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There's only one way this show can
started. Damn, damn, damn it,

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damn that's Ryan realize. Yeah,
I think that's on the Thames.

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You're gonna pay ROYALSS for this on
at some point. Yeah, please don't

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come fine this. Yeah, I
don't think Larry David wants anything to do

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with us. Time for the crushes. I can't be close at half time?

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How's it our fault? Well,
I need someone to blame, all

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right, guys. Nick Timberlake hits
that three the Jayhawks are up, are

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up four in the second half,
and then oh or more specifically that but

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for nineteen minutes? Because why did
I have to be Gonzaga? Has anybody

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here by chance? Do any of
you remember things that a particular one of

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us has said about Gonzaga and the
tournament? And is that ringing any bells

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for anybody here? I certainly remember
the spirit of them, because I said

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I wanted Kansas to get Nova,
and I said I wanted Kansas to get

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Oregon. But this, this is
the darkest humor the universe could throw at

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me. It really is. The
team that I said sucked against noteworthy competition

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in the tournament just completely kicked my
favorite teams up and down the floor in

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a basketball game instead n cuaa tournament
because Kansas this year, this year not

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a particularly noteworthy team. Nope,
but hey, you know what were actually

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noteworthy is who is with us today? Because we didn't think we were gonna

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have you, Nick, but instead
you spent about ten hours in the car

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today only to come home eight hours
before you have to get up and go

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to work to do a podcast talking
about DA losing to the Bulldogs of Gonzaga

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by a lot. Look at your
dedication, sir. You pay me the

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big bucks, So I'm cunning.
Yes I do. Okay, So no,

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no, no agenda today. You
already know what we're gonna say.

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This is in said the Pain on
Rock Chalk Blog. I'm Ryan Landrath,

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I'm Mark Fu's alcohol choices, and
I'm I'm Bill self after losing the Gonzaga

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by twenty one on the road.
That's that's plenty good enough. Let's talk

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about the game. Damn it.
Bill, there's a new sequence for you.

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Number five Gonzaga eighty nine, number
four Kansas sixty eight. You know,

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guys, I don't know if you've
if you remember, but we've talked

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about some blowout NCAA tournament losses on
this podcast before. Yeah, and each

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one of them has gotten worse numerically. This one wasn't worse than the This

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is just the second worst NCAA tournament
loss in Kansas history. We talked about

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the first and the third and the
fourth. Actually we were all on those

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shows. But this one was only
the second worst, So it wasn't that

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bad. It was only nine.
It was only twenty one this time.

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Yeah, that's almost exclusively because Gonzaga
didn't have like a Lobby Pick and a

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bunch of other good players on their
team. If they had, I think

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it might have been mad. Somebody
tell me what happened, because it was

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a big After a high paced,
entertaining and even first half, Nick Timberlake

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opened the second half with the three, giving Kansas a forty seven to forty

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three leave with nineteen minutes left.
What followed was a wild collapse that saw

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Gonzaga go on It's like the Saddam
Hussein statue collapse saw Gonzaga go on a

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thirty seven to six run over the
next thirteen minutes. The Jayhawks ran out

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of gas and it showed on both
ends resulting in a season ending blowout loss.

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Haven't seen that, you know,
It wasn't like USC did that or

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anything. In the round of thirty
two. It wasn't like USC did that

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or anything. Thirty seven to Sixford, I have never in my life seen

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the Jayhawks on the wrong end of
a thirty seven to six run. That

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is, that's almost impossible. Think
about the amount of things that have to

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go wrong to get yourself in a
thirty seven to six run. It really

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does feel like the season's end in
like a complete like distillation of the year.

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Like it can't just end in a
way that is normal. It has

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to end in the most like extreme
version of what the entire season has been,

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which is like Kansas playing very soft
interior defense with bad rotation and not

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being able to score, which is
true, that's things that they kind of

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struggle at, but in this game
they were like literally in like literally incapable

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of both of those things, and
that was quite apparent for that run and

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endless, endless it felt like,
and if you want the twenty nineteen comparisons,

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they that team also gave up eighty
nine points in a blow out season

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any loss to a five seed as
the four seed, like you really can't.

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Was that game also in Salt Lake
City? Am I crazy? Or

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did Kansas play all the Salt Lake
sounds? I think it was. I

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think that game was in the same
venue. Actually, wow, what a

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bunch of what a what a wild
wild the comparison set that that wound up

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being. Okay, Nick, the
Jayhawks they are Well I was gonna ask

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you for your thoughts, But first, how about one of those great old

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stats, because I got a good
one here. Kansas is the first team

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in the history of the NCAA Tournament, which is always a great way to

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start a sentence two, be a
higher seed, lead at half and wind

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up losing the game by twenty Never
happened before. Has a team that was

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a higher seed have a lead at
halftime and lose by that many points?

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The number of points that the Jayhawks
lost on Saturday, which was twenty one.

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Kansas shot fifty percent in the first
half, twenty eight percent the second

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half. Gonzaga was fifty six percent
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to sixty seven percent after halftime.
And I know you're gonna touch on this

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here a little bit, but it
was a great basketball game for a half

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in a minute, like it was
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The Jayhawks were making plays that put
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right in the game at the end, like it was a lot of fun.

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And then just holy gracious did the
floor fall out in a minute?

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M Yeah, apparently I just fell
off there too, both of them.

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But uh, weird, just emulating
what happened. Uh was the question in

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sorry I had gator almost just your
general thoughts, like, oof is my

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general thoughts? That drop? I
pushed them bunch of time at halftime.

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At half time, we were all
talking and texting and saying, you know,

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uh, I guess kind of like, man, Kansas can't play or

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Gonzaga can't shoot the ball this well, And it's almost like, well,

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yeah, Kansas can't shoot the ball
this well. They made a ton of

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set what how many threes in the
first half? They made a lot of

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threes in the first half. Seven
they made seven seven first half and they're

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never gonna but that wound up that
did that did slow down if you're talking

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about eight. Yeah, they made
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Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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talking We were talking at halftime,
like you know this, they're those is

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gonna switch up the defense and Gonzaga
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But like you said, fifty six
to sixty seven percent field goal percentage in

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the second half, Guys, this
team was with Gonzaga shooting that well,

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this team was not winning if Hunter
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Like that's just the reality of it. They they got into a hornet's

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nest and somehow they got to play
a Samford team who's good at threes and

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a good Zaga team who's peeking at
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This team we talked about in the
tournament show or the selection show bracket.

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You wanted this team to avoid a
super athletic team and a team that

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can score a lot because they can't
keep up with teams who score a lot.

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And look what they drew in the
first two rounds, two teams that

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score a lot. They would had
another team that scored a lot with Purdue,

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but it is unfortunate. It is
kind of indicative on how the downhill

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decline of the season began. But
it is interesting because the past few losses

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they've gotten blown out Houston Cincinnati.
It was pretty quick that things turned south

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this game a lot of hope.
In the first half. Looked great offensively,

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you know, the defense had some
wards. Hunter Dickinson completely I think

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that's the big point here is Hunter
Dickinson defensively was just complete, complete no

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shows, so as Nick Timberlake.
But off of those pick and rolls,

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those switches completely caught in no man's
land at the top of the key while

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a guy's driving in to dunk the
ball. Like, they looked all sorts

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of disoriented defensively. And I don't
know if bill selves adjustmentson after the locker

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room really made much of a difference
either, kind of seemed like he checked

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out of the game too. Just
an overall, like abysmal tournament performance for

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Kansas to end a very disappointing end
of the year after starting as the number

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one overall team. So Landon,
I'll throw it to you in a minute.

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I do want to offer one quick
stat correction. I misspoke. They

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actually made nine threes two in the
second half. I'm forgetting about Parker Brown's

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Parker Brown's three that cut a twenty
five point deficit to twenty two in the

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second half. So sorry, Parker
didn't mean to forget that. Uh,

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yes, Kansas, but like and
my takeaway from this as Nick was correct

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about how they've struggle all year to
keep up scoring. Uh, Kansas played

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three good halfs in the tournament,
like three real quality offensive halves, where

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we thought that would be the thing
that this team would struggle without mccolor the

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most with. And then I you
some people say they run out of gas.

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Some people say they shouldn't have because
they'd only played two games in a

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last two weeks. Some people say
it is understandable because they had fewer players,

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the altitude, all that, they
definitely just ran out of gas.

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Also, shots stopped falling, the
defense wasn't there the whole night. Oh

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and by the way, Nick pointed
out that they got blown out in their

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last three games. Correct, They
actually scored fewer points in this game sixty

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eight. Then they did the If
you add up the amount of points that

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they lost by in their last three
games thirty twenty and twenty one, they

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lost the last three games of the
year by seventy one damn points. Wild

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Land in your thoughts, oh bad, I'll go more in depth than that,

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I suppose, But yeah, yeah, I mean obviously we're gonna somewhat

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eulogize the season. As Ryan said
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That's That's what's on the new rock
Chalk Blog dot com, folks. It

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runs about as well as the twenty
twenty four Jayhawks landon. What were your

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thoughts? Uh, yeah, I
do think and Ryana, I think you

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were. You're talking about this in
the chat for sure that the margin that

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Kansas lost by hair was a little
bit fluky because Kansas shot such a poor

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percentage, and Gonzaga shot very very
well. But I like I was saying

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that that feels like how Kansas played
and lost pretty much all season was that,

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yes, they had some great individual
talent, and obviously Kevin McCuller not

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with the team for the vast majority
of the end of the year here,

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but nonetheless, like they had some
great pieces, mostly one great piece and

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some other fine pieces, but the
offense was always gonna struggle. They were

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never gonna be able to score at
a super high rate for very long,

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and then you saw what happened when
they go cold. This was not ever

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a great defensive team either. Yes, they had moments of playing very good

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defense against very good teams, even
watching them play excellent defense against Houston and

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against Yukon. They had some excellent
moments against some very good teams all season,

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but you saw what happened, and
it's happened over and over and over

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again this year. Other teams get
really hot against the Jayhawks, and the

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Jayhawks just can't quite keep up with
that. You can call that a fluke

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if you want. Yes, some
element of three point defense is luck.

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Some element of defense is luck in
general when the other team's taken a lot

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of jump shots, but Kansas's rotation
in Kansas's defensive ability this year, Hunter

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Dickinson is not an instinctive defender,
and they don't have very many instinctive defenders,

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and it leaves a lot of open
guys a lot of the time.

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And he saw that for about twenty
minutes against Gonzaga in the second half especially,

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So a very rough outing here for
the Jayhawks and a very unfortunate end

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to the season. Not one that
I'm especially shocked to see happen, although

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I do think twenty one I didn't
quite quite envision, but yeah, night

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where they just got ran off the
floor. And that's become a habit for

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the Hawks in the last several tournaments. Yep. They're one and four in

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the round of thirty two in their
last five tournaments, which is weird.

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And I mean because self, I
believe won his first seven round of thirty

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two games at Kansas, and he's
just four and six in his last ten

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that dates back to twenty ten.
You obviously have had a title run in

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there, You've had a couple of
their Final four, so it's not like

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they are always disappointing. They're also
ten and oh in the first round of

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those games, seventeen for their last
seventeen there so, but yeah, it's

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been it's been a trouble spot and
it's definitely a thing now where they've been

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the higher seeded team and every one
of those six losses they haven't been able

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to get out of the first weekend
and even half of their last ten runs

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and that's you know, I know
it will laugh at what happened with Kentucky.

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This is the first tournament, I
believe in forty something years that neither

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Kansas or Kentucky made the second weekend
in back to back tournaments. You know,

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there's more parody in college basketball than
there have been than there ever has

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been at any point, and you're
starting to see the effects of that.

