1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 18th: 10:25am - Kobe Webster part 2

Episode Date: January 18, 2022

Why can't this rebound at a consistently"Clean up your locker"Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Presented by Beatrice Makeray on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. We played this for Kobe. It's like a jungle sometimes. It makes me wonder how to keep from going under. Stavavov. A lot of the conversation about Husker basketball, they're basic topics that keep coming up.

So I will be the messenger. Do not shoot the message. but I also know you and I work from this space that do I have permission to tell you the truth. Yeah. So working from that, Kobe, you have permission, our permission to tell us the truth. Let basketball fans and Husker fans know what you know. And I asked the question that topic one for Husker basketball fans is, why can't this team rebound on the defensive end?

Why can't this team keep teams off the offensive boards? What say you? Doing stuff like that is a mentality, first and foremost. Like Dennis Rodman, prime example, that's just a mentality. Like, I want the ball more than the next guy. And right now, like, we just, it's like grit. We don't have the grit. Like, we don't end it.

And the thing when we do it, we can, we look good, right? Like we get the ball, we get it out in transition, we hit threes, we get dunks, whatever. But it's like, we don't do it consistent. And so when it's like half speed or, you know, not necessarily a focus point in practice, then we get into game and wonder why. You know, like when we're in drill, we have, we've done drills, you know, when in practice We have to box out or whatever, but there's not a whole lot of consequence. There's not, you know, a whole lot of, there's not a lot of pace when we do it.

Like, it's almost like, like, stationary. Well, that's the word. Stationary. Yeah, versus a team moving, moving, moving, a shot goes up, and now we got to find our man box out. Like, it's easy to sit and, you feel me? And look at who you're about to box out and go box them out. And the thing is that it's still, we sometimes mess that up. Like, so it's like, you know, and I'm not on here to know.

No, this is just conversation. But whatever, but like, it's just like, that's just the truth. It's like, like, how can you expect someone to go box out when it's not, it can be an emphasis or a key point on the film and stuff like that? but I feel like we don't emphasize a whole lot in practice. Okay. In the physical part of the game. So when you're on the floor, what's the likelihood of you hitting, once the horn sounds and you get up?

That there are priorities and focuses for why you were put in the game. So usually, Hoiberberger, look down and say, hey, Kobe, go get me, go get me this. As a part of your leadership, what's the likelihood of your saying, okay five to the ball five to the boards um i mean for me is like i mean like we already discussed like being on a bench you observe right you see you pick different parts of the game we're like okay we need to get better at this this this and this stop turning a ball over stop doing this or whatever and so for me when i go in the game whenever we huddle up a three-dill line it's like always it's two or three quick points like all right we got to keep him off the glass and that's

usually like always a point because it always happens. Like to understand that at 0 and 8 in this conference, that four of those can be directly attributed to the constant inability to focus on

defensive boards. Like, I don't care how you do defensively on the first presence because that's a personal thing. Yeah. Right? That all five have to make a commitment to doing their job. But rebound, I'm not worried

about getting in transition. No, no, you can't get in transition, you don't got the ball. Like that basic, that base premise, like that base premise. And I think that's a... Like the runout and sitting and watching and waiting for somebody else to do the thing that needs to be done. Yeah, yeah. Now, I mean, for me personally, it's like I don't, if I, like I said, I sit and I observe,

I pick parts of the game that we need to. And so when I go in the game, Like Jay said, I play my position before I just go out and hoop. I got, okay, so I know we're not rebound. I'm going to make sure my dude not going to get the ball. If they shoot and they miss, my dude not getting the ball. So I'm not worried. I'm not even worried about me getting a rebound.

I'm going to make sure he is not going to touch the ball. If I have to face him and look like a defensive back. A little league. I'm going to be a cornerback real quick, and I'm going to literally guard him as if he's a wide receiver trying to get a pass. But can we change that or adapt that to not only is he not getting it, but it's my ball until somebody else on my team has it? Literally, yeah, no.

