Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Slow and this is Sloane nos Next, where
Speaker 2: we sit down with the future NBA stars of tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Today's guest is Mercy Miller, a four star recruit who
Speaker 2: will play his college ball at.
Speaker 3: The University of Houston.
Speaker 2: His journey from growing up in California to becoming one
Speaker 2: of the best players in the state dropping sixty eight
Speaker 2: points in a high school game is a story you
Speaker 2: won't want to miss. So this is the first ever
Speaker 2: episode of Sloane nos Next. All right, so this show
Speaker 2: is called Sloane Nose and you are my first guests
Speaker 2: on Sloan Nose Next.
Speaker 3: You're eighteen years old. I'm sixteen.
Speaker 2: So this is the first time we're I'll be interviewing
Speaker 2: another teenager, which is really exciting. So I want to
Speaker 2: start off with getting to know Mercy Miller. So to
Speaker 2: start off, where.
Speaker 1: Are you fromm from Los Angeles, California.
Speaker 3: Love it same were you when you started to play basketball?
Speaker 1: I started playing basketball at the age of three. It's
Speaker 1: been in my family, so you know, just being around that,
Speaker 1: it just just came to me naturally.
Speaker 3: Did you know from like the age of three, that's
Speaker 3: what you wanted to do?
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of like me and my brother, we always
Speaker 1: play my dad, he'll play and then it just just
Speaker 1: came to me. We're playing the mini who like stuff
Speaker 1: like that, And that's how I got into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you play any other sports growing up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Growing up I played a little bit of football,
Speaker 1: basketball of course, and then I tried I tried track,
Speaker 1: but that was Nah.
Speaker 3: Who was the first NBA player you ever met?
Speaker 1: The first NBA player I met? That's a great question.
Speaker 1: Probably it is my dad count.
Speaker 3: We'll get there. Well, maybe like someone who disrespect it
Speaker 3: was on.
Speaker 1: You know, full team, Probably Chris Ball maybe, yeah, probably
Speaker 1: say CP.
Speaker 3: Okay, and how was that experience for you?
Speaker 1: I mean, he was our neighbor, he was he's been cool.
Speaker 1: He's somebody who I looked up to, look up to
Speaker 1: a lot. He's been, you know, very president in my life,
Speaker 1: trying to help me in different ways and just had
Speaker 1: we created a bond. Okay? Cool?
Speaker 3: Who was an idol for you growing up? Maybe on
Speaker 3: the court and off the court.
Speaker 1: Okay, So growing up I used to love the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: even though from Cali people don't really Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: like Paul Pierce a lot. So he was my idol
Speaker 1: kind of growing up, and then Dereck Rose when he
Speaker 1: was on the Bulls that was like my favorite player
Speaker 1: of all time? Love it?
Speaker 2: Who Well, I guess you just answered sort of that question.
Speaker 2: Were you still a Celtics fan or have you moved away.
Speaker 1: From that fanomly? I mean I'm a fan of you know,
Speaker 1: different players now a little more. I like Damian Lillard,
Speaker 1: uh Jihannis, So probably the Bucks would be my team
Speaker 1: I like right now. But guys like that.
Speaker 3: Is there a player that you try to model your
Speaker 3: game after?
Speaker 1: Uh? I take bits and pieces from a lot of
Speaker 1: people and just try to try to use use their
Speaker 1: game for mine. Recently, I beginning Bradley Bell and a
Speaker 1: little bit of Ethony Edwards. But I mean he's a dog,
Speaker 1: so yeah, if I'm all after him there, I'll be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, growing up, I know your brother Hersey and your
Speaker 2: cousin Victorious both play basketball, and obviously there's you know,
Speaker 2: some legends about your dad playing basketball as it as well.
Speaker 2: What was it like growing up in a family full
Speaker 2: of hoopers and is there anyone else in your family
Speaker 2: that doesn't really get that respect but can also hoop?
Speaker 1: Yeah? My family you know, we all who all love
Speaker 1: to get on the court play each other. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had many games in the backyard where we just
Speaker 1: play all night and just my team usually came out
Speaker 1: on the top. It'll be me and my cousin King
Speaker 1: versus Hersey and Victoria's actually, and we usually beat them.
Speaker 1: So not many people know that, but we're probably the
Speaker 1: best duo in the world. Wow, in the world. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Okay, So your dad, Master p F famously tried out
Speaker 2: for the Raptors in the Hornets?
