Speaker 1: Oh, Welcome in to coat Check, the official podcast of
Speaker 1: the Delaware Bluecoats, the NBA G League affiliate of the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy Sixers. I'm Matt Murphy and coat Check is
Speaker 1: presented by Christianna care. Let's get right to it, beball, Paul. Paul.
Speaker 1: You your rookie professional season so far. I mean, you
Speaker 1: get drafted fifty eighth overall by the Sixers and then
Speaker 1: to recently not only be named the top rookie in
Speaker 1: the G League in the form of Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: but the top player in the G League by getting
Speaker 1: the MVP Award. All so, as we record this, you
Speaker 1: were just named to the All G League First Team,
Speaker 1: the All Rookie Team, and the All Defensive Team. You're
Speaker 1: someone who writes down his goals. First of all, do
Speaker 1: you physically write your goals down or do you keep
Speaker 1: them on your phone? I physically wrote them down. I
Speaker 1: got like the journal, okay. And second, as a precursor
Speaker 1: to this question, you've talked about it before, because somebody
Speaker 1: just asked you in a media session. But Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers President of basketball Operations Daryl Morey came out
Speaker 1: and said, talked about your MBA potential, how you've proven
Speaker 1: yourself at every level, and that he quote expects the
Speaker 1: NBA to be next. So with that in mind and
Speaker 1: defining your goals and that whole process, what's next for
Speaker 1: you in terms of what are some of your upcoming
Speaker 1: goals now that the G League season is over? Some
Speaker 1: outcoming goals for me? Uh to lead lead my team
Speaker 1: into a championship, you know, the seventy sixers. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to be able to come in and help
Speaker 1: it is there to win a championship. I feel short
Speaker 1: and the G League bubble, but you know I got
Speaker 1: another opportunity with this group to to win, to win
Speaker 1: it all. So so when I get the opportunity to
Speaker 1: come in and help the team, you know, I just
Speaker 1: make sure I'm ready. And when you found out speaking
Speaker 1: of the seventy Sixers, you and the team were when
Speaker 1: you found out about the MVP Award and Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year, you and the Sixers were traveling out west.
Speaker 1: So take everybody back, when and where did you find
Speaker 1: out that you had won those two awards? Well, I
Speaker 1: want I found out about MVP Award before the flight
Speaker 1: to California to go to state. But I didn't tell
Speaker 1: anybody because you know, we don't know. Just get to myself.
Speaker 1: But then like after you throughout the flight, I guess
Speaker 1: the white seeing it or something like that, and they
Speaker 1: had seen it check and yeah, I was like, oh, congratulations,
Speaker 1: congratulations and all that, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: appreciate it, thank you, you know, so that's that's something
Speaker 1: they are about to found out for you. And then
Speaker 1: getting out the plane, everybody's just like congress. You know
Speaker 1: there was an MVP MVP you know chant that you
Speaker 1: know me on trying to stay humble. That's awesome. And
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons posted it, posted you on the flight on
Speaker 1: his Instagram story to Bias Harris was tweeting about it. Really,
Speaker 1: everybody was really happy for you. I'm sure your phone
Speaker 1: was going crazy to the fact that you were on
Speaker 1: a flight when it became public information. Your phone, you
Speaker 1: probably had a ton of notifications. Man. I checked my
Speaker 1: Instagram and I had like hand went up like two
Speaker 1: thousand and three thousand follows. I'm like, dang, that's more
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Speaker 1: League season in the bubble. We were both in the
Speaker 1: bubble with the Bluecoats made it to the G League
Speaker 1: Finals as a team, and you've talked individually. You tweeted
Speaker 1: when the season was over about how you grew both
Speaker 1: on the court and off the court as a person.
