November 14, 2024 • 16 mins
Texas Basketball guards Jordan Pope and Julian Larry met with the media today to discuss their start to the season, preparing for conference play, and the impact of Tre Johnson.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
All right, thanks again to ron Jo Wallace joining us
live high school football under television screen tonight with Lexington
and Rice Consolidate and tomorrow night Westlake against mister Rich. Okay,
I wanted to get to basketball. Jump over to basketball.
Long Horn men's basketball two and one and they play
Misissippi Valley State on Saturday. Rodney Terry's six new faces
(00:39):
through the portal in addition to the six rattorneys in
the four freshmen. Two of those new faces both point
guards Jordan Pope and Julian Larry, joining a media zoom
this morning. So I wanted to give you an opportunity
to hear the questions for the media. And here these
two guys, these two transfers, Julian Pope, Julian Larry and
Jordan Pope.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And Parker lead us off.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Please thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, hey, guys, I guess question for both of y'all,
but you know, first, just how do you feel like
you're adjusting now that you have a few games under
your belt. And then second part to this is just
I guess how much of these early games does it
feel like he's serving as a time to maybe work
on you know, rotations.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Definitely, I feel good in terms of justin you know,
it's definitely a process, but my teammates are are helping
me through it, pushing me through my coaches, so it's
going good. And then yeah, these these first couple of games,
it's just a good time to really work on our
geling and our chemistry and get guys at all on
the same page and the same rhythm, so you know,
when when the conference comes around, you know we're all
(01:45):
ready to go. So they're definitely good stepping stones for us.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Jordan, good morning, and if Julian's here, good morning too.
Hey you guys, as point guards, I'm gonna ask you
Trey Johnson question because you're gonna get a lot of those.
Where's his room for improvement? I mean, we've seen this stroke,
but from a point guard's perspective, where's his room for
growth as an offensive player? You know, you know, on
the offensive end of the of the court.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I'd say probably just sometimes slowing the game down, you know,
making the simple play because you know, he could do
everything out there. He can shoot the three, the mid range,
get to the basket. But you know, he's a really
good playmaker. I think if he really showcases his his
passing ability, everything would just be like a lot lot
more easier for him, which it already looks like it is,
so I guess just playmaking more.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And Jordan just want to ask you, generally kind of
picked backing along the lines of getting adjusted to a
new team, where do you kind of feel you're at
in terms of just being able to play freely with
the guys out there on the floor and and and
you know, maybe you know how much of it out
there is still a thinking process versus just being instinctive
as far as what you want to do as a player.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
You know, it feels good.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I'm definitely in a lot more situations where I'm playing
more freely and I'm getting a lot more open looks
to where we can just read and react off one
another and not so much just relying on something like
so heavily. So it's definitely it's definitely a new experience
for me that you know, I'm adjusted to compared to
last year. But you know, it's a good It's a
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good spot to be in and I'm looking forward to
you know, working that better and uh, just finding finding
my rhythm more.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I say, Jordan, thank you for being with us. So
two quick questions. When you thought about coming to Texas
and the value that you wanted to add to this team,
what was that value that in your mind you're going
to bring X? What is that? And then real quickly,
the second question is behind you is a board that
(03:37):
says basketball team rules. What's the number one rule on
that chart?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh, that's our commitments, each player's commendments that we all
pledged individually to one another, that will be committed to,
you know, bring along every single day, which I'll i'll minded,
leadership effort on both ends, and being a great teammate.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
These are all the things that we committed to one another.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
We went on one of our team retreats that we
be dedicated to bringing forth every single day. And so
your first question I thought about the value I could
bring was just being a winning playmaker, you know, bringing
my scoring ability, my shootability, which I'm still trying to bring.
You know, I'm in a bit of a funk right now,
but you know, just you know, my score, my passion,
(04:20):
and just being a threat on offense and someone that's
active on defense and just making winning plays. That's what
I thought. You know, I bring great value for this team.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Hey Jordan, you've obviously got a ton of guys that
have college basketball experience. What's the balance with Trey of
bringing him in and kind of acclimating him to the
college game and you guys doing your own thing versus
we've got to we've got to obviously a pure scorer here, Like,
how do we how do we acclimate our games with
him and his game with ours? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Defin because high school in college is two different completely games.
