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POTB 535: Recapping IU basketball's trip to Puerto Rico with Josh Pos · Podcast on the Brink

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to a new episode of Podcasts on the Brink.
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Speaker 1: It's Monday afternoon, August eleventh. Josh Pose is back on
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Speaker 1: podcast on the Brink for the second time, and with
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Speaker 1: the last four or five days, he's down in Puerto
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Speaker 1: Rico tracking the Hoosiers who finished their exhibition tour three
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Speaker 1: and oh after two big time come from behind winds,
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Speaker 1: which we're going to talk to Josh about. If you
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Speaker 1: doing that. So I noticed several people did that on
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Speaker 1: the last podcast we had with Josh, So if you
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Speaker 1: could do that again, we would truly appreciate it. Josh,
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Speaker 1: you just got back from the arena. It was another
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Speaker 1: come from behind win for Indiana basketball. What is it
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Speaker 1: about this team maybe that you saw in these last
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Speaker 1: two games that they dig a big hole and then
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Speaker 1: are able to come out of it. It seemed like,
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Speaker 1: obviously the other day was a lot more clear cut
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Speaker 1: that they were going to win this game. It was
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Speaker 1: touch and go there, and the fourth quarter really didn't
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Speaker 1: seem like they were going to be able to complete
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Speaker 1: the comeback, but they were able to ultimately prevail. I'm
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Speaker 1: just curious seeing you watching this team up close now
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Speaker 1: for three games, but more particularly in these last two games,
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Speaker 1: what did you see that maybe led to the big
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Speaker 1: deficits and then allow them to come back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it was a slow start. It really starts
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Speaker 2: with a three point shot. They can't get that first
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Speaker 2: shot to fall, at least in those first two games.
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Speaker 2: They started I think five or oh of six today,
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Speaker 2: and once they got down there was just a grit
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Speaker 2: about this team. There was nine substitutions in the first
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Speaker 2: four minutes, first four or five minutes that Darren Rees
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Speaker 2: made trying to plug and play.
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Speaker 3: He was trying.
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Speaker 2: Indiana got back to six, it ballooned out to twenty.
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Speaker 2: By halftime, it was fifty to thirty. But at neither
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Speaker 2: of these games, at no point was anybody on the
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Speaker 2: bench disengaged. It's a summer trip. Everybody could have been disengaged.
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Speaker 2: They could have been talking about their plans for the
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Speaker 2: next day, or I can't wait to go home and
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Speaker 2: in and be back in Bloomington. But there was never
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Speaker 2: a point where the intensity waivered. They were down sixteen
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Speaker 2: at one point today in the second half, and the
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Speaker 2: entire bench was standing again doing a defense chant, leading
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Speaker 2: the crowd in a defense chan. And then as soon
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Speaker 2: as blood's in the water, this team pounds. This team
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Speaker 2: is the team full of sharks. And Darren de Bries
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Speaker 2: actually said after the game that there were some guys
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Speaker 2: afraid to jump in when they were snorkeling because of sharks.
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Speaker 2: There are a bunch of sharks right now. In those
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Speaker 2: last two games, it was really fun to watch them
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Speaker 2: feed off the crowd's energy while also creating their own
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Speaker 2: energy with each other on the bench.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that energy, so you know I've watched your
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Speaker 1: highlights from all three games. I noticed the first game
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Speaker 1: it was pretty subdued for the whole game, but obviously
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Speaker 1: it was a non competitive game against the team that
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Speaker 1: Indiana really could have just shown up and probably played
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Speaker 1: its five Horset players in one handily. But the last
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Speaker 1: two games a much different story. But even though the
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Speaker 1: attendance there hasn't necessarily been large, I think maybe at
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Speaker 1: the most a couple hundred people for the last couple
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Speaker 1: of games. It did seem like Indiana fans really kind
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Speaker 1: of brought it these last two games and got into it.
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Speaker 1: Was that was that kind of how it was. How
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Speaker 1: did maybe Indiana feed off that energy?
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Speaker 2: If at all there was maybe one hundred Indiana fans
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Speaker 2: those three games, each game, one hundred fans. They fed
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Speaker 2: off the defense chance with each other, the crowd and
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Speaker 2: the players, and I have it in the video and
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Speaker 2: the highlights that when the Mega super Bet player dribble
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Speaker 2: the ball off his own foot and not abound, Sam
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Speaker 2: Alexis was right in front of the Varsity club members
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Speaker 2: or the people that made the trip, and he was
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Speaker 2: just as static, and he was feeding off their energy.
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Speaker 2: They were feeding off his energy, and they made a
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Speaker 2: I think it was a four thousand seed arena feel
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Speaker 2: a little bit louder despite the lack of size and numbers.
