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Speaker 1: It's greatest rips. Welcome to the West Miller Radio Show.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hord alongside former Bearcats standout Terry Nelson and

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

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Speaker 1: three and oh you see Bearcats. Let's hear it for

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Speaker 1: Wes Miller. Cincinnati coming off a nice win on Tuesday Night,

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Speaker 1: a twelve point win over the Dayton Flyers. We know

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year, Dayton's going to have

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Speaker 1: a good NCAA net ranking. They're in the top one

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Speaker 1: hundred every year. So that's one of those wins that's

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Speaker 1: going to pay dividends in March. And anytime you can

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Speaker 1: get a win over Dayton, I don't care if it's

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Speaker 1: one point, twelve points, whatever, that's a nice victory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, please with the result for sure. And you know,

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Speaker 2: we're still a team that's evolved in learning each other

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Speaker 2: going through games for the first time. That was the

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Speaker 2: first higher level opponent that we played in that sense

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Speaker 2: at least, and you know, there was some nice things

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Speaker 2: that happened that gave us a chance to have a

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Speaker 2: double figure victory.

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Speaker 3: Your mentality has been from from day one. Next play.

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Speaker 3: You finally have a team that truly understands what next

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Speaker 3: play is. Obviously, as you're adjusting to a new style

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Speaker 3: of constant pressure offensively and defensively with little or no

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Speaker 3: breaks to really process what you're doing, you've gotta process faster.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna have some mistakes.

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Speaker 3: Is it truly about the next play?

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Speaker 2: That's been a motto for years, is that the most

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Speaker 2: important play is the next play. And it's it's like,

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Speaker 2: you know, you hear that in practice all the time,

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Speaker 2: and it's it's neat if you hear the players echoing

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Speaker 2: that to each other. And so you're trying to adapt

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Speaker 2: establish that type of mentality, and like, I'll give you

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Speaker 2: the example in the Dayton game. You know, they score

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Speaker 2: to cut it to two, and we scored four and

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Speaker 2: a half seconds later on the other end, and that

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Speaker 2: that's what we mean is sunk.

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Speaker 4: They got it out and you guys ran straight.

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Speaker 2: Down, yeah, you know, and it was a it was

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Speaker 2: a big play for them, a big value dunk way

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Speaker 2: above the rim, and you're scoring on the other end

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Speaker 2: while they're still celebrating, and then all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: that that's a big momentum shift. They had a momentum shift.

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Speaker 2: And then you go right back, and to me, that's

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Speaker 2: that's playing the next play right, not letting what just

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Speaker 2: happen affect what you're supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: Dayton shot twenty four percent in the first half, thirty

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Speaker 1: two percent in the game. Is your defense ahead of

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Speaker 1: your offense right now? Or is that a day to

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Speaker 1: day type of thing.

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Speaker 2: It's too early to analyze statistics, you know, Like I

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Speaker 2: think people somebody referenced some Ken palm stuff and press

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Speaker 2: conference and you know that that kind of thing. I

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Speaker 2: think I think about seven eight nine games in you

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Speaker 2: can really look at some statistics. You have a bigger

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Speaker 2: sample size than those statistics mean a little more. I

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Speaker 2: feel like our offense in some ways is way ahead

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Speaker 2: of our defense, but not in every way. I think

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Speaker 2: there's some things with our offense we still have to

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Speaker 2: really iron out, and we haven't run a lot of

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Speaker 2: specific action yet. It's been more just kind of flow

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Speaker 2: and style of play. We definitely got to get a

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Speaker 2: little more specific here over the next couple of weeks. Defensively, again,

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Speaker 2: two weeks ago, I went, man, we got too far

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Speaker 2: to go that I want to go, and we're going

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Speaker 2: to really spend some time and energy on it. We

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Speaker 2: have over the last two weeks and it's improving, but

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Speaker 2: it still has a ways to go.

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Speaker 3: When you put together over the years your scouting report,

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Speaker 3: you look at your team, you're going over their offense,

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Speaker 3: and then you're looking at key players. At some point

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Speaker 3: you didn't have the players to lock down the other

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Speaker 3: team's best players, so you had to do a lot

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Speaker 3: of scheme. You've got multiple guys now that can get

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Speaker 3: after and sort of go on one man assignments and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: your job is there, your job is there? When you're

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Speaker 3: putting your game plan together, are you using more of

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Speaker 3: that and using the knowledge of the talent that you

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Speaker 3: the fire that these guys may have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little of that terry and maybe a

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Speaker 2: little not. I think we do really value the personnel report,

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Speaker 2: you know, trying and I think we have some older

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Speaker 2: basketball and they know how to take a scout and

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Speaker 2: report and apply it to our defensive principles. So you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe you're guarding a guy that's not as good of

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Speaker 2: especially our older players, understand how to go under a

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Speaker 2: And so in the Dayton game, there was a number

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Speaker 2: to keep in front. They were so dangerous downhill in

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Speaker 2: their first three games and the first I'm sorry too.

