Speaker 1: The volume. What's Up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show with Baron Davis. D D will unfortunately not
Speaker 1: be here today. He's out sick, so I decided to
Speaker 1: hop on. Still need to get our fans the content.
Speaker 1: We need to give you some opinions, So instead of
Speaker 1: doing like a preview because BD can't be here, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna hop on answer some fan questions, and then
Speaker 1: b D and I will go live after Game one
Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals, also creating a fresh episode breaking
Speaker 1: down in the finals matchup, but also everything else going
Speaker 1: around the soap opera, I mean going on around the NBA.
Speaker 1: So make sure y'all lock in for that. But I'll
Speaker 1: get right into these questions. Number one comes from Zen Lollipop.
Speaker 1: L He said, I think last year, when you were
Speaker 1: talking to a Knicks fan podcast host, you argue that
Speaker 1: the Knicks more or less overachieved and going to the
Speaker 1: second round, Lady, you maintained that the Michael Bridges trade
Speaker 1: would not get them to the finals. Presumably you saw
Speaker 1: them eventually fall into the Celtics, but they actually ended
Speaker 1: up eliminating in the Celtics and falling too the Pacers
Speaker 1: again given how everything ended up shaking out, do you
Speaker 1: still feel vindicated in your initial prediction and with the
Speaker 1: extra information from this season's stats and results, where do
Speaker 1: you project the Knicks going forward? But Number one, I
Speaker 1: don't feel vindicated about a prediction because it's just a prediction.
Speaker 1: It's just an opinion. So no, I don't my basketball. Now.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people out there talk about
Speaker 1: the game these days, and they do it in quite
Speaker 1: a way that's not indicative of true knowledge of the game.
Speaker 1: Or they say hot things or boat takes because they
Speaker 1: need like people to look because what they're saying is
Speaker 1: like doesn't have much fabric to it to its core,
Speaker 1: just not much fabric to some of these basketball predictions
Speaker 1: and analysis. So I said all of that to say,
Speaker 1: I think people like live and die on like, oh man,
Speaker 1: like my prediction. It's a prediction for a reason, But
Speaker 1: then you actually have to go play the game. So
Speaker 1: those things actually don't really matter. And saying that, I
Speaker 1: think for my and just looking at I said that
Speaker 1: that move doesn't get you to the NBA Finals, and
Speaker 1: it did it even in beating the Boston Celtics, who
Speaker 1: everyone thought would be the team. That's coming out of
Speaker 1: the East. You still didn't get to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: So but there's reasons for that, right, Like you trade
Speaker 1: for Mikeel Brizards, you give up a lot that you
Speaker 1: don't quite have the depth. Now there's something that say
Speaker 1: teams may not use the depth, but whether use it
Speaker 1: or not, they didn't quite have the depth that you
Speaker 1: need to compete at that level get to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: Winning the NBA Championship, I think one of the things
Speaker 1: that ultimately hurt them when you look at the series
Speaker 1: that they didn't lose against the Pacers, one of the
Speaker 1: things that ultimately hurt them was that they didn't have
Speaker 1: a depth when when kat will get in foul trouble
Speaker 1: or Jaylen Brunts will get in foul trouble. They went
Speaker 1: on runs at some of those points, for sure, but
Speaker 1: ultimately you do need your best players on the floor.
Speaker 1: If your best players aren't best on the floor together,
Speaker 1: then that's an issue and it's going to be hard
Speaker 1: to get to the NBA Finals anyway. So didn't quite
Speaker 1: happen with them falling to the Celtics for multiple reasons,
Speaker 1: not going to even get into those those multiple reasons,
Speaker 1: but nonetheless no, they did not make it to the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals, and quite if you want me to be
Speaker 1: quite honest with you, I personally think making it to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals is one of the worst seasons you
Speaker 1: can have, and the reason being because if you don't
Speaker 1: win the NBA Finals, you're kind of like going to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals and winning an NBA championship. Those two
Speaker 1: things are so far apart, Like you can get to
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals and not be close to winning an
Speaker 1: NBA championship. And I know that may sound hard for
Speaker 1: people to leave, but those that have won championships would
Speaker 1: definitely understand what I'm saying, and those that have been
Speaker 1: there and didn't quite win would definitely understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's those two things are so drastically far apart, like
Speaker 1: making it to a conference finals, like you're so far
Speaker 1: away from winning a championship, and it looks like it's
Speaker 1: close because you're one series away. The NBA Finals look
Speaker 1: like you close because you lost in the actual NBA Finals.
