January 12, 2023 • 17 mins
In this exclusive episode, KJ chops it up with 2026 Lynwood High-School PG Jason Crowe Jr., arguably the nation's top freshman basketball player. Crowe Jr. talks about how his parents keep him locked in, his newfound fame, the best players he's faced so far this season, and the type of work he puts in on his game everyday. KJ finds out if Jason can beat his dad in 1 on 1, how Crowe Jr. is able to play thru contact against physically mature players, and what his short term and long term goals are, on and off the court. #allball
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is kJ Live with Chris john Sillis and Chris
is having conversations with influencers in the sports world and
entertainment in a strain. Now here's Chris Johnson. You are
now tuned in to kJ Live. Today's guest on the
(00:23):
show was one of the top freshman basketball performers in
all of high school sports. He's a six three point
guard that attends Lynwood High School and he recently dropped
forty five points in the game. Join me and welcome me.
Jason Crow Jr. To kJ Live. What's up? J two
was good? Everything's good man, you good. I see you all.
(00:46):
I turn on my open my Twitter, open my Instagram,
and it's J two highlights, J two videos. You're out
there doing your thing. Man. It's it's it's a joy
to see how you play the game. Man. I've been
really impressed with your approach, your maturity out there on
the court, and your ability, honestly, man, to just take
(01:07):
on whoever is coming at you. How has this first
part of the season been for you? It's high school
basketball everything you thought it would be. Uh yeah, it's fun,
but it's like a lot of ups and down. Especially
uh ween would have wins and losses, but uh, it's
been fun so far, especially with coming in with the guys.
(01:27):
I've annoyance. It's like a while back, So everything's fun. Yeah,
let's talk about a little a little bit about some
of those guys. Man. I remember just a few years
ago when I was coaching, uh with the Truth the
six teams, and you were playing with the youth team.
I used to come to your games. You boogie fresh,
you know where old that whole crew. You guys were
(01:48):
so live back then. You played with the energy and
a focus that was just well beyond your years. How
much did your youth basketball experience of that crew playing
for your dad and on the circuit in l A.
How much did that contribute to your development as a
basketball player? Um? I say a lot because still not
(02:10):
to this day, I'm still cool those guys and then
you know, now I'm still my dad's still coaching me.
So it just brings uh better karterie between embody? Oh
absolutely do you now? Do you see? I remember when
you guys used to be in the gym, man, and
you know you'd be running those steps right behind you
with medicine balls. Then you be coming down to a
(02:31):
push ups and lifted ways to do it all kind
of stuff. You guys were like ten, eleven, twelve years old.
I was thinking myself, dag man, these dudes in a
few years are gonna be tough. Do you see now
that the fruits of hard work and all of your
labor came to freition? You see why you're doing all
that stuff? Jack? Oh? Yeah for sure. And now like
even how I see the uh the results, I'm trying
(02:53):
to still do it more, work out more. I asked them,
just like a couple of days ago, if I can
get in their gym, so I was like standing in
the gym a lot. Yeah, that's the best batman. The
gym rats. Uh, the gym rats are the ones that
get it done. You guys have played a pretty tough
schedule this season. You've played some really good teams and
some high level tournaments around Southern California. What team and
(03:16):
or what team or teams and which players have impressed
you the most that you've matched up with head to
hit um just a recent one Giovanni Russ and Longbias Party. Yeah,
that was a tough match up, very exciting one. I
was very uh excited to play in that game, especially
five star, you know what I mean, going ahead to head.
(03:37):
So that was just a fun experience. Has anybody that
you've played given you a hard time out there? Have
you played against somebody where you thought to yourself, like,
damgn man, this dude it is all up on me. Man,
this dude is doing a good job on me. I
gotta turn it up an extra level to really get off.
Is there anybody like that for you? Um? Yeah, he
(03:59):
went to Oaklad, I don't I don't know his name,
but it was his closed number thirty two from Oakwood. Yeah, okay,
number thirty two from Oakwood. Yeah. I asked my man,
Oland Simplest, who's an assistant coach over there. I asked
Big Old about number thirty two, but shouts out to
number thirty two. You got some props from j Crow Jr. Man.
(04:20):
What made you fall in love with this game of basketball?
