WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.799 Huh, I think that I'd sum up our sports weekend 2 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:10.439 as as like, so remember on the last show, it 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.919 may have been after we wrapped Landon whenever I said, 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:20.800 what's more likely Kansas loses or the Chiefs lose? And 5 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.960 at no point in that dialogue did any of us 6 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.120 mention the fact that both could happen. 7 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.920 Yeah, that's true, and uh, that is a bit bit naive, 8 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:35.439 a bit curb your enthusiasm of us, if you will, 9 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:38.320 to believe that that was incapable of happening. 10 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:45.119 But they brought this back at least I don't know 11 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:47.119 if you heard it. It was loud. I heard it 12 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:49.439 was hard to miss you and I talked about going 13 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:52.880 out there for that game. Glad we didn't, but I. 14 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.799 Talked about going out there. You sent one text in 15 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.240 the chat was like you interested in going Landing and 16 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.880 I was like, maybe how much of the prices SpongeBob. 17 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:04.200 Five minutes later when I searched the prices and saw 18 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:07.640 they were like one hundred and forty dollars and made 19 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.040 it quickly Nope, and we did not. But I am 20 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:12.840 very glad we did not waste like six hours of 21 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:14.319 our lives to watch that in person. 22 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:17.640 Well, the reason I thought tickets may be feasible is 23 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:20.719 because I looked up that case. They had five home 24 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:23.159 games left and you could buy one ticket to each 25 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:25.879 game for like one hundred and fifty total dollars. I 26 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.079 did not know that one hundred and ten, one hundred 27 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.359 and twenty of it was this one game which they 28 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:35.280 they did their job, They found the correct game to 29 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.959 hike the price up to because just a disaster of 30 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.280 a performance in Manhattan three years in a row. Did 31 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:44.599 you even have a beard the last time Kansas went 32 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:45.000 out there? 33 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.400 Yes, I still did, which is how long I've had it. 34 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:50.879 I've had it six years now, six years of a beard. 35 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.239 Yeah, you can say all you want about that Marcus 36 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.400 Garrett Lousey team, that team won would ease out there. 37 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:58.519 But they still sucked and I will still say what 38 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:00.959 I want about them. 39 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.879 Sad, sad losses to be had this weekend, and we 40 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.519 also the third loss that we took this weekend is 41 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:09.520 our co host Cam isn't here. He's in Michigan doing job, 42 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:11.800 interview work. He's doing important stuff while the two of 43 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.560 us kissing a girl probably rightly, yeah, which I did 44 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:17.879 tell him. That is you can have fun doing that. 45 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:20.759 But sir, have you had the level of fun we're 46 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:24.199 gonna have when we recap Kansas beating Colorado by seven 47 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:26.759 points at Allen Fieldhouse here in a couple days. 48 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:28.800 Yeah, I'd much rather do that than kiss a girl. 49 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:30.639 You have that on record, That's true. 50 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:33.520 The biggest win that I had, the biggest win that 51 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:35.639 I had this weekend was convincing my eighty one year 52 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:37.639 old grandma that we don't need to go to the 53 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:41.680 Kansas Colorado game in a snowstorm tomorrow night. It's like, Grandma, 54 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:43.280 this would be a really good one to see, Like, 55 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:45.879 if anybody else would like to go for the first time, 56 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:48.879 we don't need to go watch them beat Colorado by 57 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:52.319 eleven points on a snowy Tuesday night at Allen Field House. 58 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.919 And she was like, yeah, you're probably right. Okay, I'll 59 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.599 give these tickets to some people I work with. And 60 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:00.840 that was the best part of my sports weekend by 61 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.479 a lot. One that began with Kansas State making threes 62 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.280 and one that ended with Patrick Mahomes getting sacked a 63 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.400 thousand times. And here we are to talk about everything 64 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.159 that happened, mainly with the Jayhawks. This is inside the paint. 65 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.120 I'm Ryan Landreth, I'm Landing Fields. 66 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.599 Has there been a show without Cam? Yeah, we've had 67 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:20.919 a couple. I guess not very many of them, though 68 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:21.960 should be a little more. 69 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:24.560 He's gotten a very high attendance rate early. 70 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:27.560 We all as as you're right, I was gonna say, 71 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:30.560 that's that's kind of like whenever, you know, whenever the 72 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:32.759 Chiefs get off to a bad start in most of 73 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.080 their games. It's kind of like whenever another team takes 74 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:36.680 a three to nothing lead and they flex a little 75 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:38.360 bit like, yeah, that a lot of teams do that. 76 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.439 But we'll see, Cam, We'll see how you're still kicking 77 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:43.759 it in six years, whenever you've completely stopped caring, not saying. 78 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.280 I've noticed other people on similar trajectories on this show 79 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:49.680 that care less and less about the basketball as the 80 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:51.080 season go as their years go by. 81 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:53.840 Yeah, boy, Nick really fell off by the end. 82 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.479 And that's what you're talking about, right, All right, let's 83 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:59.039 talk about this stupid ass game, and then I'm gonna 84 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:07.719 just get it over with. It was his seven losses, 85 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.919 and it's it's the super Bowl weekend and it's already 86 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:17.759 seven Okay, fine, Kansas State eighty one number sixteen Kansas seventy. 87 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.839 Credit to God, I gotta find out who it was. 88 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:24.040 Someone on Twitter whenever it was halftime and things were 89 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:27.360 not going well, somebody said, let me see that I 90 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.360 just got back from the future. This is what at 91 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:34.560 Rock Chalk Blog says. The Jayhawks lose eighty two to seventy. 92 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:37.959 They're sixteen and seven. We're all gonna kill ourselves. And 93 00:04:38.079 --> 00:04:39.879 Bill self used to care, but now he lives in 94 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:42.560 a mansion, so he doesn't and that wound up being 95 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:44.800 really really closed. 96 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:47.199 If you will. 97 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:52.160 Another loss in Manhattan, they're they're just just tell me 98 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:54.000 what happened. I gotta get my water bottle. It's in 99 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:56.759 the kitchen. You tell me what happened, and like, I'll 100 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:58.199 pretend that it's news. 101 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:03.199 Yeah, yeah, I will. After a competitive back and forth 102 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.959 first ten minutes, Case State took a lead they would 103 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.879 never give up. Kansas got it down to six inside 104 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.720 the last ten seconds of the first half, only for 105 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.319 David and Gasan, who torched Kansas all day, so this 106 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:17.639 was not out of character to hit a step back 107 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:20.439 buzzer beating two to go into the break. The Jayhawks 108 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:22.439 would never trail by less than five the rest of 109 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.519 the way, and even that was only in the first 110 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:28.120 thirty seconds. The second half, their trails by as much 111 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:30.759 as fifteen in a game that was never really a 112 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:34.600 game for the majority of that second half as KSE 113 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:39.319 State mostly cruises to their third straight win. 114 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.759 In Bramlage case, State's the hottest team in the country 115 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.600 right now. Like they they very well, playing well, they 116 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.639 may play themselves back in new consideration. They have to 117 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:53.759 keep winning and I think their biggest test is Arizona 118 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.519 coming up on Tuesday night, because boy, that was a 119 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.560 big performance against Kansas. We'll see about a letdown, right 120 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:02.040 If they them out focused and take down Arizona home, 121 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:03.680 then I think you really do have to start talking 122 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:06.079 about them as at large team. But what the box 123 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.160 score shows is that Kansas went on the road as 124 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:10.240 a five point favorite and lost to a team with 125 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:13.040 a five hundred record, And now you're at seven and 126 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:15.720 five in conference play and things are just I mean, 127 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:21.040 the league race has been over since since Hunter Dickinson 128 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:23.839 failed to corral an inbounds pass that Zekemeo threw in 129 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:26.560 the first overtime against Houston. That's when that dream died. 130 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:29.480 They're still probably going to finish in the top four 131 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.319 because the schedule breaks their way mathematically, it's probably more 132 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:37.720 likely than not. But man, I see that game. Here's 133 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:40.680 my thoughts on this one. That's the sort of game 134 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.079 that when any other Kansas team loses like that, we go, okay, 135 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.600 they dropped the turd. They're allowed to do that. You 136 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:49.560 look down at their record. They're ten and two at 137 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:52.879 this point. That's where losing the Baylor in Houston games 138 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.639 and improbable fashion burned you. Because if you had won 139 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.519 those two games and then you're going into this one, 140 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:00.360 what would that be Instead of seven and four, you're 141 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.120 nine and two, and you'll lose the Case State and 142 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:06.199 you say, Okay, we played we shot the ball pretty well, 143 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:09.639 and they just played really great twenty games. You're gonna 144 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.920 have some stinkers when the other team just plays pretty well. 145 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.639 Case State is a very talented roster. But you can't 146 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:18.879 do that when you're seven and five because they dug 147 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.600 themselves such a hole in the record department by losing 148 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.839 improbably to Houston and West Virginia and Baylor. These are 149 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:27.959 the games you kind of have to win. They are 150 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.079 difficult road games in the conference against an environment that 151 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.160 is riled up to beat you. But if you want 152 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.480 to make your way onto that two or three seed 153 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:38.839 line and be the top ten team that everybody thought 154 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:41.319 they would be, you have to win more of these 155 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.439 coin flips than you did in the first half. And 156 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.000 they looked like the same team we've seen the last 157 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.360 two years, uncompetitive in the second half in a road loss. 158 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:55.079 Correct. Yeah, I definitely agree, and I think to your point, 159 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:58.399 in a lot of previous Kansas years, this is very 160 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:03.240 much a game, especially against Case State, where even if 161 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.920 they lose, the exact same game for the most part. Yeah, 162 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.240 I think you're exactly right, Ryan, that you would go, Hey, 163 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.560 they lose these games. Sometimes you take a weird loss, 164 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:13.800 sometimes it doesn't look good. Sometimes it looks really bad 165 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:17.240 and you lose. But when that's essentially the fifth time 166 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:21.480 that's happened in a given season, there's a lot more 167 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:23.839 questions and a lot more problems. You feel a lot 168 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:27.480 worse about it than you do otherwise. Yeah, obviously some 169 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:29.839 flukiness in there. The West Virginia game, you played a 170 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:32.480 really bad first half, but there's still a lot that 171 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:35.039 happened in the second half where Kansas arguably still very 172 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:37.960 much could have won that game. Same with the Houston game. Obviously, Baylor, 173 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:41.159 you laid by twenty. Iowa state you're in that game 174 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.360 for the majority of it until the end. A lot 175 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.039 has to go wrong to lose these games. But I 176 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:47.919 do think that is a problem with this Kansas team 177 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.240 is that, frankly, they are prone to a lot of 178 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.080 bad things happening in a game, and they are prone 179 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:56.120 to execution problems on both ends at times that put 180 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.320 you in situations like this where you are going to 181 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:01.720 be a little more prone to lose games in multiple 182 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.840 different fashions with the way Kansas plays, And again I 183 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:06.720 am very much of the opinion they're also a very 184 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:09.320 high ceiling and the last two games have really shown that. 185 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.120 I always state they looked great. This game, they looked 186 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:13.559 really not great, And I think that's just who this 187 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:14.120 team is. 188 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.600 And I want to make a comparison that I alluded 189 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:19.240 to in the notes here. I was thinking about this 190 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.639 after the loss. I think this team has a very 191 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.639 similar trajectory with the twenty twenty twenty twenty one team, 192 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:30.279 which is by some measurements, the worst Kansas team of 193 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.480 any of bill selves twenty three years here. But I 194 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:36.519 think that you look at that team. Let me get there. 195 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.720 Let me get their page up here so I can 196 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.279 make sure I get the stats correctly. That was a 197 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:44.320 team that began in the top six in the preseason pulls. 198 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:46.840 They had a high ceiling. They were projected to at 199 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:49.879 least be right there with the eventual national champion Baylor 200 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:52.440 team to win the league. They started off well enough. 201 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.840 That team started ten to two, just like this year's 202 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.559 team started what nine and two entering conference play. January 203 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:00.879 was really rough for that twenty two one team. They 204 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.320 went from not They went from ten to two to 205 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:05.879 twelve and seven. So there's a stretch in there wherever 206 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.960 they went two and five in January and everybody said, Okay, 207 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:11.879 this is the worst Kansas team. They fell out of 208 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.039 the top twenty five. I said in this very chair 209 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.120 that that Kansas team would have a very good February. 210 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.559 I predicted on the beginning of February that they would 211 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:23.720 go seven and two in the month of February against 212 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.960 a much softer schedule. They got two games against Iowa 213 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.440 State in February that didn't win a league game that year. 214 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.000 They got two games against k State, who was awful 215 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:34.440 that year. We saw the writing on the wall for 216 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:36.639 them to rack up some wins pull their seat up 217 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.519 to a three. And even though the problems on the 218 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:42.360 team never got fixed, which you saw in the round 219 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.840 of thirty two blowout loss to USC, they were able 220 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.159 to get some wins and pad their numbers a little bit. 221 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.440 I suspect you're going to see this team on a 222 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:53.519 very similar trajectory. Kansas is right now sixteen and seven. 223 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:55.720 They've gone from nine to two to sixteen and seven, 224 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.120 so they are just seven and five in their last 225 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:02.679 twelve games. Now, just like that year, the schedule opens up. Colorado, 226 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:06.039 Utah BYU, Oklahoma State and Colorado are the next five games. 227 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:07.559 None of them are ranked, none of them have above 228 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.960 five hundred league records. Kansas should win at minimum four, 229 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.519 if not all, five of those games, and then two 230 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.200 of their final three are all three of their last 231 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:18.919 week and a half games are very tough. Texas second home, 232 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.240 Houston on the road, and Arizona at home, but you 233 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:22.919 still have to give them the edge, and at least 234 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:25.080 two of those games because they're playing at home. I 235 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.759 think that Kansas will lose one more game the rest 236 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:30.120 of the season and finish eight to two in their 237 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.399 final ten Big Twelve games. However, even if that is 238 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.279 the case, if Kansas is able to finish, what would 239 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.759 that be There are eight league games left. I'll stan 240 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:42.039 they go seven to one in those games. That gets 241 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.519 them to twenty three and eight. Are you gonna feel 242 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.200 that much better? I think the team's issues are gonna 243 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.200 be the same. We just saw them collect some wins 244 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:52.639 against the bottom level teams in the Big Twelve, and 245 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.120 much like the twenty one team did, they got a 246 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.279 nice signature win against Baylor on their home floor on 247 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.559 Senior Day. I think this team gets in another one 248 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:04.039 like that against Arizona and or Texas Tech. That's kind 249 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:06.360 of the similar trajectory I see. I think this team's 250 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:08.399 record is about to get a lot sexier. I think 251 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.600 they're gonna win games. I think they're gonna score more points, 252 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.000 and I think their defense is gonna rise because they're 253 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.519 gonna take out some steam on Colorado and Oklahoma state 254 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.000 level teams. But if that happens, is there much this 255 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.159 team can do save for winning at Houston if they 256 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:25.159 get to fourteen and six? Is there anything that this 257 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.919 team can do that will make you think going into 258 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.120 postseason play that they have figured out their problems. I 259 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.320 don't think there is, which is why I think this 260 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:37.159 is the very similar trajectory to that twenty twenty one team. 261 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:40.600 Yeah, that's a that's a good case. You hadn't told 262 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:42.840 me what that the comparison was. That makes a lot 263 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:46.039 of sense. I like that comp Yeah, I think that's 264 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:48.960 I think seven to one is very possible. Maybe I 265 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:52.600 would go six and two. I'm slightly more of a pessimist. 