WEBVTT - S2 Episode 3: One and Done 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.599 Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutched Sports 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:19.640 Group and I Heart Radio. It's it's in Welcome back 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.040 to Drafted, where we're following two elite basketball players on 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.160 their personal journeys to the NBA. I'm keeking Michael Key 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.240 and we're less than one week away from draft day. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.000 Right now, we're at the Godby Road Gym on the 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.879 south side of Atlanta. Top NBA prospect Anthony Edwards, his 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.080 uncle Drew, and his trainer Justin Holland wrap up a 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.479 workout and discuss his training plans for the upcoming NBA season. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:52.680 Maybe two forty by Sailors say, if I do lay 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.000 at work, are you gonna maybe two? And you're gonna 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.279 be too for within the name three years saying I'm 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.680 the lose weight, thank and you think about it, they're 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.959 gonna put me on the me man. Yeah, I said, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.320 when you they're they're growing away, they're growing out way. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.560 I'm telling you I'm not gonna be and you're still 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:18.039 ruing what still? But I'm trying to Ninety year old 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.080 Anthony is six ft five, carries two hundred and twenty 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:26.039 five ish pounds and he's definitely not done growing you gonna. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.640 I'm looking at you right now. I'm just telling you 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.280 don't trick him up, but you have me. I ain't 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:43.360 say all that you say your bro he doesn't trim 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:48.960 him up, but your your heart is a rock. Say so, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:56.080 I'm after that. Get work out, God, work out. Wait 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.160 a little bit you want. I'm try I'm trying to 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.520 figure ot what you're gonna litle it. Lets you go 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.040 and lets you go all vegan that vegetables as it over. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:10.520 They're not gonna make me live like that Lebron with two. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.320 You don't work out, I say, now, Lebron two f two, 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:18.919 But he was seeing that when he came in the league. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.200 The wan to thirds damn two. Yeah he's put on weight, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.280 no weight. Yeah, but I'm saying I'm not gonna try 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.120 to put on I don't think you trying to put 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.840 on weight. You see the difference of Lebron when you 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.600 go in personally. Yeah, how you want me? No, I'm saying, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.679 like Lebron wasn't big, got to live. I'm trying to 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.440 tell the old already and I'm young. The older you get, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:48.440 you're gonna put on ron away. On average, people gain 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.839 the most weight during their twenties, roughly two pounds a year. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.200 Even pro athletes tend to fill out during that decade, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.440 like Justin and Uncle Drew's example of Lebron putting on 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.000 ten to twenty pounds since he started in the league. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.400 And you're gonna be sixing two parters, but since two 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.120 you don't nest you want over those thirty Yeah, I 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.120 know I'm gonna be third, starting off way about two 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:17.920 and two. Problem, it's the starry eight straight, right. Someone 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.720 saying built better million dollars that they won't gain weight 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.160 is usually worth ignoring. But Anthony will likely make over 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.280 six or seven million dollars a year if he's drafted 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.560 in the top five. So if he's serious about that beat, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.800 he can actually back it up. It ain't being wrong 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:40.600 when they went next back. Yeah, you're you're playing with 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.160 probably two thirty five two point when you get two points, like, damn, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.960 I gotta I gotta run. Yeah, they all see you, right, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.520 two point. Let me out here, run at gonna say this, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.120 you're gonna make the most, gonna do that. It's gonna pairt. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.120 I'm selling that. Maybe looking like that, we don't we 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:04.240 don't win up two thirty, a lot of proteins, maybe 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.880 dread a whole lot of protein. Heat differently do that. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.600 I'm saying, you look like you look like you're lighter 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.800 than your wolves three months ago. But you hear you, 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:20.800 You know what, muscle muzzle. He's always been bigger and 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.280 stronger than the competition. Back when Anthony was in the 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.400 ninth grade, he was already six ft two and weighed 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.680 over two hundred pounds. Around that time, he was starting 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.640 to not so quietly destroy the A A U circuit. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.560 Here's coach Rob Allen, another core member of Anthony's tight 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.400 knit circle, who began working with him around that time. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.359 When I first moved to Atlanta, I started doing AU coaching. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.080 First time I met and he played with the Atlanta 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.080 Express AU team. They were on the circuit and I 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.320 got to meet went Frey Jordan, who's over the Atlantic Express. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:05:00.960 And then they they were practicing and coach Jordan was like, Hey, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.000 I got this sixteen year old team. Do you mind 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.640 training them for thirty minutes for me so they can 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.640 get some skill working. So I said, okay, I'll do that. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.560 So I'm watching this kid and he's just going through drills, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.320 real smooth, and I had never heard of before. And 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.120 he was dunking, knocking down shots and he said his 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:27.120 name is Anthony Edwards. And I never forget I said, well, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.720 he's gonna have a chance. But Justin would always tell 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.120 him and I had to get him credit for this. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.960 He told me when he was in the tenth grade. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.960 He said, Rob, I believe he could be a Lebron 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.040 James type talent. I didn't believe him at first. I 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.200 was like, I don't know about that. We were in 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.040 Indianapolis at the on the on the circuit. I never 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:54.400 forget it. They played against the Illinois Wolves. I sat 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.960 there right there with him and scored thirty points in 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:03.000 one quarter. So I said thirty you know we I mean, 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.160 these guys were literally double and triple team man. And 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.120 he scored thirty points. And this was timh grade year 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.520 and I just couldn't believe it. Here's Anthony and his 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:34.360 teammates after the game. What treaty point I'm telling him? 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:42.880 And him the Fish State. He became the number one 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.320 college basketball recruit in the class of twenty nineteen, receiving 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.880 scholarship offers from premier programs like North Carolina, Kansas, and Kentucky, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.480 and despite his Florida state prediction, Anthony ended up narrowing 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.760 down his choice to two other schools. Decision came down 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.120 with when in Kentucky and Georgia. I was gonna go 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.080 to Kentucky. But you know, everybody that I loved and 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.040 cared about was in Atlanta, So I felt like Athens 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.360 was just an hour wait. And most of my people 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.560 was like, Georgia be a good idea staying home and 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.200 being near friends and family at the University of Georgia 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:21.000 versus going to perennial contender and modern day NBA factory Kentucky. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.280 That was the decision, along with which top coach to 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.679 play for, Kalapari or Cream. Well, it's the Holy Spirit 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.760 Friend Academy in the heart of Atlanta, and sitting next 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.000 to me is a nation number one player in the country, Anthony. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.320 Yet and he is ready to announce his college choice, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.640 and you know, you're finally got in Georgia. We're stay 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.160 in Kentucky. Nothing both sides. I mean the process of 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.680 a pretty difficult on time were coming in and our 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.280 school every night on coaches school, I mean, it was different. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:08:01.040 Decision came to wait where we in alf I'll be 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:18.360 attended house basketball at the University Georgia. Anthony chose Georgia, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.760 staying true to his heart, or as he puts it, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:25.600 not following the wave. I felt like Georgia was the 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.680 best I did for me, and post Crane played a 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.640 huge role in my decision to Georgia because of just 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.600 his past and who he's coached, and you know how 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.920 his player development has grown over the years. So I 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:38.360 just felt like that was the right thing to do. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.760 Bottom line is we had a lot of things in place. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.520 This is University of Georgia head coach Tom Crean. He's 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.160 close to home, his family could continue to be around them, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.400 His coaches and the people that were most important in 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.680 his life didn't have to get in an airplane or drive, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.800 you know, hundreds of miles to be in his life. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.079 They could go literally down the highway to be in it. 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.599 And so his life was going to change at some 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.520 point at a young age. It didn't have to change 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.360 this quick as he was making his transition. So those 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.959 were selling points. But with all that being said, the 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:10.959 fact that he knew he needed to get better, that 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.959 he wanted to get better, that he bought into the 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.840 fact that we had made people that he looked up 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.160 to better, like Dwyane Wade and Victor Eladipo, I think 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.360 played into it. Coach Crean helped mega stars Dwyane Wade 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.080 and Victor Eladipo go from mid level recruits to NBA 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.320 All Stars. So even though Anthony arrives in Athens, Georgia 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.920 at a more developed stage, he wants to make the 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.280 same kind of leap they did. I think when you 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.280 see somebody that's got that level of talent, with the 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.839 accolades and the pageantry that's around him, and then you 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.400 get to know him, and the way he took to 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.960 what we were trying to tell him in the sense 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.880 of what he needed to get better at it was 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.760 this is where you got improved. If you're going to 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.520 be in college for a short period of time, all right, 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.200 this is where you absolutely have to get better. Because 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.400 my goal always as a coach is not for somebody 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.839 to get draft. My goal is for them to be 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.640 ready to play and have that NBA team be talking 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.599 about that second contract as early as they possibly can be, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.640 because because NBA ready is completely different than being an 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.319 NBA drafting and he was going to be drafted. No 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.080 matter where he went. It became where is he going 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.959 to be ready from? Then he started to