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No Donovan Mitchell, no 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.280 Darius Garland, no Evan More. Karas Lebert twenty nine points 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.160 and Augussy late three for the lead. Jared Allen had 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.840 twenty four points twenty three rebounds. I guess he was 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.320 responding to Andre Drummonds twenty four and twenty five against 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.720 the hag yesterday. Luca thirty nine, seven and six was 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:01.920 an kind of what did you take away from this 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.120 ball game? It's it's usually your bench. You know, Dallas 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.239 is they have one superstar. This reminds me of Jordan 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.120 when he came into the league, right, you know, Luca 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.800 is so good where we think that you know, Dallas 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.200 Mappick is a concerned good. No, he's good. Yeah, they're 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.640 not good. You know your third best player, which is 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.440 your second best player, now comes off the bench. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.160 Right. It lets you know where the team is and 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.240 you know he was just outmatched. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:37.240 You know, it's basically him versus you know Cleveland five. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.120 Now which is embarrassing because you know, without the no 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.760 Donovan Mitchell, no Darius Garland, no Evan Mobley. So the 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.400 Cavs are down three starters. You can't lose that game 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.040 on your home court, especially being up by Twinny gild Yeah, 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.520 but you know when you when you have players like 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.880 LeVert coming off the bench where he was a big 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.000 factor in this game where it came off with twenty 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.960 nine off the bench, right, you know, he was a big, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.040 big key when Brooklyn was when when he was with 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.680 Brooklyn right when he's hating them, So you know he 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.560 can play. And that's what's coming off the bench. So 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.160 you got guys that steps up that you normally don't 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.400 count on. But that's what having deep rosters is like. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.440 So when you do need players like that, they can really, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.839 you know, count for one game. So you know, it's 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.640 just one of those games where you know, Dallas got 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.360 a little a little overzealous, as you can say, yeah, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.760 and when you look at it, I'm looking at this 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.680 ball game and I'm saying, Okay, Hardaway Junior is a 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.880 nice player. You got Dante ExHAM who's been playing well, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.359 Grant William who you signing free agency. I just don't 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.120 know how you get up by that many and just 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.640 blow the game. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.880 I mean, they basically blew that ball game. They had 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:48.800 a twenty point lead. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.760 And maybe, and I don't know, maybe you can tell 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:53.800 me if I'm wrong, But I know sometimes we have 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.240 a propensity to relax if a team I know, in football, oh, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.360 they ain't got this starting quarterback, they're down there starting 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.600 running back, they're down there starting receiver, or their best 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.320 this is their best that and sometimes you find yourself 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.000 you take that for granted. But normally you don't see 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.279 that happen in football. A team get a fourteen to 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.279 seventeen point lead with out of team's best players, and 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.760 the other team that doesn't have those best players come 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:15.320 back and win. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.280 Now we see this, a. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.520 Twenty point lead in today's game is not the same 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.679 as a twenty point lead twenty years ago, Gill thirty 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.520 years ago, because the guys can shoot the three ball 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.360 so much better. Because I don't remember, I mean when 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.320 I was growing up, I don't remember got teams coming 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.919 back from twenty six and twenty eight points in a 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.920 ball game. Because normally that okay, it's time to watch 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.520 something else. It's time to do something else. We're gonna 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.040 go outside and play ball in our home. Y'all down 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.479 by twenty six, twenty eight. But the way they shoot 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.240 the three ball, a couple of threes, a couple of turnovers, 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.000 and the next thing you know, a twenty eight point 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:50.839 lead is eighteen. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.040 And then they go on another spurt, another ten to 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:53.479 oh run. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.440 So now an eighteen oh run, and now you're down 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:57.920 ten when you're just down twenty eight. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.240 But Seth Curry played a good game. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.640 He had nineteen points, Luca as I mentioned, had thirty nine, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:09.560 Dante ExHAM had thirteen, Derek Jones had twelve, and Tim 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:15.360 Hardiwick Junior had fourteen. But you look at Cleveland, Isaaca 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.560 a Cooru had twenty two, Jared Allen twenty four and 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.640 twenty three. As we mentioned, Karris Lebert had twenty nine, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.320 George n A sixteen. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.840 You gotta win that window, Gill got. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.800 Those are the ones that you kick yourself, you know, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.000 in the ass later because you let this, you know, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:39.320 get away from you. With that being said, what gets 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.120 you in the leads is also what takes you out right. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.720 Because this is a three point shooting league. Now you 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.960 can go up by twenty, and you can go down 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.960 by twenty. You shoot four or five straight threes brickswimming 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.279 and they made three or four five, Right, you just 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:55.800 cut that lead down. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.159 And that's right. That's what's happening in today's game. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.440 Where there's no lead that's safe because when you're up, 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.159 you're not going to get twos and get to the 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:03.520 free throw. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:04.200 No, no, no, no, no no. 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.479 You're trying to add the same method that got you back. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.320 This one thing that I have a problem with is this. 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:16.720 Everyone shouldn't shoot the goddamn ball. But I know we 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.920 need to put up you know, a certain amount of threes. 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:23.200 But not you, not you, not you, because when we're 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.680 up twenty, everybody else feels like they can shoot. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.120 This is my job shoot right, No, it's not your 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:30.800 time to shoot. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.200 But kil have you ever seen a situation where all 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.560 of a sudden, the team is hot and everybody and 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.920 you see this a lot and mop up duty. A 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.880 team is like up by twenty with like two minutes 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.679 to go in the ballgame, and all of a sudden, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.960 they call time out and they sub everybody out, and 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.320 even the backups come in and they launch them and 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.480 they're going in. Now, you put them guys in a 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:49.800 regular meaningful. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.440 Game and they can't buy a basket. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.640 But seemingly, when they're up by twenty, everybody, no one 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.760 can miss a shot. And I think the thing is 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.320 what you're alluding to is that all of a sudden, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.000 everybody they feeling good. They make it three. Hey, let 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.160 me let me try one. No, bro, you need it another, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.880 but two. Actually you need dunks and putbacks. You don't 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.480 need anything outside the pain. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:10.760 Yeah, no, yeah. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.080 When you when you're a bench player, the game's down, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.360 you down by twenty, you up by twenty. That is 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.040 the perfect scenario for it because you have no pressure 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.040 on you. So you just to go out there and 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.920 just shoot how you want to shoot. That's that's that's 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.320 like practice for you, right, You just get to throw 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.080 up shots, and sometimes that that costs you. You know 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.680 when a team still has their starters in Yeah. Yes, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.560 So the Mavericks lose, they collapse to the Calves lose 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.240 one thirteen, one ten. After being up by twenty points. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.840 The Calves outscoring about eleven in the fourth quarter to 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.480 take a one thirteen to one ten victory. The thunder 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:51.400 beat the Knicks one explicit duo of Shake Gilders, Alexander 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.680 and Jalen Williams combined for seventy two points. Shake Gil 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.160 just had thirty six, eight and seven. Jalen Williams, I 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.960 think everybody names Williams in the state Oklahoma play for 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.320 the Thunder. He had thirty six on five or five 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.000 three seventy six percent field goal. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:06.800 He was thirteen or seventeen. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.880 Chat Holmgren had twenty two and the Thunder now moved 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:10.640 to twenty and nine. 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.160 I like the Thunder Gil, I like him. I do too. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.880 But they're young, right, Yes, they're gonna give you those 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.080 days where you know they're gonna be tacking because you 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.600 know your best player, Shade, he has it right. He 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.320 understands the game. He's dominating the game right now. He 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.080 for the last three four five years, he's been showing 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:30.239 that he is a superstar. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.040 So yes, with. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.720 Him leading the charge, it's easier for everybody else to 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.760 just chip in here and there. So they have great 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.400 players around Shade that can just do what they do 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.040 and don't have to worry about the heavy lifting. Yeah 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.800 he I mean, man, I love Shaye. I mean he 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.240 has a tremendous pull step back he can get to 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.319 the rack. He can finish with either hands. He's a 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.679 little bit more explosive because you think he's gonna lay 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.200 it up and he will flush it on you. He 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.520 got a nice little three game that's not in his arsenal, 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.480 but he can get hot and hit the three. As 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.640 you mentioned Williams. I saw him against the Lakers a 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.400 couple a couple of days ago, even though the Lakers won. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.920 He can stroke it from three. He can really shoot 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.439 the ball from outside. Chad Hogan, he's up and coming. 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.199 He needs to add about ten pounds. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:18.360 In that frame. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.160 But what I like about him, he ain't just jacking 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.240 the threes. He'll try to put the ball on the 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.000 floor and try to get to the rim. He'll try 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.079 to poke it on you, and he's challenging everything. You 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.319 might flush on him, but he's gonna block two or 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.000 three shots. He's gonna alter two or three shots. So 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.000 he's gonna impact the game from on a defensive from 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.320 a defensive perspective for about ten points because he's gonna 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.440 block two or three of your shots. He's gonna alter 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.560 two or three of your shots, and maybe he'll make 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.160 the time of possession run out on a few of 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.760 your shots, so he's gonna count for ten ten points. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.160 That's why they're so good defensively, even though they are young. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.880 But I like this team. They can get up and down, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.920 They can play a lot of different styles. They got 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.600 young guys, and when you know young guys, you don't 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.840 know anything. You don't know anything about being tired. But 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.520 I love Shake Guild just Alexander, And maybe maybe Kawhi 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.040 went a little bit too fast because how do you 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.320 think the Clippers And we're gonna continue with this, but 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.880 how do you think the Clippers would look with Shake Gill? 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:21.960 Just in Kawhi see that now you see why, Like 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.360 you know, you you questioned that upper management like what 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.960 what did you see? What did you see? You know? 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.280 I guess they were trying to win right now, and 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.160 you know it was more of a package deal for 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.800 Kawhi to why I wanted, Yeah, he wanted to become 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.040 I heard Doc. I heard Doc was talking and he 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.240 tried to explain that. He's like, you need to give 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.280 this guy here. He's like why, he's really good and 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.439 he said, well, if you don't get me PG, I'm 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.840 gonna go to the team across the hallway, and they 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.400 could ill afford to have that because that had been 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.280 a death sentence for the Clippers. You cannot have lebron 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.360 A d and Kawhi across the hall and then all 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.920 you have if what you've got. So I understand they 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.040 had to make the move and they gave up a 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.960 king's ransom to get PG. But when you look at it, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.200 and you look at it player for player right now, 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.560 shake you just is a better player than PG, and 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.280 he has been for the last couple of years. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:15.680 Shame. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:16.959 I mean to be honest, he might be a better 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.520 player than both of them right now. You might be right. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.360 He might be you know, you know he might be 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.920 right like he is. I won't fight you. I won't 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.559 debate you about it, like you know what I mean, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.240 Like it can go either way at this point. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.720 But you know, he's steady, he's humble, he trains, he's worked. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.520 I mean every summer he comes back, he's added something 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.959 to his game. Yes, And you know, Clippers is gonna 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.719 always kick themselves, you know, in the butt when they 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.520 look back at some of the trades they made versus 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.079 what they have now. But you know, just like anything, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:53.600 you're you're always trying to move pieces and get better 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.800 pieces when you don't know that what's fool's gold and 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.200 what's real goal? What's that gym? You know, what's that 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.240 gym hiding in the you know one of those and 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.000 he those. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.000 Type of players, right you look at the knicks. R J. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.280 Bard gave him fourteen, Julius Random gave him twenty five, 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.120 Devincenzo gave him seventeen. Jalen Bronson was twenty four, quickly 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.839 was twenty two. But they let they let the thundershoot 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.960 a very high percentage. And Phibodeau team is normally known 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.960 for defense, but it's seemingly the Thunderway able to get 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.560 whatever they wanted. Now it's look, it's very difficult. I 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.040 mean to try to say, Okay, we're gonna I understand 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.360 you got Josh Hart, and I understand RJ. Barrett and Devincenzo, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.199 but ain't nobody, Ain't nobody stopping Shade from getting where 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.800 he wants to go. He's gonna get his shot because 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.600 you try to beat him to the punch and now 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.120 he's gonna pull back and shoot that shoot that little 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.640 twelve foot fourteen foot shot, and he's gonna swish it 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.600 and then all of a sudden, you think he's gonna 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.000 pull back. He pulled has it and now he's landed 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:54.719 up off the glass or he's landing up either way 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.160 left hand or right handed. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:57.400 In the cup. 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.400 So and if they're gonna shoot it like this, if 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.600 they're gonna shoot the ball like this, they got little 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.640 chat As I said, Chet's gonna challenge everything. You got 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.640 Lou Dordt, who's a quality defender who can get hot 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.800 and shoot the ball from three. And they got guys 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.600 that can shoot the ball from three. I mean, when 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.199 you look at this team, Jalen Wims can shoot it 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.559 for three. Kendrick he's more of a down low player, 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.840 but he can get hot. Jalen Williams, well j A. L. E. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.880 N and j Y hell I in like I said, 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:29.400 everybody named Williams Oklahoma plays for the Thunder. But they 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:34.080 got a nice young, nice young basketball team. Is Isaiah Joe. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.360 He can shoot the three ball because I remember him 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.440 last year when I was at the game, when which 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.040 lebron fans kareem And every time the Lakers make a run, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.400 one of these Williams of Isaiah Joe would make a 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.640 three to quell that run. So I was really impressed 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.760 with the thunder, and I think they're only gonna get better. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.600 Josh Geeddy, he's not having the season because he normally 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.280 by now probably have what two or three triple doubles. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:59.840 Yeah. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.080 Yeah, but I think with him, you know, besides the 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.280 off the court, you know situation, that's then that's you know, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:11.160 looming around him. I think with Chet there, it takes 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.560 the ball out of his hand more. Yes, right, and 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.600 with with Shade being more dominant, you don't you don't 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.600 need Giddy, Right, He's a movable piece at this point. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:20.280 You don't need him. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:28.240 His upside has dropped very, very drastically. Yes, the nixt squad, 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.280 I'm never gonna be impressed with him. It reminds me all. 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:36.680 You like Tibodeau. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.520 You have two guys that's playing thirty plus minutes, scoring 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.600 foreign four and two, four and four, Like, what is 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.360 the point of them being on the court from someone's 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.440 averaging twenty thirty points? Yeah, Josh Hart had played thirty 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.080 four minutes and he gave you four points. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.360 Yeah, that's wasted miss wait, wasted minutes? You have Isaiah? 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.040 Was it Isaiah hards Dad? Yeah? 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.840 But he's your center because you know the big went out. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.840 I mean, because they're already undersized team. If you look 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:08.440 at them, Hardenstein now is their largest player. So I 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.560 mean you got to play a big because you got 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.280 Julius Randall and you know, obviously Randal's gotta play r J. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:13.840 Barrett. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.840 Their decent size, but when you look at it, I mean, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.720 they're not a big team. That's why I don't think 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.320 they can do anything in the East because everybody else's gynormous. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.120 You look at Boston has great side with presingas uh 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.680 uh uh uh j T and JB. They have great 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.080 size with them. We know Milwaukee has trees with Giannis 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.800 and and and Bobby Porters and Brook Lopez and Joel Embiid, 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.080 and they come with not and they come with I 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.400 think it's Reed's who's the backup center, ain't I ain't 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:44.240 talking about Mobamba. 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.520 I ain't talking about him. No, No, I'm not talking 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:47.840 about him. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.160 But they got big guys that can back you down, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.480 and I don't know who can deal with who can 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.360 actually in a seven game series For the Knicks, I 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.000 know they can win one game because Jayalen Bruns can 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.360 get hot and give you, give you fifth. We've seen 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.560 Julius Renderd he can get hot and he give you thirty, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.600 and he can give you thirty, forty and fifteen. But 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.800 in a four game to win four games against Milwaukee 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.960 or Boston or Philly, I don't believe they can do it. 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.760 Do you think they can win a series against one 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.960 of the three teams? No, not those seams. The only 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.399 team they can beat and I said last year, the 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.600 only team y'all can beat here is playing against Calves, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.840 and that's who they got. You know, Calves with Toronto, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.600 you can beat one of those teams with a player 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.000 like Brunson. You know, once you start getting to that 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.359 second round and you started going against them giants, it's 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.480 really hard to win with that lineup. I mean, your 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.640 best most dominant player is small. Becky Hammond said it right. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.760 They don't have a one a player. They don't Brookson 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.320 is a great, great second player or third or coming 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.680 off the bench as that that it guy, right, He's 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.520 so hard for small guys to win a title. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:54.760 Gill. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:56.560 I mean, you look at the history of the game 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:59.280 as lead dogs has been Steph Curry and it's been 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.840 Isaiah Thomas. Yeah, and now don't don't take anything away 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.080 from Ai. Chuck was outstanding and he put up big enough, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.120 led the league in scoring. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:09.840 Obviously we know what he is. He was a he 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:10.960 was a historic player. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.960 But to win a championship, man, like I said, you 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.920 got to be Steph Curry, who we know is transcended 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.879 in Isaiah. Those are only I'm talking when I say small, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.320 and I guess Steph Curry. What you say, Steph is 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.280 six two, six and a half and a half, six 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.120 three and a half Isaiah six to one. But when 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.360 you start talking about it's bruntson is Brunson six foot. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.000 With shoes on? He six to two? He made it. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.960 So when you when you talk when we talk about small. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.199 Now we know the big guards, we know, we know 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.840 uh magic and we know Jordan's guys of that. But 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.359 man for them, for them little guards. Man, you're asking 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.280 an awful lot. It's a it's an awful lot because 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.000 if that's your best players, and it's not like he's 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.920 athletic or like he's he's long, right. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.200 You know where he can make up some of the 0:18:58.800 --> 0:18:59.400 black of side. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:05.960 Yeah, but he's he's small, stubby, compact, right, you know, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.760 it's like, he's not a Chauncey Billups. But if you 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.520 put him with like Lebron great, if you put him 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.840 with Boston great. When he's the best player on the team, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.439 you really don't have a chance because he has to 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.040 do so much being limited, and he's very limited at 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.720 his size. I mean, I compare him to it, and 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.320 to be honest, I'm pretty sure it is offended because 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.520 it was a two time All Star average in twenty nine, 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.960 and don't compare me to do he ain't even on 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.920 level right right, But but but that's just the case. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.439 When you're small like Iverson, you gotta average thirty two 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.360 to thirty three twenty four. I can get that from 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.639 any guard. I can get from me guard. But what 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.920 he does bring is he brings the leadership and knowing 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:52.760 how to get a great bucket in the last five 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:53.440 minutes of the game. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.000 Yeah, he's sensatial with that. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:20:02.280 So okay, see with that ball Game one twenty nine, 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.879 the Sixers beat the Magic minus Joel Embiid one twelve 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:10.040 to ninety two, Sixers first win without Embiid this season. 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.960 In five tries, Philly takes seventeen more shots than Orlando 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.520 ty Reeves, Maxi had twenty three points to lead them. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.320 The Anthony Melton stepped up tonight. He had twenty two, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.760 eight or thirteen field goals. He was plus twenty four. 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.720 Ty Reech Maxi credits James Harden for helping him develop 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:31.320 into an all NBA caliber talent. First, let's get to 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.359 the Sixers beat the Magic without Joel Embiid, and then 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.200 we can address Tyreeves. Maxi comments credit Flowers for James Harden. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.240 What are you like minus Jordan? Obviously we know what 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.000 Joel Embiid. He's averaging thirty five points a game. He's 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.680 given you ten eleven rebounds a game. Now he's given 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.880 you five or six assists the game. So now he's 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.520 the complete package, and he's a dominant force on the 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:54.280 defensive end. 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:55.840 So he's given you thirty five. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.120 He's assistant on six, so we assumed that at least 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:00.600 two of those is gonna be three. 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.520 So now he's basically given you about forty five to 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.040 fifty points a night with his points and assist. So 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:09.040 you know you got that. 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:13.440 You know you see Tybres Maxi blossoming growing right. 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:14.280 In front of our eyes. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.840 He can he's giving you twenty five to thirty on 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:18.919 a night the basis, and some nights he can give 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:19.960 you thirty five forty. 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:21.159 Yeah, what do you like? 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.280 What do you like most about the Sixers without him? 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.400 Be they're they're way better than Orlando. Orlando is young, right, 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.639 you know, something coming to a young team. So you 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.639 know you expected, you know, Sixers to winness, right, you 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.439 got you still got Harris over there, you still got Oubre, 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.520 You got solid veteran guys who know how to play 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.679 this game. Right, You would expect, like MAXI to come 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.159 out and try to score forty tonight, right because in 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:46.840 B's not You're like, oh, I get to get off. 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.399 But the way the game is being played, he realized 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:54.320 that he still manages the game, you know, and Bed's 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.159 not going to get this ball, but Uber can get 0:21:56.240 --> 0:22:01.200 some shots. You have, Harrison gets some shots, Milton get 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:04.240 get some shots. So he still did his job as 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:08.000 a point guard, you know, getting the team involved when 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.560 usually a young, a young guard would try to make 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:12.920 up the point difference for his star center. 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.560 Yeah, he was, uh, he's really, he's really good. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:19.800 He's he's he's gonna get the max contract, and I 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.320 think the max contract this year especially he's gonna be. 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.719 I think he's gonna make the All Star team. And 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.480 so now he has another bargaining chip and it so 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.680 whatever the max was last year, I'm assuming it's going 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:33.800 up a little bit at five percent. There's a five 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:38.439 percent and place your tax max contract number. But I 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:41.480 like Tyree's maxing. He said he credited James Harden with 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:43.639 helping him develop into an All NBA player. 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.080 What's he saying for for our lay people at home? 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:48.560 What is he saying? Yes? 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.199 See, people don't realize how great James Harden was at 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.040 putting that ball in that basket. Right. 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:55.960 I think we. 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:00.359 The last two years we judged him on out side 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.400 things and not realize what he was very skilled at. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.080 Right. You know, you got to go back to that twenty. 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:10.840 Eighteen twenty nineteen season where he average w thirty six. 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:18.440 Out of the last sixty one games, he scored thirty 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:23.560 plus forty six of those games out of sixty one 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:27.119 games he scored forty. He's scored thirty or more forty 0:23:27.160 --> 0:23:31.760 six times or more all sixty one times. That's a 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.840 different breed of a score. So if I'm MAXI I'm 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:38.280 soaking up everything. I don't care where he's at right now. 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.439 I know what's here, and I want to train with you. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:44.600 I want to pick your brain. I want to know 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.520 what you know because this type of level of scoring, 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:50.719 there's only really two other guards that really this, Michael 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:55.080 Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Hoben went on runs like this. Ye, yeah, 0:23:55.359 --> 0:23:57.680 where you're talking about out of the last sixty one 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:01.920 games of the season, twenty or more, all sixty one. 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:06.280 That's impressive, yes, And I think the thing is what 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:11.600 we remember James Harden at his absolute apex in Houston, 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:16.440 and he turned himself in more of a facilitator at Brooklyn. 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.879 So we didn't see that fifty that fifty point triple double. 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:22.640 We didn't see the sixty point triple doubles. We saw 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.480 guys somewhere in the mid twenties give you a triple double. 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:28.080 And if Kad was out, he took the owners, he 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:30.600 could score more. If Kyrie was out, he could take 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.760 the owners and score even more. But normally when one 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:36.000 of those other guys were out, it was great because 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.600 he understood, yes, I can get my shot, but I 0:24:38.640 --> 0:24:40.280 need to get these other guys involved. 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:41.640 When he went to. 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:45.080 Philly, he even became more of a facilitator, leading the 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.840 NBA in assists last year because of Joel Embiid. 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:48.480 It's hard. 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:50.359 I don't see a situation where you shouldn't leave the 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:52.560 NBA at assists if you got Joel and bid it 0:24:52.640 --> 0:24:54.520 up and down too. Now you know he gonna give 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:57.000 you thirty a night anyway. Most of a lot of 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.679 those gonna come from the file line. But when I 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:01.679 look at when you look at gay, and that's what 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:06.879 I said, as a veteran player, give that knowledge because 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:09.320 a lot of times Gil Man, he ain't taking my job. 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:10.159 I ain't helping it. 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:14.080 Facts facts, And we see this chat with a lot 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:17.040 of times in the NFL with the quarterbacks. 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:19.480 It's not my job to get him ready. It's not 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:20.840 my job to help him. 0:25:20.960 --> 0:25:23.960 It's almost like, bro, if you're secure in yourself, he 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.520 can't beat you out for the job. If you are 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.480 what you believe is pass the information on. It'll serve you. 0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:32.680 Well. What good is all that information to hoard it? 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:33.239 Spread it? 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:36.280 But I love Tyreese maxt and I love the fact 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.040 that he's gave James Harden says, James Harden is the 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:42.800 reason I'm watching him, and you should should You should 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:46.240 be able to get better by being on the same court, 0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:49.600 by practicing with picking his brain, watching what he does, 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:52.679 see how he breaks down the defense, how he orchestrates 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:55.000 and leap excuse me, how he breaks down the defense, 0:25:55.080 --> 0:25:56.280 how he leads an offense. 0:25:56.480 --> 0:25:59.680 You should get better? You should? 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:03.560 Everybody don't, right, because everybody want to get better. No, 0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:08.399 everyone ain't built for the same altitude, right, right, you. 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:11.200 Know what I mean? And that's usually the most frustrating part. 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:14.840 Where you have someone like a James Harden who he's 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:19.320 he's an eagle right right, and playing with some pigeons 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:20.560 and he's trying to. 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:21.160 Get them to. 0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:26.720 His altitude, knowing that if they get they're gonna die, right, 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:32.360 So now he has to come down and play pigeon basketball. 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:35.160 While getting killed by the media for playing pigeon basketball, right. 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:37.760 And then that's where you have this fine line between 0:26:37.880 --> 0:26:39.639 being selfish and being a team player. 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:45.360 Where I can average thirty six on this team they trash, But. 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:49.600 If I make the right plays and pass these guys 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:52.879 at the ball, they're not capable of it. So should 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:56.600 I average twenty two eleven assists and we lose? So 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:59.159 I can prove that this team sucks or do I 0:26:59.240 --> 0:27:01.440 just average thirty six points and you just keep calling 0:27:01.440 --> 0:27:01.960 me selfish? 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:03.840 That is a big finger in the NBA. 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:07.480 Okay, that is a big fight in the NBA with 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:11.160 the star player when when the pressure from the outside, 0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:12.760 it is like why he ain't pa, why he ain't 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:17.240 doing because my team ain't good. They not They can't 0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:20.080 step up to this level. They don't want to work 0:27:20.160 --> 0:27:24.400 like I worked out three times a day every day. 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:30.000 When I got to Washington, I seen in my years 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:35.280 Koran was the most consistent, Larry Hughes a few times, 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:39.639 and Twine Jamison a few times. That's it in my 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:43.320 in my and and and my extra work. So when 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:45.879 I come in at nine o'clock and at nine eleven 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:48.920 o'clock at night one in the morning, I only seen 0:27:48.920 --> 0:27:49.440 a few. 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:51.520 Players out of my whole career. 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:57.639 Everybody don't want it, then you can't make them. And 0:27:57.680 --> 0:28:01.040 see that's what that's what people don't understand. There's a 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:03.479 price to be paid for greatness, and if you're not 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:05.840 willing to pay that price, you don't deserve to be great. 0:28:06.200 --> 0:28:08.399 I don't care how much you talk about it, because 0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:10.720 see professional sports, the one thing that you can't talk 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:13.080 your way in or out because they're gonna. 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:15.439 Have to prove it. The proof is in the pudding. 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:17.840 So you're telling me all this what you're doing. 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:21.040 I don't see it manifesting itself because I'm a firm 0:28:21.080 --> 0:28:23.800 believer Gil that if you were I don't care what 0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:26.800 it is. If you work at something, you will get 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:29.600 incrementally better. I'm not gonna say you're gonna be if 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:31.760 you if you finger paint, I'm not gonna say you're 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.399 gonna be Picasso. I'm not gonna say he's gonna be 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:37.760 you know, Da Vinci or Mikaelangelo. I'm not saying that. 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:41.120 But you will get better, yes, even if it's marginally. 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:45.040 This is what I said about Ben Simmons. I didn't 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:47.960 see any improvement from Ben Simmons from his rookie year 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:48.840 to his fifth year. 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:51.640 And people are, oh, man, you don't know. I said, 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:52.480 I'm telling you. 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:55.800 There's no possible way that this man can be putting 0:28:55.800 --> 0:28:58.719 in the time that he says he's putting in, and 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:02.480 I don't see any improvement. You know what's so funny. 0:29:02.720 --> 0:29:06.360 He is one of those rare cases. I've watched him 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:10.920 three summers. I've watched him three summers, and what I'm 0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:17.480 watching is a superstar basketball player. Right, I'm walking like 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:20.640 I'm sitting here. He can shoot the ball. He can 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:25.400 He's coming downhill right, He's dominating. 0:29:24.800 --> 0:29:26.360 These other superstars. 0:29:26.480 --> 0:29:28.680 They were scared of this man every summer because he's 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:30.400 gonna pick up full court. You know, you know in 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:32.640 the summer you're trying to be he's picking up a 0:29:32.680 --> 0:29:36.520 full court and he's coming at you. 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:38.040 That perception is a real thing. 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:42.840 A lot of a lot of shooters, a lot of 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:45.840 guys that can't shoot is because they've been practicing in 0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:49.360 these small gyms and then when they get to that arena, 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:54.160 they can't. I got I gouged that that damn rim. Wow, 0:29:55.080 --> 0:29:58.040 when he plays in the game, he don't shoot the 0:29:58.080 --> 0:29:59.120 ball because. 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:02.280 I don't think he knows that distance. 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:06.240 I've watched this man's like, why don't you shoot the 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.840 ball in the game right? Like your foot The mechanics 0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:15.040 is great, and I think that that that rim, that 0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:17.080 that that you know you know and practice. 0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:17.880 There's there's that. 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:21.960 Wall right there exactly yeah open, it's open space in 0:30:22.000 --> 0:30:24.560 that arena. So I always made it a stance myself 0:30:24.600 --> 0:30:26.840 to the night before I'm. 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:27.600 Gonna get in that rim. 0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:29.160 I'm gonna get in that that Uh, if there was 0:30:29.160 --> 0:30:31.520 no hockey game, I'm gonna get on the main court 0:30:31.560 --> 0:30:32.440 and get some shots up. 0:30:32.840 --> 0:30:34.880 You gotta you gotta practice in that arena. 