Speaker 1: This is kJ Live with Chris john Silli and Chris
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Speaker 1: too again to k J Live. I'm your host, Chris Johnson,
Speaker 1: asked Point Forward pro on Twitter. Today's guest on the
Speaker 1: show one of the highly regarded trainers in America, has
Speaker 1: worked with several collegiate and NBA and international ball players.
Speaker 1: Uh one of the top guys at what he does
Speaker 1: and has worked with Kawhi, Leonard, Kyle Kuzma, Tony Schnell,
Speaker 1: and others. Clint Parks. What's up, my man? It's okay,
Speaker 1: j Thanks for having me on it. They all appreciate it. Man,
Speaker 1: it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. Man.
Speaker 1: You you helped me kick this whole thing off last year.
Speaker 1: And man, what was doing the March Madness, the Lives,
Speaker 1: the coverage, the Wall to Wall and c double A
Speaker 1: tournament coverage. Man, Yeah, we definitely gonna bring it back then.
Speaker 1: It should be extremely exciting. Clean. What's you been up to, man,
Speaker 1: what's you been up too lately? Nothing? Just the same old,
Speaker 1: same well, just training and you know, dealing with COVID
Speaker 1: like everybody else, things aren't exactly like they were. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they're trying to push back to more towards normal in
Speaker 1: that direction. So that's been positive. But you know, just
Speaker 1: the basketball seven, you know how it goes just the
Speaker 1: life of just a basketball junkie. Yeah, And when we
Speaker 1: talk about the life of a basketball junckey, man, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people out there kind of they
Speaker 1: have an idea about what that looks like, but I
Speaker 1: kind of want you to tell us what that looks
Speaker 1: like from when you wake up in the morning, when
Speaker 1: you go to bed. What does a typical day in
Speaker 1: the life of Flint Parks CP s A look like.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty much basketball from the time I
Speaker 1: wake up, whether they're starting to workouts, you know, um
Speaker 1: with my young kids that are on home school right
Speaker 1: now and so got that during the day, and then
Speaker 1: when school gets out in the afternoon, the kids that
Speaker 1: are in railar school kind of transition with them and
Speaker 1: and it's just going NonStop, like and then like a
Speaker 1: night like last night, you know, I have a game
Speaker 1: where I'll go to Lombie State game watch one of
Speaker 1: my college kids play shout out to Lombie State Big
Speaker 1: West Conference champs and so um. Yeah, so I'm either
Speaker 1: I'm either training, um, going to a college game, going
Speaker 1: to a high school game, you know, or and you're
Speaker 1: just going back to the gym at night. It's pretty
Speaker 1: much basketball consumes my life. And I mean for some
Speaker 1: people it's like find balance, do this, but I mean
Speaker 1: this has always been this has always been my outlet
Speaker 1: and my thing, and I mean it's a positive thing too,
Speaker 1: so I love it. Yeah, it seems like you know,
Speaker 1: you're the type of guy that and then you've come
Speaker 1: to uh, when I was calling games, you came to
Speaker 1: a game at c Sign, I think of the R
Speaker 1: King game. But you're the kind of guy that, you know,
Speaker 1: you really intently are watching the game. You're watching players,
Speaker 1: watching who's you're watching coaches, You're watching pretty much everything
Speaker 1: in the game. How important is it for you to
Speaker 1: go to these games when you're training a player just
Speaker 1: to get a better understanding or grasp of his game
Speaker 1: and what he needs to work on. Well, that's everything
Speaker 1: go into the game because you have to like you
Speaker 1: have to see, okay, like what's working, what's not working,
Speaker 1: what tweaks you gotta make when when we're in workouts,
Speaker 1: like what do we need to emphasize more? What are
Speaker 1: we spending too much time on? Like, you know, the
Speaker 1: worst thing you could be is you know, this is
Speaker 1: a hooper yourself, Like is a workout guy? If you're
Speaker 1: don't translate to the game. If if it's not like,
Speaker 1: if the work isn't translating to the game, then what
Speaker 1: are we doing? You know, like I you know, nobody
Speaker 1: gets paid off the workout. Yeah, so these guys that
Speaker 1: look great in the workouts with nobody there or in
Speaker 1: front of some cones. You know, they're hitting every shot,
Speaker 1: they're making every play, making every cup. But you put
Speaker 1: a body out there, a little bit of defense and
Speaker 1: a couple of refs. The worst, it's the worst, the
Speaker 1: absolute worst. So I can't stand it. So I've always said,
Speaker 1: like you got to be able to do it in
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, to be able to break
Speaker 1: it down, go to the game and see it. See
Speaker 1: what you see what you're doing right, see what you're
Speaker 1: doing wrong. And it's like it's constant evolution from on
Speaker 1: their end and my end too because I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to get better. I'm still watching different guys, I'm watching
Speaker 1: workouts on the internet. I'm studying different players. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just constantly trying to learn, give myself, give my players
Speaker 1: that advantage. But we have, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: diverse variety of listeners that tune into the show. Um,
Speaker 1: when you talk about a player that's a workout player
Speaker 1: or practice player, and and the and that player said
Speaker 1: player has issues with translating stuff to the game, how
Speaker 1: do you, as a skill specialist, as a player development guru,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you implement a plan, a
Speaker 1: st strategy for that player to become game ready to
Speaker 1: not be the workout guy anymore? How do you go
Speaker 1: from a workout guy to a game a game guy.
Speaker 1: It's hard, but I think the thing I always try
Speaker 1: to focus on is that you know a lot of
Speaker 1: things that you can get off in the workout without
Speaker 1: even if you have like dummy defense, Like the defense
Speaker 1: is changing when the game starts, so you know, more
Speaker 1: aggressive defenders physical defenders. Always tell kids, like tell guys
Speaker 1: at every level, you beat good defenders, You beat aggressive
Speaker 1: defenders by keeping it simple. They want you to dance,
Speaker 1: they want you to try to mix them and try
Speaker 1: to go for the highlight like you're not really like
Speaker 1: against the sound defensive player, you're not really getting no
Speaker 1: highlight highlight off, Like you're not about that. You're not
Speaker 1: about to just shake them something crazy. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to like you're gonna have to beat them with fundamentals,
Speaker 1: you know. And so that's what I always try to
Speaker 1: That's why I preach, you know, keeping it simple basics
Speaker 1: so much because the game and the half court, especially
Speaker 1: in college, the floors ball damn on, there's no spacing. Um,
Speaker 1: so your point, you could be playing against some teams
Speaker 1: like UM Virginia who send five guys back in transition
Speaker 1: and they're just like they might they might have one
Speaker 1: guy go to the glass for offensive glass. So you're
Speaker 1: not really getting nothing in transition. So your game really
Speaker 1: needs to be you know, you need to be good
Speaker 1: in tight spaces. You need to be able to make shots.
