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Speaker 1: we've had some incredible, incredible guests so far. If you

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Speaker 1: missed a mir abdur Rahim, head coach at Kunisa State

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Speaker 1: have been you. We went through the whole Merrimack thing.

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Speaker 1: It was really cool. That's available. Should be in your

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Speaker 1: team of the weekend with FDU out is Princeton. They're

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Speaker 1: still playing. They're gonna be in the sweet sixteen. And

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Speaker 1: I was really fortunate I get to coach mccabi games team,

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Speaker 1: which is like the Jewish Olympics was in Israel. I've

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Speaker 1: as a player and this past summer, my MVP was

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Speaker 1: Blake Peters. Blake plays for Blake plays for Princeton. He

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Speaker 1: and Sam Silverstein were my two best players. Sam plays

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Speaker 1: for Harvard. They're close friends. They grew up playing with

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Speaker 1: very memorable TV interview afterwards. So I'll do another pod

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Speaker 1: probably tomorrow. We'll catch up on everything over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: But I thought you'd enjoy. We had a conversation on

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. He had just gotten back. He's got class.

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Speaker 1: I thought you enjoy it. Here's Princeton star Blake Peters.

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Speaker 1: So normally, like what I like to do is all

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Speaker 1: I do the chronological thing, Okay, But in this particular case,

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Speaker 1: you know, you just fresh out of your mind, which game,

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Speaker 1: Obviously you played better. Which game felt bigger to you, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's always the tournament. But I don't think you hit

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Speaker 1: the country, but it felt like we were right in Jadlin.

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Speaker 1: be the first like, yeah, I'll beat us twice in

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Speaker 1: regular season, but we win one game and we go

427
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: then say a tournament, Like is that fair? I don't know,

428
00:25:54,359 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: but that's just the way things are. I think. Like

429
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: we jumped out to a thirteen nothing lead. I want

430
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: to say something crazy like that, like they didn't score

431
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: for for good three four minutes, but from the opening

432
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: tip you could see everyone's eyes it was a rap.

433
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: I mean there was really no way we were losing.

434
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 1: So you win and I have to wait and you

435
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: see Arizona and you're a fifteen seed by the way, Yeah,

436
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: what was he Forget what the TV cameras? What was

437
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: the honest reaction when you guys saw that. I'm unfamiliar

438
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 1: with Arizona. Like during the season, I only watched I

439
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: think basketball. I'll watch my friends who play on other

440
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: mid major teams. I don't watch the Pac twelve there. Yeah,

441
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm asleep when their games are going on. So

442
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: I didn't know much about them. I know they're well coached. No, no,

443
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: they had two really big guys, and I figured that

444
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: that would be a problem for us. But at the moment,

445
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: we were just so excited to even like see our

446
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 1: school up there, like it's what we've been working for

447
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:05,199
Speaker 1: all season. And yeah, I don't know, I don't know

448
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: how but me and me and my sophomore teammate Darius Quasi,

449
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: like we always talked about we have this gut feeling

450
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: the four games sometimes, like we have a gut thing

451
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: we're gonna win, the guff thing we're gonna lose, And

452
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: we just had this gut feeling like we were not

453
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 1: gonna lose. I don't know what it was, but I

454
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: swear to god, there was not a Lebron moment where

455
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, predicted he was gonna score anyone

456
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: Like No, for whatever reason, just seemed like we were

457
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: gonna win. When your coaches prepare the tape, right, did

458
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: it make it see like holy fuck, these guys are

459
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: good or did they prepare it so it made you

460
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: think you had a chance. They don't hype anyone up there,

461
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: like Tabellas, what was the second team American didn't even

462
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: mention it, just yeah, Tabellos, you know, loves to spin

463
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 1: back last uh, you know, like the mid range pull up,

464
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 1: but Accolades, they don't mention that. When we played Missouri,

465
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: Kobe Brown, like, obviously he's a great player, but we didn't.

