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January 15, 2025 11 mins
Good stuff on the Bearcats from Terry Nelson, in Boulder for UC/Colorado.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In fifteen to thirty Moegger. The Bearcats are desperate for
a win tonight, looking for their first Big twelve victory
of the season, looking for their first win of the
twenty twenty five calendar year, and looking to score more
than forty eight points. You see in Colorado Tonight tip
off at nine pregame at eight thirty on seven hundred
WLW with Dan Horde and Terry Nelson. Tennell joins is

(00:21):
from Colorado. How's boulder.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's a little bit warmer than it is in since
nat It's forty two degrees. Oh, man, don't know much
other than it's a lot of restaurants around here. It's
a beautiful place. But you know, anything below fifty.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm not tory.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Forty two sounds tropical right now. I'm sure in every
social situation you have been in for a while, you
have been asked how to fix the Bearcat offense. When
you're asked that question, what's your response?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, first of all, they got to have some purpose.
That's one of my keys for tonight. They got to
have purpose and what they do. They got a lot
of talent right up the screening and be a little
bit more player centric I know the movement is to
get the defense, you know, moving and loosening up the defense.
But at the same time, in those last five seconds,

(01:12):
the ball better be in the hands of a playmaker
that knows how to make a play instead of you know, dribble, dribble,
dribble and then pass that the last second for somebody
to shoot up a you know, heave of a desperation
shot at the buzzer. So offensively, yes, the movement works,
but the last eight minutes is money time and it
should be centered around which I believe it should be

(01:37):
Dan Skilling or I think he's the most dynamic player.
He's the one that gets to the free to line
and the most he's the one that makes plays, and
he's a very good passer when he's double teamed.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
You know, I've had people say to me, I watched
this team offensively, and I don't know what the offense
is supposed to be. What is the offense supposed to be?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, it's supposed to be high pick and rolls from
wing and top. So you throw it to one, you
bring your big off the block, which opens up the middle,
and there's supposed to be a pick and roll, forcing
the help defender to come up and take the ball handler,
or if he hedges and returns, if your hedges and returns,
and you slip the pick by throwing the pass to

(02:14):
the roller to the basket, and you just keep doing
that around the perimeter. But the problem is they do
a lot of gold screens and so got screens. You
come up, you're about to set a screen, and then
the defense starts to adjust and you slip the screen
real quick. And that works if you can get the
pass in and again, lesser defensive teams, it works tremendously well.

(02:35):
You get a lot of lob dunks, you get a
lot of things like that, but it gains good defensive teams.
They slide through that ghost screen and you don't really
get a chance to get any separation with your ball handler.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
And so if you.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Don't do that, then it's just like you're just running
around waisting clock. So they pull it back out, it's
ten seconds in the clock. They try another one. They
get nothing out of there. I mean, before you know it,
they're shooting. Desperation starts at the buzzer and it looks horrible.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Can you can you screen and roll with a z's bandeigo.
If teams don't respect his ability to catch it and score.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well, Ben Dagel's lit different, Yeah, because he can catch
and he can pass out of it. A lot of
times he doesn't look to score unless it's a love play,
so even when he gets off into rebounds, he'll catch it.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's looking for a three point shooter.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
However, I think he needs to hold his screen a
little bit more and let guys come, actually come off
of that screen and then brush off of it, keep
the defender on your back and roll to the rim.
Being quick, being you know, trying to work for speed
and trying to make things look nice doesn't necessarily bowl
well to the talent level that he has.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
You mentioned Dan Skillings, and I think we would all
agree that he's arguably the most talented player on the team.
Has a skill set that is impossible to replicate. Has
by now two plus seasons of college basketball experience. You know,
you hear people talk about alphas, and you hear people
talk about players that you know want the ball in
their hands when their team is down five with with

(04:01):
four minutes to go, they'll they'll go get you a bucket.
In tough games against good teams and tough environments. As
Dann that guy.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
He's gonna have to be.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I had a conversation with him and he said, you know,
coach wants me to you know, move the ball. And
you know, he said, he's just you know, letting the
play come to him. And I said, well, the great
ones never let the play come to them. You know,
if the player's not coming to them, to go out.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
And get it, you know. And I gave him the
situation where Dan Danny fortune was.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know, he went up the floor three or four
times one time and didn't touch the ball, and Michael
Horton was the plaint guard and he grabbed the rebound
and he Michael Hordan was calling for the outlet. Then
he said, come get it. Michael was still calling for
he said, just couldn't get the ball. When he came
and got the ball, he shoved it in the stomach
and he said, if I don't touch the damn ball
on this trip down there, I'm gonna meet you in
the hallway. I'm gonna kick youll you know what. And

