July 7, 2026 • 57 mins
No more soccer. Team USA washes themselves out of the world cup in embarrassing fashion, and that kicks off a talker Tuesday. Then, we get to meet Nate Bubes, TWolves asst coach and Summer League head coach!
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
You want to change the conversation with some games. That's fair.
I think it's funny. Now same what in the hand?
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Fat is going on with you guys? No cap it
all with us? Very mid or so says the kids,
or so say the kids.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Good morning. Hey, look at that clock right now. This
is eight fifty nine to une. Old power trip. Boys
stole a minute, didn't they. You're going to be hearing
about that later. Seahawks, Sea Cove and Saucy Saucy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Alrighty listen closely please, Charles from the Capital City Troy,
also from Saint Paul BBG. Y'all don't know football that guy.
It's safe to come back. It's safe to come home.
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As soccer scholars told us, it usually ends like this.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The US is hesitating about teball picked up in the box.
It was the Cantalos. The uayers closed defensively.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And now they're in an early hole against Belgium.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Belgium said knock you out. I'm gonna knock you out,
so so on to the bottle.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It gets a cross into ketsalars loassing gout and Belgium
retake the lead.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Moments later charge the Kettlara times the letter his second
goal at the US right.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Back where they were.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Got to make sure we confine this in four years,
HeLa Hella, and.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We depart World Cup twenty twenty six with a whimper.
The hardcores are incensed. Social media feeds are flooded with
faux pelee mines constructing ways to make USA soccer more
competitive on the worldly level.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Nine to Noon has lost.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
A major, major and fun July Talker and the beautiful
game became ugly for the Red, White and Blue out
Cappuccino Capital Way.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Beat out of the air freeze.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
He's gotta get there and deal it where it He
takes it down off the chest to catill out and.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Knocks it away.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Kim Eve can't bucket. It is a disastrous story. Gould
to conceive the belcher.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, that goalkeeper had to get there and deal with it.
They had to deal with something. Didn't necessarily deal with
it the right way, did he? Let's put it this way.
Brad Guzan and Tim Howard were not blushing at that maneuver. Beloved, Beloved,
It's now safe to come back to your covenant and
not have to fear bicycle kick analysis and the deducing
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of just the perfect way to unfurl a corner kick.
We'll leave the flopping for the NBA balligan is ballagon.
Antonio Freeman's kid might be pondering the shallow cross over
crossing passes and our Merson every coach came to conquer
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and like all the others, leaves.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
With a whisper. Well, don't con see another.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Lucucu the explanation point for Belgium.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, exclamation what's that pool doing? It was like six
exclamation points there. What the guy who scored the last goal?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
What's his name? Romelu Lukaku. This show is naughty and
might make you a potty mouse.
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and the person to whom you were writing is named Lonnie.
Back to the spanking at hand or back to the
lesson at hand, Nordo. He is a hardcore carnivore and
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hardcore fan of the world. Come and the USA Soccer
team say here we go Northern Fire talkback Talker Tuesday,
assumably a prize tied to it. Near the end of
the radio program, what happened? What disappoints where do we
go from here? And let's establish some talkbacks for your
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friends at Northern Fire.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Indeed, thank you Northern Fire. It is a talker Tuesday.
And as we do transition from this succulent July talker,
just to put a cap on this thing, how awful
was that yesterday? I mean, my freaking goodness, maybe the
talkback is, hey, you know, I'm a casual soccer fan
that was just wanting to check in. I'm representing the Red,
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White and Blue, and maybe you throw a talk back
in and talk about how disgusted you were. And that's
the discussion talker on a talker Tuesday. We were always
going to be in for a reality check.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But what meant a lot to me.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Just as somebody that loves his tournament and I'm going
to continue to watch it some sweet games as this
thing finals out. I loved the opportunity for this team
to host this tournament, show grit, show toughness, show growth
on the biggest stage at home, in front of your
biggest fans. Didn't happen you lose to a Belgium team
backside of Prime with their supposed Golden Generation.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Losing to them would stink, But.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
You fight, you show quality, and you leave the tournament
with your head held high. That was a rug pull
of the highest variety last night. If you were watching,
whether you're a hardcore, whether you're a casual, or you
hate watching it over the Balligan red card suspension bit.
Was it more shocking to fans last night that our
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squad clearly didn't belong in the same stadium as their
opponents in Belgium? Or was it more shocking to the
team themselves that these guys they were playing were not Bosnia,
they were not the Offses, the Soaka Ruse, they were
not Paraguay. Belgium's a real team. They'd been underperforming alternate.
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This is a real squad training wheels off boys and
they crashed their bike into a mailbox. It was a
classless effort last night. Belgium forced us. You know, we
had Manny and now Manny and yesterday Manny Lagos, chief
development Officer, Minnesota United FC go loons scarves up.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Manny and I talked about it. We were going to
have the ball last night. We didn't. We were going
to have to take advantage of possession. We didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
They forced us to defend more than we had at
any point in attorney, which happens to be our grandest
weak spot.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So you can't blame schematics.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You can't blame any of that because the first two goals,
as you watch it playing those highlights, ball watching by
several defenders, pure lack of ability from Tim Reem. The
third goal is something that's so incompetent, embarrassing and pathetic.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You never would have had to play the.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Sport or watch a game before to know that Matt
Freese had no business doing what he was doing. My
eleven year old's beautiful Eva and Stella know that back there,
you get it, the bleep off your foot, kick that
thing out of bounds, kick it fifteen yards the other way.
Whatever you do, don't do the thing that the guy
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who went to Harvard and he was analyzing penalty analytics
and all of these things. Don't do the thing that
the guy.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That went to Harvard did right on the biggest stage.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
The fourth goal was inevitable because Lukaku is inevitable only
for fifteen minutes a game.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Christian Polisic.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Legacy Game, Legacy Game for Christian Polisic.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Legacy Game. He's wholly unreliable.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
His legacy is coming up lame in the biggest moments
and being unavailable. Even prior to tapping out of that
game last night, you were kind of who can I
sink my teeth into Who's gonna matter?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
If Team USA is going to move forward?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You were looking for number ten, couldn't find him unless
his back was turned to the TV view and you
saw him on the far side of the field, walking around,
being entirely too comfortable, negative, being outside of the play.
How much confidence did he show with the ball? None?
Quite comfortable, just chilling. He's no Landing, He's no Dempsey.
He's a pretty good player that probably needs to retire
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from the national team so he can get the proper
amount of rest that he desperately needs. So the frustration
for me is not the loss. Again, I love this turny.
I'm going to watch all the games. This is a
beautiful culture collision for me that I just soak in
every four years.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I dig it.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
But you turn in that performance that's just straight up
a slap in the face. That is brutal. So back
to square one for Team USA and what's next? Well,
moving forward, because there's always a lot of there's we
ask the same questions. Like when we talk about soccer yesterday, Pa,
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I think it was you know, what are the negatives
not getting right? If you're those on ex or social media,
you're the guy or gal that says this is why
we're never going to take the sport seriously in this country.
We always kind of talk about it like it's this
cute little second tier bit the engine that could or
potentially should, or it might or it never will. This
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is a lot on ourselves as it relates to that
conversation and those negatives, those opinions, those opinions actually matter
as it pertains to soccer in this country. Yeah, what's next?
Did you lose momentum? Well, another question talk back Tuesday
before we get to some football topics, American football topics
and some other things. In mid July, what momentum were
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you looking for from this World Cup? I think that
there will be momentum for the kids. Nineteen ninety four
World Cup in the United States that bit me. I
was nine years old and I didn't go back and
dig deep into their one nothing loss to Brazil in
the round of sixteen that year. Only twenty four teams
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in that tournament. By the way, I just remember red,
white and blue, big stage. I want to play that sport,
and then I did for many years, like fifteen. So
for kids, I think there could be a spark and
there could be some excitement and a wave moving forward,
which is a positive thing. But whenever I hear somebody
say like, hey, did this lose momentum or what's next
for soccer, I mean that kind of tells the story
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in itself.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It's always going to be.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
The NFL, it's going to be the NBA, it's going
to be the NHL, it's going to be twins baseball.
We're going to root for our core for professional teams
and until there are fundamental changes in the development of
youth at the soccer at the youth level in soccer
in this country, it's going to be what you saw
yesterday and over the last few weeks. The United States
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are going to have a chance to compete against the
near doe wells. They're going to have moments of brilliance
and then they're going to get to a spot in
the tournament where the training wheels come off and they
will smack their chin on the curb. And so that's
kind of the state of US soccer. You're probably going
to have a new coach. A lot of these guys,
twenty seven to eight year old players on this team,
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they're probably not going to be in the mix four
years from now, so it'll be a new face. And
again that missed opportunity. That was what excited me about yesterday,
the opportunity in front of your home fans to perform
show out, win potentially, and then best of luck against Spain.
That was always going to be an l Friday afternoon,
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but show out potentially win or lose with class, lose
with dignity. None of that is what we saw on
the field, a meltdown of apocalyptic proportions. And so now
if you're into soccer like me, you're kind of licking
your wounds a little bit. I can't believe I spent
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two hours watching that. If you're not really into soccer,
you get to say, see yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
On his wins, baseball, onto what's Billy g doing?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Onto? Hey, how's this final? You know, is Lebron gonna
come here?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Or what? Is that?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
A real thing? You get to move one.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Way or another, and soccer remains just nightly, tightly packed
and fit and snug where it is, which is not
a top tier sport in our particular country. So United
States went out with a thud, went out with a
thud yesterday in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uber disappointed by that. Uber disappointed.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Charles from Saint Paul A talkback specialist, Troy from Saint Paul, ABC, BBG,
drummer Guy, everybody else deeply rooted in the Love Covenant.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
We're here with the talkbacks for the USA squad getting
knocked out in the Knockout sixteen. We are here for
Minnesota Vikings quarterback competition conversation in July. We are here
for National Football League conversation, who wins the NFC? Why
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Lebron James to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Who's best in the West?
