WEBVTT - S2 Episode 2: 12,000 Shots 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.599 Drafted as a production of tree Fort Media, Clutched Sports 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:09.879 Group and I Heart Radio Care Care Say what's up 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:16.800 to the podcastcast? I got a micro girl, Girl? Where 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.000 is I Gotta? Where is mic? All day? What a 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.040 part of all day? Did you not understand a little leaf? 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:29.080 Welcome back to Drafted. We're two college basketball stars mike 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.920 themselves up and take us on their personal journeys to 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.760 the NBA. In the first episode, we heard from explosive 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:46.360 University of Georgia guard Anthony Edwards. Yeah, there's Edwards, a 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.720 nineteen year old with the talent to go number one 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.080 overall and the grit to stay in the league for many, 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.920 many years. We was just in a gym like every day, 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.240 all all day, all night. In this episode, we'll get 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.120 to know another dynamic carresmatic larger than life one and 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:13.600 done guard. Oh well, old Tyrese Maxie from the University 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:21.440 of Kentucky and he's brushing his teeth. Yep. Even athletes 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.200 at their peak of training and preparations still struggled to 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.520 wake up on a chilly morning and go to work, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.200 just like the rest of us. But unlike most, Tyrese 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.039 just woke up at four fifty am inside of Beverly 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.520 Hills Hotel. My daily routine is a lot of people 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.480 think it's crazy. I think it's normal. That's Tyrese describing 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.640 his recurring wake up call. The reason why I do 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.680 it is because I feel like I get a psychological 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.360 advantage over my over my opponents. Why it's crazy to 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.760 see someone do three workouts before some you know, some 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.720 of my opponents and some of my periods even are 0:01:54.800 --> 0:02:01.560 waking up. He leaves this hotel room and heads to 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.720 his car. It's still dark out and there are almost 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.440 no other cars on the road, at least bite l 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:33.400 A standards. I want to be someone that doesn't have 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.280 any what ifs. I don't want to be at the 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.160 end of my career when it's all setting done. The 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.799 boss I was bouncing and say, dang, what if I 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.040 just worked a little bit harder. What if I did this, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.480 or what if I did that? And you know this 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.000 would have happened. I want to be able to say, 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.919 you know, I gave it my all. I did everything 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:54.040 I could, and I maximized on my potential. You know 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.120 this is gonna be my profession. You know, this is 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:57.880 this is me perfecting my crab this is what I'm 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.400 good paid to do. I love to do this my passion, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:01.919 but you know, at the end of the day, this 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.639 is a business. This is gonna be my job. Like 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.640 my body is my job. I have to take care 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.040 of me and I want to make it the best 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.880 that I could possibly be. All three of his workouts 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.120 this morning will happen back to back at all before 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.480 eleven am, and so every morning he has this thirty 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.680 minute commute to a gym and chatsworth often rolling calls 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.799 with people in other time zones who also might be 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:27.280 awake this early. Now, I called you to tell you 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:32.400 how my workout went, he is today. No, no, no, no, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.080 It was the Pelicans. This is a friend back in 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.200 Texas and tyren is calling about his most recent workout 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.200 with the New Orleans Pelicans, who hold pick number thirteen. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.320 Like Anthony, Tyrese is working out for most of the 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.240 team's picking early in the first round, a good sign 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.680 he could be taken in the top half of the draft, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.800 but when and where is as big a question mark 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.200 as with any player this year. Rumors have him as 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.880 high as number eight and as low as number twenty eight. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.600 That's spread is a difference of about seven and a 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.520 half million dollars over his first three years in the league. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.440 This means each team workout really really matters. Oh was 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:16.880 there slow really good? Yeah? I'm sure? Yeah, I hate 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:24.479 in a row? Yeah yeah, Thix in the right corner corner. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.560 That kind of dead eye shooting is exactly what Anthony 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.360 and Justin and his crew were talking about in the 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.200 last episode, and this performance is especially noteworthy for Tyrese 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.920 when the biggest knock against him is his inconsistent jump shot. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.680 Last season, he only shot from three point range, low 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.440 enough to keep numerous NBA executives awake at night wondering 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:53.240 if he's the right guy for their team. Stroke coming along, Yo, Hello, Parlar, Yo, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.799 you gotta say pols bron that was what the stroke 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:12.239 coming along? Yeah? Yeah, yea, but now yeah, have a smooth, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.120 real smood. Tyrese arrives at the Chatsworth Gym a little 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:25.440 before year. He and his uncle Brandon have been living 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.440 in southern California since May after the college season was 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.200 canceled and without a summer league to play in. He's 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:36.000 built this disciplined routine to capitalize on the downtime. Some 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.040 of my warm clock goes off at four fifty every 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.560 single morning most of the time. My uncle thus something 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.640 to get a little breakfit soundwards and then we're getting 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.520 to the gym by five forty five stretch, start working 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.800 out at six. I swoon. The workout done at around 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:56.200 seven fifteen, seven twenty answered the way room. Here's his 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.960 uncle Brandon. He's been living in l a to help 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.880 keep an eye on his a few in the big city. 