Speaker 1: It is showtime. Very pleasant, good evening, everybody. Greetings from
Speaker 1: the original Montgomery In home of the world's greatest ribs,
Speaker 1: and welcome to the first edition for this season of
Speaker 1: the West Miller Radio Show. I'm Dan Hord with former
Speaker 1: Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson and the star of the show,
Speaker 1: the head coach of your you see Bearcats. Let's hear
Speaker 1: it for Wes Miller co It's good to see it.
Speaker 1: You've had a busy day.
Speaker 2: Been a good day, and it's good to see everybody
Speaker 2: excited to get this thing going.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Likewise, tell us a little bit about Big twelve
Speaker 1: media days.
Speaker 2: Well, we traveled in style, so like it was about
Speaker 2: somebody said this, They said, was it a long day?
Speaker 2: I said no, I mean we travel on a privately,
Speaker 2: you could it had been a longer day to drive
Speaker 2: the Columbus and back. I think somebody said that in
Speaker 2: the crowd already. But the Big twelve does it first class.
Speaker 2: It was a very efficient day. We arrived at seven
Speaker 2: forty this morning. They had a spread of food ready
Speaker 2: for breakfast for all the players and coaches, and from
Speaker 2: eight o'clock on it felt like we went from station
Speaker 2: to station. Interview to camera session from just eight to one,
Speaker 2: with the exception of maybe a twenty minute break to
Speaker 2: get the lunch spread. I mean, and it was so
Speaker 2: it was professional. I've noticed how much the league has
Speaker 2: made an effort to expand with different networks. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, ESPN, of course is there is the primary
Speaker 2: TV partner, but Fox was there this year, CBS was there,
Speaker 2: Turner was there. You know, I'm probably forgetting people, but
Speaker 2: you can see the effort that the Commission of the
Speaker 2: League's making to get the league out there. There was
Speaker 2: more media this year than ever. It was very well done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, with adoption of linear sports, multiple networks are now
Speaker 3: going to tap into this big twelve. You got there
Speaker 3: Fashion and Dan Horton getting here from the West side.
Speaker 4: The good news is we both made it. I was
Speaker 4: preparing noteson to the open. I was getting my it
Speaker 4: is showtime. I was getting that whole thing ready, and
Speaker 4: Dan took over, came over here. You know, he had
Speaker 4: two people following him. One was the cops.
Speaker 3: Heather was a reporter. Yeah, I read them all. Coach.
Speaker 3: During that press conference, I heard something I heard Kirk
Speaker 3: Chris talked about the possibility of getting a seventh year,
Speaker 3: and he told guys, don't laugh. If it happens, I
Speaker 3: will gladly do it because college basketball. I love college basketball.
Speaker 2: Oh listen, I've i said it publicly for the first
Speaker 2: time today, So it's my own fault right for now.
Speaker 2: All the questions that'll come behind it. But uh, if
Speaker 2: Kirkriesa can play for ten years, you know, Shoot, I'll
Speaker 2: try to figure it out. He he's the kind of
Speaker 2: guy that makes uh makes makes basketball fun for the
Speaker 2: other four players on the court, and certainly in this
Speaker 2: short time I've enjoyed coaching him today. So you know,
Speaker 2: there's been so many crazy things that have happened. But
Speaker 2: there may be an opportunity for him and some others
Speaker 2: to get an extra year, and we'll certainly look into that.
Speaker 2: Is anybody in our position would.
Speaker 1: What are the circumstances that could potentially get him a
Speaker 1: seventh year?
Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to dive too far, but
Speaker 2: some of the changing and sitting, I mean there's been
Speaker 2: a if you go look at his his track record
Speaker 2: there that he had to sit out his first year
Speaker 2: at Arizona because of something about where he'd played in Europe. Shoot,
Speaker 2: they got guys that played in the G League. Now
Speaker 2: playing I mean it's like, so there's there's and there's
Speaker 2: a number of things like that, but without getting into
Speaker 2: too many detail, there actually may be something there and
Speaker 2: we're looking into it.
Speaker 1: He played an exhibition game on Friday night in ann
Speaker 1: Arbor beat Michigan. That's fine, you know, that's great. But
Speaker 1: I was just impressed watching the tape by the experience
Speaker 1: high level basketball fans and attendance on the road. I
Speaker 1: would just think as far as a preseason exhibition game goes,
Speaker 1: that's about as good of an experience as you can
Speaker 1: have for your team.
Speaker 2: It was by design. I mean, we we looked at
Speaker 2: and we got you know, scotsh answer questions all day
Speaker 2: so you can hear I'm gonna say the same thing
Speaker 2: I've probably said all day. But you know, after two
Speaker 2: years of experience in the league, you just have such
Speaker 2: a different perspective when you're preparing, you know, going into
Speaker 2: this year because you've been through it. And one thing
Speaker 2: we thought a lot about was we need to get
Speaker 2: tested early, and it failure early could be really good
Speaker 2: for us in January and February, because you don't want
Speaker 2: the first time you go through a tough stretch to
Speaker 2: be in league play, right, and that happened a year ago,
Speaker 2: and that was very difficult for our group. So we
Speaker 2: kind of scheduled two road exhibition games against teams that
Speaker 2: are both picked to be in the top Michigan maybe
Speaker 2: top five or six or seven or whatever they have
Speaker 2: them and then Arkansas top fifteen in every poll, and
Speaker 2: We're look honestly, as a coach, I'm looking for some adversity.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I want to see us get
Speaker 2: challenge tested. The games don't counter matter, so can we
Speaker 2: get their attention and then get back into the practice
Speaker 2: court before we play in real games when you really
Speaker 2: have time to deal with things. And then We're up
Speaker 2: eighteen and a half and I'm going, this is what
Speaker 2: the hell? I mean that it never works like it's
Speaker 2: supposed to. But all that said, there was some really
Speaker 2: good things I think from that Michigan exhibition, some of
Speaker 2: the stuff we've worked on. I think the guys having
Speaker 2: success doing those things, you know, builds confidence in what
Speaker 2: we're doing, builds confidence in how they play together. So
Speaker 2: there were some really good aspects there. You know, we
Speaker 2: had a team a year ago that struggled to score
Speaker 2: I mean, score one hundred might have taken us three games.
