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Speaker 1: It is showtime. Very pleasant, good evening, everybody. Greetings from

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

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the first edition for this season of

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Speaker 1: the West Miller Radio Show. I'm Dan Hord with former

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Speaker 1: Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson and the star of the show,

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Speaker 1: the head coach of your you see Bearcats. Let's hear

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Speaker 1: it for Wes Miller co It's good to see it.

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Speaker 1: You've had a busy day.

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Speaker 2: Been a good day, and it's good to see everybody

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Speaker 2: excited to get this thing going.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Likewise, tell us a little bit about Big twelve

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Speaker 1: media days.

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Speaker 2: Well, we traveled in style, so like it was about

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Speaker 2: somebody said this, They said, was it a long day?

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Speaker 2: I said no, I mean we travel on a privately,

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Speaker 2: you could it had been a longer day to drive

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Speaker 2: the Columbus and back. I think somebody said that in

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Speaker 2: the crowd already. But the Big twelve does it first class.

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Speaker 2: It was a very efficient day. We arrived at seven

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Speaker 2: forty this morning. They had a spread of food ready

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Speaker 2: for breakfast for all the players and coaches, and from

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Speaker 2: eight o'clock on it felt like we went from station

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Speaker 2: to station. Interview to camera session from just eight to one,

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Speaker 2: with the exception of maybe a twenty minute break to

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Speaker 2: get the lunch spread. I mean, and it was so

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Speaker 2: it was professional. I've noticed how much the league has

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Speaker 2: made an effort to expand with different networks. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, ESPN, of course is there is the primary

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Speaker 2: TV partner, but Fox was there this year, CBS was there,

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Speaker 2: Turner was there. You know, I'm probably forgetting people, but

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Speaker 2: you can see the effort that the Commission of the

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Speaker 2: League's making to get the league out there. There was

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Speaker 2: more media this year than ever. It was very well done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, with adoption of linear sports, multiple networks are now

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Speaker 3: going to tap into this big twelve. You got there

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Speaker 3: Fashion and Dan Horton getting here from the West side.

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Speaker 4: The good news is we both made it. I was

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Speaker 4: preparing noteson to the open. I was getting my it

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Speaker 4: is showtime. I was getting that whole thing ready, and

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Speaker 4: Dan took over, came over here. You know, he had

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Speaker 4: two people following him. One was the cops.

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Speaker 3: Heather was a reporter. Yeah, I read them all. Coach.

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Speaker 3: During that press conference, I heard something I heard Kirk

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Speaker 3: Chris talked about the possibility of getting a seventh year,

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Speaker 3: and he told guys, don't laugh. If it happens, I

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Speaker 3: will gladly do it because college basketball. I love college basketball.

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Speaker 2: Oh listen, I've i said it publicly for the first

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Speaker 2: time today, So it's my own fault right for now.

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Speaker 2: All the questions that'll come behind it. But uh, if

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Speaker 2: Kirkriesa can play for ten years, you know, Shoot, I'll

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Speaker 2: other four players on the court, and certainly in this

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Speaker 2: short time I've enjoyed coaching him today. So you know,

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Speaker 2: there's been so many crazy things that have happened. But

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Speaker 2: there may be an opportunity for him and some others

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Speaker 2: Is anybody in our position would.

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Speaker 1: What are the circumstances that could potentially get him a

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to dive too far, but

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Speaker 2: at Arizona because of something about where he'd played in Europe. Shoot,

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Speaker 2: they got guys that played in the G League. Now

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Speaker 1: He played an exhibition game on Friday night in ann

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Speaker 1: Arbor beat Michigan. That's fine, you know, that's great. But

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Speaker 1: I was just impressed watching the tape by the experience

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Speaker 1: would just think as far as a preseason exhibition game goes,

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Speaker 2: It was by design. I mean, we we looked at

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Speaker 2: kind of scheduled two road exhibition games against teams that

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Speaker 2: We're look honestly, as a coach, I'm looking for some adversity.

