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Speaker 1: welcome in to Coach Check, the official podcast of the
Speaker 1: Delaware Blue Coats, the NBA G League affiliate of the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy Sixers. Coat Check proudly presented by Land Rover Wilmington.
Speaker 1: I'm Matt Murphy and we are back with another episode
Speaker 1: of coat Check coming off Memorial Day weekend, the Long Weekend.
Speaker 1: Just a reminder, coat Check is released on a bi
Speaker 1: weekly basis, and you can catch up on previous episodes.
Speaker 1: We've had Terry Harris. Recently we had assistant coach Xavier
Speaker 1: Sila who formerly as a player, was a member of
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Speaker 1: without further ado, the guest on this episode Blue Coats
Speaker 1: Ambassador of Basketball, Joe Richmond. What's up, Joe Yoh? What's up?
Speaker 1: Man Murder? What's going on? Man? I? Usually give the
Speaker 1: date that when we are recording this just for background
Speaker 1: if we reference any days of the week or anything
Speaker 1: like that. We're doing this one on Wednesday, May twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: and that's a notable date because we're fresh off your
Speaker 1: profile in the Philadelphia in Choir markin Arducci doing a
Speaker 1: write up on you and our Delaware Blue Coats books
Speaker 1: and basketball programs. So how did you make time and
Speaker 1: your busy schedule Joe and your media tour right now?
Speaker 1: With that article coming out? That was pretty cool, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, when you guys first approach me with it,
Speaker 1: I was just blowing away. And to be able to
Speaker 1: do something on that level was amazing. And I've been
Speaker 1: blessed to be on the Blue Goos, had me on
Speaker 1: TV Fox and all those things. But to do that
Speaker 1: interview with Mark, who's a Philly guy who kind of
Speaker 1: related with some of the stories that we talked about
Speaker 1: was just amazing, and um, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And you know, as you know, with books and basketball,
Speaker 1: my schedule is kind of out there, and I'm also
Speaker 1: doing some birthday videos as well, so whatever I need
Speaker 1: to do, and you know, to keep the smiles or
Speaker 1: the kids' faces and the families doing this, this, this,
Speaker 1: this lockdown and it's kind of fun though. It's been
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And that will be that article
Speaker 1: will be available in the print edition of The Inquiry
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I mentioned we're recording this on Wednesday, so
Speaker 1: thanks again. I got about one hundred lines up to
Speaker 1: go purchase already. I'm gonna make my copy gold platinum. Well,
Speaker 1: we know that's the case with you, and we know
Speaker 1: you've got supporters that would definitely scoop up. So on
Speaker 1: today's episode, we're gonna get into a little bit of
Speaker 1: your background or a lot of bit, however much we
Speaker 1: can get to about your upbringing, your roots, all that
Speaker 1: for those who who don't know you as much as
Speaker 1: some others, or what wasn't covered in the article or
Speaker 1: anything like that. We'll talk about your time with as
Speaker 1: you say, and a lot of people say, the world
Speaker 1: famous Harlem Globe Trotters and your time touring with them.
Speaker 1: We will also, of course have our healthy Lifestyle segment
Speaker 1: presented by our friends at Christianic Care and of course
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Speaker 1: you're a fan of the program, So you know, we'll
Speaker 1: wrap things up with the Bluecoats talk and what you
Speaker 1: do for this team and what we've got going on
Speaker 1: in the community, and then we will hit a couple
Speaker 1: of questions, just some fun stuff at the buzzer. But
Speaker 1: let's start with that background for those who do not
Speaker 1: know you, Where did you grow up? Joe born and
Speaker 1: raised in South Philly three fifteen carpet away Man. It
Speaker 1: was called the North Side and the South Side because
Speaker 1: it was the tracks that divided both down to South
Speaker 1: Philly ned the Italian Market if you need some type
Speaker 1: of reference, and not too far from Columbus Boulevard, which
Speaker 1: we used to call Delaware av So growing up, I
Speaker 1: went to a never Your High school. I'm never your Elementary,
Speaker 1: left never Your Elementary, went to George George Washington Elementary
Speaker 1: right there on Fishtry, and then went to I went
Speaker 1: I actually started at Box Tech High School, ended up
Speaker 1: going to South Philly High where my brother was Big Mike,
Speaker 1: and it's so funny that I'm the ambassador of basketball.
