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What was it like stepping on the floor against Giannis?
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So I couldn't really sleep.
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I was I was so pumped to play in Milwaukee.
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You guys made a big trade with Lamella.
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Was that a shock to you?
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Yeah, definitely a shock.
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For me, I just I like focusing on today.
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What can I do to get better today?
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Hey everyone, we're back for a special episode of Milwaukee Uncut where Lex and I are joined by Milwaukee Native and Charlotte Hornet star Khan Kanippo, who's coming off an amazing NBA rookie campaign with a lot of great moments.
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We cover the first time he stepped on the floor against Giannis in Milwaukee.
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By the way, he scored 32 points in that game.
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And speaking of that game, we talk about when he brought his pretty much entire team over to his parents' house the night before for dinner.
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He also went on Jimmy Fallon this year.
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We touch on the big Lamello trade that just happened, how he finished second in rookie of the year voting to his good friend and former roommate Cooper Fleg, and he got praise from Steph and Giannis this season.
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Since he's a Milwaukee native, we also touched on his favorite places around Milwaukee, and he's a big Brewers and Packers fan, so we talked some Wisconsin sports as well.
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It's a great episode, and it was really cool to have him in.
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All right, let's dive in with Khan Kanipple.
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Alright, welcome back to Milwaukee on Co.
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We've got a Milwaukee native.
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He went to Wisconsin Lutheran, where he was Wisconsin's Mr.
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Basketball in 2025, won a state title with a 30-0 record, then tended Duke, where he was the ACC tournament MVP, made the Final Four, fourth pick in the 2025 draft to Charlotte.
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Historic rookie season where he broke the NBA rookie three-point record and became the first rookie to lead the NBA in three-pointers mid.
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Came in second in a very highly contested and debated rookie of the year award.
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He's been on Jimmy Fallon.
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He's done some media as the NBA player correspondent.
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Thanks for having me.
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Good introduction.
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You've just been on a tear in life recently.
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Yeah, I mean, I guess.
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Did you um it I mean, obviously people thought you were you were gonna be good.
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You were the fourth overall pick, but did did you surprise yourself this year?
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Did you see all of this coming?
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Um, I think a little bit.
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Um you know, definitely um, you know, was gonna throw my all into it and see how big of a role I could carve out for myself.
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And um I think you know the trust that teammates and coaches put in me um early on um really helped spur that along and uh just made me more comfortable.
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And then I was able to find my footing pretty early when we had some injuries and guys go down where I had to you know play a bigger role.
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And then once we had all the guys back, like that that trust from them was was still there.
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So um it just allowed allowed me to keep growing and keep getting better throughout the season.
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Um we're obviously a Milwaukee-based show.
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One of the early moments for you this season in November, you came home, you dropped 32.
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First time playing against Giannis, growing up a Bucks fan, took that game to overtime.
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What what was that whole experience like?
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Uh it was it was awesome.
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Um I just I came home and obviously my my teammates came to to dinner at my parents' house the night before, so that was that was fun.
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Um a cool experience to kind of show them where I grew up, and then um obviously we're we were sitting at the trade like right across from the fire serve, so I couldn't really sleep.
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I was I was so pumped to to play in Milwaukee and just be home.
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Um and then obviously the the game started and I got two early fouls, so I was out early in the first quarter and they threw me back in there and then just got going from there.
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Um obviously would have liked to win, you know, had a big, big shot three-pointer to tie it and send it to OT.
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Um, but just kind of a kind of a tough one.
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The Bucks ended up beating us, but it was a special night.
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Um was it weird staying at the trade when you grew up like 10 minutes away?
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Yeah, very weird.
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Just thinking about that, like coming coming to your hometown, you're like, my bedroom's like 10 minutes from here.
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Yeah, very weird.
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Um never never stayed at a hotel in Milwaukee, so um definitely a different type of feeling.
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Yeah.
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Um the the dinner's been talked about quite a quite a bit.
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How did um how did how did that come about and what what what was it like having all those guys in your house?
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Um, well, I they were like kind of like, oh con where we going out for dinner.
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Um and I was like, well, I'm going, I'm going back to to my house in Wisconsin, going going back home.
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Um and so they were like, okay, guess we're going over there.
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And I was kind of joking about it.
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And my parents had texted me, you know, like a day later.
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Um, because they joked about that on the flight.
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We were flying planes somewhere else.
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Um my parents texted me a day later, like, invite anybody who wanted to come over, and I was like, I think I'm gonna invite everybody over.
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Um, and so we had some guys, and uh or most of the guys came.
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Um, and uh one of them, Mason Plumley, is like an an older vet um who was on our team for uh half the season, great dude, also a fellow Dukey, but he was like, This is awesome! Like we never get to I've never done this before, and he's been in the league for like 14 years.
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Um so very very cool to we don't get that a lot as players, a home cooked meal, especially on the road.
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Um and so I I think the guys thought it was special, and you know, my brothers, my brothers had a really good time with it too.
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Yeah, what was it like for some like your brothers to just have an entire NBA team stop by?
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They were pumped.
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Um, we came we came in the team bus.
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So we were we're driving down our street and we we turn in, we were like on a cutoff alleyway, like that's where we live.
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In in Walatosa.
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Yep, and so they they rolled in and um I could see my brothers like peeking through the windows.
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It was very funny.
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I don't blame them at all.
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I did see one of your brothers try to dunk on the mellow ball.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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Is that the first canuple brother to try to dunk on the mellow ball?
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Yeah, I think so.
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I never tried.
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Uh Kidman was just trying to distract him and come flying through.
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It was very funny.
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Um, kind of outside his personality a little bit.
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So we find it really, really funny as well.
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You gotta go for it when you get a moment like that.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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When you get a can you go fix the rim to the mellow ball?
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Oh man, you gotta do that.
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Very funny.
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Uh speaking of stuff like that, what was your most surprising moments your rookie year?
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Maybe one on the court and one off the court?
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Um, well, that's up there for most surprising.
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Um just that guys like enjoyed that and and and wanted to do that.
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Um off the court, I I'd say doing Fallon, like you mentioned.
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Like that was something that How did that come about?
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The the NBA was on NBC for a lot of games this year, so Fallon's on NBC and they wanted to they kind of did it throughout the season where they brought bring somebody through um from a from a team that's playing in New York, playing the Knicks or the or the Nets.
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Um, and so they would bring somebody through from whatever team was in town.
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Um, and the Hornets wanted me to do it, so I was like really I I didn't really want to do it.
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I was really nervous and I was like, I don't I don't really want to, but then after doing it, I was like, Oh, that's pretty that was pretty cool.
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Yeah, you were good on there.
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Yeah, it was it was it was fun.
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Was it one of those moments where you just like go on and black out and it's done and you don't remember much of it and then watch it back or uh I don't watch it back.
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Um it was interesting how um that the production of that too, like behind the scenes, like they kind of prep you for what he's gonna ask, kinda.
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Um, but then not all the way because they don't want you to they want you to be authentic up there.
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Um and then the crowd there is interesting, and it's this filmed that night, and then they show it later that night.
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So it's like filmed at like five and then they show it what whatever time it's on.
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Um, which it was it was cool to do that.
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And um my my mom and my aunt came and they were super excited.
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Were you more nervous for that or any game this season?
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Um no, I was nervous.
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I get nervous for games.
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Um probably most games, I was more nervous than that, but I because I was I was I was settled in after a little bit when I had gone through all the all the prep when I went out there.
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I was like, alright.
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Yeah.
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Was the was that first game in Milwaukee the the most nervous you've been before a game?
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Um this year.
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Maybe this year, yeah.
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Yeah, that was that was uh nerve-wracking one, but it is cool when you get introduced for the starting lineups and like there's a bunch of cheers.
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That calms it a little bit.
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Yeah, that was that was a cool feeling.
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What was it like stepping on the floor against Giannis?
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Um yeah, it was pretty pretty surreal.
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Um just I mean, I came to a bunch of Bucs games when I was when I was real little, when the Bucs were terrible and you know, he was on the team as a rookie.
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Um and so it was very cool.
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This just kind of full circle, I guess, um playing playing the Bucs and playing him specifically.
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You know, he's done so much for the city, so uh it was it was really cool.
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What uh uh what's it like mentally?
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Because you got a lot of friends and family watching, and then you get two two fouls, you're out, and then you rebound and drop 32.
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Yeah, he was like what's going through your head?
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Are you like, oh shit, I'm I'm yeah, like foul trouble is the worst because you're you're taking yourself out of the game for stupid, stupid reasons.
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You know, I think in that game I got like a a stupid, like it was a bad call, and then I got one where it was like it was a dumb, dumb fall on my part.
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Like, wow, I was I I can't necessarily remember specifically what I what I did, but that was like that's always like rule number one.
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Don't get in fall.
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That's my dad's only rule.
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Like, don't whine, don't complain, good body language, don't don't fall.
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Like, don't fall out.
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I want to see you play.
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Um, and so that that was uh frustrating, but you know, you just gotta stick with it, um, be ready for the next opportunity.
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And late in that first quarter, I got going a little bit.
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Um, growing up in this area, when did you know you were different or maybe had a shot at the NBA someday?
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Um it I mean it it took a while.
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Um I mean after I mean, still even in high school, you never really know.
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Um and so I by my senior year I felt like I was getting better like uh incrementally each year, like come back and I'd have something new and something something that I was better at and a different way to affect the game.
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And I feel like that's just kind of what I've been been trying to do each year.
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Um come back each season, come back with something different, um, just a little bit better.
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Um, and that's the that's kind of the biggest focus.
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So I was never really focused on man, I want to make the NBA, I just want to get better.
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I want to get better this year, I want to get better today.
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Um and for me that works.
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You know, some guys like to lay out a huge plan or dream.
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Um, for me, I just I like focusing on today.
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What can I do to get better today?
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Um, and stacking that over a long period of time has gradually gotten me to the point where I am right now.
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When did uh when did you start getting looks for big school from big schools?
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And was was there anyone in the running with Duke that you were interested in going to?
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Yeah, uh after my freshman year high school is when I started getting recruited.
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Um my uncle is a coach at Toledo, so he offered me, he's like, I think you'd be really good.
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So he offered me first, and then we went to for Wisconsin Lutheran, we play at Marquette team camp down here every year, and I had a really good camp.
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And Marquette offered me a scholarship after.
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Um and so they they were they were in it right up right till the end.
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Um what year that would have been what five years ago?
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Yeah, so I was a freshman in that would have been 2021, 2021 summer.
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Okay.
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So Marquette was pretty good at that.
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Stand and Stevie and those guys, or was that?
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No, I think it was Marcus Howard.
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It was Shaka's first year, okay, I believe.
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Marcus Howard was.
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So it would have been it would have been like that camp, they would have had Oso and Kolick and Oh yeah.
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Cam Jones was a freshman.
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So it was their first year.
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Um so it was uh they they were they're great.
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You know, even going back, watching my brothers play at the camp now, you know, get to talk to them for you know 10-15 minutes.
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They're really, really good people over there.
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Could Marquette possibly get get any of your brothers?
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We've got three Marquette alums in the building right now.
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Uh I mean, we'll see.
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I mean, they gotta keep working hard.
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Um you know, Marquette has uh not done great recently with like in-state recruiting.
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So I feel like they, you know, try to sometimes they they stay out of it a little bit because you know it's tough to recruit in-state guys like heavy and you know, kind of not not not land them.
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So um, you know, they've been they've been looking elsewhere um for for players uh recently.
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Maybe we could help with we got a former mascot in the building here.
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Yeah, maybe I have some pull.
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I can show back up.
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You had a you had a couple games as Iggy, right?
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Yeah, back in the day.
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Talking about basically the same.
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Yeah.
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Dan, your bro, your uh brother Kegger just committed to Duke what a couple weeks ago.
