Speaker 1: The Bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied the Bench.
Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
Kine Studio.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in our number two of O TB.
Speaker 4: Here live from the Raising Kine Studio. Jake Flannelandro at
All here with you.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: We've got Kim baal Ke joining us. We've got Jay
Johnson joining us. All coming up. Excited about that as always,
and this will be the start of Jay Johnson every
single week here on OTB.
Speaker 3: Now it might not be like at nine.
Speaker 4: Am on Thursday, but it's going to be on Thursdays
and it's going.
Speaker 3: To be at some point in the show.
Speaker 4: It's always that good day to recap what we saw
in the midweek in a preview for the weekend.
Speaker 3: So very excited about that, Thank you, Very excited.
Speaker 5: I came in on the end of it last year, certainly, yeah,
Liverpool under.
Speaker 3: Last year, Yeah, national championship.
Speaker 5: I mean, try to prove it wasn't because of me.
Can't no way you can do it, no way to
legitimately prove that. Why do you think we went from
number seven to number six. It was your baseball takes. Yeah, seriously,
voting stopped at the end of June. Probably this guy's incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to move him up at least one spot.
Speaker 5: He just asked the head coach for the Elsie Tigers
before the World World Series if what his favorite.
Speaker 2: Baseball movie was. Yep, bid you. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Probably sounds like something I would ask. It's not coming
to down have to play Coastal Carolina. Hey, coach, what's
your favorite baseball man?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You had to say, how do you hold a
four seam fastball? By the seams?
Speaker 2: Grab for them.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 4: I've talked with Jay about this like he's he's seriously,
we can go take VP over there. Okay, well, let's
go today. Might need a little bit more time instead
to see how serious he is. He Probably it's probably
more of an all season thing. He probably does want
us on the field. I mean, we could be in
the cage or what not.
Speaker 5: Metal Technically they haven't played yet, so we're technically still.
Speaker 3: Okay in the off season.
Speaker 6: Okay a man of technicalities.
Speaker 7: Yeah, have Case and Evans just throwing heat out us fun.
Actually I would miss every single one of them.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I'm taking taking the pitch hit me.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I don't know out of fifty pitches if
we're getting the battle of the ball. Because when we
went to Nashville and Chris embarrassed himself, that machine was
on ninety five, but it was coming.
Speaker 3: It was ninety five straight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, every pitch was the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the most part.
Speaker 4: I mean, you have a little bit of movement, a
little bit near from a machine. And look, we got
bat on ball for sure, except Chris Doring, who did
not and said he was All state baseball player. Gotta
see the would be about not hit five of ten
or five of nine something crazy. T Bob even hit one.
And if you've ever seen T Bob playing the celebrity
softball match, yeah, imagine our surprise and Doring.
Speaker 3: Didn't hit one.
Speaker 7: Bring that backt the like Jack needs to bring back
the celebrity softball.
Speaker 3: Things what he used to call it, celebrity sort of celebrity.
Speaker 8: And tm O TV needs to be on a team.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'd love that. Last time we played. I was
never like me and banking that beat this guy you've
played before.
Speaker 2: I played it at one time, but.
Speaker 4: I played like four man three or four, three or
four because one of the ones that we played in, uh,
coach Miles and Betterina played in it. And I remember
Beth calling T, Bob and Jordie out for not having
a softball presence on o TV because you know, we
used to have her on on nighttime radio. And I
was right there and she called him out, and you know,
T like he didn't know what to do.
Speaker 8: He started bumbling probably I don't know.
Speaker 4: He did not know what to do, and uh she
called him out right there in the handshake line. So
I definitely remember that. But it's a lot of fun.
We do need to bring that back. I think a
lot of moving parts, different people.
Speaker 8: It's not easy to just make a softball tournament.
Speaker 3: But like something like a golf tournament, which I don't
play golf.
Speaker 8: So yeah, we would get a concert.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went took VP over there before that turn
with Bain. Oh we did. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well we went into yeah the L s U
Tiger Baseball facility and we took some hacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah three.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like a team thing. It's just us three
because we didn't want to embarrass ourselves.
Speaker 5: We should said about home run Derby at Stadium at
the box.
Speaker 8: Yeah, what about Tiger Park?
