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Speaker 1: It is showtime, Darry Pleas. Good evening, everybody, Greetings from

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Speaker 1: the original Montgomery in home of the world's Greatest ReBs.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dan Horde with former Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson

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

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Speaker 1: your UC Bearcats. Let's hear at four Wes Miller. Great

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Speaker 1: win for the Bearcats last night, eighty eight to fifty

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Speaker 1: one the final score over Alabama State. I'm sure some

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Speaker 1: people listening that might not know much about Alabama State

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Speaker 1: kind of roll their riyse and think, well, they can't

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Speaker 1: be very good. Well, it's a team that went to

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Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament last year, won a game in the

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Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament last year, beat UAB on the road. This year.

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Speaker 1: We know Andy Kennedy always wins twenty games a year

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Speaker 1: at UAB. They almost beat New Mexico in the pit,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the toughest places to win in

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Speaker 1: the country. Their previous game before Cincinnati an eight point

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Speaker 1: game against Missouri. So yes, Alabama State is from the sweat,

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Speaker 1: but they've got some good players and to beat them

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Speaker 1: by the biggest margin that any team has beaten them

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Speaker 1: this year says a lot about your team's performance last night.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, certainly you know you guys know this. Mike Roberts,

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Speaker 2: who's as close as I am to anybody and coaching him,

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Speaker 2: was an assistant here our first two years here as

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Speaker 2: an assistant at New Mexico, and he had the scout

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Speaker 2: and I called him after their game and I said, hey,

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Speaker 2: we get ready to play those guys. I'm gonna call

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Speaker 2: you back, and he said, let me just tell you something.

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Speaker 2: Get your guys under the pretense now that they're a

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Speaker 2: hell of a lot better than their name. They're really good,

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Speaker 2: and there's two guards that can go for thirty against anybody,

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Speaker 2: and so they are a better team than their name.

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Speaker 2: I thought, we did some nice things and we're more

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Speaker 2: consistent last night, and so that's something that we can

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Speaker 2: build off of moving forward.

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Speaker 3: Talk about doing some nice things. Bobba Miller did some

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Speaker 3: really nice things. I mean, you got a career high

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Speaker 3: at twenty six fourteen rebounds, you know, career high seventeen

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Speaker 3: rebounds a couple games, but fourteen rebounds and multiple don't

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Speaker 3: think he had seven or eight, eight, eight, So he

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Speaker 3: was absolutely going to work. We got Santa Claus coming

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Speaker 3: down the Chimney in their headphones.

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Speaker 1: Joe is on the case.

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Speaker 4: He's fixing it.

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Speaker 3: But what's it like having a guy like You've had

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Speaker 3: good teams, but good teams that don't have a guy.

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Speaker 3: It makes it tough to coach because you're trying to

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Speaker 3: figure out how to get a good shot when you

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Speaker 3: need one, Baba, you just he finds himself with his

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Speaker 3: hands on the basketball all the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he uh, his ability is it just jumps off

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Speaker 2: the page. I think anybody that watches him run up

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Speaker 2: and down the court and makes some of the plays

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Speaker 2: he makes, it's it's very noticeable to the eye. Getting

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Speaker 2: him to play with force so that ability affects every

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Speaker 2: possession has been the goal since he got here. I

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Speaker 2: think he's had stretches year where he's done it consistently,

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Speaker 2: you know, And I mean this because he's I'm really

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Speaker 2: proud of his development. I'm proud of his start to

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Speaker 2: the year. But in our previous two games, I thought

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Speaker 2: he did it in the first half and he dipped

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Speaker 2: in the second half. I thought he sustained it last night.

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Speaker 2: He sustained his effort on the board, He put pressure

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Speaker 2: on the rim in different ways, he ran the floor hard.

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Speaker 2: He did a nice job in screening roll and then

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Speaker 2: you know, all of a sudden, you look up and

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Speaker 2: he has a line that was historic. Actually I think

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Speaker 2: there was. He made some history with his line last night.

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Speaker 1: So, as I mentioned to Terry, eight dunks, team had thirteen.

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Speaker 1: I don't ever recall seeing a Bearcat have eight dunks

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Speaker 1: in a single game. And over the last thirty years

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Speaker 1: this program has had some of the best dunkers ever.

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Speaker 1: James White, you know, I don't know. Well, we had

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Speaker 1: a debate on the radio last night. The three of

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Speaker 1: us tried to say, who do you think might have

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Speaker 1: had eight dunks in a single game. Eric Hicks came

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Speaker 1: up Sea that was Steve Logan's pick. Moegger said, Kenyon,

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Speaker 1: I went with Jason max Siel because he was close

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Speaker 3: The last person I've seen dunk eight in the game

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Speaker 3: was Obi Topping a couple of year that shut it down.

