NBL Wrap with Damon Lowery

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1:00We've only got two hours today. So about 430, get ready for the quiz. Then we'll go to Alisa Healy for host plus. Great retirements. Then we're off to South Africa when we cannot wait. Speaking of creating the Australian women and just a little bone to pick before you get to Damon Larry here. The Australian women are usually our greatest sporting team on the planet. They will not be performing in an international sense in Australia this summer. In any of the... No, no. No. The schedule is that tight that in the guts of our summer that you'll see all the superstars playing the WBBL and the WNCL if you get along. But I don't think we're going to see Australian women playing series in the peak of summer during the school holidays. Is that... When you talk about the schedule, are you talking about the international schedule? About your style schedule. I think the international end of lipstick. Yeah. Disappointing. So they're playing Bangladesh at the moment in an ODI and the visitors are four for 57 Muganshoot picked up a couple early, the Victorian men are in trouble against South Australia. And of course, the Australia A boys are playing India A in a one day match over there in

2:06India at the moment. And Sammy Constas 46 not out. And Josh Philippe, a 47 not out mid-Joy went... OK, man, I don't know as early, but he was out for 25. So a couple of young boys with eyes on spots in the national test team putting their best wood forward right now. NBL preview. Thanks to Revvo Fitness, train like the pros from 9.69 per week at Revvo Fitness. And as a trusted partner, Blackwoods has been helping build a better Australia for over 145 years. The great Damon Larry does join us to talk some hoops where this is where well and truly into round four of the NBL series. Yeah, it's a lot happening already, Andy. Damon, good afternoon. Damon? Andy, you drew a honeydough service? Yeah, going magnificently well and I trust all is well with you. But I'd need two men. I'd just... Actually, give us an update on how many cases we pounding each day. I was doing 50. 50 a day? And we knew that. No, it wasn't 50 a day. It was. Yeah, I had to get the 1500 in one.

3:08So a couple of days I had to bang out of 55 or 56 because, you know, I'm out of... I got distracted a couple of times. I only ran 40 a couple of times. Wow. That's incredible. And the body's holding up, okay? Still standing. Well, that is a Herculine performance. It's an unbelievable thing. And almost to a point where I think the boy's just might be a little bit... Okay, well, what would you go and run in the Nike Melbourne marathon on Sunday? What would you go and test yourself against some of the great marathoners? Because Andy is not a race. I'm not racing against other people. I'm racing against softness. I'm racing against myself. And all myself perceived limitations. Nice. See, that's amazing. That is... That's a motivation, right there. Love it. Now, now, Damon, give me your first hand review of Luke Paul. Lots of being made of this young man. He's, oh, he's going to be taking his talents to the University of Duke. Cop this Andy. No, I want... Rumors suggesting two million... Who is it? I don't know who Luke Paul is. Who is it?

4:08He's been a young, young, young kid that's been at the center of excellence and is now playing for the Cairns' type hands. Right. So he's got this year in Cairns. He's not eligible for the draft for another two seasons or two years, I believe. You're correct, and from wrong, he's Damon. But he played. He's been injured to start the season. He played for the first time last night. He had a couple of points. I just want you to give me your assessment of where the young man is at. I haven't been this excited about a 17-year-old since you was running around. Thank you. I was even here when you said that. Now, I was so excited to see Luke Paul play because you know, he's got that fresh face. He's like he... It's something different we've never seen before. We've seen his junior career. He had a really good world championships where he was named in the team of the tournament. And you can just tell, it's his time. His time has come. He's going to be the face one day of the boomers. He's going to be in the NBA. All things going well. But like I would like the way Adam Ford handles him.

5:09He said I'm going to give him about five to eight minutes. Which he did. He played him at the back end of the first quarter. Then he started him for the second quarter. So these was not charity minutes. They wasn't jump time minutes. Because the game was fairly competitive for the entire game. And Luke has a point at the bottom. Yeah. He's very skillful. He threw a couple of left handed paths. I'm not wow. That is unusual. Yeah. He got the one bucket, which is great. You've seen he had a couple of steals as well. So now I reckon it was a great debut. How many Australians I know with it? You too know these. But how many Australians have actually played for Luke over the journey? There be quite a few. I'm. Jack. Jack. Jack. Why Jack. Why did you want to play for the car? Yes. Carries. Tyres. Proctor. Tyres. Proctor. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. That's the rule. There's a few of the, uh, the, uh, the, the female players as well. But, um, yeah. So a few have, you know, the tripled through the points.