And why San Antonio or the OKC wild fans Dylan
Larkin happen? Where is he happened? The corner kick coast
is clear, ladies and gentlemen. And it's so sad because
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for those who never watch it, like many of you
and me being new to the USA Soccer Covenant, it
permitted us the opportunity to dream. The hardcore can be like, well,
you always get knocked out in the sixteen, You are
not as good as Belgium, Spain, Norway, England, France and
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so on, and there will be there will be a
flood of cold water in your face eventually. Just connect
the dots here, Nebie, Well, the newbies didn't want to
connect the dots. The newbies got excited at two thirty
or three o'clock in the afternoon yesterday. Why because the
newbies wanted to watch Cristiano Ronaldo play Spain. Because Rinaldo's
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part of the Captain Cool covenant and that includes every sport.
My man's cool, and he cried at the end of
his probably final World Cup and we wanted to scout
what the competition potentially could look like in the elite eight,
the knockout eight. I mean, now, excuse me while I
whipped this out. I mean there may need to be
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a Steve's Appliance as five thousand dollars endorsement to watch
Argentina Egypt.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I ain't kidding, man, Is this is.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
This the wrong time to mention Friday Watch Party, Ladies
and gentlemen, Friday Watch Party, MCCUs and savage two o'clock
for a World Cup quarterfinal featuring Spain and Belgium.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So the USA loses the game, but Nordo wins the bet.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Cat a boy.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
First of all, MCU's Ris MCCUs is awesome and I
can't wait to.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Get down there. And you see M.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Mchughes went to marketing at kfan dot com and even
with USA soccer eliminated, mchughes gets paid and Nordo cash
the bet.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Absolutely Friday afternoon, we can talk about Spain and Belgium.
We can talk about Lebron to Minnesota. We can enjoy
mic Ultras at a reduced price with a collectible World
Cup Cup. Oh jeez, all that happening Friday afternoon, two pm.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
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What's on Deck nine to noon includes talkbacks to the
free iHeartRadio app on the the ideas that that Nordo
set up for you and to encapsulate them. We can
look at it like this USA soccer team, what happened?
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What disappoints? Where do we go from here? Where does
ayso go from here? And let's establish some talkbacks for
our friends at Northern Fire.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, if I.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Can, if I can just add in tweak, I love
of course I love the ayso route.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, we have no chance, I mean, honestly, to win
a World Cup. I now have gone to We have
zero chats. And I can't say forever because I'm not
a best ever, worst ever, forever or never guy. But
with with Billy, Johnny, Christy, Suzi, Tamika, Antoine, Julio and
Juan or whomever. Growing up in the United States of America,
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They're going to play football, They're going to play basketball,
They're gonna play hockey. Yeah, they're going to play baseball. Correct,
they're gonna play a Look, they're going to play soccer.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
So and by the way, there are mechanisms for inclusion
in football and basketball and even hockey to an extent.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Hockey's tough, hockey costs a lot ice time and all that.
What do you mean inclusion? Well, it's just and that
This is what I was going to throw into the talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You got Bill thinking he's Bonnie out there. Anyway, go ahead,
I what I was talking about.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
There is a perception, specifically with soccer that as you
get older, as it goes beyond Ava and Stella just
running around on a small field with a tiny net
with their heads cut off for an hour so that
mom and dad can take a breath. When it evolves
beyond a daycare sport in this country, there is a
pay to play model that can be incredibly prohibitive to
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a lot of kids who may love soccer. But they'll
say so it costs me cost mom and dad twenty
five hundred bucks for this traveling league. Yep, but it
costs me eight nine hundred dollars for my kid to
play basketball in an AAU potential league. As they go
beyond that ten to eleven and they're just on the
Cuspa High school and trying to figure it out, there's
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a pay to play model in a lot of areas
of this country. Really, the system at a youth level
domestically is kind of built on it where it can
be very cost prohibitive to families to choose this particular sport.
I just I wonder what a casual fans perspective is
on that. That's very fair and their kids hit that fork
in the road and it's like soccer, football, soccer, hockey, soccer,
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gymnastics are swimming. I wonder how many choose a different
route because of the financial implications involved.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Understood, very fair and get zero chance and guess what
the pay to play bit like the nil for the four, five, six,
and seven year olds. Close circuit to chuck E cheese
marketing at KFA in dot com, right, Delanie, I mean
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you can corner the market here, chuck E cheese. David Busters,
I mean seriously, nil for the pay to play for
the kids. Let's pay them to play so we can compete.
Marketing at KFA and dot com. David Busters, chuck e
chuck E cheese, corner that mark cornerkick that market. Be
all yours, be all yours, and look what you'll be doing.
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You will be shaping generations of high end USA soccer
players that actually give us a chance to oh get
knocked out in the knockout eight?
Speaker 6 (22:44):
How much is a quarterfinal worth to you? Marketing at
kfan dot com. Hey England, By the way, this is
how hard it is to win a World Cup.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's why it's tough.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Despite my love for this team and my adoration for
this tournament, England hasn't won a World Cup since nineteen
six sixty six and this is their entire thing everything.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's how hard it is to find yourself to the
top of the Mountain.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
So yeah, until yesterday, it would have been golf collapse.
Terrific work, awesome hosting with the United States in this tournament,
Mexico as well. Mexico's really the only one of the
three hosts that actually showed out, and that was a
thriller against the Brits.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It was a thriller.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
But to that end, yeah, last night just an absolute
trip on your own shoelace, step on a rake, whatever
cliche you want to use, awful, awful yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
They slipped on the metaphorical banana peel. Now, well, you
got my mind going a little bit here, don't you?
And Walker Tuesday? No, but where it's going from a
serious standpoint is like with Lionel Messi. Yeah, growing up
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in Argentina, don't know what let's say, let's say cleats,
Like you can get cleats now for probably get cleats.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
For forty dollars. Sure, you can get a soccer ball
for how much? Twenty five? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, so now we're seventy dollars into it, that's right,
for how many years?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay? The pay to play bit?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, I don't With Messi and Pele and Franz Beckenbauer
and all these the Diego Maridona, yep, everybody from days
gone by or maybe even now, because the traveling situation,
the camps, the the soccer or hockey or basketball or
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football specific businesses that would emerge the camps and things
like that, where I mean you're paying to become better
from learned, trained minds.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I'm willing to venture a guess.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
When Lionel Messi bought his first pair of clets and
had his first soccer ball, he was out there in
a yard, on a field, in a street, or in
a pasture, dirt road, a dirt road, playing catch with goats.
I mean he was like dribbling with his right and
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left foot around goats walking on the street. But seriously,
how many hours does somebody like that put into right foot,
left foot, left foot, right foot, right foot, left foot,
left foot.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Right foot thousands of hours?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Okay, kick the ball this way, kick the ball that way,
kick the ball this way, kick the ball that way,
by himself, not paying a payes, not paying a dollar.
So that is right in front of millions of kids
for thousands of years. But soccer in the United States
of America is antithetical. To a shiny toy in an
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image conscious era where shiny toys are elevated. So in
other words, Sunday Night football. I mean, it's a long
you get Mike Rico to do Argentina Egypt, but he'll
be right there for you with Green Bay at Chicago
and you'll all be watching absolutely And in the NBA Finals,
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Mike Terrico's doing a lot of stuff you might not
have Mike Trico describing Norway England or Kevin Harlan saying
Harry Kane went up high and came down hard.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
We call that the high hard one.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Now in the NBA Finals, you'll be watching San Antonio
and the New York Knicks, and you're going to want
to be Stefan Castle or Jalen Brunson. So then you're
going to pay sixty for the shoes and twenty five
for the basketball, and you're going to be shooting hoops
for thousands of hours, which pulls away from the ability
to be the Lionel Messi on the dirt road, avoiding
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the goats, going left foot, right foot, right foot, left foot,
left foot, right foot, right foot, left foot a million times.
There's just so much here, But that also was the
other side of the equation. We have an abundance of
resources in the United States of America. We have those
of the philanthropic variety all over the place willing to
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help kids. Here's five million dollars for these six businesses.
Institutions pay for play situations where I'm so pissed off.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
We keep get getting.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Bounced in the Knockout sixteen and the last time it happened,
it was an embarrassment that I'm going to start these
businesses and I'm philanthropically going to give the money to
help the country become better and pull kids potentially from
other sports, so they dedicate themselves to that.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Marketing at kfan dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
It's the longest of long shots ever to long shot
because that means parents and kids actually would have to
pay attention to one thing for more than thirty seconds.
I always love that one, but nevertheless, it's an idea.
Marketing at kfa in dot com. Lonnie, it's Paul, I
have an idea. How much does it cost? TimberTech TimberTech
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dot com is going on. Here's what's going on today.
We will start the USA Soccer talkbacks next segment. Then
at about nine forty seven. A man named Nathan Bubis
joins nine to Now. He's an assistant on Chris Finch's
staff and he's also the head coach for the Minnesota
Timberwolves summer League team out Vegas Way. Nathan Bubis makes
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his Love Covenant debut about nine forty seven. He'll be
followed by a man named Jensen Lewis used to be
a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians when they were the Indians.
Out of the Guardians and Cleveland's in town and the
Minnesota Twins are playing pretty well. Jaylou joins nine to
Noon about ten o'clock, then a bevy of talkbacks, News
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do nord A Kyler Murray segment comes up at eleven o'clock.
The owl Roofing post game. That's the final segment, Al Roofing,
who Alroofing dot Com Noordo produces, and I'm Paul Allen.