466
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: We didn't hype him up at all. It's not like

467
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: I think, I think that's good on the coaches, like

468
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be an awe of our opponent. We respect them,

469
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: but they're human. You get out there and you have

470
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: practice in the arena. Now you guys have played nice

471
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: greens before you're playing the Kings arena. Right, kind of

472
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: starts to sort of starts to set in. But I

473
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: feel like it's, uh, it's weird because like a moment

474
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: like that, it's something you talk about it like the

475
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: middle school lunch table with your friends, like, yeah, one

476
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: day I'm gonna I'm gonna be on that big stage,

477
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: and you know, you all kind of laugh about it

478
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: and the back of your mind that's probably not gonna happen.

479
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: But then again, there's always a chance to happen. So

480
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: it's just like once you get out there, just thinking

481
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: back and how far you've come and how much you've

482
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: sacrificed to get to get to that point. And yeah,

483
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: we played in nice arenas, but nothing that that arenas

484
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: brand new. It's awesome, And I don't know, I don't

485
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: know what it was, but like when we were on

486
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: the court, it just felt like the whole world was

487
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: on our side. I don't know if it was. You know,

488
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: we had a we had a nice Princeton contingency on

489
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: one side and also behind our bench, so it was

490
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: just hyeah out about it experience. Okay, I know you

491
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: had the gut feel that you were gonna win, but

492
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: when you're watching that game, you're sitting there, you're on

493
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: the bench. When did you think, oh, we got these guys.

494
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: I thought, as so we cut the we cut the

495
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: we were down twelve, cut it to six. What did

496
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: you by the way, what did you do? What did

497
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: you do to cut the lead? What? What? What changed?

498
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: So we we were turning the ball over. Our goal

499
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: was to turn it over no more than eight times.

500
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: I think we ended up turning it over nine or

501
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: ten times. One of them was on me. Worst passive

502
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: effort thrown in my life. But so we were turning

503
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: it over and we were getting good shots. They just

504
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: weren't going in like we shot. You were not making

505
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 1: It's hashtag make shots and you were hashtag not making shots. Yeah,

506
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: four for twenty five. Like, I don't know what it was.

507
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: But we were missing great shots. They were getting layups. Okay,

508
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: cool time out, Like coach. Coach is great because he's

509
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: he's a really calming influence on us. Okay, just you know,

510
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: breathe take a breath. Let's just get back to doing us.

511
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know how exactly we

512
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: got back to sixth, but all I remember is Jack Martini,

513
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: uh shoots misses the three kid Pierce gets the rebound.

514
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 1: I was at half course as soon as I saw him,

515
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: got three bounds, sprinting at the shot, fake one, dribble three,

516
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: cut it to three. It was over. I was a

517
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: what's that feeling? Like? I mean, that's my that's my

518
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: favorite shot ever that I that I've ever shot. It's

519
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: just and I don't like I don't react usually when

520
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 1: I make a shot, but in that moment it was

521
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: hard not to. I mean, it's just it's awesome. You know,

522
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: you're playing against the number eight team in the country.

523
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: Millions of people watch him. That's a amazing stuff. So

524
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: you win, Okay, douse them with water or whatever. How

525
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: hard is it to sleep that night after beating Arizona?

526
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: Didn't sleep? Didn't sleep. I actually didn't even sleep before Missouri.

527
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: I fell asleep, but check my phone, I couldn't. I

528
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: couldn't fall asleep. It was one in the morning. It

529
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: probably fell asleep around two and I woke up at eight.

530
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, didn't sleep. Just I don't know if it's

531
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: from looking at your phone and like all the congratulations

532
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,959
Speaker 1: texts coming in are just like you're just amped up,

533
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: just ready to go. It's a lot of excitement. Yeah,

534
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: I didn't sleep. I know some other guys didn't sleep.

