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Speaker 3: First off Warriors two n O without Steph, and then
Speaker 3: the second game versus the Pails, You, my friend, stepped
Speaker 3: it up. You made three threes, three for five. You
Speaker 3: ended with a game high and a season high. Well,
Speaker 3: you ended with a season high fourteen points, five blocks,
Speaker 3: four rebounds.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Assist what? Five assists all around?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Vintage Dremond? What changing your
Speaker 3: approach for the game?
Speaker 1: I just wanted to come out more aggressive, man. You know,
Speaker 1: I felt like I started off aggressive last game. Took
Speaker 1: a couple of threes in the beginning of the game,
Speaker 1: and then I kind of let that aggressive is going.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to make sure I come out
Speaker 1: with that mindset, knowing that they're not necessarily daring me
Speaker 1: to shoot, but you know it's there, and just raising up.
Speaker 1: And then also with Steph being out, the first good
Speaker 1: look you get on the possession maybe the best look
Speaker 1: you get on the possession, where as opposed to with Steph,
Speaker 1: the first good look you're in the possession is usually
Speaker 1: not the best look out the possession. And so just
Speaker 1: kind of changing that mindset. And then Zion got at
Speaker 1: me last night, you know, so you know he played
Speaker 1: well last night, so I wanted to come back and
Speaker 1: bounce back, you know, and have a great game and
Speaker 1: make sure we took care of home court.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seemed like rhythm, really rhythm rhythm, right, And
Speaker 3: I like, I like the volume, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: five for eleven, eleven shots, Like I think in this stretch,
Speaker 3: you just gotta like get shots up, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, because you're gonna make shots.
Speaker 4: When you know you're going in the game.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm get you know my eleven twelve shots a game.
Speaker 3: Will try to get to the line three, four or
Speaker 3: five times a game, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 3: once you like you in that mode, even when Steph
Speaker 3: come back, that's just man, that that that's that other
Speaker 3: that's that other dynamic again you feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But the defense, bro, Defensive Player of the Year, come on,
Speaker 3: come on, make that case.
Speaker 1: That's my goal, man, you know, going into or just
Speaker 1: living through this offseason. Number One, to see my name
Speaker 1: out on the All Defensive team last year pissed me off.
Speaker 1: No I know I wasn't eligible because of the amount
Speaker 1: of games that I missed, but it pissed me off.
Speaker 1: And I want to to build on what I hope
Speaker 1: ultimately ends up being a Hall of Fame career. And
Speaker 1: you know, the more accolades you can stack up, the better.
Speaker 1: And so for me personally, that is a goal of
Speaker 1: mine coming into this year. You know, I've heard all
Speaker 1: the talk about check on the defensive end and will
Speaker 1: be on the defensive end. And I'm not taking nothing
Speaker 1: away from those guys. Those guys are special, but I
Speaker 1: know I can affect a defense in a different way
Speaker 1: than them. I'm not seven feet you know, So I
Speaker 1: have to use positioning and my brain to be great
Speaker 1: on the defensive end and a tenacity that I need
Speaker 1: to bring to the game in order to be great
Speaker 1: on the defensive end. So that is one of my
Speaker 1: goals this year, man, to get back in that Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year race, get back on that All
Speaker 1: Defense first team, and just keep running that up.
Speaker 3: Locked in bro, I love it because that is that's
Speaker 3: the piece, that's the championship piece, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: And like putting that goal in front like man's that's
Speaker 3: that winning piece. Man, I'm telling you, that's that championship
Speaker 3: piece for you guys, especially with the talent, with the
Speaker 3: depth you got, the versatility like you adopting that role
Speaker 3: and going after that and still being aggressive on the
Speaker 3: offensive end because you know, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds. The
Speaker 3: way you are, like your playmaking ability on offense and defense,
Speaker 3: I think you got to be thinking offense too, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Because defensive player the year, you
Speaker 3: also show that you know, I can score against.
Speaker 4: These dudes, or we can make their best defender look vulnerable.
Speaker 1: And that's the goal.
Speaker 4: You know, when you're going into these games, you know
Speaker 4: you want to.
Speaker 1: Make their best defensive player look vulnerable, because if you
Speaker 1: can make their best defensive player look vulnerable, everybody else
Speaker 1: is subject or whatever the hell happen, you know, So
Speaker 1: that's always got to be the goal for us. And
Speaker 1: you're right, I have to keep that same level aggression
Speaker 1: on both sides of the floor, which is gonna be
Speaker 1: a goal of mine. And it's a mindset thing, you know.
Speaker 1: So I just got to make sure I stay in
Speaker 1: that mindset. But I will.
Speaker 4: Uh you know, I found them better. I found out now.
Speaker 1: I found that love again this summer for competing goals set.
Speaker 1: They're reaching these goals. You know what I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: you're thirteen. First, I'm looking at it like, man, I
Speaker 1: probably got a year left or two. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying that I'm out and now. And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: why are you looking at the game of basketball that way? Right?
Speaker 1: Lock in be as good as you can be. That's
Speaker 1: going to go to hold absolutely, And so that's where
Speaker 1: I'm at with it. Man, I'm locked. I got these
Speaker 1: goals that I said, we got these team goals, and
Speaker 1: I feel like I can reach all of them and
Speaker 1: we can reach all of them. So that's the goal.
Speaker 1: That's what was pushing me every day. Bro.
Speaker 4: I like that. Stay in the moment, Bro, I stay
Speaker 4: in the moment.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: We ain't thinking about none else with this moment. And
Speaker 3: this defensive Player of the Year.
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Speaker 1: Before we move on, let people know what we're chopping
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Speaker 3: In today's episode, we're gonna discuss kaminga coming off the bench,
Speaker 3: interesting comments from the twenty twenty four number one draft
Speaker 3: pick and a coach who says fighting should come back
Speaker 3: to the NBA.
Speaker 1: Ooh, okay, with punishment. I done went through from fighting
Speaker 1: and missed me with that.
