Drew's Reaction to Fan’s Overreaction, Preview of Week 1, NBA Draft Journey, Mark Few Coaching Nuggets | Ep #1 | - The Gimme Timme Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following is a presentation of the College Athletes Network's
good y'all, it's your boy, True Timmy. I'm here at
my co host No Juanna and where on the Give

(00:26):
Me Timmy podcast, the very first one on the College
Athletes Network featured on our Heart Radio God Drew. Literally,
it's gonna take you years to get my last name right.
I didn't even hear you say that, be and I
was so bad. But it's fine. It's not about me,
So I had to have to take if you heard that,
I did hesitate. I was like, you guys are who
was like wanna terrible? Yeah? But anyway, man, it's good

(00:51):
to be here. I just want to thank everybody first
and foremost for tuning in me and Drew and I
are excited to be doing this. Um. I think something
funny to start off with Drew is like, what what
is the most annoying thing, the thing that's pissed you
off the most about this podcasting thing, like the set up,
the getting on, Like, Like what what has just bothered
you the most? To be quite honest, the fucking boomstick,

(01:15):
this thing, the mic, Like I had to get one
of my friends to come over and help me set
it up because I was trying to tinker with it
and mess with it and screws were falling off and everything,
and like getting at the right angle has to be
in the corner of your mouth. Like it was just
a lot of work. I know, it's very unlike handy
man of me or whatever, but like it was hard.

(01:35):
So that was annoying. Part. You're not a d what
is it a D? I Y do it yourself guy.
You know, it's not a big like I keya guy.
Like like I'm more like rooms to go like or
you know what, Walker's furniture. There we go by the
furniture and like it's there for me, Like no, I
like ikeya stuff. It's just I'm not the biggest, Like

(01:57):
I was great analogy when I was a kid. I
like to play with legos, but I did not like
to build them. Why not that's the best part. I
don't know. It's just like so many little pieces and
stuff and like you mess one part up, you don't
realize it's like three D steps later and it's like
it's just just messed up. It's fucked you, Like you
can't you have to go all the way back, like
it just didn't interest me. Dude, I'm not even a lie.

(02:19):
I'm not shamed to admit it either. I build legos
to this day. It's it's it's so fun. But wait,
what I'm getting at is that you just don't like
following some type of instruction, Like you don't want to
read the paper or the manual to put your dresser together,
or your bed frame or your boom arm for the podcast.
Right Like, it's kind of just like, ah, nah, I'm

(02:41):
just a lazy s O B. I would say that's
probably the better way to describe that. Yeah, I mean,
but like take it from me, there's a fulfilling feeling
of like, you know what I did that. I put
that rolling cart together, I put that bed together. I
don't know what it is. It's just like it's a
sense of accomplishment. I don't know. Maybe your sense of

(03:02):
accomplishment comes from nice little up and under reverse layup,
reverse dunk, from the scrimmage that I had. That's for
fulfillment right there, Because that dude, I didn't think that
you were gonna turn and and punch that little hole.
I thought it was gonna be like a little I mean, no,
not doubting the fact. Obviously you're six ten and and
you're gonna, you know, have your fair shared dunks. But

(03:23):
you you come off like a what are your two
foot jumper? One ft jumper? What's your preference? Um? Mostly
below the rim, but yeah, you know whatever one ft
I would say off the lefty. But yeah, I was like,
do I go for it? I can do it? Can
I do it? Then I get up there like, please
don't air ball the dunk, and uh somehow some way
it got in. It looked pretty nice. I got to
hit my stash first one of the season. Pretty exciting.

(03:46):
I think I had like three dunks that game, and
that's probably my season high last year. So we're something.
You're off strong for sure. God I I love and
I'm sure I'm one of many that the hitting the
stash thing. I remember it was the COVID year when
you guys played U C l A and Hugs hit
that insane buzzer beater. But I remember like really picking

(04:07):
up on like look at this fucking guy just doing
this thing with It's like, I mean, my whole family
were talking about it. Look at the look at this guy,
like and it was great. It was just this like
perfect signature, like, um, but yeah, you guys are off
to a great start. I mean you had let's not
call it a great start. Let me let me reel
that back in. You got your asking, your asses kicked
by Tennessee. People were talking about it. They're ranked eleventh

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preseason polls. You guys are ranked second, and you're Gonzaga
nineteen point loss. What were your thoughts, takeaways and reaction
to that game. I mean, I thought we look like
a team that hadn't played a game yet, which we were.
That was our first game, and I think I think
they looked like a like February level team. They cut well,

(04:52):
they rebounded well there around, their actions well, they have
a They have a good, complete, experienced team. And I
thought that experience showed because while it was a nineteen
point game, if if you really like looked at the aim,
it was a five to seven point game with I
think like five or six minutes left in the game.
So it's not like we really got our asses kicked

(05:14):
the whole game. It was like just that last segment
we kind of fell apart. And I think that speaks
to just how are lack of continuity experience whereas a
team just because we do have some new pieces and
we lost some key guys, like that ship just comes
a time and it was crazy after the games and
everyone like, oh my god, Gonzaga fucking sucks and this
and that. I'm like, this is a brand new team,

(05:35):
Like yeah, like I'm back Jolan's backgrounds, here's back Ton's back.
But like we have guys that are getting significant minutes
like Nolan Hunter now, Like how like these guys are
stepping into a new team and rolls like you gotta
let them figure it out and then we all have
to figure out how to play as a team and stuff.
And I think I think that was like kind of
the funniest thing is how much everyone was just on

(05:57):
that whole game, like like sorry, we're not ready for
a march at this exact moment. It's time. But at
the same time, that's what exhibitions are forced to kind
of learn about your team and kind of like figure
things out. You can't really learn about getting thrown in
the fire, I feel like, and I think that was
something that UM we responded to really well in the

(06:18):
our next game that we played against UM one or Pacific,
Like we looked we had better flow star actions. We
played defense, but we were more connected as a team.
I saw I saw Nolan Malkin Hunter especially really get
way more comfortable like in their roles and really like
stepping up, and I thought that was something that we took.
We we took. We just learned from that experience, and
that's what exhibitions are for. They're not they're not for

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rankings or anything. So I just thought that was kind
of funny. But you know, everyone's got to overreact about something,
so yeah, I mean I was only joking when I said,
you guys got your asses busted, because I know, like
the public reaction right away is like people nine times
out of ten are only looking at the final score.
They're like, oh, like it's like, you know, because if

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you didn't watch the game, then yeah, you don't know
that around Like that five six seven minute mark is
kind of when it blew open, but for the majority
of the game, but was still a game. But yeah,
dudes getting adjusted and comfortable in their role. Like mal
Chai Smith was so Complayer of the Year last year,
like once he feels acclimated to Mark Few in the
system and the rest of you guys like I'm sure

(07:20):
you're gonna see big production out of him, um and
even the returning guys that already are kind of comfortable
and more established. But I one thing that I think
is funny about like Gonzaga Mark few outside perspective is
like Gonzaga and him and like the team in the program,
it's just he makes it one of those teams where
he just knows when to turn it on and like

(07:43):
there's a reason he's won three games in the last
nine years, like seven thirty win seasons in that time,
Like he's he's just got that little in factor to
help you guys and everybody in the situation just know
like all right, boys, like it's game time. That's how
it looks to me. Yeah, I mean because our practices
are so hard, like we we get after it in practice.

