker 1: So but to appreciate.

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Speaker 2: A zone.

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Speaker 4: You know they're playing, but you know this, and I

631
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Speaker 4: know this might be a couple of years before that,

632
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Speaker 4: the Patrick Human era. But I love when they would

633
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Speaker 4: show the Pear Washington and the Guard Big East Tournament.

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Speaker 1: Playing after Dan's hard Here.

635
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Speaker 2: My all time favorite college player. I was a student.

636
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 2: Spin move on the back down, He'll come at you.

637
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 3: Do a little drop step, spin move, put the butt

638
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 3: on you shoot a fade away or shoot it up

639
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 3: at the rim, Yes, sir, I mean he was fat, yes,

640
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 3: and slow and the most player in the country.

641
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: Amazing, couldn't really shoot very well.

642
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Speaker 1: You couldn't steal the ball from him. But you know Flair, Yes,

643
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Speaker 1: New York famous.

644
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: You know, if you had to have a basket, even

645
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 2: though he couldn't shoot, he would score. He'd put it in.

646
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: Just tremendous.

647
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 3: The number one shot back then was jump hook. Whether

648
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 3: it was Ronnie Sykelee j R. Reid, Patrick Hewing, I

649
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 3: mean you named it. The jump hook was like a

650
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 3: big You couldn't be a big man in those leagues

651
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 3: because it was so physical without a jump hook, because

652
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 3: you couldn't get a regular shot off in the paint area.

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

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Speaker 2: more with Coach Miller when we continue. This is the

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Speaker 2: West Miller Radio Show. I'm the home of the Cats.

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Speaker 2: News Radio seven hundred WLW. We are back in the studio.

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Speaker 2: It's the West Miler Radio Show here on news radio

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Speaker 2: seven hundred WLW. If you are just tuning in, We're

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Speaker 2: in the studio for the second week in a row.

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Speaker 2: We expect to be here next week as well, and

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Speaker 2: then we hope be back at the original Montgomery in

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Speaker 2: They've been doing some renovations there, expect to be done

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Speaker 2: relatively soon, so hopefully we'll be back at the end

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Speaker 2: with all of you in a couple of weeks. We're

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Speaker 2: keeping our eye on a big twelve game right now

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Speaker 2: that's going on between Houston and UCF. Looks like the

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Speaker 2: nationally ranked Cougars are in control at home, where they

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Speaker 2: have not lost in their last sixteen games. UCF coming

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Speaker 2: to town though, on Sunday, so the Bearcats have West

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Speaker 2: Virginia tomorrow night UCF on Sunday afternoon. Do you view

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Speaker 2: UCF as one of the surprise teams in college basketball

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Speaker 2: this year.

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Speaker 4: Coach, I do, yeah, absolutely, do you know? They don't

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Speaker 4: have a returning player from last year and a lot

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Speaker 4: of these guys in the portal were guys that you

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Speaker 4: know that we all were looking at, and they've seemed

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Speaker 4: to kind of have the right mix, and you know,

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Speaker 4: they've done a really good job.

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Speaker 1: They play with some depth.

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Speaker 4: I was very impressed and we were getting ready for

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Speaker 4: their last game.

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Speaker 3: Is there a science to going to the portal and

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Speaker 3: picking out the roster that you need knowing that you

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Speaker 3: only have an x amount of time You've bobly been

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Speaker 3: looking at the film generated from your staff, but once

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Speaker 3: they hit the portal and once you're ready to start shopping,

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Speaker 3: you have a small amount of time because you competing

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Speaker 3: against the nation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think nobody liked.

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Speaker 4: None of the people that like doing it the right

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Speaker 4: way like this, But waiting til the last minute to

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Speaker 4: work at it is probably the biggest mistake you can make.

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Speaker 4: You got to be working at it right now, and

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Speaker 4: you have to be you know, within the rules. But

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Speaker 4: what are the rules anyway, But within whatever the rules

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Speaker 4: they this week they have, you know, you.

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Speaker 1: Have to be working at that year round.

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Speaker 4: I think that's why so many so many people now

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Speaker 4: have hired you know, player personnel roles.

