WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: Julius Randle 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to this League Uncut rule of twenty four hour 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:05.480 NBA News. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:09.200 This's you, Chris Haynes. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:17.599 It's so time, work's time, it's some time. This League 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.000 Uncut is underway and on fire. This should be a 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.000 good one. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.280 Hey everyone, We've got a special edition of This League 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.200 Uncut for you today. Chris Haynes and me Mark Stein 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:39.480 joined by Nick's forward Julius Randall. We talk about Randall's 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.400 bid for a third All Star appearance as a Nick, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.600 the impact of the Ognna Nobe trade in New York. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.040 We also, of course talk about left handedness, one of 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.960 my favorite subjects. We caught up with Julius last Friday 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.240 on the day after the Knicks loss in Dallas, his hometown, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.800 but he and rebounded sufficiently by that point. We might 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.040 have even gotten a Tom Thibodeaux impression out of mister Randall. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.480 Great visit with him here, Let's get right to it. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:20.320 Yes, indeed, another special edition of This League Uncut featuring 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.760 Mark Stein and myself, Chris Haynes. Very special guests, very 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:29.040 special guests, and first time he's coming on on this podcast, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.919 and I want to welcome him in New York. Knicks 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:37.880 star Ford Julius Randall and he's in line to make 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.400 another All Star appearance this year. This All Star Game 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:45.720 will be in Indianapolis this year, and the Knicks having 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.160 a tremendous season. They made a big mid season trade 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.240 and look like they're about to pick up a little 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.920 bit more steam. But Julius, man, thank you man for 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.000 coming on, brother, And I know you took a it 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.040 was a tough loss last night. So how y'all holding up? 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:03.000 Man? 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.080 It's good, It's good, Chris. You know how to season go. Man, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.440 it's eighty two games. It's ups and downs. You know, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.200 you win games you shouldn't, lose some you shouldn't, but 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:14.600 you know, just gotta stay even. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.919 But yes, sir as, I'm always I want to get 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:23.720 into some hoops chat. Definitely, there was something I always 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.480 wanted to ask you. I never got to ask you this. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.240 When people ask me who's one of the most underappreciated 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.280 players in the game, you first one comes to mind. 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.280 The reason I say this is because I feel like 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:42.040 your game. Your game gets criticized so much because you 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.079 have a skill set that if you put your skill 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.000 set on somebody else that's six ' nine, but they 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.840 might be two hundred pounds. Nobody will say anything but 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.640 the fact that you you can play inside outside, and 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.600 you know you're physically you know, physical wise, you're probably 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.280 more physical imposing than most players we have in this league. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.640 I think that people think that you should just play 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.520 that way all the time when you have an overall 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.120 skill set. So when people are trying to critique your game, like, 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.440 is that something you like? Do you feel like you're 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.000 unfairly criticized? But just how you know, how you do 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.880 play the game. I mean, I mean, criticism is just 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.880 a part of you know what I mean. I think 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.840 for me, I'm just under a different microscope being here 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.960 playing for the Knicks. You know, being in New York, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.480 the microscope is just way different, you know what I mean. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.920 I've been with the Lakers, but that was like start 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.800 of a rebuilding in New Orleans. But you know, the 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.040 light here is just different, you know what I mean. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.720 So I was just funny. I was talking to one 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.440 of my teammates about this. He was like, Bro, you 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.520 can have a great game, you can have a bad game. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.400 He's like, you still don't get critiquedos that you could 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.520 go for fifty to ten straight games and it won't 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.680 even matter, you know what I mean. So, like it's fine, 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.080 Like I think for me, I don't focus on the man, 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.360 to be honest with you, Chris, Like I always focus 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.000 on the process, right, So it's like for me, the 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.080 development is what I look at. You know, when I 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.360 first got into the league, I couldn't shoot the basketball, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.760 you know what I mean. It was all bullyball, you know, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.200 everything in the paint. And as the years of going on, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.200 I've developed that, you know, So that was the critique. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.000 It's funny that was the critique when I first got 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.640 into the league, as I couldn't shoot. Yeah, you know 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.599 what I mean. It's now you shoot too many threes 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.400 or whatever it is, you know what I mean. I think, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.400 but at this point now in my career, I'm just 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.080 starting to find the balance of both. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.440 Yeah, And I just think that's just that's why I 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.000 say I always put you at the top when they 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.200 talk about underappreciated because you have a well rounded game, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.560 Like who doesn't want to be somebody who could bring 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.599 the ball up, initiate the offense, can shoot, can't go 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.040 down the post, can do it all. But it's like 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.800 if you look a certain way. They expect you to 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.960 just play like that, You know what I mean? I 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.479 play play the way you look. I guess that's what 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:05.800 it is. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.479 It's like they criticized for making the right place. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:14.640 Yeah, for sure, I'm glad you brought that up, because 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.960 I'm actually curious about this. I've lived myself in Dallas 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.640 for twenty five ish years, and this is obviously where 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.880 you're from and where you grew up and started developing 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.520 your game. Because I remember when Jalen Brunson first went 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.280 from the Mavericks to the Knicks, A lot of people 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.040 wondered is he ready for the difference in spotlight because 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.479 Dallas is supposedly a big place. But I gotta say, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.880 I came here from LA and I don't know. I 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.200 just feel like it's it's known as a big place, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.240 but it's a small place. It seems like in Dallas 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.440 when I go out, I run into people I know 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.160 all the time that never happened in La. You grew 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.640 up in Dallas, you played at a major college program 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.000 in Kentucky. But like playing for the Knicks in Madison 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.800 Square Garden, how much brighter is the spotlight there really 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.559 than other places on the map? 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.640 It's a lot brighter just based off of the simple 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.159 fact that, like our fans living out every game, you 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.400 know what I mean, Like every game is like a 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.480 super Bowl to them. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.880 Like when I when. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.400 I got to Kentucky, one of the things Coach Kyle says, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.760 every game you play here, you know, it's gonna be 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.160 like the super Bowl for you. It's gonna be like 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.120 the super Bowl for the other team, you know what 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.159 I mean, Just the competition level on what it brings 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.279 out of you. So it's like that too, you know. 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.039 Especially I remember being an opposing player going into the 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.280 garden and every time you step in the garden, you 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:36.080 want to have a big night. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.560 You're on the opposing team, you know what I mean. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.400 So it's like you got that aspect of it, but 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.520 then you got the aspect of like the fans here, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.520 it just so passionate in their care and you know, so. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:48.560 They want to win every game. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.839 They hungry, you know, they just got the hunger here 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:56.000 and why So it's I mean, that's that's just really 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.839 what come with it. But I think the longer that 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.960 you win it, the more you appreciate it. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.280 Can anything prepare you for that? Or do you basically 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.240 have to become a Nick and learn how to play 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.120 in that environment. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.680 I mean, I don't know, I can't speak for anybody else, 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.440 but for me, I had to learn it myself, you know. 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:15.360 And I think. 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:18.920 Based off of like who your person like, what your 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.240 personality is, I feel like it can bring the best 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.880 out of you. I think for me, like you know, Chris, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.000 you was talking about the criticism, I think that just 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.160 brings the best out of me. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:29.040 You know. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.760 I've been in the garden and got booged, you know. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.160 And I've been in the garden and got MVP checks, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.880 you know. But for me, it's not about either one 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.640 of those like it. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.200 For me, that just reminds me to focus on the process, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.400 focus on the. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.320 Daily grind, what I'm putting into it every day even more, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.120 and you know, letting the results speak for themselves. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.560 And your game is taken off since becoming a New 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:57.600 York Knicks in that spotlight, becoming an all star there, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.520 and you know, I know you want to add to 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:01.600 that vote. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.400 What does it mean for you Julius too? 