Prislin with a pair of three-pointer, it's good. Dickard open from three-point land, good. Wood gets a screen from one, nails a three. Blythbomb with a pull-up, G. Nails a three-pointer. Pointer for three, got it. Intercepted, laid off the left. Each shot to the side is up and good. Grisberg's two-pointer shot is in. Splits for the fence, and scores. This is like being in purgatory.  The armory, Mike Martin along with Chris Wright, and the girls' game, very excited, exciting. Maybe not real well if we get into the boys' action. Yeah, it is, and we'll see what happens tonight. I talked to them, excited in the first game. The first game will be closed, and we'll see what the South men can hang with the North boys tonight. In the first game, North jumped out to a big lead. South was able to battle back on their free throw shooting in the second quarter, but North was able to overcome that comeback and build up and win by 20-some points. I think it was 22. Well, as most people know, the bottom line is, can the South Red Wings take care of the pressure and the press by North? It's not anything we haven't talked about or seen before. Can the guards handle it? They have been awful strong doing that the guard play for South has increased, and Scott Murphy's just been unbelievable as of late. You know, we talked during the girls' game about the hosts of our being Miss Outside and Bischoff being Miss Inside. The boys have the same situation with Fallon and Murphy. Yeah, Nick Fallon is coming in here. You got Nick Vale and Scott Murphy, two of the top scores in the conference, top six scores in the conference, to counter Brad Wainer and Chad Decker, who are, I believe, two and four in the conference. So you got four of the best scores in the whole valley right here in this gym. One thing that was really interesting to read in the paper today was they mentioned about Wainer and Decker and their scoring, but they're right up there with assists. Yeah, they are. They distribute the ball so well. And you know, with the high-flying North offense, you're gonna create a lot of opportunities for assists. And you got Matt Horzen banging off threes over there. Adam Schmitz has been shooting, scoring a lot more points. Those guards are giving them easy looks, and they're banging those shots home. Now, one thing that North was able to do a good job of in the first game was shut down Nick Vale, and they put a taller player on him, and it was hard for him to get a shot off, but they also need to shut off the inside play. What do you think they're gonna do to stop Murphy? Well, you're right. Nick Vale's where they gotta start. I said, you know what? Is Sal's gonna win this game? They're gonna have to go off and start shooting. They gotta start hitting those threes, which they're very capable of doing. Jacob Wilson might get hot as well. But as I said, you know, you gotta watch film. As soon as you do that, Scott Murphy's been a definite force the second half of the season. So you gotta counter down front-hand. That's where Adam Schmitz, Chad Decker, Kyle Tetzlaug, they're gonna have to earn their rock. Now, we talk a little bit about Sal and their defense because they got a tough road to hold also, and their defense is only ranked sixth in the conference. North is noted for their defense. They're ranked second in the league. They got something that Coach Coobin definitely wants to work on, entering tournament, playing next week. I believe the seeding meeting is coming up just tomorrow as a matter of fact. So this has been a big game to see what, where everybody stands out and holds out. North's gotta win. North wins tonight. They may have the number one seed because Cedarburg lost yesterday. Now, we talk a little bit about motivation for tonight's game. North has a conference wrapped up. There's a lot of motivation for Sal. They wanna break that losing streak. They wanna solidify second place right now. They're tied with ease. But the big thing is seeding, seeding, seeding. Yeah, Coach Coobin wants to get a win here tonight as we're gonna get pushed out of here. Sorry, Marty. But he wants to get a win, build some confidence for his young men entering into the tournament. Once again, as we said before, sixth in the conference, and Coach Coobin's done an outstanding job. If they can finish second in the conference, that'd be a great tip of the half to Coach Coobin and his staff, including Mike Rank. There is just about three minutes left before the start of the game. We're gonna take a short break, and when we come back, we'll have the lineups for tonight's ball game. Certified Angus Beef from Pigley Winkley. They have like big, juicy steaks. T-bone, four and a half. But Steakhouse is just take forever. So they have coaxed it up to his shop. Who needs reservation anyway? Restaurant quality certified Angus Beef. 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Forcheboyga North is Adam Schmitz, he's a six-two senior. And we're going through the North High lineup as I get finished. Being announced, 3C Brandon Miller. You see Tim Stubbe, one of the starters for Salt. Scoring guard, Nick Failin, making a rare start. And rounding out the lineup is Scott Murphy. Murphy, number 43, is a six-five junior. And Ms. Vic, number 35, is a six-five junior. Nick Failin is a five-ten senior. Jake Wilson is a five-ten senior. And Tim Stubbe is a five-eight sophomore. Our officials for tonight's ball game are a couple of really good ones. Lee Kornhaus and Todd Gutsman, they're from Green Bay. These gentlemen worked the state championship division one game last year down in Madison. And they've done North-South games before. So they know what it's all about. And that's just what you want here, as I've talked about in the past years. It's very difficult to play here for officials to adjust to something different as well. You notice the base lines and the sidelines. There's red lines. Yeah, there's a little red line there. That's where you can stand behind for inbounds. But otherwise, the black line is out. But when you're dribbling the ball up the court, you can go outside that red line. That's correct. So that's different. And of course, we've got the stage here. So officials need to come up to the stage to address the fouls. And both sides are jumping around. Decker saves it. And Misovic has it. And we're off. It's number three with the ball. Tim Stubbe. He's a little lightning bug. He's quicker. Flare. Didn't start the year off because of injury. But since he's come into the lineup, he adds a different aspect to the South attack. Brad Wainer on failing. Mick Vellin's first shot is off. No good. And Whistle goes against Admir as Misovic. This first foul and Sal's first team foul. I know Sal came up empty on that one, but I'll tell you what. He got a wide open look there. Orson had a wide open look and couldn't get it to go. Stubbe racing down the floor. The first layup is no good. Wilson getting called for a charge. Standing in and taking it was Adam Schmidt. Well, a good hustle by Wainer caused Stubbe to have to adjust his shot. And that's what caused the flurry of action down here. Normally, Tim makes those. But under pressure, a little different story. Decker eyeing it out up, but from that far deep, he doesn't do it. Schmidt does. He nails a 17-footer. But like Sal, came out in a little type of a zone there. Got to respect Tim's speed here. Tim Stubbe's pass to Wilson is out of bounds. We've got to pay credit to Jim Layers. Chris, he gets the names of the officials for me. And he told me he definitely wanted to be credited with that. So there's your credit, Jim. Schmidt's with a good rebound right over Phelan's head. Orson with another three-point attempt. And that one he got to go. 5-0, North on top. Here's the talk in North Cross. We've seen it for years. North wants him to play fast. There's Scott Murphy with the ball. Quite an impact he's made the second half of the season. Stubbe inside horse and makes a pass inside. But it's tipped away by Decker, then picked off by Schmitz. Stubbe with two quick turnovers already. Just a sophomore in this tough, tough place to play. And even the best players make mistakes early on in ballgames until they settle down and quit being so nervous. Chad Decker's pass across the lane was tipped out of bounds. Brandon Miller has it tipped away by Scott Murphy. Stubbe has it shot there by Tim Stubbe. That'll probably break that little nervousness. Had to adjust the shot again, but that time he was able to use the glass. That Decker called for the walk, shuffled his feet before he put it on the floor. Wilson's wide open. No luck pass to Jake Wilson for an easy two. 5-4, North on top. Wilson with a little stutter step, takes it hard to the hole and scores. 6-4, Salt on top. Six straight points by the Salsiders. Decker from deep nails at three. Second three-point basket by Sheboygan North. Dillon again with a no luck pass, but the ball is kicked. One thing I've noticed, Chris, you know, they've got Murphy and Phelan and Wainer. Decker, you know, they're all big time scorers, but they're certainly are very unselfish at the ball. Murphy hard to the basket, puts it up and in. No question about that. He had one mission and that was one dribble and drive to the basket. A nice play by there by the junior Scott Murphy. They're all tied up at eight. Decker from three land, no good. Murphy had the rebound, but then Chad Decker stepped in and committed a foul. I didn't notice it so much during the first game, Chris, but the second game, the announcer sounds like Michael Buffer, who was here the last time we were here. Real of a lifetime for the young men that got to hear their names called by him. Another drive-in dish. Phelan's pass to Admissavik, but his shot is blocked by Brandon Miller, but then he's going to have a whistle called on a foul called on him. Drive penetration and dump has just been the key so far for South. That and getting through the press and making easy opportunities to score. Here's a chance for a couple free throws for who I just referred to as Abner. Little Abner. Admissavik puts the first free throw down. Remember when we interviewed him earlier in the year? What a fun interview he was. He just thrilled to be a... Well, he had a good game that night, too. Yes, he did. Phil that middle, he provided the presence inside and needed four point run by. South gives them a 10 to eight lead. Hard to believe that that was way back in the first week of December. Really? But unfortunately, he's going to pick up his second foul here, I think, Marty. Josh Fastrow's had some time starting, comes into the game. Disastral, Lubach and Abmissavik tonight, you know, making starts. Josh did the bulk of the starting early on and then Lubach came in for a few games. And I was somewhat surprised to see Admere in there, not that he's not worthy of starting. It's just that he hadn't started all year. Well, he is a big kid and one thing that's North does kind of not have is size. They don't have that big aircraft carrier to take care of things. Chad's going to get his second foul with the counter, Admere, but for North, that's a definite blow for them. I think Coach Desatelle would have rather had the travel foul because he did both. It's Brian Herman checking in for Decker. Brian Herman, of course, is sophomore. We talked a lot about him and the football season, how to attack their season for Coach Tutis over at North. He'll be breaking the press. Gets it inside to Wilson. Miller with a block shot. No foul call on that one. We