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Speaker 2: And the exhibitions, you're so worried about what they can

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Speaker 2: do at the rim, but it's like, hey, they can

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Speaker 2: make a shot, but that's not been who they've been,

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Speaker 2: either at Dayton or at previous stops in their careers.

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Speaker 2: Our guys were able to kind of take some of

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Speaker 2: those things in scout and then apply them. And I

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Speaker 2: think we have to be a team that continues to

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Speaker 2: be able to utilize that information. And then, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think we do have a couple of guys that

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Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'd like to have a team full

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Speaker 2: of that, but there's some guys that are capable, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Buck Harris might be the most prototypical Bearcat you've had

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Speaker 1: in your five years coaching at Cincinnati. The toughness, the hustle,

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Speaker 1: the aggressiveness, the feistiness. One negative though so far has

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Speaker 1: been fouled trouble. He's averaging four files in the first

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Speaker 1: three games. Does his reputation lead to some fouls being

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Speaker 1: called on him that aren't called on others or are

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Speaker 1: there easy ways for him to cut down on those files?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's probably a mix of things. Dan

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Speaker 2: and we actually had the reputation conversation in film a

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Speaker 2: couple of days ago when we were watching the game

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Speaker 2: tape with the team. You know, we do have some

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Speaker 2: guys that have not just played a lot of college basketball,

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Speaker 2: they've played college basketball in this league. With the officials

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Speaker 2: that get assigned to games in this league, and we

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Speaker 2: talked about it, some of you guys have some reputations

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Speaker 2: and you got to be very aware of that, and

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Speaker 2: they know who you are. I mean, they're talking about

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Speaker 2: our players by first name before we even tip the ball.

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Speaker 2: And some of that's good and some of it's not.

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Speaker 2: And they have to try to build the right reputations.

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Speaker 2: In their early time at Cincinnati, I said to one

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Speaker 2: of our players in film, I said, you have a

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Speaker 2: reputation as this and that didn't happen at Cincinnati it

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Speaker 2: happened somewhere else. You got to change it at Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: and so I think Buck is getting penalized a little bit,

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Speaker 2: you know, because people do understand how aggressively is defensively.

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Speaker 2: But he's also just got to find that happy medium

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Speaker 2: of still being him, being aggressive, but having a little

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Speaker 3: I know what you mean about reputation, because Dan has

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Speaker 3: a reputation of taking the We used to stay together

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Speaker 4: Has as soon as.

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Speaker 3: He was sitting there, he would just take the table,

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Speaker 4: So I had to go down. I know about reputation.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, with anything, we got a great trend going

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Speaker 2: on this year that you two just keep. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: have to out of the middle of this at some point.

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Speaker 3: It's entertainment value, rather, come on, they's been a pretty

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Speaker 4: Okay, So you get your offense left to right.

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Speaker 3: It seems like when that ball goes left to right,

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Speaker 3: you have options of on the ball screens or you

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Speaker 3: had to give your guys the freedom to dance a

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Speaker 3: When that pall comes, it seems to shine to Baiev.

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Speaker 3: He has this ability against the toughest of defense with

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Speaker 3: because he's so long and because it seems to be

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Speaker 3: a slow wind up on it, he gets filed a

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Speaker 3: lot on three point attempts, more than I've seen any

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think we have the utmost confidence

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Speaker 2: and Shawn, you know, being able to shot create, and

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Speaker 2: I think the ones that stand out to everybody are

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Speaker 2: the tough ones that he hits, you know, where he's defended.

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Speaker 2: And certainly that was a big part of while we recurve.

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Speaker 2: Somebody said, you're gonna let him take those shots. I said,

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Speaker 2: recruited him to take those shots. I mean, it'd be

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Speaker 2: silly to tell him we love you because you can

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Speaker 2: do that, and then you get here and you're not

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Speaker 2: allowed to do that. But the part that he does

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Speaker 2: so well that maybe is underrated is hillity to make

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Speaker 2: the domino with the ball in his hands, and I

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Speaker 2: thought he did that at the end of the game,

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Speaker 2: and we put him in, you know, three straight pick

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Speaker 2: of them he makes a nice simple pass to Day Day.

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Speaker 2: he makes a nice simple pass to Day they coming

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Speaker 2: off a pen down and Day they missed a shot.

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Speaker 2: And then he comes off of it the third time

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Speaker 2: in the Red Sea Party, then he went down and

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Speaker 2: dunked it. But I think he's going to be able

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Speaker 2: I think he can create offense for everybody else because

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Speaker 2: he is a pretty good decision maker.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the turnovers. Twenty four of

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Speaker 1: them in the game. You said you would review that

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Speaker 1: the next day when you watched the tape and talk

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Speaker 1: about it with the players. What stood out? What much

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Speaker 1: do you do to that number?

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Speaker 4: Way down?

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Speaker 2: Well, what stood out is that we won a game.