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And I would say practices are harder than the games
most of the time, just because that's like how hard
we go. How like in the touch situations he puts
us into make sure that we are prepared for situations
like that, And I would say, like back to the
Tennessee game, like we just sometimes you just gotta get
thrown in those situations to kind of learn how to
fight your way out of them. And that's something that

(08:25):
like we've really been like working on especially lately. Dude.
The practice harder than the game thing is so so important,
Like my coach I do came Dude, he used to
emphasize that so much. It's like, if we can just
make practice harder than the game, then I promise you
the games will be easier. And if you don't have
a group of guys that that's gonna click with, then
like you know, obviously it's gonna be hard, Like it's

(08:46):
not gonna work out the way the coach envisions it.
But like I just feel like coach few has like
that ability to get buy in from all of you guys,
Like what what are you doing in practice? Is it
so much game simulation every day and just a lot
of hard running and hard movements and attention to detail,
Like what do the mean core things? Making those practices
just like as hard as you say they are. Yeah, well,

(09:09):
I mean we hammer the fundamentals like getting the two
foot stops, not making jump passes, finishing layups like off
pump fakes and stuff like you would think it's some
like complex like circus show or running, but it really
is just the basics and then we're obviously we're playing
all the time, Like all of our breakdowns are like
it's one on one, to two on two, to three

(09:30):
on three to set, like four on four, five on five,
Like it's all these different situations where you have to
make the right play, you can't turn the ball over.
It's just all the time, Like he's always making you
think and stuff, and it's it's what really helps you.
Just like at least me, like helped me so much
on my career. Just you're always in situations where you're
playing against someone, but if you don't do the basics
and it's not good enough. Dude, talk about just like

(09:53):
his attention to detail and like how much it helped
you guys, and just the importance of like everything that
he says, like there's actually a blueprint behind it, reasoning
behind it, you know, to help you guys win thirty
plus games, go thirty one and oh into a national
championship game. Like I think a lot of people players
really underestimate like the importance of just like those little

(10:16):
details about no jump passes, playing off two feet, Like
you could go down the list of things, but like
his level of just stressing the importance of that stuff.
Just talk about that for people. Yeah, it's crazy. I
think that's one of the biggest misconceptions, especially nowaday with
even like social media, Like you see all these high
school mixtapes of guys like doing forty crossovers and hitting

(10:38):
like three step backs, but then shooting a three and
making it, and like those players get blown up, and
I think it's just a misconception. With like college, I'd say,
like a lot of programs across the country like focus
on the basics, like we do pivots, like making sure
not to travel on the jab cross something simple like
that that he thinks like a pretty easy move, but
like even I shuffle my feet a lot on that

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or like in the post, like coming out of a
double team, like making sure you're always on balance and control,
because the most important thing in the game is having
the ball and stopping the ball. And if you're turning
the ball over on dumb ship like gowing to jump
pass and getting a charge with going out of bounds,
like you don't get the ball, and that's more times
you have to stop the ball, which is just a
hard way to win. So if you can just master

(11:20):
the simple things. It's kind of like you get the
ball more so if more opportunities to score, and let
the opponent has less opportunities to score if you keep
the ball more so. That's kind of the way he
like breaks it down for us, and I think that
really resonates with us too. Yeah, simple good analogies like
that for a nineteen year old can they can take
you a long way? Like take you a long way.

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I just think it's cool because like, like I don't know,
I think like as I've gotten older, I just appreciate
like the little details that go into stuff like that.
Like when I when I would watch my head coach
like formulate scouting report and like put together the pregame thing,
and you're like see all these details on the whiteboard.
You're like, holy fuck, dude, Like there's so much that
goes into this stuff. And I don't think people really

(12:06):
get that. It's not just like go out on the
court and like put the ball in the whole. Like
there are so many little nuances, and I mean, depending
on your love for the game, like they're either really
interesting or really boring. But dude, I would look at
the board and just be like, oh my god, bro,
like that was all just in your tiny head and
you just you just put all that that fucking big

(12:28):
gass whiteboard and just put like in like ten minutes
you were just able to scribble all that out. It's
just crazy. Yeah, you definitely really have to love the
game to be able to do stuff like that. I
mean I remember even my freshman r I'm like Jesus,
like we have more film and more breakdown, and then
like you watch breakdown of the team that you're playing,
you watch the filming yourself, your own team like in practice,

(12:50):
and then you have to watch film like the individual
players you're guarding and other tendencies and what they like
to get to. And then in the game, you like freshman,
you're like you funk up a tendency, like you're getting yanked,
like you didn't pay attention to the basics, and it's
like something that like you have, like you learned the
hard way. Like I definitely went through that my freshman year,

(13:10):
especially like playing behind guys like Philip until he like
like pros, Like, I mean, you funk up, especially like
a freshman year on a tide leash and like they're like,
don't let this dude get to his right hand jump
hook in my dumbass just playing him straight up, don't
shade his right hand hook. He gets the right hook,
It's like, can I have a seat by me? Buddy?

(13:31):
How hard is it to play when you know you
have that leash on you? Like it's like I'm getting
my one minute. I just got my number called, but
like I got one chance, and if I funk up,
like I'm on the bench and it could be pretty
much your only opportunity to rest of the game. Maybe
you get a little burned in the second half or something.
But like, dude, that feeling of like knowing you gotta
be perfect out there like that especially, I mean you

(13:54):
probably really only had to deal with it, like maybe
a little bit your freshman year, but you were pretty
solidified in the rotation. But still, I'm sure you've had
moments of that feeling. Oh no, definitely, Like early early
in my freshman year, like it was hard for me
to figure out my role because I didn't really know.
I was like, am I supposed to score? Am I
supposed to pass it to other people? Like? What do

(14:16):
I do to like really stay on the court. And
it was just one of those things that like I
was just thinking so much and shying so hard not
to funk up that I was like I was fucking
up and I ended up coming out and I'd just
be like, dude, what am I? Like, what am I doing?
Like That's not what I'm that's not how I play
or anything. And then like, I think what really changed

(14:36):
to me was like halfway through the year, I just
figured out, like they don't care if you mess up.
Just be confident in what you do and do the
right like, just do the right thing. Just don't do
stupid mistakes like you're gonna mess up, you're gonna miss
a shot, like you're not missing a signment. But as
long as you just do the basics and you play
your tail off, like you'll get more minutes and then
and then get things will happen. I think that was

(14:57):
the biggest thing for me, was just kind of that growth.
I would say, you hit that in like the midway
mark of that freshman year. But what what helped it
click Just more repetition conversations with coaches, like a little
bit of just getting the experience, like you were saying earlier,
getting thrown into the fire like yeah, no, Tilly. Tilly
would had dealt with some injuries, so I had to

(15:20):
play like there was no one in and Tona dislocated
his shoulder, so it was literally like, well Ship, there's
planning Cee, like get in there, and like I was
able to kind of mess up but also stay in
the game, which was nice. So kind of like just
getting that opportunity to really get a feel for things,
and it kind of helped the game just slowed down

(15:41):
for me to be able to like really just feel
more comfortable playing out there. And then obviously like the
coaches were like huge and helping me and stuff and
like talking to me and helping me along the way.
But like that I think that really helped me with
just kind of getting that opportunity to like feel comfortable
messing up a little bit. Yeah, I dude, I just
genuinely feel bad for players who gets stuck in those

(16:02):
situations where it's like they always have that short leash
attached to them. I just feel terrible for guys, even
like there's so many talented guys that it happens too,
and it's like, you know, a number of different reasons
for every individual. It's different, but it just sucks. Like
when you're witnessing it from a you know, a different lens,
you're like, damn, Like, I know he can hoop, but
there's something going on there that's like maybe it's something

(16:25):
internally mentally with him and he just can't leap over
the barrier get over it. I don't know what it is.
I just feel bad for dudes when when you see
it happened like firsthand. Yeah, no, that's a such situation.
I think that's what like just makes the game so hard.
And I think but also like like getting off that
and like extending that, like there's no better feeling as
a hooper, like fuck, I'm made to the promise sing

(16:47):
Like it's just like it's like this like revival of
yourself and your confidence. And I think that's like one
of the most like fulfilling like things about basketball is
like when you get that moment and you're like I'm
made it, like I'll work through this adversity and was
able to overcome this, Like that's one of the most
like best parts for me at least as like like
going taking that chill and chad on and overcoming it. Yeah,

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what what is like a moment for you. That's that
stands out as that. So I had to start because
Tilly was hurt for um pressman name. We played San
Francisco and they're they're good. They always play us well.
They're a good team, you know, they always I must
say that. I must say the Dons. They got the
best name, best mascot, best name. I love it. The
Dons go ahead, Dons. Yeah, Now, they're a good team,

(17:32):
Like they always play us really well. You know. I
had to start, and I had to play, and I
think that I ended up having like seventeen points or something,
which is probably my career high at the time, and
it was the first time I played like real meaningful, meaningful,
like a lot of meaningful minutes. And I think, like
I remember just that moment in in particular, like it

(17:55):
really was just like I was just so happy, I
was like we wind Like it was just such a
good feeling for me. Like I think that really turned
the corner for me. And then I think after that
you kind of saw me even like even when like
Tillie came back, I still just had that confidence and everything,
and I felt comfortable coming in and doing my part
for the team at that time, and I think that
was one of my most proud moments because that was

(18:17):
a difficult situation. I've always in high school and everything,
I always I'd always been the man, you know, I'd
always been like the guy on the team, and like
going into a situation where you come off the bench
and everything, like it was hard to adjust to and
like it's different and you just kind of have to
learn how to navigate that. And I think that was
something that like I really am proud of myself for doing. Yeah,
that's a universal feeling being the man in high school

(18:38):
going to college and being the littlest person there. I mean,
you know, there's your small percentage of guys who just
can get to college and it just clicks for them.
Those those are the dudes that are just like it
makes no sense to me. It's like, I mean it
makes sense, but it's like a how are you getting
this so fast? Because I feel like, what do you,
like you think the college game is Like it's like,

(18:59):
I don't know how complex you think it is, but
when you were learning it, like I think it has
a lot to do with like what you were taught
pre college, so middle school, high school, what you already
knew kind of leading up to it. Like I think
if you don't know ship coming into college, it's hard
as fun to navigate. It's like there's so much the
new stuff that gets thrown at you in the college game.