Good morning. We still love our country? Hello, Yes we do?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yes, we do. Well what that goalie was doing you're
looking at my face? It was all blue. I mean
it was negative. You want to change the conversation.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Win some games in the Knockout sixteen marketing to Kfan
dot Com.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Right, Delani, this is PA on iHeartRadio and KFA and
the fan Guaranteed Human.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
After I saw what the United States goalkeeper did on
that third goal, I said.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Y'all don't know soccer, like I said, well, like we
said to begin the presentation, ladies and gentlemen, it's safe
to come home.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And that means y'all don't know football.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Guy who's clearly listening, thank you very much, and he
filed that report from AFAR. I mean, Billy, Johnny Christy, Susi,
Lionel Diego and BBG along with Charles and Saint Paul
talkback machine. It's it's USA soccer intensive right now. But
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I mean it's always Dealer's choice in the Covenant. Yeah,
and believe me, it's gonna be Dealer's choice in the
Covenant tomorrow. Now that now that that boring Spain squad
does not need to be over analyzed for what the
knockout eight looks like for I love my country. What
a boring God, what a boring team that was yesterday
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all but it was all strategic Nega trauma.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We use this.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
We borrowed a bit while you were gone. What a
boring game that was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It was an amazing game.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I get the strategy and the picks and the bodying
and the bicycle kicking, the whole thing so common left
of voicemailsay, and it was okay to borrow a bit,
and we talked about La mellow ball and thus the
occasional negatraumeter here nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But welcome home everybody. I hope you're happy.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
All you Benedict Arnold's rooting against the United States of America,
so you can get back your precious nine to noon
time slot. To figure out why Blake Brandle is starting
at center for the Minnesota Vikings and it's not Michael
Michael Jurgins or maybe the Cincinnati center they took in
the seventh round.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Gavin Garhart, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Gavin Garhart, and is he related to Toby Gerhart that
next on.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Nine to noon.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Welcome back, ohball, you were happy the beautiful game became ugly.
And I think I've seen my twenty ninth tweet in
the home feed, the news feed that I mean, you're
all stealing everybody else's bits when you all say, well,
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now I don't have to care about soccer wearing out
of our hair.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I always love that one, and I got da by guy.
I always love.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Let's tell you sound okay, and we don't care that
you don't care about it. You don't and you shouldn't
care that there are things from a sporting existence we
don't follow or we don't care, but we're sports snobs.
And when it's on the worldly stage, well, I can't
speak for Nordo because he enjoys the game of soccer
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and the World Cup it's very important to him. For me,
whatever three hundred and sixty five times four minus twenty
eight is.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I always love that one eye ain't into it. But
when my squad, which happens to be my country, is
making some memories and making some noise and we look
a little fresh, and then we get the White House
in the United States of America to do us a
solid I always love that one. I mean it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And by the way, with Baligan, and you know markedly
more about this than me, it didn't seem to be
the greatest effort mister Balligan ever is offered. Last night,
Ballagan is now baalagone. I became bored with the back
the right heel, no look pass after oh number five
got picked off.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I always love that break with that.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I mean, he just kept doing it, the no look
right foot heel kick and nobody was there and it
was him who was the heel.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I put a freaking ball on that now.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
But I'm wondering with Baligan and we're not casting an aspersion,
so stay away from six four to six eight six.
But I mean, was he he's so convinced he wasn't
playing in this game because of the red guard.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Did he did?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Did he like go to Vegas for two days? He
like fly over to Japan? I mean, did he did
he eat massive meals? What happened? I have no idea
what happened in number twenty the man I started thinking
his last name was boogin Bielia. Then I finally got
it down to ball again. Now it's ballygone. Well, but
he was terrible and even I know that.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Yeah, the entire team was awful last night, some worse
than others. Tim reim Our defender who looks like he's
vegan and eats Coranola and camps in the hills. Oh,
he always think that he was the worst player on
the team. The goalie was putting bad spots and he
didn't help himself with that all time folly Ballagan kind
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of depends on what's happening behind him.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
So when you watch Erling Holland and you watch him.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Only touch the ball a handful of times a game,
but sometimes it results in two goals, a lot of
that work is done by his teammates to serve him
the Here it is on a silver platter, Go take it,
go finish the deal. Big boy Balligan is not good
enough to just be that guy yet. But he's also
not talented enough potentially yet potentially yet potentially to then
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create his own opportunities and be relied upon to find
his own way. So it was a combination of just
everything was discombined. What are we doing in the eightieth minute?
Put a freaking ball on net? No more cute back,
No more cute back back heels, no more cute We're
gonna play decoy and let it run through. No concept
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of where your teammates are on the field. So disconnected
it was putrid. It was absolutely putrid. Narrow casting for
absolutely two people.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Right now, you and I. Okay, Wimbledon is on in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Here, sweet is Andy Roddick doing everything he can to
look like Landon Donovan.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I always love that one. I mean, you talk about
the doppelganger. Holy cow for real?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Ah, a metaphorical flot three two a proverbial fly in
the metaphorical ointment.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Let's just face it.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
We ain't got stars who shine like other countries have
stars who shine. I mean, we do not have immortality
on our team. No, we do not, Okay, Polisic, Policic, Bougainvillia, Balligan, Ballagon,
none of them soccer immortality. No, rain as Kid not
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soccer immortality. No, the goalie not soccer immortality. Go back
to Harvard Messy soccer immortality. Yes, Harry Kane soccer immortality.
Diego Maradona soccer immortality. Earling Holland when you can get
past the fact that he looks like fifteen people riding
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dragons in Game of Thrones behind.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Khalisi, I always love that one.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You recognize he's a beast on the field, and you
know what else he is soccer immortality. Yeah, we don't
have superstars of all superstars ever a superstar.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
We have good players. We do not have immortality. I
could not agree with you more.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I caught soccer fever just like a lot of people.
I am very much a casual. However, after watching last night,
I know why I'm a casual. Sud is the correct
term there. So do we really think that we got
a shot for Lebron?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Perfect perfect pivot, perfect pivot? I always love that one.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
Well done brother, Hey Arno pa adam for were types?
Do you think some of the developmental problems stems that
our club teams are paid for by parents, whereas other
countries club teams are paid for by the soccer cloaks.
Speaker 10 (38:05):
When a kid is brought up and signed the contract,
money goes to that club, so essentially they do it
for fun, to get better and we just pick it.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I have absolutely no idea what that talkback individual was
talk backing about.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, so just a small example.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
So Messi, Okay, Messi did not grow up without shoes
in the middle of nowhere, but he was a working
class family it okay. When Messi got his opportunity of
Barcelona his parents as a kid. His parents did not
pay for the flight, His parents did not pay for
the hotel, his parents did not pay for the tryout
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his parents got it, did not pay for anything. Barcelona
brought them over on a play, brought them to the spot,
made sure they had a comfortable place to stay while
he entered his trial status and ultimately found his way
with the club. And so in other countries talking about it,
like Papa Ghana, the elite clubs in this world are
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setting up opportunities for the best players to play and
never spend a time from the guy from the Ghanaian standpoint,
And in Africa, they're bringing kids from Nigeria and Senegal
and Ghana, Ivory Coast and all these places.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Hey, come stay in London, bring mom, get an apartment.
It's on us.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
And they're getting these kids in these elite clubs based
on their talent.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
And they're and they're not playing anything else.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
They're not playing anything else. Yeah, but they're not paying
for it. And that's the key. So again, when when
you talk about the inclusive nature and the access to
elite and high end training, that is something that maybe
is missing here in the Great United States.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Topic segue, story segue, more talkbacks later. But when we return,
a man named Nathan Bubis who was an assistant coach
for the Minnesota Timberwolves, but he happens to be head
coach of the Summer League team in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
He will join nine to noon next you're.
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One hundred two three Minnesota Twining Maddics at the Cleveland
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Guardians in town tonight.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
They second wee are Chicago White Sox top of the
Heat are now approaching the All Star break. Jensen lewis
former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He will join us
within the next fifteen minutes to learn about the Gavin
Williams Stephen Kwan portion of the equation.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
What about Joelton, Joe Charboneau and Eddie Murray when he
played first base?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Good morning, This nine is nine to.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Noon at FM A one hundred point three k f A.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
And I ain't sure if the call is local or
if we're heading out to Vegas, but I know we've
been excited about it since we learned it was going
to happen yesterday.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And ladies and gentlemen here it is.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Nathan bubis assistant on Finchy's staff and Wolves head coach
at Summer League in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
He joins us now.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Chris calls Nathan his chief of staff, and then Nathan joins, uh,
this is cool.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Good to meet you, Nathan and Paul Allen. How are you.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
Excited? To be honest and super excited for the opportunity.
I don't know for Benching to give me this opportunity,
you know, in the sea of staff role for the
last couple of years and now more coaching opportunities.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Pretty cool, That's fantastic. That's extremely cool.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Now, So like your business card if you have one,
or if we go to Timberwolves dot com MBA dot
com and you know, spend ten minutes trying to well,
I mean excuse me, and we like go to the
coaching staff and does it say Nathan bubis chief of
staff or assistant coach because chief of staff is a
fantastic title.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Yeah. It was funny when I first came here. So
I was in New Orleans with coach Finch as a
video coordinator and then came up here. We were messing
around titles, and he had always thought of this role
as kind of a seiar, like his eyes on the ground,
you know, the head coach. You have so many different
things going on in these organizations, Like we're closer to
football team than we were to a basket to a
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small basketball team. Now with how many people are in
the building and help peter a roster is we have
eighteen guys. So we played around with that title. Chiev
of staff. Quality control coach was the one we landed on.
It's a termly stole from football. Yeah, so that was
quality control coach slash assistant coach.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, but in Finch's hard it's cheap of staff. So that, yes, exactly.
I mean, really that's what matters most because he's the boss.
All right.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, so I know, you know, players currently on other
teams and things not being final, like I understand the
protocol for all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
So let me ask this question this.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Way, Nathan, any idea when this Isaiah Evans transaction will
go official so you can get your hands on the
player they call Showtime Slim.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Yeah. Yeah, we really can't say much, but we're hoping,
you know, at some point.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yeah, so we don't. We don't know, though hopefully soon.
Did you know his nickname was Showtime Slim? I did not.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
That's the first I've heard of it.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Probably good.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Well, there there's a I called Vikings football games on
the radio, and then the guy who does it for
the Atlanta Falcons West Durham. Uh he's called a bunch
of duke games and for like for like the ACC
channel or something like that. And uh, I had him
on the radio show last week to talk about a
bunch of things and we were talking about Evans. He's like, oh,
show time Slim. He's just he's there to steal the
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show man. So hopefully you get him. While you're out
there with with your Vegas Summer League squad, coach, what
what do you like about the team.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
We really like our size, Like we're big, We're like
a throwback team. We had lots of bigs, you know.
We we have Rocco and Johann who have been a
part of the program for a year. And then we
have this kid we drafted Trey Kaufman Wren from Purdue
who and they played massive at Purdue too. He played
the four as the six nine guys, so he's a
throwback four. And so between those three we have a
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lot of size. And then we have a you know,
a good point guard to put it all pieces all together.
