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Episode 31: Richmond Basketball Holiday Wrap: Men Bounce Back & the Henrico Center Holiday Classic · Spiders Sound Off

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Hey everybody, welcome back to spiders Sound off.
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This is Tom and. This is Porter.
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We are back in the Henrico Studios.
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We've upgraded the studios for our Christmas episode.
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Yeah. If you're not watching us on
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YouTube, you might want to check this one out live with the video
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feed because Tom has really created a a nice studio for us
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today for the Christmas show. Yep, and I was thinking next
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year I'll need to have a Porter stocking we can put on the the
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mantle here. But for now, you'll you'll see
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my back there if you look, if you look also have a couple
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bobble heads here that might be hard to see there by our coffee
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mugs. Got a this was from, I think
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maybe five years ago, maybe five years ago now there's a Kevin
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Anderson and Johnny Newman bobblehead.
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Doesn't get any better than than than those two folks.
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I think those were season ticket gifts at some point in a while
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ago, so there's probably some of you listening to have those
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somewhere. Anyway, we are recording this
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episode on a Sunday. We're going to talk about the
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men's victory from last night and the women's also had a
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victory yesterday. Album in, so we're going.
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To talk about those games, we'll do a little preview of there's
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only one game, there's no games midweek.
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We're going to be taking a break midweek so we and everyone else
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can celebrate their their holiday next weekend there is a
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game so the the men's have a game next weekend the men's
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team. So we'll talk about that We'll
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also do some Christmas movie discussions.
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OK, nice. But first you.
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Want to talk about? Not sure exactly what that's
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going to be. But we'll, we'll see.
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What it goes you? Want to talk about the men's
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game or from yesterday? Yeah, you talk.
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Yes, you take the lead on it. So while I was at the we played
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the Citadel last night at home. Had decent sized crowd for the
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holiday. It was probably like 4500,
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something like that. It's a fun game.
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So we got up early. Actually reminded me of the
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women's game. We'll talk about the women's
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game in a bit, but we got up early.
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Really couldn't expand that lead.
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Kind of it was 10. It got down to six at some
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point, but we really took over late.
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Citadel didn't show much. Every now and then they hit some
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threes in a row that kind of kept them in that game.
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But we put we played well. I think watching that game and
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then looking at the stats later, like it was just clear.
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I mean, and you've heard the coach talk about it like that
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game at Elon, the turnovers was uncharacteristic.
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And that's the word he's used a lot.
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Like, that's not how this team has played all year.
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It's also, you know, Mooney's had lots of years where the team
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is average less than 10 turnovers per game.
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Yeah, you went to the game live. I actually caught it later in
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the evening on replay because I had a a Christmas party to go
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to. But the thing I wrote just about
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the first half was we were up 2814 and Daughtry was in full
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beast mode. And he was.
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Every time he wanted to take it to the rim, he got to the rim.
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Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, I remember when we when
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he was coming here was recruited, there was like, wow,
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he's so efficient of a player and he's still showing that now
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we're going to because of the system we play.
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He's, you know, he hasn't been challenged yet for the 30 minute
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game. And what does that look like?
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But he had 17 points and 17 minutes.
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Yep, last night. That's that's pretty darn
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efficient. That is very the thing that I
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noticed the most is after this big turnover game at Elon is
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this was a game. We are clearly the better team,
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but coach also really focused on if you had an unforced error,
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like he brought you to the bench and what we saw, I mean, the
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team had a good day. But if you look at the starting
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lineup, so these are the same starters we've had all year,
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which is Tanner and Time. Johnston, AJ Lopez and Walls,
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That unit all play more than 20 minutes each.
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They had 11 assists and two turnovers across that entire
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group. If you look at the bench and
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quarter, one of your favorites and a player you know I like a
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lot as as well. Argar Bright, he had three
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turnovers, only played 14 minutes, so his minutes were
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lower than what we've seen lately.
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He's kind of been in that 20 plus.
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But he did have some unforced errors.
