Latest / The Central Indiana Sports Report / The Blackford Bruins Report with Aaron Daniels (2.168.2)

Transcript

The Blackford Bruins Report with Aaron Daniels (2.168.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Blackford Bruins fans and welcome to the first official edition of the Blackford Bruins report.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: We did do a report with Coach Daniels and his team earlier this year as a preview for the holiday tournament.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I have talked to him on my daily podcast, Greg and his friends talk sports.
• 0:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: But this is the beginning of hopefully something going forward where we cover the
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: a feature story once a week, that is this, the Black For Bruins Report.
• 0:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: With game reactions from Coach Daniels and his team, the night or next morning after each game.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Greg Mengell, and this is my idea for a daily sport section in podcast form.
• 0:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's called the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we podcast every single day.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have my own daily podcast called Greg and his friends talk sports.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: We talk pacers, fever, colds, IU, Purdue, Indie Car, Butler, Notre Dame, and of course high school football.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I mentioned, Coach Daniels has been a guest on it.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a lot of fun, please check it out.
• 1:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, please like, subscribe, and follow us at all the places Apple Spotify.
• 1:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Amazon SoundCloud, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, you name it, we're there.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please go check it out.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: So the Blackford Bruins are 14 and 4.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Incredible start that included a school record, 13 and O start, of course.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: That means that lately it has not been good news.
• 1:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: They took back to back losses on the 23rd and 24th of January to Franklin and Monroe Central, the Monroe Central game in overtime.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: After it beating Eastbrook on the 30th, the next night, a great game at Jay County, a very good Patriots team pulled away in the end for a 75-62 victory, and then a loss at Delta.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: last Tuesday puts them at 14 and 4.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're in the middle of four games in a row on the road, including tonight at West Del, then Friday night at Oak Hill in a rematch of last year's CIC championship.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Once again, for the CIC championship, that one will be on Friday.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Coach Daniels and I will talk about that later Tuesday after the West Del game didn't want to talk about it
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I hope to have O'Keele head coach Kevin Rinnberger on Greg and his friends talk sports sometime between now and then.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, we'll be back this week on Tuesday and Friday.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then we will be back next Tuesday for another black for Bruins report.
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please stay tuned for blackford head coach Aaron Daniels.
• 3:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm here at Blackford High School with coach Aaron Daniels of the Blackford Bruins.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Coach Yunai, a couple of times, but the last time we really caught up about your team was during the Christmas holiday tournament, which was a success.
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: When I talk about what's gone on since then, and then look ahead a little bit with you on the new Blackford Bruins report.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: What a light.
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Listeners know that after each game I'm going to be talking to coach Daniels and doing a report for each game and each week doing a black for Bruins report coming and meeting the players getting to know them and hopefully get to do this all the way through the end of March right end of March and so all right coach lost for all the last five since a record breaking start part of that's the schedule anything else that's been a concern of late for you
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's been good scheduling.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you want to start off hot like we did, and you don't want to peek too early.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: You want to be playing your best basketball when it comes March time and things.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we still have some really tough games, but we knew that the home stretch of our schedule was going to be really hard.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: We knew that we had four or five games in there that were all going to be, you know, go either way.
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the three other last four, Frank didn't go our way at all.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: We were never in that game.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: We struggled, but Monroe's Central, Jake County, Delta.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: We felt like in all three of those.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: We had a chance to win and we came up short and all of them.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we need games like that.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the atmosphere at Jake County was probably one of the best atmospheres I've ever played in.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably 4,500 people in there.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was packed, had a sectional championship feel.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Every possession was big.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're just growing as a team.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think we're still continuing to get better.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we still have Oak Hill.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: We still have Northwestern.
• 4:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: We still have Fort Wayne Snider on the schedule.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't get any easier.
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just been a really tough stretch of asphalt.
• 5:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the 50-50 games, the games that we think could go our way, they just haven't yet.
• 5:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're looking to get over that hump and win one or two of those and be prepared when it comes time for sectional.
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: They say that teams learn more from losing than winning.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: What have you learned most about your team the last couple of weeks?