Speaker 1: You need to be you gotta make open shots. And
Speaker 1: that's where it starts. And if you're constantly a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that are good to work out like they're
Speaker 1: just getting all types of extra moves off, and then
Speaker 1: you gotta I mean, some guys has got a mental block,
Speaker 1: like there's nothing like some guys are just three thirty shooters,
Speaker 1: you know. Butter you get seven eight o'clock, the pressure on,
Speaker 1: the lights come on. You know, it's a different type
Speaker 1: of anxiety they might get. And it's just I mean
Speaker 1: it's hard to shake that, it is. Yeah, My pop,
Speaker 1: the Great Marcus Johnson, used to all is kind of
Speaker 1: have a thing about that. You know, he always talked
Speaker 1: about when I was coming up. You know, players, you know,
Speaker 1: certain players excel without refs, without the smell of popcorn
Speaker 1: in the arena, without fans in the stands, without the
Speaker 1: lights being on. Some guys, you know, they look all
Speaker 1: world with nobody in the gym, but you put a
Speaker 1: body in front of them and an arm check and
Speaker 1: it's a whole another story. Um. Staying on development, I
Speaker 1: wanted to get your opinion on first high school programs
Speaker 1: in the southern California area, which you have seen a
Speaker 1: lot of. Uh, as far as basketball is concerned. What
Speaker 1: do you consider the top two or three high school
Speaker 1: basketball programs as far from a development standpoint. Guys that
Speaker 1: go there and you know for a fact that coaches
Speaker 1: are working on a daily basis to get them guys better. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's a tough question, would you? Okay, I think I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to interrupt you, So I think I like Corona
Speaker 1: Centennial and what and what Josh Giles does over there
Speaker 1: as far as how players go in and like you know,
Speaker 1: it seems like they work on a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: and then by the time they leave their pretty dog
Speaker 1: a good basketball player. Um is would you is there
Speaker 1: any other I E. Schools or maybe o C or
Speaker 1: any any programs like that Consentennia, those guys get better,
Speaker 1: they have, um that they have a good system set
Speaker 1: in place with his assistant former players that are working
Speaker 1: with the guys as well, so you can see the
Speaker 1: emphasis on development from that standpoint. Um. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much Kleckner does with development, but I just know
Speaker 1: over the years, like his guys have they're they're usually
Speaker 1: college ready. Defensively, yeah, I don't wanted to play hard,
Speaker 1: you know. Um. Reggie Morris has done a good job
Speaker 1: over the years, developing guards, developing players. I'm preparing them
Speaker 1: for college and helping them get on that track to
Speaker 1: them to the next level. Um. Um. Russell White was
Speaker 1: another one. He was really good over the years. You know,
Speaker 1: when he was at Crespy was obviously the Anthony Milton
Speaker 1: and Brendan Williams and the NBA now as well. Um,
Speaker 1: David Biebo, he's um, he's doing his thing at Harvard Westlake.
Speaker 1: You know. You know Moose gets guys better. You know,
Speaker 1: Um that Brent Wood. You're dealing with a different type
Speaker 1: of kid, but he does a good job coaching them
Speaker 1: up and and developing the guy. I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: many coaches out here. I know this is, but there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of really good
Speaker 1: I mean, um, I think in the Orange County, I'm
Speaker 1: not really oh see, guy, like I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know the land of the land like that, you know,
Speaker 1: so I can't really speak to what over the years,
Speaker 1: you know, how the basketball is the development wise, when
Speaker 1: like when you were working with middle school kids, you
Speaker 1: work with a lot of them. You've got some pretty
Speaker 1: good players and parents are coming you seeking out your
Speaker 1: advice for schools, you know, for programs or to continue
Speaker 1: their basketball and athletic journey on the next level. What
Speaker 1: factors in a program do you sort of take into
Speaker 1: account when you give advice to parents. The first thing
Speaker 1: is what level of player are you you know, that's
Speaker 1: where the honesty has to start. Like what are you?
Speaker 1: Are you somebody that's gonna play varsity as a freshman?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna play JV? Are you gonna play a freshman?
Speaker 1: So we've got to separate that right there, you know.
Speaker 1: So say you're a varsity player, so everybody pretty much
Speaker 1: knows me if you're a kid that's going to be
Speaker 1: playing varsity as a freshman, I'm going where I'm going
Speaker 1: to have a role, big role, preferably the ball in
Speaker 1: hands and be able to play through mistakes and um,
Speaker 1: learn on the floor because you get better. Um, Like
Speaker 1: developing and training is like this is like that's my livelihood, right,
Speaker 1: But the most importan in peace to development is live reps.
Speaker 1: I'm no dummy, you know, Like we could drill workout
Speaker 1: all day, but if you don't get you a live reps,
Speaker 1: you're not in a situation where you can play the mistakes.
Speaker 1: Then your development is going to be studied. Right. So
Speaker 1: that's like, Okay, how does the coach play and what's
Speaker 1: his style of play? What's his um what's his m O?
Speaker 1: How is he you know, um with um young players?
Speaker 1: Does he have a does he feel comfortable playing young
Speaker 1: guards or is he like oh, is he like a
Speaker 1: guy like oh, I gotta give my seniors, you know,
Speaker 1: like you gotta you got you gotta ask honest you
Speaker 1: you gotta really evaluate the situation, um, evaluate the style
Speaker 1: of play, all of that, and you gotta be honest.
Speaker 1: Like I'm always honest with coaches up front, like what
Speaker 1: I what what I'm expecting, Like, okay, you tell me
Speaker 1: what you're expecting where you're at, Like, I don't want
Speaker 1: there to be no surprise. I always tell people I'm
Speaker 1: not a little kid. I don't like surprises. Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: surprise me with nothing mid season because then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be an issue. You told me one thing and you're
Speaker 1: doing another thing. Problem, it's a problem. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like if I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get me, but that's no, I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to cut you off. But on the same hand, on
Speaker 1: token Clint, like you know, coaches, especially in the high
Speaker 1: school level, I mean, you promise kids anything as far
Speaker 1: as playing time, it becomes problematic because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of dynamics and factors that could change between that day
Speaker 1: and by the time practice to go through through summer
Speaker 1: league and you know, fall practice and all that. The
Speaker 1: kid may just not be good enough. And so you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't know that. We thought he was good enough
Speaker 1: before you got us. You gassed us up telling us
Speaker 1: he was this and that, and he clint real quick.
Speaker 1: He turned out not to be like that. Now you're
Speaker 1: giving me problems because I'm not playing them. How does
Speaker 1: that work? Bro? But I don't see. I can't relate
Speaker 1: to that because I don't gas. I don't gass up,
Speaker 1: because that's when you gass up, then you run into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like, don't gas. If you
Speaker 1: don't gas on the front end, then you're not getting up.
Speaker 1: You know, Like Larry Shy used to tell me all
Speaker 1: the time, under sail under promise over deliver, you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't promise more than you can deliver. Like if
Speaker 1: you're just honest and straightforward like from the Jump Street,
Speaker 1: then there's no issues. Like I remember years ago, I
Speaker 1: had Jeremy Lieberman. You get the kid played Calibass's wyoming.