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And coach has been really clear in his, let's say, public
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communication that he still wants us to be aggressive.
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So if if you're aggressive and there's a turnover and it's, you
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know, the other, you know, you're going too fast and the
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other team steals it or you're on a fast break and you just
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kind of missed that pass a little bit.
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Like, I think he's OK with that. But there were some unforced
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errors by Argar Wright and his minutes were down.
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I think that's a good lesson for a freshman.
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And again, if you watch the game, then you never felt like
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any player was being penalized. I mean, Argar Wright still came
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in and out a lot, but I think he late he relied on the starters.
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I think they just have that kind of calming influence on the
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game. I mean, time didn't really score
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much, but anyway, so good win. I mean, we won 80 to 56, so
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that's a blow out we expect. Strange, strange box score.
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I mean Johnston zero shots. I mean the the purest shooter on
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the team takes zero shots the entire game.
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That was. I'm guessing he had 0 turnovers.
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0 turnovers, 3 assists, 53 rebounds, but zero shots in 20
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minutes. That's just pretty strange.
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Colin Tanner's best game of the year.
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Yeah, 13 points. Five.
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Yeah, he was good. He was solid walls, had a great
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game. He was, I think, 7 for six for
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seven walls. Seemed to be able to do whatever
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he wanted inside and it was like.
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Well, he hit two threes, yeah. 2 for two for three.
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So they kind of left him alone out there.
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Tanner also had in his thirteen points at 5 rebounds.
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So he was kind of, he was doing it all.
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Yep, Lopez scoring from all three levels again.
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Roma Glue had a good game off the bench, as expected.
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I love the dunk at the end of the game, yeah.
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So Jalen, Jalen Robinson like. And Bryson with a block to get
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to set it up. He blocked the shot.
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So if you if you were there, what was really the two great
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things about that dunk? 1 the dunk itself.
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So if you haven't seen it, he was a fast break, but it was
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like one on two. There was a couple guys in his
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way and he just couldn't write through them and just giant
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dunk, right? It was the last points of the
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game. If you watched the bench, for a
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rich man like it, it was like New Year's Eve.
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They erupted. Walls, usually the leading
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cheerleader at those sort of moments in the game when we've
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got a big lead and the bench is getting to play and it's great
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to see like this team was having a great time.
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It's the, you know, coming from that Elon loss on the road, like
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that's the win that team needed. They've got a week off.
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They get to most of them will go home for a little Christmas
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break and. Elon so it's great to overtime.
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So they look they're looking tougher and tougher by the game.
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So that's that's actually interesting.
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We did I went to kind of appetizer or dinner happy hour
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at the local before the game with some friends of ours and
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their their daughter is a Elon. Is that Elon nice or now her
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parents are big Richmond supporters.
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But she did give us a little grief as as deserved.
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Also, my college roommate, Doctor Durham was at the game
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last night so I got to see him and and his wife.
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His son is going to U of R. Next fall graduulations.
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That's fantastic. So I'm looking forward to those
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when when my friend comes up and we'll go to some wood hauled
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dorm parties like we did freshman year a long, long time
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ago. But yeah, it was it was a fun
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game, kind of a get right game. Siddalo's not very good.
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I think we got a more challenging opponent this
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upcoming weekend. We'll get to later.
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Yep. One other thing on the, on the
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men's team, so like I, I just, I'm coming back to I, I still
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think that the prediction markets and prediction market by
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that I mean you know what people are predicting as our, as our
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postseason chances are off on this team.
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I think this team has a better chance of making the incident
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blade tournament than the prediction markets say.
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And it's because of a couple things.
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One, we play so many players, it's going to be perfect for
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tournament time because we're going to have depth that other
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teams aren't aren't prepared for, especially when you're
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playing three or four games in three or four days.
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And I think we're unpredictable. I mean, each time you look at
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the this team, somebody else, somebody new is stepping up like
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it's Daughtry, Tanner Walls. This game priorly it was prior
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game might have been Auger, Brighton, AJ Lopez.
