WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:02.439 Well, they get back in the win column. No one 2 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:06.280 is really super excited about it, especially whenever there's college 3 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:10.480 football playoff games that landon. Uh So, on the last show, 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.359 Cam had to watch the Detroit Lions win the NFC 5 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:18.039 North whenever he was on a live show. And now 6 00:00:18.120 --> 00:00:21.679 you a I don't want to say closeted, but closeted 7 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:24.000 to a lot of people on the show. You're a 8 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:25.920 Notre Dame football fan. Is that correct? 9 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:28.480 Yeah, I'm a I'm a low key Notre Dame fan. 10 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:32.039 I'm not like pounding the twenty four to seven recruiting 11 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.079 rankings for the Irish or anything, but I like, I 12 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:34.960 enjoy Notre Dame. 13 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:38.079 Yeah, and they are playing in the college football playoff game. 14 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.640 We pushed the start button on the record about a 15 00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:45.079 minute after they did you see the pass interference? 16 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.679 Oh? I did give it? Okay, last thing that I 17 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:48.479 saw before. 18 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:49.079 You saw that. 19 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:49.840 Yeah. 20 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.920 And that's because anytime that the that a team that 21 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.880 you root for and a pivotal college football matchup is 22 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:59.479 going on, Obviously, the right thing to spend your evening, 23 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.679 the right the right thing to spend your evening talking 24 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.799 about is Kansas and Arizona State on a Wednesday night 25 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:06.120 at the fog in early January. 26 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:08.159 Am I right, Hey, it'll hurt a lot less to 27 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:11.439 watch Notre Dame lose on a scoreboard on another tab 28 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.599 of my computer than on live. That's okay, you're saving 29 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:16.359 me some pain. 30 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:19.760 As long as it does not end with uh with 31 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.319 the on a two point play of the hot dog 32 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:25.480 cart being hit by adjacent bean pass like that. 33 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.840 Never happened, Ryan, That's such a weird example for you 34 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:30.040 to give. I've never seen that. But what just. 35 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:31.840 Happened in the football game, You're going to be quite 36 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:34.599 happy with as it is. It is. It is something 37 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:37.200 good happens. That's amazing that you don't have a TV screen. 38 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.319 I I think that you have to figure out the 39 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:45.200 log in like that. Yeah, you need. You need to 40 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:48.079 have your ESPN log in on the computer. How do 41 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:49.519 you not have this going? Uh? 42 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.000 You know? I I tried, but I have to use 43 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.200 my parents cable because I don't pay for cable right 44 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.120 as do I log in? And it was giving me 45 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.519 a lot of trouble, So I said, whatever, Ryan, Ryan 46 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:04.879 is waiting to do this of utmost important podcast to 47 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.080 talk about all of Arizona State's thirteen second half points. 48 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:13.039 So after all, yeah, no Cam. Today, Cam is in 49 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.240 public hiding after picking Kansas State to win two straight 50 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.919 road games and getting both of them very incorrect. 51 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.599 And he didn't even like witness protection came to him 52 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:24.680 for that. That was, he didn't like seat that out. 53 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.000 They were just like, no, that this guy needs needs help. 54 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.319 He needs especially especially after both of us, like we 55 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.560 have given him now multiple chances the last two shows. 56 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:37.879 We have given him an opportunity to would to retract 57 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.319 his prediction after telling him how stupid it was to 58 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:45.039 pick that team on the road, and he denied that opportunity. 59 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:47.319 And while he's got two l's and pick them, And 60 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:52.879 suddenly that has breathed a slight, slight glimmer of hope 61 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.199 and do your chances of not finishing last and pick them. 62 00:02:56.319 --> 00:02:59.919 Yeah, there's a window, folks, there's a window. It's it's crack, 63 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:01.319 but we're there. 64 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.439 You just need him to keep picking Kansas State about 65 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:07.439 fifteen more times. And if he does that, then I 66 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:09.800 think that your chances might be creeping back in. Just 67 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.280 like Kansas's chances of winning the Big twelve. They've gone 68 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:13.840 up a little bit in the last week, right by 69 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.280 winning two games they were heavily favored in. Yeah, every 70 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.199 bit helps, everyone helps their two and one they beat 71 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.479 Arizona State. Two man show today on ITP. I am 72 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:25.919 Ryan Landrith, I am Landon Fields Landon is you know 73 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:28.840 the meme of the guy who is just growling in 74 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.599 anger with a happy face mask over. That's you right 75 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.560 now having to miss the end of a college football 76 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.120 playoff game to talk about Karriansas and Arizona State. But 77 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:40.439 that is because you get paid the big bucks to 78 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:41.800 work the essential jobs. 79 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:43.879 Yeah, that's only been all day for me, so I've 80 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:45.039 had a lot of practice. 81 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:48.159 All right, let's talk about the basketball game. If the 82 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:51.840 sound ever works, it's working well in that area, working 83 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.560 about as well as the refs and the college football 84 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:58.800 playoff game number eleven Kansas seventy four, Arizona State fifty five. Hey, 85 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:00.840 you know what, I know that there's a whole lot 86 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:02.960 of things you'd rather be doing at times than talking 87 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.479 about the mediocre Kansas Jayhawks at times. First half was 88 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.039 ferry mediocre. But where would you be in life? Where 89 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.000 would you go in life if you weren't able to 90 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.319 one day tell your grandkids that you talked about bill 91 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:17.199 selves first ever win over the Arizona State Sun Devils. 92 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.800 That's true all Remy Martin really is Bill's kryptonite because 93 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.519 when he's on Arizona State, they beat him, and when 94 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.199 he's on Kansas, Kansas melts down until they win a 95 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.480 national championship. So Verie Martin very kind of like a 96 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.920 nexus level player in college basketball. For Bill self anyway, I. 97 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.680 Kind of tipped my toe in the water just a 98 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:37.399 little bit and said, you know, no one said this 99 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:40.000 part out loud. This is on Twitter, so great things 100 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:42.360 about to happen, and I was like, you know, no 101 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.160 one wants to say it. But while we're on the 102 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:48.079 topic of Remy Martin, Bill self really really mismanaged that situation, 103 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:50.319 and if they lose to Creighton, we're talking about that 104 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:54.040 being one of the most frustrating transfers ever. And Remy 105 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:57.360 was so good that he overcame that BS and one 106 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:01.079 most outstanding player of a region. Anyway, despite being mismanaged 107 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.519 all year end, I had my fair sheriff. Well he 108 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:06.279 was hurt, spare me. He was not injured when Bill 109 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.639 self yelled at him for scoring twelve points in three 110 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:11.399 minutes in that exhibition game. We all know that Bill 111 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.920 self mismanaged that situation and it wound up working out 112 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.240 because Remy's really freaking good. But just the reminder, whenever 113 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:18.959 we talk about Arizona State, I like to throw that 114 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.920 out there. Bill self botched the Remy Martin situation and 115 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:23.600 got bailed out because Remy's good. 116 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:27.560 Correct. I agree. If you listen back to the twenty 117 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:29.600 twenty two version of the podcast, you will note that 118 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:30.480 I agree there as well. 119 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.639 That season almost broke us and then they won it all. 120 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:36.279 But like it did break us. That TCU game broke. 121 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.800 Us, Yeah, it did, and then very well, yeah, let 122 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:42.800 me just quickly pull up the box score. So Kansas 123 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.839 lost the TCU that day to fall to like twelve 124 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:47.759 and four in Big Twelve play. They did not lose 125 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.279 the rest of the way. They won their last two 126 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.720 Big twelve games, They won the Big Twelve Tournament, they 127 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:55.399 won the NCAA tournament. But remember that night whenever Bill 128 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:58.040 was just trying Mitch Lightfoot and David McCormick over and over. 129 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.040 March first, twenty twenty two was the and I'm looking 130 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.319 at the box score of this and in that game, 131 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:06.680 Remy Martin played twelve minutes in a game Kansas scored 132 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.439 sixty four points. And yes, yeah, you may ask yourself, well, 133 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.319 in no way that was less than Mitch Lightfoot played. 134 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.120 Oh but Landon, what if I told you that Mitch 135 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.680 Lightfoot played more minutes than Remy Martin. They got really, 136 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:22.600 really lucky that they slipped past Creighton, because if not, 137 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.040 oh boy, would we be salty about that season. 138 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.480 Yeah, I honestly do think I think your take there 139 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.519 is great that if that season ends to Creighton, or 140 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:35.040 you know, if they faltered a Providence because that was 141 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.360 another weirdly close game or you know, whatever, then yeah, 142 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:40.519 we look back at that season as like one of 143 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.680 the bigger missed opportunity seasons in the Bill Seal fair 144 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:44.519 are maybe the biggest. 145 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.319 Yeah, and they that's the only season since twenty eighteen 146 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.040 that they have made it past the second round and 147 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.439 just barely, as you said, slipped past both Creighton and 148 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.120 Providence in games Remy scored like twenty eight to thirty 149 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.079 percent of their points. 150 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.160 Yeah, it's funny that that guy was good. He scored 151 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:04.800 two thousand points and it's almost like he knew how 152 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:05.160 to score. 153 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:07.959 I think Kansas has some good players on this team. 154 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:10.240 We'll see if they have Remy Martin caliber players, but 155 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.800 in this game they did beat Arizona State as into 156 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.920 Allen Field House on their Bobby Hurley sized horse rode 157 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.959 an unintimidated Arizona State team who built a forty two 158 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:21.120 to thirty six half time lead by making threes and 159 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.839 keeping Kansas's offense out of sync. Everything changed at the break. 160 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.360 The Jayhawks played their finest defensive half in literally years. 161 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:30.680 Shack Moore was a spark plug, Zeeke Mayo was a 162 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:34.639 lightning rod, and kJ Adams energy willed Kansas into a 163 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:38.920 nice performance. A dominant second half saw that Kansas outscored 164 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:41.720 the Sun Devils by twenty five points that earned them 165 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.560 both a nineteen point win and a cover for the Jayhawks. 166 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.199 Is it a little premature to play the rap or 167 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.360 are we giving beil self kudos? Sir? No, because you know, 168 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:51.959 I don't know, take your back. 169 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.879 Yeah, this was a very interesting game. We were texting 170 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:02.800 obviously in the first half, especially very strange half of 171 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:06.920 basketball where it never really felt like Arizona State was 172 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:10.079 outrightly out playing Kansas. I didn't think anyway. I didn't 173 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:14.120 think Kansas played so badly in the first half. I 174 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:17.160 think Arizona State shot the ball well in the first half, 175 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:19.920 felt like a very fluky kind of half. That being said, 176 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:22.480 Arizona State's thirteen points in the second half, which is 177 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:24.800 the fewest any k opponent has scored in a half 178 00:08:24.839 --> 00:08:28.199 since TCU in February of twenty thirteen. Not the YMCA game, 179 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.040 the other one. Yeah, the other game, which people forget, 180 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.879 was like a blowout and reverse yeah, or both of both. 181 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.360 Those games were basically the opposite of each other. Yep. 182 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:42.919 I didn't think they had that second half in them necessarily, 183 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.919 But Kansas now in all three of their Big Twelve games, 184 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:51.919 have played really outstanding defense, at least in a half 185 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:55.039 against all of their teams. I think they played really 186 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:57.200 well on defense in the second half against West Virginia, 187 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:00.799 a comeback that comes up ever so short in a 188 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.120 worse performance for Kansas and a better team they played 189 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.279 obviously UCF they were very good, and then this second 190 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:11.759 half was genuinely like one of the most dominant defensive 191 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.039 halves I've seen Kansas play ever, maybe maybe the most. 192 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:17.960 It was impressive. It was really impressive. What did you 193 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:18.360 make of it? 194 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:21.240 Yeah, I mean I was gonna go exactly where you 195 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:24.120 did there. They've played. Of their last five halves, four 196 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.679 of them have been really good, especially on the defensive end. 197 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.039 They were plus twelve against West Virginia in the second half, 198 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:32.159 and it wasn't enough. They needed to be plus thirteen 199 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:34.279 or something some numbers. Maybe it was plus eleven. They 200 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.440 need be plus I don't know, whatever it was. And 201 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:41.039 then obviously both halfs against UCF were so ridiculous outlie 202 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.600 early that it was almost strolled them in the trash, 203 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:45.720 and then they dominated Arizona State in the second half. 204 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:47.600 They didn't play horrible in the first half either. They 205 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:49.639 were six points worse than the middle of the Big 206 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:52.000 twelve team. Like that is going to happen. It's not 207 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:54.120 like they went out there and just got deep pants 208 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.000 for a half, and then they proved that they were 209 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.559 the significantly better team of these two in the second half. 210 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.080 I think that as Kansas now number four in the 211 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:05.200 country on Ken Palm defensively, I think a lot of 212 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.919 us entering this season expected them to be their best 213 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:10.440 offensive version of themselves in a long time. They brought 214 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:12.200 in a lot of scorers we knew guys like Rylan 215 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:16.039 Griffin and aj Storr, both who were prominent offensive players 216 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:18.200 at their last school, they would be coming off the 217 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.840 bench to potentially bring huge impacts. We thought this team 218 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:24.519 had seven or eight guys that could bring offensive fireworks. 219 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.240 Now I'm wondering, with Store not being as good and 220 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.879 Shackmore being a little bit of a surprise, now you're 221 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:31.639 seeing a team. At least what I saw in the 222 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.200 second half of that game was a team figuring out 223 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:36.399 who they were a little bit. That was a team 224 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:39.759 that's kind of realizing, Okay, the best version of ourselves 225 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.960 might be a defensive stalwart more than a Hey, let's 226 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:46.720 overwhelm you and blitze you. It's not the prettiest thing 227 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:49.240 to watch, but it's been effective for to the last 228 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.000 five halves in Big twelve play. That being said, I 229 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.159 don't think we've learned a whole lot about Kansas. You 230 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.759 expected them to certainly be at worse two in one 231 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.320 in these three games, probably would have expected three and zero. 232 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:01.080 They were favor it's an all three. They did not 233 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:03.440 win all three. We are going to learn a lot 234 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.639 about Kansas in the next week at Cincinnati and at 235 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.840 Iowa State. At SINC. They project to be a slim 236 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:13.000 favorite in a very close coin flip game at Iowa State, 237 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:16.120 they will be an underdog, a situation they're very rarely 238 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.519 in Underbill self. You gotta win at least one of 239 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:21.200 those two games. Otherwise they're two and three, and I 240 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.799 think we're talking about a team that still hasn't rounded 241 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:26.440 that corner. If they go beat Cincy and play Iowa 242 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:28.759 State within a bucket or two lose at the end, 243 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:31.519 I think we're all feeling like this team has turned 244 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:32.600 a corner. Is that fair? 245 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:36.960 Yeah? Absolutely. I think the next two games are pivotal 246 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.159 in the opinion of the team and in their actual 247 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:43.799 trajectory and in where they're going to finish in Big 248 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:47.399 twelve play, because I would still as of today pick 249 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:49.639 them to lose at Iowa State. 