WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:06.480
Two wins, two blowouts, two
ninety nine burgers put up by the Kansas

2
00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:12.359
Basketball Jayhawks, and now the schedule
is about to get supper because up next

3
00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:18.359
is a showdown with the I think
now we are we acknowledging Kentucky as the

4
00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.160
winningest program in college basketball history?
Or is that not? Are we?

5
00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:26.320
We're not doing that shtick? Okay, gotcha? A showdown with the second

6
00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:32.280
winning his team in college basketball history
looms here coming up for the Kansas Jayhawks.

7
00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.719
This is Inside the Paint. It
is a podcast on rockschalkflog dot Com.

8
00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:40.759
I am Ryan Landrich, I'm John
Wick, and I am not a

9
00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:44.719
veteran, So one of you guys
not a veteran. Yes, Happy Veterans

10
00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:50.000
Day. The Jayhawks put forth and
perform an offensive performance today that would make

11
00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:55.000
the Japanese proud for World War two? Because of what the hell was that

12
00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:04.599
at the very end with anyone like
oh no, Nick is Nick is just

13
00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.599
already going in the notes. Devin
Neil through a pass today that didn't go

14
00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.959
great Land and your fan was on
really loud last podcast. I hope that's

15
00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.560
fixed, which is weird because I
didn't have a fan in the room.

16
00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.760
So I'll do my best to fix
that somehow. May have may you may

17
00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.159
have just been sitting right underneath a
air conditioning vent or something like that.

18
00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:30.400
That's more likely because I know that
you blast ac in your house when it's

19
00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:36.439
thirty four degrees outside. Right,
Yeah, like I like it a nice

20
00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:38.560
chili fifty in my house. For
sure. Something's wrong with you, really,

21
00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:42.959
Nick, you were at the Jayhawks
football game today to watch all thirteen

22
00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:49.719
points. That's seventy what eighty eighty
six fewer than the basketball team scored the

23
00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.040
night before. Pretty unpleasant game.
I'm sure what was your reaction when Devin

24
00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.640
Neil dropped back to pass on what
would be the last offensive play of the

25
00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.000
game for the Jayhawks. Oh,
it was about It was that it was

26
00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:06.000
giving me flashbacks when Jason Bean overthrew
his target and the millet and the bowl

27
00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.840
last year in Memphis looked very similar. Well, the jay Hawks are down

28
00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:15.360
to their third quarterback in football,
so I mean, geez, Kevin mccoller

29
00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:16.479
is next up. I think that's
how that works. Based on the way

30
00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:20.360
he's been throwing passes these last couple
of games. That could that could work

31
00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:23.319
out just fine. All right,
let's talk about Kansas beating the biggest Burrow

32
00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:30.879
in New York and preview some some
games. Let's talk about it. Number

33
00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:36.840
one Kansas ninety nine once again,
Manhattan sixty one. It's not every day

34
00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:40.159
that the Jayhawks are a thirty six
point favorite, not very often that anybody's

35
00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:45.159
a thirty six point favorite. But
they covered great teams. Cover two wins,

36
00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:49.719
two covers for Kansas land and tell
me or excuse me, mister Wick,

37
00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.319
tell me about how this game went. Yeah, thank you. For

38
00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.520
the second game in a row,
Kansas absolutely rolled an opponent from beginning to

39
00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:00.520
end. That the opponent offered much
resistance, but it was impressive. Nonetheless,

40
00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.520
they needed less than fifteen minutes to
build a twenty point advantage. They

41
00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.439
were also better in the second half
against the Jaspers than they were against NC

42
00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:13.879
Central, as they scored fifty five
second half points and wound up finishing with

43
00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:17.240
ninety nine for the second straight game. As we mentioned, yeah, and

44
00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:22.560
all around performance. I don't think
one that was quite as dominant as the

45
00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.800
NC Central one, but one that
was extremely dominant. Nonetheless, Nick,

46
00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.879
what are your thoughts, big big
picture thoughts? As Kansas does indeed destroy

47
00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.599
another opponent that does not match up
to their talent level. Yeah, I

48
00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.960
think that we've been hearing a lot
of in the offseason about how Johnny Furfy

49
00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:39.840
is going to be this star freshman, and I think that was a little

50
00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:44.319
validated. I think the hope is
now there. He had a great game.

51
00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.680
Like you said, we're gonna talk
about him and I'd go ahead read

52
00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.520
the notes in a second, but
fifteen points really exciting, standout performance from

53
00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.919
him. Glad to see that he's
getting a little bit healthier from mis shin

54
00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.120
splints he was having earlier. He's
going to be a huge piece for this

55
00:03:55.199 --> 00:04:00.280
team. We were talking about them
meeting a scoring presence, and I think

56
00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.240
that he could answer the call for
that this year. Concerns about Nick Timberlake,

57
00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:06.039
though we talked about scoring early on
the season. I know we're two

58
00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:10.919
games in. It might take a
little bit to get transitioned from a thousand

59
00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:15.199
offense an opponent to Kansas, but
I'm really concerned about, you know,

60
00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:17.279
how that looks early to start this
season. Overall, though, like you

61
00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:24.120
said, this team is really looking
really polished offensively, particularly defense. You

62
00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.519
know, Bill, so I will
probably say that the defense is terrible right

63
00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:30.240
now. But I think that,
you know, guys got some good run

64
00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.959
in the second half, guys like
Marco Jackson and like Landa's been talking about

65
00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:39.319
Jamary McDowell. So I think that
that they're getting some good run and I'm

66
00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:44.720
excited to see how this translated to
Kentucky. But I certainly can't be displeased

67
00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:48.920
with how the first two by games
went for Kansas well. And so my

68
00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:53.959
opinion is that Kansas was better beginning
to end in this game than they were

69
00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:57.519
against North Carolina Central. The first
half against n C Central was the best

70
00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.639
half they've played of the four,
but from beginning to end, for forty

71
00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.639
minutes, I think Kansas was a
little bit better in this game. Ultimately,

72
00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:05.079
it's probably about the same because they
scored the same number of points and

73
00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:11.439
the opener they allowed. What was
the difference in points allowed. They gave

74
00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:14.199
up sixty one in this game and
fifty six in the first one, so

75
00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:17.560
about the same. It's really hard
to get a grasp on just how good

76
00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:21.040
these guys are going to be whenever
they're playing a full arsenal of minutes,

77
00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:25.399
because none of the starters, nobody
for Kansas has played more than twenty six

78
00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.040
minutes in a game. This year, they got one, two, three,

79
00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.120
four, five, six, seven, eight different players averaging between nineteen

80
00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:35.040
and twenty five minutes per game right
now, so everybody's just getting this has

81
00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:39.879
been an optimal start for KU to
roll these two teams to never trail,

82
00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.360
so you can experiment with these lineups. They're going to have another one in

83
00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:46.759
the game after this next one with
Shamanad that I think you're gonna see everybody

84
00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:49.519
play between eighteen and twenty six minutes. But other than that, there's a

85
00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:54.240
good chance that of Kansas's next four
games, three of them are going to

86
00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:58.879
be against top fifteen powerhouses Kentucky,
Marquette, Perdue, something like that,

87
00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:01.040
and the other one is gonna be
Shamanad. So we're gonna have a pretty

88
00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:05.079
good grasp after the Maui Tournament.
This team's gonna have at least three games

89
00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:10.040
against very quality opponents, and they're
going to have three games against teams that

90
00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.600
they should do very dirty things too. And I think at that point we'll

91
00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.879
be able to really properly analyze the
stats. But for now, this is

92
00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.439
all we've got. What they did
against the Jaspers. Landon, tell me

93
00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:23.600
about who I think I'm the one
who writes these notes. I normally try

94
00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:27.839
to put the most important storyline at
the beginning. We don't normally lead off

95
00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:30.879
with the player that came off the
bench. But I think that Johnny Furfey

96
00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:35.279
aka the Wizard of oz or Ossi
Aussi Aussi, as you've been saying,

97
00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:40.600
the Kansas Kangaroo, is still my
favorite. I think that's probably the biggest

98
00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:46.040
talking point coming out of this game. Yeah, Johnny Furfey, he was

99
00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.720
indeed really good. Finished second on
the team with fifteen points, six of

100
00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.279
ten from the floor, three of
seven from three, and is now five

101
00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.639
of nine from behind the arc in
the first two games you played twenty minutes.

102
00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.560
Is this a product of playing two
lassie teams, Nick or or is

103
00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.439
he really this good this early?
I mean, it's way too early to

104
00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:09.040
decide that. I don't know.
I think the question, especially after like

105
00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:13.279
we just talked about them playing against
two exhibitions to to by games. I

106
00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.199
think that I want to obviously want
to see more of what he does for

107
00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:19.000
KU, but I am certain like
you talk about how much hype he had

108
00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:23.480
in the off season, you know, secretly it sounds secret like secretly or

109
00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:27.279
at least it was coming out that
he was really a standout player, at

110
00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.680
least in practice. Obviously, like
we know about he joined the team late

111
00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.120
and then had that injury, so
there's kind of questions about, you know,

112
00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:39.040
how we'll fit into this offense.
So I was certainly pleased with how

113
00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:42.879
quickly he was able to get his
stride. I mean, the commentators talked

114
00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.199
about it, but he looks like
a fifteen year old out there, so

115
00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:48.279
he really does. You can only
be more excited about how how much he

116
00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.879
can mature in Bill Salves offense.
But to go out there as raw as

117
00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:55.560
he is and score fifteen points,
I don't. I don't think there can

118
00:07:55.600 --> 00:08:00.360
be anything to be complaining about.
So the sphe Makay look komp has brought

119
00:08:00.399 --> 00:08:03.360
up a lot with Furfey, who
was admittedly brilliant in this game. I

120
00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:05.920
didn't think we'd see a fifteen point
performance from him this early, and he's

121
00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.920
much better right now than I thought
he would be. I think that he's

122
00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.759
probably he's clearly one of the five
most talented players on this team. I

123
00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:18.079
don't think he's going to be in
college for years and years. I think

124
00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:22.639
he's got NBA talent, but just
to kind of compare him to the guy

125
00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.000
he's been compared to the most.
Spema Kailok, who came out of his

126
00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:30.680
freshman season where he was sixteen year
old. He was sixteen years old.

127
00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.840
Speed scored ten points against Ryder in
the third game. He scored eleven points

128
00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:39.039
against Michigan State in a championship game
of a Thanksgiving tournament in which they won.

129
00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.480
That was game six, and then
just before Christmas, he scored eleven

130
00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:46.600
against Louisiana. So we had three
double digit scoring games a non conference member.

131
00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.679
He was starting some of those games. He made five different starts before

132
00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:56.840
Christmas as a freshman, and then
conference play happened and he stopped playing in

133
00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.759
conference play. That same year,
Spema Kailak averaged six minutes per game,

134
00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:03.159
and that was just in the games
he played it. He only played in

135
00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.440
nine conference games. There were nine
that he didn't even get in get on

136
00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:13.440
the floor for. So would Johnny
Furfee playing minutes now and then see that

137
00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.720
decrease when the competition gets better stun
me. It would surprise me more than

138
00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:20.879
it did with Fee, because this
team isn't as deep as the that they've

139
00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.360
been in the past. I think
Furfey's better right now than Spee was.

140
00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:26.879
He's older, he's also had the
injury problems the last few weeks, so

141
00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:31.080
he's probably actually a little bit behind
where he otherwise would have been despite being

142
00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.279
this good. But I don't know. We saw this with Fee good early

143
00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.200
games, and then when the competition
gets better, they utilize him less because

144
00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.639
of the non shooting parts of his
game, being his inexperienced the defense,

145
00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.320
that sort of thing. What's a
realistic number? How many minutes per game

146
00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:50.879
is Johnny Furfey gonna play over the
course this entire season? Is fifteen minutes

147
00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:56.320
per game? Realistic to ask for
this guy who is at worst their eighth

148
00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:00.960
rotation player right now? Yeah,
I think that depends. One. I

149
00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.360
think we're gonna find out a lot
more on Tuesday of how much he's actually

150
00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:07.639
gonna fit into the real rotation.
Two it might not be. I mean,

151
00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:13.200
now, again it's Manhattan and n
C Central, but he does look

152
00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.080
like a really natural shooter. Looks
he looks a lot more comfortable also in

153
00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.440
this game than he did against n
C Central, which that was a nice

154
00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.000
little thing to see from him.
I don't know, I don't know if

155
00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:28.840
fifteen minutes would be unreasonable. Like
you said, I think that's primarily because

156
00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.360
of depth, because we've seen lots
and lots of players play well against random

157
00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.679
non con opponent X, and then, like you said, you know,

158
00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:43.879
disappear or have that role go drastically
down or never really hit that mark again.

159
00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:48.480
Come come conference play, come teams
with a pulse, So who knows.

