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Ohio State Basketball Insider: New Event Matches Up 4 Teams From Ohio · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Friday, July tenth. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host Tom Moore. The ball State game in fifty
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Speaker 2: Today.
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm joined by Tony Gerderman to Puckeye Insiders
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Speaker 1: here inside the Shottenstein Center, where just got a chance
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Speaker 1: to talk to Jake Diebler, Ohio State head basketball coach,
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Speaker 1: and we have some breaking news for everyone. You know,
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Speaker 1: how Tony, everyone always talks about the fact that, you know,
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Speaker 1: I wish Ohio State played more in state opponents as well. Friends,
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Speaker 1: We have great news for you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Now today there's going to be a doubleheader of Vince
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Speaker 3: State opponents. Ohio State, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Xavier are going
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Speaker 3: to get together and play an exhibition. Ohio State will
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Speaker 3: be playing Cincinnati, Dayton will be playing Xavier and tom
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Speaker 3: This is going to be an outdoor game.
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Speaker 1: It is going to be an outdoor game, something that
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Speaker 1: will high It has let's say, a mixed history with
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Speaker 1: trying to do that with the basketball in the basketball world.
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Speaker 1: But they're gonna be playing at the Linder Family Tennis Center.
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Speaker 1: That's where they played the Cincinnati Open tennis event every summer.
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Speaker 1: It's basically right across the highway from King's Island down
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Speaker 1: outside of Cincinnati, and you know sometimes they'll play they
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Speaker 1: play the final four in a football stadium every year.
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Speaker 1: And you look at that every year and you go,
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Speaker 1: there are so many bad seats for that this, I
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Speaker 1: mean a tennis court and basketball court. You look at that,
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Speaker 1: you go, this was a really good idea.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and fans, there will be tickets for fans for
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Speaker 3: the event, and we will media will be there, and
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Speaker 3: it's I think it's enough of a professional environment that
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Speaker 3: wind won't be much of a factor there. But it's
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Speaker 3: still something that you're gonna have to deal with. And
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Speaker 3: as we were talking earlier, they're gonna have to monitor
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Speaker 3: do points in those things just to make sure that
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Speaker 3: the condensation is under control and if there are weather
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Speaker 3: issues or anything like that, they would just go play
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Speaker 3: at ud Arena instead, which would be a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a bummer. But still getting to see all of
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Speaker 3: these Ohio teams in one place is something that Jake
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Speaker 3: Diebler has been trying to make happen, and said others
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Speaker 3: have been trying to make happen. It's just hard to
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Speaker 3: get it completely over the finish line. So I think
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Speaker 3: this is a good first step. It's exhibition, so there's
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Speaker 3: no you're not gonna be hurt by it. You know,
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Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about your record, he said.
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Speaker 3: Once they get closer and we can, I guess October.
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Speaker 2: Seventh, Yes, is the date.
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Speaker 3: It's a Wednesday, likely a Wednesday afternoon, just kind of
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Speaker 3: out of the blue, assuming the weather is good. Out
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Speaker 3: of the blue or into the blue, and just being
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Speaker 3: able to find some different matchups and you know, what
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Speaker 3: are you trying to work on? What are you trying
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Speaker 3: to accomplish. Sty'll know more about what their team looks
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Speaker 3: like at that point, how to move forward. But overall
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Speaker 3: sounds like a pretty fun event, low stakes, high reward.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: I think the fact that it is an exhibition game
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Speaker 1: and the fact that it's October Seventh's your a big
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Speaker 1: tip off there, because this is not just an exhibition game.