266 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:56.039 I think the thing that you named is the one 267 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:59.440 thing that could change my mind and make me think 268 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:01.720 they're figuring something out, and that's beat Houston on the road. 269 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.679 Even that, of course, is dependent on contexts. That's saying 270 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.840 that they've only lost at most one game of the 271 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.399 rest of them going into that Houston game. Even that, though, 272 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:16.840 is a dependent on that. And b again, I mean 273 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.480 Kansas has a high enough ceiling to win games like that. 274 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.399 That's a very very difficult game to win, and Houston 275 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:25.759 is very, very good. But I reasonably speaking, I think 276 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:28.200 you're right. I think, you know, obviously they could beat 277 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.799 every team one hundred and twenty to forty, and you know, 278 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:34.799 then I would think they're really good. But reasonably I 279 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:37.240 think you're right. I don't know if there really is 280 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.200 anything in these last few games, say for beating Houston 281 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:44.039 that really makes will change my mind, that will make 282 00:13:44.159 --> 00:13:48.080 me consider this team differently than what they are right now, 283 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.320 which again is a very high ceiling, low floor team 284 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.360 that has issues on both ends of the floor, that 285 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.879 when they're playing well, can beat anyone in the country, 286 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.080 and when they're playing poorly, can lose to anyone in 287 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:00.799 this conference. 288 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.960 And I think that this game, I don't know how 289 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:07.159 much it was going to set them back, but you know, now, 290 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.720 all of a sudden, they've lost three straight road games 291 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.720 by double digits. Whenever we thought maybe that had gotten better. 292 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.279 They had won the road games at Cincinnati, who didn't 293 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.200 wind up being We thought they were better at the 294 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:20.879 time than they wound up being. They did get a 295 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.759 nice road win at TCU, but TCU isn't very good, 296 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:25.960 and they wait somebody else on the road who else? 297 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:29.480 They beat uc by a thousand points, and you see, 298 00:14:29.799 --> 00:14:32.879 very good, right, Yeah, So, but we kind of were optimistic. 299 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:35.200 Maybe that was and I do still think this team 300 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.519 is a lot better than last year. Certainly, if anything else, 301 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.840 based on the ceiling, I think that this team has 302 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.399 enough quality wins to be had on their schedule. We 303 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:44.320 gotta think they're gonna beat at least one of if 304 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:47.000 not both Texas Tech and Arizona at home. They're gonna 305 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.360 collect some more big twelve wins, which is still I mean, 306 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.360 these are still top one hundred keen Pom teams. These 307 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.639 are still borderline quad one if at worst quad two 308 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:57.039 wins on the road if they get them, so, they're 309 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:59.240 going to stack it. And then they're probably gonna get 310 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.600 a couple in Kansas City unless everybody gets hurt unlike 311 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:03.960 last year, just because they'll have such a good home 312 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.120 court advantage there, they will get enough wins where I 313 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.279 don't think, barring a collapse, their seed is falling below 314 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.120 a four. However, I don't We've seen that. Last year 315 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.840 they were a four and they got lambasted by Gonzaga 316 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.440 in the round of thirty two game them getting too of. 317 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:25.559 Course, that is not the first time that has happened, 318 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:27.000 even if they got to a three. They got to 319 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:30.320 a three with that aforementioned twenty one team right and 320 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:34.720 also got absolutely annihilated by a USC squad. And before 321 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:36.759 that in eighteen nineteen they were four seed and got 322 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:40.039 absolutely annihilated by a very talented Auburn team as a five. 323 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:42.559 So there's really no guarantee. I mean, the times that 324 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:45.200 this has happened, they've gotten their doors blown off by 325 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.000 whoever they've played in the round of thirty two. 326 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:50.840 Right, yeah, the round of thirty two. Our confidence in 327 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.519 this team's ability to surge above the round of thirty 328 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:59.559 two the checkpoint that they've only cleared once since twenty eighteen, 329 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:01.200 and I know of those years didn't have a tournament, 330 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.000 but still only one of the last four. In one 331 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.600 of last five NCAA tournaments they cleared the round of 332 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.080 thirty two. Point. I don't think there's just about anything 333 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.960 that this team can do over the last what eight 334 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:16.960 regular season games and then some big twelve tournament games, 335 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:21.279 barring going like undefeated or like twelve and one, I 336 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:23.480 don't think there's much of anything that they can do 337 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:26.519 that's gonna make us think, oh, yeah, they have it 338 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.120 figured out. The woes are corrected, this team is going 339 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:31.679 to be the one that gets to the Elite eight. 340 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:34.159 Still think they could. They have a very high ceiling, 341 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:36.039 They have a win overdue. It might be the best 342 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:38.720 team in the country. They obviously got the win over 343 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:42.399 Iowa State, who's very good, and they crushed Iowa. 344 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:44.000 States, so they should have beat Houston. 345 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:48.960 Yes they they for all intensive purposes, had Houston beat 346 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.480 multiple times and blew it multiple times. So we'll talk 347 00:16:53.519 --> 00:16:55.879 more about this game. But I didn't watch this game 348 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.200 and think, Okay, now I'm out. I watch that game 349 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.320 and think, yeah, these are the sort of game that 350 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:04.160 even the best Kansas teams lose two, three, four times 351 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.599 a year just because the Big twelve is tough. Everybody 352 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.319 wants to beat Kansas. It's a loud environment and they 353 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.880 the other team made a lot of shots like that. 354 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.920 That's the sort of game that everybody loses. Duke just 355 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:16.440 lost the game like this. The Clemson Auburn just lost 356 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:18.319 the game like this to Florida. I'll be it at home, 357 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:19.599 like everybody has these. 358 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.200 Okay, but Florida is the freaking sixth ranked team in 359 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:22.759 the country. 360 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.160 Fair enough. Maybe maybe Duke and Clemson is the better analogy. 361 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:28.240 It's it's a team that it was a it was 362 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:32.440 a decent Power five team. Probably, Yeah, is an okay 363 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:34.960 Power five team that beat them by a handful of 364 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:37.200 points because they had a really good night shooting the ball, 365 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:40.279 like every team goes through this every year, but it's 366 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:42.759 it's more of the West Virginia's and the Baylors and 367 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:45.680 the Houston games that I think have kind of spelled 368 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.839 this team's trajectory out more than the k State and 369 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:50.640 the Iowa State loss. At least that's the way I 370 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:51.000 see it. 371 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:54.240 Yeah, I don't think I didn't watch this game and 372 00:17:54.319 --> 00:17:56.880 think they're cooked, or think their season is over or 373 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.559 anything like that, but it did can affirmed to me 374 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.960 what I already what I have been thinking of Kansas, 375 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.039 which I've articulated many times. I don't need to do 376 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:10.160 that again here, but it confirmed to me both the 377 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.160 pros and cons of the team, and the last two 378 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.039 games have really done that. Well. 379 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.880 Well blast the sandstorm because they definitely deserve it. However, 380 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:22.039 it is worth noting that Kansas has now lost three 381 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:25.720 straight times at Kansas State, which had not happened in 382 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:28.200 over forty years. You have to go back to the 383 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.640 early nineteen eighties to find the last time that at 384 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.240 Kansas State beat Kansas three times in a row at home, 385 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.079 and they are five and seven Kansas is in the 386 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:41.000 last twelve games there. Overall, Kansas won. I believe twenty 387 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.000 three of the first twenty four games at Bramwich Coliseum, 388 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.519 and now since twenty and eleven, beginning with the Jacob 389 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:51.079 Polland game, they are five for twelve at k State. 390 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.240 And I do think look, people look at that stat 391 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:58.240 and they think, Okay, that's that's Kansas getting worse. No, 392 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:00.160 it's not. Kansas has been as good as any in 393 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.000 college basketball in that twelve year stretch. This is Kansas 394 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:08.680 State going from absolutely abysmal Kansas football level, bad in 395 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.319 the in the in the horrible years that we saw 396 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.200 with Kansas football. Case State was that bad in basketball, 397 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:16.279 and now they built the fan base up and I 398 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.119 Ella's helped them. They found more competent coaches. They were 399 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.119 always due to get more than once every quarter century, 400 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:24.519 but they're definitely getting They're getting more than half at 401 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:26.880 this point. It's kind of balancing itself back out. 402 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:31.079 Yeah, definitely, So should be hop into the players. 403 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:34.119 Here, Let's do it. Let's talk all about this all right. 404 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:36.000 Well, let's start off with Hunter Dickinson. He had a 405 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:39.160 good game. Twenty one points, nine rebounds, four sists, eight 406 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:42.400 of sixteen shooting in thirty one minutes. Really nice statistical 407 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:45.319 game again for Hunter, but I think Case State did 408 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.000 a really nice job of exploiting his specific weaknesses on defense. 409 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.079 On the last show we were talking about, I was 410 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:54.960 talking about the Hunter Dickinson plays really good defense at times. 411 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.559 Please hear that. I do think he is very capable 412 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:00.480 of being a good defender. But I think Case did 413 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.039 exactly what he is bad at, and that is defending 414 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:06.200 in space and having to make decisions between the ball 415 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:10.920 and the rim, having to close space and watch backside play. 416 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:13.559 He's not good at that. And Case State put him 417 00:20:13.559 --> 00:20:17.519 in a lot of scenarios where someone they got a mismatch, 418 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:20.079 they got a ball screen, they put Hunter Dickinson between 419 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:21.799 the ball and the rim with a player coming at 420 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:24.440 him and a player behind him, and they torched him 421 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.240 over and over again in that not one hunters fall. Obviously, 422 00:20:28.240 --> 00:20:30.200 it's still team defense, but they did get a lot 423 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:31.960 of those matchups and they got a lot of layups 424 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:33.559 from it. But he was still very good on the 425 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.759 offensive end, and he did not have a bad game. 426 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.720 I think he just got a little bit exploited. 427 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.680 Hunter Dickinson basically had the same game that he had 428 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:44.440 against Missouri when he had nineteen fourteen, four and four, 429 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:47.720 and Kansas got largely handled on the road. Certainly, you're 430 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:49.480 not going to get back after that game and say 431 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:52.480 they lost because Hunter Dickinson sucks. At least that shouldn't 432 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.000 be it, because no, Hunter Dickinson was fine. He as 433 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:56.720 you said, had twenty one to nine and he made 434 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:59.519 a three. Is first in conference play. Like statistically, he 435 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:01.319 was fine. This is a game that goes worse if 436 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.680 he doesn't play. However, I think that it really does 437 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.880 point to the fact that this team, I don't think 438 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:11.519 is set up around Hunter Dickinson's strengths. And it really 439 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:14.960 surprises me the more we watch this that Bill's self 440 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:17.960 didn't think that more in the offseason. I think what 441 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:20.640 Bill self thought after watching last year is we got 442 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:24.279 three good players that are all coming back. They're super seniors, Harris, 443 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:27.680 Adams and Dickinson. These are all three good players. And 444 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:30.079 that's true. They are all three good players. My two 445 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:33.319 in my three sucked once Kevin mccullor got hurt. I'll 446 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:36.359 find a competent two. I'll find a competent three. Add 447 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:38.720 some bench depth, and we'll be doing just fine because 448 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.480 I have five good basketball players on the court. At once, 449 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:44.599 and Hunter Dickinson has shown that despite being a very 450 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.440 good offensive player, that he is much more. He needs 451 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.240 to be catered to a little bit than most elite 452 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:54.440 All American players in the sense that like a Jani 453 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:57.440 Broom or an RJ. Davis, you know, it'll matter who 454 00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.319 you put around. Those guys, they're gonna go out and 455 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:01.519 they can carry a team any night of the week. 456 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:03.920 Hunter Dickinson needs a stretch for next to him to 457 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:05.839 clear some space for him to go to work. Hunter 458 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:08.079 Dickinson needs some shooters to pass the ball to to 459 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:10.680 take advantage of that. He's a very good passer. He 460 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.839 really hasn't had that, and Kansas isn't winning games like 461 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:16.000 they should be. I don't look at this era and 462 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:18.960 think Hunter Dickinson is the reason Kansas isn't losing games. 463 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:21.400 I do think that they have. I think they failed 464 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:24.839 him a little bit by not putting the best positions around, 465 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:27.640 but putting him in the best position that he could 466 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:30.960 maximumly exploit. However, this is a sort of game that 467 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:33.519 you look to your senior All America walking bucket to 468 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:35.200 kind of carry you back a little bit. And it 469 00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.039 was another example of how we really haven't seen that 470 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:38.960 got a lot of stats whenever the game was more 471 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:41.319 or less decided. But yeah, it's hard for me to 472 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:43.519 sit here and say they lost this game because of 473 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:46.400 Hunter Dickinson. But I for a guy that scores this much, 474 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:48.880 we have a lot fewer examples than I thought we 475 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:50.880 would say of games where we could point and say 476 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:52.960 they won that game because of Hunter Dickinson. 477 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:58.759 I think I think that's well said. I think that's 478 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.920 kind of been the point I've trying to articulate. Trying 479 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:06.039 to English is a very difficult language, even if you've 480 00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:09.200 spoken at your entire life. Apparently That's what I've been 481 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:13.119 trying to say about Hunter Dickinson for this season is 482 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:16.319 that he kind of what I said earlier in the year, 483 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:19.279 that he's the floor setter, not the ceiling razor so 484 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:22.240 much of this team. Not that he's incapable of winning 485 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:25.480 games for the team. He has done that, or he 486 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:29.000 has been the player to carry them to a win, 487 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:34.000 but he is very much a guy that is at 488 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:38.440 least in concept in actuality in the way that this 489 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:41.400 has gone down. Look at how these games have played 490 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.279 themselves out, how they have happened. Is that Hunter Dickinson 491 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.559 when he's off the floor, especially last year, not as 492 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.480 much this year. But if Hunter Dickinson's having bad games, 493 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:56.240 the floor can drop out for Kansas, or if Hunter Dickinson, 494 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:01.240 you know, towards ACL tomorrow, this season would be heading 495 00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:04.480 down a probably a bad path, though Flory might offer 496 00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:07.680 a little more of a respite than what they had 497 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:11.279 last season. But he sets a really, really nice floor 498 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:13.880 because he's going to go out and put up league numbers. 