Speaker 1: It's greatest rips. Welcome to the West Miller Radio Show.
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Hord alongside former Bearcats standout Terry Nelson and
Speaker 1: the star of the show, the head coach of the
Speaker 1: three and oh you see Bearcats. Let's hear it for
Speaker 1: Wes Miller. Cincinnati coming off a nice win on Tuesday Night,
Speaker 1: a twelve point win over the Dayton Flyers. We know
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, Dayton's going to have
Speaker 1: a good NCAA net ranking. They're in the top one
Speaker 1: hundred every year. So that's one of those wins that's
Speaker 1: going to pay dividends in March. And anytime you can
Speaker 1: get a win over Dayton, I don't care if it's
Speaker 1: one point, twelve points, whatever, that's a nice victory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please with the result for sure. And you know,
Speaker 2: we're still a team that's evolved in learning each other
Speaker 2: going through games for the first time. That was the
Speaker 2: first higher level opponent that we played in that sense
Speaker 2: at least, and you know, there was some nice things
Speaker 2: that happened that gave us a chance to have a
Speaker 2: double figure victory.
Speaker 3: Your mentality has been from from day one. Next play.
Speaker 3: You finally have a team that truly understands what next
Speaker 3: play is. Obviously, as you're adjusting to a new style
Speaker 3: of constant pressure offensively and defensively with little or no
Speaker 3: breaks to really process what you're doing, you've gotta process faster.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have some mistakes.
Speaker 3: Is it truly about the next play?
Speaker 2: That's been a motto for years, is that the most
Speaker 2: important play is the next play. And it's it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, you hear that in practice all the time,
Speaker 2: and it's it's neat if you hear the players echoing
Speaker 2: that to each other. And so you're trying to adapt
Speaker 2: establish that type of mentality, and like, I'll give you
Speaker 2: the example in the Dayton game. You know, they score
Speaker 2: to cut it to two, and we scored four and
Speaker 2: a half seconds later on the other end, and that
Speaker 2: that's what we mean is sunk.
Speaker 4: They got it out and you guys ran straight.
Speaker 2: Down, yeah, you know, and it was a it was
Speaker 2: a big play for them, a big value dunk way
Speaker 2: above the rim, and you're scoring on the other end
Speaker 2: while they're still celebrating, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: that that's a big momentum shift. They had a momentum shift.
Speaker 2: And then you go right back, and to me, that's
Speaker 2: that's playing the next play right, not letting what just
Speaker 2: happen affect what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: Dayton shot twenty four percent in the first half, thirty
Speaker 1: two percent in the game. Is your defense ahead of
Speaker 1: your offense right now? Or is that a day to
Speaker 1: day type of thing.
Speaker 2: It's too early to analyze statistics, you know, Like I
Speaker 2: think people somebody referenced some Ken palm stuff and press
Speaker 2: conference and you know that that kind of thing. I
Speaker 2: think I think about seven eight nine games in you
Speaker 2: can really look at some statistics. You have a bigger
Speaker 2: sample size than those statistics mean a little more. I
Speaker 2: feel like our offense in some ways is way ahead
Speaker 2: of our defense, but not in every way. I think
Speaker 2: there's some things with our offense we still have to
Speaker 2: really iron out, and we haven't run a lot of
Speaker 2: specific action yet. It's been more just kind of flow
Speaker 2: and style of play. We definitely got to get a
Speaker 2: little more specific here over the next couple of weeks. Defensively, again,
Speaker 2: two weeks ago, I went, man, we got too far
Speaker 2: to go that I want to go, and we're going
Speaker 2: to really spend some time and energy on it. We
Speaker 2: have over the last two weeks and it's improving, but
Speaker 2: it still has a ways to go.
Speaker 3: When you put together over the years your scouting report,
Speaker 3: you look at your team, you're going over their offense,
Speaker 3: and then you're looking at key players. At some point
Speaker 3: you didn't have the players to lock down the other
Speaker 3: team's best players, so you had to do a lot
Speaker 3: of scheme. You've got multiple guys now that can get
Speaker 3: after and sort of go on one man assignments and say, hey,
Speaker 3: your job is there, your job is there? When you're
Speaker 3: putting your game plan together, are you using more of
Speaker 3: that and using the knowledge of the talent that you
Speaker 3: have around you to sort of put a damp in
Speaker 3: the fire that these guys may have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a little of that terry and maybe a
Speaker 2: little not. I think we do really value the personnel report,
Speaker 2: you know, trying and I think we have some older
Speaker 2: eyes that have logged a lot of minutes in college
Speaker 2: basketball and they know how to take a scout and
Speaker 2: report and apply it to our defensive principles. So you know,
Speaker 2: maybe you're guarding a guy that's not as good of
Speaker 2: a shooter, or a guy that we're not going to
Speaker 2: respect as much of as a shooter, and these guys,
Speaker 2: especially our older players, understand how to go under a
Speaker 2: screen that you might normally go over something like that.
Speaker 2: And so in the Dayton game, there was a number
Speaker 2: of guys that we decided to play underneath. We decided
Speaker 2: to keep in front. They were so dangerous downhill in
Speaker 2: their first three games and the first I'm sorry too.
Speaker 2: And the exhibitions, you're so worried about what they can
Speaker 2: do at the rim, but it's like, hey, they can
Speaker 2: make a shot, but that's not been who they've been,
Speaker 2: either at Dayton or at previous stops in their careers.
Speaker 2: Our guys were able to kind of take some of
Speaker 2: those things in scout and then apply them. And I
Speaker 2: think we have to be a team that continues to
Speaker 2: be able to utilize that information. And then, you know,
Speaker 2: I think we do have a couple of guys that
Speaker 2: can really, you know, lock into a defense of a
Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'd like to have a team full
Speaker 2: of that, but there's some guys that are capable, for sure.