Just being Ronnie Young? You know, seeing my dad play
this and made me want to do it as well. Yeah. Now,
when you're around the game, man, and you're in the
gym all the time, there's no doubt that you have
to love. When at what point do you feel like
(04:40):
during your growing up. Did you say, you know what,
I really want to go after this basketball thing, Like
I really think that I could do something in it.
When did you lock in J two? Probably when I
was like seven. That's why I really started like loving it.
So the first couple of years it was like I
was doing it to impress me my dad. But after
(05:01):
after a while, I was like, I started really loving you.
So seven years old, you fell in love with the game.
You decided to, Hey, I'm gonna start taking this thing seriously.
Was there any players that you were around when you
were younger, guys on the truth or college or high
school that you saw that influenced you, that may motivated you,
that made you want to, you know, keep hooping and
(05:23):
go hard. Uh My guy U C l A. Haimi
Hacks Jr. And uh Er right now, Janie Shackford, you
need my main two guys I already hang out with
getting to motivated the Shame and Jim Oh himI and
Shock were or too high level basketball players. Those aren't
(05:43):
bad guys to have that you look up to. Um,
what about the college other than him and you mentioned
Shackle for the G League? Are there are other college
players or NBA players that whose game that you absolutely
love and kind of you know, you study or watch film.
Really in college, I don't really watch the player. I
(06:04):
watched the team because college is more of a team game.
I already watched Katie uh, Yoki Yoki, k D and Janna.
So those are all sort of guys six eleven that
were in above. Are there any Is there anybody around
your height six three six five six seven that you
like that you see play John Moran, Steph Curry, Luca, Yeah,
(06:31):
Lucas that dude. Man, how about that stuff Luca has
been doing men with these easy triple doubles and all
the scoring prowess fifty sixty. I mean, it's been unbelievable.
I've heard someone make the comparison of you to a
guy by the name of Kenny Anderson is a left
handed point guard, and and another guy we all know
named Steph Curry. Here a combination of Kitty Edison is
(06:53):
Steph Kurry. Where people give you these accolades when they
say these kind of lofty expectations or say these crazy things,
and compare you to guys that really put it down
in the n b A or and above. How does
that make you feel how do you handle that type
of attention. I try not to think about it too
much because they're not just a distraction, but I think, uh,
(07:17):
it's still like I like that they're noticing me and
uh putting me next to those guys. No, yeah, that's
a big time thing for them to notice you, and
I would take it with a lot of pride um
that someone really sees that in you. I try to
stay away from comparison, especially at this age, because I
feel like you have so much more to go. I
(07:38):
think you're you're unique and you and you have your
own sort of game. I haven't seen a player quite
like you that is able to finish through contact. I
wanted to talk to you about that. You seem like
when contact comes knocking on your door, you have no
problem with it. You actually are welcoming and it seems
like it gives you a little up so you you
(08:00):
and ones to even the perimeter defense. When guys are
bodying you, when you're pushing it up full court, you're
still just like, oh, and you play right through it.
Where did you get that stripped? Because you're you know,
you're you're fourteen years old and to be on the
high school level. Playing this type of strong man game
is very unique. Where'd you get your strength? I stayed
playing my day in the backyard because he used to
(08:22):
always push me around because I'm always younger. He was
bigger than me, so like he alway used to push
me around, just trying to help me finish the contract.
So that's man, I have. I have experiences playing against
my dad as well. Man, I played my dad all
throughout high school. He never let me beat him. And
my dad was six seven about two forty. He was
trying to make a comeback to the NBA, so I
(08:44):
was sort of like his workout partner while he was
making his comeback. Man, And I'll tell you what what
that did for my game. I can't even put into
words because when I started playing against regular dudes my age,
Oh man, it almost seemed easy. But I won't say easy,
but it just didn't see like it was very difficult
because I've been playing against a grown man. Have you
been able to beat your dad and once? Yet? Yeah,
(09:06):
I beat him before. Oh really, that's not what he said.
He doesn't want to play me anymore, so you beat him?
So wait, so you wasn't the two point game? Was
it by one? I mean, how did what was the
score of that game? Because I gotta double check this.
We played rounds to seven? Oh that's the three okay, okay, okay?