499 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:15.720 But I think something that we could easily and have 500 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:17.920 talked about with the next two guys we're gonna talk 501 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:20.799 about in kJ Adams, Dwan Harris and what you were 502 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:24.839 talking about, Ryan is exactly that the system fit, the 503 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:31.079 roster construction does not mesh into a cohesive unit. And 504 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:35.000 I was thinking about this earlier today, even that a 505 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:37.799 lot of great Kansas teams, even some Kansas teams that 506 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:42.920 weren't like great, had their best lineup, They had their 507 00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:48.119 best five or four a plug in of the other guy. 508 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:52.960 This one exactly. It's like, well, Hunter Dickinson sruly needs 509 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.480 to be out there, and probably Dewan Harris, but not 510 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:01.240 always Dewan Harris. And sometimes Hunter Dickinson is not doing 511 00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:03.559 well enough to be on the floor, or at least 512 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.319 is a weird mismatch with the other guys that are 513 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:08.920 on the floor, And there's not like Rylan Griffin doesn't 514 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:10.240 do enough to prove he needs to be out there. 515 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:11.920 Even Zeke Meo, for as much as I am a 516 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.880 fan of his, is also like has moments where it 517 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:16.279 looks like he is not one of the best five 518 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:19.200 players on the team. But then if it's not those guys, 519 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.680 then who else is it? Because no one else is 520 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:23.039 playing well enough to do that. It's very strange. Again, 521 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:25.640 I do think this team's better than last year, but 522 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:29.160 they are missing some very core pieces and core character 523 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.319 traits of great Kansas teams, and that is evident in 524 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:32.920 games like this. 525 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:34.799 Well, and let's go ahead and talk about the rest 526 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.400 of the bigs before we get into the guards. kJ 527 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:39.680 actually did score in this game. He had thirteen points 528 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:43.240 and five rebounds, six of nine shooting in a ridiculous 529 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.279 thirty five minutes. So kJ scored all thirteen of those 530 00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:48.640 points in the first half because he hadn't scored more 531 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:50.559 than twelve in a conference game yet. And then he 532 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:53.640 scores thirteen and a half ten before the first TV timeout, 533 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.880 doesn't score in the second half. He did play well overall. 534 00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:00.160 The discourse here, as you mentioned, it's getting stale. We 535 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:02.079 all know the problem. It isn't gonna get any better. 536 00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:05.319 Florie Badounga he had six and four, three of his 537 00:26:05.400 --> 00:26:08.799 five shots win in the basket, and he played sixteen minutes. 538 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:11.079 But that's a little misleading because he played the last eight. 539 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:13.720 He played eight of the first thirty two minutes, and 540 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:16.599 then Self threw him out there to end the night. Look, 541 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:20.839 here's the thing. kJ Adams's plus minus was about the same. 542 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:23.640 I think it was minus eight, and they were minus 543 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.839 eleven in the game. So they had a bad first 544 00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:30.839 half on defense and offense with kJ playing well, and 545 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.720 then they had a bad second half on defense and 546 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.599 offense with kJ not playing well. I don't understand how 547 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:40.599 Bill self, who as you mentioned, is trying. He is 548 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.960 trying with way more rotations in games than we've ever 549 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:47.599 seen him make this late in the season for a team. 550 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:50.279 He is just trying to see if anything sticks. But 551 00:26:50.519 --> 00:26:52.599 we all kind of know thirty five minutes from kJ 552 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:55.680 is not gonna get your offensive efficiency numbers through the roof, 553 00:26:56.119 --> 00:26:59.200 especially whenever you have to match three point baskets with 554 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:01.680 K state. I think case they had double legit makes 555 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:04.000 in this game. Your three point numbers aren't getting better 556 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:06.799 with kJ on the floor. I want to know what 557 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:09.640 Florie Badonga needs to do to play more, because he 558 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.279 was really starting to gel in that four game stretch 559 00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:14.720 where kJ Adams didn't play. He ever's a double double 560 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.319 and the team looked like they were going places. They 561 00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:20.240 choked the Houston game away, and if they didn't, I 562 00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:23.599 wonder if that changes the dialogue entirely on The team 563 00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:26.440 was figuring it out and then kJ came back and 564 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:27.960 now it's a mess again. Is that fair? 565 00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:32.640 I think that is fair. I think the unfortunate answer 566 00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.079 to what Flori Badunga needs to do to play more 567 00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:38.960 is be a sophomore. But that's not gonna happen for 568 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:42.440 another you know, however many months it is until uh October. 569 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:45.200 I don't know if he's gonna be a sophomore either, 570 00:27:45.440 --> 00:27:49.359 Like people are suspecting, people are saying he's gonna transfer. 571 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:50.880 He has to be unhappy with his minute, right, I 572 00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:53.799 would be surprised if that happens because he's gonna. 573 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:55.960 Because he's gonna walk into next year being the in 574 00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:58.599 pen starting five. Yes, if he comes back. 575 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:01.680 Right, yeah, he's if he leaves going to the NBA. 576 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:04.440 I think next year's team is fascinating because you know, 577 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.640 let's say Badonga comes back. If you get Darren Peterson 578 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.119 and presumably Bryce and Tiller to play the one and 579 00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:14.039 the four, and then you have Flori at the at 580 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:18.160 the five, right, and then I think priority one, two, three, four, 581 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:21.759 and five is locking Ryland Griffin in a corner and 582 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:24.200 not letting him up until he agrees to come back. 583 00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:27.359 That's your priority there? Can you give Darren Peterson a 584 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:30.880 forty three point shooter? Flori though, is every bit as 585 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.119 important to next year's team. I just think it's fascinating 586 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.400 how this team was looking better on offense, uh, and 587 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.039 they came within this close of beating Houston, and then 588 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:43.640 kJ came back, and now Florida hasn't played as well. 589 00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:45.319 He has gotten the floor as much. The defense has 590 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.200 gotten worse, Like I I don't know. 591 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:50.720 Well, let me ask you, though, Ryan, would you almost 592 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.880 want to beat Houston or have a guy that will 593 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.720 occasionally play decent defense against stretch fours there? 594 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:00.519 Yeah, it's it's very very close. It is very difficult 595 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:02.880 to choose, especially if you tell me the latter that 596 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.759 the that, the that. That guy almost never scores except 597 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:08.359 for in the first half of the Case State game. 598 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:11.279 But but when he dunks, he will slap the floor 599 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:13.519 and it will look very cool and it will be hyped. 600 00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:16.119 And it'll make Bill go from six to twelve instantly. 601 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:19.039 Mm hmm. Yeah, toughness. 602 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:21.640 Have to really know what's what's what's better here. Flora 603 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:24.160 needs to play, They need to try the floor. Flori 604 00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:26.000 and Hunter are starting the other thing again. I don't 605 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:29.519 know why they changed that kind of rocked yep, it 606 00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:31.720 worked better than this. Well. 607 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:33.559 A guy that definitely is gonna play a lot of minutes, 608 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:36.079 theoretically is Dwan Harris. 609 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:40.599 We're gonna he fell three times, so stupid we we 610 00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:41.440 may we may not. 611 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:43.880 Uh he felt three times at the first half, which 612 00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:46.160 seems like kind of a paradox because I thought, according 613 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:49.319 to James Naismith's Rules of basketball, uh that you're only 614 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.000 allowed to foul twice in the first half before being 615 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:54.359 auto bench. At least that is what Bill believes. 616 00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:57.319 Bill was doing some dirty things. He he broke some rules. 617 00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:01.039 Yeah, either way, Uh, Harrison will twenty four minutes here 618 00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:04.039 hit four points six assists. It also just so happens 619 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:06.799 that his benching midway through the first half coincided with 620 00:30:06.880 --> 00:30:11.200 KSE eight taking control of the game for good. Ryan, 621 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:13.279 you have a very strong take here, So go for it. 622 00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:15.799 Yeah. I mean they lost, guys, but look at the 623 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.039 bright side. At least he didn't foul out right, That's 624 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:20.319 what we were really trying to avoid. That's what we 625 00:30:20.359 --> 00:30:23.680 can't have. I swear college coaches. It's like in the 626 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:27.839 NFL when when opposition, when coaches act like the absolute 627 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:29.559 worst thing you can do is turn the ball over 628 00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:31.640 on downs. We're not even to consider going for it 629 00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:33.880 in this situation where and they may it sound like 630 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:35.359 it's a done deal. We're not gonna get it if 631 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.160 we go for it. The Chiefs, in case anybody forgot 632 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:40.680 the Chiefs got their doors blown off them and came 633 00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:42.759 out to start the second half and a driver where 634 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.480 you absolutely had to have points. They got to midfield, 635 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:48.279 got to fourth and eight and Andy Reid said, punt the ball. 636 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.039 Why what are you doing? You have to get points. 637 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:54.519 They act like the risk of but what if we 638 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:56.680 don't get it, buddy, you're gonna kick it right back 639 00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:59.839 to an offense. You couldn't stop anyway. Go for it, 640 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.279 keep your offense on the field. Same here, Same thing here. 641 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.440 With Kansas, Dwan Harris averages a foul every eighteen minutes. 642 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:09.559 He immediately gets two fouls. Bench him for a couple minutes, 643 00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:11.640 put him back out there halfway through the second half. 644 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:14.960 Build it everything right. Then he gets an absolute cracker jack, 645 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.519 horrible foul call where he didn't even touch the guy 646 00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:20.240 that was shooting. They called it his third. Okay, he's 647 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:22.839 got to go for a while, but he is only 648 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:25.559 if I am the coach. He is only sitting down 649 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:28.480 until I feel control of that game starting to slip. 650 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.559 Case State stretches that to and seven to eight, and 651 00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:34.079 then double digit point lead. Dwan's got to get back 652 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:36.839 in the game. I don't care if he gets a 653 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.160 fourth foul at that point, because that he's not guaranteed 654 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:42.640 to get the fourth foul or the fifth foul if 655 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:44.920 I put him out there. He averages a foul every 656 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.599 eighteen minutes. Let's not act like the ten minutes of 657 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:51.039 sample size where he collected three in this game outwighs 658 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:54.119 what he's proven throughout one hundred plus games as a starter, 659 00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:56.880 which is a guy that fouls less than twice per game. 660 00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:00.039 And then Lord behold, he plays all twenty second and 661 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.000 a half minutes. Guess how many fouls to one Harris 662 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:02.799 finished with Landon. 663 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:05.000 Yes, I think it was three. 664 00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:08.039 It was three. He didn't foul again. So would it 665 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.079 have mattered? Probably not in the grand scheme of things. 666 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.920 But whenever you feel, whenever Bill self sees that league 667 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:17.559 grow to double digits, anything's well. I can't put to 668 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:19.839 one back in, even though it's a double digit lead. 669 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:23.119 I would have risked the fourth foul. And because I 670 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:26.559 think the odds that de one gets number four is 671 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:31.160 worse than the odds of Kansas not cutting into that 672 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:33.920 deficit more than they would have without Harris. And I 673 00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.160 am playing the numbers game all the time. It's not 674 00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:39.759 gonna work every time. Maybe I remember vividly when Kansas 675 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:42.279 played Dayton and Maui, and I said, you gotta keep 676 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:44.400 Marcus Garrett in the game. He's got three fouls early 677 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:46.720 in the second half. Bill did, and he immediately got 678 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:49.160 number four and Obi top and went burr and the 679 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:51.599 and Kansas almost lost that game. I watched that happen. 680 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.200 Sometimes that's gonna happen. You don't make sports bets to win. 681 00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:58.119 Every time you make bets to win. Over the large 682 00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:01.519 period of sample, the majority of the time, de one 683 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:05.240 wasn't gonna get number four. More, there are more scenarios 684 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:07.559 where if Dewan Harris plays the rest of that first 685 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.559 half and all of the second half, there are way 686 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:11.920 more scenarios where he doesn't foul out than he does. 687 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:14.720 Keep him in there, especially when you feel it's slipping away. 688 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.440 This is a numbers game, and coaches don't get it. 689 00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:22.519 I actually I do mostly agree with you here. I 690 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.640 do think he should have sat a little bit. I 691 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:27.759 do also agree though, that when k State breaches the 692 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:30.880 double digit mark in the first half with the lead, 693 00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:33.119 that Dewe Harris needs to go he needs to go 694 00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:35.880 back in because that is an environment where you are 695 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:38.759 in real danger of letting that game slip away. Obviously, 696 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:41.799 in the second half, Kansas had plenty of opportunity with 697 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:45.400 Dwan Harris to come back, and it's not like being 698 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.559 down eight at half is some wildly insurmountable lead. But 699 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.680 certainly the vibe of the game changed immediately, and it 700 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:56.200 wasn't like it wasn't like Kansas was in a great 701 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:59.119 spot or in the driver's seat in any way, uh 702 00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:01.599 Whendwan Harris came out. So I do agree there when 703 00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:04.160 it got to like forty twenty nine late in the 704 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.160 first half, to one probably needs to come back at 705 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:09.679 least for a few minutes to try to quell that, 706 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:13.239 try to get a couple buckets and try to slowcase 707 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:16.320 state down. I think at three fouls most of the 708 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:18.719 time a player does probably just sit for as long 709 00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:21.880 as they can with three fouls in the first half. 710 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:26.079 Dwan Harris pretty smart player too, he knows he can't 711 00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:29.639 afford fouls at that point. So largely I do agree, 712 00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:32.280 especially with the way the game ended up being Alfo 713 00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:33.639 Hindsight's twenty twenty. 