He had a jump shot out of a cannon that sparked the University of South Dakota's best two years in Division I hoops (2016-18), then Texas Tech's run into overtime of the national championship game (2019).

Matt Mooney was a cold-blooded sharpshooting machine in those three years, and he is just as to-the-point and entertaining telling stories about them.

In a one-hour sit down with Happy Hour host John Gaskins from his home in Puerto Rico — his latest stop in a six-year pro career that took him all over the continents of Europe and Australia — Mooney reminisces on his high times — like a couple wins over Mike Daum and South Dakota State — and extracts the pain he felt in the low moments, like the Yotes' heartbreaking losses to SDSU and the Red Raiders' oh-so-close overtime thriller against Virginia for all the March Madness marbles in Minneapolis in his final collegiate game.

Along the way, Mooney weaves in colorful stories about SDSU's Mike Daum and Michael Orris, plus the rock star existence he and his teammates experienced in Lubbock — a fan wanting to buy him a beer made how much from betting on Tech? — and his journeyman career as a pro from the NBA G-League, to NBA call-ups, to Spain and Turkey and Germany and Australia and New Zealand and Puerto Rico, oh my.

Prolific and electric? Yes. Glamorous? Sometimes, but not as much as you'd think. But it has certainly been a journey worth telling, and Mooney tells it well.