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Today's episode, we are talking, reflecting on the Purdue game.
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I wasn't able to make the post game show, so I want to talk a little bit about that.
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Thoughts on this team's improvement over the course of the season because I think there's
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an underrated storyline there and then hats off great guard, this is where I want to start.
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Is he the most underrated coach in the country?
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I mean, there are a lot of coaches and there's a lot of really good coaches at a lot of
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That's one thing I've learned, both in my limited time coaching, but also kind of covering
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But man, it doesn't feel like he gets the credit he deserves from a lot of Badger fans,
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from big 10 folks, from the national media.
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You got to look back on the season, just reflect on it and say, what, what a job.
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I create guard in the staff and, you know, a good buddy of the show Chips sent this out to me.
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I think Reggie was on it.
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This is an entirely Houtteam outside of Blackwell, Winter, Janiki with a few minutes here and
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This is an entirely new team and you want to beat Purdue without Nolan Winter because
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he was hurt and Janiki's out.
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It's Blackwell and a bunch of guys that are brand new on this roster.
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It's Boyd, it's Carrington, it's Bilioluskis, it's Rap, it's Rodi, et cetera, et cetera.
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He's completely reloaded the chamber.
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I mean, the clip had one bullet left in it, two with Winter, but he's completely reloaded
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that and this team has a Mr. Beat, 14 and six.
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They're going to finish, I think, fifth in the big 10.
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And if you remember Bo Ryan, and Bo Ryan was incredible, obviously.
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We don't need to state the obvious, Hall of Fame coach, one of one.
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And he had this incredible streak of finishing in the top four in the big 10.
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I think we're going to finish five this year in the big 10.
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That's where we're currently.
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But finishing fifth in this big 10 is different than finishing fifth in Bo Ryan's big 10.
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And it's not to take anything away from obviously what Bo Ryan did, but
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this is a tougher big 10.
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You've added several squads.
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You see always a basketball school.
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Maryland, although they've been down, that's a basketball school.
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Oregon spends money.
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And Washington has had talent.
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But it's also a resurgent Michigan.
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Nebraska's really good.
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Illinois's great, Purdue's Purdue.
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This is a tremendous basketball conference.
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And the badger's finished 14 and six.
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You know, great job.
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You just, we just got to take a second.
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And we still do post game shows after a loss.
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And people in the chair like, I don't know about great guard.
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I'm like, okay, great guard has tied Bo Ryan's program record for wins over top 10 teams.
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He's got 18 of them.
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He's been incredible.
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And yeah, it's been some ups and downs.
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But I don't know how you look back at this year, 22 and 9 overall, 14 and six in conference.
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He's going to have another all conference type player in Nick Boyd,
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who has once again, like many players in over the last several years under this coaching
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staff and under great guard has nailed career highs in points and productivity.
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You know, he's Tonjay at store.
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It's the development of Blackwell and Winter.
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All these guys have played ball, you know, ball somewhere else.
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All these transfer players, none of them have played as well.
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They've played Madison.
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What's the common denominator there?
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And absolutely credit to the staff to Kirk Penny and to Krabbenhoff and, you know,
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Brad Davidson coming over, but great guard hired the staff and credit to the players,
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but they're great guards players.
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Yeah, he's been absolutely incredible.
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This is going to be one of the tougher big 10s we've seen recently.
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Michigan is a great team.
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Illinois and Nebraska and, you know, Michigan state are also all really good teams produce
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And the bachelor's beat all of them, right?
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Like they beat they get the best when the best quartet of wins in the country,
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probably bar none and three of them are in the road.
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And that comes back to coaching.
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You have to give great guard just a ton of credit.
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And I think a part of guard coach guard that doesn't get enough credit and isn't talked
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about enough is how seamlessly he went away from something he'd done his entire coaching
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He had learned under Bo Ryan and he ran Bo Ryan's kind of scheme and his system and his style.
