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Trent is joined by Nick Marovets, Wild fall, LeBron's future & Reasons for Concerns & Optimism for Iowa State & Iowa football · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Good afternoon and welcome in Miller and Condon on the air
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with you here on a Tuesday as we talk the world of sports.
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Taking you up till 2:00 here this afternoon off the bench
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when Sean and Lucas will take you home until 5:00 here today
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and then overtime Iowa from 5:00 until 6:00.
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Coming up today on the program. We have Nick Marvitz back with
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us once again, though sadly not in studio with us.
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He is back in his stomping grounds and if you're watching
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us, you can help also see Nick in that background that he has.
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So we got Nick aboard with us here today in for Ken.
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The next couple of days he's going to be hanging out with our
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number one, our number 2. We'll shift the conversation
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over, talk some Hawkeyes. That's coming up at 1:00 as
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Elliot Clough is going to join us from hawkeyeinsider.com.
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We'll talk all things Hawkeyes with Elliot coming up here to
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kick off the one O clock hour. And then we're going to talk a
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little Minnesota sports after the wild fall to the hands of
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the Avalanche last night. Now down three one in that
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series. We'll talk some T wolves as they
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get ready for Game 5 coming up tonight and a whole lot more
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coming up with Dame Mazzutani here at about 1:25.
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Nick Marvitz with us here today. Nick, good to see you.
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What is the good word? I don't know if Nick can hear
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me. Oh, no, we're struggling already
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with technical difficulties, Nick.
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We'll, we'll get things figured out here and, and get everything
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up and running on that front because I don't think that Nick
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can can hear me at this point. And that is a problem when
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you're doing things. So we'll figure things out on
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that front. Let's try it again.
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Let's see if if Nick has us and if he can hear what we're
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talking about right now. Nick, do you have me?
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No, he does not. Nick does not.
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Happy. All right, so we're still
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figuring out a few of the technical issues that we're
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going through at this point in time.
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We'll see if that's able to help at all.
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There we go. And there we go.
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Nick Bervitz, what's up? What's going on?
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It's good to be able to hear you.
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Yes, yes, that definitely helps. Yeah, you hear me talking for
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the 1st 2 minutes, we'll see my lips moving but not able to hear
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me talking. So now we are ready to go.
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Well Nick, a lot to get into here today.
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You're going to hang out with the first hour.
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You know, one thing I wanted to talk to you a little bit and
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we're going to get into this a little bit later on is some best
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case, worst case scenarios for both Iowa and Iowa State.
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Going through. Obviously the two needle movers
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here today with Iowa State and Iowa football and basketball,
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both basketball programs certainly with a lot of momentum
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going into next season. Football programs that
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completely different avenues. Iowa though, they invested in
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the portal, they wait young and well with a lot of FCS players.
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Obviously, the overturned roster for Iowa State going to do that
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a whole lot coming up here in segment #2 but busy night in
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sports last night and disappointing for me.
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My Wild go down, a disappointing end to things for them as they
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fall at the hands of the launch last night. 22 I, I felt like
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they had a shot AT-32. It just collapsed very quickly.
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52 The final in that one. And now it's not over because
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you have to win four to move on, but it feels like it's over.
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I just cannot envision a scenario where the Wild are
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winning three straight against this Colorado outfit.
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Yeah, I, I, the Wild just haven't looked like the better
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team in my opinion. You never know, you know, when
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the score is tied like that and, and there's still time left in
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the game. It's definitely possible.
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But if, if you know, if they grab that game, things play out
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differently. They didn't.
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I don't love their odds the rest of the way, but you can never
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count A-Team completely out because like you said, you got
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to win 4. Got to win 43, including two on
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the road. Does not feel very viable on
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that front. We got another a big game coming
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up for Speaking of Minnesota sports with the Timberwolves
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tonight at the Spurs. Talk about that a little bit
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later on. But Speaking of the NBA last
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night, I'll be honest, the Cavs Piston series, I just can't get
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into it. I don't know what it is, but it
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was a compelling game. It was close going into the
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fourth quarter. It's what you want, but it's
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just time in a time out for whatever reason.
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I know some of the players. Obviously the the growth that
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we've seen out of Kate Cunningham and becoming an MVP
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candidate this season, even with the injury that he had, James
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Harden on the other side along with Mitchell.
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There's names that you know, I don't know, maybe it's the
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jersey on the front, something like that.
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I have not been enamored at all about that series.
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But the good news is, I mean, I was able to lock and load for
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last night, watching the Lakers at least give a tussle in their
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matchup last evening and made it compelling, made it close in the
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end, had an opportunity to win a four point play that a
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three-point play. Lakers are going to do this.
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Lebron's going to find a way. Alas, it doesn't happen as
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they're swept out by the Thunder.
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It's funny that you're more intrigued by the four O sweep of
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the Lakers Thunder than the now 2 two series between the Cavs
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and the Pistons. Yeah, the biggest question with
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the Lakers now is Le Bron and what do they do moving forward.
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But I am, I am kind of keeping an eye on this Pistons Cavs
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series. This could be a fun one as we
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get down the stretch here. Yes, absolutely.
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And we look forward to what the next series is going to be,
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regardless if it's Minnesota or if it's San Antonio and that
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next one, hopefully somebody will be able to push the Thunder
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a little bit. I just, I don't enjoy watching
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the Thunder play. I'm not a Lakers fan at all.
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I enjoy watching LeBron. I enjoy greatness.
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And certainly a guy that's old that gets me going now as I get
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older and older, like to cling out of those old guys a little
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bit more. But you know, Nick, watching
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LeBron last night got it going again during that big stretch,
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that huge third quarter that the Lakers had.
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But more than anything, it was I when they took the lead, the
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Lakers late in that game, I actually did a fist bump.
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I actually pumped the fist. Yeah.
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Yeah. I don't like the Lakers.
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I just don't like the Thunder. I hate the way that they play
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Chet Holgrim forever reason. I know he's a Minnesota.
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He annoys the crap out of me. There's just something about
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that squad. It's debating the jumping into
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defenders, the how are you supposed to play defense against
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these guys? SGA is at the forefront
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definitely of that conversation, but he's not alone on that
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squad. That is the reason, one of the
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main reasons I just don't enjoy watching the Thunder play
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basketball. Yeah.
