Ep. 53: Corey Brewer

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🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Ringer's Chris Vernon is joined by Houston Rockets forward Corey Brewer to discuss his transition from back-to-back national championships to bottom of the NBA (4:00), running "the octagon" with the Timberwolves (8:00), returning to Minnesota (12:00), the Rockets' hangover last season (17:00), advice for his younger NBA self (25:00), the best trash talkers in basketball (30:30), Kawhi Leonard's potential with the Spurs (34:00), and his farming abilities at home (38:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm first part of joining me today is the Houston Rockets
0:14.0	forward Corey Brewer. Hey Corey. How you doing? Alright so every time I see you, I don't
0:19.8	know if anybody's ever told you this. Every time I see you, do you know what I think
0:22.4	of? What do people tell you they think of if they think of you? Usually college, right?
0:27.0	Florida. Oh, it's right. The most outstanding player. I think of after you guys won the title,
0:32.3	the year you won the most outstanding player. There is a YouTube video. People can go look
0:36.7	this up and Noah's going crazy. The announcer has no idea what's going on, right? And so Noah
0:42.9	is yelling, we're gonna do it big. We're gonna do it big. You don't even know what I'm saying
0:47.7	right now, right? And you're in the back going, we know, we know. So now that I've got the
0:53.8	opportunity with you right here, I have to know what did what was he talking about? What is what are
0:59.0	the Gator boys doing it big? What does that mean? We just had a good time. We just went back to
1:04.8	guys, but we're out probably for a lot of nights in the road a lot of night. We had a lot of fun,
1:11.8	but that's what it's all about. Man, we got the best college college experience in the world.
1:15.4	How did you end up at Florida? They came down for me. I was going to go to either Tennessee or
1:21.0	Florida. When we were a Tennessee guy, it's tough decision. So I wanted to stay in state, but
1:28.0	once I went to campus and visit, oh my god, I couldn't turn it down. Why? I had to go. It was just
1:33.1	amazing. Amazing. People were nice. Girls. Girls were nice, of course, but just the campus
1:38.4	was a beautiful place. And then coaches style of play was family perfect. At what point are you
1:44.2	there and you know we got something special going on? To be honest, when we first got there,
1:51.0	I know me and my roommates are going to be good eventually just because we just clicked.
1:54.6	It's one of those things when you meet guys. Yeah. That's like we all became instant best friends.
2:00.0	And it was amazing. Maybe touring green, outweigh friends, you know, can't. Who are you closest with
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