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Speaker 1: Show two times for y'all. We appreciate y'all pulling up

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Speaker 1: one time for the one time. It's Club five twenty

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Speaker 2: Man, you're not your back home man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad. I don't see no double zero cherseys.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it so every time of my life. The

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Speaker 1: five twenty. I'm the host. My name is DJ Wills.

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Speaker 1: We got some special special guests with us. Man honor

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Speaker 1: the legendary team in the NBA, especially for the Hawks

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Speaker 1: history man to my immediately, if we're gonna introduce my

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Speaker 2: Left, my dog BI should be hearing out the pearls.

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Speaker 2: How you wasn't nasty?

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Speaker 3: What's saying that man at l thank you?

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Speaker 2: He don't even sound the same ato. You know what

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, cool for show for show tomorrow, right,

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Speaker 1: y'all know what it is man, TL's finest young not

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Speaker 2: So to be able to do this live with y'all,

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Speaker 1: Man, shouts to the Hawks one more time for making

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Speaker 2: But last it was most certainly not least meant to

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Speaker 1: We got two Hawks legends in the building, man hoping

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Speaker 2: For shures, Like we said, we're gonna highlight that wonderful year. Man.

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Speaker 1: Obviously I had many good years here, but that was

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Speaker 4: Well, I guess I'll start. Yeah, I was. I was

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Speaker 6: And he was sitting there at debating with the doctor

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Speaker 1: He was already here with the U a different regime, obviously,

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Speaker 6: But yeah, man, you know that was All Star Weekend.

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Speaker 2: Man. First of all, who's coaching the team at the time.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you can clocking up a Bud and.

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Speaker 2: That's the home for show. Yeah, Coach Budd was cool.

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Speaker 1: I didn't like him, not to say it like that,

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Speaker 5: For me, I was just evolving into, you know, a

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Speaker 4: And you know, definitely appreciative for that.

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Speaker 1: Most definitely man, congratulations as well man in retirement for

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Speaker 2: There we go. Chuse love regulations. Man.

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Speaker 1: Now before we get into the season, Me and be

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Speaker 3: I was supporting my guy, but I was like, how

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Speaker 8: Not like him, Like he used to come back to

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Speaker 8: I just used to be like dang bro really leading

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Speaker 3: But I just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was always

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Speaker 1: They call us the little Giants. You ever seen that movie?

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Speaker 1: That's what they called me.

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Speaker 2: Every day. Y'all was the little Giants. Man, y'all had

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Speaker 8: Y'all went that crazy run, but you know, shout out

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Speaker 1: For sure, we're gonna get too far here about but

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that all of us was gonna make it.

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Speaker 2: Kyle, what's that feeling like when you find out you're

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Speaker 6: So I think with the beauty of that team, man,

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Speaker 2: Definitely that's the problem now would be coaching basketball. I think.

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Speaker 4: They can do that. They look at me like you are.

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Speaker 2: You're about to pass out coach.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, cowcovers not walking through that Doorike shout out

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Speaker 5: No, Yeah, I mean for me, I was, you know,

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Speaker 5: I don't mess with I don't. I didn't care about

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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask that question, the topic being if

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Speaker 6: You don't he got paid know that next summer? Yeah,

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Speaker 8: That's what it's about. Did y'all used to ever run

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Speaker 4: Just proved from.

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Speaker 5: You know when when when Kyle Kover came off of screen,

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Speaker 4: I mean we got that every single time, every.

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Speaker 6: But I think, you know, we're sharing the love here,

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Speaker 4: It was just perfectly set up for me. So it

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Speaker 3: What's the most thudies you hit in the game that season?

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Speaker 4: You remember, it's a whole new world out there.

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Speaker 6: Now many.

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Speaker 2: You would have had to shoot fifteen?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you think you would have been able to rock

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Speaker 4: For sure?

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Speaker 2: To see him on this platform, is.

