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Speaker 1: again from the NBA G League Bubble in Disney World.
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Speaker 1: so already. More interviews straight from the G League Bubble
Speaker 1: coming on Tuesdays all season long. Coming up on this episode,
Speaker 1: I introduce you to our new Bubble correspondent, our Bluecoats
Speaker 1: Bubble correspondent, who will be joining me each week throughout
Speaker 1: the season to catch you up on all the latest
Speaker 1: here in Florida and added perspective to my own on
Speaker 1: top of any other interviews that I conduct with players
Speaker 1: and staff this season. Really looking forward to that. But
Speaker 1: before we get there, let's hear from two of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Bluecoats players. Seventy six ers two way
Speaker 1: contract player Paul Reid aka b ball Paul as well
Speaker 1: as Jamario Jones. Let's start with Jones and you'll know why,
Speaker 1: and then we'll follow up with Reid on their three
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Speaker 1: body was but they had some here. Yeah, you're two Bridge.
Speaker 1: I feel like you need him for shure. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you the thief things I needed the most. Back
Speaker 1: into the Bible had the brain. The Bible had the
Speaker 1: brain one of these books that I'm reading, and then
Speaker 1: I had the brain. The P five had too. Can
Speaker 1: leave it quite the answers there from Jamario Jones, great
Speaker 1: personality from him, and many of these Bluecoats players can't
Speaker 1: wait to continue hearing from them, interviewing them, just speaking
Speaker 1: with them in a variety of ways during this twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one G League season. Also excited to introduce our
Speaker 1: Bluecoats Bubble correspondent, who will be teaming up with myself
Speaker 1: for the season that's coming right up. But first, Christiana Care.
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Speaker 1: all of our Coach check listeners, subscribers, anybody who follows
Speaker 1: the show has been waiting for. Maybe I teased it
Speaker 1: a little bit on last week's episode with Bluecoats head
Speaker 1: coach Connor Johnson, And if you're looking for a thorough
Speaker 1: preview of the season, a little bit of x's and o's,
Speaker 1: that type of thing, go back and check out that
Speaker 1: episode once you're done listening to this. But I teased
Speaker 1: a Bubble correspondent while we're here in the NBA G
Speaker 1: League bubble in Florida at Disney World, and it's time
Speaker 1: to reveal that person, and it's Bluecoats assistant coach, former
Speaker 1: NBA player, G League player, former sixer for that matter,
Speaker 1: Xavier Silas. He will be joining forces with myself and
Speaker 1: giving all of you a deeper look inside the NBA
Speaker 1: G League Bubble inside the twenty twenty one NBAG League season. So,
Speaker 1: Coach Silas, it's great to have you on board. I
Speaker 1: think you're perfect for this role. Between the two of us,
Speaker 1: I don't think we should miss anything that's going on
Speaker 1: around the team on and off the court. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a great couple of I shouldn't say a
Speaker 1: couple a great few weeks around this team, and I
Speaker 1: think people are gonna want to follow along. So thanks
Speaker 1: for being here. I appreciate for having me. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to diving in and letting everyone know what's going
Speaker 1: on outside of the bubble. I think a big plus
Speaker 1: of this is your experience as a player, a player
Speaker 1: at the highest level. You actually shared something on your
Speaker 1: Instagram about less than forty five hundred people something like
Speaker 1: that can say they've played in the NBA, So you
Speaker 1: know where these guys are trying to go and what
Speaker 1: it takes to get there. So I really value your
Speaker 1: opinion as someone who's been there. And that's something that's
Speaker 1: so exciting about this G League season is, like I
Speaker 1: keep saying, it the suit of a dream, and these
Speaker 1: guys are all trying to get to the NBA, and
Speaker 1: many of the players on this Bluecoats team have been there,
Speaker 1: So I think your perspective in that sense is going
Speaker 1: to be huge for us. Yeah, I think it's really important.
Speaker 1: And what I was talking to Michael Fraser about today
Speaker 1: is even just the important sustain mentally Ready, you know,
Speaker 1: we're in the bubble we can be in the gym
Speaker 1: for a lot of hours if we really want to.