160
00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.440
But I mean a guy that can
shoot potentially as well as furfy Can,

161
00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.480
I would not be surprised if he
plays more. Considering that great shooting

162
00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:01.039
guards are not like an abundance on
this team. Shooting in general has been

163
00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.320
a lot better. Once again,
we saw quality three point shooting for Kansas

164
00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.639
that made ten threes ten for twenty
six that's thirty nine percent. They did

165
00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.720
have a couple from Mike Jankovic,
but then again, the walk Ons hurt

166
00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:13.840
the numbers in the first game,
so it's only fair that they helped the

167
00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.519
numbers here. Kansas also shot sixty
eight percent on two point shots through two

168
00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.399
games. Kansas one of the best
offensive teams in college basketball. Admittedly,

169
00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:28.039
you know we know who they're playing. The two lousy not with the exception

170
00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.120
of shamanad maybe the two worst teams
they're going to play this entire season.

171
00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.879
But for what it's worth, Kansas
so far sixty three percent from the floor,

172
00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:41.480
that's second nationally, seventy three percent
on twos that's third nationally, and

173
00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.240
averaging even I don't need a calculator
to tell me they're averaging ninety nine points

174
00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:48.039
per game. Nick, coming into
the season, the three point shooting was

175
00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.679
thought to be the team's biggest weakness. Well, they've gone out there and

176
00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.320
they've made what like twenty two to
twenty three threes in two games, just

177
00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.000
to sample size. That's small against
lowsy opponents. Or are you a little

178
00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:01.879
more confident than you were at the
start of the year that this team may

179
00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:07.559
be good enough shooting the ball?
Not there yet, and we'll talk about

180
00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:09.679
why. I mean, I already
alluded to it earlier that I'm still not

181
00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:15.679
super I'm still a little worried about
Nick Timberlake and how long it's gonna take

182
00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.759
for him to sell into this offense. That's definitely gonna be on the up,

183
00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:20.600
I think. But yeah, I
mean, you look at the first

184
00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:24.279
two games. You know there's percentage
is probably gonna be a little bit higher

185
00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.600
against the worst teams are going to
play off season, especially defensively. But

186
00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:33.440
yeah, I mean especially I think
it calmed the concerns a little bit after

187
00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.240
the Fort Hayes State exhibition and the
Illinois exhibition with the shooting was pretty rough.

188
00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:43.440
But I mean, like it's basketball. Shots are going to fall and

189
00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:46.919
sometimes they're not, and that's something
that can easily be improved. It's other

190
00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.600
fundamentals that maybe aren't as easy to
change. But I think that this team

191
00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:54.039
is definitely gonna It's only gonna go
up, especially if you have guys like

192
00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:58.399
Johnny Furfy Hero contributing. So let's
talk about Hunter Dickenson, somebody who we

193
00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.879
did not have any questions about coming
into the season. Eighteen points and eight

194
00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.320
rebounds in just twenty minutes, another
stuff the box score night for him.

195
00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:11.159
Two nights in a row he has
put up insane efficiency numbers. He was

196
00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:15.320
seven to fourteen from the floor,
which is every one of his shots besides

197
00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.360
one being a two. In case
that there wasn't anything else about his game

198
00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.639
that we were drooling over at the
start of the season, He's also four

199
00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.279
for four from three now this year
in forty four minutes so far. Dickinson

200
00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:31.600
has thirty nine points and sixteen rebounds. You project that out to the twenty

201
00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.799
nine to thirty thirty one ish minutes
per game that we think he's gonna get

202
00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.600
in conference play and Landon, I
think we may have aimed about right whenever

203
00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:41.960
we said twenty points a game,
nine ten rebounds a game. This guy

204
00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.320
pretty much. I don't think there
has been a true box score stuffer like

205
00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.799
him since Wayne Simeon. Clearly shaping
up to be one of the best offensive

206
00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.840
seasons in Kansas basketball history, especially
under Bill self. And you haven't seen

207
00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.399
anything in these two games that would
indicate otherwise. Uh, he's certainly gonna

208
00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:09.000
score a lot. I actually do
have one probably wild nitpick, Okay,

209
00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.320
but I do have one tiny little
concern about Hunter Dickens. Don't you say

210
00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:15.720
his shoes there one red shoe and
one blue shoe, is darn cool.

211
00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:18.639
I didn't actually even notice that at
all, So no, that's not a

212
00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.759
problem. It's pretty neap. They're
big shoes, by the way, he's

213
00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.200
a big guy. That's true.
I should have noticed them. They do

214
00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.919
take up a lot of screen space. Huge. But my one tiny nitpick

215
00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:35.120
is that Hunter Dickinson does not like
he I'm sure he has the ability to,

216
00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.720
and I've seen him have the ability
to, but it is a little

217
00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:46.080
concerning that he doesn't necessarily like create
his own space and get to his own

218
00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:52.399
spot on his own if that makes
any sense. Like, I'm sorry,

219
00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.279
Landon, you were making the best
basketball analysis this show is gonna have.

220
00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:03.879
And Nick is boasting hilarious poop posts, and it is true that's upsetting you

221
00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:09.279
raise you raise valid points on how
we're not as a society where we thought

222
00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:13.240
we'd be fifty years ago by this
point. Uh. And it talks about

223
00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.759
how it's a it's a it's an
article of ESPN Southwest Florida, which makes

224
00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:18.000
all the sense in the world.
Why this is the take coming out of

225
00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.679
the Sunshine State. Continue trying to
make any real basketball point on this,

226
00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.279
which land And I assume, I
assume that back to your point that you're

227
00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:31.399
not super duper concerned whenever Dwan Harris
is his point guard, it's gonna create

228
00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.120
lots of shots for him. But
continue on it is it is something worth

229
00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.159
noticing. He's not a pass the
ball at the top of the key and

230
00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.840
he there go, there you go. He's gonna go get his own shot.

231
00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:43.480
Yeah, certainly. Yeah, the
way this team moves the ball,

232
00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:48.960
he's gonna get plenty of dunks and
layups. But it is even when he

233
00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.080
gets the ball in the post,
he often doesn't do too much with it

234
00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:54.399
other than maybe turn and then attempt
his his hook shot, which again is

235
00:15:54.440 --> 00:16:00.039
a very makeable shot for Hunter Dickinson. That's not horribly low percentage, but

236
00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:03.759
it definitely feels like against these two
teams especially, he would have the opportunity

237
00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.240
to get even better position and get
an even better attempt than that hook shot.

238
00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.240
And I'm not exactly sure why he's
not, or why he's just catching

239
00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:15.960
and shooting even in the paint,
uh, pretty much every time. Again,

240
00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:18.240
a lot of that's dunks and layups
because he's been set up very well.

241
00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.080
But it's just a little thing.
Who knows. It's just interesting to

242
00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:27.440
see what that looks like against better
competition. If I had you guess right

243
00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:33.399
now his season ending line. I'm
trying to find dedrich Lawson's stats at ku

244
00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:41.039
didrich Lawson has a Jayhawk nineteen points
and ten rebounds. Good lord over under

245
00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:48.399
those numbers for Dickinson, I'd probably
go slight under just because I think mcculler's

246
00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.120
gonna grab a lot of boards,
and I think this team's gonna have a

247
00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:53.559
lot of capable scorers. Not sure
what you're talking about. That team has

248
00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:57.679
spectacular season. That team had Quinton
Grimes and Charlie Moore just filling up the

249
00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.000
box scorer. So I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about.

250
00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:06.880
Wayne Simeon's last season at Kansas averaged
twenty and eleven. Just is absurd.

251
00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:08.920
Yeah, just the No, I
don't either. But one thing that

252
00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:15.160
I think Dickinson's better at than Simeon
is three point shooting. Wayne Simeon only

253
00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.200
attempted fourteen threes, and he only
made four threes as a senior, and

254
00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:22.599
Dickinson's got that in two games.
Who would win if Manhattan played North Carolina

255
00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:30.039
Central? Nick, What do you
think he taken? What was the question?

256
00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:36.000
Yeah? I next too busy asking
questions and which fair? Which is

257
00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:38.960
very funny. I hadn't thought about
that person in a while. I haven't

258
00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.480
thought about that person. It's it's
very bad. If you open up the

259
00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:49.680
notes right now, all you're gonna
see is basically this with a little not

260
00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:56.319
abnormal. No, it's not with
a little bit of on the side,

261
00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.920
Nick, who would win if Manhattan
played North Carolina Central? Probably North Carolina

262
00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:03.920
Central by I'm gonna I'm gonna say
five points. Really, I mean it

263
00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.200
would be a close game. I
think, man, I think Manhattan's better

264
00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.480
than in C Central that first half? For side? Do Traior alone?

265
00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:14.759
Who actually is I think a very
good basketball player? Yeah? Yeah?

266
00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.200
Was he the white dude that made
a couple of threes? Just why not?

267
00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.079
No, he's another guy that did
some things. I saw a big,

268
00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.680
a big, dorky looking white center
splash in a couple of threes just

269
00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:30.279
for just get ready for Kentucky.
That guy's name said, do Traior,

270
00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.799
fair point, but just wait for
Reed Shepherd, who's coming up for the

271
00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:38.200
Kentucky Wildcats. Wait do you see
what he does? Want to kJ Adams,

272
00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.799
Nick, I need you to focus
off of what you're typing and tell

273
00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:48.480
me about kJ Adams. That's so
yeah, j should be better than it

274
00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:51.920
is. I'm sorry to all you
listeners, all six of you. I'm

275
00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.799
sorry. kJ Adams is excellent,
especially early on, going seven for eight

276
00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.160
from the floor and finishing with fourteen
points in twenty one minutes. His only

277
00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:02.880
miss was a pull up jumper.
He added five rebounds a couple of blocks.

278
00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:04.880
Dickinson, McCuller, and Purphy and
Harris are getting all the attention,

279
00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:08.279
but Adams is quietly should a lot
of improved in his two games. Yeah,

280
00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.720
there's a lot of dunks from him
in this game. Lennon, are

281
00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:15.240
you are you excited early on this
season how much he's improved in his career,

282
00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:21.079
in his already at Kansas or what
are you looking forward to? Yeah,

283
00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:22.720
I mean I think he's been really
good. I think I think the

284
00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:30.680
great value but without shooting Zion Williamson
comp remains pretty good. He is a

285
00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:37.039
little bit Draymond greenish in his undersized
big man kind of way. Kay Draymond

286
00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:41.640
Green, Yeah, something like that. I mean, the man dunks the

287
00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.759
basketball, which is a very hard
thing to do in the half court set,

288
00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:48.519
and he is a guy that can
do it with a lot more ease

289
00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:52.519
than a lot of guys. So
that's a very valuable trait. Yeah,

290
00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.119
I mean, we liked k J. Adams as a freshman even I think

291
00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:57.960
I think we were all thought he
was at least an interesting player someone we

292
00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:00.319
wanted to see more. Or I
don't think any of us really thought he

293
00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:07.160
would become like this, But it's
nice to see and it's definitely credit to

294
00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:11.079
Bill self credit in the program.
As always, they can develop players really

295
00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:14.000
well. You know, he's not
gonna be able to dunk on Baylor like

296
00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:17.519
he can dunk on Manhattan, but
you know, to have a guy like

297
00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:21.279
that to pair with Hunter Dickinson,
that's gonna be a nightmare matchup for a

298
00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:25.400
lot of guys, for a lot
of teams to have two very capable scores

299
00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:29.039
as you're four and five that can
actually play in the post. Legitimately,

300
00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:32.680
Yeah, kJ Adams is he's just
so under the radar. He's so easy

301
00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:34.640
to forget about when you're talking about
what makes this team so good. But

302
00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:37.519
he is such a pivotal piece because
he's such a good passer. When you're

303
00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:41.079
four, man is as good as
a passer as just about anybody else on

304
00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:42.759
the floor. Boy, does that
open stuff up. He's not a ballhog.

305
00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:45.119
He doesn't try to do too much. We see him Noh's role.

306
00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.200
He had to pull up j which
was his only one that he missed.

307
00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.000
Like that's about as far outside of
his game as he's gonna go. He

308
00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.519
and Zach Clemens came in together,
and I thought for sure that kJ was

309
00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:59.640
gonna transfer after his freshman year because
I thought he was always gonna behind Clements.

310
00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.559
This is a major testament to Kj's
ability to play different positions and Bill

311
00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:07.440
Sale's ability to get creative that they
found a role for kJ Adams that they

312
00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.839
Otherwise we haven't seen them have this
sort of player role that they've made work.

313
00:21:12.119 --> 00:21:15.880
Was we were skeptical if it would
work last year, and it was

314
00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.519
really good. kJ went as our
KU went as kJ went last year.

315
00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:22.240
When he disappeared, k you struggled
last year, averaging four rebounds a game

316
00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:26.799
this year five and two games in
limited minutes. If he ups his rebounding

317
00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.640
numbers from a season ago, considering
who he's playing next to in the front

318
00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.799
court, boyd, is that set
a huge precedent for improvement there. He

319
00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:38.720
shoots a high percentage from the floor, he doesn't turn the ball over very

320
00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:42.160
much. That's what KAU needs from
their starting for you know what we talk

321
00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:45.200
about Dewan Harris. He needs to
just kind of pass the ball, not

322
00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.400
shoot a lot, and play solid
defense and everybody else is gonna cook.

