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Speaker 2: to Morgan's pitt, we talked a little bit about just
Speaker 2: the stripeout. So again, if you were unaware and there's
Speaker 2: probably plenty of people who you know, just get caught
Speaker 2: up and you know, being busy with life. Then maybe
Speaker 2: they aren't aware of this, but tomorrow they're doing a stripeout.
Speaker 2: So if you were going to the game and your
Speaker 2: section is an even number, you wear red. If your
Speaker 2: section is an odd number, were you are supposed to
Speaker 2: wear black? I mean, they're probably not going to kick
Speaker 2: you out, but they should. I'm kidding, but there are
Speaker 2: people who get really bothered if and I get it,
Speaker 2: like it's I would imagine that the majority of the
Speaker 2: people and this would be good for like vibe checks
Speaker 2: if I was still doing that to ask people which
Speaker 2: really those those couldn't come at a worse time, right,
Speaker 2: Like when I did that Austin, that was the worst
Speaker 2: Louis of basketball has ever been. Yeah, I mean that
Speaker 2: was during a four win season. So anyways, if you
Speaker 2: were somebody that shows up to a white out and
Speaker 2: you're wearing black or red and people like ask you, like,
Speaker 2: come on, you had one job?
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 2: It's people who truly didn't know and they just you know,
Speaker 2: like they weren't they aren't plugged in to like they
Speaker 2: just don't pay attention. I guess to like the promotions
Speaker 2: going on. They don't listen to sports radio, they don't
Speaker 2: follow it online, Like maybe they're just so plugged in
Speaker 2: with life that they just, you know, like the games
Speaker 2: are an escape to them, and it's they show up
Speaker 2: and you know, you could be.
Speaker 3: Without three players. They didn't know about it, but I was.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's mostly that, but there may be people
Speaker 2: who just decide like, yeah, I'm not wearing that. But
Speaker 2: I feel like if you asked a fan, like, what
Speaker 2: are you doing? Why didn't you wear this color? Most
Speaker 2: of them would just make it up and say I
Speaker 2: didn't know, but I mean tomorrow. It's it's different than
Speaker 2: the white out red out, like there's a little bit
Speaker 2: more wor it's I don't know. I guess the only
Speaker 2: added work is just knowing which one you are, which
Speaker 2: I feel like is a pretty easy thing to do.
Speaker 2: And I actually will give whoever decided to do this
Speaker 2: a little bit credit because there's not a lot of
Speaker 2: white Louisville gear, like I have some, but I would
Speaker 2: say ninety percent of Louisville gear.
Speaker 3: That I have is red. I would say.
Speaker 2: Eight percent of it is black, and then I've got
Speaker 2: like two white things. I've got a white sweater. I
Speaker 2: have some white shorts, but those don't really count. I
Speaker 2: don't think I have any Louisville white T shirts or
Speaker 2: white white I don't. Yeah, I think I'm just mostly red. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not that I couldn't go find it, But like
Speaker 2: I feel like when we would do a white out,
Speaker 2: like it's you know, it's clearly a real visible thing, right,
Speaker 2: like white out. I think white out is done because
Speaker 2: it really stands out in the crowd and of course
Speaker 2: on television more than red or black wood. But you know,
Speaker 2: there's not a ton of white gear out there. So
Speaker 2: this actually, I think this has a chance to be
Speaker 2: super successful because I'd say the majority of the people
Speaker 2: going to the game will not have to go buy something,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, do you want any
Speaker 2: white for Louisville.
Speaker 3: I mean I feel like.
Speaker 5: I wore that National Championship hoodie and okay, yeah was white.
Speaker 5: But yeah, you're right, it's very very sparse, i'd say,
Speaker 5: with white gear. And the only thing I can think
Speaker 5: about is just like maybe well, because white's not any
Speaker 5: color that's going on. I feel like in the basketball season,
Speaker 5: you're talking about the winter color warmer colors, you know,
Speaker 5: like the red and the black. You might see some
Speaker 5: like around like the Football Times, and I guess that's
Speaker 5: where you can really take advantage of it. But it
Speaker 5: seems like the athletics department stays true with the more
Speaker 5: or less the red or black theme.
Speaker 2: Yeah, red or black is much easier, and it really isn't.
Speaker 2: I mean again, like this, the more I think about it,
Speaker 2: it's all you have to do is just look at
Speaker 2: your ticket and then you should know what to wear.
Speaker 2: I would say maybe there are some that just only
Speaker 2: have red, but you could find something black. And to
Speaker 2: be fair, they did give a lot of notice. I
Speaker 2: think over a week now they've been promoting this. So
Speaker 2: hopefully it's hopefully it's a good look and hopefully the
Speaker 2: team looks good. We'll get back into that matchup a
Speaker 2: little bit later on. As far as just this pit
Speaker 2: team that I don't want to give you the will
Speaker 2: they scare me.
Speaker 3: It's a trap game.
Speaker 2: I'm worried, but I just know that they have good
Speaker 2: players that can give anybody trouble if they play well.
Speaker 2: And the big issue for Pitt with Cable, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: in recent years has just been inconsistency. And with that,
Speaker 2: you know, they haven't been good when they needed to, right,
Speaker 2: they'll play well, look good, and then they've also lost
Speaker 2: a lot of close games they should have won this year.
Speaker 2: That's really been their biggest problem with this current team.
Speaker 2: But with their inconsistency, you know, maybe you get the
Speaker 2: good version of them to where you know, they went
Speaker 2: on the road and beat Ohio State this year. You know,
Speaker 2: I'd look at their numbers now and look, they're not good.
Speaker 2: I mean, they don't have it.
Speaker 3: Like there's nothing.
Speaker 2: About Pittsburgh as far as their resume in any specific
Speaker 2: win that like validates what I'm saying as far as
Speaker 2: they have good players and they can beat you, because
Speaker 2: they haven't done that this year. I mean they just haven't.
Speaker 2: But I just you know, I know when it comes
Speaker 2: to and look, when they played Louisville at pitt that
Speaker 2: was a good game. I mean, rain Smith really chucky,
Speaker 2: had a big bucket late and then rain Smith just
Speaker 2: kind of took over and had like eight of Louisville's
Speaker 2: last ten points. And that was awesome to be there
Speaker 2: just to kind of that was a really cool moment
Speaker 2: that I go back to when I think of this season,
Speaker 2: enough fun of a ride. It was one of just
Speaker 2: a great trip with my family, taking my son, my dad,
Speaker 2: and my nephew and going on the road and watching
Speaker 2: Louisville play that alone was awesome. Even if they would
Speaker 2: have lost, it would have been great memories for us
Speaker 2: to have. But they won, and it was just it
Speaker 2: was not only was it the first time this has
Speaker 2: happened in a long time. I really don't know if
Speaker 2: this has happened to me a whole lot ever as
Speaker 2: a Louisville fan, even when louis was really good. But
Speaker 2: you were at their place, you were the road team,
Speaker 2: and you it was close. It was neck and neck.
Speaker 2: They knew that if they beat you, it would be
Speaker 2: looked at it as a good win for them because
Speaker 2: Louisville hauld just beat Clemson.
Speaker 3: And you know, it's a good matchup.
