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Speaker 4: And Shot all right, welcome back in our number three
of OTB. Got a loaded hour number three coming your way.
We've got chef Michael Johnson joining us at nine fifteen.
We've got Matt McMahon, LSU had basketball coach at nine
what an hour before we get to Deer Delandra, which, yes,
we have to have it. It's something that has to happen.
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it is now time to get an update and Elanda
just kind of reset the scene, if you will, with
what we were going through for a couple of weeks
there with dear Delandra. We had one of our loyal
listeners was really in a quite the pickle.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was in a pickle. I just I have
to play the sound real quick though, just because it's incredible.
Speaker 7: The Landra.
Speaker 6: I feel so blessed that to create great voices. Yeah,
you should got to do that for me. But so
if y'all don't remember, we used to do Dear Delandra,
like back in the summer, and one of our listeners
he sent one in where he was dropping his kid
off at either pre care in her garden.
Speaker 5: I'll remember it.
Speaker 6: And turns out one of the assistant teachers he had
almost gotten engaged to, so they were together a very
serious relationship to the point to where they were almost
gonna get married. And he just basically was like, do
we do I tell my wife that that's somebody almost
got married to or almost proposed to, or do I
just keep it a secret? And we're like, no, well
the three of us, Yeah, be honest with her. You
gotta tell her. And Taylor's like, no, lie, deny, deny, deny.
He's like just lied to her. Yeah, take it to
the grave. And then for the longest time we didn't
know what ended up happening with our listener. And the
pre k is a pre K teacher, so he messaged
me and he let he gave me an update. So
a few weeks ago, this is from him, by the way,
so I'm not saying this but like because it's gonna
be like in first person. Uh So, a few weeks ago,
my wife and I were driving home from school pick
up and my wife randomly asked me if Miss pre
K had ever mentioned our past. I got super nervous
and mine started racing, but I was honest and just
said no. Then my wife said, when she got the
email from the school over the summer with the teachers listed,
she saw the pre K teacher's name and just started laughing.
That left me more confused because I couldn't figure out
how she knew who Miss pre K was back during
the summer before we even Miss pre K, before we
even saw her at school. I didn't want to ask,
how do you know about her? Because that sounds so bad,
so I worded it a little bit better and asked,
how long ago did I tell you about that relationship?
Long story short, apparently I told my wife years ago
about Miss pre K, and I completely forgot that I did. So, yes,
I was stressing now over.
Speaker 7: I didn't even know.
Speaker 6: Unintentionally, but he did forgot that he did it, But
he did it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Taylor is like ah, he should have denying.
Speaker 8: I mean he still kind of did. I guess he
didn't get in trouble either way. I mean he came
out on time.
Speaker 6: I do love that he like reworded it.
Speaker 7: I ask you about that, right you remember maybe your
wife is just a loyal listener and that's how she
found out.
Speaker 6: Maybe. I do love that he was calling her miss
pre K, miss pre K. That really gives Delilah, like
giving somebody a little moniker.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm happy that it all worked out. There was
no breakup situation. That's kind of been the theme of
the day in the breakups. So I'm glad that there's
some resolution there. Honestly, always wins. People don't take Taylor's
advice bad advice, all right, all right, cool.
Speaker 6: Whatever, That's why we do Dear Delandra, not Dear Taylor.
He's gonna tell her just lie.
Speaker 7: I asked my buddy Jed GBT to write me like
like a SOB story as if I was an old
miss fan. Oh, and I was calling into the Delilah show.
Speaker 5: Oh are you ready?
Speaker 7: Yeah, dude, I do have it. It's like we didn't
prep for this, but I did want to read it though. Hey, Delilah,
this is Randy from Oxford. I'm calling to night because well,
Lane Kiffin left us, and I know folks say he
warned you or that's just lamee, But Delilah, he told
us he loved it here. He said we were family,
not family. And then one morning I wake up, check
my phone and there he is, smiling in another school's colors,
like we never meant a thing. Then it tells me
to like make my voice small and shaky breath here, Delilah,
are we arranged my whole emotional calendar around that man?