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Yep, Cager.
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Uh Cager, excuse me.
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No, it's all good.
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He uh he committed to do, yeah, that was two weeks ago, maybe.
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Um really cool.
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Um I just he was he was getting recruited by them and I was trying not to you know influence one way or the other.
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Um and I was just like, oh, I mean, like, whatever's best for him, like that's cool if that's best for him.
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And then he committed there.
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I was like, that's pretty cool.
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That's pretty sweet.
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I was excited.
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What ultimately want you over to go to Duke?
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Um I think a big thing that was underrated about it was it's a smaller school.
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So I was at the time, I don't necessarily feel this way anymore, but when I was getting recruited, um I was a little intimidated by the bigger schools.
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Um and so there's 6,000 undergrad at Duke.
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And so that that was really um intriguing to me.
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I liked it, and then all the other stuff that comes into it.
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I mean, it's for the most part, it's a basketball decision.
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So um I love I love Shire, I have a really good relationship with him.
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Um, but also the the um just the the the program and what it is and and what it's become and um playing you know on prime time TV all the time.
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I think that's really fun for a pla any any player uh to play on that stage.
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Um but ultimately I felt like it was the the place where I would go and compete against the best players I could and every day in practice, and that's where I'd get the most better.
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So I felt like that was the right choice.
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Did uh I've I've never been to Cameron Indoor.
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Obviously, I've seen it on TV a million times.
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Um did you go down there during high school a couple times and check check out games there?
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And like what's what does it feel like playing inside of that stadium?
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Yeah, um you know it's it's a complete so I went to a game this year to watch, and that's a completely different experience than um when you're playing just how awesome like that environment is because when you're playing you're focused on like the game plan, what you gotta do.
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So you're trying to not focus as much on the crowd, even though like they can give you a bunch of juice um on on like a big run or something, but you're trying to focus on what what you're supposed to do.
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And so it was really, really cool seeing it as a fan.
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Um, because it is electric in there.
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Um and there's only like eight eight thousand seating small, but they're they're on topia, and it's it's really, really cool.
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Um the chants from the the crazies and um the pregame stuff.
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It's it's it's really really special place.
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I only got to play 17 games there, so it's uh I'm uh I don't get to play anymore.
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So I'm I'm a little bit jealous of of Cager.
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You know, he gets to go on there and play some games there.
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I mean you're close.
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How far of a drive is it from Charlotte?
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Uh 230, two and a half.
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Not terrible.
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Not terrible, not terrible, not terrible, but it's like a little bit farther than like than like uh he's playing tonight.
00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:51.839
Let me just swing over.
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Right.
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Like it when he's there, it'll be different.
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Like I'll go up there.
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But like when you're playing a full 82 game season, it's like I don't want to drive five hours tonight.
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Sorry, little bro.
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And sit at a game.
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Was that uh was that the biggest adjustment this year?
00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.599
That's a lot of uh basketball.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Um that was the biggest basketball adjustment.
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Like you just gotta get ready to ready to go every every night, um which sometimes like a lot of times your body just doesn't feel good, which is like most of the time when you're like in college you're playing, and every time you play, like you're getting your body to the point where I feel great, I'm like ready to go.
00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:35.440
And there's well, we had 16 back to backs.
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So the second night of the back to back is tough.
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Like you just go out there and like your mindset is like I just gotta like grind through this one, and then we'll have a day off tomorrow.
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But like it's really, really hard to your body feels does not feel good for that that second game of the back-to-back.
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So getting your body um in a in a spot where you can go out and compete and and feel good, and it's it's mostly mental of like I can I can do this and get through this.
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What's a typical back-to-back like?
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So I'm guessing you leave the stadium around like 10 or 11 at night.
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Are you flying out that night to a different city, or do you stay overnight there, fly in the next morning, do like a little shoot around, and then so there's like rules in NBA are like rules.
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You don't do a shoot around on a back-to-back.
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Um, and then you also, if the game starts anytime before seven, you also don't do shoot around.
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So if it's if the game starts at 6 30.
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Interesting.
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The game starts at 6 30, it's like, alright, no shoot around today.
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It's very, very so that's a league rule.
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The team can't it's I don't think it's a league rule.
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The the second one, I think the fur the the back-to-back one might be something that the MBPA put in.
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But like I think it's just like league, like an unwritten rule.
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If you play at 6 30, we're not doing shoot around.
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Um But the worst ones are road back to backs.
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So we played in in San Francisco, we played the Warriors, got smoked, lost by like 20.
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Um, we didn't play well, and we had to fly to Denver the next day, which is like it's a long flight.
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Denver air Denver's airport is like 30 to 40 minutes from downtown Denver.
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Yeah, oh you fly into that.
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We we flow we flew into Denver, got there at like two, drive to the hotel, get there at like 2 40.
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Um no shoot around, sleep, slept till like 11, got up.
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We didn't even have anything until like we're we're leaving for the gym.
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Rookie's got to be there early, so um I get there, uh the our bus leaves at like 3, 3.30 for a 7 o'clock game.
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Um we get there, uh, we shoot, we lift before the game.
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Um, and then we have you have chapel like an hour before the game, talk about the game plan.
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That was the first time we talked about the game plan.
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So no no film or anything.
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Like they'll they'll send you clips um the night the night before the the that morning, they sent us clips, and then like what we're gonna do is wasn't really discussed until like 30 minutes on the clock.
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We go out there, win by 30.
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Like that's the the difference of the MBA, but like some of that stuff is just like especially in those back-to-backs.
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We were really good in back to backs the second night, just because we'd go out there and like we're gonna play hard and like this is what we're gonna do.
00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:39.519
Um, because a lot of it is just a war of against your body and your mind throughout throughout an 82 game season, yeah.
00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:46.640
But that was kind of like a small picture of a road back to back, those are the worst, or like a home and then road, not fun.
00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:47.440
Yeah.
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Um, Cooper Flag, your your your roommate.
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What was it like that one game you you guys won against each other, which you did win that one?
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I think you both had career highs, or at least were your highs at that point in time, and then just back.
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With him in the rookie of the year discussion.
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What was are you guys super good friends off the court and what was that?
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Yeah, yeah, we're good friends.
00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.599
Um just got to see him out in Vegas at the Duke.
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We had like a little Duke dinner, um, which is cool.
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Like Duke Alum and Oh nice.
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Who who was who was at that dinner?
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Um so most of the guys from my team were there.
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Uh Shire or assistant coaches, um Jason Tatum was there, Grayson Allen, um Mark Williams, uh, and then you had like people that work in that in the NBA, Quinn Snyder, who's coach of the Hawks, yeah.
00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:43.039
Uh Mike Dunleavy, the GM of the Warriors.
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So it was very, very, very cool.
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Um just to kind of talk to those people.
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And Dunleavy, I was at the uh game when Giannis decked him.
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Oh, yeah, when we lost by like 60.
00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:55.519
The Bucks lost by 60.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That was back in the early.
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I think that was still at the Bradley Center.
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Yep.
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I think he was trip a little chippy with Giannis, and then Giannis just went full linebacker mode on it.
00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:13.599
That was that was cool because that was when we were down, the Bucs were down 3-0, I believe, and won two in a row against the Bulls.
00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:14.559
Did they win that game?
00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:15.440
He decked him.
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No.
00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:16.240
Okay.
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So they were down 3-0, they won two in a row, coming back home.
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Okay.
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And obviously, no teams ever come back 3-0 and we're like, we're coming back home, like we're gonna win this game, and they lost by 60.
00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:27.359
Giannis got ejected.
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Yeah, they had I mean, if you're losing by 60, you might as well get ejected.
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It was like 55 points.
00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.160
They had some good playoff series against the Bulls in the in the mid-2000s.
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Um God, I'm blanking on one game.
00:23:39.200 --> 00:23:42.319
I was at the Bayless, maybe?
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I don't know.
00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:45.440
Made some buzzer beater layup that uh Jerry Bayliss.
00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:45.759
Yeah.
00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:59.279
Anyway, I didn't mean to digress from Summer League and Cooper Flag and the in the in the Duke dinner, but was it uh did did you do you think you guys made it made each other a lot better at Duke just going at it every day in practice?
00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:00.240
Yeah.
00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:17.119
And you know, we had a lot of I think now we had Sion, Tyrese, Cooper, me, come on Malawatch, and then we had Malik Brown got drafted this year, Isaiah Evans got drafted this year.
00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:20.160
So that's seven NBA players on a team.
00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:21.200
That's wild.
00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:27.039
And then you have Caleb Foster who's still there, Pat Gongba who's still there, who are probably gonna be NBA players.
00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:30.880
Um and so like that's a really, really loaded team.
00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:35.359
You think about going into practice with that every day, like you're gonna you have no choice but to get better.
00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:37.680
Um Iron Sharpens Iron, right?
00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.119
So that was a it was a a fun, a fun year.
00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:43.680
Um and just good people too.
00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:45.839
So it was it was good to be around those guys all the time.
00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:46.480
Yeah.
00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:49.039
Um and how's how's the offseason been for you?
00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:50.079
What have you been up to?
00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:52.400
Um I've been in Charlotte for the most part.
00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:59.759
Um rookies kinda, you know, we want you they want you in market for most of the off-season, uh, just working on your game.
00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:01.519
Um which is fun.
00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:02.880
You know, it was it was it was fun.
00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.240
But I I came back pretty much every weekend um when we're off.
00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:10.720
So just come back up here, uh chill with buddies, girlfriend, family.
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.240
Um which you know, I love it up here.
00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.039
Other than right now, it's can't even breathe outside.
00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:21.519
But yeah, we have the we have the the the wildfire smoke going on right now.
00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:25.920
Hopefully it'll be cleared by the time this episode airs on uh on Wednesday.
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:27.359
Okay, yeah, it's wild.
00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:29.519
I haven't seen anything like it down here before.
00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:32.799
No, it's very it was like record bad the other day.
00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:33.279
Well, it yes.
00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:35.440
Delayed my flight by like six hours coming in.
00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:35.759
Really?
00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.039
Yeah, yesterday.
00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:38.559
Just because of the the smoke.
00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:39.200
Oh, yeah.
00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:40.000
I guess it's like visibility.
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:44.160
Yeah, it would probably be hard to see anything driving and flying an airplane.
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.039
It already just feels hard to see anything like on the road.
00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:47.839
Yeah, right.
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.279
Yesterday I woke up and I was like driving to work and I was like, this is my dream.
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:52.480
I woke up and gotham.
00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:54.559
Like I'm Batman.
00:25:55.440 --> 00:26:02.799
I've tried to send Cody out to get uh drone shots and in Mekwan at the Chinookse, and he like drove out there and turned around halfway each time.
00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.079
He's like, Yeah, we're not uh not gonna be able to get the shot you want.
00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:07.279
Okay.
00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:10.799
Um what it kind of, what do you like most about Milwaukee?
00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:13.039
Where do you what spots do you like going to?
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:13.519
Here.
00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:15.599
Any any favorites?
00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:19.039
My my favorite, like or food spots?
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:19.440
Is it a lot of things?
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:20.960
Yeah, yeah, let's do food spots.
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All right, let's get back with Khan.
00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:10.000
My favorite uh bar spot is JMB's uh right on Blue Mount, like that row of bars like right by right by Ampham.
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:15.200
Um but I've been going there since I was real little, so I that's that's my favorite every time I'm here again.
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.240
Your parents just introduced you to those spots early.
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:18.799
I like that.
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:32.880
Honestly, honestly, is my my my cousin my my uncle um going there with my cousin because my my dad doesn't drink, so um you know he'll go to a bar spot and eat, but it wasn't wasn't like one of his favorites to go to, but it's it's a really good spot.
00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:33.680
J and B's.
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:35.440
That's a bit that's a large spot, right?
