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A bounce back win for the Kansas
Jayhawks who win in sunny, beautiful Maui

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and here in Kansas it's anything but
as it's a snow day. It's like

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twenty degree windshill outside right now,
So what else is? What else is

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one's supposed to do on a weekend? Holiday weekend? Mind you then talk

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about Kansas getting third plays in the
Maui Invitational. I mean this has got

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to be like, this is what
life is all about. Guys. When

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you guys were kids, the holiday
traditions may have been fun, but what

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better tradition than that? Like,
look what you guys have really made it

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in life? Yeah, it's I
like the cold. I like the snow

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a little bit. So yeah,
we're putting up Christmas decorations at the appropriate

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time today, the weekend after Thanksgiving, the time that it should be done.

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It's beautiful and it's cute and it's
cozy inside. So yeah, it's

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pretty nice weekend. Now, that's
that's fake news. That's not correct.

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The cold is ask and to take
about how Christmas decorations might have to wait

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till less than thirty days before Christmas
to go up is also as that's bad

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Nick, I would ask for your
thoughts, but I know that you agree

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and that you share in the same
ah that land and is spewing, So

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talk about it. Oh the weather, I don't really like the cold that

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much. You but you do think
that Christmas decoration should not be up until

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right around now? Yeah? Yeah, it's go for it now. I'm

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not the grinch anymore. So Ryan
put those seventeen inflatable snowmen in twenty seven

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trees up. Hey, already done, got it all, got it all

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done, aren't you in October thirty? Do you need to do a ladder

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thing with you or is that all
wrapped up? So? Yeah, Landon

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and I had we were exploring a
possibility of putting holiday lights on my house

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because the one thing in my yard
that's not illuminated right now are the very

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tippy tops of the roof. Well
I don't even know what are the ascents

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on the roof that the peaks,
the peaks, Yes, the peaks.

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I want lights up there. My
wife is a rehab nurse, and she

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put a nickson that she actually just
peeked in the room and shook her head

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at me. So I am both
talking loudly and my dreams are crushed.

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So we have a very dull roof
peaks, but everything else is pretty lit

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up. What about you guys,
You guys ever have parents that put the

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roof peak lights or were you guys
the scrooges and never had outdoor lights?

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Very very minimal to no outdoor lights. My dad is not about that.

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So you were a homeschool though it
feels like something everybody would do as a

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family nick What about you? My
parents roof was too steep to go up

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there and hang lights, so they'd
hang it on the trees in front of

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the driveway. It's all set to
tie myself to the chimney, have land

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and climb the ladder, throw me
the room. We could have figured this

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out and a whole like rue Goldberg
machine just to get light a string of

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lights up on the peak. I
looked at the I contacted the city and

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asked if I could rent like not
a forklift, but you know like the

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machine that you stand in it and
use a lever and it elevates you and

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you have to have you get to
have a CDL and all that stuff for

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that. And I'm just like,
man, all I want is roof are

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lights on my roof. So I
actually contacted a place the lights. The

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lights themselves, these permanent holiday lights
are only a couple hundred dollars on Amazon.

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The supplies are just a couple hundred
dollars. So I contacted a company

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that specializes in installing holiday lights.
They said they could do it today.

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Guess how much this company says it
will cost to install sixty five feet of

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permanent lights on my roof. I'm
that'rand almost three grand? Yes, oh

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my gosh. So I'm like Shirley
Landon and I can do it cheaper than

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that. And my wife, yeah, she works in a rehabit unit.

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She says the most common injuries that
they treat stem from results of people falling

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off ladders. So what if,
in the spirit of the holidays, we

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were on a ladder while deep frying
a turkey? Did you ever think,

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ooh, what could go wrong there? And I mean, come on,

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Landing and I just look at us. We clearly know what we're doing with

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home maintenance stuff. We could get
on a ladder. How hard can it,

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honestly be? I just played basketball
for the first time in like six

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months, so obviously I'm in shape. Obviously, I'm peak male performance.

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There's no downside to this. There
would be absolutely no chance of falling off

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the ladder, and that's me falling
on land and falling in all the Christmas

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lights and everything shattering. Thing has
saved us, but we both broke our

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legs. Well. I mean,
it's probably better than how KU's legs felt

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after playing three games in three days, because that looked very, very exhausting.

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The Jayhawks do bounce back in the
Maui Invitational. They claim third place.

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They were playing like twelve hours after
that Marquette game ended crack of dawn,

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and Maui they go out. They
beat a top ten Tennessee team.

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Very impressive. So we're gonna talk
about that and one of the busiest other

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games segments of the season because of
all the other tournaments that have taken place,

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all that leading up to what will
be a very underwhelming game, I'm

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sure on Tuesday night, the Jayhawks
returning home to play Eastern Illinois, and

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a quick look into Eastern Illinois stats
left me going like this, because holy

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Molly, this is going to be
a gross game to watch on Tuesday.

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This is inside the paint on rock
chalk blog, Happy late Thanksgiving. I'm

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Ryan Landrath. I am I forgot
my name. I'm Scrooge McDuck. Now

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that's the wrong screen. Not you
are not helping me with Christmas lights because

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my wife is a Scrooge. I
am Santiago Whitebird. Just on that note,

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let's let's talk about this. I
mean, do we lead off with

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that? Oh, my goodness,
gracious number one Kansas and for the last

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time, sixty nine yay number seven
Tennessee sixty. They will lose the number

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one ranking, but they did avoid
losing on back to back days. Would

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have been the first time in eighteen
years that that would have happened. The

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Jayhawks using a strong second half to
power past the volunteers and claim the third

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place trophy in the Maui Invitational.
Things were tied at halftime, but Kansas

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held Tennessee to just twenty five second
half points and finally pulled away down the

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stretch. They end the tournament on
a high note. So my first question

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to both of you is how important
was this game? I mean in the

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grand scheme of the season. Ultimately, of course, not that important.

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Kansas will have several more opportunities to
play. Really good teams, and even

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if you lost this game by one
hundred, you know, you would have

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plenty of time to figure it out
and win. But I do think to

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see them lose the night before against
a really good Marquette team, to come

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out and play another top ten team
and show a really nice effort, like

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like you said, just twelve hours
later or so, and play mostly really

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well, play really solid on defense, get some things working on the offensive

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end, and come out with a
really high level of effort and beat a

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really good team and look pretty in
control for the most part doing it.

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I do think that's impressive. So
I think, from like a ViBe's perspective

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and the energy around the team,
I think a relatively important win. Yeah,

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I thought. I thought they looked
pretty good. I think it was

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relatively important. But you know,
even if they'd lost lots of time to

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figure it out, Nick, what
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this is their first good quality win
of the season. I do think that's

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significant, an instance of you know, looking at resumes down the end of

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the season. But I mean Kansas
always has the most impressive pressive resume when

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they beat they win the Big Twelve
conference, So I don't think that's gonna

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be an issue, but yeah,
definitely good to get that sour taste in

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your mouth after that. It's pretty
tough beating you took against Marquette the night

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before. At times still wasn't pretty. You know, the turnovers are a

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huge problems still for this team.
But you're talking about two teams in Tennessee

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and Marquette who are quick and they
do force a lot of deflections and turnovers,

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so it is to be expected that
those numbers would be a little bit

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inflated. But overall, I think
it was a great response. Hunter Dickinson

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looked pretty good as usual, and
then supporting cast kJ Adams, if you

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make a free throw would be even
better. But KG Adams looked really superb

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as well. Just overall a good
bounce back. You know, it was

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a quick turnaround. You know,
they played late the night before and then

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one pm game our time the day
after, So I mean, for as

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much as you can turn around,
I think they did a pretty good job

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of executing. Yeah, it was
a great win. I think that anybody

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who asks how good of a win
this was for Kansas should be quickly told

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it's a great win. One of
the three or four best wins they're going

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to get all year against a team
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We kind of talked about after the
Marquette loss saying if that felt like a

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last year's team loss, Well,
we saw what Tennessee did to last year's

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team when nobody could score, and
this team was quite different because they got

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bench contribution, They got their third
and fourth starters to contribute in ways that

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didn't happen, and the game that
was right around this time last year to

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this exact same volunteers team, it
felt like it's a great win on their

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resume. It will only look better
as the year goes along. Tennessee probably

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the preseason favorite to win the SEC, depending on what you want to do

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with Kentucky. So yes, I
think it's a terrific win for Kansas.

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And for what you guys said,
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on back to back els. I
mean, I think winning two games in

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Maui was probably the most likely thing
for Kansas heading into this, especially knowing

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that there were four Top seven teams
sitting out there for him. Glad they

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could score one that was a quality
one on their resume. Because coming home

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with the only win you picked up
all tournament being Shamanad definitely would have been

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underwhelming. Considering they entered as the
number one team in the country. They're

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not the number one team, but
whenever the polls come out on Monday,

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but they're still going to be a
top five squad, and looking at their

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upcoming schedule, I don't think they're
going anywhere for a long time. I

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think they're going to have plenty of
opportunities to reclaim that number one ranking at

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some point in the coming weeks.
Let's lead off with Hunter Dickinson nick one

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of the best performances of the year
by a guy that's had nothing but really

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really good performances. Yeah, seventeen
points, twenty rebounds, thirty minutes,

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another huge stat line. He was
seven for thirteen from the floor and made

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another three, bringing him to eight
for twelve on the season, had a

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double double before halftime, and had
the most dominant presence of anybody in this

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game. Season averages through six games
twenty two points, twelve rebounds, sixty

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seven percent from the floor. Landon. We said at the beginning of the

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year that we set the over under
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I think it was twenty and nine
right now. He's clearing that easily,

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and he's doing it against very very
good competition. Through six games,

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maybe Zach Eedy. Hard to find
anybody else in college basketball that's been better

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than Hunter Dickinson. Yeah, I
mean, he already has two twenty rebound

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games this season. Both. I
mean that's not like he picked them up

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against Manhattan and Shamanad. They were
against Kentucky and Tennessee. Very impressive.

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Last time that anyone in the kansakuniform
has done that was Jeff White in twenty

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twelve, eleven years ago. So
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Very impressive. No, he's he's
been quite excellent. I mean that's no

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shock. Obviously, we expected him
to be very very good. The rebounding

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even better than I anticipated. He's
just gobbling up boards. In the spirit

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of Thanksgiving, he's gobbling up those
boards. Ye, another ton to analyze.

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I don't think about him, really. I mean, he's just been

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very good, very influential player.
Obviously, against Marquette we saw him limited

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a little bit, and that's obviously
gonna be very important. But yeah,

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I think he has a very good
chance to get over that line that we

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set in the props, so we'll
see definitely something to watch. But he's

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gonna have a heck of a year. And that's that. That you read

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kind of made it sound like with
my I worded it kind of poorly made

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it sound like that Dickinson had is
the first Jayhawk to have two twenty rebound

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games since with the Now he's the
first player just to have twenty in any

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game since with the and he's already
done it twice, Like this is not

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something that usually happens, and we
have seen great rebounders at this school.

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He's he's already in a company at
Kansas despite only playing six games. And

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he really hasn't played a ton of
minutes for his standards either. He averaged

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about thirty three minutes per game each
of the last two years at Michigan,

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barely at twenty nine to this point
as a Jayhawks. So I know the

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competition is gonna get better, but
so will his stats as he plays more

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per forty hundred. Dickinson's per forty
numbers twenty nine points and seventeen rebounds on

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average. I mean, you really
can't play better than that. He didn't

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shoot the ball video game stuff almost
and then eight for twelve from three as

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if you know he's not making enough
on the inside. The free throw shooting

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wasn't great in the last two games
of this tournament. Would like to see

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that improved. That that's pretty much
the only thing you can complain about.