Speaker 1: He was good. We had went to Cresby and I
Speaker 1: took him like he was eighth grade and they had
Speaker 1: London they had, they already had like London promtists there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was think he was like
Speaker 1: a grade older and you know, Rust just told me
Speaker 1: what it was like. Would love to have him, you know,
Speaker 1: but I got a point guard a year ahead of him,
Speaker 1: Like so you know what I'm saying, Like he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to play behind him and learn, and like I
Speaker 1: was like, damn, you know, but I respected that because
Speaker 1: Russ was real with me, and so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to calabasss like it's not this is not
Speaker 1: and me and rest remain cool. You know the past.
Speaker 1: This is twelve years ago. We remain cool all that time.
Speaker 1: But just that little bit of honesty and letting me
Speaker 1: know exactly what it was and where he was went
Speaker 1: a long way. It saved a friend ship possibly, like
Speaker 1: you know, like it saved a lot of drama in
Speaker 1: the middle because you up front and that's all you
Speaker 1: can ask. Yeah. Communication is key, man, It's it's the
Speaker 1: key thing to everything. Dog. And if somebody keeps it
Speaker 1: real with you from jump and there are no surprises,
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna handle it a lot better. I mean,
Speaker 1: you knew what it was. You might not like it,
Speaker 1: but it's like you gotta revert back to, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is what he said it was gonna be. And it's
Speaker 1: it's amazing too when you, you know, hear all the
Speaker 1: stories about how how many parents and people go through
Speaker 1: those issues with coaches and how many people have that
Speaker 1: situation where they were promised something that didn't happen. But
Speaker 1: but staying on that topic, sort of the you know,
Speaker 1: the grassroots dynamics and drama of the high school era,
Speaker 1: how do you think, Yeah, you're out here in l A.
Speaker 1: We have a couple of high profile programs. Some of
Speaker 1: the players on those programs are pretty high profile on
Speaker 1: their own right, millions of followers on social media, you know,
Speaker 1: big time type guys. How do you think this generation
Speaker 1: of Southern California Hoopers handles all the attention, the fact
Speaker 1: that these guys are now signing n I L deals
Speaker 1: in high school. You got guys you know, beats by
Speaker 1: Dre and Lebron's son and you know these guys out
Speaker 1: here Sierra Canyon and all that. How do you think
Speaker 1: this the generation, the mindset today of this generation handles
Speaker 1: all of what we would have considered extras back in
Speaker 1: the day. I mean, I think they do a pretty
Speaker 1: good job as a whole. You know, there's some that
Speaker 1: are a little more loose than others. It's just hard, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we probably would all you know, I'll tell
Speaker 1: people I said, I probably would be tripping out a
Speaker 1: little bit. Who going through that myself getting some of that,
Speaker 1: like all the extras that these kids have come in
Speaker 1: their way, um because of their talent, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think it's just I think the ones that deal
Speaker 1: with the best are the ones that have people around
Speaker 1: them that are helped be able to help them filter
Speaker 1: what's real and what's not and at the same time
Speaker 1: stay level headed. And I'm starting to feel like this
Speaker 1: generation is was born to be able to handle extras
Speaker 1: better than us. When you think about my kids, you know,
Speaker 1: they had iPhones when they were five, six years old,
Speaker 1: seven years old, so they've been technology based from jump.
Speaker 1: So I can't sit there with my old school thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, get off your phone. You know, don't
Speaker 1: be looking at your phone before practice. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna look at his phone, it's fine because
Speaker 1: it doesn't take him out of his lock in. Because
Speaker 1: that is who they are. I think you find in
Speaker 1: our culture you got the old heads versus young heads.
Speaker 1: You got the kind of the old way of doing it,
Speaker 1: and these old sort of ideologies about basketball. I think
Speaker 1: it's time to start to put things into context and
Speaker 1: accept the generation for who they are and understand that
Speaker 1: they can't do it like us and we couldn't have
Speaker 1: did it like them. No, that's true. You're exactly right.
Speaker 1: You know, you're exactly right. You know, some old heads
Speaker 1: are gonna be stuck in their ways. I think the
Speaker 1: old head problem is when you know you're caught up
Speaker 1: in the extras, so to speak, and then the game
Speaker 1: isn't the game isn't matching up with the extras. You know,
Speaker 1: that really irks a lot of old heads. Like a
Speaker 1: lot of old heads like that are that understand both sides.
Speaker 1: They're like, I get it, because they had some extras
Speaker 1: to them too. It was just different extras back in
Speaker 1: the day. It wasn't like they gonna know extras. That
Speaker 1: extra just changed. So it's like, Okay, the extras are shot.
Speaker 1: We're talking about your extras more than your game. You know.
Speaker 1: That's when the old heads get beefy. Okay, So now
Speaker 1: you're not really you're out there like you don't really
Speaker 1: love the game. You know, it's like the old like
Speaker 1: Robin who was more extra than Robman. She knew when
Speaker 1: the game, when the game hit. You know, he was
Speaker 1: twenty rebounds and he was hard, he was playing defense,
Speaker 1: the whole nine. A lot of these dudes they get
Speaker 1: they get the fame or whatever, and then it's just extras.
Speaker 1: They just ain't not looking the same. And then it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that. That's where the disconnect is, Like, come on now.
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Speaker 1: search f s R to listen live. Yeah, no, it's
Speaker 1: a disconnect. But I also think that overwhelmingly old heads
Speaker 1: have I guess I call it jealousy envy towards the
Speaker 1: younger generation because you know, of the attention and the
Speaker 1: level of ease, it seems like things are given and
Speaker 1: handed and and then that might not be the case.
Speaker 1: It's like we act like these kids, old heads act
Speaker 1: like these kids aren't working hard. I'm busting their ass,
Speaker 1: didn't have the same goals. I'm getting up at five,
Speaker 1: and some of them are getting up at five. And
Speaker 1: the more you know they're doing the same thing. They
Speaker 1: just got cell phones and gets on social media. Now
Speaker 1: they get old hands just want their flowers. That's it.
Speaker 1: They just want the pay. They just want to hear
Speaker 1: the the young hand saying name, you know, you paved
Speaker 1: the way first to get this big bag. Hey, even
Speaker 1: if you don't need it, just say what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They just want their respect, that said, because the money,
Speaker 1: the money is so much different now and so you know,
Speaker 1: like you looked up and you're like, man, I was
Speaker 1: so much better than what we're seeing now. And so
Speaker 1: they're like, man, like, we we paved the way for
Speaker 1: y'all to get this money. And so when they feel
Speaker 1: like they're not respected, that's why you see like, um,
Speaker 1: so many of the young dudes love Bubba Chuck Irish
Speaker 1: and so much because Irish and so so much love
Speaker 1: to the to this generation of Hooper like he always
Speaker 1: just so loved to where you see Oakley get on
Speaker 1: the on the podcast and he like, your honest is
Speaker 1: a weak Let's touch on that. Let's touch on that.