No get into character, rearranged my whole emotional calendar around
that man. About visors. I defended every fourth down decision
like it was scripture. And now now I feel like
the man who got dumped by someone he never even dated.
Mm hmmm. So if you could play something for a
heart that believed too much in a coach who believed
in too little, I'd appreciate it. Hot Toddy, I guess
that's right's chat. It's not better word?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What uh? What song?
Speaker 7: What song?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 9: Immediately like I thought of like a cheat like cheated
on Crime River, But I thought about like getting cheated
on like Lane kind of you kind of cheated on
Ole Miss a little bit and then.
Speaker 6: Left for the mistress. Oh no, there's a little dabbling.
Speaker 8: Yeah, lips of an angel.
Speaker 7: Talking to.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was thinking Fixed You by Coldplay is a perfect one.
That's one when you try your best but you don't succeed.
What has old Miss been trying to do everything they
can to win the SEC?
Speaker 5: Just haven't done it yet?
Speaker 7: Are they in the SEC championship this year?
Speaker 8: They're not okay?
Speaker 7: So they steady making it. They're not okay. I think
Liz is Angel is a grateful.
Speaker 6: It's the best song of all time.
Speaker 8: It is a really good song, regardless of situation.
Speaker 5: One hit wonder, I don't know.
Speaker 7: Another gotta be, Yeah, gotta be. You're gonna go out, though,
make make make sure it's a hit HiT's true.
Speaker 4: It's better being a no hit wonder. Somebody said everybody
hurts in the chat. Yeah, but we're not hurting.
Speaker 7: We're good. Yeah, yeah, we're great. A lot of people
that just joined the show, you know, fifteen twenty minutes ago,
wondering if we're gonna talk sports again. Basically what we're doing.
Speaker 6: I mean, we just did.
Speaker 4: Tying the old miss fans to do a sad song.
How's that nuts? We're in the twelve hour Radio this week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we're gonna have Matt mcmahonon later, and.
Speaker 5: We just talked about Hinder. Find me another show that
will do that.
Speaker 7: And we're about to talk to chef Michael Johnson who
cooks for people that play sports.
Speaker 5: So jokes on whoever said.
Speaker 7: That's good? I like this. How is my voice inflections
when I act like I'm.
Speaker 5: Not very good?
Speaker 7: It's not good.
Speaker 4: It's the thing that you're really poor at. No, yeah,
it's acting for being a family of the theater.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we put it.
Speaker 7: You probably get a D minus. Oh yeah, guys, your
family members would be a shamed of you. It sounded
amazing to me when I was listening to me. It's
like I was. It's like I was hovering above myself
that I took a theater improv class, an acting improv
class in college. Not a big deal. Gotta be mine.
Speaker 6: It's not a big deal.
Speaker 4: You're right, some great song suggestions in the in the
Chad Jim Blossom's found out about you.
Speaker 5: That's good.
Speaker 6: Good job, George, so go South, the one who's the
listener that started all of this. Uh, what do we
think about my wife going three months of school before
bringing up miss pre K. I think she was trying
to see if you would say something first.
Speaker 7: I think she was she was testing you, my guy. Yeah, yeah,
so you're trying to flip it a reversity. Good luck
with that.
Speaker 4: I actually think you played a really good card, though,
was saying, like, when did I tell you about that?
I actually think that is a vet move. Yeah, I
wouldn't try it. You did, and it worked for you.
It sounds like it's elite. So good on you. I
think you're good. I think you're in the clear.
Speaker 6: You think a girl doesn't know something she knows?
Speaker 5: She knows well? I mean they all.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, so you did good with how you played
the UNO card there. Don't push your luck by trying
to put it on your wife.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 7: I won't push your luck. Don't do that.
Speaker 4: Sal was asking about any of the latest with Frank Wilson.
Speaker 5: No, we have not.
Speaker 4: Trust me when I say my refresher has been Blake Baker,
Corey Raymond, and Frank Wilson, and I just have three
pages open with all their names and social media and
I just hit refresh and refresh and refresh because.
