Speaker 1: Yeah, please it three, yes, sirs. Were It is Thursday,
Speaker 1: March twenty, twenty twenty five. Welcome to This is Sparta.
Speaker 1: I'm the helst Jason Straighthorn along with my co host Cedric.
Speaker 2: Swerve in Irvin.
Speaker 3: Hit him with the shoulder, hit him with the shoulders,
Speaker 3: hit him with the shoulder, hitting them with the swerve,
Speaker 3: hit them with It's gonna be a lot of that,
Speaker 3: this this, this, this month straight is it already? Hitting
Speaker 3: him with the swerve in the March madness, hitting him
Speaker 3: with the swerve, hitting with.
Speaker 1: March madness times too. We got men's basketball kicking off tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Women's you know, they're doing anything today, and Swerve, we
Speaker 1: got hockey too, We got wrestling. They're out there in
Speaker 1: the NCAA's right now doing their thing too.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of things going on in Michigan State
Speaker 1: sports and we're gonna bring it right to you. Swerve Man.
Speaker 1: How you feeling, man? It sounds like it looks like
Speaker 1: you are you being hell house somewhere.
Speaker 3: Hey, last day of vacations, Ray, not vacation from the show,
Speaker 3: because it's no vacation, you know, but last day, you know,
Speaker 3: the great country of Columbia, Columbia. I learned so much
Speaker 3: Spanish straight, like we can do a segment of the
Speaker 3: show in Spanish.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 5: Oh man? Come on man, how do you say that? Ole? Ad?
Speaker 2: Movie?
Speaker 1: Mean?
Speaker 5: Everywhere I go they calling me papichulo.
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Speaker 1: it from. Once again, I see Woodies in the house,
Speaker 1: but Cowboy twenty eight to fifty four from McKinnie texts
Speaker 1: back in the house, baby, you did your thing.
Speaker 5: I'm just glad Woody showed up because to lose, but
Speaker 5: not lose back to bag.
Speaker 3: But you know, I mean, we're so accustomed to but
Speaker 3: I'm glad to see that he came into chet.
Speaker 5: Now I know, I ain't got to put an abb
Speaker 5: out on him. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Oh man, what he's doing this thing? Brother?
Speaker 1: We got a jam packed show Today, we got two,
Speaker 1: not one, two special guests. We're gonna talk a lot
Speaker 1: about what's going to go down tomorrow and Cleveland ten
Speaker 1: pm Eastern Standard time. The tip off, Biscus State will
Speaker 1: face what's the name of that school, It don't matter, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna face him tomorrow two versus fifteen matchup,
Speaker 1: and we got a special guest to talk about this,
Speaker 1: a national champion guest as well as one of the
Speaker 1: most renowned sports reporters in two four seven sports history.
Speaker 1: So we're going to continue to bring you the hits
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Speaker 1: I mean when we were up in Michigan last you know,
Speaker 1: we went over to mon Ice Arena and we were
Speaker 1: able to you know, embark on some really cool things.
Speaker 1: We saw mateen a boy he dropped the pup. Before that,
Speaker 1: you got one of those swerven nerving jerseys. All right,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about hockey for a minute because
Speaker 1: they are about to play in the finals on Saturday themselves,
Speaker 1: but awesome internet. Michigan State goaltender Trey Augustine has been
Speaker 1: named to one of the four finals for the Mike
Speaker 1: Richter Award, giving annually to the top goalie in NCAA
Speaker 1: Division One hockey.
Speaker 3: Straight What they're waiting on? No, I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: let's let's let's let's do the math, you know. And
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be biased because I got my first
Speaker 3: hockey jersey. And I'm not gonna be biased because I
Speaker 3: went to my first hockey game and even though we
Speaker 3: loved but we came back and we whooped the ads
Speaker 3: of the team that we let win the night before,
Speaker 3: only for more people to come out and fill up
Speaker 3: a big arena, which I know, you know, I know,
Speaker 3: my guys, but let's do the math. This guy is.
Speaker 3: It has been awesome the whole year. And I talk
Speaker 3: about being consistent with with with with with with my
Speaker 3: other girls. The swerving Urban babies that this guy had.
Speaker 3: Goalie been consisted. That's why we were playing in the
Speaker 3: final because of him. He's a big part of that.
Speaker 3: So I don't understand why Ncuba while we're waiting, just
Speaker 3: go ahead and give him the trophy, give him a jacket,
Speaker 3: you know, let him take a picture with his parents,
Speaker 3: you know, and that's going on with our business.
Speaker 2: Let's just do that, man. I mean, it ain't nothing
Speaker 2: wrong with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of upset talks going on
Speaker 1: out there, but this right here would be an upset
Speaker 1: if he did not win that. You're talking about the
Speaker 1: best goalie in America, and we know Trey.
Speaker 2: Augustine is that when you're talking about Mischiss State.
Speaker 1: Hockey, one of the best, if not the best programs
Speaker 1: in the country when it comes to hockey. Also, we
Speaker 1: just had the picture pop up there for a minute
Speaker 1: Baker finalists. Augustine wasn't the only Spartan hockey star to
Speaker 1: got some award mentioned on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Isaac Howard has been named.
Speaker 1: To the Hoby Baker Memorial Award top ten, the most
Speaker 1: covet award in college hockey. The Hobe Baker Award is
Speaker 1: given to the top NCAA men's hockey player in the nation,
Speaker 1: like the Heisman.
Speaker 2: This is what it is.
Speaker 5: Come on, come on once again?
Speaker 3: What we waiting on? All of maxon, what we waiting on?
Speaker 3: And if you don't win and tell me why break
Speaker 3: it down? Give me the what you know who you
Speaker 3: give it to? I mean, come on, we only been
Speaker 3: in one or two the whole. Yeah, you know, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna wait to celebrate and post it once
Speaker 3: we wear both of those awards. I mean, that's that's easy.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
Speaker 1: It's we got to welcome you know, the one and
Speaker 1: only Mama Halls in the house right now.
Speaker 3: Baby, Mama Hall must been on vacation like me. We
Speaker 3: ain't seen Mama Hall in two months, you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know ever since she got a license to do
Speaker 3: her little blanket with trying to get minds yet but uh,
Speaker 3: we haven't seen us since.
Speaker 5: So that's to tell you how much money she's making.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's making money? Is that what it is?
Speaker 3: Ever since she got the license straight and it's beautiful
Speaker 3: now it's something I think she gave you one to
Speaker 3: someone that had the Michigan state things green and white,
Speaker 3: and she do white and green and oh but I
Speaker 3: ain't get mine.
Speaker 5: It's cool. I've been working for a job, child, Please.
Speaker 1: I please, Well, it's good to see Mama Hall and
Speaker 1: chat right now. Steve Smith definitely in the house. But man,
Speaker 1: moving over to the diamond. Man, we talk about baseball,
Speaker 1: your favorite sport. We've seen the picture of the black
Speaker 1: and white photos from Day County All Stars, Sex Girfy,
Speaker 1: but we got to talk about the Mischigan State Boys
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Grizzly Grind.
Speaker 1: The Michigan State Baseball picked up his first home victory
Speaker 1: of the season on Wednesday, running out to a big
Speaker 1: lead early against Oakland, holding on through the late innings
Speaker 1: on a grizzly late run, winning eight to five. Will
Speaker 1: Shannon and Randy Seymour both are homer and the Spartans
Speaker 1: win against the Grizzlies.
Speaker 3: Hey, eight to five, that's a lot of points in
Speaker 3: the baseball game. I mean they were they was hitting
Speaker 3: the balls right, they was hitting the ball against.
Speaker 5: Some RB I see.
Speaker 3: I will just say they got runs. I know the
Speaker 3: definition in the language, you know, Like I told joe
Speaker 3: Vin columb everywhere I go they call me Poppychulo. So
Speaker 3: we had to get a lot of rb I s straight,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, a lot of hits, you know,
Speaker 3: to get eight runs, which you know, I don't know
Speaker 3: if Steve people like Steve.