250 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.679 Certainly they're an underdog in that game. They're certainly an underdog, 251 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.480 but Iowa State also isn't They're not playing at the 252 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.039 JJ Reddick Duke teams like Iowa State was up like 253 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:01.039 eight in the second half in Utah the other day. 254 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.080 Like that's a that's not an impossible to win game. 255 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.360 It's a tough matchup, for sure, But this is the 256 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.679 preseason number one team in the country. We expect them 257 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:11.000 to contend in every game, if not be in a 258 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.600 position to win all of them down this stretch, they 259 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.559 should be. They should play Iowa State as close as 260 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:18.720 any team has played Iowa State all year. That should 261 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:19.440 be the expectation. 262 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.080 I think that should be the expectation. And we'll see, 263 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.200 we'll see. Yeah. So I think the Cincinnati game is 264 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.480 huge coming up. Obviously we'll get to at the end 265 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.840 of the show. I think that is a huge game 266 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:34.080 to see where Kansas is at. I also think like 267 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.759 trailing by six to an okay areas, I mean okay, 268 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:44.559 they're not great to a serviceable to average ish a zone. 269 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.639 Right now, they are one of the last four or 270 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.200 the first four out on Joe Lenardi's brackets. So like 271 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.679 like a middle of the pack Power five team, they're 272 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.039 as average as teams getting this in Power five. 273 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.559 If if in a normal like in a traditional Kansas 274 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.879 bill self like the streak kind of year, if you're 275 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.480 just down by six at half en route to a 276 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.399 nineteen point win, I don't think that is like I 277 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.519 honestly don't even think that's especially noteworthy. But because of 278 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:16.639 what these teams have been in stretches this year, and 279 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.360 obviously what they were at the end of last year. 280 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.639 I think it becomes a much more tangible red flag. 281 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.600 So we'll see. I do think the future will speak 282 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.080 a lot more to what Kansas is. Should we hop 283 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:27.279 into Shack Moore here, Ryan. 284 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:29.279 Yeah, I did not think we would be leading off 285 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.600 a podcast with Shackmore, but here we are. And I 286 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.240 didn't think we'd be talking about AJ Store being horrendous, 287 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:35.039 but here we are. 288 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:39.000 Yeah, Shack Moore, let's start with him. Though I am 289 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.720 very excited to get to AJ Store. Shack has earned 290 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.679 the title of a spark plug kind of guy. In 291 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.279 two starts. He had eight points in twenty two minutes, 292 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:49.840 three five shooting, but his highlight play was a steal 293 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:52.759 on an inbounds pass turned a dunk as Kansas was 294 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.480 surging early in the second half. He changes the team's 295 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:00.799 identity into an elite defensive one. Depth is when you 296 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.879 have depth players that actually perform, it's pretty nice. It 297 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:06.799 can give you a variety of looks in a variety 298 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.639 of styles, and Shack Moore has absolutely provided a really nice, 299 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.159 very very solid change of pace in the last couple games. 300 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:16.200 Yeah, like we knew at the beginning of the year, 301 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.120 you can say what you want about to Wan, kJ 302 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.480 and Hunter, but we knew that those three guys were 303 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:22.799 going to play prominent minutes and we all know that 304 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.679 they can play at this level. They're all at minimum serviceable, 305 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.200 if not very good at their peak basketball players. Then 306 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:35.799 in came all the transfers, aj Store, Zeke Mayo, Ryland Griffin, Shackmore, 307 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.519 David Koit, all of those guys. You have five transfers, 308 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.799 and then you throw in Florie Bedunga. You have six guys. 309 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:47.919 That's nine deep. You don't need that depth to give 310 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:51.159 you nine superstar performances every night. That's just not how 311 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.480 basketball works. By the middle of January, you expected a 312 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.200 couple of those guys to be really good. Zeke Mayo 313 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:00.360 all big twelve caliber guard. He is blossomed, Ryland Griffin 314 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:02.320 looks like he's on his way and we certainly know 315 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:05.279 the upsides there. And Shack Moore has been really good. 316 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:07.720 I also think that David Koite has been about what 317 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:09.919 you could have hoped for. He's shooting thirty nine percent 318 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.559 on the season this year. He's been a good bench piece. 319 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:15.440 Those guys have all been good, but Doonga has has 320 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.240 shown flashed the brunch as well. Aj Store hasn't been 321 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.039 as good as we thought he would be or even close. 322 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.120 Ryland Griffin hasn't been as consistent. So whenever you have 323 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.600 six question marks, you really only need three of them 324 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.000 to show up and give you a good performance. And 325 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:32.120 if that happens on this night, Zeke Mao very good, 326 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:37.279 Shack Moore very good, and the third piece, Ryland Griffin 327 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:40.440 pretty good. So of those six guys, three of them 328 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.679 were good and three of them were eh. And Kansas 329 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:45.399 was nineteen points better than Arizona State at home. Like 330 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:48.360 that's what you need. That's the point of depth. It's 331 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.399 so you don't have a situation like when they played 332 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:53.759 Speaking of Cincinnati last year and you literally have nobody 333 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:55.840 that can go make a shot. I think Shack Moore 334 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.279 has been exactly what Dewan Harris's ideal compliment would be 335 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:01.799 if he could draw it up in a lab. I 336 00:16:01.799 --> 00:16:04.320 thought he played really well. He's clearly earned Bill selfs 337 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:06.600 trust quickly, and we didn't even know that this guy 338 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:08.360 was gonna be helping enough to play at all a 339 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:10.360 few weeks ago. Good to see him out there. I 340 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:13.440 don't think he's relinquishing that starting spot anytime soon with 341 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.559 he he plays like a very Bill Selfie Kansas guard 342 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.600 and that that's not Remy Martin. That right, There are 343 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:22.240 guys that you may think are more exciting to watch, 344 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:25.679 But Shackmore is an effective player who, under Bill's self, 345 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:27.919 you expect to win a lot of games. That's what 346 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:28.279 he did. 347 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:32.399 Yeah, I agree, I agree. I've liked Shackmore a lot. 348 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:35.559 He's a very Bill Selfie guard. I will say, if 349 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.080 I was too, this is an nitpicking, because I don't 350 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:40.399 think he's really been anything too outurly nitpick. If I 351 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.600 was to prognosticate a concern that we could be having 352 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:48.840 with Shackmore later in the year, it's that we could 353 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.039 also start complaining that a lineup of Dewan Harris, Shackmore, 354 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:54.639 kJ Adams, and Hunter Dickinson is not exactly lighting up 355 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:55.320 the scoreboard. 356 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.080 Yeah, then there's one shooter on the floor in that 357 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:00.279 lineup that. 358 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:02.559 Would be the worry. Shackmore has knocked down a couple threes. 359 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:06.359 He's not like a complete non factor out there, but 360 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:10.200 I could see that being a problem. Not yet, certainly, 361 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.519 not yet, And I think absolutely continue to start and 362 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:14.920 continue to play shack More a lot of minutes until 363 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:17.759 that proves to be a genuine problem. But I could 364 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.440 see that happening of Zeke, and that even happened a 365 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:22.200 little bit in stretches of this game where you could 366 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:25.599 see Zeke Mayo, and to his credit, he can do it, 367 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.599 but he was trying to force a lot of offense 368 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:29.799 at times because the rest of the team was not 369 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:32.400 in a spot where they were going to score a lot, 370 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:34.319 and he was having to kind of force some shots 371 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:36.440 for some buckets, force the offense a little bit himself. 372 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.079 And that's not a situation I think you should be in, 373 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.559 even though Zeke is a very capable player in those spots. 374 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:45.160 Well, and they have four guys that can play the 375 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:47.960 point on this roster. They almost had five, but al 376 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.920 Marco Jackson hurt himself in October. Like these are all 377 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:54.559 guys who are either combo guards or primary point guards, 378 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.319 and to one and Shack are very similar basketball players. 379 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.920 So yes, you are going to struggle to get offense 380 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.039 in a lineup where at best you have one true 381 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.680 shooter on the floor. However, if you overwhelm your opponents 382 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:11.200 defensively and there aren't any offensive juggernauts in the Big twelve, 383 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:12.799 you should be able to win games in the high 384 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.440 sixties low seventies. Will selves done his whole career, But 385 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:17.799 they have to be flexible. There are going to be 386 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:21.559 teams and opponents and matchups. We're having Zeke Mayo play 387 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:25.279 primary point and putting athletes around him, guys that can score, 388 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:28.160 and trying to play faster. That that's better. You kind 389 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:30.079 of saw that a little bit against UCF. Bill self 390 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.240 let Zeke Mayo be the primary point guard at times 391 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.880 there and they hung ninety nine. In a game like this. 392 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.440 The defense was a disaster in the first half, and 393 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:39.640 they clearly went for that kind of approach and they 394 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.319 held Arizona State to the fifties. Like that, that's much 395 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:45.400 more of the way Kansas wants to play. And I 396 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:49.279 personally think that Dewan Harris was Kansas's best player in 397 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.480 this game. His final line was nine point seven assists, 398 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:55.400 a donut and the turnovers that is zero and three 399 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:59.400 steals in thirty two minutes. Defensively, brilliance Offensively, I thought 400 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:02.000 he was myro and a game that will go under 401 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.119 the radar, but he was just in control of that 402 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:06.559 whole second half. He was also the victim of the 403 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:10.200 refs with that horrible, stupid ass he got in the 404 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:12.839 landing zone. Well, sure, because the guy stuck his leg 405 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.240 into him, like he was also the victim of that. 406 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.759 But I thought Harris was Kansas's best player. He's not spectacular, 407 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.119 but wow, can that guy win a lot of games 408 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:22.480 quarterbacking the Jayhawks. 409 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.240 Yeah, this this was like an idyllic Dewan Harris performance. 410 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.079 This is this is kind of like the summation of 411 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:34.240 what he does, the platonic ideal of Adwan Harris game, 412 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:37.119 if you will, Like, he's not gonna be super flashy, 413 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.400 he's not gonna score a ton, He's gonna he's gonna 414 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:41.720 make a lot of nice passes, gonna a lot of assists, 415 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:43.720 take care of the basketball, and play really good defense. 416 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:45.480 That's exactly what he did here. I don't have a 417 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:47.559 lot to add there. I think that's I think you're right. 418 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:50.559 I think he was really really good in this game. 419 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:54.160 Didn't do a ton that was flashy, but was as 420 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:56.599 solid as you can hope from a twenty ninth year 421 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:57.240 point guard. 422 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:59.559 Well, and whether we like it or not, we are 423 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:02.599 starting see a rotation take shape, Like it's always around 424 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:04.720 this time that Kansas begins to figure it out, and 425 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:06.920 you see that rotation. At the beginning of every season, 426 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:09.279 we look at the roster, we salivate over it, and 427 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:11.400 we say, oh my gosh, this team's got thirteen guys. 428 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:14.160 Like all these guys are studs. But you know, over 429 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.720 the course of a year that guys will and won't 430 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:20.279 climb and up the ranks of the rotation. And sure enough, 431 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:23.960 here we are. Injuries, performance aside all that stuff. Here's 432 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:27.000 your rotation. You have your five guys that started this game, 433 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:31.599 Harris Moore, Mayo, Adams, and Dickinson. Like it or not, 434 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.279 they're all in the rotation. They're all getting starter minutes. 435 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:38.519 Flori Bajuna is the big off the bench, and then 436 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.319 as of right now, there's two guards that are coming 437 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.079 off the bench. There's Rylan Griffin and there's David Koit. 438 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:46.640 I saw a couple people talking about how Quoit shouldn't 439 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:49.279 play as much, he should not play more than Ryland Griffin, 440 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.240 but he's been very solid statistically and he's an experienced 441 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:54.759 ball handler. That's the guy. You have to have a 442 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:57.160 ballhandler that can come off the bench. Those are there 443 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.000 eight guys right now. Aj Store in case the second 444 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:02.680 half was an indication not in the rotation, not in 445 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.119 the circle of trust. Rare Key's passmore, not in this rotation, 446 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:09.119 not even close. Zach Clements is hurt. This is who 447 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.599 you have right now, like it or not. This is 448 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.160 the rotation. We can argue all we want, but I 449 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:16.640 don't think a lot is truly gonna change over the 450 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:19.119 next few weeks. Sparring and injury. These are the eight 451 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.440 guys they're going to ride or die with most nights. 452 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:26.119 Yeah, I totally agree. And let's let's let's talk about 453 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:28.240 the one of the guys that we, uh, we're definitely 454 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:30.559 not sure should be there. It's kJ Adams. He had 455 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:32.960 six points, seven rebounds, three assists, two steals in thirty 456 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:35.960 two minutes when he played poorly Soda Kansas. When he 457 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.519 ignited the defensive effort in the second half especially, the 458 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.599 team was much better. Ryan. Was he good enough? 459 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:43.200 Yeah, he was really good in the second half. The 460 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:45.279 second half was what you wanted a kJ. He made 461 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.680 a couple of plays and he Okay, here's the thing 462 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.720 with kJ, Like, let's let's give kJ a couple of 463 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.920 flowers here, because number one I saw I posted on 464 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:57.559 Twitter that kJ what he does best is he brings 465 00:21:57.680 --> 00:21:59.400 energy better than anyone on the team, and people are 466 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:02.200 like no or he can bring the energy in scoes No. 467 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:05.799 kJ is the best energy bringer, arguably of the bill 468 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:09.680 Self era. His energy is contagious. That second half was 469 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:13.000 ignited by two strong defensive plays by kJ Adams where 470 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:17.000 the entire team feasted off that energy. Only he can 471 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:21.039 do that. Secondly, it is a very well balanced box score. 