WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:05.879 The post Christmas episode, everybody is feeling well, and I mean, Landa, 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.080 do you feel are you fat and out of hope 3 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:11.400 right now? Is that the post Christmas vibe in the 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:12.400 Field's house. 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.039 A little bit fat? Would it surprise you to know 6 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.320 that I ran two miles on Christmas morning? 7 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:23.039 Wow? That is that is wild? That's not that I 8 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.120 didn't not that it stuns me because of who you are. 9 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:26.920 I just didn't know. 10 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:32.719 Oh, I've only recently become a running type. Two miles. 11 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.359 It's the longest I've ever run. It felt bad in 12 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:36.479 the moment and good afterward. 13 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:40.320 Yeah, no, I would think so and bad in the 14 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.960 moment and good afterwards. I mean I set a goal 15 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:44.759 at the beginning of this year where I wanted to 16 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:47.520 walk ten thousand steps every single day. 17 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:49.280 I remember you talking about this. You told me about 18 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:49.479 that time. 19 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.560 Yeah, and still still hanging in there with five days 20 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:55.520 left in twenty twenty four. It really like, it's not 21 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:58.159 that hard to get ten thousand steps. Do you have 22 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:01.840 to like have one hour worth of walking without stopping 23 00:01:01.960 --> 00:01:03.640 and that's like seventy percent of it? 24 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:06.959 Yeah, ten thousand steps wouldn't that sounds like a lot, 25 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:10.239 But it actually isn't that much if you're trying. It's 26 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:12.359 kind of the same with running, Like if you actually 27 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.040 try to run, you can you can get to pretty 28 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.920 decent numbers pretty fast. Like I'm not very good at all, 29 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.799 but I was only running like a mile a month ago. 30 00:01:21.959 --> 00:01:24.200 I'm already up to two so well. 31 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:27.400 Considering that you have been on load management recently, I'm 32 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:29.400 glad to see that you're still staying in shape off 33 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.760 the court, because after missing the last show, we're now 34 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:37.879 giving Cam the the lebron Hey, you've done thirteen shows 35 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:41.519 out of thirteen possible episodes. Go ahead and take a 36 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.560 night off. Cam's due for a day off, right, Let 37 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.879 Austin Reeves cook. That's is Cam the Austin Reeves of 38 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:49.400 this show. 39 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:53.439 Ooh, maybe I feel like he might be someone a 40 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:55.920 little more feisty than Austin Reeves. 41 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:57.920 I get to be JJ Reddick. I was good at 42 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.680 one point, and I have a tattoo sleeve and that's 43 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:01.400 it's and I'm a white dude. 44 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:02.599 Yeah, it feels right. 45 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:05.280 I don't know which Laker you are. I don't watch 46 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.480 enough NBA basketball to be good at that. 47 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.759 I just watched the Lakers beat my Warriors. On Christmas. 48 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:12.280 That was great. 49 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.840 That the year Warriors beginning twenty Alexa, what year do 50 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:16.919 they win the first title? 51 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:22.199 Alexa, go back in time and note that I started 52 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:23.240 rooting for them before they won. 53 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.039 Interesting, all right, I do remember that you've held on 54 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.280 to the Dubs for a while and then they've won 55 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.400 about as much as the Chiefs, who we have some 56 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:33.159 Chiefs ask GARCBS that the Chiefs aren't even really that 57 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:36.479 interesting at this point from a it doesn't matter what 58 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.240 they do, the end result is always the same as 59 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:40.759 weird as that is to say, kind of like the 60 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:43.719 Jayhawks used to be in Big Twelve play. We don't 61 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:45.680 even have a game to recap. We're just gonna kind 62 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.120 of talk about a non conference late that's already over 63 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:51.800 after just eleven games, because Lord, your Mark has decided 64 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.120 that Big twelve seasons will now go on for eternity. Yeah, 65 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.240 and all the games will be very good, we promise. 66 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:01.639 Oh yeah, all the teams are very good. You and 67 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:03.759 I were talking before we started the show. And there 68 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:07.319 are eight Big twelve matchups coming up on Monday and Tuesday. 