Eric Snow

Allen did.

Philadelphia didn't play well until they brought Eric Snow in-

Hmm

... and took Iverson off the ball.

George Lynch was mostly a backup in pro basketball.

Eric Snow, I did love him, but he-

But, boy, he could not shoot [laughs]

...

Oh.

Remember McKee and Snow were injured to start the year?

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

I think they start, I think they started 0-2.

I think.

I think with AI, McKee, and Snow all out, and it was like Speedy Claxton and Rajah Bell, I think.

Anyway.

And I've always said that I think Darius Acuff, watching him, the type of player he is, He reminds me a lot of Allen Iverson.

And I think the brilliance of those 76ers teams with Allen Iverson was that they used Eric Snow to do all of the dirty work.

And I could definitely see...

Nick Clifford being a modern day version of Eric Snow, a guy who handles the ball a lot, a guy who plays defense, a guy who's physical and tough.

And, you know, the one good thing is that Nick Clifford might have a better perimeter shot than Eric Snow ever did.

And so I think that that's a type of player that you're hoping that Neat Clifford might develop into.

And, you know, again, a jack of all trades.

But if you can cut off, cut it off right there, jack of all trades, not jack of all trades, master of none.

But we have to see it.

Now let's head to our phone line driven by wilsoncountyhyundai.com. Welcoming Eric to the program.

Eric, good morning.

Thank you for calling in.

Good morning.

I've been watching football since, like, 1980, and I can tell when a quarterback's good or not, and I just, I don't see that in him.

Yeah.

Thanks for the call, Eric.

I think this is interesting in the context of the book as well, much more difficult to understand what the very best version of themselves would be in the context of this team.

Whereas like, you know, uh, and not to, not to be negative about any of these players but like, you know, Eric Snow I think understood what his role within the team would be in, in a, in the contrast to what AI would be.

Whereas this team you will get several different players thinking that they should be the Iverson of the team, and I think it's an interesting contrast and an interesting challenge for the organization with, with these players even though they're very talented.

And Spike, look what happened in that year of 2001, and I totally agree with Iverson being the sun and these other stars circulating, and that was the brilliance of Larry Brown and Billy King.

We were looking for the Scottie Pippen for Michael, where there was...

Who wouldn't want, you know, your best wing man, the best possible wing man? Because it can only make you seem better.

But I wanna go also go back to what Spike said when you talked about Eric Snow, George Lynch, Aaron McKie.

These fellas, they all accepted-

He could find something wrong.

Larry was better with players who were not necessarily great now that changed over the years because he had great players he had David Thompson he had Allen Iverson and he embraced that but if you look at that the Allen Iverson team he's surrounded with Larry type of players Eric Snow and Dikembe and Aaron McKee and George Lynch and know workers blue collar lunch bucket guys uh that's that's where he he really shines

how much different would his career be if doug moe was his assistant forever

i i think it would have been significantly different doug was the only one who just uh didn't take larry very seriously he didn't doug Doug's one of my favorites.