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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome in. I'm Doug Gli. This is the newest

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Speaker 1: All Ball. It's part two of my discussion with Kyle

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Speaker 1: mill and Kyle Milling is a longtime friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: UH played to my dad's AU team when I was

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Speaker 1: in middle and into high school. I was a backup. UH.

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Speaker 1: In the first episode, we talked about his personal basketball

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Speaker 1: journey growing up Pawa, San Diego, ultimately going to UC

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Speaker 1: Santa Barbara, then deciding he wasn't happy there despite the

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Speaker 1: fact that the campus even Jerry pim It's kind of

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Speaker 1: like paradise, right, Um. And he went to Oregon, had

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Speaker 1: a had a great run in Oregon playing under Jerry Green.

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Speaker 1: I told my own Jerry Green. UH kind of recruiting story. Anyway. UM.

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Speaker 1: When we last left you, UH, Kyle was discussing the

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Speaker 1: end of his basketball journey as a player. Now he's

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Speaker 1: a talented coach in Hiroshima in Japan. He's coached for

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Speaker 1: years in UH in France and both pro B and

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Speaker 1: in the Pro A. UM and you know again, among

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Speaker 1: the discussions in episode one, if you missed and you

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Speaker 1: should download it, listen to it, rate it, review it.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. UM. He talked about meeting his wife in France.

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Speaker 1: He talked about playing in Toulon, buying a house and

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Speaker 1: Toulon and all the all the things that that he

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Speaker 1: did kind of to become, you know, a Frenchman. If

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Speaker 1: you will, um, when you get done playing, you're kind

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Speaker 1: of looking for what's next, and I think you'll be

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Speaker 1: interested in the journey. So what I wanted to do

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Speaker 1: is I wanted to make this a second part so

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Speaker 1: that if you really enjoyed it, you got a chance

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Speaker 1: to dig in on the really good stuff, the coaching stuff,

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Speaker 1: because I have lots of coaches there. I UM, I've

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Speaker 1: had friends that continue to reach out to me. Hey man,

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Speaker 1: when I'm recruiting, when I'm going to see going into

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Speaker 1: a gym, when I'm driving in the middle of nowhere,

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Speaker 1: I like listen to guys talk about ball, and Kyle

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Speaker 1: is just one of those guys. He's got two sons

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Speaker 1: that play college basketball. You'll hear about them. One who

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Speaker 1: just transferred came from Nevada to uh you C. Davis.

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Speaker 1: It's got another one in junior college and uh He's

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Speaker 1: This interview took place he was in his apartment in Hiroshima, Japan.

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Speaker 1: We we talked sushi. Um, we talked sushi rolls. We

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Speaker 1: talked all the best eating in France and other places.

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Speaker 1: I think you're really gonna enjoy it. Here's part two

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Speaker 1: on my discussion with Kyle Milling When, Um, when did

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Speaker 1: you decide, Hey, I want to coach. But after all,

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Speaker 1: when I was done playing in Monaco, I had always

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Speaker 1: wanted to go home. And uh I got taken online class.

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Speaker 1: I've got my degree, but I took online classes become

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Speaker 1: coaching in high school and Mont Carmel, and uh I

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Speaker 1: loved it. And I was coaching a youth stuff for

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Speaker 1: my sons and stuff. I loved it, but uh I

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Speaker 1: wanted more like a higher level as well. The higher

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Speaker 1: My wife's a nurse and we're trying to get her

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Speaker 1: foreign nurses. The Nursing Board basically didn't want to qualifier

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Speaker 1: What was their upbringing like in France? Like do they

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Speaker 1: What what how? How is the training when they train?

