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Episode 55-Timmy Bowers · Johnny's World

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  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please welcome our co-host, the best i Doc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: And now welcome a true hero, a CM Warrior, whose favorite motto in life is just keep living.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, welcome back to uh brand new uh edition of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Johnny here with with BW.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on, BW?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know much.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_02: Just trying to thaw out here, just trying to uh get rid of this ice, had ice the past two or three days and uh been kind of kind of a mess around here.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: So but yeah, it's almost over.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: We're in the uh uh we're we're in the wintertime.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see where groundhog days today and uh uh the groundhog saw it shadows.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: Looks like we got six more weeks of this.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, I'm surprised.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Before you know it though, it'll be uh it'll be spring.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, it's definitely a cold, wintery, wintery day out here in Start Vegas.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, we're we're we're um I've noticed today, uh Brendan, that about two years ago today is when we started doing this podcast.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to believe we've been doing it for two years now.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: Man, that's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Time flies.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_01: Time really does.
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  SPEAKER_01: It really does time fly.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, we're so excited to bring a new uh new uh new show today.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think y'all can really enjoy who we have uh today as a guest.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go ahead and and bring him on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh for those who are listening, if you're following Mississippi State basketball, you'll know exactly who we're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's uh a legend with Mississippi State basketball, and Timmy Bowers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh Timmy Bowers, welcome to the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: We really appreciate you joining us today.
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  SPEAKER_06: Oh man, thanks for having me.
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  SPEAKER_06: It's a pleasure.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_06: Pleasure.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, well, I guess just tell everybody what you're up to these days, man.
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  SPEAKER_06: Uh right now, uh I live in Houston, Houston, Texas.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_06: So I've been living in Houston for about 10 years, uh, obviously off and on because I was playing overseas.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_06: Uh spent 16 years playing, retired in 2020, I believe, once COVID hit, you know, kind of came home and started uh training kids, teaching kids how to play basketball, doing the things that I love.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_06: And um so right now just doing that, uh having fun with it, um, teaching the youth.
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  SPEAKER_06: So it's been fun.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we uh if you would have told me a couple years ago, we would we would be talking to you today.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we we've had Shane Power on uh a couple times.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh so I mean y'all were y'all were legends when when Johnny and I were were in school there.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: We used to wait outside the hump to try to get in and and see y'all play.
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  SPEAKER_02: So uh this is kind of surreal for us.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, definitely.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_06: Fantastic days.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, those those were the best times.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_06: Um especially uh you know coming in my first season, um, you know, just kind of rebuilding the program and different things like that to what it became um in those latter years.
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  SPEAKER_06: Uh it was it was a tremendous uh turnaround for us.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, can you share to us, you know, how how you ended up in Sarkville and and and kind of take us through maybe some of your your favorite times there, some of your favorite moments and some stuff like that?
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  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_06: Well, um a lot of people may not know, may or may not know.
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  SPEAKER_06: Um coming out of high school, uh went to Hanson Central High School in Gulfport, Mississippi, um, where we won the state championship my senior year against Mo Williams, uh Jackson Murray team, and um was named Mr.
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  SPEAKER_06: Basketball after that, um, was recruited by you know a lot of different schools coming out.
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  SPEAKER_06: Um originally, what people probably don't know, um I committed to the University of Alabama um out of high school.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_06: And then um I think I canceled my visit to state, to be honest with you.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_06: I got canceled it.
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  SPEAKER_06: Uh but my mom, she's always been a no-nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_06: So she was like, you gave him your word, you told him you're gonna come.
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  SPEAKER_06: Um so I ended up taking the visit.
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  SPEAKER_06: And on my visit, Derrick Zimmerman was my host.
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  SPEAKER_06: And that's kind of changed, just kind of kind of changed the trajectory of everything that I was planning on doing.