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It's just changes from game to game makes this very difficult
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to scout. And I don't think the prediction
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markets have fully figured out a way to capture that.
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Now, having said that, you know, the NCAA tournament is not in
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the A 10 tournament, is not played in the Robin Center and
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we have not been a great team yet on the road or neutral
8:31
courts. We do have the nice win against
8:32
Belmont, but if we can figure the road out over the course of
8:38
the A10 season, we're going to be a very interesting team come
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a 10 tournament time. Yeah.
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And I think post game Tanner, which in like we're still
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getting better, yeah. So I think absolutely players
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know that. And so I think there's a, the
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one thing I love with looking back on our last episode, like I
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know you were trying to get the positive out of maybe not the
8:58
positive, but take the 20 turnover and say like, that's
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how we play. But I would say that's not how
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we play. Like that Elon game was just a
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bad, sloppy game for us. And I don't, I like it's not
9:10
like we're having new line UPS anymore.
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Like these guys have played in these new line UPS.
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Well, I'm not saying that's how we play, but I'm saying when you
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play a lot of players and you have a lot of substitutions and
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you and you have a very deep roster and you play fast, there
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are going to be statistical anomaly games where you have a
9:25
big pop in turnovers. And it's not going to be every
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game. Like last night.
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It wasn't that way at all. But like you will have an
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occasional game like we had at Elon where we turn the ball over
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too much. But I mean, I think the pros
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still that way. The cons with the system is
9:36
playing because you, you know what, you're very disruptive to
9:38
teams. I mean, you you can wear teams
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down. You have any advantage at the
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end of games? So I still like the way we're
9:44
playing so. Yeah.
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I mean, I'll, I don't think this is a hot take.
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Like we will not have 20 turnovers again the rest of the
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season in a game. And if for some reason this we
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have a trend, let's say we have three games in a row where it's
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17 turnovers, 18 turnovers, that bench will get much tighter.
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Possibly. And so that's why I don't think
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it's going to happen. Like I think the players know
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that unforced errors are just not really accepted and not and
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not, that's not a Mooney system. I I don't think there's many
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coaches. Definitely not a Mooney system,
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but Mooney's not necessarily coaching like Mooney this year
10:15
either. Mooney's changing and I, I think
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he's changing for the better with the, with the talent that
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he has, right. So you've got you've got 11 guys
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As for averaging double digit minutes, It's a it's a new
10:26
system where he is playing a lot of people and he's playing in up
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tempo, push the ball pace. And I don't think the a 10 is
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going to be quite used to this Richmond team when we get in
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there. So I think it'd be very
10:37
interesting to watch this. Team a couple things on the A10
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before we get to the women's game.
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You know, I, I gave them AC minus and then we saw in the
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middle of the day that Liberty beat Dayton.
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Yeah. So that's a that's a bad law.
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I mean, Liberty is not a terrible team, but Dayton is one
10:53
of our premier teams. You would hope and they lost
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you. Called it on Loyola, my man.
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You called. It and then Loyola Chicago, who
11:01
I, I think I said is going to be the thorn in the side of the
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A10. They had a nice win against
11:06
Santa Clara. Who's a good team?
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And that and that, I think. On the road, semi away, it said.
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And so if if Loyola Chicago is about to get right.
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For the A 10s. They're going to get right,
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right into right into the A10. Called that.
11:18
I was like, what are you talking about?
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They're not going to win. I have to.
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I don't. Remember, if we play them at
11:21
home or or on the way on the road, I know we play them once.
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Thankfully we don't play them twice, but that I'm I'm still
11:30
sticking to my they beat Saint Louis at least once this year
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and make the A10 in a place I think similar to last season
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where they'll be one team that's probably an at large and you
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just hope they don't win the tournament so we can get.
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We play, we play Loyola one time and it's at Loyola on Saturday,
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February 20. 8th that's late too, yeah.
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End of the season. OK, so yesterday at the actually
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started Friday at the Henrico Center was the for the culture
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charity Classic or yeah, Classic.