So just you know, with the guys that have a
lot of experiences, being able to walk him through and
teach him certain things maybe that he hasn't seen or
known or been through obviously, and just help him keeping
his head because you know, he's still young, so sometimes
he might you know, have a little outburst or.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
Just get emotional like we all do.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
So just being able to walk them through things like
that and just help them, just help them make the
easier adjustments and reasons and whatever whatever it may be,
given whatever their circumstances.
Speaker 10 (05:20):
Are.
Speaker 11 (05:22):
Yeah, Hey, Jordan, you know you and Treyer are similar
in respect that you both played high level high school stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Right, you were at Prolific Threp playing grind Session.
Speaker 11 (05:31):
He had a similar high school experience when you played
that level of high school basketball.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Does that make the transition to college just a little
bit easier for a kid?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Coming in my freshman year when I was at organ State,
a lot of people like would say like I'm super
super like mature, or like I played like I'm seasoned.
But you know that comes from playing high level in
high school. Like you said, like, i was at Prolific
for three years, so I've basically been playing college basketball
and against like top recruits and draft prospects and whatnot
for three years lean up to college. So by the
time I got here, it was a lot easier year
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of an adjustment. So it's the same thing for Tree.
He's been playing high level basketball in high school, so
coming here is really nothing new that he hasn't really
seen from a from a skill or talent standpoint. So
that's why he's been able to adjust and do what
he's been done doing and he's been doing great and.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Just to quick file up. You know you did reference
that you are in a bit of a funk to
open the year. You know what what has to happen
for you to to break through, I guess, and get
out of the funk and just get back the plane.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Just trust my work, not not overthink it. Uh, don't
lose my confidence. That's that's the biggest thing, is just
to trust my work, keep my head and just keep
just keep trusting it. I'm getting a lot of good looks.
I just gotta I just gotta start knocking them down.
I think with the support of my teammates and my coaches,
which have been have been great.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
You know, just just keep just keep going and.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Don't let the missige gets me the mixed start start falling,
and just the biggest thing is don't overthink it.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
I think, Hey, Jordan, when you just look at this month,
you know what do you feel like the team's goal is.
You know for the month of November.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
You know, we're building our identity, which we hold our
hats on the defensive end where we want to be
a top ten defense in the country.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
We know the offensive come. We know we have a
lot of good scores, but we're.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Really adding a lot of emphasis on our defense and
our principals and playing as a unit and for the
full thirty seconds out there on the defensive defensive end
and putting our will against our opponents. That's the main
thing we're focused on this the home on November and
to follow through the whole year.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
And Parker, go.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Ahead, please yeah, one more for me. You mentioned, you know,
the retreats and team bonding as you had to turn
around and you know, say the commitments and if you're
really committed to it, feel like you shouldn't have to
turn around and read off the board. But we're we're
not going to hold you against that. What I want
to ask here is just about all those retreats and
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this emphasis on team bonding that you guys did. How
much have you seen that payoff so far? In these
first few games.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
It's paid off a lot.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
You can see, you know, moments were like we're really
really connect I think stuff like that off the court
really spills on into the court. So whether it be
retreats or just all of us hanging out each other
off the court and being around one another, it builds
that chemistry and making sure we're all familiar and comfortable
with one another, given that we're all we all coming
from different places and bring different skill sets and whatnot.
We don't want things to spill over, egos to get
(08:19):
too mixed up. So just being able to like one another,
get along with one another, and just play freely ego
lists and play for one another. And I think we've
been doing a good job of that, and we'll continue
to do that. And we all we also want to
see each other when we have a model we go
by which is ebe, which means what stands for everybody eats,
So we don't mind someone being highlighted or whatnot, because
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we know for winning everybody, you know, we'll get the
love that they deserve.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Jordon, thanks for your time.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Really appreciate and keep that going, Julian, and be right
in there.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
More than joying A two part question for you one.