Speaker 3: Can he really Hooper? Is this all like a legend?
Speaker 1: I mean from when I see now I Oh no, but
Speaker 1: I guess I've seen footage here. I hear stories from people,
Speaker 1: and just when he gets in the gym with us,
Speaker 1: he tries to shoot a little bit, so he has
Speaker 1: a shot, So I'll give it to him, I guess.
Speaker 3: And you think you and your brother's basketball jeans came
Speaker 3: from him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. He he definitely is a competitor. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think I think we got it from him, for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay, So now that we talked a little bit about
Speaker 2: who you are, I want to move on to you
Speaker 2: in your high school career. So what has been the
Speaker 2: most memorable basketball moment for you so far.
Speaker 1: The most memorable basketball moment probably when I scored the
Speaker 1: sixty eight points, or like we won the state championship,
Speaker 1: because you know, we came I came from Oak Hill
Speaker 1: in Virginia and came back here to Cali. A lot
Speaker 1: of people doubt our team, and just for us to
Speaker 1: go in and win that with that group we had,
Speaker 1: it was definitely special.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Who were the top five best players you think you
Speaker 2: played against in high school or a.
Speaker 1: Ooh, top five? I gotta think about that. Probably somebody
Speaker 1: had to play against every day. Caleb Foster, he was
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, Dusty Stromer for sure was up there.
Speaker 1: Probably I played against Elliot cadot Au. He was good.
Speaker 1: Talk about like my in my high school, like on
Speaker 1: my team, like Chet, Holmgren, Jaylen Sucks, like those guys
Speaker 1: playing them every day in practice.
Speaker 3: Were you freshman when they were senior?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I was a freshman with Chet and then
Speaker 1: eighth grade when Jalen was on the team. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I didn't really I didn't really play much, but in
Speaker 1: Minnesota I could practice with him, so I could practice
Speaker 1: and then if you're good enough, you play and I
Speaker 1: played like two minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so you're the question what you're welcome to
Speaker 3: the league moment.
Speaker 2: I'm curious what was your moment sort of when you
Speaker 2: were playing against them where you're like, oh, like, I'm
Speaker 2: just like so little compared to the like I'm not
Speaker 2: there yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Probably my freshman year, Chet like hit me with
Speaker 1: a crazy spin move like dunk, Like it was crazy.
Speaker 1: He's a seven foot guard. The way he played, he's
Speaker 1: like a unicorn out there. So hit a spin move dunk,
Speaker 1: and just I felt little on that moment.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what differences have you seen between AU basketball
Speaker 2: and high school basketball? Mmm?
Speaker 1: AU is definitely different from high school. High school feel
Speaker 1: like it is more structured a lot more. You know,
Speaker 1: in high school it's more like team orient it. It
Speaker 1: use a lot of people just getting off. But it's
Speaker 1: like you it's fun. It's like, it's very different, i'd say,
Speaker 1: but high school, you know, it's playing for whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: town you're in, whatever, wherever your family is from, something
Speaker 1: like that. But uh, it's definitely different, and it means
Speaker 1: it means more.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, who is an underrated high school
Speaker 2: or AAU teammate of yours that you want to show
Speaker 2: love to.
Speaker 1: I so love to my guy Lino Mark. I feel
Speaker 1: like he's definitely very underrated. You know, it's one of
Speaker 1: the best best players I played against. I had to
Speaker 1: go against some every day in practice, and I feel
Speaker 1: like he doesn't get as much recognition as he deserves.
Speaker 2: Okay, And how do you think you were able to
Speaker 2: sort of and still are balance all the pressures of
Speaker 2: like top one hundred lists and camps and knowing that
Speaker 2: the whole world like you because are kids, you're high schoolers,
Speaker 2: yet the whole world has their eyes on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean for me, I feel like my my
Speaker 1: journey is a little different. I feel like I've been
Speaker 1: a good player. I played against a lot of top
Speaker 1: guys and like did what I had to do in
Speaker 1: high school. But I feel like I didn't get as
Speaker 1: much recognition as you know. Something may say, yeah, but uh,
Speaker 1: I mean that's definitely like feel for me, and that
Speaker 1: just keeps me like going being hungry every time I
Speaker 1: get on the course. So I mean, even though I
Speaker 1: didn't get all the things I wanted, I feel like
Speaker 1: it definitely made me better. So I'm glad for that.