Speaker 1: In what ways did you feel like it was good
Speaker 1: for your development playing for coach Johnson and that coaching
Speaker 1: staff in Delaware? It was it was great for my
Speaker 1: development coach Coach Johnson, coach conn Yeah, some of the
Speaker 1: trust of me, you know, he telling me to shoot
Speaker 1: the ball more. You know, like he gave me a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence he had He had a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in me, and he helped me put more confidence
Speaker 1: in myself. So I think when you got more confidence,
Speaker 1: that automatically makes you like a better player. Um and
Speaker 1: off the court. You know, we he was in the bubble,
Speaker 1: so you got all this time and really, Nna, dude,
Speaker 1: so you know, I just decided to focus on on
Speaker 1: getting better, working on myself, so you know, like reading
Speaker 1: books and meditating, man, you know, just making sure I'm
Speaker 1: lying to myself with my goals. It just gave me
Speaker 1: a lot of time to focus on what I really wanted.
Speaker 1: What kind of books do you like to read? I
Speaker 1: like reading self help books, you know, books that I
Speaker 1: can get something out of instead of just like fiction books.
Speaker 1: You know, I like reading like Okay, I'm learning about
Speaker 1: the human body, or like learning about the brain, like
Speaker 1: books like that, or like I'm learning how to achieve
Speaker 1: my goals, what I need to do, what it takes
Speaker 1: to get there before we just do some quick hitters
Speaker 1: at the buzzer and get you out of here. What
Speaker 1: do you think you'll remember the most? What are some
Speaker 1: of the things you'll remember the most about the G
Speaker 1: League bubble when you look back on it. It gotta
Speaker 1: be my teammates. I had raised a group of guys
Speaker 1: around me. Dudes are hilarious. Who are the funny guys
Speaker 1: on the blue coats? Were any guys on the blue coats?
Speaker 1: Gotta be Jamirio Jonald is definitely right. Ray John Tucker hilarious?
Speaker 1: Uh justin You could probably just say the whole team.
Speaker 1: That was a really fun group. But now you got
Speaker 1: Ray Jean joining you with the sixers too, so that's
Speaker 1: got to be pretty cool to have him around. It is,
Speaker 1: we got that connection for sure. A quick message from
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Speaker 1: of quick hitters at the buzzer like we used to
Speaker 1: do on this show. You made waves on G League
Speaker 1: Media Day when you introduced yourself and then you said
Speaker 1: I like food. So the first question to lead us
Speaker 1: off is what's your favorite pregame meal? What do you
Speaker 1: like to eat before games? Our favorite pre game new
Speaker 1: gotta be I like your foster. In a bubble, I
Speaker 1: would be in stray peanut butter jelly sandwiches. There was
Speaker 1: no shortage of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches there. They
Speaker 1: were always out. Also in the bubble, you played chess.
Speaker 1: I know you brought your your PS five. You play
Speaker 1: some video games as well. You said you like to
Speaker 1: read what would you say is your favorite hobby or
Speaker 1: thing to do when you're not playing basketball or working
Speaker 1: out for basketball. That's tough. I mean I got to
Speaker 1: pick one over the other. Right now, it's probably chess, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it gotta be chess. I love playing chess. I'll go
Speaker 1: a chess for show. I'm putting you on the spot again.
Speaker 1: But you can pick a TV show or a movie.
Speaker 1: First thing that comes to mind, favorite TV show or movie.
Speaker 1: Favorite TV show. The first thing that kind of mind
Speaker 1: is that show called Power Power for show. I watched
Speaker 1: every episode like a few times. If you could only
Speaker 1: have three apps on your phone, what would they be?
Speaker 1: It's messages app. Sure everybody always asks that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if that should be like included or not.
Speaker 1: We can count it. So two. Your other two go
Speaker 1: to is when you're not looking at text, messages, YouTube, Instagram.
Speaker 1: You're done messages, YouTube and Instagram. I would say a snapchat,
Speaker 1: but I need the messages more to snatchat. All right,
Speaker 1: this is the last one. It's a fill in the blank,
Speaker 1: so it's different. I'm gonna say a sentence and you
Speaker 1: fill in the blank nice and loud for me at
Speaker 1: the end. All right, all right. Beball Paul got the
Speaker 1: g League MVP and Rookie of the Year awards out
Speaker 1: the mood got him out the mud, all right man,
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Paul really appreciate it. No problem, thanks
Speaker 1: having Thanks again to be Ball Paul, Matt Murphy. Until
Speaker 1: next time, take it or leave it at the coach check.