May 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Former UW basketball star Quincy Pondexter joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about returning to the Huskies, his role with Washington, Wesley Yates also coming back to the program, Danny Sprinkle running the program, and immediate impact guys.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back, my friend. That's great to have you back
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I gotta ask you, though, tell people what you're doing
because there's all these fancy schmancy titles and stuff going around.
So tell folks what you're going to be doing for
a Dandy Sprinkle staff.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh, first of all, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Without people like yourself, I don't know if this this
moment will happen. I'm going to be an assistant coach.
I think the title confused everyone at first, but look
forward to seeing me coach a lot and being on
the road recruiting and doing every single thing assistant coach
does and doing whatever it things to help with Danny
(00:38):
Sprinkle get over the hump and get us back to
some really good Husky basketball days.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, qupon talk about the why and the how? Why
are you back here? And how are you back here?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know what I think? Man, it's again. I'm thankful
for my time at USC under coach Mufflelman. It was
a great learning experience for me. I got into coaching
because it was a passion for myself, and I knew
it was something I was going to do long term.
But I knew I could only do it if I
really really cared about the place I was at, And
(01:12):
so you know, I would I would look at myself
in different colors and the other logo and say, man,
this isn't right. And so there there was a you know,
I had a change of heart. I didn't feel like I,
you know, really wanted to necessarily be there. And when
(01:34):
the opportunity came about to come back home, it presented itself.
I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even think about turning
it down.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, I think you're one thing is crystal clear. You're
You're more purple than gold than Conroy. Because he's still
down there by the way, Yeah we get, we get
to bust his balls about being down there with with
Eric Musselman. But tell me about Wesley Yates because you
were here with him for a year, banged up a
(02:03):
little bit, I think, kind of red shirt and then
goes to USC for one year averages fourteen points a game.
I love the fact that Danny's getting kind of more
of a refined product right Quincy than the one that
we saw two years ago. So there was so much
enthusiasm when he committed to come play for you at
Washington and now he's coming back. Tell us about this
(02:24):
version of Wesley Yates that we're getting that maybe we
did not see a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Wesley is my little cousin, and so you know, we
that's one project that taking a lot of pride in.
I think he you know, he has a lot of
the same characteristics and qualities I had as a player,
and so for him even coming out of high school
and to bring him out here, a place I loved,
(02:50):
it meant a lot to us. And so for us
to leave again he probably looked at that the other
colors like I did. You know, it just didn't go right.
And when the season ended, you know, he reevaluated the
situation and he felt he had unfinished business here, and
so we discussed it, and you know, I blessed the situation.
(03:12):
And you know, he is a refined player right now,
and he's one of the hardest workers I've ever come across.
He's one of the most dedicated and hardworking and gritty
players I've ever come across. And if you know him
in his heart and where he's at with this game,
you'll know that special things are going to come for
that kid, even though it didn't turn out the best
(03:35):
the first year, you know, I think we have a
lot a lot more to prove this second trip around.
And I like I told him since the beginning, if
he's not better than me in the Purple and Gold,
I'm gonna be disappointed. That's why I brought him here,
and that's why that's why we got unfinished business to
go handle.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We take a look at the rankings.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I mean, you guys are your top twenty and recruiting
rankings for for incoming fresh he's been top fifteen and
transfer rankings, he's certainly one of those. So overall, talent wise,
this is the most talented Husky team in how long, cupond.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh Man, I don't know. I think last year, the
last year with coach Hopkins, was a really talented team.
I think, you know, when you lose Frank kep Nang
and Wesley Eights for a full year, we always say
what could have been? I think that was one of
the most talented teams with Keon Brooks and you know
the plethora of talent Moses Wood Savere Willard. I think
(04:33):
that was Braxton Mia. That was a pretty talented team,
but we underachieved I think, you know, there's there's a
lot of talent on these teams, but how do you overachieve?
