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2 Transfers Who Could Change The Ohio State Basketball Team · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, July eleventh. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host Tom Moore. The ball State game in fifty
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Speaker 1: all right, I'm joined by Tony Gerderman of Buckeye Insiders
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Speaker 1: Earlier in the week, we got a chance to talk
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Speaker 1: to Jake Diebler, talked about that a little bit on
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Speaker 1: yesterday show, and the new event that the buck Eyes
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Speaker 1: are playing in a four team exhibition event, an outdoor
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Speaker 1: event with some other teams from the state of Ohio.
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Speaker 1: So that's going to be a pretty fun event. We
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Speaker 1: also got a chance to talk to two of the
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Speaker 1: new Buckeyes, two transfers, Justin Pippen and Andrea Yellovich. And
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Speaker 1: let's start with Yellovich because he's a really interesting prospect
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Speaker 1: transferred from Kentucky originally from Croatia. He came to Kentucky
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Speaker 1: late last year. A lot of times you come in
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Speaker 1: from overseas, you don't get to enroll in June and
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Speaker 1: go through the whole process. You get there a little
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Speaker 1: bit late.
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Speaker 2: That late start sort of leaves.
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Speaker 1: You a little bit behind, and so you don't really
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Speaker 1: have the season you wanted to have. Now he's here
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Speaker 1: at Ohio State, he's had sort of the full summer,
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Speaker 1: and it seems like that's really sort of changed of
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Speaker 1: things for him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he said this is his first summer. He arrived
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Speaker 3: at Kentucky and August and this is July, and that
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Speaker 3: he's been here for a while. Oh yeah, So like
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Speaker 3: this is all stuff he would have missed last year
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Speaker 3: as a true freshman and stuff that LJ. Smith is
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Speaker 3: getting to experience. So that's significant. And so yeah, you
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Speaker 3: show up in August and you just try to do
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Speaker 3: what you can. Garage around five points per game last year.
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Speaker 3: Things got better as the season went on, but it
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Speaker 3: was the way he made it sound, it wasn't the
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Speaker 3: best experience for him because I think there was a
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Speaker 3: lot of catchup, but also I think there's maybe some
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Speaker 3: frustration and not playing as much as he wanted to,
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Speaker 3: or not being as ready to play as much as
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Speaker 3: he wanted to. I think was all a issue. So
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Speaker 3: I think that's some of the stuff that is driving
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Speaker 3: him here. But interesting to talk to him about how
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Speaker 3: he's going to be used, what his skill set is.
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Speaker 3: And I will say he played in thirty two games
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Speaker 3: last year and I think in only four of those
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Speaker 3: games he didn't attempt to three. And he's six' eleven
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Speaker 3: about two hundred and thirty pounds to give an idea
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Speaker 3: of the kind of game that he.
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Speaker 1: Has, yeah and he fits in really interesting with Josh
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Speaker 1: Or genua and ivonn Na, govin the other two guys
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Speaker 1: who they're sort of expecting to play significant minutes upfront for.
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Speaker 1: Them he was asked sometimes to be a five last
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Speaker 1: year For. Kentucky he can do, that but it sounds
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Speaker 1: like that's not necessarily the plan for him this.
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Speaker 3: Year, YEAH i think they're going to be doing Some
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Speaker 3: Twin towers type stuff high. Low he can be that
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Speaker 3: stretch for that can extend the defense and, shoot and
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Speaker 3: we've seen that so far in a little bit of
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Speaker 3: camp that we've seen where he's very comfortable shooting from.
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Speaker 3: Deep he's also fine driving and using some ball skills
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Speaker 3: and scoring in low low. Posts but that's not necessarily
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Speaker 3: all he's going to be asked to. Do there will
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Speaker 3: certainly be times where he is the, center just as
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Speaker 3: there may be times Where Amari byndham is the center
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Speaker 3: just because of fouls or injuries or, whatever or just
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Speaker 3: some sort of matchup that they're looking. For but he
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Speaker 3: gives them an. Opportunity and he was talking about it
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Speaker 3: with him And ygovin Or joshua and in the front
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Speaker 3: court And Amari bynham as well as like a tall,
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Speaker 3: three like they have a lot of size that they
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Speaker 3: can put out there defensively and. Offensively so he he
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Speaker 3: seems excited for his role and being able to play
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Speaker 3: his kind of, game knowing that there are other center
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Speaker 3: options so he won't just be relegated to the.
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Speaker 1: Paint, well and you get the sense that they really
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Speaker 1: put some thought into, this like there was some strategy
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Speaker 1: that went into who they went after and why in the,
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Speaker 1: portal because you've got guys, who, yeah he can play
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Speaker 1: down in the, paint but also if he's outside and
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Speaker 1: you've Got Yvonne govin down down. Low that potentially presents
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Speaker 1: a big matchup problem for some of the teams you could.
