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CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"And who's going to win it? I've got Arizona winning over Oregon. I've got the ducks taking down UCLA. It's the absence of Jalen Clark sets a weird mood around this bruins team. And as I mentioned, Dana Altman has been able to get the best of the goat cronin before. So that's my big upset Arizona handles things takes care of business. The wildcats cut down nets as azules to Bellas doesn't even need to reach up too far on the ladder to cut that thing down. I'm going to go chalk. I'm going to go UCLA Arizona and then UCLA to win it. I always, same issue with the incident blade tournament. It's hard for me to look at something. I've been watching for four or 5 months and then go, okay, it's clear to me this team's better than that team, but I'm taking the inferior team. And then of course, basketball happens and inferior teams went all the time. But I do think UCLA established itself as the clear cut best team in the PAC 12. I know they split with Arizona and I wouldn't like nothing shocking about Arizona beating what might be a shorthanded UCLA team on a neutral court, but UCLA is still playing for a number one seed. And I think that's enough motivation to keep them focused for three games out in Las Vegas. Obviously, the Jalen Clark situation looms over this. But with or without it, I'll take UCLA to win the pack 12 tournament. And after UCLA wins the pack 12 tournament, UCLA, we won't even be debating with anybody. They will be the number one seed in the west region. So we really just need it. We need UCLA to be out in the west region. Well, I almost wonder, we talked about this on Sunday Night, like if you're Purdue, are you like, you know what? I mean, it doesn't work this way, but if you're Purdue or you're like, you know what? We'd rather be the two. In a more geographically sensible place. I mean, if they're Louisville, that'd be so awesome. Well, do you really want to be the one in the west and then end up in an elite 8 game against Arizona out there or, you know, maybe if they were to put you, I mean, there's a scenario where you're the one in the west and UCLA could be the two in the west. Like you really want to deal, you know, when I was a beat rider, 2006, covering the Memphis team. They got a one seat in the west, the two seat in the west was UCLA. And so there you are in the elite 8, and it was Memphis, UCLA, Memphis as the one seed. And it was at Oracle in Oakland. In the 18,000 UCLA fans, it was like a true road game from Memphis, as the one C so if you're Purdue, do you even want to be out there dealing with that as the one C? Make me the two seed in a more geographically sensible place. Let UCLA be the one seat in the west. But I don't think we're going to have that debate. I think UCLA is going to win impact all tournament. And
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"dana altman" Discussed on Bet The Board
"Tell you, we're going to compare two cards right now similar value that are completely different. Let me give you an example. Let's just say for argument's sake, you have a vintage Mickey Mantle baseball card worth. $30,000. But you also have a modern day Joe burrow rookie card worth 30 grand. Which would you rather have and why? You tell us, we're going to tell you right now. The two cards that we're comparing this week are both basketball, one of the gentlemen, we've talked previously about earlier in the show. The other is a really interesting card because it has a comparable to it. That we have grown to love. The first card here is a 2003 flir tradition LeBron wade mellow rookie to 50 copies. It's the crystal version. It's a throwback to the 1980 Topps bird magic rookie. The other finds itself earlier in the show on Jesse's most undervalued list of the week it's a 1997 SkyBox essential credentials, Tim Duncan rookie to 75 copies in a BGS 8 5. I'll let you start kind sir. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm doubling down on Dunkin this week. It's Duncan or bust. Another one with that. But the 2003 flir tradition crystal, you got LeBron, mellow, wade, out of 50, and a Beckett 9 5. It's a pop 11. There are two BGS tens, but you mentioned the 1980 tops bird magic rookie that doctor J on it. This is an homage to that with those three gentlemen in one of the greatest draft classes of all time. It's just a very unique cool card and there's only 50 that exist. I love that card. I love the look of it, how young these guys look. The fact that you got all three of them on a rookie card. And they're going to all be Hall of Famers. It's just a fantastic card that I really do like. And then we've mentioned Duncan the 97 SkyBox 2001 credentials now out of 75 in a BGS 8.5 incredibly important dunking card. Central credentials is one of the most popular, beautiful sets that exist. And there's only 75 of these copies. It is a rookie. And I just don't think you can ignore Duncan, as I mentioned earlier. As a player in general. So the debate kind of here is, would you rather have an individual card of potentially the greatest power forward of all time? Or a rookie card with one of the greatest players of all time and a couple other studs on it. There is an argument to be made in our space. I'm sure you can double down on this pain where individual cards sometimes are worth more than cards that have multiple players on them, even if they are all studs, right? So it's an interesting debate. And both of these cards sold for 10,800 on the nose about a week ago. So the price is the exact same gun to my head. This is actually a hard decision. Gun to my head, I'm going to go with Duncan. I thought you were throwing me the 12 to 6 Kershaw curve ball here with Duncan being undervalued atop the show and then you included it here and you were going to go the opposite direction. What's interesting here because I've been in the market for one of these 2003 flir tradition crystal LeBron wade mellow rookies to 50 copies. You hit it perfectly. It's the homage to the 1980 tops bird magic rookie that has doctor J on it. And so there's always going to be that parallel. If that card sells for X, this has to sell for Y the interesting part is there's two versions. The other is LeBron darko and mellow. There's no weight on that second version. And on top of that, you have two base versions of both. You have a draft day version of both the 375 copies. And then the crystal version of both to 50 here. So there's more than what's necessarily stated there because you do have that version with darko on it. I then get to the Dunkin and we talked about the rare version of this card at the top of 6. This is out of 75 copies. It is Tim Duncan's rookie. This to me is just an extremely tough debate, because you're going against a classic rookie card that has this sibling bird magic comp. And it's to 50 copies. I'm going to go with the Duncan as the collector. It's more of a pure market, I believe, in terms of swings. The reason PMG's and credentials and rubies have not only held strong, but increased during this market dip. Is because they're impossible to obtain. The owners know what they are. True collectors and even investors don't want to give them up and they're just scarce enough where flippers can't find them. Flippers have to pay up for them and that causes uncertainty and offloading quickly. Flippers focus on other sectors of the market and niches. They're kind of void from this sector of the market, which I like. It makes it a little bit more pure. I will go with the Duncan rookie as well. I'd rather have that in my PC, although I think maybe if we zoomed out 20 years, the better performer might be the LeBron wade mello, as you mentioned, because they are all Hall of Famers. But I have to kind of go what's near and dear to the heart, and that would be the credentials card of Tim Duncan and his rookie year. Yeah, I knew this would be a tough decision for both of us. And we'll see, we'll see how it plays out, but from a guy who my favorite card in trading cards is the 1980 bird magic rookie. So this was a difficult decision and I just think that Duncan, as an individual card, if it was at a 6 variation of Duncan, this wouldn't even be a debate. But the out of 75 variation versus out of 50 variation. I just like an individual rookie vertical, not horizontal, which actually does play into it. And it's just a copy that you don't see come around very often. All right, buddy, I think we did a good job here for episode 9. Christmas is around the corner, new year's is around the corner. Anything going on in your life. Where do the plans? Well, we're going to take a couple of weeks off for the pod and we're going to come back swinging in January. But ducks go ducks on the 28th. Let's go. We'll get the bowl game. Boat next is returning next year. Boat next season, the ducks basketball team. We're getting a little bit more healthy, starting to figure things out. Standard Dana Altman, they're going to they'll try to make a run to get into the NCA tournament and hopefully kicking on all cylinders come march. Dana is my guy, actually. He is my guy. Coached one of my buddies, long time. Oh, really? Yes. Absolutely loved in Altman as a coach and a person. He's just a he's an he's a stud. Defensive wizard, defensive wizard. Okay, before we depart, anything, I'll give you the floor. Anything going on at PWC. Hey, this is a great time to buy. Once again, Christmas time, not as many eyes on auctions. We have Sunday auctions that close the like clockwork every single Sunday and Sunday this year happens to fall on Christmas Day. And New Year's Day. Trust me, get in there, take a look. You might find a couple deals, it's a great time to buy.