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And for several years, and breaking from that mold, from a hall of fame coach,
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from a legend, from the guy who brought Wisconsin to the national championship game.
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And you're his hand pick successor.
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Do you guys realize how hard it is to completely break with some of
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Bo Ryan's dead fast principles?
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We see the badges occasionally shipped into his own now.
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We see the team play fast.
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We see them hunt shots.
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We don't see them running the swing.
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We don't see them hitting the post.
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We don't see them doing the same thing defensively against big enroll schemes.
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We see him doing all sorts of things differently.
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We see him with more patience for turnovers,
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allowing players to play through things.
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Imagine you had a mentor in whatever industry you're in who was an all-time great.
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And he hand picked you to take over.
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You know, and it didn't happen right away, but several years down the road,
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you completely flip everything that that mentor did, not everything.
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Because they're still practicing fundamentals.
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This is still a fundamental coaching staff.
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But the way you play offense, the way you control the tempo,
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you completely flip it, and it works.
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That doesn't mean what Bo Ryan was doing was wrong.
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Obviously, because of all of him coach.
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But that takes some chutzpah.
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That takes some, that takes some intestinal fortitude to say,
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you know, I've done this thing from a coaching perspective for a long time,
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And I've learned from one of the goats.
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And I'm going to do it differently.
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I'm going to change it.
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And it's flourished.
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You got to get Gregard so much credit for that.
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And sure, Kirk Penny played a huge role in that.
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Absolutely coming up,
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influencing Coach Gard and his system.
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But Gregard hired Kirk Penny.
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And Gregard had the confidence to listen to him.
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And the ego list, the selfless nature to listen to him.
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Because that's another part of it.
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Coach is often don't want to change because they think they're right.
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They think their way is the correct way.
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They'll be able to change midstream to alter the course to shift the rudder.
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That's super impressive.
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And you just got to give Gregard so much credit for what he's done this year.
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What this team has done this year.
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They've been phenomenal.
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They've been phenomenal.
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And it's, it's a bunch of things.
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If you want to break it down,
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if you want to really break it down.
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And why it's been such an impressive year for Gregard,
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it's, it's talent identification.
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It's taking guys like Brighton Carrington,
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understanding that your scheme will fit them better.
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And you can get more out of them.
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It's getting Nick Boyd here and getting him to play effectively with another ball dominant,
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you know, guard ISO guard and John Blackwell.
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It's the continued development of Nolan Winter.
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It's the identification of Austin rap and Billy Oscars.
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Just tremendous job.
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Does he bat a thousand?
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No, but nobody does.
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Nobody bats a thousand.
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You know, Phil Jackson flamed out with the nicks.
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Nobody bats a thousand.
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But he's, he's really good guys.
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And he's phenomenal at talent identification,
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which is maybe the most important part of coaching in the portal era.
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cam hunter, Daniel free tag.
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We're both on this Badgers roster last year.
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They're both the leading scores on their teams this year.
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Central Arkansas for Cameron Hunter and Buffalo for Daniel free tag.
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Those are both talent identification wins for Gregard.
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You didn't keep him on the roster for various reasons.
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And I think you'd love to have him now.
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Probably, but those are two more guys that he looked at.
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He identified and his staff said, yeah,
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those, those players will work here from a talent perspective.
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And they're both flourishing this year.
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You just got to give him a ton of credit, man.
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We're going to come back, take a break, come back and talk about
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the other part of this team that I'm not sure if it gets talked about enough.
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Okay, let's talk about this other aspect of great guard in this team
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that I think is really impressive.
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They just keep getting better, right?
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A lot of teams don't.
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Look at what Indiana has done in the back after this season.
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Nebraska's starting to struggle a little bit.
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Purdue, Purdue, look at where they're at from where they were two months ago.
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And then you look at this Wisconsin team.
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And let's go back to the beginning of this year.
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Let's go back, excuse me, let's go back to the beginning of this season.
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Getting murdered by BYU.
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I mean, what they lost by about 30, I think it was 28.
