MARCH MADNESS PREVIEW + LIVE SHOW | Ep #18 |

Drew and Noah run through the 2023 March Madness Tournament bracket ahead of the first week of games. Going over the Zags potential matchups, Drew's thoughts on where they landed, some sleeper teams the two like & more (0:00-18:46).

Following the March Madness preview, Drew & Noah sit down in Northern Quest Casino for their first live audience podcast, discussing:
- WCC Title / Zags dominance
- Drew's thoughts as WCC "Co-POY"
- Anton being snubbed
- Managing performance anxiety
- Dez Bryant's love for Drew
- Audience Q&A
& more

Hosts: Drew Timme & Noah Buono

Producer: Noah Buono

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
The following is a presentation of the College Athletes Network.
What's good y'all? Welcome in to episode eighteen of the
Gimme Timmy Podcast. I'm your host Drew Timmy here with

(00:26):
my co host No Ablano, and Man, we got an
exciting show for y'all. But first, before we dive into
all the details I know is going to describe to you,
make sure you interact with the pod. Listening to iHeartRadio,
College Athletes Network. Wherever you listen to your podcast, leave
a star Rider review all that good stuff. Yes, sir,
we are back for another week, Episode eighteen. I just

(00:46):
got back from Spokane. Drew and I did a live show,
which is primarily what today's episode is going to be,
is from our time down at Northern Quest Casino in
Spokane where we recorded the live show. First time we
ever recorded a live podcast in person, first time we
ever recorded a podcast in front of the audience. So
a couple of groundbreaking things for the Gimmy Timmy crew.

(01:09):
It was fun, it was great. We're gonna get into
that a little bit later on just what that show
consisted of in there, and that'll be coming up right
after our first commercial break. But before we do all that,
more prominent things that we need to touch on. The
Brackett just came out. Selection Sunday was today. You guys
will hear this tomorrow and throughout the week. But Kenzaga

(01:31):
is a three seed, so we're gonna dive into a
little bit of March madness stuff, you know, headed into
week one of it. Drew, let's do it, baby. What
are we feeling with this three seed? It was kind
of expected thoughts, complaints, concerns, talk to us. Super excited
about going to Denver. Was really not trying to go
to Albany, New York, never been there, not only planning

(01:53):
on it, but NA Denver's a good location. I mean,
like flying home from Texas and stuff, like I fly
through Denver a lot. It's like a huge like airport
for I think up here, like for a connection place.
So it'll be good for a lot of ZAD fans
to get there. It's pretty close. Like I'm excited about that.
And then obviously we got matched up with Grand Canyon

(02:14):
and uh, they got hot at the right time. They're clicking.
They won four or five games in a row to
win their conference tournament and make it and they've shown
that when their backs against the wall there, they're a
tough punch to knockout. So we're gonna have our hands
full for sure. Yeah. Um, but some you said to me,
you like you like this region though, this West region

(02:36):
that you guys got placed in outside of the you know,
not having to go to Albany and New York. Uh,
you like the region that's more important, right, Like you're
you like this West region? Verse, Um, what would what
would the other region be the East? What's that Albany region?
The Midwest? Yeah? No, I think I think like there's
some good teams in there, but I think we have
some some better matchups, like just scattered throughout this region

(02:58):
compared to others. So I just think on the whole,
like if if we can take care of business and
lock in, I think it's a pretty good region for us. Yeah,
it's cool too. And obviously what everybody's talking about is
that m Saint Mary's is on the same side of
the bracket. You could see them in the Elite eight.
You could also see UCLA as well in the Elite eight,

(03:19):
so or maybe around earlier with UCLA, I'm not sure.
I think UCLA could be the Sweet sixteen game. Anyway,
a couple of cool matchups that could you could end
up playing Saint Mary's for a third time. The one
seed in that region is Kansas, who obviously has been
seen to be beatable by some teams, even though they are,
you know, super strong in a lot of other areas.

(03:41):
But just your kind of vision on obviously you want
to win this title, but like, who in that little
region do you see getting in the way of a
Final four appearance? You know, multiple teams one, two, three,
Who who's like the biggest name on there in your opinion?
I ain't gonna lie, Like TCUs A tough match up

(04:02):
they have. They play really fast, They got a lot
of aggressive scores and guys I can fill it up, Like,
I think that could be trouble early if we make
it there far and everything, and yeah, they're deep. They
I think the same team made it last like was
the team that made the run last year. Like they're
a world coached team as well, And so that's gonna
be a big match up if it happens. Yeah, TCUs

(04:24):
got the winner of I think Arizona State in Nevada. Yep,
good call um. So then they obviously got to win
that game. Yeah, it could be a tougher around two
game for you guys, assuming you beat Grand Canyon. Um,
that three seed to fourteen seed upset doesn't happen as
often as like the five. We're not throwing that bullshit

(04:46):
in the air. We're not even talking about that. None
of this. Oh yeah, I don't even think it's in
the eating matchup. None of this and then no jink sing,
nothing like, we're not doing that, all right, I knocked
on wood already. Who do you think got snubbed of
the field? They're speaking in more broader terms. I think Gonzaga.
Who do you think got snubbed? I thought Rutgers was

(05:07):
really good. I didn't watch them as much, But one
team I really thought was Oklahoma State. I thought they
had some guys hurt and they were still really competitive,
and I thought they I thought they were gonna make
it in for sure. Yeah. I agree with the Rutgers
one too. I thought they had a chance. People were
really mad about Clemson not making it, but they had

(05:30):
like what three or four like Quad three They lost
to like South Carolina, Loyola Chicago, who was like the
worst team in the eight ten this year, and they
had another bad Quad three loss. But people were mad
about that. People were mad about Vanderbilt not getting in
and Providence getting in over them. So I think some
of that's interesting. I'm bummed from my Jersey boys that

(05:53):
Rutgers didn't get in. It's I thought they were a surefire,
to be honest, I really did. I'm pretty pretty bummed
about that. Like two matchups, and I'm really gonna be
watching for is that Oral Roberts game. They are disgusting.
And then yeah or thirteen maybe I think twelve they
got Duke, Yeah, the duke. That'll be a Duke's clicking

(06:15):
in there or Robinson's lost. Lots gonna go on then. Also, uh,
I think Kent State, Indiana. Kent State is a good
freaking team, Dude. They gave us a fit at our place.
Like it's gonna be hard to put them away. They're
a really good team. There's one side of the bracket
that I really like. It's it's Purdue. It's the East Region. Um,

(06:35):
I think I'm gonna go on. I'm gonna make my
bold prediction now, but I think Memphis they're They're an
eight seed at Florida Atlantic's good. That's the nine seed
that they play, but I think they're gonna beat them,
and then they're gonna beat Purdue in the round of
thirty two. I think Purdue is just beatable. I think
just like as the season has progressed some some of
those guys are not playing as consistently as as they

(06:56):
were at the beginning of the year. I just think
that they're I don't know, I might just have a
weird bias towards Purdue, like in this like they just
don't feel like the guys that are gonna get it
done so and I like Memphis their dogs and their
point guard. Memphis. Memphis is a good team. I haven't
seen Purdue playing a while, but I mean, they did
just win the Big Tens. So, like, did you watch
the end of the game, though, you see anything? I

(07:17):
saw the bros sold that yeah, like that free throw. Nah,
well I didn't see the free throw, but I saw
the shot like he like pump fake then took two
steps like yeah, you've got to get a shot up
on ram Brow and they were only down too. Yeah,
that's what I mean. Like they got legitimately bailed out
because Penn State couldn't get a shot up at the end.
But like, I don't know if they get a good