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Speaker 2: We had twenty four turnouts, and I told I said,

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Speaker 2: after the game, that'll go in the book one day.

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Speaker 2: There's some that stick out. I think I embellished and

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Speaker 2: it wasn't on purpose. But we gave up sixteen threes

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Speaker 2: think we gave eight in the second half. So it's

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Speaker 2: twenty four for the game, and we won the game.

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Speaker 2: And I'll never forget that game because we gave up

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Speaker 2: twenty four threes and we won the game. It'll be

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Speaker 2: like that when this date and games talked about, you know, seven, eight,

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Speaker 2: ten years from now. We turned it over twenty four

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Speaker 2: dang times. By the way, we weren't very good from

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Speaker 2: the free throw line either. And then we had Day

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Speaker 2: Day twelve for twelve and I think sincere was the

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Speaker 2: eight for ten. Am I right about that? But we

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Speaker 2: won the game, and that means you had to do

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Speaker 2: a lot of other good stuff, and so there was

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Speaker 2: some good stuff even though heck we turned it over. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we did address it in film. We can't be a

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Speaker 2: team that's careless with the ball. There's two types of

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Speaker 2: turnovers that you don't want to live with as a coach.

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Speaker 2: One is selfish turnover. I didn't see any of that.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, let's go.

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Speaker 1: There's an old saying in baseball when a guy gets

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Speaker 2: If they made him all like Tyler McKinley, coaching would

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Speaker 2: he's been fun and it's crazy because I feel like

436
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Speaker 2: I've known him, you know, forever, literally since I got here.

437
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Speaker 2: But he's just a freshman, and that that's pretty that's

438
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:37,920
Speaker 2: pretty cool for Cincinnati basketball.

439
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Speaker 1: Kirk Risa had eight assists in the game. He also

440
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 1: had five turnovers, A couple of the turnovers late in

441
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Speaker 1: the game where when he was trying to make a

442
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Speaker 1: play with flair behind the back bounce pass on a

443
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Speaker 1: fast break, stuff like that. Do you encourage that? Is

444
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: its situational? I mean, is it? I'm I'm serious?

445
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Speaker 4: Is that okay?

446
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 1: Does it depend on time and score? How do you

447
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 1: feel about guys that that play with flair like that?

448
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Speaker 2: The goat Dan board, I want to throw fire back

449
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 2: at him, yeah, Dan, and I encourage guys to throw

450
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Speaker 2: behind the back past twelve with a minute left.

451
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know specifically that. I mean, I don't

452
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Speaker 1: want to use the word hot dog plays because there's

453
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Speaker 1: a negative connotation there.

454
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Speaker 2: But well that's his play was a hot dog player,

455
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 2: and it needs a negative connotation because it was a

456
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,440
Speaker 2: terrible play. My college coach texted me after the game,

457
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Speaker 2: you know, great win, congratulations at the around the one

458
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,199
Speaker 2: minute mark, I wanted to shoot your point and you know,

459
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,199
Speaker 2: any any put in brackets creasing and and so the

460
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Speaker 2: next day in film I read that to the whole team.

461
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Speaker 2: So this is what my college coach texted me after

462
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Speaker 2: the game, but uh, but no, I I think listen,

463
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Speaker 2: Kerkkrisa has a flair, yes, uh uh. He has a

464
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 2: swagger and a confidence to how he approaches the game,

465
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,879
Speaker 2: and he's got a lot of experience in college basketball

466
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 2: on the biggest stages. That that flare, that confidence, that

467
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 2: edge that he plays with is his greatest strength. There's

468
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 2: times that that can be a weakness, and as he's

469
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Speaker 2: continuing to mature as a point guard, that's my challenge

470
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Speaker 2: to him is I don't want to restrict any of

471
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 2: that in the positive ways, but let's not let's finish games,

472
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 2: let's make sound plays and uh like it's it's fun

473
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 2: because he's an old dog in college basketball, but he

474
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Speaker 2: can still improve.

475
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Speaker 3: Coach, And your greatest strength is not showing facial expressions

476
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Speaker 3: when he's making those plays.

477
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Speaker 4: I'm looking at you.

478
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 3: As soon as he made that behind the back pass

479
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,920
Speaker 3: and it goes out on a three on one, I'm

480
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 3: looking at you and you just stood still.

481
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 4: You were throwing face, but inside you like a duck

482
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Speaker 4: on water.

483
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 3: I mean it looks good on top, but you're kicking

484
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,400
Speaker 3: and squirming underneath that surface.

485
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Speaker 4: I know something was going on there competitive.

486
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Speaker 2: Oh Man, Now in the Georgia State game, just toot

487
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 2: and hollered and yelled at him the whole I was

488
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 2: trying to make some points, so you couldn't say it

489
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 2: about me all the time, but I was a maniac

490
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,880
Speaker 2: in that game. But we were still listen, it's early

491
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,639
Speaker 2: in the year and we're still We're still trying to

492
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 2: build this team. So there's gonna be some moments to

493
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,159
Speaker 2: really push and there's gonna be some moments like that

494
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 2: where I was probably doing my woosaws and taking a

495
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 2: deep breath and wait until nobody could see it. Him

496
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 2: and I could have a conversation.

