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Speaker 1: Man from Learfield.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Gophers Basketball Weekly with Nico Medbed Boked.

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Speaker 1: Do you buy Buffalo Wild Wings?

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Speaker 3: The official sports bar of March Madness.

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Speaker 2: No, here's the voice of the Gophers, Mike grim.

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Speaker 3: Off and running. It's Gopher Basketball Weekly with Nico Medved

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Speaker 3: And we have a special show today, it's a game

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Speaker 3: day show. We are out west. We're in Eugene, Oregon.

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Speaker 3: This is part of a six day road trip. The

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Speaker 3: Gophers left on Friday. We'll be coming home tomorrow after

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Speaker 3: tonight's game, and certainly a lot to talk about. Guarzie

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Speaker 3: is not with us here in Eugene. Obviously, he's back home,

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Speaker 3: so he's not on the show. So coach, first of all,

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Speaker 3: good to see you, and good to see you here

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Speaker 3: we are out on this West coast trip.

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Speaker 4: Here we are out west, brings back a little bit

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Speaker 4: of memories. Obviously spent a lot of time out west.

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Speaker 4: It was interesting being back in Seattle for a little

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Speaker 4: you know, drove by the hotel that we stayed at

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Speaker 4: in the NCAA tournament and kind of departed from there

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Speaker 4: back home and then to Minneapolis, and so it was

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Speaker 4: kind of full circle coming back. And we actually were

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Speaker 4: in Eugene too. We scrimmaged ore Agon a couple of

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Speaker 4: years back we came out here, so yeah, we've spent

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Speaker 4: some time out west, so it's interesting being back out here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, each year it's going to be one of these

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Speaker 3: trips either to the Northwest, as long as the Big

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Speaker 3: Ten kind of stays in this. Who knows what the

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Speaker 3: future holds with the league, right there's always rumblings in

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Speaker 3: the background that maybe had more, maybe it's a change

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Speaker 3: in schedule, but for now it's LA one year and

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Speaker 3: up here Seattle and Eugene not too bad. On Sunday,

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Speaker 3: the golfers played on Saturday night. Spent the night in Seattle,

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Speaker 3: and just a fifty minute flight down here to Eugene,

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Speaker 3: so that wasn't too short.

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Speaker 4: The only thing I'm bitter about was when we left,

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Speaker 4: it was like fifty degrees and sunny in Minneapolis. My

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Speaker 4: had a better weather there than we have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I heard there was even some golf courses that

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Speaker 3: tried to get some folks out on Saturday and Sundays.

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Speaker 1: Although the weather in Seattle was pretty good.

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Speaker 4: You know, we got a little time to walk down

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Speaker 4: you know, on Sunday afternoon, which was good.

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Speaker 3: I saw them out on those scooters. Seattle has all

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Speaker 3: those scooters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were all those scooters, and I did.

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Speaker 4: I went down and got a nice little bowl of

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Speaker 4: chowder down there, and so we got to get out

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Speaker 4: and get a little bit of sunshine on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: I did. I was tempted to go grab some bubble

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Speaker 3: wrap as I saw those guys riding. With the injury

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Speaker 3: luck this team has had. We didn't need a scooter.

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Speaker 4: Crash, even me knowing that, just like it's just what

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Speaker 4: what could go wrong?

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Speaker 1: Like right now?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean that that obviously has become now

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Speaker 3: a main storyline of this year. Getting you're down to

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Speaker 3: six guys the other night, it changes everything. Foul trouble

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Speaker 3: early changes everything again. In the middle of the game,

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Speaker 3: You're playing a group of five that probably had never

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Speaker 3: played together on the floor in a game for sure,

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Speaker 3: and it just you know, just kind of one you know,

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Speaker 1: Here. It's been bizarre.

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Speaker 4: I give our guys credit. I mean if you're around

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Speaker 4: him every day, they just keep finding a way. Sometimes

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Speaker 4: you almost have to laugh it off a little bit

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Speaker 1: But it was it was unique.

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Speaker 4: The other night we've thrown out, obviously, a lineup that

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Speaker 4: we had never played. You know, Krack I feel terrible

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Speaker 4: And yeah, we're trying to kind of piece together some

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Speaker 1: And it kind of hit me for a second.

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Speaker 3: And it's like you said, you have to at sometimes

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Speaker 3: laugh it off. I suppose though at some point too,

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Speaker 3: I don't know it, pound your fist on the table

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Speaker 4: I think I tell people it's a natural emotional action,

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Speaker 4: know kidding me?

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Speaker 1: How can this?

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Speaker 1: But then you you know, you quickly just catch your breath.

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Speaker 4: All right, here we are. What do we gotta do here?

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Speaker 4: Moving forward? And like you said, I'm just so grateful

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Speaker 4: to have what we have. And man, we've had some

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Speaker 4: bad luck go away, but we got it pretty pretty

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Speaker 1: And so we're just going to keep moving along.

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Speaker 3: And even the other night in that game when you

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Speaker 3: I mean they're playing two six eleven guys just start

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Speaker 3: at much of that first half with your tall skycade

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Speaker 3: And yet you're up one with with you know, just

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Speaker 3: over four minutes to go in that first half of

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Speaker 3: fore a few of those light ball pick six turnovers

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Speaker 3: kind of flipped the whole game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, a lot was going to have to

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Speaker 1: Boy, we missed some really really clean looks.