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Let's go ahead and start talking about
some of the players. As the Houston,

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Texas A and M game is still
going on as we record this,

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Houston's entire team has fouled out.
So they're sending basic walk ons that I've

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attempted four free throws all year to
the line to try to close out an

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overtime thriller against A and M.
Something that was that Kansas did not have

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to worry about was closing out free
throws, even though their walk ons did

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play. Don't worry Nick, tell
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the year. Is always kind of
weird because whenever we talk about players,

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there's not really I'd like to see
them do this next time. It's kind

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of more just like, what's gonna
happen next year at this point. Weird,

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but whatever. Yeah. Hunter Dickinson
led Kansas with fifteen points on six

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or fifteen from the floor, five
rebounds, four assists. He was probably

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the best player in the game in
the first half, swing thirteen points hitting

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two threes. Was also completely burned
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Mark Few knew exactly how to exploit
his lack of a flist. As Mark

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Few also knows how to exploit the
sheriff by calling for nothing but pick and

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rolls all game long. Mark Few
also tried to pick and roll outside of

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the Sheriff's deputy. Yeah. I
tried to ask him to perform a pickup

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role and he was like, I
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a bum Nay. Yeah, but
he's also two and Oh against his friend

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Bill Self, who, by the
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those two men were born on the
exact same day, which is kind of

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interesting. Apparently they're friends and he's
two and oh against Bill self since the

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both coaches got through their current schools. Yeah, Land and we talked about

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Hunter Dickinson's defense being a problem all
year, and it was very clear that

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the strategy was, let's get Hunter
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with the paint freed up, we
know that we can be lying to the

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basket and he's too slow to be
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Mark few knew exactly how to attack
Kansas's biggest the biggest vulnerable spot in the

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armor, and it was to target
number one, get him out away from

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the basket. The defense was the
biggest problem in this game. Kansas could

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not stop the pick and roll,
and I think that starts with Hunter,

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who hit a couple of big threes
in the first half. Did the look

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how well fallist I am with the
forearm in front of his crotch after making

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one of them, and Kansas got
totally run out of the gym after that

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point. Yeah, it's pretty much
the same thing we've been talking about already.

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And yeah, Hunter did have a
great first half, he really did,

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and his second half was pretty abysmal. Yeah, his his defense not

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good all year certainly, and it
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But I don't know, does he
come back Nick, Does he come

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back and try to run this back
and go average like twenty and eleven next

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year? Man, he's getting paid
like two million dollars in an al like

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he's he's either playing for the Wongdong
Tigers or he's gonna come back to Ku

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make two million nil money. And
somebody had his hands down like he has

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a big penis. Somebody had a
video of and it was where is Hunter

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Dickinson going to be taking his talents
next year? And it was a video

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of Trump going It's called China And
I immediately and I immediately thought of all

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the Twitter burners. Okay, so
let's get one thing straight. I'm not

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gonna sit here and defend Hunt Dickinson
endlessly because he didn't play well. Nobody

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did in this game. But the
worst part of this loss is how many

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uugh, we have to watch another
year of Hunter next year tweets that I

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had to see on the timeline.
Hunter Dickinson is not, nor will he

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ever be, one of the ten
biggest problems with this team. He was

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a second team All America, second
in the conference in points, first among

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guys who played every game, first
in rebounds. If that man wants to

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play basketball for you next year,
you say, well sure and roll out

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the red carpet again. The fact
that he's gonna be back anchoring the number

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five position, the Jayhawks will win
a lot of games if Bill self can

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figure out the right players to surround
his skill set with. The defense is

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a problem. Part of finding the
correct players that can align with his skill

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set is making sure those players are
very good defensively, so Hunter has to

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carry less of that load. But
you are absolutely nuts if you do not

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want Hunter Dickinson back, and make
no other if. If you want to

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know what would happen without Hunter Dickinson, go watch the Cincinnati Big Twelve Tournament

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game. Hunter is a star Wars
and he will have a great year.

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You told me about a poll you
put out on Twitter. Do I get

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to learn about that at some point? Oh? Yeah, Oh yeah,

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So I put out a poll and
no one on Twitter could figure out what

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I was doing. But it was
for the podcast, and I asked Twitter,

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and I waited to do it till
right after the game ended. Who

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was the better basketball player at Kansas, Hunter Dickinson or Marcus Garrett. Now,

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you guys, if I ask you
that question, Okay, Landon Dickinson

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could play, Hunter Dickinson could play
ten games at KU, and he'd still

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have a better career than Marcus Garrett. I too believe, like you guys

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do, that Hunter Dickinson was a
better player at Kansas. He was a

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first he was a second team All
American. But Rock Chuck Blog, Twitter

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and the two thousand and sixty two
people who voted on this, only forty

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seven point seven percent agree that Hunter
Againson was better than Marcus Garrett. Fifty

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two to forty eight was the final
poll numbers. So if that just goes

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to show over one thousand people chose
that Marcus Garrett was a better player than

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Hunter Dickinson, Guys, stop,
that's not real. Hunter Dickinson may not

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be everybody's cup of tea. I've
seen people talk about how he's not a

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Kansas player. I don't know if
that's really a thing. But come on,

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and also I commend Hunter. I
do all the Kevin mcculr stuff.

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And here's a dude with his shoulder
and a sling and he's out there playing

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his seven foot two lungs in the
altitude salt lake, having to play thirty

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eight minutes a game because no one
else is out there. I think you

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could do a lot. I think
you can find a lot more parties to

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blame than Hunter. But we'll talk
about him with ascarcib. kJ Adams ten

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points, six rebounds, thirty two
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Fine on offense. If you if
anybody tells you how bad Hunter was

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on defense, they can point out
that kJ was no better. They were

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both terrible. kJ was asked after
the game if he's gonna come back to

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Kansas just like Josh Jackson and just
like he is. Christy Han said,

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well, here, I'm gonna predict
right now that kJ Adams isn't back,

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or that kJ Adams doesn't start next
year. Bill likes him too much.

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I don't I start, sir.
Even even Will Smith had to shoot even

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Will Smith had to shoot his dog
at one point, Like it's not working.

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This doesn't work. kJ is a
good enough basketball player where you convince

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yourself that his playmaking ability and his
his talent, his dunking, his hustle,

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his heart, you convince yourself you
can make it work at the four.

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This season is proof that you can't. They cannot start him next year.

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You cannot play him thirty minutes a
game alongside Hunter Dickinson. And if

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it's between those guys, I'm picking
Hunter ten out of ten times. Yeah,

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and it's gonna be interesting to see
with Floorya be doing good coming in

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next year as a very highly touted
recruit. We've talked about that some,

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but yeah, it's gonna be very
odd if they're gonna go back to the

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one big setup, which I think
they're gonna have to. Who plays,

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and if you want to maximize Hunter
Dickinson, if you want to maximize his

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strengths, which what is that an
entry pass recipient, Dewan can throw the

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ball into him, he'll lay it
in. He doesn't have to leave the

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paint very much unless you want him
to. Unless he has the ability to

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shoot a three, whatever you primarily
want him to play in the paint.

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You can't have kJ be the big
alongside him for that to work, because

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kJ can't get any space. They
need to stretch four and that helps the

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whole team obviously, because you're probably
adding a guy who can shoot the ball,

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which kJ cannot, and that's gonna
help spacing in general because if kJ,

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if a Hunter does want to pick
and pop and play on the perimeter

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a little bit, now the entire
paint is wide open because theoretically you're gonna

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have four other guys that can shoot
the ball, and your spacing is gonna

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be a lot better. So,
yeah, kJ can't play with Hunter very

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much, if at all, next
year if he does come back, And

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like I was saying, I don't
know if two of those three guys who

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are all starting caliber players are gonna
want to ride the bench, and kJ

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Adams has a role on this team. It's just a matter of is he

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gonna want to accept being a sixth
man. Is he gonna accept his playing

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time going down by ten to fifteen
minutes a game. He might not.

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He may opt to go play at
UTEP and be an absolute monster, be

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the best player in school history.
I don't know. I have a lot

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of respect for kJ Adams, and
I love it to work, but it's

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just, at the end of the
day, not the right fit. And

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if you have the choice between another
year of Hunter another year of kJ,

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you're taking Hunter. You're taking the
second team All American. There are KU

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fans out there that if I ask
them who's the better player between kJ Adams

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and Hunter Dickinson, they would say, kJ, You're wrong. You can

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like him more, you can like
his skill set more, but he's not

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a better player. And Bill self
knows that you have to have a center

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in this college basketball day and age, they have one that gets twenty and

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ten. And you want to play
a guy alongside a tall not for particular

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athletic back to the basket big.
It's gotta be a guy who can rebound

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well, or it's got to be
a guy that can shoot well. And

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kJ can't do either. That is
all accurate. Yeah, you need a

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guy that can do that at the
four. And really what you need at

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the four is a small forward,
and kJ is a is a finesse ish

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power forward, and that's just not
gonna work in this modern age basketball.

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Let's talk about what Bill self said
after the game, which is I've been

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thinking about next year for the last
month. To be honest, a lot

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of people on Twitter took some issue
with that. Any of you guys do

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No, your team was atrocious for
the last month. Who else was thinking

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about next year? Everybody? Yeah, I don't know. Nick, you

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got a problem with it? No, Yeah, I don't either. I

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think it's a weird quote. Like
you know, people were saying, well,

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Kevin mccullor got hammered for what he
said. Guys, they're very different

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things. Bill self obviously doesn't meant
during the game out there, He's sitting

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there going, man, I hope
he transfers or I wonder who I'll bring

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in. It's just a matter of
of you know, this season. I

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think that was a direct I'm not
gonna say attack of Kevin McCuller, but

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I think the Kevin McCuller situation is
more or less what led to him thinking

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that, because that's when you realize
that this team just was. You were

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checking up hill, they had too
many things against it. Johnny furfey Land

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and tell me about him nine points, seven rebounds, but he did miss

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four shots in a row in the
opening a few minutes of the second half.

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As the game was starting to slip
away from the Jayhawks, but then

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again, so did everyone else,
so I can't blame him too much for

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that. He finishes the season averaging
nine points, five rebounds a game and

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thirty three point rate. A question
that we ask every show, we will

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ask it again. Is he back
Nick? Yes, he has to be.

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There's no way he's getting drafted right
the way that he finished the year,

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There's no way he would get drafted. It's a it's a really bad

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draft year, but there's I don't
think there's I don't think it's gonna happen.

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I think the cutoff is top twenty. I think if he goes to

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the Combine and some team says,
hey, we're picking seventeen and we love

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you, I think he'll stay in
the draft. I think that most likely

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fifty five forty five right now,
maybe if he's a because if you're a

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late first round pick and you're not
guaranteed to be in the first round,

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that's a big money difference there.
But if you're gonna go in the top

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twenty, and you have pretty good
jurisdiction that you're gonna go in the top

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twenty potential lottery pick, you go
every time. I think that's the cutoff.

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I don't know if he is a
top twenty pick right now, but

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if he is, I think he
goes, and if he's not, I

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think he stays. If he comes
back, I think he can go from

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twenty two to five really quick in
the next year's draft class, and he'd

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be an awesome piece because he's the
second best rebounder on this team. He

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can play minutes at the four if
you want to have three shooters out there

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next year, or you can play
him at the three, and whenever you

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want to play really tall, assuming
you have a different four out there that

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can work landon. You think he
goes, yeah, I think I would

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mostly agree with you that. I
think it's more likely than not that he

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returns. But as you're saying yeah, if someone in that top especially like

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top fifteen, is like, yeah, no, we love you. If

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you're if you're on the board at
twelve, you know we're taking you,

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I think he probably takes that heartbeat
and goes. I do think his main

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feedback at the combine he's gonna have
to be a better uh, He's gonna

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have to have better game feel in
the half court defense, and being more

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consistent shooter, because obviously he showed
he can be a really good shooter,

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but he also was very streaky for
most of the season. So I think

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if you can get that straightened out, and I think it's very likely that

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he will, uh and he seems
like a smart enough kid he'll figure out

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defense. Also weird that I could
borderline legitimately call him a kid in comparison

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to me. He's like five years
younger. Yeah, he's very young.

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I think he'll figure it out,
but I think it's very possible that that'll

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be the feedback and then he'll come
back and average like seventeen a game next

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year. Yep, he's gonna have
more time to play next year than if

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he's drafted and plays two minutes a
game and his rookie season in the NBA

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because he's raw. But it's all
about the paycheck. If you're gonna be

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a top twenty pick, there's no
better place to get better for the NBA

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than in the NBA. So I'm
with you, though, I think the

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defense has to be the main thing
that he's the game field, which comes

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with experience. It just had to
be Gonzaga, didn't it Bill. So

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anyone who's listening to this podcast knows
that for years, my Twitter account and

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my podcast has just taken a big
dump on Gonzaga any opportunity we get.

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00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:30.200
I had a couple Gonzaga tweets our
Twitter accounts blow up, some old takes

409
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.720
exposed rock Chalk blog takes where I
made fun of how bad their conference was,

410
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:36.759
a lot of stuff about how I
thought they were overrated at the beginning

411
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of this year and now they get
a steamroll through their dog pot, their

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pile of dog crap conference to rack
up wins and get overseeded. This game

413
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didn't change that they weren't very good
early in the season. They do get

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a ton of built in wins with
that horrible schedule. They are overseeded.

415
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They had a great get they had
a great day on Saturday. They're better

416
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than Kansas, and I know this
isn't even one of the better Gonzaga teams.

417
00:29:57.480 --> 00:30:02.960
Kansas just wasn't very good at the
State of Kansas that Gonzaga played.