haven't heard Brad and Wainer's name called yet. Horizon open for just a second. His shot is no good. Herman high for the rebound. Wainer's shot is no good. Lead feed to Phelan. Layup is in. Got a beating North down the floor. Get creating easy opportunities. And for that, they've earned themselves a four point lead. Shot is blocked by Stubbe. Horizon was open for a second, but Stubbe recovered in time. The last little shot is blocked by Schmitz out of bounds. Very good call by the official. Got that right, Marty. Checking in. Oh, they caught North sleep and Murphy with an easy two. That takes me back to my Futsies basketball day, as Chris with the big John Finales inside. Yeah, throw it right up in the air and he puts it in. I believe, isn't John a Hall of Famer over at South? He's on that wall of fame, yep. A jump shot by Schmitz is no good. And a foul is going to be called on North. Foul is our mountain for the Northside team. Up to four, ready. And that goes on Brandon Miller. That's his second foul. Kyle Tetzlaug, KT in the ball game, along with Ryan Ludwig, number 23. Ryan Lubach, pardon me. Sastro coming up to relieve pressure. Salt on top, 14 to 8. Bailin goes right around the defense. Dishes it inside to Lubach, but Herman with a block. Inner almost shuffled the feed, but no call. Inside feed to Tetzlaug. He pulls it away from Sastro and then puts it up and in. Oh, Kyle Tetzlaug, sophomore. Coming in right away for Miller and making an impact. That breaks an eight point run by the Redwings. Inner with the tap. Re-throw is no good. Wainer's tip is no good. Then the ball goes out of bounds off of Sastro. Second in is Anthony Bonds. We've talked about him too this year. Little spark plug off the bench. Good shooter. He's kind of a big spark plug goal.  Well, I'm just, yeah, just going to say, though, he really helped South early on in the year this year and provided with some scoring when Tim Stubbe was hurt and Scott Murphy. Murphy putting a face guard on Wainer. Here we got a little type of zone here. And you got Scott Murphy up in the top. How about that? Little inside out action. Herman's shot is no good. Rebound goes to Groobie. Wainer loads it up. And I think Sastro might get called for a foul. Schmitt's got the rebound. He's going to go on Murphy. That's a fourth ball on Salt. North also has 14 balls. We're at the 140 mark. Salt on top, 14 to 10. Good shot of Coach Coopman. And Mike Rank in the red vest. He's got Murphy checked back in, although I guess he was in. I think it was Sastro checked back in. Thou's staying in that zone, so you're going to have to knock some threes down. Groobie loads it up from way outside. The line gets nothing but air.  I'll tell you what, when you play a zone, one thing you want is one shot and out, and you can't allow offensive rebounds. And that's exactly what Salt did that time. Tetch log, Barty Murphy. That's a good matchup, Chris. Vaughn's shot. Pass to Vaughn, goes off his leg, goes right to Sastro. He lays it up and in. And that could be Miller's third foul with a minute left in the first quarter. And it is. Sorry to call that Brian Herman. For Herman, that's his first foul. We saw another strong play there, Marty, by Josh Sastro going real up strong against the tall timbers, making the basket and getting a three-point chance. Free throws, no good. Good rebound by Bogan Schutz. 16 to 12, north on top, south on top, pardon me. We're at the 52nd mark of the first quarter. Groobie's shot is again off the mark, but Bogan Schutz grabs the rebound, puts it in. Six offensive rebounds I have for North already, and that's way too many. Sometimes it's better to miss everything. Yeah. Nobody's expecting that. That's got to do a better job on the board. Down to 20 seconds. Looks like they're going to try to hold for one kind of shot here. Failing right around Groobie for the two. The end of one quarter play at Salt 18, North 14. Properly inflating my tires, burns less fuel and saves me money on gas. 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And one of the reasons they are shooting over 50% now is because they're getting all layups, all looks to the basket. Wilson comes away with it. Jake Wilson, salt on top, 20 to 14. And Wilson's going to get tagged with his second foul. Coach Koopman goes right up to the official and say that was the correct call. Top foul though on Jake Wilson. Morrison and Schmitz check in. Schmini here doing the in bones to Brad Wainer on the 31. Nice 10 footer by Schmitz and the lane is good. Second half, as much as we've talked about Scott Murphy, Adam Schmitz has been a definite positive for North. I know a game against Mantuaq. He had some big shots to keep them in there and eventually to hold off the tough ships up there. And he has been playing a tough second half getting lots of rebounds for North, making a definite impact. He's more of an offensive threat than he was last year, that's for sure. Oh, he's got a great jump shot. Nice 10, 12 foot jay. Bail and shot over Tetschlock is no good. He gets his own rebound, puts it up and in. Well, good effort, he missed the first one, stuck with it, got the offensive rebound and another point in the paint there for South is what I was trying to say in English, Marty. I can relate to that. Schmitz with another 12 footer this time, no good. Tetschlock with the offensive board. He's fouled by Ed Misovic and if that goes on Admir, that's going to be his third. And Josh, that was quickly running in here. There's too many offensive rebounds tonight for... Tetschlock has four points, he was 0 for 1 earlier back in the first quarter, he had a three point attempt. He missed that free throw, but he got this one. Nick Phelan with his basket just before the last trip down for the Red Wings. He now has six along with Murphy, they lead soul scores. There's Meredith Forsling. She changed uniforms quickly. Yeah, really. Second free throw, but another offensive rebound. And Tetschlock right down the lane with the rebound basket. How many of those are you gonna allow to stay in the game here? 22 to 19, Salt on top, Murphy looking for the opening. Couldn't find it. Tetschlock planted right in the middle of the lane or letting Murphy go outside. Haven't beat his deadly. The hot shooting stays just that way for South, which we said it would have to happen for them to win today. And there's a turnover. Traveling was Jake Fry. Well, pardon me, Stubbe caught in the corner, but broke loose. What an advantage he is when he's on the floor. So he didn't have it at the beginning of the year. Murphy with a pump fake goes around. Two north defenders and puts it up and in. He's got 10 points. Yep, that's what I got him for. And I got him all five for five shooting. Tetschlock from outside the line. Can't get it to go. Murphy with a rebound. Deep past the fail-in. Not an easy basket opportunity. Bites the scoop at underneath Tetschlock, but can't get it in. Seven point lead and the ball with just four minutes left, four and a half. Failing must have picked up a great screen. He was wide open from 12, but couldn't get it to go. Orson, quick release off the rim. North not shooting well. Deep past the Stuby, a little too deep. And a great catch down there. Oh, almost a great catch by Jeannie Bittger's. I think Lee Benish made the grab. Yep, principle of South with the quick hands. Now we see Jeannie Bittger sitting with some friends. The referee among them. Ed Wainer has it. We're at the 4-10 mark of the second quarter South on top 26 to 19. Andrew Steward in for his first action tonight. Brandon Dawn, nice pass inside by Kerman. Steward gets an easy two. Bulgee gets that, Bulgenschutz. That's four points for Brandon Bulgenschutz. Steward trying to play the tough D inside on Murphy. Zastrow kisses one off the glass for two. Zastrow has four points. Steward outside, no good. A scramble for the ball saved by Scott Murphy on the floor, mind you. Dubak eyed it up, but pulled it back. Good decision by Ryan. South with a seven point leading under three minutes now. And they just continue their hot shooting. And now they're milking some clock. We get a timeout by Coach Kupman. It's a 30-second timeout, so we better keep it here. I mean, you could look at it on the surface and say that North just isn't shooting well, but South has a lot to do with that. Yes, they have. Like I said, that's a nice little thing they've done with Scott Murphy out on the perimeter. Makes a big presence to take away three point shooters. And they got Tim Stubbe who's real quick. He can recover out the three point shooters. And I think the other side, they've got Lucas Wilson, who just flies. So they're really flying out to jump shooters. They're daring North to penetrate, and they really haven't had that. And without Chad Decker in there to counter anything, it's been pretty quiet night for the North offense. Turning over to the offensive side of Salt, you don't see this very often, but they're beating North down the floor. And you had mentioned why their shooting percentage was so high is they're getting a lot of layup attempts. A lot of layups and a lot of second shots in the paint.  Why don't you have that?  Why don't you have that little, you know. While we're trying to get that basketball diagram. Computer over here would help.  Now here, Salt's going to melt some clock. We've got a seven point lead. We've got the ball. Let's just see how much time we can wear down. And then if you get an easy look or a layup, like you're going to get here, take it. Oh, Wilson with a great drive. He spotted an opening and took it. Almost taken away by Vaughn's, but Wainer gets it back. 30 to 21, largest lead by Salt. Up nine, under two minutes. Schmitz's shot was blocked. Wainer with the rebound, putback is good. Another offensive rebound for North. Something that Salt left to discuss at halftime. How are we going to allow? Those are the first two points by Brad Wainer. Chris tipped away by Don. Well, he couldn't handle ball well enough. They had numbers, but couldn't get the break going. Wainer from outside the line, nails it. And all of a sudden, it's 30-25. Brendan Dawn's getting called for a foul. Boy, Salt had this one. They had it in the middle. Yeah, and now just like that, it's down to four point ball game. Ball was tossed in, then we had a horn from the table. And I don't know what that was all about. I think it was the let's Scott Murphy check in the game. Boy, and that really helps. Salt too to get him in. That horn goes off. You get a break here. You get two substitutions. Actually, you know what I think it was? The substitutions, well, I don't know about that. I don't know what the whistle is about, for sure. Stubbe and Wilson are back in. Stubbe being guarded by Dawn. And then Brendan commits his second foul, a quick one again. And now you're going to put Salt to the line there now in the bonus. That was the seventh team foul. Jamie Berlin, Sim Sampford. Next, Sandy Bowles with the young lady sitting at the table also. I can just hear Red Rischel at home saying if I was at the table, we wouldn't be having these problems. I went down to 1.15, but there was a little bit of a clot problem. This time, I don't know what the problem was, the first whistle. Tim Stubbe should be at the line shooting a 1 and 1. For the first time since 9 o'clock this morning, I've got to shut my mouth, but I was kind of speechless there, Marty. I think the world's a better place for us. I like it when you talk. Give me a chance to write. Stubbe woefully short on that free throw attempt. Well, South West Coast with a seven point lead. Dawn's shot is short. Miller with a rebound, tries to pump fake, but he's tied up by Nick Phelan. Well, the mistake there, Marty, was a simple one. He brought the ball right down, basically to his belly or his knee, instead of going up strong. For you young players out there, keep the ball up high and strong, so little guys can't get in there and basically cost you a chance to score. The coach doesn't tell not very happy about that play either. Stubbe breaks pressure. Not a lap. Blue block shot is blocked.  