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Speaker 2: And it's a true testament to how this team will
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Speaker 2: play inside of Assembly Hall while also in a road environment,
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Speaker 2: how they can create their own energy. So a lot
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Speaker 2: of good things come from just the energy portion less
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Speaker 2: than the score.
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Speaker 1: In terms of today's game, specifically, because it's a little
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Speaker 1: bit more intriguing to me from the standpoint that they
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Speaker 1: really had to get some stops down the stretch. It
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Speaker 1: was a close game the other game on Saturday. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's impressive what they were able to do. I think
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Speaker 1: the run that I saw you report or mentioned at
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Speaker 1: one time was seventy to nineteen, So to turn around
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Speaker 1: a game like that is obviously impressive. But this game
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Speaker 1: was different in that, as I mentioned, they had to
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Speaker 1: really buckle down late and get stops, and it seemed
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Speaker 1: like early in the game they weren't able to get
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Speaker 1: any stops. Did anything change defensively that you saw in
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Speaker 1: the second half, just in terms of how they were
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Speaker 1: approaching each possession. Was there more of an urgency? I
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Speaker 1: know we were talking before I hit record that you
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Speaker 1: mentioned it in terms of how they came out today.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not as locked in from the get go, but
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Speaker 1: it did seem like they were able to turn up
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Speaker 1: the intensity defensively down the stretch. What did you see
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Speaker 1: from them? And this is again it's hard to really
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Speaker 1: say what competition level Mega super Bet is, but I
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Speaker 1: will add that they had they have some players who
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Speaker 1: were Division one caliber. They have a guy who was
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Speaker 1: drafted in the second round of the NBA draft by
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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks. Who's going to stay over the seas
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Speaker 1: for this year. But at some point I would assume
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Speaker 1: that since the Bucks drafted him, they want him to
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Speaker 1: come over and be a part of their roster. So
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Speaker 1: this isn't a team that they played that was a
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Speaker 1: complete rollover, and it's impressive to me that they were
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Speaker 1: able to kind of we're caveating all this with this
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Speaker 1: is an exhibition game on August. We're not making predictions
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Speaker 1: on what's going to actually happen when the game games
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Speaker 1: are played. But these are the three games that we've
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Speaker 1: had a chance to Well you've had a chance to see,
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Speaker 1: we've had a chance to read about and watch some highlights.
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Speaker 1: But to me, it was impressive how they were able
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Speaker 1: to maybe dig down and get those stops and able
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Speaker 1: to overcome the devsit and win down the stretch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they just wore Mega super Bet down in the
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Speaker 2: second half really of both games. It started late in
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Speaker 2: the first half on Saturday night, but the defensive intense,
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Speaker 2: defensive intensity ratchet up and all of a sudden, there
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Speaker 2: was a flip that got switched and taking Connorway really
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Speaker 2: let Indiana on that first half. He's the reason that
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Speaker 2: this was an Indiana win. He didn't play very much
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Speaker 2: in that second half, but he had eighteen first half points.
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Speaker 2: Alex and his I think he had five steals today.
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Speaker 3: It might have been.
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Speaker 2: It was actually only listed as three, but there were
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Speaker 2: past deflections, there was everything, and he was drawing files.
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Speaker 2: He drew nine or yeah, nine fouls today. It was
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Speaker 2: him in the first half, and then Lamar Wilkerson finally
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Speaker 2: got it going in the second half, and it gave
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Speaker 2: Indiana confidence. Their defense got better, their intensity was even
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Speaker 2: higher than what it was in the first half, and
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Speaker 2: they they just decided to buckle down and get some
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Speaker 2: stops in the switching. We can talk about it later,
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Speaker 2: but there were some bigger guys on Mega Superbad obviously
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Speaker 2: than UCB.
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Speaker 3: On Wednesday. We had to go to the two.
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Speaker 2: Big lineup a little bit, but a lot of switching
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Speaker 2: on the screen, so a lot of mismatches, doubling down,
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Speaker 2: but taking Connorway, Connor Enwright, Josiah Miles, who's not as
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Speaker 2: small as the other two, they played just as big
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Speaker 2: as someone who was six' five six. Six it was
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Speaker 2: incredible to see them push and. Fight En right filed
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Speaker 2: out in both games some of those calls WERE feba,
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Speaker 2: OFFICIALS i SHOULD i should, say but everybody did their
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Speaker 2: job on the defensive end and. Everything we saw a
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Speaker 2: couple weeks ago in practice where they were preaching the,
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Speaker 2: gap stay in the, gap stay in the. Gap they
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Speaker 2: were doing, that they were staying in their. Gaps the
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Speaker 2: coaching staff was. STANDING i think there's like nine coaches
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Speaker 2: at the front of the bench who were all. Standing
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Speaker 2: got a bench warning at one. Point but it was
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Speaker 2: that defensive intensity of staying in the, gap doubling, down switching,
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Speaker 2: screens and playing a strong brand of basketball to where
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Speaker 2: mega super bet down is What indiana won those both
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Speaker 2: of those.