How do you get to your ceiling with them? And
I think this is gonna be one of those teams
that hopefully resembles the early twenty tens when we were
making it to the tournament, making it to sweet sixteen,
(04:56):
because that's the bar, that's the bar I have step
for here, you know, and uh, I didn't take it personally,
you know, to come up short the first times. As
a coach, I would say, uh, but there's a lot
more to prove this time. And it's kind of being
the same resilient player I was now I'm just transferring
that over to being a coach. I think when I
first got here as a player, there was high, lofty
(05:19):
expectations of me, and even though it wasn't I didn't fail.
I just thought it came a little short, and I
always had a burning desire to prove people wrong. And
at the end it was a success story. And I
feel like it's going to be the same thing here
as a coach. Yeah, that's that's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well. Quincy Pondexter is back at you, dub.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I think people are looking forward to you screaming at
me on Twitter again too, by the way, So will
that be the same, because uh look man, no, go ahead,
go ahead address that because you and I got didn't
we on social media?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Because we both we both loved the Huskies. We're both
pissed off that we're losing.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Were And the thing is and why it happened. I
love that we're doing this on the radio, but why
it happens because people don't understand. I retired from the
NBA to coach at Washington. It was a team that
won five games a year before, and I took a
lot of pride in trying to build it back up
and to not have everyone with that same mindset. I
(06:18):
didn't join hop staff in the beginning. I kind of
joined on towards the last lot of years. But I
wanted everyone in the community to have that same heart
and the same bloff for the community and not tear
it down. Because when you go into recruiting and you
hear a kid say, well, you guys are gonna get fired,
wait while you say that, because the media says that
(06:40):
you know what I'm saying. Like, So that's where that's
where it was, and that's where my spats came from.
With you, with you, and I wanted, I wanted. I
wanted to see us do well. And it's really hard
to do well when there's any negative connotation out there.
And I'm glad we got that all cleared up. And uh,
you can actually help and recruiting talk about how great
(07:01):
it is. You know, the little things that you might
say on Twitter or here on your show, they go
a long ways, man, So your voice is heard every
one of you Husky fans, and uh, we need you,
We need you as a support. And I just had
Coach Hops back, like I'm gonna have Coach Sprinkles back.
And you know it's nothing beloved. Man. You saw me
(07:24):
the other day and we gave each other a huge
hug because you know, there's nothing but love and we
want to see the same common goal.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Of course. Yeah, it's all good. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We're big boys. I mean, look, both of us want
the same thing. We just got to go about different
ways of doing. If somebody was you know, ripping my
team and you know, getting all pissed off on social media,
if I was coaching, or maybe somebody's ripping the radio show.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If you were, I'd feel the same way you do too.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't want you to change in that regard, I Quincy,
I'd rather have fans be angry than apathetic, you know
what I'm talking about, because when the when the apathy
kicks in and nobody cares, that is absolute death.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And so I hope that you feel that same way too.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You'd rather have people be angry and invested than apathetic
and checked out. And right now people are invested for
sure because of what you guys are doing off the court.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, and it should be invested. I think Coach Sprinkle is,
you know, the right guy for the job. I think
he's he's young, he's charismatic, he has a burning desire,
he has a passion, and he's someone I watched him
Afar saying, Man, if I get a chance to come
back there and be a part of that, I want to.
And that's that's why I have my eyes on the
whole season. Being honest with you, and so you know,
(08:33):
there's other opportunities I could go chase, but I want
to be back here at home, and I want to
be the guy to help Coach Sprinkle get over the
top and to carry the next wave, the next generation
of Husky basketball legacy.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Well, watching some of these guys on film as I
have just I mean just briefly, very very impressed. So
who are you the most familiar with as far as
the new guy's coming in? Obviously not including Wesley, but
maybe guys you coached against or recruited at high school?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Like who do you know.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Of this crop that's coming in that you're gonna be
coaching in a few months.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Man, all of them? You know, in this game, being
in this business, you have to kind of keep your
eye on everyone because the portal is always open. From
Kamari Peterson, who's had an unbelievable year, uh soapon Player
of the Year, to our freshman JJ Mandoqutt that's coming in,
who's a heady point guard that knows the game, to
(09:28):
late in Summerville who we played against at Rutgers, who's
a steady, a steady big that you know gave a
lot of big problems in our league. To having a
guy like Frank Back who you know you see busting
his tail every single day to have a healthy season.
