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Speaker 1: This is the Wes Miller Radio Show live from the

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Speaker 1: original Montgomery In. Brought you in part by Skyline Chilly

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Speaker 1: feeling good. It's Skyline Time and by the original Montgomery

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Speaker 1: In and the Montgomery In at the boat House, home

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Speaker 1: of the world's Greatest Ribs. Now here's Dan Horde, It's

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Speaker 1: Terry Nelson and you SE's head coach, Wes Miller.

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Speaker 2: It is show time, very pleasant, good evening, everybody. Greetings

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Speaker 2: from the original montgomery And home of the world's Greatest Ribs.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the West Miller Radio Show on Dan Horde

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Speaker 2: alongside former Bearcats stand out Terry Nelson and the star

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Speaker 2: of the show, the head coach of your you See Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear it for Wes Miller.

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Speaker 3: I think we both agree with your intro. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Tried to bring the energy for you Tel

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Speaker 2: and I like it. I know that you are quick

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Speaker 2: to criticize if you're not. Feel like it's not just me.

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Speaker 2: The org level is.

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Speaker 4: No room, bills led down if Dan Horde doesn't bring

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Speaker 4: the energy, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, the energy is here tonight. I'm fired up. I'm

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Speaker 2: ready to all great victory last night for the Bearcats.

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Speaker 2: Eighty nine sixty two over the Lipscomb buys Ins. I

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Speaker 2: know what some people are thinking, Lipscomb, they're in the

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Speaker 2: Atlantic Sun, big deal. Well, they led Duke in the

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Speaker 2: second half about two weeks ago. They went to the

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Speaker 2: NCAA tournament last year. That's a good team. It's not

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Speaker 2: a Big twelve opponent, but it's a good team. That

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Speaker 2: was a quality win for your team last night.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know said that, the same thing you just

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Speaker 5: said in the press conference last night. I'm not going

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Speaker 5: to sit here and act like that's a power for team.

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Speaker 5: But that's a really good team.

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Speaker 6: And it's one of those.

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Speaker 5: Deals that over Christmas, you know, you open the laptop

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Speaker 5: and start watching tape and it's the game after Christmas

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Speaker 5: break right, and you scheduled that game. And I'm not

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Speaker 5: going to say you want a cupcake, but you know,

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Speaker 5: you tell your you tell your staff schedule in the game.

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Speaker 5: Fine one that if these guys ate too much food

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Speaker 5: at home a Christmas or like, find one that we

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Speaker 5: can work through some of the kinks from Christmas holidays.

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Speaker 5: And the staff failed because I'm watching the tape and

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Speaker 5: they're beating Duke in the second half and they've won.

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Speaker 5: I think they'd won six to seven coming into our game.

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Speaker 5: They're picked to win every single game the rest of

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Speaker 5: the year and win their league. But also just they

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Speaker 5: have the shooting, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, they really move the ball.

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Speaker 5: They play a funky style of defense that is given

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Speaker 5: some people that have more gifts than they do problems.

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Speaker 5: So it was one of those games that you're a

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Speaker 5: little bit more nervous about than you should be coming

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Speaker 6: I thought our guys played well last night.

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Speaker 4: Some similarities here, Kenyon Martin, Jason not Jason, Maxill close,

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Speaker 4: three other post players I'm trying to think of, Trey

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Speaker 4: Scott and Gary Clark. These are all the latest guys

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Speaker 4: that have twenty rebound games, and Boba Miller. It seems

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Speaker 4: like it was so effortless. It's almost like guys were

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Speaker 4: effortless to try to grab a rebound. What's it like

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Speaker 4: when you have a guy you know on the defensive end,

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Speaker 4: we'll grab every rebound for you.

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Speaker 3: And you only give them one shot.

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Speaker 5: Well, when somebody's rebound and the way Baba was, it's

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Speaker 5: a great thing. I told the guys at halftime, terry

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Speaker 5: that you know. I said, Hey, let's point this out.

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Speaker 5: Baba has thirteen rebounds. I said, but hell, you guys

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Speaker 5: going to compete with them a little bit? I mean,

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Speaker 5: And the one statistic that I believe you can be

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Speaker 5: the team is rebounding. You know, you can be selfish

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Speaker 5: with rebounding and it's still good for the team. I said, Hell,

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Speaker 5: somebody else will get one, but twenty one something I

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Speaker 5: had somebody when I first got here. I won't give

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Speaker 5: a name player on the team my first year or so,

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Speaker 6: Coach, take me to Rubies like you you take me

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Speaker 5: And I said, I will if you get twenty rebounds

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Speaker 6: I said, that's my rule.

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Speaker 5: I'll take anybody to Rubies they get twenty rebounds in

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Speaker 6: End of the year one game in one game.

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Speaker 5: So I told the team last nsks, I'm taking Boba

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Speaker 4: He can pay for you, He can pay for your

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Speaker 4: meal exactly but.

