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Speaker 1: welcome into Coach Check, the official podcast of the Delaware Bluecoats,
Speaker 1: the NBA G League affiliate of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
Speaker 1: Matt Murphy back with another episode and really excited about
Speaker 1: today's guest. We shift to the coaching staff and we'll
Speaker 1: get there shortly. But just a quick reminder that coat
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Speaker 1: podcast platforms as well. But without further ado, let's introduced
Speaker 1: the guest for this episode, Bluecoats Assistant coach Xavier Silas.
Speaker 1: Coach Silas, I know we were just catching up a
Speaker 1: little bit. You've got young kids, a young family, and
Speaker 1: it's obviously an unprecedented time right now that the world
Speaker 1: is facing. How are you doing and your family, how
Speaker 1: are you all doing during this time? We're all good.
Speaker 1: My parents are actually with me now. We're all hunerd
Speaker 1: down in my spot in Colorado. So it's as good
Speaker 1: as it can be when you have two toddlers running around. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: we are recording this on April fifteenth. Just for some
Speaker 1: context for the listeners out there, we are going to
Speaker 1: dive into coach Silas's background, his career as a player
Speaker 1: high school, college, and into his pro career. We will
Speaker 1: get to our healthy lifestyle segment presented by our friends
Speaker 1: at Christiana Care of course as doctors, nurses, and caregivers,
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Speaker 1: Christianacare dot org. Will shift Gears to his career as
Speaker 1: a coach, obviously with the Delaware Bluecoats this season as
Speaker 1: an assistant for Connor Johnson, and then we will have
Speaker 1: some fun with our at the buzzer questions towards the
Speaker 1: very end. But let's jump in with your hometown. You're
Speaker 1: a Texas guy, Austin, Texas. How would you describe growing
Speaker 1: up out there? You know, it was definitely not as
Speaker 1: popular as it is now. Back then. It's blown up
Speaker 1: in the last ten fifteen years. You know, our slogan
Speaker 1: and austiness keep Austin weird, and so it's a lot
Speaker 1: of weird stuff going on Sixth Street and down on
Speaker 1: the Dragnare. The University of Texas has always been a
Speaker 1: weird kind of kookie spot. But you know, the food
Speaker 1: is amazing. Of course, tex mex and Barbeque kind of
Speaker 1: take the Take the King spot out there, and it's
Speaker 1: just a really nice spot. You know, it's really hot,
Speaker 1: um not really a winter but really cool spot to
Speaker 1: grow up in. You know, Austin is definitely the best
Speaker 1: city in Texas for sure. And I've got the sense
Speaker 1: just from being around you for this season that you're
Speaker 1: a big food guy. So I think I want to
Speaker 1: talk more about that towards the end, at least relatively
Speaker 1: speaking to the NBA and the NBA G League circuits
Speaker 1: in the different cities, you're you're a well traveled man,
Speaker 1: and I think that carries over into the food scene
Speaker 1: a little bit as well. But speaking of Austin, you're
Speaker 1: high school Stephen F. Austin High School, and then you
Speaker 1: ended up at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire. I know
Speaker 1: you've talked talked about that transition before, and all it
Speaker 1: takes is really a Wikipedia search to see the history
Speaker 1: of Brewster Academy basketball, a very well known program. And
Speaker 1: you you mentioned recently that you picked up a lot
Speaker 1: more scholarship offers from that prep year. So with the
Speaker 1: background of Brewster and all that, explain a little bit
Speaker 1: more about your high school and prep experience, maybe even
Speaker 1: at both schools. Yeah, you know, I went to Austin
Speaker 1: High after attending Saint Stephen's, which was a really good
Speaker 1: private school there in Austin. Went over to Austin High.
Speaker 1: Played Mount junior and senior year there, and when I
Speaker 1: got there, we hadn't won the district in thirty years,
Speaker 1: and so we were able to win the district and
Speaker 1: go and defeated in my senior year. After that, I
Speaker 1: had about three offers. Coach Smith at Brewster recruited me
Speaker 1: to go to Brewster Academy for my fifth year. My dad,
Speaker 1: you know, it was two things. My dad didn't want
Speaker 1: me to go to school to college too early, right,
Speaker 1: So I was I turned seventeen in January of my
Speaker 1: senior year, and so I was really young. I was sixteen,
Speaker 1: half of my my senior year, and so he just
Speaker 1: thought it was too young for me to go to college,
Speaker 1: which looking back, he was he was right. I went
Speaker 1: to Brewster Academy, had three offers when I got there,
Speaker 1: left with over forty and so it was a huge
Speaker 1: kind of boost in my career in the first kind
Speaker 1: of stepping stone of getting on the map and getting known.