Speaker 1: So Oakley said, you're honest if you honest played back
Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties. In that era, he'd be
Speaker 1: a role player, a bench guy. He wouldn't be m
Speaker 1: v P A are Now, I have a thought process
Speaker 1: behind it, and I want you to hear me out.
Speaker 1: Oakley is talking about the physicality of the game now.
Speaker 1: When whatever we discussed physical and skill, the conversation always
Speaker 1: gets um murky. I would call it murky because people
Speaker 1: don't want to ever acknowledge or address the actual consequences
Speaker 1: and effects of physical play of eighties, nineties physical player Clint. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: it's it's refs, it's people, it's video reviews, it's all
Speaker 1: types of stuff that you cannot do that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be busted with. And this is a valid point. There
Speaker 1: was a time, believe it or not. This is to
Speaker 1: the audience, the younger members of the audience. There was
Speaker 1: a time when basketball was played by guys that was
Speaker 1: trying to hurt you, the guys that would go out
Speaker 1: and do things purposely to hurt you, and there really
Speaker 1: wasn't much you could do about it but try to
Speaker 1: finish the game in fear. This is what Oakley is
Speaker 1: referring to. He's challenging the man of Johannest. He's saying
Speaker 1: Joannice as a man, as the kid that grew up
Speaker 1: in Greece selling them on the street, it's not tough
Speaker 1: enough to handle the eighties and nineties, Clint, I want
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. You see what Jannest looks like
Speaker 1: right now, Joannice is going straight down to the block
Speaker 1: and he's doing the same thing that he's doing now.
Speaker 1: Like Isaiah Thomas said, Okay, you're gonna foul like, You're
Speaker 1: gonna foul him really hard. You're gonna hit him. Okay,
Speaker 1: now what else are you gonna do? But what how
Speaker 1: do how do we know what happens after he gets fouled?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna respond to Oakley the same way he's
Speaker 1: responding to these dudes nowadays, Maxi Klobler and all these dudes.
Speaker 1: Is are you gonna respond? I mean? Is that? I
Speaker 1: think that's That's That's my point. Clint Oakley is is
Speaker 1: banking all his whole statement on the fact that he
Speaker 1: him and his dudes back then are going to punk Janice.
Speaker 1: They're going to punk him, not they might punk him
Speaker 1: a bit like when he first gets into the league,
Speaker 1: like it might have been like he might struggle. That's
Speaker 1: what I said. This development that he's shown over time,
Speaker 1: same same way, same way up and you're going to
Speaker 1: r those puppies and they're not gonna be working like that.
Speaker 1: That's so I think. So I made that little so
Speaker 1: I said that whole thing to say. I still believe
Speaker 1: even regardless of getting punk anything, Yannest will be like
Speaker 1: a twenty six twenty seven and like an eight seventeen
Speaker 1: eighteen guy. I feel like Janice was built for the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties. His bird, his style, his bruising, just linebacker,
Speaker 1: I'm going through you style and then eating glass in
Speaker 1: a in an era where you know, rebounds were a
Speaker 1: lot higher because of the nature of the game, I
Speaker 1: think that he would have dominated. Uh. To be quite frank,
Speaker 1: but you make a great point. He would have got
Speaker 1: used to just like we remember we saw Janice when
Speaker 1: he first got into the league. He was a little
Speaker 1: you know, fresh faced and wide eyed, but then he
Speaker 1: figured it out pretty quickly. Um. Yeah, that's an interesting deal.
Speaker 1: Moving on to the college game, brother, what do you
Speaker 1: think about the transfer pop portal and what it's done
Speaker 1: to college recruited is the high gool senior now irrelevant
Speaker 1: or what. Um, the high school senior that's special is
Speaker 1: never gonna go out of style as we know, and
Speaker 1: it goes back to the tears. The high school senior
Speaker 1: that's like on the on the cusp of maybe getting
Speaker 1: a deal, he they're they're kind of like phasing away
Speaker 1: from him because they're like, oh, we could go we
Speaker 1: could go to the portal and use that scholarship. Yep.
Speaker 1: So with the portal, so what the portal has brought
Speaker 1: on like a whole new issue for high school kids
Speaker 1: because now it's like coaches are um, coaches are under
Speaker 1: pressure to win. Now obviously there's not really time for development.
Speaker 1: So if you if you got if your administrations on you,
Speaker 1: on you, on you, you're going for the kid that's
Speaker 1: two over the kid that's seventeen eighteen. You hear NonStop,
Speaker 1: what's the key to college basketball? Get old, stay old,
Speaker 1: you know. And so therefore it's like if you're being
Speaker 1: in seventeen eight better be special. Obviously your chat home grins,
Speaker 1: you're Jabari Smith's, you're Paula bank Caro's like those three
Speaker 1: freshmen like right there, like that you hear about all
Speaker 1: season like they're going to go go in and play
Speaker 1: wherever they go. Yeah, but that's not the case for
Speaker 1: every freshman, you know, and there's a there's a learning curve,
Speaker 1: and then some coaches don't like playing freshman. So the
Speaker 1: portal is like, Okay, let's go get somebody who's been
Speaker 1: in college three years. He might want to move up
Speaker 1: or he might want to move down, or whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. And now it's like the young guy, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: we don't got time for you right now. We we
Speaker 1: gotta win my a d sais I gotta win now
Speaker 1: or I'm losing my job. So I'm gonna trust a
Speaker 1: dude who's older, who's more season. So it's hard for
Speaker 1: the high school senior right now. It's it's stressful for
Speaker 1: some good high school seniors too. And I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: agree with it because I've said it's over and over again.
Speaker 1: That portal. That portal is getting a lot of coaches
Speaker 1: in trouble too, because a lot of these guys are
Speaker 1: leaving bouncing around three school rules and it's like you've
Speaker 1: been averaged to've been below average at every stop, like
Speaker 1: just because you're in the portal, everything that glitters is
Speaker 1: in gold. I say, all the time. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of bad goods in that portal buyer beware. So so
Speaker 1: I would think that when you trickle, it trickles down
Speaker 1: now to the guys back in the like back in
Speaker 1: my day, Like you know, I got a scholarship to
Speaker 1: main folks got a scholarship on our Crunshaw team. We're
Speaker 1: basically the top two players, but then four other guys
Speaker 1: got scholarships too. We probably won't see those days unless
Speaker 1: everybody's just super raw or at a prep school type
Speaker 1: situation where a regular high school, like you know, a
Speaker 1: regular high school, Sarah, can you have to be an
Speaker 1: elite level high school, but you won't see the days
Speaker 1: of of guys getting those scholarships that if you weren't
Speaker 1: the man on your team because of I guess the
Speaker 1: the super senior or the top now being kind of
Speaker 1: rendered irrelevant because of the coaching preference. That that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of a an interesting deal kind of crushes your
Speaker 1: you know, I remember, you know when you when you
Speaker 1: went to high school, you know, you had these dreams
Speaker 1: and aspirations to going D one. D one was everything
Speaker 1: and D or D two or D three or college
Speaker 1: basketball was everything, and now it sounds like a lot
Speaker 1: of guys won't get that opportunity. When do you think,
Speaker 1: at what moment do you think like this emphasis shifted?
