Listen to all those bells being jingled, because there is no other way this
is. We're gonna talk about everything on this show, but there is no
topic. There will not becoming correct. Yes there is. But as far
as Christmas songs, this is at the top. There is no other number
one. Here is awful take and here go. I was gonna say,
here comes Grandpa Nick, but apparently here comes both of my grandpa, grandma
and Grandpa Nick. Oh wow, which one of you is the grandma?
I guess I'll like that? That's all right? I mean, hey,
hey, you know what, this has been a very weird twelve shows,
but I will not have you guys poop on this parade. Here come the
bells. All that's the product of an artist with a terrible solo career that
had to make a Christmas album that somehow blew up even though it just has
a bunch of bells and an auto tune on it. All right, well,
you know what I was gonna say that is, I mean, I
thought I had my take didn't even last a minute and worth taking me.
It's a formula you essentially, when your career is washing music, Who's done?
You get this studio? You get some bells behind the track, and
then you have a terrible chorus and then you write a Christmas album and make
money because old people like it. Wow, you know what, I tell
you what this is? This is gonna get interesting because we've been waiting a
while to have all three of us back on the same show. And it's
not like that Yale game got us in the mood to talk about basketball or
anything. So I guess we just have to hit you with a bunch of
nonsense. Christmas edition of Inside the Paint Landed and Nick so happy to be
back together for the first time. They're wearing the Santa outfits that the girls
were in the Mean Girls talent show scene. Have you guys seen that?
Please tell me you guys have both seen Mean Girls? No? No,
but I know I look a lot of specks here in this costume. And
also it's time for shopping because it's Wednesday or something like that. Does that
the out think that's on Wednesdays? We wear pink? Sir? That is
that? Is? That? Is the line? Nick? Have you seen
Mean Girls? No? I haven't seen it. I don't watch for any
of my movies. Gosh, holy guys, that's unbelievable class. So there
is a scene in Mean Girls, which is one of the funniest movies.
Like legitimately, I think it's hilarious. Uh it's and it's not that it's
not really a girly movie either. There's plenty of dudes. I think it's
funny too. Uh So that I didn't think just because it was called Mean
Girls that it was exclusively for we just for the record. Well, so
there's a scene in Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan, who is like eighteen years
old and at that point was one of the most popular sex symbols in America
and a couple other girls perform in a talent show and very very short Santa
Claus skirts. And so that is what I am picturing you and Nick doing
this podcast in performing for your audience, the sort of thing that if you
were to walk into novelty shop and say give me your Missus Claws outfit,
they would hand over. So I'm wondering, as you guys have your you
guys have your uniforms on. Kansas's uniforms were pretty good against the al So
you guys, like I mean Landon had to get Hurbie somehow, right,
this is inside the Paint Christmas Edition. Didn't always their names? Did we
already do this? I don't remember the last take or this take. I'm
Tim Allen and Christmas with the Cranks. There you go, great, and
I am Clark Griswold. Okay, So, Nick, you have texted us
your favorite three Christmas movies. I'd like to hear them and then we can
discuss how incorrect the rest of your list is. Yeah. My number one
is going to be Home Alone, Can't beat It, Holiday Classic. Number
two is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and then the third one would be Elf,
mostly because of Zoe's Dashanel. But which is fair. That's a good
take, very good reason to put something in your top three because Zoe Deschanel
makes an appearance. That's a pretty solid list, Like I don't think that
well. People may not agree with that list. Pound for pound, there's
not a lot of shocking takes in that land. And give me your three
favorite Christmas films. I'm prepared to hear all of these be black and white
films from the nineteen forties. He's gonna say, like A Wonderful Life or
something miracle on fifty fourth Streets. I just watched Miracle on thirty fourth Street
last night for the first time. It's really good. Oh my gosh,
Oh jeez, Landing, that's a horrible, horrible take. It's good have
sentiments. There's no senti in the world. Everyone just thinks everything's ironic and
funny. It is complete and total ass all the time, boring. Polar
Express is good. Oh my gosh, weapons gosh, my goodness, you
just gave a take so bland that Nick called it vanilla. Nick, who
doesn't like who doesn't like anything that's not out of the traditionalist book, said
you're bland with a take fuller. Express is good. It's a wonderful life
is good and wrong. I don't really watch a lot of how is Elf
not White? Elf is like the whitest Christmas movie of all time. There's
only one everybody in Elf. Every character in Elf, besides one the bad
guy, is as white as the three of us. It is the whitest
Christmas movie on Earth. I think it's like a cultural icon. I feel
like it is. It's about and the nice and the naughty list. And
what I want to know is how many more Christmas movies Nick has seen other
than the three he named. Yeah, that's true, not very many.
I I a few of them, but not have you seen a Christmas Story,
because that's a pretty movie. Is terrible cringe as every time every time
I hear Landon talk about a Christmas Story, his opinion gets gets worse by
ten, like he hates it more. But I will say when Ralphie's brother
which I can't remember his name, get Ramsey dress in all of can't put
his arms down, Yeah, that's hilarious. And when he rolls around in
the snow after getting scared by the bullies, that's peak. That is peak
comedy. I will admit the evil Santa Claus and Elves throwing Ralphie down the
slide is always gonna be one of the better moments in a Christmas film.
That's an excellent part. And then he shoots his eye out because you know,
I mean the the bb Gung pellet goes off the Belta sign and hits
him in the face. It's pretty good. All right, we'll talk about
Christmas. Yan probably thinks Diehard's a Christmas movie. I've never seen die Hard.
I've never seen Diehard either. That's probably a bad take, But I
need to see it. Speaking of bad takes, we'll have a lot of
them. Let's talk about the Jayhawks. Then we'll come back to the Christmas
time. I feel like instead of an air horn on this show, you're
gonna get Christmas bells. This is the new air horn. It's not loud
enough, but that's fine. Number two Kansas seventy five, Yale sixty.
Well. On the last show, Land and I predicted this would be sixty
eight to fifty four and a very sleepy fifteen ish point win for Kansas,
and lo and behold, it was a very sleepy fifteen isch point win for
the Jayhawks, even though it did not look like it was gonna get to
double digits for a while. Yeah, it ended up being exactly what you
thought. It did not look that way for a while, especially for the
first twenty seven minutes the Jayhawks trail to forty two to forty one. We'll
get to whatever that was, but I'm reading this first, and we're legitimately
getting out played for real in Allen Field House by preseason Ivy League favorite Yale.
But thanks to Kevin mccullor, they were able to get it going when
it mattered, most using a twenty three to five run to take control.
Kansas scored thirty four points over the final thirteen minutes wound up pulling away from
the Bulldogs to win their seventh straight game. But uh yeah, Yale walked
into Allan field House and legit like looked like the better team for a decent
stretch of that game. It was weird. Well, we knew this was
gonna happen, not necessarily that it'd be forty two four already won three quarters
of the way through the game, But we knew that Yale was not North
Carolina Central. We knew that Yale was not Manhattan. This is a team
that's probably gonna play Princeton in a battle of whoever wins is going to be
the twelve seed that is predicted everywhere to be the sexy over five pick in
the NCAA tournament. Right, Yale has done this before. They haven't played
Kansas in a while, but usually the IVY League top couple teams are pretty
good, and we knew that their experience. We know these are obviously very
intelligent players, and they got guys that can shoot the ball. We saw
that in the first half. Eventually, Kansas's talent was just too much.
But this was never going to be a game that Kansas won by one hundred,
but definitely one that you expected them to win by about fifteen. The
line closed at fourteen and a half or fifteen and a half, whatever it
was. They narrowly misscovering it. It was brutal. But Nick, you,
sir, mister pocket full of Sunshine about your twenty twenty three twenty four
Jayhawks. You think that a disturbing trend has emerged. You send us a
text, and I really would like you to elaborate on You said, this
team really hasn't played that well since the since the second or third game of
the year. Tell me a little bit about your take on Kansas now eleven
and one, but definitely not playing a games time after time in the last
few weeks. Yeah, it's not like I've ever, you know, overreacted
in the group chat before. I don't think that's something that happens that much.
But I think that this is this is exactly the formula of a Kansas
team that loses in the sweet sixteen. They're gonna play some mid major,
they turn it over a bunch, and they're not gonna be an Allenfield House
to have them behind their backs. And you know, I wouldn't say that
the Stints Kentucky that they haven't really played well. I mean, they beat
Yukon, they had a great first half against Yukon. They obviously pulled through
to be a top five, top ten team at home, which is great.
