November 6, 2024 • 26 mins
In the second hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain discuss Huskies basketball getting their first win of 2024-25 last night and the difficult season ahead in the Big Ten, plus we hear from Petros Papadakis, who talks about USC, Joel Embiid, and the WSU Cougars.
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
I thought it was a nice win for U double
over USC on Saturday. I gotta tell you, though, man,
I think Lincoln Riley blew that game for the Trojans
because I'm watching this this Woody Marks kid in the
second half just run all over the Husky tea and
just wondering where the hell he was in the first half.
I mean, that guy's a beast. Holy cow, I had
no idea he was that good. Did Lincoln Riley just
(02:08):
forget to suit him up for the first half or what?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, that's kind of been the theme of the year.
Woody Marks is their best player offensively, yet they throw
the ball seventy plus percent of the time, and that
makes Miller Moss, who's now lost his job, that's vulnerable
for interceptions. So and that's what happens. It happened early,
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and it happened late, and it's happened in every game.
They would be in control of a few different games
if that wasn't the case. But that's a head coaching thing,
that's an identity thing for this team. And I don't
think that it's ever been clearer that USC has deficiencies
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with the head coach as far as what they should
and shouldn't be doing play in and play out, and
just identity wise. I mean, when you throw the ball
twenty nine times in the first half, where do you
go from there? And you saw exactly where they went
from there. And people that are apologists for USC say, well,
if this, if that, if that, they're under five hundred.
(03:17):
It's November and they've lost almost every game and the
Big Ten they've played, and every road game for certain,
So I think it's clear that Lincoln Riley has really
kind of drug USC into a deep dark pit. And
there's a seventy million dollar buyout. It's a ten year deal,
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and I don't know. I don't think anybody's gonna come
to the rescue like they did with the Clay Helton era.
And by the way, Lincoln Riley has never improved from
what Clay Helton was doing. When Clay Helton was the coach,
they were very similar to this. And I don't want
to hear it's about the Big ten because they were
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this bad last year with Caleb Williams as the head coach,
I mean as the quarterback. So that's been disappointing I
think for USC fans, and I think you saw kind
of mirror image teams with USC and Washington accepted. The
exception was that Jed the Fish was a lot more
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willing to use his running back who's one of the
best players on the team, Jonah Coleman, and obviously an
inspiring player to the offense and makes that O line
better and makes Rogers better by getting it going with
his legs early. And his willingness to do that and
to show that, I think is what won the game,
and Lincoln Riley's stubbornness lost USC not just this game,
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but a bunch of them.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's ugly.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, Jonah Coleman had a career high like twenty three
carries on Saturday, so you're right, they just turned the
ball over to number one. They did have an illegal
substitution penalty that almost lost the game for you.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
W you see that in the fourth quarter. By the way,
I may have missed that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, it's not a big deal now because the Oski
has won the game, but I don't know them, and
I just wondered, did those hud are too many?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Now? They had twelve men in the huddle.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
One guy, I guess thought it was a three wide
receiver set when it was a two wide receiver set
and it was third and one became third and six
in US. He got the ball back and eventually Lance
Holtzklaw had one snapped the entire game and just whips
Mason Murphy on on the last play of the game,
gets in Miller Moss's face and the game is over.
But you know, I just kind of wonder, like, did
did you win the game? Or did USC lose it?
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Because I see a really poorty coach football team on
the opposite side of the ball, And for as much
crap as some people like to give Jed Fish about whatever.
For whatever reason, I thought he just completely you know,
own Lincoln Riley in that game. And now they're benching
Miller Moss for this kid from UNLV. I mean, what
what quarterback would want to come play football for Lincoln
Riley unless he pays him at gajillion dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, and one of the bigger problems than the quarterback
situation is what offensive line wants to come to USC
When you throw the ball twenty nine times in the
first half, right, And that's been the case for years now,
even with Clay Helton there, and they're throwing the ball
way too much. They're not establishing and developing upfront players.
(06:18):
How many times have I told you this? So where
are those guys going on the West coast to be developed?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
They're going to Oregon.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And it's really kind of proliferated from the Mario Cristobal era,
where obviously he's a big o' line guy and they
recruit O line well and he developed O line well.
But that's continued for the Ducks in the Dan Landing
era and that's where it's happening on the West coast.
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And it used to be USC was the place where
in Washington's for sure they had great o line play
in the Kailin Debor era hence the National Championship Game
and beating Oregon like they have. But Oregon's done a
great job there too, and obviously Washington's gotten away from
it by hiring Jed Fish. So it's not going to
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be exactly the same. But it is disappointing to West
Coast people that it's Oregon that has the offensive line
that's developed and sharpened and can push people around like
Ohio State and not USC.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, we share your disappointment here in Seattle. We share
it big times. Twenty million dollar team, Yeah h well,
I mean, you know, they got a kid and Josh
Connery Junior who went to high school up here by
the way in Seattle and went to Rainier Beach and
he was offered a gajillion bucks and he went to
Oregon and now he's starting for them.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So whatever, I'm not bitter about it or anything.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hey, did you did you happen to uh hear and
bring up the the Jason Kelsey story, goes on TV
and apologizes.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
On Funday, and you know he has.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
A guy getting his face and call his brother, you know,
at at ten State over the weekend, and then he's
the one that's got to apologize for smashing this guy's phone.