323
00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:52.319
That's kind of what we need kJ
Adams to do as fans of this team,

324
00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:55.960
and he's so good at playing within
his own abilities. I think he's

325
00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.440
going to quietly put up one of
the most under the radar twelve points,

326
00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:06.079
six rebounds, sixty five percent from
the floor sort of seasons. Uh,

327
00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:10.079
and Kay was gonna win a lot
of games with him making huge, huge

328
00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:14.759
plays in all of their wins.
Uh. Blocks blocks was weird. Kansas

329
00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:17.720
nine blocks in this game and they
all came in the first half. There's

330
00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:19.880
not a lot to take away there
because they're playing a small Manhattan team,

331
00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:22.640
But I just thought that was kind
of weird and kind of interesting. So

332
00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.720
I put in the notes because that's
what I do. It is and I

333
00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.240
don't know how to analyze it because
that's what I do. So it's like

334
00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.680
the most block since the Jeff with
the era. Yeah, it feels like

335
00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:40.039
it like they have they have They
really haven't had a dominant shot blocker since

336
00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:42.680
what I mean Lightfoot was their best
shot blocker of the last several years.

337
00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.599
I guess Doke was pretty good at
it. As a Sceneke was a rim

338
00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.680
protector in a different way. He
didn't get a lot of raw blocks,

339
00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:52.920
but he was extremely intimidating. Do
you remember Udoka turning into like a legitimate

340
00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:56.359
Jeff with the shot blocker like the
last twelve games of his college career,

341
00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:02.400
like it came out of nowhere.
I don't because all I remember is sadness

342
00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:03.960
from the end of his career.
Yeah, that was. It was quite

343
00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:08.720
sad. So I'm looking at the
numbers here. Udoka as a bouquet in

344
00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:15.400
conference play in the twenty nineteen twenty
twenty season, averaged more than three blocks

345
00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:18.200
per game after being a guy.
Yeah, it came out of nowhere because

346
00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:22.200
the rest, Like I'm looking at
his block numbers, the entire first three

347
00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:26.160
years of his career combined, which
was fifty six games, he averaged fewer

348
00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.519
than one. He averaged one point
six blocks per game. Then the second

349
00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:33.000
half of his senior year it doubles
to over three. So rarely, with

350
00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:37.519
the exception of that last seventeen eighteen
games from Udoka, Ku hasn't had a

351
00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:44.640
dominant shot blocker since uh is it? With each geez? It can't be

352
00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:48.559
that long? Is with me?
The last dominant shot blocker besides Dope cross

353
00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:52.680
It I mean with the is also
a weird one because he was one of

354
00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.359
the most dominant shot blockers. If
he is statistically the most dominant shot blocker

355
00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.400
in the program history, Am I
right? Other than Will he's the most

356
00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:03.440
dominant shot blocker in Big twelve history. Yeah, he still to this day

357
00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.519
has the NCAA tournament record for blocks
in a single postseason. That is why

358
00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:15.799
he should be on the north wall
of allen Fieldhouse Aldridge was he said,

359
00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.279
Oh, Jeff for a while,
remember that because he cheated on his attractive

360
00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:22.279
wife, who kind of I think
turned out to be kind of crazy with

361
00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:30.240
a playmate girlfriend, which probably also
was kind of crazy that happens. Who

362
00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:37.799
who had more blocks for Kansas,
Nick Collison or Eric chenilwith I'm assuming because

363
00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:42.279
you're asking that question, it's not
the most obvious answer. Yeah, probably

364
00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:47.920
chenn with Yeah, yeah, no, call uson by one. Callson had

365
00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:51.039
two hundred and forty three blocks.
Chennewth had two hundred and forty two.

366
00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:55.240
They're the fifth and sixth most players
with the most blocks in Big twelve history.

367
00:24:55.799 --> 00:25:00.200
Where's with the with the's one with
three hundred and eleven. Jeff the

368
00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:04.599
all time Jeff Withe is the all
time leading shot blocker in Big twelve history,

369
00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:10.119
and he played two damn years at
Kansas. Basically, yeah, he's

370
00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.920
that is wild insane. He's the
best shot blocker I've ever seen, which

371
00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:18.359
is why once again his name should
be retired. He's the best defensive player

372
00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.359
in the history of the Big Twelve, truly. Like I I remember I

373
00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:26.319
was in college when Jeff Withie was
here, and teams would seriously, like

374
00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.920
there was a non conference game where
a team shot like six twos the whole

375
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.680
night against Kansas, they just quit
going inside because Jeff Withie would make anything

376
00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:37.839
inside the arc was seen as impossible
with him because he would gobble up every

377
00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.400
misshot and he would block half of
the misses too. Dickinson, do you

378
00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:45.680
remember him blocking a couple of threes. Yeah, I remember even at the

379
00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.519
time being like, I've never seen
another person do that before. I think

380
00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.079
Dickinson did that in this game.
I think that Dickinson blocked a three at

381
00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:55.200
the very beginning of this game.
Yeah, he got a piece and Hunter

382
00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:57.200
Dickinson is averaging almost two blocks game
in his career. He had his best

383
00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:00.240
shot block year last year at Michigan, so he's pretty good. Like you,

384
00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:04.119
you averaged two blocks per game that's
elite shot blocking. He's also seven

385
00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:07.200
too, so he's gonna run into
a few of them. He's probably,

386
00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.079
I mean, because Kansas had Yeah
what what Nick just said? Nick Collison,

387
00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.839
Carle Aldrich, Jeff with the all
those guys played in the twenty in

388
00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:19.200
the early two thousands, early twenty
or in the two thousands and early twenty

389
00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:22.319
tens, really haven't had one since
Doke for a little bit. We'll see

390
00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:25.319
if Dickinson can be that guy.
Okay, we kind of got off track.

391
00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.119
Let's talk about some of the other
guards that we don't have a lot

392
00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:32.440
to analyze here, But Nick,
go ahead read me their stats. Yeah,

393
00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:37.160
let's round this out here. You
know, Dwan Harris two points on

394
00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.000
one for four shooting, five assists, twenty four minutes. Kayu has had

395
00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.599
one hundred and ninety eight points in
two games, and he had two of

396
00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.000
them. Wow. So wasn't there
a common after the first game that he

397
00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.200
said it is I'll shoot it when
I need to yea And he certainly didn't

398
00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:52.000
need to in these games. And
then al Marco Jackson nine points, ten

399
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:56.640
assists, ten assists, wow,
twenty nine minutes, three for six on

400
00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.640
the floor. Yeah, I was
stunned. I watched the half of this

401
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.279
game at a bar and grill,
so I really wasn't paying attention too much

402
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.799
after they just started rolling. But
I looked down at the box score after

403
00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:10.359
the game and saw al Marco had
ten assists. They were thinking, what

404
00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.119
really he did? Wow? I
mean, he's he was a point guard

405
00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:18.039
in high school. Like he can
He's he's Bill Self's dream combo guard,

406
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:21.519
kind of Mario Chalmers like he played
the one and the two. Nine points

407
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:23.640
was nice to see. He played
a team high twenty nine minutes in this

408
00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:27.480
game. Nick Timberlake, who I
don't even think I put his stats in

409
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:30.839
here, which is a problem.
Then we pull those up real quick,

410
00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.480
did not the best showing for him
after he took a step back after a

411
00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:37.079
good start in this game. Just
scored two points, missed all three of

412
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:38.799
his threes, played nineteen minutes,
did have five rebounds, but also turned

413
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:41.880
the ball over three times. I'm
gonna ask you this every single show until

414
00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:45.440
we have a clear cut answer.
Would you start on Marco Jackson or Nick

415
00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:49.119
Timberlake or Johnny Furphy if he's in
there now, certainly after this game,

416
00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:52.480
it's gotta be Al Marco. Yes, it's always been al Marco. Al

417
00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:57.640
Marco is better at everything except for
shooting threes than Nick Timberlake. Yeah,

418
00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:02.000
that is probably true. And in
al Marco Jackson hit one in this game.

419
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:03.759
It was meaningless, but he did
hit it. He hit yep.

420
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.559
Yeah, at least it wasn't an
air ball, which is nice. I

421
00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:11.519
have high, high hopes for al
Marco Jackson being essentially a kJ Adams player

422
00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:14.680
at the two. Like I think
he's gonna do a little bit of everything.

423
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.559
He's a smart player, high basketball
IQ for a freshman, plays really

424
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.839
good defense, pretty good handles for
a freshman. Normally that's kind of a

425
00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:26.240
rough Remember Keante George, best point
guard in the Big Twelve last year,

426
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.920
came in and couldn't stop turning it
over at all early. So not uncommon

427
00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:33.319
for highly rated recruits to come in
play point guard in this conference and struggle.

428
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:36.519
Al Marco taking care of the ball
pretty well. He's he's got to

429
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:37.920
be the two guard at this point
in time, he just has to be.

430
00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:42.119
Okay, Landon, let's talk about
Kevin mccullar as we kind of wind

431
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:47.720
down this recap. Another good showing
for dare I say Kansas as best player.

432
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:48.599
I don't know if we're there yet, but I'm kind of close to

433
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:52.160
saying it. Yeah, I've I
was kind of close to saying that before

434
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.079
the season even started. He was
really good again, pretty quite in the

435
00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:00.640
second half, but that was more
so because all the start were pretty quiet

436
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.880
in the second half because they didn't
play a ton. Mccullor finished with fifteen

437
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.480
points, five of nine shooting.
He was one to five from three,

438
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:10.640
was four or four from inside the
arc, had seven rebounds, four assists,

439
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:15.079
two steals. A couple of his
passes were absolutely unbelievable, including the

440
00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:19.480
transition opportunity where we had a behind
the back jebble into a beautiful assist.

441
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:26.519
The combination of he and Harris,
they possessed one of the highest basketball IQ's

442
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.079
in the country combined, and they
also can defend the crap out of the

443
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:36.160
basketball. They I said it last
year, I'll say it again. Probably

444
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.799
the best defensive duo that I've seen
at Kansas, And if they can also

445
00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:44.799
score and make plays the way that
they have so far, that is maybe

446
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:48.079
just one of the best duos in
college of basketball if any regard, certainly

447
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.279
for guards. It's two it's one
of the best I've seen at Kansas.

448
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.880
Marcus Garrett and Udoka az A Bouquet
playing alongside each other was pretty disgusting as

449
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.839
far as a defensive duo down This
SAT's true, but yeah, this is

450
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.880
nuts and Jackson's very good defensively as
well as good as his team's been on

451
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.960
offense. Defense is probably their best
overall trade. Like we knew they were

452
00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:14.279
gonna lock down teams defensively, Kentucky's
gonna be real interesting. A very inexperienced

453
00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.359
but talented team that doesn't shoot the
ball real well, gonna have to create

454
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:21.519
some open shots. Not gonna be
very easy against Kansas. We'll see how

455
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:25.240
that goes. Mccullor might be the
smartest player I've ever seen play KU Like

456
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:30.200
he's just there's not a weakness.
There's not a weakness in the guy's game.

457
00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.880
Like Kevin McCuller would absolutely be on
an NBA roster right now if he

458
00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:37.480
had gone pro last year. He's
not gonna be Steph Curry in the NBA,

459
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:40.319
but he would absolutely have a spot
on an NBA roster right now.

460
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.720
Yeah, you think, especially with
his increased shooting ability, he would at

461
00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:48.599
least get a shot like you tell
me, the Hornets couldn't use Kevin mccullor.

462
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:52.000
Yeah, exactly. He's just good
at everything. The thing he's worst

463
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.039
at is probably a shooting at this
point, and that looks immensely improved.

464
00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:00.599
Like he's just an excellent He feels
like a Marcus Garrett type in the sense

465
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.759
that he can play all the positions. Like you're telling me, if Dickinson

466
00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:08.200
got three fouls and Parker Brown's banged
up, they couldn't throw McCuller down to

467
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.960
play the five for a few minutes. I bet he could. Like he

468
00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.440
in his passing ability in IQ is
so good. He can absolutely play point

469
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:17.880
if he needs to as well.
Yep, And I got a couple of

470
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:21.680
tweaks of people bringing up what I
said about mccullar last year. Early in

471
00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:26.200
the season, I questioned if McCuller
should start. Make no mistake that Kevin

472
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:32.440
McCuller and this Kevin mccullar are very
very different players, and that Kevin McCuller

473
00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:37.000
we never said he shouldn't should never
play. Just wondered if if kabrin him

474
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:38.920
off the bench could be the best
thing for the team. He obviously disproved

475
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.160
that over the rest of the season. He played better as the season went

476
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.799
along, and now he's one of
that. He's on pace to be a

477
00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:47.319
first team All Big twelve player.
All right, let's wrap this up.

478
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:49.599
Parker Brown added ten points off the
bench. He's now nine for nine on

479
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:53.519
Tues this year after making all four
of his In this game, he played

480
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:57.599
seventeen minutes. He's playing healthy minutes
through two games. Expect that to go

481
00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:00.680
down against Kentucky. Dickenson's got to
play close to thirty in that game.

