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What's up, JCCC? My name is Joseph McCray, and

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I'm here with my partner. And my name is Prince.

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And this is actually the first episode of the

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Johnson County Community College Sports Podcast.

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So welcome in to our first ever episode. So just

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a little bit of background on me. I've been doing

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I've been over here at Johnson County for about

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the last three years, been a journalism major

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for a good amount of time. And I've taken a lot

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of classes just around getting into the sports

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world, looking to get into sports, sports broadcasting

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as a career. So really excited to get to to get

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to this next level. And Prince, go ahead. Yeah,

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this is my first year at Johnson County, you

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know, looking to go into journalism as well,

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wanting to do podcasting. So this can be a new

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fun experience for me, but you guys can also

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figure it out with me too. So let's be on a ride

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here. All right. Well, hey, since this is a JCCC

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sports broadcast, I bet you can't guess who we're

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going to be talking about first. It's going to

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be our very own Cavaliers over here on the basketball

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side. Our men's and women's team is insanely

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good right now. We're looking at the last game

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with Labette and we're looking at the men's game.

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Men's Cavs just won against the Labette. I think

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it's Cougars or something like that. We're looking

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at a 66 to 56 game and this is now the 26th win

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in a row on top of that. We're looking at a team

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that has potential to make a big time feat in

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college in college basketball history. And we're

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looking at a big time. We're looking at some

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really big time plays from really big time players.

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Tavian Cruz and Avian Webb are both really great

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are both doing their thing. of avian he's a freshman

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here um just getting started and just in this

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last game had 15 points off five for eight from

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the three and then tavian has been taking his

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game to a new level with that rebound game of

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averaging 10 a game this year and actually he's

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tied for the most double doubles i believe in

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jccc history so shout out to tavian man doing

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your thing Keep doing your thing. That's a lot

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of history to be making And I mean look at looking

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at the stats by the way, they held Labette to

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just 35 % from the field That's very low. That's

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very good defense for sure And their highest

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score was 19 points by Vonte Robinson, but that's

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pretty good scoring in a game But to be holding

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a team to just 35 % field goal Pretty impressive.

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Really good. And I mean, it's not really just

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off of the defense. I mean, you got to get your

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rebounds and Tavion's really coming in clutch

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with that. I mean, he's got he and the and the

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other bigs on the team are getting us over. I

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mean, in this game, they got 11 plus on the bet.

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So, I mean, big time for them. Now, one thing

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that they have been having a bit of a struggle

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with is that free throw game. They only got to

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about 40 percent this last game, and that's that's

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a little rough. Yeah. It is rough. It is rough.

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But if we look at the women's side of things,

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you know, our averages for the season, they're

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averaging more points than the men's at 93 points

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per game, which is pretty impressive. And they're

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shooting at 37 percent from three, which that's

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pretty impressive, too. I mean, we're doing great

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things out here. They are shooting amazing. They

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also went up against Labette on the women's side,

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who attempt the most free throws in the conference,

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by the way. And they didn't shoot that well either

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from the free throw line. So you can get to the

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line, but can you make it from the line is the

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question. Yeah. And I mean, the bet hasn't been

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the greatest. I mean, they're one of the last

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in the conference. So it was kind of a gimme

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on this game. I mean, the bet only had about

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like about they're averaging just under about

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70 points a game. So it's not really it's not

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really like it was a crazy one, but it is something

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to really. you know give JCCC their credit and

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It's coming after a huge season for the Lady

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Cavs last year where they raised their own banner

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And now I think they're looking to get it back

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to back and I'm really excited to see it happen

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again So shout out to the Lady Cavs shout out

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to the shout out to the Cavs just doing their

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thing over there and Potentially making some

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really big college basketball history. I mean

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you're looking at it at two teams who could make

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history by getting Not only the national champion,

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not only the championships further conference,

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but also having an undefeated season at the same

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time. That's never been done across division

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one, division two, division three, NAIA. It's

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never been done. And I think that is something

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that you need to have a shout out for. It's just

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crazy. That's something that could go on ESPN.

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And I understand we're a community college here,

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but because, you know, they go after Arizona,

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all the big dogs. But sometimes you got to underline

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the these types of teams that Nothing, no, no

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division has ever done this you would think division

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three might have maybe done this or something

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like that But nothing no teams of women and women

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or men and women have ever done something like

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this The johnson county are looking forward to

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and they might just have it and what's even crazier

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They're not doing this by the skin of their teeth.

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I mean they're doing this They're outscoring

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both teams are scoring are outscoring. They're

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at the other teams in every single quarter, every

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single half, whichever one we have. I mean, they're

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outscoring them, so that should tell you a lot

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about what's going on. 90 % of the games, the

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final score is a big blowout. A big blowout.

