Juniata Men's Basketball Show
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Breaking Down Week 1
In this week’s episode of The Juniata Men’s Basketball Show, Tom, Biz, and Coach Curley break down the first three games of the season. While the Eagles are off to an 0-3 start, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic. With a roster stacked with talented freshmen and returning players adjusting to new roles, the team is navigating the challenges of growth and chemistry. Coach Curley highlights moments of progress, from defensive strides to flashes of offensive potential, and shares his vision for long-term success.
The crew also previews the upcoming matchups against Lycoming and Scranton, discusses the benefits of facing tough competition early, and emphasizes the importance of sticking to the process. Despite a tough start, the team remains focused, motivated, and ready to make their mark.
Tune in for insights, analysis, and the inside scoop on how the Eagles are building toward a promising future!
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I'm Tom Frank. I'm Drew Beskett.
Speaker 2:I'm the head coach, greg Curley, and this is the Juniata Men's Basketball Show. Welcome listeners. I'm Tom Frank and I'm joined each and every week by Drew Beskett, aka Biz, and your Juniata head basketball coach, greg Curley. As we talk, all things Juniata Men's College Basketball. We got a lot to get into here today, fellas. Yes, a lot. But before we dive in, I owe two apologies. Not an apology, really, but first, biz, you did take me for 10 bucks on Penn State Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1:Penn State, let's go we are.
Speaker 2:Penn State looks pretty good. That was in the Hall of Fame game in Baltimore, which I don't understand. Why a Hall of Fame?
Speaker 1:game was taking place in Baltimore. Do you have?
Speaker 2:any answers for that? I mean, is there like any type of basketball hall of fame in baltimore whatsoever? The exploit of the explanation that it was for the actual hall of fame, basketball hall of fame, and that apparently they had different games all over the country showcases so we were. We were in a showcase biz oh, we showcased well, at least my team did anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, I need to give a shout out to my cousin Rich. I have another cousin who got me a suite. So we had a suite for the Penn State Virginia Tech game Didn't plan on it. We were sitting there with a bunch of Hokies and I got a phone call, or I got a text actually from Rich, and Rich said, hey, are you in the building? And Rich said, hey, are you in the building? And I said I am, and he says stand up. So I stood up and I looked behind me and Rich is in the suite behind me. So I brought all my Hokies and we jumped over the railing and we had a suite for the game.
Speaker 1:It was very nice. Did you incur the usual suite amenities?
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:Booze food and all that good stuff. Yes, it was very nice. So how many Hokies were there? There was probably a big puddle of tears after that one, there were.
Speaker 2:There wasn't a lot of people at this game, to be totally honest.
Speaker 1:I didn't see. I watched it on TV.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think a Juniata basketball game got more fans than this one, but for good reason. I mean it's much more important. It is much more important. That's probably because of the podcast. I think it has everything to do with the podcast. Then we went to the power plant afterwards to watch Tyson the Tyson-Paul fight. Did anybody else watch that? I did not.
Speaker 3:Curly no, it wasn't on my list of things this weekend it was on my list of things to do.
Speaker 2:It was a total snoozer. Though it was horrible, it was absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1:It does take you back to the days, like going to Kent's house. Remember when we were young man, boxing was huge.
Speaker 2:Well, tyson, tyson was in his. Tyson was huge. We watched all those fights too, yeah.
Speaker 1:Dude. I mean that was like appointment viewing man.
Speaker 2:So I really thought, maybe Tyson, maybe rooting for all old guys. I was hoping Tyson would just knock him out. Didn't happen, who didn't yeah?
Speaker 3:Those fast twitch muscles go somewhere when you get to almost what? Is he 60 or 55? He was 58. 58. Yeah, come on now.
Speaker 1:Hey man, I'd jump in a ring with anybody for $20 million.
Speaker 2:I would too.
Speaker 3:I would too. You think it was authentic, or they're saying it was. I think it was. He had opportunities to hit him and didn't hit him, and stuff like that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it was staged. I think he let him just go on knowing he was going to win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what we've come to these days, yeah.
Speaker 2:I did like that. It was at the Cowboys. The Cowboys it was in Dallas, whatever their football field's called Jerry World, jerry World, it was at Jerry World. Which leads me to the listener question Holy, jerry World, jerry World. Okay, it's from Rosie P and it's an interesting one. Guys, you should totally be at the Palestra again this season. She did say that.
Speaker 1:Obviously.
Speaker 2:Since you're not. If you could pick any venue to play at in the country for juniata, where would you go? Oh, any, now I'm gonna. I'm gonna add something to rosie's question. You don't necessarily have to play whomever home court that is, but you get to play on any court in the country as Juniata, where would you go? Hmm?
Speaker 3:There's a lot of options. There are a lot of options. I got to think about this. I mean, just for us, playing a rec hall would be awesome. You know the old days.
Speaker 2:That's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 3:Rec hall would be cool. Juniata did you guys remember we saw Juniata play Penn State? Did we Late 80s, when Park Hill was there? Who was the coach for Juniata at that point? So I believe Jim Zalzik was the coach and true story, that was kind of pre-shot clock or 45-second shot clock and Juniata held the ball for like the first half of the game. I guess Park Hill was going nuts. That was the last time we ever played them, but they held the ball to try to stay close.
Speaker 1:Wait, were you in your familiar position? I?
Speaker 3:vaguely remember I think we were younger. I don't remember that game, so that would be cool. I mean, you know, Fogg, Allen Cameron Indoor, any of those, I mean the real basketball arenas I I think would be great places to play. Honestly, the Plesser would probably be on the list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty cool, you've done it. The Plesser would definitely be on the list.
Speaker 2:Madison Square Garden. Yeah, that's true, the Garden, the Garden, maybe the Boston.
Speaker 1:Garden. How about the gym that they shot the final game in Hoosiers in Hinkle Fieldhouse?
Speaker 3:Where is?
Speaker 2:that it's in Indiana somewhere. Where is that?
Speaker 3:Indianapolis. It's where Butler plays their home games.
Speaker 2:Oh really.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm, Ooh that might be interesting. No, it's cool. I mean when they have a Final Four there, or I've been to Indianapolis for other reasons and have seen it.