482
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:05.640
You think. Jamari McDowell made his
season debut by scoring five points and grabbing

483
00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.240
six rebounds. Quality stat line there
in fourteen minutes, and Mike Jenkovic said

484
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:12.200
a career high with two may threes, six points for him. Dylan will

485
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:15.400
Heights scored three points, the first
points of his Kansas career. If you

486
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:17.039
bet the over on the walk on
prop you got nine in this game,

487
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:20.279
which is pretty good. That gets
you a third of the way there in

488
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.319
this game by itself. Kansas fifty
seven percent from the floor, thirty nine

489
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:27.119
percent from three to eighty one percent
of the line. Something we haven't talked

490
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:29.799
about. They've been a very good
free throw shooting team over eighty percent in

491
00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:32.119
each of their first two games.
On the glass they were plus thirteen,

492
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:36.559
did turn it over fourteen times,
but whenever you're playing really fast, it's

493
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:39.359
gonna happen a little bit more.
Overall, really good showing. They've had

494
00:32:39.359 --> 00:32:43.839
two tests. They've passed them both
easily. Not a whole lot that we

495
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:45.799
wanted to see that they haven't shown
us, and now the schedule is going

496
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:51.160
to get a lot tougher. Any
closing thoughts on Kansas being two to zero

497
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:54.960
through two games, Like, like
we said after the first game, it's

498
00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:02.000
not the highest quality of opponent,
but they have dominated both these opening games.

499
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:07.119
The ball movement looks really good.
The overall team IQ looks really good.

500
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.359
They've been doing a lot of things
really well, and the shooting has

501
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:13.000
looked a lot better. And I
think they're doing a lot of things that

502
00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:17.640
will translate two tougher opponents. Well, it's not just because they're playing bad

503
00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:21.559
teams that they've looked good. I
think they are a very very quality team

504
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:23.680
and I think that's going to continue. Nick. Any ending thoughts here,

505
00:33:24.880 --> 00:33:30.599
I think we pretty much covered I
promise sing first two non conference games especially

506
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:32.559
when come out of the exhibition gaming. It's for hay State, you know,

507
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.519
with some questions, particularly about how
this team's going to score, they

508
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.559
could squash those two nine to nine
point performances. Can't go really wrong there.

509
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:49.079
I'm pleased and I'm excited to see
how things translate to Kentucky on Tuesday.

510
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:54.000
I gave you a little premature airhorn
there. Never want the premature version,

511
00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:58.640
and you can have the full thing. Other games, well, actually

512
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:02.160
first Big twelve games. It was
a little better week for Big twelve teams

513
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:06.920
this week, but mainly because the
schedule got a lot softer, as despite

514
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.719
being down by nine and a half
time Number twenty, Baylor got a legendary

515
00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:15.079
debut from freshman Jacoby Walter to help
them storm back and beat Auburn at the

516
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:20.079
Sioux Falls Pentagon eighty eight eighty two, and their opener, Walter scored twenty

517
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:22.960
eight points, including ten for ten
at the free throw line. Welcome to

518
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:27.320
college. Looks like he's going to
be the leader in the same Baylor offense

519
00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.159
we've seen under coach Drew. They
take a lot of threes, they play

520
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:34.239
real fast, very very good shooting
the ball. Their defense has been what's

521
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:36.760
done him in the last couple of
years. So we'll see how that goes.

522
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.320
But at least in this game,
entertaining comeback win for them. They

523
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:44.239
look to have a very good offense. Are they KU's biggest competition in the

524
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:50.760
Big twelve? I think they are
probably unless TCU is like really good state.

525
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.159
Neither one of the teams you listed
is Houston. You guys aren't buying

526
00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:58.559
that one in their adjustment year or
Houston. I forgot about Houston. They're

527
00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:01.400
pretty good go I just think I
think we've talked about on this show.

528
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:05.679
It wouldn't surprise me at all if
Houston had like an eleven and seven or

529
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:09.880
ten and eight season as they get
acclimated to Big twelve environments, which is

530
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:13.880
also probably fair. There's someone every
year that does it. It might be

531
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:20.159
this team Iowa State. They beat
a team called lynden Wood who used to

532
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:24.159
be D two. They're moving up
to D one forty seven. Linden Wood

533
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:29.559
made six two pointers all night and
had almost twice as many turnovers twenty two

534
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:35.079
as they had made baskets at thirteen, Nick, would you schedule Lyndenwood or

535
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:39.679
would you schedule a real team?
I would schedule Santa Claus State. Seriously,

536
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.559
what is the point? We asked
this every single show with these teams.

537
00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:47.199
And also we've seen, we've read
some scary stat lines, right,

538
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:52.360
we've we've heard the note they had
almost as many baskets as turnovers. Have

539
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:58.639
you ever seen nine more turnovers than
baskets? Probably based on the sport we

540
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:00.559
cover, but I don't know,
it would have been gross. Now I

541
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:06.079
want Nick, I want you to
read me Iowa States remaining non conference opponents

542
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:08.719
because there's going to be a time
on the show in January where we're getting

543
00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:13.840
ready to start Big twelve play and
we see, wow, Iowa States eleven

544
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.639
and one and in the top twenty
five. Could they be a team that

545
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:21.639
challenges for a top five Big twelve
placement? And I'm going to point back

546
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:24.239
to you reading this list right now
that tells us how they got to an

547
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:30.599
unblemish or darn close non conference rate. Yeah, they get to that eleven

548
00:36:30.639 --> 00:36:36.039
and one non conference finish because they're
like, oprah, get you get one

549
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.280
hundred thousand dollars by game, You
get one hundred thousand dollars by game.

550
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:45.599
Because this is the list. Idaho
State, Grambling State, VCU getting Kansas

551
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:51.440
and playing them De Paul, Iowa
at home, Prairie View A and M

552
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:55.639
at a real school, Florida A
and M Eastern Illinois and New Hampshire,

553
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.320
and Iowa State lost to Florida A
and M in the COVID year. The

554
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:05.920
Steve Prome team that won two games
the two and twenty one Iowa State Cyclones.

555
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:07.960
They've already won as many games this
year as they did last that one

556
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:13.719
year. That's true. That's an
atrocious list. And remember they've already beat

557
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:20.440
Green Bay and linden Wood. Well
something else that has exactly as many wins

558
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:22.639
as Iowa State had that year.
As Ernest doo Day, he has exactly

559
00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:27.760
two points through his first two games
with the TCU Horny Frogs. He did

560
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.719
have eleven rebounds though, in their
blout win over Omaha on Thursday night,

561
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:35.239
so that's a little better. He's
the starting center, would him? He

562
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:37.800
is the starting center for a frend's
top twenty five team. He's gonna have

563
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.800
a really good year. The center
in Jamie Dixon's offense has always been really

564
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.039
good. We've seen guys like Kevin
Samuel put up nice numbers. I can't

565
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:49.400
think of some of the recent guys
they had, Well, Eddie Lampkin was

566
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.280
there and he was a pretty impact
player. Feels like that they always have

567
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.800
a guy that kind of fits that
mold and Ernest doo Day getting starter minutes

568
00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.400
to play at to play at TCU. Nick, tell me about the other

569
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:06.000
team in Purple in this conference.
Yeah, the TCU Horned Frogs or no,

570
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:09.239
we just talked about that. Yeah, Stay, I had him,

571
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:14.239
I had a I had a mental. I had a moment. They only

572
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:19.960
beat by eight point eighty three to
seventy five. Tyler Perry, not the

573
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.519
actor, scored eighteen points for the
Wildcats. Who doesn't play anybody good until

574
00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:28.760
December? Shocker. They clearly aren't
looking great through two games. You know,

575
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:30.880
they lost to Bronnie James or Bronnie
James didn't play. I guess they

576
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:37.000
lost to USC Is this a team
that's gonna finish in the top five in

577
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:42.920
the conference? To top five?
Is so a Medilla NCAA tournament? Yes,

578
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:45.960
okay, top seven? Are they
going to finish in the top half

579
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.320
of the conference. See, that's
that's where this gets harder, because top

580
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:51.679
five used to be real easy.
Are they a top half of the league

581
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:55.679
team now top five is basically top
third. No, I don't think they

582
00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:01.440
are. I think they're around seven
probably. I think they're more likely to

583
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:07.559
be eight to ten than in the
top seven. Well, and they have

584
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.119
a really good point guard, Parry's
a stud. We think they have a

585
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:13.519
good coach, and they have a
great home court advantage. Like they're a

586
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:16.400
team that's absolutely gonna win like seven
home games. Like they're gonna go like

587
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:20.599
seven and two at home or something
like that, but the road games are

588
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.960
gonna be tough. They play Providence
coming up, South Dakota State, either

589
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:29.239
Georgia or Miami. Miami is a
top fifteen team and they play in a

590
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.280
tournament the Bahamas over Thanksgiving here coming
up, and then Central Arkansas, Oral

591
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:37.400
Roberts, Northern Alabama, Villanova at
home. They're ranked right now LSU,

592
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.280
Nebraska in Whichita State, and Chicago
State, who might be the worst basketball

593
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:44.599
team ever based on what they always
do. So, yeah, they're gonna

594
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:46.280
have like a ten and three non
conference record or something like that. But

595
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:50.280
could they be a ten and three
non conteam that then starts one to four

596
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:52.880
in Big twelve play? Yeah,
absolutely could be something like that. Two

597
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:57.719
Big twelve teams lost this week.
Central Florida went down to aforementioned Number thirteen

598
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:01.559
Miami by sixteen in a game that
wasn't and West Virginia, Oh my goodness,

599
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:06.440
gracious, what in the world is
going on here? West Virginia lost

600
00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:09.760
to Monmouth at home as a fifteen
point favorite. Monmouth is the alma mater

601
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:15.000
of the uh George Pappas and his
don't give an f statement that was a

602
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.440
few years ago. That popped up
in my time hop the other day.

603
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.119
But whenever we're talking about West Virginia, they have an interim coach, they're

604
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:28.039
missing three of their top six rotation
guys. Kirk Rees is out to so

605
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:31.159
this team is a complete freaking mass. They feel like a seam that's destined

606
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:35.079
to go like three and fifteen or
something like that in Big twelve play.

607
00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:39.400
But fellow newcomer Byu did pull off
a nice home win over number seventeen San

608
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:44.400
Diego State seventy four to sixty five
on Friday night. None of us think

609
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:45.760
b YU is gonna be very good. I think they're gonna be a little

610
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:49.920
case State like though in the sense
that it is tough to play at that

611
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:53.000
arena. They're gonna get some top
twenty five wins at home in this conference.

612
00:40:57.719 --> 00:40:59.960
Nigg, are you trying to type
out the entire Big twelve state?

613
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:08.239
Yeah, Daly, well k State
laws so they're not tied for one zero

614
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:13.239
though. Oh Nick is riding every
Big twelve team out. Uh. And

615
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.119
the order is at you go in
alphabetical order, because this is pretty impressive.

616
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:20.599
Oh no, now we went to
in the order of my mind.

617
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:22.599
Okay, well, yeah, what
do we got now? One, two,

618
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:27.719
three, four, five, six, seven, four? More Oklahoma

619
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:31.840
schools? You're missing? Oh,
you and Oklahoma State, which no one

620
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:37.159
cares. And then you're missing who
else is? Who else isn't there?

621
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.519
Is there anybody else there? Who's
he missing? There? You go?

622
00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:47.039
No? Uh, geez, why
why can't we name all the Big twelve

623
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:52.159
schools? What the heck's going on
here? Guys? Did you write West

624
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.000
Virginia? That's it, write West
Virginia and let's mercifully move on from this

625
00:41:55.639 --> 00:42:01.159
Other games Number twelve Arizona. They
are a big winner of the week as

626
00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:06.360
the Wildcats went into Cameron Indoor,
which has been renamed Kleb Love Stadium,

627
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:10.360
and took down number two Duke seventy
eight seventy three, a very balanced Wildcats

628
00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:15.599
team. All five scorers scored between
eleven and fourteen points, including Caleb Love,

629
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:19.840
who continued his ownership over the Blue
Devils. Coach K brought his rat

630
00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:25.000
face back in the Cameron Indoor where
we all remember Caleb Love giving Coach K

631
00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:30.199
his final home loss and ending his
career with that dagger shot in the NCAA

632
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.199
tournament. And then what does Kleb
Love do? He contributes to John Schier's

633
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:39.639
first home loss as duke coach,
the loser of next week's Michigan State Duke

634
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:45.360
Champions Classic game, originally pegged as
two top five teams will begin their season

635
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:51.519
one and two. Eh. Speaking
of Champions Classic, hey go look too,

636
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:54.480
it will not be one and two. Number sixteen Kentucky. They got

637
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:58.400
to a terrible start. They tilled
Texas and m Commerce. That's a real

638
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:00.599
school guys, twenty one to eight
out of the shoot. But they got

639
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.960
their act together and one by twenty
they like Kansas or two and zero heading

640
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:07.960
into Tuesday night, but they struggled
on the glass and the three point shooting,

641
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.639
save for Antonio Reeves, looks to
be an issue again for the Wildcats.