And I know, for as anyone, I want to see
Frank have a great season where because he's he's been
(09:52):
you know, blood, sweat and tears to this program, even
though it might not be the best results. But he's
given us his game and his body and put his
body on the line for this program. And so you know,
there's you know a lot of guys that you know
we have coming in. I can't wait to see them all,
but very familiar and I think we're gonna have a really,
really good chance to be good this season.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, tell us, Quincy before we get a couple of
thoughts from you on the NBA playoffs. Man, you gotta
get a talk a take from you on Cooper Flag
going to the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
How about Batman?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Nico Harrison is the happiest bastard walk on the face
of the earth. Now the GM or the Mavericks are
for getting killed. Do you see Quincy's tweety put out
a half hour ago? You said that Nico stats you're
gonna be fired?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But I mean, is it is it fair for us
to say that guys like Ignasovich and Peterson that were
Conference Players of the Year. Should we be counting on
the transfers and especially the upper classmen that have won
awards like those guys to make the most immediate impact
on your basketball team.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, you can. You know they're they're guys. Especially in
our conference, there are guys that you can probably be
trusting a little bit more right away, but at the
end of the day, you just never know how this
thing emerges. You know, there could be a guy that's
right now working all day and night and really improved
his game that you might not expect to have, you know,
(11:16):
a breakout year. There might be a guy that just
fits our puzzle a little bit better than the next.
So that's that's what we got all summer, that's what
we got all fall for. But you know, as long
as the common goal is winning, I think that's what
matters most. You know, a guy like Zoom has been
busting his tail and he's doing whatever it takes to help,
(11:36):
you know, restore Husky pride, and you know everyone's gonna
have to take different roles, especially when you're taking so
many players that have one Conference Player of the year.
There there's only one Conference Player of the Year and
it comes from a team like we have like two
or three of them on this team, So you know,
it's it's gonna be tough. Everyone has to adjust to
their new role, and who embraces that role is going
(11:58):
to be vital versus you know, who doesn't it. So, uh,
we got a plenty of time to figure that piece out.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Quincy Pondecks are joining Ushusky assistant and former NBA players.
So let's talk a little playoffs. How many teams of
the eight remaining? Can you shut your eyes and honestly
see hoisting malari O'Brian trophy?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Man, You know, at this point in time, you just
you just not know. You don't know what to expect.
And I think that's what they wanted the NBA to
be like now, instead of being two to three teams dominant,
they don't have a chance. There's no megas, so many teams,
there's no super teams, there's no mega teams. I think
Boston is probably the closest thing to to a super
(12:40):
team because you know, they've done it before and they have,
you know, a plethora of talent and their payroll resembles that.
But at the same time, you know, there could be
a team that's hungry that wants to get them, like
New York is trying to get over that hump, right now.
So it's an exciting year to watch this thing, and
you know, I'm glued to the TV every single All.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Right, settle this for us real quick, because you're an
NBA fan just like we are. Michael Jordan or Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Pick one, Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan. I just there,
there's no disrespect to Lebron James. Lebron James is gonna
go down as having the best career of all time.
There's nothing you could say about someone that's played twenty
He's gonna play twenty five years and doing the things
that he's done, you know, player, I think that's sometimes
(13:28):
that's like one moment that's one season, not one moment
that's like a couple of seasons. That's like a peak
that we haven't seen before. Career wise, totality, there's no
one that's gonna be able to beat Lebron like how
we thought, no one's gonna be able to be Kareem's
all time totality of his career. But you know, I
think Michael Jordan had the best peak, the best unblemished
(13:52):
thirteen years ever. You know, So Mike is my goat.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I love it. May you know what you're one for
one so far? Keep it going.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Answer, he's right on. Very good answer, very good answer.