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Speaker 1: It's an early exhibition game where they're going to have
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Speaker 1: a couple other exhibitions. They will have one that's at home,
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Speaker 1: and they'll have one that's a private, closed you know,
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Speaker 1: they call it a secret scrimmage, which it's you know,
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Speaker 1: not really a secret, but you don't it's not open
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Speaker 1: to the public. So they'll have three of those. That
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Speaker 1: was what Jake Diebler said they were going to sort
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Speaker 1: of lay out in terms of their plan for the preseason.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is this is a really good first
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Speaker 1: step towards something that I think would be a really
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Speaker 1: good goal for them to have. And you want to
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Speaker 1: do this, and you want to play this in you know,
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Speaker 1: I always think of the Beanpot Tournament in Boston for
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Speaker 1: college hockey, where it's Harvard and BU and BC and
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Speaker 1: Northeastern and they play every year and they play it
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Speaker 1: at the Garden and it's this like big thing. Now
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Speaker 1: those are four teams in the same city. But it
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Speaker 1: would be kind of cool if you could do a
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Speaker 1: maybe you do it one year in Cincinnati at the Arena.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of kind of downtown there and actually the river,
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Speaker 1: and then you do it at Nationwide Arena one year
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Speaker 1: and do it as a like a two day event
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Speaker 1: and you play you know, two games and put like
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Speaker 1: that would be something that would really be interesting to
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Speaker 1: sort of see them sort.
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Speaker 2: Of strive for.
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Speaker 1: Obviously you're not anywhere close to there right yet, but
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Speaker 1: this is probably one of those things where let's see
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Speaker 1: what the fan interest in something like this is. Because
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Speaker 1: it seems like something that if it's a decent day,
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Speaker 1: you know, Wednesday afternoon in October is not an ideal
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Speaker 1: time for people who you know, have jobs in school
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Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. But if you get some
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Speaker 1: decent feedback on that this, maybe this can turn into
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Speaker 1: something bigger.
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Speaker 3: Well, and it won't be televised. We know there are
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Speaker 3: some exhibition games going around that can fuel NIL or
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Speaker 3: some matchups that will fuel nil. This feels like a
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Speaker 3: thing that they could do to fuel the NIL, and
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Speaker 3: you are willing to accept a possible loss if it
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Speaker 3: means an extra you know, eight hundred thousand dollars into
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Speaker 3: the coffer. So I think maybe that's a way to
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Speaker 3: get it done because you can sell it. You can
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Speaker 3: sell it Cleveland and Toledo, whatever, like different different parts
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Speaker 3: of the state, Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: That would be the most college sports thing to have
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Speaker 1: four teams from Ohio play in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 3: Right, And so there are those things that you can
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Speaker 3: do it that you can package this. I think that's
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Speaker 3: gonna be something that we see moving forward and kind
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Speaker 3: of you can create your own little First four type
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Speaker 3: of thing every year if you wanted to. And for
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Speaker 3: the people around southwest Ohio that are familiar with that
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Speaker 3: kind of thing, you think that would be something they'd
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Speaker 3: be interested in as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that Cincinnati and Xavier are on
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Speaker 1: other opposite sides of this event. I know they still
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Speaker 1: do the Crosstown Shootout most most years every year, but
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Speaker 1: that's you know, so they are you taking away from
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Speaker 1: that kind of event if you do this maybe who knows,
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Speaker 1: But just a very interesting idea really interesting venue, and
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Speaker 1: something that I'm looking forward to. We were we were
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Speaker 1: immediately going, Okay, is this going to screw up football
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Speaker 1: content if we all go down and cover this, because
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Speaker 1: it just this is one of these things where it's
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Speaker 1: like this seems like this will be just a really
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Speaker 1: fun event and you know, relatively low stakes, but just
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Speaker 1: kind of a cool experience to see that. So October seventh,
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Speaker 1: it will be Ohio State will will put out information
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Speaker 1: about how to get tickets and all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: We'll try and as soon as we get that information
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Speaker 1: from them, we'll try and throw that in the description
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Speaker 1: for the podcast and the front page post at Buckeye
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Speaker 1: Insiders dot com and all that.
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Speaker 2: So we can do that now.
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Speaker 1: We can do that now because guess what we were at
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Speaker 2: We will have.
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Speaker 1: We got a chance to talk to Jake d Bler.