418
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But let's not act like them beating
Kansas changes the narrative that they don't have

419
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.920
a history of gagging in the tournament. Spare me the stats about their seat

420
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.519
suggests that they get this many expected
wins. I don't want to hear about

421
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:17.960
it when you have a one on
a two darn ear every year and you

422
00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:21.880
never manage to get it done.
Win a title, and then we'll talk.

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Maybe that's a really shallow boomer perspective
I have with Gonzaga, but I've

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seen him knock on the door enough. Tonight they won't. They'll lose in

425
00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:33.000
the Sweet sixteen again like every year
they and they've come close a couple times.

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But for me, the game that
broke me forever with Gonzaga was the

427
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:38.720
Baylor game. That was the game
when I realized, like, okay,

428
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.400
I tried to listen, I try
to believe that this team was different.

429
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.359
The best college team ever was in
recent memory, was being hailed and they

430
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.680
got ran out of the gym by
a Big twelve team that was admittedly also

431
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.039
extremely good, but Gonzaga was favored
in that game. That was when I

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00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.039
realized that the best WCC team and
the best Power League team, it's never

433
00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.799
going to be a comparison. They
have another chance against People were like,

434
00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:04.119
oh we beat UCLA last year,
Oh wow, that changes everything. Win

435
00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:07.279
a title, and then that narrative
will change, but I'll give him credit.

436
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.559
They're better than Kansas the two years
that they played Kansas, they were

437
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.799
better than Kansas. And it showed
because that was an ass kicking Dewan Harris

438
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.440
Nick. Let's talk about Ky's point
guard. Yeah, I mean, I

439
00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.640
guess everyone played bad in the second
half, but this was really not his

440
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.359
fault. Had a double double with
ten points eleven assists, really stepped up

441
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:29.640
when they teams needed scoring these past
few games. But he was just four

442
00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:32.759
for twelve from the floor, including
two for ten on twos. All ten

443
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:36.400
of his points were in the first
half. Brilliant before half, invisible afterwards.

444
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.920
Again everyone he was one of the
main targets on Twitter as a result

445
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:42.240
of the loss. How much of
this game or this season do you really

446
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.000
put on him? Landon. Here's
my thoughts, and then I'll throw it

447
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.960
to you. I'm gonna push back
a little bit on what Nick said.

448
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:52.640
I think that you mentioned one thing, and that's that he's been good the

449
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.799
last few games when Kansas has needed
a step up in score. I think

450
00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.160
that's the problem. I don't think
he's done that. He was nothing thing

451
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.519
in the second half, and this
is now three games Cincinnati, Houston and

452
00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:08.000
this where you're the senior point guard. I know it's not you're You're not

453
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.079
a score first. You know I'm
gonna gret I want the ball in my

454
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.759
hands, I'm gonna take over.
But whenever Hunter is gassed and Kevin's not

455
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:21.279
there and Furphy's a freshman, like
you're the senior point guard at some point,

456
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:23.519
dude, you've played. You've made
over one hundred collegiate starts. Like.

457
00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:28.920
I love Dewan Harris's skill set.
I think Dewan Harris and Hunter Dickinson

458
00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:30.279
are a good match for each other, and I think they're gonna win Kansas

459
00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:35.119
a lot of basketball games next year. But this is the criticism of Dewan

460
00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:37.480
Harris. He's not somebody who's going
to be able to win. All the

461
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:42.559
secondary pieces, or the primary pieces
for that matter, aren't playing well.

462
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.960
He's not gonna be able to overcome
it by himself. Most of the time.

463
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:49.640
That was the problem in this game. He was invisible in the second

464
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.559
half. And whenever you are getting
blown out in a tournament game, your

465
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.359
senior point guard can't go scoreless in
that half. That cannot happen. That's

466
00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:07.799
unacceptable. That's yeah, Hey,
it is fair Nick it is Landon wouldn't

467
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.759
talk, so I had to fill
in with his own verbiage. I think

468
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:16.400
Harris was alright, but I do
agree with you Ryan that, especially with

469
00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:22.400
my color out, I've been a
little surprised that Harris because say what you

470
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.000
want about Harris, but he does
have an ability to get two spots.

471
00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.400
Sometimes he does have an ability to
take guys off the dribble and guys will

472
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.400
leave him uput on three point line
two, and that allows him space to

473
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:38.079
drive as well. And so especially
in games where Kansas has not scored a

474
00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:45.599
lot, I've really expected Harris to
take a lot more shots and be a

475
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:49.680
lot more assertive, and he just
kind of isn't. And I'm very surprised

476
00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:52.160
by that. And I shouldn't be, I guess, because he's never really

477
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:55.160
been that. But I thought,
you know, in moments like that where

478
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:59.519
his hand was forced, maybe he
would, and he still never really did.

479
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.160
Twelve shots is not nothing, but
it's it's not a ton when you're

480
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:07.519
getting ran off the floor in the
NCATE tournament. So yeah, I don't

481
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.400
know, and I think this is
not really gonna change for Dwan Harris.

482
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:15.239
He's either just gonna have to magically
become like a fifty five percent shooter from

483
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.920
the field, or this is gonna
be the exact same thing is next year,

484
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:22.679
which is plenty good enough to win
a lot of games. But it's

485
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:28.679
not. It's it's a very flawed
kind of style. Remy was such a

486
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:30.639
perfect I don't know who is the
Batman and who is the Robin, but

487
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:35.840
maybe you just say they were the
perfect one two punch. Remy was the

488
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.920
perfect counterpart for Harris. That National
Championship second half shows it. Harris started

489
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:44.719
and keyed that comeback on the defensive
end. He had multiple steals, he

490
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:47.360
had multiple assists. He was and
you go back and watch I know that

491
00:34:47.480 --> 00:34:51.840
we love Remy Martin and Remy had
all the big shots down the stretch for

492
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:54.679
him. He did, he made
the plays late. But it was Whenever,

493
00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.880
but North Carolina's offense was really bad
to start the second half, and

494
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.480
it was Whenever self whitched Martin back
out there for Harris that the offense for

495
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:06.880
UNC started to get going. They
just played perfectly together, and it would

496
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.360
be so great to be able to
go get a point a score first.

497
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:15.719
Marco Jackson oh, very much like
he's very much like Green and Morning.

498
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:20.840
All right, let's talk about Alamarco
Jackson. Here, he had seven garbage

499
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:27.000
time points and two turnovers and seventeen
minutes this tournament, he had seven turnovers

500
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:31.000
to six baskets. Uh. He
concludes his freshman season fifty two baskets,

501
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:35.880
fifty one turnovers, and seventy one
fouls. And also, in case that

502
00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.400
wasn't bad enough, a team worse
twenty seven percent three point right I I

503
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:45.639
people on Twitter get so sensitive whenever
you criticize players. Marco Jackson's bad at

504
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:50.159
Mike two six three eight two five
two four, Well, yo, with

505
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:53.000
for a different team, then we
support our Jayhawks the same twit, the

506
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:58.440
same account hates Hunter Dickinson. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hunter's not a

507
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.480
real Jayhawk. El Mark Jackson's got
to go. I do not want to

508
00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:06.280
see us scholars and everybody's like,
well look at Tyane Grant Foster enough,

509
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.280
stop please just stop, just stop. No. No. Somebody said that

510
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:14.239
somebody had a really good analogy that
says we gotta let the product cook in

511
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:16.599
the oven and stop trying to microwave
it and be surprised why it tastes bad.

512
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:21.039
That's not the worst analogy, but
the portal nowadays, you can go

513
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:23.159
find a guy that can shoot better
than Almarco Jackson. If you are a

514
00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:29.039
guard and you cannot shoot, you
are dead. To me. Yeah,

515
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.719
he's gonna be an odd one because
he says he's coming back, which you

516
00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:35.079
know who else said that, sir? You know who else said that a

517
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:38.320
week before the season ended, Bobby
Pettiford and Joe Yesafu. He hasn't had

518
00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:42.400
his exit meeting with Bill self yet. Yeah, sure enough, And I

519
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.559
think there's a very good chance that
happens if indeed he does come back,

520
00:36:47.079 --> 00:36:53.199
as long if he plays the exact
same role next season as he finished the

521
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:58.920
year playing this year when they had
the full rotation, that's what you're looking

522
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:00.920
for. And I think that's fine, And I think he has a chance

523
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:04.800
to be a not disgusting player because
I think another year in the system he

524
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.280
could be better, at least a
little bit, at least playably better.

525
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:12.480
He had a couple of nice dunks. He can't shoot. He's not very

526
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:16.159
good defensively. He can't He's a
freaking he was listed as a combo point

527
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:19.800
guard and he can't handle the ball. Well, he doesn't turn it over.

528
00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:24.719
He falls down every time he gribbles
in space. You cannot know.

529
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:28.400
And that's why I think he really
can't play much more than that kind of

530
00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:30.159
role next year if he does come
back, because why why would you try

531
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:37.480
that? You have a Harris and
you have two freshmen air force next year.

532
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.920
Yes, yes, he's a nice
guy. He's worked hard. He's

533
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.159
worse than Bryce Thompson. He's worse
than than than MJ. Rice because he

534
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:49.320
didn't get the shot with injury out. I'm dye on that hill and he's

535
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.079
Oh my gosh, is he worse
than Josh Selby? Josh Shelby was a

536
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:58.400
disappointment Shelby. Please stop saying he's
worse than He's better than Selby and grind

537
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.880
He's not two games. Yes,
Selby broke his foot, and Grimes was

538
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:07.559
a competent player, if not oh
and if not unspectacular, he was a

539
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.800
He was a serviceable player on a
four seed. El Marco has had more

540
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:17.639
freaking turnovers than baskets enough. I
hope it works for el Marco, I

541
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:21.800
do. I hope he goes to
a different school like Bryce Thompson and it

542
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:25.159
works. He can't shoot. Let
him figure it out somewhere else, and

543
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:29.760
that's probably likely. And another guy
who would do that if he wasn't like

544
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:32.800
in college for his twelfth year is
Nick Timberlake. He finishes the game with

545
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:37.840
nine points, two threes, six
rebounds in thirty two minutes. His career

546
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:42.360
is indeed over, but at least
he went from over uh thirty percent from

547
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:45.840
three thanks to this game. That's
what a mark for Nick Timberlake thirty point

548
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:52.320
two. Jamar mcdal had three points
in seven minutes. The Walkuns played at

549
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.400
the end, as they typically do
when Bill self loses tournament games, and

550
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:01.559
my only Timberlake blurb is the one
of the first questions the reporter asked to

551
00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:06.119
him is did you make the right
decision coming to Kansas? And he just

552
00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:07.320
looked at him, like what what? What do you even want me to?

553
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:09.320
What? What do you want me? Can we can we stop?

554
00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:15.239
We can we start taking press passes
from these lousy ass cracker jack reporters who

555
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:20.039
in the world Duke would have made
his career better? Right? What do

556
00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.159
you want to say? No,
man, I wish I didn't come here.

557
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:25.480
This place sucks like what I hated
my time I had a bad time.

558
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:28.840
I wish I know, yeah,
done this just hard? Did you

559
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:32.559
see the reporter ask Matt Painter,
I know you guys are probably gonna win.

560
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.000
But and Painter looked at him like, what the hell are you talking

561
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:37.679
about? He interrupts him and goes, whoa, wha, Well, this

562
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:42.639
is March madness. Everybody's really good, Like I feel like that the reporters

563
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:45.480
have just lost their mind recently.
No, Matt Paine was like, who

564
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:47.480
whoa, whoa have you seen this
lose in the past five seasons. That's

565
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:51.760
a tournament. We have a great
chance of losing, thank you very much.

566
00:39:52.119 --> 00:40:00.760
And they look like winning. My
watch which car dealership well Timberlake be

567
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:07.320
working for in a month? I
assume that's I heard. Hi, I

568
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:13.400
get yourself a nice new Chevy Cruise
at a Laithakia. I'm Nick Timberlake.

569
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:16.880
Make sure your March isn't a bust
like mine. It's like the post It's

570
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:22.840
like the post NL job offer this
I made for miles of the gallon than

571
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:25.559
my three point percentage. Hi,
I'm Neck Timberlake, and I get thirty

572
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:30.000
dollars and thirty cents every time I
sell a car, which is the percentage

573
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:34.239
of threes. I made my last
season of Kansas. Our warranty on all

574
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:37.559
of our new vehicles is six years. It's a long time, and that's

575
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:42.800
how long I've been in college.
And if it busts like we made your

576
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:46.840
bracket due, we got a twelve
month warranty yours for no extra charge.