497
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Speaker 1: All right, we're late for a break. Questions from the audience.

498
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Speaker 1: When we come back, it's the Westmeller Radio Show on

499
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Speaker 1: seven hundred WLW. I get the original Montgomery in home

500
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Speaker 1: of the World's Greatest Ribs, and the West Miller Radio

501
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: Show here on seven hundred WLW, and the Bearcats back

502
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Speaker 1: in action on Sunday, looking to approve to four and

503
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Speaker 1: oh as they host Mount Saint Mary's. That's six o'clock

504
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Speaker 1: tip on Sunday at the Third Arena. Time for questions

505
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Speaker 1: from the audience. Our man Elliott was not in attendance

506
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: last week. Good to have him back. He's got Mike

507
00:23:58,119 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: in hand, he's ready to.

508
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Speaker 6: Go, so free with and I was just being free

509
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 6: agency at this point. Do you ever go after guys

510
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 6: assuming they're going to stay there full four years of

511
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 6: college with you, or that they're just going to be

512
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Speaker 6: a one and done. How do you go about recruiting

513
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 6: guys with that?

514
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in recruiting, you know, obviously we're just

515
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: very honest. That's first, first and foremost. We're very honest,

516
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,520
Speaker 2: and certainly we want guys that are going to want

517
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: to stay in our program build year to year. You

518
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 2: do see this trend of retention and how valuable that

519
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 2: is and how difficult it is, but how valuable. So

520
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 2: we were honest about what our intentions are when it

521
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 2: comes to one and done or how many and done.

522
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Speaker 2: You know, for college basketball players, this is not their

523
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 2: end game. All of their goals is to play in

524
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Speaker 2: the NBA. So if they can get the opportunity to

525
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 2: leave early to do that, that's the biggest win in

526
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,360
Speaker 2: their lives and their family's lives. So we always support

527
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Speaker 2: that and we all always want that.

528
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Speaker 6: So would day they be like a good example of

529
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Speaker 6: a guy that you went after and he ended up

530
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Speaker 6: staying the full four years.

531
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Deda's a great example of that. Yeah, correct, all.

532
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 1: Right, Ellieah, thank you. We have the assistant coach from

533
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Speaker 1: section two o six two seven, two o seven. I

534
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Speaker 1: thought it was two o six.

535
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Speaker 4: Have you moved?

536
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Speaker 7: I wasn't moved in a different seat last week or

537
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 7: what was that Tuesday? Thanks to Terry Nelson. I had

538
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Speaker 7: a colleague in town that loved to come into a

539
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 7: Bearcats game. So there's been a promotion in two oh

540
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Speaker 7: seven though I am the captain co assistant assistant coach

541
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Speaker 7: to do UC Bearcats and Courtney as the assistant. Yeah,

542
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 7: so I'm the speaker anyways. So our question is, you know,

543
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 7: when you think about last year, you know, we definitely

544
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 7: had a gap with leadership, and I know we had

545
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Speaker 7: several conversations. He just needs someone at that time to

546
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 7: just take the bomb, be like we're gonna win and

547
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 7: put it through me. And I know I'd heard that

548
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,959
Speaker 7: through other coaches when we would struggle, and so this year, really,

549
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 7: did you have someone immediately that kind of rose through

550
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 7: in practice over the last several months that was like

551
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 7: he's our leader or how did that really come about

552
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Speaker 7: for this season?

553
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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think if people want to define

554
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 2: the leader, I think everybody likes that narrative that this

555
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 2: guy is the leader. I think on the greatest teams

556
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 2: I've ever been a part of that, there's a bunch

557
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 2: of leadership roles within the team, and people lead in

558
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 2: different ways and in different areas. I think so far

559
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 2: this year, Dade showed a lot of leadership and he's

560
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 2: been He's not a vocal person. I mean, he's an introvert,

561
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 2: but he's been far more vocal than I've ever seen him,

562
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Speaker 2: especially when something needs to be said. Certainly, he's always

563
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 2: been a leader by example and how he approaches things,

564
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 2: but he has such an understanding now of winning. Kerr

565
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 2: has leadership ability. He is very vocal, and he has

566
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 2: a lot of experience and it's been a part of

567
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 2: a bunch of success in college. I think Jalen Celestine

568
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 2: in his own way, just because of his experience and

569
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: he's got away with people and a confidence about him.

570
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 2: I think him starting to play and get out in practice.