535
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: I bought some melotone and today, so I'm gonna get

536
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: back to sleeping this week. I think my melotone is

537
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: you can't like kill groggy, wake up. I don't feel. Yeah,

538
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: I get it, but I need to sleep. I didn't

539
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: sleep last night either. So when you woke up the

540
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: day of the Missouri game, did you have the good

541
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: gut feeling? Did you have a bad gut feeling? I told,

542
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: and Missouri is a great team, very well coached. I told,

543
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: there's no disrespect Missouri. I told our assistant coach. I

544
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: told Sky. When we were at the gym shooting around,

545
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: I said, Sky, we're gonna beat them by twenty. He said,

546
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a little aggressive. That's a direct

547
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: quote from Sky. He said, no, no no, that's a little agressive.

548
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: So I watch, we're gonna beat the boy twenty. Sure enough.

549
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,959
Speaker 1: I mean we basically beat about twenty. It was they

550
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: kept bowing and trading bucks with us at that. But

551
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: had had that feeling. I still do still do. So,

552
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: like I said, now, now we get back to the game. Okay,

553
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: and you know you guys are playing well in the

554
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: first half, making making more shots. You're not playing? How

555
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: do you? How do you do that? Right? Like, look,

556
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't I wasn't a good shoot in college, okay,

557
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: but I could really pass. But the difference is you

558
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: always have the ball in your hands on your point guard.

559
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: You're always passing the ball. So there's a volume of passes.

560
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: So it's not like you have to like warm up

561
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: for passing. How do you sit there? Then he checks

562
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: you in and you're open, You're freaking make it? Like

563
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: how do you how do you contain the energy and

564
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: be ready so that you barely play the first half?

565
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: You get some shots at halftime, not a ton, right,

566
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: probably get like five six months at halftime, and then

567
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: you check in there and go like, how do you

568
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: how do you maintain kind of your poise, your energy,

569
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: your balance so that you're you're making it. So I'll

570
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: come in, I'll come in and shoot a couple times

571
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: a week before practice, and I won't warm up, i

572
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: won't do anything. I'll just get right into the workout

573
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: with Sky because that's kind of how the game is. Like,

574
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: I just yeah, I don't know when I'm coming in.

575
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's after the first media sometimes after the second like,

576
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: I just don't know, and I'm probably by then I'm

577
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: not I'm not warm. So I think just like getting

578
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: reps when you're cold, and then you immediately have to

579
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: you know, make three and row from the spot or

580
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, run off this pin down make a shot

581
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: like that. That helps, And I've been doing that all seasons,

582
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: so I think that's kind of helped a little bit.

583
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: But I just I don't know. We all we're a

584
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: very mature team, so we're just you know, all all present,

585
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: all locked in on the moment. When you get in,

586
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: you just let a fly. You know, you almost got

587
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: pulled there only the second half, right, like when you

588
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,959
Speaker 1: right when you came in, you had they you got,

589
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: you're open, but the pass is just off. You caught it.

590
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: You're trapped and you kind of threw one off and

591
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: I saw I saw Mitch kind of spin around like

592
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: he was gonna like he was gonna pull you. Yeah,

593
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: he almost. Tosan Tosan was coming in and our assistant

594
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 1: Bret McConnelly came up and he was like, all right, uh,

595
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: toson'z eater getting Maybe it was Kade. I think it

596
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: was Tosan. It said tozan'z Eater getting Kater Blake, And

597
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: I was like, really, like, I just just got in.

598
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: You know, I only got three seconds out there. But

599
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: thankfully coach that no, like yeah, you stay okay cool.

600
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: So that when he said that, that kind of gave

601
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: me confidence that that I had at least a couple

602
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: of minutes to make to make an impact out there.

603
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: The only thing you didn't make was the heat check one.

604
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: The heat check one was I wanted that one so bad.

605
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: I gotta stop. Like sometimes on the if I make

606
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: turned around the third one I get, I get a

607
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: little bit away from the mechanics and I'll like kind

608
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: of like Steph Courier and just like flick my wrist

609
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: and not hold the faster start running back. Yeah I

610
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 1: gotta So okay, so what are your what are your mechanics?

611
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: What are the thoughts in your mind when you get

612
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: get the ball? So I used to like I was

613
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,320
Speaker 1: always taught, you know, left foot, left foot in the front.