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"Dana Altman, last season, missed the NCAA tournament for just a second time since 2012. It was a bit of a mess. They had pretty good preseason expectations and just for a variety of reasons that team never hit a good place. Although they did, I think start like 9 and three in the pack 12. It broadly speaking didn't go well. But this should be a bounce back season. They add a 5 star prospect and kill aware. They get a junior college all American, a transfer from Colorado. There's enough pieces there for Oregon. I think to challenge UCLA in Arizona at the top of the pack 12 and I would assume safely make the NCAA turn. They should be in how will we how would we define safe, single digit seed? I think that's a fair descriptor. I think if you're going into your conference tournament and you can lose your first game and you are still in the bracket, Jerry palm's not putting you on the wrong side of anything. I think the next safely making the incidentally determined, if you're not sweat, if nobody says, the organ really needs to win this first game, or else it could get dicey, then you're safely on a turn. It's not even, yeah, it's not even on the table there. I'd agree with that. That should be organ situation. Where is a stretchy 7 footer who I think should add a good dynamic piece playing alongside and follow Dante, who I think is going to probably be and have, he's going to be the best version of himself. He'll have the best season. I think he's had in college there. And then Gary is a nice piece there. Yeah, so yeah, organ makes sense as the third team overall, I would put their range anywhere between 6 feet and 11 to be over to be honest. And then we've got USC in the four spot, you know, they don't have the mobile era is over. Both MBA picks and a con will also an MBA pick. I reported, I guess, a month ago at this point. I don't even know if we ever talked about it on the podcast or not. But in early July, the next great USC big man scarily collapsed had cardiac failure, Vince iwi chukwu, he they were just running drills and thankfully he was sitting down when it happened, so he didn't, he didn't fall all the way down from a standing up position, which is really fortunate there. He was in the hospital for three days, I think it was. And you know, this is a, this was a 5 star prospect in the two four 7 sports composite. Certainly was a guy coming in that was considered to be someone that would keep you a C in the chase for the PAC 12 title. He has not been cleared. And there's no assurance that he will be cleared. I still like USC overall in the scheme of the PAC 12 without him. But not having him, just unfortunately, it demotes USC's prognostication. The most important thing is that he remains okay and I got him on record when I did the story about a month ago and he's, you know, as I understand it, like he's been cleared to ride a bike, you know, stationary bike and do that stuff, but he and I haven't checked in honestly in the past two and a half weeks. But I would not imagine this situation has drastically changed all that much, but he's not, you know, it's not doing drills. He's not running up and down the floor. He has got a personal staff of health advisers, doctors that are looking at him and then USC obviously does as well. And they're going to be extremely cautious with this. So we wait and see if he even gets to play. Sounds like it sounds like he's going to be a candidate for big 12 newcomer of the year next season. That's referring to Keanu Johnson, of course, who's going to be a Kansas state. Yeah, that could wind up being the case. If you can't get clear to play in the SEC or the PAC 12 or let you go to the big 12 and I'm not even being goofy here. There's multiple examples in recent years of people with heart issues. Yes. Can't get cleared at their schools, but go to big 12 schools and get cleared. I'm not saying it's right or wrong or I have no opinion on it. I'm not a doctor. I'm just saying, Jarrett butler couldn't get cleared at Alabama, but he got cleared at Baylor. Kante Johnson couldn't get cleared at Florida, but he got clear, I believe. He's cleared the state. Right. So yeah, I'm not even that wasn't even a joke. If you want to continue your basketball career, if USC isn't willing to clear you medically, there is possibly a place in the big 12 that will. Any other thoughts on the Trojans here, we both got him slotted at four heading in, which means we both think, like, I do think this will be a four bit league at minimum. So we've both got to make in the tournament. Yeah, I mean, they got boogie Ellis leading returning score. He averaged 12 and a half points last season, shot a little more than 30%, a 37% from three. He's turned into a really nice college player drew Peterson also back double digit score. Boy, you want to time flies? Year ten for Andy inville. That's unreal. That's good. That's crazy. It really is though. It feels like dunk city was just, it feels like dunk city. I don't feel like I've known Amanda infill for a decade, but that's where we're at now. Been aware of her existence for a decade. She was the star of that NCAA tournament. And yeah, this is year ten for Andy infield. He's coached him for the past 6 NCAA tournaments made the elite 8 in 2021. So he is, I don't know if it's quietly or not so quietly. I don't know. He's just I remember when he got higher, people were like, never worked in that. Never worked in that part of the country. Really only had one green, you know, just do you really hire a guy after a great couple of weeks and all this stuff. And like, here we are. Think about all the guys who've been hired in fired since Andy infield got the USC job. That list is pretty long. You should put it together sometime. I think I'm all right, man. All right, so after that, then we start to diverge. I've even chained. So when I did my pack 12, the pack 12 standings I have on our CBS preview are not what's going to be reflected in my overall top 100 rankings that come out later this week. So I'm going to go off of my top 100 rankings. You've got Arizona state 5, I decided to go with Washington state in the 5 spot here. There's going to be, once you get to the 5th spot in the PAC 12,
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"All right, deadly, I got creating ranked 11th in the top 25 and one. It makes the Blue Jays my pick to win the big east. Where are you at on creighton as a legitimate final four contender? Let's go with the trivia time right off the bat before I answer that, all right? Trivia time. You ready for it? Ready, I'm always ready. All right, let's see if you can get this within so you might know it. You did your research, so I know you're checking in on various sources, including Wikipedia. So maybe you stumbled upon this and it's sitting there in the recesses of your brain. Let's see if you can get this within 30 victories. 30 north 30 south accounts is a win. Otherwise, you're out. How many total career wins for Greg McDermott do you think? Oh, I have not looked that up. Career wins. Greg McDermott. I can say he started in 1994 at Wayne state and division two. So this counts to his overall tally here. I have no context for what this could be. I'm going to say four 50. You're in the, you're in the ballpark, but that is an 5 56 and three 32. Great winter was one 556 games in his career. He's a bit more accomplished and he probably gets credit for it. I create and he's two 76 and one 37. That's a 6 6 8 win percentage 57 years old. He's done he's done well for himself at creighton getting that job after Dana Altman in a different conference. Obviously brought that program to sustain relevance. As for this season, I'm intrigued by creighton. So I was thinking about where they'll be projected versus what the expectation should be. All right? Last season, the Jays finished 50th in Ken palm, they finished 24th and torvik. That's a split that we don't often see among teams that would be in the top 50 of either of those predictive metrics perish. There were 40th and staggering and 41 overall in the Massey composite. So they were a good team. They were not a great team. How good was great in last season? How big will the jump be? The team brings back 8 scholarship players. There is a case, creighton will be the best team in the biggies. You think that will be that will be the situation based upon where you have the J's ranked in your preseason top 25 and one. Villanova no longer has Jay Wright. Providence lost in pieces after winning the biggie's regular season last season, Providence didn't even play the full allotment of games. We'll see where the fryers go. I think creighton's floor is number four in the big east. And if you're a crate and fan listening and you think that's too low, I'm saying it's the floor. It's not my prediction. I'm saying the worst case scenario I think for creighton and the legal before. But keep in mind, there are teams every single season. I'm going to leave the roster breakdown of GP. I just want to remind crate and fans of this. Given where they finished last season, you will get an M hard back. We'll talk about his injury in a second here. But every single season, there are teams that are almost universally projected in the top 20 or in the top 25 that wind up failing to be top 25 teams, not just even at the end of the season, but for a majority of the season. Maybe crate will be one of those teams. Maybe it won't, but last season, here where those teams, Michigan, preseason number 16, did not appear in a single poll from December 6th on. Last off season Paris, the idea that Michigan would have been written off if we had done these off season series a year ago. It would have been incredulous to think that Michigan wouldn't be a top 25 team. Guess what? It was 6 and then it wasn't in a poll for more than 80% of the season. It happened and it happened without big time injuries, Memphis. Preseason number 12 didn't appear in any poll from the same mark on as Michigan, Oregon, pre season 13, was in the first two weeks of the AP poll only to never come back. Alabama went from 14 to unranked Ohio State, pre season 17, end of the season on ranked. UNC, Florida state, Maryland, saint bonaventure and Virginia all started ranked in the preseason. Most of those teams were not ranked for a majority of the season. That's ten of the 25 teams. So I'm not, I want to be clear about this. I'm not saying creighton is destined to this. But as we're building out these podcast parish and we're talking about these teams, there will be a couple we touch on that aren't going to live up to expectations. It's the same deal as what we talk about guys that wind up going to be lottery picks in the draft. They're not going to hit. They're going to have bad careers are going to be out of the NBA in four or 5 years. It's hard to predict which ones those are. Creighton feels like a team that does apply to this scenario. It was good last season, brings back a lot of pieces. We want to see how nan Bard comes back from the wrist injury. He had surgery on it. They should improve, but I'm just not there yet that creighton is going to be the best team in the big east. I find the big east race to be pretty compelling. Where do you stand and how confident you are that creighton will be number one or a clear cut number one in that league? I don't think they're clear cut. And this is where crate and fans are getting ready to throw their iPhones or computers into a wall. Because every time I update the top 25 and one, somebody is eager to tell me, crane should be in the top 5. Creighton's top two. Clayton should be number one. You know, I know you don't spend a lot of time looking at rankings because you don't want them to influence your own rankings.