And Zion Poland who spent his year in the G
League and is now a two way with us.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Well, I'm I'm really glad you went down that road
because I have some questions on Baron Jay and Zakarski
and the Purdue rookie coming up here momentarily. But let
me let's build from the bottom of like like your career,
because in researching it yesterday, it's I mean, like a
lot of coaches with whom I'll chat when I first
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meet them, there's a fascinating side to it. For instance,
what did why'd you start in baseball with the Natties
out of high school?
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (45:34):
So like yourself from Washington, d C. And had a
connection there in college and was able to be an
intern in their baseball operations and one of the I
love all sports, you know, so learning how the baseball world.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I
knew I wanted to be involved in sports, but what
it was. So I kind of just had an opportunity
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and took it and loved learning about baseball and being
a part of the draft process as a summer intern.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
What dump So, whether it's chief of staff, quality control
or just an assistant whatever, what what do you like
about coaching in the NBA?
Speaker 5 (46:11):
I think the creativity and the NBA like putting together
all these pieces of amazing players. Fincy A has a
term that we kind of are the tailors for these suits.
These guys show up and basically what is amani suits
and we just kind of have to put together the
pieces of it and it's really fun. And then the
game planning. Every team is so different, there's so many
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different matchups night tonight and how to put together the
puzzle of how we want to guard a team.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
So so like when you're Nathan, when you you were
the video coordinator for New Orleans or video coordinator person here,
or really with any team, is the video coordinator's job
is part of it seeking out the l's for the
other team and then coming to like Benchi Finch and saying, oh,
I don't know what's going on with this guy, but
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he ain't guarding anybody over the last week.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Is that like part of that job?
Speaker 5 (47:03):
Yeah, you're you're an assistant or head coaches extra eyes
because you're watching and you're helping prepare them. But you can,
you know, you're as you get a relationships, you show
them some extra things. And I think that's the fun
part is when you start to learn, wow, you know
that guy we should attack him every time we can.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
I love that. This. This is Nathan Bubis.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
He's the chief of staff for Chris Finch's coaching staff
and he's going to be the head coach for the
timber Wolves during Summer League in Vegas, which begins in
a couple of days for the t Wolves. And and
Nathan with Chris, what what do you respect and appreciate
about his leadership? You guys have made the postseason five
years in a row with FINCHI.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
Yeah, the first thing is how organized he is, and
part of you know that this role in chief of
staff is helping him be organized and everything he does
with the team. And then his directness, like there's he
doesn't pull plon, he coaches what he sees. There's there's
nobody that is outside of his his heir in terms
of who he's going to be criticizing. And so between
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those two, his organization and his directness, I think players
a spect them, coaches a respective and it's just a
really fun environment. And we have a fun staff. Yeah,
we got a lot of guys that are fun to
be around, and you've got a chance to meet some
of them.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
All right, So with uh with us, some players you're
going to be coaching and and have coached with practice
up to the Summer league. You you actually hit on
the three that intrigued me most. So with the second
year French kid Joan Baronjay, what are you looking for
from him with summer league which again begins in a
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couple of days for you guys, and and and and
if I'm out of my lane here, you know, please
put me back in the lane. But like, how does
this just seems to be an excellent opportunity to get
somebody like Baron Jay to play hard but under control.
So say the game slows down and the god given
anticipatory skills begin to flourish.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Is that fair?
Speaker 5 (49:07):
Yeah, you nail it on the head. Like some of
his issues actually were foiling a lot, and some of
that came from playing really hard, and so he would
be a little out of position or a little reckless
in terms of his contesting every shot, which we love,
but kind of gearing that back working on his screening.
Can he guard perimeter guys and guard them honestly so
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in a little bit of experimentation and offensively put the
ball in his hand a bit more. See what he
can do with it. He's got good hands, he's a
good finisher. So super excited to see all those different
pieces within the control.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Mister chief of staff, what about the seven foot three
rocos Zakarski? How how does one get like this would
seem to be an opportunity to get the motor reving
to figure out truly not only if he belongs, but
like what does he belong doing?
Speaker 1 (49:57):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (49:58):
Yep, exactly. I mean at seventy three, he has a
lot of skill. These can really pass, can shoot the three.
So putting him in these different situations where he where
we see kind of what skills pop out the most,
because there's a lot that he can do. And then
defensive with being seven to three shoesing that length and
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riving that motor up to contest shots and be a
great big at the rim.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
Now this is summer league, so you're gonna have some
you know, obviously rookies and first year younger players who
are like in the G League. But you know more
about this than me, man, I mean, I don't care
if you're Zion Williamson, big Wemby, tall Wemby, maybe an outlier,
but like you know, when when these these players are
nineteen years of age and they're seven to three or
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they still have room to grow physically. When when they
like Baron Jay felt it last year, when they get
into the league, into the regular season, you know, they
face these ten and twelve, thirteen fourteen year men who
are veterans. I mean, how eye opening is it for
like a nineteen year old big against some of these veterans.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
Oh man, it's crazy when they get out there. The
strength of the older guys. I don't think people realize it,
and so we do our best in these situations. But
summer league games are maybe a step up from college
with NBA concepts. But then when you turn the lights
on at Target Center and you got, you know, a
thirty four year old type of strength, even if he's
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shorter than you, it's different and it takes a minute.
And so that's why you can see Berenger's body as
he's going into it more. He's I think he's up
fifteen pounds from last year, which is super exciting. So
and he'll get more confident. You know, a guy like
Rudy who was super strong, that's something that he uses
as his confidence. And I think Johan looks up to
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him and they kind of work together. And his learning
and so he's putting on that same weight.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
So, by the way, with the Austine Roccos Agarski coach, Nathan,
he just to give me a heads up. You probably
we know this, but he turns twenty Saturday, so don't
forget to wish him a happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
Okay, yep, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (52:08):
His mama reminded us about that.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
So do you guys have it all over? Do you
guys have a game on Saturday?
Speaker 5 (52:14):
We do? Wait, we're every other day starting Thursday.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
Well, you got to play him twenty minutes in honor
of his twentieth birthday, right exactly?
Speaker 5 (52:22):
Hopefully a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
I got a Western you have. You sound like an
elite NBA mind. In fact, you wouldn't be in this
position if you weren't. I have a Western Conference question
for you. Who's the target at which to shoot next season?
And why San Antonio or Oklahoma City?
Speaker 5 (52:40):
I think it's both, you know, considering that those are
the two teams that we've lost to in the playoffs
the last two years, that for us, that's kind of
and they're you know, different styles of teams. So okay,
see you both hang their hat on defense, and okay,
so he kind of wears you down. And the Spurs
kind of guard play was super, super impressive, you know,
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the last in the playoffs. So it's about you know,
both of those teams stepping up and and being at
the same level as both of them.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Trey Kaufman Wren, the Purdue rookie. What type of overall
game can we expect to see from him?
Speaker 1 (53:16):
Let's start in Summer League.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
Yeah, so, as I mentioned earlier, throwback for you know,
type of guy that if you've watched basketball for a
long time you'll really like. And that Purdue he played
with like Zach Edy for three of his four years,
and so he's used to playing the four, which is
going to be an NBA position, and so physical, strong, driver,
shoulder hit, post moves, deep seal duck in so that
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kinde of stuff. And then defensively, you know, rebounds the
ball really really well.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
It's been a.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
Great challenge with Johan him, Rocko and Trey.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
Time each day time for two more.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Nathan bubis assistant with Chris Finch's staff coaching the Summer
League team. This is cool speaking of pinching. Uh is
Coach Finch going to be in attendance? And if so,
does that make you nervous in any way? Even though
he doesn't seem like the hovering type.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
Yeah, Ah, for sure. In mischief of staff role, I'm
always helping him. So now kind of looking over he
will be there. It's you know, always kind of seeing
if there's something that I can kind of tell if
he's looking at it like oh this is wrong or right.
So I got to make sure that I'm not always
you know, peeking over there and thinking what's he think
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and kind of do my best. But he's definitely not
the hovering type.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
Well well, I mean, what's he going to do if
passing game and or boxing one are not in the
voluminous playbook and that's all you want to run in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (54:45):
What's he going to do?
Speaker 10 (54:48):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (54:48):
There may be somebody sent over at halftime, you know,
chat with us, help us out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
He'll look around and go like Mike, Oh that's right,
all right.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Last one Chris says.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Chris says about you quote that you think like him,
but also have your own opinions, which he greatly respects
End quote back to the New Orleans days when Finch
was there and you were the video coordinator. How have
you become in mental lockstep with what Chris Finch, what
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the head coach wants and expects.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
How does that happen?
Speaker 5 (55:25):
Yeah, the story that he always tells was we were
it was a November afternoon and it was an off
day and I had just started there in September, and
he wanted to come in and watch the Ohio State
Michigan game on our big projectors screen, as being him
a huge Ohio State fan, and as these video rooms are,
nothing really ever works, as you you'd be surprised to
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find out. But after twenty five thirty minutes of trying,
we finally got it to go up on the big
screen right in time for that eleven am kickoff. And
I think at that point he was he was like,
all right, we think similar.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
That's that's brilliant because people need people like that specifically,
when you know you respectfully formulate opinions. And I'm sure
some of them have clicked.
Speaker 1 (56:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
Last one, being from the Boston area, did you grow
up a Celtics fan?
Speaker 4 (56:16):
No.
Speaker 5 (56:17):
I went to Boston College and actually from Washington, d C.
I grew up in Georgetown, so.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Okay, yeah, I lived in Southeast in Anacostia where RFK
used to be so kind of the same neighborhood. And
back in the Bullets days, you talk about throwback, throwback
fors Alvin Hayes with the fade away before Kobe decided
to make the fade away famous.
Speaker 1 (56:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (56:40):
One undred percent? Yes, I was a huge Wizards fan.
I was a Gilbert Arenas era.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
A huge Wizards fan.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
Can't say that I've ever heard that, but but nevertheless,
hey go Wizards, go Nathan, and go Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
Thank you, very appreciate it. Thank you for the time.
I look forward to the next chance we get to
do this. Okay, thank you love Nine to Noon, Thank you, Bud.