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Speaker 1: Face and you, know as you, said if other teams
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Speaker 1: are going small, here sure you could play At Maury
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Speaker 1: bryanan at the at the. Five that's totally. Fine you've
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Speaker 1: got you can go, big you can go. Small you've
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Speaker 1: got a lot of different, options and you also have
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Speaker 1: some complimentary skill sets Where Josh viuginia is not going
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Speaker 1: to be out there shooting behind the arc very, Often yulovich,
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Speaker 1: is and so you can you can sort of mix
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Speaker 1: and match and present all sorts of different challenges depending
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Speaker 1: on what the opponent doesn't want to see out.
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Speaker 3: There, yeah and we'll see Just Ohio state has done
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Speaker 3: this over the year as. Well you're your power forward
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Speaker 3: is six to, six, right your four is six to,
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Speaker 3: six and with yellowtch being six to, eleven having a
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Speaker 3: size advantage, there they can go down low and it
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Speaker 3: becomes more of a. Thing but just the overall size
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Speaker 3: is going to be interesting THAT i think that's been
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Speaker 3: one of the criticisms Of Ohio state over maybe the
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Speaker 3: last five ten. Years there's just been a lot of
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Speaker 3: size there when Like Caleb weston is your biggest guy
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Speaker 3: six eight or, so and there's no defensive presence and
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Speaker 3: that sort of. THING i think they've got a lot
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Speaker 3: lot of different Because Joshua juna is like he. Is he's,
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Speaker 3: big and he's strong and he's. Physical and if they
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Speaker 3: can get ten minutes a night early and then maybe
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Speaker 3: that blossoms into ten to fifteen or. Whatever and everything
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Speaker 3: we've seen from Levone govin so far has been really
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Speaker 3: skilled in terms of. Scoring now defensively all of, them
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Speaker 3: we'll see what it looks. Like BUT i like the
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Speaker 3: options of the size and the skill sets that they.
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Speaker 1: Have one person for whom defense is never a question
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Speaker 1: Is Justin. Pippen he was the other guy we got
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Speaker 1: to talk. To AND i know everyone's going to, say,
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Speaker 1: oh did you talk About but that's. That don't. Worry
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Speaker 1: lots of people ask him about his. Dad his name Is.
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Speaker 1: Scotti he played basketball a while. Ago But Justin, pippen
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Speaker 1: you asked him about his defense BECAUSE i Think Bill
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Speaker 1: landis was one that brought. Up he was, like right
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Speaker 1: near the top of the nation in terms of steals last.
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Speaker 1: Year defense is something that he really sounds like he
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Speaker 1: takes pride.
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Speaker 3: In, Yeah AND i asked him when to dad love
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Speaker 3: kicking because his, dad if you want to talk about,
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Speaker 3: it was now standing Defender All DEFENSIVE nba and had
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Speaker 3: played Small ford played point, four but can defend one
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Speaker 3: through four, basically and and justin it's a little, smaller you,
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Speaker 3: know six three six, Four but he, said as a
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Speaker 3: true freshman At michigan is when he realized, that, like
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Speaker 3: defense is the way to the floor for a young.
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Speaker 3: Guy if you want to catch coaches, attentions you want
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Speaker 3: you want to get some playing, time attack with. Defense
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Speaker 3: and he enjoys. It and that's the thing that we've
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Speaker 3: noticed mostly when we've watched the sessions that we, have
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Speaker 3: like him going After, judy it's like it's funny because he,
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Speaker 3: said playing With Judy mobley And murray by them is
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Speaker 3: one of one of like the main reason he wanted
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Speaker 3: to come To High. State and you watch him, play
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Speaker 3: and it's, LIKE i don't think they like each other
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Speaker 3: because they're just they're going after each, other but they.
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Speaker 3: Are they are, friends they live in the same, building
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Speaker 3: they give get along very. Well but, yeah he gets
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Speaker 3: after him and he, said it's making me a better,
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Speaker 3: defender and it's Making John Mobley junior a better offensive.
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Speaker 1: Player and you Mentioned mobley and buying them being reasons
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Speaker 1: Why pippen looked At Ohio state and, went, yeah that
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Speaker 1: they're building something. There yalovich said the same, thing named
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Speaker 1: the two same, guys which you know we've been talking
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Speaker 1: about those guys all. Year like this is if you're
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Speaker 1: looking for reasons to be excited about what this team could.
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Speaker 1: Be you bring these guys, back you're supplementing them with
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Speaker 1: some you, know significant veteran pieces to the. Portal you
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Speaker 1: got a couple five star, trufreshmen maybe you got A
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Speaker 1: sti go in at some. Point but one of the
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Speaker 1: other things That, Pippen pippen has a relationship With Jake.
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Speaker 1: Diebler Now Justin pippen doesn't have much of a, relationship
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Speaker 1: but The pippen family goes way back With Jake.
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Speaker 3: Diebler, yeah Recruited Scottie Pippen junior To, vanderbilt so that
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Speaker 3: he's known the family for a. WHILE i was, thinking
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Speaker 3: As justin has talked, about he was asked about growing
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Speaker 3: up in all of the backyard games that they would,
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Speaker 3: Have like im Thinking pippen's Versus, Deeblers.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take The pippens BECAUSE i don't think there
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Speaker 1: are any all time seventy five GREAT nba players in
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Speaker 1: The deebler. Family but you gotta you gotta be able
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Speaker 1: to guard outside the.
