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Episode Date: December 8, 2021

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP, brought to you by Beatrice Bakery, on 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticket FM.com. I appreciate you guys hanging out on a Wednesday. Jay Foreman up next, and we'll see how those two hours play out. Jay's got a couple of days, man. Then Wings is coming. The Wings is coming. So he, look, you have to run.

You have to chase Jay down. I want to thank the mayor. and I'm going to thank Tray McGowan's both for stepping up and showing up. It's the thing that matters. It's a jam. It's a jam. That's a new edition. Well, that's actually Bell Bibb de Vaux, and then New Edition performs it.

They're going on tour. I'm actually, they're doing a residence in Vegas. I'm so going. I'm so going. Apparently I'm going to spend a lot of time in Vegas because Adele's doing a resident and no addition is doing a residence in Vegas. That's going to happen. That's kind of got to happen.

What's the movie? About last night. About last night. Difficult to watch and even harder to understand. There's a part of me that wants to be able to understand why a thing happens the way that it does. And if it doesn't make sense, if it doesn't add up to me, then I become more curious.

And so this basketball team has made me more curious about what's going on and what these kids want. And again, they're five and five. And they lost to Michigan. So, and people can forget, you know, last year's debacle against Iowa, what happens. And you regroup and you get up, do it again. Difference between having a 30-game season and 12-game season, you've got to get it together pretty quickly. And once you get in the quicksand, it's really hard to get out. So we'll find out on Saturday more about this team,

whether they're able to get themselves out of quicksand because they're definitely in quicksand. And the thing about quicksand is the hard you fight, the deeper you go. Slightly difficult. I mentioned yesterday, not having Matt Abdomasi's presence on the bench would have an impact. Not having Trey McGowan's in the game on the floor will have an impact. And the last run, I don't want to forget how competitive this team was in Raleigh.

I don't want to forget how they started. This team needs to find answers. And when you're not successful at the thing that you think you do well, it rattles to the core. It rattles to the core. And as Trace said, they'll get together and have conversations about what they collectively need to do. But fan base needs to remember, look, they don't care more about it than the people who play. Like that's just those kids, those young men want to get it right.

And yeah, I think it's important to point out the level of success that the women have. All right, different style of play. Now, they went outside and they took a chance. Amy Williams took a chance. Bring in Jazz Shelley and have her come in when Sam Hyby was the de facto point guard. And then Jazz to move into that space. And Ashley Skagit, I mean, she's playing a shooting guard, but the reality is, yeah, she's a spacer. It's necessary.

And they've got a deep bent of players who will come in and each player does something well. I don't think any of them do everything well, but they don't have to. They come in and they jump into their assigned roles and accept their assigned tasks, and they get it done. And we need to highlight it. And people need to remember, like, Amy Williams has been through the ringer.

Like, there are folks that wanted her out of here. So at 9-0, we're starting to get national attention, where your players are playing at a much higher level than expected. I mean, I would think that we assume that Jess Shelley could play. we didn't think she would be number two in rebound? At least I didn't. Your leading score, number two rebounder, she's either first or second and assist.

And they have debt, right? They'll run that second group out there and we'll compete. Like they found a way to battle and to win a game that they would have lost last year. Like, that's what it is. And the style of play matters. It does.

probably more so in some of those spaces where those young ladies play at a high efficiency rate. Those young ladies know what shots they can make. They know what shots to take. There's a metric that was put out this morning. Nice story. I should probably share it on Twitter. I'll do that on the break. But it talks about new offense and the metric, like the basic basketball math,

that you really shouldn't be shooting. mid-range shots and it should be threes and layups. And the metric changes all that and says, well, listen, quite frankly, what good teams are doing, what great teams are doing is allowing people to shoot shots that they can actually make. And it's better when great players take shots that they can make. That might be the actual definition of the great players,

the fact that the shots that he actually takes is a high percentage of efficiency in making those shots. Nebraska team right now doesn't know which shot it should take. It doesn't know which shot it can make because they haven't seen them go down. And until they get comfortable, seeing the ball go through the hoop, all the other stuff is a breakdown. All the other stuff is a problem. Rebounding becomes you slump your shoulders a little bit and you try to get through. Defending is a little bit tougher when you're not contributing on both sides of the ball. And these players all need to contribute. Every player on the floor has to contribute offensively and defensively.

They've got to contribute on the boards, offensively and defensively and defensively. They've got to figure out how to put the ball in the basket offensively. And how to stop people from putting into the basket. And whatever scientific phenomenon there is for every team that comes into PBA shooting the lights out in Nebraska not being able to throw it into the water from the pier, I'm going to need some science behind that because it doesn't make sense. that there's zero logic to it.

But it is a statement of fact. This team is having a really difficult time shooting the ball. And granted, I'll say that Michigan shot the lights out. Michigan hasn't shot that well all year. And it sucks because teams come here, whoever shot well, and then they'll light it up. It sucks. But I'm not going to say that Michigan didn't play tails off.

I mean, they were 9 of 18 from 3 at halftime. Like they tore it up. Nebraska didn't have answers. And you can't get new players now. It's too late. So you have to make do with the ones you have. From the text line, DP, like in football, those close losses hurt bad because each program needs a signature win,

which NC State could have been to get the momentum rolling and it's contagious. Just hope one of these men's teams gets it to fall as they both deserve a W. The one thing that we can all agree on, is that we are all rooting for them to get it right. And that's the starting point for all discussions going forward. With where to break, when we come back, old school, Jay Foreman on 93-7, the ticket.