(07:38):
cleaner look or they try to get a two point
basket there and they maybe forced overtime, Like I don't know,
that's what I mean. I think Perdue is beatable. They
had a rough kind of end of the year and
that side of the bracket, Like, I don't know, so
I Memphis is one of my teams. I think that
they got some some runway. Houston's a little concerning if
Marcus sassers out. Yeah, man, hopefully my boy gets healed

(07:59):
up quick. Man, I hope you have march I know
that's a bummer. Alabama obviously a threat, Kansas a threat.
It's juicy. Of the other three regions that you're not in,
what's the one region you're like, Wow, I'm glad that's
like that's not our path to the final four. Yeah,
looking at other regions that could be hard. I think
the South region looks pretty hard. They have Alabama, then

(08:22):
they played Maryland, West Virginia. Then you got Virginia, Baylor, Creighton, Arizona,
and I think Utah State's a pretty good team like that.
That region looks really hard. As well. Oh my god. Yeah,
I just feel like that's I think, go lie Bro.
I think this is a pretty balanced, like balanced bracket.
I feel like there's not like one region that's like

(08:45):
any harder, any worse than the other, Like the Midwest
is hard, our regions hard, and the East as hard
as like it's it's a crazy like I think that
just speaks to how wide open college basketball is this year.
Like I'm not I'm not looking at any region and
being like this team is about to make it out,
no question. Like I don't really see a team that's
I'm like, they are, you know, making it. It's crazy

(09:06):
this year. Yeah, who do you think the best two
seed is? Like when I look at it, I just
look at this East region as like, I don't know,
it just feels like this East region with like nothing
against Marquette either. They're great, and honestly, they probably will
be the two seed that makes a run just because
they just have been so solid all year. But I
feel like outside of them and the Kansas stated, yeah,

(09:29):
I mean it is tough. I don't know. Texas has
a two seed is solid, they probably could have been
a one seed, but that South region just feels like
I'm an absolute monster with Baylor and Virginia as the
three in the four and then create in the six.
Who's the five seed in this San Diego State. Yeah,
it's tough, tough. I like it. I like the West

(09:50):
region for you guys, probably the probably the best probably
East or West would have been. I don't know. I
don't think you guys could have landed in the East.
But um, you've never been in the tournament as a
three seed either. Yeah. I think I'm in a one
seed every time because you didn't get a tournament your
freshman year, which is crazy. There's no Drew Timmy highlights
of your freshman year at college in March madness. That's weird. Yeah,

(10:13):
but nah, it's kind of nice. Honestly. When you're a
one seed, it's it's hard. I mean, everybody wants you
to lose. That's not your fan, you know, they're not
a fan of your school. And also just all the
media and everyone just like there's so much pressure on
you to win and make a run. That like, if
you're not a really connected team and you know you're
not really locked in and you guys are tight, it's

(10:36):
it's easy to let people slip through the cracks and
let that pressure kind of wound up and break you.
Like it's hard to it's hard because it's such a
covered event and there's so many people betting and investing,
and so many eyes are on you, like you gotta
be you gotta be a great team with a great
leader to be a successful one seed. Yeah, it just
will be interesting for you guys as the three seed

(10:58):
New Territory. I'm reading some bracket performance history statistics, and
eleven percent of three seeds reached the final four. I
just think that the difference isn't like, Okay, you win
the first round, you're not going to play the eight
or nine seed, Like you're gonna have different seeding that
comes at you, which early on you and you already
said it like if you end up playing TCU could

(11:19):
be a tough game, or if you play Arizona State
could be a tough game, like right away in the
second round. So but I don't know, man, the the
strength of schedule you guys have had all year really
seemed to be clicking at the right time. And I remember, dude,
it's what we skipped last week's podcast. So this is
technically episode eighteen, but week nineteen of the show. Back

(11:41):
in like week two, you just kept emphasizing like, yeah,
you know, we're just not where we want to be yet,
but we'll get there, like we have time, Like we're
gonna keep building to that point. It's been really fun
to just watch how you guys have been able to
progress and ultimately, you know, it showed in the that
dominant WCC Championship game and all that, but it's been
cool to see that this progression over the last twenty weeks. Yeah. No,

(12:03):
I think I've been saying that since episode one, is
like we have guys that have to learn how to
grow into their role and like grow confidence, and that
just doesn't happen overnight. And when you have a such
a rigorous non conference like we've had, Like I think
that's the hardest non conference schedule I've had in my
career here, which is saying a lot, because we always
have really hard ones like this one was a beast,
and I think the way we were able just to

(12:24):
kind of handle the losses, I think that's the biggest
thing that can also separate teams that are able to
make a deep run as teams that can handle the
bad and handle the good because there's always going to
be a game plan that doesn't work. There's always going
to be people that aren't shooting well. But it's like
how bad how good can you manage when the bad comes?

(12:46):
And then how can you maintain the good for as
long as possible because it's a game of runs, obviously,
And that twenty one team that we had that went
to the championship game, that team we were really good,
Like if we were off, like we could rely on
our defense, you know, to get stops. It wasn't our
offensives maker break Now we had a really good offense,
but like it's just certain things that like or we

(13:08):
always had, like we had like if Corey was off,
I was on. If I was off, Coreys on, Jalen, Joel,
you know, all these guys were like, you have to
like have multiple options because there's gonna be nights when
you're a Plan A and Plan B gets shut down?
Can you rely on Plan C or Planned D well.
I think that that's been the testament to some of
the guys on this year's team, like Julian and Anton.

(13:31):
Over the last couple of weeks have really solidified not
that they weren't already two and three or three what
however you want to place them, because they are probably
the next two guys up in terms of just production
wise and needing their consistency. And I think they've done
a really good job from my lens of just like
fulfilling those shoes like they've been filling the statuet with
points rebounds. Obviously Tom does his thing on the defensive end,

(13:55):
and I just think that that's been something that was
needed early on that wasn't there. You didn't know necessarily
who the second option was going to be or where
that second scoring punch was gonna come from. But yeah,
I mean, every one of those guys, and there's guys
that didn't we didn't even name. The whole team has
just felt like they're found the groove. So yeah, man,
last March Madness for Drew, Timmy for the boy, Let's fire,

(14:19):
it's gonna be juiced up. Is the stash coming back? There?
Might have to make an appearance. I was thinking about it.
You know, it's kind of my thing, so I figured, like,
why not, So we'll see. I might, I might not.
Who knows, tb D. I'm a Drew knows where I stand.
I'm an advocate for the stash on going out there
that grimy fucking look sauce and dudes. Um all right, Well,

(14:42):
that's enough of the March Madness preview. We did do
the live show this past Thursday. Super fun, really good
experience for Drew and I. Um, we had a really
good group of people there, you know, to do the
show in front of some of the things we touched
on just along the way. Obviously it's a little bit
of a week a week old now, but we did
talk about, you know, the big WCC conference ornament win.

