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Ohio State Basketball Brings Back Star Forward Amare Bynum · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Tuesday, March thirty, first
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  Speaker 1: com for more. All right, brace yourselves, it's another basketball show.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it's we are going just crazy here
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  Speaker 1: on the Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning Podcast. But yesterday we did
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  Speaker 1: a show on the departure of Devin Royal entering the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal. Today doing a show on a player who
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  Speaker 1: is coming back. This is one of these things that
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  Speaker 1: would not have been news a few years ago, but
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  Speaker 1: now very newsworthy that Amari Bynham is coming back for
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  Speaker 1: his second year at Ohio State less newsworthy. I'm joined
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  Speaker 1: once again by Tony Gerderman of Buckehuddle dot com. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it just means because you're here a lot, not
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  Speaker 1: because it's not mean. I'm just you know, odds are
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  Speaker 1: more often than not it's going to be Tony. It
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  Speaker 1: is once again Tony. And we talked at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the season about the fact that boy Amari Bynham
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  Speaker 1: had done a nun that it was like, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: it just got more expensive to retain him. But he
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  Speaker 1: might have been number one on the list of guys
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  Speaker 1: they had to bring back this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, And I tweeted this after Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: lost to TCU and the NCAA Tournament, like, I will
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  Speaker 2: determine if the season is a success on whether or
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  Speaker 2: not Amari buying him is back. If they can retain him,
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  Speaker 2: then that means the season ends in a better way.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the season only ends with a win
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  Speaker 2: for so many teams and the ones that really want
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  Speaker 2: it only ends for in a win for one team.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a win for Ohio State to get
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  Speaker 2: Amori buying him back because there were stretches towards the
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  Speaker 2: postseason and in the postseason where he looked like he
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  Speaker 2: was arguably the best player or you certainly see that
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  Speaker 2: he has the most upside of anybody on the roster,
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  Speaker 2: and you can see that upside over the course of
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  Speaker 2: the season, whether it's grabbing a rebound, going coast to
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  Speaker 2: coast and being able to finish or helpside defense blocking shots.
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  Speaker 2: I've had people tell me, well, he needs to shoot better.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, he's already shooting. He's got like thirty
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  Speaker 2: one percent from three, which is you know again, he's
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  Speaker 2: six eight two forty, right, that's a better percentage than
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  Speaker 2: John Deebler shot as a true freshman. This game will develop,
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  Speaker 2: and I always say for young guys, for big guys,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they're shooting threes means that they can
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  Speaker 2: hit him. So whether or not they hit him, that's
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  Speaker 2: certainly you want to want them to. But they have
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  Speaker 2: that skill set, so it's not something that you have
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  Speaker 2: to teach him. He's got all of these skill sets
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  Speaker 2: and now he's going to be back, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: they lose Devin Royal, but this kind of opens things
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  Speaker 2: up more for Maury, buying them to be really one
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  Speaker 2: of their top two options offensively, I think next year.
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  Speaker 1: And so you can kind of check that box now.
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  Speaker 1: I think next up on the to do list for
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  Speaker 1: the offseason is can you bring back Juni Mobiley that
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  Speaker 1: that feels like you've kind of checked the box for
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  Speaker 1: the four. Okay, how about the two, because he's the
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  Speaker 1: other guy who you know, he can score in a
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  Speaker 1: way that not that many people can score when he's
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  Speaker 1: when he's on, and you know, he doesn't solve all
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  Speaker 1: of your problems around the around the you know, around
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  Speaker 1: the court. But if you can bring him back and
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  Speaker 1: you can bring them more, you know, you already have
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  Speaker 1: buying him back. That feels like that's the core of
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  Speaker 1: a not too bad team when you talk when we
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  Speaker 1: start talking about some of the other guys who are
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  Speaker 1: coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is is part two in the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: And you know he is he can be an elite scorer.
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  Speaker 2: He's a streaky shooter, but he can you know, he
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  Speaker 2: takes a lot of quick shots. Maybe some are bad shots,
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  Speaker 2: there's some desperation shots and he gets stuck with at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the shot clock. But he is a
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  Speaker 2: consistent scorer for them and scored double digits like the
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  Speaker 2: last eight ten games or so, and certainly over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the season many many more double digit games
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  Speaker 2: than not. And his guy, it's only going to get
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  Speaker 2: better and he can play the one, he could play
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  Speaker 2: the two. You obviously you wanted more to do just
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  Speaker 2: because that's his kind of and he's not he has
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  Speaker 2: the ability to distribute, and I do wonder if they
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  Speaker 2: can't end up with a a transferred point guard. Is
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  Speaker 2: this something that they might want ask him to do
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of. But yeah, this is the next
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  Speaker 2: step because your core when you're talking about the the
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  Speaker 2: three guys, you know, MARII bying him and John Mobley
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  Speaker 2: Junior and Devin Royal, the two guys that you want
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  Speaker 2: to keep of those three are buying them and Mobiley
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  Speaker 2: and so this is the next step, and I would
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  Speaker 2: expect it to to happen. I mean, he's he's been
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  Speaker 2: allowed to do essentially whatever he wants, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: this offense, and not in a not in a bad
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  Speaker 2: way like he's crazy, you know, he's he's out of control.
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  Speaker 2: It's he's got the freedom to be himself in this offense.