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:36.319
What is it?
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.359
It's pretty big in there, right?
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:38.400
Yeah, the whole back room.
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:39.039
Yeah, the back room.
00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:40.799
Oh, they got good chicken tenders there.
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.160
Yeah, we've we've been there before and after brewer games before.
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:47.119
Yeah, no, it's got the shuttle, it's got that big backroom.
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:50.400
Um, I remember watching like March Madness games back there.
00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:52.400
Yeah, very, very cool spot.
00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:54.000
Um, that's that's my favorite.
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:58.880
Yeah, any other food spots you like hitting up when you're back in town or spots around Milwaukee?
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:04.880
Um, I mean, I my buddy I brought some of my friends that I made at Duke uh up here.
00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:06.480
We went to the Luke Combs concert.
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.799
Um, and so I introduced them to cops.
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:09.920
Nice.
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.200
Um, which I was like, you know, the and we walked in and they were like, this is awesome.
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:22.480
Like in the old hats, like the the workers wearing the hats and stuff, and they were like felt like they were in 1950.
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:24.559
I was like, Yeah, this is the spot, man.
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.039
Like Stranger Things had yeah, yeah.
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:31.680
Were they uh did you guys do anything downtown other than go to the concert?
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.039
Uh in Green Bay.
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:33.920
Well, it wasn't it was at Green Bay.
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:34.640
Oh, it was in Green Bay.
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:35.279
It was at Lambo.
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:36.400
Right, at Lambeau.
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:37.039
So, yeah.
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.759
So, no, you guys did not do anything in downtown Milwaukee.
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:43.279
Since it was not the concert was not here, I remember that.
00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:46.559
I was Lambo for a I've never been to a concert there.
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:51.759
Yeah, they that was like the first one in a long, long time because they they're Lambeau's great.
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:58.079
There, there's the field, the guy that runs the field is very strict about what can be on the field.
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:05.519
Um because we we keep we we take care of our grass slash turf combo, whatever it is up at Lambeau, the frozen tundra.
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.240
Sacred.
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:07.200
So very cool.
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.799
And the and I got to we got to meet Combs, which was cool.
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:19.359
Um but normally the team that's host or like the stadium that's hosting will let like you know the main guy get the the locker room, the home locker room.
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.880
And they don't like Lambeau does not let people get the get the Packers louder.
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:25.440
Interesting.
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.039
I was like, I love this team.
00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:31.599
Dude, we love do you go to many Packer games or did you growing up at all?
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:44.079
Um actually like I only went to for like 10 years I had gone to one game, and then my senior year, one of my buddies, we he had tickets and we drove up uh three times to go to go to a game.
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:46.480
So yeah, I was I was thankful to him.
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:48.480
Um so I've been to like four or five.
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:50.319
Nice, but watch every single one.
00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:50.720
Yeah.
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:53.039
That's just a magical place.
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:53.759
Yes.
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:57.279
It's you get it's bucky list, like you gotta do it.
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:08.160
It's I've been to a lot of college football games, like when I was getting recruited and visits like Sunday at Lambeau, is especially when you're like parking on somebody's lawn and walking in, yeah, is unbelievable.
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.480
We uh I mean we went up there I think every game except one this year.
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:14.880
Talking to the opposing fans is always fun.
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:15.359
Yeah.
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:24.880
Because they're just blown away that there's this NFL stadium in the middle of a neighborhood with like modest houses around, and that they're treated very kindly.
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:25.119
Yeah.
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:26.319
They're for the most part.
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.079
Yeah, that's what they that's I see videos of that all the time.
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.039
Um where they're like, yeah, everybody's so nice.
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:33.519
Yeah.
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:34.799
Which is which is true.
00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:36.559
They're just blown away by that experience.
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:41.359
Um, all also in the offseason, you got you guys made a big trade with Lamello.
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:46.240
You got um Lex's favorite player over there, not Nazareed.
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:52.160
Um and you got it, yeah, for first round, first round pick, few swaps, few seconds.
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:52.720
Yep.
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:54.720
You played well with Lamello.
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:58.559
You guys were kind of like branded as the you know the future of the Hornets.
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:00.400
Was was that a shock to you?
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.039
And how yeah, what do you think?
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:04.640
Would have you processed it?
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:06.160
Yeah, definitely a shock.
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.960
Um, you know, Lamel's a great dude.
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:12.480
Um I I I loved he was he was awesome.
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.319
We had a follow-up question.
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.480
Someone was curious if you ever gotten in a car with him driving before.
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.920
I I have not.
00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:20.559
Okay.
00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:21.519
I have not.
00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:22.079
Smart.
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.440
But he he was he was great to be around every day.
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:31.119
Um, and so that's already missed, you know, just the the joy and energy that he brought to to the locker room.
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.559
What's he like in the locker room?
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:40.640
Is he um yeah, he's just he just uh he's loud, um, but he he comes in every day and he says hello to everybody.
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:50.640
Um and I mean like trainer, strength coach, assistant coach, whoever's cooking the food in the in the meal room.
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:52.960
Um so it's just cool to have people like that around.
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:54.319
Genuinely nice guy.
00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:54.960
Yeah, nice guy.
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.039
He's got some does he have some rescue dogs too?
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.359
Yeah.
00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:58.000
Did I see?
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.000
Well, I don't know if you I don't know, he's got some huge dogs.
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:00.880
I think they are.
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.920
I think they are um but he he's great.
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.039
Um and so definitely, definitely tough.
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:16.400
And like one of the guys that you know embraced me as a rookie, um, which is this is this is all I know is playing with him and being around him.
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:21.200
So it's just different um day to day walking in the in the in the in the room.
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.119
But he's he's awesome.
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.200
I uh you know, we wish him all the success success in the world.
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:31.200
Um and uh you know I'll we'll stay in contact.
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:33.200
Like he's he's a good good dude.
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:35.839
So um but yeah, definitely tough.
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:36.880
I'm excited though.
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:41.200
Um, you know, I think we're we're gonna continue to build something in Charlotte.
00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:42.400
Um met Nas.
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.759
Nas is a great dude.
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.480
Um we got some other good guys that are coming in.
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:50.000
Um and so I'm definitely excited to keep building and going forward.
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:52.640
Very humble guy, Nas.
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:57.839
I think you'll feel that joy and the the happiness energy in the locker room with Nas.
00:32:58.079 --> 00:32:59.200
Yeah, that's what uh that's what I've heard.
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.680
Like all I've heard is that he's an awesome dude and obviously beloved.
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:05.200
There is there is so much love for him in Minnesota.
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:07.599
It is I actually have a random fact for you.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.240
Do you know a thousand five hundred people got tattoos of just Nas Reed on their body?
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:14.720
Yeah, I remember I remember seeing that go going viral.
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:18.960
Yeah, you gotta push for a Charlotte tattoo artist to start bringing him up.
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.160
Nas Reed tattoos in Charlotte.
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.960
Was there a campaign for that, or how did that even happen?
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.240
Basically, everybody just loved him so much, and everybody just started saying just Nas Reed.
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:31.599
Like you could say it to anything.
00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:33.039
They'd be like, Do you want to go out to dinner?
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:33.920
Nas Reed.
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.039
Like it was the only thing people talked about on that playoff run.
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:43.279
So then this tattoo artist was like, I'm gonna give away free tattoos only if you're getting the words Nas Reed.
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.799
And there was like a line out the door.
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:46.480
One of my coworkers got one.
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:51.119
I was hoping we got a championship, and I would have got like a forehead Nas Reed tattoo.
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:56.240
Yeah, Big Jelly, he's he's a great guy.
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:59.119
Um, very, very great playmaker.
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:04.480
The way he handles the ball at 6'9, I think I think that's gonna be a fun thing to add to Charlotte's bag.
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:06.160
Yeah, and he can shoot it.
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.000
And I can't wait to hear Eric Collins talk about Nas Reed.
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:12.400
That'll be fun.
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.360
Yeah, Eric Collins, the best in the business.
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:16.880
He is the best in the business.
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:23.920
What's it like when you watch back some of your like game footage or like hearing the way he talks about you?
00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:27.119
Yeah, um it's it's cool.
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.760
Um I he just goes crazy.
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:38.000
Uh we're gonna, I mean, the best wouldn't he's like LAMELO! So we're gonna we're gonna miss we're gonna miss that for sure.
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.960
Um no, but he he's awesome, really good dude, love like knows so much.
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.960
Like he he comes on the on the broadcast with facts like every every game.
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:54.559
And my my uncle and will will text me like yo, this is like what do you had today or whatever, had tonight.
00:34:54.719 --> 00:35:03.840
Um, but I love he they travel with us, obviously, so um we get to talk on like the airplane or stuff, and he'll always have trivia for me.
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:08.480
So I love I love that sort of stuff, and you know he's he's he's a really cool cool dude as well.
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:12.639
What were your thoughts on the nickname he gave you of basketball catch up?
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.000
Basketball catch up?
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:15.119
Uh I thought that was cool.
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.039
That's a that's a big compliment.
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:21.199
Um I know my extended family and cousins really like that one.
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:25.679
They thought it was that does that make an appearance sometimes from the family?
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.880
Um no, I'll just get like texts about it.
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.000
Like what'd be catching up?
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:31.920
What is the meaning of basketball catch-up?
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:35.280
Make everything around you better.
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:35.920
Yeah.
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.400
That is a high that is high-preise comparison.
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:42.719
I think it's a very like Wisconsin way of saying you're you're a good team player.
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:43.920
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:49.440
Did does does Eric Collins flip the switch when he's on, or is he is he just he's just like that 24-7?
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:50.400
The same.
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:51.519
You gotta love that.
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:52.400
Yeah, absolutely.
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:53.679
Yeah, he's the same all the time.
00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:57.440
Were you uh were you excited to get drafted by the Hornets to stay in state?
00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:57.840
Yeah.
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.039
Were you kind of like indifferent on who you got drafted by going into that?
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:03.199
Well, you kind of gotta be a little indifferent.
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:08.239
Um, because if you're like you you make it like, man, I really don't want to go there in your head.
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:14.480
Yeah, you don't, you know, and you're like, and you end up getting drafted there, it's like well, you don't want to be disappointed at whatever.
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:26.000
But um I was I kind of knew that that was an opportunity to go to Charlotte, and I was like, I I know the state, like I've been here, it'd be cool to have like some of that support, that fan support right away.
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:30.719
Um, so I I definitely kind of wanted to go there.
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:33.920
Um, Khan, any uh you're you're a pretty big brewer fan.
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.440
I listened to your show when when you were on with Yelic as well.
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:43.599
Any favorite brewer memories growing up or like a favorite run or year that they went on?
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:44.320
Yeah.
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:52.159
Um the Wood Woodruff home run in 2018 off Kershaw was was awesome.
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:53.440
And it's even more awesome.
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:55.199
And that was that the Dodgers series.
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:55.920
Yeah, Dodgers.
00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:56.400
Yep.
00:36:56.559 --> 00:37:08.480
It's even more awesome, is my like a family friend, like he was in like Toyota territory and like he was reaching over the edge and the like the fence, and like the ball hit his hands.
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:10.400
Did he dropped it?
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:11.360
He dropped it.
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:14.960
So that's uh just adds a little bit of humor to the space.
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:16.639
Has he gotten over it yet?
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:25.039
No, I still like I'll go to I'll go to brewer his his dad coached me in AAU, so I'll go to Brewer Games, just take a picture from the tunger zone at the next day.
00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:27.440
They'll talk about it every every time we're there.
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:31.119
And because somebody from the news like thought he caught it, so they went up to like interview him.
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:32.559
He's like, I dropped the ball.
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:34.800
I don't have it.
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:37.760
But that one, that one was a big one for sure.
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:39.760
Um last year was awesome.