614
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: I always step in with your right foot. But you

615
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: know in college that's just you can't do that every time.

616
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: So now I've kind of I got this hot more right,

617
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: catch it on two feet that I have both my

618
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: both my feet if I want to pivot. But you know, Kett,

619
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: the ball immediately find the seams and uh, I'm not

620
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: I'm not bringing it down as much either, Like I

621
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: used to bring the ball down, but now it's just

622
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: you know, catch rides up shoot. I find that like

623
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: the quicker the release last time you have to think

624
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: Marcos and you watch do you watch the ball flight

625
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: or do you watch the hoop? Watch the hoop? Yeah,

626
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: I've never met someone that watches ball flight. That was

627
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: a good shooter. There you go, we identified my problem

628
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: twenty years later. So the buzzer sounds right, and they

629
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: grab you to do a TV interview? How much shit

630
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: have your boys given you for your TV interview? They

631
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: actually liked it. It's the it's the Internet where there's

632
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: mixed responses and full disclosure. Like I wasn't thinking about KG.

633
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: That's the last thing I would think about. I'm just

634
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: like I'm getting I'm just thinking about life, like what

635
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing this is? You know, it's just you know,

636
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about KG. So I go up there.

637
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: I didn't think I thought they were gonna ask Ryan.

638
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,439
Speaker 1: So they asked me. I'm like, oh, okay, sure, let's

639
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: do this. You know, it's just once again one of

640
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: those things where it's like, you know, this can't be real,

641
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: Like get interviewed on TMT, got Ernie Johnson saying, and

642
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, this is crazy for people who

643
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: don't know the story. Okay, we get to Israel and

644
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: I was kicking your guy's ass a little bit with

645
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: practice and who who caught you? Who caught you with

646
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: an elbow? The morning of the Israel game? Balley Okay,

647
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: Braley Outpert who plays at played at tu Lane this year?

648
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: Yeah right, really catch you with an elbow? And your

649
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: tooth was loose? Yeah right, just one or two teeth.

650
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: One tooth was chipped, the other was dented in my

651
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: mouth like diagonally. So we had to go. So we're

652
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: playing the Israeli under twin national team. They had won

653
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: the euro euro Cup the year before. We're all fired up, right,

654
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, now like fuck, you get

655
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: hit in the mouth and you were but you what

656
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 1: were you most pissed about? I was most well, I

657
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: was mad because we were in Israel. First of all,

658
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: Like it's not like I can just go to my

659
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: dentist and they'll fix it. That's the first thing I

660
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: was mad about. The other thing I was mad about

661
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: was like, well, I'm like, I'm supposed to be here

662
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: taking pictures of me, like this supposed to be a

663
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: once lifetime experience, and now all the pictures I'm gonna have,

664
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: like you know, one ten to twoth and one chip tooth,

665
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: like there's a victis. And on top of that, it

666
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: did like it hurts. There's just no way, Robert, like

667
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out. I mean, you knew you were pissed.

668
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: I know if you're pissed at him. I never pissed

669
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: at me because we're kind of going live and some stuff,

670
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: Like I knew if you're pissed it like you were

671
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: just pissed, and I was like, dude, he's fucking hot.

672
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: Yeah I was. And I thought you were gonna have

673
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: to lose it too. Yeah. That's that's the other thing

674
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: I was worried about, because it you know, it was

675
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: it was loose, like it wasn't I legit. We go

676
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: to so the team goes to this We go to

677
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: this uh hospital for any buddy who's been injured in

678
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: any of the Palestinian conflict or any of the wars. Right,

679
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: we go and we do wheelchair. You went to a

680
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: dentist instead, right, yeah, yeah, okay, So what is it?

681
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: What is the experience like for for an American overseas

682
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: college kid in Israel? Like, what was the experience like

683
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: the overall experience of the dentist experience, the dentist experience.