714 00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:38.280 But mathematically speaking, just because let's say that you go 715 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:40.559 your whole life without getting a speeding ticket and then 716 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:43.880 you get one after twenty years of driving, the next day, 717 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:47.639 you're not any more likely to get a ticket because 718 00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:49.639 you got one the day before as you were any 719 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.679 other day. But yet so many people will overcorrect and 720 00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.880 be more careful. Well, I'm not gonna speed now because 721 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:57.800 I got one. You're no more likely to have something 722 00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:01.079 happen again just because it happened once to Harris, getting 723 00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:04.159 three fouls does not make him any more likely to 724 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.000 get a fourth foul than he would any other day 725 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:09.159 of the week. But yet we're gonna act like we 726 00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:11.920 have to sit him, and I just don't understand it. 727 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:15.920 I don't understand how the purpose of preserving him is 728 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:18.440 because you're trying to avoid him fouling out, therefore not 729 00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:22.119 having him available. So your remedy to we got to 730 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:24.840 make sure we don't lose him is let's lose him 731 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:28.840 on purpose for an extended stretch. Like I don't get it. 732 00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:31.599 I would play him until he fouls out at that 733 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:35.199 point or unless I get control of the game. I'm 734 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:39.760 not getting snowballed in Bramleedge while my leader, my point 735 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:43.880 guard sits with potential foul trouble. And I would argue 736 00:35:43.960 --> 00:35:46.880 that a player that averages less than two fouls per game. 737 00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:49.400 I would argue, three fouls late in the first half 738 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:50.960 isn't foul trouble at all. 739 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:55.199 There are we could really get into the weeds on 740 00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:56.840 this if you want it. I don't really want to 741 00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:58.079 get deeply into the weeds here. 742 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.800 No, no, because it didn't really impact the final game. 743 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:03.559 Yeah, I disagree slightly with your logic, not enough to 744 00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:07.880 have the conversation. I do think that's like reasonable. I 745 00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:12.679 am generally speaking more of the opinion of if a 746 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:15.280 guy has three fouls or is in foul trouble. However, 747 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:17.760 you wanted to find that that. I would rather save 748 00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:20.400 a guy for potentially the end of the game or 749 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:22.920 nearer the end of the game later in the game 750 00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:26.079 than risk losing him early. And I would rather be 751 00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:29.599 in control of that situation, uh, than to lose him 752 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:32.280 and then have my hand forced. Maybe that's just the 753 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:35.239 way I see the world in general. There's no telling, right, 754 00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:37.159 But no, that's that's fair. 755 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.039 That's that's a perfectly fine perspective to have. But even 756 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:43.000 with like, I'm really aggressive, I would be a very 757 00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:46.039 bad real game coach, because three minutes into the game 758 00:36:46.239 --> 00:36:47.920 things wouldn't be going well and I would want to 759 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:51.000 tinker and tonker my way to a thousand adjustments. You 760 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:53.880 would be much more patient, but you're still lean more 761 00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:57.559 aggressive than most of these these old college coaches. 762 00:36:58.360 --> 00:36:59.119 I would like to think. 763 00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:02.119 So anyway, Uh, when did you know the game was over? 764 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:04.440 When was the moment when you go, oh, yep, this 765 00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:05.480 is a loss? 766 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.719 I probably thought that for the majority of the second half. 767 00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:12.079 I'd have to look at like. 768 00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.039 I think it was whenever I think it was, I 769 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:16.960 know they thought a whole half left. But for me, 770 00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:18.639 whenever they cut it to six right at the end 771 00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:20.719 of the half and you're pumped about only being down 772 00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:24.159 six and Ngoson hits the impossible fade away step back, 773 00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.199 it's like, oh yeah, now this and l and then 774 00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:28.000 they they did cut it to five. Griffin hit the 775 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.480 three to open the second half, and then it immediately 776 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:31.159 goes back up. 777 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:34.800 And that is when it is. When it was cut 778 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:36.679 to five, and immediately case It took it back to 779 00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:39.320 like ten or eleven or whatever. Yep, that was what 780 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.280 it was, like, Oh yeah, this is like ninety a loss, probably. 781 00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:47.280 Because Kansas was making was making shots. They lost this 782 00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:49.480 game despite shooting better than fifty percent from the floor. 783 00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:52.079 I actually opened in the first four or five minutes. 784 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:54.599 I thought this had potential to be a Kansas runaway 785 00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:57.599 because I figured Kansas State's defense would cool down and 786 00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:01.519 Kansas's offense with Harris in the game just zipping along, 787 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:04.119 they had everything they wanted, and it was Case State 788 00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:06.519 that made the defensive adjustments. And didn't let up on 789 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.880 the offensive end. Helps. Whenever your white guy of the 790 00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.800 game makes a ridiculous three, I expected it to come 791 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.360 whenever the score was a little bit more in doubt 792 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:19.159 than it was. But albeit Brandon Housen, who is a 793 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:22.360 very good shooter in general, this is not Jordan Elgelseeter 794 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.920 making an uncharacteristic amount of shots. But he made three 795 00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:27.960 of his ten threes, and it felt like more. They 796 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:30.440 were bombs. That dude can shoot the piss out of 797 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:33.480 the ball. I wish Kansas had that guy wearing their 798 00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:34.280 color jersey. 799 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:37.440 Didn't he He did the night night, didn't he? Yeah? 800 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:39.079 He did? It was cold, it was cool. 801 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:39.760 Yeah. 802 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.760 Yeah, he's better than Will Spradling. I know it brought 803 00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:45.320 back Will Spradling vibes. But he's a lot. But he's 804 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:46.719 a good basketball player. 805 00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:50.039 He is. We did talk a little bit about this earlier, 806 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:51.960 but does does kay State have a chance at the 807 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.039 tournament here? Like, I mean, obviously if they win the 808 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:56.159 rest of their game, sure, but like, are they gonna 809 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:57.079 have a real shot to do that? 810 00:38:57.559 --> 00:38:59.719 They're six and six and Big twelve play and they're 811 00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:03.119 non schedule is horrendous. They don't have a single quality 812 00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:05.119 non con win like nothing close. I don't even know 813 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:07.239 if they have a quad two non con win. They 814 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:10.920 absolutely have to get to at least eleven Big twelve wins. 815 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.280 They gotta go five and three at worst the rest 816 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.000 of the way, maybe even better. Arizona is a great 817 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.000 measuring stick for them, right if they beat Arizona, suddenly, 818 00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:22.079 oh they got Iowas, take Kansas and Arizona all in 819 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:24.079 a week and a half stretch, I think then you 820 00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:26.039 start talking about maybe. 821 00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:28.960 Yeah, they're toughest games left or Arizona and Iowa State, 822 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:30.559 both those are at home. They do have to go 823 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:33.440 to Provo. That's not going to be easy, but their 824 00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:37.000 schedule is not the most difficult. If say they go 825 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:40.559 like six and two in the backstretch and that puts 826 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.400 them at an overall record of like eighteen and thirteen, 827 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:44.880 they're probably. 828 00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.760 I think that's right side of the bubble. I think 829 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:48.320 that's the right side of the bubble. If they get 830 00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:51.159 to if they get to twelve big twelve wins, even 831 00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:53.800 with their bad non con schedule, it will be very 832 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:55.079 hard for them to be left out. 833 00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:57.639 Yeah, especially at that point they'll have at least one 834 00:39:57.639 --> 00:40:00.840 win over Iowa State at Kansas, probably Arizona if if 835 00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:04.960 they do indeed go six and two. Yeah, nebu a 836 00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:07.239 much much better resume than you once thought Case State 837 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:07.920 was capable of. 838 00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:11.760 And something that we once thought Zeke Mayo was capable 839 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:13.639 of doing is making shots on the road, and he 840 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:15.960 finally did in this game. He made all three of 841 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.199 his threes. He went five for eight overall and thirty 842 00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:20.920 six minutes and route to a fifteen point seven rebound 843 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:23.400 five ass his performance. I didn't think he played very 844 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:25.760 well despite those stats because of the five turnovers, and 845 00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:28.599 boy can he be careless with the ball and defensively well. 846 00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:32.159 Three for three from three ties the most road threes 847 00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:34.760 he's made in a game all year, which is your research. 848 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:36.280 I didn't even know that's true. He made three at 849 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:39.239 Iowa State, albeit on three times as many shots. And 850 00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:41.199 it's just the second time this year that he shot 851 00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:43.639 above his season average from three on the road this year. 852 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:46.840 This is road game number eight for Kansas and he's 853 00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:49.480 only shot better than average in two of them. The 854 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.480 other was Creighton when he was two for four. Zeke's 855 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.119 got to shoot more, man. Even with the fifteen points, 856 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:57.679 there are so many moments where you're like, just shoot it, 857 00:40:57.719 --> 00:41:00.639 and he instead dribbles it, and it's either a turnover 858 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:03.760 or a less or somebody who's not Zeke Mao shooting 859 00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:06.199 a three, which is worse, or somebody who's not Zeke 860 00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:08.639 Mao shooting a two, which is worse. He needs to 861 00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:11.400 shoot ten threes a game, well. 862 00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:13.280 Especially in a night where he's going through for three. 863 00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:15.239 There is a little chicken or the agger, like what 864 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.519 comes first, Zeke getting good looks or Zeke being hot, 865 00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:21.800 Because there's a lot of games where Zeke takes shots 866 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.119 that aren't necessarily good looks. Some of those go in, 867 00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:26.679 some of those don't, so you know, maybe this was 868 00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:28.400 a game where he just was taking his better looks. 869 00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.599 But in a game also where you are trailing by 870 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:31.480 like eight for the. 871 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:34.360 Entire sec you're playing catch up, fire the rock. 872 00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.239 And to be fair, one of those threes was a 873 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:41.559 late desperation heave to give, you know, to keep Kansas's 874 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:46.400 life support monitor on for like ten more seconds. But nonetheless, yeah, 875 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:49.119 I think he did need to shoot. This is definitely 876 00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:52.400 a game where he needs to shoot more, Like what 877 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:54.440 what do you you know, what are you risking by 878 00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:56.920 him not taking a bunch more threes, especially on a 879 00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:59.719 night where extremely consistent Ryland Griffin is one for six 880 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:01.840 in the arc, which we'll talk about a second, but. 881 00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:03.920 No, go for it, go ahead, go ahead, because I 882 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:05.800 think he plays. As part of that conversation. 883 00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:07.760 Yeah, he was one for six from three. He was 884 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:09.760 one for seven. Overall, it's zero for one from two 885 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:12.559 for those keeping track, he had three points to assist 886 00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:16.639 nothing else in eighteen minutes. Aj stores box score lies 887 00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:18.480 as it says he was fine when he actually sucked, 888 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:21.000 whatever size the Eggs, the Chiefs and Drake also sucked. 889 00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:23.679 During the Super Bowl, he went four for ten, one 890 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:26.840 for five from three, did have nine points, two rebounds. 891 00:42:27.599 --> 00:42:29.400 The last couple of guards here to read these stats 892 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:32.400 as well, Shack Moore two points, four assists, two steals 893 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:35.159 and a block in fifteen minutes, David Coy a rebound 894 00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:39.119 in two turnovers in five minutes. And that's your guards. 895 00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:40.280 A weird night. 896 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:44.880 Here's everything I got for this Griffin. I'm glad he 897 00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:48.639 shot six threes. He's really close. They're all around the basket. 898 00:42:48.679 --> 00:42:50.840 They're just not dropping. He's got to continue to shoot it. 899 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.199 And this team doesn't have a plan B they need 900 00:42:54.199 --> 00:42:57.239 Mayo and Griffin to make threes combined. They took what 901 00:42:57.400 --> 00:42:59.400 is that combine? They didn't even take ten in this game. 902 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:03.280 That can not happen. They need fifteen plus attempts, especially 903 00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:06.599 in a game where you're playing catchup. Aj Storer. Yeah, 904 00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:09.000 I don't know if aj Storre has made a consequential 905 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:12.320 basket for Kansas since the North Carolina game. I'm glad 906 00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:15.719 he had nine points and he actually seemed like, Okay, 907 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:17.840 no one else wants to shoot, I'll do it. It's 908 00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:18.880 not gonna be a Wesdag. 909 00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:22.159 He's been telled every time he touches the ball. He does. 910 00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:24.400 He does have it. I would love to see his 911 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:28.199 the amount of times that he shoots per one hundred possessions. 912 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:30.239 I bet he has the highest mark of anybody on 913 00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:32.440 the team. Maybe Zeke Mao, but Zeke Mayo is much 914 00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:37.840 much better. And uh yeah, Shaq. I would like to 915 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:41.440 see Shaq Moore run the point without Harris sometimes and 916 00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:43.719 Bill didn't even do it here because he was having 917 00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:47.000 Quite do it instead whenever, whenever Harris was in first 918 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.599 half foul trouble. I don't get it. 919 00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.400 Yeah, neither, I do. Think you kind of hit the 920 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.960 nail on the head early in this season, saying that 921 00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.559 this team you didn't use this term, but basically it's 922 00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:01.559 gonna ride or die with Rylean, Griffin, aj Store, Zeke Mayo, 923 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:05.159 and they need to continue to try Griffin in Store. 924 00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:09.719 And we're seeing kind of the result of the inconsistency. 925 00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:11.559 I mean, obviously Store has been kind of a non 926 00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:14.199 factor for a while at this point, but on a 927 00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:15.679 night where Griffin, okay, let's. 928 00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:19.559 Let's work through this with me. So Dickinson has been 929 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:22.960 how many Jayhawk players have been worse than we thought, 930 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:25.960 and yet the team's still a lot worse. Dickinson's been 931 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.400 about what we expected. Harris has been what we expected. 932 00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:31.320 Zeke Mayo has been brilliant. He's been better than we 933 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:35.320 could have realistically expected. Griffin has been a little bit worse. 934 00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:38.079 He hasn't been terrible, but he's been worse compared to 935 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:41.239 what we thought he'd be. Store has been much worse, 936 00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:45.159 and kJ Flori's been. Flori's been a lot better than 937 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:47.360 what we could have imagined. Like, it feels like this 938 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:50.760 team has the majority of the guys have been what 939 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:52.800 we expected, but it feels like they have every bit 940 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.199 as many numbers that have been better than we thought 941 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:58.079 than worse, and yet they've been still kind of they've 942 00:44:58.079 --> 00:44:58.920 been kind of stinky. 943 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.079 And again, I think that a lot of that goes 944 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:05.519 back to roster construction and roster fit. It just is 945 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:08.400 it's weird. It just doesn't work that well on the 946 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:11.239 offensive side of the basketball. And then also you have 947 00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:15.199 like a gargantuan black hole that was supposed to be 948 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:18.840 Aj stores fifteen points a game like he came into 949 00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:21.800 this year, and I think everyone had the full expectation 950 00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:23.840 that that guy was at least going to be double 951 00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:26.639 digit scoring every night and was going to be a 952 00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:28.559 guy that could go out on some nights and get 953 00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:32.239 you twenty twenty five and just like takeover games occasionally 954 00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:34.400 and win. And he just has not even been remotely 955 00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:37.280 close to that obviously well documented here, but he has 956 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:41.199 been nothing even remotely approaching a guy that does that, 957 00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:43.239 and they've had to replace that. And I think that 958 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:45.760 also might be a little underrated element to what the 959 00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:48.679 season has been that they've had to completely find in 960 00:45:48.760 --> 00:45:51.840 real time a guy with any ability to do that. 961 00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:54.360 Because aj Storre was supposed to be able to win 962 00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:56.360 games for you occasionally well. 963 00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:58.360 And then you also look at how in the final 964 00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:00.840 number is fifty percent shooting thirty two percent from three, 965 00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:03.039 which they were three for five in the first half 966 00:46:03.079 --> 00:46:05.320 and then shot very poorly in the second. They didn't 967 00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:07.360 shoot enough in the first half, and then they shot 968 00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.599 probably too many in the second half and only fifty 969 00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:12.719 eight percent from the line. I mean, what all that 970 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:16.719 tells me is this team, the roster construction is just weird. 971 00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:19.800 It's just not that it's not the cohesive unit we 972 00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.840 thought it would be. Typically, teams that are very experienced 973 00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.280 gel really well, especially by the time he gets to 974 00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:27.400 this late in the year, and it just hasn't happened 975 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:30.000 for this team yet it remains to be seen. Could 976 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:31.960 they figure it out? Yes, And I think what gives 977 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:35.360 you hope is unlike last year, this team has the 978 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:38.239 ability to be a lot better, Like they could go 979 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.199 on a run in the NCAA Tournament with their talent. 