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"I've always not always, but for a while now have thought, the players ranked in this range who take a Kentucky or a duke scholarship because it's the biggest offer. As opposed to looking elsewhere for a better situation or more often than not making a mistake. And I get it. It's Kentucky. It's duke. They offer you. It's hard to turn down. But I think broadly speaking, as a prospect, ranked 30 5 to one 50, you are probably going to be better off trying to be one of the top two recruits in somebody's recruiting class. As opposed to the fourth or 5th or 6th best recruit in a bigger schools recruiting class because if you're ranked anywhere in this range, probably your entire life, you've done nothing but play heavy minutes. And been one of, if not the best player on your team. Suddenly, you're at a place like Kentucky, you're surrounded by a bunch of guys that are simply more talented than you. And for the first time in your life, you find yourself more likely than not sitting on the bench and watching, and that's how you lead to disappointment, frustration, and then the transfer portal. Yep. The only name that came to mind was Willie cauley Stein, who was like 43rd. That's pretty good, yeah. But yeah, you can go down the list. I mean, Derek Willis was sub 100, didn't really make an impact, Dominique Hawkins, one 92 in his class. Basically, if you're not a top 40 guy, the chances of you making an impact at Kentucky, pretty, pretty slim. So I'm rooting for him, obviously this is a great chance for him to play. And I actually think it Kentucky next season. He could end up being someone they rely on. At least on some level just because he is really good on defense and does have the link that I don't think anyone else on that Kentucky roster has. That being said, you know, the history of guys who are ranked in this range, going to Kentucky, as you mentioned. Not particularly great. So we'll see. But Willie cauley Stein, I'm glad you pointed that is an obvious example to the contrary. He did make an impact and was drafted and played in the NBA and so we got more than a decade of recruiting classes. I guess that bottom line like this. More than a decade of recruiting classes at Kentucky under John calipari and the maybe one guy. Who was ranked 39th or lower in his high school class who actually made an impact at Kentucky after signing with Kentucky at a high school. That's not a great track record. But hopefully, you got a Kingsley onion, so can be an exception to what seems to be the rule. On Kwame Evans, I think you covered it, top ten prospect, 5 star guy. Dana Altman, I think that's 5 or no 6, 5 star prospects in the past 7 recruiting classes. Read that in David Cobb's story. Like you did. And then Chris Johnson, I think only notable in any sort of big headline way because obviously Bill self and Curtis Townsend were not out on the road in July. And it's just sort of underlines that you can still recruit without being quote allowed to recruit or evaluate on the road. Being present for prospects games on the grassroots circuit is very important. Because they notice when you're not there, but when but they notice when you're the reason it matters when they notice that you're not there is because they know you could have been there. Like I remember several years ago now DJ Jeffries was committed to Kentucky and then subsequently decommitted and what the Memphis after penny Hardaway was higher. Now, I think probably did all that because, you know, he played on the grassroots circuit for penny, had a relationship, opportunity. A lot of stuff went into that. But what DJ said, when he decommitted, among the reasons, and I should rephrase, I don't know if he actually said it. I just know this is true. This is something that he said privately, whether he said it publicly or not. Is that he noticed his last game in Las Vegas, which was his last grassroots game ever. And nobody from Kentucky was there. And he noticed that. And it was like, they could have been here, but they weren't. And that bothered him. To some degree. But the difference between that and build self not being at your games, this July? All he's got to do is pick up the phone and say, hey, look, you know I would be there if I could. I'm not allowed. You know, because we're going through this thing, but you're our priority. If I could have been there, I'd have been at every minute of every game. You've got an actual explanation for not being there as opposed to I just went to see somebody else while you were playing. So I'm not going to pretend or insist that Bill and Kurt is not being on the road in July, didn't matter to some degree. I assume that it did. If nothing else, you don't get to put your eyes on live recruits over and over again the way other staffs are doing it. But I did not think it would be the type of thing that leads to Kansas being unable to recruit. I assume that Kansas would still be able to get to get prospects and Chris Johnson committing this week. Rate 30th in the class of 2023 is an example of them being able to do that. Yeah, and we'll see, I guess, I think the bigger question is probably at what level is Kansas going to be able to recruit with the incident kind of clouding over the program. And hopefully, you know, I think if your Kansas you probably hope the decision comes pretty soon on that because you can kind of get it out of the way. You know what you're facing. Right now there's so much uncertainty that it's hard to sell guys. If you're a 5 star guy who's going to be a one and done and you don't know if Kansas is going to be eligible for the postseason, like what are you doing? The lack of certainty there, I think, is probably going to scare some prospects away. But this is a good addition. Certainly, it plays a role. And other staffs, in some cases, are using it against them. That's just, that's just the way these things work.
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"The PGA Tour's FedExCup playoffs are right around the corner and this weekend on CBS, the world's best are on the course to try and move up the rankings. All eyes will be on sedgefield country club in North Carolina for the Wyndham championship. This Saturday and Sunday at three eastern on CBS. So there has been some interesting recruiting news over the past few days. Let me run you through it real quick. Kwame Evans, a 5 star top ten prospect, class of 2023, has committed to Oregon. So that's the latest 5 star for Dana Altman. Chris Johnson, ranked 30th in the class of 2023, has committed to Kansas and Uganda, Kingsley, on yinz, who was ranked 30 9th in the class of 2022, he committed to Kentucky earlier this week. He was at the time of his commitment, I believe highest rated uncommitted player in the class of 2000 22. Strong Joe, any thoughts on any of that? Oregon one is very interesting. I've got thoughts on all of them, but Kwame Evans committing to Oregon's pretty big deal. He's the number 7 prospect in 2023. Continues the trend of Dana Altman just reeling in top talent, 6, 5 star in the last 7 cycles to commit to Oregon. That's according to our friend David Cobb. 5 of the top 6 ranked signees in school history in basketball have come since 2017. They've recruited mobile Troy Brown, Khalil ware, who's going to be on campus next year, naval Dante. Evans is number two on that list. Watch some tape of them. Reminds me a little bit of Darius bazley, who now plays for the thunder good range as a shooter. He's got a smooth, left handed stroke, can put the ball on the floor and create really interesting addition for Oregon and continues that trend of just recruiting elite talent. Now some of these guys have not panned out well in the NBA, a Bobo specifically, I think it comes to mind. But this is a guy who I think can be a lottery pick in 2024. So to me, that was kind of the highlight. You got a Kingsley onion, so go into Kentucky, I thought that was pretty interesting as well, as you mentioned, kind of the top at the time was the top ranked uncommitted prospect in 2022. 7 foot, 233 pounds. Adam finkelstein from two four 7 hyped him up as a really good defender. He's got a 7 foot 7 foot 5 wingspan. I'm not entirely sure he'll be able to help next season for Kentucky, but a really interesting developmental prospect who has some very intriguing defensive tools. And I think the chance for him to compete for at least some sort of role next season is probably there. Obviously Oscar shibe is that dude in the front court, but they're going to need some help. I think Kentucky will down low and I think there's a chance he's very raw, obviously. I think that's kind of one of the things that stuck out to me kind of researching him. But I think he has a chance to make an impact right away. This is a guy who reclassified from 2023 to 2022. So he's still young, he's still kind of growing, but a really interesting kind of off the radar edition for Kentucky. On him, I guess, listen, I hope, for his sake that he's able to make an impact in flourish and become everything he wants to be as a prospect. I root for people. I want good things for everybody. But I will say any time I see a player ranked and keep in mind it's a consensus top 50 guy. That's incredible. We throw around these 5 stars and four stars and three stars so often that I think we lose track of just how awesome you have to be. Broadly speaking, to be a top 50 anything in America in your high school class. Like if your top 50 basketball prospect in the entire country and your high school class, that's incredible. Just like if you had one of the top 50 ACT scores or you're one of the top 50 mathematicians like top 50 in the country at anything is great. So I hope we never lose sight of that. But relatively speaking, 39th in the country ain't that great for a Kentucky basketball prospect. It's at the lower end. And I just skim through it so forgive me if I miss somebody or if my memory fails me on some level, which sometimes it does. But I just skim through it this morning and I said, I'm gonna try to find a high school recruit who signed with Kentucky, ranked 39th or lower in his high school class who actually became a meaningful player at Kentucky under John calipari. I didn't find one. Tyler hero was close, because he was right in the 30s, but it was like 35, not 39, and I know we're splitting hairs there. But just skimming through it, I could not find anybody ranked 39th or lower in their high school class coming out of high school who signed with Kentucky and actually had a meaningful Kentucky basketball career. And I've said this before, I've said it about duke as well. So this isn't just a Kentucky thing. I would say the same thing about duke. If my son were ranked, if by somewhere a four star prospect or worse, even if you had a Kentucky or duke golfer, I wouldn't go. Because you're going to be and this young man is probably the worst recruit in your class. Or at least rank that way, which suggests you're going to have a hard time getting on the court as a freshman. And then you know what they're doing the next year. Regardless of who they lose, they bring it in 5 more guys, probably better than you, or more talented, do you rank higher than you. And so you can theoretically just get pushed further down. The roster.