Speaker 8: I'm say, LSU just lost Dylan Peter Florida is a dB.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's always hard to go.
Speaker 4: And it's always hard to tell when you have a
new staff, who is going elsewhere because the new staff
asked them to who is going somewhere different because there
is a new staff, It's always tough to tell. So
maybe this staff's like, yeah, you don't really jibe with
what we do defensively, and maybe it's the players like, look,
I don't know what you're gonna do, and so I'm
gonna go elsewhere. There's always a little bit the guessing
game when that happens. Now, some you can kind of
like it's pretty easy to say, Okay, yeah, this guy
he was asked to sign out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and this day in H two, you don't really
know who's saying I'll give you four under K and
the other people say I'll give you two under K.
Speaker 4: Very true at the last minute at the finish line,
in the eleventh hour.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: If you're a top prospect and you're making your decision
based off one hundred thousand dollars, let me just tell you,
in the scheme of thing and the scheme of the
money that's being thrown around, that is.
Speaker 5: A foolish decision.
Speaker 4: If you're the player that you think you are and
we think you can be, to say you'll make that
up on the other side is.
Speaker 5: Pretty almost an absolute son.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Now if you if you hold two colleges in
this in the same regard, but you think in your
head that's both equal, then yeah, one hundred thousand dollars. Yeah,
for sure, any amount of money ten thousand dollars, if
like anything, would tip the balances if things were equal.
But if you're dead set on like LSU and you're
from louis In he got all this opportunity like that,
like you said, then you really start having death to
weigh your financial options.
Speaker 4: There, I got King m J says Frank doesn't need
to be a refresh page. He saying, could you think
you know already got a little tea.
Speaker 7: I think it's it's Blake Baker for me, like as
far as the refresh page on this one, because if
he that's the he's the keystone to everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Blake, Blake did enjoy our our our segment, Okay,
good telling tu Lane that there's no way they should
hire him. Should He's a bad football coach. He cannot
connect with the youth of today. Schemes outdated. It was
Brian Kelly's defense. Doesn't look good in his uniform. You know,
what'd you say? Wearing the cleats was trying to upstage,
play up.
Speaker 7: You don't want a guy he doesn't even wear sleeves
on a sweatshirt.
Speaker 5: I don't need that.
Speaker 7: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: He needs to stay where.
Speaker 6: He's a gonna wear a tank top. Why we're a sweatshirt?
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, Yeah, he just needs to stay where he's at.
You know, he doesn't need to try.
Speaker 6: To let him hold us back.
Speaker 7: He likes listen to this, look at listen to this.
And he was Hucks flag football coach in the spring, Yeah,
Baker was. He's the head football coach for our I
don't know ten U or nine U flag football team distracted.
We went five hundred.
Speaker 5: Mmm.
Speaker 7: That's not good man.
Speaker 8: And that's like, that's like his head coaching resume right there.
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying. He had to he had to
miss a game. He had to miss a game to
go to a coaches meeting, and so he brought in
with Weeks and nuss Meyer and harl Perkins the coach
the game. We got blown out. Wow, he doesn't even
know how to hire good talent around him. Yeah, I
think he needs to stay put.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so they say, you're only as good as the
assistant you hire.
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying. I would stay so far away
from him. To Lane and Memphis, Yeah, go South, major
poodle energy. Yeah, oh yeah, we're.
Speaker 5: Just kid blatant to leave.
Speaker 7: Although you can like doodle anything these days. Anything.
Speaker 4: And also Cory Rammon Man like that is major, major, major,
because like some like some of the times, like when
you have this conversation it's about like off the field
and what they can do and recruiting, and I get
that it has to be a portion, but Corazy lead
it both recruiting and the teaching part of it. That's
a rare situation. It might be you might think that
it happens everywhere. It just doesn't a lot of times.
