Welcome into a really quickly put together a really quickly put together emergency slash live reaction podcast.

I'm Tommy Ashley.

That's Dewey Burke joining me.

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Now that we know who the head coach is, a lot of information in the next few days, I'm sure.

Dewey, you bring sort of a unique perspective here.

We talked, was it last week or a couple weeks ago, time is either stood still or flown.

And we talked about the Carolina family's place and all this, and it was a great podcast.

Folks, if they didn't listen to it, need to.

But your initial thoughts here on Michael Malone being named or going to be named North Carolina head coach.

Yeah, this was one of the darkhurst candidates that we've been talking to all along. I can confirm that. And I think I do have unique perspective just strictly because of geography. I live in Denver and this guy was with the nuggets obviously for quite a long time. And I sat on the floor for a number of games 15 feet from this guy and watched him coach.

Look, I like everyone, don't know how he'll handle NIL and recruiting,

because that's all going to be new for him in this world of college sports,

which is modified professional sports anyway.

But I can tell you this,

watching him from an X and O perspective up close, I probably went to 40 Nuggets games prior to him parting ways with the Nuggets over those years. This guy is brilliant from an X and O

perspective. And I have a couple of things,

a couple texts I want to read when we get to it from Danny who played for him in Cleveland,

he was an assistant, that I think are going to put people's minds at ease about the product on

the floor and his ability to coach in the modern era of basketball. I think it's going to give people

a lot of good positive feelings. I like everyone, we'll take a wait and see approach to see how

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