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Yeah, not a tournament. For the culture, it's, it's
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actually a really cool event. And we're actually recording
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this before the Penn State game today.
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And, and, and we had a slight correction from our first
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episode. We said Penn State played DCU
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Friday night. They actually played on
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Saturday. I actually stayed and watched
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some of that game after the Richmond game.
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So I got a little bit of information on Penn State.
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Yeah, on Friday, VCU got whooped by Georgia.
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Yeah, I'm assuming Georgia plays today.
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I I don't remember the other part of the schedule.
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Yeah. The first, the first thing I'll
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say about the game. So Alabama, A&MI think was
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surprisingly more resilient than we expected.
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They had a lot of length. They had athletes on the team
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like I think I turned to you in the first half and said this
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team doesn't feel like a team that you know, should not have
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any real T1 success this year because they just look like
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they're really close and I think.
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A lot of energy. A lot of energy.
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They played with passion. I would say that team is going
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to win some games this year and they're going to surprise some
12:58
people the rest of the way. They seem to be getting better
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as they get ready for their conference season.
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And actually coach came over and talked to me for a few minutes
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after the game and he could the same thing he said they were.
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They're better than people giving them credit for.
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So yeah, that Alabama Ann team surprised us.
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And I can't say that, you know, a 14 point win I think was less
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than what we were looking for. But at the same time, when you
13:18
see saw the athletes, they were rolling out a team has had team
13:22
has something they're going to be they're going to be pretty
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decent from here on out. What were the final?
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I don't know if you have the stats in front of you like I
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when I was, I like seeing cuz we got back-to-back.
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So it's like Maggie was subbed out more early on then we're
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used to seeing, which I think is smart.
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And also that I think there's a point because we got that lead
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early. We crushed him in the first
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quarter that I think naturally the coach is probably expecting
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that this game was going to be a big win.
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And so he's able to give Maggie some, some rest early.
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Now it turned out that we couldn't really grow that lead
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and it may cut the lead a little bit.
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So Maggie played a lot towards the end of that game.
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But I like to see the coach use the bench a little bit more and
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also something I think he's really started the game before
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playing Simon and dude. Together.
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So that's a new kind of wrinkle. And actually it looked good
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together. I mean, it's, it's actually
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worked out. So I give him credit for that.
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I mean, a couple things about the, the, the box where the
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first half we saw 6 minutes out of Shanika Campbell and we both
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said wow, she's, she looked really good.
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So she gave us 6 solid minutes. So shout out to her, you know,
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she's probably working hard in practice to get in that first
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half. And I thought she looked really
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good for those, for those, those men she was in.
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And I, I mean, I like what Simon and Dewey are, are doing, but I,
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there's still an, there's an opportunity there for Shaniqua.
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Now, I don't think she's going to get tons of minutes, but I do
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think like if she if we can get her into that, you know, 5 to 10
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minute rotation on average in the 810 season, I think that'll
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do our team a lot of good in the in the long.
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Run and if you combine Perchetti and Rain Wright for a second,
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two freshmen, they combine for 33 minutes.
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They scored 15 points. I mean, if you get it's almost
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like think about it as like the Katy Hill roll from last year.
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If you get 15 points out of that combined 33 minutes every game,
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we're going to do, we're going to do really well.
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Ava's going to, I think, and this is maybe too much of A hot
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take and it's so long term, no one's ever going to call me on
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it. But she is such a good
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three-point shooter. Like if, if, if she's at UR for
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four years, I think it'll be interesting to see like her
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versus Rachel in total threes because she's playing a lot as a
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freshman. And when she's hot, like she
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reminds me of Rachel, like she's a scorer.
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Like when she when she hits a threes like you know the next
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one when she gets a chance has got a great.
15:40
Percentage, yeah, she's going to be a special player.
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I agree with you. I think she's going to be a
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special player. She already is a really good, I
15:45
mean one of the better freshman, you know, in the conference.