I appreciate you. Nathan. That's very nice.
Speaker 2 (57:04):
Nathan bubis an assistant with Chris Finch's staff.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
He's the head coach, chief of staff.
Speaker 2 (57:09):
He's chief of staff for Finci staff and Nine to
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
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is eight fifty nine to une. Old power trip. Boys
stole a minute, didn't they. You're going to be hearing
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Speaker 1 (01:12):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Alrighty listen closely please, Charles from the Capital City Troy,
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It's safe to come back. It's safe to come home.
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As soccer scholars told us, it usually ends like this.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
The US is hesitating about teball picked up in the box.
It was the Cantalos. The uayers closed defensively.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
And now they're in an early hole against Belgium.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Belgium said knock you out. I'm gonna knock you out,
so so on to the bottle.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It gets a cross into ketsalars loassing gout and Belgium
retake the lead.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Moments later charge the Kettlara times the letter his second
goal at the US right.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Back where they were.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Got to make sure we confine this in four years,
HeLa Hella, and.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Like that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We depart World Cup twenty twenty six with a whimper.
The hardcores are incensed. Social media feeds are flooded with
faux pelee mines constructing ways to make USA soccer more
competitive on the worldly level.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
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A major, major and fun July Talker and the beautiful
game became ugly for the Red, White and Blue out
Cappuccino Capital Way.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Beat out of the air freeze.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
He's gotta get there and deal it where it He
takes it down off the chest to catill out and.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Knocks it away.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Kim Eve can't bucket. It is a disastrous story. Gould
to conceive the belcher.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh, that goalkeeper had to get there and deal with it.
They had to deal with something. Didn't necessarily deal with
it the right way, did he? Let's put it this way.
Brad Guzan and Tim Howard were not blushing at that maneuver. Beloved, Beloved,
It's now safe to come back to your covenant and
not have to fear bicycle kick analysis and the deducing
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of just the perfect way to unfurl a corner kick.
We'll leave the flopping for the NBA balligan is ballagon.
Antonio Freeman's kid might be pondering the shallow cross over
crossing passes and our Merson every coach came to conquer
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and like all the others, leaves.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
With a whisper. Well, don't con see another.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Lucucu the explanation point for Belgium.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, exclamation what's that pool doing? It was like six
exclamation points there. What the guy who scored the last goal?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
What's his name? Romelu Lukaku. This show is naughty and
might make you a potty mouse.
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Back to the spanking at hand or back to the
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hardcore fan of the world. Come and the USA Soccer
team say here we go Northern Fire talkback Talker Tuesday,
assumably a prize tied to it. Near the end of
the radio program, what happened? What disappoints where do we
go from here? And let's establish some talkbacks for your
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friends at Northern Fire.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Indeed, thank you Northern Fire. It is a talker Tuesday.
And as we do transition from this succulent July talker,
just to put a cap on this thing, how awful
was that yesterday? I mean, my freaking goodness, maybe the
talkback is, hey, you know, I'm a casual soccer fan
that was just wanting to check in. I'm representing the Red,
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White and Blue, and maybe you throw a talk back
in and talk about how disgusted you were. And that's
the discussion talker on a talker Tuesday. We were always
going to be in for a reality check.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But what meant a lot to me.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Just as somebody that loves his tournament and I'm going
to continue to watch it some sweet games as this
thing finals out. I loved the opportunity for this team
to host this tournament, show grit, show toughness, show growth
on the biggest stage at home, in front of your
biggest fans. Didn't happen you lose to a Belgium team
backside of Prime with their supposed Golden Generation.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Losing to them would stink, But.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
You fight, you show quality, and you leave the tournament
with your head held high. That was a rug pull
of the highest variety last night. If you were watching,
whether you're a hardcore, whether you're a casual, or you
hate watching it over the Balligan red card suspension bit.
Was it more shocking to fans last night that our
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squad clearly didn't belong in the same stadium as their
opponents in Belgium? Or was it more shocking to the
team themselves that these guys they were playing were not Bosnia,
they were not the Offses, the Soaka Ruse, they were
not Paraguay. Belgium's a real team. They'd been underperforming alternate.
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This is a real squad training wheels off boys and
they crashed their bike into a mailbox. It was a
classless effort last night. Belgium forced us. You know, we
had Manny and now Manny and yesterday Manny Lagos, chief
development Officer, Minnesota United FC go loons scarves up.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Manny and I talked about it. We were going to
have the ball last night. We didn't. We were going
to have to take advantage of possession. We didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
They forced us to defend more than we had at
any point in attorney, which happens to be our grandest
weak spot.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So you can't blame schematics.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
You can't blame any of that because the first two goals,
as you watch it playing those highlights, ball watching by
several defenders, pure lack of ability from Tim Reem. The
third goal is something that's so incompetent, embarrassing and pathetic.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You never would have had to play the.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Sport or watch a game before to know that Matt
Freese had no business doing what he was doing. My
eleven year old's beautiful Eva and Stella know that back there,
you get it, the bleep off your foot, kick that
thing out of bounds, kick it fifteen yards the other way.
Whatever you do, don't do the thing that the guy
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who went to Harvard and he was analyzing penalty analytics
and all of these things. Don't do the thing that
the guy.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
That went to Harvard did right on the biggest stage.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
The fourth goal was inevitable because Lukaku is inevitable only
for fifteen minutes a game.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Christian Polisic.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Legacy Game, Legacy Game for Christian Polisic.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Legacy Game. He's wholly unreliable.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
His legacy is coming up lame in the biggest moments
and being unavailable. Even prior to tapping out of that
game last night, you were kind of who can I
sink my teeth into Who's gonna matter?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
If Team USA is going to move forward?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
You were looking for number ten, couldn't find him unless
his back was turned to the TV view and you
saw him on the far side of the field, walking around,
being entirely too comfortable, negative, being outside of the play.
How much confidence did he show with the ball? None?
Quite comfortable, just chilling. He's no Landing, He's no Dempsey.
He's a pretty good player that probably needs to retire
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from the national team so he can get the proper
amount of rest that he desperately needs. So the frustration
for me is not the loss. Again, I love this turny.
I'm going to watch all the games. This is a
beautiful culture collision for me that I just soak in
every four years.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I dig it.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
But you turn in that performance that's just straight up
a slap in the face. That is brutal. So back
to square one for Team USA and what's next? Well,
moving forward, because there's always a lot of there's we
ask the same questions. Like when we talk about soccer yesterday, Pa,
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I think it was you know, what are the negatives
not getting right? If you're those on ex or social media,
you're the guy or gal that says this is why
we're never going to take the sport seriously in this country.
We always kind of talk about it like it's this
cute little second tier bit the engine that could or
potentially should, or it might or it never will. This
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is a lot on ourselves as it relates to that
conversation and those negatives, those opinions, those opinions actually matter
as it pertains to soccer in this country. Yeah, what's next?
Did you lose momentum? Well, another question talk back Tuesday
before we get to some football topics, American football topics
and some other things. In mid July, what momentum were
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you looking for from this World Cup? I think that
there will be momentum for the kids. Nineteen ninety four
World Cup in the United States that bit me. I
was nine years old and I didn't go back and
dig deep into their one nothing loss to Brazil in
the round of sixteen that year. Only twenty four teams
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in that tournament. By the way, I just remember red,
white and blue, big stage. I want to play that sport,
and then I did for many years, like fifteen. So
for kids, I think there could be a spark and
there could be some excitement and a wave moving forward,
which is a positive thing. But whenever I hear somebody
say like, hey, did this lose momentum or what's next
for soccer, I mean that kind of tells the story
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in itself.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It's always going to be.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
The NFL, it's going to be the NBA, it's going
to be the NHL, it's going to be twins baseball.
We're going to root for our core for professional teams
and until there are fundamental changes in the development of
youth at the soccer at the youth level in soccer
in this country, it's going to be what you saw
yesterday and over the last few weeks. The United States
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are going to have a chance to compete against the
near doe wells. They're going to have moments of brilliance
and then they're going to get to a spot in
the tournament where the training wheels come off and they
will smack their chin on the curb. And so that's
kind of the state of US soccer. You're probably going
to have a new coach. A lot of these guys,
twenty seven to eight year old players on this team,
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they're probably not going to be in the mix four
years from now, so it'll be a new face. And
again that missed opportunity. That was what excited me about yesterday,
the opportunity in front of your home fans to perform
show out, win potentially, and then best of luck against Spain.
That was always going to be an l Friday afternoon,
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but show out potentially win or lose with class, lose
with dignity. None of that is what we saw on
the field, a meltdown of apocalyptic proportions. And so now
if you're into soccer like me, you're kind of licking
your wounds a little bit. I can't believe I spent
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two hours watching that. If you're not really into soccer,
you get to say, see yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
On his wins, baseball, onto what's Billy g doing?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Onto? Hey, how's this final? You know, is Lebron gonna
come here?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Or what? Is that?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
A real thing? You get to move one.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Way or another, and soccer remains just nightly, tightly packed
and fit and snug where it is, which is not
a top tier sport in our particular country. So United
States went out with a thud, went out with a
thud yesterday in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uber disappointed by that. Uber disappointed.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Charles from Saint Paul A talkback specialist, Troy from Saint Paul, ABC, BBG,
drummer Guy, everybody else deeply rooted in the Love Covenant.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
We're here with the talkbacks for the USA squad getting
knocked out in the Knockout sixteen. We are here for
Minnesota Vikings quarterback competition conversation in July. We are here
for National Football League conversation, who wins the NFC? Why
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Lebron James to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Who's best in the West?
And why San Antonio or the OKC wild fans Dylan
Larkin happen? Where is he happened? The corner kick coast
is clear, ladies and gentlemen. And it's so sad because
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for those who never watch it, like many of you
and me being new to the USA Soccer Covenant, it
permitted us the opportunity to dream. The hardcore can be like, well,
you always get knocked out in the sixteen, You are
not as good as Belgium, Spain, Norway, England, France and
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so on, and there will be there will be a
flood of cold water in your face eventually. Just connect
the dots here, Nebie, Well, the newbies didn't want to
connect the dots. The newbies got excited at two thirty
or three o'clock in the afternoon yesterday. Why because the
newbies wanted to watch Cristiano Ronaldo play Spain. Because Rinaldo's
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part of the Captain Cool covenant and that includes every sport.