Speaker 3: Yeah, start, there's going to be the participants.
Speaker 7: I don't know, we can figure it out the whole
one of four five ESPN staff.
Speaker 4: Again, I've been I didn't have a combine for the
staff for a long time.
Speaker 8: Moich Of, you would separate very quickly.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think that a combine sounds great, But I think that
just sounds like pulled hamstrings to me.
Speaker 10: Early on too, Like you pull hammy first event, you
can't participate the rest.
Speaker 2: We can hand hammys.
Speaker 6: We can bro This is the second time this week.
Speaker 2: And I say that because my Hammings are going I'm pulling.
Speaker 3: Three of the.
Speaker 4: Teams would be US four and then you would have Hunt, Jordans, Cassie,
so he would need a fourth. I don't know, maybe
Colin Jeters since he comes on his show that's his
fourth Live at Lunch, would have Jimmy, Hanny, Max Max,
and then we'll throw Dixon to them.
Speaker 3: Dig Dixon. You can hit a base, that'd be good,
and then a f R. You'd have Matt Paul.
Speaker 4: Matt no be an unfair advantage, okay, I mean because
he's still got that's true.
Speaker 8: You're right then.
Speaker 3: Obviously that Paul o' neil did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 8: I don't think Terryo will pull enough way for the
rest of them.
Speaker 2: I think on paper, the matchups are tightening up a
little bit.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like, I think Terro like as good as he is,
and he'd be the best of all of us by
far right right, he'd have to carry some weight.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm liking this, and let's not ask about
the series coming up. Let's just ask them about how
we can get this, how we can get this done,
and when? When can we go ahead and reserve the.
Speaker 6: Mountains renting the field out.
Speaker 2: Sunday evening after coach?
Speaker 4: Do you feel about right before first pitch on Saturday,
if the whole station came out there.
Speaker 3: And got on the diamond, you feel about that?
Speaker 4: I think we should put that to a poll on
the ESPN page which show would win a home run
Derby at the box OTB, Yeah, Hunt Live at lunch AFR.
Speaker 2: You probably We probably need to lay out the teams though,
like we just did.
Speaker 4: You don't have space for all that, so I know,
I think people would assume Terrio would be with AFR.
Speaker 2: Right they got to I would.
Speaker 6: Think, yeah, that's the sure he goes on.
Speaker 2: Yeah every week either way, it sounds fun.
Speaker 5: Just got a new glove a couple of weeks ago,
you did, Yeah, because Huk's playing and so we're practicing
a lot in the yard, throwing a lot, and I
had to I think I still had the same glove
from intermeal softball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would have if Peter Daikowski wouldn't run, mind, But.
Speaker 5: Yeah, every time I put my hand in it and
we played catch, we had to catch, I would take
it off. My hand was like black because all the
leather was rubbing off. So I had to get a
new one. So I was actually kept pretty excited because
you're old. Yeah, I know, and you just don't get
baseball gloves very often.
Speaker 3: What gloves you get?
Speaker 5: A nice one, Wilson said, Marucci is a don't need
to be brand specific.
Speaker 3: Do Walmart mb now? So don't drop that one.
Speaker 8: Glub all right, I'll put it on ESPN's Twitter.
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 6: This is in the chat too, Perfect.
Speaker 5: What a show. Oh nice, We're gonna get to the
bottom of this. Let us know baseball is gonna be
an Olympic support again.
Speaker 8: Right, so softball.
Speaker 5: So baseball and softball they haven't been the last it's
handful or did they come back last summer.
Speaker 8: No, they didn't come back last nighter.
Speaker 5: But the next one baseball softball, we're back.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 8: Softball for a fact is who was.
Speaker 6: The softball picture that crushed in the old.
Speaker 8: Base any finish?
Speaker 7: She lives like in Lake Charles or something like that,
somewhere over there.
Speaker 3: That area, somewhere over yonder.
Speaker 6: She's one of them, somewhere over yonder where yonder?
Speaker 7: Okay, So baseball's returning in the twenty twenty eight olymp LA, right, yeah,
so yeah, those are the next ones, right, Okay, yeah,
so softball.
Speaker 4: LA's doing, LA's doing, World Cup, Super Bowl, Olympics.