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we, we find out how mentally tough we are.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, in the Frankton game, we, we were not very mentally tough.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: We gave up.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: We got down 13, 14.
• 5:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: We just kind of packed it in and decided, you know, not to not to finish out the game, like we thought we should.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then in Jake County, we're down 14 in a similar situation, third quarter.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we are resilient.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we fight it back.
• 5:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: We get all the way back to one point game in the fourth quarter.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: have a chance and it just, you know, late, we missed a few shots and they hit some big shots.
• 5:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so you find out what kind of team you are because when you're winning, it's easy.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when you're 14 or 13 or no, things are going your way, baskets are falling.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't really see what your team's made up in those sort of situations because when things are going your way, it's easy to stay really positive.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, things aren't going your way when you're down 20 at Frankton.
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, to frank then, and when you're down in those close situations, you've got to get a feel for what you have.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't want to go into a sectional championship or regional game, yeah, I've been in that moment because you don't really know what you're made up.
• 6:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we like the way our schedule set up because here to late, it's challenged us to show us what we've had.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we've been able to grow from those situations, yes, success, always breed success.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'd love to, you know, have a great record in those things.
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we've learned a ton in those losses on kind of what our kids are made of and what we have going forward.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: You said it was a good scheduling.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now the question is, you still have O.K.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: in Northwestern, you start to build up some losses possibly going into the tournament, and he concerned about loss of confidence.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: losing momentum heading into the postseason.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and no, I mean, you never want to be playing bad basketball going into the tournament when you're losing, you feel like there's bad basketball, but we have four seniors that start and we have contributors that have played varsity basketball.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've got kids that have been through it.
• 7:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've played in those situations.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're a young team, yes, you don't want to go into that situation with a lot of losses and you've lost, you know, four or five and, you know, out of six or any kind of that situation.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: But when you have a senior lady in team and you've got kids that have been there, we know in our locker and we know in our in our practices, we know that we have a really special group.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know that we can make a deep tournament round.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know that when we play our best basketball, there's not anyone in two way that we can't beat.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I would say normally it would be a major concern.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: but with this group of kids that we have and the group that we have and we know what we're capable of, we know that we can play bad basketball, but we also know when we play really good basketball that we're hard to beat.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be interesting to see, you know, with the schedule coming up, how we're performing those kinds of things, but I'm not overly worried just because of the kind of group that we have.
• 7:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: When outsiders look at your team, they see Mari and Mason first.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tell me a little bit about what goes around them and how important those role players are to your team.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they're vital, because we have Mari legate who's currently last time I checked with second in the state in scoring.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so when you have a kid like that, everybody knows who he is.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: And the game playing against us now.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so most nights, we see some kind of Mari legate later.
• 8:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Never.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: You said everybody knows you have never heard the name of it.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, then we'd like to play it in.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know who it is because that would be an hard vanage.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we see it every single night with either a triangle into a box and one running three guys at him.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so people have basically said they're going to make our role players beat you.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we've seen the last three or four games.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake County ran three guys at Mari and then chased Mason with the other guy.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then Delta did the same thing.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: They ran three guys at him and tried to get the ball out of our hands So it's vital that our role players and we have good role players They just have to be confident.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we've got Reggie Durin has not shot it as well as we thought he would just start the year from three He can fill it up in a hurry, so when he's shooting it well We've got a great chance then Mason McPhilly's probably the kid that they leave more than anyone
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: and he's had a fantastic three-game stretcher.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we just got to find a way to win those games.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then Jacob Dillon inside has been a monster for us rebounding.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so if he continues to dictate the glass and when we get one-on-one inside, pretty much every single night.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you're going to make a run, we know that Mari's going to go out and get 30.
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know that Mason could go out and get 20 every single night.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's those other guys that have to step up and score those 13 to 14 points as a unit
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, Marty's sitting here, that's why I said that.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It sounded like probably just sounded like people like what?
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's talking about.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's just trying to give a little jab to him because he's sitting here.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Look like Reggie shot.
• 10:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Look good today.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: When a guy has a shot that good, you feel like eventually it's going to start falling.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I think some of it's fatigue.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we play extremely hard.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: We only go 60, you know, 90% of the games.
