 Hello, everybody, and welcome to Kohler High School, where it's time to say goodbye. Oh, shaboy, get Christian in Biggie's Conference Massball. It's our opening night for WSCS, and we're happy to have an early game in Kohler against Christian. Mike Martin is currently in Arizona, enjoying the warm weather. So I called an old Kohler alumni Kohler coach, Jeff Wolfe to join us. Jeff, tell us a little bit about your time here in Kohler and what you're doing now. Well, right now, my year at Kohler, I actually played here, went to the state finals, and had a real nice run there in high school. And then I went on and played at the University of North Carolina for Coach Smith, and was drafted by the Bucs, but heard my name, and went overseas and played for a few years around the world, which was a great experience. Came back, tried to decide what to do. We came back here to Kohler with my young family. Had the opportunity to coach here for 15 years. Wanted to say championship in 1999, but had a lot of great players, a lot of great experiences. Really had a good time. Missed it a lot. Yes, and currently, you have two of your youngest daughters are playing for UW Green Bay with the Redshirt juniors. I'll team up there. Played in high school in Cheboyon, North. Had a nice run there with Eric Smillman and C.K. Houston down in that group. The Badgers tomorrow up at Green Bay, so that's why I was lucky to get Jeff tonight. Let's talk a little bit about high school basketball. They're early in the season, just four games in. Let's talk about Christian first, being from Cheboyon. Coach Slippsy, the oldest coach in the whole conference. He's got a really young squad so far this year, and they're really struggling to put the ball in the basket. Brett and I go way back. We coach against each other, and he was actually an assistant coach of my All-Star team that I had after Christian's senior year in high school. So my son, Christian, played here also. Brett does a really nice job. Really cares about his players and does a good job, struggling with numbers. They only have 88 kids in high school now. So right now, when he talks about young, he's talking about freshmen and sophomores trying to play at the Marseille level. Big disadvantage unless you're a superstar, like Sam Decker or Joe Wolfe or somebody like that. So what he does is he'll just keep the same tenets of playing hard, playing together, and playing through it, and that's all you can do to gain experience. Sometimes you have to take your lumps to do it. Yeah, and they've been very successful. Like Christian, a few years back in the last couple of years, he's been a little rough in form, and you know, you gotta give him part of it to, you know, to build a smaller, younger group to have the patience to do that. And I know Brett, like you said, a really good guy, he's gotta have that patience to stick with those kids. He's got a great attitude about it. He knows what's important, and as a coach, I think what's most important is building relationships with the kids, teaching them things that, you know, they can carry over into their lives from the game of basketball. Brett does a great job of that. He said, one of his former players is not my doctor. So, they do a nice job with our Christian. Yes, let's talk about the Blue Bombers last year, and I believe they went 24. They lost two games to Howard's Grove, kind of those kids that played last year on the team this year, but they too are kind of young. Well, it's funny because both coaches described their teams to us this week as being young. Well, there's a difference between being a freshman and being a junior, it hasn't got a lot of play time on varsity. Cole has got a really nice class here that my son and I had the opportunity to coach in middle school. They've stuck together in this junior class and now they're starting lineup for this group, gaining valuable experience, hoping to build on the success they had last year. Well, they also got a couple of kids on their teams whose fathers were really good players. You know, Kyle Gevler's son is playing on the team, and of course, Coach Rader's son is playing on the team. So, you got kids on the team from very successful dads that had good basketball skills, and now they're leading them to their sons onto the basketball team right here at Kohler. Right, you know what, and I coach my sons here too. And it's the opportunity to control their destinies, I guess. But again, sometimes it's a father-son thing, but when you're on the court, it's a player-coach relationship. So, you know, that can be difficult at times, but that's part of life. They both do a good job. Both guys are great about coaching their kids. If they get on each other's nerves, I think they just switch off, and we'll let one talk to the other, and it's worked out fine for them. One thing, Kohler has a big advantage too. They might be young, but they're really tall, and something that you like is big, nice, tall, both players, and they got a couple kids, you know, six-four, six-five, six-six, they got four and five of those kids at a small school, which should hold well, even though they're playing in a bigger league in a division, more division-four school, but should hold well, not just for this year, but for next year as well. The numbers here are really good, and I'm comparatively speaking, they've become a bigger school with enrollment-wise, and that certainly has helped them. Yeah, I think that definitely is. I'll tell you what, when we come back, we'll have the starting line for tonight's game, so we'll be right back. Teens in foster care, who don't need perfection? They need you. And wasted electricity. You're throwing away everything you could have bought with it. Saving energy saved you money. Learn more at energisavers.gov. I want to thank all of you for joining me today, and I want to thank all of you who have been here today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I like the introduction Jeff. I like the band. I like the lights. Some about high school basketball. I always got the you know when I had my year of varsity basketball I always enjoyed that you know kind of the band playing and kind of got the emotions going. It's nice what Coach Rader does here. Yeah it's a sure is a different kind of showtime atmosphere here in Coler. Well Coler won the tip and turned the ball over early on here. See how the young Christian Eagles handle the tough environment here and right off the bat we get a miss. That is Modal Michael Modal. I know he played on the football team as well. That's Tyler Rader up and good. Rader gets the first points tonight Jeff. He might be one of the bigger players on the floor but he does a lot of good things. He can move for 65. Young