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Speaker 3: Arc and we did ask just and like obviously those
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Speaker 3: games did not go well for him, early those those family,
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Speaker 3: games he, said they go much better for him. Now
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Speaker 3: and Although Jake deevis, SAID i Bet Scottie senior still wins,
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Speaker 3: them and HE'S i don't think he's on. BOARD i
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Speaker 3: don't know that he believes completely What justin is selling.
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Speaker 1: There, yeah, NO i think you'd have to kind of
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Speaker 1: see that to really to really buy. In you mentioned
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Speaker 1: how he And Juny mobley get along despite what it
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Speaker 1: might look like on the. Court there's also a question, About,
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Speaker 1: okay who's playing where because both of those, guys he
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Speaker 1: could play either, way And i'm sure they want to
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Speaker 1: have those. Guys you want to have both guys feel
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Speaker 1: comfortable bring the ball up if they need. To BUT
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Speaker 1: i did think it was very, telling you, Know Justin
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Speaker 1: pippens talking, About, yeah we want to just be able
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Speaker 1: to both do both of these, things and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter whoever he's got the ball in the hands at point,
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Speaker 1: guard and then he was, asked, so which do you?
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Speaker 3: Prefer, YEAH i, said so do you view yourself as
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Speaker 3: a one or? Two and he's, Like i'm a, one
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Speaker 3: AND i think that's that's, fine and they will both
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Speaker 3: with whoever's got the ball to bring it. Up there's
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Speaker 3: there's no need For Bruce thornton. Type but even though
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Speaker 3: When Bruce thornton was, there it would sometimes Be John
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Speaker 3: mobley word sometimes be the other guard bringing it.
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Speaker 4: Up sometimes it would.
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Speaker 3: Be a forward bringing it, up Like Justice, suing like
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Speaker 3: somebody who had those. Skills and with those two guys, like,
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Speaker 3: yeah either.
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Speaker 5: One of them can bring it.
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Speaker 3: Up it's it's sometimes it can be an issue when
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Speaker 3: you're shooting. Guard John mobley is like six one or six,
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Speaker 3: two but that's alleviated by having a sixty three sixty
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Speaker 3: four point guard where defensively they can figure out how
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Speaker 3: to do things. Offensively it doesn't sound like it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be much of an issue with those two, guys and
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Speaker 3: they've got other guards as well that'll be mixing, It Curtis,
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Speaker 3: Gibbons Jimmy. Williams so It's i'll be interested to see
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Speaker 3: if he is the in fact starting in the, backcourt
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Speaker 3: starting on day one With Judy.
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Speaker 1: Mobley so they're you a little basketball talk for, you
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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be even more basketball talk after we
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Speaker 1: wrap up this, show because you're gonna get a chance
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Speaker 1: to hear both of those. Interviews will put those up
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Speaker 1: in their entirety after we're. TALKING i will give you
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Speaker 1: a heads. Up we were talking to those guys while
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Speaker 1: practice was going, on so there's gonna be some background.
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Speaker 5: Noise we get.
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Speaker 1: It we understand basketball. Practice you're gonna hear some basketball.
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Speaker 1: Bouncing that is sort of a necessary part of basketball.
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Speaker 1: Practice so you will you'll have a little bit of background,
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Speaker 1: noise but you'll get a chance to hear those two.
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Speaker 1: Guys i'll put The yulovich interview. First you don't. Worry
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Speaker 1: you'll be able to tell which of the guys grew
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Speaker 1: Day we'll talk to you.
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Speaker 4: Tomorrow it's been pretty. Good it's been going. Great, Honestly
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Speaker 4: i'm more to satisfy with everything going on here.
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Speaker 5: To see me.
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Speaker 4: Great the staff is, gray the city is, gray so
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Speaker 4: all THE us stuff so.
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Speaker 5: Far how do you.
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Speaker 6: Feel your skill set fits in with the other bigs
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Speaker 6: that are on the frost.
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Speaker 4: Round, WELL i Feel i'm a little different from all
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Speaker 4: the other. Bigs you, know In yvonne And, josh we
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Speaker 4: had a little bit more traditional big men's like evanis
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Speaker 4: the seventh footer And johns is also a force in
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Speaker 4: the paint we like and a more versatile. GUY i
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Speaker 4: can go from the inside from the. OUTSIDE i THINK
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Speaker 4: i can stretch the floor with my shooting gole so
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Speaker 4: AND i can make good assists to go from the
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Speaker 4: other side of the court to the other bester than everyone.
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Speaker 4: Else SO i think that's going to help us pretty.
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Speaker 6: Much how comfortable are you on the perimeter and how
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Speaker 6: much did last season kind of show, you like what
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Speaker 6: you need to do to be successful in college?
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Speaker 4: Basketball, yeah so last season was pretty pretty. Challenging you,
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Speaker 4: know it was even a little bit. Weird you, know
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Speaker 4: at one POINT i, played at another POINT i. Didn't,
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Speaker 4: also less, SEASON i didn't REALLY i was really in
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Speaker 4: this role as a stretch five.
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Speaker 5: More than a.