Speaker 2: I like that So now I want to touch on
Speaker 2: something you said earlier, which was your famous sixty eight
Speaker 2: point game.
Speaker 1: So kids talk us.
Speaker 3: Through that, like, how do you how is that possible?
Speaker 3: I need to hear that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know I was gonna score sixty eight.
Speaker 1: I came to the game. It was just a normal game,
Speaker 1: I felt like. And then my coach, he's the coacher,
Speaker 1: so he was talking. He was like, Oh, we got
Speaker 1: to play these guys hard. They're gonna they're gonna come
Speaker 1: out here and beat you guys. I'm me. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not good for that. Yeah. So he
Speaker 1: was like that beginning and then halftime I had twenty
Speaker 1: two points and then somehow I ended with fifty and
Speaker 1: a third court and then the rest is history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you weren't ever gonna like stop. You just
Speaker 2: were gonna keep going, Like you think you would have
Speaker 2: gone to a hundred.
Speaker 1: If I had a chance, I would have kept going.
Speaker 1: But you know they pulled me out.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So what is that the most points do you
Speaker 3: think you've ever scored a game? Or like maybe like
Speaker 3: when you're playing your backyard you score on.
Speaker 1: No, definitely that was the most points I've ever scored.
Speaker 1: When I used to play like a mini league back
Speaker 1: in the day, like red ball, probably scored a lot,
Speaker 1: but nothing nothing.
Speaker 3: Like Yeah, what is your pregame routine?
Speaker 1: Mmmm? Pre game? So I get like a Chipotle, I
Speaker 1: get a weird burrito.
Speaker 3: A lot of people eat a burrito before.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, people be like, you shouldn't do that, but
Speaker 1: I get a Chipotle burrito. I try to take a nap,
Speaker 1: and then I listened to brown Noise. I don't listen
Speaker 1: to music like that anymore, but I listened to brown noise,
Speaker 1: just looking like center me. Yeah. And then what's in
Speaker 1: the breedo?
Speaker 3: I need like the full I.
Speaker 1: Mean it's not much. People are like, I'm weird for it,
Speaker 1: but I just get sour cream, cheese and white rice.
Speaker 3: That literally seems like if like I were like a doctor.
Speaker 1: That sounds like the worst thing I know, but it
Speaker 1: works for me, So I mean that's what I do.
Speaker 1: It works, And uh I had that before I score
Speaker 1: sixty eights, so I guess keep it works.
Speaker 3: Who was the coolest person to ever come watch one
Speaker 3: of your high school games?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. We had we had a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of people come up. We had Toby Maguire at
Speaker 1: one of our games. That was the coolest thing. I
Speaker 1: didn't get to see him, but they told me. So
Speaker 1: that's why I can think of it. But I feel
Speaker 1: like that's definitely the coolest thing. Having Spider Man that's
Speaker 1: your game, that's the y and then Kendall Jenner is that.
Speaker 3: One of our games went off like little Jorman Pool action.
Speaker 1: I had my moment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that's what I thought. How do you balance
Speaker 3: being a student and an athlete?
Speaker 1: Oh, I feel like you. I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: I try to do my best in all things I do,
Speaker 1: so going to school, I try to do my best.
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people who just think basketball
Speaker 1: is like all I have because I know one day
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to play. So school is
Speaker 1: important to me. It's been in still for my parents
Speaker 1: and just I mean, I feel like I'm competitive in
Speaker 1: all aspects. I want to get like four point zero
Speaker 1: all the time and just get an A. So I
Speaker 1: feel like that's how I do it. Nice.
Speaker 2: How do you think you've evolved as both a player
Speaker 2: and a person throughout your high school career?
Speaker 1: Mmm? During my high school career, I feel like I
Speaker 1: went through a lot of a lot of different things
Speaker 1: growing up in life. I know I had a tough
Speaker 1: moment when I lost my sister, but I feel like
Speaker 1: that definitely feeled me even more and just like created
Speaker 1: me to be to be a better player, be a
Speaker 1: better person, getting a little chucked up bad and just
Speaker 1: made me better overall as a human, I feel so
Speaker 1: I feel like just giving back to other people, not
Speaker 1: taking people for granted, just being the best you could be.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So now we're going to go into the rapid fire section.
