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Preseason Game 1 Reaction with Greg Mengelt & Mike Rich (The Pacers Report, 3.73) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are listening to the Pacers Report with Greg Mingal and Mike Rich, and it's only on the Central and Davis Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome Pacer's fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for this week's Pacer's Report with Greg and men out in my grits.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Coming off the first preseason game of the year, a little more important first preseason game of the year than usual Mike with the return of Tyre's Hall of Burton of course the game being played at Iowa State University where he played and uh...
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a really cool thing to see a lot to talk about from this game, a lot to be excited about that I can't wait to talk about, but of course we have to start with Tyre's Haliburton, and I thought he looked a little slow thinking.
0:53
[SPEAKER_02]: He was thinking slowly, but actually was thinking too much probably and not enough instinct.
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[SPEAKER_02]: At times, but it was really good to see him out there running and looking fully healthy.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think there was a lot of planning behind the scenes for him to get that game at Iowa State with the Cyclones.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was really cool what he did by and all the tickets for the student section.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think he was just pretty hyped and amped up for being offered what of 472 days whatever it was and then playing back there at Iowa State in front of the fantastic crowd.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was a super enthusiastic and there too see Tyre's halibut.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's come back.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, 16 minutes, he looked pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think you're right, the instinct is not there, but I think that's just the chemistry of the team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: A little bit different than it was when he left.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Zubotz, I loved what he did in the game.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I did.
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[SPEAKER_06]: having that true center and just getting acclimated to that coming back and you got a team that played last year without him and it was a whole different dynamic of how the chemistry was.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The ball was going through siakim a lot more.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I think it's going to take a few games that get up to speed just mentally and but it was super exciting to see it back on a scale of
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[SPEAKER_06]: One to ten, I would say at least an eight.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I honestly think he's going to be potentially better than what we had in the past.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you can see that especially the weapons around him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we're almost spent too much time on Tyre's Hall of Burton, but that is, of course, the main story and off of that game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh,
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said he felt good, he looked good, and then he said he felt good after the game as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I can't take anything away from it, but positive.
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[SPEAKER_06]: absolutely just completely just positive excitement.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think it was, it was great that Minnesota agreed to go there and play that game there.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was good competition with the starters.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was back and forth.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was a good first preseason game and to see all the pieces that we have on this team and the depth.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they went all the way through their bench except for James Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, we all know why James Johnson is playing on the Indiana Pacers, I mean, we even saw Brad Smith come out and he had some pretty cool by the back passes and I was pretty exciting to see him on the floor as well, but the depth is just fantastic and and we didn't have the con so that's another exciting piece I'm looking forward to seeing McConnell on that second team as well.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Kelly, you break him coming in wanting to be a pace or wanting to play on this team, and wanting to be in a role.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's going to fit really well with the core chemistry that this team has.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And the sky is a lemon.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think with this team, I think they're going to have a chip on their shoulder all year.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They're going to be looked over, but they're dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They are really dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Mike, I'm going to make a big statement here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk about it in a little bit here in the second part.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think there's any doubt this team's better than two years ago, which is an insane thing to say for a team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was one game away from an NBA championship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you look at peace for peace.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's no doubt it's better.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Zubot's fits better than Miles Turner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We had that issue there with Turner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't just one year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: a half a decade we were complaining about if we just had somebody would play center this way well now they have it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The depth as you mentioned there were four guys that I really stood out to me on Wednesday night Mike and I want to go through a one by one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Really going to affect this year's team these four guys I think in particular and let's start with Jaris Walker who last year is funny because he had it up and down in your last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No doubt about it but I kept saying
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Jared's Walker that we saw early on was one who was a playmaker and we just didn't see it much last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He got better rebounding numbers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He started scoring a little better, but we just didn't see the point forward kind of Jared's Walker that we thought we were going to see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And boy, did we see it on Wednesday?