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Speaker 5: The guy said, do we get to come to I said,

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Speaker 5: if you get twenty days bound, you do you know

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Speaker 5: what type of thing?

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Speaker 2: All right, next time somebody gets twenty rebounds, we will

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Speaker 2: mention the Ruby rules.

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Speaker 3: Here's our struggle for the steak thing to that.

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Speaker 2: One of us has to get twenty rebounds. You never

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Speaker 2: you're never getting mistake team. Now you might not get

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Speaker 2: one anyway based on occurrence standard.

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Speaker 3: Correct. Let's talk about Mustapha Chohm.

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Speaker 2: He had eighteen points last night that tied his career high,

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Speaker 2: eight field goals and a couple of free throws. You

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Speaker 2: said something really interesting on the postgame show, basically kind

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Speaker 2: of saying, you know what, when I've really been stressing

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Speaker 2: that I wanted him to do, wasn't working out so well.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna let him do what he's comfortable doing.

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Speaker 2: And it seems to have kind of brought the confidence

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I want him to put his seven

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Speaker 5: and go get twenty You know, I mean, Terry Dan

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Speaker 5: and you guys have been at practice like that's the end.

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Speaker 5: Then we're not gonna stop emphasizing that because when when

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Speaker 5: that part of the game clicks form Mustafa, He's in

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Speaker 5: an entirely different category as.

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Speaker 6: A player, and I do believe it will. But he's

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Speaker 6: he has a great touch, and he has a lot.

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Speaker 5: Of confidence in his touch, even from the post facing

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Speaker 5: to doing that. I think has helped him and he's

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Speaker 5: think it'll continue to do so. And we got to

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Speaker 4: Dayda Thomas was on a heater in the Clemson game.

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Speaker 4: Follows that up he's two or five from downtown and

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Speaker 4: you know that you have an instant outlet that if

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Speaker 3: He can make shots.

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Speaker 4: From all over the floor from three sort of just

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think you got to have guys that

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Speaker 5: you can find small advantages for him, they can make

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Speaker 6: Day Day's been.

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Speaker 5: One of those players, but he's emerging in a different

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Speaker 6: You can see the maturity and the confidence, and he's

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Speaker 5: The right positions. And I think Jis Will being back

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Speaker 2: In the final twenty three minutes of the Clemson game,

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Speaker 2: you outscored the Tigers fifty four to thirty. That's a

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Speaker 2: twenty four point difference. Last night you won the game

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Speaker 2: by twenty seven. So over the last basically six half

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Speaker 2: or three halves rather you've outscored the opposition by fifty

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Speaker 2: that you thought you could have coming into the season.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if I've like thought in those

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Speaker 5: that I think when we play consistently, Dan, we can

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Speaker 5: be a great basketball team. We're starting to figure out

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Speaker 5: recently how to play more consistently. Certainly, Gisel's presence, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think has helped everybody. It's not Gigsels plays great,

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Speaker 5: but Gisele's presence on the floor has made other players

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Speaker 5: He has a calming influence with the ball and then

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Speaker 5: he can go make something happens, so the defense has

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Speaker 5: to respect him. He also has like physical presence defensively,

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Speaker 5: which is impactful, and so I think that's elevated us.

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Speaker 5: But you know, you know, they'd still like to see

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Speaker 6: I'd like Tyler McKinley to be healthy.

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Speaker 5: So I think if we could ever get to full strength,

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Speaker 5: I think that'd be a lot of fun too.

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Speaker 3: Kirk Resa had.

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Speaker 4: A good game against Tartleton State, and then he had

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Speaker 3: But yet, even though he didn't score as.

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Speaker 4: Much as Tartleton State, you said yesterday was his best game.

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Speaker 5: Why well, I thought he was really good defensively.

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Speaker 6: You know that.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what the perspective is that people that

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Speaker 5: all five guys can shoot, they all cut, they're always moving,

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Speaker 5: and they've been really good ever since. But they put

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Speaker 5: a lot of pressure on your defense. If you make

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Speaker 5: one mistake defensively, they get a quality shot. I thought

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Speaker 5: Kerr was really good defensively. I thought offensively he made

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Speaker 5: and then obviously, like you know, seeing him shoot the

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Speaker 5: ball with confidence is important to our team.

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Speaker 2: He mentioned Tyler McKinley. He was capable of playing. He

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Speaker 2: could have played last night. You elected not to use

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Speaker 2: him in the game. Is what he's dealing with right now,

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Speaker 2: something that's likely to linger for a while. Or is

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Speaker 2: he close to the point where he expected them to be?

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Speaker 5: Back on the news channels nowadays, don't they bring in

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Speaker 5: like the special doctor to answer these questions, like I

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Speaker 5: we got to bring in you know, doctor Nelson here.

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Speaker 2: I.