Speaker 1: You gotta see me in the community. But it came
Speaker 1: from my mother. My mind stayed in the community in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: She was a dance teacher. She took dance for twenty
Speaker 1: years at the community center called the House of Industry
Speaker 1: where most of us as kids, we went there to
Speaker 1: play basketball. Was wrecking things in there. So that's where
Speaker 1: all this truly started from. So South Philly. You come
Speaker 1: from a big family, the youngest of six boys and
Speaker 1: your sister makes seven. How would you describe your upbringing? Oh? Man, discipline.
Speaker 1: My dad a pulled no mudgets, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: we still my oldest brother was in charge, and everything
Speaker 1: was always regimented for us. My dad was in the Navy.
Speaker 1: My brother Jeff ended up going into the army, and
Speaker 1: then I ended up going into the Navy, following my
Speaker 1: dad as well as his dad. So you know, just
Speaker 1: was regimented, you know, with boys. I love to brag
Speaker 1: that all of all of us are still living, my
Speaker 1: brothers and my sister. I just lost my one brother,
Speaker 1: but you know it went in succession and but we've
Speaker 1: been blessed. Man, and you know, to come up out
Speaker 1: of the out out of the neighborhood. When we came
Speaker 1: out of too where we at now, I would have
Speaker 1: never thought that. And all of that was was was
Speaker 1: rooted in the Sixers. It really was, man like we
Speaker 1: grew up. Everything was Doctor Jay or more Cheese, and
Speaker 1: and and and and Andrew toldy man, we was rooted.
Speaker 1: And Bobby Jones was like, dude, So you know, that's
Speaker 1: just how we were. My dad loved the game. And
Speaker 1: my dad was actually a Pittsburgh Stealer fan on football side,
Speaker 1: but you know, he kind of loosened up and let
Speaker 1: us become Eagles fans because my sister actually got to
Speaker 1: be an Eagles cheerleader when she was at Delaware State
Speaker 1: and she turned it down and boyed my dad ain't
Speaker 1: talked to her. Oh while he was like, you couldn't
Speaker 1: tell us nothing. Yeah, that's when Leonard toast on the team. Man.
Speaker 1: So we we've had a beautiful upbringing. Man. My mom
Speaker 1: and dad they just was strong in the community. And
Speaker 1: that's where we get it from. And that's why you
Speaker 1: see me out there and doing the things that I do,
Speaker 1: putting kids smiles on kid because my mother did it
Speaker 1: and and it was just an amazing thing to see
Speaker 1: growing up as a kid. And I know when we
Speaker 1: did the Blue Coats beat together, you talked about your
Speaker 1: older brother first putting the basketball in your hands. So
Speaker 1: how how did that change your life? Murph, You're gonna
Speaker 1: love this birth. This is a true story. So my
Speaker 1: brother takes me and my brother Mike. We got our
Speaker 1: coats so and this isn't a winter time. We got
Speaker 1: our mittens on and he takes us to the basketball
Speaker 1: court with a shovel. We're shoveling the snow off the court.
Speaker 1: Never forget it, man, and my brother just out there
Speaker 1: started teaching us the basics and this out this winter
Speaker 1: time when people are looking. And he had this one
Speaker 1: drill man when he made us lay on our back
Speaker 1: and suit toward the rim and if my brother was
Speaker 1: there to catch the ball to pass it back to us,
Speaker 1: just to get us our strapped up and buy. That's
Speaker 1: a true story, and that's how we got started. And
Speaker 1: my sister just took it over because she played at
Speaker 1: Delaware State when she played basketball. So my sister she
Speaker 1: cheated though, Matt, she was rough. She cheated a lot.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna cover a lot of your stops in
Speaker 1: the basketball world, including the Blue Coats later on in
Speaker 1: this interview. But away from basketball, you served in the Navy.