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[SPEAKER_06]: We did and I think the experience last year, I think where he is in the depth chart, where he is coming in in the game, I think last year wasn't the right place we had to start players like Jaris Walker on the team last year.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So he's playing the first team of our opponents and he wasn't ready for that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We have watched him grow up and I think this will be a big leap for him this year.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think he's becoming, he's going to be playing like a man and we've watched him since he came out of college and saw a play in for the G league team up and forth or I think it was up and forth when he came in.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But it's super exciting to see and again, I think
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[SPEAKER_06]: pictures on a great job with drafting and building players within, building from the G. Lee.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And he's one that I think is, again, he's going to be pitiful piece on that second squad.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he looked like a past first forward that was why we've kind of fell in love with this potential a couple of years ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if he plays like that,
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[SPEAKER_02]: the Pacers are going to go to another level and speaking of which two other guys, Nym Harden Eastman, they look like grown men now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, there's a go, we talked about, well, they got to get better on defense and I was like, well, really, they just need to grow up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have a bunch of boys playing against men and now our boys have turned into men and both of them defensively look incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Eastman just looks super confident offensively.
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[SPEAKER_06]: just phenomenal.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That first quarter he was on fire.
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[SPEAKER_06]: He was yet.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Neesmith is East by one of the best acquisitions we've got in a trade that wasn't expected.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We didn't know what to expect.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he was a throwaway in a trade.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Now he is starting for potentially one of the
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[SPEAKER_06]: And he deserves to start and defensively.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I thought the whole team did better defensively.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I thought it was, I think it's a different game scheme.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'd like to see a little faster pace, but I think that's going to take a little bit of time, but yeah, I'm super pumped about Neesmith and he looked really, really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, NMR2 defensively getting his hands on balls, not letting guys basically taking up anybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anthony Edwards scored a lot of points on it, but Anthony Edwards is going to do that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You guys scored.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's anyone.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Anthony Edwards is going to get his points.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought Nim Hart needs Smith.
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[SPEAKER_02]: both of them just looked really good defensively and, you know, three years ago when the paces were making their run, those were the weaknesses defensively.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They weren't strong enough yet, but they certainly are now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Kelly, who brought you mentioned him, just looks like he is going to be the leader of that second team, at least the scoring leader of the second team, and
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[SPEAKER_02]: look really active and you talk about defense man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He is an active active defender.
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[SPEAKER_06]: There's just so many combinations that Carl Isles going to be able to do with this team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And I think Uberay defensively is going to be fantastic on that second team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And potentially, you know, if we need him on the first team at times, I think he's going to be able to step up
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[SPEAKER_02]: if they have a guy who can't play for two or three games except for maybe Hallow Burton.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And even if he goes out for a couple of games, I'm not confident they can't win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's how deep this roster is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Point guards a little little thin although nimbard can definitely play some minutes with the second team on defense as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think they're pretty much covered no matter what happens.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If somebody goes down,
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[SPEAKER_02]: You have a guy go down, you're just gonna have another guy step in.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You're gonna have a good person step in a good player step in in.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That is the key.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, this is a long season 82 games is a long season.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Andrews are gonna happen, but I think the depth of this team and experience of this team that they've got last year without having Halleburton.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They got really good minutes last year.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They were competitive and a lot of games last year.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They just could finish.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It was because they were so depleted, so as long as they stay healthy, I don't see a reason why they cannot be in an Eastern conference finals and potentially in the finals again.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Again, I think they're overlooked, and I think Haliburk is going to be better than he was two years ago.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think he's stronger, and I think, again, like we've said, these younger guys are growing up, and I think all the pieces are coming together at the right time.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We were spoiled two years ago, and it wasn't time for them two years ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I didn't even feel like it at the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There again, from one in the championship, and it still felt like there was a head of them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, yeah, took a back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: burner when Haliburton goes down because you'd never know after that, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're still hopeful.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You still never know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is Indiana where we have our hearts broken by our sports teams all the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you don't want to count it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is anything guaranteed, but man, this team looks good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The other issue, of course, is Oklahoma City, San Antonio, or so good that winning a championship is going to be much more difficult than it would have been two years ago.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You're right, because they're growing up to and when B is going to be a powerhouse at San Antonio SGA and Oklahoma City, I mean, they're going to be super competitive.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They're going to come in.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They're going to, you know, want to get back to the finals as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It seems like the east might be the better of the two conferences this year when you talk about top to bottom.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I still think the best two teams are out west.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: the best two teams are probably out west and I hope they beat the hell out of each other and the Western Conference Finals and coming, you know, a seven game series out of the Western Conference Finals and it'll be a gauntlet.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think I, I really not least.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, every night in the east is going to be a gauntlet.