684
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: So I'm was Sky, my assistant for mccabey and also

685
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: a princeton, and he obviously doesn't speak Hebrew. I don't

686
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: speak Hebrew. They just yeah, gave us a uber, told

687
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: us where to go. We walk in there, and we

688
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 1: don't we're not wearing masks when they wearing masks. Uh.

689
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: The lady, the ladies like looking a us confused, Skies

690
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: like walking up to the front desk. Yeah, they just

691
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: sent us here, they called. We're with Maccabi. The ladies

692
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: looking at us like she has no idea what we're

693
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: talking about. So thankfully one of them speaks English and

694
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: she helps us and whatever. They sent me down in

695
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: a chair and the dentist walks in and he just

696
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 1: he just looks in my tooth and he goes, oh,

697
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: and then he just rips it back in the place

698
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: it was diagonal, and then he just he yanked it

699
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: for no warning, no nothing, blood spewing out of my mouth.

700
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: Like even Sky was like, oh my god, you know,

701
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: because he's in there with me, like he's he's looking

702
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: this experience with me. So and the dentist doesn't really

703
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: speak English either, but he wants it to take an

704
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: X ray, and so we had to go across the street.

705
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: So take X ray. We get to X ray place,

706
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: the extra machine doesn't work. You know, my mouth is

707
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 1: still bleeding. This is this is it's a bad situation.

708
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: So Sky and I end up going to a pharmacy

709
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 1: to get medicine for me that takes two hours. Like

710
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: you know, the healthcare system Israel is public and it's

711
00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: all free. But obviously when I was really sitting since

712
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: we don't have that benefit, so it was just Sky

713
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: and I kind of bonded in a random pharmacy and

714
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: like this is all the first time I'm with Sky,

715
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: like just me and him, like I he was my

716
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: assistant for a full year, but once again, I didn't

717
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: really work out with Sky my freshman. I worked out

718
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: with another assistant a little more so it was. It

719
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: was cool, like we were just kind of going around

720
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: Tel Aviv and you know, just a little more about

721
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: each other. So that was cool. But I never want

722
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: to have another experience like that. And then so then

723
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: we play. Then we play Israel that night, that afternoon,

724
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: right and we're all tired. You had your mouth all

725
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,720
Speaker 1: messed up, and you know they're saying like you shouldn't play,

726
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: Like didn't they say you should. We're supposed to wear

727
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: like a mouth guard or something like that. Yeah, they

728
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 1: wanted me to wear a mouth guard. They wanted me to, yeah,

729
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: like take a couple of days off, you know, just

730
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: in case you get hit in the mouth again, because

731
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: if you get in the mouth again, like the tooth

732
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:59,240
Speaker 1: is realisticly coming out. But no, I mean I figured

733
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: the the Israel game, the team we were playing, was

734
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: going to be the most competitive, most fun game, even

735
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: though it wasn't actually part of the games. I mean,

736
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm not missing now, like I needed to play for one.

737
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: Six do you have six threes? I can't remember yet,

738
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: six or seven I had. I remember we threw it up,

739
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: we broke the press. We threw it up to you

740
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: and I told you, like, shoot that ship when they

741
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: throw it up to you and you and the first

742
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: few times you caught it, you did well. Yeah, I

743
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: had I had seven threes in the in the game

744
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: against Israel, in the actual Maccaby games, right, I think

745
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: I only had four in the scrimmage. But I also,

746
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, I had that nice

747
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: you know, transition got in my bag a little bit

748
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: with the euro remember that, Yeah, which I didn't know

749
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: you had in I was like, exactly who is that?

750
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: What would you guys give him when he when he

751
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: went and got the medicine? You know, I got, I got,

752
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 1: I got, I got a little something to me on occasion.

753
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: So now you're yeah, you guys are back. Okay, now

754
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: you're back. But you guys have school. So Princeton, do

755
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: you have any online classes? No? Do you actually have

756
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: to go to school tomorrow? Yeah? I have a I

757
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: have a interview it nine nine twenty five with Chicago

758
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: radio station, and I have Chinese at ten. I have

759
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: Politics and Religion at eleven. I have a class about

760
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: Jesus at twelve thirty, and then I have a smaller

761
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: classroom session at two thirty. Okay, wait, wait, so the

762
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: mannering thing. So how long have you spoke? Man Rains? So?

