Speaker 1: Rese Maxie, he's on fire, Yo.
Speaker 2: What's up? Is Tase? Here?
Speaker 3: Back with Maxie on the mic Man, I've been having
Speaker 3: a really good, something, really great summer. Actually it's going
Speaker 3: really fast, like off season moving fast. The months are
Speaker 3: going my fast, the weeks are going on fast, and
Speaker 3: the days are going by even faster. But uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I've just been I've just been enjoying all of the NBA.
Speaker 3: You know, just why do I explain this. I don't
Speaker 3: want to say drama, but all the NBA intail off
Speaker 3: season intaeil.
Speaker 2: I'll go with that. The NBA never stops. You know.
Speaker 3: I made a tweet last year. I think I was like, Uh,
Speaker 3: the NBA off season has to be the most entertaining
Speaker 3: off season of like all the sports. I mean, just
Speaker 3: because it's like it's something new every day. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's something new comes out every day. And I'm not
Speaker 3: just talking about with us as the sixth I'm just
Speaker 3: saying the NBA in general, with everything that's going on,
Speaker 3: so many different storylines going on in the NBA right now,
Speaker 3: so many different trade scenarios, so many different narratives.
Speaker 2: It's been great. It's been great.
Speaker 3: But you know, last show we did was with Nick
Speaker 3: Nurse coach Nick Nurse Out in Vegas Live show. That
Speaker 3: was really cool, man. I had a really good time
Speaker 3: doing that. I think I should do more of those.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to do some more of those, try
Speaker 3: to see if I can set up some more of those,
Speaker 3: because I feel like that was everybody was engaged, man,
Speaker 3: everybody was engaged. I got to see the people how
Speaker 3: they reacted. There's a lot of smiling faces there. It
Speaker 3: was really fun. You know, it was really fun. But anyways,
Speaker 3: let's get into it. Let's let's go ahead and start
Speaker 3: getting into it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Let's I guess we need to go ahead and address
Speaker 3: the elephant in the room, as people would say, my
Speaker 3: current still current teammate and one of my one of
Speaker 3: my good friends brother mentor on my team, James Harden situation.
Speaker 3: You know, honestly, for myself personally, I mean, of course
Speaker 3: I'm watching it because I'm not going to sit here
Speaker 3: and say I didn't see any of it. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to sit here and say I don't get on
Speaker 3: social media. I'm not even going to sit there until
Speaker 3: that lie I saw it, and it's you know, it's
Speaker 3: it's just interesting man. I will say this about the
Speaker 3: situation though, to each his own. You know, James, he's
Speaker 3: a professional, you know, he has he's doing something for
Speaker 3: a reason, and you know, you just have to sit
Speaker 3: back and kind of understand what he's doing as a friend,
Speaker 3: but then as a teammate and as somewhat a part
Speaker 3: of an organization that I'm with right now, you have
Speaker 3: to prepare for whether you know James is going to
Speaker 3: be there or not going to be there, you know,
Speaker 3: And that's just that's just the nature of it. That's
Speaker 3: really just the nature of it. And it happens. You know,
Speaker 3: it's not like it's crazy to say this, but it's
Speaker 3: not our first rodeo, honestly, you know, that's funny to say,
Speaker 3: but I mean it's life, and you know, James is
Speaker 3: his own individual. He can you know, he's able to
Speaker 3: do whatever, you know, whatever he pleases. And uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm just honestly, like I said, I'm prepared right now
Speaker 3: to play with them, but without him. And that's just
Speaker 3: the business side of it. And there's no no love
Speaker 3: lost because I love James. James of death. If he
Speaker 3: decided he was going to come back and play with us.
Speaker 3: I think there's nobody in this organization that wouldn't that
Speaker 3: you know, would be upset about that. But uh, you know,
Speaker 3: you just have to understand what he's going through and
Speaker 3: you know, pray for him, you know, as a brother.
Speaker 3: You know, people ask me, like, if James doesn't come back,
Speaker 3: do y'all do you see this this season as a
Speaker 3: wash or I don't think in the position that the
Speaker 3: Sixers are, and we can't never see a season as
Speaker 3: a wash. I mean, like, we have talent, you know,
Speaker 3: we have the rain of MVP on our team. We
Speaker 3: have to go out there and expect to win and
Speaker 3: expect to you know, still try to complete our goal.
Speaker 3: It would be definitely, you know, even more difficult now
Speaker 3: that you know one of our one of our best
Speaker 3: players as of right now, decide he doesn't want to
Speaker 3: come back and play and that's how life goes. But
Speaker 3: you know, it would be uh, even more difficult. But
Speaker 3: you have to go out there and you have to
Speaker 3: Everybody has to raise their game, you know. And I
Speaker 3: say everybody, I mean not just Joelle, not just me,
Speaker 3: not just Tobias, but that's everybody who's who's on the
Speaker 3: Sixers rosters such as rotation. You know, Jamie Springer may
Speaker 3: have to come in and give more minutes. Danthony may
Speaker 3: have to come in and do more And that's just
Speaker 3: the nature of it. That's the nature of the business.
Speaker 3: And uh, and you know you have to look at
Speaker 3: it at both ways as opportunity. You know, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be opportunity for a lot of guys, even myself included.
Speaker 3: Another opportunity for me to take steps and try to
Speaker 3: better myself for our team. And then like guys like
Speaker 3: James Springer, like I said, guys like Javonte Smart we
Speaker 3: we just sound like these Eibit ten you know, those
Speaker 3: guys you know, could take advantage of the situation as well.
Speaker 3: And if James does so, so Iry doesn't want to come
Speaker 3: back and you know play, Uh, it will change my
Speaker 3: role significantly. And like I said, that's just part of
Speaker 3: the business. That's one thing that I will say. You know,
Speaker 3: my dad always taught me and another playing for coach
Speaker 3: Cal taught me as well. I've been able to play
Speaker 3: off the ball, I've been able to play on the ball.
Speaker 3: I've been able to kind of be you know, adaptable
Speaker 3: in whatever situation I've been thrown into. And it's just funny.
Speaker 3: You know, every single year it's been something something new.
Speaker 3: I keep saying it. Maybe I should stop saying it,
Speaker 3: will stop having it, but I keep saying it, you know,
Speaker 3: and interviews and podcasts and meetings and you know, on
Speaker 3: in media, and it just keeps happening them It's funny.
Speaker 3: But like, yeah, I mean, if that's the case, then
Speaker 3: my role will be different. I'll probably play more, a
Speaker 3: lot more on the ball, a lot less off the ball.
Speaker 3: I'll probably become like the primary playmaker, primary ball handler.
Speaker 3: But I think we can do it by committee as well.
Speaker 3: You know, we got guys like Tobias who can who
Speaker 3: can make plays. We got guys like the MVP who
Speaker 3: his ability to make plays is really good as well.
Speaker 3: And then I think, like I said, I just been working, man,
Speaker 3: I've been working on it. I mean, you have to
Speaker 3: prepare for both. I've been prepared whether Jage comes back
Speaker 3: or whether he doesn't come back. So I have to
Speaker 3: be prepared for both. I can't let that stop the progress.