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Speaker 4: FOUR i played the primarily power. Forward well HERE i
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Speaker 4: played prime or the center and sometimes power. Forward BUT
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Speaker 4: i feel really comfortable doing, it you, know both deeper
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Speaker 4: so that he believes in, me AND i Think i've
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Speaker 4: been doing it pretty good so.
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Speaker 6: Far how comfortable are you playing with another? Big talk
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Speaker 6: about being a stretch?
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Speaker 7: Forward?
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Speaker 6: Possibly like how comfortable are you if you're out there
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Speaker 6: With yvonne Or.
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Speaker 4: Josh Or, HONESTLY i love, it you, know just When
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Speaker 4: i'm When i'm as playing as the, five you, know
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Speaker 4: basically the whole rebounding past goes on. Me and WHILE
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Speaker 4: i pray with the other, BIG i think if we
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Speaker 4: share that task of, rebounding of pertaining the, glass it's
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Speaker 4: much easier to play with another big than to be
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Speaker 4: over the Wrong was that.
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Speaker 3: The vision that represented to you during the pretty.
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Speaker 4: Process, yeah it was definitely. Presented was that at one, point,
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Speaker 4: uh you, Know yvonne Or josh will play at the
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Speaker 4: five and then maybe we'll play a little bit more
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Speaker 4: more big, er most more, taller you, know as a
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Speaker 4: maybe A mari as a there's a three ants as
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Speaker 4: the two as a.
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Speaker 5: Four so those are.
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Speaker 4: Pretty big, bodies you, know the kind minute on the
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Speaker 4: glass on the offensive glass defensaly.
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Speaker 5: Glass SO i think that's that's some idea for this.
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Speaker 5: Season you just.
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Speaker 4: Mentioned dumbating the.
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Speaker 7: Glass what other advantages do you get have if you
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Speaker 7: guys probably take that that.
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Speaker 5: WELL i think it's just the.
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Speaker 4: Basic advantages that we're just. There you, know when we
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Speaker 4: have four four bodies that are like basically six stand on,
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Speaker 4: average everyone is just hard to hard to, score even
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Speaker 4: if if you do not think and if we like
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Speaker 4: raise our, hands if we, JUMP i think it's you,
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Speaker 4: think it's very hard to score in the. Pending it's
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Speaker 4: hard to even see the see the basket or.
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Speaker 7: Someone what was that.
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Speaker 3: Costually with Coach gebler and recruiting staff come to?
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Speaker 4: Appreciated, WELL i mean last SEASON i was pretty okay
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Speaker 4: season for. Me it wasn't really a awesome. Season it
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Speaker 4: wasn't a terrible, season but it was it was pretty like, average.
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Speaker 4: Okay and as soon as a border'll, open you, know
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Speaker 4: both people called me and he showed me.
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Speaker 5: How much he wants.
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Speaker 4: Me he talked to me from the beginning and just
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Speaker 4: he was. Direct he told me his, Visions he told
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Speaker 4: me what he wanted from in my, role AND i
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Speaker 4: like all that he told. Me and AS i See sol,
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Speaker 4: through AND.
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Speaker 5: I JUST i just had to come here to better.
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Speaker 3: Him and how's that fund with him?
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Speaker 5: Going how THE?
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Speaker 4: TV i think teammates are maybe the BEST i ever,
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Speaker 4: had you, know one the court and off the.
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Speaker 5: Board all the guys are really.
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Speaker 4: Good AND i think our chemistry has been there from day,
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Speaker 4: one but it's just so much better. Now AND i don't,
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Speaker 4: KNOW i just expect that chemistry to be a big
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Speaker 4: part of our game AND i expect the big.
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Speaker 5: Things from that and fans from obvious from me on the.
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Speaker 4: Court, YEAH i, mean they'll they'll see THAT i really
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Speaker 4: give my all on the, court you, know And i'll
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Speaker 4: probably show them some place to places here and.
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Speaker 7: There what do you think the biggest thing you've learned last?
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Speaker 2: YEAR i had.
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Speaker 4: Experience, well the last thing IS i LEARNED i THINK
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Speaker 4: i learned from last year is just you, know you
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Speaker 4: can be the most onto the.
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Speaker 5: Guy in the.
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Speaker 4: World but if you are not a good, athlete and
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Speaker 4: if you're not physically not, you you can't.
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Speaker 3: Play how much this last year drive?
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Speaker 5: You this year experience last it drives me a, lot you.
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Speaker 4: KNOW I i Think i'm a much much much better
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Speaker 4: player THAT i showed THAT i am last year At.
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Speaker 4: Kentucky you, know there was a little there was a
15:20
Speaker 4: half stuff on, me half stuff on the circumstances that were,
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Speaker 4: there you, know but it just drives. Me it drives
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Speaker 4: me a lot to just prove myself this year at
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Speaker 4: a hot.
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Speaker 2: Paper what were you.
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Speaker 5: Able to do last?
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Speaker 6: Summer were you With? KENTUCKY i know sometimes when guys
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Speaker 6: come over from, overseas it takes a while to get
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Speaker 6: in with.
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Speaker 4: Them, NO i need TO i need to finish my school.