Speaker 8: They're gonna make so much money over.
Speaker 3: Twenty eight two years, I know, mind blow.
Speaker 4: Speaking of softball, we are fifty minutes away from first
pitch of LSU Nebraska in clear Water.
Speaker 3: Let's go, Let's go Tigers.
Speaker 2: Five games in the next three days, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Duke, UCF, and UCLA.
Speaker 10: Nebraska Duke UCLA all ranked so three of the five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Nebraska eleven, Duke twenty two, and UCLA six, and
you're going to gets an absolute dog on the mound
here today against Nebraska.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how the Tiger's favor. Well, update you
throughout the show.
Speaker 7: Is it on a channel we can put on the
TV or because sometimes it's on like weird?
Speaker 4: I don't know, like do we actually have access to
I actually don't know on this thing ever since they
took the cable box away. Yeah, yeah, I can put
it fire stick that it's not fire No, it's not
very hard to figure out what you actually have access to.
Its fire stick. That's the Amazon one, right, Yeah, it's
not great, all right, big gulp.
Speaker 3: H Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well are the Olympics happening right now?
Speaker 2: Well we should try to find them.
Speaker 8: USA Hockey hockey too.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll be on air.
Speaker 8: You can have it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got TV in the office. I'll have it
in front of me. Did y'all see.
Speaker 2: Lane Givenson courtside yesterday?
Speaker 8: I did see that.
Speaker 6: Why you went to Pelicans game.
Speaker 5: I think he's messing with us a little bit. Ys
is you know they put the camera on him. They
show him on the jumbo tron. Do we say JumboTron anymore?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: The same on the big screen.
Speaker 6: That's that's what it is.
Speaker 2: And he doped the l.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but was it backwards hand? Then you're fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Matt hates it all together, but I did.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 7: Maybe you relinquished the lanquish for now, Yeah, temporary season assist.
Speaker 3: Like y'all, y'all have noticed this. Matt hates something. He
hates it.
Speaker 4: You're not going to like convince him otherwise. So he's
gonna hate that l frontwards or backwards for the rest
of the time. He's not going to back down from it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 10: The Pelicans lost because they lose every game. But Zion
played over thirty minutes and he finished the game.
Speaker 6: So because Lena.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that's a big ask for Zion to play thirty.
Speaker 6: Minutes and get through the game.
Speaker 4: So Jose Alvarado, who they traded for a bag of
peanuts and the hello uh. He had twenty six points
for the Knicks last night, hit eight three pointers, had
five steals, He stole the ball five times in an
NBA game, had four assists and three rebounds. He was
plus thirty five in the plus minus. Great, you got
a bag of pinots.
Speaker 6: He hit fodge steels by himself. Yes, the Pills had
FDG Steels as a team last night. So that's fun.
Speaker 8: Yeah, great move by the Pills.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: What a bad organization. And I wanted to be good
so bad. And they've got really good players at times.
Speaker 7: Cursed they trade away anybody that I'm like, oh this
this player, like CJ. McCollum brandon Ingram and then but
the thing like when you when they traded.
Speaker 3: They don't get anything.
Speaker 8: They get nothing out.
Speaker 4: Of Daniels for the Hawks as a baller, you didn't
get anything like you got Murray, but he's been hurt.
Speaker 10: If you want to get rid of Elvarado, fine, but
the value got to get round pick think.
Speaker 8: Yeah, de John sat Murray.
Speaker 7: But like you said, he's aert so we haven't really
seen anything from him.
Speaker 3: Are the Pelicans basically the Wizards?
Speaker 10: Yeah, they're the Wizards. They might actually be worse than
the Wizard. Wizards are historically awful, but I mean, I
guess the Pelican's kind of hard too.
Speaker 4: The Pelicans right now have the third worst record in
the NBA. They're fifteen and forty one. Now, the Kings
are the worst team in the NBA. They're twelve and
forty four. They have lost fourteen games in a row.
What makes it Thank God for the Kings.
Speaker 6: What makes it worse?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 10: Like Kings obviously tanking to try to get a high pick,
the Wizards are not playing Anthony Davis and Trey Young
in the fourth quarter. They are very obviously trying to tank.