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  SPEAKER_06: We kind of hit it off, and um, you know, the rest was kind of history, you know, with me coming up there.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, um, you know, I can think of so many different games that uh that that you were such a you were such a big part of, but um, you know, one that always stands out to Johnny and I was that Alabama game where uh we secured the the uh SEC championship that year in Alabama.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_02: So um I I know uh it was a pretty pretty crazy game, but uh tell us what you think about that game.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_06: I mean I think that's one of those games where you know a lot of people talk about um me kind of seed-mitting my legacy um at Mississippi State.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_06: Um and I can't, I can I you know I agree with that.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_06: Um it was just one of those games.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_06: I think we were maybe at the time going into the game, maybe tied with Kentucky as far as um who was gonna win the overall SEC championship.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_06: Um, and we needed to win in order to get it out right.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_06: And so um I think we got down about 20 points, if I'm not mistaken, or something like that.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_06: And uh, you know, I think you know, that season we were we were named the Road Warriors for a reason.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_06: Um we were we were always, always gonna be inside of the game.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_06: You know, our folks we had guys like Brandon Vincent, myself, Shane Power, Winston Fraser, Lawrence Roberts, obviously, um, that never ever gave up.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_06: And so we just continued to fight.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_06: Um, a couple of plays went our way.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_06: Um we got a uh a call late in the game, I think, on that free throw attempt by um, I think it was uh wasn't Petway, it was Shelton.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_06: Um that kind of went our way and you know, I was kind of able to make some plays down the stretch uh to help us win.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_06: But um the the atmosphere was was great.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_06: Uh it was it was it was probably one of my most memorable games in start real, to be honest with you.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_06: Well, you know, had to be fed out there.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'll I'll I'll never forget that game, man.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: We we uh meet me and Brandon, we had an obnoxious Alabama guy standing in front of us the whole game.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: He was just taunting us, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were we were got down by so much, he was just and then when it went to overtime, he disappeared.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: We never saw him again.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: And we we had a blood.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that was that was that was a game.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, it's it's it's a lot of them that stick out in my mind.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_06: Um that one, I think I could go back to my sophomore year um where we beat Kentucky at the hump and we were down 20 as well.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_06: Uh Mario Austin hit the three-pointer at the top of the key, I think, to send it in overtime.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_06: Um, just a lot of games like that.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_06: Um, that kind of, like I said, it it just changed the program, changed the the way that we thought about ourselves, gave us confidence, and then and just you know did wonders for the program, I think.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, when uh they're talking about these days with Mississippi State basketball, you know, we we got to pack the hump.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: Well, man, when the hump's rocking, when the hump's rocking, man, when y'all are there, you can it was rocking.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's rocking.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_06: It's it's rocking.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_06: You know, it it takes time.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_06: Um I'm definitely all for um, you know, filling the hump with fans.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_06: Um, but you know, what what other people have to realize is that it takes time and people want to see a good product, and um the more you win, the more they believe in you.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_06: Um but on the flip side of it, you know, the fans help the the players, they help them to win games.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_06: So that's a home court advantage that you know we need.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_06: I think um the hump is one of the most uh underrated places in the SEC when it comes to uh fan support.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_06: And so if we can get it back to what it used to be, you know, to help those guys out tremendously.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the so kind of going back to that that Alabama game, something about that Coleman Coliseum, like, is that a hard place to play in?
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_02: Just the just the visuals of it, or is it just it's kind of dark.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_06: The lighting inside is a little bit dark.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_06: Um, kind of like um what is old Mr.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_06: Tab hat used to be.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_06: It was kind of the same, same atmosphere a little bit, kind of, you know, a little little muggy a little bit, but um you have to go in there ready to play because those guys that they're always tough uh in Tuscaloosa.
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  SPEAKER_06: Uh even that season, I believe they went to the Elite Eight.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_06: Um they really weren't, I'd say, that good during the regular season.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_06: I mean they they beat us at the hump, but just overall, they really weren't that tough.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_06: Um, but you know, they had players, Kennedy Winston, uh Shelton, Petway, you know, those guys, and you know, just a lot of experience and a good coach in Mark Affair.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_06: So um Alabama's always been a tough, tough place to play.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_06: Uh in my mind, I think when we were in school, we used to look at them as our rival so than than Ole Miss.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_06: Um people, you know, I everybody's gonna say Ole Miss Ole Miss, but you know from us, we we look at Alabama as you know the guys to be.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's how we always felt too.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, we just we always felt like we were gonna beat Ole Miss, but Alabama felt, you know.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_02: So but yeah, um yeah, what what is it like so so playing some of these like tournament games, you know, in different different environments and and things like that.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_02: Is it hard to get used to the courts and those big arenas and things like that as opposed to like the hump?