Speaker 3: At halftime a Tuesday's game against the Pelicans, you challenged
Speaker 3: the guys, what did you say that inspire the team
Speaker 3: to perform differently in the second half?
Speaker 1: Well, I just told them, you know, when we picked
Speaker 1: up our force on the defensive end, they started to
Speaker 1: look like a completely different team. And I reminded them
Speaker 1: last year when we played this team, this team was
Speaker 1: up twenty points on us, and we started to lock in,
Speaker 1: and once we locked in, once we locked in, we
Speaker 1: were down twenty points and we ended up winning the
Speaker 1: game about fifteen points. I reminded them of that, say, hey,
Speaker 1: here it is. We were down twenty points. We picked
Speaker 1: up our defensive intensity, We're up four. If we go
Speaker 1: back out of this locker room with that same defensive
Speaker 1: intensity that we started playing with in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: we'll win this game by twenty points. We felt a
Speaker 1: little shorter that we won the game by eighteen points,
Speaker 1: but you know, guys came out locked in and setting
Speaker 1: those challenges defensively. And although Zion had a big game,
Speaker 1: although b I had a big game, I think, if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, they were the only two guys on
Speaker 1: the first night of the back to back in double
Speaker 1: digits and so shutting off everybody else water the way
Speaker 1: we did, you know, it allowed us to have a
Speaker 1: great defensive game and ultimately do what I challenged the guys,
Speaker 1: the dude coming out by a halftime.
Speaker 4: I had to happened, dude.
Speaker 3: And then before the first game against the Pelicans, it
Speaker 3: was announced by Sham that Kaminga was benched.
Speaker 1: Which was a complete overreaction by Yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask you that.
Speaker 3: Did you get a chance to talk to him and
Speaker 3: all that? But you know, especially with like how the
Speaker 3: media position, they're like, oh, kamingas benched, and you know,
Speaker 3: it's like this is what other dudes are getting. I
Speaker 3: feel like he you know, I feel like Kard liked
Speaker 3: to play with lineups anyway, but I think it was
Speaker 3: blown out of proportion.
Speaker 4: Can you list some insight on that.
Speaker 1: It was one hundred percent blown out of proportion, which
Speaker 1: is why you see JK enter the game the way
Speaker 1: he entered the game. He entered the game with his
Speaker 1: foot on the gas pedal, and he entered the game
Speaker 1: playing with a force that we need him to play with,
Speaker 1: a complete overreaction because the reality is the lineup chain
Speaker 1: was actually because stuff wasn't out there, and so with
Speaker 1: stuff not being out there, you need to add more
Speaker 1: shooting in different spots. And so as opposed to JK
Speaker 1: being there, we added Moses, We added Buddy because you
Speaker 1: need that shoot in the space the floor else they
Speaker 1: were just going to zone us which they tried something anyway,
Speaker 1: and they were just going to clog the paint. They
Speaker 1: was gonna make it hard for every body. And that
Speaker 1: is not a knock on JK. If anything, is probably
Speaker 1: a knock on me in trace, you know. But he
Speaker 1: approached it with the right mindset. He came off playing
Speaker 1: r The media tried to blow it up, as they
Speaker 1: always do, but that's what the lineup change was about.
Speaker 1: And ultimately it was a great call by Steve last
Speaker 1: two nights because not only did we find shooting, we
Speaker 1: found spacing, but it actually sparked JK. He had his
Speaker 1: best two games of the year.
Speaker 4: So I do agree. I do agree.
Speaker 3: He had a different He had a different kind of
Speaker 3: motivation and swag and you know, almost like I need
Speaker 3: him to have that chip on his shoulder the whole year.
Speaker 3: He feeled him saying like he like you said, he
Speaker 3: never let off the gas.
Speaker 1: JK. Puld just move on beyond to day to have
Speaker 1: yall looking like me yesterday when Zion spent on me
Speaker 1: basically having.
Speaker 4: Standing out of the bounce playing the ball up like JK.
Speaker 1: Here beyond with the left step he's stepped left, but
Speaker 1: put the ball right and be I wh Wayne left.
Speaker 4: He was at the rim laying the ball man. It
Speaker 4: was beautiful.
Speaker 1: What I loved about that though, is like beyondesmen and
Speaker 1: All Star in this league, beyond is body tight, you know,
Speaker 1: prototype three like.
Speaker 4: Jk is And to me it looked like he took
Speaker 4: that person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you put that move on beyond here.
Speaker 3: It's like, Yo, it was almost like I can do
Speaker 3: this too, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Exactly too.
Speaker 3: That says a lie bro, especially like you're going at
Speaker 3: You're going as somebody that is your prototype, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. That's you know, oh, like you get
Speaker 3: a move off like that on a dude like b I,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, in a game like that,
Speaker 3: like it it.
Speaker 4: Takes your confidence to the roof. You know what I'm saying, Who.
Speaker 1: Was the guy for you when you came in the
Speaker 1: league where you was young and you looking like, okay,
Speaker 1: if that's what y'all saying, is the guy I need
Speaker 1: to go out help because for me it was actually Blake.
Speaker 1: It was Blake and LaMarcus Archers where I'm coming in
Speaker 1: and they're like, yo, the's the top two power forwards
Speaker 1: in the league, and I'm like, oh, I'm locking them
Speaker 1: up like I'm at they net. Who is the guy
Speaker 1: for you like that? Because I saw that out of
Speaker 1: JK to that.
Speaker 4: I think for me it was Jason Kidd.
Speaker 3: You know, you got Jason Kidd, you had Maulberry, you
Speaker 3: got Steve Nash, Gary Payton when I first got in,
Speaker 3: and then the scary thing was everybody else, Rod Strickland,
Speaker 3: Nick Van Excell, Sam Casselle.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And then dudes in my class, Andre Miller, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. But it was it was really like
Speaker 3: Jason Kidd was like he was that dude, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, Ivor said Malberry. They were like the
Speaker 3: guards in the East, you know when I was coming up,
Speaker 3: and so it was like you have to go you
Speaker 3: have to go in and make your name, you know,
Speaker 3: against those dudes. So that was kind of like, you know,
Speaker 3: when I came into the league, that was my target.