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:42.079
Um the Cubs series, yeah.
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:44.239
Cub series was very satisfying.
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:54.079
That was that was fun to be there because like yeah, you almost get the Cubs in the playoffs, and you're like, you're excited, but you're also like, fuck, we can't lose to these guys.
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:57.360
We just like that would be the most demoralizing thing ever.
00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:02.079
And yeah, I was nervous when it went to went to five games, but uh thankfully they pulled through.
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:04.639
Yeah, I was I was super nervous for that one.
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:12.880
Um I even just last year, like I was in Charlotte for a lot of the end of the like the end of the summer when we were when it we won 14 games in a row or whatever.
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:21.199
So um when we had like the we were down like 12 to 2, I think, against the Reds, and just came back and won like on that streak.
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:24.000
Um so that was that was just a fun time.
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.159
Like that was I was watching every night.
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:30.000
Um but yeah, there's there's definitely a lot of them.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:31.440
How many games do you guys go?
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:34.320
Like, where would you like go to a year growing up?
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:49.119
So my my aunt and my grandpa split season tickets, so we would like when I was growing up, and you know, when we weren't as good, um we had like Giovanni Gallardo and Ricky Weeks and Ramos Ramirez and all those guys.
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:55.199
Um and Ryan Braun, obviously, like we'd we'd go all the time, like probably like 10 games a year, 12 games a year.
00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:57.760
Well, were you like five years old at that point?
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.960
Uh yeah, like 2013.
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:02.079
I feel like we so I was like eight.
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:03.199
Oh, 13, okay.
00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:06.079
2013, I was like eight, that was probably the most.
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.280
So they had they had like um what year were you born?
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:10.239
2005.
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.280
Jeez, okay.
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:14.079
Um, so yeah, they had a magical run.
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:19.599
So when I was in in school at Marquette, it was like I kind of started there around 2008.
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:33.599
And that's you were too young for this, you would have been barely allowed, but CC Sabatia, like they got him for half a season, and he just pitched like every other day, it seemed like, and just put the entire team on his back and got him to the playoffs.
00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:37.119
And I think I think that was their first playoff appearance since the 80s.
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:37.440
Yeah.
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:41.599
In the city just went crazy, and those games were so much fun to be at.
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:46.880
Um, but yeah, we've we've been pretty spoiled for a small market team to do what they've done.
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:48.559
It's been just insane.
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:49.119
100%.
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:56.159
It just seems like everybody we get, especially pitchers, come here and just deal.
00:39:56.559 --> 00:40:08.719
Um, and so I think you know the front office does a really good job of you know locking guys down, like we see with Prad and Laura, like just getting long-term contracts, and you know, we'll see how they they develop.
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:20.320
But you know, locking down young talent, and obviously our farm system's always talented, so it's very cool how we can just kind of shuffle guys in and out, even though you know we're obviously restricted with with money.
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:26.239
Um be cool to see us spend a little bit more, but yeah, it's been crazy what they've been able to do.
00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.400
And hopefully another long run this season.
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:28.719
Yeah.
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:29.920
They're looking good.
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.079
Um, I had a I had a random question.
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.079
Um, we do some clips on like favorite places around Wisconsin.
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:43.760
I was curious if you had any favorite basketball gyms in the state that you like played in growing up.
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:44.960
Yeah.
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:45.920
Favorite basketball.
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:47.280
Just like random spots.
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.159
Like I remember playing in high school, which I I was not very good.
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:52.079
I didn't get off the off the bench too much.
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.639
Um peaked at the JV level.
00:40:54.880 --> 00:41:01.519
But uh, yeah, like Monroe, Wisconsin, they have like a stadium that's basically in a barn, and people are just like on top of each other.
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:02.960
I grew up in the Madison area.
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:03.280
Okay.
00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:08.880
But uh I played uh a great one as Nina.
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:10.320
They had their old field house.
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:11.679
Um, I don't know if you've been up there.
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:16.559
I think they I don't I don't know if it's still I think it's still up, but they don't play in there anymore.
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:23.760
They built a new gym, but they had this old gym that was that like had this round roof a little bit, and it was huge.
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.440
Um so that that was a really cool one in high school.
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:32.880
Um in AAU, like obviously like just a game in the Dells was always fun.
00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:36.480
Um just with like the all the high school memorabilia there.
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:43.039
Um another fun one, AAU, fun one is like walk out and walk ashot center court.
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:47.199
Um I haven't been out there in a long, long time, but that was a that was a cool one.
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.440
Brown Deer High School has a great gym.
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:56.400
Um just with like the you know, you got the the big space in the back because they have four, they have a field house.
00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:01.199
Um there's a good one in in our conference.
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:06.079
We didn't Pi Pius has a good has a good gym.
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.519
Um there wasn't a ton of great ones.
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:12.159
Classic ones in our comp in our conference.
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:13.599
Oh Rufus King.
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:14.880
I don't know if you've ever been there.
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:15.920
I haven't been inside really.
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:19.760
Rufus King has I don't I don't I don't know if they still do.
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:21.599
This was when I was like a sophomore.
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:27.199
But the the stands are above the court so and then like the court's on the ground.
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:27.760
Yeah.
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.199
And then like there's like a bowl on top.
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:34.880
So everybody's sitting up top and like looking down at at the at the player's plan.
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:35.679
Oh, that's cool.
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:36.639
That one's a really cool one.
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:37.840
And it's it's old, yeah.
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:39.039
But that one's a really cool one.
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:54.960
Um any any other favorite like spots to go through go to in Wisconsin for like did you guys go on any road trips or any favorite summer clubs or stuff like that around?
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:04.000
Favorite spot, like we we go up to um every summer, like we're actually coming up next week, we're gonna go up but to Sturgeon Bay.
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:09.199
Um and we my great-grandparents used to live there on the bayside up in Door County.
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:11.679
Um, not on the Bayside, sorry, the lakeside.
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:22.880
So we're the water's like not very warm all the time and stuff, but we go up there and we're right by the lighthouse, the red lighthouse that's out there in Sturgeon Bay, um, right next to the canal.
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:28.559
Um and so we have a nice beach area right by like public beach, so it's great.
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.400
Um so that's our favorite, our favorite spot to be in Wisconsin.
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:49.840
And you go up there and there's like Cave Point, and then you drive up to um you know, Egg Harbor or um uh Sister Bay, like those are there's the drive in theater, I forget which I think that's in in Egg Harbor, but like being up there is like our favorite place to be.
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:53.760
Con, how are you uh I guess how are you how are you feeling about next season?
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:59.760
You feeling good, and how do you take a so like a phenomenal rookie year?
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:01.760
With kind of raised expectations.
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:02.880
Do you think about that much?
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:06.480
Are you just kind of moving forward and trying to get better every day?
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:14.239
Yeah, I think about it a lot actually, just with like your expectations for yourself should be the highest.
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:20.480
You know, then they should be higher than like the outside noise or somebody else's expectations for you.
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.199
And I feel like that's been true for me.
00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:30.000
And so, you know, trying to balance that, like not taking that, and that was something I was thinking about for the whole team.
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.000
Like, you know, we had a a great foundation and building year.
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:48.639
Um, and that might change a little bit just with like the moves we made, um, where maybe that expectation isn't as high, but for me and for us, like our expectation is still that high to keep building and getting better and and having a better season this year than we did last year.
00:44:48.880 --> 00:45:02.960
Um and so not really worrying about going back to and you you mentioned, not really worrying about like what the outside noise is, knowing that those expectations are there, um, knowing that you know everybody else is gonna be thinking that.
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:18.480
Um, but that our expectations for ourselves are are higher, and so you know, and the only way to for me, at least in my opinion, to um keep keep growing is is doing what you can do every day and what what we've always done, which is get better each day.
00:45:18.559 --> 00:45:24.000
And that's what what I've always done, and that's what I'm gonna focus on, and then that's how you meet those expectations.
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.119
Awesome.
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:26.960
Lex, you got anything else?
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:28.320
Yeah, I actually do.
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:35.039
One of my favorite one of my favorite plays from you ever came against NC State when you were playing at Duke.
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:36.960
You probably already know where I'm going with this.
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.480
You grabbed your teammate's leg as he's falling out of bounds.
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:42.159
Like what what happened there?
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:45.440
Like, how did you just was it just a quick reaction or what?
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:47.039
Yeah, just quick reaction.
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I didn't really think anything of it at the time, and then like Tyrese, uh, whose leg I grabbed, um just grabbed me.
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He's like, You're a genius.
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I was like and then I kind of just smiled about it, like, oh yeah, that was kind of cool.
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Maybe I am a genius.
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Um, but I was actually looking, like I was just gonna throw on a shirt, and there was this my dad made like a shirt of me like holding his leg um that he's that he's worn before.
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But uh I was looking at that in my in the in the dresser back home.
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I was like, oh shoot, that's there.
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That would be funny if I wore that.
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What was the film session like the next game watching that back?
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Yeah, well, we actually didn't play very well against them, so it was it was kind of a tough film session.
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Um I they I think we just watched it and we're like, oh, this is cool.
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Um good heads-up play.
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Shire loves stuff like that.
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Um just finding any way to get the ball or get a possession, so um it wasn't it wasn't anything like super special in the in the film room because he was he was kind of ticked about how we played.
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Had you had you done that before?
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Obviously, Duke, there's a lot of cameras on you.
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You growing up or anything, did you pull any removers to keep team?
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That was just sheer instinct at that point.
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First time first time I'd done that, and then I like I didn't really think anything of it, and then it kind of went viral.
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Um that is like a thousand IQ play.
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I was like, the guy's falling out of bounds.
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I don't want to.
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Uh but he he he thought he was getting fouled, so that was pretty funny.
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So speaking of uh um, speaking of a high IQ play, like yeah, Giannis said you were one of the smartest rookies he's ever seen.
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Steph had some really high praise of you.
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What's it like seeing those clips from people like that?
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Uh it's it's really cool.
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Um for me, like I love part of the part of why I love my job is just I love I've always loved hoops and I love um watching and I love like following players, and that's kind of why how I got into got into it.
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Um and so like when I see any sort of former player, um it's really cool for me.
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And it doesn't matter like if they were you know an all-star or you know just a role guy, but like anytime I see I don't know, I saw like Brian Cardinal when I was at the draft combine, like that was cool.
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Like the janitor, um or seeing any, you know, Bucks players, or getting a conversation to talk to some of those guys, and I think that's really important, especially for for young guys coming in.
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Like, you gotta have respect for the people that have done it before you and um respect for the game to like want to know and follow and and um and have that knowledge of the game and of players, and you know, if you're really gonna meet your full um potential, like you gotta love that stuff, I in my opinion.
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And so to have guys like that who are all-time greats speak to you about that, that like means a lot to me.
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Um that's really, really cool because you know, those are the guys that have done it at the highest level, those are the guys that everybody looks up to.
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Um that's really encouraging, you know, just keep doing what I'm doing.
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Um, and so that's that's that's a cool thing.
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Um, and I think you know, for younger guys and like future guys that want to get to this level, like being obsessed with with that stuff and like the history of the game, and I think that really helps and goes a long way for you know how you can you know your your potential and what you can do in the in the league because um you gotta love you gotta love basketball to play in the NBA to play 82 games, like you gotta love hoops.
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Um, and so it's cool to have legends like that, you know, have compliments for you.
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Well, then thanks so much for coming on today, and we'll we'll be pulling for you this season.
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Yeah, I appreciate it.
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Thanks for having me.
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Hey everyone, thank you so much for tuning into this episode of Milwaukee Uncut before signing off.
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What was it like stepping on the floor against Giannis?
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So I couldn't really sleep.
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I was I was so pumped to play in Milwaukee.
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You guys made a big trade with Lamella.
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Was that a shock to you?