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I mean, that's fair. It's, it's a different style of
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game, you know, now than it was 10, even 20 years ago.
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SGA definitely gets the brunt of that kind of with with his head
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bobbing and and getting calls and he definitely, I think he
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gets a lot of calls he shouldn't.
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I don't think I'm in a minority in thinking that, but I do want
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to circle back to LeBron in this series.
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Now it's only four games, but when 27/23/19 and 24, that is
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ridiculous at his age especially.
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And then as we kind of call into question his future, I don't
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think it's about whether or not he can play.
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It's about whether or not he wants to play, which is kind of
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exciting. Now back to the Thunder.
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We'll see if somebody can actually figure out how to
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dissect them and, and push them as we go towards, you know, the
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Finals. But I I have my eyes on LeBron
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with that whole situation. And you wonder for LeBron where
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it's going to end up if the Lakers making the decision.
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It's going to be Lucas team. It is Lucas team.
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Let's be honest. Obviously the injury derailed
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things this season as he was out there and hollering at the refs
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at the end of the game. Love to see Luca with a little
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passion over there on the sidelines.
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But you're handcuffed by LeBron and the salary that he commands.
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And even though he is an incredibly good player and an
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impactful player, that goes along with it is you look at the
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future of the Lakers organization.
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Obviously it's not with LeBron James.
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And where are the landing spots? Where are places that make
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sense? Because I, I want to start right
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here with you, Nick. I do not believe that this was
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going to be it, that Lebron's career is going to come to an
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end in that game swept out of the playoffs.
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And there's still, I think, plenty of good basketball left
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in the tank for LeBron James. And I don't envision that this
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is the way that it's going to call.
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So that's, that's where I start right there.
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I'm sure there's going to be headlines.
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I'm sure there's going to be tons of conversation that
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happens overall about the way that this is going to look in
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the way that it's going to play out.
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But I don't think this is it for LeBron.
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I think there's more basketball in front of him.
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Agreed. I think if they took this series
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to maybe seven games and it was really close, like it'd be a
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different conversation, but getting swept, I just it I'm not
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saying LeBron has to win a title in his last year, but I just
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don't see him going out in that way.
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And maybe he goes down a route of, you know, a little bit more
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load management and even more is kind of crazy, but gets to play
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a whole Nother season, maybe less games, less minutes per
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game, whatever it is. I don't know for sure what that
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looks like at his age. It's kind of not necessarily
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unprecedented, but the production that he's had 20,
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almost 21 points this season at 41 years old is just crazy.
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So I do think he'll play again. I don't know if it'll be in the
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same capacity that we're used to.
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And I agree, I don't, I hesitate to say it'll be with the Lakers.
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Where would you like to see, you know, if, if money weren't an
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object, if if he could play anywhere in the entire NBA,
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would you want to see him back on the Cavs or is it somewhere
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else? The Cleveland part potentially I
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I think I could, yeah, wax poetically a little bit going
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back home where it all started, finishing the career there.
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I could buy that. I don't even know what that
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obviously looks like in terms of the way the construction of that
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team. You know how he plays with
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Donovan Mitchell. If James Harden.
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I don't think James Harden's going to be back in Cleveland
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certainly next season. So I don't think that's going to
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be a big problem. But the construction of that
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roster and what they got Mobley, who just leaves you wanting
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more. It feels like time in a time out
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with Evan Mobley, really good defender, but feels like there
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should be more there. Jared Allen in the middle.
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I did watch a little bit last night.
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I'm like Jared Allen, That guy's got to be like 35.
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He's 28. And just the NBA guys, they seem
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like they're with us so long because they come out as
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freshman or come out after a year or two at college and and
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they're around for a really long time.
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The construction that makes, I think a lot of sense.
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And another thing that I've seen bandied about a ton is him going
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with Steph and finishing out their careers potentially
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together with the Warriors. How good is that team, though?
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How good is that a team that sneaks into the top six with a
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healthy season for both of LeBron and Steph?
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Is there more there? I don't know that that feels in
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a way. I don't want to say it's dirty
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or anything like like that. I just, I don't love seeing 2
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old guys working together at the end.
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I just don't think the upside is there with the Warriors.
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I think it kind of comes down to the conversation of like, if you
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put Giannis on the worst team in the NCAA tournament, could they
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win a title? It's like kind of where I'm at
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with LeBron. Like could LeBron join the
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Warriors and and push that team to the next level?
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I don't have the answer to that question, but to kind of
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reiterate your point, it feels like if the Warriors were to add
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LeBron and it was Steph and LeBron, it's like they're
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stretching out the glory days almost a little too far.
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To me, it feels like they're grasping at straws, trying to
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get back to that 2016 era when it was Cavs and Warriors over
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and over. And those, you know, big stars
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like LeBron and Steph, we're going at it on opposite sides of
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the court. It just feels to me like
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probably not the best play for the Warriors, and it would be
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more of a marketing stunt, A publicity kind of deal.
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I don't, you know, I watched a lot of Warriors growing up.
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We talked about was my NBA team. I just watched good basketball.
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So a lot of Warriors, I don't know if I'd love that for their
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image, but it would be really cool.
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Sell a lot of tickets. Absolutely it would.
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Speaking of selling tickets. So they didn't have a problem
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with that. The Knicks, another team on that
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list. Now, financially, he'd likely
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have to take the minimum if that plays out.
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But we remember the courting going back to free agency back
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in 2010. He called New York his favorite
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city. You got that component to it,
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obviously the Mecca of basketball playing in the
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Garden, Garden. It felt like a different times,
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a couple of different times that maybe New York was going to be
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the final destination for LeBron and that never played out.
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But with him in New York, and certainly this year as this team
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is flying high, they're playing great basketball.
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But if they can't get over the hump, they can't get to the
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Finals, say they get knocked off by the Pistons or the Cavs in
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the next round or even get there and get blown out by say, the
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Thunder. One final piece, a piece of
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LeBron James going to New York City, I think that would be a
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great culmination of his career. And something that, I mean, you
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want to ingrain yourself in New Yorkers, it's been a 50 year
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drought between an NBA championship for the Knicks.