He should have punched him in the head for crying
out loud. Yeah, the guy pushed him over too. There's
another video where he was on a knee picking up
the phone and the guy kind of pushed him over
and Kelsey was able to control himself. Look, I'm no
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huge fan of the Kelsey's as far as their podcast
and the whole I have a beard and I'm wild
and I'm from Cincinnati, like all of that is.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I mean, it's whatever to me. Obviously, very good center
and people are into what they do. That's fine. And
maybe when you're walking through a bunch of drunk students
and you're holding a Twelver and you're celebrity, which he
is now right, maybe it's not that great of an idea.
(08:50):
Those kids were totally being a holes. Of course, he
just got off the football field and he's going to
have a violent temper. None of that is a surprise.
But it's not a surprise that soft ass punk ass
ESPN would make him apologize. You want to play the
game and take the check. If they tell you to apologize,
(09:11):
you have to apologize. You think they made him open
the broadcast with that. You think that was their idea,
not his?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Absolutely? Absolutely, why would you?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Why else would you unless you feel like using a
slur something is harmful to your brother's girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I don't know. I mean, maybe that's certainly possible.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I guess Travis may have texted him and said, bro,
come on, I'm not you know, I'm not into this
public apology. And then of course, well it's okay he
apologized and everybody having to be anointed with the public's forgiveness.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, I don't think you had to apologize, just like
I enjoy them. I don't think should have been suspended
either for smacking the guy, for shoving that freaking Philadelphia guy.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Maybe, I mean, yeah, he does a common writes about
his day brother and it's like, what the hell man? Really? Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Actually we were talking about that on the air. I
have a quote from that column.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, but you did you read the column? No, I
have not read the exact exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
See I read the column. Go ahead, so I know
what the guy said. What is that to piss everybody? Off,
he said, Hey, what about that punk ass and beads
dead brother?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
What about that?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Huh, that's exactly it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Let me read it again, Hey not not not what
about that punk ass and.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Beads dead brother? You lie? Hey, what about that? You lie?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And then he said, hey, what about that bitch? And
then he said, hey, what about his son too? And
then that's what upset I read. I paid. I paid
for the through to get through the firewall of the
Philadelphia Choir so I could read the quote to really
bring the news to the people of Seattle.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, that's part of the problem is that you had
all these pay walls.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
This big story comes out, nobody can see the damn
article because.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
What the hell I'm gonna go. Geez, It's not okay
to shove media members down. It's not okay then to
ask the collected media to report, not report.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
What they just saw. Yeah, yeah, the six or tr
people did that, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And look, we work in the toy department. Look at
how ridiculous the world is, and sports is even seventeen
thousand times more ridiculous. And we try to act all
serious and wear polos and like be like but I mean,
my god, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yes, I understand when somebody gets shoved to the ground,
I don't care unless it's Manny Ramirez attacking an elderly
travel secretary in Boston.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Decades or so go. I do remember that, but it's whatever.
I don't care what I say.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Guys, brother, Hey, what about that bitch? Yeah that's what
he said. That's a quote. Understand them being upset.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You know you lie, you lie again, You just lie? Man,
just fibbing. Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You know, Cougar fans are pissed off the Colorado's ranked
ahead of them and the CFP.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
What are they doing to be ranked ahead of us?
The Cougs have a case.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, the Kogs have only lost to one game Boise State.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Okay, yeah, they beat they beat it, and all of.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
A sudden, Texas Tech's pretty good and like six six
and three, right.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Texas Tech has been good.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, the Cougs caught him without their best player, their
running back, Todds Brooks. But uh, I've done a few.
I've seen the Coogs again. I've seen the Cooks twice.
They were destroyed by Boise I mean destroyed by Ashton
Gent and they they were basically dead to rights against
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Presno and pulled it out, and then they were dead
to rights against San Diego right and and state and out.
And so I would say, and I've watched some Colorado
and they of course have a lot of attention. I
would say the kooks do not have as much of
a case as they might think.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You see a loss on their schedule the rest of
the way, Uta State at New Mexico, at Oregon State, Bronco.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Mendenhall is an unbelievable coach. You look at where he's
been and what he's inherited and then what he's done.
He is a true program builder and developer. He's not
a personable guy. He's just got some weird football magic,
very professorial. And they score forty five points a game
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right now. And whenever you're scoring a whole bunch and
you're putting points up on everybody, people are at risk.
I think there's a few teams in the Mountain West
that people are not as comfortable playing as they thought.
Like Nevada is really improved. That guy's a good coach.
New Mexico has really improved. San Diego State is going
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to be pretty good under Sean Lewis when they get
their system going. So it is kind of interesting shifting
on the West coast. But I'm impressed with what the
Koogs have done. They've found ways to win all these games.
