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Rodney Terry on dynamic freshman Tre Jones · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's hear some more from log Worn's basketball
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  head coach Rodney Terry. We heard him talking about the
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  construction of his team. This was a question that Brian Davis,
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  our friend Brian Davis, asked him about sod Do you
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  have to have a senior or grad transfer point guard
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  in today's age of college basketball?
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  Speaker 2: Can you can you sign a freshman point guard? I mean,
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  he got to be elite, you know what I mean.
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  I mean, I mean again, you know what's elite this
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  day in time. You know, even the best young players
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  are going to have growing pains, and the most important
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  thing with young players is just being consistent. We're wanting
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  to be consistent every day, even some older players, just
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  being consistent.
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  Speaker 3: With what you do every day.
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  Speaker 2: But we have the luxuryer having older, older guards that
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  hand the ball for us. Right now, Jordan Pope played,
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  you know, he's played two seasons.
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  Speaker 3: He's in his third season right now.
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  Speaker 2: So the junior's played a lot of minutes at the point,
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  you know, Junior Larry, you know he's in.
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  Speaker 3: His fifth season. He's played.
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  Speaker 2: He played a ton of basketball in a lot of minutes.
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  Speaker 3: You know. In distributing the basketball initiating offense, so they're
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  they're older guards.
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  Speaker 2: Trey Johnson will initiate initiate for us as well, because
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  all our guards have to be.
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  Speaker 3: The initiate force.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Kenda Weaver has done a great job making
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  decisions with the basketball as well. We don't just have
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  one guy dominate the ball for us, our forwards bringing
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  the ball up the floor. They have to be able
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  to initiate offense sports as well, and we we drill
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  that so they that make it come natural to those
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  guys in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Art think gets the rebound, he can bring
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  it up and hit ahead. You know, Jason Kin hit ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I think the easier teams to guard is if you
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  only have one guy can handle basketball.
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  Speaker 3: So we need multiple ball handlers, multiple.
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  Speaker 2: Guys that can that can initiate offense for us. And
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  that's that's challenging for a team to deal with defensively.
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  But you know, when if we take a point guard
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  that's a freshman, you know, man, we can you know,
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  we'll we'll figure that out a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We got too pretty good ones right now, so we
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  feel good about that.
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  Speaker 1: So after several months of the guys and individual workouts, uh,
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  and drills going against one another. And then now with
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  just a week in on the total team practices, does
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  Rodney Terry get the sense that this team is ready
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  to stop going up against one another and try to
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  take on somebody else?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a this is a very competitive group,
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  and we're playing a lot earlier than we did with
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  last year's group.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Right now, this group right now, we're.
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  Speaker 2: Cause you're fighting time when you put a new group together,
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  you know, that's the biggest thing, guys getting familiar with
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  one another. You know, we're changing jerseys, letting different guys
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  play with each other, you know.
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  Speaker 3: In my mind, again, I think in the.
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  Speaker 2: Last two years is what's made us really good is
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  we've had you know, guys up to eight guys, nine
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  guys that could start for us.
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  Speaker 3: You know. And again I think we're in that same
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  position right now. We could have eight, you know, nine
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  guys that could that could start for us, you know,
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  and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So, Uh, I think that versatility, uh, you know, gives
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  us an opportunity to play earlier.
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  Speaker 3: Get more familiar with each other.
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  Speaker 2: But right now I think there's super competitive against Orange
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  and Gray right now.
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  Speaker 3: Really stuff, So we're able to put.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody all in one color, then we're all together.
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll be competitive as well. It's a pretty
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  competitive group.
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  Speaker 1: Roddy's referring to the fact that he's got the group
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  split into those who wear orange jerseys and those who
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  wear great ones. And that's what eve an orange against gray.
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  When they all are wearing the same uniform color, they'll
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  be effective when they get on the floor. He was
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  asked about the leadership part of not having a Brock
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  cunning him after six years in a Texas uniform. I
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  think I saw yesterday from Rocky's starting a season. Is Holland,
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  is it?
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  Speaker 3: I think so?
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  Speaker 1: He Holland or Belgium. I think it was one of
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  the low countries. I think it was. I think Belgium. Okay, yeah,
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  like I said, in Belgium, Holland, the low countries over there. Yeah,
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  I think.
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  Speaker 3: Don't ask me how to pronounce the team name. But
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  he will be starting five year old. That's very good,
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  very good.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asked Roddy, has anybody taking over Brocks stepped into
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  his shoes in that kind of area.
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  Speaker 2: Bill brock Brock was a guy that again played to win.
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  He may win and plays for us. He's one of
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  those guys that that over the latter part of his
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  career really you know, took a lot of investment and
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  leadership for our program as well. I think right now,
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  you know, I think we're still emerging and who's gonna
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  emerge in terms of being a leader on.
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  Speaker 3: This team, Because the best teams we've.
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  Speaker 2: Been around a player led, you know, and that coach led,
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  The player led coach is gonna do his job, but
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  but player led teams that really hold each other accountable.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Kendall makes winning plays.
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  Speaker 2: He plays with the kind of effort that that Brock
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  Cunningham played with. I think Julie larry Will played with
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  that same kind of energy and activity likewise and stuff.
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  But you know, I can go right down the list
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  of a number of guys that we got to take
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  defense really personal and want to guard and defend at
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  a high level.
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  Speaker 1: And then he was also asked about Trey Johnson, the
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  tremendous freshman coming in and he is kind of lit
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  up to know. You just watch him in practice, you
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  can see how explosion and dynamic he can be.
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  Speaker 3: So he was asked how.
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  Speaker 1: Dynamic and game changing has Trey Johnson been to this point.
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  Speaker 3: Tray's been really good. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I think just like any young player, you know, I
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  think that the biggest adjustment for them and growth curve
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  for them is just being consistent with what you bring
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  every day in terms of your energy, your effort, you know,
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  your body language. Those are the things that you really
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  pay attention to with young players like like Trey, who's
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  highly skilled.
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  Speaker 3: He's a shot.
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  Speaker 2: Maker, you know, He's a guy that over the course
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  of summer, I think he's gotten better with his decision making,
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  as will, and he'll be an initiate some offense sports too,
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  as will.
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  Speaker 3: But with young players, all of them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, go out down the list of all the
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  guys we've had in this program that I've been a
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  part of, whether it's KD you know, TJ Ford, you
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  know DJ, any of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's just being consistent with what you bring every day.
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  All right.
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  Speaker 1: There It is some more from Rodney Terry. We'll here's
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  some more from him tomorrow as well. Updating the baseball
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  Milwaukee's first three hitters, all batters, all reached that with
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  a run scoring. It's one nothing, Brewers. They have the
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  bases loaded, with one out against Louis Severino, and again
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  the Orioles and Royals one nothing Kansas City with Baltimore
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  batting in the bottom of the seventh inning, And in
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  case you didn't hear it, Tiger's got three runs in
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  the second and made it stand up. They held on
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  got out of a bases loaded situation in the ninth
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  to beat the Astros in Game one in Houston, three
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  to one. We'll be back to wrap up today's program
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