WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.640 You have to love the laugh. Welcome back to Eve 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:08.359 Sports Radio. It is May the twenty first, twenty twenty five. 3 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.480 How quickly Derby has passed. Welcome back to the show. 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:15.519 Of course, hump Day is Wednesday, as everyone knows if 5 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:17.879 you have a regular job. I haven't had a regular 6 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.359 job in a long, long time, so most of the 7 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:23.480 days are all the same. Sometimes Thursday is my vacation day. 8 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:24.879 Sometimes it's Sunday. 9 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:25.679 You just never know. 10 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:28.160 But for people that do work Monday through Friday, it 11 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:32.359 is hump day. You're almost pass halfway there. But you 12 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:35.560 got to work today. Give your employers, give them a 13 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.079 little work today. Make them say, God, Lee, what a 14 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.600 great day. My employees were just so good. Give them 15 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:41.479 a great day's work. 16 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:42.000 Now. 17 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:44.920 You know, we got my younger son on another line. 18 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:48.479 Let's bring him on, Shannon, And how are you. 19 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:52.920 I'm doing great this morning. I'm still trying to figure 20 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.640 out what you over. You're talking about saying good morning 21 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:58.439 to our service workers. You're talking about the people right 22 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.200 now that are doing the lawn outside of our us. 23 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.519 As Blad would say, you know, yeah, a palace. 24 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.519 Yeah, bland It's crazy. Everyone understands that Blanding is crazy. No, 25 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:11.480 we're just talking about people in general that work, and 26 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:16.200 we all work. Punch the clock anyway, phone numbers five zero, two, 27 00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:19.959 five seven, one, seventy nine hundred, and we do have 28 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:21.719 people that punch the clock. You have to be there 29 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:25.159 at eight o'clock. You should be scurrying around getting ready 30 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.480 to leave so that you don't have to rush. Beautiful 31 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.760 day outside. We don't have the issues that we had yesterday. 32 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.120 And again, let's just think about the people that our 33 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:37.280 last Friday and Saturday was just devastating. So let's just 34 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.359 make sure we think about the Paduca Tillman area and 35 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:44.359 all the areas that were affected by the tornadoes. I mean, guys, 36 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.719 Kentucky has really been hit these last three or four years. 37 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.400 We have gotten everything. So we just want to make 38 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.239 sure that we keep them in our prayers. 39 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:53.640 So here's what we have. 40 00:01:54.599 --> 00:01:57.079 I'm gonna though it to you for national news, but 41 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:59.480 I first and foremost have to I picked up you great, 42 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.439 gave me the p I looked at it and I 43 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.599 see down at the bottom. One of the nicest horse 44 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:10.039 trainers there was, Larry de Merritt died at seventy five, 45 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.199 and he was on the show last year, nice as 46 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:18.840 gentleman from the Bahamas, had worked his way up to 47 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.439 where he had a Kentucky Derby contender West Saratoga in 48 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:26.479 twelfth and the twenty twenty four Kentucky Derby, and he 49 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:30.319 passed from complications of the cancer that he has had 50 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:33.400 that he has been fighting from cardiac arrests. 51 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.159 I just wanted to make sure I got that out. 52 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.759 But now, Anthony, I'm going to throw it to you 53 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:40.960 before we bring on my one and only I call 54 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:44.319 him Big Hard. Everyone else knows him. Has Rodney McCrae, 55 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:49.319 tenyure veteran in the NBA, played in NBA Finals, which 56 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.680 we're going to talk about and his experiences because Anthony, 57 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.599 so many of the players are crying now about too 58 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.159 many games, not enough time, all the excuses that we're hearing. 59 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:00.159 I wanted to bring on a person that who has 60 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.479 experienced it, who has played every game of a season 61 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.400 six times. I mean, guys, he didn't miss I just 62 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:09.439 want you all to know you talk about a person 63 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:13.080 that was reliable. That's Ridney McCrae, without a doubt. So 64 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.680 we'll have him on after the seven to fifteen breaks. 65 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:17.639 So I'm throwing it to you, Anthony, let's get some 66 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.520 national news in before we take some calls. 