Speaker 1: Buck Harris might be the most prototypical Bearcat you've had
Speaker 1: in your five years coaching at Cincinnati. The toughness, the hustle,
Speaker 1: the aggressiveness, the feistiness. One negative though so far has
Speaker 1: been fouled trouble. He's averaging four files in the first
Speaker 1: three games. Does his reputation lead to some fouls being
Speaker 1: called on him that aren't called on others or are
Speaker 1: there easy ways for him to cut down on those files?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's probably a mix of things. Dan
Speaker 2: and we actually had the reputation conversation in film a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago when we were watching the game
Speaker 2: tape with the team. You know, we do have some
Speaker 2: guys that have not just played a lot of college basketball,
Speaker 2: they've played college basketball in this league. With the officials
Speaker 2: that get assigned to games in this league, and we
Speaker 2: talked about it, some of you guys have some reputations
Speaker 2: and you got to be very aware of that, and
Speaker 2: they know who you are. I mean, they're talking about
Speaker 2: our players by first name before we even tip the ball.
Speaker 2: And some of that's good and some of it's not.
Speaker 2: And they have to try to build the right reputations.
Speaker 2: In their early time at Cincinnati, I said to one
Speaker 2: of our players in film, I said, you have a
Speaker 2: reputation as this and that didn't happen at Cincinnati it
Speaker 2: happened somewhere else. You got to change it at Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and so I think Buck is getting penalized a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know, because people do understand how aggressively is defensively.
Speaker 2: But he's also just got to find that happy medium
Speaker 2: of still being him, being aggressive, but having a little
Speaker 2: more discipline so we can keep them in the game.
Speaker 3: I know what you mean about reputation, because Dan has
Speaker 3: a reputation of taking the We used to stay together
Speaker 3: on the road for a year.
Speaker 4: Has as soon as.
Speaker 3: He was sitting there, he would just take the table,
Speaker 3: take the little desk in there, put all this stuff
Speaker 3: laid out, and then he would go use the restroom.
Speaker 4: So I had to go down. I know about reputation.
Speaker 2: But anyway, with anything, we got a great trend going
Speaker 2: on this year that you two just keep. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to out of the middle of this at some point.
Speaker 3: It's entertainment value, rather, come on, they's been a pretty
Speaker 3: pity here, So entertainment value.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you get your offense left to right.
Speaker 3: It seems like when that ball goes left to right,
Speaker 3: you have options of on the ball screens or you
Speaker 3: had to give your guys the freedom to dance a
Speaker 3: little bit and create for themselves or for the team.
Speaker 3: When that pall comes, it seems to shine to Baiev.
Speaker 3: He has this ability against the toughest of defense with
Speaker 3: his side step to get separation, and it seems like
Speaker 3: because he's so long and because it seems to be
Speaker 3: a slow wind up on it, he gets filed a
Speaker 3: lot on three point attempts, more than I've seen any
Speaker 3: other player in Cincinnati in recent years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think we have the utmost confidence
Speaker 2: and Shawn, you know, being able to shot create, and
Speaker 2: I think the ones that stand out to everybody are
Speaker 2: the tough ones that he hits, you know, where he's defended.
Speaker 2: And certainly that was a big part of while we recurve.
Speaker 2: Somebody said, you're gonna let him take those shots. I said,
Speaker 2: recruited him to take those shots. I mean, it'd be
Speaker 2: silly to tell him we love you because you can
Speaker 2: do that, and then you get here and you're not
Speaker 2: allowed to do that. But the part that he does
Speaker 2: so well that maybe is underrated is hillity to make
Speaker 2: the easy play for others. You know, he can start
Speaker 2: the domino with the ball in his hands, and I
Speaker 2: thought he did that at the end of the game,
Speaker 2: and we put him in, you know, three straight pick
Speaker 2: and rolls, and was all the same action. And one
Speaker 2: of them he makes a nice simple pass to Day Day.
Speaker 2: Day Day drives a baseline and Day Day goes to
Speaker 2: Jal and Celestine. Three. The other one he comes off
Speaker 2: he makes a nice simple pass to Day they coming
Speaker 2: off a pen down and Day they missed a shot.
Speaker 2: And then he comes off of it the third time
Speaker 2: in the Red Sea Party, then he went down and
Speaker 2: dunked it. But I think he's going to be able
Speaker 2: to create offense, not just with his own shot, but
Speaker 2: I think he can create offense for everybody else because
Speaker 2: he is a pretty good decision maker.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the turnovers. Twenty four of
Speaker 1: them in the game. You said you would review that
Speaker 1: the next day when you watched the tape and talk
Speaker 1: about it with the players. What stood out? What much
Speaker 1: do you do to that number?
Speaker 4: Way down?
Speaker 2: Well, what stood out is that we won a game.
Speaker 2: We had twenty four turnouts, and I told I said,
Speaker 2: after the game, that'll go in the book one day.
Speaker 2: There's some that stick out. I think I embellished and
Speaker 2: it wasn't on purpose. But we gave up sixteen threes
Speaker 2: and a half one time at the Citadel, and I
Speaker 2: think we gave eight in the second half. So it's
Speaker 2: twenty four for the game, and we won the game.
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget that game because we gave up
Speaker 2: twenty four threes and we won the game. It'll be
Speaker 2: like that when this date and games talked about, you know, seven, eight,
Speaker 2: ten years from now. We turned it over twenty four
Speaker 2: dang times. By the way, we weren't very good from
Speaker 2: the free throw line either. And then we had Day
Speaker 2: Day twelve for twelve and I think sincere was the
Speaker 2: eight for ten. Am I right about that? But we
Speaker 2: won the game, and that means you had to do
Speaker 2: a lot of other good stuff, and so there was
Speaker 2: some good stuff even though heck we turned it over. Yes,
Speaker 2: we did address it in film. We can't be a
Speaker 2: team that's careless with the ball. There's two types of
Speaker 2: turnovers that you don't want to live with as a coach.
Speaker 2: One is selfish turnover. I didn't see any of that.
Speaker 2: The second is a casual, careless turnover. We had a
Speaker 2: bunch of those. We had a bunch of those. I
Speaker 2: mean some of them trying to break the press, some
Speaker 2: of them footwork airs, some of them passing and catching airs.
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't one specific thing, but this thing
Speaker 2: that was consistent was careless and casual. Good news. You
Speaker 2: can clean up careless and casual, but we can't expect
Speaker 2: to be the team we want to be every night.
Speaker 2: If we're going to turn the ball over like that, all.