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Yeah, definitely a shock.
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For me, I just I like focusing on today.
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What can I do to get better today?
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Hey everyone, we're back for a special episode of Milwaukee Uncut where Lex and I are joined by Milwaukee Native and Charlotte Hornet star Khan Kanippo, who's coming off an amazing NBA rookie campaign with a lot of great moments.
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We cover the first time he stepped on the floor against Giannis in Milwaukee.
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By the way, he scored 32 points in that game.
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And speaking of that game, we talk about when he brought his pretty much entire team over to his parents' house the night before for dinner.
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He also went on Jimmy Fallon this year.
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We touch on the big Lamello trade that just happened, how he finished second in rookie of the year voting to his good friend and former roommate Cooper Fleg, and he got praise from Steph and Giannis this season.
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Since he's a Milwaukee native, we also touched on his favorite places around Milwaukee, and he's a big Brewers and Packers fan, so we talked some Wisconsin sports as well.
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All right, let's dive in with Khan Kanipple.
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Alright, welcome back to Milwaukee on Co.
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We've got a Milwaukee native.
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He went to Wisconsin Lutheran, where he was Wisconsin's Mr.
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Basketball in 2025, won a state title with a 30-0 record, then tended Duke, where he was the ACC tournament MVP, made the Final Four, fourth pick in the 2025 draft to Charlotte.
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Historic rookie season where he broke the NBA rookie three-point record and became the first rookie to lead the NBA in three-pointers mid.
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Came in second in a very highly contested and debated rookie of the year award.
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He's been on Jimmy Fallon.
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He's done some media as the NBA player correspondent.
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Thanks for having me.
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Good introduction.
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You've just been on a tear in life recently.
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Yeah, I mean, I guess.
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Did you um it I mean, obviously people thought you were you were gonna be good.
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You were the fourth overall pick, but did did you surprise yourself this year?
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Did you see all of this coming?
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Um, I think a little bit.
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Um you know, definitely um, you know, was gonna throw my all into it and see how big of a role I could carve out for myself.
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And um I think you know the trust that teammates and coaches put in me um early on um really helped spur that along and uh just made me more comfortable.
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And then I was able to find my footing pretty early when we had some injuries and guys go down where I had to you know play a bigger role.
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And then once we had all the guys back, like that that trust from them was was still there.
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So um it just allowed allowed me to keep growing and keep getting better throughout the season.
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Um we're obviously a Milwaukee-based show.
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One of the early moments for you this season in November, you came home, you dropped 32.
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First time playing against Giannis, growing up a Bucks fan, took that game to overtime.
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What what was that whole experience like?
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Uh it was it was awesome.
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Um I just I came home and obviously my my teammates came to to dinner at my parents' house the night before, so that was that was fun.
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Um a cool experience to kind of show them where I grew up, and then um obviously we're we were sitting at the trade like right across from the fire serve, so I couldn't really sleep.
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I was I was so pumped to to play in Milwaukee and just be home.
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Um and then obviously the the game started and I got two early fouls, so I was out early in the first quarter and they threw me back in there and then just got going from there.
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Um obviously would have liked to win, you know, had a big, big shot three-pointer to tie it and send it to OT.
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Um, but just kind of a kind of a tough one.
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The Bucks ended up beating us, but it was a special night.
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Um was it weird staying at the trade when you grew up like 10 minutes away?
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Yeah, very weird.
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Just thinking about that, like coming coming to your hometown, you're like, my bedroom's like 10 minutes from here.
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Yeah, very weird.
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Um never never stayed at a hotel in Milwaukee, so um definitely a different type of feeling.
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Yeah.
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Um the the dinner's been talked about quite a quite a bit.
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How did um how did how did that come about and what what what was it like having all those guys in your house?
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Um, well, I they were like kind of like, oh con where we going out for dinner.
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Um and I was like, well, I'm going, I'm going back to to my house in Wisconsin, going going back home.
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Um and so they were like, okay, guess we're going over there.
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And I was kind of joking about it.
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And my parents had texted me, you know, like a day later.
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Um, because they joked about that on the flight.
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We were flying planes somewhere else.
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Um my parents texted me a day later, like, invite anybody who wanted to come over, and I was like, I think I'm gonna invite everybody over.
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Um, and so we had some guys, and uh or most of the guys came.
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Um, and uh one of them, Mason Plumley, is like an an older vet um who was on our team for uh half the season, great dude, also a fellow Dukey, but he was like, This is awesome! Like we never get to I've never done this before, and he's been in the league for like 14 years.
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Um so very very cool to we don't get that a lot as players, a home cooked meal, especially on the road.
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Um and so I I think the guys thought it was special, and you know, my brothers, my brothers had a really good time with it too.
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Yeah, what was it like for some like your brothers to just have an entire NBA team stop by?
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They were pumped.
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Um, we came we came in the team bus.
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So we were we're driving down our street and we we turn in, we were like on a cutoff alleyway, like that's where we live.
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In in Walatosa.
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Yep, and so they they rolled in and um I could see my brothers like peeking through the windows.
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It was very funny.
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I don't blame them at all.
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I did see one of your brothers try to dunk on the mellow ball.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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Is that the first canuple brother to try to dunk on the mellow ball?
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Yeah, I think so.
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I never tried.
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Uh Kidman was just trying to distract him and come flying through.
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It was very funny.
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Um, kind of outside his personality a little bit.
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So we find it really, really funny as well.
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You gotta go for it when you get a moment like that.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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When you get a can you go fix the rim to the mellow ball?
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Oh man, you gotta do that.
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Very funny.
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Uh speaking of stuff like that, what was your most surprising moments your rookie year?
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Maybe one on the court and one off the court?
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Um, well, that's up there for most surprising.
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Um just that guys like enjoyed that and and and wanted to do that.
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Um off the court, I I'd say doing Fallon, like you mentioned.
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Like that was something that How did that come about?
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The the NBA was on NBC for a lot of games this year, so Fallon's on NBC and they wanted to they kind of did it throughout the season where they brought bring somebody through um from a from a team that's playing in New York, playing the Knicks or the or the Nets.
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Um, and so they would bring somebody through from whatever team was in town.
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Um, and the Hornets wanted me to do it, so I was like really I I didn't really want to do it.
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I was really nervous and I was like, I don't I don't really want to, but then after doing it, I was like, Oh, that's pretty that was pretty cool.
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Yeah, you were good on there.
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Yeah, it was it was it was fun.
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Was it one of those moments where you just like go on and black out and it's done and you don't remember much of it and then watch it back or uh I don't watch it back.
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Um it was interesting how um that the production of that too, like behind the scenes, like they kind of prep you for what he's gonna ask, kinda.
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Um, but then not all the way because they don't want you to they want you to be authentic up there.
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Um and then the crowd there is interesting, and it's this filmed that night, and then they show it later that night.
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So it's like filmed at like five and then they show it what whatever time it's on.
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Um, which it was it was cool to do that.
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And um my my mom and my aunt came and they were super excited.
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Were you more nervous for that or any game this season?
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Um no, I was nervous.
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I get nervous for games.
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Um probably most games, I was more nervous than that, but I because I was I was I was settled in after a little bit when I had gone through all the all the prep when I went out there.
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I was like, alright.
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Yeah.
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Was the was that first game in Milwaukee the the most nervous you've been before a game?
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Um this year.
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Maybe this year, yeah.
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Yeah, that was that was uh nerve-wracking one, but it is cool when you get introduced for the starting lineups and like there's a bunch of cheers.
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That calms it a little bit.
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Yeah, that was that was a cool feeling.
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What was it like stepping on the floor against Giannis?
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Um yeah, it was pretty pretty surreal.
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Um just I mean, I came to a bunch of Bucs games when I was when I was real little, when the Bucs were terrible and you know, he was on the team as a rookie.
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Um and so it was very cool.
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This just kind of full circle, I guess, um playing playing the Bucs and playing him specifically.
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You know, he's done so much for the city, so uh it was it was really cool.
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What uh uh what's it like mentally?
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Because you got a lot of friends and family watching, and then you get two two fouls, you're out, and then you rebound and drop 32.
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Yeah, he was like what's going through your head?
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Are you like, oh shit, I'm I'm yeah, like foul trouble is the worst because you're you're taking yourself out of the game for stupid, stupid reasons.
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You know, I think in that game I got like a a stupid, like it was a bad call, and then I got one where it was like it was a dumb, dumb fall on my part.
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Like, wow, I was I I can't necessarily remember specifically what I what I did, but that was like that's always like rule number one.
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Don't get in fall.
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That's my dad's only rule.
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Like, don't whine, don't complain, good body language, don't don't fall.
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Like, don't fall out.
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I want to see you play.
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Um, and so that that was uh frustrating, but you know, you just gotta stick with it, um, be ready for the next opportunity.
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And late in that first quarter, I got going a little bit.
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Um, growing up in this area, when did you know you were different or maybe had a shot at the NBA someday?
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Um it I mean it it took a while.
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Um I mean after I mean, still even in high school, you never really know.
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Um and so I by my senior year I felt like I was getting better like uh incrementally each year, like come back and I'd have something new and something something that I was better at and a different way to affect the game.
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And I feel like that's just kind of what I've been been trying to do each year.
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Um come back each season, come back with something different, um, just a little bit better.
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Um, and that's the that's kind of the biggest focus.
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So I was never really focused on man, I want to make the NBA, I just want to get better.
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I want to get better this year, I want to get better today.
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Um and for me that works.
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You know, some guys like to lay out a huge plan or dream.
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Um, for me, I just I like focusing on today.
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What can I do to get better today?
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Um, and stacking that over a long period of time has gradually gotten me to the point where I am right now.
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When did uh when did you start getting looks for big school from big schools?
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And was was there anyone in the running with Duke that you were interested in going to?
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Yeah, uh after my freshman year high school is when I started getting recruited.
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Um my uncle is a coach at Toledo, so he offered me, he's like, I think you'd be really good.
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So he offered me first, and then we went to for Wisconsin Lutheran, we play at Marquette team camp down here every year, and I had a really good camp.
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And Marquette offered me a scholarship after.
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Um and so they they were they were in it right up right till the end.
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Um what year that would have been what five years ago?
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Yeah, so I was a freshman in that would have been 2021, 2021 summer.
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Okay.
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So Marquette was pretty good at that.
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Stand and Stevie and those guys, or was that?
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No, I think it was Marcus Howard.
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It was Shaka's first year, okay, I believe.
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Marcus Howard was.
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So it would have been it would have been like that camp, they would have had Oso and Kolick and Oh yeah.
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Cam Jones was a freshman.
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So it was their first year.
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Um so it was uh they they were they're great.
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You know, even going back, watching my brothers play at the camp now, you know, get to talk to them for you know 10-15 minutes.
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They're really, really good people over there.
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Could Marquette possibly get get any of your brothers?
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We've got three Marquette alums in the building right now.
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Uh I mean, we'll see.
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I mean, they gotta keep working hard.
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Um you know, Marquette has uh not done great recently with like in-state recruiting.
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So I feel like they, you know, try to sometimes they they stay out of it a little bit because you know it's tough to recruit in-state guys like heavy and you know, kind of not not not land them.
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So um, you know, they've been they've been looking elsewhere um for for players uh recently.
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Maybe we could help with we got a former mascot in the building here.
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Yeah, maybe I have some pull.
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I can show back up.
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You had a you had a couple games as Iggy, right?
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Yeah, back in the day.
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Talking about basically the same.
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Yeah.
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Dan, your bro, your uh brother Kegger just committed to Duke what a couple weeks ago.
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Yep, Cager.
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Uh Cager, excuse me.
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No, it's all good.
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He uh he committed to do, yeah, that was two weeks ago, maybe.
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Um really cool.
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Um I just he was he was getting recruited by them and I was trying not to you know influence one way or the other.
