Mike Conley with Dan Barreiro 10-6-25

Mike Conley with Dan Barreiro 10-6-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Supply, all right, we are back five o'clock hour. We'll
get to back to plenty of Viking stuff a little later.
I did, by the way, uh briefly talk as Brett
Blakemore knows about the Golden Gopher's latest visit to Columbus, Ohio.

(00:39):
I'm wondering if our next guest had a chance to
see any of that. Mike Conley, man, that was that
was That's a hell of a defense that club had.
Your club has.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Sure, Yeah, we're gonna be all right again, hopefully, uh
hopefully we can repeat.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, you're in good shape. I think I don't think
you've given up double digit points in a single game
yet this year. I think anybody's got to ten. Yeah,
so far. So it's it's a nice club. Welcome back.
Good to have you back. Thank you, And I know
you've kind of covered a lot of this elsewhere, But
to set this up, I think we should talk about
it a little bit. It sounds like the contrast for

(01:14):
you off this off season to the previous off season
is huge and pretty dramatic in terms of your ability
to prepare the way you want to prepare yourself. Give
us a little, you know, insight into that contrast.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, well, last summer I spent most of that time
rehabbing from a wrist injury and unable to get on
the court and unable to lift weights the way I
want to, kind of had to lift with one arm,
you know, do stuff like that kind of makeshift stuff up.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
But to have a summer.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Where you come in and you are seemingly healthy and
no issues, you can kind of get going right from
the jump, and you know soon, you know, two days
after the season was over, we started just doing maintenance work,
working out, just really getting the routine down and staying
in shape and uh, and that just leads into a
really really good, uh summer of work, which uh, you know,

(02:08):
for guys my age, you get older and older you
get you have to stay moving, you have to stay
in the best shape you can. As you get closer
to the season, and I think that that's going to
bowl well for the start of this, this preseason and
training camp going into the regular season.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Were you ever in the off season at any point
tempted to say, then, hell of a run, I'm just ready,
I'm ready to move on?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Did that?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Did you ever come close to that? H?

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Never? Never.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I think that's why I'm still here is I still
haven't really gotten to that point where it's even crossed
my mind. And you know, I just I'll try to
listen to advice some of my old vests to say, Man,
don't don't ever put a year on it or a
time limit. Just keep going, Just keep going till you
can't anymore. And you'll know, you know when that time
comes and when you wake up that morning and it's
just not right, you know, So.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
So far as you know, I'm not there.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So it still burns in you. Yeah, competitive part and
that you enjoy that that has You're not You've not lost.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Any of No, No, I think you know.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
That's I was talking earlier today, I think to one
of the other reporters, and that was my main thing
was I wouldn't have stayed playing this long had I
not you know had that competitive you know, edged where
you want to win something so bad that you're willing to,
you know, risk your body another four or five years,
however long it takes to get accomplished that because a

(03:28):
lot of people, you know, in my situation might just
call it quits and say it's okay to just go
be a family man and right off into the sunset.
But you know, I really feel like I got the
same way I did day one when I got into
the league, just super motivated and ready to go.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Heart. You've talked about this with us before. As you
get older, obviously you have to work harder on your
body right to keep yourself in the kind of shape
that you do. And that's when I've heard other players
when they say that was when I knew. I just didn't.
I wasn't prepared to go through all the stuff to
work my body the same way, or all those aches
and pains caught up. And it sounds like with you, you're

(04:04):
not there.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, And honestly that's the That's the fight I'm in
right now is exactly that where you it's not that
you can't do something. You can do pretty much everything
you used to be able to do. But can you
put the work in on a daily basis and recover
on a daily basis and be able to do it
in stack days, you know.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
For six straight months.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And that's the grind that the people don't see and
how hard it is to kind of stay afloat as
you age. So I think that's the part that you know,
we all battle, but I'm not letting it, you know,
overcome me just yet.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Everybody has a theory on what this team, your team
needs to do to get to that next step, which
obviously would be the finals. I'm curious to hear and
we'll we'll talk about several of them, but I'm curious
to get your view on that as a veteran player
who knows this team well, uh knows what you know,

(04:58):
what's involved in trying to go after title, et cetera.
What what do you believe? What priorities do you think
should take hold for this team to take to give
itself the best chance to take the last step.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Ah, well, for us, you know, we're in a situation
you can't really go out and I had a bunch
of people it's not going to happen. You're not going
to go trade for this guy or that guy is
just the situation we're in as we're in and and
we have a roster that's built, this plenty built, ready
to compete for a championship. And we talk a lot
about the preseason about continuity, continuity and internal growth from