Speaker 1: So when was that period in your life? Well, right
Speaker 1: after high school, I had a traumatic situation happened with
Speaker 1: a friend in my life and the neighborhood I grew up,
Speaker 1: and I made a decision that I was not going
Speaker 1: to end up like that. So the next day I
Speaker 1: went on Broad Street where all the Navy and all
Speaker 1: the officers were. I signed up. My mom and dad
Speaker 1: didn't know, and when they did find out, I was
Speaker 1: on a plane head at the San Diego Cali Want
Speaker 1: from boot Champ, Yeah, And I was a hospital corman
Speaker 1: um And I chose that field, the medical field, and
Speaker 1: it's the honest guy in truth. If I chose it
Speaker 1: because of the TV show you might have remember was
Speaker 1: m Quincy Nah not right? Jack Plugan played the doctor
Speaker 1: called Quincy FD and he used to do all this
Speaker 1: term anoledge. I'm like, I want this is that stuff
Speaker 1: for real? So when I went in and they said
Speaker 1: would you want to be in my grades test? My
Speaker 1: test I tested. I I tested high enough to go
Speaker 1: in the Air Force or any of them. But I
Speaker 1: chose the Navy because of my dad, and that was
Speaker 1: right out of high school. Man, So it was it
Speaker 1: was a real impactful time in my life based on
Speaker 1: what was transpiring in my neighborhood at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and definitely an impactful story there. And I already teased
Speaker 1: the Harlem Globetrotters. You toured with them for five years
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven to twelve, A referen returned coach
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of other hats. How did you
Speaker 1: get involved with the Globetrotters. Well before leading up to that,
Speaker 1: my brother and I and my partner, Tim Hagans, who's
Speaker 1: a twenty year police van, we formed the organization called
Speaker 1: I Am Focused Finance was a nonprofit organization, so we
Speaker 1: owned minor league teams. We owned the Delaware Destroyers, the
Speaker 1: Delaware Stars. We was trying to just do anything in
Speaker 1: basketball because all three of us loved the game. Tremendous
Speaker 1: league and another rival in Harrisburg. He saw this and
Speaker 1: his buddy was actually going to be some big shot
Speaker 1: with the heart of Globetrotters and he said, hey, man,
Speaker 1: would you like you? You would be because he just
Speaker 1: saw the way I was with my team. I was
Speaker 1: animated as a fan, just animated. But he knew I
Speaker 1: officiated because you know when you and Mighty leads you
Speaker 1: to wear a different a lot of hats. And one
Speaker 1: time the officials ain't show up at a game. So
Speaker 1: I jumped in there and he said, would you want to?
Speaker 1: And I'm like what. So this was back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and I want to say two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and I said, I went to
Speaker 1: a game at the Bomb carton the Center where we
Speaker 1: used to play our games, watched the Harlem Globetrotters. The
Speaker 1: guy invited me back this that the third and three
Speaker 1: years later two thousand and seven. The rest is history. Wow.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna go with the thing you probably
Speaker 1: get asked a lot. You've been to all these states
Speaker 1: and countries, some of the countries you like, and we
Speaker 1: might talk about that later. But I was also going
Speaker 1: to hit you with the best memories type thing. But
Speaker 1: it just jogged my memory with you telling that story
Speaker 1: about your your audition for the Globetrotters. So tell that
Speaker 1: story of the actual audition or tryout. So they flew
Speaker 1: me out to Houston and they were like, hey, we
Speaker 1: really liked you, but I, unbeknownsed to me, there was
Speaker 1: a bunch of other people trying to start. I was special.