On the staff, there's ninety nine percent this guy's really
good on the field, this guy's good off the field,
and you kind of you pair your coaching staff with
a little bit of everything. Right, corazy elite at both
whatever you gotta do, whatever you have to do. Got
keep that man in the building. All right, we are
late for a break. We'll take that break, Chef Michael Johnson.
When we come back to answer your Munchie questions.
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Speaker 3: Let's eat chef.
Speaker 5: What's going on? How we doing?
Speaker 10: Brother good?
Speaker 5: How are you guys doing fantastic?
Speaker 4: Did you stay warm during the game? I saw you
before and after the Oklahoma game. I didn't see you
obviously during the game. I was calling the game and
you were probably getting things ready. Were you able to
find some warm shelter.
Speaker 5: There, sir?
Speaker 11: I did. I didn't do too bad.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 11: I have a little bit of a polar bear in me,
and I have a little bit of I have a
little bit of padding as well, so I stayed Warland
you know, Jake, I kind of apologize to you. About
ten minutes after I was in Oklahoma City long enough
that I actually did an advanced team meet at the building,
and after you asked me where the press box was,
about ten minutes later, I realized that they had shown
me to the press box, and I'd been there for
so long that I had forgotten where.
Speaker 5: Oh hey, okay, hey.
Speaker 4: One thing that you can literally guarantee in any SEC
stadium that I go to, and I've been to them all. Now,
if you ask anybody where is the press box? There's
not a swinging soul that can tell you how to
get to the press box elevator. I am number one
time chef asked anybody and said, hey, can you show
me where the press elevator is? Not one person's ever said, yeah,
it's right there. You go up, you go past two
of you know these flights of stairs, you take a left.
Speaker 11: Never ever ever so alone in that kind of like
a baby pigeon. We know it exists, but we've never
been there.
Speaker 4: Right, yes, and Oklahoma hasn't touched that press box since
Barry Switcher was the coach.
Speaker 5: I can promise you that.
Speaker 11: I remember that because I've been in. I was in,
I was in the I took a picture from the
press box. Yeah, I know what it looks like. Yeah, sorry, Jake.
Speaker 5: Oh hey, all good, all good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you had five guys waiting on me when I
was done, and so you're more than made up for
That was incredible, all right, chef.
Speaker 5: It is the holiday season.
Speaker 4: You got Christmas, you got New Year's we just finished
up with Thanksgiving. Any holiday traditions, that's our first munchies questions.
They want to know maybe your favorite holiday tradition as
you get ready for the holiday season.
Speaker 11: You know, it's so weird because I think that probably
everybody else but chefs have pretty solid significant holiday traditions.
And I've been a chef for so long, you know,
like in the football world, you know, like we're constantly
playing around Christmas, and in the restaurant world, you know,
like when I was in a restaurant, those were the
busiest times of our years, so, you know, developing developing
any kind of tradition around that was more like spending
time with friends and and and having moments with people
that were outside of your you know, direct family ring
because you didn't have time to go home you know,
and so we I think if there was a tradition
to be had, you know, it was like a chef's
giving or a or a Chris a chefs chefs mist
where you know, like we got a team of chefs
around and we we just went straight bougie, you know,
like really really bougie foods and charcuterie trays and cla
bras and stuff like that, and you know it's it's
not your it's not your typical response.
Speaker 7: Well, chef, like to that point, if you were going
like super bougie, like what's your what's a go to
thing you do? Is it like one of these Michelin
type plates where it's like two bites and it's done.
Speaker 11: You know, it's it's more like high end pork fat,
you know, like uh like a pecan pecan fed or
or I don't know, you know, there was and I've
told you guys about this before that you know, like
I'd like to take a prime rib and laid all
the pork neck fat off of a a Barrico pig.
So an a Barco pig is raised like on one acre.
It has its entire acre to itself that has walled
out of the contry that beats off of the entirety
of its life. It's very you know, cushy. It's a
bougie little pig. And and the pork, the bat on,
it is extraordinary. It's almost sweet, right, And so we
I use that to to uh baste my prime rib,
to crisp up the skin and make it nice on
the outside. And and you know it's like crispy on
the outside and just soften and like red throughout, beautiful man.
