Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of Futt Around and find Out.

Today is a special episode.

Every episode is a special episode, but today is special.

We're in a different location for those of you that can see us, for those of you that can't, we are in the iHeart Studio in Hartford because we have a special guest, coach Riama, joining us today.

How do you feel about interviewing your coach?

I'm excited.

I'm excited.

You look a little scared.

No, it's just it's different.

Yeah, I don't think he's ever done something like this before, So you're special and I'm excited for it too.

It's gonna be fun.

All right, let's get to it.

Bring him in, let's go.

Hello, coach welcome right here?

Yes, ah, coachlo right there?

What's up, guys?

Hi, welcome, I'm glad to be here.

Were you surprised to hear that Easy had a podcast?

Uh?

No, everybody has a podcast today.

I'm actually, you know, talking to people that want me to have a podcast, So I'm kind.

Of surprised you don't have a podcast.

Well, I had.

I had a podcast before podcasts were popular, and it was, you know, just me and my office talking to guys like Kobe and Tiger and people that I liked.

I think you should bring our podcast, but.

Well there's a push to do that, so we're we're working on it.

What was the name of your podcast?

I don't know.

I don't think it has a name yet.

Oh what's the name of this one?

Fight around and find out.

Yes, I don't know that it's going to be that catchy.

You know, can't be that cool.

I don't think it can be.

I don't think it can be.

So that's surprised that you had a podcast.

I also heard you had a cooking show.

Oh wow, now you're going way back.

Yeah, we did.

It was in conjunction with one of our local markets that we shop at, and we try to show people how you shop for certain things and then how you take those things and what goes into making certain dishes and so yeah it was good.

Okay, Chef Gino, Well.

I wasn't doing the cooking.

I was just I was just there welcoming every like you, you know, hey, welcome to our podcast, and then everybody else does do it.

That's kind of how it works.

So can we call you Gino our.

Coach, call me whatever you like I'm scared to you.

I'm going to say, coach, it feels safe, coach.

Just safe.

Okay.

So Asy's been back on campus for a couple of weeks now, So how's that been for you guys.

For us as a team or me personally.

Or both, however you want to answer.

There's a sense of excitement.

I think at the beginning of school, people haven't seen each other for a while, so everybody's anxious to get caught up and do all that.

They haven't been on the floor together, so that's exciting.

You know, everybody wants to show off like what they did during the summer.

You know, this is the new me, or this is the new and improved me, whatever the case may be.

So you know, A'sy's always been easy.

She's always ready to go, She's always in great shape.

You can count on her.

You know she's reliable.

You're not going to get any surprises, generally speaking, good in bed, yeah, good embed The surprises are always good.

You know, I'm always pleasantly surprised that there's a more grown up version, which is the way you want it to be.

You want each year for kids to come back a little more.

Grown up so then let's take it back really quickly.

When you were first looking at as like recruiting her, what did you see in her?

It may have been in Chicago, and you may have been like in eighth grade, maybe eighth grade going into ninth grade, maybe something like that.

Were you playing for the Fairfax Stars back then or so?

Yeah, it was unusual for someone that age to be playing with sixteen seventeen year olds, So that was number one.

And then you know, her skill level was different than everybody else's.

So it didn't take long to realize why was there a big crowd at her games?

Because I'm not sure.

I don't even know who else was on the team.

Was on the team, It was easy.

My point guard was Carl Rivera.

She went to Columbia.

The big man was Malush Tanga.

She went to u n C.

A teamate, went to Harvard A teammate.

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, no disrespect, but no disrespect.

But I don't remember any of them.

It was just easy out there.

Yeah, I only had eyes for oh Asy.

What do you remember about meeting coach?

I remember you coming to an open workout at Saint John's like in the fall, and I remember being in the bathroom before, really nervous, and my teammate was like, you're fine, you got this, but I don't really remember like interacting with you.

Well good, I'm glad to say that because we weren't allowed to interact with the flyers, you know, so we kept it legal.

Always always, Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

I remember that workout.

I was sitting here in the bleachers.