Speaker 1: I was in. So they had three referees, three of
Speaker 1: us guys that were coaches, and one of them was
Speaker 1: the Great Sea Worthing who played and played along Tupac
Speaker 1: in the movie above the Rim. I did not know
Speaker 1: him at that time, but that's so I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is big, you know what I mean? Like they
Speaker 1: got real guys and and it just it just kind
Speaker 1: of man, I don't know if I don't know what
Speaker 1: it was about me over it was me and Sam
Speaker 1: got picked. The other third guy didn't get picked as
Speaker 1: a coach, but I didn't get picked as a coach.
Speaker 1: I got picked as a referee because the referees could
Speaker 1: not keep up with the speed and the different things
Speaker 1: that the globetrotters did. So the guy that brought me
Speaker 1: in name Al Clocker, who's a Hall of Famer and
Speaker 1: pa he was like, hey, Joe, you can do that, right,
Speaker 1: you can. You can keep up with that, you can
Speaker 1: keep up with the verbage and all the things being said.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, So can I tell you the actual
Speaker 1: how you did it? Please? So it was a lie.
Speaker 1: The showman had to do this line, and the line
Speaker 1: was they going for land. The guy get foul and
Speaker 1: he says, foul, foul, foul. I seen the whole thing.
Speaker 1: The short white guy did it number seven, two shots.
Speaker 1: The other three referees as they doing it, doing it boom.
Speaker 1: They could not get that backup. All they had to
Speaker 1: do is re beat what he said. The guy who
Speaker 1: walked up and said, Joe, you could do it. I
Speaker 1: got on a suit and tie. They got on sneaks
Speaker 1: of referee shart. So I jumped out the air. I'll
Speaker 1: go on my bag because I always was taught to
Speaker 1: keep your referee stuff, which I'll go in my bank
Speaker 1: said no, you don't need your shirt, grabbed your whistle.
Speaker 1: I grabbed my whistle mat and I go out there.
Speaker 1: I hit on the first one and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: Man gotta be ready for your opportunity, and you were, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Let's shift gears a little bit as we move along
Speaker 1: our Healthy Lifestyle segment presented by Christiana Care. And I
Speaker 1: know you've been doing a lot during this quarantine time
Speaker 1: at home, with whether it be virtual books and basketball,
Speaker 1: virtual basketball drills. So here in the healthy lifestyle segment.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have you put on your coach Joe hat. Figuratively,
Speaker 1: What are something basketball drills that players of all ages,
Speaker 1: skill levels, all that can do at home during this time. Well,
Speaker 1: as you know, you never can do enough ball handling,
Speaker 1: and in basketball, most coaches teach that everybody needs to
Speaker 1: be a threat, meaning when you get that ball in
Speaker 1: your hand, you should be able to triple threat, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, be in a position to pass, dribble,
Speaker 1: or shoot. So when you're at home, that's what you
Speaker 1: need to practice. Get a chair. I like to use
Speaker 1: the drill that I use a lot, and I've put
Speaker 1: this out there where you get a chair, put the
Speaker 1: basketball on the chair, getting your stance, a good stance
Speaker 1: like you're almost sitting down, Snatch the basketball up and
Speaker 1: just pivot if you're right if you're right handed, and
Speaker 1: you know, you use your your left foot as your
Speaker 1: pivot foot, and you move around a chair as it
Speaker 1: was a person. The getting your triple threat position, the
Speaker 1: ready to pass, dribble or shoot the ball. In that way,
Speaker 1: you don't get the tear up a lot the mommy stuff.
Speaker 1: Actually dribbling in around the house and shooting it, but
Speaker 1: just mimicking those movements. And that's what I like to
Speaker 1: teach a lot of well, you know, you sit down
Speaker 1: and just play with the basketball, three year lags, going
Speaker 1: around one league, going around another league, standing up, going around,
Speaker 1: your back, going around. Just get used to that basketball,
Speaker 1: because you never can get enough of basketball. Hailing trips
Speaker 1: right for all of our the triple threat for all
Speaker 1: of our younger listeners out there, or maybe some Blue
Speaker 1: Coats fans will pass the message along to their kids.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the Blue Coats, let's go there. Now.
