1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Rock Lloyd tells us about his son: June 22nd, 10:25am

Episode Date: June 22, 2022

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Twitter Live. You know, it's happening for us. are reaching out with that and it's greatly appreciated. I am sitting with the Rock Lloyd. There's Ramel Jr., but rock. Rock Lloyd, listen, it means so much to me that you, what you've done with your family is so impressive to me and it's purposeful.

Like people use catchphrases and that sort of thing, team this, team that. But Team, Lord, is legit. Yeah. Appreciate that. Right? Like, because it could go, we know a whole bunch of dudes who played in the league around the league who didn't get it right.

Right. And you have to be proud of your young man. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Let the folks know. Who is Ramel Jr.? Who is he? Well, you know, for our family, especially, you know, I have two older, two older girls, my daughters, and Ramel is the baby sent to the family, right?

So he's 18 now, and he's the youngest one. And obviously, you know, my middle daughter played basketball as well. She played four years at Long Beach, Long Beach Pollyne. And then Ramele came along, you know, didn't necessarily make, make. my kids play basketball or anything, right? You know, you remember Ramel? He would just be around. Ball boy.

Yeah, right. So, you know, he just, I was playing still, and I was fortunate enough to still be playing while he was still young. Yeah. And, you know, he was just running around and being a nuisance to people and bothering people, gruffing the games, you know, telling people what to do, grown men playing. And, you know, and he eventually himself developed a love for the game,

which is how it's supposed to happen in a natural way. know. So he's definitely a pride and joy of not only myself, but my family. He's able to, you know, my family was obviously, I had my kids young, so they were all around like during my playing days, my college days, and my pro days. So our family basically was raised around basketball. You know, it's a big part of who we are as a family. My mom been in in the gym with me for years and now she's continuing that legacy going on with, you know, with Ramel, her grandson. And it just means a lot to us, you know, to see him finally get to this level.

I mean, everything that we have been through or he's been through, we have been through together as a family. There's a lot of ups, there's a lot of downs. The process is very hard. It's not easy. He's been through a lot as a player and a person. You know, it's hard enough in these days. just growing up at being a normal teenager, right, trying to figure out who you are and trying

to figure out what you want to be and dealing with different things in the community. To add the pressures of, you know, being a basketball player in this day and age, especially with social media and Internet. And then, of course, he was at a very high-profile high school where, you know, you have to grow in the public eye per se, you know, with social media. So you don't get a chance to have a really bad game or have a really bad episode or something where it's just a growing pain normally, but it's not because it's exaggerated by everybody's seeing it, right?

Well, I mean, he had the most high-profile team that he could have. Yeah, most definitely. Right, so he couldn't be anonymous. He was constantly measured by the other names. Yeah, absolutely. You know, hand playing at the school was, it's a blessing as well, you know, because there's pros and cons to everything, right? So I'll speak, I'll speak of the pros.

First of all, the talent on the team was not your normal high school basketball team, right? Everyone, we probably have about eight to nine division one players on that team, you know, all Americans, top 100 guys, top 50, whatever, right? on the same team. So the dynamics of what practice would be like every day is not your normal high school. So that prepares you for coming into a college level where, you know, everybody, most people in college were high profile high school players as well, right? But most of them probably came from high school where they had one or two guys maybe on the team, right? Sometimes one or two guys in the whole league that are the visual. Ramel would have been the guy at every other school in the

country. Right. I mean, yeah, for sure. And at the school that he was at, you know, it's like not necessarily a guy. Like, it's just a given night, right? A given night, it could have been anyone, you know. And the media tracked it, right? When you've got, when you've got little LeBron in the building,

it doesn't, the rest of the players have to find their place pretty steadily and comfortable. Right. What a thing is this, you have to build confidence. within yourself and you have to focus on the basketball, right? Because there's two different worlds in basketball now in high school basketball. It's not just about your performance, right? These guys are brand building. They have internet hype and so on and so forth.

So what you do on the basketball court doesn't always give you the same accolades as your popularity. There's a thing. There's basketball and skill set versus popularity. and the best of them find a way to combine both of them to almost build a player or build a brand. He has, but he has a dad who is not new to it. Like, you're deeply connected. And your reputation carries some volume too, right?

So even in that space, he can bump a nudge and say, look, wait a minute, my legacy says I belong here too. I think a huge advantage for your son is that as he comes to Nebraska and the media cover he's going to get here is unlike any other program in the country, even programs that win at a high volume, the coverage is high. And the exposure is high. But he's not going to be stunned by any of this.

That's another pro of what he's been through. You know, he's been, I mean, first of all, we're in L.A., right? And, you know, at our games, you have, at his games, he's had high-profile people there all the time. Right, court side, you know. who he's played in, he's played in numerous NBA arenas, you know,

throughout the, throughout the country and high profile games on ESPN. So I don't necessarily think, like, you know, going to Michigan or Michigan State is playing in front of that,

you know, that shell shock of being a freshman playing in front of that kind of crowd. Yeah. Which, which mostly everyone goes through. Right. Right.

Because it's just an adjustment. I think it would make the adjustment a little bit easier because he's played in, he's played at the, the Staples Center or whatever they call it, what they call it now? Yeah, but he's, crypto.com.