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:10.360 Again, I would probably say most people probably don't flourish 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.800 once they get into the bright lights. Your game took 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:18.520 off you found yourself. You found yourself there. What would 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.280 it mean to you to get another All Star spot 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.280 on your belt as a member of the New York Knicks. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:27.560 It's great, you know. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.920 For me, this is all when it comes to that, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.280 that's all about career and that's that's a legacy. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.200 But more importantly, just. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.960 You know, when I had the opportunity five summers ago 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.000 to come to New York, this is everything that I 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.520 said I wanted to do, you know, from an individual standpoint, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.960 you know, I wanted to you know, establish myself as. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.920 You know, one of the great Knicks. You know. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.680 I wanted to be a part of that tradition and 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.400 that legacy and that culture. So I feel like that 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:04.160 just you know, for establishes that, which is great. But 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.599 ultimately that's not what it's about for me, you know. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.640 I mean it's for me that's you know a part 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.120 of it and all that comes because of success and 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.520 like winning and stuff like that. But it's cool, man. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.520 I enjoyed. I enjoyed. My son he probably enjoyed more 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:21.280 than me, though. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:22.800 You can make it. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.079 I'm looking at you guys, as you know, you guys's 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:26.960 record twenty two and sixteen. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:28.400 I mean you're a win. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.520 I mean, yeah, you're a win away from you know, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.559 being as high as the fourth seed in the East. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.480 You Jalen Brunson, are definitely taking this team to another level. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.800 And then you just picked up og and know me 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:46.280 from Toronto and it seemed like you guys have probably 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.959 have another higher trajectory. But is there a reason I 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.640 think there's a bona fide case why the Knicks should 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.760 have too all stars? 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.880 Is there a reason why that shouldn't be the case. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:00.800 Yeah, I mean feel like that should have been the 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:01.560 case last year. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.880 Uh, to be honest, like JB was hooping last year, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.640 and you know he had every right and reason to 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.439 make the game, you know what I mean. So it 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.080 definitely like I feel like it definitely should and could 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:16.079 be the case, you know what I mean. But for us, 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.360 we just go out every night, I think even more 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.880 this year than last year, even way more this year 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.920 than last year. Like me and JB, like we bring 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.280 the best out of each other, you know, every night, 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:32.720 you know, I know that I got somebody that you know, 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.520 wants to go out there and just destroy composition, Just 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.400 go out there and just dominate every night and try 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.280 to help us get wins. You know, that's the most 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.160 important thing, you know for us both getting the leaders 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:47.920 of the team, you know what I mean. So when 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.960 you got somebody like that who energy wise brings the 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.520 best out of you, know, you can't be slacking. Can't 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:55.959 can't be slacking on your shit. You gotta be working, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.440 putting the time in. We both like in a sense 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.559 of like pair know it. Like we don't you know, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.800 like to take time off. We can't like mentally, we 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.800 can't take time on. So you know, you got somebody 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.520 like that in your corner, it's gonna push you to 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.920 break the best out of you. And I think that's 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.120 why we have great team success but also individual success. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.240 Don't forget though, mister Haynes, Now this probably got to 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.640 be honest. This is this is this is nothing. This 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.880 is nothing you can put on the mantle. This is 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.560 nothing that's probably gonna impress Julius's son. But both he 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.320 and Jalen Brunson, of course, the members of my annual 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.200 all Lefty team that I put out of every in 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.160 every August. There's only six only six players in the 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.400 league make it, and they're both they were both on 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.000 it last season. I would venture to say they will 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.679 both be on it this August. And I'm actually glad 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.760 that you set this up because this is my chance 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.720 to actually apologize to mister Randall for one of my 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:05.320 worst basketball fails. I used to live very close to 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.880 Prestonwood Christian Academy, where he played, and because I get 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.320 so wrapped up in my day job, I didn't get 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:18.240 out there to see him. I know, I'm guessing. I'm 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.440 guessing that's where my kids. My oldest went is through there, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.480 he got done there, and my youngest is still there. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.360 That was a miss on my part that I didn't 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.920 get to see you, and I felt doubly bad about 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.000 it when I heard last night Brad Townshend from the 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.640 Dallas Morning News, I heard you picked him out and said, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.440 this guy interviewed me when I was ten playing for 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.880 the Texas Titans. And you should have seen it, Chris 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.960 last night. I mean, he had a deep squad with 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.640 him that almost took up the whole hallway after the game, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.000 and there were a lot of Julius Randall fans in 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.360 the hallway after the game. What is that like to 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:57.040 play in your hometown? And I know MAVs fans don't 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:58.880 like seeing you because they usually put up big numbers 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.240 when you come home. But what is like to play 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.320 in front of your whole family and come home like 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.480 that and kind of you're expected to deliver something big. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:10.840 I mean, it's just one of those things that never 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.720 gets old. It's like, like I said, it's another one 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.600 of those things just kind of brings the best out 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.920 of me. It's a level of comfort. You know, that's 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:24.680 the same court that I grew up, you know, talking 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:25.560 about the Texas type. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.520 And I used to grow up going to games. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.600 I was a Laker fan going up, and I would 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.120 go to all the Laker games when they playing in Dallas, 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.160 And that's the court that I grew up watching Kobe on. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.240 And I will watch them come in there and just 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.520 put on a show every single time. And you know, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.280 going to games watching dirt, you know, like it's almost 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.319 like I grew up in that gym in a sense, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.199 you know what I mean, I grew up I understand 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.920 the drive, like everything, all the little details of drive 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.040 to the arena of the entrance, like where the players going, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.040 all that different type of stuff. So it's like when 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:04.120 I come there, it's like a level of comfort and familiarness, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.439 like just it's it's different, you know what I mean. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.880 So like I'm extremely comfortable when I go out there, 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.800 and then just to see my family, uh there, to 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.920 have my son course on talking trash, It's just like 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.760 full circle for me. So I love it. It'll never 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:22.240 get old. 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.520 Stein I thought you were gonna. Stein is a left hander. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.000 So anytime we get a left handed player on, he explain, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.600 explain your annual Explain your annual left handed. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:32.920 Yeah. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.040 So I love to champion the lefties because there every year, 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:40.160 there's about fifty in the NBA, between forty five and fifty. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.000 A couple of years ago there were as many as 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.920 fifty four. I think I count it is over fifty 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.920 this season. So it's really exclusive. I only pick six. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.880 I do it like the All Star Game. Two in 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.560 the backcourt, three in the front court, and then I 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.880 pick a six man. And the sixth man has to 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.680 be someone who has he's a real six man. More 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.240 more games coming up off the bench. Then starts, and 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.080 so I mean I mean again, I don't think that, Uh, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.160 I don't. I don't think that. Julius Randall and I 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.680 know Jalen Brunson is not staying up at night wondering 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.080 if they're going to get to get on this list. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.440 But you know, I like to I liked in it. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.480 Every August is International left Handers Day, so on International 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.480 left Handers Day, I like to shout out the top 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.720 six lefties. But this year is different because this year 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.560 you actually have five lefties who are all playing at 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.000 an all star level, which that is unusual. I mean, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.160 usually we're lucky to get I was about to ask that. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.760 Who you got bonus? 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.000 The two guys from the Knicks, Zion James harden All 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.640 and Defense all play. So that's my problem if I 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.080 keep doing the team the same way, if I only 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.640 have five guys. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.520 Hold on you as you asked the wrong questions. Ask him, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.240 were you on the list last year? 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:00.960 He was? 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:04.240 He's I think he's. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:06.640 Been on. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.800 You've been on for at least the last two years, 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.320 and I have to go back and look probably more 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:12.840 than that. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.520 Just making sure no I talked. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.480 I talked about when you brought up growing up around 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.040 the game, and you know you mentioned Kobe Bryant and 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.680 I don't have a Kobe question, but you know every 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.000 I was not every most players when they're coming up 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.560 in the NBA. It's there, there's that vet that kind 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.400 of teaches you about you know, what it's like to 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.720 be an NBA pro, what it's like to be professional. Uh, 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.920 letting you know what happens outside this court. You know 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.360 what what's the wrong. You know stuff you could get into. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.400 Uh who was that for you? Who was that guy that. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.880 You were saying? Man, he he put me on the 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:51.800 right path. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.120 Since you offered it. Give me both, Give me both. Man, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.240 It's all a learned experience. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:05.000 Man. 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.760 I had some great bets. I had some great bets. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.840 I remember one of the first, one of the first 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.720 vets that took me under his wing when I first 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.919 got in was Ronnie Price and he was like he 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.720 told me, he was like, man, it was my first 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.159 media that he was like, enjoy this ship, bro, because 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.840 you're gonna look up and you're gonna be in year 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.760 ten and it's gonna go by fast. And like I 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.520 always remember that every year passed by and I'll be like, man, 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:33.520 this ship is going fast. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:34.400 It's going fast, and. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.359 I look up, now I'm in year ten, you know 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.360 what I mean? So like I had him, I had 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.040 Wes Johnson obviously I had cold. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.440 Who else I had growing up? 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:46.720 I have. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:55.439 FAF I had the bad ones. Gonna talk about the 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.400 well lou Will he was a good one. Lou Will 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.080 was one of my that he was a great. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.520 One, great, great, great one on the court off the court, 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:06.280 all right. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.720 And then uh, you know, I had dudes like Nick Young, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.239 dudes like Jordan Hill with them dudes man like I 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:21.000 love him to death and crazy to hell, crazy hell, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:22.880 but like you know what I mean, them the type 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:24.360 of dudes you need because they like. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.000 They keep everything like they keep the energy great. Uh 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:29.120 in the locker room. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.200 They make you like they can see that you down, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.720 like you're in a bad stretch, and they get you 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:35.119 out of it. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.400 That make you not take this so serious all the time. 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.080 So I've had I've been blessed with great vets, you know, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.080 even still to this day, like Todd Gibson, like I've 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.520 been with to since I got to the next Nixson. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:51.800 Technically like I'm a fat now, but he o g 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:53.400 you know what I mean, You know what I mean. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.520 So it's like I still seek advice from him, you 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.240 know what I mean. So it's it's I've been blessed 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:00.879 with great vest teams. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.840 So the trade has obviously been great for you guys. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.080 Last night was the first loss. You won your first 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:16.000 five games after acquiring og Ananobi. But you guys have 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.160 lost a couple offensive initiators. The ball is in your 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:20.960 hands more. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:21.320 Now. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.080 How has the trade kind of forced you to adjust 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:26.160 some things in your game? 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.600 I mean it's really just opened things up, to be honest, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.320 you know, it just made me a little bit more aggressive, 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:40.240 you know, as a score boss or playmaker as well. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.400 You know, because the floor is so spread out and open, 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.960 you got guys like Hey, you got guys now like og. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.480 And then Isaiah at the sard starting center, like he 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:51.000 spreads the. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.119 Floor because he's just such a high IQ player and 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.800 understands how to space, how to understand, how to cut. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.359 You got guys like dudes QG coming off the bench, 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.159 so you know, we got real knockdown shooters. And for 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:07.159 a guy like me that, like you said, Chris, I 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.240 do a little bit of everything, but you know, but 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.240 to my core, you know, I'm aggressive. 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.480 I attack the basket. You know, I'm a downhill type player. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.000 Uh So for me, you know, to have that space 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:22.399 and then those players around you know and make the 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:23.640 game easier for me for sure. 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:29.640 Jus, can you give me your best Tom Thibodeau impression 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.439 when he's going off? When you guys in practice, I 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.560 heard you say you cust you guys out not too 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:34.320