player actually leads the team and assists it at about 4 4.5 assists the game so you can do a lot of things out of that high posterior. There's an outside shot almost three but it's missed. That's brought down there by Fink. Looks like a three. It is a three and it's Gebbler leading score for Coler with a three and a quick five zero lead. It's got quick hands defensively. Gets a steal right here puts it back in. Coler's putting full court pressure on him knowing that Christian's a little short-handed. Young has a problem with turnovers so they're trying to put a lot of pressure on to even get those turnovers. There's a straight line drive. Yeah the rim couldn't finish. And another rebound this time by Connor Cassidy. Cassidy a junior for Coler. Coler's right away up the floor. Spreading out. That's Cassidy. Another three pointer by Gebbler missed. Rebound by Rader. Cassidy with the miss. Also with the rebound but he was trapped. You can just see you know you can I know you mentioned that Christian is very young. You can just tell the just by the body shapes the Coler kids are a little bigger and stronger just because they're a little older. Yeah it comes from maturity. I mean you can do all the weightlifting and conditioning that you want but your body is going to mature as it naturally does and some guys mature earlier than others but certainly freshmen and sophomores bodies are not going to be the same as the juniors and seniors. It's still early in the season just the fifth game of the year. Both teams played last night. It's kind of weird to have back to back games that's almost not even heard of except for in tournaments and things. I think with the bigger conference now that you know they only play each other once and they've got the bigger conference though and then they have the tournament at the end. That's his game. He's really if you get down on the baseline and he does a lot of good things out there. He's not the tallest kid out there but he does a lot of the glue things that you know really make the team successful. While we played two minutes so far and Christian has yet to score it's nine to nothing in favor of Coler. Talking to Coach Flipsy this week you know they've really struggled in the first first half and you know that's an attribute of being a young team and once they get into a group they've seen the compete better in the second half but you know when you come out and play you know at this high level of high school you've got to be ready to play. They're not going to ask you what grade you're in. You just have to go out and play and compete. Yeah and I'm sure they'll be much better and there's a turnover by Coler as the year progresses as well. I mean they played some pretty good teams already. They played Usberg in the springs. Man it to walk Lutheran last night. I mean they they played some tough teams. That's a tough schedule to start off with you know for a young team but you have no control over that. I mean as a coach you go in and say this is our schedule. We're going to do the best to get you ready to play and we're going to go out and compete. There was Joe Lemony. He's number 23 for Christian. He is a senior. You can tell he's put together a little bit as he comes across your view right there. He's you know the second leading scorer on the team and one of the leading rebounders. He's got decent size. Nice rebound there. Yeah I have him at seven rebounds a game as he took that one off the boards. It's another chance for a three and that's again another miss. One thing I noticed is Christian's shooting percentage. Jeff is just not that good as so far as you can tell obviously with a nine nothing lead. The shots are there. They're open. They just can't seem to put it in the hole. Right now they seem again it's they seem like they're rushing just a little bit and that you know that Kohler's helping put that pressure on by putting the full court pressure on them and speeding them up and they're coming down and shooting a little bit quicker than maybe coach flips even wants. Nice block there. Raider nice power move but Kohler too is having a tough time finding the basket of late. Still nine nothing we're at 13-14 left in the first half. Chris right along with Jeff Wolfe and there's another air ball rebound by Fink. Yep which slips you a little frustrated over here. His kids are getting the shots. He just can't put it in and there's a wide open three and Gevler hits another one. That's the sign of the young team. Carter Gevler is the best shooter on the Kohler team. Two players left him to try to stop the ball from penetration left him wide open coach flips he trying to get their attention to get them back didn't do it in time. Good timeout. Yeah early timeout here it's a 32nd timeout 12-0 run. As I said Jeff it seems to me Christian seems to get guys open they're just not making any baskets at this time. Well until you hit that first shot and get the lid off the basket you know and get some confidence. I mean basketball is a game of confidence and rhythm and when you're struggling with that especially in today's game where everybody's spread out on the floor and you miss a shot very few offensive rebounds these days because of the spread offenses so you're not getting that second chance opportunity but that's the nature of the game. Well Carter Gevler the junior has the eight of the first 12 points he comes in at 23-3 a game said his dad was a really good athlete period he was an excellent baseball player as well as a basketball player. Athletic family. Yeah just not a good entry pass there. Any stands? Good strong two foot finish there could get knocked out balance. See how you see how Kohler speeding them up force them in the turnovers. 12-19 left it's in the first half it's 14-0 in favor of Kohler. At this point in the game we'd like to have a well-seasoned veteran point guard to get you set into some type of offense get you a set make sure you get a good shot that's where the youth is really hurting Christian. Good defense by Kohler. Good recovery Matt also with the block from behind didn't give up on the play lost the ball came back huffled back made a good clean block. On the other hand there was a turnover Cassidy with that nice pressure D and in nice entry pass this is Nugent over to Cassidy right or nobody boxed out. He's averaging in double figures and rebounds you know one of your your scouts the emphasis of point in your scout should be that you got a box him out. Nice rebound and finish. And there you go Christian they're on the on the board. Got the lid off let's see what happens now give him a little bit of confidence moving forward. Romany's on that basket there. Point attempt up and missed time by Fink. Kohler with the offensive rebound