(15:04):
We talked a little bit about Drew being named co
Player of the Year and and Ton getting snubbed in
the WCC format. What else did we throw in there?
Drew something about performance anxiety, how to deal with performance mentally,
mental preparation, what it takes, you know, a lot of
a lot of good nuggets in there, especially for some

(15:25):
young listeners that really want to take this thing seriously.
For any sport, for that fact, it's it all works
the same, just because everything every sport is just so
mental at the end of the day. Yeah, I gave
Drew a little runway and he just kind of ran
with it about you know his process for performing at
Gonzaga and you know how it works for him. We
did a little there was something else we threw in

(15:45):
there along the way. I don't know. We had a
We had a variety of just good topics. Some of
them just came organically, Um, some were planned. Oh. We
hit on a little bit of Dez Bryant throwing up
that X and just how he's been a fanboy. Anybody listening,
and let's just spam Dez Bryant until we can get
him on the podcast, because that'll beat doubt. Um, Drew
will probably turned back into a twelve year old if
he sees him on the call with us question. I

(16:08):
love that. And then at the end of the show,
after our second commercial break, we did a little live
Q and A, which was fun. People in the audience
got to grab a microphone and asked Drew just some
up close personal questions. Drew provided some just insightful, good
juicy Drew Timmy answers. Oh, and we did touch on
a little bit of that CBS article some of Drew's

(16:31):
nasty little locker issues and it's a big fat smelly
feet all right, Well that's all coming up. I hope
you guys enjoy the live show. We had a great
time doing it. Not sure when you will hear from
us again for episode nineteen. Should be sometime after round one,
but we'll keep you posted. Live show coming up right

(16:52):
when we come back from this quick break. What's good everybody?
How are we doing tonight? Man? We really appreciate, We
appreciate you off for coming out. It's excited to be
live from epic at Northern Quest. It's great, uh, especially
for having us hosts our eighteenth episode. Man, it's it's
really special when I'm really excited to get this thing underway. Yeah,

(17:14):
appreciate everybody coming out, man, Northern Quest. Give it up
for them for having us to appreciate y'all. Appreciate y'all. Um.
It's actually funny. Me and Drew have never done a
live podcast, let alone like sitting next to each other
and do a show in person. So it's cool to
be able to do that on top of do the
show in front of, you know, people who care. How

(17:35):
many people in here? I've actually listened to the podcast
show of hands. Anybody nobody's ever listened to it. I
like that we got one we got our guy Jake
over there. That's cool. That's fine. Have you guys never
heard of it? Like what is the or you just
just not just not podcast people? Which which of the
two haven't heard of it? Oh? Oh on the broadcast? Right,

(18:02):
shout out Jay, billis his shout out Jay, and Sean
Farream give us a nice plug the other night too. Man.
You know, I'm sad that you guys have never heard
heard the show. But whatever, now you know about it.
So that's a good that's a good thing, right, Um,
all right, So we're a little list of topics that
we're gonna hit on Drew playing in the WCC tournament

(18:23):
them obviously winning it. We'll touch on some of the
all conference team stuff that you know Drew or the
WCC committee selected. Drew was obviously named co player of
the Year, which is, if I might say slightly insulting.
We'll get his or you get his thoughts on that too,
and then we'll just shoot the ship in the normal way.
One thing I do want to address, as most of

(18:45):
you said you don't listen to the show. We do
curse a little bit. We're not gonna curse tonight. I
want to preface. We're gonna have our best behavior, no
curse words. I had a nice chat with my mom
before the show, so I'm locked in. I don't want
to get grounded. So it's pretty embarrassing that a grown
man could still get grounded by his mom. But okay,
so let's start off WCC tournament. You win two games

(19:08):
in a row San fran and then a big one
against Saint Mary's. Take us through. It was it like
just kind of demolishing Saint Mary's. I mean the gals, right,
is that what they're called? I don't even know what
that is. The hell is a gale? Well? First off,
San Francisco is a tough matchup for US. They have
three explosive, really good guards that can get Yeah, Khalil,

(19:30):
he's really good. They're electric, and it's no lead is
safe with them with the way they shoot. Obviously we
saw that with the Santa Clara game where he had
almost forty and they won in double overtime. So, you know,
just making sure we were locked into not letting them
get easy shots even though they make difficult ones was
a huge key of emphasis for US. I was huge,
and you know, we pulled it out, thank God, that

(19:53):
one was a little close. And then um, obviously Saint
Mary's we know what that what that program means to
gonzag and just all the great battles we've had in
the rivalries. Losing to them earlier this year. Ye, there's
no love loss between the two, and it felt good
to you know, ground them a little bit, beat the
brakes off them. But I just thought that game, really

(20:17):
we just we just wanted it more. I felt like
we looked like the more aggressive team. We just we
were on the boards more. They weren't getting easy shots.
I thought we made everything difficult for them and would
and when dealing with a team like that, like our press,
they struggled with it. The best way to be the
press is to attack the press. You give up a
couple of baskets and coach right away, it's like, all right,
we're out of the press. But they they're really methodical.

(20:39):
They like to set their offense, So by us disrupting
that flow and giving them less time to work with,
I thought was vital to our teams success. Yeah, I
was gonna ask you, like, what was like a big
difference that rattled them that early because they sucked against
the press at Gonzaga in the conference championship game or
the regular season title game. But I was like, what
from home, it's like, I mean, right away, it was
immediately not a game like they were rattled, and they

(21:02):
quite frankly sucked the whole game. I will say the
first three minutes, I was sweating a little bit. It
was zero zero for a while, and I was like, oh, crap,
this is the game Saint Mary's Loves where they slowed
the tempo down and we don't get to run out
as much. And you know, I think I think Nolan
hit the first three and it was like, all right,
the lids off the basket, We're here, We're good. And

(21:24):
that kind of just energized our team and from there
we didn't look back. I mean, we just beat them
to every loose ball. I think. I don't think they
shot any open shots. We kept them off the offensive
glass to a great offensive rebounding team, and you know,
I just think I just think we wanted it more.
I mean, I think you could see the passion from
every single player and coach when they showed the bench.

(21:45):
Our fans are great. I mean that place it felt
like a home game for us. Like it's special just
how well we travel and I think we really fed
off that. It's also funny, you guys were up thirty
seven points at one point, which is, like I think
they said, it was the most you guys have ever
led in a conference championship game. An they're good nugget
for people that don't know. Mark Few been the coach

(22:06):
there for twenty five years. In twenty five years, he's
won twenty of those conference championships, so I mean, that's insane.
They've won four in a row. There's been a part
of all four of those, as most of you know, yea,
and they've also won ten of the last eleven. Like,
I mean, just dominance all the way around, and obviously
it's been great to watch. I'll go ahead and coin

(22:28):
him the best player in Gonzaga basketball history. It's up
for debate for some people, but that leads us into
our next topic. He broke the all time scoring record
and obviously drew Like just your thoughts, you know, your
thoughts on that man, just breaking a record, and you know,
I know you're gonna say you don't care, it's not
a big deal, but give it to a straight man.

(22:51):
I'm not gonna lie. Going into that game, I knew
I was gonna break it. It was five points. I
don't think. I don't think I've ever not scored five
points in my career, maybe a freshman year. But it's
just kind of crazy to think about, just with all
the players that have gone through this program and all
the studs, and just how the success of everyone, and
it's it's something that I never thought was even possible

(23:14):
for me coming to this place as a freshman. I
just thought I was gonna be like another solid big
and just kind of, you know, playing my role. And
it kind of just exploded my freshman year against Saint
Mary's in the championship game when Dicky Vu was doing
all the diaper dandy stuff and he was I was
basically his like step son. I guess he kind of

(23:35):
adopted me informally, but no, I mean just all that,
and man, the crazy part is Frank scored a lot
of buckets. Yeah, right, twenty one points is not like
just some walk in the park. I mean, but what
are you at twenty two? I think you're at twenty
two ten or something like that, So something crazy. But
can the record be broken? Do you think I mean,

(23:55):
records are meant to be broken. Do you think somebody
breaks it? Well, I mean with the way college the
college landscape has changed with an il in the horridle
when everyone wanted to be one and done or two
and done, I think it'll obviously be harder for it
to get done. I think it's going to take another
player like me who stays four years and has kind
of been a focal point for at least three. So obviously,