There's a basket over here to my right, and there's a basket down here to my left, and you worked out at the basket down to my.

Left for bat making.

That just no way you remember.

I do remember.

I do remember that.

And I walked I went back and I said, you know, I just watched like an hour workout, and I tried to keep track, but I think like in that hour, maybe you missed like five shots in that whole.

Yeah, Like I tend to remember guys who make shots, the guys who missed, like the guys that were on your team that I don't remember.

I don't remember those guys.

That's crazy.

Actually, after that workout, I had two of my teammates.

They ran to the locker room, changed and put their uniform back on, and like ran to the parking lot to try to catch you and get a picture with you.

But they put their uniform back on.

See what know, they were just practicing.

You didn't see them.

Actually, oh wow at that part.

I don't remember that part.

I don't so.

Coach.

You've been coaching for many years, very successful.

Now in this new age of nil, what's been different like for you?

Well, everything's different really.

I mean we've gone from I can't talk to a kid when I go watch them work out, which is kind of dumb, to now we are allowed to give them money, you know, and everybody wants to say, like it's nil.

Everybody throws that word around like nil.

How many people in here know what nil means?

Okay, the people that really work in the business now, So it means name, image and likeness.

Okay.

So what's different is let's take your recruiting a player from high school and you could tell them, Okay, listen, if you come to Yukon and you want to sell T shirts with your name on it, Wow, that's great.

You can do that now and you can make money on that.

Wow.

We want to put your name on a poster, Okay, now you can make money on that.

We want to do TV commercials.

You can do that.

Now you can use your name, your image, and your likeness to make money.

That was the way it was intended to be.

Now it's listen, if I give you this much money, will you come to Yukon?

So what's different about it?

Yeah, it's kind of confused the issue a little bit.

Now.

Kids aren't necessarily picking schools because that's where I want to go to school because I really like the coaching staff, I love the program, I love the school, I love everything about it.

Now it's how much you're paying me, and that's where I'm going to school.

So yeah, it's kind of not as much fun now, but I'm all for it.

I'm all for the kids getting paid.

I like that.

I do.

So what would you say, out of the teams you've had, the dynasties you've had, which era would not survive the nil era that we have now.

I think Diana would have probably played at four schools in four years.

I think she would have gone to the highest bid or every year.

And I laugh about it, but obviously people listening or watching, however they take in this podcast, have no idea how good those players were and how much if you go by money, how much money those guys would have commanded and we would not have been able to afford them if they were looking for the kind of money that they deserved.

There's no way that we would have been able to do that, No way, because some of the money that kids are being paid today, it's like paying a hundred hours for a cup of coffee.

It's really not worth a hundred dollars.

But these guys are you know, so yeah, that group of players, when you think about the Sue, Sveta, shay Tamika, Asia Swin, you know, you got four Olympians on the team, Like I don't know the last time I coached four Olympians on the same team, actually five, because Atlanta was on the Russian Olympic team twice.

Expensive expense, They're very expensive.

Okay, so let's pivot to the Fud family.

So, coach, what do you think of the Fud family?

The Fud family?

Generally speaking?

You don't want to fudd around and find out about the family, you know, Generally speaking, I think it's uh, you know, people throw the word unique around a lot, you know, or like special, Oh, that kid's special, And I always ask like what's the special about.

Well, they're really good basketball players.

That doesn't make you special, right, that just makes you a good besketball player.

I think Aisy's family is unique because of how how it's not your traditional put together family that you would go, oh, isn't that isn't that special?

Well, in their case, if you if you think about her mom's journey and her dad and brothers, grandparents, like all the people that are part of her inner circle, they all have like a unique journey that involves the family together and also involves their own special journey separate from the family.

And to me, that's a little bit different, and it's a little bit unique.

That's how I would describe them.

They're different.

They're different, and I think would be the first to say it, which she did, that it's a different dynamic, and uh, it works.

It works great for them, it works great for Asy, and it works great for us.

And they're passionate.