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You look at KU's next few games. I think Eastern Illinois, you and

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KC and Missouri are three of their
next four games. I don't know how

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much he's gonna play, because those
are games you expect to have in hand

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with ten minutes left. Not that
that's really ever stopped Bill self before from

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still keeping guys in there for a
long time, but certainly, if he

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gets a chance to play, he's
just going to annihilate a lot of these

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helpless younger squads. He is excellent. Okay Landon, Let's talk about Dickinson's

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the storyline for KA this year.
He's been in all America. He's been

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the best that anybody could have hoped
for. I think the second biggest storyline

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right now is just as bad as
the Dickinson news is good, and that

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is Kansas hasn't hasn't yet found a
guy that can grab that two guard spot

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and run with it. Though.
I did think in this game against Tennessee,

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we saw a couple guys take a
step forward and maybe prove that they

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deserve some more playing time. Yeah, I agree with you totally. I

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was gonna say that. I think
this might even be the biggest storyline of

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the season so far. The two
guards were much better. Jamar McDowell was

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the one in the game down the
stretch. He played at twenty seven minutes,

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pacing his competition with seven points and
four rebounds, two seven from the

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floor, with every one but one
of his shots being a three. Still

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pretty good outing, though. I
think McDowell has continued to show himself a

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very solid player. Al Marco Jack
did not do anything. He made four

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free throws in thirteen minutes. Johnny
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do too much after that in eleven
minutes, and then Nick Timberlake had his

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head smashed into the floor by Tennessee
player early on and he left after three

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minutes. I wanted did he return
to the game. I know he was

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on the bench. Did he play
He never played. He only played three

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minutes that was it. He got
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and yeah, he actually did look
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so that was too bad to see
him go out. But also, yeah,

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all the two guards for the most
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bit better in this game, so
that was nice to see. Nick.

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Do you think that it is Jamary
McDowell that should be the guy to get

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a lot of the minutes going forward? Do you think Johnny Furfey should get

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more run? Do you think Elmarco
Jackson isn't the guy we thought? Or

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do you think that this wall just
continued to coalesce and and we'll just kind

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of figure out where we are on
a game by game basis. I'd lean

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towards the coalescing and then going seeing
where we go go from here. Still

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only a small sample size for these
games, but I'm very impressed by Jamary

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McDowell more so, you know,
I think it has to do with perceptions

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going into the season, because you
know, guys like all Marco Jackson very

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hyped up, you know, by
Bill self and the media and people just

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excited to see that that he's pretty
good. And then obviously that hasn't panned

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out so far that people expected.
So I think that Jamari McDowell a guy

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people just expected to, you know, ride the bench probably. I mean,

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I know that depth is an issue, so I don't think any of

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these guys we expected to ride the
bench completely. But Jamar McDowell, you

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know, wasn't expected to come in
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I still think as the season progresses, I think Malco Jackson that's his

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spot to earn, and I think
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defensively, Bill self probably trust him
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I need to see the shooting come
from him though. So here's the thing

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with Jackson. I don't know how
you watch that game against Tennessee and don't

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think that Jamari McDowell has earned a
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He's been the better player for the
last couple of games. He was the

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better player in this tournament for Kansas. Elmarco Jackson is playing with four really

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really good players, and yet is
still like if you can't get open looks

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to knock down and pile on up
assist numbers, which Jackson is averaging four

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assists per game. That's been easily
his biggest strength. If you can't find

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a way to post some decent scoring
numbers with those guys around you, I'm

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not sure what it's gonna take.
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They're both very good free throw shooters
early on, which is a big point

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of Jackson's game. He's a freshman
and he's in the game. Really,

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the only reason he went in for
McDowell at the end was because they wanted

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Bill self wanted a guy that's shooting
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line this year in there. But
McDowell looks like the better rebounder. McDowell

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looks like the better defender. I
still think that, especially with these next

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few games, you're not losing against
Eastern Illinois, maybe UKN, but not

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you and Case Missouri. Those teams
you're the starting lineup, and who plays

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isn't going to impact the final result. So I think that you have to

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get el Marco Jackson as much playing
time as you can to get him comfortable.

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They are going to need him by
mid January. McDowell's been a nice

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story, but he's shooting less than
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In order for this team to reach
its ceiling, Jackson needs to play and

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get acclimated. I don't think this
team is as good with a ceilinged out

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Jamari McDowell's starting in February than they
are with ceilinged out Elmarco Jackson starting in

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February. I love what McDowell can
bring. They talked about how he might

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have red shirted if they still had
Artio Morris here. Love what he brings,

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don't know if it'd be the same
in a starting role. I think

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he feels like that smart plug off
the bench guy. If they want to

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start him against Eastern Illinois, I
think he's earned that and I'm fine with

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it. But I think the key
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two guard is best reached by starting
el Marco Jackson land, and I'm curious

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if you kind of agree with that. Twitter is very harsh on El Marco

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Twitter once McDowell to start, they
don't see it with Jackson yet. I

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think that, you know, we
haven't seen him create his own shot,

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but the passing has been good,
his defense hasn't been horrible. I still

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think he is the guy who needs
to get the most run. I do

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think you are correct that the ceiling
of el Marco Jackson is still theoretically higher

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than Jamari McDowell for the moment.
Obviously that can change over time. Very

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willing to hear people out on that
potentially, but I don't know though.

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On the flip side of that,
I would also argue McDowell has been playing

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well, and I think this would
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I think you kind of need to
play all of them as much as you

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can in these next handful of games. Against Yukon obviously, like that's you

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know, that's a little bit of
a different thing, but against a lot

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of these games where you're gonna be
very heavily favored to win, you know,

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Eastern Illinois, UMKC, Miszoo,
Yale, you know these these teams,

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you're gonna win these games by a
lot theoretically. I would argue that

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if Timberlake looks like he might be, you know, your sixth man McDowell.

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Excuse me, if McDowell looks like
he might be your sixth man or

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even you know, you might give
some real thought like do we start Jamar

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McDowell, I think you should probably
give him quite a bit of run against

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Eastern Illinois. He he looks like, yes, he's not shooting the ball

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very efficiently. He's not shooting a
high percentage at all, And that's why

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I would also argue you're not seeing
like a maxed out version of him because

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he's shooting pretty poorly right now,
which is definitely a knocky. You know,

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he is not shooting very well.
That's been one thing He's not done.

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But neither Jackson or really anybody,
so I don't know. I do

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agree. I think I would still
agree for the moment. I think Almarco

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Jackson's ceiling is higher than Jamar McDowell's, and since they're both so young and

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so new, like the potential is
worth trying to get the most out of.

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I do think that that has to
change at some point, though.

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I don't think we can just sit
here and say, well, Marco Jackson

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has to be the guy to get
going for this team to be great.

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If we just continue to not see
it, it's still very early. We

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still very well may see it later. But I would like to see mcdalll

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get a good amount of playing time
in the next few games for sure.

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Yeah, and Furfey has earned that
ten to fifteen minutes to play, and

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Timberlake needs to get going too.
Like, if you have a prayer of

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getting anything close to what you thought
you were gonna get out of Timberlake this

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year, he better get fifteen to
twenty minutes of run against these horrible teams,

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assuming that he's good and is healthy
enough to play. I assume he

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was being evaluated for a concussion,
but that that was almost a week ago

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before by the time that this next
game starts. So you gotta get these

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guys a good mix of minutes,
and I think you have to start Jackson.

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I think McDowell and Timberlake need to
be the first couple guys off the

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bench. And I think that that
just finding two of those four to get

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close to what you thought they could
be entering the season is the answer,

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because the other four are great.
If you can have six guys that are

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all at or better than what you
thought they were gonna be, well that's

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a pretty good I'll take those odds
against just about anybody. Because one of

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those guys that we are seeing a
really good version of this year, kJ

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Adams was very good in most ways, scoring thirteen points, six of nine

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from the floor, added four rebounds, playing thirty four minutes. The downside

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was one for six at the free
throw line, making him now two for

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fifteen at the line this year.
He also got to a horrible start shooting

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free throws last year and got better
as it went along. Listen to on

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the radio after this game, Norm
Roberts was talking about how he attributed a

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lot of kJ adams free throw struggles
to being away from the team getting to

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Hawaii late. Just wasn't doing the
same drills the last couple of weeks because

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of the family tragedy that took place, So I'm sure he'll wind back into

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form. Overall, the fact that
kJ Adams played any minutes in this tournament,

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I think is a testament to how
strong he is and awesome that he

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was able to give Kansas really quality
minutes against a really good team. That's

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my thoughts. At least, Nick, you mentioned the free throw shooting from

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kJ earlier jokingly, but he has
been really bad. What do you make

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of it? Yeah, I echo
what Ryan says. I mean, it's

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hard to fall to a guy who
just had to deal with that tragedy and

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then, like you said, free
a big part of free throws is just

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practice and repetition, and if he
wasn't able to practice with the team and

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get Repps early on in the week, totally understandable, and you know,

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just the pressure of the mental mental
fatigue. Free throws aren't aren't as easy

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as people make them seem to be, especially for a four or five.

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So I definitely think that that's going
to improve like last season, and like

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Ryan said, so not a huge
concern yet, but just you know,

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kind of interesting that I think if
he made a few of those, a

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few more of those against Marquette,
don't know if it would have changed the

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actual outcome of the game, but
probably would have helped KU when they were

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trying to battle back, you know, from those you know, nine to

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ten point deficits miss this first eight
last year started two for eleven and then

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still got up to about sixty one
percent, which is shooting seventy plus throughout

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the rest of the year. So
I mean, he'll he'll get there.

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It's it is what it is at
this point. But yeah, I think

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we'll give him a pass after the
week that he had. Okay, let's

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talk about the defense. The defense
was much better on Wednesday than it was

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against Marquette. They held a tired
thank you Purdue for wearing out the balls.

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Boy that the balls play a brutal
stretch here they got through Gonzaga Marquette

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or no Gonzaga purduing Kansas. They
only played three top eleven teams in three

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days, so they were probably very
Yeah. Yeah, their schedule is just

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brutal. They held a tired Tennessee
team to thirty one percent from the floor,

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twenty seven percent from three. They
finished plus tin on the glass,

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really strong second half. I assume
that this team is gonna go as far

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as his defense takes them. That's
at least how Bill Seff likes to play.

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Had to be encouraged after seeing Marquette
pick a crop pick a part of

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Kansas defense, which was in large
part because the offense turned it over so

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much, set up good opportunities.
There wasn't necessarily that the half court defense

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against the Golden Eagles was bad,
but good fit and performance by Kansas,

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right, Yeah, I definitely think
so. I think they played well.

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I mean, especially when you do
have a Santiago of Scovie nailing five threes

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on you. Yeah, let's go
ahead and do that. Then, you

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know what, let's just go ahead
and talk about that, because Santiago Vescovy

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not only made five threes against Kansas
again, but it was the second year

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in a row that he's made five
threes in a game against Kansas. Despite

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not playing in the Big twelve Vscovy
has somehow made at least one three point

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shot in four different games against Kansas
in his career. He has made more

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threes against Kansas than a lot of
Big twelve players have. Oh yeah,

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yeah, a lot of twelve shooters
haven't made as many threes against Kansas as

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he has. Yep, ten threes
against Kansas in the last two games twelve

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in his career. And unless they
play again on a on a weekend in

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March, gotta think they're for sure
with him. I said that last year

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and I was quite wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, But not this

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time, I hope, because I
can't stand it anymore. Yeah, Nick,

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you introduced yourself as Santiago Wiper,
so you know you take on on

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seeing the Uruguayans. Yeah, well, we were joking earlier. I I

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completely I thought he was I was
texting that he was an Italian. I

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thought he was Italian, you know, the Santiago. He looks like somebody

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who just made, you know,
a pizza in the Colosseum. I don't

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know what's the Italian stereotype. Italian
stereotype. Oh gosh, they're all six.