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Speaker 1: They can focus on just that so they.

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Speaker 4: Can work at it all year long and not have

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Speaker 4: to focus on the coaching side, which I think you'll

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Speaker 4: continue to see that happen.

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Speaker 3: Are you a proponent of pregame handshakes instead of postgame handshakes?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't everybody like laughs about all the

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Speaker 4: recruiting going on, you know, interpersonally when you're playing other

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Speaker 4: teams that like ninety that's like a point one percent

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Speaker 4: of it. What's going on behind the scenes, you know,

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Speaker 4: through agents and you know, third parties and all that

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Speaker 4: kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I don't get too caught up in all that.

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Speaker 4: The stuff that's frustrating is when you hear stuff in

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Speaker 4: January is already done to another school. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 4: this school has already got a commitment for this for

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Speaker 4: a kid playing somewhere else, And there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: that going on in the last couple of years. In

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Speaker 4: my position, you kind of go, yeah, right, that's just

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Speaker 4: people talking, and then that kid ends up at that school,

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Speaker 4: you know, for that number that was thrown out there

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Speaker 4: back in January. That's not good for the game, and

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Speaker 4: so we have to figure out how to fix all that.

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Speaker 4: But you mentioned the science to it, I think you

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Speaker 4: have to be working at it year round. You have

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Speaker 4: to be ready because if you're trying to figure it

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Speaker 4: out in that two three day period when the portal opens,

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Speaker 4: I think you're going to be in some trouble.

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Speaker 2: With your GM. Now in Corey Evans, do you have

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Speaker 2: a extensive database on every player in the country, essentially,

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Speaker 2: maybe beyond what you've had before.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if i'd call it a database,

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Speaker 4: but I think the organization that he's provided has been

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Speaker 4: significant and we're in a different place today than we

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Speaker 4: were at any point the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just him.

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Speaker 4: He's also utilized our assistant coaches and our staff members

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Speaker 4: to just organize the whole thing. But one person, that's

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Speaker 4: all they're thinking about. I think has been helpful for us,

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Speaker 4: and we're not doing anything this groundbreaking.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's in that direction. Now.

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Speaker 3: Your defense has been consistently in the top ten in

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Speaker 3: the just Defensive Efficiency all season long. What has been

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Speaker 3: the issue with getting consistent offensive looks?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 4: I think it's actually pretty simple. It doesn't mean it's

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Speaker 4: simple if it was simple, to.

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Speaker 1: Mean it's easy, it's simple.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's pretty simple, Terry. I think for us,

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Speaker 4: it first starts with our turnover percentage and taking care

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Speaker 4: of the ball. We've just had moments, stretches and games

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Speaker 4: where we don't take care of the ball and we

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Speaker 4: turn it over, and sometimes they don't even count as turnovers,

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Speaker 4: but they're the kind of shots that lead like turnovers,

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Speaker 4: and when you don't get a shot on a possession,

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Speaker 4: that's going to destroy your offensive efficiency and your overall offense.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: The second thing is is shot selection and playing to

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Speaker 4: our individual strengths. I think when we've done that, we've

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Speaker 4: been pretty dang good.

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Speaker 1: Yea.

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Speaker 4: When we've veered from that, even in short burst, those

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Speaker 4: have been really bad stretches. Again, we haven't had many

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Speaker 4: games were I mean, I think he gets away from

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Speaker 4: us at Houston in the second half. I think in

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Speaker 4: the last five minutes at Arizona it gets away. Outside

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Speaker 4: of those two games, there hasn't been a game in

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Speaker 4: the last five minutes. We weren't in position to win

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Speaker 4: the whole year. So you're talking about a three or

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Speaker 4: four minute segment where you take bat shots or turn

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Speaker 4: it over. That happens once in a game, that's really difficult.

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Speaker 4: It happens twice in the game. It's really difficult. So

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Speaker 4: it's been more segments because there's also been great segments offensively.

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Speaker 4: So the next thing I'd say is it's just been

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Speaker 4: some inconsistency.

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Speaker 1: Last year.

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Speaker 4: Listen, we got in the league play after Connor Hickman's injury,

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Speaker 4: and scoring was difficult matter what we did.

