jeff goodman from stadiums here with us
now so jeff this time a week ago
appreciate you coming through fam this
time a week ago we were watching
baylor beat the breaks off gonzaga
um or about in the week they're
yeah yeah they're about to exactly yes a
couple hours away from it
in the week since you know whether it's
from
you know going back and watching it or
conversations or
reflection or whatever uh what's your
big takeaway
from what baylor accomplished not just
last monday night but really this season
yeah amazing amazing i actually i'm
wrong about a ton
as you guys know i call baylor winning
it all
before the season before the tournament
so i wasn't as shocked as everybody else
i had seen this baylor team a year ago
in person a year and a half ago
in myrtle beach beat villanova and i
fell in love with him then whether it
was davion mitchell jared butler
mark vital their toughness their guards
and then they added obviously you know
they may see otig two a year and a half
ago
and i felt like this team was on a
mission they really were because they
felt like they had a chance to not only
get to the final four but win it all a
year
ago and obviously the tournament was was
cancelled and
they brought back the core of their team
from a year ago
and again what they had was four guards
who could all make plays
for themselves and for others you know
skilled guards who were tough who were
grown men
and two of those guards the coolest part
of it
was two of the guys macy otg and adam
flagler had one division one scholarship
offer coming out of high school
and both transferred in um but scott
drew what he's done
i did a a podcast of zoom podcast
yesterday
that we just aired on my twitter account
with scott drew
and about 40 former players former
coaches current players current coaches
just telling stories about this baylor
program and people forget when he took
it over in 2003
it was literally the worst job in
america
i mean a player had murdered another
player
and the head coach dave bliss had
covered it up
and try to pin it on the player who was
murdered
and basically say he was a drug dealer
it was the worst situation you could
ever uh inherit
and uh what he's done is amazing to take
that program now to where they are
national champions
absolutely ridiculous well they are
and i do want to talk about them a
little bit more but you said they are
national champions which means
that gonzaga is not and they had a
chance to
be the first undefeated team since 1976
to go wire to wire is there any scenario
is there anything they could have done
or is it just
jeff look they ran into a team that's
just got more
depth more talent than they that they
did and
no matter how they played that day they
just weren't gonna beat baylor is it as
simple as that
yeah you know you know what they didn't
have enough uh athleticism
that's what they didn't have uh corey
kissberg couldn't get by any of those
baylor uh
guards like i was talking or mark vital
that's what baylor had
baylor had guys that could honestly like
davion mitchell
is a uh i won't say the word but you
guys know what i'm thinking
uh he is that he is an absolute killer
on the court on both ends
best defensive player in the country and
he turned himself into one of the best
offensive players in the country
think of a better offensive mark as
smart
more skilled a better shooter a better
decision maker
but some of those same defensive
attributes that marcus
smart uh brings to the table um i just
again i don't think it's so much of a
vindication
on on gonzaga as much as it is that
people
underrated baylor largely because they
were 17-0
and then they got hit with eight covet
positives
and went on a two and a half week pause
and scott drew brought him back too
quickly
they played a game three days later they
had two practices they played a game
it was too soon so they lost to kansas a
few days after that
lost to kate cunningham in the in the
big 12 tournament and everybody kind of
fell off the wagon everybody loved
gonzaga well
like gonzaga did they they beat a lot of
good teams early but they weren't great
teams
you know virginia wasn't a great team
kansas was in a great team
so everybody kind of got all up in arms
over gonzaga instead of focusing on
baylor
and what they had
all right uh since you're in the mood to
give a scouting report and you just
mentioned k
cunningham uh i know you're about to
come out very soon
with your uh your draft board
uh i mean not at the tournaments in our
rearview mirror uh
jalen suggs is now a march madness
legend i'm curious where you got him uh
ranked especially where you had him
compared to
where you may have had him ranked going
into the tournament
yeah i mean i've had kade for the most
part there was a moment there
um that that some nba guys really
thought when suggs
uh came out of the gates in december he
was kind of the novelty right like
everybody thought k was the number one
guy coming in and we know what happens
right somebody comes along and you fall
in love with them
and rightfully so they fell in love with
jalen suggs early
because again like we talked about
gonzaga has beaten
iowa virginia kansas all these good
teams
in the non-conference but then they got
a chance to see kate a little bit more
and
you know kate is i don't want to call
him luca
he's not luca but he's 6-8 like luca
he's not a great great athlete like luca
he's got all the intangibles
like luca he's a terrific passer like
lucas so if
you get where i'm going here i'm saying
he's close i don't want to put him as
luca there but but
he's got a lot of the same attributes of
luca so i think he's clearly the number
one guy
and to me the number two spot is a
little bit open
but i would say jalen still can be a
program
changing a franchise-changing point
guard
because of what he can do on both ends
of the court he's tough
as we saw he loves the big moment the
