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Gordie Chiesa on Utah Jazz Summer League, Trey Alexander Injury, Darryn Peterson's Performance, + More · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, We've been able to track down our resident
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  Speaker 1: NBA guru, Gordi Chiaza for just a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have them to talk a little summer league basketball
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  Speaker 1: high Gordy Sean Hot's it going now? You know what's going?
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  Speaker 1: All right, sir? The Jazz had a wild night last night.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Alexander stretchered off the court. You know, the Bulls
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  Speaker 1: and the Jazz going at it. What was your biggest
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  Speaker 1: takeaway from a Jazz appearance that did not feature some
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  Speaker 1: of the more interesting youth prospects.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jazz. Right now, they're going to shut down their
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  Speaker 2: three main guys, meaning Darren Peterson and Cody Williams and
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  Speaker 2: a spilly with the backspasms. So they're playing only young
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  Speaker 2: guys and they're going to try to get a look
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  Speaker 2: at them as far as possibly non guaranteed contracts or
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  Speaker 2: Exhibit ten they call it, or the other teams also
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  Speaker 2: trying to evaluate the Jazz players. With Trey Alexander was
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  Speaker 2: alluding to either two way player for the Jazz third
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  Speaker 2: year in the NBA, formerly of a great university. He
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  Speaker 2: drove their basket against a Taylor Wilson and it was
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  Speaker 2: It really wasn't like a hard hit, but he fell
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  Speaker 2: and it seems like he was clutching his side on
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  Speaker 2: the abdomen. And we'll see right now what the what
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  Speaker 2: the diagnosis. But he didn't get hurt and he was
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  Speaker 2: tay down the stretcher, which we know is always very scary.
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  Speaker 1: Is shutting down these guys that I mean, look, four
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  Speaker 1: twenty point games for Darren Peterson, you probably saw kind
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  Speaker 1: of what you need to see from him. But it
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  Speaker 1: is shutting down those guys the right move for this
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  Speaker 1: Utah Jazz team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this time of the answer is yes, exactly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just shut them out as far as not playing them.
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  Speaker 2: The other guys play and then get get these guys
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  Speaker 2: and now they have an idea just quickly of the
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  Speaker 2: speed of the game. And so even though these guys
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  Speaker 2: talk about it when you play in summer league, it's
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  Speaker 2: the first entry level for NBA rookies the speed of
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  Speaker 2: the game, which is absolutely different. You can assimilate that
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  Speaker 2: in other situations. And so now Darren Peterson, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Darren Peterson, he's a knockdown shooter. And then in
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  Speaker 2: the in the four games he played two in Utah
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  Speaker 2: and two and in Vegas, he shot thirty three percent
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  Speaker 2: in the field and thirty percent from freeze. Even though
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a tremendous shooter, and that tells us about
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  Speaker 2: the physicality that he had to learn it and that
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  Speaker 2: he was willing to go drive to the basket. So
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  Speaker 2: Darren Peason is leading right now the Vegas Summer League
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  Speaker 2: and most three throws attempted per game, which is good.
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  Speaker 2: He's averaging eight attempts per game from the charity stripe line,
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  Speaker 2: and that shows that he's willing to take a hit
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  Speaker 2: to the basket. And his jump shot, which is really strong.
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  Speaker 2: He'll get He'll get better with the other players around him.
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  Speaker 2: That will help him as far as scoring the ball.
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  Speaker 1: When we were talking about the NBA Draft before it happened, right,
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  Speaker 1: it was the list at the top, the guys at
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  Speaker 1: the top were there was the normal cast of characters.
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  Speaker 1: It was aj Debonsa and Cam Boozer and Darren Peterson,
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  Speaker 1: who obviously the Jazz ended up picking. And then in
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  Speaker 1: that next tier of guys, Caleb Wilson was mentioned a
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  Speaker 1: lot and he ended up with the Chicago Bulls. Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: he scored thirty five points against the Jazz. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: he had nineteen points to lead all of his Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bulls teammates. And I'm curious your thoughts on him. He
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  Speaker 1: was a guy that got injured back in what January February,
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  Speaker 1: and so was limited in the pre draft process, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much that hurt him with these
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  Speaker 1: NBA teams or not. But he's another cat that when
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this deep draft class, he was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: one of those names that made it such a great
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  Speaker 1: draft class. So far, so good for him on the
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  Speaker 1: individual performances. The Bulls have their own things to figure
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  Speaker 1: out like everyone else does. But what are your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on Caleb Wilson Now that he's back healthy.