Just keep talk about how much easier this transition was
made to Texas having one of your guys from Deanna
with you and Jason Kent and then all has to
follow up after that.
Speaker 12 (09:04):
It was him coming with made it an easy transition,
you know, it just for like the emotional sides, you know,
for us connecting, you know, just us being always being
there for each other. And then on the basketball side
as well, you know, we know so much about the game,
so just continue to build off learning from each other
and then helping other guys learn and other guys helping
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us learn.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And then the follow up. You know, as a point guard,
what's the most challenging part about being the ball distributor
with so many talented scorers? And on the flip side,
what is the easy part about being the ball distributed
with so many talent scores.
Speaker 12 (09:39):
I would say that being a point guard, you have
a lot of responsibility. That's the hardest thing, so you'll
probably have to do a lot of things different than
everybody else does on the court. And the easiest part
is that we do have a lot of talented guys around,
so there's a lot of dudes to choose from. You know,
when you're penetrating and looking to kick or penetrating and
you know, looking to make that next play.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Hey, Julian, It's a very small sample size, but you
know there have been moments here through three games where
you and Jordan are on the four at the same time.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Essentially two point guards, two ball handlers, two guys that
that need the ball in their hands.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What has that been like for you?
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Just trying to get that going and make sure that
everybody's on the same page with two guys like that
on the floor.
Speaker 12 (10:24):
I mean, it's been great. We've played together in the
summer so too, so we've had a little bit of
familiar familiar arity with each other before. But it's still great,
you know, great to you know, if I have it,
he gets out and runs and I can have somebody
to kick ahead to kick ahead too, and the same otherwise.
So it's worked out really well so far to me,
(10:45):
because we've really played off each other really well.
Speaker 13 (10:49):
And just a quick follow up again, three games in
small sample size, what is something that that maybe is
lacking from this group right now that is noticeable that
needs to get better.
Speaker 12 (11:02):
I would just say, I would just say just little
communication things like within the game, so like there might
be some time he might be a little late here,
a little late there, a little bit of miscommunication on
the offense. But I mean, as the year goes on,
we're going to clean that stuff up.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Thank you, Baba Jones.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Please, Juliana, good morning, good afternoon. Hey, everybody's talking about
your freshman so I gotta ask about Trey Johnson. You know,
where's his room for improvement? From a point guard's perspective.
He's done great, but where's he going to improve as
an offensive player as a year goes on?
Speaker 12 (11:37):
You think I would just say, continue to do what
he's doing and just continue to learn different ways to score,
because I mean, everybody's going to play him different. We're
going to see all different types of defenses. So really
just him learning the different types of defenses and you know,
just getting his baskets easier. Just keep finding, keep finding
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ways to get him easy baskets.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Hey, Jordan mentioned just this emphasis on team bonding that
you guys had in the off season, a lot of
retreats and everything, and especially when you do talk about
you guys being on the court at the same time.
How much is that How much of you guys benefited
from that?
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Oh, we've definitely benefited a lot, Like those times in
the summer where it's maybe not a retreat or maybe
not like a team sanctioned something, but to where we
kind of just like got together and did stuff on
our own, Like you can really see it coming out
now in the court, Like when we get those runs,
and you know when we strain those stops together, when
that ball's you know, moving, that ball's humming on offense.
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So that's when you really see that together in this
team bonding come together.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Right then, Julian, thank you for being with us today.
So question, you seem like the type of person that
will probably be involved with basketball for the rest of
your life. You just have this energy of Baya. I'm curious,
what are you studying at Texas and your postgraduate degree
and how do you see that fitting in with your
(13:00):
career whatever your what is your career aspirations?
Speaker 12 (13:04):
I'm studying communication and leadership, and what I want to
do with that is obviously I want to continue to
play once I'm done, but really once I'm done playing,
either being a coach or getting involved with some type
of school deal. So the communication and leadership will just
helped me in those different situations of communicating with people.