980 00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:42.119 Last year, we n that wasn't gonna happen. And also 981 00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:44.880 Bill self did say today, look, I know that sixteen 982 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:47.719 and seven isn't what people expected, but there's plenty of 983 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:49.920 teams that would kill to be in our spot. I'm 984 00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:53.039 watching North Carolina right now about to follow fourteen and eleven, 985 00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:55.440 and they are just getting slammed by Clemson, like they're 986 00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:58.800 not gonna make the tournament. There are plenty of teams 987 00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:01.119 that would kill old to be in Kansas's spot. I 988 00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:03.000 know Kansas Blue Blood and I know all that, but 989 00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:04.920 like it's kind of that they're a victim of their 990 00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:07.719 own success. Like Bill self's worst season is better than 991 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:11.119 ninety five percent of team's bests. So, you know, we'll 992 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.519 see what happens in the next few weeks. But if 993 00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:15.960 this team never really gels and they're a four seed 994 00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:17.960 and they lose in the round of thirty two, people 995 00:47:18.039 --> 00:47:20.400 on Twitter can say all they want how unacceptable it is. 996 00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:23.039 I mean, all you can ask for is that they're 997 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:24.880 consistently getting you top four seeds. 998 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:28.719 I think, yeah, which I would still predict. I still 999 00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:30.360 very much think Kansas will be a four. 1000 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:33.440 Seed and then they'll get a Round a thirty two 1001 00:47:33.480 --> 00:47:36.639 game against the five seed, which, based off of how 1002 00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:39.800 the last few years have gone, well, that that's gonna 1003 00:47:39.800 --> 00:47:41.679 be Show five hundred. So now you got two strikes 1004 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:44.719 to knowing why that's going to be the season finale 1005 00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:48.960 episode Big twelve games, and none of them were interesting. 1006 00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:51.440 Oh I think I forgot to play the airhorn. Actually, okay, 1007 00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:56.880 here you go, belated by Big twelve games. Okay, Landon, 1008 00:47:56.960 --> 00:47:59.519 we'll do these rapid fire because there's nothing interesting. I 1009 00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.039 don't believe anything interesting happened in the Big twelve other 1010 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:04.719 than Kansas. I think that was it. Number twenty, Arizona 1011 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:07.840 eighty two, number thirteen, Texas Tech seventy three. Those were 1012 00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:08.440 two good teams. 1013 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:11.239 I guess yeah, they're eleven and one now. They shot 1014 00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:14.400 almost sixty five percent from two in this game, getting 1015 00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:18.079 fourteen and eleven from Toby o Waka and sixteen points 1016 00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:20.639 from both Jade and Bradley and Caleb Love. Both of 1017 00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.920 these teams are good. And Arizona I think they are 1018 00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:26.880 out kicking their coverage a little bit with eleven and one, 1019 00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:29.280 but they're much much closer to that than like the 1020 00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:31.199 six and five or whatever they were in the non Con. 1021 00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:33.960 They're they're good team and they are on fire. 1022 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:36.159 All the way up to number thirteen and the ap 1023 00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:39.480 top twenty five now finally in front of you con. 1024 00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:42.800 It's amazing how it took this long to correctly make 1025 00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:46.960 that swap. Number eight Iowa State eighty two, TCU fifty two. 1026 00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:49.800 Skid is over for the Cyclones. We knew that it 1027 00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:50.440 would be a blot. 1028 00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:54.679 It was, Yeah, you want me to read the next thing, 1029 00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:56.400 because if we can go really rapid fire, I can 1030 00:48:56.440 --> 00:48:57.360 read the scores. 1031 00:48:58.159 --> 00:48:59.639 Oh, you want to just move on, you want to 1032 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.039 just do that. I'm good with that. Joshua Jefferson at 1033 00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:05.199 thirteen and ten for the Cyclones. Jamie Dixon one win 1034 00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:08.800 after getting his five hundred win, gets his five hundred loss. 1035 00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:11.079 Pretty sure, that's right, right, five hundred years that joke 1036 00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:13.760 and field it was funny. Go for it. Yeah, we'll 1037 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:16.400 just rule. We'll just fly through this. Jamie Dixon in 1038 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:18.000 his career. I want to find his record while you 1039 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:18.559 read the score. 1040 00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:21.239 I love it when people think I'm funny. One of 1041 00:49:21.280 --> 00:49:25.760 my favorite things. Baylor ninety one, UCF seventy six. The 1042 00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:27.880 Bears continue to win the games they should and not 1043 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:31.239 the ones they shouldn't eighteen and twelve from Nordchad Omer 1044 00:49:32.039 --> 00:49:34.480 UCF defense is bad. It went end out when your 1045 00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:39.079 offense is struggling, play the Knights. Your troubles will be 1046 00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:41.880 washed away. To the tune of eighty five plus. 1047 00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:44.960 Kansas is barely a top fifty team and Ken Palm 1048 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.960 offense and what they hang one hundred and ninety on 1049 00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:48.440 UCF in two games this year? 1050 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:49.519 Something like that. 1051 00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.960 A lot there you go, Jamie Dixon five hundred and 1052 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:55.360 two forty four in his career, but a lot of 1053 00:49:55.400 --> 00:50:00.480 that's from Pittsburgh as if you look at TCU's seventy 1054 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:01.480 two and one twenty one. 1055 00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:05.440 What's Jamie Dixon's conference record all time? Because you can 1056 00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:08.760 play Florida A and M in Prairie View, Western whatever 1057 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:10.440 a million times. 1058 00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:14.519 That's a really good question. And I don't even know 1059 00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:17.159 how to it doesn't even put that in here on 1060 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:20.199 the college Basketball Reference page. I want to know this 1061 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.920 that is that is exactly? What? Like? Seriously, where is 1062 00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:26.679 his conference numbers? How do they not have that? I 1063 00:50:26.679 --> 00:50:28.559 could probably do the math on it, but I bet 1064 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:29.639 it's not very good. 1065 00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:36.559 West Virginia seventy two, Utah sixty one seventeen from Amani Hansbury, Brian, 1066 00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:38.880 do you care at all about this game? No? 1067 00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:41.639 I don't, but I do care about Jamie Dixon's conference record. 1068 00:50:41.679 --> 00:50:43.880 So you keep going and I'm gonna try to find it. 1069 00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:49.119 You got it. Cincinnati eighty four BYU sixty six. Two 1070 00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:51.599 good offensive games from the Bearcats in a row, which 1071 00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:53.679 makes the first time that's happened all year, the first 1072 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:56.679 two games of that all season for Cincinnati twenty four 1073 00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:00.679 from my favorite named player in the country, Jizsel James, 1074 00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:03.440 Cincinnati won a couple games in a row. Now look 1075 00:51:03.480 --> 00:51:05.880 at that. Uh, they still have a long road back 1076 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:07.840 and I don't think they're gonna make it. But nicest 1077 00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:10.920 seasonince he get a couple of wins. Number six Houston 1078 00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:17.000 sixty nine, Colorado fifty nine. Juwan Roberts had twenty. But 1079 00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:19.320 this did not come easy for Houston, who led by 1080 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:21.519 just four at the under four time out. A little 1081 00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:25.559 preview of Kansas Colorado if you will, maybe, oh please, No, 1082 00:51:26.679 --> 00:51:29.519 the Cougars are also eleven and one. The Buffalo's zero 1083 00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:31.920 to twelve. Yeah. Shockingly, even though it was close at 1084 00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:34.679 the under four, the really good team closed strong and 1085 00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:35.679 the bad team did not. 1086 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:36.599 Uh. 1087 00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:39.760 Houston gets the win there, but only by ten. Newston's 1088 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:41.920 had a couple of these weirdly closer than they should 1089 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:45.000 be games as of late. I don't think that means much. 1090 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.239 But no, it's not. It's it's that they're bored I 1091 00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:53.159 think more than anything else. Jamie Dixon's record in conference 1092 00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:57.079 play is two oh eight and one seventy, which is 1093 00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:00.960 a winning percentage of what is that? That's two o 1094 00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:05.280 eight in the three seventy eight fifty five percent getting close, 1095 00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:06.400 getting real. 1096 00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:09.920 Close, exactly correct. He's just also to keep his job, 1097 00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:11.559 but not good enough to be notable. 1098 00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:14.760 He was way better at Pitt too. He's a six 1099 00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:17.880 thirty eight career winner percentage in conference games at PITT 1100 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:21.039 and four to twenty two at TCU granted tougher conference 1101 00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:25.039 pretty well. Yeah, he is a sixty five and ninety 1102 00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:26.239 in his career as well. 1103 00:52:26.280 --> 00:52:28.639 It's also not like coach, It's not like Pitt was 1104 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:32.079 a blue blood or anything in the ACC though, correct. 1105 00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:33.960 Yeah, they well, he had a couple of good teams. 1106 00:52:33.960 --> 00:52:36.760 They were one seed once. Like he had some good teams. Uh, 1107 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.679 they were so TCU. This is Jamie Dixon's like eighth 1108 00:52:40.760 --> 00:52:43.039 year and they are. They were six and twelve the 1109 00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:45.280 first year where they won the NIC and considering who 1110 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.880 he was taking over for, that was very impressive. Then 1111 00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:50.320 nine to nine, seven and eleven seven and eleven five 1112 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:52.199 and eleven eight and ten, nine and nine, nine and 1113 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:54.880 nine and this year five and seven could go ten 1114 00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:57.679 and ten. Wouldn't that be perfect? He's going four five 1115 00:52:57.800 --> 00:52:59.800 hundred and what would be the third straight year in 1116 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:02.440 con friends play could definitely happen. Are we done with 1117 00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:05.679 Big twelve games yet? Oh? Oklahoma State eighty six, Arizona 1118 00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:08.599 State seventy three. This is your surprise Big twelve team 1119 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:13.960 landing and they sit in fifteenth place. They are They 1120 00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:17.000 are surprisingly bad. They're worse than we thought because their 1121 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:19.800 coach is kind of a troll. But the teams are 1122 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:22.239 combined twenty four to two that played in this game 1123 00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:24.960 very Jamie Dixon like. No time will be spent talking 1124 00:53:24.960 --> 00:53:28.679 about them. 1125 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:29.719 Which moves us along to Big twelve standings. Tied for 1126 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:31.760 first two games ahead of the rest of the pack 1127 00:53:31.880 --> 00:53:34.280 is Houston and Arizona at eleven and. 1128 00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:38.440 One, Texas Tech is nine and three, Iowa State is 1129 00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:41.519 eight and four, and then tied in fifth place Kansas 1130 00:53:41.559 --> 00:53:44.440 and Baylor, two teams that have the same record, but 1131 00:53:44.719 --> 00:53:48.440 Baylor's been very steady and consistent and predictable, and Kansas 1132 00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:50.679 to get to their seven and five has had some wonky, 1133 00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:51.920 weird stuff to get there. 1134 00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:55.159 In the middle of the pack, tied for seventh BYU 1135 00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:58.599 West Virginia K State. They're all six and six K 1136 00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:02.079 State heck of a row to six and six. As 1137 00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:05.760 of late YEP tied for tenth Utah TCU. They are 1138 00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:09.000 both five and seven, which also Utah. We thought Utah 1139 00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:12.159 was gonna be Colorado. Instead they've been TCU, which is 1140 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:14.199 pretty good for their first year in the league. 1141 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:17.840 I predict Utah really hits the fan down the stretch. 1142 00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:19.800 I think they're about to find out what the grind 1143 00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:22.159 of a twenty game Big twelve slate feels like whenever 1144 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:24.400 you're just not used to it. But yes, to this point, 1145 00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:27.239 they haven't slammed into the iceberg and sunk to the 1146 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:28.960 bottom of a three mile deep ocean. 1147 00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:32.679 Even five and fifteen is bet we thought Utah was 1148 00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:34.599 going to genuinely be like a two or three win 1149 00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:37.800 That's true. So even if they lose out, they have 1150 00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:40.880 exceeded expectations. 1151 00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:42.239 And they will be better than Colorado if they lose out, 1152 00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:45.519 as I think maybe everybody on this list would can 1153 00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:49.840 say that, because yeah, UCF, Cincinnati and Oklahoma State are 1154 00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:52.599 four and eight, Arizona State is three and nine and 1155 00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:57.159 then needing to go at at worst four and four. 1156 00:54:57.320 --> 00:54:59.360 The rest of the way to get out of last 1157 00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:05.159 place is zero to twelve. Colorado the absolute the most 1158 00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:09.960 that any Big twelve team has ever been, and they 1159 00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:12.760 are horrible. Cam says they're due. I hope they're not, 1160 00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:14.880 because look what happens next Landon. 1161 00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:19.159 Boy, if they're due, they'll be doing Bowler, They'll be 1162 00:55:19.199 --> 00:55:23.199 doing Boulder. That's that's my joke. Prediction that maybe isn't 1163 00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:23.559 a joke. 1164 00:55:24.440 --> 00:55:26.920 It's gonna say that game is gonna be closer than 1165 00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:29.920 we think. Now we go on to other games. It 1166 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:32.679 was a very wild weekend of basketball. We saw the 1167 00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:35.360 nation's top ranked team go down at home. Number six 1168 00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:38.039 Florida very impressively went on the road and took down 1169 00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:40.880 top ranked Auburn ninety to eighty one. They got nineteen 1170 00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:43.719 points and six assists from Walter Clayton Junior, who is 1171 00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:47.280 a stud. The Gators snagged probably the most impressive win 1172 00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.320 for any college team this year to tighten up the 1173 00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:52.280 SEC race. While the Tigers lost for the first time 1174 00:55:52.519 --> 00:55:55.440 since Cameron indoor in the first week of December, they 1175 00:55:55.440 --> 00:55:58.400 have only lost twice this year, and they probably rightfully 1176 00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:01.639 stayed at number one even despite losing a home game 1177 00:56:01.679 --> 00:56:02.119 this week. 1178 00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:06.559 The SEC race is tied after number three Alabama almost 1179 00:56:06.599 --> 00:56:09.320 blew an eighteen point second half lead at Arkansas, but 1180 00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:12.920 they did hold on for the win eighty five eighty one, 1181 00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:16.440 both Alabama schools nine to one to lead the league. 1182 00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:21.039 Other league results including four Tennessee clobbering Oklahoma, Norman shocking 1183 00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:22.079 that portermost. 1184 00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:23.480 Shocking Porter got pantsed. 1185 00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:27.199 Number ten Texas A and M got a last second 1186 00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:30.599 three from Wade Taylor to upset fifteen Missoo in Colombia, 1187 00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:32.880 and number twenty five Ole Miss and number twenty two 1188 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:35.840 Missippi State both getting narrow road wins. 1189 00:56:36.880 --> 00:56:39.079 The SEC is a roller coaster, but I think it's 1190 00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:42.639 very clear even with Florida's win, there are two elite 1191 00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:45.320 teams in that conference. There are several very good ones. 1192 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:47.840 Tennessee and Florida are very good. Texas A and M's 1193 00:56:47.880 --> 00:56:49.960 fist the end. Miszoo is not someone I'd want to 1194 00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:52.639 play in the tournament at all. But I think it's 1195 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:55.559 Auburn and Alabama. I think those are your blue chips. 1196 00:56:56.599 --> 00:57:00.360 Yeah, Auburn is psycho and Alabama can score with anybody 1197 00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:00.800 in the country. 1198 00:57:01.679 --> 00:57:05.239 I think Alabama might be better than Auburn. I don't 1199 00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:08.679 know if that's true now, but I think Auburn we 1200 00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:11.840 have reason to think they may have already hit their ceiling. 1201 00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:15.559 They have a lot better luck metrics than Ken Palm, 1202 00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:18.239 kind of leading some of the metric sites that think 1203 00:57:18.239 --> 00:57:21.440 they've overachieved a little bit. I think Alabama has the 1204 00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:24.400 universe as a ceiling, and they have a coach that 1205 00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:28.159 is known to go deeper into the tournament than Auburn's. 1206 00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:30.960 Yeah, and there's no way Alabama gets outscored in a 1207 00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:33.079 crucial moment in March. 1208 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:36.760 Right, Yep. They might give up ninety if they can't 1209 00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:39.400 get it up there, they're in trouble, but they're not 1210 00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:42.559 getting They're not losing ninety five ninety three. That's not 1211 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:43.400 gonna happen to them. 1212 00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:46.719 Okay, would you like to tell me about the Big East? 1213 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.840 Yeah, Creighton, who is the second place in the Big East. 1214 00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.960 I believe they've had a really good year. Greg McDermott 1215 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:57.239 should be the coach of the year in most years, 1216 00:57:57.519 --> 00:57:59.760 but whenever you're dealing with Rick Patino, that probably won't 1217 00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:03.360 happen in that conference. Because they lost Pop Isaacs, they 1218 00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:06.000 have had all sorts of injury problems, and yet here 1219 00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:08.239 they are in second place in the league. They took 1220 00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:11.559 down number eleven Marquette, a reeling Golden Eagle squad, by ten. 1221 00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:14.400 Everybody in the conference, though, is looking up at Rick 1222 00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:17.039 Patino in a few different ways, as number twelve Saint 1223 00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.239 John's one at number nineteen Yukon sixty eight sixty two 1224 00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:23.199 to reach twelve and one in league play the Red 1225 00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:25.679 Storm they are twenty one and three overall, which is 1226 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:28.679 very impressive by itself, but you look at the data 1227 00:58:28.679 --> 00:58:31.400 a little deeper. The loss is by one to Baylor 1228 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:34.679 and two overtimes, by one to Creighton, and by three 1229 00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:37.559 to Georgia, who all three were ranked teams at one 1230 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:42.280 point this year. Maybe the most consistently like outside of 1231 00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:45.239 the Auburn and Alabama and Duke tiers, maybe the most 1232 00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:48.599 consistent Tier two team in college basketball. I think Patino's 1233 00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:51.159 the best college basketball coach of the twenty first century. 