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Nebraska bus, bus autumn, Purdue won by 20 something.
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You lost to a TCU team, a Villanova team
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that I think you were both better than.
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And now you went from losing by 20 something to Purdue
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to beating him at home on senior day.
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What what what you went from getting buzz sawed by Nebraska
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to beating Michigan on the road to beating Purdue on the road
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to beating Michigan State and Illinois.
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And it's a staple of I think some great guard teams.
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And Gregard mentioned this, I thought this was a really good quote.
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He said, everybody talks about who wins the portal,
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national championship NIL and all of that stuff.
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Nobody talks about any more a team improving during the season end quote.
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I think that's perfect because improvements through the through the season is coaching,
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right? It's understanding how to build culture,
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how to state the course.
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I think that's one of the best things.
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And it's something less than that.
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We'll frustrate people at times with Gregard.
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I'm not immune to that.
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It's certainly frustrated me occasionally.
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But he he will stay the course if he believes in something,
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whether that's Jack Chanicki, whether that was Carter Gilmore,
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whether that was the rotation in the front court,
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he's not going to be a victim of the moment.
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He's going to believe in what he's seen in practice,
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believe in over the course of time,
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the right decisions will in the aggregate will
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will make the most sense and will come out ahead
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because we're not going to make knee jerk decisions
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to rotations or playing times.
13:38
We believe in what we believe.
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And we're going to stick to those guns.
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You know, after the...
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What was the recent loss where we shot 45-3s?
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Was that the Oregon game?
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I think it was the Oregon game where we didn't play well.
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And there were a lot of badger fans that said too many threes.
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Nah, hit the paint.
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After the end of the blah, you know, sound bite.
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But Gregard said, no, that's who we are.
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We're going to believe in what we believe.
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And I didn't dislike most of the shots and we just didn't shoot well.
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Now, I'm paraphrasing there.
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And I think there were things in that game
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I'm sure he wasn't as happy about, you know,
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But I like that he is iconoclastic in what he believes.
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And I think you need that in head coach.
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You need a head coach who's a stabilizing force
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because the players are young, right?
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There's a lot going on.
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They're going to be victims of it in up and down season,
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whereas the coach needs to set that that rudder,
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the stabilizing force.
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And you look at this team, where they have...
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Where have they improved?
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My goodness, look at Nick Boyd from early in the year to now.
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Nick Boyd is the best point guard in the big 10 right now, right?
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He's now beaten right in Smith.
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He all played him fears.
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He all played fears when they played Michigan State.
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He all played Wogler when they played Illinois.
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Who's better right now?
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Not over the course of the season, not for the NBA.
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I don't care about the NBA.
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We're talking college hoops.
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This is not locked on NBA draft prospects.
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We're talking big 10 basketball.
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Who's better right now than Nick Boyd at the point guard spot?
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You're not going to name one.
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He's in a tier with some other really good point guards,
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but you're not going to name one that's better right now.
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But that's been an ascension over the season for Nick Boyd,
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which again goes back to great guard.
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It goes back to the steadying hand,
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and the influence that great guard has.
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Look at the internal improvement over the course of the year
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from guys like Nolan Winter.
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Look at the improvement over the course of year from Austin Rap,
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from Braden Carrington, my goodness.
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Carrington from the beginning of the year to now.
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All these players do our own prove,
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and maybe Rodi hasn't as much as you like to see,
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but over the course of the season,
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this version of the Badgers basketball team right now
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would beat the Breaksoft the Badgers team
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from three months ago.
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It would beat the Breaksoft one.
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And it's because a lot of of what great guard does.
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It's because of the staff he puts together.
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It's because of the scheme he runs.
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It's because of his ability to build culture.
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It's because of the type of kids that he recruits to his team.
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And one thing, this will all stand out to me
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when I had Patrick Curve on the show.
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And it's always great when we can have Patrick Curve
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on the show, he's phenomenal.