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Speaker 4: There AND i. MISSED i missed the whole summer With
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Speaker 4: kentucky and even a little bit of the of the.
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Speaker 4: Beginning SO i came at, LIKE i don't, Know august Played,
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Speaker 4: August SO i wasn't. There this is my first summer
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Speaker 4: Of quebe.
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Speaker 6: Basketball how much did that impact you when you like
15:55
Speaker 6: get your feet wet and get acclimated in to playing.
15:57
Speaker 6: There how much did that impact?
15:58
Speaker 4: Well WHEN i WHEN i was late At, KENTUCKY i
16:00
Speaker 4: didn't really feel LIKE i was missing a.
16:03
Speaker 5: Lot but just being.
16:05
Speaker 4: Here for like what a month already, HERE i think
16:08
Speaker 4: it's A it just helps you a lot to be,
16:10
Speaker 4: here to meet all the guys before the real stuff.
16:12
Speaker 4: Beginst and just NOW i understand THAT i missed a
16:16
Speaker 4: lot by not being there in the summer Of.
16:18
Speaker 6: Kentucky what would you say was maybe a highlight for
16:21
Speaker 6: you last?
16:21
Speaker 4: Year, WELL I I i had some good, games you,
16:25
Speaker 4: know but my minutter were, okay nothing too. HIGH i
16:30
Speaker 4: had some good games Against we had some big wings
16:33
Speaker 4: THAT i like Against arkhans so they're against Sander befome and,
16:37
Speaker 4: yeah some games are pretty.
16:38
Speaker 6: Good are you still a fan OF V a r.
16:42
Speaker 5: V A R? Yeah in soccer the way The croatia game.
16:49
Speaker 4: Ended oh, NO i don't understand the. Question i'm, sorry
16:52
Speaker 4: what is a r V a r V A. R,
16:55
Speaker 4: No i'm not a fan of THE i THINK i don't.
16:59
Speaker 4: KNOW i think it helps in some at some, point
17:03
Speaker 4: but it JUST i think it went too far with
17:04
Speaker 4: those millimeter foot in the off side and just h
17:09
Speaker 4: that's that side of our vr V A r ruins the.
17:12
Speaker 5: Game but there's some good. Stuff but but racial, PORTS
17:18
Speaker 5: i was top. Robbery what was that experience like for?
17:22
Speaker 4: You it was it was a great, experience you, know
17:23
Speaker 4: it was MY i mean OBVIOUSLY i followed soccer SINCE
17:26
Speaker 4: i was a kid AND i watched Every World, cup
17:28
Speaker 4: but just being there for those two, games it's just,
17:32
Speaker 4: amazing you, know seeing all that guys in person and
17:35
Speaker 4: just the passion all the creation people have to come
17:37
Speaker 4: To canada Or philadelphia for the.
17:40
Speaker 5: Games it's just incredible going to go on the.
17:44
Speaker 3: Team and maybe an addition that you're looking forward to
17:46
Speaker 3: playing what's on the?
17:47
Speaker 5: SLOT i mean.
17:50
Speaker 4: So, FAR I i really look forward to play With,
17:53
Speaker 4: moby you, KNOW i THINK i think HE i watched
17:57
Speaker 4: a little bit Of black last, season not nothing to
17:59
Speaker 4: him too, much but you, know he definitely stepped out
18:03
Speaker 4: and then a vocal leader role and he's he's pretty.
18:07
Speaker 4: Good and aside from his incredible, SHOOTING i think he
18:10
Speaker 4: has a great unselfish vision of the. Game you, KNOW
18:13
Speaker 4: i think he has a great pocket past for the
18:16
Speaker 4: big late best for the Big he finds me multiple
18:19
Speaker 4: times each, practice so it Just i'm very very surprised
18:23
Speaker 4: on that side by.
18:24
Speaker 8: Him you got a taste to play in N c
18:26
Speaker 8: double as A kentucky one to one lost. One as
18:30
Speaker 8: you're working out with these, guys do you feel like
18:33
Speaker 8: this is a team that's being built to make a
18:36
Speaker 8: run and to really kind of move up in The.
18:39
Speaker 5: Big ten or what do you?
18:40
Speaker 4: THINK i, REALLY i really do feel SO i never
18:43
Speaker 4: FEEL i never Played big, ten you, KNOW i played
18:45
Speaker 4: maybe one team From big ten last year In Michigan.
18:48
Speaker 4: State but as far as the team this team, GOES
18:50
Speaker 4: i think we're we're perfectly deep at this. Position you,
18:54
Speaker 4: know not we don't have too much players on each,
18:56
Speaker 4: position but we have enough players on every position to be,
18:59
Speaker 4: great you. Know and the best thing is that every
19:02
Speaker 4: player in each position that plays the same position is
19:05
Speaker 4: different from each. Other you, know The amari is different From,
19:08
Speaker 4: Ans i'm different From yvaughn And. Jeorsh you, know we
19:10
Speaker 4: have we really have. Everything and AS i, SAID i
19:13
Speaker 4: think our chemistry and our hunger will be a big
19:16
Speaker 4: part of a big part of our. Team and also
19:19
Speaker 4: WHAT i like is everyone here has something to, prove
19:23
Speaker 4: even even on the coaching step and on the. PLAYERS
19:26
Speaker 4: i think that'll be our hunger would be a, great
19:28
Speaker 4: great part of everything you think.