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And the unsung heroes, always going out to the

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coaches. Always going out to the coaches. Shout

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out, because coaching is very important in these

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types of games, in any game. The players, yeah,

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they're doing a lot of performances, but... players

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are only getting better from all the coaching

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that they're getting. So a lot of development

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going on. Yep. And I mean, with that, I mean,

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there's so much success that we're seeing at

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JCCC and we couldn't be more proud of them. But

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going on through that, we're looking at how KU

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really is doing and we're really looking at is

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Darren Peterson the guy? Now, outside of just

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success with JCCC, we're also looking at some

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collegiate success in the division one. We're

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looking at KU too. And I mean, we've had some

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really good games as of late. I mean, KU, they

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beat out Arizona, the number one seed in the

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entirety of college football. But we're also

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looking at losses to, you know, Iowa State. I

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mean, even if they are number five, I mean, it

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still brought us up from number nine to number

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eight. But I mean, it still hurts at the end

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of the day. That's an indivision loss and you

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can't really have that. So when it comes down

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to what we wanted to get with that, Darren Peterson,

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are you really the guy? Are you the guy who is

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going to take us all the way to the Natty like

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you are supposedly trying to promise? Because,

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man, I'm sorry, 10 points in 24 minutes is completely

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unacceptable to have whenever it comes to a big

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time game like that. Like Prince, what do you

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got to say? Yeah, I mean, at the same time, when

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we beat the big team. Arizona when we didn't

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even have them. I don't think You know and I'll

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be I feel like if we can beat teams without that

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man Then is he that worthy and when we do have

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him he's only putting up ten points in 24 minutes

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So maybe there's some other people some other

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guards out there that might need some more Raising

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the minutes to maybe see if they can get a little

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bit of a spike on their points. Yes You know

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give it on that bench scoring that we need because

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that's what we We're not good at right now. We

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need that. But then we got we got to think like

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who's really going to take over for him, because

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I'm in Trey White. He's a senior. And then you've

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got El Marco, who's a sophomore, but has been

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really struggling in that three point game just

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in scoring in general. I think he's on about

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like five points a game. So we're really struggling

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to find that bench scoring in general. I mean,

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last few games, they haven't had almost any bench

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scoring at all. And they're relying solely on

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guys like Flory to get big time dunks and big

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time blocks. And they're trying to get Bryson

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to get going but Bryson I mean he's still a freshman

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he needs time and I mean you can say the same

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thing for El Marco you can say the same thing

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for pretty much any soft any sophomore freshman

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anybody in the anybody in college basketball

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but what's really gonna happen until they actually

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show some results yeah I mean again the game

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against the Cyclones you know the six turnovers

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compared to the 13 What does this really prove

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about that team like we've talked we talked earlier

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about they haven't really had the craziest schedule

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But beating a team like KU who were also by the

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way on a game streak leading up to that beating

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a team like that What does that prove about them?

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Can they do it all? I'd say Iowa State has a

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good chance about like maybe getting into I mean

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I can definitely see them in March Madness I

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mean they're number five and they're number five

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in the nation. It's not gonna act like It's not

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gonna be a crazy thing to say they can't yeah

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But it's really that are we really going to sit

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here and treat Iowa State who has had no one

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other than Purdue really on their schedule and

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Syracuse who's also having it down here. Are

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we gonna treat them the same way that we're treating

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Arizona? Are we gonna treat them the same way

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we're treating Houston even though I'm pretty

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sure no actually No, Iowa State did knock them

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off. Yeah. Yeah, Iowa State knocked Houston off

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it too. Yeah, so maybe they are legit Yeah, I

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mean I might just prove myself wrong my bad.

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Yo. Yeah, you never know but it comes to the

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March Madness time where is Darian Pearson gonna

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pick his role back up and Really prove why he

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should be You know, because he's only been being

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here for this one season and then he set it off

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So can he prove his worth and can you show why

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he should be the number one pick in the draft?

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And you know, where's he just give me another

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load management guy like how the NBA looks nowadays

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Well, I think it's I think there's a bit of everything

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with that and I don't mean to disrespect anybody

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with like any of the comments we're making Like

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at the end of the day, we're just trying to you

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know, we're trying to be analysis we're trying

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to give analysis and think of what we're talking

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about, but I just think that Darren Peterson

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needs to put on some weight. He's 205, but he

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does not look 205. We've got Flory who's 235,

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but does not look 235. So we're talking about

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some guys who should have a little bit more weight

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and should be using that weight to that way.

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Because if you're, I mean, even at 205, he's

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still one of the heavier guards on the team.

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I mean, I think Omarco's about 195 and you're

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just sitting there saying... I mean, Omarco's

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driving more than you. You're just shooting from

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the three 90 % of the time, or that's what it

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feels like it is. And now you're just, you're

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saying you're not trying. Yeah. When you have

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that weight, attack the paint. And well, you

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might get free throws. If you're the number one

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pick, do what you got to do to get points rather

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than shoot that many threes. And also on top

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of that, missing those threes every now and again,

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because he was missing. Yeah, and it's been like

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that since about Texas Tech and again. I don't

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care I'm giving my I'm giving my boy a shout

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out Donovan that well my cousin I am giving that

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man a shout out lock Darren Petersson down long

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enough to really put him in this kind of a slump

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So I may I may not be supporting Texas Tech,

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but Donovan will always have my votes That's

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a brag a lot of people can't have mm -hmm, but

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hey We'll see how it goes with KU. We'll see

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how it goes with the Big 12. Also, another thing

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with the Big 12, Jerome Tang out of K -State.

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I know a lot of people are happy about that.

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I'm personally sad about that. I really wish.

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I'm saying that was the best coach they've ever

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had, at least in my mind. You know, one in 10,

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you can't ever get better than that. Oh, yeah,

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never, never, never. They definitely were one

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of the best teams ever for the last few years,

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for sure. Man, always in the big, always in the

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championship every year. Always, always. All

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right in the real scheme of things yeah a lot

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of bad comments made by a coach like that mm

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-hmm and those I mean That's what it keeps you

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from getting a job on top. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah

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All right well for a first episode I hope this

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wasn't insanely crazy, but yeah I've had fun,

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and I'm ready for the next episode for sure JCC

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stay tuned. We'll see you guys in the next one.

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This is Jay. This is Brent We'll see you later.

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Have a good one