The overtime one at San Jose was a thriller or
two against San Jose at home, and they have not
had the mid season loll which has been indicative of
(14:23):
what Jake Dickert has done in his even with cam
Ward at the quarterback, who everybody's washing his balls right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Now, so he should. He's good.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, absolutely, So congratulations to the Coogs. I'd like to
see him finish. And if they do, Colorado's got a
loss or two in there. You know, they need a
Hail Mary to survive Baylor, let's not forget. So I think, uh,
I think the Cooks are pretty good this year. And
I congratulate Jake Dickert. You just like saying, Dickert petros
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with us. We're going to Penn State this weekend, flying
to Pittsburgh. Yeah, flying to Pittsburgh tomorrow and then driving
out there Friday, doing a show out there Friday night,
coming back Sunday. Husky's Penn State in Whiteout eight o'clock
East Coast time. They're gonna drive to Harrisburg after the
game is over because the runway is not big enough
for the plane to take off out there, so they
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gotta drive ninety minutes after the game.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well you think Penn State, you done well? They're vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I mean, look, USC had them by the balls too,
yeah though, yeah, but yeah, but still no, okay, I
mean and Washington just beat USC on the road, yeah
at home, but yeah, these.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Big ten teams, you know, you say Penn State and
then you.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Get on the field and it's like, okay, you know,
I mean, UCLA just beat Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It's not as creepy as as you think.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I mean, you guys beat Michigan for God's sakes, right,
but they're terrible, Yeah, sure are. But still I mean,
Penn State just got beat by Ohio State. You know,
and these are still college kids, and they are obviously demoralized.
I keep saying that word because of the season, uh,
kind of collapsing under their feet with not being able
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to win the big game that they're supposed to win
every year and James Franklin getting the incoming there. So
I think Washington will will perform pretty well in this game.
If if they if they're sharp and they stick with
it early and create some doubt piss Pin stayed off
because they're so angry about losing last week.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
How do you how do you piss them off by
poke him in the eye and just take off running
or something that's.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Going to when you score touchdown and then you wiggle
your puzzo around like you know, they try to run
one of those wildcat plays with that guy. They try
to run run all those wildcat players with that guy Warren,
and somebody hits him right in the puzzo with the
crown of their helmet, like, oh, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
That kind of stuff pisses you off.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Early.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
You met jedfish course a touchdown on the first driver
of the game.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It looks over at James Franklin, it just goes.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, like the water boy. Oh God, please let that happen.
Please let that happen. You know, I mean it could
be a player too. Have you been there by the
way to Penn State? No, No, I've done Penn State games,
but I've never been. Oh god, but if I did,
I'd go to Gettysburg.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's the first thing I would do. Yeah, we won't
have time for that.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, of course not, because you have no interest in
history or learning about your country. That doesn't sit around
and eat fredos.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Hey, shut up, man, that's between you and me, and
it's not fridos, it's doritos.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You should go to a little roundtop and go kiss
the statue of Gubern or Warren, but you won't. All right,
don't go wiggle your round Gettysburg the statue of Roberty Leal.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Shoot you. That's good advice.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
By the way, I think that's actually the it's on
the back of the press bass.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That they said us. Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
All right, dude, great stuff. We're talking a week see
you man, all right? By all right, bet trust with
us on the show. We're gonna break Holy Cow. Kevin
Harlan coming up at five. We're the five twenty bar
and grow on a Wednesday. Right here on ninety three
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Speaker 3 (18:35):
So I was walking through the tunnels of UW yesterday.
There's a big leak in the tunnel going down to
the stadium. Those all right, a huge leak floorwards all wet.
I mean, you know, parts of that building are still
pretty old, right with the hell and walking by the
basketball court, guys were on the shoot around, you know,
getting ready for the game last night. I'm thinking to
myself as I'm walking by, heck ed to my car
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to get back to the radio station. And it was
twenty years ago this year when you Dubb was the
number one seed in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh, twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Like literally, there's twenty five year old people walking around
that have no idea what the hell we're talking about.
That's right, Jackson, Do you remember that year at all? No,
Nate Robinson, Brandon Roy, Will Conroy.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Really getting into the Dogs in those years because it
was it was the Stanford upset.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
The year before that was Curtis Allen's last, right, Curtis
Allen was not on the number one switch, right right,
that's correct. So, but two thousand and four, two thousand
and five is the year where they got the number
one seed and they went to Boise and they beat
I think Montana or Montana State and then played Pacific
and then lost to Louisville in New Mexico, right in Albuquerque.
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That was twenty years ago. I'm like, God darn it,
I want that bath.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Is this the guy to do it?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I mean, obviously, nobody's gonna make any you know, proclamations
after one stinking game. But they got to the free
throw line thirty eight times, they only made twenty one.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
They should have blown these guys out last night. They
should have blown them out.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Although that that kid, t Y Johnson just had a
game of his life. He was absolutely unstoppable. They put
like three different guys on him and he went for
thirty five. Was just, you know, just one of those games, right.
And he's a really good player, and I'm surprised he's
playing at UC Davis. You know, Elders was saying he's
passed up money elsewhere to stay at.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Stay at UC Davis.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
He was a really good other than Osibor, he was
the second best player on the team on the floor
last night. But if if I was Danny Sprinkle, I
would have been very disappointed with how my team played
last year. Well, holy coch No, I'm just I'm not
saying I'm not I think they're a much better team
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than they showed last night, is what I'm saying. And
you know, it's the first game new players. I mean,
you're playing against UC Davis. There's no energy in the building.
They shot fifty five percent from the line, they shot
fourteen percent from three point range, and they turned the
ball over fifteen times. That's why Danny Sprinkle should be upset,
you know. And and I think I am anxious to
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see what he can mold these guys into. First of all,
he's got to find a starting five, and I think
zoom y'alloi belongs in it very very quickly. I understand
why he's not putting him in there. He's a freshman.