(19:19):
So it's like I think that the dudes that it
clicks for real early they just have that better understanding
of it. I mean, like, but there's absolutely a learning
curve when it comes to like high school college being
the big fish. You start off as a little fish.
You can be the big fishing college quicker if you
can pick up on the ship faster. But yeah, no, definitely,
Like I think, like the biggest thing is just understanding

(19:42):
spacing and concepts and how how to play within a
team like in high school and stuff you can get
away with not not spacing, like you know, do whatever
you want, like get out the way, like it's time,
like get out of my way, like I'm on one,
or like you don't have to help in defense, Like
you can get away with a bunch of things. But
like once you get to college, like you have to

(20:03):
understand stand that because you're playing with guys that were
pretty much all the man you know, like at their
respective high school wherever they were, Like, especially at this level,
like everyone was like that, dude, and like you have
to learn to put other it's it gets to a
point where like your talent only takes you so far
in most cases, so you you have to learn how
to play within the team and the system. And like

(20:25):
I think especially how you're brought up, like learning what
how you learned to play when you were younger and
stuff really translates, because like you have to be able
to retain information but also apply it quickly and on
the fly. I think that's a big separator for like
why didn't this guy pan out? Like maybe he just
cannot get like the concepts and the continuity and the
flows and the xs and ohs and all that. What's

(20:45):
one name that comes to mind that you're like that
was a big time recruit, thought he was going to
be a beast. I didn't pan out. I got I
got one that always posshed my head. But I want
to hear yours first caught me off guard. That's a
good question, man, I can't even There's been a lot
ship all right, funk you, I'll go first. I always
think I always think of seventh Woods went to U

(21:08):
n C went to UM he transferred somewhere I want
to say South Carolina, and then he ended up at
Morgan State. And I mean I just remember watching his
mixtapes and stuff in college or in high school and
just being like, oh, yeah, like he's he's him if
the yeah, and then it just was like, uh, I

(21:29):
don't know. It just it didn't pan out, and I
don't I don't you know, I don't know him. I'm
not knocking him. I just don't know if like it
was opportunity based, and the opportunity was low and not
a lot because maybe he had a bad understanding of
the game and wasn't picking up on things because you
you said one word that's like important is like how
quick can you retain the information and then apply it?

(21:52):
And it's like, dude, if you if you struggle to
do that and you need more time than your average
you know the other guy that's kind of picking it
up faster, you'll get left behind like pretty quickly, and
then you're playing catch up. Yeah, I mean ship that
coaches like all right, run uh box too, then like
flare something and instead of pin down and then go

(22:12):
ghost and then hammer stream the back guy I'm like, okay,
I'm going to screen here and then I'm gonna run
up and flare here. Okay, then I gonna go back,
like you want time to do that. You've just got
a bang bang bang bang. There's a fluidity to it
that's like, you know, some people easy for some hard
for others. Yeah, that's why there's only four d and

(22:33):
fifty what's in the four hundred fifty players in the
NBA every year, and like only like on five thousand
total people who have ever played in the NBA. Some crazy.
That number is crazy. Whatever that number is. I don't
quote me. I could be completely wrong. I think I'm
right on there's four hundred and fifty guys every year
in the league, But the total number of people who
have touched an NBA court is like such a small number.

(22:55):
When you put it in the you know, Grant scheme
of the whole population, it's like, yeah, they got there
for a reason, they got there for a reason. I'm
proud of you, man, I didn't realize you're such a
big number and stats guy. It's quite impressive. I'm learning
new things about you every day. Dude. I'm so bad.
I was somebody was just telling somebody this other day,
like I've never taken a precl class, a CALC class,

(23:15):
Like once I finished algebra too my junior year of
high school, Like that was it. I don't think I
ever took another math class in my life. Like I'm
kind of embarrassed. It's like, oh, have you asked me
what CALCO was? No fucking clue. Well I'm not the
guy to ask about it either, so we'll just you know,
you're not you're not You're you're a numbers on the
court guy. You ain't. You ain't doing homework. Who's doing
your homework for you? God fucking well shit, I would

(23:38):
say I'm not doing the best at that. But yeah,
what is Timmy? What is the Drew? Timmy? G p A?
Is that classified information? Or oh wow, um, I'm putting
you on the spot episode? What what is the soul?
Let's just say that, like it's cool, like it's solid,

(24:03):
it's it doesn't matter, right, like it I guess you
can't even say yeah, but it's like it's like what
you want to get your degree? You're gonna get your degree,
but like it didn't really matter. If I was you,
it wouldn't matter. Sorry, sorry to the young people listen
to this, get a good education. But if you're Drew Timmy,
it's like it's like, okay, let's put it this way.

(24:25):
I'm not a doctor and I'm not a lawyer, and
that's the only two Like, that's the only two degrees.
I know that you have to have a high g
p A and you know, to make it onto the
next level because that's like a multi multi level course
or curriculum, you know. So I'm not in one of those.
So I still have a I still have a solid

(24:45):
g p A. But like you're just embarrassed to say
the number. I actually don't know. I would assume it's
like you're over a two point oh, I know that
for a fact. I'm probably like a to eight. Like yeah, okay,
I was gonna say, because Mama Timmy ain't going for
anything under well, she's pissed about that, which is fair,
Like I definitely should be like at least at least

(25:08):
like a three two or something. I'm probably hope that
she doesn't get mad at me for being like another
bad influence on you know, you're not giving a shit
about your scoore because I tell any man I did
five years of college and I wasn't you and I
still didn't care about my schoolwork. Like school's important, kids
stay in school. Yeah, it totally is important. And there's
one regret I have it said, I didn't pay attention

(25:30):
more so, like, definitely pay attention if you need to.
It's totally worth it. All right, Let's let's get back
real quick to just what you were. Let's wrap up
on on some of these exhibition games kind of headed
into this season. When people hear this, um, you will
already have played Florida State. We're recording this on Saturday
Saturday for sid North Florida, Florida State. Florida State is

(25:55):
gonna bust that ass. And I'm just kidding, Um, I
think that while we do this, I think while we
do this, I might just like purposefully be anti Gonzaga
just to just like get get consistent rises out of you. Like,
I think I just might be Gonzaga and Drew Timmy's
biggest haters all year. Honestly, there's a there's a huge
fan club of that. I mean, I I kid you not.

(26:16):
I go on Twitter and there's a list of like
the first team All Americans and it's me, Trace sass
Bigo and Trace I think, and Armando I think. I
think that's it. Yeah, yeah, well we get the We
get the point. Though. There's there's there's five seniors on
that list, right, and I'm going through like the comments,

(26:38):
you know, I like to look at things. It's like,
Drew Timmy has been there since the fifties, Drew Timmy
has three kids. How is Drew Timmy not in the
fifth League of Shining yet? How is? I'm like, what
the funk, dude, I'm the same age as these every
single person on this goddamn list. You know what. You
know what I tell people now and you can't tell
me this is not a great comparison. I am now

(27:01):
the Perry Ellis of this. This a little like generation.
That's great. I mean, you don't look as old as
you you look old, but that motherfucker looked really old.
My god. I remember being in like seventh grade watching him,
being like, Mommy, who's that grown man? Oh? What was

(27:23):
he doing? He had to be old? Yeah? You know
what's so funny about that too? It was like, you
just made me remember I used to when I went
to my Division three school my junior year. We were
playing like the best team in the conference, and they
were only the best team because their best player. He
was like two time Conference Player of the year. He
was like thirty one years old. Maybe no, maybe he
was twenty nine or thirty. He was old. He had

(27:44):
like maybe had a kid at home, but like to
go to like ship. Talking point on the court with
him was like, bro, game started at seven thirty, it's
like almost nine. Don't you have like you have to
get your kids. I just I think that's crazy, man.
You could be like at the at those like lower levels,
you can be fucking thirty years old. Never even your college.