0:30:35.080 --> 0:30:37.400 You can't practice in these small gyms and then get 0:30:37.440 --> 0:30:39.880 to the arena and think your shot is that? And 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:41.920 I think that, you know, there's there's a couple of 0:30:41.960 --> 0:30:43.680 things with that. And I think he just when he 0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:46.120 gets to that game, I think he just freezes up. 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:50.120 He's scared to make mistakes. Yeah, that's that's a lot 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:52.120 of it, because we saw that and in the game 0:30:52.240 --> 0:30:55.160 seven against Atlanta when they had that lead. You see, 0:30:55.200 --> 0:30:58.840 the thing is, Gail, I can teach you to I 0:30:58.880 --> 0:31:01.080 can teach you to swim if you're not afraid of 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:04.480 the water. See, I can't teach you to shoot if 0:31:04.480 --> 0:31:07.360 you're afraid to miss it. See it's not that he 0:31:07.440 --> 0:31:13.000 can't shoot. He's afraid to shoot too. That's two different things. 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:15.440 But not being able to swim and being afraid of 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:20.600 the water are two different things because you're afraid, Well, 0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:22.040 he was afraid. 0:31:22.080 --> 0:31:24.600 That's why he didn't shoot. That's why. And I remember 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:25.000 saying it. 0:31:25.040 --> 0:31:28.600 I says, and Doc, I remember, Doc said, anybody that 0:31:28.640 --> 0:31:31.000 doesn't think that we're gonna play that we're gonna take 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:32.680 Ben Simmons out and we're not gonna play him in 0:31:32.680 --> 0:31:33.240 the fourth quarter. 0:31:33.400 --> 0:31:34.560 They don't know basketball. 0:31:34.840 --> 0:31:36.640 I said, Doc, it's gonna come a time you're gonna 0:31:36.640 --> 0:31:38.960 have no choice, I said, because he's a liability. 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:40.480 I said, because if. 0:31:40.360 --> 0:31:44.240 The team is down by ten and it's a outside 0:31:44.240 --> 0:31:46.400 of two minutes or I'm following him every day, every 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:48.280 trip down the corn, I'm gonna fiore him. Y'all are 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:51.440 not gonna get that ball to Joel and Bed And 0:31:51.600 --> 0:31:53.840 that's what Atlanta did and got back into the game 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:55.080 every single time. 0:31:55.320 --> 0:31:58.200 And Dan when it came time he had a dunk, 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:00.560 and he asked it. 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:08.080 The mental when you're when you're mentally not comfortable, it 0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:13.800 shows at the worst time in games. Yes, right, I 0:32:14.080 --> 0:32:17.719 remember when, like when I came back off an injury 0:32:18.040 --> 0:32:22.680 and my free throws wasn't on right now because my 0:32:22.720 --> 0:32:25.560 free throws is not where they're supposed to be, I'm 0:32:25.600 --> 0:32:30.280 scared to drive to get hit, so I don't have 0:32:30.320 --> 0:32:33.960 to shoot that free throw, right, that's a thing. Right now, 0:32:34.080 --> 0:32:36.920 I'm driving not to get fouled because so I don't 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:38.800 have to go to the free throw line. Right, So 0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:41.840 when you start looking at the game, once that, once 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:46.520 that player gets into his own mind, there's nothing the 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:48.960 coach can do, there's nothing opponent to do. 0:32:49.080 --> 0:32:50.800 He's already beating himself. 0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:53.760 Up right right, Like there was times where when I 0:32:53.800 --> 0:32:56.560 was on my free throws, I talked to myself, cash 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:59.800 money baby, nothing but cash money baby, Like I had 0:32:59.840 --> 0:33:04.280 to talk myself into everything I'm doing cash money buckets. 0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:07.920 Like it's a it's a thing that when you're on 0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:11.840 that court, you miss ten straight shots, if you're not 0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:16.000 self confident, you're gonna miss another ten. That's when you 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:18.480 start wide open layup. You miss it or you got 0:33:18.760 --> 0:33:20.320 gotta lay up, and you finally get your point. 0:33:20.320 --> 0:33:21.760 Your teammate goal tended. 0:33:22.080 --> 0:33:26.400 Everything starts going wrong, can throw it go in, uh somebody? 0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:27.800 Uh free throw violation. 0:33:28.160 --> 0:33:31.280 Right, Everything just starts going wrong, and it just keeps 0:33:31.320 --> 0:33:34.160 you down that spiral. Then you just gotta be you 0:33:34.240 --> 0:33:36.560 got to be self aware to get yourself out of it. 0:33:36.680 --> 0:33:38.400 And I don't think I think that it was at 0:33:38.440 --> 0:33:40.720 that moment. I agree. 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:42.320 I think the number one thing Gil is, this is 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:44.320 what I tell a lot of people, whether it's force 0:33:44.440 --> 0:33:47.400 or life, don't you become an opponent Because a lot 0:33:47.480 --> 0:33:50.240 of times we can become our own opponent. And that's 0:33:50.280 --> 0:33:53.680 even more that's even more lethal than the opponent for 0:33:53.800 --> 0:33:55.680 the opposing teams. 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:56.560 Us. 0:33:56.960 --> 0:34:01.560 We create an opponent that we cannot beat in that self. 0:34:02.480 --> 0:34:05.120 And so what what what Ben has done? 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:10.120 He's created an opponent that he cannot beat, and until 0:34:10.680 --> 0:34:14.960 until he defeats that opponent, here we are. 0:34:15.840 --> 0:34:16.040 Yeah. 0:34:16.560 --> 0:34:19.520 And the sad part is I've always said it like 0:34:20.000 --> 0:34:23.280 if I was a coach and I know this player 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:29.160 is struggling, I know this player will sacrifice his scoring 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:33.160 for the betterment of the team, right, And as a coach, 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:38.640 I'm like, I'm sorry, but f these teams got them, 0:34:38.920 --> 0:34:41.680 do you right? I need you to go out there 0:34:41.719 --> 0:34:45.080 and please try to give me fifty. I want to 0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:47.960 see it. We got to meet me and the rest 0:34:47.960 --> 0:34:50.359 of the crew. Got to bet go out there. We're 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:51.920 not trying to win this game. I'll wait to We 0:34:51.960 --> 0:34:57.280 got damn played. Uh, We're gonna play goddamn Detroit. Everywhere 0:34:57.800 --> 0:35:01.000 everyone bingched Ben, you gotta win this game by your 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:06.640 goddamn self. I because I gotta see I gotta let 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:09.799 him tap into it so he can see it for himself. 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:12.239 Sometimes you got to just see what you can do 0:35:12.600 --> 0:35:16.200 to really believe, because there's no way that you're going 0:35:16.200 --> 0:35:18.960 to the game. Think about this ship. You're playing thirty 0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:23.200 eight minutes and you took six shots. Yeah, that means 0:35:23.200 --> 0:35:29.719 you are purposely not even looking to score. You just 0:35:29.840 --> 0:35:31.960 out there. Ask you you like the you like the 0:35:32.000 --> 0:35:34.600 motherfucking uh the playing in the club. 0:35:34.760 --> 0:35:36.520 Uh? You just in the club. 0:35:36.920 --> 0:35:40.120 You're just there, you know, different than that thing back then. 0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:41.880 You're just out there. 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:43.160 Yeah. 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.160 Now, especially he the point guard and I'm playing that 0:35:46.200 --> 0:35:48.080 many minutes. Oh, I'm getting me twelve to fourteen to 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:54.000 night fax shots. Hey, hat shots, guaranteed shots. 0:35:55.000 --> 0:35:58.040 Hey, like you said at the club, it's the club 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.600 shot shot shot shot shot, because I'm getting the ball. 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:04.560 I'm getting the bull Ki And who's gonna tell you 0:36:04.560 --> 0:36:06.719 no when you when you're so getting like. 0:36:08.320 --> 0:36:10.319 I'm pretty sure and be. 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:20.879 James Harden, No, not James Harden, but uh, Kyrie, Yeah, Katie, I. 0:36:20.960 --> 0:36:23.760 Know those guys were so pissed off at him. 0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:26.080 Yeah, of course, because I get to watch you every 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:29.040 day in practice, homeboy, Yes, I get to see your 0:36:29.080 --> 0:36:31.799 ability in real time and then you come out here 0:36:31.800 --> 0:36:32.600 and give me this bull. 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:35.400 That's the frustrating things. 0:36:35.360 --> 0:36:38.759 When you know what your your teammates is capable of, 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:41.839 and then they come into the lights and. 0:36:42.040 --> 0:36:44.600 You've seen it, you've seen it, you see it again. 0:36:44.680 --> 0:36:47.239 We've all I mean, I've had teammates catch a ball, 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:49.880 I mean high point the ball in practice, catch the 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:50.920 ball in a crowd. 0:36:51.200 --> 0:36:52.560 I'm talking about one hand. 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:55.520 They can do it all and as soon as you 0:36:55.560 --> 0:36:57.000 put them in the game, ball hit him in the 0:36:57.000 --> 0:36:59.560 face mask I mean ball hit them right between the 0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:02.160 I mean the ball that hit him on the ground 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:04.480 by the time they bring their hands together. We've all 0:37:04.520 --> 0:37:07.719 seen guys like that, like ro what happened to that 0:37:07.760 --> 0:37:10.560 guy that was in practice on Wednesdays and Thursday and Friday. 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:13.920 How do you go from that you don't drop anything 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:18.840 to you can't catch anything because he's comfortable with us, 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:24.440 not the opponent, Oh, be comfortable with us, not the opponent. 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:26.680 The opponent is the person that they know, and not 0:37:26.840 --> 0:37:31.399 knowing stares the shit out of some people. We see 0:37:31.400 --> 0:37:34.800 that a lot in camp, guys making plays against people 0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:36.600 that you know. And that's what if a lot of 0:37:36.640 --> 0:37:38.440 times you hear football players say, Man, I just want 0:37:38.480 --> 0:37:40.359 to go out there against somebody that I don't know, 0:37:40.440 --> 0:37:42.840 that doesn't have on my uniform. I just want to 0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:46.040 hit somebody, because you want to see what these young 0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:49.480 kids can do against somebody that they don't know. Yes, 0:37:49.960 --> 0:37:52.080 somebody that that's not going to put that thump on 0:37:52.160 --> 0:37:53.960 them and that's not going to put him on the ground. 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:57.359 That guy's trying to make the roster just like you are. 0:37:57.520 --> 0:37:57.759 Yep. 0:37:58.000 --> 0:38:01.000 So I want to see I want to see the 0:38:01.080 --> 0:38:04.839 Suns beat the Rockets one twenty nine, one thirteen. KD 0:38:04.960 --> 0:38:08.160 ha the monster night. He had twenty seven points, sixteen assists, 0:38:08.200 --> 0:38:11.759 ten rebounds. KD denied a report that he's frustrated with 0:38:11.800 --> 0:38:15.080 the Sons. Walk says, somebody else feels that I'm frustrated 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:17.319 and it turned to me being mentally checked out. 0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:19.799 This is crazy. These people can. 0:38:19.719 --> 0:38:22.360 Plan out loud, my name, make it up and you 0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:25.440 people will believe it. But when my teammates and coaches 0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:28.000 speak on high am as a high am as a teammate, 0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:28.960 you ignore it. 0:38:29.360 --> 0:38:29.760 Lol. 0:38:32.320 --> 0:38:35.160 So we'll get to that. We'll get we'll get the 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:37.759 KD comments in a second. Let's talk about the game. 0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:39.920 What did you like, what did you like about what 0:38:39.960 --> 0:38:42.239 you saw tonight from the Suns? And what's been what 0:38:42.400 --> 0:38:46.080 happened tonight that's been different than the other Knights. See 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:49.880 what the Suns they have a great starting five, right, 0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:52.040 I mean, listen, we we can't give you no praise. 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:54.760 You're playing Houston, right, I mean, he's you know, proving, 0:38:55.320 --> 0:38:58.680 but you know what we know who's coming to play 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:03.279 it Kevin Durant Booker right right on, Like you know, 0:39:03.320 --> 0:39:06.040 that's that is the core of that team. 0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:09.120 It's it's trying to find. 0:39:10.440 --> 0:39:15.000 That six seven eighth guy who can give you consistent 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:19.480 play and and and that's that's the key with a 0:39:19.520 --> 0:39:22.640 lot of these teams. They haven't really dialed in that 0:39:22.840 --> 0:39:26.480 their roster. They don't know what they're looking for or 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:29.520 what they want, and it's it's bringing a lot of 0:39:29.520 --> 0:39:32.759 confusion in your with team chemistry in. 0:39:32.680 --> 0:39:33.240 The first place. 