October 16, 2024 • 22 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Wednesday 16 October 2024 - Former NBA player Tacko Fall talks about joining up with the Breakers and the possibility of signing with the side. Fall stands at a towering 7'6" (2.29m).
D'Arcy delivers an opinion piece on Liam Lawson's massive weekend ahead in the States.
Plus, NZ Herald Online Sports Editor Alex Powell joins the panel to discuss why no team can win cricket in India.
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I am Darcy WATERGOVI. It's Wednesday, sixteenth of October twenty
twenty four. This is your home the big sports stories,
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on the show? I tell you Taco four joins us.
An enormous human being x mb A is going to
(00:43):
be linking up what the break as he rise up
over the weekend. Whether he has a contract or not
not entirely sure, we'll find out from Taco when he
joins us. Prospects for him and what he brings to
the basketball court. I've got some opinion on Formula one.
But of course Leam Lawson will be competing this weekend.
(01:03):
What a way to spend Labor Day. That's when the
main race is on. Of course is a Brint race
beforehand as well, So much on the line for young
Liam Lawson. Then Alex Powell joins us in studio. We
are in the Lina. We are in the chamber and
we're talking the big sports stories of the day. That's
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Speaker 2 (01:23):
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Speaker 3 (01:24):
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In other news, let's.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Take are quick listen to some significant sports news Rain
and India during a test match. Ah, sure, why not?
Thunderstorms are coming? Which is left new skipper for the
black Caps, Tom Latham a careful of selections to ponder.
A three prong sema tech is Tim offer.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Hook obviously workt being undercovers for longer duration and not
necessarily being as hot as what we would usually expect here.
So yeah, I guess that potentially brings the fast balls
into play.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He's not under contract yet, but sky scraping x NBA
player Tacko Fall is on the way to orcand to
train the breakers. The two point two nine meter center
was set to play in the short American sojourn, but
was ruled out with injury. He's sure enough, though.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I was really looking forward to, you know, getting to
know them, get to know the individuals, kind of just
planned to mess with the team a little bit, see
how they play and everything, and you know, I think
it went pretty well.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Overall, and the Roin's in a yacht Squadron America's Cup
entry Tyhu has had a lay day, but it wasn't
just time for a cup of tea and a lie
down sailing up. Pundit Mark Orums thinks they may have
done this as well. They'll be focusing on what happens next.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
What are the conditions, how do we mod our boat?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
How do we improve on things so that we can
continue to deliver cricket basketball? Foiling you there, it is
leading a vix.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We've got just the ticket. It's Sports Fix, News Talk TV.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Tacko Fallers our guest now on sports So if you
don't know who he is, well you will have eventually.
He's a former NBA player who's looking up with the Breakers.
Was going to be playing on the NBA League. Unfortunately
a bit of a twine couldn't do it. But he's
heading over and he's hilling to train with the team. Taco,
welcome to the program. Exciting times for you, and I
(03:24):
believe the family are coming over as well. They are, Yes,
what does the family consist of? You got a little girl?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Yeah, I'm my wife and I have two daughters. One
is nineteen months and the other one is seven months.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Wow, that's a lot to deal with coming on over here.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yes, it's going to be quite the plane rate.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
A very big plane ride. Please don't tell me your
traveling business class. I think they'll hate you for that one, mate.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But there's only a few select it's that I can
use on the airplane.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So yeah, it'll be the exit Rose. That's the way
it works, isn't it for you, tall Timber?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Actually not even the exit because I'm told and actually
wide so even sometimes the exit have a little bit
of shouggler. So every single airplane stepped international when you
can get the businesses with the beds, but I don't
know that. I always sit in like the book heads.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So you're coming over to train with the breakers. I'm
only presuming that once the training goes well, you're you're
looking to sign a contract. Otherwise, why would they bring
you all the way over here here?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, I mean just take take any day by day,
rehaving them, like I said, rehaving currently maining injury. I'm
being around the team when they did the US tour,
really excited to be around them again. They didn't, like
I said, nothing but professional. They're a very young team,
and they're having a really good season so far, and
(04:54):
it would be great for me to come in and
contribute to that as well.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
What at some point, what excites you about the Breakers?
You obviously like the people involved, but what else about
the group do you enjoy? Is it the NBL itself,
the fact you get to partially be moved to New
Zealand is the way you fit into the side. What
really does it for your attackle.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
For starters, I'm still playing basketball, that's you know, I'm
enjoying it. I still I'm still fairly young. I'm not
past thirty yet, so I get to go out there
and compete. I've never been to New Zealand. That's something
that I'm really looking for, especially this experience that I'm
about to have with you know, my family, my wife
(05:36):
and my daughters, and also the NBL. I've heard nothing
but great things about the MVO pretty much from NBA
people to people who've played there. They say how good
the league is they have. The league in itself has
a lot of eyes on it because there's been a
lot of prospects that came out of it. So the
level of competition is it's fun. I think it's something
(05:58):
that really the last couple of years, you know, I've
been in Chinese it's not being like, let's say, the best.