The Schmitz weren't easy to. I was just saying before, Marty, with 226 left, you know, South had the ball and a seven point lead. And since then, it's all kind of been downhill. North's right back in the ballgame. Now they think they're going to hold it for one shot here, try to keep the lead going into halftime, maybe get a bucket here to even give him some more momentum. South, excuse me, North, of course, wants to stop. Brett, 15 seconds remaining until half. South on top, 30 to 28. 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First thing I see, it's three for 18, shooting from three point line for North High. You got to shoot better than that in the second half. Another thing I noticed, all for one, three point attempts for Sheboygan South, which means you're allowing all this drive penetration here when they're not even knocking down any threes out there. So maybe back off a half a step, you still want to pressure, ball pressure always, but my gosh, they haven't shot any threes. Everything's been done in the paint. One thing that I thought, Chris, is in that first game, Nick Phalen didn't get any good looks. The only shot attempts he had were four shots, and he's getting a lot of good looks tonight. Well, he's got eight shots already, Marty in the first half, he's three for eight shooting, and maybe we'll let the dancing start going here, and then we'll come back. We'll do what's best, and that's be quiet. So this week I'm elected to stay home and entertain you fans at home. 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AmericansForTheArts.org. Well, Chris, I'm glad I got my own from so many players. The only person that kind of missed is you. The only guy that's not shooting for 50% basically is Nick Palin. He's just three for eight, so with one more, he'll be right there as well. With the fall trouble, North had Don Decker and Miller each with two. Coach Desatelle used 12 different players in the first half. And another thing that's positive for Shmoyga North. They're down four, and Chad, excuse me, Chad Decker only played about three minutes. Winner's three point attempt is no good, but Decker went the rebound. And then Schmitz's rebound shot is no good, but he's fouled by Nick Palin. Well, just as we start here, once again, two offensive rebounds for Shmoyga North right in the outset. You can mention that they had 12 in the first half, right? Yes, I did. And it just, you can't have that happen. And they got to do a much better job of pounding those boards and getting a body on people, especially since you're bigger. Oh, eventually, that's going to hurt them this time. They picked up a foul. Schmitz will get a couple of free throw attempts, but more often than not, they're going to score baskets off of those rebounds. The moisture problem being taken care of. You know, I was looking before Marty, traditionally, the walls sweat, but it's not that cold today. Well, it's got to get pretty cold outside. I do know exactly what you mean. I know exactly what you mean. And through the years we've had some days here where there's so much moisture and humidity that it's caused slipperiness on the floor. Yeah, you have to stop the floor and stop the game and mop up the floor. Schmitz makes the second of two. It's 32-29. North opens the second half, scoring. Murphy has it tipped away by Decker. Takes it hard to the basket and lays it in. Going like he did it the first game. Well, that's for sure. You know, has five points. I miss what happened there, Marty. The thing was a turnover by South. I had my head down also. I was looking at their stuff on the floor, thrown out by the North students, and watching them clean that up, and I miss what happened. Forzen opens them outside the line. Shot hits the bracket but doesn't fall in. Then it's tipped out of bounds by the North high player. North, as I said, North just hit three of 18 in the first half from three-point line, and they start off 0-for-2 here. That's got to get better as well. As shooters, you've got to keep shooting them. You know, they're going to start falling. Murphy, the big guy helping to relieve pressure against the press. Two very entertaining games tonight so far, Marty. You got that right. I was just snaking with Murphy helping to bring the ball up. It keeps the North quick players from pressuring. Scooby with a three-pointer. As we said, 0-for-1 from three-point land was South, but just like that, three-pointer gives South a lead as Tim Stooby attempts his first one and bangs it home. He has five. He only had two in the first half. But his presence on the floor is very important, not just in points. Tetschlogg's rebound shot is up and in. He now has nine. It's 35-33, Sal's still on top. Billing out to Stooby, but he didn't have the shot, so he decided not to take it. Billing open. His shot is no good. His first clean look at a three since early in the first quarter. Wainer dribbles it up and takes it from outside the line and nails it. North on top for the first time, 36-33, 35. Very good timeout here by Coach Kutman. Settle the troops. Long way to go. You played well so far. Call a quick timeout. Actually, Norris last lead was early in the first quarter when they were up eight to six. There you see Coach Dessertel. Team is playing better. Actually, it's amounts to shooting a little better. Yeah, and what a difference that three-point weapon can use there in Chad. Decker, of course, have an impact with the steal in a bucket. Brad Wainer now has eight points on the night. And Kutman definitely concerned. That just tells the boys relax. Wainer played well so far. Long way to go. Murphy again coming up to relieve pressure. There's quick Jake Wilson. Oh, nice pass there to Josh. Yeah, Zastrow had an open look from about eight feet out but didn't take the shot. Times, though, with the press, the way North runs it. They want to get you taking those quick shots and by slowing things down, keeps you in your offense. Little given goal by Stubbe, but he didn't have the shot. Murphy did from outside the line and got a friendly kiss off the board. And they think it hit a wire up there and it actually looked like it did hit a wire. Oh, yeah, shaken. For Murphy, that's his first three-point basket of the night. He has 13 points so far. Borson with a three. Rain in three. And he turned over. Borson outside the line again. Bangalow. Two to 38, mark up four. Tetschlag with a block. Tetschlag and the first team fold. Butch Testel's gonna make a switch here. He's gonna put Adam Schmitz on. Scott Murphy and put Kyle Tetschlag on Josh Zastrow. Put the experienced player on that big score for South. Anthony Vaughn's almost lost it. Got it over to Zastrow who looked again like he had an outside shot, only about a 10 footer but didn't take it. Man, they just aren't attacking. They had two chances they had for chances to attack and they decided not to take those shots. Salt's running their motion offense. With a high hand by Kyle Tetschlag. Now, Stubbe got the pass inside to Murphy but Tetschlag released on his defender and double teamed the ball. Jump ball situation. Referee's doing a really nice job of indicating what's happening on the floor. Yeah, we haven't had to say their names much or talk about officiating much and that's always a good thing. What number are they calling with their fingers and we always are pretty aware of what they're doing? Again, a sign of good officials and when they don't make their presence felt, that means they've done a good job. That follow goes on Kyle Tetschlag. Same play. All stolen away. Wainner right down the lane, can't get it to go. Two North players on the ball when they landed. Unfortunate set of circumstances. Sophmore for Sophmore, Herman in for Tetschlag. 344 remaining in the third quarter. It's 42 to 38 North. Bonds went right around Schmidt but then had it knocked away by Decker. Horizontal with a quick release again. And that's up and over. That was an easy one to see. Yep. I have five turnovers for South in the first four and a half minutes. They're not getting shot attempts. I don't have them for three shot attempts in the whole half because they keep turning the ball over and just not attacking like they were in the first and another turnover. Decker to Wainner. Good. North on a run full time out. They'll take a short break and be right back. Take a deep breath. It's all going to be fine. The Armory North is in the midst of a 16 to four run. They were down at halftime 32 to 28. They are now ahead 44 to 38. And Chris, you're talking about shot attempts before. And we should say the lack of shot attempts. Yeah, just three shot attempts for South here in the first five minutes of the third quarter. That's because they had six turnovers. And one of those difference makers, of course, is that number 21 in the blue Chad Decker. He's caused two steals already. And good time out again by Coach Kuehnman. Settle the troops, stop that North run. And that's the key here. You know, as a coach, you want to stop run. And you just said there's a big one going for North. Stuby Elliott on the loose gets between two North defenders. Almost had it tipped away, gets it inside, disastrous, and then back out and salt again. Very patient on the offense. And they throw it away. And again, another shot attempt. Yeah, nice quick pass there by Tim Stuby earlier. Couldn't score off that one. But unfortunately, he threw that one away. That's why I'm trying to get position inside. A little deep for Weiner to want to load that one up. Salt in a 2-3 zone. Horizontal with a quick release outside the line. His shot bounces around on the rim, but doesn't go down. Scott Murphy with a strong rebound. Over Chad Decker that time. This guy's got to get hot. 31, Nick Valen. Zastrow's shot is short. Murphy out of nowhere knocks the ball away from Brad Weiner. Well, since that time out, Chris, he played a minute and eight seconds without a score. Fires and nails a three. Oh, the three-point shooting that was not coming in the first half. It's definitely coming in the second half, and it's coming in waves. Fourth three-point basket this quarter. Weiner now has 13 points. North is on top 47 to 38. Wilson trying to go down. The lane has the ball tipped away. 144 remaining until the quarter is finished. Decker almost stole that one away. Stubbe from outside the line. No good. Brian Herman got that rebound. Barnes is open again. Well, he had somebody running at him. Josh Zastrow forced him to have to adjust his shot. Good hustle by number five, Josh Zastrow. He got a good shot of Tom DeSattel. On our 14 championships in 26 years in the 92, 93 season, those championship teams were undefeated. So he's trying to repeat that for the third time.  Admiras Misovic with a strong rebound. Just his first of the night. I was going to say, that's a nice run by Coach Zastrow. But he's got to earn it, too, because he's got to play second place east and second place south the last two games to finish an undefeated season. Stubbe with a nice move inside to score two. He now has seven points. 