Wizards Color Analyst Drew Gooden joins, previews the rebuild
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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NBA journeyman and color analyst for the Wizards Drew Gooden believes that the Wizards still have enough to compete on a nightly basis while they seek to carve out a new identity with plenty of new faces and young players eager to prove themselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, Chuck. He's come to you live on 106 7 the fan and the team 980. You can |
| 0:07.9 | watch us on the monumental sports network. You can also watch our next guest, which |
| 0:12.4 | was on the back who I guess hotline is Drew good and wizards color analyst for monumental |
| 0:16.6 | sports network. What's up Drew? What's good? What's up? How was the off season for you? |
| 0:22.6 | Top of the morning. Top of the morning. Top of the morning. Did you do anything fun |
| 0:25.4 | this off season? Vacation. Where do you? Where's your primary home? Primary Florida. I'm |
| 0:36.0 | in Orlando, Florida. Tax haven't loved it. I was trying to keep that a secret. I guess it's |
| 0:40.8 | not a secret anymore. No, it's out there. I was just wondering. Did you ever play for Orlando? |
| 0:45.0 | I know you played for a bunch of teams. Yeah, I actually played my rookie season. My first |
| 0:50.2 | two years in the NBA with the Orlando Magic. Fill in love with the city. Fill in love with |
| 0:56.0 | the tax walls. And never left. Right. Smart. All right. So, Drew, so let's talk about this |
| 1:02.7 | wizards team. No Bradley, Bill, no Christapps, poor Zengus. Bring in Jordan Poole who's gonna |
| 1:09.2 | score a bunch of points. Kyle Kuzma comes back. What can we expect? You know what? It's |
| 1:15.4 | gonna be interesting because we don't know what to expect. This is a reshaping led by new |
| 1:23.0 | management. And I think we have enough to compete on a nightly basis. And I think, you know, |
| 1:31.1 | a lot of teams in this league, if you put yourself defensively as a top 15 team on the defensive |
| 1:38.9 | end, you're gonna give yourself a chance no matter who's on your roster any given night |
| 1:43.2 | along with some luck of being healthy. So it's gonna be an interesting year, especially |
| 1:48.1 | with Jordan Poole and and Kyle Kuzma spear hitting this unit. And there are young players |
| 1:55.0 | as well. But I like the experience that they have already winning a championship, Jordan |
| 2:00.3 | Poole and Golden State, learning under step Curry and soaking up all that wisdom and experience |
| 2:05.9 | along with Kyle Kuzma winning one in LA with LeBron and soaking up that experience. Now, |
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