Raider goes to the basket. Nice rebound inside. Yeah Fink again he gets a bunch of rebounds too. Good quick hand I'll tell you that Cassidy is all over Christian. Kohler's got real good athletes they're very active nice finish nice pass can you get it down. Trying trying. You can see the pace of the game you can see everybody's really breathing hard so the pace I think favors Kohler you know with their depth and their experience over Shabuyan Christian. Into the game is Ben Hines how about that you come in here Kohler with another six five kid he's a senior number 34. Colin Adams number 23 he's got the ball right there. Where was where was this height when I was coaching here. You didn't need it. I want to stay championship without it. Well we had a pretty good post player. Yeah he was he was a load. He could you ran that pick and roll with him pretty pretty darn well. And he was smart too he knew where to go to an open space. Right into the game guess what it's a Mackie. It's another Mackie. Davis Mackie. And he's shooting a three. I think their family loves that shot. There's a shot up attempted there. Nice challenge. Christian Mackie nice bounce pass. Another defense has to collapse. Not a good pass everybody. Maybe trying to be a little too unselfish there. Eli. Awesome drive to the basket. And we have our first free throws of the night. You're not hitting shots on the outside. Try to get the ball to the basket draw fouls get to the free throw line so you can get a couple points from there. So Matt Alson did. He's got the opportunity to make two shots. Well if you haven't heard yet we haven't mentioned it. Shoot for a cure. It's coaches versus cancer event. The school's done this a couple years now you can notice that Kohler's wearing the pink socks. Coach flips he's wearing his coaches for cancer type shirt as well. Last year he had a goofy tie. Nineteen to four nine forty left on the first half. Chris right along with Jeff Mike Martin's in Arizona. He's actually watching some high school games on there that's on ESPN tonight. Good box out there by Matt Alson. Sorry to meet sorry that Mike's not here but thanks Marty. Yeah and he's he sent me an email today was worried he was going to lose his job to you permanently. Maybe in a couple years when your girls are are gone you have more time. Any time I'm available and I'd love to be here and watch high school basketball. Certainly an exciting night here. Shoot for the cure. Kohler's playing good defense putting pressure on the ball not letting anything inside. Nice shot. Nice shot. That also there. Four points from Matt it's now nineteen to six. Christian being very active in their zone. Loose ball nice hustle. A lot of turnovers for the blue bombers. Good job by Sam Hendricks there. Good defense again that time by Colin Adams. A little bit of a run here by Christian. We got that basket got a little bit more confidence. Sam Hendricks number 21 for Christian. He'll be inbounding the basketball. Tyler Rader back in the game. Coach Rader doing a nice job keeping these guys fresh. Wanted them to play full court put pressure on. Keep people's fresh by making substitutions and they haven't fallen off much here so. Nice job by the bombers. Nice back cut. Nice play. And that's what you can do against pressure if they come out to overplay and go back door. Listen gets that one. What's their leading scorer. We'll need him to step up tonight. Working hard on the defense event. I was going to say go ahead. Christians you know only got two seniors they really going to need them to play a lot of minutes and step up and lead on both ends of the court. That's a big responsibility for a couple young guys and you can see that they're working hard but you know the minutes are going to add up especially playing halves. Here's a pick in a steal. Oh and a miss layup there by Hendricks. Got to make those. Oh Gevler. Nice move by Carter Gevler. Close to the offhand. That stopped a six run by Christian. It's now 21-8, 7-12 in the first half. Gevler leads all scores with eight. Christian's trying to get into the paint. Draw defenders and then trying to kick. Time turned the ball over. Coach Flipsy does not agree. Good life hands by Kohler tonight. Good defense. Coach Flipsy in the referee having a discussion about the last call. Inside trying to get to the paint. Look to kick. Rader a little bit off balance there. Nice strong rebound there by Motel. Rub pick there. Trying to go inside. Going to be tough to take that many dribbles against an athletic team like Kohler. Get down and get help. In that situation you're going to have probably one maybe two dribbles. You got to make a move and either shoot the ball once you get it to the paint or kick it out. Joe LaMenez is going to have a hard time finishing on that one. Down is just six, 15 left in quarter number. Excuse me half. It's been half for a couple years now Chris. Fast half. It is moving very quickly. Missed by Rader but another offensive rebound for Kohler. And that's what Leo Fink does. He does a lot of the little things that don't show up but on that case his offensive rebound leads to a basket. Well number 23 makes the 23rd point. Colin Adams with two. His first two points of the night. That's the way to get it inside. A little bit of a leave out on top. Yeah. A little marquette action. Old marquette not new marquette. You're showing your age. Back in for Kohler I believe is Gevler's back into the game. It seems now Chris like everybody's kind of settling in a little bit catching their second wind. Could take but just a miss there by Gevler. The rebound like Trevor Wissie. Yeah and I'll tell you Kohler works those kids up the floor the whole time and like you mentioned that'll wear on them over the long haul. Nice drive. He's been mad awesome. It's twice he's done that. He just puts his head down and goes to the rim and nobody's stopping him right now for Kohler so he's found success there so he probably should keep doing it until they stop it. Offensive point of emphasis on making say that you're stay still on your screens. Christian doing a nice job coming back after being down early. Good life hands. Like Nugent. What Trevor Wissie is trying to tell his teammate is fundamental to the pass in the basketball. Try to pass away from where the defender is and pass it back where they can touch it. Less likely to turn the ball over. Good double. Good double. Got to have a little better communication from your the guy who's doing the double and there's no communication even the bench too can you say hey somebody's coming there. They have their head up. Good finish. That's the way to break pressure once you can break it down get inside get an easy layup. It's 25 to 12 four minutes left in the first half and what has been a really quick first half. Again another turnover by the blue bombers. There's been a lot of those coach. It's not very crisp. No everybody's trying hard but sometimes you know sometimes you over try and things just become more difficult because of that instead of relaxing and just playing the game basketball that you know you're capable of playing. Give credit to Christian the other playing much better defense. Blocked there by Eli. That'll be the first foul on Christian that comes on Trevor Wissie. 