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A highlight from Part 1: USAs World Cup Collapse, Basebrawls, Jets Optimism, Life in The G-League and The OC 20 Years Later | with Gabe York and Zoe Simmons
"Coming up, an unexpected two -part podcast cameo from me. It's next. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where we turned over Sean Fennesey and Amanda Dobbins' big picture feed to Brian Raftery. It's a narrative podcast called, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. You can find it on the big picture starting on Tuesday. And it is an idea I'm really excited about because it came from a class that I did as a senior in college in 1992. Me and my friend Horgs talked a movies professor into doing a special Vietnam War movies class where we watched basically every Vietnam War movie that had been made up to 1992 and then tried to write a big picture term paper about it. And the thing that was really fascinating about that class and something that stuck with me was just that whole concept of Hollywood reinventing the entire Vietnam experience under the premise of, Did We Get to Win This Time? So we got Brian involved and he turned the idea into an awesome, awesome podcast. I even went and dug up the term paper that I wrote 31 years ago. I thought it was gonna be horrendous. It wasn't bad. I was kind of proud of myself, retroactively 31 years later. Anyway, Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War. It is gonna be in the big picture podcast starting on Tuesday. So that's one piece of business. Second, new rewatchables on Monday night. It is the 300th movie that we've done. It's a special one. We're doing National Lampoon's Vacation. It was time. Meet Chris Ryan, Van Lathan. Yeah, and Van was pushing for it because we wanted to do Christmas Vacation during the holidays and you can't do Christmas Vacation. If we do National Lampoon's Vacation, super fun. Can't wait for you to listen to it. And we'll be running the video at some point on the YouTube channel, youtube .com slash Bill Simmons, where we put up a whole bunch of rewatchables podcasts in case you missed it. Boogie Nights is up there now. Goodfellas, Independence Day, just a slew of them. So if you're bored and you wanna throw on some rewatchables and watch us make fun of each other, there you go. Last but not least, I don't wanna say this is the most important, but it's certainly the thing I spent the most time on. Our documentary that we did about the G League with Religion of Sports and Ringer Films, we combined, and it is premiering on Tuesday, August 8th. It is called Destination NBA, A G League Odyssey. It's really good. We immersed ourselves into the G League season. We followed Scoot Henderson, Gabe York, Ryan Terrell, Mason Jones, and Denzel Valentine. And the big question was, what is this world like? What's it like to be in the G League? And I am really proud of where we landed with it. And we even have, much later in this podcast, Gabe York is gonna come on. He's one of the five that we followed, and he's gonna tell us what it's like as you're holding on to your dream in your late 20s. We try not to spoil the doc too much with Gabe, but I really liked him. He's probably the guy that jumps out of the doc in the most sympathetic way. So look forward for you to watch it. It is prime video, Tuesday, August 8th, Destination NBA. A G League Odyssey. You love basketball, just watch it, it's good. So there you go. This is gonna be part one of a two -part podcast. Gabe is coming up later. My daughter Zoe Simmons is coming up later because we did a whole bunch of OC stuff on the Prestige TV podcast. I was even on two of the episodes. But I ended up watching season one of the OC. And my daughter was watching with us and loved the show. And she was born a year and a half after it premiered. So me and her broke down season one from the perspective of what is it like when somebody 18 watches the OC, a show that is now two decades old. The anniversary was actually August 6th. And what she liked, what she didn't like, what people aren't doing anymore for her kind of audience. And we just dove into it. So that is much later. First, coming out of the gate, I'm gonna open a six -pack because we have a lot to discuss over the past three weeks, all the stuff I missed. So that's gonna be part one. And then part two, which is gonna go up later on Sunday night, me and Rossello doing this evergreen idea that we've always wanted to do. And this seemed like the perfect time because nothing's happening in basketball. So that's gonna be part two later tonight. Part one coming up. First, our friends from ProJax. What's up? All right, I'm taping this. It is Sunday afternoon Pacific time. And I'm gonna open a six -pack. There's a bunch of stories in sports and culture that happened over the last three weeks. I was just writing stuff down, things that would have been fun for podcast segments. I was just like, man, I wish I could have given my thoughts on that. Just gonna rip through them. So I have six and then maybe a couple bonus ones at the end. The first one, the biggest one, was the US women's soccer team, which lost today in penalty kicks to Sweden, scored zero goals in the last two games, scored one goal in the last three games, and that was off a corner kick. You could feel from the beginning that something was off with this team. It was all the ways. You knew in a checklist of what are the red flags? There were just red flags galore. And the only person who was really calling it out in time over and over again was Carli Lloyd, who was doing the Fox studio show. And she was the one person in the horror movie who knows the house is haunted. And everyone's like, shut up. You're not being patriotic. You just wish you were still on the team. She was right. She was right from the get -go. This team, you could see it before the Vietnam game when it was like, look at the new Nike suits. Look at these new suits. And they're all like styling as they head into the locker room. And they're running commercials. And every player has a commercial. There's players who've never done anything of that commercials. And the vibe was just off. They only beat Vietnam three -nothing in a bracket where goal differential was gonna be super -duper important. And that was a huge red flag. And we did the usual thing that we've been doing since 2019, 2015 of, oh, well, they almost scored a bunch of times. Oh, well, if that had gone in or some bad luck. There was just an arrogance to this team. Like they were carrying themselves like the defending champs, the same way like the Denver Nuggets would go into next NBA season. Like we're the champs. I was like, yeah, you are the champs because the season just happened. The World Cup happened four years ago. Everyone's four years older or wasn't on the team. And you could see they wanted to build the team instead of around the identity of, here are these new up and coming awesome stars that are gonna be in your life. They were really latching on to Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. Alex Morgan's 34, Megan Rapinoe's 37. I think one of the differences between the discourse with women's sports and men's sports is that in men's sports, we grasp for angles. And if somebody is disappointing in some way, we really go nuts. Like think of how James Harden's been treated over the last 12 years. So he's one of the 35 best players ever and has taken just an incredible amount of shit. Oh my God, the playoffs, look at his game log. Oh, he choked again. Alex Morgan, who scored twice in her first two games in the World Cup in 2011, she scored once in 2015 in seven games. She scored six times in 2019, five against Thailand in a game that was 13 to nothing, one in the other six, and then scored nothing in the four games this time around. If you take away that Thailand game, she has scored two goals in the last 17 World Cup games. This is the striker. This is the one who's supposed to be the most dangerous player in the field, who's supposed to produce goals. And she hasn't produced goals since the mid 2010s on the national level. And yet it's Alex Morgan. She was supposed to be the next one. We got to keep propping her up and pretending she's a superstar. She's not a superstar. She's really honestly never been a superstar. She certainly hasn't been as impactful as somebody like Abby Wambach was. So you have the team built around her. She's got to play. They play her the entire game, game two, the entire game, game three. She plays like 95 minutes in this game today, and they don't score goals. And the announcers just won't talk about it. It's like being on an AYSO team that your kid's on, and the coach is playing somebody at striker, and everyone's like, why don't they play Sally at striker instead of the coach's daughter? It's like, oh, you know, the coach's daughter. She's got to play there. So you have that, and then you have Rapinoe, who's 37 years old, who's just, unfortunately, great career, legendary, true legend, huge big time player. And when you hit your late 30s in soccer, it's a wrap. She looked like Yudana Rapinoe, not big Rapinoe, and comes out for the last 25 minutes of this game and can't do anything, and then misses the penalty kick. That's the thing. If you're beholden to past performance, you can't expect to succeed in the moment. And I did feel like, what were this team's strengths? Speed. They had Sophia Smith, who really was bad the last three games on the left wing. Like, she just, she couldn't even connect passes. Trinity Rodman, who's a beast. Lynn Williams, who's super fast and athletic and had some really nice moments the last two games. And then Alyssa Thompson, who's the prodigy, who's the, you know, potential tiger or LeBron of this team. 18 years old, best high school player I've ever had. They won't even throw her out there. But this was not a team that could connect passes. They weren't, like, especially creative. The coaching was just bizarre, and we'll never see that guy again. But it was like, the one thing they did have was speed, especially the forwards, and they just threw that away. And Alex, you know, couldn't do anything. So now they're out. It's the most disappointing finish of the last 25 years for the women's team. And it reminds me in a lot of ways that 2004 Olympic basketball team that we had, the USA team. And I tweeted this, I think after the second game, because that was a team that was between eras, like this one was, where all the best players on that 2014, the ones in their primes, weren't that good, except for Duncan. And Duncan was completely banged up. He'd played so many NBA games the last couple of years. I think his knee was hurt. But, you know, it was Iverson and Marbury. The talent, it just was a between eras. And you had guys on the bench, like LeBron and Carmelo and Wade, who were four years away. Kobe wasn't on the team. And it just felt generationally, like we caught that team in the wrong time. The style was wrong. And we learned all these lessons and we moved on. 2008, we win. There's a documentary about it. But this team felt like it was between eras. The Alex Morgan, Rapinoe era, which was basically done. And then you have this era coming up with Rodman and Sophia Smith and Alyssa. And, you know, it's just four years from now, we'll probably be fine. But they need to re -imagine this. And I think if you're gonna learn any lesson from this, it doesn't matter what happened four years ago. It's the World Cup. It matters what's happening now. So that's one thing. Second thing. So Jaylen Brown gets this huge contract, $304 million. Some people seem surprised that it was that much money. Chris Ryan even took a shot at it when we did our library watchables. Hurt my feelings a tiny bit. Mainly because I didn't really have a comeback. Rosella did something on his podcast about how this actually makes sense. This amount of money, when you think of how the salary cap has climbed just since 2015, and it's gonna keep climbing. And there's this world you can go into where you think about just how much everything is gonna cost in the NBA four or five years from now, that Jaylen Brown at $70 million isn't actually gonna be that intimidating. The same way we feel about Tobias Harris for $40 million now, or Klay Thompson, $40 million now. Yeah, you don't really wanna pay $40 million for Klay Thompson, but you can survive it. And I think that's gonna be where the Celtics land with Jaylen. Here's why they had to do it. They're the favorites on FanDuel right now. They're plus 470. The thing that made them the most special and has made them the most special for the last five, six years is the Jaylen Brown -Jason Tatum combo. They've been incredibly successful. The team itself has made five conference finals in the last seven years. They came super close to making the finals last year. I have now gone into the what if zone with that Celtics team where what if Tatum doesn't hurt his ankle on the first play? Do we beat Miami? They were close is the point. And when you're that close, you can't fuck around. This is not Bradley Beal resigning with Washington for 50 million a year when everybody knows you can't get past the eight seed with Bradley Beal. This is different. You're trying to win a title. You're trying to keep all your optionality open. The thing that's a little scary about it, nobody seems to totally know if he wants to be in Boston. This is something we've discussed on this pod. It's been floating out there. The fact that he wasn't happy about landing in the Kevin Durant trade rumors a couple years ago. And just in general, where the league is now, where as Woj called it, the transfer portal, where people get their contract first and then they decide what they want to do. And I think for the Celtics, they know they bought themselves a year with Jalen and they are still one of the favorites to win the title. And a lot of it's going to depend on health and Porzingis. You could also, I don't want to make the case, but you might be able to make the case that Brown had a fucked up hand last year. Cause he did. Cause he sliced his hand open. It was bleeding even during the Philly series. And maybe that was why his ball handling went sideways. Listen, you got to do the contract. It just breaks your brain. I remember a million years ago, Sports Illustrated and Inside Sports say every year they would have like a salary issue. And they would talk about these guys are making $1 million a year. And it seemed like so much money. And now where we're heading with the money, plus the NBA is the meteorites deal. The moment any of these guys becomes unhappy, what do you do? Because you're paying Jalen, let's say you're paying him 55 million a year. Plus he is the trade kicker, which the team has to pay. Right? So if he decides after a year, you know what? I'm tired of being the scapegoat. Everybody loves Jason. I'm like