(09:29):
And how did you beat him? Was it all jumper game?
Or did you did you try to drive to the
rack this day? Really? Mitties? I had hell all meties
because he wouldn't let me, so he went to the middies.
Oh that's nice, man, that's nice. Let's flip to school, man, Um.
As a student athlete, very important part of this whole
(09:49):
process is keeping your grades up, studying your books, taking
academic Seriously, what's your favorite subject academically in school? I
say algebra? Wow, so you're a math guy. Yeah, everybody
a math person, So you know I just picked it up.
Oh so it was a chip off the old block.
(10:10):
What is it about algebra that that you like the
process of figuring out problems, solutions and stuff like that,
or what I might do with numbers because then numbers
come to money. So oh that's true. That's true. That's
that's a good that's a good skill set to learn. Now, um,
when you when we talk about your interests as far
(10:30):
as outside of basketball, music, Uh, whether it be entertainment.
What what things do you like to do in your downtime.
I know you don't have a lot of downtime now
because it's either school, working out or something. But when
you have downtime, what does Jason Crow Jr. Like to do? Usually?
I like, uh, haying out my my fellow teammates, and
(10:50):
then just sometimes just channel with my family, watching TV,
watching movie. You know what I mean. Now, that's real cool, man,
that's real cool. You sound like you're real chill man
and just kind of lock then and waiting for the
next workout. Uh waiting. You know, you're just wait, counting
down the hours till you gotta get up and hit
the gym again. And that's a good lifestyle to be it. Man,
I lived that life too, so I know exactly how
(11:11):
that feels. What type of shoes do you w hoop in? Well?
I usually poop in the bron twenties Okay, Oh, which
Kobe's the shoes? Well, Kobe sixes six Oh yeah, the
sixes are the ones. Man. Yeah, with the slept on shoot.
(11:32):
I said, it's the data exhibit as the exhibit as
from a data's Huh, Yes, they're comfortable, very comfortable and light. Okay,
So for you and like you like feeling light when
you're on the court, you like feeling a shoe that
is sturdy and light, or you you don't care about
(11:52):
the sturdiness. You just need something light on your feet.
I need lighting sturdy, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. I
to keep it from springing spring in your ankles. Man,
how how is the attention, all the attention, I mean
from Bleacher Report to the l A times, You've You've
been plastered all over the internet. Everybody's reading about you,
talking about you. How do you stay grounded through all
(12:14):
this and not let that stuff get to your head? Um? Really,
just my parents they teach me how to keep down
and stay humble, so they until now with me every day. Yeah,
that's probably one of the most important parts, man, to
this whole process. I Mean we can say, you know,
working out and all that, but staying humble, staying you know,
(12:34):
uniquely grateful for everything that you have every single day. Man,
that's gonna be the move. Um, if I was to
pull up on y'all before y'all had a game, y'all
got two games this week, I know, but if I
was to pull up right now, I walk in the
locker room. I see you listening on your air pods
over there, trying to lock in what song will be
playing before a big game. Probably, uh, Slie Belief by
(13:02):
NBA Young Boy. Okay, so you're NBA young boy guy.
You like NBA. He's just someone I listened too, really
only before games, not really like I like the game.
Oh so he's good to turn up and get you hyped. Yeah,
what about I had Gravanni rough on here the other day.
He said, King Vaughan is what he listens to. You
like kings Von too. Yeah, he's solid. It's not that's
(13:26):
not your flow though, that's not your flex. Oh that's funny.
Um Man, When you think about have you thought about
college at all? Is that something that you think about
it at this age? Like what what kind of what
goes to your thoughts? Are you just focused on high
school basketball or do you start thinking ahead? Um? Kind
(13:46):
of both. I think about college sometimes, but really right now,
I'm just locking into the high school season right now. Yeah. No,
that's that's a good that's a good bet because you
have so much time. But you know, sometimes it's really
it's not really too early to are at least just thinking,
you know, just establishing, you know, sort of like where
you may want, what part of the country you may
(14:06):
want to play, and what type of conference, and what
type of you know, collegiate atmosphere that she may want
to play, and have you thought about any of those things.
