Speaker 1: The volume. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show with my brother BD. How you feeling, my dog,
Speaker 1: Damn good man. It's the end of the year. It's
Speaker 1: the end of the season. The birthday is always the
Speaker 1: last day of the year. So you know, it's serendipitous
Speaker 1: because you're dead tired. But if you can.
Speaker 2: Get over the hump, it's party time. How you feeling,
Speaker 2: big dog. I'm feeling great, bro. You know, we got
Speaker 2: this last game. We obviously need to win this game,
Speaker 2: and like you said, then once you get to the playoffs,
Speaker 2: you kind of find a new boost the energy.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a reset. And nowadays you get
Speaker 1: a week off. That's crazy if you clinch top six,
Speaker 1: so kind of get that new boost. You got a
Speaker 1: couple of ailments, let them heal a bit and kind
Speaker 1: of get back to it. But I feel great, man.
Speaker 1: We got an opportunity to control our own destiny, win
Speaker 1: on Sunday and get into the playoffs, and so I
Speaker 1: feel great about it. Still pissed off we smoked that
Speaker 1: game against San Antonio, Yeah, but nonetheless we got a chance.
Speaker 2: It's always one of them games you're like, damn dude.
Speaker 2: You just now that's gonna hurt, and it get down
Speaker 2: to the end of the season, be like, man, we
Speaker 2: could have we could have had this this thing wrapped.
Speaker 1: Up, wrapped up all been chilling tomorrow. It's crazy, man.
Speaker 1: I look at some games in the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: like that one in the Miami game Atlantic game.
Speaker 2: You start, he's starting it picking. I mean, but that's
Speaker 2: that's the beauty of the game. It's almost like it's
Speaker 2: all set up that way. Right at the end of
Speaker 2: the day. You gotta earn your worth in and you
Speaker 2: gotta earn your ticket in and some little losses.
Speaker 1: Or you know, it's like, ah, we'll be all right.
Speaker 2: It's like, damn, dude, if we would have had one
Speaker 2: of that one.
Speaker 1: Just one another thing I like is the week off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the top six seeds, being able to rest,
Speaker 2: get your body right, watch your you know, watch your opponents.
Speaker 1: But you think about four and five.
Speaker 2: They get a whole week to prepare for it for
Speaker 2: what they know is gonna crack in three and six, right.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, three and six and four and five. I always
Speaker 1: felt like one in two and you're kind of at
Speaker 1: a disadvantage because if you're the one seed. You're literally
Speaker 1: at the biggest disadvantage because you don't know who you
Speaker 1: play until two days before you play them. If you're
Speaker 1: the seventh seed, you've been sitting on your opponent for
Speaker 1: four days. If you're the three through six, you've been
Speaker 1: on your opponent for six seven days.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: And so I've always felt like number one was at
Speaker 1: a disadvantage anyway, like the biggest disadvantage, which is crazy.
Speaker 1: When you think about a playoff series b D. You
Speaker 1: figure games one and two is usually call it within
Speaker 1: three to five days, like from the end of game one,
Speaker 1: in the game two. Somewhere in there, you start getting
Speaker 1: to the seventh day mark, you're like on game four.
Speaker 1: And if you think about how much you know a
Speaker 1: team after game four, but that's after now seven days
Speaker 1: of studying this team. If you're three through six, you
Speaker 1: essentially in game four in game one from a studying standpoint,
Speaker 1: from a scouting standpoint, I think that that's an extreme
Speaker 1: disc I mean advantage for three through six and disadvantage
Speaker 1: for one to two. Since the playing tournament, although I
Speaker 1: think it's been great, I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: downsides of it. And on top of that, you know,
Speaker 1: you you're the one seed, you got home court advantage.
Speaker 2: You sit there, you're like, man, it's kind of like
Speaker 2: it don't even matter. And if you catch the wrong
Speaker 2: team at the wrong time, that got the right momentum.
Speaker 2: You know, I think that's how we got Dallas. You know,
Speaker 2: you're starting to see it more often now, like Miami
Speaker 2: did it a couple of times where it just you
Speaker 2: catch a wave. You catch a wave, and so on
Speaker 2: the lower seed you don't even care. You're fighting for
Speaker 2: your life. So you got you got rhythm, you got
Speaker 2: playoff atmosphere under your belt. You're almost more prepared than
Speaker 2: a week of practice or the two days that they
Speaker 2: need to prepare for you.
Speaker 1: Right, that's the fact they coming.
Speaker 2: Off of two games or maybe it's three games. It
Speaker 2: could be, yeah, it's two games, play auth intensity. Right,
Speaker 2: it's not the one seed, but they played y'all during
Speaker 2: the season anyway, So now they're.
Speaker 1: Ready and in the West that a seed this year
Speaker 1: can be real like that a seed this year and
Speaker 1: be a team that is gonna give okay See some
Speaker 1: trouble because it's a really good team. And you know,
Speaker 1: okay See is really good. But I'm just saying like
Speaker 1: it won't be your typical one to eight where you're going,
Speaker 1: and you just kind of like, oh yeah, we know
Speaker 1: that this one's washed and it'll be a tough, tough series.
Speaker 1: And so I think that can get interesting. People always
Speaker 1: talk about the you know, the rest, you know, the
Speaker 1: work versus resting. You know, do you play versus rest?
Speaker 1: Do you play? Do your rest? Which one is better?
Speaker 1: You always have that to going on, and now you
Speaker 1: gotta you get to see it up close. You know
Speaker 1: where you got to great one seed? You gonna have
Speaker 1: a really good eight seed that a seed is gonna
Speaker 1: been to had a couple of playoff games under their belt,
Speaker 1: rolling into the one seed that've been shunning for a week.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, see, I'm sure they'll probably take this
Speaker 1: last game off. So that week all of a sudden
Speaker 1: becomes ten eleven days, man, And that's a lot. That's
Speaker 1: a lot, and that's a lot of time off, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're when you're a customer, playing every other day.
Speaker 1: So I think that can get interested.