577
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.400
Oh, I meant to push h
We got any closing thoughts your future,

578
00:40:54.480 --> 00:41:00.719
ladies and gentlemen, Yeah, that's
it's a glimpse into El Marco jack future

579
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.480
is all right, guys, we
got a real tough one night against a

580
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:06.719
cane, but if we catch him, I think we can win this conference

581
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:08.400
championship. All right, let's go
team on three. No. I don't

582
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:12.400
want to bag on Almarco Jackson too
much, but you got two stud freshman

583
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:16.199
point guard prospects coming in. Uh
Flon can really shoot the ball, pass

584
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:21.199
more, does more things than than
al Marco Kann. Neither of those guys

585
00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:23.079
should lose minutes to a guard that
he'll be a great Big West guard.

586
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:27.800
Yep, yeah, yep. He
can go play in the Big West and

587
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:31.239
dunk every six games and make people
at s And he's I'm Eastern Washington al

588
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:36.519
Marco Jackson. I'm sure he's a
great dude. But in the transfer portal,

589
00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:39.960
when there's guys that can shoot,
and you already with Harris and Timberlake

590
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:45.440
on our Timberlake, with Harris and
Dickinson on your roster, you kind of

591
00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:49.079
know you need to surround those guys
with shooters. I don't need another good

592
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:53.760
de plus defender, combo guard that
can't shoot, no please, And I

593
00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:59.199
think Bill self is probably gonna make
some moves too if Bill's I will say

594
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:02.239
this, if Bill self keeps telling
Marco Jackson, I expect el Marco Jackson

595
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:06.920
to have a very nice sophomore season, because that does not feel like the

596
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:10.920
sort of move that self will break
the trend and bring back underwhelming freshman unless

597
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:17.440
he sees something. Probably look at
me just blindly trusting freaking Bill and his

598
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.719
four first weekend losses in the last
five tournaments. The guy who didn't try

599
00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:28.960
to switch one GEDD MF thing with
that pick and roll defense, And they

600
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:30.239
asked him after the game, He's
like, well, I can't just play

601
00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:34.920
a different zone. We hadn't practiced
that olden by all means, go ahead,

602
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.199
keep playing the one that was working. Quite so well in the whole

603
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.559
second half, Bill, I'm glad
we didn't try anything else ever, just

604
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:45.960
just Mark freaking few who do they
also get like gosh, Mark Fu looks

605
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:49.320
terrible. He looks like a freaking
yetti out there. Do they not have

606
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.679
a dental planetaint Zaga? What in
the hell is going on with Mark Fu?

607
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:58.039
He's a weird wolf and he kicks
Bill selfs ash twice now in four

608
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:06.880
years final, I think that's thirty
from the floor from three out of nowhere,

609
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:09.960
yay, six from the free throw
line, minus five on the glass,

610
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:15.760
minus two turning the ball over.
None of those des are horrendous.

611
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:17.719
Well, I guess some of them
are, but that doesn't scream. They

612
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:24.360
lost by twenty one. Nick,
Kansas final loss the year, uh,

613
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:31.159
perhaps your final Kansas March loss recaps. It's such a fall from grace.

614
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:36.960
Two years ago we were celebrating a
national championship, and my departure on this

615
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:42.639
show is a twenty point loss to
Gonzaga in the second round. Anyats on

616
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:47.280
this season as a whole, Nick, here was games very disappointing. I

617
00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:51.360
mean, anything other than that is
you know, start number one overall?

618
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.880
Just yeah, just a fall from
grace. But it's the worst. It's

619
00:43:55.920 --> 00:44:00.000
the worst season. Yeah, era, it is. It's the worst season.

620
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.280
But it's just I think it was
over before began. That's my hot

621
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:08.119
take with with Arterio Morris being out, they were soaked thin at the beginning.

622
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:13.639
Yeah, I wish self would have
added someone before the end of the

623
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:19.960
year, but man, what a
it's like a balloon deflating. They were

624
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:23.800
thirteen and one when the game in
Orlando tipped off, and they wound up

625
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:28.719
going what ten and eleven in the
last twenty one games. Yeah, that's

626
00:44:29.079 --> 00:44:31.360
that's shocking. Yeah, it's the
worst season in the celf Era. They

627
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:34.880
finished fifth in the Big twelve and
they didn't make the second weekend of the

628
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:37.800
tournament. Like those are you literally
can't do that. He's never done worse.

629
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:43.679
He's never not He's never done worse
than that. So it's pretty disappointing,

630
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:45.719
especially whenever you consider that it started
with the preseason number one team in

631
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:50.760
the Land and a team that looked
like that they were playing really well for

632
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.679
quite a while and then yeah,
then they also they had their well I

633
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:57.519
also want to add too, like
Land and I were really skeptical early on

634
00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:02.480
because of how they played against Eastern
Illinois. They did not look skeptical.

635
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:08.000
When they lost to Illinois and the
exhibition, you were like, hmm,

636
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:12.480
that's kind of strange. They can't
shoot very well. They didn't look very

637
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:15.920
good throughout the timber Lake even shot
the ball well early. That's what we

638
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:19.800
said. I remember us saying like, somebody other than Timberlake has to step

639
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:22.920
up, and Timberlake didn't step up, and oof drop. You've heard a

640
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:28.440
few times, yeah, that this
roster wasn't the best fit together. I'm

641
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:30.159
not gonna sit here and be like, oh, imagine if they had had

642
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:34.960
Ourtario. That's not the question.
The question is imagine if they had the

643
00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:38.760
roster spot used on somebody else,
because Ourtario never should have been a Jayhawk

644
00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:43.239
based off of what happened to Texas, and they went for it, and

645
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:45.360
people are like, oh, is
a high risk Hyer. No stop that.

646
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:51.440
Let's just pretend that they instead chose
to go after somebody that they wouldn't

647
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:54.880
have to worry about if he would
behave well enough to still be a contributor.

648
00:45:55.079 --> 00:45:58.480
Hell, in game one, I
was gonna say in March, but

649
00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:00.559
he didn't make it a late night
that's when it got off the rails.

650
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:05.119
They didn't have the athletes, they
didn't have the shooting Artario could have helped

651
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:08.119
with both those things. Then they
were still okay for a while for their

652
00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:12.559
standards. They were still going to
be a two seed until mccullor got hurt.

653
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.679
What were they sixteen and three whenever
mccullor got hurt during the Cincinnati game,

654
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:19.880
I think it was, and then
like losing record after that too,

655
00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:22.559
So that's when it all fell apart. I we knew around the time that

656
00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:27.119
they lost to West Virginia that something
was up. I think, yeah,

657
00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:30.119
the sorry go Aheadlanin No, I
was just gonna I was just gonna say

658
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:37.400
that. Unfortunately, the concerns,
which at the time I didn't even think,

659
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:43.239
we're one hundred percent founded that KU
playing pretty poorly against teams like Eastern

660
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:47.159
Illinois and not looking great against UMKC
and Gale and stuff like that. Indiana

661
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:52.480
wasn't good games like that. Yeah, in Missouri they beat Missouri by eight.

662
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:57.599
Yeah, like these very mediocre teams. At the time, I was

663
00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.679
like, I think Kansas is just
kind of playing down to their opponent,

664
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:07.519
especially when you consider like they beat
Tennessee and they beat Yukon, and they

665
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:12.960
played well in other games, like
they held around with a very good Marquette

666
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:15.639
team before they kind of put them
away. But I thought, hey,

667
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:20.480
we're gonna enter conference player. I
remember saying this early. We'll see if

668
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:24.639
that holds with Kansas. If that
style of play holds, I didn't think

669
00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:29.199
it really would, and for a
minute in conference play I didn't think it

670
00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:34.239
was. But unfortunately they were never
able to shake that. And that was

671
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:39.000
something that did indeed factor in for
the entirety of their season was that they

672
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:45.119
just did not have an X factor, especially away from home. Yes,

673
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:47.400
they won some big games as I
alluded to earlier, Yukon, Houston,

674
00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:52.159
Baylor, they played some very good
games and won against very good teams who

675
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:59.760
were playing past when they are.
But that was a problem for kansasll year

676
00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:02.719
was that they just really had no
no X factor, no get up and

677
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:07.519
go at any point on the road
or away from Allen Field House, and

678
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:13.000
that is what ended up getting them. What I find more concerning than this

679
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:15.719
season alone, like scratch this season. I know Bills've had a down year,

680
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:21.760
but the transfer portal is just this
shows how unsustainable this whole thing is

681
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:24.119
like you used to be able to
get recruits, Like way back in the

682
00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:27.840
old days, you used to be
able to get recruits and maybe get at

683
00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:30.960
least two to three years out of
them. And now it's like you're picking

684
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:34.000
up because you need experience. People
realize you need experiencing. And see a

685
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:36.719
tournament. You see Kentucky losing in
the first round. So you go pick

686
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:39.679
up all these seniors and super seniors
in the transfer portal and you're turning them

687
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:43.239
over the next year and you got
to go find them again, and you're

688
00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.079
just hoping that you can. It's
basically like taking different colors of play though

689
00:48:46.119 --> 00:48:50.079
and trying to like push them together
and make something cool out of it.

690
00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:54.079
And it's just it just doesn't work
sometimes and some Yukon's figured it out,

691
00:48:54.239 --> 00:49:00.519
but overall, like the transfer portal
is just really just ruined any continuity,

692
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:05.639
continuity in the in the in the
college basketball gave landscape. I mean,

693
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:07.480
you look at women's basketball, we're
like where they're not going pro. There's

694
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:12.840
not as much transferring happening as the
men because the nil is less important.

695
00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:15.079
Let's just be honest, there is
a chalk you know, it's chalk.

696
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:20.039
These teams are very good. They're
good year after year college basketball, the

697
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:22.760
men's Yeah, it's a top few
top teams that are good every year.

698
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.679
But it's so unpredictable. I don't
know how Bill wants to keep coaching in

699
00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:29.800
this environment. Yeah, that's that's
the thing. You've seen a lot of

700
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.920
coaches. I mean, look how
quickly Roy Williams, coach K Jim Beheim,

701
00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:38.079
those guys got out whenever the recruiting
change like that. So it is

702
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:40.800
interesting. We'll have some more with
the ascarcbs. But now it's well the

703
00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:45.840
airhorn and talk about how basically every
other higher seed one except for the one

704
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:52.599
we receive it Bill other games.
Let's recap the second round of the NCAA

705
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.519
tournament. I always get the first
bracket Landon, Why don't you start?

706
00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:59.239
Then Nick can go and I'll go
third. So we'll go in a different

707
00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:01.679
rotation orders time. I let's do
it round to thirty two. Here we

708
00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:08.320
go in East Yukon. They continue
their march to being the first team to

709
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:13.280
repeat in a long long time since
six oh seven Florida as they take down

710
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.519
Northwestern seventy five to fifty eight.
I didn't get to see too many of

711
00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:21.519
the Sunday game. Both had a
pretty busy day, but Yukon seemingly never

712
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:25.360
never really endo out there. They
marched on a pretty good Northwestern team and

713
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.000
they handled their business a game that
just went final. Yukon will play San

714
00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:35.280
Diego State in the Sweet sixteen next
week. San Dieo State absolutely rolls Yale

715
00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:39.480
eighty five to fifty seven game never
close San Diego State in a rematch of

716
00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:44.880
the National championship game from last season. They continue to look good. Do

717
00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:47.719
you think they have any chance to
upset the Huskies? Nick? I don't

718
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.199
think so. Yukon is just a
bulldozer right now. I mean Yukon eventually,

719
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:55.119
eventually, Yukon is gonna play a
game, but they don't win by

720
00:50:55.199 --> 00:51:00.920
thirteen. No defending champion has made
the Elite eight in and what I think

721
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:04.519
we're on seventeen years now, it
was oh seven Florida, which is what

722
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.000
they are trying to do. They
need to beat San Diego State to do

723
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.840
it, as Techs have played with
defense in the first game and they won

724
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:13.639
with offense in the second game.
Yes, I think this is going to

725
00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:15.519
be a game that's decided by single
digits. I still think Yukon wins,

726
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:20.559
but San Diego State clearly they have. I mean, geez, they've won

727
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:22.840
what seven NCAA Tournament games the last
two years? Like they have been They've

728
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:28.119
been really good in the postseason eight
now five plus two? Right, they

729
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:30.239
didn't win six, Yukon won eight. Oh yeah, Yukon won six.

