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Joe, you're a Yukon alum, right?

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Holy Cross, Waterbury, Yukon, do you like college basketball?

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Love college basketball.

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And who's your favorite squad?

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The I go with Holy Cross High School class of 1991.

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Okay, how about college?

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College, I'm a big Yukon fan.

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Speaking of big in Yukon, executive producer Kevin Ross has brought in our special guest

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We're not going to waste your time today, we're going to have real content with our guest,

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Donovan Klingon, DC, Kling Kong.

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Welcome Donovan to the studio.

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Appreciate you, thank you.

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You probably don't like it and nobody knows it, but we have our own nickname for you,

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the charter oak, the most famous tree in Connecticut.

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Donovan, that's a good one.

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We're going to, oh that's what we call you on here.

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Yeah, we don't know Kling Kong now.

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No, that's too easy.

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We don't do easy.

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John Kennedy.

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What the other things cause they're hard.

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As a youngster, overlooked baseball.

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Can you talk about how your experiences in baseball and your passion for other sports

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besides basketball?

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Yeah, I mean I miss baseball.

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I'll tell everyone that to this day.

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As boring as it was at times, sit at first base, I loved pitching and hitting and growing

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up playing overlook, a couple Bristol guys that I used to play with and then moving on

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to rivals and then once COVID hit, I had to just move my focus to basketball, but I miss

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baseball a lot.

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It was just another sport to look out to and there was times where I loved baseball more

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than basketball.

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I heard a great story from Brookfield's athletic director Steve Baldwin who was your coach

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back in the day and you guys were at a tournament and these baseball parents are nuts and it's

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a constant two hours of complaining because you have nothing else to do.

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So the parents drinking out of their yatties on the sidelines like they're fooling somebody

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and complaining.

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They're like standleys now.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, big stupid cup.

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They were screaming and hollering about you not being the age, I'm going to say 10 or

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whatever and you know, coach Baldwin, real, real level headed guy.

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After about two or three innings, he finally screamed back.

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He's like you're right, he's not 10.

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He's eight or something like that.

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Yeah, I mean, I always played up even basketball, but baseball too.

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I was like, play a year up and people would say I'm not the age that everyone else is

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and I was like, yeah, I'm not maxi younger.

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That's a big strike zone in the batter's box.

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So just watching you from a distance as a kid, like, and I'm really interested to hear

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this like obviously, stereotype wise or whatever you're tall, so you should be playing basketball.

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I looked at you at a young age and I was like, I wonder if even likes basketball and we don't

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know what we like when we're little.

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We like to just play, right?

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When did it click that you're like, this is awesome.

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This is a cool sport.

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They probably like my eighth grade.

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My eighth grade going to my freshman year of high school, I was really like, I'm seven

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feet now and I'm really starting to get taller and it's starting to have fun with this.

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I really locked in just trying to work out, get better and better every day.

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I still love baseball.

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Then walking away from baseball was hard, but I realized I had a big future ahead of

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me on the basketball court and really once I got to high school, I really enjoyed playing

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Did other sports stick out?

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Did you try football?

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Could have caught Harry a thing or two.

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Is fishing a sport?

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Fishing a sport?

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I'd say it's a sport.

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I have to disagree there.

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I do a lot of that.

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I do both tech.

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Ted Williams and Donovan say it's a sport and Bobby say it's a freaking sport.

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I don't disagree with the fact that it's an activity and it might be fun, but like your

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opponent doesn't always play and so it can't be a sport.

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Angling is a sport.

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There you go.

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That's what we call it.

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You ever watch Jaws?

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Is that a sport?

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That guy had an opponent.

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That thing ate the boat.

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You better get a bigger boat.

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You said once it clicked and you started really putting work in and I know that it seems like

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legend, but you got up every morning and went with your high school coach and got after

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it before anyone else thought about getting up.

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Can you tell us about those workouts?

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I was in high school for four years at high school.

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I was at Bristol Central working out at 5.45 every morning before school started and with

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my assistant principal, Ryan Broderick and also my high school coach, Tim Barrett.

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It was 30, 45 minutes in the weight room getting stronger and then going on the court for however

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long and however much time I had.

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It was just the grind, but I knew it would pay off when I got to this level.

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I wake up early still, but it's not 5.45 really.

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Donovan, I don't know if you know this, but everybody had an opinion in Bristol back in

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the day.

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Should you stay at Bristol Central?

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Should you go here?

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Should you go there?

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How hard of a decision was it to stay at BC?

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Tell us a little bit about that process in your mind.

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It was a difficult decision just because I knew the competition level elsewhere would

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have been a little bit better and it would have prepared me for the next level.

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I tried to be as loyal as I can and I stayed with my AU team throughout the whole year

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of my span in high school.

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Tim Barrett, I knew he pushed me to the level that I needed to be pushed to to make it to

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the next level.

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I was still learning.

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I was still working hard.

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I was playing at a high level with my AU team.

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I knew just practicing and staying at Bristol Central.

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I'll still be alright at the next level.

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It's just a lot of a loyalty thing.

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And most importantly, you got a chance to stay and play with Vic and Carson and some

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of the guys you grew up with from the Boys Club days.

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That had to be special for you too to win a title with those guys.

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I mean, just playing Bristol Boys and Girls Club with Carson, Victor, Sean and all those

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guys and be able to play with them in middle school and then go on and play in high school

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when the state championship.

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I should remember that forever.

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Hey, guys, hold on, one more thing about that.

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And you don't have to sell anyone out, but feel free to.

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Any programs or coaches that might have implied or said directly, you know, we're not going

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to recruit you as hard if you don't leave that little band back school.

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I mean, there was a lot of schools, I feel like we're trying to tell you to stay here

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just because they didn't want me going elsewhere and get more of a national brand.

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Oh, okay.

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That's a good point.

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I mean, really just stay there.

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Listen, I've been saying to these guys since we started doing this, like I give you huge

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credit because nobody does that anymore.

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Like most of the kids in high school, they go to one of these elite prep schools.

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I mean, did you have them like constantly calling you guys and trying to get you to leave?

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I mean, it was like multiple days a week.

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You know, I was getting phone calls from different prep schools, you know, Brewster,

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Oak Hill, you know, those types of prep schools, you know, but I told them, I told them I was

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just like, I want to stay here.

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I remember because I was asking your high school coach, there was a kid that right before,

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I think you were an eighth grader kid, Jake Wann Spencer, went to Bristol Sensory and

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I was trying to recruit him for division three and he said to me, he's like, well, I got

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this big kid coming in eighth grade.

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I'm like, well, how good is he?

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He's like, no, he's legit.

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I'm like, well, is he going to stay there?

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And then I was saying to these guys all along, like I got to give this kid credit because

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most of them, they leave, you know, they leave.

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Most of you guys leave.

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I mean, you know, it's, it's, it was a big loyalty thing for me and, you know, I just

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trusted the development process and, you know, I stuck it out.

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Good old steamer.

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So I was reading an article in a Connecticut online magazine the other day talking about

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how enrollment for high school sports is down.

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A lot of high schools can even field teams like Valley Regional made it to the state

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finals last year.

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They only had four girls try out for the varsity team this year.

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You can't.

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No, they don't have a team this year.

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And a lot of that is due to specialization, more girls playing volleyball, trying to go

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to college.

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You're obviously a freak athlete.

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Like what are your thoughts about kids in specialization?

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Like do you think they should play additional sports or if you're totally locked in?

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Like cause it's, it's killing enrollment for a lot of these other sports.

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I mean, yeah, especially like through, you know, the high school days where you're growing

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as a person and like as an athlete, really just trying to find out what you love and

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like what sport you love.

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Um, you know, I feel like it's important to, you know, expand your interests and try to

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go, you know, try and do sports.

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If you don't like it, you don't like it.

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You know what I mean?

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You know, but it's, it's important to go out there, you know, expand your mind and expand

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your options and try to see what fits best for you.

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You know what?

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Like, I don't know how you guys feel.

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This is a hot one now because sports is taking a nose dive overall.

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But you know, for a situation like Donovan and he realized that at a point and he's

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bigger than everybody else, that's the, that's the time you go to one sport.

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All these kids that, and here's a crazy thing with parents.

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I've been hearing this like they're stuck in the 1980s and like, oh, it's your junior

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year where you get recruited.

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That's the most important year.

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My travel coach said, I got to play one sport because that's when you get recruited.

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Don't you get recruited as soon as you're good?

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Like it doesn't matter.

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You're recruited at the level you can play at.

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I mean, this kid from Northwest Catholic, I watched yesterday, the coach's son.

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I mean, no love anywhere just because of the kids.

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I mean, it's hard to play somewhere.

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It's hard to play.

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Do you know who I'm talking about?

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The little Maribel?

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He's good man.

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I played against her.

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Speaking of, we're moving into high school now, a storied career interrupted by COVID.

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You know, we got to go to some games during the COVID year.

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They let like two parents in or whatever.

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My son was filling up Gatorade jugs so that, you know, a bottle so they let us come in.

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But do you remember the Windsor team that you guys played in that, then whatever postseason

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thing they called?

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Was that at home?

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So they had a kid, I mean, obviously they were loaded.

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They had McCoy's son.

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Is that right?

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Tyler Betsy.

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Betsy was a freshman.

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Do you talk about Betsy a little bit?

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I mean, is he going to be okay?

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And did you think he might be a Yukon guy?

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I mean, I thought that we had a chance, you know, but I feel like the type of player he

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is and the way he plays, I feel like, you know, he made the decision obviously to go, I think

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he's going to Cincinnati, but, you know, he's a great shooter.

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You know, one thing that I feel like everyone worried about is just the toughness and the

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defense and the skinny.

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So it's just, you know, I think we had a chance, but you know, obviously he chose what

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he thought was best for him.

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Yeah.

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He worked out hard at the Bristol Sports Armory during COVID.

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Tyler Betsy as before he was six, eight.

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Another six, eight shooter.

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Gavin Griffiths.

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He's a good striker either.

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Struggling.

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You played with him, AAU, right?

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Yeah, I did.

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You played with him?

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Yep.

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Did you play together?

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Yeah.

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I hope he gets over this hump because as soon as he gets it on a defensive end, man, he'll

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be fine.

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Yeah, he's good.

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Donovan, talk a little bit about staying with BC, your junior and senior year, you guys

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didn't lose a game.

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Donovan, obviously your junior year, you would have been state champions.

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That was probably one of the best two year runs in the history of the state.

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You got a ton of games taken away from you and you still put up prolific career scoring

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numbers.

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Talk a little bit about the last two years and especially your senior year after not

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being able to win at all your junior year.

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Was that a little bit of motivation for you guys going into that fall?

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Yeah, I mean, if you look at our junior season, the one in the postseason was much stronger

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and it looked much better for us.

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The teams we won, but it really didn't feel like a state championship where there wasn't

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fans there.

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The hype around it wasn't there.

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So our senior year, I really motivated to go out there and play at Mohegan, not at

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the opposing teams gym.

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That was really important to us.

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I miss it.

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It was much easier practices where I were too shorter.

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I wasn't waking up next day, sore every single day, but it all paid off.

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I don't think people realize the pressure you guys were under your senior year in high

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school to win the whole thing because everybody across the state thought it was a foregone

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conclusion and that semi-final game at Hill House was a bloodbath.

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You had four guys hanging on you the whole game.

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To get through that, and it's almost like Northwest Catholic was at that point of formality.

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We were all there and the game was never in doubt, but a lot of pressure on that team.

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I give you guys credit and coach credit for that.

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I want to go back to that Wilton game.

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I think they took a shot at the under regulation from D to win.

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And everyone let out a collective gas.

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That's really the only time I've ever seen the main court in that facility.

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Usually it's that AU site.

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I was behind a basket with Crocker and a tax man and Woj.

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I swear my heart left my body when that kid shot that ball.

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It did draw iron, right?

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How deep was it?

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Where was it from?

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It was from the right wing deep, but they had two guys that were making weird stuff.

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And that game, I love, you know, we all do, I love high school basketball.

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I've never ever seen what happened that day ever.

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In pickup with dirty pickup old asshole guys that are like, oh, right, you never see that.

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That was the one game where I was like, I don't like this sport.

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They were hooking the back of his leg and pushing him over.

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Like he hit the ground double digit times.

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The team goal was for me not to get a single dunk in the game.

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And, you know, the goal worked, but like I just got.

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You know how like later in life, you know, you're running into these people that were

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your adversaries and they end up being decent guys.

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You ever seen anyone with a Wilton basketball?

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Because it's got to be on, right?

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Like, you could call us, the Godfather, or they don't want his pomade like.

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I want to ask you, what did it feel like to bring that state championship home to Bristol?

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And also at that point, did you think, man, I can't get any better from you here?

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Yeah.

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This is a championship that I'm going to remember forever and maybe the biggest thing that happens

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in basketball as far as winning.

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Yeah.