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Speaker 1: the agents leak everything. Agents leaked it to the press,

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Speaker 1: like to kind of guy? Oh, it's hard because I

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Speaker 1: was the end for me because the whole situation, we

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Speaker 1: it just looked like some little little dude. It's not

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Speaker 1: But so I sat out that year and then uh,

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Speaker 1: I was starting to the gym every day messages. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: they reneged on it. The GM reneged on it for

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Speaker 1: some reason I still don't know. Anyways, So I got

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Speaker 1: your world coming full circle. Um, So what was that

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Speaker 1: coming into Lemos When he was younger he was I mean,

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Speaker 1: him and to have him there. And uh, I mean

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00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: athletically physically and athletically that's that's why he had the hype.

431
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 1: And he's incredibly physically gifted. H Yeah, you just can't

432
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 1: do things that like I've never seen before for especially

433
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 1: for his age he was eighteen whatever, and uh so

434
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 1: you know, I'm getting drafted I think there's a lot

435
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: of pressure on me too, because obviously with his agents,

436
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 1: you know, you play him. Uh you know what, he

437
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 1: was young and we had a good team, so the

438
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: whole goal is obviously to win. But then you have

439
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 1: this pressure on the team too with the buyouts, ABA

440
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 1: buyouts and big money. So you know, you one game

441
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: played ten minutes, we win the game by twenty, you know,

442
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, thirty minutes later, I get

443
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: a phone call from his Asian or the g M

444
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: A He's gotta play a little bit more. You know,

445
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of stuff writing on this. You know,

446
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: it's like, but we won the game by twenty he's

447
00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: gotta play. So it was different management thing too, as

448
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,199
Speaker 1: far as management the other good players we had, as

449
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: well as trying to get in minutes and and growing

450
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: him as a player too. So during this time, teams

451
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 1: getting recruited, right, So what what was your what was

452
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 1: the like? What'd you tell him? Like? How did you

453
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: how did you help me? Like you gotta him make

454
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: their own decision and you were very much an independent thinker.

455
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: You're still an independent thinker. And I know he's like

456
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 1: the the input from a dad France an American, very

457
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: very different. What was you input? Like? Okay, okay, the

458
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 1: Two Sons game is probably a little bit more French

459
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 1: than my English youngest one, so I think game. And

460
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 1: of course he fell in love for the first time

461
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 1: and he knows that year, so I think him probably

462
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: in the beginning of I kind of pushed him to

463
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: go to the States because I wanted to continue his

464
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: education because in France in Europe, basically once you're done

465
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: with the high school stuff, if you continue playing, you

466
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: basically stopped school and you you concentrate on basketball. So

467
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: I really wanted him to continue his education for him

468
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: with his girlfriend who was playing really well. The themost

469
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: team was gonna off from a pro contract and to

470
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: practice the pros, play with pros, kind of like a

471
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: long term thing. And I think if I would have

472
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:15,680
Speaker 1: left it totally up to him, he probably would have

473
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: stayed in France because he wasn't an American dreaming, and

474
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: uh so I pushed him a little bit. And then

475
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: once Craig Neal was in Monaco at the time, coaching

476
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,120
Speaker 1: the young kids in Monico, and that's how he saw

477
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: Kane and got him to Nevada the first years for

478
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: my youngest son, he's an American dream and he's all

479
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: in on Jacob's uh you know, the more of the

480
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: American side and how good is how good is Jacob

481
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: comparison to King Jacob can play. He's he's at Miramar

482
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: Community College, so like he's suffering through the coronavirus a

483
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: little bit because he basically didn't play a game for

484
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: a year and a half and uh, you know, so

485
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: that I basically had no tapes on him. But I'm

486
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 1: sure he'll be a hopefully in the division one some

487
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 1: day and playing and he's tall, learned the best six seven,

488
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: almost six eight, but like this year the junior college coach,

489
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna playing one through five. You can play

490
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: big guy, you can play guard, you can do a

491
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: lot of things. Is the ultimate goal for both of

492
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: them to play back in France? Uh? Yeah, the third

493
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: for sure, I think. I think so. So I still

494
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: kind of been everywhere, but I still chrished the education thing.

495
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: So Jacob, for example, he's talked about being the doctors

496
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: and if you can be a doctor and maybe a

497
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: little bit better and playing overseas. But but so we'll see.

