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Ohio State Basketball Insider: Buckeyes Add International Standout To Roster · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Saturday, August twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host Tom Orthy ball State game in fourteen days,
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  Speaker 1: the game against Michigan in ninety eight days. Today's episode
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  Speaker 1: out the menu and make a reservation. Today on today's show,
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  Speaker 1: we are talking a little bit of Ohio State basketball.
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  Speaker 1: There was some maybe a little bit unexpected news that
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  Speaker 1: came out on Friday. The Buckeyes added one more player
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  Speaker 1: to their roster for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventh season, and while there's a lot of uncertainty around him,
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  Speaker 1: there is some reason for maybe some optimism. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to bring in Marcus Hartman, the basketball insider at
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  Speaker 1: Buckeye insiders dot com. Marcus, this is a name that
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  Speaker 1: we had gotten it just sort of a heads up
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  Speaker 1: about a few months ago, and it was kind of
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  Speaker 1: like interesting, all right, Well, we'll see if they can
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  Speaker 1: bring him in. They were able to bring him in.
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  Speaker 1: They announced him on Friday. What do people need to
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  Speaker 1: know about Lee Aliyah?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, everybody is some of these things. We'll
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  Speaker 2: all find out together, you know, if he ever takes
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  Speaker 2: the floor for Ohio State. The main thing is he
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  Speaker 2: is a six nine forward from Argentina who has not
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  Speaker 2: played college of basketball yet. He tried a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago, could not get things worked out one or
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  Speaker 2: another to join Michigan's roster. So he's been playing overseas
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  Speaker 2: and he's gotten some good experience. He's played in some
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  Speaker 2: of the better pro leagues in Spain and in Europe,
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  Speaker 2: and he also most recently looks to me like if
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  Speaker 2: he has had a couple of stints with the Argentinian
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  Speaker 2: national team, like the senior team, which is pretty rarefied air,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be pretty good to make that team,
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  Speaker 2: so even as a role player.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, he's a guy.
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  Speaker 2: If his birthday on Wikipedia is to be believed, he
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  Speaker 2: will be twenty two when the season starts of this fall,
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  Speaker 2: So you know he's theoretically he's going to arrive with
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  Speaker 2: a game of some kind, and you would think he's
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  Speaker 2: not going to get beaten up like you know an
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  Speaker 2: eighteen or nineteen year old that's joining college basketball these days. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think that's the the thing we can
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  Speaker 2: probably say with certainty, assuming he gains eligibility, is they
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  Speaker 2: got another big guy who should be able to compete
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  Speaker 2: for minutes in at least a competent fashion.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at the lineup this year and they
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  Speaker 1: brought in a bunch of big guys and that you know,
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  Speaker 1: Ivonna Govin is back, you knew that, but they they
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  Speaker 1: and Joshua Genua is back. Although he didn't play last year,
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  Speaker 1: they're expecting to get minutes out of him this year.
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  Speaker 1: But they brought in Andrea Yalovich out of Kentucky. You
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  Speaker 1: got a Mari bying him back. He's you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: not a five, but he's going to probably fit in
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  Speaker 1: it that maybe that four spot maybe, I mean, where
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  Speaker 1: do you think? And this is really I'm asking a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you here, doing a lot of projecting here,
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  Speaker 1: but you know we're in the lineup just on you know,
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  Speaker 1: spots one through five on the lineup. Where does he
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  Speaker 1: fit in? Is he maybe like a four for Ohio State?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I would imagine he's a four, and you
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  Speaker 2: know they're gonna have some options. I mean, they've got
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  Speaker 2: plenty of big guys now. They could play a two
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  Speaker 2: big lineup if they want to, and I imagine they
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  Speaker 2: probably will a little bit because a couple of these
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  Speaker 2: guys I think have it more of an outside game
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  Speaker 2: and so, but he could also be another guy who
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  Speaker 2: would be a backup at the five. I mean, then
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  Speaker 2: they end up having like a four man monster at five.
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  Speaker 2: You know, six' nine is not the, tallest but it's
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  Speaker 2: tall enough for, that especially if you know he's like
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  Speaker 2: if he's going to come in here at like two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty pounds or filled out and you, know
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  Speaker 2: kind of understanding how to bang with some of These european.
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  Speaker 2: Guys so it seems like he's got some, versatility which
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these guys. Do and then you've got
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  Speaker 2: some guys like you, know buying him is kind of
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  Speaker 2: a three four hybrid type. Guy AND i Think Anthony,
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  Speaker 2: thompson the five star, freshman is kind of that. Too, No,
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  Speaker 2: no he is six' nine and they're listing him at.
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  Speaker 2: TWO fifteen i can't remember what he told us he
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  Speaker 2: weighed when we tagged him. This summer but he's still,
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  Speaker 2: pretty slender and he's eight or, possibly nineteen so he
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  Speaker 2: would be that type of guy we're, talking about, YOU
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  Speaker 2: know i, mean physically, you know he's probably going to take.
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  Speaker 2: SOME lumps, i mean he may be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more of a tall perimeter player for them, this year
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll see. What HAPPENS but i think that's
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  Speaker 2: the number one takeaway to me is you're adding a
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  Speaker 2: guy who's already, twenty two, and therefore, you know physically
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  Speaker 2: he should be able to compete even if he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have the highest. Skill level and that's not to say
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't have a. Skill, level well we just haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Him, yet yeah there's a lot of projection and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of, speculation here and that even goes towards things
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  Speaker 1: that used to be very, very straightforward such as how
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  Speaker 1: many years of eligibility does he? Have left and you
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  Speaker 1: brought that question up as we were talking about this before,
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  Speaker 1: we recorded and it, Was, like, okay well certainly this
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  Speaker 1: will be a, Straightforward answer and as it, turns out
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  Speaker 1: in the year Of our lord twenty, twenty, six no it,
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  Speaker 1: is not in fact a very.
