December 12, 2024 • 15 mins
Texas Basketball coach Rodney Terry visited with the media on Wednesday as the Longhorns try to bounce back after their home loss to UConn against New Mexico State tonight.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back to the Craig Way Show and the Voice
of the Longhorns.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Craig Way.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Follow Craig on social media at Horn Voice.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Eighteen minutes after three o'clock here on a Wednesday, Thursday.
On Wednesday, it's Thursday afternoon. Here on sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred ZO, We're going to hear from Texas men's
basketball coach, trying to hear in a few minutes. The
long Horn football team was doing very little for the
(00:38):
front part of this week. Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian
wanted to give them some time away, both physically and mentally.
And we'll hear more from sark coming up in the
next segment. But of course, the players who involved in
the college Football awards presentations, they've been a little bit busy.
For example, Jake Major who was a Campbell Trophy finals
(01:03):
he didn't win it. Jalen Milroe actually won it. It's
for the player best student athlete with academic, community service
and excellence on the field, I think, and Jalen Milroe
actually won it. But Jake Majors was a finalist for it,
and so afterwards he was asked about how his team's doing.
(01:24):
What's the mental state like of the team coming off
the loss to Georgia in the SEC Championship. Remember there's
been no player interview, press conference, media availabilities of any
kind as a team for Texas, but as the individual
players kind of fan out. Calvin Banks was asking things
last night when he won the Lombardi Award, and Jake
(01:46):
Majors was asked about the current mental and physical state
of this football team heading in the next week's playoff.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, you know, we're going to take some time to
get our bodies back, but you know we're gonna get
back to it. We're going to start preparing, to start installing,
you know, doing our routine that we always have every
week when it comes to the season, and you know,
as a team, we just gotta, you know, go out
there and play like we're.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Trying to keep our family together.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Because hell, what's so special about this team as we're
all bought into the culture and it feels like a brotherhood,
like a true brotherhood, Like everybody loves each other and
we got to fight for our brotherhood.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So it's gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, looking forward to it, getting looking forward to getting
back together and working together. That's one thing that Sark
has talked about quite a bit. It's about how this
group has been really good at doing that. All right,
on to basketball and Texas comes off the loss to
Yukon on Sunday. Texas had managed to when they were
(02:46):
down big in the game, came all the way back
and cut it to eight, had a chance to cut
at six, but couldn't hit a key shot down with it,
missed a couple of key shots, and then Yukon finished
it off to win. So now Texas at seven and two,
gets ready to go back to work and playing New
Mexico State tonight at Moody Center. Yesterday, Long WRNS head
(03:08):
coach Rodney Terry took part in the media zoom when
he visited with the local media talking about the current
state of his team getting ready for this matchup.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Good aff and our team.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I apologize if you were asked us before, but you
talked about that sense of urgency, you talked about it
Sunday night against Yukon. Just how much of that is
an eight within a player and how much of that
or within a player and a team, and how much
of that is something that you have to instill within
your team.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
You know, Eric, I tried to from a coaching standpoint,
I think a lot of coaches do, not just myself,
but I think you try to prepare your team for
what they're about to embark on. You never want them
to go into a game where they were like, oh, man,
I didn't know this team was going to be ready
to play off. I didn't know that these guys were
going to play the way that they're playing right now.
(03:55):
You know you coming in you because won the last
two national championships a well coached They went over to Hawaii,
they didn't have.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Their best game.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
They didn't play, uh, you know, to the best of
their ability over there on the road. Their next opportunity
to go on the road is to come to Austin,
Texas and play against US. Here, we knew, and I
told our guys we were gonna get their best game.
We were gonna get a team that was gonna be
extremely focused and challenged to come in and play at
(04:24):
a high level. And anytime you've got six guys that
they all have a national championship ring, and you know
three or four of those guys were significant players on
last year's team, there's a lot of there's a lot
of proven and want to to on the other side
over there, and I thought they came in and they
played extremely well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I think again again, I'll take ownership on it myself.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
With my defensive standpoint, they're one of the elite offensive
execution teams and all the college basketball. You know, we
we've had some success early in our journey this year
with this team to where we could switch and and.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Uh and do pretty good with that. Really hard to
do it against you gun.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
We started the game switching, and they really started dicing
us up a little bit in terms of our.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Switches and UH, and so we had to change.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
That up and make an adjustment during the game and say, hey,
you know what, we've got to play with the sense
of urgency in terms of how hard we play on defense.