Speaker 3: I can't let that stop what we're doing. I can't
Speaker 3: let that affect myself. And if anybody who's taught me that,
Speaker 3: it's him you know, that's the funny part about it. Like,
Speaker 3: I know he's probably gonna if you're not playing, he's
Speaker 3: gonna be rooting for me to be the best version
Speaker 3: of myself because that's just the type of brother. He
Speaker 3: is a great person, and you know we love him
Speaker 3: for that. So the team you would say is about
Speaker 3: to play in the World Cup, you know, I wish
Speaker 3: up the best of love. I mean, you can't go
Speaker 3: against your country. I would never go against my country.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 3: That's the first and foremost. But that team has a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of good people on that team, man,
Speaker 3: a lot of guys that I wouldn't say I'm closer
Speaker 3: but me, And there was probably the closest person I
Speaker 3: am too on that team, you know, and Triple J
Speaker 3: and then probably Tyree and some other guys on that
Speaker 3: team as well that I'm close to. But you know,
Speaker 3: I definitely wish them well. You know, I think they
Speaker 3: look good, man, they look nice, think they're jeling.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't only see an exhibition so far,
Speaker 3: but I hope you win. I mean, I wouldn't say,
Speaker 3: you know, it doesn't it's not hurtful not being on
Speaker 3: the team, but I mean I understand, you know, the
Speaker 3: voting committee of they or whoever, however it is, the
Speaker 3: selection goes. They picked who they want to pick, and
Speaker 3: I mean you have to be able to be professional.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day, you have to accept
Speaker 3: it and it is what it is. You move on,
Speaker 3: You wish them the best of luck, and then you
Speaker 3: try to go out there and you try to, you know,
Speaker 3: make the next team. And hey, it's a part of it.
Speaker 3: It's pretty black and white. You know, you either make it.
Speaker 3: They invite you, or they don't.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, Richmond, he pitched it to me
Speaker 3: maybe like January, but I had just came back from
Speaker 3: being injured, so and I wasn't so sure about it.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm always up to doing it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Playing for USA is a great opportunity. I did it
Speaker 3: you you eighteen, I think when we won gold over
Speaker 3: in Canada. So I mean, I would love to do
Speaker 3: it again. I mean, you know, just the opportunity to
Speaker 3: present itself. I have to go out there and put
Speaker 3: myself out there and try to compete at a high
Speaker 3: level during my day job and try to show them that,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm someone who they want their team. So
Speaker 3: you know, hey, but like I said, I do wish
Speaker 3: that team the best of luck because at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, when I sit there and watch, I.
Speaker 2: Want us to beat the other countries. But hey, it's whatever.
Speaker 3: If they want me to play in the Olympics, there's
Speaker 3: no doubt in my mind that I would love to
Speaker 3: playing the Olympics.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a dream come true.
Speaker 3: It's it's almost like its extremely hard to turn down
Speaker 3: playing the Olympics. Man, like you to put that USA
Speaker 3: on your chest with whatever number you have on whatever
Speaker 3: you know, your name across the back. I mean, man,
Speaker 3: that's all the greats have done it, you know, all
Speaker 3: the way from from Mike, from Lebron to d Wade
Speaker 3: uh mellow KD. Like everybody's done it. So pipping, I
Speaker 3: mean the Magic's I mean, the list go on and
Speaker 3: on and on and on and on. So I mean,
Speaker 3: if you're if you're honored, and you're blessed to receive invitation.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's anybody in the league that will
Speaker 3: turn the Olympics down unless you know, they're heard or
Speaker 3: something like that, they have something that they really significantly
Speaker 3: need to do. So you know, yeah, I'm definitely I
Speaker 3: definitely would love to do it, and I'll definitely try.
Speaker 3: You know, I want to say I'll be thinking about
Speaker 3: it while I'm playing, but I'll definitely be out there,
Speaker 3: end up going out there going as hard as I can,
Speaker 3: you know, in my day job. Like I said, trying
Speaker 3: to show them that, you know, I'm somebody who they
Speaker 3: could keep their eye on Basketball Hall of Fame and
Speaker 3: Duckie sher money just happened to shout out to all
Speaker 3: those guys and shoutut to all those those people. Man,
Speaker 3: that's that's amazing. You know, that's amazing accolade. That not
Speaker 3: everybody's part of that club. And to be a part
Speaker 3: of that exclusive club, you have to, you know, you
Speaker 3: have to do some special things on the basketball court
Speaker 3: and then and I just be special players with special
Speaker 3: people as well. All those people from the likes of
Speaker 3: Dwayne Wade, Dirt, Tony Parker, Palagassow, Coach Pot all those
Speaker 3: people they are they're not they're not just great basketball minds,
Speaker 3: but they're great people as well. And you know, the
Speaker 3: great people that you want to have around. But I'll
Speaker 3: just give a major shout out to d Wade He's
Speaker 3: the reason why I wore number three, not just in
Speaker 3: high school but in college AAU. I tried to always
Speaker 3: get another three. And that's because of Dwayne Wade. It's
Speaker 3: funny now, like, you know, knowing, actually knowing him, and
Speaker 3: actually being able to talk to him and actually being
Speaker 3: like him, being like somebody that I could look up
Speaker 3: to and actually connect with. It's a great feeling, man,
Speaker 3: It's a great feeling. And it's funny. I tell people
Speaker 3: all the time how crazy it is and how how
Speaker 3: crazy God works is. You know, I posted my commitment
Speaker 3: video of going to Kentucky and Dwayne Wade quote tweted it.
Speaker 3: You know, he quote it. But this is before I
Speaker 3: even knew him, before I ever talked to him, quote
Speaker 3: to it. It was like, that's how you make an announcement.
Speaker 3: And I'm just running around how I'm so happy about
Speaker 3: d Wade, like noticing like, oh my god, dwayn Wade
Speaker 3: knows who I am. Like this is ridiculous, And it
Speaker 3: just so happened that I've seen him the next the
Speaker 3: following weekend and Atlanta at the ey Bil Tournament, and
Speaker 3: you know, he has a security and I'm like, I run.
Speaker 2: Up to him.
Speaker 3: I really just run up to not really run, but
Speaker 3: like I kind of speed walked to him to tell him,
Speaker 3: like thank you, and it's security, hey, back up, back up,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, whoa wait, I just I just want
Speaker 3: to tell him thank you.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to I don't want to smoke.
Speaker 3: I just want to tell him thank you. But uh,
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, this is it's it's a great accomplishment
Speaker 3: for them, you know, shout out to them, and you know,
Speaker 3: one day, maybe one day I could work towards getting there.
Speaker 3: You know, I always say I work to be one
Speaker 3: percent better. Every single day I worked to my My
Speaker 3: ultimate goal is to be the best possible version of
Speaker 3: Tyrech MAXI that I possibly can be. And that's because
Speaker 3: that's just who I am.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sit here and put a limit on
Speaker 3: you know, how high I could go or or you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like the sky. Everybody says the sky's limit,
Speaker 3: but I feel like, you know, I can go even further,
Speaker 3: and I go as far as I possibly can take me.