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That's definitely one. And talk about putting a kind of
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a cherry on top of the sundae of a career.
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The Knicks and LeBron, even with the minimum salary that he'd
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have to take, he's going to make play more off the floor.
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I think that makes a ton of sense.
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Yeah, I think wherever he ends up going, it'll be one of those
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pay cut kind of situations, if I had to guess, but a situation
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that maybe he wouldn't maybe where he could actually make a
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lot of money on the floor. What if you went to Memphis,
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right with all the comments and he's like, I'm going to bring
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this city back to prominence. I'm going to fix the hotel
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situation. They're willing to pay a pretty
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penny to get him on the on the program around.
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That'd be fun, huh? I'm not going to hold my breath
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on that one. That one after Lebron's
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comments, yes, it would be nice, but it's not going to happen.
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That is done. The the Thunder move on one,
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15110, the final in that one, the Thunder await the winner of
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the Spurs and Timberwolves series.
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Well, we mentioned a couple of the big topics at the top, but
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want to go a little Cyclones with you here today.
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As it was announced earlier this morning, the 9 new players
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coming in to Bill Fennelly's program with Iowa State women's
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basketball here at the top. Nick, so you host the daily
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podcast Locked on Cyclones and as mentioned, we're going to
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talk some more Cyclones football and basketball coming up here.
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But other woman's basketball front.
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A lot of expectations coming into the year.
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People said maybe on paper this had a chance to be Bill Fenleys
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best team. Injuries definitely a problem
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throughout the course of the season.
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We saw that play out, but there was just some Gump grumblings
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even when they're playing some of their better basketball
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during the non conference. Maybe it wasn't quite what was
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expected out of this group. And then the way the wheels fell
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off and culminating getting bounced pretty easily in the
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first round of the NCAA tournament, not even making it
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to the round of 32. What kind of traction a do you
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get on Iowa State and and did you feel the angst from the
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women's basketball program throughout the course of the
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season? Yeah, it just never really felt
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like it got put together. I believe it was the Kansas game
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that I was watching where they had the last second bucket from
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the corner. I believe it was Kenzie Hair, if
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I remember correctly, when it felt like there was a little bit
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of life to him, but the rest of the way, it just never really
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felt complete. Is that the best word?
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I'm not sure. And then obviously with the
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massive departure this offseason, there was a lot of
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question marks on literally what is going on.
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It was kind of the biggest, nobody even really was able to
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pinpoint any sort of gripe or was it money?
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No one really knew. And so it it it does feel good
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to have at least a roster at this point.
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And we'll see kind of how each individual player it takes on
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their role and, and what kind of contributions they'll bring.
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But the biggest thing that I'm looking at here with this whole
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situation is that now Bill Fenley was able to build his
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roster the way that he saw fit. And I, I saw this kind of quote
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or, or at least idea floating around with Audie Crooks when
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she hit the portal that Audi Crooks is an unbelievable
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player, right? And every program should
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probably at least see what that looks like for them.
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But Audi Crooks is the piece. It's not a piece.
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Audi Crooks is the piece. You build your entire offense
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and defense around Audi Crooks. I think with this kind of a
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roster, obviously the biggest thing is without Audi Crooks,
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you can have a lot more even contribution across the entire
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team. You don't have to rely on one
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single player. Not that that was a bad
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situation for Iowa State. It's just a different look now
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and I'm very intrigued about what this next season looks
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like. And we go back to just four
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years ago when they had to do something very similar.
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There were some big time players that left the program questions,
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how are they going to be able to do that?
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And they made a run into the second round of the tournament,
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had Stanford on the ropes, the number one seed in the NCAA
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tournament, going back to Audies and Addie Brown's freshman
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campaign. And just how he was able to put
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it together here. 9 newbies, though, I guess the headliners,
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probably Maya Bobbitt out of Kent State, at least in terms of
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scoring. But the transition, that's one
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thing. We've seen Bill Findley do this
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before. And it's kind of like some of
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the conversations we've had with Jimmy Rogers on the football
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front after what he was able to do in year #1 at Washington
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State. Bill Findley's done this before.
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And you have to believe in the coaching acumen that he had.
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Who knows what went S there? There was something that went
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sour, obviously inside the program.
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It feels, feels very, very likely that that happened.
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And there was more to it than just players that were looking
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outlook. Locker rooms can get divided,
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things can happen, Players can group together and just not like
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a coaching staff. We've seen that had plenty of
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times before. But since Bill Findley has done
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it before, I think at minimum they're going to be solid
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because Bill Findley has proven that year in and year out, he's
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going to be able to do that with basically any group of women's
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basketball. Get players that you give them.
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No, I I completely agree. That's where I feel confident in
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the program is with Bill Fenley. And there was a lot of I think
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noise is probably the best way to put it around his
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positioning. Was he going to continue?
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Was he going to retire? And then did Iowa State want to
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keep him because of if you lose a player like Audie Crooks,
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obviously that's a question a lot of people are going to ask.
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And then Jamie Pollard basically said, yeah, this guy is our guy
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kind of no matter what. There's not really much of a
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question there. And when you look at his resume
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and what he's done, it's pretty undeniable.
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Just relatively consistent getting it done with no matter
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who is on the floor. When I look through a lot of
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these names, there are some that are very exciting.
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Like you said, Maya Bobbitt, I think out of Kent State, she's
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going to be a very solid scoring option.
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But even looking at like the freshman coming in, I think this
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is going to be a solid team top to bottom.
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I don't know right now exactly what the roles are going to look
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like. All right.
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It's just it's just too early. But I trust Bill Fennelly with
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probably too much, honestly, I think he's going to get this
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team to a Big 12 contender, maybe not late in the year, but
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certainly going to be pushing some of those top teams.
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Got a couple other news and notes here to jump around on the
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local front. Miller and Condon here on the I
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Was Sports Radio Network. Nick Maravitz in for the next
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couple of days for our number one in for Ken.
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He'll be back with us on Thursday.
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Nick, want to jump to this next in the NBA draft.