So I'm really looking forward to going out there competing
and having fun. I've had a great summer. I've had
a great couple of years. I'm a much actually much
better player than I was even when I was in
the NBA, And who knows what may come out of it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The idea to get back in the NBA ideally, as
you said, you're still a young dude, You've still got
a lot to offer, is that we'd like to hit
eventually back there again.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Absolutely? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What's so special about playing in the NBA? The competition wise,
it's very different to European basketball. I speak to Chinese
basketball to New Zealand basketball as well. What sits the part?
Do you think?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I would say for me the level of competition. And secondly,
I'm at home, you know, with my family. I think
traveling with family is kind of hard, especially once I have,
you know, kids, and being close to them, for me,
I think is the most important thing, and that's why
I'm taking and taking them to New Zealand with me.
For me, he got to a point where I was like,
(07:08):
if I'm if I have to go it is, it
has to be places where I could take them and
there will be comfortable as well.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You've got a lot of length about you. I think
that's been widely spoken about. Standing nearly two point three
zero meters that's big. What about your body weight? Are
you carrying a lot? As well? As far as playing
in that center role, I expected to be quite difficult
to defend against, not only height, but what you actually
(07:36):
what your body consists of. Size wise, you got a
lot of that.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Uh yeah, I'm pretty proportionate right now. I weigh about
three hundred pounds, which is I'm not sure how many
it is, and pillows maybe what something.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's roughly then all there, I'm not that quick when
I'm math, I can't do it so that that can
but you can work that around. Okay, You're not like
an immobile scener that just provides some height.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Absolutely absolutely, I mean that that in itself took a
lot of work to be able to do certain things
that my height is not the easiest, but it just
takes a lot of work, which I've done, especially like
I said this summer in the last couple of years
and my body feels great.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Besides the obvious, what else do you bring to the court?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Tako, leadership and positive energy. I think I've you know,
I've had a lot of experience playing in the NBA.
I've been, you know, in great teams. I was part
of the Boss and Celtics for the Cavs, I've had
some experience playing overseas. I've seen a lot, I've learned
a lot through the years, and this team is very young.
I think there's a lot of things that I can
(08:41):
bring and show show them, you know, to my my
experiences and also I believe who I am, you know,
as a person, but very positive, very uplifting, and that's
something I think everything needs.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You probably don't need it that has your outside game,
can you pop threes? It will now, I can, Yes,
multi tellented, you can do it all and plenty on
all fence, You've got it as well. But as a
defensive play you rate yourself there.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Oh yeah, I think I've always been and lead the
defensive player, especially around the basket. There's not there's very little.
There's not a lot of people who can do what
I can do on that side of the you know,
on that side of the board, just with my hate
you know, not coming mobile am and and everything, and
my game offensively has you know, also grown too other years.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
They can always go under attack. I don't underestimate the
small guy coming through. You can slap away all you want,
but these.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Little believe I believe.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I believe you. So how long before you get your signature?
Go and give us a rough idea? When are you
going to join up full time the Breakers? Yeah, let's
take it, you know right now.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I just have to hear you get back on the
team and you know, get get with the squad and
take it by the day. I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You're very, very cautious. You won't give us too much
the media. You've dealt with us before. So the smile
on your face doing this by zoom suggests that it
will happen. It will happen once you're cleared Taco fall
when you get here, which I believe is coming up
over the weekend. Welcome to New Zealand. You're going to
love it, my friend, You're going to love it.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Thank you. I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
This is Sportsfix, your daily does of sports news how
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Speaker 3 (10:30):
Evy it's all going Formula One this weekend. Liam Lawson
has got his seat. It's taken a long time, It's
taken a lot of patients, but now Liam Lawson is
in prime position to get running and what we hope
is a long, illustrious and successful Formula One career. An
(10:50):
extraordinarily difficult place to have any success at all and
to maintain your seat, but he's got one now, and
this weekend at the Circuit of the America's he's got
a chance to show the world exactly what he has
made of He's running in the VCRB race team. It's
the secondary team to Red Bull Racing, but if he
(11:10):
is successful here, there is a chance next season he'll
find himself racing for the big dogs. Why do I
say that, Well, Checko Sergio Perry's the number two driver
to Max vers stappand has had a horrific season. He
has been so bad throughout the entire year the Red
(11:31):
Bull management would quite frankly be insane to keep him there,
although I'm sure they love the engagement of the Mexican fans,
which arguably is the only reason he's there in the
first place. Sure, as rumor has it, he moves to
one side. There is one seat available between Liam Lawson
and his teammate in vCard racing, Yuki Sonoda. So that's
(11:53):
all that Liam has to think about in the race
this weekend and the next race weekends. Beat your teammate.