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Speaker 1: Games SO i Noticed connorway had eighteen in the first.
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Speaker 1: HALF i don't think he scored in the second. Half
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Speaker 1: what was He, OBVIOUSLY i don't Think indiana is going
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Speaker 1: to be relying on him to score that much on
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Speaker 1: the game in game out. Basis was that just a
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Speaker 1: result of in the first half the fact That wilkerson
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Speaker 1: And derees weren't necessarily playing particularly well and he was
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Speaker 1: just kind of taking the opportunities that were. Given but
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Speaker 1: and then on the on the flip side of, that
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Speaker 1: what maybe Were wilkerson And derees not doing as well
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Speaker 1: in the first, half but did better in the second
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Speaker 1: half to kind of allow them to find their footing offensively.
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Speaker 2: Well first, off For, connorway he kind of just took
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Speaker 2: it upon himself to take the ball to the basket
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Speaker 2: and draw. Files he wasn't worried about shooting three point.
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Speaker 2: Shots he went one of two in that first, half
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Speaker 2: and he just took it upon himself, To, okay if
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Speaker 2: no one else is going to step, UP i. Will
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Speaker 2: on the flip side With wilkerson And, derees they were
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Speaker 2: struggling from, three both of them, were and it happened
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Speaker 2: With Tucker devreeze's first basket didn't come until midway through
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Speaker 2: the third. Quarter he took the, ball he pump picked
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Speaker 2: a couple of dribbles to the, basket two hand, dunk
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Speaker 2: and that's what led him to thirteen points in that second.
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Speaker 2: Half Lamar wilkerson no points in that first, half also
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Speaker 2: took the ball to the. Rim they BOTH i think
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Speaker 2: combined maybe four and. Ones indiana maybe had six in
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Speaker 2: the second half, alone but those two And Sam alexis
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Speaker 2: combined for forty. Points forty Of indiana's fifty one points
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Speaker 2: in the second, half all by getting downhill and getting
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Speaker 2: to the. Rim the three point shot wasn't really falling
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Speaker 2: For indiana seven for twenty five not.
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Speaker 3: Terrible they had.
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Speaker 2: Some open looks in transition that just rimmed, out but
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Speaker 2: they realized that that shot was not, falling took it
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Speaker 2: to the basket and thirty two paint points is what
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Speaker 2: the difference was in the.
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Speaker 1: Game Pam alexis is someone that was obviously impressive of
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Speaker 1: this trip in terms of the overall, numbers played really
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Speaker 1: well again. Today what did you see out of him
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Speaker 1: over these three? Games thing you? SAW i know you
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Speaker 1: saw the practice too a couple weeks. Ago is there
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Speaker 1: anything you saw from his game down there that maybe
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Speaker 1: you weren't? Expecting and what kind of role can any
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Speaker 1: and the fans potentially expect him to play this coming.
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Speaker 2: SEASON i Think Sam alexis is gonna be the guy
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Speaker 2: that goes back to the basket more so Than Reid.
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Speaker 2: Bailey he was playing a really physical brand of basketball
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Speaker 2: against one of Super BET's, big big, guys and he
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Speaker 2: was winning these. Battles he got he got spotted a couple,
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Speaker 2: times but at the same, time he had a couple
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Speaker 2: of reverse pivots that were just beautiful. Footwork his footwork
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Speaker 2: has gotten. Better even since that first practice he was
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Speaker 2: struggling a little. Bit he's not gonna be one to
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Speaker 2: take the three as you Read, bailey he might be
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Speaker 2: that more stretch, five might. Shoot didn't shoot one today Nor.
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Speaker 2: Saturday but he's one of those guys that can take
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Speaker 2: the ball up the. Floor But Sam alexis he really
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Speaker 2: surprised me in these three, games more specifically today And,
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Speaker 2: saturday with just his physicality and his ability to finish through.
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Speaker 3: Contact did he.
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Speaker 1: Spend much time on the. FLOOR i don't want to
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Speaker 1: put you on the spot BECAUSE i don't. Know you
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Speaker 1: obviously don't tracking, Lineups but what do you recall if
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Speaker 1: he spent much time on the floor With bailey at?
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Speaker 1: All is that something you think could be viable this season.
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Speaker 2: Against really big lineups Like Super. Bet and then they
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Speaker 2: did play together. Periodically it wasn't long. Stretches it was
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Speaker 2: When indiana really needed a couple of big guys on
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Speaker 2: the floor just to stop the. Length at times on
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Speaker 2: the switches there was a six to eleven guy being
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Speaker 2: guarded by a six Foot connor En, right so they
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Speaker 2: needed to figure out how can we guard their two.
