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July 8, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Thank you for spending your day with us as you
make your commute to wherever it.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Is that you're going home. I assume or.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Many of you may be on the way to work
if you work the evenings. We'd like to encourage all
of our listeners to once again go to ticket seven
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one hundred. Unfortunately, in the terms of the death toll
from this tragedy this past weekend and many still missing

(00:30):
as well. The recovery and the rebuilding process is slowly beginning,
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Guadalupe River, you can do so by simply going to
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Texas Flood Relief Fund. The San Antonio Spurs brought in

(00:51):
Luke Cornett this week to meet with people and tell
us about his decision to come to San Antonio. And
he's gonna wear the number seven. So Luke Cornett will
wear seven as his jersey. And he told everybody why
he picked that number.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I've never worn the number four honestly for me,
and I feel like in the time of life for
me and my family, like seven's a big number of
like covenant and fulfillment and order in the faith. And
so that's kind of what called me to it. And
the secondary reason was I just hoped to be a
third of the player that Tim Duncan was.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Guy's got, Joe, That's yeah, he's got He's pretty good
right there.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
That's how you work over, that's how you get in
favor with the fans of the media.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Well, you know, he probably went to the practice facility
and saw Tim and went, you know, that's not a
bad idea.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well, who was it?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
It was either it was it was Harper that said,
I've never gone to a practice facility and seen former
players and former coaches hanging out.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, it might have been him, but I think it
was Carter Bryant that was talking about you know, the
word family is. He goes to the practice facility in
like his what was it, the day or second day
after he got drafted, and he's like, yeah, I'm at
the at the Rock and I look over and there's
Tim Duncan, there's monug You nobly.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh look, there's el Hefe, you know. And it's just
like the the.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Family, camaraderie and culture that that the Spurs organization, whether
you you know, political whatever, that they have built that
here that even former players still you know, you know,
Johntay Murray talks about coach Pop all the time. Is
he credits him as possibly even saving his life and

(02:33):
that he's they wanted to bring his mom from Seattle
on his own expenses.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah. Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
When Pop made the retirement official that John Day, Murray
flew in and was at the at the.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
The press conference. Yea, So definitely.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I think I think that's one thing that the Spurs
have done tremendously well.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Uh throughout the years.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
There's things that you could you could potentially fault them for,
but the players that have come here talk about their
enjoyment being here. There's a few that don't like it
because so they were held to at accountability and if
you you know, I even Steven Jackson on his Up
and Smoke podcast will talk you know, I didn't really
I didn't like some of the things that Pop was
telling me during the day, but I understand now why
he was doing it. And as he's matured, he understands

(03:18):
more as to as to why that was happening.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, even though he still is on his soapbox, he
thinks that he was he was and were full ever
be a better player than one Emanuel David Gino Beeley.
He's like at times, he's like, but damn, he was
really really good. So as much as they want to criticize,
they still knowing their hearts. I still love that organization

(03:42):
because what they did for maybe not just their their
basketball playing career, but what they did for them personally
in their lives.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
So he also talked about picking San Antonio. He had
a choices to where to go and was very happy
that he could come to the Alamo City.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
And honestly, I know a lot of people from here,
and so I feel like my impression of the organization
and of the city is just I'm nothing but positive.
And I kind of felt like me and my wife
just in the last month or so talking about it,
and I think just honestly being really excited for the
opportunity to kind of take on more responsibility and kind
of have the sort of next wave of life and

(04:21):
our career. And I just felt through the process, I
just feel like how I can can fit with the
team on the court and what I can kind of provide.
I feel like, yeah, honestly just looking forward to to
really being a part of that and just helping win.
But I honestly just felt like a time for kind
of this calling to just more responsibility. And you know,
I'm grateful for all the time that I had in Boston,

(04:42):
and I feel like I was really appropriate place for
the last several years, and grateful for all the opportunity
that I was, but I mean, I just kind of
felt led and then I feel like throughout the process,
it just felt like San Antonio is really the place
that kind of had everything that we'd hoped for and
just felt peaceful in it.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
You know, there's a lot of former basketball players that
have chosen to stay in San Antonio, or at least
not just Spurs players that have moved here. And I say,
you know, like I think, I don't know if he
still lives here or not, But for a long time,
Antoine Carr called San Antonio home. And Antoine Carr was
in the NBA with the Spurs for just a few
years in the in the early nineties, but when he retired,

(05:25):
he came back.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
So I think there's something about.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
The area, and even if you live in the hill
country or live in the in the surrounding area of
San Antonio, that a lot of people enjoy the pace
that they have when they're back here. So and Luke Cornett,
as we heard yesterday, has some friends and family that
are up in the Dallas area and has so he's
familiar with the state of Texas to some extent well.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
But he also had a teammate that was a former
San Antonio Spur that was very quiet, you know, that
was developed here. So I'm sure he probably talked to
Derek and said, hey, you know, give me the lowdown.
And I highly doubt that Derek would have said anything
anything negative about the organization.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
So I like the fact that he's.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Talked about you know, he talked about a little bit
more responsibility to where it's like, hey, yeah, I know
I was at least at least this is how I
read between the lines. Yeah, I know, I was on
a great all Star style team where I didn't have
to do much. You know, I'm playing with Porzingis and
Al Horford and you know, Tatum Brown Derek White to