You don't have to name a specific school. But are
you a West Coast dude? Are you? Are you anti
going to the code? You're not messing with the South
and the heat? What's up? I really don't care. As
long as they gave me an opportunity to uh lead me,
(14:28):
I don't care. Man, talk about just quickly shout out
how much your mom has meant. I know you know,
as basketball players, we always talk about our pop, especially
when they hoot, but our moms are really really a
big part of our life. Talk about your mom and
just how much she's meant for your basketball and personal development. Oh,
(14:49):
she's every game, she makes sure he will, she cook
every meal. She almost at every game, trying to support me.
She sometimes lotted in the coach. How that? How does
that make you feel where you can hear her instead
of your coach? I mean a moment, I don't really
like it, but like at the end, I'm just thinking
(15:10):
for it. Yeah. Absolutely. How is it planning for your dad? Man? Sometimes?
You know, I coached my son, it was it was
a tough thing. You know. How has it been playing
for your pops in your first high school season? Uh,
it's been exciting. Something I've been looking forward to because
we've been talking about this for a while. So just
fun and it's going out high plan. It was going
(15:32):
to what are your goals for the second half of
this season for Lynnwood? Uh? Try to win the championship
and make a deep playoff run. And how you guys
gonna do that? Where when you look at your team
right now, you look at what you guys have accomplished
so far, and you know where you gotta get to.
What needs to happen for the Lynwood Nights to hang
(15:54):
a banner in that gym. Uh just communication on the court. Uh,
really just locking on defensive end. Defensively, So is it
a team defense or individual defense that you feel like
you guys can improve the most? This team defense? Yeah,
and we all defensive strength and we gotta do it
(16:15):
as collective. UNI. I'll tell you what Jake. One of
the things that you know, you really should, you know,
get on guys about is talking. You know, make make
your communication defensively like the most important thing that you
guys can do, because the more you talk on the court,
the better y'all are gonna be. There's no doubt about that.
(16:36):
Um Man, that's been Uh, that's that's been some amazing stuff. Man.
I I sit and I watched your game, man, and
and I just look to see what you're gonna do next.
I mean, you really have showed up and shown out
so far this season. It's been a joy to watch
you play. And I have no doubt, man, that you're
gonna keep this thing going. I appreciate you for stopping
(16:58):
by kJ Live. Are there any shout outs that you
want to give before I let you go? Just shout
out to Lenore High School? And I said, man, Jason
Crow Jr. I appreciate you.
This is kJ Live with Chris john Sillis and Chris
is having conversations with influencers in the sports world and
entertainment in a strain. Now here's Chris Johnson. You are
now tuned in to kJ Live. Today's guest on the
(00:23):
show was one of the top freshman basketball performers in
all of high school sports. He's a six three point
guard that attends Lynwood High School and he recently dropped
forty five points in the game. Join me and welcome me.
Jason Crow Jr. To kJ Live. What's up? J two
was good? Everything's good man, you good. I see you all.
(00:46):
I turn on my open my Twitter, open my Instagram,
and it's J two highlights, J two videos. You're out
there doing your thing. Man. It's it's it's a joy
to see how you play the game. Man. I've been
really impressed with your approach, your maturity out there on
the court, and your ability, honestly, man, to just take
(01:07):
on whoever is coming at you. How has this first
part of the season been for you? It's high school
basketball everything you thought it would be. Uh yeah, it's fun,
but it's like a lot of ups and down. Especially
uh ween would have wins and losses, but uh, it's
been fun so far, especially with coming in with the guys.
(01:27):
I've annoyance. It's like a while back, So everything's fun. Yeah,
let's talk about a little a little bit about some
of those guys. Man. I remember just a few years
ago when I was coaching, uh with the Truth the
six teams, and you were playing with the youth team.
I used to come to your games. You boogie fresh,
you know where old that whole crew. You guys were
(01:48):
so live back then. You played with the energy and
a focus that was just well beyond your years. How
much did your youth basketball experience of that crew playing
for your dad and on the circuit in l A.
How much did that contribute to your development as a
basketball player? Um? I say a lot because still not
(02:10):
to this day, I'm still cool those guys and then
you know, now I'm still my dad's still coaching me.