All right, Quincy, you're the man. Welcome back, good stuff
and we'll talk soon, buddy. Appreciate it, pal Man.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I can't wait to get back on here arguing with you.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Done anytime.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know what, Hey, how about this be on social
media about nine o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Let's have some fun and go out of it. All right, buddy,
we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Look, kid, I'll say Quincy pondexter with us on the show.
It was over and simply Seattle last week, and I
was walking out and these guys are walking in all
the coaches and Quincy shows up. It was like a
motorcade man tinted windows on the on the suburbans.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's like the President pulled up the town. So good
to see him back in town. Man, no question about it.
But I think you know one of thing I was
gonna ask him if we ran out of time is
the biggest challenge is going to be just like the
challenge a year ago, getting all these new faces to
come together.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And it feels like it's even.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
More variety now that it was a here, and there's
no question it's more and but they're better pieces. You know,
you kept two solid pieces in Zoom and Frank, and
everything else is better. Yeah, you don't have Great anymore,
but all these other guys, I think the the floor
has been significantly lifted.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know what I wonder?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I wonder if they would have been better without great
ocea Bar last year on their basketball team.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Wow, with that finished well, they finished dead allowed someone worse.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, Yeah, the point is, whould they still have been
eighteenth with if not without Osbor?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Would they have been better without him?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But he would a younger guy had been able to
flourish a little bit more with Zoom's game have maybe
opened up even more so. And I was just, I mean,
I'm not breaking new ground here with this take. I
was like, you massively disappointed him, you know, for two
million bucks, I thought he was out of shape. I
thought he was going through some issues. I mean, it
turns out later he was sick, and that was there
was reason why. But you and I were at that
Purdue game right middle of the year, and he's coming
(15:47):
over the bench on the first ten minutes of the
first half, and he can't even stand upright.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
It was unbelievable, and even joined the time out sick
on the bench.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Come on, man, all right five twenty A lot more
to get to from the Emerald Quick Casino Sportsbook right
here one three three k j R F M.
Welcome back, my friend. That's great to have you back
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I gotta ask you, though, tell people what you're doing
because there's all these fancy schmancy titles and stuff going around.
So tell folks what you're going to be doing for
a Dandy Sprinkle staff.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh, first of all, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Without people like yourself, I don't know if this this
moment will happen. I'm going to be an assistant coach.
I think the title confused everyone at first, but look
forward to seeing me coach a lot and being on
the road recruiting and doing every single thing assistant coach
does and doing whatever it things to help with Danny
(00:38):
Sprinkle get over the hump and get us back to
some really good Husky basketball days.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Well, qupon talk about the why and the how? Why
are you back here? And how are you back here?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know what I think? Man, it's again. I'm thankful
for my time at USC under coach Mufflelman. It was
a great learning experience for me. I got into coaching
because it was a passion for myself, and I knew
it was something I was going to do long term.
But I knew I could only do it if I
really really cared about the place I was at, And
(01:12):
so you know, I would I would look at myself
in different colors and the other logo and say, man,
this isn't right. And so there there was a you know,
I had a change of heart. I didn't feel like I,
you know, really wanted to necessarily be there. And when
(01:34):
the opportunity came about to come back home, it presented itself.
I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even think about turning
it down.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, I think you're one thing is crystal clear. You're
You're more purple than gold than Conroy. Because he's still
down there by the way, Yeah we get, we get
to bust his balls about being down there with with
Eric Musselman. But tell me about Wesley Yates because you
were here with him for a year, banged up a
(02:03):
little bit, I think, kind of red shirt and then
goes to USC for one year averages fourteen points a game.
I love the fact that Danny's getting kind of more
of a refined product right Quincy than the one that
we saw two years ago. So there was so much
enthusiasm when he committed to come play for you at
Washington and now he's coming back. Tell us about this
(02:24):
version of Wesley Yates that we're getting that maybe we
did not see a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Wesley is my little cousin, and so you know, we
that's one project that taking a lot of pride in.