472 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:24.480 kJ has rebounded quietly the last two games. Seven in 473 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:27.599 each of the last two contests. Three assists that's great, 474 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:31.880 couple steals, couple blocks, big time moments. Those are stat 475 00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:35.759 contributions that we haven't seen from kJ. kJ Adams can 476 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:38.119 do things that no other player on the team can. 477 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:40.559 I get it if you want to question how important 478 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:43.519 they are. But he is not losing any playing time. 479 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:46.119 It's not going to happen whether we want it to 480 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:48.440 or not. This is who they're going to ride with. 481 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:50.720 And it's time to focus on the positive things that 482 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:53.640 he does because we can bitch about it all we want. 483 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:55.200 He's not gonna not play. 484 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:59.559 Yeah, I mean, certainly at this point he is not. 485 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:01.720 I think he was good enough. I think he was 486 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.559 solid this game. I'm still kind of baffled as to 487 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:07.319 why and Arizona State did a did it more than UCF. 488 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:09.119 But I'm still a little bit baffled as to why 489 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:14.279 people aren't truly playing the the Creighton Missoo defense, the 490 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:18.319 West Virginia defense. I just don't I don't get it. 491 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:20.440 At least try it, try it until it proves that 492 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:23.480 it's not working. And like Arizona State did a little, 493 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:27.920 but it's surprising. But yeah, kJ Adams, you're You're definitely 494 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:31.440 right about the rebounding. He's he's quietly been a better 495 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:35.119 rebound in the last few games. I don't think he's 496 00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:39.519 still a very like good rebounder, So I'm I'm assuming 497 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:42.039 that number is gonna go down because I just don't 498 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:45.720 think he's a very handsy rebounder. It's very odd he 499 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.759 like for a guy that is theoretically so strong, I mean, 500 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.240 look at him. You know, he's got like absolute Greek 501 00:23:50.279 --> 00:23:53.759 god arms mostly like it's crazy, but he doesn't feel 502 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:56.799 like he's super strong at the rim on on on 503 00:23:56.839 --> 00:23:59.160 the glass anyway. But now he was definitely good enough. 504 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:00.960 He continues to do a lot of the little things 505 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:04.440 very well. He defends pretty well, can pass all these 506 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.119 things that we've talked about as major pros for kJ Adams. 507 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:09.440 He did really well in this game, and I wouldn't 508 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:11.720 suspect he's gonna do those things well most of the 509 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.519 rest of the season. I still think in what will 510 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:17.880 probably be an inevitible loss in the tournament, kJ Adams 511 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:21.960 is gonna have like three points and two rebounds, and 512 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:24.839 we're gonna say, man, who could have seen that coming. 513 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.119 Hopefully I'm wrong, but that's still where it kind of feels. 514 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:30.759 But he's not playing so poorly to take him off 515 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:32.640 the floor, at least not this game. He was very, 516 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:34.319 very bad in the West Virginia game, but that was 517 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:36.200 the two games ago now, so we'll see what happens. 518 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:37.559 Bill's definitely gonna keep playing him. 519 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.279 Yeah, if they want to win the way that Bill 520 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:42.759 self wants to win, kJ is an important piece. If 521 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:44.759 they want to win with shut down defense, if they 522 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:49.119 want to win with slow, methodical offense that plays, you know, 523 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:51.440 pass the ball around, find the best shot you can 524 00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:53.720 every possession instead of just trying to get shots up 525 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:56.039 in a hurry. kJ is a good fit. Something else 526 00:24:56.079 --> 00:24:58.519 that kJ has quietly gotten a lot better at his 527 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.000 free throw shooting. Entering this season, he was a sub 528 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:03.640 sixty percent free throw shooter. Twenty one for twenty seven 529 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:06.359 this year, that's seventy eight percent. Like we saw Jalen 530 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:09.559 Wilson improve substantially in his last season as a free 531 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:11.759 throw shooter, Kj's kind of done that as well, and 532 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:14.880 that's helpful for this team has And we talked about 533 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:16.359 it a few weeks ago, are they ever going to 534 00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:18.599 draw free throws? We all kind of agreed Big twelve 535 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.000 games more physical, they would eventually get to the line 536 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.680 a little bit more, and they can shoot the hell 537 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:25.759 out of the free throw like thirteen for thirteen in 538 00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:27.759 this game, you just have to get to the line. 539 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:30.240 And they are a team of good free throw shooters. 540 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.039 Yeah, And they showed that against West Virginia at least 541 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:36.279 Zeek Mayo did. We've been saying this most of the 542 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:38.400 season that if this team can get to the line, 543 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:40.720 they're going to make a lot more than they're gonna miss. 544 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:43.640 And you've started to see that a lot, and I 545 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:45.519 hope that continues to be the case. It certainly seems 546 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:47.680 like that's been sort of a mandate or at least 547 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.160 a real attempt to get guys to the free throw line, 548 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:54.119 attack the cup, get there. It's worked out pretty well. 549 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.480 They've they've definitely shot well from the line, and I 550 00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:59.759 think that is a ceiling elevator, especially for a team 551 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.720 that may struggle on offense at times. If you can 552 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:05.720 get free ones at the stripe, then that's gonna help 553 00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:06.079 you a lot. 554 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:09.559 Yep, and we we must give Bill Self his rap. 555 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:14.279 I'll give it to him here myself because somehow, and 556 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:16.359 I don't know how this can be possibly true. That 557 00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:19.480 was Kansas's first win over the Sun Devils in three attempts. 558 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.759 In the Bill Self era, Bobby Hurley entered as something 559 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.240 very few college coaches can say. He was undefeated at 560 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:28.839 Allen field House. Who can say that? Is it just 561 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:32.319 uh DeVry, just the West Virginia coach? Now can anyone 562 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:34.200 else say they're undefeated at Allen field House? I don't 563 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:36.839 think anybody else can. They don't lose non conference games ever, 564 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:38.839 and all the Big twelve teams lose their once a year. 565 00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:41.839 Who is San Diego State's head coach that time? 566 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:44.480 Oh yeah, yeah, Steve Fisher can say that he was 567 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:46.759 undefeated at Allen field House. That's a good call. There 568 00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:48.000 are probably a couple if he. 569 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:49.920 Can say he's one hundred percent three point shooter in 570 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.720 his college career. 571 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:53.400 But that's true. Yeah, it's it's it's it's a very 572 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:55.559 for one, it's a little cheap, but it is. But 573 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:59.119 it still counts only Gonzaga. They are the only team 574 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:02.799 that has late Kansas multiple times under a self and 575 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:06.160 remain undefeated against Kansas. And of course, as you can 576 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:08.759 know because you follow this show, there is absolutely no 577 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:11.720 team in an intarnation that I'd rather that be true 578 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:14.440 less about than again Zaga Bulldogs, who are. 579 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:16.599 Two and oh they didn't do it in field House though 580 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:19.839 that is true. They did in Orlando and then wherever 581 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:21.000 the tournament was last year. 582 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:24.319 Yep, And yeah, I was gonna say, in one of 583 00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.519 the most in a little bit more crucial of a setting, 584 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:30.359 they managed to take that. So we talked about the rotation, 585 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.119 We talked about the point guards, talked about the refts. 586 00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:38.519 Reffs they were atrocious and Hunter Dickinson's moving screen was terrible. 587 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:40.920 He also got hit in the nuts and the Refts 588 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:43.160 just kind of stood there and watched them hunched over 589 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:45.799 for three seconds before they go, oh, I don't know 590 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.279 if that's I think we should probably call it a foul. 591 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.640 Sure should. Refs haven't been super kind to Kansas this year, 592 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:54.480 but that's fine, you know they if we're being honest, 593 00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:57.680 KU opponents are probably due a couple of those. We've 594 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:02.240 all watched the games. Yeah, tell me about the big guys, 595 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:05.079 at least with Hunter who was what you know, what's 596 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:08.480 very interesting Landon is Hunter Dickinson is not going to 597 00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.319 get mixed up with Achem Elijah One from a defensive 598 00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:16.039 center capability chart. I understand that. However, it's pretty amazing 599 00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:18.359 that for how bad Hunter Digginson is on defense, Twitter 600 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:20.920 says that Kansas is still setting up as a top 601 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:22.880 five defensive team in college basketball. 602 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:26.400 Yeah, and he was once again quite good here. He 603 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:28.759 had fifteen points, twelve rebounds to assist, three steals in 604 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:31.640 three blocks thirty four minutes. He also brought the house 605 00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:36.079 down with that one handed and one dunk. There are people, 606 00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:39.160 most of them on Twitter. Whether or not they actually 607 00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:41.640 live lives is yet to be proven, but they do 608 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:44.440 believe he's a negative for the team. Huh. I do 609 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:47.440 disagree with that, despite his liability on defense at times, 610 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.759 And like you said that, honestly, a couple of their 611 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:51.680 best stretches of defense this year have been with him 612 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:52.160 on the floor. 613 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:54.720 So sure all of them, actually all of the ones 614 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:55.480 that come to mind. 615 00:28:56.160 --> 00:29:00.519 Yep, yep, you're correct. Flory was quieterlimited min he scored 616 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.640 four points? Did he actually foul out? A forgetting this? 617 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:04.880 Did I did forget this? 618 00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:07.200 Five twelve minutes? That's not great? 619 00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:09.400 That's not good. No, that's not good. Maybe I just 620 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.359 I think I must have just stopped paying super close attention, 621 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:14.920 as this was like an eighteen point game with a 622 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:18.400 minute left or something. But right I miss that. That's 623 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:19.480 not good. Not good. 624 00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.920 Here here's a sequence. And I've gone back and forth 625 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.720 with a with a particular Twitter account many times that 626 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:31.400 insists Hunter Dickinson is just dog poop. That's that's that's 627 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:34.640 the inclination. And this is a back and forth and 628 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:38.319 the Twitter mentions I said, Hunter Dickinson's vision is very underappreciated, 629 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:40.240 and it's so exceptionally rare for a player of his size. 630 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.559 He's always looking down the court, he's always looking towards 631 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:44.759 the basket. He's a smart player, as you'd expect because 632 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:46.519 he's thirty years old. Ha ha ha ha. And the 633 00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:49.039 response says that is probably the only decent thing that 634 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:51.799 he does. And I respond and say, well, he averages 635 00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:54.359 eighteen and eleven, but yeah, I guess that sucks. And 636 00:29:54.440 --> 00:29:56.720 the response says, I'm glad the box score is all 637 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.319 that matters. Yes, points and rebounds are important, believe it 638 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.000 or not. And the response says, so is defense and 639 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:05.880 so is effort. And it's like, Okay, they have the 640 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.240 fourth best defense in the country with him getting the 641 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.640 second most minutes. Like, I just don't know, what do 642 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:13.960 you want? The team is good on defense and he 643 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:17.400 plays a lot, Like is that not enough? What is 644 00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:19.640 going to be enough for Hunter Dickinson? Is it making 645 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.839 every shot? Someone's like he misers a bunny every game. Yes, 646 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:24.880 he doesn't shoot a hundred percent. What do you want? 647 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:26.920 You want him off the team? You want Flory in 648 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.640 his fivey twelve minutes playing the five all the time? 649 00:30:30.839 --> 00:30:31.680 How's that gonna go? 650 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:35.480 Yeah? And like I am, I'm someone who is very 651 00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:37.920 willing to be critical of Hunter Dickinson, but I do 652 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.559 think it, Like I also have been very vocal about 653 00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:44.240 the people that only criticize Hunter Dickinson being really weird, 654 00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:48.200 because yeah, guys, he's aftering like seventeen points in his career, 655 00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:53.400 Like that's pretty good. And yeah, you can't only analyze 656 00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:58.960 box score to understand, but like you can't suck and 657 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:01.680 average like eight teen and eleven all time. You know, 658 00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.680 like one of those two things can't quite be the case. 659 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:09.880 And he hasn't been bad. He's been pretty good. Yes, 660 00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:13.319 there's been moments where he has been truly unbelievably bad 661 00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:17.799 on defense. Even in this game, you saw Arizona State 662 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:19.920 kind of understand how to play him a lot of 663 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:21.519 the time, and that was get him out in space 664 00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:26.240 and utilize and take advantage of his lack of athleticism 665 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:28.200 to get him in bad spots, get him in the 666 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:30.519 air a little bit, dribble around him, put him out 667 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:32.440 in space, make him chase. And when you can do that, 668 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:34.839 yeah you can score. And Arizona State did, especially in 669 00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:37.119 the first half, pretty much only in the first half. 670 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:42.119 My half court Eaves could have once again maybe scored 671 00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:47.599 more than thirteen points for Arizona State. But he's still 672 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.640 really good. He's really good, and he is an absolute 673 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.680 force down low. And when you can pair him with 674 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:55.880 guys who can make some shots, and Kansas does have 675 00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:58.599 a couple of guys that can do that, You're gonna 676 00:31:58.599 --> 00:31:59.119 be just fine. 677 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.759 Well, congratulations Land And because a college kicker moment did 678 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:05.319 not actually go poorly just now, and they are showing 679 00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.480 a very sad James Franklin on the sideline as his 680 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.720 It appears it appears that Penn State this is gonna 681 00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:13.960 shock you. You might want to sit down first. It appears 682 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:16.039 that Penn State is going to lose a football game 683 00:32:16.119 --> 00:32:18.359 against the team ranked in the top ten. I know 684 00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:20.759 that is just gonna win. 685 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:22.279 The same amount of titles at Penn State as he 686 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:23.000 did with Kansas. 687 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:26.240 No, that would be zero last time I checked, that 688 00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:29.440 would be zero bowl games? Right? Zero bowl games? Or 689 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:33.000 was he still here whenever they just destroyed like half 690 00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:34.440 of the UNLV starting line. 691 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:36.920 I think he was technically on that team that beat 692 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:38.160 UNLV's JV squad. 693 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:41.559 Yeah, a very broncos over the Chiefs Week eighteen bowl 694 00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:45.319 win there for the Jayhawks against a completely picked apart 695 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:48.160 UNLV team. But hey, at least the twenty twenty four 696 00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:53.200 bowl game was much better, right, Right, That's what I 697 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:54.640 thought here. I'm gonna just. 698 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:56.640 Scamp Pea Colorado was really good. 699 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:01.440 I'm just gonna Stampede speaking of Buffalo Stampede, haha. Through 700 00:33:01.559 --> 00:33:03.559 everybody else here, and then you can have the AJ 701 00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:05.319 store floor because we don't have a lot to talk 702 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.240 about with these three guys. Zeke Mayo twenty three points, 703 00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:11.200 five of eight from three, eight for fourteen overall thirty 704 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:13.400 two minutes. It's pretty clear that for Kansas to make 705 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.400 noise in this tournament, he's going to have to be 706 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:17.920 Zeke Mayo is gonna have to carry their offense, because 707 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:19.680 if you take out his five for eight from three, 708 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:23.319 Kansas was two for fifteen. That is bad. The three 709 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:26.000 point shooting. I still think they have enough pieces where 710 00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:28.319 it'll be okay. They were seven for twenty two. That 711 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:31.000 is fine. At the end of the day, Ryland Griffin 712 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:33.839 nine points, three rebounds, eighteen minutes. He's starting to play more, 713 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:36.519 looks more comfortable. I know that we have mixed opinions 714 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:39.519 on store, but it's nice to see Griffin not get buried. 715 00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:42.200 I think Bill self understands how pivotal of a piece 716 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.160 Griffin is. His pull up jumper. He's the first player 717 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:48.480 or not including Zeke Mayo, the first time they've had 718 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:50.480 a player since Grady Dick where it really did feel 719 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.119 like every time he shoots, the ball's going in. David 720 00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:56.680 Kuoy didn't score, he did, He just played twelve minutes. 721 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.720 And yeah, the people on Twitter who don't want him 722 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:01.599 to play, no, you do. He's shooting high thirties and 723 00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:03.160 threes and he can handle the ball off the bench. 