730
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:34.920
Yeah yeah, San Diego State,
Yukon's the only reason that San Diego State's

731
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.880
not an eight in the bottom half
of that region. Illinois also looking very

732
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:43.639
strong. I think Illinois one of
the three or so Bass teams in the

733
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.280
tournament, and they looked the part
as they rolled to Kne eighty nine to

734
00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:51.239
sixty three. In other game not
particularly close. Terrence Shannon continues his excellent

735
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:53.239
form. They were going to take
on big twelve zone Iowa State, the

736
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:58.119
two seed. Washington State gave him
a game for a while that was close,

737
00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:02.480
but the Cyclones pull away late and
they finished strong to get the eleven

738
00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:07.639
point wins sixty seven fifty six.
So are we are we all on Yukon

739
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.639
Illinois or do we think Iowa State
gets gets into the lead eight here,

740
00:52:12.599 --> 00:52:16.119
Nick, I think Iowa State's gonna
win. I don't trust Illinois. See

741
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:19.599
I don't trust Iowa. I say
I trust Illinois a lot more on I

742
00:52:19.599 --> 00:52:22.320
trust Iowa State. Yeah, I
think Iowa States had the easiest path to

743
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:27.519
the second weekend of any of the
ones and the twos, if we're being

744
00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:31.400
honest, like Washington State, Okay, I think Iowa States. Ioy played

745
00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:37.400
Ducaine and Morehead State. That Yeah, I guess the the that is true.

746
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:39.800
They got the benefit of not having
to play BYU. But Illinois can

747
00:52:39.880 --> 00:52:44.039
put up points. I think they
win, and I still think I'm gonna

748
00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:45.960
go with what I had in my
original bracket. I think Illinois upsets Yukon

749
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:51.400
in the ely d eight. Okay, I think it's very possible. I

750
00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:55.719
think I think Illinois is money,
but I'm still betting Yukon because they are

751
00:52:55.960 --> 00:53:00.519
an absolute machine. They're a wagon
for sure. All Right, take the

752
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:04.119
South region. This is unsharded waters
for you. Normally, I feel like

753
00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:07.360
you've gotten the Midwest. Let's see
if you can handle the South. Yeah.

754
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:09.280
Well, the game that just wrapped
up as we were recording. We

755
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:13.400
saw the buzzer beater at the end
of the regulation. But Texas A and

756
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:16.559
m unlike Kansas in two thousand and
eight, was unable to take their buzzer

757
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:22.360
beating game tying shot two oh victory. They lose to Houston in the overtime

758
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.559
period one hundred and to ninety five. When is the last time the Houston

759
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:30.119
Cougar scored one hundred points in a
basketball game. It's been gave up ninety

760
00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:37.880
five And this was one of the
worst officiated games ever. Houston starting five

761
00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:44.400
had twenty four fouls. That's one
under the maximum possible. Here, they

762
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:49.119
had walk on shooting free throws.
In the end, they were up thirteen

763
00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:52.519
with like two minutes left, A
and M forces overtime and then just runs

764
00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:55.519
out of gas. Houston would not
have survived a second overtime with who was

765
00:53:55.519 --> 00:54:00.000
still on the court. Shark fouled
out, Crier fouled out. Shed found

766
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:02.800
that, like my goodness, just
a wild game. Game of the tournament

767
00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:07.920
thus far. That's hard to beat
though, because you had Colorado beat Florida

768
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:12.719
one hundred and two to hundred.
Yeah, they will be facing the Duke

769
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:15.199
Blue Devils. They beat James,
they beat a president, a dead president.

770
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:19.920
Glad they could beat a dead president
ninety three to fifty five. The

771
00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.920
Dukes are out of the tournament good
thirty and thirty three in four season or

772
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:29.760
whatever, but they did the Blue
Devils to everyone's surprise, or in the

773
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:36.159
sweet sixteen to set a match versus
Houston. Any comments on Duke with how

774
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:39.719
you've seen so far, They're really
good. They looked Austin today. They

775
00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:44.840
put it on James Madison. Yeah, I think they're gonna lose to Houston.

776
00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:47.400
However, the fatigue factor is interesting. Houston just played an extra quarter

777
00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:50.360
of a game. They do get
five days off. I don't know,

778
00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:52.159
Landa, what do you think that
Duke's one of the foremost talented teams.

779
00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:55.480
They're more talented than Houston. I
don't think they're only as well coach though,

780
00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:00.440
that's the tiebreaker. Yeah, I
think that is very like. Duke

781
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:05.719
has played very organized basketball in what
I've seen of them so far in the

782
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:09.519
tournament. They have also be a
twelve. That's also true. That's also

783
00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:15.679
true. They dominated a good twelve, though Houston obviously a much different animal

784
00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:17.920
than that. It's hard to bet
against them, but I think Duke'll give

785
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:21.960
him a run. I think it'll
be I think it'll be close, close

786
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:25.199
for a while, and then in
the bottom of the bracket. The eleven

787
00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:30.480
versus fourteen interesting matchup in the second
round they are, but in C State

788
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:35.760
continues their hot streak in this March
run. They win against the Oakland Golden

789
00:55:35.840 --> 00:55:39.480
Grizzlies and they will be playing Marquette. Shaka Smart made it to the second

790
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:46.159
weekend a really close game against Colorado. Eddie Lampkin been fantastics this season,

791
00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:51.440
but the Buffalo's run ins there.
Do we all like Marquette to be playing

792
00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:55.119
Houston and the elit eight? Yeah? I think so, I think.

793
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:59.679
But every time we go against n
C State, Man Golkie only made six

794
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:01.960
three in this and that was a
great game that went to overtime. They've

795
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:06.960
won seven games in twelve days and
C State has really makes you not feel

796
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:10.119
too bad Whenever Bill self says that
the Jayhawks were fatigued with their three games

797
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:15.480
in two weeks. The Marquette Colorado
game six players in the rotation, that's

798
00:56:15.559 --> 00:56:19.920
true, doesn't help. Tyler Kullak
is a difference maker twenty one points,

799
00:56:19.960 --> 00:56:23.519
eleven assists. Colorado really just had
a like they were right there in the

800
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.920
second half and they just were disorganized
down the stretch. I think Marquette wins,

801
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:35.639
Shaka's first second weekend appearance in his
last ten tries. Svincent's twenty eleven

802
00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:37.079
no idea. What happened at the
end of that run. Yes, I

803
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:42.159
think Marquette wins, but I think
this is Houston's Houston's region to lose.

804
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:51.239
That's my turn, isn't it?
The Midwest where number one per Due just

805
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:54.719
absolutely sat on Utah State and won
by almost forty one hundred and six to

806
00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:59.679
sixty seven. And one of the
It's a good thing that we are not

807
00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:06.159
in side Utah State Athletics podcast because
they're some of their coaching decisions. They

808
00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.679
got some early foul trouble on their
bigs. They have a seven footer that

809
00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:13.079
was supposed to go to toe too
with Edie, and they immediately set them

810
00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:15.280
on the bench. This was a
game for about ten minutes. It was

811
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:17.400
like twenty Yeah, it's twenty four
to twenty three. They led through twelve

812
00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:21.760
minutes, and the coach just decided, Nope, I'm not putting our bigs

813
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:24.079
back in there. With two first
half fouls, and what happened. Purdue

814
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:28.840
opens up a huge lead and the
game was over risk the third foul.

815
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.239
Shockingly, nobody wound up fouling out. It's okay to risk a third foul.

816
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:36.039
It's not a fifth foul, it's
just a third. You can still

817
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:38.840
play with three. What constitutes foul
trouble in you guys's minds. For me,

818
00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:43.800
it's four fouls at any point,
or three fouls in the first half.

819
00:57:43.920 --> 00:57:46.239
That's it. That's the only time
you're in foul trouble. Uh,

820
00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:50.639
that's pretty good interpretation. I'd say, if you have three in the first,

821
00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:54.440
like four minutes of the second half, that's probably foul trouble. But

822
00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:59.239
Bill doesn't even pull them if they
have three that early in the second half.

823
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:01.719
He'll pull you if you have three
with one second left in the first

824
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:05.840
half, but he will not pull
you if you have three with nineteen fifty

825
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:09.119
nine left in the second half,
which makes no sense of course. And

826
00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:12.800
Hunter, yeah, picked up a
second foul with one second left. So

827
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:15.920
maybe we'll eventually have have a way
to do that. Perdue will be playing.

828
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.119
I'm not quite sure. Does anybody
here know what happened in the other

829
00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:23.280
results of Oh hey, you know
what, Hey, I see I see

830
00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:28.280
a one seed, a two seed
in a three seed in the sweet sixteen

831
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:30.360
in the Midwest. That means the
four seed is there right too, chalk

832
00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:37.760
Ash, If only sir, if
only Perdue plays Gonzaga, I think Gonzaga

833
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:39.199
is about to get their doors blown
off of them. But you know what,

834
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:43.239
if I hope it's close, I
hope Gonzaga wins, but I don't

835
00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:50.960
think it's going to be close.
You guys got to take I think yeah.

836
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:54.480
And then the bottom half here,
two good games. Number three Creighton

837
00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:59.800
out last number eleven Oregon in two
overtimes. They wound up winning by thirteen,

838
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:02.039
but it was in double overtime.
Oregon should have won this game.

839
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:06.599
They were up by a bucket and
had the ball missed a couple free throws.

840
00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:09.599
The Ducks I think are the scarier
team honestly than Creighton was. I

841
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:14.280
know, Creighton's pretty good. And
then Rick Barnes almost Rick Barnes and an

842
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:16.800
ugly sixty two to fifty eight win
over number seven Texas. Truly, the

843
00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:21.119
Rick Barnes Bowl would have would be
no better setting for him to Rick Barnes

844
00:59:21.159 --> 00:59:25.519
himself. But Rodney Terry, future
Burger flipper, Rodney Terry called a great

845
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:30.599
play call. They are down three
with twenty seconds left, where Max Abemis

846
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:35.960
basically launched the ball from mars and
it didn't even come close. And Rodney

847
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.320
Terry was looking like, huh,
I can't believe my play call didn't work,

848
00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:44.760
as he rubbed his gigantic flyglasses.
I think Tennessee beat Creighton, but

849
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:47.840
I have this is the chokers region
here. We got Painter, we got

850
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:53.320
Barnes, we got McDermott, and
we got Few. We got four perennial

851
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:57.960
losers before they should lose in this
tournament. I'm got to get to the

852
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.920
final four. That's the weird part. Yeah, I derm it. I

853
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:04.800
think I think Creighton's got a pretty
good chance. No, yeah, I

854
01:00:05.039 --> 01:00:10.320
like Tennessee. They can't score,
uh, but they're but I think you

855
01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:15.320
guys are are falling in love a
little bit with the with the highlight tapes

856
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:17.719
of that. I don't think Creighton's
good either. I'm gonna pick Tennessee,

857
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:24.840
but I think the regions matchup.
If Purdue doesn't win this region, it's

858
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:30.000
never happening. This is their chance, all right, And I guess it

859
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:31.840
goes back to you. I guess
you get an all you can in US.

860
01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:37.880
I'm here back on the West,
rounding out the bracket Here North Carolina

861
01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:40.400
despite an early scare for Michigan State. Michigan State jumped out to an early

862
01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:44.679
double digital lead, but then North
Carolina went on a huge run never looked

863
01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:47.199
back. Wins that game eighty five
sixty nine where they will play Alabama,

864
01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:53.119
who takes down the fighting Tyon Grant
Fosters and Grand Canyon in a game we

865
01:00:53.199 --> 01:00:55.840
thought was gonna be like one hundred
to one hundred and six ended up being

866
01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:00.400
seventy two sixty one. Not quite
the fireworks show we were hoping for.

867
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:04.079
Alabama does get by. That should
be a fun one between the Tar Heels

868
01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:07.039
and the Tide. I think the
Tar Hiels are going to get them.

869
01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:08.719
I think they're the much more well
rounded team. But you never can have

870
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:14.199
Alabama's offense. So the thing with
this Alabama. They wound up winning the

871
01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:15.920
game by eleven, but it was
a one point game. With four minutes

872
01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:21.440
left. Alabama scored the last ten
total runout of gas by Grand Canyon Tyan

873
01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:23.880
Grant Foster twenty nine points and eight
rebounds. He's legitimately one of the ten

874
01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:28.199
best players in the country. He
also gets to play free, which Bill

875
01:01:28.280 --> 01:01:30.599
self would never allow. That loose
of eleish on him, and he did

876
01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:32.880
miss a bunch of shots in this
game, but they were going as far

877
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:35.880
as he took him. I'm with
you, Lanta, and I think you

878
01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:38.880
and C wins. But Alabama's got
an offense that should be a high scoring

879
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:42.559
game. The defense is what get
him. Also, I read online that

880
01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.519
you and C the average age of
their starting five is basically the same as

881
01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:51.000
the Oklahoma City Thunder. It's drawn
up by the fact that Armando Baycot is

882
01:01:51.079 --> 01:01:54.679
celebrating his thirty eighth birthday next month
and he's still dunking basketball's at UNC.

