The Bulldogs Basketball Hour With Paul Loeffler, Coach Vance Walberg & Guard Jasir Tremble

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:24):
Jeers your host, the Voice of the Bulldogs, Paul Leffler.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, good evening, everybody. Hope you stand safe out there
in the rain, and if you're coming to join us
here at Crowing Wolf, be extra careful. It's plenty of
water out there and some people are still in a hurry,
so be careful. Get off at Hernon in one sixty
eight and you're only about a block or two away
from Crowing Wolf. It's the Bulldog Basketball Hour tonight. We're
here till seven o'clock. Coach Vance Wahlberg is here right

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now and in a little while, just here Tremble, one
of his guards who's coming off a career high nineteen
points last time out, he'll be with us as well.
It's Crowing Wolf, so you know what's happening inside. It's
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join us out here at Crowing Wolf here till seven o'clock.
You've got a question and you can't make it, you
can send it on the x app use that hashtag
ask FS. I saw a couple comments and questions coming
in already for coach Van s Wahlberg, Who's Bulldogs host
UNLV Saturday at four o'clock. Coach, I know, it's always

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good to be back home and you're kind of coming
down the home stretch. Six regular season games left. What's
your focus as you approach the rest of this season
with a team that's had to persevere through trials this year.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's an understatement, to say the least.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
No, it's just like the last two days of practice,
we've had really good practices. Kids are trying to you know,
we're trying to get better each day, you know, trying
to get the healthy ones out there and do what
we can with them. We're trying, you know, defensively, we're
just so limited right now. We're trying to figure you know,
do we put a little a little bit more pressure
press in, do we you know, change the zone?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Man?

Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know, for me, all my years, I've all ever
done as man. I always felt, you know, good heart
man was a way to do it. And you know
this year, with the losing the bodies and then playing
two small guards, we had to.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Make some changes. So we're still trying to figure that out.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
One day at a time.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Huh, definitely, one day at a time.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
And like I said, you know, the one thing I
will give the guys, I mean, nobody expect us. You know,
I did not expect them, the players, to expect to
have the season we're having right now. You know, we
didn't expect the different things to happen throughout the season.
But I've said it all, you know, the last couple
of weeks and actually the last month and a half.
You know, they come every day with a great attitude

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and they're a good group that were within that they're
trying to get better. We're trying to get better. We're
just so freaking limited.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
You know, there's a lot of different ways to look
at it. And there are people in this world that
look at everything half full, and there are some that
look at everything half empty. And I get the sense
that you've tasted both sides of that dynamic a little bit.
And one way to look at this season when you
see all the close games, right, three overtime games in conference,
plus that home game against Colorado State, one of the

(03:27):
best teams in the league record wise so far this year.
Close one at Utah State where you guys are up
big in the first half, had a halftime lead. Man,
I know you can't do this, but if you said, okay,
let's say all five of those games go the other way,
all of a sudden, you're looking at six and eight
and you're duking it out with UNLV in Nevada right
about that sixth and seventh place instead tenth place, a

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game ahead air Force with six games left. Do you
look at it and say, hey, if we win three
of these last six games, that's progress, that's a success.
Do you think about it that way or how do
you approach it?

Speaker 4 (04:04):
I lay in bed at night, I'll go to bed
about eleven. It'll be about two thirty three o'clock and
I'll finally fall asleep and I'll lay there and say,
how do we get.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
This next win?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
And honestly, all I try and do is take each
take one game at a time with our players and
try and figure out what position can we put them in,
what can we do to try and help them get
that win again for us? You know, like you said,
we're so close in a lot of games, but we
don't know how.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
To finish it.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
So trying to understand and try and get them understand
the value of every possession. A lot of times people
think it's the last two or three plays of the
game that you want to lose, but it's those first
thirty eight thirty nine minutes that you can't make.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
A lot of those mistakes.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, sometimes it's the baseline out of bounce play where
you lost side of a guy, you got an easy layup.
It's a bigger deal than the last possession.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Exactly right, you know, And then how do you know
do we score?

Speaker 4 (04:57):
You know, do we call Bob and all of a sudden,
for you know, one of the five guys goes to
the wrong spot and you end up not getting the
bucket that you wanted to get, or that you know
you turned over. You know, those are all the little dynamics.
I don't think a lot of people understand.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
One of the questions that came in here on the
x app was from Sierra Nevada. Sam a loyal Bulldog fan,
and he's he kind of looks like Yosemite Sam on
a bulldog for PAU logo. I don't know how he
pulled that off. It's some pretty good photoshop. But his question,

(05:33):
I was just waiting to have see the word varmint
in there somewhere. He said, wondering how coach Vance is
holding up in the face of adversity. How does he
make sure he stays mentally focused and prioritize wellness with
the pressure of our current record. Any tips, if he
has some, I'll take him.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
You know, nobody likes Lewis and I'm pretty competitive. If
I hate to lose, doesn't matter what I'm playing, what activity,
or whatever else. And I want the best for Freshment State.
I want to see our players. I want to see
the community be able to be, you know, enjoy the success.
So it's been tough. I'm not gonna lie to you
it's you know, it's something that you know, I didn't