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Speaker 4: You know, we had an opportunity maybe to you know,

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Speaker 4: get up eight, you know, nine and kind of put

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Speaker 1: We couldn't overcome that.

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Speaker 4: But you're right, at the end of the first half

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Speaker 4: we had a one point lead with four to go

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Speaker 4: and just just didn't have enough firepower to overcome that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a fourteen nothing run there to in

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Speaker 3: they got a little energy. They hit a three yearly

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Speaker 4: You know, I watched the film and now so saying,

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Speaker 4: and we could have played better. We had to do.

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Speaker 4: We had to really play you know, you never play

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Speaker 4: really well. But I went back and I watched the

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Speaker 4: film and we actually played probably better than I even

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Speaker 4: outsize under Mann. You know, Hanna Steinbeck is going to

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Speaker 4: really tough matchup for anybody. But you know, especially being

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know you don't want to get way

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Speaker 3: go back and ask you a little bit about Jalen

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Speaker 3: Crocker Johnson. You mentioned in our pregame the other day

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he it was something he kind of

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Speaker 4: and you know, we'll we'll revisit it here after this

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Speaker 3: Yeah, out tonight though, yes, out tonight, out tonight. So

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Speaker 3: Langston feeling okay. That was a little scary, as you

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Speaker 3: mentioned the other night, pointing down to his I don't

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Speaker 3: know what it was later, Yeah, I just I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not even asking.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, hopefully, buddy, thank god, you know that

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Speaker 4: he did go back and I think he's doing he's

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Speaker 4: doing fine. I think we'll be we'll be in good

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Speaker 4: shape here that way. And those guys got a log

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Speaker 4: a lot of minutes.

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Speaker 3: Yea. So it is played forty on on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: And honestly he probably would have too had he not

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Speaker 3: So yeah, exactly that was that was look at him

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Speaker 3: like that, No, don't tell me, don't tell me. Unluckily

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Speaker 3: I don't know. He went in, came out and finished

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Speaker 3: the game. So now you've got a little time, you know, No,

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Speaker 3: Jalen Cracker Johnson without giving away too much, I don't

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Speaker 3: even know what what it is that you might be

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Speaker 3: changing or trying to, you know, come up with anything

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Speaker 3: that that knowing that you can, you know without him,

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Speaker 3: how do we switch things how much of a challenge

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Speaker 3: is that now in just a couple of days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a it's it's a challenge in

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Speaker 4: a lot of ways. Obviously, you pose your challenges defensively.

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Speaker 4: You know, like tonight, you're playing against you know, Nate Biddle,

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Speaker 4: stuff we're human beings. That's gotten heavy too, you know,

437
00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,000
Speaker 4: there's a little it's just man, you know, you start

438
00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 4: to feel like you can't catch a break, but you

439
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,800
Speaker 4: can't start. You gotta really, you gotta enjoy, You gotta

440
00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:50,840
Speaker 4: have the sense of gratitude for everything you're doing. We

441
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,000
Speaker 4: got tremendous opportunity here, you know again tonight and the

442
00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,800
Speaker 4: guys just responsible, but you want to try to help

443
00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,119
Speaker 4: them do that and create an environment too like we

444
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Speaker 4: have that we enjoy being around each other.

445
00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as you go through this, as you mentioned,

446
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,000
Speaker 3: maybe there's a time you know, this road trip these

447
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,399
Speaker 3: guys and you know this too, like when you have

448
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,280
Speaker 3: reunions of certain teams and different things and you get together. Sure,

449
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,400
Speaker 3: you know, you know, this group's gonna remember the Michigan

450
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 3: State game and the court rush. But when they get

451
00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 3: together in ten or fifteen years, that are you know,

452
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,240
Speaker 3: facetiming or whatever it'll be in ten years, Who knows

453
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,960
Speaker 3: what it'll be, you know, but it'll be they're.

454
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 1: Gonna teleport it here or whatever.

455
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,920
Speaker 3: They'll be. They'll be talking about the trip to Eugene,

456
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,480
Speaker 3: and they'll be talking about in the locker room after

457
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,960
Speaker 3: the game. And it won't always be on the court stuff.

458
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 4: Oh, most of it's not, you know, it's it's it's

459
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,320
Speaker 4: the other stuff. And you know, it's it's like the

460
00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,080
Speaker 4: snack time thing, you know, it's stuff. It's it's stuff

461
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 4: like that that they'll talk about and they'll remember and

462
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,600
Speaker 4: probably stuff they talk about that you know, the only

463
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,480
Speaker 4: people that will know.

464
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Speaker 1: Is that, right?

465
00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,919
Speaker 4: It wasn't us, Yes, but no, I agree with that

466
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 4: it's the times that you spend like this. And I

467
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 4: think most of these guys, you know, when they leave,

468
00:20:58,119 --> 00:20:59,480
Speaker 4: and I can tell you the guys have that are

469
00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 4: in the NBA or still playing pro ball, and all

470
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,159
Speaker 4: of them would give anything to come back and do

471
00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,160
Speaker 4: this again, you know, especially if you're in a great

472
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 4: culture and environment and it's never the same. It's the

473
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,120
Speaker 4: best time in their life and it's the best time

474
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 4: playing basketball. And so I think that stuff is so

475
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 4: cool and sometimes trips like this are are really fun

476
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 4: that way, especially like you said, when you enjoy the

477
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 4: group of guys, and I really enjoy the group of

478
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 4: guys and staff and even you, Grimy and Michelle and

479
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 4: everybody we got, we got. We have good people, you know.