That was a great win. But there's I mean, you look at
the rest of it. They haven't not had a good stretch of forty minutes
of just playing great basketball since then. And I think that you know,
you look at good wins against Tennessee. Obviously they've played some tougher teams they
went in Indiana, but they throughout all of this, it just seems like
there's been time so they have not figured it out to get a good stretch
of offense going in the second half. It took in this game. It
took final five minutes to finally pull away from Yale offensively. You're having Kevin
mccolor anchor you and try to pull you into these games. Without him,
I don't know where you're at. Hunter Dickinson looked a little confused. Granted,
I I kind of heard that he might be battling flu symptoms. Or
something. But right now you're looking at a team who just really hasn't figured
out how to have sustained runs and not disappear at times in these games.
And I think that that's definitely something to concern going down the stretch. And
you know, they're eleven and one, and I don't know if you can
say that eleven and one is something to you know, be disappointed about,
but I am going to say that, like when you look at this team,
that the potential is there, and they the Eastern Illinois game is a
good example of how they just don't look since the ninety nine point wins against
Manhattan and in C Central, they just haven't looked dominant. I want to
see a game where they just kind of control the tempo and control the pace
and the scoring for all forty minutes, and we haven't seen that that yet
this year. I know we're still the two guard is questionable. Marco Jackson
didn't have a great night tonight, but got guys like Nick Timberlake stepping up.
But like I said that, there's seems like there's so many sustained moments
in these games where the team just does not have consistency, have droughts,
and I think that is gonna hurt them down the road. But like I
said, right now, you can't you can't fault them for having wins against
the top ten, and obviously the one blunder was Marquette where they did get
blown out. But like I said, I'm concerned as as we enter in
the final stages of non conference play, You've got a game which which does
state I want to see some progress when it comes to can this team control
the pace of the game and turn it over less? And those are controllable
errors too, defense turnovers, those can be improved, but a lot of
things just can't be taught, and you start to wonder if this team's offense
is going to keep pace throughout the season. I think guys like Nip Timberlake
playing better are definitely gonna help getting Hunter Dickinson back into the full rotation and
back to his full strength. I think that's gonna be important as well.
You have two All Americans on this team, so certainly no doubt they're in
the front court. kJ Adams has been beyond fantastic this year, but just
as a team playing cohesively, turning the ball over less and finding ways to
score, and you know, you'd hope at this point maybe they'd have a
little bit better than the seventy point outing in these past few games against some
of these mid majors, you know, UMKC. But it is the early
on in the season and they are eleven and one, so I don't think
you can fault them for that. Landon. I I mean, on one
hand, he's right, Kansas hasn't put together a quality forty minute game since
honestly probably the second game of the year when Manhattan came in here and they
blew the doors off. And on the other hand, they've been playing pretty
difficult competition. I know they've had a couple of games, undoubtedly against teams
that they should have blown out that they really didn't like Eastern Illinois and UMKC
they kind of screwed around with. But then there's also plenty of games wherever
they did beat a top ten Tennessee team, they did beat a top five
Yukon team, they handled Missouri, who I know isn't great but still is
a big rival, and that game was their super Bowl. There are definitely
I think the correct answer is probably in between that everything is fine and Nick
saying, Oh, this team's got a lot of problems. Is Knicks take
pretty rational? I think it is compared to other Ku takes you may see.
But curious where you come in with this. Yeah, I think it
is somewhat rational. I do think he's right in the like if this was
like if this was in a vacuum. You know, they've we've seen them
over many years and many many different teams have completely uninspired outings that they win
right before Christmas break. That's super normal. But this has been a trend
of this team since the Manhattan game. Really obviously like there's been good wins
in there. You know, Yukon, Tennessee, Kentucky are those are excellent
wins. But then you know, beating Eastern Illinois and UMKC and a couple
of these other teams kind of the way you did, you know, it
leaves you wanting more. I think in a lot of cases, I do
have some real questions about this team that I thought I would, especially if
you told me they'd be eleven and one. I thought, you know,
you'd probably lose a close one to Marquette or Purdue and when the rest going
away, and you'd be feeling pretty strong, but you know, they did
lose a game to Marquette that wasn't too bad. But other than that,
it's it's been weird. It's been really weird. I don't know how much
I am putting like a lot of stock into all of these games, because
I think there's a very good chance that they're just gonna be a team that
doesn't lose very much in conference play either, no matter who they play,
because again, we have seen them play good teams and win. I think
focus and motivation has a lot to do with this for this team, because
they just like when they have to. We've seen it against all every team
they've played. Really when the lights get the brightest at the end of the
game and when when the chips are down, they just turn it on and
they find a way to win. With one exception otherwise, like you and
Case, they just turned it on when they had to. Yale, they
turned it on at the end when they had to, And when they do
that, they've looked quite unbeatable. And I think you're gonna see more of
that come conference play. But I am worried that if they do show up
unfocused obviously in conference play, there's a much greater chance you're gonna get caught
a couple times, but I don't think that'll be the case. I think
they're gonna show up pretty focused once Big twelve Play starts up well, and
they remind me of the twenty nineteen twenty team, which obviously was the number
one overall tournament seed waiting in line if the tournament didn't get canceled. That
team wasn't just blow you away impressive Udoka kind of caught fire at the end
and gave you some of those performances. But I mean that team beat UNC
Greensboro by twelve, then they beat East Tennessee State by twelve, then they
beat Colorado by eleven, and then they beat Stanford by fourteen, Like there
were plenty of games in that non conference schedule. Also, that team was
ten to two, not eleven and one. And then Kansas just rolled through
Big twelve play there with only one hiccup, But there were plenty of seventy
four sixty eight or sixty nine fifty eight or ninety one seventy three sort of
conference wins. Like they just didn't blow everybody away there either. I think
that team's the comp right, a dominant post player, a really good perimeter
player, and a bunch of role players that can't really shoot around the rest
of them. That's what the team reminds me of the most, and that
team to just find. Kansas is a top ten offense from a field goal
percentage perspective right now, and they are a top twenty defense in terms of
field goal percentage. As long as those two things continue to be the case,
they're gonna have plenty of games that they win by twenty points. That's
that's just setting up dominance. The issue for Kansas has been they turn it
over too much and they foul a lot. That needs to change. That's
that's one of the things that will ultimately lead to them scoring more. Nick,
you mentioned Kevin ncolor. If it wasn't for him, it would have
been worse. Indeed, tell me about the best night of maybe in all
Americans for a season so far. Yeah, definitely. As he said,
it was a crew knight for Kevin mccoller, who went for offered thirty four
points and eleven for eighteen from the floor in thirty seven minutes. He was
seven for eleven on twos, four for seven on threes, plus eight for
eight at the free throw line. He also added six rebounds for assists and
two steals. Bill self said after the game that he's one of the five
best players in America. I argue he's top three. He's now averaging twenty
seven and five while shooting fifty one percent. Is he Is he all an
American? I think I tend to think that he is pretty clearly in the
top three of the Natesmith runner up, I mean running Obviously, Zach Edy's
still in college, not being college, but yeah, yeah, he's He's
definitely an American. There aren't five players better National Player of the Year race
right now? Is Zach Edy and then the field. Terrence Shannon Junior is
in there. Kevin mccoler is probably ahead a Hunter Dickinson in the KU rankings
honestly, But yeah, Landon, we said we needed this guy to take
a step forward, and he's taken two step forward. He really did drink
the Yabaji and Jalen Wilson. I'm sorry, but why why is Zach heat
He's still in college? This guy, this guy needs to go to the
NBA or find a job. No, that's not an unfair take, except
that he's extremely good and very, very dominant. It's also like, the
dude is seven foot ten, so I hope he's good at basketball. Well
do you think that? But we all watched Taco fall be not that good
at basketball despite being seven to six or whatever it was. Yeah, but
yeah, mcculor like he like you said, Ron, he did take that
jump. He took that leap, the senior leap, and he is shooting
the ball well too, much better than we even predicted so far. No,
again, we've seen a lot of guys shoot well, non con not
shoot well in Big twelve play, so we'll see what happens there. But
nonetheless, he has been sensational. Also, thirty four points are the eighth
most in a game. Under Bill self, Nick, can you name the
other seven performances? I wasn't. Wasn't Frank Mason one of them? Nope,
nope, already lost Lanton. You can play too. There are seven
games I saw players, Oh Will Chamberlain, Well, it says under Bill
self, Ah, this you should not go to get We covered like three
of these. This. This definitely did not go like I thought it was
going to. Here. DeVante Graham is one of the Yeah, Devonte Graham
had two. He had thirty five against Toledo and Syracuse. That's two of
seven. How many more you got? I believe there's one very recently.