Speaker 4: It was like, man, if I.
Speaker 3: Can get Jason Kidd respect, you know, and he gonna
Speaker 3: have to pay attention to me, like you know, I
Speaker 3: know I'm here, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: That far that far? No, I definitely feel that man.
Speaker 3: And so you felt like it was blake for you
Speaker 3: and LaMarcus Aldridge.
Speaker 1: Like those were the two power for us that everybody
Speaker 1: was talking about was the best. And obviously you didn't,
Speaker 1: you had like z Bo. Yeah, you know when I
Speaker 1: came in the league, Timmy d was still in the league.
Speaker 1: He was aging, you know, he had a couple more
Speaker 1: years left. Dirk was still going. But you know they
Speaker 1: were on their back nine, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So the two younger guys that everybody was talking about
Speaker 1: was Blake and LaMarcus, and they was in our Blake's
Speaker 1: in our division, LaMarcus in our friends. We playing those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, four times a year every time we play them.
Speaker 1: And so at that time, you know, I got the
Speaker 1: moniker that I'm too small on me. You know, I
Speaker 1: got that tag on me that I'm too small. So
Speaker 1: every time I see these guys, I'm locked in them.
Speaker 1: Bite my bottom lip. I'm trying to go at these boys.
Speaker 1: And you know that's how ultimately you make your name
Speaker 1: in this league. You gotta go at the guys. That's
Speaker 1: the ones.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, you got you want to be able
Speaker 3: to walk in the room and people know who you
Speaker 3: are and get and gain that respect.
Speaker 4: And It's almost better for dudes to like not really
Speaker 4: like you.
Speaker 1: M hm. You know what I'm saying exactly.
Speaker 3: See them ones, you know, it's like you walk in
Speaker 3: the room and they don't really like you, and you
Speaker 3: know why. It's like cause like, no, you ain't do
Speaker 3: what you were supposed to.
Speaker 4: You know when we.
Speaker 3: Locked up, right or our matchup, like I want to
Speaker 3: match up.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying exactly. That was my mindset, bro,
Speaker 1: when I came in. I came in talking crazy to everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm talking crazy to Bron, I'm talking crazy to KD
Speaker 1: and like Russ and awesome to see KD and Russ.
Speaker 1: They used to hate it, man, and they'll go actually
Speaker 1: crazy and talk back to you. And ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: at first they start talking bad, like who are you?
Speaker 1: And then you start to gain they respect And I
Speaker 1: remember I was on the USA Select team and the
Speaker 1: respect that KT and Russ showed me Walker, I was like, ah, hey,
Speaker 1: I felt good. You know what I'm saying. Be it
Speaker 1: gave me confidence, Like, oh, they noticed me, they respect me.
Speaker 1: They they're speaking to me like you want that you
Speaker 1: want that that validation from the guys that you know,
Speaker 1: the guys, and like when they was giving me that validation,
Speaker 1: that's what made me feel like, Yo, I could keep
Speaker 1: taking this next step because these guys are starting to
Speaker 1: respect you.
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Speaker 4: All right, so look, it's so first back to back
Speaker 4: of the season. How are you well?
Speaker 1: You've been sitting here with this dumb ass hot on
Speaker 1: waiting for me to get on because I'm hurting. I
Speaker 1: had I had to get a lot of treatment. I
Speaker 1: had to get treatment, then I had to lift, then
Speaker 1: I had to get treatment after the lyft.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 1: Hey, that's a big boy, man. He fast, he's strong.
Speaker 1: I tell people about Zion. He ain't just strong, he's
Speaker 1: yeah man, right, it's powerful force man, right, So taking
Speaker 1: them boss for two days here, row man. My back hurt,
Speaker 1: My my hips hurt.
Speaker 4: Bro trying to stay like that. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm hurting, brother, But know what, it was good to
Speaker 1: get that first back to back under my belt, you know,
Speaker 1: play well and get both games. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: confidence that comes with that, like you're playing that first
Speaker 1: back to back, especially you know as you get older
Speaker 1: in this league and to just to remind yourself, like, yo,
Speaker 1: I can still do that. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like I can still do that at a high level.
Speaker 1: So you know, I felt. I feel good that I
Speaker 1: was able to play as well as I did in
Speaker 1: both games. But I'm happy we got the day off.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow is always great. But you know it usually like.
Speaker 3: On the on the second game of a back to back,
Speaker 3: for some strange reason, like you feel good, like you like, man,
Speaker 3: I don't like I felt better than I did the
Speaker 3: first game. Right, Yes, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I actually did you go out there? Because it's a
Speaker 1: mind thing as well, So you go out there, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like tiptoeing around. You kind of do something.
Speaker 4: You're like, ah, all right, I can do that.
Speaker 1: I mean tiptoe around. Yeah, all right, I can do that.
Speaker 1: Before you know, I'm like, all right, I got it, man,
Speaker 1: Like I got it the night I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's very it's very weird like that because it happens
Speaker 1: that way sometimes, and then mentally, I think you just
Speaker 1: lock in differently knowing like you can't I can't let
Speaker 1: the back to back beat the difference.
Speaker 3: That's what's more. It's mental, right, I would say it's more.
Speaker 3: It's more like the mindset because you're almost like in
Speaker 3: a in a survival mode on the back to back,
Speaker 3: you know, a.
Speaker 1: Thousand let me get through it, let me get through it.
Speaker 1: And then you get to a point where you like,
Speaker 1: now let's go like I got it, like we could.
Speaker 1: But initially mentally you're like, man, I just got to
Speaker 1: get through this, like, and you calm down and you're
Speaker 1: looking at the clock. You're like, all right, one quarter down, right. Eventually,
Speaker 1: hopefully you reach that point where you forget it and
Speaker 1: you're just in the game, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that happened to me tonight. First quarter. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm filling it out.