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You know, how to communicate with certain types of people,
and you know, just communicating with other individuals with maybe
like bosses or like teammates and players. So really just
different ways of leadership and different ways of communicating how
to respond to different situations. That's what It's helped me
out fantasic.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
Hey, Julian, just you know, you have a much better game,
you know, against Chicago State compared to Houston Christian. What
was working really well for you? And how do you
keep that going as we had this next stretch of
games here.
Speaker 12 (14:02):
I would just say my aggressiveness the Houston Christian game,
I would say I was aggressive, but I also was
very passive as well. You could really see the aggression
come out against Chicago State. So really just me keeping
my aggressiveness and just keep being hungry to make the
right play.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
And just quickly I asked Jordan the same thing. You know,
just when you look at the month of November, what
do you feel like your team's biggest goal is to
accomplish here this month?
Speaker 12 (14:32):
Just really have all of these games in the month
of November prepares for when we get the conference. That's
really the biggest thing, just because we know the challenges
that we have ahead of us and what we have
to do. So just using these games obviously like we
want to win every game we play in, but just
using these games are almost as like tune ups, Like
tune ups that you know mean a lot. You know
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what I'm saying. So that's how we want to use
the month of November.
Speaker 14 (14:58):
Did you let coach Terry, a defensive minded coach really
wants to get after it. What are some of the
keys and things that he has talked to you guys
about as a whole as a team defense?
Speaker 12 (15:10):
Obviously Number one, playing hard. That's the biggest thing, because
like he says every day, defenses want to If you
want to do it, you'll do it. But just some
things within it is just communication. Obviously, that that communication
part ties everybody into it and continuing to follow our scheme,
just trusting our scheme, trusting where everybody's at, trusting that
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you know you're going to have that backside help with you.
And so that communication, trusting each other and playing hard.
Those are really like the three things that we, you know,
hang our hat on or that really ties all the
defense in together to help us be successful.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
A couple of long worn basketball transfers point guards Jordan
Pope Julian Larry, talking some long worn hoops again. Their
next action is Saturday afternoon. You'll follow the football game
eleven am on the kickoff and four o'clock on the basketball.
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
All right, thanks again to ron Jo Wallace joining us
live high school football under television screen tonight with Lexington
and Rice Consolidate and tomorrow night Westlake against mister Rich. Okay,
I wanted to get to basketball. Jump over to basketball.
Long Horn men's basketball two and one and they play
Misissippi Valley State on Saturday. Rodney Terry's six new faces
(00:39):
through the portal in addition to the six rattorneys in
the four freshmen. Two of those new faces both point
guards Jordan Pope and Julian Larry, joining a media zoom
this morning. So I wanted to give you an opportunity
to hear the questions for the media. And here these
two guys, these two transfers, Julian Pope, Julian Larry and
Jordan Pope.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And Parker lead us off.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Please thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, hey, guys, I guess question for both of y'all,
but you know, first, just how do you feel like
you're adjusting now that you have a few games under
your belt. And then second part to this is just
I guess how much of these early games does it
feel like he's serving as a time to maybe work
on you know, rotations.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Definitely, I feel good in terms of justin you know,
it's definitely a process, but my teammates are are helping
me through it, pushing me through my coaches, so it's
going good. And then yeah, these these first couple of games,
it's just a good time to really work on our
geling and our chemistry and get guys at all on
the same page and the same rhythm, so you know,
when when the conference comes around, you know we're all
(01:45):
ready to go. So they're definitely good stepping stones for us.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Jordan, good morning, and if Julian's here, good morning too.
Hey you guys, as point guards, I'm gonna ask you
Trey Johnson question because you're gonna get a lot of those.
Where's his room for improvement? I mean, we've seen this stroke,
but from a point guard's perspective, where's his room for
growth as an offensive player? You know, you know, on
the offensive end of the of the court.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I'd say probably just sometimes slowing the game down, you know,
making the simple play because you know, he could do
everything out there. He can shoot the three, the mid range,
get to the basket. But you know, he's a really
good playmaker. I think if he really showcases his his
passing ability, everything would just be like a lot lot
more easier for him, which it already looks like it is,
so I guess just playmaking more.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And Jordan just want to ask you, generally kind of
picked backing along the lines of getting adjusted to a
new team, where do you kind of feel you're at
in terms of just being able to play freely with
the guys out there on the floor and and and
you know, maybe you know how much of it out
there is still a thinking process versus just being instinctive
as far as what you want to do as a player.
