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Two wildly similar teams, but they say styles make fights.
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So what's this Missouri Miami basketball game going to look like?
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Let's talk Mark Mitchell, Malik Renaud, the whole match up, right now in this crossover
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Hey all you true sons and daughters and all you Miami Hurricanes fans as well.
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It's nice to change up the music sometimes isn't it?
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I am John Miller from Lockdown, Mizzou.
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That's Alex Dono from Lockdown Canes and we got a ton to talk to on today's program,
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including some football by the way as well.
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Damon Wilson going one way, Dante Simpson going the other, but of course we got to start
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talking about basketball Alex and safe to say Jay Lucas blew away expectations in his
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first year in Coral Gables, huh?
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Yeah, in my wildest imagination, I didn't think Miami could get the three seed in the
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ACC tournament, finished third in that conference.
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Miami was predicted by the so called experts.
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I think I had one of the votes on this, but to finish eighth in the ACC this year and
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it's understandable, you know, the team was awful last year is Jim Laranega who had
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some of course incredible teams at Miami, had a final four run a few years ago, but last
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year was really tough for Miami and Coach L retired early in the year.
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Miami played most of the season with an interim head coach and Bill Courtney.
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They won seven games in 2025.
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They went seven and 24 and then you flipped the record in the first year of Jay Lucas.
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They went 24 and seven regular season and they got an ACC tournament win after a double
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And of course, I had some reservations about Jay Lucas just with the understanding that
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he was a first time head coach.
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Had some prominent assistant coaching roles was the top assistant for John Shire at Duke,
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you know, the previous couple of years, which is obviously a great person to learn from
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and from a coaching family from his father, John Lucas.
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So the coaching chops were there, but when you're doing the head job for the first time,
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I think I expected a few more growing pains and then of course, he had to completely rebuild
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There were zero holdovers, which may have been a good thing from last year's team, but
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there were zero holdovers from last year.
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So all expectations were exceeded in the regular season.
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And you know, I think most hurricane fans are just they don't necessarily have final four
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expectations this year, but I think Miami fans are kind of going into this tournament with
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an open mind, hoping they can get a win or two.
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And then this first one is going to be really tough matchup with the similarity of these
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And then also, you know, some hurricane fans are a little concerned about, you know, playing
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so close to Mizzou in that game, being played against St. Louis.
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So there's a lot of storylines heading into this one, but I'm excited to break it all
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Yeah, I can understand if I were a Miami fan, I'd probably be a little miff that Missouri
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is so much closer, but sometimes this just happens, especially unfortunately, if you're
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a seven seed, you're not really the priority.
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There's got to be some logic there.
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But certainly if I were a Miami fan to go, jeez, thanks for that matchup, we really appreciate
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Another point, I think the similarities of these teams, I think it's sort of most obvious
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when you watch Mark Mitchell and Malik Renaud play.
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And because of how these teams are so similar, I think they're going to have to guard each
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So it's sort of my previous episode, we were talking all fair how I did the pointing spider
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Well, these two guys almost remind me another meme I've seen lately, kind of a viral
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video where there's this guy who's trying to like back down like a, like a, you know,
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like a, like a Buick, that type of thing.
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Like that's got how Mark Mitchell and Malik Renaud like to play, especially Mitchell in
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So how do you see this matchup playing?
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I think they're very similar players.
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I think Mitchell is a little bit maybe more athletic, but Renaud, maybe a little bit more
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of a refined player, he's certainly a better free throw shooter.
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How do you see this playing out?
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Yeah, you know, I, I see it as a situation where if they both play their best, they almost
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cancel each other out, right?
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And, but, you know, you never know who's going to have their moment and, and Renaud.
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And obviously you could say the same thing about Mitchell, they've been so clutch, you know,
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for both of their teams this year.
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So it honestly may come down to who can get the big and one down the stretch in a close
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You know, who makes that maybe one extra offensive rebound that can spark an important
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point down the stretch?
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I think this is a sensational matchup.
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And if you even go down the statistics like Renaud averages 18.8 per game, Mitchell averages
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18.3 per game, like they're almost identical as you go through the stat sheet.
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So I think really this is one of those where both coaches probably look at it strategically
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like, all right, these guys are probably like you said, getting a guard each other.
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And hopefully if they both play their best, it kind of cancels out.