571
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 2: I think that that role will emerge a little bit

572
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 2: more sincere Harris has that mentality that I think people

573
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 2: can follow that. He's not afraid of anything. You know,

574
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: he'll attack any situation and certainly has experience. And I

575
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 2: could keeping even Keishan Tillery and Seanabaye of there. They're

576
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: they're alpha's right, and so they're young and they're trying

577
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 2: to figure it out, but they're not people that take

578
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 2: a back seat. And I think the more of that

579
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 2: that we can have, as long as everybody sees the

580
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 2: big picture of the team, I think that creates a

581
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 2: locker room fill of leadership. And I know I'm leaving

582
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 2: some guys out, but I think it's a collective thing.

583
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of that. I don't want to

584
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 2: always compare it to last year or anything like that,

585
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 2: but I've seen a lot of that this year, more

586
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 2: so than I have in anytimes I've been the coach here.

587
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 8: Dave Hey coach the game the other night, Obviously a

588
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 8: lot of fouls were called and it just seemed like

589
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 8: the game was the flow was not there. How hard

590
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 8: is that when it seems like they're calling a foul

591
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 8: on everything to run your offense and you know, just

592
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 8: keep a keep a flow.

593
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Speaker 2: Going, you know, I've turned games on here the last

594
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 2: week or so, and you're seeing that I turned the

595
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 2: game on last night. It was a two and a

596
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: half hour game. It's I don't I don't know what

597
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: it is, Dave. I mean, my guess is that the

598
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: officials have been given some you know, guide guidelines to

599
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 2: call every you know, like the set of tone early

600
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 2: in the year, because it's not just our game. You

601
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 2: see it in all these games and it's extremely frustrating.

602
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: But this is probably politically incorrect, but I just this

603
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 2: is my opinion. I don't know anything. I probably get

604
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 2: in trouble for this, but the TV. As soon as

605
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: the TV people start complaining the games or go too long,

606
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 2: somebody will tell them to stop calling vowels, you know,

607
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: I mean, and then we know how business works. But

608
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: I don't know that, but I believe that's how it works,

609
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: you know, that type of thing. But it always early

610
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 2: in the year. Every two or three years, they start

611
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 2: the year and they it's I don't think it's the

612
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: individual officials. I think there's some guidance that they're supposed

613
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 2: to do that, and then it always goes back and

614
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 2: it's it's I just don't like the inconsistency. If they're

615
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 2: gonna call it like that all year. Great, let's all adjust.

616
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 2: But there's no way they're gonna call a Big twelve

617
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: game like that. There's just no way. It'll be a bloodbath, right,

618
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: you know. And I should have had an official tell me,

619
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: you know, three years ago we had a kid get

620
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: hit across the face, bloody nose and I and I said,

621
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: that's a foul. He said, not in the Big twelve.

622
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 2: And then you know, and then sometimes you feel like

623
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 2: every hand checks a foul. And I don't blame it

624
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 2: on the officials. The rules are really difficult, but the

625
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: consistency is the thing I think as coaches, we all want.

626
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 9: Brian coach earlier, I've asked you about the exhibition games

627
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Speaker 9: and what you were trying to draw from them. You've

628
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 9: been on record talking about how you like more and

629
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 9: you were looking to deal with some adversity as a team,

630
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 9: like see how you respond to things. I didn't feel

631
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 9: like you were in danger of losing against Dayton, even

632
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 9: when it got to two points, but you definitely had

633
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Speaker 9: some adversity. I just wonder is that something that maybe

634
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Speaker 9: stemmed from those exhibition games and some of that adversity

635
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 9: or is that too focus?

636
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 2: Is it a little more broad than that. I don't

637
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 2: know if it's stemmed or not. I know that you

638
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: know we handled some of those stretches. They made runs well.

639
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 2: For this point in the year with who we are

640
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: as a team, we have to keep handling things well.

641
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 2: But the more you go through that, the better you

642
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: should get. I do think the exhibitions like if we've changed, right,

643
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: I mean, how many teams have a bunch of new players.

644
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: That's the majority now team. I mean it's like almost

645
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: every team. Well, we're still learning our rotations, We're still

646
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 2: learning the combinations that work well. We're still making adjustments.

647
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 2: We learn more about that in games, so we're still

648
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 2: in that early season process. I'd love to get some

649
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 2: of it out of the way in exhibition games.

650
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Speaker 4: Tell us.

651
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Speaker 10: Mine is actually multi layered. But first question is is

652
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Speaker 10: there a chance there's a home and home with Dayton.

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Speaker 2: It is we returned that game next year. I'm not

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Speaker 2: paying that will be a very very difficult return game.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows. I hope. I hope we have to find

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Speaker 2: some bearcats that sneak into date in the way that

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Speaker 2: some dates were stuck in to fit thirty Yeah, they did.

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Speaker 10: The thing that was impressive. There are so many moving

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Speaker 10: parts because I looked at the roster and there are

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Speaker 10: three people who returned this.

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Speaker 1: Year and one didn't play and one did not.

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Speaker 10: Play last year. But the freshmen was the thing that

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Speaker 10: I picked up on how well they did in those circumstances.