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Speaker 3: He actually had eleven dunks in that game. It was

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Speaker 3: Windmills through the legs. Nevertha. This guy's number one pick

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Speaker 3: and then the season shut down. But he was he

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Speaker 3: was phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: Your Carolina days. Somebody must have been closed to eight

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Speaker 2: Not that I can recall him. I played with the

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Speaker 2: within two three feet. It felt like thirty times a

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Speaker 2: never He didn't dunk it a lot. He'd get fouled

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Speaker 2: and kind of fists. Yeah. Yeah, but eight dunks in

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Speaker 2: a game significant, Yeah, But I think more than the dunks,

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Speaker 2: it's the mentality did he played with. That's what he

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Speaker 2: has to sustain, and I think he can. He can

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Speaker 2: continue to have great impact.

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Speaker 3: Corey and I were having this conversation. Other than Kenyon

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Speaker 3: every transition play, he's in the play, Like when I

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Speaker 3: watched Lebron James, which one of the reasons that makes

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Speaker 3: you know, whether it was Jordan Kobe, Shaquille O'Neill, karmelone.

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Speaker 3: They lead the break or they get out because they

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Speaker 3: want to be a part of that action. In the

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Speaker 3: open court, he runs every play and somehow it finished.

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Speaker 3: He finished his plays in spectacular fashion, and it seems

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Speaker 4: Go for at a high level for a long period

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Speaker 2: Well, I've really been pushing him to run more consistently

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Speaker 2: and to kind of win those first three steps. James

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Speaker 2: Worthy will say that, yeah, last break, when we get

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Speaker 2: when we get the ball right, that that split second

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Speaker 2: And that's been very unnatural for him. He's been a

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Speaker 2: and I think that the eye sees that when you

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Speaker 2: watch us play. But getting that conversion in that moment

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Speaker 2: and winning those first three steps, I think is the

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Speaker 2: key because you don't realize that, but that split second

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Speaker 2: it's probably the difference in about ten or twelve feet

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Speaker 2: running the floor absolutely red. So I think he's improving

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Speaker 2: that it was better last night. It's something we're hard

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Speaker 2: there was pressure on the baseline, corners were filled. Maybe

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Speaker 2: not just the player. But he's really good at finding

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Speaker 1: It was an awesome night for Gisel James. He entered

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Speaker 1: the game, got a huge ovation, a standing ovation for

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Speaker 1: many people in the lower Bawl, and then he went

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Speaker 1: out and brilliantly looked like he hadn't missed a practice,

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Speaker 1: much less the game. Sixteen points in twenty minutes. You

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Speaker 1: acknowledged on the postgame show. He even exceeded your expectations

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Speaker 1: a bit for his first game back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have a lot of basketball expectations for him

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Speaker 2: last night and didn't want to put that kind of

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Speaker 2: pressure on him. But he has been practicing. We kept

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Speaker 2: that very quiet, mainly for the other players. We didn't

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Speaker 2: want questions at every day and every game and on

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Speaker 2: their phones about win's all that kind of crap going on.

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Speaker 2: But he has been practicing for weeks now. I don't

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Speaker 2: know the amount of days, A couple of weeks, three weeks,

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Speaker 2: something like that, so it's not as if he hasn't

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Speaker 2: and as long as he has to come out and

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Speaker 2: play like that, I was I was surprised.

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Speaker 3: I thought you guys coming out and making a conscious

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Speaker 3: effort to get the ball down low to start the

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Speaker 4: Opened it up.

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Speaker 3: Before you you said this thing where you like playing

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Speaker 3: inside out instead of outside out. Did you feel like

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Speaker 3: you had? But once you threw it into Mustafa, he

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Speaker 3: kicked it back out to Baba, and Baba hit the three.

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Speaker 3: That's the kind of offense you want to see going forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know you're gonna make more shots

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Speaker 2: when you get a higher quality shot. And when the

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Speaker 2: ball comes inside out, it touches the paint, it gets relocated.

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Speaker 2: Guys are stepping in. You're gonna good shooters are gonna

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Speaker 2: make shots at a higher level. Pats shooter's gonna make

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Speaker 2: shots at a higher level. And so the first possession

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Speaker 2: I'd have been fine if he turned and shot his

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Speaker 2: to Baba. And inside out in rhythm, and Baba's can

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Speaker 2: that was the right one and it was good to

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Speaker 2: see it go down to start the game.

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Speaker 1: In the practices that I've attended since Chisel has been

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Speaker 1: practicing again, it looked like to me he was just

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Speaker 1: trying to be part of the team. Wasn't taking a

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Speaker 1: play good defense, almost taking like a subservient role for

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Speaker 1: lack of a better expression. Then he got out in

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Speaker 1: just natural instincts took over. Is that about how he's looked.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Gisel's done a great job of trying

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Speaker 2: to assimilate back into our team. You know, the first

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Speaker 2: He wasn't allowed in the locker room, he wasn't allowed

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Speaker 2: in practice, but he was allowed to work out and

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Speaker 2: he sought out all the players on the team and

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Speaker 2: apologized to him personally, told him that he just wanted

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Speaker 2: to be a part of the team again, that he

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Speaker 2: missed the team we had Thanksgiving at my house. And

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Speaker 2: you know, my girlfriend Lauren made this board and they

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Speaker 2: had she put sticky notes, and she asked everybody that

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Speaker 2: something they were thankful or grateful for and stick it

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Speaker 2: on the board. Kind of is an idea for Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 2: which was a terrific idea, and I was looking at

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Speaker 2: after all the guys left, wrote I'm thankful to be

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Speaker 2: a part of a team again, you know, like I

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Speaker 2: think he just it's really just he just wanted to

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Speaker 2: had that. He just wants to fit in and assimilate.