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Speaker 6: That like a man that doesn't talk as a podcast

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Speaker 4: I'm definitely not surprised.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Jeff talked when in the right situations, you know,

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Speaker 4: Love for sure.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, y'all go into the All Star break.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to all right real say something about

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Speaker 4: I was talking to my wife about that this morning.

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Speaker 4: It was awful. It was like negative thirty.

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Speaker 1: I just remember my room service we had. I told

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Speaker 1: I was like, y'all was saying the same thing, and

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Speaker 1: So he was just ordering everything. And I remember going

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Speaker 4: I got it all.

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Speaker 1: I got everything. And I looked at him, I said,

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Speaker 2: Funny think about that.

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Speaker 1: His nephew is now working off his dad at five twenty,

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Speaker 1: it's time to contind. What's the process, Like, all right,

446
00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,160
Speaker 1: we got a chance to really make some noise.

447
00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,600
Speaker 4: Now say it again. I couldn't hear it.

448
00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,719
Speaker 1: Oh my father, I said, Okay, so now after All

449
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,080
Speaker 1: Star break, everything's copoesteadic. Y'are playing good. It's not surprised anymore.

450
00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,040
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, do y'all have championship aspirations? Like

451
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,080
Speaker 1: what's that locking in? Like, or like all right, we here,

452
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:17,840
Speaker 1: we can do it now?

453
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:19,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

454
00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:21,080
Speaker 6: Absolutely, that was the goal. You know, I think we

455
00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:26,359
Speaker 6: had a moment. I think I remember looking at the

456
00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,879
Speaker 6: standings a couple of weeks after All Star break, and

457
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,200
Speaker 6: we were like thirteen games ahead of whoever was in

458
00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:32,879
Speaker 6: second place.

459
00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,240
Speaker 2: We were so far ahead, and.

460
00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,160
Speaker 6: I think there was this whole mindset of like, okay,

461
00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,040
Speaker 6: how do we prepare ourselves to really get into a

462
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,399
Speaker 6: playoff run? And a lot that was based on like

463
00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,320
Speaker 6: let's be fresh and let's be healthy and let's have

464
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 6: our minds right. And so that's kind of where we

465
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,119
Speaker 6: were going, right, like trying to prepare ourselves to like

466
00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,920
Speaker 6: to be fresh. I thought that in that stretch, I thought,

467
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,440
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of how it made us great

468
00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 6: was just like our edge and how connected we were,

469
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,680
Speaker 6: and I thought a little bit of Like, in that

470
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 6: next month and a half or so, we lost a

471
00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:05,560
Speaker 6: little bit of that.

472
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 4: If I'm being.

473
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,920
Speaker 6: Honest, We're just like we were just so far ahead

474
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:13,679
Speaker 6: of everybody, and you know, we lost a little bit

475
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,080
Speaker 6: of that with whatever was making us really really tick

476
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 6: going into the playoffs.

477
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:18,240
Speaker 7: Hmm.

478
00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, we started like subbing five in and five out.

479
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,240
Speaker 1: It was kind of weird. I remember Paul got mad

480
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,720
Speaker 1: one day. He was like, man, we can't play like this,

481
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,639
Speaker 1: like I can't catch a rhythm. I just remember that

482
00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 1: because bub was south and five in, five out. That's

483
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 1: when my stat started hurting. No, but I was just

484
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:39,960
Speaker 1: like you said, we took our foot off the gas

485
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,399
Speaker 1: a little bit. But I just remember Lebron at the

486
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 1: All Star Game saying to me like, I'm gonna figure

487
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 1: y'all out. And I was like, you know, studying we

488
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,560
Speaker 1: were doing. We don't even know what we're doing, like

489
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 1: we're just playing. And he was like, no, y'all got y'all,

490
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,439
Speaker 1: got y'all got something going. I'm gonna figure it out.

491
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,760
Speaker 1: When I figure it out, I'm gonna get you. And

492
00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 1: I was like, we don't know, Bro, I was like,

493
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 1: we just be playing and he.