1234 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.559 Yeah, hard to argue with that. I mean, there is 1235 00:58:54.599 --> 00:58:57.559 a coach k I guess that stands that coached a 1236 00:58:57.599 --> 00:58:58.559 lot in the twenty first century. 1237 00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:01.760 True, I think more active active. 1238 00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:05.840 Yeah, there you go. Speaking of that team, Clemson finally 1239 00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:08.760 gave number two Duke an ACC loss, as the Tigers 1240 00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:11.880 pulled within a game of the league crown after a 1241 00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:16.119 seventy seven to seventy one home upset. Victor Lakin had 1242 00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:19.320 twenty two points while Cooper Flagg, driving for the typical 1243 00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:22.519 bucket in the closing seconds, slipped and traveled. It's the 1244 00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:24.960 first loss for the Blue Devil since the Kansas game. 1245 00:59:26.199 --> 00:59:29.199 Just nah, the season feels on the same for Kansas as. 1246 00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:33.360 Duke feels like an eternity ago at this point, and 1247 00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:36.280 Clemson honestly so. The Duke win was impressive. We knew 1248 00:59:36.320 --> 00:59:38.599 they'd be turned up for that. We knew Duke was 1249 00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:41.360 kind of due to lose a game. Okay, you got one, 1250 00:59:41.719 --> 00:59:43.599 kind of like when Kansas State beats Kansas and then 1251 00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:45.679 falls right on their ass the next game. I was 1252 00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:47.719 very curious to see what would happen with Clemson the 1253 00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:50.559 next game. Well, they're just wiping the floor with North 1254 00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:53.920 Carolina beat them by more than twenty, which is another 1255 00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:56.760 very difficult game to get up for emotionally against a 1256 00:59:56.880 --> 01:00:00.199 fast athletic a'lbeit underachieving team. This year, Clemson No. Now 1257 01:00:00.280 --> 01:00:02.920 twelve and two in the ACC. They feel like the 1258 01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:04.960 five seed that's gonna lose to A twelve in the 1259 01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:08.199 first round of the NCAA tournament, but still they are 1260 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:12.119 Duke's biggest competition to win a worthless acc crown in 1261 01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:15.159 the Big Ten. Number nine Michigan State overcame a big 1262 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:17.639 early deficit to surge past the Ducks in a conference 1263 01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:20.880 game against Oregon by twelve to snap a two game skid. 1264 01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:23.960 Number twenty four Michigan also wanted Assembly haul Land and 1265 01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:26.280 we got a step. Stop picking teams to win or 1266 01:00:26.320 --> 01:00:28.800 to lose that Assembly Hall unless it's Indiana. They lose 1267 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:32.400 a lot at Assembly they lose their a lot. Both 1268 01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:35.079 Michigan teams are ten and two. They are both one 1269 01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:38.480 half game behind Number seven per Due. The boiler Makers 1270 01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:40.840 are in first place. They clawbered USC at home. What 1271 01:00:41.000 --> 01:00:43.679 is this conference? They are eleven and two. All of 1272 01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:45.679 those teams are getting ready to play each other. Fun 1273 01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:47.840 Big Ten race. A lot of the teams in that 1274 01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:52.320 league changed, but the same basketball powerhouses sans Indiana, are 1275 01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:53.199 still running the show. 1276 01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:59.199 That's true. In my personal favorite segment, did DePaul win, No, 1277 01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:01.320 but they shouldn't lose either. They had a bye weekend, 1278 01:01:01.360 --> 01:01:03.760 so uneventful week for DePaul. But they will take a 1279 01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:05.119 week in which they do not lose. 1280 01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:07.760 Correct, Yeah, they haven't had very many of those, and 1281 01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:10.159 they'll take one. Here. Ranked teams to lose since the 1282 01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:13.519 last show, there's only three, or there's only five of them. 1283 01:01:13.800 --> 01:01:16.800 You have three Big twelve slash former Big twelve teams, 1284 01:01:16.840 --> 01:01:19.079 and the top two teams in college basketball this year. 1285 01:01:19.199 --> 01:01:21.320 Number one Auburn lost at home to Florida. 1286 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:24.920 Number two Duke lost to Creighton or at Clemson, not Creighton. 1287 01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:28.480 There you go. That could happen to Creighton's good. Number 1288 01:01:28.519 --> 01:01:30.679 thirteen Texas Tech lost to Arizona. 1289 01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:32.840 Number fifteen Miszoo lost to Texas A and M. 1290 01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:38.519 And number sixteen Oh no, not you Oh the drop 1291 01:01:38.519 --> 01:01:41.480 didn't work. It's hiding in shame. There you go. Bill 1292 01:01:41.599 --> 01:01:43.840 lost to k State, which, let me give you a 1293 01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:47.760 little last year on inside the Paint up. And another 1294 01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:50.719 ranked team to lose in the last show, Kansas lost 1295 01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:53.000 to Kansas State. Hope, let me go back one more year. 1296 01:01:54.239 --> 01:01:57.480 And ranked teams to lose since the last show. Here's Kansas. 1297 01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:00.360 They lost to Kansas State. But I'm sure they won't 1298 01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:03.480 do that next year, right, damnit, damnit, damn it. Three 1299 01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:06.280 times in a row. Kansas has lost to Kansas State. 1300 01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:09.159 They haven't won there since the Ochai game. Right that 1301 01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:11.960 wild comeback when when Oachai hit the bucket with less 1302 01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:13.960 than ten seconds left and they they wanted the last 1303 01:02:14.119 --> 01:02:16.519 at the buzzer. Yep. Yeah, it's been a long time, 1304 01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:17.760 so they should have lost that too. 1305 01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:21.639 Yeah, yeah, they absolutely should have. And then just by 1306 01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:25.199 like level of disgustingness, they should have lost the year 1307 01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:25.960 before that as well. 1308 01:02:26.719 --> 01:02:29.599 That's right. Yeah, and you go back another year, the 1309 01:02:29.719 --> 01:02:32.159 twenty team. Uh, they were number one in the country 1310 01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:34.079 and k State was last in the Big twelve and 1311 01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:37.719 Kansas only won that game by four. They always play 1312 01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:40.719 ugly in Manhattan, right, that was on Leapier Day, right 1313 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:42.440 before they shut the world down, and we were like, 1314 01:02:42.519 --> 01:02:47.039 Kansas unstoppable. They are never losing again, and they didn't. 1315 01:02:47.239 --> 01:02:49.519 That's true, but that has an asterisk. 1316 01:02:49.559 --> 01:02:49.719 Bye. 1317 01:02:50.119 --> 01:02:52.199 Last week in pick them, speaking of not losing landon, 1318 01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:54.039 the gap is tightening. You had a great pick them week. 1319 01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:56.440 I believe you're within six of CAM. I'm within four 1320 01:02:56.480 --> 01:02:58.639 of Cams, so we're all within six games of each 1321 01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:01.800 other with plenty of picks. Had stop picking the Jayhawks 1322 01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:03.039 to win, and you'd be in first place. 1323 01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:05.320 I did. I tried. I tried doing that a couple 1324 01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:06.639 of times, and it hasn't gone well for me. 1325 01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:13.280 Yeah, what's your record in Kansas games this year? And yeah, 1326 01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:16.559 that's that's disappointing. If you had picked those games correctly, 1327 01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:18.199 you'd be doing great. But you can make up for 1328 01:03:18.239 --> 01:03:22.400 it by answering some of these questions. Okay, babe, all right, 1329 01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:25.119 so ask rock Shock blog. I haven't looked at these yet. 1330 01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:27.639 I'm assuming we're gonna have some Chiefs questions that I 1331 01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:30.119 think they played a football game yesterday. I don't know. 1332 01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:32.760 I'm trying not to think about it, even though Landon, 1333 01:03:32.800 --> 01:03:35.280 you're not much of a Chiefs fan anymore. Explained dynasty 1334 01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:36.159 fatigue a little bit. 1335 01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:41.559 Uh, it's dynasty fatigue and also just like life perspective. Yeah, 1336 01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:46.840 but what has happened here is that the Chiefs are 1337 01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:51.280 just very good. And I really do despise football dynasties. 1338 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:55.599 I don't know something about specifically. Football dynasties are just 1339 01:03:55.639 --> 01:03:59.280 the most boring thing in the world to me, and 1340 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:01.639 I'm I want the Chiefs to win against the Eagles. 1341 01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:03.480 I really did. I wanted to see the three peet 1342 01:04:03.559 --> 01:04:06.760 I was a little upset when they lost. I was, 1343 01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:10.800 I was disappointed, But I just can't really be made 1344 01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:13.960 to have a deep emotional connection to the Chiefs anymore. 1345 01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:16.960 I've seen them do everything I could have ever dreamed 1346 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:20.840 of seeing them do multiple times at this point, and 1347 01:04:21.119 --> 01:04:23.159 there's just not a lot of juice left there. Still 1348 01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:25.920 like them. I still watched like almost all their games 1349 01:04:25.960 --> 01:04:28.440 this year. I don't. I think I've only missed one 1350 01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:31.400 because I was like out of the country. Otherwise I 1351 01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:34.000 saw them. But yeah, it's a little board, a little 1352 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:34.519 board by. 1353 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:37.639 Them, and I think that that's a fair take. Like 1354 01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:41.119 I the first chief super Bowl happened right before COVID 1355 01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:44.119 and I was twenty five, and I was prepared to 1356 01:04:44.159 --> 01:04:46.320 go my whole life without ever seeing that and have 1357 01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:49.920 it happened whenever I was young, and you know, you 1358 01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:53.440 can celebrate and go to the parade and buy the 1359 01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:56.760 shirt and hat and the and the framed picture of 1360 01:04:56.760 --> 01:04:58.639 the suit of the confetti falling on the super Bowl, 1361 01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:01.079 like all of that was just it was so fun 1362 01:05:01.239 --> 01:05:04.239 to get to do that whenever. I cried actual tiers 1363 01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:06.039 as a seven year old when they lost to the 1364 01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:08.559 Colts in the two thousand and three playoff game and 1365 01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:12.320 it just was NonStop crap until Mahomes got there. But 1366 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:15.239 ever since then, as they've done nothing but go to 1367 01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:18.800 Super Bowls and win the majority of them, I'm with you, 1368 01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:21.480 it hasn't It hasn't been quite the same. It is 1369 01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:23.480 cool that they've won games, and I was like, oh 1370 01:05:23.639 --> 01:05:25.800 darn that they lost yesterday. I was rooting for them 1371 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:28.199 to win. But it just now that I've seen all 1372 01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:31.199 three of the teams I root for win a championship 1373 01:05:31.639 --> 01:05:34.519 within the first twenty five years of my life, that 1374 01:05:34.719 --> 01:05:37.679 is spoiled and I can't really and they've done it 1375 01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:39.920 multiple times. I've seen kay you win it twice. I'm 1376 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:42.440 not even thirty yet, almost, but I've seen kay you 1377 01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:44.400 win it twice. I've seen the Chiefs win it three times. 1378 01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:46.519 I've seen the Royals win it once. And I've seen 1379 01:05:46.559 --> 01:05:49.800 all three of those teams lou get to other championships 1380 01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:54.559 and lose on the doorsteps. So no shortage of opportunities 1381 01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:57.440 and wins. I can't even imagine if I was like 1382 01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:00.000 a Bills fan, like or poor Cam being a line 1383 01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:03.639 because we did that. We watched the Chiefs lose a 1384 01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:06.119 playoff game where they didn't punt and then we lost. 1385 01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:08.400 Chiefs lose a playoff game where the other quarterback threw 1386 01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:11.079 a touchdown pass to himself like, and then we watched 1387 01:06:11.079 --> 01:06:13.199 the Chiefs lose it to a playoff game when they 1388 01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:16.920 scored two touchdowns and their opponents scored no touchdowns, and 1389 01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:20.239 yet the Chiefs still lost. You were at that game. 1390 01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:22.400 I was at that game, the only playoff game I've 1391 01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:23.079 ever attended. 1392 01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:25.639 Oh and it was cold and they moved it because 1393 01:06:25.639 --> 01:06:28.400 of ice. And you watch the Steelers make six field 1394 01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:30.039 goals and beat the Chiefs. 1395 01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.679 And we watched them tie the game only for the 1396 01:06:32.719 --> 01:06:33.280 holding call. 1397 01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:36.599 Oh I forgot about that was that the Eric Fisher 1398 01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:38.039 hold on the two point try. 1399 01:06:38.360 --> 01:06:41.119 That was when the refs hated the Chiefs exactly. Yeah, right, 1400 01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:42.960 something that they definitely don't do now. 1401 01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:46.760 But that's it. We kind of kind of tying into 1402 01:06:46.840 --> 01:06:49.280 that because there are a couple Chiefs questions, So let's 1403 01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:51.880 hit those. First year at Sholmy Hawk, which of these 1404 01:06:52.039 --> 01:06:56.119 is the worst weekend in nineteen KU lost at West Virginia. 1405 01:06:56.199 --> 01:06:58.000 Oh my god, this is going to bring us dark 1406 01:06:58.039 --> 01:07:00.360 memories landing And the next day the Chiefs lost in 1407 01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:03.440 the D four game to the Patriots. In twenty twenty one, 1408 01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:06.280 k You got blown out at West Virginia to end 1409 01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:08.599 their top twenty five streak. The day before, the Chiefs 1410 01:07:08.599 --> 01:07:10.960 got blown out in Tampa in the Super Bowl. In 1411 01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:14.119 twenty twenty two, Kansas got trashed by Kentucky. The day 1412 01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:16.199 before they blew the Chiefs blew a twenty one to 1413 01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:20.559 three lead in the AFC Championship Game against Cincinnati. And 1414 01:07:20.599 --> 01:07:22.960 then this year k You lose at k State, Chiefs 1415 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:24.800 get blown out in the Super Bowl to Philly. Wow. 1416 01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:29.679 So when the Jayhawks lose on Super Bowl Saturday, bad 1417 01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:32.239 things happen the next day, is what you're telling me here? 1418 01:07:32.360 --> 01:07:34.280 Or on AFC Championship Saturday. 1419 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:36.880 That's yeah, that's a tough one. I think I would 1420 01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:39.159 go twenty twenty two, because yeah, there was I also 1421 01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:44.079 have a vivid memory of also the Saturday that k 1422 01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:47.639 you lost to Kentucky or maybe it was it was 1423 01:07:47.679 --> 01:07:49.440 it was either the Saturday or the Sunday one or 1424 01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:49.679 the other. 1425 01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:51.039 Is the soccer game. 1426 01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:54.079 USA soccer had a qualifying game against Canada that they 1427 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:56.960 also lost to nothing, and it looked for a moment 1428 01:07:57.079 --> 01:07:59.519 like is USA gonna blow this again? So that was 1429 01:07:59.559 --> 01:08:03.599 a like depressingly bad three games to have back to 1430 01:08:03.639 --> 01:08:04.159 back to back. 1431 01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:06.840 And it was cold. It was real cold. They're playing 1432 01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:09.760 soccer games in January and Canada and it was it 1433 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:11.599 was or maybe it was a Minnesota or something. 1434 01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:13.599 It was just freezing it Canada. 1435 01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:16.800 Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, And yeah, so the twenty 1436 01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:19.760 two year was the worst for my money because we 1437 01:08:19.800 --> 01:08:22.399 were coming off such an emotional high. The week before, 1438 01:08:22.680 --> 01:08:25.840 We're in a three day stretch. Yeah, Canabis beating you 1439 01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:27.920 had Kansas beeeding k State in the game we just 1440 01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:30.920 talked about. Then the Chiefs and the Bills played the 1441 01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:33.840 wildest playoff game I've ever watched, the thirteen second game, 1442 01:08:34.039 --> 01:08:36.199 and then the next day was the o Chaia Baji 1443 01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:41.079 double overtime three uh win ixae. Yeah, so we were 1444 01:08:41.119 --> 01:08:44.039 we thought that nothing could go wrong, and Kansas just 1445 01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:48.239 got flattened roadkill style by John Caliperi and his well 1446 01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:51.640 colossal you know. And then but we were like, hey, 1447 01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:54.359 it's okay, the Chiefs get to play the lousy ass 1448 01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:57.880 Bengals as an eight point favorite the next day. Nothing 1449 01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:03.840 could go wrong. And then well, yeah, I think that 1450 01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:08.279 of all of those scenarios, I think twenty two is 1451 01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:13.119 the only one where you legitimately believed both Ku and 1452 01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:15.239 are twenty two. Twenty two is the only one of 1453 01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:19.159 those four where both Ku and the Chiefs were considerable 1454 01:09:19.239 --> 01:09:22.880 favorites and they both got trounced. 1455 01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:25.800 Yes, yes, I think that's a very good way to 1456 01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:26.119 put it. 1457 01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:29.359 And at Showy Hawk also says, I feel like I'm 1458 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:31.239 one of the few Chiefs fans that's ready to turn 1459 01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:33.520 the page after the Super Bowl loss. The three peat 1460 01:09:33.560 --> 01:09:35.680 would have been cool, but at least the season was 1461 01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:38.680 still success in a vacuum. Also ads we saw the 1462 01:09:38.760 --> 01:09:42.159 Jayhawks win in that same building, the Superdome, three years ago. 1463 01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:44.600 We did. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, the 1464 01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:47.119 Chiefs said, like, Chiefs fans are so spoiled man, like 1465 01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:50.000 the Chiefs. That's the right attitude. You tip your cap. 1466 01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:53.800 Philadelphia play. They clearly showed you they were a better team, 1467 01:09:54.119 --> 01:09:56.399 and they played a fantastic game and they beat you, 1468 01:09:56.680 --> 01:09:59.239 and all you only have three Super Bowls in the 1469 01:09:59.279 --> 01:10:01.560 last six years now instead of four, Like, no one 1470 01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:03.680 feels bad for the Chiefs. No one should. And you 1471 01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:05.399 tip your cap and you move on to the next one. 1472 01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:07.000 The Chiefs will be back. I don't know if they're 1473 01:10:07.000 --> 01:10:08.680 going to play in the Super Bowl next year, but 1474 01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:10.520 they're always going to have a chance with the roster 1475 01:10:10.600 --> 01:10:12.479 they have, kind of like Kansas, and that's really all 1476 01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:13.199 you can ask for. 1477 01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:15.640 Yep, that's a good way to put it. 1478 01:10:16.359 --> 01:10:19.279 Seeing if there's anything else with football before we move 1479 01:10:19.359 --> 01:10:21.800 on to basketball, I don't think there is. At Mayo 1480 01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:25.439 Zeke Berner. If the following duo of fran furs Schilla 1481 01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:28.319 and Doug Sermons, oh my gosh, I don't even want 1482 01:10:28.319 --> 01:10:30.119 to see the rest of the question at this point. 1483 01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:33.039 I'm ready to just go ahead and end it. Oh, 1484 01:10:33.119 --> 01:10:36.319 the rest of the questions good? If they both retired tomorrow, 1485 01:10:37.199 --> 01:10:41.279 would world peace be solved, at least. 