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The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn (Basketball is Upon Us!, 3.82) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_04]: You are listening to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn this week on the Purdue Report.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're talking some Purdue basketball.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We had media day last week and Jake and I are going to react to it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And it's only on the Central Indian Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome, Boydard Maker fans of the Central Indian Sports Report for this week's Purdue Report with Jake Dunn, Jake and I.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Preview, Purdue, Washington, go check that out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now we're gonna talk some basketball because it is literally just around the corner and starts this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Jake, last week there was media day.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We think we learned a lot from that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we're gonna talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Also, talk about the schedule coming up because we're gonna see live action very soon.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Thank you, it's always great for having me.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Excited for this past most season, I'm also excited that proof of balls given us a little bit more talk about here with picking up some nice ones and continuing that against Washington here on Friday.
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[SPEAKER_10]: But on October 8th at Painter Center, Daniel Jacobson and guard C.J.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Cox, representing Purdue at Big 10 Media Day.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And a big question for Purdue was, what is there identity this season?
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[SPEAKER_10]: Defense could be, you know, this team's calling card.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Purdue is talked about in the coming more aggressive, defensively brought on assistant coach, Kenneth Lowe, who was a nice defensive player for Peru, and he's going to help lead that defensive effort alongside Paul Lusk, and the goal is to put more pressure on the ball and create turnovers, rather than simply just rely on Daniel Jacobs, and to protect the rim.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So luckily, Peru has CJ Cox in Chicago Harris.
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[SPEAKER_10]: They've got experience in defending
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[SPEAKER_10]: the defending the opposing team's best players and also Antoine West Jr.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's got some leg to him and that can make him really disruptive.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's been brazed this off season for offense which we'll get him to here a little bit, but also his defense, and then Luke Earl and Elm and Meyer have forward layers of sweat.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I'm going to CJ Cox said during a big 10 minute debut as he and Irola and and Mayer have made some progress there, saying in front of their man and he made some strides on defense.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So if the guards can defend well and defend without failing, which that's always hard to do with they can they can make some improvements there and the team on Jacobson can focus and develop even more as a protector.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I think this Purdue defense can be one of the better ones that we've had in recent years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think that's a possibility, you know, obviously produced known for its defense over the years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Last couple of years haven't been quite as good and for obvious reasons, yet a little bit of an athletic system deficit with a couple of guys, but that doesn't seem to be a problem this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I'll believe it when I see it that they're going to be a stellar defensive team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I think we're at that point, but that painer is proven over the years that when he gets the right group of guys, they can definitely play some defense.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, I can and uh, I think this year, a lot of the success this season.
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[SPEAKER_10]: or the most important players on this roster, obviously because of his size, but also his potential interior defense of peace.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So this defensive ceiling may depend on how comfortable he gets protecting the pain and will handling different matchup.
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[SPEAKER_10]: For teams, you're going to want to put him in different actions to try to spoil him in his size.
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[SPEAKER_10]: But his role isn't just blocking shots.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's obviously got to communicate.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I just got positioned himself well.
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[SPEAKER_10]: and an avoid some unnecessary foul.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So I think he's been on some weight, but with his structure, his build.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You know, being a little bit on the length of your side, teams are going to want to try to put their shoulder and do his chest and get them off balance and try to get his arms down and draw foul.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So that's going to be a challenge for him and just, you know, avoiding those unnecessary fouls, but luckily, as we've covered here in Joe Schobren has been cleared by the NCAA to play the transfer from France.
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[SPEAKER_10]: very athletic, very strong is played a little bit professionally in France, which is why I know Peru wanted to get him, but he's more of a defensive type of player, more of a rebounder.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I think Peru is trying to encourage him to score, go out there, and it kind of look for a shot, be more aggressive on offense.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's still trying to learn where he needs to be in things in terms of the offense.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Peru runs a pretty complex offense.
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[SPEAKER_10]: But if you can learn the defensive system, he's got all the physical tools to be an effective defender.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I really give Purdue a boost to their front court depth.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So on excited for him, starting lineup, we have not a great idea of who is going to be the true starting line.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, one thing we definitely know is that we have depth because figuring out the starting lineup is going to be a pay.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yes it is.
