Speaker 1: This is the twelfth season of Inside the Paint. I've
Speaker 1: now done this show straight through my twenties thirteen different times.
Speaker 1: We have gotten up here to talk about Kansas basketball teams,
Speaker 1: because the first season was technically about two different teams,
Speaker 1: and here we are all of these teams and landon
Speaker 1: you back for what this is year seven?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I think I think so, so you are back and
Speaker 1: maybe better than ever or maybe past your expiration date.
Speaker 1: We'll find out this season. But there is absolutely question
Speaker 1: every year, out with the Nick and in with the
Speaker 1: new because we have the third component of this show
Speaker 1: is a completely new voice. How should I I don't
Speaker 1: know how I should do this. I don't even remember
Speaker 1: how I introed you and Nick seven years ago? Like
Speaker 1: what's the best way? Should I just like give him
Speaker 1: the floor? Or do you want to make opening remarks?
Speaker 3: I said give him the floor. I think I think
Speaker 3: he's I mean, I think everyone knows pretty much who
Speaker 3: it is at this point, so I think he can
Speaker 3: say his own thing, as I also preface it with
Speaker 3: ten and so so both both is good?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, then then Cam welcome aboards Inside the Paint.
Speaker 1: You can have the floor to talk about who you are?
Speaker 1: What the how excited you are for this show? Because
Speaker 1: we are stoked to have you somebody who might challenge
Speaker 1: me for loudness on the show, which is which is
Speaker 1: two thumbs up for me?
Speaker 2: Wow, I mean that is.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of people that I'm probably gonna disappoint,
Speaker 2: but I'd like to say thank you to my parents
Speaker 2: for getting me to this point. I got a big
Speaker 2: support group that's listening to me. All five people listeners. Yeah,
Speaker 2: pumped to be here, guys. I will probably provide very
Speaker 2: ah man. Yeah, you're probably right. I'll probably provide about
Speaker 2: five good takes per season and be excited to be here.
Speaker 1: And and Cam, you have been listening to Inside the
Speaker 1: Paint since before Landon and Nick were on the show.
Speaker 1: You're one of the OG's back when I was still
Speaker 1: in college. Can you there are so I'm curious about this.
Speaker 1: There are on this show. There are I believe eight
Speaker 1: people that I've that I've done at least seven shows.
Speaker 1: Can you name all of them?
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's a good question. All right, So eight
Speaker 2: people obviously you Landon, Nick, Daniel, Josh, Scott Chason, and
Speaker 2: then the last two. I'm not gonna be able to remember.
Speaker 1: It's seven, you're only missing one and this one was
Speaker 1: only on the first season. It was Tyler and I
Speaker 1: that started itp and then Josh and Daniel and I
Speaker 1: took over at season two. So you have you really
Speaker 1: have been listening since the second season. That's all of
Speaker 1: my twenties. I feel so old that that that's the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys have definitely contributed to my decline mental health.
Speaker 1: Well, if you think we've done the job, then wait
Speaker 1: till you see this preseason number one basketball team with
Speaker 1: nowhere to go but down that we got to talk
Speaker 1: about here on this sea of itp Cam, Welcome aboard.
Speaker 1: Good to have you. We're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 1: fun this season talking about those preseason number one Jayhawks.
Speaker 1: Second year in a row, they've been crowned at the
Speaker 1: top of the preseason ap pole. Hopefully this year goes
Speaker 1: a little bit better. But this is the Inside of
Speaker 1: the Paint Podcast. We're here to intro the season and
Speaker 1: talk all about the twenty twenty four twenty twenty five Jayhawks.
Speaker 3: I am Ryan Landreth, I am Landon Fields.
Speaker 2: And I am Bill Crank.
Speaker 1: I like how Landon just passed that trophy off. I
Speaker 1: haven't heard you that Landon Fields has not said the
Speaker 1: words land and Fields on this show in a very
Speaker 1: long time. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's good to say my real name. It's
Speaker 3: way easier than thinking of a fake name ten seconds
Speaker 3: before saying it. So this is good. I'm glad to
Speaker 3: be back as well. It has been at least all
Speaker 3: of last year. I think I made it and it
Speaker 3: was it started like two seasons ago when I started
Speaker 3: the fake name thing. I hope anyone out there found
Speaker 3: that funny.
Speaker 1: Well, and if you didn't say your name, then we
Speaker 1: would never get to hear things like this.
Speaker 3: You suck ass.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy that you're back to saying your last name,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad to write back. So, oh well, the
Speaker 1: drops are never going anywhere. And Cam, this is this
Speaker 1: is a big moment for you. You're about to hear
Speaker 1: your first ever itp airhorn, which may just well contribute
Speaker 1: to your declining ear drums over the next few years.
Speaker 1: Landon has heard more than a few. So let's let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and talk about everything that's happened with Kansas
Speaker 1: basketball in the last few months. Okay, so you guys
Speaker 1: had a homework assignment, and I did too. I was
Speaker 1: not immune from this, and that was to watch the
Speaker 1: Late Night and the Fog Scrimmage, which, as we all know,
Speaker 1: you can infer so much about how the season is
Speaker 1: going to go based off of the events that take
Speaker 1: place during that fifteen minutes of late night scrimmage, as
Speaker 1: evidenced by National Player of the Year runner up Carlton
Speaker 1: Bragg from that dynamite twenty seventeen Late Night in the
Speaker 1: Fog that he had. If you guys remember that, you
Speaker 1: get oh, I remember land and coming into the because
Speaker 1: Landon you got to do the second year of Carlton Bragger.
Speaker 1: What's it the third? I don't remember what. Did you
Speaker 1: and Carlton Bragg ever cross paths on this show?
Speaker 3: I think so. I think he was on one of
Speaker 3: the teams, one of the he might have been on
Speaker 3: his last year at Kansas when I was on my
Speaker 3: first year at IP.
Speaker 1: I think, good times, really really good times. We'll we'll well, hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully the Carlton Bragg whatever you want to call the
Speaker 1: Carlton Bragg thing, won't happen on this year, squad. But
Speaker 1: you guys did watch the Late Night, The Late Night
Speaker 1: in the fog scrimmage? Is there anything we can really
Speaker 1: infer from this, like, did you guys, did anything capture
Speaker 1: your attention as something to jot down and say, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe that will be something to watch on this year's
Speaker 1: team well being.
Speaker 3: This is a basketball podcast, and as we do every year,
Speaker 3: we will talk for the next fifteen minutes about what
Speaker 3: the late night scrimmage definitively means. But it means nothing.
Speaker 3: A few things, I think, but doing it look good
Speaker 3: mostly at least, I think he was solid. I was
Speaker 3: impressed with the little bit I saw. I think he
Speaker 3: did get a shot blocked or maybe two shots blocked.
Speaker 3: That's not necessarily great, but I liked what I saw
Speaker 3: from him. Team looked like it can shoot as a whole.
Speaker 3: That definitely obviously was not the case last year in preseason,
Speaker 3: and it was true all season. They looked like they
Speaker 3: could shoot from the beginning, and obviously they did. That's
Speaker 3: not the case. I do hope that this team can shoot.
Speaker 3: They looked like they could shoot a lot of guards
Speaker 3: that can take threes and make them, hopefully, But this
Speaker 3: game has the intensity of like a high intensity YMCA game,
Speaker 3: so it's pretty impossible to tell what anything actually means.
Speaker 3: CAM your first take of your i TP career, What
Speaker 3: shall it be? What do you make of late night?
Speaker 3: Did you watch the scrimmage?
Speaker 2: I did watch the scrimmage. I did do my homework,
Speaker 2: so I wanted to make sure I got off on
Speaker 2: the right foot here. But the uh one, Yes, the
Speaker 2: main thing that I would like take away from this
Speaker 2: towards David Quoite. I love the fact that Kansas will
Speaker 2: actually have perimeter scores this year and depth is definitely
Speaker 2: not going to be an issue, so it was fun
Speaker 2: to watch. I also found it hilarious how uncomfortable Bill
Speaker 2: self looks sitting next to Ryan's favorite human Brian Haney
Speaker 2: commentary bench if you will in sidebar here. I think
Speaker 2: my favorite part of itp is that I've learned Ryan
Speaker 2: doesn't hate many things, but when he hates things, he
Speaker 2: hates them like passionately. Sister Jean carl Cheffer's Brian Hany.
Speaker 2: I think I'm leaving you to do listen.
Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive you do listen this show the Denver
Speaker 1: broncos I'm trying to think about if there's really anything else,
Speaker 1: And as you know, because you've heard me say these
Speaker 1: words before. I feel so bad having venom to spew
Speaker 1: towards Brian Haney, because I think he's a very nice man,
Speaker 1: but he's quite possibly the worst announcer that I've ever
Speaker 1: listened to. And I knew that we were done. I
Speaker 1: knew that Brian Haney and I would never get along
Speaker 1: when I went to the Kansas basketball banquet the first
Speaker 1: year he took over, and that was kind of Bob
Speaker 1: Davis's thing, kind of recaps the season self comes up,
Speaker 1: they talk about it whatever, and it's it's just like
Speaker 1: listening to your grandfather tell a story fireside as. You
Speaker 1: guys all remember the Bob Davis years. And then Brian
Speaker 1: Haney comes up and he says, in his game show
Speaker 1: voice instead of the Bob Davis effect, I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: a poem. And half of the people in the audience
Speaker 1: just kind of looked at each other like he's not serious, right,
Speaker 1: Like that was a joke. Do we laugh or do?
Speaker 1: What do we do? And then he starts reading a
Speaker 1: poem and he changes agbajie to agbage three and it
Speaker 1: just made me want to stab my both timples at
Speaker 1: the same time. With the dinner forks at the table.
Speaker 1: Brian Haney man, No, we just have to sometimes, like
Speaker 1: Will Smith had to shoot his dog. I know you
Speaker 1: don't want to do it KU Athletics, but at some
Speaker 1: point you have to consider having anybody else call games
Speaker 1: for you. That was not one of my observations, but yes,
Speaker 1: so a couple of things that Bill self said. One
Speaker 1: of them, I'll start with the one that you kind
Speaker 1: of just talked about Cam, which is David Quoit self
Speaker 1: called him KU's best off the bench score and Greg
Speaker 1: Gurley asked him for somebody who you can like in
Speaker 1: that too, and he immediately mentioned Remy Martin at the
Speaker 1: end of the National Championship year, and I think that
Speaker 1: people may remember Remy Martin a little better than he
Speaker 1: actually was. He averaged about ten points a game in
Speaker 1: the tournament, which is it feels like, at least it
Speaker 1: felt like more at the time. But when you have
Speaker 1: a guy that can give you double figures any night
Speaker 1: of the week off the bench, the lift that that
Speaker 1: will give everybody else, every year it feels like we
Speaker 1: talk about who's gonna start and who's not gonna start.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that matters as much this year
Speaker 1: as it does other years, because I think the lineups
Speaker 1: that close games are going to be dependent on how
Speaker 1: things go in those middle twenties five thirty minutes. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see a lot of different closing lineups.
Speaker 1: Even if guys like Koit or Zeke Mayo or Flora
Speaker 1: Badonga don't start, I think they're all gonna have a
Speaker 1: chance to impact the end of games. Is that the
Speaker 1: correct basketball take? Or is that the it's been seven
Speaker 1: months since you watched Bill self, so stay tuned take.