(24:18):
like I hope someone breaks it. That means the programs
still doing good and we're still competing at a high level.
But I don't know, maybe it'll stay for at least
another couple of years. What you're saying, though, is that
you're you're a loyal man. You're a loyal man. There's
not a lot of people in college basketball that are loyal. Now, Yeah,
you're Tim me a loyal guy. I can't switch up
on the Zags, man, It's my second home. I love
it here. It's a super cool moment for you. I know,

(24:39):
like when people asked about you, asked you about it
in the media, it was like a you know, what
do you think? What do you think? And you were
very reluctant to give a response because you guys just
want a championship. But I think two things that are
really cool about Drew's career is like, obviously it's only college,
but when you look at like NBA grades, like and
I'll use Kobe Bryant as an example, like played with
the Lakers, one organization for his whole time and did

(25:02):
everything with them for Drew's sake, like one one four
year run all with the same program, and then was
able to like you saw the progression if obviously how
many of you are like avid Gonzaga basketball fan watchers. Yeah, good,
we love that. Yeah, we love that. Yeah. So you
guys are looking at somebody who's now at the like
you know, you could call it the peak of his

(25:23):
powers as someone like four years later what that progression does.
And so it's cool to see someone like still be
depending on how much you pay attention to the transfer
portal and things of that nature, and like people bouncing around.
It's cool to see a guy just stay committed for
four years with one program, you know, So props to you.
It is cool. It's not like it's going to be

(25:46):
I would assume from here on out you see less
of it. Hopefully Gonzaga's. Gonzaga feels like the type of
program to me, and you can expand on this that
can kind of keep guys in for four years, regardless
of the transpportal stuff, just because of the culture that's
ingrained there. Yeah. Well, I mean the thing that really
drove me to come here was just the community and

(26:07):
the family aspect. I mean, it's great like getting recognized
and like interacting with the fans, but I love when
I'm able just to kind of go out and just
like everyone just treats me like a regular person. Like
I think that's something that I took for granted early
in my career, and now it's like I don't think
sometimes I realize like how well knowing I am, and
like just so many people up here just so nice,

(26:27):
but they're also so respectful. And I think a lot
of times we see, like obviously on Twitter, like fans
interacting and bad ways with players or athletes and people
you know, like kind of like losing their stuff like
in their personal space, and I just think, like it's
just such like a I'm just like a regular person here,
and I'm so grateful for that. I'm just so grateful
for the community, and like, there's not been one time

(26:50):
I really thought about I've ever thought about leaving for
another school like this coach, the program, the history. Like
I'm just a Zach through and through. I can't see
myself ever in another college uniform ever, Like that's just
fouls to me. I feel like, I just want to
be right. If any of you saw that edit of
Drew with the Kentucky uniform on, he looked gross in
it. It It didn't look rights. It's like, what are you

(27:13):
doing in those threads? I was not a fan of
that's so that's why we had to beat him by
like twenty or whatever we did at the arena. So
obviously the news is, you know, heading into that conference tournament,
Drew was named well the wcc West Coast Conference. They
came out with their all conference selections and they have
this weird format of like ten first teamers, five second teamers,

(27:36):
and then honorable mentions and then they gave the Player
of the Year award. And I'm sure all of you
are aware Drew was the co Player of the Year.
So I want to just I want your I know
we said we're gonna be censored tonight, but I want
a version of your uncensored thoughts on how absolutely ridiculous
that was. Ridiculous co Player of the Year you don't get.
I just feel like it doesn't get more disrespectful than

(27:58):
that to a guy of your stature. That's just my
biased take, but go ahead. Yeah. Well, I didn't realize
it at first because the first time I saw it
was on the Zag's Instagram and said player of the Year.
I was like, oh, bet, like player of the Year.
And then I go on Twitter and I see like
two player of the Years and I'm like, huh, I'm

(28:20):
just like what. I didn't know that was a thing.
I didn't know you could have multiple Player of the Years.
I was like, all right, something must be wrong. Maybe
I don't know, maybe I didn't get or something. Who knows.
And then I saw that it was a co Player
of the Year thing, and I was like, huh, how
can I be on like a first team All American
on the Wooden List in all this the only one

(28:41):
in the besides Julian for the Julius Irving. How can
I be the only player in the conference on all
those lists and then share the award? You know? So
I thought that was a little weird. But then I
was thinking, you know, he's not to take anything away
from Podzinski's a hell of a player, a great player, obviously,
but I mean obviously we had a better see and

(29:04):
we won games in our conference tournament. I feel like
that boats a lot as well. But Dan, I was
looking at the first team list and I was like, well,
what what what what? One first team has ten players
on it. It's five players to a first team. That
was confusing to me, and then's stupid. It's pretty bad

(29:26):
a ten man first team than a second team, than
an honorable mentioned team beyond me, and then go ahead, sorry,
I'm just Anton Watson did not I was going up
on the first team. There's ten people on that list,
and he was not one of the ten. I couldn't name.
I could maybe name one one player better than him, maybe,

(29:50):
and you could say Podsinski maybe in the whole conference. Yeah,
in the conference. Sure, he agrees too. He's very impactful player.
I think I think we only had two players. There's
Julian and I think, yeah, you guys the first team
in Saint Mary's. Saint Mary's had three. They gave the
one seed the nod. But it's like stupid because they
were the one seed based on net rankings, not based

(30:11):
on their record. Well, I think we showed who the
real one seed was. Yeah, I mean I think forty
point thirty ended up being twenty six point blowout, but
it was a it was a demolishing They had zero,
zero chance win. I just think it's weird because you
get ten on the first team, five on the second team,
and Anton still didn't make the second team. Like they
kind of gave it to like the best player on

(30:32):
each of the bad teams. I guess, like their best
player on San Diego got it, the best player on
I think Pacific God of Portland got it. It's like
cool credit to those guys. But like Anton Watson is
just the more and more you watch Gonzaka basketball, you're like, yeah,
you know, they're probably not. What are you twenty eight
and five without him? Probably not, no no chance. I mean,
he guards, he guards the other team's best play. Whether

(30:54):
he's a guard or a big man, I don't know.
There's probably like maybe like five dudes in the country
that can legitimately do that, like in a night and
a night basis, no matter the matchup, and he does
it every night for us. Yeah, I know, I gave
that that example earlier about you know, you being loyal
to a program. There's another like you winning co Player

(31:17):
of the Year also kind of feels like a you know,
they don't hand out a co finals MVP, Like there's
not a like Lebron didn't win or lose the tight
the year twenty fifteen when they said Lebron and they lost,
should have won the finals MVP, like they gave it
to Andrea Guidala, Like they didn't just like hand out
a co finals And that's not a thing. You just
don't do that. You got you were on the winning team,

(31:37):
you won the whole conference, first share of the first
first place in a regular season, won the whole tournament,
and your co player they got bounced in the quarterfinals.
I mean, come on, man, I don't know. I just
think it's like it seemed a little too like YMCAs
to me, Like here's a here's a participation medal, like

(31:57):
you just throw his name on it too. Not not
lottle kids anymore, were grown man. You know, so participation
medal is an how or a big topic like you
just everybody gets a trophy to subject for another day. Um,
something that's been happening in the last couple of Gonzaga games.
I'm not sure who floats online during Gonzaga games, but
everybody familiar with Dez Bryant, the wide receiver for the Cowboys,

(32:21):
big Cowboy fan Drew Timmy. But Dez Bryant's been like
tweeting about Drew Timmy, just saying Drew Timmy LFG, which
is let's go sorry, SOLDI were winning curse um. But
it's just been this like ongoing thing with Drew and
Dez Bryant. So our new thing is like, we're gonna
try to get him on the podcast. But what's your
take on because you what'd you do? You threw up
the X. I did throw up the AX. I got

(32:42):
and one in the second half against Saint Mary's. But
is that planned? Yeah? It was plan. It was like
I was like, if I do something cool, I'm throwing
up the act because I like that he's been tweeting
at me. But the inner kid in me was just
like losing it. I mean, I'm the ultimate Cowboys fan.
I'm the typical like We're winning the Super Bowl every
year and I'm gonna ride that ship up until the end.