724 00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:05.920 That's pretty good. He shouldn't play a lot. He should 725 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:07.920 be eighth out of the eight. I think I think 726 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:10.880 Florie needs to play more than he is, but like 727 00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:14.119 Quoit should be. Koit should be eight in minutes, but 728 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:16.480 Quit needs to play fifteen to twenty minutes a game. 729 00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:19.519 Yeah, Koit needs to be in the rotation for sure. 730 00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:21.840 I think this was the last two games from Griffin 731 00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:23.800 have arguably been in the best two games of a season. 732 00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:25.639 I thought he was really effective. 733 00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:29.159 He didn't get and what made him so good really well, 734 00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:31.719 what was really encouraging we He was four for four 735 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:34.639 from three against UCF, so of course he made an 736 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:36.679 impact in a day where you make four threes, but 737 00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:38.760 this game he was just one for four from three. 738 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:41.280 The one he made was on an offensive rebound after 739 00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:44.280 he missed one earlier in the possession, so he still 740 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:45.679 was able to go out and get you four to 741 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:48.039 two point baskets or three two point baskets, whatever that 742 00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:51.280 math is nine points on just one for four shooting. 743 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:53.480 That's the sort of contributions that they need to see 744 00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:55.320 from him. He was very good and he is a 745 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:58.559 lethal player. All right, go ahead, I know, I know, 746 00:34:58.679 --> 00:34:59.840 and now it's time. 747 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:07.159 Let's do it. AJ Store played a really poor four minutes, 748 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:09.960 maybe the worst few minutes you can possibly play. He 749 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.760 finished with minus seven in four minutes in a game 750 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:17.079 that Kansas won by nineteen. He did not play in 751 00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:20.400 the second half against West Virginia and Arizona State, which 752 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:22.719 we are taking out the UCF game because everyone's numbers 753 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.199 were insanely inflated, and I guess you know that's how 754 00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:31.719 basketball works. But nonetheless, Kansas minus twenty two with aj 755 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:34.920 Store on the floor against West Virginia and Arizona State 756 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:41.800 and plus forty when he doesn't in a game they lost. 757 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:49.360 They are still plus forty with him off the court. 758 00:35:50.519 --> 00:35:55.239 I have I think I praised AJ Storer one time 759 00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:58.159 on the show. It was early in the year. I 760 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.239 don't remember who it was against. He did play really 761 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:04.719 well early. Otherwise I have very much been on the 762 00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:08.320 AJ Store is not good and should not be playing 763 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:11.079 because he is not playing well at all. Train and 764 00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:13.679 I get you and Kim especially have been on the 765 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:19.239 this looks really bad for recruits, and that's like not unreasonable, 766 00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.639 But I also sure maybe it looks bad for recruits, 767 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:24.159 but it's not that he This is not a Remy 768 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:29.440 Martin situation. This is not the it's not and Bill's 769 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.679 just not playing the issue store sucks right now and 770 00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:34.000 that could change. Maybe it will. I hope it does. 771 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.320 But he's bad. He's really bad right now. He cannot play. 772 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.280 Yeah, that stretch, that four minutes that you talked about, 773 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:41.760 And keep in mind, this is already a guy that's 774 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:43.639 having to wait now two games in a row, thirteen 775 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:45.360 minutes just to get on the floor. He is on 776 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:47.880 thin thin, I says is. And he goes out there 777 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:52.480 and immediately, like you missed this play, immediately throws an 778 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:56.639 inbounds pass right to an opposing player under his own 779 00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:59.480 basket and gives up a layup, like immediate, three seconds 780 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.800 into his year, he does that, and in his four minutes, 781 00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:04.519 the only thing he had two of on his stat 782 00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.519 cart as turnovers, including the one under his own basket 783 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:10.679 he missed the contest to three. Then he lost another possession. 784 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.119 Whenever he was trying to drive against three guys at once, 785 00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:16.360 his man made two different buckets on him, and it 786 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:18.760 was all over in like two hundred seconds. Then that 787 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:22.079 was it, Like it was it was insane. They are 788 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:24.960 so much poorer with him in the game. And we've 789 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.679 witnessed with our eyeballs AJ Storr being a good basketball 790 00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:32.039 player for a power five team in Wisconsin, a Wisconsin 791 00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:35.119 team that finished top four in a major conference last year. 792 00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:39.719 We know the capabilities are there, but I believe I 793 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:41.599 don't remember who was Someone on Twitter said, did you 794 00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:44.000 see aj Storre when Hunter Nigginson threw down that dunk 795 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:46.679 and the bench exploded? And aj Storer could not have 796 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.880 looked more and less invested. He just looked so mad. 797 00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:53.280 At this point, it's fair to question how bought in 798 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.920 he is. And it's also fair to wonder how bought 799 00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:58.360 in would you be if you are playing this poorly 800 00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:00.320 in a season that you truly expected to be a 801 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:02.920 more valuable part of the team. But you can't do 802 00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:05.960 anything about it now. Right exactly you expected it. We 803 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:09.119 thought he'd be their second leading scorer, like that's what 804 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:12.039 he was brought in to do, and at this point 805 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:14.360 he is not giving Bill self a reason to play 806 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:17.840 him like he's not I don't know, I'm I am 807 00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:20.519 very close to being right in your camp and just 808 00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:22.679 being like this is a waste of time. He's not 809 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:26.119 good enough, he's not playing. He's not one of their 810 00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:28.400 eight best players right now. He cannot play. 811 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:33.960 Yeah, fully agree fully agree, and to hear this is 812 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.400 also much worse than he's been playing in the last 813 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:41.400 few games. Was performance he's had all year, which does 814 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:44.440 make me wonder maybe he will begin to trend upward, 815 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:46.920 but again that's based purely on the pass, not on 816 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:50.039 anything that he has done really this year, at least 817 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.639 not in the last like what two months at this point. 818 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:56.639 And Bill's self has remained very complimentary of Store honestly, 819 00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:59.000 like we saw him throw Remy under the bus a lot, 820 00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:01.840 like he has continue to pump up the practice things. 821 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:04.480 Store was really good in practice and all that here 822 00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.519 our Store. In the games that matter for Kansas. He 823 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.760 scored thirteen points against North Carolina. He was legitimately good 824 00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:12.360 in a game if they only won by three. We 825 00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.599 saw that just six points and foul out in twelve 826 00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:18.760 minutes against Michigan State that was bad, did score eleven 827 00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:21.760 points and had a nice second half against Duke. Give 828 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:26.960 him two points there, Creighton nothing, Missouri one for seven, 829 00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:31.480 North Carolina State two points in seventeen minutes, West Virginia 830 00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:36.639 a minus fourteen and fifteen minutes, and Arizona State no points, 831 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.599 minus seven and four minutes. Like, he has not been 832 00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:42.400 good in a game against an opponent that you've heard of, 833 00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:46.800 unless you count UCF since before Thanksgiving. That's the wrong way. 834 00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:51.159 And even the UCF stuff as much as maybe you 835 00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:54.639 are screaming at your phone right now with Spotify open saying, 836 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.719 but he was good in that game, Uh he was, 837 00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.440 But even that was garbage time largely, like that was 838 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:03.599 the game is over and here comes aj Store to 839 00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:07.320 score some some more or less irrelevant baskets. 840 00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:11.480 Yeah, exactly, he has not made or he has not 841 00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:17.000 played in a consequential moment and also played well and 842 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.119 said consequential moments since the Duke game, And honestly, was 843 00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:23.280 he only on the floor because Hunter Dickinson got tossed 844 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:26.559 Like that also played a factor too. They had less guys. 845 00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:29.719 They kind of had to sink or swim there Creighton, Missouri, 846 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.119 West Virginia, and Arizona State three ls where aj store 847 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:36.880 has been a minus by a lot and all of them, 848 00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:39.599 and they beat Arizona State where he barely got on 849 00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:42.280 the floor and was undoubtedly the worst part of the 850 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.000 team of the team. 851 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.320 I also do want to point out because as much 852 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:50.039 as aj storre like, he is the one playing and 853 00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:53.760 thus he is largely responsible for that. Obviously he is 854 00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:56.880 responsible for his output in that way, I do still 855 00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:59.159 want to point out I think he's been put in 856 00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:04.719 a very bad position, like tell me what he's actually 857 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:10.400 supposed to do stylistically on this team, Like I'm not 858 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:12.920 really sure what it is, and you could say and 859 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:14.519 I and I said this in the preseason. I think 860 00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:18.280 this was sort of the general consensus or certainly what 861 00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:20.719 I thought was the opinion, and certainly seemed to be 862 00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:22.519 the player profiles that he was supposed to at least 863 00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:25.280 kind of replace Kevin McCuller. He wasn't nearly as good 864 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:25.800 as a rebound. 865 00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:27.559 It's that he was supposed to be to drive to 866 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:29.360 the cup guy that was supposed to be his yea 867 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:30.360 he drive to the cup. 868 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:33.519 Three man, Yep, yep, he was the slasher. The driver 869 00:41:33.800 --> 00:41:36.519 could knock down the occasional three, but wasn't gonna light 870 00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:38.280 it up from out there, and it was going to 871 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:40.000 be an athlete and a good defender on the perimeter. 872 00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:43.199 That was what AJ Store was supposed to be. But 873 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:47.719 when you are trying to recruit shooters, which they did 874 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:51.960 recruit shooters, and also you have guys, as we've talked 875 00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:55.400 about at length, the Dewan Harris, kJ Adams, Hunter Dickinson trio, 876 00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.519 I'm just not sure how aj Store really fits in 877 00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.639 with the rest of those pieces because he's like a 878 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:03.199 true kind of traditional small forward in that way like 879 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:07.679 Kevin mccullor or Jalen Wilson were, but not as good 880 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:11.360 as those guys. And obviously that is more just like 881 00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:13.840 that's his thing and that you know, you can't predict 882 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.480 every time. Not everyone's gonna hit, and that's just kind 883 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:17.079 of the way that goes. 884 00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:20.440 And that's okay, well, and we knew last year, but 885 00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:22.960 we knew last year. I mean, you look at the numbers. 886 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:26.400 Aj Store. Not a rebounder plays he's six seven, less 887 00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:28.920 than four boards a game in thirty minutes. Not a rebounder, 888 00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:32.440 not a passer, has never averaged more than zero point 889 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:36.320 nine assists per game in his career. Doesn't block shots. 890 00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:40.119 Has thirteen total in his career, thirteen total blocks. He's 891 00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:42.639 sixty seven, not five to seven. Like, he doesn't do that. 892 00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:45.400 He's not a guy who's gonna get you steals averages 893 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:48.960 less than one half of one steal per game. Aj 894 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:53.480 Store has forty steals in eighty three career games. He's 895 00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:56.159 not going to He's not gonna do that either. Not 896 00:42:56.239 --> 00:42:59.599 a three point threat. Shot just thirty two percent last year. 897 00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:03.000 He made less than one hundred threes and eighty three 898 00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:05.639 career games. He was brought in here to do one thing, 899 00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:07.679 drive to the cup and score. He's a good free 900 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:10.119 throw shooter. But he doesn't get to the line either. 901 00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.599 He's got to score at the rim. He hasn't done that. 902 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.239 So we shouldn't be shocked that he's not contributing in 903 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.480 any other way because he's never done that. But last 904 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:19.920 year he did score at the Cup. He's not doing that. 905 00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.039 That's the problem. That's the and that's the piece they 906 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.280 need the most right now. They need a downfield driver, 907 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:27.719 guy who can go to the cup and get you 908 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.679 two points more often than he can't or get fouled, 909 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:32.639 go to the line and make them that way what 910 00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:35.119 we've seen Zeke Mayo make that adjustment. He's driving to 911 00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:37.639 the cup a lot more since conference play started. AJ 912 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:39.239 Store could not look less interested. 913 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:43.519 Would you play him against Cincinnati at all? 914 00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:45.719 I mean, I still think that I would put him 915 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:48.440 in the game about twelve minutes in, assuming that you're 916 00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:51.119 not down, you know, twenty three to ten, like we've 917 00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:54.199 seen Kansas get down in that spot in recent road games. 918 00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:57.719 I still think I try it. He's a good athlete, 919 00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.000 and inevitably with his his bo of work, he's a 920 00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:03.559 Division one athlete like you should be able to occasionally 921 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:05.199 get something. We saw it against U and c we 922 00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:08.119 saw it against Duke, like it should be there. But 923 00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:11.119 I'm fine using him in the role where if I 924 00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:13.519 try it for three minutes and he's bad, I'm not 925 00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:15.159 trying it again the rest of the night. That's it. 926 00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:20.239 Yeah, I think it's I think it's exactly what happened here. 927 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:23.639 You throw him out there, you give him maybe five minutes. 928 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:27.760 Maybe if he plays well, you can at least try 929 00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.039 him again, and if he doesn't, that's that's it. 930 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:34.440 Like kJ Adams is listed just like AJ Store at 931 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:37.519 six foot seven. We all think kJ is probably a 932 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:41.119 better athlete. But kJ Adams has seventy one blocks in 933 00:44:41.159 --> 00:44:43.800 his career in one hundred and twenty games, Like, that's 934 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:47.480 about point seven a game. AJ Store has thirteen blocks 935 00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:51.280 in three years. Like he doesn't contribute And you say, Okay, 936 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:54.119 it's not a huge difference. It's won every couple games, Okay, 937 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.079 But kJ Adams averages what in the last couple of 938 00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:00.719 years almost three assists per game, AJ Store under one 939 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:03.480 for his career. kJ Adams will get your steel a game. 940 00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:06.840 AJ Store won't even get you close. Like all those 941 00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:09.719 little things we talk about kJ not putting anything on 942 00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:12.760 the box score. AJ Store doesn't put anything in the 943 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:16.360 box score if he's not scoring at the rim, correct, Yeah, 944 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:19.039 I mean didn't he He just had a zero zero 945 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.159 zero zero zero game for proof. 946 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.480 Yeah, I mean and with the blocks things specifically, I mean, 947 00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:27.960 AJ Store is also a more true perimeter player, and 948 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:29.639 he's gonna be defending on the perimeter a lot more 949 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:32.760 than K where kJ is defending in and around the 950 00:45:32.800 --> 00:45:34.960 paint and at the basket a lot more. But I mean, yeah, 951 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:39.880 points taken. Yeah, this is definitely the case of AJ 952 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:42.960 Store has like one thing to do and he looks deeply, 953 00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:45.559 deeply uncomfortable doing it, and that is driving to the 954 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.519 cup and trying to draw contact. And he's just not 955 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:49.880 trying to do that at all. Which maybe you could 956 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:52.280 blame that on Bill, because it does seem like from 957 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.599 early reports that Bill might have gotten his head a 958 00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:58.039 little bit, which you know has never happened before. Bill's 959 00:45:58.039 --> 00:45:59.159 never gotten anyone's head before. 960 00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:00.679 Oh no, that's happened. 