KingsTalk last night?

slugking50

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Anybody catch the CWebb interview Koz did with Cwebb to start of Kingstalk last night? I just missed it. It was about 20 minutes....
 
:(....I know, I know. Its this stupid thing called "life" that keeps getting in the way.

Don't worry, I'll kick that thing to the curb and have it up in no time! ;)
 
Here ya'll go. Some real good stuff, but ya'll know the drill, excuse any spelling and/or grammar mistakes and all that good stuff--ENJOY :)
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Part 1

Koz: First and foremost I know yesterday a tough day for you because you couldn't play, the sore left knee. How do you feel today?

Webb: I feel good. We really feel good. It was just precautionary and I'm glad we still got the win, but it feels good and I can't wait to play tomorrow.

Koz: Be able to go then?

Webb: Yea.

Koz: How did you feel last week? I know you went on both sets of b2b, so how did you feel after those games?

Webb: I feel pretty good. I felt better actually after the second b2b than I did the first one. So, that's good when you play 4 in 5 nights, the last game you feel the best. I feel good, that's all I can really keep saying, is I really feel good. Hopefully it can just last and I believe it will. I believe that now we have ourselves in the right tendencies, we have ourselves practicing the right things and Pete and those guys are taking great care of me, so I'm ready.

Koz: I remember back in November that you made the comment, that you might not know until about February just how close to 100% you are going to be. So, we are getting close to that just about half way through January, are you happy with your physical progress?

Webb: I am. I'm really happy. I get frustrated at times. And sometimes, you know I wish the progress was faster but I'm definitely happy. I think-I just can't wait to the playoff times. I think that its going to get stronger. What's great is that next year is even going to be better than this one, so I'm looking forward to it.

Koz: Progress with the team so far, you guys right now are 22-11, its about a little more than a third into the season, how do you like the way this club is playing right now Webb?

Webb: Good. What was our record last year at this time?

Koz: Was it 22-11? I don't know...

Webb: I wonder, bascule people ask me all the time and I'm like I remember us always being around that 20 and 10...for some reason. So, for the most part I feel pretty good. I know that we let some games that we should have won...

Koz: 24-9 last year

Webb: Ok so, 2 games behind or something like that. But we feel good, especially with the injuries that we have had and everything else, we feel good. We let some easy ones slip away, but like I said I think we'll be fine

Koz: Ok, lets jump right to it. Biggest story in the last 48 hrs in Sacramento, a very close friend of yours and someone I know a lot of these fans still love, that's Doug Christie, he was traded to Orlando. Just your thoughts on Doug and what an important piece to this whole puzzle he still is-I think he's still is a lot of you guys' hearts.

Webb: Yeah, well first let me say, when Cuttino comes we definitely welcome him in with open arms and we definitely feel he's going to come in a help us. But, losing Doug for me personally was..really tough. You know...Doug is a real good guy.

::crowd applause::

Webb: And you know, it was just tough losing a guy like that. We just wish him the best and at least he's on a real good team that's going to do good in Orlando. So hopefully we'll get to the championship and beat those guys and we'll both have fun.

Koz: Be quite a story if that would happen. I know a lot of fans would love to see this Kings team get to the championship round this season. With out prying too deeply, did you chance to talk to Doug at all and I don't want to jab you too much Webb. I know you guys were very very close. We should point out Webb and Doug Christie rallied this team together at the start of the playoffs, so I know Chris is very close to Doug.

Webb: Yeah, I got a chance to go over and see him, talk to him....You know, get emotional and all that good stuff, reminisce over the time that we had together. I think what people have to realize is that as any of you know when you work with somebody, the pay check really doesn't matter on those nights that you guys have to work extra late or on those night that both of you are tired or both of you feel like things are going right or they are going right, you develop certain relationships with people where you know that at any time in your life you could 20 years later and you could be half way across the country and you call that person and they'll come right there and be there for you and take care of you. That's what I found out about him through basketball and through his work ethic, through the way he was with his family, his children. I mean I really can't think--he's probably the only guy in the world I can't think of one bad thing to say about. So, we're definitely going to miss him, but he's strong and he'll rise through this.