Speaker 2: Would know that. You know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we had to win all those categories
Speaker 3: to have to you know, to be up eight five you.
Speaker 5: Know home runs. That's the age that have in the
Speaker 5: in the in the score box.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Rb i's you know, run batter then and uh you
Speaker 3: know walkers and things like that.
Speaker 2: Straight.
Speaker 3: So you know, baseball just warming up. He's gonna talk
Speaker 3: about what's the rb I runs better than shit we do.
Speaker 3: We had a picture when I played baseball straight because
Speaker 3: it's they don't believe me, you know, he don't believe
Speaker 3: at me, greasy you.
Speaker 5: Know rb I.
Speaker 1: Come on, brother, oh man, who doesn't know what an
Speaker 1: RBI is?
Speaker 2: Steve?
Speaker 3: Steve asked me, basically being sarcastic, to see if I
Speaker 3: knew what rb I is.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, man.
Speaker 1: Look, one thing that we got to talk about too, though,
Speaker 1: is the wrestling program.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna move away from the baseball. Swerve
Speaker 1: does no baseball. He easy knows that can he hit
Speaker 1: a ninety five mile dour fastball from a six to
Speaker 1: eight pitcher by the name of Joseph Zeroa. That's up
Speaker 1: to debate. But does he know what RBI is? Come on,
Speaker 1: Steve Man, y'all clown it look MSU wrestling right now.
Speaker 1: Swerve is out, and uh, you know they're they're in
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament right now in three players, three athletes
Speaker 1: actually in the NCAAs And uh it's not easy, okay,
Speaker 1: you talk about Philly Special Michigan se wrestling season culminates
Speaker 1: in Philly this weekend. Three sparks competing. Caleb Win he's
Speaker 1: the number thirty three seed of one twenty five pounds.
Speaker 1: Remy Cotton, it's the number thirty one seed at one
Speaker 1: ninety seven. Swerve, could you cut down one ninety seven
Speaker 1: when you was back in high school at or college?
Speaker 1: Then Max Vanadeah, he's the number thirty one seed as
Speaker 1: well at heavyweight.
Speaker 2: They're all gonna be on the mat today. They have
Speaker 2: had matches.
Speaker 1: We are looking right now and tracking down their results
Speaker 1: because you know, it's hard to find the results in
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament, man, unless you're there straight.
Speaker 3: One thing about that rustling, ain't no help, ain't no
Speaker 3: left guard, ain't no left tackle, Ain't no three technique
Speaker 3: to cover you from the linebacker, ain't no power forward.
Speaker 5: You know, you out there then.
Speaker 3: The longest three minutes in your life, and you out
Speaker 3: there by yourself.
Speaker 5: So I got respect for all wrestler.
Speaker 3: I never never thought about it, never would never could know.
Speaker 3: For one, I couldn't wear those tights straight. I couldn't,
Speaker 3: you know, my thigh was too big. I couldn't just.
Speaker 6: Who.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of respect for those guys, though
Speaker 3: I want, I'm not doing it and I won't do it.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what. Remy Cotton faced the number
Speaker 1: two see Iowa. Steven Buchanan had a rough goal of it.
Speaker 1: You know, Remy, Remy, you know it had a take
Speaker 1: down in two at one ninety seven. He wrestles back,
Speaker 1: but you know he lost twenty two to nine to
Speaker 1: Steve Buchanan from Ioway.
Speaker 2: It's it's a rough game.
Speaker 3: It's a rough sport, twenty two nine and that sport
Speaker 3: you got your ass well. So he wrestled a technician
Speaker 3: that was really I ain't gonna say playing, but when
Speaker 3: you score that many points in wrestle, I mean you
Speaker 3: you you you was playing for points.
Speaker 2: Not the pin.
Speaker 4: At least know that.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: I know that from you know, twenty two nine has
Speaker 3: a lot of points in wrestling. So he went, I
Speaker 3: see why the dude was ranking with two for a reason. Hey,
Speaker 3: it's all about for we gave effort. But but that's
Speaker 3: Iowa and like penn State, and I think like Minnesota,
Speaker 3: like those schools are known for for wrestling, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a place where there's nothing else will do but that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you do have Philadelphia, you do
Speaker 1: have that. You got that, you got Pittsburgh, philip but
Speaker 1: you know the cities necessarily. That's a really tough wrestling state.
Speaker 1: It used to be Iowa was the king of all.
Speaker 1: Now Pennsylvania has kind of taken over when you look
Speaker 1: at the national wrestling scene there. But look, swear, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm very impressed with your wrestling knowledge.
Speaker 5: Brother.
Speaker 4: I don't know how how.
Speaker 2: Do you know that straight?
Speaker 3: Because the number one high school, if you look it up,
Speaker 3: the number one high school in wrestling, it's from Dade County.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Who?
Speaker 5: Look it up?
Speaker 3: South Day High School? You're on the computer, now, look
Speaker 3: up South Day High School. That the number one They
Speaker 3: got to be the number one high school in wrestling
Speaker 3: in the last gotta be say, ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 2: They're up there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, look at up, look it up.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna hold you to it right now, but
Speaker 1: I know one thing we gotta We're gonna keep it
Speaker 1: moving because we gotta get you our special guests. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think it worked for it right now. We're
Speaker 1: gonna come to it next week for sure. But Big
Speaker 1: Ten's best. We're talking about other sports swerve. For the
Speaker 1: second time this season, Michigan State's men's tennis Matt Sheldon
Speaker 1: is name the Big Ten Player of the week.
Speaker 2: Man, Hey, man, he hanging out with your boy.
Speaker 4: Ob.
Speaker 3: Man, like got to say, Man, my nephew, it's not
Speaker 3: my boys straight, is my nephew?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we text all the time. Matter of fact,
Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that because I wanna show it
Speaker 3: on the last show. You know, anytime I reach out,
Speaker 3: OB reached back.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: But hey, the basketball team is impressive. You know one
Speaker 3: thing about I'm Michigan State sports. So far, we got consistent,
Speaker 3: we got effort, and I say these tennis players are impressive.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You said basketball team, but you're saying the tennis team
Speaker 1: is even Are they out shining the basketball Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying?
Speaker 3: Nah, I want to say it can be the number
Speaker 3: two seed and you know, may I have the freshman
Speaker 3: Big three, freshman Big ten Player of the Year in
Speaker 3: the car I am say you're out shining basketball. But
Speaker 3: that's why I say that the tennis team to me
Speaker 3: is impressive. You know, if I had to name different sports.
Speaker 3: Come on, Okay, we get we're pulling up right here.
Speaker 3: Producer Shine has went to South Day High School.
Speaker 1: Wrestling team dominates and is twenty fifth state championship.
Speaker 2: They ain't got no good wrestling in Florida.
Speaker 3: They can't straight tail showing to look up Nasal only two.
Speaker 3: They just don't wrestle in the state. Once they finish
Speaker 3: the state, they keep going up. I ninety five. You
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Because they say I ninety five
Speaker 3: go from Key West to Maine. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So we'll just stop in Florida. No, once we finish Florida,
Speaker 3: we get back on the tour bus and we go
Speaker 3: kicking ass in Georgia.
Speaker 5: You know, South Carolina, North Carolina. We just keep on
Speaker 5: the Virginia.
Speaker 3: We work our way on up, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: till we get up to the Iowa and we go
Speaker 3: to kicking Ass. Then we gotta come all the way
Speaker 3: back to Miami.
Speaker 5: Okay. Ranked as number one in the country.
Speaker 2: Ninety five does not go to Iowa or Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I say I ninety five go from Key
Speaker 3: West to Maine. You gotta make a left somewhere.
Speaker 2: There's a good one right there.