I think he you know, he has a lot of
the same characteristics and qualities I had as a player,
and so for him even coming out of high school
and to bring him out here, a place I loved,
(02:50):
it meant a lot to us. And so for us
to leave again he probably looked at that the other
colors like I did. You know, it just didn't go right.
And when the season ended, you know, he reevaluated the
situation and he felt he had unfinished business here, and
so we discussed it, and you know, I blessed the situation.
(03:12):
And you know, he is a refined player right now,
and he's one of the hardest workers I've ever come across.
He's one of the most dedicated and hardworking and gritty
players I've ever come across. And if you know him
in his heart and where he's at with this game,
you'll know that special things are going to come for
that kid, even though it didn't turn out the best
(03:35):
the first year, you know, I think we have a
lot a lot more to prove this second trip around.
And I like I told him since the beginning, if
he's not better than me in the Purple and Gold,
I'm gonna be disappointed. That's why I brought him here,
and that's why that's why we got unfinished business to
go handle.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
We take a look at the rankings.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I mean, you guys are your top twenty and recruiting
rankings for for incoming fresh he's been top fifteen and
transfer rankings, he's certainly one of those. So overall, talent wise,
this is the most talented Husky team in how long, cupond.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh Man, I don't know. I think last year, the
last year with coach Hopkins, was a really talented team.
I think, you know, when you lose Frank kep Nang
and Wesley Eights for a full year, we always say
what could have been? I think that was one of
the most talented teams with Keon Brooks and you know
the plethora of talent Moses Wood Savere Willard. I think
(04:33):
that was Braxton Mia. That was a pretty talented team,
but we underachieved I think, you know, there's there's a
lot of talent on these teams, but how do you overachieve?
How do you get to your ceiling with them? And
I think this is gonna be one of those teams
that hopefully resembles the early twenty tens when we were
making it to the tournament, making it to sweet sixteen,
(04:56):
because that's the bar, that's the bar I have step
for here, you know, and uh, I didn't take it personally,
you know, to come up short the first times. As
a coach, I would say, uh, but there's a lot
more to prove this time. And it's kind of being
the same resilient player I was now I'm just transferring
that over to being a coach. I think when I
first got here as a player, there was high, lofty
(05:19):
expectations of me, and even though it wasn't I didn't fail.
I just thought it came a little short, and I
always had a burning desire to prove people wrong. And
at the end it was a success story. And I
feel like it's going to be the same thing here
as a coach. Yeah, that's that's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well. Quincy Pondexter is back at you, dub.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I think people are looking forward to you screaming at
me on Twitter again too, by the way, So will
that be the same, because uh look man, no, go ahead,
go ahead address that because you and I got didn't
we on social media?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Because we both we both loved the Huskies. We're both
pissed off that we're losing.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Were And the thing is and why it happened. I
love that we're doing this on the radio, but why
it happens because people don't understand. I retired from the
NBA to coach at Washington. It was a team that
won five games a year before, and I took a
lot of pride in trying to build it back up
and to not have everyone with that same mindset. I
(06:18):
didn't join hop staff in the beginning. I kind of
joined on towards the last lot of years. But I
wanted everyone in the community to have that same heart
and the same bloff for the community and not tear
it down. Because when you go into recruiting and you
hear a kid say, well, you guys are gonna get fired,
wait while you say that, because the media says that
(06:40):
you know what I'm saying. Like, So that's where that's
where it was, and that's where my spats came from.
With you, with you, and I wanted, I wanted. I
wanted to see us do well. And it's really hard
to do well when there's any negative connotation out there.
And I'm glad we got that all cleared up. And uh,
you can actually help and recruiting talk about how great
(07:01):
it is. You know, the little things that you might
say on Twitter or here on your show, they go
a long ways, man, So your voice is heard every
one of you Husky fans, and uh, we need you,
We need you as a support. And I just had
Coach Hops back, like I'm gonna have Coach Sprinkles back.