Speaker 2: And sure enough, like Louisville just made winning plays late
Speaker 2: and we got to see a sad fan base just
Speaker 2: kind of like, damn, they got us. And it wasn't like,
Speaker 2: you know, we were we were enjoying their tears or
Speaker 2: anything like that, but you know, it was just nice
Speaker 2: to see a stadium leave like, damn, Louisville got us
Speaker 2: like they're good Man and Louisville honestly, I mean they
Speaker 2: missed a ton of free throws in that game, missed
Speaker 2: a bunch of layups early, but made tough winning plays
Speaker 2: and got it done. But but lo their sophomore guard,
Speaker 2: he's I mean, he's special, and I mean it like
Speaker 2: I know it's hard to say that with a team
Speaker 2: that's not in any way special, They're not very good,
Speaker 2: but like, he's a really talented guy. Leg It's been
Speaker 2: there a long time. He's he's had some big games
Speaker 2: in his career.
Speaker 4: Who's the guy?
Speaker 2: Who is? They still love the guy with two first names,
Speaker 2: Frederico Frederico. I don't know if he's still there or not,
Speaker 2: But anyways, they this pit team. They're currently projected to
Speaker 2: loose to Lotilever tomorrow by nine, which tells me the
Speaker 2: spread will probably be like I think it'll be.
Speaker 3: Louisville minus eight and a half. That's my guess.
Speaker 2: You have any guess is Austin as far as what
Speaker 2: the spread is gonna be, because it'll probably come up
Speaker 2: for the show start, for the show ends. I'm guessing
Speaker 2: Louisville minus eight and a half.
Speaker 4: I kind of love that number too. I'm gonna love
Speaker 4: anything over eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I And look I said at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the show, and I'll when I talk about Pitts sort
Speaker 2: of being a team that that, you know, I feel
Speaker 2: like if you don't come ready to play, they can
Speaker 2: get you. I'm not saying that because of what happened
Speaker 2: on Tuesday. I mean clearly that that is something that
Speaker 2: I'm I'm you know, I'm looking at tomorrow as an
Speaker 2: opportunity to see that they don't sort of have that
Speaker 2: same luggish look and make a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes
Speaker 2: that I believe was due to just being winded and
Speaker 2: just being gassed. I mean, visually watching Louisville play, even
Speaker 2: when they were making the necessary place to get out
Speaker 2: of there and survive with a win, you could just
Speaker 2: tell they were they were running on e And I'm
Speaker 2: hopeful that that is not a thing that has just
Speaker 2: developed because they're worn out because of what this season
Speaker 2: has been. Hopefully it's just they were sick and they
Speaker 2: are still they still had some lingering effects and hopefully
Speaker 2: that's now in the past. All Right.
Speaker 3: Kentucky tomorrow against Auburn. Huge game for college basketball.
Speaker 2: I mean, Rupp Arena, You've got a Kentucky team that
Speaker 2: you know right now is not in the top five,
Speaker 2: top ten, but certainly when healthy, they've beat some of
Speaker 2: those teams that are in the top five, top ten,
Speaker 2: and they're healthy, at least they were the other night.
Speaker 3: I know Kirk Crease has been out.
Speaker 2: With with an injury all year, so I guess technically
Speaker 2: it's not safe to say that they've they've been full
Speaker 2: they were fully healthy because he hasn't played in a
Speaker 2: long time. But I think, you know, everybody but him,
Speaker 2: that's sort of like what this I mean that that's
Speaker 2: this team.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's that's really what their outlook was
Speaker 3: for a long time.
Speaker 2: Like Butler and Robinson didn't really start dealing with injuries
Speaker 2: until a little bit later on in the season. So
Speaker 2: both those guys played on Tuesday at Oklaho IM sorry,
Speaker 2: Wednesday at Oklahoma Robinson.
Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't watch the entire game. I did
Speaker 3: see the very end. Obviously, it was a great at
Speaker 3: a great.
Speaker 2: Win for them as far as how they got it done,
Speaker 2: they survived, and Oklahoma, you know, looked like they were
Speaker 2: gonna pull out, and sure enough, I'll take away was unstoppable.
Speaker 2: So you've got let's see Robinson. I'm trying to pull
Speaker 2: up his numbers because I don't really know, and I
Speaker 2: know he played and hit some threes early, but I
Speaker 2: don't remember what his numbers were. But Lament Butler filed
Speaker 2: out did play twenty minutes here it looks like and
Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't super effective, but probably just shaking
Speaker 2: off some russ did make five free throws, and really
Speaker 2: his presence is defensively, I mean, that's really where he is.
Speaker 3: It was missed more than anything.
Speaker 2: And then with Robinson, he played seven I'm sorry, you
Speaker 2: only played twelve minutes. Okay, so I must have only
Speaker 2: saw the beginning of the game. I guess he on Yeah,
Speaker 2: is that right? Robinson only played twelve minutes. I saw
Speaker 2: him at the beginning of the game.
Speaker 3: I thought he may. I guess one of his shots
Speaker 3: that I saw was the two.
Speaker 2: But I did see him make a three and he
Speaker 2: had I think father is seven points seemingly the very
Speaker 2: beginning of the game. And I guess he didn't do
Speaker 2: a whole lot after that. Now, what I didn't see
Speaker 2: is did he get injured against And I feel like
Speaker 2: I should know this, did he get injured against Oklahoma
Speaker 2: again to where they pulled him out and like he
Speaker 2: couldn't go because Ryan Lemon reported earlier that Robinson did
Speaker 2: not go through whatever it is they do the day
Speaker 2: before game, whether that's a full practice, a walk through
Speaker 2: shoot around, whatever, So I guess that's not a great sign.
Speaker 3: And with Butler, you know he.
Speaker 2: Was able to go, he just filed out. But again, Auburn,
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a team that is in fact
Speaker 2: one of the best team. I mean, they are the
Speaker 2: best team I know. I know Duke has been really
Speaker 2: really impressive lately, and Duke is one of the two
Speaker 2: teams that has a victory over Auburn.
Speaker 3: But I still feel like.
Speaker 2: On a neutral corp, if neutral corp, if everybody's playing
Speaker 2: their best, I still like Auburn is, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: who I think is the best team in college basketball.
Speaker 2: But they're not on a neutral court tomorrow. They're gonna
Speaker 2: be at Repperena and you know that place is gonna
Speaker 2: be packed. It's a one o'clock tip and even if
Speaker 2: Kentucky is short handed, like this is the kind of
Speaker 2: game they could, they could have some magic.
Speaker 3: And uh and win. I mean, it won't be it
Speaker 3: won't be easy, even.
Speaker 2: If they're at full strength, because again Auburn is great,
Speaker 2: But like, this is the kind of game that no
Speaker 2: matter who you are, meaning Auburn, Duke Kansas and their problem, Like,
Speaker 2: no matter when Kentucky has a team that you know
Speaker 2: has proven to be good enough to beat anybody and
Speaker 2: has put themselves in a position where they're looking like.
Speaker 3: A three seed maybe at worse.
Speaker 2: Right now, that's when you go into Reperena and you know,
Speaker 2: no matter who you are, no matter how good you are, like,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a tough game for you to win.