And that's the, like I said, it's a mindset. If that's not a competitive aspect of practices on a regular basis, it is a missed opportunity. It's a missed opportunity. I agree. You guys have stepped up when it comes to free throws. It's better than it has been because of the amount of work that's been put into it. Three point shooting has become more effective.

Why? More work. More work, more attention paid to it. For you, as you come off the bench and you see what you see, shared IQ is something I talk to the team about. that what you see has to be known not only by you, but by the coaches and by the guys you're on the floor with. It has to be shared with the guys on the bench when it happens so that it is a coachable moment taken to the floor.

Going forward, how do you process getting your information to your teammates? I think huddles are a big part of that. I think, before the game, I think it obviously starts in practice. The myth, and not even just the physical, we have the physical ability to do everything we need to do to win games. It's a mental aspect. It's like having pride in, or getting upset when your man scores. Ooh. Like, or getting upset when you give up a blockout or offensive rebound.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, they hit me to my core. So it's like, it's like having that pride in practice and understanding that how you, that's going to be how you play. That hits me to my core. And so it's like, oh, man, I don't know. Is there somebody? Well, no, but you, like you mentioned Rodman and saying that

Robin made a choice, a consistent choice, to do the thing that nobody else wanted to do or found sexy. And he made it sexy to defend and rebound like nobody else on the floor ever. At some point, I would hope that

somebody looking for minutes on this team would make that their thing. Like Eduardo, like, hey, bra. Yeah. Bras! Like, and I, when you meet Eduardo, the first thing it comes out, okay, first of all, he's super intelligent.

He's funny. to a fault. Yes. Like, yeah. Like, yeah, bro, like stop playing all the time.

Stop. Like, that's part of that maturity. No, but that's the thing, right? The little things, and you just go,

this dude is brilliant. He could, man. He, I'm not going to say he could. He's going to be. Right. He's good.

He's going to be. Like, he's too smart and too funny to be bad. Because then he has to laugh at himself and he doesn't like it. Like he did. No.

Yeah. He's had a couple of, thank it. Like I said, man, he's going to be. Ed is going to be. Yeah. He's going to be that. If, if we said, okay, you're now coach Kobe. Okay.

What's the mess? What's the thing that you say at practice tomorrow that helps redirect, reissar. Remember we talked about reboot, recharge, re-calculate. Like, right? Coach, there's going to be some reboot now. You know what? Not, man.

Right. Like, like, we're some type of boots. Hold on. D.P. Maybe some type of boots. Give me a second. A boot in the, yeah. No, because we talked about it.

We said that that the GPS doesn't lie. Yeah. And the GPS is saying this does not appear to be a winning process. right I'm laughing because there's a lot of thoughts flowing that I probably you know

we we off record off record we can discuss you gotta be careful but I'm asking for the positive simple things

that you that you can put into into that space to get the things fixed that need to be fixed I'll leave

I'm gonna say I'll say one I'll say one thing. Okay. And you're not even going to expect it. Okay. Clean up your locker. Who.

That's what? Who we? Who we? That's the. And I'll leave it with, I'll leave it at that. That is a deep, that is a deep, that is a deep, that is a, oh, that is a simple one that people forget. And not to say our locker will be. No, no.

Wow. And I like, but you got to care about it. No, yeah. You have to care about the little stuff. because it always shows up in the big stuff. And you being football guy, DC bought Air Reed.

Air neat. Yeah. Yeah. Like you know that, look, in the reality, how you take care of this thing defines how you feel about.

If it matters, then you have to do the small stuff. And that's the, that's, it's, that, I don't always say it starts there, but that's,

well, it's like a root. That's a, that's just a individual, moral like thing. that you had like a behavior, a habit that you should have. I'll ask you this question. We'll throw a break and I'll let you answer it when we come back,

but I'm going to ask you this question and give you time to ponder it. Does this team care enough to get it right? We'll have you answer that when we come back to 101. For sure. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 93-7 the ticket to the ticketfm.com.