December 5, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Today our number.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Two Sports Radio ninety two seven wfn Z KB and
Smoke with You having a good time called an audible. Already,
Chip Patterson had to do some Cover three and CBS
work because of the Penn State hire of Matt Campbell. Yes,
Matt Campbell has finally been pried away from Iowa State
and ames this is worse off for it, I believe,
But I think Penn State got a pretty good I'm
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a Matt Campbell fan. I'm not a super fan, but
I'm a Matt Campbell fan, and I think Penn State
will at least be, you know, a competent football team
moving forward. But man, I mean the hemorrhaging just did
from their recruiting class. I do think it's set them
back two years as a program. So do you want
to say it's not a done deal yet?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Really? Okay? So, but it is moving towards it being
a done deal. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
For the last couple of hours the reports where they're
finalizing a deal to make Iowa state head coach Matt
Campbell the next head coach. So we shall see a
couple of texts that have come in. First of all, smoke,
I don't usually read a lot of the texts that
are super complimentary of us because it comes across, as
you know, self serving and arrogant and conceded. But I
do love texts that come from new listeners. We had
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a guy from Eugene, Oregon text in to say that
he moved to Charlotte five months ago, lived in large
West Coast markets and a college town where football is everything.
He's listened to sports radio for forty years. He loves
the show, says we're informative and entertaining, and says we
make his commute better. And then he says he's a
dad and a grandfather and that I'm good to go
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leave the Nutcracker recital after my daughter's five minutes on stage,
which makes me like him even more. So we're getting
new listeners. We've brought in a full or West Coast
listener from Eugene, Oregon who is a forty year sports
radio listener and he's a big fan of the show.
So we love that, and plus I love him allowing
me to, you know, at least giving me his permission
to do what we talked about earlier. If you missed it.
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Next week's busy. I've got a live show in Baltimore
on Friday. Then I've got TV play by play for
a tournament in Las Vegas, and then I get back
on Sunday and my daughter's got our very first ballet recital.
It's the Nutcracker in the middle of the Panthers game
against the Saints, and I don't want to be the
jerk dad who's either watching it on his phone or
gets up to leave and like, you know, disrupts the
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recital because I want to go watch the Panthers game.
But I really I'm really gonna want to watch the
Panthers game. So you know, thank you for your permission,
and thank you for not judging me, because I will
be there with my Pom poms on, you know, cheering
on baby girl for the ballet recital, but as soon
as her five minutes are up, my attention's going to
the Carolina Panthers. Then we had a different Texter. You
and I brought up the Bryce young thing, and I
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think I forget exactly what spurred it. But we had
a listener, Terrell, who said, so Bryce Young isn't worth
an extension, but Ikey is.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
LMAO.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Apparently you all have amnesia from the last two years.
Just because he's done a decent job this year, you
just erase the last two years of him screwing up.
Hold on a minute. First of all, this is more
about timing, And I told Terrell this. Bryce was drafted
in twenty twenty three. Ikey was drafted in twenty twenty two.
Ikey's coming up sooner. That's really what it's about. You know,
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they've got to get Ikey a new deal. And when
you say the last two years, he didn't have a
great year last year, he admitted as much. But he
has not been bad the last two years.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, Yeah, last year was pretty good and this year
has been building off of a pretty good year to
what I would call a goodyear.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, he's doing a lot better than Evan Neil
right now.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I mean my understanding is Ikey bet on himself coming
into you know, this season, probably could have done a
deal before the season started. I'd imagine the Panthers wanted to.
But you know, Ikey's bet on himself again this year,
and I think he's earned a contract extension. I think
they believe he's earned a contract extension, and I think
we'll hear about it sometime in the not too distant future.
Let's sneak in a phone call really quickly. Panther Bow
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was up next on the phones. But what's going on, buddy?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
KB?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Doing well?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Happy?
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Uh football Friday? I appreciate you taking my call. I
just want to chime in on the arrogance and sports things. Yeah,
I was interesting because Signetty he's actually one of those
guys and obviously Hurley's up there, but it's like considering
the amount of winning. I mean, there's kind of owned that,
you know, that type of arrogance, and it's not like
he's like entitlement arrogance like he actually he doesn't seem like.
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I mean, he wasn't, you know, like weird or mean
or whatever towards Perdue when they molly wopped him. I
mean he was like, you know what, he's new in
the program talking about their coach, and so, you know,
I just I think he's a good coach and I
don't actually mind his whole personality. But then you get
the other type of arrogance where it's like you haven't
earned it yet, and that's like the Justin Thomases of
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the world. It's like, bro, you haven't won to a master,
the Open Championship. You know that guy hasn't earned anything.
And it's just funny that he had that, And you
know that change between Max because it's like that's who
he is. That's that's that's who that guy is. And
then Will Wade not to go full doctor Phil and
Will Wade, but you have not done anything yet. You
need just stop talking about you, Bert David, I mean, seriously,
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worry about yourself. I mean, so well, we'll see how
this all plays out this week. And I think the
four teams I got they're gonna win and cover. I mean,
I think the Who's are gonna do it. Georgia, Ohio State, Anna,
the Texas Tech blows out the Uyu. But man should
be a good one.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Looking forward to it. Thank you both, have a great weekend.
My friend seven oh four five seven ninety six ten
hit us up on the FanDuel text line. Yeah, if
you missed it. Earlier in the show, we got off
on a conversation about who the most arrogant person in
sports is because well, there are plenty of people who
feel that way about Indiana head coach Kurt Signetti. He
is though he's deaf like that. I am not here
to argue that he's not. I just enjoy it like
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as somebody who doesn't have to root against him. You know,
I'm not involved in some rivalry game against him. I
guess the way the bow is. I find him highly entertaining.
I think Kurt Signetti is just a wildly entertaining guy.
But if you want to chime in, who is the
most arrogant person in sports? Seven h four or five?
Seven oh ninety six ten would love to hear your thoughts.
Right now we go to smoke with the best audio
in sports.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
What did you say? You?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What? What did you say?
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Hold up?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Wait a minute?
Speaker 9 (06:29):
So may right?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
What I mean by that is what you got? All right? Well,
keeping things in college football.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
One coach that may have a little bit of arrogance
to him, but it's nowhere near to the level of
Kurt Signetti is Clark Lee, who's the head coach of
the Vanderbilt Commodores, and Vanderbilt is on the outside looking
in of the playoff pitcher and likely not going to
get in. But there were reports that Vandy was actually
reaching out the teams like Miami, Notre Dame, Utah, that
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they were trying to play a game this weekend last minute,
and he was asked on Get up Barstool earlier today
on Fox Sports One if those reports were true.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Well, it's true. I mean I and I told the
players on Tuesday when we met, I just said, you know,
have your bags packed and be ready and this could
this call could come at any point in time. And
I've said publicly, I mean, anybody that they want us
to play, and.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
We'll go there.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
We'll go to Utah, We'll go to Miami, We'll go
to Notre Dame to play them, because we believe in
our team, you know, and again if it gives us
an opportunity to fight for the NAW. I mean just
here's the thing. Every team in the country wants to
win the national Championship. That's what we set the course
to do. January seventh, twenty twenty five, we got together
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for the first time as a team and said this
is our goal. And now we sit here having done
the things that we felt like we needed to do
to vicision ourselves to have a chance to fight for it.
And you know we're being held off by subjectivity and
moving gold posts with respect to what hurdles need to
be cleared for an SEC team to get into the tournament.
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So look, we've we've done all we could to find
you know, what is the location allows us to get
a thirteenth game exempt and all those things and gone
through the logistics of it. It's not going to happen.
But it's not because we haven't tried to make it happen.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So do you know about the Hawaii rules, smoke Hawaii rule,
the Hawaii rule, and the NCAA Hawaii rule.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, never heard of it? No, I haven't because I
hadn't either.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, as we know, Vanderbilt and Miami might be on
the outside looking in when the final rankings come out
after conference championship week and they've got nothing they can
do about it given they aren't playing in a conference
title game. Even though Hunter Yurochek did assure us back
on Tuesday night that you know, idle teams can still
be moved up and down if you believe that, so
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you know, other teams can still improve their resumes. But
the Commodores and the Hurricanes, well, they're just sitting and waiting.
There was a poster on the Vanderbilt two four to
seven sports message board that suggested the Hawaii plan. By
NCAA rules, teams can only play a thirteenth regular season
game if it takes place in Hawaii or Alaska. Thus
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the choice of locale and the reasoning for the matchup,
of course, is that one of these teams would add
a top twenty five win, giving a resume that the
committee couldn't pass up. And can you imagine the attention
on that game because of the novelty of it, the
potential location, like Hawaii is the place that everybody would
want to go. But can you imagine, like if Clark
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Lee and Mario Christobal too tough ass dudes, like no,
we're going to Juno, We're going to Fairbanks. We're going
to play in negative ten degrees with no sleeves on and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
W we lie just dark.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That would be their national championship game if those two
guys could do that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Apparently I did not know that, so you know, it
would also be another opportunity to see Diego Pavia playing
a big game, which, by the way, we have people
on the text line saying that the Diego Pavia is
the most arrogant man in sports. But anyway, the Hawaii rule,
that's apparently a real thing. What else you got?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Moving over to DNFL, we talked over the last couple
of days about whether or not Dave Canalis has an
outside shot of being coached a year in the NFL
this year. Well, yesterday on the Mac and Ball Shoe,
Adam Gold, who does radio out in Rawley the Triangle,
was asked about whether or not he believes that Dave
Canal should be in the hunt for Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It didn't go, according to playing that's idiotic, idiotic.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Oh yes, Oh look then until this past week. This
is he's had two weeks this year where I think
he has done an exceptional job the Green.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Bay game at this past week.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Other than that, I think they have done everything in
spite of him. I get we are still prisoner of
the record and where we thought this team would be
is ludicrous. Like I am, I'm thrilled that they finally
in week thirteen figured.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Out how their offense should run.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
It only took Dames until week thirteen to.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Come up with how they should They should be a.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Run heavy, downfield passing team. You're this the first time
they've done it where they'll let Bryce when they get
through it, they let him throw the ball down the field. Yay,
that's the way it should work.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The only thing ludacrous is that line of reasoning. It's absurd.
