You're going to be. Welcome to On the bench, this is Brendan Sonone.

Guys, you wanted a basketball specific podcast.

Chris Knee, we got one right?

Yeah, we had a chance to sit down to speak with Coach Leonard Hamilton today.

And what?

Oh, you're excited?

Oh, you're excited. I'm excited for you.

I know, I'm excited for you. We're going to go over several topics,

going to review this past season, look ahead to next season, what's going to be done in the

in between to get that team prepared to continue to success a pad in recent years.

And Leonard, sometimes a long-winded guy, was excellent today.

He was very enjoyable to listen, talk to, very direct about some of his

points. You know, he talked about the disappointment of things ending prematurely, but he looked ahead to what he

believes is a bright future for his program. He was very focused on the future, Chris,

is what I took away from that as you guys were having your discussion.

As people will hear, he's very much so about spinning this thing forward

and not dwelling on the disappointing ending.

That's what I took away from the conversation.

He's all in on keeping this train rolling.

Yeah, I think, you know, I think a lesson is to be learned from not this season that wrapped up prematurely but the one before that just because this program loses talented guys, you know, last year they lost two draft picks with V and Terrence Mann.

And this year obviously they're losing three big pieces and four total players as a whole but three guys

will have a shot at the NBA especially two like if we go in the first round it's not

...