Speaker 1: It was a really good experienced. The exposure, the difference
Speaker 1: in exposure between prep school and just a normal public
Speaker 1: school is just it's night and day, and so being
Speaker 1: able to do that really changed a lot of things
Speaker 1: for me in my career. Before we quickly touch on
Speaker 1: your college career, what are your relationships like with fellow
Speaker 1: Brewster products that are in the NBA or around the NBA.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, It's funny I was when when I
Speaker 1: got called up to the seventy six ers, Craig Brackens
Speaker 1: was there, and Craig was a Brewster guy, you know,
Speaker 1: when I was with UM. When I was with the
Speaker 1: Nuggets for their preseason a few years ago, of course,
Speaker 1: Will Barton is a Brewster guy, and so you know,
Speaker 1: it's a it's we have a long list of guys
Speaker 1: in the pros UH, from Thomas Robinson to Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: to you know, even the kid coming out now Terrence
Speaker 1: clark Um going to Kentucky UH and and last year
Speaker 1: Jalen LQ. So I mean it goes on and on
Speaker 1: like literally, and so you know, our relationship is that
Speaker 1: of just we're all alumni and we all have that connection. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I've played with Chris McCullough who who went
Speaker 1: to UH Brewster UM and so the literally the list
Speaker 1: goes on and on, and I've been able to play
Speaker 1: with the few guys that went to Brewster and actually
Speaker 1: stayed in my same room, which is funny. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see you interact with those guys on social media
Speaker 1: from time to time. Certainly a good fraternity of players
Speaker 1: that have come through that program. And talking about your
Speaker 1: college programs, Now, a couple of years at Colorado two
Speaker 1: thousand and six to two thousand and eight, and then
Speaker 1: you finished at Northern Illinois. So what are your fondest
Speaker 1: memories at each school? Was it perhaps going back and
Speaker 1: forth in the scoring title race with Jim or Fredette
Speaker 1: towards the end of your career in Northern Illinois just
Speaker 1: touch on your experience at both places. All that stuff
Speaker 1: was fun. Man. You know, Colorado is a beautiful, beautiful campus,
Speaker 1: great people. I met my wife there. I met one
Speaker 1: of my best friends there, or two of my best
Speaker 1: friends actually, Sundance Wicks and Bianca Smith both coaches now,
Speaker 1: and Sundance of course, was a coach when I was there.
Speaker 1: He's now at Wyoming just got a job. Congratulations to
Speaker 1: him there. You know, it's honestly, Um, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of good memories in both spots. Um, you know, the
Speaker 1: people there. You know. Being able to be the fourth
Speaker 1: leading scorer my freshman year behind kd Um and Wesley
Speaker 1: Johnson and DJ Augustine uh in the Big twelve was
Speaker 1: was huge for me. Being able to average thirteen as
Speaker 1: a freshman was like, I was one of my goals
Speaker 1: to come in and really show that I can play
Speaker 1: as a freshman. Then going you know, all the way
Speaker 1: until the end where where I was with Ricardo Patton,
Speaker 1: who was at Colorado and recruiting me at Colorado. Uh
Speaker 1: he changed and took a job in northern Illinois and
Speaker 1: I ended up following him, And yeah, you're right, going
Speaker 1: back and forth with Jimmer and all those guys, that's
Speaker 1: my senior year. Um, you know, understanding and learning how
Speaker 1: to how to carry a team and and and score
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of points like that when people are
Speaker 1: gearing up to stop it. Um, it is a whole
Speaker 1: and and then you know, honestly, the best I think
Speaker 1: the best um piece that I love the most is
Speaker 1: just really getting in the gym in Northern Illinois and
Speaker 1: working on my game with Sun Dance and Jeff Becker
Speaker 1: and all those guys that were there. Coach Smith. You know,
Speaker 1: we spend a lot of time, a lot of dark
Speaker 1: hours in those gyms, so that probably will be the
Speaker 1: most memorable piece of it, all right. And anybody who
Speaker 1: knows your career knows that you have a reputation as
Speaker 1: having a great work ethic, and I think that definitely
Speaker 1: carries into your pro career, which we will get to now.