(28:06):
My freshman year, we're playing at b y U and
it's their senior night and they come out with like
you know, you come out with your family. Yea. They
had families, like they had like two kids, like one
or two kids each. And I was like, I'm a freshman.
I'm like, what would I have been like eighteen nineteen.
I was like, what the fuck? Like these dudes are

(28:28):
like grown ass. It's like yo, like we're having kids
like it was. It was just like one of those
eye opening things to me. Yeah you get to college crazy,
Oh that's real. Like but I think it's funny though,
that you read the comments sections. I know, like it's
probably fifty fifty with guys like pro guys, college guys,
like with their names constantly in the media about like
reading comments or staying away from them. You're either one

(28:51):
or the other. People don't really like Teeter in the
middle of like oh I look at them. Sometimes it's
either you're like, no, I never look at that toxic bullshit,
or you're like you and you're you know, you look
at it. You just laugh it off because you're like,
look at look at a ship. Like like every game
we lose, it's like, oh my god, so and so
is Drew Timmy's father, And I'm like the fuck, Like

(29:12):
all right, do you ever want to respond to that stuff?
Or is it like I'm not gonna lie, like it's
funny most of the time. Like sometimes the ship that
people say about me, like it is pretty funny. I'm
like that's not too bad, or like that's just kind
of funny. I can't lie. Yeah, pretty creative. Yeah, Like
I've never got to the point where like I want

(29:33):
to be like Katie and get like a burner account,
you know, or whatever. Ship. Now, he just goes on
his personal account, which is even funnier. But thank god,
I've never gotten to that point, but like, you know,
it is funny. It's just like damn, I know, I
just like wonder what that is like where you're like,
I don't know. I always like you can. You could
use Lebron as an example for everything, but like imagine
like him reading a tweet by Skip Bailiss and just

(29:57):
like is he laughing at that? Like I don't know
if you've ever seen like a Skip Bailiss tweety like
about Lebron, they're just he's made a living off of it.
But it's like so funny because it's like even like
a guy like you, you see stuff like that, and
it just depends on like type of personality you have
if you're gonna let it bounce off of you, if
you're gonna just start like getting fuming mad and you're like,
you know, you tell your agent like I gotta, I gotta,

(30:19):
I gotta get a fucking word out to that guy.
Like no, I mean sometimes though, like it is motivating.
I would say like sometimes like oh really, like are
they like this dude fucking sucks or like you know,
like Drew Timmy can never win in national titles. You know,
like that's just like that ship gets annoying sometimes, like
when it just said so much or something that's like
all right, like fuck, like we're it's not like we're

(30:41):
not trying, like you know what I'm saying, Like that
ship as hard as fun. But but like that's on
the most part, it's pretty funny. No, I love it.
I think once once we get rolling a little bit,
we're gonna start rattling off some some comments from people
on Twitter after some games, so good laughs in there.
All right, we kind of went off topic with the
exhibition games with That's okay because you got as are

(31:04):
you know, early season, you're gonna figure out what we
gotta take a quick break. When we come back, we're
gonna get into some upcoming games, your decision to stay
at Gonzaga, and just some other cool stuff in between.
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(31:24):
see are cute little faces and stay with us. We'll
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one of They Give Me Timmy Podcast with Drew, Timmy
and Noel Buano. Drew, tell them to subscribe to the
podcast please, because they're probably gonna listen to you way
more than they listen to me. Guys, please come on

(31:45):
hit the subscribe button. Dude, I sincerely feel like, and
I said this when we went to break, you would
sleep better knowing that people are subscribing, and don't they
want you to sleep better. If you sleep better, you'll
have optimal performance on the court. Correct and tell me
if I'm wrong. You tell me if I'm wrong. That
is true. While there was a commercial with Dak Prescott

(32:07):
and like mattress from or something, and he says like
he gets optimal sleep on his special mattress which helps
him be a better athlete. So like, if that makes
if I do get better sleep because people subscribe, then
I guess I would play better. So guys, click that subscribe.
But Drew, what speaking of Dak Prescott and that mattress
those that's too soft of a bed for me? What

(32:27):
about you? I don't know. I gotta herniated disk L
five S one. That ship looks too soft for my
fragile back. I don't know. I'm not a picky sleeper.
I'll throw it down on the plane, the floor, the couch,
my dad Like, I'm not. I'm not, Like you're too
damn big to be sleeping like comfortably on a plane
on a bus. As long as I got like a

(32:48):
nice blanket, like a nice blanket, I'm good in a pillow,
one pillow at least. You're a pillow blanket guy on
the bus and the plane. Oh, I like, do you
like when you get home? No, I don't bring my
pillow or blanket on the bus or nothing. I'll just
like bring a hoodie and scrunch it up as a pillow.
Then I'm usually wearing like a track suit or something.
It's like I'm warm, so where's the blank heat? But

(33:10):
like that's like when I'm on my couch or like
in my bed or like on the I was talking
about you being a bad sleeper on the bus of
the plane. Of course you're a fucking comfy sleeper on
the couch in the bed. We all are. You seem
like a neck pillow guy like when you travel, like
because I got a long ass neck. When you're l one,
l five or whatever to like you, how do you

(33:34):
retain anything? You couldn't really, I just said it two
seconds ago. I said four different four letters one L
five no incorrect. Now I'm fucking now I can L
five S one is. But there we go. You're almost twisted,
all right, I got I missed one letter S firend
No you saw no. You said L one S no one.

(33:56):
I said yeah, and you said S one L five.
You had the numbers back. Whatever, This is not important.
We can we can argue about that. Why don't we
take that energy towards the A p Poles. You guys
were ranked second second year in a row being preseason
Player of the Year. Does that ship matter? Do you? Guys?
Like do you even care? Like you don't get a
trophy for being preseason Player of the year. I'm sure
the recognition is nice, but like, do you don't give

(34:17):
a ship? I mean, honestly, it's cool, Like it's cool,
like to even like be like nominated for that, But
I really couldn't give two ships about it, only from
the fact that like it really does that really does nothing,
Like I don't I don't even it's really cool, Like
it's cool, but it's just yeah, it doesn't like you
don't get anything for it. You don't receive anything for it.

(34:38):
It doesn't help you win games. It doesn't right, Like
I feel like validate me, you know that that makes sense,
Like yeah, for sure, because if you don't win it
at the end of the year, it's like I don't
know if it probably doesn't matter a ton, but it's
still like I didn't win it at the end of
the year. So okay, I was picked preseason Player of
the Year, but for the overall landscape of the year,
like I didn't play like the player of the year,

(35:00):
you know what I mean, Like not like if I
want it, I would be excited, but at the same time,
it's like I don't need to win it. I'd rather
win games than win that. So yeah, that ship doesn't matter,
which makes me think about you know, you guys have
had like some good some really good run Like you
guys have had great seasons. You know, it's not to
look back on those these last year three years in

(35:21):
college and be like, oh, you know, we're failures. Like
you guys are winning thirty thirty games, You're you know, undefeated,
headed into the national championship, like so you lose the
Arkansas on the tournament last year, and you average two
seasons in a row over. I think you your sophomore
year was slightly better than your junior year. Last year
you were what nineteen point seven rebounds sixty and then

(35:41):
last year you dipped like a little bit. You went
to eighteen points and whoa still wildly efficient, you know
what I mean. Like, but ultimately you, you know, you
chose to declare for the NBA Draft, So I'm curious.
I'm sure a lot of people are curious as well,
just like your thought process behind that. Did you, you know,
declare for the draft with full intentions to go to

(36:04):
the NBA? Where did you have a little bit of
like thought in the back of your head about like, no,
I'm probably gonna end up back in Gonzaga? Like what
what was the the main headspace there for you going
into that. Yeah, So my initial thoughts on the thing,
it was like, what do I have to lose from
putting my name in one and two? I do feel
like I'm I can't I can do it too. I

(36:25):
wouldn't do it if I didn't feel like I was
prepared or couldn't do it. So put the name in
I felt like, you know, at the Combine, I showed
that I'm more than capable of playing, at least at
that level. I mean I was able to shoot and
stuff and create and still put up efficient numbers and everything.
Even it was like an NBA Corps I guess, which
is a big deal or something, but you know, like

(36:47):
it's always slightly bigger, right, I mean it's like a
little what I will say, Like it was so nice,
like the spacing and everything, and like I like at
the Common it was like no double teams or nothing like.
It really was like you really are spaced out like
it was. It was a lot of fun, but it
was it was a really good experience it is to
have and like something I have no regrets doing. Like
I I really what what I was doing. And that

(37:09):
thing was like I'm just gonna work out be the
best version of myself I can be, like and wherever
the chips fall, they fall after. But like it was
something that like it was definitely like a good experience
to have for the next time I do it. Yeah, absolutely,
But was there like you know, hints along the way,
like as you were going through it, you were getting
your combine numbers you were competing against, you know, other