It's a simple thing to ask for. Is it easy
enough to execute? I have no idea, but the sole
focus in the mind of Liam Lawson over the next
few months, and Formula One has beat your teammate, that
(12:16):
is all that matters. Because come season's end, if you've
shown definitively that you're a quicker, more reliable driver than
Yuki Sonoda, the potential to run Formula One for Red
Bull is closer than anyone would like to think. Go well, Liam,
drive it like you stole it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
On Alena in the Chamber. Welcome Alex Powell, digital editor
for the New Zealand Herald. We're not allowed to talk
about Liam Lawson. Where both petrol heads. So let's just
calm the farm and breed. Okay, why management? You know
they got sick of me talking about it, So I
mean it's fair enough. There's other things going.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
On there all Daniel Ricardo fans.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It's a big weekend. But we'll forget about that. We'll
move to what's present, what's now, what's here? How do
you beat the Indians in India? It just doesn't happen,
does it?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Talking about cricket?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, no, nothing else. We don't play krbardy okay, No.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
It's an unreal stat they've got as that they've lost
about one three home tests in the last decade, two
to England and one to Australia. It's mental. I think
it's four actually, two of which.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Well, is it a conditioned thing? Is it the fact
that Indians are just that good? Because when you look
at the way conditions are set up New Zealand set
up green seams, it's hard to win over here. So
is that just a case it's like tough, not only
if they got tough conditions, it's a tough place to
till because it is so different and it's so hot,
(13:45):
and the Indians are actually really really good at cricket.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I think test cricket recently has become this almost arms
race where everyone is just stacking the deck at home
to turn your home venue into a fortress that you
don't lose at and then obviously you get it back
when you go away. But in India's case, they just
played to their strengths. You know, they are good at
playing spin. They've got good spinners. Let's just have a
pitch that plays.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But they've also got really good seamers too, so they
can't just make it entirely about spinners, which maybe in
the past, but these days they've actually got a phalanx.
They've got players that can do it all well.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I mean, we saw that in the World Cup Final
last year, didn't they They tried to stack the decks so
heavily in their favor that all that it actually was
closed the gap between then and Australia to make it
about spinners, and then they fell apart when the pressure
came on. So it's not a solid, you know, absolute
tech in the winds column when they do this. But
I think when they do it, the advantages that they
(14:39):
have in this pair is that they have are just
so much more pronounced.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I want to think back in the day as well,
though it was harder to tour over there, but because
of the nature of the food and the conditions and
the accommodation which was so foreign But in this day
and age, with the nutrition that works out or the
way tour works, you bring your own food, you bring
everything else. You know, it's comfortable as it can get.
So you can't really use as excuse anymore.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
No, and they will plan in the IPL as well,
so they all know what it's like to play in
these grounds. I know it's like to get duck in traffic,
they know it's like to spend two days crouched over
the toilet. It's just stuff like that that is just
part of the modern game.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
So for New Zealand to do something extraordinary, and in
this case, because they have only won twice in thirty
six test matches twice in thirty six, they can't go
in there with that attitude that we're going to we're
doomed to failure. Is there even a remote chance because
the tests aren't going to be rained out?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
We look, we've seen that when foreign teams do go
to India and win, and it's only really been India
in Australia in the last ten or so years. What
we actually need to happen is an Indian need to
try and make conditions so much in their favor that
it just becomes a lottery. We need Blackets to win
the toss. We need the spinners to take twenty odd
wickets between them. So there's a lot that needs like
everything needs to go your way and it needs to
(15:52):
go against them. Just going to India and being better
than a cracket isn't enough.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And when you look, I suppose that country is coming
over here and playing the All Blacks and rugby, although
the conditions aren't tweaked to the All Blacks because you
can't really tweak much when it comes to a ground gain.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
But I mean the black Caps do the exact same
thing here, So it's not as though this is some
sort of dark art that injury of master will put guy.