Speaker 1: You spent time various points in your career with a
Speaker 1: handful of NBA teams. You've mentioned some of them already,
Speaker 1: and one of them obviously hitting close to home with
Speaker 1: the Blue Courts Blue Coats organization being the Philadelphia seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: also the Washington Wizard's Boston Celtics, and Denver Nuggets. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about two twelve with the Sixers. A couple games
Speaker 1: of NBA Playoff experience for you in the second round
Speaker 1: against Boston. I know recently BC Sports Philadelphia air at
Speaker 1: that first round series against the Chicago Bulls, and I
Speaker 1: caught some of that, and obviously that was bringing back
Speaker 1: some memories for Sixers fans, a lot of whom uh
Speaker 1: might be tuned into this podcast. So what memories do
Speaker 1: you take away from that experience with the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a great experience. You know, if
Speaker 1: you remember that team, it's Drew Holliday, It's Iggy, It's
Speaker 1: it's Evan Turner, it's uh, It's it's Elton Brand, it's uh,
Speaker 1: Lou Will, it's you know that that team was stacked
Speaker 1: and it was like right before the process kind of started,
Speaker 1: right and so um, you know, as a as a
Speaker 1: as a as a rookie being able to come in
Speaker 1: and and like you mentioned in that Bulls series, UM,
Speaker 1: I didn't dress, right, I didn't dress, but I worked
Speaker 1: so hard uh in shoot around, in practice, I mean
Speaker 1: I I just went full speed, one hundred percent the
Speaker 1: whole time and ended up earning a spot uh with
Speaker 1: with the in the Celtics series. They dressed me um
Speaker 1: and and had someone else sit so or sitting in
Speaker 1: the suit. So it was cool to kind of to
Speaker 1: kind of be there and fight for that. UM. Playoff
Speaker 1: basketball is amazing. Uh, going to I think it was
Speaker 1: Game six UM with the Bulls and then going to
Speaker 1: Game seven with the Celtics. Just that whole experience was amazing.
Speaker 1: And I learned so much from coach Collins and and
Speaker 1: that coaching staff. UM, you know, it was it was.
Speaker 1: It was great jumping in there, you know, playing in
Speaker 1: those in those two games against the Celtics in the
Speaker 1: playoffs as a rookie was was huge. UM. And I
Speaker 1: was able to kind of build off of that and
Speaker 1: and have a certain type of confidence for the rest
Speaker 1: of my career. Absolutely, and certainly some things that I think,
Speaker 1: UM makes sense that you'd be able to carry over
Speaker 1: into your coaching career, which will get to shortly, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately kind of had some in along the way. One
Speaker 1: with the sixers at Summer League that you've recently touched
Speaker 1: on as well, but not on this podcast, But what
Speaker 1: did you learn about yourself when battling certain setbacks in
Speaker 1: your playing career. Yeah, you know, coming off a great
Speaker 1: rookie year, fighting for that playoff spot. You know, clearly
Speaker 1: the organization, you know, they were fond of me at
Speaker 1: that point. But Summer league, last game, even the last
Speaker 1: quarter of that of the Summer League, I fractured my skull.
Speaker 1: It was a gruesome injury. Had to have surgery like
Speaker 1: the next morning, and after that, you know, everything kind
Speaker 1: of went on hold. Of course, I tried to rush
Speaker 1: back and come back to training camp with the Sixers,
Speaker 1: tried to jump in there without even touching the ball,
Speaker 1: just because that's the kind of guy I am. But
Speaker 1: clearly I wasn't ready to return, so had to take
Speaker 1: some more time. Jumped back in the G League, ended
Speaker 1: up hurting my shoulder that year, and so it kind
Speaker 1: of got plagued with with injuries. Um and that you know,
Speaker 1: right after that next twelve months, after the playoffs with
Speaker 1: the Sixers, it kind of really got serious with the
Speaker 1: whole injury piece, and I had like three surgeries within
Speaker 1: eight months. And so learning that, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: be patient with everything, and with me, I was always
Speaker 1: trying to fix everything with with work and hard work
Speaker 1: and gotta work and go crazy, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: when you have a head injury and you're you're you
Speaker 1: have a um shoulder injury and an elbow injury and
Speaker 1: you have surgery within a week of a week apart,
Speaker 1: and you just kind of have to be a couch.