480
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I did want to ask you

481
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 3: too about it when you talk about experiences and can

482
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 3: this help down the road. I stumbled upon this by accident.

483
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,239
Speaker 3: I was looking up you guys played Washington last year

484
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,679
Speaker 3: at Colorado State, so I was just trying to get

485
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,439
Speaker 3: the records, and I noticed it was February fifteenth, so

486
00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 3: a year ago, this past Sunday that you guys started

487
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,479
Speaker 3: You're eleven game win streak off really everything. So it

488
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 3: was like basically this week a year ago at this time,

489
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 3: and up to that point, you had a pretty good record.

490
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 3: But I don't know if the outside world was thinking

491
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 3: you would end up where you were going to end

492
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 3: up on February fifteenth when that streak started. So take

493
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 3: us back then, because I just think it's I'm fascinated

494
00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 3: just by the journey of a particular season. I looked.

495
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 3: I think you guys started three and three, maybe we're

496
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 3: six and five at one point, and then you end

497
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 3: up winning the conference, and you know, in Iola Fawe sixteen.

498
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 4: We ended up, you know, fourteen and four in the

499
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 4: in the Mountain West. And I still say, if our

500
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 4: New Mexico games had been flipped and we had played

501
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 4: at the pit first and they had to come to

502
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,360
Speaker 4: us second, we would have won it out right that year.

503
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you know it?

504
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 4: Just sometimes I always telling people it's no different now

505
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 4: in the BD ten. People don't realize this because it

506
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,160
Speaker 4: doesn't matter. But it's not just.

507
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 1: Who you play, but when you play them is.

508
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 4: And you'll control that. Sometimes it's the luck of the

509
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 4: drop when you play. It could be a play a

510
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 4: team when they're maybe not in as good of a

511
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 4: rhythm or maybe they have a couple guys out or

512
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 4: year really you know, on a heater at that point

513
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 4: in time. But we really started to play well right

514
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 4: before Christmas, you know, and we lost and then boy,

515
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 4: you could just kind of feel the momentum building and

516
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 4: then yeah, we we hit it and started to play

517
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 4: and we just took it to another level.

518
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you.

519
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 4: Whatever the date was on that when we beat Utah

520
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 4: stayed at home, I remember, and we just pounded them

521
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 4: and there was some some feeling that night and I

522
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 4: can't understand what it was with our guys even before

523
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 4: the game where we just felt invincible. After that, yeah,

524
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 4: and we were defending at such a high level of confidence.

525
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 4: And then my favorite game of the year last year

526
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 4: was we were going to Boise in the last regular

527
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 4: season game. They were right there with us too, and

528
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 4: they had a chance, you know, at the league championship

529
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,359
Speaker 4: or whatever they're playing at home.

530
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 1: We had beat them, you know before.

531
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Speaker 4: Sellout crowds Senior night for one of the players in

532
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 4: Mountain West history, and we went in there and just

533
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 4: you know, two minutes to go, they're emptying out the

534
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 4: arena and Clifford had thirty six.

535
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 3: What a great feeling.

536
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: Oh it was. It's like Nirvana.

537
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 4: And then you know what, I had a coach tell me,

538
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 4: he's like, you guys are gonna win this this tournament. Now,

539
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,920
Speaker 4: who're playing? Well, I don't know, he said, no, I'm

540
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 4: telling you, guys are playing. And then we pounded everybody

541
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 4: in the tournament too, and it was just it was

542
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 4: just this weird, this feeling of it. And then we

543
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 4: went to the NCAA tournament and it was it's again.

544
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 4: You just when you feel it, it's the best feeling

545
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 4: in the world with the group of guys are together, like,

546
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 4: all right, we're winning. And then Maryland there was before

547
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 4: that game. Again, if you're there, you feel like there

548
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 4: was not one person in that program who didn't believe

549
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 4: we were gonna go beat them, right, And and I

550
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 4: thought we did enough to do it. And I felt

551
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 4: it the whole game too. I feel like, man, we're

552
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 4: gonna we're gonna find a way to win this and

553
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 4: uh just didn't didn't work out. But what a magical run.

554
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 4: You know, we've all And I think that's what's important.

555
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 4: The longer you do it, you realize that the journey

556
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,479
Speaker 4: of you know, the way this season's gone or that season.

557
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 4: It can turn very very quickly either way, and you

558
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 4: kind of ride both.

559
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: Of those things.

560
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 4: But it's staying consistent, you know, through all that and

561
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 4: understanding if you're doing the right things, man, your time

562
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:20,640
Speaker 4: will come.

563
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 3: Did you feel like, like what you were talking about

564
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 3: earlier in the show, that you know, maybe what you

565
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 3: guys are fighting through right now can help you, you know,

566
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 3: three weeks from now or maybe fifty weeks from now,

567
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 3: just in terms of how it can flip. Did you

568
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 3: feel last year there was a point you know you're

569
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 3: sitting like I said, at six and five or whatever

570
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 3: it is. Yeah, did you think you'll learn some things

571
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 3: during some of those stretches that was key to putting

572
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 3: the finish on that you guys?

573
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: Did I tell you? My wife will tell me.