And so as the executive chef, I always took the
main course of the meat. But you know, like we
would have all kinds of cured meats coming in for
you know, like one of my best friends who was
my executive sous chef, he would have all kinds of
imported you know, cheeses and meats and cured meats and
stuff like that. And he was Italian, so he always
made this dish, this dish a matrashana and it's it's man,
I'm salivating thinking about it, man a matra shana.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So it's uh, it's you take guancial which is like
a type of the yeah, and and render that down
and then you sweat your vegetables into it. It's a
tomato sauce, but it's got this it's got this rich
kind of it's so GUANCIAI is almost like bacon, but
it's it comes from the jaw of the pig, and
it's it's got meat and fat in it. And so
you render it down until it gets crisp. But the
fat you swept down your your onions and meerplaw and
and then you make your tomato sauce from that. And
uh a matrashana is one of the most beautiful dishes
that the Italian's ever created.
Speaker 7: If you asked me, sounds it sounds unbelievable. I don't
know how to pronounce. I'll never remember those words, but
it sounds incredible. So chef. So this is what's what's
super relevant right now. Of course, yesterday started the national
signing Day for high school kids. I would assume that
the dining hall and what you bring to the table
and your team brings a table, is that probably a
pretty big selling point for a lot of these kids
coming out, Like what is your role? I'm assuming they
bring the recruits into the dining hall, they talk, you
talk about nutrition and like maybe make them an Amatrishana
as well. I don't know, you make them something special.
Speaker 11: I recruit for every sport that else you has to
be honest with you, brother, it definitely is a recruiting
tool of football, not the sole sport of it, you know,
like yes, football, but also baseball, basketball, women's basketball, soccer,
volleyball beats volleyball. I don't, I can't. There's not a
sport that hasn't had me speak to their teams that
you know, Like I think we had not only signing
day yesterday, but we had baseball recruits and soccer recruits
and track fruits in here yesterday. We had four hundred
and twenty five people easier at lunch yesterday. It was
it was a really that's probably the largest number I've
seen at lunch since I've been at LSU. You know,
like they just continue to get larger and larger, and
you know, of course it just I hopefully it speaks
to the quality of the food and the experience that
you have in the nutrition center. And it's interesting because
the kids seem a little less interested in it than
the parents do, but the parents are are partially decision
makers too, write and there's influence in the in the
athlete as well, and not only that, most of you,
Matt too. You know, like as a parent, you'll understand
that you're putting your faith into and to me, you know,
to make sure that your child is getting in getting fed.
And you know, like so I have to speak to that,
you know, like I have to you know, set their
get their rest their assurances that you know, I'm a father,
I have children that one of them goes to LSU
and and I'm going to take your child and make
sure that they get fed well while they're here. And
here's how we do it. It's a it's a genuine
conversation about what food does for the human body as
well as performance nutrition and a greater depth. So it's
not just me though, I Mean there's dieticians, there's coaches there.
So it's a process.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 4: Hashtag munchies. What is uh, let's go Actually, Devin snow
As wants to go with this one. Hashtag munchies. What
was the first real thing you remember cooking growing up?
And do you still make it?
Speaker 11: That's a good question, man, I don't know, you know,
I remember, I don't know that I was cooking it,
but when I was a kid, it's and it's not healthy.
I wouldn't just doing this, But I remember making sugar
sandwiches when I was a kid, you know, like I'd
take white bread and poor, poor, poor refined white sugar
into it and eat it for a little pick me up.
And that was performance and nutrition was uh you know,
I think I think my first job cooking was God,
I don't even want to tell you, to be honest
with you, man, I worked at Taco Bell when I
was like fifteen years old, and and uh, you know
that that built some structure in life for sure, bro,
because you know, you work at a restaurant like that
and then it's uh yeah, it'll it'll, it'll set you straight.
