the king of basketball not le bron james who is that right michael jordan by the jordan is fifty one today everybody fifty one years old today and i guarantee when he jerked fifty he did have that special with all the people calling in to our radio show so my fiftieth birthday was definitely special and i thank you for that rhyme but michael jordan fifty one today and he needs to really get is the bobcats go a little bit yeah fifty one years old but i don't think anybody got to me a basketball cookie cake oh you're guaranteed to get him a cookie today so he but he's got identical twins at fifty one so good luck with that michel because when you are in times in my oh yeah well definitely but with the f c c sort of stops me from saying all that but all the feeding still right now we're doing good we had a good weekend yeah it was it was nice to bounce back after a tough l twelve and two right now twenty one or levon and two right now only twenty one of five overall you have a two game lead over cleveland state but you've got a big win at cleveland state the other night so after two tough losses you you the number one seed you get a chance to host the entire tournament if you continue to win well it's a huge advantage if you can if you can hold home court advantage you go into your tournaments you get to game by and then you also host the tournament and you know obviously we've lost on our home court so it's not a guarantee by any means but you know any advantage coming down sort of a time you can get a huge and have a two game lead right now with the credit coach wardle of what he's done with our team and stay in the mix for contention while well as we are the voice of the valuable crusaders but they never call and so they're not really our favorite staff at all ok and but your staff seems definitely number one in our blood but the horizon league they are favored staff and that was a tough loss or they shot the lights out of the ball you guys didn't shoot it very well tell us about that game and i don't want to give away secrets but what temp adjustments do we have to make to beat the crusaders up top in the lake was it was an adjustment for the coaching staff as adjustment for the players but i don't know if that would have mattered much to be honest with you we they came out and really put it to us and you know whether alex brown was there or not i don't know if we have a particular night would what a won one way or the other what is the status of brown going into this game he's easy he always been really good he missed that one game and he came back and you know he gets knocked down because sometimes you you know people think he's a soft kid just because he happens to be seven want and somewhat skinny and he shoots that doesn't mean that he's soft by any means and he came back within six days from a separated shoulder right and played do you see on him on thursday night you know i think with what the way we play it's going to be a team effort i know it's kind of like i'm trying to hide some are trying to be cliche but right that's the reality it's one of the best things about our team stopping two or three times one guy and he might be starting to figure you out so we're going to have probably four or five guys different sizes and shrinks on a big kid strong kid and you've ever been eighteen point eight in conference and obviously they had a young man jordan crawford played very very well and my question to you is is now does he create something because he's starting to play well he had his first career double double what at fifteen when they're fifteen point when does he create something now when you watch that film that now you're going to change some of things that you did because now all of a sudden they've got a guy off the bench jordan coleman playing i'm sorry jordan coleman playing very well for them right now the first  that i know we have a two game lead but we go on the road for two games right after this and that's you know if it doesn't go our way on thursday it's guys like like jordan coming off the bench or just kind of developing later in the season or over over the year and kind of being consistent why you know teams are playing better and he's a great great reason right why they're doing well in you they have some firepower it's not like you can just not guard somebody for the most part they have the big guys down low but they're big guys and they stay within what they can do and they guy like you have the guys on the wing you can't really just you know focus all on doherty because other guys are stepping up not going down threes and you made the other day made a couple big three he's a great kid he's come a long long way in our games were successful he's one of the key he had twenty four and twelve i believe against our win against virginia that went looking a lot better  every time they get out of court by the way but i mean he's a kid that is that type of a talent and when he gets continues to become more and more consistent which he's shown this year he leads the league in field upset i think he does fifty plus percent or fifty high fifty per so i'd say you know it's kind of an unknown guy within our own team that guys are having to focus on a little bit and that's why we're playing a little better now your record right now at twenty one and five and when everybody's talking about the  and i know you're still leading your league if you get beat is there's scuttlebutt talk or there's talk around you know a code just talk how administrators talk that we can still get the phoenix  we don't go all the way in the horizon link championship and tournaments well they'll be a little talk i mean they're when we're realistic you know i think if we happened to win the next three games and then that would put us at one more win potentially in our tournament and say you were to lose in the conference championship that puts yet you know twenty five and six you know as i think will be mentioned i don't know if that's if that's going to necessarily work out now our losses have been but at the end of the day i don't know and you know i think it to be tough but we we were glad we put ourselves in a position to have that conversation but might as well just leave it in the rest handwriting yeah i know you're right about that one before you go we got to meeting room right now with coach green as you played for him you work for him and what's happening right now for coach crean as his team is struggling right now well i think that is looking at a lack of effort on the coaching staff by any means i haven't watched their team a whole lot this year but there's no doubt that they're they're not leaving any stone unturned on how to attack i believe they play tomorrow against what hall that's right so they're spending some time no was jodi holmes who's a tougher than nails and made big shot not just a good shooter made big shot and then lost another thousand points scored in christian wofford so you know they're not going to say that i don't think you know i doubt that you know but i can say it and i think that there's no doubt that they have some talent that they have on my you know be fair all at no point i was on the kind of the darker years those first two years on his staff right at indiana we were playing some walk ons and i'll tell you right now every time you go into a game with coach crane you're as a player and as a coach for those minutes coming right up to that game you believe you're going to win that game and he does a great job with that as a motivator and also the end of the day you're go work hard so you might go out there and compete hopefully they can get this want to get back on track when you say this is typical blueprint of a young team to get up for the big games beating wisconsin beating michigan and then have those moments where they lose the northwestern had a big game for about thirty minutes thirty five minutes against minnesota came up short i just think that this is a young team be better next year but we saw this come in with the loss of a four one thousand points course and i'm with i'm with you on it's not coach so we'll keep on talking maybe he will call back in a moment there was coach brian brown he's an assistant at green bay he was under green as a player and also as an assistant was again a graduate manager yeah he was a he was a