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[SPEAKER_10]: That's why Matt Painter gets paid the big bucks.
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[SPEAKER_10]: here on Sunday against Ball State.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I'm sure we'll have one lineup and I would probably guess that for that first game against Gonzaga, we may have a completely different starting lineup.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So these exhibition games are nice produce plan three of them.
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[SPEAKER_10]: playing the one against ball state where who I believe has a new coach has a lot of new players so you know kind of kind of more of a little bit of a wild card you know game there Purdue obviously it's going to win that game but they go too far away and play pretty far away that'll be a nice matchup there and a calcium there and now in county
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[SPEAKER_10]: than they travel to Connecticut to play in Utah and a neutral side game, even though it's in Connecticut.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So excited for this basketball season and excited to see the kind of the progression that this team can make throughout the season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, last three or four years, it's, uh, I think we've known at least four of the five starters almost every year coming into the year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And honestly,
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, CJ Cox is probably a guarantee.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Jacobson's probably a guarantee.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Anybody else like a guarantee to be in the starting lineup?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because you got guys that we talk about the summer who look like they are starter level players like Antoine West and Jack Binter who right now aren't expected to be in the starting lineup.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So,
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[SPEAKER_04]: uh... going to be a lot of tough decisions and i might be one of those years where we see not just of the exhibition season but even throughout the early season a lot a lot of fluctuations not just in the starting line up but in each the line ups throughout the key to game but also with the rotations i'm sure we'll see a mix and match of of starting line up throughout the year uh... for example traded williams when he really kind of broke out
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[SPEAKER_10]: I think it was a sophomore season when you kind of kind of of coming on the scene for Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He started off the bench and made his way to starting line up because Purdue really valued his passing.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Some of the other skills he brought to the table.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So we can very well see somebody start the season.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And maybe they finish the season being that six main off the bench for years.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Got a ton of depth, the guard position.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I'm sure I'm sure we'll see Coach Painter kind of tinker around with the things and probably see a handful of different lineups this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: and you talked about back or depth.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This summer, we kind of had this vision of Antoine West that was, wait a second, this guy was a red shirt, not super highly recruited.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Does he look like the best player on the floor to me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: And it looks like that's really kind of continued into this fall.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And the word out of practices, he might be,
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[SPEAKER_04]: the best player on the team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's how good he's been.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Coach Painter at Big Ten Meadie Day.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I'm going to paraphrase here, but he basically called him.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He tied the inch one West situation to Patrick Mahomes.
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[SPEAKER_10]: What when Patrick Mahomes was drafted.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Alex Smith was a starting quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Alex Smith was the starter for Patrick's rookie year.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And then when Patrick Mahomes, he eventually took over for Alex Smith.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And obviously became the Patrick Mahomes.
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[SPEAKER_10]: We know now we know one of the best
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[SPEAKER_10]: Obviously he's not saying that Antoine West is going to be a sphere the best player in the league, but I think that speaks volumes to the type of player that puts pain or beliefs that Antoine West is
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[SPEAKER_10]: It makes me excited to see, maybe not this year, but his progression throughout the rest of his career because, you know, with the five and five rule, he had his his retro season so he's got this year and then three more years after this.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So he's hopefully going to be in the black and gold for a while and tons of he may be another another way of one of the next great pretty guards.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Daniel Jacobson and CJ Cox at Big Ten Media Day.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Antoine West is gonna be someone I'm gonna have my eye on as Purdue enters the exhibition season here.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Another guy that I really, we talked last year, I think it has the potential to just take it to the next level is Jack Vinter.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It was one of my favorite players last year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I kept thinking he needed more minutes of it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And again, a guy watching high school, not someone I thought was gonna be a star in the big 10.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, I'm excited to see what he does this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Jake, what do you have here I on as we head toward exhibition season here?
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I'm excited to see how Caden Pierce can fit into what this team is.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He brings a lot of versatility.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's a great rebounder as a lot of experience
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[SPEAKER_10]: He comes in with the reputation as a high energy guy.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's dependable and it can be pretty valuable for this somewhat younger team.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He can guard, he's free of versatile, on defense, he can guard, you know, just body position.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He came from Princeton, he's got a degree, I believe economics from Princeton.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He's a smart guy, I'm confident.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He can learn the playbook and everything.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Jack Banner, I think they kind of make a,
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[SPEAKER_10]: comes off the bench.