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  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it is.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_06: It's an adjustment.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_06: Um, usually because of the background shooting.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_06: Um big, let's say Kentucky, or let's say when you go in a SCC tournament, you know, New Orleans or Atlanta, something like that.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_06: Usually there's no background in the back, so it's a little bit of an adjustment, but um, you know, players adjust, we make adjustments and you know, you gotta play the game.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_05: No excuses.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_05: Yep, exactly.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: So do you uh do you keep up with uh with the team right now, with Coach Jans, what they've got going on to start on now?
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, I'm always I'm always part of the thing.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: What what what are your thoughts?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: What what do you think?
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_06: I think they're I think um defensively, I think they're uh probably one of the best teams in the country.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_06: Um they they play extremely hard, they play extremely well defensively together.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_06: Um I just think we we need to find who's gonna be our scorers, you know, different things like that to make plays offensively.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_06: Um obviously Tolu has been, you know, a guy that's been there for a while, and a guy that I actually worked with a couple of.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, I've I've known Tolu since he was a young kid, to be honest, because he's from the coast.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_06: So um and he came to Houston and trained with me for probably like two weeks uh twenty twenty twenty-one.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_06: And so um, you know, Moore's good.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, they got a lot of a lot of new guys out of transferred in.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_06: Um, but I think it's just finding the balance of who we're gonna go to, who's gonna be our go-to guys, um, and just getting team confidence.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_06: I think that's it.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_06: But I think uh the win against TCU definitely gave them some confidence.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_06: As you can see, they bounced back and beat South Carolina.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_06: Um it's just you know about taking steps, taking step by step by step, and and hopefully we can, you know, we can get back there where we used to be.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, you know, it's it's I was surprised how many points we scored against TCU.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_02: I know some of it was overtime, but I saw that score and said, Whoa man, we'll take that.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_06: Usually if we get to 55, I'm gonna pretty much it.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_06: But um, I guess it's about confidence.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_06: You know, guys are gonna have to start making shots.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_06: Um, but that's just you know, gym time, um, getting the repetitions up and then how to and again just being confident, you know, because you can step up and make shots at timely moments.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's one thing too.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_02: We always we get frustrated about it.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_02: It seems like you and and uh Winsome were always really good free throw shooters, but it seems like since then we've just I mean we've just been invisible from the free throw line for a long time.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we've we've had some we've had some good free throw shooters, but I don't know, man.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_06: It seems like even when I was in school, uh we were bad at the line.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_06: You know, we I mean, you know, these are my you know, Mario and Z, these are my best friends that I could, you know, Mario Z, uh Brennan Vincent, like we can never shoot free throws at let's say 80%.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_06: We have guys on the team that can make a few here and there, but you know, just team-wise, I don't think over the years, probably the last 15, 20 years, it just hadn't been a great free throw shooting team.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, how how do you how do you how do you get better at that?
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: I know I I feel like part of that is so mental.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: You get to that line and you're thinking, I'm on this, I'm this, I'm missing.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_06: I just repetition, just keep practicing, or I mean it's it's rents, but it's it's also mental because I think that you know, you're shooting that free throw, that's the probably the only shot you're gonna shoot that you don't have a defensive player guarding you.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_06: Um everybody's focused on you, everybody in the arena is is all eyes on you.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_06: Um depending on the time in the game, time to score, maybe it's a clutch free throw, maybe you're down to it, maybe you're up to.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_06: And so, you know, just shooting it over and over, I think practicing those moments um when you're by yourself, kind of telling yourself, okay, this is a game-winning shot, this is a game-winning shot, kind of gets you used to for the gets you used to the moment, but I mean, there's nothing that can take the place of being inside of the moment.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_06: So, you know, some guys can do it, some guys can't.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_06: It's just it's part of the game, right?