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I mean, you know, I thought of that as like, you know, people think of college national

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championships.

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You know, in high school, I was just like, I want to win a state championship.

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It's cool.

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I get to go play at Mohegan.

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I get to go to a crazy venue and stuff like that and like, you know, it was just, you

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know, I saw Coach Barrett worked hard.

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He was trying the best, like, trying to make our team, you know, great and do everything

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he can.

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So I want to win for him and, you know, just, you know, the guys I was playing with, you

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know, we all grew up playing together and, you know, just try to win one together one

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last time before, you know, we never, never touched the court again.

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You know, so it was just a special team.

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You know, I just, you know, I love winning.

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I hate losing and, you know, so just, just trying to win everything I can is, it's what

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I do.

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I got a bone to pick with you.

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So we're at the state finals.

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I go every year.

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Yeah.

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Mac here was coaching it all the time too.

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So I was sitting in section 13, right?

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You know, it's one of the corners, right?

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So I'm sitting there all day pretty much by myself.

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Bristol Central walks in and you walk in and sit like literally two rows in front of me.

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You stay fine.

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You remember how many pictures you took?

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Like a hundred.

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Yeah.

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It was, it was kind of annoying.

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I couldn't see anything.

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So.

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And you also always gave him credit for not saying no to anybody.

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Yeah.

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Like at some point, like Barry actually got up in satin.

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I was like, I don't know who you were sitting with, but might have been.

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Huh?

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I think it was Victor.

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Yeah.

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Somebody got up and gave him like the cutthroat sign, like told everybody's like, get out

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of line.

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Like, you know, it was actually kind of cool.

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But anyway, how can you tell us about your recruitment?

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Like we kind of all followed it and there was five schools.

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How do you narrow it down to five?

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How many actually contacted you?

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Was it a hundred?

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And how do you ultimately decide?

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Is it just the loyalty thing you want to be close to home?

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Yeah.

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I mean, I probably had, I think it was somewhere between like 20 or 30 offers.

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And you know, there's a lot of schools calling me every day, a couple times a week.

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You know, but like, you ignore some of the calls sometimes.

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If I was like able to answer, I'd answer.

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You know, but it was, it was hard.

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It was stressful because I was still in high school.

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I was still, you know, still playing basketball stuff.

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So, you know, I was still busy, but you know, the recruitment process, you know, I went

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to Yukon a lot.

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You know, I was up there watching practices, you know, on official visits once, twice a

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week, like just try to get as much as I can.

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You know, every time I stepped on campus, it felt like home.

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And you know, it was just, you know, I could just always see myself in there.

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There was a, you know, obviously I liked Michigan, Ohio State.

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I saw the picture.

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They took a picture with the uniform on?

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Where, Michigan?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I went to Michigan for a...

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Yeah, I went to the most bombarded myself.

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I went to Michigan, Ohio State, Syracuse and Yukon for official visits.

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And, you know, really just, I went to Ohio State and Syracuse, then Michigan.

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And then I ended with Yukon.

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And, you know, after all those visits, it was like, you know, I really feel at home

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at Yukon.

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You know, I feel safe.

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Like it's just the place I want to be.

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So, you know, that's something that really stood out to...

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So, did you want to have...

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I know you did it early in your senior year.

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Is that something you wanted to do, or you just...

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Yeah, I wanted to play my senior year just be able to, you know, just play basketball

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and not have to worry about where I want to do the next year and just focus on, you know,

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what I have to do right now.

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So how close was Eastern Connecticut to making your top five?

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They never called me.

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Oh, England J not doing his job.

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Hey, you recruited at the level you play at, so we had no shot.

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Hey, was Q's the first offer?

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Q's was, yes.

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And I remember that.

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But if I got to spend my time at the Word Center, is that what it's called?

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Yes.

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You know, you feel like home pretty easily, right?

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You take that kind of facility and availability to what you have there for granted, or like,

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is it just so cool to like swipe your thing and go in and shoot or eat or whatever?

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We talk about it in a car?

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Yeah.

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The practice facility?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's unreal.

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You know, we've practiced at a couple NBA practice facilities and, you know, we've got,

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you know, the best of the best, you know, something...

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We've got our practice facilities better than some of the NBA guys, you know what I mean?

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So every day I get to go upstairs and I get to, you know, it's what I want for breakfast.

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There's a chef there and I get to, you know, go eat and then I go downstairs.

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You got the training room to, you know, just get yourself ready for practice.

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And then, you know, we got like 25 to 35 student managers who are there all day long who can

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rebound for us.

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You know, every, you know, we got the shooting guns that can rebound for you.

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You want to come get late shots at night.

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You got 24, our key cards have 24-hour access.

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You know, we're very, very blessed and, you know, it's a great opportunity.

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We're very, very thankful.

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That's awesome to hear because I've been in it a few times and I'm like, whoa, like

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this is not the field house.

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Remember Matthew Geary, right?

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Yeah.

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You know what I'm telling you?

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Matt, who was a walk on there, he would tell us all, he brought us on a few tours and

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told us exactly the stuff that you said, three catered meals and...

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Yeah.

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Well, we just got a chef.

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They just built a brand new kitchen.

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So we got three chefs who...

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You know, Roderick...

450
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Well, Audrey's done for you.

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We got the same problem at Eastern.

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That's how pop-darts are.

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Yeah, peanut butter and jelly 24 hours a day.

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Hey, yo, I never realized the manager's played against other teams.

455
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No, we don't.

456
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Oh, you don't?

457
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No.

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I was going to ask you if Bristol's own Dom Amaro lights it up in those games.

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Why don't you?

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I don't...

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So two years ago, I guess the manager beat another team and we ended up...

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The team actually lost.

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So I think coach shut it down.

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That's right.

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I'm not sure the true story.

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That's a good segue into your coach.

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Obviously, we see what we see on TV, the intensity and the passion.

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Tell us a little bit about what drew you to coach Hurley and what's he like a little

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bit at practice and off the court for you?

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Yeah, I mean, you know, he puts on a show, you know, but he's, you know, something that

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really drew me to coach Hurley is how badly he wants to win and, you know, he's not there

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for himself.

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He's there to, you know, push you to make you the best version of you and try to push

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you to that next level.

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I'll never talk about the NBA and getting you to the NBA.

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Like, obviously, you know, we're recruiting you.

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That's the ultimate goal is trying to get to that level.

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But, you know, when you're here at school, he's worried about winning.

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He's worried about, you know, developing.

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You as a player and just trying to, you know, turn you into a man.

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You know, he's the most intense coach in college basketball.

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There's no team in the country that practices like us.

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And I promise you that, you know, day before game, we're going two hours and 45 minutes.

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I promise you, there's no other team doing that.

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You know, that's why, you know, you see some of these guys on the team were playing 39,

486
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40 minutes and look like they could go play another 40, you know, so it's just.

487
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,520
Do you usually say two hours and 45 minutes a day before game?

488
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,120
Two hours and 15 minutes, 230.

489
00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,120
I love it.

490
00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:30,400
And yeah, I mean, it's just, it's the level that, you know, he pushes us to, you know,

491
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,920
we'll never get tired in the game.

492
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,640
And, you know, that's just something he emphasizes.

493
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:38,280
You know, I want the practices to be harder than the games, you know, so, you know, I

494
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,280
love Coach Hurley.

495
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:43,360
He's, you know, supports me on and off the court every way possible.

496
00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,040
He'll never, he'll never take it easy on me in the court.

497
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,160
And, you know, I could have 40 points and then I promise you the next day I'll go in

498
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,800
there and there's something I did wrong.

499
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:51,800
You know what I mean?

500
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,520
You know, but that's just the coach you want, you know, he's just trying to push you to

501
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,960
be the best version of yourself.

502
00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,400
And, you know, you look at a great example is like Jordan Hawkins, his freshman year

503
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,400
to sophomore year.

504
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:02,400
I mean, he was.

505
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:03,400
Good point.

506
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,480
He was, you know, he struggled his freshman year a lot, beginning his sophomore year,

507
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,560
got hurt with the concussion last year.

508
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:13,160
And then, you know, coach really got on him when he started to come back and, you know,

509
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,160
look where he is now.

510
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,720
What you're singing that Taylor Swift song, are you worried that Hurley is going to come

511
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,720
over and strangle you?

512
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:19,720
I mean, the guy is nuts.

513
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:20,720
Is he not?

514
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,520
I don't know about nuts.

515
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:29,240
He's just so intense, you know, but, you know, one thing that really stood out to me and

516
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,000
they are what's one thing I really love about Hurley is, you know, in practice, don't get

517
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,000
me wrong.

518
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,040
He'll let you know where you mess up and he'll get, he'll get on your ass and just, you know,

519
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,520
just try to, you know, push you to be the best version.

520
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,680
You know, you got to practice well every day, you know, but one thing about the games is

521
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,320
he'll never, he'll never turn his back on you and never yell at you.

522
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,840
You know, I could go out there and go 0 for 12 and, you know, he'll tell me to go out

523
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:51,840
there and keep shooting.

524
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:52,840
You know what I mean?

525
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,680
So, you know, he'll never yell at you for messing up.

526
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,840
Obviously, he'll yell at the group, you know, if we're playing like yesterday, second half,

527
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,680
you know, we're not playing the great start to half and, you know, he's yelling at us

528
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,680
as a team, but he'll never look at you in the vision and be like, yo, what are you doing?

529
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,920
You need to step your, you know, step your game up right now.

530
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,120
This is, this is not who you are.

531
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:11,560
You know, he'll always be pushing you to motivate you and try to, try to just, you know, get

532
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:12,560
you back on track.

533
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,360
That's interesting, man, because I've never seen him light one guy up.

534
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:16,360
No.

535
00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:17,360
He's cool.

536
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,920
You know, it's funny too, because a couple of years ago, people wanted to run him out

537
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,960
of town if you remember, you know, now you can't imagine, you know, someone replacing,

538
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,560
you know, a legend like Calhoun and Holly, but, you know, just he's been a perfect fit

539
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:29,560
for this program.

540
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,960
Well, he's embraced coach Calhoun and vice versa, right?

541
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:33,960
Oh yeah.

542
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:39,800
One more thing before we get onto the coaches that, and boy, are you in a blessed situation?

543
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:40,960
You obviously know it.

544
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:46,120
In two hours and 45 minutes, I got it down to, you could probably set 16, 1700 screens

545
00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:48,600
how many shots do you get to take during that?

546
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:49,600
Like four?

547
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,400
I mean, Jesus, coach, can we get you involved?

548
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,360
Anyway, no, sorry, not glazing.

549
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:57,640
So coach Calhoun, is he walking to practice on a regular or what?

550
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:03,800
I mean, I'd say we've probably seen once every two weeks, once every, you know, twice every

551
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,520
two, three, two, three weeks.

552
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,720
You being from Connecticut, you understand him, but do the rest of the guys understand

553
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:10,720
it?

554
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,280
This guy's like the best builder of a college basketball program in history?

555
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:15,280
Yeah, I think they do.

556
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:19,400
I mean, coach Calhoun comes in, he'll give us a message and I think it really wakes

557
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,000
people up and realize, yo, this dude's a boss.

558
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000
That's cool.

559
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000
This dude started us.

560
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,320
He ran the show and coach Charlie's just taken over.

561
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:29,800
How about coach Charlie's father?

562
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,400
Coach Charlie's father, one thing about coach Charlie's father, he actually watches every

563
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,960
single practice and he watches every single game of ours on film.

564
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:37,960
Jesus.

565
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,520
He probably gets to Arizona a little bit.

566
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,400
He watches all coach Charlie's game and his brother's game.

567
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:48,600
He watches all practices and just lets coaches know he's great to us.

568
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,600
What a drunky.

569
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,440
He's out with all the home games.

570
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,240
He's anything, foul shots with me.

571
00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:00,320
Obviously, I'm struggling, but he's always trying to give me little tips to help me with

572
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,760
my foul shooting and he's coach got a great family.

573
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,120
I mean, he's a Syracuse fan.

574
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:09,120
I want you to know that right off the bat.

575
00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,120
We're not on the same conference anymore.

576
00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:16,080
We're on the same platform.

577
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:21,000
What a perfect situation to programs in with you being the centerpiece of it and a local

578
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,800
guy because when it was built and we got the Christmas and the Scoperels and Steve

579
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,800
Peicolm and now the local guys from Torrey Williams.

580
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:30,800
Yeah.

581
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:31,800
Chris Smith was the first guy.

582
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:32,800
Right.

583
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:33,800
He was the first one.

584
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:34,800
He was still around.

585
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:35,800
But, well, round.

586
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:36,800
Sorry.

587
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,600
Love him enough.

588
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,840
The Prada Colby Cathedral.

589
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:48,520
But like, I never thought the program could ever be better than it was.

590
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:54,400
And I'm not saying it is because of one Natty, but like, we're a brand and like, it only

591
00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,400
was a wave.

