GatorCountry brings you a new Florida Gators podcast as we discuss the latest Florida Gators basketball news.
Andrew Spivey and Nick de la Torre talk with Eric Fawcett about the news of Andrew Nembhard and Tre Mann declaring for the NBA draft on Sunday.
Andrew and Nick also talk with Eric about the recent additions to the Gators team and what the outlook for the 2020-21 team looks like now.
TRANSCRIPT:
Andrew:                 What’s up, Gator Country? Your man, Andrew Spivey, here with Nicholas de la Torre. Nicholas, going to bring Eric back on, and before I bring Eric on, I’m going to pick on him real quick. He was wrong with Nembhard, just like he said he was going to be. We’re going to have to give him a hard time about that. Have to let him know you have to, what’s the word I’m looking for? If you want him to come back, you have to say he’s going to leave. I’m drawing a blank, Nick.
Nick:                         I guess he’s 0 for 3. He definitely got the Castleton transfer correct, but in terms of Florida’s guys, 0 for 3. I mean, does he get points for saying he was going to be wrong?
Andrew:                 Yeah. He gets points. I think most people here were probably, nobody knew the Scottie Lewis news. I think after that, everyone was probably 1 for 2, maybe. I think everyone predicted Nembhard was going to come back, and now he’s gone. We’ll see. He may not be gone, gone, but we’ll see. We’re going to talk with Eric about that.
Nick:                         It’s kind of the same thing. I don’t understand doing it this year. Last year you had the Combine, and you had all these workouts you could do. You can’t really do any of that right now, so I don’t understand. I guess I don’t understand what the process will look like this year. Last year and years past, you know exactly what that process of testing the waters is. You have no idea what that is, or if it even is a thing this year. I guess you can Zoom coaches, like FaceTime them. I don’t know.
Andrew:                 My whole thing is this. We’re going to talk more with Eric about this here in a second, but I wonder if Nembhard just says, I’m going to go here. Tried it last year. I didn’t exactly improve my stock, so I might as well go ahead. My biggest thing is Tre Mann, Nick. A guy who I thought really came on at the end of the year. He was a guy that needed some more film on there, on tape, and he needed the Combine, in my opinion. I want to ask Eric if that was more of him just wanting to move on from the program in general or what it was. That’ll be a question for Eric here in a minute.
Nick:                         It’ll be interesting to see what he thinks will end up happening with Tre Mann and Andrew Nembhard, and then try to figure out what this 2021 roster, that sounds weird to say, this 2021 roster will start to look like.
Andrew:                 We’ll see. Does it even start on time? You got to say it, right?
Nick:                         Doesn’t mean I want to hear it.
Andrew:                 Let’s get football. After we talk with Eric, we’ll come back. Dan Mullen had a Zoom meeting. That’s the new thing for 2020. Didn’t think you’d ever have that, Nick. Did you?
Nick:                         No. I mean, maybe I don’t have to leave the house ever. We can have a whole football season on Zoom.
Andrew:                 Monday press conferences with Dan Mullen, live on Zoom.
Nick:                         We were trying to get him every other week now, until quarantine’s over. We threw it out there.
Andrew:                 Instead of being sponsored by Gatorade, it’ll just be sponsored by Zoom. Let’s go to Eric. Let’s talk with him. We’ll get his thoughts on all this. You and I will come back. We’ll break down what Dan Mullen had to say. We’ll get everybody going. Let’s go to Eric.
Guys, we’re back. Back with our man Eric here. Eric,