::crowd applause::

Koz: You know I think that deserves a little round of applause right there. I think #13 is still going to live strong with this Kings team, but I want to get back to the first thing you commented on. I really believe that when we see Cuttino Mobely and Michael Bradley, both come here to Sacramento, hopefully very soon, and when we see them step out in to the crowd, my guess is Webb that these fans are going welcome them with that special capital city Sacramento welcome just to let them know, hey you can have a lot of love for Doug Christie but its time to welcome in a new set of guys and I think that'll be very important.

Webb: Oh yeah, definitely. I think that's the great thing about Sacramento, you know even Greg Ostertag was our famed enemy at one time and we love him. So, like I said I think Cuttino is going to be a great addition for us. Seeing him and Mike in the back court it going really exciting. So, we can't ask the people but to be anything else but Sacramento and that's to show love to the players here.

Koz: We got a lot of fans with questions... you think you're up to the task Webb?

Webb: I hope so...some fans are better than reporters though, they get deep into your business. Naw, I'm joking.Come with it baby.

Kate in section 101: What do you like most about playing basketball?

Webb: I think the thing I like most--I think I have two answers. The first answer is every day my father used to tell me-he used to work at an auto factory, and he used to say " whatever you do, do something that you love." And you used to always say that to me and I didn't understand. So one I love basketball, and two I think the best thing about it is playing on the road when people are talking loud and talking junk about Sacramento. And then Mike Bibby hit the jumper and he does that little walk....

::crowd laughs::

Webb: And I tell the crowd to shut up and then we go home. That's probably the best part about it when you beat a team on the road, 'cuz its real tough to do.

Koz: Who's got the better celebratory walk? Is it Bibby's or is it yours when you get it into the crouch and you get the mean face going...

::Webb laughs::

Koz: You guys got to compare those...

Webb: Yeah...I like Mike's though because my brother, and we were at the Christmas table and we had a comedy show, my family for Christmas. We were like all telling jokes and my father he ties to run around the table like Mike and almost busted his head, so it was a pretty funny sight.

Joey in section 101: Hi, Chris Webber what did you like most about Michigan?

Webb: What do you Iike most about Michigan, playing there or you mean like living in the snow, the cold...

::laughs::

Webb: If you mean playing in Michigan, I think the thing I liked most about it, it was the first time I was able to play in front of crowds that big. In college I couldn't sleep before the games. I would get real sick. I would be throwing up and be real nervous because so much energy would feel like it would come in to me during the game. So I had a lot of fun, but I just remember being nervous every second, so I'm glad I don't have that feeling anymore, but I loved playing ball there.

Koz: Going back to the state of Michigan Webb, I know that in growing up, one big think if you are in or around the city of Detroit is to go to St. Cecilia and play there.

Webb: Yeah
 
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.





 
Thanks, Reina.

And thanks to Webber - great comments about Mobley AND Doug!!!

:D
 
ReinadelosReys said:
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.
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That is such a true statement.

But it has nothing to do with our coach. :rolleyes:
 
ReinadelosReys said:

Kate in section 101: What do you like most about playing basketball?

Webb: I think the thing I like most--I think I have two answers. The first answer is every day my father used to tell me-he used to work at an auto factory, and he used to say " whatever you do, do something that you love." And you used to always say that to me and I didn't understand. So one I love basketball, and two I think the best thing about it is playing on the road when people are talking loud and talking junk about Sacramento. And then Mike Bibby hit the jumper and he does that little walk....

::crowd laughs::

Webb: And I tell the crowd to shut up and then we go home. That's probably the best part about it when you beat a team on the road, 'cuz its real tough to do.

Koz: Who's got the better celebratory walk? Is it Bibby's or is it yours when you get it into the crouch and you get the mean face going...

::Webb laughs::

Koz: You guys got to compare those...

Webb: Yeah...I like Mike's though because my brother, and we were at the Christmas table and we had a comedy show, my family for Christmas. We were like all telling jokes and my father he ties to run around the table like Mike and almost busted his head, so it was a pretty funny sight.


Thank you Reina!!!!! Did I ever tell you how much I appreciate you doing this?

Now for the quoted part: This settles a rather heated argument between my fiance'(who likes Webber) and myself(who likes Mike)
 
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