69 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.439 The first sixteen teams, so that leaves eight matchups in 70 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.400 opening week of Big twelve play and there is only 71 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.240 one matchup being Kansas and West Virginia, where both teams 72 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:19.080 were in this conference three years ago. 73 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.800 Yeah, that's absurd, that is absurd, But Ryan, have you 74 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.000 considered that at different points in this year we will 75 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:33.599 get epic matchups such as TCU Central Florida, Utah Arizona 76 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:39.080 State this time in the twelve play at Arizona versus 77 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:42.680 byun Oh. Sure. 78 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.840 The best part is how like four Big twelve matchups 79 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:51.639 have already happened in preseason tournaments that were set before 80 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.240 Big Twelve play started. If Iowa State and Colorado play 81 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.599 in the Big twelve tournament, that will be the fourth 82 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:01.280 time this year that they play. We all know who 83 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.919 doesn't want for Iowa State Colorado basketball games in one season. 84 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:08.080 Not Colorado. 85 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.439 But the way the first one went, Yeah, the first 86 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:12.560 game didn't go too well for Colorado, and we'll see 87 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.120 how that goes. Kansas has a ten o'clock tip at 88 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.600 Colorado here coming up down the shoot in a few weeks. 89 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:21.040 So yeah, man, we'll be there. We're all not like 90 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:23.879 they're in the in the arena, but well, I guess 91 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:28.160 we could. I hear Colorado in February is very Ryan's 92 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:32.600 Up Ryan's Alley. From a weather perspective, yeah, one hundred 93 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.879 percent warmer than here. You'd probably love it. You could 94 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:37.319 probably rock a T shirt and shorts in the twenty 95 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.480 three degree winter afternoons out there. 96 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:43.519 I've been trying to adultify my wardrobe. I'm more in 97 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:46.439 a crew neck phase. I like jeans a lot more 98 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:48.680 puilled out, a lot more hoodies lately. 99 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:54.160 It's nice adultifying. Adultifying your wardrobe is not a quote 100 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.040 I'd ever thought i'd hear you say, because I still 101 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.319 associate you whenever we were in high school wearing rock 102 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:02.000 Chalk blog shirts and a Jay flat flat bills. That's 103 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.079 that's what I will always think of you wearing. And 104 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.600 then overnight you turned into a hippie. 105 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.879 Yeah, I mean eventually, I do. Hope girls give me 106 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.879 the time of day, So I thought it was better 107 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:13.439 wardrobe my help in that department. 108 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.519 You're telling me that being on the inside of the 109 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.199 Paint podcast for now eight seasons? Is it eight or 110 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:18.720 is it seven? 111 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.480 A I think it's eight eight. 112 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:24.800 You're telling me that that doesn't do enough for the 113 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:27.160 ladies where you also don't have to change your style. 114 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:32.480 Yeah, I mean I did think senior high school land 115 00:05:32.519 --> 00:05:37.759 and did think that being on aku basketball podcast with 116 00:05:38.319 --> 00:05:43.040 profane drops was going to get him women eventually. That 117 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.480 is the target demo of this show, believed in correct, 118 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:49.680 is my age women. But the last I didn't work 119 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.439 as well as I was hoping, So we're trying a 120 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:53.399 different strategy that's more recommended. 121 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:55.120 Yeah, some are saying it was a very. 122 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.120 Yeah, this is a very sad, sad loss. 123 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:00.360 But hey, eight years has gotten you plenty of other 124 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:02.879 things that have happened as a result of this podcast, 125 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.279 like a little bit more gray hair and a little 126 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:08.399 bit less patience for nonsense. You've answered a lot of me. 127 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.319 One mercyb in the JCCC hallways recognizing who I was. 128 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.680 That's crazy because that I've never I've never been recognized 129 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:18.519 for anything IP related. But both you and Nick have, 130 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:22.879 which is which is hilarious. Yeah, we're gonna and we're 131 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:25.279 we're we've committed to each other off the off air, 132 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.360 which I'll now tell everybody for the first time, We 133 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.360 committed to do this podcast until Kansas eventually wins back 134 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:32.759 to back titles at some point, so we're here for 135 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:33.199 a while. 136 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.079 Well, it'll be tough to do that podcast through World 137 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:41.680 War three and four, but we will be there for you. 138 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.240 This is the Inside the Paint podcast on Rock Chalk Blog. 139 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:46.959 Two man show. 140 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.160 Today I am Ryan am Landenfields. 