realize, like 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.560 this is for real, as good as I am all right, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.240 there's a lot of things I don't know, or a 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.080 lot of things I gotta get better at. And then 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.800 he started to see the improvement and and then it 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:46.800 took off even more. We'll be right back well. Anthony 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.520 was wrecking the A A U circuit. Another star was 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.160 making his way into the top of the same recruiting class, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:11:06.760 a fast, energetic guard named tyrees Maxi. Tyrese received twenty 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.080 two offers from elite college programs, but he always knew 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.599 where he'd be going. Honestly, I'll tell my friends and 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.839 my family in the eighth grade, I'm gonna be a 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.520 mcdonal's All American and I'm gonna go to University of Kentucky. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.600 And it was simple, like you know in eighth grade, seven, 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.240 eighth grade, you know, your friends and other people, adults 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.640 looking at you like for mans, like pouring three chance 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.480 that all that stuff that you're saying is gonna happen. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.280 Everybody in the in the world, every eighth grade of 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:33.719 that played the basketball in the world is saying the 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.319 same thing you're saying. Like I was like, no, I'm 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.000 gonna play for the coach Cow. Coach Cow has had, 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.959 you know, Derrick Rose, John Wall, Darren Fox, Jamal Murray, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.679 Brandon Night. I'm I want to be a part of 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.160 that legacy and I'm going to be a part of 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:47.960 Legs and that like that was I had my mind 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.360 made up in the eighth grade, and you know, my 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.040 family supported. They said just go get it. Work extremely hard, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.040 and go get it. So I wanted to go to Kentucky. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.880 Since then, Tyrese turned this middle school vision into a reality, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.800 and in his very first college game in Kentucky, he 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.040 slated to play the number one ranked Michigan State Spartans 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.680 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the mecca, 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.760 one of the most revered sites in all of basketball. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.120 So last year, on my birthday, well you know, our 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.760 birthday is on November four, and our first game against 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.079 Michigan State, numb one team in the country at Madison 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.720 Square Garden was on November five. So we're having our 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.960 last practice, you know, at Joe Kraft in Kentucky before 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.240 we get on the plane to go to New York 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.040 City to get ready to play, you know, no one 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.560 team in the country. So we're practicing, going along, good practice, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.240 and I'm playing, you know, point guard on our call 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.880 and play. But one of my teammates, Killan Brooks, didn't 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.880 hear me. He doesn't hear me, but everybody else on 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.559 the court heard me. So Keian messages like he he 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.400 messed up the play, and then like, coach ka, play 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.920 my bad, Coach, I didn't hear what we said. So 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.880 Coach Kyle turns to me and said, you're not You're 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.680 not ready. You're not playing. It's a matter of fact, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.360 he told me. He tells, you know, the other guys 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:01.920 on our team, the other two guards that we had 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:03.839 man you and Ashley, said y'all get ready to play 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.760 forty minutes. Because he's he's not ready to play. He's 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.240 not playing the marrow at all. He's not getting the 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.959 game one second. I don't care what anybody says. I'm like, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.520 bro like, I'm not gonna play. Bro Like all the 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.160 work that I've done, I was getting up at six 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.760 am there working out with four practice, four weeks or 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.040 four class, you know, doing what I had to do 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.120 on the court. Doing I'm not doing the classroom, and 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.520 I'm like, I'm not gonna get in the game. And 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.080 this is my this is my birthday, my nine team birthday, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.480 first birthdayway from home. I'm like, bro, I'm not even 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.880 gonna get in the game. So like I'm I'm like 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.599 just sitting there. Like the rest of the day, I 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.200 was like, A, I don't know how long the flight 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.400 was in New York, but has the nice house flight? 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.200 Get to New York, have meetings, eat and it's still 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.640 my birthday, so like I still should be excited. I'm like, bro, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.600 I'm not gonna get in the game. Like it's still hurts. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.200 I don't care who you are, I don't care how 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.760 great of a teammate you are. For this, for the 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.920 coach to tell you when when you expect to get 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:57.400 in the game and you expect to play, expect to 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.400 do well, for here to tell you're not gonna play, 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.040 was like devastated. But I talked to my mom later 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.400 on that night, and you know, she gave me a 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.520 little encourage and talk. But you know, I just went 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.199 to sleep and I got an opportunity to play. I 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.559 got an opportunity to play the next day and the 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.920 rest of history. Max. She look at this first of 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.240 speed up and in deep rot for MAXI three four 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:25.880 ft behind the line. Oh oh you serious? How do 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:31.560 you sewious? Coxy? You're a huspers your first game? Are 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.680 you for real? Oh man? Are you serious? Look at 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:41.000 that swa, Look at bet Swan. Oh man, it's the Kliparry. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:46.680 You got a storm. It's to you. Gotta storm Tyrese 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:51.080 MAXI making a name for himself in his very first game, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.960 Kentucky upsets top ranked Michigan State. Tyrese scores twenty six 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.280 points to go along with his five rebounds. Coach Calipari's 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:03.520 motivational tactic worked exactly as planned. If he planned it 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.840 at all, I don't remember it, but you know, uh, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.480 I don't think I maybe I did. I've done many 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.760 things to make kids tougher. You know what I say 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.240 to him, even that situation. If you can't take me, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.720 the guy that loves you and his whole life is 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.560 trying to get you and your family right. If you 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.080 can't take me, how the world are you gonna take 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:31.560 the opponent? You must conquer yourself first before you worry 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.440 about conquering anybody else. Basically, I'm saying time to grow up, 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.360 time to be a man, time to be responsible. And 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.680 I may have said it, and there are things that 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.920 you know I'll I'll be tough on kids to get 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.880 them to understand. Now you think about it, that's coming 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.440 from someone who loves you, and it's for you. If 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.880 you can't take that, you how are you tough enough 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.840 to go in the game and compete in Madison Square 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.840 guard against Michigan Stay. So maybe I did do it. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:05.840 Here's Tyres again. He knew what my potential was. You 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.560 know what my potential is, and ha ha am I 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.160 sailing it that you know I could reach if I 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.160 put it in the work, and I'll keep my head low. 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.240 So and like I said, I really appreciate for that. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.880 He pushed me so hard that, uh, nothing can phase 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:23.360 me now. In eleven years of Kentucky coach, Kellipari has 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:27.640 turned out three number one overall selections, twenty one lottery picks, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.840 thirty one first rounders, and forty one total players taken 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.240 in the NBA draft. John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Jamal Murray, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:40.880 Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, an almost endless list of league 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.920 corner stores, so he knows what it takes, perhaps better 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.200 than anyone. Tyreech could have gone other places and solely 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.960 had the ball more we had Ashton Hagan's. You know, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.560 all of a sudden, Emmanuel quickly we played with three 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.200 point guards. But guess what we did it with Jamal 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.400 Murray too, and Jamal wanted the ball more. Well, he's 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.280 got it more now and you look at him. You know. 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.240 They had to be a great teammate here because they 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.840 had to share one about one or two guys shooting 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.680 all the balls. I mean, you don't have to be 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:15.040 a volume shooter in college. You have to develop professional habits. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:20.480 You have to develop a pro mentality and in those 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:25.320 kids and Tyrese come on now, Uh, he sacrificed and 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.360 gave up, But I learned to play without the ball. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.600 This became evident on January seven, when Kentucky faced off 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.160 against Georgia, where Anthony Edwards waited for him once again. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.639 On their way up, tyres and Anthony played each other 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.040 in various circuits and then committed to Southeastern Conference rivals 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.720 Georgia in Kentucky. Now they go into a much hyped 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.000 head to head matchup the number eight ranked Wildcats playing 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.280 a tenant for Georgia team contending for the conference lead, 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.520 and Anthony Edwards, arguably the best player in the country, 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:02.640 would be facing his toughest test yet. Anthony would lead 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.680 all scorers with twenty three points in five rebounds, and 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.240 on an infamous play with Tyrese guarding him, he drives 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.679 to the basket, overpowering his friend for an easy two points. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.359 Maxi falls to the ground and Edwards makes a taunting 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.960 gesture indicating Tyrese was too small to guarding. The announcers 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.640 say it should have been an offensive follower. Social media 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.719 calls Anthony an unstoppable scorer. After the game, Tyrese has 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.000 his own thoughts, Yeah, we don't have to have a 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.000 really conversation about that. I probably will call him as 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.640 soon as I get have to play, so you know him, Yes, okay, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.800 so you don't have to have a conversation about I 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:47.600 did say he probably did, but it's okay. I mean 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:49.240 I think at the end of the day, I think 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.159 we had one points to him, So it's okay. You 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.520 guys are friends and he played up. He played against 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.520 each other in high school. How it play on this stage? 