The Pelicans are not trying to tank, and they're still
bad because they don't have a first round pick. So
what are you tanking for for a higher pick? Your
pick belongs to someone else, So you're just bad. Those
other teams are trying to be bad.
Speaker 4: You're not, Yeah, because you have Derek Queen, who's been
a good player. You don't have that pick, and you're
probably gonna, like, knowing the luck of the Pelicans, it's
gonna be the number one pick, no doubt they're gonna
win the lottery.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be the number one pick is going to
go down.
Speaker 4: The Hawks, who have already fleesh you for the last
trade that you all had, considering that Murray's played basically
no games for.
Speaker 7: You, o TV running away with the home run Derby poll.
By the way Hunt has.
Speaker 3: Heym's a pretty good little baseball. Hunt set baseball and
basketball record.
Speaker 8: At his high school in basketball.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much I think, yeah, I don't
know how much the ball actually went over the fence,
like as far as his power.
Speaker 3: Pretty good athlete.
Speaker 10: So he set a record for most threes shot, set
a record for most threes.
Speaker 7: Mate, No, I think it was just and I could
have probably like I probably just made that up, but
I know he set some sort of school high school
record set up in the chat and tell us.
Speaker 3: Yeahs come hollow ass hunt.
Speaker 6: On set of mean screen.
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from Dawson's Creek, Lost, the good.
Speaker 4: One here was even there was a role he played.
It was a series Don't Trust the b in Apartment
twenty three, and.
Speaker 3: He played himself.
Speaker 6: He was like Herd, the neighbor whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and he like handed it up too, like
it was it was really good.
Speaker 2: It's really hit.
Speaker 6: A d sent himount a really good cameos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I think eight mm hmm.
Speaker 4: But here on this show, Jonathan Moxon will never be forgotten,
never be forgotten.
Speaker 3: This jersey will be in here.
Speaker 5: Moving forward, What do you think Jonathan Moxon did post college?
Speaker 3: Brown? Went to Brown, you.
Speaker 2: Know that.
Speaker 6: Probably didn't have the gate to make it to the NFL.
Speaker 3: Now, I had a bad gate.
Speaker 4: Hand measurables going to Brown, great attitude. He did something
more than just like investment banker.
Speaker 5: Maybe an investment banker could have done that, could have
gone to as a writer or something like that.
Speaker 3: He's a big reader. He was a big reader.
Speaker 6: I think I think he was a doctor.
Speaker 3: Okay, I just think that.
Speaker 10: The only the only like school scene we saw it
was anatomy class. Then he tested Billy Bob for a
concussion he did. Then he confronted Coach Kilmer about the
needle on the leg.
Speaker 3: I just I think he was actually about medicine.
Speaker 5: Definitely didn't get back to West Kane, and he probably
would go back there. I'm sure he stayed in touch
with Lance Bath or Lance Harbor, Lance Fast. I had
my mind on that time frame a Lance Harbor, good lord, that's.
Speaker 6: What he did. He became friends with Lance Fath.
Speaker 2: I could it could man.
Speaker 6: Lance, Lance and Billy Bob for sure where.
Speaker 5: They stayed in touch, but like you know, how well
can you stay in touch? He was probably in the.
Speaker 6: Couldn't stay at the jail.
Speaker 5: He probably lived in the Northeast with Lance fast or
with Lance past Twitter drink here tweeter drink.
Speaker 3: That he does? That he does? Oh Lance bathcot me.
I was not ready for that was not prepared. That's good?
Speaker 8: Is crazy?
Speaker 3: It is so good.
Speaker 4: Gonna be a big weekend here on campus. Saturday. You've
got South Carolina coming to town. Sold out a basketball game.
The cheapest ticker right now one hundred bucks on the
secondary market just to get inside the p MAC. A
little bit different than when there was friends and family
in the LSU Arkansas men's basketball game the other day
inside the p MAX. It's gonna be a different atmosphere
if you will there. And also you've got baseball where
they're opening weekends, so it's gonna be one of those
great weekends where you have multiple sports going on here
on campus, and a lot of times you'll see people
go back and forth kind of go to both sports
and enjoy all the festivities that surround some of those
big games. And for baseball, just a little bit of
a reminder, and again we'll have Jay Johnson about thirty
minutes from now. You've got Milwaukee at two pm Central
on Friday, so it's gonna be an early first pitch.