Speaker 1: You've been involved since the beginning, but you were named
Speaker 1: a few years back the ambassador of basketball for the
Speaker 1: Delaware Blue Coats. How did you end up with the
Speaker 1: Delaware organization? That's an awesome story. When the first game,
Speaker 1: we had a great guy named Malie Rose who's coming
Speaker 1: to be a board to get it all started to
Speaker 1: get out of the community. A great friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Tim Crawls, he called me and say, hey, this guy
Speaker 1: Malik Rose, what's to do something to commune. I'm like Malik,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh when I seem like maligu Rose?
Speaker 1: So Malik is a Philly guy kind of I knew
Speaker 1: knowing real well. He had a coach that was like
Speaker 1: a mentor to mister Bill Williams from Drexel, and so
Speaker 1: when I came to him, all I did was I
Speaker 1: just wherever Malik went. I went with them during basketball,
Speaker 1: juggling all different things while he presented the things that
Speaker 1: we wanted to get out to the public. And then
Speaker 1: the Dulaware eighty seven ers. But now as the Blue
Speaker 1: and it's grown to now where we are the Blue coach.
Speaker 1: So my whole goal was to say, Hey, here's this
Speaker 1: organization coming to our great state. Let me let them
Speaker 1: know what the status really all about. Since I've been
Speaker 1: here going on twenty years, going youth basketball, mightor league basketball,
Speaker 1: working my family, grown head kids, going to school, and
Speaker 1: I just had a good amount I'm gonna user Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith type word, plethora of mallets, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I want to I want to use that to
Speaker 1: help them because I understood that the kids that were
Speaker 1: coming to play here weren't from here, so we still
Speaker 1: needed to engage them in the community, but they wouldn't
Speaker 1: know how to really relate to our community. And I
Speaker 1: wanted to be that go between guy to do that
Speaker 1: to introduce them, because man, when we first started, as
Speaker 1: you see where we've grown to now, we've always add
Speaker 1: some unique, amazing talent for the Blue Goals. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: and Aris Watson, the Community Development Associate for the Bluecoats
Speaker 1: better known as two Phones these days, you guys obviously
Speaker 1: do a great job in the community with the books
Speaker 1: and basketball program that has the backing of the more
Speaker 1: Sports Medicine described that program the children's literacy program For
Speaker 1: those who might be unfamiliar with it, or better yet,
Speaker 1: just quickly take us through what you guys do when
Speaker 1: you've recently before all this happened when you guys would
Speaker 1: get into the classroom, well you know from day one, Um,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a program that was definitely needed.
Speaker 1: I am I'm not I'm not against technology or anything,
Speaker 1: but it's something about opening a book, man, that just
Speaker 1: is just magical. So when Alex presented this to us, man,
Speaker 1: so me my man arress a k A. Two fouls
Speaker 1: and the one and only the number one mascot in
Speaker 1: the whole g League, Cody. We go out to the community, man,
Speaker 1: but we get into them schools. When we get into
Speaker 1: them schools, and the time that I introduced Cody it
Speaker 1: is and they like, it's amazing. It is so amazing,
Speaker 1: And we use Cody Dance, the Cody Dance off with
Speaker 1: the kids. We use the education, all of that to
Speaker 1: get them to understand this is what books bring to us.
Speaker 1: And the one thing I love about our program that's
Speaker 1: I think more than you, unique than anyone else is man,
Speaker 1: is that we don't give not one kid a book.
Speaker 1: They get to pick out their book. And that's what
Speaker 1: I love about the schools and the different people in
Speaker 1: the community that allow us. They give us the time
Speaker 1: to leave the books out so the kids can go
Speaker 1: out and pick out their books. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the beauty of it because they take ownership of it
Speaker 1: now and as it seem like it's not posed on them.