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"To be Greg McDermott didn't I? Sorry, Greg. There's a train. There's a train. All right, so we've got Neptune on top now. Then you've got Mike Woodson too old. You got buzz Williams. Buzz Williams, I would not put it past him to successfully figure out how to concoct some sort of poison on this island and wind up winning the whole day. Matt, what do you think buzz Williams reaction would be if Greg sankey called him and said, hey man, did you see what the wack is going to do with their conference standings? We're going to implement that next season. How do you feel about it? What do you think is reaction? He'd type up a 317 page manifesto about why it should or shouldn't happen. That's what would happen there. Buzz Williams, give me a buzz, and then juwan Howard forget about it, it's over. Juwan Howard, juwan Howard Dana Altman is the biggest mismatch. The Oregon's got 20 on GP's list here. And then you got Joan Howard is Wisconsin on this, by the way. It's not. We're not getting to Wisconsin. NATO's juwan Howard, the whole time. Juwan, Howard Matt painter, juwan Howard, juwan Howard Anthony grant. I got to take Howard on size purely Chris holtman, you don't have a shot, Tom izzo, sorry, and then say, yeah, Juan Howard wins. Do you want an hour to the winner? That was my conclusion as well. You gave Eric mussman way more run than I would have, but juwan Howard was my winner as well. It's chew on. Respected. Not Alex 98 asks if GP couldn't use Twitter for two weeks, what would he do? He would spend all day on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Now, if you take away his ability to check social media, it's that disaster. He's probably trying to play 36 holes instead of 18. He's doing some dad duty with the kids, then eating up minimum four hours, binge watching shows. But this is a question for GP. He's just not here to answer it. If he could not use social media for two whole weeks, I'd love to see it. I actually think it would be great for him. Got to get off, got to get off the machine there. I don't know. What are your thoughts? It's great. I love getting away from social media. Gary seems a little too ADHD though, so hopefully he would channel that energy towards something constructive and not destructive. But the great dichotomy with one Gary parish is that wonderful due to socialize with great storyteller as listeners of this podcast well-known. But it's either he's telling a great story or he's staring right into that phone in the glare, it's just like bouncing right off that face right off this glasses. It's like one or the other. He's either holding court or everyone else is talking and he's there scrolling through a phone. Come on GP. Jared fields asks, I listen for the extortion advice. I want to know what the most illegal thing is you'd be willing to do for 5 million. You know what? Let's put a pin in this one and save this purely for parish. And unless you want to answer a cop. Do you want to answer this? I have no burning desire to answer it and I agree, Gary, Gary's answer would be better than what I would say. Apparently, no, I mean, Paris just seems like a guy exceedingly willing to state on the record for posterity to things he would be willing to do to break the law in order to get money. That's just not me. That's not my lane. It's not my bag. It's a JP question. Jared fields find us again on the next mailbag episode when Paris is going to be on, bring that question back because I know he's got a laundry list of stuff. Okay, Josh, ask vig asks. And each of your opinions, who will be the biggest surprise this year and why. Now, surprise could be surprised for the good of the bad. I'm actually going to tee up cob here first. If you got one right, if you don't, I'll go, but if figure I'll give you, first thing that came to mind and not in a sense of, oh, look out for them to make a final four run. This isn't going to be a Brad Stevens peak butler team. But I think that modest first butler team could be surprisingly better than the last few butler teams have been. Manny Bates, if he can regain the form he had as a rim protector at NC state, I think that he will instantly make that butler defense pretty respectable and pretty good. Then they add Eric hunter. It was a big piece of Purdue's success over the last few years. And butler stood out to me as one of the big winners from the portal. So I think butler with that mod on the sideline in year one could be at least in the mix fighting for an NCAA tournament bid mid to late February. Teams under first year coaches, I feel like tend to fall off around that point, but even being in that conversation would be a nice surprise for butler program that struggled as of late. Oh, I'll go two teams each way. And again, like I haven't, I haven't done the whole deep dive yet, but it feels like I would say, I would say Tennessee is getting a lot of run to be a top ten level kind of team, not that they won't be good. Sorry cops, I already bring it up. It's your fault. But if you told me they just drifted and we're outside the top 20 outside of the top 25, I believe it. But I tell you a team that's getting some buzz and coaching ranks over its potential.
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"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"So that'll be, by the way, it's gonna be a man house. You got an answer? As a fan, I think probably the most memorable game I've ever been to college basketball was probably bedlam. Gosh, what year was it? The Trae Young year. I think Trey young dropped like 48 points and OSU won. I'm gonna know she fan, so she grad. And that was, that was a fantastic atmosphere. It was very fun to be in the building for. But yeah, it probably outside that. I mean, working the final fours that I've gone to, I think that was the San Antonio final four, and then Minneapolis, those games, those were all memorable too. For sure. Okay, I'm going to follow up that question before. I'm seeing it now saying in terms of getting actual good Intel from coaches who's the hardest. Yeah. I guess I have to answer this in an on the record capacity. Artist, okay, well, obviously the answer to this challenge is chevsky. He has earned everything that has come to him and all this praise. I understand he's a polarizing figure because he coaches at duke. But there is an element to that when he retires, like I'm not going to miss. He is the one coach, even more than kal el Cal has some of this as well, where there's just not access to him, like other coaches. I can call Bill self right now. I can call Tom izzo right now. I can call Scott drew right now. I can call Tommy Lloyd call Mark few. Those coaches make themselves available to members of the media in ways that Mike szarzewski just doesn't. That's fine. I don't it doesn't even bother me. I completely understand it. But college basketball now is also not as big as it was when Mike ceci really made his name. So in some ways he is also a coach of a different era. And I wonder if that era might be permanently behind us. I would argue it probably should be. But duke and Kentucky are also the two biggest programs and it's certainly understandable there. With all of that. In terms of like, I'd say like some of the coaches that are like and there's nothing wrong with this. They're just kind of blandish quotes like Dana Altman and Oregon is not going to give you a he's not going to give you a ton. I think other coaches and power conferences weirdly like Greg guards like a fine guy to talk with. Not going to give you the most riveting quotes, you know? And there's nothing wrong with that. I actually like, again, going back to what we talked about with Dan Hurley, I like that college basketball has so many different kinds of like so many different people from different walks of life. Find themselves leading and guiding a division one program. And I like how much diversity there is with that in terms of where these people have come from. In addition to the fact that the sport is getting better at actual true diversity and last year in the wake of everything that we had with George Floyd and all of that men's college basketball actually proactively hired more minority coaches than I think probably ever in any off season. So that's also a very, very good thing. But for the most part, just to I'd say most coaches are pretty good on the record. A lot of them are very good off the record. You know, I wish a lot of these guys would like would be the more a lot of them are authentic selves. I just wish they would be more their authentic selves. They get, I understand it. You're running a program, you're representing a school, but sometimes coaches will say stuff and in order to maintain. Relationships, you don't want it. If they could say something's off the record, I don't have to agree to it. You know, that's happened a couple of times where the coach has given me something like, you know, off the record. I'm like, dude, that's perfectly fine, and I'm going to take it on the record. You're not, you know, you're not going to get blowback for saying something like that. I wish they would be more like that. But, of course, you know, it is what it is. I want to get one that KB can answer here. Who are you answer this one? I'm not involved in this. Who wins in a two versus two? Is this a fight? Is this a pickup game? What are we talking about? Frosting and Parrish against me and Cobb. If it's picked up, I feel like this is I feel like this is a this has got to be two on two half court. I'm the best basketball player. I'm a 6 three mini Dirk. Like, what do you want from me? Yeah, I was gonna pick norlander and Cobb for sure just because norlander, for people don't know, norland or super tall, 6 three. Sorry, I'm not super tall, but I'm not, you know, I'm not, I'm not perished, I'm not like 5 four. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know how tall rothstein is, but rosty. It's rosty is trying. He's backing me down on I feel like Rossi and 6 two. I don't know cops height. Do we have any kind of.