My man's cool, and he cried at the end of
his probably final World Cup and we wanted to scout
what the competition potentially could look like in the elite eight,
the knockout eight. I mean, now, excuse me while I
whipped this out. I mean there may need to be
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a Steve's Appliance as five thousand dollars endorsement to watch
Argentina Egypt.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I ain't kidding, man, Is this is.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
This the wrong time to mention Friday Watch Party, Ladies
and gentlemen, Friday Watch Party, MCCUs and savage two o'clock
for a World Cup quarterfinal featuring Spain and Belgium.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
So the USA loses the game, but Nordo wins the bet.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Cat a boy.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
First of all, MCU's Ris MCCUs is awesome and I
can't wait to.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Get down there. And you see M.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Mchughes went to marketing at kfan dot com and even
with USA soccer eliminated, mchughes gets paid and Nordo cash
the bet.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Absolutely Friday afternoon, we can talk about Spain and Belgium.
We can talk about Lebron to Minnesota. We can enjoy
mic Ultras at a reduced price with a collectible World
Cup Cup. Oh jeez, all that happening Friday afternoon, two pm.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
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What's on Deck nine to noon includes talkbacks to the
free iHeartRadio app on the the ideas that that Nordo
set up for you and to encapsulate them. We can
look at it like this USA soccer team, what happened?
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What disappoints? Where do we go from here? Where does
ayso go from here? And let's establish some talkbacks for
our friends at Northern Fire.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah, if I.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Can, if I can just add in tweak, I love
of course I love the ayso route.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, we have no chance, I mean, honestly, to win
a World Cup. I now have gone to We have
zero chats. And I can't say forever because I'm not
a best ever, worst ever, forever or never guy. But
with with Billy, Johnny, Christy, Suzi, Tamika, Antoine, Julio and
Juan or whomever. Growing up in the United States of America,
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They're going to play football, They're going to play basketball,
They're gonna play hockey. Yeah, they're going to play baseball. Correct,
they're gonna play a Look, they're going to play soccer.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
So and by the way, there are mechanisms for inclusion
in football and basketball and even hockey to an extent.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Hockey's tough, hockey costs a lot ice time and all that.
What do you mean inclusion? Well, it's just and that
This is what I was going to throw into the talkbacks.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
You got Bill thinking he's Bonnie out there. Anyway, go ahead,
I what I was talking about.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
There is a perception, specifically with soccer that as you
get older, as it goes beyond Ava and Stella just
running around on a small field with a tiny net
with their heads cut off for an hour so that
mom and dad can take a breath. When it evolves
beyond a daycare sport in this country, there is a
pay to play model that can be incredibly prohibitive to
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a lot of kids who may love soccer. But they'll
say so it costs me cost mom and dad twenty
five hundred bucks for this traveling league. Yep, but it
costs me eight nine hundred dollars for my kid to
play basketball in an AAU potential league. As they go
beyond that ten to eleven and they're just on the
Cuspa High school and trying to figure it out, there's
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a pay to play model in a lot of areas
of this country. Really, the system at a youth level
domestically is kind of built on it where it can
be very cost prohibitive to families to choose this particular sport.
I just I wonder what a casual fans perspective is
on that. That's very fair and their kids hit that fork
in the road and it's like soccer, football, soccer, hockey, soccer,
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gymnastics are swimming. I wonder how many choose a different
route because of the financial implications involved.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Understood, very fair and get zero chance and guess what
the pay to play bit like the nil for the four, five, six,
and seven year olds. Close circuit to chuck E cheese
marketing at KFA in dot com, right, Delanie, I mean
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you can corner the market here, chuck E cheese. David Busters,
I mean seriously, nil for the pay to play for
the kids. Let's pay them to play so we can compete.
Marketing at KFA and dot com. David Busters, chuck e
chuck E cheese, corner that mark cornerkick that market. Be
all yours, be all yours, and look what you'll be doing.
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You will be shaping generations of high end USA soccer
players that actually give us a chance to oh get
knocked out in the knockout eight?
Speaker 6 (22:44):
How much is a quarterfinal worth to you? Marketing at
kfan dot com. Hey England, By the way, this is
how hard it is to win a World Cup.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's why it's tough.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Despite my love for this team and my adoration for
this tournament, England hasn't won a World Cup since nineteen
six sixty six and this is their entire thing everything.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's how hard it is to find yourself to the
top of the Mountain.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
So yeah, until yesterday, it would have been golf collapse.
Terrific work, awesome hosting with the United States in this tournament,
Mexico as well. Mexico's really the only one of the
three hosts that actually showed out, and that was a
thriller against the Brits.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
It was a thriller.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
But to that end, yeah, last night just an absolute
trip on your own shoelace, step on a rake, whatever
cliche you want to use, awful, awful yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
They slipped on the metaphorical banana peel. Now, well, you
got my mind going a little bit here, don't you?
And Walker Tuesday? No, but where it's going from a
serious standpoint is like with Lionel Messi. Yeah, growing up
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in Argentina, don't know what let's say, let's say cleats,
Like you can get cleats now for probably get cleats.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
For forty dollars. Sure, you can get a soccer ball
for how much? Twenty five? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Okay, so now we're seventy dollars into it, that's right,
for how many years?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay? The pay to play bit?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, I don't With Messi and Pele and Franz Beckenbauer
and all these the Diego Maridona, yep, everybody from days
gone by or maybe even now, because the traveling situation,
the camps, the the soccer or hockey or basketball or
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football specific businesses that would emerge the camps and things
like that, where I mean you're paying to become better
from learned, trained minds.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I'm willing to venture a guess.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
When Lionel Messi bought his first pair of clets and
had his first soccer ball, he was out there in
a yard, on a field, in a street, or in
a pasture, dirt road, a dirt road, playing catch with goats.
I mean he was like dribbling with his right and
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left foot around goats walking on the street. But seriously,
how many hours does somebody like that put into right foot,
left foot, left foot, right foot, right foot, left foot,
left foot.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Right foot thousands of hours?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Okay, kick the ball this way, kick the ball that way,
kick the ball this way, kick the ball that way,
by himself, not paying a payes, not paying a dollar.
So that is right in front of millions of kids
for thousands of years. But soccer in the United States
of America is antithetical. To a shiny toy in an
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image conscious era where shiny toys are elevated. So in
other words, Sunday Night football. I mean, it's a long
you get Mike Rico to do Argentina Egypt, but he'll
be right there for you with Green Bay at Chicago
and you'll all be watching absolutely And in the NBA Finals,
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Mike Terrico's doing a lot of stuff you might not
have Mike Trico describing Norway England or Kevin Harlan saying
Harry Kane went up high and came down hard.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
We call that the high hard one.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Now in the NBA Finals, you'll be watching San Antonio
and the New York Knicks, and you're going to want
to be Stefan Castle or Jalen Brunson. So then you're
going to pay sixty for the shoes and twenty five
for the basketball, and you're going to be shooting hoops
for thousands of hours, which pulls away from the ability
to be the Lionel Messi on the dirt road, avoiding
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the goats, going left foot, right foot, right foot, left foot,
left foot, right foot, right foot, left foot a million times.
There's just so much here, But that also was the
other side of the equation. We have an abundance of
resources in the United States of America. We have those
of the philanthropic variety all over the place willing to
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help kids. Here's five million dollars for these six businesses.
Institutions pay for play situations where I'm so pissed off.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
We keep get getting.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Bounced in the Knockout sixteen and the last time it happened,
it was an embarrassment that I'm going to start these
businesses and I'm philanthropically going to give the money to
help the country become better and pull kids potentially from
other sports, so they dedicate themselves to that.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Marketing at kfan dot com.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
It's the longest of long shots ever to long shot
because that means parents and kids actually would have to
pay attention to one thing for more than thirty seconds.
I always love that one, but nevertheless, it's an idea.
Marketing at kfa in dot com. Lonnie, it's Paul, I
have an idea. How much does it cost? TimberTech TimberTech
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dot com is going on. Here's what's going on today.
We will start the USA Soccer talkbacks next segment. Then
at about nine forty seven. A man named Nathan Bubis
joins nine to Now. He's an assistant on Chris Finch's
staff and he's also the head coach for the Minnesota
Timberwolves summer League team out Vegas Way. Nathan Bubis makes
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his Love Covenant debut about nine forty seven. He'll be
followed by a man named Jensen Lewis used to be
a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians when they were the Indians.
Out of the Guardians and Cleveland's in town and the
Minnesota Twins are playing pretty well. Jaylou joins nine to
Noon about ten o'clock, then a bevy of talkbacks, News
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do nord A Kyler Murray segment comes up at eleven o'clock.
The owl Roofing post game. That's the final segment, Al Roofing,
who Alroofing dot Com Noordo produces, and I'm Paul Allen.
Good morning. We still love our country? Hello, Yes we do?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Yes, we do. Well what that goalie was doing you're
looking at my face? It was all blue. I mean
it was negative. You want to change the conversation.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Win some games in the Knockout sixteen marketing to Kfan
dot Com.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Right, Delani, this is PA on iHeartRadio and KFA and
the fan Guaranteed Human.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
After I saw what the United States goalkeeper did on
that third goal, I said.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Y'all don't know soccer, like I said, well, like we
said to begin the presentation, ladies and gentlemen, it's safe
to come home.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And that means y'all don't know football.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Guy who's clearly listening, thank you very much, and he
filed that report from AFAR. I mean, Billy, Johnny Christy, Susi,
Lionel Diego and BBG along with Charles and Saint Paul
talkback machine. It's it's USA soccer intensive right now. But
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I mean it's always Dealer's choice in the Covenant. Yeah,
and believe me, it's gonna be Dealer's choice in the
Covenant tomorrow. Now that now that that boring Spain squad
does not need to be over analyzed for what the
knockout eight looks like for I love my country. What
a boring God, what a boring team that was yesterday
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all but it was all strategic Nega trauma.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We use this.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
We borrowed a bit while you were gone. What a
boring game that was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It was an amazing game.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I get the strategy and the picks and the bodying
and the bicycle kicking, the whole thing so common left
of voicemailsay, and it was okay to borrow a bit,
and we talked about La mellow ball and thus the
occasional negatraumeter here nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
But welcome home everybody. I hope you're happy.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
All you Benedict Arnold's rooting against the United States of America,
so you can get back your precious nine to noon
time slot. To figure out why Blake Brandle is starting
at center for the Minnesota Vikings and it's not Michael
Michael Jurgins or maybe the Cincinnati center they took in
the seventh round.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Gavin Garhart, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Gavin Garhart, and is he related to Toby Gerhart that
next on.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Nine to noon.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Welcome back, ohball, you were happy the beautiful game became ugly.
