Thanks for joining us for the jock to jock podcast where we get a unique look at Iowa men's basketball from a player's perspective.
We'll be joined by Patrick McCaffrey after this from I'm on communications experience the I'm on difference.
It's the jock to jock podcast here on rockaway.com and wherever you get your podcast today as we head into the holidays I thought we'd go a little bit lighter or what's the best term Patrick is it to go a little bit less in the paint in this.
Yeah, I think that's a solid analogy.
Yeah, like we're not getting on the floor today.
Practice is mostly film, isn't it?
Yes.
Yeah.
It's a walkthrough
day.
That's probably the best one.
Perfect.
Saturday's win has to feel good though, doesn't it?
Yeah, you know, obviously it feels good to get back on track, far from, you know, back to, you know, solving all of our problems and all that kind of stuff.
We still have a lot of stuff we need to work through, but you know, getting back in the win column is always something that's good.
And you know,
Winning in the style that we won in obviously is something that's also important Keep trying to build off this momentum and keep it moving.
What did you learn about the team in that win
in those games?
You I think I think maybe the the public doesn't necessarily see though Well, they want my 40 whatever but there's a lot of good you can take from that obviously, you know We're gonna see teams that are
bigger, stronger, faster than Florida A&M throughout the rest of the year.
But there's different stuff that we can carry over into those games.
Just our thought we were very connected defensively.
Guys were on the same page.
Our offense, I thought our motion game was pretty good.
Everybody was touching the ball.
Everybody was scoring.
Everybody was shooting.
So I think there's a lot of stuff that we can take moving forward.
But I would say the connectivity on defense was probably the main thing that I thought was was better than it had been.
Moving from that to our spotlight on Iowa freshman, I feel like he could have a walkout song.
He could use the old million dollar man theme.
Everybody's got a price.
He's six foot six from Waquay, Iowa.
Price Sanford.
Price.
Yeah.
Walkout song would be
cool.
Tell me about price.
Really good shooter.
You know, I think fresh your freshman year is hard for everybody.
You know, everybody goes through different struggles as freshmen.
you see some of the like the freshmen that are you know like the one and done's and all that kind of stuff that freshman experience is probably I would say 10% of freshmen if if not less I would say most freshmen have like you know they get off to slow starts they're on a team with you know a lot of older guys at their position and you know they're learning and they're growing and I would think that's kind of what we're seeing from price I think
price is far from a finished product in terms of you know his production and everything like that at this level I think price is going to be a really good player here I'm excited for his future he can really shoot the ball he's a good rebounder for his size and he can rebound out of his area I think he averaged like
11 or 12 rebounds a game in high school, which is impressive at any level.
He's able to be a really good offensive piece for us.
And I think, you know, the more he grows and learns and understands and grasps certain concepts and, you know, gets bigger and stronger, obviously, that's probably the biggest hurdle any freshman has to go through.
I think he'll be a really good player for us.
And I'm really excited for his future.
Do you have freshmen that ask advice or do you provide?
How do you work with that and not try and seem like you know it all going up to tell them everything?
Yeah, obviously you don't want to like after every single thing they do right like be like oh hey you should have done this you should have like obviously nobody wants to be that guy and we don't have anybody that is um a lot of times I would say it's probably pretty even in terms of what they asked and then what you just kind of go tell them uh you know it's not like I'm walking up to Owen or Lodgy or Price after every rep and he's like hey you know you should have like no that that would be that would suck I would hate that
But, you know, you need to know that they need to know that you're there for them and that you're helpful and that you look out for them.
And I think a lot of it starts with, you know, like once they first get here, like just off the court stuff, you know, giving them rides because the freshmen don't have cars at the dorm.
So, you know, you're giving them rides.
You're looking out for them.
You're kind of showing them around.
Just kind of let them know that you're there for them as, I think, as people first and foremost.
And then that always will translate over to the basketball court.
But there's a lot of stuff you can help them with, like play calls, like understanding, you know, kind of how we guard certain actions, how we run certain actions and all that kind of stuff.
And it's definitely a give and take.
You don't want to, like I said, you don't want to overload them with information, but you do want to, you know, make sure they understand in their learning.
And if there's something that they, they probably have never heard certain terminology or whatever before.