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"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"Broad sense. It's Oregon, it's Dana Altman. They're back to back PAC 12 outright chance. But this organ team was a ten point underdog. And this organ team hasn't been very good. They started 6 and 6 with losses to Stanford, Arizona state, saint Mary's, BYU, also lost to Baylor and Houston, obviously not the wrong with those. But a Stanford loss isn't great. Arizona state loss isn't great. They're now ten and 6, but the resume is rough. One in 5 in the first two quadrants, and they've got that quad three laws to Arizona state at home. So maybe they're turning a corner a little bit and long term, I don't think this is a big of a deal for UCLA. Because I'm assuming it's a quad three loss now, that'll be a quad two. As we move forward, because I'm just going to assume Oregon's going to get better and perhaps that blemish that looks not great today won't look as bad tomorrow. And I don't mean technically tomorrow, but a month from now. Two months from now. But, you know, not a great development. And from what I can tell, you know, reading about it this morning and box score. UCLA, it was just one missed opportunity after another, and they didn't get a lot from Julian was good. He was 23 points 9 rebounds, but it was 4.4 turnovers in 32 minutes. Got to get, you know, he's somebody that some people thought would be UCLA's best player this season, even better than choosing who was a consensus preseason all American. And he's good, a legitimate NBA prospect. He was not good against Oregon. We haven't talked about as I was prepping this morning and I realized I haven't even thought about John and jus in a month, maybe. We haven't talked about him. Because they were on that COVID pause, and they have it played big games lately. And barely at all. Statistically, he's basically having the same season he had last season. Averaged in 16.6 points 5 rebounds. He points and rebounds slightly up, shooting percentages, nearly identical. So if you wanted him to take a jump and be NCA tournament, Johnny Jose from start to finish, that hasn't happened. But his third year in college looks statistically a lot like his second year in college. Yeah, and I don't think at this point Johnny ju saying is near the all American conversation, which is interesting. You mentioned the stats are basically flat year over year. Not great, not terrible, is what it is. But UCLA is going to have to probably win the PAC 12 and Joe Zane is going to have to be better to get into that to get into that conversation there overall. But we'll wait and we'll wait and see what happens in the next couple of games here for UCLA. I don't have a lot of concern, Oregon state next, then on the road Utah, Colorado will know UCLA is what it was built to be in the preseason if it can win if it can peel off the way in a row. There were two on the road. It's not going to be easy. But I think it's good enough that's the talent to do it. So we'll wait and see on that. Real quick with Altman. He hits the 700 win mark and we had mentioned this a couple of times. I think just over the years about Altman specifically, his frankly he's very, very good coach has come certainly with some controversy during his time at Oregon and numerous sexual assault allegations over the years with some of his players that administration stuck by him. So he's still there. He's at 700 wins. He joins this group of coaches. I was curious to just refresh my memory on this because I think people didn't realize because he just doesn't have a great quote out on the West Coast spent much of his career not in a power conference. So I think he's kind of quietly gotten to a level where most coaches can only dream to be. You get 700 division one wins. That's. Not the top tier, but it's the tier right below it. Here are the other ones ahead of him that have gotten to that point. Don Hoskins, legendary, former utep coach, ray Meyer, Paul, Rick Barnes, is a head active, obviously norm Stewart, Jerry tarkanian, Bill self, John calipari fog Allen, John beeline, 754, then you got Hank aiba. Edgar diddle, western Kentucky's legendary coach who was there from 1922 to 1964. And then you get really near the top end. Again, this is D one wins. Lou Henson, Lou dolson, lefty drill, Eddie Sutton, Adolf rup, Dean Smith, shouts to cliff Ellis. Still at coastal Carolina encroaching on 900 career victories. I love that man. Bob knight Roy Williams, once you get tonight, you're at the 900 level. So night Roy Williams, bob huggins, Calhoun behind, and then coach K those are all the coaches and men's division one basketball that have at least 700 wins and after. Thursday night, Dana Altman can now claim to join that group. If you want to know who the closest behind him is, you want to do a quick survey time? I do want to do a quick review of time. What active coach is the closest to 700 wins right now. I'll give you a hint. He's in a power conference..
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"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"West Coast overtime thriller final score Oregon. These four number three UCLA 81 Mick Cronus bruins, they closed this ten point favorite still 5 game winning streak snapped by an Oregon team that is 58th at Ken palm 78th in the net, so that's a quad three lost dead leg. Where were you when you see a took its first quad three loss of the season? I'm assuming asleep. No, I was in my living room sitting in the dark watching on TV, man, lights up. Locked in. I was locked in. I was locked in until Gonzaga wrapped that puppy up last night, so I'm gonna sleep. Long day for me. Don't get back to back to don't fall asleep till three in the morning on Wednesday night. Got a 6 30 wake up call. Fly back home, do a radio show. See the kids, wife. How's that pretty early last night? Understandable completely. Is you're up a lot the two nights before. I got us covered here. I was locked in. We had a lot. A lot of West Coast flavor across the board on Thursday. And then, yeah, actually a lot of late night tips between games like this and even stuff like on CBS Sports Network where San Francisco just wipe the floor with LMU and kind of reinforce the idea that the WCC really does have a top four. As for this game, we're starting to get a little bit of a clearer picture. Maybe maybe a little bit on UCLA. As we speak this morning, and we're we've crossed the halfway point threshold of the regular season. UCLA sits at 25th in the net. Now the results based metrics because UCLA doesn't have a high inventory of games, it just has played fewer games than most other teams in power conferences because of its lengthy COVID pause. It still ranks well there. KPI, Kevin Paul index, which only evaluates teams based off of what's happened this season. It's all everything's in the rearview mirror. There is no predictive quality to it whatsoever. It says UCLA's number 11 team in the country based off what it's done and then strength the record, which is another very good empirical analysis tool that has results based has UCLA 9th. The predictive ones have started to fade a little bit on the bruins here. 14, 15 or 16 and Ken palm sagarin and BPI as of this morning. I still think we need more. It was good on the ducks. Dana Altman gets his 700th win. The ducks had 6 players score in double figures, so led by Jacob young had 23. So that's a bit more like it with Oregon. You know, it's not a stunner that Oregon wins this game. Oregon was a team we expected to be a major player in the PAC 12 hasn't been that to this point. But maybe this is going to be different. 84 81 and over time, UCLA was fortunate to get it to the bonus session to begin with because in fact, I think it was young who had that brutal pass underneath his own basket that allowed UCLA to cut the margin from 6 all the way down to zero in the final 32 33 seconds of regulation. So even getting it to the freebie session there for UCLA with no fans and attendance, which I think has something of an impact overall. But good on Oregon. UCLA is going to have a chance, obviously, the way the pact 12 goes. You've got the travel partner, so organ state will be next on Saturday and I think the winds probably more about organ. But we have had a little bit of the PAC 12s top three two of the three at least. Stumble in a bit. Arizona had no issues with Colorado on Thursday night. But earlier in the week, USC dropped from the ranks of the unbeaten. It actually kind of vomited on its sleeve for the first half of that game against Oregon state on Thursday before getting it together and winning by ten, but we've had UCLA and USC, which is separated themselves from the rest of the conference. Now they've taken on some losses, maybe Oregon can make it a bit interesting there. We'll have to wait and see maybe chalk this up a little bit to the fact that UCLA also hadn't played in almost a month. This was its second game. And it takes a competitive lost nonetheless. I think it was a third game back. Third game back from a nearly four week COVID pause. You mentioned the lack of fans. I believe the number I saw was a 119 relatives of coaches and players were allowed inside Pauly. That's it. And mit cronin was asked about it afterwards. And he said, it doesn't help, but I don't want to make excuses. But it's a real thing. Like having home court advantage in college basketball is a real thing. Watch Harvard play a home game. Tell me that doesn't matter. And watch Gonzaga play a home game. It matters. And when you suddenly don't have that, whatever gap might be there between you and your opponent is a smaller gap. You mentioned it's not a stunner that Oregon beat UCLA. And it's not in a broad sense. It's Oregon, it's Dana Altman. They're back to back PAC 12 outright chance. But this organ team was a ten point underdog..
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"dana altman" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Much, 15 free throws so far as not a lot. Everyone sort of pegged him as he's 24. He's ready, expect him to contribute right away. He has on both ends of the floor, cuts well, got a backdoor cutty cut. So also, well, when he's not involved in the pick and roll, but he's on the perimeter and his guys sinks in a little bit to help. He times those cuts to the basket really well. Is there anything about this that has surprised you or is this like we knew what this guy was? This is what he is. He's been elevated to his starting role because of all Indiana's injuries and he's frankly been maybe their most consistent player. I don't know, really consistent. Yeah, he's a stud. And it hasn't been a huge surprise to me. I think we all saw him as one of the most ready made guys. You knew what he did. He can really, really shoot the ball, you knew he can handle the ball. He's underrated passer. You mentioned the cutting has been really impressive. That's a guy who's been coached and who has played at a high level in the PAC 12 under Dana Altman. You can see those tendencies. You know, he's like, he's like a Dominican Devin Booker at times. Like just with the way he gets to his spots, the balance on those pull ups. He's really, really smooth. So I thought he would have kind of like a Desmond Bain type of impact. You know, different body type, not the exact type of game. Probably has a little more with the ball, but just as a veteran guy who's played at a high level who can come in, make shots, play a little bit of second side pick and roll and defend. And he's done all those things. Yeah, he's exactly as advertised. You've even better to me in terms of his sort of like, he bobs and weaves around screens, keeps defenders off balance. They have him catch off the screen and then go into a pick and roll. He's very good at that. As advertised, let's go, we should probably do the number two pick in the draft. Jaylen green, 13 and a half points a game, three assists three rounds 35% shooting 29% on 20 of 70 from three as many assists at 30 assists, 29 turnovers. He's again in this low efficiency, high raw numbers, bucket, but as you said earlier, the explosiveness is as advertised. I mean, he, in a couple of recent games, he blew away Anthony Davis on a switch. Like goodbye, you got no shot layup. And he was bringing the ball up in semi transition on the left wing and another game. On the left sideline, and then went diagonally to his right and accelerated as he made that direction change. And it was like, oh my God, he just dusted everyone and hammered in this dunk. It's like, talk about downhill. That's a cliche like guys get downhill. This guy gets downhill, he's tall, he can handle the ball. He's got some good passing feel. I'm just chalking up the inefficiency to he gets to shoot a lot on a bad team. I think this is about what expectations should have been for the first month of his rookie season. Has anything struck you as surprising in either direction? No, I think the same. I mean, some of the passing flashes have been kind of a pleasant surprise. To be honest, and I think continuing to show that maybe he can moonlight as a lead guard at times is going to help him because really he's almost best like guarding point guards just because he has that wiry frame, you know? He's got skinny. That's in my notes. He gets he can get around screens on the ball. You get when he knows they're coming, he gets skinny, he gets around them and he keeps fighting. Like he has an appetite for that kind of defense, which for a young score is encouraging, and he's long enough where he can you up from behind trying to pass the ball and stuff. Yeah, he can't you up in those situations. And listen, off the ball, he's a master defensively. If you put him in the post, he's really going to struggle. You know, all those things. I mean, I went to the ignite practice as early in the year, and they had a play called baby. And they would just call out baby and it was basically just to get Jalen ISO in the mid post and they would just go at him. And he hated it. If you listen to this, he's gonna hate that I'm even telling that story. But he has a little bit of a little bit of toughness in realness to him that I really like. Like any time I would sit down and talk basketball with him, he's not a great interview. He kind of mumbles. He doesn't really speak up. And every time I would leave and just think, that's a real dude, you know? And so I have a lot of respect, not only for his game, but you know, the way he approaches things. I mean, if you watch that guy in a one on a workout, you can talk yourself into the fact that he's going to be one of the best players in this draft. So I've always said he's going to lead the league in scoring one day. I really believe that. And he's not the same player as Anthony Edwards, but it is some of those similar some of the similarities in terms of strengths and weaknesses like he's not always going to be efficient. He's going to get lost off the ball at times. He's going to make some boneheaded plays. But when he gets going, oh my God..