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.920 But Tires's focus has never been a concern, even with 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.160 all the turmoil this year. It's just been embracing the 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.320 embracing the situation circumstances. I'm just being grinding. It's just 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.800 I's honestly kind of worked out because it's helped him 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.440 just stay in the gym more um and that's it. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.080 I mean, that's pretty much all he wants to do anyways, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:25.120 work out. It just seems like it's basketball, basketball, basketball. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.400 It's always been this way. Tyrese has envisioned his basketball 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.920 future since grade school. Every year it's cool, like from 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.800 fifth or sixth grade, I sit down the day before 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.480 school and I write down my life goes right down, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.840 my sports goals for basketball goes and I write down 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.720 my academic school goes and I did that every single 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.080 first day of school all the way to my last, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:53.400 well my first and last year of college. By the 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.000 time he started middle school in Garland, Texas, he was 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.880 writing about becoming the next grade player at the University 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.000 of Kentucky. I'm in McDonald's All American. I was gonna 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.800 and I go to Kentucky and to the NBA. Now 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.560 that vision has almost been fully realized. He's finishing his 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.320 third workout of the day in Los Angeles. He signed 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.200 with the most powerful agent in the NBA, Rich Paul, 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.520 and he's being talked about as a potential lottery pick. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.400 He's focused nearly every action and decision since middle school 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.240 to get from there to here on the cusp of 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.040 being a first round pick in the NBA. And if 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.360 you watch closely, he almost always leaves clues showing how 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.160 he's been able to defy the odds and make his 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:57.080 dream a reality. We'll be right back. Tyrese arrives at 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.080 the Chatsworth Gym with his trainer, Chris Johnson, ready to 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:07.680 start their next workout. When oh here, ready, ready, you 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:16.200 already know, I know, let's get it. Look look, look, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.200 look now what I told you. Look what's he's doing? 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.760 Look about that? Oh remember I was telling you about 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:28.040 the brain. Look, okay, nothing. I'm trying to show him 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.080 the difference between a motherfucker that's gonna be a multip 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:35.359 millionaire and then god that don't know you. You already anticipation. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.680 Some people can't anticipate, so they have to wait. Yeah, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.920 Tyree started setting up his own shooting drills. So even 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.280 a few minutes it would take to put down cones 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.439 isn't wasted. He wants every possible rep he can get. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.199 That's how intense his commitment to improving is. If you 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.959 really wanted and this is what you said that you 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.319 want to do, If you want to make to NBA 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.400 or you want to make it or do whatever it is, 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.000 all you gotta do is put the work in. You 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.079 have to put the excessive amount of work in, and 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.240 you gotta sacrifice. You gotta sacrifice. It's not it's not easy, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.520 but it can be done. No matter where he's from, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.680 it it can be done. It's no, it's not easy, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:16.000 but it definitely can be done. Nice just food person. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.000 So our goals every day for Tires is to make 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.760 over two thousand shots. So if you look at two 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.240 thousand times six, that's where twelve thousand shots a week 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.360 over a five six month period. That's a lot of shots, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.240 and that's made shots. So it wasn't complex, it was 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.200 super simple. This is where we have the correct let's 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.480 put in the world. They're focusing on improving areas of 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.400 his game that still need work, his shooting mechanics and 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.520 a more consistent three point shot, and the only way 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.280 to do that is with reps. Lots and lots of reps, 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.400 right to shoots, best shooting in your drift. I'm telling you, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:07.520 got it, stay word it. Just how much of a 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.000 sacrifice Tyrese is talking about is something most non professional 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:16.280 athletes don't understand. Forcing himself to make over three hundred 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:21.040 thousand shots this summer, it's just the beginning. Here's Tyrese's mom, Denise, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.920 in their house in Garland, Texas, a suburb of Dallas 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.520 known for its parks, wildflowers, and safe community and for 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.160 being the hometown of p g A champion Lee Trevino 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:34.720 and NBA All Star Mookie Blaylock. Denise paints a picture 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.640 of what her son's childhood looked like. On most weekends, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.679 we're in a car together rotting to the game or 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.880 to the tournament out of town, you know, a mom. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.160 So we're we're having a happy, go lucky time. But 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.079 then dad, the driver is a coach, so he's like, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.439 it's not time to play, it's a time to get 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.400 focused in. So we got an eight hour drive to 0:10:55.440 --> 0:11:00.400 wherever we're going, and I'm trying to make fun and 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.199 the driver and he's pissed because we're laughing and playing. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.400 That was Tyres's dad, Tyrone, Maxie, You've got to lock in. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.360 It's how he was trying to get Tyres to intensely 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.079 focus during these car rides. So that wasn't easy. So 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.319 now you're in the car with the coach, hit it 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.080 to your tournament, but also your dad. Then you gotta 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.680 stay in the room with your dad, so you gotta 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.880 watch film the whole time, while your teammates may be 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.120 playing their games or at the pool or whatever they're doing. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.599 But no, you're in the room watching film and you know, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.240 getting ready for your opponent and breaking down, you know, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.600 whatever defense that person maybe bringing or whatever. And then 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.360 you gotta go out and play the tournament with your dad, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.920 who's the coach get yelled at and do whatever else 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.840 they do out there on the on the floor. They 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.760 come back to them and they come back to the 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:53.559 room and watch my film again. That's Tyres chiming in. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.319 And then you gotta go sleep mad because you ain't 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.200 can do anything. You know, you don't have a normal life. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.320 It is absolutely the truth. It was the absolute truth 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.960 almost every single weekend of our lives for the last 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.920 ten years. Ten for the year that was our weekend. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.480 But you know, and I'll be like tired. Do you 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.040 don't think he's been too hard on him? I called 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.120 my husband tied, so tire, aren't you? Don't you think 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.480 you're being too hard on him? You know he should 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.080 be happy? And no, he needs to learn these things now. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.480 A Division one coach is going to demand these things 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.440 of him, and he needs to The sooner he learns, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:30.839 and the more he will be prepared when he hits 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.839 stepped forward for a Division one coach. And if he 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.439 doesn't learn him now, and then he's not gonna be 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.199 able to adjust. The coach is not gonna have time 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.320 to teaching these things. So he needs to learn him now. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.520 Not grant. Chances are this is probably he was twelve 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.520 thirteen years old, so we were six seventh eighth grade 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.199 and he was learning, he was breaking and literally he 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.360 started breaking down his own film at eight. So imagine 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.960 being eight years old and you're sitting in the room 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.880 with your dad breaking that film. Imagine that while your 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.679 friends are either outside shoot hoops or to a plan 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.960 to PlayStations, and you have very little time to play. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.640 So it was very difficult for for him. And I'm 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.560 not just paying the band picture. My husband is an 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.880 amazing guy, but it was on. What I want people 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.280 to understand is that there was a lot. My husband 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:21.680 put so much work into developing terriss On and off 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.440 more skills to where it in some moments, I felt 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.640 like he didn't have an opportunity to be just a 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:33.920 normal kid. University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari, who 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.520 recruited and then coached Tyreson college, speaks to the level 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:42.040 of preparation Tyrone gave his son. It started with his father. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.199 Tyrone was a basketball coach. He ran the dribble drive 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.240 stuff better than I did, and I'm the one that 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.200 brought it into college basketball. His teams were better at 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:58.079 running it, which meant Tyrese learned court spacing, running downhill, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.000 running the whole league is at now the spacing that 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.959 you need, the ability to shoot threes. I mean his 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.280 dad taught him. His dad was also the guy that 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.720 would be in the gym with him if I thirty 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.199 in the morning. I mean, that's who he is, so 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.720 we knew getting him here what it would look like. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.480 Of course, it looks different depending on who sneakers. You're 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.960 standing in from the outside looking at. If you you 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.400 see someone's dad coaching them, you automatically think like they're 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.360 gonna have their way. You know, the dad's not gonna 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:33.880 be tough one. Then the dad's gonna let them do 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.120 kind of whatever they want to do, which wasn't the 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.400 case for me. It was like it was almost the 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.200 exact opposite, Like he was the toughest on me. It 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.680 was Tom's where in practice it would be like I 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.600 know I was doing the right thing, and he was 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.800 still like find a way to you know, get on me. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.840 And it was like, which is which is cool? Because 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.160 I understood he always he always found the way, even 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.600 if I had, like he said, a good game, forceps whatever, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.080 he always found a way to be able to to 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.080 umble me and make me stay hungry and made me 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:04.880 want to be great. And that's one thing I really 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.880 appreciate it for him. But no, it was not easy. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:14.000 Tyrone was tough, hyper competitive, and determined to succeed. Tyrese 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.520 immediately spotted those qualities in another famous player. I think 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.880 my dad really modeled his game at Isaiah Thomas. But 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.080 in my opinion, the film that I watched him him 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.200 Isaiah Thomas were identical. The toughness that Isaiah brought to 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.960 that team and just to his personality. I see there 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.600 my dad. He acts the same way he and my 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.200 and I don't see my dad. It's not the biggest 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.440 Isaiah Faan just because he loves Jordan's. But it's funny 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.600 because I was I was telling my mom when you know, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.280 I was one time I was able to talk to 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.080 the great Isaiah Thomas and I was like, Mom, they're 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.400 the same like, they act the same way. I don't 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.440 know why. That's probably why he's so competitive, and you 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.280 know it doesn't care for him as much as he 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.000 should because they're the same, they're the same way, the 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.160 same person. He's a small guy. He's five nine, so 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.840 you know, it's not easy for him to be, you know, 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.440 Division one basketball player, but he worked extremely hard and 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.240 and became talented and what he did and perfected his 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.960 craft to where he got scholarship. He wants scholarship to 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.880 play at Washingtonate University. Tyrone averaged about five points a 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.640 game for Washington State under coach Kelvin Sampson, which was 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.120 as far as his size and physical ability could take 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.080 him as a player. And after that, he wanted to 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.400 become a coach, and he studied the game and and 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.560 just became a student of the game and really perfected 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.560 his craft and coaching and became one of the best 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.760 coaches in the Dallas area. And I think he passed 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.120 all that knowledge that he knew down to myself. So 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.000 when I told him everything, I know he's gonna be 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.240 better than me. I admit that that's Tyrone again, with 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.560 Denise and Tyrese still in the room. So it's just funny. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.560 My dad said that, and all my friends t the 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.000 same thing. He better you here. Now, I give him 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.080 that he got it. Oh wow, I can't believe you 0:16:53.160 --> 0:17:05.600 said that. Hey, and fifty years old, fifty you got me? 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.040 I mean yeah, but uh, but yeah, for so many years, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:15.560 yet he will never beat me, admitting he's soon to 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.840 be first round NBA pick. Son is better than he is. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.320 Did not come easy because the fiercely ambitious nature he 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.920 has doesn't go away, and now it's instilled in his son. 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.640 So even at age fifty, there are no easy baskets 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.600 in the Maxi household. Ever, Well, first got back and 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.560 we worked worked out a little bit, and I was 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.280 just messing with him, man, like, I don't know what 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.160 I'm saying something to him, and he started talking smack 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.720 or whatever. I said, what don't they ever talk to 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.399 me like Heather again, don't do that. But he started 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.760 talking to Nords. But my, y'all South Dallas just that 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.240 other yet that that side data stuff ain't gonna work 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.960 this that other. But you know that's all. We both men, 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.600 we both have test assom so you know, it never 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.959 get to that point. I mean, you know I love him. Uh, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.160 we both with both of a screen and screenly competitive 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.400 we are we are we. I mean we go round 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.440 around about basketball, different players and who we like to said, 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.480 who's you know, who's the goat, who's not the goat? 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.159 So yeah, well, I mean that's what that's what we do. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.119 Here's Uncle Brandon under dynamic and that particular on the 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.840 court batch up his dad, like his dad was trying 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.080 to lock up on him, and and Reese is kind 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.600 of like a little boy and him like, you know, 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.560 it was funny. They got super intense and I was 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:46.000 just sitting back like, okay, alright, cool, but it was 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.119 it was it was hilarious. Man. After we when we 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.000 got in the car, we left and joked about it. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.879 They played just the like, I mean, the same thing. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.480 His dad is the same way defense shoot the ball, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.800 uh point guard. They played the exact same way. He's 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:04.760 just holler competitive, same way. He's been like that forever. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.640 He's been coaching his whole life. I think it's only 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.440 one time and I think that was his junior year 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:13.520 where his dad didn't coach him. And whether it's been peewee, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.600 little league, direct league, hey, you select ball, whatever you 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.200 you name it, he's coached him even I think he 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.760 played baseball at one time and his dad was the coach. 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.920 Everything is a coaching moment, Like everything is a coaching 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.920 propoment in that house. And it's like you know sometimes 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.400 and that's why I come in that you know, sometimes uh, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.320 he just wants to just maybe just talk, and they 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.720 don't want to always be like, all right, you tell 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.359 me this, then I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to you 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.720 in a coaching manner. It's like you just sometimes you 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:47.720 just want to talk. You just want to talk. You 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.360 don't get me wrong. His dad, you know, it wasn't 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.199 always like that, but it was like you could tell us. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:56.200 Hard for him to turn it on and off. Maybe 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:58.760 Tyrone couldn't turn off the switch because of his personality, 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.120 or it's because some of his own dreams are being 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:17.400 manifested through his son. We'll be right back. Tyrese's dad, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:22.160 Tyrone Maxie. I played the Vision one basketball for coach Sampson, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.480 so I knew the demand of order to so I 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.960 coached all my kids that way. I'm gonna demand this 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.920 from you because no going to the next level, that's 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.960 gonna be the demand. Nobody likes to look at them 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.680 and to be corrected, nobody, and so I guess that 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.720 was tough for him. I would bring him into the 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.520 room when Jordan was playing. I said, look at this man, 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:44.800 look at Jordan's This is how you want to be great. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:46.879 Look at the things he's doing on the court. And 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:51.359 so if anybody was playing Kyle, anybody that moved at 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.920 the idea said look at this move, try this or whatever. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.719 And so this being his dad and being a basketball 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.680 guy and him being a bad asked by a guy 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.120 by basketball guy, it was great, man, it was great. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.240 I mean, I'm assuming now he feels like it was 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.159 all benefited him. And that's all I wanted to ever 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:12.960 wanted to do, to be the best dad, best coach, 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.520 best asset for him, you know, trying to fulfill his dreams. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.680 That's what everyone in the family does on some level. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.119 In a way Tyrese's success. It's like the family business, 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:26.720 which could be a lot of pressure for someone about 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.560 to turn twenty years old, serious expectations from dad and 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.760 mom my, Mom. She she is, she is who she is. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.159 I mean, she worked and earned everything and all the 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.960 tiles that she has. She didn't finish college and she 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.000 worked extremely hard to where she is and she just 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:49.120 worked and build a foundation for our family that she's 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.280 not gonna let anybody slack off. She never slacked off, 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.960 so why why should she let us? And she doesn't 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.000 get the craze that she deserves what she does for 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.520 this family, but she doesn't want the crash. She's behind 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:03.359 the scenes and and she's she's rock solid, even one thousand, 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.399 four hundred and fifty two miles away. Denise plays a 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.200 major role in Tyrese's life. A self proclaimed mama's boy, 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:13.680 he calls her every single day to check in. We're 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:29.359 gonna be home Monday. Perfect? What here? Okay? Tyrese's grandparents 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:32.920 and even his extended family have also all worked in 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:35.000 the family business in the house that I'm in now. 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:39.000 Both my grandmother's, my grandfather who before he passed away, 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.280 lived there, my uncle you know, his kids have been there, 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.000 have lived there at a time, my sister, both of 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.639 my author and my sisters have lived there before. And 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:50.679 my oldest sister has you know, a set of twin daughters, 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.360 so my you know, my nieces, twin nieces, they lived 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.040 there at the same time. And my both my parents 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.160 and myself, so all of us lived in this one house. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:05.159 Like if you can, it's hard to imagine that my 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:07.719 oldest isn who have to sacrifice so much just because 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.320 you know, a you had to travel and do different 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.359 things like that, you know. Sadly, I take up so 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.760 much time for my parents, just because you know the 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:22.880 schedule that I've had over the years. Here's coach John 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:26.120 Calipari again on his recruiting trip to the Maxi household. 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:29.359 When I went into the home, he made sure everyone 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.840 was there, including the grandmother. He wanted his grandmother to 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:36.639 sign off on me. Think about that, Think about the 0:23:36.760 --> 0:23:39.199 kind of person this kid is. They walked me up 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:41.399 to his bedroom in ninth grade. He had a picture 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:45.880 he drew of himself in a Kentucky uniform. You don't 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:49.840 want this guy. Absolutely I wanted the guy. And after 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:51.960 a year of coaching Tyres, it was up to coach 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:54.560