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expect to see this year. I thought, you know, we'd
be quite a bit better than we were are, you know,
but again, sometimes things happen for a reason. Hopefully it's
going to make me stronger and make us stronger for
next year, to be able to persevere and remind the guys,
you know, this is what it takes to be able
to get there. We went through this. I remember just

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talking up at Oregon State. You know, they knocked off
Gonzaga a couple of weeks ago, and I remember their
coach talking about, you know, three years ago they had
five or six wings and how they persevered and wanted
to get better and better. And you know, it's going
to be a process, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
And it's such a different era. I think we're all
all still getting used to this new wave of not
just college basketball, but college sports. It used to be, hey,
you've got some freshmen on your team. You know they're
going to be back next year and they're gonna have
an off season to get stronger. And now if you
have a freshman who had a good year, you better
figure out how you're going to keep them because other
teams are trying to reel them in too. What is

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you know, your calling card to the guys that you're
hoping will be back next year. How do you sell
them on, Hey, the record's not going to look like
this next.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
Season, there's no doubt.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
I have no no doubt in my mind is not
going to look like this. I think we're gonna be
a heck of a lot better. But there's some of
the players we've coming in, plus just the experience of
going through you know, knowing the league, knowing that different coaches,
knowing how things happen in this league, you know. But
the biggest thing is, you know, with our own players
is you know, we'll sit down susan season over, would

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talk and then it's going to come back to well,
you know this school is offering me this much, coach,
and so the selling point we have to a lot
of our players is, you know, we have somebody like
John Welch, who's one of the best workout coaches in
the country. You know, in the NBA eighteen years. You
name them and he's worked them out. Named by the NBA.

(08:18):
You ask who John Welch is that' they'll tell you
not even a question. I talked to a coach from
France today. We're recruiting this kid out of France and
talking about different things, and he goes, you know, and
he and you know, one of the first things he did,
besides the style of player that we want to play,
is you know, having John Welch and having myself with
the NBA experience. So what it's going to be is

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do you want to get paid now or do you
want to pay in the back end because you can
go to a lot of places. I always feel we're
going to make our players that much better. We will
put a lot of time, a lot of effort individually.
I think you've seen some of the players how much
they improve from the begin of the year to the
end of the year. And for then you know, yeah,
you can go somewhere and get some more money. I'll

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give you a perfect example. We had and I won't
say his name. We had a local kid, player X.
We offered seventy five thousand to come and play for
us this year. He went to another place got two
hundred thousand and one. Thing he told me is, coach,
I want to play, I want to be a you know,
one of the top three or four players on the team,
and I said, hey, I think you got to be
a good chance to do that. He went to College

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X and I think he's maybe he's played in five games,
six games all year, you know, And he was given
two hundred thousand, but their budget was four and a
half million. And I tried to tell them, if you're
four and a half million, their budget's four and a
half million, and they're giving you two hundred thousand, where
do you think you are on that scale?

Speaker 3 (09:47):
You know.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
So it's just something that it's just the times have changed,
you know. You know, I got to be able to
get out raise money, you know, for us to be successful.
We got to be about two two and a half
million dollars we got to raise for next year to
be able to bring in the players that I want
to be able to bring in.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
That doesn't sound easy, no.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Not when you say last year there was one hundred
and eighty eight thousand, you know, the Justin's last year.
You know, this year we were a little bit over
a million. But I got to get to two and
a half million next year to be able to have
the team that we want to be able to put out.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
For Fresno State, and a good chunk of that will
be trying to keep some guys who have had good
years for you this.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Year exactly right.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't know if I've asked you this. It's just
coming to mind as we as we go down this road,
because again, it's such a departure from everything it was
always about in college sport. It's one of the things
I've always loved is you see a real team emerge
when you have individuals who sacrifice their personal preference or
their comfort, or you know, their personal success for the

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good of the team. Now it's well, I need to
get mine, and then the team almost becomes secondary. How
do you you maintain the relational element of coaching young
student athletes without it just becoming a transactional proposition?

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Here, it's not easy.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
It's you know, definitely from my forty seven years of coaching,
it has definitely changed. I'm not gonna say exact names,
but there's I know there's certain teams that will just
dismantle because they know player exes gain this amount player wise,
game this amount. I'm getting half of what they're getting,
but I'm producing more than them. Then you got all

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this inner squad fighting and squabbling, and just like you said,
there'd be a lot of times players, he is going
to try and do certain amount of things because he
wants to be able to somebody look at him next year.
And it's not easy, and you got to find the
right people. And that's why I really feel culture. Try
and get the right culture kids in the program is