961 00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:04.960 But yeah, he has to do that, and we're definitely 962 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:09.199 seeing a guy who has one particular skill set uh 963 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:13.599 not utilized that almost at all, and he doesn't really 964 00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:18.400 have anything else to do, which a little bit. Ending 965 00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:21.159 a nineteen point win for Kansas, uh in a game 966 00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:23.039 where they held their opponent to thirteen points in the 967 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:26.880 second half and played truly outrageous defense and played really 968 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:28.880 well in a game where you know, Brylan Griffin played 969 00:46:28.880 --> 00:46:30.719 well and Zeke Mayo was great, and Hunter Dickinson was 970 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:33.159 great and kJ even had a pretty good game, uh. 971 00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:36.079 Ending on just ranting by a J Store. But I guess, well, 972 00:46:36.079 --> 00:46:38.199 that's that's the talk game for Kansas. 973 00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:41.159 That is the talking point because to one more throwback 974 00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:43.440 to you brought up the Kevin Coher thing. Absolutely, he 975 00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:46.519 was brought into be Kevin mcculler's replacement. Kevin mcculor was 976 00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:48.800 a really good score at the rim like we needed 977 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:51.840 aj Stort to be. But Kevin mccullor did a lot 978 00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:56.239 of things in the box score. He had two triple yes, like, 979 00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:59.360 he did a lot of things in addition to being 980 00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:02.440 a very defensive player. None of that has been seen 981 00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:05.360 from aj Storer. I still think it could work. We've 982 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:07.679 seen it happen at the power five level. We like 983 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:10.039 the thing with Nick Timberlake that made us lose. All 984 00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:12.199 hope is he's never done it for a team better 985 00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:14.760 than thousand. We saw a J Storre do it against 986 00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:17.360 big ten teams every night like it's there, it's in 987 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:20.400 the tank. But yeah, what you said about Bill self 988 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:22.320 and he got in his head about driving to the rim, 989 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:24.840 well we'll see. I don't think the season is too 990 00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:27.800 far gone for aj Storre to ever contribute because I 991 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:30.920 saw Remy Martin, who was albeit a much better player 992 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:33.719 than aj store go through a season of crap and 993 00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:36.000 still came out off the bench to be a star 994 00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:39.360 in the NCAA Tournament. Aj Store has the ability to 995 00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:42.239 do it, but he's gonna have to show something because 996 00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:44.519 he's not showing anything in his four minutes that would 997 00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:47.320 make Bill Sell say yes, more of that. He's also 998 00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:49.239 starting to lose a lot of the fans on Twitter. 999 00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:52.119 I was banging the gong as hard as anybody's saying self, 1000 00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:54.280 it's on self. He's got to play more. After this 1001 00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:56.880 type of performance. I'm sitting there wondering how in the 1002 00:47:56.880 --> 00:47:58.800 world anyone on Twitter could say, I need to see 1003 00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:01.519 more of this guy. It hasn't worked. Forty four percent 1004 00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:04.199 from the floor for Kansas, thirty percent from three They 1005 00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:06.639 were a perfect thirteen for thirteen at the line. That 1006 00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.239 definitely deserves some praise. Finally, Kansas, they'll self recruit himself 1007 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:13.400 some free throw shooters and it's on display. And they 1008 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.239 were plus ten at the glass on the glass after 1009 00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:18.679 being like minus six in the first half. Really good 1010 00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:22.119 second half, really good performance overall. You'll take it. But 1011 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:23.800 we're gonna learn a lot about them this weekend, Right, 1012 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:26.920 that's your attitude. I'm happy, but I didn't I didn't 1013 00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.400 doubt that they were gonna play well against Arizona State. 1014 00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:33.039 Now come the test, right, that's your attitude. 1015 00:48:33.639 --> 00:48:35.719 Yeah, I would, I would fully echo that. Good win 1016 00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:38.000 for sure, great winn aast u CF good win here 1017 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:41.199 against Arizona State. Now go play a desperate Cincinnati team 1018 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:43.400 on the road who still has talent. And then you'll 1019 00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:44.960 play one of the best teams in the country and 1020 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:46.679 the best team in the conference in Iowa State, in 1021 00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:48.920 a building where you've historically struggled. And if if you 1022 00:48:48.920 --> 00:48:52.000 get a couple wins there, then let's let's let's fire 1023 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.039 up the final four horns and sirens and let's have 1024 00:48:55.079 --> 00:48:58.239 a party until then. Yeah, I gotta see it, got 1025 00:48:58.360 --> 00:48:58.719 to see it. 1026 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.159 Bay Big twelve games. Here we go again with eight 1027 00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:06.239 Big twelve games. I guess we already did a long 1028 00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:08.679 recap about one of them. Starting with the best team 1029 00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:12.119 in the conference, number three Iowa State eighty two, Utah 1030 00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:14.960 fifty nine. We knew it would be a blowout. Iowa 1031 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:17.880 State covered anyway. Game was kind of close for a 1032 00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:20.480 little bit, but Iowa State put their foot on their 1033 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:24.119 throat quickly. Taman Lipsey twenty points, Curtis Jones another twenty 1034 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:27.320 three off the bench. The Cyclones are three and oh tough, 1035 00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:29.880 little trap game for them this weekend, they go to 1036 00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:32.880 Lubbock to play Texas Tech ahead of a colossal showdown 1037 00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:36.000 with Kansas. If they get through the next two games 1038 00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:37.880 and they're five and oh, I think you have to 1039 00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:40.199 say they are undoubtedly the favorite in the Big twelve. 1040 00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:42.639 Would agree, Yeah, that's going to be a very interesting 1041 00:49:42.639 --> 00:49:45.039 one at the Red Raiders this weekend. 1042 00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:50.360 Number twelve Houston sixty five, TCU forty six. Good lord, 1043 00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:53.039 I don't understand why we need TCU in the Big twelve. 1044 00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:54.079 Do you know what they do here? 1045 00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:59.159 Do we need them less than? Like BYU? 1046 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:02.039 Do away with half these teams? If we're being honest, 1047 00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:03.920 we could go back to the Big eight and keep 1048 00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:09.880 you know, get rid of UCF and Cincinnati and basically 1049 00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:13.880 get rid of all Brett your Mark's progress, right, I. 1050 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.920 Would probably vote for that. Yeah, if given that, because. 1051 00:50:18.199 --> 00:50:22.559 Just TCU is just awful. TCU has never played a 1052 00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:24.840 good basketball game. I believe that's the case, right and 1053 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:26.960 hit the history books show that they've never played a 1054 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:27.960 good basketball game. 1055 00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:30.519 It's very few, much less than everyone else. It feels 1056 00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:34.159 Cam bet on this game and it was a push. 1057 00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.400 Should he call the number? I think yeah, I think 1058 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.000 he should have called the number five years ago. 1059 00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:41.079 Speaking of Cam, here is Cam's random fact of the 1060 00:50:41.159 --> 00:50:43.000 day that he sent us to read on the air. 1061 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:47.079 He says, Andian condors terrify me because they can fly 1062 00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:49.079 up to one hundred and twenty five miles an hour. 1063 00:50:49.159 --> 00:50:51.079 I'm not fact checking this. This is just straight from 1064 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:54.920 the inbox, which is Cam doesn't always say truthful things here, 1065 00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:56.840 so we're rolling the dice. And he also says their 1066 00:50:56.880 --> 00:51:01.320 wingspan is longer than kJ Adams by three feet, which 1067 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:04.280 Kj's got a big wingspan. So these sounds like Bill 1068 00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:06.360 needs to recruit him some of these birds to go 1069 00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:08.199 out there at allen Field. I'm picturing the scene in 1070 00:51:08.280 --> 00:51:09.280 Jurassic Wildness. 1071 00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:14.280 What what I'm dogging the I'm googling Andy and Condor. 1072 00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:19.280 They're really large, upsettingly large. 1073 00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:22.119 Wow, Oh my gosh, they're real. I was picturing like 1074 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:24.079 they're not extinct either, they're alive. 1075 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:26.760 Yeah, so big. 1076 00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:29.360 They look like they look like turkeys on their heads, 1077 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:32.440 and they their wingspan is just colossal. He wasn't kidding. 1078 00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:35.199 No, that's a very big bird. Y. I would not 1079 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:36.760 want that coming at me in one hundred and twenty 1080 00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:37.519 five miles an hour. 1081 00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:42.960 And Andy and Corndor. They are scavengers. They eat remains 1082 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:45.320 of deer, cow, sheep, and the like, and some would 1083 00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:48.599 say the souls of their victims because they're huge. Uh Cam. 1084 00:51:48.719 --> 00:51:50.440 Most of the things Camp sends in this group chat 1085 00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:54.280 I cannot read Camp. Uh Camp sent another fact had 1086 00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:56.960 an alarm clock that I certainly cannot read on the air, 1087 00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.880 but it is really really funny. So yeah, mischief cam 1088 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:03.079 Cam is spending some time with his girlfriend, who I 1089 00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:05.760 believe lives a couple of states away. That is more 1090 00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:08.079 important than the show. Landon you decided that watching Notre 1091 00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:10.719 Dame beat Penn State was not more important than the show, 1092 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:12.320 So that's where I rank. 1093 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:14.440 I didn't decide that. 1094 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:16.599 Oh is that my fault? Is that me being a 1095 00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:18.920 boss and being laying down the law because we didn't 1096 00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:19.920 want to get done at midnight? 1097 00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:23.280 Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna need a one hundred percent raise 1098 00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:24.239 of my current salary. 1099 00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:26.719 I'll do you better. I'll do to two hundred. 1100 00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:29.320 Anyway, let's get through our second and big twelve game. 1101 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:33.239 TCU needed garbage time to get a twentieth basket as 1102 00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:36.519 compared to their nineteen turnovers. Yet again, folks, it tails 1103 00:52:36.519 --> 00:52:40.079 all this time, Emmanuel sharpled Houston in scoring, but he 1104 00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:42.199 only had fourteen points because again, the game was sixty 1105 00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:44.440 five forty six. This is the fewest number of points 1106 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:48.519 anyone has scored against Houston since what the last dam 1107 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:49.320 damn it? 1108 00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:50.760 There's your hint. 1109 00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:53.920 Oh yeah, I remember that game. I watched it. 1110 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.159 Kams has also scored forty six points in Houston. I 1111 00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:02.440 believe that Arizona State scored thirteen points against Kansas in 1112 00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:05.119 this game. I believe if Houston had scored thirteen second 1113 00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:07.079 half points, they still would have won that game. I 1114 00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:09.119 think they only needed like seven to beat Kansas in 1115 00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:11.119 the second half. That there were something we were. 1116 00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:13.039 Big, twelve teams that didn't hit sixty. There was two 1117 00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:14.599 that had hit fifty. What are we doing? 1118 00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:14.960 Did you? 1119 00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:15.679 Yeah? 1120 00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:17.559 This is painful, really really painful? 1121 00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:20.360 And two and a half. 1122 00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:24.320 And but there was never a question when Jerome Tank 1123 00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:27.440 came to town, Oklahoma State was gonna see a hula 1124 00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:30.280 hoop sized basket up here in front of them. Oklahoma 1125 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:35.639 State seventy nine, Kansas State, Ima, bitches sixty six. Oh 1126 00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:39.760 my gosh, somebody has to fire Jerome Tang like enough already, 1127 00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:42.800 not it, guys, we don't even like Kansas State, and 1128 00:53:42.840 --> 00:53:45.119 I'm starting to feel bad for them because this is 1129 00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:47.719 you want to talk about a guy who has undone 1130 00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:51.599 progress quicker than anybody thought possible. Jerome Tang's Wildcats have 1131 00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:54.960 now lost eleven, count them, eleven straight road games. They 1132 00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:58.360 were never competitive and still watered despite shooting fifty one percent. 1133 00:53:58.480 --> 00:54:00.719 Hard to do, primarily because as they turned it over 1134 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:03.400 nineteen times. Turnovers are a thing. You're gonna notice a 1135 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:06.960 trend among Big twelve losers. This week, Oklahoma State got 1136 00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:10.760 twenty seven points from someone named Abou Osmine in front 1137 00:54:10.760 --> 00:54:13.880 of approximately four hundred fans. They earned their first Big 1138 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:18.440 twelve win by beating well Jerome tank Gross Baylor sixty eight, 1139 00:54:18.599 --> 00:54:22.679 Cincinnati forty eight. If Kansas doesn't beat Cincinnati, I know 1140 00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:24.880 they're desperate, but forty eight damn points. 1141 00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:28.440 Baylor dropped the Bearcats to zer to three in league 1142 00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:31.840 play heading into Saturday's game with the Jayhawks. Both Nord 1143 00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:35.320 ched Omier and VJ. Edgecomb scored eighteen for the Bears. 1144 00:54:36.079 --> 00:54:37.719 Where are these teams finished in the league. I think 1145 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:43.719 Baylor top five. I think Cincinnati seven, not seven. Way 1146 00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:47.920 too few teams there, like fifteenth, or sixteenth. 1147 00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:50.800 Cincinnati won't be a bottom two team. They're probably around there. 1148 00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:54.119 They won't you're right, probably around ten or eleven. 1149 00:54:54.239 --> 00:54:54.440 Yeah. 1150 00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:57.599 The problem is, though, they're racking up losses like that, 1151 00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:00.320 and we saw last year the difference betwe between like 1152 00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.280 the third place team and the seventh place team in 1153 00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:04.679 the Big Twelve was a single game. When you're losing 1154 00:55:04.760 --> 00:55:06.840 all these coin flips over and over, and I get it, 1155 00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:08.599 their schedule has been tough, but you lose a coin flip, 1156 00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:10.679 but home to Arizona, there's one. You lose a coin 1157 00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:12.480 flip back Kansas State, a team a lot of teams 1158 00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:14.840 are gonna beat this year. That's another one. Like you're 1159 00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:17.639 sliding down the rankings and they're killing they're already pretty 1160 00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:20.400 underwhelming tournament resume, Like they are not an NCAA tournament 1161 00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:22.679 team right now despite a good record, and you only 1162 00:55:22.679 --> 00:55:25.199 get to forty eight against Baylor. Baylor, by the way, 1163 00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:26.960 they're in the top four. I think the best four 1164 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.920 teams in the Big twelve right now are pretty clearly 1165 00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:33.039 in some order, Iowa State, Houston, Kansas and Arizona and Baylor. 1166 00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:34.880 I guess it's five. Those are the best five with 1167 00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:38.199 Texas Tech hovering around that sixth range. There are five 1168 00:55:38.559 --> 00:55:40.480 There are four good teams in the Big twelve, and 1169 00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:43.280 I would put Texas Tech and Baylor in the probably 1170 00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.920 pretty good category. Right, that's fair. We have six teams 1171 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:48.159 that we would say are either anywhere between really good 1172 00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:49.679 and probably good. 1173 00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:52.880 Yeah, I think that's I think that's pretty a pretty 1174 00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:53.559 fair assessment. 1175 00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:58.079 Texas Tech seventy two BYU sixty seven. This is a 1176 00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:00.239 great road win for the Red Raiders. They want and 1177 00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:02.880 probo doing the opposite of Cincinnati. They won a road 1178 00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:04.719 game in a place where not a lot of teams 1179 00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:07.400 will get one. They got six threes from Elijah Hawkins, 1180 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:09.679 and they put together a second half comeback to win 1181 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:12.599 in a tough environment. BYU as a team only made 1182 00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:14.760 five threes, They're not gonna beat anybody when they do that. 1183 00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:17.880 Richie Saunders made zero. What do you think happens when 1184 00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:22.000 Kansas comes to town? And why is it? This one zero? 1185 00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:26.599 That's the ball just flying in the basket one after 1186 00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:29.159 the other. There it goes, Oh, Richie's got eight threes 1187 00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:31.280 and we haven't even hit the second TV timeout yet. 1188 00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:35.119 How's that possible? Arizona seventy five, number twenty one, West 1189 00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:38.159 Virginia fifty six. So much for our West Virginia hype. 1190 00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:41.440 This is it falling right off the tracks. Oh okay, 1191 00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:43.719 it just stopped playing, much like Arizona did. I guess, 1192 00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:46.760 uh yeah, might have to replace the West Virginia whatever 1193 00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:47.519 their team name is. 1194 00:56:48.119 --> 00:56:50.800 The Wildcats are a very surprising three and zero after 1195 00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:53.480 what were they six and five or seven and four 1196 00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:54.440 in the non cong. 1197 00:56:54.440 --> 00:56:56.320 They were It was worse than that. I think there 1198 00:56:56.320 --> 00:56:57.960 were four and five. I think this was a team 1199 00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:01.239 with a losing record through the first couple months of play. 1200 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:01.920 It was shocking. 