Speaker 1: Let's talk about So you leave Georgetown go to Charlotte,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite teams. I grew up watching old
Speaker 1: Charlotte Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 2: I feel that during that time, the early nineties, that
Speaker 2: that we were like, uh, we attracted the younger colors
Speaker 2: and Colors Strike.
Speaker 3: And Muzzy, you know, l J and the ground.
Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody would go to India.
Speaker 5: The vibe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was when that was when Baggy Short started
Speaker 1: becoming like every kid won them Charlotte Hornet like, but
Speaker 1: talk about that because that was that was kind of
Speaker 1: a trendy team.
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 2: Uh. I wish we could have kept the band together. Man, Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: no business got in a way.
Speaker 4: It did.
Speaker 2: Business got in the way. And uh and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm going to say this, you know publicly. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't think that we had the proper management to
Speaker 2: keep it together because I was willing to stay there,
Speaker 2: you know, but God had another plan. Yeah, look, come
Speaker 2: to Miami. The best thing ever happened to me, bro
Speaker 2: It's truly for me and my family, you know, for
Speaker 2: my life in general, the best thing ever happened to me.
Speaker 2: Mickey Rison, all of them, you know, they have been
Speaker 2: a blessing to my life, you know, to this day,
Speaker 2: you know, but I knew what I knew at that time.
Speaker 2: I knew Charlotte and I loved Charlotte. And I had
Speaker 2: just come from Virginia. That was my hometown, and Charlotte
Speaker 2: has had a lot of similarities to be Virginia. And
Speaker 2: we were the hottest things in town. We couldn't go nowhere,
Speaker 2: didn't pay for no meals nowhere. You know, we had
Speaker 2: the largest attendance. And in basketball, you know, we had
Speaker 2: the largest attendance, the largest crowd, man, and they were
Speaker 2: electric every night. And I loved playing the high It
Speaker 2: is like when that.
Speaker 5: Broke up and he broke up with that team and
Speaker 5: he started going there his friends and.
Speaker 1: Family b D and those guys came back.
Speaker 5: But I'm telling you that team was dope. Man. What
Speaker 5: what what's split it up? What was it? Well?
Speaker 2: Uh, I want to know this. Listen. The owner of
Speaker 2: the owner of the team, George, you know, he paid
Speaker 2: l J. And I was next up, you know, and
Speaker 2: my agents said, hey, you know I can get you
Speaker 2: this with five different teams. You just got to choose
Speaker 2: this team you want to play for. I said, no,
Speaker 2: I want to stay and I want to stay in Charlotte,
Speaker 2: and David Fox said, he said, I don't think Charlotte's
Speaker 2: gonna pay you this number. And uh, I said, well,
Speaker 2: you know, I'll take that's money to stay. So we
Speaker 2: started having conversations with George Shen and he said uh
Speaker 2: and these were his exact words, You're not worth that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and that right there, I mean, how fast you packed
Speaker 2: your oh I packed yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. When he
Speaker 2: when he told me that I had to get out
Speaker 2: of there, man, I was like, yeah, George Shen, yeah.
Speaker 2: So that was the basis of the conversation and what
Speaker 2: from Miami and then and then during that process, I
Speaker 2: reached out to Patrick and I asked him about, you know,
Speaker 2: playing under Pat Riley and I said, I heard his
Speaker 2: practices are hard, man.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: And Pat was like, boy, you went to Georgetown as
Speaker 2: hard as our practices was. You ain't gonna be intimidated
Speaker 2: by the practice. He said, go to Miami. Go And
Speaker 2: I said, Patrick, I had a chance to come to
Speaker 2: New York and play with you. He was like, nah,
Speaker 2: I don't want you here. Go to Miami. So that
Speaker 2: put me over the top right there. That was the
Speaker 2: deciding factor right there. It really was because I had
Speaker 2: a conversation with Big John and Patrick and they both
Speaker 2: told me to come to Miami. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was wondering how that end how up?
Speaker 2: Well that's how it all. That's how it happened, man,
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 6: And the crazy thing is Patrick knew that you would
Speaker 6: be competing against him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he knew that.
Speaker 4: He knew he knew by sending you to.
Speaker 2: Miami because I would have played the four in New
Speaker 2: York and he would have played center.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, that would have been an incredible friend.
Speaker 6: That's what the American man. Because I want to talk
Speaker 6: to you about this because I feel like the American
Speaker 6: Center is somewhat diminishing the American Center.