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[SPEAKER_10]: You're bringing in a guy who's just as good if not better than the guy that just came off the court.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So this period team is pretty deep in that regard.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And I'm excited to see how he plays and how Jack Banner can continue to grow in the big tanks.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I think one thing that that producer is going to try to use to their advantages, Jack Banner in high school, use kind of more of a guard.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So I think a pretty might see him handle the ball a little bit more.
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[SPEAKER_10]: whenever he has a mismatch on somebody, whether it's a guard or whether it's a center, he's got the ball handling skills, to potentially no drive by a bigger opponent, or if he's got a guard on him, he's big enough to where he can end a back him down the post and go that way too.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So I'm excited to see how King Pierce and Jack been her since foot minutes, but yeah, I'm just excited for the season channel.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, Jake, and there was an inner squad game on Saturday, tell me what you learned.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, definitely, I know we talked a little bit about the defensive side of the ball, but offensive offensively, the team looked pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Car Harris had 21 points, four rebounds and four assists.
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[SPEAKER_10]: He was the leading score in this firmage and continued to build on that momentum that we saw in Canada.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So he's not a guy last year.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I would have really guessed as kind of an important
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[SPEAKER_10]: offensive option for Purdue, but it seems like he is able to, I'm sure he's put a lot of working in the off season, but he looks like he may be another option for who has to go and score the ball.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Obviously, it's still very talented defensively as well, so he's going to be a pretty valuable two-way guard for Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Dana Jacobson, we talked about how he had 18 point nine rebounds and four assists.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So obviously, the scoring rebounding numbers are great.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Also, the four assists shows that he has some improved passing abilities and it's making good decisions out of these centers, but which is something that we may not have always seen at times from the last season.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And the guy that we talked about a lot to recently, Antoine West, had 17.5 assists, so a nice combination there of
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[SPEAKER_10]: scoring and passing and I think he as he continues to get better just a guy that Coach Painter may not be able to to keep you know off of four so excited for for him Jacob Weber another guy yeah 15 points five made three pointers Matt Painter is called him one of the best shooters he's ever been around that's not to be taken lightly Coach Painter's been around some pretty good shooters so obviously once fromage doesn't
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[SPEAKER_10]: mean a whole lot we didn't see in Canada again some lesser opponents that he shot pretty well from from the three there too but if he's especially with his five and five if he is as good as a shooter as you know what it seems so far he may find some some minutes or some situational roles that Peru will want to get him in there and then lastly CJ Cox he was perfect from three in this game and obviously his defensive
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[SPEAKER_10]: role is going to be important for Purdue and his experience obviously being more of a leader.
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[SPEAKER_10]: I think it's going to be a big task for the junior class, CJ Cox, Chikari Harris, and Daniel Jacobson.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So, for you, Samuel has a lot of players who can contribute offensively, rather than just asking, you know, one guy that kind of carry the scoring, it looks like it's been pretty spread out.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Chikari Harris, led the way, Dan Jacobson, produced inside.
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[SPEAKER_10]: and Torn West showed some additional playmaking potential and CJ Cox and Jacob Weber, shoppery, well from the hard New York.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So just again, adds to my excitement for the season and every time that Purdue loses these stars that we've talked about, when Parscent words goes away, Purdue won't be good again.
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[SPEAKER_10]: When Jay and Nike goes away, Purdue won't be again.
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[SPEAKER_10]: We won't be good again.
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[SPEAKER_10]: When Zachy goes away, Purdue won't be good again.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And now Purdue loses brain smith.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Fletcher Warrior and Tracoff and Ren.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Now people are thinking, you know, Peru will be good again.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And these seems like sometimes these teams they don't have as high.
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[SPEAKER_10]: The expectations actually do better at Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_10]: So I really excited to see where the scene goes.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Where we know where we can go.
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[SPEAKER_10]: And I guess that's kind of the beauty of it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It is, and we'll learn a lot more on Saturday, Jake.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks so much.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We'll talk some more Purdue basketball next week's Purdue Report.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Pull it up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We stay tuned for Matt Painter Daniel Jacobson and CJ Cox at Big Ten Media Day.