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Speaker 2: good things I think from that Michigan exhibition, some of

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Speaker 2: there were some really good aspects there. You know, we

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Speaker 3: Well, of those ton of things that you want to correct,

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Speaker 2: Because there were a couple out front where it's like,

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Speaker 2: You guys are gonna get to know them well. They're

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Speaker 5: But he, you know, he's like, it's not a foul,

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. It's whatever they call because that's what's

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Speaker 2: can we can we make the adjustment, you know? And

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Speaker 2: a ton of stuff to iron out this time of year.

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Speaker 2: But you get more out of games like that than

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Speaker 2: I said, hey, we got to be able to play

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Speaker 2: four or five of these to lead up to the season.

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Speaker 2: The product in college basketball would be so much better.

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Speaker 2: The product would be so much better in November and

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Speaker 2: December if we got to play more preseason games. Every

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Speaker 2: this is pro basketball. We're your only pro basketball league

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Speaker 2: in the world that doesn't play multiple preseason games before

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Speaker 2: the regular season. But yet we have language, we have

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Speaker 2: but I would love to be able to do more

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of fouls called in the game.

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Speaker 1: Did you feel like it was officiated a little bit

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Speaker 1: differently since it was an exhibition game. Sometimes they try

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Speaker 2: Well, it was completely officiated, different than the way that

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Speaker 2: You know, I have the greatest group of Gas right now.

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Speaker 2: It's the it's a I mean that those guys are

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Speaker 3: And trying to save face. Now they're not good officials,

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Speaker 2: But Terry, Hell, they're the worst officials I've ever dealt with.

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Speaker 2: And so we made a rule with the team that

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Speaker 2: every time they call a call, we're just trying to

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Speaker 2: build your discipline not to react.

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Speaker 1: a little bit about some of the individual performances in

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Speaker 1: Friday's exhibition win over Michigan. I find it really fun

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Speaker 1: to watch Buck Harris on the defensive end of the court.

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Speaker 1: He is a Tasmanian devil. He's got great wingspan, gets

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Speaker 1: is a weapon on defense.

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Speaker 3: He really is.

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Speaker 2: We had a I hope I'm not like saying something

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Speaker 3: So this one one hundred, they're not even running the

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Speaker 3: You run fast break drills every day in practice, even

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Speaker 2: Fast pray drill number one. I've done it every day

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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting how many times you really

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, guys, I think Mustapha Chom. You

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Speaker 3: Soccer being his first sport.

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Speaker 2: You know, they all they playing soccer first. But he

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Speaker 1: but you're obviously not going to have him for the

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Speaker 1: bulk of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big blow I got. The preseason has

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Speaker 2: been great, and when I say great, we've had our

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Speaker 2: share of you know, tough competitive the kind of days

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Speaker 2: in the gym that you love as a coach, but

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Speaker 2: weren't fun as a player, you know, and it was.

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Speaker 2: So we've had this great preseason that hasn't been just

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Speaker 2: roses every day, but it's been about the right stuff

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Speaker 2: and that that's just been the one the one blemish

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Speaker 2: I'd say to this point is we lost, you know,

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Speaker 2: one of our better, better players and one of our older, tougher,

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Speaker 2: more physical players that I think oozes bear cat basket.

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Speaker 3: And You've been stronger, more vocal with this group than

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Speaker 3: you have been in your previous four years. You've been

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Speaker 3: more demanding.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm having a lot of fun coaching

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Speaker 2: this group today. I just I'm enjoying coaching. And you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes I got the greatest job at the greatest but

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Speaker 2: the part that is the most enjoyable is getting out

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Speaker 2: on the floor and developing your team. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: what I got into it to do. I've had more

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Speaker 2: fun to date with this with this group than I've

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Speaker 2: had in a long long time coaching, and it's because

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Speaker 2: i haven't felt like I needed to hold back at all,

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Speaker 2: like they can handle it. In fact, you know, they

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Speaker 2: like it and in a really fun way they like

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Speaker 2: to be pushed and coached.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a time out when we

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Speaker 1: come back. Questions from the audience here at the original

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Speaker 1: Montgomery In. This is the West Miller Radio Show on

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Speaker 1: seven hundred WLB. Welcome back to the West Miller Radio

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Speaker 1: Show live from the original Montgomery In, home of the

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Speaker 1: world's greatest threads. We appreciate the bear Cat fans are

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Speaker 1: with us here tonight as we begin talking bear Cat basketball.