494
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 2: Was like, nah, he sure figured it out.

495
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 4: He didn't do that.

496
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,680
Speaker 5: I think that whole that whole stretch, you know, I think,

497
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,159
Speaker 5: you know, I don't want to speak for Bud, but

498
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 5: it was for us to try to We knew who

499
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 5: we were going to face at some point, right, we

500
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,359
Speaker 5: knew exactly who we were going to play, and you know,

501
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 5: what was going to be our best lineups, what was

502
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 5: going to be our best plays, our best strategy, you know,

503
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 5: going up into that moment. So that whole time was

504
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 5: pretty much like a figuring out process, and like Jeff said,

505
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 5: it didn't work. But I think I think that we

506
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 5: had moments, you know, I don't want to get too

507
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 5: far ahead, but you know, even during the course of

508
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,160
Speaker 5: the season where we knew that whether it's one play

509
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 5: or two plays that we took our foot off the

510
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 5: gas that you know, could have elevated us to the

511
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 5: next level, right, And sometimes it'd be like that, you know,

512
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,679
Speaker 5: especially in this league, is you know, one or two

513
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 5: plays can kind of throw your rhythm off in a game,

514
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 5: within the season, within the playoff series, and you know,

515
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,200
Speaker 5: we had a couple of those. We were able to

516
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 5: shake back a few times, but you know, someone we had,

517
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 5: we just had too many going into that back season.

518
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 1: That's interested you say that because I'll take it to

519
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: a February game I had against Golden State and I remember,

520
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,560
Speaker 1: you know that kind of a little bit of for

521
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: shot them, but the way yall played against it was

522
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 1: just like, oh they can do this against anybody. Yeah,

523
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 1: and like that that after style and not saying this

524
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 1: direct cord relation, but how y'all played the free moving

525
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: basketball like kind of soon where it was like, oh,

526
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 1: they can do this against anybody.

527
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 2: Now it's up. So to hear you say that there

528
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,920
Speaker 2: would transpires that that's very interesting for sure.

529
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 4: Yeah.

530
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, we looked at Golden State and

531
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,200
Speaker 5: how they how they played, and you know, we wanted

532
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 5: to be the Eastern Conference type of you know, Golden

533
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,160
Speaker 5: State Warriors team.

534
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:42,640
Speaker 4: At that time.

535
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 5: We had Kyle Korba, who we considered the best shooter

536
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,359
Speaker 5: in the league, and we ran a lot of stuff

537
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 5: you know through Kyle. Cow was a big part of

538
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 5: our offense because you know, he's dangerous behind the three

539
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 5: point line, you know, And and that opened up a

540
00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 5: lot of windows for myself. Jeff and everybody else. And

541
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 5: but you know when that shut down, you know what

542
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 5: were our next options? And I think those are the

543
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 5: time kind of the things we struggled with at that time.

544
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 5: You know, what else are we going to do? You know,

545
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 5: do we have a counter for the counter for the

546
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 5: counter and you know, and Lebron figured it out and

547
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 5: shut it down, and those type of things took us

548
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 5: out of our rhythm for sure.

549
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: Man. But I want to talk about wait, you know

550
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: what I'm saying before we get to that part where

551
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 1: y'all was still killing. The city was really behind y'all obviously,

552
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That has a great fan base.

553
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 1: You know, Hawks has some up and down years. Y'all

554
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: had some good years before with Joe Josha obviously, but

555
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: the city was really behind y'all. Like the way you

556
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: even see like you used to go to Hawks the game,

557
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 1: the opposing team might have had more in the crowd

558
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: that time period.

559
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 2: Nah, it was up and see what's that like? Feeling

560
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,159
Speaker 2: that love? And know what I'm saying on off the

561
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 2: court yard in the city, y'all still killing on the

562
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 2: court too.