Jalen Wilson had thirty eight last seasons correct at Kansas State. That's the second
most, our third most, right, second third most, Yeah, third
most. I also think there's a recent one too. I think Wasn'tchaia Boggi
had, you know, like thirty seven in a game or something, good,
good, good good. That's four you got three left? Yeah,
you're missing one and two. And then there is a thirty six performance in
there somewhere too. And I'm forgetting the thirty six. Who was the thirty
six? Yeah, thirty six was. Yeah, it's probably the least standout
worthy of these games. It's it's an oldie. It's before you guys did
the show. I'm trying to think of someone that would have been before the
shows that had been like twenty fourteen, forty one, A thirty nine and
a thirty six was Aaron Miles at the front end of the bille Cether didn't
play on herself. I don't know. I'm Johnna blank Land and what landon?
What do you got one of them is the highest recruit of all time.
Yeah, oh yeah, that's Andrew Wiggins at West Virginia. No time,
Grandam Foster was actually the one that had forty one points against West Virginia.
And the thirty six point one you're missing Landon was also against West Virginia.
We'll trying to think because I know there's one against Iowa State. I
think really it was, Yeah, it was big Wadger was Elijah Johnson at
I was say, yep, that's correct, that's thirty nine and you're missing
you're missing the thirty six you're missing one. No, it was at Allen
Fieldhouse. It was a blowout and it was kind of like mccouler where you
look down and oh he has that many Ben Macklimore, Yep, back in
twenty thirteen. That's correct. Good work. Next, I don't know if
you looked up Rock Chuck blogger or not, but you got the answers right.
Those are the seven performances that are better than Kevin mcculler's thirty four.
Somehow, this is the only thirty four point game exactly in the Bill Self
era. Well, those are the bill ones in the Bill Self era.
What is the most points ever scored in a game for Kansas and it's not
in the Bill self era ever. Uh, do you have the answer in
front of you. Yes, well, it's Wilt scoring like what probably something
in the sixties, right, fifty two points? But who was who was
he playing against? Jesu? It was Wilt so it's probably the Kansas YMCA.
No Northwestern? Wow? Okay, yeah, it was fifty two points
against the Northwestern. Interesting, So Kevin McCuller was two thirds of the way
to the all times score record. That's a bummer. You don't see many
fifty point games in college because Tony Bennet has ruined the offense. Thanks Tony
and Dick. Oh. I don't know if I can stand it on the
air. I have to go back. That's yeah, drop that. That'll
that'll be a drop that when we talk about Virginia in the future. Okay,
speaking of those things, the Jayhawks not named Kevin McCuller, they were
all. They were that because they were bad. Forty one points for Jayhawks
not named Jim they did yeah on sixteen for thirty nine from the floor,
which is well, I wrote bad, but it's also as yuck. It
took until the final five minutes for the rest of the team to total more
points than McCuller. We'll talk about the rest of the team in the day,
but first, Landon, you already lost a prediction that you stated,
so I feel like you have to eat the crow and talk about how that
prediction that you made that this player would go the whole year without scoring double
figures. It went, uh, hold on one second, I'm trying hold
on everybody, Hold on your hold on your horses. Landon's prediction went,
come on, here we go, Ali you kaboom, Saint Nicholas Timberlake.
He did finish with thirteen points, eclipsing ten, though I said he would
not do that for the rest of the season. He was six for ten
from the floor, which was second on the team in both Johnny Furfy was
not with a team for this game September late got thirty minutes. He finally
looked like the player that they thought they were getting from tausand who made three
of his seven threes. I don't know what to really take at this game.
It's weird, it's Yale, but it's also a lot better than he's
looked against other opponents that were worse. So it is I see Nick,
What do you think of your fellow Nick having a bounce back game? Yeah,
this is what we wanted to see for a while now. I mean
a couple times earlier this season he'd take a shot and you think could go
in and that he'd finally get the confidence back, because we know he was
a great shooter at toowsand shooters shoot regardless of where they're at. But it's
finally good to see him get something to go in the basket. I know
that I been wanting to see that in this game. It was basically white
and white crime with those threes. But it's like Clark Griswold, you know,
push plugging in the lights, and the light just came on for Nick
Timberlake, Like, yeah, I cannot believe that you have not seen that
movie. I can't. Yeah, that's Insane Land, and that's that's a
classic. But as I was saying, the lights just came on for Nick
Timberlake, like, shooters are, like I said, so streaky and a
just confidence thing. And I think finally seeing it going in the hoop is
a big thing for him. He said in the postgame presser, like this,
like this is what Bill self. This is the guy that Bill Self
recruited from tousand to play at Kansas. The light switch flipped on, and
I think, hopefully that's something we're gonna see. Yeah, as we go
forward, that right there is what I was gonna say that. Nick Timberlake
also agrees with your sentiment that the light kind of came on in that game,
and I think that as weird as this sounds, I don't know if
I can say this. He it felt like an unlucky thirteen points. He
had like two threes that roll around and bounced out. He almost had even
more than that. He was really good. And this boy to the they
need this. They got actual bench production in this game on a night where
Hunter Dickinson had his worst game of the year and kJ Adams had his worst
game of the year. They needed that bench production badly. As Nick is
pulling up him side by side with Justin Timberlake and it's honestly not the worst
combination. He's gonna say, this is Nick Timberlake. You guys do not
look alike. Because Nick Timberlake looks like he is forty two years Justin Timberlake
kind of have a similar nose. Thanks. I guess wow, there you
go. You can hang that banner, sir, have a similar nose with
Justin Timberlake. It's exciting. Yes, Timberlake was really good. Let's see
if he builds on it. I love how they kept clearly. Bill self
was okay having him shoot the ball. He was pretty rough on defense early
on, but whenever you make threes, you make up for a lot of
those sins. So it was awesome to see and happy for him. He's
worked as hard as anyone on this team. He's hurt the criticism and he
wants to play well more than any of us want him to. So good
to see him have a big performance and in the first semester break on a
high note. Also having a good performance from a three point shooting perspective was,
of course, the man himself, August Mahoney. You knew that he
was gonna make some baskets. He did. Him and John pull A Kiddess
combined to make five threes. The big dorky Sinner also made one, even
though he struggled for the most part. Anytime Yale comes in Allen Fieldhouse,
you know why guys are gonna make threes and now Kansas can say that they've
been threed by a guy named August. I've never met a man named August
in my life. Never heard of that being a thing, have you?
It is every month a name? I guess there's there's not any people named
like February before. Yeah, October, October is a name. Decober.
Sure, I will have you know that Tony, Tony Gonzalez's wife is named
October. That is absolutely a name. Yep, that is. That's the
only time I've heard it. But it's I've heard it, and yeah,
I've heard November. I've heard August, I've heard June, I've heard May,
I've heard April. Yes, they're probably not March. I would guess
not a lot of February is out there. Yeah, that's so Januaries though,
I've heard I know a couple of Januaries. Yeah, that's a thing.
Why on earth would anyone name their kid January? Just like so many
modern names just make no sense. Why not have some like classic throwback names
or something. Let me let me find the exact stat because this is amazing.
So in twenty and twenty, there were over one hundred babies worldwide that
were named COVID, c ov I D seriously Nope. Like names like Noah,
Well, there's also Absta. Absta was a popular name, and that
is a five letter name spelled ABCDE. So people are getting all sorts of
creative with their baby names. People are weird, man. Yeah, it's
it's too hard, right they they If they don't like a European city,
then what else are you gonna name your daughter? Come on, there's nothing
else that you can't Rules of naming of daughters Number one, pick a European
city. Number two, pick a name and at an a on the end
of it. If you don't like those two rules, then I guess you
have to go with January said people. People can pick better names than that.
And then now here comes Nick with his with here comes traditionalistening Jane's here
and they better not have tattoos. Okay, let's talk about Hunter Dickinson next.
Save us. You don't like my daughters Marseille and Toyota. I wish
I was named like Alpha Alpha Remo or something. But yeah, Hunter Dickinson
had his worst game of the season. Or am I supposed to we?
Am I supposed to read to one? Harris? Nope? No, nope,
Well nicely just buy his own volition, decided to do the correct thing
in the notes, and then second kissed himself. Yeah. I mean I
think I got white guys confused, so sorry for that, but yeah,
that's the game. Yeah. Having his worst game of the season, though,
was Hunter Dickinson, who was held to eight points and four for nine
shooting in ten rebounds in thirty five minutes. He did not attempt a single
free throw and turn the ball over at team high three times. This was
the fifth straight game that Dickinson has been held under a season average in scoring.
Is this a concerning trend emerging here? Is it's just a product the
team's committing so many resources to stop him. I think that I should file
a motion with the Lawrence Police Department that I'm allowed to hit anybody who talks
a baud about Hunter Dickinson in the head with an inflatable hammer unlimited amount of
times. No, there is not a disturbing trend developing here. Underhaf to
get a camera to watch my house because I wow, oh okay, he
sure, go ahead and tell me how go ahead and tell me how mediocre
he is. When they got four fricking guys on him, and no one
are on the perimeter kids worth guarding because they can't shoot land and go ahead.