6:09They have, but they weren't making too many in bucks per annum. That is impressive stuff. Incredible stuff. Uh, now, uh, Damon. Melbourne United had a big win on Wednesday over the Adelaide 36s. Uh, Cole Anthony. He hit a big bucket down the stretch. Do you have, they feel that you have to go out and play, uh, Do have they found the mojo have do have you seen enough from Melbourne you know I did that they're training in the right direction Yeah, I've seen enough to know that they're definitely gonna be a playoff team That's not gonna be an issue. They haven't quite found a mojo yet. Josh Adurro the import center He struggling with you know understanding the referee's and how the game is being called he's filed out of two games Call Anthony is Unbelievable. You know I'm not a fan of somebody narrative. I'm hearing about how You know he's not getting enough of a system maybe you know the male be not a model lost that game because he's scoring too many points It is not his job to lead the team in a system

7:10But I like what head coach Jacob Chan said he said that Call Anthony led them in a fifth opportunity. Oh wow. I like that. He's passing the ball guys are mission shots or not taking shot Yeah, all is the absolute score machine a professional score of the highest order And I love to see him do exactly what he was I think born to do Did you have any shoot diamond with the way he backed up the court defending with his hands behind his back? No, I don't want to be a hypocrite because I've done the same thing before we've all done it Yeah, no, I mean, that's no big deal. I mean look referee. They can't blow some ticky-tacking call some time to time and Co-Apti he enjoys himself Now he's a little bit of a showman bit of a character. It was no it was no big deal Did you did either of you have an issue with the tech father was called on Trevor? Now that one I do because apparently and if it's Trevor to be believed that's right

8:12There's the rest from the other side of court Cool, I am talking to the other rep after questions and just decided to intervene Instead of mind his own business Just in just There's been way too many tech happy refs so far in this early stage in the season I like to see a little bit more leniency in some common sense maybe Maybe he might have lip read some stuff that the official closest to him hadn't seen But it did seem like a bit trigger happy for my liking But it's it but it's joy, but it's he the bodyguard of the referee Well, they do have a ranking they do have a seniority with their with their teams on the court And he might have felt that I need to step in here because that's what he's James I don't know do you know whether he is the senior referee in that time? I've called it any the bottom line is I thought it was a bit too Trigger happy can that can be rescinded can't it the tech yeah Well, no because there's there was an immediate penalty They but doesn't it sit alongside Trev now does he carry that through no

9:14Once again, he's a game and and and they've already had their penalty. They can't go Not like NBA not like the NBA okay, no But the Adelaide 36 is an interesting one because they were they were my preseason They were even very strong win at all now They've got some significant injury issues, but the word is that perhaps John Jenkins Might be in the fiery line and the rumour is that Casey Prathur is well known to fans here in Australia been Trying out in Japan that he might be a replacement is that just rumors or is there substance to that Damon? I think there's rumors about the case he pray to a part but there's some rumblings about the John Jenkins part Which I would not be supportive of I believe that John Jenkins okay, he's not shooting the ball well right now But jury we've all gone through slumps. I've gone through more than you People I have shot the ball poorly from time to time. We all knows what John Jenkins is capable of We saw him in the championship series last year people forget that yeah, I just don't like the fact that he's coming off the bench

10:17For a can-new rasmus I don't like that at all. I feel like Trevor should start Bryce at the point John Jenkins at the two if he can play the two spot in the NBA Damon he can play the spot for the 36 So I just feel like it's some things like that needs to change yeah, and also Zylin Cheatum I'm gonna ease up on Zylin because you know why he is who he is He's not a score. He's never been a score He's a guided needs to be spawn fed and he's a facilitator at his core. Yeah Yes, he will get some dunk from time to time and he might even shoot the occasional three-pointer But to ask him to all of a sudden be an aggressive score That's not who you I couldn't agree more Now we've got the throwdown on Saturday I had taken on the southeast melm Phoenix for the first time for the second time second time and the in the first time We saw one of the most putrid Horrest shooting performances in the history of the mbl 4 of 41 from the three-point line

11:17A lot has changed. It's only been a couple of weeks, but Phoenix have They look like they've found their mojo and Nathan soby back in the mix playing some of his better basketball What are you expecting from this one on Saturday night? Yeah, that's about these melbur needs They compromised the integrity of the throwdown the last time they showed up It was a smackdown beat down throw up. It was just What it was advertised to be so they're gonna come Jumping out of their skin because it's their home games this time. They're gonna make amends I don't think they will win those really. I don't think they'll win But it's gonna be extremely competitive so I'm expecting not a four-for-four-four-four-one three-point shooting That's just an anomaly. That's so hard to do two times in a row So a much more competitive game is on the card now We seem to have this conversation every single year as we do in other sports the AFL and all sports But the the umpiring at all-time crosses visuals are copying some