So it just brings uh better karterie between embody? Oh
absolutely do you now? Do you see? I remember when
you guys used to be in the gym, man, and
you know you'd be running those steps right behind you
with medicine balls. Then you be coming down to a
(02:31):
push ups and lifted ways to do it all kind
of stuff. You guys were like ten, eleven, twelve years old.
I was thinking myself, dag man, these dudes in a
few years are gonna be tough. Do you see now
that the fruits of hard work and all of your
labor came to freition? You see why you're doing all
that stuff? Jack? Oh? Yeah for sure. And now like
even how I see the uh the results, I'm trying
(02:53):
to still do it more, work out more. I asked them,
just like a couple of days ago, if I can
get in their gym, so I was like standing in
the gym a lot. Yeah, that's the best batman. The
gym rats. Uh, the gym rats are the ones that
get it done. You guys have played a pretty tough
schedule this season. You've played some really good teams and
some high level tournaments around Southern California. What team and
(03:16):
or what team or teams and which players have impressed
you the most that you've matched up with head to
hit um just a recent one Giovanni Russ and Longbias Party. Yeah,
that was a tough match up, very exciting one. I
was very uh excited to play in that game, especially
five star, you know what I mean, going ahead to head.
(03:37):
So that was just a fun experience. Has anybody that
you've played given you a hard time out there? Have
you played against somebody where you thought to yourself, like,
damgn man, this dude it is all up on me. Man,
this dude is doing a good job on me. I
gotta turn it up an extra level to really get off.
Is there anybody like that for you? Um? Yeah, he
(03:59):
went to Oaklad, I don't I don't know his name,
but it was his closed number thirty two from Oakwood. Yeah, okay,
number thirty two from Oakwood. Yeah. I asked my man,
Oland Simplest, who's an assistant coach over there. I asked
Big Old about number thirty two, but shouts out to
number thirty two. You got some props from j Crow Jr. Man.
(04:20):
What made you fall in love with this game of basketball?
Just being Ronnie Young? You know, seeing my dad play
this and made me want to do it as well. Yeah. Now,
when you're around the game, man, and you're in the
gym all the time, there's no doubt that you have
to love. When at what point do you feel like
(04:40):
during your growing up. Did you say, you know what,
I really want to go after this basketball thing, Like
I really think that I could do something in it.
When did you lock in J two? Probably when I
was like seven. That's why I really started like loving it.
So the first couple of years it was like I
was doing it to impress me my dad. But after
(05:01):
after a while, I was like, I started really loving you.
So seven years old, you fell in love with the game.
You decided to, Hey, I'm gonna start taking this thing seriously.
Was there any players that you were around when you
were younger, guys on the truth or college or high
school that you saw that influenced you, that may motivated you,
that made you want to, you know, keep hooping and
(05:23):
go hard. Uh My guy U C l A. Haimi
Hacks Jr. And uh Er right now, Janie Shackford, you
need my main two guys I already hang out with
getting to motivated the Shame and Jim Oh himI and
Shock were or too high level basketball players. Those aren't
(05:43):
bad guys to have that you look up to. Um,
what about the college other than him and you mentioned
Shackle for the G League? Are there are other college
players or NBA players that whose game that you absolutely
love and kind of you know, you study or watch film.
Really in college, I don't really watch the player. I
(06:04):
watched the team because college is more of a team game.
I already watched Katie uh, Yoki Yoki, k D and Janna.
So those are all sort of guys six eleven that
were in above. Are there any Is there anybody around
your height six three six five six seven that you
like that you see play John Moran, Steph Curry, Luca, Yeah,
(06:31):
Lucas that dude. Man, how about that stuff Luca has
been doing men with these easy triple doubles and all
the scoring prowess fifty sixty. I mean, it's been unbelievable.
