Reunion

Long life friends Matt Talerico, Dominic Tripp and Matt Giffune come on the show to relive fun memories of our time playing basketball growing up. Dom and Giffune make their second appearance on the podcast, while Matt Talerico joins to discuss our 1996 JV Basketball Tri Valley League Championship team. We go over our spring break trip to Myrtle Beach in 1994 when I was officially accepted into the group after they had a long discussion and close vote amongst the other members. I was recruited when Dom watched a few of my AAU.... no, excuse me, CYO basketball games and became the missing link to our 1996 squad. The four of us were starters, along with Dan Circelli at shooting guard and legendary coach Art Williams led us on a championship run. We were loaded with Brian Basloe, Mike Leist, Nick Matt, brothers Aaron and Josh Evans. Anibal Abdella, Jason Femia, Dave Bauer and Steve Shaw rounding out a dominant unit. Matt Talerico credits our success to the amazing talent we had. Dom believes coach Art Williams ran an offense geared to put his talent in the best position to succeed. Matt Giffune thinks everyone knew their role and playing together year-round helped us develop into a true team. I felt our toughness set us apart from the rest of the league. Dom, Giffune and Matt thought our work ethic, along with fierce competitiveness truly made the difference. A great episode with hilarious stories from a group who has remained close friends to this day. It was a blast seeing the guys and never a dull moment when we get together!