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going to be the whole key to whole success.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
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Twelve to shoot Tremble thirty feet out guarded by false
lag to Crawford in the corner. Now they get it
to price the little give and go. Crawford catches feeds
Weaver corner three. I want a possession. Jalen Weaver was seventeen.
But the ball movement exquisite for Vance Walberg's play and
where he plays that ball right in the shooting pocket.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
It was nice.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Wouldn't it be nice in every possession unfolded just like that,
Coach Walburg, just how you draw it.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
It would be really nice. We would be shooting loper
than in the field this year.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Well, we'll see what happens Saturday afternoon at four against UNLV,
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Coach Van s Wahlberg's here with us at Crow and Wolf.
Just here. Trimble, one of his guards, is on his way,

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and we'll be with us in the second half of
the show. And Coach, you're taking on a UNLV Rebels
team that has had some adversity this year too. You
and I, I don't know if we've done a game
where we haven't had some update to the injury status
of your team in our pregame conversation. UNLV has played
all year without one of its most talented players in

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Rob Whaley, who was kind of a Charles Barkley type presence.
In the post forum last year and had high expectations
this year. They still have a really good point guard though,
don't they.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Oh Dj dat On is heck of a player. Think
he had twenty one against us last time. Last year's reshman.
He was amazing in the leg, hitting some big time shots.
He's just a crafty guard who just knows how to
use his body really well.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Strong.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
I mean, he's a lefty and again you watch will
probably let him go left ninety eight percent of the
time because he does go left ninety eight percent of time.
What we want to do is any pick and roll
when we do go to man, we want to try
and trap him by the way, get it out of
his hands, and we definitely don't want him going left,
going down hell left. He's really good at using his

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body bumping into you trying to draw that foul. He
averages about six six to seven free throws a game,
which is tremendous in college.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Just a good all round player.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
And you know, some guys you can get under their skin,
you can speed them up, you can rattle them a
little bit with pressure of traps or ball denial. That
one of the biggest elements of his game, at least
that I've seen the last couple of years that he's
very difficult to throw off. He's so poisoned. Almost seems
like the later it gets in the game, the more
composed he is.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
And he is, you know, I just you know, we
watched I watched the last four games he played.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
He didn't start off very well against Poise.

Speaker 4 (19:08):
He then also in the second half, you know, it's
one baskets and this is it's two free throws, another basket.
He knows when to take over the game. He does
a really really good job on that. And he's got
some good pieces around him. That really helped too, because
he's got some good shooters around him. He's got the
big guy inside Chirr. He's sixty eleven, two eighty. You know,
he's a big old beast inside. So they got some

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really good pieces well.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
And one thing I was going to ask, I actually
didn't get to do the game there when you played
him there. I was off doing a football game. But
I'm sure you've been looking back at that film this
week and what worked, what didn't work, The good, the bad,
and the ugly of the first meeting, which was way
back in the end of December. So it's been a
while since you've seen the Rebels, you notice anything that's
different with their team since you played him, and maybe

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some things you did well in that first matchup that
you can do a little more of this summer around.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, what they're doing now is they're doing it's called icing.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
What they do is they really keep the ball on
one side of the court, and they're very effective doing that.
So there's a couple of ways you can you can
handle that. You can rescreen, you can slip, you can
hit the short pocket real quick. So those are things
that we have to be able to do. But to
do that, now, your big guy's got to be able
to make a pass. And so we're gonna have to

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ask more Pe probably more Elijah to hit that short pocket,
be able to make it skip pass, or have somebody cut.
Last time, they jumped down us pretty good. And then
all of a sudden, we made a heck of a
run on them. We cut it to four, We had
a breakaway two on one, didn't convert. We to cut

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the score to two, and then they came down with
a seven point play. They got fouled, Zeyon got a
tea on the inbounds. They hit a three, So in
a span of about six seconds, we went from a
should have been a two point game to eleven point game,
and it kind of took that air out of us.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, those old seven point plays are kind of hard
to overcome.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
I would love to see some of them our way.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
That would be something special. You know, you refer to
Zayon Collins and we've seen some real spectacular moments from him.
We've seen times where he goes into beast mode and
can really take over a game and be tough to stop.
We've also seen that he can be a very emotional
young man, and a lot of young men are at
this age. As you go through the season and you

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see the highs and lows, what are some of the
things that you try to work with him on to
maybe be a little more consistent.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
The biggest thing for say On is he's probably one
of the smartest players I've ever coached. He knows situations,
you know what, talk and he's right there.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
He can see things really well.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
I think the hard part for him is he's never
been a person who wants to be that guy to
make the big plays. And when I said, let me
take that back to score on the big plays. He
likes to make. The play with hotis to somebody. With
the way our team is, we need him to score,
and I think that's been tough on him. I think

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he's more comfortable penetrating, finding the guy in the corner,
finding a little drop off pass, finding the lob. But
now we're asking him to do that and trying to
get us fifteen to twenty points, and that's been a
little bit tough on him.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
What are you what are you gonna need from him
in this game against UNLV If he were sitting here
right now, I mean, you can't tell us everything. We
don't want the Rebels to hear it all. But if
there were one real tee to his focus or mental
investment in the game, how would you describe that?