344 left in the half in the first foul. That's why that's why it's going so quickly. Coach you should know better than to say something like that. Marty always gives me the oh now watch the next four minutes will take a while. Why may be superstitious about some things but that's not one of them. Hard fought game but cleanly played. Both teams playing hard trying to get things done at both ends of the court right now. Not a lot of movement. Trying to high pick. This is a high pick on top hit the man standing open in the corner. He took the basket got foul. Just like that. Christian picks up its second team foul. That's on Matt. Awesome. His first. This is Fink. X cut through the middle of the lane. Raider. They're running a little weave action too. Kohler with just three seniors as well. A lot of ball handlers out on the floor for Kohler. The hustle by that Fink. You've mentioned him a couple times. Offensive rebounder. Very good. There's another offensive rebound. And another country I heard from. This is Lucas Crawl. His brother played a year ago on the varsity. He comes off the bench at 6-6 sophomore. Christian getting set. Filling spots. I think he gets this kind of pressured defense. You don't want the ball to stick too long in one player. You got to keep the ball moving. Get the defense to over commit. Get the ball into the paint where you want to drive. Stay under control and either get a shot. Pass out to a teammate that might be open. There's an open look. And again, Wissie can't hit it. I mentioned all year that Christian struggled from the floor. Raider with a nice open shot. He misses another reload. Govler takes it back to Raider. And nice move. Nice finish. You've seen Carter Govler and Tyler Raider both using their left hands and finishes inside. Nice athletic plays and finishes. I have Tyler Raider for eight points. Comes in tonight averaging 11-7. Very good take. And Michael Motel, a freshman, should be at the line shooting two. In that case, he was able to get his body past the defender in order to try to catch up and prevent the shot from going in. The defender has to follow you and come back over the top of you. So for a freshman, it's a nice opportunity to get by that. It's averaging just 45% from the free throw line. No coach. Got to get up there and follow through and finish his shot. Yeah, he left it a little bit short. Looked like a short arm. That looked good. That was better. But he dropped his hand at the end. Trying to finish up high release point and finish with your follow through up high. Nice pass. Crawl on the miss. Motel with another rebound. They got numbers if they can get it. Nice pass, but quick hands there by, guess who, Leo Fink. Christian had the opportunity there. They finally got numbers, but it took a good defensive play. Well, I think it was Raider, not Fink or was it? And I think it was hard to see through this referee. I think it was Fink. It was Fink. There's little things, coach. You're right. Crawl besides the pass it out. Good ball movement there. You can see how a defense has a hard time trying to catch up and finish when you move the ball that quickly side to side. I'll tell you, Carter-Gebler much more this season as a junior aggressive on the offensive end than he was a year ago. Not that he was bad last year, but he was just- Well, Ben Mackey's not here. Yeah, that's true. When you play with the great players, you don't always have that opportunity to shine. That's true. That's true. There's a finish there by Trevor. We'll see. But Flipps, he's looking for a stop here to continue in the momentum. Almost got a steal off Matt also. 31 to 15. There's a long three as the half expires. And believe it or not, that's it. That was a fast-paced first half. It was. It was. Well, at the halftime, it's 31 to 15. Kohler in front when we'll return with second half action. They said a bottle was just a bottle. No one would ever notice me. 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Welcome back to, uh, Kohler High School, where the Blue Bombers lead the Christian Eagles 31 to 15. I'm Chris Wright, along with Coach Jeff Wolf. Mike Martin is, still in Arizona, leading scores in the ballgame for Schwoig and Christian. Matt Alson had six, Trevor Wissie had five, Joe Lemonis had two, and Michael Motel two. For the Blue Bombers, they were led by their junior star, Carter Gevler. He has 14, Tyler Raider eight, three by Davis Mackie, and Lucas Crawl and Colin Adams chipped in with two. What are your thoughts, Coach, of the first half? I think it's probably this very quickly played first half. It plays in the Kohler's style of game that they want to play. Put a lot of pressure on your football, turn you over, get easy baskets. I think it's a, you know, this is one of the things that Schwoig and Christian have struggled with all year is, you know, their first halves have really put them in a hole. You know, it did that last night at Manitowoc Lutheran, where they were down 42 to 23 and a half. It actually came back and outscored Manitowoc Lutheran 41-40 in the second half. So I think we're going to be in for studying second half because this is the way, you know, Christians come back on a couple teams this year and close the gap in the second half and then give them teams good ball games. But again, with having the freshman and the young players, it's tough to finish when, you know, you need to make those big winning plays. Well, we mentioned it at the opening. Kohler was 24 last year. Three times they had to play Howard's Grove, the conference champs. They did beat him in the conference tournament and ended up being conference tournament champs. That's something, Coach, you didn't have when you were playing, was a conference championship where now they play everybody once and then they have a conference tournament that they play, which is a little bit unique and different. What do you think about that tournament? I don't, you know, I have mixed feelings about it because you only get to play, you know, each team one time. And especially when you have natural rivalries, I always enjoyed, you know, somehow if you don't play well, if you get beat by a team the first time around, make the adjustments come back and beat them