Speaker 2: You sharpening your tools, but you're not practicing. It ain't
Speaker 2: no real intensity, right, So you're just sitting around working out,
Speaker 2: trying to stay in shape. Why everybody else is preparing
Speaker 2: for somebody and then everybody else is fighting to get
Speaker 2: to you that I mean, I'm excited for these playoffs, man,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I'm super excited. This is the feeling
Speaker 2: I had as a kid in the eighties and the nineties,
Speaker 2: two thousands, you know, the warrior run era. I think
Speaker 2: basketball people need to pay attention.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: It's cracking every night, y'all out cracking. It's cracking it.
Speaker 2: And like it's so much talent in the league, and
Speaker 2: the intensity and the level of play is really it's
Speaker 2: on the rise. The competitiveness to you know, the physicality,
Speaker 2: people really really having rivalries, talking ship to each other.
Speaker 2: All this is going to start percolating and people are
Speaker 2: gonna see, oh, this era.
Speaker 1: Is real too. That's me. That's a fact. Speaking of rivalries, man,
Speaker 1: I love the other day watching Joe and play against
Speaker 1: each other in the Hogh Stakes game guard each other
Speaker 1: in the Hogh Stakes game. I told y'all a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, man, my favorite two young guys to
Speaker 1: take the trash thrown as those two guys and they
Speaker 1: went out there and guarded each other, like, let's face it,
Speaker 1: Jah not fit the guard like, right, And when I
Speaker 1: say not fit like Jiahu Jos small man a little bit,
Speaker 1: how you shake. He got the heart of a lion.
Speaker 1: If you ever see John, he's small like, which makes
Speaker 1: what he does even more impressive, Which makes the weight
Speaker 1: that he carry even more impressive because he Jah ain't
Speaker 1: a big dude at all. Man for him to even
Speaker 1: go out there and say, no, I'm gonna take on
Speaker 1: the challenge and guard and that to me just says
Speaker 1: something about his heart, about why he is who he is,
Speaker 1: because that matchup ain't for him. Man on the flip
Speaker 1: side and a big guys dude like right, a six
Speaker 1: five six six two twenty solid, And so just the
Speaker 1: size advantage in itself like that made it all the
Speaker 1: more impressive, even John going to guard him. Now. I
Speaker 1: think when you at man, what he has to look
Speaker 1: at next and his game is all right, I gotta
Speaker 1: get off the ball now and maybe go get some
Speaker 1: post work. You know what I'm saying. He get in
Speaker 1: that post, he got job on and me getting that
Speaker 1: post you can make it hard on John now and
Speaker 1: saying that at a certain point in the game Josh
Speaker 1: switched off and win the guard to somebody else and
Speaker 1: because Scottie Pippen Junior was doing a great job on it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and so and he can defend,
Speaker 1: he can and he and he went to guard end.
Speaker 1: But man, just the respect that I've been had respect
Speaker 1: for both of them young fellas, but you can I
Speaker 1: gained even more respect just watching them come out in
Speaker 1: that meaningful game talking about a rivalry. You had everybody
Speaker 1: praising Joe. He next up and he the next face
Speaker 1: of the league. And then you know he had this
Speaker 1: situation and now it's like he you know, everybody throw
Speaker 1: him by the wayside. You have like the villain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got young ant man who like I don't even
Speaker 1: want that, Like I don't even want the face of
Speaker 1: the league. But it's that type of that level of talent,
Speaker 1: and in a meaningful game for playoffs standards, they guarded
Speaker 1: each other. So I respected.
Speaker 2: That is their thing with this younger generation when not
Speaker 2: wanting to be the face, more so want to be
Speaker 2: the villain and take on a villain persona. I was
Speaker 2: thinking about that the other day, like when at said that,
Speaker 2: like aunt don't want to be like a hero, Like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm Superman. You know, I'm the great American cover boy.
Speaker 2: I think he wants to be the villain, right. I
Speaker 2: think jah as he starts to embrace I'm the villain,
Speaker 2: he starts to fill out his personality on the court
Speaker 2: and his brand on the court. But I think these
Speaker 2: young deals they like being the villain, and I think
Speaker 2: they want to find who's the target, Like who's the
Speaker 2: number one target guy outside of I mean you think like.
Speaker 1: A Winby, Like, they don't want to be that. They
Speaker 1: want to be like this. They want to be the villains,
Speaker 1: like the upset guy I did talker, right. I just
Speaker 1: think for them it's more like they'd rather be the
Speaker 1: people's champs. Right, But you look at where they both
Speaker 1: come from, it makes sense, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like they right to be the people's champs. And listen,
Speaker 1: I get it. I respect it to each his own.
Speaker 1: I hate the whole conversation of the face of the league,
Speaker 1: as if like the league just say okay, it's you
Speaker 1: now here you go Like, I hate that whole thing.
Speaker 1: But now that I got that out, when you speak
Speaker 1: on being the face of the NBA, there's just so
Speaker 1: much that comes with that and in the day and
Speaker 1: age that we live in, there's even more that comes
Speaker 1: with that today than did fifteen years ago, Like by
Speaker 1: a long shot, you know, just your life in general,
Speaker 1: there's just so much more that comes with it. And
Speaker 1: so you got, I think, man, most of these us
Speaker 1: they're young. They love video games, and they love they
Speaker 1: play basketball, they play video games, and the generations that
Speaker 1: they come from, anything that takes you away from that,
Speaker 1: they don't really want it. Like that's just the generation
Speaker 1: we're living in where streaming it's video games is you know,
Speaker 1: that is the generation that we keep speaking of on
Speaker 1: facing the NBA, Like that's where we are as far
Speaker 1: as age goes. And like when I look at KD,
Speaker 1: I don't think KD ever wanted to be the face
Speaker 1: of the league. But guess what KD is more that
Speaker 1: generation of talking about when it comes to video games,
Speaker 1: and like k want to play basketball and play video
Speaker 1: games and not do much else. That is this generation
Speaker 1: though now guys to the extreme. Man, So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, no one talks about that side of it.