Speaker 1: But what are you doing off the court mentally to
Speaker 1: stay strong and get ready for that next level? And
Speaker 1: I think it's just so many things that we can do,
Speaker 1: and I think the guys are realizing that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more about the physical. In terms
Speaker 1: of the level of play, it seems like every roster
Speaker 1: has a lot of great players this year because there's
Speaker 1: a smaller number of teams. What are your expectations for
Speaker 1: the level of play in the G League this season?
Speaker 1: Because it also kind of has the feel of an
Speaker 1: AU tournament, like a Giant AU tournament, And you saw
Speaker 1: and watch the NBA bubble, So what do you think
Speaker 1: it's going to be like when the lights come on?
Speaker 1: We're recording this the week of the first game, and
Speaker 1: it's real games that count. What do you think those
Speaker 1: are going to be like? I think they're gonna be fast.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be intense. You know, everyone knows
Speaker 1: that the season is shortened, so they're gonna be given
Speaker 1: it all they've got, even more so than a regular season,
Speaker 1: and so I think that it's going to be really
Speaker 1: intense and guys are going to be competing on another
Speaker 1: level that we haven't seen in a while in the
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Speaker 1: What has your routine? I know you're in a coaching
Speaker 1: role now it's your second season with the Bluecoats. What's
Speaker 1: your routine been like so far? In this single site
Speaker 1: for the G League season? It just seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all locked in on getting better in every aspect,
Speaker 1: and so there's more film, there's more meetings, there's more
Speaker 1: of everything because we're here twenty four to seven and so,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's gonna be really competitive and everything's
Speaker 1: gonna be amplified because we're all here the all day,
Speaker 1: every day and everyone wants the same thing, and that's
Speaker 1: to win. And from what I've gathered, you are the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator for this Bluecoats team. I am offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: so you know, making sure that we we score, you know,
Speaker 1: and score efficiently, and so you know, We're we're gonna
Speaker 1: play fast, We're gonna share the ball. That's Connor's big
Speaker 1: on that, and so we're trending. Camp on the offensive
Speaker 1: side has been a lot about that, sharing the ball,
Speaker 1: playing fast and making plays for ourselves and each other.
Speaker 1: How about some strength of the roster following training camp?
Speaker 1: What you thought going in and what you got out
Speaker 1: of it? Yeah, I mean I thought that we were
Speaker 1: a really good team. I thought we would look way
Speaker 1: different because I thought we'd have Frank Mason, and when
Speaker 1: he got caught up, which was great, things started to
Speaker 1: look a little different. But we know Justin Robinson, he's
Speaker 1: a great point guard and he's been looking amazing. And
Speaker 1: training camp. We just signed Jordan Bone who was there
Speaker 1: yesterday for the first time, and he looked actually pretty
Speaker 1: good for the first time being around the team. And
Speaker 1: when you go down the roster, you just have so
Speaker 1: many talented guys you can go and name them all.
Speaker 1: I think that we have the ability to score at
Speaker 1: a high rate. I think we have the ability to
Speaker 1: play defense really well. And so I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: this team and how they're gonna look when we get two, three,
Speaker 1: four games in. Well, the games are rapidly approaching, so
Speaker 1: we will have future shows to talk about what happened
Speaker 1: on the court and why. I'm looking forward to that,
Speaker 1: and I think people should definitely tune in for your
Speaker 1: perspective on how the season is playing out from a
Speaker 1: basketball standpoint. But let's have a little fun are at
Speaker 1: the buzzer segment is just some extra questions that I
Speaker 1: want to get in. They can be about anything. So
Speaker 1: the first thing is about your routine, but away from basketball. Here,
Speaker 1: what are some of the things you've been watching to
Speaker 1: kind of stay busy, maybe particularly during the quarantine period
Speaker 1: when you weren't allowed to read to leave the room.
Speaker 1: I know you're a guy who looks around for TV
Speaker 1: shows and movies. That is That's true. You know I've
Speaker 1: been doing Martin, you know, the old school funny show Martin.