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Speaker 1: It should be a really fun season. Time for questions

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Speaker 1: from the audience. Our friend Elliott is here tonight, plan her.

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Speaker 1: He's got a muscle tear in his left arm. So

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Speaker 1: what he's here tonight to fire off the first question

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Speaker 1: of the season. And it's great to see Elliott.

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Speaker 6: All right, So the their Cats are doing really well

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Speaker 6: in football. So do you feel like extra pressure to

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Speaker 6: do well in basketball, especially if you're having a strong

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Speaker 6: roster that plays with pacing. You said you like that.

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Speaker 1: Before you answer that question. Elliott's voice has gotten deeper

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Speaker 1: since last year.

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Speaker 2: He got taller and the voice got deeper. But the

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Speaker 2: haircut makes him look younger. So there you go. I

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Speaker 2: like the bus cut, but no, I think number one,

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Speaker 2: how great is it to see our football team having

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Speaker 2: some success in the big twelve year over the last

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Speaker 2: what is it six six in a row.

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Speaker 1: Six in a row, that's correct, number twenty one in

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Speaker 1: the country, six game winning streak. Taylor coming to town

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Speaker 1: Saturday at four.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I've I've always felt that the rising tides float all

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Speaker 2: boats and football doing well is great for our entire university.

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Speaker 2: It's great for the athletic department, and it just energizes us,

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Speaker 2: like I think the players get the good vibes on

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Speaker 2: campus and get the vibes of the fan base through

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Speaker 2: the football team and gets them ready.

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Speaker 1: To compete in time of year. Wise, you're often bringing

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Speaker 1: recruits to home football games, correct, we.

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Speaker 2: Are, and we've had a lot of recruits at games

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Speaker 2: so far. And one things that's been great for recruiting

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Speaker 2: at Cincinnati is the support Bearcat fans give it Nipper

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Speaker 2: just like they do fifth third. It's a great environment

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Speaker 2: for us to bring recruits to and that that's been

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Speaker 2: consistent in the time that I've been here.

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Speaker 7: A lease, I think Elliott also looks a bit like

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Speaker 7: eminem and I don't know if you guys notice the

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Speaker 7: way he was holding the mic I was waiting for

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Speaker 7: him to drop a beat and give us a rap.

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Speaker 7: So every season I ask you the same question to

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Speaker 7: begin it.

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Speaker 8: I kind of.

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Speaker 7: Asked you this a bit when I you and the

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Speaker 7: athletic Complex. So we're gonna be standing here on March seventeenth,

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Speaker 7: and you're gonna be signing my famed you see basketball

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Speaker 7: coach ball. That means you went to the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 2: What went right?

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Speaker 7: Besides winning.

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Speaker 2: Just the right approach every day? I mean that, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think there's there's a number of things that you

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Speaker 2: can control. You can control your professionalism as a player,

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Speaker 2: as a coach, and we define what that is in

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Speaker 2: our program. You can control the approach every day to

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Speaker 2: try to improve. And that sounds trivial, but I mean that,

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Speaker 2: like this is really about an everyday approach to try

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Speaker 2: to get better, and within that like really win the

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Speaker 2: details of the things that win. And then you can

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Speaker 2: control how you contribute to the team. Like every player,

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Speaker 2: every coach, every player on the team, they're either contributing

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Speaker 2: positively or negative of the team. We got to have

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Speaker 2: a group that does it positively every single day. We

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Speaker 2: actually rank the guys each week in those three categories.

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Speaker 2: If we can really really live that, not just talk

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Speaker 2: about it, put it on a wall, put it, put

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Speaker 2: it on the board once a week. But like, if

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Speaker 2: we can really live that, then then we'll hear a

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Speaker 2: name called on selection Sunday. And that's I'm pretty adamant

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Speaker 2: about that.