763
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: I took it when I was really young. My dad

764
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: speaks it. So I started taking lessons in kindergarten probably

765
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: up until second grade, quit, took it back up at

766
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: high school, took it all four years of high school,

767
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: and then this is my second year in college. So

768
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,959
Speaker 1: I guess all at all, probably about eight nine years.

769
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: How did you Mandarin? I would say, if you dropped

770
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: me off in China, I could, I could get my

771
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: way around. I probably wouldn't understand every single word they're saying,

772
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: and they speak really fast too, so it would take

773
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: me a couple weeks to get used to it, but

774
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be like a deer in headlights, like not

775
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: knowing what's going on. How fast is the processing English?

776
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: Because you're thinking in English, right, and then you back

777
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: to demandering. How fast is that processing when all of

778
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: a sudden you do the switch. I find that like

779
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: when I get back from summer break, like the first

780
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of class is hard because I haven't

781
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 1: heard it all summer, but like this time, like it's

782
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy because I've been in school now for yeah,

783
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: six seven months, so it's definitely easier. But like when

784
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: we have two three week breaks, when we have winter break,

785
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: like it takes it takes another week or two to

786
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: really get acclimates again. M okay, Paul, the politics class,

787
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: what what are you guys studying in politics? So it's

788
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: a it's a politics Rosier class. I'm taking only because

789
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: it's a it's a distribution requirement. It's a I think

790
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: it's an ec epistemology and cognition. So it's a it's

791
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: a political theory class. Okay, I have no idea what

792
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: you're okay basically about like so kind of just how

793
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: like politics and religion interact and then that feeds in

794
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: the class about Jesus or a different class about Jesus.

795
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: Not a different class, different class. The Jesus class is uh,

796
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: all about Jesus, just kind of that's a Jesus. How

797
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: Christianity began? Is the is the name of it interesting?

798
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting like that. You know, I

799
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: don't have any like I didn't read the Christian Bible

800
00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: before this year. It's a it's like in literature, it's

801
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: the most cited book, you know, like a lot of

802
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: a lot of biblical references in Shakespeare. I took a

803
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: Shakespeare class last semester and just you know, it's like

804
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: cool kind of seeing, uh, because Jesus was Jewish, so

805
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of learning about someone who was

806
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: Jewish and it's a it's a Jewish story, although Jews

807
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: don't really believe that it's Messiah whatnot. But it's a

808
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: it's an interesting class. The Blake Peters fifteen years after graduation,

809
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: he's doing what fifteen years after graduation? I want to

810
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: play You're gonna be able to play, right, especially playing

811
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: Israel other countries as well. But but fifteen years after graduation,

812
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 1: what are you doing? It's just there's so many things

813
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: I want to do in life, Like I don't I don't, wow,

814
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: give me, give me, give me, give me three of them,

815
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: give me three of them. Okay, I want to I

816
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: want to be a diplomat at some point. I always

817
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,839
Speaker 1: always wanted to serve this country in some regard and uh,

818
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: like I used to want to be Attorney general, but

819
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: I don't really want to go in the law, So

820
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: I think the State Department is a little more suited

821
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: for me, a little more personal. Uh at about like

822
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: CIA dude, you can like totally be you could be

823
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: a CIA and like you'd be a spy, but you

824
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,720
Speaker 1: could like you'd probably be a ringer on the CIA

825
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 1: basketball teams as well. Two high stakes, two high stakes,

826
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: and I feel like you gotta. I mean, I couldn't

827
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: beat Blake Peters anymore. I'd probably have a different name.

828
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: And it's uh, people don't know your name is Yeah,

829
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: that's true. I could be Russell. Although it's funny all

830
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: my teammates called me Ross. I got. I don't go

831
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: by Blake. I never hear Blake in the locker room.