563
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was in the city, so I used to

564
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't go outside. I was outside, so

565
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: I got a chance to see that. You know, the

566
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 1: people talk to you like when we love what you

567
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: guys are doing. They was excited about our team. And

568
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: then the fans, like the arena used to be lit,

569
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: like every time Kyle hit a three, you hear three

570
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. It was lit, even Dennis when

571
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: they used to say God, Eme and all that stuff.

572
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: It was just the time was just amazing. That year

573
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: was unbelievable. And I have been here already for I

574
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: think six or five or six years by then. The

575
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: crowd I was like, man, it's just I haven't played

576
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 1: in front of the crowd like this shit. And it

577
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:26,400
Speaker 1: was lit every game.

578
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 3: He represented, weal for y'all outside, okayl.

579
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,719
Speaker 6: Oh Man Man, I think you know, I think when

580
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 6: I first got here there was some criticism of like,

581
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 6: you know, what's the atmosphere like at the games? And

582
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 6: in the middle of that season when everything turned like

583
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 6: like what they said, this place it was. It was

584
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 6: so fun games man, and everything that you guys have

585
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,199
Speaker 6: built now is just added on to that as far

586
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 6: as the experience, but like there was a real appreciation.

587
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 6: I think what I felt for like how we played

588
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 6: the game, and like the intention of like you know,

589
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 6: the players trying to make each other better, playing in

590
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 6: a certain style, even overachieving to a certain like we

591
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 6: we all knew, like you know this, this is a

592
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 6: group that needs each other. And there was like the

593
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 6: purest in Atlanta that came out. Everybody loved it and

594
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 6: enjoyed it, and it's just it's just it's it was

595
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 6: a team that I love to play on. It was

596
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 6: a team that was fun to root for, just because

597
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 6: of the posture that everyone had towards the actual style

598
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 6: of play.

599
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:27,719
Speaker 4: That was happening out there.

600
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 1: Most definitely, so obviously keep killing you get to the playoffs.

601
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,959
Speaker 1: You talk about that environment. What's that first home playoff

602
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 1: game like.

603
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 2: A breeze. We knew we was gonna win the first round,

604
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 2: Like that was easier game too. It wasn't No, it

605
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 2: was Brooklyn, was it? I don't know who we played.

606
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 2: People played Brooklyn. It was Brooklyn.

607
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 4: It's one of those games.

608
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I knew, like we knew we had, we knew.

609
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about them at all. The team I

610
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: was worried about was like Washington. I think that's what

611
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: we played next in the second round. I was like, yeah,

612
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: this might get a little tricky. My defense was never

613
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 1: the best, that's problem. I was like, themar you might

614
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: want the best.

615
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, you might have to switch.

616
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 3: Washington was good that year.

617
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were really good, really good.

618
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think we were good against teams that didn't

619
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:23,479
Speaker 4: execute well.

620
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 5: You know, we were good against teams who didn't communicate

621
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 5: on defense, and we just knew teams that we were

622
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 5: going to beat because we were going to right.

623
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 4: And that first round was definitely.

624
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: I had a business for sure. Like you said, I

625
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: get it to Washington. You know what, I'm saying, different series,

626
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 1: but I still prevail. And let's talk about that final matchup.

627
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, all chips on the table.

628
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: What's that environment like preparing to go into that because

629
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:54,400
Speaker 1: you're playing against Lebron. I was excited. I was like, yeah,

630
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: I think we can beat them because in the regular season,

631
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: Lea we didn't. We beat them pretty good every time.

632
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: And I was like yeah, and I've seen the first play.

633
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: He ran a pick and roll with me. I was like, Oh,

634
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do the whole game. You're gonna

635
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: bring me in a pick and roll, like it's over.

636
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 3: So you knew that he figured it out.

637
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, why you keep calling me up

638
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 2: in a pick and roll? Was trying to get that

639
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 2: switch it was over. I was like, I can't go Lebron,

640
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 2: I couldn't guard Delly.

641
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 3: What you think went wrong?

642
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 7: It wasn't.

643
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 4: The reason was it was not that.