Speaker 1: But the difference in between winning and lose it and
Speaker 1: losing the NBA Finals for a lot of teams, every
Speaker 1: now and then you have that twenty sixteen Warriors versus
Speaker 1: Cavs Game seven down to the wire. It takes Kyrie
Speaker 1: irv and they had a crazy shot. Take to get
Speaker 1: a crazy block. Every now and then you have that
Speaker 1: and like you're right there. But like sometimes you see
Speaker 1: teams like losing an NBA Finals for the two like
Speaker 1: they the record is self doesn't tell the answer. But
Speaker 1: they could have won two games in the NFA Finals
Speaker 1: and really not been close to winning an NBA championship.
Speaker 1: That's how hard it is to win four games in
Speaker 1: an NBA champion in an NBA Finals. Even if the
Speaker 1: Knicks made it to the NBA Finals and didn't win it,
Speaker 1: that's not some accomplishment to me, Like, you get nothing
Speaker 1: from making the NBA finals. This set a couple of
Speaker 1: ten thousand more dollars than the conference final loser, than
Speaker 1: what you would have got for making the conference finals,
Speaker 1: and you get another three weeks shorter summer of the
Speaker 1: conference final loser. And if you're of and if you're not,
Speaker 1: if you've you know, compared to a team that played
Speaker 1: in or didn't make the playoffs, you're an entire nine
Speaker 1: weeks off your summer. And for a team that made
Speaker 1: the second round, or you know, made it to the
Speaker 1: first round, you're probably seven weeks. The numbers are what
Speaker 1: they are, they're not exact point being you walk with
Speaker 1: nothing like the team go on and celebrate and have
Speaker 1: this incredible summer, and like you're kind of left stuck
Speaker 1: there trying to figure out, like, where were you really close?
Speaker 1: Do we need to run it back with this team?
Speaker 1: What's the tweak we need to make because we were
Speaker 1: right there or we weren't really right there. Only some
Speaker 1: gms are smart enough to figure out like, yeah we
Speaker 1: were there, but we really weren't there, like the CLO.
Speaker 1: But you're kind of left in this position of like, ah,
Speaker 1: maybe we're one tweak away, but what you should understand
Speaker 1: about this thing? One tweet could actually like it's like
Speaker 1: jinga sometimes like one tweak of a roster could make
Speaker 1: the whole thing fall. So it's not just always like
Speaker 1: it's not like a simple fix, but you may think
Speaker 1: it is. And while you think it is, and you
Speaker 1: were made it to the NBA Finals and lost, there
Speaker 1: are other teams that like felt like they needed to
Speaker 1: a make a big change or two or three and
Speaker 1: like are coming for you, and you're kind of left
Speaker 1: in the same spot thinking you close and you may
Speaker 1: not be that close, or that one tweet could like
Speaker 1: really put you far further away than you were. So
Speaker 1: it's not like, oh, you just do it again, or
Speaker 1: you had some like huge level of success. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: making it to the finals is great, but if you
Speaker 1: don't win it, it's almost worse, like you might as
Speaker 1: well have lost in the first round. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of how I feel about that. And as far as
Speaker 1: the Knicks going forward, yeah, I think going forward, in
Speaker 1: order to win, it ain't there yet. I just don't
Speaker 1: foresee it. I think in order to win, the Knicks
Speaker 1: need to bring in a great player. I can't talk
Speaker 1: specific names because I'm not gonna give my money away
Speaker 1: for that. But if the Knicks want if the Knicks
Speaker 1: want to win, to compete for a championship, I think
Speaker 1: they need a great player and I'll just leave it
Speaker 1: at that. So what does that look like going for
Speaker 1: you decide, But if you're talking about championships, I'm just
Speaker 1: going to tell you, as a champion and I know
Speaker 1: exactly what it looked like, they need a great player
Speaker 1: to come on that roster. They need to add a
Speaker 1: great player to that roster. How do you do that?
