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The Blackford Bruins Report with Aaron Daniels, Reggie Duren and Mason Kitterman (2.174.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome black for Bruins fans to the Central Indiana sports report for this week's Black for Bruins report every Tuesday on the Central Indiana sports report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host Greg Mingeel and after I take a quick look at what's been going on with the 20-25-26 black for Bruins and look ahead to this weekend, I earlier spoke to black for Bruins
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mason Kidderman and Reggie Durham.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's really good catching up with coach Daniels and really nice meeting Reggie and Mason.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, let's do it the Blackford Bruins are now 15 and 5 after growing one and one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They were victorious 58-43 at Westel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then on Friday, went on the road to face number two oak hill.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And swazzy and the Bruins left with a 73-50 loss.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That makes Blackford just a two and a five since a 13 or no start.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just stating the facts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I understand that there is a very good reason that the schedule got a lot to offer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: very tough weekend coming up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: First on Friday night, Northwestern visits Hartford City, the Tigers, 15 and three on the year just won the three Rivers Conference by beating Witco, 57 to 42 on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was their seventh win in a row then on Saturday they went to Rossville and be a very good Hornets team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 61 to 58.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So tough test on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then it gets a little tougher on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Bruins get on the bus and head to Fort Wayne to take on a very good Fort Wayne Snider team, 14 and 7 on the year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Winners of 11 of their last 13, 10 and 1 since the calendar flip to 2026.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the Panthers beat Loores on Friday night to clinch a share of the
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[SPEAKER_03]: code champions with the south side archers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of which Blackford will finish the second place in the CIC could be a tie with Franklin if the Eagles be Alexandria on Friday night of course Blackford be Franklin so we'll just give the Bruins second place in the CIC.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And after the weekend one more game left that is on Thursday the 26th as of now my plan is to be at that one
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that'll be my first game at Blackford since maybe 1991, but probably 1993.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Have a lot of great memories of that school.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, I know you didn't come here from me, so I am done coming up here in just a second.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach Aaron Daniels and seniors Regideran and Mason Kidderman.
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[SPEAKER_03]: back here on the black for Bruins Report with Boys Basketball Head Coach Aaron Daniels here to talk about what's happened in the last week and look ahead to what's coming up this week and with us we have a couple of seniors we have Mason Kinnerman and Reggie Duren here to talk a little basketball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: First coach I want to talk to you about you got a needed win over West Dell and then you play in a no kill team that is really really good
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[SPEAKER_03]: When you look at the final score, you probably won't get the idea of how competitive is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What did you take away from that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You personally, and as a team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I think it's important when you play a team like Oak Hill, the one thing you want to be able to take out of it is you want to know you can compete with them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that's when you're going to go try to win a section or try to win a regional, you're going to face up with a team, probably Oak Hill or a team like Oak Hill and the semi state round if you're, if you're fortunate enough to make it there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So you want to be able to be able to compete with them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And so when we watched film back and different things, we realized the lot of mistakes that were on us.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, day did some really nice things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: that put us in some disadvantages and things, but we also realize that if we stick to our game plan of things that there are a team that we can compete with and that you have a chance to beat.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So that's the main thing you want to take away from that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You don't want to leave there with a 30 point loss and say, man, I'm not sure we can compete with them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So that was the number one thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then you just have to have a strong team that
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're through a rough stretch right now where we've lost, you know, five out of seven.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've gotten a couple of much-needed winds, but done getting either easier.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We have Northwestern and Fort Wayne Snyder this weekend before going to plant a sectional opponent next week.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So it's going to be a tough grind here going into the sectional and luckily we have really good seniors and good leadership to prepare us for that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: seem like to me early in the game you had pretty good ball movement particularly between your bigs and later in the game you had a harder time establishing that did they take that away from you or do you feel like you kind of went away from it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well I'd say the number one thing is we we we are energetic and early we got a lot of energy and we were we're not tired and so we stick to a game plan really well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then as soon as our legs started to get tired because we only go six deep.
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[SPEAKER_04]: O kills thrown eight, nine kids at you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, one right after another.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't think we necessarily, we went away from what we were trying to do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, what happened was we started to get tired and we start to do our own things and we start to get away from that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that's not necessarily a kid's choice thing or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's just we've got to be better conditioned and we've got to put ourselves in that situation.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Some of that's on me.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've got to do a better job of stopping and making sure we get kids of break.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think as we get tired, we start to go away from some of the things that we do really, really well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are planning on doing this every Monday, but my mother's 80th birthday was on Monday, so didn't get a chance to be here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you've had a couple of days to practice since the weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How are the spirits around practice?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, at this time of year, you've got to do two things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: One, it's all about finding fresh likes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like you got to keep your kids fresh and keep their legs fresh.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But then at the other time, you've got to make sure that we stay disciplined.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we continue to work through those things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've got to decide which part is a conditioning thing, and which part is an exhaustion thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, if it's because our legs are dead and were tired, then that's on something we need to pull back.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But if it's something we're out of shape, and we can't get your breath.