Speaker 3: Yes? Is the answer there? I think I think the
Speaker 3: in theory that's true. Who closes games, who's on the
Speaker 3: floor in big moments is more important than to like
Speaker 3: just who starts, but who starts for Bill self is
Speaker 3: who's going to be on the floor in big moments mostly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he did say Zeke Mayo has essentially locked
Speaker 1: up a starting spot. This was a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and in a podcast he did with the Field of
Speaker 1: sixty eight and Jeff Goodman, because what else would Jeff
Speaker 1: Goodman do? Is like, you're not even gonna believe who
Speaker 1: Bill Self said as a starter? I don't know, could
Speaker 1: it say? Could it be it was the guy who
Speaker 1: he called the team's best player all off season, because
Speaker 1: he's been really high on Zeke Mayo, who I think
Speaker 1: all of us really like. Another one of those guys
Speaker 1: like Koite, like Maduna that may be able to give
Speaker 1: them those other three returneys in the starting lineup that
Speaker 1: helped that they really didn't have last year. And then
Speaker 1: let's talk about Florie Badunga. Cam you you were around
Speaker 1: with Josh Jackson, who was fantastic, and k You's had
Speaker 1: several high profile recruits since then. Self said that Badunga
Speaker 1: is the best one that he has had since Jackson,
Speaker 1: which was quietly eight seasons ago. At this point, now,
Speaker 1: what do you think that could do for guys like
Speaker 1: Hunter Dickinson or even for the non bigs on the
Speaker 1: roster if Baduma can come in and do what the
Speaker 1: recent KU Star freshman quote star have not been able
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think it'll spread the floor a
Speaker 2: little bit. It'll be nice to see Hunter Dickinson play
Speaker 2: and not have the lane clogged up by a certain
Speaker 2: favorite power forward of Kansas and kJ Adams, which will
Speaker 2: be fun topic to talk about later. But no, I
Speaker 2: think it will free up some space for sure. Flory
Speaker 2: looked really good in the late night scrimmage. Again, that
Speaker 2: means absolutely nothing, But according to everything that I've read
Speaker 2: and everything that I've seen, I think he'll be an
Speaker 2: awesome addition and it should be a great, great addition
Speaker 2: to have on the team this year.
Speaker 1: So if Flori is clearly self said that he wants
Speaker 1: Dickinson and Flori to play forty to forty five minutes
Speaker 1: a game, so you would think that's the five minutes
Speaker 1: right there? Are you? I don't know, like the two
Speaker 1: big lineup. I have a little bit more optimism in
Speaker 1: it this year than I do most years because Badoma
Speaker 1: is longer than I thought he was. The dude looks
Speaker 1: like one of those vintage Texas bigs that shows up
Speaker 1: at six ' ten and is freakishly athletic, more so
Speaker 1: than your typical Cliff Alexander style, big bruising forward. So
Speaker 1: I do have a little bit of optimism there. But
Speaker 1: are we expecting the Dooma to essentially get all of
Speaker 1: the minutes that Dickinson doesn't get.
Speaker 3: I mean that seems pretty dependent on if he actually
Speaker 3: translates or not. But yeah, if he's good, and I
Speaker 3: think he will be at least playable, then I think
Speaker 3: that's very likely that he's gonna get the vast majority
Speaker 3: of those. I still think kJ might get a few
Speaker 3: of those in specific situations if they want to play
Speaker 3: particularly small and fast. I can see them playing that
Speaker 3: against a couple of the weaker non com opponents maybe,
Speaker 3: But otherwise I think there's a good chance that Flory
Speaker 3: does get that spot, and he is a good counter
Speaker 3: putch to Dickinson. Dickinson is a very much more finesse
Speaker 3: kind of player, which works. But Douga looks like he's
Speaker 3: gonna be much more of a heavy hitter down there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think he does have a very good
Speaker 3: chance to probably take those minutes if he does translate.
Speaker 1: Then where does that leave Zach Clements. Are we expecting
Speaker 1: Zach Clemens to just not even play unless it's mop
Speaker 1: up time this year?
Speaker 2: I mean probably hopefully, question Mark.
Speaker 1: Okay, so neither one of you have optimism. Self said
Speaker 1: Zach Lemens is the team's most improved player over the offseason.
Speaker 1: We know by now to take those quotes with the
Speaker 1: grain of salt, but.
Speaker 3: He's supposed to say Zach Clements sucks by a lot
Speaker 3: in comparison to right Yeahory fair point.
Speaker 1: But Zach Clemens I think is still this team's best
Speaker 1: bet to be a true stretch five. He's taller and
Speaker 1: heavier than Badounga is. We've seen the Tanner Groves is.
Speaker 1: We've seen those type of guys go out there against
Speaker 1: Kansas and prove capable of making a couple of threes,
Speaker 1: and Kansas is five man isn't able to match that
Speaker 1: on the defensive end, and it leads to bad things happening. Clemens,
Speaker 1: I think, is this team's best bet to Oh, the
Speaker 1: other center made two threes in the first ten minutes,
Speaker 1: Let's throw Clements out there to stick with him. But
Speaker 1: if you guys think Badonga can essentially do that, then
Speaker 1: I don't really know what Clements would do on this
Speaker 1: team besides hand out towels when people come to the sideline,
Speaker 1: Like there is a third big on a roster that
Speaker 1: has Hunter Dickinson. It if Badunga is anything like what
Speaker 1: we think he is, it's hard to see a role
Speaker 1: for Clemens. Is that is that?
Speaker 3: And I really think, I really think Clemens is maybe
Speaker 3: the fourth five because I think kJ might readily get
Speaker 3: or might be in line to get five minutes ahead
Speaker 3: of him as well.
Speaker 1: To be honest, and what you think they're actually gonna
Speaker 1: play kJ at the five?
Speaker 3: Like, are we are we going with that? I don't
Speaker 3: think that's gonna be a regularly applied lineup. I think
Speaker 3: he might get like a few minutes there occasionally if
Speaker 3: they're trying to change it up a little. But I
Speaker 3: think you're going to see almost exclusively Flory and Hunter
Speaker 3: in non con. Maybe maybe Clemens, but Cay's non CON's
Speaker 3: crazy this year. It's like it's easily their most stack
Speaker 3: non con I've ever seen, maybe against Furman and Brown Zach.
Speaker 3: Clemens will play ten minutes maybe more.
Speaker 1: Okay, see you say that we're gonna get to this,
Speaker 1: But I think the non cons schedule is overrated. Everybody's
Speaker 1: acting like it's so loaded. Maybe I just think they're
Speaker 1: going to be better than most of these teams. I
Speaker 1: think it's loaded with names. I don't know, Like last
Speaker 1: year they had a Maui tournament where three quarters of
Speaker 1: the teams in it were top ten teams. This year
Speaker 1: they're playing what one game against Duke and then Furman.
Speaker 1: That's their Thanksgiving week schedule this year. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like is the schedule. Actually that good. We'll get to that. Okay,
Speaker 1: Cam take for you. Bill self said he hopes to
Speaker 1: play Hunter to one in Caja less than thirty minutes
Speaker 1: a game this year. Now, my initial reaction was this, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious. Okay, so you're not buying that at all.
Speaker 2: No, not one bit. I mean, we've seen Bill soft
Speaker 2: coach for years now. He is one of the most
Speaker 2: stubborn individuals that has ever lived. He's going to play
Speaker 2: who he trusts, and I would stretching Big twelve, Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: coming down the stretch of Big twelve play, I'd be
Speaker 2: very surprised if he doesn't meet those minutes.
Speaker 1: So, okay, you start doing the minutes on these, and
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna do the prop bets in the
Speaker 1: next couple of shows, but you just start doing the
Speaker 1: math on this, and you say, Okay, Harris and Ricky's
Speaker 1: passmore are your ones as much as we'd like it
Speaker 1: to be, Zeke Mayo at times, maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1: And then you have the five that we think we
Speaker 1: have sorted through. The fore man is probably going Camas
Speaker 1: is looking through the roster, and there's about one hundred
Speaker 1: walk ons on here. We're learning names.
Speaker 2: Did you landon if I had said who is.
Speaker 1: Will thingvall about five minutes known that that's number fifteen
Speaker 1: for the Kansas men's basketball team.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that Josh Selby's?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Selby was? Uh? Was he was? He twenty three? No?
Speaker 1: I just want I just watched Selby's three against USC earlier,
Speaker 1: and I can't Maybe he was. I know Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: is fifteen, and I know Kevin mccullor was fifteen last year,
Speaker 1: so maybe maybe will thingfall will will No, No, I don't.
Speaker 3: Also think there why was he playing in the scrimmage?
Speaker 3: And where did he come from?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think all Or what his name is, will
Speaker 2: transfer to McNeese State in fire bomb Kansas from three
Speaker 2: and eight.
Speaker 1: And in two years time. Yeah, that's that's how it'll work.
Speaker 1: And there's also Shaquille Moore, who I guess is here
Speaker 1: to play point as well, and he's been in a
Speaker 1: boot for a few weeks, so they have plenty of
Speaker 1: point guards. They have the five men out of control,
Speaker 1: and then that leaves everybody else. Basically you have aj Store,
Speaker 1: who projects to get a huge percentage of minutes. It
Speaker 1: would be surprising if he did not start. You have
Speaker 1: Ryland Griffin who figures to get a great chunk of
Speaker 1: minutes off the bench. Do you think Mayo's gonna start?
Speaker 1: Jamari McDowell might just be buried on the bench. Al
Speaker 1: said there's a couple of walk on or not walk
Speaker 1: on red shirt candidates. Is Jamari McDowell the answer to
Speaker 1: who's the most likely on this team the red shirt?
Speaker 3: Which one?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 3: I was reading Justin Cross's.
Speaker 1: Bio, which, Okay, give me one highlight from Justin Crosses
Speaker 1: six ' eight. He's no slouch.
Speaker 3: He won the national title with UH something a logan
Speaker 3: uh junior college.
Speaker 1: It's a quick read. I mean they they have a
Speaker 1: lot of walk Ons. Tell me how many of these
Speaker 1: names you've heard of? Here are the walk Ons this year?
Speaker 1: Noah Shelby will Evers, Yeah, Noah, he's he's from Alabama
Speaker 1: and he's all the way here to play basketball Kansas.
Speaker 1: Maybe he knows Rylan Griffin. They're both And I don't
Speaker 1: think Ryland Griffins from Alabama. Think he's from High right
Speaker 1: in front of me. But Dylan will Hyde has been
Speaker 1: here for what feels like one hundred years, and every
Speaker 1: time he goes out there in late night. I'm like, Hey,
Speaker 1: that guy's tall, maybe he'll play and he never does.
Speaker 3: And No, Shelby played at Vanderbilt and Rice.
Speaker 1: Okay, so so if he's played at and I know
Speaker 1: Landon your takes on Vanderbilt are very well known at
Speaker 1: this point on this show. But if he's if he's
Speaker 1: at Vanderbilt, then he's he's not He's not will Thingvall.
Speaker 1: He's at least a a basketball player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a real player. I think Bill self called
Speaker 3: him the best pure shooter on the team.
Speaker 1: He did so, so who knows, maybe you'll maybe you'll
Speaker 1: see that happen. Actually, I don't know. I think the
Speaker 1: best red shirt candidate because Self said they have quote
Speaker 1: one or two candidates, so they usually have to decide
Speaker 1: on that before the season starts. I think the best
Speaker 1: candidate is probably, uh, it's probably McDowell. You look at
Speaker 1: all the other Shaquille Moore is a grad transfer, like
Speaker 1: like another one.
Speaker 3: That's not that's not happening.
Speaker 1: That's that's moving on. Uh. Who is the quarterback at
Speaker 1: Set's Stets and Bennett territory at this point? If he
Speaker 1: stays another year in college. But I don't know who
Speaker 1: else it would honestly be at this point unless you're
Speaker 1: gonna red shirt pass more, which please know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, McDowell feels pretty high on that list, then that
Speaker 3: that might be the guy.
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll see in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: As far as yeah, as far as the who's not
Speaker 1: a walk on or who is a walk on? He's
Speaker 1: not a scholarship.
Speaker 3: Player, oh well, fair enough.
Speaker 1: But whenever you look at his roster, I think they're great.
Speaker 1: I think this is the best roster Kansas has had
Speaker 1: since the two thousand and nine twenty ten team. I
Speaker 1: really do. I know, I'm I'm higher than I should
Speaker 1: be on a lot of Kansas teams. But it really
Speaker 1: does feel like that Bill self went out there and
Speaker 1: specifically targeted what he needed, and they asked him in
Speaker 1: the late night scrimmage, what can fans expect from this team?
Speaker 1: And he said, We're gonna be a lot better shooting
Speaker 1: the ball. That's music to everybody's ears, because that was
Speaker 1: their biggest weakness last year. They really only had one
Speaker 1: shooter and he wound up being a colossal disappointment. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna make the who are the three point shooters on
Speaker 1: this team? Who do you have the most confidence in.
Speaker 1: I think Ryland Griffin's pretty safe to be a good shooter.
Speaker 3: Quite look good, really good shooting.
Speaker 2: Three one and big twelve.
Speaker 1: Play and seven for eight against Furman and U n
Speaker 1: C Wilmington eight.
Speaker 2: Don't forget Brown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That that's the that's the right before
Speaker 1: Christmas sixty three to fifty five final, that's coming in
Speaker 1: front of a half full allen field House. Just the
Speaker 1: game to forget. Let's talk about the allen field House renovations.