Speaker 2: So I feel like I'm about to say something really stupid,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure I've already said many stupid things today.
Speaker 2: But like, even if they're not like even if Butler
Speaker 2: can't go and Robinson doesn't play, I mean, with rupp
Speaker 2: Arena on their side, if they can get Auburn a
Speaker 2: little frazzled, like maybe this is maybe this is a
Speaker 2: game they win even if they're not healthy. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I I t trust me.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be pulling for Auburn tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna be like on the edge
Speaker 2: of my seat like saying war Eagle whatever it is
Speaker 2: Auburn says. But like, I just have a weird feeling
Speaker 2: that Kentucky's gonna win this game tomorrow regardless of who plays.
Speaker 5: It seems like usually uh like that seems like Kentucky
Speaker 5: spot right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It really does.
Speaker 2: And look, I know that that Robinson and Butler are good,
Speaker 2: and I know that they've been talked about a lot
Speaker 2: this year because of the injuries and what life may
Speaker 2: look like for Kentucky, you know.
Speaker 3: Without those guys. So I feel like that's the.
Speaker 2: Biggest reason as to why they seem like if you're
Speaker 2: just listening listening to Kentucky fans talk about their team,
Speaker 2: you're listening to the noise about Kentucky and this this
Speaker 2: Mark Pope team. I feel like you hear more about
Speaker 2: those guys than anybody. And again, I guess it's because
Speaker 2: of one they're good, but also like the uncertainty about
Speaker 2: their health. But what I think is kind of like
Speaker 2: crazy is that those two guys aren't even close to
Speaker 2: being their best players. They're not like the two best. Like, again,
Speaker 2: I know you want a guy that's that's injured who
Speaker 2: can't help you and as good, Like clearly it's really
Speaker 2: crucial to have those guys back, and it can really
Speaker 2: make you better. Your ceiling is a lot higher with
Speaker 2: everybody healthy. But let's be real, this Kentucky team, their
Speaker 2: biggest nightmare scenario would be losing Otega away. He has
Speaker 2: been their best player all year, and I don't feel
Speaker 2: like anybody talks about that. He has been myster consistent
Speaker 2: all year, Like he has been phenomenal for them, and
Speaker 2: nobody's saying he's bad. Nobody's saying like he's a bomb,
Speaker 2: he's overrated, but like it's not a conversation. He's their
Speaker 2: best player and it's not close. He's also their best
Speaker 2: pro prospect.
Speaker 3: I think, I don't know how.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna pro this year, but like,
Speaker 2: in fact, they don't really have anybody I think on
Speaker 2: that team that's gonna be drafted.
Speaker 3: But like he's really really good.
Speaker 2: And against Bama that was the first time he did
Speaker 2: not have double figures all year, and he only had
Speaker 2: two points, and they found him out early, Like clearly
Speaker 2: they took him away and that was his off night.
Speaker 2: But I mean against Oklahoma twenty eight against Vandy, twenty
Speaker 2: Texas twenty, I mean, twenty four against Ole Miss, eighteen
Speaker 2: against Western cons I mean, like I'm just going down
Speaker 2: the list here, Like this guy has been consistent as
Speaker 2: can be, and that's really I think what separates guys
Speaker 2: like him, Like, he's not a domin dozen, there's not all.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a really good player. Anybody would be
Speaker 2: lucky to have a guy like him. A lot of
Speaker 2: good teams don't have a guy as good as him,
Speaker 2: I believe that. But what wakes him to me special
Speaker 2: is that he's consistent. I mean he until that Alabama game,
Speaker 2: he was one of I think five players in college
Speaker 2: basketball that had scored in double figures in at least
Speaker 2: every single game. So again, nobody's bashing him, But I
Speaker 2: just think there's so much conversation about Robinson and Jackson,
Speaker 2: who are good and again, their status as far as
Speaker 2: injuries is certainly something you got to monitor.
Speaker 3: You got it, and it's gonna be talked about.
Speaker 2: But Oways is a bigger piece that, like you know,
Speaker 2: and honestly, when he's playing well, like those guys aren't
Speaker 2: missed that much. Again, Robinson is because he can just
Speaker 2: ad times go off and have twenty and a half,
Speaker 2: but he can also have two and a half. And
Speaker 2: then Butler good player all around. Like what he did
Speaker 2: in louisville'll never do anybody else. I'm sure that was
Speaker 2: just his night. But he's a defensive presence that they
Speaker 2: really don't have anywhere else. But Oway is the guy
Speaker 2: for this team. And you know who else is another
Speaker 2: guy that I think is you know, I would say
Speaker 2: he's even.
Speaker 3: More important than.
Speaker 2: Robinson and Butler as well, and that's their big fellow,
Speaker 2: Amari Williams. I mean, they've had to really lean on
Speaker 2: him more so without Butler and Robinson, and he's been
Speaker 2: sensational this year. I mean he's had some nights where
Speaker 2: he doesn't get you double figures, but when he doesn't
Speaker 2: get you double figures, he's a guy who's can get
Speaker 2: you six assists. I mean he had ten assists a
Speaker 2: triple double against Ole Miss. Clearly he's effective on the backboard.
Speaker 2: So you know, there's been a lot of talk about
Speaker 2: Kentucky's injuries, and I get it, but.
Speaker 3: Similarly to Louisville, whenever.
Speaker 2: Cason Robinson not Cason Robinson, that's not his name Cason
Speaker 2: Pryor he got hurt, it was clearly an issue like
Speaker 2: that was somebody that I'll put it this way, the
Speaker 2: way Robinson is just a guy that gives you something
Speaker 2: for Kentucky defensively that none of their other guards can.
Speaker 2: Cason is that for Louisville, where he's just an athletic
Speaker 2: guy that is versatile, that can play above the rim,
Speaker 2: and like he's just.
Speaker 3: A weapon to have.
Speaker 2: But the day he got hurt, I was sad, and
Speaker 2: I clearly, like everybody else, started to think, Okay, the
Speaker 2: ceiling is not as high now without him. But it
Speaker 2: wasn't like we lost Chucky, right, I mean, Chucky's the
Speaker 2: most important piece, and you know Korn Johnson clearly he's
Speaker 2: missed and we really don't know what we're missing with him,
Speaker 2: right because he didn't.
Speaker 3: Play much at all. But if you think about it, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, rain Smith would have been a bigger guy to
Speaker 2: lose than him, because Rayan Smith, I mean any moment
Speaker 2: he can hit none threes in a game.
Speaker 3: So I'm and it sounds weird.
Speaker 2: It's weird doing the whole like, well, you know, we
Speaker 2: hope those you know, nobody want you want everybody to
Speaker 2: be at full strength. You don't want anybody to get hurt.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to like worst case scenario, as
Speaker 2: far as guys you're losing to injury, I remember thinking
Speaker 2: Louisville fans didn't. I mean again, like clearly, Cason Pryor
Speaker 2: is a guy you would have been better if you
Speaker 2: had him.
Speaker 3: Same thing with Koran.