Speaker 1:It's pretty cool, it's awesome I, it's awesome, I would say, yeah, rec Hall is good, but I think the Polestra man I mean so much history, that was cool. But yeah, madison Square Garden would be a good one.
Speaker 3:You're hitting on some of my bucket list stuff when I'm done. Whenever that is, it's hopefully a long time. That's my whole goal is to go to travel Gen 2, just travel and go to games at those places. Go to Fog Island. Go to Cayman Indoor pick places, go whatever football stadium we want to go and watch games, yeah.
Speaker 2:I was recently at.
Speaker 3:Kansas. Can I get in?
Speaker 1:on that with you. What's Kansas'?
Speaker 2:basketball court called Fog Allen Allen Fieldhouse. Is that what you're talking? Okay, I was recently there it was about two years ago and that was an unbelievable place to watch a basketball game.
Speaker 3:There you go, Biz.
Speaker 1:There's the pack man. That's the deal we all go. Yeah, If you can get tickets to Duke Carolina at Cameron, I'm in.
Speaker 3:Jen will be in charge of the tailgating and we'll go to the game I'm down with that Hot damn.
Speaker 2:Maybe the podcast this is 10, 15, 20 years from now turns into a podcast about showing up at a different basketball arena Dude.
Speaker 1:I think that'd be awesome. Actually, that's pretty good. You know what? We can take a page out of the Kelsey's playbook. We can call it her. No wait, who does that? Oh no, Big Ben does football and we can do basketball. I like it. All. Right, boys, let's table this trademark?
Speaker 2:All right. Table it for now. All All right. Table it for now, all right, all right. We got to get into a recap of last week, trying to push it off. I know we had a tough one. We're off to an 0-3 start with losses versus Alvernia 89-71. Tough team. Tough team. Penn State Altoona 78-64. And then last night, lebanon Valley 66-47. So where do you want to start, coach? Do you want me to give you my high-level observations to get us off and rolling?
Speaker 3:Sure, that's why we jumped on this to get some listen to you guys, get the insight from you guys.
Speaker 1:I got three observations Charlie looks for our keys every week, man. He puts them into his game plan.
Speaker 2:I got some positivity as well, though I got some positivity. We'll start there Number as well. Though I got some positivity, we'll start there number one. It looked like a good crowd for alvernia from what I could tell now. We, we watched it, the uh, it wasn't. Was it flow sports? Yeah, flow sports. Was that game? Uh, no, live eagle, which was disappointing, but we did. The cheerleaders were there and we didn't have the glove. Dude, we didn't have the glove. I guess that's my other apology. We found out it is called a falcon near a glove, sorry.
Speaker 3:Kirsch For the listeners. Before we got on, I told Biz that he needs to read some books and do his research before I get.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have Siri read them. I was going to say that those have to be all my books.
Speaker 3:I'm not educated and I thought I knew Well wait a second.
Speaker 1:You're a history major, so that doesn't make sense?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that doesn't count.
Speaker 1:That makes total sense that you know what a Falconeer is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was what? Were you? A business major of some finance?
Speaker 1:something like that yeah.
Speaker 2:That didn't apply. If they're money-making, I don't care.
Speaker 3:But good atmosphere at the first game, can we had to? You know we've got to keep looking for opportunities to do that. It gets people engaged and our campus if you're playing on Friday or Saturday night, you know it's a true residential campus. You know this isn't a commuter place, it's what makes the place special and over 45% of our students are athletes. So, yeah, a lot of them just come and support each other. I mean, we won the landmark championship in volleyball again last night and had a good crowd.
Speaker 3:You know our soccer games, our men's soccer team shout out to those guys. They won the regular season, went undefeated through the other season. They unfortunately lost in the conference championship at home 2-1, but they had great crowds, kind of standing room only. So it's a pretty cool and special thing about Juniata and I always tell you I mean I think this is a community where you're going to get them to come to a few games and what you do with it. You know if we do a good job, put a good product out there, they'll keep coming back.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it was a good start and honestly, even yesterday there weren't a ton of people here but for a one o'clock game when there was a football game, there was a soccer, there was another soccer event, there was a swim meet, so there was a ton of stuff going on. It really was pretty well attended. We always get terrific family support, parent and friend support and that was there again yesterday. So you know, obviously we've had much better crowds, but for an early start on a football Saturday and those kind of things, it really wasn't bad.
Speaker 2:Can I touch on the volleyball for just a second, because I did challenge the rest of the Landmark Conference to not let Juniata win their what? 42nd straight conference title.
Speaker 1:Dude, I think you challenged them just to like win a set.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they still haven't done it. It's unbelievable to me.
Speaker 1:So shout out to the volleyball team. That is unbelievable, Tom. I mean, that's like it's ridiculous. I don't even know what to say to that.
Speaker 2:If I'm another team in this conference like, come on, you should be able to knock them off once in 40 years. Not yet. You should be able to knock them off once in 40 years, not yet, not yet. All right. Number two thing your freshmen log some serious time, some serious time, including starters Jalen Bigler, which we need to get to know, this guy.
Speaker 3:And Aiden Hurley. What is it Bilger?
Speaker 2:Bilger Bilger. We don't even know him yet by the time you're a senior Bilger, he'll get it. Yeah, I'll get it by then and then Aiden Hurley. So some serious time by your freshman, any relation to Danny. Hurley.
Speaker 3:Jordan Schiffler started yesterday. So we started three freshmen yesterday and really our bench is pretty much all freshmen. I think yesterday Tyler Laptean was a little limited and so he was limited and we really, out of the top 10 guys played eight freshmen. Wow, eight freshmen and a sophomore. So that's really. You don't have to say much more about where we are other than that and this is the realities of going through that. Everything is brand new.