Two games he's been good and otherwise he just couldn't fit.
There couldn't have been the ten different offensive line combinations,
it couldn't have been an injury to Jalen Koker, who
were now watching. Clearly opens up the passing game in
ways that they didn't have when it was just Tener
mcmill and the rookie getting all of the attention. Xavier
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League get has been a longer term project that I
think most people enteripated. You know, they've had, you know,
rotations at tight end where they're relying upon a rookie
in Mitchell Evans because JT. Sanders has been hurt, Tommy
Trimble dealt with injury earlier in the season, and it's
a year two of the head coach and his offense.
So big picture to me, like not to get into
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a peeing match with Adam Gold, who certainly entitled to
his opinion, no matter how Ludacris it might be. I
don't think Dave Canallis is going to win NFL Coach
of the Year. The overwhelming likelihood is that Mike Rabel
wins NFL Coach of the Year. But we do have
to let the season play out, and as I said yesterday,
Dave Canais leads this team to the playoffs a year
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removed from historically the worst defense from a scoring standpoint
that's ever taken the field in NFL history, less than
a year, a year and a half removed from the
worst roster in the NFL. And that's not an opinion,
that's it's pretty empirical, right, fewest number of players in
the entire league drafted by the Panthers, players on last
year's team, starting in the two deep, that didn't even
make NFL rosters to start the year. It's a monumental
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feat if this team gets to the playoffs led by
their head coach. So yeah, Mike Rabel's the overwhelming favorite.
They're eleven and two, they've won ten straight games. They
should be. Ben Johnson's done a great job in Chicago.
No one's arguing that. I would tell you that per
the odds, I don't think either Mike McDonald or Brian Schottenheimer,
as I said yesterday, belong ahead of Dave Canalis on
the odds. So I think Dave should be third in
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the odds right now, not McDonald or Brian Schottenheimer. By
the way, tough night for the Cowboys last night. Yeah,
I mean so again, Adam's entitled to his opinion. I'm
entitled to disagree. It's not ludicrous to believe that Dave Canais,
if they go three and want to make the playoffs,
could or should be in the discussion for Coach of
the Year. Okay, but yeah again, Rabel's probably gonna win it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What else you got, all right?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Well, one area where maybe Carolina does have a chance
of winning something is in defensive Player to Year. As
after Sunday's performance, despite what PFF may have you believe,
Derek Brown had another great game and Kay Adams is
now the leader in the clubhouse. No pun intended for
getting Derek Brown defensive Player to Year consideration.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Derek freaking Brown, Derek Brown on any other team, in
any other Worlds is a defensive Player of the Year,
clutch sack force, both Stafford picks.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He is my defensive player of the year.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Derek Brown is with the impact that he has on
every play in every game, on every win whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh well, yeah, yeah, no doubt about it. Let me
hit this too, because the bagel guy is telling me
that a zero of Vero is the coach of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Not Canalis.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Too many times we've questioned the Panthers being ready to
play in no second half adjustments. This team would have
two wins if it wasn't for the defense. Well, no,
they wouldn't have two wins if it wasn't for the defense.
That's not true. That's just objectively not true. I disagree
with that.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I do.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I believe in a zero of Verro getting you know, credit.
But a big reason why zero Vero's defense looks night
and day different from last year is Derek Brown. Derek
Brown being back, Derek Brown wrecking shop in the middle,
Derek Brown being an impact player as often as he
has been.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So yeah, I mean, I know again, we watch far
more of Derek Brown than the rest of the league.
Does we all understand how that works? So I don't expect.
There are a ton of people in West Coast markets
that have been paying a lot of attention to Derek Brown,
but he's been an absolute monster. I will certainly be
upset if Derek Brown does not get what I think
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is the requisite attention and accolades for what he's done
this year. But is he even on the Have you
seen the odds for NFL Comeback Player of the Year,
because he's got to.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Be in the odds for that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I think Daniel Jones is leading over him.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, it's not that he's not deserving. He's definitely deserving,
but Derek Brown's got to be top three in that discussion, right.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Could be?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah? Okay, I actually do have one more. Let's go
all right, Well, we end with an update on Dougly.
For those who don't know, Doug gott Lead, the former
basketball player turned radio personality is still a radio personality,
but he's also the head coach at green Bay. Last
year went horrendously with only four wins. Good news, Kyle,
He's already matched his win total from last year, but
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still four and five not really great at this point
for green Bay, and last night they blew an eleven
point lead into final four minutes to Robert moorees, which
led to him going full Bobby Knight and throwing a
chair as he headed to the locker room, and his
postgame press conference didn't go too well either.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Unbelievably frustrating, Like unbelievably frustrating. You do everything, you prepare them,
you get them right there, they have the game, and
they just they got to they gotta they got to
bring it home, and we just didn't. You know, we
get to the line thirty one times is great. We
shot twenty five to thirty one, which is which is excellent.
That we got to make the wins account. So, I mean,
we had a good basketball team, but can I we.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Just gave that the way they did.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I understand his frustration. They were up by eleven with
three and a half minutes left to go and then
Robert Morris just goes off for a late rally.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They cut it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
To two with thirty five seconds left to go, green
Bay gets called for a ten second violation, couldn't get
the ball up the court, and then Robert Morris hits
to go ahead three. Green Bay goes one of two
from the free throw line to tie it, and then
I'm gonna butcher this name. Nicholas Chitakutas scored the game
winning layup for Robert Morris with two point seconds left
to play. Gottleig Gotleeb's pacing the sidelines with his hair,
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chucks the chair and then goes in and gives that
postgame press conference.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The Vegas Shock Me is going into year two. He's
still doing his radio show on a daily basis.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I mean that was kind of always the plan, though,
right I thought after last year it would have ended.
They went four and twenty eight last year. They are
already four and six this year through ten games. They
are much better than they were in year one. I
want to at least point that out on Doug's behalf.
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Go to cvinjurylog dot com, KB and Smoke hanging out
having a good time. Nate Wemberley WBTV back in studio,
coming up in thirty three minutes. Chip Patterson cbssports dot
Com in the Cover three podcast He's back at five thirty.
He had to do some emergency TV work and some
Cover three podcast work as Penn State is reportedly closing
in on Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell to be
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the next head coach of the Nittney Lyons. What are
we at now, Smoke? Is it eight weeks? I guess
after firing James Franklin, they're finally going to find a coach?
Is my math right on that?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Right? Over fifty days, like fifty two to fifty three? Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Right, So there you go. We'll talk about that with
Hip coming up in just a bit. And speaking of
it's time to welcome in and welcome back good friend
of the show, a guy who I think a lot
of and for lots of reasons, Del Curry, Charlotte Hornet's Legend,
Hornet's color analyst on the fan Duel Sports Network also
on Amazon. My buddy Del Curry back with us on
the hotline for a quick Friday conversation. Is the Hornets
battle the Raptors tonight in Toronto? Seven thirty tips, six
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thirty pre game here on the flagship Del Curry.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
How you been, my man, KB, I'm doing great, man.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Penn State's loss is the Hokies reward fired up about
g Tech football. Let's go. Let's go out to this
some emergency TV work here later on myself.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, I love it, dude. I'm sure you and I
follow each other on the Gram. I got to go
up for the introductory press conference a couple of weeks ago,
and I got to shake the hand of the man
Dell who's going to bring us a national championship.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Finally fell COO like it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I like it so again, as a couple of guys
who've done their fair share of tailgating outside Lane Stadium,
we got a Homer out for a second, like, how
excited are you about what he's done for the program?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Already super excited, man. I've talked to a lot of
my my buddies, college budies that played football there. They're
all excited about Hoky football in the future. He's already
hit the trails, recruiting, bringing in some some top you know,
student athletes there. So it's got a lot of work
to do. But I think we got the right guy.
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He knows what he's doing. He's gonna bring He's gonna
bring what you say, he's gonna bring some some wins
in the championship to Blacksburg.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, I can't wait, man, I'm excited about it. Speaking
of Blacksburg real quick, I know, like you, you know, my
head's in the Hornets three four nights a week at least.
I don't know if you get to watch Mike Young's
group very much. But have you seen the kid from Greece,
nioclusev Dallas. I mean, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I've not seen him yet, but my buddy Terrence Oldsby,
who does the pre and post for the Hornets, is
keeping me up with him. He says he is a baller.
Told me before the season started, we got a winner
in Blacksburg, man. So yeah, Mike Young is getting it done.
I'm gonna definitely catch a game before you know. They
getting the acc play big time here. But I'm excited
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Hope Athletics. They deserve to have two guys that know
what they're doing, and then I think we got them.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I do too, I do too.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
All right, let's talk about the home team then, Hornet
six and sixteen, coming off a couple of losses in
New York. Now you go even further north up to Toronto.
I don't think we've gotten the final injury report for
tonight's game yet, but you know that's been the big
problem again, dell As. You well know they've been missing
a lot of Brandon Miller, LaMelo has been in and out,
other guys injured. Like, how much of that do you
attribute to a six and sixteen start? And you know,
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do you think this team is at a place where
they can start to climb out of it soon?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Injuries, Like you said, it's always been a problem. It's
a problem for every team. It seems like because we
follow the Hornets that we're passionate about honess basketball, it
seems like it hits us harder than anybody every single season.
But it goes with the territory. I say all the time,
our draft class is the ones that's gonna benefit from this.
We got four good rookies that are benefiting from some
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on the court experience. But I do think the record
is a reflection of coach Lee not having his core
guys together to see really how good this team can be.