141 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.199 So today's gonna look different because we don't have a 142 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.199 game to recap, and for I believe the first time 143 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.560 that I've ever done an in season podcast, we just 144 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:02.240 went like a full week of college basketball where there 145 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:06.839 were no other noteworthy other matchups at all. Sometimes there 146 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:10.759 are still games around Christmas time, but there was nothing. 147 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:14.240 There was one Top twenty five team in action all week, 148 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.480 and the opponent that they scheduled was shameful and it 149 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:19.920 should not count. So we haven't ever been in a 150 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:22.600 spot where there's quite literally the first two thirds of 151 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:26.480 every show's content. We have nothing today. Instead, we're going 152 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:29.920 to recap the non conference season gift thoughts there do 153 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:34.279 ask ARCB and then preview Big twelve play, which includes 154 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.360 an opening preview with West Virginia coming to the Fog 155 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:43.480 on New Year's Eve afternoon. What a weird start that is. 156 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.240 You have a funky work schedule where you've had to 157 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:49.199 miss a few of these games. Are you going to 158 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.920 be able to catch a one o'clock on a Tuesday, 159 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:54.879 Kansas basketball Big twelve opener. 160 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:59.519 That should be doable. There's some Wednesday nights that I'm 161 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.000 absolute polutely not gonna see, but West Virginia I'll be 162 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:02.199 there for. 163 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:06.079 And the Big twelve schedule is weird for Kansas because 164 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.959 they open. This is a Big twelve schedule that opens 165 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:16.600 with West Virginia, Central Florida and Arizona State and then Cincinnati. 166 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:20.319 Imagine being told that a few years ago, like what 167 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:23.959 the one game against West Virginia which I missed the 168 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.399 home and homes though not going to Morgantown this year. 169 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.720 You can add one to their season win total as 170 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.120 a result of that. And then three teams that were 171 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.519 not in this conference, two trips around the sun that go, 172 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:36.000 that's weird. The last time that somebody other than the 173 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.600 Chiefs was the Super Bowl champion, Like half these teams 174 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.159 weren't even in the KU's conference. 175 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:45.559 That's correct, That's the new college sports. Everybody, isn't it great? 176 00:08:46.039 --> 00:08:49.159 Damn Brett yor Mark? All right, so I guess I'll 177 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.399 blow the air horn and then we can talk about 178 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:58.360 non con Yay, all right, get amped? Just so you 179 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.320 know in the shows that you've missed. Cam has been 180 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.600 insistent on doing the Mary drop. Like remember how we've 181 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.399 gone back and forth between the air Horns and the 182 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:09.799 air Horns with Mary's and all that. Cam's a stickler 183 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:10.600 for the Mary one. 184 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.799 I feel like the Mary is the more popular among 185 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.639 other ITP co hosts. Other i TP co hosts like 186 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:19.159 the Airhorn. 187 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:22.519 Mary, and that originated whenever we were complaining about how 188 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.720 only Saint Mary's exists in Gonzaga's otherwise terrible league. 189 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:28.519 That is correct. 190 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:33.600 Saint Mary's beat Utah though, so there's that and Santa 191 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:38.120 Clara beat TCU. So the West Coast Conference lea be better. Yeah, 192 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:40.639 awesome league. I'm looking at the other some of these 193 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:43.279 other ITP drops, and I'm trying to think of if 194 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.799 any of them have an interesting backstory, because this would 195 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:49.159 be the first time, this would be the show to 196 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:53.679 do it. Any of the things that Daniel yeah, that one, 197 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.759 that one, well, obviously he used to very much. So 198 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.879 Daniel did not like John Caliperry at one point. There's 199 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.480 this one you suck ass Landed Builds, which is mean, 200 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:08.759 and that's that's about three Frankenstein ish together drops because 201 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.600 or Daniel was unhappy with landon Lucas and he said 202 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:14.759 that very not nice thing about Land and Lucas, and 203 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:18.000 then I showed off my podcast editor of the Year 204 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:22.879 skills by replacing the last word with a different word, 205 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.200 and therefore you get you suck. 206 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.320 Ass Landed Builds. That's good stuff. 