• 10:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think some of it's fatigue.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he shot around 60% from three last year as a junior.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, it wasn't to the volume that we would like to see it at.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we know that, you know, he's never in his life been given a wide open three.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then this year, there's guys siding off of them.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we just have to continue to get in the ball in the right position.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes it's weird.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: We see defenses that we've never seen and now you're sitting there you know standing there catching it setting up shooting a three It's different than a rhythm three, so we're trying to do a better job of putting our world guys You know in the normal offense of positions instead of just standing there shooting it with
• 10:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: you know everybody in the gym knows they're going to shoot it so we're doing a better job as a as a coaching staff of putting them in the right position to be ready to shoot the ball but we just have to be confident because we have a good basketball team and and we're not just a two-headed monster you know we have other guys that can really hurt you but our two guys are really really good so so Westdale tonight as well because this is running on Tuesday we're actually at Blackford on Monday
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you know?
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: What can you tell your fans about them and what kind of problems they present because I know that their records are not very good, but they are a competent basketball team.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: yeah they're competent basketball team in their athletic you know they've got five guys that are that are long and athletic they're not huge but they're all about six one six two and so they have great length and yes their record is not you know great but they've been in some games with some good teams you know they played a really tough walk-off on a team in the first half I mean they they are a type of team that if we lose shooters and and they're scrappy if we let them stay in the game it's going to be a dogfight and so one thing that we've talked about is
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: They haven't shot it great, but we also can't let them have, you know, what we call, you know, school shot threes where they're just standing there and shooting the ball.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: So we've got to do a good job of finding shooters coming out, putting the ball pressure on them.
• 12:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then they've got a really good guard in the carpenter kid who he's only averaging about 13 again, but.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, he is a score and he said three level score, which always scares you and we've got to do a good job of locking on to him.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: We just got to execute the game plan.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: If we come out and take care of the basketball and defend the way that we can defend, we'll give them all kinds of problems.
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we'll talk about what's next a little more on Tuesday night, but what's coming up on Friday?
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we're in a similar situation.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: We're in last year, except it's on the road this year.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Except last year, we were kind of, you know, nobody really knew who we were in, and Oak Hill came into our place.
• 12:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we played a fantastic ball game and won the conference for the first time in years.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's similar situation for it.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're still playing the underdog role.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: We've got one loss in the conference.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have none.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's for the conference again.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a huge game.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a two-way matchup.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you're going to make a deep tournament run, it's a team that you have to be able to be, you know, at the regional or semi-state level.
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And there's going to be all kinds of implications in that game.
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a really good ball team in Oak Hill that's not scared of anyone.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to be scared of us coming in there.
• 13:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's on the road and it's our final conference game.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's setting up to be, you know, a giant collision between two really good basketball teams.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: buy your tickets now.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would agree.
• 13:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen their crowds.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: They've been fantastic.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: We have traveled unbelievably well.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Our student section has been fantastic.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I would definitely say make sure you get there early.
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a C team game.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably going to be the the biggest crowd for a C team game that our C team's had all year.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be exciting stuff.
• 13:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Coach, thank you so much for all your support.
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Since we started about two years ago now and appreciate it looking forward to working with your team and on this new project.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we just really appreciate that because in Blackford County, we don't have, you know, necessarily.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: We share a radio station with Jake County.
• 13:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: We share a newspaper with other people to get this kind of coverage for our kids says a lot about what we you guys are doing and we just appreciate that because any kind of exposure we can get
• 14:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And anything we can do to make this feel like the next level, to me is what the goal is.
• 14:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: And so we just appreciate your support and you guys do in this and that means the world to us.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And hopefully we can get a lot of people to listen to this so that you can continue this and keep this thing going.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's the plan.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much Coach.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk to you later tonight.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now we're good.
• 14:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much to Coach Daniels and the Blackford Bruins for welcoming me.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: And thank you for listening.
• 14:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Always appreciate it.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please do us a huge favor and share this podcast with a Blackford Bruins fan in your life.
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Help us spread the word that the Central Indiana Sports Report is talking about what Central Indiana Sports fans are talking about every single day.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Central Indiana Sports Report is a product of ITG media, and I love Susie.