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Texas Basketball coach Rodney Terry on building the 2024 squad · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: T New Year on this Tuesday afternoon, updating the baseball
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  playoff team Kansas City and Baltimore are underway and are scoreless.
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  In the bottom of the third inning, the Orioles had
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  the leadoff man aboard with a double. But that's where
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  it stands right now. And meanwhile in Houston, where this
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  afternoon it has just been dominance from Trek's scoubell on
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  the mound through the first six innings, shut out, six
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  shutout innings against the Houston Astros, and he had to
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  work himself out of a couple of tight situations, and
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  they had to check on his health a couple of times,
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  and he somehow was able to work his way around it.
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  But he's out of the ball game now. We gave
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  them six shutout innings on three hits, and so it's
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  still three nothing. Tigers and the Asters are batting in
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  the bottom of the seventh inning. All three runs scored
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  in the top of the second inning for Detroit off
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  of frommer Valdez, and the Astros have long since gone
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  to the bullpen a couple of times since then, but
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  it is three to nothing, Detroit leading Houston's. The Astros
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  bat now with two outs in the bottom half of
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  the seventh And remember these are best of three series,
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  and the winner of this series will get the number
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  two seed the Cleveland Guardians in the division series. The
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  Kansas City Baltimore winner will get the Yankees in the
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  other division series. Then the National League Wildcard Series both
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  can underway. One will start about forty five minutes from
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  now in Milwaukee, the Mets against the Brewers. Winter that
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  series will meet the Phillies and then tonight it'll actually
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  start about six thirty. Padres and Diamondback not Diamondbacks, Padres
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  and Braves, and the winner of that series will play
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  the Dodgers in the divisional series. So anyway, that's where
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  it is right now, and it's three nothing Tigers the
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  Astros two out, bottom of the seventh inning at minute
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  May Park.
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  Speaker 2: You remember your World Series picks at the beginning of
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  the year. Uh, yeah, who did you have? Dodgers and Yankees.
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  I did, and it worked out where they're both the
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  one seeds.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it didn't happen quite the way I thought
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  it would though, because both teams had some injuries. No,
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  two teams I think had more injuries than the Braves
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  than the Dodgers this year, and and other than the
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  Rangers maybe, but of the playoff teams, no two teams
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  had more injuries than Atlanta and Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: I think they had had the most.
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  Speaker 1: A brave somehow with win number eighty nine yesterday in
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  game number one sixty two, were able to slide into
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  the playoffs. But Chris Sale is not on the playoff roster.
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  He didn't pitch yesterday in the decisive game against the Mets,
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  and he is not on the roster at least for
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  the wild card round.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see if it if it happens, the.
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  Speaker 1: Astros are down in the seventh inning, one two, three,
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  set down by the Tiger bullpen, so they go to
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  the eighth.
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  Speaker 3: They're in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: It's a three to nothing lead for Detroit on Houston
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  in Game one. All right, Let's I mentioned that today
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  was an opportunity for us to visit with Long Worns
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  basketball head coach Ronny Terry and a chance to watch
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  the team go through their final forty five minutes of
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  the workout.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Rodney was asked for his impressions of the team, and
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  he was like, impressions, I've been around these guys first impressions.
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  He's like, I've been around these guys for months. You
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  guys are the ones are getting the first impressions. But
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  he did offer impressions of what he's seen so far.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have first impressions.
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  Speaker 4: I've had him for three months already, so past first
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  impressions already, as you guys first impression a little bit, right, No,
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  this is a good group of guys, man. I think
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  we have a group of guys that virtality group. I
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  think they really like each other in terms of chemistry
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  right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we can play a lot of different ways.
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  Speaker 4: We have older guys, we have a blend of some
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  young guys that will contrivete and help us this year
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  as well. So I think all the ingredients of having
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  a really good team this year.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was asked about that sea word, the
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  chemistry thing, because he mentioned it. So somebody said, how's
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  the chemistry for this year's group compared to the chemistry
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  of last year's group? And that's not always going to
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  give you the best response from a head coach.
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  Speaker 4: Well, again, you know, always say live where your feed are,
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  so I don't really get caught up from what we
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  did last year.
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  Speaker 3: Last year's done right now, it's a whole new year.
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  Speaker 4: Force you know started this summer with this, with this
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  group right here, and you know, you really a lot
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  of times you want chemistry to happen organically with those
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  guys and us not having really force feed that. This
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  group's done a great job that all summer. They really
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  like each other, They like spending time around each other.
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  They live around each other in terms of the same hallway,
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  and they see each other every day.
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  Speaker 3: They don't really have any cliques right now with this group.
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  Speaker 4: This group is pretty pretty committed to celebrating gas and
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  says and being great teammates.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was asking is that something that happens
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  organically or when he recruits to construct his team, does
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  he look for that type of chemistry to be able
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  to naturally come together.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a great question.
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  Speaker 4: You know, how do you how do you go about
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  selecting the guys or putting together a team. I think
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  I staffihed it, you know, a really good job this
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  year identifying guys that we felt fit our culture, guys
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  that we felt could compliment one another, and uh and
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  also guys that we thought would be great teammates.
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  Speaker 3: You have to start with character first. Character for us
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  is always the most important thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know. We always say, you know, everybody can't play
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  here in Texas. Everybody can't coach at Texas, right, you know,
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  and everything, So you know, the standards are the standards.
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  Speaker 3: The expectations are there in terms.
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  Speaker 4: Of what we do and how we go about and
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  so we're very select in terms of who we bring
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  into our culture, and I think I staffed does a
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  great job of ida to find the right guys that
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  we feel will be great fits.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, there's some thoughts from Rodney Taylor. We'll hear
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  some more from RT coming up next hour, and some
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  more from him tomorrow. We'll also here from Longhorn's head coach,
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  Steve Sarkisian coming up next hour. We will be back
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  to wrap up our number two here on Sports Radio
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