207 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.399 It's it's pretty cool podcast Editor of the Year that 208 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:36.440 you know that award is coming up in February. 209 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.919 Is it a prestigious ceremony or is that like, did 210 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:39.840 they just send you the mail? 211 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.080 It's me and I've lost to Joshua Brisco about twenty 212 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.720 years in a row at this point, because it's I'm 213 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:50.200 oping this is the year. Uh you know, it's like 214 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.480 the It's like in The Grinch, when the same person 215 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:57.559 wins the decorating contest every year. It's like, eventually it's 216 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.639 gonna be my turn. I'm going to right into the lead. 217 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:03.559 You watch, it's almost like he's not paid to do 218 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.240 it and is good at it, and we just sit 219 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:08.600 on our couch and yell about I mean, Dickinson. 220 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:12.320 Technically, I am paid United States currency every year. I 221 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.919 will not say whether or not it exceeds the total 222 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:18.600 of the podcast host fee that I pay the website 223 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.320 every year, and I will say that that fee is 224 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.240 sixty eight dollars a year. So if that goes to 225 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:27.919 show how much revenue this show makes, I'll say it's 226 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:33.039 either below or above that number. And of those two, 227 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.360 if you were choosing what you'd like it to be, 228 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:36.960 what would be your second choice. 229 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.759 I was confused by the syntax of the question, but 230 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:44.919 I will not. I'll take any other gig I think 231 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.360 than what he makes in a year. This is a 232 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:50.440 very sad, sad loss. 233 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:52.960 Hey, that's okay because as we have gone full circle 234 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.759 and we talked about the intro, the ITP being on 235 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.639 ITP gets you recognized in the hallway at Johnson County 236 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:02.840 College once. All right, let's level in eight years. Let's 237 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:06.240 talk about non con place. So this Jayhawks season began 238 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.320 with the team ranked as the number one team in 239 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.639 the preseason poll, and they began by winning their first 240 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.840 seven games, and they lost to and now they've bounced 241 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.480 back with two wins against teams they were heavily favorede against. 242 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:18.600 I feel like you've been this team's biggest critic of 243 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:20.080 the three of us on the show, which I am. 244 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:23.039 I am Stevie Wonder playing the piano, blind level optimist 245 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.720 regardless of what they look like. And Cam is cam 246 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.120 Is Brett Farve. Should I come out of retirement or 247 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.399 should I not? One day he's like, Man, this team's 248 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.120 gonna gonna seriously kick all the ass. And the next 249 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.399 day he's like, this is the same crappy ass team 250 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.320 we played last year. Bill self is watched you are 251 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.080 kind of the level headed. This team's not very good 252 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.240 at least that's kind of been more or less your stance. 253 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:46.960 What are your thoughts? 254 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:51.879 Yeah, I mean that's pretty accurate. I think that's pretty true. 255 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:57.480 I do think Cam's variance, shall we say, is largely 256 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:01.799 dependent on the quality of team that Kansas plays. And 257 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:04.320 I think that is because the quality of team Kansas 258 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:08.879 plays is heavily dependent on how Kansas looks now. To 259 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.320 be fair, I've missed a few games, as you said, 260 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.559 I've had a really weird schedule, just had a bunch 261 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:16.559 of things come up. I've been out of town for 262 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:20.080 extended periods of time. I've missed four games. There's four 263 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:24.440 games I did not watch this year, full stop, full honesty. 264 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:28.120 Didn't see Oakland, didn't see Wilmington, didn't see Furman, watched 265 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:30.759 the highlights of Brown which, by the. 266 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.679 Way, you're you were out of town for a couple 267 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:36.320 of them and working for a couple more. You didn't 268 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:38.360 really need to watch any of those games. By the way, 269 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.720 like even the lousier Kansas teams of years past, you 270 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:44.320 pretty much knew what was going to happen in those matchups. 