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She didn't say rowing down on a
boat in the middle of a river

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and yeah, oh man, But
yeah, the Italian thing that we know.

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I think I'm just getting confused with
soccer. I think those are the

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only other two. Yeah, pretty
much. But I googled Italian things to

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do, and Colise and Venice Streets
Rivers is the top two things. So

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we pretty much nailed it. Yeah, but now hopefully this is hopefully this

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is the final time Ku plays Santiagoviscovi. I if it's not, then we

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should all just give up, because
gosh, Kevin mccullor Landon, let's talk

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about KU's probably second best player,
right, I think so, though he

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is, there's a couple minor concerns, very minor. I think he did

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have fourteen points in thirty four minutes, six of thirteen from the floor.

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He gets seven more turnovers in this
game, total of eighteen in a three

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game tournament, which is that's pretty
bad. It's pretty bad. That's a

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lot of turnovers. Three point right
through six games is thirty two, which

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is pretty much exactly what he's been
averaging over the last several seasons, which

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also we thought would at least go
up some right, Like, are you

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actually concerned by those couple of things, Ryan, or is that about what

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you thought? Yeah? I thought
that he would be about the same three

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point shooter, maybe a little improvement
as he was the last couple of years.

407
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:11.000
I didn't think he was going to
take a huge jump. He's been

408
00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:14.799
a lot better of a player.
He's had two triple doubles already, and

409
00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:18.119
he's scoring at the rim. He's
a lot more assertive than he was.

410
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.400
He's clearly one of the fifteen or
ten best players even in college basketball at

411
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.559
this point. But the turnovers,
I mean, geez, as a team

412
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.440
here fifteen in the game, thirty
three in the last two games they were

413
00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.079
both against top ten teams, and
Tennessee and Marquette, two of the best

414
00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:36.559
teams in the country at forcing turnovers. This is what people do whenever they

415
00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:38.559
play these guys. And I know
with Kansas you expect to be perfect all

416
00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:41.680
the time. But other teams are
trying to win two and they're good at

417
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.240
playing defense, so I'm not real
concerned about that. As the team plays

418
00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:49.200
a little bit more together, I
think they'll be okay. I am a

419
00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:53.240
little surprised that was McCuller with a
bunch of the turnovers, but also remember

420
00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:57.759
against Marquette and Tennessee there were moments
where everybody else wasn't doing much unless it

421
00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:02.359
was Dickinson, So I kind of
you expect those numbers to get a little

422
00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:04.799
inflated whenever you also have a guy
that's putting the team on his back and

423
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:10.839
is giving you more positive possessions than
negative ones. It's just unusual to see

424
00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:12.880
a player of his caliber be pretty
careless with the ball. Same with the

425
00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:17.880
one Harris. He had five points
and eight assists and three turnovers in this

426
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:21.440
game. It was a bounce back
performance for him in a season high thirty

427
00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:23.440
nine minutes, most for any player
in a game for KU this year.

428
00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:26.680
I feel like Harris and mccullor being
careless with the ball for a week and

429
00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:32.440
MAUI if if, if that doesn't
show you that the other team's just really

430
00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:33.640
good at doing it and that it
was just a bad week. I don't

431
00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:38.359
know what well like, I'm not
too concerned. Yeah, I don't think

432
00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:41.000
it's it's too big a deal.
And again, two very good teams that

433
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:48.599
play really solid defense, So I
don't think too bad Brown right in a

434
00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:53.240
Parker I'd rather go I should I
look like Brown? He had? Yeah,

435
00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:56.599
ye had a line. Listen,
guys, I scored two points all

436
00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:02.880
season in my middle school basket boys
B team, and Parker Brown had the

437
00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:04.680
same stat line in this game.
He had two points, two rebounds,

438
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:11.880
two steals, one block, and
to too many minutes. I just stuttered,

439
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:15.400
like the self. Uh, that's
what Twitter says. At least,

440
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.559
I don't know what you're referring to. Ryan Good. Okay, it was

441
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:23.200
a good line. Yeah, I
saw a couple of people you actually play

442
00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:27.279
nine. I think I saw a
couple of people on Twitter, uh,

443
00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:32.599
talk about how this is exactly what
they need from Parker Brown, and I

444
00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:37.319
think they're right, it probably is. But oh my gosh, the chihuah

445
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.599
Wah with the the World War two
fighter pilots in the background meme is in

446
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.720
my head from all the times I
saw Mitch Lightfoot have two points and two

447
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:51.880
rebounds and saw Twitter say that's exactly
what they need. I don't understand how

448
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:55.920
you can't watch Hun her Dickenson play
basketball and then watch Parker Brown do anything

449
00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:59.839
and say that he's what they need. Like I'd rather have just about anybody

450
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.119
else at this point. But I
guess it's fine. He's Parker Brown.

451
00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.000
He's the human embodiment of a white
flag whenever he goes in the game.

452
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.720
Whenever he goes in the game,
I just hope to hell that they don't

453
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.279
get that it's not a seven zero
run before Hunter catches his breath enough to

454
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:19.039
go back in the game. I
don't actually think he's been that bad.

455
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:22.359
I mean, obviously, you know, in comparison to Hunter Dickinson, that's

456
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:26.799
like, you know, comparing the
office to whatever sitcom I would make.

457
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:32.160
But like, I don't think he's
been that bad. I think he's been

458
00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:33.839
serviceable. I thought in this game, you know, for nine minutes,

459
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:40.920
like that's not too bad against anything
special. But yeah, I mean old

460
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:42.759
special. I think that's the biggest
thing. You just shouldn't expect much of

461
00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:48.480
him, and then this this is
not so bad. Parker Brown's headshot looks

462
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:52.480
like me watching Parker Brown play basketball, he just looks very okay. I

463
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.599
don't okay, if that's what you
want. I don't know how he's still

464
00:30:55.640 --> 00:31:00.160
in college considering he's older than Christian
Brown. But Parker Brown six games is

465
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.839
averaging four points and three rebounds in
eleven minutes. A game that feels fine,

466
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.680
like that's your backup center, isn't
gonna be You're not having Hunter Dickinson

467
00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:12.519
quality players come off the bench.
I get it, but I guess against

468
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:15.880
top ten team it'll play. We
just kind of have to throw that in

469
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.119
there because it's what we do.
Yeah, okay, let's talk about I'm

470
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:21.559
not gonna read what Nick road.
I almost started to read that and then

471
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.720
realize, Nope, can't do that
one. The next ten games for the

472
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:30.880
Jayhawks here they are Eastern Illinois,
Yukon, UMKC, Missouri at Indiana,

473
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:37.079
Yale, Wichita State, TCU at
Central Florida, and Oklahoma. I'm gonna

474
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:38.920
call my shot right now and say
that's ten dubs. Anyone else. Yeah,

475
00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:44.079
I don't think they're losing minimum nine. Yeah, nine to one feels

476
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:48.119
like the floor Yukon is not easy
at all. Indiana has been very underwhelming

477
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.079
but that that arena is still going
to be a tough one to play in,

478
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:55.480
and then there's always potential for a
stinker. Right. We saw TCU

479
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.240
whip them at Allen Field House unexpectedly
last year, and Oklahoma, who's also

480
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:01.440
on this list, is undefeated and
they almost beat them at home last year.

481
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:07.079
But KU is now only going to
leave Allen Field House or the Team

482
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:13.880
Mobile Center one time until January tenth. So unless you're predicted them to lose

483
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:16.279
at home, which I don't care
if they play the Nineties Bowls at Allen

484
00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:19.960
field House, I would think twice
about picking them to lose at home.

485
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:22.319
Yukon's gonna be tough, but it's
gonna be alan Field House. So unless

486
00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:25.799
you think they lose at home,
or unless you think Indiana gets them,

487
00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:30.000
I think you're picking ten wins.
I think I would predict ten wins.

488
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:34.359
But I have watched enough kNs basketball
to know that every once in a while

489
00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:39.240
TCU blows their doors off or something
similar happens, so weird stuff goes down.

490
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:44.000
But certainly they will be they should
and will be favored in all these

491
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:47.000
games, and if they do go
nine and one, that would make them

492
00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:52.160
fourteen and two through sixteen games,
which is ridiculous pretty good. Yes,

493
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:54.119
that's top five. They will be
in the top five for the next month

494
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:59.160
and a half, So I guess
that is why this Tennessee game was so

495
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:02.319
important. Now you have two wins
over top fifteen teams. I don't care

496
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:07.240
that Kentucky's seventeen or whatever. They
are a top fifteen team in college basketball

497
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:12.359
and everybody knows it. They have
two really good wins, potential for a

498
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.759
third really good one depending on what
happens with Yukon here next week. And

499
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:20.160
now they're going to coast for a
little while. So I gotta think that

500
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.200
if you're a Jayhawk fan, you
have to feel pretty happy with where this

501
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:24.960
team is at. I know that
we were all hoping for six and zero.

502
00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:28.240
I said, I thought they'd win
them all, but in the grand

503
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.880
scheme of things, five and one
through the six games they've played is pretty

504
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:34.119
good. I think you gotta be
pretty happy with where they are at this

505
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.960
point. What about you, guys? Yeah, I think so. I

506
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:39.240
mean, in the preseason show,
I predicted that they would lose to Marquette

507
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:43.799
in the preseason, or in that
he did in the Male Invitational Obviously I

508
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:45.079
did not pick that on the show, but I can still claim that I

509
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:47.680
got it right. So yeah,
five and one I think is pretty good.

510
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:51.759
A few little kinks to work out, but I'm relatively confident that those

511
00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:55.319
will indeed be worked out. Yeah, I think people are underestimating the impact

512
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:59.039
that losing Arterier Morris had. I
think that was just kind of brushed over.

513
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:00.799
I mean, obviously people want to
get away from that quickly because of

514
00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:07.039
the nature of the incident. But
you lost, notably, probably a guy

515
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:08.480
who's going to be one of the
best point guards in the country this season.

516
00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:13.639
That's a huge loss because we're looking
at the glaring issues with this team

517
00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:16.280
and they would probably be filled with
Arterio Morris being in this lineup. You

518
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.320
know, the issues with the depth, the issues with the two guard spot.