Now, admittedly, yes they are. These teams especially are guarding him
with a lot of guys. They are committing so much to making sure Hunter
Dickinson does nothing to hurt them. But Hunter Dickinson also doesn't like do anything
to create his own looks. Very often when he does, he makes them.
And I'm not saying like taking guys one on one. I'm just saying
like post moves, just general stuff in the post that you know, we've
seen Kansas Biggs and all bigs do to create their own shots, but he
doesn't do a lot of that, which is kind of concerning and is kind
of weird. Again, he is double triple, quadruple teamed in the post
a lot, so we can't do that a ton. But it is a
really weird thing. I noticed it earlier in the season. It hasn't really
bit them, and it really didn't even invite them that much in this game,
but it is a weird thing. And he he is not like an
insanely high percentage shooter like period. Kind of Now he's gonna have a great,
big twelve season. I have no doubt, but they're just some weird
stuff with Hunter that I'm not like, I'm questioning a little bit. I
have caught he's going to be very good, but I do have some questions.
All right, that's that's a tanke. I don't think it's truly fair,
because man, the guy's worst game he's gonna have this year is eight
and ten while being triple teamed. Like, I don't know what else you
really want him to do. I think that this is a product of the
other guys not being super concerned with Kansas's assortment of three point shooters, so
they don't feel the need to seal that very much. And the last few
teams have been okay, letting CAJ beat them, and instead they triple team
Hunter. And when CAJ isn't performing well, then this is what you get.
Kansas's front court didn't play well at all in this game, and Hunter
didn't play great. But I mean, my goodness, if you asked me,
you gave me a piece of paper and a pen and told me write
down Kansas is ten most pressing problems. I don't think i'd write anything that
has to do with Hunter Digginson, Like, I don't know how he's not
one of their ten biggest problems, is he? I don't. I doubt
it. No, I wouldn't think it'll develop in an actual huge issue.
But there's I don't know, there's I think there's some weirdness. It is
compounded by the fact that people are triple teaming him. Don't get me wrong.
Everybody tells me soft and oh he would suck if he wasn't seven foot
two. Well he is, So I'm glad we're having that conversation. I
mean, like, geez, it's if if that's really stupid. So like
he's a seven foot two center that's gonna average that's currently averaging what nineteen and
twelve? Like man find something, it finds something worth complaining about. At
this point, I guess he's been he's been fine. I don't know.
Like this guy, for example, we all point the pitchforks at the wan
Harris ten points, six assists, forced deeals thirty five minutes. There's not
a lot to analyze here. He was three for five from the floor.
He's been in that three for five, three for six the last few games.
That that that regression, that we've seen the law of average is starting
to balance out his game again. This looked like the Dewan Harris we expected
to see all year. I assume you guys don't have a lot to say
here. Uh, it was good to see Kansas make their run with the
one Harris playing well, and that's what happened. Nick. Yeah, I
mean, I don't understand why de one Harris just does not shoot the ball
more. He is who he identified himself as a good shooter. But I'm
not concerned about him. He's fine. All right, Let's talk about everybody
else Land, and I feel like let's put everybody else into I wrote in
the notes, one big pile of underwhelmingness. That feels fair. Go ahead,
Yeah, I think it is. kJ had six points, forces two
rebounds in thirty six minutes, only two of eight from the floor. Was
definitely trying to force some things at times. Marco Jackson had a very uninspiring
night, one of six from the floor, turning it over several times under
his own basket when he got too sped up. Jamreal, mcdallan, Parker
Brown played just five minutes each. They were okay, and they're five minutes
anything else really to say about these guys. Any concerns here? I got
two concerns. One. kJ Adams doesn't rebound enough. This is going to
be a problem. Hunter Dickinson is one of the greatest. He is the
leading rebounder in the nation right now. And Kansas as a team right now
is one hundred and thirteenth in total rebounds per game. That's a problem.
They're also like and a lot of that is they don't get a lot of
offensive rebounds because they shoot such a high percentage. They are fifteenth nationally and
defensive rebounds. But Hunter Dickinson's averaging over forty percent of this team's rebounds.
That can't be a thing. That's going to be a problem. I guess
it's about thirty percent. Kj's got to be better. If he's gonna play
what thirty six minutes at the four, you got to have more than two
rebounds in that because Yale was getting a lot of second chance looks as a
result of kJ not getting rebounds. Second thing, why does Jamari McDowell,
Why does it take everybody else being uninspiring to get him a shot? We've
said this many times. I don't get it. Yeah, and I know
his ceiling isn't like the highest on the team. But with Johnny Furfey in
Australia and Arco going one of six, and I know Timberlake even had an
okay night, But yeah, I just I don't quite get what it's going
to take for him to get more looks. I mean, McDowell is not
going to be, you know, an All America this year or anything,
but he definitely is a valuable player if you want to be that defense was
going to stifle opponents, and we're gonna let Dickinson and mccullor just cook opponents
to death. You could do a lot worse than having McDowell on the outside
just playing good defense and passing it inward to those guys. He doesn't turn
it over unlike Jackson and Timberlakes sometimes. And boy Jackson had a rough game,
as you said, but overall self rides with him five times the minutes
as he does with McDowell, and I think for the long term future this
team, I'm getting a little bit less confident by the show. You know,
Game two, Game three, when McDowell wasn't playing as much as al
Marco. My attitude was, well, self knows how important al Marco developing
is to this team in March. Okay, well, now we're getting a
little bit closer to the halfway point in the year, and Jackson hasn't taken
the leap forward on offense that I thought he'd by now. He's a really
good defender, but offensively he definitely has moments wherever he's a net negative for
Kansas, and I don't think McDowell does interesting decision byself. KU forty seven
percent from the floor, forty five percent from three. They did make all
twelve of their free throws. That was good one hundred percent at the free
throw line. It's been a while since they were ten for ten or more
from the free throw stripe, so that was good to see. Give me
a closing thought on this game. They beat Yale, It wasn't particularly inspiring.
The last game of the year before Christmas. Never is that inspiring.
Basically a clone of the game against Harvard last year at Allen Field House.
It's just a sleep walker of an evening and they've had some sleepy games in
recent memory. But overall, they are eleven and one and unless they lose
to a Wichta State team that they'll be a double digit favorite, and they're
gonna enter conference play with one loss through two months. Tough to be that
disappointed, right Nick? Any final thoughts, Yeah, I think KYU has
a good opportunity in this last non conference game to really put things together.
It just maybe well complete performance, But that's what I want to see.
I want to see consistence forty minutes of basketball. I know that's not gonna
happen every game. Conference play is gonna ramp up, and it's got tougher.
So now's the time you buckle in. How many games wo Kansas winning
Big twelve play? Sorry, Landon, I'll get right back to you.
No, you're good. What do you think, Nick? I still think
it's probably like fourteen or fifteen, fifteen, fourteen. If they win fourteen
plus Big twelve games, I don't care how impressive they are. I don't
care. If they win all fourteen games by one, you cannot call them
a week. What would that be? Twenty five regular season win team,
twenty six regular season win team. Yeah. I just think that they have
a lot of winnable games coming up, a lot of the worst conference teams,
so that they might potentially be nineteen and one. But this might be
one of the worst nineteen to one teams we've seen. Oh that's interesting,
Landon, What do you think. I don't know. I'm gonna have to
see them play Big twelve games, I think before I can make a judgment
like that. As a spoiler alert, they're gonna win a lot of them.
They do every year. They are gonna win a lot of them.
I think it is gonna be important how they look winning them. They are
gonna win most of them. I think there's a very good chance to win
the league. Really intrigued to see how they look on the road against the
likes of Houston and Baylor and some of these teams that they don't play for
a while. Their Big twelve schedule, Yeah, their Big twelve schedule is
so soft to start, unless you're a believer in Oklahoma, they really don't
have. I don't know. They're probably not gonna be a dog until geez,
mid February TCU at Central Florida, Oklahoma at Oklahoma State at West Virginia
Cincinnati. Like, that's six games. You're a three point favorite in all
of them, at least, not saying they're gonna win them all. But
boy, they play both games against Baylor, both games against Houston, both
games against Kansas State, and they're one game against Texas and their road game
at Oklahoma. All of those games are second half of the Big Twelve schedule,
So it's if they're not eight and one or so through nine games,
then we are gonna see potentially some problems in the league race. But at
least for now, I don't think there's a lot to be concerned about any
other takes, any of the thoughts. No, I think this team's still
good. I think they kind of can't be bothered to play teams that they
know they're better than. Yeah, I think it's very chief like in that
sense. The Chiefs look very bored. Not necessarily this team because this year's
team Chiefs team isn't quite as good as years pass, But how many times
like the was it the twenty twenty team that had like eight straight games that
they only won by one score and every game was the same. They'd lead
like thirty to thirteen, and then it'd wind up being thirty to twenty three
because other teams would just score late. The Chiefs would get bored because they
knew they already had it. One like that kind of feels like this Kansas
team, doesn't it. Yeah, it's definitely very like Kevin Durant Steph Curry
Warriors esque. Yeah, you'd expect that team to be, you know,
a sixty win team, and then they'd always win like only fifty two and
they'd still lose like twenty. But it was just because they did not care,
because they knew that their goal was to win the championship, which they
end up doing. I don't know if this team's that good, but they
do feel bored. Yep. All right, now let's talk about other games
and then we can get on to the Christmas questions. Well, I said
that I was going to play jingle bells every time instead of the airhorn,
and I already forgot and I'm not clicking back that. Oh here it is?
