Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Iowa United guard Reed Timmer joins the show today to talk about his time at Drake, playing in German Pro A, and his future in pharmacy

Episode Date: June 5, 2019

We are joined by former Drake Bulldog, current European professional basketball player, and guard for the Iowa United in the TBT, Reed Timmer on today's show to talk about life, basketball, and his interest in pharmacy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You are listening to the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast, your daily podcast covering the Iowa Hawkeyes for the Locked On Sports Network, hosted by Andrew Wade, editor at dearoldgold.com. Welcome to the Locked On Hawkeyes podcast. I am your host, Andrew Wade, editor over at dearoldgold.com. We are here with a fantastic episode on this beautiful Wednesday morning. We are giving you an interview of Reid Timmer, the former Drake University men's basketball player currently playing overseas in Europe. He's going to be joining the Iowa United this summer as they play in the basketball tournament,

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I am joined here by former Drake Bulldog and current professional basketball player, Reed Timmer. Timmer is the Bulldogs' career leader in points, and he'll be joining the Iowa United this summer as they play in TBT, the $2 million winner-take-all tournament. As a Drake alum, I'm really excited to have you on the show today, man. How are you doing today? Great, man. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to get ready to play with these guys this summer.

Absolutely. So you are currently training in Wisconsin, is that correct? Yep, I'll be training in Milwaukee at home all summer. Awesome. And when did you get back from Europe? I got back mid-April. Exciting. Is it a bit of adjustment? Yeah, definitely.

It was kind of hard for me the first few months getting into routine and kind of knowing how to adjust over there in terms of the game, just life in general, getting used to the people over there. But once I got used to that, once I got used to the team and our game schedule and all that, I really started to enjoy it. Absolutely. Did you have anyone over there with you or were you by yourself? It was just me.

Awesome. And did you talk to Josh Young at all before you came out there or were you in contact with him at all i know he's been playing in um the german a league as well for a while yeah no josh was huge for me it was uh talked to him before i went out there and talked to him in the whole signing process and he talked about his time in germany obviously he's been there forever and he's loved it so that was a huge kind of uh piece for me knowing that he was so comfortable over there and he like talked to me about the league and all the teams and you know basically just the whole country as a whole and i really uh you know took his advice and i ended up

loving it absolutely so what was your favorite part of germany i think just the people and the culture uh the basketball obviously was great. They really seemed to enjoy basketball. Soccer is obviously the number one sport, but we would have a lot of people come to our games in our gym, and pretty much every team in the league would have a lot of people in the gym. Great atmosphere, but the people were really nice to me. Everyone spoke English, made me feel at home. The food was great. I mean, everywhere I go, there's stuff to do.

In the downtime, everywhere I go, there's stuff to do. And in the downtime, I could go travel. It just the whole experience was as a whole was really nice. So I could get away from basketball when I needed to. And then when I needed to buckle down and get to work, I did and had a great time doing that as well. Definitely. And I don't know if you thought this, but I'm from Iowa originally and going to Germany, it felt like I was literally going to the same state, but in a different country. And, you know, with the meat and the potato type of meals, obviously the impact of beer on the culture and stuff. Did you feel that same way, obviously, being from Wisconsin?

Yeah, definitely. My town is actually, I'm from New Berlin, so it's kind of funny, you know, going over there and seeing, like, the similarities and the types of culture that they have over there. The country as a whole is really Americanized, too. It's got a lot of similarities in terms of government and the way things are run and stuff. So it was really an easy transition for me. It kind of felt like home, like I said, once I got in routine. And I enjoyed it pretty much the whole rest of the time.

Definitely. And, dude, you had a great season this year. You shot 46% from three, 50% from the field, and you were averaging around four rebounds a game and three assists per game. And I just saw, correct me if I'm wrong, but you were also named the newcomer of the year. Is that correct? Yep. That's awesome, man.