519
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:23.519
So I think that all things considered, KYU is exactly where they should

520
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:25.800
be, and it's only to go
out from here, especially when they figure

521
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:30.199
that out with Nicholas Timberlake, er
Elmarco Jackson or if Jamal mcdoal is going

522
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:34.679
to take more minutes. I think
that should be sort itself out. KU

523
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:37.519
has ten games in a row here, that should be a relatively easy,

524
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.480
you know, breeding ground for that
to happen before they get into the deep

525
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:45.639
conference schedule. When Houston plays its
first difficult game in February. Correct,

526
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.800
Yes, I like the Houston shot
there. And looking at the Big Twelve,

527
00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:52.320
we thought at the beginning of the
year it was going to be Kansas,

528
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:54.320
Baylor, and Houston. Those were
the three teams we all thought Texas

529
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:58.719
would take a step back, and
they lost to Yukon. So at this

530
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:01.079
point kind of looks like they maybe
a step behind everyone else. The Big

531
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:05.400
Twelve doesn't look quiet as Fear says
it has been in years past, where

532
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.480
we talked about how the ninth best
team in the Big Twelve is still competing

533
00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.920
for an NCAA tournament. Berth don't
know if the second worst team in the

534
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.440
Big Twelve is still gonna be like
that. Now that the league's a little

535
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:20.400
bigger, teams like UCF for West
Virginia sitting down there, maybe they'll finally

536
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.039
have a couple of quote easy conference
wins for a change. So yeah,

537
00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:25.079
I think you got to be pretty
happy with where they're at. This is

538
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:29.039
a very good team. I think
that they are definitively one of the five

539
00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:31.239
best teams in college basketball right now, I don't think there's much of an

540
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.840
argument. I'm not ready to put
Houston in here yet. They haven't played

541
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.599
anybody. The five best teams in
college basketball in some order are Perdue,

542
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:45.079
Marquette, Kansas, Arizona, and
Connecticut, and some order. You could

543
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:49.039
put those in one through five and
just about any combination, and I don't

544
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:52.800
think you'd get a huge argument.
So they're one of the five best teams.

545
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.519
They're the best team in the Big
Twelve, and we'll just continue to

546
00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:59.039
see that arrow point upward as they
get more comfortable. In this game,

547
00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:01.519
Kansas fifty two percent from the floor, thirty three percent from three, and

548
00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:05.880
fifty percent of the line. You'll
take the field goal percentage. The other

549
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.199
two needs some work. Plus ten
at the art, plus ten on the

550
00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:14.559
glass, So a quality performance.
Twelve hours after taking an ugly l to

551
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:17.400
a great team, they come back
and they beat another very good team.

552
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:21.800
They fly home on a high note, and they collect their fifth win of

553
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.480
the season. Things could have gone
better in Maui, but things also could

554
00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:32.519
have gone a whole lot worse other
games. I just kind of put everything

555
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:37.079
in other games where normally we would
arrange them into the Big twelve section first.

556
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.280
But there's a lot of tournaments to
go through, so let's run down

557
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:45.480
them here. Let's begin with Maui
winning the tournament and earning the number one

558
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.079
spot in the polls. Is number
two per Due, who defeated number four

559
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.840
Marquette and the finals in a game
that sounds better than it actually was seventy

560
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:57.440
eight to seventy five. Zach Edy
went for twenty eight and fifteen. He

561
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:00.199
was named most Outstanding Player of this
tournament. If the boiler Makers led the

562
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:04.519
entire way, they hit like a
seventy five foot buzzer beater. At the

563
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:06.960
end of the first half, they
were up twelve or something like that.

564
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:10.400
At the break, they were winning
the whole night. The deficit got trimmed

565
00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:14.760
and trimmed. It got down to
three in the final minute. But it

566
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:17.360
was never one of those on the
edge of your seat games. They were

567
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.440
never not the favorite here. Purdue, Marquette, Kansas, and Tennessee finished

568
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:27.360
one, two, three and four, and that or all top seven teams.

569
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:29.679
Don't know what you want to do
with them in the polls, because

570
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:32.519
are you gonna move Tennessee down for
losing a two to one and back to

571
00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:36.280
back game, I don't know,
like, how far down can they go?

572
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.039
Top ten? I don't think most
lost to two of the best five

573
00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:40.719
teams in the country. They'll drop
a little bit. It should not be

574
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:45.519
far at all. And as what
normally happens on Feast week, just about

575
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.400
everybody around the country loss, Like
just this week alone we had twelve,

576
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.760
fourteen, seventeen, nineteen twenty.
Like, all these teams are losing.

577
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.239
So if there's not gonna be a
whole lot of movement in the first place,

578
00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:00.800
to be fair, AP polls in
college basketball shouldn't really happen conference play

579
00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.360
anyways. Oh yeah, well,
Jeff Goodman actually think I have a Jeff

580
00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:07.280
Goodman blurblater here in the notes.
We'll save his cloudness for another time.

581
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:12.679
And the loser side of the bracket
number eleven, Gonzaga predictably claimed fifth by

582
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:16.440
narrowly beating UCLA. We figured that
the loser of that Tennessee Gonzaga game would

583
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:21.360
blow through the loser's bracket, and
that's what happened. The Bruins took sixth,

584
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:27.719
while Syracuse absolutely annihilated Boorshamanad one hundred
and five to fifty six. I

585
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.199
think the halftime score of this was
like fifty four to eighteen or something to

586
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:37.079
salvage seventh place. Much like Mike
Deepasqually Landon says he's got this with this

587
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:38.639
next this, next paragraph, go
for it, sir. Yeah. Battle

588
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:45.039
for Atlantis. Very impressive week for
our favorite two seed Villanova. One tournament

589
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:47.679
again. No, but I thought
of it midsentence and it worked out.

590
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.880
They beat Texas Tech, number fourteen
North Carolina in overtime, and Memphis all

591
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.480
in a row. They absolutely rolled
the Tigers in the championship, leaving him

592
00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:59.559
forty nine to seventeen at one point. Yeah, that's basketball, folks.

593
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.480
The tar Heels ended up placing third
after downing number twenty Arkansas and Texas Tech

594
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:08.880
got fifth by beating Northern Iowa and
Michigan after losing to Villanova in the open.

595
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:12.800
A pretty good feel down there in
Atlantis, and Villanova comes away the

596
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:17.079
victor. Villanova always wins it.
Remember that's the tournament that Archie Diacano upset

597
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:22.239
Kansas and thirteen. They won it
in seventeen I think or eighteen some around

598
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:24.679
there, and then they win it
again here a tournament Kansas has never won.

599
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.840
Villanova has now won three times.
This and Maui are the two best

600
00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:34.440
tournaments every Thanksgiving. I think,
yeah, I battle for Atlantis is like

601
00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:39.360
the Sierra Mist of versus spread.
Hey it's starry now, oh my land

602
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:46.360
Sorry? Sorry. The Alabama Auburn
game just got absolutely bonkers and it's gonna

603
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:50.199
happen. Yeah. Wait, do
you see what happens here on fourth down?

604
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:52.679
Here's a spoiler. It's going to
make you sad because I know where

605
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:58.000
your loyalties lie. I hate college
football. I'm already pissed. I'm already

606
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.559
so pissed. And he's not even
taking a snap yet. This is where

607
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:05.719
my TV's added Landon's and wow,
that was that was pretty wild? Uh

608
00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:07.800
So, Nick, let's talk about
the Mauie tournament while Landon watches. His

609
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:15.000
play was that this was built as
the best tournament ever, and this was

610
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:20.679
bil Maui was built as the best
Thanksgiving Meek tournament ever. Did it live

611
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:23.199
up to the hype? I think
it did. I think it did.

612
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:27.400
Uh. The championship game was enjoyable, White. I really thought it was

613
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.639
a good game, even though even
though Purdue led the entire way. If

614
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:32.639
Kansas would have kept it a little
bit closer against Marquette, and the game

615
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:35.639
was a little bit more of a
back and forth. I think that you

616
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.559
have, you know, a little
bit more reason to say that this is

617
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:39.519
the probably the best tournament, because
you know, if the Purdue Tennessee semi

618
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:43.719
final game was good. Uh so
I think that. I think it was

619
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:45.239
great that the field was stacked.
I don't know how they got, you

620
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:49.920
know, four top ten teams in
the field, but uh it was great.

621
00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:52.079
It was great event five top eleven
teams in the field too. Landon,

622
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.159
I don't know about you, but
I thought this was kind of underwhelming.

623
00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:01.199
Like Kansas Marquette wasn't close, Kansas
tent Sea wasn't close in the end.

624
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:07.119
Perdue Marquette wasn't really that good of
a game, like Marquette and Purdue

625
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:12.079
played. Are not Marquette Perdue,
Mark, Purdue and Tennessee played a pretty

626
00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:15.760
good game that was pretty back and
forth. But there weren't really any iconic

627
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:20.760
games here, and I was hoping
we get a couple bummer. Yeah,

628
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:24.679
I think that's fair. I think
at least just seeing these teams actually go

629
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:29.719
up against each other was still quite
interesting, I think. But yeah,

630
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:34.119
I think the actual games not being
like nail biters or any you know,

631
00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:37.599
crazy overtime finishes. You could argue
that's underwelling, but I do think it's

632
00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.239
interesting to see kind of where these
teams stack up just against each other.

633
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:45.760
In general, overall, it's a
good tournament. I'm trying to look at

634
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:51.719
the I cannot find anything on Google
about if we have found any like Kansas's

635
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.400
tournament next year. We don't know
they're not gonna play in one of the

636
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:57.760
major ones because those fields have already
been announced. I know they opened the

637
00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.920
season with North Carolina, but overall, like we we don't know. We

638
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.239
don't know what they're gonna do.
It might be this one, it might

639
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:10.000
be The Mickey Mouse Invitational was known
as the ESPN Saw What You Intational Also

640
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:14.199
before it was known as the Advocare
Invitational. Before that, it was known

641
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:17.000
as the Old Spice Slice Classic.
Right. Yeah, So whoever wants to

642
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:20.079
shill the most money, I guess
can put their name on it. We

643
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:24.280
can put the inside the paint Mike
to Pascal uh Invitational on it next year

644
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:31.000
hopefully, because Mike's got this golden
on the court and he just jumps out

645
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:36.320
he jumps, he jumps out,
He jumps out with cameras point on a

646
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:38.880
mid game and says, Mike's got
this. I played college football, guys,

647
00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:43.800
I also played college basketball. Uh
in this In this tournament, though,

648
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.719
the championship game will will take place
tomorrow, if you're listening to this

649
00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:51.599
to now today, it will between
number nineteenth Florida Atlantic, you know,

650
00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:55.599
the Final four National championship contender last
year, and Virginia Tech. The Owls

651
00:42:55.639 --> 00:43:00.440
beating number twelve Texas A and M
on Friday semi final and are brilliant ninety

652
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:02.840
six to eighty nine game. Yeah, ho Keys took down Iowa State,

653
00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:07.559
handing the Cyclones their first loss the
season. And that's what happens when Iowa

654
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:15.639
State plays a team that is not
a Grambling Houston Bible. Yeah, it's

655
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:17.880
funny how when Iowa State used to
lose games under Hoiberg, they were like

656
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:22.400
eighty to seventy eight, and now
whenever they lose games, they're like sixty

657
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:25.719
four to sixty two or something.
Fugly, the Cyclones don't drink the kool

658
00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:29.440
aid. They're gonna have a great
record, and they do have another opportunity

659
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:31.760
for a quality win when they play
A and M for third place, but

660
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:36.360
assuming they lose that this team is
not going to have any quality wins by

661
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:39.159
the time they get to conference play, and then they'll still probably beat Kansas

662
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:43.880
when somebody who looks like Caleb Grill
will go out there and make five threes

663
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:45.760
at Hilton as the Jayhawks are held
to a season z one points. Seen

664
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:50.440
that many times in the NIT tip
Off, which takes place in New York

665
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.480
City and another one of the tournaments
where Kansas played Tennessee before. Feels like

666
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:58.000
Kansas and Tennessee have played in a
marquee game of just about all of these

667
00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:01.320
tournaments at some point. In this
particular year, it was number thirteen Baylor

668
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:06.760
that got to six and zero by
taking down Oregon State and Florida to win.