(05:34):
our in from our guys, from our young guys, from
even myself, from Aunt Jaden and nas. You can go
down the line. Can we continue to get better individually
and continue to get better and the smaller parts of
the game that we felt like, okay, see last year
we're better than us that you know, the high i
Q plays, the difference differences and they're on ball defense

(05:58):
and team defense, like, can we be up our level
to that type of level of defense and give ourselves
a better chance of having a chance to win.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
I think that we can.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
And that's something that we've been working very hard at
all summer, all preseason, and hopefully we can accomplish that
kind of standard as we go forward.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
A lot of discussion on the offensive side is we
want to run more, and it seems as if to
go along with that, it's we don't want to see
two or three guys go in the wrong direction for
the ball anymore that the ball that that Finchy wants
the ball to come to you. He wants the other
players to be advancing into the front court, not coming

(06:38):
back for the ball. To give us your view on that,
how important that is and how you establish that.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Yeah, well it's a it's a former structure that I'm
glad that coaches is really kind of harpening on that
early is because it gives us, you know, a way
to run up the floor with a little bit of
pace and structure with guys in there, I think their
most comfortable spots. I think you got Jaden, you got
you got Julius, not just always pushing the ball with themselves,

(07:07):
but being able to get outlets and run down the court,
get easy buckets, get you know, earlier opportunities, and even
when we don't get our you know, early offense going,
we might not get a layup, but we make the
defense flatten out by just pushing the ball trying, you know,
trying to break the paint one or two times and
back in the back out. Now a pick and roll
comes later, and that in that action, you have the

(07:29):
whole world open to you because of just the way
the pace that you're playing at. See it a lot
with Indiana. We'll see at tomorrow and preseason you'll see
it in Okay. See all these teams that play with
pace and how much more you know, how many more
opportunities they get offensively and the game becomes a lot
easier for them.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Are you comfortable with that yourself?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
I love it. I've been one, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'm as like I said, I'm at the age where
I'd rather run less. So I'd rather be like the
all time quarterback on a on a backyard football team.
Let me get the outlet and I will throw it
ahead out I can turn it over as many times.
I probably won't, but I'll throw it ahead as much
as I can to you guys and let you, guys,
you know, work early, and you know, get it back
to me after that and be good. You know.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
We had John Krasinsky on earlier in the show, a
regular on our program who I think you know pretty
well and is around you guys a lot, and I
mentioned that we were going to have you in studio,
and he reminded me, I think he's written about this too,
that in his mind he what he has observed of you,
he thinks it's one of the most interesting stories early
in camp. And what he has said said to me

(08:32):
and what he's written is that he thinks that you
have been more vocal than you have generally been more
assertive about challenging people, et cetera. Is it something you
do you agree with that? And is it something conscious
that you're doing. Is it something the coach has asked
you to do? How's this coming about?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
No, it's not a conscious thing. I think it's just
a necessary thing, you know. I think where you see
the team, you see things need to be better at.
And you know, I'm I'm a guy that I'm sitting
here looking like I can't you know, not say something
about this right now, because you know this is gonna
it matters so much right now. I think that there's
in the years past, maybe I didn't say it when

(09:11):
I should have, or maybe I didn't get coaches to
talk about a certain thing when he should have. And
at this point of the year, because I think this
is the time of the year we have to be
extra detailed on everything, and because the standard can be
set today and then we're looking in the you know,
hopefully in the playoffs, we're making a run, and there's
things that are happening by habit and they're not things

(09:32):
you have to teach during that time or things that
have to you have to you know, spend more time
on things during the playoffs. Instead, it kind of engraved
in your DNA and you just you know, have Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
You got to build a habit.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, and I would assume you know, you get to
where you guys have been and move in terms of
the just the difference between teams at that level is
they're very fine points, right, that's the whole thing. And
but it's all those little details you add them cumulatively,
that's what helps you get to that next spot. Correct.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh, it's such a small difference. People don't understand how
close it is. I think we looked at a stat
the other day about our offense, and our efficiency was
really good. We were like twenty seventh in pace and
if we just threw the ball ahead three more times
I don't know if it's three or four more times
a game with that same efficiency, it put us at
like a top five offense, you know, just all throughout