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Speaker 6: Got it exactly, But I don't. I don't, honestly, I

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Speaker 5: I know that he was trying to do some things

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Speaker 5: and he he didn't look right. He didn't look ready

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Speaker 5: to play to me physically mentally. Tyler McKinley's ready to

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Speaker 5: play every single day of every second, every day, but

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Speaker 5: he didn't look right physically, and I didn't feel right

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Speaker 5: about playing him the way that his leg looks. So

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Speaker 5: my hope is that he looks like one hundred percent

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Speaker 5: tomorrow and we have no.

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Speaker 6: Issues the rest of the year because he's very important

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Speaker 6: to our team.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we're going to take a time out. We

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Speaker 2: Westmeller Radio Show. Here there's Radio seven hundred WLW. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate the Bearcat fans who are here tonight. We've got

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Speaker 2: Come out and join us normally on Thursday nights. This

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Speaker 2: Open portion of the schedule is over. Big twelve play

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Speaker 6: You get an easy.

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Speaker 2: One to begin league play the defending champion team that

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Speaker 6: Just excited to get Big twelve play going.

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Speaker 5: And as the guys in our locker room that they

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Speaker 6: That's what it's all about.

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Speaker 3: Do you think this.

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Speaker 4: You've wrapped up with the lineup chains able to now

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Speaker 5: I just think as we get healthier and more holes

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Speaker 6: Again.

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Speaker 5: If you can the closer you can get to having

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Speaker 2: Yep, So This Houston team that comes in on Saturday

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting because they do return some really key players.

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Speaker 5: They have a couple of guys, two freshmen in their

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Speaker 6: And then they have some other returning.

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Speaker 4: Right now, your third iteration of the Big Twelve going

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Speaker 5: Well, I just think that you learn to value every opportunity,

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Speaker 5: Every single opponent is a big time opponent. Every single

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Speaker 6: Preparing the way that we prepared.

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Speaker 5: You know again, I think I think we're more prepared

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Speaker 2: Any NBA draft picks out there that you can add

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Speaker 6: I don't have a problem with Scott or Baylor, you know, but.

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Speaker 5: I just there's just been times it felt like since COVID, right,

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Speaker 6: Well they make new ones, and they make new ones.

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Speaker 5: And and this is just another example like you can't

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Speaker 4: You have went to a more full court pressure, more

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Speaker 4: It seems like they like they communicate a lot more

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Speaker 4: They understand what they're gonna do as a team. Have

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Speaker 5: No. I think when we started in the summer, I

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Speaker 2: Halven Zella gave you an energy boost in the Clemson

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Speaker 5: I just think that you know, people, I think in

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Speaker 6: They're going to keep improving.

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Speaker 5: He and Halvin just keeps improving. So yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 5: I think there's even more in there from Halvin. I

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Speaker 5: He actually has some ability to pass and has some

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Speaker 4: Uh My son TJ's got this new dog and he

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Speaker 6: I think it's a little bit of both, right, Terry.

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Speaker 5: I think number one, I want him to be that

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Speaker 5: and at times he's been able to execute that. But

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Speaker 6: I think those are the areas that we're trying.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if reeling is the right word, but

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Speaker 2: All right, I have a very minor bone to pick

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Speaker 6: Are you ready I'm handling.

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Speaker 2: I want to see Grant Darby Shire score. So when

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Speaker 2: But I think you should make an exception for him.

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Speaker 2: He's never scored in his career between Kentucky and Cincinnati,

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Speaker 3: How about Dan dropping this.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you guys something. Don't oh, don't take

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Speaker 2: I can also take it.

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Speaker 5: I I don't think there'll ever be a time where

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Speaker 3: Well, then we're gonna get you at your piece. We

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Speaker 2: But that's fair, that's very fair.

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Speaker 5: But uh but but seriously, I I'd love every every.

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Speaker 5: I want them all to have the greatest experience is

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Speaker 5: why wouldn't you leave men a little longer.

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Speaker 6: To try to get it? And I said, well, hold

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Speaker 5: I said, three assists ain't close. Man, That's a long

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Speaker 5: I'm all about it. As far as Grant, you know,

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Speaker 6: And when you got that kind of a lead.

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Speaker 5: you appreciate it when it's done, and you remember the

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Speaker 5: times that people haven't.

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Speaker 6: Done that I've had.

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Speaker 5: I've been in that I've been in that position a

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Speaker 5: handful of times, more than i'd ever want to be

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Speaker 5: in moving forward, and I remember every day time somebody

446
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Speaker 5: didn't have that kind of respect for the game. So

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Speaker 5: I always want to But maybe maybe you're right, Dan,

448
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Speaker 5: and we'll draw up an action for Grant Darbyshire to

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Speaker 5: get that lefty shot off.

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Speaker 6: Grant.

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Speaker 2: It's it's gonna happen, Grant, it just has to happen.

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Speaker 2: With more than thirty seconds.