0:39:33.320 --> 0:39:37.640 But the starting five themselves, oh they're balling the starting 0:39:37.719 --> 0:39:42.520 five for for sons. They they got their stuff intact, right, 0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:45.200 They're having about they're having is about ninety five points 0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:50.440 as a starting unit. Okay, that is impressive, right, yeah, 0:39:50.600 --> 0:39:53.400 But when you're talking about what one hundred and sixteen points. 0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:58.040 That means you only need about twenty off the bench. Yeah, 0:39:58.080 --> 0:40:00.279 but the thing is I'm looking at it not hey. 0:40:00.520 --> 0:40:03.560 KD had to play forty one minutes. Eric Gordon played 0:40:03.560 --> 0:40:07.360 thirty nine minutes. Book played thirty six minutes against Houston. 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:12.080 Yeah, yeah, who I was they got on that goddamn team. 0:40:12.320 --> 0:40:16.080 They traded the most people who say, God, you're gonna 0:40:16.080 --> 0:40:18.400 put ball bowl in, You're gonna. 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:21.439 Put u wakasambie whatever you're gonna put you to watch 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:25.280 nab Come on, oh bow, did get get two minutes? 0:40:26.080 --> 0:40:26.520 Got too many? 0:40:26.920 --> 0:40:29.759 Get god damn two minutes? But they don't have fy 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:31.960 one onder the event, so he do you have to 0:40:31.960 --> 0:40:33.440 play forty one minutes? 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:36.520 Yeah? That started played a boatload of minutes tonight. 0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:39.520 The only starter didn't play major minutes is Nurkic, and 0:40:39.520 --> 0:40:42.680 he he played fourteen minutes. But everybody else going with 0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:46.800 at thirty nine, KD was at forty one, Grayson Allen 0:40:46.880 --> 0:40:49.640 was at thirty three, and Book was at thirty six. Uh. 0:40:50.400 --> 0:40:51.280 Let's uh. 0:40:52.239 --> 0:40:55.479 The the Rockets a young young team. 0:40:55.640 --> 0:40:57.680 I think they're still the youngest team. I mean, they're 0:40:57.800 --> 0:40:58.759 really really young. 0:41:00.080 --> 0:41:04.759 What I like, uh Udoka, I think that's the way 0:41:04.760 --> 0:41:07.520 to say, I would say, ka is ka I may. 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:14.360 What what what what? I love some goon? Yeah? Someons? 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:19.080 Well what what what are the rockets? What are the 0:41:19.160 --> 0:41:25.400 rockets need? How do the rockets they're they're so, they're so. 0:41:27.960 --> 0:41:30.480 They have a whole bunch of pieces, right, It's like 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:34.040 it's like having a whole bunch of clothes but no outfit. Right, 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:37.279 figure out how to put it together. And you know, 0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:42.120 with signing Dylan Brooks and signing Van Fleet, you kind 0:41:42.120 --> 0:41:45.440 of got some experience with them, but your your focal 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:47.879 point where your your future is gonna be Jalen Green, 0:41:48.480 --> 0:41:53.800 Uh Sun Goon and Jabari Smith. He he ain't giving 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:57.120 me enough, right, No, no, no, no, I agree, I agree, 0:41:57.280 --> 0:41:59.200 I agree, And I don't know if you know, I 0:41:59.200 --> 0:42:01.120 don't know if saying good and it's taken away from him, 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:02.640 but the way he saying going passes it. 0:42:02.840 --> 0:42:03.720 He should be eating. 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:07.600 He should be eating, you know, in that in that position, 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:09.759 and it should open up the court. But you know, 0:42:09.880 --> 0:42:13.560 right now, I think they're trying to figure out what 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:16.200 guys to keep, what guys they can paget, who to 0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:20.800 play like some of these teams, you know, playing eleven 0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:22.239 man ten man deep. 0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:25.799 Some of y'all don't got teams like that, right, y'all 0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:28.879 don't got them type of rosters to be subbing in 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:33.000 the tenth man, Right, y'all should get y'all ass whoof 0:42:33.200 --> 0:42:36.640 putting in number ten? Yeah? I mean you look at this. 0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:40.600 I mean they got guys that played Jake Londale for 0:42:40.680 --> 0:42:44.640 the Rocket play twelve minutes. Amen Thompson played seventeen with 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:50.440 more played played eighteen, Holiday played twenty four. Easton played 0:42:50.520 --> 0:42:54.399 twenty five. I mean they got and plus that. That's 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:56.279 not even the starters. Those are those are the guys 0:42:56.320 --> 0:42:59.600 that came off the bench, yep. I mean nobody played 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:02.320 more than three twenty nine minutes. That was van Fleet 0:43:02.360 --> 0:43:06.239 and Sengoon. And this is the problem with teams like this, 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:09.120 when you got a young team, where's the days where 0:43:09.880 --> 0:43:15.399 like Alan Iverson right, he averaged forty one minutes for 0:43:15.520 --> 0:43:20.680 his career. You guys have all the technology, now, you 0:43:20.800 --> 0:43:23.320 got all the medicine, and you're telling me you're playing 0:43:23.400 --> 0:43:25.200 less they are. 0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:27.040 Right, Where's where's my. 0:43:27.120 --> 0:43:30.920 Guys where I can like Jalen Green, all my young guys, 0:43:31.080 --> 0:43:33.920 y'all need to play forty two forty three minutes you 0:43:34.000 --> 0:43:36.560 need to get these days, Gil. 0:43:36.719 --> 0:43:37.480 That's the problem. 0:43:37.760 --> 0:43:40.160 They got too much technology, they got too much minutes 0:43:40.320 --> 0:43:46.160 minutes in medicine, because if you look at it, baseball 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:49.200 used to have four man rotations and three man rotations. 0:43:49.440 --> 0:43:52.040 Now you got five man rotations and you got set 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:55.840 up men, and you got closes. You see, we know 0:43:56.000 --> 0:43:59.600 too much and that's the problem. Well it's taxic well 0:43:59.640 --> 0:44:01.600 Hill it is. It didn't tax the other guys that 0:44:01.640 --> 0:44:08.960 didn't at tax Steve Cartins elbow, yeah, Gibson, Jenny McClean, 0:44:10.440 --> 0:44:11.439 guys used to throw. 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:14.359 I mean, the likelihood of us ever seen. 0:44:14.400 --> 0:44:16.759 I mean, what's the likelihood of us consistently seeing three 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:20.399 hundred strikeouts? A guy's pitching three hundred innings, two hundred 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:22.759 and fifty eight. I mean, it's not guys, go five 0:44:22.800 --> 0:44:23.359 to six inning. 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:25.360 That's it. Turn it over, turn it over to the 0:44:26.160 --> 0:44:27.040 middle of the bullpen. 0:44:27.920 --> 0:44:30.359 You got middle relief, you got set up, you got 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:31.359 somebody to close it out. 0:44:32.160 --> 0:44:32.439 I think. 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:34.919 So, I think that's what basketball. I mean, Hell, we'll 0:44:34.960 --> 0:44:37.960 play will play forty eight and a half minutes for 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:41.000 an entire season. Now you mind you there's only forty 0:44:41.040 --> 0:44:46.440 eight minutes in the game. So he played. I mean 0:44:46.440 --> 0:44:48.640 think about what look at Wilton numbers. Look and guys 0:44:48.680 --> 0:44:52.200 played like you said, major major minutes forty minutes. I 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:53.879 mean Jordan, I mean there were a couple of years. 0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:56.400 I mean early in Lebron Caerer Lebron played for had 0:44:56.840 --> 0:44:59.920 a season he played forty one minutes. No, that was common. 0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:03.400 I don't think the guy's not playing like that anymore, 0:45:03.760 --> 0:45:06.520 you know what I think it is, And it would 0:45:06.560 --> 0:45:11.560 make sense from a financial standpoint or as an owner, 0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:17.279 right where I have someone like a Jalen Green, right, 0:45:17.400 --> 0:45:20.680 instead of him playing forty three forty four minutes, I 0:45:20.719 --> 0:45:22.080 play him thirty two to thirty three. 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:22.919 Right. 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:25.279 Instead of having him for ten years, I got him 0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:28.000 for sixteen years of greatness. 0:45:28.040 --> 0:45:28.320 Now. 0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:31.799 So I think with the time restriction, I think is 0:45:32.880 --> 0:45:35.120 it's making their careers a little bit longer, so I 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:39.040 have the asset longer. And I think that's what it 0:45:39.160 --> 0:45:42.319 seems like is going on, that they're taking away two 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:45.600 minutes to stretch the career out. Okay, you know, but 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:47.600 that makes it yet, you know, we have to we 0:45:47.680 --> 0:45:49.680 have to sit there and ask that why isn't he 0:45:49.719 --> 0:45:53.960 playing forty minutes and saving ten minutes a game? Adds 0:45:54.000 --> 0:45:58.360 to your years, right right, you know, but I'm a 0:45:58.400 --> 0:45:59.040 Scovias coach. 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:02.640 I need to win. I'm trying to win. 0:46:02.840 --> 0:46:10.640 Yeah, let's address what k KD denied, report that he's frustrated. 0:46:10.640 --> 0:46:13.520 Would said, somebody else feels that I'm frustrated and it 0:46:13.560 --> 0:46:15.399 turned into me being mentally checked out. 0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:16.600 That is crazy. 0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:19.040 These people can plant outline my name and make it 0:46:19.160 --> 0:46:21.239 up and you people will believe it. But when my 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:24.280 teammates and coaches speak on how I am as a teammate, 0:46:24.480 --> 0:46:25.120 you ignore it. 0:46:25.320 --> 0:46:25.680 Lol. 0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:33.960 Gil KD. Look at your history. People were reporting that 0:46:34.040 --> 0:46:39.719 you were unhappy in OKC. You denied that you book 0:46:39.760 --> 0:46:43.120 it out of town. People say there was some grumblings 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:45.759 about you were feeling some type of way that you 0:46:45.840 --> 0:46:49.400 weren't being looked at and thought of like Clay Stephen 0:46:50.040 --> 0:46:53.400 and Dramond. You booked it and later came out you 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:56.400 was never going to be accepted. There was report that 0:46:56.480 --> 0:46:59.400 KD might ask for a trade and he was unhappy 0:46:59.400 --> 0:47:03.800 in Brooklyn in the direction and here you are in Phoenix. 0:47:04.080 --> 0:47:09.040 So God forbid us from believing what they say when 0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:12.080 everything that has ever been said about you, for the 0:47:12.120 --> 0:47:15.919 most part, has turned out to be true. I think 0:47:15.960 --> 0:47:20.160 the only issue he probably has an issue with is 0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:24.120 saying he checked out, right, Yeah, Like if I'm if 0:47:24.120 --> 0:47:25.520 I'm him and I'm reading that, what do you mean 0:47:25.600 --> 0:47:27.319 check out? I'm imaging thirty at night. I'm giving them 0:47:27.320 --> 0:47:29.560 my all. I'm coming to work day in and night, 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:35.800 day out. Right, Katie is a student of the game, okay, 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:39.520 meaning he don't have he don't have life outside of basketball. 0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:43.800 All he does as y'all can see, you tweet something, 0:47:44.000 --> 0:47:47.799 He's on it, right, So you tweet right. If I 0:47:47.880 --> 0:47:50.200 d him at right now, within three minutes, he's gonna 0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:50.640 look at it. 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:51.359 Right. 0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:53.640 So he's in tuned with everything that's going on, and 0:47:53.719 --> 0:47:54.720 he's watching games. 0:47:54.760 --> 0:47:58.319 He's probably watching this show, right. Is that a good 0:47:58.400 --> 0:47:59.799 or bad thing? Good thing? 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:03.120 The best players, they they're in tune with everything that's 0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:06.239 going on, and sometimes that in tune, iss is what 0:48:06.400 --> 0:48:10.319 frustrates you because the rest of your teammates is not 0:48:10.440 --> 0:48:17.960 in tune with me. So expressing frustration versus being frustrated, 0:48:18.000 --> 0:48:18.920 it's two different things. 