Speaker 1: It's like the life side of it, like how your
Speaker 1: life looks on a day to day basis, and why
Speaker 1: some of these guys don't want that, but you look
Speaker 1: at the guys who do want it. Wimby is more
Speaker 1: old school, Like if you listen to anybody talk about
Speaker 1: I talked to CP after we played him in San
Speaker 1: Antonio about women, Like if you talk to anybody about
Speaker 1: he read a book every day, Like he's more old school.
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum is more old school, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum isn't like he's more of an older So
Speaker 1: those are the guys that want it though, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, But they don't. Their lives are different
Speaker 1: than say a job or at you know, are most
Speaker 1: of these young guys like JT got a couple of kids,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. His life is a little
Speaker 1: different where he don't play a bunch of video games,
Speaker 1: like I think there's a philosophical difference that everybody's not
Speaker 1: talking about. Everybody's just looking at through one lens, which
Speaker 1: is basketball. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then you have Jalen Brown, right, who's a little different,
Speaker 2: who wants it. But it's also you know, not a
Speaker 2: media darling, right, So you know the media wants a
Speaker 2: great superhero, right, but the people always love a good villain. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: that's the persona that even the face of the NBA
Speaker 2: has to have. They have everybody thinks that they're a villain.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to be the disruptor, underdog, and you have
Speaker 2: to have that mentality. And I think, you know, that's
Speaker 2: what is required. It's the culture. It's the culture. They're
Speaker 2: part of the culture. They're part of hip hop, they're
Speaker 2: part of what's trying, They're part of social media. You know,
Speaker 2: when you look at somebody like John Moran, right and
Speaker 2: the celebrations, he's not that that person. That is just
Speaker 2: what the culture is, right. Football players do it, you know,
Speaker 2: kids do it, but at the same time there is
Speaker 2: a great responsibility to know what you're doing. But from
Speaker 2: that villain persona, I think the league you need that controversy.
Speaker 2: But it's not that these guys are like that, like
Speaker 2: bad guys, right.
Speaker 1: No, that's the fact, they're not bad guys at all.
Speaker 1: Number One, you don't reach the level of success that
Speaker 1: they've reached just being bad guys. Like it's hard in
Speaker 1: this day and age, between social media all these different
Speaker 1: things to be a bad guy and kind of reach
Speaker 1: this point, you know, So they're not bad guys they're
Speaker 1: successful black men. Yes, people go at you so much
Speaker 1: that like you almost get a villain mindset anyway. It's
Speaker 1: just because like you're subject to people going at you
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven to where you can you got
Speaker 1: to have to almost like take on that just to
Speaker 1: push through it. You know what I'm saying, Like you're
Speaker 1: not gonna keep just coming at me that way.
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Speaker 1: You know even in Jah, you know, with his new
Speaker 1: celebration with which to me look like hilarious hysterica.
Speaker 2: But you probably play call of duty. You know, he
Speaker 2: probably be on call of duty, Like you said, that
Speaker 2: game and they on call of duty.
Speaker 1: They got all the answers. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: that men I said, but I'm taking my words I'm
Speaker 1: taking my words, throwing them out there and stead up
Speaker 1: blocking listen. I respected y'all do what you gotta do. Brother.
Speaker 1: If you're just throwing your words out there and blocking
Speaker 1: out the noise, what they're gonna say. They can't say nothing.
Speaker 1: They can't tell you can't throw your words out there
Speaker 1: and not listen to that was That was a sincings bar.
Speaker 1: Ever was a bar. Gotta give it to him that one.
Speaker 1: That's real player right there, play boy.
Speaker 2: What else is cracking around the league? The firing of
Speaker 2: coach Mike Malone.
Speaker 1: What was your reaction to it? I had a few
Speaker 1: different reactions. Number one, Coach Mo is my god. I
Speaker 1: love coach Mo. I text Josh Cronkey before many years ago,
Speaker 1: and I text Josh and and it was around the
Speaker 1: time where they were kind of like you could tell
Speaker 1: they were starting to turn that corner but not quite
Speaker 1: there yet looking to turn the corner. And around that
Speaker 1: time it was like noise, like dude Denver continued for
Speaker 1: Mike Malone and they had a quick playoff exit. I think,
Speaker 1: and I text Josh and I said, don't be fool
Speaker 1: by the noise. I think Mike Malone is your guy. Like,
Speaker 1: I think y'all got y'all guy, and sure enough they
Speaker 1: end up winning championship with their guy. And so my
Speaker 1: hunch was right when I look at him being fired.
Speaker 1: Though you hear the reports to like people tired of
Speaker 1: his voice, they're tired of his hard coaching, these types
Speaker 1: of things. I'm sorry to say, but unfortunately that's why
Speaker 1: people don't win, because you get tired of hearing the
Speaker 1: voice that led you to being a winner. I will say,
Speaker 1: as someone who could be the voice that people get
Speaker 1: tired of at times that's helping leads you to win it,
Speaker 1: I get why you can get tired of it. I
Speaker 1: totally understand. It ain't even that you're not used to it.
Speaker 1: It's that one thing that I know as a leader
Speaker 1: is I know people probably get tired of my voice
Speaker 1: at times. I'm not surprised that you get tired of
Speaker 1: my voice. Quite frankly, I don't give a shit whether
Speaker 1: you get tired of my voice or not, because I
Speaker 1: know what it takes to lead to win it. And
Speaker 1: so to hear people say it's coming out like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they were getting tired of Mike Malone's hard style, like
Speaker 1: it makes complete sense to me. Yeah, it makes complete
Speaker 1: sense to me. Like people, but even aside from being
Speaker 1: a player of BD, people get tired of being pushed.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. People get tired of being pushed,
Speaker 1: which is why people don't win over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. Is why only a select few of people win,
Speaker 1: because people get tired of being push And so I
Speaker 1: heard that and it made complete sense to me. You
Speaker 1: know another thing I heard that bothered me is people
Speaker 1: trying to put it on Russell Westbrook. Stop it. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all need to stop the cap. That's crazy. Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: make three million dollars. You're gonna tell me anything to
Speaker 1: do with a coach? Is the man that make three
Speaker 1: If Russell Westbrook could Parliam, they three million dollars, they
Speaker 1: pen and they can send him home paid. Go home.