Speaker 3 (22:46):
I would say one word composure.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
I think he needs to keep his composure, you know,
with him being obviously needs a lot from him because
he is from Las Vegas. You know, he's signed out
of high school, you know, before the accident, he signed,
you know, he committed to UNLV, So I mean, obviously
there's a lot there on that and it means a
lot to him, you know, obviously mean from Vegas. And

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so forth. So I think just composure, let the game
come to you. Don't make it a personal thing against him. Indeed,
on just you know, I know he wants to win
the game really bad.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
We all do.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
So if he can keep that composure and keep the
mental aspect, I think it would really help him.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
And us four o'clock Saturday, the Bulldogs and the Running
Rebels at the Save Mart Center. You can get your
tickets at go Bulldogs dot com. In fact, right now
you can get by one get one free for that
Saturday four o'clock game against the Rebels. We're gonna take
another break. When we come back more with coach Wahlberg,
we'll talk about the young man who's on his way
to join us just here, Tremble coming off with career

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high nineteen. The other time he scored nineteen was against
the Running Rebels in Vegas, so maybe he can top
it on Saturday at four o'clock. We'll hear from just
here in a little bit more with the coach Crow
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Second free throw in and out rebounded by Weaver, who's
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Tremble Bulldog guard is on his way here. He scored
nineteen in the last game in Reno. He also scored
nineteen against UNLV in the first meeting. That's a career
high for Jesseir, who's originally from Washington, d C. Started
out his college career down in Atlanta at Morehouse and

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came to the Bulldogs from the junior college ranks this
year and coach Wahlberg before he gets here, and we
talked to him about it a little bit. One thing
I've noticed with Jasir and you were talking earlier about
needing players that help establish a good culture here. Guys
that really buy in, Guys that do everything the right way,
have the right mentality, are very invested. And I don't

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see every second of practice, But what I see in
the games. You never have to worry about Jasir not
being all in for you.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
No, I'll tell you this, he's very special player. You know,
he's big, old guy at five to nine. I don't
even know if to see her weys one, but you're
talking about a heart of gold. And every time he
gives you a bess before practice, he'll be in there
shooting after practice. He'll stay in there. He's always asking

(29:53):
when he can get in the gym. Loves the game,
great teammate, just a great, great, great young man all round.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, and as you were saying that, I think he's
given a hug, a handshake or tapped up every Bulldog
fan and crowing wolf already. So he's off to a
great start. We'll hear from him in a few minutes.
We'll see what kind of food he wants to eat,
if he's gonna get some pizza or tacos tonight or whatever.
What From a basketball standpoint, what have you appreciated about

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the minutes he's given your team on the floor.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
He comes in with energy all the time, and that's
something that we definitely need. You know, he had that
stretch for about six seven games. He shot the heck
out of the ball. I think he was shooting about
fifty five sixty percent from the three.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Slipped a little bit for a few games, and then the.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Last couple of games he's he's been shooting the ball
well again. He's just again, he's just gonna come in
and give you everything he's got. You know, he's backing
up Zion, who's a pretty dark, good guard. So sometimes
you know, he doesn't get as many minutes as he
would like, but whenever you put him in there, it's yes, coach,
and he just goes and does you know what what
we ask him to do.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I know you want to see every player on your
team smile. And I don't think you sit around at
night when you say, you know you go to bed
at eleven, you're still up at two thirty trying to
figure out the next win. I don't think you're going
through the rankings of who has the top ten smiles
on the team. But I'm pretty sure he would be
pretty high up there when he does.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
And he's always smiling.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
You know, he's he's that little fart that just keeps
on going and just he does a lot of different things.
He likes to talk a lot of smack too during practice.
He got hit today with the tea at practice for
talking a little smack. But no, he's a really good
nature young man.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
We might have to get to the bottom of that
here before we're done. And you mentioned him backing up
day on. We've also seen lately the two of them
on the floor a little more. The zone enables you
to do a little more of that. What does that
do for the two of them when they have each
other on the floor. Do you see any changes in
their game when they're actually playing together instead of one

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or the other.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
I think the biggest thing is when they're in there together,
is that we have to be able to find you here.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
He's probably our best outside shooter.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
And I think a lot of times when we're out
when the players are out there, they they're moving around.
But for me, when you get into break situation, which
we like to push it, there's two things I want
to see it when we get in that break, when
we get in transition. One, obviously you want that layup first,
but two you want to try and find your best
shooters whenever you can be is I think that's the