Speaker 3: Who they wrestling, whoever it is, Steve. All I'm saying
Speaker 3: is line them up and just let me know. The
Speaker 3: bus will go wherever. Once we finish Florida, we just
Speaker 3: keep they just keep going north.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, man, we hear you talking.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: Hey, look man, Hey, I'm glad. I'm glad he looked
Speaker 5: it up. Man.
Speaker 3: That's all I told you. One thing about this is spata.
Speaker 3: Now we're gonna find their four and them. We're gonna
Speaker 3: give it to you role. We're gonna give it to
Speaker 3: you a cut, but it's gonna be facts. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be facts, baby. All the way from Columbia, Astray Pobbichulo
Speaker 3: Poppy Chilo is definitely the house.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta get to the other Poppychulo, because
Speaker 1: we gotta talk about a national championship basketball player, because
Speaker 1: Missigi State is playing in the tournament tomorrow ten pm. Man,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of red cups. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna be back? Are you gonna still be over there
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the game? Okay, all right, We're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: right now when we talk about miss Stake basketball entering
Speaker 1: into March's tournament is here and we are bringing on
Speaker 1: none other than a Nigerian American playing out of Saint
Speaker 1: Martin Deports in Detroit back in nineteen ninety nine to
Speaker 1: two thousand and three. Six foot eight forward played several
Speaker 1: years overseas, one of the biggest, brightest players that ever
Speaker 1: donned the green and white.
Speaker 2: And look at those glasses, look at the smile, lookout.
Speaker 2: Intelligent he is.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to have him all here, talk about
Speaker 1: Michigan State and time is on everything in between.
Speaker 2: Aloicious and joints.
Speaker 5: This is fine.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, how's everybody doing.
Speaker 5: Hey, I thought he was always six twelve. Hey, oh man,
Speaker 5: how you doing? Brother?
Speaker 4: I'm doing fine, doing well, doing very well. Thank you
Speaker 4: for having me on. I appreciate fell Listen, that's another Yes, Yes.
Speaker 1: Indeed, it's good happening you here. You know, Notigerian American?
Speaker 1: I mean, so you are multi lingual. You know one
Speaker 1: of the hosts of the show is not in an
Speaker 1: English speaking country. Yeah, I would imagine you could have
Speaker 1: helped him out.
Speaker 4: I heard I heard days in Columbia, So I don't
Speaker 4: know being see.
Speaker 5: See me more.
Speaker 4: That's all I understand what you've been doing.
Speaker 2: Hey man, listen, it was good catching up with you.
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago we.
Speaker 1: Were in east Land, sing and we saw you guys
Speaker 1: for the reunion ceremony of the national championship team that
Speaker 1: came back. Talk about your your time in Detroit and
Speaker 1: connected with tom Enzo before you decided to ultimately sign
Speaker 1: with the Michigan State Sparks.
Speaker 4: So my journey has to start with my family. Like
Speaker 4: I always tell people, you always go back home. And
Speaker 4: I give all credit to my mother and father to
Speaker 4: see vision and come to America and understand the by education.
Speaker 4: But coming to Detroit, the first thing you do when
Speaker 4: you going to Detroit, you got to know how to
Speaker 4: be strong. You gotta be tough, you gotta have grit,
Speaker 4: and that's something that Detroit is stilled in me, stilled
Speaker 4: in me and when it comes to sports life and
Speaker 4: uh even my own education, uh output. Before I got
Speaker 4: into Michigan State, coach coach Is did a great job recruiting.
Speaker 4: He came to games, he showed up when he needed
Speaker 4: he came. At that time, we had Cobo the Cobo
Speaker 4: Arena when we were playing Produe, I mean the Persian
Speaker 4: Boys and they were tough back then. So we had
Speaker 4: Catholic Lee versus p SL and coaches was there. He
Speaker 4: showed up at that time. I remember a lot of
Speaker 4: times when during the recruiting time, in fact, my favorite,
Speaker 4: we were down in this town called Browns City and
Speaker 4: it was snow It was a snowstorm, and Coach Is
Speaker 4: made a drive from East Lanson to come see me
Speaker 4: in the middle of a snowstorm. And that's why I knew, like,
Speaker 4: you know what, that's the spine I'm going to be
Speaker 4: at for guys going to go through the elements like
Speaker 4: that to come see me. I guess I can go
Speaker 4: through some wards winning. Hey man, I mean Tom Anzel
Speaker 4: is a guy. He knows how to connect with everybody.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: He's got a lot of passion, you know.
Speaker 1: And when people talk to him today, they always talk
Speaker 1: about the drills he used to do back when you
Speaker 1: were playing, And so I gotta ask you when you
Speaker 1: were a part of that. When we put the shoulder
Speaker 1: pads on, I'm going into the game. That was one
Speaker 1: of the funnest practice in my life. Was it was
Speaker 1: unusual when he came out with the past, people didn't
Speaker 1: know what to say. But then when you put on
Speaker 1: the helmet and you can see the guys running around.
Speaker 1: That was the first time I really felt like a
Speaker 1: football player with I being a football player.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: We kept it short, but h it was one of
Speaker 4: the greatest team by excise you can have. We we
Speaker 4: knew that we can still hit each other, have fun
Speaker 4: and at the end of the day, it was basketball
Speaker 4: was fun and being tough is being fun. So that
Speaker 4: was one of the favorite, one of my most favorite practice.
Speaker 4: And I get to hit people and that's what I did,
Speaker 4: and that's what I.
Speaker 5: Do coming up in high school. Who was some of
Speaker 5: the top players in the state right then?
Speaker 4: Oh man, it's a lot of them. Uh, Jay Rich
Speaker 4: was top back back then. It was great to be
Speaker 4: a play with him. We got Blanchard, we had River
Speaker 4: Rouge had a guy like man who else we can't.
Speaker 4: We had a lot of guys from We had a
Speaker 4: guy that came from Bishop Borges. It was really good.
Speaker 4: Every team had a guy that was six eight and more.
Speaker 4: Now I don't think they even got anybody who's six
Speaker 4: to eight in the whole state really, So back then
Speaker 4: it was mostly about which school you went to. You
Speaker 4: knew that if you play against Persian, you better come
Speaker 4: with it. You play against like Bishop Boygous, you better
Speaker 4: come with it. You play against Renaissance. King James Thias
Speaker 4: was one of my guys. He played against me and
Speaker 4: King god Quick he went to Syracuse. It was a
Speaker 4: lot of guys back then. It's too many to name.
Speaker 5: Hey, hey take me, take me now.
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's let's go to your national championship run right,
Speaker 3: and then also, you know, take me through the highs
Speaker 3: and the lows and what you most remember, and then
Speaker 3: also explain to the fans that's in the chat about
Speaker 3: how you feel about you know, that first week that
Speaker 3: that that first week of the tournament game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can see it right now. The first week,
Speaker 4: it's the most hectic week of the n c A.
Speaker 4: Anything can happen. That's when most send the story Cinderella
Speaker 4: stories happen.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: You got players that play out their mind, people that
Speaker 4: don't shoot threes, they hit threes. People don't dribble, they
Speaker 4: can dribble right left. It's like some something shifts in
Speaker 4: the world and you just gotta kind of like set
Speaker 4: yourself on the path of just being focused. That's the
Speaker 4: first week. If you you're not focused on what the
Speaker 4: team wants, on what the new teams need from you,
Speaker 4: you're gonna lose. It don't matter who you play. You
Speaker 4: can be a first seater, you could be a second third.
Speaker 4: You got you gotta be focused and so my my opinion,
Speaker 4: that first game is the worst game of the tournament.
Speaker 4: That is the worst game of the Thunnament. That's the
Speaker 4: most scariest time in your life. You as a singer.
Speaker 4: You you look at everybody. You want to push everybody
Speaker 4: in the face, make sure everybody's ready. You just get
Speaker 4: to this point where it's it's almost a do and
Speaker 4: die moment. And once that first game in the first
Speaker 4: quarter and the first time, I mean the first half,
Speaker 4: excuse me, go by. You start seven in and the
Speaker 4: more you go deeper into the tournament, the more you
Speaker 4: settle into the tournament. But that first game is goddling.