592
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,600
It went away for a minute, but like, is it better than it was?

593
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:04,040
I mean, like, I don't want to hear this Kansas and this other crap like it's you.

594
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,040
Right.

595
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,040
The best program in the country.

596
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,240
It is like, they've won five national titles in 25 years.

597
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,920
And people talk about Duke and Carolina and stuff.

598
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:12,920
That's terrific.

599
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:13,920
Toosh, Shmoak.

600
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:14,920
Like win, like win the title, dude.

601
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:15,920
You know,

602
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:16,920
Do you notice?

603
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:17,920
Doug Fouke.

604
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,720
Donovan, do you notice like now the intensity of teams, how they approach you?

605
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,840
Because you guys are now the, got the bullseye in your back, right?

606
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,000
Do you notice that when you walk in?

607
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,200
Yeah, we're going to get every single team's best shot.

608
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,800
You know, you see that every single game.

609
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:33,760
You know, we'll go, when we go play out there, you know, obviously not yesterday against Georgetown,

610
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:38,640
but you know, we go play at, you know, a wager and we're going to get sold out crowd

611
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:39,640
every single time.

612
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:46,080
We're going to get, you know, the best, the most, you know, the hate we could get.

613
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,120
They're loud, you know, some fans, some places are brutal.

614
00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:50,480
Does that fire you up more?

615
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,360
Yeah, it gets us, you know, especially, you know, we got some kids who are, who love just

616
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:59,760
going against, you know, the fans and, you know, this team special.

617
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,760
We know that, you know, we have to stick together on the road and, you know, we know we're going

618
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,240
to get the best shot from everyone.

619
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,960
I was laughing my ass off last year when you were giving the Gator Trump back today.

620
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,960
Yeah, a little bit of a shit talker out there.

621
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:11,960
We'll try.

622
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:12,960
A little bit.

623
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,840
If I hear something, I mean, those fans for the last year, our warmups were brutal.

624
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,400
We got brutalized for 90, 90 minutes.

625
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,200
So you know, after we, you know, after we did what we did, I had to, had to give it back.

626
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,360
I saw Cam, I can say, Johns gave them the, get them.

627
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:29,360
Get it again.

628
00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,520
Hey, which fans are the worst?

629
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,640
I haven't guessed which fans are the worst.

630
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,560
I actually loved the one thing.

631
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:36,560
Me too.

632
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,680
He's saying the best in the way.

633
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,960
One thing I'll say is, you know, not in the big East, but, but Kansas fans are the most

634
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,360
respectful fans.

635
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,400
You know, they, they go there, they chant, they cheer for their team.

636
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:50,880
You know, they're not out there trying to hate on, hate on, you know, the other, the

637
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,680
other team, you know, they're there, cheered for their team, trying to, trying to support

638
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,680
their team.

639
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:56,680
And that's one thing I respected.

640
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,120
Although loud, I have never played in a gym like that.

641
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,160
I will never play in a gym like that.

642
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,760
You know, I was running around the court and my ears were ringing.

643
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,000
I was sitting there, I'm next to my teammate and all I just, just, just see lips moving,

644
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000
can't hear a thing.

645
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000
And it's just like, all right boys, we just, let's go, let's go do this.

646
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,240
I mean, it was unreal in there.

647
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:20,760
Donovan McCabe, little leagues own and Holy Cross his own capital security show, Mariello.

648
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,360
He went to that game to support you and the boys.

649
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,080
Did you have bad seats like everyone else?

650
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:28,080
Bad seats like everyone else?

651
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:29,720
I was in, I was in tours behind your dad.

652
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:30,720
I was in tours behind.

653
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,600
I was in the family section and shout out to Andre Johnson for, for helping me get out

654
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:35,600
there and get those seats.

655
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,720
My, the tickets I bought were better seats than the ones that the family said.

656
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:43,360
And so I should have kept my original seats, but most intense place I've ever been going

657
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,080
to a lot of games, a lot of big East tournament games.

658
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,720
Those are the national championship game in 99.

659
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,720
Unbelievable crowd.

660
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,480
And I'm glad to hear you say that because I thought they were respectful, knowledgeable,

661
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,400
but it was so loud and intense there.

662
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:58,680
I was kind of curious, what, how did coach early, did he prepare you guys for what it

663
00:29:58,680 --> 00:29:59,680
was going to be like?

664
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,520
What did you say during the first time out?

665
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,040
Um, I, it's hard to remember.

666
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,040
It was loud.

667
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,440
I couldn't even hear the timeouts.

668
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,280
It was, you know, yes coach, but we, we, we kind of came up with a couple of hand signals

669
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,480
just trying to get a plays in, but you know, really it was, it was just going to be a man's

670
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:16,480
game.

671
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,120
We had to go out there and you know, I just fortunately, you know, I was unhealthy.

672
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,000
I heard my, I actually heard my left foot, that game and you know, Cam actually heard

673
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,600
his toe that game.

674
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,880
So it was just a battle and it was a tough atmosphere and you know, it was, it was a

675
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:31,880
great game.

676
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,200
You know, they're a great team and you know, it's, I got a hand signal for Dickinson.

677
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,200
I like to give it to him.

678
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,840
Who are the worst fans, Donovan?

679
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,640
Who are the toughest, the worst fans?

680
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:45,720
I got to guess.

681
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,280
I'm going to say Providence having been there before the pretty nasty.

682
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:49,280
Providence.

683
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,560
Providence was the one thing last, last, yeah.

684
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,240
Providence last year was bad.

685
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,720
But one, you know, one slept on crowd last year was at Xavier last year.

686
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:57,720
They were brutal.

687
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,880
Um, creating, seeing Hall, seeing Hall, they heckled us bad.

688
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:07,320
You know, um, basically every road game is tough.

689
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:08,320
That's brutal.

690
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,320
Yeah.

691
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:10,320
Let me see.

692
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:11,320
Not going to get any better, body.

693
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,560
Uh, Donovan, just one more question about last year, like we went into the tournament

694
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,760
and you know, Iona was a little bit of struggle in the first half.

695
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:24,040
But you guys expect to just take off those next four or five games because the margin

696
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,160
of victory in anger, Jay, you're really good at stuff like this might have been the most

697
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:34,360
or second most, uh, point differential throughout a, uh, an NCAA tournament in the history of

698
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,360
the game.

699
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:40,440
Did you guys see something building or was it just like that perfect storm or everything

700
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:41,440
clicked?

701
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:42,440
Yeah.

702
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,440
I mean, I think it was our defensive intensity.

703
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,480
Um, you know, every day in practice, you know, coach was kind on practices just because

704
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,520
like, you know, we're rolling, we're playing so well.

705
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,960
And you know, we were just practicing to keep things sharp and keep things tight, like just

706
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,280
make sure everything's on point.

707
00:31:55,280 --> 00:32:00,040
But dude, our defense was something that, you know, not too many teams go out there and

708
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,360
beat Gonzaga by 30 and the, and you know, the lead eight, um, you know, so, you know,

709
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,320
it was just, and you could tell by the energy, we don't have to be lost to, um, Marquette.

710
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,600
You know, it was, it was, it was, it was no one sad or mad.

711
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,000
It was just like a, it was like, all right, let's go.

712
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,000
Move on next day.

713
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,000
We're going to win this national championship.

714
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,000
You know, that's the biggest of the biggest of the, you know, the year.

715
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,040
And, um, you know, it was, you know, I give a lot of credit to Andre Jackson.

716
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,160
You know, he's, he's motivated every single person on that team.

717
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:34,720
One, one of anyone realizes, um, you know, that's, that's the true definition of a leader.

718
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,400
Um, you know, I'll never play for a leader like I did for Jack.

719
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,120
That came across too on the, on the sidelines, on the floor, but I also got to give you credit

720
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,440
when you were, when you were hurt or in foul trouble.

721
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,160
You're always up on that bench and you are very, very invested on your teammates as well.

722
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,560
So if you picked up anything from him, that definitely was Andre.

723
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,840
What last night was at the Marquette St. John's game.

724
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,000
I'm like, what the hell is he doing there?

725
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,680
And then I remember Deline is to Johnny's.

726
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,240
Obviously plays in Milwaukee, right?

727
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:04,240
So that's, that's an easy one.

728
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,720
He actually called me right after the game.

729
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:07,720
That's cool.

730
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:08,720
Yeah.

731
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:09,720
He's a missed that kid.

732
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:10,720
What, what, what did he do?

733
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,080
Was it what he said by his actions?

734
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,520
What, what, how was he leaving you guys?

735
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:18,600
Yeah, I mean, you know, like if, if you're, you know, messing around in practice, you're

736
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,600
not doing it.

737
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,160
Andre, getting your face, he's in yell at you.

738
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,680
But, you know, sometimes by being a leader, it's, it's by how you play and how hard you

739
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,440
play and you're the way you carry yourself on the floor.

740
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,880
You know, Andre carried himself on the floor differently than anyone I've ever seen.

741
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:37,400
He brought his A game and he brought everything he had to practice every single day and that

742
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,000
intensity, like him and Coach Earl, he's the butt heads.

743
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,880
They used to, you know, team up and just try to go at everyone, like, like in a way like

744
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,360
you're trying to motivate everyone.

745
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,800
You know, Dom was the same way, but Dom was a different type of leader.

746
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,200
He just, you know, he led by dominating every single day.

747
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,040
You know, Dom gave me 50 points in practice every single day.

748
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,000
He make your jump.

749
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,000
No problem.

750
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,400
Just any way he wanted to score every single day.

751
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,280
You know, if Jackson, if Jackson was just a little better on athlete, you guys would

752
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,280
have been all set.

753
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:13,120
I've been telling you guys this, like, and Dom just said it like you kinds defense.

754
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,120
Yeah, like legit.

755
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,160
I remember like it's fun watching them guard.

756
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:22,280
Like we talk about you kind of all the time, like guard national title compared to a state

757
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,280
title.

758
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,760
Is there any, oh my God, like I bring a state title to Bristol.

759
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,840
What was a big deal here?

760
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,960
The national title is at any comparison.

761
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:31,960
Yeah.

762
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,800
I mean, that was, did you guys go to sleep afterwards or no?

763
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,680
You dream of that stuff.

764
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,680
You know, we got back from the game back to hotel.

765
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,720
It was 12 o'clock in the morning, I think.

766
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:45,920
And I was like, all right, it's the morning.

767
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:46,920
Let's go.

768
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:47,920
Time to get going.

769
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:53,040
I mean, like, I think I was supposed to be on CBS, the Good Morning show at 6.30 in the

770
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:58,480
morning and I ended up falling asleep at 5.50 and I woke up at like 6.45.

771
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:03,120
I'm like, looking around, I'm like, oh, damn, I missed it.

772
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:08,280
But, you know, it was those two days, I think I slept for a total of like, it was like three

773
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,280
hours.

774
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:16,680
I didn't sleep on the plane, you know, but that was, I planted in front of 75,000 people.

775
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,400
It was unreal, unreal.

776
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,240
And, you know, just like that whole experience from the police escort, it's like, we're driving

777
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:28,440
down Houston Highway and there's four lanes of bumper to bumper traffic, cars not moving.

778
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,760
And it's just, we have 50 motorcycles we registered and clear out of the lane down

779
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,360
the middle of the highway and we're going 70.

780
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:34,360
You might buy everyone.

781
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,360
It's just unreal.

782
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,200
There's a whole state, like, I mean, we don't have a professional support team, like a whole

783
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,720
state cares about you, yeah.

784
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:41,720
So we got back.

785
00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:45,800
So we, we actually took the, the Patriots plane.

786
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,400
We flew back in, we landed in Bradley.

787
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,720
The airport was packed, people right outside the fence and then we're driving down.

788
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:59,480
I think we went, we went 84 all the way up to God of Exes 68.

789
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:00,480
And when we got off.

790
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,080
Right there, right?

791
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,120
It's actually 68 right to the left.

792
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,960
It's like the only business there, right?

793
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,560
There's a subway and there's like a restaurant.

794
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,160
I drive there every day.

795
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,160
I take it right.

796
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:12,160
Yeah, go ahead.

797
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:21,320
Yeah, but like you found probably like exit 64, 63, people lined up on the side of the

798
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,400
highway just cheering the whole way down.

799
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,440
We get off the exit and we probably went from there, you know, like it's like 15 minutes

800
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,160
from the exit to school.

801
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,480
We probably went 10 miles per hour from the exit all the way back to school and it was

802
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,760
one lane and people were just in there just going crazy.

803
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:39,760
Why not?

804
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,360
And it was, it was something I'll never forget.

805
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,120
It was, it was an unreal experience.

806
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,120
You know what?

807
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,560
Then we're going to do it again this year.

808
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,560
Yes.

809
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,560
Yes.

810
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,560
Try our best.

811
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:50,560
Yeah.

812
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:51,560
Let's fast forward to this year's team.

813
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:52,560
Cam Spencer.