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The measurables are in all right, Bennett starts.
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He's not the listed 6 foot 40. He's 6/2 and 3/4 without his
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shoes on now. I believe he'll be playing in
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the NBA with sneakers, so it should be OK.
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I think he's going to be all right there.
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But the measurements, we hear this NFL draft time all the
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time. Also, you know, guys, arms are
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just a little bit too short. The measurables, all right,
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Milan, and maybe not the wingspan that you want for for
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an outside shooter. And with that frame at 6 foot 8,
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Joshua Jefferson also there. The thing that stood out,
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though, is Machilovic shot the ball well.
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Jefferson, I thought was decent for a big guy.
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I saw a mock yesterday, a mock draft, and it's one of hundreds
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obviously that are out there that had Joshua Jefferson going
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ahead of Milan Manchilovich. If Manchilovich does stay in the
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draft, does that seem likely to you?
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You know, that's one that I've, I've kind of seen as well and
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that's what I was anticipating before this season for sure.
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Milan took a big step forward this year.
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I wouldn't be shocked by that. I think just overall play, you
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can probably trust Jefferson a little bit more.
19:15
We'll see how his play translates to the NBAI think
19:18
Milan's, you know, just true shooting, you know, in the NBA
19:21
is so important. So I wouldn't be shocked if it
19:24
went either way. But I could see Jefferson's
19:26
defense, not that Milan doesn't play, but really gaining a lot
19:29
of attention there on Bennett. Sturtz, I have a quick story for
19:32
you. This is interesting 'cause I am
19:34
from Eastern Iowa, as you, as you've talked about, I was in
19:37
Trader Joe's not that long ago. It was maybe 2 weeks ago.
19:41
I was checking out. You know, you gotta grab some
19:43
flowers for the lady, grab a couple snacks.
19:45
They got so many snacks up there.
19:47
I'm not really focused. I'm kind of looking around.
19:50
I look out the window. Bennett Sturtz walking in.
19:52
I said, is that really? Is it Maybe there's glare.
19:55
I can't. Is it?
19:56
Oh, it is. He was not as tall as I thought
19:58
he was gonna be. That's just something I you had
20:00
before we noticed. I I just noticed it.
20:04
I'm sure that's not going to be a problem in his NBA career, but
20:08
I was shocked to see him and it was not.
20:10
He wasn't as staggeringly tall as I guess I would have
20:13
anticipated. When it comes to Jefferson and
20:15
Milan, I like all of the measurables here.
20:18
We talked a little bit about how Otzelberger measures his guys,
20:21
and these are pretty true measurements to what I had been
20:23
seeing all year. So I think that helps a little
20:26
bit. But maybe that's just me being
20:27
an Iowa State fan and giving Otzelberger too much.
20:29
Credit six foot 8 for Milan in a six nine and a quarter wingspan.
20:34
That was the one thing, the knock that I saw and all this
20:37
stuff you just shake your head about.
20:38
That was the same thing that we heard from Bennett Sturtz,
20:40
officially 6/2 and 1/2 for him. And the wingspan at 6 foot 6
20:45
standing reach. Like, I don't even know it.
20:47
You're, you're the guy that's got to help us out on this
20:48
front, Nick, because you're personal trainer.
20:50
So you you know what these measurables mean, right?
20:54
Oh yeah, no, I, I work with this stuff all the time now these are
20:58
when you look at like, oh, is he tall enough?
20:59
Is he big enough? What do we want?
21:01
Do we want a bunch of 6 foot, you know, actually let's go 7
21:03
foot 10 guys with a wingspan looking at around 810 feet in a
21:08
standing reach of 15 feet. Like what are what is good
21:11
because bigger is better, right? As long as they can move the
21:13
same. I I don't get too caught up in
21:16
these measurables in these numbers because I'm looking at
21:20
play on the floor. Now, of course it has to the NBA
21:23
is bigger. And so those numbers do matter.
21:25
It's not like they're completely pointless, but I would rather
21:29
look at their game, right? I would rather look at how they
21:31
play, the pace they play with the shots that they like to
21:33
take. And then you mentioned the
21:35
shooting. I believe I maybe I jump in the
21:37
gun here, but as far as Bennett starts shooting 80% in spot up,
21:41
shooting number one in the combine and I've got him at 3
21:45
and off the dribble. Those are the kind of things I'm
21:48
looking at more than like is he 69 or is he 6/9 and 1/4?
21:52
He shot the cover off the ball and we know he can do that.
21:57
Talked to Coach McCullum last week over at the Polk County
22:00
High Club and that's one thing. He said he's had a lot of fun,
22:03
kind of put him through some different workouts doing things
22:05
in a different way and that is definitely something that he has
22:08
enjoyed at this point in time, being able to do that and get
22:11
Bennett Stirts ready. Mock drafts since that 17 to 25
22:15
range. I think for Bennett, Sturtz,
22:17
Manchilovich and Jefferson, early second round, top half of
22:20
the second round, pretty much across the board of the mocks
22:22
that I've seen at this point. But that is something and
22:25
Manchilovich obviously still has a decision of what he's going to
22:28
do if it's going to be coming back to college.
22:30
He is in the transfer portal. What is going to be there?
22:33
You feel like you can't be Louisville, right?
22:35
I mean that that team has spent through the absolute roof and
22:38
raise the ceiling of everybody else.
22:40
There was a lot of talk about Florida, but you'll look at the
22:42
way that they have filled out their class Still, if he makes
22:44
the decision to come back to college, there is going to be
22:47
some program that will find the money and certainly be able to
22:50
pay Melania, You would think handsomely, Nick.
22:53
Yeah, it's going to come down to money, right?
22:55
Because it's not about staying in college for the love of the
22:58
game. I think if he was going to do
22:59
that, he would have stayed at Iowa State.
23:01
And I don't think there was much of a question about that.
23:03
I saw something about he had a conversation over Zoom with
23:05
Kentucky. I thought the phrase was if you
23:08
beat him, join him or if you can't beat him, join him.
23:10
I would say did beat him. So I don't know what that's
23:12
about. And you mentioned Florida.