574
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,680
Speaker 4: And as a story that you know, we went through

575
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 4: some dark times from this because we had, you know,

576
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 4: been to the tournament god high expectations. You know what

577
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 4: I mean to win, which is what you want, and

578
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 4: it wasn't going our way. I thought you really set

579
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 4: me straight again, just to kind of center or myself

580
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,400
Speaker 4: a little bit. I thought I grew a ton personally.

581
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean through that of just again,

582
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 4: we all been head coach for a long time, but

583
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,239
Speaker 4: sometimes I just grew a lot, I thought personally through that,

584
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 4: and I thought it probably enabled me even more to

585
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 4: just help our team and our staff through that, and

586
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,640
Speaker 4: you kind of let go of a lot of things.

587
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 4: You just focus on what you can control, you know.

588
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 4: And again, it's amazing how things learn. If you have

589
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 4: the right people in your organization, anything's possible.

590
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 3: Okay, another offbeat question here, and I'm kind of springing

591
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 3: this one on you. If things go to the point

592
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 3: where you win enough games, you're in the mix. The

593
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 3: Big Ten has the two bids. I mean, obviously you

594
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 3: love to just say let's run the table and surprise

595
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 3: everyone and get to the NCAA tournament. But the Crown

596
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 3: tournament's looming as well. There's two Big Ten teams guaranteed spots.

597
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 3: In the first year of that thing. Last year a

598
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,239
Speaker 3: bunch of teams said, nope, we're out. We're not going

599
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 3: to play in it. We want to hit the portal.

600
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 3: Maybe there's coaching changes. What have you do? You do

601
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,880
Speaker 3: you feel like that would be an important thing?

602
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 4: If oh, I think it would be awesome. I mean,

603
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 4: first of all, it's gonna be different. There's only eight teams,

604
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 4: it's not sixteen. It's a cool deal. And I mean

605
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 4: I again I having tournament in Vegas is awesome. A

606
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 4: team mobile, I know exactly how it's set up. I

607
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 4: think it would be awesome. I think it'd be a

608
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,719
Speaker 4: great experience. If there's a little bit nil money for

609
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 4: the guys, you know, two big ten, two big twelve,

610
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 4: two big East couple at larges, I think that would

611
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 4: be big time, you know. And what's funny is before

612
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 4: the Maryland game at home, we actually would have been

613
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,400
Speaker 4: one of the bids, assuming Ohio State got into the tournament.

614
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 4: Now it's the two highest it's the two highest net

615
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 4: range teams, which is a little funny. You could in

616
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 4: theory finish two or three games ahead of someone in

617
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 4: the standings, but not go I.

618
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 3: Think Northwestern right now like they're two big ten wins,

619
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 3: but they're they're actually they're.

620
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're Their non league was better than Again,

621
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 4: we were ahead of them, I believe before we lost

622
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:54,440
Speaker 4: to Maryland.

623
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: Is still right there.

624
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 4: There's a ton to be Yeah, a lot of decided,

625
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 4: but but my point is is, yes, I mean that

626
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 4: would be something I think, And then you look Nebraska

627
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 4: want last year, look at what happened USC went last year.

628
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 4: So I do I think if that was something. I've

629
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 4: talked about it with our guys. You know, we've talked

630
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 4: about kind of what's you know, next year for us,

631
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 4: and obviously you know, we want to do who want

632
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 4: to win as many games as we can. You'd like

633
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 4: to see, I could we avoid Tuesday, you know in

634
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 4: the Big ten tournament?

635
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: Could we do that?

636
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 4: Can we go to the tournament in advance, you know,

637
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 4: and can we do enough then to have an opportunity

638
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 4: if we can't win the Big ten tournament, to have

639
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 4: an opportunity to do something like that. And so you're

640
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 4: always playing for something, Yeah.

641
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,719
Speaker 3: No doubt. Well that would be fun. So we just

642
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 3: start stacking some wins here, right, Well yeah for me?

643
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. Well and that's that's the game.

644
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, the one thing the guys know and fans know, man,

645
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 4: no matter what they throw at us or whatever, until

646
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 4: they tell us we can't play anymore this year, we

647
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 4: will put everything we have into every single game preparation

648
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 4: wise and whatever, there will be no given or cool

649
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 4: will never do that.

650
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome, all right, let's take another break. We'll come back.

651
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 3: It's basketball tonight. Nine thirty is the nine forty. Actually

652
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 3: it's a tip time. We'll take care at nine o'clock

653
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Speaker 3: state of Minnesota. We've got a long contested too here

676
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Speaker 3: and it oftentimes we don't talk basketball at all with this,

677
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Speaker 3: but I do want to ask you. I ask you

678
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Speaker 3: about the Crown a little bit. Last segment, I want

679
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Speaker 3: to ask you two about the influx. There's always been

680
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 3: an international flavor in college basketball, but now, man, I'm

681
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 3: telling you, every time I'm filling out boards, the opposing

682
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 3: team has one or two guys Washington the other night,

683
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Speaker 3: I think it was Germany, Cameroon, and was it a

684
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Speaker 3: little Serbia, Yeah, Serbia. So I suppose some of that

685
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Speaker 3: is those young guys that have been playing the U twenties,

686
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Speaker 3: the U nineteens, and then you know, for a long

687
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 3: time they've been able to play a little I guess

688
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 3: i'd call it semi pro and keep their eligibility, and

689
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Speaker 3: that goes back a long ways. But now with revenue

690
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Speaker 3: share and nil, maybe it's more attractive for some of

691
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Speaker 3: those eighteen and nineteen or twenty in Illinois case, they've

692
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Speaker 3: got a couple of twenty year old freshmen to come

693
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Speaker 3: and play here. So one, am I right that there's

694
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Speaker 3: just more? And two, are you as a coaching staff

695
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Speaker 3: investigating or interested in maybe adding some international flavor down

696
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Speaker 3: the road?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So first I would say you're right, there are more.