19:31
Speaker 6: ABOUT i really like.
19:33
Speaker 3: It since YOU'VE.
19:36
Speaker 5: I Like. COLUMBIA i think it's a great. City you,
19:39
Speaker 5: KNOW i wasn't.
19:39
Speaker 4: Familiar With, columbus but it's a great. CITY i really
19:43
Speaker 4: like downtown part Of, columbus The High street and. Everything
19:47
Speaker 4: there's always. PEOPLE i really like.
19:48
Speaker 2: That, yeah and just carrying that legacy ALONG i, guess, Yeah,
19:58
Speaker 2: NO i feel LIKE i get that a.
19:59
Speaker 5: Lot so it's funny you say that that has been.
20:03
Speaker 5: GREAT i definitely enjoyed my time in here In columbus
20:05
Speaker 5: and joying my teammates become my. Coaches so it's been
20:07
Speaker 5: a good. TIME i would just say Coach Gebler amari
20:11
Speaker 5: buying them And John mobley coming. BACK i feel like
20:13
Speaker 5: those three kind, of you, know stood out to me
20:15
Speaker 5: and order.
20:15
Speaker 2: Process what was that process like for you in the.
20:17
Speaker 5: WORLD i feel like the process for me was just
20:20
Speaker 5: kind of just finding a team WHERE i could go
20:21
Speaker 5: and just grow as a, player give me to achieve
20:24
Speaker 5: my next, goals making him to THE nba as. WELL
20:27
Speaker 5: i was just playing with returning players Like john And.
20:29
Speaker 5: Mary LIKE i, said is it tons of phone?
20:31
Speaker 6: CALLS i, mean, like how many number schools are you sifting?
20:34
Speaker 2: Through what was that?
20:35
Speaker 5: Partament, Like, YEAH i was kind of choosing between five.
20:38
Speaker 5: SCHOOLS a lot of schools reached out to. ME i
20:40
Speaker 5: kind of just cut it out pretty early and just
20:42
Speaker 5: really focused on five.
20:43
Speaker 6: Schools you mentioned Coach. Deebler he's talked a lot about
20:45
Speaker 6: his relationship with your family over the. Years what has
20:48
Speaker 6: that relationship been.
20:48
Speaker 2: Like on your end of your?
20:49
Speaker 5: Line, now it's been. Great Coach debler is really cool
20:51
Speaker 5: off the. COURT i look at him more as a
20:52
Speaker 5: friend than a, Coach so it's been very.
20:54
Speaker 6: Good what is it like to then turn that into
20:56
Speaker 6: now he's my?
20:57
Speaker 5: Coach it's been. Great he's been pushing me a. Lot
21:00
Speaker 5: he's definitely getting me. Better SO i look forward to
21:01
Speaker 5: playing round the fans. Season how is he pushed? You
21:04
Speaker 5: just yelling at, me make me go harder and stuff like.
21:07
Speaker 7: That steve asked you about kind of the legacy of
21:10
Speaker 7: your your. Family do you look at that as a?
21:13
Speaker 7: Burden do you how do you view that because obviously it's,
21:16
Speaker 7: there BUT i assume you're trying to carve your.
21:18
Speaker 5: Own, no one hundred. PERCENT i feel like it's a.
21:20
Speaker 5: Blessing i'm grandful to be born in the family THAT
21:22
Speaker 5: i was. IN i feel like NOW i kind of
21:24
Speaker 5: just plow the chip on my.
21:24
Speaker 7: Shoulder how much does the experience of what your dad went,
21:28
Speaker 7: through what your brother's about to, do like help you
21:31
Speaker 7: from from kind of seeing that talking to them those type.
21:33
Speaker 5: Of things helps me a. LOT i feel LIKE i
21:34
Speaker 5: could just get advice from them WHENEVER i need to.
21:36
Speaker 2: Song what is it like being here after having been
21:40
Speaker 2: in The big ten but at another?
21:41
Speaker 5: School it's been. Good, uh definitely a change of scene, there,
21:45
Speaker 5: obviously but it's been.
21:46
Speaker 2: Nice has anyone said anything to you about.
21:48
Speaker 5: That, No i've really looked on social media and stuff
21:50
Speaker 5: like that in all.
21:51
Speaker 6: Reas what have you learned since a figure about how
21:54
Speaker 6: this team wants to?
21:55
Speaker 5: Play? Uh just play, fast play. PHYSICAL i feel like
21:59
Speaker 5: we've got a lot of different, players we can do
22:00
Speaker 5: a lot of different, things so kind of just working
22:01
Speaker 5: towards our.
22:02
Speaker 6: Strengths for people that aren't super familiar with your, game
22:06
Speaker 6: how would you describe like how you play and how
22:08
Speaker 6: that fits into how this team wants to?
22:09
Speaker 5: PLAY i would Say i'm a two way, player two way.