(33:04):
Cowboy fans. Wow? Oh yeah, wow, how about them? Got
a couple of Cowboy fans? Damn. See you haven't listened
to the podcast yet, but we have had multiple segments
on the show about the highs and the lows of
the Cowboys and his obsession with them and me being
a dickhead and you know, not letting him just I

(33:25):
guess enjoy the Cowboys not being good. I mean, what
do you enjoy as a Cowboys fan? I don't. I
don't know. Anyway. Um, there was a cool little CBS
article that came about came out on Drew a couple
of days ago. Anybody in here read that? No, no,
no takers. Um Um, it like touched on like the

(33:47):
in depth like nuggets about Drew, Like why takeaway that
I wanted to bring up to Drew and to you guys,
um is that he has like this massively dirty locker. Um.
Great guy? No not no? Say okay you sailor right,
that's fine, I'm here to address it. What is the
what is it? What is it really? They're saying? Like
the article said that he had like plaques on, like

(34:09):
like plaques buried under socks, shirts, shoes, and I'm like,
all right, reading this wild exaggeration, do I partly believe it? Though? Yeah?
But what what is the truth behind? I need I
need to clean the air on this because yes, I
have a lot of stuff in my locker. I have
a lot of stuff, and I do have trophies in
my I've got a lot of trophies over my career.

(34:30):
Like some of them are like just scattered throughout my
locker and their clothes and stuff. But what a sign
of appreciation for them? Just bury them? Well, I don't
want to lose them. So I'm like, well, so bury them. Yeah,
but they're in my locker, right, It's fine, that's fine.
But I do, okay, i' and I've been here a while,
so I have a lot of gear and shoes right,

(34:51):
Like it's just Nike Elite School. They're gonna bless you,
so uh you know, I I've I call them organized piles. Right. So,
like to my ride, I'll have like some shoes. To
my left, I'll have maybe my shorts and some shirts
that I wear. Then like scattered within my locker, I'll
have like some more shoes that I wear and stuff.

(35:11):
But they're all clean, They're not dirty. Well that's good,
and I'm in my confined they're in within my confined
space in the locker room. So everyone makes a big
deal about me being messy, but I keep it within
the parameter of my locker. They're clean, they don't smell bad, okay,
and my thing is it's not bothering anybody but me,

(35:32):
right okay. But that's the one thing the article said
is that your locker is crammed between two walk ons.
So do you your shit just piles on top of
theirs because they're less important? What is it? That's a
crazy statement. As a former walk on, I would be like, yo, Drew,
Like cool, you're Drew, Timmy, but get your shit away
from my move like you know. So the one to
my left, he has his own little pile too, and

(35:53):
our piles are like the Grand Canyon. They but they
don't intersect, just like perfectly abounding each other. These are
convenient rationales. I love. Then the one to my he's
really clean and neat, so like, I just make sure
I'm not in his space, you know, I stay within
my parameters. So I feel like it's it's just for
me to do that. But well, who who's did you

(36:16):
address who was on the right the other side of you. Yeah, Abe,
it's Abe, and then Colby Colby. Okay, well if we
can ask them, we can have them on the pot
and ask him. Feel bad for those guys. I already
know how probably brutal it is being it because I
don't want to roast you too much. But your feet
probably stink when you take your shoes off. Those things
are probably boffing saying that's alright, just saying I'm a

(36:37):
clean person. But no, you're a clean guy. But like,
there's just no way. That's the article kept talking about
Drew timmy size eighteen shoe, like these big shoes, like
you have some big feet. I ain't gonna lie. I
don't like it, so I hate it. I cannot find shoes.
I can't I go on East Bay and get like
like real resales or whatever it's called resales. Something funny

(37:00):
that made me think of this that us just saying
that is um. We've had it's on the on the
podcast where Drew is like tried to say a word
and he's like just says like the wrong version of
the word. What was the do you remember the other
day it was um, damn it. I wish I remembered this.
I should have wrote it. Well, your last name for starters,
I can still not pronounce yeah. But you're one of
every person I meet that isn't in my family. You

(37:22):
just can't sound it. It's not even a sound it out.
It's like if I gave you the what do they
call that in the in the dictionary? The what? Yeah? Yeah?
So like my last name is Bono. It's spelled bu
o n o. People say Buano bono, Sonny bono like
you like, it's just nothing but the right one. So

(37:44):
I always say, okay, b A W dash and oh,
what would you say if I if I spelled it
out for you? Right? That was pretty good. The group
was pretty good. Drew sucks at it as soon as
everybody else, but you all like, yeah Bono. It's like
I keep getting the odds two Italian. It just I
didn't make the oh man, I just was born. Here's

(38:05):
your last name? That was it? But no, I'm trying
to remember you said a word um, and I really
am bummed. I can't remember it because what we remember
what we were talking about? No clue. Great, I'm a
pretty forgetful person. Great memory on the court, terrible memory
off the court. Plays. I can remember plays and coverages.
But you know what, I think it's interesting for everybody

(38:27):
here for you to talk about. It's just like preparation
for you going into a game. I was actually talking
to Drew about this when we were over in the
back eating. I was like, when you go into a game, like,
do you ever have performance anxiety? Like does it ever
come up? Is it something that's like, wow, I'm really
nervous right now and it affects your performance? And it
was just immediately was like no, well no. So I

(38:48):
was like, okay, well, how do you feel about performing
in this type of setting because we, like I said,
you guys, we've never done this before, and he was
like like no, But I think something interesting to tell
them is just like you on the court preparing for
a game, what is it that makes you just have
no anxiety You're able to just go out there and
perform at this ultra high level. I think something people

(39:08):
don't really understand from like obviously you're gonna be a
professional athlete professional athletes is like how they sustained the
high level of performance, Like is it a mental thing?
Is it just you're so prepared. What like touch on
that a little bit. Nah, And mentally, I think the
game is like ninety to ninety five percent mental. If
I'm not well, I'm not the best athlete that ever

(39:31):
walked to sir, not the tallest, not the most athletic,
you know, all these knots. But I just I play
the mental game. I'm always talking to opponents. I'm always
trying to cut corners, respectable corners cut you know, like
finishing different ways, all these things. Like, I just try
to find different ways that I can get the advantage

(39:52):
for areas so that I don't have it. And we
were talking about like being nervous for this, and I'm like, yeah,
I've never done something like this before. I'm pretty freaking nervous.
But I know, like once I get in the flow
at things and a little bit and crack some jokes like,
we'll be fine once we get rolling. And that's that's
why I always try to play the game with just
so much joy and passion and energy, because at the

(40:13):
end of the day, I've worked my tail off to
be in this position, to be the player I am.
I can't tell you how many hours coaching I've been
at the gym and just practices and shooting and everything. Like,
the issue is not the work. The issue is not
taking the game too serious. And for me, that's something
that makes me feel comfortable. If I can go out

(40:35):
on the court and you know, joke around and laugh
and kind of be carefree, then that's when I'm at
my best. And that's what helps me the most with
my you know, performance anxiety and being nervous, Like that's
the easiest way for me to just kind of say, like,
screw it, It's just another basketball game. Don't you don't
need to treat it more than what it is. It's
a game, And that's that's kind of my approach to