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.639 It was amazing. I mean, especially on the road in 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.600 front of their home crowd. We had a lot of 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.320 slower can really talked during the game, you know, but 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.320 after the games, what's up, my man? After the game, 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.199 you know each changed. We're I hugged each other. Say 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:12.399 keep doing what you're doing and see him in a 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:19.480 couple of weeks or in a week. He's great. He's 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.640 really took the guard, especially when he had the green 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.879 light like that. Um, he has to make play for 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.159 that team to win, and she really hard to guard him. Proud, Um, 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.320 keep working on his game. Kentucky wins by nine. Maxi 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.800 ends up with seventeen points, eight assists, and seven rebounds, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.320 approaching a triple double. But maybe even more impactful was 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.320 his defense. He had four blocks and a steel to 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.600 go along with his offensive output, and spent a large 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.200 portion of the night helping guard Edwards, harassing him into 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.679 a night of eight for seventeen shooting. The performance highlights 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.400 Tyree's as one of the top defenders in college while 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.479 revealing how much more Anthony and Georgia still needed to improve. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.760 Here's coach Crean speaking to what he saw. We got 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.840 caught in the hype of that game after beating Memphis 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.520 on the road, and I think it was almost more 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.800 it was the pageant try. It was almost like we've 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:16.080 forgot just all hard Kentucky plays, right, and and not 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:19.040 only how talented Kentucky is, but how hard they play. 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.280 And you can't make mistakes, whether your home road or 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.600 in a parking lot in Alaska, playing against them, you 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.200 can't make those mistakes. So I do think there's some 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.119 learning that came from that game, no doubt. Just two 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.760 weeks later, Kentucky and Georgia play once more. The Wildcats 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.639 get the better of the Bulldogs yet again, holding Edwards, 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.000 still hyped as the best guard in the country, to 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:45.800 sixteen points. By March, Kentucky racks up wins and the 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.880 number eight ranking in the country, putting them in position 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.400 for a high seed in the n C Double A tournament. Well, 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.600 Georgia drifts with sixteen wins and sixteen losses. The Bulldogs 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.960 need to win their conference tournament to make the final 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.520 bracket of sixty eight teams, which likely means another high 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:06.160 profile matchup with Tyrese in Kentucky. Then suddenly the season 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.639 is canceled. March Madness is canceled. The coronavirus unravels plans 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:19.240 across the globe. When this thing ended, some of the 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.639 guys who were a little more outgoing than others, I 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.760 think some of them were just stunned, like stunned, like 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:28.080 what in the world this is coach Calipari once again. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:30.920 So you know, we had a couple of guys cry. 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:32.680 I don't know if he was one of them. I 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.320 do know when we arrived back on campus, they played 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:39.359 five on five, just the last time to be together. 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.119 The basketball world has turned upside down, along with the 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:47.560 rest of society. Anthony and Tyrese both realize their next step. 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:57.160 Beckons the NBA is calling. Well, I wasn't worried about 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.399 him going. I think I knew he'd be fine. I 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.280 thought that if we had finished the season, it would 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.680 have been better for him. But I still thought, you know, 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:10.520 you're gonna be a lottery late lottery most but um, yeah, 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.480 I never had any doubt that he was trained for 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.240 that moment, and he was ready. You're good, You're good 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.960 to go with classes and basketball called off, Tires goes 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.879 to Los Angeles to train for how long. He doesn't know. 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:28.600 What started as a few weeks turns into the entire summer. 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:50.679 We'll be right back. Here's Tyres again with his uncle Brandon, 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.359 after just finishing another session at the gym, still waiting 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:58.320 in limbo, still imagining what life would be like as 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:04.840 a pro. I mean they go crazy. They go crazy. 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.840 If you at the crib now they go I said, 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:09.679 they're going crazy if you have to crib. Now when 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:13.359 you go somewhere for being like dad, they crib. That's 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.040 what I'm saying. Now, just imagine you want to go 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:20.800 somewhere and grab something, eat or something. That's the crazy 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:28.440 part about it's like really over bro chick week, Oh 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.840 my god. And that's what l A taught us to most. 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:36.080 They did how to move, how to move as a 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:40.080 professional as I don't move, you move, you different, absolutely 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:42.920 go down. They come with chicken, you working on my 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:45.159 as doing you know what we're thinking about. If it 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:48.000 was in dallasall this whole time, well we would be 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:50.960 so confused and so so yeah, it didn't come out here, dude, 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.159 this to be like damn, y'all, you donta do it 0:23:54.200 --> 0:24:00.240 like I don't know what you know. It was so 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:02.760 funny because I went with Chris Paul when he was 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:05.000 in his hometown and he was dropped because he was 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:07.120 he drops at the camp, but he came to the hospital, 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:10.159 came to the hospital. Bro. It was just like that 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:15.960