Look at that. Are people actually listening on Christmas? Eve? Do
you do people turn this on whenever they're driving to like their family's house on
Christmas with their their relatives in the backseat? Cam Lipple, I don't think
kids, I like, do you think any children have listened to it?
Do you think at any point and this show's run children do you hope or
do you think at some point in this show's run. Uh, somebody has
been listening to this show and with their kid in the backseat of the car
and one of us has started talking about something inappropriate or the ass drop starts,
where then the volume has to get turned down. Has that happened at
least once in the history of Inside the Paint It must have. Nick has
talked about Penn State too many times to have not come up at an opportune
time for something. Okay, what did you do at school today? Well,
we did, we made art prak chuers and then we did recess and
let me turn up my podcast, real fist ask, oh, let me
turn this down. That's that's absolutely happened at South Wait. Guys, I
have this on my on my on my resume. We can't talk about anything
inappropriate today and other news. Penn State their first game in ten years against
Michigan State. It was kind of a close call, if you know what
I'm saying. It's been at least five years since I've said a Penn State
joke. It's been at least five years. Oh boy, I Bill Belichick
throwing challenge flag dot gift on that statement. It's been at least a year,
but five years is a little strong, sir. Speaking of it's been
about five years since Baylor beat a good team two straight els for number six
Baylor, who dropped a game in New York City to number twenty one Duke
seventy eight seventy I don't remember if I said it or not, but if
I didn't big twelve games, the Bears struggled to get stops late, while
the Duke backcourt, not the Kyle Philipowski front court, was the ones who
did the damage. They attacked the baskets throughout the second half. Watched the
last ten minutes of this game, it felt like every time I was like,
Baylor really needs to stop here, they didn't yet. One While the
Bears did bounce back by beating zero to twelve Mississippi Valley State by fifty nine
the other night, Scott Drew's team is ten to zer against unranked teams and
zero to two against rank ones. That seems to be a trend for a
lot of the top teams in college basketball. Would you be concerned if you're
a Baylor fan that I'm not a top ten team? Sure, I would
not be concerned about their like general quality. I still think they're a very
good team, but yeah, maybe maybe not quite ten to two, maybe
not the sixth best team in America. I think they're kind of what they
always are. I think they're really good on offense and the defense is leaky.
Like, look what happened last year. They won a lot of games,
they got a one seed, and then they lost in the second round.
Like I don't know, like they just feel like that. Usually teams
that have very mediocre defenses don't usually do real well in the NCAA Tournament relative
to their seed. And I think that with a freshman led three point barage
offensive juggernaut, I think that's kind of what you might be setting up for.
But they will beat Kansas and Waco because they do that every single year.
Is that new building open, sir? It opens on January first.
It's in the new year. So Kansas will get to play in that new
building. No more Feral Center, at least they'll thank goodness. Yeah,
the place is like two five hundred less seats because, as we always know,
the Faral Center, there's no one ever there at those games. The
last time that Kansas won either at Baylor or at Texas was before COVID shut
everything down. So it's been a while and they're not gonna play in Austin
anymore times on the schedule, so they gotta get it done. Speaking of
teams that cannot sell out their home arena, Number seven Oklahoma lost a number
eleven UNC in a game that wasn't ever actually that close eighty one to sixty
nine. RJ. Davis scored twenty three points in motor Porto motor or vaunted
offense was held to barely forty percent from the floor. The Sooners are ten
and one. How many Big Twelve games are they gonna win? Like?
Seven? Yeah, seven to eleven feels pretty right. Oklahoma is sitting the
top Fraud Mountain. They planted their flag right there atop Fraud Mountain. Frauds
vacation is that is? Yeah, he has a house there and they built
it up by beating a bunch of tiny directional schools. They're not the number
seven team in the country. I'm not even sure that the number seven team
in the Big Twelve. They might be that there might not be a ranked
team though. Yeah, we'll see. Let's take a look. All the
Big Twelve schedules are about the same. But here is how Oklahoma plays.
So their next two games are Central Arkansas and Monmouth. Think they're gonna win
that. Iowa State at TCU, at Kansas, West Virginia at Cincinnati.
I predict a losing record through five games for the number seven Oklahoma so owners,
as everything goes quiet, I truly did not hear your question. I
was reading ahead. I was trying to be prepared, and I just kind
of zoned. That is okay, because something else that would be nice if
you could zone and not have the consequences show up. That's what Houston could
do because they play the worst schedule I've ever seen with my eyeballs as a
result of beating Texas State by thirty five points. But the metrics, that's
right. They are number one and Ken Palm and they are number one in
the net. ESPN has moved Houston up to a sixty eight percent chance to
win the February third game at Allen Field House. It's like Vegas and ESPN
have never witnessed games in Allen field House before. Oh yeah, no not
they They think Houston's is the best mask. Chris Fridl to Houston a ninety
nine percent chance and winning out for the house. Yeah, Chris Reynolds has
already written him in with a sharpie on his one line for his bracket that's
coming out here in a few weeks. The Cougars are twelve and oh against
the one hundredth ranked strength of schedule, and their fans were in the Rock
Chalk Blog mentioned they have fans telling me how hard it is to hold Texas
State to thirty seven points. Great, good for you With Houston. It's
actually have a recording of Ryan Landrath then his opinions that Chris Reynolds, Wait,
it's not Oh, all right, it's not working, So I guess
I may PUDs in. Oh, It's okay. Chris is very excited about
how Houston's twelve and oh he's so excited about it that he's going to drop
Kansas to the third number four seed. I believe. Uh, stay tuned
to see how that tunes in. Oh also very hard to hold to thirty
seven points. Texas State also scored forty eight points against McNee State and sixty
seven against Southern Utah. They barely eclipsed seventy against Titan Miami Ohio UTSA.
Now they did put up und seven and one hundred and ten. One of
those was against Jarvis Christian and the other was against Latournos as as the Latno
Yellow jam ass. When I clicked them, my computer does nothing. My
computer does nothing when I try to click their team name. So I was
looking up Wichita States schedule because that's obviously who Kansas plays next. And they
played and counted a game against Friends University in Wichita, and that is an
NAIA school that they beat by thirty points. It must be a thing.
Laturno has a player named Gavin Landenberger. Oh spelled with an e, wow,
spelled the wrong way. It's your long lost brother. Is Gavin Landenberger
a white dude? I'm gonna see them he must be. And he scored
no points in thirteen minutes. Wow. If that is that is Landon's brother,
if I've ever heard of it, I think that you guys are probably
related. He is averaging zero points and one rebound in two games this year.
And if I click his ESPN page, his little where his picture would
be is just the school logo that checks out. He has. I look
up so many players on ESPN, guys, I have used this website to
look up tens of thousands of players in my lifetime, and this is the
first time I've seen five eight, one fifty listed on the height Weight's me.
I'm I'm taller and fatter than him. There, Hey, there you
go, There you go, sir. You know what I always say,
Maybe this drop will come to reality if you get a chance to go one
on one against buddy. All right. Well, somebody who's not laying laying
it in much is West Virginia Land and this is this is quite sad there.
They are absolutely dreadful. Yeah, pretty much a nightmare scenario here for
the Mountain Mamas. They lost at home at the Horn to Radford sixty six
sixty five. They are four and seven on the year. Unfortunately, Kirk
Crisa must be doubting every life choice he's ever made. Uh, They've had
him on the team for the last two games. They've lost both those games.
Kirk Greasa much better than what Morgantown is giving him, So that's kind
of sucks as well. Yeah, really bad outing for the from Tucson,
Arizona, Senny Tucson to Morgantown, West Virginia. Yeah, but Kirk Greasa
is still gonna make nine threes in the two Kansas games. Are they only
playing ones? He'll make five probably and they'll go like what eight and twenty
three? Yeah? Yeah yeah on purpose. Well you watch your old team
be one of the four best teams in America. Yeah yeah, yeah,
as Caleb Love shoots a thousand times and everyone on Twitter is like, look
how great he is. Kansas State beat Wichita State at the T Mobile Center
by nine. All right, you know what happens whenever they do that,
we get a sandstorm. How concerned are you about Wichita State? Yeah?
