KJ Live - Jason Crowe Jr.

was good? Everything's good man, you good. I see you all. I turn on my open my Twitter, open my Instagram, and it's J two highlights, J two videos. You're out there doing your thing. Man. It's it's it's a joy to see how you play the game. Man. I've been really impressed with your approach, your maturity out there on the court, and your ability, honestly, man, to just take on whoever is coming at you. How has this first part of the season been for you? It's high school

basketball everything you thought it would be. Uh yeah, it's fun, but it's like a lot of ups and down. Especially uh ween would have wins and losses, but uh, it's been fun so far, especially with coming in with the guys. I've annoyance. It's like a while back, So everything's fun. Yeah, let's talk about a little a little bit about some of those guys. Man. I remember just a few years ago when I was coaching, uh with the Truth the six teams, and you were playing with the youth team.

I used to come to your games. You boogie fresh, you know where old that whole crew. You guys were so live back then. You played with the energy and a focus that was just well beyond your years. How much did your youth basketball experience of that crew playing for your dad and on the circuit in l A. How much did that contribute to your development as a

basketball player? Um? I say a lot because still not to this day, I'm still cool those guys and then you know, now I'm still my dad's still coaching me. So it just brings uh better karterie between embody? Oh absolutely do you now? Do you see? I remember when you guys used to be in the gym, man, and you know you'd be running those steps right behind you with medicine balls. Then you be coming down to a push ups and lifted ways to do it all kind

of stuff. You guys were like ten, eleven, twelve years old. I was thinking myself, dag man, these dudes in a few years are gonna be tough. Do you see now that the fruits of hard work and all of your labor came to freition? You see why you're doing all that stuff? Jack? Oh? Yeah for sure. And now like even how I see the uh the results, I'm trying to still do it more, work out more. I asked them, just like a couple of days ago, if I can get in their gym, so I was like standing in

the gym a lot. Yeah, that's the best batman. The gym rats. Uh, the gym rats are the ones that get it done. You guys have played a pretty tough schedule this season. You've played some really good teams and some high level tournaments around Southern California. What team and or what team or teams and which players have impressed you the most that you've matched up with head to hit um just a recent one Giovanni Russ and Longbias Party. Yeah,

that was a tough match up, very exciting one. I was very uh excited to play in that game, especially five star, you know what I mean, going ahead to head. So that was just a fun experience. Has anybody that you've played given you a hard time out there? Have you played against somebody where you thought to yourself, like, damgn man, this dude it is all up on me. Man, this dude is doing a good job on me. I gotta turn it up an extra level to really get off.

Is there anybody like that for you? Um? Yeah, he went to Oaklad, I don't I don't know his name, but it was his closed number thirty two from Oakwood. Yeah, okay, number thirty two from Oakwood. Yeah. I asked my man, Oland Simplest, who's an assistant coach over there. I asked Big Old about number thirty two, but shouts out to number thirty two. You got some props from j Crow Jr. Man. What made you fall in love with this game of basketball? Just being Ronnie Young? You know, seeing my dad play

this and made me want to do it as well. Yeah. Now, when you're around the game, man, and you're in the gym all the time, there's no doubt that you have to love. When at what point do you feel like during your growing up. Did you say, you know what, I really want to go after this basketball thing, Like I really think that I could do something in it. When did you lock in J two? Probably when I was like seven. That's why I really started like loving it. So the first couple of years it was like I

was doing it to impress me my dad. But after after a while, I was like, I started really loving you. So seven years old, you fell in love with the game. You decided to, Hey, I'm gonna start taking this thing seriously. Was there any players that you were around when you were younger, guys on the truth or college or high school that you saw that influenced you, that may motivated you, that made you want to, you know, keep hooping and

go hard. Uh My guy U C l A. Haimi Hacks Jr. And uh Er right now, Janie Shackford, you need my main two guys I already hang out with getting to motivated the Shame and Jim Oh himI and Shock were or too high level basketball players. Those aren't bad guys to have that you look up to. Um, what about the college other than him and you mentioned