Speaker 2: So we got to go fast, we got to be efficient,
Speaker 2: all right. So what is one aspect of your game
Speaker 2: that you're most proud of?
Speaker 1: Probably my shooter.
Speaker 3: What is one aspect of your game that you want
Speaker 3: to improve in college?
Speaker 1: Probably my defense?
Speaker 3: Okay, in the next five years. Who is going to
Speaker 3: be the face of the league and why?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, Probably Anthony Edwards because he I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's a doll. He got it. Uh, he got that
Speaker 1: killer that killer instinct and definitely like something like Mike
Speaker 1: and Kobe.
Speaker 3: So definitely, Who is your dream NBA player to share
Speaker 3: the court with?
Speaker 1: Mmm? Probably Damian Lillard.
Speaker 3: Who's your dream NBA player to play against Lebron.
Speaker 2: Is there someone currently not in the league but still
Speaker 2: hooping that you think deserves another chance in the NBA?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, got skip. I gotta think about that first second.
Speaker 3: Okay, we can come back. What is your favorite clothing brands?
Speaker 1: Favorite clothing dr I think you're sure by the way
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. It's uh Hall of Fame. One of
Speaker 1: one of my collabs I did with somebody.
Speaker 3: What is your post game?
Speaker 2: Which I feel like that that question isn't even fitting
Speaker 2: for you because your post your prea meal.
Speaker 1: Like is a cheap meal? Yeah, I probably get like
Speaker 1: some sweet teart ropes or something.
Speaker 3: M hmm, I love those those my favorite made a
Speaker 3: candy salad.
Speaker 1: No. I see those on TikTok to it.
Speaker 3: It's insane, like and I did the thing where you
Speaker 3: like cut up the sweetheart ropes like small.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're probably do yeah, well, well we'll do like a.
Speaker 3: Little thing another time. You can come back.
Speaker 2: We'll make we'll talk about basketball candy salad, do it.
Speaker 2: What is your favorite restaurant in la Uh?
Speaker 1: Probably Steak forty eight. I went there on my visit
Speaker 1: to Houston, and then they built one out here. So
Speaker 1: it's my favorite.
Speaker 3: Is that why you chose Houston? Because maybe? Okay, that's
Speaker 3: part of it. What is your favorite food?
Speaker 1: Favorite food? Probably steak Fosta.
Speaker 3: Could you if you go to dinner with anyone dead
Speaker 3: or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 1: Uh? Jesus Christ, That's all I go to dinner with.
Speaker 1: I feel like that would be crazy, just to be
Speaker 1: in his presence and just you know, that would be
Speaker 1: a moment for sure.
Speaker 3: No one's ever given it answer.
Speaker 1: I mean i'd be people are like Michael Jackson and
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson too. Okay.
Speaker 3: Who is your favorite athlete growing up?
Speaker 1: Growing up? Derek Rose my favorite athlete.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite movie?
Speaker 1: Fit Movie Starface.
Speaker 3: Never seen it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like an old old school movie. It's scarier
Speaker 1: now it's like about a I don't know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of wild. Okay, Yeah, it's my favorite. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: TV show right now? Money Heist? I've been watching that
Speaker 1: watching Money Heights. Are Stranger Things? Stranger Things?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get so scared.
Speaker 2: Like I tried to watch the first episode of Stranger
Speaker 2: Things and I was too scared, but I saw no.
Speaker 1: The first season is definitely scary, but then once you
Speaker 1: get like to the second the definitely the bad.
Speaker 3: Okay, well I'll watch them. What's your favorite video game?
Speaker 1: Uh? Probably two K? Yeah, like two K. I've been
Speaker 1: on college duty recently.
Speaker 2: If you had to give yourself a two K rating
Speaker 2: for your game right now, like pre college for everything,
Speaker 2: what would it be?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Not being biased, probably give myself like a ninety nine. Wow. Okay.
Speaker 2: So I interviewed Alex Sar obviously second picking the NBA draft,
Speaker 2: and he said, like a seventy eight.
Speaker 3: So you're just like, no, ninety nine, No, probably like
Speaker 3: like eighty eight. What ranking would you give me? I
Speaker 3: think i'd be.
Speaker 1: I feel like like a ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's what I think. Yeah, because I can dunk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could do a whole bunch of different yeah, exactly. Okay.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite podcast? Definitely Sloan Okay, that's there's
Speaker 3: another answer. We were gonna have to like cut the cameras,
Speaker 3: do a hidden talent.