I would describe them as exceptionally passionate, passionate about everything that they do, and certainly passionate about easy.

Yeah, they're very passionate.

You could hear their passion a lot of times.

You could hear their passion before you see.

It, especially Papa, Oh for sure, hold on, Ezy, what do you mean by that?

Especially Papa.

Papa's loud.

They're all out with Papa's love.

Papa loves Coach too, he does.

You know, just a long line just saying but it may not be as long as the people who don't love me, but it's still a long line.

So, Coach, what do you think about the internet referring to as as the People's Princess.

I hear that you have a lot to do with that nickname.

I do.

Yeah, I don't know.

We were talking yesterday and she's got a water bottle it says Princess Aisy.

So I didn't realize she was the People's Princess.

I mean I heard you don't yell at her at practice.

I don't know if that's completely true.

Do you think that's completely I don't.

Get yelled at that much.

You said that was going to change this year.

Yeah, I don't know.

There's really not a lot to get upset about and yell about.

As I said at the beginning of this, easy comes ready to go every single day.

There isn't any day where you go and complain about her effort or her concentration level or anything, any of that I wish every player had that.

She's in the weight room, she's doing the best.

She's giving you the best version of herself in the weight room.

She's on the court, she's doing the exact same thing.

You know.

Sometimes I get upset with her about her lack of adventure.

I call it generally speaking over the years, she's not a risk taker.

Asy's not going to be the one to put herself out there and take a chance unless it's already been calculated and it's going to work.

Last year, especially in the final four, she took some risks and they paid off, And maybe that's going to be like, hey, I can be you know, someone said recently the biggest risk a person could take is not take a risk.

So I think that's the next step for her is to be a risk taker, not not like page.

I was just about to ask.

You know, I don't like you.

No, you can't be like that, you know.

So yeah, no, I don't go around practice.

You only get screaming easy.

I just go home and do it.

What kind of risk do you want to see me take?

Yes, Well, there's various kinds of risks.

You know, should I go for that steal or not.

So whenever we're practicing and we're going to practice our press or we're going to do something, I'm always thinking, where the hell are we going to put her?

Because when you're pressing and you're really aggressive and you're going you need people that are going to take a chance.

If you're watching football and you're a defensive back, you can either just run around all the time or you could actually take a chance and go for an interception or something.

So she's just very very conservative, I guess is the word, so that take a risk defensively, you know, like she did in the Final four.

She goes for a steal, she strips the kid, gets a layup, you know, in the passing lane, steal a couple.

It's funny because Ashton Shade on our team is just a younger version of Asy.

Like with her, everything's got to be perfect, everything's got to be just right, you know, Like it's almost like they play like, well, I know most of your audience is like fourteen year olds.

They probably don't know Marcel Marceau, you know, but that's kind of like huh huh, like nothing like crazy, take a shot when you've missed five shots in a row, and when younger Asy would go, well, I already miss the last five.

I'm not taking this one.

Well in my mind, it's like you just miss five.

In my mind, I think you're going to make the next ten.

Come on.

So that's I kind of like to see her think that way, you know, even in her personal I don't know her personal life as well as people closest to her do.

It's same thing if you ask Azy a question or shit, and again younger Asy when she was eighteen seventeen eighteen, So Asy, what do you think?

You have to leave half an hour for the answer, So Asy, what do you think?

Let me see?

Is not what I was like, Oh my god, are you kidding me?

Oh my god?

You want me to get on the phone now and call everybody that's ever met you?

Hazy, what would you like to have in your coffee?

Let me see?

I'm kind of like, you know, I kind of like two sometimes I like swim milk, and I don't know what if I picked the wrong one, I don't know.

I'm working on my DECI So that's what I'm talking about.

Yes, Yes, just kind of like go with the go with your gut instinct man, like you know.

So these are things that I think people that are so disciplined like she is, that are so boom boom like I'm going to get it right every time.

I think that's the biggest obstacle or hurdle that they eventually have to go over.

Is when do you let go and just let it let your natural ability and natural instincts take over instead of having everything have to be exceptionally well thought out.