And then you play so many games so fast, there's
no time to develop the young guys. You kind of
just got to throw them out there and let them
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learn on the fly. So you incorporate all that together.
And then you're playing some tough teams as well. And
we've hit the road pretty hard, especially this week. The
Cup games were really hard and fun. But it's the
life of the NBA. I mean, everybody goes through the
trials and tribulations. You can't make excuses. You got to
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go out and play hard. And you look back at
a couple of three or four close games, you say,
yea man, if we'd have just won you know those games,
I reckon it will be a lot different. But it's
trending in the right area.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I get a chance to talk to Charles Lee every
week and talk to him the other day about the
fourth quarter lineup against the Nets, and I asked him
about I said, hey, I looked out there were seven
minutes to go when I saw t Jon Sion, Leah McNeely,
Antonio Reeves, Colin Sexton and that's just not a fourth
quarter lineup i'd expect to see out there in the
middle of a tight game trying to grab your third
straight win. And I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but he
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basically told me, we have expectations for this team. I
have things I expect these guys to do, and when
they don't do that, sometimes the best way to send
a message is to bring them on over to the
bench to sit with me. And that's how you end
up with those lineups. What have you noticed just in
terms of what he demands from these players, both in
game but also in the practice floor, and how he's
continuing to try to build a culture in that way.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
For a young coach. He holds every man top to
bottom accountable, and that's the way to do it. I
mean the old Bobby Knight saying there's no bigger motivator
than the bench. And again, I think it goes back
to just not having the quality practice time, to not
being able to practice these things and put players in
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situations and then you get out there and play, You
take it for granted. You get in the close game
and our margin of victory margin, Everrea is so small
to get a victory. You can't keep making the same mistakes,
especially guys.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That's been been around for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You'd rather see the young guys get out there and
make those type mistakes. So kudos for a young coach
to be to be able to hold his stars and
rotational players accountable. I think it sets a presidence for
the entire team that they got to be locked in
from the start of the game to the finish the game,
and if they're not, he's going to find some guys
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out there that he trust in the game. So, you know,
I applauded for that.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, Kank Nipple, who I know, you've talked about a lot.
I've talked about a ton. You know, I've talked to
a lot of coaches and general managers over the years,
and I've heard a lot of them say things like,
you want guys that you know hate losing even more
than they love winning, you know, things like that, and
that's not everybody. Conk Nipple kind of seems like that
sort of dude. I've read the quotes from him. In
the last several days. He talked to Rod Boone of
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The Observer. He talked about the team not competing hard
enough against the Brooklyn Nets. Some people wouldn't like a
rookie talking like that. What do you think of the rookie,
not even twenty five games into his career, talking like
that publicly about his teammates.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
When you have played like he has in his rookie
year on a young team. Yeah, you deserve that right,
And they're going to listen to you. You know a
lot of people say, wow, how kind that for now
they see why Peterson and his crew said we like
this guy. He's soft spoken off the floor. He's very articulate, smart.
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You know, you can tell he knows the game. But
like you said, I think the hate winning more than
hate losing more than the winning piece fits him perfectly.
He's a guy that competes every single night, knows how
to make the right play. He plays winning basketball regardless
of who's on the floor with him. He's a leader
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already at this young age. He's a leader. I think
he learned a lot of that at Duke, playing one
year at Duke. But he's going to be a leader
on this team for a long time, and his voice
will become louder and louder in the locker room as
the season goes on.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well, you've played against an are related to, you know,
some of the greatest players of all time. When they
took him at four, a lot of people said, well,
maybe I like to pick but you know, he's a
Kyle Korver type. He's a connector, he's he's a shooter.
He's turned out already to be more than that. What's
been like the most startling part of his game to
you as you've gotten to know him and maybe ways
that he's exceeded what you thought he could be.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, I think if you look back at the draft,
I think Jeff Peterson and his crew in the Hornet's
ownership said we need to change the culture, and they
drafted for culture guys. They changed the culture immediately. Now
can those guys play, absolutely, they can definitely play. But
the way he his teammates respect him. He just goes
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about his business every single day. He's locked in at
shoot around, every practice, every drill. He takes care of
his hisself on and off the floor. All those guys do.
So you know, the draft it's a crap shoot. You
got to you gotta go with the guys that you
think is gonna help your friend. As your team, and
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you can't listen to the noise outside of that once
you're locking on your guy. So I think Jeff Peterson
learned that, you know, just by having experience around the league,
and we got it right.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Del Curry Hornet's legend FanDuel Sports Network color analysts hanging
out with us here on a Friday. A couple quick
things will let you go. I got a chance to
sit down with LaMelo before opening night. We had a
great chat. I walked away feeling like he loves Charlotte,
wants to be here, wants to be built around.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Then he gets injured again.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Then those reports surfaced a couple of weeks ago about
him being disgruntled and potentially wanted out. He shot those down.
He's been coming back and forth from injury. The shooting
numbers haven't been great for a while, but it does
seem the last couple of nights, maybe in particular the
next game, like he's starting to get back into a rhythm.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Is that what you see?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I see no doubt about it. In recass of what
kind of player you are. When you're in out of
the lineup and you're not healthy, it affects who you
are as a player and how you play on the floor.
He's not one hundred percent, but he's going out and
giving it his all. Now everybody expects Philamelo to wild
the crowd on every single play and put up the
numbers he has when he's been totally healthy. I think
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he's got a little more help around him now. It
doesn't require him to do quite that much. He's doing
a lot of other things on the floor. You see
him diving on the floor, you know, putting an effort
in guarding the ball every single night. So he's trending
in the right right direction. He still loves to play.
There's gonna be trade rumors for everybody across the board.
I mean, look what looks what's happening in Milwaukee, what
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Doc Rivers is having to deal with right now with
Giannis Souh, He's he has the ability in the mindset
to put those things on the back burner and continue
to play and do what he can to help his team.
I see him work every day trying to get his
body right, trying to go on the court and help
his team, and his teammates see that. The organization sees that,
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and we like what we have in LaMelo ball again.
He's not going to score forty a night. We like
what he did in New York, especially in that second half,
you know when Josh Hard got in his ear a
little bit. Uh, that's the guy we were used to seeing.
But we don't have to I on like we have
to see that every night from him. He's got more
help around him. He knows it well.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Since you mentioned him, I brought up our Greek freak
in Blacksburg a couple of minutes ago. But the Greek
freak is who you just mentioned a second ago. He
apparently wants to finish his career elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Does that?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
People asked all week, you know, would Charlotte be involved
in that?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Could you see that?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I don't know what I see. It's gonna take a
lot for Milwaukee to give up their a franchise player
like that, right, It's gonna take a lot. I don't
even want to get started what what a trade scenario
would look like for a Giannis. And you know he's
getting a little you know, he's up there in his years.
He wants to win another title, so I think he'll
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have a lot of saying what happens in his future. Obviously,
but I know Doc River as well. He doesn't want
to see him go anywhere, so I know the working
hard to see what can happen in that area.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Okay, real quick, I have been really looking forward to
the return of Grant Williams at some point. I'm hoping
it's sooner rather than later. How much of a spark
can he beat for this team when he gets back
out there.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I think not only Grant, but Josh Green as well.
They are bettering guys that they're high IQ guys. They're
guys that they're leaders in the locker room, and when
you're on the court you can be even more so
a leader. We know that Grant has no problem holding
his teammates accountable, and they're bettering guys. You have young
guys on the floor. They're going to help the young
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guys even be better than they are now. So I'm
really looking forward to Grant coming back. He's working hard.
He's worked hard and trying to get himself ready. I
see him working out. He looks great, So we can't
wait for him to get back and help this team,
you know, try to get some more wins.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
All right, last thing, I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
They split with Toronto so far, really close game the
first time, then they got him last Sunday night. Your
thoughts on Toronto and what it might take to beat
him again.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
They had a Toronto a tough game last night. I
watched that game. They played the Lakers and lost in
the last second shot. They expended a lot of energy
in that game. And like the Hornets know, back to
back games at home, it's tough. We had a day
off yesterday, ready to go, but you gotta be able
to get back in transition. They've got Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram.
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Those two guys can carry a team by themselves. Jacqua
Perlo one of the best spiel goal shooters in the
paint in the history of the game quick quickly, one
of the best floaters in the league. And their surprise team.
They their fans come out for him every single night.
They're gonna sell it out. Their coach is hungry. He's
another young coach. He has these guys playing together, believing
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in themselves. So we're gonna have to get back in
transition every single time on a make or miss, and
you gotta rebound the ball. Those are two things that
slipped a little bit as the season's going along, twenty
third game tonight, without a lot of practice, you're gonna
have some slippage and those two things the Hornets must
do on a night basis if they wouldn't win.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Dell, you're the best, brother, Appreciate the time, enjoyed Toronto,
and go Hokies.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
We'll see when you get home.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Happy holidays, brother, All right, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Del Curry hanging out with us on a Friday live
from Toronto. They've got the Raptors tonight. You can hear
it right here on the flagship station Sports Radio ninety
two to seven wfn Z, or on the fan Duel
Sports Network if you're watching with Dell Ec, Shannon Spake,
and Terrence oglesbat tonight. Assuming Big Walks not filling in,
I think there. I think too is back tonight. So
uh it's in Toronto. Two Oh yeah, it's a dumb
(32:29):
thing to say. Yeah, it's right, yeah, yeah, what Walker's
not getting to Toronto by tip?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That was I just saw it.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I don't even know if he has I don't know
why I said that. If he has a passport, although
I guess haven't they done some of those still like
in the Spectrum Center for halftime, pregame and post not
on on occasion I thought they did. Maybe that was
just a COVID thing. Yeah, that was a cod That
was just a COVID thing because they had uh shamity
at the time. Anyway, I'm talking to myself in the circles.