Speaker 1: That ain't for me to get into, but they need
Speaker 1: to add a great player if you think they're going
Speaker 1: to compete for an actual NBA championship. John emailed the
Speaker 1: question in who has the best defense in the finals
Speaker 1: and why? I think that's an easy answer. The best
Speaker 1: defense in the finals, I think is the no question.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder. I think a they have multiple incredible
Speaker 1: individual defenders. They're very well coached, which makes the team
Speaker 1: defense great. But they have multiple incredible individual defenders. Like
Speaker 1: when you think about Tyrese Halliburton, he could face Loudor
Speaker 1: he could face Adams Caruso, he could face Caseon Wallace,
Speaker 1: he could face j Dunn, who's an All defensive team member.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of guys to be able to throw
Speaker 1: out one guy. They have that, and like I said,
Speaker 1: they're well coached and they load up boxes and elbows,
Speaker 1: they swarm to the ball. I think, so that goes
Speaker 1: without saying. I think where Indiana could cause them trouble
Speaker 1: is if the offense isn't clicking. Because I don't think
Speaker 1: okayc run like a super complicated offense. So if the
Speaker 1: offense isn't clicking and Indiana's getting off to the races.
Speaker 1: I don't know that oka Se transition offense is that defense.
Speaker 1: Transition defense is that great, and that's where Indiana could
Speaker 1: cause them some issues if the transition defense isn't I
Speaker 1: don't think their transition defense isn't that great. Great, But
Speaker 1: who has the best defense? They have to be defense
Speaker 1: by Launch in his NBA Finals in the NBA they
Speaker 1: have the best defense at baller twenty two to twenty three.
Speaker 1: You talked about Okay see seriousness earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: Now that they're in the finals, when did you notice
Speaker 1: they flipped the switch? I think as the season went on,
Speaker 1: you saw the interviews change, like the messaging in the
Speaker 1: interviews changed. But in saying that, I do think they
Speaker 1: still go about their business the same way. Like it's
Speaker 1: not like, oh man, they made some huge change. Like
Speaker 1: they go about their business, how they go about their business.
Speaker 1: What works for you works for you. I personally still
Speaker 1: think it'd be incredible to see Shae in interviews by himself.
Speaker 1: I think it'll still do more for Chay's brand to
Speaker 1: see Shape in interviews by himself. But what works for you,
Speaker 1: the demeanor of your team works for you. When we
Speaker 1: were win a championships. If you came into one our practice,
Speaker 1: the beginning of practice to like a circus. You got
Speaker 1: Steff throwing four course shots from one end, another guy
Speaker 1: throwing football passes to the complete opposite Kitty cornered across
Speaker 1: two courts to the opposite end of the floor, guys
Speaker 1: kicking balls from half court, kicking the ball trying to
Speaker 1: make it into the rim. If you came into those
Speaker 1: practices like you looking, you'd be like, there's no chance
Speaker 1: that's a championship team. Look how they look. Once we
Speaker 1: get our business going, we locked in. But then you
Speaker 1: might like, we's had this little bench or not bench.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a table like a training table
Speaker 1: on the side of the court. We could go sit
Speaker 1: over there on the training table during practice. If you
Speaker 1: went on the court, they moved the training table one day,
Speaker 1: like one like one year or one day we came
Speaker 1: in to practice and the training table was gone. You
Speaker 1: would have thought, like, whatever, the wildest thing you can
Speaker 1: think of happened. You would have thought that happened. Everybody
Speaker 1: in there going crazy like yo, where the tables at
Speaker 1: the next day to the table was back like it
Speaker 1: almost come off as a joke, Like I said, well,
Speaker 1: we're about our business. We're about our business, and we're
Speaker 1: locked in and we dialed in, we're getting our work done.