47 to 40. North on top. We're under a minute left in the quarter. Horizon from outside the line. He's got it again. Schmitz has his third three-point basket of the quarter. He has 12 points in the game. Stubbe maybe a little too much shriveling, but he gets bailed out. And Schmitz is getting the troops together. Settle him down a little bit. Good decision there by the senior. Here's shot of Brian Herman, number 35. Brett the third. 30-second mark. North on top, 50 to 40. We talked about all the North offense, but the North defense has really increased, too. Stubbe from way outside the line with 16 seconds left. Not a good shot attempt. 10 seconds left. Wainer has it. I think it's Wainer time. Shot is no good, and he's going to be fouled by Admiras Misovic. That number four, Marty. Number four. Oh, they got Zastro instead. And I already marked it down. Darn. Hit that when it happens. Wainer will be at the line shooting two. Free throw shooting's been one of the thorns in Northside, just shooting 58% this year. From the line and conference play, Brad gets one out of two. Something that they're going to have to definitely improve. They want to get to the show. That being the state tournament. Saltz, on the other hand, is almost at 70%, which is pretty good for a high school team. Lubaugh kicks it up to Zastro. I can't. Oh, look. You've got to take that shot when it's there. At the end of three quarters of play, North on top, 51 to 40. Certified Angus Beef from Pigley Wiggly. They have like big, juicy steaks. T-bone four and a half. The Steakhouse is just take forever. So they have coaxed it up to his shop. Who needs reservation anyway? Restaurant quality certified Angus Beef. Just one more reason to shop at Pigley Wiggly. Compliments to the shot. The story about a group of kids who volunteered. Do something nice for someone. We fixed stuff. Did some art projects with the kids. We fixed up his house. We worked in the woods. Made up the park. Did something for the planet. We just did it. No other reason. You know what? It was great. At first, they didn't know each other. Well, that didn't last long. This guy is really funny. The Ace of Angus Friends. Are you into it? Call for agent. Check out our website at ruintuit.com. 23-8 advantage for North that quarter in scoring points. And that was fueled by five three-point baskets. Well, I'll tell you the big difference there was North attempted 10 more shot attempts. Just seven shot attempts I have for South in that quarter. And they got to get back to what they did so well. Driving the paint. Easy baskets. Beating North up the floor. And just adds to the South frustration of offensive foul there on Jacob Wilson. Just trying to make things happen. Third foul on Jake Wilson. And it's hard for South because they run a patient offense for the most part. And being down 11, you know, they might have to get away from some of that. Right. But they were flying up the floor in the first half. And I don't know if North's getting back so well or South's just not pushing as well or attacking as well here in the second half. Of course, making five threes for North too there in that half. Our next quarter helped too. Decker trying to take it down. The lane was stopped. Salt playing very good defense. Decker shot is missed and failing with the rebound. Done a nice job of shutting down Chad Decker today. Goal basket. Wilson being called for the offensive foul. And that'll be number four on Jake. And I think he got something in the head. I'm just going to say it had injury to Insull. He's hurt while Lakeland Sports Medicine right out there, a trainer taking a look at Jake. Dan Coopman of course out there. He's not happy with that call. Walks by the official. Coach Coopman and the official are having words. And he's not very happy. I thought it was a good call. I mean, he was stationary. But you know, Dave knocked people down before. And they don't call anything. And then something like that happens. It's, you know, I always say in high school basketball, if there's contact, especially getting guys getting flattened, either it's got to be an offensive foul or defensive foul. I just don't know in high school ball about this stuff called a no call. These are just kids and somebody could get hurt. There you see Jake Wilson. Well, he's a tough kid. Well, it's nice to see him to be able to walk off the floor. He's a tough kid. He'll be playing baseball for Coach Clay. Roman Centerfield, one of the best players in our conference. That's for sure. You were at the old timers meeting the other night. Larry High School was there. And you and Gene Mann, I know, had words with him. What's the scoop on that? Yeah, they want to get young youth people into Miller Park. And they want to take teams down there. And it'd be high school baseball teams, too. Yeah. And Little League teams. And I have to give them an opportunity to practice over there or watch practice or VP. And eventually play high school games in Miller Park. Wouldn't that be neat? Wainer with a dish off to Decker, super easy to the north, rolling 53 to 40.  There's the old sin of mine, fouling a jump shooter. And for once, South looked to attack and shoot. Josh got a nice open look there. Was batted on the arm. Now it's going to get a three-point attempt here. Josh Zastro shooting a pair. And officially, he's the 19th leading scorer in the conference. Actually, Josh was fouled on a three-point attempt. He's going to get three shots. Yep. You get who that foul was on. Number three, Brandon Dawn. That was his third. Probably why he's coming out of the game. Fourth foul, that jump shooter. Well, I know you'd have him out. The fewer is, Coach. Quite quickly. Two for three trip for Josh Zastro makes it 53 to 42. Full time out. By South, we're going to take a timeout. Before you know it, she talks. Before you know it, she walks. Before you know it, she knows you. Before you know it, she has a heart.  Before she's a twinkle in your eye, that's when you need to take fallic acid every day. After that, it's too late to prevent some serious birth defects. Fallic acid now, before you know it. There you see the decorated armory wall. All walls around here are decorated. And you mentioned it before, you know, it's not that cold out. Sometimes the walls get a lot of perspiration on them. Although up by that window on the corner would be that northeast corner, yeah, right up there. You kind of see it. A little glossy right above the word frigate. Fidget. The shot, Brian. 640 remaining in a ball game, north on top by 11. Mike Martin along with Chris Wright bringing you the game. Decker trying to take it inside. He's fouled. All the charts on Josh Zastrell. No, we have not heard Scott Murphy's name, except for that one three-pointer, this whole half. What a rebound by Decker, but his put-back is no good. And then Schmitz pass inside. The Bogan-Schutz is tipped out of bounds. Flutter puts it in. He's got nine points. 55 to 42. Stuby shot rolls off. And then it's tipped out of bounds by Bogan-Schutz. I'll just can't get anything to go. Bailin has one shot attempt in the second half. Scott Murphy, one shot attempt in the second half. That's been a safe, Chris. You know, we're almost 10 minutes into the second half, and Salt only has three baskets. And in this quarter, they have two free throws by... Oh. Looked like he was over and back on the second step-back. Oh, good try there by Nick Bailin.  No good, and horizon comes away with the board. You are right. Even when they get the good looks inside, the ball is not dropping in for him. Now he just rolled around the rim and just decided to kick out. Largest lead of the game right now. 13 points by North. 5-50 remaining, and Tim Stubbe gets called for a foul. That'll be his first. Kind of a lull here, Marty. Yeah, I was watching coaches yelling at his team. I shouldn't say yelling at coaching them, but I couldn't understand what he wanted to do. Not turn it over. Not do that. That's why I had Decker wide open, but couldn't get him the ball. And once again, they're stuck, but there's a backdoor cut by Nick. One for two. Chris first points with a second half. He has eight in the game. Hope they're going to try some trap. Ball is almost stolen away, but Anthony Vons is going to get tagged with the foul. Good decision there by South. Try to force a turn over there with a trap, but you can't reach. Almost had Schmidtie up in the air. Seventh foul. That'll put North on the line every foul now until the end of the game. Those two free throws, Adam Schmitz now has eight points and North leads at 57 to 44. 30 second time out, so we'll keep it here. Our next broadcast will be next Thursday night. Final game of the year will be Green Bay East at North. That'll has huge implications for South the way it looks. Doesn't look like South to pull us on out, although it's not over, but a win by North would give them an undefeated season and South would have to win their last game. Right, they have to go up to Green Bay Preble, Marty, which is a tough place to play. They got Adam Sullivan's pretty tough player, but trouble's been kind of struggling a little bit. South's been a real tough role game team this year, and so hopefully they can earn that win. This game is by far from over, so they got to take care of business here. And if they don't, they're going to have to win a tough game on the road and hope they get some help from their neighbors to finish second. That game is also on Thursday night. So a lot of Thursday night action next week. Yeah, with the girls tournament starting Tuesday and Friday, nice move. Bastro down the lane for two points. Murphy, but he gets a shot to go. Decker just had three points in the first half, what an impact he makes. He's sitting with 11 right now, could make a 12 and does. That makes it 60 to 46. Boy, I thought South was going to make a little run there. Got to fight out those runs and all of a sudden North comes right back. Stuby's runner is off. Tetch log with a strong rebound. Trying to get it inside to Tetch log, threw it away. Stuby has his shot blocked by Brad Wainer. Another 30 second time out. Yeah, by North. Again, they're allowing drive penetration, which I think they're trying to correct now, which is sometimes is a problem for North. You know, we did the tournament games up in Fond du Lac last year and North extended pressure over the entire floor and that really opens up those driving lanes and we'll see a little bit of that here tonight. Maybe at some point you need to just pull back a little bit. Well, I was going to say the first half, that was South's key to success and I don't know what they did to make adjustments at halftime, but those same things that were there in the first half for South are definitely not there here in the second half. Late here, it's coming here is Tim Stuby with his quickness is creating that. Josh Zastrow had one as well. That's something I think South needs to get back to as well, that drive penetration and punching those gaps. Bill and inside the Murphy, he's muscling his way in but he's called, pardon me, there's a fall called on his way to the hoop. And that's another thing Marty, we saw in the first half of Scott Murphy take the ball to the basket like that with some authority and look at the results you get. Kyle Touchlog having a big, big night, eight rebounds for him. Yeah, right now, Coach isn't thinking he's having a big night. Failing outside shot attempt is no good. Wainer has it for North and South really scrambling trying to get the ball. Decker had it tipped away and then it went off of Murphy's hand out of bounds. Well asleep for just a second and that's all it took for horse and to nail another three-pointer and he has 15 points. All threes. 