WEBVTT - Draft Night Tears & Basketball Wisdom w/ Tim Fudd 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.520 Welcome back to Fun Around and find out it's your girl, 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.840 Shanti and this week we have a very special guest, 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.880 Tim fun Thanks. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:14.520 For having me on. I'm excited to be here. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:15.520 I'm excited to have you. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.880 This has been a month in the making and it 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.720 is my honor to be able to host you today. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.280 I'm looking forward to it. Let's have some fun. 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.960 So let's just talk about this past week. Your daughter, 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.879 the Dallas Wings played my New York Liberty. Tell me 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.400 what it was like for you in that environment. Let's 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:38.200 talk about the game. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.440 First of all, New York City shows out at the 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.720 Liberty games, not not only for Liberty games. We were 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:51.600 in Brooklyn for Unrivaled this past season as well, and 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.480 it was crazy there, and it was crazy for the 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.520 Liberty game on Sunday, it was crazy and Brooklyn when 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:03.600 Yukon went there. It's a great basketball atmosphere. It's got 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.480 to be one of the top in the w you know, 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.240 we went to Indiana for the first game and they 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.959 were they were really rabid fans there. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.360 But New York is New York. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.959 That's the that's the mecca, you know, mecca of the 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.880 basketball capitol ball not the basketball capital world, but the 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:20.280 Mecca will give them the Mecca. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.640 Listen, listen. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.440 You know I'm a little biased, but we definitely always 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.080 show out for our sports teams. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.360 It does not matter if. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:34.640 You like hockey, soccer, football, basketball. New York fans are 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.560 literally unmatched. But I'm really glad you liked the environment. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.640 It was definitely electric and. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.720 Our girl Azy lit us up. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.920 Oh my goodness, seventeen points in the third quarter. I 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.200 was so excited, but also sick for my liberty. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.520 What the fund of the week? Maybe maybe what the. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.280 Might be youring with the money, but I got some 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:03.120 cooking up. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.360 The crazy part about it is that they you know, 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.360 we were in the city all weekend and the whole 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.120 city was is vibing, partly because the Knicks are making 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.480 the run, but you know, it's just exciting. It's a 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.920 great time for the be, you know, to be a 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.239 basketball fan in New York City or around New York City. 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.840 If you can get to the city, people are excited. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.440 You see people, ordinary people just walking around with nick 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.760 hats on, and you know they don't know thing about basketball, 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.720 but hey, they're representing, and it was it was actually fun. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:32.400 It was really fun. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.440 I'm glad to hear that. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.400 Yeah, I mean right now, the Knicks have the city 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:41.440 on fire. So people are like selling shirts, hats, wearing gear, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.720 people are allowed to change up their uniform at work. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.200 I mean, like it's a real exciting time to be 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:47.880 in New York. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.200 Well, just being a basketball fan, you know that this 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.280 time of the year for the Knicks and just a history. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.760 And you know, I was a big Patrick Ewing fan 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.320 back in the day. Of course, he was George Town 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.639 University and you know we claim him here in the DMV, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.840 but he was. He's one of my favorite players when 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.880 I was growing up. So I followed the Knicks a lot. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.280 And the Garden is always exciting, even with reckless season, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.079 it's always exciting. It's always buzzing. And then we went 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.400 to you know, when we went to Brooklyn the other 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.720 day on Sunday to play the Liberty, it is just 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.120 such a buzz man. It's like you don't know who's who. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.760 It's like you are looking around and you know, celebrity 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.800 here and we're sitting next to celebrities. And got to 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.720 meet Jason Sedeikis. He came over and said hello, hello, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:37.320 and met his sister, took a picture with her. Stan 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.560 Ban Gundy came over with his daughter, who said she 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.720 was a big fan of Asy and got a chance 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.600 to take a picture with him have a conversation with him. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.480 It's like, coach, I'm a big fan of yours. I've 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.600 been listening to you for a decade. So yeah, it 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.000 was it was exciting for sure. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.280 I mean in New York, let me tell you something. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.600 One thing about New Yorkers, we all believe that we're celebrities. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.440 Like you'd be surprised it would be so many celebrities 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.560 walking around or just existing in the space, and New 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.760 Yorkers are kind of like used to it. I'm sure 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.680 people have the same experience in LA, but I think 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.680 that's super dope that you had to meet these people 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.160 and you get to see like. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.359 Everyone's pretty normal, you know what I mean. Everyone. The 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.960 thing that we all have in common is we're here 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:22.279 for the sports. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.880 We're here for the basketball game, We're here to enjoy 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.279 the culture, the New York City sports culture. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.279 So that is awesome. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.159 To see those people in the stands and people not 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.240 bothering them, just leaving them alone. They're like normal people, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.279 you know, So that it is something to be said 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.960 for that. You know, you guys are respecting people, respect 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.839 their space, their time and energy, and allow them to 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.960 be be normal fans as well. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.120 You know for sure. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:53.400 And you know security be tight, yes, they'd be tight, yes, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:56.720 especially in Brooklyn. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.240 Come on, they never play. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.920 So speaking of you being in Brooklyn, you and Katie 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.320 got to train at my gym. I see you rocking 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.120 our hat the program and was see how is that? 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:11.920 And I want to hear more about your other New 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.160 York City activities. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:14.720 So first and. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.400 Foremost, if you don't know about the program, you better 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.040 get with the program because that is a phenomenal space, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.320 you know for someone who has both Katie and I 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.040 have aspired to own our own gym and to do 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:33.520 something like what the program is doing. Providing the opportunity 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.320 for kids to learn, train and and trainers going into 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:38.880 the gym and bringing their clients in. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.160 It was amazing. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.960 So we get a chance on Saturday to show up 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.559 and actually get to work with a few few kids 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.440 in the area and that was awesome, you know, just 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.880 being able to pop in and just get some knowledge 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.000 to some of the kids. And you look around and 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.120 everybody training the ball. There's a lot of trainers that 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.000 look like they are all cookie cutter, but most of 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.040 us trained differently and we trained different things. And Katie 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.760 and I have been built from the foundation of you know, 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.400 we're we're about development and trying to correct and trying 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:17.040 to teach and trying to allow, you know, the kids 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.120 a chance to grow their games and not so much 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.160 of a hectic environment, just something that we're trying to teach. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:25.760 We're trying to give you something that you could take 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.920 away for a long time and use it for years 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.240 to come. So it was great being in the gym 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.320 with kids and impartan some knowledge and some expertise on 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.719 them and giving them a chance to show them some 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.360 of the things that we taught easy along the way. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.240 So it was really really fun. Yeah, the rest of 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.080 the weekend, we we kind of hung out. We hung 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:49.919 out with Jack and Jonathan a Ton had some great meals. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:51.880 You you joined us for a couple of the meals 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.359 or one or two of the meals or whatever, and uh, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.599 you know, it's kind of sucky because the rain, but 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.480 you know, we were gonna we were playing on heading 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.000 back home on Sunday, and then we kicked around and 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.880 decided to stay over and overnight and come back Monday. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.800 Katie got a chance to train a couple more kids 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.240 at the program again. But just just the vibe in 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.920 the city on even a rainy holiday weekend was pretty cool. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:16.640 Well, I just want to stay on the behalf of 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.320 the program. You guys are always welcome. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:19.320 Thank you. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:24.720 And I see that you've been holding a guest popping 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.880 in and out. Yeah, tell us about about your special 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:28.880 guests on your laugh. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.920 Well, she just jumped down, but let's say hi, Uh, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.720 this is Stewie. Stewe wanted to make a guest appearance 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:44.120 because she said her mommy showed out on Sunday and 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.640 she she blocked your namesake, Stewie. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.520 That was pretty good. That was pretty awesome. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.840 One thing that that truly amazed me about a Z 0:07:55.280 --> 0:08:01.440 is like, yes, she is a phenomenal officsive player, fire 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.560 MIDI great, but her defensive game is super underrated. In 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:12.280 my opinion, that blocking uh the former MVP, former champion 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.360 like that as a rookie is insane, as any player 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:17.360 is insane. 