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[SPEAKER_11]: The blue boiler makers move on without free of their absolute superstars, brain-smith, fletcher-loyer, trade-coffman-rend, all gone.
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[SPEAKER_11]: The boilers have had an incredible run here.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You see, I've run last half dozen seasons.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I've picked sixth.
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[SPEAKER_11]: In the pre-season, I have a really good recruiting class look at all leading the way as we are joined now by the head coach of the Boilermakers, Matt Painter and Coach.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We mentioned Braden and Fletcher and Tray just put into words before we look ahead.
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[SPEAKER_11]: What did those guys mean to your program?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, the all-time winning is players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so just the success they were able to have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, and also the transitioning, their first two years, a plane with a dominant player like Zach Edy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, to go off, a losing the two-time national player of the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: go to the sweet 16, go to the lead eight, the last two years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, pretty impressive, but just did a lot for our program.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they had to play through him, and then it was their turn.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And obviously, it's probably the biggest blow for us is the volume, the usage that we had with Braiden Smith.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He just had the ball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, point guards are going to have the ball a lot, but he had the ball all the time for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It allowed people to really get to find the role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: CJ Cox was in such a really good to find role.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now,
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[SPEAKER_01]: He'll have to do a little bit more for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But that's probably the biggest adjustment for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we do have good guard play and we're excited about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But those guys meant a lot to us.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I'm interested in Caden Pierce.
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[SPEAKER_11]: It's just such an interesting recruiting story.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And right, as you don't know, he chose to sit out his last year.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I've been the Ivy player of the year.
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[SPEAKER_11]: at Princeton and wanted to play a year of high major and wanted to still get Princeton degree.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And this was kind of the way to do it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So he's had a year off.
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[SPEAKER_11]: He's going to be thrust into a pretty big role.
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[SPEAKER_11]: How do you see him fitting in and what should we expect from him?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we run a lot of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so like any time, you know, you're going through different things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's got a degree in economics from Princeton.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think he's going to be okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He could figure it out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he can figure that out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Your stuff's high level, but not that level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, uh,
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's always surprises, positive or negative, but like he's a really, really good defensive player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a two-way player, he can switch a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's athletic, he was our best rebounder on the candidate trip, getting in so eligible, a really help us from a rebounding standpoint, but Cates been great for us.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, you, that brings it up about defense.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, you were so good offensively last four years.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It first was acting and with braiding in those guys.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But now it's a little different.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And I've talked to you, your defense is going to be better.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Correct.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, how is that evolved with you as a coach?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You just, we have a lot of two way players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it just goes to personnel base when you look at your personnel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that we've had in the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When you look at our team, Zach Edy cleaned up a lot of stuff for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we didn't have that same approach than that next year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Oscar Cluff really helped us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Their Oscar was the most efficient offensive player in the country.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At a 2.2 to 1 assists turnover ratio.
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[SPEAKER_01]: as a center.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had the best since turnover ratio in the country last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, where can we steal possessions?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we can steal possessions through our pressure, our defense, force and more turnovers, and that was a place that we didn't get a lot in the past.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We were a dominant rebounding team really because of sack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when we lost sack, we weren't as good, we were a much better last year, we're the top of the league, but we still got to have that balance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can we take care of the basketball?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can we win the rebound war?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then can we have those guys put a lot of pressure on the basketball while keeping the ball in front of us?
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[SPEAKER_06]: What about the two new guys?
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[SPEAKER_06]: And so I know you're fired up about him, rebounding, but also West.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think he's full.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Any bread shirt.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's different now with the five-year rule.
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[SPEAKER_06]: How that is going to evolve with him, but talk about those two guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Antoine West is a really good two-way player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a plus five, plus six, wingspan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: very, very good on the basketball, good at creating himself, good combo guard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We just had a deep back court and he was a guy that was going to play, but how much was he going to play, who was it going to affect, how was it going to affect?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I compared it to Patrick Mahomes, not playing instead of Alex Smith, who was a great quarterback in the NFL and then learning in that year and then all of a sudden, Patrick Mahomes is in a quick amount of time as the best player in the NFL.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to be one of the better guards in our league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a really good player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Enzo is the fastest big guy I've ever been around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Very fast, very athletic, not a big time offensive guy, but a great rebounder and a great defender.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How is Daniel Jacobson evolved?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Doing great, doing great, put on some weight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think for him, being able to, he broke his leg in November.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then he played USA basketball in June, then he played last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He needs more of an opportunity, and now he has more of an opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think you're going to see some things for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He can make threes, take threes, he's a flip-up lob guy, but he's got to affect the game on the defensive end.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's where we need it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need his shot blocking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it just starts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of basic.
20:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Getting in a stance and embracing the physicality of the game, then I think you can really take off.
20:26
[SPEAKER_11]: Ready for a curveball question.
20:28
[SPEAKER_11]: Sure, a curveball question in conjunction with TIAA, which course sponsors pick 10 media days as well as the big 10 men's basketball tournament, what's a lesson that you learn from a teacher that you still use in coaching today?
20:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Really, for me, it's reading, like just in general, I read a lot.
20:47
[SPEAKER_01]: And so like when you like trying to find out, everybody reads about other successful people when you're trying to be successful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When you try to learn from them because everybody has a story, you've had to fight through adversity.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How did you get here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What was your upbringing?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Things of that nature?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was something that I heard early on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Was that successful people?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Actually Coach Knight was one of the first people to say to him in my visit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: he asked me what I was reading and I told him absolutely nothing and then they didn't go over well Dave Dave I don't know if you've ever interviewed coach but that didn't go over well he's just like well intelligent people read he goes you need to learn about other things you need to learn about history you need to learn about other people
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so now you'll know how to navigate life better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, okay, I'll teach you.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You cite Bob Knight as a Purdue guy.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Last question for you, you guys have Gonzaga on opening night.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We were talking about this a little bit with Mick because they're playing Arizona, correct?
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[SPEAKER_11]: On opening nights.
21:40
[SPEAKER_11]: What are kind of the pros and cons of playing a game with that magnitude early?
21:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Why I think, you know, I wouldn't like to play that game that early unless we were playing somebody like you kind of an exhibition.
21:51
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think playing those three exhibition games with you combat in our last exhibition game, and that's going to be real, you know, and hard for Connecticut.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's going to be real.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so having that game before, I think it's really going to help us against Gonzaga.
22:04
[SPEAKER_06]: The exhibition games is really interested.
22:06
[SPEAKER_06]: Now they've expanded it, you know, from...
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[SPEAKER_06]: old D two teams or whatever we play to A U teams or but tell you think things out and I talked to Nico he talked about how are you approaching that we've we've talked that go on the road and get a game and all that stuff I was at it.
22:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so we took one home game we're going to play ball state and they've added some new new talent there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some guys in a score at their previous places.
22:33
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're going to have that as kind of your your blind game right new coach new personnel and you have nothing to really go off of and you got to play in that game.
22:42
[SPEAKER_01]: And I always think those first games, it's to your guys, if they don't have discipline or experience or just the understanding, they're thinking about shooting, they're thinking about minutes.
22:51
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not thinking about the right things, like in even good players and people that want to win, like sometimes you know, you just got to go through some things here to learn some hard lessons, then we go to Fort Wayne and really play a home game for them, but we're playing IPFW, we're playing them there in the Coliseum, and that'll be cool for their fans.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now being able to go play, you know, Yukon and how tough they are and how good they are in the success that they've had, you know, where do we stand?
23:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, but I also think getting that kind of the really two neutral games, but, you know, obviously the Fort Wayne game and the Yukon game are there in their backyards.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've liked that, we've gotten beat at Kentucky, we've gotten beat at Arkansas, we've gotten beat, and all those who else have misses at Creighton.
23:35
[SPEAKER_01]: And those have been the best things for us.
23:36
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been the most successful non-conference team in the country the last five years, but yet I got three exhibition losses.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, those are beautiful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They also need you, right?
23:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
23:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I always tell our guys like, I watch you play pick up every now and then, and like you guys need coaching.
23:53
[SPEAKER_01]: you guys need coaching so even though you got to have some order you got to know what you're doing and so but those those losses have really helped our guys before we've gotten into those other neutral site games.