the middle brother of this team. I want my own team. I want to go to Houston or Atlanta. You got to trade me. What are the Celtics going to do? On top of who would want out, you don't have a lot of options and you turn into what the situation Portland's in with Deem. And then on top of it, it's so much money. It's impossible to get any sort of a fair trade for the guy. So they had to do it. And optionality the that comes out of it is frightening. I remember in the early 2000s, when the first time the contracts kind of went nuts and you would see that people get signing like six -year, $100 million deals, seven -year, $110 million deals. And the Celtics really, really stupidly traded for Vin Baker. One of the worst trades of the last 30 years for Boston Sports. A trade so bad, you knew it instantaneously. And I wrote a piece that you can probably find somewhere in the ESPN archives about it, where I compared it to the end of Thelma Louise when Harvey Keitel is running toward the cliff trying to stop the car from going off the cliff. That's how I thought about the Vin Baker trade when it happened. Then it happens and you just had this salary albatross. It's a salary cap league. And you're like, wow, we just threw away 20 % of our salary cap on this trade. There's going to be a couple of those that are just franchise killers. And whether that leads to them bringing back the amnesty clause, who knows? I wish, I've made this, I've had this idea before. I wish that they had a rule in there that if you drafted a guy, every year that he stays in the team, you get rewarded in some way from a salary cap luxury tax type thing, right? So Jaylen was 2016 draft, this would be his eighth year. Maybe like after the seventh year, because that's usually like the third contract. The guy stays in the team, maybe each year after that, he doesn't count for 2 % of the luxury tax, up to like 30%, something like that. The point is the Warriors should be rewarded for keeping Draymond and Klay and Curry from a tax standpoint, that they were that smart to draft those guys, keep those guys together. They should be incentivized, the players, to want to stay with them because there's some luxury tax stuff that the team gets. And the team should want to be incentivized to take care of those guys because it's also beneficial to them. I just wish they figured out some version of that rule. Anyway, Jaylen was always signing for $304 million. Talk to me in a year, I'll keep my fingers crossed. Next thing, I missed the running back pity party. This was crazy. The running backs all got together and they were really upset about how much money they made. And I don't know what to tell you. There's too many running backs and not enough running back spots. And I don't know if you're trying to build a responsible salary cap team in a collectively bargained era, why would you spend $30 million over two years on a running back unless the running back was awesome? Nobody even wants to spend more than $11 million on running back. So I knew that this was crazy when Damien Harris, who was on the Patriots, who I thought was really good. He's maybe not an elite running back, but a good running back, right? Somebody that if he had been on the Chiefs, he easily could have started for the Chiefs. And he signed with the Bills for like one year, 2 million. And when that happened, combined with Pacheco on the Chiefs' seventh round pick, they won the Super Bowl with him. It's just, this position's devalued. I work on this player, I've been actually working on it the last couple of weeks where I try to rank the players for blue chippers, red chippers, pink chippers, honorable mention, and have this whole point system. And so quarterbacks, Mahomes, who's the alpha of that position, he's worth 10 points. And you could even see this in the point spread. If Mahomes gets hurt, the Chiefs are 10 points, nine points, whatever, less than what they would be as a favorite. They'd switch to an underdog. And you go on down the line. Jalen Hurts, I had him as an eight. I had Joe Burrow as a nine. And you go on, you keep going down, and it's like, Geno Smith's probably a two. But then you look at some of the other positions and you have to value them the same way the salary cap values them and teams value them. Guards, they aren't worth that much. Running backs, sorry, they're not worth that much. My top running back was three points because ultimately running backs don't really matter that much. In the last like five, six years, I would say Derrick Henry was the only running back that you could definitively say, this guy almost won the Super Bowl. Like he was that good. Other than that, you know, it's plug and play, quarterbacks, it's receivers. It's much harder to find the number one receiver. Every team needs one. It's much more tangible if you don't have the number one receiver. And it's much easier to just kind of scrap together the running back position. And yet people went nuts about this. We ironically had this in the NBA with centers. You know, Vucevic, who's a really good offensive player, he signed for 60 million for three years, 20 million a year. And Jaylen Brown's going to make $52 million a year. Is Jaylen Brown two and a half times better than Vucevic? No, it's just, he plays a way more important position. You can only play one center at a time. You can patch together the center position. You could have like Isaiah Hartenstein for $8 million. You could, you know, get Robert Williams for 16. You don't need to spend what Phoenix did on Eaton where they're paying $8 and $30 million a year at center. And you don't really need to do that. You kind of feel obligated if you don't want to lose the asset. But I think the NBA is going to go this way eventually where unless it is Jokic or Embiid, the center or Bam Adebayo, it's a bonus. You could argue that was already an overpay. They gave him a huge extension. The Lakers just gave Anthony Davis $60 million a year as an extension. I would argue that's a little frightening. I feel like you could patch together the center position. What really matters in basketball is having the creator. And this was the argument five years ago with Luka versus Eaton for the number one pick. And I made this argument. It was like, go look at who wins the NBA title every year. It's always the people who have the creator. There's somebody who's on the perimeter of the ball in their hands. Even Jokic, who wins the title this year, he was a creator. He's not a typical center, right? He's basically their point guard on offense who could post up. So this happened in the NBA. Nobody went nuts. And this is happening in football. And is this where football is. If you want to make the most amount of money playing in the NFL, I don't know why you would be a running back. I would be a cornerback. I would be a wide receiver. I'd be an edge rusher. But if you're a running back, you know your shelf life's probably like five, six years. You know the money is not totally gonna be there. Now they're in this, like you have people like JK Dobbins, like, I might hold out. It's like, really? You didn't barely even play in the field. Barkley said he was gonna hold out. And then, you know, probably looked at it. And the money for Barkley is like 10, 11 million. That's unfortunately the market. So you can't fix this. They collectively bargained it. And until we get to the next CBA, I don't know how you fix it. I thought it was really weird. It felt like people had nothing to talk about. And it was like, ah, let's feel bad for running backs. All right, let's take a break. And then I'm gonna finish the rest of the six pack. All right, picking up on the six pack. We're gonna talk a little more football. I talked about the running back pity party. This is a different kind of party. The Jets optimism, which has just been stunning to me over the course of July. I have Jets fans in my life. These are people that usually have no hope and are very reminiscent of the pre -2004 Red Sox fans, just assuming the worst at all times. Why does God hate us? All that stuff. And now they have this crazy optimism based on the fact that they brought in Aaron Rodgers, who I did not think was very good last year, just throwing that out there. I wouldn't say he was bad, but for Rodgers, he was bad. I mean, we thought Rodgers was, he was the reigning MVP and we thought he was still one of the five or six most impactful players in the league. And I don't wanna read stats to you for the next six minutes, but deep balls, he was bad. Turnovers, he was bad. Leadership, he was bad. And the case for Rodgers coming back would be, well, he's gonna be rejuvenated. The Jets, New York City. This is his team. He got away from Green Bay. He's got Hackett back. I get it, but he's also at an age where we've really only seen Tom Brady succeed at a high, high level at the age that Rodgers is at. I was trying to figure it out. I have my QB ratings and I had, you know, the top tier is Mahomes and Burrow and Allen and Herbert and Hertz. Those have to be the top five. Then it drops off and it's Lamar Jackson and Lawrence. And then Rodgers, probably a hair underneath him with a chance to play himself up with those guys. But from what we saw last year, I'm not ready to put him there. So he's the 10th best quarterback in the league, probably. 10th or ninth best quarterback in the league, probably. Well, they have no offensive line. And I don't understand why people keep glossing over this where it's like, hey, Rodgers and Garrett Wilson, he's one of the best receivers in the league and Breece Hall's going to come back and the defense is really good. And it's like, yeah, the offensive line is terrible. Beckton and Dwayne Brown, sure tackles again. And then you have Robert Salah as the coach, who I cannot say I thought that Jets were crisply coached last year. Whatever he was doing with Zach Wilson was insane. No idea if that guy's even a decent coach. So I'm already worried about your offensive line, the age of your quarterback, and the competency of your coach. And that's before we get into the hard knocks curse, because for some reason they're doing hard knocks, the incredible Super Bowl hype already. And then we have the schedule, which is the AFC East has just got screwed by the schedules this year. The Jets, just for quarterbacks in 17 games, they got to play Josh Allen twice, they got to play Mahomes, Herbert, Hertz, Dak Prescott, and Deshaun Watson. And then they also have to play Miami twice. We'll see what we get out of two this year. And then a really good Pats defense. And then Denver, who knows, they might be rejuvenated. So Danny Dimes, they have to play him. It is a brutal schedule, so you have that. And then on top of everything else, you're the Jets. I was there with the Red Sox before 2004, and this is probably just as bad, where you just think the worst possible things can happen is all the time. You're not allowed to have optimism when you're Jets fans. You can be cautiously optimistic. There was an entire Curb Your Enthusiasm episode once, season 10, episode seven, about being a Jets fan. And it was called, I think, the ugly section. Nick Kroll was the maitre d'. And part of the episode was about, he would put these people in different sections of the restaurant, depending on how attractive they were. But there was this other plot, Larry's buddy who loved the Jets, kills himself. And Larry becomes convinced it was because of the Jets, that the Jets killed his friend. This was only a couple of years ago. So now they get Aaron Rodgers, and everything's good. And they're gonna win the Super Bowl. I don't see it, guys. I don't wanna step on my football stuff too much, but I'd be shocked. And Lombardi points out the defense that everybody's ready to compare to the 85 Bears. Lombardi said they had two turnovers over the last eight games last season. So that means something too. I am dubious, to say the least. If you're gonna tell me a tortured franchise actually turns it around this year, I want a tortured franchise that doesn't have expectations. Because the Lions are another one. Everybody's ready to put them in the Super Bowl or close. And the only case for them is just pretty explosive offense. They couldn't stop anybody last year. And the NFC is terrible. But that's another one where is that a fan base that should be super excited and have a ton of hype? The one that's kind of lurking that fits in this group is the Browns. Because the Browns are actually super talented. They're in a winnable division. Burroughs already hurt. And I think they're four to one to win the AFC North on FanDuel, something like that. Their over -under is, I think it climbed up.
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South Carolina uses size to overpower UCLA in March Madness
"Maryland advanced to the elite 8 for the first time in 8 years running away with a 76 59 win over Notre-Dame in the Greenville one regional of the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Cheyenne sellers and diamond Miller scored 18 points for the terrapins, lavender Briggs had 12 points off the bench. Marilyn next gets unbeaten South Carolina in Monday's elite 8. The gamecocks took down UCLA 59 to 43, Brie Beal was one of three South Carolina scores in double figures as she helped hold the bruins to under 30% shooting in the game. For games like this, you know, an offensive scoring is very low. We definitely rely on our defense to keep their scoring lower than ours. South Carolina is now 35 and oh, Josh rowntree AP sports.
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Giannis triple-double helps Bucks outlast Wizards 117-111
"Giannis intend to kupo notched his fourth triple double of the season and leading the bucks past the wizards. One 17 110 to kupo delivered 23 points, a season high 13 assists, and ten rebounds as Milwaukee played a night after seeing a 16 game winning streak come to an end. Javon Carter was 6 of ten from three point ranges scoring 20 points and drew holiday added 19 points. Milwaukee was 22 of 49 from beyond the ark. Bradley Beal had a game high 33 points for Washington, which clings to the final play in birth in the east. I'm Dave ferry.
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Randle scores 46 as Knicks rally past Wizards 115-109
"Julius Randle tied a career high with 46 points as the Knicks rallied from a 19 point first half deficit to beat the wizards one 15 to one O 9. Jalen Brunson hit a shot with 42 seconds to go to give the Knicks the lead for good, Randall was happy with the way the Knicks handled adversity. It was a big one for us. We needed this, especially coming off the break. We know there are a team that gets all the fast start. So they did that. And we responded. The Knicks out rebounded the wizards 43 to 34 in a game that saw 19 lead changes Bradley Beal and Kyle Kuzma each scored 23 for the wizards. Craig heist, Washington.