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Speaker 3: You can take care of that. Put them in at one.

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Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take a time out and questions

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Speaker 2: from the audience when we continue. This is the West

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Speaker 2: Miller Radio Show. We're live at the original Montgomery in

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Speaker 2: all of the world's greatest rips seven a WLW. We

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Speaker 2: are back at the original Montgomery in home of the

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Speaker 2: world's greatest ribs and the West Miller Radio Show. Here

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Speaker 2: on seven hundred WLW. Joe Strecker is our engineer. Joe

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Speaker 2: idellas in the studio. We appreciate the Bearcat fans who

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Speaker 2: are out at the original Montgomery in with us tonight.

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Speaker 2: Time for questions from the audience. Our man Elliot is batting. Leadoff, Elliott,

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Speaker 2: take it away, all.

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Speaker 7: Right, you need to answer this question as if this

466
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Speaker 7: was like we're sitting at this table. It's one on one, Okay,

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Speaker 7: nobody else is listening what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: Oh, boy, Mark.

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Speaker 7: Cuban family said he'd rather divorce his wife than get

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Speaker 7: rid of Luka Doncic. Have you ever felt that way

471
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Speaker 7: about a player, were you'd rather your divorce your wife

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Speaker 7: then get rid of them just to keep them.

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Speaker 5: Wow, well, I'm not married at the moment, so that

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Speaker 5: doesn't really so soon you're married, I think I think

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Speaker 5: the right answer here this would be good media training

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Speaker 5: for you, Elliott, if you were on the other end.

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Speaker 6: Of this question.

478
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Speaker 5: The right answer is if I ever felt that I

479
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Speaker 5: value a player, that I would make a wild statement

480
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Speaker 5: to show how much I valued that player. Sure, I

481
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Speaker 5: value all of our players, and certainly guys like Luka

482
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Speaker 5: Dancic have a tremendous value, so you can make a

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Speaker 5: wild statement. But if base value, I would not say that.

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Speaker 7: I don't know if Nego Harrison would agree with you

485
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Speaker 7: on that. I think he likes a day to day player, but.

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Speaker 2: He's currently unemployed.

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Speaker 8: All right, Elise, I'm gonna ask a question for all

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Speaker 8: I'm just kidding. I don't have a question as the

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Speaker 8: coach in two o seven, but I do just have

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Speaker 8: a general question because I argue a lot with my

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Speaker 8: significant other on I believe that Michael Jordan is the goat,

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Speaker 8: no questions asked, hands down. Other people may think that

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Speaker 8: Lebron who calls himself the King his own nickname, So

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Speaker 8: as a former North Carolina guy, who is the goat

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Speaker 8: in West Miller's eyes.

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Speaker 5: I love this question because this is this is always

497
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Speaker 5: a fun debate with the team because the players who

498
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Speaker 5: have absolutely no idea what they're talking about that they

499
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Speaker 5: all have the craziest opinions of this argument. But it

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Speaker 5: for me, Elist, I agree with you. It's unequivocal to

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Speaker 5: me that the greatest player that's ever played our game

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Speaker 5: is Michael Jordan. And I would even argue as the

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Speaker 5: greatest and most impactful athlete in my living, like my generation,

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Speaker 5: like in the time that I've lived, I didn't watch

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Speaker 5: Ali or you know, some of the others before me,

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Speaker 5: so I can't speak to them, but in my time,

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Speaker 5: I haven't seen anybody that had more impact on sport

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Speaker 5: and society as a whole than Jordan. The next guy

509
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Speaker 5: have is Tiger Woods in my lifetime, both.

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Speaker 2: Very good choices. I'm interested with the current players. Is

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Speaker 2: it strictly Lebron or Jordan or do you have some

512
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Speaker 2: Kobe people out there that try to make the Kobe case.

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Speaker 5: No, they're all so ridiculous now, Like it's like you

514
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Speaker 5: realize how much there are children. When you have this

515
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Speaker 5: conversation with them, they just regurgitate whatever the the argument

516
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Speaker 5: they've heard on their Instagram account.

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Speaker 6: That's probably where it really comes from.

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Speaker 5: And know they you'll hear every once in a while

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Speaker 5: you get a Jordan and you give them a high five.

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Speaker 5: Then you'reize they didn't get to watch Jordan, right, And

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Speaker 5: then you know most of them Lebron or you'll hear

522
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Speaker 5: some Kobe and then every once in a while some

523
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Speaker 5: of us say something just out outlandishly crazy.

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Speaker 6: But it's it's a fun argument with the players.

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Speaker 9: Brian Coach, You've had Gisel's obviously come back and been

526
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Speaker 9: really really great.

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Speaker 3: It's and it's awesome.