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Speaker 1: Dave Hey coach, welcome back.

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Speaker 9: Likewise, my first radio show question, what did you do

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Speaker 9: over the summer outside of basketball? Any good vacations, any

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Speaker 9: golf courses, you played anything fun.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking for my girlfriend Lauren there, because she's gonna

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Speaker 2: answer nothing. She's gonna say we didn't do anything other

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Speaker 2: than basketball. You know, I think I think in most

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Speaker 2: off seasons, disconnecting is important, and Dave and I've really

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Speaker 2: looked for that. I did less of that this year

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Speaker 2: than any time in my professional career coaching basketball. My

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Speaker 2: golf game is I don't the handful of times I

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Speaker 2: played golf, which was less for fun and more for

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Speaker 2: something revolving around work, I was so bad I had

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Speaker 2: no desire to play anymore. I mean, I I used

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Speaker 2: to think I was a pretty damn good golfer deep down,

553
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Speaker 2: like I had some irrational confidence in my golf game.

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Speaker 2: I'm terrible, guys, I've lost that. But no, we didn't

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Speaker 2: take any vacations. I took three trips internationally that were

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Speaker 2: tied into to recruiting, and I was able to bring

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Speaker 2: my girlfriend along on those trips and we would do like,

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Speaker 2: you know, like I went to Switzerland for the Unite

559
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Speaker 2: teen World Championships recruiting, which was which was great. And

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Speaker 2: so we did two days at the World Championships and

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Speaker 2: I watched the games and Lauren would go shopping or wherever.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see her. She come to one game and

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Speaker 2: then disappear.

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Speaker 1: But Lauren went to Switzerland and you went to a gym,

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Speaker 1: that's right.

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Speaker 2: But then on the third day there was which was

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Speaker 2: an off day of the games. Instead of coming right home,

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Speaker 2: you know, we spent a day in Geneva. Like that

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Speaker 2: was the kind of thing. Maybe a day here or

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Speaker 2: day there. But it was a very focused off season,

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Speaker 2: a very intentional offseason. But at the same time I

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Speaker 2: feel very refreshed and recharged to get into this year.

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Speaker 1: We got about five holes of golf in before a

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Speaker 1: month soon.

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Speaker 2: That was fun, that's right. Oh, that was disappointed. That

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Speaker 2: was really good. Broke my heart, Yeah, broke my heart.

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Speaker 1: Because we were playing an awesome course.

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Speaker 10: Brian, all right, coach, enough about the off season.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to it, big fella.

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Speaker 10: So you were talking about you were looking for adversity

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Speaker 10: and obviously in the exhibition games, and I'm just curious,

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Speaker 10: are there specific things when you're picking who you're playing

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Speaker 10: that you're looking for there are certain certain types of

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Speaker 10: adversity or is it just I want I want the

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Speaker 10: Gotlin third of the team and see how we react everything, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I asked. I got to ask some scheduling questions

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Speaker 2: today at media day, and I want to make this clear, like, yes,

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Speaker 2: we have a hand in the schedule, like we have

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Speaker 2: to make an agreement with another team. But it's not

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Speaker 2: like we go out and say I want to play

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Speaker 2: this team and they go, okay, sure, great, let's play

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Speaker 2: whenever you want to play. Like it is it is,

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Speaker 2: scheduling is incredibly difficult because everybody's angling on all sides.

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Speaker 2: So like getting a quality home game is become this

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Speaker 2: almost impossible feat because you have to have an agreement

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Speaker 2: with another team, they have to be willing to start

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Speaker 2: on the road, you have to find a date that works.

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Speaker 2: There's just all these dynamics that are going on. So

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Speaker 2: the answer to your question is yes, I mean you like,

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Speaker 2: I loved the Michigan scrimmage because they're going to be

601
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Speaker 2: a great team. Dusty are friends, and when you do

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Speaker 2: something like that, it's better to do it with friends.