Speaker 1: Right, well take a time out. Then we'll continue from
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Speaker 1: at six o'clock. Yes, let's talk about the performance of
Speaker 1: Dayda A Thomas. We noted the fact that he was
Speaker 1: twelve for twelve from the free throw line and made
Speaker 1: clutch ones down the stretch. But also the defense that
Speaker 1: he played in that game against Javon Bennett was a
Speaker 1: big reason why you beat a good Dating team.
Speaker 2: It was fun Javon Bennett. I thinks first team all
Speaker 2: A ten preseason.
Speaker 4: It's cool.
Speaker 2: You know, there had Day Day and Javon Bennett have
Speaker 2: both been in these programs for three years, so we've watched. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it's been fun to coach Dada for extended period of time,
Speaker 2: and then you've played against Date in three years and
Speaker 2: you see a kid like Bennett, how much better he's
Speaker 2: gotten every year. That's the old college basketball, and that's
Speaker 2: still neat when it happens. But watching those two compete
Speaker 2: was fun, and I thought Dada had a really nice game,
Speaker 2: and I think it's a sign he's confident again, he's
Speaker 2: healthy again. I think he's in a role on this
Speaker 2: team that really suits who he is, and so I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna have a lot of nights like that.
Speaker 3: To the media creation team at Cincinnati for Basketball does
Speaker 3: a great job of capturing moments, putting music to it
Speaker 3: dramatic effect. And for Kerr, Chris talked about they were
Speaker 3: in the locker room and you had Day Day coming
Speaker 3: in there, and he's all for.
Speaker 4: The full lather.
Speaker 3: He goes, Man, you're gonna go for thirty tonight hunt.
Speaker 3: He goes, No, my job is to lock down Carter Javon.
Speaker 3: Lock him down. And the mentality that he took is
Speaker 3: like when you knew he had dayDay coming back, you
Speaker 3: were good because you knew you had your signal caller.
Speaker 3: You had the guy that has the same mind as you,
Speaker 3: just wants to do anything it takes to win, and
Speaker 3: a guy who's been through the ups and downs and
Speaker 3: will do anything in order to get that w in
Speaker 3: following the coach's commands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guys. Somebody asked me that they can you know,
Speaker 2: what kind of value do you have with Dade Thomas
Speaker 2: And I can't. I got no words for that. I mean,
Speaker 2: his value is beyond comprehension. And there's things that he
Speaker 2: does for our program that nobody gets to see because
Speaker 2: they're behind the scenes. And I think we have a
Speaker 2: captain circle and before the game, if everybody gets there early,
Speaker 2: go go watch that captain circle. Next game, it'd be
Speaker 2: good to have everybody in the seats that early. But
Speaker 2: he's the only guy that goes, and that there's a
Speaker 2: reason for that. I mean, he's been the consummate leader
Speaker 2: in this program, represents what we're about. So having him
Speaker 2: is a big deal for us. For sure.
Speaker 1: He got a year an extra year of eligibility this
Speaker 1: year because of a law case, a lawsuit last year
Speaker 1: filed by the guy who's playing quarterback for Vanderbilt, Diego Pavia.
Speaker 2: Were you aware in.
Speaker 1: The process of that that there was a chance the
Speaker 1: day they would get another year or when the ruling
Speaker 1: came down then, did it occur to you, hey, this
Speaker 1: might apply to him.
Speaker 2: It was kind of more like that. Like now, I
Speaker 2: tell you what, there's been times that I think me
Speaker 2: and Terry just need to go hire a lawyer and
Speaker 2: we get some eligibility back.
Speaker 4: I mean, I went, I got two years left, man,
Speaker 4: somebody take the charge.
Speaker 2: Seriously, let's go.
Speaker 4: At nine to one.
Speaker 3: Would have one button to push left after I take
Speaker 3: my first charge.
Speaker 2: We'd be good in the half court.
Speaker 4: We would there you go, YMC pick league.
Speaker 2: I can still play zone offense. I've said that that's
Speaker 2: the one part of practice I can impress you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can just keep backing up and shoot. But but but,
Speaker 2: but no. I think it was a little bit of
Speaker 2: that that we just assumed, as everybody did, that day
Speaker 2: Day was going to be done. And when all that
Speaker 2: stuff started to happen, when WHOA this is apply to dayDay?
Speaker 2: Thomas and we talked. I think it was right around Christmas,
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken. But we got back from Christmas
Speaker 2: and I sat him down and I just said, Hey,
Speaker 2: I just want you to know that if this all
Speaker 2: goes how I'm hearing it's going to go, I want
Speaker 2: you back at Cincinnati. You don't even need to question
Speaker 2: that for one second. So I'm really glad it's all
Speaker 2: worked out.
Speaker 3: Coach, let me let me lay something out and just
Speaker 3: to talk about how good I believe this team is.
Speaker 3: Twenty four turnovers, twenty five per foles, fourteen miss free throws,
Speaker 3: many of those were one and ones front ends of
Speaker 3: one and ones. And your best player, Baba Miller, Well,
Speaker 3: I believe he's the best player. He had eight points,
Speaker 3: He didn't really have a good game, and he didn't
Speaker 3: score in the first half.
Speaker 4: He rebounded well, he did a lot of things well,
Speaker 4: it just didn't score the ball well.
Speaker 3: Yet you played a pesky Dayton team that will finish
Speaker 3: in the top twenty five, they will win their conference.
Speaker 4: You beat them by twelve. So it's like everybody sees
Speaker 4: the sky.
Speaker 3: Falling, and I'm saying, all that stuff happened and they
Speaker 3: won by twelve.
Speaker 4: How good can this team be? What's their ceiling?
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think we have a lot of
Speaker 2: confidence this can be a very very good team, Terry.
Speaker 2: I think we have a lot of confidence that this
Speaker 2: team is going to have the ability to keep taking
Speaker 2: consistent steps and be its best team in January and February.