(06:34):
where all I had to do was just do my job,
But now I want to come here and do my job,
but also help more and do more than just be
another body here.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's how I took that at Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
And Luke Cornett also talked about his expectations what he's
going to bring to the team.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's pretty exciting in terms of that because I feel like,
obviously Victor's got grey Scales and then like Darren and
uh Stefan and obviously getting like Dylan Harper. So I
feel it's a good mix of obviously Victor's talented where
I feel like we could be able to play together.
And I did that song with Chris Aswarzingis and Boston
in the past year and Al Horford, and I feel

(07:14):
like having a lot of experience with that, both defensively
and offensively how to be able to play and then
being able to be like a good pick and roll partner,
I feel like with a lot of the downhill guards
and then for me like kind of the keys to
my game, especially now we're just protecting the rim, which
I feel like if me and Victor could be obviously
really confident together in but especially when he's off the four,

(07:36):
being able to provide that, and then I mean offensive
rebanks also become a big part of just being able
to have possessions. So a fun part about it is that,
like it's going to look different than what it has
like a year before me and every single year of
playing is kind of like a new situation of figuring
out how to, like best play. But I'm looking forward to,
you know, figuring out that optimal way with this group

(07:57):
and with how Mitch wants us to play, and just
start integrating that and kind of finding out what those
best answers are.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
You like how he said the number one thing that
you wanted as well as myself opposite week side rebounding.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
So it's like he's and I think that's a reason
why they could start together, or they could certainly play together.
And my guess is, and I mean, I'm not an
NBA basketball coach and I don't even play one on
the radio, but my guess is that Mitch has probably

(08:30):
gone through about three hundred notebooks trying to figure out
how many different combinations he can actually play at times
during the game. And I think the one thing that
you got to do when you put a group of
players on the floor. Is you want somebody that can rebound,
somebody that can score, and somebody that can be a
secondary score, and somebody that can facilitate. And so you're
always searching for that as you go through the period

(08:52):
of rotations. So I think there's so many ways that
they can use him and the other players on this roster.
It's going to be really interesting how how much orchestrates that.
And the one thing is is that you know, I
don't know in football, if you can have enough plays,

(09:12):
you can always design another play for a special team.
And I think in basketball the same way. But to me,
if you have maybe eight or nine different rotations and
you just get really really good at those eight or
nine and you it's figuring out what those eight or
nine rotations are that make you the best, that can
make it light, can make life miserable for other teams

(09:32):
when you're guarding them. You know, you look at the
Spurs when they had sim Toni and Manu and there
were several different role players that kind of fed in
and out of those teams, but who didn't matter who
was on the floor with them or when they were
off the floor, they were able to have some offensive
consistency and also get stops on defense. So I think
that's going to be the challenge is what we now

(09:54):
have all these all these options, which ones do we
actually use and how do we get them all playing
together at the same time.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
It wouldn't surprise me because I know he uh he
also talked about it not in there, not in that
press conference, but uh, I forgot who it was. It
might have been with Don Harris, but he he was
kind of understood his role and he's like, yeah, I
have no problem being a backup or being you know,
backing up Wimby and the way.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
That they played the last year.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Again, assuming they bring back Charles Bassey he's one hundred
percent healthy, or if they even go potentially maybe, uh,
don't go get because Brian Wright, don't. Don't these two
players you definitely don't want on your team because they're terrible,
terrible players. You know, you don't go and get a
Jackson Hayes. You don't try to facilitate a trade with

(10:49):
with your former buddy, you know, Will Hardy, you know,
because he's really awesome up there in Utah. We definitely
do not want a Walker Kessler So if you don't
go get those particular players, I could still see them
rolling with a somewhat of a small lineup. And then
you have Harrison Barnes being your starting four and then

(11:11):
Victor being the five, and just for numbers sake, and
then you have when Victor goes for his what at
the six minute break or something like that. Okay, you
go take your break, and then Luke Cornett comes in,
you know, maybe finishes out the rest of the quarter.
Because again that was the biggest thing. When Victor went
off the floor, it was, you know, like Moses partying

(11:35):
of the Red Sea.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
It was. It was a free for all. There was
no rim protection whatsoever.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
There was no defensive struggle whatsoever when it came to
the offense, just penetrating.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
So I can see that.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, you're gonna have to trade for Jackson Hayes because
the Lakers did sign him to a one year deal.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Oh then I must have missed that one. Yeah, I
just saw it. I think it's new. It happened. I
think it happened Sunday.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Uh, but uh, yeah, you're gonna have to you have
to give up something for Jackson Hayes now. But it
only makes two and a half million dollars a year,
so he's not an expensive commodity man. Well, that brings
me to the next question here, and that is expectations
for the Spurs. And I don't know how you can
define that, because I've had that question ask to me.
I don't know how you can define what the expectations

(12:21):
are going to be. You're never going to hear a
coach say we need to win fifty games. What you're
gonna hear and I don't care whether it's Pop or
Mitch Johnson or Doc Rivers or anyone in between. Uh,
You're going to get We want to get better every week.
It's about stacking days, it's about it's about making sure

(12:41):
that we work on our weaknesses and get better with
our weaknesses. Those are the things that you're going to
hear all the time. And it's cliche, but when you
play well, you usually end up with wins. It's about
the process and the outcome takes care of itself with
the process. And you know, Tiger Wood said that forever.
I don't know how many tournaments I'm gonna win, but

(13:03):
I'm gonna try to be better at every tournament from
one to one tournament to the next, and that's how
you stack up, you know, nine or ten wins in
a season. Scotty's doing the same thing now, and basketball
players and athletes around the world are always just trying
to hone their craft to get a little bit better
at what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Coming up in the next segment, we'll talk about the
fragile egos of quarterbacks, and one in particular would be
Kirk Cousins. That conversation is next. It's the Andy Everage
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