Speaker 1: Potato really helped me grow kind of internally, you know, mentally, spiritually,
Speaker 1: did a lot of reading and and that kind of
Speaker 1: helped me be centered for the rest of my career.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it'll it heads well. It already has
Speaker 1: carried over into coaching and being able to really well now,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny I'm making this connection now. Being
Speaker 1: injured and not really being able to play and coaching
Speaker 1: are a lot of light. You know, you don't really
Speaker 1: have control over what happens as a coach, and of
Speaker 1: course when you're injured, you can't really do anything about it.
Speaker 1: And so that kind of prepped me for being able
Speaker 1: to be a coach and understand that, you know, you
Speaker 1: kind of have to let things happen and do what
Speaker 1: you can, but but not try to be overbearing and
Speaker 1: go crazy with things how I used to be when
Speaker 1: I was young. So we'll delve further into that transition
Speaker 1: from player to coach here in a second. But let's
Speaker 1: mix it up right now with our Healthy Lifestyle segment
Speaker 1: presented by Christianic Care. And I meant to do this
Speaker 1: on the last episode with Heywood Highsmith, but just want
Speaker 1: to give a quick shout out to all the healthcare
Speaker 1: professionals out there on the front lines doing their thing.
Speaker 1: Can't be said enough on social media, podcast, whatever platform
Speaker 1: it is. Thank you to everybody out there who is
Speaker 1: helping during this time. And it's a similar situation here
Speaker 1: on the Healthy Lifestyle segment as we had with Heywood
Speaker 1: on the last episode of Coach Check. It's a quarantine edition,
Speaker 1: so it kind of might change your answer for a
Speaker 1: little bit based on what type of workouts you're able
Speaker 1: to do. But the first question is the one that
Speaker 1: includes the Christianit Care mantra of for the love of health.
Speaker 1: So what are you doing for the love of health
Speaker 1: given the current circumstances, whether it's running bike workouts, whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. I have a peloton. I've been going
Speaker 1: crazy on the peloton a lot more than I was
Speaker 1: able to do during the season, and so that's it, man,
Speaker 1: that's it. I've been doing a lot of research on
Speaker 1: what to do, and one of the things that I
Speaker 1: kind of want to do or get as a mini trampoline. Okay,
Speaker 1: they said that, you know, jumping rope and doing the
Speaker 1: mini trampoline or like one of the things that will
Speaker 1: burn the most calories. I can't really jump rope that much,
Speaker 1: just because it's just too much impact, you know, But
Speaker 1: on the trampoline, I'll be able to, and so I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about doing that. I might order it right when
Speaker 1: we get off. I feel like the mini trampoline might
Speaker 1: be something for your kids as well. Maybe that's the
Speaker 1: only thing. I don't want them to be jumping on
Speaker 1: it and banging their heads off the wall. So I
Speaker 1: have to like hide it and use it when I
Speaker 1: when I use them, and hide it when I'm not
Speaker 1: using it. How about when it comes to diet or nutrition, Um,
Speaker 1: I've heard you say things along those lines throughout the season.