Speaker 1: I mean because even before the transfer portal became a thing,
Speaker 1: coaches were already kind of leaning towards getting older. As
Speaker 1: it was, coaches don't want to develop. Development takes time.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get somebody better. You're saying, Okay, he's here,
Speaker 1: but I can take him here. So in between all
Speaker 1: the work you gotta do, you gotta have managers that
Speaker 1: are dedicated. You gotta have because you because you have
Speaker 1: an hour limit on how much you can work with guys.
Speaker 1: So Eric Musselman is kind of like mastered it. He
Speaker 1: goes out and he gets like high high level and
Speaker 1: grad assistance man edgers, guys that can be on the
Speaker 1: floor unlimited with the players. And so they're they're basically
Speaker 1: your eyes and ears, working your guys out, getting your
Speaker 1: guys better, pounding them every day. Boom boom boom. This
Speaker 1: is what you need to be working on. And so
Speaker 1: to develop, if you're at a major, or you're say
Speaker 1: you're at a low major like now, you're trying to
Speaker 1: you develop a guy and now that now the high
Speaker 1: major is just gonna come in and cherry pick and say, oh,
Speaker 1: we want you now. We didn't want you in high school.
Speaker 1: You were a week, but you're a later, you're good now,
Speaker 1: you're good now. So yet we're rocking with you, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people will fall for that. Yeah. Who
Speaker 1: do you think are some of the best outside of
Speaker 1: Muscliman in Arkansas? Some of the best development programs in
Speaker 1: college basketball? In college basketball, dang, best development programs? Would
Speaker 1: you consider Kentucky? Would you consider Kentucky a good development program?
Speaker 1: When Kenny Payne was there, I would What about Duke Duke?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they're guys, They're go get better. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean their guys get better, like their guys get better.
Speaker 1: I'm not a dude guy, but they get better. I
Speaker 1: think I think, Uh, what do you think about Kansas
Speaker 1: as a development program? I mean it's I liked it
Speaker 1: when I mean Danny Manning was there, like all the posts,
Speaker 1: all the three fours, the footwork was going crazy, the
Speaker 1: Morris Twins, all those dudes. You know, over the years,
Speaker 1: you know, some of these people forget how important it
Speaker 1: is to have high level assistant coaches right, you know,
Speaker 1: you see there's good development in the Mountain West, looking
Speaker 1: at like what's going on at like Wyoming my old school, obviously,
Speaker 1: like coach Lenders done a good job. San Diego State,
Speaker 1: Fisher and desher have done a good job over the years.
Speaker 1: Colorado State Nico med bed Leon Rice. That's the conference
Speaker 1: I'm really familiar with and I follow a lot. So
Speaker 1: you know, there's no there's good schools in the Pact,
Speaker 1: So there's good schools everywhere. It's just understanding. I always say, like,
Speaker 1: you really got to do your homework. All the answers
Speaker 1: to the tests are out there. You just gotta really
Speaker 1: lock in and study it. Yeah, kind of ask questions,
Speaker 1: do your own research, start trying to figure some things out.
Speaker 1: Go to practices. I like to go to practices. Okay,
Speaker 1: what are we working on? And I'm not just going
Speaker 1: to one practice, And I like pulling up unannounced because
Speaker 1: you already know I'm coming for weeks or days at
Speaker 1: a time. You're gonna dress it up nice. You're gonna
Speaker 1: dress it up nice. Like, no, I don't want to
Speaker 1: know what it looks like on a daily basis in here. Yeah, Washington,
Speaker 1: like you've been there, three or four years, like I
Speaker 1: don't want to just hear. Oh the kid don't want it.
Speaker 1: You don't want it, he don't. Nah, this is your job.
Speaker 1: You signed him. Your job is to get him better.
Speaker 1: He don't want it, not good enough? Like, no, you
Speaker 1: gotta get him better. And so guys that have been three,
Speaker 1: three years, four years at a place and haven't improved,
Speaker 1: like that's never a good. Look. What what do you
Speaker 1: think is the most I guess successful methods when it
Speaker 1: comes to getting a guy better on the collegiate level.
Speaker 1: Is it emphasis on shooting? Is it an emphasis on conditioning?
Speaker 1: Is an emphasis on ball handling? I mean, what do
Speaker 1: you think is the most important skill set for a
Speaker 1: guy to improve upon? And again it depends on who
Speaker 1: you are, but just universally speaking, yeah, talk to me.
Speaker 1: Starts with the jader, Yes, sir, It starts with it
Speaker 1: like that opens up everything, and it's really like it's
Speaker 1: like a it's like a it's um the Santonio spurs
Speaker 1: you should use. They probably still do, but it's like
Speaker 1: daily vitamins, like you gotta take them every day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they got every day for them to work. So
Speaker 1: it's like that, like the approach with like skill development. Okay,
Speaker 1: twenty minutes before practice, thirty minutes before practice on the floor,
Speaker 1: thirty minutes after. Now that that you come back thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: forty five minutes at night. You're there before practice, after
Speaker 1: practice twenty minutes. Now you've got forty minutes of working individually.
Speaker 1: You stack that up five days, six days, Like you
Speaker 1: keep doing that, doing that, doing that, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: see the progression over time. I always tell my guys, please,
Speaker 1: don't be the guy who shows that right before practice,
Speaker 1: running the antieing issues and rushing on the court right
Speaker 1: before the huddle starts, and don't be the guy who's
Speaker 1: sprinting to the door right when the practice ends. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm out, Like, don't be the don't don't be that person.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of players that are like that,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of coaches that are like that.
Speaker 1: And when you're like that, you're really gonna have a
Speaker 1: hard time improving the way you want to improve or
Speaker 1: the way your people might want you to improve. So
Speaker 1: I'm always I'm always on track record. I'm always on
Speaker 1: track record. How are you talking? Like? Are you giving
Speaker 1: me the best? Are you giving me the business the
Speaker 1: car salesman development speech Like no, I'm not rolling with that.
Speaker 1: That's what if the cars what if the car sales
Speaker 1: been developed this speech? Satellite, Just give me an example.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy given to him. Oh we love the gym.
Speaker 1: We just we're big on being in the gym. We're
Speaker 1: a huge development program. Like no, stop, we're big on
Speaker 1: being in the gym. Yeah we're not like stop stop, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen you guys. Haven't seen one player coming
Speaker 1: and lead completely different. Haven't seen you guys taken no
Speaker 1: star or or lowly rated player and put them on
Speaker 1: the NBA, on the on BA NBA draft radar. Haven't
Speaker 1: seen any of that, Like I need to see that, bro.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying, we're saying the kids, I'm thinking this
Speaker 1: kid's NBA, like what are your what are your credentials?