22:12
Speaker 5: Playmaker if, ANYTHING i want to be a physical. Defender
22:14
Speaker 5: SO i feel LIKE i kind of want to set
22:15
Speaker 5: the tone for this team on the defensive end and. Offensive,
22:18
Speaker 5: babe we could do everything so conness as being the
22:20
Speaker 5: one two playing on them off the ball and just
22:22
Speaker 5: creating shot for myself and my.
22:23
Speaker 6: Teammates how much did that event does defensive? Capabilities how
22:27
Speaker 6: much did that factor into what you're talking? About we're
22:29
Speaker 6: a good.
22:29
Speaker 5: Fit what you wanted to do, here it meant a,
22:32
Speaker 5: lot you. Know do really talked about my defense in
22:34
Speaker 5: the transfer portal and talked about HOW i can improve
22:36
Speaker 5: my offensive, Efficiency so that kind of stood out to
22:38
Speaker 5: me in the. Portal, okay you're steel rights at the
22:40
Speaker 5: lots of the.
22:41
Speaker 6: Country what's the balance between like hunting steels and letting
22:45
Speaker 6: those things kind of come to?
22:46
Speaker 5: YOU i would say kind of letting it come to.
22:48
Speaker 5: Me always been an impressive pressure on the, ball but
22:50
Speaker 5: just WHENEVER i see an opportunity. Takement have you been
22:53
Speaker 5: able to explore from all it a little? BIT i
22:56
Speaker 5: went around with my, teammates but not too much. Yet
22:58
Speaker 5: do you like? It? Yeah, YEAH i like it a.
23:00
Speaker 5: Lot so it's a good little. City definitely a different
23:02
Speaker 5: THAN i. Thought how long have you been bought in the?
23:05
Speaker 5: DEFENSE i would just ever SINCE i was a. Freshman
23:08
Speaker 5: as soon AS i got to, COLLEGE i kind of
23:10
Speaker 5: realized it's hard to play as a. Freshman so to
23:12
Speaker 5: get on the, floor you got to play defense early, on.
23:14
Speaker 2: And so it's just.
23:16
Speaker 3: There can you? Continue you enjoy?
23:18
Speaker 5: It? Yeah, NO i enjoyed playing defense one hundred. PERCENT
23:20
Speaker 5: i feel like ever since. THEN i feel like also my,
23:22
Speaker 5: family you, know my dad's, defending my brother's a, defender
23:24
Speaker 5: SO i kind of feel LIKE i had to take
23:26
Speaker 5: over the leadership with that.
23:27
Speaker 3: Because you're seeing a few practice sessions and you've been getting,
23:30
Speaker 3: after getting after With johnny seems like.
23:33
Speaker 5: You one undred. Percent, yeah we have a good. Time
23:35
Speaker 5: he's a very good, competitors so it's been very. Good.
23:37
Speaker 5: Nice it's been very nice to guard. HIM i feel
23:39
Speaker 5: like it's getting me BECAUSE i feel like it's getting
23:40
Speaker 5: me better as a, defender And hima's offensive.
23:43
Speaker 6: Player how would you describe your, Guysaie.
23:46
Speaker 5: No it's very. Cool we live in the same, building
23:47
Speaker 5: so we play the game, together we see each, other
23:49
Speaker 5: we leave the gym, together so.
23:50
Speaker 2: They're very good stepping into a leadership ole. Here Coach peopler,
23:54
Speaker 2: said you really needed your.
23:55
Speaker 5: Voice it's been. GOOD i feel like last YEAR i
23:57
Speaker 5: was a. Leader kind of just taking the next step
23:59
Speaker 5: here has been very. Nice but it's definitely a learning.
24:01
Speaker 5: Experience right now we're.
24:03
Speaker 3: Improving offensive efficiencies again for your out of the teas there.
24:07
Speaker 5: Shaking the right shots but also being. Aggressive is it for.
24:12
Speaker 2: Two point field goal?
24:13
Speaker 5: Percentage three point field goal? Percenters?
24:14
Speaker 7: Both?
24:14
Speaker 5: Like what are? We? Both? Yeah?
24:16
Speaker 2: Both what did last?
24:18
Speaker 6: Year we could show you as far as what you
24:20
Speaker 6: can do as a player and where they're still root
24:22
Speaker 6: to grow given that that was your first season playing
24:24
Speaker 6: consistent high level.
24:25
Speaker 5: Minutes no. Idea like you just, SAID i feel LIKE
24:27
Speaker 5: i kind of showed me HOW i could play in this.
24:29
Speaker 5: League i'm a divisional. Player i'm a high high level divisional.
24:31
Speaker 5: Player it definitely was a learning. Experience NOW i just
24:35
Speaker 5: feel LIKE i need to build all that year and
24:37
Speaker 5: just improve my numbers to prove my.
24:38
Speaker 6: Efficiency you Mentioned juni And amari when you were thinking
24:42
Speaker 6: about like what you wanted to. Do what is playing
24:44
Speaker 6: with those?
24:45
Speaker 4: Guys what is?
24:46
Speaker 2: That what attracts you to?