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Speaker 1: It was difficult to put the ball in the whole.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was hard. That was hard because he was

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Speaker 4: a guy that made us different last year. But when

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Speaker 4: he got hurt, scoring was difficult. It didn't matter what

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Speaker 4: we did. This year, we've had great sequences scoring the

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Speaker 4: ball in every game we played. You know, we've had

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Speaker 4: ten ozer runs all the time. I don't think we

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Speaker 4: had a ten o run in the league play last year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, so, it's not the inability to be good offensively,

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Speaker 4: it's doing it consistently, taking care of the ball and

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Speaker 4: staying within who we are as players.

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Speaker 2: Baylor has a guy who is a first round NBA

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Speaker 2: draft pick. Alabama's playing a guy who spent several years

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Speaker 2: in the G League. Player who's played in the NBA

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Speaker 2: now has petitioned the NCAA to try to get eligibility back.

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Speaker 2: Did you guys have a meeting basically to say, all right,

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Speaker 2: other coaches are doing it. Is there anybody out there

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Speaker 2: that we should be considering?

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Speaker 1: Good question.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we talk like this in the office every day

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Speaker 4: as a staff, not necessarily exactly the way you're saying

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Speaker 4: is what are we missing here?

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Speaker 1: Like who's available that we don't know about? Or what

800
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Speaker 1: loophole have we have we not thought about?

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Speaker 4: Because you know, I wish there was some rules and

802
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 4: guidelines that was just you knew what it was. But listen,

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Speaker 4: we would all do what Louisville's done with the kid

804
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Speaker 4: they took long London. I can't remember his name. We

805
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 4: recruited him like seven years ago, right, but you know,

806
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 4: or what Baylor did, like we would all do things

807
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 4: like that if we knew they were legal. We might

808
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Speaker 4: not all agree to do that if we voted for

809
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Speaker 4: what's best for the game. But you're trying to figure

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Speaker 4: out what those edges are.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: Shoot, I was sitting here going can we get John

813
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Speaker 4: Newman and Landers KNOLLI?

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Speaker 1: Right, David George, can they come back and play like.

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Speaker 2: You know?

816
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Speaker 4: But no, We're always looking for the edge, and when

817
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Speaker 4: somebody else gets it and you hadn't, you didn't know

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Speaker 4: as possible, it is frustrated.

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Speaker 3: What's one of the things that you want to see

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Speaker 3: tomorrow besides the W versus West Virginia.

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Speaker 4: Man, I want to see us play with incredible competitive energy, like.

822
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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: You can see that defensively always. You can see it

824
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 4: with activity like how quick you are to the basketball,

825
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 4: whether it's like deflected plays or steals or block You

826
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Speaker 4: can see it with rebounding right with offensive and defensive rebounding.

827
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Speaker 4: You can see a pop in people's step. You know,

828
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Speaker 4: I don't care if we got I said this to

829
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Speaker 4: the team Tod. I said, guys, I don't care if

830
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Speaker 4: we got to play Gisel at center. It don't matter.

831
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Speaker 4: Let's just let's just go out there and play our

832
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 4: hearts out. That that's that's what it's got to be about.

833
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Speaker 4: And in this group's been really resilient and continue to

834
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Speaker 4: try to find ways.

835
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Speaker 1: So I'm proud of that. But that that's what I

836
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Speaker 1: want to see.

837
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Speaker 4: If, of course, the goal is to win the game,

838
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Speaker 4: and that that that results very important to.

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Speaker 2: West Virginia is number three sixty one in the country

840
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Speaker 2: in adjusted tempo. How does that affect you, guys.

841
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Speaker 4: Well, I think and Jalen Stowe did a great job.

842
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Speaker 4: When he's presenting the scout. You know they're not going

843
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 4: to be a team that pushes. You know, you're getting

844
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Speaker 4: ready for a lot of these games and sometimes the

845
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Speaker 4: players feel like it's a broken record in the scout

846
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Speaker 4: and report is the assistant coach presenting the scouts going, hey, guys,

847
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Speaker 4: we have to get back on defense because they run.