Speaker 2: We have so many new pieces. We're still trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how all that goes together. We're from a
Speaker 2: normal what I would call a normal year when you
Speaker 2: have continuity. We're so far behind on things we might
Speaker 2: have in offensively and defensively, not for the wrong reason,
Speaker 2: just because you can't skip the steps. And so I
Speaker 2: think it's I'm having a ton of fun at the
Speaker 2: moment coaching because I don't even think we're close to
Speaker 2: where we could be now. I have an urgency to
Speaker 2: get there quickly, but I think this can be by
Speaker 2: the end. I think this can be a very very
Speaker 2: good basketball team and a ceiling. I'd be too early
Speaker 2: for me to say what that is, but it's a
Speaker 2: lot higher than where we are right now. For sure.
Speaker 1: There's an old saying in baseball when a guy gets
Speaker 1: off to a terrible start in April, he'll eventually play
Speaker 1: to the back of his baseball card. In other words,
Speaker 1: if you are a career two eighty hitter by the
Speaker 1: end of the year, you're going to be closed to
Speaker 1: too eighty. Does that apply to free throw shooting, because
Speaker 1: you've got some guys that are off to slow starts.
Speaker 1: It's only three games, but just as an example, Mustapha
Speaker 1: Chom shot him pretty well last year at UCF. He
Speaker 1: shot them poorly so far this year. Do you assume
Speaker 1: that eventually he plays to the back of the baseball card.
Speaker 2: He'll play above the baseball card shooting the ball. He's
Speaker 2: an improved shooter. So again, we have such a small
Speaker 2: sample size. And you know, free throw shooting is like putting.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like putting in golf. It's mental. I
Speaker 2: always said free throw shooting is different. It's the one
Speaker 2: time in our game you shoot the ball where the
Speaker 2: other nine people are standing still. You know, that's a
Speaker 2: different sensation and so guys can get in some slumps
Speaker 2: free throw shooting. I think some of it's maybe just
Speaker 2: a little bit mental. But if you watch Mustafa shoot
Speaker 2: a free throw, he has fluid, fluid motion. When he misses,
Speaker 2: he's missing small, he's missing soft. That tells you all
Speaker 2: you need to know. He's a good free throw shooter.
Speaker 2: He's a good three point shooter. I'm not. I have
Speaker 2: no concern about that same thing with Baba, and they
Speaker 2: were I think a combined one for eight together correct
Speaker 2: in the game, and I mean Seanna Baya was four
Speaker 2: for eight. We have a free throw board. We still
Speaker 2: we do it the whole offseason. We're doing it throughout
Speaker 2: the season. They have to get a record three hundred
Speaker 2: makes a week. So they obviously can shoot as many
Speaker 2: as they want, but a minimum, every player has to
Speaker 2: record three hundred I'm sorry, yeah, three hundred attempts my mistake,
Speaker 2: and it has to be recorded with the coach and
Speaker 2: then we chart all that and posted on the board.
Speaker 2: And for example, last year's team, the weekly average of
Speaker 2: the team was usually in the seventies. And from my experience,
Speaker 2: that's a bad sign because you're gonna shoot better in
Speaker 2: practice than you are in the game, especially when you're
Speaker 2: repetitively shooting. This year's team we push in the high
Speaker 2: eighties low nineties as a team, and so we are
Speaker 2: a significantly better team in practice or in our free
Speaker 2: throw competitions. It'll carry over. I'm not concerned.
Speaker 1: And Shanabayev, for what it's worth, probably was out on
Speaker 1: the court for an hour after the game shooting free throws.
Speaker 2: Both baskets him and I watched his minutes together, and
Speaker 2: I did give him a hard time. I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: somebody when you're out there shooting free throws, because I
Speaker 2: know how he's so serious about his craft. He's so
Speaker 2: beyond his years in terms of he's disciplined to work
Speaker 2: on his game. I said, I'd have been more impressed
Speaker 2: if you're out there doing defensive slides.
Speaker 4: He didn't answer that.
Speaker 5: I guarantee you he's smirked, coach when I look at you,
Speaker 5: know when you sub in, obviously, guys come in with
Speaker 5: different superpowers, and they come in with different things.
Speaker 4: It doesn't get charted a lot.
Speaker 3: But I think the minute that Tyler McKinley gives you
Speaker 3: how he catches the ball, he doesn't rush shots in
Speaker 3: the paint, he finds shooters that are lower like he's
Speaker 3: very good at offensive rebounds and looking for that second
Speaker 3: chance opportunity from the three point line. And I know
Speaker 3: you see his rotations. He had two files and help
Speaker 3: defense that weren't his, but he was trying to make
Speaker 3: play walling up and just got caught. But he seems
Speaker 3: when he comes in the game, he does exactly what
Speaker 3: you want him to do while he's in the game.
Speaker 2: If they made him all like Tyler McKinley, coaching would
Speaker 2: be easy because he's just a fra freshman. But he's
Speaker 2: in the right place at the right time. He's extremely intelligent,
Speaker 2: very coachable, He'll he's willing to do whatever he thinks
Speaker 2: the team needs him to do. And he's extremely gifted.
Speaker 2: You know, I've shoot I've had players I could say
Speaker 2: all that stuff about, but they weren't talented, and he's
Speaker 2: got all that in talent, And so if they were
Speaker 2: all like him, our jobs be pretty easy. But he's
Speaker 2: he's been fun and it's crazy because I feel like
Speaker 2: I've known him, you know, forever, literally since I got here.
Speaker 2: But he's just a freshman, and that that's pretty that's
Speaker 2: pretty cool for Cincinnati basketball.
Speaker 1: Kirk Risa had eight assists in the game. He also
Speaker 1: had five turnovers, A couple of the turnovers late in
Speaker 1: the game where when he was trying to make a
Speaker 1: play with flair behind the back bounce pass on a
Speaker 1: fast break, stuff like that. Do you encourage that? Is
Speaker 1: its situational? I mean, is it? I'm I'm serious?
Speaker 4: Is that okay?
Speaker 1: Does it depend on time and score? How do you
Speaker 1: feel about guys that that play with flair like that?
Speaker 2: The goat Dan board, I want to throw fire back
Speaker 2: at him, yeah, Dan, and I encourage guys to throw
Speaker 2: behind the back past twelve with a minute left.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know specifically that. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to use the word hot dog plays because there's
Speaker 1: a negative connotation there.