(37:29):
guys in the combine where you were kind of like noticing, Okay,
probably makes more sense for me to go back to college.
My name is not buzzing as much as I'd like
it too, because, like, you know, if you went into
the combine and you're being talked about as a first
projected first round pick, like you're probably gonna just stay
in the draft, right, Yeah, yeah, no, I would probably
say so. But you know, like at the end of

(37:50):
the day, what am I'm I'm projected roughly from like
forty two undrafted I think is forty five somewhere in there,
like in that range, and it's just like looking at
like at least financially like it would be it's I
would make more here than I would it there as well.
So I mean that obviously played ef fact at the
end of it. But like the thing about it was,

(38:12):
when I was doing all that, I was really just
trying to like just like do it and not and
trying not to think about it because obviously like that
that's a lot of pressure and stuff to think about,
especially like when you're working out and like going to
these teams and even playing at the combine and stuff.
So like I was trying to like minigame pressure. What
part of it are you saying? Was like a lot
of pressure. Well, I mean when you go into those

(38:34):
team workouts, like it's like a it's a job, it's
a job interview basically, That's the best way I could describe.
Like you have to be on your best behavior, like
like every shot, like every movement, every little every little
thing you do, like right when you walk in and
they pick you up, like there if it feels like
you're getting watched and evaluated and like it's like that
thing where like you just feel like someone's always watching

(38:55):
you and always listening to you and like seeing how
like you react to subtle things, how you react the
big things, like they're like they're unintentionally you know, pushing
buns a little bit maybe, or like just seeing like
what you have inside of you and stuff. So it's
like one of those things where it's like crap, I
have to be like on my best behavior. I can't
do this, I have to do that. Like that's that's

(39:16):
that's a pretty stressful thing to be in. Two. I think, well,
I don't, it's not I think it is. It is
a very stressful situation. So yeah, this is pretty crazy.
That's like, ah where obviously you want to bring your
a game, you want to be sharp mentally and just
you know, play like yourself and try to be comfortable. Obviously,
there's no way. I bet you were probably pretty uncomfortable

(39:37):
in a lot of those instances on like during those workouts,
because like you know, how many how many different did
you work out for multiple different teams? I did six,
I think all six or seven teams. Like you're in
a different gym around different people, different coaches. You have
to impress different people, and you have to you know,
be on your piece and cues like, yeah, pressure is
on for sure. Yeah, I mean I I woulds some.

(39:59):
The nice part is though, like you do just get
the hoop at the end of the day, which is nice.
So like you kind of just have to like it
basically comes down to did you did you did you
work out in the off season? Really I would say,
but yeah, no, it's it's it's stressful just because like
you really are just getting like everyone just like locked
in like staring to your into your soul like the
whole time. Yeah, and you're supposed to just focus on

(40:22):
making your free throws and smile and ship and everything
and acting like you're not a nervous wreck. That's so
funny too, like because they know it's just bout they're
just trying to battle test you, like what's he built?
What's he built out? What's what's he made out of?
Like is he can he sustain this? And about you
know most natural Hooper's I would assume going into there
and do just fine. But like for your sake, with

(40:44):
like the draft and coming back to Gonzaga, like it
wasn't like you know, you were biting the bullet and
you were like, no, I'm done with college. Like there's
guys where like four years just makes a lot of sense,
Like you give your you're giving yourself. Not only did
you get to see like that side of the NBA
draft stuff, but you also get to come back figure out,
like reevaluate yourself what can you get better at? So

(41:05):
that next year that process is even more simple because
now you've done it twice and like you know, you
have this whole senior season is just like build upon
what you already have. So I may not really in
my mind it can only benefit you. I mean, I
don't know. I hate when I see shit about like like,
oh he's twenty two, he's gonna be twenty three? Is over?
Like it's like, dude, Like there's so many predictions that

(41:27):
these fucking guys make, whoever these random sources are that
they make about players that they're just they're they're not right.
Or you can go down the line of guys that
got undrafted because they had a bad I don't know,
bad workout or bad evaluation or people just like preconceived
notion on you know, this body type or what we're
and it's like, dude, like so many times people end

(41:47):
up wrong, So I don't I always think that stuff
so funny. I was just reading it about you, and
I'm like, well, like the crazy thing is like if
you think about it, there's way more misses than hits.
Like it's like, I mean, like even a guy like
like Nice, like that people really think he was gonna
be like a top player in the NBA when they

(42:08):
drafted him, Like there's no way you can predict that
or know that. I Mean, it's crazy seeing like the
pictures of him when he was in the league, like
he looked like a little kid like and then now
he's like a grown man who's like just like ultra strong.
But you know, like he doesn't even look like the
same person that he used to like and it's just
crazy then like it's just like you can't predict that stuff,

(42:30):
like which is a crazy part about it. I look
at guys like Duncan Robinson, like Fred van Fleet, and
I'm like, those guys are great. Two of the biggest
and contracts in NBA history for undrafted players, Like people
really thought that they weren't good enough play in the league,
Like they have more than established themselves as like good
NBA role players, good n be Like I think Fred

(42:51):
Vanfleet was an All Star last year, like you know
what I mean, Like they have a statu there's like
this I don't know, it's like a weird like bias
that people have towards like because you know, for you,
I guess it's an easy like oh, well, you know,
he's like a center, but he's like not big enough
to be a center in the n b A and
he's not like strong enough to be a power forward

(43:12):
or quick enough and in the it's like a I
don't know, I just feel like you gotta give the
you gotta give the player like a real chance before
like you just make the assumption, you know what I mean,
Like obviously, I mean I would say like I'd say,
there's like those those there's those preconceived notions, Like especially
for me, I would say, I feel like I am

(43:32):
pretty like over analyzing that area. Like I'm not gonna
sit here and say like I'm the best defending in
the world because That's just not fucking true. But like
I'm solid, like and obviously I'm working on it, like
I'm getting better at it all that. Yeah, and like
people are like, oh, he can't shoot. Well I think
I went like five or six from the at the
combine and they're like, well, why don't you do that

(43:53):
again Zaga, Like I don't. I don't need to do
that a Gonzaga for us to win. Like it's cool,
Like I don't need to shoot here like I need
to now, don't get me wrong, Like I will shoot
and like it needs to be done, but like we're
at our best when I'm wheeling and dealing the post
and creating out of there, getting out, setting screens, creating actions,

(44:13):
moving the ball, Like that's when word at our best
and I would much rather win than care about like
our stock. And I think I think I think for me,
like at least I'm evaluate myself something that like I
think it's overlooked as like I just win, Like I
just got to play the game, right, I played the
game Ryan, and in my in the teams that I've
been on, like we've won. And I think that's something

(44:35):
that like I do think it's overlooked a lot, just
because I think, even as a programmer, pretty over scrutinized.
I would say, just in the world talk that ship man,
because somebody just tweeted it the other day about like
Drew Timmy's record at Gonzaga is like what and seven
or something like That's just that's a stupid number, man,
Like that's crazy, Like yeah, so I stamp that. Yeah

(44:59):
all Drew, oh dude is way wait wait yeah, Drew
Timmy just wins, bro, Like that's a That's another thing
that's like because I've been doing some scouting since I graduated,
and I always keep that terminology in mind or that
phrase like do you impact winning as a player impact winning?
How much do they impact it? And yeah, I mean
they're that's something you can't argue against like and I'm

(45:21):
sure people could come up with stuff like, oh, well
it's Mark Few system, it's this, it's that, But it's
like no, I mean, you have like a very good
understanding like what it takes from you around the four guys,
the four guys around you on the court to help
contribute to wins. I mean, like you know, and then
they counter it with all they can't win the big one,
and it's like, dude, you can't. And the Gate winning

(45:43):
thirty games, man, you can't, like you cannot. Yeah, I
mean the crazy thing about like the national title thing,
like obviously obviously want to win that, Like that's that's
that's a goal of ours. That's something that we feel
like we've been close to. And like eve even like
the teams before, like they had they had chances to
like well, I think I don't think people realize how

(46:06):
hard that ship is to make and to just to
get there, let alone win it. Like that Arkansas team
they beat us, Like I think I think we were
the better team. I think that's not outrageous for me
to say I felt like we were a better team
than them. I just think they played really well and
you know what, they won, Like, they just won, Like

(46:27):
you can't really argue I mean, you can't argue that, Like,
but I think at the end of the day, we
were the better team. We just happened to lose that day.
And I think that's the beauty of March. Though you
have like, what was that team that beat Virginia UNBC, right, Like,
like is anyone out here saying that, like u NBC
was generally a better team than that like Virginia team. Like,
but that's that's the beauty of March. But that's also