Well going out me and we're not gonna switch, We're
gonna stay with our guys. And I thought that really
kind of change the game for us, UH on that.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
End of the floor. Brian Davis, please, hey, coach UH.
Two questions of easy one.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
First, how how did how's Kayden doing here in the
days after all that, I mean, playing all those minutes
and getting worried about his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know what. You know, he he had.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
He had two great successful shoulder surgeries last year. He
had a great summer. He's had a lot of contact, uh.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Prior to that.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
He played in some physical games this year as well.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He did take a hard fall to the floor.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
In the contest the other day, bounce back up, played
through it. You know, it was more of like a
bruised type of situation for me. Wasn't anything structural.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
So you know he's come back the last two days
here in each practice, well, first day was a lot
more sore, just to be expected. Today was better today
as well. So look for him to be bout. He's
been able to push through it to this point right now.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Cool, very very good.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
The other question I had is just looking at the schedule,
looking at the games you have the rest of this month,
is is your mindset now got to use these games
to you know, really ramp up and get ready for
for A and M and SEC play.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I think right now. I think again.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
The thing that I said to our guys that day
after the ball game, you know, and even you know
leading up to practice yesterday, because we have to take
the falling day off after the game. You know, I
think we're at a point in our season right now
where we have to be fully committed to really work
at hard.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And fixing the things we needed to fix from.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
An office standpoint, defensive standpoint, and then we needed to
have a really good.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Level of urgency that we're playing with.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
When we cut, we have to have a purposeful cut
on how hard we do it well. Initiate offense, we
have to initiate offense with a great pace of play
in terms of how we want to play. We spread
back on defense, we have to have one hundred yard
dash mentality getting back. But being fully committed with a
high level of urgency and being consistent with what we do.
(07:49):
That's been the biggest thing that I've tried to preciate
between now in the time that we take a break
and we come back from my break, we have to
have that that that all that that has to be
a part of who we are. We're committed, we have urgency,
and we play with consistency.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Corey mose, please, what's up our team?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
So just kind of picking back and off of Brian's
question last month of the season before SEC play starts,
but I just want to ask before SEC play starts,
what is something that you figured out about your team
to this point that you may not have known before
the first season.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
How many first game of the season.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well, yeah, I think you know, man, I pretty much
have given you a standard question that a lot of
people in college basketball have giving you. You know, anytime
you're trying to navigate through the landscapeable one year roster.
You know we got ten new players. You're just really
trying to get your guys to jail and understand your
schemes and develop an identity in November. Right now, it's
(08:53):
about us coaching the details and us trying to get
our guys better. We know we have to get better
offensively with our pace of play, our cuts, our ball movement.