63-46, largest lead of the night, 17 inside pass from failing to Murphy. His shot is up and in and he's fouled by Schmitz. Murphy had a basket in the second quarter, a three-pointer that gave him 13 and now he finally got another basket over halfway through the fourth quarter. And between that time, I don't think he had more than one shot. No, he did. It's not like, you know, he's getting shots and not making, he wasn't even getting attempts. He has three attempts and a half, Marty, you're right on there. Three-point play gives himself 49. Herman missed a bunny shot. Bogey got the put back, but he missed it, but it was fouled. Murphy gets tagged with the foul and they've got him for four. Logan should have had four points in the first half. Going to, I believe he's going to Valparaiso to play some football down there. Very smart kid. Eric Engelhardt went to Valparaiso, played some football there too. And the top students at North High School. Now, North's going to play a half-court defense. Well, nice move, Nick. Yeah, Phelan goes right around. Wainer can't get his shot to go.  That time he kisses it off the glass and puts it in. Josh Zastrow for two. Josh with 10 points off the bench. 64 to 51, 3-19 remaining in the ball game. Anthony Vaughn picks up the foul. Wainer will be shooting two or in the double bonus now. Wainer is tied with Matt Horizen for the team lead in scoring with 15. He could bump it up to 16 with another free throw make, kind of a quiet 16 for him. You're right. He hasn't done a lot of one-on-one stuff to get his points. He's just been very workman-like. Phelan with a spin move, kind of a wild shot, no good, but Murphy gets it put back. Things been kind of tough for Nick. Smiths with two. Murphy with a three-point bomber. Wow, he has 21 now. And you would think with his height, he would shoot those trees, but he's shooting like 40% from out there. 68-56, north up 12, South trying to battle back. But very difficult to do against this fine raider club. And Brad Wainer getting called for an offensive foul. And I think South, what they're trying to do is set up a half-court trap, which caused a situation to double team there. And Brad kind of pushed off and drew the foul. Well, coach Dessotel waved his team back, get back in the half-court defense. Well, I think that moisture is hitting, and it's at a good time, too, because the game is almost over. I hope it doesn't have an impact. Well, I think that case, Chris, it's more Murphy falling down. But there's wet jersey on that brand new floor. What you guys are seeing on your screen, it doesn't look that good when you're sitting here. It's not quite that light, especially that shot there. Murphy battling his way in against Adam Schmitz. And Schmidio get called for the foul. Murphy will be at the line shooting the old-fashioned one-on-one. Now the question now, will the 58% free throw shooting of North have an impact in the last two minutes and 30 seconds? Because South is not out of it. Murphy gets a pair. He has 23. Here comes that half-court trap, 68 to 58. One thing I will say about Brad Wainer, especially on that last possession, he's not getting rid of the ball soon enough. He's allowing the double team to get to him. Right, and Schmidio's open there. And he's either got to back up a little bit to not allow the trap to come, wait for someone to flash high post or opposite side of the floor. He can reverse the ball. Just back yourself up almost not to the line, but get yourself back away from the trap to avoid it. Or slice it. A good shot of Brad Wainer. A two-for-two trip gives him 18 points on the night. And more importantly, gives his team a 12-point advantage. Decker with a steal. He's going hard to the hoop and he puts it down. Decker with 14 points. Good night, having not played much in the first half. Murphy's shot is off. Andrew Stewart in the scrum for the ball. Jake Frye coming in, number 25. We're under two minutes now, Chris. Yeah, I was going to say an offensive explosion for North in the second half, having just 28 at halftime. And now in the mid-70s by the time this one's over. Actually, they had 23 at half, scored 28 in the third quarter alone. Inside feed to Schmitz. Good. North running their own little backdoor moves now. Another steal for Chad Decker. Had the right idea. Dish it off. South is clearing the bench. They're going to get the five young men out of the game. Garrett Renseman, number 11 is in. Lucas Wilson, number 15 is in. Allen Conrad, 51. Travis Young, 33. And number 41, Adam Koenig. Those are all the Southside kids. Jake Frye, we mentioned, number 25. Andrew Stewart, 44, was in. David Suxy, number four is in. Greg Mans comes in, his first action of the night. Get a good shot of Chad Decker. Didn't play much in the first half. Had a big second half. He had 14 points for the game. 11 of those coming in the second half. Three-throw attempt by Renseman is no good. The last thing I want Nark to do here is foul. Greg Mans with the rebound. Long lead feed to Stewart. He wanted to put it all, catch it and put it up, all in one motion. Instead the ball slipped out of his hands. Brendan Dawn checks in. We're at 103, it's 74, 58. North up by 16. Too much second half north. Five three-point baskets. All of them coming in the third quarter, Tris. Yeah, and that was definitely the quarter. You said 23 to eight. You said it before. Well, they had four of them come right in a roll. Two by Horizan, two by Wainer. Pardon me, five in a roll. They all came right in a roll real quickly. Horizan had two, three of those, and Wainer had two. Lucas Wilson gets charged with the foul. Dave Soxie on the line. Again, I just have unofficially just 20 shot attempts for South in the second half, which isn't too many. Nark's going to have 20 baskets in the second half. Now 15. I know that a number of those trips were three-throw attempts. Soxie with an 0 for 2 trip. And I believe Andrew Stewart was out of bounds. Grabbed that rebound. We're down to 30 seconds left. Schmitz, good anticipation to lead up an end. 15 seconds remaining. Back cut by Young, stuffed by Stewart. And a jump ball called. Looking into the hole, his shot is blocked. And that's the ball game North came to talk to. What does being involved really mean? Is it making grilled cheese sandwiches for sleepover, staying for the curtain call at the talent show, or learning the names of their favorite bands? Believe it or not, right now there are parents just like you out there talking about things like this, from school to home, from friends to futures.  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At the Army, where Sheboyga North is defeated solved by a score of 76 to 58, down on the floor is Chris Wright with a couple of the players from the winning North Squad. I'm here with senior Adam Schmitz and Matt Horzen. Adam, not a lot of offense in the first half. 76 points total. You really came out firing in the second half. What happened? Well, we didn't shoot that well in the first half. I think we were three of 18 from behind the arch, and that's not our style. We came out and wanted to get Chad back in the game right away, get him a couple of one-three long passes and just get our offense going, because we're going to put a lot of points on the board and we're going to play D. That's how we win. Chad got into a little bit of foul trouble. Brian, Herman, Kyle, Tetsogg stepped in big time. Our sophomore stepped up today and played big, I thought. Kyle played real good, and Herman went to the board every time he could. Also, I noticed I made a comment, Adam, that the last couple of weeks I've been watching you. Your shooting's been much better. You've been a big force on the rebounds. Can you carry that over for the next couple of games here? I think if we're going to get a ways, I think I have to. I know Brian and Chad, they can score a lot of points, but I think when we get to the tournament, somebody else is going to have to step up and I'm willing, and hopefully we'll just be better for it. Well, I know you've got a pretty little jump shot, Adam, and you've got to keep knocking them down the next couple of weeks. Harding, tough first half for you. Then you get bang out. Four tough ones in the third quarter. Second half, you're random off. 23-8 in the third quarter. What a turnaround.  Ever since we've been playing here in high school, that's our favorite thing to do is just go out and play ball and get on a big run like that. You really hit some threes, and I keep saying you've got to keep shooting them. I know you shoot about a million of them throughout the year. You just got to keep firing, huh? I'm not, especially in a game like this where they kept leaving me open for shots, and my teammates kept finding me. I mean, Brad and Chad and Adam and those guys, they kept feeding me the ball, and I can't lose confidence, and I'll just keep weighing them up there, and they started falling for me in the second half. Well, I made a comment during the first half they got a lot of dry penetration, easy baskets. Second half you really put the clamps on. I said late in the game, I noticed you only gave up about 21 shot attempts. Great defensive effort, huh? It was. That's what we had to do, too, because the offense, we knew the offense would come, but we had to put the clamps down on the defense if we wanted to make that run and try to put the game away. Big game on Thursday. Can you run an undefeated season in conference? It's going to be a heck of a game. East has got such a great team out there, and they gave us a run the first time, but if we play our game, I like our chances. Yeah, I agree with you. They're really athletic. If you don't have anything to do, come out Thursday night, and cheer on Coach Desatel and his senior-led team here. Back to you, Marty. Great interview, Chris. Big second half by North. They scored 56 second half points to Solce 26. That was a 30-point advantage. Let's run through the scoring for Sheboygan Salt. Tim Stubbe had seven points. Josh Zastrow off the bench had 10. Anthony Vaughn's had two. Bruce and six. Nick Phelan had eight. All of those coming in the first half. All but two of those. Admir and Misovic started tonight. Had two points. And Scott Murphy was Mr. Big in terms of scoring for Salt. He had 23. Norse scoring was accentuated by great balance. They had four players in double figures, led by Brad Weiner's 18. Matt Horus and Adam Schmitz each had 15, two players in double figures with 14. Chipping in was Kyle Tetschlag with nine points off the bench and Brian Bogenschutz with five more off the bench. Great second half by North. Their string runs to 13 in a row over the South Siders. South, as we mentioned earlier, will be playing next Thursday up at Green Bay Preble. They need to get that win, and they need to have North defeat East to finish in second place. They're playing Green Bay East on Thursday night at the North Gym. That'll be our final regular season broadcast. You can look for us to do some tournament games down the road. For my partners, Chris Wright and Derek Deezing, I want to say thanks to the crew for the great job they did. My name is Mike Martin. Thanks for watching, everybody. We'll see you down the road.