the second time, it wouldn't be a hard not to be able to try to do that. But I mean, it's an exciting concept to have in the conference tournament. Nice rebound by Connor Cassidy. You know what's unique about that tournament too is like they take like the top eight teams and they get to play in the upper and then the lower six, I believe it is, get to play in a different tournament. So you don't have to like, it's not one versus 14. They kind of balance it somehow that, you know, the lower team get to play the lower and the upper get to play the upper. Well, it's unique in that you don't usually get, you know, unless you're in a Christmas tournament or something like that to play that many games in a row for high school. Yeah. I don't know how that how that really affects you going into the state tournament. I mean, it takes a lot of effort to win that conference tournament. Well, so far we've got a basket by Michael Motel, who's now cut the deficit to 14. It's 31 to 17 Kohler in front of Sheboygan Christian. Looking more comfortable on the offensive end again. Settled in, block from behind. Kyler Raider and Joel Lemenis. And on the ultimate possession, Kohler will keep the ball. Tomorrow night, we'll be back at WSCS. We're going to travel over to Sheboygan Lutheran, where two of the top teams in the Big East Conference go at it. That's Sheboygan Lutheran and Howard Grove. And there's another basket by Connor Cassidy. And next Tuesday night, we'll see these blue bombers over at Sheboygan Lutheran, which is always a test ball game. A lot of big games early. Yep. Very much so. Exciting high school basketball. People should come out and watch and support these teams. You know, you've got a great crowd here tonight. It's exciting. And I think that, you know, this is a great time of year. Yeah, I enjoy high school basketball in it. It's kind of strange. It's the first week in December. A lot of these teams already, like we said, have the fifth game already. And conference games. You know, that's the thing that, you know, with, again, having that big conference, you know, they start off with conference games with, you know, ideally, I think you would like to have a couple non-conference games, get in, figure out who your players are, what they're doing, what they're over. Nice finish by Eli. But that's not the case anymore because, you know, the way things are set up. Yeah, that's a very good point. Nice find. See if we can finish. At time the size of Kohler inside made them to kick the ball out after the block inside. Players are less likely to want to go up right away. Three by Conor Cassidy. That's the third three for Kohler tonight. Extends the lead back to 21. Oh, now it's right in threes. Good shot. Levi. 38 to 20. It's going to be a full timeout with that. We're going to take a quick break. It's 38 to 20. Blue bombers. These are really good. You are surprised. Practice makes perfect. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. There are thousands of teens in foster care who don't need perfect- There's one thing you can never have sex without. It's consent. Because sex without it, isn't sex. It's rape. It's on us to stop sexual assault. Learn how and take the pledge at it'sonus.org. Welcome back to Kohler High School. Where Kohler leads Chamboy and Christian 38 to 20. Chris right along with Jeff Wolfe. You would think with an 18-point lead a coach wouldn't always want to call a timeout, but as a coach sometimes you see your team out there doing things you don't want them to do. Instead of letting them build bad habits, you reinforce it by taking the timeout, making the adjustments, and let's see them come out and get a good shot here. It'll be interesting for Kohler too. They've two not played too many of the tougher teams in the league where Christian has played some tougher. It'll be interesting. Kohler, like we said, goes into Lutheran right away, and then I think they play Howard's right after that. They're going to get their tests early too. We'll see where the conference is going to shape up in early December. But it's probably good for Kohler to maybe struggle a little bit against Silver last night and then have that comeback right away and play right away again tonight. You know, it depends on what kind of team you have. But you have an experienced team. You don't mind going in and playing those tough games early, but a young team like Christian facing tough competition right away. It's a big challenge for them to come out and compete. Nugent on a tiki-tack foul. You know, you mentioned the conference tournament and all that. Another comment some coaches made was, you know, let's say you play an early game, like Kohler has to play Luther next week already, and you've got to play in their place. Maybe in February you'd like to have them back at your place. You have a completely different team, and Christian's going to be a different team in February as well. Exactly. That was my point before. It takes away that opportunity. That's the way they get the ball back. If you get a foul, you get Eli. Good pass ahead. Good finish by Leo Fink. Nice pass by Carter Dembler. You've mentioned Leo Fink's name a whole bunch of times tonight, coach, but that's just his first basket. But he does so much other that's important. And that's the way he plays. You know, sometimes he'll give you a 10-12, and they're taking it to the basket. Does all the little things. Offensive rebounds. Nice, can handle the ball. Do a lot of things on the perimeter offensively. Quick hands defensively. So it makes him the valuable part of the Bombers. You can see the intensity level after that timeout from Kohler. Really ratcheted up. Couple turnovers. You've got the opportunity. Coaches, 13-55 in the second half. That is the Blue Bombers' first trip to the line. And I don't see a lot of fouls being committed out there that they're not calling. Right, which is good. I'm not saying, yeah, it's just strange. It's just unusual that, you know, especially early in the year, kids are playing with their feet instead of trying to reach a lot and picking up all those fouls. Nice finish. Nice job by Trevor Wissy to finish on that drive to the basket. Trevor's up to six points now. He's got to be that person that steps up and makes plays like that for his team for them to order them to be competitive. Yep. One of the seniors on Christian Eagles. Gevler right to the basket. Nice play by Carter Gevler. You watch these coaches on play and you can see that they see the court sometimes differently than a lot of other players. Good job by Carter at that time. Good double. Good work by Nugent too to fill up their lane. Trevor got there. I think that Coach Flipsy wants him to get into the paint to create something. By