So that's something we're really harping on right now at
a very high level. Get the ball moving, it doesn't
need to stick, and then each get side to side,
and we need to be able to plot.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
We attack the paint.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
You know, the other day was our lowest scoring output
in the paint.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We've been able to do a great.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Job against opponents to this point right now, really attacking
the paint. All we did a pretty good job of
trying to play inside out against yukon the other day
as well. We put eight fouls on those guys and
you know, put the big guys in foul trouble. But
I think the one thing that that I didn't know
at that that as we continue to go through our journey, uh,
(09:41):
is that you know, we still have to be able
to to work games. You know, we uh we we
we can't give up twenty minutes in terms of uh
this is a group that can't pick up things pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
But I think that maybe.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Old estimated our learning curve to this point right now, know,
with trying to play a switching defense against a really
good offensive team. So again I own that I'll take
that on a little bit. We've been pretty good though
in big moments, being able to switch and Gordon, you know,
switching Gordon different actions against against pretty.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Good offensive teams.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
But when you play against an elite offensive executing team,
we had to kind of go back to our base
defense and not stay in it as long as we did.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Have time for three last ones in the huge and
then Brown.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Please, hey, coach, My question was just with sec play
looming and you mentioned how there was a lot of
you guys coming to the team, what was the biggest
thing that you saw that gives you your team confidence
as well as your yourself heading into ac play.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Well, I think our guys are still learning how to
play hard and and uh and again, I never asked
any any guy to go in or our team to
go in and play a perfect game. No one's gonna
play a perfect game, no one's gonna coach a perfect game,
not gonna have an officiated game is perfect. But I
do ask our guys to go in and play extremely hard,
(11:04):
uh every night and play with a high.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Sense of urgency.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
And I really challenge our guys to endear themselves to
our to our to our fan base. How do you
endure yourself to our fan base and and long Hunt
Nation by being a team that's crappy, that plays hard
every possession, that that really cares about about the name
on the front of the jersey and not the name
(11:28):
on the back of the back of the jersey, and
then just playing for one another and having a joy
in doing that. And so you know, that's really kind
of what we really try to instill.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
In our guys. Uh and uh.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I think that's what we try to hang our hat
on every night.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Terry Middleton.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
But uh, so you talked about urgency, the cutting, the joy,
getting you know, to the ball. Is it fair maybe
accurate to say you're kind of describing Kendall Weaver. I
mean this is when you're saying all this, I'm like,
that's Kendall Weaver.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is that their.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I mean, Jerry, you're you're right.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You know, Kendall does play with a high sense of
urgency when he's on the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He plays with a chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
He's the guy that executes when when we call an
action or we're in and you know, whether it be
a transition offensive action that we're running, a half court
act action that we're running. He's a guy in a
driving offense that will make a great forty five cut
with a great purpose. He will try to finish at
the rim. He rebounds his position, he defends his position. So, yeah,
(12:43):
you have a whole team full of Kendo of Weavers.
You got a monster tea last one.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Georgie Reeves from TSCV, go.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Ahead, please all right, good afternoon, coach, Thank you for
taking your time out, and like I just want to
bounce off of what that last question was. You know,
New Mexico State they have been un a capitalized on
defensive laps, Like, how are you going to prepare your
team and just kind of get them, I guess get
a team of Candle or Kendle Weavers. And in Texas
men's basketball, well, I.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Think again, we we worked the whole month of trying
to establishment identity defensively, and I thought we we've got
it pretty well. I mean, we're we're pretty good defensive team.
We can sit down and we can guard. You know,
we've shown that we uh that in big moments in
several of our games early in the season, that we
can make switches, we can switch Kayden out and go
to go to guard and and and feel like at
(13:35):
times that our big wings could could man up uh
with the big guys inside as well. But but but again,
I think the message has been for us is just
to sit down, play with urgency, give it, you know,
give it your all. In terms of how hard you
can go defensively. When the shot goes up, we have
to have all five guys trying to have a physical
block out uh. And then I think if we're able
(13:56):
to do that, we're able to play our strengths. We
can get out and we can run. You know, New
Mexico State's a well coach team. They got older players,
they've got sized they're one of the best rebounding teams
in all of college basketball. So they're gonna challenge us
on the glass. And when they're shooting the ball really well,
like they did the other night they made fourteen threes,
(14:17):
They're an extremely dangerous team against anyone anywhere on any
given night. So whoever I hands forward with them, they're
an older team, They're not gonna be intimidated coming into
our building playing. They just went into the pit sixteen
thousand and be the good New Mexico team, So they'll
We've got a huge challenge with a well coached team
(14:39):
in the New Mexico State Aggage Company.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And that game is tonight at seven o'clock. You'll hear
it here on the Zone six thirty airtime seven o'clock tip.
Also on ninety eight point one FMK Vets at the
Arnold joined me for the call of that. We'll hear
more from Rodney Terry about his basketball team and getting
through what they're going through right now. In the non
conference portion, of the schedule that'll be coming up next hour.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Up next more from coach sark Long WRN
Speaker 3 (15:03):
S head coach Steve Sarkishan when we continue on sports
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Craig Way.