Speaker 4: Second quarter, I'm like, let's go time, I got it.
Speaker 3: I'm all right, Yeah, you feel coold, yeah, and it's
Speaker 3: almost like just a trusting up. Next you got a
Speaker 3: five game road trip, so no loan management for you.
Speaker 3: And so this got me thinking about how long the
Speaker 3: season is how long it's about to.
Speaker 4: Be for you? You know what I mean. You're in
Speaker 4: year thirteen.
Speaker 3: So before you go on this long five game road trip,
Speaker 3: I ordered you something from Amazon yesterday.
Speaker 1: My brother.
Speaker 4: That's this box for several but I got the right
Speaker 4: one for you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I need this right now. Come on like my backfield.
Speaker 3: I got you covered. You know what I mean, ain't
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Speaker 1: I need that right now. Oh man, I got you covered.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I appreciate that, my brother.
Speaker 1: Hey see, they go that experience kicking in. You know
Speaker 1: these old these old dudes ain't hot these when they
Speaker 1: was playing. Man, I appreciate you. Man. You know you
Speaker 1: know most old dudes like you would hatter not give
Speaker 1: me this because you want me to feel like y'all
Speaker 1: used to feel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna be calling you unk in a minute.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be calling you. They call you big a.
Speaker 3: Once they start calling you big hommy, somebody gonna come
Speaker 3: in the league and be like, what's up, uh big
Speaker 3: Oh geez, somebody.
Speaker 1: Actually has called me uncle already. Bro.
Speaker 4: You got the young fellas come up to you.
Speaker 1: Like man, I watched you growing up. Bro, it's like, yo,
Speaker 1: what is this is crazy? I would tell you a
Speaker 1: funny story. So when j K first got here Kaminga,
Speaker 1: and like, one thing about Kaminga I learned is you
Speaker 1: have to earn like his trust, his respect, like he
Speaker 1: ain't coming in like yo, you did this, like you
Speaker 1: have to earn a relationship with him. And it's great.
Speaker 1: I respect it. When he first got here his rookie year,
Speaker 1: he would just walk past me and every time he
Speaker 1: walked past me, he would liaugh, he just start laughing,
Speaker 1: like every time he snicker he walked past me. Every
Speaker 1: time you look at me here walk past ja and
Speaker 1: Trive asks me. One day, my boy try try, said man,
Speaker 1: how's you in JK relationship? And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, every time he see me lie and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, that means he like you. I'm like, I said,
Speaker 1: now try the way it feels is he looking at
Speaker 1: me laughing like you old motherfucker? I said, try because
Speaker 1: when when when he see me the live? What the
Speaker 1: live give me is when you see an old play
Speaker 1: walking through the first thing you do, I said, that's
Speaker 1: the live he's giving me Like you we're you, oh
Speaker 1: you something you ain't dressed. Why you ain't doing this right?
Speaker 1: You ain't moved right, You ain't this I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: the live he giving me. It just happens overnight though,
Speaker 1: Like one year you're the young guy on the team
Speaker 1: and then the next year somebody come in and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: O G I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, for real, it's crazy. It's sick.
Speaker 3: It's like everything you say, everything you do, it's funny
Speaker 3: to them, you know what I mean, Like, why are
Speaker 3: you so serious? Like, oh man, o, G see man,
Speaker 3: I gotta look out for my own G. You feel me?
Speaker 1: No, for sure, bro, I definitely appreciate this. I need it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You get it. You get
Speaker 1: it on this road sitting on these planes, back to
Speaker 1: back games, traveling a lot. You know this is this
Speaker 1: is good. So I appreciate it. But speaking of the
Speaker 1: road trip, we got a five gamer coming up early fast,
Speaker 1: getting right into it. Got the Rockets. We got the Rockets,
Speaker 1: we got the Wizards, we got Boston, we got Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and we got OKC Rockets, young up and coming team.
Speaker 1: They starting to put it together. The Wizards won their
Speaker 1: last two games. You know, a team that most people
Speaker 1: was looking at it's gonna be the worst team in
Speaker 1: the league. Won their last two games, sitting at two
Speaker 1: and two, feeling good about themselves. Boston, we all know Boston.
Speaker 1: No surprises there. Cleveland five and oh first five and
Speaker 1: oh starts since twenty sixteen. Well, it's the significance of
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen is the dumb ass here for Cleveland is
Speaker 1: the significance of sixteen. And we don't care about that year.
Speaker 1: Deleted it from the record, but deleted from everything. Better
Speaker 1: stay first five in those are Kenny, my guy. Kenny
Speaker 1: got them rolling. And then okay See young you know
Speaker 1: young team. I wouldn't call them up a coming no more.
Speaker 1: They are here, they have a ride, playing really good basketball. Uh.
Speaker 1: They know who they are, they know who their top
Speaker 1: dogs are. They play good roles. Lindy Waters is a
Speaker 1: product of Okay See and I am thrilled that.
Speaker 4: How to play nice you know, how to play some basketball.
Speaker 1: He knows right player to make on both sides of
Speaker 1: the floor. He's an okay See product, you know. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some tough It's a tough road trip,
Speaker 1: a tough five game.
Speaker 4: Which one of them games you see it you get
Speaker 4: most excited about.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously I think this okay, see game because
Speaker 3: it's a conference game, Boston, uh, because you'll get to
Speaker 3: see I want to see, you know, early version of
Speaker 3: what y'all versus Boston look like, you know, without Steph.
Speaker 4: But the Wizards and the Rockets.
Speaker 3: Are the games I'm looking forward to because one, I
Speaker 3: like the Rockets, they like my little sleeper team. But
Speaker 3: the Wizards, you know, Jordan Pooh, Kyle kuz right, Hey,
Speaker 3: don hey, bro, my bros. They are unpredictable, but they
Speaker 3: you already know they're gonna be up for that game
Speaker 3: now that golden same Wizards game. Like people don't think
Speaker 3: about it, but that's that's going up.