24:48
Speaker 5: That something like. THAT i would just say the fact
24:50
Speaker 5: that they were able to retain the. Players they came
24:52
Speaker 5: back here for a. Reason they obviously loved the program with,
24:54
Speaker 5: coach so them to doing that as well as they play.
24:56
Speaker 5: Style mario's a high, athlete high level, athlete and the
24:58
Speaker 5: shoot the ball And junie can out to shoot the
25:00
Speaker 5: ball and just playing on them like.
25:01
Speaker 6: Football so did you know either of those guys, before
25:04
Speaker 6: like you started thinking About Ohio.
25:05
Speaker 5: State, yeah, YEAH i was definitely very familiar with their.
25:07
Speaker 5: Game how SO i Played junie a couple of times
25:10
Speaker 5: in High school'll probably tell you about. It AND i
25:12
Speaker 5: just seen A mario last year on highlights and stuff like.
25:14
Speaker 2: That how did it go in high?
25:15
Speaker 5: School my team beating by twenty every? Time so that's
25:18
Speaker 5: ALL i that's ALL i mean.
25:20
Speaker 7: Thinking Of, juni he's obviously returning as a. Guard when
25:23
Speaker 7: you guys added you and a couple of the, guys
25:26
Speaker 7: and how is that chemistry and everything kind of coming
25:30
Speaker 7: together with some new.
25:31
Speaker 2: Faces, no it's been very.
25:32
Speaker 5: Good right. Now we're kind of focusing, on you, know
25:35
Speaker 5: building chemistry on and off the, court so just hanging
25:37
Speaker 5: out with each other when every weekend off the, court
25:40
Speaker 5: we got a lot of death reguard wise wing, wives Big.
25:42
Speaker 5: White so we're just hanging together right. Now it feels
25:44
Speaker 5: like we're just our chemistry is getting a lot. Better
25:46
Speaker 5: so it's been very good.
25:48
Speaker 8: JUSTIN i get the sense that you guys are tied
25:50
Speaker 8: up into who's your one and who's the?
25:51
Speaker 2: Two you both can initiate.
25:53
Speaker 8: Offense it sounds, like just what's your thought about how
25:56
Speaker 8: that'll all shake, out how that role will.
25:58
Speaker 5: GO i guess n it sounds. GOOD i definitely feel
26:01
Speaker 5: LIKE i could play the one of the. Two coach
26:03
Speaker 5: kind of told us whatever as the, ball as the point,
26:04
Speaker 5: guard whether that's the big name of the guard or anymore,
26:06
Speaker 5: so just being able to play in multiple. Positions do
26:09
Speaker 5: you yourself as a? ONE i forgot the covers of? One?
26:15
Speaker 5: Probably do you take the game like a? Fillitator it seems.
26:18
Speaker 3: Like a lot of PRIs haven't really been off a
26:20
Speaker 3: lot of shops for.
26:20
Speaker 5: You i'm always a lot of passing the. Offense, Yeah,
26:24
Speaker 5: NO i feel Like i've always been a good, facilitator,
26:25
Speaker 5: so you, know just taking what the defense gives me
26:27
Speaker 5: to pick the, lasses kicking it, out just being the right,
26:29
Speaker 5: players being the right. Person what's what's your coming fry
26:31
Speaker 5: loss or something that they because a kind of seems
26:32
Speaker 5: like what they seems like they're a lot of. Practice
26:36
Speaker 5: what's your for some of those? League, Yeah i've been
26:38
Speaker 5: playing With van a. LOT i Haven't JAY i was
26:40
Speaker 5: starting to get back into, this So i've played with
26:41
Speaker 5: him a little bit. TODAY i haven't really played with A.
26:43
Speaker 5: J with me And vonn are good, chemistry you. KNOW
26:45
Speaker 5: i like playing with the seven, fourth a man that
26:46
Speaker 5: gets done shoot and all that. Full it's been very.
26:48
Speaker 3: Nice excited to use. Here who are you looking for
26:51
Speaker 3: to teammate?
26:53
Speaker 5: With? Uh Probably junior and tomorrow.
26:57
Speaker 6: ADDING ilj like getting a young guy like. That what
27:00
Speaker 6: have you seen from him early? On and he's just
27:02
Speaker 6: kind of getting his feet underneath them. Events what have
27:04
Speaker 6: you seen from him?
27:04
Speaker 5: Now he's very, mature you, know you don't really see
27:06
Speaker 5: that with a lot of people that have come up with.
27:07
Speaker 5: Grade so he's very. Mature obviously he's a five. Star
27:10
Speaker 5: he's very good basketball. Player he's been able to, shoot
27:12
Speaker 5: but he's just he've been able to fit right in
27:14
Speaker 5: with the. Cultures so hard be A planma could be a.
27:16
Speaker 5: Shoe he's just been in very well so.
27:19
Speaker 3: Growing up one more PICKUP fafe with.
27:22
Speaker 2: Your dad and your.
27:22
Speaker 5: Brother very, competitive a lot of people crying and stuff like.
27:27
Speaker 5: That very. Competitive who's got the? Act, yeah thanks To
27:40
Speaker 5: look