Speaker 2: But as far as guys that dramatically change everything about
Speaker 2: who you are, I don't think Cayson was a guy
Speaker 2: that really made Louisville have to completely reinvent themselves. Same
Speaker 2: thing with Kentucky. I mean Kobe Brea wouldn't given more minutes,
Speaker 2: Yeah he can. He can have Knights where he's just
Speaker 2: you know, kind of out there, but also when given
Speaker 2: more opportunity because Robinson and Butler can't play, he's had
Speaker 2: nights where he's been a big factor for them in
Speaker 2: a big way, meaning like a positive way. So you know,
Speaker 2: I still think Kentucky with full at full strength, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be tough for them to beat Auburn. But like again,
Speaker 2: I don't I can't give you any reason. It's not
Speaker 2: like I'm down on Auburn. I think they're great, and
Speaker 2: I think Kentucky. You know, like like a lot of teams,
Speaker 2: they could beat anybody when they're playing well, but they
Speaker 2: could also mess around and you know, be vulnerable and
Speaker 2: lose to teams that aren't great. But I just have
Speaker 2: a feeling that tomorrow is like that game at Reparena
Speaker 2: that they they win, game Day is not going to
Speaker 2: be there, right, I don't know, No, I think they
Speaker 2: chose a different game and it's got and it's got
Speaker 2: the big Blue bozos all worked up. They feel like
Speaker 2: game Day is anti Kentucky.
Speaker 4: For some Texas. A and M tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I'll be honestly, that's a lame decision. They
Speaker 2: should have been an Auburn Kentucky. Absolutely, don't you agree, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's well text AY and M is ranked right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they're falling off, dude, Like I couldn't. I couldn't
Speaker 2: have predicted it better.
Speaker 3: Last week.
Speaker 2: A and M was the team I singled out. And
Speaker 2: again I rarely get to be and I told you so, guy,
Speaker 2: So let me be in. I told you so, guy.
Speaker 3: They are good.
Speaker 2: Like, there's not many teams in the ACC that I
Speaker 2: can literally with a straight face tell you is not good.
Speaker 2: I mean South Carolina's not good, LSU's not good. I
Speaker 2: don't think Texas is very good. Georgia not great, but
Speaker 2: they've got some decent wins. Oklahoma I don't think is
Speaker 2: good now, but they beat Louisville, So you know, what's
Speaker 2: that say? So the league is loaded, but there's certain
Speaker 2: teams that were benefiting from being in the loaded league
Speaker 2: that were good, but they hadn't actually gone out there
Speaker 2: and beat anybody worth talking about in their own league.
Speaker 2: And again here I am talking to both sides of
Speaker 2: my mouth, because beating a lot of teams in this league,
Speaker 2: I guess is worth talking about because they're good wins
Speaker 2: because the league is that loaded. But A and M
Speaker 2: was the team that was sitting like in they were
Speaker 2: top five at one point, I think they were top five.
Speaker 3: So they remember they were two seed in the early bracket.
Speaker 2: Look that we got and they you know, they've now
Speaker 2: lost three in a row. They lost in Mississippi State, who,
Speaker 2: by the way, is not a good team compared to
Speaker 2: the rest of the SEC. They'll get in the tournament,
Speaker 2: but they're not top half of the league. They lost
Speaker 2: to Tennessee, which there's no shame in that. And then
Speaker 2: they lost at home to Vandy, who you know needed
Speaker 2: that win to feel safely in the tournament. And you know,
Speaker 2: when they were winning a bunch of games in SEC play, really.
Speaker 3: Bumping up their net and all that.
Speaker 2: Again there's value there, but like they were beating Georgia, Arkansas,
Speaker 2: South Carolina, Oklahoma, Ole, miss LSU, Oklahoma a second time Texas,
Speaker 2: like they somehow managed to have a very very very
Speaker 2: manageable schedule in the SEC until now, and again they
Speaker 2: just lost to two teams they shouldn't have lost too,
Speaker 2: And that's what's crazy. Like Buzz Williams, there's a good
Speaker 2: chance they end up finishing. I would say that they
Speaker 2: finish ten and they got three games left. I think
Speaker 2: they finish ten and eight, which isn't terrible, but they
Speaker 2: have lost three in a row. I mentioned Mississippi State.
Speaker 3: And Vandy has two of those losses.
Speaker 2: And now their next two games they got to go
Speaker 2: to Gainesville and play Florida and then on Tuesday they
Speaker 2: host Auburn. So I mean they'll still get a good
Speaker 2: seed and look, they may go deep in the turn,
Speaker 2: but like I'm willing to acknowledge, Yeah, the top of
Speaker 2: the SEC, it's stupid good Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky.
Speaker 2: I think those are the teams that I would say
Speaker 2: legitimately are Final four caliber. Now again, you can make
Speaker 2: a Final four and not look like Final four caliber
Speaker 2: because you know, it's happened, there's been runs that take
Speaker 2: place that really nobody expects. But those are the to me,
Speaker 2: that's the elite of the SEC. And the second tier
Speaker 2: still really good, but I don't think they're in the top.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 2: I think there's a gap between that tier I just
Speaker 2: mentioned and then the likes of Missouri A and m
Speaker 2: Ole miss and then honestly after that, I think there's
Speaker 2: a big drop off.
Speaker 3: I think I think Mississippi State Vandy.
Speaker 2: Are kind of in, Arkansas are kind of you know,
Speaker 2: by themselves, and then really you've got South Carolina and LSU,
Speaker 2: who stink. And then there's another tier that is Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: Texas and Georgia, which are the bubble teams, and I
Speaker 2: guess Arkansas as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I I mean, let me see who's the lost.
Speaker 2: I'm Auburn lost the game they lost to Florida, and
Speaker 2: currently the projected score according to Kim Palm for tomorrow
Speaker 2: is eighty six eighty one a win for Auburn, which
Speaker 2: again I hope that happens, but wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 5: I can see it be in like a six point opening.
Speaker 5: Is the the lines out right now?
Speaker 2: I haven't seen it yet, but I would be willing
Speaker 2: to bet they'll be out in the five o'clock hour. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're going eight and a half Louisville, right, Yes, you
Speaker 2: want to say six and a half, five and a half,
Speaker 2: i' mnsa say six. We'll see how good we are
Speaker 2: a capin all right, quick break, we'll come back on
Speaker 2: the other side.
Speaker 3: Keep this party going along. It's Coffee and Company on
Speaker 3: a Friday.
Speaker 2: Feeling Good on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: In company with Nick Coffee on Sports Talk seven nine day.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a shorter segment here than usual, just
Speaker 2: because we are going to make some time for the
Speaker 2: one and only doctor Eric McElroy from pro Rea Physical Therapy.
Speaker 2: We will bring him in here in our next segment.
Speaker 2: But this is uh, this is something that came in
Speaker 2: on the text line earlier. Say, Nick, I saw you
Speaker 2: shot nut Chris Mack last night forgetting three hundred wins.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's any chance he tries to leave
Speaker 2: Charleston after just one year, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: But I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know he's his family's loving Charleston. And I've never
Speaker 2: been to Charleston, but I've heard it's like one of
Speaker 2: the most beautiful places ever and like it's got such
Speaker 2: a cool vibe to it that I mean, it's not
Speaker 2: huge as far as like the you know, the size
Speaker 2: of it, but I feel to me it seems like
Speaker 2: it would be really crowded because it sounds like there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people that have like relocated there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's booming. I've heard the Carolinas are acts absolutely
Speaker 5: a great place to be, and I've never been either
Speaker 5: to either of the Carolina's, honestlye.