So if you're planning on going out there, make sure
that you plan accordingly because two pm a little bit earlier,
certainly normally than they would start. And it's kind of
like been a tradition. I think Jay does like that
opening weekend, have that early game, and then on Saturday
it's one pm. Also on Sunday gonna be one pm,
So a lot going on here on campus for the
different sports taking place. And again you've got South Carolina
and LSU.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be Saturday as well.
Speaker 4: The tip of that game, though I believe it's seven
thirty pm, so it's a late game. It's gonna be
on ABC as well, so it's gonna be a lot
of eyeballs on that one.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm pretty fired up for that one, and I
know that college basketball world is as well. So that's
the reason why this is the you know, obviously a
big game, big matchup. Don Stalley, it's going to be fantastic,
So hopefully the Lady Tigers can pull it out. Certainly
have had a great season up to this point and
continually improving. So I can't wait to talk to kim
ok here in just a little while. Uh a couple
of minutes.
Speaker 4: I said, tickets the other day they were like ninety
four dollars secondary market. Yesterday they were one hundred dollars.
Now that has gone up to one hundred and eighteen dollars.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 4: So if you want to go watch what's the Lady
Tigers take on at the game Cocks, you better you
better go ahead because it's not going down, it's only
going to go up.
Speaker 2: How many venues in women's basketball?
Speaker 5: Is it the cheapest ticket to get in on hundred
and eighteen dollars, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not Maybe I.
Speaker 8: Would say none.
Speaker 2: I would say no.
Speaker 4: Probably maybe Yukon I would even I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 7: Think so, but maybe, like if there were to be
another one, then you could put them up there. But
I don't think any other women's basketball tickets are doing
numbers like that.
Speaker 3: You got a few years ago to but yeah, now,
I mean I'm looking in.
Speaker 7: If LSU wants to win this game, they cannot play
the way they played versus Texas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 7: And they redeem themselves versus Auburn, but it's also Auburn,
and I think this is a really good team.
Speaker 8: But the defense just needs to step up.
Speaker 10: They surely, I mean the Texas game was an outlier,
like we were talking about it now. When you had
multi last week, they were giving up sixty five points
a game in SEC play Like the Texas game is
a little bit of an outlying.
Speaker 6: I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's go ahead, let's take a break,
and when we come back, we are going to be
joined by heat LSU basketball coach Kim Maulkey to break
down LSU versus South Carolina, and we'll do it right
here on OTB live from the Raisin Kanes.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in oh TV here live from
the Raising Kanes Studio one of our favorite times every
single week is when we get the opportunity to catch
up with head LSU basketball coach kil Mulki and she
joins us. Now, Coach, we appreciate the time as always.
Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 11: I apologize for yesterday. I was out of pocket and
I have just, you know, a little bit more important
thing on my mind. Good looking guys.
Speaker 3: I mean, come on now, coach, I told you yesterday.
We completely understand.
Speaker 4: We're just glad to have the conversation no matter what
day of the week it is. And you mentioned there's
a pretty big game going on Saturday. But before we
get into some of you know, the x's and o's
of the game, I just want to ask you to
be in a place like LSU when you take this
job over. Obviously it needed a big bump, and it
needed you know, obviously a better team, but the crowds
and to get it back to the place that you
knew it could be.
Speaker 3: We were just talking about a coach before you came on.
Speaker 4: Right now, this game sold out and even on the
secondary market, if you want a ticket to this game,
the cheapest ticket to get two feet inside the.
Speaker 3: P MAC is one hundred and eighteen dollars.
Speaker 4: When you see something like that, see what y'all have
built over time, I know you have to be proud
of the effort of everybody surrounding the basketball program.
Speaker 11: Well, certainly I am. And you know it's so misleading,
and I can explain it to you guys as everybody else.
You know, when you look at a budget and they'll go, oh,
but they go in the red. They lose money. Look
how much money they're spending. It doesn't it doesn't. It
doesn't fit, does it. So here's what the difference is.