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[SPEAKER_11]: And she's exhibition games changed the question.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Yes about it.
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[SPEAKER_11]: My pain is always pleasure.
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[SPEAKER_11]: We could do this for an hour, but
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[SPEAKER_11]: But time is precious and what we need to move on, takes a lot of coach.
24:14
[SPEAKER_11]: We were talking about that non-conference schedule for the boilers, not just Gonzaga, but also Oklahoma.
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[SPEAKER_11]: I was state Tennessee in there.
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[SPEAKER_11]: You see some of the notable conference games as well.
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[SPEAKER_11]: So it is formidable.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Andy, for a couple of the guys you've got along, side you.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah, that's right.
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[SPEAKER_12]: We've got a couple of attorneys here, CJ Cox, and Daniel Jacobson, with an alum.
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[SPEAKER_12]: offensive player the year.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Great Purdue man right here.
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[SPEAKER_12]: All right, Danny.
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[SPEAKER_12]: You heard your coach.
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[SPEAKER_12]: You perked up.
24:45
[SPEAKER_12]: I mean, you're some fees still perked up.
24:47
[SPEAKER_12]: When you heard him talk about you, how you've gotten more physical, but you have to defend.
24:51
[SPEAKER_12]: What did you think of what Matt Pinter said about you?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, 100% I think, remember, protection, especially, rebounding is going to be a huge piece for me in our team this year, and I'm looking forward to making that a big part of my game.
25:02
[SPEAKER_05]: You got hurt your freshman year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So last season was your first full goal added.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So really, your freshman season again, what did you learn from yourself about the game from the big 10 that you can take until you solve more year and dominate?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Two big things I learned last year are like physicality aspect and how important rebounding is.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think that if I can take control of that this year and really improve on that, that's going to be a good year.
25:23
[SPEAKER_05]: As CJ, we heard Coach talk about you, maybe having to do a little bit more offensively.
25:27
[SPEAKER_05]: So what does Purdue need from you this year that they didn't need from you last season?
25:32
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I feel like last year, definitely with Braden Fletcher, TK, it was a lot of pick and roll action, a lot of action for Fletcher and, you know, me having my role in spotting up in the corner.
25:42
[SPEAKER_08]: So this year I think just more movement off the ball and more movement when you know running through our plays and executing I feel like I'll be more involved in that sort of thing.
25:54
[SPEAKER_12]: So to that point CJ, you know, so often it's hard to be the person who steps
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[SPEAKER_12]: to that leadership role, that number one spot.
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[SPEAKER_12]: People played off of you because of those other three guys and you were left open a lot and they were create for you.
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[SPEAKER_12]: Now you become the target on that scout.
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[SPEAKER_12]: How do you handle it?
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[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like it will come every game at a time, but I feel like with me, I always have that confidence in shooting the shot no matter what.
26:23
[SPEAKER_08]: So no matter what situation I'm putting and just going out there and playing my best no matter what.
26:28
[SPEAKER_05]: It's no question game all over again.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Does every game this season?
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That no question game has got you going.
26:33
[SPEAKER_05]: But for Daniel, when you look at this year's group of Purdue, the guard room seems loaded.
26:37
[SPEAKER_05]: And when you think about Purdue and the question marks around it, is can they get a rebound, can they defend inside?
26:43
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll say you about Purdue's interior defense or the front court this season.
26:47
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm just trusting my work this off season.
26:49
[SPEAKER_07]: And all things I learned from last year and how confident I am and myself and my other big man's ability to up-tech the rim rebound and take control
26:58
[SPEAKER_12]: You know, we heard Coach talk about Hayden Pierce's defense, not something that was definitely discussed prior to arriving from Princeton and sitting out this past year.
27:09
[SPEAKER_12]: What have you seen thus far on this trip, the summer, and in practice, that big 10 fans are gonna see pretty soon here.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I feel like with Hayden, he's a very athletic stretch for us.
27:20
[SPEAKER_08]: He can guard one through four, maybe even the five, just cause I've had a physical he is.
27:24
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like he'll be a really good piece for us with the rebounding aspect.
27:28
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like he'll be one of our better rebounders on the team.
27:31
[SPEAKER_08]: And I feel like overall he's just a really good player.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Hostels for the plays and does whatever he can to help us win.