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But he said something that I think he heard it from one of the Badgers.
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Football coaches, I'd have to go back and look.
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But he said, you recruit your own mistakes.
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That's kind of something they've talked about
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inside the walls that Wisconsin,
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in the coaching rooms or whatever.
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You recruit your own mistakes.
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I think that's phenomenal.
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And you look at great guard.
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He doesn't recruit mistakes.
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He doesn't hit on everybody.
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But the players that are here
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buy into the culture seemingly.
16:42
They buy into the motion W.
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They, it really matters to them.
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You can see them on the bench getting excited
16:51
You know, again, he doesn't bat 1,000
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because nobody in the world,
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that's 1,000 in talent acquisition.
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And that's true in any sport,
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any coach that's true from Bill Belichet
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to Bill Parsel's to George C for to Bill Walsh to
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Tommy Lassort, I like nobody bats 1,000, right?
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But gosh darn it, he bats pretty well
17:10
when it comes to identifying the right fits,
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not just from a talent standpoint,
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from a cultural standpoint.
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You go back to last year,
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John Tonja, he fit like a glove.
17:20
And there's people who would call
17:23
John Tonja one of their favorite
17:24
Badger basketball players,
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who's here for a year.
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And I feel like Nick Boyd is in that same vein
17:29
who people just love Nick Boyd.
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He's here for a year.
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And in the transfer portal era,
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players that come in for a year tend to be
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often called mercenaries.
17:39
But Gray Guard has found a bit of a way
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to bring guys in that really buy-in
17:43
for the time they're here.
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I don't think that's common.
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I don't think most coaches have figured out that.
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And I think that is the enduring legacy
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of what he got from Bo Ryan.
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Understanding the importance of culture,
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understanding the importance of building a team,
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understanding the importance of
17:58
standing on what you believe in
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and not changing in the middle of the season.
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If maybe it doesn't go right
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for the first five games or six games
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or being able to stay the course,
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be consistent, be steady, be who you are.
18:12
And in Gray Guard is crushing it at all those things.
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He's been absolutely tremendous.
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And Badger fans should be, I'll just say it,
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to be thankful to have him.
18:22
And I know people will say,
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well, he's got to do more in March.
18:27
They say that about a lot of people
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until they win the big one.
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You know, they said that about
18:32
Bo Ryan for a while until he got to the final four.
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You know, I get it.
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I'm there with everybody.
18:39
You've got to make a sweet 16 run.
18:40
You've got to get into the elite eight.
18:42
But those things don't happen
18:44
unless you stack good regular seasons.
18:46
You stack good regular seasons
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to give yourself enough chops at the wood.
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And eventually you keep chopping at that wood in its blitz.
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So I think the improvement over the year,
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incredibly impressive.
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And I'm just really stoked to be a fan of this program right now.
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All right, come up.
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Talk about that Purdue game a little more.
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And what I found so, so impressive.
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That's coming up next on Lockdown Badgers.
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Okay, let's talk about the Purdue game.
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So you go into this game without no one winter
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and you're going into a road game
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against the Purdue team
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that is celebrating senior night
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for a bunch of legends on that team.
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Fletcher lawyer and Braden Smith.
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And you just you just work them offensively.
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And that is we talked about it a couple times.
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The high water market what this offense can look like.
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The Badras have built a scheme here
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where when those fours and it's really the four,
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here's the thing it's really the fours
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that are the key to this team.
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Because I think I think we know what we're going to get
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I'm pretty sure what I'm going to get from John Blackwell.
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I know what I'm going to get from Nolan
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which are when he's healthy.
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And I think I know what I'm going to get from Andrew Rodi,
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which isn't quite as much as I thought I would,
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You get a solid ball mover who can hit open threes
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and can do a lot of little things.
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And then I think we know we're going to get
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from Braden Carrington.
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It comes down to, in my opinion,
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when the fours on this team,
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when when Bieluskis and Austin Rapper playing well
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and they're hitting shots,
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this team is murderous to deal with defensively.