Speaker 3: And you know, like I always say it when it's
Speaker 3: all sitting down, when the boss I bounce. So I
Speaker 3: want to be able to say, I put them all
Speaker 3: into the game, and I got out of my maxwell
Speaker 3: maximum potential, you know, with it. And that's just the
Speaker 3: goal always. All right, let's take a quick break. When
Speaker 3: we come back, we'll get into a conversation with one
Speaker 3: of my trainers, someone who is probably the second person
Speaker 3: other than Rod Clark who's at Tennessee now, but he's
Speaker 3: like really like the first person who full time train
Speaker 3: me other than my dad in high school.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: His name is Tim Martin, and we'll learn a little
Speaker 3: bit more about, you know, some off season workouts. I
Speaker 3: want to talk to him about some of the workouts
Speaker 3: that we've done, some of the workouts that he's dealt
Speaker 3: with other guys across the league, some of the things
Speaker 3: that he sees, you know, and I want to get
Speaker 3: ready for this show, you know, let him talk about
Speaker 3: what we've done and how we get ready for the season,
Speaker 3: and just some of the stories that I want him
Speaker 3: to tell about because he's been connected with guys as
Speaker 3: far as the likes of Dwayne Wade, Trey Young and
Speaker 3: a number one overall pick Win Biana. So it's like
Speaker 3: I really want, I really want him to talk. And
Speaker 3: then you'll hear some things from him, and it'll be
Speaker 3: pretty interested to y'all.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 3: All right, y'all, we're back with Maxwell and the Mic.
Speaker 3: I told y'all I had a special guest for y'all today.
Speaker 2: You know, to give this this good man of mine,
Speaker 2: this good brother of mine, a good.
Speaker 3: Rundown or a good synopsis, I'll say I start with this.
Speaker 3: The first time I worked out with with Tim, We're
Speaker 3: working out in the back gym my dad. So my
Speaker 3: dad never really let me work out with anybody else,
Speaker 3: but he tells me like, look, I want you to
Speaker 3: work out with this dude. You know he's I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna be really good for you. Works on pick
Speaker 3: and roll pass and stuff like that. So I really
Speaker 3: want you to work out. And I'm like, all right,
Speaker 3: if cool Breeze want me to work out with him,
Speaker 3: and then hey, I ain't got no choice but to
Speaker 3: work out with him. So we get there and I
Speaker 3: promise y'all. Like when I when I tell y'all this Tim,
Speaker 3: we didn't we didn't shoot a shot the entire day,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I go home, I tell my day, like
Speaker 3: what I worked well, I was like, we didn't shoot
Speaker 3: at all, we just passed the ball the entire time,
Speaker 3: and like my dad was so intrigued by that.
Speaker 2: I think that's where our relationship really started building.
Speaker 3: And that's that's that that really helped me, man, That
Speaker 3: really helped me as far as at the time, you know,
Speaker 3: I was I think I feel like I was a
Speaker 3: natural born scorer, honestly, but you know, he was on
Speaker 3: me about getting those assists or lacing the balls up
Speaker 3: and getting guys open and getting guys shots at making
Speaker 3: gods confident. And I feel like that took our team
Speaker 3: to another level at the time in high school, you know,
Speaker 3: getting guys like Chris more confident, getting guys like Kean
Speaker 3: and j Bully and all my friends back in high
Speaker 3: school they're more confidence and was able to kind of
Speaker 3: elevate us to State. But that's just a rundown on Tim.
Speaker 3: I just want him to, you know, say a few
Speaker 3: worried before we get started to go ahead.
Speaker 4: Tim, I can't thank you enough just to be here.
Speaker 4: You know, I've been able to just see your growth
Speaker 4: since you was little man, and it's cool to be
Speaker 4: able to like reminisce and talk about these old stories.
Speaker 4: And I'll never forget that moment because for me, you know,
Speaker 4: when we first met, you already had game. You know,
Speaker 4: It's not like you was, you know, trying to figure
Speaker 4: out how to dribble and stuff like that. But I'm
Speaker 4: just always been big on perspective, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: and how you saw the game at that point in time.
Speaker 4: For you to really elevate yourself and elevate others, I
Speaker 4: think it was important to not just be a great
Speaker 4: score but be a great playmaker, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: because you know, I mean, you've been playing the game
Speaker 4: your whole life. I mean, if you're not scoring the ball,
Speaker 4: what else are you doing? And that's always been something
Speaker 4: that I take pride in in my teachings, is just
Speaker 4: expanding the way players look at the game three dimensionally
Speaker 4: and just being able to play, you know, both sides
Speaker 4: of the floor. So you've always done a great job
Speaker 4: of that. But it was pretty wild that passing segment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, man, I'm like, you know what's funny
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking about it, but it was like it
Speaker 3: was one of the kids that was on JV was
Speaker 3: just in the gym.
Speaker 2: He just happened to be in the gym.
Speaker 3: And he was like, hey, you want to help, and
Speaker 3: he was just read like, now we're coming off Boston,
Speaker 3: I'm passing to him, lacing the ball up to him.
Speaker 3: And it was like, man, I was just that was
Speaker 3: a funny moment. But no, I got I got a
Speaker 3: few things I want to talk about for sure. Like firstly,
Speaker 3: I want to talk about it is like you know,
Speaker 3: and not just me. I just want to talk about
Speaker 3: like training in general, because it's become such a crazy business.
Speaker 3: It's bad, Like we have so many different trainers. We
Speaker 3: have you know, internet trainers, we have TikTok training, we
Speaker 3: have all that stuff now. And I'm not saying that's
Speaker 3: a bad thing. I'm just saying like it's a good thing.
Speaker 3: I feel like y'all are evolving, and I just want
Speaker 3: to talk about, like I want you to talk about
Speaker 3: what do you see it?
Speaker 2: What are your goal is when.
Speaker 3: Like you know, NBA client comes to you and because
Speaker 3: you do, I see what I watch you and you
Speaker 3: trade everybody different what you have to I feel like
Speaker 3: and I just want you to talk about what you
Speaker 3: see and what you try to do and what you
Speaker 3: try how you try to help guys with their games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well the biggest thing is I need you know,
Speaker 4: I want you to to not just listen to what
Speaker 4: I'm telling you to do, but I want you to
Speaker 4: feel what I'm saying, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 4: it's my job not to just work you out, but
Speaker 4: to develop you. And I feel like there's a big
Speaker 4: difference between a lot of workout guys and then you
Speaker 4: have your teachers, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 4: used to always actually want to be a history teacher
Speaker 4: growing up, and I've always loved to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just being able to figure out the subject matter and
Speaker 4: be able to find different ways to articulate the me
Speaker 4: message to the players is something that I enjoy doing
Speaker 4: and to be able to see players grow over time.
Speaker 4: You know, it takes a lot of patience, especially for
Speaker 4: somebody like me.
Speaker 5: I mean, when we.
Speaker 4: Started, I was I was a young coach, so there
Speaker 4: was some wild stuff I had you doing that I
Speaker 4: had no clue what the hell I was doing. Well, eventually,
Speaker 4: you know, you see what works what doesn't work with
Speaker 4: some of the players that you have in your repertoire.
Speaker 4: But I think training today it's a great thing because
Speaker 4: everybody has access to information, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And I pride myself particularly on just making sure that
Speaker 4: we're working on only one or two things at a time,
Speaker 4: you know, because I feel like throughout a week, if Monday,
Speaker 4: we're just working on.
Speaker 5: Your touch and your floaters.
Speaker 4: By Friday or by at least next week, I shouldn't
Speaker 4: even have to keep correcting you. I should be able
Speaker 4: to at least look at you or ask you a question,
Speaker 4: be like Reese, you know, how does that feel?
Speaker 5: Or what have you?