Speaker 1: Like who have you developed and brought up for me
Speaker 1: to be like okay, like he's done this and some people,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys like just like when I started,
Speaker 1: people took a chance on me and you have given
Speaker 1: me an opportunity. You know. So there's some guys that
Speaker 1: are like hungry and motivated, and you know they're really
Speaker 1: gonna be in there, you know, like pushing the kid,
Speaker 1: getting him in the gym, you know, making sure he's
Speaker 1: getting his work in the morning, making sure he's in shape,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and so you have some of that,
Speaker 1: but you gotta, man, you gotta love the gym coaches players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do both on both sides of the spectrum, on
Speaker 1: the coach and the and the players side. I remember
Speaker 1: being at U C. L A and then in the
Speaker 1: mid nineties part of that program, and LaRenzo Romar was
Speaker 1: our development guy along with Mark Gotfreed. So they were
Speaker 1: the guys that be playing one on one with us
Speaker 1: before practice. Then they'd be the the scout team during practice,
Speaker 1: and then we'd get three on three and other knockout
Speaker 1: situations after practice. So this is and you're talking about
Speaker 1: two guys. I think Godfreed got Freed. You know, he
Speaker 1: was really good at Alabama, so he shoot, he could
Speaker 1: shoot it. Lazo Rollmar play in the league, lefty point guard,
Speaker 1: Bouncy at the time, still banging out. You know, it
Speaker 1: was like it was it was, it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a situation going on, but the reality was
Speaker 1: plant we we when you have a coach that loves
Speaker 1: the gym in college as much as as you should.
Speaker 1: You have no choice but to get your ass into
Speaker 1: the gym. You have no choice because you know coach
Speaker 1: Romar is gonna be there and if you don't show up,
Speaker 1: it's like you're looking bad now. And you know it's
Speaker 1: it's speaking to your work ethic, to your dedication. This
Speaker 1: is back in the day where you know you didn't
Speaker 1: want to have coaches. MJ's like what's good? Like why
Speaker 1: not getting no burn? Man? You know how the result
Speaker 1: like Zoe come on like this, what's going on in
Speaker 1: the gym? So it's like, Okay, he's working, he's getting better.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's easier you came back
Speaker 1: in great shape. Is like that type of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what it takes. I mean, that's what it
Speaker 1: takes to make that jump. But Clint, before college, right
Speaker 1: when you're recruited and you're thinking about the school and
Speaker 1: we want to talk about a fit for school, how
Speaker 1: does one sort of discern or figure out a fit?
Speaker 1: Me personally, I'll just give you quick on my experience.
Speaker 1: I had a few schools, Washington State and Kelvin Sampson
Speaker 1: Arizona State and Bill Freeder Utah. Rick mcgari's coach K
Speaker 1: and Duke wanted me to come through and walk on,
Speaker 1: and I had Cornell and U c l A were
Speaker 1: like my six opportunities that I was legitimately looking at,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't thinking fit back then. I was thinking legacy,
Speaker 1: play my dad with the U c l A. It's
Speaker 1: U c l A is right in the backyard, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to talk to you though, just from
Speaker 1: a different lens, in a different perspective. How do you
Speaker 1: view a fit for a perspective, the right fit for
Speaker 1: a prospective ball player going into college. What level? It's
Speaker 1: hard to always starts the saying what level are you? Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're you're City Section player of the year, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh we have to be playing day one. You have
Speaker 1: to be playing day one, Like we just had to
Speaker 1: be yeah, like city actual player of the year. Like
Speaker 1: that's like, like, especially at that time, that's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're you're to the league. Like he's gonna be to
Speaker 1: the league eventually, so we gotta be on the floor.
Speaker 1: And so my biggest thing you probably seen me tweet
Speaker 1: about it all the time. I kind of said jokingly,
Speaker 1: but it's like roster evaluation one on one, like I'm
Speaker 1: really breaking the roster down my ego. My egos always
Speaker 1: to the side. And I tell people this. When Jaden
Speaker 1: was coming out, McDaniels um Cali Perry was recruiting him, right,
Speaker 1: and that was when I started like I talked to
Speaker 1: start talking to coach cal and stuff, and he like
Speaker 1: he's like such a like he'll kind of like deebo
Speaker 1: you and making you feel like if you don't come here,
Speaker 1: well you don't want to compete, you're scared to compete,
Speaker 1: like you have no competitive juices in you. This is
Speaker 1: the place for you anyway. And so you got your
Speaker 1: ego and your pride in the way, you'll be like, man,
Speaker 1: you trying to make me feel like a second like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm afraid to bump when it's like, no, it's
Speaker 1: not about that. Because you're a pro. You're trying to
Speaker 1: get to the league, So what is the best situation
Speaker 1: for you to get there? And nine times had it's
Speaker 1: in a lot of people don't want to keep it
Speaker 1: all the way funky, but it's what is the best
Speaker 1: situation for you to get to the league and where
Speaker 1: can you go to get there as fast as possible.
Speaker 1: That's just being real, Like if you've got one and
Speaker 1: done talent, you're trying to be one of day. You're
Speaker 1: not trying to be too and done. You feel like
Speaker 1: you're a one and done dude. And so you gotta
Speaker 1: look at the roster. You gotta see who's there, who's
Speaker 1: coming back. Who ahead of you was told they were
Speaker 1: gonna play and had the city year and now that
Speaker 1: now things may have cleared up a little bit, and
Speaker 1: so now they're thinking, Okay, now this is my year
Speaker 1: to play. And so for you to jump all those guys,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be Paulo ban Caro chat matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who they have, who they bring it,
Speaker 1: who else is coming Like you're playing. You're playing and
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And that's like, okay, being
Speaker 1: real about where you are as a player. But looking
Speaker 1: at the roster, you know what I'm saying, do they
Speaker 1: have a need for me, like a real real need
Speaker 1: or they just want me they this is the roster,
Speaker 1: tell me they need me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The roster will tell you they need you. You're a
Speaker 1: point guard. No point guards in the roster. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You're coming in program has point guard
Speaker 1: play has been shaky, you know, like okay, the coach
Speaker 1: needs a PG, like really bad. Okay. You know you're
Speaker 1: somebody who can start. You know, coaches like your your
Speaker 1: game and your resume says that there's two or three
Speaker 1: point guards in the roster and you're walking in and
Speaker 1: telling yourself, now, I'm different. Time. Don't use that word
Speaker 1: I'm different. No, dude, before you say he was different
Speaker 1: too when he had to sit on that bench for
Speaker 1: one two years, when someone when there was multiple situations
Speaker 1: where he could have walked in and just got to
Speaker 1: the money. Yeah, Now, it's a process, man, And you
Speaker 1: really gotta have people in your ear that know what
Speaker 1: the hell they're talking about too. I think that's big.
