1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 22nd, 3pm - Buzzy Caruthers (Nebraska Basketball Director of Player Development)

Episode Date: November 23, 2021

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 937 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Happy Monday, everybody. 937, the ticket, FM 402, 464-5-6885, Sartor-Hamintech's line, and the Honda Blinken hotline if you want to call and or text,

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jump on it. Find 93.7, the ticket, FM. Hit the bell. Subscribe, like. That way you know what's going on. We don't have to chase you and you don't have to chase us. It's right there for you. Simplicity. Same for Facebook and Twitch. They'll let you know what's going on. Busy weekend. For the Huskers, lots of news today. Man, we got a lot to cover in the next three hours.

We got a lot to cover. First of all, kudos to RICO. And Nick, great job with Justine Wangorontes. Good job getting the interview and good stuff within it. Good stuff all the around. We're waiting for a phone call, so, or to call him. Let's just call him and be done with that simplicity. Through most of what we're doing from week to week is just analyzing current news. And sometimes within the news, craziness gets caught.

And I do want to do a better job of speaking about the things that happen in sport rather than the people. People muddy up the message. The facts don't require the people to be identified in order to speak to them. Today's news that Adrian Martinez will not play Friday against Iowa should offer some distance and clarity for Adrian's place here in the program. A couple of my favorite quotes are these. I love Out Loud.

If somebody's efforting for you, you should probably be supportive of them. And I sent out a tweet Saturday night and folks kind of responded to it in a way that I wanted to. and make sure everybody got the full message behind it. The full message was simple. Pretty simple. And we forget it sometimes, but we need to stop. We need to stop, ponder, gather, collect ourselves, and remember basic stuff.

Basic stuff. The tweet goes as follows. I can't imagine there being a young person who gets injured for you, beat up for you, beat down for you, and scarred for you and then being criticized and chastised by you, all while trying to be better for you and themselves. There's simplicity in that. Never choose the game over the people involved,

especially when they're young people that we should be showing our greater traits to. That's just me. That's just the coach and me. That's just a dude and me. I know that we've gotten used to yelling from the rafters, shouting things and not being held accountable for them, but that isn't mature and that isn't an adult, and that isn't the better us.

So as you attack the people that you feel like you want to attack, rewind, refocus, deal with the thing that you're dealing with rather than the people. Clarity is required. Let's bring it, Huskers. Basketball, director, player development, Buzzie Carruthers, couch. What's happening?

What a BP? Oh, it's a Monday, and sometimes, you know, you got to start right to get rank. There is, fair. No, my bad. I was looking at some stuff on the computer and just kind of got caught up. I was glad Nick called me. We all need help from time to time, partner. That's how that works.

First of all, how are you as you heading to this Thanksgiving week? Doing well, man. You know, just trying to get better each day. And, yeah, just kind of build, build some momentum, you know, going into tomorrow and going into the weekend. And, yeah, just trying to get better, D.P. That's it. It's trying to get better.

Yeah. Small stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is that. And we forget that some of the lead characters in this play are young and require time to gather there. their legs. They still got baby giraffe legs and baby deer legs. Right. Right. While they one day will run magnificently and quickly, we're not there yet. So we need to remember that. Let's go back before we go forward. Let's talk about the captain. Let me know how young Mr. McGowan's, how

Trey McGowan is doing. And can you give us a little bit of detail? What exactly happened? How did he injured himself the other night? Well, we still really haven't been able to pinpoint when he injured it. I think a few of us think that maybe when he came down after that dunk attempt against Sam Houston or, yeah, it was Sam Houston. No, Creighton, I mean, in that first half, when he came down, one of the one of the the crazy players kind of fell on him as like his foot was kind of like bending and I think it was just I think I think that's where it happened but you still can't really pinpoint it because after

that if you notice he not trade trade doesn't really limp until he gets off the floor and then because I think his adrenaline was rushing so much that he really didn't feel anything and then kind of when he slowed down and was substituted, I think that's when he kind of felt it. So there's no pinpoint really to when he got injured. But I do think it was when he had that dunk attempt, which he called a foul. No, I don't think they do either.