67 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.840 Yeah, of course, obviously we got tons of We got 68 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.719 so many events going on in sports, it's it's ridiculous. 69 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:29.719 It's almost hard to keep up with. I know that 70 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:31.000 one of the first things we do want to get 71 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:35.639 into is obviously SEC and ACC baseball. Most conferences are 72 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.479 going into their postseason. But we had a couple of 73 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.360 losses going through the state of Kentucky. Obviously Kentucky got 74 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:43.439 up there last night in the SEC tournament first round 75 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:47.199 Oklahoma five to one, and our Cardinals got upset in 76 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:50.800 the first round the ACC Tournament to Pittsburgh thirteen to eleven. 77 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.039 They didn't make a comeback because they were down like 78 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:54.680 eight to one at one point, So I'm surprised it 79 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:55.520 was even that close. 80 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:57.680 But I don't know. 81 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:59.759 I remember when you and Oo had Will Smith used 82 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.680 to be and we were trying to go to the 83 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:03.879 super Regionals. Now we're struggling, got the first. 84 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:04.960 Round of a SEC tournament. 85 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.800 It's twenty How it's worth it. It goes in waves 86 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.439 of roller coasters. Because I even went to the games 87 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.240 we were hosting the super Regionals, and I was I 88 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:15.879 used to love going to watch and play, you know, 89 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.199 and it happens. Every team goes through stretches where they're 90 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:21.480 really good and players started graduating. It's almost kind of 91 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.079 a rebuild and restart, and you know, I think that's 92 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.240 one of the phases that Louisville's going through right now. 93 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.439 Even Kentucky as well in baseball, and we've seen it 94 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.240 in basketball too, So you know, baseball is not the 95 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.399 only sport we've seen it in. 96 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.480 Kentucky was really good baseball. 97 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:39.079 But Atney last year, Kentucky was really good, and truly 98 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.519 they were Oklahoma. Oklahoma was thirty four and nineteen Anthony. 99 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:45.240 That wasn't an upset. Oklahoma was a better team. Kentucky 100 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.240 was twenty four, twenty nine and twenty four. Now Louisville's 101 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.079 was an upset. Pittsburgh that they were twenty eight and 102 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.199 twenty six. Louislle was thirty five and twenty one. People 103 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:58.399 expected Louisvillo to beat Pittsburgh the Oklahoma game. People expected 104 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:02.240 Oklahoma Kentucky had beaten them, but it wasn't expected yesterday. 105 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.959 But I'm gonna tell you what a show you're talking about. 106 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:08.759 The drought louis was going through a drought. 107 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:09.439 You're right. 108 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:11.399 I mean Will Smith, who lives down the street from 109 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.959 us in Martin's neighborhood. When he's here in the summer, 110 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.959 a KC D boy. We all know about the Dodgers 111 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:22.959 World's champion, but Anthony, gosh, coach McDonald's making a ton 112 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.480 of money. We did a show on it. We didn't. 113 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.759 Someone did put it in the paper, Anthony, so all 114 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.720 I was doing was reading from the paper. I didn't 115 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.279 go in research at this time. I didn't want to 116 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.839 be the negative person, downer Jerry. 117 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:36.480 That was not me. 118 00:05:37.160 --> 00:05:38.759 He makes a ton of money in the staff, makes 119 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.879 a ton of money, Anthony. To be losing in the 120 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.439 first round of the ACC tournament and it's been about 121 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.000 a four or five year stretch, something is going to 122 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.160 have to give it. Louisville, hopefully they'll still get into 123 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:52.600 College World Series. Both teams were Anthony, Louisll's got to 124 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:55.879 do something this year, period, point blank. I mean, either 125 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.800 coach McDonald has to take a pay cut, they can't 126 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:01.680 afford the ating their and he made boatload of money, 127 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:09.079 or or he had to find a different venue. But 128 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:12.079 something has happened because there's just too many seasons like this. 129 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:13.120 Now Anthony to work. 130 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.519 Louis was just falling apart at the end, so we 131 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.720 had to wait and see what else we got going 132 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:20.000 on in national news. 133 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:22.879 Yeah, but obviously we did have