Shackle for the G League? Are there are other college players or NBA players that whose game that you absolutely love and kind of you know, you study or watch film. Really in college, I don't really watch the player. I watched the team because college is more of a team game. I already watched Katie uh, Yoki Yoki, k D and Janna. So those are all sort of guys six eleven that

were in above. Are there any Is there anybody around your height six three six five six seven that you like that you see play John Moran, Steph Curry, Luca, Yeah, Lucas that dude. Man, how about that stuff Luca has been doing men with these easy triple doubles and all the scoring prowess fifty sixty. I mean, it's been unbelievable. I've heard someone make the comparison of you to a guy by the name of Kenny Anderson is a left handed point guard, and and another guy we all know

named Steph Curry. Here a combination of Kitty Edison is Steph Kurry. Where people give you these accolades when they say these kind of lofty expectations or say these crazy things, and compare you to guys that really put it down in the n b A or and above. How does that make you feel how do you handle that type of attention. I try not to think about it too much because they're not just a distraction, but I think, uh, it's still like I like that they're noticing me and

uh putting me next to those guys. No, yeah, that's a big time thing for them to notice you, and I would take it with a lot of pride um that someone really sees that in you. I try to stay away from comparison, especially at this age, because I feel like you have so much more to go. I think you're you're unique and you and you have your own sort of game. I haven't seen a player quite like you that is able to finish through contact. I

wanted to talk to you about that. You seem like when contact comes knocking on your door, you have no problem with it. You actually are welcoming and it seems like it gives you a little up so you you and ones to even the perimeter defense. When guys are bodying you, when you're pushing it up full court, you're still just like, oh, and you play right through it. Where did you get that stripped? Because you're you know, you're you're fourteen years old and to be on the

high school level. Playing this type of strong man game is very unique. Where'd you get your strength? I stayed playing my day in the backyard because he used to always push me around because I'm always younger. He was bigger than me, so like he alway used to push me around, just trying to help me finish the contract. So that's man, I have. I have experiences playing against my dad as well. Man, I played my dad all throughout high school. He never let me beat him. And

my dad was six seven about two forty. He was trying to make a comeback to the NBA, so I was sort of like his workout partner while he was making his comeback. Man, And I'll tell you what what that did for my game. I can't even put into words because when I started playing against regular dudes my age, Oh man, it almost seemed easy. But I won't say easy, but it just didn't see like it was very difficult because I've been playing against a grown man. Have you

been able to beat your dad and once? Yet? Yeah, I beat him before. Oh really, that's not what he said. He doesn't want to play me anymore, so you beat him? So wait, so you wasn't the two point game? Was it by one? I mean, how did what was the score of that game? Because I gotta double check this. We played rounds to seven? Oh that's the three okay, okay, okay? And how did you beat him? Was it all jumper game? Or did you did you try to drive to the

rack this day? Really? Mitties? I had hell all meties because he wouldn't let me, so he went to the middies. Oh that's nice, man, that's nice. Let's flip to school, man, Um. As a student athlete, very important part of this whole process is keeping your grades up, studying your books, taking academic Seriously, what's your favorite subject academically in school? I say algebra? Wow, so you're a math guy. Yeah, everybody a math person, So you know I just picked it up.

Oh so it was a chip off the old block. What is it about algebra that that you like the process of figuring out problems, solutions and stuff like that, or what I might do with numbers because then numbers come to money. So oh that's true. That's true. That's that's a good that's a good skill set to learn. Now, um, when you when we talk about your interests as far as outside of basketball, music, Uh, whether it be entertainment. What what things do you like to do in your downtime.

I know you don't have a lot of downtime now because it's either school, working out or something. But when you have downtime, what does Jason Crow Jr. Like to do? Usually? I like, uh, haying out my my fellow teammates, and then just sometimes just channel with my family, watching TV, watching movie. You know what I mean. Now, that's real cool, man, that's real cool. You sound like you're real chill man and just kind of lock then and waiting for the

next workout. Uh waiting. You know, you're just wait, counting down the hours till you gotta get up and hit the gym again. And that's a good lifestyle to be it. Man, I lived that life too, so I know exactly how that feels. What type of shoes do you w hoop in? Well? I usually poop in the bron twenties Okay, Oh, which Kobe's the shoes? Well, Kobe sixes six Oh yeah, the sixes are the ones. Man. Yeah, with the slept on shoot. I said, it's the data exhibit as the exhibit as