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Speaker 2: So I give him credit. I give our players credit

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Speaker 2: for accepting him back.

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Speaker 4: And Dan just wrote his name on the security board.

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Speaker 4: He didn't do any of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I just wondered if anybody put up a sticky note

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Speaker 1: that said I'm glad Terry didn't show even after he

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Speaker 4: Powhouse shots fired.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's about the time I got even

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Speaker 1: te Now, all right, we're gonna take a time out.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate the Bearcat fans who are here with us to night.

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Speaker 1: December thirtieth, but for the most part, Thursday nights eight

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Speaker 1: to nine here at the original Montgomery and the Bearcats winners.

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Speaker 1: Big last night, thirty seven point victory over Alabama State

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Speaker 1: for a tough game coming up on Sunday on the

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Speaker 1: test for your team on Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very good it's we wanted to schedule up

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Speaker 2: I think it's a great opportunity. We're geared up and

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Speaker 3: You have your leading score back from last season, and

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Speaker 3: it seems like his positioning puts everybody else in position

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Speaker 4: What's it like.

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Speaker 3: Having your lead dog back knowing that at any moment, yes,

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to put too many expectations on

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Speaker 3: Did he did he gain weight? It looks like five

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Speaker 2: we all have known that Jisel. He was an All

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Speaker 1: Kirk Rees alled your team with seven assists last night.

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Speaker 1: He was also one for nine from outside the arc.

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Speaker 2: Man? He's not afraid of the moment. He's not afraid

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Speaker 3: We gotta get your video guys to send YouTube videos

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Speaker 3: of Dennis Robin to Halven because they almost to the.

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Speaker 4: He only had one last.

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Speaker 4: He runs the floor very well.

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Speaker 3: But Dennis Rotmins would have had a similar role where

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Speaker 2: I hope and pray and whatever you can do. I'm

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Speaker 3: What is the bug Celeste that makes some such a

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Speaker 2: I think, is he like he is there like some

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Speaker 3: But Bob Huggins never told me that I did the

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Speaker 4: That sends it the overtime. But you said he was

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I said retro play like an athlete.

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Speaker 4: Come on, but you can't keep changing up and just

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Speaker 2: Uh Donald Williams, that's my that's my voice. That's a

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Speaker 2: So it doesn't surprise me that you feel like he's

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Speaker 2: We always use the term box out plus pursue. That's

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Speaker 1: We didn't see much of Buck Harris last night. He

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Speaker 2: Took that spill against Georgia and after his first rotation

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Speaker 3: Isn't the assignment of Kissan Tillery to probe into paint

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Speaker 2: I think you know, you guys, the hardest the hardest

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Speaker 2: He's working through that and uh, he's he's doing a

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Speaker 2: We call that gnashing because Steve Nash used to do

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Speaker 4: He's got like ten one per game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the terminology is funny, but the no, I think

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Speaker 2: that is a key for him is to continue to

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Speaker 2: value the ball but still be himself.

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Speaker 1: T Nelling either can be taking a charge or saying

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Speaker 1: yes to another glass of red wines. That's it, the

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Speaker 1: two possibilities for t nelling yes.

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Speaker 2: I like the basketball analogy better.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a time out. Questions from the

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Speaker 1: audience when we continue. This is the West Miller Radio Show.

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Speaker 1: We're live at the original Montgomery In, Home of the

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Speaker 1: World's Greatest Rips and seven hundred WLW. We are back

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Speaker 1: at the original Montgomery In, Home of the World's Greatest

448
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Speaker 1: Rips and the West Miller Radio Show. Appreciate the Bearcat

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Speaker 1: Fancer with us here tonight. We'll give away some stuff

450
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Speaker 1: at the end of the show. You have to be

451
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Speaker 1: here in order to win. Now, let's get some questions

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Speaker 1: from the audience. We go to section two six with

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Speaker 1: the what is it two O seven? I always say

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Speaker 1: two six and it's two o seven. All right, it's

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Speaker 1: the coach who does her work from section two O seven.

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Speaker 1: At least take it away.

