WEBVTT - 12-18-25 Wes Miller Show 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:08.920 It is showtime, Darry Pleas. Good evening, everybody, Greetings from 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.040 the original Montgomery in home of the world's Greatest ReBs. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.760 I'm Dan Horde with former Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:16.959 and the star of the show, the head coach of 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:24.680 your UC Bearcats. Let's hear at four Wes Miller. Great 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.120 win for the Bearcats last night, eighty eight to fifty 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.200 one the final score over Alabama State. I'm sure some 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.200 people listening that might not know much about Alabama State 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:34.840 kind of roll their riyse and think, well, they can't 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:36.800 be very good. Well, it's a team that went to 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.600 the NCAA Tournament last year, won a game in the 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.200 NCAA Tournament last year, beat UAB on the road. This year. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.919 We know Andy Kennedy always wins twenty games a year 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.560 at UAB. They almost beat New Mexico in the pit, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.879 which is one of the toughest places to win in 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.320 the country. Their previous game before Cincinnati an eight point 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.960 game against Missouri. So yes, Alabama State is from the sweat, 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.840 but they've got some good players and to beat them 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.400 by the biggest margin that any team has beaten them 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.600 this year says a lot about your team's performance last night. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.640 Yeah, well, certainly you know you guys know this. Mike Roberts, 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.840 who's as close as I am to anybody and coaching him, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.920 was an assistant here our first two years here as 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.679 an assistant at New Mexico, and he had the scout 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.479 and I called him after their game and I said, hey, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.520 we get ready to play those guys. I'm gonna call 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.200 you back, and he said, let me just tell you something. 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.000 Get your guys under the pretense now that they're a 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.120 hell of a lot better than their name. They're really good, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.080 and there's two guards that can go for thirty against anybody, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.520 and so they are a better team than their name. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.640 I thought, we did some nice things and we're more 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.160 consistent last night, and so that's something that we can 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.440 build off of moving forward. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.720 Talk about doing some nice things. Bobba Miller did some 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.680 really nice things. I mean, you got a career high 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:03.240 at twenty six fourteen rebounds, you know, career high seventeen 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.600 rebounds a couple games, but fourteen rebounds and multiple don't 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.560 think he had seven or eight, eight, eight, So he 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.840 was absolutely going to work. We got Santa Claus coming 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.000 down the Chimney in their headphones. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:17.680 Joe is on the case. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:18.440 He's fixing it. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.120 But what's it like having a guy like You've had 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.120 good teams, but good teams that don't have a guy. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.160 It makes it tough to coach because you're trying to 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.880 figure out how to get a good shot when you 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.000 need one, Baba, you just he finds himself with his 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.760 hands on the basketball all the time. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:41.760 Yeah, he uh, his ability is it just jumps off 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.000 the page. I think anybody that watches him run up 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.440 and down the court and makes some of the plays 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:51.120 he makes, it's it's very noticeable to the eye. Getting 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.480 him to play with force so that ability affects every 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.800 possession has been the goal since he got here. I 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.720 think he's had stretches year where he's done it consistently, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.839 you know, And I mean this because he's I'm really 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.239 proud of his development. I'm proud of his start to 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.320 the year. But in our previous two games, I thought 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.680 he did it in the first half and he dipped 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.320 in the second half. I thought he sustained it last night. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.480 He sustained his effort on the board, He put pressure 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:22.239 on the rim in different ways, he ran the floor hard. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.480 He did a nice job in screening roll and then 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.200 you know, all of a sudden, you look up and 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:32.160 he has a line that was historic. Actually I think 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.560 there was. He made some history with his line last night. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.920 So, as I mentioned to Terry, eight dunks, team had thirteen. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.600 I don't ever recall seeing a Bearcat have eight dunks 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.160 in a single game. And over the last thirty years 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.960 this program has had some of the best dunkers ever. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:53.600 James White, you know, I don't know. Well, we had 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.720 a debate on the radio last night. The three of 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.200 us tried to say, who do you think might have 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.080 had eight dunks in a single game. Eric Hicks came 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.480 up Sea that was Steve Logan's pick. Moegger said, Kenyon, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.880 I went with Jason max Siel because he was close 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.520 to the basket and he never laid it up. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.920 The last person I've seen dunk eight in the game 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.760 was Obi Topping a couple of year that shut it down. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.279 He actually had eleven dunks in that game. It was 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.039 Windmills through the legs. Nevertha. This guy's number one pick 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.159 and then the season shut down. But he was he 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:29.360 was phenomenal. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.320 Your Carolina days. Somebody must have been closed to eight 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:32.719 dunks in a game, I would think. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.599 Not that I can recall him. I played with the 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.000 guy named Tyler Hansbro and he he got the ball 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.560 within two three feet. It felt like thirty times a 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.120 game because you weren't allowed to do anything until he 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.440 touched it, and he wouldn't get a pascet, but he 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.960 never He didn't dunk it a lot. He'd get fouled 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:53.640 and kind of fists. Yeah. Yeah, but eight dunks in 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.960 a game significant, Yeah, But I think more than the dunks, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.880 it's the mentality did he played with. That's what he 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.040 has to sustain, and I think he can. He can 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.400 continue to have great impact. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.320 Corey and I were having this conversation. Other than Kenyon 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.720 Martin and Corey Blunt, I can't remember a center that 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.599 or a guy over six ten, whether it be forward 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.760 or center, that ran the floor like Baba Miller, like 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.480 every transition play, he's in the play, Like when I 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.520 watched Lebron James, which one of the reasons that makes 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.200 them so good. He's on every fast break. Same with 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.760 you know, whether it was Jordan Kobe, Shaquille O'Neill, karmelone. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.640 They lead the break or they get out because they 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:32.960 want to be a part of that action. In the 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:37.040 open court, he runs every play and somehow it finished. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.800 He finished his plays in spectacular fashion, and it seems 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:41.560 like he can. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.880 Go for at a high level for a long period 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:44.240 of time. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:51.160 Well, I've really been pushing him to run more consistently 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.800 and to kind of win those first three steps. James 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.920 Worthy will say that, yeah, last break, when we get 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.120 when we get the ball right, that that split second 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.479 to get him out and win those first three steps, 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.720 And that's been very unnatural for him. He's been a 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.839 poor conversion guy. Now, once he starts running, he's extremely fast, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.760 and I think that the eye sees that when you 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.120 watch us play. But getting that conversion in that moment 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.680 and winning those first three steps, I think is the 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.760 key because you don't realize that, but that split second 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.120 it's probably the difference in about ten or twelve feet 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.240 running the floor absolutely red. So I think he's improving 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.520 that it was better last night. It's something we're hard 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.200 on him about. The Other thing I think that I 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.400 noticed in the open floor with his dunks last night 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.479 was other guys were down the floor as well, so 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.320 there was pressure on the baseline, corners were filled. Maybe 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.000 somebody ran a lane in front of him and took 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.440 a defender with him. So it's always the collective group, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.919 not just the player. But he's really good at finding 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.160 those lanes when he's out running. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.160 It was an awesome night for Gisel James. He entered 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.320 the game, got a huge ovation, a standing ovation for 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.560 many people in the lower Bawl, and then he went 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.520 out and brilliantly looked like he hadn't missed a practice, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.960 much less the game. Sixteen points in twenty minutes. You 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.080 acknowledged on the postgame show. He even exceeded your expectations 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.600 a bit for his first game back. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:11.360 Yeah. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.280 I didn't have a lot of basketball expectations for him 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.200 last night and didn't want to put that kind of 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.400 pressure on him. But he has been practicing. We kept 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.600 that very quiet, mainly for the other players. We didn't 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.520 want questions at every day and every game and on 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.160 their phones about win's all that kind of crap going on. 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.840 But he has been practicing for weeks now. I don't 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.520 know the amount of days, A couple of weeks, three weeks, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.520 something like that, so it's not as if he hasn't 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.840 been playing basketball, but for not playing in a game, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.160 and as long as he has to come out and 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:45.840 play like that, I was I was surprised. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.360 I thought you guys coming out and making a conscious 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.160 effort to get the ball down low to start the 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.800 game really. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:53.120 Opened it up. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.720 Before you you said this thing where you like playing 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.520 inside out instead of outside out. Did you feel like 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.840 you had? But once you threw it into Mustafa, he 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.720 kicked it back out to Baba, and Baba hit the three. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.080 That's the kind of offense you want to see going forward. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.600 Yeah, I think you know you're gonna make more shots 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.960 when you get a higher quality shot. And when the 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.600 ball comes inside out, it touches the paint, it gets relocated. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.239 Guys are stepping in. You're gonna good shooters are gonna 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.400 make shots at a higher level. Pats shooter's gonna make 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.360 shots at a higher level. And so the first possession 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:27.840 of the game, we did a nice job of getting 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.880 it into Mustafa from the top of the key. We 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.520 call those top downs, and he did a nice job. Again, 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:34.880 I'd have been fine if he turned and shot his 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:36.760 jump hook there, but he kicked it right back out 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.880 to Baba. And inside out in rhythm, and Baba's can 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.640 really shoot, but it's about taking the right ones, and 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:44.839 that was the right one and it was good to 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.120 see it go down to start the game. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.079 In the practices that I've attended since Chisel has been 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.000 practicing again, it looked like to me he was just 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.720 trying to be part of the team. Wasn't taking a 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.719 lot of shots, was really passing the ball, trying to 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.920 play good defense, almost taking like a subservient role for 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.120 lack of a better expression. Then he got out in 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.200 the court in the game and it looked like his 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.040 just natural instincts took over. Is that about how he's looked. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:18.520 Yeah, I think Gisel's done a great job of trying 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.880 to assimilate back into our team. You know, the first 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.839 thing he did, we didn't just bring him back to 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.880 campus and he started practicing. He came back to campus. 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.000 He wasn't allowed in the locker room, he wasn't allowed 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.360 in practice, but he was allowed to work out and 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.240 he sought out all the players on the team and 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.120 apologized to him personally, told him that he just wanted 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:38.439 to be a part of the team again, that he 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:43.000 missed the team we had Thanksgiving at my house. And 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.800 you know, my girlfriend Lauren made this board and they 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.240 had she put sticky notes, and she asked everybody that 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:50.920 came through the door to write on a sticky notes 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.640 something they were thankful or grateful for and stick it 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.960 on the board. Kind of is an idea for Thanksgiving, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.640 which was a terrific idea, and I was looking at 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.280 after all the guys left, wrote I'm thankful to be 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.600 a part of a team again, you know, like I 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.200 think he just it's really just he just wanted to 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.560 be a part of it. And uh, I think he's 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.400 had that. He just wants to fit in and assimilate. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.400 So I give him credit. I give our players credit 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.320 for accepting him back. 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.440 And Dan just wrote his name on the security board. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:22.559 He didn't do any of that stuff. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.840 I just wondered if anybody put up a sticky note 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.760 that said I'm glad Terry didn't show even after he 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.000 got invited. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.760 Powhouse shots fired. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:38.800 Oh my goodness, it's about the time I got even 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.200 te Now, all right, we're gonna take a time out. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.360 We are live with the original Montgomery in the home 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.959 of the world's greatest ribs. It's the West Miller Radio 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:55.040 Show in seven hundred WLW Reginal Montgomery in home of 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.560 the world's greatest Ribs and the West Miller Radio Show. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.160 Appreciate the Bearcat fans who are here with us to night. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.760 We've got some stuff to give away at the end 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.200 of the show, that is always the case, usually some 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.040 Bearcat gear, some tickets. So if you want to come 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.160 out and join us in the weeks to come, typically 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.640 Thursday nights, although we've got a show coming up on Tuesday, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.160 December thirtieth, but for the most part, Thursday nights eight 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.480 to nine here at the original Montgomery and the Bearcats winners. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.600 Big last night, thirty seven point victory over Alabama State 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.680 Cincinnati now seven and four this year and getting set 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.520 for a tough game coming up on Sunday on the 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:34.720 road in Greenville, South Carolina against Clemson. Technically not a 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.160 home game for Clemson, but it is that's very close 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.440 to their campus. They've got to win over Georgia this year, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.240 the only team that's been able to beat Georgia. That 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.600 was an overtime win for the Tigers. So another excellent 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.760 test for your team on Sunday afternoon. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.760 Yeah, they're very good it's we wanted to schedule up 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.160 in this non conference slate, and you know, this is 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.560 one of those games that I think allowed us to 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.559 do so. So it is a road game. You know, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.080 Greenville's there's more Clemson fans in Greenville than there are 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.000 in Clemson. His Clemson's a really small town if he 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.720 hadn't been there before, but Greenville's forty minutes away. So 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.560 I think it's a great opportunity. We're geared up and 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.280 excited for it, and we were at work today and 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.920 we'll be at work the next two days preparing. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.400 You have your leading score back from last season, and 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.520 it seems like his positioning puts everybody else in position 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.800 that we're playing out of position, or minutes that they 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.120 shouldn't be playing past what they can contribute to the team. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:36.240 What's it like. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.680 Having your lead dog back knowing that at any moment, yes, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.600 he can run the team with any moment, he can 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.480 also power you with scoring and playmaking for others. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.040 Well, I don't want to put too many expectations on 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.880 Jisel to start. I think we have to allow him 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.719 to kind of find his way, and I think that's 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.160 the best way to approach it. But you know, I 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.800 do think it's it's pretty obvious that having somebody with 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:05.760 his physical presence in the backcourt is noticeable. It allows 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.200 you to play different kinds of lineups, Like we're playing 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.920 with a little bit of a smaller lineup and he's 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.920 out there. You still don't feel quite as physically insignificant, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.440 you know, because he has physical presence. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.560 Did he did he gain weight? It looks like five 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.240 to ten pounds heavier, like more muscle. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.120 He's been working out like crazy, So I don't know, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.240 but uh, but no, And I think Terry. The other 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.200 thing is he can play, you know, multiple positions on 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.080 and off the ball, and he can make make a 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.040 lot of reads in a pick and roll. It's hard 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.640 to speed him up, it's hard to get underneath him, 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.240 and then he can shoot off the ball. So no, listen, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.840 we all have known that Jisel. He was an All 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.559 League player last year honorable mentioned. Certainly there's going to 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.400 be some positive impact there over time. 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.880 Kirk Rees alled your team with seven assists last night. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.840 He was also one for nine from outside the arc. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.760 You know he can shoot. He's got a proven track 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.640 right in college basketball. My question for you is there 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.600 were a couple of instances last night where he took 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.079 a three, missed it, somebody got an offensive rebound, kicked 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.160 it right back to him. He shot another three and 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.360 missed it. Is he one of those guys that you 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.680 just tell him keep shooting, you're good, it's gonna go in. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.400 Yeah. Yeah, But I don't think with Curry you have to, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.880 because he has tremendous self belief. He's got I don't 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.280 want to. Can I say it on air? Don't you 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:24.720 say it? 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:25.040 For him? 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:30.960 Man? He's not afraid of the moment. He's not afraid 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.200 of a mistake, and I think that's going to service 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.360 well in conference play and finishing off our non conference slate. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.640 We gotta get your video guys to send YouTube videos 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:45.840 of Dennis Robin to Halven because they almost to the. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.720 How they look, how they're built. Halven gets opposite. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.440 Side almost every time whether he gets the rebound. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:54.640 He only had one last. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.640 Night, but he was active on several attempts trying to 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:58.760 get offensive rebounds. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.200 He runs the floor very well. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.440 But Dennis Rotmins would have had a similar role where 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:03.760 his job was to go in there and mix it up, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.680 grab a rebound, kickingback out, grab another rebound, kickingback out 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:07.920 and play tough defense. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.960 I'd say started sending those reels over there. Yeah. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.920 I think if anybody turned into Dennis Rodman on our team, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:21.400 that'd be great. But I think Calvin's improvement from last 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:26.320 year to this year is so incredibly significant, and we've 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.760 been seeing that all fall and in our practices. I 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.520 think last night everybody else got to see it, and 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.080 I thought that was really cool because he hasn't necessarily 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.280 shown that in the opportunities he's had up till last night, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.200 but he was able to give us really positive I 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.760 thought his defense, his pick and roll defense was excellent. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.200 I thought he made a couple of really timely plays. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.200 I love that he caught a love in transition running 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.080 the floor. He actually ran the floor really well to 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.040 create some of those opportunities for Baba that you were 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.080 talking about. He won our Defensive Award for the game, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.400 and so it was good to see the things we've 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.000 seen in practice happen. Now. We really we really miss 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.280 Tyler McKinley. I mean, the second half of the Georgia game, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.000 that was a massive blow, you know, to come out 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.560 of halftime and realize that he can't play. He's such 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.960 an important piece to our team. But you know, like anything, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.560 they're silver lining, it's giving hal Being some extended minutes 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.320 and he's he's really making the most of them. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.080 It's a lower body injury for Tyler. Do you expect 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.040 him back soon? 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.080 I hope and pray and whatever you can do. I'm 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.560 doing it. I mean, you know, like if I was Catholic, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.560 what do they call it? The hillsiers and all that stuff, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.360 like you do it all okay, but uh, you know, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:43.920 one of these days we're going to coach a team 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.280 that we put together full a hole and that'll be 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.600 that'll be fun. But uh but no, I really do, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.120 I really do hope that he's gonna be okay, and 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.800 he's gonna he's gonna try to do some things here 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:57.200 over the next couple days. So we'll see. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.520 What is the bug Celeste that makes some such a 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.920 clutch shooter at the end of shot clock situations. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.040 I think, is he like he is there like some 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:09.800 situations where at the end of the clock you've. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.480 Seen that he's the bailout guy. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.280 I think the thing about JC is he's got a 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.919 lot of experience. It's it's he's just now finding his 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.199 sea legs a little bit. Like he won our deflection total, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.240 which is another defensive category regrade last night. He was 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.400 so happy about it in film. He said, I promised 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.560 Coach Stowe I was gonna win it, and he said 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.200 I couldn't. Then he got five last night. But he's 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.159 starting to get his sea legs and he's starting to 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.120 move with athleticism. There's a play last night where they 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.040 tried to drive him on the right wing and he 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.159 just turns and beats a kid to the spot and 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.359 gets some positions, goes up to shoot a jumper and 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.040 he didn't leave his feet and blocked the shot. And 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.080 it's like, that's an athlete, you know. I've been telling him. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.000 I'll always tell him every day, play like an athlete, 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:54.120 like because he's an athlete. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.920 But Bob Huggins never told me that I did the 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.040 same thing against Donald Williams at North Carolina in the 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.280 lead eights right to go to overtime. I blocked it 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.480 when I was jumping, and Hugs just got over here 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.280 and said, rebounded damn ball, Like he didn't even acknowledge 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.000 the fact that I blocked this shot. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.960 That sends it the overtime. But you said he was 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:10.760 a hell of an athlete. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.000 No, no, no, I said retro play like an athlete. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:14.800 Come on, but you can't keep changing up and just 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.120 say go back retro. I'm an athlete now. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.159 Uh Donald Williams, that's my that's my voice. That's a 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.320 good mention tonight. He's different, but uh no, So, I 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.320 think the thing about him is the more he gets 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.879 his sea legs. He's a great shooter. He knows how 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.359 to find a shot. So when he's playing around action, 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.639 he has these little ways to separate, to shoot a 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.000 catch and shoot shot, to separate with a little dribble. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.440 So it doesn't surprise me that you feel like he's 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.040 been able to find some shots late in the clock. 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.520 I think he can find him at any point. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.879 I want to get back to healthy and zella for 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.080 just a moment. He did something last night that I'm 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.800 not sure that I've seen before. I thought he boxed 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:56.000 out a guy too well. He looked like Michael Orr 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.920 in the blind Side blocking a kid right out about 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.440 It's like he was so intent on boxing this guy 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.600 out he actually wound up like. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:05.440 Too far from the ball. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:10.760 You remember what I'm talking about can't box well exactly 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.800 if you get exactly, that's part of it, right. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:18.080 We always use the term box out plus pursue. That's 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.080 when we teach we see, he's got to work on 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.919 that box, box out plus pursue because just blocking out 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.000 ain't good enough the goals to get the damn thing 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:30.000 Dan And but uh no, he's again, his improvements significant. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.480 I think he he's going to have to play really 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.720