So I imagine, you know, it was something, you know,
making tacos. My parents often did that. My mom cooked
a lot of pasta, so you know, like I was
constantly I cooked a lot of pasta at home. But
the singular, the dish, the only thing that comes to mind,
like making it. I remember those little sugar sandwiches for
some reason, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Hey, Chef, just letting you know how an LSU coach
text me during this segment, said Chef Kills it with
our international recruits.
Speaker 5: So let's go.
Speaker 7: Chef, I wanted to sign like we got pentagons, not
not only the ones that are here from are great country,
but abroad as well.
Speaker 11: Yeah, chef, well to the coach, thank you for the recognition.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, chef, we love you. We thank you.
Speaker 4: And uh very soon, Matt and now are going to
come crash the the cafeteria there and come the.
Speaker 7: Corner and some of the people eight yesterday and yeah
more to that.
Speaker 11: Yeah to please just that too, give me two all right, all.
Speaker 4: Right, man, and don't worry. Alandra and Tato are coming
with us. So it's four plates.
Speaker 7: Unless you, you know, want to make a share, then
we'll just kick Matt out of here and m just
share a place like I've never heard of that word.
I've been to Italy. Yeah, I like to think that
he had like Italian food, you can't hide it so traveled. Yeah,
gonna check it out.
Speaker 5: All right, we'll take a break when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Tigers turn Talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back in OTV here live from the
Raizy Caines Studio. Very very excited for our next guests.
After a big win last night in overtime in Boston,
l S you had basketball coach Matt McMahon joins the show.
Speaker 5: Coach, we appreciate the time.
Speaker 4: I know that you got in super late, obviously traveling
all the way up from Boston down to the Boots,
So we appreciate the time.
Speaker 5: This morning.
Speaker 10: Hey, thanks for having me and actually ended up being
we got in early, got in about seven thirty this
morning because of some of the delays. But happy to
be back safely, and you know how those delayed. It's
a lot better after a win than after a miserable loss.
So thankful we found a way last night.
Speaker 5: Oh, there's no question.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing better, coach than a flight home
after a big win. Now, and you're right like, if
you lose, it's it's somber and it's kind of quiet.
But I'll take some of those for the ones when
you return and you get this big win and you're in,
you know, an overtime situation. In the first half, you dominate.
The second half, Boston College is shooting it really well,
but you find a way, coach, you find a way
to force overtime. And once that happened, and I thought
the broadcast did a really nice job, John Crispin, my
guy's like, uh oh, this is this is trouble for
Boston College because coach, you could see that switch that
y'all flipped there right at the end of the second
half to force overtime, and you weren't going to be
denied in that game.
Speaker 10: I appreciate it, man. That was that was the first adversity,
real true adversity we faced this year. So I was
proud of our players response. I don't know if we
could have shot at any worse than the second half,
you know, twenty six percent. We were nine at thirty four. Yeah,
it looks like you and me out there playing in
an over reck league game.
Speaker 3: We just couldn't make anything, but guys hung in there.
We got three stuffs in a row in the last minute.
DJ Thomas got those two big baskets we get it
to overtime, and then after the horrific shooting, we didn't
miss a single shot in overtime.
Speaker 10: We were one hundred percent from the floor and one
hundred from the pre draw line. And I just thought
our guys played with a lot of resiliency there when
we needed it the most. And you know, winning on
the road, when you go three to nineteen from three,
it's really difficult to do. So so tremidous treadit our
rebounding in our defense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, coach, you said it, And I think no matter
what the sport is, I think any coach wants his
team to face adversity and to see how they react
from especially early in a season like this. And we
saw how your team was able to react. And my
question was like what do you get from that response?
And like do you finally like do you feel like
you finally have something with this team that you've been
looking for since you've been here.
Speaker 10: Yes, I love our team. We get some winners. I
mean DJ Thomas, he's as good a point guard as
there is out there in college basketball. I mean he's
just electric, he's a winner. He's toughest nails, you know,
just like with a football, you know, on your guys side,
you know, and I know, we just got the most
creative coordinator offensive schemer in the country coming to Baton Rouge.