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:19.720 So yeah, shout out to easy. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.440 Yeah, it's hard not to not to get excited about 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.800 some of the stuff and talk about it and you know, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.720 you hear everybody's talking about it, of Saint mentioned things, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.720 and but you also want to be respectful because Stewie 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.800 is one of the goats, and and you know, of 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.679 course if you come you kind of lum and one 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.200 of our favorites. And things happen when you're in the court, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.319 and then the whole, the whole premises. You go out 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.720 there and you compete, and whatever happens happens. And she 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.480 happened to get a chance to defend her on a 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.319 on a situation where she switched on her and did 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.959 a down doing good job of fending off the basket 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.360 and then got her hand on the ball at into 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.280 the end of it and knocked it away and helped 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.400 Dallas can kind of keep that that little cushing of 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.600 a lead that they had. But yeah, it was, it was. 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.760 It was unbelievable, and it's it's really surreal, even to 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.760 this this point. It's only been about a month, but 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.120 to see her on the floor and the court with 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.840 some of the greats and the people that we've been watching, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.280 she's been watching for a long time, and we've been 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.280 kind of day dreaming of this day coming. But it's 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.760 here and it's like, it's not normal, it's just surreal. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.200 And then to see her how she played on Sunday 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.280 in that environment in that game. One of the last 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.120 things I said to her before the game, we send 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.240 a little pregame text all the time, just to kind 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.920 of just locking in on certain keys or whatever it is. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.800 And one of the last things I said to her 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.079 was like, enjoy this environment. You know, this is kind 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:47.880 of why we play the game. You go out in 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.320 that environment, there's no reason to be You may you 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.280 have that anxious jitters at first, but it's don't need 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.800 to be nervous because you hear to play and once 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.720 that ball goes up to playing and it is what 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.480 it is. It's just basketball and you just out there 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:00.400 competing ooping. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:06.000 You know, yes, absolutely, And she sure did. Oh she 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.120 what have you texted? I need? But you gotta texted 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:10.240 I every single time. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:12.880 Yeah. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.199 She makes me have to be diversify what I want 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:16.960 to say, because I definitely want to be like, all right, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.840 copy paste, you know what, repeat rents and repeat, Let's 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.800 do it again, you know, but now, no, no two 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.240 games are alike. And hopefully for me, it's it's an 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:33.240 opportunity to see her. And it's funny because the discourse 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.160 with about Easy has been crazy online, which she doesn't 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:39.760 she doesn't really see any of that stuff. She stays 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.600 off of it. But you know, to see people debating 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.720 whether she should be starting or which would coming off 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.679 the bench eight, or you know, all the rookie of 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.800 the year craziness that they're they're they're debating, and uh, 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.480 and it is that people on debate that that's. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:54.200 The barbershop talk. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:59.320 But the one thing that that really like for me 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.760 is that you know, she's achieved some of the loftiest goals. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.959 Number one draft pick and no one's ever going to 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.800 be able to take that away like that. I don't 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.840 care if basketball seas to exist tomorrow, that's always going 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.719 to be her mention as the number one draft pick. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.320 And you could say that all the wood ups in 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.160 the world, but that she gets to own that for 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.200 the rest of her life and beyond. But also just 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.840 the fact that you know, Easy is just a different 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.959 kind of character, and you know this having worked with her, 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:32.080 She's not about all of those individual accolades. That doesn't 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.280 drive her, like it's not it's not what she plays for. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:40.560 She's a she's a connector. She's not necessarily a someone 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:46.600 who's driven by you know that all the the individual stuff. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.480 As a matter of fact, that there's clips of her 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.120 individual awards Yukon and handing the trophy off to her 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.040 teammates because it's not what she plays for. She plays 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.719 for them. She plays for them, and you can kind 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.440 of see her kind of developing that rapport with her 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.440 teammates in Dallas where that she wants to play for them, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.800 she wants them to be successful, and she went she 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.800 plays because she's a winner and she wants to win championships. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.240 That's all. That's that's the driven driving force for her 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:13.880 for sure. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:14.800 Absolutely. 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.120 You know, let's just I on that note, I do 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.240 want to know more about like what it was like 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.520 for you coaching Asy as she was growing up, right, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:28.280 you were one of her first coaches ever, right, so 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.640 tell us more about what it was like as coaching 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.760 young as just. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.920 What you see as loves on her teammates. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.200 She that's what kind of calls her to fall in 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.280 love with the game because of that camaraderie that she 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.240 had with her teammates at a young age. She was 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.440 so excited to show up on the weekend to play 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:50.199 with her teammates, that experienced something with her teammates and 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.160 and you know, slowly but surely we introduced work to 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.880 her and doing a little bit extra and teaching her 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.600 that just because you show up to practice doesn't mean 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.560 that you're you know, you're just doing this, doing the 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.439 bare minimum. You have to do a little bit extra 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:10.240 every day to increase your your aptitude, your knowledge, your 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:15.400 skill level and and your expertise. And sooner, uh, sooner 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.000 or later, that becomes habit. And the habit is what 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.400 she has in her instilled in her today that causes 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.040 her to want to get that extra work in and 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.800 continue to push herself and push those boundaries. But she 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.239 is so driven by that camaraderie with her teammates and 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.319 and wanting to have this common goal that you're working towards. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.000 It's it's that that's the epitome of who she is. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:43.199 And when you're coaching her, uh, she's she's so coachable 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.319 to the point to a fault at times, like you 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.719 tell her X Y and Z, She's going to work 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.840 to do X, Y and Z and focus on that, uh, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.000 as opposed to working on a B and C off 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.600 on her own. She's gonna work, worry about what you say, 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.439 and and that's that's just who she is. And this 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.560 is kind of the type of mentality. And she's always 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.240 been that way, even as a young child, like she 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.600 would she would she as a toddler, she'd be she'd 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:10.400 had that we would. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.160 Call it the warm up period. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.200 She take wake up from a nap, and she'd be 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.360 very social before the nap, and she'd wake up from 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.480 a nap. She'd sit in our laps for like ten, fifteen, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.640 twenty minutes, and it was like then she would slowly 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.720 come out of her shell and she'd be back social again. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.840 And you could see the same type of thing happening 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.640 with her in the Dallas environment where she's been introduced 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.960 to this new environment and she's like, Okay, let me 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.160 see what this is about. Let me see how I 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.760 can interact and relate and connect with my teammates. And 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.000 as soon as that stuff starts to happen, she's like 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.680 a flower that hits but the morning dew and the 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.480 sun hits it and it just slowly opens up and 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.040 you get that full, full, bossoming personality. That's the way 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.120 I describe her. She's so slow up pomatic. Yeah, and 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.760 you see it. You see that now, it's like all 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.880 of a sudden, Okay, we're seven games in here, Okay, here, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.200 come there, here she is. She's starts starting to open up. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.120 And it's not something that we haven't seen all throughout 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.440 her life and every every new environment that she's ever 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.640 been in here, So it's really exciting to see. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:13.720 Absolutely. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.160 I love seeing her get adjusted and starting to look 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:17.880 and feel. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.160 Super comfortable out there. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.240 As her former coach or I guess she's still kind 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.880 of coach her in this life. Yeah, how do you 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.080 get the best out of easy on the court? 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:36.960 You challenge her. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.800 You have to challenge her, and you have to always 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.200 be willing to adapt those challenges. It can't just be 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.840 concrete level of expectation, because she'll rise to it. She'll 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.320 rise to a level of expectation, and you gotta you 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.840 have to then adapt and adjustice and fix your expectations 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.880 so that she continues to rise because uh, and then 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.920 and it's like any any high level great player, they 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.440 have this unique ability to rise to the occasion and 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.600 and and to meet those challenges and meet those expectations. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.360 But that's that's the way I found it like we 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.960 would be in the gym working out and uh, you know, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.800 we're just working on shooting or whatever, and I found 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.920 that I started finding that she was getting bored throughout 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.040 the workout. Okay, make ten shots from this spot. Okay, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:28.840 we're gonna do X, Y and Z, and you're gonna 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.480 make You're gonna make seven shots here and then so 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.680 you could see her eat like in the midst of 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.400 shooting that, you know, making those ten shots halfway through. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.760 Her minds like like was wandering because this is too easy. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.640 And so now I'm it's like the smart kid in 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.960 class that's bored, you know, and he's showing he's displaying 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.000 negative behaviors or different behaviors. That's not that's unbecoming, right, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.800 But you have to challenge them to keep them focused. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:55.440 So we did. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.280 We had to start doing things differently, and we asked questions, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.280 how do you how do you challenge to certain players 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.640 and college coaches right giving us advice and so everything 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.800 was it's about winning and it's about competing. You have 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.919 to you have to make this many shots right in 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.600 this spot, six of eight from the from the corner 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.360 three you have to do and then when you can 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.000 make the six of eight and then next time around, 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.840 I'll be like, Okay, we're gonna shooting corner three, all right, Uh, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.639 you gotta make five swishes in a row before we 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.720 move to the next spot. And it'd be it'd be 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:30.120 amazing how you could literally see her eyes, the sparkle 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.119 in her eyes start to like and her eyes like narrow, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.960 the focus is narrow. It was like you could literally 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.679 see her lock in on that goal and before you 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:39.480 know it, she's in it. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:40.760 And it's like she's. 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.480 Knocking shot off, the shot off, the shout out the shot, 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.240 and it's like, okay, all right. So when she when 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.320 she's challenged, it's like it's a it's almost like this 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.560 barbado in her to like, Okay, you think you're gonna 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:52.560 beat me, I'm gonna beat. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.960 You, you know. So you get a challenger one hundred percent. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:02.000 That's awesome. I love seeing the competitor of a Z. 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.120 So, with the success of coaching your daughter, is that 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:10.040 why you and Katie decided to build out GTS fusion? 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.440 Tell us, yes, tell us what is GTS fusion? 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.040 So let me let me start with the coaching piece, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:23.719 Like I never wanted to coach her because I'm a 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.359 buthole man. I am not nice like I can I 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:32.119 cannot be. I can be really tough. And as a 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.160 young coach, I'll give you a story as a young coach. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:35.959 But then the first year we got married, I got 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.560 my first head coaching job at an elite private school 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.960 here in the DMV and I go to coach there 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.359 and they want to have a national program. I recruit 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.679 a bunch of kids I got. I got five international kids. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.040 I have kids from We were like forty five minutes 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:53.440 west of the city. I have kids from the city 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.800 driving that far out just go to school. We were 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.800 really good. We were thirty three and one. So three 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.960 the five international kids lived with us. We had we 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.960 hosted them. Me and met Katie and Aisy. There was 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.600 Asy's big first big brothers. That that was it. And 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:15.320 I was really like so locked in on my craft 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.440 and being a great coach and trying to be I wanted. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.400 I always wanted to be a college head coach, right, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:22.800 that was my goal. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:28.440 And so I I coached those kids on the court 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:34.480 in the classroom at home. One kid you know that 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.480 I coached, I mean he was he was Cameroonian, and 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:40.480 he was like Chidsel with all the stone, didn't lift 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.719 the weight, couldn't lift the weight, but could barely understand 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:44.520 how the left weights. But he was like chiseled out 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.360 of the stone. He was just naturally like strong, cut 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:52.439 up and but he was kind of like not super motivated. 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.840 He's lazy sometimes, and so I would I would see 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:56.640 him lazily walk up the stairs at home, and I'd 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.199 be like, that's it, That's exactly what you look like 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.560 in the game last night. I was like, I'm doing 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.720 something like that, and to a point where I was 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.480 I was over the top with it. In retrospect, I 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:08.919 was over the top with it, and I didn't know 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.440 any better. I was a young coaching, eager, eager beaver. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.879