Speaker 1: This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and I and this is a cut
Speaker 1: to it bonus episode. Good do It, Good do It.
Speaker 1: They're getting down to do it, good do it? All right,
Speaker 1: so we have to breakdown and so Chastie, what we uh,
Speaker 1: what we're gonna talk about is bubble ball. And in
Speaker 1: bubble ball is we want your coach. You also balled,
Speaker 1: So we want you to break down the finals right
Speaker 1: now and also breakdown the w n B A and
Speaker 1: what has gone on inside the bubble and why has
Speaker 1: it been so successful with everything and unless So let's
Speaker 1: start off with what I'm trying to figure out because
Speaker 1: I'm baffled. I'm a football guy through and through. I
Speaker 1: watched basketball from the couch. I'm coach. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's a good picking roll. I just he either
Speaker 1: made it or he didn't not that's all. I let
Speaker 1: the ball go in the basket. My son gets on
Speaker 1: my nerves with this bull crap talking about pandemic p
Speaker 1: oh man. I can't stand because I'm a Clippers fan too,
Speaker 1: so I gets on my nerves. So please explain to me,
Speaker 1: where are all these young all stars coming from that peak?
Speaker 1: Like the heat they got, all these guys shooting threes
Speaker 1: four months ago, these dudes where nobody's then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden dancing they they shooting threes. Please help a
Speaker 1: couch basketball fan like myself. Okay, all right, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna cut to it. Preston Steph Curry, who we all love,
Speaker 1: changed the game with three point shot, and um, I
Speaker 1: watched the NFL feel the same way you watch basketball, Steve.
Speaker 1: I'm on the couch, like did he catch it? Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's it. I don't know the like why did he
Speaker 1: run outside? Why? I'm asking people, why did he just
Speaker 1: rush straight up the middle? Like? I don't get it?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So Um, basically, the game
Speaker 1: has changed so much that it's a game made for
Speaker 1: just and I know people hate for me to say
Speaker 1: that for three point shooters. Um, back in the day,
Speaker 1: if you watch the game you had, and I guess
Speaker 1: the San Antonio's first obviously showed this the best you
Speaker 1: had inside outside like the three point I hate people
Speaker 1: say the three point shot wasn't always a part of
Speaker 1: the game because it's always been a part of the game,
Speaker 1: but now for me watching the game, it seems like
Speaker 1: it's the only part. And so a lot of players
Speaker 1: that are out there now knocking down threes and playing
Speaker 1: in the NBA ten years ago wouldn't have made it
Speaker 1: to the league. But also now be guys you know,
Speaker 1: like Bam shows he can still score. Those types of
Speaker 1: players and I'm glad that Miami Heat you do lines
Speaker 1: as him. But those types of players are overseas, so
Speaker 1: you don't really have those bigs and people that can
Speaker 1: score inside or people that can get the old fashioned
Speaker 1: end ones. They're pretty much shipped overseas and not in
Speaker 1: the NBA anymore. So that's why you have this talent
Speaker 1: pool where people are like, who is this dude? But
Speaker 1: if he's knocking down threes and um in the NBA system,
Speaker 1: then he's going to be successful. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: like where the game is going to now. Do you think,
Speaker 1: with that being said, do you think that teams are
Speaker 1: now depending on three point shot more than they used
Speaker 1: to be. It seems almost as if it is predicated
Speaker 1: you run your offense. So you look at like the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets, it's it's almost as if it's predicated with
Speaker 1: the three point shot. Yeah, it's it definitely is, And
Speaker 1: that part of me bothered me coaching with the Greensboro Swarm.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm trying to get guys like inside
Speaker 1: to do just an up and under. You know, there
Speaker 1: are guys six nine, six ten that could easily average
Speaker 1: ten and twelve by just making basic moves inside. But
Speaker 1: they're getting the ball and dribbling to kick it out
Speaker 1: to it for a three point shot. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can see it when you watch the game, and then
Speaker 1: you'll have guys that can go in and get an
Speaker 1: N one like I love. I used to love how
Speaker 1: Stephan Mary Marbury would cut the ball when he drove
Speaker 1: to the basket against all those big dudes and finish
Speaker 1: with the A one. You don't see guys do that anymore. Um,
Speaker 1: Miami Heat has shown it something, but they've just kind
Speaker 1: of gone away from that. It's like you drive to
Speaker 1: pitch and that's kind of like the NBA game right now.