that time he was a little bit off balance, couldn't stop his momentum and ended up traveling. You want to finish when you come into the lane with the two-foot jump stop. You want to stay square to the basket. Give yourself a triple threat position that you can pass. Shoot or finish. As we mentioned the first half it's shoot for a cure. Coaches versus cancer that's why Kohler is wearing the pink socks. Earlier tonight the blue bomber ladies defeated Brad Bulkow's Shabuigan Christian squad. This is the second game of the double header. Varsity double header. They're putting Joe Lamanis out on perimeter. I think you've had some trouble with the size inside. Of Kohler. But they're going to need him to start making some plays to score in some baskets. So there was a four on one break and finishing for two was Fink. Fink now with four points. That's a nice job isolating. Motel inside against a smaller defender and he finished that shot with the freshman. Yeah and I just clean thought I would just had freshman. Nice take by Gevler. Lamanis with the rebound. At this point 20 points Don 11 and a half. You've got to call there. You've got to get something out almost every possession. If you're Christian you get you've got to get an opportunity to get a good shot. Also went right to the rim that time. But they said that the Kohler defender and on top of the ball. They didn't call a jump ball. They just play on. Oops. Travel Kohler state champs 1980 82 83 and 99. Now you went to state with your squad too. Did you not when you were in high school? Yep. We lost in the finals against Marathon 1976. Marathon went on to win three state championships in a row. They had quite a squad. Nice reverse. Oh miss. And again Christian good shots. They just can't make it. This should be Christian ball and it is. Good hustle both ways. I recognize this official right here. Coach he's done state tournaments. Well it's two to one in fouls. Ten minutes forty seven seconds left. But would we have six in the first half. As cleanly played games I've seen in a high school especially early in the year. Well it's 44 24 another full-time. Well with that we're going to take a quick break. Can you spot know my motto safety first. They could be dangerous I think we should call animal control. Animal control. To be safe. Don't worry. It's a new motto. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. There are thousands of teens in foster care who don't need perfection. They need you. When you throw away money on wasted electricity. You're throwing away everything you could have bought with it. Saving energy saves you money. Learn more at energiesabers.gov. Also a new gym. Coach a lot different than when you played. And even when I coached diversity it's all different. Field houses are kind of the new way to go. Yeah it's really a nice job they did here. We did the remodeling here for the high school and added classrooms. Ice fetish. I don't think that's what he wanted. He wanted to get a certain shot. Call that time out. That was Ben Hines. Senior 6-5. Bomber making that basket. Good hustle by Joel Lomines. Christian is trying to get something in there. But I thought Kohler is on a pretty nice job on their defense. Now it looks like they're standing in their zone. Coach you're playing the 2-3. And the 3 is up and miss. Good box out there by Ben. Yeah. Kept his body in between offensive rebounder. Nice shot. Davis Mackie. Tell you he always seems to find a way to get a shot open. Davis Mackie. He's a Mackie. Yeah from. A lot of great players in that family. Shot by Christian. Rebound by Adams. And here come the bombers. Gevler leading the break. Kick out to Mackie. And it's up. Christian looks a little tired right now. Yeah and you kind of mentioned that in the first half that that might be the case. Mackie open shot and a miss. Shots per minute. Pretty good. It's Casey Mackie right. Winning coach when you went to state. Right. Casey was on that team. Yeah. Also a tie Mackie. Tie Mackie yeah. Cody Mackie. Cody Mackie. I just remember the game I coached against you in your gym here. And I was ahead of you with 12 seconds or 15 seconds. You called timeout. I told our guys whatever you do. Don't let Mackie touch the ball. Mackie touched the ball. He made the basket and we lost. I don't care who gets it. I was smart enough to do it. Because I knew he's a winner and he wants the ball. I told our guys don't. Whatever you do. I don't care if you're in front of them. You're standing golden shirt. I think it was fist three we ran. Usually we ran again the ball. Roller back in your 2-3 zone. Hands up. Ben Hines second basket. 8-24 left 50-24. There's finally. Levenez gets a basket. Haven't heard much of him from the scoring tonight. I guess you can credit the size. I think the size is really bothering inside. And like you were saying earlier in the game Chris I mean they don't lose any size when they go to the bench which is really unusual you know at this level. They have that kind of size coming off the bench too. Well Joe had the first basket for Christian and that was his first basket since. Place hard. That was a great job. Both ends of the court but he's really got to step up and try to make some plays. Well he's one big post player amongst three or four tall timbers that the bombers keep wheeling in and out and there's another Christian turnover. And it's not going to get any easier because they're playing the zone now so they're taking advantage of that size and not making it easy for them to score inside at all. Nice job. A quick whistle with the steal. Well they really knows where he is at all points. Points on the defensive end. They're shading him. There's Davis Mackey right there. Good back box out by Adams to allow Gevler to get that rebound. Hendricks had a good look you know. You got to make most of those opportunities. There's a kick out to Adams drives short but he's fouled. Good take. And Colin Adams will go to the free throw line shooting two. And again for Kohler most you know Raider was talking about his team being young because they're all juniors but you can see that especially those players that had experience on the varsity last year for Kohler really have made a big big big stride as far as improving coming into this year. Allen is the goalkeeper here for a state-ranked powerful soccer team coach. Takes a lot of pride in his work as a keeper. I guess you would call it. I'm not a soccer person. I'm not a soccer person either. So I know they're very successful here. Rod Hogan the coach did a great job. He's the goal guy. He's they were ranked number one in state I think this year. Unfortunately he lost in the sectionals I believe it was. Sectional finals to Sturgeon Bay. Kohler giving some mackey