(40:58):
the game. That's why I'm always smiling and talking on
the court and just some people can say I'm a douchebag,
but you know, I'm just out there having fun and
just enjoying the moment and trying not to take it
too serious because the moment for me, when I take
stuff too serious, I get really tense, I start thinking
too much, I get in my own head and all

(41:18):
this and all that, and I think for me, just
the best way to go about things is just to
be relaxed and have fun and just act like you're
hanging out with your home he's playing a game, which
is what we're doing at the end of the day.
That's true with like eighteen thousand people watching you. But
it's a great I mean, yeah, it's a superpower to
be able to do stuff like that. There was something
you just said that, Oh, do you think that it's

(41:39):
like that like a lot of like professional athletes, That's
what I wanted to ask you, like also kind of
have the similar like, yeah, it's just a game with
my friends. Like the people around you just they're not
even there. That's that's a super hard skill. That's how
you feel like, that's like kind of how you feel
when you're out there. Yeah. Nah, attention to the fact
that there's what's eighteen thousand times two thirty six thousand

(42:00):
eyeballs on you. Yeah nah. It's definitely something that took
time for me in high school. We were we were
a pretty good high school team, and I was when
I started finding like getting some publicity and like some
you know, some attention and student sections are really starting
to go at me and everything. And it was hard
at first, you know, to just take ship from everybody

(42:21):
the whole game, and when you miss a layup, everyone's
letting you have it. And when you airball and you're
getting yelled airball, airball, like that stuff's really hard. And
I think just over time, I just kind of learned
to like kind of tune it out, and I tell people,
no matter where I'm at, and no matter like, no
matter how loud it is or how quiet is, I
can always hear my teammates, my coach, and my parents

(42:43):
when I'm playing and everyone else, I can tune out.
And I mean in Vegas, like I remember my mom
was she wasn't even yelling, but to me, it's sound
like she was yelling. She's like, you better get in
there and rebound, and I'm like, and I'm trying to
run down the court and like get back on defense.
I just hear my mom yelling at me to crash
the glass, like well amidst all those people yelling and screaming.

(43:04):
And it's just this this thing that you kind of
just pick up over time and you kind of understand
how to do it. But it is something that's hard
to do. It's it's not something that came easy. It
a lot of trial and error, you know, and ignoring people.
I mean, it's hard when you're at an enemy place
and you're at the fruit the line and it's just
you and everyone is just unloading at you, and you

(43:25):
just be like everyone just hates you and you're the enemy,
and it's, uh, it's a hard skill, but it's it's
nice when you learn it. When you don't give people
the satisfaction that you're that there in your head you
know is um is You're You're just like aware with
your mom, like you can definitely can't hear her, like
you're reading her lips. You have a good feel. I'm like,
go get go, get in there and get that rebound

(43:46):
rule reading Like can't hear her? I know, I'm telling
you how close was she in Vegas? Because we were
falling she was behind the bench. That's different. But like
the thing with her is like she'll she'll talk to
me or like I can read her lips and my
dad does like sign language to me. Yeah, and I'm
just all right, dude, like I don't understand this. He's like,

(44:07):
and I'm like, but no. We have that nice dynamic.
And then obviously coach like every time he talks I'm
just like, like what you and everybody else I'm saying,
got to be locked in when the boss man's talking
because I'm a little spacey, so he always gets on
me for that. But yeah, I think a good suggestion

(44:29):
that I could make for all of you. He mentioned
Coach Few. We interviewed Coach Few on episode eleven, and
if you want to hear Mark Few, just like you know,
chill and like a bro, it's a great hour in
ten minutes. I mean, I was nervous to do that
episode because like he's just such a He's just a
big figure, Like I remember watching Gonzaga as a child,

(44:50):
like and he just was always at the forefront of it.
And then just sitting there talking to him, I'm like,
this guy's great, like and I he just was fun.
He was joking around with us, like he's got real
strong opinions on guy's our age with like phone, and
he was talking about this Gonzaga team being super quiet
because they all just stare at their phones. And I
know Drew hates that, but like I have a little

(45:11):
bit of an old soul, so I kind of like
agree with it because it's like it plays a little
bit of a part anyway. I think it would be
cool for those which is most of this room that
haven't heard the podcast, start with that episode because Mark
few is you know, he's the boss, and I mean
I was a little nervous having him on the pod.
I was like, oh, we're in the middle of season.
He doesn't like to do a bunch of media stuff,
especially nowadays. I'm like, if this dude's being up tied

(45:34):
and like pretty stelic, like it's going to be a
bad episode. And he just got that summer vibe. He
was one of our best guests, Like he was just
so energetic, engaging and like you just I'm pretty sure
like a bunch of you just seeing coach being coached
and you guys haven't really been able to see just
how like full of life he can be and how
like outgoing and extroverted he can be, because he does

(45:55):
get pretty introverted at times. And I think it's a
great insight to him and just kind of get you
get to know him better. He seems more human. After that,
I would say, there's a like a real like he said,
like he was in midsummer form, Like I don't know
how many interactions anybody in here has had with like
Division one coaches of any sport, but like when they're
like locked into a season like right now, Like one
of the biggest reasons we didn't like just tell coach

(46:16):
a few like hey, come be a part of the
live shows because like these guys are just wired differently,
so like mid season form right now, Like I can't
guarantee you would have been cool. That's why when he
came on the show was like, ah, we don't know
what to expect, but he was great and like this
he really did just give off like he was driving
the boat on the lake. Where's it in Idaho? Where's
the lake house? Hayden Lake. Yeah, it's his lake house. Nice.

(46:39):
Um Well, speaking to Mark, few of the team touched
on a little bit of stuff with that, like March madness.
Right around the corner, you're entering do or Die territory
for your Gonzaga career. It's you know, you guys could
could be a two seed. I don't think you'll get
the one seed. You you might not, probably not gonna
get a two sea. It's gonna be a three three
seed seems like the sweet spot, but do or Die
territory you could very well next week player last ever game.

(47:02):
I mean again, going back to that Gonzaga dominance. They've
made what seven sweet sixteens in rows at seven ten
is at fifties in a thousand. They just do it
every year. I don't really know. Um, but yeah, so
all likelihood you make it out of the first round.
But knock knock on wood or if this is wood,
I'm not sure if this is would. Um. Yeah, how

(47:22):
are you feeling just about suiting up and now playing
games where it's like, wow, if we lose, I'm gonna
go back in the locker room and probably shot a
couple of tiers because the era came to an end.
To be honest, I don't really care, like just from
the fact that like, no, no, just from the fact that, like,
I don't want to think about that because that brings
up so many emotions for me and so much just

(47:44):
like raw like passion and everything that it's like, I
don't want to be all sentimental and think about that
because that's that's good. That goes against how I'm how
I'm wired as a player, where I like to have fun,
joke around and just treat it like a normal game.
I feel like for me to be the best version
of myself, I just have to go out there like
I would for any other game and just treat it
like it's just another game. And I think if I

(48:08):
even thinking about it now, it's next topic, next topic.
We don't even have to do We don't even have
to do it. I don't want to put you there. Um,
but I'm sure we're all. Drew's the only person in
here that's not allowed to bet, so we'll exclude him
from this part of the conversation. I'm sure as betting people,
Zags I think are fifteen to one to make the
final four. What do we like their eye we like
their chances? What? How? What are we feeling? Yeah? Yeah,

(48:34):
huh oh you're you're you're predicating it on the region. Okay, okay,
respect Um. Well, all I want to say is, don't
make the mistake of picking against them because they got
Drew to me, I'm picking this acte um. All right,
let's go to a quick break here in Northern Quest.
Then we'll jump into our Q and A with our

(48:54):
live crowd. That's gonna sign nice on the podcast. All Right,
we're back here and stoe at Northern quest. We're gonna
wrap today's show up. Today has been great. First of all,
you guys have been it's been cool talking to you guys.
But we're gonna wrap today's show up with some Q
and A from our lovely audience. So yeah, but up

(49:17):
before we do that, Drew, what is it we're what
forty minutes in? How have we? What are we? Let's
live rate or how we thought this is going? Do
you want me to go first? Yeah? Eight point four
out of ten? Now, I'd say it's pretty good. I cha. Well,
let's get three people blurred out a number? What would

(49:38):
you would score? The thing about us is we like
honest feedback. We always say on the podcast, we've always
like we made Corey Kissberg get real vulnerable. I was like, yeah, Corey,
you're twenty three years older in the NBA, what's your insecurity? Like?
I just made him tell me. I was like, Dahn,
you just give me an answer. So where we are
running joke has become like we get vulnerable and we're
very trying to be as authentic as we can be
on the podcast. So any honest feedback, we'll take it. Nine. Wow.