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[SPEAKER_06]: There's a lot of good teams in the east and, but again, I think it all comes down.
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[SPEAKER_06]: If we stay healthy, I just don't think there's a team we cannot compete with in the
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[SPEAKER_06]: just because we have the depth.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We have the experience.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We have veteran leadership.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We have a couple potential all stars.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You said I you had four people and I don't know if Ubrae was the fourth, but I wasn't one of the I was thinking it might have been between him and one other person.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I thought really that was pretty
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[SPEAKER_06]: impressed with, and that was OB top, and it was really cool.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Healthy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My guy has completely fallen in love with OB top.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, I felt about him two years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm pretty happy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wasn't even gone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he was the guy who just didn't quite fit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then that playoffs that year, he was phenomenal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then last year, he was so good when, you know, when things weren't good, he was so good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I have just completely fallen in love with OB top.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and he's coming off an injury as well.
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[SPEAKER_06]: doors in a season didn't he had a foot injury and so was really good to see him back was really good to see him leap it up and defensively getting the block and going to the hoop like he does and there's not many players on this team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not like what are they're at.
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[SPEAKER_02]: very well-constructed roster.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know that the whole trade for Benedict Matherin came a little with a little bit of disappointment too, but what a great job constructing a championship roster here by Kevin Pritchard.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Hi, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_06]: This is one of the best teams that we've on paper that we put on to floor.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm just, I'm looking at the staff line right now and I'm like, Ben Shepherd looked good.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, he's another one that really stood out and another one that's growing up and, you know, he's actually got a little go-toe going with that mustache now, so.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, how'd you feel about the boom players?
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[SPEAKER_06]: I was excited to see Brandon Smith play.
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[SPEAKER_02]: he's he's pretty exciting to watch the boom games are gonna be fun to go to yes they are I love ring masked man he's too slow and he's not still in the play center in the NBA right now but man he has got the instincts and the shit he does have good shooting touch and then there's a
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[SPEAKER_02]: out this player we're gonna have fun at those boom games this year Mike.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I believe we are.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I believe we're gonna have fun at some pastry games.
14:52
[SPEAKER_06]: The tickets are super expensive right now.
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[SPEAKER_06]: This is the time to buy them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mike looking forward to talking pastures with y'all season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully we can do it again pretty soon.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Go pastures.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What an atmosphere.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean for for a pre-season game Oh, we threw a fellow can NBA playoff game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know with the environment hats off to the Iowa State students Unbelieveable showing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure it was Very high-level heckling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We were trying to figure it out the whole game For the record
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was at the game at Purdue last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When I was state, kick Purdue's ass.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was there, I stayed for the whole thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'd try to figure out why that would translate to this kind of heckling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I saw somebody show me a social media post during one of the timeouts that it was because Braden took potentially took Lipsy spot on the Pacers roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Does anybody else have anything else?