1486 01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:43.800 In the sports community. Yeah, the Twitter community would be 1487 01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:47.239 way calmer. General discourse on this podcast would be a 1488 01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:49.159 little calmer. Yeah. 1489 01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:51.720 Landon is quite happy with the way that things from 1490 01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:54.359 a world affairs perspective are going. So I don't even think, 1491 01:10:54.680 --> 01:10:56.560 really good, guys, I don't. 1492 01:10:56.359 --> 01:10:57.039 Think that now. 1493 01:10:57.439 --> 01:10:59.640 Yeah, So I don't think that there'd be anything left 1494 01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:01.800 on his list that would be problematic. I think that 1495 01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:04.319 it would be like the meme of the flying cars 1496 01:11:04.439 --> 01:11:07.319 utopian city, that'd be your life if Fran and Doug 1497 01:11:07.399 --> 01:11:08.520 Sermons both disappeared. 1498 01:11:08.960 --> 01:11:10.720 Yeah, and I would take one of those flying cars 1499 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:11.840 to America's Gaza. 1500 01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:17.199 Oh no, oh, there I go, jumping to my death. 1501 01:11:17.239 --> 01:11:19.479 Before I have to touch the rest of this podcast. 1502 01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:22.720 I'm at Dick Underscore Taser with a really good question 1503 01:11:22.760 --> 01:11:24.359 that brings up something that we need to talk about 1504 01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:28.239 here Land And he says, Valentine's Day is it legitimate 1505 01:11:28.760 --> 01:11:31.920 or just for guys that don't care care of business 1506 01:11:32.159 --> 01:11:35.239 on the other three hundred and sixty four days. 1507 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:39.319 Uh, it is a completely fraudulent holiday that I've never 1508 01:11:39.399 --> 01:11:40.920 had the opportunity to celebrate. 1509 01:11:41.279 --> 01:11:46.560 No, that's it is not your you absolute marketing hill, 1510 01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:52.000 you absolute sheep. So Valentine's Day is my second favorite 1511 01:11:52.039 --> 01:11:54.880 holiday of the year after Christmas, because it is an 1512 01:11:54.920 --> 01:12:00.800 opportunity to be better than where so many people, so 1513 01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:03.960 many and I won't even say women, because it's so 1514 01:12:03.960 --> 01:12:06.720 many people are let down by their spouses and they 1515 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:09.800 deserve to feel love, They deserve to have somebody go 1516 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:12.079 out of their way and show them that they care. 1517 01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:13.960 It's an excuse to do that. 1518 01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:16.159 Well, yeah, and you can, And I think that's what 1519 01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:18.119 Wayne Kerr says, Like you can take care of your 1520 01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:20.920 business in other days too, but it's still an opportunity 1521 01:12:20.920 --> 01:12:22.760 to go above and beyond and to put a smile 1522 01:12:22.840 --> 01:12:26.520 on someone's face. Valentine's Day is a good holiday. It's 1523 01:12:26.560 --> 01:12:29.239 not just a marketing gimmick. I will say, it's annoying 1524 01:12:29.239 --> 01:12:32.319 as hell. How high V I know that those twelve 1525 01:12:32.640 --> 01:12:35.760 that those dozen roses are twenty dollars, except for this 1526 01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:38.600 week when they go to thirty five. I see you 1527 01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:40.720 capitalistic bastards doing that. 1528 01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:44.399 I do think it's I think it's I think it's fraud. 1529 01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:48.279 So this year was harder because I normally you normally 1530 01:12:48.319 --> 01:12:50.840 have about two or three weeks beforehand to put in 1531 01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:53.800 a reservation at a place for Valentine's Day, but this 1532 01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:55.880 year it's on a Friday, so it was harder. I 1533 01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:58.399 had to do it in mid January. And just pointing 1534 01:12:58.399 --> 01:13:00.600 this out, two years from now, this super Bowl in 1535 01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:04.279 twenty twenty seven is on Valentine's Day. I think the 1536 01:13:04.359 --> 01:13:06.600 restaurants may be a little easier to get into on 1537 01:13:06.680 --> 01:13:07.399 those days. 1538 01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:12.680 Uh whatever, whatever city sees their team when the birthrate 1539 01:13:12.800 --> 01:13:15.760 nine months from that night is going to be stupid. 1540 01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:20.520 High, hopefully it's not Philadelphia. Then because boy, some of 1541 01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:21.600 the police scanner too. 1542 01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:23.560 Yeah. We did it on a couch on fire in 1543 01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:24.439 the street, guys. 1544 01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:27.720 Yep, climbed a light pole. We were already all oiled 1545 01:13:27.800 --> 01:13:29.800 up because you know they oil all the light poles. 1546 01:13:30.880 --> 01:13:34.079 Yeah, it's normal, normal stuff. 1547 01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:37.800 Totally normal to use the oil on the lamp post. 1548 01:13:37.840 --> 01:13:44.479 And well December fourteenth, pop wam, I'm a dad way 1549 01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:48.319 whoa Also Dick underscore, that was the baby coming out 1550 01:13:48.359 --> 01:13:48.720 Land and. 1551 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:52.239 It wasn't okay okay, okay okay, And that's good. That's yeah, 1552 01:13:52.239 --> 01:13:53.920 that's good and normal. I'm back. 1553 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:57.760 I'm back at Dick underscore. Taser also says is Valentine's 1554 01:13:57.800 --> 01:14:00.920 Day just a holiday to set up to the landings 1555 01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:02.439 of the world feel lonely? 1556 01:14:03.319 --> 01:14:07.119 You see you see, mister Taser, mister Kerr, if you will? 1557 01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:07.800 Uh? 1558 01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:13.000 I not normally normally I was extremely whatever about Valentine's Day, 1559 01:14:13.000 --> 01:14:14.920 and even this year, I'm very still just whatever. I 1560 01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:19.600 don't really care. But I had never flipped off Valentine's 1561 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:23.279 decore in a Walmart before until this year. A few 1562 01:14:23.319 --> 01:14:25.560 weeks after, I was friend zoned by a girl that 1563 01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:29.399 I like. Oh, so you know, it is what it is. 1564 01:14:29.399 --> 01:14:31.319 We all go through it. 1565 01:14:31.479 --> 01:14:33.920 Wow that I can't believe that that picture'd end up 1566 01:14:33.920 --> 01:14:35.840 in the Land and Cam Ryan group chat. Come on, 1567 01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:36.720 Land and what are you doing? 1568 01:14:37.119 --> 01:14:39.560 I didn't take a picture. That'd be weird. It's normal 1569 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:41.359 to do it, it's weird to photograph it. 1570 01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:42.760 Well, you know what? 1571 01:14:42.680 --> 01:14:43.000 What do I? 1572 01:14:43.039 --> 01:14:45.359 What did? I always used to tell you? Because I 1573 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:48.079 am six years older than you, so you know, as 1574 01:14:48.119 --> 01:14:51.319 you know, I'm a very mature and sophisticated individual. As 1575 01:14:51.319 --> 01:14:54.640 you prove on this every day, some seasoned life advice 1576 01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:57.319 gets offered occasionally. What did I always tell you it 1577 01:14:57.359 --> 01:14:59.800 was perfectly acceptable to do on Valentine's Day? 1578 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:03.840 Oh, send flowers to your mom? Yes, yes, a thing 1579 01:15:03.960 --> 01:15:05.359 I haven't done and will never do. 1580 01:15:07.319 --> 01:15:09.199 Well, then you know a what Land and I did 1581 01:15:09.239 --> 01:15:12.039 my best? I want to know what at Wayne Underscore 1582 01:15:12.119 --> 01:15:15.560 Kerr thinks it's Dick Underscore Taser. He's now Ku Push 1583 01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:18.039 Up Club, He's no longer Wayne Kerr. I like that 1584 01:15:18.520 --> 01:15:21.680 Dick Taser should Land and send flowers to his mom 1585 01:15:21.720 --> 01:15:24.760 on Valentine's Day? And if he says yes, Landa, I 1586 01:15:24.760 --> 01:15:26.760 think you should have to do it. That's the rules. 1587 01:15:27.359 --> 01:15:31.359 Whatever whatever, I'll captain America fight you all at once. 1588 01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:34.760 All right, now I'll ask you some basketball quite well. 1589 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:37.479 One more before that at rock chuk eighty four. What 1590 01:15:37.640 --> 01:15:40.640 is the oldest photo on your camera roll that when 1591 01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:43.920 you see it goes makes you go wow? I still 1592 01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:46.640 wear that. Oh, it's got to be something sports like. 1593 01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:49.319 It's got to be like a freakin' Jamal Charles Jersey 1594 01:15:49.399 --> 01:15:51.119 whenever I was like fourteen years. 1595 01:15:50.960 --> 01:15:53.399 Old, scrolling all the way to the top. 1596 01:15:54.079 --> 01:15:56.520 Yeah, I was gonna say. And so I'm a big 1597 01:15:56.640 --> 01:15:59.159 sink my phone with like the all the pictures on 1598 01:15:59.159 --> 01:16:01.239 my computer. I have thirty two thousand photos on here, 1599 01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:04.680 and they are sinked and organized by folder, just because 1600 01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:08.720 that's how my OCD and borderline autism riddled brain works. 1601 01:16:09.359 --> 01:16:11.359 But so I have every I have all of the 1602 01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:14.199 family photos on here. The oldest photo on my phone, 1603 01:16:14.319 --> 01:16:16.840 the date says May one, nineteen ninety nine. I am 1604 01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:19.840 four years old and we're in California on my first vacation. 1605 01:16:20.239 --> 01:16:22.840 I do not still wear the Winnie the Pooh size 1606 01:16:23.039 --> 01:16:24.880 one shirt that I'm wearing in that picture. 1607 01:16:24.920 --> 01:16:31.319 Though. My oldest photo is from October one, twenty seventeen. No, 1608 01:16:31.359 --> 01:16:33.119 it's older than that. I think that's when I switched it. 1609 01:16:33.319 --> 01:16:36.840 This must be from like twenty has to be from 1610 01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:41.760 like twenty fifteen. My guess it's an Olympic jacket. I have, 1611 01:16:41.800 --> 01:16:46.560 like a red Olympic jacket. A Nike Jacket's pretty nice 1612 01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:48.359 that I'm wearing in this photo and I'm like fifteen. 1613 01:16:48.359 --> 01:16:49.920 It's still in my closet to this day. I don't 1614 01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:51.600 wear it a ton, but I do occasionally. 1615 01:16:52.479 --> 01:16:56.560 Well, and Landon, I will add something too. So my 1616 01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.359 wife and I were talking about you earlier because I said, 1617 01:16:59.439 --> 01:17:02.600 Landa's go's gonna call me, and then she had asked. 1618 01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:04.199 She asked me a little bit about what had been 1619 01:17:04.199 --> 01:17:06.000 going on in the last few weeks, which I told 1620 01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:09.000 her everything that happened, and her exact words were, after 1621 01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:11.680 thinking about it, she said, Landon's really cute. He'll have 1622 01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:14.199 no problems, and then she went to the gym, so 1623 01:17:14.479 --> 01:17:18.199 you can have. So. I don't know they're like the 1624 01:17:18.279 --> 01:17:18.840 fact that. 1625 01:17:18.840 --> 01:17:21.279 People who aren't your wife to think that, or other 1626 01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:24.439 people's wives in general, because I'm not really about that, 1627 01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:26.000 but I appreciate it. Angie, thank you. 1628 01:17:26.079 --> 01:17:26.239 Yeah. 1629 01:17:26.279 --> 01:17:27.840 Have you ever saw her name on the podcast? 1630 01:17:27.920 --> 01:17:32.079 Surely I've yelled it in anger when she starts vacuuming 1631 01:17:32.119 --> 01:17:34.600 down the hallway as I'm trying to do. I think 1632 01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:38.399 I'm pretty sure that's that's why. That's why Valentine's nay 1633 01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:39.800 matter so much. I have to make up for all 1634 01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:42.399 the annoying, stupid things I do throughout the course of 1635 01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:42.760 the year. 1636 01:17:43.439 --> 01:17:45.159 Well, hey, I appreciate your wife's sentiment. 1637 01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:49.359 I will. I will pass along your appreciation, but Landon 1638 01:17:49.399 --> 01:17:52.399 will eventually there will come a time on this podcast 1639 01:17:52.439 --> 01:17:55.079 where you're like, I love Valentine's Day, Ryan, you were 1640 01:17:55.159 --> 01:17:56.920 right the whole time, and I'm waiting for it. 1641 01:17:57.800 --> 01:17:58.640 Okay, me too. 1642 01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:04.640 The wheel reel too. Why does Landon pronounce nuclear as nuclear? 1643 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:09.039 Me focused questions here correct, yes, and he adds this 1644 01:18:09.159 --> 01:18:12.159 is worse than fran for Schilla pronouncing Houston as Euston. 1645 01:18:13.319 --> 01:18:16.399 Uh A, no, it's not. And be my bad. I 1646 01:18:16.399 --> 01:18:18.520 guess do you say that? 1647 01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:19.600 I never noticed that? 1648 01:18:19.960 --> 01:18:23.960 Not that's eu Ler. I probably have said nuclear that 1649 01:18:23.960 --> 01:18:25.760 that's how I say it, probably, which is wrong. 1650 01:18:26.479 --> 01:18:28.199 Boy, you ought to hear me. What What are some 1651 01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:30.840 of the words I've messed up over the years. I 1652 01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:32.079 like I used. 1653 01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:37.039 The two C mispronunciation as just something that's incorrect. 1654 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:44.479 For Kansas I love that matchup. Getting all the way 1655 01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:46.520 off of this segment, I think I used to say 1656 01:18:46.640 --> 01:18:48.880 allah instead of or I used to say a l 1657 01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:50.800 a instead of Allah. You remember that. 1658 01:18:53.079 --> 01:18:55.119 In what referenced in the God of Islam? 1659 01:18:55.399 --> 01:19:00.560 Or no, like like saying uh whenever you're you're like, uh, 1660 01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:04.319 you know the best holiday ever a la Valentine's Day? 1661 01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:07.800 Oh oh, I see right, Yeah they got it wrong. 1662 01:19:08.640 --> 01:19:10.119 Okay, that's pretty good. 1663 01:19:10.319 --> 01:19:13.039 We're we're. The chemistry is off the charts here in 1664 01:19:13.119 --> 01:19:15.439 this in this segment, I hope people are listening and 1665 01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:18.079 not sad that Kansas has lost five of the last 1666 01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:18.920 twelve games. 1667 01:19:19.399 --> 01:19:20.159 Why not both. 1668 01:19:21.520 --> 01:19:23.479 At AJ Stevenson, what do you see as a bigger 1669 01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:26.880 barrier to postseason success from this team? A complete inability 1670 01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:30.640 to play good basketball seems important? Or the fans who 1671 01:19:30.720 --> 01:19:33.239 point out on social media that this team can't play 1672 01:19:33.319 --> 01:19:37.800 good basketball pretty close, too close to call one. 1673 01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:39.960 The first one would fix the second one, but the 1674 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:41.560 second one doesn't keep happen either. 1675 01:19:42.119 --> 01:19:44.840 Yeah, that's that's a good way to word it. The 1676 01:19:44.880 --> 01:19:47.520 first one would or would it if Kansas won? Ever, 1677 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:49.720 because the Chiefs win damn near every game and fans 1678 01:19:49.760 --> 01:19:51.800 are still on Twitter like, uh, they only. 1679 01:19:52.680 --> 01:19:55.399 Actually didn't have one hundred one hundred catches for a 1680 01:19:55.479 --> 01:19:56.560 thousand yards this game. 1681 01:19:57.000 --> 01:20:01.159 Yeah, they just they really should reconsider the shuffling up 1682 01:20:01.199 --> 01:20:05.039 the coaching staff after that. Sure, that's exactly what everyone says, 1683 01:20:05.039 --> 01:20:06.880 which I don't know anybody who said they need to 1684 01:20:06.920 --> 01:20:09.079 fire some coaches after a fifteen and two season land 1685 01:20:09.119 --> 01:20:12.319 and please don't don't look at your texts at AJ Stevenson. 1686 01:20:12.680 --> 01:20:15.039 In the last few weeks, KU has given up eighty one, 1687 01:20:15.159 --> 01:20:19.359 eighty one, eighty seven and ninety two. Unrelated question, what 1688 01:20:19.479 --> 01:20:24.840 other shots should kJ add to his arsenal? Have they 1689 01:20:24.960 --> 01:20:28.199 really they've given up eighty in every game since kJ 1690 01:20:28.399 --> 01:20:31.039 came back. That's true, I mean think about that. 1691 01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:32.680 I did not really realize that. 1692 01:20:33.520 --> 01:20:35.880 I guess they did against Iowa State that Iowa State 1693 01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:36.920 one's the extraction here. 1694 01:20:37.039 --> 01:20:42.439 True. That isn't good. I think kJ should work on 1695 01:20:42.560 --> 01:20:45.760 shots that go in. I think he should work on 1696 01:20:46.119 --> 01:20:48.239 shots that go in the basket. If I had to 1697 01:20:48.279 --> 01:20:49.359 suggest shots. 1698 01:20:49.199 --> 01:20:52.399 For him, well, I don't think it's the fact that 1699 01:20:52.439 --> 01:20:54.079 he's not trying to do that. I think he's just 1700 01:20:54.159 --> 01:20:56.920 not very good at it, which, uh, oh, well, when 1701 01:20:56.960 --> 01:20:58.680 you say it like that, you know that's fair, you know, 1702 01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:04.920 instead of landing it. Well, come on, no, don't kJ 1703 01:21:05.199 --> 01:21:06.880 there is that better? That sounds seamless. 1704 01:21:08.119 --> 01:21:09.680 Yeah, it was super good. 1705 01:21:10.079 --> 01:21:11.760 Hey, then it's on par with the rest of my 1706 01:21:12.039 --> 01:21:14.520 u with the rest of my editing. Here two more 1707 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:17.000 questions at show me Hawk. If there it feels like 1708 01:21:17.079 --> 01:21:19.560 there's not a leader on this team might explain why 1709 01:21:19.560 --> 01:21:21.960 they've lost every big road game they've played, create Missouri, 1710 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:24.840 Iowa State, Baylor, k State. Part of that is they're 1711 01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:28.880 not a dominant team, and you're going to lose against 1712 01:21:28.920 --> 01:21:31.520 the top road teams you play when you're not an 1713 01:21:31.600 --> 01:21:34.039 elite level team. But a leader would help. And they 1714 01:21:34.119 --> 01:21:37.640 have enough how many combined years of basketball experience this 1715 01:21:37.800 --> 01:21:40.560 is starting five have? It's twenty, isn't it. It's more 1716 01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:42.000 than that, it's like twenty two. 1717 01:21:43.039 --> 01:21:43.800 Yeah, it's a lot. 1718 01:21:44.039 --> 01:21:47.000 It's a lot, a lot too many to be doing this. 1719 01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:49.760 But yes, that part of it is they're not a 1720 01:21:49.960 --> 01:21:53.520 lethal basketball team, so they're more susceptible to losing those games. 1721 01:21:53.600 --> 01:21:55.880 But a leader would help. And finishing this off here 1722 01:21:55.920 --> 01:21:58.960 at Elliott rus and H what would be your guys's 1723 01:21:59.079 --> 01:22:01.720 suggestions to make this team more consistent? If you were 1724 01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:02.880 the head coach, what would you do? 1725 01:22:03.039 --> 01:22:07.720 All Right, go for it, play kJ like maybe twenty 1726 01:22:07.760 --> 01:22:13.399 minutes a game, and mostly go I'd play a lot 1727 01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:17.399 more Shack and Zeke as the point guard, with Dewan 1728 01:22:17.439 --> 01:22:20.640 Harris playing more like twenty five minutes a game, and 1729 01:22:20.800 --> 01:22:22.720 I don't always know who I'm rolling out there. I 1730 01:22:22.760 --> 01:22:26.079 guess Florie's gonna play a lot more with Hunter, and 1731 01:22:26.119 --> 01:22:28.560 we're gonna run a lot more solo Flory at the five. 1732 01:22:29.439 --> 01:22:32.680 Yeah, yeah, Florie's got to play more than kJ by 1733 01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:35.119 a lot. Florie's got to play twice as many minutes 1734 01:22:35.159 --> 01:22:39.439 as kJ, unless it's a depending on the matchup. I 1735 01:22:39.720 --> 01:22:42.600 and yes, Dewe Harris can come to the bench like 1736 01:22:42.920 --> 01:22:46.479 it's allowed. It is allowed, though I understand that I 1737 01:22:46.640 --> 01:22:48.760 was banging my fists on the table for more to 1738 01:22:48.840 --> 01:22:51.479 one Harris whenever he was in foul trouble. There are 1739 01:22:51.560 --> 01:22:53.840 matchups where you need to want out there. There's like 1740 01:22:54.079 --> 01:22:56.880 there's also somewhere I'm with you. I'd like to see 1741 01:22:57.119 --> 01:22:59.920 Zeke Mayor run the point, and the Zeke Ryland Matt 1742 01:23:00.399 --> 01:23:03.359 would be immense. I would very rarely pull them off 1743 01:23:03.399 --> 01:23:03.680 the floor. 1744 01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:06.640 Yeah, those guys would play a lot, they'd play a 1745 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:09.439 lot together. I would even use David Koit a little 1746 01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:13.039 bit more in some spots circumstances. 1747 01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:19.119 Uh play Koit, Griffin, Mayo, Hunter and Floria together. 1748 01:23:20.319 --> 01:23:21.319 That sounds fun to me. 1749 01:23:22.560 --> 01:23:25.520 But not enough floor burns and not enough stops because 1750 01:23:25.680 --> 01:23:27.880 when Kj's out there, they only give up sixty in 1751 01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:31.600 the second half. Don't you see ye give up eighty 1752 01:23:31.640 --> 01:23:35.159 plus four to five times if you and then there 1753 01:23:35.279 --> 01:23:37.560 is one more here. Elliott says random question that I'm 1754 01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:41.199 just curious about what other sports are you guys interested 1755 01:23:41.239 --> 01:23:44.039 in that you already don't follow and would do so 1756 01:23:44.399 --> 01:23:46.800 more if not for the others that you already do. 1757 01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:50.880 I would like to watch hockey more. I've always said 1758 01:23:50.920 --> 01:23:54.039 that if the if I could either have an NHL 1759 01:23:54.159 --> 01:23:56.000 or an NBA team in Kansas City, I would take 1760 01:23:56.039 --> 01:23:58.640 the NHL team because I feel like Kansas already does 1761 01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:02.560 my basketball quota. But the reason I don't watch the 1762 01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:05.880 NHL is it really isn't that accessible here, Like ESPN 1763 01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:09.159 barely covers hockey, and there really isn't a team super 1764 01:24:09.199 --> 01:24:11.640 close to the year, unless you count Saint Louis, which grows. 1765 01:24:11.439 --> 01:24:14.279 So you get like some Blues games on local TV. 1766 01:24:14.760 --> 01:24:17.359 Very rarely, and that's on the rebranding. 1767 01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:19.880 Back have a lot of hockey games, though, Ryan, do 1768 01:24:20.039 --> 01:24:22.439 they Okay? Well, I have a lot of NHL games. 1769 01:24:22.720 --> 01:24:24.600 Okay, then maybe that's what I need to check in more. 1770 01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:27.319 I follow the NBA as much as I'd want to. 1771 01:24:28.159 --> 01:24:30.319 I always think I want to watch soccer more. I 1772 01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:32.319 know that's a stake through your heartland, and then I 1773 01:24:32.479 --> 01:24:35.079 just can't get into it. I try every four years. Yeah, 1774 01:24:35.479 --> 01:24:38.439 but I feel like that that the answer is probably hockey. 1775 01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:40.359 That's the one that I look at and think that 1776 01:24:40.760 --> 01:24:44.399 would that would keep my entertainment for a while. Yeah. 1777 01:24:44.439 --> 01:24:48.640 I have followed hockey at different times. When I lived 1778 01:24:48.680 --> 01:24:50.680 in Michigan, I watched a lot of the Red Wings. 1779 01:24:50.760 --> 01:24:52.960 I loosely keep up with the Red Wings. I like, 1780 01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:55.520 keep up with the standings and their scores and stuff. 