Basketball rapid fire: NCAA hopes, faith level in Chris Holtmann, the changing rotation and more

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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On this Monday Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Doug Lesmerises answer almost 20 questions from text subscribers about the basketball Buckeyes, after a week that included a huge road win at Illinois and a disappointing road loss at Maryland. What's the best and worst the Buckeyes could do in the NCAA Tournament? What should be the starting lineup and rotation? Should Ced Russell play more minutes? How much better will the backcourt be next year? Should Chris Holtmann try to rest some of his best players down the stretch? Would it be better for the Buckeyes to lose early in the Big Ten Tournament? What's the level of faith in Holtmann right now? Are E.J. Liddell and Malaki Branham one of the best duos in the country, and how far can they carry the Buckeyes? This covered a lot of ground, so thanks for listening to another Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in, welcome to your Monday
0:28.4	book. I talk from Cleveland.com, Doug Lamarice and Stephen means talking basketball here. I might go
0:32.6	long on this one. So it's like I like to warn you if we're going to go long, but you see how long
0:36.9	the pot is when you turn it on. So you're you know how long it is as you're hearing this as I'm
0:42.7	saying, I don't know how long it's going to go, but we have Stephen 18 rapid fire questions from our
0:48.4	textures. And we're going to cover three main areas here. We're going to start off with NCAA
0:54.0	tournament stuff. Then we're going to get into sort of nitty gritty about the team rotations,
0:58.3	who should play more big man stuff, that kind of thing. And then at the end, we'll have a
1:03.8	Chris Holtman discussion. And I will say, Stephen, it is bad timing for Chris Holtman that we are
1:07.9	doing this podcast after the Maryland loss and not after the win at Illinois, because the mood
1:14.7	around Ohio State basketball changed quite a lot in the last four days.
1:21.3	Yeah, that tends to happen. It happened after the Iowa game too, because they were coming off
1:27.0	a pretty solid stretch with the Michigan win and then obviously blowing Minnesota out. And then
1:31.0	you had a bad game, which it's always funny with Ohio State sports fans, because you apply a football
1:39.2	logic sometimes to other sports and it doesn't exist like that. Ohio State just had a bad game
1:44.7	yesterday against a team whose best two players combined for 52 points, why it's best two players
1:50.5	couldn't find a shot if you know, it was sitting right in front of them. That's all it was. Now,
1:55.2	it cost them something very significant. And so you blow it up bigger than what it is. But at the
2:00.6	end of the day, it's just they had a bad game. They're fine. This team has been playing pretty much
2:04.8	every three days at this point, because they've had to throw in some makeup games earlier in the
2:09.2	season, because of postponents. So I'm not saying throw it out. What happened yesterday, but I'm
2:15.6	not going to put so much pressure on that that we almost forget about the fact that this is the
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