Speaker 2: So like, you know, to get to one hundred, even
Speaker 2: though it's an exhibition and Michigan still working through their
Speaker 2: things and we are too, it's one hundred still something
Speaker 2: that you're proud of because you know, you got multiple
Speaker 2: guys that scored to get there, and I think that's
Speaker 2: something we can build on. But I say all that
Speaker 2: to say ninety percent of what I say all was
Speaker 2: was stuff we need to work on. And you know,
Speaker 2: tried to spend a lot of energy getting their attention
Speaker 2: this week that that that didn't count. So don't don't
Speaker 2: get comfortable. And there's a ton of things we have
Speaker 2: to correct.
Speaker 3: Well, of those ton of things that you want to correct,
Speaker 3: what are some of those things? Because when I was
Speaker 3: up in the media section in the ann arbor, when
Speaker 3: I drove down to watch the game, and at one
Speaker 3: point I saw you just drop your head as you
Speaker 3: were sitting down because you guys kept filing like they
Speaker 3: didn't they didn't score on you guys for a long
Speaker 3: period of time. They were just at the free throw
Speaker 3: line over and over again, and you guys would come
Speaker 3: down to make a great play, come down and file
Speaker 3: before they even got into their offense. And at one
Speaker 3: point you just dropped your head and I'm like, it's
Speaker 3: got I can sort of feel the frustration that you
Speaker 3: that you're going through.
Speaker 2: Because there were a couple out front where it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, come on, guys, because we talked about it
Speaker 2: at halftime. We certainly talked about it and every time
Speaker 2: out and then we had a couple of silly ones
Speaker 2: out front and you know, this is an edgy group.
Speaker 2: You guys are gonna get to know them well. They're
Speaker 2: very very competitive, they're they have personality, and so you know,
Speaker 2: like I want one of them and I won't name
Speaker 2: his name, Keishan Tillery.
Speaker 1: Sounds like like.
Speaker 2: Wh who's just gonna be a terrific player here.
Speaker 5: But he, you know, he's like, it's not a foul,
Speaker 5: and I was like, it doesn't like it, Like let
Speaker 5: me just tell you something, young fellas.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. It's whatever they call because that's what's
Speaker 2: gonna happen on the scoreboard, like you know, and like,
Speaker 2: can we can we make the adjustment, you know? And
Speaker 2: then I did think late in the game we made
Speaker 2: the adjustment a little bit, uh, but we did we
Speaker 2: then we lost some of our aggressiveness. So again, there's
Speaker 2: a ton of stuff to iron out this time of year.
Speaker 2: But you get more out of games like that than
Speaker 2: you do out of seven practices. And so I actually
Speaker 2: ran into somebody at the instead of a later day
Speaker 2: at media day, and I b lined for them, and
Speaker 2: I said, hey, we got to be able to play
Speaker 2: four or five of these to lead up to the season.
Speaker 2: The product in college basketball would be so much better.
Speaker 2: The product would be so much better in November and
Speaker 2: December if we got to play more preseason games. Every
Speaker 2: professional league in the world, and I'm going to say
Speaker 2: this is professional, okay, so like in a semi pro anymore,
Speaker 2: this is pro basketball. We're your only pro basketball league
Speaker 2: in the world that doesn't play multiple preseason games before
Speaker 2: the regular season. But yet we have language, we have
Speaker 2: you know, summer practice. And now I'm complaining a little bit,
Speaker 2: but I would love to be able to do more
Speaker 2: what we did last week. And I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: Friday night to kind of learn and grow a little
Speaker 2: bit more.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of fouls called in the game.
Speaker 1: Did you feel like it was officiated a little bit
Speaker 1: differently since it was an exhibition game. Sometimes they try
Speaker 1: to you know, set the tone and then they dial
Speaker 1: it back a little when the games count.
Speaker 2: Well, it was completely officiated, different than the way that
Speaker 2: our gas officiate. They are the worst officials, but thank
Speaker 2: god they're not professional officials. We made a rule with this.
Speaker 2: You know, I have the greatest group of Gas right now.
Speaker 2: It's the it's a I mean that those guys are
Speaker 2: all going to be elite coach and we're going to
Speaker 2: look up in a decade and they're all going to
Speaker 2: be an associate head coaches.
Speaker 3: And trying to save face. Now they're not good officials,
Speaker 3: just say it.
Speaker 2: But Terry, Hell, they're the worst officials I've ever dealt with.
Speaker 2: And so we made a rule with the team that
Speaker 2: every time they call a call, we're just trying to
Speaker 2: build your discipline not to react.
Speaker 1: That's kind of that, all right, We're going to take
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Speaker 1: talking Bearcat football, and now delighted to get our basketball
Speaker 1: shows underway. We appreciate the Bearcat fans who are with
Speaker 1: us tonight here at the original Montgomery In. Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about some of the individual performances in
Speaker 1: Friday's exhibition win over Michigan. I find it really fun
Speaker 1: to watch Buck Harris on the defensive end of the court.
Speaker 1: He is a Tasmanian devil. He's got great wingspan, gets
Speaker 1: in passing lanes, takes the ball away from people. He
Speaker 1: is a weapon on defense.
Speaker 3: He really is.
Speaker 2: We had a I hope I'm not like saying something
Speaker 2: out a lot here. We had an assistant coach in
Speaker 2: film a couple of weeks ago. We had an intersquatch scrimmage,
Speaker 2: and you know, he's just like picking a steal off
Speaker 2: here and picking up full court and then picking another
Speaker 2: one off. And he stopped the film. He said, man,
Speaker 2: he's like a street coyote out there hunting for food.
Speaker 3: It's like.