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Follow Craig on social media at Horn Voice.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Eighteen minutes after three o'clock here on a Wednesday, Thursday.
On Wednesday, it's Thursday afternoon. Here on sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred ZO, We're going to hear from Texas men's
basketball coach, trying to hear in a few minutes. The
long Horn football team was doing very little for the
(00:38):
front part of this week. Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian
wanted to give them some time away, both physically and mentally.
And we'll hear more from sark coming up in the
next segment. But of course, the players who involved in
the college Football awards presentations, they've been a little bit busy.
For example, Jake Major who was a Campbell Trophy finals
(01:03):
he didn't win it. Jalen Milroe actually won it. It's
for the player best student athlete with academic, community service
and excellence on the field, I think, and Jalen Milroe
actually won it. But Jake Majors was a finalist for it,
and so afterwards he was asked about how his team's doing.
(01:24):
What's the mental state like of the team coming off
the loss to Georgia in the SEC Championship. Remember there's
been no player interview, press conference, media availabilities of any
kind as a team for Texas, but as the individual
players kind of fan out. Calvin Banks was asking things
last night when he won the Lombardi Award, and Jake
(01:46):
Majors was asked about the current mental and physical state
of this football team heading in the next week's playoff.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, you know, we're going to take some time to
get our bodies back, but you know we're gonna get
back to it. We're going to start preparing, to start installing,
you know, doing our routine that we always have every
week when it comes to the season, and you know,
as a team, we just gotta, you know, go out
there and play like we're.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Trying to keep our family together.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Because hell, what's so special about this team as we're
all bought into the culture and it feels like a brotherhood,
like a true brotherhood, Like everybody loves each other and
we got to fight for our brotherhood.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So it's gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, looking forward to it, getting looking forward to getting
back together and working together. That's one thing that Sark
has talked about quite a bit. It's about how this
group has been really good at doing that. All right,
on to basketball and Texas comes off the loss to
Yukon on Sunday. Texas had managed to when they were
(02:46):
down big in the game, came all the way back
and cut it to eight, had a chance to cut
at six, but couldn't hit a key shot down with it,
missed a couple of key shots, and then Yukon finished
it off to win. So now Texas at seven and two,
gets ready to go back to work and playing New
Mexico State tonight at Moody Center. Yesterday, Long WRNS head
(03:08):
coach Rodney Terry took part in the media zoom when
he visited with the local media talking about the current
state of his team getting ready for this matchup.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Good aff and our team.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
I apologize if you were asked us before, but you
talked about that sense of urgency, you talked about it
Sunday night against Yukon. Just how much of that is
an eight within a player and how much of that
or within a player and a team, and how much
of that is something that you have to instill within
your team.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
You know, Eric, I tried to from a coaching standpoint,
I think a lot of coaches do, not just myself,
but I think you try to prepare your team for
what they're about to embark on. You never want them
to go into a game where they were like, oh, man,
I didn't know this team was going to be ready
to play off. I didn't know that these guys were
going to play the way that they're playing right now.
(03:55):
You know you coming in you because won the last
two national championships a well coached They went over to Hawaii,
they didn't have.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Their best game.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
They didn't play, uh, you know, to the best of
their ability over there on the road. Their next opportunity
to go on the road is to come to Austin,
Texas and play against US. Here, we knew, and I
told our guys we were gonna get their best game.
We were gonna get a team that was gonna be
extremely focused and challenged to come in and play at
(04:24):
a high level. And anytime you've got six guys that
they all have a national championship ring, and you know
three or four of those guys were significant players on
last year's team, there's a lot of there's a lot
of proven and want to to on the other side
over there, and I thought they came in and they
played extremely well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I think again again, I'll take ownership on it myself.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
With my defensive standpoint, they're one of the elite offensive
execution teams and all the college basketball. You know, we
we've had some success early in our journey this year
with this team to where we could switch and and.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Uh and do pretty good with that. Really hard to
do it against you gun.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
We started the game switching, and they really started dicing
us up a little bit in terms of our.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Switches and UH, and so we had to change.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
That up and make an adjustment during the game and say, hey,
you know what, we've got to play with the sense
of urgency in terms of how hard we play on defense.