Speaker 4: Is one of the worst feelings you can have as
Speaker 4: a player. You're gonna be the most I don't care
Speaker 4: if you're a senior to your freshman. The freshman this
Speaker 4: is your first time knowing the intensity of the NCAAs.
Speaker 4: You thought you thought the intensity was tough in Big ten,
Speaker 4: but when you get to the NCAAs, the intensity goes
Speaker 4: two or three times more because people are literally playing
Speaker 4: for their lives. You know, what you do in the
Speaker 4: NCAA tournaments matters. It matters if you're the draft board,
Speaker 4: it matters if you're going to get to your career overseas.
Speaker 4: It matters if you want to just finish up, and
Speaker 4: this might be a last time playing basketball period going
Speaker 4: into the real world to work. So it matters. So
Speaker 4: that's really when you have to sit down, know the principles,
Speaker 4: know the direct and stay focused.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You know when you say that, I mean, this might
Speaker 2: be one of the toughest tournaments in the world.
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at most playoffs in basketball,
Speaker 1: specifically around the world, I mean there is the best
Speaker 1: of you know, five best of seven series, it takes place,
Speaker 1: the lose when is it surviving advance or single elimination
Speaker 1: tournament as it's known as. I mean, it seems like it.
Speaker 1: It does affect the players out there just as much
Speaker 1: as it does the fans.
Speaker 4: Huh, yep, yep, he does, because like, like you know,
Speaker 4: when I was playing, we knew that was my team's
Speaker 4: last game. So you know, when you got a guy
Speaker 4: who could have went to the NBA his junior year
Speaker 4: but decided to come back, you know, fans want to
Speaker 4: see that guy win because you know he's sacrificed. Well,
Speaker 4: the team got to be ready for that. And it
Speaker 4: might be you don't know what happens the next day.
Speaker 4: You might play, you twist your ankle and you don't
Speaker 4: have a play a n C A thundament ever again.
Speaker 4: So that's one of those things saying you gotta be ready.
Speaker 4: You gotta be ready, not just the night, not the
Speaker 4: night you play, the night before, two nights before. As
Speaker 4: soon as they tell you this is who you play,
Speaker 4: you go, you go to bed, You go to bed,
Speaker 4: you go to bed, you go to practice, you shut down.
Speaker 4: I love my professors, I love you all. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: after after the madness, after madness.
Speaker 2: There's a question right here from Ray Ray.
Speaker 1: All Right, mister, I love the two thousand title team,
Speaker 1: but I always felt your two thousand and one team
Speaker 1: was deeper. Charlie bell Utson, Marcus Taylor, Zach Randolph.
Speaker 4: Am I correct, you're telling my talent wise, Yeah, but definitely,
Speaker 4: But you're still dealing with two freshmens, you know, your
Speaker 4: so dealing with Zach coming in, you got Marcus come in.
Speaker 4: You're still dealing with people that really you got your
Speaker 4: targeting back. And the difference is you win it for
Speaker 4: one time, the second time it's like three times harder,
Speaker 4: four times five times harder. And then you've got guys
Speaker 4: that come in. You gotta re you know, they got
Speaker 4: to get in. When we went to the final four,
Speaker 4: unfortunately we lost in the final four. I mean, it happens,
Speaker 4: but it's really tough to get over that hump to
Speaker 4: get to win another one back to back. M know.
Speaker 1: I mean, look al, I mean you are an imposing
Speaker 1: force out there on the basketball court, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine what you would have been
Speaker 2: like being the tight end out there.
Speaker 1: Brother, you know, with the shoulders and your your size,
Speaker 1: and you ever play football ever high school?
Speaker 4: My god?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm so engariosused.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 4: Then know that I'm going to tell you my high
Speaker 4: school career how you went down in football. My junior year,
Speaker 4: I want I wanted to play football because we had
Speaker 4: to run cross country and senior excuse me, senior cross
Speaker 4: cross country, play football. That's how the porest was, you
Speaker 4: run cross country or you played football. You were going
Speaker 4: to do a sport. This is my senior year, so
Speaker 4: I decided, you know what I want to play football defense,
Speaker 4: and yeah, great, coach got me out there. I'm hitting.
Speaker 4: I feel good. Ah, at least so hard to find
Speaker 4: back then my size, but you know, I side sixteen.
Speaker 4: Back then that was wh hard. But I found me
Speaker 4: some datas. It's fine. So practice get going. Coach, I
Speaker 4: decided to you know, everybody knows I'm going to Michigan
Speaker 4: State for basketball scholarship. So we get to the first game.
Speaker 4: We decided to go to Indiana Mary Marion, Indiana.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to play.
Speaker 4: Coach like, nah, wait, wait, we're blowing the team out.
Speaker 4: Coach put me in finally, and you know, scrub minutes
Speaker 4: first time, you know, just got out there. Play man.
Speaker 4: That second play, I had this little short I don't
Speaker 4: even know the guy's name, his number, but he was
Speaker 4: a short guy. You know what, they teach him go
Speaker 4: for the knees, So he go for my knees. I'm
Speaker 4: thinking basketball career. Oh man. We get to the tussler
Speaker 4: on the ground, I take up my helmet and start.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I showed violence. I took up the helmet
Speaker 4: just it was a team scrubble. Coach running there. Everybody
Speaker 4: get in the locker room. I don't. I'm a kid
Speaker 4: from Detroit, don't even know how it is. And Marion,
Speaker 4: I'm dumb. Now, I'm like, you could have got got shot.
Speaker 4: We don't know, but I know we're running him like,
Speaker 4: I mean, we're married in theenda. I don't know about that.
Speaker 4: So we team fighting. Post grabbed me, get out there.
Speaker 4: What are you doing? He grabbed my shot? Your hands
Speaker 4: off me? He went for my knees. That's all I
Speaker 4: can say. He went for my knees.
Speaker 5: Oh, you took your heim and out. You was supposed
Speaker 5: to go to jail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, double A. You like that girl that was
Speaker 5: running track that hit the girl with the baitar No, like, you.
Speaker 2: Didn't do it right.
Speaker 5: But the thing is, I.
Speaker 4: Didn't understand that, Yo, they're gonna go out to your knees.
Speaker 4: You're gonna go to your knees. But he kept doing it.
Speaker 4: And then what made me mad was when he came
Speaker 4: up he grabbed me from in between the legs. Then
Speaker 4: that's when I took up the hill man.
Speaker 5: You know whoa I told was the kid five guy?
Speaker 4: He was like really like five six? It was five
Speaker 4: to seven, so you know you got anyway it goes.
Speaker 4: Coach put me out, Coach talking, you go, you know.
Speaker 2: What you did was wrong?
Speaker 4: I said, I don't care. He went for my knees,
Speaker 4: you know, did the little suspension and came back and
Speaker 4: then coach Yeah, he said, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: put you on a kicking squad. He put me as
Speaker 4: a kicker. What you want to get a kicker?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 4: He put me out the kicking squad. That was the punishment.
Speaker 4: One day it started to rain, I'm out there kicking. Man.
Speaker 4: That day was a day I say, you know what,
Speaker 4: I never quit, none in my life, but I quit.
Speaker 5: I left, played water polo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I went. I left, you know, went to the
Speaker 4: locker room. Coach came up to me and say, you
Speaker 4: know what you did? The best team you're going to
Speaker 4: college for basketball. I need to focus on that. Went
Speaker 4: to my next week, went to the track, did the
Speaker 4: cross country, played basketball one and the next won the
Speaker 4: state championship. I was done. I was That was the
Speaker 4: last time I put on the football helmet onto the
Speaker 4: last time until we have practice in Michigan state basketball team.