Walker's not going to Canada. He just got off the
air here at three o'clock. All right, seven oh four, five,
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seven oh ninety six ten, hit us up on the
fan duel text line. Right now we go to smoke
on the headlines.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
All right, this is a neogenics college football injury report.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Neogenics, all you have to lose is the pain.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
We mentioned this yesterday at jam Miller, running back of Alabama,
was questionable heading into this game, and while he is
not out officially, it's not looking likely. So that means
Alabama's going to have to go to their third string
running back and a conference championship game against the Georgia
Bulldogs not ideal.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And in the ACC championship game.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
The injury report came out last night for both teams questionable.
The most notable name on this list for Duke is
linebacker Trey Freeman. Where Duke's been banged up for pretty
much the entire year and where they've been very thin.
And when it comes to Virginia, cam Ross wide receiver
is questionable. That's one of the biggest questions heading into
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the game for the Virginia Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
All right, well come back, we'll tell you who balled out.
We'll sneak in a phone caller too. Mark is up
first on the phones when we return. Nate Wemberley in
studio in eighteen minutes Sports Radio ninety two to seven
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Speaker 2 (34:10):
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Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's time for who balled Out?
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Speaker 4 (34:56):
I gotta go with Max Johnson because he's expected to
entered a transfer portal yet again, he's had stints at
Texas A and M and LSU as well as North Carolina,
and I guess he somehow still has eligibility. And the
craziest thing Kyle is he's somehow not even twenty five
years old.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Still Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
But yeah, he's keeping his college hope's alive because there's
no way he's making it in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm gonna go with the JMU Dukes and Billy Napier specifically,
who is set to make his return to the Sun
Belt Conference. We passed this news along yesterday, but James
Madison is hiring Billy Napier to fill the coaching vacancy
left by Bob Chesney. Sources confirmed to CBS Sports yesterday.
Bob Chesney will depart JMU for UCLA whenever the Duke's
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postseason run ends. James Madison set the face off against
Troy in the Sun Belt Championship Game tonight, and the
Dukes are also in the College Football Playoff contention after
they landed at number twenty five in the rankings last week.
And speaking of we just had Del Curry on Billy
Napier going from the Deep South in Louisiana and at
Florida where it's balmy and warm all the time, to
(36:06):
the Shenandoah Valley del Curry's Neck of the Woods. I
think it's a great hire for JMU, a great landing
spot for Billy Napier. I think the Dukes and Billy
Napier really bawling out on this one. I think JMU.
By the way, I'm not supposed to say nice things
about them, because they've become a little bit cocky in
the Commonwealth and you know, suddenly think they're the best
program in the state.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
But I actually I like the place. I loved the
Waiter football stadiums set up.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Well, I've told you my high I probably shouldn't talk
about my high school girlfriend on the year because my
wife might be listening.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
But like I had a go at.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I had a high school girlfriend. Her dad designed the
scoreboard and part of the stadium at JMU. So you know,
we broke up. We broke up tragically my freshman year
at college, and I just you know, we swore to
stay together forever. But college, you know, college is college.
You weren't in the same college as her, too, so correct.
But what I'm saying is I used to drive up
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to JMU about like every other week every three weeks
my freshman year to go see my girlfriend before she
eventually dumped me. And so I've been on that campus
quite a bit. It's a really fun place. It's a
cool campus. How far away is that from your from Blacksburg?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Uh two hours of it's all interstate. I didn't that
far yeah two oh yeah, No, no, I was. I was
treking it up the interstate to go see my freshman
year slash high school girlfriend, thinking that, you know, we
were going to be together forever, but it was not
meant to be.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
But it's a cool campus.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I think, like if you were to create a list
of like underrated smaller college campuses, because like we think,
you know, the big time SEC school some of the
big time ACC programs, the big ten's got massive, sprawling
campuses with tens of thousands of students and hundreds of
thousands of living alumni with tons and tons of money,
Big twelve schools, things like that. But like, if you
were to create a list of like the top three
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or top five small school campus environments, I would include
JMU on that list. I think it's a really good
place to be. I don't know what anybody else would
throw on that list if you created like a top
three or just like the most underrated small college campus.
And I'm not only talking football here, but like a
lot of reasons. I'm not sure if high Point counts
because they're you know, they're really only good at basketball,
(38:06):
But I think high Points campus is phenomenal. It's a
great place to I'm just think Elon's got a beautiful campus. Yeah, yeah,
trying to think off the top of my head, like
small school camp app State obviously, I love Boone just
the door, don't flip me off.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Okay, Western Carolina's got a great campus too.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Uh Western, Okay, I don't think I'm gonna throw that
out there. ECU's got a good ECU's fun, at least
it used to be before the fans stopped caring. I'm sorry, ECU.
I'm not trying to throw shots here. I don't care. Look,
I'm trying to like get under the skin of ECU
fans so they'll get back to being the ECU fans
that I used to know back in the day. Did
you see some of the stadium environment from this year
unacceptable from ECU fans? Unacceptable?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Do you careful what you wish for, because what happened
in two thousand and eight there, Kyle, I want.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
To talk about that. But also I throw speaking of
conference title games. I heard Colin and Shroppy talking about
this earlier today too. My Miami of Ohio beautiful campus.
You got to look it up on the internet. Really
beautiful campus at Miami, Ohio. That's not the thing I
want to talk about with the MAC right now. It's
what the heck's going on to the Ohio Bobcats. Do
we ever get a follow up on that story? I
(39:13):
don't think we did. Yeah, the guy who replaced Tim
Alban at Ohio won eight games and was placed on leave.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Have they fired him yet? I haven't heard anything to
suggest otherwise. But it's, uh yeah, it seems like a
touch and go situation. It's something that is very weird.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
All right, let's go to the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
So apparently Mark wants to talk Hoki's football, And of
course I'm not going to say no, Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Hey, cal by the way, you're talking to Ohio University graduate? Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Really?
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (39:40):
So thanks? And I've been following that story and nobody
knows what's going on there. They put the defensive coach
in charge of the team. Yeah, we think there's maybe
a little extra curric here. He's going through a divorce
and so anyway, he got brutal. Yeah, and I'm sure
Tim Olwins is going like, why they hell did I
ever leave Ohio University? Right, So I want to talk Hoky.
(40:04):
I was a junior at Blacksburg High School in nineteen
sixty eight. I ran rent. That was the worst thing
you could be, by the way of towny and I
had a rock and roll band, and then by the way,
I grant a restaurant in Blacksburg in nineteen seventy five.
But I was there when Don Struck was playing, So
I saw the Hokies when they were really good, before
they were associated with anybody. And James Franklin when I
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was in Knoxville, I was there for six years. It
was you know, I had to be there because of
my job, and he was at Vanderbilt. And he's a jerk.
I don't take this personally. He's a jerk, but he's
a great recruiter. And what he's going to do, and
he's already done it because you're a recruiting class has
moved up like at Maga Speed and he recruits Tidewater,
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Virginia where all the rascals are down there, and the
Hokies when they were good, that's where they were recruiting,
right yep. So they're going to be back there. And
now he's doing it now and he's bringing a bunch
of Penn State people over there. So I think the
Hokies next year we're going to kick some serious butt.
So Virginia, enjoy your enjoy your hoax this year because
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next year the Hokies are going to be back kicking
your little hokey hokey hokey high butt. So get ready
for that one.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I love.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
But hey, were you there?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
That means you were there when Bruce arians was the
quarterback too, right, I was, Yes, Yes, I was there.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
I used to run a restaurant, ain't you seventy five?
I had to. I made it through. I had to
leave at the end of the third quarter and go
through the restaurant and cut the ovens on because I
had five hundred baked potatoes to do, and and and
it was that called That's Stake Place, that seafood place
that was out there on the way to Christiansburg before you,
before they built the bypass. It was in a rainy
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old hotel out there, and I ran a restaurant for
two years.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
And loved it.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
And and I'm a hockey fan. My brother went to
school there, and uh, I had a bunch cousins went
to school there. So I had an uncle that financed
five kids through there. And they lived in a they
lived in a trailer and that was their room and board.
Oh yeah, but anyway, so yeah, I know listen, I
even know the hockey chair. I know what a hokey is.
(42:17):
I know all the history there. So you got somebody
here out of Fort Mill. I moved here from Florida. Nice,
and you've got somebody here in the area that knows
a lot about hockey history. Well, it was the time
you want to talk.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Brother.
Speaker 6 (42:28):
Let me know.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
It was an appropriate time for you to call after
the Dell Curry conversation. So I'm sure the North Carolina
I'm sure the North Carolinians are already sick of hearing
about James Franklin and Blacksburg. And I don't blame him,
but I'm pretty excited about it.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
So is Dell.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Well, Well, good for you and the Bombcasts will win
their bowl game, and the heck with Miami of Ohio,
that's we usually kicked. We kicked their butt this year,
so we don't care about Miami Ohio.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I hear you. I'm just a lot. I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
Jodd and Law went to school there though.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
All right, you call me anytime. Mark.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
I appreciate the phone call on Man. Yeah, I was
just complimenting Miami of Ohio's campus because it really is nice.
But a great phone call from Mark. We got a
lot to get to get too. Still a loaded five
o'clock hour when we come back, Nate Wimberley WBTV, we
got to recap a lot of the high school football
playoffs from last night.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Games moved up.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Also, big news out of local high school football, Sam
Grinder out as the West Charlotte Lions head football coach.