He's gonna give the more veteran players that have played
sixty seventy eighty college basketball games the opportunity to start.
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But there is no question Zoom Diallo is a top
three talent on that team, maybe a top two talent
on that team, and eventually a top one talent on
that team because he's gonna go higher in the NBA
Draft than any of the other guys are.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Uh yeah, I wonder is he's not a one undone guy, right?
Zoom in no way.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I don't think so, but you never know these days, right.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I just think I love how aggressive they were last night.
Big Frank being healthy is a total game changer for them,
and they got to keep finding a way to keep
that guy healthy.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I mean, he's had he's got an injury history for
the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I don't know how they'd manage that dick, you know,
from a coaches perspective, but getting that big guy and
him available for every single game is going to open
up so much for everybody else on that basketball team.
And I just think that they're gonna have games like
that for a while. When you have ten new guys,
they may not be ready to roll and be on
the same page until January.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
And the problem is, and you know it was pointed
out again by Gary Parris today, is he's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I mean, you look at the Huskies.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know ken palm, which is you know, for lack
of a better term, RPI rating. I like ken Palm
better than the net ranking. Actually, you know, they're like
seventy fifth and you're like, ah, seventy fifth. A few
wins over top fifty teams and you're right there. On
the NCAA tournament bubble. The problem is every other team
in the pack or in the Big ten is in
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the top eighty. I mean they're near the bottom. They're
not at the bottom, but they're near the bottom. And
the Big ten is just stocked with teams ranks I
think Purdues number one at like fifteen or sixteen. So
there's no elite team in the Big ten. There's no
team you look at and go, well, they're just absolutely unbeatable.
But there's like fourteen teams out of the next sixty
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in Ken Pom. So it is going to be a
tough night out every single time. And you have got
to take advantage of those home games. You gotta take
advantage of, you know, the Minnesota's and the Wisconsins and
those type of teams that come to Seattle and have
to make the trip. You gotta win those basketball games
because winning out on the road is going to be really,
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really tough.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
So there's ten Big Ten teams in the top thirty
eight and Ken Palm eight in the top forty eight,
and nine in the top fifty four and twelve in
the top sixty four. How many teams in the NCAA
tournament sixty eight. Now, yeah, there's twelve in the top
sixty four. Twelve twelve of the eighteen teams are in
the top sixty four in college basketball.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The thirteenth team is Washington at seventy six.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
So the goal is can you finish in the top
ten in the Big ten, right, because if you can
finish in the ten, people might be top ten.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I mean a tournament team, you're absolutely, yep.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You're you could be in this conference. You can absolutely.
A five hundred team I think is in. I think
maybe a game under five hundred team might be a
tournament team. We've seen many many ACC teams. We've seen
Syracuse for years go to the NCAA tournament going two
games under five hundred in the ACC. That can happen
in the Big ten this year, and I think that
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is a possibility for Washington is talented enough if they
can get it together with Zoom, with Kepnong, with great
Osa Bor, those three guys, and then somebody else is
gonna stop up. I mean, I was looking forward to
seeing DJ Davis.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
DJ Davis to me, I don't know how he hit
forty percent of his threes in past years, because maybe
it was just an off night for him. But he
shoots on the way up. He doesn't high point his release.
His legs are kicking out when he's shooting threes.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Maybe it was just a bad night for him I seen.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I need to see much much more out of him
before I'm ready to just say whether or not he's
gonna be a very good two guard in the in
this league.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, great osa Bor looks like he is gonna be
worth the money. I mean, they're paying him a lot
of money. Obviously, I don't know how that money is
getting gold out. But I told Dick Jackson off the air,
he looks to me like a better version of no
With Dickerson, who can do everything, just because he kind
of looks like Noah Dickerson. And he's taller than nowhere Dickerson,
and he does everything really well.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I don't know if he's really.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Elite, dick You tell me if I'm crazy, not elite
at any one.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
What's that footwork? Okay? His footwork is as good as
anybody in America for a big man.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Wow, All right, Well he's a little sloppy last night though.
That's fine, right, But that was footwork.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
That was his I mean, his passing was sloppy, and
his ballhand was a little sloppy last night, that's right.
But his I mean, his ability to to back in
a guy and be able to get around people with
footwork is absolutely incredible. The thing that's gonna keep him
out of the NBA is the fact that he's he's
not six eleven with that football. That's the thing that's
gonna I'm not gonna say he's not gonna play, but
(25:45):
I don't see a guy that's that short at that
position that can't hit a three playing much in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Well, I mean, look, I'm excited about it, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I just think it's just time for some new blood
around here, obviously, and he's gonna give that to us.
And how we'll it take these guys to jail or
they income for kind of a rude awakening when they
go to the question and face a team like a
Purdue or Ohio State or a Wisconsin for example, or
whatever the teams that try to I mean, he's talked
about wanting practices to be like a combat practice, right,
like just banging elbows with.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
People, and he's recruiting players that can do that.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I mean, Big Frank is obviously having him here on
this roster is gonna be a huge benefit when Big
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
I thought it was a nice win for U double
over USC on Saturday. I gotta tell you, though, man,
I think Lincoln Riley blew that game for the Trojans
because I'm watching this this Woody Marks kid in the
second half just run all over the Husky tea and
just wondering where the hell he was in the first half.