our first round of 134 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:25.120 the NBA playoffs too. Obviously we had the Western Conference 135 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.800 Finals go on last night, and it was we ro out. 136 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:30.639 The first half wasn't but the second half. I woke 137 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:32.600 up and I didn't expect the score to be that bad. 138 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:34.920 The Timberwolves were up in the first half about two. 139 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:36.399 I think they were all bout two. If I was, 140 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:38.480 I'm not, No, there were about four. They're by four 141 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.199 in the first half, forty eight to forty four, got 142 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:45.600 out scored seventy to forty in the second half. Yes, 143 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:47.800 to lose, to lose by twenty six. 144 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:51.680 Jeez, Randa is the only reason they were leading at halftime. 145 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.199 He carried I mean carried the Timberwolves. That's the only 146 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.480 reason Randa was playing the lights out in the first half. 147 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:04.920 He carried them. Only reason after that, Uh, it was Well, 148 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.360 here's the problem I have with Anthony Edwards. You know, 149 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:09.519 he had a little sprained angle, but he came back 150 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:13.079 from that and he played. He played okay in the 151 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.560 second half, and he even said it himself. There's no 152 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.079 way in the Western Conference Finals he can go five 153 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:19.639 for thirteen. 154 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:22.319 Honestly, there's no way. 155 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:24.879 He has to. He is the best player. He has 156 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:27.759 to try to create for others. He has to create tempo. 157 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.920 He has to force the action. That's what Minnesota needs. 158 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:35.480 Shake gild Is Alexander. I think he was three for thirteen, 159 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.600 two for thirteen at halftime, Anthony, but the kid continued 160 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:40.959 to push, got me and to be in ten for 161 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.199 twenty seven over four from the three eleven for fourteen. 162 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.040 But Anthony, his team needs him to he thirty one 163 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:50.319 is thirty one and Anthony Edwards. 164 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:51.920 I guarantee you the next time they play. 165 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:56.759 And he's going, He's going, that's a nasty thirty one 166 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:57.720 thirty one. 167 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:58.800 It is. No. 168 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:02.639 I can't agree with that and be like thirty one, 169 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.120 he's crust. She's twenty seven times. 170 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:07.680 You better have thirty shit, No, I agree. But here's 171 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:08.360 the deal, Anthony. 172 00:08:08.399 --> 00:08:11.720 I agree with that, But when you are the best player, Anthony, 173 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:14.680 you have to take the responsibility. 174 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:16.279 Got me two. 175 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:19.839 Put it on the line to where at least you're 176 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.720 able to say, hey, he was ten for twenty seven. Anthony, 177 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.120 that means he put it on the line. My man 178 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:30.199 aunt Man five for thirteen. Any he didn't put on 179 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:32.039 the line, Anney, he knows he didn't. 180 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:32.919 He didn't put it in. 181 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:33.279 Didn't. 182 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:38.440 But you can't put all that blame on an You 183 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:40.200 can't put all the blame on the nose. You gotta look. 184 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.519 You gotta look at the supporting cast. Look at the 185 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.679 porting cast. Outside of Randall, Jane McDaniels seven points, three 186 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.120 for five, Rudy Gobert three two points, one for three, 187 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:51.240 Mike Conley two for eight, seven points, nobody else scored 188 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:54.080 double figures except for Edwards and Randalls. And Edwards was 189 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.200 out for like an entire core because he rolled his ankle. 190 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.519 If you look at the thunder supporting cast, hol Room 191 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:01.120 is six or nine fifteen points, Jaylen Williams seb for 192 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:04.320 eighteen nineteen points, Hardenstein six freight for twelve points. They 193 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.679 have four. He had three other players in double figures, 194 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.080 and he had a bench supporting cast that had almost 195 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.639 probably you know, four or five people that could have 196 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:12.440 scored double figures. 197 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.480 There are short five pointed two seven eight difference. 