And I think I've seen my twenty ninth tweet in
the home feed, the news feed that I mean, you're
all stealing everybody else's bits when you all say, well,
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now I don't have to care about soccer wearing out
of our hair.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
I always love that one, and I got da by guy.
I always love.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Let's tell you sound okay, and we don't care that
you don't care about it. You don't and you shouldn't
care that there are things from a sporting existence we
don't follow or we don't care, but we're sports snobs.
And when it's on the worldly stage, well, I can't
speak for Nordo because he enjoys the game of soccer
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and the World Cup it's very important to him. For me,
whatever three hundred and sixty five times four minus twenty
eight is.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I always love that one eye ain't into it. But
when my squad, which happens to be my country, is
making some memories and making some noise and we look
a little fresh, and then we get the White House
in the United States of America to do us a
solid I always love that one. I mean it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
And by the way, with Baligan, and you know markedly
more about this than me, it didn't seem to be
the greatest effort mister Balligan ever is offered. Last night,
Ballagan is now baalagone. I became bored with the back
the right heel, no look pass after oh number five
got picked off.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
I always love that break with that.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I mean, he just kept doing it, the no look
right foot heel kick and nobody was there and it
was him who was the heel.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I put a freaking ball on that now.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
But I'm wondering with Baligan and we're not casting an aspersion,
so stay away from six four to six eight six.
But I mean, was he he's so convinced he wasn't
playing in this game because of the red guard.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Did he did?
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Did he like go to Vegas for two days? He
like fly over to Japan? I mean, did he did
he eat massive meals? What happened? I have no idea
what happened in number twenty the man I started thinking
his last name was boogin Bielia. Then I finally got
it down to ball again. Now it's ballygone. Well, but
he was terrible and even I know that.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Yeah, the entire team was awful last night, some worse
than others. Tim reim Our defender who looks like he's
vegan and eats Coranola and camps in the hills. Oh,
he always think that he was the worst player on
the team. The goalie was putting bad spots and he
didn't help himself with that all time folly Ballagan kind
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of depends on what's happening behind him.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
So when you watch Erling Holland and you watch him.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Only touch the ball a handful of times a game,
but sometimes it results in two goals, a lot of
that work is done by his teammates to serve him
the Here it is on a silver platter, Go take it,
go finish the deal. Big boy Balligan is not good
enough to just be that guy yet. But he's also
not talented enough potentially yet potentially yet potentially to then
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create his own opportunities and be relied upon to find
his own way. So it was a combination of just
everything was discombined. What are we doing in the eightieth minute?
Put a freaking ball on net? No more cute back,
No more cute back back heels, no more cute We're
gonna play decoy and let it run through. No concept
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of where your teammates are on the field. So disconnected
it was putrid. It was absolutely putrid. Narrow casting for
absolutely two people.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Right now, you and I. Okay, Wimbledon is on in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Here, sweet is Andy Roddick doing everything he can to
look like Landon Donovan.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I always love that one. I mean, you talk about
the doppelganger. Holy cow for real?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Ah, a metaphorical flot three two a proverbial fly in
the metaphorical ointment.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Let's just face it.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
We ain't got stars who shine like other countries have
stars who shine. I mean, we do not have immortality
on our team. No, we do not, Okay, Polisic, Policic, Bougainvillia, Balligan, Ballagon,
none of them soccer immortality. No, rain as Kid not
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soccer immortality. No, the goalie not soccer immortality. Go back
to Harvard Messy soccer immortality. Yes, Harry Kane soccer immortality.
Diego Maradona soccer immortality. Earling Holland when you can get
past the fact that he looks like fifteen people riding
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dragons in Game of Thrones behind.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Khalisi, I always love that one.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
You recognize he's a beast on the field, and you
know what else he is soccer immortality. Yeah, we don't
have superstars of all superstars ever a superstar.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
We have good players. We do not have immortality. I
could not agree with you more.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I caught soccer fever just like a lot of people.
I am very much a casual. However, after watching last night,
I know why I'm a casual. Sud is the correct
term there. So do we really think that we got
a shot for Lebron?
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Perfect perfect pivot, perfect pivot? I always love that one.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
Well done brother, Hey Arno pa adam for were types?
Do you think some of the developmental problems stems that
our club teams are paid for by parents, whereas other
countries club teams are paid for by the soccer cloaks.
Speaker 10 (38:05):
When a kid is brought up and signed the contract,
money goes to that club, so essentially they do it
for fun, to get better and we just pick it.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
I have absolutely no idea what that talkback individual was
talk backing about.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, so just a small example.
Speaker 6 (38:24):
So Messi, Okay, Messi did not grow up without shoes
in the middle of nowhere, but he was a working
class family it okay. When Messi got his opportunity of
Barcelona his parents as a kid. His parents did not
pay for the flight, His parents did not pay for
the hotel, his parents did not pay for the tryout
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his parents got it, did not pay for anything. Barcelona
brought them over on a play, brought them to the spot,
made sure they had a comfortable place to stay while
he entered his trial status and ultimately found his way
with the club. And so in other countries talking about it,
like Papa Ghana, the elite clubs in this world are
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setting up opportunities for the best players to play and
never spend a time from the guy from the Ghanaian standpoint,
And in Africa, they're bringing kids from Nigeria and Senegal
and Ghana, Ivory Coast and all these places.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Hey, come stay in London, bring mom, get an apartment.
It's on us.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
And they're getting these kids in these elite clubs based
on their talent.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
And they're and they're not playing anything else.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
They're not playing anything else. Yeah, but they're not paying
for it. And that's the key. So again, when when
you talk about the inclusive nature and the access to
elite and high end training, that is something that maybe
is missing here in the Great United States.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Topic segue, story segue, more talkbacks later. But when we return,
a man named Nathan Bubis who was an assistant coach
for the Minnesota Timberwolves, but he happens to be head
coach of the Summer League team in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
He will join nine to noon next you're.
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One hundred two three Minnesota Twining Maddics at the Cleveland
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Guardians in town tonight.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
They second wee are Chicago White Sox top of the
Heat are now approaching the All Star break. Jensen lewis
former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He will join us
within the next fifteen minutes to learn about the Gavin
Williams Stephen Kwan portion of the equation.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
What about Joelton, Joe Charboneau and Eddie Murray when he
played first base?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Good morning, This nine is nine to.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Noon at FM A one hundred point three k f A.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
And I ain't sure if the call is local or
if we're heading out to Vegas, but I know we've
been excited about it since we learned it was going
to happen yesterday.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
And ladies and gentlemen here it is.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Nathan bubis assistant on Finchy's staff and Wolves head coach
at Summer League in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
He joins us now.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Chris calls Nathan his chief of staff, and then Nathan joins, uh,
this is cool.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Good to meet you, Nathan and Paul Allen. How are you.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
Excited? To be honest and super excited for the opportunity.
I don't know for Benching to give me this opportunity,
you know, in the sea of staff role for the
last couple of years and now more coaching opportunities.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Pretty cool, That's fantastic. That's extremely cool.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Now, So like your business card if you have one,
or if we go to Timberwolves dot com MBA dot
com and you know, spend ten minutes trying to well,
I mean excuse me, and we like go to the
coaching staff and does it say Nathan bubis chief of
staff or assistant coach because chief of staff is a
fantastic title.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
Yeah. It was funny when I first came here. So
I was in New Orleans with coach Finch as a
video coordinator and then came up here. We were messing
around titles, and he had always thought of this role
as kind of a seiar, like his eyes on the ground,
you know, the head coach. You have so many different
things going on in these organizations, Like we're closer to
football team than we were to a basket to a
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small basketball team. Now with how many people are in
the building and help peter a roster is we have
eighteen guys. So we played around with that title. Chiev
of staff. Quality control coach was the one we landed on.
It's a termly stole from football. Yeah, so that was
quality control coach slash assistant coach.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah, but in Finch's hard it's cheap of staff. So that, yes, exactly.
I mean, really that's what matters most because he's the boss.
All right.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, so I know, you know, players currently on other
teams and things not being final, like I understand the
protocol for all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
So let me ask this question this.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Way, Nathan, any idea when this Isaiah Evans transaction will
go official so you can get your hands on the
player they call Showtime Slim.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Yeah. Yeah, we really can't say much, but we're hoping,
you know, at some point.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Yeah, so we don't. We don't know, though hopefully soon.
Did you know his nickname was Showtime Slim? I did not.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
That's the first I've heard of it.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Probably good.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Well, there there's a I called Vikings football games on
the radio, and then the guy who does it for
the Atlanta Falcons West Durham. Uh he's called a bunch
of duke games and for like for like the ACC
channel or something like that. And uh, I had him
on the radio show last week to talk about a
bunch of things and we were talking about Evans. He's like, oh,
show time Slim. He's just he's there to steal the
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show man. So hopefully you get him. While you're out
there with with your Vegas Summer League squad, coach, what
what do you like about the team.
Speaker 5 (44:32):
We really like our size, Like we're big, We're like
a throwback team. We had lots of bigs, you know.
We we have Rocco and Johann who have been a
part of the program for a year. And then we
have this kid we drafted Trey Kaufman Wren from Purdue
who and they played massive at Purdue too. He played
the four as the six nine guys, so he's a
throwback four. And so between those three we have a
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lot of size. And then we have a you know,
a good point guard to put it all pieces all together.
And Zion Poland who spent his year in the G
League and is now a two way with us.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Well, I'm I'm really glad you went down that road
because I have some questions on Baron Jay and Zakarski
and the Purdue rookie coming up here momentarily. But let
me let's build from the bottom of like like your career,
because in researching it yesterday, it's I mean, like a
lot of coaches with whom I'll chat when I first
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meet them, there's a fascinating side to it. For instance,
what did why'd you start in baseball with the Natties
out of high school?