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[SPEAKER_04]: then we've got to be more so it's always a balance of trying to find those things while trying to keep fresh legs.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've had a tough stretch of games where we've had backed back to back weekends double weekends for for weeks now so it doesn't you know it doesn't stop this weekend and then if you know you got one game next week and it goes right in a sectional so spirits are good of time but we also have to do a good job as a staff and as players of
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[SPEAKER_04]: They can sure we find our legs get ready for a double weekend.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've got Northwestern team coming to town that's really, really good and very disciplined.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Then Saturday, you got to go to a Snyder who is quite frankly going to play like an okay.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to be up into you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to pressure.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And so spirits are good, but we've got to do a good job of finding that balance here as we go into section one time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Has to be your toughest double weekend of the season, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's up there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we we've had some some tough stretches.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um, we had a stretch where we had Eastburg at home and we went to J County and then we turned around played dealt on the Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, so that that's a tough stretch.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But as far as back to back games, uh, and a weekend, this is going to be, you know, one of the toughs.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We had Frank Domingon rose central back to back, which, you know, was a tough stretch as well, where we lost both of those.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But, um, it's definitely two of the most quality teams that we're going to play back to back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Could be too common for a champion, Snyder's competing for the summit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You win the summit and you are an awfully good thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Northwestern, they've already clenched.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that's a good basketball team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It just to be in the competition for the sack at this time of the year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't matter who you are or what, that they're a really good basketball team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we know that, yes, they've gotten, you know, they've taken their lumps to the Mount Vernon's in different things, but they're a really good basketball team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So if we can go into Fort Wayne and compete with them, we know we've got something really special.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, one of the teams they're tied with in the standings veto kill.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that should tell you a kind of where they are in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we've got two of your five seniors here with this Reggie and Mason first tell me a little bit about the senior class five guy group and what kind of they brought to the program over the last four years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, if this is your two for me, so last year when you have a senior group, they're still getting to know you know, they've been here three years without you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then one year with you this year, we've got guys that have been here two years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So they they know what we want and what is done, and I've been around a lot of senior groups in my years of coaching.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is one of the most the least selfish groups I've been around.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I truly feel like
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[SPEAKER_04]: at the end of the day, they want to win more than they care about themselves and when you're trying to win a sectional and you're trying to compete and you're trying to make a deep tournament run, I think it's the most important thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You've got to be we over me attitude and you've got to put others first and I think that's probably the best quality of this senior class on top of the talent level.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We start four out of the five seniors and we're going to lose a lot when they leave and so we want to make sure we send them out on the right way, but they've just been a great group to coach.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're
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[SPEAKER_04]: There are five quality kids that we've never had any trouble with.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We never have trouble with their attitudes or the way they act or anything on or off the court.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So they've been a fantastic group to coach.
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[SPEAKER_04]: To my only regret is I wish I would have had them for all four years because they're great kids and the more you can be around them and the more we can continue to build and the more they can soak in, the better they are.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're a great group of kids that I have, you know, had an honor to coach for two years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I just wish I had them longer.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I wish to have them for a couple more years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me a little bit about Reggie other than the sweet stroke.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know about that other than that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me a little bit about Reggie.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Reggie is a huge part of what we do.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And if we had to put a third scoring option in there between Jacob Dylan and Reggie, there's a lot of nights where he gets open looks.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And for a kid like Reggie who shoots us so well, to be given open looks, makes us very dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's something that we can really capitalize off.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um, his energy and his effort on the floor has given us a spark that, you know, when you only go 6 deep, uh, target to find a spark.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's far hard to find a guy that gets on the floor and does all things right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um, he's also, he's kind of our utility guy for everything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: When, when we need a guy to go hand to the ball outside of Murray, Reggie's kind of the guy, when we need a guy to go do anything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: when you got to take it out of bounds, throw the past, Reggie's kind of our guy for all that kind of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm not sure where we would be with Adam, but we wouldn't be as good as we are without him in the lineup.