642
00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.519
Yeah, Kentucky's a weird team.
Like this Kentucky team is nowhere near

643
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:17.639
what we think they're going to look
like in March. I think they could

644
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:21.760
be quite good at the end of
the year. But right now, boy,

645
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:25.360
they got a big task with Kansas. So I have questions about Duke

646
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:29.639
and Kentucky and Michigan State too.
Let's talk about the champions classic teams.

647
00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:31.679
Concerned about all of them. I'm
not really that concerned about Duke. I

648
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:36.119
think they're young, or at least
I think the pieces that messed up in

649
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:38.599
this game are young. Not huge
on John Shire, though I do like

650
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:43.480
him scheduling tougher, opponents love them
losing in front of coach k I think

651
00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:46.480
they'll ultimately be fine. Michigan State
that just doesn't feel like something that's supposed

652
00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:52.559
to happen to title contenders, and
Kentucky's gonna have some problems. Yeah,

653
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:53.960
I think it's about right. I
think I think out of the other three

654
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:58.199
not named Kansas, I think Duke
is probably going to be the best.

655
00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:02.039
I think Kentucky, based on talent, might have the higher ceiling, but

656
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:06.840
I definitely think they also have the
lowest floor and Yeah, I think Michigan

657
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:13.159
State will do what tom Izzo teams
do and be way better in February than

658
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:17.079
they are in November. But that's
still a hilarious loss that you absolutely cannot

659
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:21.199
take. So I think that's about
right. And I think Kansas is probably

660
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.800
by far the best of the four
Perdue probably moving from three to two in

661
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:29.760
the top twenty five pole considering that
they took down are considering that Duke lost

662
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:34.199
in front of them, which means
if Kansas beats Kentucky and we could head

663
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:39.719
into that Maui tournament week with one
Kansas and two Perdue being the projected championship

664
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:44.320
for that Mali tournament. Also,
Marquette's going to be three in the poll.

665
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:49.440
Kansas could seriously play three Marquette and
two Perdue in the last two games

666
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.840
of that Maui tournament. That is
going to be ridonculous. But yes,

667
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.920
Arizona very impressive. They should be
in the top five. If you had

668
00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:00.559
a top five ballot right now,
what would you say, Oh, I

669
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:05.360
don't know. Too early for the
basketball games I've watched, is the end

670
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.400
of Michigan State, James Madison,
Kansas and c Central and Kansas Manhattan,

671
00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:16.679
So I would probably say definitively Kansas
Purdue in Arizona, maybe Arizona. Honestly,

672
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:20.199
I mean, they're pretty good.
And that's the top three. That's

673
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:22.920
the top three. You know who's
not It's not Louisville, but we'll talk

674
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:24.480
to them. We'll talk about that
in a minute. Maybe Tennessee though Land

675
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:28.199
and tell me about our buddy Rick. Yeah, they got a nice win

676
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.639
in Madison at the Cole Center,
beating Wisconsin eighty to seventy. If this

677
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:36.239
exact game took place in March,
the volunteers would have lost because Rick Barnes.

678
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:38.039
And also if this game took place
in March, my guess would be

679
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:43.519
the score would be more like fifty
four to fifty. Also getting a nice

680
00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:46.719
road win was the fifteen Texas and
m who won in Columbus against the Buckeyes.

681
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:53.119
Nop, there goes our rotation.
Well, I know what we're doing

682
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.400
here. Here's your return. I
think Nick read the Kentucky one. It's

683
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:01.119
oh we switched am I after you. Now, that's what we had just

684
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:07.960
done. Sweet okay, that's what
they were singing with their fku to mister

685
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:13.400
bright Side chance in the first half
because they led Memphis twenty nine to fifteen

686
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:15.760
through fourteen minutes and their fans were
like whoo. And then all they did

687
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.920
the rest of the game was get
out scored by twenty nine points over the

688
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:24.039
last twenty five minutes. Missouri gets
crushed at home by the Tigers by fifteen.

689
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.880
Yuck. Not a great look for
Dennis Gates in his first Marquee game

690
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:32.599
of year two. Yeah, now
it's my turn to read. Gotcha?

691
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:37.960
Zach Eti had eighteen points, eight
rebounds, three blocks, and three assistans.

692
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:44.559
Number three Perdue beat more head State. Man. I thought I read

693
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:46.559
that too. I thought I was
gonna get somebody there. Never never guess

694
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:50.159
what that joke's about. What a
what a horrible name for a school?

695
00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:58.119
More? What about emmy? I'm
right there with you, or you know,

696
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.360
I mean, I think Josh liked
me a little bit more after the

697
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:08.480
penies. I'm sure that's true.
Daniel forgot about that. I can't believe

698
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:12.039
that's on the sound word. Now, Who's next? Is it? You?

699
00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:15.519
Now? Yeah? It is?
I get one thing to say,

700
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:21.880
so I'm gonna take both. Number
ten Florida Atlantic beat Loyola Chicago on the

701
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:24.960
road. Ryan only thinks this is
relevant because f sister Jeane I had a

702
00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:29.760
statement I do not stand by at
all. She's still alive. Come on

703
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:35.760
already, like give it up.
Something else that should be given up is

704
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:39.840
maybe Louisville's basketball program. They lost
to Chattanooga. They were only a four

705
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:45.400
point favorite in the first place,
which is really bad, but they didn't

706
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:49.960
even they didn't even get that done. Since January eighth of twenty twenty two,

707
00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:52.760
guess what Louisville's record is. I
don't even know the answer to this.

708
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:59.400
Ryan calculated this. I think it's
like, I don't know what the

709
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.519
loss can would come to, but
I'm pretty sure it's only like eight or

710
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:06.760
nine wins. So a little bit
of a setup for this. Louisville was

711
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:09.360
a top ten team when the season
got canceled with COVID three years ago,

712
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:14.280
and then the twenty twenty one team
was one of the last couple teams that

713
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:17.159
missed out on the nca tournament.
They were almost in. Then twenty twenty

714
00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:21.440
two's team starts ten to four.
They had a good start, they're on

715
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:24.000
pace to maybe make the NCAA as
an at large, and then overnight,

716
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:29.079
seemingly the floor dropped out since then. That was the day Kansas and Remy

717
00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:35.199
Martin lost to Texas Tech in KU's
very first conference loss of their national championship

718
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:40.000
season, almost two calendar years ago. What is Louisville's record? How many

719
00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:46.480
total games it is out of fifty
two games seven and forty five, eight

720
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:55.880
and forty four. Landing is correct. Eight and forty four are the Louisville

721
00:48:55.920 --> 00:49:00.360
Cardinals. Just for fun, let's
read the eight teams they've beaten. The

722
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:07.599
UNBC Terriers just the other day.
Georgia Tech, Clemson, Florida and m

723
00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:15.239
Western Kentucky. Georgia Tech again,
Clemson again, Boston College. That's your

724
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:23.320
list, man. Imagine being of
Louisville's victories in the last two years,

725
00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:30.679
which just absolutely awful. Not to
be outdone by Louisville's terribleness. Georgetown lost

726
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:34.480
the Holy Cross at home as a
ten point favorite, and Notre Dame lost

727
00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:38.000
to Western Carolina at home by ten. Yeah, that's Mike Bray's still there

728
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.920
and he was supposed to retire than
he did it. Maybe that's terrible.

729
00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:49.679
So I think that Georgetown and Louisville
should play at halftime of the NCAA championship

730
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:54.599
game, like how they let that
special Olympics kids play like a fifteen minute

731
00:49:54.599 --> 00:50:00.840
segment like you can bet on now
as we And then I learned that an

732
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:07.719
hour ago. So okay, Mike
Bray left and is working on Quinn Snyder's

733
00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:12.400
staff with the Atlanta Hawks. Something
that I didn't he about. Who is

734
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:16.719
Notre Dame's basketball coach? It is, uh Mike Shrewsberry is his name?

735
00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:22.199
He kind of looks like I know
that name from somewhere. Who is that

736
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:24.360
guy? Well, he is the
basketball coach at Notre Dame. He was

737
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:29.639
an assistant at Penn State. Also
was a long time Boston Celtics assistant under

738
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:35.519
Brad Stevens. Not looking they're not
having Celtics level success in his in the

739
00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.559
early part of his tenure. It
looks like and number twenty two Villanova beat

740
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:44.519
a team called Lemoyne l E E
Space m y n E once again.

741
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:51.760
How do these games get to count? Because Villanova struggled the last couple of

742
00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:53.440
years and they like to win at
all. Ye Hey, they play at

743
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:57.960
brambletch here in a few weeks ranked
team salu s it's the last show number

744
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:01.559
two duke Haha, lost to Arizona
Home and number seventeen San Diego State.

745
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:07.760
They lost to the b YU Cougars. Landon, You're already in outright last

746
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:09.800
place by multiple games and pick them
and we've only done two shows, Like

747
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:15.639
it's just it's all the rock always
sinks. That just gives me more time

748
00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:19.239
to mount an epic comeback, only
to blow it again. Yeah, that's

749
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:22.400
true. Landon is absolutely going to
be eight games in first place in late

750
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:27.639
February and wind up losing somehow,
because that is always, and I do

751
00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.559
mean always, how this goes?
Where's the airhorn? That has been the

752
00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:37.480
trend to this point? Forgot about
Mary? But they beat Stanislaus, so

753
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:42.480
they can always they can. They
can definitely stayna Gonna keep using that drop

754
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:47.519
until Gonzaga's record streak ends because it's
so totally undeserved and they're about to get

755
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:52.239
the record for most consecutive conference titles
one because Kansas has ended at thirteen.

756
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:54.960
Ask Rock Chuck blog, do you
ever have questions? You can go to

757
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:01.320
X and ask us questions X.
It's all the context you get. Imagine

758
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:07.920
hearing that a year ago, how
confused would you be? I would have

759
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.960
been concerned that Twitter had become a
porn site exclusively. That's what I was

760
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.199
gonna say. That's that does not
seem like a normal website. I mean,

761
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:16.800
geez, that sounds like a better
use than whatever Twitter is. These

762
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:23.480
days, Twitter is just an absolute
albatross at Ryan at Ryan underscore Landra.

763
00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:30.679
I have two questions. The tweet
says, does everybody have their Christmas decorations

764
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:35.679
up yet? No? Because it's
not even Thanksgiving yet. Well that doesn't

765
00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:39.119
matter, Like, yeah, it
does, because you're illegal until after Thanksgiving.

766
00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:44.079
Illegal seems kind of harsh. I
don't think it's illegal. That doesn't

767
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:47.559
give you enough time to enjoy holiday
decorations if you wait till late November to

768
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:52.159
put them up. I think you
should wait till December first. Oh my

769
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:58.000
gosh, you Ebenezer Wiper and you
guys, something wrong with you? Guys.

770
00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:02.119
No, it goes up the first
warm November and uh, eventually I'm

771
00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:06.480
gonna bring you to Yahoo's over here
and help me get on the roof and

772
00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:09.239
hand me Christmas lights so I can
wrap the him. You text us about

773
00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:13.719
that like two years ago. I
believe I I believe I gave you an

774
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:16.960
order and uh never had a lot
of confidence that that was gonna be followed,

775
00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:21.519
partially because we should not, none
of us should be on roofs for

776
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:24.960
any reason like ever, that's a
horrible idea, especially for something as inconsequential

777
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:28.840
as Christmas lights, because we if
anything, it's not like I don't have

778
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:34.039
enough of them. There are currently
about fourteen Christmas trees spread out across my

779
00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:38.239
oh, my suburban house. Yeah, something like that. Uh, you

780
00:53:38.239 --> 00:53:42.400
can see my house from the main
road. If you just drive across a

781
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:46.039
Leitha and you see the glowing ore
be coming from the west side of town,

782
00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:50.840
you will see exactly h you will
see the house. So yeah,

783
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:53.840
and the second question from Ryan,
Ryan has more Christmas trees than Louisville wins

784
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:58.920
in the past two seasons. That's
right, a decent amount, almost double.

785
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:00.360
Yeah. It took you and be
seed it to get it doubled.

786
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:07.400
How long will it take before Louisville
surpasses Ryan's Christmas tree count? We see

787
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.039
collections growing at about two or three
trees a year. So if we'll be

788
00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:15.119
matched with two wins or three wins
this season, they are gaining. They

789
00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:19.559
are gaining on me. But at
least at this point in time, I

790
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:22.840
feel like I at least got it
until next Christmas. Is your goal just

791
00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:27.440
to make your house a forest?
My goal is to make my house look

792
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.800
like the mall that you go take
your kids to see Santa Claus in And

793
00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:36.480
bless my wife's heart, because I've
already heard everything. We have a big

794
00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:39.000
Christmas tree right in the kitchen because
where else would it go. And I've

795
00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:43.320
already heard Ryan, I can't live
like this in the last few days.

