1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: November 12th, 3pm - Ramel Lloyd Sr.

Episode Date: November 12, 2021

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios, here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. It was about eight, nine years old. He started training me. At first, he just let me play, because, like, I was big, I was tall and athletic,

but I was really, like, a big man at first. Like, I would just rebounds, that screens, all types of stuff like that. And he just let it happen so I can get like the love for the game first. And then when I was about like 10 years old, one of summer we got in the lab like super heavy. Thought like he turned me into a point guard. That's how it really started. I want to make sure that he goes to a place that's going to allow him to play his game

and where he's going to be able to succeed to the best of his ability on and off the court. I want to be a mid player. And I feel like I can definitely do that in the next two years. Happy Friday, everybody. Let's bring them in. We've got time today to talk to somebody that can give us insight to the program, to the game, to the direction of Nebraska Hoops. I want to thank you, folks, for joining us on one-on-one.

You know how this works? You can hit us up 402, 464-5-6-85, Sartar-Hammer-Tex line. If you had questions for our guest, if you had questions after the fact, you know how to dial into the Honolese. Lincoln Hotline. You could follow this live video stream by Sartor Heyman, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch. Get to it. You can see what's going on. The chat rooms are open there as well. Let's bring in somebody that, man, I go back with, and the fact that we're probably going to go forward with. Let's bring in Ramel Rock Lloyd Sr. to one-on-one, big man. What's happening?

D.P., what's up, brother? Thanks for having me back on the show. Appreciate it. The first of many. We got lots of work to do. do. For the listeners who don't know the Ramel Rock Lloyd story, give them the history, because before we talk about young Mr. Lloyd Jr., we need to talk about Pops and Team Lloyd and the family. Tell your story, where are you from and what makes you you? I am originally from New York, the mecca of basketball. Don't let nobody tell you no difference. I grew up in Harlem in the South Bronx. I went to Cardin Heights High School to South Bronx. I was a parade high school, All-American. Came out, I went to Syracuse University,

originally and eventually transferred over the Long Beach State out in California, hence my son being a West Coast kid and how I got out there. I played about 10-11 years overseas in minor leagues and the states, and Holland Road Charters, you name it. I've done it. You ran into a knucklehead back in the day, especially back in Orange, you ran into a knucklehead that looks vaguely like me. What I can tell the folks is basketball at that level,

the minor league level introduces you to real personalities, and you get to meet, you get a pretty good gauge of how people are in the game and away from the game. I gave you in previous conversations about you. I've given you this tag. Like before they used the term junkyard dog about basketball players, you were a junkyard dog. That was who you were.

You played harder than everybody else. You were a wrecking ball to any defense no matter what they threw at you. And it was fun for me to watch somebody who you love the game the right way. And not everybody does. To you, what does that mean loving this game that you care about so much the right way? yeah i mean dp you know when people use this this uh baller's life uh saying you know so vaguely uh but you know in my case it really is i mean basketball is not who i am but it makes me who i am if that makes it you sit um it's provided uh a life for me um outside of where i'm grown up at um it's

allowed me to travel the world. It's allowed me to feed my family. And the love for the game, I mean, I would do all of what I did for free, you know, wouldn't even have anything to do with any money or fame or glory. Just where I grew up at in New York City basketball is everything. Everybody can play basketball from, you know, the guys that's taking it serious to the guys just on street corners. I mean, it's part of our life going up there. So I just kind of took that with me throughout, you know, my whole career. And I think it's most important to make sure that you love the game and fall in love with

the game because, you know, what you put into it is what it gives back to you. And if you don't love it, you can't continue to play or be successful at, you know, the highest levels of the game. It's just so many parts of the game that you have to do that's not fun at all to continue to be good. So if you don't love it, you ain't going to get up and do those things. So I'm blessed. I'm blessed. I'm blessed that I was able to take advantage of the opportunities that was given to me by the game.

And I'm super blessed that, you know, my son and also my daughter who played continue to play the game and allow me to be a part of their process as well. talking to Ramel Rock Lloyd Sr., his son, has signed his letter of commitment to the University of Nebraska for next year. He's headed to town. You were just here in town a couple of weeks ago, and we got to hook up. But tell the folks your impressions of Lincoln, Nebraska, as you get to see it on repeat.

Well, you know, we were thoroughly impressed with Lincoln on our visit, our first visit before he committed him before he signed. Everything is there for a young student athlete to succeed, you know, on and off the court. It's a beautiful place. We fell in our way from the first time, and we definitely look forward to being there. Well, I know Mel looks forward to being there. I look forward to visiting as much as possible. Well, we will get to that part, too, because there's an interesting twist that I want to talk about.