So you need to be able to point that out to them so they can, you know, not make that mistake again.
Hopefully they don't get the the chewing like you mentioned in the last episode after a scouting meeting so
Oh, no, they probably get some grace there.
I figured yeah, we're still basketball oriented with this, but I wanted to introduce something to you Basketball movies there's been some ridiculous ones out there There's been some really good ones and I thought I would read you the tagline and the year of the movie and then you have to just tell me what the movie is based upon that
I like that.
I like this game.
Uh, I got five movies.
We'll start with 1986 coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender.
Ah,
boom.
Local drunk gave it away right away.
Is that mandatory reading or mandatory watching as a part of the team?
I would say just as a basketball person in general, I would say like, if you haven't seen Hoosiers, then like, you know, I don't know if I would say Hoosiers is my favorite basketball movie.
It's definitely in the conversation.
But it's like, if you haven't seen Hoosiers, then like, what are you doing?
Like as a basketball fan, you know what I like?
It's just that as a basketball person, you have to be have seen Hoosiers at some point in your life, or at least, you know, understand.
the plot enough to where you would pick up on certain references and all that kind of stuff.
The reason that you said you should watch Hoosiers is one of the reasons why I say that you should watch this next movie.
1994, college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get players that he needs to stay competitive.
Blue chips.
That's correct.
Mm-hmm.
Is this in chronological order?
In chronological order.
You want to take care of it for you?
No, I'll know them anyways, but yeah, that probably is helpful.
Okay.
Do you remember the next movie that Shaq went on to star in?
Honestly, I remember him being in a lot of cameos in certain movies, but I don't remember him necessarily being a star in a movie.
He was a genie in Kazam.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes.
A little before your time.
Yes, that is before me.
2002.
13-year-old Orphan becomes an NBA superstar after trying on a pair of sneakers with faded initials inside them.
What?
What?
What?
Like Mike.
Can you name some of the NBA players that made cameos in like Mike?
Dirk, Jason Kidd.
Not an NBA player, but obviously Tracy Reynolds.
Admiral!
Admiral!
David Robinson.
John Bradley was in it, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Steve
Nash.
Steve Nash, yes.
Mark Cuban.
What about we're talking about practice.
Oh, AI.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Is that one in regular rotation for you watching like Mike?
Yeah, that prop, especially when I was little, I've seen like Mike a billion times.
I watched it.
I think the last time I watched it, the whole way through was with my good friend.
Joe Toussaint, when we were freshmen in college.
That was last time I think I watched it the whole way through.
I watched it during winter break in the dorm.
And it was us, because at winter break in the dorm, everybody's gone.
So it's literally, the dorm will be empty and it literally will just be us and the women's basketball players.
We watched like Mike in the little communal area.
Watched like Mike.
That's incredible.
Were you quoting lines?
Cause you've seen it so many times.
Our favorite part was the one where he's playing the music in the car with Tracy Reynolds and he's like, what?
So we love that part.
That's awesome.
All right, the next one, 2004.
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
Coach Harder.
Obviously.
Samuel L. Jackson, is that one that you would watch in the dorms freshman or would you leave
that alone?
Probably like that.
That's that that might be that might be my favorite one.
Honestly, there's there's several I probably couldn't give you a favorite basketball movie, but coach Carter is definitely you know in that uh in the in the circle there
an unexpected player joins the basketball team Who escaped from a cruel master?
Air but I'm assuming you skipped that one.
Uh, no, I've seen air but I've seen all of them.
There's like a hundred of yes
I haven't seen them in a long time, but I have.
I have.
I watched them when I was little.
Nobody go to Carver Hawkeye Arena with an airbud wearing number 22.
Just leave that alone.
Yeah.
Any movies that I'm missing out on that are great basketball movies that people should be watching.
There's two that come to top of my head.
Glory Road is obviously a great one.
I'm sure you've seen Glory Road.
Yes.
And then Hurricane Season is another one.
I'm sure there's more.
Oh, Space Jam, obviously.
Do you have a preference?
Oh, I didn't even, the LeBron one, and I'm a huge LeBron fan.
Like I love LeBron, but like God, I couldn't even, I couldn't get through it.
Maybe some of it was because I was older.
Like, like I watched the first Space Jam, like it was the Bible.
Like I loved it.