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  Speaker 2: And Jake Deebler has given him that and tell him
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  Speaker 2: to be aggressive, and you know he'll take some deep shots,
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  Speaker 2: but he can also hit him and he's he's a
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  Speaker 2: threat to score from anywhere, and he stretches the defense,
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  Speaker 2: which I think you know that's that's only going to
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  Speaker 2: help you as you move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got your four you're trying to bring back
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  Speaker 1: your two. The three is twenty twenty six forward Anthony Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: the five star recruit. And you know, we'll see anytime
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  Speaker 1: you're relying on a true freshman, there's always a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of well, we'll see, there will probably be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a learning curve there, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a process there. But the fact that you have
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  Speaker 1: him coming in probably made Royal a little bit superfluous.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got your two, three, four there that made
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  Speaker 1: Royal a little bit superfluous, then I feel like we
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  Speaker 1: do this on every show. But man, you gotta find
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  Speaker 1: your one. You got to find your five. That feels
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  Speaker 1: like those are after you get MOBILEI back in the fold. Officially,
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  Speaker 1: those are kind of the next two items on the
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  Speaker 1: shopping list.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think we talked about this on the
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  Speaker 2: Devin Royal Show as everybody else is looking for a
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  Speaker 2: point guard as well. And if you're not, then boy,
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  Speaker 2: are you one of the luxurious ones. You're the lucky ones,
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  Speaker 2: because this is going to be a market where there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a bunch out there. Guys are gonna go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and jump in because they know they can make
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  Speaker 2: some money. And have an impact somewhere. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the next step. And I think that the
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  Speaker 2: good thing is that you're probably gonna end up with
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  Speaker 2: If you end up with somebody, right and one of
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  Speaker 2: the top guys, they're going to be a veteran or
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  Speaker 2: at least a talented young player who who is established
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  Speaker 2: himself early. You should be able to find somebody that
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  Speaker 2: is really darned good. Now it's just a matter of
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  Speaker 2: beating the rest of the people out there shopping for
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  Speaker 2: the same thing and bringing somebody in that you know
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  Speaker 2: can distribute. You want them to be able to score
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  Speaker 2: as well. But I think they need some distribution in
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  Speaker 2: this and that's I think the next step. And then
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  Speaker 2: you know, we don't really know in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: center situation what they can get out of Josh josh
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  Speaker 2: O Junua yet, so that's something that is to be determined. Certainly,
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  Speaker 2: Jake Deebler knows more than we do about if they
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  Speaker 2: feel like he's he can be that guy next year
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  Speaker 2: along with ivan Ya Govin. We will see. But if
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  Speaker 2: they are bringing in some big men, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: terms of hosting on visits, that will tell us something.
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  Speaker 2: It's also gonna be anytime. Now you start hearing about
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  Speaker 2: visits for with point guards and and seeing where things
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  Speaker 2: go from there.
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  Speaker 1: And of the other guys front court guys, back court guys.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the two kind of big men who are
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  Speaker 1: potential returners for next season, anyone else that you look
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  Speaker 1: at and go, boy, this is my first priority that
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  Speaker 1: they bring this guy back, just in terms of depth
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  Speaker 1: or is you know, is it kind of you can
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can find some replacements and figure out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, figure it out from there.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I think the the the next priority priority would
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  Speaker 2: be tasting Chapman because he can play the one and
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  Speaker 2: the two, and he's been around and he's had some
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  Speaker 2: moments this past season where his confidence has grown. He
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  Speaker 2: he is back to believe he's the player that he
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  Speaker 2: was before he got to Ohio State and dealt with
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  Speaker 2: injuries and dealt with being on the bench and not playing.
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  Speaker 2: So his confidence is growing, and he gives you some
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  Speaker 2: versatility and some depth on the bench and can be
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  Speaker 2: that sixth man for you. I think he's he's important
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  Speaker 2: to bring back because you still need to build that depth.
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  Speaker 2: And I think what you'll see now is this is
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  Speaker 2: a roster of thirteen or fourteen, there's too many. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to reduce that and make it a roster of
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  Speaker 2: ten or twelve that you've got. The quality is more
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  Speaker 2: important than the quantity, because everybody's got to get paid.
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  Speaker 2: No sense in paying three guys or four guys who
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  Speaker 2: are never going to play. That's just wasted money. So
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  Speaker 2: you've got to condense that roster, and you know you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Salton used to say he can't play more than
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  Speaker 2: ten guys anyway, and that's why he would go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and bring in a transfer who had just red shirt
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  Speaker 2: that year because back when, back when, back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: when you had to sit when you would transfer, you
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  Speaker 2: can't play all these guys anyway, so why pay for them.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, way back in the day when Chris
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  Speaker 1: Holton was the basketball coach at Ohio State and everything
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  Speaker 1: was black and white and the baskets were made out
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  Speaker 1: of peach baskets. Little people don't remember that, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: that is way back in the day, in the Chris
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  Speaker 1: Holton era. So there you go a little bit of update.
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  Speaker 1: Some more good news from or so some good news
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  Speaker 1: I guess for Ohio State. Some more news, some good
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  Speaker 1: news for Ohio State basketball this offseason. We will see
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  Speaker 1: if the John Mobile good news comes at some point
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  Speaker 1: in the coming days, and then of course we will
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  Speaker 1: be back at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Get a chance to talk to Ryan day following practice.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have an update on that in the Buckeye Weekly
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  Speaker 1: us at YouTube dot com, slash bucke Huddle, and at
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  Speaker 1: bucke Huddle dot com. That'll do it for today. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Assas