I've heard someone make the comparison of you to a
guy by the name of Kenny Anderson is a left
handed point guard, and and another guy we all know
named Steph Curry. Here a combination of Kitty Edison is
(06:53):
Steph Kurry. Where people give you these accolades when they
say these kind of lofty expectations or say these crazy things,
and compare you to guys that really put it down
in the n b A or and above. How does
that make you feel how do you handle that type
of attention. I try not to think about it too
much because they're not just a distraction, but I think, uh,
(07:17):
it's still like I like that they're noticing me and
uh putting me next to those guys. No, yeah, that's
a big time thing for them to notice you, and
I would take it with a lot of pride um
that someone really sees that in you. I try to
stay away from comparison, especially at this age, because I
feel like you have so much more to go. I
(07:38):
think you're you're unique and you and you have your
own sort of game. I haven't seen a player quite
like you that is able to finish through contact. I
wanted to talk to you about that. You seem like
when contact comes knocking on your door, you have no
problem with it. You actually are welcoming and it seems
like it gives you a little up so you you
(08:00):
and ones to even the perimeter defense. When guys are
bodying you, when you're pushing it up full court, you're
still just like, oh, and you play right through it.
Where did you get that stripped? Because you're you know,
you're you're fourteen years old and to be on the
high school level. Playing this type of strong man game
is very unique. Where'd you get your strength? I stayed
playing my day in the backyard because he used to
(08:22):
always push me around because I'm always younger. He was
bigger than me, so like he alway used to push
me around, just trying to help me finish the contract.
So that's man, I have. I have experiences playing against
my dad as well. Man, I played my dad all
throughout high school. He never let me beat him. And
my dad was six seven about two forty. He was
trying to make a comeback to the NBA, so I
(08:44):
was sort of like his workout partner while he was
making his comeback. Man, And I'll tell you what what
that did for my game. I can't even put into
words because when I started playing against regular dudes my age,
Oh man, it almost seemed easy. But I won't say easy,
but it just didn't see like it was very difficult
because I've been playing against a grown man. Have you
been able to beat your dad and once? Yet? Yeah,
(09:06):
I beat him before. Oh really, that's not what he said.
He doesn't want to play me anymore, so you beat him?
So wait, so you wasn't the two point game? Was
it by one? I mean, how did what was the
score of that game? Because I gotta double check this.
We played rounds to seven? Oh that's the three okay, okay, okay?
(09:29):
And how did you beat him? Was it all jumper game?
Or did you did you try to drive to the
rack this day? Really? Mitties? I had hell all meties
because he wouldn't let me, so he went to the middies.
Oh that's nice, man, that's nice. Let's flip to school, man, Um.
As a student athlete, very important part of this whole
(09:49):
process is keeping your grades up, studying your books, taking
academic Seriously, what's your favorite subject academically in school? I
say algebra? Wow, so you're a math guy. Yeah, everybody
a math person, So you know I just picked it up.
Oh so it was a chip off the old block.
(10:10):
What is it about algebra that that you like the
process of figuring out problems, solutions and stuff like that,
or what I might do with numbers because then numbers
come to money. So oh that's true. That's true. That's
that's a good that's a good skill set to learn. Now, um,
when you when we talk about your interests as far
(10:30):
as outside of basketball, music, Uh, whether it be entertainment.
What what things do you like to do in your downtime.
I know you don't have a lot of downtime now
because it's either school, working out or something. But when
you have downtime, what does Jason Crow Jr. Like to do? Usually?
I like, uh, haying out my my fellow teammates, and
(10:50):
then just sometimes just channel with my family, watching TV,
watching movie. You know what I mean. Now, that's real cool, man,
that's real cool. You sound like you're real chill man
and just kind of lock then and waiting for the
next workout. Uh waiting. You know, you're just wait, counting
down the hours till you gotta get up and hit
the gym again. And that's a good lifestyle to be it. Man,
I lived that life too, so I know exactly how
(11:11):
that feels. What type of shoes do you w hoop in? Well?
I usually poop in the bron twenties Okay, Oh, which
Kobe's the shoes? Well, Kobe sixes six Oh yeah, the
sixes are the ones. Man. Yeah, with the slept on shoot.
(11:32):
I said, it's the data exhibit as the exhibit as
from a data's Huh, Yes, they're comfortable, very comfortable and light. Okay,
So for you and like you like feeling light when
you're on the court, you like feeling a shoe that
is sturdy and light, or you you don't care about
(11:52):
the sturdiness. You just need something light on your feet.