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best The two best times I think to find a
good shooter is in transition and offensive rebound, and I
think at times we don't find you seer enough in transition,
which you know, I wish we would do a little
bit better job on that.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Well.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I want to save us some time to pick his
brain a little bit. And if any Bulldog fans have
a question for just here Tremble, they can send them
our way on the x app use that hashtag. Ask
fs anything else you want to say about him, coach
before we let you enjoy your family and some good
food out here, crowing wolf.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
No, Just like I said earlier, just a tremendous young man,
Like you said, you'd see that big old smile on
his face.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
He's gonna give you everything he's got out there all
the time.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
And then any coach respects that and really appreciates that.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
And he's an absolute pleasure to coach.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
And I'm sure you've seen teams over the years where
a guy like that can have a contagious effect on
his teammates.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Definitely does.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
And you know what's neat is when he makes a
bucket and he does something really good, all all his
teammates are cheering link head for him is they see
how hard he works and they really appreciate what he
does for them.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Well, coach, good luck Saturday against the running Rebels and
keep believing.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
I will thank you all appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Vance Wahlberg with us here at Crowing Wolf tonight. When
we come back, we're gonna hear from just here tremble.
So if you've got a question for him, center it
our way on the xtapp used that hashtag ask fs.
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Now he gives it up damn unique. Under thirty seconds
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step back Greep, but mccride was there. Tremble has to
put up a three to beat the shot clock, and
he got another one.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Just here.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Tremble has matched a Greer high with nineteen points. He's
five of eight from distance and he's here, just here. Tremble. Yeah,
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is here and just here. I was asking you for
the weather update when you walked in a few minutes ago.
It wasn't rating.

Speaker 20 (37:57):
Anymore, not anymore. No, it's not right in anymore.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Good move that microphone a little close to your mouth. Everybody,
here's you, lad and clear. But you're from a long
way from here. You're from our nation's capital. What's the
weather like in Washington, DC? Right now?

Speaker 7 (38:10):
I talked to my mom earlier and she told me
that school was canceled today because it was snowing. So
we got like four five inches of snow. Yeah, it's
crazy at home. I missed the snow a little bit though,
just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Really. Yeah. Well, you know, you can drive about an
hour right up there at a ski resort if you
need to throw some snowballs. I bet your snowball game
is pretty good. Because I understand you were a high
school quarterback back in DC.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 7 (38:34):
I played football for my freshman year and then I,
you know, decided when I ended up transferring schools that
I you know, I wasn't going to play football anymore.

Speaker 20 (38:41):
It was just strictly basketball.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
So if you and your four siblings had a snowball fight,
what would happen?

Speaker 20 (38:48):
Man, it'd get bad. It'd be real bad. But my
little brothers they like to gang up on me every
now and then.

Speaker 7 (38:55):
You know, I'm the oldest of five kids, so they
like to gang up on me sometimes, you know, because
i'm you know, always you know, that reinforcement for mom
and dad. So m it happens like that sometimes.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
So how how much would it parallel that scene in
the movie Elf where Will Ferrell just starts going, Yeah,
it'd be just like.

Speaker 20 (39:13):
That, okay, me stucking behind cover or something like that.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
It'd be crazy. When did when did basketball become a
big deal for you? When did you really start to
get serious about pursuing basketball?

Speaker 7 (39:27):
Around my seventh grade, Around like seventh grade, going into
eighth grade, That's when I really started to get serious
about basketball. I really didn't, you know, love football as
much anymore. I really wanted to, you know, stick with basketball.
I really started training. I told my grandfather. He he
always used to tell me, like, you know, basketball is
fun for you right now, and it's always gonna be fun.

(39:48):
But until you get really serious about it, until you
let me know that you're serious about it, you know,
I'm gonna just let you keep having fun. I wasn't
really working out as much, you know, doing things that
the other kids were doing who were really serious about it,
And then one day that switch just flipped for me
and I just really wanted to go all in with basketball.
So me and my grandfather started a regiment. We started
training every day, working out every day, and here I

(40:11):
am now.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Sounds like he had a little history in the game himself. Yeah,
he did, my grandfather. He actually played at a juco
in California. I believe it's Maren really.

Speaker 7 (40:22):
Yeah, College of Marine he played a little bit, and
then he went to Dunbar High School.

Speaker 20 (40:27):
We were talking a little bit about that. Yeah, he
went to Dunbar High School.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
They were one of the best teams in the country
at one point, so they were really good. I really
listened to his you know, his basketball mind. He knows
a lot about what he's talking about, especially back home.
A lot of people know him back home, so they
always tell me to listen to him, and you know,
get that knowledge and wisdom from him.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
And you're from Washington, d C. Like, not the suburbs
in Maryland or Virginia, but the district itself.

Speaker 20 (40:53):
Yeah, the district itself.

Speaker 7 (40:54):
Actually, Yeah, my side where I'm from is at a
little rougher.

Speaker 20 (40:58):
It's not what you would think.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
It's not like, you know, I don't live close to
the White House or the Capitol, you know, things like that.
It's a little more you know, grind me on the
side that I live on. But I wouldn't trade it
in for nothing. This's what made me who I am today.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
Well, I'm just thinking you're probably only a couple of
metro stops from the Washington Wizards games. Huh.

Speaker 14 (41:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:17):
The Washington Wizards games are are in Chwnatown, so it's
not that far. It's probably like twenty twenty five minute
of train ride. I've taken that train ride a couple
of times. You know, the Wizards aren't always that great,
but you know they're our team, especially when they had
John Wall and Bradley Beal.

Speaker 20 (41:35):
I used to go to a lot of Wizards games.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well, that was my next question. Was there a player
that when you watched him, you're like, yeah, I want
to play like that game.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Man.