Speaker 5: So that was it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you ain't pulled the drake Marne to
Speaker 3: do it in college. How many points you averaged, how
Speaker 3: many points you averaged in high school? And what was
Speaker 3: the experience like overseas, And and somebody wanted to know
Speaker 3: how many countries did you play for?
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go backwards or I started high school
Speaker 4: average man. Back then it was eighteen and twelve or
Speaker 4: eighteen and fourteen something, double double. But I think winning
Speaker 4: three state championships kind of put you know, kind of
Speaker 4: put me ahead of a lot of people when it
Speaker 4: comes to the mentality of winning playing overseas. Let me
Speaker 4: explain to you. I played in eight different countries for
Speaker 4: over fifteen years. I mean in France, I played in Ante, Spain, Turkey,
Speaker 4: played for the national team from Nigeria. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 4: everybody when you go overseas, expect the unexpected. It is
Speaker 4: a business. And you know, the first day I went
Speaker 4: to overseas, I got lucky. I knew a guy on
Speaker 4: my team called Rosin Laura Beek. He was a teammate
Speaker 4: of mine. His dad kind of set it up where
Speaker 4: I knew the team. Uh in Slovenia. Do you know,
Speaker 4: you guys know where Slovenia is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh yeah, I've been that.
Speaker 1: All.
Speaker 4: So it gets cold, I mean cold. And the first
Speaker 4: day I got there, snow up the Here's was from
Speaker 4: Michigan Detroit. To get over it. Yo, you land you
Speaker 4: go to medical, it's cold, you're freezing your medical. You
Speaker 4: could walk, man, you're walking. I walked from the medical,
Speaker 4: which was down the street. But by the time you
Speaker 4: get to the place, you frozen and you got to practice.
Speaker 4: And that's the first day I landed. Mm hmm. So
Speaker 4: that's what I tell people. You know, expect on, expect
Speaker 4: to be ready to go whenever you go overseas. Best
Speaker 4: place I played depends on that. My lifetime love playing
Speaker 4: in France, love playing in in Spain. And Alee was
Speaker 4: great drink wine, you know, travel had great pizza, what
Speaker 4: else all the past. Yeah, we're not gonna. I got
Speaker 4: I gotta interrupt for a second because we have a
Speaker 4: special guest.
Speaker 2: What's come on?
Speaker 1: You want to come on and talk to you a
Speaker 1: little bit too, and we have to do it right now.
Speaker 1: Two four seven Sports on Corey Robinson.
Speaker 5: Cory, Corey, how you doing, Corey?
Speaker 1: You guys got the similar backgrounds right now, you guys hostages. No,
Speaker 1: it's good, Corey, thank you coming on. You know, I
Speaker 1: know you have a vast knowledge of what's going on
Speaker 1: in Spartan, basketball, football and all the things we've got.
Speaker 1: A Lewis is out of guy Yale right now, a
Speaker 1: champion of all sorts. But you know, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to bring you on so you can ask your own questions.
Speaker 1: I know you have questions that you want to ask him,
Speaker 1: but I want to ask one while Corey is getting
Speaker 1: settled in here on the stage and people know. You know,
Speaker 1: there's been basketball players like it when our era. You
Speaker 1: were there in mississ State when Swerve and I where
Speaker 1: they're on campus. But since then there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of basketball guys that have been able to convert over.
Speaker 1: I know you took your helmet off and you went
Speaker 1: ham on them boys and Marion, Indiana, but there's been
Speaker 1: some guys who've been able to convert from being.
Speaker 2: A power forward to tight end. One of those guys,
Speaker 2: san Antonio Gates.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he was around the saying class as you.
Speaker 4: He was a yebbie for me, I think, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: did you ever cross paths with him and Thest Sansling? No, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean East Lanston. Yeah, well I would say hello
Speaker 4: with Kabay and but uh, he was there before he
Speaker 4: was going. He was a couple of years older than
Speaker 4: two years older than me, and I heard great stories
Speaker 4: about him, just his poson not his work cathics. So
Speaker 4: came king na get showed he can go from basketball.
Speaker 4: They ain't transferred to go to football. But for him
Speaker 4: to do both, it's impossible. It's incredible. You played basketball
Speaker 4: in college, then girls tryumph of football, then became a
Speaker 4: Hall of Famer. That tells you what kind of work
Speaker 4: cathic he is.
Speaker 1: That's true, Corey. I mean, you know you've you've covered
Speaker 1: all the teams in misister state. You know, like, what
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? Ability out of Antonio
Speaker 1: Gates is one thing?
Speaker 2: But also the career, that kind of guy.
Speaker 8: He had, Yeah, definitely, I mean that's a tough transition
Speaker 8: just because of the work is different. Like you see
Speaker 8: a football player trying to play basketball. A lot of
Speaker 8: times they you know, on the football field they look
Speaker 8: like amazing athletes, but it's a different, different body control
Speaker 8: where they look like they're just running through guys on
Speaker 8: the basketball court.
Speaker 5: But that was.
Speaker 8: Shot fire A tough thing. But I mean, I guess
Speaker 8: for me, what I always wondered, what's your craziest time
Speaker 8: as a story, and have you ever been scared of
Speaker 8: somebody that much smaller than you in your life?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: So, craziest time is a story got to be my
Speaker 4: guy Andre Hudson win the game. Coach is just rallying
Speaker 4: on him. I don't know about what and he you know,
Speaker 4: you know, Coach is a he's known for breaking the boards.
Speaker 4: Not that time Andre took that point start a stopping
Speaker 4: on the board snatching for him and stopped to snash
Speaker 4: him and that and Coach looked at him. He said,
Speaker 4: all right, you're gonna do. You better respond and Andre
Speaker 4: he responded, He played great that game. That's a tournament
Speaker 4: game too. I remember that day it was it was
Speaker 4: so that was one of my favorite thing was what
Speaker 4: coach is. He will push you, but he allowed you
Speaker 4: to respond and when you respond, he didn't just respond
Speaker 4: with words. You have to respond to your play. And
Speaker 4: that's one thing I loved about Coach is and you
Speaker 4: can see it now with the guys and then you're
Speaker 4: talking about coach his his coaching style changed totally and
Speaker 4: a lot of people got to understand that. A lot
Speaker 4: of you know, parents remember coach is as a firing
Speaker 4: guy running with those wooden shoes and sliding and then
Speaker 4: running back. But his coach and styles changed a lot.
Speaker 4: Back in the day, he used to focus only on
Speaker 4: being accountable. We were accountable to each other. We held
Speaker 4: each other accountable. You'll see guys like I remember Pete
Speaker 4: goes up he didn't want to go for a dunk.
Speaker 4: Team goes into space, that yell, and we held you
Speaker 4: know back, you know Charlie, same way he went back
Speaker 4: at h with Pete, I mean with Pete, and they
Speaker 4: will go back and forth. We held each other accountable. Well,
Speaker 4: now these players are a little different. We had more
Speaker 4: discipline the way we play. We played more into the
Speaker 4: roles coach is now he transferred and now he's doing
Speaker 4: more player development. Guys are doing a little more than
Speaker 4: just big role player of playing that particular role. And
Speaker 4: we leaned into leadership. Now that I think they lean
Speaker 4: into their numbers. They strengthen numbers. So the modern game,
Speaker 4: the way coach changed. He delegates a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: to his assistant coaches. You can see them grabbing the
Speaker 4: players and talking to the players. Well, coach he is
Speaker 4: did that lot when he you know, American managed that
Speaker 4: when you were playing. Now he delegates, So it's a
Speaker 4: big difference. And when you see the way coach is
Speaker 4: coach now, but he's changed with the time and I'm
Speaker 4: happy he did. And one on the court.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I mean that's a big thing.
Speaker 1: You know, we look at what you know, one of
Speaker 1: his best friends, he talks about it a lot, and
Speaker 1: you know, hate Sue says, Swerve calls and you know,
Speaker 1: Nick Saban is one of tom Illo's best friends. And
Speaker 1: he was able to do that and adapt as the time.