Speaker 1: Nick had a lot of thoughts on these, and he's
Speaker 1: obviously not in the show anymore. So Cam, I'm counting
Speaker 1: on you to carry that torch about what exactly you
Speaker 1: thought of the forty nine million dollars that went into
Speaker 1: flog allen Fieldhouse this offseason.
Speaker 2: Well, the torch is burned out. I to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I don't fully understand. So basically, the upgraded.
Speaker 2: First of all, they got Wi Fi. Correct, That is
Speaker 2: huge the home.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for that for my whole life.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. The last time I was at allen
Speaker 2: Field House, I was so upset because they didn't have
Speaker 2: Wi Fi. They upgraded some of the concourses. But I
Speaker 2: don't understand why did they cut out seats and field
Speaker 2: House had not sixteen three hundred seats correct, So.
Speaker 1: I think it was because they wanted to didn't they
Speaker 1: want to expand the the bougie like chairback areas.
Speaker 2: I thought that was the reason, and the like, I
Speaker 2: just I just don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They also brought it down from the corners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They brought it down from the corners too, because they
Speaker 1: put a big TV and a couple of the corners
Speaker 1: and that took out a few seats. But who's like,
Speaker 1: I know it is gonna be yeah, exactly, Who's who's
Speaker 1: turning their head ninety degrees in that corner to see
Speaker 1: a replay? Because they also upgraded the new the video board.
Speaker 1: You may have said that the video board at center court,
Speaker 1: which is brand new for this year. I don't know, Landon,
Speaker 1: you've been there a couple of times. You're not a
Speaker 1: big heat guy. There is still no air conditioning, but
Speaker 1: they did do the HVAC system.
Speaker 3: Well that'll help at least a little bit. Yeah, that'd
Speaker 3: be nice. It seemed like the way Bill self was
Speaker 3: talking anyway on the broadcast that there was a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff that you will never see on TV, like
Speaker 3: the bathrooms and the con course and like some concession
Speaker 3: stands that are better as well.
Speaker 1: They added a lot of those. From what it sounds like,
Speaker 1: it sounds like that the second and third levels actually
Speaker 1: have concession like windows now instead of just dippin'dant carts,
Speaker 1: which that.
Speaker 3: Is nice to an extent. I guess, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, I I think that it's whenever you list all
Speaker 1: these things, I'm struggling to get to fifty million, So
Speaker 1: I guess h.
Speaker 3: The video board, I bet cost about twenty.
Speaker 1: And they, as Nick pointed out, they had these four
Speaker 1: like three dimensional jayhawks on the corners of the video
Speaker 1: board that looked terrible that they took down, so there's
Speaker 1: still it's still a work in progress. They also have
Speaker 1: brought back the circus fonds, which I know is a
Speaker 1: big thumbs up from Land and Cam. Are you pro
Speaker 1: circus funt? Absolutely yeah, I it it's an homage to
Speaker 1: the Roy Williams era. It's an image to the teams
Speaker 1: that I grew up watching, and I think it looks
Speaker 1: so much better h than what they had been running
Speaker 1: out there for the last handful of years, so Alan
Speaker 1: Fieldhouse renovations were thumbs up at least, or we're willing
Speaker 1: to be thumbs up. But I don't know how much
Speaker 1: of it, and it all depends on.
Speaker 3: Before I'm definitively one way or the other.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious if it feels different, if you can
Speaker 1: if you really feel those thousand seats not being there,
Speaker 1: maybe it's quiet, or maybe it feels weirder. I don't know,
Speaker 1: or I don't know if you won't notice. I know
Speaker 1: there were a lot of people who who's either lost
Speaker 1: their seats and were offered to buy other ones at
Speaker 1: a substantially inflated price, or just lost them with no
Speaker 1: offer altogether that are not happy. People were not pleased
Speaker 1: with some of the Travis Goff decisions, and he's a
Speaker 1: man that has not endured much criticism at all for
Speaker 1: anything he's done at Kansas, so I guess it remains
Speaker 1: to be seen. Kansas tagged preseason number one in the
Speaker 1: AP Poll for the fifth time Underbill self work at
Speaker 1: the pop part. They have not They have not made
Speaker 1: the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament in any of
Speaker 1: the other four years they were preseason one. Nothing, Cam,
Speaker 1: nothing can go wrong. Don't worry.
Speaker 2: I've been told that before by the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's completely normal.
Speaker 2: That Dwan Harris shot one three pointer in four games.
Speaker 1: It really ticks me off that they lost to Gonzaga.
Speaker 1: You understand how much that cost me, all the times
Speaker 1: that I.
Speaker 2: Talked about how much Gonzaga saw.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe that game actually changes anything about Gonzaga.
Speaker 3: Also, it does lost. They got crushed.
Speaker 1: I think they played well for a half.
Speaker 2: You could see it coming though. Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: Kansas made They shot out of their minds in the
Speaker 2: first half of that game to be up er. I
Speaker 2: don't even remember at this point, but in a possession
Speaker 2: game at halftime.
Speaker 3: One point game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I think the run was like thirty nine
Speaker 1: to eight or something. And I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: the amount of things that have to go wrong to
Speaker 1: be on the wrong end of a thirty nine to
Speaker 1: eight run in a basketball game.
Speaker 2: That seems like a great time for a lot of
Speaker 2: kJ Adams mid range jumpers.
Speaker 1: Well, if you watch the late night scrimmage, you got
Speaker 1: at least one more of those things. Let's talk about kJ, then,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about kJ because he's He's coming off
Speaker 1: of a season where he was maligned a little bit,
Speaker 1: but also had a really good statistical year as the
Speaker 1: starting four man. Last year, he goes out there and
Speaker 1: averages thirteen points a game and shoots sixty percent from
Speaker 1: the floor, which is one of the best marks in
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve, but may have led the Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: Also finished with less than five rebounds per game. You Cam,
Speaker 1: you should be the one that gets to talk about
Speaker 1: this is because everybody listening knows landon nice thoughts. Whether
Speaker 1: or not you agree with them is a different question.
Speaker 1: But my concern with kJ Adams is more of what
Speaker 1: he doesn't do for Hunter Dickinson than what he does
Speaker 1: do for himself. And I don't think that in today's
Speaker 1: day and age in college basketball, you are helping yourself
Speaker 1: if your four man can't shoot or rebound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is gonna be terrible radio guys,
Speaker 2: but I kind of agree it's tough. I actually like
Speaker 2: kJ Adams. I love the guy as a guy. It's
Speaker 2: hard to envision him in a lineup where he's functional
Speaker 2: because he cannot shoot threes. He's a threat from maybe
Speaker 2: fifteen feet and then from there it's just clogging up
Speaker 2: the lane with Hunter Dickinson. So this year I'll be
Speaker 2: really curious to see how Self uses him. Last year
Speaker 2: was frustrated to watch, I mean, he just it was
Speaker 2: such a terrible lineup to have him in there with
Speaker 2: Hunter Dickinson clogging up the lane and then everyone focuses
Speaker 2: on the Hunter. This year, they have perimeter scoring, so
Speaker 2: it should be a little bit different. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not entirely sure. I'm not sold on kJ. I would
Speaker 2: love to see Flory play more than him. I don't
Speaker 2: foresee that happening, but we will see landon.
Speaker 1: I want the starting five and I am not Bill Self.
Speaker 1: I do not have rings, I do not have wins.
Speaker 1: I just have a podcast. I want the starting five
Speaker 1: to be Dewan Harris, Zeke Mayo, Rylan Griffin, AJ Store
Speaker 1: at the four and Hunter Dickinson at the five. Is
Speaker 1: that the wrong take?
Speaker 3: Nope, Nope, that is the one correct take. I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree, that's what I want the starting lineup to be.
Speaker 3: And I totally agree with Cam. I like kJ Adams
Speaker 3: a lot as a dude. He seems like a very personable,
Speaker 3: nice guy. Obviously went through a tragic situation last season,
Speaker 3: losing his mom. Very easy to relate to a guy
Speaker 3: when he's going through something like that. Nothing against kJ.
Speaker 3: I love him. He is fun to watch. And the
Speaker 3: thing is, I don't think kJ Adams is a bad
Speaker 3: basketball player at all. That's not the take. The take
Speaker 3: is that he's very specifically not suited for the system
Speaker 3: that Kansas runs and not suited for the talent they
Speaker 3: have on the team, especially when Dewan Harris is very
Speaker 3: reluctant to shoot the basketball, and not when Hunter Dickinson
Speaker 3: also is going through like a historic dry spell shooting
Speaker 3: the basketball made it really really tough. It was easy
Speaker 3: to double team Hunter. All those things. I think kJ
Speaker 3: Adams is a very good basketball player. I just think, honestly,
Speaker 3: his ideal system is playing somewhere where he is the
Speaker 3: five at like a decent mid major. If he was that,
Speaker 3: I think he would be, like regardless, one of the
Speaker 3: better mid major players in the country.
Speaker 1: Well, and the take with kJ that we got so
Speaker 1: much last year when Kansas would lose a game and
Speaker 1: they would go three for eighteen shooting threes, and they
Speaker 1: would struggle to rebound outside of Hunter Dickinson, and the
Speaker 1: take would be well, kJ. That's not his fault. kJ
Speaker 1: would score fourteen points and have five rebounds. But on
Speaker 1: the other end, kJ doesn't do anything to help the
Speaker 1: guys who are struggling. Part of the reason they're three
Speaker 1: for eighteen is because kJ Adams does not give those
Speaker 1: three point shooters any additional space to work with because
Speaker 1: people know he's not a threat whenever he leaves the paint.
Speaker 1: There is no reason whatsoever to devote extra resources to
Speaker 1: stopping him when he's further out from the basket than
Speaker 1: a handful of feet. And he's also not a good
Speaker 1: free throw shooter. That's another problem. He does draw contact
Speaker 1: at a decent rate, but he's not a good free
Speaker 1: throw shooter. And we've seen more or less if I'm
Speaker 1: not a basketball coach. If I was a basketball coach,
Speaker 1: there's no chance I'm playing you more than twenty minutes
Speaker 1: a game. If you can't shoot free throws out a
Speaker 1: seventy plus percent clip, you're too much of a liability.
Speaker 1: At that point. Teams in this day and age are
Speaker 1: going to foul you more often than they're gonna give
Speaker 1: you open layups and make you beat them at the
Speaker 1: free throw line. I have questions about kJ doing three
Speaker 1: vital things that a foe man has to do. They
Speaker 1: either have to shoot threes, or they have to rebound,
Speaker 1: or they have to be a walking bucket that's capable
Speaker 1: of scoring at the free throw line. I don't know
Speaker 1: if kJ can do any of that. He may have
Speaker 1: enough talent around him where it won't hurt the team,
Speaker 1: it won't set them back. But do I think that
Speaker 1: I'll line up with an aj Store and a Ryland
Speaker 1: Griffin and a Zeke Mayo on the flour same time?
Speaker 1: Do I think that's a better for Hunter? Absolutely? I do,
Speaker 1: and be better for their ceiling quite possibly. But we
Speaker 1: saw guys like Kevin mccollor show up last year and
Speaker 1: become twice the player that they were before. Maybe kJ
Speaker 1: Adams has something in his bag for us here in
Speaker 1: year number four. What let's talk about the rest of
Speaker 1: the ap poland and tell me a little bit about that.
Speaker 1: And there's not there's not a whole lot of news
Speaker 1: at this point, but it's just like the main premise
Speaker 1: of this segment is, Wow, look how good the Big
Speaker 1: twelve is.
Speaker 3: Which is true after Kansas at one, Albama, Yukon at two,
Speaker 3: and three, but the Big Twelve does dominate the rest
Speaker 3: of the top ten. They have half the top ten.
Speaker 3: Houston's four, Iowa State five, so they have three of
Speaker 3: the top five. Baylor's eight in Arizona is ten. The
Speaker 3: Big twelve. They're the sec of basketball.
Speaker 1: Right, Arizona being a ten. That's also that's also how
Speaker 1: many years that Caleb Love has played college. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to watch him go six for thirty in a game
Speaker 1: at Allen Fieldhouse on c Your Day, because that's I
Speaker 1: People talk about Hunter Dickinson being in college a long time,
Speaker 1: and he has. We might have to refrain from from
Speaker 1: those jokes this year, from making fun of other players
Speaker 1: that have been in college a long time. I see,
Speaker 1: I see the notes that Cam is typing, and eventually,
Speaker 1: by the midway point in the year, these are just
Speaker 1: gonna start getting read out loud. Uh and and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're not wrong on that caleble of not particularly efficient,
Speaker 1: which which might impact other things.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the.