Speaker 4: When you be able to automatically correct yourself because in
Speaker 4: the game, I'm not going to be there.
Speaker 5: You know, you got to be able to have.
Speaker 4: That relationship with yourself and be able to auto correct
Speaker 4: yourself on what feels right and what doesn't feel right.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of been my approach to my teachings
Speaker 4: over the last few years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when you it's funny that you say that,
Speaker 3: because I now I started reminiscing about not even just
Speaker 3: high school and me not even just right now, but
Speaker 3: like all the way back to high school, like working
Speaker 3: out with love, I like working out with you. You
Speaker 3: taught me, well, Rod kind of taught me like getting
Speaker 3: up early or whatever, but you taught me like before
Speaker 3: the school you know what I'm saying. We was getting
Speaker 3: in there, you remember that, like my junior and senior
Speaker 3: like six am before school, and it was like, I'm like, man, like,
Speaker 3: you know, I like this stuff. You know, I like
Speaker 3: the guard and now I start bringing in like Chris
Speaker 3: and then little Jordan would come with me some days
Speaker 3: when we work out early in the morning, and you
Speaker 3: was big on me from the jump about like the
Speaker 3: voice and the leadership. And that's one thing that's really
Speaker 3: helped me as far as like now, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: twenty two years old, which I'm young, but I feel
Speaker 3: old like my mind like I feel that old. But
Speaker 3: I'll say season, you know what I'm saying, And you know,
Speaker 3: I'm able to have those conversations in locker room, have
Speaker 3: those conversations on the court and being able because I
Speaker 3: think I feel like the work ethic that we've put
Speaker 3: in and working I put in. And then just like
Speaker 3: me being able to communicate. You was always on me
Speaker 3: about that communicator and especially when I came like junior
Speaker 3: senior year, He's like, look, you know everybody's gonna listen
Speaker 3: to you, especially right now you know you're all these
Speaker 3: act leads blah, blah blah, but use your voice tell
Speaker 3: people where they need to go.
Speaker 2: That is going to help you when you get to
Speaker 2: the league.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, man, I didn't think about it then,
Speaker 3: but now, like playing with a guy like Joelle, like
Speaker 3: who's so dominant, you have to still be like I'm
Speaker 3: I have the ball, So I still have to be
Speaker 3: able to be dominant. Tell Joel all right, set the
Speaker 3: screen here or set that screen there. If I was quiet,
Speaker 3: you know, that wouldn't work. That dynamic just wouldn't work.
Speaker 3: Or when Paul Reid, I'm playing with Paul Reid, I
Speaker 3: need part read to flip the screen. I need part
Speaker 3: re do this. I kind of want to talk about that.
Speaker 3: Where'd you get that from? Where did that come in at?
Speaker 3: Like that's because that's a key component to the game.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well shoot, when I played, I'm what you call slow fast, right,
Speaker 4: So I ain't had no athletic ability, and so I
Speaker 4: had to really like dive into the details as a player,
Speaker 4: you know, in high school and in college. And so
Speaker 4: one of the things I learned is that, like, especially
Speaker 4: if I'm playing week side defense or help side defense,
Speaker 4: I have to learn how to over communicate just to
Speaker 4: put myself in good situations and then offensively. You know,
Speaker 4: I wasn't able to just isole a player. So if
Speaker 4: I'm calling for screens, I need my bigs to understand
Speaker 4: exactly how I need the angles to be and setting
Speaker 4: the screens and so forth. So I think, you know, young,
Speaker 4: younger version of me in my career, I had to
Speaker 4: learn how to over communicate and in just any.
Speaker 5: Relationship, especially in business, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I value relationships obviously, and I know for me and you,
Speaker 4: for me, like I always felt like I can't lecture.
Speaker 4: I need to have a conversation with you because I'm
Speaker 4: asking you questions and so forth. Then I'm able to
Speaker 4: extract feedback and then and now I know how to
Speaker 4: like articulate the approach to our workouts. And so I
Speaker 4: think communication is really important to anything, not just basketball related.
Speaker 4: But you know, I think for you too, You've always
Speaker 4: had that presence right and because you always walking in
Speaker 4: gyms and you smiling, and your energy is always been
Speaker 4: contagious for others. And the one thing that I use
Speaker 4: you as a reference point to all these other players
Speaker 4: that I work with, especially like if I'm doing speaking engagements,
Speaker 4: is I always say, Tyrese MAXI is one of the
Speaker 4: most curious people that I've ever met, right, and you
Speaker 4: always learning something new every time you work out.
Speaker 5: So think about it.
Speaker 4: If there's thirty days in a month, I guarantee you
Speaker 4: you learning something new every single day. That's thirty new
Speaker 4: things you learn about basketball. You're going to definitely.
Speaker 5: Separate yourself from everybody else.
Speaker 4: And so it's it's a no brainer that your career
Speaker 4: is gone on the up and up because of your
Speaker 4: curious mind.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I appreciate.
Speaker 3: I agree that, like it's and I think that's testimony
Speaker 3: to my post to Man because you know, he was
Speaker 3: only big time you know, cool Bree is crazy, so
Speaker 3: he was only big time about like he was a coach,
Speaker 3: so like I was always trying to pick his brain,
Speaker 3: and he was always teaching me something new after every
Speaker 3: single game, as far as even when I was you know,
Speaker 3: a little bitty you know what I'm saying, We coming
Speaker 3: back watching film doing all types of crazy stuff at
Speaker 3: age I don't know, ten eleven, I'm not gonna go
Speaker 3: play video games. You got me here watching film from
Speaker 3: a guy. I'm like why One time I asked him, said, man,
Speaker 3: why we got to watch the game. Already happened. We
Speaker 3: know what happened in the game, and we're watching it
Speaker 3: to make sure you don't do it again. I'm like,
Speaker 3: but but anyway, it's nice. But I agree though, I
Speaker 3: agree to it. And you know, another thing that we
Speaker 3: talked about a lot is that I want you to
Speaker 3: talk about is is goal setting and mindset. It was
Speaker 3: only a big time about what's your goals this year?
Speaker 3: And I'll give you something, but you're like, no, what's
Speaker 3: your what's your real goals this year? And I would
Speaker 3: go in and that and I had to really give
Speaker 3: you something that was you know that that was a
Speaker 3: real goal, you know what I'm saying, goals of mining. So,
Speaker 3: like I put this as an example, you know, I
Speaker 3: said after my rookie year, I was like, look, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be most improved, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't win the award, but like the way my
Speaker 3: numbers were, I went from like I don't know, seventeen
Speaker 3: minutes to like thirty six minutes a game, and that
Speaker 3: was like on eight points to like eighteen. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying that the margin of the what I
Speaker 3: did the growth, We talked about it and you all
Speaker 3: went out there and just played it. And then the
Speaker 3: next year you said, look what you're gonna do this year,
Speaker 3: and I wrote down my goals. I wrote down the stuff,
Speaker 3: and for the most part, I completed almost every single
Speaker 3: one of those goals, especially individual goals. So I kind
Speaker 3: of want you to talk about how you kind of
Speaker 3: relay that message to players, because that's that's a part
Speaker 3: of training too, in my opinion, because that's that's a
Speaker 3: different side of it, but that's the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nah man, And I'm glad that you took key
Speaker 4: to that because one of my biggest things is like
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of players especially do not
Speaker 4: know what they want. Everybody's kind of vague in their
Speaker 4: approach in terms of like, yo, I want to go
Speaker 4: to the NBA or I want to be an All Star.