We're selling out these and tickets are sold on that
lower bowl and they're hard to get every year, right,
and we've raised the prices and we've done all these things,
but how do you still how are you still you know,
losing money? It goes to the TV contracts and we
can have a terrible team, but you let eight or
nine teams in the SEC getting the NCAA playoffs. All
that goes into a big pot and then they disperse
it and that's how they make money. We don't have
that in women's basketball badly. You would think, man, we're
killing it in women's basketball. Here upon is killing it.
But when you look at it at the end of
the year, it's like, wow, are you kidding me? It's
the TV contract. So now that I've gotten out off
my chest, people understand we're not out there just you know,
spending money left and right. It is what it is,
and so I call it a return on investment. Are
we selling out the big games?
Speaker 7: You bet?
Speaker 11: Are we selling season tickets? Bit? So it is important
that people understand that. But it's also important to understand
we have built something here at LSU and women's basketball
in a very short period of time. How did that happen? Well,
the transfer portal certainly helped you. I think my history
of what I have done helped. My reputation helps And
then you got to have good coaches. And if you
go out there and you get good players and good
things like this can happen.
Speaker 5: And certainly all that everything that your staff's done and
you have done and your players have done, has you know,
kind of built up to this, to what Jake was
saying about how hard it is just to get two
feet in. And another part of all of that is
certainly the fan base and how what kind of impact
they might be able to have on a game like
the one coming up. So I wanted to know kind
of like when the PMC is loud and it's going
to be a night game and it's going to college
game day there, there's going to be a lot of
fanfare about it, so it's going to be rocking. And
what kind of impact can the PMAC have when and
it is as loud as it possibly can? What kind
of impact can that have on the opposing team?
Speaker 11: Well, you know, it doesn't bring you victory. What it
does it gives you this little adrenaline push that maybe
that shots you miss on the road when you're fatigued. Man,
you might just be able to make it at home.
Home court is an advantage. Home field is an advantage,
but it doesn't guarantee victory. What it might guarantee it, man,
is got lee. We can compete with somebody we're not
supposed to compete with. Maybe we can beat them, and
we've done that in the PMAC. We've lost them that
we shouldn't have. But at the end of the day,
it brings you pride. It just really gets you in
an adrenaline rush that place we've been accused of piping
in music piping in noise.
Speaker 4: It's crazy, and coach, we're expecting one of those atmospheres.
It's going to be just that coming up on Saturday.
And as you know, with the basketball team that you've
got coming in, South Carolina, going to be a tough contact.
And y'all have had so many great battles over the years.
When you face a Don Staley led basketball team, is
there like one thing that you can say, Okay, I
know for a fact this is what is always going
to be there. Does it change with a team like
when you face off against South Carolina kind of what's
the first thing you and your staff circle to say, Okay,
we know they're going to do this, we got to
make sure we have a plan for it.
Speaker 11: Well, the first thing you circle is, man, they're good,
they're talented, they're high school All Americans all throughout that lineup.
And the second thing is you're dealing with a coach
that's won three championships. The coaches coached in the Olympics
played in the Olympics, so you know you're getting the
total package, and you know it's going to be a tough,
hard faught game. They're going to play your man, they'll
mix them some more zone. I don't think there's any secrets.
When you reach middle of February, both programs pretty much
are established on what their beliefs are, both offensively and defensively.
You might throw a little wrinkle in here and there.
It might work, it might not work, yep, But it's
just two teams that have established themselves in the elite
of women's basketball.
Speaker 5: Good you talked about You talked last week about wanting
to bottle up that defensive effort that you gave against Auburn.
So what helped the conversations and practices, the game plan
and I don't know how much film goes into the
game preparation, but how much have you been able to
get that message across? And just like you said last week,
how are you able to bottle that up and hopefully
let it go for the rest of the season.
Speaker 11: Well, you show it to them. You don't pat them
on the back too long because you got another game
to get ready for. You show them what's good. You
show them in the other games what was bad. And
you try to repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, repetition.
Y'all know this. I mean, how many times have you
thrown the football just to your receivers with no pads on.
That's what you do and we do that every day.
Yesterday our entire practice was about offensive execution. We have
to score with South Carolina. That's how good they are.
