So...

It's a great story.

Great story.

So this is my senior year going to the SEC tournament.

You know, you do all the media day stuff beforehand.

We're in Gainesville.

I remember I was with Gareth Gutierrez because he was with Gator Vision back then.

No, he's in New York.

So how does a team deal with those kind of expectations, you think?

Man, it's a...

It's tough because, you know, you want to enjoy the journey.

And, you know, for I think on Swamp Kings as well as the 04s, their second year, both of which said, like, it was miserable that year because the expectations to be perfect.

And, you know, basketball is just a little different game, man.

That's why Dan is not like, you know, you have to win.

Dan says, you know, minimum Final Four, which I get, but I'm like, no. No. No.

like

yes.

How you doing, Patrick? What's going on? I'm solid, man.

I can't complain.

Just excited for this game on Saturday.

Going to be posted up at the block.

Okay.

Excited.

So,

How do you think he approaches it with guys like Alex Lloyd and C.J. Ingram and Brown and others?

Well, the five for five, that definitely helps.

you know, those guys are getting paid.

I think I told y'all a while back when I saw the guys all walking out of practice and going all to their vehicles, and I didn't see any Honda Accords or Jeep Wranglers with no air conditioning out there.

So that definitely helps.

I don't know, man.

That's the thing that befuddles me, is how is he going to keep all these guys happy? You know, they're going to, you know, the ones versus twos in practice, Those guys are going to look great.

that's

But just your – you know, digest that overall statement, I guess.

Well – I feel like, you know, I think Coach Cal is the highest paid in all of basketball, which I don't think he, you know, I hate to say it, I don't think he deserves.

It's just of late, his last, I don't know, seven, eight years of coaching, those Kentucky and Arkansas haven't been that great.

And I loved last year when Coach Golden and Coach Cal were getting after it, getting after each other, because it was kind of like a change of the old guard.

or whatever.

But does he, I mean, you know, Dan's not going to say championship, but I say, I mean, yeah, he needs, he needs another, cause look, I mean, Dan Hurley, I think Dan Hurley still deserves to be paid higher than him.

year.

I think we all are like, you guys have the key.

Okay.

Because, you know, we'd have those practices where we're like, "All right, whatever, like we're gonna get three, you know, we, and we need to get three stops in a row," and Jake is the one going to grab the offensive rebound, start drill over and, and stuff like that.

So you need, you needed a guy like Jake, and um, he's been coaching their basketball last, uh, last few years actually.

I think in Orlando and Tampa also, so, you know, kinda, kinda putting your f- footprint out to, in that way as well.

Yeah, no, I think that's, I think it's vital.

Um, you know, Ga- Ga- there's Gator fans all around and, uh, obviously, um, similar, like Kentucky, uh, where it's, it's gonna be impossible to get home tickets [laughs] this season.

Uh, so for, um, for those fans that are, uh, you know, Jacksonville, Orlando...

Are they doing a Sunrise game again?

So I wonder how that balance ends up shaping up.

Yeah, you know, because I do think with, like, you know, C.J. Ingram, Isaiah Brown, and Alex Lloyd, those kids, like, they literally could play.

Maybe Alex Lloyd would still be coming off the bench, but I watched him in person this year or a few weeks ago.

He looks great.

He's probably put on, like, 10 pounds of muscle.

Like, he doesn't have that fear in the headlight look anymore.

Like, I just don't know how they go past 10 guys.

Oh, yeah.

What are your expectations with your Jacksonville Jaguars this year, Patrick Young?

Well, I'll tell you, the perfect timing – I'll tell our listeners, the Church of 1122, they have Joby Martin and Denny Thompson.

They have that Built for More podcast.

They had Tony on, and then they had Coach Liam Cohen.

You've got to listen to him.

You have to.

Tony Buscelli, unbelievable.

I don't know how he'll handle it, but it's definitely kind of a new element into the equation, is it not?

yes uh

it's it's it's like i'm not even joking i'm not joking because we shared you know the basketball we share with men and women uh we share the facilities and golf uh tennis as well um i can't know if i miss another sport but we all kind of shared those same facilities and what bishop kennedy had i keep saying kennedy yes he had right in the world bishop kenny has um It is competitive to what I had at the University of Florida.

Wow.

I'm not joking.

It is right there.

Their weight room is right there.

So, I say that all because they have an awesome soccer program.

idiot.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, the mission of the Patrick Young Foundation is to spread joy, inspire hope, and offer economic relief to those lost in the darkness of their circumstances follow- following a life-altering spinal cord injury.

And it's one of those things, you know, I think a lot of people oftentimes, um, start foundations when something close and near and dear, whether it's them, whether it's a loved one-

Yeah.

Uh, just show up.

You can register.

Um, we're gonna have, uh, T-shirts.

I'll, uh, have books for people to have, uh, that I wrote.

I mean,

gosh.

From the TV screen, you went to sleep.

You probably saw it, but I could feel the energy and the nerves.

You could see it.

In his face.

In Wimby's face.

How much did you play there? I was in Turkey.

And it's

funny, how many assistant coaches do they have on the sidelines? You know, there's no one saying, hey, coach, they're going to blank, blank, run, or we need to get our composure back.

We might need to look at a timeout.

I'm sure they are, but Miss Johnson, ultimately, you're with the team.

You should be able to see it.

You know what your team is capable of.

That was not time for a teaching moment of, oh, we're just going to play our way through it and figure it out.

Patrick, I'll start with you.

Again, let me ask you this as an athlete, Patrick, as a competitor, as a player in that locker room, is there a danger when your coach goes and tells the whole world that it was the ref's fault and forgets that Carl Anthony Towns gave you 11 points in 38 minutes and forgets that you missed 10 straight three points and forget that you were out-assisted near 2-1? You know what I'm saying? Is there a danger in that at all, or is that

more...

Yeah, it should be.

Like, you're... you're, you're, you're taken away from God.

And I, and it's funny, you know, in the locker room, that's not his conversation.

Maybe, maybe that's just, just public, you know, how he's presenting things.

Maybe that's just, but in the locker room, there's no way.

What do you see in game five in New York for New York?

He's got to be better there,

too.

His primary defenders, Cat as well as Mitchell Robinson, OG might get in there on him sometimes.

When he's out in the perimeter, he's not quick enough especially with his ball handling to create, you know, make the guy think he's going that way, goes the other way.

He is so good with using his length.

Once he has you going another one direction, he can cover so much ground with a quick spin.

He had Cat, you know, Cat had him stopped.

You got some important guys

He's 6'5".

He just throws himself in.

You know, not like he's a small guy.

And that's the thing.

He wants to get in there to grab those balls.

He's got the physicality.

He had a great save in that fourth quarter.

But he's

I can't get anybody to stay within 20, Pat.

The script has been followed.

But, yeah, you're right, Jeff.

The games have not been, like, except for outside of game one, like, just super competitive.

If one team finds a way to run away with it.

My fear with San Antonio, I feel like they can't put the thunder away.

You know, I feel like SGA didn't have a good game, and he hasn't been playing well.

carrying them.