Speaker 1: But anything outside that music blast like it's joke. And
Speaker 1: so I said all that to say, what works for
Speaker 1: you works for you. There are some things that they
Speaker 1: do that I don't like that as the as the
Speaker 1: leader of a team at this point in my career,
Speaker 1: I don't think i'd want our team doing that. But
Speaker 1: I also don't know the culture of that locker room,
Speaker 1: you know, I also don't know their culture, and so
Speaker 1: what works for you works for you, and you got
Speaker 1: to go with that. I do think they have a
Speaker 1: grey young leader in Shae who has built the culture.
Speaker 1: Like Shae has taken part in building that culture back there.
Speaker 1: Obviously Sam Presty, they got a great culture, but Shae
Speaker 1: has built that culture there from the beginning. Him and
Speaker 1: Ludor they've built that culture. And so as the guys
Speaker 1: who who built that culture, you know how to lead it.
Speaker 1: And I respect Shae, especially as a leader. Lou Dorton
Speaker 1: and how you go about his business, but Shae is
Speaker 1: the clear cut leader and I respect him as a leader.
Speaker 1: He's doing a great job, and so there are still
Speaker 1: some things that I see that I'm like, ah, but
Speaker 1: what works for you works for you, and nobody can
Speaker 1: argue what works for them is working for them. Moving
Speaker 1: on to the next question number four at Unbiased Dubs Fan,
Speaker 1: in your personal opinion, who are the top five Defenders
Speaker 1: of all time in order? And where are you on
Speaker 1: that list? What you should understand by me is I
Speaker 1: think I'm number one on that list. However, I think
Speaker 1: top five to go in order. I'm really not a
Speaker 1: fan of those, But who I would regard as my
Speaker 1: top five defenders of all time? I definitely put myself
Speaker 1: in that list. Ben Wallace's on that list in my opinion.
Speaker 1: On that list, Tim Duncan is on that list, and
Speaker 1: the last one on that list. Also understand like, I'm
Speaker 1: not including Will, I'm not including Bill Russell. I didn't
Speaker 1: see them play. I have the utmost respect for those guys,
Speaker 1: the pioneers, the utmost respect. But I'd be lying to
Speaker 1: you if I'm like Bill Russell, Will Chamberlain, like, I'm
Speaker 1: just going off stacks, And I don't love when people
Speaker 1: do that, because there's an eye test and I haven't
Speaker 1: seen enough of their games to say that, So understand
Speaker 1: I'm not excluding them. I was born in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: and that's my only reason for not including them. But
Speaker 1: I'm not excluding them or you know, saying they're not it.
Speaker 1: They very much so could be that's a little before
Speaker 1: my time. I you know, I've seen some of their
Speaker 1: games and watched stuff here, but to say top five
Speaker 1: of all time, like you have to see more games
Speaker 1: than I've seen theirs. And so I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be a hypocrite and be like, oh, those guys like
Speaker 1: that will be fake of me. So understand that and
Speaker 1: saying all of that, and my fifth would go to, well,
Speaker 1: I actually did have the opportunity to see very young
Speaker 1: in my life, but more film around him. How came
Speaker 1: a Lodger one that would be my top five. So
Speaker 1: my top five in no particular order, myself, Tim Duncan,
Speaker 1: Ben Wallace, I came, and TONI All.
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Speaker 1: Number five at Asian Sensation thirty two eighty six. How
Speaker 1: do you manage to defend players who are either more
Speaker 1: athletic or have a height advantage over you. It's amazing
Speaker 1: at your height that you can defend all positions effectively.
Speaker 1: I think more athletic guys who are more athletic than me,
Speaker 1: like you can have athleticism, but the game is all
Speaker 1: about angles, and so where you can beat me in athleticism,
Speaker 1: I can I understand angles and I can make up
Speaker 1: in angles. In physicality, athleticism can only be used and
Speaker 1: taken advantage of with space. If you close distance, close
Speaker 1: space it's harder for that athleticism to be used to
Speaker 1: their advantage, you know. So those are a couple of
Speaker 1: the things that I try to do. As far as
Speaker 1: people will hype. My grandma used to have a stand,
Speaker 1: the bigger they are, the harder they fall. No, it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily that, but when I see a guy that's had,
Speaker 1: you know, has me in height. There's also a disadvantage
Speaker 1: to have a height. Most bigger guys can't get low.