Speaker 1: We don't even want you around here like to try
Speaker 1: to make this about Russell Westbrook. It's insane to me.
Speaker 2: Man, that's crazy. I think the whole thing with Denver
Speaker 2: is they just got fatigued. Right, you want a championship,
Speaker 2: you start eating the food. You start tasting more food
Speaker 2: as you were cooking, so now you start removing some
Speaker 2: of your ingredients, meaning Bruce Brown, Right, you start removing.
Speaker 1: With some of the CACP.
Speaker 2: You start removing and let go some key ingredients and
Speaker 2: it's hard to replace that in the draft and groom
Speaker 2: that in young people and then try and get that
Speaker 2: in free agency. So what is missing is always going
Speaker 2: to be the main subject. And you can see last
Speaker 2: year they got fatigued, right, They're just getting fatigued. And
Speaker 2: so the run that they went on to win the
Speaker 2: championship was a crazy run. But when you play, what
Speaker 2: coach was pushing you every day right when the Warriors,
Speaker 2: when y'all was winning, you know how to motivate yourself.
Speaker 2: Your voice may be annoying or dudes may get pissed
Speaker 2: off at times.
Speaker 1: But when you win and you know you need that. Now,
Speaker 1: for a coach, you got to understand there's a time
Speaker 1: to push these dudes. How to push these dudes? Where
Speaker 1: are we pushing too? Right?
Speaker 2: Because when you're talking about your voice as a coach,
Speaker 2: and you keep pushing.
Speaker 1: You keep pushing. At some point your player's gonna be like, YEO,
Speaker 1: I had enough. I know what I'm doing. But who's
Speaker 1: the player in their locker room bed that's doing that joke? Yoke,
Speaker 1: don't talk much like Jamal Murray don't talk much. So
Speaker 1: who's the player on that team that's doing that though?
Speaker 1: Or does the coach have to do it because they
Speaker 1: don't have a player? So you got to.
Speaker 2: Take I think they fired the GM and they fired
Speaker 2: the coach because they weakened the batter.
Speaker 1: Bro Well, I'm saying you got Russell Westbrook, who's that
Speaker 1: type of player? But I already know the type of
Speaker 1: vibe he going to come in on because that team
Speaker 1: won a championship before Rus's gonna come in like, all right,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm gonna take a backseat here. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: do that there. I'm not the main guy here. And
Speaker 1: so although you could get that demeanor from Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: you're only going to get doses of it because somewhere
Speaker 1: there's probably a little self consciousness like they want a
Speaker 1: championship before. I ain't gonna come in and press too much,
Speaker 1: you know, And so you may have to they just
Speaker 1: the team. They're not the same team. But but that's
Speaker 1: what happens when you start plucking key pieces to championships. Exactly.
Speaker 1: You just said they're trying to do it in the
Speaker 1: drivet like, that's that's a that's a very tough thing
Speaker 1: to do to say that. The GM was mad that
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook's playing over Jaylen Pickett, Like that's crazy, that's
Speaker 1: what happens. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's stuff like that start happened, happening because
Speaker 2: everybody wants to experiment, Right, everybody got an opinion you've
Speaker 2: weakened the foundation by letting your key ingredients go. The
Speaker 2: Warriors were smart about, man, we gonna hold the whole
Speaker 2: thing together and at maybe one or two guys in
Speaker 2: free agency and get a draft and then they you
Speaker 2: know who there for a year, you know who you
Speaker 2: need to build a foundation.
Speaker 1: You got a bad.
Speaker 2: Mix of veteran guys and young guys and you have
Speaker 2: nothing in the middle that those veteran free agents that
Speaker 2: you needed and needed to keep in sign you didn't
Speaker 2: have them as your glue. So you're really missing the glue.
Speaker 2: So when you look at Russ, Russ is a glue person,
Speaker 2: but he's not a glue person.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: He's a complimentary piece and he's added value right to
Speaker 2: a team. But where do you fit if you're not
Speaker 2: a glue guy? Because with the young dudes. They play
Speaker 2: a different style the way then the way Joker want
Speaker 2: to play, or how Aaron Gordon, Joker and Porter, how
Speaker 2: all those dudes Jamal Murray work together. They need KCP
Speaker 2: in that position. Then you need Russ coming in and
Speaker 2: working with the young dudes. So everybody is out of predicament.
Speaker 2: And that's why you fired a GM. That's why I
Speaker 2: think these got fired because you can't you can't be
Speaker 2: experimenting and trying to win the championship because you came
Speaker 2: off a championship two years ago, so you know, it's
Speaker 2: like trying to find an identity with no identity. But
Speaker 2: that's I also think that's why Jokers having the hell
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Year because the team isn't as strong. Because the team
Speaker 1: isn't as strong and they have he has to do
Speaker 1: a lot more. Whereas before Michael Porter can beat you,
Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon can beat you. Now those are nights, mh
Speaker 1: they have a hot night.
Speaker 2: But even Jamal Murray like it's talented as he is,
Speaker 2: it's almost like I mean, and he has been getting injured,
Speaker 2: but he ain't. He has not taken it to that
Speaker 2: next echelon of where his talent was supposed to go
Speaker 2: what we saw in the finals, and that's because you
Speaker 2: lost your king Greets.
Speaker 1: It's hard to lose key ingredient something championship team and
Speaker 1: think you can just replace him. It don't work like that,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. But a lot of people also spoke about,
Speaker 1: like Reggie Jackson being like they lost, They lost pretty
Speaker 1: much their entire bench. You lose team.
Speaker 2: But don't you think that's your personality too, right because
Speaker 2: you playing on all these championship teams a lot of
Speaker 2: these dudes, would you say, like, man, I need that's
Speaker 2: my guy.
Speaker 1: I need him even though he don't play. The personality
Speaker 1: is right. Sometimes you keep a guy. You keep guys
Speaker 1: around and they may not play at all, Like literally
Speaker 1: could be fourteen fifteenth man, and you telling Bob like
Speaker 1: or Mike now, like you know, we need to keep
Speaker 1: that guy. Yeah, Like we just need that guy on
Speaker 1: the team, like for the vibe, for something they bring.