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Speaker 2: Bigs we got to get two bigs on the floor
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Speaker 2: and the offense still worked pretty. Well the ballscreen a
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Speaker 2: pick and ROLL i, RECALL i think it's in the.
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Speaker 2: Highlight so there's a pick and roll With enwright And
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Speaker 2: bailey that went really, well and there's two bigs on
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Speaker 2: the floor because there's a guy on the weak side
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Speaker 2: corner it's Either bailey Or Sam alexis that really spreads
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Speaker 2: the floor because they are at times decent three point.
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Speaker 2: Shooters Uh so the two big lineup works a lot
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Speaker 2: better than it did last, year just with the versatility
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Speaker 2: of both of the.
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Speaker 1: Biggs connor In, wright you mentioned the foul issues didn't
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Speaker 1: seem like he was really maybe ever able to get
13:13
Speaker 1: into the flow of the. Game was that maybe THESE
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Speaker 1: feva refs picking on a little. BIT i know there
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Speaker 1: was a game where he had a is there a
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Speaker 1: technical or an intentional? Foul but what were your observations
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Speaker 1: of him just watching? Them we know what he's gonna
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Speaker 1: bring this in terms of, energy a guy that can
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Speaker 1: get under people's. Skin was he doing any of that down?
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Speaker 2: There? Yeah we found out a couple of weeks ago
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Speaker 2: that he was A wisconsin basketball, fan and my first
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Speaker 2: COMPARISON i wrote about it Is Brad. Davidson it's gonna
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Speaker 2: Be he's gonna be a guy That indiana fans. Love
13:43
Speaker 2: he's gonna be a guy That big ten fans hate
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Speaker 2: just because of the way he plays. Basketball he got
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Speaker 2: in a guy's head On saturday night and the guy
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Speaker 2: forearmed him in the back of the, head and he
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Speaker 2: gets up and it's not a it's not a very pack,
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Speaker 2: gym so you can hear most, things and he gets
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Speaker 2: in the guy's face and is, screaming, yeah gets a.
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Speaker 2: Technical and he's one of those guys that will just
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Speaker 2: frustrate a. Guard and he might have three four files a,
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Speaker 2: game and some of the stuff he got away. With
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Speaker 2: a lot of it he did not get away. With
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Speaker 2: there was a couple times when he was beat down
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Speaker 2: low against a six to eleven guy where he'd wrap
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Speaker 2: around and that's where he would get his foul.
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Speaker 3: Called and he was just one of those.
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Speaker 2: Guys him And Taton conway were the ones On. Saturday
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Speaker 2: conorway kind of kept it his talking on the floor
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Speaker 2: with his eighteen points in the first. Half they are
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Speaker 2: guys that will NonStop talk to an opponent just to
14:43
Speaker 2: get in their head and then give them no room
14:45
Speaker 2: as they dribble the. Basketball he might not fill up
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Speaker 2: the stat, sheet but he had six rebounds in twenty
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Speaker 2: five or twenty two minutes nearly twenty three minutes of
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Speaker 2: game action, Today so he's going to fly in for
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Speaker 2: a rebound and try to push the floor As indiana
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Speaker 2: did all.
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Speaker 1: Day what was your sense of just how competitive these
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Speaker 1: games were just from both the side of both teams
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Speaker 1: wanting to. Win, Obviously indiana had to really fight to
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Speaker 1: get back in both of these, games but it ALSO
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Speaker 1: i may be a mistaken, here but these are probably
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Speaker 1: games that Super bet wanted to have at least one
15:19
Speaker 1: of that kind of feel good about their trip to
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Speaker 1: play these? Games was there was there was the intensity
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Speaker 1: level pretty? High was it contested like a regular game
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Speaker 1: or was it more like an? Exhibition how would you characterize?
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Speaker 2: It if you started streaming a game that game and
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Speaker 2: you didn't know what the date, was you'd probably think
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Speaker 2: it Was november Or.
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Speaker 3: December it was.