That is a time and place for that.

Don't get me wrong.

Well, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised here.

Oh wow, good because now the more risk you take, the more you're gonna screw up, and the more I can get pissed.

And the more he can get I love it.

I'm excited already too.

Yeah, yeah you should.

Yeah.

Any any more responses to that?

You rise to the challenge?

Okay, let me think if I have any responses to that?

I was waiting.

Okay, a little bit of a pivot.

So as has compared you to the grandpa, the grandpa from the movie Up.

Oh, oh, the movie Up.

Oh?

Okay, how about now still.

Somebody give him a balloon?

Oh?

I think he's a cool guy.

No, yeah, yeah, So.

If you had to have a cartoon character, that would be easy.

Who would you pay?

Oh jeez, like a Mary Poppins kind of type, you know, not that she's a cartoon character, but if you turn Mary Poppins into a young Mary Poppins and it was a cartoon, that would be easy, like practically practically perfect in every way, you know, like all that stuff.

I haven't seen that movie in so long.

That's a compliment.

That's a compliment.

Yeah right, yes, that was.

She was practically perfect in every way.

You would be like a young CD andn that make you happy?

Is that.

A compliment?

That's probably not a compliment.

But but young CD was was kind of fun to be around, and I mean an old CD now is probably fun to around.

I think CD middle middle c D was not fun to be around.

How long was that little gad?

About fifty of hers years?

She's a little bit older than fifty.

I don't want to get into hell she is.

She's a little over than fifty.

Okay, So the first game we're going to play is we're going to draft our Yukon dream teams with former Yukon players and we're going to draft teams that we want to win, and we're going to go back and forth trading picks.

And you can start because you're the guest.

I get one, then you get to, then I get one.

That's how it goes.

We go one like of all time, yes, of all time, of all time?

Okay, like all time?

Dream team to win or to have fun with whatever you want.

Well, now you have to give me the rules of the game.

If it's to win, that's maybe different.

Then let's have fun.

I got the team I would want to coach for six months and have the most fun ever, or the team that we want to win with.

Okay, let's have fun.

Oh fun team, Yeah, you do both.

Why can't you have fun and win?

Why can you have fun?

And Well, because some guys that you know you can win with ain't no fun to be around, and I've been around them, so and then other guys there's just a lot of fun to be around.

But I don't think you can win with them.

But all right, so we're trying to win.

Okay, we're trying to win.

All right.

I'll take d maya good pick.

I'll take uh.

We'll start with the back court I'll take so So I got two Hall of Famers so far.

Have that hurt me?

That one hurt I'm gonna take Stewie.

That's a good one.

I'll take Tina.

I got three Hall of Famers?

Crazy only five?

Okay, five, I'm taking Fee.

Oh damn, that's a good one.

Oh wow, Wow, that's a good one.

Mmmm.

I'll take Swin mm hm oh.

Now I got four Hall of Famers.

I'm taking Page.

You're taking Page yup a, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's see what do I have.

I got two guards.

I got Sue, I got d I got Swin, I got Tina, Sue the Swin Tina.

Oh, and I'll take Tamika.

So I'm just taking I just took the starting lineup with the greatest basketball team that ever stepped foot on the floor, which you and Page were not on.

So whatever you pick, well, you can't beat us, but you got to pick a fifth.

Go ahead, Wait, it was Page Maya.

Picked the legendary team.

You can't even remember who.

I'm just taking all the other players.

If you're out there listening, I'm just doing this for the hell of it.

That's not maybe who I would really pick, but that's who I picked for this.

So don't text me and get your panties in a bunch because, uh, you know you didn't get picked.

Go ahead, m.

I'm gonna choose.

Say, I'm gonna choose me.

See that's the way you need to like start thinking.

Okay, I'm gonna go with me.

You're going to go with you?

Yeah?

Good, good, there you go.

That's a good team.

You page fee Stewie Maya Maya who.

That's a hell of a team there, man, that's a really really good team.

Huh.