644
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 2: It was not that.

645
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 4: It was not that just funny I was.

646
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 6: I was thinking like, well, yeah, I ain't throwing my

647
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 6: guy a bus like that was not you know what

648
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:45,719
Speaker 6: I mean.

649
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 2: We got we had some injuries too, right, Yeah, definitely.

650
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 6: I mean I feel like I didn't get to compete

651
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 6: in that whole series, right, I got the second game,

652
00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 6: but I mean there, Yeah, the playoff plays as you

653
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 6: play and you play in the regular season, and you

654
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 6: play in the first couple of rounds and you play

655
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 6: in the last couple of rounds. They're all different, right,

656
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 6: there's levels. And I think that was a group for

657
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 6: them that they had, like Lebron had been through more

658
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 6: of those third and fourth rounds, Like third and fourth

659
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,959
Speaker 6: rounds are different, and that was our first time as

660
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 6: a group going through that, and there's not I don't

661
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 6: know of any groups that go through it together the

662
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 6: first time and get it right right. So I think

663
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 6: there's a whole lot of grace in my mind for

664
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 6: for that group. Like I thought that I thought that

665
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,879
Speaker 6: we showed like who we are, and I thought that

666
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 6: we showed throughout the regular season especially like like we

667
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 6: like a Paul said, like we actually beat them, I

668
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 6: think three of the four times, right, But those late

669
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 6: rounds are different, and it's it's it's something you have

670
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 6: to just keep on experiencing and building on and adding

671
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 6: to and like this is this is sport.

672
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: That's what it is exactly for the fans in here

673
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 2: obviously who don't have that feeling.

674
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: Obviously playing at home, different environment, what's it like playing

675
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: on a road in the high intensity situation.

676
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 2: It's the best, It's the best.

677
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 4: It's the best.

678
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 6: There's nothing in sport like silencing a home crowd. There's

679
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 6: nothing like it.

680
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 4: It is the best.

681
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 6: And then and then you know, it's a bunch of

682
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 6: a bunch of teams in this league that have great

683
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 6: home crowds. But when you can sign the team in

684
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 6: the playoffs like it is the best.

685
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: I thought we were gonna win Game three. I remember

686
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: that plays in my head a lot. I thought we

687
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,719
Speaker 1: won Game three and Lebron was Lebron.

688
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 4: He's good.

689
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's pretty good.

690
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 4: It's good.

691
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 6: That was up.

692
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: What happened we went over time that game. Uh, he

693
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: hit a three in the corner, okay, and tied it up.

694
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: I thought he kind of cramp magically he came back.

695
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, I like, I'm like, kind of cramp. He's done,

696
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: he's back.

697
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 2: We lost in overtime. I think Shoven might have got

698
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 2: a shot to win the game or the tide of

699
00:29:58,920 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 2: game something.

700
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 5: And granted, I mean we we felt like we played okay,

701
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 5: but they played exceptionally well.

702
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 2: They shot the ball historically historically, you know.

703
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 5: First I remember the first quarter. I don't think they

704
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 5: went on the run where they didn't miss it a shot.

705
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: I think they went on like our defense was kind

706
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: of well, who we said was gonna let shoot?

707
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 4: I mean j R. Smith was knocking down shots. I

708
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 4: mean it was they got in a rhythm that you

709
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 4: know in basketball, you get in a rhythm like that, you.

710
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 5: Know you have to stop it. You have to stop

711
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 5: the rhythm. Yeah, and you know, we just got ourselves

712
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 5: dug ourselves too big of a hole. By not getting

713
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 5: them out of that rhythm in the first, first or

714
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 5: second quarter. And you know, when you're on the road

715
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 5: and you're upin it's a good team, you're up against

716
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 5: Lebron James. It's tough to come back from me, you know.

717
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 5: But I felt like we definitely fought and we had

718
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 5: opportunities to change the rhythm and change the dynamic of

719
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 5: the series.