498
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: I'll let them choose whatever. Obviously. After that, what do

499
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 1: you like is a parent? Like last year, can'st at Nevada?

500
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: Like when you watch the games? How do you handle

501
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: in terms of your desire for your son to play?

502
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: But then you're also a coach, right, so you have

503
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: that kind of perspective of it. Yeah, what was I

504
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: was up a lot of times on uh five in

505
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: the morning watching games, that's for sure, And uh, I

506
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: can say and it's stupid with the core. I couldn't

507
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: be there in person. I wish I could be there more.

508
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: But Washington played no one what you can do. And

509
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: then Nevada was a little frustrating because you always played

510
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: with like a break on, but because he grew up

511
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: in the Europe making the nexte past and making you know,

512
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: playing team ball, and Nevada was basically, uh, you know,

513
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: if you got the ball, you better shoot it. And

514
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: so uh he uh, he played. He had fun, but

515
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: it's always uh stressful watching your son play or whatever.

516
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: So um okay, So when did you get to Japan?

517
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: Last year? Made to Yokohama. So what were you doing

518
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: during when COVID when everything was shut down two years ago?

519
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: Then what are you? Yeah, last year or two years

520
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 1: and two years ago? So what are yeah, what are

521
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: you doing with that COVID? When COVID first hit, I

522
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: was home in Francer, so there I was doing not

523
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: so that was that. That was a little moos yere No,

524
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: that was after So I I went one year basically

525
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: with no job. So you didn't you did nothing for

526
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: a year and that was the year that day had COVID. Yeah, oh,

527
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: so you didn't miss anything. What do you do with

528
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: your time? Just just your son? Yeah, A lot, a

529
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: lot of walks, a lot of in France for those

530
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: three months, three or four months while you're supposed to

531
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: be locked up in the house. You can't even like, well,

532
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: you can go to the grocery store. That's about it.

533
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: So it was. It was long. So I got pulled

534
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: over by the cops for walking my dog outside and

535
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: it's like, well, what are you doing, trans but what

536
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: are you doing outside? I'm walking the dog. Dog gotta

537
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: take a ship And he's like, yeah, you got a house.

538
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: Apartment was like a house talking going to the mouth

539
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: through I take a ship in the house. I was

540
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: like like, come on, man, So I got a ticket.

541
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: I got having thirty five year old ticket house probably

542
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: four outside my house. You got a hundred thirty five

543
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: year old ticket for taking your dog and taken down closer. Yeah,

544
00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: so it was it was long. Now in France, like

545
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: in America, most people pick up after their dogs. In France,

546
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: do you always have to bring that? You bring the bag?

547
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: Because I'm question, man, it's everything's clean. What's what's the

548
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: French culture? Like people most people who cleaned up after

549
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: their dogs in the cities on the city streets. But

550
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: we live kind of even the countryside. Yeah, we're on

551
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: the basically I walked my dog through wine fields. He fertilizes,

552
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: she fertilizes the So if I have so, if I

553
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: have a bottle of chardonnay, I just I can. I

554
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: can sit there and go like, that's really good. It's

555
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: probably Kyle Mullin's dog look like a little little labrador,

556
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: a little labrador mixing a little little little labrador. Um. Okay,

557
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: So you get to Japan. What's it like coaching in Japan?

558
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: I love it because, uh, well, one one, I mean,

559
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: there's always stressed to win, but there's probably a little

560
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: bit less stress. But the players there's a lot less egos,

561
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: there's a lot less attitudes to manage, and uh, as

562
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: far as uh telling them what to do and getting

563
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: them to do it, it's a lot easier and uh

564
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: and the respectful I mean in France and here in Japan.