Speaker 1: And there's this old saying low man wins. When I
Speaker 1: play football growing up, they will always say low man wins.
Speaker 1: And so for me, I'm always looking to get lower
Speaker 1: than the guys who taller than me because now I
Speaker 1: have leverage, which can then persuade you to get into
Speaker 1: your spot. And if you can stop somebody by even
Speaker 1: an ish, from getting to the spot that they want to,
Speaker 1: that changes the shot. And ultimately, if I can be lord,
Speaker 1: then you I can stop you from getting to the
Speaker 1: exact spot you want to get to to take the
Speaker 1: shot that you want to take. That possession goes in
Speaker 1: my favorite Whether you make a miss the shot, you
Speaker 1: can still make a mister shot. But I'm going to
Speaker 1: make the bet that over the course of time, over
Speaker 1: the course of a forty eight minute game, per se,
Speaker 1: if I make you take the shot that I want
Speaker 1: more often than you give the opportunity to take the
Speaker 1: shot that you want to take, I'm gonna win. Over
Speaker 1: the course of forty eight you take twenty shots, and
Speaker 1: I can make you take thirteen of them. You didn't
Speaker 1: really want to take those, as opposed to you being
Speaker 1: seven for thirteen. Maybe you're four for thirteen and vanish me.
Speaker 1: You know what. So that's kind of how I like
Speaker 1: to approach it. I always think low man wins, and
Speaker 1: I try to make sure I'm lower than those guys
Speaker 1: and then use my ankles. Question six at Q will five,
Speaker 1: If you could add or change the rule in the NBA,
Speaker 1: what would it be and why? I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's necessarily a rule that I care most about. I
Speaker 1: was shortened the season. I just think it's too many
Speaker 1: games and at the speed that the game is played
Speaker 1: at today. I know people always talk about, oh man,
Speaker 1: guys always did that them guys like no disrespect to
Speaker 1: the guys that came before me, but they used to
Speaker 1: walk the ball up the court. Like the speed that
Speaker 1: the game has played at today. The amount of ground
Speaker 1: that's being covered today as opposed to before in the
Speaker 1: NBA sdrastic, and so I think I just think the
Speaker 1: seasons is a little long, and you don't always end
Speaker 1: up seeing the best of the best from the best,
Speaker 1: So if that's necessarily a rule, but I do think
Speaker 1: it's a problem. Why no'bron talked about a month there
Speaker 1: being a month off before the playoffs. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's possible. A you kind of get a you know,
Speaker 1: guys could get a bit out of shape, and it
Speaker 1: could have adverse an adverse effect, you know, guys getting
Speaker 1: back in all of a sudden, you pull something that's
Speaker 1: been a month. So I don't know if it's necessary,
Speaker 1: if a month is the right answer. But two weeks
Speaker 1: ain't no basketball, ain't no NBA player getting out of
Speaker 1: shape in two weeks, But you do. You can't get
Speaker 1: a lot healthier in two weeks. You know, you look
Speaker 1: at that Steph Curry pulling a hamstring, and and and
Speaker 1: to your point, Aaron Gordon saying two days in between games,
Speaker 1: I agree, you look at because here's the thing. If
Speaker 1: you end up with a series like Houston and it's
Speaker 1: a day in between games. That's a four hour flight,
Speaker 1: four and a half hour flight from San Francisco to
Speaker 1: Houston on the day in between the game. That's your resident.
Speaker 1: So by the time you land in Houston, it's eight
Speaker 1: o'clock at night. If you just try to get the
Speaker 1: guys a little sleep and not leave at ten or
Speaker 1: leave at twelve, all of a sudden, you getting into Houston.