699
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Speaker 4: It's not just more, but it's the higher level. You know,

700
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Speaker 4: lots of times there were European or international players, but

701
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Speaker 4: maybe not always the elite ones because they were making

702
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 4: more money in the clubs, right, So the elite ones

703
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 4: were you know, getting paid you know, technically is supposed

704
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Speaker 4: to be just you know, necessary expenses, so to speak.

705
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Speaker 4: But the clubs were able to we're able to hold

706
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Speaker 4: on to their best at well. Now with the revenue

707
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 4: share and nil, it's a lot more lucrative here for

708
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Speaker 4: their top players to come who maybe aren't quite ready

709
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Speaker 4: for the NBA yet. But that next level, and you know,

710
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Speaker 4: second best league in the world is the EuroLeague. You know,

711
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 4: the euro League is amazing, and so the level of

712
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 4: basketball in the world continues to get better and better. So, yes,

713
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Speaker 4: you're seeing these higher levels international prospects come over and

714
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Speaker 4: play from our perspective one thousand percent, you know, one

715
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 4: thousand percent. You know we've invested, you know a good

716
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 4: bit of time over there going to all this stuff.

717
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Speaker 4: I think that we still had to figure out some

718
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Speaker 4: stuff institutionally from an NIL perspective, how we were going

719
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Speaker 4: to do that. I think we've got that stuff figured

720
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 4: out now and you know you'll see us, you know,

721
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Speaker 4: be in that market as well.

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Speaker 3: How are how hard or is it challenging to to

723
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Speaker 3: be able to get over there and scout. Do you

724
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Speaker 3: have guys off your staff or just connections that help you.

725
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 3: Obviously video you can just about see any game in

726
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Speaker 3: the world now if you can you know, track down

727
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Speaker 3: the video. So how does that process work for the

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Speaker 3: Golden Goalfers.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's both.

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Speaker 4: I mean you're obviously you're watching a lot of video,

731
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Speaker 4: but you've got to go in person. I know both,

732
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 4: you know, Brian Cooley and Aaron Katsum have spent you know,

733
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Speaker 4: multiple trips you know at the under eighteens, under nineteens,

734
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Speaker 4: under you know all that stuff which you know now

735
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 4: that used to be when you go over there, there'd

736
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Speaker 4: be you know, ten fifteen schools. Now, I mean everyone's

737
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Speaker 4: oh yeah, I mean people are over there, and then

738
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Speaker 4: the game. What's funny is they were really ahead of

739
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Speaker 4: us in the sense that when you recruit over there,

740
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Speaker 4: it's all agents. Well, and it used to be here

741
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 4: aau in high school. Now it's agents here too. So

742
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Speaker 4: really the game over there is really kind of how

743
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Speaker 4: it is now.

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Speaker 1: So it's over there.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of getting a network of all the agents

746
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Speaker 4: and the clubs, and I think being able to see

747
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Speaker 4: them play in person is really good and kind of

748
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 4: you really when you're when you're recruiting international, you really

749
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Speaker 4: have to understand the levels.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's so many different levels and clubs.

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Speaker 4: If you're playing in you know, this league in Germany,

752
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Speaker 4: how is that compared to this league in Spain or

753
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Speaker 4: Serbia or so on, So to really kind of get

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Speaker 4: an understanding of how good or how much of a

755
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Speaker 4: comparison you can make between the NC double A game.

756
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Speaker 4: And even having said that, the NC double A game

757
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 4: it is different than the FOBA game.

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Speaker 3: Still yeah, and the euro players too, there's it seems

759
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Speaker 3: that they have the style of plays a little different.

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Speaker 3: I think for years they kind of had and I

761
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Speaker 3: don't know if it was a knock on them, but

762
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Speaker 3: there was this kind of oh, they're just all finesse guys.

763
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 3: And there are finesse players that come from that league, certainly,

764
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Speaker 3: but there's some big brutes that can bang around and

765
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Speaker 3: shoot the three right now.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, our fans just saw hannaes Steinbach play, you know,

767
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 4: and even playing in the NBA. But like, I mean, yeah, no,

768
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Speaker 4: I mean, and you understand too, I mean, I I

769
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Speaker 4: I there's some the coaching in Europe and the world

770
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Speaker 4: is phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I watch your European basketball.

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Speaker 4: Some of the best ideas and most creative things are

773
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Speaker 4: you know, coming from the from the euro leagues and

774
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Speaker 4: this FOBA in general. And I think there's more similarities

775
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Speaker 4: with the FOBA game in our game than there are

776
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Speaker 4: with the NBA in our game. The NBA is a

777
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 4: different game the way the spacing and the illegal defense

778
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 4: and a lot more isolation play and stuff. FOBA and

779
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 4: what we do here, there's a lot more similarities between

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Speaker 4: those two.