669
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.119
In this tournament, the Bears scored
a combined one hundred and eighty three

670
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:14.199
points in their two wins. Jacoby
Walter was in foul trouble and didn't play

671
00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:16.920
hardly at all, so it was
ray J. Dennis who scored twenty four

672
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:21.880
in the title game. The Bears
look every bit as good and lethal on

673
00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:27.679
offense as they normally are. They
are really, really, really good every

674
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:30.719
single year. On the offensive side
of the ball. They'll roll through the

675
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:36.559
next few weeks before playing Michigan State
and Duke and consecutive games right before Christmas.

676
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:38.360
More bad news if you're in this
football game for you come and land

677
00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:40.440
in more points. Oh no,
I'm there, I'm there. Oh,

678
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.559
I'm so okay. There's Oh they
just showed a crying Auburn girl. Oh

679
00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:51.679
that poor Alabama can't have anything nice. She sat outside in the gold for

680
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:55.039
fifty nine and a half minutes,
only to watch Alabama score thirteen points in

681
00:44:55.039 --> 00:45:00.280
the final. Oh no, no, you haven't got so much worse.

682
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.880
It doesn't matter. This one doesn't
matter, but it gets worse. Man,

683
00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.880
don't put your faith in six and
five teams kids, No, no,

684
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:10.079
or yeah, because even in the
sec where it just means more.

685
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:15.639
And Alabama's basketball team beat Organeda.
You can't look me in the eye and

686
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:19.960
tell me a conference that has Peyton
Thorn as their quarterback means anything more than

687
00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.480
anyone else. Yeah, well,
have fun with that, Oklahoma and Texas.

688
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.679
Speaking of things that don't mean anything, like the Blue Devil Challenge means

689
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:32.119
Jack Frick number nine Duke who Jeff
Goodman moved ahead of Kansas in his personal

690
00:45:32.199 --> 00:45:37.159
rankings based on beating LaSalle and a
one in six Southern Indiana team that Duke

691
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:43.199
trailed at half by four thirty five
thirty one. They did win that game,

692
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:46.159
Yeah, shocking, Make it makes
sense. The Blue Devil Challenge the

693
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:52.719
peyton thorn of Beast Week faments.
Yeah, so Kentucky never plays in one

694
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:57.760
of these tournaments. Duke does.
Sometimes feels like we only really see him

695
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:00.639
at Maui and the phil Knights stuff. Come on like that. You couldn't

696
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:06.800
have gotten Duke in the ESPN Invitational
or whatever the nick called the Mickey Mouse

697
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:09.800
Invitational. What like, you can't
get come on like this is just a

698
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:13.960
joke. I wonder if they get
a trophy for winning the Blue Devil Challenge

699
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:17.039
in their own stadium. It's just
coach K's bust that they pull from the

700
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:22.360
hallway. Ew gross, I wouldn't
want that. Oh no, they're showing

701
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:25.480
more crying Auburn fans all these If
you're in a football game and you feel

702
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:30.000
like you're going to cry, please
look away because you are going to get

703
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:35.440
your head anywhere. Yes, visible
from a camera. Things that are very

704
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:37.360
visible from cameras. Jeff Goodman's forehead, as Nick has pointed out in the

705
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:42.800
notes, says he could print his
entire top twenty five lists on his forehead.

706
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:49.599
Oh yeah, that's okay, Nick. Tell me about Virginia. Uh

707
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:52.599
yeah, Virginia. There were twenty
four. Virginia bounced back with a whopping

708
00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:55.159
fifty six points, which is fifteen
more than they scored on the previous night.

709
00:46:55.320 --> 00:47:00.239
Did you West doing a daily fifty
six to fifty four? The Mountaineers

710
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:04.159
are terrible two and three. The
winner of this tournament was Wisconsin. Nobody

711
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:08.000
cares it, guys. If a
number twenty four Virginia played Iowa football,

712
00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:13.599
Oh my god, would the over
under be said at anything higher than forty

713
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:16.920
that's over under? It would just
be that. Yeah, what was the

714
00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:21.599
over under in that Iowa Nebraska game
yesterday? It was like twenty four and

715
00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:25.239
a half and it was under.
It went under under hit. It got

716
00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:30.119
off to a decent start, like
if I remember the like, yeah,

717
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:32.559
it was ten to seven at halftime, so they were more than halfway there.

718
00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.280
They were one touchdown away from making
it really close, and there were

719
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:44.079
just two field goals in the second
half. Vegas knows always Oh, it's

720
00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:45.599
my turn, isn't it. Oh
wow, I get to read about the

721
00:47:46.519 --> 00:47:49.960
guys. We have too many tournaments. And if you don't believe me,

722
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:55.960
how about eighty children They're Rady Children's
Invitational, which the only reason we're talking

723
00:47:55.960 --> 00:48:00.199
about is because it featured a big
twelve team. Oklahoma is six. Know

724
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:02.840
they had a good week here they
beat Iowa and number twenty three USC.

725
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:08.239
Speaking of Iowa, transfer guard Otega
Away is averaging fifteen points for the Sooners

726
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:12.400
so far. He looks like the
Who was the guy that they had last

727
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.039
year that was really good? They
had one good player. I can't remember

728
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:17.679
his name? Now, do you
guys remember it? Nope? I'm typing

729
00:48:17.679 --> 00:48:22.400
something that's way funnier than that.
What was the land that said we need

730
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:27.480
the Children with Rabies Invitational? Presented
by dunder Mifflin at this point? Who

731
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:34.320
was Oklahoma's best fire last year?
What was the the You're gonna have to

732
00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:37.920
ask that question a third time?
Hit me one more time. Who was

733
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.440
Oklahoma's leading scorer last year? The
guy? He was good? Oh?

734
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.199
Oh oh, I remember him?
He was good? Oh no, I

735
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:50.880
see it. Grant Sherfield. Grant
Sherfield, I think that, Uh,

736
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:55.960
this guy, this Otega Away is
kind of like their their version of him.

737
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:00.840
So they will lose many games as
he's theres a lot of points this

738
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:02.760
year, even though they did beat
USC and Andy Enfield. Hop wife,

739
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:07.400
how much does this case State suck? Uh? In the CBE Hall of

740
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:12.559
Fame Classic number eight, Creighton lost
to Colorado State. I thought you said

741
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:14.599
they lost to Colorado, which I
no, no, no, no,

742
00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:17.960
that weird The rams Colorado State much
weirder. And on top of that,

743
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:23.119
they lost by twenty one and only
scored forty eight in the title game.

744
00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:27.280
No clue what happened to the Blue
Jays there? And I'm pretty sure that

745
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:30.199
was in Kansas City. I think
the CBE Hall of Fame Classic is always

746
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:32.920
in Kansas City. Yeah, just
nobody goes to it. So Creighton scored

747
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:37.360
forty eight in a loss. Here're
gonna remember that when they go ninety two

748
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:40.880
on Kansas Here in the I'm gonna
say around March twenty third feels about right

749
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.760
from when that's gonna happen, as
they make four threes in the first four

750
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:49.360
minutes of the game. Did you
guys see the fight in the byu Arizona

751
00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:52.280
State game. I heard about it. It was at like two in the

752
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:57.159
morning because Feast week. It's in
Vegas, so it's late, and a

753
00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:02.000
BYU players like through a couple of
yet punches like not shoving, like clocked

754
00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:07.840
fist and everything tried to shusha two
shot. First, What was the BYU

755
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:10.960
basketball team to be in Las Vegas? I thought that was forbidden? Second

756
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:15.519
of all, when has a Mormon
ever been allowed to throw up punch?

757
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:19.760
Yeah, it doesn't happen very often. There's actually a pretty good Mormon population

758
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:23.199
in Vegas. She didn't he know
until recently. Then they were probably disappointed

759
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:29.199
because that game, on top of
featuring a fight, that game absolutely sucked.

760
00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:34.679
The final score was Arizona State losing
by twenty eight seventy seven to forty

761
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:37.480
nine to BYU, who is undefeated, one of six undefeated Big twelve teams.

762
00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:40.360
Uh nick, somebody who's also undefeated. Is the number three team in

763
00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:45.679
college basketball? Tell me a little
bit about that. And another fantastic event

764
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:51.760
called the Acrosure Classic. Yeah,
in the Michigan State lost another game Classic

765
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:53.960
Arizona and the three. Arizona held
off the Spartans, who played better but

766
00:50:54.039 --> 00:50:59.440
lost for the third time before December
for just the second time the tom Izzo

767
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:01.400
era. The final score is seventy
four to sixty eight. But guys,

768
00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:07.079
February, I Iszo good. Guys, tom Izzo is so good in March

769
00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:10.320
that he has won zero titles since
Landon and I have been alive. Yeah,

770
00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:15.880
they now have more Novembers with three
losses than titles under tom Izzo.

771
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:19.159
And I gotta tell you it's it's
the same thing every year with Iszoh,

772
00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:22.400
they will underachieve their way to a
sixth seed, and then they'll upset,

773
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.840
shock us, Smart and Marquette because
who else is getting upset early in March

774
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.960
at a three seed, And then
everybody will be like, yay Iszo again.

775
00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:34.920
Of course they're gonna go to the
final four. And then they won't.

776
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:37.400
We've seen this many times. Somebody
who will not be going to the

777
00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:40.840
final four, but they might with
this record. Land And how about Nebraska

778
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:45.159
seven and oh, one of the
first teams in the country to reach seven

779
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:47.480
and oh, that's that's pretty good. How about you read their opponents.

780
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:52.519
I'm sure there are some quality teams
on this list. There aren't. Lyndon

781
00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:54.719
Wood is one of their opponents.
That's a team from the same that was

782
00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:59.159
a D two school team three years
ago. For really, Florida A and

783
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:04.159
MS they beat them, unlike Iowa
State Ryder, which was the first team

784
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:08.159
I ever saw in Allen Field House
was Kansas destroying Ryder. Remember Stony Brook.

785
00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:10.840
The only Power five team here,
Oregon State, who is one of

786
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:17.519
the worst Power five teams, Decane
and Fullerton. There's there's not a lot

787
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:22.000
of call. Is this Gonzaga's conference
schedule? Oh? There you go,

788
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:27.840
good work. Yeah, honestly it
is because you have Saint Mary's as their

789
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.880
second biggest competition, and I don't
remember who Saint Mary's lost to the other

790
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:36.920
day they lost to Oh wow,
San Diego State beat Saint Mary's by twenty

791
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:40.400
five points a day a couple of
days after they lost to Weber State at

792
00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:45.559
home. The Fighting Mary's might not
be good. They're never good. Landon,

793
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:47.880
when was the last time they were
good? And don't say last year

794
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:52.360
when they were a five seed,
Because a five seed in the wc SEE

795
00:52:52.400 --> 00:52:55.559
is a the equivalent of a twelve
seed in any real conference. I think

796
00:52:55.599 --> 00:53:00.280
that's probably true. Lots of teams
here ranked teams still since the last show

797
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:06.320
number four Marquette. They are the
highest ranked team losing to the Volunteers.

798
00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:07.960
Actually, that's wrong. I typed
the wrong school there. They lost to

799
00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:13.960
the fighting zach Eats of Purdue in
the finals, but number seven ranked Tennessee

800
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:19.000
the Volunteers. Indeed, they lost
to r Jhawks, Buzz Williams in the

801
00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:22.880
number twelve Texas A and m Aggie's
lost to national runner up Florida Atlantic.

802
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:27.480
I think they lost in the final
four. That's right, that's right.

803
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.440
That final four is like, are
just the mentally just so crazy? I

804
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:34.440
don't remember it. I forgot that
it was a buzzer beater. It was

805
00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:37.320
the show you were on that you
missed the other day. Landon and I

806
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:40.800
were talking about that and I totally
forgot San Diego State had a right.