The queue presents On the Ground. Here's your host, Jeff Rick. Hi, Jeff Rick here with the queue. We're On the Ground in New York City, a really special edition of Our On the Ground. We're here at the Lower East Side on the edge of Chinatown, a lot of action, and really excited to come to Fast Forward Labs. We see Hillary Mason all the time at the show, so to actually come out to Fast Forward and get a feel for what's going on here on the ground in New York. So we're joined by our next guest, Catherine Hume, the Director of Sales and Marketing, welcome. Thanks, Jeff. Glad to be here. So you're like out on the field. You're dealing with customers in marketing, big data. So what's kind of the vibe? There's a lot of excitement obviously in the tech world about big data, machine learning, but what's happening on the customer side? What do you see? Well, we're seeing all sorts of things. So at Fast Forward Labs, we work with both emerging very small startups that are trying to build products that have machine intelligence or data science oriented capabilities. And then we work with really large Fortune 500 enterprises who have sometimes been in business for hundreds of years and have tons of data that they've collected and are trying to figure out how they can leverage new machine learning products to make use of that and continue to grow in the future. So on the small side, there's a lot of popularity right now for virtual assistants that happen to combine a lot of the capabilities that we have focused our expertise at Fast Forward Labs on, so one of them is language generation, right? So thinking about having a set of data and then representing that data and making it easily understandable by people who aren't data scientists who aren't analysts and can orient and understand insights in just plain old human language. So we'll partner with these startups and they say we've got a great idea to have a conversational interface with the product we're developing for consumers, but we're just looking for some help in building out a feature that uses these capabilities. So we'll step in and as technical advisors we collaborate with their development team and help them realize those capabilities. And from a financial perspective, it's often a trade-off. They've gone through series A, it's a little bit of seed funding sometimes up to series B, and they decide whether or not they want to hire a new developer or they want to work with us to leverage some of the more emerging machine learning expertise to build their products. So they want to build the next series or they want to build a different way to communicate than say a tableau visualization or what do you mean exactly? What are they trying to do? So there's actually a huge range out there. It's a really exciting time, one resource to look at. There's an investor at Bloomberg Beta named Siobhan Zillis who has this whole landscape of the machine intelligence world right now. And she has created these little categories that describe things like synthesizers who take lots of data and put it all together in a way that can become actionable. Or different advisors say where we work with one of our startups who's building an assistant for sales and marketing teams who can just go on and look through the calendar and automatically schedule meetings with external participants on one's behalf. We have others, we're big users of Slack here as our internal communication chat channel and there's a company we're advising who's building a bot who you can ask questions to when you're a new employee in a company and say I'm trying to build out this analytics tool, this analysis of my data in Salesforce, not quite sure how to use a reporting capacity and it's like a help tool on steroids that automatically provides you your answer and can even go in and read articles on the internet and suggest tweets for marketers so that they're just automatically generated tweets related to longer documents on the web. And is it pulling data directly out of Salesforce? So that's the other thing that's different, right? That the API economy is so interesting that you can pull all these disparate data sources and really apply your own secret sauce, your own kind of new method or mode of an application by using all this stuff that's already out there. Yeah, absolutely. And I think from sort of an investment perspective where there's value, it's just adding on an additional layer of value, untapped value to some of the existing either data sets or existing applications that already have analytics on them. One example in the natural language generation space, in one of our, actually our first report, we talked about systems that can render data more accessible in natural language. There is a recent integration that a company called Narrative Science out of Chicago has made with the data visualization platform CLIC where the sort of the first generation of making data more accessible and democratized to non-analysts and companies was all visualizations, right? So let's turn it into pictures and let's render all of this information insights. And then the next stage is, okay, let's go beyond pictures and tell stories, right? So there's some people who are visual, some people who are more analytic and just that presentation can be modified to meet different user thought patterns and needs. Yeah, so Catherine held up the book, we're teasing her. So, but this is interesting. I mean, this is part of what the fast forward delivery is and these are not yet available on Amazon, but hopefully you guys are gonna change your business model. You should either sell them or I guess they're available if you're a client, right? You get them part of the subscription, but these are pretty interesting and in depth, really reviews of ways to do these things that they cover on the quarterly basis, whether it's the, what's this from the natural language generation or the picture recognition or the realistic stream. So these are really high value books you have to talk to fast forward to get one. But so that's good. So now let's shift gears to the big companies. So what's kind of the conversation that you have with these big companies that know they need to do something? They probably have different things all over the place. Yeah, so I really, they sort of fall into two categories. So there's the one category that has heard a lot of buzz about machine learning data. There has been a higher up executive who is interested in making a strategic shift to try to use data more effectively. But up to this point, they don't really have a research and development resources internally. Analytics, if it does exist, has existed with under the CFO. It's focused on BI. It's focused on analysis of transactional data for P and L reporting, et cetera. But they haven't really merged out into big data web analytics, et cetera. So in those instances, they'll call us and they'll say, we're keen to learn about this. Can you help us transfer your knowledge on what's emerging, what's recently possible? Give us a continuous stream of new ideas so that we can identify an ability to build a new product and shift around our data strategy. The other type of customer we work with do have advanced research and development teams, large financial services companies, consumer package goods, just some big Fortune 500 companies. And there, we're just an extension of their R&D team. They may have some contact with academics, but it takes a long time to read through all of the new papers that are coming out as this landscape changes so quickly. And they know that they can trust us as from an applied perspective to really give them insights that could take off and shorten their ability to use a new technique from a year's time to two months time. Yeah, it's interesting because you guys are pretty close to the financial district here in Manhattan. And obviously financial services, arguably, is really a data business, right? They don't have any money anymore, right? It's just numbers on a page when we trade money and it continues to advance and grow. So those guys and also a little differences, little shapes of portions of points here and there can have a huge impact. One of the things we see though, consistently, both in the large banks and then with the hedge funds in the area is that they're struggling right now to really understand what big data can do for their business. They all have a hunch that they can understand it and should understand it. They are interested in merging analysis, what used to be qualitative analysis. So hiring on some recent PhDs or recent undergrads that are gonna do research on a company and then use that for their capital market strategy. They really wanna incorporate analysis of Twitter or other social media vehicles into their trade strategy, but are still struggling to figure out how that might work. So they bring us in to parse a lot of the rhetoric that they hear from other vendors in the space to plan out how do we build the infrastructure, what's possible, what might this lead to in the future and actually do something that's meaningful as opposed to just data for data's sake. Right, right. And what about kind of the dark side of machine learning that people are afraid of? Basically, taking away everybody's jobs and you talk about virtual assistants and it seems like there's almost no limit where things can be automated and moved to a machine versus the flip side of the coin is having more people kind of empowered by the database decision making tools who can actually do a better job and continue to have still that contextually sensitive point of view that the machines don't necessarily have. It's just different. What do you see in the field and how is that kind of debate shaping up? There's really two totally different trains of thought on this question. So the one that's getting a lot of press because it pushes on our fear buttons and it's really spectacular is the one where a machine suddenly becomes smarter than we are and take over and exterminate the human race. And we of course respect that that's occurring. There's a lot of smart people to think that way but it's not really where we think our attention should be directed today. In contrast, there's a bunch of people that are trying to think about, A, from an employment perspective, to what extent do these systems actually replace middle class high skilled workers? And our opinion is that it's not gonna happen tomorrow and we try to encourage our customers to ask more practical questions like, for what types of processes internally are we willing to accept systems that give probabilistic results? So one of the things in using statistical data technologies is that unlike computer programming 15 years ago, these are not deterministic systems. They start with the data, they build models and those models will be improved over time. So there's confidence rates and whether or not the classification say is accurate and they're getting higher and higher and deep learning as an example as we did in the image object recognition reports has some fantastic success rates in terms of accuracy but it's still not exactly perfect. So the question becomes which business processes can I trust this, can I trust automating and just let the system do its job and for which other ones can we set up different workflows where system does the first pass, we look at those results, we then refine them and push some information back to the tech team so that they can develop them and that's a whole different business process than automation of a workflow using a step-by-step deterministic system. So we think that those questions are actually more important from the employment perspective and just getting the systems to work because it's really his new stuff and there's a lot of work to do. So before we think about the robots taking over, let's actually make robots that work. Right, it's funny you say that because we had Dr. Michael Jordan on from Berkeley at a GE event and he talked about the difference between computer