June 16, 2025 • 9 mins
Ben shares a raw and relatable account of his daughter’s intense weekend of youth basketball, including a humbling 50-point loss to a state-champion-level team from Decatur. From the elite skills of a tiny sharpshooter to the grind of back-to-back games, it’s a glimpse into the highs and lows of competitive parenting.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
By the way, I was driving into work today behind
a black porch and the license plate said.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uh barking, uh. And what did it say? It said,
I liked this, Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
With epic with I'll show you're gone bruin in the
except similar sweet pursuing. It told out shaw shank through
the sewer, dude, Now what chilling at the eagle. Yeah,
we're doing it through your clock on the dock. Gotta
habit for my house or go. That is how it started.
Kidding crattic, show that enough, multiply like a rabbit tun
(00:40):
in zone out, crank it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm on hang out with my friends, rocking on her radio.
My hon on boy, skinning and skin talking on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's time to do this spas again.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All baby, we go, Kati Christina.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Uh yes.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So that license plate said g LF wife, and I
was like, oh my god, this lady is like proudly
a guilf wife. It's amazing. I couldn't wait to get up,
like to get a look at her. I was like
speeding up to kind of see what it. Did you
think it, golf wife? Did you think that it was
like a lesbian Guilf, like she didn't have that fantasy
(01:31):
that you were having about it. But I didn't think that,
like she was saying, Hey, I'm I'm a wife, My
wife is a Guilf.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Now he was having the holiday road scene from exactly
all the Chevy Chase Smiths exactly, probably Christy Brinkley driving.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
At her current age. Uh still good, Yep, it would
have been current.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But we had a great show at the Chalk Talk
Casino on Resort Durant on Friday. We're going to revisit
some of the things from that that. That's me being scatterbrain.
The frenetic pace of everything we have going on is
not good for me. It's just like arrive do a
show from just go Go, Go, go go, Like we're
just so short on time.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's just it's all happening way too fast. It's happening
way too fast, and slow it down at our elevated age,
all right. I mean, it's just there's just a lot
going on. Ben in summertime, there's a lot of high
pressure recording happening, and I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I do.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I did have a great weekend though, and I want
to share a couple of things that happened. So my daughter,
my daughter's fourteen, she's a basketball player's pretty serious about basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And she participated in a tournament. Okay, so it was
a tournament put on by the Dallas Mavericks. Yes, and
man it was.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I do want to say a few things that she
usually plays at Frisco field House and she had a game.
This is like you guys may have had great weekends
where you went on great adventures, did a lot of
fun things.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Skin you mad an incredible Father's Day weekend for me.
My daughter had a basketball game at nine on Friday night. Hell,
she had games I think two and six on Saturday,
and then roughly the same thing on Sunday. So you
drove back and plays again tonight at nine, Oh my god. Really,
So you drove back from Choctaw, probably had enough time
(03:14):
to take a leak and then put food in your mouth,
and then you're off to a gym. I mean, it's
it's non stop. And she likes to she love and
I love this about her. She loves basketball and so
she likes to go to this thing called Shoot three sixty,
which is really cool. I've talked to you about this.
It's a company that realized that like kids who like
basketball nowadays don't have gyms they can go to like
(03:35):
we had, or you can just go to a rec
center and play basketball. They're not available. You have to
rent the whole court. There's not just open run happening.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And so there's nowhere for young kids to go play
basketball unless it's outdoors, you know. And so shoot three
sixty is this company that within this space they may
have like ten different basketball goals and netting set up.
So it's basically a free throw to three point shooting
thing for a really small like portion of a court
for someone to rent on their own and go shoot basket.
And so she's in a routine that she likes to do.
(04:05):
That which I encourage is this close to the house.