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Speaker 10: I mean, they played literally above their freshman this to

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Speaker 10: call it that, and that's really kind of impressive to

666
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Speaker 10: watch and our hope is that they stick around for

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Speaker 10: a long time. Tyler was amazing. I mean he's one

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Speaker 10: of the ones that I think a lot of Bearcats

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Speaker 10: have been watching and see, come on out when you're

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Speaker 10: when you're healthy.

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Speaker 2: That's been the best part. Yeah, are are We actually

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Speaker 2: have some old players. We've talked about it a lot.

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Speaker 2: Tyler McKinley's a freshman. Mustapha Chom should be a freshman.

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Speaker 2: He's a second year player, but he's the age of

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Speaker 2: all the freshmen. Keisha Tillery's a freshman. Halvin is a

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Speaker 2: second year player. He's still very young. Georgie Rodriguez is

677
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Speaker 2: in his first year in college basketball. Who am I for? Sawing?

678
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Speaker 2: And Shawn of b Ia as a freshman. So we

679
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Speaker 2: do have some really young players. The thing is they're

680
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Speaker 2: really good and they're gonna have freshman moments. But the

681
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Speaker 2: quality of players that are coming into the program is

682
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Speaker 2: really high. Like we just signed a young man, Kadan Allen,

683
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Speaker 2: who's one of the best combo guards in his class.

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Speaker 2: I love this. Nobody knew this about him. He's always

685
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Speaker 2: been considered a top thirty forty player. He's he's like

686
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Speaker 2: a year younger than everybody, like he might be better

687
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Speaker 2: and not might. He's better than people think he is

688
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Speaker 2: nationally and they have him as a four star type.

689
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Speaker 2: He's better because he's like a year younger than everybody

690
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Speaker 2: in his class. He should be in the next class.

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Speaker 2: We're recruiting really gifted players that are seasoned players like

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Speaker 2: Shawna Bayev and Keishan Tillery and Tyler McKinley. They've played

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Speaker 2: at the elite levels of high school basketball and they've

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Speaker 2: been in lots of big games. And it's not the

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Speaker 2: same as college, but different than the normal freshman.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we'll take a time out. More questions from

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Speaker 1: the audience. When we continue. We are live at the

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

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Speaker 1: the Westmeller radio show and seven hundred WLW. We're back

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

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Speaker 1: It's the Westmeller Radio Show here in seven hundred WLW.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate the Bearcat fans who are here with us tonight.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some stuff to give away at the end

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Speaker 1: of the show, but you have to be here in

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Speaker 1: person in order to win. Keep that in mind in.

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Speaker 2: The weeks to come.

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Speaker 1: Our buddy Glenn is here tonight. Glenn, take it away.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Wes, I've heard you on the radio. You're very

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Speaker 11: excited about this tape. I could tell one of my questions,

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Speaker 11: I owe this to Mo. Most says he are lists

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Speaker 11: that the ratio of turnovers to number of possessions an

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Speaker 11: important stat Right.

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Speaker 2: If Most says it, for sure, I.

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Speaker 4: Could help it.

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Speaker 11: I can help and not notice that you're running the

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Speaker 11: North Carolina offense.

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Speaker 4: Is that true?

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Speaker 2: The elements of the fast break? For sure?

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Speaker 4: Right right right.

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Speaker 11: My next question is probably before Dan, is the eighty

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Speaker 11: six million dollars that Texas Texas playing. Is that for

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Speaker 11: all the students in the school from their null money

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Speaker 11: or is that just football football players?

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Speaker 1: They're not paying eighty six million for football. But they

725
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Speaker 1: are paying a lot. They are paying as much as

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Speaker 1: any school in the country. But it's not eighty six million.

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Speaker 11: That's what I heard.

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Speaker 4: Okay, eighty six million.

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Speaker 3: You get the Dallas Cowboys period, that's the whole defense.

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Speaker 4: That's a lot of money. You got another question, No,

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Speaker 4: I'll take you all right, thanks, Clint Bob.

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Speaker 2: So on most of our.

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Speaker 12: Teams, we consider it lucky if there's that one go

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Speaker 12: to guy that you want to put them have the

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Speaker 12: ball at the end of the game. I look at

736
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Speaker 12: this team and I can see the possibility of three

737
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 12: or four guys who who you can want to have

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Speaker 12: the ball, and I think that is so much better

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Speaker 12: because it really puts the defense under pressure as the

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Speaker 12: clock's winded down.

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Speaker 1: That's that one guy's Michael Jordan. But I get the point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, as we get into tight games,

743
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 2: trying to learn and figure out where the ball should go,

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Speaker 2: how it should go there, and how to play. I

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00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: think that's something we've worked on in practice situations, but

746
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Speaker 2: it'll be important to define that as we keep moving forward.

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Speaker 8: Dave one more for you here, coach. So earlier you

748
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Speaker 8: were talking about the scouting of players. How far back

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Speaker 8: do you go? This is the first question too, how

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Speaker 8: many how many people do you have that actually do scouting?