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Speaker 9: I remember Steve Logan's comments that first game about what

529
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Speaker 9: it meant to him and the chance you gave him

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Speaker 9: to come back, but to come back and be impactful

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Speaker 9: as awesome. So I'm just curious. I don't remember the

532
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Speaker 9: timeline of how everything happened. I assume he was supposed

533
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Speaker 9: to be a part of the plan early on it

534
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Speaker 9: was gonna be like him and Day Day. I wonder

535
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Speaker 9: what it's like for him and dayDay to be back

536
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Speaker 9: in the back backcourt again, playing together. How are those

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Speaker 9: two guys feeling about what was kind of taken away

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Speaker 9: and now it's back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think it's a great question, and there's a lot

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Speaker 5: to it. I think, first off, the team and one

542
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Speaker 5: of the reasons he's playing is because the team has

543
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Speaker 5: accepted him and allowed him to assimilate back like I

544
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Speaker 5: allowed him to come back to campus and.

545
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Speaker 6: I allowed him the opportunity to earn.

546
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Speaker 5: His way to back to practicing if the team accepted him.

547
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Speaker 5: But they've accepted him in every way. The one thing

548
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Speaker 5: a bunch of them said to me when I when

549
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Speaker 5: I approached them about being okay if we play them,

550
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Speaker 5: and a lot of them said, we all came here

551
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Speaker 5: to play with him.

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Speaker 6: When the team was.

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Speaker 5: Put together, Gisel was the day they were the guys

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Speaker 5: that that these guys wanted to come play with They

555
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Speaker 5: they all made the decision to come to Cincinnati as

556
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Speaker 5: those are cornerstone guys of the team. So I think

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Speaker 5: that's been great for our team. Obviously, him and Dada

558
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Speaker 5: have a brotherhood and a connection that's been formed over

559
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Speaker 5: the old school way. It's been formed over three years

560
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Speaker 5: and they've been through a lot together.

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Speaker 6: So I think on a personal level, da Day is thrilled.

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Speaker 2: The same question. I talked to Terror earlier, and I know.

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Speaker 10: When Jizzl entered the court, you could tell the whole

564
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Speaker 10: difference was dayDay became day Day and he didn't have

565
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Speaker 10: to run the team anymore. Seemed to run the team

566
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Speaker 10: at the point. So that's what I saw is Dayy

567
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Speaker 10: could do what day they could do, and he didn't

568
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Speaker 10: have to worry about organizing the team. Does that make sense, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think it's even broader than that. I think Gisel

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Speaker 5: has a presence.

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Speaker 6: On the court.

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Speaker 5: You gotta remember he's he was an honorable Mention All

573
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Speaker 5: Big Twelve player here. He's played two years in this League.

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Speaker 5: He understands the gravity of playing at Cincinnati. He understands

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Speaker 5: the expectations of playing at Cincinnati. He can shot, create,

576
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Speaker 5: he can defend. I think he makes everybody. I think

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Speaker 5: he makes everybody more comfortable on the floor. He makes

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Speaker 5: everybody better. I said this in the press conference. Boba

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Speaker 5: Miller is a guy that when he's on the court,

580
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Speaker 5: our team is better in every way, not just because

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Speaker 5: of the things he does, because he allows other guys

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Speaker 5: to do the things that they do well. Gizl has

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Speaker 5: the same kind of impact. There's a calming impact offensively,

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Speaker 5: he puts people in position offensively, he has presence defensively.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I think his impact isn't just good or

586
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Speaker 5: bad play. Its presence on the floor is impactful to

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Speaker 5: our entire team.

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Speaker 2: All Right, who's.

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Speaker 3: Next, Wes.

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Speaker 11: I don't know if you've heard of Ken Palm ratings

591
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Speaker 11: or know anything about it, but you you are currently

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Speaker 11: ninth best defensively in the country, but only two hundred

593
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Speaker 11: twelveth offensively. As you gear up towards Big twelve play,

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Speaker 11: how do you look to improve upon your offense well

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Speaker 11: also maintaining that elite defensive edge.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Ken Palm is uh that's that's a daily part

597
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 5: of life as a college basketball coach, right, And I'm

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Speaker 5: very well aware of those those rankings and numbers. I

599
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Speaker 5: think we've been trying to attack the offensive thing now

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Speaker 5: for a while, you know, for.

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Speaker 6: The last like five or six weeks.

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Speaker 5: From an analytical perspective, the five of our best six

603
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Speaker 5: halfs analytically this year of coming our last three games,

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Speaker 5: So I think we're we're trending in the right direction offensively.

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Speaker 6: We have to continue to do that.

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Speaker 5: Like I'm not saying we've arrived, but you know, we're

607
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 5: starting to do some better things on offense, and we

608
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Speaker 5: have to keep doing that.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 6: You know, you're getting into.

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Speaker 5: Big twelve play and we're about to face some of

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Speaker 5: the elite defenses in the country too, And we'll face

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Speaker 5: an elite defense on Saturday as well. So you know,

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Speaker 5: even as we as we continue to improve, we have

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Speaker 5: to do it against the best teams.