Speaker 1: But I always say it's a game. It's it's just trendy.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna it's not anything to hate on. You
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Some people like it, some people want the
Speaker 1: old school basketball. But I think it'll trend back to,
Speaker 1: you know, at least having post score inside and do
Speaker 1: different things. Or maybe it won't. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I missed. I missed the big scorner inside. So I
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching BAM with the Miami Heat. What has the
Speaker 1: bubble done for basketball in regards to the restart, I
Speaker 1: think it's just made it more neutral. I think once
Speaker 1: you get the fans out of it and the home
Speaker 1: court advantage it brings it, it brings back a sense
Speaker 1: of purity to the game of just you know, we're
Speaker 1: in the bubble. The guys are in the bubble, and
Speaker 1: it's just basketball, and it's um. If you played AU
Speaker 1: or you've played in any kind of tournament like a
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving turn or whatever, you know, it's just you guys
Speaker 1: are there, the women are there at tournaments and it's
Speaker 1: just the play. Um, you don't know who you don't.
Speaker 1: You may not have a lot of fans. Everyone can't
Speaker 1: fit in the GM. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's just all about basketball and bragging, right. So I
Speaker 1: think that's what we saw in the bubble, and the
Speaker 1: bubble is just game in game out. There's no home
Speaker 1: court advantage. It's just we all slept pretty much in
Speaker 1: the same bed as the same hotel, eating the same food,
Speaker 1: and um, you gotta go out and play. Yeah, A
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of the players wanted to call
Speaker 1: the w B A bubble the bubble, so they were
Speaker 1: getting on me because I still called it the bubble
Speaker 1: there because I like, I don't like saying wobble. I'm
Speaker 1: because I'm old school. I'm like, I'm staying the entertaining.
Speaker 1: I'm a grown woman. You always say wobble. What's what's
Speaker 1: been your take so far? I know the w n
Speaker 1: B A is is still in the wobbo and the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Merker you guys, UM, you know you you guys
Speaker 1: are are now out of the playoffs. But what's been
Speaker 1: your take, UM, on that whole experience so far? You
Speaker 1: kind of tol us a little bit. What's been your
Speaker 1: take on the experience so far and now previewing the
Speaker 1: rest of the playoffs with the w n B A UM.
Speaker 1: Just as the girls are extremely talented, like UM, shout
Speaker 1: out to all the w B athletes athletes. They were
Speaker 1: there with their families, with their kids, UM. Some of
Speaker 1: their husbands were there, some of their partners were there.
Speaker 1: So for me to see the ladies on all different
Speaker 1: levels UM, day in and day out. UM, just kudos
Speaker 1: to them. And also the fact they took on their
Speaker 1: activism role. They started to say her name campaign UM
Speaker 1: And obviously from a black female's perspective, we felt the
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor situation, We felt some of the other things
Speaker 1: that are going on, UM as far as our concern
Speaker 1: for not just ourselves but our family and black men.
Speaker 1: So for them to carry on that role and be
Speaker 1: consistent with it as and and also be inside of
Speaker 1: a bubble away from family and trying to raise a
Speaker 1: kid or you know, trying to keep a relationship in
Speaker 1: the bubble as well as UM, give your best effort
Speaker 1: on the court says a lot about the females Right now.
Speaker 1: The Connecticut Son and uh, the Aces are battling it out.
Speaker 1: They will have Game five tonight and the Aces aren't
Speaker 1: gonna win without Angel mccatry being a superstar. So she
Speaker 1: has to be a superstar again tonight or I think
Speaker 1: the Connecticut Son will win, but no one's gonna beat
Speaker 1: that well oiled machine. UM. In the Seattle Storm led
Speaker 1: by Sue Bird and Brianna Stewart and jul Lloyd Um
Speaker 1: the young Kobe of the w n B A. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I don't see anyone
Speaker 1: beaten the Seattle store. Mhm okay, old predictions. Last question, un,
Speaker 1: let's bounce back to the man. When no one saw,
Speaker 1: no one saw that Jimmy Butler in the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: going until they started playing, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now we have it. Who do you have Lebron James
Speaker 1: led Lakers or Jimmy Butler led Miami and y I
Speaker 1: have Lebron James. Listen, I like I said, I you
Speaker 1: are smiler. I have a Lebron James fan. Um on
Speaker 1: so many levels. Um, just because I mean and Steve,
Speaker 1: you probably could attest this like he just created a
Speaker 1: blueprint for athletes that I think maybe a lot of
Speaker 1: guys are. I don't know that he created. I watched them,
Speaker 1: but I ain't familiar with that one. You don't think
Speaker 1: you don't think he created it as far as like
Speaker 1: getting instead of making his crew like just his crew,
Speaker 1: you know, he fired his agent, made them hire just guys,
Speaker 1: teach them the whole teaching the ropes about you know,
Speaker 1: becomeing agents and the behind the scenes and then just
Speaker 1: forming a partnership with them and bringing them along as
Speaker 1: far as like, I had never seen an NBA guy
Speaker 1: do that before. You know, Just think about if Alan
Speaker 1: Iverson would took some of his guys and kind of
Speaker 1: help them evolve to that point, just what his legacy
Speaker 1: would have. It would have been double what it is already. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's I would say this. Yeah, one, I've
Speaker 1: seen it in football. It's called nepotism where the coaches, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, their kids are around and all of a
Speaker 1: shodding like a great example of a really good coach
Speaker 1: right now with the s for Niners, Kyle Shannah and
Speaker 1: his dad at you know, did that, so he was
Speaker 1: around football. So one, you have to have a desire
Speaker 1: and you also have to be teachable. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know Alan's people, so I'm not gonna I don't think
Speaker 1: it's fair for me to say that they weren't. But
Speaker 1: obviously Lebron's guys wanted and desire to be teachable and
Speaker 1: learn to become who they are today. Right, So you
Speaker 1: can always write because how many people, how many players
Speaker 1: have you been around and now you're a coach, how
Speaker 1: many coaches, how many male and females have you coached?