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So I mean, I, I think she's she's she's got a great future
15:51
for sure. Rachel had an awesome game.
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I mean, she really carried the scoring for US, 20 points, 66
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rebounds in 35 minutes, 6 for 12 from 3.
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Great game for Rachel. So shout out to her.
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I thought towards the fourth quarter the Alabama AM team
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wasn't going away and they cut it to maybe 10 at one point in
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time or maybe it was even 9 and Coach put Dewey back in the
16:13
game. And I think Dewey in that fourth
16:16
quarter really ignited the the team with three consecutive
16:21
fouls drawn. First it was a charge and then
16:23
two over the backs trying to box out on rebounds.
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So we got 3 defensive stops because Dewey was playing really
16:29
good defense in that fourth quarter.
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So shout out to her. 'Cause it was kind of the non
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box score. Yeah, stuff.
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Things you don't always see but like really, really make a
16:36
difference in the game. So one of one of the better
16:39
efforts I think I've seen out of Dewey defensively, really loved
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it. And I thought she really helped
16:44
us seal the game. I mean, Maggie, I think she had
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three points going in the fourth quarter.
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She finished with 15 to go with six assists, 7 rebounds.
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Another solid game from Maggie and we're recording this before
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the Penn State game. So I think we have a fun feature
16:58
in terms of what we're going to do there.
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We're going to, we're going to give you guys two different
17:02
outcomes. We're going to give you a we
17:04
beat Penn State today if and we're going to give you a we
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lost to Penn State today if segment and so.
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And just to, you know why we're doing this, I've got to go out
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of town this afternoon. So that's, blame me.
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We got to get this thing recorded and make sure we put it
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out on a normal Monday schedule. So are you going to get to the
17:25
game, to the Penn State game or? Well, we're going to talk about
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like, yeah. We're going to do that.
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No, but are you personally? Yeah, I'll do that.
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I'll cover for you. So no, but you'll be at the game
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later. Oh yeah, I'm going to be at the
17:33
game later today, so we. Can talk.
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We can talk about it in a week from now.
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Just what really happened you? Guys will know what happened in
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the Penn State game when this thing hits your inboxes
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tomorrow. So we'll, we'll give you.
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So we will beat Penn State. If so, we'll beat Penn State if
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we can contain the stellar #23 on their team.
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She is I, I watched a little bit of that VCU game live.
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She's got an incredible handle. Keomi Mcmiller, coach actually
18:00
told me we recruited her. We wanted her to come to to
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Richmond. She's averaging 19 points a
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game. I think as big as as as as
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strong as a of a presence as Merkel is inside.
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The key to the game will be controlling Mcmiller.
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So I think you'll see some Alicia Newell on her.
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But it's going to take it's going to take the whole team
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playing really good defense to kind of they play fast and she's
18:21
the spark plug in that offense. Not only do they have Merkel
18:23
who's 66, they have a six foot 5 volleyball player who's super
18:27
athletic as well inside. So they've got a lot of sides.
18:29
Rotate the two of. Them they do.
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They play them together some and then there's a lot of passing
18:33
over the top between the two of them.
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So like, so from one to the other, 'cause you could just
18:37
throw it over top the defense. So we're going to have to figure
18:40
out a way to keep Merkel off the low block as much as possible.
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She's she's, she's so strong, but I think Maggie's going to be
18:47
too quick for their bigs inside like her, her bevy of moves
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inside. I mean, she's just too quick.
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She moves too fast for for the for the bigs to really shut her
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down. So I'm not as worried about her
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not being able to get her shots off.
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I really think we're going to, it's going to take a really good
19:01
game out of the the full team. We're going to need Rachel to
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score. We're going to Ally to score.
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We're going to. They did score because this is
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when they won. Yes, correct.
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So if we win, these are the things that are going to happen
19:11
today and and we win 82 to 75 if that's the case.
19:17
I yeah, And I think there's a a part to maybe taking some hints
19:20
from the VCU played Penn State yesterday.