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  Speaker 2: And playing, he's a making He hit last February. He
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  Speaker 2: broke his thumb on February fifth, and that said he's
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  Speaker 2: invested this season in Carolina. He set out, and that
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  Speaker 2: hurt Carolina's chances to advancing deeper into the into the
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  Speaker 2: NCAA March Medage. They lost in the second round in
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  Speaker 2: an upset. And so everybody saw him play in the
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  Speaker 2: ACC and they love his talent. Before the draft, United
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  Speaker 2: talked about him in UH in length. They reminded you.
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  Speaker 2: He minds me of Kevin Garnet and also of James Worthy.
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  Speaker 2: The way he plays so to a Hall of famers,
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  Speaker 2: with that unbelievable kangaroo jumping ability and that that perimitive
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  Speaker 2: skills and that quick baseline drive that James Worthy had
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  Speaker 2: of yesteryear. And this guy should be a star. And
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned about the Bulls. The Bulls are interesting team
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  Speaker 2: where they're a proud franchise, but they've been really dismal.
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  Speaker 2: They only made the playoffs once in the last nine years,
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  Speaker 2: and they've had four straight losing seasons. So Caleb Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be the guy they think that's going
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  Speaker 2: to give them the first foundational piece. And he's willing
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  Speaker 2: and able. He's a tremendous talent. The top four guys
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  Speaker 2: in the draft could, should, will be All Stars. And
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  Speaker 2: if that happens, that will be the first time that
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  Speaker 2: are the top four players in the draft became All Stars.
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  Speaker 2: The last time it was nineteen seventy, so it was
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  Speaker 2: fifty six years ago the top four guys in the
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  Speaker 2: draft became All Stars at least in one season. Mainstint
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  Speaker 2: can tell me it's going to happen again.
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  Speaker 1: Already. I love when you drop those little nuggets on
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  Speaker 1: us stuff like that. Okay, So now in.
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  Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy draft, in case you're wondering, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get me theirs right now was Bob Lanier, Calvin Murphy,
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  Speaker 2: Pete Maravich, and Dave Cowens. So that was the top
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  Speaker 2: fourth the last time it happened. Ever, that just shows
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  Speaker 2: you that the NBA drift is really a combination of
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  Speaker 2: scouting and also luck, because luck does play a factor.
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  Speaker 2: I know it sounds weird saying it, but it really
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  Speaker 2: truly does. Do you think this guy's would be a great,
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  Speaker 2: great player and suddenly he's not. But again, these top
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  Speaker 2: four guys, more importantly in the twenty twenty sixth draft,
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  Speaker 2: these guys have talent, and they have savvy and they've
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  Speaker 2: got skill set.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you sent me scrambling to look up the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy draft order, Gordie, this is another thing that's
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  Speaker 1: so fascinating when you go back to the early days
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  Speaker 1: in these sports. Right, So that nineteen seventy draft that
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  Speaker 1: you just mentioned, the universities, the colleges that these guys
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  Speaker 1: at the very top came out of Saint Bonaventure, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Then Michigan, Yeah, Michigan makes sense, LSU for Pete Marivitch, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's great, Florida's for Dave Cowns Okay, those are like
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  Speaker 1: Saint Bonaventure's not, but those other those are big, powerful universities.
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  Speaker 1: Then you get into like number five, New Mexico State
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  Speaker 1: with a number five pick in Sam Lacy Cincinnati, then
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  Speaker 1: Iowa Princeton with the number eight pick, Stephen F. Austin
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  Speaker 1: with the number nine pick, New Mexico, and New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: State with ten and eleven. Like the world, the college
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  Speaker 1: world was just so different back then.
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  Speaker 2: Gordy, yeah, very much. I had to very much. And
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  Speaker 2: that again it's it gets hard to There was almost like,
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  Speaker 2: remember there's no ESPN. ESPN for the young listeners. I'm
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  Speaker 2: dating myself was in nineteen seventy nine eighty season. That
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  Speaker 2: was the first year of ESPN, and everyone thought, it's
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  Speaker 2: never gonna work. No one's gonna watch sports for twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours. It's never gonna work. What are you crazy?
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  Speaker 2: And that was the same year of the Big East,
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  Speaker 2: So the Big East Basketball Conference in the ESPN they're
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  Speaker 2: in lockstep, and that created this unbelievable. Now mega situation
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  Speaker 2: where now ESPN does Summer League games in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of July in twenty twenty six. That's how powerful the
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  Speaker 2: brand is. And I'm glad it happened because it really
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  Speaker 2: enhanced everybody as far as being a sports fan, whatever
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  Speaker 2: sport is. So it's not only because the basketball or football.