565
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: And you lose the game, and I've had many times

566
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: when the players come up, sorry, sorry, coach Starry and

567
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: apologize my fault, my fault. You know, I was like, no,

568
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's how your faulting. The team's fallow. No,

569
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: it's my fault, my fault. No, we're in Europe, you know,

570
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: it's you lose a game, it's coach's fault. Yes, Now,

571
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: what is your view on American style versus the foreign

572
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: style in terms of like my perspective has always been

573
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: since I when I started traveling, playing overseas, whatever, and

574
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: then anytime a coach there is like they respect the

575
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: athleticism and the American player, but they don't actually respect

576
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: the way those guys play. Is that a fair Like

577
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: you watching the Olympics, you know, and we can say, hey,

578
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: they didn't send run at whatever. There's still plenty of

579
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: good players, but those games were really competitive, and that

580
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: kind of fee into that, hey, our style is actually

581
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: better basketball. Yeah, no, it's uh, that's basically I mean,

582
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: if you watch it, I mean that's you know, I

583
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: probably agree. You watch you know, the Spain team, the

584
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: French team, check team whatever, play and you watch American

585
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: As far as quality of basketball, it's it's night and day.

586
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: But the Americans obviously they have more athleticism and more talent,

587
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: but the game, the game is completely different. So you know,

588
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: you put those some of those European players in the

589
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: NBA game probably a different show too, whatever, you know,

590
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: So I think the international they put the top American

591
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: EuroLeague players, but then with the USA jersey on the Olympics,

592
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: they probably win by thirty year. I agree. I agree.

593
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: You find the best guys that have played in Europe

594
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: that understand the game, the physicality of it. And what

595
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: I always find interesting now is twenty years ago it was, oh,

596
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: the Europeans are soft when they come to the NBA

597
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: or you know, European basketball soft. And now people basically

598
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: saying you watched the USA team plays, Oh, yeah, and

599
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: the NBA players are soft. The Upans are beating them up.

600
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: You know. It was like, that's a big, big, big change. Um. You,

601
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: any time I've seen a picture of you, a video

602
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: of you, you always go black suit, white shirt, black tie, right,

603
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: are you a madman guy? Like, where does that come from?

604
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: That's not a black tie, but it's I'm classic dark suit,

605
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: white shirt. In this year, we have a team tie

606
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: we gotta wear, but also like a red tie, blue tie. Yeah. Now,

607
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: how are you on officials here in Japan? Easy? France?

608
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: I was a little harder, Uh yeah, but I always

609
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: make up a joke after it. So I wasn't a

610
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,719
Speaker 1: big TA guy, but I'd write them and then uh,

611
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: you know, good good. Throw some humor in there. So

612
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: French human helped. Huh French humor, Yeah, French huber humber.

613
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: What here was something like? French humor different than American

614
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 1: Like we're very we're very arcastic in basketball, you're very

615
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: sarcastic to talk to you guys talk a lot of ship, right,

616
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: but you gotta be careful and you know who you're Like,

617
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: what's French humor like, it's it's I'm kind of sarcastic,

618
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: but French humor overall is a lot different. We can

619
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: watch a movie with my wife and French on what

620
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: I don't like to do it, but it should be

621
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: Dye laughing, should be die laughing. I'll be watching It's

622
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: not funny. It was, but it's different. So I I

623
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: I write them, but then make jokes. We're here in Japan.

624
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: There's such a respect thing that that's when my wife

625
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: and my mom she watches you know, some games online

626
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: and France am sure to be drenched. I'd be read.

627
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: My mom always about to have a heart attack or something.

628
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: She watches the game in Japan and I'm sitting my

629
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: face is you know, not read. I'm not sweating. I'm

630
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: not screaming and yelling, but there's a whole thing too

631
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: or like that just doesn't work here either. You know.

632
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: So the coaches who some foreign coaches have come here

633
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: and they you know, they keep that European mentality, they

634
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: basically don't last because there's such a respect. You respect

635
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 1: their reps. There's no ship talking. The players don't talk

636
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: shit here. That's looked down upon. You know, the player

637
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: falls down, the other player will pick them up. And uh,

638
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: you know so American players who are talking and talking

639
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: ship that that doesn't work here either. So it's it's

640
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: a whole respect thing, respecting your respecting your opponent, respecting

641
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: your abously, respecting their respecting the people who are on

642
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: the tables, the score clocks. Um, how's the sushi. It's incredible.