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Speaker 5: Well, my first question is as a fan, so you

458
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Speaker 5: kind of mentioned a bit how Gissel had to apologize

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Speaker 5: to all of his teammates before coming back. Was there

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Speaker 5: any conversation that you had with the team to make

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Speaker 5: sure they were okay with him coming back knowing with

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Speaker 5: whatever what all he had said and put out on

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Speaker 5: social media to the world.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and some of some of its family business

465
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Speaker 2: guys like some of it doesn't need to be public,

466
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Speaker 2: but certainly the team heard from me and we talked

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Speaker 2: together before he was back in Cincinnati, and then before

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Speaker 2: he was able to practice. I actually met with each

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Speaker 2: Perst player individually to make sure that that was comfortable

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Speaker 2: for them, and then I met with the team again

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Speaker 2: before we decided to allow them to play, to make

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Speaker 2: sure everybody was supportive of that. So yeah, the teams

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Speaker 2: had a lot of say in it. I love that.

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Speaker 5: So my question is coach assistant coach. I was at

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Speaker 5: the Atlanta in Atlanta for the game, and so I

476
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Speaker 5: got moved, I got upgraded to just behind the bench.

477
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Speaker 5: I tried to get down to the bench, but they

478
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Speaker 5: wouldn't let me.

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Speaker 1: They draw the line.

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Speaker 2: Eventually they did.

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Speaker 5: I think it might have been because I had on

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Speaker 5: regular street clothes. But so I was watching more of

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Speaker 5: the warm up. I kind of just wanted to see

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Speaker 5: what was going on because I was so close and

485
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Speaker 5: growing up, you know, watching the teams of old your predecessors,

486
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Speaker 5: Huggins grown in. Like I remember being at games for

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Speaker 5: everyone because I worked in athletics, and you would see

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Speaker 5: them out with the bags and like going up to

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Speaker 5: the big men and doing those kind of warm ups.

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Speaker 5: I don't see that from how they warm up now.

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Speaker 5: I see a lot of jumpers, three pointers, what have you?

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Speaker 5: What kind of warm up are those big men doing.

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Speaker 5: I saw improvement and in an Alabama State game, but

494
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Speaker 5: with Houston in the league games coming up, I just

495
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Speaker 5: the inside presence is what we need, and that's all.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what time you got there, how early

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Speaker 2: you were. I'm not out there. I don't come out

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Speaker 2: during their pregame warm ups, but I do have a

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Speaker 2: lot of say in what goes on during them. Obviously

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Speaker 2: they do pad work, and I say pad work, sometimes

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Speaker 2: it's actually a grad assistant or a coach that gives

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Speaker 2: them physical resistance without a pad. But it's the same thing.

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Speaker 2: They do resistance work on the interior, whether it's post moves,

504
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Speaker 2: duck ins, wedging, weeks out rebounding, which is like a

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Speaker 2: They do that and shoot around every game day. They

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Speaker 2: also do it in their post perimeter breakdown in the

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Speaker 2: early part of their warm up but as they get

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Speaker 2: to the I don't know the end of their warm up,

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Speaker 2: it's layups to get their blood flowing and then free shooting,

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Speaker 2: which we kind of added this year to see who

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Speaker 2: help our shooting? That was an assistant coach's idea. But

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Speaker 2: they do do that as part of their warm up,

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Speaker 2: the pad or the resistance work in their post perimeter breakdown.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know what time he got there.

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Speaker 1: All right, where are we going next?

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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, hey coach, I'm a student, so hopefully you'll

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Speaker 6: see me in the student section and upcoming games.

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Speaker 4: Love that. I had a question.

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Speaker 6: We saw Gigsel James come in and he clearly had

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Speaker 6: a spark and the team seemed to feed off of

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Speaker 6: his energy coming in this game. How do you expect

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Speaker 6: to roll that over into the future games coming up

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Speaker 6: and the rest of the schedule, especially going at a

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Speaker 6: big twelve plat.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think Gigsel just has to continue

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Speaker 2: to do what he's done here for the last two

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Speaker 2: or three weeks, and that's keep his head down, have

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Speaker 2: the right mentality and practice every day, keep building a

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Speaker 2: rapport with his teammates and the opportunities that he gets

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Speaker 2: and Honestly, That's what I told him last night when

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Speaker 2: he checked in. I said that no pressure, but go

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Speaker 2: play like Gigsel James, you know, and Gizzl's always had

533
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Speaker 2: a little flare when the lights come on. So as

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Speaker 2: as Dan mentioned earlier, he was better. He was better

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Speaker 2: last night than he wasn't any practice, which kind of

536
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Speaker 2: surprised me. But uh, uh no, I think he just

537
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Speaker 2: needs to keep taking the steady steps and Gizzle Gizzle

538
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Speaker 2: can do great things. Everybody already knows that about him.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna happen over time here. But I don't want

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Speaker 2: to put too much pressure on him in the first

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks that he's back playing same table.

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Speaker 7: Hey, coach, Uh, you'll be going against a former Bearcat

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Speaker 7: in Victor Lockin Uh this Sunday.

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Speaker 4: How do you anticipate skip? I guess Victor.