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Beasley, Clarkson lead Jazz to 120-112 victory over Wizards
"In double figures with 25 points as the jazz beat the wizards one 20 to one 12. Jordan Clarkson chipped in with 23 while Lori Morgan and had 21. The jazz shot 49% from the floor and they had 16 three pointers on the night. Bradley Beal led the wizards with 30 points they shot 56% for the game, but were just 7 for 21 from three point range. I'm Craig heist.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"beals" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"And done. This rotated we're back to the double bigs. We're back to the short bench and that's my team, you know? Very, very washing. I'm making your appearance. We want Gary on the show show. He got his 12 second 'cause he's good. He's good. Don't tell him I'll send him a check for this one. It counts as an appearance, okay? Yeah. Let me check for that little 8 seconds. You know what I mean? It's in the union contract. So yeah, wait. Sure. Ask him if he works for the 60s and the Celtics. Hey, Gary. Gary. Give me toscano has a question. I'm not going to repeat his response to this for Jimmy. I'll tell you what it is. Oh. Jimmy, he said, if you take Gino off your Twitter, he might actually acknowledge you. Oh, God. He got Geno when you Twitter. No, that has been off for a long, long time. He's gonna check out the Jimmy. Yeah. Give me the leading it right now. That's true. Maybe on Gary's AOL account..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"beals" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"It was a lot of good visuals. Let's take a minute here and let it all out. We're a little concerned. Let's check in on Jimmy real quick. Jimmy, are you all right, buddy? I'm literally just watching like that last play. Did the box like bring the house? All these years to do is just prevent the prevent the ramps from doing that one thing that they did. Just drop everybody back and prevent that one thing. And that's what happens. We ain't got Belichick, man. I'm watching Brady walk off the field. The people are like, oh, it's just like the last time. I don't think it's the last time for the record. It was every year. No. He's not going to love it. And it's not last year. I don't think it's his last year, so I'm not worried about Aryan's blush, I think. I'm disappointed. It should be arranged last year. I'm just appointed in how this game ended after that unbelievable came back. The rams. They almost blew this game completely. I mean, the buck shouldn't have had. Even come close to tie this game up. They did a lot of things wrong. The rams did. The day. At the end of the day, the bucks had so many injuries on offense, whether it's their wide receivers, their offensive linemen. It's an amazing accomplishment that they even tie this game up the way they did. I don't take it back anything I said, I think the paths were completely wrong for letting Brady go. I think that if they had Brady, they would have been a Super Bowl contender this year and not a fake FrontRunner team that had no business being in the playoffs. So we'll see what happens. I'm disappointed. You guys saw my jury takeaway. You guys saw when I saw Cooper Cup catch that you saw me react. Can we talk can we talk with you to a lot of this plow and Jimmy hasn't been this sad since he had to stay in the hospital? And spend time with his newborn. This is the last time he's been this. I just want to go to work. I just want to go school. I just want to do a postgame show. You know? You take care of the freaking kid. It's already over with the problem. You have the kid. Are we good here? I'm doing my part. Here's something I'm interested in on the wizard side. Yes, I need calm dot com. Everybody in the comments. Yes, I do need common dot com and I will be fine. Good, Bobby, Bobby wants to talk about it. But it was talking about something relevant. I would go long way to talk about 15. Give me brought this up early, and this is actually going to be my response to it. Yes, josue. What the Celtics are missing, things we saw here tonight that work that they need more of. And I look at the paint touches a few good ones for Horford in the second half, some early lives for rob. There's a guy on the wizards who barely played tonight that I was kind of stunned in his minutes and been going down down down and montrez harrell. He was just out here behind us for about a half hour working. And doesn't feel like he's in the wizard's rotation anymore. He's obviously an expiring contract. Guy that can score a ton in the post and it's just you hate me talk two years ago, bob. Well, let's just talk about the two things he does well. That's in the past, John. Well, no, there's three things I'm looking at here..
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"beals" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"You better pick one or the other at this point. I'm loyal to the player. I think it's a shame how it ended in New England. Especially watching Ben Roethlisberger. I just think it's so wacky and sorry, I guess charade here too. Shiraz, we're watching a football game here, buddy. I didn't know you were there. I'm watching the same football game. People in D.C. right now. You're doing my play on the Patriots. He's not doing a postgame show. We should have went to Tampa instead. We got three people in D.C. to watch a buckskin. We got to pick a three people. These people watch watching watching football. Literally. This is not a good use of resources. Don't tell Nick. I love anybody in Tampa. How do we not have anybody in town? I'm like totally send them, you know? Because we are not in Tampa right now. D.C. big game. It's a good feeling that's covered. John the lazarette will be on the next flight, however, the bucks are LA. Oh, no, it would be. But when this game is going to be on the next flight to Tampa, oh, it's going to be wait, hold on, let's have an even one yet. What? I said, if they pull this off. Over time, it's not going to be easy. All right, sure. I'll ask what we got asked. What was the difference between it? Yeah, sure. What's the difference between them? It's literally as simple as shots going down. That's it. Nothing different, right? Same game. The only thing I would say was a little bit tweaked because I thought he was looking to get to the rim earlier than he normally does. Usually it comes kind of slow and part of the early flow of his game, but it's it from a very outset. He was trying to get to the rim and got some shots to go down. And that just seemed to open everything up for him from their point on. Something just happened in the game. Not me. That's not me, you guys heard that wasn't coming from. Did they fall again? They had a big completion. They should have big confusion. So, Jimmy, you've been pretty excited about this game. Oh no. Yeah. Are they in field goal range? I can't stop. Yes. No, not yet. Not yet. Yeah, you guys are. Jimmy, you gonna be okay, Jimmy? You gonna be okay? No. They got a spike in. You're gonna be okay. This is a no. Maybe just discard Jimmy off. Just as Munich Mike, to the camera. Jimmy left. What did you guys do with the Super Bowl?.
The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"beals" Discussed on The Garden Report | Boston Celtics Post Game Show from TD Garden
"No, that's not the point. The point is we can only say Jayson Tatum was awesome so much without looking ahead like does he flip a switch or is it just a one off game? He's gonna go two for 17 next game. It's a bad shooting season and all of a sudden he looked like a different human being out there. So you guys are there. You've got a firsthand look. Was there a bike on scene? Because some people in the chat are saying there was no bike option. I didn't see it but I didn't even think about that. Okay, because I am told there was no bike. If there's no bike knee drops 51, then I don't want to ever see a bike again. Okay, I am told. I didn't even see one out here. Sources in D.C. tell me it was a bike free zone. Is that right, Bobby? In fact, Bobby facts. Yeah, no, no bike in sight. There it is. This is why you sent us down here. We have eyes. We have four different eyes confirming. Bobby, we're gonna go city to city and just see which place has bikes. That's it. We'll go down. I've got a closer look in a second. But we could see from here. There's nobody here. Stuff him. There might be one in the hallway that we can't see. He's gonna get a good he messed it all game. What do we got? What do you guys see down there? You know, I thought one of the more interesting things that you may say in postgame was this is the exact same. These are the exact same looks that Tatum was getting, you know? And I thought he's right. You know, I just thought. Maybe he was a mental thing. Maybe it was him just trying to the credit is getting so into his head that he can't man. Someone's watching the game because they're going nuts over there. But whatever it was, I don't think any of us were thinking like, oh, well, this is going to be the new Jason Tatum..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"beals" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"So that's not to say, you know, tomorrow, Daryl morey picks up the phone and calls Cleveland or Minnesota or whatever. And they don't immediately re-engage and figure something out of course they will. But it's we're not even here in that kind of buzz anymore. And then to go back to Kyrie Irving because it'll transition right into our next topic, almost like more professional almost like we've planned it. Like we planned it, right? Kyrie Irving is we know what the vaccination status deal is there or at least we assume he said he wanted to keep it private and because he wasn't at media day. We can assume how that went. But he is the Nats have said they will not trade him. That will not be the reason why they're going to trade him. It's not even under consideration. So put it out out the window, but good news on the vaccination front. Just a couple days ago, the NBA came out. I really D and BPH came out and said, 90% of players are vaccinated. In just a couple of days, that number's up to 95%. So now, the past mess will say, well, yeah, that's just because a couple guys were waiting to show up in a facility at the start of camp. And blah blah blah. Maybe you might have caught a one or two guys that way, but the reality is most of these guys have been already in the facility for the last couple of weeks. You're hearing that out of basically every training camp. Yeah, we got out ahead of everybody else, 'cause everybody's been here for two weeks working on. You didn't get ahead of anybody. If everybody did that. But, you know, it is what it is with that. But yeah, and then the optimist will say, a couple of these guys, I think saw the harsher restrictions, how much it's going to kind of be you're isolated and lonely throughout the year. You're not going to be able to hang out with anybody go out and do anything. And I'm guessing that kind of forced people into rethinking their plans and those kind of things. In addition, you may have had a handful of veteran players on team, say, hey, we want to compete for a title. We want to compete for the playoffs. We want to do this. We want to do that. Don't be the guy who screws it up. Go go get this done. And I think whatever form or fashion this is taken, we saw, that's a pretty substantial jump..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"beals" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"But on the surface, the 76ers would get a point guard that fits way better because he can shoot with the entire team and then for the next, the biggest issue is their defense and Kyrie maybe not being there for half of the games. And so you solve that problem, Ben Simmons would be a tremendous defensive presence for them and you just put the ball into the hands of James Harden more and let him be essentially the quote unquote point guard for you and don't forget they brought in patty mills as well. I feel like you can make an argument that not only are you solving the problem with Kyrie potentially not being able to play in home games, but both teams may actually get better in terms of filling needs by doing this move. And again, it's not likely that it's going to happen, but you could see why, if you're looking from the outside, you would say, yeah, this kind of makes sense, especially because financially, it can just be a straight up swap. Sure, yeah, I mean, for the net side of it. With a ton more defense than what they have right now. Simmons, I mean, he's going to be the best player defensive player in almost any team in the league, but clearly by far and away the best defensive player on that nets roster. If it went that way and he can stay in there and play the forward spot and you just kind of bump Durant and Harrison harden all down one spot in the lineup and off you go and that's a great team, probably still the best team in the league, and you feel really good about it. Then he said, yeah, you get Kyrie, your defense takes a pretty massive hit. But right now it's better than the nothing. And that's just one of those ones where it makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons and it's not going to happen for a lot of other reasons. For a lot of the reasons exactly. But I will say what it does get you start thinking about is for Philadelphia, the only one who's really getting hurt right now is the Philadelphia 76ers because clearly Ben Simmons is school with forfeiting some money and all that. And we've said before, but it's worth repeating. They don't get to replace him..
WTOP 24 Hour News
Spencer Dinwiddie Excited to Play for Wizards With Bradley Beal
"Spencer Dinwiddie is excited to be heading to D. C. The wasn't really stood out. And it was a place that I wanted to go to being familiar with Bill in his game matching up, you know, both age wise and, you know, play style wise, you know, so it just became a fit that popped on the board. Pretty recently and and I'm blessed to be here. The veteran was limited to three games this past season due to an A C L injury. Meanwhile, look at Don Cheech agrees to a deal with Dallas remaining
Celtics Stuff Live
"beals" Discussed on Celtics Stuff Live
"Is this Bradley Beal fix it? No, Bradley Beal, doesn't fix it. But you know, we to go back to the argument that I heard over and over is it Tatum and brown or is it everywhere around him and brown? You know, they not good enough around those too and that's why the teams are good because those two can't do, you can't do it on their own. And I think the truth is dead. A little column aide calling be right, you need, you need leadership from your stars, but those stars have to show support and have to show leadership for the other guys. You know, you, they can't average fifty a game each and even then you lose, you know, if they're taking fifty shots each. So you have to there has to be some above wage, and I think that hopefully, that experience last year, taught them a lot. I saw a lot more out of Tatum and that, that playoff series and down the stretch than I thought he was capable of. But there's things to learn. And, and again, and we I remember talking with this on the show. Let's remember. Paul Peirce was in his eighth season 7 season. When he put the ace bandage around his head off at a post-game press conference and he was like twenty-six twenty-seven years old. Yeah, so I mean he's now the captain the truth and, and beloved and dead. You know, Finals MVP. These guys are twenty-three twenty-four, right? So we've asked to leave accomplish so much for asking a lot of them too. And not, the problem is, let's not burn them out before they're, you know before, let's not turn on them before they show that they can't do it. And I took that they can do and I think they can figure it out and I think Bradley Beal being here I think he's a better distributor than he's probably showing in in Washington it would be if she's playing next to Tatum and brown but it doesn't solve the problem. I don't know itself and and date of a brown, have to solve so much of that and they have to show it from the jump this year. Yeah, they really do. Yeah. They have to get from the jump. I started every response and then I heard the glass on the back of my mind are the last thing you said and I was like from the jump. I don't know man. Maybe not from the job. They gotta figure it out through the year and by the time they get to the end I think that's that's the way that they constructed this roster at everything else. Like they need to end the season with the kind of confidence going into offseason workouts at cetera and riding that high off that we just signed. So and so and there's nobody else on the team that's going to be pissed that we signed. Oh guess what? That's not happening cuz Marcus is going to be gone you know you look at what happened with Jake when when the Hayward signing right? Like he really took that kind of personally through that whole into that season and you know just look at how that all played out. So you know there's the danger their birth We're going to let smart go. What if, what if last thing and then I got a wrap, I need an app overnight, but go to bed. So if if parking a smart, if Marcus Smart has a phenomenal season, how are you going to feel? What they let him go? So that they can go chase and Bradley Beal? Like what if what if she has that, you know, prove himself type of year? Yeah..