So every team you make with former UK players is a good team.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We played this game a lot when we would be, you know, just sitting around and we would go, hey, pick the five best players you think the five best players on and you can and somebody would pick the five best that they thought were the five best, and then somebody would say, okay, I'll take these five, and I think we would beat your five.

Now, most schools, after you got the five, there would be no other picks, you know.

So we're very fortunate that we can and we can put together three or four teams because there's a lot of future Hall of famers we didn't pick I like that.

That was a good exercise there.

Okay, we have another game.

All right, what's the other game?

Now?

Let's play Gino in the hot seat.

Azy gets to ask Gino anything.

Lightning round you?

Ready?

Yep?

Okay?

So the starting five from last year, where will they be in thirty years?

We'll start with page Where will she.

Be in thirty years?

Yeah?

Some thirty years, some home for junior delinquents, juvenile delinquents, maybe as a like a counselor or something, trying to teach kids don't be like I was.

Okay, kaitlynd Chen.

Caitlyn Chen show on fifteen at those places?

Jenna, Jenna, where will Jana be in thirty years?

She can't be a princess like you, so she can't be a princess in Egypt or anything like that.

How will I be in thirty years?

Uh?

That's see, that would be one hundred and one.

So, Jenna, in thirty years, I think she'll be sitting on my shoulder, yelling at me in my ear to try to get back at me for all the things I've said there since she's been in Yukon.

Okay, where would.

I be here in thirty years?

Trying to figure out which question I asked.

Anyway, Who is the most famous person in your phone?

Oh?

Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

You're supposed to divulge stuff like that.

I mean that bad.

Okay, name one that you can say.

Most famous person?

Well, if you ask them page.

No, we got somebody else in my phone.

Someone we're gonna expect, singer, rapper, a rap chef.

Do you have any rappers?

Do you know any rappers?

I do not.

You're here here first, Yeah.

I mean I don't know.

I don't know person I don't know personally, although anybody can just start saying stuff into a mic and say, I'm a rapper.

You know my famous ones?

I don't.

I don't.

I wish I knew.

There's a couple I wish I knew, but I don't.

So most famous I know a former president.

That that's all my that's in my phone.

That's up there.

Yeah, I think you think that's up there.

Definitely got it.

There's a real famous golf for on my phone, and there's a real famous basketball player on my phone.

So there's plenty.

Okay, they use our imagination, though, Have your grandkids ever try to make you do a TikTok with them.

No, we're not old enough.

My oldest is fifteen.

That's old enough.

Yeah, but he's he's got more sense than that.

Good for him.

Good for him.

He's got more sense than that.

I would love to see.

I only have one juven juvenile that asked me to do talks.

Is okay?

What are your thoughts on the TikTok edits of you?

I I'm really not privy to my TikTok edits.

Yes you are, because KK showed you them the other day, the videos of you dancing.

Oh that's that's TikTok.

I mean I got a kick out and I left.

You know, I like the fact that I'm coaching kids.

I like the fact that I'm coaching kids whose moms could be my kids.

That means I've been around a long time.

Huh, all right, go ahead.

Where did you get your signature shimmy moved from?

Oh?

I don't know.

Yeah, no, I don't know.

Can we see it?

I know I used to be like really really really really skinny, like when I was when I was playing in high school.

When I was in college, I was worried that like I was, and I just built like page more like really skinny, like I mean I had more muscle than she did, but I mean you could tell the difference between my arms and my legs, not like with her.

Right when she was you know, freshman's supple.

Every muscle in her body was the same, like her arms or hamstrings or caves, they were all the same size, you know.

So oh, cry the pages you're listening.

We love you, We love you, girl.

I'll tell her that.

Everybody tells her that.

Don't tell her that.

So I don't know.

And I used to kind of be more fluid.

So this is like one of your go to moves from.

I don't know if I have a go to move.

You know.

I was always like you.

I was always very self conscious of what people thought of me.

So I really didn't act out like that.

I didn't do that kind of stuff.

Do you do that kind of stuff?

I might try it this year.

I might take that risk and sim.