720
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: We just didn't capitalize on it. You don't want to

721
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: know something funny about that. You remember when Jr. Started

722
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: hitting those sories. I came to the benches, I got

723
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: them and I got on here. The next one, I

724
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: was like, I got him all chasing my gout him

725
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: cause okay, he came up with screen hit another, but

726
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: you go back over there.

727
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 2: I don't know who I thought was I'm five to

728
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 2: the funny funny as you mentioned.

729
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: That you talk about the Lebron picker ros that was

730
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 1: a clipble around, like Lebron demands that pick a roll

731
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: for like four or.

732
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 2: Five times in a row, and then you're just all right, bro, Yeah,

733
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 2: he kept doing it.

734
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 7: I knew.

735
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: I was like they figured it out, trying to get

736
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 2: the switch. Then we had the double they was gonna

737
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 2: kick it out, get a three. I was like, son,

738
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 2: we can do.

739
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: I was definitely obviously, you know, season came up a

740
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: little bit short of expectations. But you guys had a

741
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: hell of a season obviously, playing the different situations past that.

742
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 2: How does it make like the memory of this team feel.

743
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: When you go back and like, all right, I played

744
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: different places after this, but the camaraderie we had this

745
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: magical season still lives on.

746
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 7: Oh.

747
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 5: I mean, for me, I went to Devil after that.

748
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 5: A lot of young guys, you know, but a lot

749
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 5: of young, honky guys. They were hungry, you know, all

750
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 5: they needed was a little bit of mentorship to get

751
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 5: them over the edge. But as far as locker room presence,

752
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't think there'll ever be another, you know,

753
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 5: situation like we had in Atlanta anywhere else, you know,

754
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 5: everywhere else. You know, guys are cool and whatever, but

755
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 5: the bond just goes from there, you know. For us,

756
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 5: you know, we we knew each other's families, We went

757
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 5: out to dinner, you know, on the road, we had

758
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 5: team bonding.

759
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 7: You know.

760
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 5: We went to the to the to the what is it,

761
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 5: the Braves you know stadium and played baseball man. You

762
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 5: know as a team, you know, we did things like

763
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 5: that that you know, when it gets on the court,

764
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 5: it makes it a lot easier to to jail with

765
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 5: a team, you know. So you know there's a lot

766
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 5: not a lot of teams out there doing that.

767
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 3: Sure.

768
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, man, that team lives on in me. I'll

769
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 4: just say that.

770
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 6: Like for me, it's almost like when there's someone that

771
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 6: you admire in life and they pass away or something

772
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 6: happens and it's like you take what was good great

773
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 6: in that and you want that inside of you.

774
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 4: Like that's what that group is for me, Like there

775
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 4: was it was so pure, Like.

776
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 6: I always tell, like I'm told when I talk to

777
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 6: kids about basketball, and it's always younger, it's like enjoyed

778
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 6: us because the higher you go it may be more rewarding,

779
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 6: but it loses its purity. Yeah, And it's not often

780
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 6: that you get to be around and being a group

781
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 6: in the NBA where like we were all about the

782
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 6: right stuff and like a lot of like were for

783
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 6: me now as we're working on building out the.

784
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 4: Hawks like that.

785
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 6: It's it's not necessarily the blueprint, but it is a

786
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 6: north star all the way, and you want to try

787
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 6: to you know, continue to add more talent and and

788
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 6: all those things. But like how that worked, Like going back,

789
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 6: just thinking back about how this team came together. It

790
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 6: wasn't necessarily about adding a bunch of superstars and figuring

791
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 6: out like you got really good humans who love to work,

792
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 6: who were or love their craft, right, you got really

793
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 6: really good coaches, like the coaching staff that we had

794
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 6: that year, like Coach Bred, it was coach Bud. But

795
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 6: then think about all the coaches we had. Quinn Snyder

796
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 6: was there the first year and then he left.

797
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 4: We had.