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Speaker 1: I will throw the video of that interview with him,
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Speaker 3: It's a really good, great comments about being the Ohio
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Speaker 3: State head coach and how you kind of have to
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Speaker 3: help build the entire state basketball wise. So that's why
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Speaker 3: he's always been in favor of something like this and
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Speaker 3: that's why he's championing that effort.
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Speaker 4: So so many moving parts that you know, to make
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Speaker 4: something like this happen and get it off. It takes
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Speaker 4: a lot of people and just excited that everybody's gotten
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Speaker 4: together to make it happen. Where it goes from here,
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Speaker 4: we'll see, you know. But I think this is a
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Speaker 4: great first step certainly.
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Speaker 5: What I understand, and I presume no one's gonna say
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Speaker 5: anything until ten am, But this is gonna be outdoors.
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Speaker 5: I mean, what what's your thought about that? I mean,
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Speaker 5: that's planning and of itself to put a basketball court
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Speaker 5: outside and the venue.
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Speaker 2: You're using as well. I think getting all four teams together.
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Speaker 4: And doing it in a venue like that, it's it's
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Speaker 4: exciting and you might as well try something different. You know,
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Speaker 4: it's gonna be it's gonna be really early in the preseason,
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Speaker 4: so it'll be a great time for everybody to get
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Speaker 4: some minutes.
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Speaker 2: And just see where you're at relative to someone else.
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Speaker 4: And so the great thing now with having the additional
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Speaker 4: exhibition game is you get these you get a different
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Speaker 4: marker than what you tra traditionally have. So I'm excited
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Speaker 4: that is out, George. I've never been a part of
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Speaker 4: a live game outside like that. We used to play
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Speaker 4: outside all the time growing up, so uh, you know,
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Speaker 4: I know it won't be the same surface as what
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Speaker 4: I played on growing up, but I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 4: You know, if you'll have different things right with all
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Speaker 4: that stuff, but who cares. You know, it's gonna be
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Speaker 4: fun to play outside and and you know, be a
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Speaker 4: part of this great event that is you know, that
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Speaker 4: is for something bigger than basketball. It's great for the
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Speaker 4: basketball community in Ohio. But it's also great, you know,
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Speaker 4: for what care Source is doing. Jay's Light, which which
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Speaker 4: we're familiar with and coach granted his family, and to
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Speaker 4: be a part of that and help support what they're
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Speaker 4: doing is special.
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Speaker 6: How close have you come to getting something like this
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Speaker 6: off the ground in years prior.
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Speaker 2: We've gotten really close.
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Speaker 4: We've had coaches you know on board and just couldn't
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Speaker 4: execute it. We've we've it's hard to find dates, you know.
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Speaker 4: This has been something that I've made known to the
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Speaker 4: other three schools that we want to be a part
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Speaker 4: of and we'll do whatever we can to make happen.
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Speaker 4: It's taken some times, I think, to get everybody you
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Speaker 4: know behind that, but we're here now and that's that's
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Speaker 4: a great thing. So we've we've been trying for a
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Speaker 4: couple of years, but excited that it's being executed finally
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Speaker 4: and we're we're excited to be.
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Speaker 2: A part of it.
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Speaker 6: How did you solidify a location?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: How did that kind of come about? Because I'm sure
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Speaker 6: you've talked about one to take some of this stuff
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Speaker 6: throughout the state and do things outside of Columbus.
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Speaker 2: How did you decide on a location?
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Speaker 4: I think there's a there's a lot of people involved
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Speaker 4: in the decision making. And when that idea was presented
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Speaker 4: to me personally and after talking to Ross, we were like, great,
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Speaker 4: let's do it.
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Speaker 2: So where the idea originated, I'm not.
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Speaker 4: Exactly sure, but once it was presented to us, we
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Speaker 4: were or who were fully on board.
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Speaker 3: Can you talk about fourteenth, you're involved, and where is
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Speaker 3: this gonna take a nice You got.
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Speaker 4: To say, all, yeah, So we're gonna play against Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: Dayton's gonna play against Xavier. We're gonna play at the
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Speaker 2: outdoor tennis facility, uh, down in the Cincinnati region. So
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Speaker 2: really excited about it.