796
00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:46.519
And there's still forty five sleeps until
Santa Claus gets here. So I guess

797
00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:52.320
if that's not the only marriage someone's
saying, that, maybe the only one

798
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:55.639
that's being said about Christmas that's being
said about Christmas decorations. Correct, Yeah,

799
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.800
our house is our house is a
sight, and all the decorations stay

800
00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:02.599
up until Bill loses in conference play
for the first time. Two questions from

801
00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:07.360
Ryan underscore orlandra at the second one, How low of a level would you

802
00:55:07.400 --> 00:55:08.960
have to go before you get to
a basketball team that would lose to the

803
00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:15.840
five inside the paint hosts. Let's
start at the top. Let's start at

804
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:21.320
the top. High NBA team beats
us, All college teams beat us high

805
00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:30.239
school top. Yeah, Okay,
you find any any pro or organized basketball

806
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:37.400
team globally that is our age or
older would beat us? Yes, not

807
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:42.760
even I think our age seven would
beat us. I agree if they were

808
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:46.079
any level of good at all,
which in Nick and Landon's cases, I

809
00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:50.519
don't even know if those kids can
have drivers licenses in that scenario and they're

810
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:53.760
still beating us in a basketball game. I think we can talk to drive

811
00:55:53.800 --> 00:56:00.679
minus seven from I think I think
that we could beat about five percent of

812
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:05.159
high school basketball teams, simply because
Nick brought up, like what about the

813
00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:08.960
deaf schools, and it's like,
I I don't think that. Well,

814
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:15.079
I don't know, actually I don't
like we could just call out our plays

815
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.199
and they wouldn't be able to hear
our commands. Right, I could be

816
00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.039
like Nick, go to the basket
now and like no one would hear it.

817
00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:28.000
I think that's how would work it. Could I have played against the

818
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.199
deaf school before in and did you
win? We beat them by a lot,

819
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:37.920
we beat we'd beat some Christian home
school organization. I think we beat

820
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:43.599
half the middle school teams, like
half the that's it. I don't know

821
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:47.320
about half. I think we beat
maybe ten of middle school. I thought

822
00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:53.519
you would at least beat more than
half of them were middle schoolers are like

823
00:56:53.639 --> 00:57:00.679
five foot at max. No,
yeah, Andrew Wagons played middle school ball

824
00:57:00.679 --> 00:57:05.760
at some point, my man like
like I would be Jeff Witty against middle

825
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:10.239
schoolers. I think you're given.
I think you're given a father now,

826
00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:15.800
Daniel Cunningham, who probably hasn't dribbled
the basket of those middle schoolers. I'm

827
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:21.400
telling you that I don't know.
I think we're losing to like eighty percent

828
00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:24.119
of middle school teams and ninety nine
point nine percent of high school teams.

829
00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:28.880
The more I think about it,
yeah, like there's only like it would

830
00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:31.480
have to be the we'd have to, for one, get some amount of

831
00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:37.719
ability to practice and train to even
of girls high school basketball teams would be

832
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:43.400
beat like five more than once.
I would really like to know if people

833
00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:47.559
actually are. I have to imagine
at all. I have to imagine that

834
00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:53.440
the should schedule that close out.
I I have to imagine the bottom five

835
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:59.719
percent tile of women's high school teams
are like small town schools with twenty three

836
00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:02.639
kids and everybody on that team is
like four foot eight. I have to

837
00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:07.480
think those teams exist. We we
theoretically should beat them. Yeah, but

838
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:10.880
we we're losing to ninety seven percent
of women's high school teams and probably half

839
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:16.679
the women's middle school teams. I
don't know about that women's middle school teams,

840
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:23.320
I think boys. Have you seen
women's middle school basketball teams? No,

841
00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:27.400
but I know that they exist.
Our team has never played a game

842
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.239
of basketball together, and we don't
have any practice. It's just it's gonna

843
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:36.559
be a matter of luck. You're
gonna Thompson against middle school girl basketball.

844
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:39.800
We should set up, like you
know, on like video games or like

845
00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:43.719
especially mobile games. I remember this
being a thing like it would ramp up

846
00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:47.039
your difficulty and you'd get to like
play against the worst difficulty and you keep

847
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:52.519
going up. We should have this
happen where we play like we play like

848
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:59.639
a fourth grade wreck girls team to
start and we go up until we lose,

849
00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:01.400
kind of like are you smarter than
a fifth grader? Where they started

850
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:07.320
really easy, and well, boy, you're gonna like it's like the one

851
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:09.199
hundred dollars question on who wants to
be a millionaire, which is probably before

852
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:14.079
your time. So I'll go with
the first. I'll go with it.

853
00:59:14.119 --> 00:59:17.719
Whenever we beat fourth grade girls forty
to thirty eight, and it's like barely

854
00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:22.440
getting the first grade math? Are
you smarter than a fifth grader? Question?

855
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:25.519
Where we've passed the first level?
But there's no need to watch the

856
00:59:25.559 --> 00:59:30.360
rest of the show because you know
that dumbass isn't winning any money. That's

857
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:32.599
basically us at that point. It's
just a matter of are we losing the

858
00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:39.719
sixth or eighth grade. I think
we're getting our doors blown off of us

859
00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:45.199
by ninety plus percent of women's high
school teams. I think we're getting out

860
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:47.840
of medicals. But until we actually
get on the floor with the high school

861
00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:53.679
women's best has offered us to play
their high school girls basketball team, and

862
00:59:53.719 --> 01:00:00.559
they would lose by so many points
that game wouldn't even be close. They

863
01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:04.000
are a basketball team. Let's start
with what they are and what we're not.

864
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:07.320
They are a basketball team. They
are athletes. We are neither of

865
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:12.559
those things. We sit at a
desk and talk about athletes and basketball teams.

866
01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:16.000
We would not just stroll on out
on that court after a morning of

867
01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:21.559
eating I Hot pancakes and go beat
an organized basketball team at any level.

868
01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:23.800
You have to hope that ball's going
in the basket out of Steph Curry clipp

869
01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:29.039
Because the quality of the opponent that
we have it may impact Hunter Dickinson's ability

870
01:00:29.079 --> 01:00:32.360
to make threes. The quality of
opponent that we play does not impact our

871
01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:39.159
ability to make threes. That is
somewhat true. That is the primary reason

872
01:00:39.159 --> 01:00:42.719
why we would lose. But like
I said, if we if we had

873
01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:47.039
time to like train for even like
six months, I think we could be

874
01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:51.800
okay. All right, well maybe
someday. We're not gonna shut up about

875
01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:54.400
this until we get it done.
Because Clay Travis was running his mouth on

876
01:00:54.440 --> 01:01:00.519
Twitter about how any like donating money
to charity. If the Las Vegas Aces

877
01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:06.639
could beat a middle or an at
middle of the road high school men's team,

878
01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:10.280
and I don't think they would.
I think the average high school boys

879
01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:14.559
team would win because like geez,
there are men in high school that are

880
01:01:14.559 --> 01:01:19.280
windmill dunking and there's only been like
three NBA WNBA players ever that I've dunked.

881
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:23.320
But the last Vegas Aces would make
they would score three hundred points and

882
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:30.400
forty minutes against the average boys middle
school team. So we'll we'll see how

883
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:34.360
that like. And obviously we're right
there with the with the aces in this

884
01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:39.079
uh, in this conversation obviously at
cam Lipple Golf. If your life depended

885
01:01:39.159 --> 01:01:44.719
on Kenny Payne not embarrassing his program
for one day, which bridge would you

886
01:01:44.800 --> 01:01:49.480
walk off of? And why Kenny
Payne for those of you who do not

887
01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:52.719
know, is the Louisville coach.
And I googled his name and the top

888
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:57.760
article is from a fan sided account
and it says, does Kenny Payne even

889
01:01:57.840 --> 01:02:06.440
care about Louisville basketball? Wow,
let's let's go off the Golden gate.

890
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:10.119
That's because the Billie Eilish song that
is such a long way down and it

891
01:02:10.199 --> 01:02:15.320
is so cold there. Kenny Payne's
record as Lilibo coach is five and twenty

892
01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:17.679
nine. I cannot believe that man
didn't get fired after one year. Like

893
01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:21.519
it's one of those that survive the
season, right. It's one of those

894
01:02:21.559 --> 01:02:23.920
things where I wanted the Royals to
fire Matt Quatrero as their manager this year,

895
01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:28.440
and people were like, you can't
fire him after one year. No,

896
01:02:28.559 --> 01:02:30.519
if you set a franchise record for
losses, I don't care how much

897
01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:32.840
of it's your fault. You gotta
get, you gotta go. At that

898
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:36.760
point, Kenny Payne went four and
twenty eight last year. I don't even

899
01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:38.039
care how much that's his fault,
Like, you can't do that. That

900
01:02:38.039 --> 01:02:42.400
should have been a firing. No, he can't survive the season. My

901
01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:45.639
gosh, at show me hawk.
Two questions. Can we dispel the myth

902
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:50.000
that Kansas does not play well in
the Sprint Slash t Mobile Center. Yeah,

903
01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:52.440
that's true. They have like a
seventy five percent win percentage there and

904
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:58.639
they normally played pretty quality teams there. They're just fine there. Yeah.

905
01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:02.559
And also the k quarterback situation is
real interesting now with Jason Bean getting injured.

906
01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:06.840
Who starts next week against k State? Probably still Jason Bean. It

907
01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:13.199
sounded like he was doing better after
the game. Yeah, probably Jason Bean.

908
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:15.320
I'll tell you who it won't be. Yeah, there's a very good

909
01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:19.559
chance it will not be the guy
Ryan will say. I liked Cole Ballard

910
01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:22.880
and O came out. He has
no pocket presence yet, but I think

911
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:27.559
he will be okay in the future. I missed the preseason Big twelve Offensive

912
01:03:27.559 --> 01:03:30.639
Player of the Year. That guy
was good. You know, he was

913
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:34.760
active. He was active a couple
weeks ago. That guy should play.

914
01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:37.239
Yeah, I agree, he should
play. I don't know what happened there.

915
01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:40.760
Uh oh, so I want I
don't want to well, okay at

916
01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:44.480
Ryan on the score, Lange with
what do you guys think of Brian Haney?

917
01:03:45.639 --> 01:03:47.280
I don't listen to him enough to
actually have much an opinion. I

918
01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:51.239
think he is not as bad as
you think he is. Oh my god,

919
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:53.039
I don't even know where to start
with this one, Nick, What

920
01:03:53.079 --> 01:03:58.440
do you think of Brian Haney?
I don't listen to the radio, but

921
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.800
he's a nice guy. So my
wife works nights and I pick up some

922
01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:05.360
uber eats and door dashing jobs on
the side. So I'm driving around on

923
01:04:05.400 --> 01:04:09.280
a lot of weekends and I have
the game on in my radio in the

924
01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:12.199
car, and oh my god,
I want to drive that car into the

925
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.519
thickest brick wall every single time Brian
Haney says anything that's not the play that's

926
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:20.440
going on. He is a brilliant, brilliant ambassador for this university, and

927
01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:24.800
Kansas is so lucky to have him. So it is the shallowest thing for

928
01:04:24.800 --> 01:04:28.360
me to say I cannot stand his
voice, and I cannot stand his announcing

929
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:33.599
style. Whenever he goes the legend
of Ballard, Will it begin today?

930
01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:40.039
Stay tuned Jayhawk Nation, Oh my
gosh, just stab me with every needle

931
01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:44.480
in existence. At the same time, I cannot stand it. And I

932
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:49.840
was listening to the exhibition game where
kJ threw an assists to mccullor and then

933
01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:55.519
the next possession of mccallr threw one
to CAJ and Brian Haney stands up and

934
01:04:55.559 --> 01:05:00.840
goes, you gotta love the reciprocation, and I'm just like, oh my

935
01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:06.119
gosh, why does this exist.
He's just yeah, he's he knows his

936
01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:11.519
stats. He reps the university with
the pride that you would die for your

937
01:05:11.559 --> 01:05:15.480
announcer to do it. I just
can't freaking stand it. And I know

938
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:21.159
that's terrible because I don't have the
voice of al Michaels and I'm a corny

939
01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:27.039
mofo in case you don't listen to
those drops. But Brian Haney could stand

940
01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:31.400
in the middle of an Iowa cornfield
and be the corniest thing that exists in

941
01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:39.079
that field. Like I said,
I do not quite have the strong feelings

942
01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:44.400
of Ryan on this opinion. And
the moment that I know, the moment

943
01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:45.840
that I realized that wasn't gonna work, is when I went to the KU

944
01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:49.559
banquet, and Brian Haney gets up
there and says, before we introduce Bill

945
01:05:49.599 --> 01:05:54.679
self, I want to read you
a poem recapping the Jayhawks season. And

946
01:05:54.719 --> 01:05:58.440
I at that point almost hit myself
with that fork right between the pieballs.