Speaker 2: So so in I remember in South Carolina, I drove
Speaker 2: I drove to Hilton Head years ago, and I remember,
Speaker 2: you know, the drive was long, and I just remember thinking, like,
Speaker 2: this is a really beautiful part of the country that
Speaker 2: I've not really been to, and I haven't been back
Speaker 2: there since. But North Carolina. I've been to Charlotte a
Speaker 2: bunch because of the acc events, and I think I
Speaker 2: talked about this when I went for the for the
Speaker 2: for the basketball media days. The city of Charlotte is booming,
Speaker 2: like it's one of them. It's one of the most
Speaker 2: popular places for people to relocate to right now, and
Speaker 2: I never doubted that, but this past time when I went,
Speaker 2: was the first time I was there and actually got
Speaker 2: around to see the city, and I totally get it.
Speaker 2: It's clean, it's perfect size, it's not it's big enough
Speaker 2: to where you feel like you're in a big city,
Speaker 2: but it's also not overwhelming, really good with with with jobs.
Speaker 2: The economy is good, so like it's it's Yeah, the
Speaker 2: Carolinas are are phenomenal, but yeah, with Mac, you know
Speaker 2: his daughter, I think his daughters are going to be
Speaker 2: playing for Charleston's volleyball program. I know he likes it there.
Speaker 2: It seems like Christie's real content. So Braden's getting older
Speaker 2: to where he's he's in school, and you know, I
Speaker 2: think they love it there. But you know, I know
Speaker 2: Matt got off to a good start this year and
Speaker 2: sure enough, I mean I've been keeping up with him
Speaker 2: more than most just because you know, I want to
Speaker 2: see coach mac dowell andalked him a little bit last night.
Speaker 2: Told him congrats on the three hundred wins, and you know,
Speaker 2: he's I think he's content, But if an opportunity came,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked if he pursued it, because I
Speaker 2: do think, you know, Max personality, like he's an introvert
Speaker 2: and he's not he's not you know, put it this way.
Speaker 2: I think he's I mean again, I'm friends with him.
Speaker 2: I think the world of him. I think he's a
Speaker 2: good coach. But I get why people who didn't really
Speaker 2: you know, weren't around him a lot kind of felt
Speaker 2: like he had like a prickly vibe, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: And it's not because he's a jerk. It's just because
Speaker 2: like that's just, you know, he's an introvert, Like he's
Speaker 2: not mister Social. He's not Pat Kelsey as far as
Speaker 2: just you know, like talking and owning a room. But
Speaker 2: he's a really genuinely down to earth, relatable guy. I mean, Austin,
Speaker 2: he came out and did a show with us at
Speaker 2: the Bambi Bar a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was just one of the boys.
Speaker 2: Like it wasn't like you you know, having a beer
Speaker 2: with Chris Matt you can you can tell he's literally like,
Speaker 2: you know, he's very tall, and he's you know, he's
Speaker 2: somebody people who recognize, but you know, he kind of
Speaker 2: just blends in. Like he to me was a little
Speaker 2: too normal for this job in a way. And I
Speaker 2: say that as a compliment to him as a human being.
Speaker 2: But Zennie roosters too. Yeah. I mean, he's he's he's content,
Speaker 2: I would imagine. But I also get the sense when
Speaker 2: I was talking to him a little bit here and
Speaker 2: there during you know, sort of the process of him,
Speaker 2: you know, getting back in and wanting to be a
Speaker 2: coach again, and you know the year off for two
Speaker 2: years off essentially really made him, you know, realize that
Speaker 2: he does he does want to finish strong and not
Speaker 2: have the last part of his coaching career be what
Speaker 2: happened at Louisville. And he's clearly done that now because
Speaker 2: he's again he's he's having success at Charleston there. I
Speaker 2: think they're in second place in their league right now,
Speaker 2: but they're you know, overall twenty two and eight, twelve
Speaker 2: and five in their conference, and it would be no
Speaker 2: shock to anybody if they win the CIA Conference and
Speaker 2: get get a ticket to the dance.
Speaker 3: So what I don't know is, you know, and I
Speaker 3: don't think.
Speaker 2: I'm talking, I don't think I'm sharing something that like
Speaker 2: is like a super secret or anything. But the Vandy
Speaker 2: job was his by all accounts, and from what I understand,
Speaker 2: Vandy's AD didn't even realize it. But the school itself
Speaker 2: was also using an external search committee because they didn't
Speaker 2: trust the AD to make the right hire because the
Speaker 2: AD that made that you know that is there now
Speaker 2: currently also is the one who gave Jerry Stackhouse an
Speaker 2: insane extension that made no sense that cost to school
Speaker 2: a lot of money. So maybe this isn't exactly how
Speaker 2: it played out, but I'm under the impression that she
Speaker 2: didn't realize that she wasn't actually going to be making
Speaker 2: the full decision like they were kind of going by.
Speaker 2: They were also doing their due diligence without her involved
Speaker 2: and kind of going I guess compare searches, and they
Speaker 2: ended up going with who the committee went with, which
Speaker 2: was Byington, who was the coach at James Madison last year,
Speaker 2: coach Terrence Edwards. So to be out there like that,
Speaker 2: and when you're out when you're in that position and
Speaker 2: you are a guy that has a good resume. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: I'm not just trying to kiss his ass. Chris Mack,
Speaker 2: you know, was a really good coach when we hired him,
Speaker 2: and he was a good coach until the last two
Speaker 2: years when it all fell apart. So you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: you don't have to think he was good.
Speaker 3: Enough to be here. He chose to leave, that's fine.
Speaker 2: But like I think there's a lot of jobs that
Speaker 2: are going to open up that I think would be
Speaker 2: would would look at his resume and think like, this
Speaker 2: guy's this guy's good. We should get this guy, like
Speaker 2: he's proven to be really good now maybe keep people
Speaker 2: from doing that would potentially be that it's a new
Speaker 2: world now. But you know, I think at Charleston this year,
Speaker 2: he's built a team basically almost from scratch and he's
Speaker 2: had success. And you know, I think him getting back
Speaker 2: in at the time when it became all about nil
Speaker 2: on the portal, like, he doesn't get back into coaching
Speaker 2: if he's against that, because he knows that's part of it.
Speaker 2: So I know, also during the search, whenever Ohio State
Speaker 2: was looking for a new guy, a new coach, they
Speaker 2: ended up going they were turned down by Dusty May.
Speaker 2: They ended up going with the Diebler who was former
Speaker 2: player and assistant who's there now, and Mack had two
Speaker 2: interviews that went really well to where like he was.