big shot he can make people better he
can go get his own
now he had trouble in that championship
game against baylor he picked up two
early fouls and he did have trouble
getting by whether it's davion mitchell
or some of those other
uh guards for baylor but uh suggs still
to me is the number two guy and evan
mobley
uh three and then four and five are
jaylen green and jonathan kamenga
two guys who took the money to go to the
g league ignite and were coached by
brian shaw
and they got about you know jalen green
got about 500 grand
kamenga got somewhere in the three to
four hundred gram range um
they're probably four and five right now
but green has a chance to crack the top
three
all right here's here's here's my last
one oh great great mike you got it i was
gonna say here
my last one is if you look at
this this draft you got your draft picks
here
is there a is there a zion williamson is
there a
great oh my god teams if they have the
number one pick they're excited
because hey this guy's gonna change a
franchise i don't think anthony edward
was
edwards was that last year for minnesota
but is there anybody like that uh in
your top five
listen last year's draft most of the nba
jams did not want the number one overall
pick
it was it was considered a bad draft
going in now it looks
a lot better right now anthony edwards
is playing well the melo was
way better than anybody thought right
wiseman's wise man he's hurt now
two of those guys are hurt now but
wiseman had a pretty good
uh season so far when he was on the
court so
they've they've overachieved as to what
a lot of people thought they would do
those top
you know three guys this draft is
considered way better at the top
and yes i think there are a lot of guys
that would love this number one
overall pick and they feel like kate
cunningham can be again
and suggs and even mobley up front they
can be guys that you can
mobily maybe not as much you can build
around
he doesn't have that type of like type a
personality to him
you know maybe like a chris bosh type at
the end of the day
but kade and suggs are absolutely guys
that a lot of nba
gm's and executives feel like yes they
can be the best player they can be
a perennial all-star in this league
so you got green and kaminga as uh and
four and five for you and you talked
about the route that they've taken
uh to the nba i want to ask you uh about
the significance of the news today so
you got kevin ollie former uconn
uh coach and and uh you know 13-year nba
veteran
he's taken over uh as head coach and
director of player development for
overtime elite it's a new professional
basketball league
for prospects between 16 and 18
years old what's the significance of
that development that venture
options options for kids i love it i
absolutely love it
i love any option for a kid to be honest
that if they don't want to go
to the traditional route let them let
them try something different
you know whether it's you know the
g-league ignite
i love it if you don't want to go to
college why be forced to go to college
and if you don't want to go to college
well i have to go over seats be able to
make some money here
now again personally i think the college
route is better for their brand
we've seen it with cade compared to
jalen green nobody knows who jaylen
green or jonathan kaminga really
are but again to each their own
overtime has set up this league it's for
high school kids
and they're going to pay him you know
100 grand or more for some of these top
players
to be able to play um in this league
with some of the best high school age
players and get them
coached and trained and kevin ollie
obviously
a high character guy it didn't work out
for him at the end at uconn
but i love kevin ollie as a guy i think
it'll be great to have him around these
kids
teaching them they're going to have you
know kds involved in the board of
directors
um you know you've got jay will involved
so a lot of big money people a lot of
people that
know what they're doing this isn't
listen this isn't the the
big baller league guys uh this actually
has a chance of working out
this has credibility uh they've got real
money
and real forward thinkers in in
this league so i think it's got a chance
and and i hope it succeeds
you know it's funny everybody said well
you cover college hoops
no no i want all of these options
for these kids why wouldn't we like to
me again if you don't want to go to
school
don't go to school now it worked for us
right like we all benefited from going
to school it was
five of the best years of my life
personally at arizona because i was
smart
but but like it's not for everybody so
let these kids make some money if they
can and
you know again they can learn from other
really really good coaches like kevin
allen
all right see you said five of the best
jeff's good man i thought you're gonna
say that's
that's because i went to northeaster
northeastern i had that middle of
program you know it was
five years built in to be five you know
it was actually five and a half it was
five and a half but who's counting
five and a half yeah i wish i would have
stayed longer well listen
i'm a guard i'm gonna go out on a limb
jeff goodman and say if you stick with
it you got a chance to be pretty
successful yourself brother you just you
just keep at it you know you're
you're on your way working hard you'll
be keep working all right i like your
heart to be a star in this business
no jeff goodman appreciate it guys
i under dress for you this week oh you
know you look good
last couple times so i decided to you
know holly just
you know i can't keep up with holly so
we're just chilling man i'm just
chilling i got a t-shirt on
i'm just chilling love it love it i
always love you guys you know that i'm
catching up love you too bro appreciate
it man good to see you thanks for the
time bro take care
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