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Official Jeff Teague Podcast Thread: Interview with Ish Smith

Yeah, had that happened 5 years later it would have been a much bigger deal.
 
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If memory serves, this was around the time a Wake grad (intern?) was hooking up with David Letterman.
 
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HAHAHA....This exact same thing (almost) happened to me at Wake.

I was downloading torrents pretty heavily at my off campus apartment as I had just learned of this AMAZING technology, and one day I took my laptop into Computer Science class and forgot that I had never shut off my torrent app, so the entire time I was in class and on campus, it was downloading tons of music and maybe a movie on like a T1 connection, so it was just going nuts....and like a few days or a week later, something...I got a call from whatever office that was that he mentioned and said something about needing to bring my laptop to them...

I realized what I had done and deleted EVERY piece of music off my computer or moved it to an external hard drive and went through and found all the .torrent files and deleted them too....it was basically a clean pc except for the legally downloaded iTunes stuff.

I took the laptop in and there were two guys, one working for the school and one from the Computer Science department I think....and I had to hand them my laptop, and had to sit there while they searched through it, I assume for the specific files that the Copyright notice had mentioned, but they couldn't find anything.

They handed me the laptop back after like 20 minutes and as I was leaving the CS guy said "There's also some other stuff you might wanna think about deleting on there too."

I know it had to be pr0n he was talking about. Never felt more embarrassed lol
 
Would be great to hear from Dino and/or one of the guys that played for Dino and [Redacted], like CJ Harris. And FWIW, my bad culture comment was not that these guys were trouble makers, it struck me more that at least JJ and Teague were so singularly focused on the NBA, they did not care about winning. And Ish had a comment generally that the team would not get up from lesser opponents. It seems Battle said something along the lines of the team having bad chemistry with whomever the Teague girl was.

So maybe "bad chemistry" is a a better phrase than "culture," as Wellman ruined that word.
 
C’mon man. JJ and Teague cared about winning.
 
I don’t think “singularly focused on the NBA” and winning are mutually exclusive and probably wouldn’t have been back then either. The blue bloods have managed both goals for years. You have to play well to make the nba and it’s not like Teague or JJ (or AFA) were playing like chuckers. They weren’t even on nba radars until that year anyway.

We have all suspected/known it for years but this podcast struck me that there was such a void of leadership at the coaching level to the extent that battle. Gotta think that skip would have steered this ship better.
 
If you’re referring to JJ kindly requesting that Harv knock off the crying after the steamer, well I think that’s more JJ being a cold blooded assassin than anything but they were undoubtedly wanting to win.
 
06deacon said:
If you’re referring to JJ kindly requesting that Harv knock off the crying after the steamer, well I think that’s more JJ being a cold blooded assassin than anything but they were undoubtedly wanting to win.
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That was some "men don't cry" shit and a likely 1st round pick, having no sympathy for a guy with no pro prospects sad that his basketball career was over.
 
PhDeac said:
C’mon man. JJ and Teague cared about winning.
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I mean... you heard the podcast. That loss still stings me and JJ did not seem to GAF. At least per the pod. And certainly, I recall a lot of meh play down the stretch from that team.

Let's just say, not a lot of guys with a killer attitude on that team.
 
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I don’t think “singularly focused on the NBA” and winning are mutually exclusive and probably wouldn’t have been back then either. The blue bloods have managed both goals for years. You have to play well to make the nba and it’s not like Teague or JJ (or AFA) were playing like chuckers. They weren’t even on nba radars until that year anyway.

We have all suspected/known it for years but this podcast struck me that there was such a void of leadership at the coaching level to the extent that battle. Gotta think that skip would have steered this ship better.
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Yeah the team did not have strong leadership, it would seem, from the pod. Blue bloods have done it but I assume they have guys that also deeply want to win, at least one or two of the NBA caliber players do.

Maybe Skip makes this thing go. I dunno.
 
They admit they didn’t play as hard against less talented teams. That’s a coaching issue.

They were highly motivated against UNC, Duke, and pick up against CP3. A good coach gets them just as motivated to play Miami.
 
You made a lazy read of that podcast based on your own biases.
 
06deacon said:
I don’t think “singularly focused on the NBA” and winning are mutually exclusive and probably wouldn’t have been back then either. The blue bloods have managed both goals for years. You have to play well to make the nba and it’s not like Teague or JJ (or AFA) were playing like chuckers. They weren’t even on nba radars until that year anyway.

We have all suspected/known it for years but this podcast struck me that there was such a void of leadership at the coaching level to the extent that battle. Gotta think that skip would have steered this ship better.
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Yeah, the whole discussion and reflection on that team/season was such a great illustration of how leadership and relating/motivating to players is such a critical part of a coach's job, especially at college / lower levels (way, way more than Xs and Os -- there are thousands of assistant coaches who can do that stuff at a good enough level, imo). Pretty obvious that squad had just about nothing in that regard.

Was interesting and encouraging (but not surprising) to hear Ish favorably compare Forbes to Prosser.
 
PhDeac said:
They admit they didn’t play as hard against less talented teams. That’s a coaching issue.

They were highly motivated against UNC, Duke, and pick up against CP3. A good coach gets them just as motivated to play Miami.
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I mean.... some of that is on the players, too. I recognize not all top talent will have a ruthless competitive drive, but we needed one of those guys to have it.
 
Ball State Deac said:
I mean.... some of that is on the players, too. I recognize not all top talent will have a ruthless competitive drive, but we needed one of those guys to have it.
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But they did have a ruthless competitive drive against UNC, Duke, and pick up against CP3. A good coach taps into that ruthless competitive drive against Miami.
 
Again, I think they all wanted to win. Being able to get over the Cleveland loss quickly because you’re heading to the league doesn’t mean you didn’t want to win.

The slacking against bad teams isn’t unique either. I recall a cringe quote from Big E after a bullshit loss admitting that the other team “wanted it more than we did.” I think every team ever has had losses like that. Like basically every ACC opponent that [Redacted] happened to beat.
 
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