(50:02):
Respect tense. Tense. That's pushing it. That's pushing it all right?
Where's Lamar? At? Lamar? You got that mic? Good at
anybody that wants to ask a question? Hand up, Lamar?
Will coming throw you a microphone? Just wondering. I see
it talking a lot on the free throw line to
the guy next to you, and I know, is it

(50:23):
always positive or is it? Is it ripping him a
little bit? Is it asking him where he grew up?
What's what's the deal? You have a lot of conversations.
I do. I do have a lot of conversations. Um,
I'm very nice until it's time not to be. You know,
I'm always friendly, Like what's up? How are you? Like?
I'll be like you asked, well, like why did you

(50:43):
get that shot on me? You're making me look bad?
Just kind of joking around, you know. But if that,
if they don't want to be friendly or they want to,
you know, be like say something foul like I'll hop
right into trash talking. I love trash shocking. I think
it's fun. I think it's what's make the game so fun.
It's just that competitive fire. But sometimes I those people

(51:04):
off their games, people talking nice and just about random
things that makes them lose that laser focus, and that's
part of the mental game that I try to win
is by doing the unexpected. So it could go one
of two ways. Typically it's the first way, though, anybody else, well,
we just need the mic so that the audio picks

(51:24):
it up. Sorry, I love the readiness though. It's great.
I was there in the Vegas game and you got
elbowed or something and you just kind of like stood there, like,
aren't you gonna call? Or can you talk a little
bit about that? I'm talking about the San fran game.
You were angry game when you got hit in the
head or something. You got elbowed. Yeah, I remember you
got elbowed, you fell on the ground. They didn't call foul.

(51:47):
It was San Francisco, right, what the hell? Man? Like, Well,
I got a lot of nice texts from people saying
the camera panned on you and it wasn't your best moment.
You were angry, bro. I was stringing together some prominent
four letter words I would say, but uh yeah, I
spun baseline and I just just any of y'all w
WE fans in here and know about it. Well, one

(52:08):
of my favorite wrestlers is jbl and he had the
clothes line from hell. And that's when it felt like
happened to my neck. My body turned in, my head
didn't go with me, and I was are you kidding me?
Like bleep, bleep, bleep, and I was like, oh, like,
no way, that's not a foul. But the replay was crazy.

(52:29):
You got blasted. I mean I got like full blindside, dude,
So I mean that that didn't feel too good. I
would say, I don't. I've never really been hurt in
my career. I've always I've played every game, but everybody's gone.
But no, I was just slow that. I was like,
we're really gonna let me get deck like that, But
then they called a foul. The next play pretty much

(52:51):
was a makeup call because I didn't get fouled. So
the next play was bullshit. I was like, we're calling Marrett,
but not the one before. But yeah, I was worried
you might have been concussed. It was like, you know,
you got up slow, you took it, you took it,
he wrung your belt like it felt like I like
slept on something weird, you know, when you get like
that net kink. Yeah, I was just like Jesus, I

(53:12):
cannot get that thing out, but you need a chiropractor.
You just punch it a couple of times, make it
go numb. And then that's that's kind of my self
self healing thing that I do. Crazy remedy. From that
CBS article I was mentioning earlier, they said that you
sprain your ankle and you just you stomp. I do. Yeah,
that doesn't that that doesn't work. So you have my
ankle hurts, I'll stomp it so it goes numbs. So,

(53:33):
like my whole leg is numb, so I don't really
feel it. Like today in practice, I jam my finger,
so I just slapped it against the hoop really hard,
so like my whole hand started was a little numb
like okay, but but but the aftermath of that is not.
But then I'm not thinking about my jam finger. Yeah,
but later on at night, your ankles throbbing and swollen,

(53:54):
or your pinkies you know, doesn't bend anymore. I'm just
my index finger. Um. But yeah, what that doesn't make
any sense. I'm just an unconventional doctor. I'm more of
the lines that just rub some dirt on it and
you'll be fine. That's kind of how I was raised
and that's kind of just stuck with me. Just kind
of that blue collar just you're cool, like run it off,
stomp it out. That's kind of just my thing. Drew

(54:16):
reminds me of like the players in the nineteen sixties
that they said used to just like drink beers and
smoke cigarettes like before games or at halftime. It just
so it feels like you would have blended in perfectly
to that. I would love a beer at halftime, all right.
Any other questions a couple over here. What's your favorite
memory in the last four years. Wow, that's a great question.

(54:40):
Good question from the young fellow. Damn, that's a crazy one. Honestly.
I just think it's the team dinners that we have
every road trip with every group of guys. I mean,
there's nothing more fun than just all of us going
into a restaurant and just chopping it up for an
hour and a half just talking about god knows what,

(55:02):
just everything under the sun. And it's just so fun
just to be like with the guys, just kicked back
for lash just having a fun time. I think that's
something that And it's a free meal. Who would pass
up a free meal? Right? But it's just so fun
to always just be around the guys. And I think
my favorite moment would just be like the memories I've

(55:22):
had with all my teammates, just because like it's such
as just such a great group of guys that we have.
It's just they're so fun to be around, and like
they'll all be on my wedding and stuff, like they're
just guys I wanted my life for the rest of
my life. Well I get invited to the wedding. No, okay,
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Um give give them one,
Give the little fellow one one. Less broad matter. Favorite

(55:45):
memory playing wise would have to be the San Francisco
game my freshman year at their place. I was on
I was on the tight leash my freshman year. I
was behind Tilly and Philip obviously like they're two all Americans.
I just there wasn't a lot of minutes for me,
and you know a ton you know, we're over here
like fighting for minute for whenever we can get in.

(56:06):
And Tilly was hurt so he couldn't play in that game.
So that I started that game and it was like
all right, Drew, here you go, like it's time to play,
and I'm like, oh, all right, throwing me on the
fire a little bit, and I remember I made a mistake,
and I look over at the bench and I look
at the scores table, and he didn't single for anyone
to go get me. I'm like, oh, I like that,

(56:26):
Like it was my first and I ended up having
like seventeen points and we barely won the game. It
was that was the first moment in my college career
where I was like, all right, like I can play
at this level and I can be good at this level,
and I think that was the start for me. That
was the real start of just this kind of timmy
persona that game, Like I finally was like I can

(56:49):
be myself and have fun and I don't have to
worry about anything, like I can just play. In that
moment was when I felt like I was truly, like
I truly belonged in this to wear a Gonzaga uniform
and be a player here, and I felt like that
was kind of my coming party, and just the rest
is history from there, and even just the Saint Mary's
game my freshman year going off, like, I think that

(57:10):
was just the catalyst for what's what's led up to now.
So that's definitely my favorite memory. There we go. I
I could squeeze out a better answer. Shout out me
anybody else, Hey, Drew, I know that you've played in
a lot of amazing venues, even on an aircraft carrier.