Speaker 3:I thought yesterday we were actually a little tired to start the game and part of that is just having so many young guys, the amount of preparation we have to go in and teaching them the importance of preparation, which they don't really understand, and sometimes those choices right now. We probably would have handled going into that game a little different than others, but we need to do that now. They need to understand kind of the grind, the preparation can't skip steps, and then they need to be able to go in and play. You know, not feeling great, I mean a lot of times some of the environments. You know it's funny. We go to high school practices or we go to situations day before games and it's like a couple of shooting drills and run around a little bit. Yeah, you know let's go tomorrow and that is not where we are right now and we're a little. You know, we're about two months in. Guys have been learning how to play harder than they've ever played in their life and that is taxing. And practice harder the biggest thing is the practicing harder. There's a mental fatigue that can come with that. I think we've actually done a pretty good job of avoiding that. But there's also a physical fatigue.
Speaker 3:I thought to start the game yesterday we were physically tired but, like I said, a little bit of that was by design. I mean, we just needed to do some things to be ready to play. And we talk a lot about our championship process and the first one is prepare to championship level and the second is compete to be able to execute. And we just really thought we had to double down on the preparation and get guys to understand. And the good news is the things we prepared for we went out and executed at the highest level we have so far. I actually think if we took kind of our competitive mindset, our overall execution, thought we were a lot more connected on both ends the way we approached yesterday's game, if we took it into the previous two games with some of the things that hurt us in those games. We'd probably come away with a different result or have a much better chance of winning those games. So, despite what people see, I think there was a lot of progress.
Speaker 3:Bottom line is we didn't put the ball in the basket yesterday at all. I mean you can't shoot the way we have. But if you guys remember, we've been through this. The difference is it's just eight freshmen, a sophomore you know Mason's out there as the kind of lone senior with a lot of experience. It's a different learning curve without kind of the back, the foundation, to get you through those tough moments, and so it's just going to be the way it looks.
Speaker 3:We talk a lot about defining our own success right now and making sure we're making progress within how we define those parameters. And you know we, we believe we, we believe in the guys we have, we believe there's ability and figuring it out. But even right now you know guys are just not sure where their shots come or who. You know what roles there are. But it's taken us a while to kind of settle in and get a starting lineup and get some guys are going to play and until you can get there and get some chemistry and build some time and cohesion. It's very, very, very difficult and all our stuff I said is chemistry and build some time and cohesion. It's very, very, very difficult and all our stuff I said is really built on playing together, understanding yourselves, making decisions, and so in these moments it's not always the best and we continue to. You know, look forward to kind of the long-term gains and what it does get us, which the sum is greater than parts that you guys saw, you know, the last couple years with those groups. So it's all part of the process. It doesn't make it easier. Matter of fact, about four minutes left yesterday when it looked like, you know, we made some pushes and some runs. You know we didn't score the first eight minutes of the game. Outside of that, the game was basically even. They're a very veteran. They're a veteran-laden team. Their post guy was averaging 28 points a game. Tim Inchenko, ryan Harder is an exceptional good player. They're averaging 85 a game. They have kind of been through the same cycle as us.
Speaker 3:So Lebanon Valley was all seniors and juniors and they came through as freshmen together and they struggled and I actually talked to Coach McAllister afterwards that I, you know part of it. Watching tape and seeing how his team has developed was a reminder on where our team can get, and he's been there 30 years. He's one of the all-time great Division III coaches. He's had national players of the year. They've gone all over the place. He's won a million games. So I mean they executed, they ran. They're the best blend of talent and execution and discipline that we've played and we're going to see more of those kind of teams.
Speaker 3:So I thought it was a really good experience. You know. That said, you know, we had basically four freshman interior guys that did a really good job guarding the interior, guarding the post. It was something we really struggled with and to be able to see us do that against as good a player in the region as there is, those things are things that I'm paying attention to and trying to stay patient on where we're trying to get.
Speaker 3:But the realities are, you know people would show up and are just scoreboard watching and expect to see this and it's as simple as we miss shots or made shots. That's not really what it is. Maybe as coaches we make it bigger than it is, but we can't get wrapped up into that. We need to worry about how we're playing, what we're doing and executing, how we're improving and what we're trying to do and keep going, because, you know, the hill doesn't get any less steep as we go here. It gets steeper um. We have.
Speaker 3:I've just, from the very beginning, talked about the challenge of our schedule. I am way less concerned about um the ability and future of our team, as I am um the challenge of the schedule, given our current moment right, and that is like we said, that's a little bit out of our control. A lot of it is just who we owed games to, based on where we were last year and we came through that schedule very well last year and everyone is up. And so Lev Val goes from where last year flipped from. Last year we were the veteran team playing them. This year they're the veteran team playing us.
Speaker 3:That was exact same situation when we played Altoona. You know they had more way, more experienced guys and some talented freshmen. We were super inexperienced. That game was the first time any of our young guys have seen zone in a college setting period, and so there's just things we've never seen. This was the best post player they've seen.
Speaker 3:They're set-oriented, they're set oriented. So they run a lot of sets and our guys aren't used to teams that can really execute sets. I mean it's like they can know how to get to an option that you can't see. So spending the time to, you know, figure out how to guard those things, how to work against those things, it's just a lot of it's a time drain right now, but you have to go through those things to build on. So as you go in your career, you remember oh, they do this, this is how I do that and this is how you build kind of this is how you improve and this is why I order guys. This is what experience teaches and we're trying to blend that with improving. And I thought they were probably the best team defense we played by far. So they were connected and knew where to be and knew how to play together. I actually thought we executed.
Speaker 2:Let's go through these games. Let's go through these games. You're hitting a lot of different things, but my third thing I wanted to bring up but you already brought it up was I mean the field goal percentage was low across all three games, but that can only improve.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean game one was relatively okay, the last two games not great. You know, we got to make more perimeter shots. Part of it is we have to get perimeter shots for the right guys in the right moments and this is. You know, some of our guys are still trying to figure that out. I did not think in the Altoona game our shot selection was great and we didn't share the ball. We didn't make each other better. I thought we try, and it's all coming out of wanting to win, guys trying to do more than they needed.
Speaker 3:Guys are trying to make their impact and this always happens. And again, it's part of the growth of establishing roles. I mean, we don't know roles, right. Who's supposed to do what? Two weeks ago we didn't know a starting lineup, right. So now you're trying to figure out you know who's going to provide perimeter scoring, who's kind of do we go to in this situation? Who can be reliable there? And so it's just part of the process.
Speaker 3:And again, if we were a little more set oriented and we ran it to X, y or Z.