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  Speaker 2: It's everything and that makes it so interesting. And that's
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  Speaker 1: Gordon, I know you're a basketball junkie. You've been watching
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  Speaker 1: all this Summer League stuff for this Utah Jazz and
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  Speaker 1: all the guys on ten Days and two Ways and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Who is impressed you and maybe played
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  Speaker 1: his way onto an NBA roster or at least into
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  Speaker 1: a better NBA opportunity based on what you've seen in
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  Speaker 1: Summer League.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the two guys that really again they're in their
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  Speaker 2: roster already, but they really played well. Just shows you
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  Speaker 2: that when you were a second year player in the NBA,
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  Speaker 2: you're it's after that rookie season. A lot of times
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  Speaker 2: you don't play much or you play erratic. And these
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  Speaker 2: two guys that he popped out will rally from the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Wizards, AH the Boxer's team, that young teammate. He's
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  Speaker 2: averaging twenty five points a game in Summer League and
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  Speaker 2: he's shooting fifty three point eight percent field goal percentage,
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  Speaker 2: but he's shooting from three point range seventy percent. He
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  Speaker 2: was the twenty first pick of the draft at Illinois
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. The other guy that's really popped out,
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  Speaker 2: he plays behind Joey Lumbeid for the seventy sixes. His
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  Speaker 2: name is Johnny Broom. He was the thirty fifth picket
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  Speaker 2: the draft, meaning in the second round in there twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five. He's averaging twenty one points per game and
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  Speaker 2: twelve rebounds, including a very beastly seven point five offensive rebounds.
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  Speaker 2: So those are two guys that should get more playing
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  Speaker 2: time on their teams. And that's the beauty of summer League.
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  Speaker 2: With a big difference from the rookie season to your
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  Speaker 2: second year, and that it's that one jump one year
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA, you see visually what it's like to
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  Speaker 2: play against literally grown men, as greate, as Darren Peterson
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  Speaker 2: will be someday. The fact of the matter is that
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  Speaker 2: he's only nineteen years old and versus someone that's twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty nine in the prime of their career.
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  Speaker 2: It's really the physicality separates so many people.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a list for us today, Gordy, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: My list today, Sean is. We do this once a year.
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  Speaker 2: All time best NBA foreign Born players, All time best
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  Speaker 2: foreign born players. What's the right here at quickly? All
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  Speaker 2: around skills including fletch, scoring, assists, passing, rebounding, shop blocking,
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  Speaker 2: and playoff success. And that's the catchword, playoff success quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't include Tim Duncan this list because he's born
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  Speaker 2: in US Virgin Islands. And I did include Patrick Ewing,
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  Speaker 2: who moved from Jamaica, West Indies when he was seven
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  Speaker 2: years old up to Boston, Massachusetts. So there's two guys
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  Speaker 2: in that list. It's just a list of thirteen players.
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  Speaker 2: Thirteenth all time foreign born player Dekenba Mtumbo. He's in
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  Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame Republic of Congo number twelve. Joel
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  Speaker 2: Embiid future Hall of Famer from Cameroon number eleven, and
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  Speaker 2: this guy could be the number one list someday. Victor
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  Speaker 2: win beyond A future Hall of Famer from France, number ten,
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  Speaker 2: Mono Genobi Hall of Fame from Argentina, number nine, Palgo
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  Speaker 2: Soul Hall of Famer from Spain, number eight. Sa Jillis
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  Speaker 2: Alexander future Hall of Famer from Canada. Number seven. Best
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  Speaker 2: all time foreign player, Tony Parker Hall of Fame from France.
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  Speaker 2: Number six. Steve Nash Hall of Famer from Canada, who
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  Speaker 2: ironically was born in Johannesburg, South Africa when his father
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  Speaker 2: was a missionary. Number five all time Luca Dantech future
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer from Slovenia. Number four, Dirk Yritzki Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Famer from Germany. Number three. Giannis future Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 2: He was born in Nigeria, he moved to Greece. The
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  Speaker 2: second greatest ever foreign player is a kam Alajauan born
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  Speaker 2: in Nigeria and the number one ever foreign born player
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  Speaker 2: that plays in the NBA that played in the NBA
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  Speaker 2: is currently on the Devon Nuggets, Nikolai Jokic, future Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Famer from Serbia. That's my thirteen top foreign players.
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  Speaker 2: What about quickly jazz basketball. Fifth all time jazz foreign
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  Speaker 2: born player Joe Ingles the Aussi US with a swag
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  Speaker 2: jump shot from Australia. Number four places for the jazz
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  Speaker 2: right now Larry Markinen from Finland. Number three from Russia
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  Speaker 2: played like a Russian comedy in the galaxy Andre Carolinko.
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  Speaker 2: The second greatest jazz foreign born player memon O Corps
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  Speaker 2: from Turkey, and the number one jazz player of all
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  Speaker 2: time born to foreign country is Rudy Gobert from France.
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  Speaker 2: That's my list for today, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: Gordy, we love it every time. Thanks so much for
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  Speaker 1: teaching us about basketball, my friend, see you soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Sean, say well find out peace out.
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