Speaker 1: Shame because the players are different, you know, the rules
Speaker 1: are different. Yeah this you know, look, you know the
Speaker 1: things that they used to do to us. If you
Speaker 1: do it right now, you go to one of jail.
Speaker 1: That's to jail, you know, but I get my n
Speaker 1: I on money, but I go right now. That's the
Speaker 1: big thing.
Speaker 4: And you know, before we start talking about the game,
Speaker 4: because I do want to start talking about the game.
Speaker 4: But the way people played now, everybody said I wouldn't
Speaker 4: have played just like you said, I would have adapted, adapted, adapted, yeah, adapted.
Speaker 4: But the thing about the game now, it's so catered
Speaker 4: to six eight, six' nine. Guys it is crazy the
Speaker 4: guards rural. College but if you're a big guy who
Speaker 4: can put the ball on the, floor he could run the,
Speaker 4: floor he can shoot the outside shot just a little,
Speaker 4: bit you'll be. Sustainable coach is see. THAT i mean
Speaker 4: the players see. That we were all about six, eight six.'
Speaker 4: nine we, Wasn't huge we wasn't seven. For us even
Speaker 4: the seven, foot guys they don't do so great IN,
Speaker 4: the nba but they do well. In college but if
Speaker 4: you're talking about, the transfer the type of players we could,
Speaker 4: Have transferred tray would have made a great player. RIGHT
Speaker 4: now i would have transferred over because coach wanted more
Speaker 4: on the back because we, could run we, can defend
Speaker 4: and we can we can move, our feet.
Speaker 2: So you don't have to rely on the block. As, much,
Speaker 2: no no not.
Speaker 4: As much but it's more fun on. THE block, i
Speaker 4: mean just be honest. With you that game has changed,
Speaker 4: a lot but it's more people pay see men going at.
Speaker 4: Each other and that's what. You know when they take
Speaker 4: the hits away, from football it. BECOMES flat.
Speaker 5: I right.
Speaker 4: To see i'm gonna say, something SEXIST but i right. To,
Speaker 4: see uh the other league play seven? Or seven what,
Speaker 4: YOU'RE saying i don't know what, they're called. But Sexist but,
Speaker 4: i'm saying but when you take the, hits away, you
Speaker 4: know take away, that aggression you take away the really
Speaker 4: what makes. Football football, in basketball it's a it's a.
Speaker 4: Physical game when you take, that away you get what. They,
Speaker 4: see now, you KNOW the nba is going down and
Speaker 4: people start to watch The WOMEN basket wnba because, you
Speaker 4: know you start, seeing that you know what you take
Speaker 4: away the, nuance system you might as well. Watch again
Speaker 4: not to SAY that wnba or that that's not what
Speaker 4: but it needs to be. A balance it needs to
Speaker 4: be a balance in, saying that don't take too much
Speaker 4: what makes men basketball away from, beans basketball men's football
Speaker 4: away from.
Speaker 8: Man's, football yeah that's ACTUALLY what i like about, THIS
Speaker 8: team i think more than a lot of Them At
Speaker 8: michigan state in. A while is it almost feels like
Speaker 8: a throwback where you're seeing Guys Like jeremy fears and
Speaker 8: some of those other guys where they're doing those little
Speaker 8: things that don't show up on a StatSheet that win.
Speaker 8: You games and, you know, and basketball like, you said
Speaker 8: it's gotten away. From that now it's who can shoot
Speaker 8: the best, from deep and even if you can't, shoot
Speaker 8: it you're just gonna keep shooting it because percentage JUST
Speaker 8: say i made eight, of THEM but i might have
Speaker 8: taken seventeen or a guy that's just a. Great athlete
Speaker 8: where With This michigan, state team so, you know maybe
Speaker 8: they're not the best shooting team he's had by, any
Speaker 8: stretch but they do everything else to win basketball games
Speaker 8: at a, high level and that's kind of been their
Speaker 8: calling CARD where i know they, get like we don't
Speaker 8: have the go to guy, Or WHATEVER but i don't
Speaker 8: know that it's necessarily bad as much as they're just
Speaker 8: so team oriented and it's like an old school thing
Speaker 8: that a lot of people forgot that this is how
Speaker 8: it used to. Be like so, for me it's kind
Speaker 8: of more refreshing to watch it because that's the type
Speaker 8: of BASKETBALL that i grew, up WATCHING and, i enjoy,
Speaker 8: you know seeing the Things like Draymond That, Golden, state like,
Speaker 8: you know he's not gonna light it up from a,
Speaker 8: scoring standpoint because that's not what they need him to,
Speaker 8: do there but all the little plays by studying the
Speaker 8: screen right or getting the ball to the right spot
Speaker 8: for staff. Or whatever all that, stuff MATTERS and i
Speaker 8: think it kind of gets overlooked in the development of
Speaker 8: kids these days. PLAYING basketball i.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you, saying that, really DO because i think a
Speaker 4: lot of people. Don't stay you can make a career,
Speaker 4: off that and THAT'S what. I did i made the
Speaker 4: career just being, a winner doing the little things that takes.
Speaker 4: To win ONE thing i do like about this team
Speaker 4: is the way to get up and down. The court
Speaker 4: that reminds us when they take that ball off that
Speaker 4: you know the, team scores they take off, the net,
Speaker 4: they running, they agreebound, They're RUNNING and i think that
Speaker 4: is what people like, about them is taking. Quick advantage
Speaker 4: and coach you a great job daring people to play zone.
Speaker 4: ON them i don't think anybody want to play Zone
Speaker 4: Against michigan state right now because we're doing a great
Speaker 4: job attacking. Their zone we talk about what.
Speaker 1: That does, you know as a, basketball player you know
Speaker 1: you're on the opposing side and somebody, is said taking
Speaker 1: the ball off and then right back in transition, right
Speaker 1: away what does that make?
Speaker 4: You?
Speaker 2: Feel like what does it do to the psyche of the?
Speaker 2: Opposing team one.
Speaker 4: You don't get a chance to say the break, you
Speaker 4: know when scoring a point gives YOU that i. DON'T
Speaker 4: know I guess i'm a. Fat boy and side. Gets
Speaker 4: that so it makes you feel like you just. Say
Speaker 4: nice you don't get the chance to really enjoy. That
Speaker 4: cookie you have just got to get back put. IT
Speaker 4: down i gotta go back on. The treadmill IT'S like
Speaker 4: i gotta go back on. The treadmill and that so
Speaker 4: later you're gonna throw up if you keep playing, like that.
Speaker 2: You will Uh.
Speaker 4: SO uh i like the fact coach and having trust
Speaker 4: in your players to make their own decisions, AND coach
Speaker 4: i see that a lot that players are making. The
Speaker 4: better that's what we. Did before coach is a lot
Speaker 4: of people don't know that continues to call some of
Speaker 4: the calls when we. Were. Playing uh he gave a
Speaker 4: lot of freedom to, the GUARDS and i think he's
Speaker 4: doing a good job now. With that, BUT know i
Speaker 4: think they get. Into spots you know when you when
Speaker 4: you used to play back in, the days you get.
Speaker 4: Your spot you knew that was your spot because you
Speaker 4: knew where you're. Gonna go the other players knew what you're,
Speaker 4: gonna do so it's easier to React TO and i
Speaker 4: think that's what we're doing great is we're getting back
Speaker 4: to getting to your spots knowing what. You. Do great you,
Speaker 4: go left, go left you go right. Or right if
Speaker 4: you shoot, the ball shoot, the ball. Be confident we
Speaker 4: got your rebound and THAT'S what. I think that's what
Speaker 4: the team is. Doing great this year.
Speaker 3: You played With With jason Richards and kevin TOBE which
Speaker 3: i Didn't Know kevin tobell was the number one player
Speaker 3: coming out of high school when he Came To.