Speaker 1: I started from season one and now I'm actually like
Speaker 1: ending season two. So I'm doing that. And my wife
Speaker 1: and I are watching Peaky Blinders together, So we have
Speaker 1: a rule where we know we kind of turn it
Speaker 1: on at the same time and kind of watch it
Speaker 1: and it's it's a pretty good show. The other rule
Speaker 1: is that we can only watch shows that have multiple seasons.
Speaker 1: So all these news seasons on Netflix, I have one season.
Speaker 1: They just don't work because I just hate getting, you know,
Speaker 1: sucked into lacking a show and then it's over in
Speaker 1: twelve episodes. I need a little bit more so. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be finished entirely. It just has
Speaker 1: to be have to be finished entirely. Two is the
Speaker 1: Two is the minimum you have to have at least two.
Speaker 1: That's funny. They have a lot of good stuff on there.
Speaker 1: That's only one season right now, so I guess you
Speaker 1: haven't seen any of it. You know what season one
Speaker 1: season means that you're not proven yet. Now you gotta
Speaker 1: be proven. You gotta be You gotta have two seasons
Speaker 1: at least three. Really sounds like the NBA and the
Speaker 1: G League for that matter, got to prove yourself this season.
Speaker 1: For some of the Blue Coats players. This is quite
Speaker 1: a random one. I just want to know how many
Speaker 1: threes I want to see. If you know the number
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen eighteen G League season, you were up near
Speaker 1: the top of the league and three pointers made. Can
Speaker 1: you guess how many threes you made in that season?
Speaker 1: I can't guess, and I don't want to say a
Speaker 1: number that I'm way off, but I cannot remember. Game. Well,
Speaker 1: you took four, you took four, Here you go, you
Speaker 1: took four hundred and five. How many do you think
Speaker 1: you made in that season? I shot around forty, so
Speaker 1: I would say four hundred and five. I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to make five. If you made one ninety five, you
Speaker 1: would have led the league. You finished fourth. You made
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty four and shot thirty eight percent.
Speaker 1: But quite the impressive season from deep. And I know
Speaker 1: that because we had Jared brown Ridge on and he's
Speaker 1: actually the leading three point shooter in terms of makes
Speaker 1: over the last two G League seasons, and if you
Speaker 1: go back just a season or two more, you're right
Speaker 1: in the top five. So I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: What team were you on that year you played forty
Speaker 1: three games? Northern Arizona. I think that was Northern Arizona.
Speaker 1: Jared knows for sure that the only reason he has
Speaker 1: that records because I haven't been playing. You can ask
Speaker 1: him about that. That would be a good question for
Speaker 1: him when he comes on. I actually brought that up
Speaker 1: to Matt Lily, the Blue coach GM, and he said
Speaker 1: that if you were open you were shooting it that year,
Speaker 1: so it's not surprising to him. Copper told me that
Speaker 1: Cody Tooppmer said if I if I can do this,
Speaker 1: to shoot it. So I had I had a green light.
Speaker 1: If you could get the arms up, you could shoot
Speaker 1: it all right quickly. What's been your favorite part or
Speaker 1: some of your favorite parts of this experience so far
Speaker 1: in the Bubble. I think just the camaraderie that we've
Speaker 1: had with the staff and also with the players. You know,
Speaker 1: like last night we watched the super Bowl together and
Speaker 1: hung out, um, you know, a few nights before we
Speaker 1: all played Trivial Pursuit as a as a staff and
Speaker 1: had a really good time. And we have all kinds
Speaker 1: of different conversations that you just don't get to have
Speaker 1: in a regular season because you're not around each other enough.
Speaker 1: So just getting together, but the guys getting to know
Speaker 1: everyone has been has been great. Well that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for this, But there's more where this came from
Speaker 1: for anybody out there, Because you just met our Blue
Speaker 1: Coats Bubble correspondent who's going to be joining the show
Speaker 1: every week for the whole season here on Coach Check.
Speaker 1: Blue Coats Assistant coach Xavier Silas. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun and I'm looking forward to more. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Bluecoats assistant coach Xavier Silas. We will
Speaker 1: be hearing from him more as we move along. I'm
Speaker 1: Matt Murphy. Until next time, take it or leave it
Speaker 1: at the coach check.