Yeah, they should have called a foul. Yeah, I think that would have been the right thing to do. To me, I spent a lot of time trying to get eyes on Bryce during that moment, right? that when it's fully acknowledged that Trey is injured, and then he comes back out, Bryce's eyes, of course, as they should have,

were fully glued on his older brother. Right. Where was he? Was there anything said? You know, did anybody tap him on the shoulder? Was there any point where he felt like he, okay, he accepted,

he exhaled, and he could get back to business? When he found out he was disappointed, he was disappointed. He was upset. set. He definitely was. Yeah, it was, yeah, it sucked. It sucked for him for sure because, you know, that's, this was their, you know, that's why he

came here. That's, you know, this was, this was their opportunity to really play together, you know, at a high level. And he was, he was visibly disappointed. You could tell he was just, it definitely was like a gut punch for him. You know, and Trey, you know, if you know Trey at all, it's just like, you know, he's such a good kid. And he does everything, every little thing you ask for him and him just being around just on the floor. because Bryce is still learning, you know, how to, you know, be a high-level communicator. And Trey does that. He communicates on the floor offensively and defensively, and it was helping Bryce.

And you can see Bryce getting better with the communication. And I think that's going to be one of the biggest breaks that, that he'll probably take is just not being able to see Trey lead by example as far as just communicating, which is something that Bryce, you know, is looking to improve upon as he, as he continues to play. So, you know, that definitely, you know, is disappointing. But at the same time, Trey's still there. You know, Trey's the loudest on the bench. If you were at the game another day, he's loud, he's right there. He's talking. He's teaching. And even, you know, not the game, but even in the film room.

He's teaching. He's still talking. He's still being that captain, which is very important. So big tough loss for us and for little bro Bryce. But, you know, what, don't kill you, make you stronger. So I think it's good for our team to see this adversity. And then for Bryce to see that adversity as well. Is there any chance that Bryce, this frees up Bryce, to take more rain, right? for him to actually grow more quickly into this role than he would have had.

He had Big Bro leadership and a tag team partner that now some of this, you know, Bryce can simply do because I noticed that. I mean, look, it is not a coincidence that young man decides to go out and pull down 11 boards yesterday. Right. Right. Like that to me is there are things that need to be done that he is capable of doing and that he's willing to just step up and get those things done. Right.

And if you noticed the past a couple games, particularly, not the game yesterday, but even the game before that, Idaho State, I thought Bryce played really well, just playing within the flow of the game and playing well defensively. And I think those things are starting to come more naturally as far as him just playing within the flow. And it certainly is an opportunity for him to step up and really, you know, take the reins and kind of, you know, put his mark down on the team as far as kind of being, you know, a go-to guy and somebody that you see growth with, you know, each game.

So it's a big opportunity for him, I agree. We're talking to Buzzy Carruthers, Huskers Basketball Director of Play Development. And it's always interesting that in the replays and going back and watching games, as some of us do, you are in an interesting spot. Like for those big 10 plus games, you are giving a certain level of insight that most people don't get. And you do a really good job of explaining, breaking down the small things that lead to the big things. So how do you approach that? When you've got the microphone on and it's live,

you battle constantly between saying we and Nebraska. I know like it's kind of like I hear you balance it. But then you go, well, here's what should be done here. And I think Husker fans who aren't paying attention and haven't gone back and listened to Buzzie call those, he's given insight. You're given insight to what should be done on the floor. But what's your approach?

what's your actual approach to how you call it? Well, it is, like you said, it is hard to not, you know, be a fan, or not a fan, but like a coach for Nebraska. But at the same time, I think the coaching analysis is, and breakdown is what I think the fans want to hear. And my approach is simply breaking it down easy enough for. a regular or general fan to understand exactly what I'm talking about at the time, whether it's talking about, you know, we need to push the ball in transition or whether we're getting back in transition

and what needs to happen while we are getting back in defensive transition. And if I see a mistake, it's easy to point out. Obviously, D.P. I mean, it's easy for you to point out things when you watch film. So this is naturally easy for me to point out while we're watching. And so I just kind of basically dissect each play, whether we're offense or defense. I just try and give the viewer a good explanation in layman's terms and easy terms for them to understand what should be going on or what's about to happen. I kind of like I really like listening to Tony Romo on football and guys like, like Reggie Miller does a really good job.

And so I kind of take that approach of trying to give the audience a feel for what Nebraska is doing in practice and how it's translating into the game. And if there's a mistake made on the floor or something about to happen on the floor, I'd love to give that analysis of what's going to happen or what's going on. That's the approach I take it. If I can get across to the audience, you know, what they're seeing on the screen, and I think I've done my job. Yeah, and it's been entertaining.