798
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 6: You had Kenny Akison, you had Nevin who's been a

799
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 6: coach in Europe forever. You had Charles Lee, you had

800
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 6: Taylor Jenkins, you had those are just head coaches who've

801
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 6: been on the league. You got assistant coaches. Ben Sullivan's

802
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 6: been a top assistant. You got Pants Pats and Andrews.

803
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 6: You got Jordan Ott who was in the video room.

804
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 6: Like these guys are all front of the bend coaches,

805
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 6: Like that's who was teaching us every day what it

806
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 6: meant to play Hawks basketball. Right, So it's like this

807
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 6: this is the formula for me, Like I'm pulling from

808
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 6: that yere right, Like that to me is like again, yes,

809
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 6: you add more talent, you try to find hopefully you

810
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 6: get a number one pick and he becomes an amazing player.

811
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 6: But like like this is the formula to me, and

812
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 6: like it is deep in me, Like I have a

813
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 6: like I have a real love of the game of basketball,

814
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 6: Like it's what drives me. It's why I want to

815
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 6: keep on working in this business. And that again is

816
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 6: like a north Star Like it was a wonderful, wonderful experience.

817
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,320
Speaker 6: Like the bonds and the friendships that we had with

818
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 6: these guys is real when we see each other, like

819
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 6: it is love. But you go through heartaches and playoff

820
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 6: series and you bond and your work like there's things

821
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 6: that happen in those moments that you can't get in

822
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 6: any other way. And yeah, it's just a it's a

823
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 6: group and a team that, like I said, like I

824
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 6: will pull from the rest.

825
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 4: Of my life.

826
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, as far as basketball on the court,

827
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: I never went to a team that had that same

828
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: synergy and energy together, you know what I mean. So

829
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: I went to go play for the Pacers two years later,

830
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: and like you said, I'm winking at guys and they like, nah, bro,

831
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: what you got going on, I'm like, cut back doward.

832
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 2: So I'm like, it just wasn't the same.

833
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: I went there and I thought, like everybody else were

834
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: done basketball players after playing on that team, you know

835
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like we just read each other well,

836
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: we knew everybody's movement, we knew everybody was going to

837
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: be on the court, and then going to these different teams,

838
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: it wasn't the same. So I'm used to somebody setting

839
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: a backscreen so you can get a wide open jump shot, and.

840
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 2: They like, nah, beat him, beat your man.

841
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all don't like play together at all, Like

842
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: I gotta run to the corner every time, like nah.

843
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 2: So it just was a beautiful way to play basketball.

844
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that so much that I even try to,

845
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: like I'm a coach now, I try to bring that

846
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: same philosophy when we play move the ball, everybody get

847
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: a chance to score. No, no go to guy, but

848
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: everybody can be the guy. And that was just a

849
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: beautiful way to play.

850
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 5: Just to pay back off that, I mean, I don't

851
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,959
Speaker 5: know if everybody know that, you know an NBA team,

852
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 5: you spend more time with your teammates than you do

853
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 5: your family. So we see each other every single day, right,

854
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 5: and you don't get that feeling, you know, once you

855
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 5: get up to the door and say, damn, I go

856
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 5: to work again.

857
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 4: I gotta go in here again. Right.

858
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 5: You had people who you wanted to play with, people

859
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 5: who understood you, and that's what made it so special.

860
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: Definitely, how we talked about the soft camera. Did you

861
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: know that she was going to be the team statrician?

862
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: Because you know some of your teammates. You know what

863
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying, they lived a different life. You know what

864
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm saying in the kitchen.

865
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 3: Hey, I mean guys you say didn't drink water, and

866
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

867
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, man, we had you guys. We had

868
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,479
Speaker 4: guys that didn't drink water on our team.

869
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, you are an NBA basketball player. Your job

870
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 2: is to run on the court. How do you not

871
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 2: drink water?

872
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 3: And like when did you start paying how taste?

873
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't like how it tastes. It tastes

874
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 2: like water.