Speaker 1: It ain't always about what this guy going to give
Speaker 1: us in those minutes. Like and by the way, it's
Speaker 1: the NBA. Everybody can play, So it ain't like we
Speaker 1: saying keep somebody who should be playing somewhere else, like
Speaker 1: they it's an NBA player, But we need you to
Speaker 1: keep this guy for this reason like that, Like it
Speaker 1: ain't always just about basketball, the makeup of that team,
Speaker 1: the vibes, like we go to dinners and like keep
Speaker 1: the vibe right or my team. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It could be like yo in the locker room, this
Speaker 1: dude always make us laugh and we be need that
Speaker 1: when you down. Like, it could be anything. It ain't
Speaker 1: just always in those couple spots. It ain't just always
Speaker 1: about necessarily the production on the court, right, just the energy.
Speaker 1: It's that energy one.
Speaker 2: All right, man, let's get into some nation stuff. I
Speaker 2: know they want to hear about this last game, right,
Speaker 2: the intensity of the playoffs. Before we talk about the
Speaker 2: final game of the season, I want to talk about
Speaker 2: how did you just right the journey that has brought
Speaker 2: the team to this point twenty three and six since
Speaker 2: Jimmy joined the team. Game eighty two is coming up.
Speaker 2: Talk about the journey of this team this year. And
Speaker 2: then where are you guys at coming into game eighty
Speaker 2: two with a lot on the line at home versus
Speaker 2: the Clippers?
Speaker 1: You know, the two hottest teams to me and the
Speaker 1: less definitely both playing great basketball. I think for this
Speaker 1: team when I look back on this year, as you know,
Speaker 1: it's crazy because somebody asked me yesterday or two days ago,
Speaker 1: they're like, man, I'm like, hey, man, we got two
Speaker 1: more games, and he's like, man, do it? Do it
Speaker 1: go by fast? And I said, not when you in it?
Speaker 1: And when you in it, it's like stacking on top
Speaker 1: of your head fast. You're like, god, me forty five
Speaker 1: Annapolis and this freezing code of snowing, You're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, like I said, but then you get to
Speaker 1: the end of it and you look back like, hey,
Speaker 1: that flew by, you know, but when you going through it,
Speaker 1: it don't feel like it's flying by. It's slow. And
Speaker 1: then saying that though this year has been crazy, like
Speaker 1: when I look at this year, it's been a little
Speaker 1: all over the place, like we started off great, having
Speaker 1: an incredible year, got off to a great start, and
Speaker 1: then we kind of just couldn't find it, like we
Speaker 1: lost it and couldn't find it. But it felt like
Speaker 1: we were right there. And then obviously we make the
Speaker 1: trade at the deadline for Jimmy and kind of what
Speaker 1: we thought all along was like, man, it just felt
Speaker 1: like we're missing one piece, like, but we're right there,
Speaker 1: and then getting Jimmy like I said at All Star
Speaker 1: when I said, yo, I think when I said we're
Speaker 1: going to win the championship, I said that because I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yo, like this is the piece that
Speaker 1: I felt like we were missing and I already wanted
Speaker 1: to shoot for a championship anyway. Now we got the piece.
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of been a year like started
Speaker 1: off great, awful, and you know, we picked it back up.
Speaker 1: But it's been an incredible year and they're coming down
Speaker 1: in Game eighty two. Like you said, I think you
Speaker 1: always look back on some of those ones you gave
Speaker 1: it away, like, man if we had that one. But
Speaker 1: in saying that, you know, it's a tough challenge for us.
Speaker 1: Is a really good playoff team. They thriving at the
Speaker 1: right time. We thriving at the right time. Two great coaches,
Speaker 1: two incredible Hall of Fame coaches. Like what can you
Speaker 1: ask for us as an NBA fan, not as an
Speaker 1: NBA player. As an NBA fan, I'm excited as a player, obviously,
Speaker 1: this is what you live for. I mean, Clipper Warrior rivalry.
Speaker 1: You know I've been a part of that.
Speaker 2: I think I was the reason why it started to
Speaker 2: be honest, the Warrior Clipper robbery. I was probably the
Speaker 2: reason why that whole little thing shook out. You know,
Speaker 2: I've been coming to the games, playoff games, and to me,
Speaker 2: you two are the teams, the most complete team, veteran oriented.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a great matchup. You play the
Speaker 2: game sevens right, I feel like this is gonna be
Speaker 2: that type of vibe, like this.
Speaker 1: Is Game seven, like both teams trying to solidify that spot.
Speaker 1: This is definitely a Game seven atmosphere. You got to
Speaker 1: make those adjustments fast. You got one one shot at it,
Speaker 1: one crack at it. So I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though, somebody from the Warriors, man,
Speaker 1: we got to get bad on for the Warriors as
Speaker 1: an ambassador. So you can stop talking this Clipper stuff sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like Raymond Ritter, whoever to
Speaker 1: talk about monaw Mike mona, Chir's done. All right, We're
Speaker 1: just put that out there. I can't it's a little
Speaker 1: I feel this and y'all ain't feeling this energy I'm
Speaker 1: feeling right now. I'm feeling this energy on he feeling
Speaker 1: like you know, he like nowhere. Yeah, he don't know
Speaker 1: where I really want to go. Where you're supposed to go.
Speaker 1: I know where he's supposed to go. Telling y'all just
Speaker 1: make this right. Let's make it right right now.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that Jay spoken about the truth king himself now,
Speaker 2: but you got Kawhi.
Speaker 1: Playing well, you're gonna have to guard him.
Speaker 2: You got Zubob up for Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 2: came on strong. They're three and oh against you this season.
Speaker 2: What would have win on Sunday? Men going into those
Speaker 2: playoffs be.