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Speaker 3: Can you also recruit to the fact that you're in

782
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Speaker 3: one of the bigger markets and Mecca, you know, media

783
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 3: centers and in Minneapolis to some of these kids that

784
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 3: might be from big cities over there.

785
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would also hope I think stylistically, sure,

786
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 4: we play a lot more like some of the better

787
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 4: clubs there. I mean, I think those people want to

788
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 4: play with more of cutting and ball movement. And you know,

789
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, if your fans get an opportunity

790
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 4: to watch some of those teams play, they play a

791
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 4: really good brand of basketball.

792
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: The way they pass and move and cut.

793
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 4: Now, the NBA, the level of athleticism and stuff is

794
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 4: just staggering, but the style of play, I think hopefully

795
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 4: that's the selling point as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, I hadn't. I mean, I hadn't thought

797
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 3: of that part of it because for years, right the

798
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 3: euro players, the Bigs would always everyone would come in about, man,

799
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Speaker 3: the Bigs can throw, you know, pass. There was it

800
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Speaker 3: Sabonis who was like one of the pass the whole time,

801
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 3: you know, and that that got the reputation going. But

802
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 3: a lot of that's due to the cutting right, and

803
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 3: the and the offense. Would you guys have Dirkin got

804
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 3: a nice lay up the other night on a back

805
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 3: cut again, and I think Langston had one as well.

806
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 3: So I would think that a big that could shoot

807
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 3: the would would want to play for the Gophers.

808
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, and shoot and pass and just you know the

809
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 4: way the offices are inverted, and yeah, moving without the

810
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 4: ball and the you know, unique ways that manipulate the health,

811
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 4: defense and all that stuff. So so yes to long

812
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 4: winded answer. But but I think everyone's kind of recruiting

813
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 4: over there a little bit, and I think hopefully you'll

814
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 4: see us down the road be a little bit more

815
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 4: involved to.

816
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 3: And then just from a roster management standpoint, I think

817
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 3: we're finally there's still a few guys. The last two

818
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 3: opponents I think had guys that still were getting COVID years,

819
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 3: which was twenty twenty one, twenty one, twenty two, depending

820
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,479
Speaker 3: on on win and how they played. I think we're

821
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 3: through that now. So we'll probably see fewer starting next year,

822
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 3: six and seven year guys. We think, who knows.

823
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: What judges rule, I hope.

824
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 10: So.

825
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: But does that too.

826
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Speaker 3: Maybe change the way teams, including the Gophers, will recruit and.

827
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: Structure a roster, I hope.

828
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 4: So every night I turn on the TV and I

829
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 4: see these guys that popped on around here. I popped

830
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 4: on Gonzaga and I'm seeing grahamey k is Gonzaga player.

831
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 4: I mean he was playing against US at Wyoming with

832
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 4: David Roddy.

833
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: David Roddy's in his fourth years a pro, right, you know,

834
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 1: and these guys are still playing college. It's just nuts.

835
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 4: So I hopefully we can move past that a little bit,

836
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 4: and I think it, you know, allows some younger guys

837
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 4: to to get an opportunity.

838
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, there are circumstances. Obviously, Parker Fox was,

839
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 3: you know, fifty two years old when he finally left

840
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 3: the school last year.

841
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 7: Are a good budd Yeah, he's yeah.

842
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. If Guards you were here, he'd make fun of

843
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 3: me for saying this. But in the running joke is

844
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 3: Parker is getting the senior discount at Perkins now when

845
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 3: he goes because he's that old. But I know he's over.

846
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 3: He's over in Italy now watching his fiance play hockey,

847
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 3: and hopefully they you know, keep it rolling. But the

848
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 3: uh guards. He speaking to guards the the other night,

849
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 3: he tweeted out, and it's pretty remarkable. Nick Boyd is

850
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 3: older than Anthony Edwards.

851
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: Let that sink in.

852
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 3: Think about that, right, Yeah, it's not a knock on

853
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 3: anyone it's just the way the systems set up, you know, Yeah,

854
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 3: just a full year and he got a COVID year

855
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 3: and the next thing, you know, he's twenty four and

856
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 3: he's I think he's like six months older than Anthony Adam,

857
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 3: who's in year six of the NBA.

858
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 4: I don't felt those guys at offered it, but it's

859
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 4: just it puts it into into perspective to you, and

860
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 4: you're playing against these these guys who are that old

861
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 4: and that experienced, and yeah, so there needs to be

862
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 4: again a little bit and then I get on that

863
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 4: rant or whatever. But I'm in favor and the NABC

864
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 4: board too. I think we need to talk about an

865
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 4: age limit, you know. And I think we've got all

866
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 4: these rules and stuff, but sometimes I think an age

867
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 4: limit would streamline a.

868
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Speaker 1: Lot of this.

869
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 4: You know, there's people trying to do everything they can

870
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Speaker 4: to manipulate their way to get another year of eligibility

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Speaker 4: because the money's good.

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Speaker 1: You know, let's just call it what it is.