science and data science and the big one being probability and confidence level. Totally. Traditional computer science, right, it's A or B, it's on or off, it's one or zero where in real data science there's always a confidence factor, there's always a probability but I want to shift gears one more time. You mentioned something off here, that was interesting. Obviously academic institutions are very involved in the development of data science and companies are very involved in the development of data science but then you mentioned you're out talking to artists which I didn't expect for you to say. So where do artists fit in this puzzle, in this development? Totally, so first just to talk about our company. So we were unique, we all have sort of cross-disciplinary backgrounds. I did a doctorate in comparative literature. We have a couple of people on the team that had done graduate work in physics. So we like weird stuff and we try to explore things that are on the fringe and use that to influence creative applications in companies. So in doing that work, there's a couple of artists based here in New York City, a guy named Kyle McDonald and another named Jean Kogan who are very actively using new deep learning techniques, the stuff that's used to identify objects and pictures to, as an example, do what they call style transfers. So you take the Mona Lisa, you take Van Gogh's Starry Night, these famous paintings that you can really recognize as, oh yeah, that was Da Vinci and that was Van Gogh, and then they take a picture, it could be a picture of you, Jeff, and they re-envision your photo as if Van Gogh painted it or as if it were a Roman fresco. And these are ways in which, because these artists are not like companies that are trying to make money, determined by the commercial needs and the market needs that end up shaping how products developed or not like the academics that are sort of working to find out the theoretical applicability and generalizability of a given technique, they get to go and do applied research without any constraints and end up doing a great job just pushing the boundaries of a technique and also showing its limitations, which for us is immensely valuable when we go to consult with our customers. Because you made interesting comment that once you're in a commercial application or even an academic application that's tied to some other objective, you start making choices, you start working down a path even though at the beginning of the path, you start at point zero, you start having to make decisions and you start picking whether to go left or whether to go right. And the artists don't have that really kind of limitation, their ability to explore and continue to explore and change directions and back up. It's very different and opens up lots of different kind of new discovery. Well, it also for these kind of new emerging technologies, we do a lot of work with our large clients on should I build this technique or should I buy an existing vendor solution. And it's precisely, when anyone in product management knows this, there's gonna be a trade-off when you're deciding, you can't do everything, have to pick which feature you're gonna focus on for your next dev sprint. And that feature should hopefully, if the product marketing and engineering team are tightly aligned, end up serving as large of a customer base as possible so that you can make revenue numbers. And in doing so often, we saw this with the natural language generation as we've studied the trajectory of the technology over the last year. The trend right now is towards what they call self-service tools. So it's a lot of rules that are baked in and it's sort of removing the creativity and data science and making it just more rules that will link together the way in which someone wants to phrase something in some sort of relationship in a data set. So then for our clients, the questions become, all right, what are you gonna use this for? And do you wanna have the ability to have the scale and be flexible in the future? In that case, it might be better to go for, to build it internally so you can keep that creativity and take a little more time, but you can really customize it or do you wanna just go for the sort of more plug and play solution? Yeah. So last question, you're out in the field just talking to people, what's kind of your most common objection that you're running into that people that aren't familiar with that's more labs or really just aren't that familiar with the space or they kind of heard about it? What is kind of the most common objection and how are you answering that? I actually think the most common objection is we have a pretty unique business model. So it is something that we, it's a subscription model. You get access to the research and then you get four hours of on retainer consulting in addition to that and we'll scope out projects, but customers are used to buying, they have different buying patterns and they allocate budget per different departments. So they're used to buying either consulting or research. And when they do consulting, they wanna do a scope of work, think about the project, is it time and materials, it's a, you know, how things are scoped out and we have to do a little bit of education in the beginning of the sales cycle and rendering them comfortable with the fact that we're not a consulting shop, we're not a forester or a gardener, we're somewhere in between. And they just, it takes a little bit of time for them to accept that and once they do, it's normally okay. And you know, we talk with the lawyers and we say, you can license our content, you can use it internally, but that doesn't mean you can send it externally. So it's sort of this, it's the challenge associated with the new business model. But that's really business mechanics. It's not really an objection to data science. It's not an objection to, when you said that we have a unique business model, I thought you meant that the customer across the table was saying we have a unique business model, of course, you know, no, the stuff can apply to us, which of course, everybody had things, they have a unique business model until you dig under the covers and it's mostly the same as everybody else, maybe a little tweak here and there. Yeah, I find that, I think that's, I mean, in terms of the actual content, so of course, you know, we're, our product is most naturally aligned with early adopters. There's a lot of pragmatists that exist in the large companies that we serve. So there is the, you know, trying to find the person who really is excited about what's possible as opposed to the person who wants a time-tested, non-disruptive, controlled, comfortable solution that they can easily integrate into their existing processes. We're gonna turn into petroleum pretty soon, those people. Yeah. All right, Catherine. Well, thank you for taking a few minutes with us and hosting us here at Fast Forward Live. Yeah, I'm delighted to have you. Absolutely. Jeff Frick here, we're on the ground at Fast Forward Labs in Manhattan, New York City. Thanks for watching, we'll catch you next time.


Happy Friday moz fans today. I want to talk to you about position one in 2024. So as I'm recording this, we're just coming to the end of January 2024 and I want to have a look at what is actually in position one in the SERPs right now how it's changed in the last year and what that means for us as SEOs as We're often prone as an industry sort of complaining that Google is stealing more and more and more of our lunch I think there's some truth to that, but there's also some some new words to that And I think there's more positive stories Available as well now all the data. I'm about to share with you This is from stat our sort of enterprise SERP analytics platform your rank tracking this kind of thing and I'm using the mozcast corpus of keywords. So this is 10,000 head terms tracked in the US And the UK so two sort of suburban locals and on desktop and smartphone. So 40,000 Total keywords and the reason I'm using this is we've had this sort of as a consistent data set for a long time But both at moz and now at stat as well. I want to talk a little bit about what I mean as Mean by position one. So in stat we have this contrast between rank and base rank and by rank we mean whatever is actually the first Thing on the set the search engine results page the SERP and but and by base rank We mean the first regular or organic result and so here I'm interested in what is in what is first? No matter what so it might not be an organic result. That said, I'm not talking about ads I think there's an interesting to discussion. There's an interesting discussion to be had about how much real estate is going to ads over time Google shopping now is almost entirely ads Sge's interestingly have almost no ads in and around them at all However, we're putting that to one side for today. I just want to talk about not necessarily traditional organic results But not sponsored results. So what's actually in position one? excluding excluding ads well Most of the time about two-thirds of the time. It is actually Regular organic, you know your ten blue links this surprised me. I don't know whether it's the naysang I don't know it's whether it's because adverts are always there. So I don't sort of notice it But yeah, most of the time you are actually looking at organic in in position one when you're not looking at organic You're looking at a bunch of other features some of which are in play Some of which not so knowledge graph obviously you can't really mean maybe for a branded term or something But you can't really appear in in knowledge graph and that is the second biggest result Local, of course, you can appear in in local and that's that's seven percent. That's a big chunk of what's left Images sort of yes, like it is organic image search. Although how much click-through rate you're going to get very much open to debates Found on the web. This is a new feature that's kind of come from nowhere in the last year It's a bit of a hybrid between featured snippets and knowledge graph So you can click through to a website from this it is in play And then other and other includes a lot of things probably the most notable ones are things like Video which again, maybe you could have a you know from your brand's YouTube channel or something like this How this tends to work out sort of another way of saying the same statistic the two-thirds organic is that the the average The average rank of the first organic result tends to be about 1.5 on desktop or about two on mobile so that doesn't sound To that doesn't sound amazing like all the average rank that you could you could get by ranking first is 1.5 But really that's not too bad when you consider how many other result types are out there So I think like I said at the start I think there's some there's some positive news stories here and and there's some less good ones So that the positive one is as I've just said you can appear Most of it is organic a lot of what isn't organic is stuff that you actually can appear in as a brand What's what's not so good is that's not Universally true. So like some of these features like knowledge graph for example are not so easy to appear in and actually even some of the Organic is not a lot of organic position one is still not really in play So this is these are some of the top sites that appeared in in position one in the 67 cent of Position ones that were organic sites. So you've got the NHS Wikipedia IRS Gov UK so half of these keywords being UK is where you've got the NHS and gov UK in here and then Google comm and this is things like You know play Google our support Google or Chrome. Is it Chrome Google? I can't remember that these kinds of sort of Google subdomains and this These I'm not doing that very well, but these sort of five sites alone are 8.6 percent so that's quite a big chunk, you know, that's But more than more than a tenth of what's available here is just these and Just these five sites So That's that's the less good story there What's what's more positive again though is that this is Broadly steady year-on-year in the last year. We haven't seen a big collapse of Of organic like a lot of people tend to to think and tend to fear So this this is showing how the organic shares broken down over device and locale So you see for for GB and desktop, for example, this is about 72% So slightly more than the two-thirds average about 72% and it's actually the amount going to organic has gone up a bit year-on-year and then for GB smartphone and US desktop Basically dead even year-on-year. So that's kind of positive however, that the less good story is that there is a bit of a canary in the coal mine because US smartphone, which I think tends to be a bit of a leading indicator You know tends to move ahead of other markets a bit This is on minus six point four year-on-year and this hasn't really gone sort of any one other Result type in particular, you know, it's not like found on the web came up from nowhere and took exactly six point four or something Like this. This is sort of spread across everything. So this this is kind of a trend in what organic is doing Not just one feature being swapped in and out. So this is a little bit concerning But hopefully this is the the exception that proves the rule and not as I put here a canary in the common So I hope this has given you a lot of Interesting things to talk about like I say the message that I take away from this is that despite all of sort of angry bickering within the SEO Industry there is still a lot to play for here and even in Non-organic results that there are other features that you can appear in as a brand that we track as well And that we think do represent opportunities. Yeah, hope you found that interesting. Thank you