643
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: It's more Toshima because like everything, like my favorite sushi

644
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: spot and Sego. You know, they've got all these different

645
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: kinds of roles, all these twists, uh, wrapped, all these

646
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: different guys of wraps and stead. So I showed the

647
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: Japanese guys a picture of the sushi and that is

648
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,240
Speaker 1: my favorite spot. There's what is that? It's like my sushi.

649
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: So it's all slashimi pretty much. She they've got a

650
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: few rolls and stuff, but they're not big on roll

651
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: They're just basically straight different slices of the tuna, different

652
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 1: slices of the salmon, different slices. Uh, you know, basically

653
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,959
Speaker 1: basically sushimi. But all the other food here is incredible, okay,

654
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: So when they so okay, so the foods incredible? What

655
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: else is incredible in Japan food west food wise? Yeah,

656
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: all there, but then meat period, like chicken, the different

657
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: kinds of fish, soups and salads every well last year,

658
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: last year I lost about ten or fifteen pounds dated

659
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: back when I got back to the States in France

660
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: this year about ten already, so um okay. So when

661
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: you like, when they bring it, is there anything like here?

662
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: You know, you have the ginger and you have the wasabi,

663
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: and you got the little thing, and we think like

664
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: that's how you eat in Japan? How do you eat

665
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: pass sushi restaurant? How you pretty close to say at

666
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: the sabi and the soy sauce, little dips and stuff.

667
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: But ever everything's a little smaller like place and hotels,

668
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: you you know, a little little tice side dish, uh,

669
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: solid little tice side dish and totally a little tice

670
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: side dishes. Everything smaller, so you have these big servings

671
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: or you know anything. So it's it's also delicate and

672
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: nice little dishes, these little pretty dishes, you know. I think,

673
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: how do you have you picked up in the language?

674
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 1: You know? So I started taking lessons about it. Last

675
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: year I didn't pick up too much because I don't

676
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: know if I had stay much. I actually had a

677
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: job in France and I thought I was gonna go,

678
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: and then I ended up not going. So this year

679
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: I started taking lessons. So I try to learn a word,

680
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: every new phrase or whatever a few days and try

681
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: to say practice for the guys, create a little uh

682
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: humor again, or some jokes with the guys or whatever.

683
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,840
Speaker 1: So it's hard, but you're sound like you're enjoying yourself,

684
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: like it's it's no I can't enjoyed here. Hopefully my

685
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: wife will be here soon because last year she couldn't

686
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: get it as a corona. This year, so right now,

687
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: my wife's in France, my boys are our boys are

688
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: in America all over, but she shouldn't be hearing. About

689
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: two to three weeks. The beast has gone through so

690
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: she should be coming soon. So um, okay, how about

691
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: this if there's one place in France that an American

692
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: should go. Okay, everybody knows the basic spots, but for

693
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: my guy who's been American that's becoming a nationalized Francistan,

694
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: where should I go? Well, I like the southwest region

695
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: a lot. There you go are there, you go, there,

696
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: you go, there, you go south and near Pole, near

697
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: Pole area a little bit north because you got the

698
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: you got the old French countryside, the little city streets.

699
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 1: But the weather is nice, the food is probably the best.

700
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: I would say in France, what time of year I'll go?