27:38
[SPEAKER_05]: And what have you guys seen from Ante on West?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Cause you've got, you hear the rumors around Purdue.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You even heard Braena Smith say last season that he was dominating you guys in practice a year ago.
27:46
[SPEAKER_05]: So what is stood out about the young fella, how can he come to the league and make noise?
27:50
[SPEAKER_07]: I think what stood out is the work that he's put in.
27:52
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, coming to the gym every morning, he's always there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I know that's going to pay off for him.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then in practice, he's been killing it.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I trust he's going to have a great year.
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[SPEAKER_12]: And real quickly, CJ, we saw the schedule right off the bat going against Gonzaga.
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[SPEAKER_12]: How ready is this team going to be?
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[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like we'll definitely be ready.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like these three exhibition games we have, especially against Yukon will help prepare us and find the Vegas and playing it's a really good team.
28:16
[SPEAKER_08]: Like Gonzaga, they just picked up a few guys from the portal and they have returning Brayden Huff who was one of their better players last year.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like this will definitely be a really good start for us and a good test to help us improve the rest of the season.
28:32
[SPEAKER_12]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He's paying attention.
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[SPEAKER_12]: He's already breaking it down.
28:35
[SPEAKER_12]: Well, like, you know, a couple more weeks to go to the party.
28:42
[SPEAKER_00]: The basket of thicker strength of this game.
28:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you guys seen that at how much you see it?
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think he's improved a lot in that area.
28:49
[SPEAKER_07]: I think that comes with his improvements on his body, and his speed is able to be guys off the dribble, and then like once he does, he's able to keep that advantage and get them on his head and create shots from himself.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Whether that's to his dribble pull-up, or even if he's getting down to all the way to the room.
29:05
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a help you will know, I'm similar to the top of these eight black cool times drawing defenders.
29:11
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think his ability to get past his man and create an advantage, like allows my defender to help up, which makes me wide open and he's been really good at throwing those lobs out of the top to me.
29:29
[SPEAKER_07]: Definitely, I mean, it's always difficult for anybody to get in like a rhythm, especially shooting wise, if you're only shooting like one again or Western one again.
29:38
[SPEAKER_07]: So I think just the higher volume, more consistency is, but this is going to be beneficial though.
29:51
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I feel like Luke coming in was definitely really antsy and, you know, it's tough with the offensive system, just because of how much terminology we have.
29:59
[SPEAKER_08]: But I feel like throughout the whole summer in the beginning of the school year, you know, he's improved a lot as a player.
30:06
[SPEAKER_08]: He can score the ball really well at all three levels.
30:08
[SPEAKER_08]: So I feel like he will definitely help us a lot this year in terms of handling the point guard position, also being able to score for us too.
30:18
[SPEAKER_02]: But what's been the key for Burbank lost for this?
30:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Before we tend to be in a barrow where a lot of less trains for, you know, some had a lot of gap.
30:26
[SPEAKER_07]: I think it's a multiple things.
30:27
[SPEAKER_07]: On, like first off, just the coaching and the consistently consistent success, proving success that they've had, and like the trust they have in us, and we know that, and it makes guys want to come back, because they believe in us, and they know we're going to have another successful year.
30:42
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, and then it's just like the collective decision kind of like we all trust each other Um, enjoy playing together in the know that we're gonna be able to do the same thing this next year.
30:57
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I feel like offensively, you know, we have a lot of scoring.
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[SPEAKER_08]: We have a lot of people that can score.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So I feel like just using that to our advantage, being able to execute plays is one of the main things that we're working on right now.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And then being able to find the ball in the post when that advantage is happening, getting flip ups for Daniel Raleigh and Zo.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And then being able to find open shots
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[SPEAKER_02]: but they're both really, really, really awesome.
31:29
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think people kind of forgot about it.
31:30
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not pretty good in the talking with CNN.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What does he have in any people are doing it?
31:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think it's rock.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think like, kind of one of the underlook things that he's been really good at is his leadership and like his how vocal he's been on.
31:44
[SPEAKER_07]: I think he's really stepped up this off season, especially like setting an example for the younger guys on the team and showing them how to communicate.