Speaker 2: Out we all just started dying laughing. As a staff
Speaker 2: actually made kind of some sense. But he's he's just
Speaker 2: out there just like and you can he has these
Speaker 2: moments he kind of like you can catch him looking
Speaker 2: at the ball in a slow moment, like I'm about
Speaker 2: to go get the ball, you know, he's he's just
Speaker 2: out there in a back alley looking to go steal
Speaker 2: somebody's basketball, you know. But uh, uh, he's he's uh,
Speaker 2: he's such an important piece to our team, and he's
Speaker 2: he's a fearless, fearless player. I thought in the mission exhibition,
Speaker 2: I was really pleased with some of the things he
Speaker 2: did attack in the basket, you know, and put putting
Speaker 2: some putting some pressure on the rim, you know, not
Speaker 2: just off the bounce, but with the cut. I think
Speaker 2: that's an area that that we need. We need guys
Speaker 2: to emerge. You know, our shooting's much improved. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, we can play through Mustafa uh if we
Speaker 2: can get him the deep catches in the post, so
Speaker 2: we have a post presence. I hate that Jalen's not
Speaker 2: available Haynes, because he was going to be a big
Speaker 2: time post presence. But we need to find some different
Speaker 2: ways to get to the rim here early in the year,
Speaker 2: all the dribbler off the cut and and Buck is
Speaker 2: one of the guys that I think could do that consistently.
Speaker 3: You recruited the first McDonald's all Americans since Land Stevenson
Speaker 3: in Shaannabiev and everybody wanted to see his his debut,
Speaker 3: and you know, he missed the first two or three shots,
Speaker 3: but he when he got going, he makes some of
Speaker 3: the most incredible shots. He's like James Harden with his
Speaker 3: bouncy side step, step backs, side step. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: just crazy how he does it. Guys in his face,
Speaker 3: he's falling, but he is a lethal shooter at six
Speaker 3: foot eight.
Speaker 2: Don't give him James Hard.
Speaker 3: I mean, who else does that in the NBA. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to give him a comparable now.
Speaker 2: He he has a a unique ability to create his
Speaker 2: own shot and separate to get his shot off. He
Speaker 2: has a high shot pocket. You know, I think it'll
Speaker 2: be it'll it'll be fun because of his ability his
Speaker 2: gravity as an offensive player obviously, but there's there's some
Speaker 2: shots that he's gonna take that would be difficult shots
Speaker 2: for others and correct and we talked about this a
Speaker 2: little bit as a as a staff already. The timing
Speaker 2: of those shots is important, right, you can't take a
Speaker 2: really difficult shot with you know, no advantage from the
Speaker 2: defense early in the shot clock or you know that
Speaker 2: kind of situation. But there's gonna be times when the
Speaker 2: chips are down late in the clock that you know,
Speaker 2: we recruited them to take those shots, you know that.
Speaker 2: Let's be real about that. We he's a tough shot
Speaker 2: maker and we recruited him to come do that, but
Speaker 2: just trying to figure out when to do it. But
Speaker 2: he's he's got a lot of ability. Other than that, Terry,
Speaker 2: he has a great feel with the basketball. I think
Speaker 2: he's a guy will be able to put in pick
Speaker 2: and roll. I think he could be terrific in transition.
Speaker 2: But they're not running even half the way I want
Speaker 2: to yet. But if they'll commit to that, he could
Speaker 2: be really good there.
Speaker 3: So this one one hundred, they're not even running the
Speaker 3: way you want him to run.
Speaker 2: Our running, our running game wasn't as good as I
Speaker 2: think it should should be. I like to hear that
Speaker 2: it's you know, and listen. I hope it at its
Speaker 2: best in February in March. I mean, that's the idea, right,
Speaker 2: But we don't have five guys yet consistently running on possessions.
Speaker 2: Whether it was in that game or in practice situations
Speaker 2: we'll get two or three, but if we get five
Speaker 2: doing it, I think with our passing and decision making
Speaker 2: could be good. I think Kurr's ability to advance the
Speaker 2: ball at the court has been infectious. So now guys
Speaker 2: like Keishaan Tillery and Day they are doing that at
Speaker 2: a better rate, and I think we could be very
Speaker 2: effective in the open court. I think this could be
Speaker 2: the fastest team I've coached in fifteen years. But if
Speaker 2: you're going to play fast, you have to work fast
Speaker 2: every day correct. And it's easy to say, and all
Speaker 2: players say, I want to play, but we have to
Speaker 2: triple down on what it's going to take to do
Speaker 2: that consistent.
Speaker 3: You run fast break drills every day in practice, even
Speaker 3: if it's for a little bit, but you make sure
Speaker 3: you stick that in there and one of those fast
Speaker 3: break drills, but you work on every day. Where there's
Speaker 3: three guys running, you make a pass to the left,
Speaker 3: he gets back to the middle, and there's a trail
Speaker 3: guy who who has the speed up and getting to
Speaker 3: the action. You're passing the ball for the dunk. That's
Speaker 3: how Shinabayov made that dunk in transition against Michigan that
Speaker 3: same sequence.
Speaker 2: Fast pray drill number one. I've done it every day
Speaker 2: I've ever coached. So yeah, and I get frustrated they
Speaker 2: don't do it long, but they should do it to
Speaker 2: build a great winning habit. It's the way that they
Speaker 2: do it that we're looking for. But yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 2: work on our running game every day, and I don't
Speaker 2: think we're there yet, but I think this team could
Speaker 2: be very effective there.
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting how many times you really
Speaker 1: got up the court quickly after made baskets that seemed
Speaker 1: different to me. How much you're looking to attack and
Speaker 1: try to beat the other team down the floor after
Speaker 1: the other team scores.
Speaker 2: I tell you what, guys, I think Mustapha Chom. You
Speaker 2: guys are gonna come to really appreciate it when you
Speaker 2: watch him play. I want you to think about this.
Speaker 2: Three years ago, he's playing on an outdoor court in Senegal,
Speaker 2: and I went there and saw it and I couldn't
Speaker 2: believe it. And when I saw that and then think
Speaker 2: about where he is now, I like change my absolute perspective.
Speaker 2: And I say that to say, each week he gets better,
Speaker 2: so you'll be impressed with what you see when you
Speaker 2: get to see him here early in the year. But
Speaker 2: I can't wait for you to see him a month
Speaker 2: from now. Too much from now. He's just gonna keep
Speaker 2: getting better and better. But get back to our running game.