Celtics Stuff Live
"beals" Discussed on Celtics Stuff Live
"Celtics. Eat John, it's been a month since we did this and I can't even get out the intro without a flub. I don't want to tie flubs into what's going on right now, but there are definitely going to be several people listening to the show this week that are going to be looking at what's been going on with free agency, in the Celtics as a flaw. And, and, and I understand it John. So I'm just going to dive right into it, you know, my son's been with me for three weeks, just headed to college, literally this afternoon and yeah, yeah, crazy, crazy man, crazy. But, but so I you know, where we've been back and forth about this, you know, and it's he's like he's he follows the winds that blow on Twitter and so he gets really he gets really wound up and and I and I hear a lot of the common Twitter, narratives coming from him sometimes when we have our conversations about the team and so you know, it's like I just don't understand what they're doing. But the truth is is like I understand the desire for cap space and the strategy and everything else. You know what the bummer is dead. One, I really liked fornier and I wanted him to stay. I also loved what he did in the Olympics. You know, when he'd beat us and I think I think there's a little touch up there and he wanted to stay. And so I I had kind of even though he was wasn't was very long and had to deal with the covid-19. It happened. There's a new coach but I'm just, I'm having a hard time getting excited. Hey, we got in a scanner Chris and I like tennis, I think tennis is fun, you know, I think he's a good, you know, personality to have around the team, but I'm not convinced that bills have good fit for this team and I get that bill isn't the only free agent Target next year, and thought maybe Beals a good fit because it keeps stating around a long time. And I think that is the conversation that you and I add on the last show that we recorded, but as far as like ball movement and you know, having enough for everybody to get, there's even with Jaylen Brown kind of moving into a more of a back seat for that and and plugging in when the other guys needs rest or goes through injury, anything like Thursday, and then and focusing more on defense, like there's some attractive pieces to that, but we still don't really have a Distributing point guard. That's going to help navigate all of that and get those guys in New Jersey. Spots Al Horford's going to help with the ball movement, but sitting around on your hands and waiting, you know, to try to get a vehicle. I'm just not sure that. I'm not sure that box is the right, the right piece. If you're keeping Jaylen Brown and and that's where my doubts really come into play with this. They might have their eyes on somebody else other than Beale, you know, just cuz we all think I feel doesn't mean it's Beale but you know I I I'm not sure that this is the right play. I'm willing to be patient and see if they get a big one next year off but we've watched them do it. Dude, if God the big names and should always happens. So why are we wasting another year?.
The $100 MBA Show
How Do I Niche Down a Business I Bought?
"When niching down you need to make sure there is a need in the market just like our hotel owner who saw in tripadvisor. There's so many complaints about. I would love a place with no kids. There's so much noise tart again. The arrest. I gotta get up early. Because i want to get to the slopes early. If you see pain points that you can solve with your pivot with your knee shing that means you have an audience. You have a target market that is willing to pay for what you got but you also gotta deal with your current customers so there were a lot of customers in hotel that were repeat customers every season that would come back with their families and they were disappointed when they learned. Hey they can't bring their kids because this is a children free hotel now now what you need to understand what this hotel owner understood is that i'm going to lose customers. This is going to happen. I'm going to say no to people but this means i'm gonna be able to say yes to so many more i'm going to say yes to enough customers to keep me happy to keep my business running and in this hotel skits threat full capacity so they can't ask for much more so by saying no in life in general it allows you to say yes to something else if somebody says to me. Hey do you wanna go bowling on thursday night. And i say no will that evening now is free and i can say yes something else. This is what's called opportunity costs right so it's not that just saying no your customers. It's the end all beal. You have the opportunity to say yes now. That you've niche down so make sure you have that market now. It's okay for you to communicate this to your customers and say hey we now cater specifically to these types of people with this type of needs. We appreciate you. You're a loyal customer. If you fit in that kind of description you're gonna love us. If you're not would love reader i somebody to us or you can even get a discount if they want to try so even in this hotels case they could've done the strategy and they could have maybe had the kids grandparents look after the kids so they enjoy their new experience at this hotel so putting them down gently. These current customer of yours is important and also doing it in just a friendly way. You're not gonna please everybody. Something will be like. Hey this new ownership stinks. That's okay. that's just part of the territory as business owners. We gotta have tough
News, Traffic and Weather
Plenty at Stake for NBC as COVID Olympics Opening Looms
"For the upcoming summer Olympics, says Covid 19 already impacts at least one American team ABC, James Long ones in Tokyo, with more a week to go until the games and already covid is crushing Olympic dreams for American athletes. Washington Wizards Bradley Beal will not be going to Tokyo to compete in the men's basketball and has been placed under health and safety protocols at the team practices in Las Vegas. US. Filming weather bill has tested positive for Covid, but they have cancelled Friday's exhibition match against Australia. Another player, Jeremy Grant of the Detroit Pistons also put under protocols, but the coach says the team does still plan to compete at the Games. Covid is deadly. So the first thing you think about is not Well, I can get from my team anything about how they're doing with With their symptoms and what they're going through and case numbers are going up. Tokyo recording over 1000 cases a day for the past three days, the highest levels in six months. Tokyo 2020 publishing this positive case list more and more teams from around the world impacted and as things stand, all events are due to take place as planned. But if there are more athletes who test positive or contact tracing Think organizers here are going to have maybe to think again and respond further. Homo
News, Traffic and Weather
COVID's Impact on Tokyo Olympics Teams
"For the upcoming summer Olympics, says Covid 19 already impacts at least one American team ABC, James Long ones in Tokyo, with more a week to go until the games and already covid is crushing Olympic dreams for American athletes. Washington Wizards Bradley Beal will not be going to Tokyo to compete in the men's basketball and has been placed under health and safety protocols at the team practices in Las Vegas. US. Filming weather bill has tested positive for Covid, but they have cancelled Friday's exhibition match against Australia. Another player, Jeremy Grant of the Detroit Pistons also put under protocols, but the coach says the team does still plan to compete at the Games. Covid is deadly. So the first thing you think about is not Well, I can get from my team anything about how they're doing with With their symptoms and what they're going through and case numbers are going up. Tokyo recording over 1000 cases a day for the past three days, the highest levels in six months. Tokyo 2020 publishing this positive case list more and more teams from around the world impacted and as things stand, all events are due to take place as planned. But if there are more athletes who test positive or contact tracing Think organizers here are going to have maybe to think again and respond further. Homo
The NBA Show
JaVale McGee Named to Team USA Olympic Basketball Roster
"J- avail mcgee's an olympian. That's a world. We live in so javale. Mcgee is going to be replacing Taken one of the roster spots opened up kevin love and bradley beal dropping off of the olympic teams for various
The Dan Patrick Show
Kevin Love Out of Tokyo Olympics; US Basketball Now to Replace 2 Players
"That Kevin Love is withdrawing from the Olympic team. So we have Bradley, Beal and Kevin Love not playing. Who are going to be the replacements. Well, they haven't. They have apple amount of players that they can pick from from the pool. Um, I know a player that has been Campaign and behind the scenes of trying to get on this team, And that's Trey Young of the Atlanta Hawks. Uh, you know, we heard talk of Duncan Robinson with the Miami Heat the sharpshooter as well. So, uh, Colangelo has some. He has some tough decision to make. But there's there's still a bunch of players that I've talked to behind the scenes about up the upwards of 10. That would like the opportunity to have one of those two spots. So, uh, they'll they'll have a good They only have a good amount of options. Why
AP News Radio
Bradley Beal Out of Olympics for Health and Safety Reasons
"Friday's Olympic men's basketball tune up between the United States and Australia in Las Vegas has been canceled due to health and safety protocols USA basketball cited an abundance of caution in making the decision the news followed word that wizards all star guard Bradley Beal would miss the Tokyo games after being placed into health and safety protocols USA forward Jeremy grant has also been placed in health and safety protocols the Americans are still slated to play Spain on Sunday Friday's women's game between the US and Australia will be played as scheduled I'm Dave Ferrie
WTOP 24 Hour News
US Men's Basketball Team Star Bradley Beal Placed in Health and Safety Protocols
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
test-debug
"When the olympics start will be the most talented team in tokyo. Hands down no question. Most talented team in tokyo with the roster that they have but this is like a five alarm fire right now howard. This loss to nigeria. I don't care if they win the rest of these pre olympic games which will take place through next sunday. This has to make you nervous if you're a fan of the team because not only is it this. The loss to nigeria. But you go back two years ago at the world championships where you had a us team. That was good. Didn't have probably better team now than they were back in two thousand nineteen but all nba players. They finished seventh. They've been seventh at the world championships. You have the seventh-place finish the loss of nigeria. How concerned are you howard beck about. Usa basketball. It's just an exhibition game. Chris oh no no. It's not just an exhibition game. Stop this team was thrown together over the last however many weeks they had what like three practices. I think i'll ever. Us team is thrown together. What are you talking about. There's no team. There's no no mid season practices for usa basketball. No but the nigerian team has been practicing. What i'm saying is some of the play in the nba though wants win the nba nba. A few of them play in the nba but that team has had time together more so than the team. Sorry brown coaching. that team. That i missed was that a facsimile of mike brown on the bench all season long. What what are we talking about. The warriors have been out for like two months kris k. Okay so two months. that's what matters. That's that's the number three three practices. Also they're still missing. I believe at least three guys because they're playing in the finals right now. Booker middleton chris paul get it. Yes not chris. Ball's not playing a holiday with the the what holland is your holiday. Those those guys will matter especially given that middleton and holiday are to the better perimeter defenders that that team. Usa has and if you look at the rest of team usa's roster. I don't see a ton of great defenders. There there are a few. I think those three guys by the way are going to be exhausted by the time they get to. They may well be. They may will be so. We're going to judge them. Judging when their whole judge when the games matter to strange to me like we don't judge nba teams based on the preseason but we judge team usa based on these exhibition games. That they do going into international competition. I feel like it's thirty. One point favorites. Why why is there betting line on a freaking exhibition better training but a little league baseball. Now country degenerates damn right. I didn't mean chris i'm with. Let's go monday. Nigeria money line. I just. I can't get too excited about this. If they lose the rest of the exhibitions does that mean something. Yeah that might be alarming if they're if they're still struggling to find some cohesion. That could be alarming. But i mean the talent is obviously their talent alone doesn't win on the international stage in style of game is different team ball matters. Shooting matters like yeah. There's a bunch of budget stuff that comes into play. But i i find the panic over this loss or at least the outcry to be a little bit much. So you don't take into account the seventh-place finish in two thousand nineteen. I mean that to me. It's the it's not just as game. The totality of it right. Like and i don't know howard like so in the early two thousands the world kind of caught up to the us ninety to ninety six thousand us. Gold maps then comes the two thousand two world championships in indianapolis and that's seven. The place finish was one of the worst worst outcomes in at least recent usa history. They got it together after that. They hired jerry colangelo. They bringing mike chef ski. They get their act together. Two thousand six two thousand eight then. They run off. Three consecutive years are three consecutive cycles of gold. Medals is argon. Made that like the world's caught up again that somewhere along the way and the last four or five years. The rest of the world has once again caught up usa basketball. I'm trying to understand this. I mean that's close games in those olympics cycles. No question about it. But i can't imagine the oh eight. Twelve or sixteen team losing nigeria. I can't exhibition or otherwise. I can't see it happening. No team and the and the one that followed it were built around like lebron koby. Carmelo enjoying wait. I mean that that groups at another level like as good as this group is that we're seeing right now as talented as they are after k. D. tatum's really good damian. Lillard is great. I mean come arbit- tatum. Bill lillard auto bio levin. Draymond dream ends up there in years but one has won some things. Jeremy grant jeremy grant zach living out of like. These are guys who have done anything in the nba yet. But they're all stars most they're they're also but are they to level of lebron kobe now but do you think is that what you're saying then is that what you're saying to be at the level you need to have like i'm saying the crop to win. I'm saying that if we're going to start comparing the twenty twenty one team to the twenty eight a two thousand eight two thousand twelve teams there is. There is not an equivalent right now. Lebron kobe laurent cobaine weight. And plus what we what. We called olympic. Mellow like carmelo. Didn't have the success in the nba. That some of his teammates did but carmelo in terms of talent level and certainly has resume like that group was at a whole other level. That group is a different level than jason. Tatum bam outta bios. Zach levine. Okay so not saying that you necessarily should have to have that level of time firepower to win an exhibition game against nigeria. Or anybody else. But i am saying comparing usa to itself different iterations of team usa. This one is not that one. This is not as dominant group as the ones we saw in eight and two thousand twelve. It just isn't what do you do like. What's the solution here. Like i mean i jerry. Colangelo deserves an enormous amount of credit for rebuilding that program when it was at. Its nadir mitra chefs. He comes in enormous amount of credit for what they did. But as we sit here in twenty twenty one like it's almost to me howard like the usa basketball rebuilding. The program became cool. Like lebron wanted to do it. Chris paul like dwayne wade. These guys wanted to do it and then they did it. And i think playing for usa basketball didn't become quite as cool as it was fifteen years ago. Like is that what has to happen like does not need to have like a fifth place finish in tokyo for all of a sudden the next generation of a-list stars wherever that may be in two thousand twenty four to come back into the mix and is that the only way this team can win. I mean i think we need to pay attention to the overall context like obviously one. These olympics were supposed to happen a year ago. They're delayed a year because of covid got durant out of it though like that right. It's questionable whether these the olympic should be happening at all still but along the way because of these back to back brutal seasons and everything else like team. Usa doesn't have james harden right now. Doesn't have anthony davis because of the injury doesn't have steph curry doesn't have kyrie irving doesn't have lebron kawai again. If your argument is that the second or third tier it sounds like sounds like insulting. Somehow but if you're saying that the next wave believe after those guys should still be good enough to dominate on the world stage. Maybe but if the point is that the team as best are they still. Are they still able to win. Gold fairly easily. Your probably but a bunch of them aren't on this team right now because of injuries and just the stress of the last year or two so this this is not necessarily representative of the best of the best right now. It just isn't and yes. They should still be good enough to win. Yes the world has caught up to some extent. No the the group that at nigeria's put it put out there last week. Does not leap off the page improbably. Us should've still want it. But again i exhibition game after like three practices. Let's see what happens with the rest of this. This schedule out brought mellow back. I mean he's not what he was four years ago. Eight years ago twelve years ago but the guy knows how to play international basketball. He might have sat. maybe. I guess. I didn't really. I assume that he just want to keep. He didn't kind of like four formerly re retire from the olympics. But it'd be pretty much says like i'm done like lebron kinda did to get talked into it. I feel like. I don't know if i was if i was the usa team would try really hard to get carmelo blake because his style. Whatever it is to the nba is perfect for the national basketball. He's a really good or national basketball player. On this subject damian lillard. He spoke for the first time. Since the hiring of chauncey billips. Only listen to what little had to say about his future in portland. I'm prepared to go in and do my job every year. Like hopefully we make strides over direction and could become a better team a new coach notice. That's where i am. What soured it sounds like. Lillard is at least nominally on board with going back to the blazers. But if i'm a team out there with assets. I don't listen to that response and say well it's over damian. Lillard is back on the same page with the portland trailblazers. If i'm a team with assets i hold onto those assets because it feels to me like the blazers might be one like sixteen to start from blowing that whole thing up with louis mccollum on the way out the door so get the sense now. That seems more likely than not that damian lillard at blazers training camp. He's in ablaze uniform. He starts the season with the portland trailblazers. But if it doesn't work with chauncey billips early and you get close that trade deadline. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see portland decide. Look we've got a. We've got to do something here and opened the door for damian lillard trade. What do you think. I think that nothing has changed. I think that his remarks last week because he sounded a little bit lukewarm. Or just you know you hear one of two things. Well you want to hear one thing if you're a portland trail blazers fan or if you're just looking for any indication that lillard is all in your you want to hear him say listen. I know things are rough right now. But i'm all in you know this is. This is where. I want to be you to repeat all the usual talking points that you hear from players in his position and that we've heard from bradley beal that we used to hear from james harden houston. Which is a win in phil in city fill in the blank with the city. I want to win here. I don't wanna go somewhere else. You know we're going to get this right blah blah. He didn't go down the usual list. And so i think it left open. Some interpretation but getting has changed like the disappointment was clear when the season ended. Some of the things have happened since including obviously the the the train wreck away they went about the the coaching search and lillard. Being caught in the crossfire. There at feeling heat from fans about chauncey billips being selected and so. I don't think we should expect he's going to be rah. Rah right now The trailblazers have a lot of work to do. But we also have not even hit the summer yet. Like there's the draft hasn't happened yet. Free agency hasn't happened yet. There's there's a lot of work to be done. And i think if you're damian lillard which you're probably doing is internally saying here's what i need to see happen externally saying you know what let's let's wait and see i mean you see. He can't he can't say publicly the same things that he's telling say neal o'shea right about what the the state of the roster i i would think that there are some very impassioned debates or discussions being held behind closed doors about what they need to get this thing right and if they can't get it right the he might shift is his stance about staying there long term. But that hasn't happened yet that we know of. What do you think the most interesting potential conversation is amongst players over these next four weeks like i'm kind of curious what jason tatum bradley beal talk about. Tatum and beal close friends dating back to their highschool days both went to the same high school bill with something of a mentor to jason. Tatum actually got him involved with his trainer. Drew hanlin which helped. Tatum elevate his his personal skills and they've talked about how happy they are to be playing together. Played the all star game together for the first time beal last year of his contract. Like you know we've seen these conversations yield real tangible conversation. You'd like to be a fly on the wall on for any of these guys in the next couple of weeks. Yeah i mean look we. We have a history now going back over a decade. If we're to believe that the that the heels were formed in part through team usa activities. You know which is true which is true. That's that's yielded an extra things guy. You know guys who you mentioned. Tatum and bill because they were already friends but guys also become friends through this experience right and then they start getting the ideas about playing together. Like oh hey. This is a lot of fun. Let's do this again in the nba. So there's i'm i'm sure some of that is is happening. It always does. Who else in that group. I mean man. If any of these guys that'd be trying to recruit bam out a bio but he's too early in his in his contract with miami to pry him loose from there And you know the heater still a pretty potent team but you know jimmy butler is up there in miles and outta bios future won't necessarily be there forever. That's the way it goes in the nba. I think tatum has the potential to be like the biggest recruiter. They're like he's about to start the first year of his max level extension. He can recruit bill. But like you can also does damian lillard like. It's great to play in boston. I love it here. Answer some questions of my have a playing on the east coast for the first time. Like i think data might be boston's best asset at this point. Yeah again some of this comes down to bradley. Beal's coming up to that point where he has the leverage to task out because of his contract lillard under contract for several more years and so he's not in that position. So what if it says. Like i need to go like. I don't foresee the blazers being no finish your contract. Just don't see it. i think right. And they would work with him on a deal to sure but directing it is harder so beal can use the leverage of his free agency to say well if you send me to team x. I'm not gonna resign there. Which then blows up that deal and he can direct himself to the team he really wants to be at lillard would have a harder time to doing that. Because he doesn't have free agency looming two to play that card. Yeah well i encourage any reporter. That's in tokyo tatum. Beal and lillard talking to each other. Just take a picture and then let the internet go wild crazy because it will unquestionably last thing for you. Howard the breaking news. This week in the coaching ranks. Is that jamal moseley is headed to orlando moseley of course last with dallas. A really well respected assistant coach there. Who was a candidate for that. Maverick job before. It went to jason kidd my immediate reaction to that higher howard beyond i think being an excellent choice for orlando is that we're gonna look at at moseley and jason kidd on parallel tracks. The next couple of years moseley. There was a strong case to be made that he should have been elevated to that head. Coaching job he'd been considered for other head coaching jobs. Before most recently in new york he had by all accounts a great relationship with luka doncic i understand bringing kit in he's got a history with dallas and as riccar lau said publicly having a player that played the game like kid and having a player that plays the game like don-shik make some sense to pair those two guys together. But there's always going to be as i watched these two situations unfold. I'm gonna wonder you know. Did the mavericks make the right choice. Leading jamaa moseley go and bringing jason kidd in and there's so many variables in this the first being at orlando's in step one or maybe even steps zero of a massive rebuild right there in the negatives right now. I think there's still maybe more fat to trim on that roster before they really bottom out. Yeah and you know you talk about trying to build around. You know markelle foltz. And and jonathan isaac jonathan isaac for so long. They're getting hurt and he's a great player but they've loved writing in a weird way john stays healthy. He's still more of a complementary store right like he's he's a potentially defensive player of the year at some point. He's not a guy who you're building an offense around though and marquel foltz okay. He he got himself back on track in orlando. He has a career now where he didn't have one but he's not a foundational building block. Come on like that's crazy so the roster doesn't have much talent jamal. Moseley's is coming into a situation. Which a lot of first time head coach is committed to which is all right. There's a lot of work to do so You're gonna have to do a lot of development. You're going to have to take a lotta lumps in the win loss column. It's gonna be rough going for the first year or two or maybe three. Let's see how they can get things going. But you know as it has been a certain other like kenny. Atkinson came to look a completely hopeless situation in brooklyn but was known as development coach in atlanta. And sure enough. Everybody who went there. Joe harris spencer. Dinwiddie jared allen versus lower. First round picks. Guys who were you know whether they were reclamation projects whether they were low picks everybody seems to get better the second they went to brooklyn and play kenny atkinson and his staff congenial. Moseley have the kind of effect in orlando can the front office. Get him to kind of guys. That will thrive in that in that kind of environment and carve out careers from cells and carbon identities. Jamal moseley has a lot going for him. And we've heard like many great things about it but we often hear great things about assistant coaches who don't end up panning out so i always. We have to caution ourselves on these things. Because i thought. Brian shaw was gonna be a great head coach and he was. Everybody loved him all the players sung as praises when he was associate head coach under frank. Vogel indiana he goes to denver probably just the wrong guy at the wrong time but he hasn't had another shot since then but that went really badly. Brett brown was really great in in some respects for the for the early years of the process and then suddenly. It seemed like they'd hit some sort of ceiling. Eager kokoschka of had been talked about for years is a great assistant. Coach didn't work out. Swells head coach in phoenix. David dale bumpy ride in memphis and then disastrous in new york. We just don't know like luke walton. Another example like there are plenty of coaches who as their when their assistance. We hear and see the best of them and then you know some of them be go on it and have great success coaches. I mean tyler has been fantastic. Mike malone has been fantastic money williams. Nick nurse dwayne casey a lotta longtime assistance. Get their shot and then you know it. It works out in a dozen. It's all contextual. It's all just the opportunity you have the thing for dallas is. They went with a guy who has experienced jason kit. That experience was not necessarily good experience. Like i think most people around the would look at what he did in milwaukee in brooklyn and say. I'm going to steer clear. Maybe you'd rather have the the unproven. Jamal moseley versus the somewhat proven jason kidd but. I don't think we'll know what the right choice was there for a while yet. Because it's it's gonna take some time before we can evaluate moseley as head coach. I maybe jason kidd learned something in two years as an assistant. I mean that happens. You know working with lebron for entire for two entire seasons working under frank vogel maybe picked up some things that'll be useful to him as a head coach. Moseley to me. The key is giving him time. Like you've got to be committed to moseley for a minimum. I think of three years and more likely five years. And then you see what you have in head coach. You mentioned gore. I mean it's worked out for phoenix. Absolutely but i do think he got hosed out there i mean he only had one year on the job and that year was without deandra aiden chris. Paul had devon booker of course but that was not a good team that he was coaching. There i gotta get moses the because you want to see what the guy can do when you put that team in a position to win a great example to me is james breglio in charlotte. I mean berea. Was one of those guys assistant coach elevated to head coaching position in charlotte. Not great first couple of years there but when he was given players and chance to win he did pretty well. I mean up until lamelo ball went out the horns were really good team and i think they will be a good team. Going forward in part because of the borrego is a pretty good coach. I want to see this magic team. Invest heavily in jamal. The you're the guy developed these guys and we'll keep you around no matter what the won loss record says until you get a chance to win then you judge like brett brown six or seven days since brett brown left but i can see the for letting go of brett brown. I mean they had a talented team and to a degree the underachieved. But you've got to let the coach get a roster on that level before you really make any decisions about whether they can coach. Yeah well and that's the thing about. This is what set up says apart. I think the good organizations from the bad ones is that you you decide when you choose a guy. Especially if he's a longtime assistant not a guy with head coaching experience. And you've said we believe in this guy. This is somebody who's got a great trekker record as an assistant. We're going to first opportunity. It's your obligation to when you say investment. Yeah it's time investment. It's a give them all the tools to succeed. Give him the time to succeed. You've decided you believe in him. So stand behind that have the conviction to stand behind that and take some bumps along the way you know maybe maybe memphis and or the knicks should have stuck with david physed longer. You know we had heard nothing but great things about fiscal coming out of miami. Initially we may yet you know. Find out that he. He can be great head coach in the right situation. Maybe those worth rights situations. He might be one of those guys though. I love physios and assist one of those guys. Though the just the temperament is always important. Like the government like memphis yet. Some battles with market assault didn't work out your plus new york. You just might be one of those guys that doesn't have the right temperament to be is based on what we've seen a memphis in new york might be better suited for these ranks but if he succeeds in l. a. I think he'll get another chance right. Maybe i think the point being though that if you as an organization have identified a guy instead he we believe in him then. Okay then believe in him. Stick with them and make sure you've given them enough tools to succeed Is it a pulling the plug at the first sign of of struggle and that's what happens in the nba. too often. is that seems panic. You know the fans turn. There's some minor flare up. Oh the coach and player got into it. Whatever it may good teams that can happen on as well. And it's it's just. It's the way franchises. React so you have to know whether or not the guy is is is right and then stick with them. And so yeah. Let's jomo's should get a nice long here. She got a ton of latitude in orlando given where they are as an organization given the state of that roster. Yeah i agree. Howard enjoy milwaukee looking forward to hearing the conversation with the lazarus on friday. You can check podcast. Right here on the crossover feet again. Make sure you listen to howard's interview. Spencer dinwiddie from last week. It was really really strong. Enjoy -joy the mid west our. We'll talk when you're back on the northeast always a pleasure. My friend the newest player in the pre nba basketball landscape is overtime. Elite elite will begin playing sometime in the fall. And we'll be headlined by some of the top now. Former high school players in the country players would be paid minimum one hundred thousand dollars with some making north of that and have access to high level facilities training as well as educational programs to help. Get a better grasp on that. I'm joined by brandon williams the head of basketball operations for overtime. Elite and kevin ollie the former. Nba guard uconn. Coach was the head coach and director of player development bread. And i want to start here with you. Just kind of give me the ten thousand foot view overtime elite. What are the objectives. What what what was behind the formation of this league. I think any of us. Chris who've been around for a long time i've actually seen Sort of the downside of young players who entered into professional ranks to this point. It's been the nba Who are not ready. And so what does that mean you know not not ready to form and be stars or is it just not ready to be great teammates or is it not ready to be good partners. is sort of all that you know the idea that the work day is much longer than they know. And that there's more responsibility to be in a professional athlete The responsibilities to families and communities we just have to do a better job preparing them and here was an opportunity to be part of a program that wanted to address all that. It's not just about being a good player. It's like we wanna address the whole athlete. Hope so on. Three levels were hitting basketball. Easiest thing understand. I think businesses in our world is education And then there's brand you know. These young people now are moving at a speed that we aren't as older folks and they want to build things An earlier age particularly off the court so building a brand is important something that can last well beyond their tread on tire so we're hitting it in basketball business brand. That's that's that's really thirty thousand foot view. Kevin what attracted you to this job. Just like his dad is the whole person being able coach them from a mind body and soul Experience and understanding the mindfulness athlete I've seen it from a pro level. Got up tune into play thirteen years with twelve different teams so i understand like the different trials and tribulations you go through with a player not saying that these players are gonna go through that but is getting them more prepared if they do come into some certain situations where it's not typically going the right way. How can they manage that situation. So what they do today can echo into tomorrow and having the ability to kana paint on a black blank. Canvas is what a really attracted to me to to this you know. Ot league program we can take the player really shape the curriculum you not with teaching them about subjects. But we're really teaching them about themselves as well from media training From mental health issues. All the different things that come involved because we all know chris is stress. You know from success is a lot of pressures is a lot of people pulling at you. It's a lot of people won't certain things. But how do you deal with that from a player's standpoint where you can play when you get on the basketball court and half clear and not be caught up in the distractions of off the court issues. Um as desks desks were really kind of vocal. Spirit to give back in it and how these kids you know. Have these players be available at the moment of truth to make the right decisions and that was very important to me. Kevin as you mentioned you played in the nba brand. You played in the nba. As well i wanna ask both of you guys and kevin. I'll start with you like if this was available to you as sixteen. seventeen year. Old looking back. Would you have founded attractive with a definitely founded attractive You know i kind of thought the box anyway. I was from chris. Shaw from from from south central and i chose connecticut. So you places that. I didn't even know nothing about growing up. You always thought out the box and never wanted to go down a path that everybody was going down So i was always curious. And i think that's how my mom especially my mom. My dad raised