814
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:59,400
We are huge Yukon fans and huge Rutgers fans obviously because of the Steve Pico allegiance.

815
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,640
Did you know what you were getting with him?

816
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,320
Obviously, everybody knows he can shoot.

817
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,320
He's shown he could put the ball on the deck, but I'm talking like the mental and physical

818
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,400
toughness that he brings.

819
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,400
Yeah.

820
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,520
Anyway, that we can see at the TV screen.

821
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:14,520
Yeah.

822
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,640
Tell me about practice with him and games and what he's like in the huddles and locker

823
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:18,640
room.

824
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:19,960
I mean, that guy has a chance to go.

825
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,000
Well, is it like 50, 40, 90 or something like that?

826
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,560
I mean, he's shooting 50% from the field, 40% from three, almost 90% from the foul line.

827
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:35,080
I mean, that's impressive, but he's like if you want to see someone who hates losing,

828
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,920
like that is like definition of the kid.

829
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,760
He hit me culturally on the perfect match.

830
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:47,160
You know, what you see on the game floor is what you see in practice.

831
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,320
I mean, it'll be a live segment practice.

832
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:55,720
We're down 18 to 16 and Cam hit a three and he's going to go pump the crowd like exactly

833
00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:59,160
like he's pumped the crowd, he's throw something off the wall, he's a kicker ball across

834
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,160
Campbell.

835
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:04,960
He's going to, but when he misses a shot, you know about it too.

836
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:09,560
You know, we'll go through shooting drills and he'll miss two shots in a row and like

837
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:10,560
you don't even have to watch him.

838
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:11,560
You know, he missed two shots in a row.

839
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,120
He'll let you know, he'll let the whole gym know.

840
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,880
But he is such a competitor.

841
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:21,680
You know, he just wants to win so bad and he's always willing to make the right plays.

842
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,160
I mean, there's games like yesterday.

843
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:27,400
I don't even know how many shots he took, but you know, he had what five, six assists

844
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,080
he had, you know, rebounds.

845
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,320
He was just moving the ball, played great defense and that's just one thing about him

846
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,720
is, you know, his night, if he's got to go out there and get 25 on seven threes, he's

847
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:36,720
going to do it.

848
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:39,920
Or if he has to take three shots of the whole game, you know, he'll, he's okay with that.

849
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:40,920
You know, he just wants to win.

850
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,800
He's willing to do whatever it takes their team to win.

851
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,960
And you know, I'll continue to say is he's the best transfer in the portal last year.

852
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:47,960
I think we agree.

853
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,480
So when Jackson steps out and he steps in, what a, what a frickin, yeah, I mean that's

854
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,080
that was the biggest thing.

855
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,400
You know, Andre, Andre had that fire in him.

856
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,320
And you know, that was one thing that we had to look for this year and definitely getting

857
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,280
cam was, was a big pickup for us.

858
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,080
You still live with Alex or did I know you did last year?

859
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,080
Yeah.

860
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:05,080
What's, he's so important to that team.

861
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,880
Can you talk a little bit about his personality, how you guys get along?

862
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,280
How you, what's it like living together?

863
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:11,280
Yeah.

864
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,560
I mean, he's a, he's quite kid, but you know, he, he loves basketball.

865
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,200
You know, that's all he thinks about.

866
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:17,200
It's all he watches.

867
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:18,200
That's all he does.

868
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:19,700
He's either playing video games, playing 2k.

869
00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:22,880
He's either watching the Celtics or watching another big East game or he's at the gym

870
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:23,880
shooting.

871
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:28,320
I mean, he just does basketball, basketball, basketball and you know, he's the smartest,

872
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,840
probably one of the smartest players in the country.

873
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,280
He always knows what to do on the floor.

874
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,080
He's always, he always knows what position he's supposed to be in.

875
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,800
You know, he knows every single one of our plays, one through five, you know, he'll know

876
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,920
every position, everywhere he's supposed to be.

877
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,880
You know, he's just, he's, he's a big time.

878
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,920
You know, he's just very, very smart.

879
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:53,400
So besides the addition of like Cam and Castle, what makes this team different from, from

880
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,440
Lashley's team and how do you compare where you are at this point in the season to where

881
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:57,440
you were last year?

882
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,640
I mean, you know, Steph is, Steph's the best freshman in the country and there's no, there's

883
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:07,080
no freshmen out there who are, you know, doing what he's doing while, you know, their team

884
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,800
is winning like we are.

885
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:15,600
Um, you know, Steph is, you know, six, six, six, seven, 215 pounds and you know, it's

886
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,600
all muscle.

887
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,520
Um, you know, he could guard the ball and he guard one through five, you know, we saw

888
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:23,960
him at Soriano, we, when me and Samson were in file trouble, he had to go in there and

889
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,160
you know, guard Soriano for a little bit, but you know, he's, he's changed, you know,

890
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,160
this aspect of the team, the way he's been playing on offense recently.

891
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:36,560
Um, you know, 21, 2017, I think in the past three out of four games and you know, he's,

892
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:41,000
he's shooting the ball at a high level with past four games and, um, you know, if he continues

893
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,960
to get better and you're not going to get complacent, you know, that's just one thing

894
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:47,680
is, you know, we can't get complacent and you know, this team is going to be very, very

895
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:48,680
special.

896
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:53,840
Hey, we talked a lot about, uh, defense wins championships and you got your guys, D did.

897
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,960
Um, well actually our defense did everybody here, but the Don father, who's a Syracuse

898
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,720
fan, we got a lot of Yukon alums in the house here.

899
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,720
Um, we consider ourselves, uh, on the team.

900
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:04,720
Yeah, we're on it.

901
00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:05,720
Let's go.

902
00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:09,120
But you're, uh, the Huskies offense.

903
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,120
Yeah.

904
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:15,920
Like when you watch a lot as much high school as we do, and it's just, it's tough.

905
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:24,760
It's like, you know, monkeys humping a football sometimes with like the sets and the bad execution

906
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,600
of sets and whatnot.

907
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:32,040
You guys just seem so smooth running offense, like almost like to a Princeton level back

908
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,600
in the, what do you call it?

909
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:34,600
Days?

910
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:35,600
What's that dude's name?

911
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:36,600
P girl.

912
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:37,600
Yeah.

913
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:45,320
So much time is spent on the, the little things at, even at your guys level, such as how to

914
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:50,080
use screens and like, do you do like three or four or five on zeros?

915
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,320
Just run offense with no defense.

916
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,320
Oh yeah.

917
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,480
Can you just talk a little bit about, we probably do like a total between like going

918
00:41:55,480 --> 00:42:00,040
on three on, oh four and oh five on, oh I'd say probably a total of 45 minutes to an hour

919
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,760
every practice, every practice.

920
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,600
High school coaches take note guys.

921
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:08,720
I mean, I was, I was, I was actually, that was the last thing this morning I was looking

922
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:13,760
at on my phone of, you know, where all our film is and we have like a breakdown of every

923
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:14,920
single play we have.

924
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,640
It was like 131 plays we have and I could tell you where I'm supposed to be on every single

925
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:20,640
play.

926
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,640
That was my question.

927
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,640
I was going to ask you, you have that many sets and stuff?

928
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,120
It's just like, but you know.

929
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,240
They're not called though, right?

930
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:28,880
You just, it's based on what the defense is telling you what to do?

931
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:29,880
No, yeah.

932
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,240
And no, it's like, it sets, every, every one has a different name.

933
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:33,240
Yeah.

934
00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:34,920
I said, we got like 50 minutes.

935
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:35,920
There's just, well.

936
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:36,920
Yeah.

937
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:41,440
It's like, it's just because like sometimes, you know, differences play you switch one

938
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:42,440
through four.

939
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,360
They may only switch on certain guys like shooters.

940
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,520
They may only switch, you know, triple handoffs.

941
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,720
They may not switch daggers.

942
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:52,960
They might switch, you know, there's all these different types of things and, you know, there's

943
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,520
got to be, you know, when they're switching, when are you slipping screens?

944
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:56,520
Where are you fading?

945
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,160
When are you slipping and stepping to the wall?

946
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,680
When are you butt cutting and trying to back door?

947
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,440
You know, it's just like all these different things.

948
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,960
And, you know, coach, coach early and coach Luke, you know, that's all props to them.

949
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,440
Those two on, you know, and with the X's and O's, it's impressive.

950
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:15,920
I want to ask you one more thing about, so as far as like games, like, like yesterday,

951
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:20,040
like, yeah, scouting reports, they're, they're like book reports.

952
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,320
We, we're just division three and ours is like a book report.

953
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:28,360
So is it, you guys are getting clips of what George down does and you whoever, you know.

954
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,360
Yeah.

955
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:34,080
So what we do is we'll, we'll watch, we'll have a breakdown of a sheet and it's every

956
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,480
single player is on there.

957
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,520
What they do well, how to stop them and all their percentages from the whole year.

958
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:41,880
Yeah, we got to see.

959
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,280
So we'll go do, we'll go do every player.

960
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,280
We'll probably show like five or six clips of what they do.

961
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:52,360
And we probably watch like on the team, it's probably like 30, 40, 30 minutes before each

962
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,760
practice we'll watch of, you know, scout.

963
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,840
And then, you know, it's, it's after you watch individuals, it's a couple categories of how

964
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,160
to stop them, what to do.

965
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:05,880
So like, you know, one thing that we were emphasizing at Georgetown was attack the rebounding

966
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:10,800
wars, stopping styles, stopping cook and stopping Wayne Bristol, you know, those are three offensive

967
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:11,800
rebounders.

968
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,160
So, you know, it was a category of just watching offensive rebound.

969
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:18,320
Um, you know, like we, we are very bus, you know, coach, he's a great coach.

970
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,920
Oh, you know, he gets all the respect, like all credit, you know, great coach, but you

971
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,560
know, we got three, three assistant coaches or all head coaches.

972
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,680
Um, you know, Luke Murray is one of, if not the smartest, you know, assistant coach

973
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,680
when it comes to X's and O's, you know, he knows everything.

974
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:38,040
Like, like it's something I've seen in Kamani is also, you know, a high level assistant

975
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,040
coach.

976
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,240
If not, you know, he should be a head coach, so I'm high major program.

977
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:46,680
Um, and you know, in Tom war already was a head coach, you know, so, you know, we have

978
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,440
a coaching staff, you know, we have the best coaching staff in the country.

979
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,480
Donovan, did you ever see that YouTube clip of Coach early in his brother?

980
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,680
I think they were at Buffalo at the time.

981
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:57,680
Wagner Wagner.

982
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:03,480
Wagner Wagner and Luke Murray's behind them just cracking up because the two of them

983
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,200
were just fighting demon and official so bad.

984
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,200
I saw that.

985
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:08,200
I remember that.

986
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,840
They're, it's that early family man there.

987
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:11,840
It's special.

988
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:12,840
I love him.

989
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:13,840
Yeah.

990
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,680
I have a quick thought.

991
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,680
Um, it's obvious to everyone that you guys have not had the I've arrived syndrome.

992
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,520
You guys are playing as hard now as you have ever have having won the national championship

993
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,920
last year, um, you know, does that give you an advantage that you've experienced the high

994
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,960
pressure playing for the 70,000 people?

995
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:35,120
And how have you guys really sort of maintained that, uh, that hunger to win again?

996
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,200
Because I mean, there's a reason that never happens at the Florida's the only team to

997
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,200
ever repeat.

998
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,600
I'm not putting that expectation on you guys, but, um, you know, it seems like you really

999
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,520
have to mentally overcome that idea.

1000
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:46,520
And what do you guys do?

1001
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:47,960
And what are the coaches saying about that?

1002
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:52,720
Yeah, I mean, you know, playing for the 75,000 people definitely helps us, you know, in the

1003
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:58,200
environment world and, you know, going to play at arenas that are, you know, crazy, but,

1004
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:03,600
you know, coach early, what makes us like, not that makes us, but he, you know, instills

1005
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,560
in us like, you know, to be hungry and we can't, we can't be happy with, you know, where

1006
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,720
we've gotten to and, you know, we can't get bored of winning.

1007
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:15,880
Um, you know, it's easy to, you know, human nature, just, you know, the way he always says

1008
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,680
is let your guard down and, you know, you can't let your guard down, you know, obviously,

1009
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,960
you know, we got a big part of the schedule coming up.

1010
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:28,200
Um, you know, obviously got trapped, not a trap game, but, you know, at the pool and,

1011
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:29,480
you know, Wednesday night.

1012
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:34,040
Um, and then after that, you got Marquette, you know, so, um, you know, we just can't

1013
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,280
let our guard down and we got to, you know, stay hungry.

1014
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:41,920
You know, one thing that, you know, me, Alex, Haas, um, Tristan, Samson, all those returning

1015
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:46,200
guys from last year, we could like, you know, we're trying to just, you know, win it for

1016
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,000
these young guys, win it for these transfers.