You know, we'll have first tests of the summer into
November against Lanka. We'll whack him in Dunedin where it's
freezing and they're not used to it. Yeah, you know,
we've seen the western grass. It happens green seamer. Where's
the outfield, where's the pitch?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So is there a chance or are we.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
On?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Alex Pawel, Thanks very much for that. Let's move on
to our next subject. More loose fords out of the
northern tour, Surprise, surprise. That's the nature of being a
loose forward, you break.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Yeah, I mean, I mean you feel for a guy
like Ethan Blackadder, you know who we were just joking
outside poor and he appears to be made out of salada,
you know, because he just cannot stay fit. But I mean,
that's the thing that we've always really been blessed with
great loose forwards. You look at a guy like Leah Messham,
you know, who could never really get a consiser run
because he was bying Jerome Cain and he's buying Aaron Reid.
But look, I mean, this is just opportunity for someone else,
(17:05):
you know. That's the simple At Hoskins Tuto, where Hearing
has been injured as well, it was left off the
All Blacks released this morning, but now it looks like
he might have gone down as well.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
There's a smell around that. Whatever that smell is, we
don't know, but it doesn't appear to be as we
see it. Or is that going too far?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
So I got on the phone with an end of
our official just a few minutes ago and asked what
the deal was and they said, look, it's a genuine injury.
I'm prepared to believe believe them. But it's you know,
no smoke without fire type thing, isn't it. We know
Hoskins has been frustrated this year. He did everything in
Super Rugby to make the All Blacks and didn't and
now that he can, so what is it? Next year
(17:43):
He's eligible to play for either England or Fiji depending
on contracts and all that. So if he doesn't go
on this tour and doesn't get capped in the next year,
that could happen if theillback's cap once the whole process restarts, Well, it's.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Not out of the realms of possibility. You'd suggest it
has been done before. Begain conspiracy theories. Let's talk about
what we know. Though Ethan Blackadder is not around, Luke
Jacobson is not around, Dalton Pope is not around. Hello
Satiti a chance for him to carry on establishing this
role he's grabbed and of course Peter Lakai, the young fella.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I mean, I don't think there was any risk that
Satiti loses that place. He has been the revelation this
year at number six. Peter Luck I'm very excited about him.
A Hurricanes fan as so to see.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
He's so young to twenty one, and he's so such
maturity as he plays.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah, I mean, a loose forward trio of Satiti, Luckeye
and Ardie Savia is something that will keep you up
at night if you're in opposition forward pack, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You've got to feel for those guys though, that have
been exited stage leap. But that's the nature of a
combat sport like this, combat what it is, combat contact,
But it is, isn't it. She's a brutal exchange. When
you look at the likes of Jacobson and Blackadder, they
treat their body with such disrespect. I'm amazed they're still
playing out all.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I mean the sports science that you get these days.
These guys are all so much stronger, they're all so
much bigger, They're all so much faster and scary. I
don't want to be playing that anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Taco Fall is a name for he is the guy
who's coming over to kind of play for the Breakers,
but not really play for the Breakers. He's an enormous
lump of a human being. We know that with Parker,
Jackson Cartwright, so that actually play together, that's going to
be quite a sight. On the court. I think you agree.
He hasn't confirmed whether he's just coming over a bit
(19:27):
of a train. I don't know why he's being so
nervous about this. He's skirting around. Well, why wouldn't you go, Yeah,
I'm hoping to get a contract.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Drek, and he's still sniffing about for an NBA team
to snap him up.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Possibly. Do you think that's purely it?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I think if that's the way you're going to think
about it as as a basketballer, you'd absolutely put a
chance to go and play in the NBA before anything else.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
He's bringing his family over on me, He's bringing his
wife and his two kids over. Oh great, So it's
done this when you sign on a big marquee player
like this, I say marquee, but he's going to stand
out like the proverbials.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Does that attract people to the game, Yeah, it's bums
on seats. Not only is the ex MBA he's seven
foot tall. You know you want to see what they
can do.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Two point two nine meters. That is a massive human being.
So it be cynical to suggest that's why he's there
on board. It must have games, surely.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Oh, he'll absolutely play and he'll be great for the
younger guys in the Breakers to just learn off to
pick his brain about how you actually play at that level.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He didn't have anything to do in the NBA tour,
so be it because he got injured. And on another
case of a big man constantly broken, is it?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I mean, you hope not just for the Breakers hopes.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Of course the Breakers are back. They're playing a couple
of away games in the Nball. They've had a pretty
good start so far, if I say, flown under it
because they went and disappeared off to America for a
couple of weeks, which I find bizarre. Butly you go.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You do worry about the NBA. You remember last year
when they did the ES NBA exchange. It did affect
them coming back, and you hope it doesn't this year
because of how well they finished the year.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well we'll see it. Coach Cops gott in plan for
everybody and hopefully all things going well. As you're listening
to this podcast, the Indians have been turned on their backside,
and that victory and thirty sixties matches might be there
actually be third and thirty seven won't do your mass.