Speaker 3:And again, if we were a little more set oriented and we ran it to X, y or Z, but probably the freedom we give guys and the decisions they have to make right now is a lot, because they're trying to figure themselves out. And then the transition from, you know, moving away from this is what I've always gone to, or where I go, and figuring out how to fit that into what you're doing with a new system and new guys proves to be a challenge. So we have guys just trying to make some plays that aren't really there and not understanding because that's what they've always kind of done instead of and that's just the process. So actually it's just a lot of film. We're spending a lot of time. I have all eight of the freshmen that played yesterday will be in to watch film with me today or tomorrow. We've been doing that repeatedly and it's just that's the process right now. It's prepare, prepare, compete, watch film, repeat, you know, and it's just doing that as many times as we can.
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Speaker 3:Yeah, no, those guys, I mean we're. I mean I think if you're seeing, we're getting contributions across the board. That's the other thing. That's going to be a little bit different. I mean we're going to have to score with balanced scoring. I mean, let's call it what it is.
Speaker 3:The last couple of years, if things were tough, we knew we were going to get 20 from somebody and Chase took a lot of pressure off guys and a lot of pressure off guys and a lot of the things we're dealing with now were there last year and never kind of got cleaned up because they sort of didn't have to. These guys are there's a little more pressure on them to all know what they're doing and all know how to play together because they need each other at a higher level. But when you've played with each other for two weeks, when you're trying to get your own footing, but when you've played with each other for two weeks, when you're trying to get your own footing, I've always said, like there's guys at stages, you know what you need is guys that take ownership for the winning of how the team wins, you know, that are more concerned about who's taking responsibility that we win and how we play to win, but, depending on where you are in your career, that's easier said than done. I've always said there's certain guys that, like, that's not fair to ask them right now. They're just trying to, you know, be, you know, keep their head above water themselves or be successful, and so it's a real challenge to these young guys to be in this situation right now. I'd also say, you know, Tyler Laptina and Mason have as big a transition as anybody, if not the biggest, anybody if not the biggest, oh for sure. And you've seen them sort of have to work through that, uh, where they're probably trying and do more than they need at times because they're just, they're awesome guys and they want to help win and they have confidence in their ability, Uh, and, you know, trying to get traction with that, um and stay at it, Um, so I think there's a settling in period.
Speaker 3:Again, the problem is, um, you know it's these are not calm waters or seas that we're trying to settle in, so can you actually settle in? I mean, it's rough seas and, um, that's going to be our, our, our big challenge. You know, like you're here in division one, they always schedule, get right games. You know, if you're struggling, go play somebody that it's going to allow you to calm down and see success and see you do things well. That's going to be a challenge for us right now because it's just not those opportunities.
Speaker 3:I mean, here we are, we've only played three games and because of the expansion of the league, we have to turn around and play two league games this week on the road and I mean I'll be crazy. I don't think any coach thinks they're ready for this. But are we ready to play league games and understand that in the short term? No. Now here's the long term benefits. This is as good an on the job training as you can get. We find out way more way sooner. These guys will improve in leaps and bounds if we can keep our heads. These guys will improve in leaps and bounds if we can keep our heads, if we don't react to a record, if we don't react to kind of the world we're in.
Speaker 3:If that's asked, hey, how's the team? And then you have to say, oh, we're whatever and where people go with that. So we just need to believe in ourselves and kind of stay above all that stuff and just control what we can and stay focused and stay together. I think our guys have done a great job of that so far, but I'm just saying we haven't even really started yet. This is the tip of the iceberg in terms of challenge, but we need to see those as a chance for us to get there as soon as we can.
Speaker 3:The great thing about our schedule that I keep saying is like last night's game, yesterday's game, is the real, it's the truth. This is like the level we need to play to win in our league is exactly what we need to do win yesterday and so getting honest answers all the time really does help you improve. You can just stay in there and stay with it. But sometimes improvement it's not like there are these big, huge leaps. It's very small and sometimes unseen, and you just have to stay at it and keep with it.
Speaker 2:Let me ask you a question about Lebanon Valley. So you brought in John Schiffler, who's a Jordan.
Speaker 1:Jordan he's a 6'5", 6'5 guard.
Speaker 2:He's a forward. He's like a forward, more of a forward. What made you put him in versus Ty, who is probably a guy who does put up some points for you? Oh, it's just position.
Speaker 3:Just position right. Yeah, jordan's a four-man, ty's a three. I think we do think Jordan will provide us a lot of scoring as we go forward. He can shoot it, he's scoring, but he's one of the ones that I thought he looked tired yesterday. I think the bigger thing is he's just got to figure out where his shots come. Literally, I'm yelling from the bench yesterday, shoot it to a couple guys and we turn around and shoot it.
Speaker 3:This is kind of where we are, the decision making, and I think that's going to be a process. There's things that we can do here. We might do some things as we move forward to see where we are. But that's part of this too is this is a feeling out process for us. I feel like we're getting closer to kind of having an idea of what our rotation is and who it's going to be, and that's going to then help us hopefully figure out some ways to move forward. But we also want to be careful that we're not overreacting to the short term for the development for the long term.
Speaker 3:I honestly came out of the game yesterday and told the guys that I see a really good team here in the future. When that is, I don't know, but you can see it, I don't think we were physically overmatched. I don't think we were skill-wise overmatched, and that's a very mature, very physical team. We played yesterday with a lot of talent, even at the last timeout. I just said, you know, guys are starting to hang their heads a little bit. You know, I did not think we finished the first two games well. We kind of collapsed late when we didn't think it was going well, and so those are the things that I'm pushing, like that's not how we do things. You've got to compete the whole time. You've got to stay connected. I didn't think we played great as a team in those two games at all than we did yesterday.
Speaker 3:So the behind-the-scenes stuff when we talk about playing to win, there's three things. We talk about team toughness and execution, and I talked about the focus on the process and our any five minutes. Those are things we're focused on, which are our goals. You have to have those things in place to ever be able to execute and get where you are. So this is really more about aligning things with what we need in terms of our approach every day, what we're about, how we play, that they need each other, and they've responded to that for sure, and so I think we're finally honestly, if I had to say anything, this is probably a starting point to get going. Now are we behind? Yeah, because we're three games in the season.