1017
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:52,120
You know, Cam wants to win one, you know, that kid, that kid wants to win badly.

1018
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,560
You know, we're trying to win it for him.

1019
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,920
And, you know, he, you know, he's last year at college, you know, it's his last chance.

1020
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,840
Um, you know, obviously he has an opportunity to go play at the next level, you know, without

1021
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:07,360
Willie's playing and, um, you know, but just to, just stay hungry and, you know, it's,

1022
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:08,720
it's a great, it's a great feeling.

1023
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:12,400
I promise, you know, I tell all these guys, I promise you, you know, if you give everything

1024
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:13,720
you got, it's going to pay off.

1025
00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:17,880
And, you know, you'll have a great, April will be the best month of your life.

1026
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:24,200
Um, you know, and not to be Debbie Downer, but obviously the, the, the odds never favors

1027
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,120
anyone winning this tournament because it's so freaking crazy, but you guys are getting

1028
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:33,240
fastball after fastball after fastball, like from these opponents, man, there's, you know,

1029
00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:37,040
teams would, would like to knock you guys off and then get blown out the next game because

1030
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:45,400
they beat them, you know, the Natties, but, um, um, the big East tournament, can you speak

1031
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,360
about like what that kind of experience is?

1032
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:49,720
It's that it's in the garden again, right?

1033
00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:50,720
Is that right?

1034
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:51,720
Yeah.

1035
00:47:51,720 --> 00:47:52,720
Always, always.

1036
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:53,720
Well, well, we weren't into it.

1037
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:54,720
So we didn't.

1038
00:47:54,720 --> 00:47:55,720
Yeah, we weren't in the big East.

1039
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:56,720
Yeah.

1040
00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:58,720
So like when we were in that other, what was the stupid conference?

1041
00:47:58,720 --> 00:47:59,720
Yeah.

1042
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:01,840
Like we grew up, grew up going to that thing.

1043
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,280
Like as kids, adults, and then, you know, there's nothing like the final, the garden

1044
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:07,280
on the side.

1045
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:08,640
I promise you, it's crazy to semi-nights crazy.

1046
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,640
This year's biggest tournament is going to be a legit war.

1047
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,280
It's going to be every single game is going to be, you know, decided by one possession

1048
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,640
and, um, you know, it's just the way these teams are playing at the level and how tough

1049
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,320
and physical this league is.

1050
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,360
I mean, you go watch these other games.

1051
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:24,960
There's a lot of fouls called there.

1052
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,240
Hey, you can go tackle someone in the big East.

1053
00:48:27,240 --> 00:48:28,240
You ain't getting called.

1054
00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:30,600
I mean, like it's, it's a war.

1055
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,200
So you know, I, sorry, I know that.

1056
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:38,480
I mean, that was, it was that, that, that, that atmosphere is going to be unreal.

1057
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:39,480
It's going to be loud in there.

1058
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:44,280
Um, you know, in the battles that are going to be on the court is just, you know, I'm,

1059
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,000
I can't wait to big East is back.

1060
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,080
I mean, we grew up big East in the 1980s.

1061
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:52,360
Well, before you were born in, uh, you know, the Georgetown Syracuse and St.

1062
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:53,520
John's stuff was unbelievable.

1063
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:57,480
Um, I want to just want to pivot a little bit off the court.

1064
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:02,240
If you can talk about this and the ever changing landscape of college sports and college basketball

1065
00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:05,400
in particular, can you talk at all about like the NIL stuff?

1066
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:06,840
Is it time consuming for you?

1067
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,120
Do you have people that help you with that kind of thing?

1068
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,160
And if you can expand upon that a little bit.

1069
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,160
Yeah.

1070
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:17,000
I have an agent and people who help me out a lot and take a lot of the time consuming

1071
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,400
part off my hands.

1072
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,880
Um, you know, but it is time consuming.

1073
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:25,600
It can be, especially if you're playing at a high level game, high level deals that require

1074
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:26,600
a lot of work.

1075
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:33,880
Um, you know, like just, you know, the photo shoots, the production time, recording videos,

1076
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,680
trying to, you know, the easiest thing is, you know, posting on social media and putting

1077
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:38,960
up content like that.

1078
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,400
But you know, you got to find time to record all of that.

1079
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,680
You got to find time to, you know, get the shoots done.

1080
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:44,680
Sometimes you got to travel.

1081
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:49,640
Um, you know, but, you know, it's really changed the game and it's, it's, it's making it hard

1082
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,520
for, you know, coaching and, you know, recruiting.

1083
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,520
Um, you know, coach early has done a great job.

1084
00:49:55,520 --> 00:50:00,960
You know, obviously, you know, helping us with NIL, but you know, he's, you know, he

1085
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,960
shows the money, you know, the money will be there one day.

1086
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,040
You know, you don't have to make all your money right now in college.

1087
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:09,120
If you work to make it to the next level and make it to the highest level, you'll make,

1088
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,040
you know, 10 times the money you're making right now in college.

1089
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,600
So, um, you know, the NIL is, you know, it's, it's a great thing.

1090
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:15,600
Don't get me wrong.

1091
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:21,120
Um, you know, I love it, but you know, it's, it's, it's, it can get difficult at times.

1092
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,200
You know, it's, you know, sometimes, you know, you get back from a road trip, you have a

1093
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,360
off day next day and you know, your off days on off days, you know, those are the work days.

1094
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,520
So those are, those are your off days are going to be the days you go and you try to

1095
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,080
take as much NIL stuff you can take care of.

1096
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,440
I appreciate, appreciate your honesty with that question because, uh, it's been a little,

1097
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,640
uh, not a boner contention, but just something we were curious about here.

1098
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,720
And how it's changed the game a little bit.

1099
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:43,720
It's changed the whole landscape.

1100
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:47,280
I drive to the Eastern every day and I, I passed a couple of billboards where you're

1101
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:48,280
pointing at me.

1102
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,800
So I know what it is.

1103
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,800
Ion basketball uniform, right?

1104
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:53,800
That's what it is.

1105
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:54,800
Yeah.

1106
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,360
So let me ask you something.

1107
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:02,240
So I know you're concentrating on the end of the season.

1108
00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:08,440
Is there, there's a big decision coming up about as far as do you enter, do you not,

1109
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:13,080
do you wait, is there something can you talk about something that you thought about at

1110
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,080
all?

1111
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,360
I mean, I discuss it with coach Hurley and the staff or anything.

1112
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:17,360
Never, never.

1113
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,360
I mean, obviously, you know, everyone has dreams to go to the NBA.

1114
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:21,360
I did too.

1115
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,160
I didn't work out for it.

1116
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,120
You know, we all, we all have dreams of going to the NBA.

1117
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,880
Um, you know, but that's, that's, you know, we all really worry about what you, where

1118
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:31,880
you are in the moment.

1119
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:37,040
Um, you know, we're trying to compete for, um, you know, you coach Hurley wants to know

1120
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:41,240
you go win games, you go with him, championship, you're going to put yourself in a better position

1121
00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:42,720
to go play in the NBA.

1122
00:51:42,720 --> 00:51:46,320
You know, think about some of us who were here last year and say we go win a note like

1123
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,720
I got what, you know, we're going to do everything that we can to go, you know, try and win a

1124
00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:50,720
national championship.

1125
00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:53,480
But you know, that puts us in the way better spot.

1126
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:57,360
We would be in, you know, win two national championships or, you know, whatever we do

1127
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:58,360
this year.

1128
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,520
Um, you know, so, you know, I really don't think about the NBA.

1129
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,600
Um, you know, I'm really just thinking about what I could do today, what can I do tomorrow

1130
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:09,680
to get better and try to help my team and, you know, try to go on and just swing games

1131
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,640
because that will, you know, winning games will help my future.

1132
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:18,120
That's a great answer and great advice from Coach Hurley because you got to think Hawkins

1133
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:24,280
and Jackson that run that three week run they had just elevated their status nationally

1134
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,440
with the scouts and the experts.

1135
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,120
So wonderful answer.

1136
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:29,120
And we agree with that.

1137
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,560
If you win, you're going to get noticed right at Yukon.

1138
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:35,840
Yeah, and I played with, you know, obviously I played with Dahma, I played with Hawkins,

1139
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:40,760
sorry, and Dre, but, you know, they're, they're three, you know, I talked to them all the

1140
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,520
time, you know, like I said, I was on the phone with Dre yesterday and, you know, he

1141
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,040
misses, misses college.

1142
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,240
You know, I think it was, you know, we tried to, everyone was really trying to push him

1143
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:49,240
to go to the NBA.

1144
00:52:49,240 --> 00:52:52,320
He really wanted to stay, but we were pushing him because, you know, we knew it was best

1145
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:57,080
for him and, you know, it was his time, but, you know, Hawkins was at the Xavier game at

1146
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,440
the Excel Center and, you know, he came to locker room and he's like, yo, I missed this.

1147
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:04,760
You know, like NBA's flying, the money's nice, but, you know, this is like a team.

1148
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,080
This is like, you know, you're competing with everything you've got and there's everyone

1149
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:14,000
who's on the same level and mentally and just trying to win everything.

1150
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:18,160
Other than Yukon Dahma, who's the best college team you've either played against or seen

1151
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,040
on TV this year?

1152
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:21,040
This year?

1153
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:22,040
Yeah, this year.

1154
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:30,280
I mean, Kansas, Kansas was, they're tough, you know, Creighton.

1155
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:31,800
Creighton's a very good team.

1156
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,520
They got three NBA players on that team.

1157
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:40,320
You know, it's, it's, we played, we played a very, very tough schedule this year.

1158
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:41,820
Thank you.

1159
00:53:41,820 --> 00:53:42,820
That's awesome though.

1160
00:53:42,820 --> 00:53:43,820
You're supposed to.

1161
00:53:43,820 --> 00:53:44,820
Oh yeah.

1162
00:53:44,820 --> 00:53:45,820
You want to know why?

1163
00:53:45,820 --> 00:53:46,820
Because you're Yukon, right?

1164
00:53:46,820 --> 00:53:47,820
I know.

1165
00:53:47,820 --> 00:53:48,820
I know.

1166
00:53:48,820 --> 00:53:49,820
Man.

1167
00:53:49,820 --> 00:53:52,320
We could do this forever.

1168
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,820
Yeah, so I want to talk about, I don't know if there's still like, if it's still the thing

1169
00:53:56,820 --> 00:54:03,600
it was, but when, before you were probably born, Yukon was on the way up and we had this

1170
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,340
thing called The Horde.

1171
00:54:05,340 --> 00:54:07,340
It was all the journalists.

1172
00:54:07,340 --> 00:54:08,340
Okay.

1173
00:54:08,340 --> 00:54:09,340
A member of it.

1174
00:54:09,340 --> 00:54:10,340
Right.

1175
00:54:10,340 --> 00:54:13,400
Oh, you blew it because I was going to ask if there still is dorky today as they were

1176
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,460
back when the, because the commission, this part of the horde.

1177
00:54:17,460 --> 00:54:19,940
So, I left it got dorkier.

1178
00:54:19,940 --> 00:54:20,940
Yeah.

1179
00:54:20,940 --> 00:54:25,680
No, like, in today's day and age where a newspaper print isn't like the thing.

1180
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:31,220
I mean, when we were following Yukon, like any sports, I mean, we had the newspapers

1181
00:54:31,220 --> 00:54:32,540
piled up in our houses.

1182
00:54:32,540 --> 00:54:33,540
Yeah.

1183
00:54:33,540 --> 00:54:38,660
Is the coverage still pretty intense on a daily?

1184
00:54:38,660 --> 00:54:41,940
Yeah, it's, you know, you do it after every game.

1185
00:54:41,940 --> 00:54:43,340
You do it before every game.

1186
00:54:43,340 --> 00:54:46,100
So, and you know, one thing.

1187
00:54:46,100 --> 00:54:48,300
Do you have to, do you guys have things you have to do?

1188
00:54:48,300 --> 00:54:49,300
Are you cultured on that?

1189
00:54:49,300 --> 00:54:51,860
Just a couple of us who are there every single time, you know what I mean?

1190
00:54:51,860 --> 00:54:55,780
It's, it's, it's, it's difficult sometimes.

1191
00:54:55,780 --> 00:54:58,700
Um, you know, you really have to pay attention when doing media.

1192
00:54:58,700 --> 00:55:01,940
Um, you really have to listen to what they're actually asking.

1193
00:55:01,940 --> 00:55:06,140
They, some of the people are trying to get you some trap questions and you know, there's

1194
00:55:06,140 --> 00:55:09,580
a couple of us who have felt those questions and you know, messed up with their answering,

1195
00:55:09,580 --> 00:55:11,140
but like not, it's not in a bad way.

1196
00:55:11,140 --> 00:55:14,700
You know, it's just the way they try to, they try to get certain answers out of you.