up. Reserves some time here to play. They're going to get Adams over the back. I know Colin Adams brother Caleb is a huge huge Bucks fan. Huge Bucks fan. He's got good taste then. Yeah he he was excited about the trade and then I think like everybody else with Sam Decker today getting traded to Washington. Well Sam had a few moments as a buck I guess. Too bad I think he would have done a great job here. Got a great following here in the state. Had a great career at Wisconsin. I would have liked to have seen him have the opportunity to play in Milwaukee but a lot of times all about salary cap room and making room for players you know maybe not this year but next year when the Bucks need to reside some of those guys. Yeah. But they have to win this year too. I got the opportunity to be on the top teams in the east. And I got a tough tough road tonight against the Warriors. We'll be on probably we can see the second half. Then they get here last year though didn't they beat them. They beat them this year in Golden State. But they beat them here last year too I think. Yeah I mean whoops Mackie gets blocked by Hendricks there. Nice of the Warriors to go to Keaban Looney's High School. Yeah I saw that. Jersey retirement at Hamilton High School. Yeah pretty classy move by the entire organization. You can get that as most of you basketball people know that's not over the back. Adam thought about a three fines. You know the second unit for Kohler has really shown good discipline. Nice job by Collin finishing. He really moved the ball really well there. Collin now with four points as well. Kohler knows where Trevor Busse is at all times. You know he's a big three point threat from out there against his own. Gifts him inside against Alson. Kicked it out. Nothing for Hendricks. Hendricks with another good look. Yeah just he too just a sophomore Jeff Ben Hines. Twenty one is Crawl. Adams with the miss put back in a miss I think by Crawl. Hustling on the floor. Hustle. And Christian's out with it and here they come. Do you think they get a good shot on this trip? Kohler's being very active hands up high and defense. Nice shot. They're going to give him three and also there's another guy who's been kind of quiet. Scored a bunch of early points and haven't heard anything from him. The people might might ask well we just made one basket. Why did the coach call timeout? Well as a coach you want to build on something positive. So you're in the middle of a second half. The things haven't gone as well as they have for you in your prior games. Something you just knocked in a shot. Now as a coach you want to reinforce that positivity and come out and maybe get a steal. Defensively get another basket. Try to get some momentum. You know basketball is such a game of runs that if you get yourself one or two baskets in a row get your team on a different track than they have been for most of this half of being hesitant and unable to finish. Now like we mentioned in the opening you coached against Coach Flippsy. Here at Christian he's had some wonderful teams, some conference championship teams. He's the old war horse in the league. Him and Coach Bruning at Usberg. He I know is at Howard's before that. Both of them done, both those guys have done outstanding jobs. Running their programs for so many years. You know players sacrifices, coaches sacrifices and the families of players and coaches make sacrifices. So both those gentlemen have done an outstanding job. Produced a lot of fine players and a lot of fine young men. Oh what's interesting too is there's a miss there and a rebound there by Ben Himes. You know Coach Bruning followed Coach Moriarty who was kind of you know a legend kind of coach. He had a state championship. Coach Rader gets to follow that. Now he's had some success here. Kind of interesting how some of the coaches kind of followed in the paths of previous successful coaches and you know just carried the torch I guess you could say. Here's Coach Flipsy taking with C out of the game. He gave it his all. Kohler made it very difficult you know. Part of their scouting report was probably nowhere he is at all times. Don't let him get started. They didn't let him do that tonight. He's a fine player I'm sure he'll bounce back and do great things for the rest of the year. We'll see Christian play Lutheran. I believe that's in the end of January the 25th I believe that is. We'll be at Christian Lutheran again this year. I'm not I don't remember where it's at but that'll be the next time we see the Eagles. What I'm impressed with this group that's out on the floor for Kohler right now on the offensive end even though they're playing defense Chris is that nobody's hunting their shots. You know a lot of times you make substitution guys don't get a lot of time you know the people try to hunt their shots and get their stats. This team is really playing good team basketball. They're getting good shots because of it but you don't always see that when you make this many substitutions. I think Davis Mackie got a bloody nose on that play into the game comes Connor Cassidy backhand. Another solid hard fought quickly paced and played path. He really is. Nice motion with dribble drive. That's Justin check number 14. First time we've seen him tonight for Kohler 6-1 junior. Justin's one of those kids that really worked hard didn't always play basketball when he was younger came off for the team in middle school really worked himself into becoming a varsity basketball player. Everybody has different abilities and you know some people have really high abilities. Justin has really worked hard and made himself you know a nice varsity player out here. Good to see people like that have the opportunity to get playing time. Going to follow there on Lucas Crawl. It's 53 to 29. We're at the 2-12 mark. Stick around after the game. Coach Wolfe is going to have to go grab coach Raider right away and get a couple players and we'll have some interviews. We mentioned Tuesday night we'll see these blue bombers over at Lutheran. Tomorrow night we'll be at Lutheran watching Howard Grove in Lutheran. And then next Friday I think we are at Sheboygan North where they take on the ships of Manitowoc. Sheboygan North off to a one-on-one start which is really strange like I said they're one-on-one but you know these teams already are in their fifth game already. It's crazy you look at all the different levels of basketball that go on in high school these days because of the league setups everything's a little bit different and this is you know because of the bigger league they're playing early conference games. There's a shot there by Crawl. Playing back to back from last night to the night. Yeah yeah that's you only get that in tournaments and