It's at Frisco Field House. So now we're an hour
before every game we're there. Oh, so we got an
hour before.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Every game and every game, so it's like an NBA
game condition all these games, drop off and go to
the bar. There was there was so much basketball. And
so she's been playing. She plays for Nancy Lieberman's team
Liberman Elite, the great Delvin Dickerson as the coach, and
they play, they're up and prosper. And so her team
(04:37):
has been primarily a you know, like a wreck team,
and now they're ready to say are we ready to
play tournaments? And now that's a big change. Okay, So
the first team she played was kind of kind of
a ir regular wreck team, maybe a little bit better
than a wreck team. They lost that game, but it
(04:57):
was somewhat close. Second game they played a tournament team,
so Ringers, absolute ringers. God. I wish I could remember
where they're from. But there, Clark, I think they won
the four A state championship there. It's a small It's Decatur, Texas.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Decatur, damn where that is?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Seven?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You know it is a burgeoning suburb of the metropolitan
They're near Gainesville.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, I'll call it Decator. Okay, you do know where
it is. It's on the way too, like if you're
going to Oklahoma City. Oh, it's that way I go
through there where I'm going to Olney, Okay, Denton, Decatur,
Jacksborough isn't Decatur where they got that babes over there
off of thirty five on the way Oklahoma. So we
So I'm watching these girls warm up and I'm like, uh,
(05:42):
Oh yeah, this is gonna be bad. I can just tell, like,
this is going to be bad for us. And uh.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They came out and they had this little girl on
the team who just looked like a cheerleader. She didn't
look like a basketball player or anything. And she was
one of the smallest girls in the court, if not
the smallest. She comes down the court, She's like, Oh, no,
one's guarding me. Boom, pops the three. You really only see,
like at this level, you only see one to two
three pointers made in the whole game. Okay, she comes down,
pops open three. I'm like, I don't know what we're
(06:10):
doing defensively, but someoney keep an eye on her. Next possession,
she comes down, Oh, nobody's on me. I'll just take
another three. Boom splash comes down again. Three straight threes
to start the game.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Wow. And I'm like, that's hard to do it in
like a men's game.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, And she just and none of the shots were forced.
She was just you're not covering me. And I was like, Okay,
this girl just must be a shooter. She must be
one dimensional. Oh no, she's her point guard. She could
dribble with either hand, finish it around the rim with
either hand. She was making great passes and this was
just a well oiled basketball machine. They made every right
pass like everyone on the team's hitting mid range jumpers.
(06:47):
Then no one forced anything, relentless physical defense, and I
was like, Okay, I'd always heard this, I'd always heard
that there's other levels, but man, we saw it firsthand
and we took I think they beat us by fifty.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Ooh were they the same age as Grace? Are they
a little bit older? They were a little bit older.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So this girl, so Grace is going to be a
ninth grader, and this girl that I was talking about,
who is tiny, apparently she's about to be a tenth grader. Okay,
and she's already playing varsity basketball on a state championship team.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, I bet they don't play softball or volleyball, but
they are specializing in a lot of basketball.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Ever indicator I know, Cad like I think I did.
It's what it's known for, is it girls' basketball? Chris,
So Crumb up there by where you live. Crumb was
just an old basketball school for you. Oh dude, we
used to go so when I was in my early twenties,
I would drive there was really good basketball players, about
five years ahead of us, and he and I would
drive out to Crumb to go hoop in their open
(07:41):
run and they were country ballers. And I swear this
is true. There was an old man. I say his
old man because I was in my early twenties. This
guy was probably my age now or late forties, and
he was high as a kite and he was bombing
from everywhere. You remember Vance Cranfell, right, Yeah, yeah, I
used to drive up there with Vance Cranfelle, who granflon.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So so this is tournament basketball, I'm told. And by
the way, the Mavericks went out of their way to
hire an all star team of officials.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It was like usually I get mad at every game,
I'm Matt because even at pro games because there's so
many bad calls.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Huh, there was really good officiating. Nice. That was shocked
they didn't have Scott Foster there to try to extend
the series. So later at our last game, we played
a team in the tournament that only had five girls.
Oh and one of the girls was large, like huge,
she couldn't get back up and down the court. Nice,
So it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Wasn't even fair. So we saw the full gamut. You know,
we saw the full disparity. We saw a well oiled
juggernaut team, and then we saw a team with just
five players and one of them couldn't really move.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I want to see Decater play them. So they won
by one hundred points. But anyways, that my youth basketball weekend.
It's all I had, it's all I did the entire time,
and it's not even over. I got to go do
it again tonight. I would encourage every listener to join
Ben tonight at nine o'clock Hocket Grace's game. I said,
I get to do it again today. Yes, get to
I'm going to yeah, ye, rest in peace?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Coming up next? Where are you gonna go? And things?