I mean, that guy's a beast. Holy cow, I had
no idea he was that good. Did Lincoln Riley just
(02:08):
forget to suit him up for the first half or what?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, that's kind of been the theme of the year.
Woody Marks is their best player offensively, yet they throw
the ball seventy plus percent of the time, and that
makes Miller Moss, who's now lost his job, that's vulnerable
for interceptions. So and that's what happens. It happened early,
(02:32):
and it happened late, and it's happened in every game.
They would be in control of a few different games
if that wasn't the case. But that's a head coaching thing,
that's an identity thing for this team. And I don't
think that it's ever been clearer that USC has deficiencies
(02:53):
with the head coach as far as what they should
and shouldn't be doing play in and play out, and
just identity wise. I mean, when you throw the ball
twenty nine times in the first half, where do you
go from there? And you saw exactly where they went
from there. And people that are apologists for USC say, well,
if this, if that, if that, they're under five hundred.
(03:17):
It's November and they've lost almost every game and the
Big Ten they've played, and every road game for certain,
So I think it's clear that Lincoln Riley has really
kind of drug USC into a deep dark pit. And
there's a seventy million dollar buyout. It's a ten year deal,
(03:41):
and I don't know. I don't think anybody's gonna come
to the rescue like they did with the Clay Helton era.
And by the way, Lincoln Riley has never improved from
what Clay Helton was doing. When Clay Helton was the coach,
they were very similar to this. And I don't want
to hear it's about the Big ten because they were
(04:02):
this bad last year with Caleb Williams as the head coach,
I mean as the quarterback. So that's been disappointing I
think for USC fans, and I think you saw kind
of mirror image teams with USC and Washington accepted. The
exception was that Jed the Fish was a lot more
(04:23):
willing to use his running back who's one of the
best players on the team, Jonah Coleman, and obviously an
inspiring player to the offense and makes that O line
better and makes Rogers better by getting it going with
his legs early. And his willingness to do that and
to show that, I think is what won the game,
and Lincoln Riley's stubbornness lost USC not just this game,
(04:46):
but a bunch of them.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It's ugly.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, Jonah Coleman had a career high like twenty three
carries on Saturday, so you're right, they just turned the
ball over to number one. They did have an illegal
substitution penalty that almost lost the game for you.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
W you see that in the fourth quarter. By the way,
I may have missed that.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, it's not a big deal now because the Oski
has won the game, but I don't know them, and
I just wondered, did those hud are too many?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Now? They had twelve men in the huddle.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
One guy, I guess thought it was a three wide
receiver set when it was a two wide receiver set
and it was third and one became third and six
in US. He got the ball back and eventually Lance
Holtzklaw had one snapped the entire game and just whips
Mason Murphy on on the last play of the game,
gets in Miller Moss's face and the game is over.
But you know, I just kind of wonder, like, did
did you win the game? Or did USC lose it?
(05:34):
Because I see a really poorty coach football team on
the opposite side of the ball, And for as much
crap as some people like to give Jed Fish about whatever.
For whatever reason, I thought he just completely you know,
own Lincoln Riley in that game. And now they're benching
Miller Moss for this kid from UNLV. I mean, what
what quarterback would want to come play football for Lincoln
Riley unless he pays him at gajillion dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, and one of the bigger problems than the quarterback
situation is what offensive line wants to come to USC
When you throw the ball twenty nine times in the
first half, right, And that's been the case for years now,
even with Clay Helton there, and they're throwing the ball
way too much. They're not establishing and developing upfront players.
(06:18):
How many times have I told you this? So where
are those guys going on the West coast to be developed?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
They're going to Oregon.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And it's really kind of proliferated from the Mario Cristobal era,
where obviously he's a big o' line guy and they
recruit O line well and he developed O line well.
But that's continued for the Ducks in the Dan Landing
era and that's where it's happening on the West coast.
(06:46):
And it used to be USC was the place where
in Washington's for sure they had great o line play
in the Kailin Debor era hence the National Championship Game
and beating Oregon like they have. But Oregon's done a
great job there too, and obviously Washington's gotten away from
it by hiring Jed Fish. So it's not going to
(07:07):
be exactly the same. But it is disappointing to West
Coast people that it's Oregon that has the offensive line
that's developed and sharpened and can push people around like
Ohio State and not USC.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Well, we share your disappointment here in Seattle. We share
it big times. Twenty million dollar team, Yeah h well,
I mean, you know, they got a kid and Josh
Connery Junior who went to high school up here by
the way in Seattle and went to Rainier Beach and
he was offered a gajillion bucks and he went to
Oregon and now he's starting for them.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
So whatever, I'm not bitter about it or anything.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Hey, did you did you happen to uh hear and
bring up the the Jason Kelsey story, goes on TV
and apologizes.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
On Funday, and you know he has.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
A guy getting his face and call his brother, you know,
at at ten State over the weekend, and then he's
the one that's got to apologize for smashing this guy's phone.
He should have punched him in the head for crying
out loud. Yeah, the guy pushed him over too. There's
another video where he was on a knee picking up
the phone and the guy kind of pushed him over
and Kelsey was able to control himself. Look, I'm no
(08:17):
huge fan of the Kelsey's as far as their podcast
and the whole I have a beard and I'm wild
and I'm from Cincinnati, like all of that is.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I mean, it's whatever to me. Obviously, very good center
and people are into what they do. That's fine. And
maybe when you're walking through a bunch of drunk students
and you're holding a Twelver and you're celebrity, which he
is now right, maybe it's not that great of an idea.