1781 01:24:55.760 --> 01:25:00.640 I don't watch almost any of the games follow. As 1782 01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:02.680 I have talked about on the show before, Northern Michigan 1783 01:25:02.800 --> 01:25:06.439 University having their worst ever season five and twenty four 1784 01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:08.039 in hockey this year, which is. 1785 01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:11.159 Very different like season from extreme their hockey team. 1786 01:25:11.680 --> 01:25:15.439 Yes, yes, very very bad. I think so hockey. Hockey 1787 01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:16.920 probably would be the answer, Like you. I just if 1788 01:25:16.960 --> 01:25:19.159 another one of my interests just dropped off the planet, 1789 01:25:19.239 --> 01:25:22.720 hockey would be right there. Tennis might be the one 1790 01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:26.199 where I've I've loosely gotten into tennis in brief spurts. 1791 01:25:27.239 --> 01:25:31.119 I watched like the Wimbledon final between Djokovic and al 1792 01:25:31.199 --> 01:25:35.960 KaAZ like two years ago, and that was electric. But 1793 01:25:36.039 --> 01:25:38.319 I can't consistently get into it. But that is very 1794 01:25:38.399 --> 01:25:41.800 much If I really like dedicated to getting into it, 1795 01:25:41.880 --> 01:25:43.520 I think I'd think it's a lot of fun because 1796 01:25:43.520 --> 01:25:46.399 I think tennis is actually sneaky, great to watch. 1797 01:25:47.720 --> 01:25:50.880 Well, and that so fun. Fact, for those of you 1798 01:25:50.920 --> 01:25:54.000 who have listened, Nick wipert very good tennis player. 1799 01:25:54.520 --> 01:25:55.680 He's a very solid tennis player. 1800 01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:58.399 Yeah, I don't know how he has the patience for 1801 01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:01.279 it because it looks exhausting and difficult. I'm much more 1802 01:26:01.319 --> 01:26:03.560 of a sit there and eat doritos while I watch 1803 01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:07.000 other people play the sports kind of guy. But yeah, well, 1804 01:26:07.279 --> 01:26:10.520 we'll see how it goes whenever. One day, hopefully the 1805 01:26:10.640 --> 01:26:13.920 Kansas City has an NHL team, and maybe it'll get 1806 01:26:14.039 --> 01:26:17.760 hot enough here well they'll start playing seasonal tennis tournaments 1807 01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:20.640 here in the wintertime because climate change. Well have you 1808 01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:23.239 seen it just kidding. It's supposed to snow a freaking foot. 1809 01:26:23.600 --> 01:26:24.760 Just somebody shoot me. 1810 01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:26.159 Damnit, damn it, damn it. 1811 01:26:26.279 --> 01:26:29.159 If you ever have asked GARCBS use the Twitter hashtag 1812 01:26:29.479 --> 01:26:35.359 climate change debate, you just to please don't do that. Yeah, 1813 01:26:35.479 --> 01:26:39.359 don't do that. Well, okay, so here's what here's what 1814 01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:42.000 Cam said. Cam said he's excited to listen to the 1815 01:26:42.039 --> 01:26:45.359 next show when it opens with Kansas eighty four Colorado 1816 01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:49.159 seventy nine, Landon. I felt more encouraged than the discourage 1817 01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:52.199 from this one. How about you? And Oh my gosh, 1818 01:26:52.239 --> 01:26:54.439 I laughed so hard at that. That was so hilarious. 1819 01:26:54.640 --> 01:26:57.960 The only thing missing is this music, because Wow, if 1820 01:26:58.039 --> 01:27:02.000 this game leaves us feeling more encouraged than discouraged, they 1821 01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:06.520 better have won by a million. Colorado at number seventeen 1822 01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:12.039 Kansas on Tuesday to eleven at eight pm. This is 1823 01:27:12.239 --> 01:27:15.880 Colorado's only remaining non ESPN Plus game. 1824 01:27:15.960 --> 01:27:20.880 I think because they are atrocious and hopeless Ryan the 1825 01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:25.119 Colorado Buffaloes. They're nine and fourteen, an ESPN Plus worthy record. 1826 01:27:25.560 --> 01:27:30.399 They have zero wins and twelve l's in Big twelve play, 1827 01:27:30.520 --> 01:27:34.039 but their due, so I've been hearing they have not 1828 01:27:34.199 --> 01:27:37.479 won a game since December twenty first, oh my god, Hey, 1829 01:27:37.560 --> 01:27:38.960 that was before I was friend zoned. That was a 1830 01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:44.359 long time ago. When they beat Bellermine, their nine victories 1831 01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:49.359 are eight by opponents, and somehow Yukon, I know, Yukon 1832 01:27:50.159 --> 01:27:53.760 is probably not gonna three peat, much like the Chiefs Colorado. 1833 01:27:53.920 --> 01:27:55.680 Beating Yukon is absurd. 1834 01:27:56.399 --> 01:27:58.479 I was gonna say, I knew that that was a layoup, 1835 01:27:58.520 --> 01:28:00.239 I knew you'd slam that home, but I was I 1836 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:03.159 was ready to say, Oh, I wonder who else didn't 1837 01:28:03.279 --> 01:28:08.680 three pete? Anybody know just that total ass whipping the buffalo. 1838 01:28:08.960 --> 01:28:11.600 So I just randomly, like we had about ten people 1839 01:28:11.640 --> 01:28:13.520 over in the family room and they range in age 1840 01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:18.199 from I guess like seventeen to eighty, and right when 1841 01:28:18.359 --> 01:28:21.039 no one really knew what to say, when Mahomes threw 1842 01:28:21.039 --> 01:28:22.920 the pick in the end zone and Philly immediately scored, 1843 01:28:22.960 --> 01:28:25.119 it made it twenty four to nothing, and just it 1844 01:28:25.239 --> 01:28:27.000 was quiet for about eight seconds and the only thing 1845 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:29.239 that come up with is wow, this is asked to 1846 01:28:29.439 --> 01:28:31.720 our belt to ass just straight. 1847 01:28:31.920 --> 01:28:32.640 And then it was that. 1848 01:28:32.760 --> 01:28:35.039 It was quiet for several seconds after that, as everybody 1849 01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:39.760 kind of pondered that that is that is what everybody 1850 01:28:39.840 --> 01:28:45.319 has done to poor Colorado this year because the Buffalo's 1851 01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:48.680 best player, like it matters, is point guard Julian Hammond. 1852 01:28:49.800 --> 01:28:53.119 That's true. We're definitely really we should be careful here 1853 01:28:53.159 --> 01:28:54.000 where we tread. 1854 01:28:54.319 --> 01:28:56.560 This is where we did against UCF, where we're like, oh, 1855 01:28:56.680 --> 01:28:58.840 they have some players, I guess, and then they lost 1856 01:28:59.159 --> 01:28:59.760 in Orlando. 1857 01:29:01.439 --> 01:29:03.960 I do remember that, though. I think this Colorado team 1858 01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:06.359 is worse. I think this is the worst Big twelve 1859 01:29:06.439 --> 01:29:11.600 team since, like seriously since the since that TCU team, according. 1860 01:29:11.199 --> 01:29:13.000 To which also went super well. 1861 01:29:13.520 --> 01:29:17.000 Yeah, I was gonna say that was also a of 1862 01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:20.279 a basketball game there. Picked up an uber order today 1863 01:29:20.439 --> 01:29:23.399 doing my job at Burger King, and the guy ordered 1864 01:29:23.520 --> 01:29:26.720 to set whoppers and the song went through my head. 1865 01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:31.760 And much like the Jardians commercial, they've changed the original 1866 01:29:31.920 --> 01:29:34.399 beautiful musical score and now it's just not the same. 1867 01:29:36.680 --> 01:29:38.680 That is the most on brand for you thing in 1868 01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:42.600 the world to compare the Burger King add to the Jardians. 1869 01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:45.479 I like the Jardians ad. I like when the postman 1870 01:29:45.600 --> 01:29:47.920 starts singing too, and then they changed it and now 1871 01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:51.159 it's just not Yeah, it's not even Also, by the way, 1872 01:29:51.600 --> 01:29:55.479 leading question Land and hashtag GASCARCV. Should Big Pharma be 1873 01:29:55.560 --> 01:30:01.359 allowed to advertise these these gigantic pharmaceutical proscription on cable TV? 1874 01:30:02.079 --> 01:30:04.399 Yeah, obviously, capitalism until we die, baby. 1875 01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:06.680 Hey, it sounds like you and RFK have a few 1876 01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:07.319 things in common. 1877 01:30:08.760 --> 01:30:10.680 Is there anything else about Julian Hamm and you'd like 1878 01:30:10.760 --> 01:30:11.159 to tell me? 1879 01:30:12.039 --> 01:30:15.359 Julian Hammon averages fourteen points and three assists. He is 1880 01:30:15.359 --> 01:30:17.119 a good three point shooter, a very good one actually 1881 01:30:17.159 --> 01:30:20.760 forty percent. Javon Ruffan, RJ Smith and White Guy of 1882 01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:23.920 the Year candidate Sebastian his friends call him Sea Bass, 1883 01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:28.079 Rankick are the other wings of note. Also, Javon Ruffin 1884 01:30:28.239 --> 01:30:30.000 is an excellent name. He can be right next to 1885 01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:31.960 Gisel James on the All Big twelve teams. 1886 01:30:32.399 --> 01:30:35.600 Those are good ones. Colorado is a big team. Their 1887 01:30:35.640 --> 01:30:40.199 best big is six ' eight three man Andre Jakimovski, 1888 01:30:40.439 --> 01:30:44.119 who hails from Macedonia. He averages ten and four and 1889 01:30:44.279 --> 01:30:47.119 is a solid thirty five percent from behind the arc 1890 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:52.199 four man Benga Dack and seven footer Elijah Malone Maloney 1891 01:30:52.880 --> 01:30:56.079 both average about eight and four. Colorado has a handful 1892 01:30:56.119 --> 01:30:58.560 of guys that are six ' nine and taller. None 1893 01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:01.199 of them have particularly good rebounding numbers, though, so maybe 1894 01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:02.520 hundred Dickinson will eat down low. 1895 01:31:03.319 --> 01:31:06.279 I have looked at a lot of college basketball reference pages, 1896 01:31:06.359 --> 01:31:08.840 and it has been a very long time since I've 1897 01:31:08.920 --> 01:31:11.760 seen a team as bad on offense as Colorado. They 1898 01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:16.039 are just terrible outside the top two seventy in points scored, 1899 01:31:16.239 --> 01:31:18.520 and whenever you think of how many buy games they played, 1900 01:31:18.600 --> 01:31:21.640 that should legitimately be impossible, but here they are. Their 1901 01:31:21.680 --> 01:31:25.520 interior offense is especially awful. They shoot a mediocre thirty 1902 01:31:25.520 --> 01:31:27.279 four percent from deep, so they're not as bad as 1903 01:31:27.319 --> 01:31:29.600 you think they'd be from there. They can make threes, 1904 01:31:29.680 --> 01:31:32.359 it's just they get nothing inside the arc. They're a 1905 01:31:32.399 --> 01:31:34.600 good free throw shooting team, though at seventy six percent. 1906 01:31:34.680 --> 01:31:36.960 Don't want to foul them a lot. Their rebounding numbers 1907 01:31:36.960 --> 01:31:39.600 are terrible despite having a lot of size. Their pace 1908 01:31:39.720 --> 01:31:41.720 is among the slowest in the country, so not only 1909 01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:45.159 are they bad, they're also unwatchable. And they average average 1910 01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:48.920 fifteen turnovers per game, which the leads. 1911 01:31:49.000 --> 01:31:49.479 Oh bad. 1912 01:31:49.960 --> 01:31:52.720 Not only does it lead all Power five teams, but 1913 01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:55.840 it's not even freaking close, like that is an impossible 1914 01:31:56.159 --> 01:31:59.199 amount to turn the ball over. Consistently in Power five play. 1915 01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:04.159 Kansas has also to just curb our enthusiasm all the 1916 01:32:04.199 --> 01:32:07.279 way to the top. Here. They've been hilariously dominant against 1917 01:32:07.319 --> 01:32:10.520 Colorado all time, especially at Allen field House. The Jayhawks 1918 01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:14.520 have won a truly unfathomable thirty six straight games against 1919 01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:17.960 this team at Allen, dating back to nineteen eighty three. Obviously, 1920 01:32:18.159 --> 01:32:20.439 Colorado was in the Big twelve for a very long time. 1921 01:32:20.720 --> 01:32:23.880 Also, the last year Kansas lost three straight games the case. 1922 01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:29.359 Date though, Wow, wow, that's crazy. History may repeat itself, not. 1923 01:32:29.359 --> 01:32:31.560 Anymore, It's not sure anymore. Twenty twenty five is now. 1924 01:32:31.600 --> 01:32:33.000 The last time that happened. 1925 01:32:33.039 --> 01:32:35.960 True, Bill self is twenty and one against the Buffaloes, 1926 01:32:36.199 --> 01:32:39.479 and the one loss came on a Pac twelve buzzer 1927 01:32:39.520 --> 01:32:43.640 beater when Colorado had joined the Pac twelve. Yeah, I 1928 01:32:43.640 --> 01:32:45.159 remember that game. That was in the Wiggans year, the 1929 01:32:45.159 --> 01:32:46.119 first year of this podcast. 1930 01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:48.239 Yeah, that was the first sign that things weren't going 1931 01:32:48.319 --> 01:32:49.800 to go very well for that team. And then you 1932 01:32:49.920 --> 01:32:52.760 blink and March comes up and their best NBA prospect 1933 01:32:52.840 --> 01:32:55.000 is hurt and the team has double digit losses. Oh, 1934 01:32:55.159 --> 01:32:57.239 being a Kansas fan has gotten so much more sin 1935 01:32:57.399 --> 01:32:59.720 has gotten so much more fun since right right, but. 1936 01:32:59.800 --> 01:33:02.199 Never happened again, Nothing similar to that happens. 1937 01:33:02.279 --> 01:33:06.720 That's then basically Colorado is Drake and Bill's self is 1938 01:33:07.640 --> 01:33:11.000 Kendrick Lamark. This is just not even This isn't even fun. 1939 01:33:11.319 --> 01:33:13.720 They got him once and Kansas is like, okay, we 1940 01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:16.920 don't even care. Travis Goff also announced via presser this 1941 01:33:17.039 --> 01:33:19.199 morning that if Kansas loses this game, he will fire 1942 01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:20.520 bomb Allen field House himself. 1943 01:33:25.079 --> 01:33:27.720 Boy, I mean, we set ourselves up here. I don't 1944 01:33:27.720 --> 01:33:30.399 think there's any way on this earth Kansas loses this game. 1945 01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:33.720 Coming off the case eight loss. I think Kansas wins 1946 01:33:33.880 --> 01:33:35.319 eighty six to sixty. 1947 01:33:35.800 --> 01:33:39.039 Okay, so you think they show their fangs a little bit. 1948 01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:42.079 Yeah, I think I think they take care of business 1949 01:33:42.119 --> 01:33:43.199 pretty easily here. 1950 01:33:43.600 --> 01:33:45.560 What do you think the spread is? It just came out. 1951 01:33:47.560 --> 01:33:48.800 Minus twelve and a half. 1952 01:33:49.279 --> 01:33:54.039 It is minus eighteen. Kansas is eighteen point favorite in 1953 01:33:54.079 --> 01:33:58.000 a home conference game, and proving points that Cam will 1954 01:33:58.039 --> 01:34:00.439 sprinkle a few dollars on Colorado plus twelve one hundred 1955 01:34:00.479 --> 01:34:02.159 to win. That is not at all how that mast 1956 01:34:02.199 --> 01:34:04.520 should work. That should be like plus thirty five hundred. 1957 01:34:04.800 --> 01:34:07.399 But that's how Vegas makes their money. You'd have to 1958 01:34:07.479 --> 01:34:11.279 wager one hundred dollars on Kansas to win to make 1959 01:34:12.399 --> 01:34:15.840 believe it would be three dollars and thirty three cents. Oh, yes, 1960 01:34:16.399 --> 01:34:19.119 don't do it, Just don't do it. ESPN gives Colorado 1961 01:34:19.159 --> 01:34:21.319 a six percent chance to win the game. Yeah, Kansas 1962 01:34:21.399 --> 01:34:24.000 by a lot. Like their offense will look great, They'll 1963 01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:25.680 make a lot of threes, the defense will look great. 1964 01:34:25.720 --> 01:34:27.560 This is yeah, you said eighty six to sixty something 1965 01:34:27.600 --> 01:34:30.520 like that, eighty seven fifty seven. Like they are gonna 1966 01:34:30.600 --> 01:34:32.800 just wipe the floor clean with this team, and it 1967 01:34:32.880 --> 01:34:35.319 will mean nothing because then they'll go to Utah and 1968 01:34:35.479 --> 01:34:38.520 be in a nail bider with two minutes left on Saturday. 1969 01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:41.680 That's next, by the way, nine pm Utah road tip 1970 01:34:41.760 --> 01:34:42.720 coming on Saturday night. 1971 01:34:43.359 --> 01:34:46.039 Yeah, this is what we'll be remembered as the Mormon 1972 01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:47.359 stretch of the schedule. 1973 01:34:48.000 --> 01:34:51.279 Yeah, they get the two Utah schools with Colorado on 1974 01:34:51.359 --> 01:34:53.960 both ends of it. I think other Big twelve games 1975 01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:56.840 Baylor at number six, Houston. We said all the time 1976 01:34:56.920 --> 01:34:59.239 Baylor loses the games that they should lose. This feels 1977 01:34:59.279 --> 01:35:03.119 like one of them. Houston at home, yep, number ten 1978 01:35:03.199 --> 01:35:05.439 Iowa State hits the road to play UCF feels like 1979 01:35:05.479 --> 01:35:08.000 a prime recipe for Iowa State to score ninety eight points. 1980 01:35:09.000 --> 01:35:11.239 Yeah. I was gonna say UCF is slightly tempting here 1981 01:35:11.319 --> 01:35:13.800 until I remember that they can't stop anybody ever, So 1982 01:35:13.920 --> 01:35:14.720 Iowa State will win. 1983 01:35:15.159 --> 01:35:18.319 Yep. Utah at Cincinnati. Holy gross, I guess we're going 1984 01:35:18.359 --> 01:35:19.479 Cincinnati for three in a row. 1985 01:35:20.319 --> 01:35:20.600 I am. 1986 01:35:21.119 --> 01:35:23.640 Yeah. Utah is gonna get that look ahead to Kansas thing, right, 1987 01:35:23.680 --> 01:35:26.279 that's gonna that's gonna get them off their game. BYU 1988 01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:31.239 at West Virginia probably the Mountaineers at home, but no 1989 01:35:31.279 --> 01:35:32.119 one's gonna watch this. 1990 01:35:32.880 --> 01:35:35.720 Yeah, those are maybe the two most shrug games of 1991 01:35:35.760 --> 01:35:38.960 all time. But West Virginia really interesting game here. 1992 01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:42.079 Number thirteen. Arizona at Kansas State. So look, I want 1993 01:35:42.079 --> 01:35:44.159 to pick Kansas State really really bad in this game. 1994 01:35:44.199 --> 01:35:46.560 I think Arizona is due to lose and Case State 1995 01:35:46.680 --> 01:35:50.279 is firecracker hot. But just we know how Case State 1996 01:35:50.439 --> 01:35:53.039 goes right after they beat Kansas This feels like a 1997 01:35:53.479 --> 01:35:55.840 twenty two points in the first half sort of game 1998 01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:59.000 for them. I will reluctantly pick Arizona in this game 1999 01:35:59.039 --> 01:35:59.800 of wildcats. 2000 01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:04.199 Yeah, this this like Arizona feels so primed to lose 2001 01:36:04.239 --> 01:36:07.800 a game like this, but case State off the Kansas win, Like, 2002 01:36:07.840 --> 01:36:10.960 are they gonna get two top twenty wins back to back? 2003 01:36:11.239 --> 01:36:14.039 It'd be three out of four too, because if Iowas yeah. 2004 01:36:14.279 --> 01:36:21.359 Yep, I am gonna want to do it, but you 2005 01:36:21.479 --> 01:36:23.760 really say I'm gonna ride with k State, give it? 2006 01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:26.439 I get tell ema all right? 2007 01:36:26.520 --> 01:36:26.840 All right? 2008 01:36:27.119 --> 01:36:30.920 Oklahoma State at TCU, Gross, that's the most unwatchable game 2009 01:36:31.000 --> 01:36:33.880 of the week. Horn Frogs. I guess Jamie Dixon gets 2010 01:36:33.920 --> 01:36:37.520 back to five hundred yep. Arizona State at number twelve. 2011 01:36:37.560 --> 01:36:39.760 Texas Tech feels like a drobbing is an order here? 2012 01:36:40.359 --> 01:36:42.199 Yeah, Texas Tech by thirty ish. 2013 01:36:42.720 --> 01:36:45.760 Other games number five, Tennessee at number fifteen, Kentucky. I 2014 01:36:45.840 --> 01:36:48.560 will lead off and pick the valls. One of my 2015 01:36:48.720 --> 01:36:50.680 favorite things to do. What do I always say, one 2016 01:36:50.680 --> 01:36:52.439 of my favorite things to do from a betting angle 2017 01:36:52.479 --> 01:36:55.079 in this land? Do you remember, yeah, when. 2018 01:36:55.279 --> 01:36:57.960 When one team wins on the road, uh, and they 2019 01:36:58.079 --> 01:37:00.640 have the return game, pick the road team again, yep. 2020 01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:03.079 Especially whenever the team that lost at home the first 2021 01:37:03.119 --> 01:37:06.520 time is really good. This doesn't work whenever Kansas beats 2022 01:37:06.600 --> 01:37:09.760 Colorado on the road, and then and then Colorado comes 2023 01:37:09.800 --> 01:37:12.800 down in field house doesn't work there. But in this case, yes, 2024 01:37:12.880 --> 01:37:14.760 Tennessee's very good. I will pick them to win and 2025 01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:16.399 rup I. 2026 01:37:16.560 --> 01:37:19.319 Am gonna take Kentucky here to get off of Schneid've. 2027 01:37:19.319 --> 01:37:21.760 They've played some very up and down basketball. Well, they 2028 01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:23.439 beat Missippi State by a lot, but I'll take them 2029 01:37:23.520 --> 01:37:23.840 to win here. 2030 01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:26.319 Number three Florida at number twenty. 2031 01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:29.279 There's so many schools in all these conferences now, and. 2032 01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:32.119 It was South Carolina because South Carolina hasn't won a 2033 01:37:32.199 --> 01:37:34.399 game yet. They are the Colorado of the SEC. 2034 01:37:35.960 --> 01:37:37.760 Which is still means they're a lot better than Colorado 2035 01:37:37.800 --> 01:37:39.720 because the SEC way better, yoked. 2036 01:37:39.960 --> 01:37:43.159 Way better. Number three Florida at number twenty two Mississippi State. 2037 01:37:43.199 --> 01:37:45.960 I'll go the upset here. Feels like a good spot 2038 01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:48.119 to pick the Bulldogs. Florida off the emotional high. 2039 01:37:49.239 --> 01:37:49.560 Agree. 2040 01:37:50.800 --> 01:37:53.399 Number seven per Due at number twenty, Michigan battle for 2041 01:37:53.520 --> 01:37:56.880 first in the Big Ten. I will take the home team, yep. 2042 01:37:57.840 --> 01:38:00.319 Number two Alabama at Texas. Is this it just in 2043 01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:01.880 there for s's and g's. What do you think? 2044 01:38:03.439 --> 01:38:05.600 I think it'll be maybe a little closer than you think, 2045 01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:06.720 But I think Alabama will win. 2046 01:38:07.239 --> 01:38:09.079 I think Alabama's best team in the country. I'll pick 2047 01:38:09.079 --> 01:38:11.720 them to win every day of the week. Yukon at Creighton, 2048 01:38:11.880 --> 01:38:14.840 entertaining game for second place in the Big East. I 2049 01:38:15.000 --> 01:38:18.359 think that Creighton has a little bit more sasas about them. 2050 01:38:18.399 --> 01:38:22.359 I'll take the Blue Jays at home yep, number No 2051 01:38:22.640 --> 01:38:25.960 nothing here. Oklahoma at number twenty one Missouri. I chose 2052 01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:28.359 this game because we know that Oklahoma isn't very good 2053 01:38:28.399 --> 01:38:30.439 against top twenty five teams, so it's probably easy just 2054 01:38:30.479 --> 01:38:33.199 to pencil in a Missouri pick. But how confident are 2055 01:38:33.239 --> 01:38:35.239 you in Missouri not folding down the stretch. They've never 2056 01:38:35.319 --> 01:38:37.199 been in this spot. They've now lost too in a row, 2057 01:38:37.640 --> 01:38:39.960 both of them games that they were in. Do we 2058 01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:41.479 trust them to get off the schnid. 2059 01:38:41.279 --> 01:38:44.600 Here against Porter Moser I do, I do. 2060 01:38:44.720 --> 01:38:46.520 But it wouldn't surprise me. It really wouldn't. 2061 01:38:46.600 --> 01:38:46.760 Though. 2062 01:38:46.800 --> 01:38:49.479 They will put Porter thirteen and Ohero non con play 2063 01:38:49.640 --> 01:38:52.520 three and seven in conference play on his tombstone and 2064 01:38:52.720 --> 01:38:55.640 number nine Saint John's at Villa Nova. I will go 2065 01:38:55.920 --> 01:38:59.600 upset city here and pick the Wildcats. Eventually that Johnny's 2066 01:38:59.600 --> 01:39:02.159 are gonna a game. So many wins in a row 2067 01:39:02.439 --> 01:39:03.520 off an emotional high. 2068 01:39:05.439 --> 01:39:07.520 Give me Saint John's. I think they might just be 2069 01:39:07.680 --> 01:39:08.560 actually really good. 2070 01:39:09.399 --> 01:39:12.119 So it's you and I again on Thursday night. I'll 2071 01:39:12.159 --> 01:39:14.399 be your Valentine's date. I guess to a certain extent 2072 01:39:14.439 --> 01:39:16.600 when we talked about Cannas beating Colorado. 2073 01:39:17.319 --> 01:39:20.319 Yeah, that'll I mean, by definition, it will be one 2074 01:39:20.359 --> 01:39:22.319 of the best, if not the best Valentine's date I've 2075 01:39:22.359 --> 01:39:22.680 ever had. 2076 01:39:23.760 --> 01:39:25.680 Well, I look forward to you being able to answer 2077 01:39:25.720 --> 01:39:28.399 that whenever you're still on season twenty three of Inside 2078 01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:30.720 the Paint down the Road and I ask you, what 2079 01:39:31.000 --> 01:39:32.520 are your best Valentine? 2080 01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:35.119 Far more deeply dire than than. 2081 01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:39.399 Well, this is Inside the Paint first ever one hundred 2082 01:39:39.479 --> 01:39:42.319 minute episode of this show. Good Lord, I am Ryan. 2083 01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:44.159 Landred, I'm Landing Fields. 2084 01:39:44.520 --> 01:39:46.359 All right, Well, I'll talk to you on Valentine's Day, 2085 01:39:46.399 --> 01:39:47.279 land and have a good week. 2086 01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:50.279 See them pal by Cam