883
01:01:55.079 --> 01:01:59.840
Nick, you think the Tar Heels
advance. I don't like North Carolina,

884
01:01:59.880 --> 01:02:05.480
but they do have kind of an
easier draw Alabama's. The wheels are gonna

885
01:02:05.519 --> 01:02:08.360
fall off for Alabama soon. I'm
gonna say that again. I think I

886
01:02:08.400 --> 01:02:13.039
almost trust Nate Oates more than Hubert
too, But I yeah, I North

887
01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:15.880
Carolina is the better team, and
then bottom half of the region Landon Uh

888
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:19.960
not good. If you're a Big
twelve fan. Yeah, it's bye twenty

889
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:24.440
seven from Ray J. Dennis.
Clemson. Number six seed Clemson takes down

890
01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:29.800
the Baylor Bears by eight seventy two. Sixty four to get to the sweet

891
01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:35.599
sixteen. Baylor was a decently popular
final four pick for some and they go

892
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:39.159
down pretty early, same weekend as
the Jayhawks, and then Scott Drew rant

893
01:02:39.199 --> 01:02:43.679
here one second before you go,
I we need to play the draw because

894
01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:49.239
there's some evidence that's been brought to
my attention about Scott Drew boom. Scott

895
01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:52.320
Drew's a great coach, He's got
a ring. We think that he's the

896
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.119
top prospect for a lot of these
head coaching vacancies. But Scott Drew has

897
01:02:55.199 --> 01:03:00.519
made the second weekend of the NCAA
tournament one time since two thy fourteen.

898
01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:05.159
That was ten years ago. He's
a three seed this year, didn't make

899
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:07.960
it a three seed last year,
didn't make it a one seed the year

900
01:03:07.000 --> 01:03:10.519
before that, didn't make it three
seed back in twenty fifteen, lost to

901
01:03:10.599 --> 01:03:14.599
a fourteen in the first round,
number one for most of the year in

902
01:03:14.639 --> 01:03:17.280
twenty seventeen, barely made this week
sixteen, then lost. I don't know,

903
01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:22.559
like it's it's a little underwhelming.
I'm glad they got that title because

904
01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:24.840
otherwise I think we'd be talking about
Scott Drew like a lot of people talk

905
01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:29.960
about Matt Paynter and Rick Barnes.
That's true, but the one thing that

906
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:34.000
separates is that he did indeed win
that title, winning a show and then

907
01:03:34.079 --> 01:03:37.719
running out at all. In the
round of thirty two, Number two,

908
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:42.119
Arizona takes down seven day and seventy
eight sixty eight in a game that was

909
01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:46.440
never really all that close. They'll
go play Clemson. I think we're gonna

910
01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:51.079
see North Carolina make their way to
the Final four. If I'm being honest,

911
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:53.199
I mean it's out in Phoenix,
or isn't it? Or no,

912
01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:57.320
that's where the is that where the
final fourth? Final four? Phoenix's in

913
01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:00.320
Los Angeles, So Arizona should have
a pretty distinct CREWD advantage there. I

914
01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:05.280
was hoping we'd see Grand Canyon and
Arizona in LA for a pretty split house.

915
01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:09.400
I think Arizona goes to the final
four. I think that I trust

916
01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:11.920
them better than you and c and
I think we get to see the Caleb

917
01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:15.639
love Bull. Hope you like bricks, You're gonna get a lot of the

918
01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:18.360
UK they play. All right,
let's get on with the ask GARCB questions.

919
01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:23.760
All Right, Nick, you've done
an incredible job. I know this

920
01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:26.760
is way past your bedtime. And
I know you hate ASCARCB. Are you

921
01:04:26.880 --> 01:04:30.760
sure you want to finish the show
and do a bunch of ASCARCB questions?

922
01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:34.039
I'm giving you the tap out chance
here. I'm in too deep, all

923
01:04:34.119 --> 01:04:36.920
right, I like it. Let's
blow through these quickly. Here we go.

924
01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:41.800
Once I hear an answer, we
will move along. This can be

925
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:45.760
a whole bunch of random questions here. Let's see here at rock Chalking.

926
01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:48.760
If Zach Clements won't be back next
year, what in the world was the

927
01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:53.639
point of him red shirting? Great
question? So it can idea so he

928
01:04:53.719 --> 01:04:58.559
can, so he can save eligibility
to go play at Eastern Washington. Yeah,

929
01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:00.159
I was gonna say, so he
can and look more appealing. He

930
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:03.039
can say that he sat out at
Kansas. I don't know. At Zigg's

931
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:08.880
Weed Dickinson gets a lot of hate, which ku Big Ben under self.

932
01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:15.360
Would you rather have than them than
him? Maybe? Udoka? My answer

933
01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:20.079
is none of them, Robinson,
Robinson, but here but I don't.

934
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:25.199
Okay, So that's obviously if I
put that pull out, Oh wow,

935
01:05:25.199 --> 01:05:30.199
would people it would be ninety ten. I think that Hunter Dickinson, I'm

936
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:31.800
not gonna say he's a better player
than Thomas Robinson, because I don't know

937
01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:36.880
that's true. Thomas Robinson also wasn't
a center. But like I, I

938
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:41.960
don't think if you put the right
pieces around him, I don't think there's

939
01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:48.280
a huge difference in their games.
I don't know, Like I'm taking yeah,

940
01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:53.920
but Thomas Robinson wasn't. I don't
think Thomas Robinson altered as many shots

941
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:58.159
as Hunter does. I don't know. I well, we know we altered

942
01:05:58.199 --> 01:06:00.960
the biggest shot ever in his basketball
history. Well, you want to know

943
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:05.239
what helped Thomas Robinson The fact all
what helped him is he didn't have to

944
01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:09.519
play the center because he played alongside
the best defensive player in the history of

945
01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:13.199
the Big Twelve. That helped he
had Jeff with You alongside him. I

946
01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:15.039
love Jeff with You. I wouldn't
take with You over Dickinson either. He's

947
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:18.760
not as good of an offensive player. That probably is the ultimate question.

948
01:06:19.119 --> 01:06:24.440
Dickinson and with You are probably pretty
even players all things considered. Dickinson good

949
01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:29.400
on offense, amazing on defense.
To uh, Dickinson is a or with

950
01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:32.480
the was a great defensive player at
the offense, which just kind of he

951
01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:36.800
took what was given to him and
Dickinson is the opposite, amazing on offense

952
01:06:36.880 --> 01:06:41.119
and not the best defense. I
would take him over everybody. I take

953
01:06:41.159 --> 01:06:43.840
him over Cole, I take him
over Doke, I take him over Dickinson.

954
01:06:44.119 --> 01:06:46.960
You guys are going to see what
happens whenever you put how cheez dope

955
01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:49.519
couldn't create his own shot and he
had two of the best passers in the

956
01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:53.280
history of the program, and Dodson
and Garrett throwing him the lobs all the

957
01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:55.840
time. What do you think Dickinson's
numbers would look like with those guys.

958
01:06:56.480 --> 01:07:00.079
They wouldn't dunk the ball. Nobody
would go in just as much. It

959
01:07:00.119 --> 01:07:04.639
would count as the same two points. I don't know. I don't like

960
01:07:04.719 --> 01:07:09.360
Hunter Dickinson as much as you,
that's for sure. At DJ Radar,

961
01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:14.000
did head coach Bill selves health scare
impact the recruiting this year? Very possibly

962
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:18.639
could be. Also, everybody who
acts like Chris Johnson and Marcus Adams leaving

963
01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:21.559
had an impact on this team.
No, what didn't Bill wasn't it gonna

964
01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:25.840
play him anyway? He doesn't play
his bitch At Bill self? Me,

965
01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:28.840
Dad, Hey, look at that
account. That's I'll go ahead and follow

966
01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:30.800
At Bill's self me dad, we'll
see how we'll see what fun that brings

967
01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:33.960
us. What are the odds?
Flory? But Dounga stays if he's not

968
01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:38.559
being given a starting role. Not
sure if he had ever had his commitment

969
01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:40.840
on Twitter, but he doesn't have
a tweet about it. I mean,

970
01:07:41.119 --> 01:07:44.360
clearly, do you think they thought
Dickinson was gonna be here for one year?

971
01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:47.599
And that's why they recruited a center
that high. They recruited Flory before

972
01:07:47.679 --> 01:07:53.119
Dickinson got here, though, didn't
they? I think they did. I

973
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:56.880
think they're gonna use him together.
But yes, but Doonga needs to play

974
01:07:56.960 --> 01:08:00.119
or he's gonna be like, Nope, I can go anywhere else. Yeah,

975
01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:04.400
and that's a lot of Also,
the kJ Adams conversation is if he

976
01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:06.679
comes back, then all of a
sudden, Yeah, you have three guys

977
01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:12.400
that all are probably gonna be worthy
of lots of minutes. But I think

978
01:08:12.440 --> 01:08:14.519
Bill self is only gonna want to
play one of them at a time.

979
01:08:15.319 --> 01:08:18.279
Yep, at J two, all
right, I'll say that one at Cope

980
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:20.560
fraud all right, let's just go
ahead and do these here. I'm gonna

981
01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:25.079
group them all together. Which players
do you want back of the potential returning

982
01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:30.039
scholarship players. We have at Glitchen
underscore Ashperd that says this team needs more

983
01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:34.600
shooters. At CFB four three five
asks about where do we go from this

984
01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:39.359
year to next year. There's a
handful of other questions about who comes back.

985
01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:44.319
Dickinson comes back, Harris comes back, Johnny's fifty to fifty kJ.

986
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:47.119
I think you might be surprised.
Al Marco I don't think comes back.

987
01:08:47.359 --> 01:08:54.439
McDowell shrug clements, probably not.
I arguments like Furfey to come back.

988
01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:57.399
I would like kJ to come back
if the role changes at least some I

989
01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:03.520
wouldn't be like upset if el Marco
plays. If el Marco has about the

990
01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:10.239
same role as usual. Uh,
and then obviously Hunter and Harris is fine.

991
01:09:10.279 --> 01:09:15.920
I guess who's who I think is
coming back and who isn't? Yeah,

992
01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:23.159
I don't think I only I think
that only Furfey and Dickinson will be

993
01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:29.560
back Forurphy, Dickinson and Kg'll be
back. Are you counting Harris? Oh

994
01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:31.880
yeah, Harris. But that's already
given. Because that's the case, they're

995
01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:35.279
going to return four starters. And
I will also say, by the way,

996
01:09:35.760 --> 01:09:41.880
people including us lambassetted Bill self for
saying things need to change, and

997
01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:44.760
then what did you do? After
twenty one? He brought back four starters,

998
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:48.520
right, Brown, Wilson, at
Boggie and McCormick brought them all back.

999
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:54.880
How'd that work out? Like?
I think that Bill self though that

1000
01:09:55.279 --> 01:09:57.960
team had a lot more potential sitting
in in this one, did I think

1001
01:09:58.199 --> 01:10:00.640
for a lot of the time.
Yeah, they have a second team All

1002
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:05.760
American center, They have a most
improved player in the Big twelve at power

1003
01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:10.640
forward. They have a national champion
point guard. They act like this team's

1004
01:10:10.680 --> 01:10:13.800
full of scrubs. It's just a
matter of getting the piece. Is the

1005
01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:19.840
fit, not necessarily that the pieces
suck. That's largely true. I don't

1006
01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:23.239
know. I don't know. That
team had a lot of potential. This

1007
01:10:23.319 --> 01:10:26.720
team has a lot of good players, but I just don't know if these

1008
01:10:26.760 --> 01:10:29.600
players do fit together. I just
don't know if they do like at all.

1009
01:10:29.760 --> 01:10:32.840
And it kind of ties in here
with that Kate Eden fourteen, who

1010
01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:36.239
says what's on my mind is I
want Kay to shoot better and be more

1011
01:10:36.239 --> 01:10:40.399
athletic. I only want Hunter and
Johnny back, maybe kJ. Besides that,

1012
01:10:40.439 --> 01:10:44.000
I want an entirely different roster.
I mean that's more or less what

1013
01:10:44.119 --> 01:10:46.359
I think a lot of people are
saying. Harris is an important piece.