Skin is tracking? Okay, I'm gonna tell you how Father's
Day can go horribly wrong for somebody, and we'll do
that next, all right.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
But
By the way, I was driving into work today behind
a black porch and the license plate said.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Uh barking, uh. And what did it say? It said,
I liked this, Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
With epic with I'll show you're gone bruin in the
except similar sweet pursuing. It told out shaw shank through
the sewer, dude, Now what chilling at the eagle. Yeah,
we're doing it through your clock on the dock. Gotta
habit for my house or go. That is how it started.
Kidding crattic, show that enough, multiply like a rabbit tun
(00:40):
in zone out, crank it up, beat the habit.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm on hang out with my friends, rocking on her radio.
My hon on boy, skinning and skin talking on the radio.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's time to do this spas again.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
All baby, we go, Kati Christina.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Uh yes.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So that license plate said g LF wife, and I
was like, oh my god, this lady is like proudly
a guilf wife. It's amazing. I couldn't wait to get up,
like to get a look at her. I was like
speeding up to kind of see what it. Did you
think it, golf wife? Did you think that it was
like a lesbian Guilf, like she didn't have that fantasy
(01:31):
that you were having about it. But I didn't think that,
like she was saying, Hey, I'm I'm a wife, My
wife is a Guilf.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Now he was having the holiday road scene from exactly
all the Chevy Chase Smiths exactly, probably Christy Brinkley driving.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
At her current age. Uh still good, Yep, it would
have been current.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But we had a great show at the Chalk Talk
Casino on Resort Durant on Friday. We're going to revisit
some of the things from that that. That's me being scatterbrain.
The frenetic pace of everything we have going on is
not good for me. It's just like arrive do a
show from just go Go, Go, go go, Like we're
just so short on time.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's just it's all happening way too fast. It's happening
way too fast, and slow it down at our elevated age,
all right. I mean, it's just there's just a lot
going on. Ben in summertime, there's a lot of high
pressure recording happening, and I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I do.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I did have a great weekend though, and I want
to share a couple of things that happened. So my daughter,
my daughter's fourteen, she's a basketball player's pretty serious about basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And she participated in a tournament. Okay, so it was
a tournament put on by the Dallas Mavericks. Yes, and
man it was.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I do want to say a few things that she
usually plays at Frisco field House and she had a game.
This is like you guys may have had great weekends
where you went on great adventures, did a lot of
fun things.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Skin you mad an incredible Father's Day weekend for me.
My daughter had a basketball game at nine on Friday night. Hell,
she had games I think two and six on Saturday,
and then roughly the same thing on Sunday. So you
drove back and plays again tonight at nine, Oh my god. Really,
So you drove back from Choctaw, probably had enough time
(03:14):
to take a leak and then put food in your mouth,
and then you're off to a gym. I mean, it's
it's non stop. And she likes to she love and
I love this about her. She loves basketball and so
she likes to go to this thing called Shoot three sixty,
which is really cool. I've talked to you about this.
It's a company that realized that like kids who like
basketball nowadays don't have gyms they can go to like
(03:35):
we had, or you can just go to a rec
center and play basketball. They're not available. You have to
rent the whole court. There's not just open run happening.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And so there's nowhere for young kids to go play
basketball unless it's outdoors, you know. And so shoot three
sixty is this company that within this space they may
have like ten different basketball goals and netting set up.
So it's basically a free throw to three point shooting
thing for a really small like portion of a court
for someone to rent on their own and go shoot basket.
And so she's in a routine that she likes to do.
(04:05):
That which I encourage is this close to the house.