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Speaker 2: Chippy you'd have thought these teams had bad blood from
15:47
Speaker 2: About why do you think that? WAS i really think
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Speaker 2: it started With Taton connorway And Connor enright in that
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Speaker 2: first game from the, jump they were frustrating The serbian
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Speaker 2: players to the point where they would just get that
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Speaker 2: shoulder or forearm to the to the back of the,
16:05
Speaker 2: chest or to the chest or to the back back
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Speaker 2: of the. Head and it was to the point Where
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Speaker 2: indiana frustrated these guys so much in that second half
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Speaker 2: On saturday that as they were going to a bench
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Speaker 2: for a time, out Super bet was trying to talk
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Speaker 2: something to En right and he got right up in
16:26
Speaker 2: the guy's. Face he came off the, bench by the,
16:28
Speaker 2: way he was not on the, floor and just started
16:31
Speaker 2: yapping in the guy's. FACE a coach had to bring him,
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Speaker 2: back and it was just in an hilarious moment Because
16:37
Speaker 2: indiana had all their guys in your half court because
16:40
Speaker 2: they were just on this. Run the timeout was, happening
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Speaker 2: and These serbian guys had no idea what to. Do
16:46
Speaker 2: usually they're the. Aggressors what it appeared to, be they
16:50
Speaker 2: were on their. Heels there's blood in the, water and
16:54
Speaker 2: there was just NonStop chatter between the two. Teams not
16:57
Speaker 2: so much early in the first half of today's, game
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Speaker 2: but towards, halftime there were some pretty hard, files and
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Speaker 2: then the second half as the game kind of got
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Speaker 2: closer and farther and then closer, again and late in the,
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Speaker 2: game it was just an intensity level that you see
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Speaker 2: in a regular season.
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Speaker 1: Game how was the officiating just in terms of what
17:19
Speaker 1: they were letting go and what they were actually? Calling you,
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Speaker 1: KNOW i saw it a couple of clips on. There
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Speaker 1: it kind of seemed like there was some things that
17:28
Speaker 1: maybe were let go and not called that would have
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Speaker 1: been called in A big ten. Game But i'm just
17:32
Speaker 1: curious from your perspective what you saw in terms of
17:35
Speaker 1: how the games were called and the amount of physicality they.
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Speaker 3: Allowed flip the. Coin you had no. IDEA i MEAN
17:43
Speaker 3: i had it right. There i've had a lot of.
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Speaker 3: Change that was.
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Speaker 2: Slick that was, slick, Man thank, you thank. YOU i
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Speaker 2: don't know what a foul is IN foeba. OFFICIATING i
17:54
Speaker 2: don't know what goaltending. Is i'm not sure if a
17:59
Speaker 2: guy Like Courtney green would be able to handle the
18:01
Speaker 2: officials in this particular. Setting Or Darren debries got upset many.
18:09
Speaker 2: TIMES i didn't know if he had the demeanor to
18:12
Speaker 2: get upset in an exhibition. Game and that was another
18:14
Speaker 2: thing that you would have thought that there was tournament
18:17
Speaker 2: implications on the line because the entire coaching staff was
18:22
Speaker 2: going was was irate with the, officials the, bench the.
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Speaker 3: Players on the.
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Speaker 2: Floor it was an intense atmosphere that the officiating didn't
18:32
Speaker 2: really know how to keep up.
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Speaker 3: WITH i don't know what.
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Speaker 2: They're used to here In Puerto, rico but it was
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Speaker 2: not what those last two games were in terms of.
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Speaker 2: Physicality so there was a time that there was a
18:44
Speaker 2: forearm to the, back nothing a push on a rebound
18:48
Speaker 2: didn't get. CALLED i think today Read. Bayles When indiana
18:51
Speaker 2: got the bench, Warning Reed bailey got shoved and then
18:55
Speaker 2: the loose ball and all of a sudden the whistle,
18:57
Speaker 2: blew So indiana thought they got the, ball but there was.
18:59
Speaker 3: A fall on Re.
19:00
Speaker 2: Bailey you would have thought that something bad happened in
19:05
Speaker 2: the arena based on How Darren DeVries, Reacted but it just.
19:08
Speaker 2: Shows it goes to show how intense the team was
19:12
Speaker 2: despite A monday morning.
19:14
Speaker 3: Game But i'm GLAD i don't have to see that.
19:18
Speaker 3: Again in terms of APPRECIATING i.
19:20
Speaker 1: Mean how valuable do YOU i feel like sometimes it
19:23
Speaker 1: can make too much out of this kind of. Stuff,
19:25
Speaker 1: obviously when the actual games In november, begin we're gonna
19:29
Speaker 1: forget about all this stuff quickly once they start Playing
19:32
Speaker 1: marquette In kentucky And louisville and you know whoever else
19:35
Speaker 1: that they're playing in the non. Conference but how valuable
19:40
Speaker 1: of an experience do you think this is going to
19:42
Speaker 1: be over the next couple of months For indiana to
19:44
Speaker 1: have this, experience you, know have these games under their.
19:47
Speaker 1: Belt the coaching staff obviously gets some, film and they
19:50
Speaker 1: get the they get the head start with the extra.
19:52
Speaker 1: PRACTICES i, mean is this something that can actually pay
19:56
Speaker 1: big dividends when the season. Starts is it Make indiana
19:58
Speaker 1: a better team from the get? Go and how much
20:01
Speaker 1: development can can they ultimately get from these games and
20:05
Speaker 1: this opportunity to have the extra.