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Speaker 2: Chris, Yes, correct, go ahead.

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Speaker 12: So this is gonna be a little off subject. I've

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Speaker 12: had season tickets for twenty one years, and in those

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Speaker 12: twenty one years, we have just been really bad at

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Speaker 12: free throws. And Terry and I were talking a little

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Speaker 12: beforehand that. Yeah, you know, the best is the rhythm.

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Speaker 12: I played sports, I get that. But free throws there

623
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Speaker 12: free because you're just not nobody's doing anything to you.

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Speaker 12: And we can't make free throws. It's so frustrating sometime

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Speaker 12: to watch.

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Speaker 5: You imagine being the coach because those are free and

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00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 5: those points matter. And talk about our offense if you know,

628
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Speaker 5: we've we've been the one of the worst four or

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Speaker 5: five teams in all of college basketball and free throw

630
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 5: shooting this year. And you want to impact the offense,

631
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 5: So we've got to take care of the ball better.

632
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 5: We've started to do that a little better. Uh, you know,

633
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 5: we got to get to the offensive board better. We've

634
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 5: done that really good in stretches. We got to do

635
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 5: it consistently. And we get to the free throw line

636
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 5: more this year than we have the last couple of years.

637
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Speaker 6: You got to make the dang things.

638
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 5: And somebody told when I got here, you know, you know,

639
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 5: Bearcat teams don't make free throw as well, and I went, now,

640
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 5: we'll be fine there. Now I'm wondering, is there a

641
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 5: curse somebody pull it off type of thing, But no, the.

642
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 6: Our guys have worked at it really hard.

643
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 5: We've actually shot it better from the line here recently,

644
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Speaker 5: and hopefully that'll trend in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: All right, where is the mic team? I want to

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Speaker 2: take a break. We'll take a time out. Sure, all right,

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Speaker 2: we'll take a break. More questions from the audience when

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Speaker 2: we continue. This is the West Miller Radio Show or

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Speaker 2: Live at the Original Montgomery in Home of the world's

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Speaker 2: great Strip Signed seven hundred WLW. Final segment of the

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Speaker 2: West Miller Radio Show, Live from the Original Montgomery in

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Speaker 2: Home of the world's Greatest Ribs. We've got some stuff

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Speaker 2: to give away to our Bearcat fans here tonight. We'll

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Speaker 2: do that in about ten minutes right at the end

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Speaker 2: of the show. But let's squeeze in a few more questions.

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Speaker 2: You are up next, young man.

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Speaker 4: How do you feel about opening opening up Big twell

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Speaker 4: play at home versus Houston?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 6: Number one, I love your sweatshirt.

661
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 5: That's that's a good sweatshirt right there are players wear

662
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 5: that one all the time.

663
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 6: But uh, I'm really excited.

664
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 5: I'm really excited to just start Big twelve play. Obviously,

665
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 5: every team in this league is going to be an

666
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 5: opportunity to have a great win and an opportunity to

667
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 5: have a great night. But with Houston, what they've done,

668
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 5: you know, in the last couple of years, what they've

669
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 5: done to start this year, that that's a big tom

670
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 5: opportunity in our in our home arena.

671
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: All right, t Neel's got mic in hand. If there's

672
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 2: anybody else that has a question from the audience, he'll

673
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 2: make his way to you. If not, we'll wrap things

674
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 2: up with a few questions on our own. Anybody in

675
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 2: the back corner. Looks like Elliott would like to ask

676
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: another as well. Team l not moving as quickly as is. Heyday,

677
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: all right, Elliott.

678
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 7: So we had at Leasta's question about great is what

679
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 7: do you think the greatest playoff run discluding twenty eleven

680
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 7: dark is.

681
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 6: Twenty eleven like Dallas Maverick, Yes, yes, besides.

682
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: That greatest playoff run for a team for an individus.

683
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 6: Most unexpected, but one I enjoyed the most.

684
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 7: When you enjoyed the most, which one do you think

685
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 7: is the greatest?

686
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 5: The one I enjoyed the most is the San Antonio.

687
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 5: I can't remember the exact year, but when San Antonio

688
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 5: is Duncan was getting a little older with with that

689
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 5: whole crew, Genobile and Parker and the team, and they

690
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 5: beat my twenty four with Lebron Miami in the finals.

691
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 5: That was the most I enjoyed Washington team in playoffs.

692
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 6: I bet you can't guess which one's my favorite.

693
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 2: The Pacers last year.

694
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 6: It's best, It's best.

695
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 2: In sync. That was the easiest question that West's fielded

696
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: all night. All Right, we've got a few minutes left

697
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: on the show. I want to ask you about a

698
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 2: guy that's on the roster that we haven't seen this

699
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 2: year and won't because he's red shirting. Bryson Buckingham talked

700
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: to him recently. He's trying to use this year to

701
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: get better in hopes that down the road he can

702
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 2: be a guy that gets on the court in a

703
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 2: meaningful way.