Speaker 2: He can really run. I mean he can really run.
Speaker 2: He doesn't do it every possession like I want yet.
Speaker 3: Soccer being his first sport.
Speaker 2: You know, they all they playing soccer first. But he
Speaker 2: can really run the floor for seven too. It's incredible,
Speaker 2: I think. And he can catch and finish, but he
Speaker 2: can also post early in possession. We got a couple
Speaker 2: of dunks on reversals in early transition situations in our
Speaker 2: exhibition game. But I think there's gonna be great opportunity
Speaker 2: for him to score early in possessions or to score
Speaker 2: off the threat of him early in possessions if we
Speaker 2: can get our running game going. So he's one of
Speaker 2: the reasons too. I mean, he's so good running the floor.
Speaker 3: If there's ever a guy that says I'm a bearcat
Speaker 3: because he can do multiple things, I thought Baba Miller,
Speaker 3: and you know he filed out of the game, but
Speaker 3: my goodness, what he brings to the table. He had
Speaker 3: eleven six and you know four assists in that Michigan exhibition.
Speaker 3: But the fact that he can face the basket, shoot threes,
Speaker 3: put them between his legs, make a play for other teammates.
Speaker 3: But when he caught the ball in the polls, he
Speaker 3: did what Kenyon Martin used to do. Chuck mayshok Uh
Speaker 3: used to teach this to our bigs.
Speaker 2: Hold on a second, James hard and Kenyon, Damn, you're
Speaker 2: gonna have a hell of dropping references today. He was
Speaker 2: pretty good with the headset.
Speaker 3: But what I'm saying, Chuck used to teach Corey and
Speaker 3: the other guys back out and face the guy. If
Speaker 3: you're a big guy and you're quick like Corey and
Speaker 3: Kenyon and all those guys, use your quickness because when
Speaker 3: your back us to the basket, any stiff can put
Speaker 3: a farm in your back and keep you from going
Speaker 3: to the basket. But when you face them, now, they
Speaker 3: got to get in the defensive stands. They gotta move
Speaker 3: their feet, and Baba just put pressure on their bigs
Speaker 3: by continue to attack. He drew files on them, he
Speaker 3: made baskets, and he got weak side rebounds.
Speaker 2: He's he's fascinating. Uh. He's been the most difficult player
Speaker 2: to figure out. And I mean that in a in
Speaker 2: a complimentary way. He can do everything. He's six eleven
Speaker 2: longer than he is tall, and there's nothing he can't do.
Speaker 2: So trying to figure out the things to focus on
Speaker 2: have been That's been a difficult process for me as
Speaker 2: a coach, but a really fun one, you know. Obviously
Speaker 2: this summer we tried him in a bunch of different areas,
Speaker 2: talked with him, where do you feel the most comfortable
Speaker 2: and confident. I went over and watched him play with
Speaker 2: the Spanish national team in August, which helped me as
Speaker 2: much as anything, because he just had a great experience
Speaker 2: playing there. They wanted them to stay and play for
Speaker 2: THEE in the euro Basket. I didn't. I didn't like
Speaker 2: that idea, just get back here and get to work.
Speaker 2: But he did a terrific job with the national team
Speaker 2: there in a couple of games. But figuring out the
Speaker 2: right ways to use him has been a prime It'll
Speaker 2: continue to be a process, and I mean that because
Speaker 2: you can there isn't anything he can't do. But where's
Speaker 2: he going to be the most effective? I think posting
Speaker 2: smaller players is something we've seen early, like Michigan was
Speaker 2: switching five ways a lot of times, and he was
Speaker 2: able to post those switches and then they were trying
Speaker 2: to bring a double and he was dropping off. I mean,
Speaker 2: like that's something we couldn't do last year, Right. We
Speaker 2: played a couple of games in the league where they
Speaker 2: were switching, and it was like a miserable offensive experience, right,
Speaker 2: because we just couldn't attack switching. Where Michigan switched five ways,
Speaker 2: I think they're terrific at it, by the way, and
Speaker 2: we were able to attack it multiple One of the
Speaker 2: ways was through Baba. And Bob's going to be a
Speaker 2: connector of our roster. He's gonna make lineups work. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could play three guards out there together, you know,
Speaker 2: which we're going to try to do, and then you
Speaker 2: can play Baba at what would be the four spot
Speaker 2: on paper, you know, with a moustap for example, and
Speaker 2: you're still big and physical enough, right, you know, if
Speaker 2: you could play We played Bob at the three to
Speaker 2: start the second half. We didn't have a lot of
Speaker 2: success with that lineup per se in the game, but
Speaker 2: you can slide him down and be massive on the perimeter,
Speaker 2: right and massive in the front court. So he gives
Speaker 2: you the ability to do lots of different things, and
Speaker 2: I'm excited about the way he started out. His talent
Speaker 2: has always been talked about since he was playing for
Speaker 2: Real Madrid as a young player and throughout the time
Speaker 2: he's already been in college. What we've seen the last
Speaker 2: month is he's becoming a more productive player. It's not
Speaker 2: just wow, this guy makes two or three plays. He's
Speaker 2: playing harder, He's playing with more intention and that's something
Speaker 2: we have to continue to build on as we start
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Jalen Haynes earlier. I should follow up because
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are people listening on the radio that
Speaker 1: don't really know who that is. He was one of
Speaker 1: your transfers this year, came from George Mason, where he
Speaker 1: averaged about fifteen points a game, really crafty in the
Speaker 1: paint type score and the suffered a lower leg injury.
Speaker 1: It hasn't completely been ruled out for coming back this season,
Speaker 1: but you're obviously not going to have him for the
Speaker 1: bulk of the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big blow I got. The preseason has
Speaker 2: been great, and when I say great, we've had our
Speaker 2: share of you know, tough competitive the kind of days
Speaker 2: in the gym that you love as a coach, but
Speaker 2: weren't fun as a player, you know, and it was.
