George Karl, Brett Goldberg, & Josh Braaten Break Down Semi-Pro

4 SZNS NBA Podcast

Ryan Magdziarz

Sports, Basketball

5.0 • 519 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Legendary NBA head coach George Karl and his co-host Brett Goldberg sat down with Ryan Magdziarz and Zak Noble to rewatch and break down the 2008 Will Farrell Movie "Semi Pro". George played in the ABA and was able to tell the boys what was accurate and what was not. Later, Josh Braaten who played Twiggy Munson in the film, joined Zak and Ryan for a hilarious breakdown of the film, and to talk the brilliance of Will Farrell improv.

0:00- 44:22 - George Karl and Brett Goldberg Semi Pro breakdown

44:25- Josh Braaten aka Twiggy Munson

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the four-season show by Ball is Life.
0:10.1	I am Ryan Mogg, Josh.
0:11.6	I'm here with Zach Noble.
0:13.4	I'm also here with Good Friend of the Show and legendary NBA head coach George Carl
0:19.0	and his co-host on Truth in Basketball podcast, Brett
0:23.1	Goldberg. Boys, good morning. How are we today?
0:26.9	Can't complain, boys. Hibernation is not that bad.
0:32.1	It is not that bad. And it's led us to today, which we are going to break down and movie review the movie
0:39.8	semi-pro. Now, George Carl played in the ABA in the 70s. George, before we start talking and
0:47.0	getting into detail about semi-pro with Will Ferrell, a few things stood out to me about how accurate
0:53.9	semi-pro was to mimic the actual ABA back in the day.
0:57.4	I want to hear your thoughts first of how accurate.
1:00.4	Well, I think a lot of accuracy was the Showtime stuff of it.
1:04.0	There's no question that, you know, the cheerleaders, the referees wearing loud uniforms.
1:11.6	The referees had the freedom to actually put on a show what they wanted to.
1:16.6	My first recollection of ABA was when I was in college in West Carolina,
1:23.6	Carolina Coopers. Larry Brown was the coach. Doug Moe was playing on the team.
1:30.0	I think they played in three different cities.
1:32.3	They played in Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh.
1:36.2	And they traveled around the state,
1:38.6	just kind of getting enough people to pay to buy tickets
1:43.1	to keep them afloat.
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