19:23
Penn State won, but it was a close game and pushing the ball,
19:28
getting this up tempo, lots of scoring is going to be in our
19:31
favor. You got to run Merkel into the
19:33
ground because she she's, you don't want to suck the half,
19:36
half court offense up and and let her just kind of relax.
19:39
You got to keep pushing her. Yeah, so I'm looking for Ally to
19:41
have AI think when when we win, ally's going to have a big game
19:44
with assists, controlling that tempo as she does so well and
19:48
shooting some threes if. If we were to lose, it's because
19:51
we could, not because Mcmiller lights us up for 24.
19:54
We just can't keep Merkel off the rebounds.
19:56
She just she ends up with 14 rebounds and and and scores 18
20:00
on put backs, which means our defense never never got us into
20:04
the game. And they figured out a way to
20:05
close out on Rachel so she doesn't get her three-point shot
20:07
off of off. And if that happens, you know,
20:10
it could be like an 80 to 78 Penn State result.
20:13
I don't think they blow us out, but.
20:16
I get a little worried because Merkel did not have a great
20:19
scoring output against VCU. Yeah, VCU did a good job on her,
20:23
I thought. So did they did did we learn
20:25
something from that or did she come out later today and you
20:29
said 18 like does she have 25 against us?
20:32
And can we just not stop her? And like, as soon as IA player
20:37
like that gets on a roll and is getting position, like it's like
20:40
they, they gain that confidence. And I, I expect we'll see some
20:44
zone. We played a lot, we played more
20:46
zone yesterday that I'm used to seeing like kind of a 2-3.
20:49
I could see us kicking it in a bit versus just trying to go
20:51
one-on-one. My take is it's Miller that will
20:53
beat us if they beat us. It's she's the guy, she's the
20:56
the player I worry more about. But it's going to be a great
20:59
game. They're #62 or three in the net.
21:01
We're number 42 in the net. Very important game for us to
21:04
win. Of course you guys already know
21:05
the result when this thing hits, but we thought we would do a,
21:08
you know, if we win, if we lose things, since we can't actually
21:11
record this after the game due to scheduling.
21:13
Today, OK, so we've got a a tough game coming up the men
21:17
have a tough game coming up based in a week from now Before
21:21
we do that we we want to talk a little bit about some Christmas
21:25
Movies OK some holiday movies and we're going to do something
21:30
a little bit different put Porter on the spot maybe I'll if
21:33
I have some time put some graphics on this video so you
21:36
can see this as it goes but we're going I'm going to ask
21:40
Porter to rank Christmas movies one through 5 These are going to
21:44
be 5 movies from what they are are our lifetime.
21:47
These are not claymation or cartoons.
21:49
These are going to be if I've. Never seen the movie.
21:51
It's fair to say I might put it at the back of the list.
21:53
And what's and what's different and may may some of you may have
21:56
seen this from other podcasts we didn't create this is that I'm
21:59
going to give him a movie and he has to decide where it is.
22:01
One through 5, he cannot re rank anything, so he has to think
22:06
about when he hears the movie, like is this one of his
22:08
favorites? And he's going to put it one,
22:09
but there's a chance that the next movie he likes even more
22:11
now he's going to have to put it too.
22:13
You got it. Yep, I got it.
22:14
OK, so we're going to start with A Christmas Story 1983 classic.
22:20
Where do you put that movie in your top five?
22:23
Let's start off safe 3. OK, so Christmas story is 3.
22:26
It is now 3 Home Alone 1990 Christmas Classic.
22:34
I kind of like the movie, but like, I'm not sure because
22:36
there's a couple that I really love, so I'm gonna go 4.
22:38
So it's lower than Christmas story.
22:40
OK, die hard. Oh, number two, baby.
22:44
Die Hard is 22, so we got Die Hard 2, Christmas Story 3, Home
22:48
Alone Four. That leaves A5 and A1 Christmas
22:52
vacation. I love Christmas Vacation, but
22:55
I've got there's so many good movies that I know you're going
22:57
to call on, so I'm going to have to put it at 5.