271 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:49.039 Those were wins by what quick math tells me twenty one, eighteen, 272 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:51.240 thirty five, and thirty four. 273 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.039 Yeah, I have seen older games against Power five, Power 274 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:00.120 four excuse me, opponents, that's five no offense, Craton or 275 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:04.759 Power League. At this point, I think this Kansas team 276 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.840 is disgustingly similar to last year's And this is we've 277 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:11.840 talked about this. Cam and I have definitely agreed on 278 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:14.879 this point this year that I think this Kansas team 279 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:19.240 right now through non con is almost one for one. 280 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.720 Not one for one maybe, but they're similar. They are 281 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:26.720 painfully similar to what they were last year. Albeit I 282 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:29.759 do think they are a deeper version for sure. I 283 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.879 think they have a lot more bodies this year that 284 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.720 you actually trust to do something on the floor, as 285 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:36.720 opposed to last year, which really they only had like 286 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:41.399 three guys maybe maybe four, depending on the game last 287 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.519 year where you had confidence that those guys were gonna 288 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:47.720 do anything. So in broad strokes, this team still can't 289 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:49.480 win on the road. That's gonna be a problem in 290 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.360 Big Twelfth play, where you're playing a lot of at 291 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.679 least pretty solid teams on the road. They're gonna have 292 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:56.840 to pick that up and have to figure that out 293 00:14:57.399 --> 00:15:00.799 if they're gonna have a lot of success there. Obviously, 294 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:04.000 there's still a lot of talent. Zeke Mayo been proving 295 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:06.039 to us that Mayo is indeed an instrument In the 296 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:08.639 last couple of games, dude's been on fire. He's looked amazing. 297 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:11.519 He's finally getting a shot to drop Hunter. Dickinson still 298 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:13.919 very good player. Despite my criticism of him, He's still 299 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.519 very good and he's gonna put up numbers. They have 300 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.919 the pieces to be great, they really do. But like 301 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:21.879 you said, I have been critical of them, and I 302 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:26.360 think that's because they haven't really other than in flashes 303 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:31.759 when they've played good teams, they've not put together complete performances. 304 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.399 Maybe the Duke game. Maybe the Duke game. I'll give 305 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:37.639 you that they looked very solid against Duke, and Duke 306 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:41.840 looks like a very solid team. Otherwise, I would say 307 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.919 that I have been largely unimpressed with what I've seen 308 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:48.879 from Kansas relative to expectations. 309 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:53.279 I'm looking at their stats from last year versus this year, 310 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:58.919 and last year was such a hard it was a 311 00:15:59.039 --> 00:16:02.440 very difficult year that you definitely could tell if you 312 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:06.039 look at their college Basketball reference numbers. But the stats 313 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.799 are as you've said, the eye test has been that 314 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.960 they're pretty similar slightly better version. The stats would show 315 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:18.000 that's exactly the correct case because last year's Kansas team, 316 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:20.360 you look at their college basketball numbers and you look 317 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.200 at what they did well. These were the things they 318 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.159 were very good at. Overall field goal percentage, two pointers made, 319 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:32.720 two point percentage, and assists, those were the better statistical categories. 320 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.360 And defensive rebounds because they have Hunter Dickinson, those are 321 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.240 the exact five categories that they have the highest averages 322 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:44.000 this season, just like last year. The weaknesses last year 323 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:48.039 outside the top two hundred and three point percentage. This year, 324 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:51.679 their percentage is better, but they're taking barely inside the 325 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:54.240 top three hundred in attempts with just twenty one a 326 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:58.639 game last year. Offensive rebounds were a huge problem this year, 327 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.039 less than ten a game about the same last year's 328 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:06.279 team averaged. Where was the stat that was almost exactly identical. 329 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.400 Last year's stat seventy two percent at the line, this 330 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:12.799 year's team seventy two percent of the line. Last year's 331 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.079 team fifteen fouls a game, this year's team fifteen fouls 332 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.119 a game. Last year's team first nationally in assists with 333 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:23.839 nineteen this year's team eighteen point nine assists per game. 334 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:28.680 They are very similar. Now Kansas has done Kansas the 335 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:32.720 whole season last year. I don't love how their numbers, say, 336 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.440 for a few, are about the same against a schedule 337 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.079 where half the teams have been worse than any of 338 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:42.519 the Big twelve teams. They will not play a game 339 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.039 the rest of the way, except for maybe their opener 340 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:49.400 in the NCAA Tournament against a team worse than five teams. 