You can't sit here and think it's gonna and it
will be a defensive battle. But they can score the ball,
and we have to score with them. Last time we
played them in Columbia, we out rebounded them, So you know,
you've got to out rebound them. But what you got
to do and score and we can hold them to
all these you know, low and field goals made, but
they kill you at the foul line, and we just
got killed at the foul line in Columbia.
Speaker 4: Coach, when you have a game of this magnitude, but
your team, y'all certainly have players that have played in
even national championship games in one titles, but have played
in big games, how do you handle kind of that stage.
Speaker 3: Is it different with every player?
Speaker 4: Is it just the same message just like you had
last time out the last couple of games. Because you
and your staff you off coach so many big games,
I mean, the biggest games.
Speaker 3: Do you make anything more of it?
Speaker 4: Because like in football, sometimes we would have coaches that
try to steer away from hyping up a game. We
had some that would try to go full board, like
we've got to know the magnitude of this game.
Speaker 3: How do you handle a big game like this?
Speaker 11: You be real with them. I think that my honesty
and expectations are pretty fair and real. And if you
win a game, it puts you in a good position
to do something. If you lose a game, you tell them,
you let them know that you just blew that. But
guess what, they're a bigger fish to fry. So you
just talk to them, You show them standing, you show
them things. You know. This SEC, there's about four or
five teams right now that are within a game of
each other and trying to win the SEC championship. And
it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Coach your team right now.
Speaker 5: They of course, you've had a lot of success this year,
you've had you've played, certainly you're playing the SEC. It's
the best. So there's you've played, You've had a tough
schedule up to this point. You have a big game
on Saturday, so but I know it is February. You're
getting closer and closer to Marsh. What have you learned
about j Jami. You've talked about it multiple times on
the show about you know, in this world at college
college basketball, college athletics, sometimes you only get that one
year with somebody. What is the biggest thing for your
team that you are still constantly working on to improve
leading up to March.
Speaker 11: So my personality in coaching is you're never satisfied. When
you get satisfied, you become complacent, You become lazy. So
you're always trying to make sure that you acknowledge the good.
You make sure you acknowledge what we're doing great and
how good we are in certain areas, and how talented
we are and what we are doing. But you can
never become complacent. I always believe coaches who become complacent
they're on their way to retirement. And I just believe
that it's my job to make sure that we keep
practices to a minimum where you don't burn them out,
but yet you get their attention. I believe that you know,
complacency and being satisfied, you know that's that's just not good.
Speaker 4: Catching up with LSU had basketball coach Kim Munkey here
on ot B Coach. We were talking about this as well,
right before you hopped on a great weekend to be
an LSU Tiger fan. They get a chance to if
they want to, on Saturday, go out to the box
watch a little college baseball with LSU opening up the season.
Then get a chance to walk right across the street
to the PMAC and see a top matchup against you know,
LSU South Carolina. So you excited about college baseball. I know,
obviously that's something that is near and dear to your heart.
And a lot of LSU fans gonna take both games
in baseball and basketball on the.
Speaker 11: Same day, absolutely, and it seems to be that way
every year. It seems like we always play South Carolina later,
and it's always around opening series or opening game in baseball.
And I'm good because really most of those fans, they
really are women's basketball fans now. And it's fun. I mean,
think about that. You spend all day on campus and
you can walk to the arena and park, go their
early park, and then see if you can't try to
help us win, you know, in baseball, and then win
in basketball.
Speaker 5: Coach Jake's gonna roll his eyes at me when I
ask this question to you, But this is so this
is a this is an awesome time to be just
like a sports fan in general. And I think we
some of people like Jake, who know only a couple
of sports, can put their pride aside and watch other sports.
Right now, the Winter Olympics is happening. I know you're
busy your mid season, you've got a big game coming up,
but do you get excited do you catch a lot
of the Olympic sports, especially the Winter Olympics, since it's
happening right now.
Speaker 11: It's an interesting question because I just acknowledged this at
my monthly lunch and this past Tuesday. So I was
channel surfing and I don't get to do that much.
But we finished practice. I went home. You know, you
watch the news with Savannah Guthrie's mother, and you try
to keep up to date on what's going on in
Baton Rouge, because I really do like to call myself
a person that has other interests of it in sport.