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Speaker 4: I don't blame them for doing it, but at some

874
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Speaker 4: point we've got to move on and allow you know,

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Speaker 4: there's there's another young person who needs an opportunity to

876
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879
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Speaker 4: be in favor of some kind of an age limit

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Speaker 3: All right, let's take our final break. We'll come back

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Speaker 3: we're ready to roll the Oregon Ducks. We mentioned in

928
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 3: the opening segment that they have had some injuries. I

929
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Speaker 3: think they've had at least one season in an injury

930
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Speaker 3: with one of their better players, Biddle has been in

931
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Speaker 3: and out unfortunately for your catch up and yeah, yeah, yeah,

932
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 3: and he is kind of the focus of what they

933
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Speaker 3: want to do, right. Yeah.

934
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Speaker 4: He's a difference maker. And you know, we're just talking

935
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 4: about big guys a lot. He's kind of that prototypical

936
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 4: He can shoot the three, can score in the post.

937
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,959
Speaker 4: He's an excellent passer. You know, great hands fan Travis,

938
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Speaker 4: So yeah, he is. He's a load to handle, and

939
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 4: so they're a different team with him. Playing through him

940
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 4: draws so much attention, you know, defensively, So yeah, they're

941
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:06,919
Speaker 4: a different team with him.

942
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Speaker 3: Speaking of the age limit, he's a guy and I

943
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 3: say this with tongue in cheek. He looks like he's

944
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 3: about forty three years old. Yeah, play, Yeah, I don't

945
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Speaker 3: know what his age is actually, but he's been around

946
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 3: the block. How do you how do you go about

947
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: trying to contain him and make sure that you know

948
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 3: things are headed your way against him?

949
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 4: Well, you know, obviously we've got only one post player available,

950
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 4: you know, tonight, so we're shorthanded there. Obviously in the interior,

951
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 4: you know, Grayson will will guard him. But no matter what,

952
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 4: you know, whenever you're playing against a guy like that,

953
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 4: you're always just trying to figure out, how can you,

954
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 4: you know, try to take real estate? And what do

955
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 4: I mean by that of not allowing him maybe to

956
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 4: catch the balls in the spots that he wants to

957
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 4: Sometimes even just three feet you know, either way can

958
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 4: make the difference between a make or misshot. When can

959
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 4: you deny him the ball, when you do where you

960
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 4: bringing help from, and when he catches it in a

961
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 4: spot that he does. You know a lot of times

962
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 4: you're going to have to bring an extra defender sometimes

963
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 4: right to be able to do that. I don't think

964
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,760
Speaker 4: that's any secret, But don't how you do that, where

965
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 4: you do it, when do you do it. I think

966
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 4: those are all things that you try to And then

967
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 4: he got to remember too. You know, it's not like

968
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 4: they have other guys too. It's like, and then what

969
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 4: happens is a guy like that makes everybody else's game easier,

970
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 4: right because they create open shots for those other guys.

971
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 4: Those guys are playing then off of close outs and

972
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 4: all that. So that's the challenge. But it's those things

973
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 4: that we have to do, and then when we're smaller,

974
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 4: we'll probably have to swarm even more that way.

975
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Speaker 3: To him, it's an age old question over the years

976
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 3: with Biggs. I know when Tubby Smith was the coach here,

977
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 3: he doubled the post. Didn't matter if he averaged one

978
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 3: point a game or no point. That was just his

979
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 3: philosophical We're going to double and make him kick it

980
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 3: out with the advent of the three. Now that becomes

981
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 3: you pick your poison a little bit, so with him,

982
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 3: do you just have to mix it up or is

983
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 3: there a standard rule that you guys want to follow.

984
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 4: I think it's you know, every player in every situation

985
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 4: is and I'm one of those guys have done it

986
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 4: either way, I think, like you just mentioned, because of

987
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 4: the three point shot, I think sometimes you got to

988
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 4: be careful of always sending an extra defender because again,

989
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 4: a contested two, you know, sometime obviously analytically is.

990
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: A lot better shot for us.

991
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 4: But for some guys that they can get to a spot,

992
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 4: those twos become they shoot him at a sixty sixty

993
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 4: five percent clip, Well, then that's not going to work either.

994
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 4: So I think it's it's when you decide to bring

995
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 4: an extra defender, where you decide to bring him. There's

996
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 4: different situations on the court, and hopefully your goal is

997
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 4: to try to keep this guy off balance.

998
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 3: Right, And I suppose there's times too where just a

999
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 3: guy can just make even a step, little cat and

1000
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 3: mouse game to force.

1001
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 4: Under a move and sometimes creating indecision with that guy

1002
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 4: and keeping not bouncer. Are they coming? Are they not coming?

1003
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 4: And you know, all those things are things that you

1004
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 4: try to do.

1005
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 3: Last week in the show, we kind of previewed the

1006
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: road trip and you mentioned that Dana Altman was a

1007
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: guy that you really the head coach of Oregon. Of

1008
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 3: course he's been here a while, great uh success at

1009
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 3: Creighton over the years as well, that he was a

1010
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 3: guy that you've admired, have known him pretty well over.

1011
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 4: The years to you know, know him a little bit.

1012
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say you know intimately, but I do. I mean,

1013
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 4: he's a Hall of Fame coach. I mean, I think

1014
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 4: he's one of those guys that's that a lot of

1015
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 4: people tend to forget about sometimes when they look at

1016
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,839
Speaker 4: the history and kind of what he's done. Oh man,

1017
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 4: in the success that he's had. And again I followed

1018
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:24,399
Speaker 4: him for a long time, and there's still things that

1019
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 4: he does. I think, you know, he's known obviously when

1020
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 4: he was at Creighton in particular, was run this spread offense.