Speaker 1: By the time you make it to the hotel, it's dark,
Speaker 1: eight o'clock at night. You're trying to get dinner, and
Speaker 1: everything is quick, like you're getting ready for band. So
Speaker 1: the recovery process ain't great. Is it about bunching in
Speaker 1: games or is it about the best man winning, the
Speaker 1: best team winning, putting your best product out there on
Speaker 1: the floor for the fans. And I think that's where
Speaker 1: you run into the issue, And so I agree with AG. Like,
Speaker 1: there's two games we played Boston in the NBA Final,
Speaker 1: Robert Williams was dealing with a knee injury. When he
Speaker 1: was out in the court, they were really good when
Speaker 1: we had a day in between games. Brother man could
Speaker 1: not move. That second game when there was two days
Speaker 1: in between games, Oh man, that game he played after
Speaker 1: them two days with stellar That could possibly change the
Speaker 1: outcome of the series. I still think we beat them,
Speaker 1: but that could change something. Well, there's one day. Does
Speaker 1: it help absolutely?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: As I said, not quite a rule change, maybe a
Speaker 1: concept change or but if you want the best, I
Speaker 1: think that needs to change. Another rule that I would
Speaker 1: talk about that also, it's not really a rude and
Speaker 1: fans wouldn't understand, is a couple of things. There should
Speaker 1: be a standard when you go to these arenas, in
Speaker 1: these visiting locker rooms, when you're accustomed to a certain
Speaker 1: level of things. It's a certain thing for recovery, cold
Speaker 1: to hot tub souna. When you have a routine that
Speaker 1: you do for recovery and then you go on to
Speaker 1: roll for two weeks and you can't hit that because
Speaker 1: of the seven games that you play, one team you
Speaker 1: had access to a cold to one team you had
Speaker 1: access to a sauna. It doesn't allow the product to
Speaker 1: be as great as it can possibly be. So in turn,
Speaker 1: it affects the fans. Right, it's something that fans don't see,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you it's something that affects fans because
Speaker 1: you're not getting the best product. Another standard that should
Speaker 1: be that ultimately help players, which helps fans. You go
Speaker 1: to some of these arenas, some of the chairs are
Speaker 1: low as hell. You sit, you're like hips are the
Speaker 1: chairs on a bench amongst across the NBA should be
Speaker 1: standards should have to be a certain height hip position.
Speaker 1: It makes all the difference from him. But guess what
Speaker 1: else that affects. It affects backs, which ultimately can affect casts,
Speaker 1: which utimately play effect. Hamstrings can affect achilles, It can
Speaker 1: affect nees. Right, like all the stuff is a trickle
Speaker 1: down effect. There should be a certain standard for stuff
Speaker 1: like that, because again, those things allow for the product
Speaker 1: to stay in the best possible shape as it can
Speaker 1: stay for the fan that paid their hard earned money.
Speaker 1: There's no standard. So from arena arena, locker room shit benches,
Speaker 1: low as hell, trash. I think those things need to
Speaker 1: be changed. It's twenty twenty five. You mean to tell
Speaker 1: me there's not a standard. Hey, ownership, You've made all
Speaker 1: this money. There's a certain standard that your visiting locker
Speaker 1: room should be. It should have these things. It don't
Speaker 1: have to be the most expensive world pool, hot tub,
Speaker 1: cold tup, Ryan Smith Utah out of Kota, Hota. It
Speaker 1: don't look like it's something that is crazy expensive, but
Speaker 1: it makes a difference. Go State Warriors, I think they
Speaker 1: got a very expensive one, a whole situation going over
Speaker 1: there in the visitor's locker room. But it don't have
Speaker 1: to be expensive. It's just the access which ultimately gives
Speaker 1: the players better recovery, which allows the players to be
Speaker 1: out there on the floor more, which is the big
Speaker 1: gripe around the NBA. Huh So how about you start
Speaker 1: correcting these things that can help correct the issue, because
Speaker 1: guess what, I don't think the amount of games is changing,
Speaker 1: So what can you change? You can change those things.
Speaker 1: Those are the rule changes, if you might ask that
Speaker 1: I think need to happen because it affects the overall product.