832
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: It's Ross. What would it mean to go to the

833
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: final four? It's crazy even thinking about it. I mean

834
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: I was talking to my dad sayings like you know,

835
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: you're you're two games away from the final four, Like

836
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: that's I mean, you can have me, like I can

837
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: have my younger self. Imagine going to the tournament but

838
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: never going to the final four, Like that's just that's

839
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 1: just unheard of. And for where I come from, like

840
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: the environment I grew up in, Like it's amazing I'm

841
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 1: even here in this position right now. So they're going

842
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: to the final four. That's like, I don't know, that's

843
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: just legendary stuff. Coolest place to play in the IVY

844
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: League outside of home and why because it blestra blestro

845
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Speaker 1: coolest Jim, coolest Jim in the IVY League by far.

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Speaker 1: It's got, it's gotta. It's the only I believe Jim

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Speaker 1: that has an arena feel to it, like even Jadwin.

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Speaker 1: It's like a semi arena because we have that's like

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Speaker 1: a multipurpose Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, so it's not like

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Speaker 1: it's not a real arena, but pends really cool. I

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Speaker 1: mean their arrival obviously, but always a good crowd there, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: really fun to play there. One hundred threees, what's the

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Speaker 1: most you've ever made? Most I've ever made and out

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Speaker 1: of one hundred out of a hundred. In high school

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Speaker 1: we did a drill. Well, I want to say I've

856
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Speaker 1: made between seventy and eighty. I can't remember the exact number.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, Dan still catch and shoot it well because

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Speaker 1: we don't. I mean, I don't like. My workouts are

859
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: so much, so much more tailored now. I mean I

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Speaker 1: go to the gym with Sky and we'll get in

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Speaker 1: like a twenty twenty five minute workouts just with shots

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Speaker 1: I'll get in the game. Like, it's not that it's

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Speaker 1: red based anymore more, just like smart hard work, if

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Speaker 1: that makes sense. Do you you said you know you're

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Speaker 1: gonna win when you wake up in the morning. Do

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Speaker 1: you know you're gonna make shots when we are other game? No,

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Speaker 1: it's weird, Like I find there's no correlation between like

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Speaker 1: how you're shooting warm ups and how you're shooting the game,

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Speaker 1: because there are times where I'm feeling great and warm

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Speaker 1: offs and I just can't make a shot to save

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Speaker 1: my life. But there are other times where I'm missing

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Speaker 1: shouts of worms, I get out and asks the ocean.

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Speaker 1: So it's unpredictable. But I find like if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're more worried about just making plays and being involved

875
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Speaker 1: in the game and not as worried about making shots,

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Speaker 1: they tend to going more. Do you think that Arizona

877
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Speaker 1: and Missouri respected you guys? Yea, Arizona definitely did not.

878
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Speaker 1: Coaches were laughing at us when we were warming up,

879
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Speaker 1: which you know, understandable for a bunch of nerds. Finance bros.

880
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,439
Speaker 1: Is what they said. You know what, that's that's fine.

881
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: Who called you find who called you finance bros. Well,

882
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Speaker 1: I mean that's what the Internet was saying. Yeah, we're all.

883
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Speaker 1: Actually we saw a clip of Jimmy Fallon, I think

884
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: it was he was, you know, going on and on

885
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Speaker 1: about how Princeance Wayne Arizona, like you know, Princeton players

886
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: are wonder at you even yat in Arizona or like, uh,

887
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,399
Speaker 1: you know, is your dad a hedge fund manager? Like

888
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's just not that's stereotypical, like Nigelie, but

889
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Speaker 1: that's just not any of the guys on our team, Like,

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Speaker 1: that's not who we are. We're just we're normal kids

891
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: that we're smart, but we know we played basketball too,

892
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Speaker 1: so it's funny. And they're the best though. Right when

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Speaker 1: they're sitting there, they're looking at you, looking down. There

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Speaker 1: no names in the back of your shirts, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: you guys are you guys are shooting pivoting warm ups

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Speaker 1: and then next thing you know, you've got more points

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Speaker 1: than they do and the buzzer sounds and they're going home.