23:14
That one was, I thought the front runner that that that
23:17
program. I don't know if it's going to be
23:19
Florida and if it's not Florida, is it anybody?
23:21
I don't know. I thought I saw something about
23:23
maybe May 31st or I don't remember there was a date that
23:25
he had to decide by. So a lot of people be watching
23:29
for that specific date. I at this point he's not on Iowa
23:33
State and so I'm interested to see where he lands, but it's not
23:36
really something I'm losing sleep over to be honest.
23:38
Absolutely. Well, we're not losing sleep
23:40
because it's the offseason, but our eyes are already starting to
23:44
wander a little bit towards August camp for football and of
23:47
course, the September season that'll be upon us before we
23:50
know it. We got a great summer in front
23:51
of us, but still we're looking ahead.
23:53
So I want to go through Nick with you and I want to talk
23:56
about the areas of strength, the areas of concern.
23:59
You'll take the Cyclone side, I'll take the Hawkeye side.
24:01
Maybe we'll push back and forth a little bit.
24:03
We're going to do it for both football and men's basketball
24:05
when we come back on the other side.
24:07
How concerned or how good can both these teams be?
24:11
We'll do that next. Nick Meredith hanging out with
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Cyclones. Nick, we're gonna talk some
24:39
Hawks, we're gonna talk some cyclones.
24:41
We got a lot going on here today to mention and boy, I gave you a
24:45
rundown of different topics to hit on today.
24:47
We didn't get to many of them, so we got a lot more still
24:49
coming up this hour as we'll continue to break things down
24:52
quickly. We're able to hear the music
24:54
coming back out of break there. A little, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:58
OK, very faintly maybe again, we're working through some new
25:01
technical things here. We're trying to figure some
25:03
things out. I am not an engineer.
25:06
I am not really anything other than a guy that's just kind of
25:09
figure things out on his own throughout the years of 1/4
25:12
century now of on the radio. So I'm trying to figure things
25:15
out, but I think we're OK on that front.
25:17
All right, we got the the audio side figured out there.
25:19
We got you able to hear me at the beginning of the show.
25:21
That was a good positive direction that we're going and
25:24
we're going to continue here. So where I want to tackle this
25:27
question and take it maybe in a different path than we've gone
25:30
before, taking a look at both football and men's basketball
25:33
for both Iowa and Iowa State, the reasons for concerns and the
25:36
reasons that maybe you're optimistic about both sides.
25:39
You do locked on Cyclones, I do locked on Hawkeyes.
25:42
We talk about our programs each and every day.
25:45
And sometimes you run out of topics, sometimes feels like
25:47
you're repeating yourself a little bit.
25:49
That's going to happen from time to time.
25:51
But let's start right here with football.
25:53
This team, as we talked about them here on the radio show
25:56
throughout spring football, trying to figure them out what
25:59
Jimmy Rodgers did right away and just this whole new hall.
26:03
It is by far the most difficult local story that we've had our
26:08
local team to preview because of the unknown.
26:11
We've seen turnover, but we've never seen anything quite like
26:14
this. And certainly for a football
26:15
program, even when new coaches come in, the turnover that
26:19
happens. We're in such a new environment.
26:22
Start right there for me, Nick, how you've been able to tackle
26:24
throughout spring football, going through the different
26:27
positions, the different players with really not a whole lot of
26:30
knowledge base that you have. Because at minimum, I remember
26:33
that kid, he was running around and making plays on special
26:35
teams or I had a coach say something to me about this guy
26:39
back when he was a freshman. He showed up on campus.
26:41
We don't have that baseline with this Iowa State football team.
26:44
No, it is completely new. There are a few guys, Kyle
26:48
Conradi for one, that we are familiar with, which is nice.
26:51
But across the board, it is a brand new team and the biggest
26:55
thing for me is a brand new coaching staff because the team
26:59
is great. And we'll talk a little bit more
27:00
about specifics on the roster, but I am looking at the coaching
27:05
staff and what's that going to look like?
27:06
Because in five years, hopefully it's the same. 678 years down
27:11
the road, ideally it's either the same or very, very similar
27:14
that the roster will kind of come with time.
27:17
I don't expect this year to be the best year of Iowa State
27:21
football of all time just because I think there was an
27:24
element of like, oh, we have to build a whole new team.
27:27
OK. We've got like, what, a couple
27:29
weeks before the transfer portal?
27:30
Not that Jimmy Rogers hadn't done it before.
27:32
He did. But there is like, OK, we are.
27:35
We are going right now. The hire came so quickly.
27:38
It just all kind of came out of nowhere.
27:40
So my, you know, how am I looking at the whole thing?
27:43
I am watching film, you know, breaking down names.
27:46
What did they do at previous stops?
27:49
And one name that I wanted to bring up earlier, I think it was
27:52
it was it last week that I was on and I didn't quite get to was
27:55
Kaden Crawford. That name is extremely exciting
27:59
to me. Obviously you're familiar with
28:00
him having been at Iowa, but that one as a defensive lineman
28:05
is exciting. Absolutely.
28:07
Kaden Crawford was a guy that had a little bit of buzz when he
28:10
showed up in Iowa City from Colorado, if memory serves, when
28:14
he came in at the defensive end, went to the FCS level, played
28:17
very well up at South Dakota. And yeah, a guy that certainly
28:20
can be impactful. It's a name that we know and at
28:23
minimum that's a jumping off point.
28:24
It's the same thing, you know, with Jalen Rayner.
28:26
It's a name we know. We saw him last year against
28:28
Iowa State and they gave a tussle to the Cyclones in that
28:31
match up with Arkansas State. So a name that we know what I
28:34
look through and I go through, all right, I think at minimum
28:37
there's a few guys he say, all right, this is going to fit the
28:39
returning guys. Carson Willich, Drew surges, all
28:42
right, names that we know absolutely a David Coffey, maybe
28:45
he can be involved. Couple of guys, Rutledge and
28:47
Barrett on the offensive line. They come back with experience.
28:50
But this transition period, because Jimmy Rogers did it a
28:54
year ago, I think that's the biggest calling point that you
28:56
could say, hey, this team can at minimum flirt with Bull
29:00
eligibility because Rogers just went through this a year ago.