Speaker 7 (41:44):
I try to take as much as possible from different players.
It's not just one player that I, you know, try
to model my game after. The shooting aspect of things.
You know, Stephen Curry, Clay Thompson, those guys, they have
really quick shots and really quick triggers, but they also
know how to you know, get their teammates involved when
they need you.

Speaker 20 (42:01):
So Stephan Curry probably.

Speaker 7 (42:02):
Be like one of the biggest guys that I modeled
my game after, even though he's a little taller than
I am. Just the way he shoots the basketball and
works on shooting the basketball, that's a big thing for me.
I've been watching a lot of Chris Paul recently because
I've been you know, working with coach Wahlberg and coaching
our coaching staff on trying to you know, get other
guys involved, working on my passing and things like that,

(42:24):
being able to read the picking rolls, and I feel
like since I've been here, since I got here in June,
it's just, you know, it's a full circle moment. I've
just been getting better and better at passing the basketball.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Well in that shows too, we can see that you're
pretty good at shooting. At the other night, in Reno
with nineteen points and making all those three balls. And
I don't think I'm going to start too many vociferous
arguments here by saying that the guy you mentioned, Steph Curry,
is probably the best shooter of all time, right.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Yeah, Stephen Curry is definitely the greatest shooter of all
time in my eyes. He can shoot it off the balance,
he can run around a million times and shoot.

Speaker 20 (42:58):
A catch and shoot three.

Speaker 7 (42:59):
He's he's just electric when it comes to shooting the
three ball, not even just the three ball, you know,
just shooting the ball in general.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
And he's full of surprises. Just when you think you've
seen him do it all, he does something else. And
one thing that he's been known to do a little bit.
I mean, I've just got to ask if you're really
modeling your game after him, if if you've ever done this.
We actually had a quarterback here a couple of years
ago named Jake Hayner who copied this move the old
Yeah done that.

Speaker 7 (43:25):
Yeah, I do it a couple of times in practice,
you know. Coach Coach Wahlberg, he you know, he might
get mad a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
You know.

Speaker 7 (43:31):
We we watched films sometimes and guys celebrated.

Speaker 20 (43:33):
He'll be like, why are you doing that?

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 7 (43:35):
He'll stop the film and everything like that, but he
knows it's, you know, just the passion for the game.
I thought about doing it a couple of times and everything,
but just the heat of the game and the heat
of the moment of the game sometimes it just you know,
slipped my mind.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
I take keep it to practice. Yeah, and some of
these repts, I'll te up for that speaking up. I
heard you got teed up in practice today. What'd you
get a technical for? In practice?

Speaker 7 (43:56):
Practice was real chippy today. You know, as far as
like us just you know, compete. You can see that everybody,
you know, we're never going out there and preparing for games,
you know, wanting to lose.

Speaker 20 (44:06):
So today was just a testament of that.

Speaker 7 (44:09):
Me Zeyon Jalen Weaver, we were just going back and
forth because we were on opposite teams today, going back
and forth. I went to the rim, got fouled, made
a bucket, and I just you know, screamed and won
real loud. I didn't, you know, do anything crazy, But
Jalen and Zon were already going back and forth prior
to that, so after I say and one, he was
just like yep, technical foul and then other team got

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the ball.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
See that's the lesson too, right. It's usually somebody else
who starts it, but they touched the guy who's like
the second or third one to jump in. Yeah, the
things we learn along the way, we're gonna learn more about.
Just here Tremble. When we come back, it's the Bulldog
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Speaker 2 (48:00):
Just here Tremble with a nice step through move got
the floater to go sixty six forty eight. Now Tremble
with a steal, took it away from Allen. He attacks
the bucket and high off the glass to beat Allen,
who rose up to try to deny him. Where did
just here Tremble just come from?

Speaker 14 (48:14):
Well, he came from the huddle and said, Hey, coach,
I want to stay in the game.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
I'm gonna give you a reason to keep me in here.
You can count on our friend Coach Q to tell
it like it is and you'll hear more of his analysis.
Saturday four o'clock when the Bulldogs host UNLV three point thirty.
Our pregame tickets at go Bulldogs dot com. In fact,
if you go there right now, you can get buy one,
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Barriers will be performing at halftime. You don't want to
miss that. And if you really want to make it
an all Bulldog day, you can check some baseball out
beforehand and afterwards. The host in BYU, the softball team
has a tournament. Lot's going on on campus, and I
bet that's not news to just hear Tremble, because just
here I understand you're cheering for us about as many
as your fellow student athletes as you are spending time

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in the gym getting shots up. How much have you
enjoyed getting to know this community and and just your
fellow student athletes their Fresno State.

Speaker 7 (49:11):
Man, it's great, just just the family oriented community that
you know Fresno has here. It's just it's just been
big for me, me being so far away from home
and being away from my family. On getting to talk
to him on the phone, it feels like I haven't
missed a beat as far as the family aspect of things.
You know, we have the Time out Club, they make
food for us all the time, the fans are cheering

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for us, you know, during the games. A lot of
my classmates on campus, they interact with the basketball team.
They know us when we walk into classes and things
like that. So it's just a family oriented environment.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
So it just.