Speaker 4: No, they're gonna be up for for sure.
Speaker 1: You know. Both of those guys are some gunslingers. Hey,
Speaker 1: don they coming out gunning. I think jp averaging like
Speaker 1: twenty two and eight right now, shooting forty five percent
Speaker 1: from the three.
Speaker 4: So you wus got off to.
Speaker 1: A bad start, but last game he got going and
Speaker 1: so you know those teams, those are natural letdown games. However,
Speaker 1: we're having a guy like Jpeter who's been here, you know,
Speaker 1: you know he gonna come out going at us, So
Speaker 1: hopefully that'll have guys alert and ready to go. But
Speaker 1: it's a natural like down game for sure. Nonetheless, it's
Speaker 1: such a tough road trip that the ones you're supposed
Speaker 1: to win, you gotta win. You gotta win us. And
Speaker 1: so that's one that we're supposed to win. We got
Speaker 1: to make sure we take care of business. But you know,
Speaker 1: it'll be a really big game for them, and we
Speaker 1: got to make sure that we approach it with that
Speaker 1: same mindset.
Speaker 3: Like in this fire Game road trip, Like, are there
Speaker 3: any other games that you look forward too?
Speaker 4: Like you're like, man, who, I can't wait till we
Speaker 4: get there.
Speaker 1: So for me, some of these games you get like nostalgia,
Speaker 1: Like for the same time we go back to Houston,
Speaker 1: it just always take you back to the moments that
Speaker 1: we was playing j H and Trav and CP and
Speaker 1: Dwhite and Capella Eric Gordon, Like it takes you back
Speaker 1: to those moments, you know what I'm saying, Like you
Speaker 1: walk in there and it's like, oh, man, like I
Speaker 1: remember you know how to win in here too, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and so it takes you back there. The Wizards. Wizards
Speaker 1: is always a tough game, but like I said, hopefully
Speaker 1: that gets herself of that Boston.
Speaker 4: That's a rematch of the finals a.
Speaker 1: Couple of years ago. That's the defense champ. Everybody want
Speaker 1: to play against the defending champ. So you know that's
Speaker 1: that's it. Cleveland, another one one in that building, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So every time you walk in there,
Speaker 1: you feel like, man, I own this building. But now
Speaker 1: they back, you know what I'm saying. They're playing good basketball.
Speaker 1: Kenny got them guys rolling, and so that's that's gonna
Speaker 1: that's what that is.
Speaker 4: And then okay, see is the same thing.
Speaker 1: Like we had some battles in that arena, they back,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, them young guys rolling, They
Speaker 1: ready to take it to us.
Speaker 4: And so it's a tough, tough road trip. Man.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless, if we can come out of this road trip strong,
Speaker 1: yeah watch out.
Speaker 3: Yeah don't look Yeah yeah I can, Yeah, I can
Speaker 3: grab grab a couple of these wins. Uh whoa, that's
Speaker 3: gonna put you on it in it just in a
Speaker 3: whole different swag.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. This is one of those
Speaker 1: road trips that come early in the season where you
Speaker 1: gonna play great and then you start looking like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're serious.
Speaker 4: Yeah we could beat anybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You start to have a certain level of confidence
Speaker 1: where you're like all right, like say no fluke, like
Speaker 1: we can for real put this together. So I like
Speaker 1: this roachterrip for us, Like I said, that's coming fast,
Speaker 1: came up fast on.
Speaker 4: The But I like where we're at, and I like,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: This, this is an opportunity for us.
Speaker 3: I always say that earlier the better too, because it
Speaker 3: gives you a chance to like do some team bonding.
Speaker 3: Right to be stuck in the city together, go eat,
Speaker 3: you know, have a day off. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: let your guard down somewhere else where you're not just
Speaker 3: where you're not going home right, Like you're in the hotel,
Speaker 3: everybody there, Okay, what we're doing.
Speaker 4: We're going to dinner. You know.
Speaker 3: It give you a chance to kind of, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: build that camaraderie.
Speaker 4: Is there anything like you.
Speaker 3: Like to do on like big road trips with the
Speaker 3: team or you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So we always try to make sure we get together
Speaker 1: at least in one of the cities. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, a five game road trip, you probably want
Speaker 1: to get together in two of the cities, but.
Speaker 4: Get together at least once we do dinner.
Speaker 1: We kick it in. The good thing about our organization
Speaker 1: is we play for the best organization in the league,
Speaker 1: and so we have these team dinners when we on
Speaker 1: the road, you know what I'm saying, where like you
Speaker 1: can bring ten.
Speaker 4: People, fifteen people, twenty people like it don't matter.
Speaker 1: And that's something great that Joe Lacup and Peter Goober allows,
Speaker 1: you know, our staff to do. They provide these dinners,
Speaker 1: and you figure these dinners ain't they ain't cheap Like
Speaker 1: we go to great restaurants. We don't be at like
Speaker 1: some rinky dig restaurants. We'll be at the best of
Speaker 1: the best restaurant. And so that always allow for team bonding.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's a DJ there. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, We be kicking it and so that stuff
Speaker 1: is good, you know what I'm saying. Doing stuff like that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it's always always great. And
Speaker 1: then you get on the road, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Your family ain't there and different things like that, and
Speaker 1: so you're able to lock in and focus and be
Speaker 1: in the moment, to be present with those guys.
Speaker 4: And it's just us. You know what I'm saying. We
Speaker 4: actually say that in the huddle.
Speaker 1: It's just us. And so you know that road trips
Speaker 1: like this are always good, you know, And like you said,
Speaker 1: especially with it coming early in the season for us,
Speaker 1: you get a chance to continue or you get to
Speaker 1: continue to get to know the guys you're with even better.
Speaker 1: So it's good. It's interesting though, these road trips for
Speaker 1: us now they're not as long as they used to be.