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (45:34):
So like yourself from Washington, d C. And had a
connection there in college and was able to be an
intern in their baseball operations and one of the I
love all sports, you know, so learning how the baseball world.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I
knew I wanted to be involved in sports, but what
it was. So I kind of just had an opportunity
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and took it and loved learning about baseball and being
a part of the draft process as a summer intern.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
What dump So, whether it's chief of staff, quality control
or just an assistant whatever, what what do you like
about coaching in the NBA?
Speaker 5 (46:11):
I think the creativity and the NBA like putting together
all these pieces of amazing players. Fincy A has a
term that we kind of are the tailors for these suits.
These guys show up and basically what is amani suits
and we just kind of have to put together the
pieces of it and it's really fun. And then the
game planning. Every team is so different, there's so many
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different matchups night tonight and how to put together the
puzzle of how we want to guard a team.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
So so like when you're Nathan, when you you were
the video coordinator for New Orleans or video coordinator person here,
or really with any team, is the video coordinator's job
is part of it seeking out the l's for the
other team and then coming to like Benchi Finch and saying, oh,
I don't know what's going on with this guy, but
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he ain't guarding anybody over the last week.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Is that like part of that job?
Speaker 5 (47:03):
Yeah, you're you're an assistant or head coaches extra eyes
because you're watching and you're helping prepare them. But you can,
you know, you're as you get a relationships, you show
them some extra things. And I think that's the fun
part is when you start to learn, wow, you know
that guy we should attack him every time we can.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
I love that. This. This is Nathan Bubis.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
He's the chief of staff for Chris Finch's coaching staff
and he's going to be the head coach for the
timber Wolves during Summer League in Vegas, which begins in
a couple of days for the t Wolves. And and
Nathan with Chris, what what do you respect and appreciate
about his leadership? You guys have made the postseason five
years in a row with FINCHI.
Speaker 5 (47:48):
Yeah, the first thing is how organized he is, and
part of you know that this role in chief of
staff is helping him be organized and everything he does
with the team. And then his directness, like there's he
doesn't pull plon, he coaches what he sees. There's there's
nobody that is outside of his his heir in terms
of who he's going to be criticizing. And so between
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those two, his organization and his directness, I think players
a spect them, coaches a respective and it's just a
really fun environment. And we have a fun staff. Yeah,
we got a lot of guys that are fun to
be around, and you've got a chance to meet some
of them.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
All right, So with uh with us, some players you're
going to be coaching and and have coached with practice
up to the Summer league. You you actually hit on
the three that intrigued me most. So with the second
year French kid Joan Baronjay, what are you looking for
from him with summer league which again begins in a
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couple of days for you guys, and and and and
if I'm out of my lane here, you know, please
put me back in the lane. But like, how does
this just seems to be an excellent opportunity to get
somebody like Baron Jay to play hard but under control.
So say the game slows down and the god given
anticipatory skills begin to flourish.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Is that fair?
Speaker 5 (49:07):
Yeah, you nail it on the head. Like some of
his issues actually were foiling a lot, and some of
that came from playing really hard, and so he would
be a little out of position or a little reckless
in terms of his contesting every shot, which we love,
but kind of gearing that back working on his screening.
Can he guard perimeter guys and guard them honestly so
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in a little bit of experimentation and offensively put the
ball in his hand a bit more. See what he
can do with it. He's got good hands, he's a
good finisher. So super excited to see all those different
pieces within the control.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
Mister chief of staff, what about the seven foot three
rocos Zakarski? How how does one get like this would
seem to be an opportunity to get the motor reving
to figure out truly not only if he belongs, but
like what does he belong doing?
Speaker 1 (49:57):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (49:58):
Yep, exactly. I mean at seventy three, he has a
lot of skill. These can really pass, can shoot the three.
So putting him in these different situations where he where
we see kind of what skills pop out the most,
because there's a lot that he can do. And then
defensive with being seven to three shoesing that length and
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riving that motor up to contest shots and be a
great big at the rim.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
Now this is summer league, so you're gonna have some
you know, obviously rookies and first year younger players who
are like in the G League. But you know more
about this than me, man, I mean, I don't care
if you're Zion Williamson, big Wemby, tall Wemby, maybe an outlier,
but like you know, when when these these players are
nineteen years of age and they're seven to three or
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they still have room to grow physically. When when they
like Baron Jay felt it last year, when they get
into the league, into the regular season, you know, they
face these ten and twelve, thirteen fourteen year men who
are veterans. I mean, how eye opening is it for
like a nineteen year old big against some of these veterans.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
Oh man, it's crazy when they get out there. The
strength of the older guys. I don't think people realize it,
and so we do our best in these situations. But
summer league games are maybe a step up from college
with NBA concepts. But then when you turn the lights
on at Target Center and you got, you know, a
thirty four year old type of strength, even if he's
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shorter than you, it's different and it takes a minute.
And so that's why you can see Berenger's body as
he's going into it more. He's I think he's up
fifteen pounds from last year, which is super exciting. So
and he'll get more confident. You know, a guy like
Rudy who was super strong, that's something that he uses
as his confidence. And I think Johan looks up to
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him and they kind of work together. And his learning
and so he's putting on that same weight.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
So, by the way, with the Austine Roccos Agarski coach, Nathan,
he just to give me a heads up. You probably
we know this, but he turns twenty Saturday, so don't
forget to wish him a happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
Okay, yep, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (52:08):
His mama reminded us about that.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
So do you guys have it all over? Do you
guys have a game on Saturday?
Speaker 5 (52:14):
We do? Wait, we're every other day starting Thursday.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
Well, you got to play him twenty minutes in honor
of his twentieth birthday, right exactly?
Speaker 5 (52:22):
Hopefully a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
I got a Western you have. You sound like an
elite NBA mind. In fact, you wouldn't be in this
position if you weren't. I have a Western Conference question
for you. Who's the target at which to shoot next season?
And why San Antonio or Oklahoma City?
Speaker 5 (52:40):
I think it's both, you know, considering that those are
the two teams that we've lost to in the playoffs
the last two years, that for us, that's kind of
and they're you know, different styles of teams. So okay,
see you both hang their hat on defense, and okay,
so he kind of wears you down. And the Spurs
kind of guard play was super, super impressive, you know,
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the last in the playoffs. So it's about you know,
both of those teams stepping up and and being at
the same level as both of them.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Trey Kaufman Wren, the Purdue rookie. What type of overall
game can we expect to see from him?
Speaker 1 (53:16):
Let's start in Summer League.
Speaker 5 (53:18):
Yeah, so, as I mentioned earlier, throwback for you know,
type of guy that if you've watched basketball for a
long time you'll really like. And that Purdue he played
with like Zach Edy for three of his four years,
and so he's used to playing the four, which is
going to be an NBA position, and so physical, strong, driver,
shoulder hit, post moves, deep seal duck in so that
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kinde of stuff. And then defensively, you know, rebounds the
ball really really well.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
It's been a.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
Great challenge with Johan him, Rocko and Trey.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
Time each day time for two more.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Nathan bubis assistant with Chris Finch's staff coaching the Summer
League team. This is cool speaking of pinching. Uh is
Coach Finch going to be in attendance? And if so,
does that make you nervous in any way? Even though
he doesn't seem like the hovering type.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
Yeah, Ah, for sure. In mischief of staff role, I'm
always helping him. So now kind of looking over he
will be there. It's you know, always kind of seeing
if there's something that I can kind of tell if
he's looking at it like oh this is wrong or right.
So I got to make sure that I'm not always
you know, peeking over there and thinking what's he think
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and kind of do my best. But he's definitely not
the hovering type.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
Well well, I mean, what's he going to do if
passing game and or boxing one are not in the
voluminous playbook and that's all you want to run in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (54:45):
What's he going to do?
Speaker 10 (54:48):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (54:48):
There may be somebody sent over at halftime, you know,
chat with us, help us out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (54:53):
He'll look around and go like Mike, Oh that's right,
all right.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
Last one Chris says.
Speaker 2 (55:00):
Chris says about you quote that you think like him,
but also have your own opinions, which he greatly respects
End quote back to the New Orleans days when Finch
was there and you were the video coordinator. How have
you become in mental lockstep with what Chris Finch, what
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the head coach wants and expects.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
How does that happen?
Speaker 5 (55:25):
Yeah, the story that he always tells was we were
it was a November afternoon and it was an off
day and I had just started there in September, and
he wanted to come in and watch the Ohio State
Michigan game on our big projectors screen, as being him
a huge Ohio State fan, and as these video rooms are,
nothing really ever works, as you you'd be surprised to
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find out. But after twenty five thirty minutes of trying,
we finally got it to go up on the big
screen right in time for that eleven am kickoff. And
I think at that point he was he was like,
all right, we think similar.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
That's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (56:02):
That's that's brilliant because people need people like that specifically,
when you know you respectfully formulate opinions. And I'm sure
some of them have clicked.
Speaker 1 (56:11):
All right.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
Last one, being from the Boston area, did you grow
up a Celtics fan?
Speaker 4 (56:16):
No.
Speaker 5 (56:17):
I went to Boston College and actually from Washington, d C.
I grew up in Georgetown, so.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
Okay, yeah, I lived in Southeast in Anacostia where RFK
used to be so kind of the same neighborhood. And
back in the Bullets days, you talk about throwback, throwback
fors Alvin Hayes with the fade away before Kobe decided
to make the fade away famous.
Speaker 1 (56:39):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (56:40):
One undred percent? Yes, I was a huge Wizards fan.
I was a Gilbert Arenas era.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
A huge Wizards fan.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
Can't say that I've ever heard that, but but nevertheless,
hey go Wizards, go Nathan, and go Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
Thank you, very appreciate it. Thank you for the time.
I look forward to the next chance we get to
do this. Okay, thank you love Nine to Noon, Thank you, Bud.
I appreciate you. Nathan. That's very nice.
Speaker 2 (57:04):
Nathan bubis an assistant with Chris Finch's staff.
Speaker 1 (57:07):
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