Speaker 1: I could sing a little bit. Yep, No, it's very
Speaker 1: better voice Horse. Okay. Sure.
Speaker 3: Who is your favorite artist, like in terms of music
Speaker 3: or paint? Did you like Picasso?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Like a singer?
Speaker 1: Probably Gunner right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, describe your style in one word mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Calm. Yeah, I like to put on calm fits. It's
Speaker 1: nothing too crazy, but if you look at you.
Speaker 3: But okay, who's your NBA style?
Speaker 1: Like mm hmmm, I feel like everybody like, yeah he
Speaker 1: does it?
Speaker 3: For what's your like NBA style? Mount rushmore like not.
Speaker 1: Just Shay, but like Shaye Jordan Clarkson for like, uh,
Speaker 1: Grant has some good ones, Jeremy Grant sleeper probably j Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got it.
Speaker 3: And I think his brother Cody too, like that's except
Speaker 3: they like the same style as like.
Speaker 1: They're all they're all together.
Speaker 3: So what is your favorite song?
Speaker 1: Favorite song? Uh? Recently I listened to Billie Eilish album
Speaker 1: and then like some songs I heard called like Lunch,
Speaker 1: There's a Lot, Wildflower or something it's been I've been
Speaker 1: on repeat.
Speaker 3: I would not have like coined you for like a
Speaker 3: billy guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I don't know. I guess I like it.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm oreo.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite sneaker to wear on the court?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm this year because I'm Jordan's like probably I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try to pull something out pretty cool, but uh,
Speaker 1: usually Kobe's like Kobe Sixers, the Grinches, the reverse Grinches
Speaker 1: my favorite?
Speaker 3: And what is your off the cord go to sneaker
Speaker 3: Force here? What is your favorite candy?
Speaker 1: Sweet Tarbos? My favorite candy all the time. I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, my life would be very different.
Speaker 2: I'm like the nerds gummy clusters type person or like
Speaker 2: I get hate for this, but frozen milk dots.
Speaker 1: Like you know what that is? Are you frozen milk?
Speaker 1: That's kind of it's a little odd.
Speaker 3: Really No, I think it's are normal. I think it's
Speaker 3: really normal.
Speaker 2: I think, Okay, it's like the chocolate doesn't really freeze
Speaker 2: and it's like sort of like squishy, and then yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: you'll just you'll try it and then you'll let me
Speaker 2: know because I promise it's not going to be weird.
Speaker 2: What did your go to emoji?
Speaker 1: I do lilemoji with like the halo. I don't know what.
Speaker 3: I just in what contexts.
Speaker 1: I just like to troll people, I guess text, so like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like to do that.
Speaker 3: Okay, who is the most famous person in your contacts?
Speaker 1: I got a check, I got a couple of people
Speaker 1: in there. Check. I want to know my phone, but
Speaker 1: probably say, recently, I got Zion's number. Ion Williamson pretty famous, Yes,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's what I want to do after this episode,
Speaker 3: call him and tell me. Come on, someone else? Who
Speaker 3: is your celebrity lookalike?
Speaker 1: I ben't get it. I mean Michael B. I've been
Speaker 1: getting Michael. I guess Michael B or Michael B.
Speaker 2: I guess I really see it. Yeah, that's my celebrity crush.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't know if I could see it.
Speaker 2: I need to see, like a.
Speaker 1: We'll get him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some mercy. You're committed to Houston. How did you
Speaker 3: choose Houston? And can you take us through what goes
Speaker 3: into the recruiting process?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, Houston when I went there. I went
Speaker 1: there a couple of times when I was younger. My
Speaker 1: dad he went there for when he was in college,
Speaker 1: and then we went to one of the alumni games
Speaker 1: and it was like it was a crazy game. I
Speaker 1: went to atmosphere was great, people were great. And then
Speaker 1: that was in the seventh grade, so I was like
Speaker 1: I kind of got a feeling for this. I like
Speaker 1: this place. And then the next couple of years they
Speaker 1: were really good up and coming program. And just you know,
Speaker 1: I felt like the defense and all they're about that
Speaker 1: was definitely something I want to be a part of.
Speaker 1: And when they offered me, I felt like that was
Speaker 1: just it. Yeah, I knew it was it.