Speaker 3:Veteran teams have already known all these things. They're ready to go win league games. They're trying to go and we're now at least we know continuity-wise kind of who and now we can figure out a little bit more how. And so we're trying to be like we said, incredibly urgent to get it done now. But have some patience behind it and know and believe me, this isn't we don't, you know part of what got it.
Speaker 3:The Lev Val situation is guys needed to understand and practice how we need to prepare, the urgency we need to put with stuff. You know the focus they need to have all the time and we will not skip that. They need to understand that. And then, listen, we're not going in any game. The thing that we have to really like, we prepare and we play and we expect to win and getting that across to the guys. And I mean it's easier for me. God's done this a long time.
Speaker 3:I'm not overreacting to the record either way. It's hard, believe me, believe me, but you can't worry about it. You control what you can Believe in the guys that are in the locker room. There are guys we're the ones that brought them here we're excited about what we can do and where we go, and then, you know, the flip side of that is our veteran guys. As I said, they have a big adjustment here too, to figure all this stuff out. And how do I lead this group that, right now, can't remember the play we just ran, right? I mean, we're in a big possession in the Altoona game and we try to run something that we've worked on enough, believe me, and guys couldn't remember it, you know, and that's just what you deal with. Well, that takes time Instead of two or three guys, you've got eight guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll tell you what though. I was looking at the roster during the Lebanon Valley game, you brought in some big dudes. Your freshman class is tall.
Speaker 3:I like it. They got to get some beef on them, but we got some. Actually, I mean the physicality piece, which has always been a challenge for us, for younger guys. They are not struggling with that, and that is that's what I'm talking about. Yesterday, that's, that's a pretty big deal. Now, a couple like Aiden Hurley and Jane Bilger I mean they need a weight room, right, but their length and athleticism is there. But I'll tell you what they need the physicality.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got to get them in the garbage.
Speaker 2:Can fries Get them down? That's right, we'll get them down, boys. We'll get them down for that. All right, you got to tell me a little bit about, because I do think and the announcers kept saying it this Tim. How do you say his name? Evan Timchenko, yeah.
Speaker 3:They constantly kept guys you play all year. I mean, where do you stack them up against guys you'll face later in the year? I mean he's like more of a true post player and he's just phenomenal in the post and, honestly, Coach McAllister is probably one of the best in the country. He's made many All-Americans in the post at getting the ball inside a million different ways and they just are really, really, and their approach there is they pick two to three guys. They get 20 shots each a game and that's how they build their team. He's always done that.
Speaker 3:Ours is a little bit more five guys a threat. We say we want balance scoring and playing off that. Now, obviously, if we have a chase, it just takes care of itself. But I actually I even said to nick yesterday. I said, man, I wonder how many chase would have scored in that system, because he would have got the ball every time A lot more. Yeah, I mean, Chase was getting 20 shots a game too. So I don't think. But it's very much controlled and this is the way it's going to be. So it's just different with their strengths and weaknesses to it, but in terms of back-to-the-basket interior-presence and scorer he's as good as it gets. I do think they'll be more well-rounded in terms of like. Will McLaughlin will play Saturday at Scranton. He's probably two inches taller and he can shoot the three he can drive. He's a three-level scorer, so it's way different. He stresses you in a lot of different ways. They can move around, do different things, but in terms of a post-old school interior presence he's as good as it gets. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, let's dive into next week. We got some interesting games coming up. But first Dive in head. First the glum. He only predicted the Alvernia game. You took the points and the over, so you're sitting at 2-0. Well done, I took Juniata, but I did go with the over, so I sit at 1-1.
Speaker 2:You're 1-up early game. This week we have Lycoming in Williamsport, which I didn't realize Lycoming was in Williamsport until I just did my research. Wow me, either. They come into Wednesday's game at 0-4, with losses to Franciscan, buffalo State, cuy, cuyuca, cuyuca, yeah, and Haverford, which we learned about last year. So for the record, I've heard of two out of those four schools. They're 0-4, though. Somebody's got to win here. Somebody's got to win here. What do we know about Lycoming? Are they young?
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're young too. We're the two youngest teams in the league, so I mean it's going to be one of those. They score. You know they're built on scoring. If you see that, hayden Pardo, who's a sophomore, is probably their top guy. He's a 6'7", 6'8" four-man, really shoots it Super talented scoring. I think it's Isaiah Valentine's another guy can really score. So they have a lot of individual offense and scoring, you know. So it's gonna, yeah, it's gonna be a challenge. You know they're more experienced because of those guys I mentioned all played a lot last year. So they're they're probably it's really hard not to be ahead of us. It's almost impossible not to be ahead of us in experience. Yeah, so I haven't really gotten into their film much. I'll do that today, tonight and be ready. But yeah, they are kind of an open spread game and attack. But they're going to be super good offensively.
Speaker 3:They're continually improving their head coach, mark Leinbaugh, very, very good coach. He actually played at Colgate when Kev was there. Kev helped recruit him there so he played for Kev. Yeah, so Mark Leinbaugh, who's an awesome guy he was the Pennsylvania State Player of the Year senior year at Anvil-Cleona and won the state championship 4A and he went to Colgate and is one of their all-time great players, and then he played over in Germany for a little bit and then he actually was coaching at Rice with Mike Rose and those guys for a little bit and just wanted to be the D3 guy, spent a little time as an assistant at Dickinson, who we scrimmage every year, and now he's the head coach at Lycoming Interesting path and he's a really good coach and better guy.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I mean they're going to keep playing, keep fighting. They've got great guys. So it's going to be. I mean, people are going to get sick of saying it, but they're all tough. So, especially on the road home opener, it's their home opener, I believe. So I think they've been on the road home opener. It's their home opener, uh, I believe so. I think they've been on, they've had four on the road.
Speaker 2:I didn't check that, but I'm pretty sure yeah, interesting.
Speaker 3:So, uh, they might have played one at home. I think one was at home, but the league opener I guess I should say league opener there you go.
Speaker 2:So it's a league opener for both of you yeah, and they've been going through the same.