Yeah, see you go, there you go.

Yeah.

I was a lot like that, like you, like, very very conservative when it came to that stuff, very much.

So everyone knows what my pregame ritual is.

Do you have one.

Pregame ritual?

Routine, pregame anything, I'd like to.

Be by myself and just listening to some music or lay down, take a nap.

I think it depends on how I'm feeling, what kind of team we have.

Sometimes I'm on my knees praying and begging that we that we play good.

Last one, Are you ever going to retire?

And when you do, when you stay in Connecticut or move somewhere else?

Am I ever going to retire?

Of course you heard it here first.

This could be my last podcast ever, So there you go.

I just almost retired.

Am I ever?

Of course?

I mean, of course, that'd be like me asking you, are you ever going to not play basketball anymore?

Of Course, we all come to a point where we stop and move on to something different.

Will I stay in Connecticut?

Yeah, I'll probably always live in Connecticut.

You know, it's my family, is my grandkids and everybody.

That's where I've built, you know, built a home for for us.

Will I want to travel a lot?

I mean I already do, But will I want to travel even more than I do right now?

Of course?

But I like, you know, I like I like living here, and I like the people, And I'm not going to be a gamble pavilion, sitting on the fifty yard line staring at the new coach, going, what the hell you doing?

You know, I'm not going to be that guy, but I'll be calling in to all the talk shows and complaining about the players.

Maybe you should coach the next team, Maybe you should become the coach when I retire.

I think I might respectfully decline.

Take a risk, Take your risk.

Okay, maybe we'll see there you go.

Maybe some of the games you can be guest coach this year.

Oh gosh, okay, we'll see.

What do you think you can be a coach?

You can do this institutions.

Okay, then you'll see how hard of a job that is.

I believe your job is hard.

My job is hard.

My job is hard.

It's hard because and you know this as well as I do.

It's hard because in the world that we live in today.

You asked about West one of the biggest things.

Parents are so delusional to agree with that.

Yeah, they're so delusional.

Every one of them thinks their kid is like better than my, better than Stewy, better than Page, better than anybody, and that they should, you know, play thirty five minutes every single game, and so these kids, they are like under so much pressure that if they don't live up to that, they're not having any fun, you know.

So I think what makes my job hard is trying to make sure that these kids all understand that it can be a lot of fun, but it's got to be everything's got to be perspective, you know.

And I think sometimes the hardest part of my job is we've all kind of lost perspective of how all this works and what it means winning games and all that stuff that's not that's not hard and all that.

But we're lucky.

We have a really good group of really good group of kids this year.

They're fun to be around, they enjoy each other's company, and they want to win.

They want to work hard, and so I'm looking forward to the season.

I'm looking forward to the the new you, the new Easy, the you know, the next podcast that we have book.

We'll have a clips.

We'll have clips of all the risks you took going for steals that you didn't get them and you gave up layups, and then we can all bitch.

Iman about those perfect I look forward to that.

I can't wait.

Okay, so we're going to get into the what the fun of the so basically of what the fut of the week would be.

What made you something that might have happened this week that made you go, what the fun?

Yours is specific to a Z, So what's something that Asy has done during a game that made you say?

What the fuck?

Well?

This involves easy, so you know, so I have to put it together.

We just we stalked about it yesterday.

So we're playing USC in the final eight to go to the final four.

Really tight game, really big moment.

There's a timeout and one of the coaches might have been Tomorrow or somebody, I don't know, but we're sitting around the coach and saying, you know, you've been playing around with this one play we call two up.

We ran and when Rebecca played so and Jamel played actually, so said why don't we run two up?

Coming out of a timeout?

And it involves like a couple of screens and then a three point shot by one of our by one of our shooters.

So I'm drawing it up on the board and I'm drawing up for her to shoot it now.

Meanwhile, she's oh for one hundred during that game.

One Okay, she did make a lab she was one for a hundred in that game.

So we come out and as we're going out onto the floor, I think a couple of the coaches looked at me and went seriously because they thought I was going to draw it up for page and instead I drew it up for her.