704
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 5: He's Bryceon's a non scholarship player from Oklahoma, terrific young man.

705
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 5: He played high school basketball for one of my great friends,

706
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 5: guy named Adam Donier at a school in Missouri, Linky Academy, and.

707
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 6: Terrific young man.

708
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 5: Got a chance to be a very good basketball player,

709
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 5: and he's had a great attitude. So it'll be fun

710
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 5: to see him continue to work and continue to emerge.

711
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 4: Jalen Celestine Celesting is it seems I mentioned this before.

712
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 4: He seems to be the bailout for the end of

713
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 4: the shot clock situations. He takes a lot of them,

714
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 4: and he seems to make him That's not the thing

715
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:18,399
Speaker 4: I'm talking about.

716
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 3: But have you ever seen a shot so flat?

717
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 4: It seems that goes in consistently for him because he

718
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 4: when he gets it off, it doesn't seem to have

719
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 4: a lot of arc, but he's very.

720
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 3: Accurate with it.

721
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 6: He's a very good shooter. I like shots that go in,

722
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 6: don't matter the arc, you know.

723
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 5: Like, what do we say in the office the other

724
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 5: day we were talking about somebody and somebody said he's

725
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 5: a shooter, and and one of our other assistants said, no, no, no, no,

726
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 5: he's a maker and that's way more important than a shooter.

727
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 5: Uh And Jalen Celesting's a maker. He can really shoot

728
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 5: the basketball.

729
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 2: Have you seen a player in your years as a

730
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 2: player or a coach significantly changed their shooting style at

731
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 2: the college level and become much more successful?

732
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 6: Oh?

733
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, one that everybody remember here we we we spent

734
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 5: the whole summer working on it. Dick Lockin, you know,

735
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 5: Victor shout out to Victory texted me the other day, Uh,

736
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 5: you know, Merry Christmas.

737
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,320
Speaker 6: Which was which was which was cool.

738
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 5: But he spent the whole summer after our first year

739
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 5: here going into his I guess that would be his

740
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 5: junior year, you know, completely rechanging his shot, putting arc

741
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 5: on his shot, trying to extend it to three. And

742
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 5: he didn't shoot any threes that year, but he worked

743
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 5: on it every day and his free throw got better.

744
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 5: And then that that last year he played here, he

745
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,919
Speaker 5: had a great start to the year shooting threes, didn't

746
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 5: sustain it during the league play, and then he had

747
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 5: an All acc year Clemson that his senior year and

748
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 5: shot the heck and they made five against North Carolina

749
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 5: one night. I think he made four against Duke one

750
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 5: night on a really nice team. So a guy that

751
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 5: couldn't shoot in over a three year period became a

752
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 5: really good shooter from out to three and is now

753
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 5: with Oklahoma City.

754
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 3: After the Clinton game, you stayed.

755
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 4: In the area, obviously you're I was trying to help

756
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 4: you with your bag and you said, no, you're gonna

757
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 4: go visit mom.

758
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: You have family and friends out there. After a loss,

759
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 3: how are you able to enjoy yourself.

760
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 4: Around family and friends, knowing that the entire time you

761
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 4: may be smiling in their face, but you're replaying the

762
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 4: game in your head.

763
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 6: Oh, there's no smiling. It's family.

764
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 5: I mean, if you can't be who you are around

765
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 5: your family, who can you?

766
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 2: You know?

767
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: And so my family has been involved in my basketball

768
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 5: journey for third thirty some.

769
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 6: Years, right that they know me.

770
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 5: And the neat thing is after something like that, I

771
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 5: don't want to be around anybody. But if I'm going

772
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 5: to be around somebody, it's family because they get it

773
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 5: and they give me my space. So I got in

774
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 5: the car with my mom and drove back to Charlotte,

775
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 5: and I opened up the laptop and she asked about

776
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 5: three questions and then she said, you know what, I know.

777
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 6: You don't want to talk to me. I'm just gonna

778
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 6: be quiet.

779
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 5: And we were in silence for the rest of the

780
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 5: driver and I watched UH and and I watched the

781
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 5: game on my laptop. But no, I it was good.

782
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 5: It was good to get home and see my mom.

783
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 5: And my sister was in town UH with with with

784
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 5: I have a nephew, at little baby nephew. So I

785
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 5: saw them and then I was able to kind of

786
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 5: get back and just completely rest and prepare for a

787
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 5: couple of days to get get ready for this this

788
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 5: push that we have in the league.

789
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: Play with so many international players on the roster, what

790
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 2: did they do for Christmas?

791
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 6: Good question? You know, different guys did different things.

792
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 5: But Boba Miller and Jeordie Rodriguez's families flew over and

793
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 5: they actually spent their time in Manhattan and New York.