0:48:19.400 --> 0:48:20.520 Right, I can be. 0:48:20.600 --> 0:48:23.920 Mad at the moment in time, but these are my 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:27.600 guys right right, Like I'm I'm upset that they're not 0:48:27.640 --> 0:48:29.600 getting it. Done, they're not working hard and not getting 0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:31.960 back on D all of that, like when Book said, 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:33.439 oh you're gonna turn the ball over and not get 0:48:33.480 --> 0:48:37.279 back on D. Right, I'm frustrated now, but I'm not 0:48:37.280 --> 0:48:37.960 frustrated with. 0:48:37.920 --> 0:48:41.960 Who the person is. Okay, right, And sometimes you know. 0:48:41.960 --> 0:48:44.680 This guy might play hard, but I'm frustrating. I'm frustrated 0:48:44.719 --> 0:48:47.399 at his work ethic, but he performs well, you got 0:48:47.400 --> 0:48:49.560 you got two different type of elements that that goes 0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:52.360 on on a team. So I don't think he's frustrated 0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:55.680 to the point where he wants to trade. 0:48:55.800 --> 0:48:57.480 He's probably frustrated. 0:48:57.000 --> 0:49:03.040 With the circumstances where him and Book that he requested. Yeah, yeah, 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:06.000 you requested. But the thing about it is you're worse 0:49:06.040 --> 0:49:08.319 than you were last year. And that's the frustrating part. 0:49:08.560 --> 0:49:10.520 But let me ask you a question. What are they 0:49:10.520 --> 0:49:13.279 gonna trade? They traded all the assets to get him, 0:49:13.480 --> 0:49:15.319 So what are they gonna What are they gonna What 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:17.359 are they gonna The old saying that what you want 0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:18.000 me to give stuff? 0:49:18.000 --> 0:49:22.160 We'd asked him out what what are we gonna do 0:49:22.200 --> 0:49:22.759 to get him? Bill? 0:49:22.800 --> 0:49:25.880 We gave up everything, We gave up our future to 0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:28.520 get Kevin durant, So what we're gonna trade books? 0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:34.919 Don't chev this? H what? What? What are we gonna 0:49:34.920 --> 0:49:35.279 give up? 0:49:36.440 --> 0:49:38.279 I think the more of the frustration, like if I'm 0:49:38.320 --> 0:49:41.719 if I'm him, what I'm gonna be frustrated is just. 0:49:41.880 --> 0:49:44.399 Where we are as a team, right right. 0:49:44.560 --> 0:49:49.440 We we were this close last year, this close, right, 0:49:51.920 --> 0:49:54.279 and we made a trade for Bill. The pieces we 0:49:54.440 --> 0:49:57.680 made for Bill were pieces that helped. Well, if Bill's 0:49:57.719 --> 0:50:00.880 not in, those pieces that help were not. So technically 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:03.120 we're worse than we were last year. So I think 0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:05.640 at this point in time, he's like, man, it's December, 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:08.360 is about to be January, Bill. We need Bill to 0:50:08.360 --> 0:50:10.759 come back so we can just prove how good we are. 0:50:11.000 --> 0:50:12.280 And sometimes when you're. 0:50:12.200 --> 0:50:14.960 Under manned and you going out there and everyone's judging 0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:17.960 you like, yeah, the Suns they look weak this year, 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:19.920 and you're like, man, we don't have all our pieces 0:50:19.960 --> 0:50:23.040 to be great right now. And that's that's a frustrating, 0:50:23.239 --> 0:50:26.600 frustrating part where you know that that big key is Bill, 0:50:26.840 --> 0:50:29.640 who's gonna be averaging twenty when he gets healthy, right, 0:50:30.680 --> 0:50:33.439 But you know, sometime the mistake that people can make 0:50:33.680 --> 0:50:36.880 is that Okay, he averaged he wants average thirty. 0:50:37.520 --> 0:50:40.479 Kad No can give us thirty. He led the league 0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:41.359 in scoring four time. 0:50:41.440 --> 0:50:43.439 And we know what book is where we just put 0:50:43.440 --> 0:50:45.839 all this together just because you put a whole bunch 0:50:45.880 --> 0:50:48.520 of knife stuff. Look, I like ice cream, I like 0:50:48.600 --> 0:50:50.680 graybig and chicken. I just don't like it all together. 0:50:51.400 --> 0:50:54.240 And just because you got three guys that can average thirty, 0:50:54.560 --> 0:50:57.600 that doesn't mean it's gonna work. Somebody has to be 0:50:57.680 --> 0:51:01.480 willing to sacrifice. Now, look understand that that that book 0:51:01.480 --> 0:51:05.239 you're playing in unnatural position. He's not a point either two, 0:51:05.880 --> 0:51:07.640 but he has to play because they had to give 0:51:07.719 --> 0:51:10.799 up Chris Paul and I understand that Bradley Beal has 0:51:10.800 --> 0:51:14.960 been hurt. Kevin and Rant is whatever you need. He 0:51:15.000 --> 0:51:17.200 doesn't really need the ball. He can get his own. 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:18.920 He can play with his back to the basket. He 0:51:19.000 --> 0:51:20.759 got the heads they pull up, he got the three 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:23.120 point shot. You file him, and he's going to the 0:51:23.120 --> 0:51:25.279 free throw line. He's gonnakno ninety percent of those down. 0:51:25.840 --> 0:51:28.680 But at at some point in time, Gil, you gotta 0:51:28.680 --> 0:51:29.480 play some defense. 0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:32.200 And the question is when they get to the playoffs, 0:51:32.520 --> 0:51:35.440 and if they get down by let's say five points, 0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:38.399 can they get stopped when they absolutely have to have one. 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:41.520 That's gonna be the question when we get there, right, 0:51:41.760 --> 0:51:43.920 is we don't need to play defensive whole game. Just 0:51:43.960 --> 0:51:45.399 if we're in that time and we need to make 0:51:45.440 --> 0:51:46.560 that guaranteed stop. 0:51:46.880 --> 0:51:48.759 Can we do it? Are we capable of doing it? 0:51:49.080 --> 0:51:51.479 And that's gonna be something that when the playoffs come, 0:51:51.800 --> 0:51:57.400 they're gonna have to prove. Those three guys are perfect 0:51:57.400 --> 0:52:00.759 for each other because they can all do the same thing, 0:52:00.920 --> 0:52:04.080 which means if I'm a catch and shoot guy and 0:52:04.080 --> 0:52:07.239 you're a dreamer penetration guy, you can post up. You 0:52:07.280 --> 0:52:10.799 get we don't affect each other's realm because we all 0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:13.960 play in different rams. All three can play io, all 0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:17.200 three can flare, back door, post up, right, So you 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:24.120 got three guys that can move around versus if you 0:52:24.320 --> 0:52:29.759 had someone like Shack right and Tim Duncan on the 0:52:29.800 --> 0:52:31.799 same court, that's conflict. 0:52:32.000 --> 0:52:34.800 They both want the right block, right, They're. 0:52:34.400 --> 0:52:37.120 Gonna both fight for the right block, and none of 0:52:37.200 --> 0:52:39.840 them are dominant on the left side. Right right, Now, 0:52:40.040 --> 0:52:42.600 you got a confliction, and that's what happens with a teams. 0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:47.000 So with these three, it's a great puzzle. Right. 0:52:47.080 --> 0:52:49.239 They just got up you just gotta put them all 0:52:49.280 --> 0:52:52.520 on the court together and be healthy for twenty twenty 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:53.400 something games. 0:52:53.640 --> 0:52:54.239 But did they. 0:52:54.200 --> 0:52:57.120 Factor in over the last several years of Bill's help, 0:52:57.320 --> 0:52:58.600 did anybody factor that in? 0:53:00.280 --> 0:53:04.120 M You've been hurt, Gil, He's been hurt. 0:53:04.480 --> 0:53:10.480 But listen, most medical staffs are cocky. They think, well, 0:53:10.239 --> 0:53:13.400 well y'all are y'all not us? You know we can 0:53:13.440 --> 0:53:16.719 get him healthy. And it's that weird thing. I don't 0:53:16.760 --> 0:53:19.680 know if you went through it, but I did. When 0:53:19.719 --> 0:53:22.919 you get injured, you do all this training to get 0:53:22.960 --> 0:53:26.239 back two games later, back injured, he started getting these 0:53:26.360 --> 0:53:28.840 random nick knacks for no reason. 0:53:29.719 --> 0:53:31.640 And that's where Bill is. And I say, that's where 0:53:31.640 --> 0:53:32.319 he got to cheat. 0:53:32.360 --> 0:53:35.239 He gotta he gotta cleanse, cleanse this how. I don't 0:53:35.239 --> 0:53:36.719 know why he gotta cleanse his house because he just 0:53:36.760 --> 0:53:39.359 got there. But you gotta cleanse something. Goddamn it. There's something, 0:53:39.520 --> 0:53:43.640 there's something in your life that's that's that's that's a 0:53:43.719 --> 0:53:47.080 negative hold onto your chie and you got to cleanse it. 0:53:47.160 --> 0:53:50.160 You gotta sit there with it. Just start removing people. 0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:52.319 I don't give fucking it's the dog. Get rid of 0:53:52.320 --> 0:53:54.640 the dog. If you think the dog is you gotta 0:53:54.760 --> 0:53:59.080 really like reset, right, because you know these knick knacks, 0:53:59.280 --> 0:54:01.759 it just keeps linger and linger and Lingeren he comes back. 0:54:01.800 --> 0:54:03.520 Oh you heard his shoulder come back, hurt his toe, 0:54:03.800 --> 0:54:06.120 Like there's a reason this happens. 0:54:06.400 --> 0:54:08.080 You're off a line. 0:54:09.200 --> 0:54:11.120 Yeah, But you know when you start limping into the 0:54:11.160 --> 0:54:13.800 season and you get nick during the season, it's hard 0:54:13.840 --> 0:54:16.920 to get healthy because you come And that's what I 0:54:16.920 --> 0:54:17.439 tell guys. 0:54:17.719 --> 0:54:19.400 God, how am I supposed to normally? 0:54:19.400 --> 0:54:22.640 When when an average person is injured, they say take 0:54:22.680 --> 0:54:27.640 time off. Yeah, when you're a professional athlete, you don't 0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:31.840 get no time about try. They trying to rehab to 0:54:31.920 --> 0:54:35.880 get you back on the field. As a normal civilion, 0:54:36.160 --> 0:54:38.880 you're trying to rehab to go back to your normal life. 0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:41.680 But when you're a professional athlete, you're playing against the 0:54:41.680 --> 0:54:44.480 top in the world, and it ain't no average It 0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:45.760 ain't no normal life. 0:54:47.280 --> 0:54:47.480 No. 0:54:47.640 --> 0:54:50.560 The worst thing an athlete has against him as his ego. 0:54:50.800 --> 0:54:56.520 When we're injured, we don't come back to prove we're healthy. 0:54:57.480 --> 0:54:59.400 We come back to prove we're injured. 0:55:00.320 --> 0:55:00.520 Right. 0:55:00.680 --> 0:55:02.520 Oh, you know, I hope they see me limping and 0:55:02.560 --> 0:55:04.080 giving it my all. You know, I can go out 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:05.560 there and play fifty percent. I can go out there 0:55:05.560 --> 0:55:09.160 and play eighty percent while I'm sitting there getting booed. Right, Oh, 0:55:09.239 --> 0:55:12.200 he's washed, he's this, and I'm trying. I'm coming back 0:55:12.239 --> 0:55:15.440 to prove to you that this was serious versus just 0:55:15.480 --> 0:55:19.240 getting healthy, and that is our issue. 0:55:19.320 --> 0:55:21.640 Right, we're watching the game. I don't care if it's 0:55:21.640 --> 0:55:22.760 a month or two weeks. 0:55:22.760 --> 0:55:26.120 We watched the game pass us by. We watch, you know, 0:55:26.160 --> 0:55:28.200 if I'm a point guard. I watched this guy score thirty. 0:55:28.239 --> 0:55:30.759 This guy, he's he's ranked in front of me. Now 0:55:30.840 --> 0:55:33.000 I'm speeding up my process because I want to get 0:55:33.040 --> 0:55:36.040 I want to get my spot back. So right, I'm 0:55:36.480 --> 0:55:39.440 limping out here, knees swollen. I don't supposed to be playing. 0:55:39.480 --> 0:55:42.279 They said ten to twelve weeks. I'm back six to 0:55:42.360 --> 0:55:45.400 eight weeks. I'm fine knowing damn well, I can't be 0:55:45.400 --> 0:55:49.279 out here right. Findy ain't good enough because you got 0:55:49.280 --> 0:55:51.239 to be at the level where you were before you 0:55:51.320 --> 0:55:54.160 got injured. That's what makes you great. I mean, I 0:55:54.200 --> 0:55:56.479 don't care. Look, a race car with a flat tire 0:55:56.719 --> 0:55:59.239 ain't good. I don't care how many horsepower it got, 0:55:59.440 --> 0:56:01.640 because this not gonna perform like it did if it 0:56:01.719 --> 0:56:05.000 had four perfectly fine inflated tires. 0:56:05.040 --> 0:56:05.279 Yep. 0:56:05.280 --> 0:56:08.680 So if you come back and you're nick in the slightest, 0:56:10.080 --> 0:56:13.960 you become very average. An average gets eaten eating in 0:56:14.040 --> 0:56:15.239 professional sports. 0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:16.600 That's just the way it is. That's just the way 0:56:16.640 --> 0:56:16.920 it is. 0:56:17.120 --> 0:56:20.759 Unculture J asked one simple question, Uncle gil Win, or 0:56:20.800 --> 0:56:23.840 if will kd ever be content? I think it's happy 0:56:23.920 --> 0:56:27.080 asking for too much at this I think happy is 0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:29.279 asking too much at this point. I look up and 0:56:29.280 --> 0:56:31.719 I'm expecting this man every seven eight months act for 0:56:31.760 --> 0:56:32.200 a trade. 0:56:33.000 --> 0:56:36.239 I don't know. I mean, I look, I understand, you know. 0:56:36.280 --> 0:56:38.280 I don't think I can win a championship in Okay. 0:56:38.360 --> 0:56:41.759 See he went to the perfect situation called a lot 0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:44.480 of criticism, and I don't think people was upset. I 0:56:44.520 --> 0:56:47.920 think people were more upset that you joined that team, 0:56:48.120 --> 0:56:50.080 the team that knocked you out when you had them 0:56:50.120 --> 0:56:52.520 down three to one, and you say, well that okay. 0:56:52.640 --> 0:56:55.760 You go there, you win two championships, your finals MVP, 0:56:56.200 --> 0:56:58.960 you probably would have one a third had your Kilees 0:56:59.000 --> 0:56:59.680 not gone out. 0:57:00.280 --> 0:57:02.920 And then you move on. You want to go to Brooklyn. 0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:06.160 You you recruit Kyrie or Kyrie recruited you, and you 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:08.560 end up in Brooklyn and you're. 0:57:08.440 --> 0:57:10.960 Not having there and for whatever reason, you wanted to 0:57:10.960 --> 0:57:11.319 move on. 0:57:12.200 --> 0:57:16.240 And I'm like, bro, I mean what I mean, what 0:57:16.240 --> 0:57:19.440 what if if I were to ask you, because you 0:57:19.560 --> 0:57:22.120 played this sport and you kind of know him somewhat, 0:57:22.160 --> 0:57:24.400 you kind of been maybe you've been around him, what's 0:57:24.440 --> 0:57:25.040 he looking for? 0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:33.000 He's looking to play basketball? That it seems it seems 0:57:33.040 --> 0:57:34.560 simple right where. 