20:06
Speaker 2: PRACTICES i think the extra practices is What Darren DeVries,
20:10
Speaker 2: wanted especially with an entirely new. Team he felt that
20:14
Speaker 2: THOSE i think ten extra PRACTICES i believe is what it.
20:18
Speaker 3: Was he felt that those were more important than the.
20:21
Speaker 2: GAMES i would agree with him to an extent Because saturday's,
20:26
Speaker 2: game you go on that seventy nineteen, run it shows
20:28
Speaker 2: that you're able to today's. GAME i think had the
20:32
Speaker 2: most meaningful moments in terms of going To november In
20:39
Speaker 2: december and you Name big ten play the months In
20:42
Speaker 2: big ten, play because not really did they come, back
20:46
Speaker 2: but they won in a close. Game they went up
20:48
Speaker 2: to nothing and then didn't lead until there was six
20:50
Speaker 2: points something second slept on the. Clock that just shows
20:55
Speaker 2: how this team can work together to get back into the.
20:59
Speaker 2: Games maybe you shouldn't be spotting the team at your
21:02
Speaker 2: opponent twenty plus points in the first. Half that's another,
21:05
Speaker 2: thing but it shows that you're able to come back
21:09
Speaker 2: in these. Games so when they're down by twelve at
21:11
Speaker 2: the half against let's Say michigan Or Michigan state at,
21:14
Speaker 2: home there's a chance that they know going into that locker,
21:19
Speaker 2: room hey we've done this. Before it might might have
21:22
Speaker 2: been back In, august but, hey we're. Here we've done it.
21:26
Speaker 2: Together it's always a together. Thing and that's what it
21:29
Speaker 2: sounded like after both of those. Games we had battle adversity.
21:32
Speaker 2: Together we did it as. One we're better as a,
21:35
Speaker 2: unit is what we heard the entire time after From Lamar.
21:39
Speaker 2: Wilkerson both games were better together and they did it
21:44
Speaker 2: as one as a, group and they won a close.
21:48
Speaker 2: Game they got that last stop at the, end they
21:50
Speaker 2: found who wanted the ball at the, end it Was Lamar.
21:53
Speaker 2: Wilkerson they ran them off the three point line and
21:55
Speaker 2: a perfect feed To Sam alexis for a dunk Or
21:58
Speaker 2: rebailey rather for the. Dump and it just showed that
22:02
Speaker 2: they can win close games as a.
22:04
Speaker 1: Group so For indiana, fans what should maybe be the
22:07
Speaker 1: most encouraging thing coming out of this trip in terms
22:10
Speaker 1: of what you saw on the.
22:11
Speaker 2: Floor that's a good. QUESTION i wasn't prepared for. IT
22:17
Speaker 2: i think the three point shot will come around in.
22:21
Speaker 2: GAMES i think that when the three point shot isn't,
22:24
Speaker 2: working don't expect them to chuck up thirty three threes
22:29
Speaker 2: or twenty five. Threes they might still do, it but
22:32
Speaker 2: they're going to fix it and adjust on the. Fly
22:35
Speaker 2: that's what should Excite indiana. Fans they went down by twenty,
22:38
Speaker 2: points twenty three points On, saturday twenty two points today
22:43
Speaker 2: and adjust it that didn't happen in the. Past the
22:46
Speaker 2: adjustments made at the break and within the game as,
22:50
Speaker 2: well from both coaches and players, alike is something that
22:53
Speaker 2: people should really look forward to with this. Team the
22:56
Speaker 2: guys respond to the coaching staff and they're all they're all.
23:01
Speaker 2: Coaching they're not just yelling just to. Yell Darren devrees
23:04
Speaker 2: isn't yelling just to.
23:05
Speaker 3: Yell he is.
23:06
Speaker 2: Coaching and that was what was valuable in these games
23:09
Speaker 2: and That indiana fans can look forward.
23:11
Speaker 1: To what's maybe your biggest lingering question coming out of
23:14
Speaker 1: watching these three games about this?
23:16
Speaker 2: Team my my biggest concern right now is the first,
23:23
Speaker 2: quarter the first ten minutes of. GAMES i know there's quarters,
23:28
Speaker 2: here has in in back. HOME i really think that
23:32
Speaker 2: they need to figure out how to come out of the.
23:34
Speaker 2: Gate they have good, intentions but they're not converting. Shots
23:38
Speaker 2: you got to make that first three point. Shot you
23:41
Speaker 2: got to go up for. Nothing you got to you
23:43
Speaker 2: gotta get an early lead and see where that takes.
23:45
Speaker 2: You we saw them get down in both games by
23:48
Speaker 2: double digits almost. Immediately you got to come out in the,
23:51
Speaker 2: gate out of the gate, strong because when you're out
23:53
Speaker 2: Of Michigan, state you're out Of, purdue.
23:54
Speaker 3: You're at a.