(04:51):
best believe he looked at Huggins and the Huggins said,
you heard him run twenty five run the play her
around that play three or four times in a row
and scored every time.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
But the great ones always demand the ball.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Hugg also said to us, he said, why do you
think Nick shoots the ball so much? And Corey Blunt said,
because he's a ball hall you know. We all laughed,
and he goes no. He calls for it the most,
and when he doesn't get it, he loops back around
and he calls for it with his.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Hands and his eyes and his mouth.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
He's calling for the ball and he wants the ball
because he wants to do something with it.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I don't think a lot of these guys really want
the ball.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
They try to get out the way and let the
ball hander do what they do. And the great ones
always demand the ball. If you demand the ball enough.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
You will get the ball.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Should they run more.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Absolutely, I think that the offense works best in transition.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
You watch practice. They have been really trying to get
back out to speed. You know, made or mess earlier
in the season. They were scoring off of Maine baskets.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Before he set up.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
They were getting that ball out much like Arizona was
doing prior to our game. But they get the ball
out quickly and we have to run be It's a
very good in't transition.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
It opens up the floor for Sea Moss and.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Dade and Jizzle and all the guys you're deep ball shooters.
But it also allows the big rim runs from one
side to the other side to get those easy transition dunks.
And if you don't get it, it force it's a
defense to run back scramble. And now when you get
twenty seconds on the clock, the defense is a little
gasping and you can get into your action. But bringing

(06:23):
the ball up, setting it up and then running a
play every set is not going to help.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
This team because they it's not where they excel. They
excel in the open floor.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I watched Gizsel James and I see a player that
I feel like still has a ton of upside, But
I thought he would be closer to wherever that ceiling
is by now when I was watching him a year ago.
Why am I not seeing it right now?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, you're converting the two guard into a point guard,
and his natural reaction is to go to work.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I mean, you can put a cheetah in a zoo.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
They will stand up on a chair and you know,
put a ball in his nose, but eventually it's gonna
bite you.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
It shift you in trying to play in the cage.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
You've got to let you got to let Jizsel get
some eyesols. You got to put them on the side
when that ball goes from one side to the left.
Don't always bring a guy to come over there and
sit on.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
The boss lean.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Tell him to get out the way, move out the way,
letting him cook a little bit, get some isol situations.
He's very good in his mid range. He just hasn't
been making the mid range. And you know, speaking with
him yesterday, he goes, you know what, these are shots
that I make every day all day. He's been making
him in his house. Soon he's got a basketball court
underneath in the basement. He had to make five hundred
mid range shots before you know he would come up

(07:34):
and eat dinner.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
He's very comfortable in the mid range.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
If he had in any of the games that we've
lost we lost four in a row, any of those
games where he's on hitting his mid range jump shot,
it allows the defense to take a gasp and take
a breath and be like, okay, now we don't have
to be so desperate defensively.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Because we scored on offense. But if you keep having
empty trips.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
That could be misshots, that could be misfree throws, and
you come in, you put a lot of pressure on
your defense to keep holding up and maintaining and pretty
soon that damn's gonna bust.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Uh. Simas Lukash's we have watched since the start of
Big twelve play how how teams have highlighted him in
the scouting report and often designed their defenses around keeping
him from from getting going from the outside. What is
the counter to what defenses are doing with him?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
He's got to do a better job of and throwing
guys in the screens. Uh, you know, he's when he
comes off the screens, there's normally about two or three
feet in between the screener and hem.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Which allows the defense to slip right through.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
So he's got to do a better job of setting
the guy up to get screened.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
The screener's got a go better job of screening.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
But then he's got to learn to once he catches
the ball to play a little bit, loosen the defender up,
step out him, make them back up. See, if he's
a true defender, he's got to use his step back.
She's got to use his high steps. He's got to
pass and relocate. But you know, just because you don't
have the foot quickness of other guys in the league
that are great shooters, doesn't mean he can't be able

(09:09):
to get his shot off against good defense. You just
need to understand the angles that they play, where they're leaning,
set them up with eye eye movement, you know, looking
one way, knowing you want to go to the other way.
He's got to become a master of his class. He
knows what he's doing. I mean his dad taught him. Well,
dad taught in seven different countries. Professionally, he's a very
skilled offensive player. He's in a slump. He scored nineteen

(09:30):
points total in league play. We're not gonna win a
lot of games with that.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
I know. West doesn't like to, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Single out certain players because it's a bearcat thing, and
I get it. But at the same time, one of
the most dynamic three point shooters that can carry your
team in the Big twelve needs to get going, and
sometimes you got to run plays to start the game
off for him. You know, run some double down plays
where he's on the baseline. You got a couple of
screens coming off trying to free him up, and maybe

(09:58):
you get a slip because guys are so worried about
out him that you slip to the rim and get
it dunk. But you have to get him going early on,
much like the Bulls would do with Bill Cartwright or
John Paxson. Give him the first two shots and then
that the that the team play from there.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Uh. I'm desperate to see this team win tonight. I
know you are as well. I know everybody else is too.
I'll be listening. Thank you as always.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Pretty good. Hey man, you know at fifth third arena
and I took it for you.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
You broke up, But what did you say?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
You left your charger, your iPhone charger at fifth third
to arena.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
I believe it was yours.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I took it, and uh, if I get the struggle
for the stake point, I'll give it back to you.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
That's where it went.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
I'll be damn. I've been looking for that.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
All right.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Well, I'll see you Saturday, hopefully I get my charger back.
Thanks so much. All right, well, Verry Nelson, nice of
them to tell me. Now you see in Colorado tonight.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
You see in Colorado tonight at nine o'clock. Pregame at
eight three with Dan and Terry on seven hundred WLW.
We're Guess Free the rest of the way on ESPN
fifteen thirty Cincinnati Sports Station, Cincinnati's ESPN

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