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[SPEAKER_07]: What do you think of Tyrease the reception for him and how he put in his first cave in in a while I just asked the question to the room.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Is there any other thing I was serious to use?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you've had about no big big time respect to the Iowa State student section.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean the whole thing just the whole the whole whole experience and I was was for now I thought that Tyrease did great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean you got to remember this has been what 16 months.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so all that considered, it's not the easiest thing coming back to your home, your alma mater in front of a full house and just, you know, after all that time, but I thought he did great considering everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got a lot of work to do, that's clear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: was very proud of the group in the second half.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just played hard and they played together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Walker had a very impactful game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was the biggest plus in the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was plus 19.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that was great to see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Shepherd had a rough start, but bounce back in the second half played great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I'd have played great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, and Braden, you know, here's a guy that's, you know, obviously used to this on some level because he just deployed right through it and he was a plus 11 in the game, you know, so you got to give him a lot of credit too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, for for for for your first preseason game on the road as a home team, you know, you couldn't ask, you couldn't ask for more and Minnesota is a high level team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're their championship contending team and
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[SPEAKER_01]: The more great teams, you can play the better.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There's a little more on Jaris.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You mentioned that your first training can fit.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You hope this year looks like forehand the passing and for tick-oats tonight.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Instead out of him, what did you like about the way you figure system and specifically those passes that yet?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like reading this basic things very well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, rebound on the ball with two hands.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Puttin' two eyes on the guy he throwing it to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's just, not just him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's everybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: being a threat at all times and making decisive drives on the angle toward the basket, which he did late, you know, and one play that was particularly impactful, you know, on the outcome of the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, seeing progress with with Geras, you know, or other young guys did well, you know, sloshing Kobe Brown, these guys did a good job and you
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[SPEAKER_01]: a lot of credit to to mask and Kada.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, these guys came in in short minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, masks, it's a three, you know, cold off the bench.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been sitting there all night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Place for three minutes gives Jay a break.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jay comes back and does some good things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Kada hits two buckets at the end, you know, to put the game away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, a lot of positives and a lot of things we got to continue to work on.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, gosh, I'm sure you've been asked this before, but
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[SPEAKER_09]: I was state perspective, we haven't heard it.
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[SPEAKER_09]: Among Tyre's is 16 month recovery.
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[SPEAKER_09]: What's maybe impressed you about how he's handled it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It would be consistency.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's, it's a pretty devastating situation to have it happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty devastating situation to have, it happened the way it did when it did
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but, you know, he had surgery within 24 hours with Dr. O'Malley, we were all certain that he would make a full recovery, which he clearly has, um, and he just has been very consistent from, um,
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[SPEAKER_01]: that moment for the next 16 months and going through shingles for, you know, an unspecified amount of time anywhere from I don't know, six to eight weeks and maybe even lingered, you know, some of the elements of it may have lingered even longer, but he maintains a positive view of things he kept, he just kept working and working and working and he just he has eye on, I think,
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[SPEAKER_01]: So pretty cool.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty cool that, you know, Scott to this point and, you know, move forward from here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Rick, you mentioned just a couple things, still that you want to, you guys have to work on to clear what, what areas do you feel like you guys still want to iron out, of course, the rest of the camp, free season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, without we're looking at the film yet, you know, the starting group,
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[SPEAKER_01]: continue to make small adjustments so that, you know, we can play more efficiently together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wouldn't even be able to answer, give you all the, you know, all those particulars without really looking at the film.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exoo did a lot of great things, but he's a different kind of player than we had in their last year or when, you know, we were playing the year before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you see the impact that he has with his rebounding and his presence around the rim.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's going to be a big plus force.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Work wanted to ask another Irish state question.
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[SPEAKER_08]: You had David Lipsy as a member of your team briefly in the summer.
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[SPEAKER_08]: What did you see in the small glimpses just being around him as a player and as a person?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's, he's quality's reflect, you know, what this program is about, you know, particularly now under TJ.
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[SPEAKER_01]: out of her, you know, who's become a friend of mine, I just I have great respect for how he approaches coach in the team, how he approaches recruiting the kind of guys that they get that reflect the toughness and work ethic of this area of the country, you know, it's it's pretty cool and these fans create an environment that is just a
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's very difficult to come in here as a visiting team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but Lipsy is a guy that, you know, embodies all of that as a point guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a leader on the floor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, pending whatever legal decision they're waiting for, there's still seemingly a good chance that he will play here again this year, which would be great for them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: please stay tuned for Pacer Star Tyre's caliber.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Hi, first week you make them just the reception of playing here and how it felt compared to what you thought I might feel like.
23:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was, you know, there's no way to really predict what it was going to be.
23:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a lot, obviously, a lot is preseason game.
23:14
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never been a part of probably, a lot is preseason game.
23:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never been a part of, but had a lot of fun, a lot of special memories I've made here and, you know, that just adds to it's home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of fun.
23:24
[SPEAKER_07]: You consider taking this lot's up to, but you're choosing it, especially when they were going for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I appreciate that the students wanted that as they shared, but we're going to process here.
23:36
[SPEAKER_07]: You named the exact number of days.