We'll see what Nate knows about that. We'll of course
get his thoughts on the Panthers and the Hornets and
Chip Patterson coming up in five point thirty. So stick
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Smoke with You having a good time called an audible. Already,
Chip Patterson had to do some Cover three and CBS
work because of the Penn State hire of Matt Campbell. Yes,
Matt Campbell has finally been pried away from Iowa State
and ames this is worse off for it, I believe,
But I think Penn State got a pretty good I'm
(00:50):
a Matt Campbell fan. I'm not a super fan, but
I'm a Matt Campbell fan, and I think Penn State
will at least be, you know, a competent football team
moving forward. But man, I mean the hemorrhaging just did
from their recruiting class. I do think it's set them
back two years as a program. So do you want
to say it's not a done deal yet?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Really? Okay? So, but it is moving towards it being
a done deal. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
For the last couple of hours the reports where they're
finalizing a deal to make Iowa state head coach Matt
Campbell the next head coach. So we shall see a
couple of texts that have come in. First of all, smoke,
I don't usually read a lot of the texts that
are super complimentary of us because it comes across, as
you know, self serving and arrogant and conceded. But I
do love texts that come from new listeners. We had
(01:32):
a guy from Eugene, Oregon text in to say that
he moved to Charlotte five months ago, lived in large
West Coast markets and a college town where football is everything.
He's listened to sports radio for forty years. He loves
the show, says we're informative and entertaining, and says we
make his commute better. And then he says he's a
dad and a grandfather and that I'm good to go
(01:52):
leave the Nutcracker recital after my daughter's five minutes on stage,
which makes me like him even more. So we're getting
new listeners. We've brought in a full or West Coast
listener from Eugene, Oregon who is a forty year sports
radio listener and he's a big fan of the show.
So we love that, and plus I love him allowing
me to, you know, at least giving me his permission
to do what we talked about earlier. If you missed it.
(02:13):
Next week's busy. I've got a live show in Baltimore
on Friday. Then I've got TV play by play for
a tournament in Las Vegas, and then I get back
on Sunday and my daughter's got our very first ballet recital.
It's the Nutcracker in the middle of the Panthers game
against the Saints, and I don't want to be the
jerk dad who's either watching it on his phone or
gets up to leave and like, you know, disrupts the
(02:35):
recital because I want to go watch the Panthers game.
But I really I'm really gonna want to watch the
Panthers game. So you know, thank you for your permission,
and thank you for not judging me, because I will
be there with my Pom poms on, you know, cheering
on baby girl for the ballet recital, but as soon
as her five minutes are up, my attention's going to
the Carolina Panthers. Then we had a different Texter. You
and I brought up the Bryce young thing, and I
(02:57):
think I forget exactly what spurred it. But we had
a listener, Terrell, who said, so Bryce Young isn't worth
an extension, but Ikey is.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
LMAO.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Apparently you all have amnesia from the last two years.
Just because he's done a decent job this year, you
just erase the last two years of him screwing up.
Hold on a minute. First of all, this is more
about timing, And I told Terrell this. Bryce was drafted
in twenty twenty three. Ikey was drafted in twenty twenty two.
Ikey's coming up sooner. That's really what it's about. You know,
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they've got to get Ikey a new deal. And when
you say the last two years, he didn't have a
great year last year, he admitted as much. But he
has not been bad the last two years.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Okay, Yeah, last year was pretty good and this year
has been building off of a pretty good year to
what I would call a goodyear.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, he's doing a lot better than Evan Neil
right now.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I mean my understanding is Ikey bet on himself coming
into you know, this season, probably could have done a
deal before the season started. I'd imagine the Panthers wanted to.
But you know, Ikey's bet on himself again this year,
and I think he's earned a contract extension. I think
they believe he's earned a contract extension, and I think
we'll hear about it sometime in the not too distant future.
Let's sneak in a phone call really quickly. Panther Bow
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was up next on the phones. But what's going on, buddy?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
KB?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
Doing well?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Happy?
Speaker 8 (04:19):
Uh football Friday? I appreciate you taking my call. I
just want to chime in on the arrogance and sports things. Yeah,
I was interesting because Signetty he's actually one of those
guys and obviously Hurley's up there, but it's like considering
the amount of winning. I mean, there's kind of owned that,
you know, that type of arrogance, and it's not like
he's like entitlement arrogance like he actually he doesn't seem like.
(04:40):
I mean, he wasn't, you know, like weird or mean
or whatever towards Perdue when they molly wopped him. I
mean he was like, you know what, he's new in
the program talking about their coach, and so, you know,
I just I think he's a good coach and I
don't actually mind his whole personality. But then you get
the other type of arrogance where it's like you haven't
earned it yet, and that's like the Justin Thomases of
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the world. It's like, bro, you haven't won to a master,
the Open Championship. You know that guy hasn't earned anything.
And it's just funny that he had that, And you
know that change between Max because it's like that's who
he is. That's that's that's who that guy is. And
then Will Wade not to go full doctor Phil and
Will Wade, but you have not done anything yet. You
need just stop talking about you, Bert David, I mean, seriously,
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worry about yourself. I mean, so well, we'll see how
this all plays out this week. And I think the
four teams I got they're gonna win and cover. I mean,
I think the Who's are gonna do it. Georgia, Ohio State, Anna,
the Texas Tech blows out the Uyu. But man should
be a good one.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Looking forward to it. Thank you both, have a great weekend.
My friend seven oh four five seven ninety six ten
hit us up on the FanDuel text line. Yeah, if
you missed it. Earlier in the show, we got off
on a conversation about who the most arrogant person in
sports is because well, there are plenty of people who
feel that way about Indiana head coach Kurt Signetti. He
is though he's deaf like that. I am not here
to argue that he's not. I just enjoy it like
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as somebody who doesn't have to root against him. You know,
I'm not involved in some rivalry game against him. I
guess the way the bow is. I find him highly entertaining.
I think Kurt Signetti is just a wildly entertaining guy.
But if you want to chime in, who is the
most arrogant person in sports? Seven h four or five?
Seven oh ninety six ten would love to hear your thoughts.
Right now we go to smoke with the best audio
in sports.
Speaker 9 (06:24):
What did you say? You?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What? What did you say?
Speaker 9 (06:28):
Hold up?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Wait a minute?
Speaker 9 (06:29):
So may right?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
What I mean by that is what you got? All right? Well,
keeping things in college football.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
One coach that may have a little bit of arrogance
to him, but it's nowhere near to the level of
Kurt Signetti is Clark Lee, who's the head coach of
the Vanderbilt Commodores, and Vanderbilt is on the outside looking
in of the playoff pitcher and likely not going to
get in. But there were reports that Vandy was actually
reaching out the teams like Miami, Notre Dame, Utah, that
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they were trying to play a game this weekend last minute,
and he was asked on Get up Barstool earlier today
on Fox Sports One if those reports were true.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Well, it's true. I mean I and I told the
players on Tuesday when we met, I just said, you know,
have your bags packed and be ready and this could
this call could come at any point in time. And
I've said publicly, I mean, anybody that they want us
to play, and.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
We'll go there.
Speaker 10 (07:22):
We'll go to Utah, We'll go to Miami, We'll go
to Notre Dame to play them, because we believe in
our team, you know, and again if it gives us
an opportunity to fight for the NAW. I mean just
here's the thing. Every team in the country wants to
win the national Championship. That's what we set the course
to do. January seventh, twenty twenty five, we got together
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for the first time as a team and said this
is our goal. And now we sit here having done
the things that we felt like we needed to do
to vicision ourselves to have a chance to fight for it.
And you know we're being held off by subjectivity and
moving gold posts with respect to what hurdles need to
be cleared for an SEC team to get into the tournament.
(08:04):
So look, we've we've done all we could to find
you know, what is the location allows us to get
a thirteenth game exempt and all those things and gone
through the logistics of it. It's not going to happen.
But it's not because we haven't tried to make it happen.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So do you know about the Hawaii rules, smoke Hawaii rule,
the Hawaii rule, and the NCAA Hawaii rule.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
No, never heard of it? No, I haven't because I
hadn't either.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Okay, as we know, Vanderbilt and Miami might be on
the outside looking in when the final rankings come out
after conference championship week and they've got nothing they can
do about it given they aren't playing in a conference
title game. Even though Hunter Yurochek did assure us back
on Tuesday night that you know, idle teams can still
be moved up and down if you believe that, so
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you know, other teams can still improve their resumes. But
the Commodores and the Hurricanes, well, they're just sitting and waiting.
There was a poster on the Vanderbilt two four to
seven sports message board that suggested the Hawaii plan. By
NCAA rules, teams can only play a thirteenth regular season
game if it takes place in Hawaii or Alaska. Thus
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the choice of locale and the reasoning for the matchup,
of course, is that one of these teams would add
a top twenty five win, giving a resume that the
committee couldn't pass up. And can you imagine the attention
on that game because of the novelty of it, the
potential location, like Hawaii is the place that everybody would
want to go. But can you imagine, like if Clark
(09:34):
Lee and Mario Christobal too tough ass dudes, like no,
we're going to Juno, We're going to Fairbanks. We're going
to play in negative ten degrees with no sleeves on and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
W we lie just dark.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That would be their national championship game if those two
guys could do that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Apparently I did not know that, so you know, it
would also be another opportunity to see Diego Pavia playing
a big game, which, by the way, we have people
on the text line saying that the Diego Pavia is
the most arrogant man in sports. But anyway, the Hawaii rule,
that's apparently a real thing. What else you got?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
All right?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Moving over to DNFL, we talked over the last couple
of days about whether or not Dave Canalis has an
outside shot of being coached a year in the NFL
this year. Well, yesterday on the Mac and Ball Shoe,
Adam Gold, who does radio out in Rawley the Triangle,
was asked about whether or not he believes that Dave
Canal should be in the hunt for Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
It didn't go, according to playing that's idiotic, idiotic.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Oh yes, Oh look then until this past week. This
is he's had two weeks this year where I think
he has done an exceptional job the Green.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Bay game at this past week.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Other than that, I think they have done everything in
spite of him. I get we are still prisoner of
the record and where we thought this team would be
is ludicrous. Like I am, I'm thrilled that they finally
in week thirteen figured.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Out how their offense should run.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
It only took Dames until week thirteen to.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Come up with how they should They should be a.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Run heavy, downfield passing team. You're this the first time
they've done it where they'll let Bryce when they get
through it, they let him throw the ball down the field. Yay,
that's the way it should work.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The only thing ludacrous is that line of reasoning. It's absurd.