(08:50):
Those kids were totally being a holes. Of course, he
just got off the football field and he's going to
have a violent temper. None of that is a surprise.
But it's not a surprise that soft ass punk ass
ESPN would make him apologize. You want to play the
game and take the check. If they tell you to apologize,
(09:11):
you have to apologize. You think they made him open
the broadcast with that. You think that was their idea,
not his?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Absolutely? Absolutely, why would you?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Why else would you unless you feel like using a
slur something is harmful to your brother's girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I don't know. I mean, maybe that's certainly possible.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I guess Travis may have texted him and said, bro,
come on, I'm not you know, I'm not into this
public apology. And then of course, well it's okay he
apologized and everybody having to be anointed with the public's forgiveness.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, I don't think you had to apologize, just like
I enjoy them. I don't think should have been suspended
either for smacking the guy, for shoving that freaking Philadelphia guy.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Maybe, I mean, yeah, he does a common writes about
his day brother and it's like, what the hell man? Really? Yeah,
I do.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Actually we were talking about that on the air. I
have a quote from that column.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, but you did you read the column? No, I
have not read the exact exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
See I read the column. Go ahead, so I know
what the guy said. What is that to piss everybody? Off,
he said, Hey, what about that punk ass and beads
dead brother?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
What about that?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Huh, that's exactly it.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Let me read it again, Hey not not not what
about that punk ass and.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Beads dead brother? You lie? Hey, what about that? You lie?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And then he said, hey, what about that bitch? And
then he said, hey, what about his son too? And
then that's what upset I read. I paid. I paid
for the through to get through the firewall of the
Philadelphia Choir so I could read the quote to really
bring the news to the people of Seattle.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, that's part of the problem is that you had
all these pay walls.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
This big story comes out, nobody can see the damn
article because.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
What the hell I'm gonna go. Geez, It's not okay
to shove media members down. It's not okay then to
ask the collected media to report, not report.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
What they just saw. Yeah, yeah, the six or tr
people did that, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And look, we work in the toy department. Look at
how ridiculous the world is, and sports is even seventeen
thousand times more ridiculous. And we try to act all
serious and wear polos and like be like but I mean,
my god, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yes, I understand when somebody gets shoved to the ground,
I don't care unless it's Manny Ramirez attacking an elderly
travel secretary in Boston.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Decades or so go. I do remember that, but it's whatever.
I don't care what I say.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Guys, brother, Hey, what about that bitch? Yeah that's what
he said. That's a quote. Understand them being upset.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You know you lie, you lie again, You just lie? Man,
just fibbing. Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You know, Cougar fans are pissed off the Colorado's ranked
ahead of them and the CFP.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
What are they doing to be ranked ahead of us?
The Cougs have a case.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, the Kogs have only lost to one game Boise State.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Okay, yeah, they beat they beat it, and all of.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
A sudden, Texas Tech's pretty good and like six six
and three, right.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Texas Tech has been good.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, the Cougs caught him without their best player, their
running back, Todds Brooks. But uh, I've done a few.
I've seen the Coogs again. I've seen the Cooks twice.
They were destroyed by Boise I mean destroyed by Ashton
Gent and they they were basically dead to rights against
(12:53):
Presno and pulled it out, and then they were dead
to rights against San Diego right and and state and out.
And so I would say, and I've watched some Colorado
and they of course have a lot of attention. I
would say the kooks do not have as much of
a case as they might think.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You see a loss on their schedule the rest of
the way, Uta State at New Mexico, at Oregon State, Bronco.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Mendenhall is an unbelievable coach. You look at where he's
been and what he's inherited and then what he's done.
He is a true program builder and developer. He's not
a personable guy. He's just got some weird football magic,
very professorial. And they score forty five points a game
(13:41):
right now. And whenever you're scoring a whole bunch and
you're putting points up on everybody, people are at risk.
I think there's a few teams in the Mountain West
that people are not as comfortable playing as they thought.
Like Nevada is really improved. That guy's a good coach.
New Mexico has really improved. San Diego State is going
(14:02):
to be pretty good under Sean Lewis when they get
their system going. So it is kind of interesting shifting
on the West coast. But I'm impressed with what the
Koogs have done. They've found ways to win all these games.
The overtime one at San Jose was a thriller or
two against San Jose at home, and they have not
had the mid season loll which has been indicative of
(14:23):
what Jake Dickert has done in his even with cam
Ward at the quarterback, who everybody's washing his balls right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Now, so he should. He's good.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, absolutely, So congratulations to the Coogs. I'd like to
see him finish. And if they do, Colorado's got a
loss or two in there. You know, they need a
Hail Mary to survive Baylor, let's not forget. So I think, uh,
I think the Cooks are pretty good this year. And
I congratulate Jake Dickert. You just like saying, Dickert petros
(14:55):
with us. We're going to Penn State this weekend, flying
to Pittsburgh. Yeah, flying to Pittsburgh tomorrow and then driving
out there Friday, doing a show out there Friday night,
coming back Sunday. Husky's Penn State in Whiteout eight o'clock
East Coast time. They're gonna drive to Harrisburg after the
game is over because the runway is not big enough
for the plane to take off out there, so they
(15:18):
gotta drive ninety minutes after the game.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well you think Penn State, you done well? They're vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I mean, look, USC had them by the balls too,
yeah though, yeah, but yeah, but still no, okay, I
mean and Washington just beat USC on the road, yeah
at home, but yeah, these.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Big ten teams, you know, you say Penn State and
then you.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Get on the field and it's like, okay, you know,
I mean, UCLA just beat Nebraska.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It's not as creepy as as you think.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I mean, you guys beat Michigan for God's sakes, right,
but they're terrible, Yeah, sure are. But still I mean,
Penn State just got beat by Ohio State. You know,
and these are still college kids, and they are obviously demoralized.