And then for you, I know that family first means everything. So let's talk about Team Lloyd and what that's about and why it exists. Well, you know, Team Lloyd is just what you said, D.P. I mean, it's really doesn't have anything to do with basketball and anything. It's just the way I was raised and the way I raised my family and my kids is to always make sure that we take care of each other and we have each other's back and support each other no matter what we're going through in life. So for me, you know, being the head of the house and being a dad and being a husband, being a son, to me, those are the most important things in life, you know, and all the things that come along with life, if I don't have those aspects of my life to enjoy them with, then they really doesn't really mean much to me.

So when we say Team Lloyd, you know, it's just to remind us that, hey, we're all together. You know, obviously, you know, you see me put that a lot for things for Ramel because he's the youngest team Lloyd and he's going through this process. So it's just always faithful of what I'm going to put on anything he got going on. Rock, tell us something about Ramel that doesn't show up on rivals and huddle and on these these scouting sites. Who is this young man and who are the Huskers getting? One thing about Ramel that probably wouldn't show up on those things. You know, Ramel is a winner. First of all, he's a winner.

He cares, you know, he cares about his teammates. He cares about his team. You know, he cares about other people well-being. And I think that's a great trait that he has that carries with him on the court. And, of course, it's just part of his off-the-court personality. So, yeah, that's probably the biggest thing I think that to stick out, that, you know, people get to watch basketball players play or any kind of athlete play their sport or whatever it is.

And you kind of develop what you think they would be like just based off of their game. And sometimes it's just completely opposite of how they're playing and how their personality is off the court. Yeah, it's interesting to me that in the times we talked before, you talk about how good, how talented you're, young man is. And then I take that, and I hold it up to a measuring stick that happens to be his dad. I mean, you came into the game, you know, Parade All-American, you go to Syracuse, you have

your time there, you play on a team that includes another buddy of mine, and people don't think of him as a basketball player, but you had Donovan on that Syracuse team, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. was Donovan was on that team. People don't think about Donovan as a basketball player, but he was a phenomenal basketball player, obviously. If he didn't play football as his main sport, of course,

then he would have definitely been an integral part of that Syracuse team. It's always funny, and Donovan McNabb is who we were talking about. Donovan would go to Redskins Park, and he would just light it up, like he would take on anybody and everybody. So it was always funny to watch. And he was like, just don't forget. I'm orange. I get you at work. Tell me the difference between being in a program like Syracuse and being in a program like Long Beach State because there are a ton of differences.

People think all these programs are the same. They're not talking to me about the difference between Syracuse and Long Beach State. Well, obviously there's a lot of differences, especially during the time when I was playing. And I think the gaps are closing just a little bit now with so many rules changes with the transfer rules and facilities and things of that nature. But one of the first things is obviously the facilities at the time, there was a sparing difference in a high major like Syracuse versus a mid-major like Long Beach State. Travel is also a huge difference. and the biggest thing that affected me the most was the practice. You know, practice time at a high major. Well, let me just go and talk about Syracuse.

I guess we should have had more talent and, you know, overall talent and practice was a lot of skill development and a shorter period of time like doing team stuff, you know, wherever the case may be. So I went from like an hour and a half practices to maximum hour, a 45-minute practiceers at Syracuse. And then I got the Long Beach State, and I'm practicing with three and a half hours in church. You know, and I'm like, yo, I'm like, what the hell is going on here? Like, why are we practicing so much, you know?

And the coach, the coach, my head coach at Long Beach State was actually the assistant who recruited me at Syracuse. So he was at Syracuse, Wayne Morgan for probably, I don't know, 18 years. years or so, and then he just got that long these state jobs. So we both came from the same place. So I used to go to the office and be like, yo, coach, what's going on? Why the hell would we practice for three and a half hours?

So that's a funny story. But those are some of the main differences. You know, the attention to detail at the mid-major level, I mean, people don't give these coaches and athletes at the mid-major to lower levels enough credit because they put in a ton of time.

The coaching is outstanding. You know, guys have been in the coaches have been there for a longer 10-year-a-time. And I think the biggest difference on the court between the two at the time was size, basically. I mean, we had a great team at Long Beach State. Our guards and forwards could match up with anybody in the country. And the only difference that I felt was a major difference was the size and athleticism of the big. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a constant, you know, as it adjusts. And the game has adjusted. Let me ask you, you had your 18-point averages and your 14-point averages. How much would you average at your apex in today's very little defense game? I don't know, D.P., that's, you know, that's really hard to say. I mean, I think I would, obviously, I was a little more maybe because of the fact that, you know, guys are shooting three-pointers a lot more. You know, I think I was a really good shooter.

and if I'd have more attempts, definitely the average would go up more. And then you can't touch anybody anymore. That's the point. That could work in two ways for me, you know. That could be great for me, offensively, and I probably average more points because I was a dog and I would get to the basket.