then you get it in the tournaments again in the state tournament. That's another thing I never liked is when basically you play Christmas tournaments you play back to back and most of the time during the year you play a Tuesday Friday or a Tuesday Thursday and all of a sudden you get to sectionals you gotta play back to back nights. That just didn't make any sense to me whatsoever. But not all of them some had Thursday Saturdays so they all were always the same. Yeah I just I just never understood playing back to back games and but in the old days in the conference you know in the Fox Valley then it was back to back. Yeah that's true yeah now two coach you have three officials so it's more difficult to get officials because you know every varsity game has to have three so that's why you got teams playing on Thursday nights Friday nights. You know half the league tonight's playing for the Big East but you know Lutheran's sitting off tonight. Well it used to be you know you had certain nights which you would you would see that you know this is for high school basketball or college basketball. Right now because of so many different factors you got people playing in all different right you know college games around Friday nights where it used to be considered the high school night. You know on Saturdays they're all over the place. I think a lot of that has to do on the college level because of TV but you know there's a lot of factors going on where teams are playing different all different kinds of nights and we pointed out earlier tonight because in high school but you just go out and you play as hard as you can. That's the thing you can control as a coach and as as a player you go out and do the best you can with the opponent that you face each night and that's that's what you can control. 53-29 we're under 30 seconds. Who Bombers are going to win this and stay undefeated at five and oh and first place in the league. Their next test is at Lutheran. Almost almost just to check with a basket there. You can just tell how the student section wants him to have the ability to score because you know players like I said players like that deserve the opportunity to play and it's great that he's getting that opportunity and they'd love to see him score. And with 14 seconds left tonight you know what we're not going to say. Bonus free throws tonight. Here's a layup. Nice shot by Collins. Adams scores again. He's got finishes a night with six. The score for Coler tonight will be Carter Gevler with 16 but that's it. Final score tonight is 53-29. Coach Wolfe is going to go and grab a couple of Blue Bombers and when we return we'll have two kids from Coler talking with Coach Wolfe. Right now we're going to take a break 55-29 victory for the Coler Blue Bombers. They said a bottle was just a bottle that no one would ever notice me but I knew I could be more that one day I would make people smile. 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Visit ncpc.org. Traditional light bulbs actually generate nine times more heat than light. Switch to energy start light bulbs. And you'll realize just how much cash you were really burning through. Saving energy saves you money. Learn more at energisavers.gov. Welcome back to Kohler High School where the Kohler Blue Bombers have pulled out a big victory over the Christian High School. Jeff Wolfe here with Tyler Rader and Carter Gevler. The two of the stars of tonight's game. Carter tonight you had another fine game and really looking good earlier in this season. How do you feel out there on the court? I feel really good. Our team has we've been playing together since we were in first grade and we feel great together. We're doing really well. Tyler you really as a big person and I can relate to this you've really improved physically throughout the last couple of years especially from last year this year. How do you feel out there on the court? So a lot. Lifted weights and stuff's a lot easier. I can tell just boxing out and everything it's just coming more naturally more natural. Both of you two are sons of coaches and sometimes that's not always easy to be you know to have your your father coaching you. What's the best part of being the coach's son? He has the keys to the gym so he always lets us in all the time. So we don't need to ask any people from the school if they just let us in all the time. Okay and I'll give you the tough one. What's the tough part of being a coach's son? Expectations. Got a feeling like got to live up to their expectations. Really anything you do is good enough. Both of you come from basketball families you're from around here. Your family's from up north but all great basketball families. Do you guys feel any pressure now being the next generation? Okay coach Cam in a long time coach here you know did a great job here for many years. Your dad was a great player. How do you handle that kind of pressure? I just keep working my dad just keeps pushing me. He wants me to live up to his expectations beat him. Everyone always tells me how good a player he was but I try to beat him that's my. So what you got to do you got to take over that mantle. Tyler now you've got a big uncle. I know your uncle Greg how do you fare against him these days? Still beats me. Still pretty big. Not much I can do against him yet but yet. You got to keep improving. Well this was a great job by the Kohler Bombers. Looking forward to seeing them for a lot more success for the rest of the season. This is Jeff Wolff. Throwing it back to Chris. Next week we'll see those blue bombers next Tuesday night. Good job guys. Lutheran and just wrap up the final score tonight. It was 55 to 29. Kohler was led by Carter Gevler who had 16 points. Tyler Raider 8. Colin Adams chipped in with 6 off the bench. For Christian it was Matt Alskom with 8. For the crew tonight I'd like to thank everyone for coming out on our first night. I know it was a cold night tonight. But I would especially like to thank Coach Wolff for stepping in from Marty. I always appreciate when Jeff is here and he really adds to things and we've been a long time friends. So thanks so much for stepping in Jeff. Well I really really appreciate the opportunity Chris. It's great to get back here to Kohler and see a hard fought basketball game. And you know that Christian is going to have a hard time playing against this competition early. But I'm sure it'll be fine after Coach Flippes working with Coach Flippes. And Coach Raider has got a good looking team right now. Yes. So with that we'll sign off. And like a reminder Kohler with the win tonight. Tomorrow night we'll be over at Sheboygan Luther for Howard's Grove and Lutheran. So we'll stay so long. And as Marty says we'll see you down the road. Thank you.