Speaker 2: But well that's his play was a hot dog player,
Speaker 2: and it needs a negative connotation because it was a
Speaker 2: terrible play. My college coach texted me after the game,
Speaker 2: you know, great win, congratulations at the around the one
Speaker 2: minute mark, I wanted to shoot your point and you know,
Speaker 2: any any put in brackets creasing and and so the
Speaker 2: next day in film I read that to the whole team.
Speaker 2: So this is what my college coach texted me after
Speaker 2: the game, but uh, but no, I I think listen,
Speaker 2: Kerkkrisa has a flair, yes, uh uh. He has a
Speaker 2: swagger and a confidence to how he approaches the game,
Speaker 2: and he's got a lot of experience in college basketball
Speaker 2: on the biggest stages. That that flare, that confidence, that
Speaker 2: edge that he plays with is his greatest strength. There's
Speaker 2: times that that can be a weakness, and as he's
Speaker 2: continuing to mature as a point guard, that's my challenge
Speaker 2: to him is I don't want to restrict any of
Speaker 2: that in the positive ways, but let's not let's finish games,
Speaker 2: let's make sound plays and uh like it's it's fun
Speaker 2: because he's an old dog in college basketball, but he
Speaker 2: can still improve.
Speaker 3: Coach, And your greatest strength is not showing facial expressions
Speaker 3: when he's making those plays.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at you.
Speaker 3: As soon as he made that behind the back pass
Speaker 3: and it goes out on a three on one, I'm
Speaker 3: looking at you and you just stood still.
Speaker 4: You were throwing face, but inside you like a duck
Speaker 4: on water.
Speaker 3: I mean it looks good on top, but you're kicking
Speaker 3: and squirming underneath that surface.
Speaker 4: I know something was going on there competitive.
Speaker 2: Oh Man, Now in the Georgia State game, just toot
Speaker 2: and hollered and yelled at him the whole I was
Speaker 2: trying to make some points, so you couldn't say it
Speaker 2: about me all the time, but I was a maniac
Speaker 2: in that game. But we were still listen, it's early
Speaker 2: in the year and we're still We're still trying to
Speaker 2: build this team. So there's gonna be some moments to
Speaker 2: really push and there's gonna be some moments like that
Speaker 2: where I was probably doing my woosaws and taking a
Speaker 2: deep breath and wait until nobody could see it. Him
Speaker 2: and I could have a conversation.
Speaker 1: All right, we're late for a break. Questions from the audience.
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Speaker 1: in action on Sunday, looking to approve to four and
Speaker 1: oh as they host Mount Saint Mary's. That's six o'clock
Speaker 1: tip on Sunday at the Third Arena. Time for questions
Speaker 1: from the audience. Our man Elliott was not in attendance
Speaker 1: last week. Good to have him back. He's got Mike
Speaker 1: in hand, he's ready to.
Speaker 6: Go, so free with and I was just being free
Speaker 6: agency at this point. Do you ever go after guys
Speaker 6: assuming they're going to stay there full four years of
Speaker 6: college with you, or that they're just going to be
Speaker 6: a one and done. How do you go about recruiting
Speaker 6: guys with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think in recruiting, you know, obviously we're just
Speaker 2: very honest. That's first, first and foremost. We're very honest,
Speaker 2: and certainly we want guys that are going to want
Speaker 2: to stay in our program build year to year. You
Speaker 2: do see this trend of retention and how valuable that
Speaker 2: is and how difficult it is, but how valuable. So
Speaker 2: we were honest about what our intentions are when it
Speaker 2: comes to one and done or how many and done.
Speaker 2: You know, for college basketball players, this is not their
Speaker 2: end game. All of their goals is to play in
Speaker 2: the NBA. So if they can get the opportunity to
Speaker 2: leave early to do that, that's the biggest win in
Speaker 2: their lives and their family's lives. So we always support
Speaker 2: that and we all always want that.
Speaker 6: So would day they be like a good example of
Speaker 6: a guy that you went after and he ended up
Speaker 6: staying the full four years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Deda's a great example of that. Yeah, correct, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Ellieah, thank you. We have the assistant coach from
Speaker 1: section two o six two seven, two o seven. I
Speaker 1: thought it was two o six.
Speaker 4: Have you moved?
Speaker 7: I wasn't moved in a different seat last week or
Speaker 7: what was that Tuesday? Thanks to Terry Nelson. I had
Speaker 7: a colleague in town that loved to come into a
Speaker 7: Bearcats game. So there's been a promotion in two oh
Speaker 7: seven though I am the captain co assistant assistant coach
Speaker 7: to do UC Bearcats and Courtney as the assistant. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so I'm the speaker anyways. So our question is, you know,
Speaker 7: when you think about last year, you know, we definitely
Speaker 7: had a gap with leadership, and I know we had
Speaker 7: several conversations. He just needs someone at that time to
Speaker 7: just take the bomb, be like we're gonna win and
Speaker 7: put it through me. And I know I'd heard that
Speaker 7: through other coaches when we would struggle, and so this year, really,
Speaker 7: did you have someone immediately that kind of rose through
Speaker 7: in practice over the last several months that was like
Speaker 7: he's our leader or how did that really come about
Speaker 7: for this season?
Speaker 2: Well, I think I think if people want to define
Speaker 2: the leader, I think everybody likes that narrative that this
Speaker 2: guy is the leader. I think on the greatest teams
Speaker 2: I've ever been a part of that, there's a bunch
Speaker 2: of leadership roles within the team, and people lead in
Speaker 2: different ways and in different areas. I think so far
Speaker 2: this year, Dade showed a lot of leadership and he's
Speaker 2: been He's not a vocal person. I mean, he's an introvert,
Speaker 2: but he's been far more vocal than I've ever seen him,
Speaker 2: especially when something needs to be said. Certainly, he's always
Speaker 2: been a leader by example and how he approaches things,
Speaker 2: but he has such an understanding now of winning. Kerr
Speaker 2: has leadership ability. He is very vocal, and he has
Speaker 2: a lot of experience and it's been a part of
Speaker 2: a bunch of success in college. I think Jalen Celestine
Speaker 2: in his own way, just because of his experience and
Speaker 2: he's got away with people and a confidence about him.
Speaker 2: I think him starting to play and get out in practice.