(57:30):
Really cool. Other than the kennel of course, What has
been your favorite venue to play basketball in? H I
hate to say this because I don't like BYU at all,
but their arena is the best arena that you can

(57:51):
play in. I mean, they packed that thing. It is
so big and just all the theatrics they have, how
they do their player intros with the whole Like they
bring like this huge white screen down from the jumbo
tron on it's like on a huge green screen. Like
it's crazy that environment. Those dudes are amped up. I
don't on like caffeine or whatever. I don't think I

(58:12):
kig out there like cookes here. I don't know, but
they're amped up on something. But just the energy they
bring in, just the fire and the passion, Like it's
so hostile in there. It's the most friendly, hostile place
I've ever played in in my life. You got dudes
streaming like frick you were, like, I don't know it

(58:34):
just like, dude, you can custom me like I'd rather
be that instead of like the passive aggressiveness. But it's
awesome in there. The energy. Like that's why I always say,
like I hope that game continues for just the future
because I think that's just such a great environment. I
think the rivalry we've had, it's just been so great
and unfortunately a cool moment of my career. It was

(58:56):
my freshman year when they beat us at their place
and they storm the court. You said, it was a
cool moment. It was cool. As much as I hated
it and like it was really pissed, it was just
cool to kind of, like, you know, just experience that
even though it was a bad thing, it was a
it was a good It was a bad, but good
experience and one that like it was pretty cool looking
back on it. Just how like the energy in there

(59:18):
is crazy. Any other questions for Drew? So, who do
you think would be your biggest competition in the dance?
Whoever we match up with? First? I mean, let me
tell you that that tournament is so hard. I mean
every I mean I remember UNBC beat Virginia and it's
like that shouldn't happen. But I mean they won their

(59:39):
conference tournament, like they're they're a good team, and it's
like it's crazy, Like I remember Georgia Southern we played
last year, and that was a game for the first
probably like twenty four twenty eight minutes. Like all these
teams that we play either have won their conference or
they they're in there for a reason and there's no
gimme games, and all it takes is one game. I remember,

(01:00:02):
I remember the Arc Saw game last year. If they
beat us and everything, but like if we had a
seven game series, I bet we win that seven game series.
I felt like we were the better team on the whole.
They just they were just on that night and we weren't,
and you got to give credits to them. But that's
the hard part about it is while you may feel
like you're a better team than one team, all it
takes is one personnel crazy and the other and like

(01:00:24):
the other team not to go crazy to lose. And
I think that's that's what but that's what makes it
so special and so fun and rivets all the attention
because you really never know what will happen. So I'm
excited for who we get first. It's gonna be it's
gonna be a hell of a matchup. Zag's got dudes,
anybody else? I got just a couple, uh fun This

(01:00:46):
Korean kid that's coming over for next year, maybe a
mad him and what can you tell us about it? Yeah, June,
he's a he's a great guy. He's a little reserved
at first, but he's he started to open up and
he's he's a really good dude. And he's he is
one hell of a player. I mean, they just gave

(01:01:06):
so he's obviously red shorting this year. I don't know
what it's called, but he's just he can't play this year.
But I mean, man going against him and like Braden
Huff and practice every day, it's like she's a dude,
Like I wish you would do this to someone else
other than us every day. There. They are really good players.
They got the programs in great hands with them, Like
it's it's we're gonna have a nice squad again next year.

(01:01:30):
And just a thought. I'm seventy five years old and
I've seen a lot of basketball and everything. I remember
watching Frank Burgess play on television on my seventeen inch
black and white TV and it took all those years

(01:01:51):
till now till you got the scoring record. And I
remember Burgess used to play against Seattle you which was
one of my favorite teams back then, and they had
a guy named Elton Baylor and it was that long ago. Wow,
Oh that's awesome. No, I heard Frank was just the
greatest dude ever, just way better a person than he

(01:02:12):
was a Hooper, and he was a hell of a hooper.
And I I wish I was would have been fortunate
to meet him, just because of all the great things
I've heard about him and what he and what he
had done with his life. And uh, it's just such
an honor to, you know, be in the same airspace
as a guy like that. So it's super cool. I
wish I could have met him. That's cool that you

(01:02:32):
you witnessed both scoring titles or scoring records be broken.
I like that. Any other questions, J I know, coach
you plays pickleball, So besides basketball, play pickball or any
other sports? Yeah? Yeah, nah. He every summer when we
go to his lake house for our team retreat, we

(01:02:54):
have to play pickleball. We have to because it is
the one thing that he can beat us. In and
I'm he likes he loves pickleball more than he loves basketball.
I'm convinced they he plays every day. He plays the
tennis coaches every day. He loves to play us because
he can just kick our ass in it, and we're
just so mad. It's like, how can how can coach

(01:03:16):
beat us? Like we're d one athletes right now. It's crazy.
But I love pickleball. I hated it at first because
he was just wiping the floor with me, But I've
gotten a little better now Ton and I have become
kind of a nasty duo. So we've been we've been
practicing a little bit and we're looking for our rematch
because we've been working on it. But it's a really

(01:03:37):
fun game. And then I remember, like last summer we
got we got a couple of the guys in the
summer we played football out on the turf field and
that was super fun. I love. One of my favorite
pastimes besides video games is playing other sports, so soccer
and football. I mean, we had an intermural softball team
this year. That was a lot of fun. So, like

(01:03:58):
anything active is what I like to do pretty much.
I was gonna say your second favorite sports probably video games, right,
if that's considered sport. I know they do that competitive well.
As much as I sweat and just like curse and
carry on about my TV, you'd think i'd be playing
a basketball game. Yet another fun fact you'll learn about
Drew when all of you start listening to the podcast.
He's an ultra gamer. As someone like myself who's not

(01:04:19):
a gamer, I'm on him for it, but I could
I could see the hype behind it, so you're fine. Also,
Mark few not surprised he can beat you in pickleball.
That man is like low key ripped up. He lifts
every day. He just looks yoked under the under the shirts.
He's the tight little quarter zips. Yeah, fifty five year
old in the gym, just pump. What's he benching two

(01:04:40):
twenty five easily? He's always in the weight room lifting
with us, doing whatever we do. He's doing toe the
bars where you're on the bar and he's just flinging
up like that's the most in shape dude. He's He's
a machine. I don't if I were him, I'd probably
be just drinking a beard, showing out my porch with
all the success he's had and he's just he's always
doing something, man, He's just he's he's one of a

(01:05:00):
kind man for sure. Yeah, m all right, we can
wrap it unless anybody else has anything else they want
to ask, if not me, Yeah, how you said name
of the college? Oh my college, Duke Duquane. Yeah. Yeah.

(01:05:22):
A lot of people think, sure, what did you think
it was? So I was in the car with my
dad and I got a text from Duquane and I
look over and I'm like, Dad, who was du Quest? Me?
I thought it was cute. It was Quest. I was
so confused and yeah, my dumb self. Then they put

(01:05:42):
two and two together. But yeah, I'm with you on
that one. I didn't know. It's spelled really weird for
how it's pronounced. It's a terrible smelling. I'm not committed editor.
All right, Well that's a rap from Epic Sports Bar
at Northern Quest Casino. We appreciate every single one of
you for coming out. This is all. Thank you guys
so much. Thank you, y'all appreciate it. This has been

(01:06:14):
a presentation of the College Athletes Network