Welcome in to the Source to say podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network presented by Club Blue.

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I am your host, Jack Pilgrim, not joined by Sean Smith, not joined by Zach Gagan, but instead,

Jamie Shaw, what's up, buddy? How are you? Jack, man, I'm good. I'm good. Just,

obviously, no one of the years you see the weather behind both of us. It's a little bit

hectic here, so hopefully to sell, control the controllables is what I was told by a wise man.

Hey, that's me. I'm your wise man.

So we're just wrapping up our time in Colorado Springs. What an absolute joy of a weekend.

It was just watching Mark Pope, watching Jasper Johnson, watching Malachi Moreno, and then obviously

32 of the best U-19 players high school basketball has to offer. College basketball has to offer,

you could argue, the 32 best, you know, U-19 kids in the world. They'll probably go prove that

in Switzerland for the FIBA World Cup. So just general takeaways, Jamie, your time in Colorado

Springs. What did you like? What did you not like?

Well, I think it was mostly a positive time, as you said.

The main thing, my main takeaway was the competitive nature of the camp.

Once the ball tipped, obviously they're going through drills.

They're trying to get some sets put in and all that type of stuff.

But once the ball tipped and the scrimmage was started, these kids were competing.

It meant something to these players to wear the USA across their chest.

And as they went out there every single time,

it seemed that this was one of the more competitive environments

that I've seen in the high school setting.

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