Speaker 2: I think that that role will emerge a little bit
Speaker 2: more sincere Harris has that mentality that I think people
Speaker 2: can follow that. He's not afraid of anything. You know,
Speaker 2: he'll attack any situation and certainly has experience. And I
Speaker 2: could keeping even Keishan Tillery and Seanabaye of there. They're
Speaker 2: they're alpha's right, and so they're young and they're trying
Speaker 2: to figure it out, but they're not people that take
Speaker 2: a back seat. And I think the more of that
Speaker 2: that we can have, as long as everybody sees the
Speaker 2: big picture of the team, I think that creates a
Speaker 2: locker room fill of leadership. And I know I'm leaving
Speaker 2: some guys out, but I think it's a collective thing.
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of that. I don't want to
Speaker 2: always compare it to last year or anything like that,
Speaker 2: but I've seen a lot of that this year, more
Speaker 2: so than I have in anytimes I've been the coach here.
Speaker 8: Dave Hey coach the game the other night, Obviously a
Speaker 8: lot of fouls were called and it just seemed like
Speaker 8: the game was the flow was not there. How hard
Speaker 8: is that when it seems like they're calling a foul
Speaker 8: on everything to run your offense and you know, just
Speaker 8: keep a keep a flow.
Speaker 2: Going, you know, I've turned games on here the last
Speaker 2: week or so, and you're seeing that I turned the
Speaker 2: game on last night. It was a two and a
Speaker 2: half hour game. It's I don't I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is, Dave. I mean, my guess is that the
Speaker 2: officials have been given some you know, guide guidelines to
Speaker 2: call every you know, like the set of tone early
Speaker 2: in the year, because it's not just our game. You
Speaker 2: see it in all these games and it's extremely frustrating.
Speaker 2: But this is probably politically incorrect, but I just this
Speaker 2: is my opinion. I don't know anything. I probably get
Speaker 2: in trouble for this, but the TV. As soon as
Speaker 2: the TV people start complaining the games or go too long,
Speaker 2: somebody will tell them to stop calling vowels, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, and then we know how business works. But
Speaker 2: I don't know that, but I believe that's how it works,
Speaker 2: you know, that type of thing. But it always early
Speaker 2: in the year. Every two or three years, they start
Speaker 2: the year and they it's I don't think it's the
Speaker 2: individual officials. I think there's some guidance that they're supposed
Speaker 2: to do that, and then it always goes back and
Speaker 2: it's it's I just don't like the inconsistency. If they're
Speaker 2: gonna call it like that all year. Great, let's all adjust.
Speaker 2: But there's no way they're gonna call a Big twelve
Speaker 2: game like that. There's just no way. It'll be a bloodbath, right,
Speaker 2: you know. And I should have had an official tell me,
Speaker 2: you know, three years ago we had a kid get
Speaker 2: hit across the face, bloody nose and I and I said,
Speaker 2: that's a foul. He said, not in the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: And then you know, and then sometimes you feel like
Speaker 2: every hand checks a foul. And I don't blame it
Speaker 2: on the officials. The rules are really difficult, but the
Speaker 2: consistency is the thing I think as coaches, we all want.
Speaker 9: Brian coach earlier, I've asked you about the exhibition games
Speaker 9: and what you were trying to draw from them. You've
Speaker 9: been on record talking about how you like more and
Speaker 9: you were looking to deal with some adversity as a team,
Speaker 9: like see how you respond to things. I didn't feel
Speaker 9: like you were in danger of losing against Dayton, even
Speaker 9: when it got to two points, but you definitely had
Speaker 9: some adversity. I just wonder is that something that maybe
Speaker 9: stemmed from those exhibition games and some of that adversity
Speaker 9: or is that too focus?
Speaker 2: Is it a little more broad than that. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's stemmed or not. I know that you
Speaker 2: know we handled some of those stretches. They made runs well.
Speaker 2: For this point in the year with who we are
Speaker 2: as a team, we have to keep handling things well.
Speaker 2: But the more you go through that, the better you
Speaker 2: should get. I do think the exhibitions like if we've changed, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, how many teams have a bunch of new players.
Speaker 2: That's the majority now team. I mean it's like almost
Speaker 2: every team. Well, we're still learning our rotations, We're still
Speaker 2: learning the combinations that work well. We're still making adjustments.
Speaker 2: We learn more about that in games, so we're still
Speaker 2: in that early season process. I'd love to get some
Speaker 2: of it out of the way in exhibition games.
Speaker 4: Tell us.
Speaker 10: Mine is actually multi layered. But first question is is
Speaker 10: there a chance there's a home and home with Dayton.
Speaker 2: It is we returned that game next year. I'm not
Speaker 2: paying that will be a very very difficult return game.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows. I hope. I hope we have to find
Speaker 2: some bearcats that sneak into date in the way that
Speaker 2: some dates were stuck in to fit thirty Yeah, they did.
Speaker 10: The thing that was impressive. There are so many moving
Speaker 10: parts because I looked at the roster and there are
Speaker 10: three people who returned this.
Speaker 1: Year and one didn't play and one did not.
Speaker 10: Play last year. But the freshmen was the thing that
Speaker 10: I picked up on how well they did in those circumstances.
Speaker 10: I mean, they played literally above their freshman this to
Speaker 10: call it that, and that's really kind of impressive to
Speaker 10: watch and our hope is that they stick around for
Speaker 10: a long time. Tyler was amazing. I mean he's one
Speaker 10: of the ones that I think a lot of Bearcats
Speaker 10: have been watching and see, come on out when you're
Speaker 10: when you're healthy.
Speaker 2: That's been the best part. Yeah, are are We actually
Speaker 2: have some old players. We've talked about it a lot.
Speaker 2: Tyler McKinley's a freshman. Mustapha Chom should be a freshman.
Speaker 2: He's a second year player, but he's the age of
Speaker 2: all the freshmen. Keisha Tillery's a freshman. Halvin is a
Speaker 2: second year player. He's still very young. Georgie Rodriguez is
Speaker 2: in his first year in college basketball. Who am I for? Sawing?