1014
01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.039
And also, by the way,
you guys may think I'm crazy on this,

1015
01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:56.399
Go ask any college coach who'd you
rather have your choice of any freshman

1016
01:10:56.560 --> 01:10:59.640
point guard out there or to want
Harris. One hundred out of one hundred

1017
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:02.840
are taken to one Harris. Oh
yeah, that's true. Like weird,

1018
01:11:02.920 --> 01:11:06.640
but it's true. No doubt,
Harris is a winner. Harris is a

1019
01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:11.359
guy who can elevate his teammates.
You have to surround him with the right

1020
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:16.119
pieces. But Harris is a intelligent, plays within his means, well coached

1021
01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:19.239
player. That's the sort of guy
you want quarterback in your offense. I

1022
01:11:19.319 --> 01:11:23.680
know that we watch Rob Dillingham and
we're like, that'd be fun. Rob

1023
01:11:23.760 --> 01:11:27.800
Dillingham made plays in four or five
Kentucky games that Harris didn't. He also

1024
01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:33.159
cost Kentucky four or five games that
Harris wouldn't have cost his team. Yeah,

1025
01:11:33.279 --> 01:11:39.000
that is accurate. But nonetheless,
they need someone on the perimeter next

1026
01:11:39.039 --> 01:11:42.319
season that can go get them a
bucket at any moment, and dwe Harris

1027
01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:47.920
is frankly not that guy, and
he that's yeah, Dwan can be your

1028
01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:53.399
point guard. You just need a
guy at some point that can score baskets

1029
01:11:53.439 --> 01:11:57.359
for you from the perimeter at any
moment, that can create on his own.

1030
01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:00.439
They did not have that this year. They need that next a few

1031
01:12:00.560 --> 01:12:03.279
for Matt show me Hawk here.
I went on my timeline after the loss

1032
01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:08.520
and there was legitim discourse contents contesting
Bill self's title as the best active coaching

1033
01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:12.159
college basketball. He has switched down
a couple of years in the past half

1034
01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:15.720
decade with a Natty Sandwich. Then
people are still trying to create a narrative.

1035
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.560
Well, I mean, if Dan
Hurley wins it this year, you're

1036
01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:23.159
gonna have some competition there. I
would take Bill over any of them,

1037
01:12:23.199 --> 01:12:26.319
but that would change the narrative,
I think, would it. Do you

1038
01:12:26.359 --> 01:12:30.720
think Hurley be considered the best?
I think I'd be incorrect, but he

1039
01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:34.239
probably would be considered by Samia.
Uh. We all know who the college

1040
01:12:34.279 --> 01:12:38.960
basketball blue bloods are, But who
do you guys think is in their second

1041
01:12:39.119 --> 01:12:42.159
tier? Okay, let's do blue
bloods talk. What is it? Kansas,

1042
01:12:42.239 --> 01:12:47.319
Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina.
I think that Yukon. I'm more

1043
01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:55.119
of a recent game. I think
Kansas. I'm putting Villanova in the blue

1044
01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:58.199
blood class and leaving out UCLA.
In Indiana, I'm about a what have

1045
01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:00.960
you done recently? Not necessarily what
have you in the last five years,

1046
01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:05.119
but you gotta have done something in
the last fifty and ucl at least made

1047
01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:08.800
a few final fours now and again. Indiana, yeah, I agree with

1048
01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:13.479
Indiana not being in that tier.
Still is in that tier, but they

1049
01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:18.600
are fading. So my tier,
my second tier of blue bloods is UCLA

1050
01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:27.199
and Indiana. Probably Michigan State,
Syrahcuse maybe, but they're they're fading fast

1051
01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:32.399
without Beheim Gonzaga probably they belong there. Honestly, Gonzaga wins a title,

1052
01:13:32.439 --> 01:13:36.560
and they may they if Gonzaga wins
a title, I'm putting them above UCLA

1053
01:13:36.680 --> 01:13:41.560
and Indiana for now, like like
it's a They've made nine straight Sweet sixteens.

1054
01:13:41.720 --> 01:13:45.840
They just need the title. Baylor's
kind of getting closer. I don't

1055
01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:47.840
know. I don't care about what
what you did in the fricking sixties when

1056
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:51.119
sixteen teams made it and Bill Walton
was going twenty of twenty one from the

1057
01:13:51.159 --> 01:13:56.199
floor. UCLA has not done anything
in my lifetime. I am almost thirty.

1058
01:13:56.399 --> 01:14:00.479
I have not seen a minute of
relevant UCLA or Indiana basketball would warrant

1059
01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:02.720
blue blood status. That's what I'm
basing it off of. Put in Nova

1060
01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:05.399
and Yukon undoubtedly, are you kidding
me? How are their people? They

1061
01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:09.479
don't think Yukon's the title for sure. People are like, well, they

1062
01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:13.920
don't make the tournament every time,
but you count Indiana who has about as

1063
01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:15.319
many titles and doesn't make the tournament
every time, Like what are we doing?

1064
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:19.319
What did Yukon have to do?
Yeah? I think Yukon has earned

1065
01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:24.920
that spot. Nova maybe, but
they may be a product of their coach,

1066
01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:28.039
like now that they don't have Jay
Wright. Yeah, if they never

1067
01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:31.720
have more success after Jay Wright,
then it's harder to say that because then

1068
01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:33.880
they just become a team that had
a really good coach for a minute.

1069
01:14:34.760 --> 01:14:39.279
Yeah, and I guess they they
they did have a title in eighty five,

1070
01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:43.039
like they did have a They have
had history, but but the peak

1071
01:14:43.159 --> 01:14:45.600
was with right. Obviously, if
were to retire in the next two years,

1072
01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:49.560
I would call Jay Wright would be
my first call. Yeah. Speaking

1073
01:14:49.600 --> 01:14:53.600
of remember whenever I listed all the
coaches that retire because I didn't want to

1074
01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:57.000
deal with nil stuff, Jay Wright. That's why else would he retire at

1075
01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:00.880
the peak of his game. Yeah, which is probably accurate. But I

1076
01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:03.520
also agree with Nick. He's my
first call. Yes, he would say

1077
01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:08.520
no, Uh, he probably is
making every bit as much money. Yes,

1078
01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:12.760
yeah, he left Villanova at sixty. He didn't after winning two titles

1079
01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.720
in five years. Yeah, but
I'd be a but Villanova was not the

1080
01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:18.840
top job in the in the in
the sport. I think he went on,

1081
01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:21.680
what's my top job in the sport? Is it Kansas or Duke or

1082
01:15:21.760 --> 01:15:26.680
north of Kentucky? It's Kentucky,
which might be open at some point here.

1083
01:15:26.960 --> 01:15:30.319
How was it Kentucky? The money
blue blood of all They have the

1084
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:34.560
most wins wink, and they have
the most titles. No, you see

1085
01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:41.800
only whatever you see the shouldn't count
the most money. Forgotten about. They

1086
01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:44.800
also have the most money. Thing
to discussed at eleven forty eight at night,

1087
01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:46.640
Yeah, I would have been,
Uh, we're about to have a

1088
01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:50.720
real conversation about which of the worst
twenty nineteen, twenty one, twenty four,

1089
01:15:50.800 --> 01:15:54.520
who was the worst? It's this
one. Those other teams finished better

1090
01:15:54.560 --> 01:15:58.880
than fifth in the Big twelve.
I think it probably is this one.

1091
01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:02.079
Though I think ahead to head they
might beat twenty twenty one. Also,

1092
01:16:02.239 --> 01:16:08.319
it's closer if Kansas just closes out
BYU finishes third in the Big twelve,

1093
01:16:08.600 --> 01:16:11.800
and then we're probably saying it's all
a wash because they all finish third and

1094
01:16:11.880 --> 01:16:15.640
they all are lost in the second
round. Twenty twenty one and now twenty

1095
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:20.159
three twenty four are I think are
definitively the bottom two. Twenty one was

1096
01:16:20.239 --> 01:16:25.279
the worst team. If they're all
in a best of seven series tournament,

1097
01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:30.199
that team loses first. Yeah,
I agree, eighteen nineteen is probably right

1098
01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:33.840
after that. Yeah, this team
is better than those two. They also

1099
01:16:33.960 --> 01:16:39.359
face the more challenging schedule than those
two. They also had the same you

1100
01:16:39.439 --> 01:16:43.760
know, roster construction whatever. This
team had the worst season, but they

1101
01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:45.640
were not the worst team in my
opinion, and the last one from show

1102
01:16:45.680 --> 01:16:49.600
Me Hawk. Imagine if Kansas had
actually lost the Creighton game in twenty twenty

1103
01:16:49.640 --> 01:16:54.640
two, Holy hell, can you
have I think if they lose to Creighton,

1104
01:16:55.199 --> 01:16:59.520
the whole offseason is probably a little
different. But can you imagine?

1105
01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:03.439
Yeah, that would have sucked.
Yeah, Bill needed that title, so

1106
01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:08.039
at Matt Underscore, Gallentine says,
read my story, I paid the price

1107
01:17:08.119 --> 01:17:11.039
for it. Yes, so I
should have read this on the last show,

1108
01:17:11.079 --> 01:17:13.239
Matt. Sorry, I forgot about
it. Now that's in the nascarcvs.

1109
01:17:13.239 --> 01:17:16.079
I see it. So Matt Gallentine
messaged me, uh and talked about

1110
01:17:16.079 --> 01:17:19.760
how he did a challenge where he
took a shot for every three that a

1111
01:17:20.000 --> 01:17:25.600
white guy made against Kansas in the
Samford game, and he texted me the

1112
01:17:25.720 --> 01:17:30.199
results. Texted me the results.
There were only three between nine thirty and

1113
01:17:30.319 --> 01:17:32.840
ten thirty PM. There was only
the first half, but then in the

1114
01:17:33.159 --> 01:17:39.760
second half there were a total of
six between ten fifty two and eleven fourteen.

1115
01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:43.359
That's twenty two minutes where Matt took
shots number four, five, six,

1116
01:17:43.479 --> 01:17:45.880
seven, eight nine, and he
adds then he tapped out with eleven

1117
01:17:45.960 --> 01:17:48.239
minutes left in the game. And
Matt, I know that you know this

1118
01:17:48.399 --> 01:17:53.399
now, but it got worse.
You probably have to do some shots like

1119
01:17:53.960 --> 01:17:59.399
not retroactively because you missed a couple
more. That's wild. I'm glad you're

1120
01:17:59.439 --> 01:18:03.000
alive, Matt. Great story.
I love that those sort of things.

1121
01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:09.880
Okay, uh yeah, then then
the majority of what's left here, Travius

1122
01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:14.039
ninety, We're very close, yes, Travius ninety nine says I want to

1123
01:18:14.159 --> 01:18:18.680
issue a formal apology for defending l
Marco. Yep, just it just didn't

1124
01:18:18.720 --> 01:18:23.560
work. Just didn't work. You're
forgiven we all had higher hopes. Also

1125
01:18:23.680 --> 01:18:26.760
says that when K you played four
round one with Dope, Bill self said

1126
01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:29.560
he never wanted to go back to
playing two bigs. I guess getting a

1127
01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:31.159
one see with kJ in the middle
wasn't enough. Do you think he goes

1128
01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:34.520
back to four round one? I
do. I think he's two ball handlers,

1129
01:18:34.800 --> 01:18:38.720
two shooters, and a big.
I do not think kJ is going

1130
01:18:38.760 --> 01:18:43.720
to be a thirty minutes a game
guy if he's here at all. Yep,

1131
01:18:44.279 --> 01:18:46.840
I am att accurate. Three more
at Chris Siriko two. Do you

1132
01:18:46.920 --> 01:18:49.640
think Ku has the one, kJ
and Hunter all in the story lineup next

1133
01:18:49.720 --> 01:18:51.680
year? No? I do not. We kind of talked about that.

1134
01:18:51.720 --> 01:18:55.399
I should agree with that to the
rest of them, two of them for

1135
01:18:55.479 --> 01:18:59.600
sure. Yeah. And then we
have three or three questions left and Nick,

1136
01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:02.319
they're all about you, actually,
so we need to I group all

1137
01:19:02.359 --> 01:19:09.039
these together here at Elliott rus and
h Let's make this a lighthearted question with

1138
01:19:09.239 --> 01:19:13.760
Nick leaving, what are your top
three to five moments from Nick on the

1139
01:19:13.920 --> 01:19:17.680
show. Anything that stands out also
adds wish you well Nick, and don't

1140
01:19:17.720 --> 01:19:23.680
be a stranger to come back as
a guest sometime. Really appreciate whenever the

1141
01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:29.479
listeners appreciate the work that goes in
and what Nick has done Landon as well,

1142
01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:33.159
Landon, you'll have your senior night
speech eventually, what Nick has done

1143
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:39.960
while going through bachelor school, master
school and now working full time and still

1144
01:19:40.079 --> 01:19:44.239
fitting this podcast into his schedule,
Going from what how old were you in

1145
01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:48.159
the first season seventeen? Yeah,
well is that now? I was sixteen?