Speaker 4: But the one thing I don't think a lot of
Speaker 4: people really like focus on is whatever it is that
Speaker 4: you're trying to get to, you're going to struggle.
Speaker 5: It's going to be up and down roller coaster. And
Speaker 5: I remember there was.
Speaker 4: Times not just high school but college and obviously when
Speaker 4: you first got into the League where you know you
Speaker 4: had to figure things out. You know, we were just
Speaker 4: talking about it the other day. There's never been a
Speaker 4: player that I've ever met where their career is just
Speaker 4: going on to up and up without some kind of
Speaker 4: hardships where you coming off the bench, lack of playing time,
Speaker 4: shooting slump or whatever, injury.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But I think once you get to that space of
Speaker 4: exactly knowing what you want specifically, then as you go
Speaker 4: through your struggles as a player, you're always able to
Speaker 4: make those adjustments. So it's kind of like being down
Speaker 4: ten in the game, coach calls a time out, and
Speaker 4: you're able to go back to your original game plan,
Speaker 4: make a few tweaks, you know, make an adjustment in
Speaker 4: the game plan, but then get right back out there
Speaker 4: and compete. And so I think when it comes to
Speaker 4: your mind, I said, and you pursuing your goals, you
Speaker 4: can't be vague, like, you got to be as detailed
Speaker 4: as possible, and eventually you'll be able to know what
Speaker 4: you need to adjust to get there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's like when you talk about those details,
Speaker 3: the first thing that pops into my mind is, you
Speaker 3: know that everybody was talking about my floater float to
Speaker 3: floor to float to flow to floater, and uh, it
Speaker 3: was like, man, how you you know? One flip floater,
Speaker 3: two foot floaters off the glass, floater straight and floaters.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, listen, me and Tim we sat in
Speaker 3: that gym at South Garland in the in the in
Speaker 3: the big gym on this one and we shot floater
Speaker 3: after the floater, after the floater. You told me it's like, look,
Speaker 3: you're getting all the way to the rim. Cool, you're
Speaker 3: shooting threes.
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 3: Where what what type of midrange game are we going
Speaker 3: to get it? You don't have to shoot all like
Speaker 3: pull up middies. But I think the floater is gonna
Speaker 3: be good for you.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I kind of took the floater away, and like when
Speaker 3: I was a little key, I did the photo when
Speaker 3: I was lotokle key, like almost every single play. So
Speaker 3: I kind of took it away once I got to
Speaker 3: like the beginning of high school. Once I got back
Speaker 3: to my junior year, we talked about that. Man, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be seven footers in there. It's gonna be you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, athletic guys in there. You're not
Speaker 3: gonna be able to just rise up and dunk and layer.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You're not six ' eight.
Speaker 3: You know you don't have you know, that type of bounce.
Speaker 3: So it's like we did. I just want to give
Speaker 3: like people a perspective. I want you to talk about too.
Speaker 3: But we did every floaterter variation possible.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm talking about like and then we when when
Speaker 3: we talk about that craft and being a you know,
Speaker 3: someone who wants to be perfect. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: backboard on it, all it three in a row, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Like, it doesn't count if it's
Speaker 3: not all in it, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 3: I want you to talk about that too, because you
Speaker 3: came up with that stuff for me and I I
Speaker 3: kind of just walked right into it when I got
Speaker 3: to college and I kind of added to all my
Speaker 3: workouts there as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, well, the one thing for me is I'm very observant.
Speaker 4: So as I put you through a series of drills,
Speaker 4: I'm always looking at your movements from your body movements,
Speaker 4: and the one thing that you've always had is great
Speaker 4: touch from the outset, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 4: you can always get to the rim. I mean, I've
Speaker 4: seen you dunk on plenty of cats, you know, since
Speaker 4: you was young, but back in the day, yeah, when
Speaker 4: you at them young kneeds. I think just knowing what
Speaker 4: to expect in the NBA side with dealing with that
Speaker 4: sort of link. And it's not even about getting your
Speaker 4: shot blocked. It's just the bigs altering your shots. So
Speaker 4: you have to have a different level of finesse in touch.
Speaker 4: And so I think at that particular time when we
Speaker 4: was working on your floaters or whatnot, it was just like, look,
Speaker 4: this has got to be a standard. I don't expect
Speaker 4: you to do these things, but this got to be
Speaker 4: a standard anytime you walk into a gym to where
Speaker 4: it has to be immaculate because you got a quick
Speaker 4: first step. You one of the fastest players in the NBA.
Speaker 4: I mean even in high school, he was one of
Speaker 4: the fastest players in the country. And I think sometimes
Speaker 4: when you're that fast, you know you're adding a little
Speaker 4: bit more force on the ball going off the glass
Speaker 4: or whatnot.
Speaker 5: And so I think just being mindful of not slowing down.
Speaker 4: When you're picking up that ball and just being able
Speaker 4: to have a soft touch of the glass or just
Speaker 4: being able to be perfect.
Speaker 5: You know with that ball going through the neck. That
Speaker 5: was key. So yeah, you definitely got a lot better
Speaker 5: at it, a lot.
Speaker 2: But I ain't gonna a lot.
Speaker 3: I remember the first time we were shooting like one
Speaker 3: legged floaters. I'm like, man, listen here, I do floaters,
Speaker 3: but this is ridiculous. And now backboard all that we
Speaker 3: was there. You know, sometimes I forgot about this. We
Speaker 3: used to work out at the Lifetime Where was that
Speaker 3: Lifetime at?
Speaker 5: It was in North Dallas.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, So I used to I used to
Speaker 3: leave school. I used to leave school and drive all
Speaker 3: the way out there just to work out. And I'm
Speaker 3: like we get there, You're like all right, let's get
Speaker 3: to the floaters, and were like, all right, backboard on that. Well,
Speaker 3: I will sit there until I had three backboard, like
Speaker 3: three in the row. Backboard on that. Like we wouldn't
Speaker 3: move on drills, and it was like that stuff is
Speaker 3: like it's good for you, man. I just feel like
Speaker 3: that repetition and then someone who's gonna push you, you know,
Speaker 3: never let you slack off. And that's you know still
Speaker 3: to this day. You know what I'm saying when we
Speaker 3: work out now and I feel like you know now,
Speaker 3: like you said, it's a lot different now. Like we
Speaker 3: work out, I come to you sometimes say look can
Speaker 3: we do this, this, that, and the third. And that's
Speaker 3: just a part of that communication that you talk about,
Speaker 3: like you have to be able to do that. Like
Speaker 3: I'm the one that's playing in the game. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I got to tell you what I see.
Speaker 3: You know, we look at the film. You know, we
Speaker 3: looked at films sometimes, but like I tell you what
Speaker 3: I see, I tell you someding what I need to
Speaker 3: work on, and then I can tell you like, look,
Speaker 3: let's do this.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like recently this week, I say, look, tell I know,
Speaker 3: were working out, but you don't I need those reps
Speaker 3: I need. I don't want to play like real pick
Speaker 3: up because you know, a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 3: but like I need to find a way to work
Speaker 3: on my pocket path, work on my overhead pass, and
Speaker 3: then play a live session of one on one. So
Speaker 3: now we're working on Okay, pick a roll with Joe
Speaker 3: will I'm coming off the defendive steps in front of me,
Speaker 3: dropping a pocket past, coming off Now all right, now,
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 2: Butter situation.