Speaker 3:I think that they've had from just falling a couple of box scores. It looks like they've had some subtle lineup changes. I think they're probably trying to figure out their point guard position a little bit. Kid last night had a good game and so like those little small adjustments can mean a ton, and if they are farther in that than we are. But yeah, I mean for us we just need to continue to get better and go play well. We cannot get too wrapped up into this, that or the other thing. We're playing every game to win, so it shouldn't really be any different. It shouldn't be any different for us, and we've got to watch and react to where our record is and just play Biz, and I can get wrapped up in that, though I've got a suggestion.
Speaker 2:What's that? Would you ever consider this? So they have a point guard. They don't have a real true point guard yet you got a lot of young guys. Do we go full court, man-to-man entire?
Speaker 3:game cause havoc. Well, we do that pretty much all the time. I mean, we've been doing that pretty much all the time.
Speaker 2:I think we should step it up even further. You mean trap, yes, trap, press, yeah, trap the hell out of them.
Speaker 1:Wait, who was that? What was that? Arkansas? 40 minutes of hell. Nolan Richardson.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we got fresh legs, we got young guys. Just let them be athletic, let them trap, you can go 10 deep. Ooh, I think we might have just look at his brain going, there you go.
Speaker 1:Coach. Hey, Coach, you're welcome yeah.
Speaker 3:Hey, where the season is right now, there's going to be a lot of opinions, a lot of ideas that would get it off. We're just throwing them out there. We're just throwing them out there. It's our job. Again, those are the things we've got to. But yes, we work on that stuff and we have ideas.
Speaker 2:And we've got tall freshmen too. Ooh, we got arms everywhere. I think this could lead to 100 points.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but size is relative. We're not any bigger than them, so we're not bigger than anybody in the league. We're not smaller. We're not less athletic, we're not more athletic. So you got to be careful.
Speaker 3:And again, we're trying to win a championship and that's what I talk to guys about. We are really trying to not react to winning in the moment. We want to win a championship and so our whole thing, our whole thing, is building a championship level team and staying focused on what we think that needs to look like with this group of guys. Now that'll adjust and change. Now, within that, you know, champions play every game to win and are going to win the game, and I told you, part of the Lebanon Valley drag was we needed to understand what time. You know you got to make sure it makes consistent sense with what we're trying to do. But yeah, that stuff's all on the table and we have guys that are capable of doing that stuff. So I wouldn't rule any of it out. Don't rule it out, but we will, we will. We're really going to be more focused on what we think moves our team forward.
Speaker 2:And you know when we're really good, they react to us. It's not the other way around well, true, they have to beat us. So let me ask you this is not really good right now. Let me ask this as a coach, you keep saying like we're building to win down the road, and I get that you're also trying to win now. Which do you put ahead if you have to, though, if you have a chance to win now for a specific reason that might not help you grow in the future? Which?
Speaker 3:do you do? I told you, I think this weekend we made the choice that we're going to do things right and we're going to teach these guys how things need to be done, and part of it is they need to know this is how things are going to be done and how we're going to do stuff. And are we up to this? And we're not. But listen, I'm not. I mean, part of it is psychology, the team where we are. What are we mentally?
Speaker 3:Um, there's a time and a place where and you know it like hey, we gotta, we have to get a win here. We have to do this, um, uh, I'm trying not to overreact to that. I'm hoping this is where some experience and being through things, um, comes into play. Um, I have many missteps and I think we've had times where we've probably tried to do too much, in times that, in the end, when you get through the season and evaluate, you think, man, I wish I would have just stuck to our guns there. We could have been better in the end, you know, and we had those moments. But you know, hey, you got to win. I mean, you got to win.
Speaker 3:So this isn't a vacuum either. There's other people outside that make judgments based on a record and those things. But how am I going to react to that? I know we're, and we got to try to keep our guys from doing that, yeah, and try to keep our guys believing in themselves and the direction we're going.
Speaker 3:And if we're reacting to the game, I think that's where guys would live and really would be worried about our record. That way, if we're talking about we're a championship program and this is part of the process and let's take all these lessons once I'm not lying, this is where I am a little bit we're going to go through this once, once, and it's the old Dan Hurley line and people better get us now, they better get us right now. And I mean that they better get us right now. I like that Chills and we told, I told the guys after the game that yesterday, people, everyone, better get us right now because we're not doing this again. So, yeah, if you had to ask me, we're not skipping steps because we're not doing this again. We're going to go through it, we're going to stare it down, we're going to stay together, uh, and we're going to be better because of it I like it.
Speaker 1:Hey, man, I'm going, I'm going to go to the driving range after this and hit some balls, man, that's what it motivated you to do driving swing harder. That's all I got left no, man I hit.
Speaker 3:Tom Frank used to say hit the swing harder than you can toss my buddy, Rob.
Speaker 1:He's got the greatest motto Swing hard and take chances.
Speaker 2:I agree with that guy 100%.
Speaker 1:I know, all right, I'm motivated here.
Speaker 2:Here's what the glum says. I want your opinion. Now he's putting this as a pick-em for Lycoming with an over and under at 135.5.
Speaker 1:I mean win number one, Win number one for the Juniata Eagles.
Speaker 2:Going over or under.
Speaker 1:Without a doubt.
Speaker 2:This is a tough one. He put this. It's a good spot.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm going to go over.
Speaker 2:All right, so we're going the same. I'm going Juniata and go over. All right, so we're going the same. I'm going Juniata and the over First one All right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's get them. I like it. I think, yeah, I'm motivated, I think the team's motivated. Hey you know it's a bunch of freshmen man. What are you going?
Speaker 2:to do. You've got to teach Freshmen, but then we got, oh, we got. I think Mason's going to. I agree with you, coach, I hadn't thought about that. They've got to figure this out.
Speaker 1:I hadn't either. They're playing with a whole new squad here.
Speaker 2:It's got to be a bit of a learning curve for them as well.