Speaker 1: At love the game twenty Who are the top five
Speaker 1: players in the NBA without a ring? You gotta go
Speaker 1: talk to somebody else without a ring. I don't have
Speaker 1: without ring talks. I'll take that a step further. There
Speaker 1: are some guys that have rings because you need luck,
Speaker 1: like and they just didn't catch the break. You need
Speaker 1: luck on your side. The wear rings health right like.
Speaker 1: It ain't always apples to apples and just because you
Speaker 1: don't have a ring doesn't necessarily make you not a winner,
Speaker 1: because I see people throw that type of salt all
Speaker 1: the time, like Chris Paul not a winner. Chris Paul
Speaker 1: is a winner, hasn't had the luxury of winning the ring,
Speaker 1: but due the winner, no question, is a winner. It's
Speaker 1: been proven, you know. So I don't. I don't get
Speaker 1: off into all of that. It's very hard to do,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, Like there's a certain respect that
Speaker 1: comes with doing it as it should. But I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not the one tall that ain't me or like that.
Speaker 1: At and moving on at math bell K five, can
Speaker 1: you talk more about players slash teams that actually want
Speaker 1: to win a championship versus players slash teams who are
Speaker 1: not really in it to win a championship? Absolutely, you
Speaker 1: figure on a giving year in the NBA, there's maybe
Speaker 1: if you're lucky for the five teams really trying to
Speaker 1: win a championship, like doing all that they can. The
Speaker 1: only thing matters the most of the first, second, and
Speaker 1: third most important things is winning a championship. You got
Speaker 1: really three to five teams a year that that's really
Speaker 1: the case. Everybody say they trying to win a championship.
Speaker 1: All the players are going to be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know we fighting start to see, well, we just
Speaker 1: want to, you know, prepare to try to win a
Speaker 1: champion know you not, because winning a championship don't happen
Speaker 1: on your terms. So you see these teams and these
Speaker 1: players like, oh, win a championship don't happen on your terms.
Speaker 1: Winning a championship happens on the terms that need to
Speaker 1: be met to win a championship. And everybody ain't willing
Speaker 1: to sacrifice for that, not organizationally, not from a player perspective.
Speaker 1: They wanted to look a certain way, I want to
Speaker 1: win a championship, but that don't work. But don't work.
Speaker 1: That little butt will kill your chances. And that's most people,
Speaker 1: that's most organizations. So anytime you hear people saying, we
Speaker 1: want to win a championship, but axit, that's it. They
Speaker 1: don't really want to win. And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: that around the NBA. There's far more of that than
Speaker 1: people who actually want to win a championship. So yeah, no,
Speaker 1: they're all in your face every day, all day at
Speaker 1: Dean Chambers eighty six thirteen, How do you work on
Speaker 1: mental toughness as a young team, and keep up the
Speaker 1: hunger to win as an older team. I think keeping
Speaker 1: up the hunger to win as an older team. Like
Speaker 1: you you've experienced success and you want that, you know,
Speaker 1: like if you're a winner, you just don't you just
Speaker 1: don't stop and be like, all right, that gene is
Speaker 1: gone now, like I don't care to win anymore. No,
Speaker 1: you always want to win. That's the type of person.
Speaker 1: That's that's how you keep that up. It's the type
Speaker 1: of people you have as far as a younger team
Speaker 1: mental toughness. You got to go through it, and you
Speaker 1: got to be willing to go through it, and you
Speaker 1: got to be willing to go through it with the
Speaker 1: people you're going through with. And it's a certain way
Speaker 1: to go through it. When you lose, you lose a
Speaker 1: certain way. You go back to what I was saying
Speaker 1: about the Houston Rockets the last month ago. What now
Speaker 1: when they lost, you lose a certain way you run on.
Speaker 1: If the cord you duck your head, you ain't ready
Speaker 1: to win because you ain't know how to lose. You
Speaker 1: ain't ready to win. If you don't know how to lose,
Speaker 1: does not mean you have to lose in order to win.