Like I said, from leaving the arena and the second watch, right? It's just trying to pick out details. I do want to ask this, though, what the interaction, the end-game interaction of the coaches, Can you give us a little bit of the chaos that is timeouts, who's responsible for, like, when does Doc talk? When does Fred talk? When does Matt stop talking? Like there's like what's the, it seems like organized and structured chaos, but chaos nonetheless. Yeah, well, for the most part, I know during games, for the past couple years, you know, coach usually,

huddles up our video coordinator, a couple of assistants and then discuss what needs to go on after that timeout. Usually, Nate right now, is going in speaking with the team while they sit down and coach kind of figures out

what he wants to run and the adjustments that he wants to make in that timeout. And then, you know, if there's something, that one of us sees, whether it's Alamasi, whether it's me or whether it's Matt Holtz, we can simply relay it to one of the assistants or relay it to Coach Hoytberg. And then, you know, I think it's definitely a collective effort because, you know, as a coach,

you can't see everything. There's very few people that can just see everything that's going on because it could be, you know, individual player personnel, you know, thing that, you know, Coach Boyberg might not see or one of the systems might not see, but maybe a GA might see, you know, or a player might see it. And so I think the biggest thing is just having that collectiveness, and everybody's being on the same page and having that togetherness. And I truly feel like as a team, we're getting there, especially with the players.

You know, guys like C.J. Wilshire and Kobe, they just do such a really good job. of communicating and keeping, you know, everybody kind of on the same page as far as, you know, just playing within ourselves and playing the right way. And the communication part is such a key factor that if we're able to really hone in and start doing that, it's going to trickle down. And that's only going to make us be a better group collectively. So it's a little bit of everything. Like you said, kind of like organized chaos. It may look like, you know, there's a whole bunch of things going on. But as a collective group, I think everybody is on the same page. Buzz, it was, it was interesting to watch again yesterday, four of 20 plus from three.

How do you calm the nerves of Husker basketball fans who kind of feel like this team should be a really a good three-point shooting team, but who hasn't been affected and hasn't shown up in the numbers yet. What can you say to them to calm the nerves of the Husker Faithful? Right. Well, you know, I said it on a broadcast a couple games ago. You know, it's not, it's definitely not a panic time, any time to panic. CJ Wilf was shooting the mess out of the ball right now, so he's one of our shooters. I'm not necessarily not shooting it well, but you've seen the past two games. He can do a little more than he shoot that three ball. I say it all the time that he's got a great feel for offensively and defensively. And also too with Kaysa Tamanaga. He started off

rough last year. His sophomore year, Juko, he started very similar where he was not really hitting anything and then ended up being right there 50% from three by the end of the year. And so I think it's just something where we just got to come. continue to build. Guys have to continue to get in the gym. And we just got to keep shooting them. Plain and simple. You saw that we didn't have a great three-point shooting night yesterday,

but we did have a great field goal percentage of 50-plus percent. So, you know, that means what we are doing some things, right? And the biggest thing, I think right now, just as far as three-point shooting is, continue to shoot them. We'll be fine. The guys just got to keep letting them fly. Yeah, it seems that, like, having been to practice and seen it on multiple occasions,

you kind of go, okay, the shooting, we'll turn the corner. What I didn't expect was almost averaging 40 points in the paint the last couple of nights. What has changed or what has happened to allow that to take place for the Huskers? I think we're getting better with the one more. I think we're getting better with the penetrating and making the right reeds. And, you know, I talked about that in one of the broadcasts as well. You know, you got, you know, Alonzo Verge, who he's never played the point guard position. He's always been a scoring combo guard.

I watched him in Juko score 40 points several times. And so the more he plays and the more he continues to adjust, the more we'll be able to score in the paint because if you've been watching the past few games, he can get to that paint just about any time that he wants to. and the more he starts to realize that once he gets in there, especially once we get into the Big Ten play, when there's all those really big trees down there, that defense collapse on him, he's going to be able to make plays,

whether it's the dish off to the short corner, whether it's the kick out for the three in the corner, or whether it's the Alleyoop off of a ball screen, he's going to be able to make those plays. And I think that's one of the biggest factors to, why we've been able to score in the paint so much these past couple of games is because he is adjusting to being that point guard to where he's realizing that he doesn't have to take that shot every time he gets into that lane or gets that defense to collapse.