Speaker 1: Huge, huge for the confidence. But he was just to
Speaker 1: solidify that spot, get that week off, rest up. Know
Speaker 1: who our opponent is, you know, a showdown with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: Bron and Steph. We know how that's that whole thing
Speaker 1: has been for the last ten years. Like, man, it'd
Speaker 1: be huge for everybody. But I think, you know, for
Speaker 1: myself and our team, Like you know, the team beat
Speaker 1: you three times, come out and take care of business.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yep, you know so, I
Speaker 1: think this is a big opportunity for us. This is
Speaker 1: a new team for us. One of those games, one
Speaker 1: of those games you and Steph didn't play though, I
Speaker 1: remember that Steph and I didn't play, but you know,
Speaker 1: then they they made some additions. Bogdanovich's was a big
Speaker 1: addition for them. Ben Simmons, It's played minutes for them,
Speaker 1: you know, get him some versatility. So the biggest edition
Speaker 1: is getting Kawhi Leonard back. You know, he's he looked,
Speaker 1: he almost looked better than before he got hurt. Man,
Speaker 1: that's crazygas bounce way come back. Bro.
Speaker 2: The way he come back from an injury is like
Speaker 2: like he's staying at the level.
Speaker 1: This dude is bionic Man. So like, yeah, man, this
Speaker 1: dude's like bionic Man. Like you just come back like
Speaker 1: you just can't off of a cl surgery. It's just
Speaker 1: like yo, and like he never left this man, I'll
Speaker 1: understand it. Every time he come back from injury, it
Speaker 1: looked like Kawhi Leonard and San Antonio Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 1: Toronto Raters, and I just don't understand it. So that's
Speaker 1: the biggest edition of all of them. Like obviously getting
Speaker 1: him back, it's huge. Zubah is playing even better than
Speaker 1: he was playing the beginning of the year, and he
Speaker 1: was playing at a very high level in the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year. So team's playing great. But also I
Speaker 1: think you know, we know who we are now, you
Speaker 1: know we have our identity and were ready to go.
Speaker 1: So been a great matchup. This could be the Western
Speaker 1: Conference five match up.
Speaker 2: This could determine the Western Conference finals in a magic way.
Speaker 1: Yes, it can be.
Speaker 2: As we start to wrap up the season and talk
Speaker 2: about the end of the season, we got, of course
Speaker 2: who you got into the season awards. First up, we
Speaker 2: talked about this MVP SGA Joker or CO MVPs.
Speaker 1: What do you think I would love to see co MVPs.
Speaker 1: I would love to see these voters, all hundred of
Speaker 1: them call each other tally, y'all vote so these guys
Speaker 1: can tie, because I think it's incredible in saying that,
Speaker 1: I will have to pick one or the other. I
Speaker 1: have to guard Joker. I know how tough that is.
Speaker 1: It's extremely tough. I've seen people get fatigued off of
Speaker 1: greatness over and over again. Lebron James only has four
Speaker 1: MVP Trophies's Lebron James was the MVP way more than
Speaker 1: four times in the NBA. So because people has done that,
Speaker 1: keep that same energy. What's been a big deal is
Speaker 1: being the best player on the best team. And not
Speaker 1: only is Shay the best player on the best team,
Speaker 1: but he's playing at such an elite level. It ain't
Speaker 1: like he the best player on a even team and
Speaker 1: like he a little better. He's like he is one
Speaker 1: of the best players in the NBA and has taken
Speaker 1: that team higher. So in saying that, just with what
Speaker 1: MVP has meant, with what the MVP has done, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna look crazy in ten years. You put
Speaker 1: those numbers next to each other and be like Jokis
Speaker 1: didn't win. But in saying that, I gotta go with
Speaker 1: SGA got you.
Speaker 2: SGA, to your point, defensive presence underrated this year. Still
Speaker 2: absolutely Junker the first center to average a triple double
Speaker 2: and for an entire series season.
Speaker 1: I mean, I like to see.
Speaker 2: Co MVPs just so when we go back to history,
Speaker 2: people can go back and see the type of year
Speaker 2: that both of these players were having and how they
Speaker 2: were going back and forth in this climb for.
Speaker 1: The MVP race.
Speaker 2: But if I have to side about I would side
Speaker 2: to SGA because I watched this fan play defense. I
Speaker 2: watched him leaders team, and to your point, he is
Speaker 2: just on a high, high level of frequency, and he's
Speaker 2: pulled a lot of these talented guys on this team
Speaker 2: up to his level right playing at a level above.
Speaker 1: I think one of the most underrated things about the
Speaker 1: year SGA had is they spent an extended period of
Speaker 1: time this year with no center. They had Harden's Thin
Speaker 1: was out, Chet was out, and Jalen with the bigger
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams was out. They were out there running five
Speaker 1: guards and still win a game. That's crazy, That is
Speaker 1: extremely impressive, and I just think another thing that kind
Speaker 1: of gives SG he ate a boot. So even when
Speaker 1: things weren't ideal, he still found a way to lead
Speaker 1: his teams to win nothing. You know that that has
Speaker 1: that says a lot. I agree. I totally agree Most
Speaker 1: improved player? Who you got for most improved? Dyson Daniels,
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. I would say Austin Reeves. A lot of
Speaker 1: people saying Kay Cunningham.
Speaker 2: Well, Kate Cunningham is too good and he was so
Speaker 2: good last year that he's too good to be most improved.
Speaker 2: We expect that right out of Kate, and Kate expect
Speaker 2: that out of himself, and he's just living into his magic.
Speaker 2: He got the All Star accolades, and so what's next
Speaker 2: for him is, you know, consistent All Stars. When you
Speaker 2: look at somebody like a Dyson Daniel coming out the
Speaker 2: G League and coming out of nowhere to make a
Speaker 2: name for himself, then you look at an Austin Reeves,
Speaker 2: who was he a second round pink or undrafted? I
Speaker 2: think he was undrafted right making a name for himself
Speaker 2: to stay on the Lakers, to then being a fan
Speaker 2: favorite off the bench, now being a bona fide NBA
Speaker 2: star he has, he's real and he became a real
Speaker 2: household name and somebody you gotta recognize this year and
Speaker 2: went from fifteen to twenty points a game with Lebron
Speaker 2: with Luca still in the mix. So I would give
Speaker 2: it to Austin Reeves.