(46:47):
the hard part is like just because you're the better
like better team or whatever, doesn't mean you don't win.
I think that's like the that's that's the fun part
about college though as well likes what makes it so fun?
And and if you really, like if you change the
landscape of college basketball and you made it the best
two out of three series to advance in the mark
in March madness, like you guys would have beat Arkansas
two out of three. Absolutely would have beat them two

(47:09):
out of three. Like there's just nights where you know
somebody on your team doesn't have it going and and
someone on the other team does and it's it's it's
little stuff, like you know, you can catch a team
on a bad night, but you know it's why nine
times out of ten in the n b A, you see,
like in a seven game series, like the better seed generally,
I mean you can not always, but you can tell,

(47:31):
like who the better team is. You could be a
lower seed and be the better team just based on
not trying in the regular season or whatever. But like
you just know, like the better team going into it,
they got seven tries to win four games, are probably
gonna do it. And I think Gonzaga falls into that
mold of like you get unlucky, like where you the
chips don't fall your way on a certain night, and
it just so happens to be what Arkansas got you
guys in the Elite eight last year, right, yeah, yeah,

(47:55):
you know I was gonna say Sweet sixteen first, and
I was like, wait, no, let me give Gonzaga. I
don't know. I think it's just like cool to kind
of look at because you know that's something you can
always like hold on to. Was like, man, I mean,
all right, you guys think I'm bad at this that
the other, but like, watch what I can contribute to
a team overall. So I think that I think the

(48:15):
draft thing is interesting, and I think that we'll touch
on that quite a bit during this last season as
you kind of you know, play your last year and
then you're up to maybe enter the draft again. I
you know, dude, shame on you. If you take a
fifth year at Gondaga. Well ship, maybe I should. Since
I'm already so old, maybe I should just add to
it and just like now, you can't come back unless

(48:36):
you have your kid next year. If I have a kid,
Oh my god, yeah, but let me let me red shirt,
then medical red shirt, then take the COVID year. Then
then I'll really be as old as people think. That
might that might be good though, That might be some
good content for the podcast. Oh my god, yeah, Drew, Timmy,
what you did at that point, you'd be averaging like

(48:59):
a game. Actually, I'll probably like be working on like
one knee, one elbow, one ankle at that point. I mean,
the college season is a grind, man, just because like
in the league, like they don't they don't really practice
like that, you know, it's more just like individual work,
skill work, But in college, like it's game than bruiser practice.

(49:21):
Bruiser practice, half bruiser practice. Game. All right, you get
an off day, do you guys practice them? Like for
your walk through the morning of a game, is it
a straight walk through? Do you get taped in practice? No.
Coach is really good about like not overdoing it. I mean,
coaches super cool. Like he's like walk through, like, I mean,
we're we're going, but we're not going like where we

(49:43):
need to get taped or anything. Like we're still moving.
But you know, but like you know, now now like
Tennessee game, like we usually would get like we went
hard like the whole week leading up to the Warner
game just because like we one, we needed it, we
needed it. But like, you know, like he's more, he's
more sociation. So sorry to Warner. I'm sorry to Warner,

(50:05):
and I'm sorry to cut you off, but come, I mean,
you guys could have fucking took seven days off in
a row. You still were gonna win by twenty at
least twenty. I'm sorry, Warner Pacific, but that's just that's
just the reality. It's just a reality. But that the
good thing is that we don't we don't you know
it doesn't want to co sign that No, no, we don't.

(50:26):
We don't hold ourselves to how we play against Warner Pacific.
We play are we we we judge ourselves on how
like our standard, which is like the nice part. Yeah, absolutely,
you guys wanted to come in because it's a it's
a true tone setter for like how you're going to
start the year and then prepare for every other game.
Like you treated Tennessee the same way you treated Warner Pacific,
same way you treated Baylor in the National championship game.

(50:46):
That's like goes into the culture thing, which is honestly
like my favorite part about like teams like Gonzaga, the
Warriors coach k At Duke, Like there's just always that
consistent culture that people can gravitate towards like right away
because it's in place, their structure around it, and it
like it makes sense for everybody beer when like you know,
a heavy majority of people involved in the program already

(51:10):
understand the culture. So the new guys that come in,
like every person they're talking to for the most part,
like they already got the field for the culture. So
like now it's rubbing off on these new guys quicker
and quicker boom, you start to see the carry over
and that's why you see continued success from you know,
Gonzaga Duke, the Gold State Warriors, New England Patriot, you
know what I mean. Like there's all those teams are

(51:30):
very synonymous to say, Yeah, it's like you get beat
and then like you take seven days off and then
like you still win. Like did you really learn anything
from that experience or did you just have that experience
and said you learned something. There's a difference between like
having an experience and learning from it. So like that
was a good experience to like learn from as a team,
you know, and kind of recoup and then like show

(51:53):
that like the worth that we did from now until then,
Like we look like a new team. Like I thought
in that scrimmage, you looked way more like engaged in shape,
Like we were more accustomed to like playing how we
wanted to play. And now granted it's a different level
of competition, but like we took the right steps necessary
and then like we still have more steps to go.

(52:13):
But like you can't just go from like oh, we're
just only gonna focus here than not not translate things
because it's a day by day thing. You can't just
turn it on and off absolutely. Um all right, let
me let's wrap up quickly on on the draft stuff
you made mention of, like the financials and how you
were going to make more Gonzaga than you were in
the NBA and that that played like a pretty big

(52:35):
part and you kind of coming back and doing your
fourth year, did you know, like was it kind of
set in stone, Like I mean, I'm gonna make bread
at Gonzaga with N I L my my fourth year. Like,
I don't know, did you have N I L stuff
going on last year when this kind of all like
during your junior year when this all kind of got
started and passed, or did you know like coming into

(52:58):
if you came a fourth year that it would blow
up for you. Well, I had quite a few deals
last year, and um I made some decent money off those,
and obviously like being like a preseason Player of the
Year again and like coming back and just having all
this you know, hype and everything like it just furthers
your brand and you get out there a little bit
then you come back like it's it just makes more

(53:19):
sense that you're gonna attract more attention and garner more
of that and like really just you know, kind of
just expanding what you did. So it's from that aspect,
it was like just by like just common logic, I
would make more basically than what I did. Yeah, it's
gotta be cool too, like kind of being at the
forefront of like this whole ann I L thing, and like,

(53:41):
you know, in years to come, you'll be like I
guess you could use the word pioneer for like how
to navigate the n I L landscape as a big
name college athlete make money off your name, image and likeness,
and you know, so on and so forth, Like you'll
be able to, like really years from now kind of
have a blueprint, blueprint and just like experience on why
it's important, why you should take advantage of it even

(54:03):
if you're not you know, you don't even if you
don't have the Drew Timmy name, Like people can still
make some money and and do some cool things if
they're a college athlete off n I L. Yeah, No,
it's a great avenue. And like I mean, even like
I think b y U, like they like their football team,
like they got like all their walk on scholarships, Like
that's that's pretty fucking cool. Like love that shout out

(54:24):
to my walkie talkies, you know, like that that's pretty
that's pretty cool. Ship that like wasn't available then, and
that's like a cool opportunity and stuff. And I think
that's just like the beauty everything that like because like
walk on, like you know, like that ship fucking sucks.
Like you literally you literally go to practice and like
you have to like you do get to play a
lot offense, but like then you have to guard. You

(54:45):
have to get to practice early to go over the
scouts and the plays and like you do a lot
of ship that like you really don't get much glory
for just being honest, Like it's it's an underappreciated job.
And I think it's something like people don't realize, like
it really is hard as fucking like just still like
pay for school and stuff. Like I think that's all
that's really coo who that like a lot of programs
could like do as well. Listen to me, Drew. First

(55:09):
of all, thank you for saying that. Second of all,
I need people to know that I did not tell
him to say that. He was just being nice to
walk on on his own doing. If people don't know,
I was a walk on for five years I host
a podcast, another podcast that is about to walk On journey.
So I didn't tell Drew to fucking say that, but
that's very nice of him to say, And everything he

(55:29):
said is true. Being a walk on sucks, But like ship,
you can't, like you can't have a program without him,
you know, they like they play a key role. I
think like, if if your team didn't have you guys
like they would be they would be worse without them.
And I would say the same thing for us, like,
no question, we would not be as good as if
we didn't have our walk on. Yeah, not's a pivotal

(55:52):
like really important peace to the team. It's like anything, man, Like,
you know, you're gonna have your guys that are super
important on the like in the public eye, and then
you're gonna have your people that are important behind the scenes,
and you know, like your equipment managers, your social media
people like walk On kind of fall into that kind
of category because everything they do is behind the scenes.