I don't think it's which. Wichita State has lost to Missouri and Kansas State,
so now they are trying to complete the set. Yeah. I'll be
at that game, So if you guys go, then maybe we'll Maybe we'll
paint RCB on our chests and we can hold up and flash the stadium whenever
they put the camera on us or ip in my stomach hair too. I
have no hair, so I will take the hardest letter to skuld I don't
think anyone wants to see our chests. Just be using bodies, kid at
this point, just get an R into your chin hair. Maybe we'll skip
the paint and just hold up pieces of poster board that say ITP I like
that a lot better. We could flip it around and it says RCB,
Hey look at that. We can block whatever you do. Not hold up
a white sign like Evan Phillips. Yeah, I'm not making it a white
sign because Evan did that and it didn't end up too well. Like anybody
who holds anybody who holds up a white piece of poster board, you are
asking to be photoshopped by opposing fans. Evan has no idea how many photoshops
I have him holding up that white sign on my computer. Lots of them.
Oh boy, yeah, said it out loud. Was that on purpose?
Nick said the quiet part of oh well, Evan, if you tweet
at us and want to see them, maybe I'll have to post one.
There's a lot to choose from. I don't. I don't. I'm surprised.
TCU they were the only other Big twelve team to take an l this
week. Unlike Nick after saying that out loud, they lost in Nevada out
in a tournament that takes place in Hawaii. Ernest Day is on an unstoppable
tear Guys. He's made eight shots in his last three games, doubling the
number he's made all year. That's pretty sad. Great, that was an
awesome segment. Other games, I will start. We're playing conference games in
a lot of leagues, including the Big East, and there were three upsets
that took place here. You had three top twelve teams in that conference.
They all lost, the first of which was Shaka Smart's number six Marquette team
getting trounced that Providence seventy two to fifty seven. The Friars defense held players
not named Tyler Kullak to just eleven made shots. Do you guys know who
Providence's coaches? I learned this this morning. Well it's not the guy with
al Pecia, No, he left. He's in Georgetown now. Yeah,
oh oh. I want to say I do know who it is, but
I don't. It is Kim English, the former Missouri Tigers guy. Yeah,
yeah, he's He's made a pretty quick ascent up the up the charts,
and after hearing some of Dennis Gates press conference, I can't believe Missouri
didn't hire Kim English instead. Yeah, it seems like a layup. Yes,
because Dennis Gates has lost to Jackson State and then called them the best
OH to five team in the country, which is just not a statement anyone
should be forced to say. They were also the only five team in the
country. But that's neither here nor that Missouri in the state exists. Yeah,
yeah, I yet know at that point they were the only to five
teams. Mississippi Valley State must have been OH to four at that point,
sir, put some respect on that name. UH defending champion number five.
Yukon also lost by fifteen at Seaton Hall seventy five to sixty. The Huskies
were terrible shooting threes, made just thirty eight percent of their overall shots.
Also, Villanova went on the road and beet number twelfth Creighton sixty eight sixty
six in overtime. Their three biggest teams in the top twelve, all of
them lost their conference opener. Who was set to win the league? Nick,
that's a tough one. I don't I don't know. It could be
anyone. I maybe maybe Yukon, Marquette, maybe those two. I think
Marquette's the best team. I think Yukon will win it. I think Yukon
will win it because Dan Hurley is a much better coach than Shaka Smart.
Is he much better? Yeah? Yes, I don't think it's that close.
Shaka Smart's won two NCAA tournament games in like the last eight years.
Dan Hurley won two in a weekend last year three times in a row.
Yeah, that is fair when you say it like that. I don't know
Steve Marquette wins it. I think I think they tie is probably the most
likely scenario. Creighton is all over the place and Villanova is a dark horse.
They're gonna be They're gonna be plenty sneaky enough to ruin someone's day.
Team that won't be sneaky Virginia, nick all yours? Yeah, and putting
everyone in the Christmas spirit was a number twenty two Virginia who took a lost
to Memphis, blown out seventy seven to fifty four. But but but their
defense is good. Ryan. Would you like to read that last line that
you have about Tony Bennett? Uh, yeah, I sure do. I
wrote in very large caps, you, Tony Bennet, that's for you for
what you did to ruin this sport. Go sit in an outhouse with none
of your friends, you dummy. Arizona and Florida Atlantic played one of the
best games of the year, probably the best game of the year thus far
in college basketball. But it was the underdog number fourteen Florida Atlantic taking down
the fourth rank Wildcats in two overtimes ninety six to ninety five out in Las
Vegas. It was a terrific game that was going on during a very mediocre
NFL game, so I watched this instead. It was really a one on
one game between Janelle Davis, who finished with thirty five points and Caleb Love,
who finished with twenty six. Made a couple of big shots, but
Caleb Love was eight for twenty five from the floor and really hurt his team
with some misses down the stretch. Davis made nine more shots or I cannot
count seven fifteen for twenty seven is much better than eight for twenty five,
though Arizona goes down for the second time in the last three games. Cause
for concern for the Wildcats or they just lost to two excellent teams, two
good losses. Yes, FAU is very good, like very very good once
again. Yeah, don't let the loss to Bryant fool you. They're really
really good. What a weird result that was? Weird? Oh okay landon
I'd like you to read this next one, and I'd like you to not
omit any words. Uh, speaking of frick us, Gonzaga Bulldogs played real
teams in Washington, Connecticut, and guess what, everyone shocking they lost both
games. Okay, you can't be going back to our space. We gotta
gotta settle down here. They took a page out of Baylor's notebook, scheduled
Mississippi Valley State and Jackson State, two teams of the combined record of four
and twenty, and guess what they did win both of those. Missouri could
not beat both of those teams. Zaga can so at least Gonzaga is better
than Missouri. But yeah, Washington Connecticut teams with real players and athletes.
Yeah. Speaking of MISSOO, they got absolutely blown out. But number thirteen
Illinois out in Saint Louis, winning ninety seven to seventy three and a complete
blowout from start to finish. Tarrett Shannon went off for thirty more points.
It's Missouri bad. Also, it's cool to see that while Texas, Texas
has a good roster, they have count Koller and they have Terran Shannon.
This must be a top team all it took was Mark Adams not being a
very bad person, and Texas Tech might be very very nasty right now?
Uh yeah, can we not say Bente got bent over? Is that bad?
I'm not gonna say that landed that that doesn't get peped out? All
right? Well then yeah that's what happened. What Nick said is fine too.
I said on a show Landon wasn't on. It was just Nick and
I. I said Missouri was gonna win twenty games. No, I don't
think they're gonna win twenty games. They're pretty pretty bad. Yeah, that's
frustrating. It's your turn rhyme. Oh it is sorry. Another Arizona note
here these were all written in a weird order. Arizona before their lost FA
they handled Alabama, bouncing back from their loss to Purdue by thirteen. The
Crimson Tide, though, are six and five. They have losses to Ohio
State, Clemson, Purdue, Creighton in Arizona. Wow, what a schedule.
That's two decades worth of tough games for Calvin Samson. Their fans like
guys, Texas State, Yeah yeah, John Shire, what a what a
Goofas Notre Dame lost to the Citadel at home by twenty. That's interesting,
and that team still beat Oklahoma State a couple weeks ago, and they're not
even the worst team in the ACC. Because number nine Kentucky blew out Louisville
ninety five seventy six. Kenny Payne got a boost of confidence from his athletic
director, as the guy said, Kenny Payne is the right guy to lead
our program. I don't think that ad has watched many basketball games this season.
John cal Perry said, he's just needed some time. He's had some
He's got nine wins in forty four tries. Oh my gosh, that's terrible,
man, John Caliperi being like, oh, yeah, he'll be great.
Just keep him for a while. It's pretty funny that, oh my
gosh. That yeah. Kenny Payne before the game was like, I know
Galiperi wants to beat me by twenty, but I just want to beat him
by one. And it's like, well, there's your inspired vote of cost.
Yeah. Yeah. Louisville really really bad ranked teams to louse since the
last show. Once again, the highest ranked team to lose since the last
show is number four Arizona. The Wildcats lost to fau oh sar you ruin
the bit the fighting, Caleb loves the fighting. Whatever. They lost to
FAU what a weird secret. Bit Number five h Yukon white Dogs they lost
to the Seatons. There you got you finally got a bit there. Number
six defighting Golden Peeps lost to the priests in black outfits. I have no
idea that how that's why you get you? And also the white Dog sounds
like something that would you would see in a on a news article. Sounds
I gonna say from the White Dog sounds like something that that you'd see on
NBC, being like, can you believe that Elon allows those guys on Twitter?