Speaker 8 (02:50):
You know, it feels good.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I'm definitely in a lot more situations where I'm playing
more freely and I'm getting a lot more open looks
to where we can just read and react off one
another and not so much just relying on something like
so heavily. So it's definitely it's definitely a new experience
for me that you know, I'm adjusted to compared to
last year. But you know, it's a good It's a
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good spot to be in and I'm looking forward to
you know, working that better and uh, just finding finding
my rhythm more.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I say, Jordan, thank you for being with us. So
two quick questions. When you thought about coming to Texas
and the value that you wanted to add to this team,
what was that value that in your mind you're going
to bring X? What is that? And then real quickly,
the second question is behind you is a board that
(03:37):
says basketball team rules. What's the number one rule on
that chart?
Speaker 6 (03:44):
Oh, that's our commitments, each player's commendments that we all
pledged individually to one another, that will be committed to,
you know, bring along every single day, which I'll i'll minded,
leadership effort on both ends, and being a great teammate.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
These are all the things that we committed to one another.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
We went on one of our team retreats that we
be dedicated to bringing forth every single day. And so
your first question I thought about the value I could
bring was just being a winning playmaker, you know, bringing
my scoring ability, my shootability, which I'm still trying to bring.
You know, I'm in a bit of a funk right now,
but you know, just you know, my score, my passion,
(04:20):
and just being a threat on offense and someone that's
active on defense and just making winning plays. That's what
I thought. You know, I bring great value for this team.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Hey Jordan, you've obviously got a ton of guys that
have college basketball experience. What's the balance with Trey of
bringing him in and kind of acclimating him to the
college game and you guys doing your own thing versus
we've got to we've got to obviously a pure scorer here, Like,
how do we how do we acclimate our games with
him and his game with ours? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Defin because high school in college is two different completely games.
So just you know, with the guys that have a
lot of experiences, being able to walk him through and
teach him certain things maybe that he hasn't seen or
known or been through obviously, and just help him keeping
his head because you know, he's still young, so sometimes
he might you know, have a little outburst or.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
Just get emotional like we all do.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
So just being able to walk them through things like
that and just help them, just help them make the
easier adjustments and reasons and whatever whatever it may be,
given whatever their circumstances.
Speaker 10 (05:20):
Are.
Speaker 11 (05:22):
Yeah, Hey, Jordan, you know you and Treyer are similar
in respect that you both played high level high school stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Right, you were at Prolific Threp playing grind Session.
Speaker 11 (05:31):
He had a similar high school experience when you played
that level of high school basketball.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Does that make the transition to college just a little
bit easier for a kid?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Coming in my freshman year when I was at organ State,
a lot of people like would say like I'm super
super like mature, or like I played like I'm seasoned.
But you know that comes from playing high level in
high school. Like you said, like, i was at Prolific
for three years, so I've basically been playing college basketball
and against like top recruits and draft prospects and whatnot
for three years lean up to college. So by the
time I got here, it was a lot easier year
(06:01):
of an adjustment. So it's the same thing for Tree.
He's been playing high level basketball in high school, so
coming here is really nothing new that he hasn't really
seen from a from a skill or talent standpoint. So
that's why he's been able to adjust and do what
he's been done doing and he's been doing great and.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Just to quick file up. You know you did reference
that you are in a bit of a funk to
open the year. You know what what has to happen
for you to to break through, I guess, and get
out of the funk and just get back the plane.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Just trust my work, not not overthink it. Uh, don't
lose my confidence. That's that's the biggest thing, is just
to trust my work, keep my head and just keep
just keep trusting it. I'm getting a lot of good looks.
I just gotta I just gotta start knocking them down.
I think with the support of my teammates and my coaches,
which have been have been great.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
You know, just just keep just keep going and.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Don't let the missige gets me the mixed start start falling,
and just the biggest thing is don't overthink it.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
I think, Hey, Jordan, when you just look at this month,
you know what do you feel like the team's goal is.