Speaker 3: Working on my isold situation one on one, and I
Speaker 3: just want you to talk about like, how do you
Speaker 3: I know you probably have you know, may not have
Speaker 3: all your guys, but I know you probably have the
Speaker 3: same type of respect level with the Light except, like
Speaker 3: I said, the Tray and then the d Wades.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: We didn't even talk about him as this Hall of
Speaker 3: Famer grass the d Wade, but like you know him
Speaker 3: and then I won't get into a little bit of
Speaker 3: Winby before we get.
Speaker 2: Off here, because I know everybody wants to hear about Wimby.
Speaker 4: So now, man, I think at this stage in your career,
Speaker 4: you know, to really elevate, it's not so much just
Speaker 4: about the basketball skill set, like we always talk about
Speaker 4: the de mindset, right, and I think for you, especially
Speaker 4: this summer, is how can.
Speaker 5: You develop in areas of leadership? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: How can you get comfortable of coaching your teammates or
Speaker 4: coaching other players in the gym, or even just talking
Speaker 4: to people that you may not know, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean and building their confidence level up because a
Speaker 4: part of that, you know, going back to the passion,
Speaker 4: My thing is this are you a great passor or
Speaker 4: you a great assistant?
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And then now you ship that over to the leadership side.
Speaker 4: Just because you talk or communicate, that doesn't mean that
Speaker 4: it's registering with your teammates. You know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Because you know you've been in the playoffs. You have
Speaker 4: to be great at leadership in certain situations. Whether it
Speaker 4: gets tough, it gets tough, and so I think it's
Speaker 4: tough at that during the summertime. It's only going to
Speaker 4: allow you to be more confident in those areas, being
Speaker 4: able to talk to Joel Embiid or James Harden or whoever.
Speaker 4: You know, you're gonna be able to feel more confident
Speaker 4: in that because you're doing it, you know, in the gym.
Speaker 3: And it's a respect thing too, like we always talk about.
Speaker 3: You said it, like when you walk into gym one.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm always happy, smiling of course, but like
Speaker 3: I always feel like, you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 3: I could be the best player on this court today.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And that's just and that's not just that's not like
Speaker 3: cocky or arrogant thing. That's more of just like I
Speaker 3: put the work in. I'm confident in myself. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Yeah, we got the MVP on our team,
Speaker 3: but if I have to step up and make big
Speaker 3: time plays and big time situations, I'm not afraid of
Speaker 3: the moment because I put the work in it, because
Speaker 3: I carry myself a certain way. And that's how you
Speaker 3: get the respect from the Jewel embiads and the James
Speaker 3: Harden and then other people around the league. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, because now they understand, like, look, you
Speaker 3: know Tarre's may you know Joe it is Joel's team,
Speaker 3: is Joel's franchise.
Speaker 2: Joe the m v P.
Speaker 3: But Toss you know, he know slack. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. He gonna go out there and he's gonna
Speaker 3: you know, he's not scared of the moment. And I
Speaker 3: think that's another thing that we talked about, man, just
Speaker 3: like being confident in yourself, being prepared, being mentally prepared,
Speaker 3: and like that's like the meditation, the prayer that we've done.
Speaker 2: You know, we was.
Speaker 3: I was you know, I tell people all the time,
Speaker 3: it's funny, I'm jumping all the place, but I tell
Speaker 3: people like we were like safely doing this, but like COVID,
Speaker 3: like during the pre drive, well every single day we're
Speaker 3: in there multiple times a day. I'm like, and it's
Speaker 3: like there's no we don't got no cameras. We just working,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And I tell people like man, Tim,
Speaker 3: Tim don't post everything, you know, he don't post a
Speaker 3: lot of his workouts, but like he won the best
Speaker 3: at the game, man, like he don't. We just when
Speaker 3: he gets in there and we work it, we don't
Speaker 3: even like you know what I'm saying, we don't have time.
Speaker 3: And it's and it's not that we don't have time,
Speaker 3: just like we just get we attacked at the time
Speaker 3: that we're in there and we work.
Speaker 2: Man. That's why I want you to talk about a
Speaker 2: little bit more.
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, nah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: It's you know, I always pride myself.
Speaker 4: Too on like it's got to be some sense of togetherness,
Speaker 4: like you know, making sure that you're a part of
Speaker 4: this process.
Speaker 5: Obviously you the player. This ain't about me, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean.
Speaker 4: It's always been about you and then making sure that
Speaker 4: you're fulfilling your dreams because that's the reward for me
Speaker 4: is hearing your name called on draft night, you know,
Speaker 4: and knowing your family and just how great of a
Speaker 4: family you come from, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And to see you have success on.
Speaker 4: The highest level, you know, and your relationship with my son,
Speaker 4: that means a lot to me. And so I think
Speaker 4: it's just it's a family effort. But I'll say this too, man,
Speaker 4: Like one of the greatest things about you is just
Speaker 4: how much of an impact you have on others.
Speaker 5: Like you take basketball away.
Speaker 4: From you, you're still a successful person, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean. Likewise, that's just a testament though to your
Speaker 4: approach and everything that you do. You you one hundred
Speaker 4: percent and the things that you taught me, like about
Speaker 4: the one percent, bro, There's there's plenty of days where
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, I ain't got it in me today,
Speaker 4: But I'm like, I just got to try at least
Speaker 4: you try to get one percent better.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's it, man.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know, man, and it's it's it's
Speaker 3: a combination of you know, myself just trying to shoot,
Speaker 3: just trying to be the best version of myself that
Speaker 3: my dad and my family. You know, you like everybody
Speaker 3: who's pushed me, and now it's like, I don't like
Speaker 3: I never hit that in a problem of getting in
Speaker 3: the gym, you know what I'm saying. But now it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, being in the NBA, you could take time off.
Speaker 3: It's like my thing is like, man, I want to
Speaker 3: maximize my potential so much, and I've gotten better at,
Speaker 3: you know, scaling back when I got to scale back,
Speaker 3: or taking you know, taking off things and getting treatment
Speaker 3: doing things like that.
Speaker 2: But like you, I'm just so happy. I'm so happy
Speaker 2: that that, uh, you know, I'm able.
Speaker 3: I'm in this position that I'm able to go out
Speaker 3: there and be the best version of myself every single day.
Speaker 3: And I'm so glad that I placed the people around me,
Speaker 3: like you, with Chris Johnson's shoot, my family, my mom,
Speaker 3: my dad, you know what I'm saying, all those people
Speaker 3: around me who have helped me, help me stay on
Speaker 3: the course, help me be successful, and just be by
Speaker 3: my side. Okay, let's take one more break. When we
Speaker 3: come back, I will tell y'all what I'm thankful for.
Speaker 3: I'll tell y'all what what I'm planning to get one
Speaker 3: percent better at next week. And also we'll talk a
Speaker 3: little bit more about Tim's story really fast, talk about
Speaker 3: how my dad met him, and just shout out to Tim.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: We really appreciate him coming on and shedding light on
Speaker 3: his story. And we'll talk a little bit more about
Speaker 3: that after this break. You know, you've been working out
Speaker 3: wind Beef since. Man, Lord, I mean, you told me
Speaker 3: about him, I don't know, years ago. And that's the
Speaker 3: crazy part about it. And I'm like, when you tell
Speaker 3: me about it, you tell me how tall he's Like, Man, hey,
Speaker 3: that's crazy. You don't really think about it. It's snuck
Speaker 3: up on us. Think about it. It snuck up on us.