me. So i definitely been curious of this situation. No no speaking now without you know took it. I'm not sure. But i think it really gave me another option to look at it and this is what we're trying to do not saying that the ncaa is wrong overtime. Leaders wrong or right. It's not about that. It's about if you really care about the student. Athletes you give them as much options as possible. And i think this gives the lee student athlete. Another option and i think you know it's a very Great option for them to have and if they choose overtime league we're going to give our whole heart to make sure they're developed on and off the basketball court chris i- jumping after coach It would have been interesting. Chris but i certainly would not have been a candidate i would. Let's just get that right. What what things that's important. We sit down going through just grassroots community and we spent months just talking to people educating about. You know what we're about who we are. Each of us has a reputation in some other space. Not here The this program isn't for everybody is not the right fit for everybody. We are cherry picking and a lot of ways. These are players that feel like they are destined for professional basketball. There are a lot of sixteen year olds. That don't know that yet and their parents aren't convinced that yet in people that support them. Don't don't feel that confidence yet. They may be another year away or two years away but this is not. This is not the right path for everyone. Twenty four athletes roughly twelve per class. We're looking at juniors and seniors and the truth is at this age. What was really funny about scouting them is everybody's skinny and like a lanky and underdeveloped and still has like a mountain of upside to you know to to get through before you can really see who they're going to be but you know if you have a young player like brand williams who's just dreaming of being an nba player but does not much certainty. That's even realistic We gotta be very careful about this approach In taking because there there are risks but for those that that have already established in this deke. They've established a day of separated from their class. You know jaylen. Lewis has an example the most recent example. He's he's he's elevated in separate. The draft isn't tomorrow though so there's still a lot of work to do but he's already in front running physician and it gives everyone low confidence that this is the kind of investment and the kind of pet that would make a ton of sense for players like that. Let me follow up on that brandon. Because you're you're entering. What suddenly become a fairly crowded space in terms of leagues like this. You know the g. league ignite is one season in but they've had a measure of success. We've seen jalen green probably a top pick. Jonathan kamenga top five or six. Then you have the ncw with this. Recent ruling allowing top players to make money off their name image and likeness. How does how does the elite separate itself from that group. Why think i is. We start a little bit sooner so the g. league zone a great job with what we call it a year the prep year that year. That a recent graduates would be going to college and they've already been hacking the system you know going to italy or china So so there's a market for those players and we want an alternative to college for for for us though. Our players are seeking an alternative to high school so we are a school but we think about the resources that were bringing to the table first of which being an nba like environment You know start coach. Ali coach lehto in a robust set of staff. I mean scouting staff a high performance staff administrative team. Our goal was to simulate an nba organization for for young athletes at sixteen seventeen eighteen. Th there there is no other environment. Like that. And i think the big way that we separate with high school athletes Is that both domestically and internationally. We're able to put twenty four of them together in a building. So what we're selling is the best competition for these guys starts at home. I mean every day in line coaches don't minister drills administer competition aspects of practice and getting ready for games but when you look to the right and left and i noticed as a player. There's no weak link. I mean everywhere you look. There's somebody that's doing what you're doing and possibly doing more. Because they they are not just dreamed about the into the league or to the high level. They're on their way there That's where we've been able to. I think create a little separation from others that have tried or looked at something. Like this kevin. How do you approach this job. Do you do it in a similar mindset and you had at uconn where you have young players you also you know yukon. You had to keep them academically eligible you to follow that pretty closely. I mean is there is it a similar mindset or do you take a different tact. I think you just let it be you know. Similar is not. It's just whatever comes you say yes to it and you cultivate hope from it I never coached high school players. They was always you know graduated from high school. And now they're freshman's This situation is a little different in in was recruiting for two to three years. This situation is a little different. But you know from me. Chris i love the unknown about it. And that's the space i live in. Not just wanna make sure that. I have the space incorporate something in these players that they can just think about it can build from a have a foundation so when they make the transition they have every tool in the toolbox to say okay. Oh that's a problem Assess it let me be able to correct it. Let me obsessed. Let me be aware of it and i think that's the difference between you know coaching a high school kid in in the college. Kid i mean you get able to mold them a little bit better and then you have to understand where they at. Now you know back then. I didn't have social media. We didn't have social media now. These kids these players are building their brand a little bit earlier and now you just meet them where they are. And i can't wait to get them up on campus get them up until atlanta just continue to build a great relationship. Welcome spend time with the one on one in. This situation is going to provide us to do a lot more skill development that i didn't have a really good opportunity and it had not one say good opportunity. I didn't have the best opportunity. Because there's so many things we own a row recruiting You own a row fundraising these different things. Brandon's taken care of in. Dan porter is taken care of. I can just really coach the player and work on his skill development on and off the basketball court. So it's really given me my own lane. So i can really perform my job. Mama job is really breaking down and relationships it starts. Relationship is start with trust. Stars will hold is spending time with the the young student athletes on and off the basketball court and pushed them to greatness and the competition is not on. our side of competition is with him. You know can you beat your previous best bestself. Can you be better than today you know. Can you be better tomorrow than you were date. And that's what i'm coaching. And that's what i love to do. And i think we're going to have some great young man as open as biden has going to be vulnerable going to try to reach for the sky. In the sky is going to be ob- you is not going to be limits. I can't wait to get up to atlanta. We've been having some many camps. Chris has been wonderful to get back on the court with the guys. And i'm looking forward to the next mini camp and dan looking forward to getting them up to atlanta. So we really can go to work. You know when. I was was talking to brian. shaw a couple of months ago. Kevin about how he was coaching. The ignite you know it was a lot of pro stop. He was trying to bring to that team. Are you taking that same. Approach you trying to coach them like their nba players or something different. No it's nothing different is just. I'm building pro. Habits in every situation is going to be different. Chris this is going to be some guys. Come in you know. Say for instance like a. John montero will we got him and he you know is a little bit more advanced than some other players because he's been a pro- already and then it's going to be another situation where we gotta talented guy might not be able to get quick but these opportunities we can go at our own pace we can sit down and talk to them but we're really teaching and building pro habits and those habits is going to translate over to them being great pros when that opportunity come invest in the nba are the euro league so every day you know we are building like a practice plan like more of a college practice plan nba practice bandwidth doing drills. That i got from my numerous stops in the nba. You know we're doing sets in the nba. Then we gotta understand that sixteen years old as well you know and maybe sometimes you gotta you know kinda doubt it down a little bit. But i'm gonna let com. I'm going to let that go. i'm not going to focus on one of it. I'm not gonna say oh. We're doing this process. 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Divers inventors patent and unleash economic opportunity. Find out at invent together dot org learn more and take action today brandon not to continue to compare this team to the ignite but when i talked to sharieff abderrahim about that i mean. I had asked him about the sustainability of that team. Given how much. Money was being poured in to pay some of the players. And he bobbed and weaved floyd mayweather trying to answer that question. Because it's it's hard to commit to it without say a television contract more sponsorships and things like that when you can you speak to kind of the sustainability of this because we've seen startups with an influx of cash. Get get in big the first year. But then peter out. I mean what needs to happen. Four overtime elite to become a long term successful program while has got to answers. I think you know a concept. I mean we're we're selling on the ability to develop young players and have a more more pro ready right. So this is. This is the path we are offering basketball development. Call it professional Business development And we are also like leveraging. What is an incredible media platform that again. The things that we like to call a distinguishing factors. That's a huge one. So not to bob and weave one. We gotta be good ass. You know that. That's how have long deputy spurs the spurs. They were good for really long time. And so we've got the that there were good at this note. No pressure on kale right The the the second piece though is you know and this comes from my my time in the nba. It just wasn't that long ago where it out of chicago. Pre-draft combine interview. If i said. I wanna build my brand. Everybody in the room was like smirking and like you know what. What are we talking about like. It's about basketball basketball basketball And you know if you are young team developing and not winning a lot of games truth is you can't sell just basketball because your basketball isn't great you got to sell personalities and stories in that there's something that people can invest in in fall in love with other than like the final score like otherwise. The sixers had no chance right any any development team yet to buy into a story and for us. I think we have a chance to create stories but we get a chance to show those stories because we have a platform. So it's it doesn't take much. I mean i'm not a social media guru. But when i got recruited for this job haven't been around the block a little bit certainly from an nba perspective. I heard a couple of things. I really got my attention. One was fifty million followers That's eyeballs and we all know that that Business follows the eyeballs in whatever in whatever respect. The other was which is unfair. Because i think that number changes month over month but it started at one point four and not set maybe one point eight or one point nine billion with a b. billion views of content a month that overtime in some ways has found a way to the heart. The mind of young people It is being communicated and solid as you know the generation z. sort media and content engine We are doing an amazing thing here which is developing young talent in a pure way that we want to make sure that they are prepared. Top to bottom to do well on the court to do well and communities to do well in business but then there's this other thing which is they want to be known like. No player wants to play in an empty building. Everybody wants to play where it matters. They wanna play. When nick can rock and like the building and just like recognizing their talent. We're just artists. And one thing that is kind of showcase. By one event that that overtime overtime the media company producing s called. You see it on youtube to. Is that over. Hundred million people watched that. I mean that that's not an insignificant number that players that are going to play overtime. Lee will have the opportunity to be known The the opportunity of bring brick big brands to the table and support this platform If not already indicated by the kinds of investors that that have shown interest but the brands that are coming to the table our sustainability is going to be showing value delivering value to not just the athletes but to overtime visibility. I would imagine great for them but can you monetize it. Can you make it so this league is in the black or does it need to be in the black every year. Well my the good news is as a basketball man. No different than a different than the is Get a budget. My job is to be fishing and and spend wisely. I i'm not. I'm not asked to sell tickets or generate revenue that's for a tremendous And in successful a business operations Our job is to make sure that what we are delivering is high is a high level product That you see the growth and development of our young players. What's there recruited. We gotta make them better. They need to be able to perform and probably the best testament of our success is going to be our nba. Gm voting with this pick right but with a coach saying like they did a nice job. This guy was. Well coached testament to takeo and the rest of the coaching staff. That if we're doing that will prove successful. Because guess what the next crop of recruits when we're in the gym like we're not chasing them. There's sort of meeting us at at minimum half way. We need to keep bringing high level taliban and developing talent to prove successful and i have a tremendous set of partners across academics and across content media. That will will do their part to elevate our business. Can you expecting to tap into some of your. nba relationships. I mean as you mentioned thirteen teams in twelve seasons. You've made a lot of friends over the years. We're going to see like san preston sitting in the crowd for your practices as a whole so sam and so many gyms that i know you know Kevin durant and all these guys are destinies in overtime. Just having them be around. We had our first minicamp. Ray allen showed up and not only showed up. He brought his son to work out with guys. Just it was just amazing. does just see how the branches that we can continue to pull up on and they continue to pull on us and be a partnership in. This thing is going to be great. Are you expecting to have kind of drop ins. Durant's involved with the league. You expecting these guys. Just be around. Which i would imagine would be both a resource for you but also an attractive quality to this league definitely. Definitely we going to build a place where it's going to be hopefully a development premier development destination for everybody and you know hopefully katie can come out and work out with guys and russell westbrook and james harden and all these guys that we know and i know i had opportunity to be evolved. Then it's kinda beat a veteran guys We want them to be around. Because it's not. Just me sean. It's also watching tape like these are the different drills and look how k. d. and look how chris paul is using the pick and rolls and now they're showing up that's a that's a big big bang for us with us growing these young talented student athletes To get them inspired to the next level and they're doing a great job done only gonna do. I coached him. Chris a coach me on a day to day basis. I'm open to that and we just really want to have a love affair with guys and and the end of the day chris. We want appease the basketball guys. We wanna play the right way. We want to share a basketball. We wanna run. We wanna have fun. We want how to join the game but it can't just be me me me. It has to be weak. And i'm wanting to teach guys how to be involved in any system they get drafted about. They can be a part of a productive system and be a productive partner in in the community as well no matter what city they when they arrive to the nba brandon. Before let you go. What schedule gonna look like i mean is this team playing. Just walk me through kind of what these kids are getting into. And what kind of schedule you gonna be able to put together so schedule that that is really interesting for everybody. And i wanna try to illuminate. But i've got to be careful we are still contracting with some teams But for the audience the think about it in buckets. We're gonna play independent prep schools. That's going to be a significant part of our schedule. We are a high school so we are looking to schedule. Some of the top independence that you would typically no to have a national schedule can travel that have the ability to be mobile. We're scheduling home and away with with With those folks and it looks like net set as an example It looks like you know. Folks that are playing for a national title Arizona florida california. So it'll be a widespread travel schedule for us. We're also looking at European competition so think about junior euroleague as an example. Some of the best clubs the Insects as an example Where we can get a collection of sixteen to nineteen year old elite talent to compete against us. And then as i mentioned earlier on the show we really feel like the best competition is gonna come internally and that's where our league play Comes into effect so we are looking at our group of twenty four as three teams of eight. There will be standings you'll be able to track will compete against each other. That'll be a significant part of our schedule as well. We don't want to overstep our guys one of the things. We really wanna correct leading science. Guide us here. is is minimized the wear and tear. Nobody's while still developing and preparing for a professional level place so a schedule of maybe thirty five. To forty games is our target. We started september Training camp will will begin Play by mid august. We'll be done by by Late march is how we see our schedule shaping up i'm looking forward to it brennan kevin. It's a really interesting concept and hope you guys have a lot of success with an. I'll certainly be watching a lot of. Nba people will be watching but brandon. Stay out of a set of massachusetts. Kevin has like some basketball. Ptsd from all those bc. Matchups i'm sure would probably were so tough. I don't remember kevin. It's not real like talk about it. But lita past. We'd be six thousand. That's not very nice. That's hovering kevin brand. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate it all right. Thank you chris. Thanks so much.