Speaker 2: So we've had this great preseason that hasn't been just
Speaker 2: roses every day, but it's been about the right stuff
Speaker 2: and that that's just been the one the one blemish
Speaker 2: I'd say to this point is we lost, you know,
Speaker 2: one of our better, better players and one of our older, tougher,
Speaker 2: more physical players that I think oozes bear cat basket.
Speaker 3: And You've been stronger, more vocal with this group than
Speaker 3: you have been in your previous four years. You've been
Speaker 3: more demanding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm having a lot of fun coaching
Speaker 2: this group today. I just I'm enjoying coaching. And you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes I got the greatest job at the greatest but
Speaker 2: the part that is the most enjoyable is getting out
Speaker 2: on the floor and developing your team. I mean, that's
Speaker 2: what I got into it to do. I've had more
Speaker 2: fun to date with this with this group than I've
Speaker 2: had in a long long time coaching, and it's because
Speaker 2: i haven't felt like I needed to hold back at all,
Speaker 2: like they can handle it. In fact, you know, they
Speaker 2: like it and in a really fun way they like
Speaker 2: to be pushed and coached.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a time out when we
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Speaker 1: with us here tonight as we begin talking bear Cat basketball.
Speaker 1: It should be a really fun season. Time for questions
Speaker 1: from the audience. Our friend Elliott is here tonight, plan her.
Speaker 1: He's got a muscle tear in his left arm. So
Speaker 1: what he's here tonight to fire off the first question
Speaker 1: of the season. And it's great to see Elliott.
Speaker 6: All right, So the their Cats are doing really well
Speaker 6: in football. So do you feel like extra pressure to
Speaker 6: do well in basketball, especially if you're having a strong
Speaker 6: roster that plays with pacing. You said you like that.
Speaker 1: Before you answer that question. Elliott's voice has gotten deeper
Speaker 1: since last year.
Speaker 2: He got taller and the voice got deeper. But the
Speaker 2: haircut makes him look younger. So there you go. I
Speaker 2: like the bus cut, but no, I think number one,
Speaker 2: how great is it to see our football team having
Speaker 2: some success in the big twelve year over the last
Speaker 2: what is it six six in a row.
Speaker 1: Six in a row, that's correct, number twenty one in
Speaker 1: the country, six game winning streak. Taylor coming to town
Speaker 1: Saturday at four.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've I've always felt that the rising tides float all
Speaker 2: boats and football doing well is great for our entire university.
Speaker 2: It's great for the athletic department, and it just energizes us,
Speaker 2: like I think the players get the good vibes on
Speaker 2: campus and get the vibes of the fan base through
Speaker 2: the football team and gets them ready.
Speaker 1: To compete in time of year. Wise, you're often bringing
Speaker 1: recruits to home football games, correct, we.
Speaker 2: Are, and we've had a lot of recruits at games
Speaker 2: so far. And one things that's been great for recruiting
Speaker 2: at Cincinnati is the support Bearcat fans give it Nipper
Speaker 2: just like they do fifth third. It's a great environment
Speaker 2: for us to bring recruits to and that that's been
Speaker 2: consistent in the time that I've been here.
Speaker 7: A lease, I think Elliott also looks a bit like
Speaker 7: eminem and I don't know if you guys notice the
Speaker 7: way he was holding the mic I was waiting for
Speaker 7: him to drop a beat and give us a rap.
Speaker 7: So every season I ask you the same question to
Speaker 7: begin it.
Speaker 8: I kind of.
Speaker 7: Asked you this a bit when I you and the
Speaker 7: athletic Complex. So we're gonna be standing here on March seventeenth,
Speaker 7: and you're gonna be signing my famed you see basketball
Speaker 7: coach ball. That means you went to the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: What went right?
Speaker 7: Besides winning.
Speaker 2: Just the right approach every day? I mean that, you know,
Speaker 2: I think there's there's a number of things that you
Speaker 2: can control. You can control your professionalism as a player,
Speaker 2: as a coach, and we define what that is in
Speaker 2: our program. You can control the approach every day to
Speaker 2: try to improve. And that sounds trivial, but I mean that,
Speaker 2: like this is really about an everyday approach to try
Speaker 2: to get better, and within that like really win the
Speaker 2: details of the things that win. And then you can
Speaker 2: control how you contribute to the team. Like every player,
Speaker 2: every coach, every player on the team, they're either contributing
Speaker 2: positively or negative of the team. We got to have
Speaker 2: a group that does it positively every single day. We
Speaker 2: actually rank the guys each week in those three categories.
Speaker 2: If we can really really live that, not just talk
Speaker 2: about it, put it on a wall, put it, put
Speaker 2: it on the board once a week. But like, if
Speaker 2: we can really live that, then then we'll hear a
Speaker 2: name called on selection Sunday. And that's I'm pretty adamant
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: Dave Hey coach, welcome back.
Speaker 9: Likewise, my first radio show question, what did you do
Speaker 9: over the summer outside of basketball? Any good vacations, any
Speaker 9: golf courses, you played anything fun.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for my girlfriend Lauren there, because she's gonna
Speaker 2: answer nothing. She's gonna say we didn't do anything other
Speaker 2: than basketball. You know, I think I think in most
Speaker 2: off seasons, disconnecting is important, and Dave and I've really
Speaker 2: looked for that. I did less of that this year
Speaker 2: than any time in my professional career coaching basketball. My
Speaker 2: golf game is I don't the handful of times I
Speaker 2: played golf, which was less for fun and more for
Speaker 2: something revolving around work, I was so bad I had
Speaker 2: no desire to play anymore. I mean, I I used
Speaker 2: to think I was a pretty damn good golfer deep down,
Speaker 2: like I had some irrational confidence in my golf game.
Speaker 2: I'm terrible, guys, I've lost that. But no, we didn't
Speaker 2: take any vacations. I took three trips internationally that were
Speaker 2: tied into to recruiting, and I was able to bring
Speaker 2: my girlfriend along on those trips and we would do like,
Speaker 2: you know, like I went to Switzerland for the Unite
Speaker 2: teen World Championships recruiting, which was which was great. And
Speaker 2: so we did two days at the World Championships and
Speaker 2: I watched the games and Lauren would go shopping or wherever.
