Part II:
Koz: And you really---they don't take it easy on you
Webb: No
Koz: Believe or not I've played there
Webb: Ok, ok...All right.
Koz: Believe or not they didn't take it easy...
Webb: I believe it.
Koz: That's kind of a right of passage to get a chance to play there, when did you kind of realize you could hang with the guys, because NBA guys go to St. Cecilia in Detroit, the Terry Tyler's of the World, the John Longs when you were growing up, guys like that, so tell us about that.
Webb: Well its a funny story real quick, my father took me this gym, I wanted to play AAU basketball. My mother sews, so she would sew my clothes and I was tall, so I could just tell my mother I want something like this and I could get it. So my first practice, the Hawaiian shorts sets where out back then, so I remember going in there and wearing this Hawaiian short set and thinking I'm good and everything and I remember these guys blocking my shot and being like "take that ugly sweat suit off, its ugly and its cheap and dadadada and you can't play". It was my first real experience of being in a tough situation. Its like a family at St. Cecilia, once you play there, its like you say its like a right of passage, you kind of have to be accepted. It was great watching guys like, man, Antoine Jobear, the Judge, Magic would come play there, Isaiah would come play there. Jalen Rose and those guys, Steve Smith, Derrick Coleman. So it was great environment to learn how to play basketball and a great summer league, so it was real cool.
::cut to radio only::
Koz: You just couple of guys in Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas, I know you grew up and you really idolized those guys. I hope I'm not blind sighting you with this, but I know leadership is a big thing to you and that is learning to be a leader. First of all, just because you want to be a leader doesn't mean that you are a leader correct?
Webb: Definitely, that is very true.
Koz: I'll ask it this way, have you ever gone to some of these other names that you've respected, that you know are champions and try to pick their brains to discover what other element or ingredient could you use from them to get you into that category?
Webb: Definitely. I've talked to Michael Jordan, I've talked to Isaiah Thomas, I've talked to the Ice Man, George Gerivn, Magic, so I have asked. What's great is that they all have different opinions, but their leadership similarities are the same. So, it kind of helps you to frame your own leadership abilities. But the main things these guys said its that you have to lead by example first, even when you say it, so I'm real excited about it.
Koz: Webb, we are going to have to set aside, get a load of your boy Greg Ostertag.
Webb: He is, I'm telling you. Him and Scot Pollard are the craziest guys I've ever met in my life
Koz: We have got to describe, he has got his pants-now he is 7 ft, he has got his pants hiked up to about his bosom...
Webb: ::laughs:: Yeah, I was about to say up under his bosom.
::more laughs::
Koz: The guy, you know you walk around like that and the guy looks like he is expecting a flood. You got to teach the guy how to dress...you got to get him the good gear
Webb: Exactly...I got to hook him up
Koz: Lets talk about this team and moving forward, now that Cuttino Mobely is here, it would appear that Geoff Petrie, Rick Aldeman are really believe that you guys can compete now in a scoring way with the PHX and SEA of the world, and do you see something big offensively with this unit that could be on the floor
Webb: Well I do. I think this is going to help Cuttino's career. Hopefully when he comes in I'll have a chance to sit and talk with him and just explain to him the philosophy of Sacramento. I think as long as he buys in to our philosophy and what coach and Geoff have instilled in here he can't go wrong. I think that every players that's been in this system, from me to Peja to Vlade, we've all had our best years here and I think that's the same from him. So I do expect us to be able to score and run with the best of them.
Koz: Well at one time in Cuttino's career he was traded, in fact it was just a few months ago from Houston to Orlando. He did it with his best friend Steve Francis. Do you think that its important to try to let him know, there can be life without your best friend?
Webb: One he's going to have to recognize that very soon, 'cuz he's not going to be traded back there. Two, you know just to let him know here we celebrate the individual, the individual makes the team. That we want him to shoot it every time he touches that he's open. If he leads the L in 3 pt% and Peja is one of the best 3pt shooter if not the best, we want those guys to try to break records every night. And to let him know we want him to make 12 3's to break the record or to play well. I mean when you do well, we do well. So, we just let him know our philosophy and I know he'll come in and he'll be great.
Koz: Before we let you go, when the family was here what did you guys have to eat. I know you love your momma's cooking
Webb: Well I made potato salad and chicken and my mother made turkey and my brother deep fried a turkey.
Koz: Really? I've never had the deep fried turkey
Webb: You know, it was so good. I was worried too, because he's the second oldest and I don't trust him...
Koz: He'll burn your house down
Webb: It was juicy, it was tender. I'm into fried turkey now.
Koz: Really, I've got to try that now,
Webb: And you know what, Brad fried one, but I didn't taste his. But Brad was telling me how good it was.
Koz: I've heard actually, that when you have fried turkey, you almost don't want to go back.
Webb: No, I don't want regular turkey anymore.
Koz: See that's what I mean.
Webb: Because regular turkey is cold, its like dead and lifeless. The fried turkey comes alive...a lot of juiciness.
Koz: When it comes to desserts, are you a pie guy, are you pumpkin pie, do you like ice cream...?
Webb: You know its funny is that I get in these moods, I'll go through times I don't eat a lot of deserts and then I'll eat a lot. But I think my favorite is probably...banana pudding.
Koz: Banana pudding, really?
Webb: Yeah, banana pudding and peach cobbler.
Koz: Now on your peach cobbler, do you go a scoop of vanilla ice cream, or just straight cobbler?
Webb: I do, but I cheat. I take the peaches out and I eat the juice and crust with the ice cream
::more talk about crusts::
Koz: Well you can't have that just yet, you have to be thin, you have to ready to go for tomorrow.
Webb: That's right I wait to the summer
Koz: But you're good for tomorrow you think?
Webb: Definitely, I feel good. Like I said it was precautionary. We thought about it and thought about the game after, be ready to go.
Koz: Monday is a very important day in American history...Martin Luther King day, if you like just take a moment to say just how important it is...
Webb: Well I definitely think we should celebrate MLK's birthday for how he's brought the country together especially in times like these where we know that it doesn't matter who you are or what race you come from but that everybody is special. I think that Sacramento is great example of how different races can get along. It is a much better example than what I grew up in the city of Detroit. I tell you here, is a great environment for children to really see that as long as you are a good person, that's all that really a matters. So, I think that Sacramento really knows about MLK holiday. If we could just spread the word of peace and loving your brother everything would be cool.
Koz: Wouldn't hurt to read a little something of the good Dr or that day
Webb: That's true, reading is always good.