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Speaker 2: How?

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Speaker 8: I mean, what type of a job is that? It

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Speaker 8: would seem like it could be immense.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting. Are all of our assistant coaches do scout?

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Speaker 2: And we divide up the scouting or the games and

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00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 2: within the coaching staff, so each assistant has a certain

757
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 2: amount of games. A grad assistant assists with each assistant,

758
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: so there's always at least two. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: Tim Buckley and Kelly Peters on my staff are involved

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Speaker 2: in every scout, so myself, Tim, Kelly and whoever's the

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00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 2: presenter and the GA. You know, there's a lot that

762
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 2: goes into each game. There's also a massive analytical breakdown.

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Speaker 2: And how far do you go back? I mean as

764
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Speaker 2: far back as you need to gain the information to

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Speaker 2: find an edge. So if it's a freshman this time

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Speaker 2: of year and they don't have a ton of tape,

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Speaker 2: you're going back to their high school tape and we'll

768
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Speaker 2: literally show Now everything's online so you can if you

769
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Speaker 2: want to work at it, you can find it. So

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Speaker 2: like our GA's they've they've been sent on some wild

771
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Speaker 2: goose chases. But if they know what they're doing, they

772
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Speaker 2: can figure it out. But yeah, there's a lot that

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Speaker 2: goes into it, a lot more than people would realize.

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Speaker 4: Based on your recruiting.

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Speaker 3: Like right now, you guys are shooting every fourteen seconds

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Speaker 3: of possession. That means you're constantly running, constantly moving. Does

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Speaker 3: that put emphasis on the type of athlete that you're

778
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Speaker 3: going after? No longer the three hundred pound guys that

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Speaker 3: can carve out space and the paint. Now you want

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Speaker 3: to get up and down. They have to be able

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Speaker 3: to run and endure the fast pace that you're doing.

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Speaker 3: So when you're talking about recruiting, does that factor into it?

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Speaker 2: It always has. We've always tried to find guys that

784
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 2: could play defense, so we want to play They could

785
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: play in the open court. I don't mind a three

786
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Speaker 2: hundred pound guy, but I want to get him here

787
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Speaker 2: and give him to coach ray Feld and get him

788
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Speaker 2: to be two forty, right, you.

789
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Speaker 1: Know, as long as he's not a three hundred pound

790
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: point guard exactly. It's a big guy that you're slimming down.

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Speaker 4: That's okay.

792
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Speaker 1: Five to ten to three hundred guys probably not gonna.

793
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Speaker 2: Work five three hundreds probably not gonna work diabolically. I

794
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Speaker 2: mean a six eighty two hundred and sixty pound point

795
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Speaker 2: guard like Lebron James. I take care of me, you know,

796
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Speaker 2: But no, I think you were just looking for guys

797
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 2: that are physically able to play the way we want

798
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Speaker 2: to play, have the mental makeup that we're looking for.

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Speaker 2: And obviously we've learned this in the Big Twelve the

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Speaker 2: last two years. There's a certain element of skill you

801
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: have to have. That's probably was the biggest learning curve

802
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 2: is that you just in this league, you have to

803
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 2: have skill too. It can't just be, you know, great

804
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: defense and great rebounding. Nobody cares about great defense and

805
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 2: great rebounding when you don't win. I mean you got

806
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 2: to have some skills so that there's an element of

807
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 2: that too, and we've really made an effort to get

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Speaker 2: more skilled.

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Speaker 1: So our last radio show was last Thursday. The following night,

810
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Speaker 1: you had a game, and so did Iona, and I

811
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: know a lot of Bearcat fans were excited to see C. J.

812
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: Anthony play for Iona for the first time. He had

813
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: twenty four points in that game. Through his first two games,

814
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Speaker 1: he's averaging fifteen and a half points, five assists, two

815
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: and a half rebounds. His team is two and zero.

816
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Speaker 1: It's so fun to follow him having this opportunity being

817
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: a great Bearcat for four years.

818
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Speaker 2: It's like the greatest thing ever. I'm the biggest Iona

819
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Speaker 2: fan the face of the earth.

820
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Speaker 1: Right now and are tied for second, right.

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Speaker 2: It is. It's like you guys told me after I

822
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 2: think was at the Georgia State game. You said I

823
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 2: got some good news for you and that you guys

824
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 2: broke it. And then the first thing I did when

825
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: I got back to my locker was FaceTime CJ. But yeah,

826
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Speaker 2: I'm so thrilled because I've watched all the sacrifice and

827
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Speaker 2: the stuff that he's done to put himself in this position,

828
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Speaker 2: and I know how much he's enjoyed it, you know.

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Speaker 2: But like I told him, I'm not real impressed unless

830
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Speaker 2: you keep doing it so that type of thing. But

831
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Speaker 2: deep down, I am pretty impressed.