22:59
I don't love it at 5. I like I think.
23:02
It's OK, And then what's going to be #1 then is ELF.
23:06
Oh, it's a great. Movie Elf number one 2003
23:10
classic with Will Ferrell. Just a side note.
23:14
Just makes me think Yesterday my daughter's home from college and
23:17
you know, I'm trying to force bonding time and I'm like, hey,
23:21
come and please watch 15 minutes of this movie.
23:24
She's like, what movie? I'm like Anchorman.
23:27
So I made her watch Christmas class.
23:28
I made her watch the 1st 15 minutes.
23:30
She did not like that. But I'm like, hey, it's like,
23:32
it's like women's live, you know, it's about this, you know,
23:34
reporter getting the the big job, Christina Applegate.
23:38
But yeah, she left after 15 minutes.
23:40
She's like, that movie's stupid. But anyway, Will Ferrell's great
23:43
and elf, I'm sure many of you have seen that and can't can't
23:48
help see it on I'm a. Pressure guys are to watch
23:50
Anchorman with you, actually. So on your final rankings, Elf
23:52
one Die Hard 2, Christmas Story 3.
23:54
Home Alone 4, Christmas Vacation 5 Feel free to play at home and
24:01
do your own ranking. Anyway, let's move on to next
24:05
weekend's event. We play Charleston Southern and
24:11
the the men not. A particularly strong team, but
24:13
they could. They could.
24:14
They could. You know their.
24:15
Massive scrums, Buccaneer, You're looking at, you're
24:18
looking. At your computer, yes, the
24:21
Buccaneers, they actually worry me a little bit.
24:23
So now for for those who don't know much about them, they are 8
24:27
and 5. Three of those wins are against
24:29
D2 or D3 teams. And just a side note before I
24:33
forget. So you know, the men's team, we
24:36
had a tenth win and one of them was against a division two or
24:40
three team. So we now have 9 Division One
24:43
wins, which is one more than all of last six points.
24:45
So they're that's a nice to. By Christmas we got a we got
24:48
more wins than all of last year. We don't want to like last
24:51
year's a pretty low bar, so that's not the bar to beat.
24:53
But it is nice that kind of we're wait, we're going to be
24:55
way past that number anyway. So Charleston Southern have some
25:00
like opponents. They beat the Citadel by 10.
25:02
Go ahead. They beat East Carolina by 12.
25:06
Oh, OK. So that's that's a good win for
25:08
them. They recently lost to South
25:10
Carolina, but only by a dozen. So.
25:14
So they've got some, they've got some.
25:15
People, yeah, they're the big S yeah, that's high point Winthrop
25:18
premier teams. Those two teams are in the
25:21
hundreds. Charleston Southern right now is
25:23
230 OK in the Bardovic? So they're a fourth highest team
25:28
in that conference. 244 in Kenpon, by the way.
25:31
Radford's in the Big South, so that's exactly 2.
25:35
That team is five and eight right now.
25:36
They're 249 in Bartevik. So having a tough first year,
25:39
but that's to be expected. You you usually don't bring in a
25:42
new coach when everything's great.
25:43
Longwood also is in that somewhat local team.
25:48
A lot of Longwood grads around this area, Gardner Webb, who we
25:52
beat, who's ranked 360. They're one of the worst teams
25:56
in that league. They they're looking at the
25:59
stats. They have a top 200 defense, so
26:01
they're core defence LED than than offense.
26:04
They are good 3 point shooting team, three well.
26:07
They defend the three pretty well.
26:09
They have a player, Bryson Blaine is their top player.
26:13
He's a local kid, played some at Elsie Bird. 6 foot 5 junior.
26:18
Yes. And he had a little tour of JMU.
26:21
He went there, played I think as a freshman and was hurt and then
26:25
missed a year and then transferred.
26:27
OK. Averages 19.7 rebounds and
26:31
almost 4 assists a game. So he's kind of an all round
26:34
star player for them. I was looking at their team.