Speaker 1: That's a big issue today with a lot of these
Speaker 1: at these ball players and stuff, is that the people
Speaker 1: that surround them typically don't know what they're talking about,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of bad advice. And most dangerous
Speaker 1: person is someone that doesn't know basketball but thinks they
Speaker 1: know basketball. Who that's a scary situation where they just
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Speaker 1: Because you'll you'll take those you'll take those habits with you,
Speaker 1: and you'll take that mindset with you throughout. And you
Speaker 1: get around some real ones, some real hoopers, and it's
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be feeling real silly and and kind
Speaker 1: of embarrassing. So you got you gotta these these parents,
Speaker 1: these kids the roster. You have to because even if okay,
Speaker 1: you come in and you're hooping, like multiple people have,
Speaker 1: multiple players have been there at your position already, the
Speaker 1: coach is gonna go with who he's comfortable with. And
Speaker 1: then if he goes with you and you're not playing
Speaker 1: well and there's so many players like at your position
Speaker 1: like that, they feel like, Okay, well, we gotta move
Speaker 1: off this dude. We gave him his shot. We gotta
Speaker 1: go play the next dude to where here that big
Speaker 1: fish in a small pond. Usually, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I always tell people I'm giving them the game right now.
Speaker 1: I like, especially when you're talented. It was like Tony
Speaker 1: Snell in Mexico. He was inconsistent. But you can't go
Speaker 1: get another Tony Snill in Mexico. So you gotta ride
Speaker 1: with him through everything until he figures it all the
Speaker 1: way out. But if he goes to Texas or some
Speaker 1: of the other schools that are recruiting him that are
Speaker 1: big time schools, you get your shot. Your inconsistent Like that, Bro,
Speaker 1: we're off you. We got another MacDonald's America. You're not
Speaker 1: the yeah because you you've seen your champion, the mid
Speaker 1: the low major, the mid majors. Right, You're a champion,
Speaker 1: an absolute champion of these types of schools and programs,
Speaker 1: which is fine. You love seeing the blue bloods lose.
Speaker 1: You love seeing golife you you love seeing alife lose.
Speaker 1: You love it. I noticed that I love the right
Speaker 1: pack twelve too, just not the pack twelve that you like.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you this. Stay we're talking to
Speaker 1: fit right, So say you're or you know, top level
Speaker 1: high school kid projected to go pretty high in the draft.
Speaker 1: You decided to pick a college. You go to a
Speaker 1: college that doesn't utilize you the right way. Do you
Speaker 1: stick it out at that college or do you risk
Speaker 1: bouncing although you know you haven't been utilized the right way,
Speaker 1: so your draft stock isn't where it has been. But
Speaker 1: you really don't see or feel like this situation is
Speaker 1: gonna be conduced for you in the future. Do you
Speaker 1: do you stay? Do you suck it up and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I believe myself. We've got some guys leaving. We got
Speaker 1: you know, several seniors in my ahead of mer graduating.
Speaker 1: Do you stay or do you bounce to the league?
Speaker 1: Or do you transfer and spent another year in college
Speaker 1: to show sort of the promise and reach that potential
Speaker 1: that people had to project it as before you spent
Speaker 1: this year. That's a tough decision who because if you leave,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to the right spot you got to
Speaker 1: and if you stay, things have to change. And you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like, how are you playing? How
Speaker 1: is the coach using you? Like? It's tough because if
Speaker 1: you're thinking you're gonna come in and do this and
Speaker 1: it hasn't materialized, so you're gonna be feeling some type
Speaker 1: of way you just are and so you're coming back,
Speaker 1: you gotta let go of that are you gonna be
Speaker 1: able to let go of that. And if you leave, man,
Speaker 1: it has to work. If you leave, you gotta pick
Speaker 1: the right spot. So it's like it's it's fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: It's like, man, you gotta you got you gotta have
Speaker 1: some That's where it comes down to having some hard conversations. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there was a time where, you know, players
Speaker 1: like that would have stuck it out, would have stayed. Hey,
Speaker 1: you started, finish what you started, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that this time of basketball life that that that doesn't
Speaker 1: happen anymore. Players are ready to bounce, players just ready
Speaker 1: to capitalize on the next situation that gets them going
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. There's no reason to toil and
Speaker 1: some bullsh crap that isn't conducive to your game or
Speaker 1: highlighting your game. So yeah, yeah, no, I get that.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's all. You just you just gotta I mean,
Speaker 1: just like you said, you gotta be surrounded by people
Speaker 1: that know the game, know the landscape. Um have real
Speaker 1: relationships with assistant coaches, the head coaches, you know, have
Speaker 1: real trust. Let's touch on that for a second. What
Speaker 1: we talked about the relationships with the coaches and I
Speaker 1: think it was you that tweeted out the other day, Uh,
Speaker 1: find you an assistant coach that talks speaks up on
Speaker 1: you to the head coaching. Oh, I said, some assistant
Speaker 1: coaches will only for you and meetings if they recruited you.
Speaker 1: And Jay Hart's said, man, that's why you can't send
Speaker 1: your kids to Buster, And it was like, I agree,
Speaker 1: I usually don't fall into that. I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't usually have that problem because I am like
Speaker 1: select them on who I would like to rock with
Speaker 1: for that those reasons. But there is true you know,
Speaker 1: um some coaches only right, there's a lot of programs
Speaker 1: that have staffs that are my guy, So like, I'm
Speaker 1: only riding for my guy who I recruited because I
Speaker 1: gotta go back to that same a you program and
Speaker 1: answered the call, so like I'm only you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And so when you have that on some staffs,
Speaker 1: then it could get tricky. So to be so to
Speaker 1: be clear, this allegiance to players now it becomes based
Speaker 1: on the pipeline, right, the lifeblood of this is particular
Speaker 1: system coaches job because he had a plug with say
Speaker 1: DC Assault, and so if he didn't he didn't. This
Speaker 1: one guy is coming from DC assault and if he
Speaker 1: doesn't treat a DC assault guy right, he never getting
Speaker 1: another dude. And they got some seven's that are off
Speaker 1: the chain. And so is that how it goes? Clint?
Speaker 1: I need to and I'm I'm an independent guy. And
Speaker 1: so it's like, you know, like, oh, we don't got
Speaker 1: no loyalty to him. You gotta have your sweet spot,
Speaker 1: your program are you really rock with and you gotta
Speaker 1: like you go, you go, you gotta you you gotta
Speaker 1: maintain that and keep them closed. That's what that comes
Speaker 1: down to. Like, as an independent guy, I'm not sending
Speaker 1: no player. I'm not like I'm not sending no player
Speaker 1: to a school that has an AU coach on the
Speaker 1: staff or has multiple players from the AU program. That's
Speaker 1: just that's just not smart. So you really look at
Speaker 1: it that way. So when you're talking when you mentioned
Speaker 1: roster breakdown, because this is gonna be a very informative
Speaker 1: segment on the show, you're talking about not only who
Speaker 1: this guy is, how you played last year, etcetera. You're
Speaker 1: going back to a a U. You want to know
Speaker 1: who is this dude affiliated with on staff and the publicy,
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying. It's deeper than rap. Hey,
Speaker 1: it is like I'm not getting I'm not getting caught
Speaker 1: up in that because someone they got to go back
Speaker 1: to some they got multiple players that they've had multiple
Speaker 1: players in the past in certain places that you knew,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what it is like. I
Speaker 1: like to feel like I've had a lot of success
Speaker 1: with guys at San Diego State, and so if I
Speaker 1: have a guy that's a like a dude along the
Speaker 1: lines of Kauai and Jamal and Jalen McDaniels, like, you know,
Speaker 1: like they're gonna that's like, that's a that's a good spot.