Tell me a little bit about that. I mean, obviously the adjustment was a lot, but playing in Europe versus playing in the United States, it seemed like you made that professional adjustment pretty quickly. Yeah, it helped definitely. When I was playing in college, I had school to balance in. I was a high academic guy, so I really took time out of my day to really focus on studying. But once I turned professional and was over there, it was just basketball. So I was able to spend a lot more time in the gym spend a lot more time working on my game and you know the first two months it was an adjustment in

terms of learning the different way the games played different ways the refs call the game just the the shorter shot clock just the way the pace of the game and how strong the guys are over there a lot of everyone's really smart so once I got that down and once my teammates really helped me put getting a role on the team it really helped me to just my game to just flourish and I actually played really well and was really happy yeah man I was impressed I was doing some research obviously before the call and I know how well you did at Drake but looking at your European stats I mean you made a significant improvement on some already pretty good stats. As far as obviously, you know, being in Germany, that was awesome. And you talked about being, you know, focusing on your academics while you were at Drake. You were studying pharmacy,

is that correct? Right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think that in itself is pretty impressive. I have a lot of pharmacy friends, and they were struggling just to do the academic piece of it. I can only imagine having to do that and basketball. Do you have any intentions of pharmacy friends, and they were struggling just to do the academic piece of it. I can only imagine having to do that and basketball. Do you have any intentions of going back to finish your two years remaining at Drake? Yeah, so I talk to the school pretty much year in and year out, just keeping in contact with my advisors and stuff. And basically it's a year-to-year basis thing. So last year I requested a year of absence, and a lot of kids do that for various reasons,

whether that be health or financial reasons or whatever. So last year I did that, and then I met with my advisor again just a few weeks ago and said I'll be able to do the same thing, but just I'll have to take some online classes through maybe some different universities to prove to the school and the committee that, you know, I'm still keeping up with my schoolwork and still have intentions of coming back. Whenever that may be, I don't know. But it's just nice to have that kind of backup plan in case, you know, something were to happen or anything like that. So I have a lot of downtime over there too, so it's not like it'll be too stressful. I think I can take a few classes in my downtime

and just kind of get away from basketball when I need to. So I'm planning on doing that. Yeah, I mean, your case is pretty rare. I can't imagine a lot of people were playing basketball and also studying to become a doctor in pharmacy. And that's also a pretty nice backup plan for you as well. So nice to have that on your play. I'm glad that Drake is working with you on that as well. But pretty interesting scenario, definitely.

Yeah, for sure. I mean, I definitely enjoyed that part of my life too. And I, I enjoy pharmacy, so I can tend to do whatever I can to keep that going. For sure, man. And so when you were coming into college, how highly were you recruited? Obviously going to Drake, but you're also in kind of Wisconsin's backyard. Did you hear anything from Wisconsin before you made your decision to go to Drake? Yeah. So a lot of high school, I had. I had a decent amount of offers around 20, but they were all mid-majors. No high majors ever really looked at me. I mean, I think I had my final three down

to like Ohio, Toledo, and Drake. So I chose Drake for the academic side, the coaches side, and kind of distance from home, the university as a whole as well. But I really ended up liking my decision and stuck with it all four years. Definitely. Well, we are glad you came to Drake. Obviously, being the career leader in scoring, that's kind of a big deal. Is that something that you always had on your mind? Or is that something that kind of came to your realization later on in your senior year that you could possibly

you know break that record yeah I mean it kind of the record thing kind of popped up more on the senior year line because each year you know we we went through three coaches so yeah each year was kind of for us and for me just to define my role and to find my fit in the offense kind of each year kind of changed here and there and do whatever we can to be a successful team. And, you know, each year was kind of tough, whether that be due to transfers, different coaches, different styles. So it was kind of a hard adjustment for me

and some of the other seniors I was with that stuck all four years. But kind of down the senior year line, I kind of just, if my, the way the season was going and I kept playing the way I was playing, I was going to break it at some point. So it was kind of cool to do that and then to obviously finish off my senior year with that core group of seniors that stuck with me through all the coaching changes. Yeah, I can only imagine how difficult that was. I actually asked Nick yesterday when I was talking to him about the coaching changes and how difficult that was. I actually asked Nick yesterday when I was talking to him about, you know, the coaching changes and how difficult that was. And he only spoke glowingly about everyone, which I couldn't tell if that was just a PC response or, you know, his true feelings. But what were your thoughts on having so many coaching changes? And were there any coaches