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Speaker 2: So you know, their head coach, Dusty May and I

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Speaker 2: are very friendly. We had dinner the night before the game.

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Speaker 2: We shared what we were doing so we didn't have

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Speaker 2: to spend time on a scout and report, you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, those reasons were factors, but I love that

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Speaker 2: they switch everything. You know, we don't switch a lot.

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Speaker 2: We're more of an emergency switch type of program, so

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Speaker 2: we'll late switch if somebody gets held up. But our

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Speaker 2: whole thing is you should never have we fight do

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Speaker 2: everything like you should never have to switch. Where they

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Speaker 2: switch everything and they're really good at it. We played

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Speaker 2: some games in league last year, like Baylor. We played

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Speaker 2: them the third game of league and we saw like

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Speaker 2: five ways switching for the first time with a one

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Speaker 2: day prep and we hadn't seen it, and we really

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Speaker 2: really struggled with it. So that was a positive. But

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Speaker 2: it's not so simple because they're just hard to find

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Speaker 2: good games. So there's probably that was probably more once

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Speaker 2: we go, hey, we can do this with Michigan and

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Speaker 2: Dust they want to do it. And then oh, by

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Speaker 2: the way, this is going to be good because we're

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Speaker 2: going to play against this type of scheme. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: start that way. I wish you could do it that way.

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Speaker 2: Schedule is just too difficult, if that makes sense. And

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Speaker 2: then going on the road to play at Arkansas this week. Again,

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Speaker 2: Cal and I are very friendly and have been very

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Speaker 2: friendly for a long time, so somebody that you want

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Speaker 2: to work with in this type of situation. And then

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Speaker 2: I just I love the difference of the two styles.

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Speaker 2: You know, Michigan style and Arkansas style are polar opposites,

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Speaker 2: and so that'll be really good for us. And they're

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Speaker 2: both a little different than how we play in practice

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Speaker 2: every day. So there is some of that, but it

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Speaker 2: probably doesn't it's probably not as clean as as you'd

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Speaker 2: like to think.

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Speaker 11: Wait, hi, coach, I'm curious with the additions of Kerr

639
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Speaker 11: and Keishaan, will day Day be more of a two

640
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Speaker 11: guard this year or will will he still be running point.

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Speaker 2: At some point? Score? That's what dayDay is gonna go do.

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00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: Go score and let him let him now he's gonna

643
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: play some point guard like he It's been fun to

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00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 2: watch those guys play together that there, and you know,

645
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: Sincere Harris or Buck Harris is a combo guard too,

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Speaker 2: so we have four legit big twelve guards and it's

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Speaker 2: been fun to watch them play together. And we've given

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Speaker 2: them quite a bit of freedom of who brings it up,

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Speaker 2: and they play multiple positions in our sets and actions.

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Speaker 2: But having Key and Kerr has allowed day day to

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Speaker 2: spend less time focusing on getting us into a set

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Speaker 2: or getting us into offense, and more time on just

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Speaker 2: going to do what I think he's built to do.

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Speaker 2: He's healthy again, to guys like he's healthy. He had

655
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Speaker 2: he he had a sequence in practice a couple of

656
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 2: days ago. He went baseline in the half court and

657
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 2: jammed it and kind of like looked up, like I've

658
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 2: seen him miss a lot of dunks like that last year,

659
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: but I see him make many, you know, But he

660
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: was doing that when he first got here. And then

661
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 2: the next possession he cut out of the corner, caught

662
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: the back of a head and they think Sean threw

663
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: a lob and he dunked it with two hands in

664
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Speaker 2: a lob and I've never seen him do that. And

665
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: so he's physically he's not just healthy mentally like he's in.

666
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Speaker 2: He had a great offseason. He's physically in a really

667
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: elite place, and I think he's primed to have a

668
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: big year score in the basketball for so the answer

669
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Speaker 2: short answer, yes, but he'll still have some point guard responsibility.

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Speaker 3: Reminds me of Ramel Robinson from the eighty nine Michigan

671
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 3: team when they won it all. He was a big,

672
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 3: strong guard that can score with the best of him

673
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 3: and Fisher let him go.

