IS
IS ONE
IS ONE 800 273 EIGHTY TO FIFTY FIVE. HE'S STARTING TO GET SOME
OF THAT.
YOU LIKE THAT TURNAROUND JUMPER
INSIGHTROCKS SUNDVOLD AND
BROTHER MARVIN YOUR RHYAN STEVE
STIPANOVICH AND JOHN SUNDVOLD
WHEN THEY LEFT MIZZOU STEVE WAS
THE ALL TIME LEADING SCORER
REBOUNDER AND SHOT BLOCKER
WHILE JOHN WAS SECOND ALL TIME
IN POINTS IN ASSISTS BOTH
ALL-AMERICAN AND BOTH FIRST
ROUND PICKS TOGETHER THEY WENT
ONE HUNDRED GAMES AND FOUR BIG
EIGHT TITLES AND THEY ARE
TONIGHT'S CARDINAL BUICK SUNDAY
CONVERSATION.
I'M LOOKING FOR DEEPLINK PEKOSZ
NAKA UNIVERISTY MISSOURI TISL
LET'S JUST SAY IT'S THE SPRING
OF NINETEEN SEVENTY NINE AND
STEVE INSTEAD OF ANNOUNCING
HE'S GOING TO MIZZOU JOHN HE
SAYS I'M GOING TO KENTUCKY WHAT
DO YOU DO AT THAT POINT AND
THAT'S A HARD QUESTION.
WELL I WAS OBVIOUSLY LEANING
TOWARD THE MIZZOU A LITTLE BIT
AND THE OTHER PLACE WITH THRIVE
IN ARKANSAS BECAUSE THEY HAD A
BIG GUY NAMED SCOTT HASTINGS
WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN A ONE CLASS
AHEAD OF ME AND I THOUGHT HE
WAS GOING TO BE PRETTY GOOD.
I FIGURED THEY'D HAVE A GREAT
TEAM DOWN THERE.
WHAT WAS THE ALLURE ABOUT
MIZZOU, STEVE?
I MEAN YOU COULD HAVE GONE
KENTUCKY, NORTH CAROLINA,
MIZZOU AT THE TIME WAS COMING
OFF BACK-TO-BACK LOSING
SEASONS.
WHY IS IT YOU KNOW, THAT'S A
GOOD QUESTION.
I COULD HAVE WORKED UP MY SIX
VISITS BACK.
YOU COULD TAKE SIX VISITS.
I VISITED UCLA KENTUCKY, NOTRE
DAME, DUKE, NORTH CAROLINA, THE
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AND I
THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY,
YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO STAY
CLOSER TO HOME.
I THINK KNOWING JOHN WAS GOING
TO BE DOWN THERE AS MY TEAMMATE
WAS A BIG PLUS FOR ME AND YOU
KNOW, COACH STEWART WAS A GREAT
TEACHER OF THE GAME
OF BASKETBALL SIMILAR TO THE
COACH THAT I HAD RESTRAUNT HIGH
SCHOOL.
SO IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD YOU
GUYS WERE POETRY.
IT SEEMED LIKE YOU REALLY WORK
TOGETHER.
WELL, I THINK WE HAD THE
PERSONALITIES THAT WE JUST
WANTED TO WIN, TRY TO BE
SUCCESSFUL, DO THE BEST WE
COULD.
I DON'T THINK WE EVER REALLY
TALKED ABOUT BEING
PROFESSIONALS.
WE JUST EACH YEAR WANTED TO GET
BETTER AND SEE WHERE IT WAS AND
HOW IT WOULD BECOME AND I THINK
WE HAD FUN.
IT WAS OUR HOME STATE AND THEN
AND AGAIN I THINK IT WORKED
BECAUSE I WAS A GUARD AND
STEVE'S A CENTER.
JOHN, DID YOU EVER YELL KICK AT
STEVE PASS THE BALL?
I YELLED IT ALL THE TIME.
I DIDN'T LISTEN BUT I YELLED IT
ALL THE TIME.
KICK IT OUT, KICK IT OUT.
HOW ABOUT YOU?
I THINK IT WAS MORE GOING THE
OTHER WAY.
COACH GEORGE GOODWIN THE
STEEPLE.
ALL RIGHT.
NOVEMBER NINETEEN EIGHTY TWO
SENIOR YEAR IN ST. LOUIS
DEFENDING NATIONAL CHAMPION
NORTH CAROLINA AND MICHAEL
JORDAN.
HOW DO YOU REMEMBER THAT STEVE
WAS ALWAYS SPECIAL FOR ME
BECAUSE I'M FROM ST. LOUIS AND
THERE LARGE CROWDS AT THE AT
THAT GAME AND ANY TIME WE
PLAYED IN THE ARENA IN ST.
LOUIS THERE WERE LARGE CROWDS,
OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, COMING OFF
OF PLAYING THE NATIONAL
CHAMPION.
