February 6, 2025 • 8 mins
The Bearcats won on Wednesday! Chad Brendel of Bearcat Journal joined us to talk about them on Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mitchell correct. It is twelve away from four o'clock. This
is ESPN fifteen thirty on Moeger. You see one last
night and looked good and looked like they were having
fun doing it. It's amazing what a game of dodgeball
will do for you. Chad Brendle's here Bearcat journal dot
(00:22):
com on Twitter at Chad Brendle. Is everybody on Twitter
and on your message boards happy now?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Some of them still are not? Mo and I. If
you can't be happy when your team wins, you should
find something else to entertain you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I agree, I agree, I enjoyed. I enjoyed myself.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I did too. I mean, look, Central Florida's defense is
not exactly the eighty five Bears, but uh, you know,
they did what they were supposed to do. They have
played multiple defenses that aren't very good and the offense
still look like crap. So last night was a nice
(01:12):
change of pace.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It started with dodgeball. Should they just make that a
part of the irregular practice schedule?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I think like you got to mix it up a
little bit, right, like dodgeball, maybe some like kick the can,
you know, just find a way to do it a
little different. So you don't want it to get boring,
right like dodgeball, If you do it every week, you
get a little boring. So you want to find some
(01:42):
other things. You know, Uh, I don't know, I'm coming
I'm coming up in a blank. For the teams that
we played his kids whipple ballball tournament.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, I mean you could do something like that. You
can play a game of kickball, you could just play tag.
I mean, there's there's lots different things you could you
could do, and so we'll see if Wes Miller incorporates that.
In terms of what we saw last night, like I
want to bottle just the way they played. You know,
it's it's important that they won, but let's face it,
(02:16):
this team has a very uphill battle to get to
where we wanted to go. I just to me, it
was all about how they played and can they bottle it.
What are they most likely to bottle from last night
and use on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I mean the easiest thing to say is pushing tempo
and getting out in transition, playing a little bit faster,
because they have proven if they get to like fifteen
seconds on the shot clock, a good shot is probably
not going to follow. So if you can play with
(02:52):
a little bit more of the purpose that we saw
them play with last night, or they're getting up and
down the floor, and if it's not necessarily all fast
break stuff, they're not like settling down and trying to
like grind out bad offense. I think that's been the
biggest problem this year. They grind out a whole lot
of bad offense. So I think that's hopefully and we've
(03:16):
seen a couple glimpses of it this year that they
have been able to do this a little bit better,
but it hasn't been sustainable. It hasn't been consistent. I
think that has to be the takeaway from yesterday. Get
the ball up the floor, make a decisive action or two,
and then try to get a shot up on the
rim and go from there.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I just I like seeing them put pressure on the
other team's defense. And you're right, I mean, you seef
as a defense that's easy to pressure. I like that.
I also felt like every time and again, you're not
I understand, you're not playing Kansas, you're not playing Arizona,
but the Bearcats have struggle with teams that aren't quite
as good as those When UCF felt like they were
a possession or two away from taking control of the game.
(04:00):
The Bearcats had an answer.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think that was very encouraging, and that is a
UC up offense that can splat out score. It's not
it's funny to say this that it's not conventional in
how they do it, because how they do it is
they had three elite one on one basketball players and
they push the ball off the floor and then they
find the one that has the match, the mismatch that
(04:26):
they like the most. They throw it to him and
then they have that guy go get a bucket. And
it's not easy to stop. Go. Look at their scores
against Houston and Kansas and Iowa stating some really good defenses,
They're still scoring seventy five eighty eighty five points, so
it was difficult to stop them. That was my biggest
concern though, Kansas or you see after, is going to
(04:49):
score eighty five points. Going into that game, I felt like,
can this team score seventy five because I don't think
they can. And then they did, so I felt a
lot better about the way that they were able to
answer and respond.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
They got contributions from Dan Skillings in the second half too,
and you know, Wes talked about him in the postgame
show with Dan and Terry. I went to bed last
night hoping and maybe unrealistically that that's that's the light
bulb coming on, because it's going to have to at
some point, if if this team's to be taken seriously
down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What was the difference in those those two buckets that
he made mo He was decisive, He caught the ball
and shot it. He was open. He caught it and
shot it. He was open on the wing. They pushed
it up to him. He went right at the rim,
got a bucket and got fouled. There was no dilly dallying,
there was no trying to, you know, show the world
(05:48):
how good of a ball handler he is. He's not.