Speaker 20 (49:45):
It's just something that you, you know, dreaming about when
you're a kid.

Speaker 7 (49:47):
You know, people knowing you, having that support, and it's
just it's just a great thing.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
And you have some perspective on that because of kind
of the journey that you've been on the last few years.
We were talking in the break about one of your
favorite pizza places back home, because you're getting some great
pizza from Pizza Yolo here tonight. But your high school
career kind of got interrupted by COVID a little bit.

Speaker 20 (50:11):
Yeah, I had my junior season.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
It was actually my first season playing varsity basketball in
my junior season, and I had a really good season.
I ended up being first team All met in Washington, DC,
ended up being like one of the best players in
the DMV. After that, we ended up winning a state
championship around that time too, and I wanted to do
it all again my senior season and try to get
some offers and some looks. But COVID interrupted that right

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after our season was over, they ended up canceling my
season for my senior season, so I didn't get those you.

Speaker 20 (50:40):
Know, I didn't have the luxury of having like a prom.

Speaker 7 (50:43):
I didn't have a luxury of having a senior night,
you know, playing that one last game in my home season.
So it just taught me not to take basketball for
granted ever, you know, sitting at home, just working out,
not being able to go in gyms, not being able
to go to outside courts, having to buy my own
court at home. It just taught me to appreciate beasts
ball and play every game like it's my last.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
I'm still having a hard time with the not allowing
us to play outdoors thing. I still did. That one
never made any well. I'm not gonna go down.

Speaker 20 (51:10):
It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
But you said the DMV, and some people were having
some some PTSD from waiting to really long lines to
get their driver's license around here. Explain to everybody here
on the West Coast what you mean when you say
the DMV.

Speaker 7 (51:23):
Yeah, when DMV comes from me, comes out of my mouth,
it means DC Maryland in Virginia. It's just like a
It's just it's just the it's just what we call
that little section, you know, the states and everything going
on right there.

Speaker 20 (51:35):
It's not just one thing. It's just it's just a big, big.

Speaker 7 (51:38):
Family, especially in Maryland and Virginia because they're so close.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Is there anything besides your family? Is there anything you
really miss about the East Coast?

Speaker 20 (51:47):
I miss the carry out.

Speaker 7 (51:50):
The carry out for sure, six wings, fries and mumbo sauce.
That's the biggest thing back at home. But that's what
we're kind of known for. I've been telling my teammates
about it. Every time I bring it up.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
They're like, oh my.

Speaker 7 (52:00):
Gosh, you talking about mumbo sauce again. And it's just something.
It's special. I'm just saying it's special. I've been trying
to get my teammates.

Speaker 20 (52:08):
I told them, you.

Speaker 7 (52:09):
Know, after the season, if you know, we hang out
and y'all end up in DC, that's the first place
I'm taking y'all.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
So I have to ask follow up question because I
see some of the looks around here. What in the
world is mumbo sauce?

Speaker 7 (52:21):
Man, It's I can't even explain it. So if you've
ever been to the Chicago or a different state, they
have mild sauce on their wings.

Speaker 20 (52:28):
We have mumbo sauce. Mumbo sauce.

Speaker 7 (52:30):
You mix it with like ketch up and things like that,
and it's just it's like a real red sauce that
you put on your chicken and your fries.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
It's got some spice to it.

Speaker 20 (52:39):
No, no spice.

Speaker 7 (52:40):
It's like a it's like a savory taste, like a
small savory tae.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
All right, all right, mumbo sauce. See, we learned something
every time and your journey to get well. First of all,
let me ask you that when you decided to come
play for Fresno State, how much did you actually know
about Fresno in our great San Juaquin Valley? And I didn't.
I didn't really know much.

Speaker 7 (53:03):
Fresnoe State was probably the only West Coast school that
was recruiting me that ended up recruiting me at the time.
I had a lot of schools in the East coast,
some schools down south, but no no schools in the
West coast. So it was honestly a blessing at the
end of the day, and it ended up working out
for me and my family because I was stressing with
the recruiting process But as far as like knowing things

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about Fresne State, I didn't really know much. I was
learning things on the fly. I did know Paul George
went here. I knew Derek Carr. You know those guys
you know that play in the league, the NFL, the NBA.
I didn't know those guys went here. So it was
just me learning things on the fly when I got here.
But I just knew that it was the place that
I wanted to be.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
And your college career actually started in the South. You
mentioned the South a moment ago. You played at a
historic university down in Atlanta.

Speaker 20 (53:55):
Yeah, I went to Morehouse College. That's the same school.

Speaker 7 (53:58):
A lot of a lot of people graduated from near
you know, Denzel Washington, Martin Luther King went to Morehouse College.
It's like one of the first HBCUs ever built. So
I went there my freshman year and I read shired
it there. I built a lot of connections and a
lot of I have a lot of family down there
as well, especially now since I went there my freshman year.