1197
00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:18,420
So you know, one thing I try to do is when someone asks me a question, I, I give it three

1198
00:55:18,420 --> 00:55:20,820
seconds and just try to think about, all right, what are they saying?

1199
00:55:20,820 --> 00:55:22,340
What answer am I going to say?

1200
00:55:22,340 --> 00:55:25,500
Like, you know, they can wait on me cause I'm, I'm trying, they're, you know, they're

1201
00:55:25,500 --> 00:55:26,500
asking me the question.

1202
00:55:26,500 --> 00:55:30,980
So I'm really trying to think about like, cause you know, you can mess anything up like

1203
00:55:30,980 --> 00:55:36,660
less, you know, one answer that's wrong, boom, like, you know, it could be a reputation thing.

1204
00:55:36,660 --> 00:55:40,380
You know, it could be something that, you know, the coach staff may not like and, or

1205
00:55:40,380 --> 00:55:42,780
you know, just something that, you know, looks bad for yourself.

1206
00:55:42,780 --> 00:55:45,300
So you really just kind of think with the media about what you say.

1207
00:55:45,300 --> 00:55:49,460
How about, how ironic is it that the center takes three seconds?

1208
00:55:49,460 --> 00:55:51,900
You know what I'm saying?

1209
00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:57,140
I'm so done with that rule, by the way, because unless you're, you like, why, why, why, why

1210
00:55:57,140 --> 00:55:58,380
is it still a rule?

1211
00:55:58,380 --> 00:56:01,300
Good officials beg you out of there if you're abusing it.

1212
00:56:01,300 --> 00:56:06,380
And like on a high school level, like, camp there, dude, like you, they don't throw it

1213
00:56:06,380 --> 00:56:07,380
in there anyway.

1214
00:56:07,380 --> 00:56:08,380
Look at this guy.

1215
00:56:08,380 --> 00:56:10,820
He said, send a million screens a second here.

1216
00:56:10,820 --> 00:56:14,940
Like, can we throw it in there and bead through shoots, threes, man.

1217
00:56:14,940 --> 00:56:16,940
Can you get in there when you're back to the basket?

1218
00:56:16,940 --> 00:56:21,180
Like in high school, you know, and like, you know, coach girls high school, like they're

1219
00:56:21,180 --> 00:56:22,180
calling three seconds.

1220
00:56:22,180 --> 00:56:23,180
Why?

1221
00:56:23,180 --> 00:56:29,100
Like we got like, I mean, come on, man, get rid of that rule.

1222
00:56:29,100 --> 00:56:30,580
I mean, I'm sick of that rule.

1223
00:56:30,580 --> 00:56:34,820
And I wanted to ask you, I tried to rope don't want to stalking you, but I did go on your

1224
00:56:34,820 --> 00:56:36,580
Instagram during this week.

1225
00:56:36,580 --> 00:56:42,060
And even with social media been like, I see, how do you, how do you have to have tough

1226
00:56:42,060 --> 00:56:43,060
skin, thick skin?

1227
00:56:43,060 --> 00:56:46,060
I'm imagining, cause there's always comments that I'm like, that would drive me insane.

1228
00:56:46,060 --> 00:56:49,140
But how do you deal with social media and the negativity?

1229
00:56:49,140 --> 00:56:53,220
I mean, Instagram, I throw up my posts and I don't go back.

1230
00:56:53,220 --> 00:56:55,180
I usually don't really go back and look at the comments.

1231
00:56:55,180 --> 00:56:58,500
You know, I'll just stick to, you know, just go post, I like it.

1232
00:56:58,500 --> 00:57:00,380
I'll go, you know, repost.

1233
00:57:00,380 --> 00:57:05,620
I repost some things if I have to repost, but you know, it's, you know, Twitter is,

1234
00:57:05,620 --> 00:57:06,620
is brutal.

1235
00:57:06,620 --> 00:57:09,740
You know, there's a lot of brutal fans out there, but I don't, I don't listen.

1236
00:57:09,740 --> 00:57:12,420
I, you know, I laugh at it cause they don't know what I go through every day.

1237
00:57:12,420 --> 00:57:15,660
They don't know what any of us go through every day, you know, and the same people that,

1238
00:57:15,660 --> 00:57:18,540
you know, if you go win a game, they're going to be your best friend.

1239
00:57:18,540 --> 00:57:22,140
But then when you lose the game, they're actually, you know, crap all over you and

1240
00:57:22,140 --> 00:57:24,420
just, you know, talk, talk so badly about you.

1241
00:57:24,420 --> 00:57:28,780
And it's like, you know, you just supported me when I won, but like now I'm losing and

1242
00:57:28,780 --> 00:57:29,780
you're not happy.

1243
00:57:29,780 --> 00:57:31,460
So what you're just going to, you'll be mad at me now.

1244
00:57:31,460 --> 00:57:34,380
Like you, it's, it's, it's a different world.

1245
00:57:34,380 --> 00:57:35,780
It's a different world, you know?

1246
00:57:35,780 --> 00:57:40,140
So it's, it's, it's, it's social media has definitely changed the landscape.

1247
00:57:40,140 --> 00:57:42,820
Um, you know, and I give, I give a lot of credit to Ken Spencer.

1248
00:57:42,820 --> 00:57:46,340
Um, you know, he has zero social media and those know Instagram, no Twitter, no nothing,

1249
00:57:46,340 --> 00:57:49,700
no TikTok, nothing and nothing zero, zero.

1250
00:57:49,700 --> 00:57:51,700
Oh, he has his, he's different.

1251
00:57:51,700 --> 00:57:52,700
That guy's different.

1252
00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:53,700
Like he's locked in.

1253
00:57:53,700 --> 00:57:54,700
Yeah.

1254
00:57:54,700 --> 00:57:56,380
He's locked into the level you never seen.

1255
00:57:56,380 --> 00:57:58,540
He ever comment on Rutgers at all?

1256
00:57:58,540 --> 00:57:59,540
Yeah.

1257
00:57:59,540 --> 00:58:00,540
Yeah.

1258
00:58:00,540 --> 00:58:01,540
He loved Rutgers.

1259
00:58:01,540 --> 00:58:03,900
I mean, I've said it cause you know, I obviously, I, I talked to Steve, well, being recruited

1260
00:58:03,900 --> 00:58:06,900
and he was a good guy and you know, I had nothing against them.

1261
00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:10,900
Um, you know, Cam, Cam said, you know, I love the coach, Michael, you know, he was, I

1262
00:58:10,900 --> 00:58:13,780
was great, he's very intense and I love that about him.

1263
00:58:13,780 --> 00:58:18,180
Um, you know, but he's just, you know, he had me, he could win a Natty here.

1264
00:58:18,180 --> 00:58:19,180
Like, yeah.

1265
00:58:19,180 --> 00:58:20,180
Go to the winning Natty.

1266
00:58:20,180 --> 00:58:21,180
Yeah.

1267
00:58:21,180 --> 00:58:24,100
Where do you keep, you don't have to say specifically, but your national championship

1268
00:58:24,100 --> 00:58:25,460
bring how often you wear that?

1269
00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:26,980
And do you ever wear a fishing?

1270
00:58:26,980 --> 00:58:27,980
No, you wouldn't wear a fishing.

1271
00:58:27,980 --> 00:58:28,980
I never wore it.

1272
00:58:28,980 --> 00:58:29,980
I never wore it.

1273
00:58:29,980 --> 00:58:30,980
Yeah.

1274
00:58:30,980 --> 00:58:31,980
I've worn it once.

1275
00:58:31,980 --> 00:58:32,980
I think, yeah, like the day we got it.

1276
00:58:32,980 --> 00:58:33,980
Do you like it or what?

1277
00:58:33,980 --> 00:58:34,980
Yeah.

1278
00:58:34,980 --> 00:58:35,980
I love it.

1279
00:58:35,980 --> 00:58:36,980
It sits right in my room.

1280
00:58:36,980 --> 00:58:37,980
Yeah.

1281
00:58:37,980 --> 00:58:38,980
Look at it every day.

1282
00:58:38,980 --> 00:58:39,980
At school or at home?

1283
00:58:39,980 --> 00:58:40,820
School.

1284
00:58:40,820 --> 00:58:41,820
I think you got good locks on those doors.

1285
00:58:41,820 --> 00:58:42,820
Oh yeah.

1286
00:58:42,820 --> 00:58:43,820
Lock them every day.

1287
00:58:43,820 --> 00:58:44,820
Damn.

1288
00:58:44,820 --> 00:58:46,820
I hope they'll be locked ours in four years.

1289
00:58:46,820 --> 00:58:47,820
Lock our doors.

1290
00:58:47,820 --> 00:58:49,500
Well, you only went for four years.

1291
00:58:49,500 --> 00:58:50,500
For me.

1292
00:58:50,500 --> 00:58:51,500
For six years you locked the door.

1293
00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:55,340
A couple of us were on a six year plan in towers.

1294
00:58:55,340 --> 00:58:56,340
Towers?

1295
00:58:56,340 --> 00:58:57,340
I mean, who was better in towers?

1296
00:58:57,340 --> 00:59:01,100
Hey, Don, I know you're getting better every day, working hard.

1297
00:59:01,100 --> 00:59:03,980
What particular areas of your game are you working on getting a little better at right

1298
00:59:03,980 --> 00:59:04,980
now?

1299
00:59:04,980 --> 00:59:09,100
It's physical around the rim, working on my quick touch shots and just trying to, you

1300
00:59:09,100 --> 00:59:11,100
know, just be consistent.

1301
00:59:11,100 --> 00:59:13,100
My foul shots, foul shots have been terrible.

1302
00:59:13,100 --> 00:59:15,100
I'm shooting 50% of the line.

1303
00:59:15,100 --> 00:59:16,100
It's embarrassing.

1304
00:59:16,100 --> 00:59:17,100
Come on, set that up too.

1305
00:59:17,100 --> 00:59:18,100
I know, right?

1306
00:59:18,100 --> 00:59:19,100
Except for three point line too, I think.

1307
00:59:19,100 --> 00:59:20,100
No, three point line.

1308
00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:25,100
I'm not worried about that.

1309
00:59:25,100 --> 00:59:27,100
I know I can shoot the three well.

1310
00:59:27,100 --> 00:59:31,420
You know, one thing coach really emphasizes to us, you have to fall in love with the offense

1311
00:59:31,420 --> 00:59:32,420
and everything will come to you.

1312
00:59:32,420 --> 00:59:33,420
You know, that's one thing you saw.

1313
00:59:33,420 --> 00:59:36,100
I don't know if you watched the first half of the game yesterday.

1314
00:59:36,100 --> 00:59:37,620
Every single one of us fell in love with the offense.

1315
00:59:37,620 --> 00:59:42,620
We were up by 30 a half time and everyone played a little role.

1316
00:59:42,620 --> 00:59:45,460
I got to pass the ball yesterday, it was a lot of fun.

1317
00:59:45,460 --> 00:59:46,460
Four assists, I think.

1318
00:59:46,460 --> 00:59:47,460
Six.

1319
00:59:47,460 --> 00:59:48,460
Six assists, four blocks.

1320
00:59:48,460 --> 00:59:49,460
Excuse us.

1321
00:59:49,460 --> 00:59:50,460
Six assists, four blocks.

1322
00:59:50,460 --> 00:59:51,460
I also play football, by the way.

1323
00:59:51,460 --> 00:59:52,460
I'm shooting a thousand from three.

1324
00:59:52,460 --> 00:59:53,460
I was diving up.

1325
00:59:53,460 --> 00:59:54,460
Yeah, I love passing.

1326
00:59:54,460 --> 00:59:55,460
That's one of my favorite parts of my game.

1327
00:59:55,460 --> 00:59:56,460
You are a great pass.

1328
00:59:56,460 --> 00:59:57,460
Did you get the goggles off?

1329
00:59:57,460 --> 00:59:58,460
I don't know what the goggles are.

1330
00:59:58,460 --> 00:59:59,460
It was that kind of game that one time though.

1331
00:59:59,460 --> 01:00:00,460
Yeah, I love passing.

1332
01:00:00,460 --> 01:00:01,460
I'm not sure if I'm going to get the goggles off.

1333
01:00:01,460 --> 01:00:02,460
I'm not sure if I'm going to get the goggles off.

1334
01:00:02,460 --> 01:00:03,460
I'm not sure if I'm going to get the goggles off.

1335
01:00:03,460 --> 01:00:12,260
Yeah, I love passing, but really just trying to get a dominant post game and trying to

1336
01:00:12,260 --> 01:00:15,680
really just score any way I want in the post.

1337
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:18,380
Yeah.

1338
01:00:18,380 --> 01:00:22,200
This guy doesn't want three seconds.

1339
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:24,500
That's a stupid rule.

1340
01:00:24,500 --> 01:00:25,820
Maybe for high school.

1341
01:00:25,820 --> 01:00:27,940
What has it been like having Victor on the football team there too?