Speaker 1: And when it wasn't Luca ad ad and he was
Speaker 1: cracking ad. Yeah, absolutely, I gotta go with Austin Reeves
Speaker 1: as well. I think Dyson Danigels is right there, k
Speaker 1: cunning him no chance. Like you said, CA's way too good.
Speaker 1: He'd been way too good for this award.
Speaker 2: And shout out to Dyson Daniels for making a name
Speaker 2: for himself the work he put in like he making,
Speaker 2: he making Atlanta have somebody else to talk about besides
Speaker 2: what chan Young is doing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think. But when I look at Austin Reeves,
Speaker 1: he's been arguably the best third option in in basketball
Speaker 1: and when called up on and presented the opportunity, he's
Speaker 1: been an incredible two. Yeah, I went caught upon. And
Speaker 1: so to go from undrafted to that fifteen points to
Speaker 1: twenty points, there's a big difference in the NBA have
Speaker 1: averaged fifteen points to twenty points. Like you may look
Speaker 1: at that and be like, oh, that's only five points.
Speaker 1: A fifteen point a night guy off night is six Yes,
Speaker 1: a twenty point a night guy off night at sixteen
Speaker 1: yeap fifteen sixteen. To put into a perspective for you,
Speaker 1: the jump that Austin Reeves has made to jump your
Speaker 1: average from fifteen points twenty points, that is that's also
Speaker 1: the difference in like someone making fifteen million dollars a
Speaker 1: year and someone making thirty five million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: Like that is a drastic jump. And obviously we know
Speaker 1: he can pass the ball to he rebounds the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, I think, uh, I gotta go with Austin
Speaker 1: Reeves like you said, shout out to Dyce and Dames.
Speaker 1: I think what he's done is incredible. Uh. To see
Speaker 1: him playing at the level playing that is great. But
Speaker 1: I gotta go with Austin Reeves. And I did not
Speaker 1: know JJ Reddick was campaigning for Austin Reeves when he
Speaker 1: said the awards is the high pick of war. That
Speaker 1: was a lottery what he said, lottery pick that's now
Speaker 1: on a high contract that finally had. It was a campaign.
Speaker 1: It was a campaign. I didn't realize if JJ you
Speaker 1: slid that one in, But you got a point, my brother.
Speaker 2: He definitely made up made people think about the vote.
Speaker 1: Uh, Rookie of the Year. Easy, Stephane Castle, no question,
Speaker 1: ste Fine Castle, no question? Like that kid he next up,
Speaker 1: no question, steph Fione Castle. Easy. We're gonna look back
Speaker 1: at this. Step Fan Castle is gonna be a star.
Speaker 1: And of course he should have won Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: He gonna be next to Winby and San Antonio dynamic duo,
Speaker 1: back to back Rookie of the years, and it's all
Speaker 1: gonna make sense. But Stephanion Castle, no question, is Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year. And I'm gonna tell you this, Stephan
Speaker 1: Castle when he improved that jump shot, and I say
Speaker 1: win because I know he will. Because he's a willing cheer.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest keys about being being learning to
Speaker 1: shoot the ball with consistency is being a willing shooter.
Speaker 1: And he is willing no matter how many he missing
Speaker 1: a row, he raising up taking that next one. And
Speaker 1: I love that attitude. That kid is gonna be a star.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to a Rookie of the Year. Congrats,
Speaker 1: young fella. It should be yours in the back. We
Speaker 1: got coach of the year, some say Kenny Atkinson. The
Speaker 1: Cavs were forty eight and thirty four in twenty three.
Speaker 1: Twenty four increased that to sixty three wins, possibly sixty four.
Speaker 1: Number one seed in the East. You got email you
Speaker 1: Doka forty one and forty one last season, number eleven
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference standards. Fast forward to twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: they have fifty two wins, could be fifty three, could
Speaker 1: have been fifty five. They've kind of bombed the last
Speaker 1: couple of games, like nonetheless, Emai Udoka has to be
Speaker 1: in the running. And then JB. Bickerstaff fourteen wins to
Speaker 1: forty four wins. Damn first season of coaching this team.
Speaker 1: He was the coach of the team that the Calves.
Speaker 1: Who Kenny Atkinson has now bumped up fifteen wins to
Speaker 1: sixty three. Who you got those three guys? Coach of
Speaker 1: the year. Is this Kenny Atkinson first year with the Cavs.
Speaker 1: This is Kenny Atkins's first year. He was with the
Speaker 1: Doves last year.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. And this JV vickerstaff first year with Detroit.
Speaker 1: This is his first year.
Speaker 2: Ah, this is a hell of us storyline. And what
Speaker 2: I would do is I would honor them both. This
Speaker 2: would be a cold Coach of the Year. You gotta
Speaker 2: do code Coach of the Year like I would give
Speaker 2: I would give two awards out because it's just if
Speaker 2: it has to be one person, cool, But I don't
Speaker 2: think it should just be one.
Speaker 1: One guy went from eleven to two.
Speaker 2: That's crazy to give them all an the war, But
Speaker 2: you cannot do that. I mean, damn, that's too hard.
Speaker 2: If if if I'm voting, I don't know, that's too tough, dude,
Speaker 2: that's tough.
Speaker 1: They all matter.
Speaker 2: Like what JB did taking Detroit from nothing to something
Speaker 2: or a playoff team, what he may did from last year,
Speaker 2: taking them to the two seed, showing a lot of promise.
Speaker 2: You know, people thought that Houston would have a team
Speaker 2: that's going to be in the playoffs, so you know,
Speaker 2: he over exceeded expectations. And then Kenny Akinson came in
Speaker 2: and took over a job from a team and you know,
Speaker 2: damn there got them twenty more wins than what they
Speaker 2: had the year before and the number one seed in
Speaker 2: the East. So if I have to give the award,
Speaker 2: I would probably it probably should go to Kenny Akinson,
Speaker 2: with Shad b at a very very close second, almost
Speaker 2: a tie, and he may at a very very close second.