1146
01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:53.560
I think sixteen all the way to
twenty twenty three or whatever. However

1147
01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:57.000
old you are, I'm old.
I'm older than you. Nick began his

1148
01:19:57.199 --> 01:20:00.800
ITV career asking the original ITPP people
questions. In the third season of the

1149
01:20:00.840 --> 01:20:04.000
show, you listened in high school, So, oh my gosh, the

1150
01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:09.000
amount of hours that you have put
into this project just to give out that

1151
01:20:09.199 --> 01:20:12.880
entertainment. It has been very appreciated. And I can tell you that a

1152
01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:15.399
million times. And I know you
don't really want to hear it because it's

1153
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:16.960
midnight. You want to go to
bed, But there's lots of people out

1154
01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:20.960
there who definitely value that as well, I believe that this is if my

1155
01:20:21.159 --> 01:20:27.000
numbers are correct, this is your
two hundred and forty first show. We've

1156
01:20:27.000 --> 01:20:30.119
done two hundred and forty one of
these damn shows. And my favorite Nick

1157
01:20:30.199 --> 01:20:33.159
moment. If you're looking for a
favorite Nick moment, my favorite is always

1158
01:20:33.239 --> 01:20:41.399
going to be this. That's what
happens against Gonzaga and you picking Kentucky every

1159
01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:45.560
single year as they face plant in
the first round. Landon, you got

1160
01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:50.880
a favorite Nick moment? I have
lots of favorite Nick moments. It's hard

1161
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:57.239
to keep specific moments. After doing
so, Nick always writes he will always

1162
01:20:57.359 --> 01:21:00.119
try to. I feel like we're
eulogizing you post active women in the notes

1163
01:21:00.199 --> 01:21:04.319
is up there? Yeah, that's
where I was gonna picking Arizona in Kentucky

1164
01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:10.439
to win the National championship this season. I never picked Kentucky to win the

1165
01:21:10.520 --> 01:21:14.359
National championship. Arizona win. You
picked them to beat Kentucky to do it.

1166
01:21:15.319 --> 01:21:17.039
No, I had Kentucky in the
final four. Who'd you have them

1167
01:21:17.079 --> 01:21:24.000
lose to Purdue. You must have
changed it. You switched it, Okay,

1168
01:21:24.079 --> 01:21:27.920
Yeah, that's when Kansas on the
show. You had Kentucky in Arizona

1169
01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:33.720
in the championship game, which is
banana pants and hilarious. Nick always gets

1170
01:21:33.760 --> 01:21:38.880
in the notes whenever Landon or I
are reading, and he will change sentences

1171
01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:42.479
around just to throw us off,
to try to get us to say something.

1172
01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:45.439
And we have had to several times
because something gets typed or a letter

1173
01:21:45.479 --> 01:21:48.720
gets added. We've had to stop
the recording and go back and e race

1174
01:21:48.760 --> 01:21:53.720
it because things just get completely off
the rails. I said something really terrible.

1175
01:21:54.239 --> 01:21:58.319
Yes, that's happened before all the
freaking jokes about the schools, the

1176
01:21:58.439 --> 01:22:01.239
real listeners, you know which one. Uh, that's that's always gonna be

1177
01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:04.600
one of my favorites. And yeah, then whenever we're just reading a blurb

1178
01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:11.079
and suddenly the words will change to
Mandarin or one of our faces face dwelled

1179
01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:14.199
up here, yes, like and
I don't know what it says. I

1180
01:22:14.239 --> 01:22:15.640
don't know how you want me to
keep reading it. I can't read it.

1181
01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:23.319
It's in Mandarin. That's what we
love about nick. Nick is a

1182
01:22:23.399 --> 01:22:26.359
word that's in French that looks similar
to an English word. And Ryan's like,

1183
01:22:26.479 --> 01:22:30.960
yep, got that word. I
try I see, and Landon tried

1184
01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:34.159
this too. We try to make
it sound like we try to just continue

1185
01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:36.680
like, I think I pretty much
know what it said. I'm gonna try

1186
01:22:36.680 --> 01:22:40.439
to not make this obvious, but
it just goes off the rails. And

1187
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:44.279
of course we can't forget how much
Nick hates ask GARCB. That is so

1188
01:22:44.479 --> 01:22:53.920
funny because that's Landon's favorite. Or
I don't and I like each other and

1189
01:22:54.159 --> 01:22:59.920
I like ACB, but I don't
like. Oh wow, we're talking over

1190
01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:02.560
each other now. It's just like
old days. Uh. I like to

1191
01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:06.520
ask ARCB. I don't like Kansas
basketball questions during to ask GARCB. We

1192
01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:10.840
just spent an hour recapping a game. I don't need to answer more questions

1193
01:23:10.880 --> 01:23:14.159
about KU basketball. Ask me what
my favorite flavor of ice cream is.

1194
01:23:15.359 --> 01:23:21.039
Yeah, that's beenilla, which which
makes which makes sense that that's also kind

1195
01:23:21.079 --> 01:23:24.960
of makes sense. I like this. This is a good nick drop Gel

1196
01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:29.119
has his head up, has asked
so much. I know, I know

1197
01:23:29.239 --> 01:23:31.399
you hate that one, but you
know it's okay. We're allowed to criticize

1198
01:23:31.439 --> 01:23:36.279
the Lord Bill's self. So yes. And the other best part is yeah,

1199
01:23:36.319 --> 01:23:42.119
what Landon said? How uh Landon
will read? Kansas is three and

1200
01:23:42.239 --> 01:23:45.119
two all time against South Dakota State. Their last win came in twenty sixteen.

1201
01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:51.880
Pause, pause, Oh my turn, and then Nick will go Kansas

1202
01:23:53.079 --> 01:23:56.600
is three and two again South Dakota
State, and then you know, then

1203
01:23:56.640 --> 01:24:01.800
it usually is followed up by hmm
and this and what's cool too, and

1204
01:24:01.920 --> 01:24:05.399
I don't know, this is a
freaking Kansas gon Zaga recap. The season's

1205
01:24:05.439 --> 01:24:11.560
over. The three of us are
all from pretty different walks of life.

1206
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We all came together in different ways, are similar. The pats merged in

1207
01:24:15.840 --> 01:24:20.079
different ways. The three of us
have legitimately become really good friends with the

1208
01:24:20.159 --> 01:24:25.479
show, to the point of watching
games together and having a freaking group chat

1209
01:24:25.560 --> 01:24:29.920
that is active all day every day. Yeah, like about other things in

1210
01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:33.520
sports. Yeah, it's it's become. It's becomes so much more than just

1211
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:36.920
the show. And Nick, this
isn't one, this isn't your last show,

1212
01:24:36.960 --> 01:24:40.600
because we'll have a couple more this
year. I'm sure as the as

1213
01:24:40.680 --> 01:24:45.439
the season ends and two, you're
not done forever with ITV I would hope,

1214
01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:49.399
no, nope, yeah, just
uh, I cannot do. I

1215
01:24:49.520 --> 01:24:53.560
do not have it in me anymore. I need load management. I can't

1216
01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:58.439
do fifty shows. He's Kevin mccoloring, folks, he's had enough and he's

1217
01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:04.920
quitting oh, it like three seasons
ago. I've been talked over ten times,

1218
01:25:04.920 --> 01:25:09.439
and I want to say a nice
thing this one time. It's one

1219
01:25:09.520 --> 01:25:13.359
time, and then I'll dog on
him for having no love life even though

1220
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I don't either, and that he
sucks at reading notes. But Nick,

1221
01:25:16.760 --> 01:25:20.840
it has been awesome to actually become
friends with you over the last few years

1222
01:25:20.880 --> 01:25:26.039
because you were just some random guy
on Twitter and I was also a random

1223
01:25:26.079 --> 01:25:30.439
guy that wrote for rock Truck Blog
and was on Twitter. And now like

1224
01:25:30.560 --> 01:25:32.720
we've actually hung out and like had
real conversations, and like I stayed a

1225
01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:38.520
night at your apartment so we could
go to college game day for ku TC

1226
01:25:39.840 --> 01:25:43.159
interviewed on TV. Yeah, we
ended up on TV together, which was

1227
01:25:43.239 --> 01:25:45.199
wild. I don't know if I
tweeted that. I think I did tweet

1228
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:48.680
that. But we've done some fun
things and it has been actually awesome,

1229
01:25:48.680 --> 01:25:51.800
and obviously that's not going anywhere.
I'm also not dying, so we can

1230
01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:57.800
keep doing these things. Yeah,
No, it's been It's been a lot

1231
01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:01.239
of fun, and I hope that
the listeners to appreciate the work that goes

1232
01:26:01.279 --> 01:26:05.039
in each podcast takes you know,
with the time you add and I write

1233
01:26:05.079 --> 01:26:08.000
the notes most of the time.
These two helped me out quite a bit.

1234
01:26:08.319 --> 01:26:10.680
I mean in the showtime, the
recording, like this is a three

1235
01:26:10.760 --> 01:26:15.520
hour commitment, uh forty times a
year, six or seven season. You

1236
01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:17.680
guys have spent weeks and weeks of
your time doing the show, and I

1237
01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:20.560
just think it's awesome. It's just
a hobby that we do. So appreciate

1238
01:26:20.600 --> 01:26:25.119
everybody's listen and your kind words.
At J two, Will says with Nick

1239
01:26:25.199 --> 01:26:28.720
leaving, does that mean that it
TP will be hitting the transfer portal?

1240
01:26:29.159 --> 01:26:31.119
Uh? Yes, and and that's
also in the works. So the three

1241
01:26:31.119 --> 01:26:33.000
of us are gonna figure out.
I've had a couple of you reach out

1242
01:26:33.039 --> 01:26:36.600
with suggestions for what we should do
with ITP going forward, needing a third

1243
01:26:36.640 --> 01:26:41.600
spot all that, I have an
idea, and I think it's gonna kind

1244
01:26:41.640 --> 01:26:45.199
of be a rotating basis, but
we're gonna all discuss what exactly we want

1245
01:26:45.239 --> 01:26:46.920
it to do. At the end, I t P will keep on Landon

1246
01:26:46.920 --> 01:26:51.680
and I are going next week question
Mark. Yeah, that's that's that's me

1247
01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:56.119
and me alone. I'm gonna do
solo shows, right, that's how this

1248
01:26:56.279 --> 01:26:59.399
works. Yeah, absolutely not.
I don't want that. I know the

1249
01:26:59.479 --> 01:27:02.800
podcast is, but I don't want
it to be total just yet, sir,

1250
01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:04.920
I can I can say that.
All right. Well, on that

1251
01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:08.680
note, there is no better way
to go. We already eulogize at Jayhawks.

1252
01:27:08.720 --> 01:27:10.960
Now I guess what eulogized Nick?
Who you have to go to work

1253
01:27:10.960 --> 01:27:14.000
tomorrow. It's midnight. This is
inside the paint. Good work. Thanks

1254
01:27:14.039 --> 01:27:16.960
for all the episodes. I'm Ryan
Landrith, I'm Nick Whipert, and I'm

1255
01:27:17.039 --> 01:27:20.840
Lanning Fields. I like it.
Uh so yeah, at that. Don't

1256
01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:25.359
don't uh, don't lose us just
yet, because we'll probably do somewhere between

1257
01:27:25.439 --> 01:27:29.439
three and five more episodes this season
into the early part of the summer.

1258
01:27:29.800 --> 01:27:32.239
Uh, probably a week or two
from now, whenever there's more tournament news.

1259
01:27:32.520 --> 01:27:35.800
There's going to be some portal news
that comes out. We'll continue doing

1260
01:27:35.880 --> 01:27:40.800
the off season shows and then uh
and and stay in active. So stay

1261
01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:44.159
in touch and be looking because we
will definitely have another show to you here

1262
01:27:44.319 --> 01:27:46.680
in the next week or two.
All right, anything else, anything else?

1263
01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:49.760
Oh? Oh hi Bill? Wait? Bill, what's what's going on?

1264
01:27:49.840 --> 01:27:55.039
Why are you? Oh? Oh
that's not very nice? Oh wow,

1265
01:27:55.640 --> 01:27:58.319
Bill has turned into a rabid dog. Mark fe you bet him?

1266
01:27:58.359 --> 01:28:03.560
And now it makes sense. Rats, that's too bad. I can't Waitin

1267
01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:10.399
when the exact same thing happens,
we do by Nick oh hm hmm,

1268
01:28:11.880 --> 01:28:12.520
I don't like that