Speaker 1: Any tips for the listeners on things that they can
Speaker 1: feel good about cooking or eating or things you're cooking
Speaker 1: and eating during this time. I use the outside of
Speaker 1: the grocery store rule, and so if it's on the
Speaker 1: outside of the grocery store or like when you walk
Speaker 1: into grocery store, if you stay on the outside of it,
Speaker 1: you're generally good. That's where all the produce is. You know,
Speaker 1: you have your meat, your cheese, your milk, you know,
Speaker 1: all the things that are from the earth. When you
Speaker 1: get into those aisles in the middle, that's where it
Speaker 1: gets tricky and things are just made in factories and
Speaker 1: kind of man made stuff, and so during this time
Speaker 1: it's easy to kind of start snacking and going a
Speaker 1: little crazy on your diet. But if it's stuff from
Speaker 1: the earth, if it's stuff that you get on the
Speaker 1: outside of the grocery store, then or you know, the
Speaker 1: outside kind of that loop on the in the grocery store,
Speaker 1: you're you're generally good. And that's a good way to
Speaker 1: kind of stay healthy. Wow, I like that a lot.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that outside of the grocery store. I'm
Speaker 1: going to keep that in mind all right. Now to
Speaker 1: your coaching career. First year as a coach. An assistant
Speaker 1: coach for the Delaware Blue Coats describe the transition from
Speaker 1: player to coach, but specifically within the NBA's assistant coaches
Speaker 1: program and how that impacted things. Yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: that coaching program really really helped a lot on getting
Speaker 1: prepared for what I was going to be doing this year. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they they got us. They do a really
Speaker 1: good job in preparing you for synergy and and all
Speaker 1: these different things that we use as coaches, UH sport
Speaker 1: code and you know, UM, a lot of different a
Speaker 1: lot of analytics and film related at a lot of
Speaker 1: different film film related, analytic related, UM and just scout
Speaker 1: related stuff. And so we had intensives on that stuff
Speaker 1: all through the summer. So when I got to to
Speaker 1: Philly and and to UH to Delaware, I was prepared
Speaker 1: and I had seen it all right, and so UM
Speaker 1: that that was That was helpful as far as the
Speaker 1: transition goes. You know, I didn't I didn't miss playing
Speaker 1: as much as I thought I would. UM, And I
Speaker 1: liked coaching more than I thought I would. I thought
Speaker 1: it'd be opposite. I thought I'd missed playing. I wish
Speaker 1: I was playing, And I thought that I would think
Speaker 1: that coaching was kind of you know, lame, I guess.
Speaker 1: And that's just for me last year being a player
Speaker 1: and kind of wondering if I'm really gonna like it.
Speaker 1: But with our coaching staff and just jumping into it. Man,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it way more than
Speaker 1: I thought I would. So many different things that you
Speaker 1: have to learn and begin to conquer, which is something
Speaker 1: that I always liked. I liked identifying weaknesses and then
Speaker 1: working on to build them and turn them into strengths,
Speaker 1: and so kind of being able to do that as
Speaker 1: a coach and identifying things that I can do better
Speaker 1: and how we can be better as a whole, and
Speaker 1: coming up with strategy. It was just a really good
Speaker 1: experience and I'm glad I made that move early, which
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably thought I was a little
Speaker 1: crazy retiring that early, but you know, I think I
Speaker 1: made the right move and I really enjoy it. What
Speaker 1: were some of the biggest adjustments for you, because I
Speaker 1: know I read that maybe it's just not turning it
Speaker 1: off as much as you would as a player and
Speaker 1: you're in the gym getting your shots up, practicing for
Speaker 1: a few hours, but then you can kind of have
Speaker 1: the rest of the day to do whatever you want
Speaker 1: to do, whereas when you're a coacher thinking about everything
Speaker 1: pretty much all day every day. So what were some
Speaker 1: of the biggest adjustments for you? Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: biggest adjustment from a player to a coach is the hours.
Speaker 1: You know, as a player, you come in, you know,
Speaker 1: get tape, go practice, go home. As a coach, we're
Speaker 1: there probably three or four hours before the first guy
Speaker 1: even gets there. We're we're talking and and planning and
Speaker 1: like you said, thinking for at least three or four
Speaker 1: hours before they get there. And then we stay and
Speaker 1: we after practice and you know, practice is what three
Speaker 1: hours long? And then um, we stay after for a
Speaker 1: while and then talk about practice and talk about what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do for the next day and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And so you know, for a players, maybe a three match,
Speaker 1: four hour day, um, for a coach, it's easily seven
Speaker 1: or eight. And so that was the biggest kind of
Speaker 1: difference and adjustment, um for for me, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think for any player it's gonna be that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the biggest thing. So I didn't really have this
Speaker 1: one ready to go. And we'll get to our final
Speaker 1: couple questions at the buzzer here in a second. But
Speaker 1: and you might not have a good answer for this
Speaker 1: yet because it's so new to you, and if you don't,
Speaker 1: that's fine, But what what are your goals as a coach.
Speaker 1: I want to be a head coach. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's clear for me that that's what I want to do. UM.
Speaker 1: I love being able to learn and be an assistant coach. UM.