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uh playing for coach jack lay recruited me obviously so that was big for me had fun playing under him and then coach rutt uh was the interim coach and um his son aj was my roommate so i'm really close to that family really close to him still talk to him a lot and then obviously coach uh nico last year or uh with me in my senior year was I did a good job with us too and ended up going to Colorado State so they're all they're all really good guys they all um I'm still close with talk to them and they can help me in any way and I was glad to spend time with all of them I love man I I was hoping to get something at least a little

bit juicier from you and Nick but uh I can respect that. I mean, being a Drake alum, obviously you see the coaches leave or you see kind of the struggles and whatnot, and it's easy to place blame on some of those coaches. And I know if we get back into a decade ago and talk about some of those coaches, I think there's a lot of differing opinions. So just curious on that, but definitely glad to hear that. Obviously you had that great relationship with them

and still talk to them today. That's really awesome. Yeah, definitely. I mean, those guys helped me through my whole college career and got me to talk to them today. That's really awesome. Yeah, definitely. Those guys helped me through my whole college career and got me to where I am today and I couldn't be happier for them and for helping me do that. For sure, man. Well, so you are going to be playing

on the Iowa United this summer. As far as the basketball tournament, is that something that you are familiar with or you were familiar with prior to being reached out to by Matt? Yeah, I've watched it every summer too and I thought when it first started it was a pretty cool idea. Then, you know, as my career kind of developed and developed, I thought it would be a really cool opportunity to, one,

it's right before, you know, the overseas season starts, so it would be a good opportunity to kind of get back in shape, see where you are, play with other really, really talented guys, and then obviously use that as exposure to kind of help you in your career and advance you in your career in terms of your playing. So I thought it was a great opportunity. Definitely. You talk about exposure and having a great season in Germany.

Have you been getting any other offers or talking to anyone else about potentially moving up or kind of what, I guess, talk me through kind of what your career goals are for playing professional basketball then. Because, I mean, you just had a fantastic season. Yeah, definitely. My agent has been hard at work in trying to find me teams too. And I've been talking to two or three teams already. But still in terms of signing period, it's still pretty early.

A lot of teams are still either in playoffs or still kind of playing in their season so I'm kind of waiting probably thinking maybe in June to kind of start getting more serious and seeing what teams really want me talking to their coaches but you know using the game film from last year trying to move up and trying to get, you know, better basketball, better league hopefully, and see, you know, see whatever situation pops up and having it be right for me. It just depends on country, city, coach, and role on the team.

So it all has something to do with it, and I think that's going to come and I'll know hopefully by sometime in June. Yeah, man, lots of variables to consider there. And obviously each of those variables has a big impact on your career. So I can definitely appreciate and understand that. So, man, as far as, you know, kind of the next steps with the Iowa United, what is going to be the training for you as far as getting to play with some of those guys? When are you planning on meeting up with them? Are you going to be going down to Des Moines and playing in the Cap City League or what

is your plan there yeah so right now I've just been training Milwaukee with some other pros that are down here kind of lifting and then playing basketball and shooting like twice three times a day and then Josh and I when he gets back we usually go down train with some of the Drake guys and are in Des Moines around Des Mo Moines, playing with them for a few weeks, maybe work some camps or something. But he's still over there. He'll come back maybe end of May, start of June. So talking with him, see what that takes me.

But I think we're going to do kind of a mini camp in July, too, with everyone on the Iowa United team. So we'll see. But the main thing is just to stay ready keep training and do what I do for sure man and so a lot of people probably listening to this podcast and this is one of the big reasons why I wanted to get you on the show and Nick among other people a lot of people probably listening to the show are trying to figure out you know who are you Reed Timmer so as a basketball player what do you bring to the