Two games he's been good and otherwise he just couldn't fit.
There couldn't have been the ten different offensive line combinations,
it couldn't have been an injury to Jalen Koker, who
were now watching. Clearly opens up the passing game in
ways that they didn't have when it was just Tener
mcmill and the rookie getting all of the attention. Xavier
(11:56):
League get has been a longer term project that I
think most people enteripated. You know, they've had, you know,
rotations at tight end where they're relying upon a rookie
in Mitchell Evans because JT. Sanders has been hurt, Tommy
Trimble dealt with injury earlier in the season, and it's
a year two of the head coach and his offense.
So big picture to me, like not to get into
(12:17):
a peeing match with Adam Gold, who certainly entitled to
his opinion, no matter how Ludacris it might be. I
don't think Dave Canallis is going to win NFL Coach
of the Year. The overwhelming likelihood is that Mike Rabel
wins NFL Coach of the Year. But we do have
to let the season play out, and as I said yesterday,
Dave Canais leads this team to the playoffs a year
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removed from historically the worst defense from a scoring standpoint
that's ever taken the field in NFL history, less than
a year, a year and a half removed from the
worst roster in the NFL. And that's not an opinion,
that's it's pretty empirical, right, fewest number of players in
the entire league drafted by the Panthers, players on last
year's team, starting in the two deep, that didn't even
make NFL rosters to start the year. It's a monumental
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feat if this team gets to the playoffs led by
their head coach. So yeah, Mike Rabel's the overwhelming favorite.
They're eleven and two, they've won ten straight games. They
should be. Ben Johnson's done a great job in Chicago.
No one's arguing that. I would tell you that per
the odds, I don't think either Mike McDonald or Brian Schottenheimer,
as I said yesterday, belong ahead of Dave Canalis on
the odds. So I think Dave should be third in
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the odds right now, not McDonald or Brian Schottenheimer. By
the way, tough night for the Cowboys last night. Yeah,
I mean so again, Adam's entitled to his opinion. I'm
entitled to disagree. It's not ludicrous to believe that Dave Canais,
if they go three and want to make the playoffs,
could or should be in the discussion for Coach of
the Year. Okay, but yeah again, Rabel's probably gonna win it.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What else you got, all right?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Well, one area where maybe Carolina does have a chance
of winning something is in defensive Player to Year. As
after Sunday's performance, despite what PFF may have you believe,
Derek Brown had another great game and Kay Adams is
now the leader in the clubhouse. No pun intended for
getting Derek Brown defensive Player to Year consideration.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Derek freaking Brown, Derek Brown on any other team, in
any other Worlds is a defensive Player of the Year,
clutch sack force, both Stafford picks.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
He is my defensive player of the year.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Derek Brown is with the impact that he has on
every play in every game, on every win whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Oh well, yeah, yeah, no doubt about it. Let me
hit this too, because the bagel guy is telling me
that a zero of Vero is the coach of the year.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Not Canalis.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Too many times we've questioned the Panthers being ready to
play in no second half adjustments. This team would have
two wins if it wasn't for the defense. Well, no,
they wouldn't have two wins if it wasn't for the defense.
That's not true. That's just objectively not true. I disagree
with that.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I do.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I believe in a zero of Verro getting you know, credit.
But a big reason why zero Vero's defense looks night
and day different from last year is Derek Brown. Derek
Brown being back, Derek Brown wrecking shop in the middle,
Derek Brown being an impact player as often as he
has been.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So yeah, I mean, I know again, we watch far
more of Derek Brown than the rest of the league.
Does we all understand how that works? So I don't expect.
There are a ton of people in West Coast markets
that have been paying a lot of attention to Derek Brown,
but he's been an absolute monster. I will certainly be
upset if Derek Brown does not get what I think
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is the requisite attention and accolades for what he's done
this year. But is he even on the Have you
seen the odds for NFL Comeback Player of the Year,
because he's got to.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Be in the odds for that.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
I think Daniel Jones is leading over him.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, it's not that he's not deserving. He's definitely deserving,
but Derek Brown's got to be top three in that discussion, right.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Could be?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah? Okay, I actually do have one more. Let's go
all right, Well, we end with an update on Dougly.
For those who don't know, Doug gott Lead, the former
basketball player turned radio personality is still a radio personality,
but he's also the head coach at green Bay. Last
year went horrendously with only four wins. Good news, Kyle,
He's already matched his win total from last year, but
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still four and five not really great at this point
for green Bay, and last night they blew an eleven
point lead into final four minutes to Robert moorees, which
led to him going full Bobby Knight and throwing a
chair as he headed to the locker room, and his
postgame press conference didn't go too well either.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Unbelievably frustrating, Like unbelievably frustrating. You do everything, you prepare them,
you get them right there, they have the game, and
they just they got to they gotta they got to
bring it home, and we just didn't. You know, we
get to the line thirty one times is great. We
shot twenty five to thirty one, which is which is excellent.
That we got to make the wins account. So, I mean,
we had a good basketball team, but can I we.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Just gave that the way they did.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I understand his frustration. They were up by eleven with
three and a half minutes left to go and then
Robert Morris just goes off for a late rally.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They cut it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
To two with thirty five seconds left to go, green
Bay gets called for a ten second violation, couldn't get
the ball up the court, and then Robert Morris hits
to go ahead three. Green Bay goes one of two
from the free throw line to tie it, and then
I'm gonna butcher this name. Nicholas Chitakutas scored the game
winning layup for Robert Morris with two point seconds left
to play. Gottleig Gotleeb's pacing the sidelines with his hair,
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chucks the chair and then goes in and gives that
postgame press conference.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The Vegas Shock Me is going into year two. He's
still doing his radio show on a daily basis.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I mean that was kind of always the plan, though,
right I thought after last year it would have ended.
They went four and twenty eight last year. They are
already four and six this year through ten games. They
are much better than they were in year one. I
want to at least point that out on Doug's behalf.
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Go to cvinjurylog dot com, KB and Smoke hanging out
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Com in the Cover three podcast He's back at five thirty.
He had to do some emergency TV work and some
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the next head coach of the Nittney Lyons. What are
we at now, Smoke? Is it eight weeks? I guess
after firing James Franklin, they're finally going to find a coach?
Is my math right on that?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Right? Over fifty days, like fifty two to fifty three? Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Right, So there you go. We'll talk about that with
Hip coming up in just a bit. And speaking of
it's time to welcome in and welcome back good friend
of the show, a guy who I think a lot
of and for lots of reasons, Del Curry, Charlotte Hornet's Legend,
Hornet's color analyst on the fan Duel Sports Network also
on Amazon. My buddy Del Curry back with us on
the hotline for a quick Friday conversation. Is the Hornets
battle the Raptors tonight in Toronto? Seven thirty tips, six
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thirty pre game here on the flagship Del Curry.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
How you been, my man, KB, I'm doing great, man.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Penn State's loss is the Hokies reward fired up about
g Tech football. Let's go. Let's go out to this
some emergency TV work here later on myself.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, I love it, dude. I'm sure you and I
follow each other on the Gram. I got to go
up for the introductory press conference a couple of weeks ago,
and I got to shake the hand of the man
Dell who's going to bring us a national championship.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Finally fell COO like it.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I like it so again, as a couple of guys
who've done their fair share of tailgating outside Lane Stadium,
we got a Homer out for a second, like, how
excited are you about what he's done for the program?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Already super excited, man. I've talked to a lot of
my my buddies, college budies that played football there. They're
all excited about Hoky football in the future. He's already
hit the trails, recruiting, bringing in some some top you know,
student athletes there. So it's got a lot of work
to do. But I think we got the right guy.
(20:20):
He knows what he's doing. He's gonna bring He's gonna
bring what you say, he's gonna bring some some wins
in the championship to Blacksburg.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, I can't wait, man, I'm excited about it. Speaking
of Blacksburg real quick, I know, like you, you know, my
head's in the Hornets three four nights a week at least.
I don't know if you get to watch Mike Young's
group very much. But have you seen the kid from Greece,
nioclusev Dallas. I mean, he's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I've not seen him yet, but my buddy Terrence Oldsby,
who does the pre and post for the Hornets, is
keeping me up with him. He says he is a baller.
Told me before the season started, we got a winner
in Blacksburg, man. So yeah, Mike Young is getting it done.
I'm gonna definitely catch a game before you know. They
getting the acc play big time here. But I'm excited
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Hope Athletics. They deserve to have two guys that know
what they're doing, and then I think we got them.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I do too, I do too.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
All right, let's talk about the home team then, Hornet
six and sixteen, coming off a couple of losses in
New York. Now you go even further north up to Toronto.
I don't think we've gotten the final injury report for
tonight's game yet, but you know that's been the big
problem again, dell As. You well know they've been missing
a lot of Brandon Miller, LaMelo has been in and out,
other guys injured. Like, how much of that do you
attribute to a six and sixteen start? And you know,
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do you think this team is at a place where
they can start to climb out of it soon?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Injuries, Like you said, it's always been a problem. It's
a problem for every team. It seems like because we
follow the Hornets that we're passionate about honess basketball, it
seems like it hits us harder than anybody every single season.
But it goes with the territory. I say all the time,
our draft class is the ones that's gonna benefit from this.
We got four good rookies that are benefiting from some
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on the court experience. But I do think the record
is a reflection of coach Lee not having his core
guys together to see really how good this team can be.
And then you play so many games so fast, there's
no time to develop the young guys. You kind of
just got to throw them out there and let them
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learn on the fly. So you incorporate all that together.