Speaker 1: Preseason can palm rankings because they're probably ask again because
Speaker 1: guess who's number one? With a wider gap between one
Speaker 1: and two than there is between two and twelve. This year,
Speaker 1: you'll never.
Speaker 2: Guess computer merchants.
Speaker 1: The Houston Cougars are just I you know what I said,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do this this year, not this year. We'll
Speaker 1: let the We'll let the results play. They kind of
Speaker 1: proved proved I t p wrong a little. Last year
Speaker 1: they were really good. I'm curious to see how they
Speaker 1: do this year. They lost the best player in the
Speaker 1: Big Twelve. We'll see if it's so easy for him.
Speaker 1: I predict they won't be as good.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: I kind of agree.
Speaker 1: And then Hunter Dickinson. Hunter Dickinson was named preseason Big
Speaker 1: twelve Player of the Year. Are you guys excited to
Speaker 1: cover his Naismith winning year?
Speaker 3: Whatever that happens.
Speaker 2: I'm very cautiously optimistic.
Speaker 1: What's the floor with Hunter this year?
Speaker 2: A foot injury where he doesn't play much?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like eighteen to nine probably.
Speaker 1: So he's he's if he stays healthy, he's winning Big
Speaker 1: twelve Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: Am I wrong for being semi concerned about him having
Speaker 2: a foot injury? Where Bill self goes, Oh, it's not
Speaker 2: that big of a deal.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not worried about Jalen daniel back injury at all, So.
Speaker 1: Not this one. KYU football has returned to being a
Speaker 1: sad place, so we will not talk about them until
Speaker 1: Kansas loses.
Speaker 3: Their blowout win of Houston. And it was fun.
Speaker 1: Oh you were at Arrowhead.
Speaker 2: I was Jeff grimeson howd to go?
Speaker 1: They almost yeah, they they went from up fourteen to
Speaker 1: only up twenty one to only up fourteen with Houston driving,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, oh, no, here comes the big
Speaker 1: granddaddy of them all.
Speaker 2: But then they did it.
Speaker 3: I was also thinking that they did it. Arrowhead was
Speaker 3: like forty percent full maybe maybe, yeah, I'm probably more
Speaker 3: like it really was like thirty.
Speaker 2: How much would you pay right now that point to
Speaker 2: go watch a Kansas football game? Like, if the ticket
Speaker 2: pricing were up to you, what would you put down
Speaker 2: to go watch them lose by twenty five to Kansas State.
Speaker 1: I think you just answered your own question there, Like
Speaker 1: if if it's a matchup that arrow had such a
Speaker 1: pain in the ass to get in and out of two, like,
Speaker 1: that's that's a whole new level of not as much
Speaker 1: to go watch it. Yeah, I guess that's then it's
Speaker 1: probably just kind of like a Royals game at that point.
Speaker 1: If there's thirty people in the stands. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: because they put they have to give me a reason
Speaker 1: to go watch.
Speaker 3: I'd pay like fifteen bucks to see.
Speaker 2: Him lose a k State I might ask them to
Speaker 2: pay me five dollars to sit in one of the seats.
Speaker 1: At Bill Snyder Family Stadium. No, I've been at That's
Speaker 1: that's not happening. I run out of the arena.
Speaker 3: Invited by my roommate to join him and his girlfriend.
Speaker 3: They went to k State. They are thinking about going
Speaker 3: to Manhattan just to watch, not to actually tend the game.
Speaker 3: It's just like hang out in Aggieville, I assume and watch.
Speaker 3: Should I do that? Should I join them?
Speaker 1: I think you should in a Kansas shirt.
Speaker 3: I would probably wear a neutral shirt.
Speaker 1: Okay, if I would legitimately fear for your safety if
Speaker 1: you wore a Kansas shirt in Agieville on the day
Speaker 1: of a k UK State game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Aggieville's fun. Man Manhattan's a fun college town. It's better
Speaker 1: than than most of the other new By college towns.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the two or three best
Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve. But I don't think that game
Speaker 1: is going to go very well for Kansas.
Speaker 3: I agree. I don't think it will, But Kansas, to
Speaker 3: be fair, is a slightly better than two and five.
Speaker 3: That doesn't mean much.
Speaker 1: And Cam, you you are a Michigan guy, so you've
Speaker 1: grown up rooting for the Detroit Lions your whole life.
Speaker 1: Who before last season that in Kansas football shared several
Speaker 1: arteries of that of that same blanket, right like that
Speaker 1: that was a thing.
Speaker 2: No, I have a video in my iclub library and
Speaker 2: me throwing away at Kansas football Helmet's Circle David Beaty era.
Speaker 2: But no, it's been a tough childhood and a tough adulthood.
Speaker 2: But here we are at two and five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the two and five and a year that began
Speaker 1: with playoff aspirations, and the Lions look phenomenal. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of are they going to look into the
Speaker 1: Chiefs in the Super Bowl by ten or thirteen?
Speaker 2: Are the Lions destined to blow a halftime lead to
Speaker 2: the Chiefs in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're far and away the best team in the NFC.
Speaker 2: I'm already not even close.
Speaker 1: And there's absolutely gonna be a shady rough call in
Speaker 1: there too that aids it. I'm on ros Saint Brown's
Speaker 1: gonna get tackled on third and ten and they're not
Speaker 1: going to throw the pass interference flag. That's absolutely happening.
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell's going to go on a fake punt from
Speaker 2: his own twenty five in the fourth quarter and it'll
Speaker 2: probably cost them the game, and then it'll turn into
Speaker 2: a riot because there will be a suspect pass interference call,
Speaker 2: and then I'll be really sad. So I've seen it.
Speaker 1: Before, and then Dan Campbell's wife is going to go
Speaker 1: on Twitter and be like, Wow, the lousy ass fans
Speaker 1: aren't showing up. What the heck? Oh wait, nope, wrong
Speaker 1: program forgot about that one. So Hunter Dickinson's going to
Speaker 1: win the Nate Smith. I've said it at the beginning.
Speaker 1: I said it the day that he's going to come back.
Speaker 1: Hunter Dickinson is going to win the n A Smith.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if he'll actually be college basketball's
Speaker 1: best player, but I absolutely think he will post college
Speaker 1: basketball's best statistics. This feels like a twenty one points
Speaker 1: and thirteen rebounds average kind of year for him, where
Speaker 1: he just pummels the underwhelming early season opponents and he's
Speaker 1: the best player on the best team and the best conference.
Speaker 1: I think he wins the Nasmith. I think that he's
Speaker 1: the at least if you're It's hard to predict who
Speaker 1: wins the Nasmith. There's there's literally tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: possibilities out there to just choose one. But if you
Speaker 1: had to put money on one person to do it,
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a smarter, more likely bet
Speaker 1: than Hunter Dickinson right now.
Speaker 3: I mean, a fourteenth year senior who has averaged like
Speaker 3: eighteen and ten all but his freshman year does make
Speaker 3: a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Rmando Bacos. Still, I mean, who are the other bets? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know?
Speaker 3: I mean my college basketball research.
Speaker 1: Yet Cooper flags the biggot? Oh no, but our J
Speaker 1: Davis is So that's cool.
Speaker 3: He's up there.
Speaker 1: Who's the stud from Alabama?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Mark Sears. He's the guy who averaged like twenty points
Speaker 1: last year and he's back. Caleb Love is a preseason
Speaker 1: First team All America.
Speaker 3: Okay, you have a minimum shooting percentage of forty be on.
Speaker 1: That Ryan Cockburner And then we've been worried about Ryan
Speaker 1: Cockburner hurting Knas for one hundred years and he actually
Speaker 1: will this time?
Speaker 3: Does does Purdue have anybody what did you say, Landon?
Speaker 3: Does Purdue have anyone returning that could be good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Perdue's got that. That white guy that made a
Speaker 1: bunch of threes last year?
Speaker 2: Was it Braiden Smith? Is that his name or is
Speaker 2: it the other guy? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It is Braden Smith.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Then I'm just and here's a list of everybody else
Speaker 1: who got votes. Yeah, here's a bunch of I guess
Speaker 1: Alex Caravan's a good call to to blow up into
Speaker 1: a lottery pick.
Speaker 3: I think he is so.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well then there I see. I kind of think
Speaker 1: this is the year Yukon falls flat. But we'll, I
Speaker 1: guess we'll talk about that. And one other piece of
Speaker 1: news that I want to talk about. Ben died. He
Speaker 1: died this week. Do you believe it?
Speaker 2: What was the Vegas.
Speaker 1: Line on that a lot of people have died before,
Speaker 1: Sister geens surceas approximately. So Tony Bennett retires two weeks
Speaker 1: before the season started, and I'll you know what, fine,
Speaker 1: I'm not scared. I'll throw a little bit of a dart.
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, oh, Tony Bennett was such a good man.
Speaker 1: He's so good for college basketball. If you retire you
Speaker 1: know he and he claimed, Oh, the current condition of
Speaker 1: the game just is too much for me to continue. Well, Tony,
Speaker 1: it sure wasn't an option a big enough obstacle when
Speaker 1: you signed a damn contract extension three months ago, Like
Speaker 1: you telling me that it just recently became too much
Speaker 1: of a barrier that you're doing the noble thing to
Speaker 1: get out of the way. It's obvious what happened. This
Speaker 1: is the one way that a college basketball coach can
Speaker 1: for sure choose his replacement. They're not gonna go hire
Speaker 1: an outsider two weeks before the season started. How is
Speaker 1: it not being talked about more that this is just
Speaker 1: blatantly quitting on your team after their late night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is kind of wild. Like, the only way
Speaker 3: this is okay is if this was like super okayed
Speaker 3: by the organization and team wag in advance and for
Speaker 3: whatever reason, they just announced it two weeks before the season.
Speaker 3: Otherwise it is insane.
Speaker 1: But I'm totally fine watching watching Tony Bennett, watching his
Speaker 1: grip on the worst basketball program that God has spawned
Speaker 1: finally be lifted. Hopefully that means Virginia will not be
Speaker 1: a cesspool. Remember when they scored one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: points in three or in like two and a half games.
Speaker 3: That sounds right. Remember when they allowed May just for
Speaker 3: twenty six points.
Speaker 1: And they still beat them and they only beat them
Speaker 1: by twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they did not hit fifty.
Speaker 1: That's what Tony is what James N.
Speaker 3: Smith had in mind, folks. That's the beautiful game he
Speaker 3: invented forty six twenty six against Maine.
Speaker 1: Honestly, that probably was pretty good offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was probably gonna out for game twelve.
Speaker 1: Okay, every time somebody scored, James Nasmith's wife Sun dress
Speaker 1: and get the ball to the beach basket so they
Speaker 1: can resume the game. So but I assuming right exactly.
Speaker 2: We need to go back.
Speaker 3: Freshman would have been old enough at the time the
Speaker 3: drinking age was lower.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, sir about freshman, Unfortunately we know that that
Speaker 1: rule because it's hanging on the south wall of Allen
Speaker 1: Fieldhouse claims that freshman cannot play in college basketball games.
Speaker 1: That's why Bill self has followed that rule to a science,
Speaker 1: because it's hanging in the building in which he offices
Speaker 1: Free Floury. I'm gonna get that first.
Speaker 3: Get the Bill self that tanked Billy Preston's career. It
Speaker 3: all makes sense now he's the one that wrecked his car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and get on that note. Okay, So now we
Speaker 1: get to preview the number one team in the polls
Speaker 1: at least to start the season. We're gonna preview their season.
Speaker 1: We have a full schedule out, really not going to
Speaker 1: get too caught up on the game in and game
Speaker 1: out predictions, but we'll go through the Big twelve and
Speaker 1: do all that make predictions. And then in the next show,
Speaker 1: which will take place after the exhibition games, we are
Speaker 1: going to do our forty prop bets. So you guys
Speaker 1: have a little bit more time to think about that.
Speaker 1: But let's open with the schedule in which you two
Speaker 1: have both claimed that the non con schedule is very,
Speaker 1: very tough. It is tough. I'm not saying it's not,
Speaker 1: But I don't see the murderer's row of games that
Speaker 1: you guys do landon. Whenever you say this is such
Speaker 1: a gauntlet of a non con schedule, where are you
Speaker 1: getting this exactly?