1342
01:00:27,940 --> 01:00:30,060
I mean, a Bristol kid there doing that.

1343
01:00:30,060 --> 01:00:33,320
Yeah, I mean, obviously he's in different position than I am.

1344
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:36,440
He's really trying to help build that program.

1345
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:37,480
That's my best friend.

1346
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:38,680
We still hang out all the time.

1347
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:42,040
We still talk every week.

1348
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:46,360
And I'm just watching how he's getting better every day.

1349
01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:47,720
I actually went through some injuries,

1350
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:50,120
so it was a hard friend to really get into every game

1351
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:51,680
and stay in the groove.

1352
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:55,560
But talking to him, there's a lot of hopes for this year.

1353
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:58,080
There's a lot of good guys coming in, coaches bringing in

1354
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,200
a couple new guys on the staff.

1355
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,440
I'm really excited to see what he does this year.

1356
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:06,200
Hey, are those Bristol boys' t-shirts still for sale?

1357
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:07,000
I think so.

1358
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:07,360
I'm sure.

1359
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:08,800
We got to pedal those on this thing.

1360
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:13,640
We have six followers, so we're trying to get rid

1361
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:15,960
of at least six of those.

1362
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:18,280
Let's do it.

1363
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:20,560
So what do we got?

1364
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,480
March 16th for the Big East Final.

1365
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:23,880
Is that right?

1366
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:24,480
Saturday night?

1367
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:25,720
It's 15th or 16th, yeah.

1368
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:27,880
Friday night's a 16th, because the same home was day.

1369
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:29,840
Let's concentrate on the game on Wednesday.

1370
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:30,440
No, no, no, man.

1371
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:31,400
I'm looking for bigger things, man.

1372
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:32,520
You heard them?

1373
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:34,640
That's all the game is about.

1374
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:37,000
Can we just talk, kick it back to high school for a minute,

1375
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,160
because I know you have tremendous loyalty

1376
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:40,520
to your high school.

1377
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:42,560
Your story, we don't have to get into all that,

1378
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:46,360
because it's been written about in a way or not.

1379
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:50,560
What a class way you handled staying at Bristol Central

1380
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,480
and the real reasons why.

1381
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:55,920
But I see you at the fall games, the summer games,

1382
01:01:55,920 --> 01:02:00,280
and come back to see coach and the players and stuff like that.

1383
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:03,360
A message to the CIC, right?

1384
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:07,720
Those kids right now, it's not a good team.

1385
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:11,640
They're playing a schedule, because you guys were so dominant.

1386
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:12,360
I'm sorry.

1387
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:14,000
Like, what do you know?

1388
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,360
No apologies, man.

1389
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:16,560
You had to do what you had to do.

1390
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:18,760
Like, that's why we play high school sports, right?

1391
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,680
But like, message to the CIC.

1392
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:23,480
That's terrible, right?

1393
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:24,800
Yeah, I mean, it's brutal.

1394
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:25,320
It's brutal.

1395
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:29,240
I mean, these kids, obviously, when my team was special,

1396
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:30,400
we had a special team.

1397
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:31,680
We were 48 straight games.

1398
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:35,200
I mean, and then we lose how many players we lost,

1399
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:36,440
the whole starting five.

1400
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,400
And then you come out and give them a harder schedule

1401
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:39,520
than you gave us.

1402
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:40,520
That's unbelievable.

1403
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:43,080
Mikey McMahon is getting in the brunt of it.

1404
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:43,760
Yeah.

1405
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:48,600
And executive producer Kevin Ross's son, Harry.

1406
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,000
Had a good day yesterday in Northwest Catholic, though.

1407
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:52,800
That's what I heard.

1408
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:57,720
Yeah, it's just a brutal gauntlet of teams and our schedule.

1409
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:00,960
And I think it's really the conference at this point, right?

1410
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,200
Isn't the conference given a tier one,

1411
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:04,200
they call it schedule?

1412
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:05,480
Let me throw this to Donovan.

1413
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,240
We talked about this a couple of podcasts ago.

1414
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:10,800
And I was actually talking to John Marabello, the coach

1415
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,360
at Northwest Catholic, about this.

1416
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:17,200
What do you think about, and now it's set, how it finished.

1417
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,040
So they're getting the brunt of it now.

1418
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:22,920
What do you think about the Visual 1 tournament going to,

1419
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:25,360
like in February or the beginning of March,

1420
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,120
when the state tournament is going to start,

1421
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,080
ranking almost like the NCAA tournament?

1422
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:30,560
They should.

1423
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:31,600
You think that could work?

1424
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:36,040
Yeah, I mean, you know, honestly, you know, just taking,

1425
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:37,960
like you're saying, like taking the whole state of correct.

1426
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:39,440
Yeah, well, just the Visual 1 teams.

1427
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:40,360
The Visual 1 teams.

1428
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,040
Yeah, I mean, I feel like that would be making more competitive

1429
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,440
and making more, you know, more of the rights.

1430
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:50,120
You know, you get the 1 versus, you possibly get the 1 versus 15

1431
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:50,640
in the final.

1432
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:52,200
You never know, like it could be cool runs

1433
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:53,880
and you could be special teams that you

1434
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:55,720
would make a little history run.

1435
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:56,800
You know, it'll be cool.

1436
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:58,960
So, you know, I think that would be a good idea.

1437
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,120
I mean, are you aware, like, so last year,

1438
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:06,080
we had talked about this, West Hill High School went 0-1-20.

1439
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:07,480
And they were in the state tournament.

1440
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:07,920
Oh, wow.

1441
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,800
And they had to drive across the state to play East Catholic.

1442
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:12,800
Yeah, in the first round.

1443
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:14,600
That's why we were suggesting, like,

1444
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:16,800
it didn't go well for West Hill.

1445
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:17,200
No.

1446
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:18,760
So that doesn't mean we were just,

1447
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,720
we were talking about our previous podcast, maybe,

1448
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:23,720
like, ranking the Visual 1 teams, like, Bristol Central.

1449
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,040
Like, so they would be, obviously, like, lower and stuff.

1450
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,600
Even his year, though, like, that was Division 2, right?

1451
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:29,200
Yeah.

1452
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,400
So after you're gone, they went to Division 1?

1453
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,360
I mean, CIC, wake up.

1454
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,360
I mean, they're about to close your doors anyway,

1455
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:36,320
because you make no money.

1456
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,920
But, like, and thanks for the $10 ticket

1457
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:40,040
for the state tournament.

1458
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:41,840
That's cool.

1459
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:43,960
That's what you pass.

1460
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,840
I used to, I mean, dude, I'm getting, getting porked here.

1461
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:47,880
But, like,

1462
01:04:47,880 --> 01:04:49,720
Yeah, you spent, what, $1,000 this year

1463
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:51,320
watching your kids play?

1464
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:51,840
No kidding.

1465
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:52,640
Three different venues.

1466
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:53,680
Talk about our games, though.

1467
01:04:53,680 --> 01:04:55,040
Oh, I take it so far.

1468
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:56,040
Yeah.

1469
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:57,440
And we don't get extra.

1470
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:58,800
So you gotta pay for extra tickets.

1471
01:04:58,800 --> 01:04:59,600
The man is high.

1472
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:00,160
How many of you get?

1473
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:01,480
Four.

1474
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:01,840
OK.

1475
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:03,280
So if I want 90 people out of the game,

1476
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:04,120
I'm paying Gabel Bill.

1477
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:05,120
Four right behind the bench.

1478
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:05,600
$200.

1479
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:06,600
One more bill, boy.

1480
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:08,600
Wow.

1481
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:09,600
Spend that, boy.

1482
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:10,920
Welcome to the tag-on.

1483
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:14,000
I see Coach Pham and Coach Beirut behind that bench.

1484
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:15,920
They get their high school ticket.

1485
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:17,520
They get their high school ticket.

1486
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:18,840
High school coach ticket.

1487
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:20,640
Hey, Donovan, what's it like to go into a mall?

1488
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:22,040
I know it just crammed.

1489
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:23,280
Do you like that?

1490
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:24,640
The attention too much?

1491
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:26,160
You know, just everywhere you go,

1492
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:30,200
are people trying to get a piece of your talk to your?

1493
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:32,920
You know, it's cool.

1494
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,120
I'll never be mad about it.

1495
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:38,200
You know, I think about it the way

1496
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:39,800
if you're known who knows who I am,

1497
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,440
then what the hell am I doing?

1498
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,240
It's like things aren't going great for you.

1499
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:48,080
But you know, sometimes it's like, you know,

1500
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,800
like today is an off day.

1501
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:52,560
I'm not going to want to go around and get harassed.

1502
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:54,840
It was my only off day in three weeks.

1503
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:58,320
So, you know, but, you know, at the same time, it's like,

1504
01:05:58,320 --> 01:05:59,800
you know, I'm here for the fans.

1505
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:01,360
You know, I have a chance to, you know,

1506
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:03,240
make a little kid's life, you know,

1507
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:04,480
the memory will remember forever.

1508
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,120
So it's like, you know, I'm going to take a picture of this kid.

1509
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:07,600
I'm going to, if he wants something signed, whatever,

1510
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:09,840
you know, I'll sign. I have no problem with that.

1511
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,120
You know, and, you know, it's just sometimes

1512
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:13,320
it's just one person after another.

1513
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:14,560
Heck, I get a picture. Heck, I get a picture.

1514
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:15,800
Hey, I'll tell you, I'll tell you.

1515
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:17,120
Like, it's just like one person after another.

1516
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:18,440
And I'm trying to go do something,

1517
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:19,440
they'll walk around somewhere.

1518
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:23,280
It's like, oh, you come to our podcast.

1519
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,960
You want to buy a pair of jeans? What's that like?

1520
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:28,520
I threw a mine.

1521
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:29,680
Most schools are online.

1522
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:30,840
We're going to wrap this up, man.

1523
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:32,040
We appreciate your time.

1524
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:33,720
Angry Jays has got a couple of questions

1525
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:36,320
that we all are going to answer if you wouldn't mind.

1526
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:37,400
That's round of Robin.

1527
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:38,400
Yeah, let's go.

1528
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:39,720
All right, we're going to start with football.

1529
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:42,080
I hope you don't mind. So now we'll get the basketball.

1530
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:43,520
Who's going to win today?

1531
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:44,880
Who's going to win? Who do I want to win?

1532
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:45,960
Yeah, give me both.

1533
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,120
All right. So I obviously, you know,

1534
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:49,840
I'd like to see the 49ers win,

1535
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:52,120
but it's hard to go against.

1536
01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:53,920
Patty Patty's.

1537
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,160
That's not the exact opposite.

1538
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:56,880
T-Swift, baby, let's go.

1539
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,680
Now we're going to start over school.

1540
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:00,760
Who's your other?

1541
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:01,640
We'll start with Donovan.

1542
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:03,280
We'll go Donfather. We'll go that way.

1543
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:04,440
Just one word.

1544
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:05,280
I was going to tell you.

1545
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:05,960
Yeah.

1546
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,200
So I hope you know a couple of these guys are.

1547
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:09,600
John Elway, Steve Young.

1548
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:10,840
Who are you taking?

1549
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:11,680
John Elway.

1550
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:12,760
Elway.

1551
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:13,560
Elway.

1552
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:14,600
The lefty.

1553
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:15,080
Young.

1554
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:15,840
We're going Elway too.

1555
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:16,600
We're going Young.

1556
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:17,720
All right.

1557
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:18,560
The last older one.

1558
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:19,640
From Connecticut.

1559
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,280
Lawrence Taylor, Ray Lewis.

1560
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:22,000
Ray Lewis.

1561
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,720
Lawrence Taylor.

1562
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:24,840
LT.

1563
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:25,720
LT all day.

1564
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:26,320
Thysman.

1565
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:27,200
I'm going LT.

1566
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:27,800
LT.

1567
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:28,520
We're just older.

1568
01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:29,480
We used to be.

1569
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:30,680
We don't want to run the Ray Lewis.

1570
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:31,360
All right.

1571
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,200
This is newer guys.

1572
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:34,960
CJ Stroud, Jordan Love.

1573
01:07:34,960 --> 01:07:36,200
Oh, CJ Stroud.

1574
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:36,920
Stroud.

1575
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:37,480
Dog.

1576
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:38,160
Stroud.

1577
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:39,000
All day, Stroud.

1578
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:40,160
I'm going Love.

1579
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:41,360
Stroud killed my team.

1580
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:42,840
So no brainer for me.

1581
01:07:42,840 --> 01:07:43,800
All right.

1582
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:45,120
This is a tough one.

1583
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:46,440
Joe Burrow, Josh Allen.

1584
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:47,600
Josh.

1585
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:48,680
All right, quickly.

1586
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:49,440
Quickly.

1587
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:50,120
All right.

1588
01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:51,040
Josh.

1589
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:52,960
Really?

1590
01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:53,880
Josh Allen.