So they were saying to me, what the fuck are you doing?

Right right?

I said yeah, and she knocks it in and the rest is history.

Yeah, faith in you, girl.

I could flip that back to you.

And in the moment I was like, what the fuck is he doing?

Well?

Why is she trying the suburb?

See?

See, I have more faith in her than like anymore.

She doesn't think.

I don't think that anyone.

That was the old one.

Now if I don't draw it up for her, she's going to pull like a Scottie Pippen and knock go out on the court.

If it's not for me, I ain't playing.

I've never do that.

Okay, Coach.

Before we wrap, we have a special guest that wants to come on and say what's up.

Stephanie Dolson, welcome, Hey, what's up?

Coach?

What's up?

Are you big girl?

Are you good?

Okay, Steff, we heard you have a hot question that you want to ask coach, so you feel like you can now that you're ten years out.

H Okay, I feel like the only question I would have is did you baby me when I was in college because I cried so much?

No?

I did not.

I did not.

Are you sure?

I'm absolutely one hundred percent positive because this is no exaggeration.

Either you can pull up CD and she'll agree with me if you don't even tell her what the question is, or just tell her what the question is and don't tell her what I said.

You were there for four years, and you figure out how many practices do we have in four years?

How many games do we have in four years?

How many road trips did we have in four years?

And I would say that I didn't baby you because I treated you the way I treated you, Because in those four years, I remember exactly two days when I thought you didn't show up as Stephanie Dawson two and in four years that every single day, the loudest voice, the first voice, the most consistent voice, the happiest person, the most outgoing, the best teammate in the in the building, was always stopped, always NonStop, every single day on the bus, on the plane in the hotel, always, always, always, for four years.

There we go.

Well, great, I'm glad to know.

But I also want my teammates to know that because they all thought that I was being babied because I was emotional and I wasn't.

Well yeah, I mean just because you're emotional, that's not bad.

Just because they were a bunch of stumps, you know, you know, stumps on a lot.

They had no personality, some of those guys, or they were annoying.

All right, thanks for the question, Steph.

Great to see you.

I'm not baby.

I'm not babing you.

Now get off.

Bye, don't I don't get babied anymore, although I was never a baby.

Bye, coach, thank you bye?

Is that it?

Yo?

He ran, he's gone, he's he's actually yes, yes, like girl be head phone left.

I literally though I didn't even have a question on it.

I thought you were asking me questions.

That was the best I could come up with in ten seconds.

Well it was good.

It was a good question.

Was that what you thought he was gonna say?

Yes and no?

I mean I cried a lot, so I actually did.

He did baby me though, like he didn't baby me but I was suck up, so he was really like everyone used to say that I was his favorite, and how annoying it was because he'd always be like, you know, just I don't want to say, take it easy on me.

But before I got there, I remember watching him do sprints and if they didn't make it in time, they had to do it again, even the slowest person.

And I think in my four years, I made it maybe once and we never had to redo it because of me.

So like, I don't know, I tried really hard.

I mean, you showed up by yourself, as he said, yeah, yeah, Anyway, I digress.

I was wondering, what differences have you seen from coach from how he was when he coached you and how he is now.

I mean, I've only been to a few practices, but it does seem a little bit more lenient.

I think everyone says that obviously he's gotten a little bit older, so I think he lets a lot more go than he used to.

But even when I was there, he'd let more stuff go than the years prior.

I think as time has gone on, I'm sure he's just he just knows how good you guys are at basketball.

But he definitely is a lot nicer to you guys than he was tough.

I think that's a common answer, so everyone says, yeah, yeah, but I wish we could go back and watch how he was with you guys.

Yeah, practices were crazy back then, like and the stories that we even heard from the years prior was like the amount of times they had practices with no balls, right, they were just doing sprints.

It was just some crazy stuff that we heard.

So I'm sure it's just gotten a little bit better with each generation.

I can only imagine.

Yeah, yeah, all right, Well, Steph, I know this is quick, but thank you so much for joining today.

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