674
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Speaker 2: Hey, Terry, when you coach a team, I can't wait.

675
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come up, come to your group. I'm will say, Man, Terry,

676
00:33:55,560 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 2: you got Shaq and Kobe and Michael Jordan. Hell, I

677
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 2: hope you can coach him.

678
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Speaker 1: Dada has gone from a point guard to a points guard.

679
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 2: He'll still have that role, and we know we can

680
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 2: play that role well. But I've really wanted to free

681
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: him up to just go score the ball and create

682
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 2: offense for our team. And he's running the floor so

683
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 2: much harder because and he knows he's gonna get it.

684
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Speaker 1: All right, We'll take a break, we'll come back with

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Speaker 1: a few more questions from the audience when we continue.

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Speaker 1: the audience. Pop is up next, Hey, coach, I get.

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Speaker 12: The idea from here in the description of this team

704
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 12: that there are just so many ways that this team

705
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 12: can score and can push them all up the floor

706
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 12: that we're gonna put substantial pressure on our opposing defenses,

707
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 12: whether it's with lineup combinations or shot selection or execution.

708
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 12: And I wonder what a difference that makes in how

709
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 12: you put your game plan together.

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00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have more firepower than we've had recently, for sure,

711
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: and we're not perfect right, Like I still see some air.

712
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 2: Is like, we got to make sure we're getting fouled,

713
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 2: and we've got to make sure we're putting pressure on

714
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 2: the rim. Jalen Haynes was a big part of that attack.

715
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 2: And so we're gonna have to pivot here, which is

716
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 2: that this is basketball, Like, we'll do it, but to

717
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: make sure that we're we're putting that press, Like that's

718
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 2: going to be a hole here early and we can't

719
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 2: let it be over a long period of time. But

720
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Speaker 2: I do think we're gonna be able to put pressure

721
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 2: on the other team with our offense at times. And

722
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Speaker 2: you talk about game planning, Yeah, there's different ways, right,

723
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: whether it's through pick and roll once you get in transition,

724
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: I want to be a part of our attack every night,

725
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 2: but whether it's through pick and roll, we've actually had

726
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 2: a little bit of success screening away from the ball

727
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 2: at times, in the preseason. We're going to do more

728
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 2: of that the more we move through it. I think

729
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 2: we have a number of guys that can really shoot

730
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: the ball, so finding ways to free them up to

731
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 2: shoot it is going to be important. And then I

732
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 2: really do think we have something with Mustafa uh in

733
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: the box. Like I knew he was a talent, but

734
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 2: his ability to score in the box is significantly better

735
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 2: than I anticipated. And I think it's going to be

736
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 2: important to get him those deep catches that that's going

737
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: to be a strength of our team.

738
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Speaker 8: All right, next question, So, so coach, with what you

739
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 8: just said, I got two questions. The first one is

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Speaker 8: what do you what do you consider your team's identity?

741
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Speaker 8: And the second one is do you feel the pressure

742
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Speaker 8: of ni L to win now? Like with the n

743
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 8: i L players are leaving that the one year and whatever,

744
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Speaker 8: So do you feel the pressure to win now?

745
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Speaker 2: And what is the team's identity? Yeah, the team's identity

746
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: to me is is pace connected and aggressive. I think

747
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 2: in everything we're doing, like and I don't mean just

748
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 2: style of play, like when we That's a great question

749
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 2: and that would come from a great player. That makes sense,

750
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 2: But like you can have you can separate yourself as

751
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: an outlier in college basketball with a ton of continuity

752
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 2: because it's so rare. So if you have a group,

753
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 2: a team that's played together for three or four years,

754
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,479
Speaker 2: how much different is that than the masses. Our goal

755
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 2: when we got together in the summer was to take

756
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: a team that hasn't been together for three or four years,

757
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 2: and if we'll be very intentional about how we come

758
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 2: together and connect, we could play like a team that's

759
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 2: been together for three or four years in February, in March.