Hello everybody, Andrea Maesky here with dental lmobile hygiene So I am a dental hygienist that goes to people's homes and nursing homes and offices to clean their teeth and What I'm going to be talking to you guys about today are nightguards and believe it or not This topic came from one of those groups on Facebook. I think it was like a mom's group like a community group Where somebody was asking about nightguards. They were saying that their child Grimes their teeth at night. I believe their child was six or seven and they were asking well What do I do? You know what happens and it's always amazing to see all of the comments because people With the best of intentions might feel like they know the answer But they might be steering the person in the wrong direction So I kind of get these at these Topic ideas from things that I see on on on the groups and that I wish that other people knew about so then they can make it informed decisions so Basically, I'm going to talk to you guys about nightguards overall Okay, so but first I want to kind of answer that question that somebody had posed in a Facebook group So she was asking, you know, what does she do her child is six or seven? I can't remember and they were asking My child grinds their teeth at night. How do I get them to stop? What do I do? Are they going to wear away their teeth like this can't be a good thing?  It's still growing You can't put something in the mouth that is still trying to grow because then it can almost limit that growth over time We would never put a nightguard in a child's mouth nightguards are for Usually people 18 years or older now typically children who do a grind their teeth at night They will stop at some point. So yes, it sounds horrible. You might be concerned, but we really can't do anything about it It's more of a normal thing think about it when your child is going through growing pains You can't really do anything about it, right? You just have to let it run its course Well grinding is similar to that you can't do anything about it in a child But you should still have them looked at by either your dentist or your dental hygienist to see if they are starting to wear away their tooth or teeth typically in children I see There might be a little bit of wear but nothing to be concerned about But if I notice that the teeth are starting to wear away quite quickly then then we might even want to put those temporary crowns over the teeth to You know how to prevent that from happening or put a compass it over top of it So they're grinding on that compass it so even if they wear it wear it away They're not wearing away more of their teeth if that makes sense But I can help you guys kind of explain that more if you Weren't too sure if you have any questions about that just let me know So the short answer is when somebody tells me that their child is doing that at night and it sounds horrible I tell them they shouldn't be doing it for much longer It's just some children do and some children don't you can't do too much about it But let me have a look at their teeth to make sure they're not you know Grinding them down to too much Now for adults that's different you might be 18 you might be 20 you might be 25 And you might be waking up in the morning and saying ow like my jaw really really hurts Like what is happening? If you if that's happening to you then you're likely Grinding your teeth at night and you need a night guard Even if you go to your dentist or your dental hygienist and they say to you Oh, wow your enamel is starting to wear away like on the top parts of the teeth like kind of like the top parts here Hmm. I think you're grinding at night because that's a clear sign of that It doesn't matter if you're 20 30 40 50 it could happen to anybody often we see it in college students because They have to go through so much, you know, they have they have exams They have so much to think about that they might even start to clench their teeth at night even if they haven't before even if you're 55 you might start now Whereas you haven't before but you do need a night guard if that's the case because if you don't have one all of all of those pounds of pressure All of that pressure is not a good thing think about it this way when we chew our food That's typically 20 to 40 pounds of pressure, you know, but if you're clenching at night that can be 250 pounds Over and over and over again of doing this 250 pounds no, I'm not kidding So a night guard that is something that you do need because what a night guard actually does So it fits over the teeth like this. So that's why I do have the picture here So this is what your typical night guard looks like it could be a little bit thinner It could be a little bit thicker it depends on the patient It goes over the top teeth either the top teeth or the bottom teeth depending on the anatomy of your mouth Usually the top teeth because you're your top, you know part of your mouth does not It does not move the bottom part obviously does because that's the part that you used to chew talk eat everything Right, so it makes more sense to put it on the top because that Top part, you know stays the same right all the time So what happens is it fits over the teeth like this? And that is something that you wear at nighttime and notice how there's a little space under the teeth here I don't know if you guys can see that but that helps to stop from the top teeth and the bottom teeth from Grinding side to side and that's what causes your teeth to wear away over time But if there's something in its place You're grinding on the night guard so the effects are not the same so in some cases it doesn't stop You from grinding but it will help you from wearing away the the enamel over time Which is so important if you have insurance This is typically covered a night guard depending on where you live is about five hundred dollars But if you have insurance they usually cover one every five years so not every single time But every five years because night guards don't last forever. It depends on the patient I've had patients that need a new night guard every three months because they clench so much They literally eat through it. So imagine if you don't have the night guard your your enamel would be in bad shape, right? Because again, that's 250 pounds Or I have patients that get a new night guard every four to five years just because it's starting to look Pretty old right so but everybody's different But you do need a night guard plus a night guard can help to keep things aligned properly So when you wake up your jaw will not be sore because it just helps you keep your jaw back A little bit it's kind of hard to show you guys without actually having one in my mouth But it does help to keep the jaw back Ever so slightly so it doesn't tense up As much so if you're dentist or the dental hygienist tells you that you need a night guard You do need a night guard. Trust me If you don't have one so what happens if you don't get a night guard is your muscles over time They will become more tense and more sore. You don't just as an adult you don't just stop Grinding you will keep doing it unless you have a night guard to help to stop that from happening The enamel will wear away and once you wear away enamel you cannot bring that enamel back So trust me you need a night card. Um, and often people ask me Well, if I just don't have a night guard or if I don't wear it every night What can happen? Well, uh, remember how I said that it's 250 pounds of pressure That can crack the teeth. So any teeth Can crack at any time and once you have a crack As you can imagine, that's not a good thing The tooth could crack down the middle if that happens We might not be able to save the tooth because there's nothing to hold on So that's a very extreme example obviously, but you never want a tooth to crack That's a lot more expensive to fix than a night guard. There are night guards You can get over the counter about 20 30 dollars They work But a very limited period of time like I'm talking overnight. It's not something you want to wear consistently because it's not Molded to your mouth. So that's another thing like this night guard here In order to make a night guard you would have to go to the dentist Who would take molds of your teeth on top and bottom and then that gets sent to the lab And then the lab makes the night guard. It takes about a week or two weeks For either the top teeth or the bottom teeth. So you do not have to wear two you would only wear the one overnight every single night And again, the lab takes about two weeks So for you to go in to get the night guard made to take the impressions of the teeth that takes about 10 to 20 minutes That's it. They would send you home They would bring you back in about two weeks when the night guard is back from the lab They would make sure that it fits properly They would tell you how to use it typically in a night guard You would put it in a bowl of warm water for about 10 to 20 seconds to help to loosen it up And then you would put it in your mouth after that. So you would do your whole Oral hygiene um nightly routine first and then put the night guard in after that And then that's it and then once you wake up in the morning, um, you should at least Rinse it with water and then put it back in the container. Um, leave the lid open because if it's not dry You don't want all of that in there, right? So leave the lid open. Um, you could even use Toothpaste on it, you know to to make sure it's as nice as possible because if you're thinking Thinking about it. That's been in the mouth, right the whole time. So toothpaste is actually a good idea and that's it so Did I answer all of your questions you guys? So this is what it looks like If you're an adult and you grind it's time to get that looked at you need a night guard If you're a child you don't need one because we wouldn't give you one anyway Because you shouldn't be grinding for much longer. So children don't grind forever It's just some do and some don't So I hope that helped if you guys have any questions, please let me know Because I might have forgotten to answer some commonly asked questions So if you guys need anything, let me know and I'll see you guys in the next one Thank you guys so much for watching