Speaker 2: I didn't see her. She come to one game and
Speaker 2: then disappear.
Speaker 1: But Lauren went to Switzerland and you went to a gym,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 2: But then on the third day there was which was
Speaker 2: an off day of the games. Instead of coming right home,
Speaker 2: you know, we spent a day in Geneva. Like that
Speaker 2: was the kind of thing. Maybe a day here or
Speaker 2: day there. But it was a very focused off season,
Speaker 2: a very intentional offseason. But at the same time I
Speaker 2: feel very refreshed and recharged to get into this year.
Speaker 1: We got about five holes of golf in before a
Speaker 1: month soon.
Speaker 2: That was fun, that's right. Oh, that was disappointed. That
Speaker 2: was really good. Broke my heart, Yeah, broke my heart.
Speaker 1: Because we were playing an awesome course.
Speaker 10: Brian, all right, coach, enough about the off season.
Speaker 2: Let's get to it, big fella.
Speaker 10: So you were talking about you were looking for adversity
Speaker 10: and obviously in the exhibition games, and I'm just curious,
Speaker 10: are there specific things when you're picking who you're playing
Speaker 10: that you're looking for there are certain certain types of
Speaker 10: adversity or is it just I want I want the
Speaker 10: Gotlin third of the team and see how we react everything, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I asked. I got to ask some scheduling questions
Speaker 2: today at media day, and I want to make this clear, like, yes,
Speaker 2: we have a hand in the schedule, like we have
Speaker 2: to make an agreement with another team. But it's not
Speaker 2: like we go out and say I want to play
Speaker 2: this team and they go, okay, sure, great, let's play
Speaker 2: whenever you want to play. Like it is it is,
Speaker 2: scheduling is incredibly difficult because everybody's angling on all sides.
Speaker 2: So like getting a quality home game is become this
Speaker 2: almost impossible feat because you have to have an agreement
Speaker 2: with another team, they have to be willing to start
Speaker 2: on the road, you have to find a date that works.
Speaker 2: There's just all these dynamics that are going on. So
Speaker 2: the answer to your question is yes, I mean you like,
Speaker 2: I loved the Michigan scrimmage because they're going to be
Speaker 2: a great team. Dusty are friends, and when you do
Speaker 2: something like that, it's better to do it with friends.
Speaker 2: So you know, their head coach, Dusty May and I
Speaker 2: are very friendly. We had dinner the night before the game.
Speaker 2: We shared what we were doing so we didn't have
Speaker 2: to spend time on a scout and report, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, those reasons were factors, but I love that
Speaker 2: they switch everything. You know, we don't switch a lot.
Speaker 2: We're more of an emergency switch type of program, so
Speaker 2: we'll late switch if somebody gets held up. But our
Speaker 2: whole thing is you should never have we fight do
Speaker 2: everything like you should never have to switch. Where they
Speaker 2: switch everything and they're really good at it. We played
Speaker 2: some games in league last year, like Baylor. We played
Speaker 2: them the third game of league and we saw like
Speaker 2: five ways switching for the first time with a one
Speaker 2: day prep and we hadn't seen it, and we really
Speaker 2: really struggled with it. So that was a positive. But
Speaker 2: it's not so simple because they're just hard to find
Speaker 2: good games. So there's probably that was probably more once
Speaker 2: we go, hey, we can do this with Michigan and
Speaker 2: Dust they want to do it. And then oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, this is going to be good because we're
Speaker 2: going to play against this type of scheme. It doesn't
Speaker 2: start that way. I wish you could do it that way.
Speaker 2: Schedule is just too difficult, if that makes sense. And
Speaker 2: then going on the road to play at Arkansas this week. Again,
Speaker 2: Cal and I are very friendly and have been very
Speaker 2: friendly for a long time, so somebody that you want
Speaker 2: to work with in this type of situation. And then
Speaker 2: I just I love the difference of the two styles.
Speaker 2: You know, Michigan style and Arkansas style are polar opposites,
Speaker 2: and so that'll be really good for us. And they're
Speaker 2: both a little different than how we play in practice
Speaker 2: every day. So there is some of that, but it
Speaker 2: probably doesn't it's probably not as clean as as you'd
Speaker 2: like to think.
Speaker 11: Wait, hi, coach, I'm curious with the additions of Kerr
Speaker 11: and Keishaan, will day Day be more of a two
Speaker 11: guard this year or will will he still be running point.
Speaker 2: At some point? Score? That's what dayDay is gonna go do.
Speaker 2: Go score and let him let him now he's gonna
Speaker 2: play some point guard like he It's been fun to
Speaker 2: watch those guys play together that there, and you know,
Speaker 2: Sincere Harris or Buck Harris is a combo guard too,
Speaker 2: so we have four legit big twelve guards and it's
Speaker 2: been fun to watch them play together. And we've given
Speaker 2: them quite a bit of freedom of who brings it up,
Speaker 2: and they play multiple positions in our sets and actions.
Speaker 2: But having Key and Kerr has allowed day day to
Speaker 2: spend less time focusing on getting us into a set
Speaker 2: or getting us into offense, and more time on just
Speaker 2: going to do what I think he's built to do.
Speaker 2: He's healthy again, to guys like he's healthy. He had
Speaker 2: he he had a sequence in practice a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago. He went baseline in the half court and
Speaker 2: jammed it and kind of like looked up, like I've
Speaker 2: seen him miss a lot of dunks like that last year,
Speaker 2: but I see him make many, you know, But he
Speaker 2: was doing that when he first got here. And then
Speaker 2: the next possession he cut out of the corner, caught
Speaker 2: the back of a head and they think Sean threw
Speaker 2: a lob and he dunked it with two hands in
Speaker 2: a lob and I've never seen him do that. And
Speaker 2: so he's physically he's not just healthy mentally like he's in.