794
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 5: Halven went, there's a direct flight from from UH from

795
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 5: Cincinnati to Paris, so we we we told him he

796
00:38:58,320 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 5: had to come back a day earlier if he was

797
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 5: going to do that. So he actually came back on

798
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 5: Christmas Day.

799
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 6: He said it was great.

800
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 5: There was nobody on the plane and he got upgraded

801
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 5: to business class. He's ruined now, so U, but he

802
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 5: was so excited.

803
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 6: He said, yeah, I.

804
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 5: Got on the plane on Christmas Day and nobody was

805
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 5: on it and they gave me business class.

806
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 6: And I said, oh boy, I said, you'll never You'll

807
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 6: never want to go back to coach again. But uh

808
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 6: so he actually went home, which I did.

809
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 5: I don't love a guy going to Europe and back,

810
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 5: but that was very important to him. And again he

811
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 5: got back a day early in case there was a

812
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 5: travel complication.

813
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 6: But you know, Mustapha stayed in Cincinnati.

814
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 5: He had a friend of his from high school fly

815
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 5: up here, and he basically did nothing. And he was

816
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 5: in he was rehabbing some knee stuff and stayed in

817
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 5: Cincinnati the whole time.

818
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 6: Who am I forgetting from.

819
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 5: Kirk kerk Kerr went and spent some time with what

820
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 5: what he would call family, uh here in West Virginia.

821
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 6: So he he was he was with some American family.

822
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 4: I would say, I don't think people of value. Oh,

823
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 4: I understand the value of doing nothing. When you're an

824
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 4: athlete or a coach, like your time is demanding, and

825
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 4: when you get a chance to do nothing, you almost

826
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 4: feel like you should be doing something because you're always

827
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 4: used to doing something. Do you find yourself in that

828
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,760
Speaker 4: situation as a coach, You probably never get that situation

829
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 4: during the season.

830
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 6: Yeah.

831
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 5: I give the analogy Terry to like vacation, you know,

832
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 5: which is not what it's like a two hour break

833
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 5: a couple of days at Christmas, it's not a vacation.

834
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 6: You know, we're in the middle of it.

835
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 5: Was. What was really nice for me at Christmas is

836
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 5: I got a couple of days that I could really

837
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 5: think about our team plan, you know, and see the

838
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 5: big picture a little bit. I wouldn't say it was

839
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 5: a break from working. It just was a break from

840
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 5: practicing and being around the team. But I think when

841
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 5: you get in the off season and you get a

842
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 5: couple of days away on a vacation, by the time

843
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 5: you're into that second day, you're going, I don't feel comfortable.

844
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 6: Let's get back to work.

845
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 5: And I think anybody that has a passion for what

846
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 5: they do feels that when they get some idle time.

847
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,959
Speaker 2: You mentioned Bobba Miller's family. They were at the game

848
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 2: last night. His grandfather saw him pull down twenty one rebounds. Wow,

849
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 2: which is pretty cool. You might have to see if

850
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:11,720
Speaker 2: you can get him to stick around.

851
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 6: If that's what it takes.

852
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 5: We have a couple of spare bedrooms in our house

853
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 5: and he's welcome to move.

854
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:22,240
Speaker 2: In, all right, Grandpa the other Miller. It could be related,

855
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: Bobba Miller, Wes Miller.

856
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 3: It's possible.

857
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 5: As my dad always said, we had a great player

858
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 5: where I coached before, whose last name was Miller, who

859
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 5: had like a fifty inch vertical and ended up getting

860
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 5: a cup of.

861
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 6: Coffee in the NBA.

862
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 5: And my dad used to always say, that's my sixth

863
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 5: child and the only one that got all my athleticism.

864
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 5: And he says that about Bobba Miller. Now he said, hey,

865
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 5: he's using the same line. He said, Bobba Miller's my

866
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 5: six child and the only one that got my size

867
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 5: LinkedIn athleticism. So you know it's somewhere the Millers are

868
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 5: all related, But I don't see any comparison to the athleticism.

869
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 2: Well, I understand if it's a good line, feel free

870
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 2: to use it over Yes, right, I'd say that to

871
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:00,959
Speaker 2: your dad for sure.

872
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 3: Are you looking? Were you upset or just sort of?

873
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 4: When Baba Miller and Mustafa Chan were fighting over a

874
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 4: rebound and it goes out of bounds, I kind of

875
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 4: felt like, that's what I want to see. I want

876
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 4: to see both of those guys fighting, because if I'm Mustafa,

877
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 4: I'm upset that Baba's jumping over my back and grabbing

878
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 4: any rebound. So Baba's saying let go, Mustapha's like, no,

879
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 4: this is my rebound, and ball goes out of bounds

880
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 4: and they sort of hug each other afterwards, and I'm

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm okay with us being selfish with rebounding. I

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Speaker 6: And I want them all fighting for the ball absolutely.

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