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Summer Report: Alexandria Basketball with Head Coach Marty Carroll (Co-Host: Grant Shouse, Podcast No. 313.4) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_02]: What you are currently listening to is the Central Indiana Sports Report podcast number three hundred and thirteen point four.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Our summary port for Alexandria Tigers basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: With head coach Marty Carroll co-hosted by our guy Grant Shouts.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Your listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Let's be real honest here Grant, Alexandria and Coach Carroll did not have the season they were expecting to have last year going seven and seventeen.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: We saw some signs of some promise.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: A program that everyone around seems to think is going to develop into a championship a level program again here with Coach Carroll, but did not take quite the step that they were expecting last year, but this year, this coming year is going to be different.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, when we talked to him, his main thing was, is that no matter how old a kid is, they're capable of playing varsity basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he said the bottom line about this team is that a lot of them were sophomores.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And now this time, they're gonna be juniors.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And so they're gonna be more mature, more experienced.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I talked to him off the record a little bit down at the Charlie Hughes shoot out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he said that they were eleven and two this summer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's really good considering they did not have a great season last year and play good competition.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I saw them play a game against men, row via high school.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're at Charlie Hughes and they look better.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They look like they've been in the gym.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They've been improving and that's what you want to see and them hosting a league this summer with L would combine with L would.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're playing at home.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're playing some familiar teams or playing some teams that
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  [SPEAKER_01]: are going to be, you know, we're tough competition for them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they're well, they're going to be well battled tests are going into the basketball season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think they're going to have a better season this next year just because they're more experienced.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Great.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Here's our interview with Coach Marty Carroll.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report Alexandria Head Coach Marty Carroll and Coach, how's the summer gone so far?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Extremely hot.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It's true.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But as far as basketball is concerned, we finished up yesterday and I felt like we got accomplished what we were after as far as what we were trying to get done this summer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: talk about you guys hosting that league every Tuesday kind of joining that end with with Elwood as well and just how that went for you in the first year of doing it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So Taylor, we had always driven up to Taylor to play up there and then, you know, there were changes at Taylor and so Ryan and I were talking and there was, you know, he said, I'll just throw it out there and see
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  [SPEAKER_00]: if we get a response of people would want to play.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so he did.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And even said, you know, we weren't a charge.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We were charged in mission to try to cover the officials.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so I thought I was going to be driving now, which sound better than driving, you know, to Taylor, right, on a summer night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I was all all for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It kind of exploded.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We had between eighteen and twenty teams playing every Tuesday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we ended up getting the host.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we never drove anywhere, which was even nicer than driving the old wood to be honest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So we host the driver than driving the old wood coach.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, unless you don't have to, if you've got to get in the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: truck or the boss or whatever and drive somewhere, I would find, but if you can drive to your air condition auxiliary gym, it was, it was pretty nice for us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So talk about as the team this summer, who took the biggest leap for you guys individually that you saw?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We found a couple things out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got the core of our guys are all back and so
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Starting out, it was, you know, I had some people comment, you know, you guys look much better.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the reality is, they're a year older and, um, hopefully a year smarter and, um, and hopefully, you know, a year with more confidence and, and obviously, you know, they've all had a lot of experience and, and they've went through
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, some hard times because I've always said this, I think a freshman kid, a freshman kid that's really good can play varsity basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it makes it a lot easier if there's four or five seniors that that kid's playing with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe he's the fifth option.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's different when three freshmen try to play varsity together with
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  [SPEAKER_00]: with a couple sophomores and a couple seniors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've just seen your classes the last couple years have been so small.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We were forced to play younger kids and not that they couldn't play, but you know, if you're a seventh grader playing against somebody's JV team, you're probably not going to look real good.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, and then we
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  [SPEAKER_00]: found a couple projects, I think, which we're not blessed with a lot of size and we've got a couple of sophomore incoming sophomore kids that are six, three, you know, so that gives us a little bit of size.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And those kids in Canfield, A-Babashire, got to play quite a bit this summer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we'll see, I think, you know,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that both of them can help us at the same time, but we feel like maybe one of them can give us some minutes throughout the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: First time you guys had played in that Charlie Hughes classic there last weekend, how'd that go for your team?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought both days, I thought the first game we played both days, I thought we played pretty well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and to be honest with you, both of the second games.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was, I was say I was probably disappointed, but the thing about the Charlie Hughes is it's two full high school games right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's thirty two minutes, the clock stops and games take longer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The game's take longer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is harder on the kids.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's, you know, it's no excuses, but I mean, it's hot and then you play a game, you sit around and you've got to try and play another game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That didn't vote well for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I told him I said, I hope we don't make it to the semi state because we'll lay an egg and say a game evidently.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Talk about this next year's upcoming schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Are there any changes that you've made to your non-conference schedule, or maybe a new holiday tournament that you've added coming this season?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no Madison County tournament, so I'm sure you guys are aware of this, but if you're not, we're us, Franklin and Elwood, because we're all kind of friends anyway, and we
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We do the youth someday afternoon, league together.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so when the county thing fizzled out, we said, what if we did a holiday tournament and did it at three different sites?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if you know how it's going to work, but we're having six teams at L like, six teams at Franklin, six teams at Lwood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: two pools of three.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So everybody on Friday will play two games and then we're going to cross pool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But we're going to play all those games the first year at Franklin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it'll look like all the third place teams play each other and those games will be in the auxiliary gym starting Saturday morning like at ten, ten, twelve and two, roughly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the second place teams will all cross pool and play in the main gym, ten, twelve and two, also, and then four, six, four, six and eight, all the pool winners are gonna play in the main gym.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that will rotate from Franklin then to where the next season, if you guys do it again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we do it again, it's, I think,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: what we talked about is that it would be an ally next year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then Franklin or then Elwood would host the second day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, everybody's on Friday, everybody's gonna be playing at their own places.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then, and then we're trying to do the final day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, so it's one location and just jam packed full of basketball and people can go see other people
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That kind of thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So on paper, it looks like it could be really fun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our only issue because we're playing down at Edinburgh again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're literally going to play six games like a week.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, you're allowed twenty three games and I think that'll be a top stretch.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the thing, I'm not gonna lie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We, you know, were the three of us are hosting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, you know, we'll figure out who's playing where and all that kind of thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But we're gonna end burying and come back and have a couple of days.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But what I do like about the six games in a short amount of time is
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  [SPEAKER_00]: then we're gonna have, sometimes in the year, you don't get much prep time from game to game, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like it's gonna spread some of our schedule out to where, you know, on a second game of a weekend or, or maybe because you're just playing on Friday or Saturday, you're not playing Tuesday, Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I just think that's hard to, sometimes it gets to be hard to prepare.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for your time and catching us up on your team this summer and we look forward to working with you again this upcoming season.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks once again to Coach Carroll and of course to our guy Grant Shouse.
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