Speaker 2: I don't think they were going to hire him, but
Speaker 2: you know, I think he ended up doing really well
Speaker 2: in those interview that you know, he's put it this way,
Speaker 2: he's not his own cheerleader, And I've told him this, like,
Speaker 2: you probably need somebody to kind of advocate for you
Speaker 2: more than you are, because like in this ever changing
Speaker 2: landscape of college sports, when you're not coaching, people just
Speaker 2: forget about you. So I think if he goes to
Speaker 2: the tournament, that'll get a little bit more of him
Speaker 2: on the radar. What I don't know is put it
Speaker 2: this way. I feel like if he did get an
Speaker 2: opportunity to go to like a Florida State or maybe
Speaker 2: a Wake Forest or something, I think he would go
Speaker 2: because I just think he's competitive, he's hungry, he wants
Speaker 2: to get back to making runs in the tournament. This
Speaker 2: is a guy that you know, he's got four trips
Speaker 2: to the second week in one Elite eight. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's he's a guy that really you knew him at Xavier,
Speaker 2: because Xavier was good and he was having success, but
Speaker 2: you really remembered him because what do you know, Xavier's
Speaker 2: in the second weekend Again, what do you know, Xavier
Speaker 2: just beat Arizona, who's a one seed, and now they're
Speaker 2: in the Elite eight. So I don't want to speak
Speaker 2: for him. I think there's a chance he's really content
Speaker 2: where he is, because I know he likes it there.
Speaker 2: But also he's a competitor, and I think if he
Speaker 2: did get a chance to get get back in at
Speaker 2: a higher level, he'd have a hard time saying no.
Speaker 3: So you know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: But you know, his name is not really out there
Speaker 2: for any of the jobs that are open, and you
Speaker 2: know that doesn't mean that he won't get a job.
Speaker 2: But like, look, the only jobs that we know that
Speaker 2: are open right now are Virginia, Florida State in Miami,
Speaker 2: and I don't think any of those schools, you know,
Speaker 2: I just don't see them going in that direction. And honestly,
Speaker 2: I don't think he would take a couple of those jobs.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see LOUIVI Men's clinic. Fellas hear me out.
Speaker 2: If you're somebody that you know you're getting up there
Speaker 2: in age, not fifties, sixties, but you know, maybe just
Speaker 2: realizing you're no longer part of the younger generation, right,
Speaker 2: you're in that you're a tweener. I feel like that's
Speaker 2: what I am. I'm not young, but I'm certainly not old.
Speaker 2: I'm thirty six, I'd say.
Speaker 4: I'm saying that, so you're not that old.
Speaker 2: I know I'm not that old, but I'm also not
Speaker 2: that young, right, Like I'm in between, Like, I don't not.
Speaker 5: Look thirty six. That's the crazy thing. You've looked forever.
Speaker 4: Young and this just.
Speaker 5: Like it's'll take it. Your jeans are just fantastic. I'm
Speaker 5: admiring it from afar. I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: I I don't think I'm being the guy that's like, man,
Speaker 2: I'm getting old, I'm getting gray hair. But again, I'm
Speaker 2: also not like if I went and hung out with
Speaker 2: like twenty three twenty four year old people straight out
Speaker 2: of college, like I'd be the old guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I went to Starbucks before.
Speaker 2: I've never In fact, you and I talked about that yesterday,
Speaker 2: like that that really did surprise you, didn't you?
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, I'm shot.
Speaker 5: I feel like everybody has at least step foot in
Speaker 5: a Starbucks once all the airport trips you've taken, and.
Speaker 2: I mean I've been, I've been like in places where
Speaker 2: they are, but I've never like been to one like
Speaker 2: went there, and I've never ordered ordered, right, yeah, right,
Speaker 2: it's just my not my thing. But yeah, anyways, fellas
Speaker 2: if you are, because again I know I'm not old.
Speaker 2: I feel at times like I'm still somebody that is
Speaker 2: a young man, even if that's maybe a little bit
Speaker 2: a little bit of a stretch. And I try to
Speaker 2: be active and not feel old, and like you know,
Speaker 2: I try to take care of myself as best I can.
Speaker 2: But in real years, really pre twenty twenty four, I
Speaker 2: started to just feel like that was more difficult to
Speaker 2: do and I wasn't getting any results, no benefit from it.
Speaker 2: And I finally said, you know what, maybe I'm the
Speaker 2: guy they're talking about in these commercials. And sure enough
Speaker 2: they were. The Lovell Men's Clinic educated me. Doctor Wood
Speaker 2: was able to explain a lot of people your age,
Speaker 2: even younger than you, they start losing certain amounts of
Speaker 2: their testosterone every year they get older, and that can
Speaker 2: have an impact on you. And sure enough, that's exactly
Speaker 2: what it was for me. And now you know, I
Speaker 2: feel a lot better. I mean I go back and
Speaker 2: look at pictures of myself, not that I was like
Speaker 2: obese or anything like that, but like just like my
Speaker 2: mid section, Like I had excess flab and it was
Speaker 2: due to low tee. You know, I had man boobs
Speaker 2: and it was due to low te And now you know,
Speaker 2: I've not really made much changes at all. I'm still
Speaker 2: active at the same rate. I still you know, have
Speaker 2: the same kind of diet I suppose, but I now
Speaker 2: have treated my testosterone deficiency to where now my levels
Speaker 2: are where they should be for somebody my age, and
Speaker 2: like it's it's not only made me feel better about
Speaker 2: my appearance, but also mentally, like if you really want,
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Speaker 2: look go look into it yourself. I mean, you can
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Speaker 2: anxiety and depression. I mean not, I mean that's not
Speaker 2: maybe super common, but it happens. So go see doctor Wood.
Speaker 2: If you're somebody who feels like you could benefit from that,
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Speaker 2: We'll come back on the other side and bring in
Speaker 2: doctor Eric McElroy Prora have physical therapy right here on
Speaker 2: Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Coffee and Company with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven nine day.
Speaker 2: That's right, let's bring him Manny is doctor Eric McElroy
Speaker 2: from Proria Physical Therapy who joins us here each and
Speaker 2: every week. Eric, how we doing on this beautiful Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Nick, How are you doing doing well?
Speaker 2: Doing doing well? This The spring weather is uh is amazing.
Speaker 2: I hope it's here to stay. But you know, nothing
Speaker 2: would shock me when it comes to a Hey, we've
Speaker 2: had it.
Speaker 6: We've had we've had a really good winner where I
Speaker 6: mean it's not been good. I mean the snow's been crazy,
Speaker 6: but it's been cold, but at least we've had sunshine.
Speaker 6: You know, we've had winners. I feel like we're like
Speaker 6: January and February just dreary and overcast all the time.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 2: Some of those days that were in like the single
Speaker 2: digits or the teens. If the sun wasn't shining man,
Speaker 2: that would have been even worse and it would have
Speaker 2: really impacted a thing, just morale, like the sun can
Speaker 2: do a lot for for just good energy and h
Speaker 2: and good vibes. But yeah, this day today, at least
Speaker 2: where I'm sitting, it is uh, it is absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2: But it seems as if a lot of folks in
Speaker 2: the Kentucky and area really everywhere have have been getting sick.