(56:12):
But um, yeah, man, I mean that, you know a
lot of walk Ons can hoop to so facts. We
you know some walk Ons that like if you walked
into our practice, you'd be like goddamn, Like they're busting
up a buckets, bro, I'm about to put it. I've
been meaning to put together a little fifth year super
senior mix of myself from last year because I was

(56:33):
busting ass and practice, you know what I mean, Like,
I you're gonna get the huddle iPad and it's gonna
be You're gonna like circle yourself and then cut up
a tape. We might have to break that down on
the on the episode You're High, Well, you can break
down your highlight tape. You want to break down my
high I have to compile it. We we should break
down both of our more so yours, but your high

(56:53):
school ship. And just like look at the growth from
like goofy to like kind of coordinated to like where
you're at now. I I've never really seen you play
in high school to know, like if the footwork has
always been immaculate, like you were saying in the in
our little trailer, like if it's like at what point
I mean you were I don't know when you hit
your grossberts, so like were you you know, we're ever

(57:15):
in that dangly fucking just like, look at this lanky,
uncoordinated ship head out here, Like I'm not gonna lie.
I never hit like a crazy ass gross spurts, So
I never had like like really bad knee problems or
nothing growing up. And I would say like, for the
most part, I was pretty coordinated, so like I really

(57:36):
got blessed. I would say in that aspect, like I
mean I wear os bands, you know, like the little
Oscar slaughter bands for like, I probably wore those, like
only if I played like ship back in a you'd
play like eight games in like three days. That's gotta help, man,
I had terrible Oscar splatters whatever, however the funk you
say that? Terrible? Um? All right, we gotta hit a

(57:57):
quick break, last break, stay with us. So when we
come back, we're gonna preview a little bit of the
Michigan State game in Sandy a Goo on the flight
deck of the U S. S. Abraham Lincoln Plan on
an aircraft carrier, first time since and we come back.
That's all coming up, so stay put, we'll be right back,
all right, Welcome back into episode one. O. They give

(58:18):
me Timmy Podcast with Drew Timmy and Noah Bono. Drew,
you know the drill. What you gotta you gotta tell
him to subscribe so that you can get good sleep
at night. There are times, as charm Man, help me
get some good z s. Subscribe to the Gimme Timmy podcast.
Baby Man, let's talk about the Michigan State game plan
on the aircraft carrier. First time it's been done since.
What are your thoughts on it? How are you feeling

(58:39):
about it? Like, I'm sure you're pretty excited. The group
is probably pretty excited. Yeah, I think it's something. It's
something that's super cool, but I'm also kind of nervous.
I'm pretty nervous about it, just from the fact that,
like what if we get there and it's sunny outside
and like you know, like when you're hooping at the
park and like that one team that gets screwed with
the sun like right behind the like the backboard where

(59:00):
you can't see when you shoot, Like yeah, I don't
want that. Or like what if like well, like what
if the boats move in like because like not like
a tsunami, but like a big wave hits it or something,
or like the courts like wet or like the wands
following on the phone hold the phone because I I'm
gonna I'm gonna make myself sound like an idiot here

(59:20):
because I truly am confused and I'd rather have you
tell me the answer and all the listeners can think
I'm a dumbass. That's fine because I don't care to
google this. But I am envisioning you guys on a
literal boat playing the game. Am I wrong? What? Like?
You know, like you know those ones like were they

(59:41):
like in Top Gun where they go off like the
runway the planes? Yeah, I don't quote me on this.
I think we're like they're putting a court on that
and then like stands on that. So that's what we're
playing on, I think. And a little aircraft carrier. I know.
I just like a picturing an aircraft carrier in my
head and I don't think that I'm thinking of the

(01:00:02):
correct thing. So I'm gonna like, quick, have you seen
Top Gun? Nah? Dude, there's a lot we should get
into that. There's a lot of classical movies that I
have not seen, and it is embarrassing. I don't know
if you have to if you've been in the same
if you're in the same loop. There's so many good movies,
and you back to the nineteen seventies of like movies
that people tell you. You need to watch that. You

(01:00:24):
need to watch that. You're like, dude, I gotta watch
all the movies from fucking nine up. I don't you
know what I mean? Like it's hard. Yeah, no, it
is that hard, but like it's like a little aircraft carrier,
like which is super cool. But like I'm a little nervous,
like what or like what if it's windy and like
you shoot the ball and like the winds just like no,
I get that ship out like it just like it
just like it pushes it like far ride or something like.

(01:00:46):
I don't know. I'm a little nervous for that aspect
of it. I think I saw something and somebody was
tweeting about like the weather conditions coming up for the
game um on Saturday. Wait, let me see if I
can sucking zagging wrong? Wow? Right, not a not a
not a letter's guy either. Now. No, I'm actually a

(01:01:08):
good reader, though, I like to Drew, do you like
to read books? Not a big book. We'll save that
for another one. Let's I swear to god, I'm doing
the twitter starch right now. I could have swore. I
saw someone say something about, you know, impending weather getting
in the way for the aircraft aircraft carrier game. But um,

(01:01:29):
it's just cool though, like being able to play, uh
you know against Tom is Oh and like such a
great program, like one good program versus the other, and
and you know, being on that national stage, like you
ever have like different change of routine or change of
mindset or like a little bit more nerves when you know,
like it's a bigger it's a bigger game even though

(01:01:50):
it's a regular season game. Like is there ever any
like things that change mentally for you? Um, I definitely
would say I get way more excited about him, Like
it's not every day you get to play a team
like you know, like Michigan State or something like those
games like they just get you more way more amped
and the energetic and everything. And I think it's way
easier to get up for like those type of games.

(01:02:12):
I would say then, like I wanted Pacific, Like it's
a little harder to get like really really amped up
for that game just because like for sure, yeah I
got a good one for you. You guys are gonna
play so, like I said, people are gonna hear this
on Wednesday after they Gonzaga already plays in North Florida,
but you know, leading up to that, are you guys

(01:02:35):
kind of doing a little bit of double scouting at
the same time of like, all right, let's take care
of North Florida what's in front of us, But we
also don't want to play North Florida Monday and only
have five days for Michigan State, you know, maybe intertwining
that prep a little bit, or you don't need it.
The five days for Michigan State is enough, Like what's
the prep gonna be? Like, yeah, so, yeah, we've gone

(01:02:56):
over some North Florida stuff and they I mean they
I think I'd say they play like they like really
like to get their threes up and play fast and transition,
so like Michigan State does play fast in the box.
So like we can kind of go over some similar concepts,
I would say, but like we we really do just
focus on North Florida, I would say, And then like

(01:03:16):
we can just relate stuff that they ran to Michigan
State stuff, if that makes sense, Like we're not we're
not really focused on them, I would say, because like
I mean, it's cliche, but like you gotta worry about
the opponent in front of you, definitely, and that's kind
of something that we we always do. I would say
I said earlier I was gonna be a Gonzaga hater,
and now I'm thinking about is like in my mind

(01:03:37):
because I gotta be technically gotta be a Gonzaga fan
this year, which is fine, totally fine by me, But
in my mind, I just want to keep saying like,
and I'm gonna keep saying it, and I you don't
have to co sign it. I'm just gonna say it
for you. Like North Florida, they've got no chance, they
got no chance. You guys, could you could prep at
at no cost, no none at all. I know you're
rolling your eyes. It's such a dick dude. Honestly, most

(01:04:04):
of the guys in North photo would probably give me
a bucket. So I don't know, Like that's fine, but
I'm hammering the money line on that, like can you
I can't, but like if I could, I would. That's
that's real betting advice. Wait, the money line on them?
Frying me? What money? What money line are we talking

(01:04:25):
about here? I'm saying if there was a money line,
like I would hammer it that they beat me. Yeah, what, Well,
you'd have to pick one of their players. It can't
be just like the fucking fifteen verse. One of course
they're gonna beat me. Well, yeah, one on one, like
any well, you know, all right, what if we picked
one of their worst thirteen scholarship guys, I've got confidence

(01:04:45):
in myself. I'm seasoned now, that's what I'm saying. You're
you're out of the game like it's it's been what's
been a year and a half for you? No, no, no,
we get what we're approaching a year. Once this season ends,
it'll be I still shoot the piss out of the ball.
We should have a three point contest me and you.
I would absolutely, Oh I would. I'm sorry, Drew, but

(01:05:05):
I would ruin your day, would pull up. We're gonna
make that. We're a big day. Give me timmy podcast
three point shooting contest. It's fine. We put money on
it too. No, because that is an n C double
A violation. I'm so glad to be on the other
side of that. Well you you don't again, you don't

(01:05:26):
have to co sign this stuff, but I'm so glad
to be on the other side of that. It's like,
not that anybody would have cared if some walk on
from Duquesne was like, I'm hammering Ducuid's money like tonight,
like you said Duquane so much. I got a funny
story that you might like, let her rip. I'm in
I'm in the car with my dad. But this is
in high school. I don't know, maybe my junior sophomore

(01:05:47):
year or something. And I get a text that says, uh,
this is so and So I forgot his name from Duquesne.
We're offering your scholarship. And I'm like in the front
seat and I go, Dad, who was the quest me?
I didn't know. I was like, I didn't know how
to say it. He was like, Ducane, you dumbass. I
was like, oh, ship, dude, I don't think that warrants

(01:06:10):
like being called the dumbass because like, there's a there's
actually a street name in my hometown. I want to say,
it's called Duquesne Boulevard. And dude, I mean for eighteen
years that I lived there, I was saying du Quesney.
I was saying the exact same thing. So then I
when I realized, like, oh, like they just threw this
weird s in there. For why is that s there?