Speaker 1: Like we've had prior success and I got good relationship
Speaker 1: with the coaches, and so that's how the game works,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's just the game is the game, man,
Speaker 1: and the sooner that you're real with yourself about how
Speaker 1: this thing goes, um you could you could probably like
Speaker 1: to say, save a basketball life. I think that people
Speaker 1: in general don't really kind of grasp or digest or
Speaker 1: even think that far except the really high level, elite
Speaker 1: kind of basketball hoop heads. And they're all around there,
Speaker 1: any of them, and they know but like to the
Speaker 1: regular you know, like say, for instance, people listening to
Speaker 1: this show there, they typically won't have that type of
Speaker 1: idea that that's how things work where that's Those are
Speaker 1: factors that they should consider if they had a child
Speaker 1: that was looking to go and play on the next level.
Speaker 1: kJ Everything on the table, bro, Yeah, everything in the meetings,
Speaker 1: the conversations before you know, the commitment takes place, and
Speaker 1: the kids like, Okay, this is where I'm going. Like
Speaker 1: all the hard questions gotta be answered, gotta be asked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, That's why it goes back to honesty at
Speaker 1: the front door, because now you know there are some
Speaker 1: people that are watching this show. People know me on
Speaker 1: from Twitter, people know me in the basketball world. Some
Speaker 1: people love me, some people don't like me. I'm out spoken,
Speaker 1: I'm opinionated. I don't like something, I'm gonna speak on it.
Speaker 1: But I tell people, we get to school, we're gonna
Speaker 1: act right, We're gonna go to class, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: work hard because they're gonna first and foremost. I'm not
Speaker 1: writing for nothing, just to be writing for something like
Speaker 1: you're lazy, you're not doing you gotta do your part.
Speaker 1: There's accountability on all ends. We can't wait, what is this?
Speaker 1: What is this? We're not we're not doing the dictatorship.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold the kid accountable. Nobody's gonna hold me accountable.
Speaker 1: Come on now, we're not doing that. Accountability is it's
Speaker 1: all the way around, you know. And so that's where
Speaker 1: that's where a lot of this, you know, you see
Speaker 1: it sucks because you see a lot of kids that
Speaker 1: you know, you don't take some of these stuff. We're
Speaker 1: talking to a consideration, and then you get to a
Speaker 1: school and it's like you feel like you were let on,
Speaker 1: you know, and this is serious, because this is like people,
Speaker 1: this ain't no, this ain't no game basket, everybody, it's
Speaker 1: just a game. No, no, no, it ain't no no no.
Speaker 1: I'd just seen with that roundball and did for multiple players,
Speaker 1: and I've seen with the round ball up close, did
Speaker 1: for Kawhi Leonard. Generations and generations have changed in his
Speaker 1: family because it is round ball, Tony Snail. Generations and
Speaker 1: generations like he got his family out the hood for real,
Speaker 1: for real, and there's more many kids like him. Jamal Franklin,
Speaker 1: like you know, single moms that are out here grinding,
Speaker 1: working multiple jobs to keep the lights on type stuff like, nah,
Speaker 1: this ain't no na there there those parents, their babies
Speaker 1: changed their life forever. Their feet are kicked up, they
Speaker 1: ain't working no more. Seriously, this ain't no game, bro,
Speaker 1: Like what you're talking about? Like you over here lying
Speaker 1: to yourself, like, well you better stop. See how much
Speaker 1: money the Clippers are worth? You know what it's like?
Speaker 1: Come on now, But it's all about being put in
Speaker 1: the situation. And it starts in high school that goes
Speaker 1: to college. You know, like you were like you coached
Speaker 1: on the j b A, like you were out close
Speaker 1: with the whole the ball situation. You've been rocking with
Speaker 1: the balls forever, you know what I mean. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of people have different opinions of LaVar and hit
Speaker 1: the way he you know, I always say everyone everyone
Speaker 1: can't be LaVar because everyone don't got LaMelo Alonso and
Speaker 1: Jello number one. But if you like, if you just
Speaker 1: take some things away from how he did coach his
Speaker 1: kids and how he raised them as basketball players, like
Speaker 1: like we got to see that part obviously, Like the
Speaker 1: most important thing he did with LaMelo was he always
Speaker 1: protected his mental Yah. You know, he never let nobody
Speaker 1: best with his mental and now you see that. Now,
Speaker 1: now you see and this is what you're getting. Remember
Speaker 1: when everybody was like the shot selection is, we can't
Speaker 1: be doing that, Like he can't be shooting all he
Speaker 1: can't be shooting those D threes and he's playing so
Speaker 1: free like he's to tighten up. Okay, tighten up, second
Speaker 1: year All Star game, tighten that up. When his dad
Speaker 1: was not rolling for no funnies. None, dad was not
Speaker 1: rolling for no funnies like he he basically pulled him
Speaker 1: out of school as a junior because he was like, no,
Speaker 1: not rolling with how the coach is trying to coach
Speaker 1: my son, Like, no, this isn't gonna work, Like I
Speaker 1: know what I have. He always said it, like he
Speaker 1: stood on that. And it's that confidence, man, when you
Speaker 1: have when you have somebody that's talented, that's skilled, and
Speaker 1: that's confident over Daddy ball is approved. Alright, rolling with
Speaker 1: Daddy ball. Okay, you told Jay Crow that, Like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Daddy is all good? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Don't less society try to knock you off
Speaker 1: your piving thing. Don't be influenced by that show. Be
Speaker 1: listening to these people that imagine of aar with a listen.
Speaker 1: Heck no, man, heck no, but brother, man, I appreciate
Speaker 1: your time today, my man. We gotta run. Um. I
Speaker 1: can't wait too, no doubt, man, I can't wait till
Speaker 1: we jump off on March madness. Man. Soon as that tournament,
Speaker 1: head man, we will be going live, will be recording time.
Speaker 1: Huh are you going to Patrol tournament next week? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm I'm gonna go out there for
Speaker 1: a couple of days. You're going, Yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: Hold full up on you, alright, perfect Clint? Where can
Speaker 1: people find you and connect with you on Twitter? Um? Clint?
Speaker 1: What am I? I I don't I don't even know what
Speaker 1: my um? Oh? What is my head? Let me find
Speaker 1: it for you, my bad. You can find Clint on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Clint Parks zero five at Clint Parks zero
Speaker 1: five on Twitter. My man, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time, brother, and I'll see you real soon. Sounds good, brother,