And that's what Dan has to get back to. What's
the thing that you know, when you go back to
like last year and thinking out how was he affected?
It was always the first step right, catch and go,
not catch and dribble and then try to, you know,
(06:09):
make three moves through the lane like that spin movie
had in the first tab twice just took it from him.
There's a guy standing there waiting for him to pick
his pocket. Stop doing that be decisive and if it's
not there, move to basketball. Can they bet BYU is
(06:32):
BYU gonna make fifteen threes? I mean, that's the other
thing that I thought was a pretty big positive from
last night is they got back to UCF when you
know when they're right. They got those three dudes can
really shoot it thirty like, they got three dudes that
(06:54):
can fill it up from deep, and Cincinnati did a
good job defending the three. If they can defend the
three and then run BYU off the line, I think
they've got a chance. B Yu is gonna pack the paint.
They're gonna do what they did last time, where they
almost always have four or five guys with you know,
(07:15):
one step away from the paint, you're gonna have to
shoot them shoot him out of it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
There has to be a game at home and conference play.
They shoot the ball well, right, I keep telling myself.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That I U. I would like to think so. All right, man,
I appreciate it. Fun to talk to you. After they win.
We'll see us since Saturday Saturday night. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
All right, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Thanks, that's our guy. Chad Brendel Bearcat Journal dot Com
it is coming up on four o'clock. We're guest free
till four thirty. Lucho Acosta just went scorch st earth
on his team's general manager to Laurel Failure of the
Queen City Press. She is gonna join us at four
thirty three, weeks before the season begins. Hey, we talked
about like the Bengals and Chaos FC since and he's
(08:00):
got a ton of chaos as the season gets closer.
That conversation coming up at four thirty three, Travis Steele
in the last hour of this show. So we've we've
played a lot of Joe Burrow. We're gonna play some
some more Joe Burrow. I'm not a capologist, I'm not
a mathematician, but I think I know what I know,
(08:26):
and I'll share it with you next where else
Mitchell correct. It is twelve away from four o'clock. This
is ESPN fifteen thirty on Moeger. You see one last
night and looked good and looked like they were having
fun doing it. It's amazing what a game of dodgeball
will do for you. Chad Brendle's here Bearcat journal dot
(00:22):
com on Twitter at Chad Brendle. Is everybody on Twitter
and on your message boards happy now?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Some of them still are not? Mo and I. If
you can't be happy when your team wins, you should
find something else to entertain you.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I agree, I agree, I enjoyed. I enjoyed myself.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I did too. I mean, look, Central Florida's defense is
not exactly the eighty five Bears, but uh, you know,
they did what they were supposed to do. They have
played multiple defenses that aren't very good and the offense
still look like crap. So last night was a nice
(01:12):
change of pace.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It started with dodgeball. Should they just make that a
part of the irregular practice schedule?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
I think like you got to mix it up a
little bit, right, like dodgeball, maybe some like kick the can,
you know, just find a way to do it a
little different. So you don't want it to get boring,
right like dodgeball, If you do it every week, you
get a little boring. So you want to find some
(01:42):
other things. You know, Uh, I don't know, I'm coming
I'm coming up in a blank. For the teams that
we played his kids whipple ballball tournament.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, I mean you could do something like that. You
can play a game of kickball, you could just play tag.
I mean, there's there's lots different things you could you
could do, and so we'll see if Wes Miller incorporates that.
In terms of what we saw last night, like I
want to bottle just the way they played. You know,
it's it's important that they won, but let's face it,
(02:16):
this team has a very uphill battle to get to
where we wanted to go. I just to me, it
was all about how they played and can they bottle it.