Speaker 2: He had a great offseason. He's physically in a really
Speaker 2: elite place, and I think he's primed to have a
Speaker 2: big year score in the basketball for so the answer
Speaker 2: short answer, yes, but he'll still have some point guard responsibility.
Speaker 3: Reminds me of Ramel Robinson from the eighty nine Michigan
Speaker 3: team when they won it all. He was a big,
Speaker 3: strong guard that can score with the best of him
Speaker 3: and Fisher let him go.
Speaker 2: Hey, Terry, when you coach a team, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come up, come to your group. I'm will say, Man, Terry,
Speaker 2: you got Shaq and Kobe and Michael Jordan. Hell, I
Speaker 2: hope you can coach him.
Speaker 1: Dada has gone from a point guard to a points guard.
Speaker 2: He'll still have that role, and we know we can
Speaker 2: play that role well. But I've really wanted to free
Speaker 2: him up to just go score the ball and create
Speaker 2: offense for our team. And he's running the floor so
Speaker 2: much harder because and he knows he's gonna get it.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll take a break, we'll come back with
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.
Speaker 12: The idea from here in the description of this team
Speaker 12: that there are just so many ways that this team
Speaker 12: can score and can push them all up the floor
Speaker 12: that we're gonna put substantial pressure on our opposing defenses,
Speaker 12: whether it's with lineup combinations or shot selection or execution.
Speaker 12: And I wonder what a difference that makes in how
Speaker 12: you put your game plan together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have more firepower than we've had recently, for sure,
Speaker 2: and we're not perfect right, Like I still see some air.
Speaker 2: Is like, we got to make sure we're getting fouled,
Speaker 2: and we've got to make sure we're putting pressure on
Speaker 2: the rim. Jalen Haynes was a big part of that attack.
Speaker 2: And so we're gonna have to pivot here, which is
Speaker 2: that this is basketball, Like, we'll do it, but to
Speaker 2: make sure that we're we're putting that press, Like that's
Speaker 2: going to be a hole here early and we can't
Speaker 2: let it be over a long period of time. But
Speaker 2: I do think we're gonna be able to put pressure
Speaker 2: on the other team with our offense at times. And
Speaker 2: you talk about game planning, Yeah, there's different ways, right,
Speaker 2: whether it's through pick and roll once you get in transition,
Speaker 2: I want to be a part of our attack every night,
Speaker 2: but whether it's through pick and roll, we've actually had
Speaker 2: a little bit of success screening away from the ball
Speaker 2: at times, in the preseason. We're going to do more
Speaker 2: of that the more we move through it. I think
Speaker 2: we have a number of guys that can really shoot
Speaker 2: the ball, so finding ways to free them up to
Speaker 2: shoot it is going to be important. And then I
Speaker 2: really do think we have something with Mustafa uh in
Speaker 2: the box. Like I knew he was a talent, but
Speaker 2: his ability to score in the box is significantly better
Speaker 2: than I anticipated. And I think it's going to be
Speaker 2: important to get him those deep catches that that's going
Speaker 2: to be a strength of our team.
Speaker 8: All right, next question, So, so coach, with what you
Speaker 8: just said, I got two questions. The first one is
Speaker 8: what do you what do you consider your team's identity?
Speaker 8: And the second one is do you feel the pressure
Speaker 8: of ni L to win now? Like with the n
Speaker 8: i L players are leaving that the one year and whatever,
Speaker 8: So do you feel the pressure to win now?
Speaker 2: And what is the team's identity? Yeah, the team's identity
Speaker 2: to me is is pace connected and aggressive. I think
Speaker 2: in everything we're doing, like and I don't mean just
Speaker 2: style of play, like when we That's a great question
Speaker 2: and that would come from a great player. That makes sense,
Speaker 2: But like you can have you can separate yourself as
Speaker 2: an outlier in college basketball with a ton of continuity
Speaker 2: because it's so rare. So if you have a group,
Speaker 2: a team that's played together for three or four years,
Speaker 2: how much different is that than the masses. Our goal
Speaker 2: when we got together in the summer was to take
Speaker 2: a team that hasn't been together for three or four years,
Speaker 2: and if we'll be very intentional about how we come
Speaker 2: together and connect, we could play like a team that's
Speaker 2: been together for three or four years in February, in March.
Speaker 2: That's that's like been our goal. It's been intentional. Like
Speaker 2: we've said to our team, like it's very important you
Speaker 2: guys learn each other and get to know each other
Speaker 2: whether you really want to or not socially because it's
Speaker 2: gonna help us win. Like do do it for the
Speaker 2: reason that it's going to be important to our success.
Speaker 2: And we have some older guys that get that in
Speaker 2: the ballon. That's just one example. But I think our
Speaker 2: pace are connect action and then our aggressiveness like have
Speaker 2: to be our identity as a club. That's number one.
Speaker 2: The pressure if I'm guilty of anything, it's the internal
Speaker 2: pressure to win all the time and anything I've done
Speaker 2: in my entire life. Like, so there's never been any
Speaker 2: kind of external pressure that equals that. I mean, I
Speaker 2: mean that like I'm an angry person on the eighteenth
Speaker 2: hole when I'm in a bed. Like to me, it's
Speaker 2: like it be like playing in the Ryder Cup and guy,
Speaker 2: I'd done a hell of a better job okay than
Speaker 2: we did in fright or cups about that, but like,
Speaker 2: but so no, I don't I think that in college athletics,
Speaker 2: there's the landscape is shift and you see some of
Speaker 2: these things that are happening in football and the buyouts,
Speaker 2: I mean incredible, But I think, for at least I
Speaker 2: can only speak for myself, the internal pressure has always
Speaker 2: been there, so it doesn't affect me, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I did not expect he can Bradley to catch us stray.
Speaker 1: Tonight on the Come On West Miller Radio show, the question.
Speaker 3: Was asked from Ady Jackson, starting point guard, starting combo
Speaker 3: guard from the Bearcats ninety two final fourteen to ninety
Speaker 3: three le eight team. So that was Aby Jackson, A.
Speaker 2: Great, great question from a great player.
Speaker 1: Fellas.