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"dana altman" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"Packed world podcast, Eli, Becker, who did the research for that ADU study and showed that Dana Altman is by far the most successful coachman comes using players who have transferred Muslims clearly number two in that. And I remember a year ago, I put Arkansas, which was basically almost turned over its entire roster. I think at like 55 in my three 57, which it was a year ago. And I was way off on that Arkansas. We know. Maybe it's first sweet 16 run. In 25 years. And got a three seat and really just was great. So I rated Arkansas high personally, what will be interesting is how another 9 new guys here for Muslims. How's that going to work? And he expertly works to portal. I don't doubt him in that regard. I'm just not going to put him first and I didn't put him second, and I didn't put him third, but I just do think they're going to be a top 25 team Devo Davis, JT note, returning in the backcourt is obviously big. You got Chris likes, who's listed at 5 7, although. As a guy who claims to be 5 7, it might be 5, 6, I'm feeling like Chris likes is not 5 7. Would you agree? I could post Chris like something. Okay. They long. Guess who and jaylen during good to? Okay, okay. Well, good afternoon. But getting likes in there, he is on. He's the only hog. Shout out to Kyle Boone strong shot. He did really push for Devo Davis. It was his highest ranked player who didn't make our top 101 list. But I also love the fact that likes and then Conor van over, who's like 7 three might have grown to 7.4. They've got a classic super tall guy super shortcut. I just want to see those two guys on the floor together as much as humanly possible. And the last thing I have here on Arkansas, then take it away if you want and go wherever. I'm really excited for you to watch this team this year. Why would that be? Why are you why are you excited for me specifically to watch Arkansas? Yes. Oh, I couldn't begin to guess. They're not going to have those wrinkly tarps up anymore. Fans in the stands. You're not going to be you're not going to be, you know, you're OCD tendencies are not going to be annoyed when you watch the hogs on TV when they pull up from the snout maybe right before the half because there's no tarp situation. Oh, thank God. I actually thought about this the other day 'cause I was watching in advance of our PAC 12 podcast. I was watching highlights. You know, I was getting into it, man. And I was reminded of how awesome Arizona's tarps were. They had great tarps. And Arkansas tarts. They left something to be desired. Yeah. Inverse situation. Arkansas really good team just horrendous tarps, Arizona. Just nearly spotless tarp situation last season. Team wise, I could believe a postseason band. But you've got you've got the hogs one. Yeah. It's just a circle back to a point I made earlier. When you're ranking teams in a league, you got to put somebody once somebody to somebody three. Obviously people don't realize that. You put this is something people don't realize. You gotta have 68 teams in the tournament. But here's how close they are in the top 25 and one. Arkansas ten, Alabama's 12 Kentucky's 14. They're all right there. And so I went with Arkansas one, just like Alabama lost three of his top 5 scorers Arkansas four of its top 6. That's from an elite 18. And one of those losses obviously a big win a lottery pick Moses moody might have heard high school teammate of Caleb Houston. And cape Cunningham who the hell doesn't know that. Who doesn't know that? And Scotty Barnes. So as you mentioned, JT note back, JD noted back, devonte Davis back. So those two quality players, note was the SEC 6 man of the year. Bring back Conor van over, Jalen Williams, two rotation players. And then Chris likes, he's little, buddy, scores, boy. He averaged 16.2 points as a sophomore 15.4 as a junior, only played two games last season because of an ankle injury, but like he gets the ball in the bucket. They also add Stan Lee a mood a from South Dakota. That's a 6 6 wing who averaged 21.6 points and 7 rebounds last season. And then they got a transfer from pit. These Tony, another 6 6 weighed 14.4 points, 5.9 rebounds last season. So if you're trusting Arkansas to be really good again, you're just believing that these productive transfers are going to be productive at Arkansas and you're trusting and you trust in must to do what he typically does, which is take these guys from different backgrounds in different places and mold them into a quality basketball team very quickly. And obviously, I think you will. I've got them tenth in the country. But there's no doubt, you know, we talked a lot of times over the past few years about that sweet 16 drought at Arkansas that they broke last season. You know, they had not gone since 1996, and now, you know, based on what muscles put there, it will not be surprising if they go to the sweet 16 and back to back years. No, and that would actually be a wonderful story for that local fan base there. We aren't going to get a lot of reasons to watch Arkansas early. The schedule just isn't that enticing overall non conference wise. So we'll have to wait and see. I'm glad we gave him some time here on this pod. We'll have to just see. They've got they've got K state and an MT E that we can Thanksgiving and they could play a high profile opponent thereafter. But otherwise, this is filled up with Gardner web Mercer Penn, central auxin like inversely..
Courtside with Seth Greenberg
"dana altman" Discussed on Courtside with Seth Greenberg
"And across the front line, he'll contribute some Nathan Bill is a freshman that I'm excited about 7 feet tall, can shoot the three balls. He's got length. He can block shots. He gives up some versatility. Dana Altman, if he wanted to, especially with the versatility of Bill, he could actually play three bigs at the same time. And all of his 16 are better, but it's not going to happen because he loves space small ball. But I thought one of the big pickups for him was Jacob young from Rutgers. He needed a guy to be able to be with will Richardson and play behind real Richardson who can create his own shot, keep that floor space for them to be able to drive in my concern is can they shoot it as well as they've shot it in the past with this. Yeah, I think Quincy Gary is going to be great because he's a perfect data Altman player. You know, he's a kind of a positionless he could step out and shoot at the ball finds him off the backboard. I mean, he's really good. Syracuse transfer. I think it's good. But, you know, to me, if you talk about sleepers for player of the year in the league, I think we'll be asleep for this week. And I think, you know, we start dwarfing a lottery pickup of not mistaken last year. Will retrofit is an NBA player. Size feel, healthy, shoots it floor game. Rebounds his position. I mean, this is a very deep and talented roster. And, you know, they've been Harmon's gonna give him another shot maker. I think Oregon is right there with the UCLA, I think Arizona's right below that group as the three best teams in the league. Well, the other team that could sneak in there is USC, because even though even though they lost Evan mobley, they have Isaiah mobley back. I think he's the first team all packed 12 performer. You know, drew Peterson, I think is back who's the transfer from rice who's an older player and a playmaker at his size? Can pass it and then boogie Ellis is eligible and planned. And he can release for it. You know, he was originally supposed to go to duke wound up in Memphis. He's a very talented player. And that crew I think is going to perform at a really, really high level. The question is going to be are they are they going to be able to defend at the same at the same level as they did last year? I mean, you take out a guy like Evan mobley who could block almost any shot and guard any pick and roll his size, that leaves a void. And so they're going to have to all collectively pick it up. But I think Isaiah mobley is a first team all conference performer. You guys buy the Washington state hype. A lot of people are on Washington state and look that they've done a great job. No Williams is a really good player. They get to keep Michael flowers from south Alabama. They've got some experience, but then you start looking at numbers and they shout at a very low percentage when we're shooting teams in the impact of percentage not a lot. They prove their guard play with Tyrone Robert from UC San Diego. But you guys buying them? Are you buying Arizona? Let me ask you, are you buying them? Arizona state with badly returning. You know, Mary Jackson could from Toledo who transferred or you buying Colorado, who to me, we never talk about enough, but it seems like to me that each and every year at tybo does just an incredible job with his team and he swears to just get Jamar and walker has a chance to have a breakout year at 6 7, a hybrid wing to complement everybody. Which one of those three teams do you guys think will be that fourth team or 15 that has a chance to be near somebody tournament? I would choose Colorado first because I think they'll defend at a high level. Because I agree with you about the way cad Boyle goes about it. You know, they look, they lost a lot of the lost McKinley right, man. That is not an easy thing to get over. He was a he's a buffalo Jersey retired type player. I'm not sure they've had anybody that important, honestly, since Chauncey Phillips or Jay Humphries for what he did for the program. But I would pick Colorado of that group, but I think all of them are going to be capable. It's just are they going to be on the beat UCLA Oregon, USC, Arizona, consistently. And I think the answer is probably for all of them. No, they can beat them once, but can they feed them over and over again? I doubt it. I think your Arizona state is intriguing. Last year, they really struggled having three ball dominant guards out there on the floor at the same time. Remember Martin Alonso version and Josh Christopher, obviously those guys have moved on, 9 new players in. They returned Marcus Bagley. I'm Susan. Last year. Still 11 points during this time out there on the floor, come on in Lawrence's back. Jim and Graham is back.