Alix Powell Digital editor of the Herald. Thanks very much
(21:17):
for your time as.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
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I am Darcy WATERGOVI. It's Wednesday, sixteenth of October twenty
twenty four. This is your home the big sports stories,
home and away, and we've got of other bits and
bobs thrown in for good measure. What have you got
on the show? I tell you Taco four joins us.
An enormous human being x mb A is going to
(00:43):
be linking up what the break as he rise up
over the weekend. Whether he has a contract or not
not entirely sure, we'll find out from Taco when he
joins us. Prospects for him and what he brings to
the basketball court. I've got some opinion on Formula one.
But of course Leam Lawson will be competing this weekend.
(01:03):
What a way to spend Labor Day. That's when the
main race is on. Of course is a Brint race
beforehand as well, So much on the line for young
Liam Lawson. Then Alex Powell joins us in studio. We
are in the Lina. We are in the chamber and
we're talking the big sports stories of the day. That's
our master plans.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
All.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm ready to go here on the Sports Fix.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
In other news, let's.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Take are quick listen to some significant sports news Rain
and India during a test match. Ah, sure, why not?
Thunderstorms are coming? Which is left new skipper for the
black Caps, Tom Latham a careful of selections to ponder.
A three prong sema tech is Tim offer.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Hook obviously workt being undercovers for longer duration and not
necessarily being as hot as what we would usually expect here.
So yeah, I guess that potentially brings the fast balls
into play.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He's not under contract yet, but sky scraping x NBA
player Tacko Fall is on the way to orcand to
train the breakers. The two point two nine meter center
was set to play in the short American sojourn, but
was ruled out with injury. He's sure enough, though.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I was really looking forward to, you know, getting to
know them, get to know the individuals, kind of just
planned to mess with the team a little bit, see
how they play and everything, and you know, I think
it went pretty well.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Overall, and the Roin's in a yacht Squadron America's Cup
entry Tyhu has had a lay day, but it wasn't
just time for a cup of tea and a lie
down sailing up. Pundit Mark Orums thinks they may have
done this as well. They'll be focusing on what happens next.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
What are the conditions, how do we mod our boat?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
How do we improve on things so that we can
continue to deliver cricket basketball? Foiling you there, it is
leading a vix.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We've got just the ticket. It's Sports Fix, News Talk TV.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Tacko Fallers our guest now on sports So if you
don't know who he is, well you will have eventually.
He's a former NBA player who's looking up with the Breakers.
Was going to be playing on the NBA League. Unfortunately
a bit of a twine couldn't do it. But he's
heading over and he's hilling to train with the team. Taco,
welcome to the program. Exciting times for you, and I
(03:24):
believe the family are coming over as well. They are, Yes,
what does the family consist of? You got a little girl?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Yeah, I'm my wife and I have two daughters. One
is nineteen months and the other one is seven months.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Wow, that's a lot to deal with coming on over here.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Yes, it's going to be quite the plane rate.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
A very big plane ride. Please don't tell me your
traveling business class. I think they'll hate you for that one, mate.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But there's only a few select it's that I can
use on the airplane.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So yeah, it'll be the exit Rose. That's the way
it works, isn't it for you, tall Timber?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Actually not even the exit because I'm told and actually
wide so even sometimes the exit have a little bit
of shouggler. So every single airplane stepped international when you
can get the businesses with the beds, but I don't
know that. I always sit in like the book heads.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So you're coming over to train with the breakers. I'm
only presuming that once the training goes well, you're you're
looking to sign a contract. Otherwise, why would they bring
you all the way over here here?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, I mean just take take any day by day,
rehaving them, like I said, rehaving currently maining injury. I'm
being around the team when they did the US tour,
really excited to be around them again. They didn't, like
I said, nothing but professional. They're a very young team,
and they're having a really good season so far, and
(04:54):
it would be great for me to come in and
contribute to that as well.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
What at some point, what excites you about the Breakers?
You obviously like the people involved, but what else about
the group do you enjoy? Is it the NBL itself,
the fact you get to partially be moved to New
Zealand is the way you fit into the side. What
really does it for your attackle.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
For starters, I'm still playing basketball, that's you know, I'm
enjoying it. I still I'm still fairly young. I'm not
past thirty yet, so I get to go out there
and compete. I've never been to New Zealand. That's something
that I'm really looking for, especially this experience that I'm
about to have with you know, my family, my wife
(05:36):
and my daughters, and also the NBL. I've heard nothing
but great things about the MVO pretty much from NBA
people to people who've played there. They say how good
the league is they have. The league in itself has
a lot of eyes on it because there's been a
lot of prospects that came out of it. So the
level of competition is it's fun. I think it's something
(05:58):
that really the last couple of years, you know, I've
been in Chinese it's not being like, let's say, the best.