807
00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:47.559
Yeah, it was just a totally
forgettable And in six years, Elliott Ruson

808
00:53:47.639 --> 00:53:53.079
Age is gonna ask us some obscure
fact that we didn't know about, how

809
00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:57.960
the trend in the last x amount
of final fours have featured this seed or

810
00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:01.000
whatever. And we're gonna get to
twenty nineteen or twenty nineteen, We're gonna

811
00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:05.000
get to twenty twenty three and be
like, now, who the hell did

812
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:07.320
ukon beat? I don't remember.
Of course, that's assuming that you guys

813
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:10.199
are both still on this show,
which Nick has already said, no,

814
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:14.400
no in hell no, But well
we'll see, you know, maybe maybe

815
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:17.519
the fans of Rock Chalk Blog can
pull their magic here. Number fourteen North

816
00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:22.360
Carolina Hubert Davis is no stranger to
this list. He lost to Villanova in

817
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:27.639
overtime. Number seventeen Alabama Gosh,
I wish they'd just lost to Auburn,

818
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:30.840
but no. In basketball they did
lose to Ohio State, who also lost

819
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:34.199
in football, which has made my
day better because screw Ohio State. With

820
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:38.920
twenty Number twenty Arkansas lost to Memphis. In North Carolina, Alabama plays Ohio

821
00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:43.360
State and Clemson and back to back
weeks their basketball team does. If that

822
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:45.360
was a football schedule from four years
ago, that would have been a lot

823
00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:50.360
better. Number twenty one Michigan State
lost to Arizona. Their name has been

824
00:54:50.360 --> 00:54:53.480
on this list three times already this
year. And number twenty three USC they

825
00:54:53.519 --> 00:54:58.039
lost to Oklahoma. You had a
good weeknd pick them Landon last week he

826
00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:00.679
went eight and two, but you
still fell another game behind. Nick's now

827
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:04.440
got a four game lead. I
swear you have to keep doing this show

828
00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:07.079
till you win. To pick a
year that has to happen, well,

829
00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:10.599
we would be here until it should
be easier with only two people next year.

830
00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:20.559
Don't all right, you guys get
an easy ask ARCB today because we

831
00:55:20.599 --> 00:55:22.639
decided we were gonna do this show
pretty late, so there's only four questions.

832
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:28.199
So I will fill the void by
asking one myself at Ryan Underscore Landreth,

833
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:34.280
name your three favorite Christmas movies.
I don't watch a lot of Christmas

834
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.719
movies. That's a land and answer. If there ever was a landing answer,

835
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:45.039
I think, don't say Diehard.
Don't say die Hard. It's probably

836
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:52.800
gotta be on there. Quality answer. I really like. It's a wonderful

837
00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:55.960
life. It's a good movie,
really good movie. I think, oh

838
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.760
my god, that that's an older
take than your first watch take. That

839
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:07.360
movie is so bad it relevant.
How it stayed relevant for this long is

840
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:13.360
beyond me. It's a great movie. It is, it's really not all.

841
00:56:13.480 --> 00:56:15.920
You guys have the simplest taste in
the world. And then the other

842
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:19.519
one, which I wasn't gonna say, but I am gonna say just to

843
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:25.800
make you angrier, is oh my
gosh, that's an all time abysmal list.

844
00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:31.239
All right, Nick, what's yours? Tell me yours? My list

845
00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:37.280
is Home Alone, which is National
Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Home Alone two. Home

846
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.519
Alone two is balls. I don't
think it is. Home Alone two is

847
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:46.079
absolutely awful. Is that? Are
you really? Like? Really, that's

848
00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:52.079
one of your three favorites. I
guess I if I, if I,

849
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:54.320
if I'm gonna take one Home Alone, I'll go Home Alone one and then

850
00:56:54.320 --> 00:57:00.679
I'll replace the movies ever. So
that's true. And the one and I

851
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:08.559
watched them every year is uh is
grumpy old man out of Christmas movie?

852
00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:15.440
Ah? That's close. That's really
close. This is the only reason Nick

853
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:21.440
likes Home Alone two. Down to
the left, You're down the hall into

854
00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:27.480
the left and he starts walking to
the right. Yes, sounds like the

855
00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:30.480
state of American politics. Okay,
so you guys are all around it.

856
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:36.000
My hot take on Christmas movies is
I think Christmas Vacation, despite being the

857
00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:39.320
human embodiment of Clark Griswold at Christmas
time, I think that movie's a little

858
00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:44.960
overrated. I cannot freaking stand cousin
Eddie. I can't stand that guy.

859
00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:49.079
Uh. So that bumps in and
that's what Home Alone. That's what Christmas

860
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:52.280
Vacation two is all about. Uh, And it's just a it's awful,

861
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:57.440
awful, awful. The best Christmas
movie is A Christmas Story, followed by

862
00:57:57.480 --> 00:58:00.400
Elf, followed by Home Alone.
I think maybe the ground lows not good.

863
00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:05.079
How the grin Stool Christmas is very
good as well. It's very adorable

864
00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:07.760
and it's very well done. A
Christmas story. I watched it for the

865
00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:10.880
first time like two or three years
ago, like all the way through I'd

866
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:15.079
seen like tiny bits of it,
actually sat down and watched the whole thing,

867
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:19.199
actually enjoyed it. And then watched
it last year and it was if

868
00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:22.920
it was a different movie. I
wanted to vomit while gounging my eyes out.

869
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:27.079
It was an unwatchable movie to me. It was the most cringe thing

870
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:30.360
I've ever seen. It is only
a good movie, I think because it's

871
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:37.159
such a classic. Like I remember
being barely old enough to remember anything,

872
00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:42.199
and that movie was on in the
background of Christmas. I have the full

873
00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:45.599
sized leg lamp in the living room, Like that's a must in his house.

874
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:47.320
I know, I've seen your house
many times. Yeah, it's got

875
00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:52.679
a couple good parts, like for
GLA's hilarious. Yeah, the part where

876
00:58:52.719 --> 00:58:55.519
he fights with the bumpus his dogs
is great. I love when Ralphie beats

877
00:58:55.559 --> 00:58:59.920
the hell out of the bully and
the mom just leaves the kid bleeding in

878
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:02.440
the snow. I think that's funny. No, you get out of here.

879
00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:05.679
It's a great movie. It's a
classic. Elf is a winner in

880
00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:08.920
every sense of the word that great. I don't know what other movies are

881
00:59:08.920 --> 00:59:13.480
there, Like Miracle on fifty four
Streets sucks. I can't seen that one.

882
00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:16.079
Christmas with the Cranks is good.
I'm a Tim Allen fan, so

883
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:22.760
I like another hot take, Polar
Express. I know it looks really wonky.

884
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:25.840
I'm a fan mostly what there is
no orangey stuff in it, but

885
00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:30.199
I do like it overall. I
hate that you can't get any worse than

886
00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:34.119
the Hallmark movies, though no I
disagree. I'm a sucker for some good

887
00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:37.960
Netflix slash Hallmark Christmas movies like I
Will Watch. They came out with one

888
00:59:38.039 --> 00:59:42.480
every year, it would be regarded
as pretty respectable, right, but they

889
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:45.320
don't. They come out with forty, so they're all exactly the same and

890
00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:47.599
very boring. But I get.
Yeah, we had the movies in one

891
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:52.559
of my NBA classes that ku.
We had the chief risk officer from Hallmark

892
00:59:52.599 --> 00:59:55.480
come in and talk, and he
talked like extensively about how much money the

893
00:59:55.519 --> 01:00:00.519
Hallmark Channel makes because of the advertisements. But then also they've established this like

894
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:06.880
cult following, Like old people sold
out two cruises in like ten minutes because

895
01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:12.079
the Hallmark Christmas movie cast was gonna
be on it. Yeah, premium commercial

896
01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:15.840
time is whenever those Hallmark Christmas movies
come on. I know more than one

897
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:21.599
person that pays for cable specifically to
keep the Hallmark Channel. It's a thing

898
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:24.239
that's half way while my parents still
have it because until very recently, most

899
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:29.039
of the other options did not have
Hallmark in their lineup. Yep. And

900
01:00:29.320 --> 01:00:31.880
and now eventually you're gonna get Hallmark
Plus to go along with all the other

901
01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:36.199
plus. Yeah, dirty is the
risk officer. The risk officer said that

902
01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:38.280
they're launching an app, so of
course, great Awesome can't wait to play

903
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:42.920
Hallmark streaming app. Can't wait to
watch one hundred and twenty seconds of ads

904
01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:46.079
every six minutes while paying whenever they
want to charge for that to watch the

905
01:00:46.119 --> 01:00:51.400
forty sixth season of When Calls the
Heart. Hey, but remember when Jeff

906
01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:53.280
Long said ESPN plus was only five
dollars a month. I do, and

907
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:57.800
now it's twelve. Yeah, and
it still works as well. Good and

908
01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:00.320
that price is no good. Yeah, two things that are not good at

909
01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:06.280
press rangement, Right, I forgot
about that from cam Liple, from our

910
01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:12.159
buddy cam Liple. What a story? What a story that was at Preston

911
01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:15.440
Skirsik. Well, a mid season
edition would be nice from a depth perspective,

912
01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:19.920
do you think the emergence of Jamari
McDowell has changed things? Would it

913
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:22.880
potentially hinder development of McDowell, Furfey
and Jackson. So there have been a

914
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:28.840
couple of articles here suggesting that Kansas
may be looking at pieces to add at

915
01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:31.760
the mid season mark, at the
mid semester break. I don't know how

916
01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:35.599
realistic that is, As Landon has
said before on the show, last time

917
01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:37.440
they did that, it got a
final four vacated a few years later,

918
01:01:38.119 --> 01:01:43.440
So I don't really know how that
would work Slash, if it would even

919
01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:47.159
be worth it. But yes,
I do believe the premise of this question

920
01:01:47.239 --> 01:01:52.480
is right. Mcdell, furfi and
Jackson and Timberlake for that matter. They

921
01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:57.440
should be plenty enough. They need
to get out the guys, quote unquote

922
01:01:57.519 --> 01:02:02.400
fix the what's wrong about the team. They're on the roster already. Yes,

923
01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:06.480
I would, Now I would.
You never say no in case a

924
01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:08.679
guy gets hurt. But I have
a hard time believing that they are adding

925
01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:15.840
just about anybody at January fifth or
whatever, it's gonna actually make a difference

926
01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:19.039
for this team going fourth. Yeah, I would take it, because if

927
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:22.039
nothing else, the depth on this
team is so low. Like that you're

928
01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:25.840
saying, just in case of injury
or just something weird happens, I would

929
01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:30.480
be okay with another body, but
I would not expect that particular player to

930
01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:35.480
really contribute much. I mean,
if you're if you're good enough to transfer

931
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:37.920
to a team like Kansas and contribute, you've already you're already off the market.

932
01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:43.960
At Ryan Underscore Landrath. What do
you think of Shrek? It's fine,

933
01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:46.440
The first one is fine. The
second one has fine moments, and

934
01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:51.119
it introduces Puss and Boots, which
is awesome. So you don't think that.

935
01:02:51.840 --> 01:02:53.039
You don't think the second one is
as good as the first. I

936
01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:58.760
think they're one A and one B. I haven't seen them in quite a

937
01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:00.719
long time. I think the first
one, for originality gets it over the

938
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:05.039
second. I agree, but I
think they're real close. Nick. I

939
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:07.480
also agree that three and four aren't
very good. Three is better than four.