701
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: Spring and fall? Summertime to me, maybe not now to tourists,

702
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: but two tourists. It's hot, but there's not a lot

703
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: of air conditioning and a lot of places, so I

704
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: no I was gonna drink all that stuff. And spring, uh,

705
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: spring and fall, like most places, in June, June or

706
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: September the best France, even if you go to the

707
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: French River are if you go there September June. I mean,

708
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 1: the weather is beautiful, there's no tourists or less tours

709
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: as old elderly and retired people out. But those the

710
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: best times of years. If can you imagine if you

711
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: told your sixteen or seventeen year old self, like, when

712
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: we're in Vegas, it's me, you and Matt Purdy and

713
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: you're you're feeding me my first beer? Right? Can you

714
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: imagine if you pulled yourself aside and said, Hey, this

715
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: is what the next thirty years year of your life,

716
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 1: You're gonna look like you're gonna go to Santa Barbara,

717
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: okay and live on the fucking beach, but then not

718
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: be happy transfer go up to Oregon like it, Hey,

719
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: then you go to Belgium and then go to France

720
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: and then go to Lebanon and then get get back

721
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: to France and get married and have kids and play

722
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: in one place for a while, and then come and

723
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: then come back to the States and be a teacher,

724
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,760
Speaker 1: and then go back to France and be an assistant

725
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: coach and head coach, and then go to Japan and

726
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: be a coach. Like that's an amazing ride, right, Yeah,

727
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's pretty crazy. Actually high schools to

728
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,439
Speaker 1: tell one of my friends, I'm gonna marry a woman

729
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: with an accident. I don't know why it's but I

730
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: always want to marry women with an accident, So I did.

731
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: And I've been packing my bags for basically, uh what,

732
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: We're twenty years now and I'm telling my uncle's a

733
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: few uh a few months ago, and I've been doing

734
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: it for twenty years and I some years. Oh, you're

735
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: not gonna settle down sometime, I don't think. So. I

736
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: love moving around and uh and I was feeling my

737
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: bags still be uh ready to go pretty much for

738
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: the next every many years. Is there any more? Are you? Like?

739
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: Do you want to do Australia? Do you want to

740
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: do Spain? I want to do Italy? Like what else? What?

741
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,439
Speaker 1: What's on the places I want to go and coach?

742
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: I think I would like to stay in Asia somewhere,

743
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 1: maybe even the different country in Asia. And Alice would like,

744
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: hopefully someday to get like Saudi Arabia or the Cutar

745
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: the big money, the big money and the player different

746
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: style of basketball. Do you want to pick your boys? Maybe? Yeah,

747
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: I mean I've done it before. There at least one

748
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: would you like to coach? You only pick one? Which

749
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: one do you want to coach? Probably the oldest one,

750
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: because the youngest one he has too much attitude. Every

751
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: time I tell him to do something, he always has

752
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: a response, maybe listen to me a little bit more,

753
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: or Jacob, he's already told me that off a few times.

754
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: I've tried to tell the stuff, so you may do

755
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: it against what separates you as a coach. I don't know.

756
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: I think I always try to. I say sometimes I

757
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: try to manage my teams like I would manage maybe

758
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: like if I ran a restaurant or any type of

759
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: business where you've got all different jobs and roles. But

760
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: I think all the successful businesses you you treat, you

761
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: try to treat all your employees in the same manner.

762
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: So I think I have a lot of compassion. I hope.

763
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: I think I do for all my players, and I

764
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: try to, you know, treat the tent the tent guy

765
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: on the team that role just as important as the

766
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: first guy, so not a new guy in favorites. And

767
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: I feel like I think, whatever the players like to

768
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: play for me, and they give me their best, And

769
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,919
Speaker 1: because I think I try, I do. I care about

770
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: them and I showed the compassion and care for them,

771
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: and I think that helps to get them to give back.

772
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: But you're also coaching grown men, so do you do

773
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: you have coffee with them? You got to dinner with them?