Speaker 1: But if you don't know how to lose, you ain't
Speaker 1: ready to win. And so for a young team, you
Speaker 1: gotta be willing to go through that. And when you
Speaker 1: take them lumps, you gotta take them lumps. You don't
Speaker 1: start pointing a finger. Only way the fingers should be
Speaker 1: pointing is here, how can I help better this so
Speaker 1: that we can do this. That's how you build mental
Speaker 1: toughness as a young team. You gotta go through it,
Speaker 1: and you gotta stantento's and when you go through it,
Speaker 1: you look. You stand as men or women depending on
Speaker 1: the young team we're talking about, obviously we're talking NBA.
Speaker 1: You stand, You take your lumps, you take it on
Speaker 1: the chain, You go back to the drawing board, You
Speaker 1: work a little harder to try to do it again.
Speaker 1: You know what that's you know what that look like,
Speaker 1: you know what that felt like. You hold on to
Speaker 1: that experience, Channel that experience, remember that experience and learn
Speaker 1: from it. That's how you move forward. That's how a
Speaker 1: young team gains mental toughness. You go through it, stay
Speaker 1: ten toes, don't start pointing a finger. Ah your homeboys
Speaker 1: going on one of oh Man and stay nowad ain't
Speaker 1: it was us. It was me. I did this because
Speaker 1: that attitude carries into everything that you do and then
Speaker 1: you can win. And that's how you build that mental
Speaker 1: toughness as a young team at the AJA the AJA media.
Speaker 1: What lessons have you learned from setbacks or injuries? What
Speaker 1: is your philosophy on building team chemistry and camaraderie. My
Speaker 1: lessons from injuries that I've learned. I've been fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to not have a ton of bad injuries. I think
Speaker 1: my worst one I've had was my back injury. And
Speaker 1: the lessons I've learned is just how lift weights, be strong,
Speaker 1: lift weights, how strongcore lift weights. They tell you it's
Speaker 1: gonna mess up your jump shot. Go lift some more weights,
Speaker 1: lift weights, lift properly lyft weights. That would be what
Speaker 1: I learned from setbacks and injuries, team chemistry and camaraderie.
Speaker 1: I gotta start at the top in order to build that,
Speaker 1: and must start at the top. But don't start at
Speaker 1: the top. It can't start in the middle. That never works.
Speaker 1: Can't be a couple here, a couple there. Must start
Speaker 1: at the top and then trickle down to everyone. You
Speaker 1: can start there. That's the beginning. Of the end. If
Speaker 1: you cannot build team chemistry and camaraderie starting at the top,
Speaker 1: that is the beginning of the end and last, but
Speaker 1: not least, at any underscore. What is your favorite moment
Speaker 1: that you can remember in your career in the NBA
Speaker 1: and college. NBA winning a championship, no question. College, I
Speaker 1: would say my eye too, playing in the Final four
Speaker 1: in Detroit. Just the whole lead up to that game
Speaker 1: of pep Riley like it was incredible playing in the
Speaker 1: Final four in Detroit. We lost in the national championship game,
Speaker 1: but that experience was one of my favorites in college.
Speaker 1: My freshman year and then also my senior year playing
Speaker 1: on an aircraft carrier in San Diego on the USS
Speaker 1: Carl Vincent aircraft carrier where President Obama in attendance. It
Speaker 1: was like a dream come true. And it wasn't a
Speaker 1: dream that I had because I didn't even know its possible.
Speaker 1: We had the best a athletic director ever in Mark
Speaker 1: Hollis who just created this thing out of the n
Speaker 1: air and it was one of the most incredible evins.
Speaker 1: It wasn't one of the best games to play in.
Speaker 1: The win was a factor to Cory get a little slippery,
Speaker 1: had those dcal slippery, but forget the game. We still
Speaker 1: had a great year and that was one of the
Speaker 1: most incredible experiences. So I would say that one those
Speaker 1: will be my couple from college. One A one B.
Speaker 1: I love those. So yeah, appreciate y'all tuning in. Like
Speaker 1: I said before, sorry BD couldn't be here. Hope my
Speaker 1: dog feel better. If BD you hear this, you feel
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Speaker 1: I will be back after Game one of the NBA
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Speaker 1: Look forward to that. Until next time. That's a right peace.
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