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Nigeria Wins Historic Upset Over Team U.S.A. In Olympic Exhibition
"Men's Olympic basketball is up to eat. Well, um, it didn't start off well over the weekend, they had their first exhibition game against Nigeria in they lost What? 92 87. Team USA goes down, So we got that going for us. Wait a minute. Isn't Kevin Durant on that team? The guy that carry the Brooklyn Nets on his back. Of course. Kevin Durant. Bradley Beal Bam out of bio. Draymond Green Game. Dollar is on their Jayson Tatum. They've got a pretty good lineup. So they lost to Nigeria. Wait a minute. There's some Nigerian players who are actually NBA players. Right there are and there are a few NBA players missing from that team that are still playing in the finals. No Djourou HOLIDAY. No Chris Middleton know Devin Booker. But the Nigerian squad does have three guys from the Miami Heat roster. Also one of the Sacramento Kings, a guy for the Minnesota Timberwolves and one of Donovan Mitchell's teammates with the Utah Jazz. Good for them. Congratulations, Nigeria. I think they taught a valuable lesson to our Guys on USA team that always thinks it's going to just steamroll everybody. I hope so. Because the last time the U. S, the U. S men's national team lost an exhibition game. They finished seventh in the feeble World Cup just a couple of years ago, so Hopefully they right the ship and we don't have one of those performances in the Olympics.
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"So we've been able to start creating processes around those specific types of jobs that make it much more easy. Choose to scale and to automate another point. That i want to make is when you're identifying frequent issues that come up especially when Issues that come up when you're dealing with customers it's important to be able to read between the lines so for us. It's not just about asking you know what is it that the customer is asking for. Its understanding what the customer actually needs. And i'll use an example from our invoicing. At one point. We had thirty different customers asking for thirty different lines on their invoice. And this was taking a tremendous amount of time as you can imagine in we did is we went and we took all of those requests. We put it on a piece of paper and we started just categorizing and trying to understand what they were actually asking for. And in the end what we realized is basically what they needed was a way to be able to bill their membership hours to different departments or different locations sometimes their own clients and when we figured that out we were able to create a solution specifically for that issue and not eliminated about eighty percent of the other requests. That were coming in and my final point here is just getting everybody on the customer. Success train and kristen talked about this in her presentation. I'll just touch on it a little bit here. But again we've had the same experience and and i think there's always gonna be friction between sales and operations or customer success. Sales has always gonna wanna go bigger operations. Always gonna run a tighter ship and what we've done is we've really just embraced this friction and realized that iron sharpens iron and i all the departments can really help one another. Learn more about customer success and one thing that we've started doing is we've actually had a started. Having somebody from operations sit in on the sales process to second or third sales call. They'll a technical person will actually sit in an this allows the customer to ask more technical questions but at the same time it allows us to start setting those expectations that may be. The sales team might not understand or be able to set themselves and vice versa. We have our sales team actually sit in on operations meetings to understand what some of the pain points are that they're facing and the idea is really for everybody just to understand the role that they play and as kristen said that we're all on the same team and understand those bigger picture. Goals are that that ever that every department has and so. It's our job as leaders to really help our employees understand how they're touching the customers and how they're you know giving input in really getting them excited about the customer success Role and then finally in summary the number one key success is really focusing on the pain. Point that you're solving finding that superpower and scaling around it and automating very late in the process and only when necessary and making sure everybody understands their role in customer success so again i'm nicole.
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"So easy i found so many great people on the service and i love all the great features you have the news feed god live groups while these features you keep adding them and i keep using lincoln more and more okay. Let's get back to this amazing episode. Okay thank you. Kristen wonderful job. Next up is nicole from tech mate. Take it away nicole. Thank you jason. yes i'm nicole. I'm the co founder of tech mate and we are onsite on demand tech support for remote and satellite offices. So we've been in business for about three and a half years and over that time we've learned some valuable sometimes painful lessons when it comes to customer success but in the end we've been able to increase our customer retention rate from a dismal seventy percent to ninety eight percent and that's been consistent over the last year and a half so i'm excited to share some of our experiences with you and hopefully you will be able to learn a little bit from what we have experienced some of the things that i want to talk about our reasons for churn how we think about delighting our customers how we think about scaling without sacrificing customer success. How we get our whole team on the customer success train and jumping right in so turn doesn't always mean that you're doing the wrong thing. Sometimes you're doing all the right things but you're just doing it for the wrong customer so for us and tech may when we started we were actually our target market were small businesses. That didn't have an it department so we were essentially being the it department for our customers which we were very ill equipped to do and because of that we were consistently getting very low customer satisfaction ratings. At the same time we kept hearing from a lot of larger companies that they were looking for help to support their remote and satellite offices and we kept saying no no no. That's not what we do but we heard it times that we decided to start running some tests in this market and when we did we realized that are true. Superpower was actually in augmenting. It departments for larger companies. And when we started doing this our customer success went through the roof. The problem was that at the same time. Seventy percent of our revenue was still coming from small businesses so we had to make it very difficult decision to burn those ships and put all of our momentum towards the side of our business. That was actually giving us the best. Roi and once we did that everything and our business clicked into shape. And even now. It's an important Decision for us because our sales team will bring in really big potential customers that you know. There's a lot of potential for revenue. But our number one question is always. Are we going to be able to make this customer happy without sacrificing the happiness of our other customers and if the answer is no then we absolutely cut ties with at and we burn our ships so another reason for turn could be bad experience. Maybe the product just doesn't live up to the customer standards. And i think an important point here is that while it is very important to focus on user experience. The more important thing that we've found is to focus first and foremost on making sure that we're solving a real pain point because that's ninety five percent of the customer success battle and i use an example of a app that i signed up for. It's called fifteen twenty. I think it's just in new york right now. But they actually deliver groceries and fifteen minutes and their app is pretty rudimentary. And it's a little bit glitchy. And there's not all the bells and whistles but for me it's solving my pinpoint. Which is they're delivering my groceries and fifteen minutes and what i've found is that the customer will give you a lot of leeway when you're actually solving a real pain point for them and this is important as we start to scale because you're not always going to be able to please all of your customers all the time which is what brings me to my next segment which is delighting customers. In the first way we do this as we stop trying to please our customers. What i mean by this is when you please customers. You're basically meeting all of their requests. But when you're delighting a customer you're actually solving a real problem for them and for us. Protect mate are early on. We interviewed about a hundred or so potential customers and we asked them how they were dealing with our competitors and what their biggest issues were and what we've found consistently was that there was always with the quality of technical consistency. They knew what they were going to get so they didn't know if they were going to get a professional technician or somebody was going to show up in a tank top where they're gonna get somebody that was just out of college or they going to get a true expert in the field until when we brought on our cto. He was very stringent on this point that he personally interviewed every single technician that we brought on and he personally matched each technician with each job. And as we've grown we've obviously began to automate these some of these areas. But we've always kept that in mind that we never wanna lose sight that that is true superpower and that we make sure that everything we don has been to scale around that and the same held true for our technicians that we realized we could create all of the community programs in the world and all the incentives but in the end our technicians. Really just want to things. They want to be able to have consistent work and they wanna get paid quickly. And if we can solve those two issues than we've won most of the battle and other thing that we think about when we think about delighting customers is finding those key touch points and kristen talked about this a little bit but this is when and how we communicate with our customers and i like to think about this in terms of of a waiter my mom always says you know you have a good waiter when you don't realize that they're there and so at touch point for a waiter could be making sure that your drink is always filled making sure that the ticket comes on time but they're not at your table every five minutes asking you annoying questions and so for us. What we've realized is You know we have several key touch points a couple of them. Are you know immediately after that. First job gets completed We make sure that somebody is reaching out getting the feedback. All the good the bad the ugly and another key touch point is when usage if in when usage falls below fifty percent average over three months. Then we're making sure that somebody is reaching out to the customer making sure that they're on the same page and communicating. You know opportunities that we can help them. One thing that we thought a lot about is how do you scale a high touch company without sacrificing customer success. How do you automate those touch points. And we really subscribe to the notion that we heard from airbnb founders which we do everything manually until it becomes painful to do it manually and only then we automate and the reason for this as it really allows time for learning so you can learn so much about the process before you have to automate it and you know for us. This has been. I'll give an example of our customer feedback process in the beginning. We were doing this very manually. Where we had somebody from customer success reaching out to every single appointment and getting that feedback and you know that was a lot of work but those early conversations really helped us understand the feedback that our customers wanted to give us a lot of times. It had nothing to do with the questions that we were asking so we were able to take all of those learnings and put it into a much more effective customer feedback process automated process that we use today in the great thing about being at this stage of a company is that we have a lot of data that we're now able to take and start finding similarities and finding patterns with so i talked a little bit about our ideal customer profiles before and that's important because similar customers are going to have similar problems and that we can provide similar solutions for and so you know for us. Ninety nine percent of our legal customers are going to be raising the same types of tickets..