And you know it's nothing beloved. Man. You saw me
(07:24):
the other day and we gave each other a huge
hug because you know, there's nothing but love and we
want to see the same common goal.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Of course. Yeah, it's all good. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
We're big boys. I mean, look, both of us want
the same thing. We just got to go about different
ways of doing. If somebody was you know, ripping my
team and you know, getting all pissed off on social media,
if I was coaching, or maybe somebody's ripping the radio show.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
If you were, I'd feel the same way you do too.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't want you to change in that regard, I Quincy,
I'd rather have fans be angry than apathetic, you know
what I'm talking about, because when the when the apathy
kicks in and nobody cares, that is absolute death.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And so I hope that you feel that same way too.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You'd rather have people be angry and invested than apathetic
and checked out. And right now people are invested for
sure because of what you guys are doing off the court.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Yeah, and it should be invested. I think Coach Sprinkle is,
you know, the right guy for the job. I think
he's he's young, he's charismatic, he has a burning desire,
he has a passion, and he's someone I watched him
Afar saying, Man, if I get a chance to come
back there and be a part of that, I want to.
And that's that's why I have my eyes on the
whole season. Being honest with you, and so you know,
(08:33):
there's other opportunities I could go chase, but I want
to be back here at home, and I want to
be the guy to help Coach Sprinkle get over the
top and to carry the next wave, the next generation
of Husky basketball legacy.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Well, watching some of these guys on film as I
have just I mean just briefly, very very impressed. So
who are you the most familiar with as far as
the new guy's coming in? Obviously not including Wesley, but
maybe guys you coached against or recruited at high school?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Like who do you know.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Of this crop that's coming in that you're gonna be
coaching in a few months.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Man, all of them? You know, in this game, being
in this business, you have to kind of keep your
eye on everyone because the portal is always open. From
Kamari Peterson, who's had an unbelievable year, uh soapon Player
of the Year, to our freshman JJ Mandoqutt that's coming in,
who's a heady point guard that knows the game, to
(09:28):
late in Summerville who we played against at Rutgers, who's
a steady, a steady big that you know gave a
lot of big problems in our league. To having a
guy like Frank Back who you know you see busting
his tail every single day to have a healthy season.
And I know, for as anyone, I want to see
Frank have a great season where because he's he's been
(09:52):
you know, blood, sweat and tears to this program, even
though it might not be the best results. But he's
given us his game and his body and put his
body on the line for this program. And so you know,
there's you know a lot of guys that you know
we have coming in. I can't wait to see them all,
but very familiar and I think we're gonna have a really,
really good chance to be good this season.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, tell us, Quincy before we get a couple of
thoughts from you on the NBA playoffs. Man, you gotta
get a talk a take from you on Cooper Flag
going to the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
How about Batman?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Nico Harrison is the happiest bastard walk on the face
of the earth. Now the GM or the Mavericks are
for getting killed. Do you see Quincy's tweety put out
a half hour ago? You said that Nico stats you're
gonna be fired?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But I mean, is it is it fair for us
to say that guys like Ignasovich and Peterson that were
Conference Players of the Year. Should we be counting on
the transfers and especially the upper classmen that have won
awards like those guys to make the most immediate impact
on your basketball team.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, you can. You know they're they're guys. Especially in
our conference, there are guys that you can probably be
trusting a little bit more right away, but at the
end of the day, you just never know how this
thing emerges. You know, there could be a guy that's
right now working all day and night and really improved
his game that you might not expect to have, you know,
(11:16):
a breakout year. There might be a guy that just
fits our puzzle a little bit better than the next.
So that's that's what we got all summer, that's what
we got all fall for. But you know, as long
as the common goal is winning, I think that's what
matters most. You know, a guy like Zoom has been
busting his tail and he's doing whatever it takes to help,
(11:36):
you know, restore Husky pride, and you know everyone's gonna
have to take different roles, especially when you're taking so
many players that have one Conference Player of the year.