Speaker 1: I respect that. I think. I think when you look
Speaker 1: at the system that Kenny has brought to that team,
Speaker 1: like they had talent already and he took that same
Speaker 1: talent and has turned that talent into what it should be,
Speaker 1: I think it's hard not to go with Kenny. I
Speaker 1: also think he turned Evan Mobley into a star. And
Speaker 1: when I say turned Evin Mobley into a star, I
Speaker 1: understand that I'm not saying Kenny Atkinson turned Evan Mobley
Speaker 1: has worked his ass off to become He unleashed the star.
Speaker 1: He put him in position to reach who he's supposed
Speaker 1: to become, which is a star in the NBA. And
Speaker 1: Evan Mobley's had an incredible year on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. He will be an all NBA performer. Evan Mobley.
Speaker 1: I think when you look at getting Darius Garland back
Speaker 1: to all star form, like Darius Garland was the lost
Speaker 1: man last year, Like Darius Garland was on his way
Speaker 1: out of Cleveland, it was all going wrong. It looked
Speaker 1: like he had popped for a year or two and
Speaker 1: it was going the wrong way. Kenny comes in, push
Speaker 1: that confidence back into him, put him in the system
Speaker 1: where he can thrive in And so I think when
Speaker 1: you're looking at that, on top of winning sixty four games,
Speaker 1: I gotta go Kenny Akinson. I think that's jbs incredible
Speaker 1: to go from fourteen to forty four wins. I think
Speaker 1: it's incredible he may to go from eleven. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of e May. Just the attitude that he
Speaker 1: may give his teams is crazy. Played against some of
Speaker 1: the NBA finals, He's going to Houston and taking a
Speaker 1: joke of a team after James Harden to the second
Speaker 1: seed in the West, brought an attitude stepped up and
Speaker 1: said the guys that he wanted. Bringing in Frev and
Speaker 1: Vleet as a free agent was huge, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like bringing in a veteran presence like Jeff
Speaker 1: Green was huge, you know. And these are all things
Speaker 1: that I May Udoka's point out of saying, no, I
Speaker 1: need this, and so bringing it Dylan Brooks free agency,
Speaker 1: you know, people was off Dylan Brooks. Grizzlies off Dylan Brooks.
Speaker 1: He like, YO, bring him over here, huge, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So what e May's done has been
Speaker 1: incredible and I think he right up there and deserving.
Speaker 1: But I think I gotta go Kenny Atkinson on this
Speaker 1: one as well.
Speaker 2: Awesome sixth Man of the Year. Oh, Peyton Pritcher, That's
Speaker 2: what we got. Six Man of the year. You got
Speaker 2: Peyton Pritcher or Malik Beasley. I got Payton Pritch's that's easy, man.
Speaker 2: The way he has improved. I how to put Peyton
Speaker 2: Pritcher up there also for most improved, just to put
Speaker 2: him in that category. But talking about energy, you know,
Speaker 2: fire and a difference maker for Boston off the bench
Speaker 2: and another leader. They found another leader. They found another
Speaker 2: go to guy, which is crazy. And then not to
Speaker 2: discount what the season that Malik Beasley has had because
Speaker 2: he's been another part of that Piston team that forty
Speaker 2: four at fourteen to forty four win turnaround, and he's
Speaker 2: been a great compliment and reliable source for k cunning In.
Speaker 2: And so three hundred and twelve threes this season a
Speaker 2: Piston record. Shout out to Malik Beasley. But when we're
Speaker 2: talking about six man and a difference maker and a
Speaker 2: game changing somebody's coming in and changing the game, I
Speaker 2: gotta go to with Peyton Pritcher.
Speaker 1: I think Peyton Pritcher has been incredible. He really increased
Speaker 1: his points from nine to fourteen, which is a big jump,
Speaker 1: you know. I think he's had a great year two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one may threes, great year on a
Speaker 1: great team, won sixty games. But I gotta go with
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley on this. Malik Beasley has found a new
Speaker 1: home three hundred and twelve threes this season. I think
Speaker 1: both of these guys shoot threes. Malie Besy's averaging sixteen
Speaker 1: points off the bench, so he's winning in both of
Speaker 1: those categories, and their team is winning. I think when
Speaker 1: you can look at record, but obviously Boston's going to
Speaker 1: have a much better record than Detroit. They have a
Speaker 1: much better team than Detroit. But I gotta go with
Speaker 1: Malie Beasley on this one. Hit your three, hit, your
Speaker 1: shimmy player, your hip dance, or whatever it is. But
Speaker 1: I think Malie Beasley is deserving. I think he should
Speaker 1: get it. I think he's earned it. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: rolling with there.
Speaker 2: It is all right, last, but not least defensive Player
Speaker 2: of the Year. I will give you the floor because
Speaker 2: you know where my vote is going. What do you
Speaker 2: want to say about Defensive Player of the Year. It's
Speaker 2: the last one?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I think uh putting it back. I think
Speaker 1: in the bag yours true. That's who I'm rocking with,
Speaker 1: you know, I think, listen, I think Evan Mobley has
Speaker 1: had a great year. Dyson Daniels has had a great year.
Speaker 1: I think you know, Zoo Bosh has had a great year.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, all those guys had a great year.
Speaker 1: I ain't taking nothing away from him, and I'll see
Speaker 1: him on first team all Defense. But I think DP
Speaker 1: O wash should go to yours truly. I'll take that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 2: I gotta rock with you bro, you've been you know
Speaker 2: we talk about the season is solid, consistent, and you
Speaker 2: just military. You've had amazing moments when you look at
Speaker 2: team defense and team awareness and having that anchor. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're the guy and look at look at the Warrior numbers.
Speaker 2: So shout out to you. Be my pick, give me
Speaker 2: my pick all year. Man, let's lock in, let's go
Speaker 2: dumb nation. Yeah, this is it. This is the last season.
Speaker 2: This is the last season of the game. Man on
Speaker 2: the last game of the season. So let's get that
Speaker 2: defensive Yeah, one more, one more defensive showcase, and let's
Speaker 2: put that put that trophy in the bag.
Speaker 1: Come on, now, I appreciate you, my dog, I hope. So,
Speaker 1: but nonetheless, let's get this win tomorrow. We need you
Speaker 1: to you know what I'm saying, getting these playoffs. That
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. For all you guys out there in
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