848
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 4: And Jalen did a great job today he said, hey,

849
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 4: this is not the fastest team in our league in

850
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 4: pushing the pace, but you can't have a possession you

851
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 4: relax and give them an easy one because they will

852
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Speaker 4: selectively run even though their pace over the course of

853
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 4: the game is slower as you mentioned with the analytics,

854
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Speaker 4: but you can't spot them an easy one because they

855
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Speaker 4: will run a little bit. Or we talked about Huff

856
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Speaker 4: and some of the Esagen like some of these other

857
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 4: guys will get a good look from three when you

858
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 4: don't get back. So we got to still be really

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Speaker 4: good as if they are pushing the pace all the time,

860
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 4: and when our defense is ready and we're in a

861
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Speaker 4: stance and we're engaged before the possession starts, I think

862
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Speaker 4: we're at our best, and so we will focus on

863
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 4: our transition game, even though they might not be pushing.

864
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Speaker 4: I think for us all year, our best offense has

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Speaker 4: been defense to offense, and so that'll be really important.

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Speaker 4: Can we convert deffensive possessions to offensive possessions?

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Speaker 1: Last game of Staffa went out with the foot injury.

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Speaker 3: Uh, he may or may not play, So we're just

869
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Speaker 3: gonna push that off the table right there. Are you

870
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,959
Speaker 3: prepared to have different lineups because you had a different

871
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 3: lineup that came in the game when he went out

872
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Speaker 3: with that injury. You played a smaller temple, a smaller

873
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,959
Speaker 3: lineup on the on the floor, and you got after

874
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Speaker 3: it more with the smaller lineup. Are you prepared to

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Speaker 3: have multiple lineups that either West Virginia has not seen

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Speaker 3: or ones that you just think will work good against

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Speaker 3: West Virginia. You don't have to give me those lineups.

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Speaker 4: But yes, I think again, I think that this year's

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Speaker 4: trun so much at his personnel wise that we're probably

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Speaker 4: more prepared than ever to play multiple lineups, man, I do.

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Speaker 4: I do hope Ustafa will play right. That'll that'll be

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Speaker 4: at its best for us, And I think he'll give

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Speaker 4: it a go. I think he'll try. He wants to play.

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Speaker 4: I don't think we'll play Gisel at center in West Virginia,

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Speaker 4: but if we have to, you know, we'll do whatever

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Speaker 4: we have to do to compete. I think that's what

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Speaker 4: be in Cincinnati Bearcats about could we see.

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Speaker 3: Five guards or four forward center guard on the floor

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Speaker 3: at once?

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Speaker 4: Well, we got so many guys heard at the four positions.

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Speaker 4: Do we have four of them? You know that type

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Speaker 4: of thing. But no, I think we've played three guards

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Speaker 4: a lot this year. That's not nothing crazy to say.

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Speaker 4: I think we don't want to play four in our league.

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Speaker 4: That's we've had to do that a couple of times,

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Speaker 4: not by choice.

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Speaker 3: And unless you got some newmans out there, that's he

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Speaker 3: and a guard. Yeah, you know he's six six and

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Speaker 3: you know he's he's a wing. But to play three

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Speaker 3: true guard, four true guards, that's a really hard way

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Speaker 3: to play in the Big twelve and be successful because

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Speaker 3: you're going to sacrifice so much rebounding physicality, ability to

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Speaker 3: cover ground defensively, like that's going to be difficult.

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Speaker 2: Houston leeds uc F by thirty with two and a

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Speaker 2: half minutes to go. In that game, the Cougar's about

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Speaker 2: to win for the forty ninth time in the last

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Speaker 2: fifty one home games. They are hard to beat at

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Speaker 2: the Fertida Center. Bearcats have been hard to beat at

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Speaker 2: home this year as well. Cincinnati eleven and two at home.

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Speaker 2: The Bearcat's home tomorrow night against West Virginia. Our pregame

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Speaker 2: coverage will begin at six point thirty till then. For

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Speaker 2: Terry Nelson and Coach Miller, I'm Dan Hord. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: tuning in. You've been listening to the West Miller Radio

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Speaker 2: Show on News Radio seven hundred WLW.