You know for the month of November.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
You know, we're building our identity, which we hold our
hats on the defensive end where we want to be
a top ten defense in the country.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
We know the offensive come. We know we have a
lot of good scores, but we're.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Really adding a lot of emphasis on our defense and
our principals and playing as a unit and for the
full thirty seconds out there on the defensive defensive end
and putting our will against our opponents. That's the main
thing we're focused on this the home on November and
to follow through the whole year.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
And Parker, go.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Ahead, please yeah, one more for me. You mentioned, you know,
the retreats and team bonding as you had to turn
around and you know, say the commitments and if you're
really committed to it, feel like you shouldn't have to
turn around and read off the board. But we're we're
not going to hold you against that. What I want
to ask here is just about all those retreats and
(07:49):
this emphasis on team bonding that you guys did. How
much have you seen that payoff so far? In these
first few games.
Speaker 8 (07:56):
It's paid off a lot.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
You can see, you know, moments were like we're really
really connect I think stuff like that off the court
really spills on into the court. So whether it be
retreats or just all of us hanging out each other
off the court and being around one another, it builds
that chemistry and making sure we're all familiar and comfortable
with one another, given that we're all we all coming
from different places and bring different skill sets and whatnot.
We don't want things to spill over, egos to get
(08:19):
too mixed up. So just being able to like one another,
get along with one another, and just play freely ego
lists and play for one another. And I think we've
been doing a good job of that, and we'll continue
to do that. And we all we also want to
see each other when we have a model we go
by which is ebe, which means what stands for everybody eats,
So we don't mind someone being highlighted or whatnot, because
(08:41):
we know for winning everybody, you know, we'll get the
love that they deserve.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Jordon, thanks for your time.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Really appreciate and keep that going, Julian, and be right
in there.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
More than joying A two part question for you one.
Just keep talk about how much easier this transition was
made to Texas having one of your guys from Deanna
with you and Jason Kent and then all has to
follow up after that.
Speaker 12 (09:04):
It was him coming with made it an easy transition,
you know, it just for like the emotional sides, you know,
for us connecting, you know, just us being always being
there for each other. And then on the basketball side
as well, you know, we know so much about the game,
so just continue to build off learning from each other
and then helping other guys learn and other guys helping
(09:25):
us learn.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And then the follow up. You know, as a point guard,
what's the most challenging part about being the ball distributor
with so many talented scorers? And on the flip side,
what is the easy part about being the ball distributed
with so many talent scores.
Speaker 12 (09:39):
I would say that being a point guard, you have
a lot of responsibility. That's the hardest thing, so you'll
probably have to do a lot of things different than
everybody else does on the court. And the easiest part
is that we do have a lot of talented guys around,
so there's a lot of dudes to choose from. You know,
when you're penetrating and looking to kick or penetrating and
you know, looking to make that next play.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Hey, Julian, It's a very small sample size, but you
know there have been moments here through three games where
you and Jordan are on the four at the same time.
Speaker 11 (10:11):
Essentially two point guards, two ball handlers, two guys that
that need the ball in their hands.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
What has that been like for you?
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Just trying to get that going and make sure that
everybody's on the same page with two guys like that
on the floor.
Speaker 12 (10:24):
I mean, it's been great. We've played together in the
summer so too, so we've had a little bit of
familiar familiar arity with each other before. But it's still great,
you know, great to you know, if I have it,
he gets out and runs and I can have somebody
to kick ahead to kick ahead too, and the same otherwise.
So it's worked out really well so far to me,
(10:45):
because we've really played off each other really well.
Speaker 13 (10:49):
And just a quick follow up again, three games in
small sample size, what is something that that maybe is
lacking from this group right now that is noticeable that
needs to get better.
Speaker 12 (11:02):
I would just say, I would just say just little
communication things like within the game, so like there might
be some time he might be a little late here,
a little late there, a little bit of miscommunication on
the offense. But I mean, as the year goes on,
we're going to clean that stuff up.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Thank you, Baba Jones.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Please, Juliana, good morning, good afternoon. Hey, everybody's talking about
your freshman so I gotta ask about Trey Johnson. You know,
where's his room for improvement? From a point guard's perspective.