Speaker 2: And Shawn of b Ia as a freshman. So we
Speaker 2: do have some really young players. The thing is they're
Speaker 2: really good and they're gonna have freshman moments. But the
Speaker 2: quality of players that are coming into the program is
Speaker 2: really high. Like we just signed a young man, Kadan Allen,
Speaker 2: who's one of the best combo guards in his class.
Speaker 2: I love this. Nobody knew this about him. He's always
Speaker 2: been considered a top thirty forty player. He's he's like
Speaker 2: a year younger than everybody, like he might be better
Speaker 2: and not might. He's better than people think he is
Speaker 2: nationally and they have him as a four star type.
Speaker 2: He's better because he's like a year younger than everybody
Speaker 2: in his class. He should be in the next class.
Speaker 2: We're recruiting really gifted players that are seasoned players like
Speaker 2: Shawna Bayev and Keishan Tillery and Tyler McKinley. They've played
Speaker 2: at the elite levels of high school basketball and they've
Speaker 2: been in lots of big games. And it's not the
Speaker 2: same as college, but different than the normal freshman.
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Speaker 11: Hey, Wes, I've heard you on the radio. You're very
Speaker 11: excited about this tape. I could tell one of my questions,
Speaker 11: I owe this to Mo. Most says he are lists
Speaker 11: that the ratio of turnovers to number of possessions an
Speaker 11: important stat Right.
Speaker 2: If Most says it, for sure, I.
Speaker 4: Could help it.
Speaker 11: I can help and not notice that you're running the
Speaker 11: North Carolina offense.
Speaker 4: Is that true?
Speaker 2: The elements of the fast break? For sure?
Speaker 4: Right right right.
Speaker 11: My next question is probably before Dan, is the eighty
Speaker 11: six million dollars that Texas Texas playing. Is that for
Speaker 11: all the students in the school from their null money
Speaker 11: or is that just football football players?
Speaker 1: They're not paying eighty six million for football. But they
Speaker 1: are paying a lot. They are paying as much as
Speaker 1: any school in the country. But it's not eighty six million.
Speaker 11: That's what I heard.
Speaker 4: Okay, eighty six million.
Speaker 3: You get the Dallas Cowboys period, that's the whole defense.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of money. You got another question, No,
Speaker 4: I'll take you all right, thanks, Clint Bob.
Speaker 2: So on most of our.
Speaker 12: Teams, we consider it lucky if there's that one go
Speaker 12: to guy that you want to put them have the
Speaker 12: ball at the end of the game. I look at
Speaker 12: this team and I can see the possibility of three
Speaker 12: or four guys who who you can want to have
Speaker 12: the ball, and I think that is so much better
Speaker 12: because it really puts the defense under pressure as the
Speaker 12: clock's winded down.
Speaker 1: That's that one guy's Michael Jordan. But I get the point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, as we get into tight games,
Speaker 2: trying to learn and figure out where the ball should go,
Speaker 2: how it should go there, and how to play. I
Speaker 2: think that's something we've worked on in practice situations, but
Speaker 2: it'll be important to define that as we keep moving forward.
Speaker 8: Dave one more for you here, coach. So earlier you
Speaker 8: were talking about the scouting of players. How far back
Speaker 8: do you go? This is the first question too, how
Speaker 8: many how many people do you have that actually do scouting?
Speaker 2: How?
Speaker 8: I mean, what type of a job is that? It
Speaker 8: would seem like it could be immense.
Speaker 2: It's interesting. Are all of our assistant coaches do scout?
Speaker 2: And we divide up the scouting or the games and
Speaker 2: within the coaching staff, so each assistant has a certain
Speaker 2: amount of games. A grad assistant assists with each assistant,
Speaker 2: so there's always at least two. And then you know,
Speaker 2: Tim Buckley and Kelly Peters on my staff are involved
Speaker 2: in every scout, so myself, Tim, Kelly and whoever's the
Speaker 2: presenter and the GA. You know, there's a lot that
Speaker 2: goes into each game. There's also a massive analytical breakdown.
Speaker 2: And how far do you go back? I mean as
Speaker 2: far back as you need to gain the information to
Speaker 2: find an edge. So if it's a freshman this time
Speaker 2: of year and they don't have a ton of tape,
Speaker 2: you're going back to their high school tape and we'll
Speaker 2: literally show Now everything's online so you can if you
Speaker 2: want to work at it, you can find it. So
Speaker 2: like our GA's they've they've been sent on some wild
Speaker 2: goose chases. But if they know what they're doing, they
Speaker 2: can figure it out. But yeah, there's a lot that
Speaker 2: goes into it, a lot more than people would realize.
Speaker 4: Based on your recruiting.
Speaker 3: Like right now, you guys are shooting every fourteen seconds
Speaker 3: of possession. That means you're constantly running, constantly moving. Does
Speaker 3: that put emphasis on the type of athlete that you're
Speaker 3: going after? No longer the three hundred pound guys that
Speaker 3: can carve out space and the paint. Now you want
Speaker 3: to get up and down. They have to be able
Speaker 3: to run and endure the fast pace that you're doing.
Speaker 3: So when you're talking about recruiting, does that factor into it?
Speaker 2: It always has. We've always tried to find guys that
Speaker 2: could play defense, so we want to play They could
Speaker 2: play in the open court. I don't mind a three
Speaker 2: hundred pound guy, but I want to get him here
Speaker 2: and give him to coach ray Feld and get him
Speaker 2: to be two forty, right, you.
Speaker 1: Know, as long as he's not a three hundred pound
Speaker 1: point guard exactly. It's a big guy that you're slimming down.
Speaker 4: That's okay.
Speaker 1: Five to ten to three hundred guys probably not gonna.
Speaker 2: Work five three hundreds probably not gonna work diabolically. I
Speaker 2: mean a six eighty two hundred and sixty pound point
Speaker 2: guard like Lebron James. I take care of me, you know,
Speaker 2: But no, I think you were just looking for guys
Speaker 2: that are physically able to play the way we want
Speaker 2: to play, have the mental makeup that we're looking for.