I keep saying that word because of the season, uh,
kind of collapsing under their feet with not being able
(16:14):
to win the big game that they're supposed to win
every year and James Franklin getting the incoming there. So
I think Washington will will perform pretty well in this game.
If if they if they're sharp and they stick with
it early and create some doubt piss Pin stayed off
because they're so angry about losing last week.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
How do you how do you piss them off by
poke him in the eye and just take off running
or something that's.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Going to when you score touchdown and then you wiggle
your puzzo around like you know, they try to run
one of those wildcat plays with that guy. They try
to run run all those wildcat players with that guy Warren,
and somebody hits him right in the puzzo with the
crown of their helmet, like, oh, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
That kind of stuff pisses you off.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Early.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
You met jedfish course a touchdown on the first driver
of the game.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
It looks over at James Franklin, it just goes.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, like the water boy. Oh God, please let that happen.
Please let that happen. You know, I mean it could
be a player too. Have you been there by the
way to Penn State? No, No, I've done Penn State games,
but I've never been. Oh god, but if I did,
I'd go to Gettysburg.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's the first thing I would do. Yeah, we won't
have time for that.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, of course not, because you have no interest in
history or learning about your country. That doesn't sit around
and eat fredos.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Hey, shut up, man, that's between you and me, and
it's not fridos, it's doritos.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You should go to a little roundtop and go kiss
the statue of Gubern or Warren, but you won't. All right,
don't go wiggle your round Gettysburg the statue of Roberty Leal.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Shoot you. That's good advice.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
By the way, I think that's actually the it's on
the back of the press bass.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That they said us. Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
All right, dude, great stuff. We're talking a week see
you man, all right? By all right, bet trust with
us on the show. We're gonna break Holy Cow. Kevin
Harlan coming up at five. We're the five twenty bar
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Speaker 3 (18:35):
So I was walking through the tunnels of UW yesterday.
There's a big leak in the tunnel going down to
the stadium. Those all right, a huge leak floorwards all wet.
I mean, you know, parts of that building are still
pretty old, right with the hell and walking by the
basketball court, guys were on the shoot around, you know,
getting ready for the game last night. I'm thinking to
myself as I'm walking by, heck ed to my car
(18:57):
to get back to the radio station. And it was
twenty years ago this year when you Dubb was the
number one seed in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh, twenty years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Like literally, there's twenty five year old people walking around
that have no idea what the hell we're talking about.
That's right, Jackson, Do you remember that year at all? No,
Nate Robinson, Brandon Roy, Will Conroy.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Really getting into the Dogs in those years because it
was it was the Stanford upset.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
The year before that was Curtis Allen's last, right, Curtis
Allen was not on the number one switch, right right,
that's correct. So, but two thousand and four, two thousand
and five is the year where they got the number
one seed and they went to Boise and they beat
I think Montana or Montana State and then played Pacific
and then lost to Louisville in New Mexico, right in Albuquerque.
(19:43):
That was twenty years ago. I'm like, God darn it,
I want that bath.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Is this the guy to do it?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I mean, obviously, nobody's gonna make any you know, proclamations
after one stinking game. But they got to the free
throw line thirty eight times, they only made twenty one.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
They should have blown these guys out last night. They
should have blown them out.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Although that that kid, t Y Johnson just had a
game of his life. He was absolutely unstoppable. They put
like three different guys on him and he went for
thirty five. Was just, you know, just one of those games, right.
And he's a really good player, and I'm surprised he's
playing at UC Davis. You know, Elders was saying he's
passed up money elsewhere to stay at.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Stay at UC Davis.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
He was a really good other than Osibor, he was
the second best player on the team on the floor
last night. But if if I was Danny Sprinkle, I
would have been very disappointed with how my team played
last year. Well, holy coch No, I'm just I'm not
saying I'm not I think they're a much better team
(20:38):
than they showed last night, is what I'm saying. And
you know, it's the first game new players. I mean,
you're playing against UC Davis. There's no energy in the building.
They shot fifty five percent from the line, they shot
fourteen percent from three point range, and they turned the
ball over fifteen times. That's why Danny Sprinkle should be upset,
you know. And and I think I am anxious to
(21:00):
see what he can mold these guys into. First of all,
he's got to find a starting five, and I think
zoom y'alloi belongs in it very very quickly. I understand
why he's not putting him in there. He's a freshman.
He's gonna give the more veteran players that have played
sixty seventy eighty college basketball games the opportunity to start.