So I'm really looking forward to going out there competing
and having fun. I've had a great summer. I've had
a great couple of years. I'm a much actually much
better player than I was even when I was in
the NBA, And who knows what may come out of it.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
The idea to get back in the NBA ideally, as
you said, you're still a young dude, You've still got
a lot to offer, is that we'd like to hit
eventually back there again.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Absolutely? Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
What's so special about playing in the NBA? The competition wise,
it's very different to European basketball. I speak to Chinese
basketball to New Zealand basketball as well. What sits the part?
Do you think?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I would say for me the level of competition. And secondly,
I'm at home, you know, with my family. I think
traveling with family is kind of hard, especially once I have,
you know, kids, and being close to them, for me,
I think is the most important thing, and that's why
I'm taking and taking them to New Zealand with me.
For me, he got to a point where I was like,
(07:08):
if I'm if I have to go it is, it
has to be places where I could take them and
there will be comfortable as well.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
You've got a lot of length about you. I think
that's been widely spoken about. Standing nearly two point three
zero meters that's big. What about your body weight? Are
you carrying a lot? As well? As far as playing
in that center role, I expected to be quite difficult
to defend against, not only height, but what you actually
(07:36):
what your body consists of. Size wise, you got a
lot of that.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Uh yeah, I'm pretty proportionate right now. I weigh about
three hundred pounds, which is I'm not sure how many
it is, and pillows maybe what something.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It's roughly then all there, I'm not that quick when
I'm math, I can't do it so that that can
but you can work that around. Okay, You're not like
an immobile scener that just provides some height.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Absolutely absolutely, I mean that that in itself took a
lot of work to be able to do certain things
that my height is not the easiest, but it just
takes a lot of work, which I've done, especially like
I said this summer in the last couple of years
and my body feels great.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Besides the obvious, what else do you bring to the court?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Tako, leadership and positive energy. I think I've you know,
I've had a lot of experience playing in the NBA.
I've been, you know, in great teams. I was part
of the Boss and Celtics for the Cavs, I've had
some experience playing overseas. I've seen a lot, I've learned
a lot through the years, and this team is very young.
I think there's a lot of things that I can
(08:41):
bring and show show them, you know, to my my
experiences and also I believe who I am, you know,
as a person, but very positive, very uplifting, and that's
something I think everything needs.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
You probably don't need it that has your outside game,
can you pop threes? It will now, I can, Yes,
multi tellented, you can do it all and plenty on
all fence, You've got it as well. But as a
defensive play you rate yourself there.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Oh yeah, I think I've always been and lead the
defensive player, especially around the basket. There's not there's very little.
There's not a lot of people who can do what
I can do on that side of the you know,
on that side of the board, just with my hate
you know, not coming mobile am and and everything, and
my game offensively has you know, also grown too other years.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
They can always go under attack. I don't underestimate the
small guy coming through. You can slap away all you want,
but these.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Little believe I believe.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I believe you. So how long before you get your signature?
Go and give us a rough idea? When are you
going to join up full time the Breakers? Yeah, let's
take it, you know right now.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I just have to hear you get back on the
team and you know, get get with the squad and
take it by the day. I love it.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
You're very, very cautious. You won't give us too much
the media. You've dealt with us before. So the smile
on your face doing this by zoom suggests that it
will happen. It will happen once you're cleared Taco fall
when you get here, which I believe is coming up
over the weekend. Welcome to New Zealand. You're going to
love it, my friend, You're going to love it.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Thank you. I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
This is Sportsfix, your daily does of sports news how
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Speaker 3 (10:30):
Evy it's all going Formula One this weekend. Liam Lawson
has got his seat. It's taken a long time, It's
taken a lot of patients, but now Liam Lawson is
in prime position to get running and what we hope
is a long, illustrious and successful Formula One career. An
(10:50):
extraordinarily difficult place to have any success at all and
to maintain your seat, but he's got one now, and
this weekend at the Circuit of the America's he's got
a chance to show the world exactly what he has
made of He's running in the VCRB race team. It's
the secondary team to Red Bull Racing, but if he
(11:10):
is successful here, there is a chance next season he'll
find himself racing for the big dogs. Why do I
say that, Well, Checko Sergio Perry's the number two driver
to Max vers stappand has had a horrific season. He
has been so bad throughout the entire year the Red
(11:31):
Bull management would quite frankly be insane to keep him there,
although I'm sure they love the engagement of the Mexican fans,
which arguably is the only reason he's there in the
first place. Sure, as rumor has it, he moves to
one side. There is one seat available between Liam Lawson
and his teammate in vCard racing, Yuki Sonoda. So that's
(11:53):
all that Liam has to think about in the race
this weekend and the next race weekends. Beat your teammate.