Speaker 2: And obviously we've learned this in the Big Twelve the
Speaker 2: last two years. There's a certain element of skill you
Speaker 2: have to have. That's probably was the biggest learning curve
Speaker 2: is that you just in this league, you have to
Speaker 2: have skill too. It can't just be, you know, great
Speaker 2: defense and great rebounding. Nobody cares about great defense and
Speaker 2: great rebounding when you don't win. I mean you got
Speaker 2: to have some skills so that there's an element of
Speaker 2: that too, and we've really made an effort to get
Speaker 2: more skilled.
Speaker 1: So our last radio show was last Thursday. The following night,
Speaker 1: you had a game, and so did Iona, and I
Speaker 1: know a lot of Bearcat fans were excited to see C. J.
Speaker 1: Anthony play for Iona for the first time. He had
Speaker 1: twenty four points in that game. Through his first two games,
Speaker 1: he's averaging fifteen and a half points, five assists, two
Speaker 1: and a half rebounds. His team is two and zero.
Speaker 1: It's so fun to follow him having this opportunity being
Speaker 1: a great Bearcat for four years.
Speaker 2: It's like the greatest thing ever. I'm the biggest Iona
Speaker 2: fan the face of the earth.
Speaker 1: Right now and are tied for second, right.
Speaker 2: It is. It's like you guys told me after I
Speaker 2: think was at the Georgia State game. You said I
Speaker 2: got some good news for you and that you guys
Speaker 2: broke it. And then the first thing I did when
Speaker 2: I got back to my locker was FaceTime CJ. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm so thrilled because I've watched all the sacrifice and
Speaker 2: the stuff that he's done to put himself in this position,
Speaker 2: and I know how much he's enjoyed it, you know.
Speaker 2: But like I told him, I'm not real impressed unless
Speaker 2: you keep doing it so that type of thing. But
Speaker 2: deep down, I am pretty impressed.
Speaker 3: Averaging fourteen seconds, what do you want that number to
Speaker 3: get down to per possession?
Speaker 2: You know, That's how a lot of people talk about
Speaker 2: pace of play, right, I think, and that number is
Speaker 2: going to go down if you're scoring fast breaks. I'm
Speaker 2: a little less concerned in average pace of play me
Speaker 2: personally than I am, and how many quick baskets we get,
Speaker 2: Meaning I want us to make sure we're scoring quick
Speaker 2: and early in the shot clock consistently. But if we
Speaker 2: don't and we have some longer possessions trying to play
Speaker 2: the right way in the half court, I'm fine too, Terry.
Speaker 2: So that number doesn't matter to me. It's more as
Speaker 2: long as we're having as many I mean, how many
Speaker 2: times can we get in the open floor in space,
Speaker 2: get an easy basket, get fouled, get an offensive rebound,
Speaker 2: get a good three point shot for a three point shooter.
Speaker 2: If we can do that the whole game, the pace
Speaker 2: of play number will be like eight seconds, and that'd
Speaker 2: be the happiest guy in the world. But that's not
Speaker 2: gonna happen every night. We still want those opportunities as
Speaker 2: much as we can.
Speaker 1: So this year's game against Dayton was the third year
Speaker 1: in a row you've played the Flyers. Th'relady on the
Speaker 1: schedule for U D Arena next year, you're obviously playing
Speaker 1: Xavier every year. You got Littleville on the schedule this
Speaker 1: year coming up a week from tomorrow. Is that a
Speaker 1: team that you would like to play on a regular
Speaker 1: basis if they were willing.
Speaker 2: The Louisville's a home and home too. It's a neutralish
Speaker 2: home and home that we play in Heritage Bank and
Speaker 2: then we go return there in Freedom in Freedom Hall.
Speaker 2: So it's it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Cool because that's not where they play their games.
Speaker 2: No anymore they play. That's not their arena. That's like
Speaker 2: they're it's old type. It's so it's the same idea.
Speaker 2: They're two neutralish games. I guess you should say, so, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's listen. I'm not opposed to local games.
Speaker 2: Some people said, don't ever play local, and I think
Speaker 2: that's a bunch of crap. Let's play good teams, let's
Speaker 2: have great environments, let's get fan interest. You know, That's
Speaker 2: never deterred me. I've always wanted to compete, but it's
Speaker 2: not been like it's some what's local local local. We're
Speaker 2: just looking for for good games that are good for
Speaker 2: our non conference schedule, and it's happened to work out
Speaker 2: with some of these local teams.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a really good one. Louisville obviously
Speaker 1: has an excellent team this year. They're off to a
Speaker 1: good start and uh, let's hope that bear Cat fans
Speaker 1: pack Heritage Bank Arena Friday night.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know they're you know, some people picked them
Speaker 2: to be a Final four team and Nations Championship contender,
Speaker 2: and they've done a great job recruiting. My gosh, you
Speaker 2: know the team they put together. So that should be
Speaker 2: a I think they were up twenty against Kentucky last week,
Speaker 2: who's also got a great team this year, and so
Speaker 2: that should be a great test for us. We have
Speaker 2: a game before that. We can't look too far ahead,
Speaker 2: but that should be a great test for us against
Speaker 2: a team that a lot of people have picked to
Speaker 2: win the National Championship.
Speaker 1: Mount Saint Mary's is that next game coming up on
Speaker 1: Sunday at six. Anything that you can point out about them,
Speaker 1: I have not done any homework on Mount Saint Mary's.
Speaker 2: You know they're sound. They played West Virginia pretty close
Speaker 2: opening night. Who's in our league? I watched that game today.
Speaker 2: They're very sound. They have they play a little old
Speaker 2: school in the sense that they'll play two true post players.
Speaker 2: They have a big center that's really skilled, really good
Speaker 2: in the pocket, good decision maker, they're sound, they run
Speaker 2: good offense, they're in really good defensively, they're a team
Speaker 2: that doesn't beat themselves. The other thing, they played in
Speaker 2: the Sula Tournament last year, won a game in the
Speaker 2: NCAA tournament, and they've returned a couple of players off
Speaker 2: of that team. So it'll like all these games, we
Speaker 2: have tremendous respect. It won't be an easy game, and
Speaker 2: we can't look ahead to Louisville. We got to focus
Speaker 2: in on what's in front of us, all right.
Speaker 1: Again, that game is coming up on Sunday at six
Speaker 1: radio coverage. We'll start at five point thirty. That's going
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