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Speaker 2: Victor would love to get like an eighth year of eligibility.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure of it. Uh. And if he ever hears that,

547
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Speaker 2: he'll laugh great sense of humor.

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Speaker 4: He's he is.

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Speaker 2: He's with the Oklahoma City Thunders Uh organization. He did

550
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Speaker 2: have a bad injury. He made he made it through

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Speaker 2: his first injury less season at Clemson last year, no injury,

552
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Speaker 2: and then he got He got hurt a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks after the season in a in a in a

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Speaker 2: camp for seniors that graduated Portsmouth Imitational, which was really

555
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Speaker 2: sad because he was in a really good position professionally,

556
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Speaker 2: but Oklahoma City still still took him. I don't know

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Speaker 2: in what capacity, but Victor loves Cincinnati. He also played

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Speaker 2: that last year at Clemson, so he'll be tuned in.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he texted me when he saw the game

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Speaker 2: was released.

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Speaker 8: Brian, coach, you mentioned Bobby Miller's line, and it was

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Speaker 8: a pretty good line. I'm gonna go back a little

563
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Speaker 8: bit because we've kind of been talking about some stuff

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Speaker 8: from the past, and this might be more for Dan

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Speaker 8: and Terry than you.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you're aware of this.

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Speaker 8: How do you pull him out when he's so close

568
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Speaker 8: to a Barbara Walters.

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Speaker 1: A twenty twenty very good, very good, Dan very good

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Speaker 1: had twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: The truth is, guys, I I it during the game,

572
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Speaker 2: wor coach, and I have no idea like the individual

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Speaker 2: player stats. I mean, I know who's playing well and

574
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Speaker 2: who's not, and who's shooting it well and who's not.

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Speaker 2: And if you said, you know, what were they, I

576
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Speaker 2: could probably give you a good guess. But I didn't

577
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Speaker 2: know that he was that close. That's that's somebody else's job.

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Speaker 2: You know. If there's a chance to get one more

579
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Speaker 2: rebound or one more assist or something special, somebody should

580
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Speaker 2: come mention it. He wasn't that close, but I did.

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Speaker 2: I did. I don't remember what it was, but our

582
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Speaker 2: sid Brett Rybak, who does a terrific job, came up

583
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Speaker 2: to me walking into press conference said it was one

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Speaker 2: of the best stat lines in the history of the program,

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Speaker 2: which is saying something, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I wondered if you have somebody, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: a lower level assistant, who would say, hey, this guy

588
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Speaker 1: needs one more assist for a triple double or something

589
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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And in most nights you wouldn't care. But if

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Speaker 2: you if you had a game like last night and

592
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Speaker 2: somebody was that close, you might run one more play

593
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Speaker 2: and see if they can. If you can see him

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Speaker 2: up for something, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, who's got the mic way.

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Speaker 9: One of the things I enjoy the most watching college

597
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Speaker 9: basketball is a team that does a good job of

598
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Speaker 9: interior passing with the big guys and it seemed like

599
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Speaker 9: last night, I've seen a little more of that than typical.

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Speaker 9: I don't know if I just noticed it more, or

601
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Speaker 9: is that something you've kind of worked on to try

602
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Speaker 9: to get him doing.

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Speaker 2: It's it's so interesting that you asked that question in

604
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Speaker 2: our October summer practices. In October practices, I thought this

605
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Speaker 2: was the best interior passing team that I've ever been

606
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Speaker 2: a part of playing coaching because Jalen Haynes had like

607
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Speaker 2: a twenty five percent assist ray last year at Mason.

608
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Speaker 2: He's like a wildly good passer and an interior passer,

609
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Speaker 2: Baba has that ability to kind of pass over the

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Speaker 2: top and make quick decisions how he can also catch

611
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Speaker 2: over the top and catch low, and you know Boba's ability.

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Speaker 2: You could see that MoU Is is a better passer

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Speaker 2: than he looks because his fundamentals don't always look as clean,

614
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 2: but his touch is good, so he's improved there. And

615
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Speaker 2: then the best interior passer on our team is Tyler McKinley.

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Speaker 2: He's elite and he didn't play last night. But one

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Speaker 2: of the things that we've identified that we've done really

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Speaker 2: well on offense when we've had good possessions is we've

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Speaker 2: played really well in the pocket generally with Tyler and

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Speaker 2: Meu and Baba, where they catch it in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the floor and they make a really really nice

622
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Speaker 2: play to somebody for a dunk or somebody for an

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Speaker 2: open shot. We need more of that, and then certain

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Speaker 2: defensive coverages allow for that. When people get really aggressive

625
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Speaker 2: in the pick and roll, that pocket pass is open.

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Speaker 2: And so again I do think that's the strength of

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Speaker 2: our team. We got to get more out of that strength.

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Speaker 2: I think would be the thing I'd say, play more consistently.

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Speaker 1: There was it sean of byaps best passing game.