1591
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,400
I got to go Burrow because of the get the get, get the get,

1592
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:57,240
get the get.

1593
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:58,080
You know that thing?

1594
01:07:58,080 --> 01:07:58,720
I'm going Burrow.

1595
01:07:58,720 --> 01:07:59,440
He's a big, he's a big.

1596
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:00,200
I'm going Burrow too.

1597
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:01,640
We already played in the big game, right?

1598
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:02,040
Yep.

1599
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:03,440
Allen hasn't gotten there.

1600
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:03,800
All right.

1601
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:04,960
We'll go basketball.

1602
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:05,920
John Stockton.

1603
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:06,960
That's old school for you.

1604
01:08:06,960 --> 01:08:07,880
Chris Paul.

1605
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:08,760
Chris Paul.

1606
01:08:08,760 --> 01:08:09,240
Whoa.

1607
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,240
Stockton.

1608
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:11,800
Chris Paul.

1609
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:12,840
Stockton all day.

1610
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:13,480
Stockton too.

1611
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:14,160
Short shorts.

1612
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:15,440
Yeah.

1613
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,040
I have a little more for you.

1614
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:18,600
Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard.

1615
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:22,240
Dude.

1616
01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:23,120
That's insane.

1617
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:26,560
Kyrie Irving is the best score of all time.

1618
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:27,000
Sorry.

1619
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,120
Jesus.

1620
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:30,480
Kyrie's better by his game.

1621
01:08:30,480 --> 01:08:31,280
Top three score of all time.

1622
01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:32,880
Sorry.

1623
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:33,720
Lillard.

1624
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:34,720
Dame time.

1625
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:36,920
I'm going Lillard because I don't want the headache Irving.

1626
01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:39,880
Well, Greedy Rath, his skill level is off the charge.

1627
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:42,560
I would agree with Donovan.

1628
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,160
If Kyrie was ever invested or he's

1629
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:48,040
one of the best five 10 players of all time.

1630
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:48,360
All right.

1631
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:51,600
So we got, we threw this one out at an earlier podcast.

1632
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,520
All these guys, I'm going to give you a second chance.

1633
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:56,480
Anthony Edwards, SGA.

1634
01:08:56,480 --> 01:08:57,440
Oh.

1635
01:08:57,440 --> 01:08:57,760
Yeah.

1636
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:00,520
This was a tough one.

1637
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,840
Like who know what my team, like you say.

1638
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:03,800
Whatever you are.

1639
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:05,400
Or the coach going forward.

1640
01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:08,240
What do you want, your team?

1641
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:12,040
It's right now it's very hard to go against SGA.

1642
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:12,560
SGA.

1643
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:13,240
I would agree with that.

1644
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:13,960
SGA.

1645
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:15,880
Yeah, I was SGA and then you got me

1646
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:17,680
watching these highlights of this other guy.

1647
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:18,180
I know.

1648
01:09:18,180 --> 01:09:22,640
He's almost like a cart, like a space jammed guy.

1649
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:23,640
Jumps to the gym.

1650
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:24,320
To the gym.

1651
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:25,120
And can shoot it.

1652
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:26,400
Like I got to go Edwards man.

1653
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:27,360
He's sick.

1654
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:28,600
He's got that little elf one.

1655
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:29,680
It might be him.

1656
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:30,600
I'm taking Edwards.

1657
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:31,600
He might be him.

1658
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:34,200
I'm going to echo Bobby Mack just for the reasons you said it.

1659
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:35,840
As soon as you brought it up a few weeks ago,

1660
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,040
I started studying it and watching it a little bit.

1661
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:39,240
He's top five in the game.

1662
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:40,920
He's dunking the ball with his bicep.

1663
01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:41,800
I'm not worried about that.

1664
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:42,800
I'm worried about winning.

1665
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,120
I know.

1666
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:48,080
I'm getting arguments with people all the time now.

1667
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:52,240
And Jason Tatum, you're a Celtic fan.

1668
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,400
So Jason Tatum, Luca Danzig.

1669
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:56,760
Who do you want going forward on your team?

1670
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:02,880
So you got to think about it.

1671
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:03,440
I'm sorry.

1672
01:10:03,440 --> 01:10:05,200
The Mavericks haven't done well.

1673
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,600
Like the record's not that.

1674
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:09,480
I don't see them winning every time.

1675
01:10:09,480 --> 01:10:12,760
The Celtics, the state's team has won.

1676
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:13,680
I'm a Celtics fan.

1677
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:15,680
I want Luca.

1678
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:17,720
I'll say Tatum.

1679
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:18,720
He's lazy.

1680
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:19,600
I got to go Tatum.

1681
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:20,880
I got lazy.

1682
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:21,760
Again, arguments.

1683
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:22,760
I think Tatum's talented.

1684
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:23,600
He's a lazy.

1685
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:25,080
They have a better chance of winning.

1686
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:28,080
Luca is unbelievable, but I'm going to Tatum.

1687
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:28,680
Tatum, yeah.

1688
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:29,320
All right.

1689
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:29,800
I'm shocked.

1690
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:30,920
Can we take Luca's mom?

1691
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:35,320
Is she coming?

1692
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:36,760
Yeah, I mean, yeah.

1693
01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:37,240
Luca.

1694
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:38,840
Hi.

1695
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:39,680
Just ask.

1696
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:45,560
Don't get old.

1697
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:46,320
It's simple, right?

1698
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,200
Trying to be honest, they universally

1699
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:52,600
support Divine.

1700
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:54,720
Why do they always compete?

1701
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:56,120
What do you guys think?

1702
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:57,000
Really?

1703
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,560
Well, it was pretty quickly because Anastasiq

1704
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:01,440
first started off as, would she?

1705
01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:05,320
He might have to release his feet up of that ball

1706
01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:06,640
and hit the ball in.

1707
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:08,920
So his stats are always going to look a little better.

1708
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:11,520
I didn't expect Halbert to be this good, but he is.

1709
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:12,680
So yeah, I'm going with him.

1710
01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:14,160
I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit.

1711
01:11:14,160 --> 01:11:15,920
Morant or Zion going forward?

1712
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,240
Who do you mind?

1713
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:19,480
I'm thinking John Morant.

1714
01:11:19,480 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaking about getting gas.

1715
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:22,560
I'm taking neither, but I'll take John.

1716
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:24,800
I'll take John as well.

1717
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:27,160
I will never take John anything based

1718
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:28,800
on his stupidity and his father.

1719
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:30,520
So put him up against anyone.

1720
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:33,000
I'll take the white mamba over him.

1721
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,040
What scale of a person?

1722
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:38,200
I'm pretty sure Zion is not my mamba, but I'll take Zion too.

1723
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:39,680
No, I'm saying I'll take anybody over.

1724
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:40,280
Bless her.

1725
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:40,780
Bless her.

1726
01:11:40,780 --> 01:11:41,720
The two evils.

1727
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:42,960
I'll go Zion as well.

1728
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:44,520
All right, last basketball one.

1729
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,160
Trey Young, De'Eron Fox.

1730
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:51,520
Oh, that's a tough one.

1731
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:54,400
What do you want passing ball to, Nick?

1732
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:55,920
No, that eliminates.

1733
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:56,440
That eliminates.

1734
01:11:56,440 --> 01:11:56,920
Three years.

1735
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:57,920
No.

1736
01:11:57,920 --> 01:11:59,840
He's not getting a ball for me to one of those guys.

1737
01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:00,840
Oh, that's true.

1738
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:06,720
I mean, like, Trey Young shoots a ball.

1739
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,120
De'Eron Fox is a dog.

1740
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:09,960
Trey Young.

1741
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:10,760
Trey Young.

1742
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:12,000
I'll go Swiper.

1743
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:12,920
Trey Young.

1744
01:12:12,920 --> 01:12:14,000
Fox all day.

1745
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:15,120
I'm going Fox too.

1746
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:15,640
Nice hair.

1747
01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:17,880
I feel like Trey Young is almost underrated now.

1748
01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:20,240
Nobody talks about him, maybe because it's basketball

1749
01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:21,600
in Atlanta and they're not very good.

1750
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,960
But when he came in the first couple of years.

1751
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:24,680
He was a dog.

1752
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:25,680
Yeah.

1753
01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:26,160
Trey Young.

1754
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:27,560
They hate him at the guard, by the way.

1755
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:28,800
He doesn't guard.

1756
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:30,120
All right, last one.

1757
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:33,200
So you're done with a two hour and 45 minute practice.

1758
01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:35,120
And you're going back to your dorm.

1759
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:36,440
You don't have your chef.

1760
01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:38,840
This is old school, where you got to go back to towers

1761
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:40,920
and make your own sandwich.

1762
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:42,720
Grilled cheese or peanut butter and jelly?

1763
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,240
Go cheese.

1764
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:45,560
Go cheese.

1765
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:48,720
Peanut butter and jelly.

1766
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:50,320
Do I get tomato soup or no?

1767
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:50,800
No.

1768
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,040
No.

1769
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:54,880
Toasted cheeses have to be grilled.

1770
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:55,640
You got to make it.

1771
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:56,400
What the hell?

1772
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:58,080
Cheese.

1773
01:12:58,080 --> 01:12:59,120
I eat three a day.

1774
01:12:59,120 --> 01:12:59,600
Go cheese.

1775
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:00,600
I'm going to go cheese.

1776
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:02,600
If I could, I would.

1777
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,000
Time to do some more jelly.

1778
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:05,200
Peanut butter guy.

1779
01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:06,720
Got it.

1780
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:08,720
Last thing, best teammate of all time.

1781
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:16,280
You've been blessed with good ones, so.

1782
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:18,720
It's hard not to give to Andre.

1783
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:19,960
That's great to hear.

1784
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:22,800
As a fan of basketball and Yukon,

1785
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:24,240
like that's just a special thing to hear.

1786
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:26,720
Your love for him is definitely coming across.

1787
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:27,400
Last year's team.

1788
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:28,360
Special this year's team.

1789
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:29,280
Special.

1790
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,120
I mean, I missed a lot of those guys from last year.

1791
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:33,200
Joey California.

1792
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:33,720
Dahmer.

1793
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:35,520
Oh, I forgot about him.

1794
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:36,880
Jordan.

1795
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,480
But this year, we got a lot of special guys too,

1796
01:13:39,480 --> 01:13:42,000
but it's just got special guys.

1797
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:42,520
Donovan.

1798
01:13:42,520 --> 01:13:44,240
Oh, man, we're rooting for you.

1799
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:47,080
Thank you so much for stopping by.

1800
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:48,480
We didn't want to take your time up,

1801
01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:51,720
but to be here in person, man, it's crazy.

1802
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:54,560
To us, you're the charter oak.

1803
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:55,560
That's going to catch on.

1804
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:57,680
I'm telling you, man.

1805
01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:58,480
We've stopped him.

1806
01:13:58,480 --> 01:13:59,440
You and I have tried.

1807
01:13:59,440 --> 01:14:00,200
From the beginning.

1808
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:00,840
Yeah, from the beginning.

1809
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:02,600
No, we're going to now make the t-shirts.

1810
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,720
All the proceeds will go NIL to this guy.

1811
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:06,760
You'll get the first one.

1812
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:07,200
What do you get?

1813
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:07,920
Double X?

1814
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:09,080
Double X.

1815
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:09,480
Tall?

1816
01:14:09,480 --> 01:14:09,800
Sure.

1817
01:14:09,800 --> 01:14:11,080
If you get too tall, it'll lose all.

1818
01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:13,240
Oh, we're going to do that.

1819
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:14,960
Do you know what a narpus?

1820
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:15,520
Narp?

1821
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:18,120
Yeah, a non-athletic, regular person.

1822
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:18,640
Yeah.

1823
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,040
So that's what these college athletes call the people, man.

1824
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:25,040
Are you surrounded by narpus?

1825
01:14:25,040 --> 01:14:27,800
All right, well, you're known nart, man.

1826
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:29,960
Go chiefs or whatever.

1827
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:30,760
Go patty.

1828
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:31,560
Go niners.

1829
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:32,480
Thank you.

1830
01:14:32,480 --> 01:14:33,720
Red Sox Yankees.

1831
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:34,440
I'm the Yankee fan.

1832
01:14:34,440 --> 01:14:36,200
Let's go.

1833
01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:38,280
So do it in your house.

1834
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:39,200
All right, man.

1835
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:40,200
Thank you so much.

1836
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:40,760
Thanks a lot, Don.

1837
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:42,640
Super Sunday boys, great job.

1838
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:44,040
We've got your producer, Kevin Ross,

1839
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,680
round-mounted sound, AJ Bonnell.

1840
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:47,680
Capital securities.

1841
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:49,040
Guys, you got money kicking around.

1842
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:50,320
Call Joe Morello.

1843
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:52,040
He's going to make your life well planned.

1844
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:52,640
Go on.

1845
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:53,800
Go on.

1846
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:54,320
Later.

1847
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:55,280
Let's go.