(10:25):
the whole season.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
And that's a small.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Thing, that's but that's a that's a trained, you know,
habit thing. You know, guys running, guys getting the space,
spacing the floor for each other. And that's how small
differences can be, but they can be large in the
big moments.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Did you look you in terms of the differences between
getting the final four not being able to to go
further that the were there significant differences in the way
you perceive what happened against Dallas and what happened against
Oklahoma City? I mean, how did you come out of
this most recent uh, you know, year in which you
were not able to take that next step?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, I mean they both hurt the same, they were different.
We got there in different ways.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
I think.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I think that that first time we got you know,
we played Dallas, it was a year where we everything
was clicking. You know, we had a good start to
the year. It carried over to the playoffs. We made
it as far as we did. We felt we were
the team that should have represented the West, and their
guys played phenomenal and they beat us, and then we
could come back another year.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
It's more of a rocky year start.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
We had a little bit more ups and downs and
a lot more challenges and uh and still find ourselves
in the same spot, and then you come up on
a team that that legitimately was, you know, hitting on
all cylinders as far as not just making shots, but
like defensively connected, just selfless. Just the way they were
playing it was it was pretty evident obvious that like, hey,
they're they're playing at a certain level.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
We have to try to match to exceed that.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
And you can tell they've been doing it the entire season,
and it's something that we got out of that series, like, hey,
this is we have to be like this. We have
to get our level of play into this level if
we're gonna have a chance.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Mike Conley is joining us in studio. So what you're
telling me is the regular season, to that extent, in
terms of fashioning those habits so that it's almost second
nature by the time you get to the playoffs does matter.
The regular season is where you build that correct.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
It is, and I use I mean it was no
better examples than the two teams that represented in the
finals last year with the Indiana and Okay see and
they play I mean, you know, when you play Indiana,
you're like, man, you're in for a track meet.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
They're gonna run, They're gonna pressure.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
They're going to be physical, you just know it, night
in and night out, and they play the same way
no matter who starts, who comes in the game. That's
that's the mark of like, you know, teams that have
built a certain type of DNA and the way they
want to play. Now, each rosters are you know, rosters
are different. Not every team can play that way because
of the way teams are built. We're a lot bigger

(12:56):
type of team, and maybe we can't play at that
same pace, but we can surely, you know, make strides.
Like I said, if you throw the ball ahead three
more times, you're you're talking about a huge difference in
the way, you know, our offense efficiency even is, so
hopefully we can we can try to accomplish that.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
The other thing that and I don't know if if
John wrote about this or I saw this someplace else,
there were some interesting quotes from you that seemed to
me to be saying look to get and I'm paraphrasing.
I'm not quoting you precisely, but this is what I
took out of it. What you were saying was, if
you want to get the best that I have to offer,

(13:33):
I have to kind of have the ball in my hands,
and I can't be sitting in the corner because that's
really not what I do. I'm really not a scorer.
I'm not that guy. So if I'm going to be
out there, I almost it's almost I felt like you
were almost reminding people about what your role needed to be.
Did I do I have that about right? What do
you think?

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Well?

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, just to answer that question, was you know, just
to say, hey, man, I'm you know, I'm a great shooter.
I love to shoot me open shots and guys. We
have guys on our team that us opening the corners
and wings. But I've always played point guard. I've always
had the ball. I've always felt that was the best
way to kind of inject myself in the games because

(14:12):
for my position, it's not about scoring necessarily. It's about
like the feel, you know, when I have the ball
and I'm running picking rolls and finding Ant, finding Jew,
finding Rudy for lobs, or just making plays and not
not even getting a shot up, I feel engaged in
the game. You feel a little bit more comfortable. But
when you kind of sit in the corners every now
and then and you maybe not as involved, you know,

(14:35):
the game kind of gets a little bit rush, it
gets a little bit frantic, and it's not the same.
So I think that for the best version of myself
has always been, you know, the TRG and kind of
handling it well.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
You know, I don't know how well you've gotten to
know Trent Tucker since you've been here. Of course, gold,
golden gold for great and NBA player. He's on a
fan on the weekends as well, And the other day
I was listening to him talking because the discussion was
about Anthony Edwards and about Okay, how do you get
the best out of what Anthony says he wants to
do the next step for him maybe trying to score

(15:06):
a little bit down low, a la Kobe and Michael
back in the day, et cetera. And part of Double
Tee's point was, in his view, to get the best
out of what Anthony Edwards has to offer offensively, he
actually needs to play off the ball even more. And
that's been a discussion before. And it's a fine line
because the way the league is set up now, it
almost feels like if you're a big score, the ball

(15:26):
is in your hands a lot. There aren't as many
pure point guards as there once were, And that's what
I think of when I think of you. How do
you how do you feel about that part of it?
To because obviously you know Edwards is your best player.
You want to get the best out of him. Oddly enough,
is it taking the ball out of his hands a
little more? Is that part of the plan.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Well, I think it's making the game a lot easier
for him. Whether that means taking the ball out of
his hands earlier to get it to him later, or
just find a waste for him to not exert so
much energy. I think he uses a lot of energy
to you know, he's trying to score. Teams are double
team and him. He's having to make so many plays.