341 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:53.000 We've already had the stats added to the count this year, 342 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.880 but the three point percentage is about three percent higher. 343 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:00.920 Still doesn't feel like enough. Their free throw gosh, darn, 344 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.400 they're they're They're not even getting the line thirteen times 345 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:07.039 a game. The stats indicate that this team has some problems. 346 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:10.920 How much optimism do you have about the trouble spots 347 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:13.519 that you think could get better in conference play, and 348 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:15.920 which parts of this team that aren't good enough do 349 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.039 you fear are here to stay. 350 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:19.920 That's a great question. I think it's a great way 351 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:24.319 to kind of frame conference play. I think they they 352 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.880 absolutely have the shooters to make a higher percentage of 353 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:32.119 free throws. If those guys can get to the line, 354 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:35.640 like aj Store and Zeke Mayo in particular, Dwan Harris too, 355 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.839 those guys should all be like pretty solid free throw shooters, 356 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.680 really solid free throw shooters, and they have been historically. 357 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:45.519 They just don't get to the line very I don't 358 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.319 know the numbers out of my head, but they certainly, 359 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:50.680 like I mean, they must only be shooting like a 360 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:55.079 couple free throws a game at most each. I think 361 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.000 that can get better, but I think that's going to 362 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:03.559 require a strategy change, maybe a strategy change for the better, 363 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.640 maybe for the worse, because as you said, they are 364 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.880 like not taking very many threes on a national level. 365 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:10.960 That is something that I think they should be doing 366 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:15.039 because also again they do have the shooters, Like numbers wise, 367 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.880 percentages wise, I still have at least an amount of 368 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:23.119 hope that guys like Ryland Griffin can play well consistently. 369 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:25.440 You see flashes every game from a guy like Rylan 370 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:29.200 or even a guy like aj Storre who's been exceedingly 371 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:33.880 mediocre to not great, to be quite honest. But those 372 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:35.839 guys you still see flashes, and you still see them 373 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:39.400 play well at times enough to think that if they can, 374 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:41.519 if they can settle in and the team can kind 375 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:43.920 of gel around them, something that happens in conference play 376 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:47.640 all the time for the Jayhawks historically, then they'll be fine, 377 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:52.279 and those guys can have great conference seasons. I'm not 378 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.160 overly confident that this is ever gonna be a great 379 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.519 defensive team. They don't necessarily have to be to win, 380 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:03.960 but I don't think that's really in the cards for 381 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:06.720 this team, probably, which is very strange because that's usually 382 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:10.240 like the one thing you super count on for Bill's self, 383 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.359 and they're not even like an atrocious one. I just 384 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:14.400 think they're always going to kind of have holes and 385 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.000 always kind of have leaks, and always kind of have miscommunications. 386 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.079 That's part of the game, I guess. But I do 387 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:23.680 think they will continually struggle on defense a little bit, 388 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:27.160 especially when they play very competent offensive teams, which Hey, 389 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:29.720 the Big twelve not known for that, so maybe they'll 390 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:31.880 get lucky. I don't know. What about you, Ryan, What 391 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:33.440 do you think that they're going to improve? What do 392 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:34.960 you think that they will continue struggle with? 393 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:37.640 I think you're gonna see them get to the line 394 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:40.599 better one because they can't get worse, Like they're like 395 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.240 six to the bottom in the country. And we know 396 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:45.240 the way Big twelve games are called. We know that 397 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:48.920 the point the possessions per game go down. Whenever these 398 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:51.000 teams start playing each other, I think you're gonna see 399 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:53.079 that get better. I don't know how much better, but 400 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:54.799 I don't think I don't I don't think there's any 401 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:56.680