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Um and I was just like, oh, I mean, like, whatever's best for him, like that's cool if that's best for him.
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And then he committed there.
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I was like, that's pretty cool.
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That's pretty sweet.
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I was excited.
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What ultimately want you over to go to Duke?
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Um I think a big thing that was underrated about it was it's a smaller school.
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So I was at the time, I don't necessarily feel this way anymore, but when I was getting recruited, um I was a little intimidated by the bigger schools.
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Um and so there's 6,000 undergrad at Duke.
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And so that that was really um intriguing to me.
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I liked it, and then all the other stuff that comes into it.
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I mean, it's for the most part, it's a basketball decision.
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So um I love I love Shire, I have a really good relationship with him.
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Um, but also the the um just the the the program and what it is and and what it's become and um playing you know on prime time TV all the time.
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I think that's really fun for a pla any any player uh to play on that stage.
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Um but ultimately I felt like it was the the place where I would go and compete against the best players I could and every day in practice, and that's where I'd get the most better.
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So I felt like that was the right choice.
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Did uh I've I've never been to Cameron Indoor.
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Obviously, I've seen it on TV a million times.
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Um did you go down there during high school a couple times and check check out games there?
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And like what's what does it feel like playing inside of that stadium?
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Yeah, um you know it's it's a complete so I went to a game this year to watch, and that's a completely different experience than um when you're playing just how awesome like that environment is because when you're playing you're focused on like the game plan, what you gotta do.
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So you're trying to not focus as much on the crowd, even though like they can give you a bunch of juice um on on like a big run or something, but you're trying to focus on what what you're supposed to do.
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And so it was really, really cool seeing it as a fan.
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Um, because it is electric in there.
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Um and there's only like eight eight thousand seating small, but they're they're on topia, and it's it's really, really cool.
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Um the chants from the the crazies and um the pregame stuff.
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It's it's it's really really special place.
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I only got to play 17 games there, so it's uh I'm uh I don't get to play anymore.
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So I'm I'm a little bit jealous of of Cager.
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You know, he gets to go on there and play some games there.
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I mean you're close.
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How far of a drive is it from Charlotte?
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Uh 230, two and a half.
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Not terrible.
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Not terrible, not terrible, not terrible, but it's like a little bit farther than like than like uh he's playing tonight.
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Let me just swing over.
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Right.
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Like it when he's there, it'll be different.
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Like I'll go up there.
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But like when you're playing a full 82 game season, it's like I don't want to drive five hours tonight.
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Sorry, little bro.
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And sit at a game.
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Was that uh was that the biggest adjustment this year?
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That's a lot of uh basketball.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Um that was the biggest basketball adjustment.
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Like you just gotta get ready to ready to go every every night, um which sometimes like a lot of times your body just doesn't feel good, which is like most of the time when you're like in college you're playing, and every time you play, like you're getting your body to the point where I feel great, I'm like ready to go.
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And there's well, we had 16 back to backs.
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So the second night of the back to back is tough.
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Like you just go out there and like your mindset is like I just gotta like grind through this one, and then we'll have a day off tomorrow.
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But like it's really, really hard to your body feels does not feel good for that that second game of the back-to-back.
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So getting your body um in a in a spot where you can go out and compete and and feel good, and it's it's mostly mental of like I can I can do this and get through this.
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What's a typical back-to-back like?
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So I'm guessing you leave the stadium around like 10 or 11 at night.
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Are you flying out that night to a different city, or do you stay overnight there, fly in the next morning, do like a little shoot around, and then so there's like rules in NBA are like rules.
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You don't do a shoot around on a back-to-back.
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Um, and then you also, if the game starts anytime before seven, you also don't do shoot around.
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So if it's if the game starts at 6 30.
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Interesting.
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The game starts at 6 30, it's like, alright, no shoot around today.
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It's very, very so that's a league rule.
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The team can't it's I don't think it's a league rule.
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The the second one, I think the fur the the back-to-back one might be something that the MBPA put in.
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But like I think it's just like league, like an unwritten rule.
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If you play at 6 30, we're not doing shoot around.
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Um But the worst ones are road back to backs.
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So we played in in San Francisco, we played the Warriors, got smoked, lost by like 20.
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Um, we didn't play well, and we had to fly to Denver the next day, which is like it's a long flight.
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Denver air Denver's airport is like 30 to 40 minutes from downtown Denver.
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Yeah, oh you fly into that.
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We we flow we flew into Denver, got there at like two, drive to the hotel, get there at like 2 40.
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Um no shoot around, sleep, slept till like 11, got up.
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We didn't even have anything until like we're we're leaving for the gym.
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Rookie's got to be there early, so um I get there, uh the our bus leaves at like 3, 3.30 for a 7 o'clock game.
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Um we get there, uh, we shoot, we lift before the game.
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Um, and then we have you have chapel like an hour before the game, talk about the game plan.
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That was the first time we talked about the game plan.
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So no no film or anything.
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Like they'll they'll send you clips um the night the night before the the that morning, they sent us clips, and then like what we're gonna do is wasn't really discussed until like 30 minutes on the clock.
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We go out there, win by 30.
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Like that's the the difference of the MBA, but like some of that stuff is just like especially in those back-to-backs.
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We were really good in back to backs the second night, just because we'd go out there and like we're gonna play hard and like this is what we're gonna do.
00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:39.519
Um, because a lot of it is just a war of against your body and your mind throughout throughout an 82 game season, yeah.
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But that was kind of like a small picture of a road back to back, those are the worst, or like a home and then road, not fun.
00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:47.440
Yeah.
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Um, Cooper Flag, your your your roommate.
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What was it like that one game you you guys won against each other, which you did win that one?
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I think you both had career highs, or at least were your highs at that point in time, and then just back.
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With him in the rookie of the year discussion.
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What was are you guys super good friends off the court and what was that?
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Yeah, yeah, we're good friends.
00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:09.599
Um just got to see him out in Vegas at the Duke.
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We had like a little Duke dinner, um, which is cool.
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Like Duke Alum and Oh nice.
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Who who was who was at that dinner?
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Um so most of the guys from my team were there.
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Uh Shire or assistant coaches, um Jason Tatum was there, Grayson Allen, um Mark Williams, uh, and then you had like people that work in that in the NBA, Quinn Snyder, who's coach of the Hawks, yeah.
00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:43.039
Uh Mike Dunleavy, the GM of the Warriors.
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So it was very, very, very cool.
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Um just to kind of talk to those people.
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And Dunleavy, I was at the uh game when Giannis decked him.
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Oh, yeah, when we lost by like 60.
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The Bucks lost by 60.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That was back in the early.
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I think that was still at the Bradley Center.
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Yep.
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I think he was trip a little chippy with Giannis, and then Giannis just went full linebacker mode on it.
00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:13.599
That was that was cool because that was when we were down, the Bucs were down 3-0, I believe, and won two in a row against the Bulls.
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Did they win that game?
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He decked him.
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No.
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Okay.
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So they were down 3-0, they won two in a row, coming back home.
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Okay.
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And obviously, no teams ever come back 3-0 and we're like, we're coming back home, like we're gonna win this game, and they lost by 60.
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Giannis got ejected.
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Yeah, they had I mean, if you're losing by 60, you might as well get ejected.
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It was like 55 points.
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They had some good playoff series against the Bulls in the in the mid-2000s.
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Um God, I'm blanking on one game.
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I was at the Bayless, maybe?
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I don't know.
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Made some buzzer beater layup that uh Jerry Bayliss.
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Yeah.
00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:59.279
Anyway, I didn't mean to digress from Summer League and Cooper Flag and the in the in the Duke dinner, but was it uh did did you do you think you guys made it made each other a lot better at Duke just going at it every day in practice?
00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:00.240
Yeah.
00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:17.119
And you know, we had a lot of I think now we had Sion, Tyrese, Cooper, me, come on Malawatch, and then we had Malik Brown got drafted this year, Isaiah Evans got drafted this year.
00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:20.160
So that's seven NBA players on a team.
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That's wild.
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And then you have Caleb Foster who's still there, Pat Gongba who's still there, who are probably gonna be NBA players.
00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:30.880
Um and so like that's a really, really loaded team.
00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:35.359
You think about going into practice with that every day, like you're gonna you have no choice but to get better.
00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:37.680
Um Iron Sharpens Iron, right?
00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.119
So that was a it was a a fun, a fun year.
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Um and just good people too.
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So it was it was good to be around those guys all the time.
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Yeah.
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Um and how's how's the offseason been for you?
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What have you been up to?
00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:52.400
Um I've been in Charlotte for the most part.
00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:59.759
Um rookies kinda, you know, we want you they want you in market for most of the off-season, uh, just working on your game.
00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:01.519
Um which is fun.
00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:02.880
You know, it was it was it was fun.
00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.240
But I I came back pretty much every weekend um when we're off.
00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:10.720
So just come back up here, uh chill with buddies, girlfriend, family.
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.240
Um which you know, I love it up here.
00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.039
Other than right now, it's can't even breathe outside.
00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:21.519
But yeah, we have the we have the the the wildfire smoke going on right now.
00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:25.920
Hopefully it'll be cleared by the time this episode airs on uh on Wednesday.
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:27.359
Okay, yeah, it's wild.
00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:29.519
I haven't seen anything like it down here before.
00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:32.799
No, it's very it was like record bad the other day.
00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:33.279
Well, it yes.
00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:35.440
Delayed my flight by like six hours coming in.
00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:35.759
Really?
00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.039
Yeah, yesterday.
00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:38.559
Just because of the the smoke.
00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:39.200
Oh, yeah.
00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:40.000
I guess it's like visibility.
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:44.160
Yeah, it would probably be hard to see anything driving and flying an airplane.
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:47.039
It already just feels hard to see anything like on the road.
00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:47.839
Yeah, right.
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:51.279
Yesterday I woke up and I was like driving to work and I was like, this is my dream.
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:52.480
I woke up and gotham.
00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:54.559
Like I'm Batman.
00:25:55.440 --> 00:26:02.799
I've tried to send Cody out to get uh drone shots and in Mekwan at the Chinookse, and he like drove out there and turned around halfway each time.
00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.079
He's like, Yeah, we're not uh not gonna be able to get the shot you want.
00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:07.279
Okay.
00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:10.799
Um what it kind of, what do you like most about Milwaukee?
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Where do you what spots do you like going to?
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:13.519
Here.
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Any any favorites?
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My my favorite, like or food spots?
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:19.440
Is it a lot of things?
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:20.960
Yeah, yeah, let's do food spots.
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All right, let's get back with Khan.
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My favorite uh bar spot is JMB's uh right on Blue Mount, like that row of bars like right by right by Ampham.
00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:15.200
Um but I've been going there since I was real little, so I that's that's my favorite every time I'm here again.
00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.240
Your parents just introduced you to those spots early.
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I like that.
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:32.880
Honestly, honestly, is my my my cousin my my uncle um going there with my cousin because my my dad doesn't drink, so um you know he'll go to a bar spot and eat, but it wasn't wasn't like one of his favorites to go to, but it's it's a really good spot.
00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:33.680
J and B's.
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:35.440
That's a bit that's a large spot, right?
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:36.319
What is it?
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.359
It's pretty big in there, right?
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:38.400
Yeah, the whole back room.
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:39.039
Yeah, the back room.
00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:40.799
Oh, they got good chicken tenders there.
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.160
Yeah, we've we've been there before and after brewer games before.
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Yeah, no, it's got the shuttle, it's got that big backroom.
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:50.400
Um, I remember watching like March Madness games back there.
00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:52.400
Yeah, very, very cool spot.
00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:54.000
Um, that's that's my favorite.
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:58.880
Yeah, any other food spots you like hitting up when you're back in town or spots around Milwaukee?