940
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:12.800
Nick, what are your thoughts on
Shrek? It's a great movie,

941
01:03:13.639 --> 01:03:16.599
Thank you. It was the last
good It was the last good Pixar movie.

942
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:22.599
I don't even know. There's been
a few good lots of Pixar movies,

943
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:28.639
Nick, Nick toy the Pixar movies
to you? Yeah, yeah,

944
01:03:28.679 --> 01:03:30.880
basically, dude, I don't know. I couldn't. I couldn't tell you

945
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:34.880
the difference between Marvel and uh,
what's the other one? Oh, you're

946
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:37.079
gonna kill land over here, You're
gonna kill our six year old d C?

947
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:40.679
Is it d C? Yeah?
Like you mean Batman and Spider Man?

948
01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:45.159
Like you're not sure which is which? Yeah? What? Hell?

949
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:49.679
Those is? DC and the other
spider Man. So there's been lots of

950
01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:53.360
good Pixar movies since Shrek, though
Monsters ain't the best. Okay, you're

951
01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:58.960
you're a more modern guy than I
am. I think Finding Nemo is is

952
01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:02.519
my childhood. That movie Cars,
ever, is so slept on. Cars

953
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:06.719
is great? Yep, do you
see the video Stephen A. Smith arguing

954
01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:15.400
with a caller about if Lightning mc
queen was the real goat of of the

955
01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:20.880
whatever cup they have in that movie. Oh, the piston cup, Yeah,

956
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:25.480
the piston cup. He had eight
piston cups in nine years, but

957
01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:28.280
what's his name had eight as well, So they were arguing over it.

958
01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:32.039
They had to lay off, like
seven or eight journalists that ESPN to pay

959
01:04:32.039 --> 01:04:41.119
Stephen A. Smith Smith to talk
about their cars animated movies awful. I

960
01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:44.400
will tell you, though, Landon, if anybody can, if anybody can

961
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:48.400
challenge cousin Eddie for the worst character
ever, it's Mader from Cars. That

962
01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:56.519
bastard is the worst animated character ever. And Cars two is all about Maider

963
01:04:56.639 --> 01:05:00.760
and I hate it. Cars two
is the worst Pixar movie. I don't

964
01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:03.320
even think that's debatable. I think
Cars two is awful. Another one that

965
01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:08.199
Troy slept On is Up. Up
is very cute. Up's great. The

966
01:05:08.199 --> 01:05:11.280
beginning of Up is the saddest thing
I've ever seen other than the end of

967
01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:14.800
Toy Story three. Oh yeah,
and then they'd bring them all back for

968
01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:17.880
like two more movies. So it
doesn't it doesn't really it loses the shock.

969
01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:21.280
I read this exactly what you expected
whenever you clicked this podcast. Huh,

970
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:25.599
we're talking about the worst and cutest
Pixar movies. Well, that's what

971
01:05:25.599 --> 01:05:28.639
happens when we don't have very many
questions at steven. That's the fun.

972
01:05:28.719 --> 01:05:32.000
Timmy seventeen. Would you rather sit
next to a crying baby or Shaka Smart

973
01:05:32.000 --> 01:05:36.719
on a twelve hour flight? I
assume Shaka Smart Shaka because I wouldn't kill

974
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:39.800
myself. I could not sit least
to it. I could not sit next

975
01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:43.079
to crying baby for ten minutes.
Or what what if we I would jump

976
01:05:43.119 --> 01:05:45.920
out the plane. I would break
the window open in case of emergency and

977
01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:49.320
beat myself out of it. What
if we changed the question to what if

978
01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:53.719
Shaka and a crying baby sit next
to each other and Shaka yells at the

979
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:57.480
baby to shut the f up and
then tries to charge at it. Well,

980
01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:00.880
in that case, I would I
would take some action against jakas smart

981
01:06:01.199 --> 01:06:05.639
because that's unreasonable, but also like
you would be doing us a favor in

982
01:06:05.679 --> 01:06:09.559
some ways. A couple from at
show me hawk here to close us out?

983
01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:15.199
Should I make parallels between last year's
Kansas Jayhawks basketball team and this year's

984
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:18.400
Chiefs team. Both teams were good
defending champions of their respective sport, but

985
01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:21.760
both teams were still really good in
their own right. But you just notice

986
01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:26.880
a fatal flaw with both that would
be a roadblock from either team from winning

987
01:06:26.920 --> 01:06:30.000
back to back championships. First off, I think the Chiefs are still the

988
01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:31.679
favorite to win it all. I
think they're better than the Eagles. I

989
01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:34.079
know that they didn't win that game, but I think that I mean one

990
01:06:34.119 --> 01:06:40.000
hundred more yards, more sacks,
more time, and possagually they felt like

991
01:06:40.039 --> 01:06:42.559
the better team there. If Kelsey
doesn't fubble in the red zone, I

992
01:06:42.559 --> 01:06:45.280
think they win. And hell of
Valdez Scantling, who landed thinks was overthrown

993
01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:50.119
by thirty yards, makes a freaking
catch that any NFL wide receivers both to

994
01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:58.920
make. I can't believe you thought
that that was a bad pass overthrown by

995
01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:02.679
a yard. It was right in
his palms and the only reason it wasn't

996
01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:12.840
elbows is because the alligator armed it
debatill whatever. That's that's that's a catch

997
01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:16.039
that ninety percent of NFL players need
to make. The Justphin Watson catches harder

998
01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:21.039
with that, like gosh, Justin
Watson catches so much harder. Yes,

999
01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:25.639
much much harder. I still should
have been caught, but still harder catch.

1000
01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:28.760
Uh. No, the Cheese are
still the best team in the AFC,

1001
01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:31.880
and I'm not ready to bury them
yet, uh by any stretch.

1002
01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:35.519
But yeah, the Jayhawks you're you're
if if the Chiefs end up going down

1003
01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:40.800
in the divisional round and the receivers
have another Lions or Eagles like performance,

1004
01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:44.480
that take will Age like fine wine. Yes, at show me Hawk one

1005
01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:47.280
more? How would you grade KU
football this season? Sounds like Nixon Tenna's

1006
01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:51.000
just shut up. On paper,
we accomplished our goal by clinching our first

1007
01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:55.039
winning season since two thousand and eight. We got a top ten road win,

1008
01:07:55.320 --> 01:07:58.920
our ranked win, and went to
a second consecutive bowl game. But

1009
01:07:58.960 --> 01:08:01.079
if you look at the glass half, they blew three winnable games against Oklahoma

1010
01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:04.400
State, text Tech in Kansas State, missing out on a chance to play

1011
01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:08.559
for a Big twelve title in Arlington. Yeah, I think you pretty much

1012
01:08:08.559 --> 01:08:11.360
summed it up there, Nick.
How would you assess k football this season?

1013
01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:15.680
I think it's been good. I
mean, any improvement from even improvement

1014
01:08:15.720 --> 01:08:20.000
from last year is still good.
But I hate the argument that it's like,

1015
01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:23.800
well, if this just would have
happened, if this they lost four

1016
01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:27.159
games, guys, I mean maybe
by the time you listen to this,

1017
01:08:27.199 --> 01:08:32.479
who knows the football is not going
to be You're gonna have the Kudu Shitta

1018
01:08:32.520 --> 01:08:38.079
woods in college football. Man.
So I think all things considered, this

1019
01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:40.880
is right where you know, people
kind of put them at the watermark this

1020
01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:44.399
year. Eight wins, nine wins. Maybe I think that's a good stepping

1021
01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:46.359
stone for next year when you get
most of these guys back, and then

1022
01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:48.800
you're gonna be looking at, you
know, can this team reach in new

1023
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:55.359
year six? So I think it
was a successful season all things considered.

1024
01:08:55.960 --> 01:08:58.920
I mean, I think that if
you had told me at the beginning of

1025
01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:02.920
the year that they weren't gonna have
Jalen Daniels for what, what did he

1026
01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:08.199
played one big twelve game. Like, if you had told me that was

1027
01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:10.960
the case and they still had a
chance at eight and four, I would

1028
01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:14.680
have said that they hit it out
of the park. Yeah, I think

1029
01:09:14.720 --> 01:09:16.279
that's part of the thing. If
if you showed me, if you guaranteed

1030
01:09:16.319 --> 01:09:19.560
me eight and four before the season, I would have taken that in an

1031
01:09:19.600 --> 01:09:24.319
instant. Also, in like fifteen
years, looking back on an eight and

1032
01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:26.479
four season, I'll be like,
hey, that was a really great year.

1033
01:09:27.239 --> 01:09:30.159
You would have taken eight and four
before the season started with Daniels,

1034
01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:35.079
Yeah for real, No, exactly, Like that's the thing. Uh,

1035
01:09:35.439 --> 01:09:39.840
watching it unfold, it's a little
harder to swallow some of it because I

1036
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:42.880
know that they should win or should
have won more. And yeah, Nick

1037
01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:46.159
is right, In ninety percent of
college football seasons, you have a could

1038
01:09:46.199 --> 01:09:48.119
have, should have, would have
if this would have happened, if that

1039
01:09:48.119 --> 01:09:51.560
would have happened, no doubt about
that. But uh, it's still is

1040
01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:56.399
a little bit hard to swallow considering
like, like it would have been pretty

1041
01:09:56.399 --> 01:10:00.520
awesome to have Kansas be like potentially
eleven and one, I'll play for a

1042
01:10:00.520 --> 01:10:03.239
big twelfth title. That would have
been pretty sick. So I'm not awesome,

1043
01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:08.520
but I don't want to pee in
anybody's cheerios. But everybody who's talking

1044
01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:12.039
about, oh, next year they
get Daniels back, I have no confidence

1045
01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:16.680
whatsoever in this. He has not
proven any ability to stay healthy. So

1046
01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:21.159
I have no clue how anybody can
expect next year he comes back, and

1047
01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:25.439
they just hum all the way to
Arlington, Like, I'd be thrilled if

1048
01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:29.000
he plays six games next year.
At this point, yeah, I have

1049
01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:30.920
no clue what's going to happen there. It'll be cool if he actually plays

1050
01:10:31.479 --> 01:10:34.640
well. Something that we do have
a clue on what's gonna happen is Eastern

1051
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:39.680
Illinois at Kansas. So let's go
ahead and blow the airhorn and we can

1052
01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:43.239
talk all about it. And this
is me stalling because I accidentally close the

1053
01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:46.439
soundboard. Here it is, it's
back open, you know, as everybody

1054
01:10:46.479 --> 01:10:53.119
else says Ryan Landra so much.
I'm used to it. I'm used to

1055
01:10:53.159 --> 01:10:55.920
it. So that was one of
the rare times where I was able to

1056
01:10:56.039 --> 01:10:59.840
mute a drop for the perfect amount
of time where it sounded seamless, seamless.

1057
01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:02.760
Normally it's very clunky, and that's
just that was much better. All

1058
01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:06.920
right, let's do it. Eastern
Illinois at there's still one, but what

1059
01:11:08.119 --> 01:11:11.760
probably like four or so by the
time this comes out, we think they

1060
01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:17.359
get passed by Purdue. Arizona probably
did this, and Marquette probably passes them,

1061
01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:19.680
right, it will probably pass them. Yeah, I don't know if

1062
01:11:19.720 --> 01:11:23.479
you can have who's five. I
don't know if Yukon can pass them.