Speaker 2: MICHIGAN state i didn't.
Speaker 3: Know that to like, five spring five homecoming games five
Speaker 3: years ago. HOMECOMING games i, knew that, but uh someone
Speaker 3: wanted to know who was more athletic, and also uh
Speaker 3: for you and, my man my man on the other side, right,
Speaker 3: there jaen who are y'all top five.
Speaker 5: Players of all time with? Coach?
Speaker 4: Career, oh man you're gonna put me on the spot.
Speaker 4: With that, YOU know i can't. Stand last you, got
Speaker 4: happy but he ain't thinking about.
Speaker 9: Me anything, my, NAME man, I know i know you Guys,
Speaker 9: like pete but you say My. Name steve You, got
Speaker 9: pete You. Got Steve you stephen, din't play but you
Speaker 9: know He got stephen. In play, but okay so let.
Speaker 4: Me answer this. Last one kat was a man child
Speaker 4: when he came out of. High school you're talking. About
Speaker 4: athletic just the way he jumped and the way he
Speaker 4: floated through the air made he may jump and. LOOK
Speaker 4: easy I never i want to see. HIM play i
Speaker 4: ain't never seen anybody.
Speaker 1: Do.
Speaker 4: It Now jay rich was a. Different athletics but the
Speaker 4: way he jumped and, he sprank he just kept going. And,
Speaker 4: GOING unfortunately kt had a bone up in his ankle
Speaker 4: and that caused his athleticism to drop so much us,
Speaker 4: you know and that was that's that's why that question is,
Speaker 4: so hard because when you're an eighteen year old jumping,
Speaker 4: like that he didn't get to be a nineteen. Year,
Speaker 4: old now he didn't get to be a twenty. Year
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Speaker 5: That's.
Speaker 2: Number One.
Speaker 8: Then martine like obviously for, obvious reason matteen cleaves.
Speaker 5: The leader he.
Speaker 8: Kind of got the whole. Thing, going uh the kind
Speaker 8: of got the, national championship all the, assist record all.
Speaker 8: That STUFF so i think you gotta go.
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Speaker 8: Morris peterson.
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Speaker 8: know what the other one's thinking before they, Do it so,
Speaker 8: with HIM so i think you got both of those
Speaker 8: guys On The, New championship i'm A huge he was
Speaker 8: only here, one year so maybe that disqualifies him. From
Speaker 8: It But, zach, randolph like that's literally probably one of
Speaker 8: my favorite players ever watching where everything was below, the
Speaker 8: rim but he was just such a good basketball playerly
Speaker 8: like he did the, little things he knew how, to
Speaker 8: score just everything was great. With HIM so I Got
Speaker 8: zach randof on, the Team Probably jason richardson just because
Speaker 8: you got to have someone running the wing throwing the
Speaker 8: SYST which, I mean I guess peterson, does that but
Speaker 8: if you have those, two together And then i'd probably have,
Speaker 8: al right so we have the.
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Speaker 8: I think, another one which again he was the one,
Speaker 8: year GUY but i really enjoyed his, time Here Was,
Speaker 8: jaron jackson like just because then you have that stretch
Speaker 8: forward that you like. To have so then you Can
Speaker 8: Have zach zebo down in the paint doing, his thing
Speaker 8: and then you Can have jaron kind of spacing that
Speaker 8: out and letting him do his thing and getting. His
Speaker 8: shots and then you Know where zach couldn't protect the rim,
Speaker 8: on defense but he. Guarded guy then you have a
Speaker 8: rim Protector With. Jaron jackson those would probably be my my.
Speaker 8: Favorite ones and then, but yeah it's hard hard to
Speaker 8: because there's been so many guys that have been the
Speaker 8: guy where you almost forget guys that that, you know
Speaker 8: you just enjoyed watching play just because there's so many
Speaker 8: of them over the course of the.
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Speaker 1: going On With michigan. State basketball when you look at
Speaker 1: what's going on And happen, Tomorrow Night michigan State faces
Speaker 1: briant at ten PM. On tbs, you know this is
Speaker 1: a team that's known to move up and down. The court, You,
Speaker 1: know corey you know. About this i'm sure you've had
Speaker 1: to break this down yourself at two Point. Seven sports
Speaker 1: you know how your person who has been in the,
Speaker 1: first round you just said that it's a not a
Speaker 1: great place to be.
Speaker 2: The league, you know like this is so much on.
Speaker 1: The live this is a team that can run and
Speaker 1: shoot with the best. Of them what do you think
Speaker 1: the outcome of this game will?
Speaker 4: Be tomorrow so the, first GAME like i, always say
Speaker 4: is getting everybody on the on the on the, right
Speaker 4: tone the right. Path together gotta know your you gotta know.
Speaker 4: Your opponent you got to give them great respect. A lot, you,
Speaker 4: know right they're here for. A reason they didn't just
Speaker 4: make it here. By mistake they're not just uh the
Speaker 4: same preseason and the team that just, come out they
Speaker 4: got to understand they they're one of the best shot
Speaker 4: block of teams. Out there and that's something that you
Speaker 4: know they, you know no, matter what you got to
Speaker 4: take it to. Their chess they got six years fiftieth
Speaker 4: seniors and you got fifty or six. Years seiens they,
Speaker 4: got experience they got, you know this is their last,
Speaker 4: go round and some of them think this is their
Speaker 4: way to get TO the nba or to get. Their,
Speaker 4: Overseas look so have a great Game Against. Michigan state
Speaker 4: some shots may, go in then you must sky report you,
Speaker 4: got it whether weather. The storm first, to hit, you
Speaker 4: know don't get hitting them. Off first be a boxer first,
Speaker 4: of all who get sending them out usually the one,
Speaker 4: That fall so learn how to. Hit first, next thing stay,
Speaker 4: stick together really, stick together because things may happen that
Speaker 4: you know you might. Not suspect you may not catch,
Speaker 4: The ball you may slip out in the hand because
Speaker 4: you know nuns. Hits you so sticking together so those
Speaker 4: kinds of things need. To happen another THING is i
Speaker 4: you know we, YOU know i don't know, about you
Speaker 4: but scenes got to step up and show you know why.
Speaker 4: THE scenes i have a lot of Things. ABOUT frankie
Speaker 4: i tell frank HE'S the. X factor he, got played
Speaker 4: he got played like this is this last it's his last.
Speaker 4: GO round i see him BEING an x factor in
Speaker 4: these kind. Of games he may not be in a
Speaker 4: big like we talked about, big scoreboard but those little
Speaker 4: things will count when it comes to where they. Gotta
Speaker 4: go so, seeing, leadership understanding respecting, your opponent knowing what they.
Speaker 4: Do well they, block shots take it to, that chest
Speaker 4: take it to. That chest they're gonna. Hit shots you're
Speaker 4: gonna hit some some. Crazy shots this is how. It
Speaker 4: is they got fifty or six. Year seniors you gotta
Speaker 4: they gotta. Transfer there that's. A junior so there's a
Speaker 4: lot of people out there that, you know they they
Speaker 4: got a lot to. Play for and play. Your game
Speaker 4: don't try to do something you haven't done in. A
Speaker 4: while play, your game keep, it simple and then whether
Speaker 4: the storm and everything will be Okay For. Michigan state that's. My, prediction.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: Your muted all he said was to sum it up.
Speaker 3: The, head.
Speaker 2: Yes what's what's your thoughts on?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 8: THING yeah i think it'll be an entertaining game just
Speaker 8: because both teams like, to run so it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: FAST paced.
Speaker 8: I think the question is can they match the Physicality
Speaker 8: That michigan state's. Gonna bring and they block, shots well,
Speaker 8: BUT defensively i don't know that they're the most efficient
Speaker 8: defensive team, out there so that maybe they do some
Speaker 8: gambles where they can protect the rim a, little bit
Speaker 8: but they're susceptible to getting beat off the dribble and stuff.