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:04.880
Um, I mean, I my buddy I brought some of my friends that I made at Duke uh up here.
00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:06.480
We went to the Luke Combs concert.
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.799
Um, and so I introduced them to cops.
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:09.920
Nice.
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.200
Um, which I was like, you know, the and we walked in and they were like, this is awesome.
00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:22.480
Like in the old hats, like the the workers wearing the hats and stuff, and they were like felt like they were in 1950.
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:24.559
I was like, Yeah, this is the spot, man.
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.039
Like Stranger Things had yeah, yeah.
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:31.680
Were they uh did you guys do anything downtown other than go to the concert?
00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:33.039
Uh in Green Bay.
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:33.920
Well, it wasn't it was at Green Bay.
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:34.640
Oh, it was in Green Bay.
00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:35.279
It was at Lambo.
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:36.400
Right, at Lambeau.
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:37.039
So, yeah.
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:39.759
So, no, you guys did not do anything in downtown Milwaukee.
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:43.279
Since it was not the concert was not here, I remember that.
00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:46.559
I was Lambo for a I've never been to a concert there.
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:51.759
Yeah, they that was like the first one in a long, long time because they they're Lambeau's great.
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:58.079
There, there's the field, the guy that runs the field is very strict about what can be on the field.
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:05.519
Um because we we keep we we take care of our grass slash turf combo, whatever it is up at Lambeau, the frozen tundra.
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.240
Sacred.
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:07.200
So very cool.
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.799
And the and I got to we got to meet Combs, which was cool.
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:19.359
Um but normally the team that's host or like the stadium that's hosting will let like you know the main guy get the the locker room, the home locker room.
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.880
And they don't like Lambeau does not let people get the get the Packers louder.
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:25.440
Interesting.
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.039
I was like, I love this team.
00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:31.599
Dude, we love do you go to many Packer games or did you growing up at all?
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:44.079
Um actually like I only went to for like 10 years I had gone to one game, and then my senior year, one of my buddies, we he had tickets and we drove up uh three times to go to go to a game.
00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:46.480
So yeah, I was I was thankful to him.
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:48.480
Um so I've been to like four or five.
00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:50.319
Nice, but watch every single one.
00:29:50.400 --> 00:29:50.720
Yeah.
00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:53.039
That's just a magical place.
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:53.759
Yes.
00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:57.279
It's you get it's bucky list, like you gotta do it.
00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:08.160
It's I've been to a lot of college football games, like when I was getting recruited and visits like Sunday at Lambeau, is especially when you're like parking on somebody's lawn and walking in, yeah, is unbelievable.
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.480
We uh I mean we went up there I think every game except one this year.
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:14.880
Talking to the opposing fans is always fun.
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:15.359
Yeah.
00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:24.880
Because they're just blown away that there's this NFL stadium in the middle of a neighborhood with like modest houses around, and that they're treated very kindly.
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:25.119
Yeah.
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:26.319
They're for the most part.
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:30.079
Yeah, that's what they that's I see videos of that all the time.
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.039
Um where they're like, yeah, everybody's so nice.
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:33.519
Yeah.
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:34.799
Which is which is true.
00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:36.559
They're just blown away by that experience.
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:41.359
Um, all also in the offseason, you got you guys made a big trade with Lamello.
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:46.240
You got um Lex's favorite player over there, not Nazareed.
00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:52.160
Um and you got it, yeah, for first round, first round pick, few swaps, few seconds.
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:52.720
Yep.
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:54.720
You played well with Lamello.
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:58.559
You guys were kind of like branded as the you know the future of the Hornets.
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:00.400
Was was that a shock to you?
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.039
And how yeah, what do you think?
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:04.640
Would have you processed it?
00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:06.160
Yeah, definitely a shock.
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:08.960
Um, you know, Lamel's a great dude.
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:12.480
Um I I I loved he was he was awesome.
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.319
We had a follow-up question.
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.480
Someone was curious if you ever gotten in a car with him driving before.
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.920
I I have not.
00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:20.559
Okay.
00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:21.519
I have not.
00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:22.079
Smart.
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.440
But he he was he was great to be around every day.
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:31.119
Um, and so that's already missed, you know, just the the joy and energy that he brought to to the locker room.
00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:32.559
What's he like in the locker room?
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:40.640
Is he um yeah, he's just he just uh he's loud, um, but he he comes in every day and he says hello to everybody.
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:50.640
Um and I mean like trainer, strength coach, assistant coach, whoever's cooking the food in the in the meal room.
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:52.960
Um so it's just cool to have people like that around.
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:54.319
Genuinely nice guy.
00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:54.960
Yeah, nice guy.
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.039
He's got some does he have some rescue dogs too?
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.359
Yeah.
00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:58.000
Did I see?
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.000
Well, I don't know if you I don't know, he's got some huge dogs.
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:00.880
I think they are.
00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:05.920
I think they are um but he he's great.
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:09.039
Um and so definitely, definitely tough.
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:16.400
And like one of the guys that you know embraced me as a rookie, um, which is this is this is all I know is playing with him and being around him.
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:21.200
So it's just different um day to day walking in the in the in the in the room.
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.119
But he's he's awesome.
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.200
I uh you know, we wish him all the success success in the world.
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:31.200
Um and uh you know I'll we'll stay in contact.
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:33.200
Like he's he's a good good dude.
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:35.839
So um but yeah, definitely tough.
00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:36.880
I'm excited though.
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:41.200
Um, you know, I think we're we're gonna continue to build something in Charlotte.
00:32:41.279 --> 00:32:42.400
Um met Nas.
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.759
Nas is a great dude.
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.480
Um we got some other good guys that are coming in.
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:50.000
Um and so I'm definitely excited to keep building and going forward.
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:52.640
Very humble guy, Nas.
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:57.839
I think you'll feel that joy and the the happiness energy in the locker room with Nas.
00:32:58.079 --> 00:32:59.200
Yeah, that's what uh that's what I've heard.
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.680
Like all I've heard is that he's an awesome dude and obviously beloved.
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:05.200
There is there is so much love for him in Minnesota.
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:07.599
It is I actually have a random fact for you.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:12.240
Do you know a thousand five hundred people got tattoos of just Nas Reed on their body?
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:14.720
Yeah, I remember I remember seeing that go going viral.
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:18.960
Yeah, you gotta push for a Charlotte tattoo artist to start bringing him up.
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.160
Nas Reed tattoos in Charlotte.
00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:24.960
Was there a campaign for that, or how did that even happen?
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.240
Basically, everybody just loved him so much, and everybody just started saying just Nas Reed.
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:31.599
Like you could say it to anything.
00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:33.039
They'd be like, Do you want to go out to dinner?
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:33.920
Nas Reed.
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.039
Like it was the only thing people talked about on that playoff run.
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:43.279
So then this tattoo artist was like, I'm gonna give away free tattoos only if you're getting the words Nas Reed.
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.799
And there was like a line out the door.
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:46.480
One of my coworkers got one.
00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:51.119
I was hoping we got a championship, and I would have got like a forehead Nas Reed tattoo.
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:56.240
Yeah, Big Jelly, he's he's a great guy.
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:59.119
Um, very, very great playmaker.
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:04.480
The way he handles the ball at 6'9, I think I think that's gonna be a fun thing to add to Charlotte's bag.
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:06.160
Yeah, and he can shoot it.
00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:10.000
And I can't wait to hear Eric Collins talk about Nas Reed.
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:12.400
That'll be fun.
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.360
Yeah, Eric Collins, the best in the business.
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:16.880
He is the best in the business.
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:23.920
What's it like when you watch back some of your like game footage or like hearing the way he talks about you?
00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:27.119
Yeah, um it's it's cool.
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.760
Um I he just goes crazy.
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:38.000
Uh we're gonna, I mean, the best wouldn't he's like LAMELO! So we're gonna we're gonna miss we're gonna miss that for sure.
00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:42.960
Um no, but he he's awesome, really good dude, love like knows so much.
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.960
Like he he comes on the on the broadcast with facts like every every game.
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:54.559
And my my uncle and will will text me like yo, this is like what do you had today or whatever, had tonight.
00:34:54.719 --> 00:35:03.840
Um, but I love he they travel with us, obviously, so um we get to talk on like the airplane or stuff, and he'll always have trivia for me.
00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:08.480
So I love I love that sort of stuff, and you know he's he's he's a really cool cool dude as well.
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:12.639
What were your thoughts on the nickname he gave you of basketball catch up?
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.000
Basketball catch up?
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:15.119
Uh I thought that was cool.
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.039
That's a that's a big compliment.
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:21.199
Um I know my extended family and cousins really like that one.
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:25.679
They thought it was that does that make an appearance sometimes from the family?
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.880
Um no, I'll just get like texts about it.
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.000
Like what'd be catching up?
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:31.920
What is the meaning of basketball catch-up?
00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:35.280
Make everything around you better.
00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:35.920
Yeah.
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.400
That is a high that is high-preise comparison.
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:42.719
I think it's a very like Wisconsin way of saying you're you're a good team player.
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:43.920
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:49.440
Did does does Eric Collins flip the switch when he's on, or is he is he just he's just like that 24-7?
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:50.400
The same.
00:35:50.639 --> 00:35:51.519
You gotta love that.
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:52.400
Yeah, absolutely.
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:53.679
Yeah, he's the same all the time.
00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:57.440
Were you uh were you excited to get drafted by the Hornets to stay in state?
00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:57.840
Yeah.
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.039
Were you kind of like indifferent on who you got drafted by going into that?
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:03.199
Well, you kind of gotta be a little indifferent.
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:08.239
Um, because if you're like you you make it like, man, I really don't want to go there in your head.
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:14.480
Yeah, you don't, you know, and you're like, and you end up getting drafted there, it's like well, you don't want to be disappointed at whatever.
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:26.000
But um I was I kind of knew that that was an opportunity to go to Charlotte, and I was like, I I know the state, like I've been here, it'd be cool to have like some of that support, that fan support right away.
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:30.719
Um, so I I definitely kind of wanted to go there.
00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:33.920
Um, Khan, any uh you're you're a pretty big brewer fan.
00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.440
I listened to your show when when you were on with Yelic as well.
00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:43.599
Any favorite brewer memories growing up or like a favorite run or year that they went on?
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:44.320
Yeah.
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:52.159
Um the Wood Woodruff home run in 2018 off Kershaw was was awesome.
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:53.440
And it's even more awesome.
00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:55.199
And that was that the Dodgers series.
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:55.920
Yeah, Dodgers.
00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:56.400
Yep.
00:36:56.559 --> 00:37:08.480
It's even more awesome, is my like a family friend, like he was in like Toyota territory and like he was reaching over the edge and the like the fence, and like the ball hit his hands.
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:10.400
Did he dropped it?
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:11.360
He dropped it.
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:14.960
So that's uh just adds a little bit of humor to the space.
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:16.639
Has he gotten over it yet?
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:25.039
No, I still like I'll go to I'll go to brewer his his dad coached me in AAU, so I'll go to Brewer Games, just take a picture from the tunger zone at the next day.
00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:27.440
They'll talk about it every every time we're there.
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:31.119
And because somebody from the news like thought he caught it, so they went up to like interview him.
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:32.559
He's like, I dropped the ball.
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:34.800
I don't have it.
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:37.760
But that one, that one was a big one for sure.
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:39.760
Um last year was awesome.
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:42.079
Um the Cubs series, yeah.
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:44.239
Cub series was very satisfying.
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:54.079
That was that was fun to be there because like yeah, you almost get the Cubs in the playoffs, and you're like, you're excited, but you're also like, fuck, we can't lose to these guys.
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:57.360
We just like that would be the most demoralizing thing ever.
00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:02.079
And yeah, I was nervous when it went to went to five games, but uh thankfully they pulled through.