But I was moving the TV around and I stopped
on the Winter Olympics, and I thought, just stop and
watch something, Kim. I know you're writing in the middle
of basketball, and guess what, it was curling. So I
sat there and I said, let me just watch this,
you know, And so I caught myself when I got
up the next morning getting the broom and seeing what
that felt like, just to go back and forth as
fast as you could or as you can, and it
wasn't the same. But I thought to myself, Wow, curling,
we don't even you know, we do good to know
what hockey is down here, and what you know ice
skating is. We don't know anything about that. But I did.
Speaker 3: I watched there you go, all right, coach, I did.
Speaker 4: I just I said, I appreciated the Summer Olympics a
little bit more than the Winter Olympics because of all
the great sports in the Summer Olympics with basketball and
now baseball, softball coming back, and track athletes being incredible athletes.
So I'm trying to get into the Winter Olympics, but
I just I have a lot more love for the
Summer Olympics.
Speaker 11: That's understandable. You have to remember where you live and
the sports that we're exposed to. You know, it's just
it's natural. It doesn't mean you don't pull for those athletes,
but it's just something that you already are exposed to
those sports. Those are the ones you kind of gravitate to.
And look, I used to take my kids no skin.
Do you know how long it takes to put on
the gear to go up there? And I was like,
this is too much work, man, right, I mean, it's
just work to put on all that gi I have
a great appreciation for them, whether I watch them or not.
Speaker 4: That's the same way that I said it. So I
appreciate you confirming that.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 4: Hey, we always thank you for your time. Great matchup
coming up this weekend. Be in that number, find a
way to be inside the p MAC seven thirty pm
Central Time, tip on ABC LSU versus South Carolina. Coach,
we can't thank you enough. Best of luck and look
forward to our next conversation and listen.
Speaker 11: If you can't get in, which is gonna be the
case for our students, they only give so many to
the students. Those kids will be lined up and they
won't all get in. But we've got a little deal
going on in the front of the p MAC with
big screen TVs and heaters and whatever. They need to
sit there and watch the game and experience it as
close to being inside as they can. So get out there,
make a memory, you never know you might meet your
spouse there.
Speaker 4: Right there you go, absolutely Coach, you're the best. Thank
you and again, best OFLA coming up this weekend.
Speaker 11: Okay, guys, take care all right.
Speaker 4: You as well, the absolute Goat appreciate her every single
week for hopping on with us. Said a great deal
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Speaker 11: From the locker room to the airwaves.
Speaker 1: He gets off to bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 11: Stop a bit o, kid, I try to get out
of my head.
Speaker 3: Stopped off the thing round. I was god, I didn't
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Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back in OTB here live from the
Raising Kanes Studio. Appreciate Coach Mulkey for joining us every
single week here during the basketball season.
Speaker 3: What a great opportunity for the team.
Speaker 4: South Carolina number three team in the country, LSU number
six team in the country, So it gonna be a
top six matchup and one that really can change the
projection of your season. Like you go get a win
against the South Carolina team, we all know what that
can do for you as you come to a close
here in the regular season. A great atmosphere expected in
the p mat gonna be thirteen thousand plus strong, and
it's always it's always a fun matchup when Kim Molky
Don Staley, they get a chance. I mean, two of
the legends of the game, National championship, multiple time winning
head coaches. Both teams really really good this year. When
you look at all the analytics of this, LSU's got
more points per game, but like points against South Carolina
fifty five, LSU fifty seven field goal percentage, Both teams
shoot fifty two percent, rebounds LSU forty eight, South Carolina
forty three. Assists right there, eighteen point three for South Carolina,
nineteen for LSU, blocks six to five, steals ten to twelve.
I mean, every analytic of this matchup is almost the same.
Now South Carolina is going in certainly the right direction.
They beat a really good Vanderbilt basketball team who's number
two in the SEC, one oh three to seventy four
a couple of weeks ago. Last time out, they beat
Tennessee ninety three to fifty in Tennessee. That was only
their second loss in the SEC. So South Carolina certainly
has found their fastball here in this latter portion of
the season. Again, only two losses on the season, but
they are playing some of the best basketball in the
country right now. Certainly, going in the right direction going
to be a big test for this LSU basketball team.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back to kick.
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