Well going out me and we're not gonna switch, We're
gonna stay with our guys. And I thought that really
kind of change the game for us, UH on that.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
End of the floor. Brian Davis, please, hey, coach UH.
Two questions of easy one.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
First, how how did how's Kayden doing here in the
days after all that, I mean, playing all those minutes
and getting worried about his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know what. You know, he he had.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
He had two great successful shoulder surgeries last year. He
had a great summer. He's had a lot of contact, uh.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Prior to that.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
He played in some physical games this year as well.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
He did take a hard fall to the floor.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
In the contest the other day, bounce back up, played
through it. You know, it was more of like a
bruised type of situation for me. Wasn't anything structural.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
So you know he's come back the last two days
here in each practice, well, first day was a lot
more sore, just to be expected. Today was better today
as well. So look for him to be bout. He's
been able to push through it to this point right now.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Cool, very very good.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
The other question I had is just looking at the schedule,
looking at the games you have the rest of this month,
is is your mindset now got to use these games
to you know, really ramp up and get ready for
for A and M and SEC play.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, I think right now. I think again.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
The thing that I said to our guys that day
after the ball game, you know, and even you know
leading up to practice yesterday, because we have to take
the falling day off after the game. You know, I
think we're at a point in our season right now
where we have to be fully committed to really work
at hard.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And fixing the things we needed to fix from.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
An office standpoint, defensive standpoint, and then we needed to
have a really good.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Level of urgency that we're playing with.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
When we cut, we have to have a purposeful cut
on how hard we do it well. Initiate offense, we
have to initiate offense with a great pace of play
in terms of how we want to play. We spread
back on defense, we have to have one hundred yard
dash mentality getting back. But being fully committed with a
high level of urgency and being consistent with what we do.
(07:49):
That's been the biggest thing that I've tried to preciate
between now in the time that we take a break
and we come back from my break, we have to
have that that that all that that has to be
a part of who we are. We're committed, we have urgency,
and we play with consistency.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Corey mose, please, what's up our team?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
So just kind of picking back and off of Brian's
question last month of the season before SEC play starts,
but I just want to ask before SEC play starts,
what is something that you figured out about your team
to this point that you may not have known before
the first season.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
How many first game of the season.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well, yeah, I think you know, man, I pretty much
have given you a standard question that a lot of
people in college basketball have giving you. You know, anytime
you're trying to navigate through the landscapeable one year roster.
You know we got ten new players. You're just really
trying to get your guys to jail and understand your
schemes and develop an identity in November. Right now, it's
(08:53):
about us coaching the details and us trying to get
our guys better. We know we have to get better
offensively with our pace of play, our cuts, our ball movement.