774
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: Or is it when you show up the gym you

775
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: know we're here and then otherwise, you know, how do

776
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: you handle the relationship aspect of it? I think as

777
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: I've gotten more experience, I've gotten a lot. In the beginning,

778
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: it was like a player coach. That's kind of the

779
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: old school thing. But as I've gotten a little bit

780
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: more experience, uh, you know, I've got to I'll eat

781
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: with some of the players or you know, trying to

782
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 1: get to know them more and more. They're off the

783
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: court stuff for families, the people and basically you know,

784
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: on the court's business off the courts friend if not

785
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: sun and almost type of relationship where where we talk

786
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: about whatever and anything, and uh, treat them like a

787
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: man and the person and just like I hope they

788
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: look at me in the same way as Um, Okay,

789
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: are you still a Charger fan? Most people from San

790
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: Diego hate the Chargers because the Chargers left. Are you

791
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: still a charge of fan? A lot less, that's for sure. Yeah,

792
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: it's finely a little Mary. When they were losing, You're

793
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: like when they lose, it's like, oh yeah, losing and

794
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: now where they win, it's like that old nose, the

795
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:21,919
Speaker 1: charge left they got they got justin Herbert's an Oregon

796
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: guy at quarterback can be a fan. I know. I

797
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: think they looks like they gotta going again now. I

798
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: think with a good coaching staff and uh we all

799
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: love him. I wish they would have had that in

800
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: San Diego and build a new stadium there. But maybe

801
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 1: some day to get a team back. Is home France,

802
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: or is home San Diego. It's hard to see home

803
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: home still San Diego. Okay when France, how about this

804
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: one France was playing Team USA this summer. M hm,

805
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: inside your soul, who are you cheering for? You would

806
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: say you sure, yeah, because I got a lot of friends.

807
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: The French fan US a talking ship. It was more

808
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: than the type of thing when yeah, we still got

809
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: the most was still number one team basically, So I

810
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: still too cheered for the USA. Best player you ever

811
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: played against. It's hard going back right now. Okay, I'll

812
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: share with you a story here real quick. Okay, so

813
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: college maybe, yeah, in college he was the beast. I

814
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: just remember. So I played in the Magic's roundball Chohnce

815
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: Belps got hurt so I was in a replacement for him.

816
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: So he practiced all week and Kevin Garnett shows up

817
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: the day of the game and like tref on the Shree,

818
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 1: Vince Carter, you know, Stefan Marbury, like all these guys

819
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: are sucking ballers. This is high school. They're all ballers.

820
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: They're all really good. Robert Trailer, best in peace and

821
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: KG shows up the day of the game and like

822
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: as good as everybody is, he was better. You know,

823
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 1: it was like it was clothes. He was just so

824
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: big and so long and so athletic. You know it

825
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: wasn't really skilled at that point in time, but just

826
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: an absolute freak. And you know I can think of

827
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 1: you know, in college, like you know, when he played

828
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: against Ray Allen. I was in my first my year

829
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: in the Big East, had four teams in the top

830
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 1: top ten and Iver Soon was in the league. But

831
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: Round was better than everybody else, like just better, Um,

832
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: is there anything can Obviously the Shriek would be that

833
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: guy with Benny. I remember, he's one of the decent

834
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: defensive player. I mean I remember playing at least once

835
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: or twice and I couldn't stop in fadeaways and moose

836
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: smooth doing everything when he's a cow there and Uh,

837
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: as far as one player who I knew, I didn't,

838
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: I couldn't stop him, was maybe him one on one

839
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: type stuff. Your favorite arena where Jim Arena in France?

840
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 1: France both what's it like? It's one of the nice

841
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: arena so it's big. It's more American type style. That's um,

842
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: what's your guy's name? Stu an American group bought it

843
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: with Patinos in the group with Mashburn. But it's Uh,

844
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: it's an American type style. It's really big and super nice.

845
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: And you know the crowd. The crowd is okay, but

846
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: there as far as just the arena and everything, it's

847
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: as far as crowd emotions, by the number one, the

848
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: emotion crowds sick, so you couldn't hear yourself think or

849
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: talk most of the time. Does anything compared to Mac

850
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: mac Court, Uh, Mac probably number one. But I would

851
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Speaker 1: because Lemos has a roof that level you can't see

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Speaker 1: Colin caves, so the sound so you can hear him channing.