00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:04.639
Yeah, I was I was super nervous for that one.
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:12.880
Um I even just last year, like I was in Charlotte for a lot of the end of the like the end of the summer when we were when it we won 14 games in a row or whatever.
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:21.199
So um when we had like the we were down like 12 to 2, I think, against the Reds, and just came back and won like on that streak.
00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:24.000
Um so that was that was just a fun time.
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:26.159
Like that was I was watching every night.
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:30.000
Um but yeah, there's there's definitely a lot of them.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:31.440
How many games do you guys go?
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:34.320
Like, where would you like go to a year growing up?
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:49.119
So my my aunt and my grandpa split season tickets, so we would like when I was growing up, and you know, when we weren't as good, um we had like Giovanni Gallardo and Ricky Weeks and Ramos Ramirez and all those guys.
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:55.199
Um and Ryan Braun, obviously, like we'd we'd go all the time, like probably like 10 games a year, 12 games a year.
00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:57.760
Well, were you like five years old at that point?
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.960
Uh yeah, like 2013.
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:02.079
I feel like we so I was like eight.
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:03.199
Oh, 13, okay.
00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:06.079
2013, I was like eight, that was probably the most.
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:09.280
So they had they had like um what year were you born?
00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:10.239
2005.
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.280
Jeez, okay.
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:14.079
Um, so yeah, they had a magical run.
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:19.599
So when I was in in school at Marquette, it was like I kind of started there around 2008.
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:33.599
And that's you were too young for this, you would have been barely allowed, but CC Sabatia, like they got him for half a season, and he just pitched like every other day, it seemed like, and just put the entire team on his back and got him to the playoffs.
00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:37.119
And I think I think that was their first playoff appearance since the 80s.
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:37.440
Yeah.
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:41.599
In the city just went crazy, and those games were so much fun to be at.
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:46.880
Um, but yeah, we've we've been pretty spoiled for a small market team to do what they've done.
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:48.559
It's been just insane.
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:49.119
100%.
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:56.159
It just seems like everybody we get, especially pitchers, come here and just deal.
00:39:56.559 --> 00:40:08.719
Um, and so I think you know the front office does a really good job of you know locking guys down, like we see with Prad and Laura, like just getting long-term contracts, and you know, we'll see how they they develop.
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:20.320
But you know, locking down young talent, and obviously our farm system's always talented, so it's very cool how we can just kind of shuffle guys in and out, even though you know we're obviously restricted with with money.
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:26.239
Um be cool to see us spend a little bit more, but yeah, it's been crazy what they've been able to do.
00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.400
And hopefully another long run this season.
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:28.719
Yeah.
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:29.920
They're looking good.
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:32.079
Um, I had a I had a random question.
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.079
Um, we do some clips on like favorite places around Wisconsin.
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:43.760
I was curious if you had any favorite basketball gyms in the state that you like played in growing up.
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:44.960
Yeah.
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:45.920
Favorite basketball.
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:47.280
Just like random spots.
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.159
Like I remember playing in high school, which I I was not very good.
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:52.079
I didn't get off the off the bench too much.
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.639
Um peaked at the JV level.
00:40:54.880 --> 00:41:01.519
But uh, yeah, like Monroe, Wisconsin, they have like a stadium that's basically in a barn, and people are just like on top of each other.
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:02.960
I grew up in the Madison area.
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:03.280
Okay.
00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:08.880
But uh I played uh a great one as Nina.
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:10.320
They had their old field house.
00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:11.679
Um, I don't know if you've been up there.
00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:16.559
I think they I don't I don't know if it's still I think it's still up, but they don't play in there anymore.
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:23.760
They built a new gym, but they had this old gym that was that like had this round roof a little bit, and it was huge.
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.440
Um so that that was a really cool one in high school.
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:32.880
Um in AAU, like obviously like just a game in the Dells was always fun.
00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:36.480
Um just with like the all the high school memorabilia there.
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:43.039
Um another fun one, AAU, fun one is like walk out and walk ashot center court.
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:47.199
Um I haven't been out there in a long, long time, but that was a that was a cool one.
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:49.440
Brown Deer High School has a great gym.
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:56.400
Um just with like the you know, you got the the big space in the back because they have four, they have a field house.
00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:01.199
Um there's a good one in in our conference.
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:06.079
We didn't Pi Pius has a good has a good gym.
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.519
Um there wasn't a ton of great ones.
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:12.159
Classic ones in our comp in our conference.
00:42:12.320 --> 00:42:13.599
Oh Rufus King.
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:14.880
I don't know if you've ever been there.
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:15.920
I haven't been inside really.
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:19.760
Rufus King has I don't I don't I don't know if they still do.
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:21.599
This was when I was like a sophomore.
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:27.199
But the the stands are above the court so and then like the court's on the ground.
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:27.760
Yeah.
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And then like there's like a bowl on top.
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So everybody's sitting up top and like looking down at at the at the player's plan.
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:35.679
Oh, that's cool.
00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:36.639
That one's a really cool one.
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:37.840
And it's it's old, yeah.
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:39.039
But that one's a really cool one.
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:54.960
Um any any other favorite like spots to go through go to in Wisconsin for like did you guys go on any road trips or any favorite summer clubs or stuff like that around?
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:04.000
Favorite spot, like we we go up to um every summer, like we're actually coming up next week, we're gonna go up but to Sturgeon Bay.
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:09.199
Um and we my great-grandparents used to live there on the bayside up in Door County.
00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:11.679
Um, not on the Bayside, sorry, the lakeside.
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:22.880
So we're the water's like not very warm all the time and stuff, but we go up there and we're right by the lighthouse, the red lighthouse that's out there in Sturgeon Bay, um, right next to the canal.
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:28.559
Um and so we have a nice beach area right by like public beach, so it's great.
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.400
Um so that's our favorite, our favorite spot to be in Wisconsin.
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:49.840
And you go up there and there's like Cave Point, and then you drive up to um you know, Egg Harbor or um uh Sister Bay, like those are there's the drive in theater, I forget which I think that's in in Egg Harbor, but like being up there is like our favorite place to be.
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:53.760
Con, how are you uh I guess how are you how are you feeling about next season?
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:59.760
You feeling good, and how do you take a so like a phenomenal rookie year?
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:01.760
With kind of raised expectations.
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:02.880
Do you think about that much?
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:06.480
Are you just kind of moving forward and trying to get better every day?
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:14.239
Yeah, I think about it a lot actually, just with like your expectations for yourself should be the highest.
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:20.480
You know, then they should be higher than like the outside noise or somebody else's expectations for you.
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.199
And I feel like that's been true for me.
00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:30.000
And so, you know, trying to balance that, like not taking that, and that was something I was thinking about for the whole team.
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.000
Like, you know, we had a a great foundation and building year.
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:48.639
Um, and that might change a little bit just with like the moves we made, um, where maybe that expectation isn't as high, but for me and for us, like our expectation is still that high to keep building and getting better and and having a better season this year than we did last year.
00:44:48.880 --> 00:45:02.960
Um and so not really worrying about going back to and you you mentioned, not really worrying about like what the outside noise is, knowing that those expectations are there, um, knowing that you know everybody else is gonna be thinking that.
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:18.480
Um, but that our expectations for ourselves are are higher, and so you know, and the only way to for me, at least in my opinion, to um keep keep growing is is doing what you can do every day and what what we've always done, which is get better each day.
00:45:18.559 --> 00:45:24.000
And that's what what I've always done, and that's what I'm gonna focus on, and then that's how you meet those expectations.
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.119
Awesome.
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:26.960
Lex, you got anything else?
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:28.320
Yeah, I actually do.
00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:35.039
One of my favorite one of my favorite plays from you ever came against NC State when you were playing at Duke.
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:36.960
You probably already know where I'm going with this.
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:40.480
You grabbed your teammate's leg as he's falling out of bounds.
00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:42.159
Like what what happened there?
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:45.440
Like, how did you just was it just a quick reaction or what?
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:47.039
Yeah, just quick reaction.
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:55.519
I didn't really think anything of it at the time, and then like Tyrese, uh, whose leg I grabbed, um just grabbed me.
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:56.960
He's like, You're a genius.
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.880
I was like and then I kind of just smiled about it, like, oh yeah, that was kind of cool.
00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:02.000
Maybe I am a genius.
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:14.480
Um, but I was actually looking, like I was just gonna throw on a shirt, and there was this my dad made like a shirt of me like holding his leg um that he's that he's worn before.
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:17.840
But uh I was looking at that in my in the in the dresser back home.
00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:19.599
I was like, oh shoot, that's there.
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:20.880
That would be funny if I wore that.
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:25.360
What was the film session like the next game watching that back?
00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:31.119
Yeah, well, we actually didn't play very well against them, so it was it was kind of a tough film session.
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:37.440
Um I they I think we just watched it and we're like, oh, this is cool.
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:39.440
Um good heads-up play.
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:41.280
Shire loves stuff like that.
00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:52.960
Um just finding any way to get the ball or get a possession, so um it wasn't it wasn't anything like super special in the in the film room because he was he was kind of ticked about how we played.
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:54.719
Had you had you done that before?
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.039
Obviously, Duke, there's a lot of cameras on you.
00:46:57.119 --> 00:47:00.159
You growing up or anything, did you pull any removers to keep team?
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:01.760
That was just sheer instinct at that point.
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:08.239
First time first time I'd done that, and then I like I didn't really think anything of it, and then it kind of went viral.
00:47:08.880 --> 00:47:13.039
Um that is like a thousand IQ play.
00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:15.360
I was like, the guy's falling out of bounds.
00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:16.320
I don't want to.
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.239
Uh but he he he thought he was getting fouled, so that was pretty funny.
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:28.880
So speaking of uh um, speaking of a high IQ play, like yeah, Giannis said you were one of the smartest rookies he's ever seen.
00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:31.440
Steph had some really high praise of you.
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:35.519
What's it like seeing those clips from people like that?
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:37.760
Uh it's it's really cool.
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:54.960
Um for me, like I love part of the part of why I love my job is just I love I've always loved hoops and I love um watching and I love like following players, and that's kind of why how I got into got into it.
00:47:55.199 --> 00:48:01.199
Um and so like when I see any sort of former player, um it's really cool for me.
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:12.719
And it doesn't matter like if they were you know an all-star or you know just a role guy, but like anytime I see I don't know, I saw like Brian Cardinal when I was at the draft combine, like that was cool.
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:25.519
Like the janitor, um or seeing any, you know, Bucks players, or getting a conversation to talk to some of those guys, and I think that's really important, especially for for young guys coming in.
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:46.320
Like, you gotta have respect for the people that have done it before you and um respect for the game to like want to know and follow and and um and have that knowledge of the game and of players, and you know, if you're really gonna meet your full um potential, like you gotta love that stuff, I in my opinion.
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:51.360
And so to have guys like that who are all-time greats speak to you about that, that like means a lot to me.
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:58.559
Um that's really, really cool because you know, those are the guys that have done it at the highest level, those are the guys that everybody looks up to.
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:02.960
Um that's really encouraging, you know, just keep doing what I'm doing.
00:49:03.119 --> 00:49:05.760
Um, and so that's that's that's a cool thing.
00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:30.639
Um, and I think you know, for younger guys and like future guys that want to get to this level, like being obsessed with with that stuff and like the history of the game, and I think that really helps and goes a long way for you know how you can you know your your potential and what you can do in the in the league because um you gotta love you gotta love basketball to play in the NBA to play 82 games, like you gotta love hoops.
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:35.360
Um, and so it's cool to have legends like that, you know, have compliments for you.
00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:39.840
Well, then thanks so much for coming on today, and we'll we'll be pulling for you this season.
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:40.800
Yeah, I appreciate it.
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:42.079
Thanks for having me.
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:47.760
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