Speaker 3:Well, listen, role changes are the most difficult thing. Yeah, having the same role over four years is easier. The biggest challenge to guys is when role change occurs and it's subtle. It's more than you think, but it's a big deal, and experience in a role is a huge deal. And so this is, you know, when those guys are part of the continuity of the group we had last year is what those guys were used to and leaned on right. And now you've got other guys that don't know what they're doing and where they're going and, honestly, those guys probably lean too much on some things and it's exposed in them things they have to improve on and should need to be doing better moving forward, because it's you know a team really operates where it covers each other's mistakes and makes each other better right, and so when all that's gone, now you're just kind of raw and revealed for what you are or not. It's just like all of us right, we're all better in our family or whatever we're doing. If we're just left to ourselves, it's probably never.
Speaker 3:There's a lot of wonderful and great things, and that's the other side. There's a chance to find things and ways to contribute. You couldn't before but things, and that's the other side. There's a chance to find things and ways to contribute. You couldn't before, but that is a process and now we got to do it urgently. We got to get it figured out. We've got to do these things, but I'm telling you, we're not here to skip steps, we're here to win big, and so we need to have the foresight and patience to do that while getting across that. It is every day and I can assure you our guys are very aware of the urgency of the moment.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, All right next.
Speaker 2:And then on Saturday we got Scranton. At Scranton they sit at 2-1 with Winsverse. I never even heard of these schools Medgar, evers and Marywood and a loss last night at Stevens. I've heard of Stevens. They play Wilks on Wednesday so they'll come in after. This will be their second conference game.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Now, if you remember, they went through a really tough season last year. They had like nine guys out. They missed four or five of their starters for the entire season. So they, but, like I said, they went through that as a group. Yeah, but, like I said, they went through that as a group. When they get all those guys back, it's just psychologically and their talent level. Will McLaughlin was out all last year. He would have been probably one of the two or three favorites for our player of the year in our league.
Speaker 2:And he started out hot. He's leading the team in scoring and rebounding. He's a big dude.
Speaker 3:He's an all-American caliber guy. He's as good. If you ask me about tim, like, once we see scranton and mclaughlin, we will have seen what as good as it gets looks like. And dwayne jones is good for altona and I've heard you know people have talked, but but will mclaughlin is a is a different level player in terms of um, how approaches and plays things. Again, I mean they have pedigree there. They expect to win. We know a couple of their guys. You know their whole thing is they were down last year all the illness and then it was like we're winning this thing again. You know, like they just have that thing, like we're back, which is what we're talking about here.
Speaker 3:We're in this very much similar thing, like we can't overreact to this, like we're going to be back and we'll be where we need to be and sooner than later, if we carry that attitude, we'll get there. But it's our hall of fame game or day. It's going to be interesting. And listen, a lot of things stack against you, but there's good reasons for things, as the schedule always sort of lays out the way it needs to. I think it's. I'm looking at this two road games right away in the league. Good, let's get. I mean, I keep saying let's get all this stuff out of the way. Let's go through this once and understand, tear off the bandaid Exactly right, like so and wade into this thing together, and it's either going to bring us together we're going to believe more in what we each other or we won't. Um, and the guys that are that withstand this and go through it will be calloused and tough and ready to go, and that's where. That's where real success is born and bred.
Speaker 2:So hall of fame game that means? Is this about their new guys going into the hall of fame, or is it just a celebration of all the people in their in their hall of fame?
Speaker 3:It's like when they do their hall of fame induction so for their overall athletics, but it's always brings an injury.
Speaker 1:How many Danzigs are going into that Right?
Speaker 3:There's always one Danzig a year? Right, actually, it probably is Ross, I bet you it's probably been.
Speaker 1:Actually, I think I work with one of the Danzigs.
Speaker 2:You might Give them a shove in the hallway this week. They're in finance. Let them know who you are. They're down in.
Speaker 1:Scranton do. There's a Danzig in.
Speaker 3:yeah, remember they have no football there and this is one of the things people need to understand we face, I mean, they're one of the top ten winningest Division III programs in the country. They've won. They have a history that's second to none. So, yes, pretty much every Hall of Fame weekend there are, it is a call to arms of the men's or women's basketball team and you know it's their big, big thing. And that's the other thing of understanding when we added Wilks and Lycoming to the league and how strong their basketball history and programs are Like we.
Speaker 3:It's a little bit like the boost to the Big Ten Like this is. We're playing a different game and the quality of every opponent is a different thing and so you know, hopefully rising tides raise all ships right and we're playing at that level, we're trying to get to that level. So it's going to be a huge challenge. Obviously they're coming after us and anyone in their way because of what they went through last year and early in the league season and they're they're guys that they understand league play, they understand what they're trying to do and do our guys know the difference between those games and the familiarity and stuff. I'm not going to lie, we're going to get in some of these games and the opponents might know what we're doing better than we do, because they've played us for four years and some of their coaches have played against us and understand what we do. We might have to stop and tell guys where to go. Might have to change it up.
Speaker 1:Better, get you now Better get us now, Tom.
Speaker 2:So does Juniata have a specific weekend for a Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it moves around. It's not always attached to basketball, yeah, okay. So sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. I think they try to move it between the three seasons. A lot of times it was always more in the spring, just because travel, uh it's hard. You can't count on the winter months, uh, to get people to campus. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1:That's a good point well, we need to make sure that we mc one of the hall of fame ceremonies.
Speaker 2:I kind of went well, let's wait a couple years, because we want to have one of the our guys getting in chase will get in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if when chase gets in.
Speaker 2:I feel like he might invite us to do the introduction speech chase if you're listening. I think that would be an excellent idea dude the.
Speaker 1:I mean we would like the grammys, the emmys is it, is it?
Speaker 2:how many years do you have to wait before you get inducted in?
Speaker 3:is there there any?
Speaker 2:rules Do you know the rules?
Speaker 3:I think it's five years. I better get on top of that. I think I'm going to get on top of that. We should have some guys coming up. We have a bunch of guys coming up.
Speaker 2:We want to do Chase's speech. Well, it'll be a big deal.
Speaker 1:It'll be the very best We'll get to see it, it'll All right.
Speaker 2:Biz the Glum has Scranton at minus seven and a half, with the over and under at 140 and a half. I always write mine down in advance, just so I don't get swayed by your opinion.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, as light has shined on recent developments of the Hall of Fame weekend, oh yeah's, swayed me. I've never. I've never done this before, but I'm going to hope I'm wrong and take Scranton and the under. Ah, biz.