1201 00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:05.159 They were not good. But they've opened big till play 1202 00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:08.239 really well and they completely controlled The Mountaineers got twenty 1203 00:57:08.280 --> 00:57:10.760 one Benz points from kJ Lewis. Of course, Caleb Love 1204 00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:14.400 was three for ten. He almost refuses, out of sheer 1205 00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:16.960 force of will to shoot a high percentage, just thirty 1206 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:19.360 six percent from the floor for the Mountaineers. Javon Small 1207 00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:21.280 did not make a fade away with guy right in 1208 00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:23.800 his face from behind the basket to ice this one. 1209 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:27.079 So yeah, wells Virginia gets ranked, they're probably gonna drop 1210 00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:29.559 out immediately. In Arizona, Arizona might actually be the good 1211 00:57:29.559 --> 00:57:30.639 team we thought they were going to be. 1212 00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:33.400 Yeah, they have a lot of talent and Tommy Lloyd's 1213 00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:35.719 a good coach. We figured that team would eventually rise 1214 00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:37.480 to the top, or at least the top ish of 1215 00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:39.880 Big twelve play. They look really good. We'll see if 1216 00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:42.599 they're I don't think they're consistent enough to avoid a 1217 00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:45.320 four out of five loll. That's absolutely coming at some point. 1218 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.840 But they are starting to come back to the surface 1219 00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:50.400 a little bit after a pretty unlucky non con start. 1220 00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:54.840 UCF seventy five, Colorado seventy four. So Landon if the 1221 00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:59.320 transitive property if Kansas is fifty one points better than UCF, 1222 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.960 I think that means they're fifty two points better than 1223 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:05.559 the Buffalos, who are zero and three. They shot fifty 1224 00:58:05.599 --> 00:58:08.920 two percent to just thirty nine percent for UCF. They 1225 00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:11.639 also made fifty four percent of their threes, and they 1226 00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:14.599 were plus five on the glass. But oh, whenever you 1227 00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:17.920 ask yourself how did they lose? You forgot that team 1228 00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:20.039 plays in the Big twelve, so they must have had 1229 00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:24.480 a lot of turnovers, twenty two of them. That's gross 1230 00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:27.960 twenty two points from Jordan Ivy Curry and it was 1231 00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:31.119 Keyshawn Hall blocking a shot in the final two seconds 1232 00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:34.840 that preserved a victory for UCF, who is hilariously two 1233 00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:38.519 and one in conference play with a fifty what are 1234 00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:42.239 they like minus forty six in three games and they're 1235 00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:47.079 two and one something? Yeah, I think so amazing, just amazing. 1236 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:50.039 In the big twelve standings, we're starting to see a 1237 00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:52.760 little bit. We'll see what we're at through about six games. 1238 00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:54.880 But the top three teams are all pretty good. Houston, 1239 00:58:54.920 --> 00:58:57.480 Iowa State, and Arizona. They're the only three out of 1240 00:58:57.519 --> 00:59:00.280 sixteen to make it through the first three games at 1241 00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:00.880 three and zero. 1242 00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:04.880 I think four of the five tied for fourth place 1243 00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:08.840 teams makes mostly sense KU, West, Virginia, Baylor, Texas Tech, 1244 00:59:08.880 --> 00:59:13.360 and UCF at two and one. 1245 00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:16.000 And then we're starting to get into mediocreville here Kansas State, BYU, 1246 00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:20.960 Arizona State, TCU, and Oklahoma State. I think that Kansas 1247 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.679 State might actually be like one of the three best 1248 00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:26.480 teams in that set of five, which is truly impossible. 1249 00:59:26.719 --> 00:59:27.719 They're one and two. 1250 00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:33.599 I think, so tied for fourteenth is Colorado, Utah and Cincinnati. 1251 00:59:33.639 --> 00:59:37.679 I think Cincinnati will I think you are right, Cincinnati 1252 00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:40.199 will not finish. I don't think in the in the 1253 00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:42.719 true bottom here, Colorado and Utah are gonna have a 1254 00:59:42.760 --> 00:59:43.599 tough go of things. 1255 00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:47.599 I thought Colorado was better than this, maybe just because 1256 00:59:47.639 --> 00:59:51.760 they're they've produced pros before, they have a pretty respectable coach. 1257 00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:55.639 I'm surprised they're this bad. Okay, if you had to 1258 00:59:55.639 --> 00:59:59.239 bet right now, how many Big twelve teams finish lower 1259 00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:06.039 than Kansas State? Uh? Because like theoretically, Kansas State has 1260 01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:08.159 a as an upper half of the Big twelve home 1261 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:13.159 court advantage usually that usually helped them get a couple 1262 01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:15.800 extra wins for sure, a game like Cincinnati. I don't 1263 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:19.360 think Colorado or Utah's home court advantage is beating Cincinnati. 1264 01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:22.800 No, I think it's like four. I think it's Colorado, 1265 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.920 Utah and like two of the two well UCF probably, 1266 01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:26.760 and then I. 1267 01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:34.039 Think finish yeah, like yeah, Kansas State though it maybe 1268 01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:37.760 five because I think BYU sucks. Why did Camp? But again, 1269 01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:39.880 the home court advantage that they should get a couple 1270 01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:41.880 of games there, I guess it's a better it's a 1271 01:00:41.880 --> 01:00:44.880 harder place to play. Why did cam bet twice on 1272 01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:47.159 Kansas State winning a road game when they are seven 1273 01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:51.199 and seven? They're not just like a tough luck Arizona 1274 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:54.559 record team. They are just flat out awful there. They 1275 01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:57.400 are complete and utter and they shouldn't be because there's a 1276 01:00:57.440 --> 01:00:58.719 lot of money on that roster. 1277 01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:02.800 Yeah. I agreed with him the first time, foolishly, and 1278 01:01:03.079 --> 01:01:04.000 this one I didn't get. 1279 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:07.679 Yeah, it was. It was painful. There's lots of pain 1280 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:11.400 in other games, mainly from SEC teams. Chaos was everywhere 1281 01:01:11.480 --> 01:01:14.039 and the it just means more conference this week beginning 1282 01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:16.280 with one of the worst performances for a number one 1283 01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:19.599 team in the history of college basketball. Number eight Florida 1284 01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:26.000 absolutely ran over Like this Tennessee picture of the old 1285 01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:28.119 lady that lives down the street from you that's backed 1286 01:01:28.119 --> 01:01:30.639 over her garbage can one hundred times. That's what they 1287 01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:33.280 did to Number one Tennessee this week in Gainesville, seventy 1288 01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:35.920 three to forty three on a night where the balls made. 1289 01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:40.039 This is this is a real stat. Twelve baskets in 1290 01:01:40.119 --> 01:01:46.320 forty minutes. If you're wondering. The worst basketball game ever 1291 01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:50.239 was Kansas and TCU in February twenty thirteen, the one 1292 01:01:50.239 --> 01:01:53.440 that Kansas lost. In that game, the Jayhawks and they're 1293 01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:57.880 fifty five points. They still managed despite their suckiness to 1294 01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:02.440 score eighteen baskets and seek it's twelve in forty minutes. 1295 01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:06.519 Just impossible. At one point, the walls were impossible, an 1296 01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:13.280 incredible and unfathomable one four twenty five from three. And 1297 01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:15.719 this is the number one team in the country Sea Land. 1298 01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:17.719 And it's because of the way the ap poll works. 1299 01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:22.079 You cannot move the clearly or clearly superior Auburn Iowa 1300 01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:24.400 State duke teams. You can't move them in front of 1301 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:27.559 Tennessee because by law, the balls haven't lost one yet, 1302 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:28.960 so we can't do it. 1303 01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:32.159 It's true, it's truebelieve. To bring it back to the 1304 01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:34.920 most relevant piece of that, you mentioned someone backing over 1305 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:38.519 their trash can. Did you know that that is what 1306 01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:40.800 happened the first time I tried to drive anywhere on 1307 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:42.400 my own, when I was like sixteen. 1308 01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:45.599 I think that you told me this. Your mom was 1309 01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:47.800 in the const of you. You hit the. 1310 01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:49.960 Trash can, and she was waiting. She watched, she was 1311 01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:52.719 watching me drive away from the door, and I backed 1312 01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:54.800 into the trash can, and she made me pull back in, 1313 01:02:54.840 --> 01:02:56.000 and she drove me to Culver. 1314 01:02:56.119 --> 01:02:58.800 I was gonna say, I assume that then the ride 1315 01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:01.199 did not continue. She did not say, you know what 1316 01:03:01.320 --> 01:03:04.039 AJ store fields. That's okay, just get back out there 1317 01:03:04.039 --> 01:03:06.000 and play a few more minutes, because you you know 1318 01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:08.400 there's the trash Canothy. 1319 01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:11.960 Yeah, I did the villa off because you noted well. 1320 01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:14.440 But I did start my career as a J store 1321 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:15.559 that's yeah. 1322 01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:18.079 Now, Landman's a fine driver. You've been pulled over for 1323 01:03:18.239 --> 01:03:21.159 driving in the left lane too slow, which you know 1324 01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:22.440 that's something just at. 1325 01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:25.079 All, not too even too slow, just just being there 1326 01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:25.679 for too long. 1327 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:28.400 I legitimately didn't know you could get a ticket for that, 1328 01:03:28.480 --> 01:03:30.280 being in the left lane too long. I didn't know 1329 01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:30.760 that was a ticket. 1330 01:03:30.760 --> 01:03:32.480 It was only a warning, but it was still absurd. 1331 01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:34.760 Yeah. Yes, because you can't write a ticket for that. 1332 01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:37.239 Every judge in the country would rip that in half 1333 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:41.239 if it actually got charged as a ticket. Good Lord, that's. 1334 01:03:41.039 --> 01:03:44.679 So also bad. Week four number six, Kentucky, who lost 1335 01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:47.440 at Georgia eighty two sixty nine, could call Ryan in 1336 01:03:47.480 --> 01:03:49.519 the midst of the Bulldogs best starting quite a while, 1337 01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:52.559 even with Anthony Edwards didn't quite do this. Mark Pope 1338 01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:54.360 has done a good job with the Wildcats. But Ryan, 1339 01:03:54.400 --> 01:03:55.920 you say that he's getting on your nerves for how 1340 01:03:55.920 --> 01:03:58.400 he handles end of game scenarios in blowouts. 1341 01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:01.320 Yeah, he's one of those. We're down thirteen with forty 1342 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:03.119 seconds left, so I'm gonna call time out after we 1343 01:04:03.119 --> 01:04:04.559 make a shot and try to drop a play. I 1344 01:04:04.599 --> 01:04:07.239 got my clipboard up there. I'm really acting like I'm 1345 01:04:07.360 --> 01:04:09.639 Drexon and oh in my way. Yeah, come on, bro, 1346 01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:11.400 just take your alt's over at that point, you're not 1347 01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:13.960 coming back from thirteen down with forty seconds left. But 1348 01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:16.320 oh my am I glad the dial landed on me 1349 01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:19.079 for this one land And because let's talk about frauds, 1350 01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:22.880 Porter Moser. You know, if you go down the street 1351 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:25.159 and you ask your neighbor, the same one that ran 1352 01:04:25.199 --> 01:04:27.719 over the trash can not landing the old lady, and 1353 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:30.320 you ask your let me see your nineteen eighty two 1354 01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:32.880 World Book that you refuse to throw away, and you 1355 01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:36.000 open the dictionary that comes with that set, and you 1356 01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:38.159 go to the f section and then the f RS 1357 01:04:38.199 --> 01:04:41.079 and you look up frauds. They're in that under that 1358 01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:44.519 partion that says frauds. Is a picture of Porter Moser 1359 01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:47.800 in his Oklahoma pullover. Because oh my gosh, I'm so 1360 01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:50.800 tired of watching this pace all over the place. Clown 1361 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:54.000 coach his team to on the wrong side of the 1362 01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:57.639 bubble status. Fresh off a huge loss at Alabama, Number 1363 01:04:57.639 --> 01:05:01.760 seventeen Oklahoma eternally thirteen two slash zero to two in 1364 01:05:01.880 --> 01:05:06.840 league play eternal Parter Moser record, Oklahoma gets a huge break. 1365 01:05:07.039 --> 01:05:08.880 They draw number ten Texas A and M on a 1366 01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:12.599 night where Wade Taylor, best player arguably in the whole SEC, 1367 01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.960 is out due to an injury. So Oklahoma boat races 1368 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:17.960 them in the first half. They have a fifteen point 1369 01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:21.039 second half lead, they get an insane thirty four points 1370 01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:23.800 and nine threes are a season and a half worth 1371 01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:28.000 for aj Storesworth for a guy named Bryson Goodeine, he 1372 01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:30.719 has nine threes in the game. Surely that's enough for 1373 01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:33.960 a win against a shorthanded team, except it wasn't because 1374 01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:36.320 the Sooners were outscored twenty one to eight in the 1375 01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:40.039 final eight minutes. Zurich Phelps scored thirty four for the Aggies, 1376 01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:43.599 and Porter's so fraudulent the fraud alert sign is blinding 1377 01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:46.679 for Miles and Miles in the rearview mirror, Oklahoma team 1378 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:50.519 lost eighty to seventy eight to become zero and two 1379 01:05:51.039 --> 01:05:55.599 in SEC play. They are awful this team is not 1380 01:05:55.639 --> 01:05:56.519 a tournament team. 1381 01:05:57.199 --> 01:05:59.239 To be fair, there's not much else on the horizon 1382 01:05:59.320 --> 01:06:01.400 in Oklahoma, so that fraud alert sign does get a 1383 01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:02.719 lot of play. 1384 01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:04.760 Good line, good line. See, we can make that joke 1385 01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:07.559 because we're from Kansas, where everything is very so much 1386 01:06:07.599 --> 01:06:11.119 lore to see right, it's just slightly brown or dirt 1387 01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:13.280 here in Kansas and mar snow right now. 1388 01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:14.559 Slightly larger cities. 1389 01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:17.920 Oklahoma's not a tournament team. They're not. I don't They're 1390 01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:20.639 not a tournament hope. This is They're the same team 1391 01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:23.840 they always are. They're gonna go like seven and fourteen 1392 01:06:23.880 --> 01:06:26.280 in SEC play. 1393 01:06:27.159 --> 01:06:28.880 The only game that went about is predicted, was number 1394 01:06:28.920 --> 01:06:31.920 two Auburn taking care of their business by beating a 1395 01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:35.440 not very good Texas team in Austin eighty seven eighty two. 1396 01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:38.920 Although that's score line not the most impressive for Auburn. 1397 01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:42.360 I mean it was it was like seventy four to 1398 01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.400 fifty eight, and you know how that goes. You've seen 1399 01:06:45.639 --> 01:06:48.760 You've seen enough of those games to blow covers and whatnot. 1400 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:51.239 The early favorite in the Big Ten is probably number 1401 01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:53.960 twenty four Michigan, who rolled number twenty two Ucla on 1402 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:56.119 the road ninety four to seventy five in a game 1403 01:06:56.159 --> 01:06:59.280 that Mick Cronin left him complaining about how his guys 1404 01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:02.760 aren't superro In didn't know that he coaches eleven aj stores. 1405 01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:05.440 The Wolverines are four and oh and look like the 1406 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:07.679 favorite and the impossible to keep track of who is 1407 01:07:07.679 --> 01:07:08.960 and who isn't in the Big Ten. 1408 01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:13.679 That's what I say, although note were the games in 1409 01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:16.519 the conference, including r fifteen Oregon eking out a win 1410 01:07:16.599 --> 01:07:19.000 past Oalhouse State on the road seventy three seventy one 1411 01:07:19.039 --> 01:07:21.639 to get revenge for the football game. Although my guess 1412 01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:24.280 is that Oregon basketball fans are not as passionate as organ. 1413 01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:27.719 Football totally pulls it even now, even scoreboard one to one. 1414 01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:32.639 Number twenty Perudue winning at Rutgers for their fourth straight win, 1415 01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:35.599 and we're sixteen Michigan State beating the breaks off Washington 1416 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:38.039 at home. I do fear that Tom Mizzo has a 1417 01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:41.239 good squad. He does, he'll also lose in the round 1418 01:07:41.239 --> 01:07:43.440 of sixteen to a team that's seeded higher than his 1419 01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:44.559 every single time. 1420 01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:47.840 Washington. By the way, last week we picked Washington to 1421 01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:50.119 beat Illinois, like, oh, they're at home, let's not do 1422 01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:54.719 that anymore. Washington is awful. Washington is just terrible and okay, 1423 01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:56.360 so I actually forgot to put a note in here. 1424 01:07:56.480 --> 01:07:58.719 Number four. Duke was up fifty six to forty seven 1425 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:02.159 against Pitt's with eight minutes left, and then all they 1426 01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:04.079 did was keep the Panthers off the scoreboard the rest 1427 01:08:04.079 --> 01:08:06.719 of the night. The final score seventy six to forty seven. 1428 01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:08.760 That is a twenty zero run in the game. Cooper 1429 01:08:08.760 --> 01:08:11.119 Flag had a great dunk. That's great, That's everything. But 1430 01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:14.559 Landon I want to talk about quickly, and some ascarcbs 1431 01:08:14.559 --> 01:08:17.199 may have to be sacrificed for this, but I'm prepared 1432 01:08:17.239 --> 01:08:19.159 to do it. I want to talk about de Paul 1433 01:08:19.439 --> 01:08:23.319 because DePaul basketball where cam lives. I looked up some 1434 01:08:23.479 --> 01:08:27.039 stats about De Paul and we know they've been awful, 1435 01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:29.680 but somehow they were even worse than I thought. Why 1436 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.279 are they so bad? 1437 01:08:33.319 --> 01:08:35.560 Yeah, it doesn't. This doesn't make any sense to me 1438 01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:39.880 because I feel like every time I like moderately check recruiting, 1439 01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:41.479 which is, to be fair, a little less than less 1440 01:08:41.479 --> 01:08:44.600 these days, I feel like DePaul always pulls a few guys, 1441 01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:47.560 like a couple that are good. They're also in Chicago, 1442 01:08:48.039 --> 01:08:52.880 a notoriously like great basketball city, like theatically you'd get 1443 01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:57.239 guys that accidentally commit to you in Chicago, right, like 1444 01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:02.119 they just you think you just for just being a 1445 01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:06.000 power conference team that you would like fluke your way 1446 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:11.199 into tricking the committee into putting you in off like 1447 01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:14.079 a nineteen win season. Once they just can't get there. 1448 01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:16.079 It's really it's astonishing to me, and I think it's 1449 01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:16.960 very funny. 1450 01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:22.479 Well so horrible, awful, lousy de Paul. They get a 1451 01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:26.319 draw against five and nine Seaton Hall. They led them 1452 01:09:26.359 --> 01:09:31.399 by nineteen game. You don't say, especially when you're up 1453 01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:35.279 nineteen and they wound up losing. They have not won 1454 01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:39.640 a conference game since January twenty twenty three, when Jalen 1455 01:09:39.680 --> 01:09:42.479 Wilson was willing Kansas to victories or being iced by 1456 01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:47.039 his coach. DePaul is three and forty five in their 1457 01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:51.760 last forty eight Big East games. And it's not like 1458 01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:55.880 the Big East is just loaded with juggernauts either. It's 1459 01:09:56.199 --> 01:09:59.560 three and forty five. I'm convinced that I could coach 1460 01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:04.279 a team three wins and forty eight chances with Chicago recruits. 