 Hello and welcome to the Gary Stewart show presented by Buffalo Wildlands. I'm going to show you my season headman's basketball coach, Gary Stewart. And coach, about a month into the season now, I'm just going to talk about how things have gone over all so far for you guys. It's been a little bit choppy. We got off to a good start and had some injuries and then played against some good competition and that's not a good recipe to play against good people with a little bit short-handed and give credit to the people who beat us. We played really well in parts, but the consistency hasn't been there at the start. Yeah, I'm sure a lot of that, as you try to develop that consistency, it's been hard, like you said, with some of the injuries that you've had and keep people out for a game or two here or there, is that it's hard to develop those rotations, especially early in the year when that's what you're trying to do, is develop to see, hey, what's our rotation here? What's our rotation in the last five minutes and things like that? I think you're spot on, Greg. It's really difficult in this format where you play conference games so early that you really have to utilize the games in the preseason to develop that and you don't want to be playing conference games and still trying to figure that out. Yeah, like you said, we are in a conference play. One-on-one so far. I went up to Messiah last Wednesday and like you said, played OK in spurts, but ultimately fell and then Saturday, kind of the same thing. You're able to come away with a win against Lycoming, but first half, maybe some shots didn't fall, maybe you'd like to. I mean, the second half, you're able to play a little bit better, shut them down a little bit defensively and make some shots. Yeah, I thought our defense really kept us in it in the first half. We struggled to score and again, credit Lycoming. I thought schematically they did some good things. And then we had some good opportunities and didn't convert. So we felt fortunate to be down by 12 at the half. And we really wanted to come out in the second half and try to get that in a single digits as early as possible. And then methodically work our way through the game. And we were fortunate to get a young man going there in the second half that kind of spearheaded us. Yeah, certainly in the second half, like you said, Worm Hughes was able to come out and make some shots. Some other guys as well, Evan Joseph came out, hit a couple big shots and a couple other guys as well. Yeah, a 54-point second half and Worm had his hands all over that blueprint. But again, it's got to be a collective effort for us, a team effort. We're fortunate that Worm got it going. But we've got a few people that are certainly capable of having explosive halves for games. And we're going to need some of that moving forward. Yeah, moving forward, we've got one more conference game before the break here. You've got Arcadia on Saturday. You know, always a defending conference champ. Always a tough game, new coach. So what do you expect out of that? Well, I think it's more of the same, Greg. If you look at the conference, two games in the conference now, with the exception of one team, everybody has a loss. And so it's going to be that kind of conference. You need to hold serve at home and hope that you can grab one on the road. And obviously, this is a really important game, playing the defending conference champions on Saturday. Yeah, and hopefully, like you said, you guys have a finals at the end of the week. Hopefully, come back and finish strong before you take a little bit of time here off before the holidays and get ready to come back right for the new year. These are such a thing as time off. I don't know about that, but it's what there is. Right, yeah. This is, again, a critical part of the season for us to play a team that has the defending conference champions that have the best player in the conference returning in the MVP and Davis. So they're a formidable opponent, as everybody is in the conference. Yeah, so we will coach you. Thank you for your time this morning and best of luck going forward. And I will chat again soon. Thank you, Greg. All right, for Gary Stewart, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Gary Stewart Show.