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And then on the Miami side, if, if Renaud and Mitchell cancel each other out a little
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bit, Miami hopes their other big man Ernest Uday, who's not nearly as much of an offensive
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threat, but a great defensive player shop blocker and offensive rebounder doesn't finish
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at the basket nearly as well as Malik or Mitchell does, but maybe a guy like Uday might
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have an opening to sort of take over the game in big spots.
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But I could definitely see this being a scenario where the two of them Mitchell and Renaud,
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they either cancel each other out or whoever has the more impactful game, their team ends
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Yeah, I'll just say from a Missouri perspective, I don't hate the matchup on the Mitchell
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side simply because the teams and the matchups that can, that can bother him or guys who
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can move their feet who are a little bit taller.
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I like that they're basically the same size.
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They're basically both 6'9, 2'30, 2'40, somewhere in there.
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And since you brought up Ernest Uday, you know, I think, I disagreed, I think with
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one of my previous guests this week, our colleague locked on Benz Lee Sterling, I think Uday
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knows exactly who he is and is a pretty effective player, but Lee thinks he's basically terrible.
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Who do you think is right?
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I think, it's funny, Lee is a really good friend of mine.
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And I know he's a big Miami guy as well.
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He lives in South Florida, but I'm with you.
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Like I think, I think Ernest Uday really knows his role and has leaned into it throughout
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Like if you were to talk about the Ernest Uday of, you know, November or December, I could
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have agreed with that take that, you know, very inconsistent.
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But I thought since ACC play started for Miami, I think he's carved out a really important
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role for himself as a rim protector and as a rebounder.
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He's obviously got a ceiling, a lower ceiling when it comes to being a scorer and everything
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But no, I agree with you.
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I think Uday knows his role and I think Jay Lucas has really helped him lean into
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So that's the thing.
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If Mark Mitchell and Reno, if they do happen to cancel each other out, like you've suggested
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is certainly possible, that's the thing.
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Uday, I think I know what I'm going to get from him, whereas his counterpart, Sean Phillips
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is a guy who's probably a more high upside player, but he's also got a lower floor too.
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He's a very emotional guy.
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He has a tendency to flail his arms around everywhere.
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I need him to foul out by the way, John, just so you know, I'm going to need him to
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foul out his earliest possible.
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Well, to your point in the, in Missouri's previous loss against Kentucky and the SEC tournament,
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the Tigers lost that game, but in Phillips 19 minutes, he fowls out in the game when Phillips
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Missouri actually won that ball game by about 10 points when he was in there.
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So to your point, I think that's a really good one.
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I will say Trent Burns, I think Uday is a good matchup for him.
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The big seven foot three, seven foot four freshman, red shirt freshman center for Missouri.
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I do kind of like that matchup at least because he can get hurt if you can take him away
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from the basket and it doesn't really seem like Miami necessarily has that player.
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And of course, Miami has a lot of good players, including Trey Donaldson and Shelton Henderson.
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The hurricanes have been sitting at one and a half this entire time ever since the game
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And I was watching Alex Miami's most recent game against Louisville in the tournament.
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I did notice a Shelton Henderson turned his ankle a little bit in that game state and seemed
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It seems like he's okay, right?
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Yeah, he's had a couple moments in the regular season and then in the ACC tournament
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where he's tweaked an ankle, but he's like, got Wolverine healing powers like he had
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Yeah, he had an injury near the end of the regular season where he was like down on
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the court and we thought, oh my God, is this a season ender?
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And then he's back in the game like five minutes later.
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So I think physically he's about as good as you can be health wise, you know, heading
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into the tournament.
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But just on Shelton Henderson in general, and this is obviously the highest upside freshman
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Former McDonald's All-American, you know, was a big recruiting win for Miami.
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He was committed to Duke before Jay Lucas, you know, made the switch and was able to bring
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Shelton with him to Miami.
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I honestly think John Henderson from the Miami side, I think is the biggest X factor for
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this game because he's really the only one of Miami's most important players and scores
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who doesn't have NCAA tournament experience like, you know, for a guy like Tray Donaldson
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who's been to the tournament the last three years, most recently with Michigan, Malik
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Renaud having been to the tournament with Indiana, like you have guys who kind of understand
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what the bright lights of March mean.
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But Henderson, and he's, you know, compared to both rosters because Mizzou's got a lot of
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Miami has other experience players.
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I think with him being, you know, so green when it comes to collegiate postseason play,
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is he going to be able to perform to his regular season standards?
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I think if he is able to do that and score, you know, 17 to 20 points in this game, Miami's
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got a really good shot.
