All Ball - Draymond Deja Vu, Pt. 1: 9-Time Final 4 Official John Higgins on Ladder Climb, Big Boy Big 8, HOF Hair, Fundamentals
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Doug reacts to Draymond Green’s latest ejection for his cheap shot on Suns C Jusuf Nurkic, and the reason for his increasingly erratic cheap shots.
Then, Gottlieb is joined by former 9-time Final Four official John Higgins to discuss his first officiating gig in college, why he decided to pursue it as his career, climbing the officiating ladder to crack the DI ranks, the massive leap to the Big 8 at its peak, the legend of his trademark hair, earning respect as a young ref, and why it’s crucial for officials to have good game calling mechanics.
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| 0:45.3 | Hey, what up, welcome in. I'm Doug Gottlie. This is All Ball. Man, are you going to love |
| 0:49.8 | our guest? His name is John Higgins. You're like, really? You got John Higgins? Yep. |
| 0:56.3 | John Higgins was up until this year one of the most known, most respected and frankly, |
| 1:04.5 | most employed officials in college basketball. You knew him because he had his golden, sandy blonde, brown hair. |
| 1:14.6 | He wore different pants than what seemed like the rest of college basketball's officials. |
| 1:19.9 | He had a flash and a flamboyance, and he was completely unafraid to stare down a coach or to make a hard call on the road. |
| 1:27.9 | John Higgins is my guest. This is going to be fun. By the way make a hard call on the road. John Higgins is my guess. |
| 1:28.8 | This is going to be fun. |
| 1:29.8 | By the way, we do ask about the pants. |
| 1:31.8 | We do ask about the hair. |
| 1:33.3 | And there's incredible stories in this two-part, two-part discussion. |
| 1:38.7 | But I want to throw this out because we're coming on the back of Draymond Green and turning around and punching |
| 1:45.4 | Nurkich in a game which he was ejected. Now I'm likely |
| 1:48.2 | to be suspended. Maybe by the time this is, this drops |
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