It's a simple thing to ask for. Is it easy
enough to execute? I have no idea, but the sole
focus in the mind of Liam Lawson over the next
few months, and Formula One has beat your teammate, that
(12:16):
is all that matters. Because come season's end, if you've
shown definitively that you're a quicker, more reliable driver than
Yuki Sonoda, the potential to run Formula One for Red
Bull is closer than anyone would like to think. Go well, Liam,
drive it like you stole it.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
The Chamber is now in session on Sportsfix.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
On Alena in the Chamber. Welcome Alex Powell, digital editor
for the New Zealand Herald. We're not allowed to talk
about Liam Lawson. Where both petrol heads. So let's just
calm the farm and breed. Okay, why management? You know
they got sick of me talking about it, So I
mean it's fair enough. There's other things going.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
On there all Daniel Ricardo fans.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It's a big weekend. But we'll forget about that. We'll
move to what's present, what's now, what's here? How do
you beat the Indians in India? It just doesn't happen,
does it?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Talking about cricket?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, no, nothing else. We don't play krbardy okay, No.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
It's an unreal stat they've got as that they've lost
about one three home tests in the last decade, two
to England and one to Australia. It's mental. I think
it's four actually, two of which.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Well, is it a conditioned thing? Is it the fact
that Indians are just that good? Because when you look
at the way conditions are set up New Zealand set
up green seams, it's hard to win over here. So
is that just a case it's like tough, not only
if they got tough conditions, it's a tough place to
till because it is so different and it's so hot,
(13:45):
and the Indians are actually really really good at cricket.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
I think test cricket recently has become this almost arms
race where everyone is just stacking the deck at home
to turn your home venue into a fortress that you
don't lose at and then obviously you get it back
when you go away. But in India's case, they just
played to their strengths. You know, they are good at
playing spin. They've got good spinners. Let's just have a
pitch that plays.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But they've also got really good seamers too, so they
can't just make it entirely about spinners, which maybe in
the past, but these days they've actually got a phalanx.
They've got players that can do it all well.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I mean, we saw that in the World Cup Final
last year, didn't they They tried to stack the decks so
heavily in their favor that all that it actually was
closed the gap between then and Australia to make it
about spinners, and then they fell apart when the pressure
came on. So it's not a solid, you know, absolute
tech in the winds column when they do this. But
I think when they do it, the advantages that they
(14:39):
have in this pair is that they have are just
so much more pronounced.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I want to think back in the day as well,
though it was harder to tour over there, but because
of the nature of the food and the conditions and
the accommodation which was so foreign But in this day
and age, with the nutrition that works out or the
way tour works, you bring your own food, you bring
everything else. You know, it's comfortable as it can get.
So you can't really use as excuse anymore.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
No, and they will plan in the IPL as well,
so they all know what it's like to play in
these grounds. I know it's like to get duck in traffic,
they know it's like to spend two days crouched over
the toilet. It's just stuff like that that is just
part of the modern game.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
So for New Zealand to do something extraordinary, and in
this case, because they have only won twice in thirty
six test matches twice in thirty six, they can't go
in there with that attitude that we're going to we're
doomed to failure. Is there even a remote chance because
the tests aren't going to be rained out?
Speaker 6 (15:31):
We look, we've seen that when foreign teams do go
to India and win, and it's only really been India
in Australia in the last ten or so years. What
we actually need to happen is an Indian need to
try and make conditions so much in their favor that
it just becomes a lottery. We need Blackets to win
the toss. We need the spinners to take twenty odd
wickets between them. So there's a lot that needs like
everything needs to go your way and it needs to
(15:52):
go against them. Just going to India and being better
than a cracket isn't enough.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
And when you look, I suppose that country is coming
over here and playing the All Blacks and rugby, although
the conditions aren't tweaked to the All Blacks because you
can't really tweak much when it comes to a ground gain.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
But I mean the black Caps do the exact same
thing here, So it's not as though this is some
sort of dark art that injury of master will put guy.
You know, we'll have first tests of the summer into
November against Lanka. We'll whack him in Dunedin where it's
freezing and they're not used to it. Yeah, you know,
we've seen the western grass. It happens green seamer. Where's
the outfield, where's the pitch?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
So is there a chance or are we.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
On?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Alex Pawel, Thanks very much for that. Let's move on
to our next subject. More loose fords out of the
northern tour, Surprise, surprise. That's the nature of being a
loose forward, you break.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Yeah, I mean, I mean you feel for a guy
like Ethan Blackadder, you know who we were just joking
outside poor and he appears to be made out of salada,
you know, because he just cannot stay fit. But I mean,
that's the thing that we've always really been blessed with
great loose forwards. You look at a guy like Leah Messham,
you know, who could never really get a consiser run
because he was bying Jerome Cain and he's buying Aaron Reid.