Speaker 2:We're exactly the same. Right now I'm like do I? Do I change mine Cause I got him early in the season? I'm not going to make a run at you this week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't going to make a run at you this week? Yeah, don't hey hold, just like Coach Curley man, hold the pattern, that's right.
Speaker 2:So I hope we're both wrong. I hope I'm wrong on both of these, but I got to take Scranton in the other.
Speaker 1:Yes, well, no, you want to be right because we took Juniata at the end of the like homing. You want to be right on that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that, that's a good point. That's a good point.
Speaker 1:All right, Coach. So now to get these freshmen to kind of see where they're at and what can be. I mean, when you have big classes coming in, do you show them? Hey, this is where these guys started, Like I'm sure Chase's group probably was a rough start. Yeah, it was Do you show them like, hey, here's how these freshman classes started and here's where they ended up. I mean, have you done that? Does that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, we haven't. Actually. It's one of the things you read my mind a little bit. We'll probably get into a little bit of that. We've talked openly about it. Sometimes you need a little context for any kind of lesson to stick. A lot of times you need it. I think people think they know, oh, I need it. You know. I think people think they know, oh, I need it. You know. I think you know it's the old overreaction Monday for the NFL and you know they have that every Monday. Everybody overreacts, I think, except when you're talking about it, Tom, but anyway continue.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so yeah, I mean, a lot of times it's just context and seeing improvement and it's probably more the art of coaching than the science, right, like waiting to see what, what is the right time to to do that stuff, and motivation and keep them aligned, um, so, but yeah, we talked about it, I'll talk. I mean, I've got guys coming in here today, one-on-one, uh, spend more time with them and just try to see where they are too and talk about what we need from them. I I think it's hard not to see the progress internally. I get it, if you just come to the game and we can't score the first eight minutes, that the sky is falling and we stink and what are we doing. But we're looking at the quality of the shot and how well did we screen and do we set up this and do we make a right decision? And, honestly, our big problem yesterday is we missed a lot of rhythm shots that we should have taken and if the right guys took them and they make them, it opens up the rest of the game for everybody else and there's subtle things that really matter. But figuring out our shot profile who should get shots and how and where is important.
Speaker 3:But I go back to somebody said well, you didn't look that prepared for the zone at Altoona. I'm like we were very prepared for the zone. We had just never seen one, so, let alone with, you know, five, four, they had four, six, six guys on the floor at one time. So what do you simulate? Um, and it's not. I mean like that's eventually that it it was cool, was that didn't bother our guys, it didn't. You know, we've had teams that's bothered. Um, when I'm watching tape, a lot of this is very controllable. It's our execution. What are we doing and how are we doing? And you know, the zone stuff is relatively simple within what we do.
Speaker 3:The real key, though, is you have to read the defense and play together. You have to deliver the ball, move the ball to the right places, and so that revealed that we weren't really where we needed to be as a team in terms of decision-making, moving the ball, finding each other, our motion stuff. Sometimes it can be commotion we're just running around and a shot winds up happening, and then I thought yesterday it just revealed we need to be able to execute and understand who, how, where things come, where shots come, and that's two things One, recognizing it within what we're doing. And then the unique skill sets of our new group, like who needs to be getting these shots, more based on who you're playing with, not what you think you are. It's really the strength of this unit. And then the adjustment from this is how I play versus how we play. This is where we get shots versus where you get shots, which can be subtle for some and bigger for others. But it goes back to you can't run 25 offenses for each guy, so they feel great and get theirs. And if you did, I mean in some places you can and some fit easier.
Speaker 3:But part of what we had to go through is to figure out who those guys are going to be for us, and we are still working through that. And some of those guys it's probably news to them oh, I'm supposed to be doing that. And some of those guys it's probably news to them oh, I'm supposed to be doing that. Yeah, we probably need that from you now. And other guys we're hoping that's them in some roles and it's a little harder to hear. Well, you know, we need you more to be focused here, and so we got to work through that.
Speaker 3:And then also the nuance of understanding how it changes based on situations. A lot of times younger guys are very black and white. Yeah, and that's not what the game is. I mean basketball. In the end you give them tools and then they have to go problem solve. You know we're not looking at the formation and calling a play. You know we just don't get to do that. We can't tell them where to go. They have to go out there and take the tools and then read what's being given and play together.
Speaker 3:No matter what you're doing, even teams that come play us, that are set, oriented or a little bit more structured Generally good defensive teams can take you out of the base and then it becomes the players. And so, yeah, that's what we're working through and what we're working on and we'll keep doing it. Honestly, you get into it a little bit. You start to see the possibilities of guys. You guys have been through it with me here a little bit in the last couple years. It's the ups and downs of Coach Hager and I say it's the hope that kills you, man. You can see where they're going and where they can go. But you know it sustains, too, the enthusiasm of guys that can get there and seeing breakthroughs and seeing progress and probably bigger steps in ways that others aren't seeing is still pretty cool, and seeing a team react to you positively is really good. So we just get to keep ourselves in the right frame of mind and keep going.
Speaker 2:I'm real coach. Let's get a win this. Let's get a win this week. Let's go, biz, we watching the game Wednesday at Lycoming. Yeah, all right, we'll have a two person watch party All right, all right. We got have a two-person watch party. All right, all right. We got Wednesday at Lycoming. We got Saturday at Scranton. Big week on the road.
Speaker 1:See, I like this early season. Just gauntlet, let's just go yeah.
Speaker 2:Why mess with these little teams?
Speaker 1:Get in, get the feedback and by the time, the beat of the league comes we're in, we're ready, we're ready, we're ready, we're ready.
Speaker 2:All right, folks, follow the show on Instagram at Juniata Basketball Show. Subscribe to the Juniata Men's Basketball Show on Apple Spotify. Wherever you listen to podcasts, leave us a comment on Instagram and until next time, I'm Tom Frank, I'm Biz.
Speaker 3:I'm the head coach, Greg Curl.
Speaker 2:We'll see you next time boom, big win, wednesday night you got like oh man, you got this.