Speaker 1: You know, when you was playing. I know when you
Speaker 1: was playing, y'all have long road seats. Now came in
Speaker 1: the league. We had a sixteen day road trip my
Speaker 1: first year, sixteen day. You got any cool road trip stories?
Speaker 1: Like how was y'all road trips? I used to hear
Speaker 1: these stories. I mean when you come into the league,
Speaker 1: you know, you see we all saw loving basketball. I
Speaker 1: love loving basketball. And what he's say. You know, you
Speaker 1: walk into a hotel lobby and there's fifty girls waiting
Speaker 1: man hotel lobby man. You know, there's twenty girls that
Speaker 1: make it pass security on your man bonus.
Speaker 4: One is standing rightsh your door and young in the league.
Speaker 1: I was looking for that and I never saw that
Speaker 1: the John how big of a donut and a zero.
Speaker 3: Hey bro, Hey bro, I thought the same damn thing.
Speaker 3: I was watching the movies. I was like, Okay, we're
Speaker 3: about to get off the get off the bus is about.
Speaker 4: To be fans groupies with rock stars.
Speaker 3: No. It was like twelve thirty in the morning. There
Speaker 3: was nobody out there for some autograph people.
Speaker 4: It was like, hey, bro, this is this is bullshit.
Speaker 3: The next city it is like, nope, the next city,
Speaker 3: like we getting there early, maybe shit changed, Nope, nope. Okay, bro,
Speaker 3: that is the that was the biggest. That's the biggest myth.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, for sure, it's about to be chicksing lobby
Speaker 1: where we.
Speaker 3: Are nobody, thirsty, scouring around and locking broody nobody, bro
Speaker 3: room services, watch a movie.
Speaker 4: The Slip and go to sleep.
Speaker 3: This is it ain't nobody around and you like it.
Speaker 3: Come on, Bill, you and uh buddy Pontiac Detroit.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You're at Milwaukee in Indiana.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What you're not going to do,
Speaker 1: though it is disrespect going to play the pistols.
Speaker 4: Know I'm saying. You stay in Pontiac you're not standing.
Speaker 3: Used to stay in Birmingham. Birmingham the Towns which is
Speaker 3: an amazing hotel, nice little village, go to the movies,
Speaker 3: go to the little restaurant. They gotta couple of spots
Speaker 3: you can go to Townsends.
Speaker 1: Was great, great, very great. Sleep all day is snowing.
Speaker 1: Leo's Cody and the block away.
Speaker 3: Hey dog, you you remember e rob Eddie Robinson. Yeah, obsolute,
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's my dog.
Speaker 4: Uh Eddie Robinson.
Speaker 3: He when we was in Detroit, he had this VD
Speaker 3: right and when he was a rookie, he had like
Speaker 3: it was like a morole van on like gold Daytons.
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying, Like, you know, like I
Speaker 3: was like, man, that's shit hard. So look bro, we.
Speaker 1: Get you to him. You're the private problem.
Speaker 3: Now that shit was you know, that was like back
Speaker 3: in the day you had your gold your gold ribs.
Speaker 3: But he had like the like the camper van, like
Speaker 3: I don't know, like you know, like he was one
Speaker 3: of the first dudes with like the stage not a
Speaker 3: state coach, but whatever that ship was, it was a van,
Speaker 3: but it was roomy, you know, bucket seats all that ship.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, hey, brouh.
Speaker 3: He was like, yo, you can use the car. You
Speaker 3: can use the car. I was like, man, I want
Speaker 3: to go to the mall. Let me use your car,
Speaker 3: go to the marrow. I want to catch a caw.
Speaker 3: He was like, man, you can you can use a car.
Speaker 3: You can't make no left turn?
Speaker 1: What brother? What he said?
Speaker 3: The left turn was bro I said, may get that
Speaker 3: ship to me anyway. I was hitting right, bro, I
Speaker 3: was hitting like twelve rights.
Speaker 1: Hey I was.
Speaker 3: I was scared of ship. Crazy, Hey do, I was
Speaker 3: scared of ship. I was scared of shit in Detroit.
Speaker 3: I was flying. Man, you cannot make it. You could
Speaker 3: not make a left turn.
Speaker 1: The fact that you actually decided to still draw that car.
Speaker 1: I sadness for real, for for.
Speaker 3: Flagrant, flagrant, And the ship didn't turn like if you
Speaker 3: tried to turn it left. That ship wasn't fuck it
Speaker 3: and make another right turn.
Speaker 1: That was crazy.
Speaker 4: Shut out to.
Speaker 3: One of the best athletes I ever played with, Rob
Speaker 3: That was my dog lose rookies together.
Speaker 4: I never forget that ship though her.
Speaker 1: Speaking of athletes were moving, let's move around this league
Speaker 1: a little bit. We must have a conversation about the
Speaker 1: number one pick in the twenty twenty fourth Drive, Zachrister
Speaker 1: Sure talks about his situation during training cap and he says,
Speaker 1: I and I quote back here, friends, I was super
Speaker 1: athletic and now I'm just a regular dude. Uh if you.
Speaker 4: Are let.
Speaker 1: Alarm? Is that this man already think he regularly? He's
Speaker 1: a number one pick five games in? He said, I'm
Speaker 1: just a regular dude. How alarm in is? No?
Speaker 3: That is ring their alarm? Bro, sound the sirens. That
Speaker 3: is that's a major alarm.
Speaker 1: Red alary, red flat? What are you even if you
Speaker 1: believe that? Brother can say that? Bro Anthony Rich said,
Speaker 1: if you are tired and you took yourself off because
Speaker 1: you're tired, say I felt tight right here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a little knickknack or something.
Speaker 1: What do you if you need that?
Speaker 3: Lie?
Speaker 1: Because that, to me just shows a love of confidence
Speaker 1: that you don't have a level of dog that you
Speaker 1: don't have.
Speaker 4: You ain't gonna persevere out of it.