760
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: That's that's like been our goal. It's been intentional. Like

761
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 2: we've said to our team, like it's very important you

762
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 2: guys learn each other and get to know each other

763
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 2: whether you really want to or not socially because it's

764
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 2: gonna help us win. Like do do it for the

765
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 2: reason that it's going to be important to our success.

766
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: And we have some older guys that get that in

767
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 2: the ballon. That's just one example. But I think our

768
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 2: pace are connect action and then our aggressiveness like have

769
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 2: to be our identity as a club. That's number one.

770
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Speaker 2: The pressure if I'm guilty of anything, it's the internal

771
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 2: pressure to win all the time and anything I've done

772
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Speaker 2: in my entire life. Like, so there's never been any

773
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 2: kind of external pressure that equals that. I mean, I

774
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 2: mean that like I'm an angry person on the eighteenth

775
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: hole when I'm in a bed. Like to me, it's

776
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 2: like it be like playing in the Ryder Cup and guy,

777
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 2: I'd done a hell of a better job okay than

778
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 2: we did in fright or cups about that, but like,

779
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 2: but so no, I don't I think that in college athletics,

780
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 2: there's the landscape is shift and you see some of

781
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 2: these things that are happening in football and the buyouts,

782
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 2: I mean incredible, But I think, for at least I

783
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 2: can only speak for myself, the internal pressure has always

784
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: been there, so it doesn't affect me, if that makes sense.

785
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Speaker 1: I did not expect he can Bradley to catch us stray.

786
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Speaker 1: Tonight on the Come On West Miller Radio show, the question.

787
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Speaker 3: Was asked from Ady Jackson, starting point guard, starting combo

788
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 3: guard from the Bearcats ninety two final fourteen to ninety

789
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 3: three le eight team. So that was Aby Jackson, A.

790
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 2: Great, great question from a great player.

791
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Speaker 1: Fellas.

792
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Speaker 13: I have to ask as someone who wasn't able to

793
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 13: watch the game, But what was the difference in the

794
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 13: first half with the foul calling and the second half

795
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 13: with the foul calling on the Bearcats. What changed either

796
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 13: in Michigan's approach or in our play. Perhaps that may

797
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,479
Speaker 13: have stepped it up for this. Let me say something

798
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Speaker 13: to the.

799
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Speaker 2: Rest, Well, this was a couple of days ago, but

800
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Speaker 2: I think we we shot thirty six free throws, right, thirty.

801
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: Four they made forty one, right.

802
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 2: They shot forty eight or fifty they shot forty eight.

803
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 2: We shot. They were calling it tight both ways. We

804
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: had some silly ones out front in the second half,

805
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: and it was actually interesting because both coaches were doing

806
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 2: the same thing. We got into the bonus in the

807
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 2: end of the first half and I'm yelling at our guys,

808
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 2: drive it, like we're in the bonus, drive it. And

809
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 2: then we take a three and you're like, that's probably

810
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 2: why come on? But uh, and Dusty was doing the

811
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: same thing. You know, they put us in the bonus

812
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,240
Speaker 2: and he's yelling drive it. So I think both teams

813
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 2: made a concerted effort that once the game was called tight,

814
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 2: to put more pressure on the other team, and I

815
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 2: think both of us did that. We had some silly

816
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 2: ones way out front, but they called it pretty tight,

817
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 2: and it was very aggressive and physical in the first

818
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 2: fourteen to fifteen minutes of the games. It looks like

819
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 2: the referees were trying to tighten it up. But I

820
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: tell the referees this all the time, and like these

821
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,439
Speaker 2: exhibitions are when they come to practice, like we have days,

822
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: they'll come and referee our innersquad scrimmages. Please call it tight,

823
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 2: you know, like, please come that nothing bothers me more

824
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,839
Speaker 2: than we have an intersquad scrimmage or a closed door

825
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: scrimmage or an exhibition. They call no fouls in the

826
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 2: first game of the year. They call every foul. It's like,

827
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 2: we want the guys to learn how to adjust to you.

828
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: And so if you could do that when it doesn't count,

829
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 2: it's a heck of a lot better for all of us.