The Rich Eisen Show
WR Corey Davis came to Jets with belief Darnold 'is the guy'
"Okay. So saw this quote really interesting. Corey davis being the titans. Free agent wide receiver of course goes to the jets. He said yesterday that he signed with the jets with the understanding. That sam darnold is gonna their team starting quarterback and twenty twenty one. Obviously i'm coming in with the understanding. That sam's the guy he said that doesn't scare me away at all. I've seen sam do great things. And i have all the belief in him thoughts that surprise. You doesn't really surprise me at all. I would think that i would think new coach. You come in. You got number two pick. Let's just roll the dice with one of these new but of course they're going to say. Hey the plan is for sam to be the guy right. Things could change. Yeah we could end up drafting somebody but we're not going to trade him. That's probably what he was told. Like sam's gonna be the guy down the road that could change. But i would anticipate that and if you're you know you're corey davis and if you're the vast majority of these free agents there's very few guys listen you have a limited shelf life in the nfl. You're going to the team. That's going to pay you the most money and you think that if corey davis was told that sam darnold not going to be the guy he he wouldn't have gone to the jets if they're offering the money. No no no.
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"dana altman" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"Very but we we'll. We'll talk about that another time. But pasternack coaches him and he was an assistant. Arizona undershot shawn miller. Who's the head coach of new orleans years ago and he's done it with all transfers. High major. transfers mcglaughlin is a six four six five point guards corey mcglaughlin who who can shoot and and facilitate miles. North six ten oregon transfer. Who's athletic. he can shoot. It can step out. Ahmadou sal isn't athletic. Six nine big so that they have high major size. No doubt about a pair of high major size. They're better in the front court then. Creighton they questioned the the mclaughlin matchup honestly with with with market sector ascii. It's going to be terrific. I mean really really good The big thing to me is going to be hot as creighton rebound from that that absolute embarrassment against georgetown in the big east title game. So it's going to be a hell of a game actually. I'm looking forward to that more than even the ohio virginia game. I think crayton will end up winning this one. But i think it'll be a hell began. They had such a weird season. What a weird three weeks for crater. I just wonder how emotionally spent those dudes czar banana. It's been like you talk about the worst possible scenario for these guys. And you have this deal with greg mcdermott. And i kind of i mean you get to the the final and usually you'd be like all right. That's great we wish he would have won but in a conference like the big east of the big ten like you got beat people to get there but i just the way they lost in the final at they weren't competitive at all got killed. Kill so i. I just wonder if they've got a gas tank. And i it's certainly a weird situation there and omaha. And i i think that manute you look at a team that has big time. Talent like uc. Santa barbara does this. The transfer around that that could be a recipe for disaster them all right top players in the west region. Rod go ahead rattle off a couple of at all al. Fill in what you missed. I mean the gonzaga stand out drew. Timmy court gaspard certainly Maybe you know the production isn't what some of these other guys are given. And he's had a really good year. After being a little inconsistent early season ago austin raves. I think he's got big time game. And then luca garza you can't forget about him for iowa down in the two spots. There's there's a lot of good players in in this region and that really for the ball you might have the number two and three picks seven mobile and jalen sucks in the west region. Oh yeah and certainly you can't leave him up there. Yeah and chris. Rta from oregon another guy that you gotta watch who's terrific. And i think oregon could could make some noise in this one. I i really wanna see an oregon iowa second round match up. I think it could be fun to watch. Oregon really spread you out Have a lot of guards. Well coached obviously with dana altman. We know that But christopher artists one of the better players that nobody talks about in the country biggest storyline in the west region. I'll go first on this one. I think it's pretty easy. It's kinda gonzaga can they. Can they just keep this thing going ultimately and roll through and i selfishly rob. I'd like to see gonzaga. I will match up in the elite just because gaza get that far and play gonzaga..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"dana altman" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"But if you if you work within the parameters that they have for you, and and by the way those parameters change, you know, based on your missions director and what the lay of the land is sometimes. When they first became the number one school in the country. I was there, boy, They were really feeling pretty proud of themselves. And things changed all of a sudden that became very important to him. Rather than keeping this equilibrium as today were really good, private school we want to be good and everything. It changes based on the admissions director and what your board of trustees tell you they want from you. But if you don't screw it up by that, I mean, you can't absolutely cheat. You have to get used to the admissions. You have to understand admissions, and it's not easy. Some people don't get it. I get themselves in trouble. I remember I used to carry a Got a normal load of files over the mission's office. Feeling really good about these kids and your grades and everything else. I walked. I walked out of the ambitions office. My engine ease out about three kids a lot. You know until thanks, you know, uh, it's uh But you need to do it the right way. David Shaw is a perfect example of a guy that's highly respect represents university extremely well is very well spoken about who they are. Doesn't go overboard about complaining about anything and you know, but keep in mind. He's been successful, and that goes a long way. S Oh, it's just a different animal. Uh, admissions has an awful lot to do with whether you can be successful. I mean, when I left, they had me box in the corner a little bit when I left. I mean, I was there 18 years and do it doing great, But they had me boxed in the corner mission. Specter just wouldn't anybody in and I just say we're not gonna win any more. Wow. And but don't take on admissions and then shortly afterwards, they they got a new admissions director and again just has to be reasonable person that understands the value to the university. But it's a very unique place. Everybody's got I mean, that's what you know Luke. It's such a great job in Arizona Building a program that became a place people wanted to go. Kids wanted to go. They want to play there. The crowd was the best in the league. I mean, trying to win. There was possible image just was a nightmare. Trying to go in there, Uh, in win, and so You know, people were able to do that. Dana Altman donated organ a little bit now where he's got a program up there. The kids want to play and it's become highly successful. So maybe Nick Crone's Got it coming back at U C L a a little bit. You know there because they're playing fundamental basketball. He's doing it. They're tough to the plain hard you're playing together, but Stanford is very unique. It's the campus is fabulous, but you know, kids don't want to stay in school. The education part of it isn't as important as it once was, because most of these kids I don't care where they are want to play for money. They think they're going to play for money somewhere. No doubt. Stanford does love there a serious trophies. Oh, don't they? Yeah. They'll tell you that about that. But they nobody's got a chance. You know, they all exports that nobody what we used to say. People back east used to say to me would say, Well, we won this year's school again. They'd say, How do you do in football? Basketball? Well, we want thanks. Everyone withdraws. We got water. You see, you know. I mean, they're they're so good at every sport, but a lot of people. You go in the southeast that they What? What sports that. Never seen it. They football basketball like serious trophy. What is that? What seems to be different? Here's Yeah. Sears closed down in this town 30 years ago. What do you tell me about the Walmart trophy? Now? That's all we care about. How's the How's the golf game going? Oh, Lord, you talk about frustration. I mean, you know what? I've never been good at anything I figured out about 20 years out of call. I thought I was good, and I knew as I look back, I realized I really wasn't as a pain in the ass and it's the same way and golf get a few good shots. You think you've got it and then boy, just then you hit went out of bounds. Your skull wonder lift your head or chunk it or hit the trap can't get out. It's a frustrating game. But it's a lot of fun. I get a six mile walk out of the thing and I feel like I've done something. You know what? That's that? That is, You just you hit my game perfectly. It's all the above. It's some good. Some bad end up being okay. But I figure you know what? I love these clubs for six miles. And even if I stink, I feel like I got a good workout. That's it. Right. There is some redeeming quality. I've got my work out for the day. I can sit in my chair and eat mixed nuts and fall asleep. I'm ready to do it right now. Let's get to a coach. We always appreciate the conversation. Thanks so much, And maybe we can hook up with you around Turney time. All right. Keep improving time. You can't do it, man. I mean, start listening. Hey, don't do me any favors. Appreciate it. Thanks to my thanks. Go to free a man whose lifestyle quite frankly, I'm uh I'm aspiring to copy. Mike McGovern, go play golf. Get in a workout sitting your charity mixed nuts. Fall asleep. Every damn man do that. We'll talk to Chris Mullin, as we do every Monday will do that. At 4 50 here in the Tolbert Kruger and Brooke Show Matt Naoko are Niner insider from NBC Sports Bay Area will join us at four. We'll talk about the Niners. Now that Matthew Stafford is not an option. Where do the Niners go to get a new quarterback? But do they keep the one they have? And Jimmy Garoppolo and coming up next? Ah, long time suited for the Vikings and Super Bowl chicken with the Ravens met Burke joins us next as we start our Super Bowl week here on the Tolbert, Kruger and Brooks Show she Cavey Cavey..