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Or if he has his, like, welcome to March madness type of game and his less of a factor,
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it's going to be tougher because Miami doesn't have a whole lot of depth like you're talking
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about, like, basically a seven man rotation, yeah, which is, which is, you know, sorry,
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So, yeah, I think that's a big advantage Mizzou is going to have is just having more capable
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Yeah, I'll say with Henderson, I think that's funny.
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You said he's just almost indestructible because I saw that ankle turn.
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It was almost like going the opposite way to like normally your ankle turns inside
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it kind of turned outside.
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I was like, oh, that looked bad.
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And then he just gets up.
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He's like, dude, dude, dude, dude.
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I was like, okay, I guess he's fine.
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It's nice to be nice to be 18 years old, I guess.
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That's all I can say.
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But a little more on Henderson and his matchup specifically with Missouri's Trent Pierce,
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because this is where I do think there's a little bit of a contrast.
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Maybe the biggest contrast of all the matchups because Henderson at six foot six and is a
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little bit more of a bruiser, I would say, whereas Pierce at six 10 is more of like your
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lanky shooter type.
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And Pierce definitely has more experience as a junior, has been as by far as most consistent
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This isn't a really hugely important matchup.
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If Missouri can get the best version of Trent Pierce, if Miami can get the best version
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of Shelton Henderson, that's going to be a huge factor either way.
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And I am really curious to see how those guys guard each other for sure.
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Yeah, especially Henderson's case having to go up against somebody who's six 10.
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I mean, that's just diabolical length.
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I mean, that's, you know, Henderson's going to try to counteract that with his explosiveness
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and aggressiveness.
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But that it's never easy for a guy who's in the six six range to be guarded by somebody
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So I'm definitely looking out for that matchup.
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Now back to the similarities here.
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We got a couple of italihassy point guards, one in trade, Donaldson, one in Anthony Robinson
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Now Robinson was expected to be maybe an all SEC type of player for Ukraine's fans out
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there, but was eventually supplanted in the starting lineup by T.O.
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Barrett of Missouri.
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So a couple of pretty big point guards there, both about six three guys.
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I think Donaldson, six three as well, again, a pretty good physical matchup there.
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I think even Donaldson and Robinson were at least briefly high school teammates in
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So the competitive fire could be, could be flow in there for sure.
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What is it about trade, Donaldson?
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I know he's an effective veteran player.
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What makes him so effective?
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Yeah, he's the engine of Miami and I'm glad we got to this to the guards because obviously
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we spent a lot of time on the front court, which both teams have great strengths there.
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But I think we both know, John, that the teams that make the deep March Madness runs are
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usually teams that get exceptional guard play when it comes to the tournament.
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Trade Donaldson, I best describe him as a pit bull.
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I didn't watch him a whole lot when he was at Michigan.
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I kind of learned a lot about him during the off season when he transferred to Miami.
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And then when I actually started watching him play this season, he's just delightful to
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watch with the way he's able to attack the basket.
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Like he definitely has that clutch gene.
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You know, he's someone who tends to do a really good job when you're talking about trying
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to put opponents into foul trouble.
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He's someone who can do that.
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You know, he's been hit or miss sometimes at the free throw line, which Miami's entire
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team has been shooting about 67% from the charity strike.
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But if you're counting on someone to get you to that free throw line late and hopefully
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hit clutch free throws, he's one of the candidates.
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To do that, I just think Donaldson to me is he's the type of guard that's just built
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for March when he starts driving to the basket at a high clip.
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So I think really Miami in this tournament is going to go as far as trade Donaldson takes
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them because I can't see Miami winning any games this week or this month without Donaldson
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being a protagonist and being a guy who can really propel them there.
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So since you have such a solid veteran point guard there, I have to say when I was
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watching the end of that Miami Louisville game, I was surprised that the canes kind of
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collapsed a little bit.
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They had a lead for most of that second half or even up five with about 58 seconds to
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What happened there?
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Sloppiness is the number one word on both ends of the floor.
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You know, Miami tends to occasionally be overly turnover prone.
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You know, they sometimes make up for that at the other end in one of the better forcing
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teams in college basketball.
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But yeah, in that Louisville game, which Miami did hold on to win, but at one point within
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the final couple of minutes, Miami turned a nine point lead into a one point lead and then
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had to kind of turn it on for the final two possessions to really close that one out.
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It was offensive sloppiness, bad shot selection and turnovers on the offensive end.