875
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: Listen, you guys, one of them may or may not

876
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: be on the stage, wouldn't drink water.

877
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 6: They're getting like ivs before the game, like hooked up

878
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 6: to an IV so they can play.

879
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 4: I'm like, man, just drink this cup of water.

880
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 2: That's crazy. I couldn't believe you. It was living like that, Paul.

881
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: Oh Man, listen, man, legendary team Man, the city remembers

882
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: you the city and braces your shots to everybody here,

883
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: all here because of this very reason. Man, you might

884
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: want to answer that text time tax. Then are we

885
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: opening up to the crowd by chands? Okay, open up

886
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: to the crowd. I have a couple of questions, a

887
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: couple like questions before we get out of here. Anybody

888
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: braving up? My man's no, yeah, you chans, yeah, go ahead.

889
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 7: Oh wow, it's on the way.

890
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: It's on the way. Man, we're gonna play. We're gonna

891
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 2: we're gonna get that game. We're gonna get that game.

892
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're starting to over under right now. Please PLA's

893
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:59,879
Speaker 1: your best dracton, gentlemen. And yes, sir, I could start

894
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: it if you go look at our numbers how many

895
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: minutes we played. We didn't play hot numbers of minutes

896
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: like I think we played like twenty six a game

897
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: I did like around that time. So, uh, Dennis shooter

898
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: points it was great. Then yeah, I was kept then

899
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: his shooter was great. Even Shovin mack Ken Baizmore came

900
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: off that bench. It was a bunch of guys. Mike

901
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: Scott my guy. They had amazing seasons like that whole year.

902
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: Everybody played well and we all just wanted everybody to win.

903
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: It was crazy, Like he said, we'd be on a

904
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: plane playing, you know, and all that stuff. And those

905
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: were my guys. I mean, me and Dennis we.

906
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 2: Used to go out of it a little bit, but

907
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 2: other than that, we love it. I love those guys.

908
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 6: Dennis was like, because we were all a pretty steady group, right, Yeah,

909
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 6: Like Dennis was like the little brother that you needed

910
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 6: to get under your skin, agitate you, yeah, get you going.

911
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 4: And it was he was a super important part of

912
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 4: We needed it right.

913
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 6: We needed guys like that. We need a guy like

914
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 6: Elton Brand and Pariantage and Michael Schala and I mean

915
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 6: there's so many guys who starting their role for for

916
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 6: that group and we're about the team.

917
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 4: It's a long list that was. It was a It

918
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 4: was a great group.

919
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 2: Definitely jump in the back. Yes, sir, I've seen Budd

920
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 2: at a concert.

921
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 4: Yeah.

922
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: He used to take his kids to all the concerts.

923
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: Here and I've seen him and uh, they were having

924
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: a good time. He didn't know any of the songs,

925
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: but he was viobbing out. I'm scared to ask which

926
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: artist it iss?

927
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 4: We was.

928
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 9: We was messing up some comments that Night's go see

929
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 9: future shout out, No, sir.

930
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 6: I would I love to have known, one hundred percent

931
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 6: under there's injuries are part of this whole of this

932
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 6: whole equation. It is every year for every team. There's

933
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 6: a lot of things that have to go right if

934
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 6: you still be playing at the very very end. And uh,

935
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 6: you know, I wish we could have had a full squad,

936
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 6: but for sure, and last one, bring your ma Ma

937
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 6: in front.

938
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that.

939
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 3: That's hard. Yeah, I like that very away.

940
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 2: I got all you grew up in.

941
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,240
Speaker 1: Brother Weeds, pull it up or appreciate that for sure.

942
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: Unfortunately are out of time. We want to say thank

943
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: you all for pulling up. We appreciate y'all. Make a

944
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: noose for y'rself and push up two times for our

945
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: wonderful guests up here. We appreciate Paul and Kyle pulling up.

946
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: The Hawks appreciate the hospitality as well. We'll see y'all

947
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: another Time Club five twenty, the volume