(01:06:34):
What is it? Is it French? Not fucking no. I
don't Maybe it's like how they like, I don't know.
The point is it makes no sense. And I honestly
like I remember getting to Duquane and like calling it
du quesny as like a joke. I was just being
like a dick. So I think I said it to
a couple of teams. Yeah, I have dick head ingrained

(01:06:56):
in me. You got it, you got you got dick
heading grained in You two can't be good at basketball.
If you're not you, you're probably you're probably a colossal
douche for opponents. You gotta be. Uh. To be honest,
I would say, like I'm more than game to do that.
Like talk shouldn't be a dick, but like most of

(01:07:17):
the time I'm generally having like conversations like making friends.
I'm sure you're cool, but I mean, like just playing
against you, and like if you are like getting sauced
by Drew Timmy, like dude, those opponents are probably like,
oh my god, I hate this guy, Like you could
be the nicest guy in the world, Like, but you're
playing with the handle handlebar mustache and that this guy's

(01:07:41):
riding me right now, like and they're mad, they're salty.
I mean, I can't blame them. I'd probably be man too.
All right, I think that we covered a lot of ground.
I want to hit you with maybe two I got no,
you know what, I got a really good way for
us to wrap up the show. Because it's like this

(01:08:02):
weird myth. I heard it through the grape vine. I
don't know who told me this. I don't know why
it was told to me, but I got this. I
got wind of like Drew Timmy, I can't drink caffeine
because it makes them crazy? And I was like, all right,
I mean I could I could ask him about that,
like like how not true? Is that? Or is it true? Like?

(01:08:25):
Do you not drink caffeine because it makes me? Not
gonna lie? Do not funk with coffee at all? Like?
I don't like it? Um, I like sweet tea. Sweet
tea is pretty good. I think that has caffeine in it?
Does it? Well? I don't like it's a caffeine I'm
not it's probably gotta have caffeine in it, but I didn't.

(01:08:48):
I mean, yeah, okay, you don't like the big soda
guy either, So I guess that would I guess it
would make sense but like I would say, I'm a
pretty energetic guy, you know. Um, but this like caffeine
makes you crazy. It's just not is that a thing?
I mean, maybe it would if I chugged the five
like five hour energy, like a couple of shots of

(01:09:08):
five hour energy or something, or like like a red
yeah red or shotgun to red Bull, maybe I'd go crazy.
It could probably get my heart rate and pulse going
like crazy. But I don't know if i'd be like
a menace or something. Anyone shotgunning Red Bulls is a sick. Oh.
They probably do have some some needs that need to
be addressed by a doctor. Gut, red Bull? How do

(01:09:29):
you even? I mean, like, I don't think I've ever
drank a Red Bull, like straight up just out of
pure enjoyment. I'm not sipping on that. All right. Well, whatever,
that myth, I guess busted, Like we're the MythBusters. That
ship's busted, all right, That myth has been busted because
I don't know, I mean, I just I mean caffeine.

(01:09:51):
I was actually my brother was just saying to me
the other day. He was like, you know why I
can't drink coffee like it makes me fucking crazy, and
I was like, how does like this Like, I don't know,
I don't like feel like I feel like these instant
effects of coffee. A big coffee guy, I turned into one.
Like when I got into Duqueese, we practiced so early
in the morning that I was sorry, I don't mean
to keep saying ducane it's getting it's annoying me. Um.

(01:10:15):
When I got there, I was we practiced so early
in the morning. I was like, you know what, like,
I'm I'm doing it. I'm I'm crossing over. After twenty
two years, I was very anti coffee because, like, I
just was told these fallacies. I guess what I'm saying.
I'm I'm like, I don't even want to get into
that world because I've just heard things about it. Oh yeah,
there's another myth that like drinking coffee stunts your growth.

(01:10:38):
I grew to six five and I never drank a
sip of coffee until I was like twenty two, So
maybe that worked for me. I don't know, I don't
know if we're I don't know if we're mythbusting that
one too, But I did cross over into the coffee world.
I'll drink a nice beautifully warm vanilla latte, blonde vanilla
latte from Starbucks. They're fantastic. It's a fantastic beverage. Yeah,

(01:10:58):
I went to Starbucks. Hot chocolate was hitting today, Like
you're gonna get the dunkin Donuts hot chocolate. You gotta
get the dunkin Donuts hot chocolate. It's the best. It's
the best. Uncommercial Duncan Donuts up here. Weird, well, Like,
isn't Dunkin Donuts like a Northeast thing, and like I've
seen him in Dallas to like the South. I guess

(01:11:20):
I don't feel like it's I'm I'm uneducated. Starbucks is
like a Pacific Northwest thing, like originated from something that
that's like to like beefing companies, you know, like I
don't really know if they like intertwined like that. That's funny.
I honestly like, I didn't think in my head for
one second that there would not be a Dunkin Donuts
on the West Coast. Maybe there's not. I have no idea.

(01:11:41):
I've only been to the West Coast a couple of times. Anyway,
we're rambling, Drew, Timmy can drink coffee or can drink caffeine,
but he doesn't like coffee, so I don't know. I
think I think we'll cross you over there. There's like
a real relaxing, like ambiance to just like waking up
in the morning and just you've got this warm beverage
with good flavor. You're just slow sipping it. It's like,

(01:12:02):
I ain't gonna live. I'd rather have like a glass
of milk, like a nice cold glass of milk when
I wake up, glass of milk. All right, So you
have your preference. Yeah, I just think once you get
the warm beverage in, you're you're like, oh, dude, like
I used to hate, like hot lemon water, I'll slug
a nice little morning glass of hot lemon water. Healthy. Healthy.

(01:12:24):
You should do it. You should try it. Maybe maybe
I'll tap in one day. I'm gonna make you a
health guru over these time episodes. All right, maybe one
day I'll slug a hot lemon water and then we'll
fucking slug a red bull right after. You can't be
too healthy on the podcast, right all right, guys, that's
a wrap for episode one. I think Drew, you got

(01:12:45):
anything else for the fans, for the people, I would say,
thank you guys for listening and subscribing because you know
you gotta do that. But also we'd love to hear
some feedback, love to get some questions from you guys.
We want to make this mor interactive. Let us know
what we could do better, what you guys want to
hear about. You know, this podcast is just divide and
we just want to buy about give people more of

(01:13:06):
a in depth look at what what we got going on,
what we're doing and everything. So, uh, feel free to
indulge yourself. Yeah, and uh, you know, next week we're
gonna hit big on this Michigan State game. Um, We're
gonna get Drew's thoughts on that. We're gonna talk about
the North Florida game as well. Um, and then preview

(01:13:27):
you know the coming week of games. You guys got Kentucky.
You got some big matchups coming up after tea. Yeah,
so we're gonna get into all that coming up. These
breakdowns of the games are gonna be a lot more
in depth when the stakes get higher. So when the
regular season starts, I'm gonna really pick Drew his brain
and get him spitballing about you know a lot of

(01:13:48):
on court stuff that you guys are gonna want to hear, so, uh,
stay tuned for that. And like Drew said, you can
interact with the show. We're on Instagram, we're on Twitter
at give me timmy Podcast. You can hit us on
our socials. Don't hit Drew on his social He's not
gonna respond to you, but I'll respond to you. Um,
you can hit me uh in my d M. S
our handles are in you give me timmy podcast, uh

(01:14:11):
bios so you can find us there. And uh, that's
a rat man. Good Drew, you just broke your podcasting virginity. Congratulations, man,
I feel like a newborn man. All right, y'all, we'll
catch you all next week. Peace. This has been a
presentation of the College Athletes Network.

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