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  Speaker 2: Straightforward, answer well it seems LIKE and i, did ask
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  Speaker 2: someone told me that it's still being. Worked Out So
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  Speaker 2: ohio state doesn't know how many years of eligibility. He
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  Speaker 2: has based on, my understanding he has not played any.
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  Speaker 2: College basketball he's played some professional based basketball of some kind,
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  Speaker 2: or other and that used to be a, no no
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  Speaker 2: it is. Not Anymore So higo state's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: almost late to the game and adding pro Players. From
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  Speaker 2: europe it sounds like, to me based on my reading
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  Speaker 2: of the, new rules the new rules are basically once you,
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  Speaker 2: turn nineteen your windows starts and you've got five years
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  Speaker 2: to play after. You enroll so based on my interpretation,
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  Speaker 2: of it he either has three years left. Or FIVE
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  Speaker 2: and i don't know how some of his overseas experience
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  Speaker 2: may or may not factor, into that but based on being,
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  Speaker 2: twenty two he should have a, twenty two, twenty three
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  Speaker 2: and twenty four year, OLD season, i think and at
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  Speaker 2: least at the least based on the. New rules but
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  Speaker 2: one of the things you read says that you have
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  Speaker 2: that the guy enroll in this year that we're in
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  Speaker 2: right now get the most beneficial version of. The rules so,
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  Speaker 2: to me the most beneficial version of the rules is
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  Speaker 2: he'd get five years that nineteen. Wouldn't MATTER and i
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they'll interpret it that way. Or not but,
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  Speaker 2: to ME like, i said even if if you apply
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  Speaker 2: the new rules, to him he should still have three
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  Speaker 2: years left counting. This year, to Me if i'm interpreting,
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  Speaker 2: it correctly certainly not a one and done, type situation as,
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  Speaker 2: you know based ON like, i say based on.
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  Speaker 1: The rules so there. You go what are? We get,
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  Speaker 1: you know What Is ohio state going to get out?
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  Speaker 2: OF him i.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know we'll see how Long is ohio is it
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  Speaker 1: going to? Have him still to, Be determined yes. It
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  Speaker 1: is it is a little bit of a mystery Addition
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  Speaker 1: To ohio state's, basketball team but one that is potentially
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  Speaker 1: a very high. Ceiling One as, MARCUS said.
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  Speaker 2: I mean one thing to add, would be, YOU know,
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  Speaker 2: i think and you can disagree with me if. You
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  Speaker 2: want if, you disagree. THAT'S fine i think over the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years that they weren't that interested in
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  Speaker 2: having any more bigs than was, like country actually they
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  Speaker 2: were contractually obligated. To have and you saw that everyone
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  Speaker 2: else is operating differently right starting last year or the,
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  Speaker 2: year BEFORE and i didn't think there was much indication
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  Speaker 2: that they cared to join that party as recently As,
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  Speaker 2: like april and now it seems like they are in
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  Speaker 2: joining that party because now they've added they've got several
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  Speaker 2: big guys and they're not all, you know slam dunk
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  Speaker 2: five star talents that you take them no matter what hype.
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  Speaker 2: They are SO now i would say they are interested
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  Speaker 2: in throwing more bodies at that pro at, that PROBLEM
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  Speaker 2: which i think is probably a. Good IDEA and i
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  Speaker 2: think that's a good sign for, two reasons when it
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  Speaker 2: shows you flexibility And What jake thiebler is doing and
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  Speaker 2: that he's not married to plan that, you know kind of,
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  Speaker 2: for one position less basketball Style That chris holtman liked
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  Speaker 2: that didn't work for him. At all AND and i
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  Speaker 2: mean that's the number one thing they're, they're flexible and
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  Speaker 2: they might actually be pulling off the transition to being
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  Speaker 2: bigger and stronger and not push around so much out
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  Speaker 2: there the way they were at times, last year Because
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  Speaker 2: as i've said on, previous episodes it seemed like, every time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, LAST year i wasn't clearly on the men's,
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  Speaker 2: basketball BEAT so i covered SOME games i, WASN'T watching
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  Speaker 2: i wasn't that in tune with the opposition and kind
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  Speaker 2: of show up at the game, and, say oh who
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  Speaker 2: are they, Playing tonight and it would, be, like, look
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  Speaker 2: oh it's another team that's got like five guys who
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  Speaker 2: were over six seven who. Were Talented ohio state only
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  Speaker 2: has like one of. Those guys so it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: interesting to see. That trend, You know illinois was the
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  Speaker 2: best Example of michigan was the best Example. Of michigan illinois,
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  Speaker 2: Were huge wisconsin had size they. Usually, do nebraska, you
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  Speaker 2: know they, had, good tall. Skill GUYS so i think
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  Speaker 2: the thing is that it's good To See ohio state
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep up With. THE joneses i think in
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  Speaker 2: this case, as, well well.
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  Speaker 1: We will see how well they can keep up With
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  Speaker 1: the joneses when the. Season starts we'll get our first
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  Speaker 1: look at the team in terms of exhibition games in
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  Speaker 1: a little over. A month but, before then we've got
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