Speaker 1: They get to put their name in it, like they
Speaker 1: went to the library and they get to keep that book.
Speaker 1: And then we also allowed them to pick one out
Speaker 1: for a family member or a friend and encourage them
Speaker 1: to read at home when they're not in school. And
Speaker 1: that's what I love more about the program than anything
Speaker 1: more than fifty thousand books distributed since two sixteen and
Speaker 1: only going out from that school. That's a soft number.
Speaker 1: But what is a game day like at seventy six
Speaker 1: ers field House for Joe Richmond. Amazing from the day
Speaker 1: the day before, when I know it's going to be
Speaker 1: the wake up to get in that field house for
Speaker 1: a seven clock game, to get in there around nine
Speaker 1: ten o'clock and get prepared because with a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know. And I pray that this is really emphasized.
Speaker 1: And you notice as well, we probably get on each
Speaker 1: other more than anybody all because we're looking at every
Speaker 1: detail for those fans that's walking through those doors, and
Speaker 1: everything that we do is geared to make sure we
Speaker 1: have not and we've got to kick over every rock,
Speaker 1: knock over whatever. We got to make sure all our
Speaker 1: teams across eyes are dotted to make sure that those
Speaker 1: fans get the most the most fun experience coming through
Speaker 1: the door and then get that amazing experience when they
Speaker 1: get the stands and see the game. So for Joe Richmond,
Speaker 1: it is so much fun to get ready. You know,
Speaker 1: I put on some of my nice little clothes, you
Speaker 1: know I do, Matt, I look at Spiffy because I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get to the front. And then there's
Speaker 1: nothing like with security saying doors and those doors open,
Speaker 1: and I see our fans during this this this shut in. Man,
Speaker 1: that's the most thing I've missed about anybody. I missed
Speaker 1: the game, but miss the fez, the kids, the parents,
Speaker 1: the grandparents. I missed that more than anything. You got
Speaker 1: your blue coat shirt on as we're recording this um
Speaker 1: or those listening, he's got the white shirt with the
Speaker 1: blue letters. The pented block letters of the blue coats
Speaker 1: were almost at our final quick questions at the buzzer.
Speaker 1: But before we get to that, I have been calling
Speaker 1: you for a little while now, but especially when the
Speaker 1: article came out. One of the most positive people that
Speaker 1: I know. So what keeps you going is it's just life.
Speaker 1: You know we're gonna do this sting one time once.
Speaker 1: We won't get another shot at this, and you know
Speaker 1: you're blessed to start. Like how not for basketball, would
Speaker 1: I've met a Matt Murphy. If not for basketball, would
Speaker 1: I've met a Joe Kane, Aris Watson, you know, a Felicia.
Speaker 1: It just sports. Just do this and that that that
Speaker 1: excites me. That excites me to know where I came from,
Speaker 1: knowing where I came from to where I'm at now
Speaker 1: and knowing that basketball has done that and it has
Speaker 1: it has given me an opportunity. And you said it before, Matt,
Speaker 1: I like to tell the story. I've been in all
Speaker 1: fifty states. I've been over thirty five countries and not
Speaker 1: that's basketball, and I do not take it for granted.
Speaker 1: You and I know we go back at it. Man,
Speaker 1: you talking new school basketball, talking old school basketball. But
Speaker 1: that excites me that you and I can relate on
Speaker 1: that level and that's what I love about and that's
Speaker 1: where it gets me going. So I'm I got a
Speaker 1: joke that I say, long as I'm six feet above
Speaker 1: the ground, I'm laughing at joking. I love that, and
Speaker 1: a well deserved shout out for our small but mighty
Speaker 1: staff with the Delaware Blue Coats in there as well,
Speaker 1: the best staff. He said, Yes, sir, I gotta agree
Speaker 1: with that one, but we're both a little bit biased.