What are they most likely to bottle from last night
and use on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I mean the easiest thing to say is pushing tempo
and getting out in transition, playing a little bit faster,
because they have proven if they get to like fifteen
seconds on the shot clock, a good shot is probably
not going to follow. So if you can play with
(02:52):
a little bit more of the purpose that we saw
them play with last night, or they're getting up and
down the floor, and if it's not necessarily all fast
break stuff, they're not like settling down and trying to
like grind out bad offense. I think that's been the
biggest problem this year. They grind out a whole lot
of bad offense. So I think that's hopefully and we've
(03:16):
seen a couple glimpses of it this year that they
have been able to do this a little bit better,
but it hasn't been sustainable. It hasn't been consistent. I
think that has to be the takeaway from yesterday. Get
the ball up the floor, make a decisive action or two,
and then try to get a shot up on the
rim and go from there.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I just I like seeing them put pressure on the
other team's defense. And you're right, I mean, you seef
as a defense that's easy to pressure. I like that.
I also felt like every time and again, you're not
I understand, you're not playing Kansas, you're not playing Arizona,
but the Bearcats have struggle with teams that aren't quite
as good as those When UCF felt like they were
a possession or two away from taking control of the game.
(04:00):
The Bearcats had an answer.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think that was very encouraging, and that is a
UC up offense that can splat out score. It's not
it's funny to say this that it's not conventional in
how they do it, because how they do it is
they had three elite one on one basketball players and
they push the ball off the floor and then they
find the one that has the match, the mismatch that
(04:26):
they like the most. They throw it to him and
then they have that guy go get a bucket. And
it's not easy to stop. Go. Look at their scores
against Houston and Kansas and Iowa stating some really good defenses,
They're still scoring seventy five eighty eighty five points, so
it was difficult to stop them. That was my biggest
concern though, Kansas or you see after, is going to
(04:49):
score eighty five points. Going into that game, I felt like,
can this team score seventy five because I don't think
they can. And then they did, so I felt a
lot better about the way that they were able to
answer and respond.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
They got contributions from Dan Skillings in the second half too,
and you know, Wes talked about him in the postgame
show with Dan and Terry. I went to bed last
night hoping and maybe unrealistically that that's that's the light
bulb coming on, because it's going to have to at
some point, if if this team's to be taken seriously
down the stretch.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
What was the difference in those those two buckets that
he made mo He was decisive, He caught the ball
and shot it. He was open. He caught it and
shot it. He was open on the wing. They pushed
it up to him. He went right at the rim,
got a bucket and got fouled. There was no dilly dallying,
there was no trying to, you know, show the world
(05:48):
how good of a ball handler he is. He's not.
And that's what Dan has to get back to. What's
the thing that you know, when you go back to
like last year and thinking out how was he affected?
It was always the first step right, catch and go,
not catch and dribble and then try to, you know,
(06:09):
make three moves through the lane like that spin movie
had in the first tab twice just took it from him.
There's a guy standing there waiting for him to pick
his pocket. Stop doing that be decisive and if it's
not there, move to basketball. Can they bet BYU is
(06:32):
BYU gonna make fifteen threes? I mean, that's the other
thing that I thought was a pretty big positive from
last night is they got back to UCF when you
know when they're right. They got those three dudes can
really shoot it thirty like, they got three dudes that
(06:54):
can fill it up from deep, and Cincinnati did a
good job defending the three. If they can defend the
three and then run BYU off the line, I think
they've got a chance. B Yu is gonna pack the paint.
They're gonna do what they did last time, where they
almost always have four or five guys with you know,
(07:15):
one step away from the paint, you're gonna have to
shoot them shoot him out of it a little bit.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Mo.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
There has to be a game at home and conference play.
They shoot the ball well, right, I keep telling myself.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That I U. I would like to think so. All right, man,
I appreciate it. Fun to talk to you. After they win.
We'll see us since Saturday Saturday night. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
All right, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Thanks, that's our guy. Chad Brendel Bearcat Journal dot Com
it is coming up on four o'clock. We're guest free
till four thirty. Lucho Acosta just went scorch st earth
on his team's general manager to Laurel Failure of the
Queen City Press. She is gonna join us at four
thirty three, weeks before the season begins. Hey, we talked
about like the Bengals and Chaos FC since and he's
(08:00):
got a ton of chaos as the season gets closer.
That conversation coming up at four thirty three, Travis Steele
in the last hour of this show. So we've we've
played a lot of Joe Burrow. We're gonna play some
some more Joe Burrow. I'm not a capologist, I'm not
a mathematician, but I think I know what I know,
(08:26):
and I'll share it with you next where else
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