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_02: Well, so I'm uh I'm an optometrist and I I do a little work with athletes on the side.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: It's called uh sports vision performance training.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_02: And um, there's a guy kind of like me that works with the Kentucky team.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_02: He's up in Kentucky, and they have um all these cool like um devices that they can work on as far as like visual training and stuff like that.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you've heard of like strobe goggles.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um and so you know they said Michael Jordan used to practice with like a strobe light on, shooting and everything.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: And so it's the same thing.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_02: You put these goggles on and they flash, and so you're only getting about 50% of like the image of the basket, and you can change the rate that they flash.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_02: And so you're supposed to practice with those and then take them off and then practice again.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_02: It's supposed to, you know, repetition over time improves your your shooting and everything.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: And so uh Steph Curry, I know, uses them a lot too.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_02: And so, but I I'm interested, it it it's been around for a while, but it hasn't really taken hold.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so I'm always like, man, I should go down to Starkle and see if if anybody's interested in in doing any of this stuff.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_07: You talked about I mean I I've never heard of that.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that you mentioned that.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I could I could definitely see that working.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_06: So you might need to go ahead and go down to Starkle and see if we can give them a picture.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_02: We'll see.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, another thing that they've talked about is called the quiet eye.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_02: And so it's like trying to fo focus on one thing when you're shooting.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: So like shooting a free throw, you know, focusing on one target on the back of the basket and you know, making sure you're looking at that every time and keeping your eyes like right on it instead of seeing what's around you and everything.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_02: And so um, I don't know.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: Interesting.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: So you're doing it but you're still doing a lot of work with with is it mainly like younger kids, high school, what is it?
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_05: A lot of work in high school, college, pro, whatever, yeah, whatever.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_06: Just just kind of teaching the game.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_06: I retired at 38.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_06: And what I noticed was that a lot of the kids that came over, I called the kids for their kids were grown men, but that came over, they were lacking basketball opportunities, high power to play, why they're doing a certain move or why they're doing, you know, making a certain play.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_06: Um, because a lot of the time they were relying upon their athleticism.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_06: And that kind of it it took over for a while.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_06: You know, you can be athletic, you can make it to the NBA, you can do this, but you know, I've always been been under the impression that, you know, basketball was a a skill sport and you need to have skills in order to be effective, especially over a long period of time.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_06: And so I just wanted to get back to that, teaching fundamentals, um, teaching the why, why are we doing this?
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_06: Why are we doing that?
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_02: And so that's kind of what I've been focusing on.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I know there's a lot of Mississippi State alums that live down in in the Houston area, so you run into very many folks down there?
• 16:06
  unknown: Uh I I haven't.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_06: Uh I got I got back full time in 2020, COVID was in, so I really didn't so really probably the last year or so is I've been able to kind of move around, get out of get out of the bottom, but I haven't seen any.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_06: Um, but I have heard that we have a huge, huge alumni chapter here.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_06: Mm-hmm.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_06: Um I have to make up some of them soon or something.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_06: Go watch some football, basketball, baseball games.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_03: There you go.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's uh man, it's just so it's so cool to see to to interview you, man, because like like Brandon said earlier, man, those were those were the days, man, back in the hump when y'all y'all had it rocking.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: It was uh I I I really hope we can get get the program back to where we were back then because I mean we've we were one of the top teams in the country, and you know, I think um what what was it?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Joe Kim Noah from Florida said the hump was the hardest place that he ever played in in the SE country.