I need lighting sturdy, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. I
to keep it from springing spring in your ankles. Man,
how how is the attention, all the attention, I mean
from Bleacher Report to the l A times, You've You've
been plastered all over the internet. Everybody's reading about you,
talking about you. How do you stay grounded through all
(12:14):
this and not let that stuff get to your head? Um? Really,
just my parents they teach me how to keep down
and stay humble, so they until now with me every day. Yeah,
that's probably one of the most important parts, man, to
this whole process. I Mean we can say, you know,
working out and all that, but staying humble, staying you know,
(12:34):
uniquely grateful for everything that you have every single day. Man,
that's gonna be the move. Um, if I was to
pull up on y'all before y'all had a game, y'all
got two games this week, I know, but if I
was to pull up right now, I walk in the
locker room. I see you listening on your air pods
over there, trying to lock in what song will be
playing before a big game. Probably, uh, Slie Belief by
(13:02):
NBA Young Boy. Okay, so you're NBA young boy guy.
You like NBA. He's just someone I listened too, really
only before games, not really like I like the game.
Oh so he's good to turn up and get you hyped. Yeah,
what about I had Gravanni rough on here the other day.
He said, King Vaughan is what he listens to. You
like kings Von too. Yeah, he's solid. It's not that's
(13:26):
not your flow though, that's not your flex. Oh that's funny.
Um Man, When you think about have you thought about
college at all? Is that something that you think about
it at this age? Like what what kind of what
goes to your thoughts? Are you just focused on high
school basketball or do you start thinking ahead? Um? Kind
(13:46):
of both. I think about college sometimes, but really right now,
I'm just locking into the high school season right now. Yeah. No,
that's that's a good that's a good bet because you
have so much time. But you know, sometimes it's really
it's not really too early to are at least just thinking,
you know, just establishing, you know, sort of like where
you may want, what part of the country you may
(14:06):
want to play, and what type of conference, and what
type of you know, collegiate atmosphere that she may want
to play, and have you thought about any of those things.
You don't have to name a specific school. But are
you a West Coast dude? Are you? Are you anti
going to the code? You're not messing with the South
and the heat? What's up? I really don't care. As
long as they gave me an opportunity to uh lead me,
(14:28):
I don't care. Man, talk about just quickly shout out
how much your mom has meant. I know you know,
as basketball players, we always talk about our pop, especially
when they hoot, but our moms are really really a
big part of our life. Talk about your mom and
just how much she's meant for your basketball and personal development. Oh,
(14:49):
she's every game, she makes sure he will, she cook
every meal. She almost at every game, trying to support me.
She sometimes lotted in the coach. How that? How does
that make you feel where you can hear her instead
of your coach? I mean a moment, I don't really
like it, but like at the end, I'm just thinking
(15:10):
for it. Yeah. Absolutely. How is it planning for your dad? Man? Sometimes?
You know, I coached my son, it was it was
a tough thing. You know. How has it been playing
for your pops in your first high school season? Uh,
it's been exciting. Something I've been looking forward to because
we've been talking about this for a while. So just
fun and it's going out high plan. It was going
(15:32):
to what are your goals for the second half of
this season for Lynnwood? Uh? Try to win the championship
and make a deep playoff run. And how you guys
gonna do that? Where when you look at your team
right now, you look at what you guys have accomplished
so far, and you know where you gotta get to.
What needs to happen for the Lynwood Nights to hang
(15:54):
a banner in that gym. Uh just communication on the court. Uh,
really just locking on defensive end. Defensively, So is it
a team defense or individual defense that you feel like
you guys can improve the most? This team defense? Yeah,
and we all defensive strength and we gotta do it
(16:15):
as collective. UNI. I'll tell you what Jake. One of
the things that you know, you really should, you know,
get on guys about is talking. You know, make make
your communication defensively like the most important thing that you
guys can do, because the more you talk on the court,
the better y'all are gonna be. There's no doubt about that.
(16:36):
Um Man, that's been Uh, that's that's been some amazing stuff. Man.
I I sit and I watched your game, man, and
and I just look to see what you're gonna do next.
I mean, you really have showed up and shown out
so far this season. It's been a joy to watch
you play. And I have no doubt, man, that you're
gonna keep this thing going. I appreciate you for stopping
(16:58):
by kJ Live. Are there any shout outs that you
want to give before I let you go? Just shout
out to Lenore High School? And I said, man, Jason
Crow Jr. I appreciate you.
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