(21:21):
But there is no question Zoom Diallo is a top
three talent on that team, maybe a top two talent
on that team, and eventually a top one talent on
that team because he's gonna go higher in the NBA
Draft than any of the other guys are.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Uh yeah, I wonder is he's not a one undone guy, right?
Zoom in no way.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I don't think so, but you never know these days, right.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
I just think I love how aggressive they were last night.
Big Frank being healthy is a total game changer for them,
and they got to keep finding a way to keep
that guy healthy.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I mean, he's had he's got an injury history for
the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I don't know how they'd manage that dick, you know,
from a coaches perspective, but getting that big guy and
him available for every single game is going to open
up so much for everybody else on that basketball team.
And I just think that they're gonna have games like
that for a while. When you have ten new guys,
they may not be ready to roll and be on
the same page until January.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Right.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
And the problem is, and you know it was pointed
out again by Gary Parris today, is he's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I mean, you look at the Huskies.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know ken palm, which is you know, for lack
of a better term, RPI rating. I like ken Palm
better than the net ranking. Actually, you know, they're like
seventy fifth and you're like, ah, seventy fifth. A few
wins over top fifty teams and you're right there. On
the NCAA tournament bubble. The problem is every other team
in the pack or in the Big ten is in
(22:38):
the top eighty. I mean they're near the bottom. They're
not at the bottom, but they're near the bottom. And
the Big ten is just stocked with teams ranks I
think Purdues number one at like fifteen or sixteen. So
there's no elite team in the Big ten. There's no
team you look at and go, well, they're just absolutely unbeatable.
But there's like fourteen teams out of the next sixty
(23:01):
in Ken Pom. So it is going to be a
tough night out every single time. And you have got
to take advantage of those home games. You gotta take
advantage of, you know, the Minnesota's and the Wisconsins and
those type of teams that come to Seattle and have
to make the trip. You gotta win those basketball games
because winning out on the road is going to be really,
(23:22):
really tough.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
So there's ten Big Ten teams in the top thirty
eight and Ken Palm eight in the top forty eight,
and nine in the top fifty four and twelve in
the top sixty four. How many teams in the NCAA
tournament sixty eight. Now, yeah, there's twelve in the top
sixty four. Twelve twelve of the eighteen teams are in
the top sixty four in college basketball.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The thirteenth team is Washington at seventy six.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
So the goal is can you finish in the top
ten in the Big ten, right, because if you can
finish in the ten, people might be top ten.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
I mean a tournament team, you're absolutely, yep.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You're you could be in this conference. You can absolutely.
A five hundred team I think is in. I think
maybe a game under five hundred team might be a
tournament team. We've seen many many ACC teams. We've seen
Syracuse for years go to the NCAA tournament going two
games under five hundred in the ACC. That can happen
in the Big ten this year, and I think that
(24:14):
is a possibility for Washington is talented enough if they
can get it together with Zoom, with Kepnong, with great
Osa Bor, those three guys, and then somebody else is
gonna stop up. I mean, I was looking forward to
seeing DJ Davis.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
DJ Davis to me, I don't know how he hit
forty percent of his threes in past years, because maybe
it was just an off night for him. But he
shoots on the way up. He doesn't high point his release.
His legs are kicking out when he's shooting threes.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Maybe it was just a bad night for him I seen.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I need to see much much more out of him
before I'm ready to just say whether or not he's
gonna be a very good two guard in the in
this league.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, great osa Bor looks like he is gonna be
worth the money. I mean, they're paying him a lot
of money. Obviously, I don't know how that money is
getting gold out. But I told Dick Jackson off the air,
he looks to me like a better version of no
With Dickerson, who can do everything, just because he kind
of looks like Noah Dickerson. And he's taller than nowhere Dickerson,
and he does everything really well.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I don't know if he's really.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Elite, dick You tell me if I'm crazy, not elite
at any one.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
What's that footwork? Okay? His footwork is as good as
anybody in America for a big man.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Wow, All right, Well he's a little sloppy last night though.
That's fine, right, But that was footwork.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
That was his I mean, his passing was sloppy, and
his ballhand was a little sloppy last night, that's right.
But his I mean, his ability to to back in
a guy and be able to get around people with
footwork is absolutely incredible. The thing that's gonna keep him
out of the NBA is the fact that he's he's
not six eleven with that football. That's the thing that's
gonna I'm not gonna say he's not gonna play, but
(25:45):
I don't see a guy that's that short at that
position that can't hit a three playing much in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Well, I mean, look, I'm excited about it, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I just think it's just time for some new blood
around here, obviously, and he's gonna give that to us.
And how we'll it take these guys to jail or
they income for kind of a rude awakening when they
go to the question and face a team like a
Purdue or Ohio State or a Wisconsin for example, or
whatever the teams that try to I mean, he's talked
about wanting practices to be like a combat practice, right,
like just banging elbows with.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
People, and he's recruiting players that can do that.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I mean, Big Frank is obviously having him here on
this roster is gonna be a huge benefit when Big
ten play begins. All Right, we're gonna break testimonials. Kevin
Harlan coming.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Up with five.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
We're live with a five twenty bar and grill in
Bellevue where it's starting to fill up, meaning our voices
aren't carrying. It's not till Tuesday like it normally is.
When we're on the air between three and five and
people are still at work. We can start to scream
now at five. Coming up on ninety three three KJRFM
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