Like I that just feels like a terrible name, But I guess we're
doing this. Number ten white Dog forty seven is the usual name that applies
to the bott account that applies to you. There you go, now you
got it. Number ten Baylor lost the duke. Number seven the Oklahoma Laters
lost to u NC. What the hell are we doing? And that's going
backwards? You skipped We didn't do them. Yeah, you totally skipped over
North Carolina in Oklahoma? What oh? I was like, how they are
you getting breese from North Carolina? Now? I get it. Number seven
Oklahoma Boomers lost to North Carolina, if you would believe it. The number
twelve Birds that are Blue lost to the Cats that are Wild. The most
uninteresting mascot every high school uses, I don't know, like domesticated felines or
uh, most boring mascot ever, what do we gonna call it? That?
You could have said, growl kitties, here we go, Here comes
the two seats other things. Probably take the last one. The number twenty
two UNBC Retrievers lost to the Tigers. Twenty two Virginia lost to Memphis.
Our Christmas gifts? Is Tony Bennett even deserve a mascot? Our Christmas present
to all of you? Is that? Well shoot ourselves after this podcast.
So you guys, this eighteen us reading that level bit that was so bad
And the worst part is you guys missed one game that we didn't even cover
here. Number seven Oklahoma lost to North Carolina. I can't believe you guys
skipped that last weekend pick them well? Uh, Nick was bad, he
was one in four Landon you picked up two games. Hey, my slow
comeback has begun, as Bate Manning once said, epic comeback starts right here.
Ask rock Chalk Blog short round of questions today at cam w Lippolk Golf
wants to know would you rather eat twenty four tea Mobile Center chicken tenders?
Boy? How bad would this second choice have to be for you guys to
say that one? I like my insides existing, so that one's pretty tough.
Well, the other one is drinking an entire gallon of eggnog in twenty
four hours, which is complete booty cheeks trash. I have never had eggnog,
so it's that Wow. Really, you worked at cover sir. All
the white people in town flock to us for an eggnog shake every single day
of December. Had it? It's it's fine. It tastes kind of sweet.
It just kind of tastes like sugar milk, honestly, right, Nick,
is that fair? I don't know. Yeah, I mean is not
good. That's way better than pooping liquid for like a month straight if I'm
eating twenty four of those tenders. So yeah, for if if one person
tells us to do it, I will make Nick and land and eat chicken
tenders from the Sprint Center when we go to the witch Tust They oh,
I'll eat. I'm gonna faidy chicken tenders there. Oh, that feels like
a horrible decision, sir. I speak from experience. You don't want that
wow Land and that feels like that. That feels like it in from his
last words, Yeah, that feels like Nick's gonna have a really sad Saturday
or Sunday. I'll request you to have the exact same poor that we got,
which is worker comes out of the bathroom and doesn't wash their hands before
they prepare your meal. I'm guessing is what happened that day, because yeah,
I only ate like a tender and a half land in eight four,
and you were much sicker than I was, sir. Yeah, and just
for the kicker, we're gonna have like week old honey mustard as I mean,
bringing on, I have a I have the Northern European milk gut,
so I'm not really my stomach's ironclad. I can handle it. That you
are. You are just really, really really begging for it at this point,
sir. I hope it goes well for you, but this feels like
no upside in all the downside at show Me Hawk. Very interesting conference realignment
news going on recently I've heard rumors that the SEC is going to reject Florida
State. Perhaps in a scenario where the ACC implodes, should the Big twelve
go after Duke, North Carolina, Louisville, et cetera. I mean,
yeah, Florida State. I mean, if football's the name of the game,
Florida State's better than those three. I'm still over the conference re alignment
talk, but let's just get to the inn where we have a thirty two
team super conference where all the best football teams are playing each other and the
rest of us can just get back to our regional conferences. Like a conference
re alignment is so stupid because it's literally controlled, Like Fox re alignment is
fascinating. Fox and ESPN completely control every single decision. So I mean,
like, I guess it's cool to see like the normalcy implode, like teams
get screwed, but like I mean, it's essentially going to turn into the
NFL's you know, development league kind of like then with that, right,
So yeah, we're just we're just we're sparreling towards the inevitable. Like it
is, all TV contracts and all ESPN and Fox making pulling the strings.
So you know the conference conference alignment was dead the moment Conference re alignment was
dead, the moment that the regionality ended the first round. So at what
point does the SEC wake up and say, we don't need or want Vanderbilt
in our conference anymore. We want Miami. That's fair. You could say
the same thing about most Big Ten teams, though, I mean, yeah,
I know, and the SEC presidents probably don't want FSU in the conference.
Yeah, and they so like I mean again, it all comes down
to the Fox and ESPN. They're calling the shots. What a great world
we live in at Preston Skersik. Do we think this Timberlake game will be
like that random twenty point YESIFU game last year? I'm hoping not. But
both guys want to get go. Want both our guys we want to get
going. Boy, that's a real negative way to word it. Very well
could be. I think that Timberlake has way better of a track record than
yes If who ever did, And I continue to have more optimism and Timberlake
right now than I ever did after Joe YESAFU started playing at Kansas correct,
But I hope that that's not the case. Bonus who would win five to
one Harris's who may never shoot, versus five ku Charlie Moore's who would shoot
in volumes but only between ten and twenty percent. That's that's painful. Charlie
Moore would be Caleb Love on steroids and he would they'll lose, Like,
well, the Dewan Harrison probably wouldn't shoot, so it'd be pretty easy to
outscore Landon. Who would win five to one Harris is or five ku Charlie
Moore's Dewan Harris Because he could guard Charlie Moore, he would only need to
score like ten points and he'd win. Yeah, exactly at Ryan underscore Landrith.
If given the choice between shipping his family directly to Africa or dating an
attractive bronze women with a tattoo sleeve, how quickly would Nick pack his family's
bags and upgrade their boarding passes on their flights to Zimbabwe? Hey, kids,
we're going on a mission. Ship pack of bags, kids, kids
with who I'll ship the woman with the kids to Africa? Hope they got
their malaria shots. Sir, you have to say that, Oh my gosh,
that's for the reference. I would totally take the girl, like I
don't hate tattoos. Why all you have to do is think that normal things
are attractive and we won't get ourselves into trouble. I'll take the woman any
day. Kids have fun, have fun in Africa. Oh that's funny.
But what if she has a tribal sleeve like to a tag of Lowes small
tattoo? I mean, I don't, I don't care, like that's fine?
Like that, Okay, that's the deal breaker. I gotta pass for
you. Let me inspect your arms first. I'm gonna take your pants off,
but not for the reason you think. I will say that. Cam
Lipple liked that tweet within seconds of me submitting it eight hours ago. He
was ready for that. So Cam, I'm glad that that we can We
can go after each other. I didn't see that Cam asked the nick questions,
so I had to jump in there and ask at Travius ninety nine.
Does it feel like in the first half of games the Jayhawks are just experimenting
with schemes and lineups, then after they don't work, they turn it on.
Yeah. I think it's kind of the point of non con games where
you're a double digit favorite too. Yeah, I think they're screwing around like
they probably would have beaten teams like Eastern Illinois and UMKC by more than they
did if self played his best five guys for thirty eight minutes. But the
point of this is to see what you have with Nick Timberlake and guys like
that, so it's ultimately they're gonna win regardless. I do think that's correct
though. All right, here's a good question. Last question from at Chai
and then two eyes in villain like the chillin villain. But the eyes in
chillin are or excuse me, the l's and chillin are like the Roman numeral
for two. What is the best and what is the worst lineup this year?
That's an interesting question. We haven't talked about this yet. Well,
we know the worst line up includes the one Harrison and Marco Jackson in the
same rotation. It's gonna say the worst one is probably Harris Jackson, Brown,
Timberlake and somebody else. Anything Yeah, anything with Dickinson and mccullor both
out. Yeah, who kau fans would be like, oh, thank god
Hunter's on the bench to watch. Yeah exactly. Yeah, forget all those
twenty points and twelve rebounds. At least we'll actually see guys jumping for rebounds.
You don't have to when you can touch the rafters with the ony tiptoes.