Speaker 2: And Louisville basketball has dealt with some some illness in
Speaker 2: recent weeks. And we don't know the specifics as far
Speaker 2: as if it was the flu of cold or what
Speaker 2: it was, but even last week leading up to their
Speaker 2: game on Saturday, they had some guys that had to
Speaker 2: sit out some practices. Coach Kelsey even had to get
Speaker 2: an IV before practice just because I guess they've had
Speaker 2: some some lingering illness. And I guess my question is
Speaker 2: when you when you're when you're coming off of something
Speaker 2: like that and you're you know, you don't have any
Speaker 2: more symptoms, you're not contagious, you feel better, but then
Speaker 2: you get out there and you try to play you know,
Speaker 2: Division one college basketball, I feel like you're, you know,
Speaker 2: you could have some fatigue that really lingers. In Louisville
Speaker 2: the other night, they just look winded in a way
Speaker 2: that we haven't seen before. Still played hard, but just
Speaker 2: looked gas And I'm just curious. You know, when you are,
Speaker 2: you know, coming off of a bug or whatever it
Speaker 2: may be, even though you feel better, there may be
Speaker 2: some lingering effects that could really show when you're out
Speaker 2: there playing you know, high level college hoops.
Speaker 6: Well, your immune system burns a lot more energy. You know,
Speaker 6: it's all about energy and calories, calories, our energy, and
Speaker 6: so your immune systems is burning hotter because it's trying
Speaker 6: to heal you. And we take that for granted because
Speaker 6: we don't feel the exertion of that necessarily like we
Speaker 6: do working out. But you know that takes a lot
Speaker 6: of us. Your body is trying to slow you down
Speaker 6: to help focus its efforts on the things that needs
Speaker 6: to do. It's just the systemic illness you're dealing with.
Speaker 6: So and it's not like a one off injury like
Speaker 6: your knee. I mean, this is impacting your whole body.
Speaker 6: We've all been through it, we all know what it
Speaker 6: feels like. And so yeah, it takes a few days
Speaker 6: a week, even sometimes especially when you magnify that into
Speaker 6: the amount of effort they have to put into play
Speaker 6: a college basketball game and the travel and everything else,
Speaker 6: and so yeah, absolutely, and so they're pumping them full
Speaker 6: of all kinds of fluids. They're trying to do anything
Speaker 6: to get their electrolytes up to help, you know, help
Speaker 6: fuel the system if you will.
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of.
Speaker 6: Times you haven't been depending on what virus they've had,
Speaker 6: they have not been able to keep their nutrition to
Speaker 6: where it needs to be, hearing where it is. So
Speaker 6: you know, there we've all dealt with that.
Speaker 4: You're dehydrated, you're you.
Speaker 6: Haven't been able to eat, uh, and so you know,
Speaker 6: and then you've got to go play a basketball game
Speaker 6: at a high level. So you know, it's it's it
Speaker 6: takes its tolls. You know, it's just like trying to
Speaker 6: go back to work. You know, it's a struggle for
Speaker 6: a few days. But so but hopefully it's it's run
Speaker 6: its course and you know, now they're not having to
Speaker 6: deal with it going into the tournament times.
Speaker 2: So when you get this late to the season, really
Speaker 2: just any any sport, you know, you've you've you've gone
Speaker 2: through it. You've been playing for months, nobody's probably at
Speaker 2: one hundred percent. But from the sports medicine side of things,
Speaker 2: is there are there some things that that maybe you
Speaker 2: implement and maybe you recommend to the players the training staff,
Speaker 2: maybe having them do something a little bit different than
Speaker 2: their normal routine just to maybe as best they can
Speaker 2: try to you know, prevent some some you know, maybe
Speaker 2: not just injuries, but just you know, you're clearly your
Speaker 2: body's it has some more miles on it now than
Speaker 2: it did in November.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're working your butt off, you know, you're you're
Speaker 6: really a peak effort at this point. You're trying to
Speaker 6: keep everybody a lot of recovery, you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of different you know, soft tissue work, what a modoubty
Speaker 6: whatever it is that we have to do to keep
Speaker 6: these guys healthy. You're making recommendations on you know, rest,
Speaker 6: different type of workload management, anything you can to keep them,
Speaker 6: you know, these nagging injuries, you're trying to eliminate or
Speaker 6: prevent them from kicking over into more of a problem
Speaker 6: than they already are. So it's a it's it's a team,
Speaker 6: uh And I know coach Kelsey talks about it all
Speaker 6: the time, but it's true, and you've got to be
Speaker 6: in constant communication with the coaching staff, the trainers, the
Speaker 6: streat coach uh, you know, the physicians, you know, nutrition, nutritionists,
Speaker 6: whatever it may be, I mean, sports sites. You know,
Speaker 6: it takes little a team effort of people for just
Speaker 6: maybe one athlete. You know, you're you're talking to these
Speaker 6: different people for one athlete about all right, let's get
Speaker 6: him in you know, he's losing his focus, or he's
Speaker 6: you know, you can tell he's more fatigued, or this
Speaker 6: injury is getting in his quote unquote getting in his head.
Speaker 6: That's not a real thing, but it's it's something that
Speaker 6: you know, these are things that you know, we're communicating
Speaker 6: with a lot of nutritionists. You know, is there something
Speaker 6: that we can start giving them that's more it's going
Speaker 6: to bring down their amount of inflammation they have. You know,
Speaker 6: what what do we need to do to make sure
Speaker 6: this athlete stays as healthy as possible?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: And so, uh, yeah, it's you're in peak performance mode
Speaker 6: on the UH support staff, if you will, right now
Speaker 6: to make sure these athletes are are you.
Speaker 4: Know, moving at whatever level they.
Speaker 1: Need to be moving as we go into tournament time.
Speaker 6: Because the thing with tournament time is it's yeah, the
Speaker 6: pressure is there obviously to win because if you if
Speaker 6: you don't, you're out. But the games are coming faster.
Speaker 6: You know, you don't have that three or four day break,
Speaker 6: so you know that what's coming to what's and if
Speaker 6: they continue to play, you know what's about to hit
Speaker 6: you and so and you got to make sure that
Speaker 6: you're on top of it.
Speaker 2: Getting that double buy in the ACC tournament, which they
Speaker 2: did clinch earlier this week, that's huge. I mean because
Speaker 2: you're in con conference play. I mean, these guys play.
Speaker 3: Back to back, back, back to back to back to
Speaker 3: back to back.
Speaker 2: If if they keep winning, and that's you know, that's
Speaker 2: even more of a of a grind than the NSAA tournament.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you do get a few days off, but
Speaker 2: it's not a whole lot of time to really rest.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're a team that has to win
Speaker 2: a lot of games to punch your ticket, obviously that's
Speaker 2: a great you know, you're probably really riding some momentum,
Speaker 2: some adrenaline, but man, that'll that'll take its toll on
Speaker 2: you for sure.
Speaker 3: If doctor K.
Speaker 2: Mclroy, appropriate physical therapy is our guest, he joins us
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Always a pleasure to
Speaker 2: chat with him, and I wanted to get your thoughts
Speaker 2: on Victor winbin Yama's recent injury. He is a superstar
Speaker 2: already in the NBA. He's out for the season and
Speaker 2: being diagnosed with DVT. It is a deep vein thrombosis
Speaker 2: that's in his right shoulder. Sounds like blood clot stuff.