Speaker 1: Exactly, so you're gonna be a regular dude. And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: if I'm being honest with you, being a regular dude
Speaker 1: as the number one pick in the NBA ain't okay.
Speaker 4: You can't be regular. Nobody gonna let you be regular.
Speaker 1: So my man, you better figure out how to stand
Speaker 1: out and you better do it fast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's just bro, it's just a testament
Speaker 3: to like, you see these kids and they play against competition,
Speaker 3: and the competition that they play against maybe a little
Speaker 3: older or less athletic. And so you know, when you're young,
Speaker 3: you feel like, man, I'm you know, I'm a superhero.
Speaker 3: And then when you get to that level, right, you know,
Speaker 3: it's people like Jonathan Kaminga, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: people like uh.
Speaker 4: My boy, sharp shade and sharp you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: You looking at the dudes like and then you got
Speaker 3: Jalen Johnson on your team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you got damn yeah, you like damn like.
Speaker 3: But it shouldn't be about just y'all athletic yr athleticism.
Speaker 3: And you should never say you regular. You never want
Speaker 3: to be regular. Bro, You didn't come here regular. He
Speaker 3: wasn't the number.
Speaker 4: If you figured out that you was regular, like.
Speaker 3: Man, you should say, hey, man, I want to uh
Speaker 3: reset in my contract.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Send me back to friends, send.
Speaker 3: Me back to France. Bro, we can't be doing no
Speaker 3: regular shit. What is regular?
Speaker 1: Regular? Dude. What is regular? That don't even make sense? Right?
Speaker 3: I ain't never met, really, I ain't never met an
Speaker 3: NBA dude that thought that he was a regular dude.
Speaker 3: Even the dudes who don't don't play like, they don't
Speaker 3: think they like.
Speaker 4: It's your confidence, is everything? Bro?
Speaker 1: Regularly?
Speaker 4: Regular don't exist.
Speaker 1: Regular? Somebody called me regular, I take such a.
Speaker 4: Fist, I'll be trying to whoop the ass and this man,
Speaker 4: I'm just a regular dude over here. Or maybe maybe
Speaker 4: he meant it in a different way.
Speaker 1: I don't know. No, he meant exactly what he said.
Speaker 1: If all these Twitter fingers out here you see how
Speaker 1: different the NBA is now, so shut up, you'll need
Speaker 1: to shut up.
Speaker 4: Shut the hell up.
Speaker 3: Joe Missoula express his desire for the NBA to allow
Speaker 3: more fighting, similar to other sports. He stated, the biggest
Speaker 3: thing we rob people of from an entertainment standpoint is
Speaker 3: that you can't fight anymore. I wish we could bring
Speaker 3: back fighting. He told this to NBC Sports Boston. Is
Speaker 3: he tripping or.
Speaker 1: Is he right? I mean, one thing I would say
Speaker 1: to Joe Mazula is fighting. How you out of this league? Brother?
Speaker 1: For real?
Speaker 3: So basketball is a gentleman's game. By the way, I
Speaker 3: always say.
Speaker 1: I get what Joe's trying to get at it. More
Speaker 1: so what he's saying is the intensity, Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know the ship talking. Yeah, like guys getting testy, Like
Speaker 1: we take so much of that out of the game today,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's what he's getting at, like
Speaker 1: actually physical fights. Joe, I'm here to petition against you
Speaker 1: and say no, we're not doing that because where that
Speaker 1: almost led me. My man, I don't want none of that.
Speaker 1: I'm cool if y'all can have to fight, and Joe,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lead that to Joe, Joe, you gonna fight.
Speaker 3: I think I think I think what he meant was,
Speaker 3: you know, allowing people to tussle, allowing people to push,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, bringing the fight back into
Speaker 3: the game right where people are pissed off. You know,
Speaker 3: you got some files, you got some rivalries, because right
Speaker 3: now it's like when you look at rivalries, it's like,
Speaker 3: all right, who's gonna make the most threes?
Speaker 1: And like a little bit of.
Speaker 3: Johin right, But like, can we allow dudes to lock
Speaker 3: up fact not necessarily fight, because I don't think basketball,
Speaker 3: you know, basketball is a gentleman's game, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. And so you got etiquettes and shit like that,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's just certain rules and codes to
Speaker 3: where you ain't trying to hurt nobody, take nobody out.
Speaker 3: You look like a you know, like a maniac or whatnot.
Speaker 3: But there's also like an emotional capacity that if you
Speaker 3: allow you know, dudes to like get they emotions out,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, it'll create definitely more entertainment,
Speaker 3: more more emotion, you know what I mean, and more
Speaker 3: intensity in the game.
Speaker 4: No, I agree with you one hundred percent. Man.
Speaker 1: I think it will definitely bring a level of intensity
Speaker 1: to the game that we don't see. I also think
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys that be talking don't really
Speaker 1: be about that. And we stop a lot of guys from.
Speaker 4: From talking out they talk bing out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I get some of it. I get what
Speaker 1: he's saying on some fronts of it, but it ain't happening. Joe,
Speaker 1: Smoking Joe, you better take your ass back to the box,
Speaker 1: Smoking Joe. They was about to have me out here.
Speaker 3: For rial over some light, over some light right over
Speaker 3: a cores light that was super light.
Speaker 4: Chat versus Winby.
Speaker 3: This could be a huge rivalry, but in their first
Speaker 3: match of the season, Wemby only has six points versus
Speaker 3: the Thunder. He's shooting forty two percent from the field
Speaker 3: and twenty two percent from the three. Why do you
Speaker 3: think he is having such a tough start to the season.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, Number one, when you come back from off
Speaker 1: that first summer, everybody's been watching you. Uh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: defenses are prepared. It's not the first time everybody's seeing you.