It's at Frisco Field House. So now we're an hour
before every game we're there. Oh, so we got an
hour before.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Every game and every game, so it's like an NBA
game condition all these games, drop off and go to
the bar. There was there was so much basketball. And
so she's been playing. She plays for Nancy Lieberman's team
Liberman Elite, the great Delvin Dickerson as the coach, and
they play, they're up and prosper. And so her team
(04:37):
has been primarily a you know, like a wreck team,
and now they're ready to say are we ready to
play tournaments? And now that's a big change. Okay, So
the first team she played was kind of kind of
a ir regular wreck team, maybe a little bit better
than a wreck team. They lost that game, but it
(04:57):
was somewhat close. Second game they played a tournament team,
so Ringers, absolute ringers. God. I wish I could remember
where they're from. But there, Clark, I think they won
the four A state championship there. It's a small It's Decatur, Texas.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Decatur, damn where that is?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Seven?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You know it is a burgeoning suburb of the metropolitan
They're near Gainesville.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, I'll call it Decator. Okay, you do know where
it is. It's on the way too, like if you're
going to Oklahoma City. Oh, it's that way I go
through there where I'm going to Olney, Okay, Denton, Decatur,
Jacksborough isn't Decatur where they got that babes over there
off of thirty five on the way Oklahoma. So we
So I'm watching these girls warm up and I'm like, uh,
(05:42):
Oh yeah, this is gonna be bad. I can just tell, like,
this is going to be bad for us. And uh.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
They came out and they had this little girl on
the team who just looked like a cheerleader. She didn't
look like a basketball player or anything. And she was
one of the smallest girls in the court, if not
the smallest. She comes down the court, She's like, Oh, no,
one's guarding me. Boom, pops the three. You really only see,
like at this level, you only see one to two
three pointers made in the whole game. Okay, she comes down,
pops open three. I'm like, I don't know what we're
(06:10):
doing defensively, but someoney keep an eye on her. Next possession,
she comes down, Oh, nobody's on me. I'll just take
another three. Boom splash comes down again. Three straight threes
to start the game.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Wow. And I'm like, that's hard to do it in
like a men's game.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yeah, And she just and none of the shots were forced.
She was just you're not covering me. And I was like, Okay,
this girl just must be a shooter. She must be
one dimensional. Oh no, she's her point guard. She could
dribble with either hand, finish it around the rim with
either hand. She was making great passes and this was
just a well oiled basketball machine. They made every right
pass like everyone on the team's hitting mid range jumpers.
(06:47):
Then no one forced anything, relentless physical defense, and I
was like, Okay, I'd always heard this, I'd always heard
that there's other levels, but man, we saw it firsthand
and we took I think they beat us by fifty.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Ooh were they the same age as Grace? Are they
a little bit older? They were a little bit older.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
So this girl, so Grace is going to be a
ninth grader, and this girl that I was talking about,
who is tiny, apparently she's about to be a tenth grader. Okay,
and she's already playing varsity basketball on a state championship team.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, I bet they don't play softball or volleyball, but
they are specializing in a lot of basketball.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Ever indicator I know, Cad like I think I did.
It's what it's known for, is it girls' basketball? Chris,
So Crumb up there by where you live. Crumb was
just an old basketball school for you. Oh dude, we
used to go so when I was in my early twenties,
I would drive there was really good basketball players, about
five years ahead of us, and he and I would
drive out to Crumb to go hoop in their open
(07:41):
run and they were country ballers. And I swear this
is true. There was an old man. I say his
old man because I was in my early twenties. This
guy was probably my age now or late forties, and
he was high as a kite and he was bombing
from everywhere. You remember Vance Cranfell, right, Yeah, yeah, I
used to drive up there with Vance Cranfelle, who granflon.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So so this is tournament basketball, I'm told. And by
the way, the Mavericks went out of their way to
hire an all star team of officials.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh cool.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It was like usually I get mad at every game,
I'm Matt because even at pro games because there's so
many bad calls.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Huh, there was really good officiating. Nice. That was shocked
they didn't have Scott Foster there to try to extend
the series. So later at our last game, we played
a team in the tournament that only had five girls.
Oh and one of the girls was large, like huge,
she couldn't get back up and down the court. Nice,
So it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Wasn't even fair. So we saw the full gamut. You know,
we saw the full disparity. We saw a well oiled
juggernaut team, and then we saw a team with just
five players and one of them couldn't really move.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I want to see Decater play them. So they won
by one hundred points. But anyways, that my youth basketball weekend.
It's all I had, it's all I did the entire time,
and it's not even over. I got to go do
it again tonight. I would encourage every listener to join
Ben tonight at nine o'clock Hocket Grace's game. I said,
I get to do it again today. Yes, get to
I'm going to yeah, ye, rest in peace?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Coming up next? Where are you gonna go? And things?
Skin is tracking? Okay, I'm gonna tell you how Father's
Day can go horribly wrong for somebody, and we'll do
that next, all right.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
But
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