1461 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:07.600 You think you think you can get to four wins, 1462 01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:09.319 but it's apparently it's a lot harder than the. 1463 01:10:09.319 --> 01:10:12.760 Looks truly impossible ranked teams to lose in to the 1464 01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:15.079 last show, we begin at the top. Number one Tennessee 1465 01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:18.279 got just obliterated a time and a half to Florida. 1466 01:10:20.600 --> 01:10:22.960 I'm sorry, I was I was reading tweets about Notre 1467 01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:25.079 Dame going to the national title. On Number six Kentucky 1468 01:10:25.119 --> 01:10:26.600 they lost to Georgia. 1469 01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:31.479 Number nine Yukon got upset at Villa Nova as to 1470 01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:34.119 cut into an ascarcb here at show me, Hawk says, 1471 01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:37.279 I wonder who Yukon just lost to. Certainly a team 1472 01:10:37.319 --> 01:10:40.479 that would be a great matchup for Kansas. Okay, fine, 1473 01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:41.520 you know what, Here you go. 1474 01:10:41.600 --> 01:10:42.760 Here comes the two seat. 1475 01:10:44.399 --> 01:10:49.319 Big for Kansas. I love that matchup. Good Lord, good Lord. 1476 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:53.319 Number seventeen Oklahoma they lost Texas, A and M. 1477 01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:57.720 Yeah, they're gonna be on this list eternally because one 1478 01:10:57.760 --> 01:11:00.319 more time they are Yeah, I guess they get rid 1479 01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:03.560 of them entirely. Number twenty one West of Virginia. Speaking 1480 01:11:03.560 --> 01:11:05.640 of teams that are about to disappear from this, Liz 1481 01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:07.439 lost to the Fighting Caleb. 1482 01:11:07.159 --> 01:11:10.800 Loves and Number twenty two Ucla they lost to Michigan. 1483 01:11:11.560 --> 01:11:13.600 Good week for Lanta and pick him he climbed back 1484 01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:15.560 a little bit. Cam was eight and seven, Lanta was 1485 01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:18.560 twelve and three. That's gaining four games in one half week. 1486 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:22.720 That's pretty good. Landon, You're you're the gun that's being 1487 01:11:22.760 --> 01:11:25.800 held to your temple for your punishment. Here it it 1488 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:28.159 got a little further away. It's not like four inches 1489 01:11:28.199 --> 01:11:28.880 from your temple. 1490 01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:32.439 Yeah, Like yeah, whoever was holding that gun started considering 1491 01:11:32.520 --> 01:11:34.319 Cam as an option, Like a little bit. 1492 01:11:35.960 --> 01:11:39.279 I'm just separating here at this point, like I think 1493 01:11:39.319 --> 01:11:42.880 I'm what, I'm a solid ten plus games ahead now. 1494 01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:45.239 It's like, yeah, it's about ten whatever. It's gonna take 1495 01:11:45.279 --> 01:11:47.880 a colossal choke a Kansas would be Michigan choke for 1496 01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:50.079 me to wind up in that spot. But hey, you know, 1497 01:11:50.199 --> 01:11:50.760 you never. 1498 01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:53.920 Know, Hey, you don't. You don't have to. You don't 1499 01:11:53.960 --> 01:11:56.800 have to outrun the bear. You just gotta outrun the 1500 01:11:56.840 --> 01:11:58.000 guy who can outrun the bear. 1501 01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:03.640 That's right, That's right, all right, We're gonna machine gun 1502 01:12:03.960 --> 01:12:08.199 fire through these ascarcbs just simply because we got to 1503 01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:11.680 get to a preview and this show is late. I'm 1504 01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:15.039 we're not doing kJ Adams questions, we're not doing rotation 1505 01:12:15.239 --> 01:12:17.479 questions just because we've done it. So many times. A 1506 01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:20.520 couple questions about AJ Store at Mayo Zeke Berner, have 1507 01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:23.600 you given up on AJ store yet? At DS conscious, 1508 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:28.079 what are the chances AJ stores next? Nil? Our check bounces? 1509 01:12:28.760 --> 01:12:30.960 And then definitely a little bit about his effort at 1510 01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:33.399 Preston's cursik as someone who cares and is deeply invested, 1511 01:12:33.439 --> 01:12:35.640 how do we get AJ to care and be deeply invested? 1512 01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:37.880 Your thoughts on all the AJ store stuff that we 1513 01:12:37.880 --> 01:12:38.880 didn't already say. 1514 01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:42.560 Uh, I kind of have given up on them a 1515 01:12:42.600 --> 01:12:46.800 little bit. The cares an invested thing is a really 1516 01:12:46.840 --> 01:12:50.680 hard one. So that's just such a personal thing, like 1517 01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:54.039 that's between him and Bill and I don't I don't 1518 01:12:54.039 --> 01:12:57.359 really know. I think it's probably very hard when you 1519 01:12:57.479 --> 01:12:59.920 know you're not playing well and you did come in 1520 01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:01.840 as one of the most highly not just highly touted 1521 01:13:01.920 --> 01:13:03.079 recruits on the team, but like one of the more 1522 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:07.359 highly touted recruits in the country, and you're having this 1523 01:13:07.439 --> 01:13:10.600 season at a prestigious program. That has to be frustrating. 1524 01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:13.720 I sympathize with him from that perspective, like, that's tough 1525 01:13:14.239 --> 01:13:17.359 to know what's happening to you in real time. Probably 1526 01:13:19.079 --> 01:13:20.680 I don't know, And he Twitter. 1527 01:13:21.399 --> 01:13:23.840 He sees the Twitter backlash. He can see that just 1528 01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:26.840 as easy as anybody else can. Like that. That sucks. 1529 01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:29.399 And people that are trashing players on social media, you're 1530 01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:33.159 not helping anything. I don't always tweet positive things about everything, 1531 01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:35.560 but I'd like to think that rock Chock blog doesn't 1532 01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:38.039 just dog on players like I've seen some people do 1533 01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:40.600 out there where they openly wish for people to leave 1534 01:13:40.600 --> 01:13:42.680 the team and they say players suck and they say 1535 01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:46.279 players just are losers. And it's like, no, I think 1536 01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:48.720 AJ's effort is just fine. It's just not working. The 1537 01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:52.880 fits not working. It still good, but nothing no criticism 1538 01:13:52.920 --> 01:13:54.680 with him as a person or his effort or his 1539 01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:58.960 hustle at all. He just isn't putting up basketball stats 1540 01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.039 like we thought he would. It's simple as that. Sometimes 1541 01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:06.000 it doesn't work. Yep, yep, be disappointed, but don't be personal. 1542 01:14:06.279 --> 01:14:08.439 At show Mehawk says, do you think Kansas should start 1543 01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:11.159 scheduling road games and the non con against mid majors 1544 01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:14.640 like when Alabama played at North Dakota? Adds Kansas inside 1545 01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:16.319 the Swinny Rec Center, which for those of you who 1546 01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:19.359 don't know, is umk c's home arena, would be super cool. 1547 01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:21.960 I'm down for that, especially because this team has been 1548 01:14:22.039 --> 01:14:24.319 just so kick as on the road the last couple 1549 01:14:24.319 --> 01:14:24.640 of years. 1550 01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:28.399 I think it'd be fun. I was I was in 1551 01:14:28.439 --> 01:14:31.720 the Swinny Rec Center earlier this year, and I was 1552 01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:33.640 wondering what it would be like if Kansas ever came there. 1553 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:35.600 I don't think they'd ever do it, but it'd be 1554 01:14:35.600 --> 01:14:37.359 fund I'd be super down for games like that. 1555 01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:40.840 I mean, they're clearly not afraid to schedule anybody, so 1556 01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:42.800 you may as well. Like I'm glad that they've gotten 1557 01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:44.600 rid of the Sprint Center game that was that was 1558 01:14:44.680 --> 01:14:47.119 kind of a dud. Like, you know, at least they're 1559 01:14:47.159 --> 01:14:49.119 always looking to tweak the schedule a little bit. We'll 1560 01:14:49.119 --> 01:14:51.560 see what the tournaments going forth looked like, because it 1561 01:14:51.560 --> 01:14:53.880 doesn't help that they took away to non conference games. 1562 01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:56.159 The schedule so big now for Big twelve play that 1563 01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:57.840 they got to play twenty league games. You only get 1564 01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:00.680 eleven spots in your non con. Then you play a 1565 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:03.079 non con tournament, you're only down to eight, and then 1566 01:15:03.119 --> 01:15:05.119 you want four or five cupcakes and you only got 1567 01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:08.600 three left. Like it goes. Your spots go really fast. 1568 01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:11.600 At cam Lipole Golf says, will Hubert Davis be a 1569 01:15:11.720 --> 01:15:14.520 mall Easter Bunny or a mall Santa next? Oh? No, 1570 01:15:14.600 --> 01:15:18.439 did North Carolina basketball lose again? Did they freaking lose again? 1571 01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:20.239 North Carolina lost? 1572 01:15:20.560 --> 01:15:20.680 Uh? 1573 01:15:21.479 --> 01:15:23.760 I don't know what Cam's talking about. They haven't played yet. 1574 01:15:23.800 --> 01:15:26.119 They've actually won two games in a row. They play, 1575 01:15:26.399 --> 01:15:28.800 they play at North Carolina State on Saturday. Surely that 1576 01:15:28.840 --> 01:15:29.439 won't go wrong. 1577 01:15:32.039 --> 01:15:34.199 If I had to bet, the mall Easter Bunny would 1578 01:15:34.199 --> 01:15:34.840 be really funny. 1579 01:15:36.479 --> 01:15:38.960 Yeah, that would be uh. And you know the mal 1580 01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:41.279 Santa thing, depending on the part of the country goes 1581 01:15:41.319 --> 01:15:44.199 to I, I would fear for his Uh. I would 1582 01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:46.960 fear for some bits of how that would be handled. 1583 01:15:47.680 --> 01:15:50.000 Why is that, Ryan, I don't understand. I need you 1584 01:15:50.039 --> 01:15:51.079 to explain why to me. 1585 01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:53.680 Well, it's because he's bald, and Santa Claus isn't baald. 1586 01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:57.119 Oh hell right, right? Yeah obviously, Well, I mean's quite 1587 01:15:57.399 --> 01:15:59.199 the hat would go a long way in that regard. 1588 01:15:59.239 --> 01:15:59.760 But I get you. 1589 01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:01.840 But he's also tall, and I don't know he's skinny. 1590 01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:03.199 You know, Santa's not a skinny guy. 1591 01:16:03.479 --> 01:16:04.960 Santa doesn't wear glasses either, So. 1592 01:16:05.399 --> 01:16:09.600 That's that's right. Yeahtary, No, there you go, he done 1593 01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:12.720 more of those glasses. At m HKU thirty two. Kansas 1594 01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:14.439 currently sitting at eleven to one to win the Big 1595 01:16:14.439 --> 01:16:16.319 Twelve and twenty five to one to win the National 1596 01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:20.279 Title or either of those odds, enticing no, those never work. 1597 01:16:20.399 --> 01:16:23.560 I hate national title or Super Bowl champion futures bets, 1598 01:16:23.640 --> 01:16:25.199 but eleven to one to win the Big Twelve. I 1599 01:16:25.199 --> 01:16:27.039 think if they play this season out eleven times, they 1600 01:16:27.039 --> 01:16:28.079 win the Big Twelve at least. 1601 01:16:27.920 --> 01:16:32.359 Twice, I would think so, Hell yeah, I would think. 1602 01:16:32.760 --> 01:16:34.880 So maybe that one do they have to win it? Outright? 1603 01:16:34.920 --> 01:16:34.960 Like? 1604 01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:36.920 Because if I don't know how that works, Like, if 1605 01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:38.920 they tie, is that count I would assume No, I'd 1606 01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:41.000 assume it's whoever's the one seed in the Big twelve 1607 01:16:41.039 --> 01:16:44.760 tournament is the tiebreaker at Preston Skirsick and at the 1608 01:16:44.800 --> 01:16:47.520 Wheelwheel two. Close this out here, just because we're short 1609 01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:50.199 on time, with a couple of questions about Shack Moore 1610 01:16:50.439 --> 01:16:53.039 says in terms of pure basketball ability, has Shack Moore 1611 01:16:53.079 --> 01:16:55.399 established himself as a top five player on the team, 1612 01:16:55.640 --> 01:16:59.039 and also after seeing the Floory block Donkeans UCF and 1613 01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:01.680 then the steals by shit against Arizona State, what are 1614 01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:04.319 some of the moments that have popped so far this season. 1615 01:17:04.520 --> 01:17:07.239 Shack Moore is probably not, in terms of just ability, 1616 01:17:07.279 --> 01:17:09.159 a top five player on the team, but he might 1617 01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:11.279 be a top five fit for what this team wants 1618 01:17:11.319 --> 01:17:11.479 to do. 1619 01:17:12.600 --> 01:17:18.479 Yeah, not top five on for ability. I mean he 1620 01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:20.680 is skyrocketed up in the last couple of games. I 1621 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:21.960 mean he definitely, you know, he's had a couple of 1622 01:17:21.960 --> 01:17:24.079 skials in the last couple of games. He did knock 1623 01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:27.640 down a couple threes. His hustle and finishing is pretty 1624 01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:30.720 nice as well. Yeah, I definitely there's been a lot 1625 01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:33.159 of moments or several moments that have popped in just 1626 01:17:33.199 --> 01:17:35.000 a couple of games, which is impressive. But now I 1627 01:17:35.039 --> 01:17:36.800 wouldn't say he's top five ability, but I think you 1628 01:17:37.159 --> 01:17:40.239 are onto something that if this team does become a 1629 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:42.840 lockdown defensive team, or at least that's what they hang 1630 01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:45.680 their hat on, then Shaq Moore is a very very 1631 01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:47.840 important piece to that because they. 1632 01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:49.560 Got a long way to go their fourth and Ken 1633 01:17:49.560 --> 01:17:52.720 Pom defense right now. Obviously, there's there's plenty of games 1634 01:17:52.800 --> 01:17:55.600 left and they're gonna play much tougher opponents too. But 1635 01:17:56.039 --> 01:17:58.520 Kansas has finished as a top five defensive team under 1636 01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:01.960 Bill Self on Ken Pump twenty sixteen, where they were 1637 01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:04.199 a stones throw away from the final four against the 1638 01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:05.760 team that I don't know. I'm not gonna tell you 1639 01:18:05.800 --> 01:18:07.000 it was, but I just played to drop a few 1640 01:18:07.039 --> 01:18:09.399 minutes ago about it. Team was very good, and that 1641 01:18:09.479 --> 01:18:11.199 was a team that was kind of for a while 1642 01:18:11.239 --> 01:18:13.279 and then just blasted off when they found their group. 1643 01:18:13.560 --> 01:18:16.760 And twenty twenty a team that was eh for a 1644 01:18:16.800 --> 01:18:19.000 while and then took off when they found that identity. 1645 01:18:19.279 --> 01:18:23.359 Like top five defense, Bill self, teams are really really good. 1646 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:26.479 He can win with those teams. Might not be super pretty, 1647 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:28.680 but they can win with those teams. And as for 1648 01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:32.159 the plays that have popped this year, the honestly the 1649 01:18:33.079 --> 01:18:35.640 scene from this season thus far for me until the 1650 01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:37.800 last week was Hunter Dickinson kicking the duke guy in 1651 01:18:37.840 --> 01:18:39.960 the head. Like that was the scene that I thought 1652 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:43.279 of first. I'm trying to think of just iconic moments 1653 01:18:43.279 --> 01:18:45.760 from this season. Yeah, just those two, I think, right, 1654 01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:49.920 Shackmore's steeling dunk and Flori's Coast to coast stealing. 1655 01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:54.239 Slam Hunters and one one hand dunk from the past 1656 01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:56.760 games pretty high on that list. I would say the. 1657 01:18:57.039 --> 01:18:59.560 Game had a game tying and one that it just 1658 01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:01.520 got about quickly because they lost. 1659 01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:03.880 I think there has to be something from the North 1660 01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:07.600 Carolina game because that was a pretty epic game, but 1661 01:19:07.640 --> 01:19:09.720 I can't think of one off the top of my head. 1662 01:19:10.119 --> 01:19:11.960 Oh. Then the Duke game probably had a couple of 1663 01:19:12.000 --> 01:19:14.159 plays down the stretch, but that was just more stops. 1664 01:19:14.199 --> 01:19:16.920 They had good defensive possessions. At the end of those 1665 01:19:16.960 --> 01:19:19.720 two games. Hunter are also eight Michigan State alive for 1666 01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:23.640 like a half and then they just coasted from there. Yeah, 1667 01:19:23.680 --> 01:19:25.439 I think we'll get them. They're gonna have some some 1668 01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:27.680 games where that those opportunities will certainly be on table. 1669 01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:30.520 If you ever have ascarcps Twitter hashtag, you know the 1670 01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:34.760 drill drop, Come on, come on, go there we go Bay. 1671 01:19:35.239 --> 01:19:36.800 All right, now we preview a game, and I think 1672 01:19:36.800 --> 01:19:38.720 you could argue this is the most important game of 1673 01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:41.479 the season thus far for the Kansas basketball Jayhawks. And 1674 01:19:41.479 --> 01:19:43.399 it's certainly not going to get that vibe from reading 1675 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:45.720 the matchup on paper, but we'll talk about it. Number 1676 01:19:45.720 --> 01:19:49.800 eleven Kansas at Cincinnati on Saturday, one one to one 1677 01:19:50.199 --> 01:19:54.039 at one pm on ESPN plus. Yay everybody's favorite. What 1678 01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:56.439 is that three ESPN plus games out of four this year. 1679 01:19:56.520 --> 01:19:58.560 Good Lord H. 1680 01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:01.840 Wes Miller's since Addie. Bearcatz entered the season as a 1681 01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:04.359 top twenty five team that returned most pieces from a 1682 01:20:04.359 --> 01:20:06.720 team that got better throughout the year last season. They 1683 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:09.039 started this year ten and one, with an aarrow lost 1684 01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:11.359 to Villanova being their only non con blemish. But they 1685 01:20:11.359 --> 01:20:13.399 are zero to three and Big Twelve play after playing 1686 01:20:13.479 --> 01:20:17.479 kase State, Arizona, and Baylor to start their league schedule. 1687 01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:20.279 Arizona and Baylor those are respectable. Losing to ky State 1688 01:20:20.319 --> 01:20:23.359 at home not as much, I don't think, but nonetheless, 1689 01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:26.479 the Bearcat's not dead, but a bad start to conference 1690 01:20:26.479 --> 01:20:27.039 play for sure. 1691 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:29.800 Pretty brutal when you're fir. I know we laugh about 1692 01:20:29.880 --> 01:20:32.800 ky State, but their first four conference games are at Bramldge, 1693 01:20:32.880 --> 01:20:36.680 Arizona at home, at Baylor, and Kansas Like that is. 1694 01:20:36.720 --> 01:20:38.159 Shit, Bramlage, I forgot about that. 1695 01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:41.560 That is true, But I mean that if at Kansas State, 1696 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:43.760 who's five hundred, I get it, they're not very good. 1697 01:20:43.880 --> 01:20:46.760 But if at Kansas State in Bramledge is your easiest 1698 01:20:46.800 --> 01:20:50.880 game of four, that's a brutal stretch. All League caliber 1699 01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:54.039 guard Dan Skillings Junior is their best player, averaging thirteen 1700 01:20:54.039 --> 01:20:56.520 points in four rebounds. He's a very good thirty eight 1701 01:20:56.560 --> 01:20:59.159 percent three point shooter. His point guard is Edger and 1702 01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:02.199 James's son, Jisel James, a plus name. I'm sure it's 1703 01:21:02.239 --> 01:21:04.119 not his real name, but we'll roll with it, who 1704 01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:06.640 adds eleven points and five assists. He is a sub 1705 01:21:06.680 --> 01:21:09.000 thirty percent shooter from deep, so not as much of 1706 01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:10.720 a threat, which means he's going three for four of 1707 01:21:10.720 --> 01:21:13.119 this game. The three man is White Guy of the 1708 01:21:13.119 --> 01:21:16.840 Game candidate six foot eight Samas Lakotias, who averages thirteen 1709 01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:19.960 and three and he shoots EIGHTEAM best forty percent from three. 1710 01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:23.720 Excellent basketball player. He is fees size and shoots accurately. 1711 01:21:24.119 --> 01:21:27.720 Dane Thomas and Connor Hickman are the reserve guards of note. 1712 01:21:27.760 --> 01:21:30.319 A lot of these guys shoot pretty well and they're 1713 01:21:30.359 --> 01:21:32.039 all decent athletes. 1714 01:21:33.079 --> 01:21:34.760 And in the front court they have some size in 1715 01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:38.800 length as well. They pair former Texas for Dylan Mitchell 1716 01:21:38.880 --> 01:21:44.159 with seven foot center Aziz Bendago. They combined to average 1717 01:21:44.199 --> 01:21:46.520 twenty Senegal that makes a lot of sense with that name, 1718 01:21:47.119 --> 01:21:50.319 to average twenty points and thirteen rebands while both shooting 1719 01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:54.239 almost seventy percent from the floor. Both try contact well, 1720 01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:56.800 but either shoot well from the line considering their size, 1721 01:21:56.800 --> 01:21:59.920 they're both very good at avoiding fouling as well. Aaronton 1722 01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:04.520 Page and Tyler Betsy also get minutes. Arrington Page and 1723 01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:06.640 Tyler Betsy, like you were joking about on the last show, Ryn, 1724 01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:08.960 do sound like names that you just like thought of 1725 01:22:09.119 --> 01:22:12.640 or put in the like Madden simulator and then just typed. 