And then you're playing some tough teams as well. And
we've hit the road pretty hard, especially this week. The
Cup games were really hard and fun. But it's the
life of the NBA. I mean, everybody goes through the
trials and tribulations. You can't make excuses. You got to
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go out and play hard. And you look back at
a couple of three or four close games, you say,
yea man, if we'd have just won you know those games,
I reckon it will be a lot different. But it's
trending in the right area.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I get a chance to talk to Charles Lee every
week and talk to him the other day about the
fourth quarter lineup against the Nets, and I asked him
about I said, hey, I looked out there were seven
minutes to go when I saw t Jon Sion, Leah McNeely,
Antonio Reeves, Colin Sexton and that's just not a fourth
quarter lineup i'd expect to see out there in the
middle of a tight game trying to grab your third
straight win. And I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but he
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basically told me, we have expectations for this team. I
have things I expect these guys to do, and when
they don't do that, sometimes the best way to send
a message is to bring them on over to the
bench to sit with me. And that's how you end
up with those lineups. What have you noticed just in
terms of what he demands from these players, both in
game but also in the practice floor, and how he's
continuing to try to build a culture in that way.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
For a young coach. He holds every man top to
bottom accountable, and that's the way to do it. I
mean the old Bobby Knight saying there's no bigger motivator
than the bench. And again, I think it goes back
to just not having the quality practice time, to not
being able to practice these things and put players in
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situations and then you get out there and play, You
take it for granted. You get in the close game
and our margin of victory margin, Everrea is so small
to get a victory. You can't keep making the same mistakes,
especially guys.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That's been been around for a while.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
You'd rather see the young guys get out there and
make those type mistakes. So kudos for a young coach
to be to be able to hold his stars and
rotational players accountable. I think it sets a presidence for
the entire team that they got to be locked in
from the start of the game to the finish the game,
and if they're not, he's going to find some guys
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out there that he trust in the game. So, you know,
I applauded for that.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, Kank Nipple, who I know, you've talked about a lot.
I've talked about a ton. You know, I've talked to
a lot of coaches and general managers over the years,
and I've heard a lot of them say things like,
you want guys that you know hate losing even more
than they love winning, you know, things like that, and
that's not everybody. Conk Nipple kind of seems like that
sort of dude. I've read the quotes from him. In
the last several days. He talked to Rod Boone of
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The Observer. He talked about the team not competing hard
enough against the Brooklyn Nets. Some people wouldn't like a
rookie talking like that. What do you think of the rookie,
not even twenty five games into his career, talking like
that publicly about his teammates.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
When you have played like he has in his rookie
year on a young team. Yeah, you deserve that right,
And they're going to listen to you. You know a
lot of people say, wow, how kind that for now
they see why Peterson and his crew said we like
this guy. He's soft spoken off the floor. He's very articulate, smart.
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You know, you can tell he knows the game. But
like you said, I think the hate winning more than
hate losing more than the winning piece fits him perfectly.
He's a guy that competes every single night, knows how
to make the right play. He plays winning basketball regardless
of who's on the floor with him. He's a leader
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already at this young age. He's a leader. I think
he learned a lot of that at Duke, playing one
year at Duke. But he's going to be a leader
on this team for a long time, and his voice
will become louder and louder in the locker room as
the season goes on.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well, you've played against an are related to, you know,
some of the greatest players of all time. When they
took him at four, a lot of people said, well,
maybe I like to pick but you know, he's a
Kyle Korver type. He's a connector, he's he's a shooter.
He's turned out already to be more than that. What's
been like the most startling part of his game to
you as you've gotten to know him and maybe ways
that he's exceeded what you thought he could be.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Well, I think if you look back at the draft,
I think Jeff Peterson and his crew in the Hornet's
ownership said we need to change the culture, and they
drafted for culture guys. They changed the culture immediately. Now
can those guys play, absolutely, they can definitely play. But
the way he his teammates respect him. He just goes
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about his business every single day. He's locked in at
shoot around, every practice, every drill. He takes care of
his hisself on and off the floor. All those guys do.
So you know, the draft it's a crap shoot. You
got to you gotta go with the guys that you
think is gonna help your friend. As your team, and
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you can't listen to the noise outside of that once
you're locking on your guy. So I think Jeff Peterson
learned that, you know, just by having experience around the league,
and we got it right.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Del Curry Hornet's legend FanDuel Sports Network color analysts hanging
out with us here on a Friday. A couple quick
things will let you go. I got a chance to
sit down with LaMelo before opening night. We had a
great chat. I walked away feeling like he loves Charlotte,
wants to be here, wants to be built around.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Then he gets injured again.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Then those reports surfaced a couple of weeks ago about
him being disgruntled and potentially wanted out. He shot those down.
He's been coming back and forth from injury. The shooting
numbers haven't been great for a while, but it does
seem the last couple of nights, maybe in particular the
next game, like he's starting to get back into a rhythm.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Is that what you see?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I see no doubt about it. In recass of what
kind of player you are. When you're in out of
the lineup and you're not healthy, it affects who you
are as a player and how you play on the floor.
He's not one hundred percent, but he's going out and
giving it his all. Now everybody expects Philamelo to wild
the crowd on every single play and put up the
numbers he has when he's been totally healthy. I think
(28:09):
he's got a little more help around him now. It
doesn't require him to do quite that much. He's doing
a lot of other things on the floor. You see
him diving on the floor, you know, putting an effort
in guarding the ball every single night. So he's trending
in the right right direction. He still loves to play.
There's gonna be trade rumors for everybody across the board.
I mean, look what looks what's happening in Milwaukee, what
(28:31):
Doc Rivers is having to deal with right now with
Giannis Souh, He's he has the ability in the mindset
to put those things on the back burner and continue
to play and do what he can to help his team.
I see him work every day trying to get his
body right, trying to go on the court and help
his team, and his teammates see that. The organization sees that,
(28:53):
and we like what we have in LaMelo ball again.
He's not going to score forty a night. We like
what he did in New York, especially in that second half,
you know when Josh Hard got in his ear a
little bit. Uh, that's the guy we were used to seeing.
But we don't have to I on like we have
to see that every night from him. He's got more
help around him. He knows it well.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Since you mentioned him, I brought up our Greek freak
in Blacksburg a couple of minutes ago. But the Greek
freak is who you just mentioned a second ago. He
apparently wants to finish his career elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Does that?
Speaker 3 (29:24):
People asked all week, you know, would Charlotte be involved
in that?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Could you see that?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
I don't know what I see. It's gonna take a
lot for Milwaukee to give up their a franchise player
like that, right, It's gonna take a lot. I don't
even want to get started what what a trade scenario
would look like for a Giannis. And you know he's
getting a little you know, he's up there in his years.
He wants to win another title, so I think he'll
(29:52):
have a lot of saying what happens in his future. Obviously,
but I know Doc River as well. He doesn't want
to see him go anywhere, so I know the working
hard to see what can happen in that area.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Okay, real quick, I have been really looking forward to
the return of Grant Williams at some point. I'm hoping
it's sooner rather than later. How much of a spark
can he beat for this team when he gets back
out there.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I think not only Grant, but Josh Green as well.
They are bettering guys that they're high IQ guys. They're
guys that they're leaders in the locker room, and when
you're on the court you can be even more so
a leader. We know that Grant has no problem holding
his teammates accountable, and they're bettering guys. You have young
guys on the floor. They're going to help the young
(30:34):
guys even be better than they are now. So I'm
really looking forward to Grant coming back. He's working hard.
He's worked hard and trying to get himself ready. I
see him working out. He looks great, So we can't
wait for him to get back and help this team,
you know, try to get some more wins.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
All right, last thing, I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
They split with Toronto so far, really close game the
first time, then they got him last Sunday night. Your
thoughts on Toronto and what it might take to beat
him again.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
They had a Toronto a tough game last night. I
watched that game. They played the Lakers and lost in
the last second shot. They expended a lot of energy
in that game. And like the Hornets know, back to
back games at home, it's tough. We had a day
off yesterday, ready to go, but you gotta be able
to get back in transition. They've got Scottie Barnes, Brandon Ingram.
(31:19):
Those two guys can carry a team by themselves. Jacqua
Perlo one of the best spiel goal shooters in the
paint in the history of the game quick quickly, one
of the best floaters in the league. And their surprise team.
They their fans come out for him every single night.
They're gonna sell it out. Their coach is hungry. He's
another young coach. He has these guys playing together, believing
(31:41):
in themselves. So we're gonna have to get back in
transition every single time on a make or miss, and
you gotta rebound the ball. Those are two things that
slipped a little bit as the season's going along, twenty
third game tonight, without a lot of practice, you're gonna
have some slippage and those two things the Hornets must
do on a night basis if they wouldn't win.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Dell, you're the best, brother, Appreciate the time, enjoyed Toronto,
and go Hokies.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
We'll see when you get home.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Happy holidays, brother, All right, we'll talk to you.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Del Curry hanging out with us on a Friday live
from Toronto. They've got the Raptors tonight. You can hear
it right here on the flagship station Sports Radio ninety
two to seven wfn Z, or on the fan Duel
Sports Network if you're watching with Dell Ec, Shannon Spake,
and Terrence oglesbat tonight. Assuming Big Walks not filling in,
I think there. I think too is back tonight. So
uh it's in Toronto. Two Oh yeah, it's a dumb
(32:29):
thing to say. Yeah, it's right, yeah, yeah, what Walker's
not getting to Toronto by tip?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
That was I just saw it.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I don't even know if he has I don't know
why I said that. If he has a passport, although
I guess haven't they done some of those still like
in the Spectrum Center for halftime, pregame and post not
on on occasion I thought they did. Maybe that was
just a COVID thing. Yeah, that was a cod That
was just a COVID thing because they had uh shamity
at the time. Anyway, I'm talking to myself in the circles.