But on the other end, I'll probably be sitting on a bench of foul trouble because I'm talking everybody as well. So I don't know. Maybe I average less points in today's game. Who knows? You would body up? Yeah, you're right. You're right.

You're absolutely right. I would have to make some objections from both ends. But, you know, listen, the beauty of the game is that the game is forever changing, it's forever evolving for the best. You know, I hate to compare with, you know, I would have done now. You know, that's cool. But, you know, I just enjoy watching the young guys play. You know, in basketball, like, we have had my time, and I had a great time, and I enjoyed it.

And I'm having equally more fun enjoying watching my son in the next year. relationship. Well, you care about the game and you're not only training your son. You're training other people's sons as well. Like that, you having that impact on it. And a lot of that forward stuff still works. So because you know, well, but, Barack, if you, you know the game. Like, you know the game at a level of most people can't even begin to. So what happens with, with dads like you, is that you are really specific about who you trust your young man with. Right? Right. So making. decision to send him here, what were the things about the coaching staff that made that seem

like it was the right thing to do? Well, obviously, you know, Fred's record and who Fred is speaks for itself, honestly, as a head coach, he's changed programs, he's been in the NBA, he's played in the NBA, which is really key for me. And it's not only that he just played the NBA, I mean, just understanding the nature of game as a player. and becoming a coach, you know, it's important to understand what players are going through with their feeling. You know, if they miss a shot, you almost can kind of understand why.

You know, you can fix things. Some things that you just can't get. Now, the only wrong, there's absolutely outstanding coaches that's never really played the game at a high level. But I think there's something to add to that player coach relationship when a guy played at that level and the highest level and could relate to everything that's going on in the young athletes, you know, process. So, you know, with that being said, the basketball aspect was fine for me. I love this style of play. Fred and I have the same vision for, you know, what we see Remell has on the next level as far as his position is concerned.

And then the most important thing is that, you know, between Fred and Maddie and, of course, all the rest of the staff, everyone is just honest. You know, like, I'm a big honesty guy. So, you know, I'm never really hold back what I want to say. I'm going to say, some people may not take that the right way. But we were just going to say, yeah, I mean, for real, I'm going to say what I got to say because it's the truth, you know, I'm not a sugarcoat type of doubt. And that's how my family is. And then, you know, Fred and the staff, you know, they're the same way, you know,

and they understood what we wanted and what we wanted and what they wanted matched. And we thought it would be the best situation for sure. It's so funny. So we're talking to Rock Lloyd, Romero Lloyd, Senior. When you say you speak from honesty, that's part of why I can roll with you. Like that was the thing that we know that there are a lot of guys who play ball and who are in the game, in the game, not as players, who don't work from that. They don't work from truth.

And so you can't mess with everybody. And you can't let everybody in your circle. So when I saw the first note that there was a conversation between, you guys in Nebraska. Look, man, I went full giddy. Like this, oh, like, this is like, this is the perfect, this is the perfect marriage. Like, if you took, if you took the concepts that Fred Horvier plays with and the concepts in what you and your family operate, it was a, it really was a great match. Yep, I agree.

I agree 100% DPNS. Hence the letter of intent is why we saw. Hey, man. Hey, man. Now, I know that I know the hardest thing for you going to be over the next. Chapmanche is watching basketball. You can't get you. You can't impact.

And you're going to have to watch what the Huskers do from a distance, right? But I also know that it's going to make you and your son smarter about this thing as you go forward. I got a question to ask you because you said, you know, like young man's coming and then you will visit. But here's the thing. I was really hoping you were going to come to town and put together like a food truck. So. Hey, listen, we talked about it, you know. My guy, Nick, you introduced us too over there.

Listen, we thought about it because, you know, my wife, obviously, she's Jamaican, and we eat a lot of Jamaican food. I don't think it's too much Jamaican food going on in Lincoln, Nebraska. Right? We kind of thought about doing something like that. But maybe we'll just have to combine and do something with Nick one these days. Yeah, that's, look, look, man, I thought about us.