198 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:21.000 And I hate to say it, Why did I choose 199 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:22.440 Why did I choose okay See? 200 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:25.039 And they've got a better team now, that's all. 201 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:27.720 I said. 202 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:30.080 Okay See in Cleveland, and I picked okay C to 203 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:30.480 win it. 204 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:31.440 They have a better team. 205 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:37.080 Athony top Okay, they should win it off realistic, But 206 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.159 I hate to say it, and I would say I 207 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:40.960 feel I can't say. I say. I feel bad for 208 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.759 Anthony Edwards. He technically plays the two guard for him, 209 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.000 but he doesn't have a real point and he's not 210 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:49.159 a point either. He has to developed into that role 211 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:50.639 or the timber Wis have to go out and get 212 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:51.000 a real one. 213 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:51.159 Now. 214 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.200 They do have Dillinghams, who was a young and upcomer. 215 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.200 They have Karen Shannon junior that has a chance. They 216 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:00.519 have two young guys. They have an opportunity twenty three 217 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.840 minutes and seven points with only one foule. He's one. 218 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.240 He's just too old to play that long and he's 219 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:06.480 not really a facilitator. 220 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.919 He kind of had a great career, but yeah, so 221 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:11.159 he's just and he's old. 222 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:15.879 He's done now, he said, he said he doesn't have 223 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:17.320 a lot of time less, so he was trying to 224 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:19.759 win a championship. But I don't think it's gonna happen. 225 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:25.320 Here's the deal, though, Anthony Cason Wallace, I never, and 226 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.000 we're gonna get to break. We got Ridney on hold. 227 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.360 We're gonna bring him on after the break. I never, 228 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.200 and we're gonna let Rodney answer all these questions. Cason 229 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:35.360 Wallace from University of Kentucky thirty three minutes and he 230 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:38.840 only shot it three times, seven assists. But what is 231 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:41.720 his reason out there? He's out there to guard ant man, 232 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:45.200 and he guards and man. That boy is much better 233 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:47.960 than I everets he doesn't. He just didn't play this 234 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.080 way in college defensively. So anyway, we're gonna get to break. 235 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.480 We got the one and only big Heart on the line. 236 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:01.399 Rodney m all the information to see the most unselfish 237 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:05.320 teammate would pass it to Marty Pulliam before he would 238 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.000 shoot the ball. Is the one and only Ridney McCrae. 239 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:14.120 After the break, Welcome back to Eve's Sports Radio. As 240 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.120 we're gonna introduce Shannon. Please bring on the one and 241 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:20.840 only Rodney McCrae to Eve Sports Radio. 242 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:22.679 Big Heart, what's going on? 243 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:25.399 Good morning, Good morning, how you doing? 244 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.080 Come on, Rodney, you don't have to be the calm Rodney. 245 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.080 Everybody knows you can come on and say what's up, Eve. 246 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:37.600 It's earlier in the morning down here. 247 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:37.879 Man. 248 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:47.840 Understand Rodney my youngest son. So you got to understand, Anthony. 249 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:50.960 Rodney would throw the ball into me ninety and iverson 250 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:52.720 the time he took the ball out of bounce Coach 251 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.000 Crumb and he'd throw it in. And if I made 252 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.759 a mistake, Rider, I turned it over. I just looked 253 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.080 back and he'd be giving me this eye, Anthony. He'd 254 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.679 just be staring at me, like, wait to the door 255 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:04.320 room tonight. 256 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:07.320 We're gonna talk about that. 257 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:17.200 Wait to the door, It writes in locker Room the 258 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:18.240 good old days. 259 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.559 Here's what I want people to know about Rodney mccrade 260 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.039 before I introduce this man correctly, because we're gonna talk 261 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:29.200 about NBA players and time management, not playing. But Rodney's 262 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:32.440 first year nineteen eighty three eighty four, he played seventy 263 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:36.440 nine games. There's only eighty two regular season Anthony. His 264 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.279 second season, he played eighty two games out of eighty two. 265 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.600 His third season, Anthony, he played eighty two games out 266 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.919 of eighty two. His fourth season, Anthony, he played eighty 267 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:49.080 one games out of eighty two. His fifth season, Anthony, 268 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.879 he played eighty one out eighty two. I don't have 269 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.919 to say anymore. I really don't have to introduce Olympia 270 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:59.919 nineteen eighty. People don't even know that National champion Night 271 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:04.759 eighteen eighty played in the finals of the NBA nineteen 272 00:13:04.799 --> 00:13:06.840 eighty six against thee Larry Bird, which we're going to 273 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:11.360 talk about, came from a phenomenal high school team, Mount Vernon. 