26:37
They have 11 players with 10 or more minutes per game.
26:40
Sound familiar? Yeah.
26:43
And and so, you know, they've got tall guards.
26:46
Looking at their lineup, they I mean, they have a six nine guy.
26:50
They don't have a lot of height. I mean I think 65 is tall for a
26:53
guard, but they're not a big inside. 69610 guy, but it looks
26:57
like Beagle and Wall should be able to feast a little bit Yeah,
27:00
they're good at defending the three and they're also they're
27:02
also good at shooting the three. So it's like to me that's the
27:05
story of the game. I mean we should probably be
27:07
working the ball inside to our bigs in order to to take to take
27:11
these guys down. It should be a game we win.
27:13
I think most of the sites are saying we're about a 90% chance
27:17
of one of the. Yeah, I think Bartevik has this
27:18
85 to 70. They do play Fuhrman today.
27:22
So this will be, you know, when you when this pot is live,
27:27
you'll be able to do some research and see how that
27:29
Fuhrman game went. So we know how that game went
27:32
for us. So it'll be another similar
27:34
opponent? What?
27:38
More interesting fact, they're actually leading the nation in
27:41
the percent of their points they get from three pointers, so they
27:44
are going to Chuck the three. Yeah, so I think compared to the
27:48
Citadel, like this is a much tougher game.
27:51
It's also a game where, you know, the, the, the team's got a
27:53
week off and this is not, I mean, they'll practice during
27:56
this week, but they do have some days off where they're going to
27:59
be going home if they can see their family.
28:02
So it's kind of there's always an interesting like your first
28:05
game before the break. I think we've had some bad
28:08
moments in the past where like everyone's ready for break and
28:12
then you come out and lay an egg.
28:13
We did not do that. We look solid, look against the
28:16
Citadel and there's always a trick of coming back from break.
28:21
Now both teams are going to be doing that.
28:22
Like I said, they play today and then they have the rest of the
28:24
week off. It's kind of a typical week off
28:26
and. The ladies are off until the
28:28
30th, so we will be able to do another pod between now and then
28:31
to talk about the Rhode Island game.
28:32
They have come up their first a 10 game so. 2nd A10 Game for the
28:35
girls 2nd. Yeah, yeah, sure, we play.
28:36
For whatever reason, remember we played Loyola Chicago.
28:40
Yeah, that's right. And the the men also start their
28:42
A10 I think in the 31st. That game's going to be
28:44
interesting to talk about because pending a pending a win
28:47
against Charleston, Southern will be 11 and 2.
28:50
The 31st will be the test I think that everybody waits for.
28:53
We get a really good team coming into the Robin Center.
28:55
We're going to need a crowd turning out for that on New
28:58
Year's Eve. So thank you guys for listening
29:01
this year we had to. We will do another pod before
29:03
the year is out, but we'll be taking this week off so there
29:08
won't be a midweek pod. We do, however, something
29:10
special in store. We're kind of working on a
29:11
little Christmas holiday compilation video.
29:14
Montage One minute 1 minute of. Glory and and a little twist on
29:19
the spider sound off theme song. So expect to see that after this
29:25
pod is out. But maybe Tuesday, Wednesday,
29:28
we'll kind of get that out again.
29:29
It's just it'll be a minute long.
29:31
I, I, I actually think, and I mean, I'm, I'm a little biased.
29:34
It might be the greatest Christmas song ever written
29:37
about spider basketball. So.
29:40
Here are we going to rank the different Christmas songs about
29:43
spider basketball? I don't know if there's any
29:45
others to compete compare against but it might be #1.
29:47
That's right. Well, anyway, thank you guys.
29:49
Hope you have a great holiday. Until next time.
29:53
Be safe everybody, have a great Christmas, Happy holidays,
29:55
whatever you celebrate, spend time with family or friends and
29:58
enjoy yourself. We will see you sometime soon.
30:01
Yeah. Until next time, this is Tom.
30:03
Yeah, this is Porter. And this is spider sounding.