23:56
Speaker 2: Shoot nebraska at this point for this, Program, uh you're
23:59
Speaker 2: going to have to start off much better than you
24:02
Speaker 2: did in these last two.
24:03
Speaker 1: Games in terms of the front. CORN i know one
24:06
Speaker 1: thing just from watching that practice you AND i talked
24:08
Speaker 1: about was concerns about how are they going to guard the?
24:11
Speaker 1: POST i know you Mentioned mega Super bet having some
24:14
Speaker 1: size in the. POST i mean, overall how Did indiana
24:18
Speaker 1: fair just in terms of being able to guard in the?
24:21
Speaker 1: Paint is that still something that you think is going
24:23
Speaker 1: to be a challenge against certain.
24:25
Speaker 2: TEAMS i think With mega Super, bet their guys weren't.
24:30
Speaker 2: Strong they were, big but they weren't. Strong So i'm
24:33
Speaker 2: gonna mess his name. Up It bogo Lub Bogolum, markovich
24:39
Speaker 2: the forty seventh overall pick in the. Draft he was
24:41
Speaker 2: playing and it Wasn't Reed bailey that was. GUARDING i expected.
24:45
Speaker 2: That On. Saturday it was Actually Tucker devreese and he
24:48
Speaker 2: played them straight out pretty. Well but on the first
24:51
Speaker 2: dribble in the back Turned indiana will send the double
24:55
Speaker 2: and then their rotation was really. Good they had worked on.
24:58
Speaker 2: That you could tell That indiana knows they're going to
25:01
Speaker 2: be a smaller. Team they're not going to be the
25:03
Speaker 2: tallest team on the floor unless they're Playing Bayamonne Central
25:07
Speaker 2: university or whatever they, Were so they worked defensively on
25:12
Speaker 2: adjusting and shifting out to the next. Man and getting
25:17
Speaker 2: the ball and not leaving an open. Man the rotations
25:20
Speaker 2: were fantastic in both of these. Games and to be
25:23
Speaker 2: honest with, you the ten threes that Super bet made,
25:26
Speaker 2: Today i'd say four of them were just heavily. Contested
25:29
Speaker 2: four or five of them were heavily contested and just great,
25:32
Speaker 2: shots and in their offense was constantly.
25:35
Speaker 3: Moving it was.
25:36
Speaker 2: Impressive But, indiana that post, defense they're not going to
25:39
Speaker 2: play straight, up but they're going to play really good
25:42
Speaker 2: defense on the.
25:43
Speaker 1: Rotation terrific insight there on everything. There, josh before we
25:48
Speaker 1: let you, GO i know you want to get the
25:50
Speaker 1: writing and you're leave in the. Morning but we talked
25:54
Speaker 1: earlier on the trip about what you've been able to
25:56
Speaker 1: do In Puerto, rico and now you've obviously been there a bit,
26:00
Speaker 1: longer had a chance to experience some of, things what
26:02
Speaker 1: were maybe some of the highlights for you outside of
26:05
Speaker 1: the basketball and what you've ever, done and you got
26:06
Speaker 1: to spend some time with a couple other members of
26:09
Speaker 1: the media and go around and do some. Things i'm
26:11
Speaker 1: just kind of curious how everything went in terms of
26:14
Speaker 1: the non basketball stuff and what you enjoyed most about the.
26:16
Speaker 2: Trip it was a blast from WHEN i landed On
26:21
Speaker 2: tuesday night here In San. Juan the food was incredible
26:25
Speaker 2: and panadas might just be my favorite food out there
26:29
Speaker 2: at this.
26:30
Speaker 3: Point rice and BEANS i can go without for quite some.
26:32
Speaker 3: Time the. Ocean the only.
26:36
Speaker 2: Time i've really been to the ocean with waves is
26:38
Speaker 2: WHEN i was like, fourteen and that was like peak jumping.
26:41
Speaker 3: Waves time did?
26:42
Speaker 2: THAT i think that Was saturday With Daniel flick Or
26:47
Speaker 2: friday With Daniel flick.
26:48
Speaker 3: Of hoosiers on S. High but we had a good
26:52
Speaker 3: time all Throughout Old San.
26:55
Speaker 2: JUAN i really recommend if you go on a cruise
26:57
Speaker 2: go Through San, juan go. Through this place is really
27:01
Speaker 2: cool and some good. Food AND i didn't lose my.
27:05
Speaker 1: Backpack, yeah you want to tell the backpack story now
27:09
Speaker 1: that it has a happy, ending because we dealt with. That,
27:11
Speaker 1: HONESTLY i WOULD i didn't dealt with. IT i think
27:13
Speaker 1: you were concerned On saturday when your backpack turned up.
27:18
Speaker 1: MISSING i think you were worried that it was going
27:20
Speaker 1: to be a bigger. Catastrophe BUT i told you to remain.