from a data's Huh, Yes, they're comfortable, very comfortable and light. Okay, So for you and like you like feeling light when you're on the court, you like feeling a shoe that is sturdy and light, or you you don't care about the sturdiness. You just need something light on your feet. I need lighting sturdy, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. I to keep it from springing spring in your ankles. Man, how how is the attention, all the attention, I mean from Bleacher Report to the l A times, You've You've

been plastered all over the internet. Everybody's reading about you, talking about you. How do you stay grounded through all this and not let that stuff get to your head? Um? Really, just my parents they teach me how to keep down and stay humble, so they until now with me every day. Yeah, that's probably one of the most important parts, man, to this whole process. I Mean we can say, you know, working out and all that, but staying humble, staying you know,

uniquely grateful for everything that you have every single day. Man, that's gonna be the move. Um, if I was to pull up on y'all before y'all had a game, y'all got two games this week, I know, but if I was to pull up right now, I walk in the locker room. I see you listening on your air pods over there, trying to lock in what song will be playing before a big game. Probably, uh, Slie Belief by NBA Young Boy. Okay, so you're NBA young boy guy.

You like NBA. He's just someone I listened too, really only before games, not really like I like the game. Oh so he's good to turn up and get you hyped. Yeah, what about I had Gravanni rough on here the other day. He said, King Vaughan is what he listens to. You like kings Von too. Yeah, he's solid. It's not that's not your flow though, that's not your flex. Oh that's funny. Um Man, When you think about have you thought about college at all? Is that something that you think about

it at this age? Like what what kind of what goes to your thoughts? Are you just focused on high school basketball or do you start thinking ahead? Um? Kind of both. I think about college sometimes, but really right now, I'm just locking into the high school season right now. Yeah. No, that's that's a good that's a good bet because you

have so much time. But you know, sometimes it's really it's not really too early to are at least just thinking, you know, just establishing, you know, sort of like where you may want, what part of the country you may want to play, and what type of conference, and what type of you know, collegiate atmosphere that she may want to play, and have you thought about any of those things. You don't have to name a specific school. But are you a West Coast dude? Are you? Are you anti

going to the code? You're not messing with the South and the heat? What's up? I really don't care. As long as they gave me an opportunity to uh lead me, I don't care. Man, talk about just quickly shout out how much your mom has meant. I know you know, as basketball players, we always talk about our pop, especially when they hoot, but our moms are really really a big part of our life. Talk about your mom and

just how much she's meant for your basketball and personal development. Oh, she's every game, she makes sure he will, she cook every meal. She almost at every game, trying to support me. She sometimes lotted in the coach. How that? How does that make you feel where you can hear her instead of your coach? I mean a moment, I don't really like it, but like at the end, I'm just thinking for it. Yeah. Absolutely. How is it planning for your dad? Man? Sometimes?

You know, I coached my son, it was it was a tough thing. You know. How has it been playing for your pops in your first high school season? Uh, it's been exciting. Something I've been looking forward to because we've been talking about this for a while. So just fun and it's going out high plan. It was going to what are your goals for the second half of this season for Lynnwood? Uh? Try to win the championship and make a deep playoff run. And how you guys

gonna do that? Where when you look at your team right now, you look at what you guys have accomplished so far, and you know where you gotta get to. What needs to happen for the Lynwood Nights to hang a banner in that gym. Uh just communication on the court. Uh, really just locking on defensive end. Defensively, So is it a team defense or individual defense that you feel like you guys can improve the most? This team defense? Yeah, and we all defensive strength and we gotta do it

as collective. UNI. I'll tell you what Jake. One of the things that you know, you really should, you know, get on guys about is talking. You know, make make your communication defensively like the most important thing that you guys can do, because the more you talk on the court, the better y'all are gonna be. There's no doubt about that. Um Man, that's been Uh, that's that's been some amazing stuff. Man. I I sit and I watched your game, man, and and I just look to see what you're gonna do next.

I mean, you really have showed up and shown out so far this season. It's been a joy to watch you play. And I have no doubt, man, that you're gonna keep this thing going. I appreciate you for stopping by kJ Live. Are there any shout outs that you want to give before I let you go? Just shout out to Lenore High School? And I said, man, Jason Crow Jr. I appreciate you.