832
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Speaker 3: Averaging fourteen seconds, what do you want that number to

833
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Speaker 3: get down to per possession?

834
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Speaker 2: You know, That's how a lot of people talk about

835
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Speaker 2: pace of play, right, I think, and that number is

836
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Speaker 2: going to go down if you're scoring fast breaks. I'm

837
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Speaker 2: a little less concerned in average pace of play me

838
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: personally than I am, and how many quick baskets we get,

839
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 2: Meaning I want us to make sure we're scoring quick

840
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 2: and early in the shot clock consistently. But if we

841
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: don't and we have some longer possessions trying to play

842
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 2: the right way in the half court, I'm fine too, Terry.

843
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 2: So that number doesn't matter to me. It's more as

844
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 2: long as we're having as many I mean, how many

845
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 2: times can we get in the open floor in space,

846
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 2: get an easy basket, get fouled, get an offensive rebound,

847
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 2: get a good three point shot for a three point shooter.

848
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 2: If we can do that the whole game, the pace

849
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: of play number will be like eight seconds, and that'd

850
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Speaker 2: be the happiest guy in the world. But that's not

851
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 2: gonna happen every night. We still want those opportunities as

852
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 2: much as we can.

853
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Speaker 1: So this year's game against Dayton was the third year

854
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Speaker 1: in a row you've played the Flyers. Th'relady on the

855
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 1: schedule for U D Arena next year, you're obviously playing

856
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: Xavier every year. You got Littleville on the schedule this

857
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: year coming up a week from tomorrow. Is that a

858
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Speaker 1: team that you would like to play on a regular

859
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Speaker 1: basis if they were willing.

860
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,919
Speaker 2: The Louisville's a home and home too. It's a neutralish

861
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: home and home that we play in Heritage Bank and

862
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 2: then we go return there in Freedom in Freedom Hall.

863
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 2: So it's it's gonna be.

864
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Speaker 1: Cool because that's not where they play their games.

865
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: No anymore they play. That's not their arena. That's like

866
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: they're it's old type. It's so it's the same idea.

867
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 2: They're two neutralish games. I guess you should say, so, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's listen. I'm not opposed to local games.

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Speaker 2: Some people said, don't ever play local, and I think

870
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,280
Speaker 2: that's a bunch of crap. Let's play good teams, let's

871
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 2: have great environments, let's get fan interest. You know, That's

872
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 2: never deterred me. I've always wanted to compete, but it's

873
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Speaker 2: not been like it's some what's local local local. We're

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Speaker 2: just looking for for good games that are good for

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Speaker 2: our non conference schedule, and it's happened to work out

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Speaker 2: with some of these local teams.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be a really good one. Louisville obviously

878
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: has an excellent team this year. They're off to a

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Speaker 1: good start and uh, let's hope that bear Cat fans

880
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Speaker 1: pack Heritage Bank Arena Friday night.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you know they're you know, some people picked them

882
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Speaker 2: to be a Final four team and Nations Championship contender,

883
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 2: and they've done a great job recruiting. My gosh, you

884
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 2: know the team they put together. So that should be

885
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Speaker 2: a I think they were up twenty against Kentucky last week,

886
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 2: who's also got a great team this year, and so

887
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: that should be a great test for us. We have

888
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: a game before that. We can't look too far ahead,

889
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Speaker 2: but that should be a great test for us against

890
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Speaker 2: a team that a lot of people have picked to

891
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Speaker 2: win the National Championship.

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Speaker 1: Mount Saint Mary's is that next game coming up on

893
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Speaker 1: Sunday at six. Anything that you can point out about them,

894
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Speaker 1: I have not done any homework on Mount Saint Mary's.

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Speaker 2: You know they're sound. They played West Virginia pretty close

896
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 2: opening night. Who's in our league? I watched that game today.

897
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 2: They're very sound. They have they play a little old

898
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 2: school in the sense that they'll play two true post players.

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Speaker 2: They have a big center that's really skilled, really good

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Speaker 2: in the pocket, good decision maker, they're sound, they run

901
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Speaker 2: good offense, they're in really good defensively, they're a team

902
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Speaker 2: that doesn't beat themselves. The other thing, they played in

903
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 2: the Sula Tournament last year, won a game in the

904
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Speaker 2: NCAA tournament, and they've returned a couple of players off

905
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Speaker 2: of that team. So it'll like all these games, we

906
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 2: have tremendous respect. It won't be an easy game, and

907
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Speaker 2: we can't look ahead to Louisville. We got to focus

908
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Speaker 2: in on what's in front of us, all right.

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Speaker 1: Again, that game is coming up on Sunday at six

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Speaker 1: radio coverage. We'll start at five point thirty. That's going

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Speaker 1: to do it for our show tonight. Again, our thanks

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Speaker 1: to the folks who are here at the original Montgomery

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Speaker 1: and we've got some stuff to give away momentarily. If

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Speaker 1: you've been listening on the radio, thanks for tuning in

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