Speaker 3: What are you most looking forward to in your freshman
Speaker 3: season at Houston.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to being, you know, being being trying
Speaker 1: to be a key piece on the team. A lot
Speaker 1: of freshmen come in and they do different things. People
Speaker 1: know me as a scorer, but I want to go
Speaker 1: there and be one of the best defensive players and
Speaker 1: like hopefully, like you know, I could lock up and
Speaker 1: become like big twelve defensive player the year. Like that's
Speaker 1: that's my goal right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I hope that comes true.
Speaker 2: So I'm a huge Quentin Grimes fan, who's honestly like
Speaker 2: a Houston legend.
Speaker 3: And I want to know who's a Houston legend that
Speaker 3: you look up to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Quentin, he's been there with us recently, so he's
Speaker 1: super cool. Probably Marcus Sasser. A lot of people say
Speaker 1: I look like him too, but he's one of the
Speaker 1: Houston guys I look up to. And then Hakeem for sure,
Speaker 1: he's one of the greatest ever played again basketball.
Speaker 3: He came to Houston Bigson Phill.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See it is having played with guys like Dusty Stromer
Speaker 2: and Caleb Foster in high school.
Speaker 3: How have they giving you advice to prepare for college?
Speaker 1: Like DA did when Dusty came back recently, and then
Speaker 1: when I text text Caleb, you know, we all talk
Speaker 1: about different things and just just how it is like
Speaker 1: playing on the court getting ready. What do you like
Speaker 1: what's different?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, most importantly it is to say, like, just
Speaker 1: just be prepared for everything, because you know, it's different
Speaker 1: being a freshman going into certain situations. You have to
Speaker 1: be always ready. Sometimes you might not play, sometimes you
Speaker 1: might you might have a good game and then the
Speaker 1: next day like you don't play at all. So just
Speaker 1: being prepared all times and just keeping that confidence in
Speaker 1: yourself because that's, you know, what you came here to do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I noticed Caleb's been podcasting a little bit. I'm glad
Speaker 2: you didn't say his podcast. That's better answer.
Speaker 3: Who are you most looking forward to playing against this season?
Speaker 1: Mm? Probably one of my close friends, Carter Bryant. He's
Speaker 1: been talking. We talked about it. He's been talking crazy,
Speaker 1: like Arizona is the best team in the world, so
Speaker 1: when we see them with death, be a great matchup.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, And who is an incoming freshman that you
Speaker 2: think is underrated that you want to show.
Speaker 1: Up to incoming freshman? Yeah, probably my teammate Chase Chase McCarty.
Speaker 1: Like he's definitely underrated. He's good, good size, could shoot
Speaker 1: the ball extremely well, he's a dog on defense. So
Speaker 1: like me and him being a fresh only two freshmen
Speaker 1: on Houston, I feel like big things are coming.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this next section is called fact or fiction.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say to you a claim or sort
Speaker 2: of an idea, and you have to tell me.
Speaker 3: Whether you agree or not. Okay, claim staph are the
Speaker 3: best backcourt of all time.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll probably say fact because they you know what
Speaker 1: they did in four championships. They created they changed the
Speaker 1: game of basketball. Splash Brothers, that's forever a legacy. So
Speaker 1: I feel like clan stuff, they definitely could be up
Speaker 1: there for one of the best backwards all the time.
Speaker 3: Okay, I agree with that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Next, Paul George will fit in with the Sixers hm M.
Speaker 1: I feel like PG would definitely fit anywhere. His game
Speaker 1: is silky smooth. He's I mean, he's just a pros pro.
Speaker 1: So I feel like him and Philly would be great.
Speaker 3: Wemby will finish his career as a top ten player
Speaker 3: of all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah a fact. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: The Thunder will win a CHIP in the next three years.
Speaker 1: Shout out my guy, cheat. Yeah, Thunder, they got it. Probably,
Speaker 1: uh probably next year. The all the additions they got, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're looking really good. So for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Johannest will stay a box for his whole career.
Speaker 1: Hm hmmm, probably, I think fiction. I feel like he
Speaker 1: might go somewhere he's from the Warriors, but that's just
Speaker 1: that would be crazy.
Speaker 3: That would be crazy. Okay. Lastly, Jason Tatum will win
Speaker 3: an MVP Award.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I think. I think that's the fact he
Speaker 1: got it. He's I feel like after this season, Uh,
Speaker 1: they won a championship, so I feel like he's He's
Speaker 1: got a lot a lot more confidence probably now, and
Speaker 1: I feel like he's been one of the best players,
Speaker 1: so I feel like why not. Okay, I like that.