1021
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 4: He still has remnants of it now that he still

1022
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 4: you know, has in and he's always been that guy

1023
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 4: that the master of changing defenses, you know, three quarter

1024
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 4: court pressure, a man to a matchup zone or whatever,

1025
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 4: does a terrific job of keeping people off balance and

1026
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 4: It's always been very, very difficult to play against. And

1027
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 4: the other thing that always happens with his teams is

1028
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,240
Speaker 4: no matter how they start, they usually find a way

1029
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 4: to become the best version of themselves by the end

1030
00:45:58,120 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 4: of the year.

1031
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, maybe or the Gophers tonight.

1032
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 4: I look at them now and it's like, Okay, they've

1033
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 4: got Nate Biddle back. They've really looked better here the

1034
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks. A lot of it's having a

1035
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 4: great player back to but Dane is a terrific coach.

1036
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 4: He's going to keep this team going.

1037
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know you you're one year at Drake

1038
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,439
Speaker 3: got to experience a little bit of Arch madness, which

1039
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 3: is the Missouri Valley Tournament. He owned that tournament even

1040
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 3: the years that they didn't win the regular season. I

1041
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 3: was in Saint Louis from one to six, and I

1042
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 3: think almost every year Creighton ended up. There were some

1043
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 3: good teams in that league. Barry Henson, you know then,

1044
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 3: was I think Southwest Missouri State and and you know

1045
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 3: Bradley was good. Northern Iowa with Jacobson was good at

1046
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 3: that time. But I think Altman owned that tournament for

1047
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 3: a stretch. He had Funk and Corver and all these.

1048
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 4: Oh and they had some great bigs and I think,

1049
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 4: to be honest, but watching again, like I saw watching

1050
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 4: his teams at Creighton, I just loved how they played,

1051
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 4: how they recruited. This time, I'm like, man, if I

1052
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 4: ever get my chance at the mid major, and I

1053
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 4: would say that our teams at Furman when we started

1054
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 4: to you know, we got really really good and we

1055
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 4: won the league and we play like that, and then

1056
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 4: to even to Colorado State, I think there were a

1057
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,800
Speaker 4: lot of things that you know, we wanted our teams

1058
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 4: to play a similar sound has just continued to evolve

1059
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 4: that way.

1060
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so in some cases like that, then you say,

1061
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 3: let's pattern us a little bit out of what Dana

1062
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 3: Autman did at Creighton or wherever. How do you then

1063
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 3: study that to implement into a philosophy?

1064
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 4: For you everything kind of becomes your own. You know,

1065
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 4: you take bits and pieces and you know that's on

1066
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 4: the offensive end, the defensive end, the things that you

1067
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 4: admire and you know evolve over time, and you know

1068
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 4: it just kind of becomes uniquely your own. But you know, again,

1069
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 4: there was an inspiration there just kind of watching those

1070
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 4: teams when he was at Creighton and how the success

1071
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 4: that they had, and thinking, man, I could I would

1072
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 4: love to have a team that looked, you know, like that,

1073
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 4: and they're never all the same. But but that's what

1074
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 4: it is. And I think you should just learn over

1075
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 4: time and have some great mentors. Is like, hey, you

1076
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 4: gotta do you got to do something that you believe

1077
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 4: in and what you want. But there's always people and

1078
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 4: things along the way, and you hope you keep evolving.

1079
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: That's what this is about.

1080
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 3: And he still has the long sleeve dress shirt and

1081
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 3: the tie, right.

1082
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 4: Look, well but he still no, he's still he's he's

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Speaker 4: gone away from that now oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: he's like the rest of us now in the quarters

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Speaker 4: that oh yeah yeah, he's gone.

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Speaker 3: To the quarters.

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Speaker 7: He has gone gone, gone to the quarters. That man like, yeah,

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Speaker 7: very good. Well you know that was his kind of

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Speaker 7: signature for all the yeahs. I just assumed, you know,

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Speaker 7: I've watched him. I guess I didn't pay that close

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Speaker 7: of attention.

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Speaker 4: But listen, at the end of the day, this is

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Speaker 4: the best league in the country. It's awesome to be

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Speaker 4: a part of it. And he've got these unbelievable coaches

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Speaker 4: and programs and the places we get to go and

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Speaker 4: the people we get to play against. It's just awesome

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Speaker 4: stuff and so excited again for the opportunity to go

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Speaker 4: out there and see what we can do.

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Speaker 3: Well. Thanks for spending some of the game day. I

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Speaker 3: know you got to work to get ready to finish

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Speaker 3: things off tonight. Good luck to suit. Hey, thank you

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Speaker 3: all right there, he is the head coach, Nico Medvev.

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Speaker 3: We want to thank him for his time. We'll talk

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Speaker 3: to you tonight. Nine o'clock is our pregame. Minnesota Time.

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Speaker 3: Ninety is the tip to go and the Ducks. This

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Speaker 3: has been Go for Basketball Weekly with Nico medved from Learfield.

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Speaker 14: We ask parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

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Speaker 3: If you build a relationship, then it becomes easier. If

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Speaker 3: you build trust, becomes easier. As a parent, you want

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Speaker 3: what's best for your child. To give them the love

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Speaker 3: you can do for a teenager.

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Speaker 14: us kids dot org to learn more.