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Speaker 2: Yes, said as much to him today. You know he's

631
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Speaker 2: going through that process of trying to figure out how

632
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Speaker 2: much to shoot, how much to drive, how much to create,

633
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Speaker 2: when to pass. And it's pretty fun because he's you know,

634
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Speaker 2: you're watching him evolve in front of our eyes. But

635
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Speaker 2: I think he's figuring out how important it is to

636
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Speaker 2: play downhill. He got to the foul line last night,

637
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Speaker 2: how important it is to facilitate and make good decisions

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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 2: and then the shots will come his way. And I thought,

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Speaker 2: other than maybe a couple there at the end of

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Speaker 2: the game, I thought his shot selection was much better

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Speaker 2: last night.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a time out or from the

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Speaker 1: original Montgomery In, Home of the World's Greatest Ribs. Whant

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Speaker 1: we continue? This is the West Miller Radio Show. I'm

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Speaker 1: the Home of the Cats, seven hundred WLW. We are

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Speaker 1: back at the original Montgomery In, Home of the World's

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Speaker 1: Greatest Ribs and the West Miller Radio Show here on

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Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred WLW. I'm looking over at TL.

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Speaker 1: Do we have another question for the audience?

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Speaker 3: Yes, we have a question from the audience, but the

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Speaker 3: person doesn't want to be identified, so they anonymously gave

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Speaker 3: me the question. So the question is, coach Wes, what's

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Speaker 3: your philosophy on end of halftime plays?

654
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 2: So if it's not to throw it to the other team.

655
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 10: No, I think the question was if it's you know,

656
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 10: seventeen and you're counting it down all the way to

657
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 10: seven or eight before you make your move, this person says,

658
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 10: it seems like there's some chaos at the end of it.

659
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 10: You end up throwing up a shot instead of just

660
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 10: going with seventeen seconds and trying to score and then

661
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 10: let put the pressure.

662
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 4: On them to score on defense.

663
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 2: Well, last night it was good, we called time out,

664
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: we called time out, we scored. Then we actually double

665
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 2: team so they couldn't hold for the last shot and

666
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 2: we dunked it at the buzzer. So we had a

667
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 2: four run to finish the half last night. So last

668
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 2: night it was good at the end of the half.

669
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 2: But no, I think I don't want to say too

670
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 2: much in case somebody's listening, but I think I think

671
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 2: it's a possession game. So what you're trying to do

672
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 2: is make sure that you don't give the other team

673
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: last shot. So I think that's the goal. But when

674
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: you when you don't execute or you don't get And

675
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you what my execution rules

676
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,239
Speaker 2: are because right now you can't tell from watching our

677
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 2: team anyway. So it is a mystery. But there is

678
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 2: a method to the madness. And by the way, I mean,

679
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 2: there's been some years that I think it's been a

680
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: massive differentiator how we play the last minute, the behalf,

681
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: and how we play the possession game. Last night was

682
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: the first example of that that have this year. We

683
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 2: did we were masterful at the end of the end

684
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 2: of the half last nast night, but it has not

685
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: been that way. But you don't want to settle for

686
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: a leaping heaping three pointers step back. You want to

687
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 2: put some pressure on the rim and have a chance

688
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 2: to get foul.

689
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: All right, I'm glad this came up because last night

690
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: you called a time out, maybe thirty seconds left in

691
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: the half, okay, and naturally.

692
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 2: We actually are supposed to kill the two for one,

693
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 2: which is really interesting. And our bench did a great

694
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 2: job practice this all the time. If somebody scores at

695
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 2: the end of the half, the clock doesn't stop. Not

696
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: at the end of the game, the clock stops. So

697
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 2: we got scored on okay, with like forty one seconds left,

698
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 2: and we teach our bench because it's always in front

699
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: of our bench at the end of the half, to

700
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 2: scream kill it. And what we do is we don't

701
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 2: take the ball out. We just kind of let it bounce.

702
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 2: We walk over to it, you know, and you try

703
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 2: to make sure you imbound it and then collect the

704
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 2: ball with under thirty so you get the last possession

705
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 2: of the half. So it was great. Jalen Haynes, actually,

706
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 2: who's such a bright player, He's screaming kill it, and

707
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 2: Baba just kind of didn't listen, and then he picked

708
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 2: it up and then he heard it before he inbound it,

709
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 2: so he froze for a second. But once you are

710
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 2: taking it out, you can't hold it for ten seconds.

711
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 2: And then instead of like letting it just like slowly

712
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: bounce up the floor so Kirk could pick it up,

713
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 2: he threw it towards the socket and then we we

714
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,240
Speaker 2: had to pick it up and it was like still

715
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 2: an eight second differential. So then we took our thirty

716
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: once we crossed half court, but we did. We did

717
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 2: score four straight at that point, and that was pretty good.

718
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 2: So we ended up getting the two for one.

719
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 1: Ironically, here's my question, because when you called that time out, naturally,

720
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: we kind of speculated, all right, he's drawing up the

721
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: you know what he wants on offense for the final possession.