I know first things first, let's focus on that business. But, you know, Rock, if you hear, you... Yeah, no, I mean, we can make something work, but we'll be in Nebraska a little more than we thought in Virginia. Yeah, you know, let's try to work that out. You know, we'll work it out. And Nick's the right guy, what he's doing over there. Did you get a chance to eat it, Machas, when you were here?

I did not get a chance to get over there, but I know I will, and it's probably... I'll be here probably a little bit too much when I get. I save the visit for when I'm there a little bit more, a little more permanently. Well, that's just it. Nick has that effect, man. That's kind of how that works.

So what's his, what's young man's schedule this season start? Has this season started? What are they prepping for? The season has not officially started yet. They have been playing as an AAU team and traveling. They've already been to Vegas, Miami, Atlanta. playing some

preseason games. They start November 18th is their first official game. It's in San Diego. After San Diego, they're like going to Dallas. They have a New Jersey run. The season is just

going to be crazy. They're out in Hawaii. They're in Missouri. They're in Arizona. Vegas again, New Orleans. So it's going to be a great opportunity for a little to have fun. his senior year and competing against the best in the country and all while preparing to get ready for Nebraska next year. So it's an exciting talent for us.

You talked about him and you described him as a winner. What does that mean and where does it come from? Well, what it means for me, especially with watching him, and I don't even know if he agree with this as much, but I know my son and what I describe as a winner as someone who is willing and who has even sacrificed some of his own personal game to make sure that the team's success is first. I've seen him do that. That's a great characteristic to have. It's a little bit more of just made up of who he is.

Of course, I was the same way I wanted to win, but I think I was a little bit more focused on my individual performance as well. So, but that's why he's a playing guard and I was a two guard. Yeah, right? right you know i was a scholar and you know i think that remel makes winning plays like i've seen kids i've seen kids highlight videos and then i've watched them in person and there's two different uh things there and then i've watched remel's highlight videos and i watch them in person and his highlight videos are really just how he plays uh if that makes sense so i don't you know

like certain kids uh like that they'll make sure you know they'll make some crazy plays basketball-wise. It doesn't make my sense. But then they'll come down and then make a play that looks like they should be in NBA tomorrow. Right. And Mel really doesn't make those kind of plays as Outlanders. he's a smart play. He thinks the game. He plays the right way. And his highlight plays to me as just a little bit more. team needed buckets.

You became point guard, Rock Lloyd, at the top of the key, given the business. So he comes by an authentic. I was very capable, DP. I wasn't as natural added as Ramel is when I was very capable. But I did that on purpose with Ramel when I actually came up because, you know, as I got older in my career and I, and, you know, I was, I would say I was a really good score. I was a great score, and I can score, I felt I can score anybody at any time. But, you know,

as you get older, and even the greatest scores, you don't have off nights, right? You get a little older, you lose a little bit of athleticism, you know, your shot's not falling tonight, wherever it is. So I got to a point at sometimes where, you know, if I wasn't on, if I wasn't on fire that night, then I just didn't play as much. You know, I wasn't, I wasn't as important or as effective to the team because my shot wasn't on that night. So what I wanted to do for Rommel at the height, you know, that I was, I'm about 6-4, 6-5, Ramele's about 6-6, I said, I wanted him to be able to be the best player on the court without scoring the ball.

And now when he does develop that to scoring as well, then obviously that's a bonus. But I wanted him to be able to be the most important piece on the team, even if his shot wasn't for me. And that's kind of why I kind of developed him into. being that point guard and having that mindset. Now, as he got older, he definitely started to get a little bit more buckets and became naturally a little bit more like me. But he also can play both ways.

Yeah, I was going to make the phone call and tell you to fly to Lincoln, they needed some rebounds late in the game. Yeah, they'll get it together, D.P. That's the first game of the season. They look phenomenal in the first three games. They're, you know, their preseason games in the scrimmage against Colorado. And I just think it just was a little bit of just playing too well early. So just a little bit of a wake-up call.

They're going to get it together. I don't have any doubt in the future looks so bright. Rock, love you, bro. Appreciate you, man. And looking forward to talking to a young man here at 5 o'clock and let the folks get to know him a little bit more too. Appreciate you, brother. Yes, sir.

Thank you. Hope I didn't talk too much. I appreciate Scott having me. No, no. We're going to do this again real soon, partner. That's Ramel Rock Lloyd, Sr. His son, Ramel Jr. signed his letter of intent at the University of Nebraska to play hoops for the Huskers next year.

Looking forward to it. Good man. Great family. Good things are coming to Lake in Nebraska. Toward the break. A little what's up, DP action. When we come back, 937, the ticket. Download our app by searching 93.7.

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