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"What your sales team is showing customers so make sure that every time there's a change you run through with both teams to make sure they're all on the same page because you want you don't want any friction between the two you want them all to feel like they're on the same team. They all have the same goal. And you don't want any like weirdness between one feeling like the others selling something they don't have and then i also ask our customer success team to keep track of all the time where. There's a discrepancy and expectation. We have a spreadsheet where any time they feel like something was promised that we can't deliver we make sure to document it so that we can figure out how that happened. Make sure it doesn't happen again and kind of see though also if there's opportunities on our product side like is this something we should be offering because people are wanting it so it really ends up also pulling in your product team as well and then i'll close on this It's never too late to win over an unhappy client so customer success is all about making them successful from the beginning but if a customer does get unhappy there's still easier to close and turn around than a news prospect. I always challenge our team members that if there is somebody who's very unhappy i say like if we turn them around they'll actually be our most loyal customer that we've ever had we've seen that happen before If you go above and beyond and show them that you are here for their success in for their solution you can actually turn around some of the most dire looking situations and they can be your actual biggest advocates on both the consumer and on the b side. so that's the end of my presentation. If you're looking for more great resources you can go to join status dot com slash resources. We have tons of marketing content. Apart along with other great business resources and guides that you can check out today. Many small business owners busier than effort because they're focused on managing their business. They can't always spend the time. They wish they could on recruiting. That's by lincoln. Jobs has made it easy to find an hire the best candidates for free. You're at launch. Hiring is definitely a part of my strategy. Critical part of that process is using linked in jobs. Why because there are seven hundred forty million professionals on linked infant. You know what it's like. You get the right person the right position at all of a sudden it makes coming to work delightful. Every problem seems like it sobbed. And you feel invincible. Conversely when you can't fill that position you feel like your company is a disaster. That's because you're only as good as your team and it all starts on lincoln jobs you can find the right person for your role right now and your first job. Posting is free because lincoln loves this week in startups and this week in startups jake. How love lincoln talking about myself..
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"Based on what success looks like to them. And how can you see us. Mtv be successful they don't know what success even looks like to start with a very basic question but it is so insightful. Second question i told them to ask is how do we fit into the other initiatives in this category so for us. We are a marketing channel. So how does our marketing channel fit with the rest of their marketing strategy. So we help them scale up their word of mouth marketing but are they doing product launch marketing. Are they doing product sampling. Are they doing facebook. Ads how what other marketing mix are they doing so that we can better fit and make sure they're leveraging our product to the best of its abilities to provide the most value possible and that can be the same for whatever industry you're at if you're an hr platform one of their hr tools are they using what is their strategy with. Like the third question is how can i hope get my contact promoted which is a little bit of a different question but i like to kind of challenge our. Csm's to think my contact at this company. What could i do to actually help them. Get promoted at this company. Wh what above. And beyond thing. I ask them like what would make them. Look good to their boss. If you're making them look good. They're going to stick around and they're gonna wanna use you so i think that that's a different way of approaching it. That's a makes you kinda think outside the box a little bit and think about other things that you can providing your products to make your customers successful. And then lastly how can i reduce as much friction as possible. So i'll explain. Friction is kind of an interesting point especially when onboarding client because the definition of friction is pretty much just resistance to complete a process right. I'm i like to give an example. That friction isn't necessarily taking out as many clicks as possible like back in the day. Everyone said the least amount of clicks to check out the better. But i challenge that is not really the least amount of clicks or the least amount of actions. You might actually need some more actions to make less friction so that the process go smoother so an example for us was we found that our clients were being on boarded but then once they got in the portal. They were confused so by adding an extra thing of text and verbiage inside their email we were able to mitigate a bunch of those issues. So it's not always removing touch points or removing steps. It can sometimes be adding steps that reduce the friction. Kind of goes back to being proactive. And then what kind of questions to ask on the consumer side. So i tell our consumer customer success team. Why did this customer buyer use our service or product. Like what were they trying to gain. Make sure that you understand that. And you're putting yourself in their shoes if they're upset was there and mismatched expectation. And where did that happen. And can we corrected. We like to look at that in whenever we do have an upset customer and it is a miscommunication like we have corrected that earlier could be put it in some of the automated. Emails in our marketing. Messaging you have to sometimes go all the way back as far as marketing as well to make sure that you're using the same verbiage all the way through and not having any mismatched expectations next. How would i feel if i was in their situation. Which is just the basic empathy question like putting yourself in their shoes Maybe they're having a bad day You know finding good customer success team members who definitely don't take things personally and really have a lot of empathy. I find are the ones that just really excel in this position. And then fourth. How can i reduce much fiction as possible. So we're back to that again but on the consumer side as i said it does not always have to be removing steps. It can be adding them now sometimes. It's removing them but just making sure you're looking like did you do your checkout process on mobile is there. Are there any friction points. There are people confuse once they get into your app once. They download it. How can you clear those things up. And then if they're confused about something how can we make this clear in the future. So that kind of goes back to the other piece of reducing friction but like just how can we make this clear so they don't even have this question later on to begin with and now moving into the next section where is measuring customer success. So now you know how to get into that. Customer success mindset. But now you want to learn how to measure it to see if you're actually getting better once you train your team on this which was just very fresh with us because over the last year. This is what we've been putting into place so there's a few ways to track customer success. I think personally. The best way is tracking contract increases and expansion specifically for b. two b. clients if they are increasing expanding renewing..
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"Customer success comes in and where your customer success team lips. Which when you look at this full life cycle of your customer customer success is the entire time the customer is with you in the most important time there with you is during this customer success space but i find that a lot of brands including ourselves starting out focused a ton on sales and not enough on customer success when really customer success is where you have the most opportunity to really scale your brand and make sure your product market fit so that kind of feeds into the statistic here. The probability of selling an existing customer is sixty to seventy percent and the probability of selling a new prospect is only five to twenty percent. And i point this out because once again if you're focusing all of your efforts or let's say even ninety percent of your efforts on the new sales and you're not focusing on customer success. Which is the major portion of your customers life cycle. Then you're missing out on this low hanging fruit that has a probability expanding renewing closing growing That sixty to seventy percent so significantly higher so three times as likely kind of getting into that. I'm going to talk about this. Customer success mindset and kind of what we implemented on our team starting out at status fear we had to customer success teams for both our members and our consumers and for our brand side but we called the the brand side account managers at first and then i quickly realized that they weren't account managers. They were so much more to that. They were customer success managers. They were making sure that the customer was being successful. We had to make sure that they were approaching problems. That way and i found that by calling them account managers. They weren't approaching problems the way that i wanted them to approach them. So for example Some major points of the customer success mindset are here so i they prioritize customers needs and goals over everything else which means they'll actually prioritize and we tell. Our customers got success team to prioritize goals over even like. Don't make sure they're using all the parts of the product if they don't need all the parts of the product make sure that you're really listening to what their goal is and giving them the solution whether that's through something. Status fear can provide or not and really looking at it in a holistic way just to make sure that you're not missing out especially as a startup. when you're your product may not be fully built out. You don't want to just get in the habit of your customer success team just trying to hammer the solution you have at your customer when they might be asking for something else in. Your process is.
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"Bradley Beal led seven players in double figures with twenty seven points as the wizards avoided elimination by beating the seventy Sixers one twenty two one fourteen in game four of the Eastern Conference playoff series Philadelphia leads the series three games to one the seventy Sixers lost big man Jo Ellen be late in the first quarter with a sore right knee Russell Westbrook had another triple double with nineteen points twenty one rebounds and fourteen assists the seventy Sixers were led by Tobias Harris with twenty one Greg heist Washington
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"NPR and Adele Channing In the L word part of a new project. A podcast called Don And it's about the life and times of Don Simpson, the filmmaker. You never were in any of his films so maligned. What drew you to this project in the first place? Highly good morning. Yeah, I was never in any of his films. I was quite small and when he was producing his big eighties classics like Flashdance and Beverly Popgun But of course I knew of his movies. And, you know, they just find that decade and find Ah lot of my childhood memories come from the music and the clothes that were all coming from his brain. He really epitomized what the eighties were all about through those movies. So when the producers came to me, they pitched it as Every night. Make wolf of Wall Street right, and I immediately got it. I got the world I thought And and then you know if you look David Harris Klein, the writer in the Deep does That's an incredible job of researching it and presenting it in this really unique way, and I was attracted to that because we don't do it is just a straight documentary podcast. If there's a mix of narration and fictional reenactment, it's sort of like a drunk you drama like you see on the TV series like the Crown or American Crime stories, the For sake series, for example. We're re creating it. And we're creating this world and as an actor, I was really attracted to that. Um, that is a chance to kind of create this world for the listener. And really explore his talent, but also his demons. You know, because ultimately his demons his addictions killed him. They did. I know his films because I've seen every one of them. They were kind of their kind of liking and I That was my era. That's when I was, you know, high school and college And so I remember the first one I saw was Flashdance. First of all, not withstanding falling an absolute love with Jennifer Beale. Um how the way he shot them. They were almost extended music videos. Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you know, nobody was doing this at the time. It was now You know, the big blockbuster, we get it. We know what we expected. But this would he Woz, the first Do this and do the big, high concept. Movie and to do these real star vehicles. I mean, he made so many stars in top gun and, you know, I'm crews that Eddie Murphy Yes, Speaking of Flashdance, I You know you mentioned my work on the L word earlier and I then you know as a When I was on the L word I worked with Jennifer Beals. Talk about talk about, you know, going. I mean, at my job was on the floor E. I want so much last dance when I was younger. Well, imagine so. And I was gonna ask you if, if his if his name ever No, his. His name didn't because this is you know, this was years ago before the dawn, And there's before podcasts or even a thing right to test our new thing, And I'm so is my first time working in the face and it's It's been such an amazing experience, but no, it never came up. But of course his he didn't help. But flash dance, of course, came up because I was a huge fan, and he's just really intense. We're talking about Don Simpson, the movie creator who is featured in the podcast, the Don Malaya, Rivera drew hosts it. She's an actress on her own, and he did. Malaya seemed to have a grip on what the American public wanted for entertainment in that era. I would contend unlike today because lovely wife and I just finished four movies in a row. That were highly acclaimed by the Golden Globes and the Academy Award, and I found the movies to be kind of Dorje like they didn't have a good middle. They didn't have a good beginning. They didn't have a good end. But his movies all had that. Yeah, Yeah, he you know, there's a lot of, um, kind of focused put on His life and his boy Bols and also the flash of his movies, write the music and the clothes and because that stuff that we kind of immediately remember but point his storytelling, you know he worked with Um, the really incredible writers and he was exacting. Um, so it's not just that their big, flashy movies these movies, you know them were hit for a reason, because they do have You know, incredible structure and storytelling. And then he brought in all the creative elements on top of that, But it starts with the story, which she was, You know, he had a real nose for He did the don Don Simpson, the movie creator. You know him from his movies like American Gigolo of Flashdance, Top Gun and his Rise and Fall in Hollywood. All chronicled with Malaya Rivera drew in the podcast the don, which is available on the I Heart radio happen everywhere you get podcasts. Um, was the groovy eighties lifestyle, his undoing or was that later? Well. Um It was, you know both. I mean, I think he's on doing was Like what was underneath his groove. You like that? I mean he Yeah, right. Isn't that always the way it was? What's underneath he come and we get into it more in season two. Past his childhood. What he's kind of running from and what he is masking with all the partying and all the pills. Ondo. So obviously he was working and living in a world you know, Hollywood and sort of the lifestyles of the rich and famous that kind of supported that behavior, But I think wherever he was, I mean, it could come from that kind of trauma. You know it. It wasn't gonna end well, and it really he poured a lot of that into his filmmaking, And that's why there was such an urgency and such a passion for film. Um, I think it saved his life and then ultimately came with a lot of Trappings that ultimately killed him. They say about Don, you know, One of my favorite quotes is that he lived for the movies on dull timidly. He died for them. She played Adele Channing on the L Word and Katey Alvaro on er she's hosting the podcast the don about Don Simpson, the movie creator Malaya. Rivera drew, you're used to acting, um Unless you've done Ah lot of voice work. Was this a different project for you? Yeah, It was a different project for me. Um, but I think you know it's all about Very telling. And so I loved getting to tell this story in a long form way, and what I liked about it is that we didn't do like a straight documentary. We mixed it up. So we did narration and the fictional Rien document reenactment. So it was really creating a world like you do on a TV series or a film. That all felt super familiar to me, but, um, but, yeah, it was my first time in the podcast base. I really liked it. I really loved Hosting. I also play one of the characters, which felt more, you know, comfortable and familiar for me. The vocal talent on the podcast is through the roof. I mean, we've got some great actors on there. But it's you know, it's something that's happening more and more. There's the podcast space is super exciting, and there's all these big actors that are moving over into it because I think it's just another way to reach people on to tell these stories. And the pandemic didn't hurt either. Oh, my God. This is a great thing to do during the pandemic. You know, we said the likes to the actors and we, you know, big segment and it was It was a really Great way to tell a story and to keep working when everything was shut down. For sure. The podcast is the don. It is about Don Simpson, the filmmaker. It's hosted by Malaya. Rivera drew In season one where you get into some of some of his enter workings. Is there one incident or anecdote of about him that sticks out in your brain? Yeah, There's a bunch. I mean, So this win this one really kind of held you who don Woz and the persona that kind of party Playboy persona that he created. Um, to mask a lot of his inner pain. So the story that I love is his 25 greedy in, Don arrived, Um, on the school football field..
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