722
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: And then after you scored, they come up the floor,

723
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: cross center court and immediately double team the ball handler

724
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: right there.

725
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 2: We didn't want them to hold right, you know. And

726
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 2: you know, again, there's not as much in with so

727
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 2: many new players guys, so like we don't have a

728
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 2: lot of our double team stuff in that we might

729
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 2: have had at this point in previous years. But for years,

730
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 2: like we had teams that just knew if anybody was

731
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: holding for the last shot of a half, we're running

732
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 2: at it. We'd practice it. We've just gotten into a

733
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: little bit of Last night's the first time we executed

734
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 2: in the game.

735
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 1: So so the defense was also part of the time out.

736
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: Here's what we want on offense, and then when they

737
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna team.

738
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,439
Speaker 2: We got fouled, so we were on the free throw

739
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: line and then you could look at the differential, so

740
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 2: they're going to hold, and we called a double team.

741
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 2: So if Brad Brownell at Clemson's listened to and you

742
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: have the ball, we're gonna double you.

743
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, back to you.

744
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 8: Well, after all of this end of half, end of

745
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 8: game talk, my question seems really trivial. Every game this

746
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 8: year that I remember, Bobba Miller's jumped at the tip

747
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 8: and last night it was Chum. I was just wondering,

748
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 8: what was the reason to change it up.

749
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 2: Hell, you guys don't have as good a memory as

750
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: I thought you guys did. Bob Mustapha has jumped the

751
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,839
Speaker 2: last four games, is that right? Five?

752
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say about that. And he had the forward

753
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: tip in the Georgia game that led to an alley

754
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: oop dunk at at the beginning of.

755
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 2: The game, which was a design.

756
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: So when Boba missed the two games with the injury,

757
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: chom began jumping and he's continued since.

758
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 2: Correct. So when Baba missed a game and then I

759
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 2: told MoU didn't like it. When I told the first game,

760
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 2: I said, Bob was jumping because when we scrimmaged in

761
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: the preseason, Baba won the tip. So I said, shoot,

762
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 2: I like winning the tip. That's a possession. So MoU

763
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 2: didn't like that that he wasn't jumping. So when Boba

764
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: got hurt, I said, are you win it tonight? You

765
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 2: can keep getting it until you don't win it again.

766
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 2: And he's won everyone since.

767
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: And that was awesome. At the beginning of the Georgia game.

768
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: Clearly that was something you must have seen too. Yeah,

769
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: clip it forward instead of backward and getting out of it.

770
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: Was actually a really impressive play because it was a

771
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 2: tip play and it takes some really really nice touch

772
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 2: in athleticism to tip it the way he had to

773
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: tip it to let data run underneath it. And again

774
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 2: we had a three on one on that one. So

775
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 2: the kid the kids did a really nice job executing

776
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 2: the first play.

777
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 4: Bob Hey coach, that was as close.

778
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 7: As I hope, you know, at the beginning of the

779
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 7: season looking at the talent performance on the court last

780
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 7: night was as close to what I expected to see

781
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 7: from the team I think I've seen this season.

782
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 2: I hope we can sustain it.

783
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 7: But I think one of the key stats was seven turnovers.

784
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 7: They're over and three of those were long lobs that

785
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 7: were almost connected and just missed. So the ball handling

786
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 7: was really tight, really took care of it, and I

787
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 7: think that, well, if we can do that on the

788
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 7: this weekend, I think it will help.

789
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 2: Us a lot. You know, there's been a lot of

790
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 2: talk about the offense, and you know, you can think

791
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: about it every way from sideways. The first thing is

792
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 2: you can't give it to the other team because you

793
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: got no chance to make it if you don't ever

794
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: shoot it right. And so cleaning up the turnovers to

795
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 2: me has been priority number one. Ironically, one of the

796
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 2: biggest mistakes we made with our offense last year was

797
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 2: we were having some turnover issues really early in the

798
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 2: year before games started, and we went bananas about taking

799
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 2: care of the ball, and I thought we missed some

800
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 2: opportunities to get the ball out and take advantage of

801
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 2: our athleticism and the open court last year because they

802
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 2: were so secure with the ball. And so one of

803
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 2: the things I said this year, I said, hey, you're

804
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 2: going to get the league. You got to be able

805
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 2: to convert defense to offense. And we weren't able to

806
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: do that well enough. And I thought part of the

807
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: reason was we were so crazy about not taking chances

808
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: and turning it over. We were top ten of the

809
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 2: nation last year and taking care of the basketball and

810
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 2: the whole country, and so we still need to be aggressive,

811
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: but we cannot be a high turnover team, and I

812
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 2: thought we made a huge emphasis of that for the

813
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 2: last month. I thought we made a step in the

814
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 2: right direction in a game last night.

815
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: Fellas just it's more.