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[SPEAKER_04]: His leadership's really, really good.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's come a long way this year in practice and different things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's one of our better leaders.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's a captain on the team and just really proud of the person that he is on top of the basketball player that he is for us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Of course Mason, all conference level player, one of the top names you come up with, if you started naming best players around here, what's he bring as far as personality and what's it like coaching him?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, first off, I'm really, really proud of him because if Mason Kidnerman was at 90% of two-way schools in the state of Indiana, he'd be average in 20 points again because he's that good of a player.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He would be a 1,000-point score at Blackford.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If it weren't for having to, he played last year behind a gauge beggar was 1,000-point score and you go in this year and you've got money like it who's leading your second the state in scoring.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So Mason has had to
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm pretty much any other high school in the area.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He would be one of the best players in the state.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So he is a fantastic player.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's a college basketball player.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not sure if he's going to get the opportunity to.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But I've been told by numerous people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He could play at the NAI level and he is just a great kid to be around.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that's probably the one person that's that's put the team over himself more than anybody else.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because it'd be really easy to be selfish and that kind of position.
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[SPEAKER_04]: on different things and he really just truly wants to win and as a coach that's all you can ask for and you pick your captains and you have a guy like that that knows what's supposed to be done character and a kid always say is like when nobody's around are you doing the right thing and to me that's a guy that can look himself in the mirror and say he has good character because I think when when things are when nobody's around he's kind of kid that's always doing the right thing he's a kid is a type of kid that was up for the Lily Scholarship just
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[SPEAKER_04]: a great kid to be around and then to top it off with a kid that's got extremely high basketball IQ and talent.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so forward.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I would challenge any coach that walked into a better situation that I did last year here at Blackford with the talent that's around me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Coach, let's meet a couple of your players.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, guys, a couple of lifetime Blackford Bruins here in
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, growing up watching the Blackford Brewing, can you believe there's only like a month and a half left of this?
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's, it's surreal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, Mason, tell me a little bit about this team, this group of seniors and the personality of it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not necessarily how they play basketball, but what's it like being around the years?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, it's, it's hilarious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, these, we have some of the funniest people I've ever met in my life and we've been around each other for, we've played basketball together since we were in fourth grade.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's, it's a lot of, everyone knows everyone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We know everything about everyone's a game and, uh, on a personal level too, we're all friends.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's, it's a lot of joking and bantering and it's, it's a very good, um, locker room atmosphere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who's the funniest?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Reggie.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, now no pressure Reggie.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now you got to be funny with me as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So let's talk with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was very complimentary of this senior class.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What has coach Daniels meant to this program as he moved in here last year?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He just just changed that atmosphere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We were losing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't do the little things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got a lot more
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[SPEAKER_03]: When you guys were growing up, it's kids dreaming of being black for Bruins.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you imagine that you guys would be this good?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because we watch loop.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So what's this team capable of accomplishing?
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[SPEAKER_00]: State, I mean, that's a goal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want to go as far as we can in the tournament.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trust our players in one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or I want to ask you the same question.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Coach Daniels what's he brought to the program?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean he's just he's really brought a leadership role to the team and we're all the way down to I've got little brothers that are eighth graders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean we coach really helped to build a program that it's going to make us good for years not just you know and we've got we've got all state talent here when when Mario does graduate we'll still be good because of the program we've built from the ground up because of coach.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he talked about state, but obviously to get there, you have to win a sectional, and it's, you know, that's something that's not easy to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What would it mean to you guys to be a championship program?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it would mean the world though.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously you've got, you've got Luke's teams that they won the sectionals, but other than that, it's been 30, 40 years that really, we've done anything as a high school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, it's special that we would be a part of a team
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[SPEAKER_01]: get to the almost the same level of accomplishments that his team did to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, old people remember those teams, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you hear that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was there when Blackford won the sexual in 1991.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember that too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My dad was on that J.B. team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, I can throw a little banner around.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was a great black for team beat Cocomo and the regional went there to Wigwam and Washington beat Cocomo and then lost to the number one team in the state Anderson Highland in the regional championship.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That team had lost to Glen Robinson in the semi state and it was a really good team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that was and by the way, they scored a hundred points almost every game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you guys know that, but do you guys want to have to adopt that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: A hundred points again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That sounds like a whole lot around in the me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hunter points a guy out, Marty's nodding, yes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He'd like to coach.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure you got some film around here somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It wouldn't take very long to learn how to do it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's the old Grinnell college way.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's the standard half court.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Get it and go and that's just not a style.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not familiar with it, so we won't be able to coach a game sorry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't tell you why that'd be fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That would be an awful lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: guys, thank you so much for your time and I really appreciate it and we'll look forward to getting to know you throughout the rest of the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Alright coach, thank you so much again and we will talk again on Friday following the North Western game and good luck, guys.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you very much, appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's right, we'll be back on Friday night with a recap.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and coach Daniel's reaction to the game at home against north western and then on Saturday night the game at for when a snider we will hear from coach Daniel's after that one is well and will be back next Tuesday with another blackford bruins report through the rest of the year please join us also right now please go check out my new podcast greatness friends talk sports it's really good
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