Speaker 1: And you realize at some point this player is only
Speaker 1: gonna go this far because they're in their own way.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, but and I no, I agree to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, like you do have to be teachable, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, like Lebron is an eighteen year
Speaker 1: old kid, Like I'm trying to I'm thinking back to
Speaker 1: when I first went pro, and obviously I was never
Speaker 1: on the level of an NBA player or NFL player,
Speaker 1: But I wasn't thinking that whether I would have had
Speaker 1: those those those people in my life. Now. I mean,
Speaker 1: as I look back now, I'm like, you know, I
Speaker 1: have friends that went on to become lawyers and financial advisors. Um.
Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking, like an eighteen right when I
Speaker 1: went pro, or like at twenty one, if I would
Speaker 1: have just created my own team, like, how much more
Speaker 1: powerful I would have been as a professional athlete. So
Speaker 1: that's why I just I follow a lot. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that Lebron has done since an
Speaker 1: eighteen year old kid. Um, it just speaks volumes. Like
Speaker 1: That's why I say I think he's someone I'm sure
Speaker 1: other people have done it to a certain extent, but
Speaker 1: he didn't know, not today the revolutionary and what you
Speaker 1: know his team has been able to do, and how
Speaker 1: he's been able to put other people on. For sure,
Speaker 1: I just would have loved if I had, like, if
Speaker 1: I could go back, I would have done that the
Speaker 1: same way. But I wasn't thinking that way. Um. But
Speaker 1: I don't have any regrets about my pro career or
Speaker 1: what I did because I did the best that I
Speaker 1: knew how. I think every athlete could pretty much say that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't know what you don't know at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. But yeah, I think moving
Speaker 1: on though, I think the Lakers for sure are gonna
Speaker 1: you know, Lebron will get his four three. UM, I
Speaker 1: just don't see the Miami Heat beating them in seven games. UM.
Speaker 1: I would hope they would make it a series because
Speaker 1: it's just fun to watch and then you know it's
Speaker 1: competitive and h for athletes who are super competitive, and um,
Speaker 1: you know you want to make it. You want you
Speaker 1: want to seem like, Okay, Lebron may not get this,
Speaker 1: but I don't think how many how many games? What's
Speaker 1: your prediction? I do. I do think the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: will win one game, so Lakers and five sept I
Speaker 1: just what I just feel like this. I do feel
Speaker 1: like the Lakers don't shoot the three ball as well
Speaker 1: as some other teams, and UM, as a former player
Speaker 1: and as a coach, that zone just does something to you.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is what it is. Um. Everyone hates
Speaker 1: the zone, especially if you don't have great shooters who
Speaker 1: can bust it wide open. So UM, if they can
Speaker 1: have a great defensive game and then their shooters can
Speaker 1: hit for one game, I feel like and it gets
Speaker 1: it's close, and it comes out to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I really haven't been other than Lebron's last game against
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, I haven't been a hundred percent behind the
Speaker 1: Lakers in the fourth quarter when it's closed. They have
Speaker 1: terrible turnovers, they can't hit shots, and so they I
Speaker 1: don't think they've been the greatest in the fourth quarters.
Speaker 1: So that's why I feel like Miami maybe able to
Speaker 1: still one, but there has there has to be a
Speaker 1: lot of things that go right for them. Jimmy's gotta
Speaker 1: be getting and one's the old fashioned way. Uh. The
Speaker 1: shooters Hero Robinson have to knock down shots and Bam
Speaker 1: has to be unstoppable and get to the free throw line,
Speaker 1: and then their zone has to create make them stand
Speaker 1: um still three point shooters and they have to knock
Speaker 1: them and they have to miss. So that's why I
Speaker 1: can kind of see it maybe happen in one game. Um,
Speaker 1: but obviously all those things have to fall in place. Well,
Speaker 1: we appreciate that. We appreciate the bubble and bubble talk
Speaker 1: and let and breaking that down for us. Thank you
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