830
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,479
Speaker 2: So Dusty and I talked one time in the middle

831
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 2: of the game, and we both said, if both of

832
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 2: us could stop fouling, might get better tonight. You know,

833
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 2: that type of thing. But it is a little bit

834
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: of both. There was some silly stuff both sides with fowls.

835
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 2: They called it a little tight, which was okay, But

836
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 2: hopefully we won't have as much of that on Friday.

837
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 2: We've worked at that this week.

838
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 3: Running out of time. Two guys, I want you to

839
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 3: briefly talk about Tyler McKinley, who seemed to have a

840
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 3: great entry into his first game as a barcout after

841
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 3: the knee injury last year. And a guy who didn't play,

842
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 3: Jayalen Celestine, who was a three point just marksman who

843
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 3: didn't get a chance to play. You set him out

844
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 3: for that game.

845
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: The one thing I do want to say about the fouls,

846
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 2: aggressive is an okay mistake early like I will take

847
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 2: the aggressive ones. So like our defense as we built it,

848
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 2: we are not as disciplined defensively at this stage as

849
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 2: I usually always had a team, and that's by design.

850
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 2: Like we are in times all over the place on defense,

851
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,439
Speaker 2: and that's okay. But we are playing aggressively. We are

852
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,879
Speaker 2: playing aggressive in our pick and roll coverage. We're playing

853
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 2: aggressive trap of the post. We're probably pressuring too much,

854
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 2: and that's okay because you can reel the in fouling

855
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 2: too much, you can reel that in. But at the

856
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 2: same time or early on, it's gonna have to get

857
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 2: reeled in. Like it's a little too much. But I'm

858
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 2: okay with that. That's by design. Jalen Celestine has not practiced.

859
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 2: He did not practice the month of July all the

860
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 2: way up until about the last three or four weeks,

861
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 2: and it's been a progression to bring him back. It

862
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 2: was a mild back type thing, but serious enough to

863
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: hold him out for a couple of months. He's been

864
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 2: working his way back in. He'll get some minutes here

865
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 2: against Arkansas, but and he's gonna have a great year

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Speaker 2: and he's a very important player to our team. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's just a he's really old, smart, versatile player, but

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Speaker 2: he won't be himself and he's not in season for me.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna take him another month, I think, to really

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Speaker 2: look like the Jalen Celestine that we recruited. But it'll

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Speaker 2: be good to get him some action Friday night. And

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Speaker 2: then Tyler McKinley, Man, he's good, right, I mean, he's.

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Speaker 1: Great to see him out there running and jumping and

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Speaker 1: looking healthy.

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Speaker 2: He's a good player, guys, and he's a Cincinnati kid.

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Speaker 2: And I've been recruiting Tyler McKinley since the day I

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Speaker 2: got the Cincinnati job, So it's been been a long

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Speaker 2: road to get him in a uniform and that's that

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00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 2: felt really good. He he is going to be an

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Speaker 2: extremely important player to this year's team. That's all. That's

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Speaker 2: what I'll tell you. I won't blow him up too

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Speaker 2: much tonight, Terry.

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Speaker 3: Kevin willis a lot of Hawks.

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Speaker 2: He got longer arms than Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Short shouldiers, you know, he got a little arms over

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Speaker 3: here like he's you know, but he's quick in the polls.

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Speaker 3: He can handle the ball. He could he does. He

888
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Speaker 3: plays hard every possession. You don't have to worry about

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Speaker 3: his effort.

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Speaker 2: He's great and he may be one of the best

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Speaker 2: three or four passers on our team. And that that's

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Speaker 2: pretty fun. With somebody in the front court, you can

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Speaker 2: run offense through them. And we were doing a lot

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Speaker 2: of that with Jalen Haynes and Tyler. So some of

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Speaker 2: that stuff we were doing with Hanes, we're gonna be

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Speaker 2: able to do with Tyler.

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Speaker 1: All right, we are out of time. Thank you to

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Speaker 1: the Bearcat fans who came out to the show tonight.

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