274 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:15.360 Great parents. I mean, Anthony Rdy came up the way 275 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:19.159 you came up. His daddy didn't play. That's all their hard. 276 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.159 Your father didn't play, did he. 277 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:25.399 Ridney, No, No, no, not at all. I don't all 278 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.919 tough lessons learned, guys. 279 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:32.679 I don't know what happened, Rodney, But we had real parents. 280 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:35.240 Frank didn't play. Your dad did not play. I knew 281 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.200 your father, boy, they were the best of friends. But 282 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.080 because they had control of their kids, we knew we 283 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.440 did wrong things, Rightney, You know we did everybody's bad. 284 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.600 I tell people that, but we knew when we were 285 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:48.639 doing wrong. Now today I don't know if the parents 286 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:50.799 know what the kids do wrong. But that's a whole 287 00:13:50.799 --> 00:13:53.399 different subject, right, But you got great parents. Your mother 288 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.080 still living? Oh, how she doing right? How's your mom doing? 289 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.039 Pretty good? Pretty good? Getting up there in age a 290 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.320 little you know, memory losslor here and there. So she's 291 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:05.960 hanging in there. 292 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.159 Yeah, my mom's ninety five, lives with me, Rodney, And 293 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.679 you know, I understand. So Scooter and I talk about 294 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:14.200 it all the time, and everyone knows that Rodney's the 295 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:20.240 younger brother. He didn't act that way of Scooter. Rodney's 296 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.759 the younger brother of the great Scooter McCrae. 297 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.440 Rodney. We had a ball at Frankie's wedding. 298 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.440 Oh god, Scooter, Wilie and I you talking about acting up. 299 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.279 Oh my goodness. I've got to get the tape. I 300 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:33.440 know Terryll was taping it. I've got to get it 301 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:34.159 because I got. 302 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:37.200 To post it. We brought back the eighties, Rodney. 303 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.159 We brought back the eighties, brother and we had a ball. 304 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.240 Monica Smith, Derek's wife. We had so much fun. 305 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.200 Hey, I don't know if it was Frankie's wedding or 306 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.120 the nineteen eighty Miller Hall reunion, but we had a 307 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:51.720 great time. 308 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:53.840 I'm telling you we. 309 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:55.919 Did. 310 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:01.679 But anyway, rod here's the deal, and I'm gonna let 311 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:03.840 Anthony start, because a lot of people don't know about 312 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.120 your Olympics experience. So Anthony start, get Rodney first with 313 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:08.039 our first question. 314 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:08.360 The other day. 315 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.840 Yeah, so this is this is actually the news to me. 316 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:15.480 I didn't know that you're technically a part of the Olympics, 317 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:17.320 but the one that got withdrew of the one in 318 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:19.320 nineteen eighty, if that's if I'm not wrong on the 319 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.360 year there you got told us about that because I 320 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:22.279 didn't even know that. 321 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:33.759 Well, my experience with the Olympic came from gosh, they 322 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:40.799 probably the trial declined the invitation, and the real reason 323 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.120 I got invitation was the success that we had at 324 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:49.639 the University of Louisville, of course, of winning the national championship. 325 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:53.279 So I'm thinking that they are going to invite a 326 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:56.080 couple of guys from you know, championship team, which they 327 00:15:56.120 --> 00:16:02.279 did myself and Derek Smith, and I'm sure they invited 328 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:06.320 of Louisville living legend Griff, but he was, you know, 329 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:10.919 paying for the next level was the next career countae 330 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.519 of you know, playing in the NBA. So of course 331 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:20.200 when I went down there, confident, proud, happy, you know, 332 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:25.200 coming off national championship. But it was another challenge for 333 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:27.919 me to go out there and play against It had 334 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:31.360 about two hundred, you know, all the players down there, 335 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.919 and went down there and just you know, stuck to 336 