Speaker 3: Well, Okay, so here's the real thing. I'm not as
Speaker 3: educated on my preseason college basketball knowledge this particular season.
Speaker 3: I think I've said that for about three years in
Speaker 3: a row. Point it remains true. North Carolina probably still
Speaker 3: gonna be good.
Speaker 2: R J.
Speaker 3: Davis is probably going to be in the national Player
Speaker 3: of the Year conversation by the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Michigan State, to be fair, always starts slow, is what
Speaker 3: it is. Duke has an insane number one recruit, Cooper Flag.
Speaker 3: I think he's the real deal. That is a very
Speaker 3: tough game, too, Fair Duke on a neutral court is winnable.
Speaker 3: At Creighton that will be tough, at Missouri probably will
Speaker 3: be tough. And NC State is okay to be fair. Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe last year was a little tougher, who knows. I
Speaker 3: do think playing North Carolina, Michigan State, Duke at Creighton,
Speaker 3: at MISSOO, and NC State all Land to being a
Speaker 3: pretty difficult schedule. UNC Wilmington and Oakland also teams that
Speaker 3: make noise in the tournament pretty often, so I don't
Speaker 3: think those are cakewalks either, though they definitely should be wins. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think I think there is a lot of tough
Speaker 3: games here. I think a lot of games that will
Speaker 3: be difficult, a lot of big names, which is what
Speaker 3: you said earlier, and maybe it is just names canceled
Speaker 3: lead all these teams by ten plus. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll get Kamala Harris's alma mater on election night.
Speaker 3: Make that two losses for Wolf. We'll see, we'll see
Speaker 3: a prediction.
Speaker 1: Oh boy boy. But okay, So this schedule, and one
Speaker 1: thing to keep in mind is they're playing twenty Big
Speaker 1: twelve games now, so instead of thirteen non con games,
Speaker 1: it's now eleven. So whenever you start doing the math
Speaker 1: on this, and you want to have at least a
Speaker 1: handful of by games, b U y not the Open Day,
Speaker 1: but like the teams you're paying to come in to
Speaker 1: lose by a lot, and then you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: couple of market games, you have a Champions Classic, and
Speaker 1: that doesn't leave very much. Like I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to do the three games Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: week tournament nearly as easily as they used to now
Speaker 1: because there's just less real estate to work with when
Speaker 1: it comes to the non conference schedule. But oh, you
Speaker 1: guys are looking at the schedule, where's their first loss?
Speaker 1: If you had to throw a dart.
Speaker 3: Cam, what do you think at Creed? Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 3: the instinct for sure, maybe Duke Neutral.
Speaker 2: I don't know for sure if they'll lose that, but
Speaker 2: I just I don't see them losing at home against
Speaker 2: North Carolina when Hubert Davis is using the etch A
Speaker 2: sketch to draw plays on the sideline. They've got Michigan State,
Speaker 2: Michigan State. Don't get me started on Michigan State. They
Speaker 2: will suck in November and then Oakland won't be good
Speaker 2: this year. They lost by like fifty to Michigan in
Speaker 2: the scrimmage yesterday, so I think first loss, probably if
Speaker 2: there is one in non con, is going to be
Speaker 2: at Creighton.
Speaker 1: I don't think Kansas loses until they play Iowa State
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday night in January. I think this is
Speaker 1: the year that they go through the non conference late undefeated.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, you just go through this game by game.
Speaker 1: They beat Howard North Carolina. It's at home, so you're
Speaker 1: not picking them to lose. They could, but you're not
Speaker 1: gonna ever just pencil in a prediction at home, and
Speaker 1: I think they're better than North Carolina. Should be one
Speaker 1: of the best games atmosphere wise that building has had.
Speaker 1: Michigan State's the only one of the champions classic teams.
Speaker 1: It's not ranked Surprise, surprise, can't believe they're still in
Speaker 1: this event. But what you said cam like they usually
Speaker 1: struggle out of the gates in November. They haven't been
Speaker 1: very good in this event, and there's there's no reason
Speaker 1: to think Kansas is a five to six point favorite there.
Speaker 1: Oakland and UNC Wilmington should be wins. Duke on a
Speaker 1: neutral floor is tough, but Duke's a lot younger than
Speaker 1: Kansas is, and it's not as if that matchup is
Speaker 1: later in the season. I think you're a little bit
Speaker 1: more more worried about it. Kansas is the preseason number
Speaker 1: one team. They should be a favorite in that game.
Speaker 1: Furman is a win at Creighton at Missouri. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: one of those two. Because Creighton projects to be a
Speaker 1: top twenty team their best players of center, so that
Speaker 1: hopefully gets neutralized by Dickinson. But Missouri we eventually they're
Speaker 1: gonna play a real close game. They none of the
Speaker 1: first three games of this series have been close. Eventually,
Speaker 1: they're gonna play a tough game against a rival that's
Speaker 1: going to have their fangs out in their building to
Speaker 1: beat them. Maybe it's that one. Am I crazy? That
Speaker 1: Missouri is honestly like the third most likely loss on
Speaker 1: this schedule.
Speaker 3: Because on the road, not necessarily.
Speaker 1: And then North Carolina States to final four team from
Speaker 1: a year ago, but it's at home. You should win that.
Speaker 1: Then they get Brown, and then they start with the
Speaker 1: pretty soft Big Twelve stretch. They start with West Virginia,
Speaker 1: Central Florida, Arizona State at Cincinnati. That's kind of tough,
Speaker 1: like those should all be wins.
Speaker 3: Hey, I was looking at recruiting for a future question.
Speaker 3: Arizona State has two blue chip freshmen.
Speaker 1: Sweet okay, so that and that's considered one of the
Speaker 1: easy games in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, they have a five star, they have a
Speaker 3: five star, top ten recruit.
Speaker 1: On the well in Cincinnati is a top twenty five roster.
Speaker 1: Iowa State is loaded, and uh yeah this this this
Speaker 1: is a pretty tough.
Speaker 3: Also, I found the white guy of all white guys.
Speaker 3: We'll get there, but I have all right.
Speaker 1: Let's get I'm excited to hear about this. He plays
Speaker 1: for Arizona State. That's not what I would have anticipated.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, this guy plays for b White.
Speaker 1: Oh oh well, you know I could have could have
Speaker 1: absolutely bet that the the not just of the game,
Speaker 1: but of the year place for byu who Kansas has
Speaker 1: to go to probo this year? They don't get to
Speaker 1: deal with them at Allen Fieldhouse. Maybe that'll help.
Speaker 2: Do you still have Whiz Khalifa or wherever whatever the
Speaker 2: guy was last year? Well? Who who?
Speaker 1: And on that note, who was the late night performer
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 2: Little John?
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: It was supposed to be Nelly, but he beat up
Speaker 2: a woman allegedly.
Speaker 1: That's that's enough for Travis Goff. So Little John comes
Speaker 1: in there and uh, it's yeah, it wasn't. I remember
Speaker 1: thinking I know who Nelly is and then they didn't
Speaker 1: even didn't even wind up playing Ryan.
Speaker 2: Can you name one Little John song?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I cannot name any rap songs?
Speaker 3: Oh man, it's turned down for what Little John?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you win, turned down for what is Little John?
Speaker 2: It is Little John.
Speaker 3: Let the record reflect that I just defeated Ryan and
Speaker 3: pick him.
Speaker 2: Well wait until you find out about the punishment for
Speaker 2: Pickham this year, folks. Yeah, that's that's that's in the works.
Speaker 1: But we're we're I just have to get three signatures
Speaker 1: on that, and I'm still waiting on the other two.
Speaker 1: Oh so Okay, November Howard, North Carolina, Michigan State, Oakland, UNC, Wilmington, Duke,
Speaker 1: and Furman. What's their record through seven games?
Speaker 2: I probably will say seven and oh yeah, I'll go
Speaker 2: seven and oh okay, So really I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: handle Michigan State.
Speaker 1: You're you're saying that they beat you, NC and Duke.
Speaker 1: Those are the two that that really have you like, maybe,
Speaker 1: all right, well I'll go seven and oh then December
Speaker 1: at Creyton, at Missouri, North Carolina State, Brown and West Virginia.
Speaker 1: You guys each gonna say they lose one.
Speaker 3: I think it will be one. But I am very
Speaker 3: specifically betting that Creighton game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of with you there. I think it's Creighton.
Speaker 2: I'd be very sad if they lost in Missouri, but
Speaker 2: I could see that game.
Speaker 1: Likely Creighton KU is gonna have a lot of fans
Speaker 1: in that Omaha game, Like a lot of fans are
Speaker 1: gonna be there, So well, we'll see, but definitely tough game.
Speaker 1: Preseason Top twenty team January at Central Florida, Arizona State
Speaker 1: at home, at Cincy at Iowa State, Case State at home.
Speaker 1: I'll just do them in spurts there's five. I say
Speaker 1: there's one loss in there, and that has them at
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I don't have to do math on this one.
Speaker 1: That's five and one and big twelve play. I agree, okay,
Speaker 1: And this is like the schedule I think is tougher
Speaker 1: in February than it is January. Much like we knew
Speaker 1: last year. If Kansas wants to win this conference, which
Speaker 1: I know that doesn't have the luster that it did
Speaker 1: whenever the streak was going on, But if they want
Speaker 1: to win the conference, they're gonna need a strong January
Speaker 1: because February is tough. Last year, they started like five
Speaker 1: and three or something like that, and we knew that
Speaker 1: they were set up for a really tough ending, and
Speaker 1: look how that ended up. They finished in sixth place.
Speaker 1: Next five games at TCU Houston at home, Central Florida
Speaker 1: at home, Baylor on the road, and Iowa State at home.
Speaker 1: I will say there's one loss in there. They are
Speaker 1: eight and two through ten conference games.
Speaker 3: Agree.
Speaker 2: Agree, I think they lose at Baylor.
Speaker 1: They haven't won in Wacos definitely. They haven't won in
Speaker 1: Waco since before COVID was a thing, Like it has
Speaker 1: been a long time. It was the dope game. That
Speaker 1: was the last time that they won in Waco.
Speaker 2: I think that was the last time I was happy.
Speaker 2: You just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1: The next five games at k State, Colorado, at Utah
Speaker 1: at BYU Yay, road trip to the Beehive State, and
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State.
Speaker 2: Two yeah, two els yeah, I'll say there.
Speaker 1: I'll say that there's one in there. And in the
Speaker 1: end the year at Colorado, Texas Tech, at Houston, and Arizona.
Speaker 1: I think there's three conference losses. I think they go
Speaker 1: fifteen and three, and I think they enter the Big
Speaker 1: Twelve tournament at twenty eight and three to the one.
Speaker 3: I'm going fourteen and four, fourteen and four as well.
Speaker 1: Fourteen and four wins the league out right, right, we agree.
Speaker 1: I think that should get it done.
Speaker 3: I think it should.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really think that this team is the best
Speaker 1: team in the Big twelve. But I definitely could could understand, like,
Speaker 1: if the best team in the Big twelve has five losses,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be super surprising. Ah, so we're wrong.
Speaker 1: They're twenty games not fit, So fifteen and three and
Speaker 1: fourteen and four is not possible. Sixteen and seventeen.
Speaker 3: And three, sixteen and four, sixteen and four, seventeen.
Speaker 1: And three feels really really hard.
Speaker 3: Guys, I just predicted Kansas to go twenty six and five.
Speaker 3: I've learned nothing from doing this show.
Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing. No, you haven't. I'm gonna say they go
Speaker 1: sixteen and four in conference play. Now, seeing that it's
Speaker 1: twenty games, that's that's too many.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seventeen and three is a lot. Sixteen and four
Speaker 3: doesn't feel quite right either, to be honest.
Speaker 1: Okay, then say fifteen and five.
Speaker 3: You know what I will twenty five and six. I've
Speaker 3: learned my lesson, Say.
Speaker 2: Cam, I'll join you there. Twenty five and six are
Speaker 2: gonna have one or two really dumb losses in the
Speaker 2: regular season.
Speaker 1: For the record, twenty five and six entering the Big
Speaker 1: Twelve Tournament should absolutely be one of the three best
Speaker 1: teams in college basketball, and that should put them in
Speaker 1: a Just don't pee on your leg in Kansas City
Speaker 1: and you'll be a one seed.
Speaker 3: But there is that one thing they love to do
Speaker 3: down their leg.