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Speaker 1: slash PT. All right, Joe we'll get you out of
Speaker 1: here with a couple of questions at the buzzer, I
Speaker 1: was going back and forth on whether or not I
Speaker 1: was going to ask, but you brought up the Globetrotters
Speaker 1: travel again, so we know basketball lifers, the game takes
Speaker 1: you all over. What's your favorite city that you have
Speaker 1: visited or some of your favorite cities. Oh, man, I
Speaker 1: love I love Chicago, Dallas is beautiful. Anything in Texas
Speaker 1: you can't be. Anything in New Orleans is awesome. Miami
Speaker 1: was amazing. But I actually got to visit Hawaii and
Speaker 1: I lost. It was amazing. And I just we have
Speaker 1: some beautiful cities around this country, and I encotch everybody.
Speaker 1: When this is over, go make your business and go
Speaker 1: enjoy them. I know you said you got a road
Speaker 1: trip maybe with your brother coming up after all this,
Speaker 1: so maybe that'll get your mind going from different places
Speaker 1: you can go. But we as we wind down, I've
Speaker 1: got two more for you. I asked some of the
Speaker 1: players about what they fill out on media day for
Speaker 1: hidden talents, but you're often the one asking them what
Speaker 1: they're hidden talents are. Do you have a hidden talent
Speaker 1: or anything you've been working on during this time at home,
Speaker 1: juggling whatever it might be. You know, y'all might not notice,
Speaker 1: but I'm a great dancer. What kind of dancing. I'm
Speaker 1: a lying dance dude. Okay, I love lying dancing. I
Speaker 1: love Bobby chai Chi. That's old style, but I'm a
Speaker 1: lying dance dude. So that's my main thing. And I
Speaker 1: do a lot of hosting, and I have a comedy show,
Speaker 1: my Man Old School in US, and that's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things. So the being that type of arena
Speaker 1: with that crowd people you don't know, and keeping that
Speaker 1: crowd going, getting ready for the comedians, that excites me
Speaker 1: more than anything. Man, you gotta come and check me
Speaker 1: out on's off. Honestly, Joe, I know a lot about you.
Speaker 1: I did not know that. So there is something every
Speaker 1: day but last one. And I don't think this question
Speaker 1: applies to anybody else will have on the podcast, none
Speaker 1: of the players, coaches or anything like that, because it
Speaker 1: is inspired by our office debates when we were in
Speaker 1: the office that you had just touched on a moment ago.
Speaker 1: And it's about analytics. So give me a percentage, Joe,
Speaker 1: when you're looking at basketball players, what percent is the
Speaker 1: eye test, and what percent is analytics ninety five design?
Speaker 1: For me, five percent is the analytics, not saying they
Speaker 1: don't belong. But I'm just telling you, man, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at a guy and you just see something,
Speaker 1: especially when you play the game as long as I
Speaker 1: did and been arounded all over the world, and I
Speaker 1: officiated a two, Matt, so I look at it so
Speaker 1: many different ways as a basketball official, and I'm officiated
Speaker 1: on so many levels. So that's for me, is definitely
Speaker 1: an eye test. I'm not I'm not the data set
Speaker 1: against analytics. I just don't believe that. You know, championships
Speaker 1: don't analytics and championships don't equate. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: get that out of you because you gotta look at
Speaker 1: them to see if they can go. You gotta find
Speaker 1: out if these guys can go or if they can't go.
Speaker 1: So I knew this was gonna be electric Joe. You
Speaker 1: lived up to it. I'm really glad we got you
Speaker 1: on the podcast, especially with the timing of the article
Speaker 1: coming out. I was really happy to see you getting
Speaker 1: your shine. So thank you, No man, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for louding. Thank you, Matt. That is our
Speaker 1: Delaware Bluecoats Ambassador of Basketball Joe Richmond, and I'm Matt Murphy.
Speaker 1: Until next time, Take it or leave it at the
Speaker 1: coach check