29:03
Oh yeah. I we talked about what's their
29:05
ceiling and what's their floor? And I see a very realistic path
29:09
to six wins. I don't think I'm off my rocker,
29:13
you know, yelling at the cloud saying that they're going to end
29:15
up at, you know, 9 or 10 wins. But I think 6 is very, very
29:19
reasonable. And when you talk about
29:21
obviously roster construction and what Jimmy Rogers did last
29:23
year is a big point. But even more than that, getting
29:26
buy in and creating culture and those kinds of things that are a
29:30
lot harder to measure, that's what Jimmy Rogers did last last
29:34
year as well because it was his first year.
29:35
It's not like he was his third year and he lost his entire
29:38
roster and built it all up from scratch.
29:40
No, he came in, lost the whole roster, built it all back up and
29:43
then built that team into a bowl eligible team.
29:46
So I I, you know, they talk about manufacturing the
29:49
relationships and how close the team is now.
29:51
That's really exciting to me. We'll see how the actual players
29:55
perform on the field, but I think players that know each
29:58
other well and trust each other play better than just a
30:01
hodgepodge of a bunch of talented players.
30:03
It's kind of like the offensive line.
30:05
You jump over next and Nick, the one question that I have is we
30:09
go from the optimism and getting to know you now here over these
30:12
last few months and dating back to the fall when we started to
30:15
do a couple of podcasts together.
30:16
You're an optimistic guy. You seem to have that optimism
30:19
yes, you're you got that positivity.
30:21
You're you're not an old cranky man like me.
30:24
It'll get, you'll get there, don't worry.
30:25
But when you look at this squad and you look at it from the
30:29
other direction, you take the optimism hat on.
30:31
You take the pessimistic hat and flip that on.
30:34
What is the thing, either a position group or just overall
30:36
with the football program that you say, oh boy, this could be a
30:40
big problem for this year? A big problem.
30:43
I don't know if I would go so far as to say that I have an
30:46
area that I am, you know, terrified of.
30:49
I think there are areas that aren't as strong is probably how
30:51
I'll put it. Maybe that's just the optimism.
30:53
Fibers still sitting on my head from the hat.
30:55
I feel like on offensive line should be an area where Iowa
30:59
State's going to be really good. It's an area that was a clear
31:02
target in the transfer portal for Jimmy Rogers.
31:05
They've talked so much about building from the inside out.
31:08
I just have to see it when you bring in a bunch of guys that
31:11
haven't worked together, it's all fine and dandy until they
31:15
hit the field, right? And we've seen that in all sorts
31:17
of leagues like the NFL, like, oh, these all five guys are just
31:20
supposed to be incredible and then they don't gel.
31:23
Or you have five guys that are like, well, this is the worst
31:26
graded offensive line in free agency of all time.
31:29
And then they actually play it out and they're one of the best
31:31
teams out there. So I have some question marks, I
31:33
would say around the offensive line and then wide receiver.
31:36
I just don't get the feeling we're going to have a weapon a
31:41
number one right now. Now there of course were some
31:44
standouts at the spring showcase and that's exciting.
31:48
We'll see how Jalen Rayner kind of throws the ball around.
31:51
I I wasn't necessarily impressed.
31:54
I'll be completely honest, it's a little pessimistic about his
31:57
like they didn't really have the zip on the ball that I was
32:00
looking for off of his arm. So I'll see how much the passing
32:02
game is utilized for Iowa State this year.
32:04
But the flip side of that is I think they're going to dominate
32:06
in the run game. I think they have the running
32:08
backs for it even without, and I think that Rainer could be used
32:12
with his legs as well. So I would say if I had to pick
32:15
two on the entire team, I'm staying away from the defense.
32:18
I trust Bob it, but I would I would probably say offensive
32:22
line and wide receiver. You know, one thing that also
32:26
kind of jumped out and you mentioned offensive line and I
32:28
think you'll get to know that offense line is something that I
32:31
talk about a ton. The importance of and it doesn't
32:33
matter the level of football, we'd be talking about Pop Warner
32:36
all the way through to the NFL. Offensive line so often is
32:39
overlooked, but the importance of it not just having five guys
32:42
but building depth there. One thing that I really like and
32:45
it's just a projection that is out there.
32:47
Our lads has all the depth charts for all the college
32:50
programs out there and their projections where they don't
32:52
have their two returners back in the starting lineup, either
32:55
Rutledge or Barrett in their starting lineup.
32:57
But you look at the five guys that they project to be starters
33:00
for the Iowa State offensive line this season, only one of
33:03
them seniors. So there can be some growth that
33:05
comes out of that. The question that I do have
33:08
though is about that depth and what kind of depth that you can
33:10
do when you're really just throw against the wall.
33:12
You're looking all right, we got to get 12/14/15 offensive
33:16
lineman to come in, not just meshing them together, them and
33:19
building the depth because you want to get the guys that you're
33:22
working to get the starter experience out there.
33:24
But going along with that offensive line, I think that is
33:27
the one because you don't know. You got guys from all over the
33:29
place. You got guys that are coming in
33:31
from the SEC. You got guys that are coming in
33:32
from the D2 ranks and how you melt that all together because
33:35
it doesn't matter if Jalen run it.
33:37
Rainer takes a big step forward this year and that running game
33:40
with Petaway and Olen in Flora and they're running the football
33:43
or at least have the running backs again.
33:45
If your offensive line stinks, your offense is going to stink.
33:48
I agreed. It's the the biggest part of the
33:51
entire offense. It all starts there literally
33:53
with the center snapping the ball.
33:55
So, you know, maybe we do have a standout wide receiver.
33:58
Maybe Overby takes that next step and becomes the red zone
34:01
threat that I think he can. And maybe Rayner finds the zip
34:04
on the ball that I'm looking for.
34:05
He's able to drop it in a bucket from 50 yards away.
34:08
And we have the best running backs in the nation and then the
34:10
offensive line just can't piece together and Rainer has a second
34:13
and a half to throw and it doesn't matter over bees wide
34:16
open down the field. That's where it all starts.
34:19
And I I trust the defense. I think the offense is where I
34:22
really want to see can this team get it done?