Iowa United kind of what does your game entail? My game, obviously, I think is shooting. I'm a 6'1 guard, so I kind of have to be able to shoot, spread the floor, pass the ball as well, help the team any way I can, just try and win, whether that be scoring, shooting, passing, or even on the defensive end, just trying to play stronger defense defense continue to work on that and I think you know for the Iowa United team we all have we're all pros we all have a really good skill set so I think just trying to be a good teammate is huge too because we're going to be thrown together on this team you know with guys we haven't really played together with so I think the teams that are going to be successful are teams that gel together,

teams that, you know, want to play for each other and not just one-on-one pro ball. And I think I can bring to the table just a guy that can get along with everybody, be a good teammate, spread the floor, shoot it, and defend when I need to and pass the ball when I need to. Absolutely. When I look at the team, I do agree, though, that it's a great collection of players, and I feel like it matches exactly what you think is going to be the best recipe for success in the basketball tournament. You have great shooters, you have team basketball players, a lot of guys who are

willing to spread the ball around and make the smart basketball play as opposed to the best basketball play for their own personal gain. So definitely excited to watch that kind of unfold over the course of this summer. You've you played with josh or you at least know josh and you kind of play with him and you know training and whatnot you know nick very well outside of those two guys though who are you most excited about playing with on the iowa united um i i mean i don't think i have one specific i've played with uh peter a little bit i played against west and nicholas bear so i mean i think it's just learning from all those guys too is my number one thing too

because they've all been pros longer than I have, maybe except for Nick. Just learning from those guys, what I can take away from their training, from their games just to help me and being around other pros is going to help me in my first game. I'd say just that aspect of being around other pros

on another team and just learning from them. For sure. And real quick on the Nicholas Bayer subject. So when I talked to Nick yesterday, he mentioned that Nicholas was one of those guys who you love to have on your team and you hate to have against you. Is that kind of how you feel about him?

Yeah, absolutely. When we scouted him, we played him at Iowa. That was exactly what was on the scouting report. Just a guy that does everything that it may not pop up on the stat sheet a lot but he does everything all the intangibles rebounding defend pass ball needs to knock down open shots just all the things that you love in a teammate but just kind of bite you in your butt sometimes when you're playing them so I'm excited to just to play with him and have that aspect on our team yeah he's very

deceptive actually I was talking to Matt Tybee as well and it's just been a kind of a common theme as I talk to everyone that I think they're mostly they're kind of excited to play with Nicholas Bayer and not against him which I think speaks volumes to his himself as a player yeah absolutely I agree with all of them too cool man well I only have a few more questions for you just some personal stuff to get to know you, obviously for the people who are going to be listening to this show. First question for you, is favorite place to eat on campus or favorite bar to go to at Drake?

Obviously, I know there's not a ton of options available for either. So if you had to pick one spot to go to, where would it be? Favorite place to eat, I would say fong's pizza and they just actually opened one right after they left of course on campus so oh they did i missed on that yeah there was always just the one downtown that everyone would go to kind of after the bars but they just moved one right next to peggy so that's kind of cool oh that's smart that's good business right there yeah absolutely um bars i don't know just anywhere in cordell there's we usually whenever we go down there it's just kind of bouncing around and seeing where everybody is

so that whole area is pretty much where i like to go for sure man that that downtown area is getting a lot nicer it's been getting better ever since i left so that's super fun to see the uh favorite superhero i know obviously avengers endgame just came out um and in talking to Tyvee, he's very big into supervillains. So I felt like this was a question I just had to ask to everyone now. Do you have a favorite superhero or a supervillain? Superhero. I don't know. I've always really liked the Iron Man films just because it kind of isn't too far-fetched.

You know, it's kind of actually. It seems realistic, right? Yeah, it seems enough realistic where you can kind of get behind it. So I would have to say Iron Man. I love it, man. And favorite pump-up song? When you're getting ready for your games in Germany, what are you listening to on your iPod or, well, that seems old,

your iPhone, whatever it may be? I would say just right now, if I would have a game tomorrow, I would probably listen to anything future. I'm not sure what specific song in general, but I would just listen to anything by future, and that'll get me ready. Awesome, man. And what was your favorite memory at Drake? It doesn't have to be basketball, but what was your favorite memory in general?