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And then on the defensive end, the thing that can drive me crazy about Miami is their
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technique when it comes to contesting shots, when it comes to, you know, really going
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up and slapping the hands and creating fouls.
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I just feel like there can be times where they can defend more effectively without fouling.
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So it can be a little frustrating.
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They can get a little sloppy and I don't know if that's the hallmark of one of the few
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weaknesses of a first year head coach and Jay Lucas.
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I think they can be a little sharper on the defensive end of the floor and not forcing
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as many fouls as they do.
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And we've seen it, you know, we've seen it go both ways.
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I mean, Miami had a big time clutch win against NC State in February in the regular season
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where NC State kind of self-destructed in that same way that Miami did.
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So Miami can take advantage of it.
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If you give them any openings, they can come back from a big deficit in a very short amount
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But sometimes there can be that sloppiness when the shot selection is bad and the defense
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So, you know, that's going to be something, hopefully they can learn from that.
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And then, of course, their follow, they won the Louisville game.
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The following game was just a baptism against a very good Virginia team, just blew Miami
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Nothing really went Miami's way in that one.
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So we're all hoping there can be lessons learned from these losses and from these close
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calls at the end of games.
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Yeah, well, they say styles make fights, like I said, at the top of the show.
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And indeed, like I said, Missouri is still a one and a half point underdog to Miami.
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It's been literally the second it came out.
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It was one and a half been sitting right there.
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I think that's a very fair line.
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I think these teams are so similar, but on paper, you give Miami a little bit of the
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I'm fine with that even in St. Louis, but the 147 and a half the total in this game.
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I got to say this game feels like it's going under to me because I think it's going to
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be a bit of a grind because these teams are so similar.
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Like I said, the cliche is styles make fights.
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I don't think this is going to make a fight if you will.
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It's going to be a fight, kind of literally in the paint.
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I'm sure, but I just mean a high scoring back and forth visually pleasing basketball
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It's going to be the under Alex.
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How are you thinking about that thought?
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I lean in your direction and that's despite certain metrics.
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But I think like you said, the fact that both of these teams play very physical.
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They have size in the paint and it's the opening NCAA tournament game.
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That's why I expect to feel out process and I would also consider taking the first half
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under especially because I think these teams are probably going to exchange some, you know,
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to use like a boxing analogy, the heavyweight fight where they're, you know, maybe a little
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bit cagey and feeling each other out for the first half.
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So I think overall under and first half under is probably a good way to go.
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And listen to that, there are certain things that maybe try to pull somebody towards the
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over mainly in, you know, Miami being near the top of the nation and points in the paint
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and feel goal percentage and then Miami's perimeter defense being statistically poor.
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Maybe Mizzou starts pouring on threes so to speak.
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But I agree with you.
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I think stylistically this one leans to the under so I would go that way.
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And then I think a couple of other just, you know, rudimentary things to consider with
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the line being as close as it is at one and a half.
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I think for any, especially the locked on Mizzou listers, if you're, if you want to bet
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Missouri in this game, you should go money line, not, not spread.
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You're going to get better value there.
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And then for Miami, you would probably do the opposite, right?
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There's going to be, you know, more, more juice on, on the money line.
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So you would take Miami, you know, minus one and a half.
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So you got to, you got to try to maximize every dollar there on the fan duel app.
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So I would go that way.
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I think that's a great thought.
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And I also agree with your thought on the first half too.
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And I'll just say, I know the, we'll see if this holds true in March madness.
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But certainly in the SEC this season, the pattern has usually been a much tighter whistle
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in the second half, which leads to a lot more free throw attempts.
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That would be the biggest thing I would worry about going under in this game is, obviously,
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this could turn into a foul fest, both Mark Mitchell and Malik were no draw a lot of fouls.
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Try to get to the free throw line a lot.
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But anyway, I guess prediction wise, how you feeling about the team?
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I'll be honest from the Missouri side.
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I'm going to pick Missouri to win.
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And if you're going to give me the one and a half, I'll take it.
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I'm not feeling real confident right now.
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The Tigers losers of three in a row here.
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And I have to admit, I'm feeling a little bit stung still going to last season.
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Missouri had a, had a poor finish to the season as well.
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I hope, I hope that's not the case here, but I'm a little worried.
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How are you feeling, Alex?
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It feels like a coin flip game for a lot of reasons.
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I'm, I'm going to lean to Miami just because I am going to trust Trey Donaldson.
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In the final minutes, to be able to kind of squeeze what he can out of a clutch game.
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Because I do think it's going to be close.