(16:07):
It's exhausting. And he catches up to him at some point.
We always tell him, and it'll be a lot easier
game for you to you just start running and getting
to the corners. Maybe you just because you're in that corner,
I mean, you're not going to get the ball. You know,
the way that the game works. If Rudy rolls to
the paint, somebody has to help. If it's your man,
you're going to be helping. If it's not your man,
Rudy's gonna get a dunk, and then you just went

(16:28):
two possessions out having to touch the ball. Our team
scored where you know where everybody's kind of getting a
feel and then when push comes a shove and you need,
you know, a certain type of player, a certain type
of action. You know, I'm here for you, like I'm
I'm all. All I want to do is get you
the ball. I want to do is see you succeed.
So let him just be himself and take us home
when when he has to.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
What do you sense from him? I mean, what do
you what do you sense he has worked on in
the offseason. I've not seen him. Everybody says, you know,
his body fat number is ridiculous, even more so that
he's taking much better of what he's eating, that kind
of stuff. What do you observe early?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I think he's gotten better at everything, if that's possible.
He's worked on every facet of his game. He has
worked on his footwork in the post. He's eager to
show that off, but not not too eager to like
over throw our schemes, you know where he's not trying
to just run to the post just to show it.
He does it if he needs to, but he's still
playing within the confines of what we're trying to create here.

(17:27):
Early in training camp in preseason, he's been great, and
his leadership has been great, his ability to get guys
in the gym, his ability to challenge people. He's challenging everybody.
He's competing every day like he always does. So I'm
really excited to see, you know, what he has in
store for us this season.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
What do you know about about Julius that maybe you
didn't know until you start playing with him.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
I think the first thing, he's not as mean obviously
as you probably think when you look at it from
outside and when you play against someone, I'm like, man,
I'm not going there. But now that you're on this team,
he's a really good dude. But his playmaking. Playmaking ability
is one of his biggest strengths, and there's something that
I don't think I really probably took for granted, you know,

(18:11):
watching them and competing against him, and it's something that
we really try to utilize. And a lot now him
bringing the ball up or him you know, initiating offense
or his post up game. I think he's super efficient
out the post. Like he just got a lot, a
lot to him, but it's not just for himself. It's
like to draw double teams and then get guys open,

(18:31):
and he really really does a really good job of
getting us all involved.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Where does you know, I think I don't know that
we always saw the best that Dante Vincenzo has to offer.
What what have you seen of him? And what do
you what are you guys talking about regarding trying to
get him at his best? Because I sense again that
we don't that the Finchy does not want him handling

(18:54):
the ball a lot. Obviously he can, and you have
to be able to handle the ball if you're a
guard in this league. What that best case scenario is,
It's not That's really not how you get the best
out of him. What do you see there?

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, he's he's one of those players that I consider
can kind of do a little bit of everything. You know,
he's you lead off the ball, like coming off pinned
downs and creating opportunities for himself and his teammates. On
the ball, he can initiate and get us all on
offense and be aggressive when he needs to, But his
energy is contagious and then's something that he's he's been

(19:29):
really good at for us, like his ability to crash
and get offensive rebounds, extra possessions. He's one of our
better guys on defense, like going up and contesting shots
and blocking people and just creating opportunities for us. And
that energy, uh is something that we're gonna you know,
lean on. You know, we need that from him. Uh.
He knows that he's his role. You know, he's gonna
get bigger and bigger. Obviously Nick Hill being out, you know, John,

(19:52):
and you know we're gonna rely on him and TJ
and guys like that to to fill you know a
lot of that and and and he's I'll be ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, let's get one quick break. And I want
to try to hold you over if I could for
like ten more minutes. Can we do that? Yeah, you're
good on time?

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, that sounds like there may not be agreement. I'll
be fast. The break will be fast. I just got
a couple more things. Mike Conley kind of have to
join us in studio. We'll get some work with him
and then get back to Viking's conversation. Stay tuned.

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Speaker 2 (20:49):
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to play and isolated up top against Doc job left
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Conley in the corner. Three body got its corner pocket
from Mike Conley, ninety four clutch from Mike. A couple

(21:11):
more minutes with Mike Conley kind of have to join
us in studio this evening. There's been a lot of
talk obviously about ever since the team you know, uh
found a way to draft Rob to to you know,
project in terms of how quickly he could become a
part of this rotation. From your standpoint, how vital for

(21:34):
this year's team is it for him to take a
big jump?