We're trying to do the same thing with DJ. We
want to put him in different positions to manipulate the
spacing on the floor so we can take care of it,
take advantage of his genius on the floor. We saw
last night. I mean, he's six foot, one hundred and
eighty pounds and we have him playing down in the
post because he's really skilled down there. He had we
charted twenty possessions. He got two feet into the paint
with the basketball and he created sixteen assists opportunities for
our team. We converted seven of those, got fouled twice.
But he's just such a winner. And then for the
first we have a legitimate sec side at every position
in our physicality. You know, the painted area for us
is like the line of scrimmage and the trenches for you.
And we can finally compete in there. And you know,
in Woco and mark elm Sutton and those guys have
been awesome so far here early in the.
Speaker 4: Season, coach, I thought my favorite play from DJ and
you're right, man, it is so good to have a finisher,
closer and somebody that you can give the basketball too.
And it's not only when he's scoring. I thought the
play of the night last night was he's under the basket.
A lot of people just kind of pick up their
dribble at that point, but he continues to try to
make a play and he dishes it to McKinnon there
and he hits the big three.
Speaker 5: I thought that was maybe the play of the game.
He didn't give up on it.
Speaker 4: He didn't just stop his dribble and try to find
somewhere to make a pass. He had a plan and
he attacked and then he dishes it, like you said,
and you hit down a big three.
Speaker 10: Oh very well said. It was pretty cool to see
a three actually go in to your point his patients there.
He has a lead court vision and he's very unselfish,
willing passer. I know, for a guy like me who
needs all the help I can get getting open for shots,
I'd love to play with a guy like DJ Thomas
because he just makes everyone around him better. And you know,
on the night, he didn't finish some early I think
at one point in the game he was five to
seventeen from the floor, but he goes three for his
last four, gets to the free throw line, goes seven
of eight there, and it just finds a way to
help us win the team.
Speaker 7: Yeah, coach here, that's something that nobody wants to have
to talk about here and do. But just tell us
the injury to Jalen Reid, tell us about that's impacted
and just how he like emotionally is dealing with with
this whole situation.
Speaker 10: He's doing better with it than I am. I am
just crushed. It is just devash dating. You know, guys,
when he got hurt last year, we released it as
an abl injury. It was a lot more than an AHL.
It was a career threatening deal and he just was
unbelievable in his workout. They can get back and after
an eleven month rehab, he's coming in. He's averaging eleven
point six rebounds a game. He's gradually working his way
back into form. And now to have the Achilles injury
on his other foot or other leg, I should say,
it's just heartbreaking, but you know, he's doing really well.
He's a great, great young man. I just just heartbroken
for him. But he'll come back strong from it, and
I think he's in a really, really good place. And
that's the fun part about it for me that I've
really missed in this new era. I mean, this is
my fourth year getting to coach him. I've got to
watch him grow as a player on and off the court,
and he's just really you know, as I said in
my statement the other day, it just represents everything that's
great about college athlet So I'm excited to watch his
journey back to the court over the next nine months.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll definitely fight his way back like he did before.
Like you said, I mean, somebody that's not going to
be denied catching up with else you had basketball coach
Matt McMahon here on OTB coach. Next time out, you're
going to play a really good Texas Tech Red Raider
team that's going to be in Fort Worth coming up
here on December the seventh. I know you just got
in from your last game. Obviously with some delays there,
have you had a chance to watch his Texas Tech
basketball team yet.
Speaker 10: Yeah, huge opportunity for us. The legitimate top twenty team
in the country. JT. Toppins the All Americans returning All
American for them, averaging twenty two and eleven. Just a
monster around the goal, really skilled lefty, and then they
have a really good point guard, one of the top
point guards in the country, Christian Anderson. Actually represented Germany
in the Under twenty World Cup this summer and played
extremely well. So it'll be a great test for us.
But it's a great opportunity to play a quad one
game on a neutral floor. And you know, see see
where we're staying here at this point in the season
with the momentum we've been able to build here early.