1726 01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:16.399 Those could be real people or not. But nonetheless, Cincinnati 1727 01:22:16.520 --> 01:22:19.359 does have some size and that has quelled Hunter Dickinson 1728 01:22:19.359 --> 01:22:19.960 in the past. 1729 01:22:20.920 --> 01:22:23.479 I was positive that Tyler Betsy would be a white 1730 01:22:23.479 --> 01:22:27.479 guy with that name, especially with Betsey, but he is not, 1731 01:22:27.720 --> 01:22:29.840 so that gives Kansas a little bit of hope. I 1732 01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:33.479 guess the Bearcat. So here's my scouting report. I'm not 1733 01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:36.119 very good at scouting reports and non con because we're 1734 01:22:36.159 --> 01:22:38.720 so early in the season. Cincinnati was the first team 1735 01:22:38.720 --> 01:22:40.880 that I felt pretty good about writing a scouting report 1736 01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:45.600 for because we saw basically this team play twice against 1737 01:22:45.680 --> 01:22:48.600 Kansas last year. We saw their numbers last year and 1738 01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:51.399 they are similar. They're a very good defensive team. Last 1739 01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:53.840 year Cincinnati team was one of the best rebounding teams 1740 01:22:53.880 --> 01:22:56.319 in college basketball. They're not as good at that this year, 1741 01:22:56.319 --> 01:22:58.800 but they're even better on the defensive end. They keep 1742 01:22:58.840 --> 01:23:01.800 opponents off the glass as well as anyone in the country. 1743 01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:04.880 Their three point defense has been top ten nationally. Good. 1744 01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:08.279 They're a very good shot blocking team, and they play good, 1745 01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:12.079 not great, but good inside offense. Their slow pace and 1746 01:23:12.199 --> 01:23:17.039 experience keep turnovers and fouls as low as a conference's 1747 01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:20.840 best clip. But the weaknesses they're a mediocre thirty four 1748 01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:23.960 percent three point shooting team. Good, they're okay, not great. 1749 01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:28.119 Their biggest weaknesses are all associated with the free throw line. 1750 01:23:28.199 --> 01:23:31.239 They average ten megs fifteen attempts and just sixty three 1751 01:23:31.279 --> 01:23:35.159 percent as a team. Those are all bottom fifteen national numbers. 1752 01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:38.960 So they're pretty good on the on the offensive effort, 1753 01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:42.720 and they're really good on defense. But the explains right there. 1754 01:23:42.760 --> 01:23:45.720 While they're losing close games, they're not getting the line, 1755 01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:48.239 and when they get there, they're not making free throws. 1756 01:23:49.479 --> 01:23:51.920 All time. Kansas is four and five against Cincinnati, but 1757 01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:54.520 they've only played three games since nineteen sixty seven, and 1758 01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:57.079 two of them were last year. This is their first 1759 01:23:57.079 --> 01:24:00.680 matchup in Cincinnati since the sixties. It's worth noting that 1760 01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:03.760 the worst performance in Kansas basketball history, as something we 1761 01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:06.640 have discussed much on this show, came last March FIRSTUS 1762 01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:09.199 Cincinnati in the second round of the Big Twelve Tournament. 1763 01:24:09.479 --> 01:24:12.560 Jayhawks lost seventy two to fifty two to the Bearcats 1764 01:24:12.560 --> 01:24:14.319 in a game where if you take Kids Adams twenty 1765 01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:17.760 two points away, the team had thirty points. Other than that, 1766 01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:21.279 twelve of forty eight shooting and three of twenty from three. 1767 01:24:21.600 --> 01:24:24.520 Nick Timberlake, Johnny Furfey, and Almarco Jackson combined to go 1768 01:24:24.600 --> 01:24:27.640 five of twenty eight. I do anticipate a better outing 1769 01:24:27.640 --> 01:24:28.600 from the Jayhawks than that. 1770 01:24:29.319 --> 01:24:31.479 Yeah, Bill self said, Alamarco Jackson is going to be 1771 01:24:31.479 --> 01:24:33.880 one hundred percent by March. He obviously isn't gonna play, 1772 01:24:33.880 --> 01:24:35.359 he's not up to game speed, but he'll be one 1773 01:24:35.439 --> 01:24:38.000 hundred percent healed. And everybody on Twitter was like, I 1774 01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:39.840 can't wait to see al Marco next year, and that 1775 01:24:39.880 --> 01:24:42.439 made me realize, Uh, I better enjoy these last twenty 1776 01:24:42.520 --> 01:24:45.279 games because I am not really looking forward to el 1777 01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:48.159 Marco Jackson bouncing the ball off his foot as Darren 1778 01:24:48.159 --> 01:24:51.479 Peterson is screaming, please pass me the big orange ball. 1779 01:24:51.800 --> 01:24:53.880 I want to go score with it, and al Marco's 1780 01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:55.319 just like, but what if I drip up between my 1781 01:24:55.399 --> 01:24:57.920 legs for fifteen seconds and then turn it over? Not 1782 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:01.880 looking forward to that, But in this game, I think 1783 01:25:01.920 --> 01:25:04.960 this is the toughest position of the season, the toughest 1784 01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:06.159 prediction of the season. 1785 01:25:06.199 --> 01:25:06.840 I agree. 1786 01:25:07.920 --> 01:25:11.079 I get the suspicion that we are gonna do the 1787 01:25:11.159 --> 01:25:13.239 opposite of what we normally do. 1788 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:19.600 Okay, so that means you are gonna predict a Kansas 1789 01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:21.760 loss and I'm gonna predict the Kansas win. 1790 01:25:22.439 --> 01:25:24.960 I get that. I get that vibe. Is that the 1791 01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:25.720 vibe you get? 1792 01:25:25.960 --> 01:25:27.039 I was leaning that way? 1793 01:25:27.800 --> 01:25:30.359 Okay, I'll go first. Then I am going to pick 1794 01:25:30.439 --> 01:25:33.680 Cincinnati to win this game, and I think it is 1795 01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:36.359 is razor thing. This is a fifty to fifty game, 1796 01:25:36.399 --> 01:25:38.880 and ultimately, if Kansas goes up there and lose, as 1797 01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:41.279 we've said before, just don't get trounced. If they go 1798 01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:44.119 up there and lose seventy four to seventy one, and 1799 01:25:44.199 --> 01:25:46.039 a game where you can say you know they were 1800 01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:49.840 there a couple five. Look, Cincinnati's good, They're zero to three. 1801 01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:52.720 This is a desperate team that's gonna be a loud 1802 01:25:52.760 --> 01:25:55.199 building to try to get their guys back in gear, 1803 01:25:55.520 --> 01:25:58.479 and I just don't like the size they're gonna throw 1804 01:25:58.520 --> 01:26:01.840 it at Kansas. Hunter Dickinson hasn't been super effective when 1805 01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:04.479 you pair athleticism and size in the front court, and 1806 01:26:04.520 --> 01:26:07.760 I'm hesitant to trust the surrounding perimeter pieces now with 1807 01:26:07.840 --> 01:26:10.760 Shackmore out there more to make enough threes to keep 1808 01:26:10.840 --> 01:26:14.359 Kansas in the game. But Cincinnati can definitely be gotten 1809 01:26:14.399 --> 01:26:16.800 on offense. They just scored forty against Baylor, and Kansas 1810 01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:19.279 is a really good defensive team. They'll need to lean 1811 01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:23.079 on their experience and their turnover forcing ability to get 1812 01:26:23.079 --> 01:26:25.239 out of here with a win. Could they do it? Sure? 1813 01:26:25.680 --> 01:26:27.840 Will they do it? I'm gonna predict them to lose 1814 01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:30.800 because I think Cincy eventually has to get one here, 1815 01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:33.520 and I'm gonna pick Cincinnati to win seventy two to 1816 01:26:33.600 --> 01:26:37.239 sixty seven in an ugly, frustrating game. But I would 1817 01:26:37.279 --> 01:26:39.399 love to be wrong, and if I am wrong, I'm 1818 01:26:39.399 --> 01:26:41.520 gonna change my tune about this team quickly because that 1819 01:26:41.520 --> 01:26:43.159 would be two straight road wins. 1820 01:26:44.079 --> 01:26:47.880 I am. I don't feel overly confident about this, but 1821 01:26:47.960 --> 01:26:52.640 I am going to take Kansas to win. Everything you 1822 01:26:52.840 --> 01:26:56.960 said about Cincinnati, I agree with and Kansas has had 1823 01:26:57.039 --> 01:27:00.279 matchup problems and I think is pretty matchup dependent. How Ever, 1824 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:04.640 Cincinnati has just not played well this season play. 1825 01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:08.680 They just haven't four top opponents are Villanova and the 1826 01:27:08.720 --> 01:27:10.159 three Big Twelve games and they're oh and four. 1827 01:27:10.960 --> 01:27:13.399 Yeah, yeah, they haven't played. They haven't won a game 1828 01:27:13.439 --> 01:27:17.800 against a great team, against a good team, really, and 1829 01:27:18.039 --> 01:27:21.920 I am going to say, I'm gonna trust Kansas's defensive 1830 01:27:21.960 --> 01:27:26.520 trajectory here and stuff. They're gonna win like. 1831 01:27:28.239 --> 01:27:33.399 Seventy to sixty ow boat race kind of almost. 1832 01:27:33.439 --> 01:27:36.119 Keep him at arm's length by the end. Just the 1833 01:27:36.119 --> 01:27:39.039 way Cincinnati has played. I don't know if Hunter Dickinson's 1834 01:27:39.079 --> 01:27:42.359 gonna have like a great statistical outing here. He probably won't. 1835 01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:45.680 But I think Kansas is gonna find a way, and 1836 01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:48.279 I don't think Cincinnati is going to be good enough. 1837 01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:50.359 And I'm gonna trust that Kansas is going to play 1838 01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:52.279 just well enough. And I feel not good about that 1839 01:27:52.279 --> 01:27:55.119 prediction at all, but give me the Hawks well. 1840 01:27:55.159 --> 01:27:59.079 And at the beginning of the season, we would have said, Okay, 1841 01:27:59.319 --> 01:28:01.199 if they can be three and two through the first 1842 01:28:01.279 --> 01:28:03.920 five conference games, then the schedule opens up a bit 1843 01:28:03.960 --> 01:28:06.079 because we knew at Sinca and at Iowa State were 1844 01:28:06.079 --> 01:28:08.399 two very tough games. I think three and two would 1845 01:28:08.399 --> 01:28:10.560 have been considered the low water mark, but we would 1846 01:28:10.560 --> 01:28:13.239 have said just don't be worse than three and two acceptable. 1847 01:28:13.279 --> 01:28:14.920 It would have been the acceptable mark. 1848 01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:17.119 Right, And if they win this game, they will put 1849 01:28:17.159 --> 01:28:19.800 themselves in a position where that is locked in. They 1850 01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:21.840 cannot be worse than three and two through five, and 1851 01:28:21.880 --> 01:28:24.760 then you're in a position where screwt go shock Iowa 1852 01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:28.119 State on the road and put springboard yourself. Right. If 1853 01:28:28.119 --> 01:28:30.520 they get two dubs this week, people are gonna go 1854 01:28:30.560 --> 01:28:33.079 from winning the season to be over and calling Bill 1855 01:28:33.119 --> 01:28:35.520 soolv wash to saying this team could win a Natty 1856 01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:38.119 in a two week span. Oh wow, is that surprising 1857 01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:40.840 fickle fans. But if they lose both these games and 1858 01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:44.520 you're two and three in league play, eh, that's gonna 1859 01:28:44.520 --> 01:28:47.760 feel real bad, especially with Iowa State and Houston potentially 1860 01:28:47.760 --> 01:28:49.640 two full games in front of you, and you're not 1861 01:28:49.720 --> 01:28:52.079 even three games in the league play. If you want 1862 01:28:52.079 --> 01:28:54.359 to be a contender, if you want to contend for 1863 01:28:54.399 --> 01:28:56.199 a title in the Big Twelve, if you want to 1864 01:28:56.279 --> 01:28:59.079 contend for a one seed at Cincinnati in a game 1865 01:28:59.119 --> 01:29:01.239 that Ken Palm says, you have a fifty six percent 1866 01:29:01.319 --> 01:29:03.399 chance of winning. That has to be a win. 1867 01:29:04.439 --> 01:29:06.840 Yeah, I agree. I think that's that's true. If you're 1868 01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:09.920 two and three, the Big Twelve race is probably done 1869 01:29:10.159 --> 01:29:11.880 for can I think Cincinnati is good. 1870 01:29:11.880 --> 01:29:13.600 I picked them to finish in the top six of 1871 01:29:13.640 --> 01:29:16.119 the Big Twelve in the preseason and our preseason show. 1872 01:29:16.159 --> 01:29:18.600 I love their returning talent. I think that they're due 1873 01:29:18.640 --> 01:29:20.640 to get one. I hope I'm wrong. It'd be awesome 1874 01:29:20.680 --> 01:29:22.800 if Kansas can keep them at Bay one more game 1875 01:29:22.840 --> 01:29:24.600 and then since he can go win their games. Because 1876 01:29:24.600 --> 01:29:26.760 you're right, they haven't played well against the good teams 1877 01:29:26.760 --> 01:29:28.800 on their schedule. We'll see what happens. It should be 1878 01:29:28.840 --> 01:29:32.079 a close game. I'm not expecting. Well, maybe I will 1879 01:29:32.079 --> 01:29:34.279 based on what's happened. I'm certainly not expecting it to 1880 01:29:34.319 --> 01:29:36.680 be thirteen to three at the first TV time out 1881 01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:38.760 in Kansas. Just never get us up the whole game. 1882 01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:41.720 I think it'll be very close throughout other games in 1883 01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:44.279 the Big Twelve. Number three Iowa State at Texas Tech 1884 01:29:44.319 --> 01:29:45.880 trap game. Give me the Red Raiders. 1885 01:29:46.239 --> 01:29:47.119 Yep, I agree. 1886 01:29:47.880 --> 01:29:49.880 I just think that's a tough place to play. Iowa 1887 01:29:49.880 --> 01:29:51.439 State look going ahead of KU a little bit. They 1888 01:29:51.479 --> 01:29:54.960 can't win them all. B YU at TCU, Oh my gosh, 1889 01:29:55.039 --> 01:29:57.279 you want to talk about a toilet bowl. I don't want. 1890 01:29:57.479 --> 01:29:58.960 I don't I don't even want to pick this game. 1891 01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:01.159 Or I just want to take an l And it's 1892 01:30:01.199 --> 01:30:03.079 kind of like the people who take a knee, like 1893 01:30:03.119 --> 01:30:05.239 in the middle of a highway to protest things or whatever. 1894 01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:07.760 I'm just gonna gonna take. I know I'm gonna be shamed, 1895 01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:10.079 I know I'm gonna be chastised, but I just don't 1896 01:30:10.079 --> 01:30:11.439 even want to pick this game because I hate it 1897 01:30:11.479 --> 01:30:11.840 so much. 1898 01:30:13.039 --> 01:30:13.520 TCU. 1899 01:30:18.119 --> 01:30:21.640 I think TCU sucks. I will go Cougars on the Road, 1900 01:30:21.960 --> 01:30:26.800 Jay Horrendous Basketball Game Number twelve, Houston at Kansas State. 1901 01:30:26.840 --> 01:30:28.760 I feel confident in this one. I think the Cougars 1902 01:30:28.760 --> 01:30:29.119 will win. 1903 01:30:30.359 --> 01:30:32.680 I do too. K State will score less than sixty. 1904 01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:36.800 Yes, maybe less than fifty. Oklahoma State at Utah. I 1905 01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:39.079 said I was never gonna pick Utah, and I am 1906 01:30:39.119 --> 01:30:41.319 sticking with it. Pokes on the Road. 1907 01:30:41.960 --> 01:30:44.399 Uh, give you the Utes. The Utes get one here. 1908 01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:47.560 They better if they can't get this one. I don't 1909 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:51.560 know which one they're getting. Baylor at Arizona State Baylor 1910 01:30:51.640 --> 01:30:54.199 hasn't shown me anything that would make me think they 1911 01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:56.399 can win on the road. I'll take the Sun doubles. 1912 01:30:56.520 --> 01:30:58.319 Yeah, I was gonna say, give me a little Arizona 1913 01:30:58.319 --> 01:31:00.720 State bounce back performance here forks up. 1914 01:31:00.800 --> 01:31:03.800 Teams are are two? Are three and oh right after 1915 01:31:04.039 --> 01:31:06.520 or two and oh after losing after playing Kansas and 1916 01:31:06.600 --> 01:31:09.680 conference play, and let's see if that continues. UCF at 1917 01:31:09.720 --> 01:31:13.000 Arizona Zona by as many points as legally as allowed 1918 01:31:13.000 --> 01:31:16.039 in a basketball game. See, I think it's actually kind 1919 01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:18.960 of close. But you're you're definitely not a fan of UCF. 1920 01:31:19.000 --> 01:31:21.680 I agree. Arizona starts four to oh. Number twenty one 1921 01:31:21.720 --> 01:31:24.039 West Virginia at Colorado. This has to be the spot 1922 01:31:24.039 --> 01:31:25.119 for the Buffaloes, right. 1923 01:31:25.840 --> 01:31:28.960 Give me the Mountaineers. Close? Close? Yes, okay, what's Virginia? 1924 01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:32.640 You really think UCF and Colorado are the worst teams ever? 1925 01:31:32.680 --> 01:31:34.359 And I it definitely could be true. 1926 01:31:34.479 --> 01:31:36.960 They're playing like it, especially Utah. 1927 01:31:37.439 --> 01:31:41.600 Yeah, well yeah, that's who Sat losses a lot of 1928 01:31:41.640 --> 01:31:45.319 them other games. Number nine, Yukon tries to bounce back 1929 01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:48.520 at Georgetown. We will pick them to and the Ryan 1930 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:50.720 needed a seventh game to make this a round number 1931 01:31:50.800 --> 01:31:53.359 So I threw this freebie in there. Take your win Landon. 1932 01:31:53.760 --> 01:31:55.840 Yeah, it's gotta be gotta be the Huskies here. 1933 01:31:56.560 --> 01:31:59.960 Number eight Florida at Arkansas. You ready for this? I know, 1934 01:32:00.000 --> 01:32:01.680 I know he was just called the biggest fraud of 1935 01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:04.119 the year, but I am taking John Calipari to win 1936 01:32:04.159 --> 01:32:06.920 this game. Florida, fresh off there win over number one, 1937 01:32:06.960 --> 01:32:08.680 goes down to a desperate Arkansas team. 1938 01:32:09.800 --> 01:32:12.359 I think Florida's really good, and I think Arkansas is 1939 01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:16.199 the last few years of Cal. So give me Florida washed. 1940 01:32:16.239 --> 01:32:19.119 Cal is a thing. Number one Tennessee at Texas. Not 1941 01:32:19.279 --> 01:32:22.720 betting on the upset here, Vole's big. Yeah. 1942 01:32:22.760 --> 01:32:24.800 I think Tennessee comes out pissed and Texas does not 1943 01:32:24.840 --> 01:32:25.760 score a lot of points. 1944 01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:28.680 Somebody should find out when is the last time a 1945 01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:31.840 team played number two and number one in the same week, 1946 01:32:31.880 --> 01:32:36.439 because that is Texas's week. Horrendous draw for them. Number 1947 01:32:36.439 --> 01:32:39.880 seventeen Oklahoma at Georgia. I'm just profiting. Lots of doubs 1948 01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:44.039 picking against Porter and I'll take them. I'll take another one. Bulldogs, Yeah, 1949 01:32:44.119 --> 01:32:46.199 give me the dogs. Was that a wolf? Did you 1950 01:32:46.239 --> 01:32:47.720 give me a wolf? Is that what that was? 1951 01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:48.800 There was a wolf in there? 1952 01:32:49.359 --> 01:32:51.479 That was a wolf. Well, you know we also had 1953 01:32:51.560 --> 01:32:56.279 Nick Doo that once. That's US Bulldogs. It's not gonna 1954 01:32:56.279 --> 01:32:59.520 be that close either. Porter sucks. Number five Alabama at 1955 01:32:59.600 --> 01:33:02.319 number ten in Texas A and M Saturday primetime game. 1956 01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:03.960 That's a barn Burner. 1957 01:33:05.279 --> 01:33:06.199 Is wayde Taylor back. 1958 01:33:07.079 --> 01:33:09.159 We don't know it was a lower body injury. I 1959 01:33:09.239 --> 01:33:10.479 am all in on the Crimson Tide. 1960 01:33:10.479 --> 01:33:12.000 I think they win same. 1961 01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:15.159 I think they might be a top three team in 1962 01:33:15.199 --> 01:33:17.560 the country. Right now. Here's another tough one. You didn't 1963 01:33:17.560 --> 01:33:19.000 know this team was ranked this I did you. I 1964 01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:23.079 certainly did. Number six Kentucky at number fourteen Mississippi State, 1965 01:33:23.720 --> 01:33:29.399 Oh man, how good is Mississippi State? Are they? Yeah? 1966 01:33:29.439 --> 01:33:31.560 I think the SEC is just that. On the road, 1967 01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:36.239 I agree. And number sixteen Michigan State at Northwestern Spartans 1968 01:33:36.239 --> 01:33:40.520 are just steam rolling right through everybody. I say that 1969 01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:42.520 they get tripped up here. 1970 01:33:42.720 --> 01:33:46.039 Eh oh okay, I do not sparty. 1971 01:33:46.840 --> 01:33:49.039 I'm hesitant to p a lot of road teams unless 1972 01:33:49.079 --> 01:33:52.159 the road team is playing at Well, let's see the 1973 01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:54.359 road teams that I picked to win. One is playing 1974 01:33:54.479 --> 01:34:00.439 Rodney Terry, one is playing Georgetown, one is playing one 1975 01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:04.319 is Jamie Dixon you want to. Yeah, So I'm picky 1976 01:34:04.319 --> 01:34:05.800 about who I pick on the road, I guess, and 1977 01:34:05.800 --> 01:34:07.920 one's playing Kansas State, who I feel pretty good there. 1978 01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:11.640 So our next podcast coming Sunday, where we will we're 1979 01:34:11.640 --> 01:34:13.840 expected to have Cam back much like way Taylor, he 1980 01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:16.399 is questionable for the next one, and then we get 1981 01:34:16.399 --> 01:34:17.920 to prepare for a game at Ames. When was the 1982 01:34:18.000 --> 01:34:20.640 last time they wanted Iowa State? They never went there anymore? 1983 01:34:21.479 --> 01:34:23.960 Yeah, it's been a now they they won there. They 1984 01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:25.720 won there when we did not think they would without 1985 01:34:25.720 --> 01:34:28.239 o Chai in the year. 1986 01:34:28.680 --> 01:34:30.640 So it's still been three years. But yeah, it's been 1987 01:34:30.640 --> 01:34:32.479 a it's been a hot minute. Iowa State went through 1988 01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:34.479 a stretch where they were so bad for a couple 1989 01:34:34.479 --> 01:34:39.319 of years and now they are not. It's amazing what happened, coach. Yeah, 1990 01:34:39.399 --> 01:34:42.159 they're they're a wagon. Well Landon, you get a you 1991 01:34:42.199 --> 01:34:44.199 get an MVP award, and I don't really know what 1992 01:34:44.199 --> 01:34:45.279 you want to do with it. Think of it like 1993 01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:47.359 a dundee. You just put it on your desk for 1994 01:34:47.960 --> 01:34:51.039 being perseverant and doing a I really wish I wasn't 1995 01:34:51.039 --> 01:34:53.640 here right now show for the fans. And we carried 1996 01:34:53.640 --> 01:34:55.359 through and gave him a good one. This is I 1997 01:34:55.439 --> 01:34:56.600 t P and Ryan Landers. 1998 01:34:57.159 --> 01:34:59.720 Uh, thank you, thank you, Ryan, I I really appreciate that. 1999 01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:02.760 I will stare at that at my uh my bedstand 2000 01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:05.000 for for weeks on end, if not years. 2001 01:35:05.640 --> 01:35:06.640 Just don't hit a trash can. 2002 01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:09.880 Hopefully, hopefully the locker room culture will be will be 2003 01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:13.000 good at I T P. After tonight. Uh, there there 2004 01:35:13.039 --> 01:35:15.680 may be fine's handed out. It wasn't. I was just 2005 01:35:15.680 --> 01:35:18.119 a little to miss Notre Dame. But they're in the championship. 2006 01:35:18.199 --> 01:35:19.279 Let's go Notre Dame today. 2007 01:35:20.199 --> 01:35:21.920 And honestly, it may have been better for you to 2008 01:35:21.960 --> 01:35:25.039 not watch it because you, like, seriously, that was you 2009 01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:27.720 gotta know. Now you just missed James Franklin being sad. 2010 01:35:28.399 --> 01:35:30.479 And now I've won the right to watch Riley Leonard 2011 01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:33.560 throw like three interceptions against either team that he plays 2012 01:35:33.600 --> 01:35:35.520 in the national time. It will be Ohio State. 2013 01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:38.760 But and we'll make sure that we schedule a podcast 2014 01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:40.239 for that night too, just for you, sir. 2015 01:35:40.319 --> 01:35:41.239 Yeah, I'm skipping that one. 2016 01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:44.439 Sorry, all right, We'll see you on Sunday. Stay out 2017 01:35:44.439 --> 01:35:46.119 of trouble. Don't hit any trash cans. 2018 01:35:46.960 --> 01:35:50.000 Always good advice I would know. Bye.