He's done great, but where's he going to improve as
an offensive player as a year goes on?
Speaker 12 (11:37):
You think I would just say, continue to do what
he's doing and just continue to learn different ways to score,
because I mean, everybody's going to play him different. We're
going to see all different types of defenses. So really
just him learning the different types of defenses and you know,
just getting his baskets easier. Just keep finding, keep finding
(11:57):
ways to get him easy baskets.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Hey, Jordan mentioned just this emphasis on team bonding that
you guys had in the off season, a lot of
retreats and everything, and especially when you do talk about
you guys being on the court at the same time.
How much is that How much of you guys benefited
from that?
Speaker 12 (12:15):
Oh, we've definitely benefited a lot, Like those times in
the summer where it's maybe not a retreat or maybe
not like a team sanctioned something, but to where we
kind of just like got together and did stuff on
our own, Like you can really see it coming out
now in the court, Like when we get those runs,
and you know when we strain those stops together, when
that ball's you know, moving, that ball's humming on offense.
(12:36):
So that's when you really see that together in this
team bonding come together.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Right then, Julian, thank you for being with us today.
So question, you seem like the type of person that
will probably be involved with basketball for the rest of
your life. You just have this energy of Baya. I'm curious,
what are you studying at Texas and your postgraduate degree
and how do you see that fitting in with your
(13:00):
career whatever your what is your career aspirations?
Speaker 12 (13:04):
I'm studying communication and leadership, and what I want to
do with that is obviously I want to continue to
play once I'm done, but really once I'm done playing,
either being a coach or getting involved with some type
of school deal. So the communication and leadership will just
helped me in those different situations of communicating with people.
(13:25):
You know, how to communicate with certain types of people,
and you know, just communicating with other individuals with maybe
like bosses or like teammates and players. So really just
different ways of leadership and different ways of communicating how
to respond to different situations. That's what It's helped me
out fantasic.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
Hey, Julian, just you know, you have a much better game,
you know, against Chicago State compared to Houston Christian. What
was working really well for you? And how do you
keep that going as we had this next stretch of
games here.
Speaker 12 (14:02):
I would just say my aggressiveness the Houston Christian game,
I would say I was aggressive, but I also was
very passive as well. You could really see the aggression
come out against Chicago State. So really just me keeping
my aggressiveness and just keep being hungry to make the
right play.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
And just quickly I asked Jordan the same thing. You know,
just when you look at the month of November, what
do you feel like your team's biggest goal is to
accomplish here this month?
Speaker 12 (14:32):
Just really have all of these games in the month
of November prepares for when we get the conference. That's
really the biggest thing, just because we know the challenges
that we have ahead of us and what we have
to do. So just using these games obviously like we
want to win every game we play in, but just
using these games are almost as like tune ups, Like
tune ups that you know mean a lot. You know
(14:53):
what I'm saying. So that's how we want to use
the month of November.
Speaker 14 (14:58):
Did you let coach Terry, a defensive minded coach really
wants to get after it. What are some of the
keys and things that he has talked to you guys
about as a whole as a team defense?
Speaker 12 (15:10):
Obviously Number one, playing hard. That's the biggest thing, because
like he says every day, defenses want to If you
want to do it, you'll do it. But just some
things within it is just communication. Obviously, that that communication
part ties everybody into it and continuing to follow our scheme,
just trusting our scheme, trusting where everybody's at, trusting that
(15:31):
you know you're going to have that backside help with you.
And so that communication, trusting each other and playing hard.
Those are really like the three things that we, you know,
hang our hat on or that really ties all the
defense in together to help us be successful.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
A couple of long worn basketball transfers point guards Jordan
Pope Julian Larry, talking some long worn hoops again. Their
next action is Saturday afternoon. You'll follow the football game
eleven am on the kickoff and four o'clock on the basketball.
All right, We'll be back to wrap up our number
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