Speaker 13: I have to ask as someone who wasn't able to
Speaker 13: watch the game, But what was the difference in the
Speaker 13: first half with the foul calling and the second half
Speaker 13: with the foul calling on the Bearcats. What changed either
Speaker 13: in Michigan's approach or in our play. Perhaps that may
Speaker 13: have stepped it up for this. Let me say something
Speaker 13: to the.
Speaker 2: Rest, Well, this was a couple of days ago, but
Speaker 2: I think we we shot thirty six free throws, right, thirty.
Speaker 1: Four they made forty one, right.
Speaker 2: They shot forty eight or fifty they shot forty eight.
Speaker 2: We shot. They were calling it tight both ways. We
Speaker 2: had some silly ones out front in the second half,
Speaker 2: and it was actually interesting because both coaches were doing
Speaker 2: the same thing. We got into the bonus in the
Speaker 2: end of the first half and I'm yelling at our guys,
Speaker 2: drive it, like we're in the bonus, drive it. And
Speaker 2: then we take a three and you're like, that's probably
Speaker 2: why come on? But uh, and Dusty was doing the
Speaker 2: same thing. You know, they put us in the bonus
Speaker 2: and he's yelling drive it. So I think both teams
Speaker 2: made a concerted effort that once the game was called tight,
Speaker 2: to put more pressure on the other team, and I
Speaker 2: think both of us did that. We had some silly
Speaker 2: ones way out front, but they called it pretty tight,
Speaker 2: and it was very aggressive and physical in the first
Speaker 2: fourteen to fifteen minutes of the games. It looks like
Speaker 2: the referees were trying to tighten it up. But I
Speaker 2: tell the referees this all the time, and like these
Speaker 2: exhibitions are when they come to practice, like we have days,
Speaker 2: they'll come and referee our innersquad scrimmages. Please call it tight,
Speaker 2: you know, like, please come that nothing bothers me more
Speaker 2: than we have an intersquad scrimmage or a closed door
Speaker 2: scrimmage or an exhibition. They call no fouls in the
Speaker 2: first game of the year. They call every foul. It's like,
Speaker 2: we want the guys to learn how to adjust to you.
Speaker 2: And so if you could do that when it doesn't count,
Speaker 2: it's a heck of a lot better for all of us.
Speaker 2: So Dusty and I talked one time in the middle
Speaker 2: of the game, and we both said, if both of
Speaker 2: us could stop fouling, might get better tonight. You know,
Speaker 2: that type of thing. But it is a little bit
Speaker 2: of both. There was some silly stuff both sides with fowls.
Speaker 2: They called it a little tight, which was okay, But
Speaker 2: hopefully we won't have as much of that on Friday.
Speaker 2: We've worked at that this week.
Speaker 3: Running out of time. Two guys, I want you to
Speaker 3: briefly talk about Tyler McKinley, who seemed to have a
Speaker 3: great entry into his first game as a barcout after
Speaker 3: the knee injury last year. And a guy who didn't play,
Speaker 3: Jayalen Celestine, who was a three point just marksman who
Speaker 3: didn't get a chance to play. You set him out
Speaker 3: for that game.
Speaker 2: The one thing I do want to say about the fouls,
Speaker 2: aggressive is an okay mistake early like I will take
Speaker 2: the aggressive ones. So like our defense as we built it,
Speaker 2: we are not as disciplined defensively at this stage as
Speaker 2: I usually always had a team, and that's by design.
Speaker 2: Like we are in times all over the place on defense,
Speaker 2: and that's okay. But we are playing aggressively. We are
Speaker 2: playing aggressive in our pick and roll coverage. We're playing
Speaker 2: aggressive trap of the post. We're probably pressuring too much,
Speaker 2: and that's okay because you can reel the in fouling
Speaker 2: too much, you can reel that in. But at the
Speaker 2: same time or early on, it's gonna have to get
Speaker 2: reeled in. Like it's a little too much. But I'm
Speaker 2: okay with that. That's by design. Jalen Celestine has not practiced.
Speaker 2: He did not practice the month of July all the
Speaker 2: way up until about the last three or four weeks,
Speaker 2: and it's been a progression to bring him back. It
Speaker 2: was a mild back type thing, but serious enough to
Speaker 2: hold him out for a couple of months. He's been
Speaker 2: working his way back in. He'll get some minutes here
Speaker 2: against Arkansas, but and he's gonna have a great year
Speaker 2: and he's a very important player to our team. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's just a he's really old, smart, versatile player, but
Speaker 2: he won't be himself and he's not in season for me.
Speaker 2: It's gonna take him another month, I think, to really
Speaker 2: look like the Jalen Celestine that we recruited. But it'll
Speaker 2: be good to get him some action Friday night. And
Speaker 2: then Tyler McKinley, Man, he's good, right, I mean, he's.
Speaker 1: Great to see him out there running and jumping and
Speaker 1: looking healthy.
Speaker 2: He's a good player, guys, and he's a Cincinnati kid.
Speaker 2: And I've been recruiting Tyler McKinley since the day I
Speaker 2: got the Cincinnati job, So it's been been a long
Speaker 2: road to get him in a uniform and that's that
Speaker 2: felt really good. He he is going to be an
Speaker 2: extremely important player to this year's team. That's all. That's
Speaker 2: what I'll tell you. I won't blow him up too
Speaker 2: much tonight, Terry.
Speaker 3: Kevin willis a lot of Hawks.
Speaker 2: He got longer arms than Kevin.
Speaker 3: Short shouldiers, you know, he got a little arms over
Speaker 3: here like he's you know, but he's quick in the polls.
Speaker 3: He can handle the ball. He could he does. He
Speaker 3: plays hard every possession. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 3: his effort.
Speaker 2: He's great and he may be one of the best
Speaker 2: three or four passers on our team. And that that's
Speaker 2: pretty fun. With somebody in the front court, you can
Speaker 2: run offense through them. And we were doing a lot
Speaker 2: of that with Jalen Haynes and Tyler. So some of
Speaker 2: that stuff we were doing with Hanes, we're gonna be
Speaker 2: able to do with Tyler.
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