Speaker 2: Lastly, we're gonna do some trivia, but this trivia isn't
Speaker 2: just NBA trivia.
Speaker 3: This trivia has to do with you. So let's see
Speaker 3: how well Mercy knows Mercy.
Speaker 2: So for those of you who don't know, but you
Speaker 2: shouldn't know, Mercy's last name is Miller all time?
Speaker 3: How many NBA players have had the last name Miller.
Speaker 1: That's Reggie, Mike. Let me guess. I feel like Miller's
Speaker 1: a Miller. Probably probably twelve twenty.
Speaker 3: That was I mean, that was closer than when you
Speaker 3: first named too. That's okay. Next, Currently, how many players
Speaker 3: have the last name Miller currently? And can you name
Speaker 3: them all?
Speaker 1: I know Brandon, yes, I don't know who else? Okay? Two? Yeah, three?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you go at one point and then yeah,
Speaker 2: you're at like one of three quarters because the other
Speaker 2: two guys are Leonard Miller in Jordan Miller.
Speaker 3: But soon four it's gonna be Mercy obviously. Okay. Your
Speaker 3: dad played for two non NBA pro basketball teams. Name
Speaker 3: the teams?
Speaker 1: Uh? You said none?
Speaker 3: Like obviously he tried out for the Raptors and the Hornets,
Speaker 3: but like, yes, see exactly.
Speaker 1: I think he talked about a team in San Diego.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it's some San Diego team.
Speaker 3: I'll give you the leagues. One of them was in
Speaker 3: the CBA, and one of them was in the ABA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean lost let me tell you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, the CBA fort Wayne Fury, okay, and the
Speaker 2: ABA Las Vegas Rattlers.
Speaker 3: So you better go home and you ask him how
Speaker 3: that's how that was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In your sixty eight point game against.
Speaker 2: Oakwood, what did you shoot my life fieldgal your field
Speaker 2: goal or actually actual like fraction?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was probably twenty eight, not yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty eight for I don't think I got to forty
Speaker 1: maybe forty one, No, thirty twenty eight for forty one.
Speaker 3: Oh so close.
Speaker 2: It's twenty eight for thirty eight thirty eighth. I mean,
Speaker 2: first off, that's insane. But okay, so you get like
Speaker 2: half a point on that cause you know twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Know it's twenty eight in there, So right now you're
Speaker 2: like it like two and a half points. I guess
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be generous.
Speaker 1: I'm at this game. No you're not.
Speaker 2: But that's okay. This is my last question for you,
Speaker 2: So let's see how this goes. In that same game
Speaker 2: where you scored sixty eight points, you broke your school's
Speaker 2: record for most points in a game at Notre Dame
Speaker 2: High School?
Speaker 3: Whose record did you break?
Speaker 1: I thought you gotta ask, like how many points it was? Uh?
Speaker 1: I know it's sixty six.
Speaker 3: Points, yes, in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1: But who his name was? Richard? No?
Speaker 3: Do you just say a random name from like his
Speaker 3: name is like not common. It's like like think about Okay,
Speaker 3: it's like a syndonym for dude.
Speaker 1: Guy, keep going, man, keep going? Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Okay, Bud Fabian.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, but I heard that name. Yeah he was
Speaker 1: at the game. Oh really Yeah, And they told me
Speaker 1: he was there, he was gonna come watch us.
Speaker 2: And it was it sparked you to do that, Yeah
Speaker 2: for sure, Okay, Mercy. My last question is who would
Speaker 2: you like to nominate to be on Slow Nose next?
Speaker 1: Next? Oh?
Speaker 3: Look at I didn't realize Slow Nose next next?
Speaker 1: Oh, slow Nose next next. It depends like what's your
Speaker 1: what's your area?
Speaker 3: It's up to you.
Speaker 2: I mean, let's say, like a high school or college
Speaker 2: player that you think would do really well on the show,
Speaker 2: maybe do a little bit better in trivia than you.
Speaker 1: Okay, probably say my guy Tyron Stokes or the bar swings.
Speaker 1: I feel like they'll be good out here, so.
Speaker 3: Definitely great nominations. Thank you, Mercy, this is so much fun.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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