1063
01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:28.039
They feel like they'll be somewhere between
three and five. I think it'll be

1064
01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:31.560
four. But the Eastern Illinois Panthers
of the Ohio Valley Conference, they are

1065
01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:38.079
two and four overall. They beat
Monmouth and Coppin State by score. Not

1066
01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:41.760
that Monmouth by the way, Illinois, Yeah, not even the good I

1067
01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:45.960
didn't know there was Monmouth in Illinois. They beat Coppon State by I score

1068
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:49.520
forty eight forty six, which here's
for Oklahoma and TCU played a higher scoring

1069
01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:54.640
football game the other day. They
played one game against the opponent on opening

1070
01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:59.640
night at Illinois Illinois Proper and they
lost that eighty to fifty two. So

1071
01:12:00.039 --> 01:12:02.760
I'm gonna start with Panthers or Jimmy
Garoppolo you as they like to be called.

1072
01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:13.159
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. I was just really disappointed in

1073
01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:18.640
how poor this team is. But
leading the Panthers is shooting guard Nakel John

1074
01:12:18.760 --> 01:12:23.960
Shelton, who is averaging less than
eleven points per game. Tiger Booker is

1075
01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:27.800
the point guard. Cooper Jacoby is
a big man in note he's six for

1076
01:12:27.880 --> 01:12:30.840
seven and averages ten and seven.
He's a white dude that shoots twenty three

1077
01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:33.800
percent on threes. Guess what happens
on Monday night, guys. Oh,

1078
01:12:34.479 --> 01:12:42.920
I know, I know that that's
what happens. Also, Nick calling Nikkiel

1079
01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:48.239
Shelton Nakel Shelton is awesome. He
just bypassed through that. Why there in

1080
01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:50.399
the notes today? That's fine.
They got some good names. They got

1081
01:12:50.439 --> 01:12:56.359
Nikiel Tiger and Cooper and Cooper uh
being the only white guy of those three

1082
01:12:56.560 --> 01:13:02.479
checks out and his name's Sol the
Kay. So there's that. That show

1083
01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:10.640
not only one of the worst college
basketball offenses but also one of the most

1084
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:15.720
downright unwatchable. Eastern Illinois is bottom
twenty five nationally in points, shooting percentage,

1085
01:13:15.720 --> 01:13:18.359
and free throw rate. So not
only do they not score when the

1086
01:13:18.359 --> 01:13:23.000
clock is running, they don't score
when it's stopped either. They are shooting

1087
01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:28.560
under forty two percent on twos.
That is impossible. That's bottom three nationally.

1088
01:13:29.039 --> 01:13:30.560
As a team, they shoot just
thirty three percent from three, which

1089
01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:33.880
is actually one of their better numbers
compared to the rest of these yere and

1090
01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:39.119
their best asset is offensive rebounding,
but that's mainly just because they miss so

1091
01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:43.159
many shots. They haven't been good
at defending the post this year, or

1092
01:13:43.199 --> 01:13:45.319
they have. They've also been good
at defending the post this year, but

1093
01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:49.800
they haven't played Hunter Dickinson yet.
Yeah, I think that might change someone

1094
01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:55.600
else. They've never played Kansas.
These two teams have never squared off third

1095
01:13:55.640 --> 01:14:00.520
time. This year, Kansas plays
somebody who is all new and I mean

1096
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:05.119
I know they squashed Manhattan, and
I know that they squashed who is the

1097
01:14:05.119 --> 01:14:09.720
team they beat in the open North
Carolina Central? I think yep, but

1098
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:14.800
this this feels like the worst team
on their schedule, and I think that

1099
01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:17.920
that will show. I am predicting
Kansas hits triple digits for the first time

1100
01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:21.760
this year in two years. They
didn't do that last year either. Oh,

1101
01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:26.119
you're right. I think this game
will be one hundred and four to

1102
01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:32.680
sixty seven, complete and utter destruction
of the Panthers. Okay, I think

1103
01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:40.279
KU wins forty six to forty two. Ku coppin State Jayhawks out there just

1104
01:14:40.319 --> 01:14:44.319
trying to get to Do you guys
know the last time Kansas scored one hundred

1105
01:14:44.359 --> 01:14:49.119
in an NCAA tournament game. It
was against sorry, not NCAA tournament game.

1106
01:14:49.319 --> 01:14:53.439
Do you know the last time Howard
wasn't it? Nope? They scored

1107
01:14:53.479 --> 01:15:00.279
ninety eight against Howard, Texas Southern. Nope, they scored eighty three against

1108
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:02.359
Texas Southern. I forgot this game
happened. The last time they scored one

1109
01:15:02.399 --> 01:15:06.920
hundred was against Kansas State in those
sunflower jerseys in February of twenty twenty two.

1110
01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:11.720
Yeah, beautiful game. They scored
one hundred and two games that year.

1111
01:15:11.760 --> 01:15:15.439
One was kse State. What was
the other Missouri? Correct? Yep

1112
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:19.720
where I think it was one of
the t Hans, not Connor. Was

1113
01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:24.399
Chris t Han that hit that three? And I will always remember that game

1114
01:15:24.520 --> 01:15:27.399
for Landon. You were there,
you bought a ticket that I was game.

1115
01:15:27.720 --> 01:15:30.520
Those tickets are so expensive, like
an hour and fifteen minutes before the

1116
01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:33.680
game, and walked in as the
hype that he was playing. So Bobby

1117
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:38.119
Narrell, who is one of the
former Rock Chalk Blog writers, was messaging

1118
01:15:38.159 --> 01:15:40.479
me. He lives in Indiana and
tries to come down for a game each

1119
01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:45.800
year, and we were messaging about
the cost of tickets for this Missouri game.

1120
01:15:45.800 --> 01:15:47.039
He said, I wanted to come
down there about two hundred and eighty

1121
01:15:47.079 --> 01:15:50.439
dollars And I said, what the
hell there? How much? Looking at

1122
01:15:50.479 --> 01:15:55.159
them right now, they are still
one hundred and ninety five dollars before fees

1123
01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:59.520
for your cheapest seats to get into
these games. So I don't I don't

1124
01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:02.279
know are expecting that to be worth
saying that kind of money to you.

1125
01:16:02.319 --> 01:16:06.800
That's gonna be a not very fun
game to watch, depending on if you

1126
01:16:08.039 --> 01:16:12.119
like or don't like Kansas. But
I think the problem that I have with

1127
01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:17.359
Eastern Illinois keeping this game close is
they do play pretty good defense, but

1128
01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:20.319
that just goes out the window when
you're playing a team like this. I

1129
01:16:20.359 --> 01:16:25.840
think Kansas absolutely wipes the floor clean
with the Panthers and wins. Yeah,

1130
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:30.079
something like one hundred and two to
sixty or something like Dickinson's gonna score twenty

1131
01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:33.319
points in twenty minutes, and then
hopefully we get to see I want to

1132
01:16:33.359 --> 01:16:38.520
see the two guards step up.
I want to see ten points from Alarco

1133
01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:41.800
Jackson for the first time. I
want to see ten points from Nick Timberland,

1134
01:16:42.119 --> 01:16:45.640
excuse me, from Nick Timberlake for
the first time since that opening game.

1135
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:47.880
Let's get these guys developed a little
bit and maybe that will lead to

1136
01:16:47.920 --> 01:16:54.800
some success because Yukon three days after
that gonna be really tough sledding for the

1137
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:59.880
Jayhawks after they get past this game. Other games around college basketball this week

1138
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:04.119
is a brand new ACC SEC challenge. No more Big twelve SEC, no

1139
01:17:04.199 --> 01:17:09.720
more Big ten ACC. Instead you
get the ACC and the SEC playing head

1140
01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:14.000
to head. What do you guys
like in these games? Here? Number

1141
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:17.680
ten, Miami at number sixteen Kentucky. Pretty good game here at rupp Arena.

1142
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:23.920
Do you trust John Calipari's Wildcats?
I do give me a big blue

1143
01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:30.119
yep. I'm gonna say Miami wins
on the road. I think that the

1144
01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:34.720
Hurricanes are good. Kentucky always kind
of their way through these early non con

1145
01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:39.319
games. I think Miami beats them
at Rop. It's gonna throw a dart.

1146
01:17:39.479 --> 01:17:43.279
Number seven, Tennessee at number fourteen
North Carolina. All of these rankings

1147
01:17:43.319 --> 01:17:45.840
are going to change, but for
now it's what we've got. I will

1148
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:49.640
take Hubert Davis's squad here. I
think that Tennessee takes you out another loss.

1149
01:17:50.359 --> 01:17:56.640
I like the volunteers here. I'll
take you North Carolina. Wow,

1150
01:17:56.760 --> 01:18:00.720
all right? Number twelve Texas A
and m at Virginia. I don't care

1151
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:02.199
how good or bad they are.
I'm never picking them. Give me the

1152
01:18:02.319 --> 01:18:08.159
Aggies. I kind of want to
take Uva, but I just can't do

1153
01:18:08.239 --> 01:18:13.800
it, So give me Texas A
and M. I'll do it that ballsy

1154
01:18:14.239 --> 01:18:17.319
good luck, sir, and number
nine Duke at number twenty. Arkansas has

1155
01:18:17.359 --> 01:18:19.960
not been the best start for the
Razorbacks, but this is gonna be a

1156
01:18:19.960 --> 01:18:26.960
hell of an environment. I think
the Razorbacks win. Uh yeah, I

1157
01:18:27.079 --> 01:18:32.319
actually do. I wow sweep there
against Jeff Goodman's favorite basketball team. Actually,

1158
01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:35.039
no, I'm gonna flip because they
have that injured player. So I'm

1159
01:18:35.039 --> 01:18:38.680
gonna go with Duke. All right, all right, Oh that's true.

1160
01:18:38.760 --> 01:18:42.000
That is true. That's a good
point. I'm gonna just stick with my

1161
01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:45.000
pick blindly. Yep, don't care. Think Arkansas wins at home. So

1162
01:18:45.039 --> 01:18:47.239
our next show is gonna be on
a Wednesday night, Landon. You are

1163
01:18:47.279 --> 01:18:50.279
a question mark on that one,
right, Your perfect attendance is in jeopardy

1164
01:18:50.319 --> 01:18:55.600
here. Yeah, we'll see.
I might have some cold sweats over mix,

1165
01:18:55.720 --> 01:19:00.159
missing my perfect attendance, right not
really don't care that, but yeah,

1166
01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:03.039
we'll see hopefully be on it,
but we'll see at least Nick and

1167
01:19:03.079 --> 01:19:06.199
I on Wednesday night. That gets
you ready for one of the biggest games

1168
01:19:06.239 --> 01:19:10.920
of non conference play. The Yukon
Huskies set to come into Allen Field House

1169
01:19:10.920 --> 01:19:14.319
for a Friday night tilt next week. We will be back in time to

1170
01:19:14.359 --> 01:19:16.199
do that, and then after that
the schedule gets pretty soft for a while

1171
01:19:16.239 --> 01:19:19.640
for the Jayhawks till then. This
is inside the Paint On Rock Chalk Blog.

1172
01:19:19.720 --> 01:19:26.680
I am Ryan Landrath, I am
Jalen daniels Back. Oh, I'm

1173
01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:31.000
Nick Puscovie. I liked it better
Landon whenever you were. Whenever you were

1174
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:35.880
Nick Timberlake's defense, I think I
prefer that to Jayalen daniels Back. Yeah,

1175
01:19:35.920 --> 01:19:40.520
actually I do too, because at
least Timberlake plays defense lazy tries.

1176
01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:44.920
At least there's an effort made.
Oh, we probably shouldn't shaft out on

1177
01:19:44.920 --> 01:19:46.920
the podcast, but you know what, take away my invisible press pass.

1178
01:19:47.000 --> 01:19:47.760
I don't care.