34:25
So I'll jump over to the Hawkeye side and the reasons for me for
34:27
optimism is just the sustainability of this program,
34:31
what they're able to do year in and year out.
34:34
They are one of only four programs over the last decade
34:37
that has won eight or more games in a season.
34:40
Full seasons taken 2020 out when Iowa went six and two that year.
34:43
But full seasons over the last decade, the four programs that
34:47
have done it, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, I mean, you talk
34:51
about the company that you're keeping, that is some high level
34:53
stuff from Iowa football. Obviously the Hawkeyes have not
34:56
come close to the heights of those of the out of the
34:58
programs. But the consistency, the
35:00
baseline that you have at minimum, you know you're going
35:03
to be solid. And that's where my optimism go
35:05
is. But I go back, that defensive
35:08
tackle position is scary, I thought.
35:10
But we saw some things last year from Bryce Hawthorne, who
35:12
transferred in from South Dakota State.
35:14
He was part of the rotation and I thought he's going to be a
35:16
piece. He's going to have to be a stud
35:18
though. I mean, you talk about taking a
35:19
leap for this year. He's going to have to be, I
35:22
think on the fringes of being second, third team, all Big 10.
35:25
That kind of performance goes behind them.
35:27
You have a couple of former walk ONS of Luke Gaffney and Will
35:30
Hubert, who are fighting for other starting spot, Bryce
35:33
Stevenson, who they brought in from the portal.
35:35
He was banged up during the spring.
35:37
They got Alebaju from up in North Dakota.
35:40
He was a guy that certainly statistically did not pop by any
35:43
means in the middle of the defense.
35:46
And it goes hand in hand with what we talked about with the
35:47
offensive line with Iowa State, Iowa.
35:50
You look back at some of those seasons where the defense is
35:53
taking a big step backwards. That's normally the reason
35:56
they're not able to clog up the middle, do the things that we
35:59
do, occupy blockers, occupy space.
36:01
If you can't do that, suddenly it becomes scary in a hurry.
36:04
And that defense that is so good, and I think it'll be
36:06
really good on the back end. I love what they have, certainly
36:09
in their back seven. And well, yeah, the back seven
36:12
with the two linebackers and now the five defensive backs with
36:15
the cash position that Phil Parker employs, I think they're
36:17
going to be good there. But if you can't do it upfront,
36:20
A defensive tackle, suddenly this defense I think could go
36:23
from elite back to maybe just good.
36:26
And unless the offense takes a step forward, that's where it
36:28
gets scary for Iowa. Yeah, the offense is I wear my
36:32
question marks live for sure. I actually have a question for
36:35
you because I'm sure you've looked through all the depth
36:38
charts and the grades and watch some film and you've gone in
36:41
depth with it. And you probably had a pretty
36:43
good feeling on where Iowa was going to be prior to say last
36:47
week. Was the All Access Spring
36:50
showcase a big, you know, did it, did it change how you feel
36:53
about this team? And watching all the coaches and
36:57
all the interviews and all of the, there wasn't a ton of
37:00
necessarily like drills, but I thought that was kind of cool.
37:03
I mean, as an Iowa State fan, I hesitate to say that, but man,
37:06
that was some cool access. I.
37:08
Loved hearing and seeing Kirk really be involved in what he
37:12
does and his old school terminology.
37:14
You got to get the knee up in the crotch.
37:16
I mean, I just, I just chucked chuckled at that because that's
37:19
Kirk. He's an old football coach,
37:20
right? But seeing him still there
37:22
working through a drill, you know, he is not Aceo that's
37:25
sitting up in in the corner office and just looking down to
37:27
practice. He's still involved and still
37:29
doing and getting the guys to do the little things.
37:32
And I've told this story before, Nick, but I had an opportunity
37:35
to see a little bit of a practice at a bowl game years
37:37
and years ago. And the thing was, it was just
37:40
so boring. I mean, just talk about it's
37:44
defensive line. The defensive line drill is what
37:47
I was watching at the time. And they're just sitting there
37:49
and they're working on hand placement and then working on
37:51
hand placement and working. This is in December and they're
37:55
still doing the same things. Yet those little things, the
37:58
nuances, the things that shouldn't don't matter to guys
38:01
like us on the radio, right? Who cares?
38:04
But they do matter actually, for football and the drilling and
38:07
those kind of things. And that's what they drill in.
38:09
And you saw it up close and personal with that All Access
38:11
feature that Iowa had and seen Kirk Ferris being really
38:14
involved in that one. I don't think it changed though,
38:17
my perception of what this team is going to be.
38:20
I think they're going to be solid up front, but it's a
38:22
questions a defensive tackle in the course of the biggest
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question. What does it look like obviously
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at the quarterback position, because that is 1 coming into
38:30
the spring after we got through winter workouts, I thought it
38:33
was Jeremy Heklinski. There was going to be a pretty
38:35
significant gap. And then Hank Brown, when
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Heklinski took over the backup role in the middle of the season
38:40
last year, something that is so uncurred ference like, I
38:43
thought, well, this thing is over.
38:45
It's signed, sealed and delivered.
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Heklinski is going to be your starter going into it.
38:49
I think this thing's going to come down to the wild and I will
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not be surprised one bit, not if it's a blowout game number one
38:55
against Northern Illinois, but that we see both those
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quarterbacks play and play in the first half of the game
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against NIU to open up the season.
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I think we're going to see both Brown and Heck, Linsky, and it's
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something that's probably going to linger into Cyhawk Week,
39:07
which we absolutely love. Any story extra storylines are
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always good. No, that's very true.
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And I only asked that question because Iowa State's done a lot
39:15
more, not all axis, but certainly looks behind the the
39:18
curtain, if you will, with lots of miked up and all of that.
39:21
And I was really kind of uncertain of what to think about
39:24
Iowa State. And then you get all of that
39:26
kind of stuff from Roland Bobbitt.
39:28
And I feel really good after all of that and seeing how they
39:31
coach, how they operate out there on the field.
39:32
So that's why I asked. But ultimately it comes down to
39:35
for the quarterback position for Iowa, my initial kind of thought
39:39
process has always been if you have two quarterbacks, you have
39:41
none. Do you subscribe to that or do
39:43
you think that they're going to push each other and end up
39:45
better for essentially with two competent quarterbacks?