Speaker 3: What what you know.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of folks myself included, that just saw
Speaker 2: the diagnosis at first and didn't even see that it
Speaker 2: was I guess more so like a blood claud But
Speaker 2: I mean, how dangerous is this? I've heard that this
Speaker 2: could be something maybe isn't crazy, but also it could
Speaker 2: be very serious.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's it's you know, it can be
Speaker 6: very dangerous if.
Speaker 4: It's not treated.
Speaker 6: The other thing is somebody that's young. You know, there's
Speaker 6: they're going to do a whole battery of things to say,
Speaker 6: why is he getting a DVT? You know, I mean,
Speaker 6: there's why right at nineteen, there's you know, so you
Speaker 6: don't want to speculate but as to why, but they're
Speaker 6: definitely doing their due diligence to say, all right, is
Speaker 6: there something that does he have, you know, an excessive
Speaker 6: amount of clotting factor, you know, what is it going on?
Speaker 6: It could because though this one may not be serious,
Speaker 6: they can become serious. And so you don't want to
Speaker 6: take it for granted, no matter or how old he is,
Speaker 6: no matter what type of athlete he is. And so
Speaker 6: you know, he's going to go through a battery of
Speaker 6: tests and there's a lot of treatments and different things
Speaker 6: they can do based on what they find to help
Speaker 6: make sure that this is he can manage this for
Speaker 6: the rest of his life and as well play basketball
Speaker 6: at the level he wants to play so or it
Speaker 6: needs to be able to play. So I think that
Speaker 6: that's a lot of why it's probably like we got
Speaker 6: to put a pause on this, because what happens is
Speaker 6: you don't want another one to form. You want to say, right, well,
Speaker 6: this one's clear. We've done all this stuff we've had
Speaker 6: to do to clear the you know, they'll put him
Speaker 6: on blood dinners and things like that to get to
Speaker 6: dissolve the clot there's different things to dissolve the clott
Speaker 6: and then to get it to where he's less likely
Speaker 6: to clot again. However, you don't want to take that
Speaker 6: for granted without doing your digiligist to make sure you're
Speaker 6: addressing what needs to be addressed.
Speaker 2: So one more injury I wanted to it's really not
Speaker 2: an injury specifically, it's a guy who really is a
Speaker 2: walking injury. Unfortunately, Joelle Embiid shut down for the remainder
Speaker 2: of the season due to his injured left knee. This
Speaker 2: of course, was announced within the last hour. I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy, I mean he's I mean, he's had it.
Speaker 2: He's had He's got an MVP trophy in his case now,
Speaker 2: and he's a phenomenal player when healthy. Uh, but man like,
Speaker 2: since he entered the league, he's been hurt and it's
Speaker 2: just there's never been any level of consistency with his health.
Speaker 2: And when you hear that, you know they're in a
Speaker 2: position now where they're so bad that sitting him makes
Speaker 2: most sense because they're just in a really bad way.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I don't know how.
Speaker 2: His career finishes, even if he does end up still
Speaker 2: getting healthy, having stretches, maybe he wins another MVP.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just kind of feel like he's going to be
Speaker 2: known as the guy and remembered as the guy who man,
Speaker 2: he was always hurt.
Speaker 6: He was always heard, he didn't reach his potential quote unquote.
Speaker 6: I just think it's when I look at players like
Speaker 6: this instead of like saying, A, you know, well, the
Speaker 6: guy's injury prone. I mean he's a he's a high
Speaker 6: level Like you said, he's an MVP, one of the
Speaker 6: best in maybe his era when he's playing healthy. But
Speaker 6: that's what separates Lebron. That's what makes somebody like that
Speaker 6: so much more imprisonable. I look at it that way,
Speaker 6: like the ability for somebody. I know they're a different
Speaker 6: style of player position, but it just it goes to
Speaker 6: show that to play for a long time at this level,
Speaker 6: you got to have some luck on your side, you
Speaker 6: got to have things fall into place, you got to
Speaker 6: have some genetics that maybe a little you know, to
Speaker 6: get to the type of player Lebron is, and to
Speaker 6: be able to do that, I look at that is
Speaker 6: more impressive because to me, this is not this is
Speaker 6: more of the norm. You get players like this, maybe
Speaker 6: not with his you know, the same reputation or his
Speaker 6: exposure as MB, but you know, their seat, their careers
Speaker 6: kind of phase out because they're just hurt and uh
Speaker 6: and I think especially the bigger the you know, the
Speaker 6: the game is different. These big guys like this that
Speaker 6: have to play like they do now it's i know
Speaker 6: what quote unquote not is physical, but they're running a
Speaker 6: lot more. There's a lot you know, you got to
Speaker 6: guard down the perimeter a lot more. You know, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of things they have to do that and
Speaker 6: used to have to do at that position that I
Speaker 6: think takes its toll on these guys that are seven
Speaker 6: footers and you know, three hundred and something pounds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think with with Lebron, I know you and
Speaker 2: I've talked about it before on the show. He's such
Speaker 2: a I mean, he's he's a legend. So therefore there's
Speaker 2: a lot of different ways to talk about him. But
Speaker 2: when you look at two guys that are maybe the
Speaker 2: best or one of the best that's ever done it
Speaker 2: in their sport, that played the game at a high
Speaker 2: level at a much older age than most, they're also
Speaker 2: guys that, yes, very blessed, very fortunate, just gifted from God.
Speaker 2: But Tom Brady and Lebron James both clearly made it
Speaker 2: a point to make sure they took care of themselves
Speaker 2: as best they could. Man. They invested those millions they
Speaker 2: made to make sure they were they were doing everything
Speaker 2: they could to try to maintain And I just think
Speaker 2: that's one of those things that, you know, it's not
Speaker 2: as interesting to talk about as the rings that Brady
Speaker 2: has or Lebron bouncing from team to team. Man, it
Speaker 2: really has stood.
Speaker 6: Out, absolutely, and you know that, and it and it's
Speaker 6: spilling over, I mean, more and more of these athletes,
Speaker 6: and we've been preaching recovery for a long time, and
Speaker 6: you know, and it's finally what I love it. It's
Speaker 6: trickling down, you know, it's not yeah, we see the
Speaker 6: Brady's and Lebron's doing it. I don't know if you
Speaker 6: remember Joey Porter. He was huge on that and he
Speaker 6: was playing a very still a monster on the high
Speaker 6: level right right, and he's a monster at a position
Speaker 6: that's super challenging, very physical. So I think that it's
Speaker 6: just now we're seeing that we're seeing this happening in
Speaker 6: high school level and definitely the college level obviously, so
Speaker 6: you know, hopefully it allows these these athletes to play
Speaker 6: a higher caliber for a longer period.
Speaker 2: Eric, you are the man who is always appreciate your time,
Speaker 2: enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 3: We'll talk soon.
Speaker 6: My friend absolutely, get out of there, Nick, go enjoy
Speaker 6: the sunshine.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try to take care. That's
Speaker 2: doctor Eric mclroy from pro Raa Physical Therapy. Always appreciate
Speaker 2: his time and always enjoy the conversation. We've got another
Speaker 2: hour to go, so stick around. We'll get you set
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