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So it's you know, no love loss to Morehouse or
anything like that. It's just, you know, I had to
make a business decision.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Yeah, you wanted to get on the court, and I
can tell you love it when you're on the court.
And one of the things we've seen lately, I was
just talking to coach about this. Earlier this year, it
was either you or Zayon on the floor. Rarely would
we see both. Now we've been seeing more of that
where you guys are on the floor together. What do
you enjoy about that and what is it What does

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it change in your game when the two of you
are both out there at the same time.

Speaker 7 (54:52):
Man, every time me and Zayon step on the court
together and we know we're selling in, we just we
said every time, let's let's munkey the game up. Let's
go out there, let's be dogs, let's be grinming. Let's
get up guard ninety four feet Like sometimes we look
at Coach Wahlberg like, yeah, we need to get a
spark going. So let's pick up.

Speaker 20 (55:07):
Me and Zion will pick up.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
We can.

Speaker 7 (55:09):
We play really well off of each other, especially when
he's you know, he has the ball in his hands,
he's coming off screens, I'm shaking up things like that.
I'm you know, I'm opening corners and Zion's like probably
the in my eyes, is probably the one of the
best point guards in the country, probably one of the
best point guards in this conference, especially when it comes
to getting his teammates involved and involved in his teammates.

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So I have a lot of respect and a lot
of love for Xeon Calls, especially off the court as well.
Me and him hang out a lot off the court,
play the game together, talk talk a lot, so we
already have that that chemistry and that that bomb built
in especially, so it just translates over when we get
on the court.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Another thing we're talking about with coach is that it
seems like, and again, we don't see you twenty four
to seven, we're not stocking you. But when it comes
to the arena and the times we see you, you're
always very enthusiast. We don't see in a grumpy mood
or grumbling or I don't know if we ever even
see it when you're not smiling man, And I'm just

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wondering where that comes from. What's the source of that
enthusiasm or positivity that you seem to project.

Speaker 7 (56:15):
Just the love of the game, just the love for
the game that I have. You know, basketball has always
been number one for me. I've always wanted to play
Division one basketball. So even when things aren't going right,
my grandmother always used to tell me, like highs and lows,
always stay level headed.

Speaker 20 (56:30):
That's the biggest thing for me.

Speaker 7 (56:32):
When you're on top of the world, be the same
person you were when you were at the bottom. So
just try to stay level headed as much as possible
and appreciate everything, Appreciate every moment. So me being here
is just a blessing, especially at my size. A lot
of guys don't get this opportunity, especially where I'm from,
a lot of guys don't make it out at the
age that I have. So it's just me being appreciative

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and appreciating every moment.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
And you bring that up. I mean, it's become kind
of a cliche, but I'm sure in your case it's real.
There probably have been a few guys who said, no,
you're too small. What do you do? How do you
process that when somebody throws that, you know, generalization or
that judgment your way?

Speaker 7 (57:12):
Man, When I was when I was younger, I used
to hear it all the time. Well, I still hear
it now, but when I was younger, I heard it
a lot, and I didn't know how to deal with it.
At first, it was like a real mental battle for me.
But now I take it as and I use it
as fuel to the fire. When I hear somebody say
I'm too small, or I hear fans on away games
telling me I'm too small, I use it as you know,

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I use it as motivation. At the end of the day,
I don't I don't let it, you know, deter me
from the actual goal that we're uh that we're trying
to get to, and that's winning games. So I'm just
you know, out there playing as hard as I can
and trying to prove everybody wrong at the end of
the day.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
You mean you actually hear what the fans are saying
at the road games.

Speaker 7 (57:50):
Yeah, sometimes, you know, sometimes I think it's pretty funny.
I've always like, I uh, we played when we played
at Utah State, I was telling Coach House like, or
when I was warming up, it was like fifty minutes
left until we played the game, and their whole student
section was there and they were you know, making job's,
laughing at me, pulling up pictures and things like that,

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and I I would just laugh, like I literally took
my headphones out. Usually I warm up with my headphones,
and I took my headphones out and I was just soaking.

Speaker 20 (58:17):
In every moment, like this is what I wanted to do.

Speaker 7 (58:20):
This is what I heard about when I was younger,
Like I've always wanted to be in this position, and
now I'm here, so I can't do anything, but you know,
accepting and be happy that I'm here. I even told
coach House before the game, like, if anybody's nervous or
not excited to be in this moment, then you should
have stayed on the bus because at the end of
the day, this is what we college basketball players, this
is where we live for.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
You know.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Just hearing you talk, I can't help but think that
you might have some coaching in your future, or at
least some motivating And it sounds like the Timeout club
and our Bulldog fans here agree. Just here. Unfortunately we're
out of time. Man, I wish we had more, but
we'll just have to let your game do some talking.
Saturday afternoon at Force.

Speaker 20 (58:58):
I like to play, sir man, thank you, thanks for
having me.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
All right, enjoy that pizza. He's just here, Tremble. You
can see here in the Bulldogs in action Saturday four
o'clock at the Savemart Center. Get those buy one free
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get lost in the nacho line at halftime, because break
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Thanks to our engineer here, Eric Austlin tonight and our
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