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Speaker 6: You talked about the Ohio basketball Low.
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Speaker 2: I think you have you have four story programs.
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Speaker 4: And you know, the basketball in this state has a
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Speaker 4: rich tradition going all the way down to you know,
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Speaker 4: middle school AAU, right and and into the.
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Speaker 2: High school basketball.
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Speaker 4: The tradition of the four programs is is rich at
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Speaker 4: every spot, and it's great for fans, it's great for
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Speaker 4: the youth. Uh, it's it's great for our guys. I
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Speaker 4: think everybody wins in doing something like this. But having
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Speaker 4: grown up in Ohio, having played high school basketball here,
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Speaker 4: played AU basketball here, you all were familiar with these
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Speaker 4: four schools, and I think everybody's always agreed to be
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Speaker 4: really really cool to have an event right where all
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Speaker 4: four or involved.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 4: I'm obviously being a homegrown Ohio kid, it doesn't get
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Speaker 4: any better than this, Jake.
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Speaker 7: I think there's maybe some people who would say that
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Speaker 7: Ohio State is like the flagship program would have maybe
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Speaker 7: little to gain, but perhaps allowed to lose in terms
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Speaker 7: of like perception and conversation when you play the other
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Speaker 7: major teams in Ohio. How do you feel about that,
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Speaker 7: because it seems like you're the opposite. You want to
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Speaker 7: Ohio State kind of like leading that charge. So it's like,
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Speaker 7: how do you I don't know if you've ever heard
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Speaker 7: that conversation or what do you think of it?
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Speaker 4: Listen, I think you know my first college recruiting visit
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Speaker 4: was the baby and I believe it or not shocked
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Speaker 4: a smart I think was a ga at the top
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Speaker 4: and have my family over there. So I've never viewed
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Speaker 4: it as, you know, whether there's something to gain or
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Speaker 4: something to lose. I just think I've said this. When
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Speaker 4: you're the head coach at Ohio State, and in Ohio
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Speaker 4: State is the flagship university in the state, you have
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Speaker 4: a responsibility to grow the game of basketball within our borders.
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Speaker 4: You can't do it alone, and each each school has
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Speaker 4: such a rich tradition.
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Speaker 2: That there is game lose. I don't view it that, but.
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Speaker 4: I think we all have a responsibility to enhance basketball
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Speaker 4: here because we all benefit from that.
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Speaker 2: We all been.
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Speaker 4: The better basketball is in our state, the better for
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Speaker 4: all of us.
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Speaker 2: And you know that's all I.
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Speaker 4: Know is Ohio High School basketball, known it my whole life,
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Speaker 4: and this is good for everybody. So the timing of
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Speaker 4: it's unique because it's it's a lot earlier than any
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Speaker 4: exhibition game we've ever played. So you know, as we
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Speaker 4: approach that we'll think through more strategically what we're.
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Speaker 2: Trying to accomplish.
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Speaker 4: Anytime there's a score, Right, we're going to compete and
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Speaker 4: we're gonna we're gonna play to win and all of
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Speaker 4: that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But you know, we also right still will.
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Speaker 4: Be figuring out kind of who we are and what
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Speaker 4: guy's roles are and things like that. So there's a
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Speaker 4: lot of a lot of moving parts in a game
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Speaker 4: in October seventh, Gary, Right, it's early, but make no
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Speaker 4: mistake when when the lights come on, the stadium lights outside,
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Speaker 4: when the when the when the clock starts running, and
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Speaker 4: I know every other program will be the same thing.
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Speaker 4: It's going to be a fun, competitive day and we're
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Speaker 4: looking forward to being a part of it.
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Speaker 3: A little easier to control than maybe on an aircraft
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Speaker 3: carrier that they're done.
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Speaker 4: I know we don't have great history with games trying
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Speaker 4: to be played on aircraft carrier, But I think I
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Speaker 4: think a tennis facility will will kick off a little
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Speaker 4: better than that.