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Speaker 1: We can also hear them booming because they move a

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Speaker 1: lot to do. That was at the end. That was

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Speaker 1: that was that was good all the time you started game.

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Speaker 1: Youther to score eight? Oh run and start the game.

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Speaker 1: Also do you start booing? But that's just the way

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Speaker 1: they artist way so cut throat, therapist, awesome stuff. This

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Speaker 1: was this was amazing. This was really cool. Plus you boys,

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Speaker 1: I get a chance to to see it and and

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Speaker 1: watch some and I wanna, I wanna, I wanna watch

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Speaker 1: your team play a little bit and then maybe do

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Speaker 1: this a little bit more later on the year. Is

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Speaker 1: that cool? Yeah, no problem. Yeah, we're starting off pretty good,

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Speaker 1: so fun as you were seven and two. So if

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Speaker 1: we can keep it going. Uh, how different is is that?

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Speaker 1: Like the one good thing about Frances Like you know

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Speaker 1: all the teams and all the styles and all the systems.

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Speaker 1: Is it catching up on that when you switch countries?

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Speaker 1: How hard is that? The first year? It was very

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Speaker 1: hard because I tried in the beginning last year to

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Speaker 1: bring a lot of the European game here, the pick

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Speaker 1: and roll pick at all, basically no post up. Yeah

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Speaker 1: we're here in the game. It's not all post up,

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Speaker 1: but the Merritly and import players that are basically all

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Speaker 1: big guys, so they need the ball usually have you

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Speaker 1: had a couple of true centers or picking a roll

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Speaker 1: they're not very good at, but you put them back

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Speaker 1: to the basket. So I basically flip flopped everything. You know.

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Speaker 1: Defensively too, you have Japanese players are fast, but they're

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00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: not as big and long as physical, so like you see,

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Speaker 1: can switch basically at all. And uh, you can't screens.

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Speaker 1: I hedge. I hedge ball screen. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: put ice because they have these bigger import players, but

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Speaker 1: I like hedge, so we tried this year. I can't

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Speaker 1: hard edge. I have one guy Greg at Shuniki with

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Speaker 1: the yeah yeah, you know, he has a little bit

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Speaker 1: of hard time hedge, and but he's he has good

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Speaker 1: feet anyway's getting better and better at it. But so

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Speaker 1: I hedge most of ball screens, you know, switching it's

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Speaker 1: really late, so the style of plays different. So this

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Speaker 1: year has helped me because after one year of doing

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Speaker 1: it in Japan, I kind of know the style a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. So, hey man, thank you for doing it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for turn me onto beer at a very

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Speaker 1: young age. Right, good thing. You see, your your secrets

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Speaker 1: are out now. I gotta planets in France to go

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Speaker 1: and visit. I'm gonna come and stay with you. Apparently

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Speaker 1: now nobody's staying there except for your wife, but she leaves.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and and stay stay. You're playing crash

902
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 1: exactly open house. But thanks for joining me. I appreciate,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I see you're the best. Well, that was

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Speaker 1: a lot, and um, you know, it's one of those

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Speaker 1: things where I hope you have as much fun and

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Speaker 1: listening as I do in and having these talks. Look,

907
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: there's a lot of basketball stuff to get to. College

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00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: basketball teams starting to play their exhibition games. First games

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Speaker 1: of the season, Uh start on Tuesday, that's the ninth

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Speaker 1: of November. We'll have all those games, and of course

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Speaker 1: I'll do an emergency pod. I think I gotta do

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Speaker 1: an NBA pod, maybe recorded this weekend. I'll drop before

913
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Speaker 1: those games next week, just so we can talk about

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Speaker 1: the mess that is the Lakers and how fixable their

915
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Speaker 1: issues are. My man Colin Cowherd made the statement that

916
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Speaker 1: the East is better than the West. We'll discuss that

917
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Speaker 1: as well. We got a lot of NBA stuff to

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Speaker 1: get to, and then of course college basketball kicking off.

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Speaker 1: build an entire life around it, even if you don't

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