Speaker 4 (21:37):
What do you think, Oh, yeah, there we go.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Yeah, I think that you know, he's done everything we've
asked of him. Uh, the coaching staff. He's come in,
put the work in. He's a guy that you know,
wants to be perfect. He wants he wants to perform
and be himself. And we're all in this corner to
try to you know, fast track this as fast as
we can because we know his capabilities and what he

(22:01):
can bring to you know, our team that that you know,
we lack that kind of a playmaker and the way
that he can he can move and how quick he
is fast. He's got a lot of juice and and
can do a lot of things. And he's just learning
the NBA game. He's learning the nuances of it. He's
learning a lot defensively. I think that's where he's trying

(22:22):
to make the biggest growth because you know, Jeah Finchy
and everybody's really big on defense here and that's an
easy way to get on the court. And I think
that he's doing a great job of just you know,
soaking it all in and listening to everybody's advice and
you know, hopefully, you know, this is the year where
he makes that jump and able to really really help
the team.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Does he But does he have your head? You know,
your mental I mean some of that is you could
say you've got more experience, but I think you kind
of always have had that to a certain extent. Does
he have that, because I think he's going to have
to learn it.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, you know, we're just we're different, you know, in
a sense, like you said, when I was younger, I've
always kind of been this type of player, you know,
high you know, IQ just always thinking the game. He
is by far one of the most talentsed like hoopers
you'll ever see, you know what I mean. And I
think it's came easy a lot, you know, and in

(23:14):
this game, as you grow and get get to reach
different levels, you know, guys get better and better. And
and now he's having to think a lot more. He's
having to think how to get the ball or how
to you know, run these certain plays and and kind
of grasp the.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Whole playbook and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
So it's just kind of new, newer to him, and
I think it's just taken some time. And like I said,
he's done a great job of locking in on that
and been really impressed with the way he's been able
to handle it through this offseason.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
The funky catch twenty two is he needs to play,
but the way Finchy is you got to play well
before you're gonna get to play right. So that, to me,
that's going to be the trick. You got some young
players on this team who now almost have to be
a bigger part of it. But it's a question of
whether they're going to be get the time. What do
you think?

Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, and we got a lot of guys that I
look back and I'm like, I expect him to play.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
I expect him to play.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
And you look at TJ, look at Jalen, you look
at Rob, you look at you know, Joan and all
of our rookies, Like, we got a lot of talents
at young depth there and uh and all at some
point will make big strides for us and do big
things for our team. So it's just you know, you'll
know when it would be obviously this coach's decision, but

(24:27):
we got to get these guys to to you know,
conform to what we do and and be ready to
go as quickly as possible.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Compare your relationship with Finchy with other coaches that you've
played for. Now that you've been around here a while,
I'm kind of curious to know what the relationship is like,
how much dialogue. There is how much back and forth
there is, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
No, we're tight, you know, we're tight. We we talk
a lot about the game. We talk a lot about
our team. He bounces a lot of ideas off of me. H,
different different things he's thinking about implementing and practices or
or games or different plays I've run in the past. Like,
he's not over, you know, learning different things and trying
different different opportunities for different guys. So I think it's

(25:11):
really cool to have that kind of relationship with a coach.
I think most guys, you know, you see him yelling
on the sideline, and he can be a little aggressive
and assertive, but I tell him and remind him, and
you know, you got a good coach here. Don't don't uh, don't,
don't think about this too much and look too hard
into this. But he's a really good one.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
You know, Rudy really well.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
There's been a lot that's already gone viral. A couple
of his offensive moves in the preseason game the other day.
I think it was the one in San Diego, And
so now people are all projecting, Oh, is that is
that a new Rudy? We're going to see offensively. Is
it realistic to think that what we saw some of
those moves, including that left handed hook, that we're gonna
be able to see in games. Is there another side
of Rudy that's about to be revealed?

Speaker 4 (25:54):
I sure hope so.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Because you know, we loved every bit of what he
did in the preseason game and all the things that
he shown, and he honestly works on that stuff all
the time, so it's a matter if.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
He chooses to do it or not in the game.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
So he's maybe he's showing us a little sneak preview
of what he's got got in store for this season.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I appreciate you coming in.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Thanks. We're looking forward to the visits throughout the season
again again this year, and best of luck this year.
Glad you're healthy, and most importantly, I'm glad you got
a hole in one. Maybe that's the maybe that's the
little offseason message that tells you something big is coming.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Yeah, it definitely is.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
I say I got a hold on one after every interview,
so that's just everybody knows.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's even better. Thanks man, appreciate you. Thank you Mike
Conley kind enough to come in to say hello. We'll
get caught up, and we've got a lot of Viking stuff,
including several vikings talking points we can get to the
rest of the way. We are going the distance until
six thirty this evening, right here in the fat