I'm sorry. Right, right, but they won, I mean, but he won, but he won, with LeBron in the building watching his son, he won the MVP trophies. Right, right. And that's, that was always our goal to just focus on the basketball. You know, Ramele's won MVP, A, he's won an MVP in the Iona Classic. He was all, all tournament and pro bass. and, you know, quietly he's had one of the best years.

You know, even his numbers and stats don't reflect it because of the team, but he's had one of the best years. He's humble. He's been through a lot. Right? To be humble, so he. Plus, you know, he had to come home to you. So that, you know, a lot of the nonsense gets removed at the door.

Yeah. Well, you know, Ramele's naturally a humble person. and a good kid, you know, in today's age and the competitiveness of what basketball is now, you know, I push him to have the confidence, the utmost confidence in himself. You know, humble is great off the court, but you got to leave that humble stuff off the court. You got to be able to compete at this level with so many talented players. And, you know, we want to push and leave it humble. for talking.

Break him down for the listeners that don't know who Ramel Lloyd Jr. is as a basketball player. What does he bring to the University of Nebraska that they can look forward to? One of the first things I can say is that Ramel's always been a winner, you know, first of all. You know, I believe that the things that he does well on the court directly translate to winning. Right? There's a lot of kids out there that are very, very talented. And you see their stats, you see their highlights, you see things of those nature.

And that doesn't always translate to winning, right? Because in today's society of basketball, building a play and a brand, they don't have to win anymore. Correct. Right? So kids are losing games, and it doesn't matter because their highlights is going to be up there because of their popularity or their ranking or whatever the case may be. So kids are being taught now and that winning is almost not important.

So what I always said, you know, what I always felt about Ramel is that when I watch his highlights or I watch his his games and his stats, those highlights are not really highlights. It's just who he is. That's just how he plays. It's not the exception. That's the rule.

That's just how he plays from what I see. You know, he makes the right plays. He doesn't do anything crazy. I see a lot of other kids. Like, I've been at some games, and I've watched games, and I was like, wow, that wasn't a very good game for the young fella tonight. But then I go back on Twitter or YouTube or something, and I see the highlights, and it looks like they have like, wow, it's a phenomenal game. Right. And I was at the game, right?

So, Ramele, I don't necessarily see those plays. I think he plays the way, you know, what you see is what you get. Define him as a shooter. He's a very good shooter. I mean, shooting was a big deal. And for me, you know, I was a pretty good shooting myself. And we wanted, you know, shooting in today's game, you absolutely just can't play if you can't shoot the ball.

Especially with that length, that size, him being able to extend with the ball in his hands, describe him as a playmaker? He's a very high IQ guy, you know, especially for a young guy. Like I say, he tries to make the right play. I always taught him, I mean, I was his training and his coach pretty much for most of his life. So I was able to influence, you know, him to always try to make the right play no matter what. Like, even when he was younger, because sometimes kids get, you know, they're more talented, they're a little bigger, they're a little stronger, and they start playing the wrong way because they're able to take advantage of that.

So I never let him take advantage of just not playing against competition. Like, I always want him to play the right way, right? He always was a point guard He always like when he was young He was probably like the tallest All the court all the time But I made him play point guard Because I knew at some point

He wasn't gonna be seven feet Right, I knew that I'm 6'5 Right So I always made him play the right way I always made him pull up When he needed to pull up You know I didn't just let him bully ball

stuff all the time Because he was bigger and stronger So his game reflected that over the year So he can shoot the three from distance He can shoot the pull up he can make the right pass and make read, the right read, things of that nature. So we always try to emphasize that in his game. Defensively, what does he bring at it with that sort of length?

Defensively, just as offensively, he's very versatile. You know, he can guard smaller point guards and, you know, keep him at bay at least with his length and size. And he can, you know, guard wings as well. I mean, last year at school, he probably guarded the best player on every team. Say that again, because I think that gets lost in the mix. Yeah, I don't think people see that or realize that as much, but last year he got it the best player on every team that we played against. And he was still able to do what he did on offense.

From your advantage, I think that he's going to help them on the board as well. I hope so. I would like to see him rebound a little more. I think it's a focal point. I think he has to focus on going down there and doing it, because rebounding is more of a mindset, I think. He has the physical tools to do it, but it's more of a mindset,

especially this year's team just from early on looking, you know, they have a good size this year. So sometimes you tend to as a guard when you have, you know, big guys that can rebound, you start to creep out of it and let them do that thing. But I'm pretty sure Fred, from what I'm hearing, I think he's encouraging his guards because they are big guards to go rebound as well.

You got to have eyes. on Fred and the team working together. What did you notice? I didn't see too much of a team workout. From what I saw yesterday, it was just like three-on individual skill set and things of that nature. So I haven't seen that dynamics of the whole team.

And it's still summertime, so it's very, very early. I mean, he has a lot of new guys on the team, so I'm pretty sure they're just moving, trying to put their system in right now. but I'll get to see a little more maybe hopefully this week before I leave. It's going to be impressive to kind of travel through this.

We'll toward the break and come back and close out one-on-one, but I do want to ask Rock, one, what his plans are for Lincoln? Like how often are we going to see him? Because if you're coming on a regular base, I'm going to put him to work. 101.

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