898
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Speaker 1: That's great. That's sad. I mean, that's that's March and

899
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Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's Microcosmo March. But that's yeah, that's

900
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Speaker 1: we're I mean, we're used to it, but at the

901
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Speaker 1: same time, we can't schedule high major games, so somehow no,

902
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: like on the low we get respect from all these teams.

903
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Speaker 1: But yeah, come March, it's like, yeah, we'll be Princeton,

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Speaker 1: we'll be the sixteen seed. After you, we'll be so

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Speaker 1: and so. Uh coolest person or most interesting text you

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Speaker 1: got after Saturday's game? And I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of great texts, a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of my friends from elementary school, middle school, people I

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Speaker 1: haven't spoken to in a while. I'll say the coolest

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Speaker 1: was a guy Austin Brown. You ever done? Uh? Is

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Speaker 1: the NBA agent went to went to my high school

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Speaker 1: twenty years before me, and he's got I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: Dayne Wade's agent. He's got a lot of big clients,

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Speaker 1: always been, always been a fan of mine, Like, came

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Speaker 1: to a lot of my high school games. So like

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Speaker 1: knowing that knowing that he's watching is really cool. But honestly,

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Speaker 1: just the fact that like I grew up in Eiland Park,

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Speaker 1: which is way north went High school Evanston, closer to

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Speaker 1: the city. Just the fact that like that whole area

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Speaker 1: of the North Shore, like tons of people just have

921
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Speaker 1: been reaching out and the fact that that whole area

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Speaker 1: is kind of behind Princeton and me is I mean

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Speaker 1: that like one night thing. It brings me so much short.

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Speaker 1: All right, man, well listen, here's this. This is gonna

925
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Speaker 1: be good luck. So then next week we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: the same thing as you get ready for the fall floor.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan. I gotta I got a gut feeling,

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Speaker 1: I promise you do. You have a gut feeling already.

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Speaker 1: I have a gut feeling. We are going to make

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Speaker 1: it there. Wow. Okay, so we're gonna that's breaking news.

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Speaker 1: You got a gut feeling. Well you good? Hey man,

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Speaker 1: I'm so proud for you. I mean, it's just you're awesome.

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Speaker 1: You stop throwing balls in the stands and you'll be good.

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Speaker 1: It's a little retreat, dribble, get it out the move,

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Speaker 1: get it back, get to that shot. Pick one, dribble.

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Speaker 1: We know what, we know what happens next, right, absolutely

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Speaker 1: all right, love it, bro, I'm really happy to love

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Speaker 1: thanks man, appreciate you. Oh my, thanks to Blake. That

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Speaker 1: was really cool. We hope he got a good night's sleep,

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Speaker 1: maybe a couple good night's sleeps before getting back on

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Speaker 1: the road getting the Sweet sixteen and you heard here

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Speaker 1: first he's he's got a good feeling. He's got a

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Speaker 1: good feeling. What a what a cool event? This thing

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Speaker 1: us right? You get to know people like this, people

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Speaker 1: like a mirror. I'm do write a hem of people

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Speaker 1: like Joe Gallo. We'll have more for you throughout the week.

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Speaker 1: I remember the Doug Gotlike shows daily three to five

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Speaker 1: Eastern time or twelve to two Pacific, plus we got

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Speaker 1: the in the Bonus podcast, which is like a especially

950
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Speaker 1: a radio show where we can curse and say whatever

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Speaker 1: the funk we want doesn't really matter, which is kind

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Speaker 1: of like what we do here, only we love to

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Speaker 1: tell people's stories on All Ball. So my thanks to

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Speaker 1: Blake for doing that. Best of luck to the Princeton Tigers,

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Speaker 1: like it, you can write a review two. But if

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Speaker 1: you write a review, it's even better, especially because Blake

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Speaker 1: was really good, wasn't he. Thanks for listening. I'm Doug Gotlie.

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