So that's something we're really harping on right now at
a very high level. Get the ball moving, it doesn't
need to stick, and then each get side to side,
and we need to be able to plot.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
We attack the paint.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
You know, the other day was our lowest scoring output
in the paint.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We've been able to do a great.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Job against opponents to this point right now, really attacking
the paint. All we did a pretty good job of
trying to play inside out against yukon the other day
as well. We put eight fouls on those guys and
you know, put the big guys in foul trouble. But
I think the one thing that that I didn't know
at that that as we continue to go through our journey, uh,
(09:41):
is that you know, we still have to be able
to to work games. You know, we uh we we
we can't give up twenty minutes in terms of uh
this is a group that can't pick up things pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
But I think that maybe.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Old estimated our learning curve to this point right now, know,
with trying to play a switching defense against a really
good offensive team. So again I own that I'll take
that on a little bit. We've been pretty good though
in big moments, being able to switch and Gordon, you know,
switching Gordon different actions against against pretty.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Good offensive teams.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
But when you play against an elite offensive executing team,
we had to kind of go back to our base
defense and not stay in it as long as we did.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Have time for three last ones in the huge and
then Brown.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
Please, hey, coach, My question was just with sec play
looming and you mentioned how there was a lot of
you guys coming to the team, what was the biggest
thing that you saw that gives you your team confidence
as well as your yourself heading into ac play.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Well, I think our guys are still learning how to
play hard and and uh and again, I never asked
any any guy to go in or our team to
go in and play a perfect game. No one's gonna
play a perfect game, no one's gonna coach a perfect game,
not gonna have an officiated game is perfect. But I
do ask our guys to go in and play extremely hard,
(11:04):
uh every night and play with a high.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Sense of urgency.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
And I really challenge our guys to endear themselves to
our to our to our fan base. How do you
endure yourself to our fan base and and long Hunt
Nation by being a team that's crappy, that plays hard
every possession, that that really cares about about the name
on the front of the jersey and not the name
(11:28):
on the back of the back of the jersey, and
then just playing for one another and having a joy
in doing that. And so you know, that's really kind
of what we really try to instill.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
In our guys. Uh and uh.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I think that's what we try to hang our hat
on every night.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Terry Middleton.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
But uh, so you talked about urgency, the cutting, the joy,
getting you know, to the ball. Is it fair maybe
accurate to say you're kind of describing Kendall Weaver. I
mean this is when you're saying all this, I'm like,
that's Kendall Weaver.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is that their.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I mean, Jerry, you're you're right.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You know, Kendall does play with a high sense of
urgency when he's on the floor.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
He plays with a chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
He's the guy that executes when when we call an
action or we're in and you know, whether it be
a transition offensive action that we're running, a half court
act action that we're running. He's a guy in a
driving offense that will make a great forty five cut
with a great purpose. He will try to finish at
the rim. He rebounds his position, he defends his position. So, yeah,
(12:43):
you have a whole team full of Kendo of Weavers.
You got a monster tea last one.
Speaker 9 (12:51):
Georgie Reeves from TSCV, go.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Ahead, please all right, good afternoon, coach, Thank you for
taking your time out, and like I just want to
bounce off of what that last question was. You know,
New Mexico State they have been un a capitalized on
defensive laps, Like, how are you going to prepare your
team and just kind of get them, I guess get
a team of Candle or Kendle Weavers. And in Texas
men's basketball, well, I.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Think again, we we worked the whole month of trying
to establishment identity defensively, and I thought we we've got
it pretty well. I mean, we're we're pretty good defensive team.
We can sit down and we can guard. You know,
we've shown that we uh that in big moments in
several of our games early in the season, that we
can make switches, we can switch Kayden out and go
to go to guard and and and feel like at
(13:35):
times that our big wings could could man up uh
with the big guys inside as well. But but but again,
I think the message has been for us is just
to sit down, play with urgency, give it, you know,
give it your all. In terms of how hard you
can go defensively. When the shot goes up, we have
to have all five guys trying to have a physical
block out uh. And then I think if we're able
(13:56):
to do that, we're able to play our strengths. We
can get out and we can run. You know, New
Mexico State's a well coach team. They got older players,
they've got sized they're one of the best rebounding teams
in all of college basketball. So they're gonna challenge us
on the glass. And when they're shooting the ball really well,
like they did the other night they made fourteen threes,
(14:17):
They're an extremely dangerous team against anyone anywhere on any
given night. So whoever I hands forward with them, they're
an older team, They're not gonna be intimidated coming into
our building playing. They just went into the pit sixteen
thousand and be the good New Mexico team, So they'll
We've got a huge challenge with a well coached team
(14:39):
in the New Mexico State Aggage Company.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
And that game is tonight at seven o'clock. You'll hear
it here on the Zone six thirty airtime seven o'clock tip.
Also on ninety eight point one FMK Vets at the
Arnold joined me for the call of that. We'll hear
more from Rodney Terry about his basketball team and getting
through what they're going through right now. In the non
conference portion, of the schedule that'll be coming up next hour.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Up next more from coach sark Long WRN
Speaker 3 (15:03):
S head coach Steve Sarkishan when we continue on sports
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