Speaker 1: But at the goal, the end goal is to be
Speaker 1: able to be a head coach and kind of see
Speaker 1: if I can lead a group of guys in the
Speaker 1: right direction, in the winning direction. And you know, they
Speaker 1: always say that the team takes on the personality of
Speaker 1: their head coach, and I would be I'm really interested
Speaker 1: to see if that could be the case with me
Speaker 1: as a head coach. You know, So that that's the
Speaker 1: end goal, but you know, the process is so fun.
Speaker 1: The process of being an assistant and learning has been
Speaker 1: so fun that you know at this point it's a
Speaker 1: win win situation for me. We'll have more with Xavier
Speaker 1: Silas in just a second, but first, The Moore's Sports
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Speaker 1: go at the buzzer here. Just a couple of questions
Speaker 1: to round things out, here on coach Check the Colorado Prep,
Speaker 1: Colorado Prep basketball program helping out young players on the
Speaker 1: Colorado basketball scene. What's the latest UM with all that,
Speaker 1: and maybe some information for people who might not know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, I founded this prep team. It's gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna play on the Grind Session UH in the
Speaker 1: West Coast Conference. So a little bit about the Grind Session.
Speaker 1: It's it's been in existence for six years. UM. They've
Speaker 1: had like seven hundred and seventy one guys go D one,
Speaker 1: nine top ten draft picks UM in the NBA and
Speaker 1: and so the they have a lot of really good
Speaker 1: things that have come out of that, and we're able
Speaker 1: to be the only team in Colorado to UH to
Speaker 1: be on the Grind Session. And so with that, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, just create an opportunity, UM for for some
Speaker 1: guys that are in this kind of Mountain West region
Speaker 1: that that don't really get UM, an opportunity of this
Speaker 1: magnitude to get the type of exposure that you know,
Speaker 1: other teams and other states are getting. And it'll be
Speaker 1: great for me being able to be in the administration
Speaker 1: side of things and and you know, figure out the logistics,
Speaker 1: figure out the scheduling, Uh, get the roster right. You know,
Speaker 1: all those things are are are great and I'm able
Speaker 1: to get real life reps at that and so um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's all about getting better and kind of
Speaker 1: helping others, and so I'm able to do both of
Speaker 1: those things right now. So it's a great thing. And
Speaker 1: also get to work with my dad who's going to
Speaker 1: be the head coach, and my mom who's kind of
Speaker 1: heading up our booster club. And so it's a family affair.
Speaker 1: We're we're doing it um and it's a good way
Speaker 1: to kind of be with them and be around them.
Speaker 1: You know, they've had a nonprofit for over over twenty
Speaker 1: three years and and so they're kind of shifting and
Speaker 1: doing their you know, uh doing Colorado Prep as their nonprofit.
Speaker 1: And it's it's been great for the family. That's awesome
Speaker 1: with the whole family involved. Now, I I talked about food,
Speaker 1: so we'll get you out with a food question here
Speaker 1: at the Buzzer. Some of the best food cities maybe
Speaker 1: in the on the NBA or NBA G League circuit.
Speaker 1: I don't I know you're interested in seafood. On a
Speaker 1: couple of the cities that we visited in the g
Speaker 1: League this year. So what comes to mind when I
Speaker 1: ask best food cities or stops on the the NBA circuit.
Speaker 1: You know, I love Chicago. They have so many great restaurants.
Speaker 1: Um Joe's Uh Stone Crab is my favorite restaurant, and
Speaker 1: I know I can get there. Um in in Chicago,
Speaker 1: I can get there, Washington, DC. And then there's one
Speaker 1: in Vegas as well. Um. When we when we talk
Speaker 1: about like just top food spots, I always say, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't think about it, but Vegas.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're in Vegas for Summer League and
Speaker 1: all these different things that you have to be there
Speaker 1: for in the NBA, Um, they just have these world
Speaker 1: renowned chefs in every single hotel competing with each other.
Speaker 1: And there's so many just great restaurants. And so when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, if you want the most
Speaker 1: quality restaurants, Vegas is definitely the spot. There you go.
Speaker 1: I wasn't personally thinking of Vegas, but now I am.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a great note to end it on.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, Coach Silas, and best wishes to
Speaker 1: you and your family at this time. I appreciate it. Man.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on everyone, stay safe, stay home,
Speaker 1: do your part. Thanks again, and he's Delaware Blue Coats
Speaker 1: Assistant coach Xavier Silas. I'm Matt Murphy until next time,
Speaker 1: Take it or leave it at the coach check