12:18Feedback that's less than compiling generally around six in the AFL So it's the fourth week of the email right? Because we've had about five games Some of the teams have played five games and it usually finds its level I Don't think it's been great and it's been a little inconsistent But some of the feedback is that it's just at an all-time low What is your view? We got some real high expectations of referees They're too high we expect not me personally, but the general consensus expects the rest to never make mistakes Now they made an absolute howler of a mistake in Tasmania when when cano pinder put the code of Matthias in the sleeper hole Right in front of the ref and they didn't call it and we've seen a couple other tech happy rest But sure we got to remember just like imports need time to adjust and rookies need time to adjust We've got new imports in the league who've never read in BL's people style basketball before yeah, they used they coming out of the g-lead So they got to find their rhythm as well and as long as

13:21Scotty butler I made Scotty butler headed the referees He's a good leader and he's communicating with them It's gonna take a little bit of time, but I thought the last couple of games been referee pretty good Well the other thing that's uh I agree in fact Andy I think there has been a couple of howlers Howlers like real bad howlers that I think distorts it a little bit but across the checks and balances I don't think it's been as bad as what some of them have been making out to be but But but Damon we've also got the the the WNBL starting and we got the new franchise The the jack jumpers have got their team coming into the into the WNBL What do you what are you expecting this year because it looks like another cracking year Yeah, the WNBL kicks off this Thursday deta-d many of joules yeah, they coming to the competition and um They are backbatter government. They backbatter jack jumpers. They apparently got the best training facility in Australia

14:22So those girls got top-notch facilities They recruited fairly well. It's young step-re will be leading the the point They already got a billboard of hook of her up on in downtown home art. Yeah, I don't know how many drones can say that um the league is gonna be relatively competitive but I still feel the Townsville fire. I think that in line for a repeat Uh, Santa C bomb is just done a phenomenal job coaching those girls up there and Sydney flames they've recruited extremely well under new head coach Renee Gallup Renee Gallup. Yep. So he went for that to kick off because we got some star-stated girls some of them in WNBLs we speak But they will be back to um to play here and it's gonna be great. Well this jack this um joules team I should say Darcy Garvin Of course we know really well here Healy-friiling step-re like you mentioned so they are coming in swinging and I'm gonna give it a good nudge. We're looking forward to all of that got the Hawks and the jack east tonight A stacked week for a head of us with the throw down

15:23In the middle of it all of course Damon you're a superstar. We love having you on the program Gaze he might not necessarily want to get on the front foot sometimes But he knows all the time that if he loads you up you will get on the front foot you always do Mate so well done. Well the front foot. Ah you're a bit You're like Damon to go first and you're following him. That's how we're so happy to disagree with Damon on the other side You know that that's true. I know it's true and the audience knows true. So that's okay. I don't know what you do Have a great weekend mate. Thanks for coming on You're on your father. Well done man. Uh Damon Larry so Look at how he's been. We're getting off the camera text being I'm going to be spending a month with this man Uh Daniel half it is he sending a text message too much I tell you half get ready for it. We can get rid of him as quickly as we got it Get ready half you'll have to be on your very best behavior in on half NBA preseason Use around the place the Boston Celtics today far too good for the Cleveland Cavaliers So just we'll keep an eye on all of that and wait to see how the I think uh Dyson Daniels had a pretty good day Third-O and eleven and eight and then we're gonna win over the San Antonio Spurs and we need to see him really early on

16:25Dyson Daniels just knocked down a few what happened in the playoffs last season Oh, that was a there was red flags there Andy You had to take him out of the game because of when are we gonna see Benny Simmons get some minutes? Uh, well, he wasn't playing the first practice game. I soon though. He's gonna have to play What's I'm gonna about practice, man, but all the all the feedback coming out of sacramino is that he has been elite So that's encouraging on now It's whenever you get a new player in and it's a two-time all-star The you're gonna think that you've got something special so if you can stay healthy There's no reason to think that why you he couldn't come back and get back to his face. Well, they got so he's got some team mates Pressure precious a she what precious leaky black leaky Leaky and precious on the same time keith Yeah, but it's a name. No, it's good fantastic. So there's a lot to look forward to it's actually what I don't think it's what How'd you say precious a shua? Hey, for those fans yet leaky one player he played it. I can darius a cuff

17:31A is that is it? Whatever it is. I saw this could play cold Got some hops no, he's a guy he's got some guard. He's a scorer. He can guard Andy You're not taking this year NBI fans out there. It's an early call, but I reckon this kid's got something. Yeah, well something special you could be cold I can't see was You can be cold leaky This episode is brought to you by state farm No two football players are exactly alike and the same is true off the field That's why state farm gifts to know you so they can help personalize coverage for your life and budget Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there Go long No, I'm not throwing a football with my favorite son Charles I'm talking to my new Duke cannon puck of soap It's triple mill to last longer than retain its shape down to the last nub In fantasy football terms you could say this long lasting soap takes no buy weeks

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