But look, I mean, this is just opportunity for someone else,
(17:05):
you know. That's the simple At Hoskins Tuto, where Hearing
has been injured as well, it was left off the
All Blacks released this morning, but now it looks like
he might have gone down as well.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
There's a smell around that. Whatever that smell is, we
don't know, but it doesn't appear to be as we
see it. Or is that going too far?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
So I got on the phone with an end of
our official just a few minutes ago and asked what
the deal was and they said, look, it's a genuine injury.
I'm prepared to believe believe them. But it's you know,
no smoke without fire type thing, isn't it. We know
Hoskins has been frustrated this year. He did everything in
Super Rugby to make the All Blacks and didn't and
now that he can, so what is it? Next year
(17:43):
He's eligible to play for either England or Fiji depending
on contracts and all that. So if he doesn't go
on this tour and doesn't get capped in the next year,
that could happen if theillback's cap once the whole process restarts, Well, it's.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Not out of the realms of possibility. You'd suggest it
has been done before. Begain conspiracy theories. Let's talk about
what we know. Though Ethan Blackadder is not around, Luke
Jacobson is not around, Dalton Pope is not around. Hello
Satiti a chance for him to carry on establishing this
role he's grabbed and of course Peter Lakai, the young fella.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I mean, I don't think there was any risk that
Satiti loses that place. He has been the revelation this
year at number six. Peter Luck I'm very excited about him.
A Hurricanes fan as so to see.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
He's so young to twenty one, and he's so such
maturity as he plays.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah, I mean, a loose forward trio of Satiti, Luckeye
and Ardie Savia is something that will keep you up
at night if you're in opposition forward pack, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
You've got to feel for those guys though, that have
been exited stage leap. But that's the nature of a
combat sport like this, combat what it is, combat contact,
But it is, isn't it. She's a brutal exchange. When
you look at the likes of Jacobson and Blackadder, they
treat their body with such disrespect. I'm amazed they're still
playing out all.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I mean the sports science that you get these days.
These guys are all so much stronger, they're all so
much bigger, They're all so much faster and scary. I
don't want to be playing that anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Taco Fall is a name for he is the guy
who's coming over to kind of play for the Breakers,
but not really play for the Breakers. He's an enormous
lump of a human being. We know that with Parker,
Jackson Cartwright, so that actually play together, that's going to
be quite a sight. On the court. I think you agree.
He hasn't confirmed whether he's just coming over a bit
(19:27):
of a train. I don't know why he's being so
nervous about this. He's skirting around. Well, why wouldn't you go, Yeah,
I'm hoping to get a contract.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Drek, and he's still sniffing about for an NBA team
to snap him up.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Possibly. Do you think that's purely it?
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I think if that's the way you're going to think
about it as as a basketballer, you'd absolutely put a
chance to go and play in the NBA before anything else.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
He's bringing his family over on me, He's bringing his
wife and his two kids over. Oh great, So it's
done this when you sign on a big marquee player
like this, I say marquee, but he's going to stand
out like the proverbials.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Does that attract people to the game, Yeah, it's bums
on seats. Not only is the ex MBA he's seven
foot tall. You know you want to see what they
can do.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Two point two nine meters. That is a massive human being.
So it be cynical to suggest that's why he's there
on board. It must have games, surely.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Oh, he'll absolutely play and he'll be great for the
younger guys in the Breakers to just learn off to
pick his brain about how you actually play at that level.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
He didn't have anything to do in the NBA tour,
so be it because he got injured. And on another
case of a big man constantly broken, is it?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I mean, you hope not just for the Breakers hopes.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Of course the Breakers are back. They're playing a couple
of away games in the Nball. They've had a pretty
good start so far, if I say, flown under it
because they went and disappeared off to America for a
couple of weeks, which I find bizarre. Butly you go.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You do worry about the NBA. You remember last year
when they did the ES NBA exchange. It did affect
them coming back, and you hope it doesn't this year
because of how well they finished the year.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well we'll see it. Coach Cops gott in plan for
everybody and hopefully all things going well. As you're listening
to this podcast, the Indians have been turned on their backside,
and that victory and thirty sixties matches might be there
actually be third and thirty seven won't do your mass.
Alix Powell Digital editor of the Herald. Thanks very much
(21:17):
for your time as.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Always dissecting the sporting agenda.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
It's Sports Fix with Jason Pine and Darcy Waldegrave.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
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of October twenty twenty four. Thanks very much for listening
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