Like it was, it was unbelievable.
But I think with the other one, I think I was a little older.
It was a little different.
And it was like very like futuristic and like kind of weird in that sense.
So I was just kind of like, yeah.
Definitely prefer the MJ over LeBron one.
Did you enjoy air?
Yes.
Yes, I really liked air.
That's kind of a newer one.
Yeah, it is a newer one, but I saw I wasn't even thinking of that.
But yes, I really liked air.
What other ones am I missing here?
What are other good ones?
The hurricane season, I'm glad you brought that up because I thought about putting that on there.
But I wasn't sure if it was mainstream enough as it were.
That that's yeah, no I could definitely yes.
I think goi road is definitely more mainstream That's like a Disney one, but like the the hurricane season.
Yeah, I don't think it's as mainstream But well really really good basketball movie one of my favorites
Do you think?
Basketball movies are done as well as football movies because it seems like there's a ton of football movies that they really get down into it Do you think basketball movies are done, right?
I think I think it all depends on the movie right like I think
There's certain football movies or TV shows where it's like you watch the guys play football and sometimes they look like they're somewhat capable of playing but then other what other times it's like it's like hula this guy on the football field and I think the same could be said for basketball like oh another one like high school musical a basket is that about that's a basketball movie okay I'll
count it
yeah so like like the basketball on that is is horrific like
So I think it all depends on, you know, like the type of movie you're going for and what you're trying to get out of it.
Because there are some basketball movies where they are like accurate and they're doing like, you know, all the correct things.
But then there's other ones where it's just like, what are you doing?
And then I think that same could be said for football movies.
If Tony Perkins was a Looney Tunes character, which one would he be?
That's a really good question.
Oh, the Tasmanian devil.
OK.
Just run around.
That's kind
of what I thought you were going to
say.
Yeah, Tasmanian double.
That would be Tony Perkins.
Not the question you thought you were going to get hit with today.
No, no, no, I was not prepared for that.
But I think I gave you a good answer.
Absolutely.
Let's get to the double, double dumbass.
Four out
of.
On a hot streak.
Four out of 12 so far.
Last game went well.
Your schools today, Iowa, Penn State, and Indiana.
OK.
Story one.
64-year-old Sheldon Man was arrested for sneaking onto his neighbor's property and painting their plants.
Seems like the guy had a beef with his neighbor since he's been arrested three times in a span of six days.
It's alleged that he had broken a motion sensor light and turned on water faucets outside of the house to flood their yard.
The second story.
Former mayor of Oceola Mills was sentenced to prison.
Ida Reems
was given a year in jail and 18 months probation and a plea deal.
Ida had had an outburst against two people playing Pokemon Go near the community food bank in Clearfield County.
Seems that Ida was intoxicated and fired a gun at the two people.
Oh, God.
Luckily, she wasn't mayor at the time as she had stepped back in 2021.
This was 2022 when she did this.
Nice.
Okay.
So the first one Sheldon is Iowa.
That's correct.
Yep.
And this, what are my other options?
Penn State and Indiana
You know what the firing of the gun just sounds like a small town Indiana thing to me, so I'm gonna lock Indiana in
final answer Yeah, yeah incorrect
I knew I I knew I should have changed
it.
I always ask final answer to give you one last shot at it and You picked up the point today that
would have been big I needed that today
I didn't have a whole lot to add to you.
Clearfield County could have been pretty much anywhere, right?
Yeah.
Sheldon, you're able to grab that pretty easy because there's quite a Hawkeye contingent up in Sheldon, so.
Yeah, no, Sheldon.
Sheldon, if I didn't live in Iowa, though, like I would, I'd be like, Sheldon, what are you talking about?
So that's that.
That was one clue where I really, I got it.
We're going to take next week off because of the Christmas break.
Give you a little bit of time to rest and relax, you know?
Yes, yes.
We have till the 26th off, so that'll be nice.
I'll get to go home and just kind of unplug and relax.
Hey, Dad, do you want to watch like Mike with me?
Yes.
Now you've got my brain turning with all these basketball movies, so I'm going to have to watch some during the break.
Yeah, I'll be interested to find out which ones you watch.
And I might add a couple to that roster.
Thanks so much for the time.
And until next time, happy holidays to you.
Thanks, Brian.