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:39.480 my value to kind of, you know, play with the fundamentals, 337 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.720 making the right plays, doing what I knew I could 338 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:47.080 go out there, and uh it gave me opportunity to 339 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.799 make the team, along with a couple of guys that 340 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:53.240 I got a chance to play with later on in 341 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:57.360 the NBA. So it was a great experience. We would 342 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:02.000 have loved to go on to the the Olympics, but unfortunately, 343 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:05.480 deal with things going on in the world that the 344 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:11.559 President decided that we wouldn't participate. Uh So when they 345 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.720 talk about Olympians, I'm proud that I made the team, 346 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.119 but of course we didn't get a chance to compete. 347 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.880 Runney yor did play. Though you all played exhibition games. 348 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:26.160 Who did you all play against and who we called. 349 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.960 It the gold medal games. We played against NBA players. 350 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:34.880 We played against a group of guys who made their 351 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:40.079 home in Los Angeles, We played in New York, we 352 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:44.880 played we played about five or six games against NBA 353 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:50.519 players and it was great experience to you know, play 354 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:54.319 against guys that were, you know, playing in the NBA. I'm 355 00:17:54.319 --> 00:18:00.640 talking about high level guys that kept themselves in shape 356 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:05.440 and they you know it. You know, it was eye opener. 357 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.039 We had a pretty good team, confident guys who who 358 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:14.400 you know, believed in their themselves, and we we wind 359 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.759 up winning five our mom in games. It was I know, 360 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.200 we only had lost one game out about about five games. 361 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:26.559 So it was a taste of something that he thought 362 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:29.519 about it sometimes, like, hey, it's going to have to 363 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.440 you know, you're going to be better, get better between 364 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:35.839 now and your time when you graduate college if you 365 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:37.960 want to play at this level. So it was a 366 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:41.519 great experience to see that at a young age experience. 367 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.039 It tell me something you stepped in. 368 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:48.319 You always kind of set between Scooter and had in 369 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:50.440 the locker room at Old fair Grounds and you were 370 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.480 a little upset that you didn't get in that first. 371 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:54.000 Game, and Scooter looked that. 372 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:55.680 You said, what are you mad about, Rodney, And you 373 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:57.079 were like, I didn't play it. 374 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:02.880 Scooter said, you didn't expect to play. 375 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:07.920 I tell that story all the time. Well, uh, you 376 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:10.920 know when you're playing in high school and you're and 377 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.000 you're you know, you're playing you don't really practice that much. 378 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:19.079 It's just be you know, Frank, so you know, you 379 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:22.880 you play the game, so not really understanding well for 380 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:27.960 me at that age, the preparation part of the game. 381 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:33.640 And and you know, we used to have those scrimmages 382 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:36.680 that we all look forward to after just practicing for 383 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:41.319 weeks without you know, you know, breaking up and get 384 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.160 a chance to just go up and down. And I 385 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:47.200 had a little success, and you know, the scrimmages and 386 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:52.880 I'm all excited. Seasons getting ready to start and first 387 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:54.880 game coming out. You remember, like it was yesterday we 388 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:59.400 played South Alabama. Was a nip and tuck game. You know, 389 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:01.640 co I would look down there at the bench and 390 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:03.799 I looked back down there at him. I'm like, okay, 391 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:08.200 get ready call my name, like come on, and first 392 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.400 half to him line, I was like, okay, all right, 393 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.640 he don't want to get a freshman a chance to play. 394 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:17.319 S second half come and the buzzer goes off, and 395 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:19.319 of course I'm happy it was a nipp and tug game. 396 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:23.279 But then the selfishness comes in, like I can't believe right, 397 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:25.720 and you know, I ain't get a chance to play, 398 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.559 and you know, Randy, our team manager guys taking uniform 399 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:32.960 off and throw them, throw it in the middle of 400 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.119 the room, you know, so you can collect them and 401 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.200