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Speaker 3: You talk about the team, the new faces on the team,
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Speaker 3: that's how are they doing, how are they blending with
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Speaker 3: the other current.
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Speaker 2: It's been great.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we got great young men who are consumed uned with,
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Speaker 4: you know, growing towards being a team that's that's just
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Speaker 4: obsessed with winning. And our guys are really competitive. They
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Speaker 4: get along on the court, they get along off the court.
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Speaker 4: It's really competitive in between the lines, but it's it's
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Speaker 4: competitive and a respectful manner that you know, there's trash talk,
15:18
Speaker 4: there's like guys are getting.
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Speaker 2: Into it, but it's it's good, it's healthy.
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Speaker 4: And and so the chemistry of this group, both on
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Speaker 4: and off the court has been really good. The off
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Speaker 4: court chemistry has been ahead of the on court chemistry,
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Speaker 4: but that on court chemistry is getting better and better
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Speaker 4: every week. And Aja talked about your conversations as sin
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Speaker 4: as that quortal opened, you were right on him and
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Speaker 4: just convinced.
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Speaker 3: Him that this was the place to be. What what
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Speaker 3: were those conversations like with.
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Speaker 4: Him to get him yeah, I felt like, you know,
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Speaker 4: he's he's unique because he can play both forward positions.
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Speaker 2: He can play with another big, he could be the
15:51
Speaker 2: you know, quote unquote, the only big. I liked his
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Speaker 2: skill set.
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Speaker 4: He's got a ton of experience, you know, playing high
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Speaker 4: level international ball. Got good experien second half of the
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Speaker 4: season at Kentucky. So it was just a matter of
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Speaker 4: I think, explaining what our vision for him would be
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Speaker 4: and then hearing from him what he.
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Speaker 2: Was looking for.
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Speaker 4: And once those were aligned, it was full court press.
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Speaker 4: You know, from that point on, are you saying with Justin? Yeah,
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Speaker 4: familiar with the family, knew him for a long time,
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Speaker 4: had recruited his brother to Vanderbilt, and and so there
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Speaker 4: had already there was already familiarity. I didn't know Justin
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Speaker 4: nearly as well, but the familiarity with his dad, with
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Speaker 4: his mom, with his brother helped that process move along quickly.
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Speaker 4: But I just we wanted to get bigger on the perimeter.
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Speaker 4: We needed, you know, obviously, losing Bruce's production, we needed
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Speaker 4: someone who has proven production at the high major level.
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Speaker 2: He fit that.
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Speaker 4: He can pass, he can rebound, you know, he can
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Speaker 4: get fouled, he can shoot it. Just he checked all
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Speaker 4: the boxes for us, and I know he's a great
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Speaker 4: young man. So once once he was in and it
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Speaker 4: was that didn't take long to set the full court
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Speaker 4: press on that one.
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Speaker 3: And he talks about the pickup game that he has
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Speaker 3: with dad and his brother. Can you see it?
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Speaker 2: I would.
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Speaker 4: I would love to be a fan and just sit
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Speaker 4: on the side and watch that.
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Speaker 2: I think that'd be that'd be pretty good. My my,
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Speaker 2: I would I would bet.
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Speaker 4: On U on Scottie Senior. I think still, yeah, well
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna be watching.
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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I should rest.
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Speaker 6: That's what I'll do the rest of your exhibition schedule
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Speaker 6: starting to wrap up at all, Like, what else could
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Speaker 6: you guys do before we start playing games? Account?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we want to do at least uh one home
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Speaker 4: live exhibition and then one private I think is the
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Speaker 4: the format of the three. We're still finalizing those details.
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Speaker 4: We're waiting on. We'll have updates on our non conference
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Speaker 4: schedule here real soon. We're just waiting on some of
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Speaker 4: the contracts to be finished. But every game is is set,
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Speaker 4: so once that stuff is across the line, we'll announce
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Speaker 4: that we're gonna play a really tough non conference schedule
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Speaker 4: to help us get ready for you know what I
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Speaker 4: what I think's going to be the deepest and best
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Speaker 4: league in the country.