27:23
Speaker 1: Calm everything is going to work out and, well and,
27:26
Speaker 1: behold the backpack shows back up. Today what happened with the.
27:28
Speaker 2: Backpack, WELL i was writing After saturday night's, game AND i.
27:34
Speaker 2: MOVED i was writing at the scorers, table AND i
27:38
Speaker 2: put my bag kind of near like the front of
27:41
Speaker 2: the scorers, table AND i was.
27:43
Speaker 3: WRITING i was.
27:43
Speaker 2: WRITING i was just about to. TEXT i was just
27:45
Speaker 2: about to put in the highlights For saturday night's. GAME
27:47
Speaker 2: i was gonna be really, quick SO i apologize if
27:49
Speaker 2: they didn't come out that quickly to all those who are.
27:51
Speaker 2: Listening AND i was ready to get. GOING i close
27:54
Speaker 2: my laptop AND i, go all, right who took my? Backpack,
27:57
Speaker 2: like who's playing a joke on? Me we, searched we.
28:00
Speaker 2: ASKED i used My. Spanish i've been fantastic with My
28:03
Speaker 2: spanish this. TRIP i would like to say thank you
28:06
Speaker 2: for nine years Of spanish all of my. Schools and
28:11
Speaker 2: they were, like, well there's no backpack, here and So
28:16
Speaker 2: i'd given up and every not everything was.
28:19
Speaker 3: GONE i had a.
28:20
Speaker 2: LOT i still had my, phone my, wallet my air,
28:23
Speaker 2: computer my, computer the, camera and it was just some
28:27
Speaker 2: sunglasses and miscellaneous things in. There and SO i get
28:31
Speaker 2: to the arena, today different, arena mind.
28:33
Speaker 3: You we're In.
28:34
Speaker 2: Carolina the other one was At, Coliseo Roberto. Clemente i'm
28:39
Speaker 2: talking To jeff Rab. Johnson he said you should follow
28:42
Speaker 2: a police. Report it's, okay it doesn't sound it'll be.
28:45
Speaker 2: Dumb i've given up, hope and all of a, SUDDEN
28:48
Speaker 2: i look over Behind mega Super bets bench is my.
28:51
Speaker 2: Backpack just out of the, blue grabbed, it AND i
28:56
Speaker 2: don't THINK i let go of it the entire the entire.
28:59
Speaker 2: Game for three. HOURS i held onto it. Tight it's
29:02
Speaker 2: in my. Possession everything was in. There so thank you
29:05
Speaker 2: To mega Super bet for bringing it back. Unscathed but,
29:11
Speaker 2: man it was mental warfare for about forty eight hours.
29:14
Speaker 1: There, Well i'm glad the backpack Hasn't at the, Ending
29:17
Speaker 1: indiana goes three and. Zero you have a great time
29:20
Speaker 1: off the court. There you've done terrific. WORK i know
29:22
Speaker 1: everyone that reads the, site that follows on social media
29:25
Speaker 1: that's going to listen to this, podcast watch the video
29:28
Speaker 1: is really appreciative of the work you've. Done i'm appreciative of,
29:31
Speaker 1: it you, know because obviously we needed you to take
29:34
Speaker 1: the trip down, there and you made the most of the.
29:35
Speaker 1: Opportunity still got a couple of stories probably to write
29:37
Speaker 1: before you take off in the, morning and who, knows
29:40
Speaker 1: maybe some more coverage to come in the days and
29:42
Speaker 1: weeks ahead based on what you saw on. There i'm
29:44
Speaker 1: sure there's some other things that we can come up.
29:47
Speaker 1: With but thanks, Again josh for making the time this.
29:49
Speaker 1: AFTERNOON i really enjoyed having you on the, show And
29:51
Speaker 1: i've really enjoyed your coverage down there In Puerto.
29:53
Speaker 2: Rico, yeah thank you very much for sending me down,
29:56
Speaker 2: here and thank you for everyone who followed me On,
29:58
Speaker 2: twitter followed my, stories commented on this. Stories it made
30:02
Speaker 2: it made an empty room of one person feel, full
30:06
Speaker 2: and it felt LIKE i was here for a bigger
30:10
Speaker 2: purpose than myself And indiana.
30:12
Speaker 1: Basketball, well you absolutely Where indiana fans were kind. Of
30:16
Speaker 1: seeing the response to our last podcast and all the
30:19
Speaker 1: traffic that we get into the, site the views on,
30:21
Speaker 1: YouTube people are really excited about. It and so thanks
30:24
Speaker 1: Again josh for going down To Puerto rico and for
30:27
Speaker 1: the great. Coverage thanks everybody as always for listening to
30:29
Speaker 1: podcast on the. Break if you enjoyed the, show AS
30:31
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30:33
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