Speaker 4: We'll get into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well right now, it's prehistoric. It is. You know,
Speaker 2: guys don't value the post up and taking advantage of mismatches.
Speaker 5: And you It's so funny, man. When I first came
Speaker 5: to the league, time I played with Patrick Orlando. Okay,
Speaker 5: all right, but he was still the same old g though.
Speaker 5: He was the grinder work, oh for sure.
Speaker 1: But what I was telling you come in, it's you
Speaker 1: always have two seven footers and you run, you run
Speaker 1: floppies and you play.
Speaker 2: They come off the screen, big stepping, dun seal all that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And I talked about it, man, like those guys are
Speaker 1: so valuable because there was the defensive.
Speaker 5: The legal defense was so different. Oh you're on the
Speaker 5: island the big dude. I'm telling you, man, the game.
Speaker 4: Is completely man.
Speaker 2: They popping, they picking popping out the jumping.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we were doing the drill the other day and
Speaker 6: we were coming off. We were coming off of a screen.
Speaker 6: But they set a screen at the elbow and the
Speaker 6: big just dive down to the blocking ball in the
Speaker 6: paint as we do in the drill. Everybody coming off
Speaker 6: the screen at the elbow, but they dieming out to
Speaker 6: fifteen fifteen feet just cut off the screen shot and
Speaker 6: right away and mind you, the defenders going under the screen.
Speaker 4: So all you gotta do is beat him and seeing
Speaker 4: them and seal them.
Speaker 6: Everybody running the fifteen feet unbelievable, Like y'all don't see
Speaker 6: the defender going under the screen.
Speaker 4: You hit his ass, steal his ass is just.
Speaker 2: Take a let But analytics say, but if you shoot
Speaker 2: this many shots, this many times, but it doesn't emphasize
Speaker 2: the fact that you know, you shoot a higher percentage
Speaker 2: in this particular area. So if I shoot these shots,
Speaker 2: yeah they're two's. But if you shoot more threes.
Speaker 4: Then I'm like no, yeah. But the crazy thing about
Speaker 4: the crazy thing, the crazy.
Speaker 6: Thing about analytics is that it's contradicting because down the
Speaker 6: stretch you take whatever shots you can get. So now
Speaker 6: you're you're I want to get up thirty, I want
Speaker 6: to get up forty threes. But down the stretch you're
Speaker 6: getting you're taking what you can get. Yeah, yeah, you're
Speaker 6: taking what you can get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always looking for a higher percentage shot, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: What's gonna give me a higher percentage of a chance
Speaker 2: to make the shots? Yes, you know, so give me
Speaker 2: a steady volume of that.
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna live. I love that era. I like
Speaker 5: the weather. Shoot threes right now for me.
Speaker 6: I'm sure I would imagine understand, when you have the
Speaker 6: skill set and you have everybody doesn't have the roster
Speaker 6: and skill set you like the ship Boston did the
Speaker 6: other night was ridiculous when guys like when you're guys
Speaker 6: like Peyton Pritcher who are not even your main guys
Speaker 6: and Derek White can go ten threes and nine forty.
Speaker 6: That's the type of team should be doing that.
Speaker 2: Ship.
Speaker 4: That ain't for everybody.
Speaker 5: Here's here's the problem.
Speaker 4: Everybody ain't step pariod. Yeah, that ain't.
Speaker 1: Everybody is like to me, where coaches and organizations have
Speaker 1: got to start relling the back end a little bit.
Speaker 1: Is they play a certain style games one through eighty
Speaker 1: two they're not doing not the playoffs. That that equal opportunity,
Speaker 1: one pass shot. Okay, you do that game too in
Speaker 1: the in in the Western Conference FINALSS finals, No our
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Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like and as you know, in the playoffs, especially in
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, the game slows down.
Speaker 1: It's cann be a four minute game at the end
Speaker 1: of every playoff game is I tell you all the time,
Speaker 1: you're turning into four minute games. The last four minutes
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be just okay, can I get him
Speaker 1: with three?
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's cute the one through eighty two because it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we lost my two best players picking Roll yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no yah, yeah, no doubt picking Roll.
Speaker 6: Doing all that ship I'm getting to the spots that
Speaker 6: were taking what we could get inside of it.
Speaker 1: Now what I talk about like, I get frustrated to
Speaker 1: watch it and I'm like, yo, but that's not how
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