Speaker 3: Now goes number one. I mean, like y'all been working.
Speaker 3: I just want you to kind of talk about what
Speaker 3: y'all some things y'all worked on, some of the things
Speaker 3: like because I tell people, man, he's a great player,
Speaker 3: but like the person that he is, he's just a
Speaker 3: good person to be around.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: You know, just being around his little brother these last
Speaker 3: last week, that's just who they are. Man, They just
Speaker 3: really good people.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: You brought him into the gym last year after I
Speaker 3: had worked out, and before he even touched the ball,
Speaker 3: he asked you, like, look, can I work on some
Speaker 3: defense stuff with Tyres.
Speaker 2: He wants to play me one on one just defense.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, you want to get a ball
Speaker 3: like nah, it's like come on, let's just come out
Speaker 3: the ball screen one on one. And it's like, man,
Speaker 3: like the first player, you know, I don't get my
Speaker 3: shot back off, but the first player, I drive and
Speaker 3: I don't get into his body. I try to choose
Speaker 3: like a little running right right, and he just blocks out,
Speaker 3: like oh, what the heck. It was like, that's just
Speaker 3: like the potential that he has. I kind of want
Speaker 3: you to talk about it, like, man, you know, we play,
Speaker 3: we played, We had a good time playing. He's so competitive.
Speaker 3: I kind of want you talking about him a little
Speaker 3: bit before we get off here.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, shoot, we've actually been working out since he was
Speaker 4: like fifteen years old, so you know, I was going
Speaker 4: back and forth to France and working through the zoom
Speaker 4: calls during COVID and stuff like that. And you know
Speaker 4: it's funny, you know, as I'm getting older in this business,
Speaker 4: I go back to using you as a reference point
Speaker 4: on your level of curiosity because when I'm sitting there
Speaker 4: having the same similar conversations with Wenby about like, hey, man, like,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna make it in this league, you got
Speaker 4: to learn something new every day.
Speaker 5: This is what Tyre's max you do every.
Speaker 2: Day, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: He's coming in at six am, He's calling coaches to
Speaker 4: come rebound for him. And so you know, it was
Speaker 4: able to kind of give him a blueprint on your
Speaker 4: work ethic and he had to resemble that. But then
Speaker 4: also I think just who he is, like his mind
Speaker 4: is just very exceptional. I mean, he knows a lot
Speaker 4: of things about a lot of things. It ainteen basketball.
Speaker 4: He's extremely intelligent, and to be so young, he's he's
Speaker 4: got an old spirit, he's got an old soul.
Speaker 5: And you know, I think I've already told him this league.
Speaker 4: Nobody comes in this league and just dominate from day one, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, and it goes back to the gold setting,
Speaker 4: and it's like, look, yere one, we got to carve
Speaker 4: this this whole season out and just focus on one
Speaker 4: thing at a time and focus on what you can
Speaker 4: control and just those kinds of things.
Speaker 5: But you know, he went to a great organization in
Speaker 5: San Antonio. Pops down there.
Speaker 4: You got Tim Duncan, all the Hall of Famers, so
Speaker 4: I think you know, he's got a great circle, great family,
Speaker 4: so you know there is there is no limit for him, for.
Speaker 5: All you guys.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: And then I want you to talk about a little
Speaker 3: bit if you're okay with just like your background, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like I didn't, I didn't even
Speaker 3: talk about that, man, Like how special your background is. Man,
Speaker 3: it's like you know, last year we did the little
Speaker 3: you know, we did the interviews, and like I knew
Speaker 3: some of it. I didn't know everything, but I knew
Speaker 3: some of it. I kind of want you to just
Speaker 3: talk about that because man, you you are so like
Speaker 3: self baid. I know you had people help you, but
Speaker 3: like you did that. You know what I'm saying, You
Speaker 3: are entrepreneur. Man, You you did this. Man like this
Speaker 3: like it's a story that I want people to hear
Speaker 3: it because it's it's not You could have gave up,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You could have.
Speaker 3: You could have laid down and you know, just gave
Speaker 3: up all your dreams, but you did. I want you
Speaker 3: to talk about how you fought through diversity, how you
Speaker 3: are where you are today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nah, man, it's really just god like I mean
Speaker 4: when when my mom's always instilled that holy spirit in
Speaker 4: me in terms of just like you just have to
Speaker 4: give yourself a chance sometimes. And you know, when I
Speaker 4: was homeless with my son Christian, this is probably when
Speaker 4: you was like seventh or eighth grade. Nobody really knew
Speaker 4: what I was going through because I was still shown
Speaker 4: up at the gym because that was really my safe having.
Speaker 4: Going to the gym was my sanctuary, being able to
Speaker 4: work with all kinds of different players. And then when
Speaker 4: I knew that guys was getting better because of us
Speaker 4: getting into the gym, that gave me a sense of purpose.
Speaker 4: And so without that, without me being able to work
Speaker 4: out with guys like you and some of the other
Speaker 4: guys out here in Dallas, I don't know where I
Speaker 4: would be. But I think the power of optimism is
Speaker 4: extremely important to everybody to understand. Like at that particular
Speaker 4: time when I ain't had nothing and I was sleeping
Speaker 4: in my car and then the car got repossessed and
Speaker 4: I just had two trash bags, I hit rock bottom.
Speaker 4: But I looked at it subjectively to where it's like, well,
Speaker 4: it can't get any worse, you know, So yeah, just
Speaker 4: grind this thing. Out and see where it goes. And
Speaker 4: then you know, just put one player after another started
Speaker 4: making it to the league, from Juwan Evans to to
Speaker 4: Trey Young and then you know, Andrew Jones and Marcquise
Speaker 4: Bolden made the whole American game, and then you came
Speaker 4: up and Nick Claxton and all these guys.
Speaker 5: So that kind of put my name on the map
Speaker 5: and the rest of history. So it's been a great journey.
Speaker 4: I've learned a lot, but now it's about me sharing
Speaker 4: that that message to to other guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the day.
Speaker 3: And you know, even going to the gym like now
Speaker 3: and like seeing you work at other people like Drew,
Speaker 3: Timmy and gods like that guys that's coming into the draft.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just fun to We always talk about
Speaker 3: like you know, you are somebody that you push them.
Speaker 3: It's not like you're just coming in there.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 3: You don't seem like you said the Tray Young the
Speaker 3: way Wade's the Tray youngs now Winby. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. Andrew Jones, like you've seen the guys make
Speaker 3: it to certain heights. You push these guys, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. You're not just going in there and rebounding.
Speaker 3: Oh man, good shot.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You actually try to challenge them and help them get
Speaker 3: better on I think that's one thing that you know
Speaker 3: that's that we really appreciate you for. But I would
Speaker 3: say this, I'll ask you these last two questions. I'll
Speaker 3: let you get out of here, though. One thing that
Speaker 3: I do on my podcast is whoever comes on here
Speaker 3: whenever I meet, every single every single time I do it,
Speaker 3: I want you to tell us one thing that you're
Speaker 3: thankful for and one way that you plan to get
Speaker 3: one percent better for the following week.