Speaker 1: There's game plans that's built to stop you, and so
Speaker 1: you have to adjust to that. And I think Winby's
Speaker 1: just going through what most of us go through where
Speaker 1: he has to make those adjustments. I think what he'll
Speaker 1: start to learn is, you know we're shooting twenty two
Speaker 1: percent for three, is some of them can take his
Speaker 1: back and you know, start picking and choosing his spots
Speaker 1: on when he takes some of those shots that he'd
Speaker 1: be taking. Yeah, you got the ultimately ultimate green light,
Speaker 1: but there's still the responsibility that comes with down the
Speaker 1: type of shots that you get in, which will ultimately
Speaker 1: help him get back to playing like the player that
Speaker 1: we know. He can't spot games, ain't nobody's pressing the
Speaker 1: panic button, but you know, this is starting to grow
Speaker 1: into a rivalry with him and shit, and to come
Speaker 1: out of have six points, lose the game by double digits,
Speaker 1: it's disappointed Check. I think Check finished with like nineteen
Speaker 1: and eight or something like that, So you know, Check
Speaker 1: got the best of them this game. It's just one game.
Speaker 4: It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 1: But you know, Winby's going to have to figure out
Speaker 1: what teams are doing differently to him than they've done
Speaker 1: last year and make those adjustments. And you know, with
Speaker 1: his skill level and his talent level there's zeroed out, right,
Speaker 1: he will figure it out to make those adjustments. But
Speaker 1: you know, credit to Check. He came out ready to
Speaker 1: go won this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Winby also like sometimes you think it's sweet in
Speaker 3: the second half of the season because you're starting to
Speaker 3: find your way, you know what I mean, and like
Speaker 3: rhythm and flow, and then you're coming into the next
Speaker 3: season thinking like, oh, you know, it's gonna be as
Speaker 3: sweet as it was last season. But to your point,
Speaker 3: people are prepared for you, right, there's a different level
Speaker 3: of intensity, right, and everybody is fighting for it and
Speaker 3: not like, oh, we don't care we play San Antonio.
Speaker 3: You know, what I mean, let us be cool, like
Speaker 3: everybody laughing and joking towards the end of the season
Speaker 3: if you ain't really in the playoffs or not. But
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the season the intensity is high.
Speaker 3: So he got to figure out how to make adjustments
Speaker 3: in the game.
Speaker 4: Not his game, but like, can you get some tip bins?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Can you can you get
Speaker 3: to the free throw line?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Can you get on the office of Glasgow some putbacks?
Speaker 3: You know, he gotta learn to have a better all
Speaker 3: around feel for the game, especially when everybody gonna be
Speaker 3: focused on him.
Speaker 4: And then is he a little tired?
Speaker 1: You know? He played a full euro league season, yep,
Speaker 1: went straight into the NBA Draft, training for the NBA Draft,
Speaker 1: NBA Draft, Summer league, rookie season, Olympics, NBA season.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, European model, you know, you and the Europeans they
Speaker 1: they all, you know, play summer basketball pretty much every year,
Speaker 1: and so that's just what it's gonna be. So not
Speaker 1: making excuses. Check check out the better of him today.
Speaker 4: He did.
Speaker 1: But h you know, I expect Whendn'ty to get it going.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, he will. But that's why you
Speaker 1: see a lot of guys go through that's what we
Speaker 1: call a sophomore slum because it's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: different than it was for you that rookie year.
Speaker 4: So love to see it before we get out of here.
Speaker 1: Man, get at me at Buckets Underscore twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Rudy Gay recently retired, Baron.
Speaker 1: You played against the man Dremond, You played with him
Speaker 1: as a teammate. How special was Rudy as a player.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have any stories about Rudy Gay.
Speaker 4: Rudy Gay, Rudy Congratulations, my bro, that's every time I
Speaker 4: see it, my saying Rudy.
Speaker 3: Man, I would say, you're talking about phenomenal talent, you know,
Speaker 3: somebody who was a bucket.
Speaker 4: Thing for him, Like as.
Speaker 3: The amount of talent he had, he became like just
Speaker 3: a great teammate, and he was like the epitome of
Speaker 3: like being this ultra talent and then becoming like this
Speaker 3: great talent on a good team and a good team player,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And off the court, you
Speaker 3: know that's my dog, mister fashion, you know, cool, you know, uh,
Speaker 3: just a solid dude, you know, just always embraced me,
Speaker 3: embraced my family, you know, always tapped in and so
Speaker 3: you know, I got big love for Rudy. Congratulations on retirement, bro.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, welcome to the welcome to the good life.
Speaker 4: And I respect that man. Like you said, congrats to Rudy.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a chance to spend a little
Speaker 1: bit of time with him last camp. You know, he
Speaker 1: came into camp with us. I was actually hoping he
Speaker 1: made the team. You know, when you get on some
Speaker 1: of these teams, especially as young as we were last year,
Speaker 1: you'd be looking for somebody to hang with. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm like, I kinking Rudy, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, A great dude, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just having an opportunity to play against Rudy, especially in
Speaker 1: his prime, man, he was special. Man. He was real.
Speaker 1: Take you off to dribble, get to the MIDI shoot
Speaker 1: the three. Rudy Gate couldn't do anything on the basketball
Speaker 1: court that you needed or want it to be done.
Speaker 1: And you know, like you said, just a special talent
Speaker 1: for him to go to the situations that he ultimately
Speaker 1: ended up going to after he left kind of Memphis
Speaker 1: in Toronto, and take on the rose that he was
Speaker 1: willing to take on just shows you the type of
Speaker 1: team player that he was, the type of guy that
Speaker 1: he is, not, a guy that's all hung up on himself.
Speaker 1: Can see the bigger picture. And I'm happy. You know,
Speaker 1: he had a great career. I'm happy to see him
Speaker 1: retiring under his terms, moving on to his next thing
Speaker 1: in life. Wishing Rudy well man's job well, my brother,
Speaker 1: eighteen lots a lot, a lot of years. Man. We
Speaker 1: can only hope to make it eighteen years. So job
Speaker 1: well done, my friend. Enjoy retirement well deserved. Much love.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you, Rudy, my dog.
Speaker 4: We love you, Rudy Man.
Speaker 1: And for those of you.
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