Speaker 1: And that is play six guys in front of like
Speaker 1: three thousand people and lose to Cincinnati by twenty points.
Speaker 3: That's correct, That's one of the most depressing games I've
Speaker 3: ever seen.
Speaker 1: That is horrible. I have, and I pay and I
Speaker 1: picked Kansas to win that game and Landon you still
Speaker 1: couldn't win pick them this year?
Speaker 3: That is true. That's really astonishing stuff.
Speaker 1: That's so such a such an awful year last year.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get right into the Big twelve Awards
Speaker 1: and uh and yeah, okay, first, I see the I
Speaker 1: see the the loss and round of thirty two comment,
Speaker 1: how does it end for Kansas this year? I will
Speaker 1: say a Final four appearance. Ha ha cue the clown music.
Speaker 2: Do I have it?
Speaker 1: I do have it? They go to the final four.
Speaker 2: I don't even care thirty five wins.
Speaker 3: Plus say Elite eight or better Elite eight minimum.
Speaker 2: It's like hedging your bet too much. I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: final four.
Speaker 1: They are one of the four best teams in the country.
Speaker 1: If they can't get to a final four, and I
Speaker 1: understand that you really can't predict how tournament success is
Speaker 1: gonna work, but like, if they can't get there, I'm
Speaker 1: having a hard time finding four teams that I trust
Speaker 1: more at this stage. Yeah, so, and anyway, don't worry.
Speaker 1: Plenty of times that'll come up this year. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk to Big twelve. Who is the player of
Speaker 1: the year in the Big Twelve. You know who my
Speaker 1: pick is because he's also winning an Asmith.
Speaker 3: Hunter Dickinson easy.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you mean that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you actually think that he wins
Speaker 1: it easily, because I do.
Speaker 3: Well, I do you think he's my pick? He's my legitimy.
Speaker 1: I don't think there is a single moment this year
Speaker 1: where he is not the definite winner for Big twelve
Speaker 1: Player of the Year.
Speaker 3: Unless Cam's foot injury thing happens.
Speaker 2: That is possible. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say Tame
Speaker 2: and Lipsey for no other reason than to be different
Speaker 2: from you guys. Okay, so you're a you're you're a
Speaker 2: believer in Iowa State this year, I'm really not. I
Speaker 2: just want to make good radio.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like it. I can. I can respect that
Speaker 1: because not getting these right means nothing. Like It's not
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna fact check these freshman of the year
Speaker 1: in the conference. Every year it feels like it goes
Speaker 1: to a Baylor player. Isn't VJ like Epscomb or something
Speaker 1: like that. What's that dude's name, Edgecomb? Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: their top five recruit that coming in. He will that
Speaker 1: that's that seems like the safe pick, narrowly beating or ooh, to.
Speaker 3: Be different, may I offer you five star combo guard
Speaker 3: six eight a beam pole if you will, out of
Speaker 3: Mother Russia. Not joking, he is Russian.
Speaker 1: Igor Demean of Arizona State of by Oh no, oh no, well,
Speaker 1: Igor is coming for and the Kansas game is late
Speaker 1: in the year, so that's gonna be the five for
Speaker 1: five from three. He needs to seal his campaign. Gosh,
Speaker 1: all right, does that? Does Flori? But Dooga have any
Speaker 1: chance to come ten for this award at all?
Speaker 2: Probably not based off.
Speaker 3: There's actually a lot of Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: good recruits in the Big twelve. Actually, Arizona State legit
Speaker 3: does have like two they have one guy who's top
Speaker 3: five and they have one guy that is not far
Speaker 3: from that. Or they have top nine. Jayden Acquaintance is
Speaker 3: ninth for Arizona State. They have another guy that's like
Speaker 3: twenty fourth, which is kind of wild. There's several very
Speaker 3: good BEG twelve recruits.
Speaker 1: Boy, whenever we picked the Big twelve in order like this,
Speaker 1: this made more sense when there were ten teams. There's
Speaker 1: too many teams. This is this is, this is too
Speaker 1: much at this point. Give me a pick for coach
Speaker 1: of the year. I will say, here, here comes the
Speaker 1: this is not gonna be very popular and these airwaves.
Speaker 1: I will say Jerome Tang pilots Kansas State to a
Speaker 1: top four finish in the Big Twelve and wins Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year.
Speaker 3: I have to google all the Big Twelve coaches just
Speaker 3: to see what I'm dealing with there.
Speaker 1: Don't say Rodney Terry.
Speaker 3: Not him. I'll go with Jerome as well.
Speaker 2: I'm boring.
Speaker 1: I think Kansas State's really good. I think they're the
Speaker 1: most slept on team in this conference.
Speaker 3: Right now, give me a Bobby Hurley. Really, I'll say
Speaker 3: Arizona State and their high recruits do a little something.
Speaker 1: That's preseason twelve. Arizona State finishes sixth, then gets a
Speaker 1: five seed, and that's enough for the voters to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bill self managed to go twenty to zero. But we'll
Speaker 1: give it to that guy because he beat his projections.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 1: Who is the most improved player? That's always a hard one.
Speaker 1: We don't really even know who's in this freaking league.
Speaker 1: At this point, I will very hard with you.
Speaker 3: It's potentially possible we should have done research.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's but I will say it's coach Prime
Speaker 1: of Colorado in his first year in the Big twelve.
Speaker 3: I'm doing a quick google. I want Oh, that's not
Speaker 3: super helpful.
Speaker 2: Who is Jeff Grimes? Oh?
Speaker 1: I know this one one second? Cam, Sorry, that's one strike. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's have your next your next person and your family
Speaker 1: give an answer.
Speaker 2: Who is Lanceliol.
Speaker 1: No, but I'll give you one more guest. Who has
Speaker 1: been the worst part of KU football this year?
Speaker 2: Is Jeff Long? And the applicable answer.
Speaker 1: Ass ass ass Landon. Did you did you find a
Speaker 1: most improved candidate? No, okay, we're just gonna skip that one.
Speaker 1: Most surprising team? This is a good one. I will say.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple my hot I have two
Speaker 1: hot takes here. Number one is Kansas State wins more
Speaker 1: games than Iowa State, and number two Oklahoma State makes
Speaker 1: it at large.
Speaker 3: I like those. I really like the k State pick.
Speaker 3: I think Case State could be genuinely really good this year.
Speaker 3: I'll keep the Arizona State theme going. Based off two
Speaker 3: recruits I saw, I think maybe Arizona State could make
Speaker 3: a little noise, go from no expectations to hey, sixth
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 1: Arizona State. Arizona State is also one of two Power
Speaker 1: League teams that Kansas has played multiple times in basketball
Speaker 1: and has never beaten. Can you name the other one
Speaker 1: our league? They lost to them in a tournament game
Speaker 1: that landed and Nick and I cried about not actually
Speaker 1: we yelled about.
Speaker 2: It's not Oregon, is it?
Speaker 1: Nope? But you're close right around the same time period there.
Speaker 2: San Diego State, Nope, Washington.
Speaker 1: They didn't lose to Washington to the tournament game. It's
Speaker 1: SEC team that beat them in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I didn't think this would take you this long, Land,
Speaker 1: and you're supposed to be in encyclopedia.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna talk, no, it is.
Speaker 3: It is in my old age.
Speaker 1: It is Auburn. Auburn and Arizona State are the only
Speaker 1: two teams that Kansas has played multiple times and has
Speaker 1: never defeated. It might be in the Bill celf Era
Speaker 1: I never defeated. I don't know, but I remember seeing
Speaker 1: that stat at one point. Maybe this is the year
Speaker 1: they beat the Sun Devils. I don't know who is
Speaker 1: the most disappointing team presented by Texas Award. I will
Speaker 1: say the most disappointing team in this conference for me
Speaker 1: is going to be Arizona. I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to adjust nearly as well to this league as people think.
Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna lose seven, eight to nine
Speaker 1: league games when some people are maybe that maybe that's
Speaker 1: not enough. I could see them going like eleven and
Speaker 1: nine and having teams like k State, BYU and Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State all finished better than them. I think teams like
Speaker 1: West Virginia and Oklahoma State, I think both of those
Speaker 1: teams win more games than Arizona this year. How about
Speaker 1: that for a hot take?
Speaker 3: Let me learn nothing from my co host Ryan Landreth,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna say Houston.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to the dark side.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Baylor.
Speaker 1: I mean those are It's gonna be one of those
Speaker 1: three for sure. We just picked the second, fourth, and
Speaker 1: fifth teams in the Big Twelve. I've learned to pick
Speaker 1: not pick Iowa State here because they have a good
Speaker 1: home court advantage. They'll win games there, two, four, and five.
Speaker 1: One of them's gonna disappoint like that's just going to happen.
Speaker 1: So I think we're on the right track. Who is
Speaker 1: the Tanner Groves White Guy of the Year award? And
Speaker 1: why is it the guy that land and said from Russia?
Speaker 1: Gonna go with him?
Speaker 3: Feels feels like who's really research would have been important.
Speaker 3: It's almost like knowing what you're talking about is good
Speaker 3: for talking about this.
Speaker 1: Also, who's the West Virginia guy that they landed, the
Speaker 1: dude's son, the coach's son. Is it Tucker DeVry? Is
Speaker 1: that his name?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's that guy.
Speaker 1: That's the white Guy of the year right there. And
Speaker 1: somebody on Kansas State looks like Will Spradling and might
Speaker 1: be named Will Spradling will make four threes at Brambleche
Speaker 1: when Kansas comes to town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it checks out.
Speaker 3: Both great answers.
Speaker 1: Who is specifically for Kansas the Nick Timberlake Bust of
Speaker 1: the Year Award? Give me a Kansas player that will
Speaker 1: disappoint relative to their expectations, go for Landon. I like
Speaker 1: how there was no obvious answer.
Speaker 3: I mean, there isn't an obvious one. Nick Timberlake wasn't
Speaker 3: obvious at.
Speaker 1: The time, right, I'm not gonna say it's a shooter.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Dewan Harris if I think it's the
Speaker 1: one Harris, I think that. I think people wait for
Speaker 1: him to take that step and it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: But the team around him so good that it might
Speaker 1: not matter.
Speaker 2: If we're going off history, it's probably David Quit and
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that, but he's coming from
Speaker 2: a team that absolutely was insert as drop years.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can do that. I'm good at that.
Speaker 2: Ass, thank you. That was terrible at Northern Illinois. So
Speaker 2: that'd be my pick. I hope not, but that'd be
Speaker 2: my guess.
Speaker 3: I think I think that is the pick, right, I
Speaker 3: think that might who it has to be Shaquille Moore,
Speaker 3: but even gonna play enough to matter and.
Speaker 1: That, right, Yeah, it's got to be somebody with expectations
Speaker 1: and and I don't know if Shaquille Moore has that
Speaker 1: at that point. Uh, I think I can. I don't
Speaker 1: think I can read the next one, but I definitely
Speaker 1: can read the who is our Scott Drew Boob of
Speaker 1: the Year Award Boom give me whoever the Arizona coaches
Speaker 1: give me Tommy Lloyd. I think they flop in their
Speaker 1: first year.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's uh, it's Rodney Terry. Isn't not
Speaker 3: that too?
Speaker 1: That could also work when he pilots eighteen preseason ranked
Speaker 1: Texas to a nine seed.
Speaker 2: Give me Jerome Tang he doesn't wear shoes on airplanes?
Speaker 1: That also works. Who is the Bruce Webber? Welp, He's
Speaker 1: getting fired award? Which we love that award? Are any
Speaker 1: of these coaches getting fired this year? I mean, all
Speaker 1: these guys are pretty good coaches, and the ones that
Speaker 1: are unknown are in their first year. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: Is Jamie Dixon.
Speaker 2: Anywhere?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think Steve Prom's an analysts somewhere. But I definitely
Speaker 1: like your I like to call Land and Jamie Dixon that, like,
Speaker 1: how many more eight and eights can we have? And
Speaker 1: this year it'll be ten and ten?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good call.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask you to name all sixteen Big
Speaker 1: twelve teams and project the order of their finish, but
Speaker 1: I am gonna ask you maybe do like a top Haight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, give me the top like six
Speaker 1: and Okay, first off, who finishes last? And why is it? Utah?
Speaker 3: Is it Utah. Do do we definitively believe?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it Colorado or like, is this Central Florida?
Speaker 1: Just the floor fallout?