Speaker 8: Like THAT so i Think For, michigan state, you know attack.
Speaker 8: The rim That's Where michigan state's at. Their best and
Speaker 8: when you go, into it you got to go do
Speaker 8: with what you. Do Best And michigan state's best when they're.
Speaker 8: Attacking it And like, al mentioned, you know if you've got,
Speaker 8: shot blockers that's just get right into, their chests see
Speaker 8: if they get up vertical, or not throw some fowels
Speaker 8: and then just wear them out. WITH numbers i think
Speaker 8: it's kind of the goal and just, you know do
Speaker 8: your game and it should be.
Speaker 2: All right, you know, you know somebody needs to put.
Speaker 1: UP here I heard corey had ten k On the
Speaker 1: wolverines laugh out especially and you know just.
Speaker 5: JUST what i don't know.
Speaker 2: HE said i guess he.
Speaker 1: Means Winning, but corey, YOU know i got to ask,
Speaker 1: you about, you Know A michigan state football spring, football
Speaker 1: question because it wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be right you're.
Speaker 1: ON here, i mean we got The Great alan, gawn
Speaker 1: here but you know we got to talk. About football
Speaker 1: just for. A second what are you Hearing About michigan
Speaker 1: state football? Right now you know we're not having a.
Speaker 4: Spring game, you.
Speaker 1: Know there's been lots of conversation. About that what is
Speaker 1: your take on what's happening And Where michigan state football.
Speaker 8: IS headed, I mean i just think that's you're going
Speaker 8: to say you've seen other teams. Do it that's just
Speaker 8: where the game is right now because there's no protection
Speaker 8: for your your players because it's literally putting them on
Speaker 8: an auction right before the. Portal opens SO so i
Speaker 8: mean until there's something, in PLACE which i think the.
Speaker 4: But that's like the.
Speaker 2: Auction, BLOCK.
Speaker 8: Yeah i mean at, this point like you go see
Speaker 8: a guy out there make some plays and then then
Speaker 8: all of a sudden you have five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 8: to entice them. To leave you know how that IS
Speaker 8: because i think the spring is maybe the last of
Speaker 8: the really wild west. Of it if they do get something,
Speaker 8: in place which you know that looks like they're trying to,
Speaker 8: do that whether the courts, allow it where you're gonna
Speaker 8: get rid of some of the the craziness with it
Speaker 8: and level out the money where it needs to BE because,
Speaker 8: I mean i've said On The You guys show a lot,
Speaker 8: of times no kid should be taking a pay cut
Speaker 8: from going from college TO the nfl as a good
Speaker 8: player like like that just don't make no sense if
Speaker 8: this is the highest level and you're making more money
Speaker 8: to stay in college than you've got just the system
Speaker 8: a little. Bit BETTER so i think you're gonna if
Speaker 8: what they Do in, new effect where you kind of
Speaker 8: limit the chaos and you put that hard cap, on
Speaker 8: it like they're talking about outside of the legitimate nil
Speaker 8: stuff where, YOU'RE advertising i think you can get beyond
Speaker 8: that and maybe we'll start seeing spring games and spring
Speaker 8: showcases again around. The COUNTRY but i think you're gonna
Speaker 8: see a lot of Teams Besides, Michigan state texas has
Speaker 8: already announced they're, doing it and they have as much money,
Speaker 8: As anybody so, you know it's just gonna be what
Speaker 8: it is until there's some protection for in place for
Speaker 8: your guys to.
Speaker 2: Not jump.
Speaker 5: BUT so, i MEAN like i get, it.
Speaker 8: BECAUSE like, i said like you've had a lot of,
Speaker 8: great times you bring your kids to, those games, they're
Speaker 8: free all, That STUFF like i get all, That stuff
Speaker 8: but the bottom line is the, bottom, Line uh and
Speaker 8: that's what happened in the fall with. Their, roster yeah.
Speaker 2: That's one of.
Speaker 1: THOSE things i just want to ask you a question
Speaker 1: before we get out. Of here what are your Thoughts
Speaker 1: On kid cunningham And The.
Speaker 4: Detroit pistons congratulations to them, right now they're.
Speaker 2: PLAYING better.
Speaker 4: I think that they're finding, their way they're finding how,
Speaker 4: to WIN and i think that's what the city has been.
Speaker 4: Waiting for and they're start to represent how the. City
Speaker 4: looks the way, They're playing they're bringing pieces, from everywhere
Speaker 4: AND they're i think they're. Buying in they're, buying IN
Speaker 4: and i think the city is starting to embrace them a.
Speaker 4: Lot more, Me personally i'm just waiting for. The playoffs
Speaker 4: i'm one of. THOSE guys i love, you guys but,
Speaker 4: come on let's let's get over this. Little huddle then
Speaker 4: let's get to. The playoffs let's get to the playoffs
Speaker 4: and let's. Make noise AND then i, could say. LET'S
Speaker 4: go i like where, it's going but we got to
Speaker 4: get over. This home. This home just making the playoffs,
Speaker 4: is cool but let's make noise in. The playoffs, oh
Speaker 4: yeah what's up?
Speaker 5: For?
Speaker 8: IT yeah i agree. With them i've kind of been
Speaker 8: Watching the, Pistons too but IN, the nba it's all
Speaker 8: all about the playoffs that when that intensity. Ratchets it But,
Speaker 8: BUT yeah i like what you're seeing from them because
Speaker 8: they're kind of the same thing that we talked About With,
Speaker 8: michigan state but obviously at the AT the nba level
Speaker 8: where the talent's obviously more refined, and higher and then
Speaker 8: you got the Superstar And. Kate cunningham but but you
Speaker 8: look at it like they're they're just all happy. To
Speaker 8: win they don't care who makes the shot or the past.
Speaker 8: Or Whatever they they're just bought in as. A TEAM
Speaker 8: and i think that's fun to see them do that
Speaker 8: again because we had some disasters years with them since
Speaker 8: the going to work. Team, THERE.
Speaker 4: Yeah I think i think that is if you ever
Speaker 4: looked at the teams that Won The sham Ships, In,
Speaker 4: detroit yeah that is. Our formula That is, detroit teams
Speaker 4: all the bad. Boy teams every bad boy team was
Speaker 4: a group of guys. Came together if, you individually they
Speaker 4: ain't gonna be, great superstars but when you put, them together.
Speaker 4: They will they make. Great team they, won CHAMPIONSHIP and
Speaker 4: i think that's what they're stuned. To Understand and i'm
Speaker 4: Gonna say, michigan stated we. Started it, michigan stated we
Speaker 4: started WITH and i Think because michigan can has learned their, lesson. Tradition,
Speaker 4: malice tradition malice that we do for our, tradition matters
Speaker 4: like even the kissing up, the spawn. It matters that's How, we.
Speaker 2: Yeah That's what i'm. Talking about what That's.
Speaker 4: What detroit is trying. To do it's trying to get
Speaker 4: some type of tradition back. Into THEM and i think
Speaker 4: that's what they're stunted. To see like, team basketball the
Speaker 4: way we play back in the eighties, AND nineties i
Speaker 4: think THAT'S a dna of. The city it's a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of people coming together to make. One car so
Speaker 4: and that call would Be a Cadillac and i'm. Driving,
Speaker 4: it so but that is that is and he Goes
Speaker 4: of detroit and the city should represent the team should represent.
Speaker 4: The CITY and i think that's what this team. Is
Speaker 4: doing a whole bunch of individuals coming together play like. A,
Speaker 4: team yeah you got k but you got. Other people
Speaker 4: he's doing. Great too all these other players pieces are
Speaker 4: coming together and that it, looks good no doubt.
Speaker 2: About. IT brother.
Speaker 1: I, love Detroit. Love michigan you know we All Love michigan.
Speaker 1: State swear let's your find thoughts before.
Speaker 2: We get out.
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