31:53
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I feel like another thing with Raleigh, he's also a really good stretch player too, like he can shoot the ball from the outside, which I think will be very helpful for us, and he's also improved with his body too, so he's got a lot leaner and more physical, so I feel like that will also help us with the rebound in the aspect as well.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How urgent is that topic of rebounding in general because as good as you guys think you might be defensively you sort of have to reward yourself for that with the rebounding is it's something that it's as a team that has been discussed a lot just Where you need to get from a rebounding standpoint.
32:27
[SPEAKER_07]: I think like as coach painter says a lot like the two to most important things are possession possession.
32:32
[SPEAKER_07]: So rebounding and taking care of the ball turnovers And if we can control those parts of the games and the rebounding especially it's going to allow lots of success
32:45
[SPEAKER_02]: a lot of churches to make them, you know what, culture is.
32:48
[SPEAKER_02]: This reason why they don't think credo is going to have this and be bound by that.
32:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that something that you start researching in the book?
32:54
[SPEAKER_02]: And do you realize there's something different about that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's been a make-in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think it's something I realized once I started talking to the guys, like as I was getting recruited, like, fushure, and they made just the coaches.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Like, it's something you realize really fast.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Like,
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[SPEAKER_07]: how much people care, how much they trust we have, how competitive everybody is.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think that's definitely can to be true and it's reason why everybody stays.
33:19
[SPEAKER_03]: Does that high floor that the program has?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Is that enough motivation regardless of if you were saying before that you don't care about the precies and polls, that sort of thing, but does that just what the program is accomplished over the years is that enough of a motivation each year to kind of, I guess, continue that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, yeah, we have a legacy of the uphold on.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We have responsibility to have another successful year and play well.
33:59
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, I feel like the practice is doing this somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_08]: We're definitely, you know, we obviously had our trip to Canada.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So, just being able to kind of know the offensive terms a little bit quicker.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Um, going over like what we want to.
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[SPEAKER_08]: accomplish offensively with like Braden Fletcher and T.K.
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[SPEAKER_08]: gone.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So what things need to change.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And you know what the three exhibition games were playing is earlier than last year.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So I feel like there's definitely been more practices and we've been going through walkthroughs, going through plays and I feel like that has definitely helped to newer guys being able to get up to speed with everything and definitely a good refresh for us returners coming back.
34:45
[SPEAKER_03]: years ago at this time, Jack was sort of transitioning to that force spot, the backup force spot, almost out of necessity, because you're self-in other people that weren't able to be involved in the summer.
34:56
[SPEAKER_03]: What did you guys see from him this summer as far as any developments in his game or changes in his, in the way he's approaching things and what that role will be this year?
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I think with Jack, he's definitely gotten a lot quicker.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Got a lot of slumber too, so he's definitely, instead of just being knocked down sure, he's attacking off the dribble as well, which I feel like that's an area that he hasn't proved in.
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[SPEAKER_08]: continuing to rebound is another thing that he's been improving at too, which I think will help us with him being at before along with Caden Pierce.
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[SPEAKER_08]: And I think his ability to knock down shots as a stretch for will help spread the floor as well.
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[SPEAKER_08]: So just continuing to do that will definitely help us to see our winning games.
35:43
[SPEAKER_00]: How quickly did Caden pick stuff up what he got, let's
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think very quickly, which was really impressive.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Like his poise and maturity as a veteran player, is going to be really helpful for us this year.
35:55
[SPEAKER_07]: I think already, so he's been really helpful for the younger guys, just consistent player that's just able to always produce.
36:03
[SPEAKER_00]: How does his experience kind of show up in a leadership role being the problem with the most veteran guy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I always not been at produce, I tire of, obviously, it's just being blocking it to being that 50 or playing.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think a good example of that, even though we haven't played yet, is if say something like a tense moment or a emotional play on the court.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We know he's always going to be the guy that's going to be level-headed, stay in the moment and stay poised and be ready to go.
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[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_08]: I feel like with Kate and having that experience at Princeton.
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[SPEAKER_08]: You know, playing USA basketball, he definitely has a lot of experience and there's really that things affect him emotionally, which I feel like it just shows the type of character that he has and I feel like we'll definitely help us on the core and in the locker room as well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Now let's see.