KOA 850 AM
"dana altman" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"And the Ducks here today is we've got this afternoon game There was the time was moved from nine o'clock tonight till three o'clock this afternoon. All right. It was a thought in this doctor team. I know they've been missing Will Richardson. They've been without Impala. Dante. Missing. A couple of big guys was still there. 81 in which six? Yeah, I mean, they're They're a typical organ team, and then they're very Uh, interchangeable lot of interchangeable parts Mark that and really put points on the bargain on the board in a hurry they can do or say is this is this a good artist is in our league. Right now. He's playing extremely well. I think he's taken 19 threes over the last two games, you know, get Stanford down the stretch. You made four of them right on duh. He's a terrific player. They've got a bunch of transfers. The kid that really stands out to me. Is the Amaru Is it from? Uh Ah, lockers. Rutgers, Rutgers. I got one figure all from ST John's to get those guys confused sometimes, but Meru is the 66 kind of an end of heaven. Body inside could score the block shoots reason that from the outside could put the ball before a little bit a really, really tough matchup. So they've got they've got some really good players. You're they're missing and Polly Dante. You know towards a CL. It's a big, big time recruit. Will Richardson still come back off a thumb injury as I understand it, and he's we know how good he is. He had 21 9 against this at their place last year, so Uh, they're down a few guys. They're not at full strength, but they are a quality team. You know Dana Altman coaches and a swell as any coach in this league, and they they're they're tough out. Well, you look at them and you kill my only rule you 6 ft. 6 to 35 to mention towards a 6 ft six. You got lost in its 68 Eric Williams. We haven't even talked about you Who's averaging 13 in 766 point again. They're all about the same size. Does this make a virtue of defense assignments? 6 FT. 626, ft eight and interchange. I'm telling you, they the Hardy get the transfer for UNLV is a little left. He's He's the one guy that looks like a guard this place like guard, But But, yeah, they're interchangeable. They can all shoot the ball. You mentioned Eric Williams, a lefty that can really, really put pressure on the defense figure role from ST Johns. He's at the head of the press, You know, organ still playing. Depression. After makes the precedent for free throws. They can't play the matchup zone s. Oh, they've got they've got a bunch of interchangeable parts, and so switching is gonna be a big part of today's game, but we do need to keep Try to keep Evan out of foul trouble during one and keep him on Honora Lia's best we can because I think he's the one guy we have funny on the interior that guard him a little bit. Sure I will get a shot at your party will get a shot of us well, but that's the guy we got to keep in check. Down low and on the perimeter, and then Dorte, we gotta We gotta take away his threes as best we can. He's Evan is that I wonder from from his foul issues on occasion. Some of it is learning is a player and some of it is physics, isn't it? The fact that he's 68 to 70 and so if there is a collision, he must be the big added cost. There's no There's no question he gets you guys tag with. That's not bashing the officials. It's just human nature, human nature. These guys look like alive and the little guy bounces off the big guy. The files in the picture, you know, it's just And he certainly got a few of those, but I think he's really, especially on the L A trip or I think since Dallas went down, Evans really playing a lot smarter. I think he's understanding. Um and and obviously the officials, you know. They have to get used to everybody, and I think they are now you know, he's been, uh, kind of a spot minute guy for its, you know, 18 to 20 minutes a game, but now he's playing heavy minutes. I think the officials just like anybody they get used to players. You know, the officials were used against all right. You know his game. They've seen it for three years. Going on four now. I think the same is happening with Evan. So keep it out of cultural playing smart, No silly one. That's the biggest thing is to stay away from the silly fouls that you can control because you're you're gonna pick easy to pick up one or two right just through the courts, and he's a physical play. It's just gonna happen by the way. Happy, belated wild night for you last night. Yeah, I think I was in bed by 10 o'clock. There you go. That's what I like to hear. Well, the Buffaloes you give the town a nice related birthday present at the big table. The Ducks here today we'll go in. Take a time out with a starting lineup. Somebody chip on coming your way Next. This is kind of the basketball from Deerfield. I am Jay College. Out here we charge into the Heartland with.
KGO 810
"dana altman" Discussed on KGO 810
"Here's Rich Shalini Cal on the road against the 21st ranked Oregon Ducks, Ducks six and 11, a gnome in the Pac 12 Bears Come in at five and four. They've won three in a row. Grow into and conference falling in the earlier Pac 12 slate to Arizona State and U C L. A Pac 12 conference got conference season started little early this year. So this ball games were in December. So a different bears team but On the road. Matthew Knight Arena. Todd McKim, a No secret Ducks are good at six and won their outstanding at home 1 26 in a row. It's the second longest home winning streak in their history. It's currently the Fourth longest in the country. At one point time, I think they want 46 straight. Games before Boise State went in there a couple years ago and beat him so they're really tough at home. I don't have the home crowd, which could be a big factor in Matthew Knight Arena. But nevertheless you're gonna win a lot of games when you have good teams, and that's what they've had. Over the course of Dana Altman's stint in Eugene Hall of Fame coaches you mentioned earlier. I don't think he's gonna have to wait to retire to get in the Hall of Fame. I think people green, you know. The only thing that he hasn't done is win a national championship. You've been to a final four. He's won a slew of coach of the Year honors. He's want to slow a conference championships. He's approaching like like 800 wins in his career. 800 wins. That's incredible. Not all of those at the division One level worked a couple of years in the J. C, but still it's a tough place to win and the bear is gonna have to play by far away the best game of the year to win tonight. And the road hasn't been friendly to the bears. I mean, it just hasn't been something that's been friendly to them. You know, you look back to last year. It doesn't mean anything coming in tonight, but organ Callen Haas much tighter game. Then you know Cal, Oregon at Matthew Knight Arena. So it's Bentley Brown Bradley. And who's not going to go team in and Kelly so the two bigs along those lines, so Coach Fox gonna go with some Biggs against Oregon Duck team Oma Ruiz got 18 tonight. I mean, this is a team that's that's long. It's fast. It's athletic. But you don't have an folly. Dante, the big kid in the middle, so it'll be a little bit different. If you can get any penetration. You've got a much better chance than you had previously against the whole slew of other organ team's gonna be interesting to see how they play and again, we mention they play a lot of zone so and match up so What if Jo brand can get into the paint and open up those shooters on the wings? That would be part of the formula to win tonight? Opening tip controlled by the Ducks. They'll be wearing it yellow with green trim Tonight bears in blue. And gold on the road just underway. Matthew Knight Arena. That's going to work on offense, figure out and then go down to the corner. Got team and stretched out a little bit. That'll be a tough one. Bradley Able to close out on the miss by Duarte, and it's one announcer defensive rebounding, which has been really good before the Bears leaving the conference. So far so good, you'll brown going to go over the Bentley little shake. That Lee gets free bounce pass underneath team in Can't control It Bounces office.
Gary and Larry
Cronin leaves Cincinnati to take UCLA job
"Hey, hey, Jason before we Chadha here. Couple of college notes are of note one. I hope the warriors bring back Chris Mullin in some capacity. He's going to step down as head coach at Saint John's. It sounds like the, you know, spent thirty years at Duke and watts Bobby Hurley to leave ASU to to. And then the one that came down. Just now Mick Cronin is the new head coach UCLA which me Cronin. Leave Cincinnati to take the Bruins job. Rick Barnes opted to stay at Tennessee. Instead of instead of or go to Tennessee instead of instead of take the UCLA job. What do you think? What do you think of those three college Garrett sells weird like if you guys remember Oregon like about eight or nine years ago had an opening head coach and bass warned everybody Tom Izzo. They made every play every coach they approach basically got a race and they settled on like their seven choice. Dana Altman, we'll guess what? Six or seven years later day gets to the final four. So I know Mick Cronin in number one target probably four or five or six, but think about a guide when you making a move on your girlfriend wife at the time before she became your wife option. I don't know that I was, you know, sometimes you got a, you know, just be happy that you get picked down the list for you. Jay were you were you an undrafted free agent. Were you a seventh round pick? I hope I wasn't. I never asked my wife that, but I have joked around with guys who whose wife is hotter than them as my wife is more tractive than me. And I'm like, you're not your life. I choice, but to the overachievers club, Gary the overachievers club going my old lady. Did you did you romance with money? Did you do give Bela's? What what do you think? You you got to wonder over the podcast. I was working at a newspaper in New Jersey living in a studio apartment twenty five thousand dollars. Here. We didn't meeting her a month later. I said boy, I gotta get an upgrade here, and I left it pathetic newspaper industry and just made my rise to where I am now in. Yeah. I couldn't I was it was definitely not