• 16:59
  unknown: Yeah.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: We got to get it back.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_06: But uh you hear that from a lot of players.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_06: Uh I I just think, like I said, it takes time.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_06: A lot of people didn't see the hours that we were putting in, you know, during those summer summers uh where everybody else was at home.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_06: We were at school during summer school and we're sitting there playing every day and you know, gelling, being around each other, going to the bowling alley, going to eat, doing different things like that.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_06: And so it took um years for it to become what it became.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_06: And you know, like I said, it it it'll happen.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_06: It just, you know, it takes time.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_06: Yep.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, this uh kind of one more thing.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_02: You just reminded me talking about Florida.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um another memory I had was we were y'all were playing in Florida, and um I was over at Rosie Baby, and I think at the time they were giving away like a free drink every time y'all hit a three.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: And and y'all were just on fire that game.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: I I feel like maybe it was like Yeah.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_02: I mean it seems like it was like 12 or 15, like it was it was crazy.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_06: I remember that because I thought we were because I know if it's my sophomore year, I think we went to Florida and they beat us.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, oh, yeah.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_06: This is with this is with uh Matt Bonner and uh Haslam.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_06: And then we came back and beat him in the SCC tournament um in Atlanta that same year.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_06: But the the the game you're talking about is is my feature.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_06: Um yeah, yeah.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_06: They were oh, they were on us.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_06: We as soon as we got to the gym, you know, the the crowd was already in the gym because I don't know, we were ranked pretty high at the time.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_06: And they were, you know, chomping and trumping, yeah.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_06: And we were like, okay, okay.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_06: And the game started, and we just came out and we knocked them up.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yep.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was fun.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: I tell you, I'll tell you a game, I I I I wanted to ask you about this because I just see how what you would tell us uh players nowadays to to rebound from a loss like that.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: That Kentucky game, man.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: We're you know, we're I still can see it right now at the last Eric Daniels.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: I remember that guy's name, the last second shot at that.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: But it seems like after we lost that game, it just it did something to y'all, y'all.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it just kept rolling and rolling, rolling.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I guess what would you tell players that that that suffers a loss like that how to bounce back or something like that?
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because that was such a tough loss.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_06: We were tough toughest uh opponents back then.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_06: Um I think there were a lot of good teams, but we always did ACC tournament.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_06: I remember down to the Warren's AC championship game, I think it was, and overtime.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_06: Um anytime we went there, you know, we beat them, we beat them at home my sophomore year, lost them at the Buzzer Bater.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, it was always, always a solid fight between us.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully we can get it back.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully we can get it back.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: And the and the new have you seen the what the hump's gonna look like?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: Renovation, it's gonna be awesome once they get it all completed.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: They're renovated.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's not they're playing under construction right now, so they're gonna have the concourse area to where it's kind of open where you can walk around the concourse and then see the floor and everything.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: So it won't be like a walk wind.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be nice.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: They're they're uh I think next year maybe is when it's supposed to be open, but right now it's this they're playing under construction.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, it's gonna be nice once I get that going and get some good players in.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel I I like a I like Coach Jans.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think it's gonna be good.
• 21:34
  unknown: Yeah.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: And the future's bright for Bulldog basketball for sure.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's so that's so so, man.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: I have to get back.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_06: I hadn't I actually hadn't been to a game since I was left since I really because I I was doing the move, I was on going.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_06: But I do have to get back up there so I can get a get a game and start real.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_04: I had to get a basketball game.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_06: I mean I came to a football game when I think it was 2015, maybe when Dak was there.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_06: We beat Auburn at we beat Auburn.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_06: I was at that game.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_06: Uh, but I haven't been to a basketball game since I was Edison.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_06: So I definitely have to get back for that.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_02: Well, man, this this has been great.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: We really appreciate you coming on.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um, what's the best way?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have any social media?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_02: Anyb interested in keeping up with you or anything like that?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean Facebook, obviously, you can find me Timmy Bowers on Facebook.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_06: Um I believe my Twitter handle is on I think at TJ Bowers15.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_06: Um Instagram will be at Mississippi at Mississippi Finance 15.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_06: MS Finance 15, I think.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_06: I'm not really if you guys want to find me, you can find me.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_06: If not, you can you know we'll we'll we'll see you.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_06: All right, all right.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 22:43
  unknown: Yeah.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: All right, thank you, guys.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much for joining us, and really appreciate it.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 22:48
  unknown: Yes, sir.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_03: Y'all too.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Bye.
• 22:50
  unknown: All right, bye bye.