Speaker 3: You're probably right that it's all right.
Speaker 1: Then give me the top six. I will go Kansas,
Speaker 1: Iowa State, Baylor, Kansas State, Houston, and boy, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of all in on Cincinnati a little bit too. I'll
Speaker 1: say Cincinnati. Maybe it's this is where I was going
Speaker 1: to originally say, BUYU, but I'll go Cincy. But I
Speaker 1: think Kansas wins by a couple of games.
Speaker 3: Give me the Jayhawks, Baylor, k State, Wow, Iowa State, Arizona, Houston.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the top six. Just reshuffled and you
Speaker 1: told you had Cincinnati. You swapped out for k State?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Probably? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Cam, let's hear it.
Speaker 2: Okay, give me Kansas, Baylor, Houston, Iowa State, State, Uh, Arizona,
Speaker 2: question Mark.
Speaker 1: Guys are all stealing my case State Love. I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna be on my own with that one.
Speaker 2: Kind of surprised I feel with the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well until he takes his shoes off, you are.
Speaker 1: That's that's right, all right, there's our preview. You're gonna
Speaker 1: hear the I guess, and I was gonna ask you
Speaker 1: final four picks. I'll ask it on the next show
Speaker 1: because it's quite clear we don't know the big twelve
Speaker 1: teams and the final four picks as well. But you
Speaker 1: know who I will say does not make a Final four.
Speaker 1: It won't be Virginia because their coach is a quitter.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do ask RCB. All right, Cam, this
Speaker 1: is a pretty big moment. You getna do ask RCB
Speaker 1: for the first time, and you no doubt have listened
Speaker 1: to this segment before because you've asked us a lot
Speaker 1: of questions. So I feel like the best way to
Speaker 1: indoctrinate you into this segment is to, of course start
Speaker 1: with a Rock Chalk AJ twelve question. Oh AJ's got
Speaker 1: the twelve in his name? Now is rock Chalk AJ twelve?
Speaker 1: I'm not have to note that? Who asks? What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts? What are your thoughts on girls with tattoos?
Speaker 1: Rest in peace?
Speaker 2: Nick? All right, So I'm gonna go this is this
Speaker 2: might be controversial here. My girlfriend, I'm I'm not a
Speaker 2: single man, fellas, and my girlfriend has a tattoo, so
Speaker 2: I can't say that I'm against them. I won't say
Speaker 2: that I'm for them. It's a very politician answer. I'm
Speaker 2: someone in the middle. They don't offend me, they don't
Speaker 2: upset me, they don't excite me. They're somewhere in the
Speaker 2: middle between all of those answers.
Speaker 1: So if I wow a very mean So if I
Speaker 1: showed you a woman that's fair. And if I showed
Speaker 1: you a woman fair and then she then she got
Speaker 1: lots of tattoos that wouldn't sway the needle, specifically because
Speaker 1: she is tattooed like obviously they can't be like horrendously
Speaker 1: drawn ones. But it's not swaying the needle for you.
Speaker 2: Is she a convicted felon?
Speaker 1: No she is not? Okay, then no, okay, So you're
Speaker 1: good either which way. I think tattoos bring you a
Speaker 1: step into the right direction. Landon, is that kind of
Speaker 1: where you're at? Are you completely neutral?
Speaker 3: I am pretty neutral. I do like a good tattoo,
Speaker 3: but I'm not like, I don't think a girl has
Speaker 3: to have a tattoo to be attractive. I would definitely
Speaker 3: say that.
Speaker 1: Look what next started? Also from AJ do you think
Speaker 1: Rodney Carey's Terry's khaki pants are going to succeed? And
Speaker 1: the SEC. No, it will be like this Rodney Terry's
Speaker 1: and this will be his last year at Texas.
Speaker 2: I mean honestly, guys, whatever pants he's wearing at the
Speaker 2: start of the game will change to light colored brown
Speaker 2: by halftime because he's gonna poop himself when he plays
Speaker 2: at Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Oh, I could definitely do that. I can definitely do that.
Speaker 1: And also Kentucky might not be very good this year, sir,
Speaker 1: you might mean Arkansas because our buddy pay Pal Coal
Speaker 1: is now is now a razorback and we'll see him
Speaker 1: later this week, which will be fun at our scene
Speaker 1: code underscore FC. If Kansas gets bounced in the first
Speaker 1: week of the NCAA Tournament for the third year in
Speaker 1: a row, Okay, go ahead and preface it with this, God,
Speaker 1: will Bill self be on the hot seat?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, he's not gonna be fired. But I do
Speaker 1: wonder if another NCAA tournament loss and another attempted roster
Speaker 1: overhaul fail, if that makes him go a little bit
Speaker 1: of Tony Bennett again, not ten days before the season starts,
Speaker 1: but a little bit of Tony Bennett. And I'm in
Speaker 1: my sixties, I got parents, i got grandkids, what am
Speaker 1: I doing coaching basketball? I've never believed that self is
Speaker 1: gonna be one that coaches deep into his seventies or eighties.
Speaker 1: I wonder if one more bad season, one more disappointing season,
Speaker 1: if that pushes him a little bit closer to what
Speaker 1: am I doing here? Like, does that seem fair? That's
Speaker 1: not the hot seed, But it might push you a
Speaker 1: little closer to him leaving than a really good year would.
Speaker 3: I actually think I think either end of the spectrum
Speaker 3: could get him close. If he wins a third Natty
Speaker 3: in the next year or two, I think he could
Speaker 3: also say, Yeah, I'm a guy in my mid sixties
Speaker 3: with grandkids and family and a lot of life left.
Speaker 3: I was just hanging up on my third national title.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I could also see, like, hey, if Kansas
Speaker 3: goes like eighteen and thirteen, which would never happen, but
Speaker 3: if something like that were to happen, I can also
Speaker 3: see him saying, it's just not for me.
Speaker 1: What were they last year? They were pretty close to
Speaker 1: eighteen and thirteen? Weren't they closer than you ever thought
Speaker 1: they'd get? Last year Kansas was twenty three and eleven. Okay,
Speaker 1: really not that close to it, but yeah, they were like,
Speaker 1: what was the twenty three and eleven and they started
Speaker 1: twelve and one, so they were twelve and ten or
Speaker 1: something like that in the last handfull games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were actually a little gross by.
Speaker 1: The end of the year, a lot gross actually. At
Speaker 1: Preston Skirsik, who was the best late night performer? And
Speaker 1: how concerning is it to you that no recruits held
Speaker 1: visits during the late night I'll start with the second
Speaker 1: half of that question, because you guys know way more
Speaker 1: about the actual performers. Bill self said that that really
Speaker 1: isn't what it used to be. It used to be
Speaker 1: a thing where you had a limited number of recruiting visits,
Speaker 1: so it was big priority to get like twenty or
Speaker 1: thirty recruits in there. Now kids can take essentially unlimited,
Speaker 1: unofficial visits, so it really isn't that big of a
Speaker 1: priority to get them all in there for a late night.
Speaker 1: Not concerned at all about that. Kansas is in the
Speaker 1: running with all sorts of blue chip recruits in the
Speaker 1: class of twenty twenty five, and even if they don't
Speaker 1: get those guys, they've proven they can make their mark
Speaker 1: in the transfer portal. Your turn with best late night performers.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could name five late night performers.
Speaker 1: I remember Snoops, acrobatic, the most iconic. Jeff Long didn't
Speaker 1: know what exotic dancers meant. Remember the ku Ad put
Speaker 1: that in a statement.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny that Lil Yati has kind of
Speaker 3: turned into a legitimate artist. So yeah, even though he
Speaker 3: was kind of a meme artist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did it one year. I think Tech nine
Speaker 1: did it one year. He's a Kansas City guy, so
Speaker 1: that's not a big surprise. I didn't Drake do it
Speaker 1: one year? Am I crazy? Is that just Kentucky?
Speaker 2: I think that was Kentucky?
Speaker 1: All right, he's a Kentucky guy. All right, What did
Speaker 1: you have a favorite?
Speaker 3: I don't. Midwest Kansas doesn't have Drake.
Speaker 1: I don't think I have watched a second of any
Speaker 1: of the late night performers except for Snoops. Because everyone
Speaker 1: was talking about it. I had to see what it
Speaker 1: was all about. Didn't disappoint. Big fan of Snoop and
Speaker 1: a couple of different ways at rock Chuck eighty four,
Speaker 1: What is your taco bell order?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I'll take the floor here. Boys. Back in
Speaker 2: my formative days in college. I had many evenings where
Speaker 2: I might not have been completely in the right mental state,
Speaker 2: and I definitely went to Taco Bell drive through is
Speaker 2: late in the night, so I would always get chicken
Speaker 2: casadilla a bean burrito that was big. That was pretty
Speaker 2: much my order every single time.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's respectful answer and definitely something a lot of
Speaker 1: people will relate to. I have had Taco Bell like
Speaker 1: once in the last ten years, just not a place
Speaker 1: I usually go. I pick up a lot of door
Speaker 1: dash orders from there. They are an easy place to
Speaker 1: pick up from. They're always ready when I get there.
Speaker 1: Don't like how there's always drinks. Those are difficult and
Speaker 1: a threat to drop, but the Taco Bell orders are
Speaker 1: easy enough. Land in the Are you a Taco Bell guy?
Speaker 3: I've become a Taco Bell this guy this year, and
Speaker 3: I need to stop becoming a Taco Bell guy immediately.
Speaker 3: I've already started coming back on Taco Bell for obvious
Speaker 3: Taco Bell reasons. My order though, was the canteenag meal.
Speaker 3: It's very good.
Speaker 1: Not a bad answer either. There really isn't a whole
Speaker 1: lot there that's bad, and well, there's plenty of stuff
Speaker 1: that's bad for you but there's nothing there that tastes
Speaker 1: bad at least it well, that's also debatable where Cam
Speaker 1: can't eat peanuts, landing lights, all sorts of food and
Speaker 1: I'm just there, so I'll let you guy. I'll defer
Speaker 1: to you guys on the on the food takes.
Speaker 3: Have you ever had chicken shwarma right now?
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you what that is.
Speaker 3: It's Middle Eastern chicken and it's extreme. Is it euro
Speaker 3: kind of chicken?
Speaker 2: A little bit? Uh?
Speaker 3: Not quite, but it's not too far.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'll put it on my list.
Speaker 3: You could have it.
Speaker 1: I need to. I need to. I need to venture
Speaker 1: out the realm of Windy's, which is like as about
Speaker 1: as far out as I go with restaurants. So I
Speaker 1: need to do better Land And I'll make sure that
Speaker 1: you make me do that at show me Hawk in
Speaker 1: your eyes? How does this preseason number one team match
Speaker 1: up against the other teams that Kansas has had as
Speaker 1: a number one in the preseason twenty four, nineteen o nine,
Speaker 1: and five. The two thousand and nine I can't speak
Speaker 1: to nine team was so good. That team was so
Speaker 1: good they were pretty much.
Speaker 3: Still maybe the best regular season team in Campas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were pretty much the number one team for
Speaker 1: the entire year. Their only Big twelve loss was the
Speaker 1: flukiest of all fluke losses, when a white dude from
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State made a bunch of threes. I know that
Speaker 1: never happens, but that Northern Iowa game was truly one
Speaker 1: and twenty. If you play that game twenty times, I
Speaker 1: think they only lose once and ultimately that team was
Speaker 1: the best team regular season team. Is Landa said and
Speaker 1: the Bill self era this team is the second best
Speaker 1: of those four five Now.
Speaker 3: I think that's a pretty good take. They are theoretically
Speaker 3: deeper than the last couple that in preseason one.
Speaker 1: Yes, they're a lot deeper than last year at Elliott
Speaker 1: rus in h one. I hate being this negative off
Speaker 1: the bat, but I'm curious to see what the team's
Speaker 1: weaknesses will be. It is what it always is, right.
Speaker 1: They don't get enough shooting. They free throw shooting lots
Speaker 1: them down at the end of games. They foil too much.
Speaker 1: It's shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. Everything else is fine.
Speaker 2: Cam any hidden weakness you're worried about, that's pretty much
Speaker 2: it now. I mean, the only thing that kind of
Speaker 2: concerns me is too many mouths, so minutes too Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's pretty much.