Favorite memory, I think, and I don't think it was one specific memory, but any road wins. Anytime we'd go on the road win and then have a bus ride back I think was really special because obviously early on we weren't we didn't get many of those so it was kind of special and then as we kind of got older and older we would get more and more so I I learned how much effort and how much you know grit it took to win on the road and then once we we got older and it started to happen more, I would really appreciate our team for doing it.

And it was just a really fun time, you know, in the locker room and the trip back to just go get a win on the road. So I'd say road wins. Absolutely, man. So I never played, obviously, collegiate sports, played high school sports and whatnot. Road wins were not as impressive then. Can you tell me a little bit about what makes it so difficult to go on the road?

Is it just the the road is it just the crowd or is it just being in an unfamiliar place is it having a kind of a different schedule than you're used to what is what makes it so difficult and this could be you know in Germany or you know back in the states no right yeah it's just like everything you said like they have a whole fan section behind them their gym they've played in their whole career so they're really familiar with the rims with the balls with all their spots they've played it's pretty much their a lot of teams practice in their game arena so it's like they know that really well you're in you're sleeping in a hotel bed your routine isn't what it is when you're at home you're kind of thrown off you don't get as

much necessarily warm-up time because you get there maybe only out hour and a half two hours before the game and everyone gets there at the same time, whereas at home you can kind of plan out your warm-up maybe by yourself or with a few coaches or a few teammates. So all these factors come into play, and you're kind of thrown into the mud really soon, and you have only a few days to prepare in the middle of conference season, especially against conference teams. You play twice a year so it's really it's really tough to go into uh an away team or a way an away game and try and get that win when they've you know they need that valuable

win and you're kind of fighting for it so just all those factors come into play and it's really really good for your team if you can come out and get one absolutely and last question for you what do you like most about the basketball tournament format you know obviously it's really, really good for your team if you can come out and get one. Absolutely. And last question for you. What do you like most about the basketball tournament format? You know, obviously it's a single elimination, winner takes all. Do you like that type of format or do you prefer something else? I think I like that format. I like the way the games end too instead of, you know, just the time running out. Yeah.

The special ending, which is kind of cool. Yeah, what's that called again? I can't remember the name. Eberlein ending or something like that? Yeah, it's like that eight-point thing. I read about that. So, yeah, it's kind of cool that they do that. It puts a different spin on it

and I think makes the games go a little bit faster. But it'll be a cool thing to play in. I think the way it's structured with all the really good teams in there, it's an easy way to figure out who's the best team. Absolutely, man. Well, thank you for jumping on the show. Obviously, I appreciate you joining us on the Locked on Hawkeyes podcast. Do you have anything else you want to say to anyone who is listening to this

about your time at the Iowa United or anything that you feel like you wanted to cover? Yeah, no, I don't think there's anything. Just a thank you to all the people that support us and are looking forward to watching us play. I think everyone's really excited to get together and see what this team can do. Definitely, man.

Well, thank you, Reed, for jumping on the show. Enjoy your training. We're excited to watch you play on the Iowa United this summer, and I'm sure I'll be talking to you later this summer as well. Yeah, appreciate it, man. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Have a good day.

Yeah, you too. Bye. All right having me. Absolutely. Have a good day. Yeah, you too. Bye. All right, and that concludes our podcast for today. A special shout-out to Reed Timmer again for joining the show and talking to us about playing for the Drake University Bulldogs, playing for the Iowa United, and what it's like playing overseas currently in Europe, and kind of what he's working on now.

He had a fantastic first season over in Europe, and there's a lot of big things happening for him. So I'm really excited to watch him play in the basketball tournament, the $2 million winner-take-all tournament this summer. So stay tuned for that. We have some great guests coming on again over the coming weeks. We have Jeff Horner, former Iowa basketball player

and current head coach of the Iowa United. He's going to be joining the show in the next week or so, and if you haven't listened to some of our old podcasts, we've had some great guests on in the past couple months. Again, Kevonte Martin-Manley, the all-time receptions leader in Iowa Hawkeyes history. Drew Tate, the 2005 Capital One Bowl MVP. And Ricky Stanzi, three-time bowl winner for the Iowa Hawkeyes and former NFL player.

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