Walker's not going to Canada. He just got off the
air here at three o'clock. All right, seven oh four, five,
(32:55):
seven oh ninety six ten, hit us up on the
fan duel text line. Right now we go to smoke
on the headlines.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
All right, this is a neogenics college football injury report.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Neogenics, all you have to lose is the pain.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
We mentioned this yesterday at jam Miller, running back of Alabama,
was questionable heading into this game, and while he is
not out officially, it's not looking likely. So that means
Alabama's going to have to go to their third string
running back and a conference championship game against the Georgia
Bulldogs not ideal.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And in the ACC championship game.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
The injury report came out last night for both teams questionable.
The most notable name on this list for Duke is
linebacker Trey Freeman. Where Duke's been banged up for pretty
much the entire year and where they've been very thin.
And when it comes to Virginia, cam Ross wide receiver
is questionable. That's one of the biggest questions heading into
(33:49):
the game for the Virginia Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
All right, well come back, we'll tell you who balled out.
We'll sneak in a phone caller too. Mark is up
first on the phones when we return. Nate Wemberley in
studio in eighteen minutes Sports Radio ninety two to seven
w f N z.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
B Sity, get on your feet.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Hello, good Protection twelve for the year Zion.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Can you go to the buck?
Speaker 4 (34:24):
He's gotta go, coming on him side by side of the.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Back to brush running into the area. It'll pass towards.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
Opprates for putting out.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
It's time for who balled Out?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
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Speaker 4 (34:56):
I gotta go with Max Johnson because he's expected to
entered a transfer portal yet again, he's had stints at
Texas A and M and LSU as well as North Carolina,
and I guess he somehow still has eligibility. And the
craziest thing Kyle is he's somehow not even twenty five
years old.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Still Wow.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
But yeah, he's keeping his college hope's alive because there's
no way he's making it in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I'm gonna go with the JMU Dukes and Billy Napier specifically,
who is set to make his return to the Sun
Belt Conference. We passed this news along yesterday, but James
Madison is hiring Billy Napier to fill the coaching vacancy
left by Bob Chesney. Sources confirmed to CBS Sports yesterday.
Bob Chesney will depart JMU for UCLA whenever the Duke's
(35:45):
postseason run ends. James Madison set the face off against
Troy in the Sun Belt Championship Game tonight, and the
Dukes are also in the College Football Playoff contention after
they landed at number twenty five in the rankings last week.
And speaking of we just had Del Curry on Billy
Napier going from the Deep South in Louisiana and at
Florida where it's balmy and warm all the time, to
(36:06):
the Shenandoah Valley del Curry's Neck of the Woods. I
think it's a great hire for JMU, a great landing
spot for Billy Napier. I think the Dukes and Billy
Napier really bawling out on this one. I think JMU.
By the way, I'm not supposed to say nice things
about them, because they've become a little bit cocky in
the Commonwealth and you know, suddenly think they're the best
program in the state.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
But I actually I like the place. I loved the
Waiter football stadiums set up.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Well, I've told you my high I probably shouldn't talk
about my high school girlfriend on the year because my
wife might be listening.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
But like I had a go at.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
I had a high school girlfriend. Her dad designed the
scoreboard and part of the stadium at JMU. So you know,
we broke up. We broke up tragically my freshman year
at college, and I just you know, we swore to
stay together forever. But college, you know, college is college.
You weren't in the same college as her, too, so correct.
But what I'm saying is I used to drive up
(36:55):
to JMU about like every other week every three weeks
my freshman year to go see my girlfriend before she
eventually dumped me. And so I've been on that campus
quite a bit. It's a really fun place. It's a
cool campus. How far away is that from your from Blacksburg?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Uh two hours of it's all interstate. I didn't that
far yeah two oh yeah, No, no, I was. I was
treking it up the interstate to go see my freshman
year slash high school girlfriend, thinking that, you know, we
were going to be together forever, but it was not
meant to be.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
But it's a cool campus.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I think, like if you were to create a list
of like underrated smaller college campuses, because like we think,
you know, the big time SEC school some of the
big time ACC programs, the big ten's got massive, sprawling
campuses with tens of thousands of students and hundreds of
thousands of living alumni with tons and tons of money,
Big twelve schools, things like that. But like, if you
were to create a list of like the top three
(37:44):
or top five small school campus environments, I would include
JMU on that list. I think it's a really good
place to be. I don't know what anybody else would
throw on that list if you created like a top
three or just like the most underrated small college campus.
And I'm not only talking football here, but like a
lot of reasons. I'm not sure if high Point counts
because they're you know, they're really only good at basketball,
(38:06):
But I think high Points campus is phenomenal. It's a
great place to I'm just think Elon's got a beautiful campus. Yeah, yeah,
trying to think off the top of my head, like
small school camp app State obviously, I love Boone just
the door, don't flip me off.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Okay, Western Carolina's got a great campus too.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Uh Western, Okay, I don't think I'm gonna throw that
out there. ECU's got a good ECU's fun, at least
it used to be before the fans stopped caring. I'm sorry, ECU.
I'm not trying to throw shots here. I don't care. Look,
I'm trying to like get under the skin of ECU
fans so they'll get back to being the ECU fans
that I used to know back in the day. Did
you see some of the stadium environment from this year
unacceptable from ECU fans? Unacceptable?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Do you careful what you wish for, because what happened
in two thousand and eight there, Kyle, I want.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
To talk about that. But also I throw speaking of
conference title games. I heard Colin and Shroppy talking about
this earlier today too. My Miami of Ohio beautiful campus.
You got to look it up on the internet. Really
beautiful campus at Miami, Ohio. That's not the thing I
want to talk about with the MAC right now. It's
what the heck's going on to the Ohio Bobcats. Do
we ever get a follow up on that story? I
(39:13):
don't think we did. Yeah, the guy who replaced Tim
Alban at Ohio won eight games and was placed on leave.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Have they fired him yet? I haven't heard anything to
suggest otherwise. But it's, uh yeah, it seems like a
touch and go situation. It's something that is very weird.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
All right, let's go to the phone lines.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
So apparently Mark wants to talk Hoki's football, And of
course I'm not going to say no, Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (39:34):
Hey, cal by the way, you're talking to Ohio University graduate? Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Really?
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (39:40):
So thanks? And I've been following that story and nobody
knows what's going on there. They put the defensive coach
in charge of the team. Yeah, we think there's maybe
a little extra curric here. He's going through a divorce
and so anyway, he got brutal. Yeah, and I'm sure
Tim Olwins is going like, why they hell did I
ever leave Ohio University? Right, So I want to talk Hoky.
(40:04):
I was a junior at Blacksburg High School in nineteen
sixty eight. I ran rent. That was the worst thing
you could be, by the way of towny and I
had a rock and roll band, and then by the way,
I grant a restaurant in Blacksburg in nineteen seventy five.
But I was there when Don Struck was playing, So
I saw the Hokies when they were really good, before
they were associated with anybody. And James Franklin when I
(40:30):
was in Knoxville, I was there for six years. It
was you know, I had to be there because of
my job, and he was at Vanderbilt. And he's a jerk.
I don't take this personally. He's a jerk, but he's
a great recruiter. And what he's going to do, and
he's already done it because you're a recruiting class has
moved up like at Maga Speed and he recruits Tidewater,
(40:50):
Virginia where all the rascals are down there, and the
Hokies when they were good, that's where they were recruiting,
right yep. So they're going to be back there. And
now he's doing it now and he's bringing a bunch
of Penn State people over there. So I think the
Hokies next year we're going to kick some serious butt.
So Virginia, enjoy your enjoy your hoax this year because
(41:11):
next year the Hokies are going to be back kicking
your little hokey hokey hokey high butt. So get ready
for that one.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I love.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
But hey, were you there?
Speaker 3 (41:22):
That means you were there when Bruce arians was the
quarterback too, right, I was, Yes, Yes, I was there.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
I used to run a restaurant, ain't you seventy five?
I had to. I made it through. I had to
leave at the end of the third quarter and go
through the restaurant and cut the ovens on because I
had five hundred baked potatoes to do, and and and
it was that called That's Stake Place, that seafood place
that was out there on the way to Christiansburg before you,
before they built the bypass. It was in a rainy
(41:49):
old hotel out there, and I ran a restaurant for
two years.
Speaker 8 (41:53):
And loved it.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
And and I'm a hockey fan. My brother went to
school there, and uh, I had a bunch cousins went
to school there. So I had an uncle that financed
five kids through there. And they lived in a they
lived in a trailer and that was their room and board.
Oh yeah, but anyway, so yeah, I know listen, I
even know the hockey chair. I know what a hokey is.
(42:17):
I know all the history there. So you got somebody
here out of Fort Mill. I moved here from Florida. Nice,
and you've got somebody here in the area that knows
a lot about hockey history. Well, it was the time
you want to talk.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Brother.
Speaker 6 (42:28):
Let me know.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
It was an appropriate time for you to call after
the Dell Curry conversation. So I'm sure the North Carolina
I'm sure the North Carolinians are already sick of hearing
about James Franklin and Blacksburg. And I don't blame him,
but I'm pretty excited about it.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
So is Dell.
Speaker 6 (42:40):
Well, Well, good for you and the Bombcasts will win
their bowl game, and the heck with Miami of Ohio,
that's we usually kicked. We kicked their butt this year,
so we don't care about Miami Ohio.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
I hear you. I'm just a lot. I appreciate you.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
Jodd and Law went to school there though.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
All right, you call me anytime. Mark.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
I appreciate the phone call on Man. Yeah, I was
just complimenting Miami of Ohio's campus because it really is nice.
But a great phone call from Mark. We got a
lot to get to get too. Still a loaded five
o'clock hour when we come back, Nate Wimberley WBTV, we
got to recap a lot of the high school football
playoffs from last night.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Games moved up.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Also, big news out of local high school football, Sam
Grinder out as the West Charlotte Lions head football coach.
We'll see what Nate knows about that. We'll of course
get his thoughts on the Panthers and the Hornets and
Chip Patterson coming up in five point thirty. So stick
around Sports Radio ninety two to seven WF and Z
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