39:48
I think it's it's the former. I think absolutely it is the old
39:51
adage. I definitely believe in that.
39:52
If you have two quarterbacks you have done.
39:54
Was it Bill Parcells that said that first?
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I think it was. But regardless, absolutely, I
39:59
subscribe to that one. Doesn't mean that one of these
40:01
guys can't take the job and run. And I personally.
40:05
I just like Hank Kolinsky a little bit more.
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Yeah, he's a little guy. I mean, if he's 5 foot 11 that
40:09
I'm 6 foot and Nick, you know that I am not 6 foot tall.
40:12
He is not tall by any means, but he's got that side to side
40:16
movement. There's a little bit more
40:17
shiftiness to him. I did find it interesting.
40:20
I I saw something where Hank Brown straight ahead is actually
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faster. And it reminds me back and I'm
40:25
going to go way back in the day and and I'm going to feel really
40:27
old because you're going to scratch your head.
40:30
Nate Chandler, who took over for Brad Banks.
40:32
Actually, 40 time was faster than Brad Banks watch watch
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those guys in the football field.
40:36
It wasn't didn't feel like it was close because of the
40:39
shiftiness that Brad Banks had. And I'm sure you saw plenty of
40:41
banks highlights and and don't bring up 2002 at Kinnock Stadium
40:45
when I lost my wallet and Iowa blew a double digit lead in the
40:48
second-half of that one. That was a bad, bad day in the
40:50
student section there. But it's it's interesting
40:53
because Hank Brown's definitely got the bigger arm.
40:55
Yet that's the kind of guy that Kirk seems to gravitate towards
40:59
and he got hit. Kilinsky, who does things a
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little bit differently, a little bit more on in our unorthodox
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going to be something that is definitely going to dominate the
41:07
conversation when we get to August camp.
41:10
We're due for a time out here, Nick.
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We'll come back on the other side.
41:13
We talked about the football side of things, reason for
41:15
optimism and maybe some pessicism.
41:18
Let's jump over to the basketball side of things, get
41:20
into Iowa and Iowa State. On the other side, Nick Barvitz
41:23
from lockdown Cyclones hanging out with me.
41:24
Trent Condon back here in a moment, it's Miller and Condon
41:27
on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
41:28
Wrapping up our number one, it's Miller and Condon on the Iowa
41:31
Sports Radio Network, including our flagship one O 6.3 K Thanks
41:35
and O here in Des Moines, Nick Marvitz hanging out with me for
41:38
our number 1 today. You know what, Nick?
41:40
We mentioned we went through concerns, reasons for optimism
41:44
for both Iowa and Iowa State football, let's say basketball
41:47
for tomorrow. We'll do that when we have a
41:49
little bit more time as we're running a little short on time
41:52
here. So we'll save that for tomorrow.
41:54
We will dig in a little bit deeper as Nick's going to be
41:56
hanging out with me again tomorrow.
41:57
Nick will be, Ken will be back. Excuse me on Thursday.
42:01
I did want to go One Direction with you and getting to know
42:05
you. The PGA Championship is this
42:07
week now it's definitely the 4th of the majors.
42:10
Are you a golf guy? I think you learned as you hang
42:13
hung out with us during our Mediacom show inside the numbers
42:16
last week. I like to bet on golf a whole
42:18
lot. So is that something that you
42:21
get into? Are you a golfer?
42:22
Do you enjoy golf? Where do you sit as we get ready
42:25
for the second of the four majors?
42:27
Betting on golf is something that I, I do generally throw
42:31
something on the Masters, but I don't know if I pay close enough
42:34
attention to really feel confident the rest of the
42:36
season. I mean, just, it's kind of fun
42:37
for the Masters. But as far as playing golf, oh,
42:41
oh, yeah, I got my clubs right over there.
42:44
I, I spent way too much time on the golf course.
42:46
One of my favorite pastimes. Oh.
42:48
That's good. You got some good courses over
42:49
there. So what are what are your
42:50
favorite courses you like to play over?
42:52
You're living in the Iowa City, Cedar Rapids corridor, so which
42:56
ones jump out here? Williams.
42:57
Guy, I say Williamsburg is a really solid course.
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I'm a big fan of them. I haven't been in this area
43:04
during a golf season, so we're just now getting to where I
43:08
would be able to play right. I haven't gotten out in Iowa
43:11
City, but I'll tell you in like Boone, Ames, what is the it's,
43:16
it's golden one. It's up in Boone.
43:18
That one's incredible. Honey Creek, maybe that's maybe
43:20
what it was. And then Homewood in Ames is
43:22
just a staple. I haven't played many of the
43:25
Ames courses. In fact, I might have to branch
43:27
out a little bit more. But maybe we get up there.
43:30
We got some tee times. Maybe in a horizon we'll get
43:32
together and I'll definitely be fired.
43:34
Speaking of golf, coming up tomorrow, Matt Rudy, long time
43:36
writer at Golf Digest, he's going to be with us.
43:38
We'll get the latest on the PGA Championships and get his
43:41
thoughts on that one. One final thing before we run
43:44
out of our it is NFL schedule time.
43:48
The leaks are continuing, and not just the leaks, but
43:50
announcements from the broadcast partners of what they have and
43:53
what they're going to broadcast and some of the big windows that
43:56
are out there. Is this a time that you get
43:58
enamored? Do you just wait for the full
44:00
schedule release? I know some people with a
44:02
betting perspective. As soon as these are out and the
44:04
DraftKings, the FanDuel of the world, they start putting some
44:07
point spreads out. Is that something you like to
44:09
do? It's something that you like to
44:10
play around with. I definitely pay attention to
44:12
the leaks, but schedule release day is like a holiday in and of
44:15
itself. It is so much fun to see what
44:17
the media teams come up with, so I'm looking forward to.
44:19
That Nick Fun hanging out with you today.
44:21
We will talk to you again tomorrow.
44:22
Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me on.
44:24
Nick Marvitz, you can catch him each and every day.
44:27
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44:35
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