947
01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:01.039
And it went on. I swear
to god. It went on for thirty

948
01:06:01.079 --> 01:06:05.719
minutes, and it was like it
just kept going, and the old people

949
01:06:05.719 --> 01:06:10.360
would clap every time he made a
somewhat corning rhyme, and I just wanted

950
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:13.599
it to stop. Yeah, that's
that's I don't know. I don't want

951
01:06:13.599 --> 01:06:16.159
to sound mean because I like Brian
Haney. I think he follows Rock Chalk

952
01:06:16.159 --> 01:06:20.679
Blog on Twitter. He's he's a
nice guy. But but god, I

953
01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:25.239
can't I can't believe that that's the
that's that, that's what we're dealing with

954
01:06:25.320 --> 01:06:28.960
here at Olhart Casey, I'm sure
he's not. But as Hunter Dickinson,

955
01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:31.480
the first player to run mismatt shoes
at Kansas, can't remember anyone in particular

956
01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:33.639
doing it, says I dig it, Yes, me too, talked about

957
01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:36.480
that earlier in the show Great Minds. Think alike, Casey, I can't

958
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:40.679
remember anybody doing that. We've seen
some cool shoes, but that is awesome.

959
01:06:40.719 --> 01:06:44.559
He's done that two times now,
clearly that's a stick. Yeah,

960
01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:46.159
it seems like something he would do. I have no idea if anyone's done

961
01:06:46.159 --> 01:06:50.480
that before. At Ryan under scorlandra
with Nick on a scale of one to

962
01:06:50.599 --> 01:06:55.760
watch, of a scale of watching
Devin Neil Thrill passes to ten, how

963
01:06:55.840 --> 01:07:00.880
much do you hate? Ask Rock
Chalk Blog. It's gotten better? Wow,

964
01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:06.119
that's not I would have a lot
of answer. Oh, okay,

965
01:07:06.159 --> 01:07:11.239
so it's still it's still quite bad. It's still uh, it's still a

966
01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:14.000
little bit better than watching paint dry, but but still not. I mean,

967
01:07:14.079 --> 01:07:16.039
let's be honest here, it's ten
fifty six pm and we're talking to

968
01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:20.440
It's not as bad as talking about
Rodney Terry's underwear color. But I mean

969
01:07:20.559 --> 01:07:25.119
it is ten fifty six pm on
a Saturday night and I'm sleep deprived,

970
01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:29.519
so uh, you know, it
could think will be better. Then I'll

971
01:07:29.559 --> 01:07:32.719
give you a basketball question at Jaybird
eight to eight seven, let's discuss Johnny

972
01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:36.400
Furfey. Is he really six foot
nine? I didn't realize that either.

973
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:39.639
That's what he's listed at. Yeah, they say that like four times on

974
01:07:39.639 --> 01:07:43.559
the broadcast. I don't think.
So here's why I've said I've stood next

975
01:07:43.559 --> 01:07:45.480
to him like three times this semester
when i'ven't been in the dining hall at

976
01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:48.920
Ku and I have one of the
guys in my NBA cohort is six foot

977
01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:53.719
seven, and they seem about the
same height. He is listed at six

978
01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:56.719
nine. His twenty four to seven
recruiting page, which was updated just six

979
01:07:56.760 --> 01:08:00.440
months ago, says he's six seven, so I don't know some more between

980
01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:02.159
there. He definitely gets up like
a six to nine guy. He has

981
01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:09.039
a very good vertical. The question
talks about are the shin splints lingering a

982
01:08:09.079 --> 01:08:12.639
lot of potential? Can he become
a big time and needed contributed this year

983
01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:16.079
potential first round pick? Yes,
he has a lot of upside. I

984
01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:19.560
posted twenty twenty six big tool Player
of the Year Johnny Furfey on Twitter,

985
01:08:19.760 --> 01:08:24.560
and I'm not sure that he's going
to still be here in twenty twenty six.

986
01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:27.399
But remember this Pema Kaylak stuff I
told you earlier, got off to

987
01:08:27.439 --> 01:08:30.359
a great start, didn't play a
lot. I think you're gonna see furfy

988
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:32.880
play more partially because of the team's
makeup than compared to that one. But

989
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:36.840
is he gonna be a guy that's
averaging ten to fifteen points a game somewhere

990
01:08:36.840 --> 01:08:41.760
in there as a freshman. Probably
not uber talented, though they need him

991
01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:45.560
to shoot. Yeah, I think
that sums it up pretty well. He

992
01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:50.479
has a lot of talent that's really
apparent. Obviously the in and out of

993
01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:56.520
a Big twelve regular season that will
be an incredible testing ground to see if

994
01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:59.399
he really is going to be that
good or not. But I definitely I

995
01:08:59.399 --> 01:09:03.000
think there's a very chance he is
not here for four years at Elliott Rusen

996
01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:08.399
h final questions here. I know
we've seen this team against two small conference

997
01:09:08.520 --> 01:09:12.359
opposition, but the depth looks pretty
good, even though they've only been afraid

998
01:09:12.439 --> 01:09:15.920
of only having nine guys. Yeah, it's been fine. Also, they

999
01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:18.319
don't need more than that many guys
to play against these teams. Uh,

1000
01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:21.680
Let's see how it holds up when
the first two guys get banged up,

1001
01:09:21.880 --> 01:09:26.000
when someone bangs their head and misses
a couple of games, or when someone

1002
01:09:26.039 --> 01:09:28.960
rolls an ankle and misses a week. Like, let's see how it holds

1003
01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:32.000
up there, Because at this point
you're Parker Brown or Hunter Dickinson getting hurt

1004
01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:35.720
from having one center on the roster
and then who knows what that's gonna look

1005
01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:40.199
like. Also, Elliott says,
I personally think Djankovic might play him a

1006
01:09:40.239 --> 01:09:43.319
little more than we think get some
open looks. Thoughts, I don't think

1007
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:45.760
that's crazy, especially early on in
the season, you know, think so

1008
01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:51.920
not a chance not. Djankovic is
the tenth guy in this rotation if you

1009
01:09:51.920 --> 01:09:56.880
want to call him that, right, tenth. Yeah, but Bill self's

1010
01:09:56.880 --> 01:10:00.079
not playing them at all. I'd
be stunned if he's not playing at all

1011
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:04.319
in these games. He's not playing
against teams that are good, You're sure,

1012
01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:08.760
like in an ideal world, No, But is the injury. It's

1013
01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:11.680
all about injuries. If they make
it through the season, yeah, three

1014
01:10:12.479 --> 01:10:15.840
injuries, then sure, Jankovic is
definitely the first guy up. Yes,

1015
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:18.960
And if they make it through the
season relatively healthy, nine will be plenty

1016
01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:23.159
good because this is a fricking great
one through nine, maybe the best one

1017
01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:26.199
through nine in the country. But
if you get three injuries before the season,

1018
01:10:26.199 --> 01:10:30.079
remember that twenty nineteen team that lost
the streak. You had Gerald Vick

1019
01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:32.159
have personal problems and was in and
out of the team before eventually leaving for

1020
01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:35.920
good. Udoka has a bouquet hurt
himself. Devon Dahnson missed him time that

1021
01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:40.520
season. They had a couple of
other weird injuries that year as well.

1022
01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:44.840
Uh so, like you're a couple
things like that away from the whole floor

1023
01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:47.640
just falling off and needing Mike Jenkovic
a few minutes a game, all right,

1024
01:10:47.680 --> 01:10:50.880
if you ever have any ascarcb's looked
for the tweet and reply to it,

1025
01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:54.000
Reply to the X. Isn't just
an X? Is that what we

1026
01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:57.399
call the tweet? What is not
calling it a tweet? It's a tweet.

1027
01:10:57.479 --> 01:11:00.760
It's a tweet. Adults, it
is a tweet. Let's be adult.

1028
01:11:01.079 --> 01:11:09.039
Gestures at person who now owns said
website. Yeah. Do you know

1029
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:14.079
the names of Elon Musk's children?
Have you seen these? Ash Archangel,

1030
01:11:14.359 --> 01:11:17.399
Yeah, and that's one of the
more normal ones. Nick, Have you

1031
01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:20.199
not said he's first kid. It's
like a bunch of symbols, but it's

1032
01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:26.239
like airline code for like X ash
Archangel. Yeah. One of Elon Musk's

1033
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:32.000
kids is named x X space AE
space a space x I I hyphen in

1034
01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:41.680
there somewhere a Z. It also
talks about how he wanted to name his

1035
01:11:41.800 --> 01:11:44.920
kid X because why the hell else
would he name anything else, but it

1036
01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:48.760
violated California law for not being part
of the English alphabet, and you cannot

1037
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:55.319
legally name your child something that has
a non alphabet. Care what one of

1038
01:11:55.359 --> 01:12:01.079
his names is? Kid's names is
techno mechanicus. Yes, it's what he's

1039
01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:04.960
what I mean? Did you see
what he did? He's got some problems

1040
01:12:06.159 --> 01:12:12.560
strider and AerR and those seem normal
ish by comparison. I think exa dark

1041
01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:17.199
side rail is my favorite with the
symbols in side rail. That's amazing.

1042
01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:21.239
How many kids does he have?
It's like ten, He's got a ton

1043
01:12:21.279 --> 01:12:25.640
of kids, and there were a
bunch of different women on the one that

1044
01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:30.319
got named Kai or Griffin or Xavier. Have to just be breathing the largest

1045
01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:33.960
sigh of relief ever. Yes,
and also the fact that he's probably no

1046
01:12:34.039 --> 01:12:38.239
longer involved and he just they're going
to get a check at some point.

1047
01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:42.159
That's the only involvement with Sir Elon
that they will ever have, unless it

1048
01:12:42.199 --> 01:12:45.600
will be a large check. Yes, because he's worth a lot of money.

1049
01:12:46.479 --> 01:12:50.000
Is he the richest person in the
world? Richest people? And no,

1050
01:12:50.039 --> 01:12:53.199
I don't think he is anymore.
I think somebody passed him kind of

1051
01:12:53.239 --> 01:12:56.479
recently. I think it just changed
the richest. No, it is Elon

1052
01:12:56.560 --> 01:13:01.479
Okay is one of three has gone
from being worth less than one hundred billion

1053
01:13:01.479 --> 01:13:06.199
to two hundred and twenty seven billion
in three years. I mean it's a

1054
01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:13.560
it's a it O haughs to do
with stock market capitalization with Tesla Bernard Arnold,

1055
01:13:13.680 --> 01:13:15.840
jaff Bessos, Larry Ellison, Warren
Buffett. Wow, Bill Gates is

1056
01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:18.880
down to seven now, he's really
slipping. He's only worth one hundred and

1057
01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:27.000
fifteen billion. Ha. Poor.
Wait, which is the one that eats

1058
01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:30.800
at McDonald's every day? There's some
one of them eats at McDonald's like every

1059
01:13:30.880 --> 01:13:34.880
day. In that Warren Buffett.
I think that is Warren Buffett, like

1060
01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:41.359
he McDonald queen. No, it's
Derek Queen. When you're that old,

1061
01:13:41.560 --> 01:13:45.399
you can afford any healthcare you need. Like that's why Trump is almost eighty

1062
01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:49.399
and is still kicking it despite eating
KFC on every Air Force one flight he

1063
01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:55.000
took. And like that's why Joe
Biden might actually be a zombie and he's

1064
01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:59.680
still walking around every day. These
guys have insane healthcare. Trump got COVID

1065
01:13:59.720 --> 01:14:02.680
and was airlifted to a hospital and
walked out like two days later, Like,

1066
01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:05.880
yeah, they can eat all they
want and still be perfectly fine.

1067
01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:09.720
All right, let's preview a game. We kind of got off track there.

1068
01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:16.760
Number sixteen Kentucky versus number one Kansas
rankings will shift a little bit.

1069
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:21.159
Gotta think Kentucky slides up a spot
or two. Tuesday, November fourteenth,

1070
01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:26.239
The game is slated to start at
eight thirty PM. Remember last year where

1071
01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:30.039
Michigan State Kentucky played two overtimes before
that and the game didn't start till almost

1072
01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:34.520
ten could happen? Eight thirty is
the plan? Realistically, probably closer to

1073
01:14:34.640 --> 01:14:40.840
nine Kentucky. They are two and
zer with wins over New Mexico State and

1074
01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:44.960
Texas A and m Commerce so also
murders Row for them to begin the season.

1075
01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:48.000
This is a team that only played
seven guys in their game just a

1076
01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:51.279
couple of nights ago. They were
one of the thinnest teams in college basketball.