Speaker 5: That's a great question, I would say.
Speaker 4: Man, I'm thirty six years old, and I can honestly
Speaker 4: say that I'm grateful for my health. But I'm also
Speaker 4: grateful for this guy behind me who justshed right on
Speaker 4: cue rod Q. I tell him go left, he going right.
Speaker 4: But I'm really just grateful just to be in this position.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: You know, back in the day, I remember like my
Speaker 4: greatest fear was to just work in a job that
Speaker 4: I didn't want to work at, you know, And so
Speaker 4: I get to wake up every single day to be
Speaker 4: around somebody like you, be around my.
Speaker 5: Son kind of make my own schedule. But I'm healthy
Speaker 5: enough to be able to do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But the one percent thing, man, I think it's
Speaker 4: just more so about going into the gym every single
Speaker 4: day and just bringing the best version of me and
Speaker 4: that's easier said than done. But actually having to have
Speaker 4: a morning routine myself. I got to get my cup
Speaker 4: of coffee, I gotta go for a walk. I got
Speaker 4: to figure out what it is that I'm trying to
Speaker 4: make sure that when I come in, I gotta be
Speaker 4: on point.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I can't have you coming in there just kind of
Speaker 4: going through the motions either. So that's kind of the
Speaker 4: standard I said for myself.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, no, I get it. I get it, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And now I appreciate you, man, I really do.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you having, you know, sitting down and uh honestly,
Speaker 3: it's just like this is this is.
Speaker 2: Big for me.
Speaker 3: And I was like, man, what I wanted to try
Speaker 3: to figure out who I wanted to bring on before
Speaker 3: I went back to training Kevin Stell and I was like, man,
Speaker 3: you know, I gotta get on. I gotta get Tim
Speaker 3: on there, got to get Chris on that because one
Speaker 3: I want people to see, like what I've been working
Speaker 3: on this summer, because I've been I've been pretty quiet,
Speaker 3: I've been pretty off the radar thisst summer. I've been
Speaker 3: out the way. I've been out the way, just really
Speaker 3: headlo working. You know, it's a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 3: and it is what it is with our with our
Speaker 3: organization and with the lead as a whole, honestly. But uh,
Speaker 3: I just wanted you to come on and kind of
Speaker 3: talk about that. I wanted you to come on and
Speaker 3: and just tell your story, tell you about the people
Speaker 3: that you've worked with, and just tell about your mindset.
Speaker 3: And I appreciate you, man, and uh man, thank you
Speaker 3: for coming on.
Speaker 4: No, I thank you for having me man Like words
Speaker 4: don't even describe how proud I am with you.
Speaker 5: You know you family and anything I could ever do
Speaker 5: to help you for your career. That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 3: So it's all love, No, for sure, thanks for sure
Speaker 3: much love. Appreciate it, appreciate it all right. Yeah, man,
Speaker 3: that was Tim Marten. Thankful for him coming on here today,
Speaker 3: and uh and really just shed light on on you know,
Speaker 3: the trainers and what our journey has been. But I
Speaker 3: just want to kind of talk about give him a
Speaker 3: quick shout out for just being resilient man, and I
Speaker 3: talk about mental health on here. He could have gave up,
Speaker 3: he could have gave ben, but you know, he dug deep.
Speaker 3: And like he said, man, his mom she built the
Speaker 3: foundation of the Lord into him and instilled in to
Speaker 3: him at a young age. And because she did that,
Speaker 3: he believed. And he went from he said, he went
Speaker 3: from sleeping in his car, getting his cars taken away
Speaker 3: to just having bags to sleep in, you know, probably
Speaker 3: trying to find a hotels, doing different things like that,
Speaker 3: sleeping on somebody's couch, to trading the best players in
Speaker 3: the world in the span of four.
Speaker 2: To five years.
Speaker 3: And now he's he's like, you know, a big time
Speaker 3: training there. He trains Winby, he traded the Wade, trading me,
Speaker 3: trained trade young, trained so many different guys and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, kudos to him, honestly, kudos to him, man,
Speaker 3: shout out to him. Much love for that guy. Man.
Speaker 3: He you know, my dad found him like my sophomore
Speaker 3: year and he brought him to me. And it's it's
Speaker 3: just funny, man. My dad doesn't let anybody train me
Speaker 3: at that time. He didn't let anybody train me, and
Speaker 3: he put his trust to Tim and he really liked him,
Speaker 3: and you know, our relationships kind of took off from there.
Speaker 3: And I really do appreciate Tim for all the things
Speaker 3: that he'd done for me. Honestly, you know, we'll go
Speaker 3: down to day one anyways, Let's talk about what I'm
Speaker 3: most thankful for this summer and what i want to
Speaker 3: get one percent better. I think I'm going to start
Speaker 3: with what I'm most thankful for honestly this summer. I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm just thankful for a nice, peaceful summer. It
Speaker 3: doesn't feel like he was peaceful, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Like you want everything that's going on with us and
Speaker 3: everything that's going on in the NBA, but like it's
Speaker 3: just been so much Like I've done so many things
Speaker 3: with my family. I got to spend a lot of
Speaker 3: time with my best friends the first summer. Like a
Speaker 3: lot of my best friends didn't have to go back
Speaker 3: to school because they graduated college. I got to, like,
Speaker 3: you know, play a little one to one with them,
Speaker 3: beat them a little bit, hang out with them. They
Speaker 3: got to come, like spend night in my house for
Speaker 3: a little bit, and spend weeks, you know, just eat
Speaker 3: and have fun. So I'm really thankful for spending time
Speaker 3: with them. Man, it's been great. Thankful for it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: We just had this little back to school giveaway and
Speaker 3: even talk about that. I'm thankful for the foundation to
Speaker 3: be able to do things like that, and for all
Speaker 3: the sponsors to shout out the new Balance, watch, box Man,
Speaker 3: body armor story everybody. Man, just the list goes on
Speaker 3: and on and on and on and on and on,
Speaker 3: and I really do appreciate you all for the thing.
Speaker 3: And then what I want to get one percent better
Speaker 3: at this week coming up, you know, we have like
Speaker 3: a little team camp coming up.
Speaker 2: Everyone to do.
Speaker 3: I want to go out there and you know, talk
Speaker 3: and keep the vibes high. You know, it's a lot
Speaker 3: going on, but you still have to be a professional
Speaker 3: at the end of the day. And I want us
Speaker 3: to go out there and know, bond a little bit
Speaker 3: and have a good time. Man, have a good time
Speaker 3: while we do it. But thanks for listening to Maxie
Speaker 3: on the mic. Please rate reviewers. You know, the summer
Speaker 3: is coming to an end, so y'all will hear a
Speaker 3: lot more of you know, a lot more episodes a
Speaker 3: lot more more frequently. I'm gonna try to get somebody
Speaker 3: else on here next week, some other guys. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to do this little series of the Traders that I've
Speaker 3: been working now with this summer. Started with Tim because
Speaker 3: he's you know, day one basically after my dad ended. Ever,
Speaker 3: try to get Chris Johnson on here, Chris Johnson and Corey,
Speaker 3: and then we'll get new guy, mister Drew Hanlen on here.
Speaker 2: So thank y'all.
Speaker 3: I appreciate y'all. Y'all be safe out there and keep
Speaker 3: getting one percent better. Maxy out