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I'm going to go Miami by two, but that's going to be, that's going to be contingent on
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Uday and Renault staying out of foul trouble.
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And it's also going to be contingent on, you know, Miami just playing, you know,
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some of their better perimeter defense of the season, turning that on in the tournament.
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Because if, if Missouri gets hot from three against a team that doesn't historically defend those,
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that would give me concern.
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But at the same time, I, I do think Miami has maybe enough advantages with their shorter
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rotation of seven, eight guys that they're going to be able to get it done.
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So I'm, I'm going to take Miami, but I think it's going to be a slugfest.
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It's not, it may not be a visually pleasing fight, but it's going to look like a fight in a
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lot of ways, I think that's my prediction.
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But we'll get out here with a little bit of football talk because there has been some
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Missouri to Miami and vice, and vice versa, that type of deal.
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I'll just say, first of all, for Miami fans, you're getting a good one in Damon Wilson.
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There's no doubt you've gotten one of the best pass rushers.
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I would say in the entire portal.
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Damon was a very good player from Missouri last year.
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I'm frankly surprised that he left.
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I just assumed that it would either be the NFL or Mizzou for Damon because when Missouri,
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much like Miami these days, when they want somebody back, they typically get him back.
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So Miami must have given him an offer that was incredibly difficult to turn down.
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That's all I can say.
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You've got a good one in Damon Wilson.
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Yeah, and I think on that note, I think Miami knowing that they were, of course, losing
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Rubin Bain and Akeem Mezzador in the same offseason, that makes you really aggressively
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turn to a proven pass rusher like Wilson, because Miami's got other dudes at defensive
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end, but just not anyone with Wilson's experience level.
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I think that really became a priority and also, in addition to the NIL stuff, also the
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selling point of, we need our next Rubin Bain, I'm sure is something that they used in
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On the flip side, we were talking a little off-air about this player who I'm super bullish
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on, a much different career so far to Damon Wilson, but Dante Simpson, who just finished
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his true freshman year at Miami, and he transfers over to Mizzou, which, yeah, from our point
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of view, John, that was a little surprising, like I still, I haven't inquired on, like,
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from the Miami side, what the backstory was on Dante Simpson, but, you know, someone who
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obviously didn't play a whole lot last year, because he was a true freshman, but Dante Simpson,
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John, I can tell you, and he's a South Florida kid, came out of Shamanad, Madonna, high school,
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so I did watch him play a little bit, going back to his high school days.
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He really was like one of the young standouts in practice at Miami last year, and for
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the minimal game time that he got, did pretty well with it, but I can remember going back
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to some of the shows that I did during fall camp last year, and Dante Simpson was always
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a guy that, like, we had on our list of, hey, don't sleep on Simpson, he's really excelling
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as a true freshman, and I had just kind of assumed that, you know, heading into his second
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year, had he stayed at Miami, would have really been on the short list when it came to rotational
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guys, a defensive tackle this year. And like you mentioned, like Miami and Mizzou don't typically
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lose guys to the transfer portal that are part of the plan, right? And most of the players
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Miami's lost into the portal, the majority of them, not all of them necessarily, but have
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been players who, like, are talented, but they, they didn't necessarily see a path to
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a whole lot of playing time, so you go somewhere you can get it, right? I didn't think that
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was going to be the case for Dante Simpson. I expected him to play quite a bit this year.
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So you're, you're getting a dog over there, and he's also got a good family. I remember
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meeting Dante's dad at, like, parents day at one of Miami's practices last year. If,
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if you ever see him around there to tell him, I say hello, because he's a really, just
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a really sweet, like, animated, entertaining guy seems like a great dad. So I'm sorry
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to see Dante go, but I think he's going to do big things over there.
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Well, it's very encouraging to hear him. Missouri definitely could use that. I called him
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this off season. I said, Hey, if he turns out to be a dude, I think he could be one of
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the most, one of the biggest difference makers in the portal. You know, what I think
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may have happened here is I think Missouri does a pretty good job of, of identifying defensive
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line talent. And I feel like they just, they have a whole bunch of things they need to
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replace on defense. I feel like they just decide we're going to spend more on the secondary
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and bet on the guys that we have coming back on defensive line. We'll see if that pays
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off. But to your point, sort of like Dante Simpson, you know, I think everybody found
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Damon Wilson to be a very affable guy. Maybe he's a bit of a mercenary, but hey, an affable
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mercenary at the very least. He's going to be a good player down, down in Miami. I can
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