23:37
[SPEAKER_07]: Since you last played in your free game speech, you actually play, you bigger palms up when you finally made a three-minute, that I'll feel like to have that really.
23:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, when you miss some time and you come back, I think for many length of time, right, you're timing and all those things out to get better.
23:53
[SPEAKER_00]: For me, I feel like I'm just playing really fast right now.
23:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's first game, but it's got slow down.
23:59
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think there was just a lot of adrenaline.
24:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I was hyped to be out there, excited, but you know, I just got to slow down a little bit.
24:05
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like I was, you know what I mean?
24:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Like when you're like, when you talk to a rookie or something, they say like the games just move really fast right now.
24:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think my reads are moving fast necessarily as much as just
24:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I was moving really fast.
24:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going slow down.
24:17
[SPEAKER_00]: But it'll happen one time in the long way to really replicate that as game reps against other guys.
24:22
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what that was.
24:23
[SPEAKER_00]: So really excited about it and there's a ton of improvement that there is to be made on my end and on our teams end, but just excited to be back on the floor.
24:33
[SPEAKER_04]: I reached Coach Carallel praised your consistency in dealing with the 16 months rehab.
24:39
[SPEAKER_04]: How would you describe that process and what does it take to be?
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[SPEAKER_04]: consistent under those circumstances.
24:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, I mean, I don't know if I could give you one word to really summarize it, but it's uh, it's been a rollercoaster.
24:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you that rollercoaster promotions for me.
24:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I've had a lot of hard days, but I think it's all just part of it and being a human being.
24:59
[SPEAKER_00]: And, um, you know, 60 months a long time, I've never went along without playing basketball.
25:04
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so, um,
25:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think I learned a lot about myself, I got to spend a lot of time on the sideline watching, and even today as I was like struggling to start the game and, you know, I was tired as I could, but even through that, I just kept feeling like,
25:22
[SPEAKER_00]: man, I'm playing again, you know, like, how, how thankful I am.
25:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think my perspective on life on basketball has changed a lot through this injury.
25:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's the biggest thing is an easier for me to take us back and be like, just appreciate the little things right now.
25:35
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's what I'm doing.
25:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Just appreciate all the, all the things that come with this, the good and the bad and you know, continuing to learn and fun fun.
25:45
[SPEAKER_03]: So I will with the hours leading up to today like you kind of mentioned motions like coming to the gym yesterday and I know you have been waiting for this moment, but I mean we just like super antsy today where you
25:58
[SPEAKER_03]: have a city kind of zen, no one is finally here.
25:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Just what did you feel all day?
26:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, I mean, there would be different come game one of the real season, you know, preseason's kind of like an open scrimmage to a sense, you know.
26:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was less excitement about being back on the floor and more excited about being back at Iowa State, you know, because, uh,
26:16
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't, I view this as a, you know, my first time playing against other guys, but, um, you know, I really think I'll feel the whole, all the way to it until game one of the real season.
26:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So, um, you know, I enjoyed it a ton.
26:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I was really excited.
26:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I think all day, I struggle to sleep a little bit like anybody when the season starts.
26:33
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm always like that.
26:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll chill, man.
26:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I just was excited to be back here.
26:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I knew it was going to be crazy.
26:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I,
26:40
[SPEAKER_00]: was prepared for exactly how loud it was going to be.
26:43
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's the fun part about it while I love this place.
26:45
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm excited about this film on tape.
26:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I'll be able to watch film, good and bad.
26:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited about that.
26:53
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just the process that comes with being great.
26:55
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's looking forward to all of that.
26:57
[SPEAKER_03]: And then just the starting line up, the way that you can kind of mesh together, especially with Zuba, they're just kind of what was your early re.
27:05
[SPEAKER_03]: And feel out there.
27:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, um,
27:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I was playing super fast, you know, as time goes on and I slow down, I feel like me and Zeus pick and roll will become even better.
27:16
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm so used to coming off and, you know, obviously typically playing with a popping big and, you know, that's obviously different.
27:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want that conversation to be overblown at all, but, uh, when Zeus sets screens.
27:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's hitting people, you know, so if I slow down and give him time to get a good clean hit, I'll be open and be easier to make my reads, but when I'm flying off like that, and I'm kind of stuck in that like long two area, I shot a really long floater, top of the key.
27:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I could have shot a million long twos.
27:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but that's what I'm saying as I slow down a little bit, maybe give my feet under me to shoot the three to get downhill Kind of hit him lay on that late roll Um, it'll come with time, but I'm really confident in it.
27:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I know how good of a player he is and we all are, but I mean, we all we're gonna have time like This is gonna be a lot of fun, you know, so we know we're all gonna get a lot better and we will as the season goes on, but it's been enjoyable
28:09
[SPEAKER_09]: Tyreys, what did you make of your rookie teammate, Braden Smith getting heckled and booted by the student?
28:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I still don't really understand the reason.
28:19
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll dumbfounded.
28:20
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I get it, but, I mean,
28:23
[SPEAKER_00]: for lack of a better, we did all the Purdue last year.
28:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't, it ain't like he did anything crazy to us last year.
28:28
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't understand, but you know, that's tough.
28:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Like your first game, and like a college road environment, how weird is that?
28:36
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought he did a great job, you know, he was tired.
28:39
[SPEAKER_00]: His game went on, you know, I played a lot of minutes and that's how you have, but I thought he settled in the game really well.
28:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure he will tell you that the game is moving really fast for him, but as time goes on, he's able to slow down.
28:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, but it's an unbelievable passer as unbelievable feel for the game.
28:52
[SPEAKER_00]: But I behind the back pass, he I was really a lot of those dope, but he has a knack like TJ I've just been able to get baseline and kind of play there and as time goes on I feel like and he gets more reps in the gv and you know when preseason and you know in the league I feel like he'll be really good so um that was proud of him I thought he he did a great job I apologize I was like I don't know why they're born you who knows but I like to get done And then the 2020 draft class for top
29:20
[SPEAKER_09]: 12 picks linked and I was there a moment where he really just sat back and looked at that between you and Lamelo and Obi.
29:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we talked about it.
29:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we all kind of feel like, you know, they thought our draft class was going to be terrible, you know, and I feel like I've played with half of our draft at this point, but, you know, I think we understand the magnitude of how cool it is.
29:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, it's obviously NBA's a brother.
29:47
[SPEAKER_00]: There's
29:49
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I tweeted when the Melo got traded there, how cool that is, you know, for two of the top 20 guys to be together and how excited it is, I've had the opportunity to play with, you know, Aaron and Obi and Sticks and, you know, Jake's wise man, a couple guys, so, you know, I think it's really cool seeing them thrive obviously they're in the other conference and.
30:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really excited for them.
30:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out to Anne, because, you know, like, obviously, me wanting to do this, the tumble has got to say yes.
30:14
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not saying yes without his approval and that's like my brother.
30:18
[SPEAKER_00]: So I made sure to tell him, appreciate him.
30:21
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to go to Georgia, I'll make sure that we say yes to them as well.
30:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, it's really appreciative of him and the whole tumble's organization.
30:30
[SPEAKER_05]: You didn't get to play in the second half, but you were so kind of participating with the crowd.
30:34
[SPEAKER_05]: I saw you doing the Juicy Leggo, don't you?
30:36
[SPEAKER_05]: You were dancing along with the fight song.
30:38
[SPEAKER_05]: Why was that something that you wanted to take part in the second half?
30:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, I'm...
30:42
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm a cyclone through and through, you know, and so being a part of something like that is a lot of fun.
30:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Just being a part of all the traditions and stuff.
30:50
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't talk about Mr. Brighton, I get it.
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, don't worry, I'm not a student anymore.
30:55
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't get in trouble.
30:57
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was a lot of fun, man.
30:59
[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed coming back here.
31:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed all of our traditions here and the culture of Iowa State.
31:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I think when I came here, I really emerged myself in it.
31:09
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I was,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every football game, I went to the Women's Basketball Games, I went to Gymnastics, I went to try, I went to everything, you know, and I think that was just the exciting part of being a cyclone, and that's what comes with it.
31:22
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we don't have any professional sports teams here, so we kind of all are the professional sports teams.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think all the athletes here take pride in that, and that makes a lot of fun.
31:33
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31:36
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