Now go to Texas Tech and then another top forty
team in SMU the following Saturday in New Orleans. These
are opportunities we got to take advantage of.
Speaker 7: Hey, Couch and we're we are extremely excited to watch
watch NFL, watch your team continue to play. And because
this is the first time that I've had the opportunity
to meet and speak with you, So I just want
to tell you it's a pleasure, it's an honor and
great speaking with you. And you got to know around
here I'm the guy that asked a hard hitting question,
So I'm about to ask you something. Man, You're definitely
not prep for In your opinion, In your opinion, what
is the greatest basketball movie ever made?
Speaker 10: Tuck, There's no real discussion there, Jimmy chip Wood, the
old picket Fence. Don't get caught watching the paint dry
alcoholic Dennis Opera in there. I mean, you can't beat it.
Speaker 4: There's nothing like it.
Speaker 10: It would be the competition. I don't even know.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting there. I'm trying to wonder too. I mean,
I love Blue Chips. Blue Chips was was great. Good,
that's good, great, Chrich Carter, which Carter's going.
Speaker 10: I was thinking the Hoosiers. The music in my head
now and I'll be there all day was great. I
might watch it tonight.
Speaker 7: When I was when I was a child, I probably
watched the Air up there probably fifty times.
Speaker 5: Bacon was good. I can tell you.
Speaker 4: My former quarterback coach Philip Rivers, like he tried to
like live his life like it was Hoosiers, Like everything
he did, like he had a Hoosiers movie quote for it.
We all, yeah, Simon first, Yeah, coach, you're the man again.
Speaker 5: I know you got in super late, but congrats on
the win. It was.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun to watch your team
not be denied even when it wasn't going y'alls way
in the second half, again they found a way. And
once they found a way, that game was over and
certainly closed it out. Looking forward to the matchup with
Texas Tech coming up here in a couple of days
in Fort Worth.
Speaker 5: And we appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Awesome, Thanks so much for having me on. I appreciate it.
Look forward to talking here.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Coach Matt McMahon good enough to join us. They
had basketball coach for your l s U Fighting Tigers.
Was that one movie where he said, who's yours quick?
Speaker 7: Which is the answer? Yeah? What's that one movie where
the guy passes away and like his ghost sixth man?
Sixth man? Yes, good one.
Speaker 6: They all even love in basketball.
Speaker 8: I've always like I put it, I've always liked Glory Road.
Speaker 5: Well, he got game space.
Speaker 8: Jam Well Jesus shuttles Worth action.
Speaker 7: Yeah mm hmm. Yeah, shout out.
Speaker 6: Forgetting like the most.
Speaker 4: Yeah, heard a great story. Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes
had a bet that he couldn't dunk, and uh they
lowered the rim and Wesley didn't know about it, and
he stuffed it and he took the money cheating, ain't trying,
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the bench to close it out. When we come back
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Today is the day.
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he spoke with car head coach Bryce Brown and five
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LSU today.
Speaker 5: There was a hold up Wednesday due to a clerical error.
Speaker 4: Anderson is testing today and the paperwork should be official
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by the way fifteen the Division one Division one signs yesterday.
So I had seven in my class in high school.
That's like yeah, right, or nine something like that, and
I thought that was.
Speaker 5: Like it legit. Fifteen.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be a tough light research, but they gotta
be one of the highest, like the most people at
a high school this year, I don't like. I think
I saw IMG had like twenty one that doesn't counts,
but my god, fifteen, they ain't listen, that's.
Speaker 8: The premiere program in the state right now.
Speaker 7: I mean, is it that? That's what I'm saying. Is it?
Is it the premieer? Is it the premier school in
the country. That's why I want I was trying to google.
I was trying to like there's a there's a school
in California, there's one in Georgia that they were talking about,
like had a bunch, but I don't know if any
of them besides IMG well match fifteen. I'd like to
figure out. I'd like to get that. Uh CHAGBT said,
I can't do that research. It's too much.
Speaker 4: It's like it's a lot of high school up in
the car right now. I know in like the Max
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