1077
01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:55.800
Texas transfer Trey Mitchell is probably their
best player, and at six'

1078
01:14:55.920 --> 01:15:00.239
nine he is their starting center.
He's the only non guard that got on

1079
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:01.800
the court in their last game,
which we'll have a lot to do with

1080
01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:04.880
the way I'm gonna predict this game. They have a sixte game guy,

1081
01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:10.239
but he plays a lot more of
that Kevin Durant style where he's not really

1082
01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:13.600
a true power forward, more of
a wing with his game. Yeah,

1083
01:15:13.720 --> 01:15:17.039
Hunter Dickinson's he's the tallest player in
this matchup by three or four inches,

1084
01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:21.800
but it's gonna feel like more wing. Antonio Reeves is the three point threat,

1085
01:15:21.840 --> 01:15:25.359
as he's in his fifth year and
shot thirty nine percent in each of

1086
01:15:25.399 --> 01:15:29.359
the last two years. Rob Dillingham
is the blue chip freshman. Sounds like

1087
01:15:29.439 --> 01:15:33.199
Elon Musk Kid's next name. Their
blue chip freshman point guard will remind you

1088
01:15:33.239 --> 01:15:38.640
of ty Ty Washington, which ty
Ti is Elon Musk's thirteenth child name guard

1089
01:15:38.760 --> 01:15:43.840
PJ. Wagner Joel Burks read Shepherd, Shepherd's fourteenth Justin Edwards, who are

1090
01:15:43.840 --> 01:15:46.079
all freshman would come out of the
rotation. Shepherd is a slam dunk white

1091
01:15:46.119 --> 01:15:49.000
guy at the game, candidate,
what do you want me to do here?

1092
01:15:49.079 --> 01:15:54.119
Nick? I can't read Arabic.
Nick took my paragraph and put it

1093
01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:59.800
in Arabic, but left Wildcats,
so I know that were all right.

1094
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:06.319
Now we're back, so a little
bit I can I can actually analyze this

1095
01:16:06.359 --> 01:16:12.319
team a little bit unlike the first
two. The Wildcats are super athletic,

1096
01:16:12.840 --> 01:16:15.680
all sorts of freshman talent. They
got like six top fifty recruits on this

1097
01:16:15.760 --> 01:16:20.439
team. Very fast, The ty
Ty Washington comp for Rob Dillingham is awesome.

1098
01:16:20.479 --> 01:16:26.279
Plays real fast, explosive athlete,
gets to the basket. The questions

1099
01:16:26.319 --> 01:16:30.520
with this team are shooting and consistency. They are the youngest roster in college

1100
01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:36.000
basketball. So despite all of that
talent, a matchup with this experienced Kansas

1101
01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:41.079
team this early in the season feels
like about as big of a test as

1102
01:16:41.159 --> 01:16:44.680
you can hit that team with.
I don't know what the line's gonna be

1103
01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:48.560
in this game, but man,
Kentucky so young, never been in this

1104
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:55.000
stage, and now you gotta slay
a Kansas team that starts what senior senior,

1105
01:16:55.319 --> 01:17:00.520
senior junior, I mean, geez
good. That's that's a big mountain

1106
01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:06.359
a climb. There's no other team
without Big twelve involvement that Kayu has played

1107
01:17:06.399 --> 01:17:12.239
more than Kentucky all time. Kansas
is eleven and twenty four against the Wildcats,

1108
01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:15.479
but they're ten and eight against them
since nineteen eighty five. They're eight

1109
01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:19.680
and five against Big Blue under Bill
self. They've split their first four champions

1110
01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:24.640
Classic meetings. Nick, how do
you think this is gonna go? The

1111
01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:28.039
two winning US programs in the history
college basketball? And Kansas ain't two.

1112
01:17:28.680 --> 01:17:33.479
Thank you for not switching that to
Cyrillic until I was done. Kansas is

1113
01:17:33.560 --> 01:17:39.319
not gonna be messing with languages.
They're going to speak the language of blowout.

1114
01:17:39.479 --> 01:17:41.039
Just kidding. I don't think they're
gonna bow them out, but I

1115
01:17:41.079 --> 01:17:44.800
think Kansas is going to have the
advantage. This is a Kentucky team.

1116
01:17:45.199 --> 01:17:48.279
We talk about matchups being huge in
college basketball. This is a Kentucky team

1117
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:53.439
that plays a lot of guards and
not a lot of sinners. And I

1118
01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:59.279
think Hunter Dickinson KG Adams are just
going to feast on this Kentucky Wildcat's front

1119
01:17:59.279 --> 01:18:03.479
court. I think this also young, Kansas has more experience and then Kentucky.

1120
01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:06.199
This team was kind of cobbled together
at the last moment this summer by

1121
01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:10.840
John Klipari. I don't think they're
that good yet, at least Ryan said

1122
01:18:10.840 --> 01:18:14.520
maybe not until March. I think
Kansas wins this game. Give me eighty

1123
01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:18.439
four to seventy one. Yeah,
could Kentucky be good later in the year.

1124
01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:21.439
I think they absolutely could be good. I don't think they're necessarily bad

1125
01:18:21.560 --> 01:18:27.720
now, but I do think this
is a horrible matchup for the Wildcats,

1126
01:18:27.760 --> 01:18:31.239
regardless of time of year. I
think they match up so so poorly with

1127
01:18:31.399 --> 01:18:35.600
Kansas. I think you're gonna see
that. I think Kansas wins like eighty

1128
01:18:35.640 --> 01:18:40.600
one sixty three. I don't think
this is close. I think Kansas wins

1129
01:18:40.600 --> 01:18:45.840
pretty big. I think Hunter Dickinson
and kJ absolutely go off unless Trey Mitchell

1130
01:18:45.880 --> 01:18:47.000
has like the game of his life, and I don't think that's gonna happen.

1131
01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:50.880
So I think Kansas wins by eighteen. So I'm intrigued about the Tray

1132
01:18:50.960 --> 01:18:55.439
Mitchell because we've said that if there's
one thing that Hunter Dickinson hasn't been great

1133
01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:58.479
at, it is he gonna be
a good defensively against a really good athlete.

1134
01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:00.960
Here's a good test for that.
We got the size advantage, but

1135
01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:04.760
Tray Matchell is more athletic and can
probably Mitchell's used to being able to step

1136
01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:08.920
out on the perimeter and play more
outside. That's one thing that Dickinson can

1137
01:19:08.960 --> 01:19:12.039
do as well. But I think
this game could go one to two different

1138
01:19:12.039 --> 01:19:15.840
ways. I think that Kansas could
force a lot of turnovers against the Kentucky

1139
01:19:15.880 --> 01:19:18.399
team that's gonna grow impatient with k
K. You a lot smarter at this

1140
01:19:18.479 --> 01:19:23.279
point in the season, and I
think you get some runouts and some transition

1141
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:26.880
opportunities there. But I think Kansas's
best play is gonna be to try to

1142
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:30.600
play slower. I think that if
the if KU plays a little slower,

1143
01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:33.760
I think they're gonna pick Kentucky apart
over the course of thirty second possessions.

1144
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:39.479
I don't trust the Wildcats to be
smart enough at this point to go long

1145
01:19:39.600 --> 01:19:44.039
stretches of game time without turning the
ball over against the Kansas team that just

1146
01:19:44.199 --> 01:19:46.239
knows what they're doing at this point. I agree with you, Land,

1147
01:19:46.279 --> 01:19:49.720
and I think Kansas blows out Kentucky. I think the final score is something

1148
01:19:49.760 --> 01:19:55.159
like eighty four to sixty five or
yeah, and that fifteen ish point range.

1149
01:19:55.239 --> 01:19:58.800
That may be a little ambitious predicting
them to blow away a top fifteen

1150
01:19:58.840 --> 01:20:02.279
team this early in the season,
but Kentucky starts. They got seven guys,

1151
01:20:02.319 --> 01:20:08.600
six of them are freshmen. That
freshmen led teams usually aren't great in

1152
01:20:08.640 --> 01:20:12.439
the Champions Classic event. Kentucky has
struggled in this event in recent years.

1153
01:20:12.680 --> 01:20:15.479
Partially because of that, and Kansas
just seems to be the girl with the

1154
01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:19.680
curl at this point in college basketball
season. So I will say Kansas rolls

1155
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:25.600
Kentucky in an enjoyable game for Kansas
fans as they get one game closer to

1156
01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:30.199
Kentucky. If you're a brown nosing
rule follower that thinks the NCAA is right,

1157
01:20:30.359 --> 01:20:32.640
or one game away polls away,
one game further with Kentucky if you're

1158
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:36.560
keeping track the right way. Other
games we're gonna pick five more here.

1159
01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:41.600
Rankings are all gonna shift dramatically by
the time you listen to the show number

1160
01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:44.399
twenty two. Villanova doing what they
do every year, which is played the

1161
01:20:44.439 --> 01:20:47.079
local teams they lost last year when
they did this this time, do they

1162
01:20:47.079 --> 01:20:56.039
get revenge? They go at Penn, they do wildcast, big big,

1163
01:20:56.159 --> 01:21:02.600
Yeah. I'm gonna give villain on
this one. I don't trust Villanova,

1164
01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:06.319
but I don't know anything about Pan. Like how good of a home court

1165
01:21:06.319 --> 01:21:13.520
advantage does Pen have? You think
it's good? Are they gonna be what's

1166
01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:20.600
that really famous arena in Philadelphia,
the Palestra or the Plestra, the pest

1167
01:21:20.760 --> 01:21:26.159
Yeah, it's at the Palestra.
Yeah, I'm gonna say, I don't

1168
01:21:26.159 --> 01:21:30.399
know's. I'm gonna say, Pan
upsets Villanova. I have no idea,

1169
01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:33.079
no idea about these themes, but
we'll throw a dart here. Xavier at

1170
01:21:33.159 --> 01:21:36.840
number three Perdue. These schools are
all we have always been pretty good rivals.

1171
01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:41.039
Purdue's little tune up before they go
to MAUI I think they win.

1172
01:21:43.439 --> 01:21:46.000
Ah, yeah, Perdue will win
pretty comfortable. Yeah, easily, Purdue.

1173
01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:50.079
I'm gonna say the Champions Classic game
for last number five Marquette at number

1174
01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:53.960
twenty five Illinois. Hello, sexy
matchup here, give me the fighting a

1175
01:21:53.960 --> 01:21:58.079
line I at home. Same.
I don't think Illinois is good, give

1176
01:21:58.079 --> 01:22:00.960
me more Quette. Well, if
they're not good, I have bad news

1177
01:22:00.960 --> 01:22:04.159
for you, sir. And the
other Champions Classic game between teams that already

1178
01:22:04.159 --> 01:22:09.840
have a loss. Number two Duke
and number four Michigan State, who wins

1179
01:22:09.920 --> 01:22:12.880
the first of the night, are
the first of the two games in the

1180
01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:16.439
Champions Classic. I think this game
actually is going to be pretty close.

1181
01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:23.520
But I do think Duke wins.
I think Duke wins as well. I

1182
01:22:23.520 --> 01:22:27.800
think Michigan State beats Duke. I
think Izzo's a better coach. I think

1183
01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:31.000
the Spartans have a little more experience, and I just tooted the horn of

1184
01:22:31.039 --> 01:22:34.800
the experience team wins here. Duke's
more talented. But I like this Michigan

1185
01:22:34.840 --> 01:22:40.199
State roster, and I think we're
feeling quite differently about them if that one

1186
01:22:40.840 --> 01:22:44.079
basket at the very end of the
James Madison game goes differently. I think

1187
01:22:44.079 --> 01:22:46.239
the Spartans are still really good and
I think that they win here. All

1188
01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:50.319
right, next show what later this
week because they don't play again until Mauie,

1189
01:22:50.439 --> 01:22:55.159
so we have some time. But
we'll get you a show before Maui.

1190
01:22:55.239 --> 01:22:57.680
And then boy, we're gonna have
to get real creative during that stretch

1191
01:22:57.960 --> 01:23:02.239
late night games coming right up.
That'll be fun, all right. Later

1192
01:23:02.319 --> 01:23:06.279
on in the week we come back, hopefully with still an undefeated Jayhawk team.

1193
01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:10.239
This is inside the Paint on a
Rock Chalk Blog. I'm Ryan Landreth.

1194
01:23:10.920 --> 01:23:15.199
I'm Donald Glover's portrayal of Lando Calarisian
in solo. I'm Nick Wiper.

1195
01:23:15.239 --> 01:23:18.199
I guess I can't believe no one
said I'm Elon Musk, which would be

1196
01:23:18.199 --> 01:23:24.640
really cool. Elon you could have
bought I would I would be Elon if

1197
01:23:24.720 --> 01:23:27.760
if I had. If it was
that simple. But I would have bought

1198
01:23:27.960 --> 01:23:33.920
five NFL teams instead of x's.
Yeah. Same, That's seems like a

1199
01:23:33.920 --> 01:23:39.239
better utilization of resources, all right, something far more manageable and way less

1200
01:23:39.279 --> 01:23:46.119
controversial somehow, Yeah than Hey,
he's he's dead now, rip Dan?

1201
01:23:46.439 --> 01:23:49.800
Or actually no, maybe the pe
can be pissed, rest and pissed Dan.

1202
01:23:50.079 --> 01:23:54.720
Oh did he pass away? No, he just sold the team.

1203
01:23:55.119 --> 01:23:58.000
Oh okay, he's dead to the
NFL. Yeah, no one cares about

1204
01:23:58.039 --> 01:24:01.840
Dan anymore. He can he can
go screw himself and on that lovely on

1205
01:24:01.920 --> 01:24:11.119
that lovely note. Hi John Calipari, Bye, how good night. Yeah,