Speaker 1: It pushing the right buttons like are we gonna have
Speaker 1: games where guys like David quite play four minutes and
Speaker 1: they lose because they can't get out of the sixties
Speaker 1: And you're thinking maybe that would have made a big difference.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do think Bill self is
Speaker 1: a good bet to put it all together. A couple
Speaker 1: of welcome messages for you, sir. Elliott rusen h says, welcome, Cam,
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear your takes. Perston skir six says
Speaker 1: welcome at kamb Lipole Golf and at Berner Goff eighty
Speaker 1: oh two just says patiently waiting and it's the gift
Speaker 1: of the guy with the mustache standing around everywhere waiting
Speaker 1: for our first show to drop, so he'll be happy
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. Here's a question for you, Cam from Preston Skirsik.
Speaker 1: What role slash trajectory is David quite more likely to
Speaker 1: have over the course of the season. This is interesting
Speaker 1: because we talked about this earlier. Jaalen Coleman lands like
Speaker 1: or Remy Martin like, probably Jalen Coleman lands like, I mean,
Speaker 1: Remy Martin was such an then hominly for that team.
Speaker 1: He really wasn't that good during the regular season, and honestly,
Speaker 1: if it weren't for him being healthy in the March run,
Speaker 1: we would not be talking about Renby Martin right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was amazing in the NCAA tournament. We
Speaker 1: would be talking about him being one of the biggest
Speaker 1: disappointments in the history of Kansas. From a recruiting perspective,
Speaker 1: pretty much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite strikes me more as a Jalen Coleman Lands
Speaker 2: type player. I mean, he definitely shows flashes of Remy Martin.
Speaker 2: He can create his own shot, but he's I think
Speaker 2: he's like five foot eight, isn't he. He's really small,
Speaker 2: so yeah, he's five eight. I think there's gonna be
Speaker 2: games where he'll be really good, but it's gonna depend
Speaker 2: a lot on matchups and also gonna depend a lot
Speaker 2: on you know, just if self wants to gamble a
Speaker 2: little bit on him putting up twenty in a game
Speaker 2: that doesn't matter, or giving Dawan Harris time to you know,
Speaker 2: dribble around and have two assists and two shot attempts,
Speaker 2: that'll be.
Speaker 1: Uh Land and I think the only thing that David
Speaker 1: quite being a Jalen coleman Lands type role in which
Speaker 1: he comes off the bench a few and it's a
Speaker 1: game when he's needed, and then some games you don't
Speaker 1: see him at all. I think that's close. But Jalen
Speaker 1: Coleman Lands was here to do one thing, and that
Speaker 1: shoot threes. I don't know how many two pointers Jalen
Speaker 1: coleman Lands made that year, but it couldn't have been
Speaker 1: more than fifteen or twenty. Like he just was there
Speaker 1: to shoot threes. I think Quit is a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a Jack of all tyrates kind of guy.
Speaker 1: He can score the ball in a variety of ways,
Speaker 1: and like Remy, I don't think he's just coming off
Speaker 1: the bench to shoot threes.
Speaker 3: Also, did you just say jack of all tiraids.
Speaker 2: I think he did.
Speaker 1: I think I did. I'm trying to watch a the
Speaker 1: end of a Cardinals game, read notes and read questions,
Speaker 1: So forgive me for saying.
Speaker 2: Get this man in public office.
Speaker 1: Now, Hey, you know what, as you said, we just had.
Speaker 1: The Kansas first game is on election eve. I think
Speaker 1: maybe we should record our first official podcast to recap
Speaker 1: a Kansas game during the election. I don't see anything
Speaker 1: that could go wrong with that? Is anything else that
Speaker 1: or after the nuclear caller to us hey after the
Speaker 1: first one, before the second two, more to close us
Speaker 1: out from at show me hawk more of a Chiefs question.
Speaker 1: How much influence do you think Matt Naggy actually has
Speaker 1: over the offense? Well, Patrick Mahomes was.
Speaker 3: Let's hope a lot. Let's hope they fire him, and
Speaker 3: let's hope.
Speaker 1: That Patrick Mahomes was Patrick Mahomes and then Matt Naggy
Speaker 1: showed up and now he's Andy Dalton with a headband.
Speaker 1: From a statistical perspective, so I'm going to say he
Speaker 1: has a lot of influence over Patrick Mahomes. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for that man to get his visor away from
Speaker 1: my football team. Cam as a fan of the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: the Matt Naggy era of Chicago Bears football. That yeah,
Speaker 1: you witnessed that. That sucked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not great, So we'll see, we'll see sometime. Yeah,
Speaker 2: most of my life has been sad being a Lions fan.
Speaker 2: So they the Chiefs keep winning games. So I won't
Speaker 2: say that much, but I think Matt Naggy doesn't have
Speaker 2: a ton of influence on the offense. It's Andy Reid's
Speaker 2: ship obviously, but it does make me wonder why mahomes.
Speaker 2: I think it might actually be more of an Eric
Speaker 2: b enemy. Isn't there sort of thing? I don't know,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't treat me. And the last question show
Speaker 2: me hawk would fifteen and five win the conference assuming
Speaker 2: the five losses are Houston, Baylor, Iowa State BYU and
Speaker 2: a random home loss.
Speaker 1: I don't think the combination of games matter. I think
Speaker 1: if they lose five conference games, they will win a
Speaker 1: share of the championship at minimum.
Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, I think that's a good take.
Speaker 1: That's right, fifteen it is. If you ever have asked ACBS,
Speaker 1: use Twitter hashtag ask RCB. All right now, to close
Speaker 1: us out, there are two exhibition games that will take
Speaker 1: place in the next week. Number one Kansas will play
Speaker 1: in a charity exhibition game against number sixteen Arkansas, the
Speaker 1: debut of John Calipari on the sidelines as Razorbacks coach.
Speaker 1: That game is on Friday night at eight if you
Speaker 1: have the SEC network, that will be televised there and
Speaker 1: then three days later or four days later they'll play
Speaker 1: Washburn There. Once a year exhibition game against a team
Speaker 1: from the state of Kansas. It is the Ichabods coming
Speaker 1: into Allen Field House on Tuesday, one week before the
Speaker 1: season kicks off. That game is on ESPN Plus for
Speaker 1: those of you who have it. What are you looking
Speaker 1: to see in these two exhibitions last year? I know
Speaker 1: they didn't count, but they weren't overly impressed up for
Speaker 1: most of the game against Fort Hayes State, and they
Speaker 1: lost to Illinois in a game where Nick Timberlake shot
Speaker 1: well but nobody else did. Kind of set up a
Speaker 1: couple of red flags from an early point. What are
Speaker 1: you expecting to see this year against Arkansas and to
Speaker 1: a lesser extent, Washburn Cam.
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'll be really curious to see how
Speaker 2: the guys look playing together. Also be more so curious
Speaker 2: to see how kJ Adams looks playing with Hunter Dickinson
Speaker 2: and how the rotations work. I mean, it's so early
Speaker 2: in the season, you know, it's it's very difficult to
Speaker 2: figure out what the team will be in these exhibition games.
Speaker 2: But seeing some perimeter scoring begin, watching you know, Rylan
Speaker 2: Griffin aj store play, I'm more more or less just
Speaker 2: curious to see how the guys look early on in
Speaker 2: the season. Nothing too much that'll determine how the season goes,
Speaker 2: but it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: To watch landon.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping to see team chemistry and shooting the ball.
Speaker 3: I think those are the two things, especially like you're
Speaker 3: playing a good team on the road, theoretically good team
Speaker 3: in Arkansas on the road. That's gonna be a really
Speaker 3: tough game. What I would love to see, yeah, is
Speaker 3: how Bill self rotates, kind of who he gives a
Speaker 3: lot of minutes to kind of get a feel for
Speaker 3: who he's specifically looking at, the rotation he's specifically looking at.
Speaker 3: See how Flori looks out there against real competition. That'll
Speaker 3: be really interesting. See how he employs the Harris kJ
Speaker 3: Harris Big Three, if that does anything. Yeah, Mostly just
Speaker 3: the chemistry between everybody and can they shoot the ball?
Speaker 3: That'd be good.
Speaker 1: I think that what you guys said is accurate. It's
Speaker 1: not going to be a direct indicator of how he's
Speaker 1: going to handle the final four minutes against Duke or
Speaker 1: anything like that, but I do think you're gonna very
Speaker 1: quickly get a feel for who the guys who are
Speaker 1: gonna be the first couple off his benchjar As opposed
Speaker 1: to who are the guys that are only gonna play
Speaker 1: in a situational In a situational basis, I think Florid,
Speaker 1: But doom is the guy I'm most excited to see.
Speaker 1: He's the one that I think we're gonna find out
Speaker 1: really quickly. Is this gonna be a guy that's legitimately
Speaker 1: gonna play twenty minutes a game or is this just
Speaker 1: the when Haunter needs to get a drink of gatorade,
Speaker 1: he'll go out there sort of guy. And we got
Speaker 1: to see better three point shooting. It was a parent
Speaker 1: from the very beginning of the season last year, the
Speaker 1: exhibition game and Champagne that that team needed shooting, that
Speaker 1: Artaria Morris not being there had a left a big
Speaker 1: hole in the shooting department for them and it was
Speaker 1: going to be Nick Timberlake, Kevin McCuller and not a
Speaker 1: lot else. We saw how that worked out whenever those
Speaker 1: two guys didn't shoot because they did not have anybody else.
Speaker 1: They need to be able to do that. I want
Speaker 1: to see if Dewan Harris is any more aggressive this year.
Speaker 1: Supposedly that's been a thing. Could Zeke Mayo be a
Speaker 1: threat to run the point if Dwan Harris plays less,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of guys that we think could
Speaker 1: average eight to thirteen points a game. Guys like aj Storre,
Speaker 1: who Bill Sel said has not gotten fully comfortable yet.
Speaker 1: Guys like Rylan Griffin, who single handedly hold the keys
Speaker 1: to determining how well Kansas will be shooting the ball
Speaker 1: this year. And guys like David Koit, who wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me if they barely played at all, and it wins
Speaker 1: surprise me if they were the sixth man of the
Speaker 1: year in the Big Twelve. Trying to see how all
Speaker 1: those pieces work together. I think they're gonna win both
Speaker 1: games pretty easily. Actually, Arkansas is gonna have like half
Speaker 1: their roster out. They just had a ton of injuries.
Speaker 1: John Calipari said he doesn't even know who's gonna be
Speaker 1: out there, but it's not gonna be a lot of bodies,
Speaker 1: was the quote from his interview this week. If Kansas
Speaker 1: can go down there and handle I'll be in an
Speaker 1: injury ragged opponent, but beat a team on the road
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be in the top twenty, well, that'll
Speaker 1: set the season off on a higher note than it
Speaker 1: did last year. But until we see it just will
Speaker 1: remain to be seen. And the most important thing from
Speaker 1: this game no injuries. Kansas has been bitten by the
Speaker 1: injury bug so much early on in seasons the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. Let's not see any of that. And yes,
Speaker 1: Cam adds that what he would like to see in
Speaker 1: the exhibition is Sidney Sweeney agreed, I don't know if
Speaker 1: she'll be there. Yes, but that sounds a lot more
Speaker 1: interesting than trying to figure out who's gonna play six
Speaker 1: man minutes on a basketball team.
Speaker 2: I agree, couldn't set it better myself.
Speaker 1: I did weill, Cam, You've officially been baptized into the
Speaker 1: ITP era. It's exciting to have you. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun season. I'm sure as the season gets along,
Speaker 1: you will get more and more comfortable talking over landon
Speaker 1: and I feel free to do that at any given point,
Speaker 1: and way more comfortable screaming obscene things into the microphone
Speaker 1: because of that will inevitably happen when they lose to
Speaker 1: Central Florida or something. But until then, I think our
Speaker 1: next show will probably be back after the exhibitions to
Speaker 1: talk about what we saw and then get you ready
Speaker 1: for the Real Deal season starts in less than two weeks.
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Speaker 2: Fields, and I'm Cam Lipoole.
Speaker 1: Look at that.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that that right there. I like not saying
Speaker 1: your name at the start of the show, but sang
Speaker 1: it at the end. I think that's the.
Speaker 2: Way to do it. Shout out Bill Crank.
Speaker 1: Then we will be back in a week. Until then,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's there to enjoy the next week.
Speaker 1: Enjoy how it's eighty degrees. Even though Landon's bitter about it.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I am deeply bitter. My mom's fifties permanently. Please Josh
Speaker 3: Brisco will hunt you down with a knife and kill
Speaker 3: you