I THINK WAS OUR FIRST GAME
OF SEASON TWO.
I DON'T THINK WE HAD A WARM UP
GAME AND WE WERE COACHED ALWAYS
PREPARED FOR THAT GAME EVER
SINCE THE END OF THE PREVIOUS
SEASON AND WE WERE WELL
PREPARED THINGS AND WE PLAYED A
GREAT GAME AND I JUST REMEMBER
THAT THINKING THE NIGHT BEFORE
THAT AND THE WARM UPS THAT
STEVE AND I BOTH HAD TO PLAY
WELL AT YOU KNOW IT ONE
SURPRISING FOR US TO WIN A
GAME.
I MEAN NAUM PREPARED US TO WIN.
YOU KNOW, I LOOK BACK AND I KID
I KID BECAUSE THAT GAME IS NOW
OUT THERE.
I'M GLAD MICHAEL JORDAN BECAME
THE GREATEST PLAYER EVER AND
I'M GLAD IT WASN'T IN BLACK AND
WHITE.
RIGHT.
WHITE. RIGHT. IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT HAD
SOMETHING TO IT.
SEE THE GAME THAT SOLIDIFIED
USE THE NUMBER TWO PICK IN THE
DRAFT HAPPENED LATER THAT
SEASON.
YOU'RE TWENTY SEVEN POINTS
AGAINST RALPH SAMPSON, THE
PLAYER OF THE YEAR.
HOW DO YOU REMEMBER THAT ONE?
YEAH, THAT WAS AN AREA WHERE
BEING ON NATIONAL TV WASN'T WAS
A BIG DEAL.
THERE WERE THREE OR FOUR GAMES.
IT WAS ESPN WAS JUST GETTING
STARTED SO THERE WASN'T A LOT
OF NATIONALLY TELEVISED GAMES.
SO WHEN YOU WERE ON ONE IT WAS
A BIG DEAL.
SO FOR ME I REMEMBER COACH I
HAD A GREAT GAME.
I PLAYED VERY WELL.
WE ENDED UP LOSING THE GAME I
THINK BY EIGHT OR TEN POINTS
AND WE WERE FLYING HOME AND
COACH GEORGE CAME UP TO ME TO
PLAY SAID STEVE, YOU KNOW, I'M
SO HAPPY FOR YOU.
YOU KNOW, I WISH I WOULD HAVE
WON BUT I WOULD RATHER TAKE YOU
HAVING A GREAT GAME ON NATIONAL
TV AGAINST THE BEST PLAYER IN
THE COUNTRY THEIR VICTORIES.
WHAT'S YOUR BEST NORM STEWART
STORY ABOUT SOMEONE ABOUT JOHN?
I REMEMBER I THINK IT WAS THE
FIRST OR SECOND PRACTICE OF OUR
FRESHMAN YEAR AND JOHN AND I WE
ALL KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND
AND JOHN JUMPED UP IN THE AIR
AND MADE A PASS AND OF COURSE
IN COACH STEWART'S WORLD YOU
NEVER DO THAT.
YOU NEVER JUMP IN THE AIR AND
MAKE A PASS BECAUSE YOU LIMIT
YOUR YOUR YOUR OPTIONS AT THAT
POINT AND SO COACH STEWART JUST
WENT NUTS ON JOHN AND I
GUARANTEE YOU THAT WAS LAST
TIME JOHN EVER JUMPED IN.
JOHN, HOW ABOUT THE FACT THAT
THE NAME'S STIPANOVICH AND
SUNDVOLD ARE CONNECTED FOREVER?
WELL, HONORED BY BECAUSE STEVE
AND I CAME IN THE SAME TIME A
LOT OF GOOD THINGS HAPPENED, A
LOT OF FUN.
YOU KNOW, WE HAD FUN.
WE WON A LOT OF GAMES.
WE LOST SOME THERE WERE SOME
DISAPPOINTMENTS.
BUT YOU KNOW, I'M HONORED THAT
THAT MY NAME GOES NEXT TO
STEVE'S AND AGAIN I THINK HE
WAS THE GREATEST PLAYER EVER TO
PLAY THE UNIVERSITY AND I'VE
BEEN AROUND A LOT OF ATHLETES
OVER THE YEARS.
I WOULD SAY JOHN IS BY FAR THE
BEST ALL AROUND ATHLETE THAT
THAT I'VE RECEIVED AND IT WOULD
HAVE BEEN INTERESTING TO SEE
JOHN AS A QUARTERBACK EVEN
GOLF.
I THINK HE COULD HAVE PLAYED
PROFESSIONAL LEVELS BUT JOHN'S
A GREAT GUY AND HE'S A GREAT
IMAGE AND A GREAT
REPRESENTATION UNIVERISTY
MISSOURI EVEN TO THIS DAY.
WHAT ABOUT THIS GUY OR