816
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 11: Of an observation or a question, however you want to

817
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 11: take it. But my observation is that's probably one of

818
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 11: the most together games I've seen players play together for

819
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 11: a while. And there's some kind of secret sauce you

820
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 11: used wherever you store it. Really enjoyed that lot.

821
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 2: If I had secret sauce, they've been used along.

822
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 1: Right here actually for the chips every night.

823
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,439
Speaker 2: No they're capable. I mean, I think in every game

824
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 2: we played, there's been great segments of the things that

825
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 2: you saw. I thought it was more consistent last night.

826
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 2: He's got to continue to be more consistent. But the

827
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 2: unselfishness has been there. How many assists do we have

828
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 2: last twenty five? Twenty five assists We've we've been one

829
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 2: of the better teams in the country and assists rate

830
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 2: and field goals that are assisted, so that's not a

831
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: new thing. But we got to take care of the

832
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 2: ball better. We got to make better decisions, We got

833
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 2: to execute better offense more consistently.

834
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: All right, we got just a few minutes left. As

835
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: I was doing some homework for the game last night,

836
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: I was looking back at last year's game against Alabama State,

837
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: your leading scorer in that game with Simas Lukasis, Which

838
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: leads to this question where a semas these days?

839
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: Simas is playing in Lithuania, so playing in his home

840
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 2: country for a really, really good club at a really

841
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: high level. He had a lot of ops to go

842
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 2: on and play professionally. He could have explored the Exhibit

843
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 2: ten route, like what what Vick is doing with the

844
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. He had options to do that. But if

845
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 2: he didn't have a guaranteed NBA contract, he said he

846
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,280
Speaker 2: wanted to go, uh play at a really high level

847
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 2: back in Europe. So you know he's he's doing really

848
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 2: really well.

849
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 4: What are your keys to the victory on Sunday?

850
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna leave here a little more abruptly than

851
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 2: normal because I got a lot of film to watch

852
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 2: tonight of Clemson. We have an earlier practice tomorrow, so

853
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 2: I gotta get to the film and and and get

854
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 2: to work here tonight. But so I'd probably be more

855
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 2: equipped to answer that question tomorrow morning.

856
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 7: Uh.

857
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 2: But what I'll say, they're very positionally sound, defensively, very physical.

858
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 2: I think at least asked a question about physicality, uh

859
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 2: in league play that this is a game like that.

860
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 2: So it's it's like it'll be like a Big twelve

861
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 2: game physically. So they're gonna be in position. Uh, we're

862
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 2: gonna have to do a great job of executing, making decisions,

863
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 2: like you're not going to just make one pass, drive

864
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 2: the ball and get a good shot. Like they are

865
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 2: a very positionally sound defense, very physical defense. Offensively, they

866
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 2: don't beat themselves. They do not turn the ball over.

867
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 2: They do a good job of turning things over side

868
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,439
Speaker 2: to side. So this is a this is a big

869
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 2: twelve type game and in a very well coached and

870
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Speaker 2: disciplined team, and so we're gonna have to match those things.

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Speaker 1: I'm one of five kids, three sisters and a brother.

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Speaker 1: My brother lives in Greenville, South Carolina. So it's very

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Speaker 1: nice of you to schedule a game there that I

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Speaker 1: can't attend because I'll be a the Bengal Dolphins game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Unfortunately, so I don't get.

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Speaker 2: To see my brother and in Miami or is that here?

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Speaker 1: It's in Miami.

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Speaker 2: I don't feel bad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nor should you. So I wish I could see

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Speaker 1: my brother, but I hope to get back and watch

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Speaker 1: on tape a great Bearrickhead victory over Clast.

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Speaker 2: Let's leave them tickets. Let's end this though. Let's let's

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Speaker 2: end on this tonight. He's obviously welcome. We'll put him

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Speaker 2: behind the bench. But the for the most part, it'll

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Speaker 2: be a blownot to have you there. I mean, like

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Speaker 2: we we love Dan Horde. Enough set there, that's kind

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Speaker 2: of you. You're the greatest.

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Speaker 1: However, However, there it comes, there's a whole and it's

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Speaker 1: a deserved.

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Speaker 2: However, however, I will not be interrupted with music during

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Speaker 2: my press conference.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we learned officially last night that I'm old because

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Speaker 1: my cell phone goes off in the middle of his

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Speaker 1: news conference and I start slapping at this phone like

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Speaker 1: I'm wearing upn mits. I can't find the button to

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Speaker 1: just turn it off or turn the sound down. I'm

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Speaker 1: like slapping at it. That was the most embarrassing thing

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Speaker 1: in my life.

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Speaker 2: It happened like three times twice. Went running out of

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Speaker 2: the room in the press conference. It was great.

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Speaker 1: Shut it off.

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Speaker 2: Then I said nice things about you the.

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Speaker 1: Water as she did, and I appreciate it. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we're out of time. Stuff to give away momentarily. If

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Speaker 1: you're listening on the radio, thanks for tuning in. This

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Speaker 1: has been the West Miller Radio Show on seven hundred.

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