It's funny, too, that hear him say, look, I've got to do better about getting my teammates involved and getting involved in places where they can do something with it. But it also seems to be a gradual transition from, him and realize, yeah, I need to get into the paint, but I don't need to always finish. That sometimes getting into the paint is just a probe to make the defense react so I can get my dude's face. And if there's no stopping, it's like kind of in football.

Look, if you're a man to man, if you're being chased, keep going. If you're not being chased, pull up. That's the point guard work in that pick and roll. And it seems like he has his eyes in the right place for it. He really does. I mean, I've seen improvement in the past couple of. games. I know Coach Hoiberg has seen improvement in the last couple of games. And it's going to be something that he's going to have to continue to work on.

And hopefully, you know, these next, you know, two games, he really, you know, turns the corner because, you know, as we all know, December, it gets a little hectic. So. Gets a little more grown up. It gets a little bit. Like, there's no kid. So, so ideally for you. guys. As you target these next couple of ball games, and of course it's one game at a time that really is,

I mean, it is a coaching cliche, but it's a statement of truth. Right, right. Do you pick different things to work on against different teams, like against a more physical team, say, listen, we're going to highlight and focus on boxing out against a team that shoots well. We need to get our closeouts right and we need to get our angles right. Do you pick and choose the focus? Other than the basic stuff that you have to do every, every game. But do you get specific to the team you're playing? You know, we do, obviously, with the scouts, we do get slightly specific on just personnel. But for the most part, DP, we're just building on our fundamental things that we've been working on from day one. And we've just got to continue to hammer those

things right now, which is the rebounding, which is not turning the ball over, and which is moving the basketball around. I think the past two games, we did a really good job of, you know, moving the ball around and getting double-digit assist, and then also keeping the turnovers at a low rate as well. So I think – and then obviously we've been in here busting our butt, working on rebounding, which, you know, we've done – we won the rebounder battle last game.

So, you know, it's – I think it's something that we're just going to constantly keep on pounding these fundamental things. And then obviously team to team, we do make adjustments and we will continue to make adjustments. Yeah, we had an in-studio standing ovation when you guys won the rebounding battle. We literally stood and applaud it. It was like, wow, well done, well done, well done. Before we let you go from the Sartaghanemate's text line, we had a listener ask this question. What is Doc Sadler's exact game role?

I mean, he's the defensive guru, you know. He sees a lot of things out there before they're even happening. And so he's kind of fred's eyes for that whole defensive side of the floor. To see that, though, he, I don't know if you catch it, but there are a couple of times in a crucial situation where Doc will get up. Oh, yeah. Oh, he sees it. He definitely, you know, he's a defensive guru, man.

He sees things. he sees things before they happen whether it's in the game or practice and yeah like it's like like I said before like with Coach Oryberg on the offensive end like you know goodwill hunting

where he sees you know all that all those different arithmetic in his head the same way with Doc on the defensive end he just sees all these moving pieces before they can happen it's pretty cool yeah he closes out from his chair

it's pretty yeah Like, Doc, that's six people on the court, man. You got to slow that. Right, right, right. You have to worry about it. Give us a 30-second report. Who's coming and what can we expect?

For this game coming up. Yeah, tomorrow night. Well, I mean, you know, they're a little bigger than Southern. So we definitely, I mean, one of the things, you know, obviously we're pounding always is rebounded. They've got some, you know, a couple 6-10 dudes. So they're your bigger, one of your bigger low major schools. So we're definitely pounding that we have to, have to, you know,

win the rebound in war, of course. And then the other thing, obviously, is just playing the right way. And then playing with our pace and speed. You know, that's Coach Hoyberg's biggest thing is pace and space. And we came in today, watch some film, practice, clean some things up. And hopefully we can go in there tomorrow and translate it all off to the floor and get better. One more game.

Yeah, that's the battle. Brother, appreciate you. We'll talk. Let's figure out when to get what's the buzz up this week or whether we just go wait until that week. Whatever way you decide to do it, I'm okay with it, brother. You hug that way for yours. Happy Thanksgiving to y'all if I don't talk to you before then. I will.

Thanks, D.P. I appreciate your brother. All right, man. That is Buzzick-Rothers, Director, Player Development, Nebraska basketball. We'll turn about coming out. We'll break down a little bit of today's news. Again, the Adrian Martinez news exists. We'll talk a little bit about LeBron and the NBA and what happens there.

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