I think their best lineup right now, Their best lineup right now is
the one they start, and that is variable by switching out Jackson with Furfey
and Timberlake. Those three are all really close, but undoubtedly their best four
lineups are the ones with the normal four guys in there and then a rotating
two guard correct, definitively correct. Anytime you take one of the big four
out that the floor plummets. Even though I will say an interesting lineup is
el Marco Jackson at the point, surrounded by mccohler, Timberlake, Adams and
Dickinson. I like watching that. That team feels fast. Yeah, that
is interesting. If Jackson could actually score on his own, or Timberlakes or
Furfey for that matter, could could consistently knock down threes, I would like
that line up a lot more. Yeah. I was gonna say, like
for fear, Timberlake, whoever is shooting better, with Jackson as the point,
and then Dickinson, mccollar and Adams down low, that would intrigue me
a little bit but self loves Harris too much to not play him for more
than a few minutes at a time, and rightfully so. The guy is
a very good player. All right. That's it. If you ever have
any ask ARCBS, use a Twitter hashtag ask RCB. All right, now,
we're gonna preview a game, and it feels like it should be more
exciting than it is. It's Wichita State versus Number two Kansas on the Saturday
after Christmas, December thirtieth, at three pm, and it is at the
T Mobiles Center. Jayhawks returning they didn't play a game here in the non
conslate last year. They returned for their annual Sprint Center, T Mobile Center,
whatever it's called matchup. The Wichita State Shakers of the American Athletic Conference
enter at eight and four. Overall. The best wins are Saint Louis and
Richmond. Teams that West Virginia might not be able to beat. Their losses
are Liberty, Missouri, South Dakota State, and Kansas State. So a
very mixed bag of schedule for the Shockers. Yeah, wing Koby Rodgers leads
the team with seventeen points and shoots forty two percent from three. He's easily
their best player to set up well with looks from point guard Harland Beverly.
There's also guard zaber Bell, who has fifteen points and is your prototypical slasher
to the basket. The front court doesn't have the same production, but six
to ten Kenny Poto from Sweden leads the way down low with twelve points and
eight rebounds. Starting senter Quincy bout is six to eleven. It shoots a
goo percentage, adding seven and seven per night. Yeah, which the state's
kind of a weird one. They're very good rebounding, which whenever you got
two six to ten guys that start down low, they got good height,
then that tells you that why that's the case. They average forty four rebounds
per game, which is eleventh in the country as of recording this. They're
excellent at guarding the three point line. They shoot a lot of twos,
they barely take any threes. It shows because they only shoot thirty one percent
from out there. Some teams don't take a lot of threes but shoot a
pretty good percentage, like Kansas, which TA State barely shoots it at all
and it barely goes in the basket. The weaknesses for this theme include lots
of fouling, turning it over plenty, and a mediocre offense. Feels like
a game where if Kansas scored sounds like, well, yeah it's KU,
but worse sounds like a game that if KU scores seventy points. I think
it's going to be a really hard time to see them losing Kansas in whichdon
state they've played fifteen times and the Jayhawks have won twelve of them. They've
only played once since nineteen ninety three, and that was a twenty fifteen NCAA
tournament game that saw Evan Wessel upset. Rob Baker was there as well.
I'm trying to the original white guys of the game candidates too. That was
awful that that trash bag played like five years of college ball and he only
made four threes once. And it was that day that curly headed. They
had Evans and also had a weasel for a coach and greg greg Garry Marshall.
Yeah, I think self. I think self is more willing to play
which toss state now that Gregor Marshall has been thrown out for I think hitting
players? Is that right? It was something really bad? Yeah, do
you guys know who which toss dates coaches. It was that one, Like,
is it the interim they hired after Marshall or is there a new guy
in there? No, they just hired somebody new this year. It is
chat gpt generated name Paul Mills. He is the He is the coach.
He was an Oral Roberts assistant last year. No, he was a former
Baylor assistant under coach Drew for sixteen years. He was the head coach at
Oral Roberts. And anytime you can get somebody at Oral Roberts, you should
hire him. Look at Bill Self. So maybe maybe Paul Mills is the
next Bill Self. You heard it here first, all right, predict this
game Jayhawks. In a very lackluster slate of games this week, in case
those Pickham games that we're gonna go through aren't enough of an indication, We're
here to predict this sleepwalker of a game. I will say seventy six to
sixty three, and your prototypical I'm gonna fall asleep watching this at the T
Mobile Center game. Uh yeah, I think that's almost exactly correct. I
will say Kansas wins seventy five to sixty two in a game that was pretty
close for a while that shouldn't be, and then they turn it on Happy
New Year. Kansas wins by thirteen. Yeah, I'm gonna say Kansas wins
this game eighty one to sixty four. I think they get a Kushny seventeen
point win at a head into the New Year. So Mills was the coach
of that Oral Roberts team that took them on that crazy run where they were
a fifteen seed and went to the second weekend. Right, that would have
been that was Oral Roberts back a few years ago, making that up.
That happened the team at beat Ohio State, Right, yeah, I think
so? Yeah, there you go at which Toss says, I'll have some
of that sweet Let's see if he can beat Kansas. All right, other
games, these games are lousy, So enjoy what should be four dubs.
Number four Arizona at California. Anybody want to feel that the Golden Bears?
Anybody feeling that one? I am not feeling. Give me the Guinea Arizona,
Yeah I don't think so. Number soon to be unranked Virginia at Notre
Dame. Anybody feeling and the mic brays not even there anymore? Anybody thinking
this. I mean, it's gonna be a disgusting game. Virginia wins fifty
six to three. Yeah, that feels right, yep, Gross number twelve,
Creighton at number six, Marquettes. Somebody's trying to avoid losing two Big
East games before the calendar even hits twenty twenty four. Who's it gonna be?
I think Marquette wins. I think so too. You're right, and
then Duke, with the opportunity to play, you know, one last test
before ACC plays starts, they welcome Queen's University into Cameron Indoor. Enjoy your
what should be three free wins or four free wins, and then Marquette should
win. I don't know, should be an easy one, right, I
certainly hope. So I'm gonna say Queen's is gonna win this game? Just
kidding your pick you pick them? Update Nick fifty six points, first place,
Ryan fifty six points, also first place, landing up to forty nine
points. You've closed the gap. You were nine behind, You're now seven
behind, sir. That should give you a nice early Christmas present. You're
within you're within three possessions. Yay, I get to blow pick them later
this year. So next show will come out at some point after Christmas,
sometime during the week, I'm sure, unless something apocalyptic happens, and then
I'll go directly to these two houses and we'll do an immediate cans. I
guess no, it won't matter. They don't play which test states laugh,
you're Christmas, So it's gonna it's gonna be a yeah, no way.
So we're not doing a show this week. We're not doing We're not doing
a show for a long time. Yeah, you know, we're not all
right, probably doing a show either early New Year's Eve or sometime New Year's
Yes, because I totally want to spend my New Year's Eve bringing the New
year doing this podcast. Well, you've spent plenty of years doing this podcast.
What's one more New Year's Eve with Inside the Paint. You're right,
this is gonna be my final calendar year Inside the Paint. So and what
better way to do that than by spending the last hours of this year by
answering questions about how you would never consider dating a woman with an arm tat
I landon, I feel like you and I is bullying has peer pressured Nick
into seeing that tattoos can be kind of hot. Low key, yeah,
I think sometimes not even low key. Sometimes just on the surface, they
just they just are a small one. Maybe if I can. And Landon
is still by the way, Nick, if you're starting to think tattoos are
sexy, well, Landon has to get one soon because he promised that if
Kansas he won that twenty twenty two title, he would get Bill Zelve's face
on his butt. He did. Sounds horrible in so many ways. Yeah,
you remember saying that, you yeah, yeah, and they just hurt
for you can just get one of those temporary tattoos. That's so long to
have Bill Self's face on my butt. Hey, it's not as long as
forever, which is what you promised. That's true, That's true. That
was definitely for sure serious. Everyone took it that way. I think that
it would it would suit you, well, that'd be a great first tattoo
to get. Seventy years from now you would be buried in a in your
casket and Bill Self would still be there on your body. Sir, Yeah,
that that is upsetting. I don't think I want that. Bill Self
is not a good enough guy to earn that. I don't think. Oh,
don't you say that, sir. Don't you tweet that either people are
gonna cancel you on elon, Hey, the pain in your butt when they
lose in the Sweet six team this year. You can just go look at
your butt in the bathroom and see it, hey, or a pain in
your ass? Look at that? You know you could. You could go
full circle all the way back. It's happening. Hey, I can say
that stupid joke. Hey, Nick one quickly about tattoos. Maybe you can
too. This is Inside the Paint Holiday Edition. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
Thank you guys for your listen and uh hopefully your Your next present from
all of us is another twenty years of this podcast. So exciting. Everybody's
gonna be back until twenty forty three. Yeah, everybody, get out,
yes forever. Yeah, they never stopped, never ever, ever stop.
I'm Ryan Landris, I'm Clarence from It's a Wonderful Life, a good movie,
and I'm done with this show after this season. In the next few
months, I don't know. I don't know how to follow that up.
Don't drink too much eggnog, don't drink and drive. Merry Christmas, Happy to he