There there's only one Conference Player of the Year and
it comes from a team like we have like two
or three of them on this team, So you know,
it's it's gonna be tough. Everyone has to adjust to
their new role, and who embraces that role is going
(11:58):
to be vital versus you know, who doesn't it. So, uh,
we got a plenty of time to figure that piece out.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
Quincy Pondecks are joining Ushusky assistant and former NBA players.
So let's talk a little playoffs. How many teams of
the eight remaining? Can you shut your eyes and honestly
see hoisting malari O'Brian trophy?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Man, You know, at this point in time, you just
you just not know. You don't know what to expect.
And I think that's what they wanted the NBA to
be like now, instead of being two to three teams dominant,
they don't have a chance. There's no megas, so many teams,
there's no super teams, there's no mega teams. I think
Boston is probably the closest thing to to a super
(12:40):
team because you know, they've done it before and they have,
you know, a plethora of talent and their payroll resembles that.
But at the same time, you know, there could be
a team that's hungry that wants to get them, like
New York is trying to get over that hump, right now.
So it's an exciting year to watch this thing, and
you know, I'm glued to the TV every single All.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Right, settle this for us real quick, because you're an
NBA fan just like we are. Michael Jordan or Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Pick one, Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan. I just there,
there's no disrespect to Lebron James. Lebron James is gonna
go down as having the best career of all time.
There's nothing you could say about someone that's played twenty
He's gonna play twenty five years and doing the things
that he's done, you know, player, I think that's sometimes
(13:28):
that's like one moment that's one season, not one moment
that's like a couple of seasons. That's like a peak
that we haven't seen before. Career wise, totality, there's no
one that's gonna be able to beat Lebron like how
we thought, no one's gonna be able to be Kareem's
all time totality of his career. But you know, I
think Michael Jordan had the best peak, the best unblemished
(13:52):
thirteen years ever. You know, So Mike is my goat.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I love it. May you know what you're one for
one so far? Keep it going.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Answer, he's right on. Very good answer, very good answer.
All right, Quincy, you're the man. Welcome back, good stuff
and we'll talk soon, buddy. Appreciate it, pal Man.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I can't wait to get back on here arguing with you.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Done anytime.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know what, Hey, how about this be on social
media about nine o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Let's have some fun and go out of it. All right, buddy,
we'll talk.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Look, kid, I'll say Quincy pondexter with us on the show.
It was over and simply Seattle last week, and I
was walking out and these guys are walking in all
the coaches and Quincy shows up. It was like a
motorcade man tinted windows on the on the suburbans.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
It's like the President pulled up the town. So good
to see him back in town. Man, no question about it.
But I think you know one of thing I was
gonna ask him if we ran out of time is
the biggest challenge is going to be just like the
challenge a year ago, getting all these new faces to
come together.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And it feels like it's even.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
More variety now that it was a here, and there's
no question it's more and but they're better pieces. You know,
you kept two solid pieces in Zoom and Frank, and
everything else is better. Yeah, you don't have Great anymore,
but all these other guys, I think the the floor
has been significantly lifted.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know what I wonder?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I wonder if they would have been better without great
ocea Bar last year on their basketball team.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Wow, with that finished well, they finished dead allowed someone worse.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, Yeah, the point is, whould they still have been
eighteenth with if not without Osbor?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Would they have been better without him?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But he would a younger guy had been able to
flourish a little bit more with Zoom's game have maybe
opened up even more so. And I was just, I mean,
I'm not breaking new ground here with this take. I
was like, you massively disappointed him, you know, for two
million bucks, I thought he was out of shape. I
thought he was going through some issues. I mean, it
turns out later he was sick, and that was there
was reason why. But you and I were at that
Purdue game right middle of the year, and he's coming
(15:47):
over the bench on the first ten minutes of the
first half, and he can't even stand upright.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
It was unbelievable, and even joined the time out sick
on the bench.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Come on, man, all right five twenty A lot more
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