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This team is a steam roller offensively
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when those fours are hitting shots.
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Because when those fours are hitting shots,
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what happens is everything is space.
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There's no longer any spot on the floor
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where a defender can feel safe.
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Everybody's in conflict.
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Every single defender is,
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I've used this analogy before.
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Offensively, you want to stretch the defense
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like a rubber band.
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You want to create tension everywhere.
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And eventually it breaks.
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When a defense can say in spots,
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when they can help off of players,
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when certain players aren't,
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you know, they aren't dangerous at any spot in the court,
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it allows you to help.
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It allows you to send coverage in different ways.
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It allows you to say,
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he gets you in the paint.
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But when those fours are shooting shots,
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what the heck do you do defensively?
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Because you can't keep boyd out of the paint.
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So he's going to get in the paint.
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If you're going to help at this point,
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void is so locked in,
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that he's finding that open shooter.
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And now you're just praying people on hit shots.
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And that's a terrible place to be defensively.
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It's a terrible place to be
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when you are stuck in just praying people don't hit shots.
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Because the patches are just engineering
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open looks right now.
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And they're engineering open looks
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for a bunch of dudes who can shoot.
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That's a disaster if you're trying to guard it.
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The only way you're really
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shutting down this patch is offense right now
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is again, if those fours aren't hitting shots,
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okay, which does happen occasionally.
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Both those guys can go into a slump
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or you just have a tremendous defensive back court
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who can really keep boyd in black while the paint.
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But not many people can.
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Not many people have that.
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There's not many defenders in the country
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that can play defense at that level
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and also play enough minutes to make a difference.
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Because there are some dogs on defense,
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but they can't play offense.
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So you can't play them a bunch.
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Maybe you have a great defender,
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but there's not many guys that are
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pluses on offense that can also hang
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with boyd in black while defensively.
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So it gives the badge as a tremendous advantage
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when those fours are hitting shots.
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And then you bring Nolan and Winter back into this.
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You're really liking how this rotation is playing.
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He's the key though.
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You did see Purdue take advantage on the glass
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You did see them score 90 plus.
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Because losing Winter hurts you defensively.
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It hurts you on the defensive glass.
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That is that big spot where if they can get him back,
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they go from bad to just okay in those areas.
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Defensive rebounding,
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defense and with their ability to shoot,
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you saw what happens.
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That was a tremendously impressive game.
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And it just shows you again
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what this team can do when it's hitting shots.
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So I was able to be on the reaction show,
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but I did come back to where we're heading to our cabin.
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We got in like one.
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So I watched it one.
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I was up till three.
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And I was just loving it.
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It was just so much fun.
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This team has heart.
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They don't they don't ever stop.
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That's the other thing.
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When you watch that Purdue game,
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Purdue starts out the game quick.
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They catch back up then the Badgers rally.
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Then Purdue goes on another run and the Badgers rally.
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That's the other thing with this team is they never stand the map.
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They never stay in the canvas.
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It's a boxing term, but they get knocked down sometimes.
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And outside of a couple of bad games,
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which they've had them.
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For the most part, this team always rallies.
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Going back to coaching, but also this one goes back to some of the players.
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It goes back to boy.
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It goes back to Blackwell and Winter and Carrington and Rodi.
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They just got some dogs that don't stop playing.
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I think it's a ton of fun.
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There's obvious flaws that they have.
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And I still think the deep men is probably going to keep them
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But it's a tremendously fun team to watch, man.
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And what a year by boy.
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What a year by Blackwell.
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What a year by Winter.
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What a year by Carrington.
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A ton of great members this season.
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They finished up by being Purdue on their senior night.
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Just phenomenal stuff.
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Again, hats off the great guard.
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Hats off the Nick Boyd.
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Hats off to those fours.
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For just banging shots.
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Making it really hard to play defense against this Wisconsin team.
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We're going to wrap it there on Wisconsin.
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