0:57:36.320 --> 0:57:38.880 When you're talking about a guy who I mean, let 0:57:38.960 --> 0:57:40.760 me see how many scoring. 0:57:40.440 --> 0:57:45.720 Titles KD got? Four? Yeah? Right? And when people ask 0:57:45.800 --> 0:57:46.439 why he left? 0:57:46.520 --> 0:57:48.840 Right when you're talking about fire and Scott uh for 0:57:49.400 --> 0:57:53.080 scoring titles you had probably about with ten all NBAS, 0:57:53.120 --> 0:57:56.840 you had an MVP, you have All Star MVPs, right, 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:02.000 eight time All Star, two goal When you're a free agent, 0:58:02.520 --> 0:58:05.400 the only thing that you don't have on your resume 0:58:06.040 --> 0:58:09.280 was a ship in the finals MVP. Right, You get 0:58:09.320 --> 0:58:15.680 those two out of the way. In his mind or 0:58:15.720 --> 0:58:17.840 just in my mind? What am I proving here? The 0:58:17.880 --> 0:58:21.920 only thing I'm proving now is get more? 0:58:23.040 --> 0:58:25.000 Right? Do I need four rings? Like? 0:58:25.000 --> 0:58:25.080 Like? 0:58:25.880 --> 0:58:27.840 Am I the greatest small for what? Ever? Am I 0:58:27.920 --> 0:58:30.760 a second greatest small ford? Ever? Like am I one 0:58:30.760 --> 0:58:34.000 of the top five? Ever? Like right, I. 0:58:33.960 --> 0:58:39.360 Train, I work out, I train, I go to sleep basketball. Right, 0:58:39.360 --> 0:58:41.600 I'm out there, you know, putting my heart into it. 0:58:42.080 --> 0:58:44.920 As I think as players, we can sleep great at 0:58:45.000 --> 0:58:48.600 night knowing that we give it are all and whatever 0:58:48.720 --> 0:58:51.400 comes with it comes with it. But I don't really 0:58:51.440 --> 0:58:54.439 think he's looking for something. I just think he wants 0:58:54.440 --> 0:58:59.600 to play high level basketball most most most players do 0:58:59.600 --> 0:59:04.280 the great ones, right, if they're in position to win chips, 0:59:04.320 --> 0:59:05.320 are gonna go for it. 0:59:05.960 --> 0:59:06.760 Other than that, they just. 0:59:06.720 --> 0:59:08.520 Want to go out there and play hard, and everybody 0:59:08.640 --> 0:59:11.840 with them going out there and playing hard. Gil you know, 0:59:13.440 --> 0:59:18.000 going to Golden State hurt him more than it helped him. 0:59:18.320 --> 0:59:21.920 I understand he got the chips, but unless he gets 0:59:21.960 --> 0:59:25.560 one without Steph Curry, you already know how this story 0:59:25.640 --> 0:59:28.400 is going to be written. You know that, And unfortunately 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:32.320 I think Kade knows that fair or unfair, right or wrong, 0:59:33.440 --> 0:59:34.400 but is what it is. 0:59:36.880 --> 0:59:37.240 Okay. 0:59:37.280 --> 0:59:41.080 But when we think of it like that, right, it's 0:59:41.160 --> 0:59:43.880 not like he can go to a team and he 0:59:44.160 --> 0:59:46.880 is by himself and try to win a championship. 0:59:47.240 --> 0:59:49.960 Right, But he recruited Kyrie, he had James Harden. 0:59:50.200 --> 0:59:53.920 Yeah, so no matter where he goes in this lead today. 0:59:54.280 --> 0:59:56.800 There has to be a team up. So when he 0:59:57.000 --> 0:59:59.160 do win, they're gonna say, well, you got Bill over 0:59:59.200 --> 1:00:03.400 that got nah. I think the thing is with Steph. 1:00:03.600 --> 1:00:05.880 I mean, you join a two time, you join a 1:00:06.040 --> 1:00:09.439 unanimous MVP. And Steph Curry was already at that point 1:00:09.440 --> 1:00:12.160 in time, the greatest shooter we had ever seen, and 1:00:12.200 --> 1:00:15.640 so that system and I get it. Okay, I just 1:00:15.640 --> 1:00:17.960 want to get y'all off my back. Let me go 1:00:18.000 --> 1:00:21.240 ahead and get these titles. I get these titles. I'll 1:00:21.320 --> 1:00:24.400 calm it down. No people looking at you, like, Bro, 1:00:25.120 --> 1:00:27.600 there was twenty nine other teams that you could have joined, 1:00:27.640 --> 1:00:30.400 twenty eight because you had left. OKC, there's twenty eight 1:00:30.440 --> 1:00:32.440 other teams, and you mean to tell me you go 1:00:32.600 --> 1:00:35.520 join the team that had just won seventy three games 1:00:35.720 --> 1:00:38.320 and just lost in a Game seven in the NBA Finals. 1:00:38.480 --> 1:00:40.960 That was the only team you can find. Okay. 1:00:41.400 --> 1:00:44.160 He's like, look, I'm a free agent. I'm a free agent, 1:00:44.240 --> 1:00:46.000 and as a free agent, I can go wherever I 1:00:46.040 --> 1:00:46.440 want to go. 1:00:46.760 --> 1:00:47.120 Fine. 1:00:48.320 --> 1:00:52.320 For whatever reason be it, he had grown board of winning. 1:00:52.640 --> 1:00:53.960 I mean he said, you just want to play high 1:00:54.000 --> 1:00:57.480 level basketball? Can you play any high level than the 1:00:57.520 --> 1:01:01.440 Golden State Warriors and going and being three NBA finals 1:01:01.680 --> 1:01:04.320 you win to probably would have won a third had 1:01:04.360 --> 1:01:07.640 he not gotten injured. So where are you gonna go 1:01:07.680 --> 1:01:09.640 and play higher level than that? So who are you 1:01:09.680 --> 1:01:13.280 gonna go play with? Other than Lebron or at that 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:16.000 time Lebron and Lebron and Katie and step would thought 1:01:16.040 --> 1:01:18.760 of as the best players in the NBA with Hard 1:01:18.800 --> 1:01:21.520 and falling up under that. So now who are gonna 1:01:21.560 --> 1:01:25.640 go play with? Joel Ebi, Nicole Yoki? Now where can 1:01:25.760 --> 1:01:25.960 he go? 1:01:26.200 --> 1:01:29.200 Now? I don't know where he can go. 1:01:29.280 --> 1:01:33.360 I don't know how he outruns because he had four years. 1:01:33.360 --> 1:01:36.240 The first year we're gonna disregard that he was rehabbing, 1:01:36.760 --> 1:01:39.720 but he had three years and he didn't come close. 1:01:40.320 --> 1:01:43.280 But it's not because of him, right, you know the 1:01:43.480 --> 1:01:46.200 stuff that went down in Brooklyn, he was there. He 1:01:46.240 --> 1:01:48.400 did his thing, right, you know, he but we give 1:01:48.440 --> 1:01:50.080 him credit, But we give him credit for with the 1:01:50.200 --> 1:01:52.480 Golden State. But that's what I'm saying. We can't say 1:01:52.520 --> 1:01:55.160 if he loses, it's not because of him. But when 1:01:55.160 --> 1:01:57.520 Golden State won the titles, it was because of him. 1:01:58.040 --> 1:02:00.560 But it was because of him White. But why can't 1:02:00.560 --> 1:02:02.400 he win on his own Why can't he win other 1:02:02.440 --> 1:02:04.840 than Golden State? The that's that's I think that's the 1:02:05.040 --> 1:02:07.720 I think that's the question. Gil people want to know 1:02:08.160 --> 1:02:11.400 if if it was him in Golden State, why. 1:02:11.240 --> 1:02:14.560 Can't he do replicate? What? Why can't he take what 1:02:14.680 --> 1:02:17.120 he learned and take it somewhere else? 1:02:17.520 --> 1:02:21.200 Because he was he he he was a single player 1:02:21.240 --> 1:02:24.280 coming to a team atmosphere. He was plugging playing. Now 1:02:24.320 --> 1:02:26.160 he has to build a team around him where he 1:02:26.200 --> 1:02:29.680 can just adjust to one person adjust Now when he 1:02:29.760 --> 1:02:31.760 tried to create a team, everyone has. 1:02:31.640 --> 1:02:32.640 To adjust to everything. 1:02:35.160 --> 1:02:41.040 We can talk about how Kevin Durant going to Golden 1:02:41.080 --> 1:02:43.040 State was a bad thing. It was the best thing 1:02:43.040 --> 1:02:45.760 that the league has ever seen, and they do not 1:02:46.240 --> 1:02:47.520 want to acknowledge it. 1:02:48.120 --> 1:02:50.880 Since Magic and Bird, what was. 1:02:50.840 --> 1:02:53.120 The best duo going against each other in the championship 1:02:53.720 --> 1:02:58.640 Lebron versus k D. Yeah, but Lebron versus KD, not 1:02:58.800 --> 1:03:03.160 Lebron versus KD. Steph dre bardy Clay. 1:03:02.600 --> 1:03:05.400 The best, the best small forwards in the game. 1:03:06.000 --> 1:03:08.360 And I don't know why this wasn't looked at like 1:03:08.440 --> 1:03:11.560 two Titans, the best player in the world versus the 1:03:11.720 --> 1:03:14.600 second best player in the world. Right one called himself, 1:03:14.600 --> 1:03:16.680 I'm the best score in the world versus the best player. 1:03:16.800 --> 1:03:20.320 You had two Titans playing against each other, and we 1:03:20.360 --> 1:03:25.360 spent our time talking about We spent our time talking 1:03:25.360 --> 1:03:28.760 about Katie leaving, not realizing what we was witnessing. 1:03:29.480 --> 1:03:31.280 We ain't got no problem with him, leave it now. 1:03:31.360 --> 1:03:34.080 But what I'm saying, we was witnessing that Kevin Durant. 1:03:34.160 --> 1:03:36.680 And like when we all talk about Kobe, the one 1:03:36.720 --> 1:03:38.040 thing that we didn't get to see is Kobe and 1:03:38.120 --> 1:03:40.919 Lebron in the championship again, correct, we got to see 1:03:41.040 --> 1:03:42.880 Kevin Durant and Lebron go. 1:03:42.800 --> 1:03:46.160 Face to face. Right, we got the Magic and Bird. 1:03:46.360 --> 1:03:48.960 But we're never going to acknowledge this because we was 1:03:49.040 --> 1:03:53.880 upset that he took the easy the easy way out right. 1:03:54.600 --> 1:03:56.320 And but I think the thing is when we look 1:03:56.360 --> 1:04:01.720 at Magic and Bird, magic Handkaree Bird had Michale, he 1:04:01.840 --> 1:04:05.960 had Worthy, he had Perish, they had Byron Scott, they 1:04:06.000 --> 1:04:09.440 had dj Or you know. So it was like, Okay, 1:04:10.040 --> 1:04:12.520 you got for Hall of Famers, we got for Hall 1:04:12.560 --> 1:04:17.040 of Famers. Okay, you got a coach that's that's going 1:04:17.080 --> 1:04:19.800 to the hall. We got one that's going to the hall. 1:04:20.320 --> 1:04:22.840 So I think everybody looked at it as as an 1:04:22.840 --> 1:04:26.680 even matchup. I don't think anybody thought that the way 1:04:26.720 --> 1:04:29.880 that Khalimity, even though it was Kyrie and Lebron was 1:04:29.920 --> 1:04:32.960 gonna be able to beat Golden State with Steph Clay, 1:04:33.600 --> 1:04:36.200 k D and Draymond, that wasn't gonna happen. 1:04:36.400 --> 1:04:38.160 No, I thought, and I think that. I think that's 1:04:38.200 --> 1:04:38.800 what that's. 1:04:38.600 --> 1:04:41.080 What the You know, when k D and and and 1:04:41.080 --> 1:04:46.120 and and Lebron locked horns in Miami and OKC, you're like, okay, 1:04:46.200 --> 1:04:51.040 you know, okay, Serge Obaka and and uh Chris Bosh, 1:04:51.360 --> 1:04:54.720 we got Russ d Wade and now k D and 1:04:54.800 --> 1:04:58.280 Lebron and they had to guard each other. Yeah, I 1:04:58.280 --> 1:05:00.000 mean they had to guardian. But that was a great 1:05:00.120 --> 1:05:01.760 match up. But you know, it was young. It was 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:04.160 young versus a veteran. And then but when that Golden 1:05:04.200 --> 1:05:08.040 State Cleveland Cavaliers series got, because you know it was 1:05:08.400 --> 1:05:13.920 it was gonna be between those two. I wish after 1:05:13.960 --> 1:05:18.400 they wanted, after Cleveland wanted and Golden State got Kevin Durant, 1:05:18.760 --> 1:05:20.760 I thought Cleveland should have made a move. 1:05:21.720 --> 1:05:24.360 No, it don't matter. You should have known you was 1:05:24.400 --> 1:05:27.640 gonna be outgunned. Who you gonna give up. 1:05:28.040 --> 1:05:30.160 First of all, who wanted to come to Cleveland? That 1:05:30.280 --> 1:05:32.000 was the problem. While Lebron got up out of there 1:05:32.080 --> 1:05:35.920 or another facts, But at this point looked like j R. 1:05:36.000 --> 1:05:40.439 Smith was my web. He was Mike Klay Thompson. Right, 1:05:40.840 --> 1:05:44.880 you know Clay is averaging twenty one, Yes, j R. 1:05:44.920 --> 1:05:45.960 Smith averaging thirteen? 1:05:46.520 --> 1:05:48.720 Yeah, for sure, like you know what I mean? 1:05:48.840 --> 1:05:50.440 So right, it was really. 1:05:50.120 --> 1:05:51.280 It was really out matched. 1:05:51.320 --> 1:05:53.560 So from there they should have been in tune with 1:05:53.640 --> 1:05:56.000 the game and said, Okay, we might need to upgrade 1:05:56.000 --> 1:05:56.560 a little bit more. 1:05:56.600 --> 1:05:58.160 We're not good enough. 1:05:58.000 --> 1:06:01.880 To try to go back to back right first name, 1:06:01.960 --> 1:06:04.320 last name said Gil Gil was a great addition, Shannon. 1:06:04.320 --> 1:06:06.400 Do you remember when you said Katie and Kyrie will 1:06:06.440 --> 1:06:08.640 potentially play together when they were seeing at the All 1:06:08.680 --> 1:06:10.760 Star Game talking Katie last out said. 1:06:10.600 --> 1:06:12.880 It was some bs they joined. They joined. 1:06:15.400 --> 1:06:18.520 I just said, I remember, I said, look and I 1:06:18.560 --> 1:06:22.680 tried and I played him a compliment, I said, kat 1:06:22.960 --> 1:06:26.479 joining Golden State was like Johnny Gill joining New Edition. 1:06:27.640 --> 1:06:30.920 Johnny Gil could out sing them all. He know the 1:06:31.040 --> 1:06:34.680 outstanding career Bobby Brown had. We know what Ralph Transvat did. 1:06:34.840 --> 1:06:37.240 We knew what bell Bill devout ended up doing once 1:06:37.320 --> 1:06:40.200 they broke up, but none of them singularly could out 1:06:40.280 --> 1:06:44.400 sing Johnny Gill. And the reason why Johnny Gill wasn't 1:06:44.440 --> 1:06:45.960 accepted he didn't grow. 1:06:45.880 --> 1:06:47.040 Up in Boston and Roxbury. 1:06:47.120 --> 1:06:51.160 Yeah, facts, k D was never gonna be And I'm 1:06:51.160 --> 1:06:54.880 not saying they didn't like him, but Kate, but Steph 1:06:55.320 --> 1:07:00.880 Clay Draymond came there, They was birthed, they grew up there. 1:07:01.480 --> 1:07:02.480 Although k D. 1:07:03.120 --> 1:07:06.640 Was k D, it wasn't going to be accepted. He 1:07:06.840 --> 1:07:10.000 called me, Oh, this you don't know what you're talking about. Wow, 1:07:10.080 --> 1:07:12.800 that's an ignorant thing to say, lady. He get on 1:07:12.800 --> 1:07:14.840 the podcast, like I was never gonna be accepted, like 1:07:14.920 --> 1:07:16.360 Katie's death because. 1:07:17.920 --> 1:07:22.720 Bro I said, I said that. But you know we 1:07:22.840 --> 1:07:25.520 delusion on sometimes, you know what I mean? Come on, 1:07:26.320 --> 1:07:27.400 just like in our relationship. 1:07:27.800 --> 1:07:30.200 Hey, our boys are the first one to tell us, Hey, 1:07:30.440 --> 1:07:31.440 your girl cheating on you. 1:07:31.520 --> 1:07:33.680 Ah nah. She never died that. She ain't like that. 1:07:33.880 --> 1:07:37.480 She ain't like that, right gout to found out she 1:07:37.800 --> 1:07:40.000 just liked that. Yes, And that's and that's. 1:07:39.840 --> 1:07:42.000 The same that's the same thing. Like we don't want to. 1:07:41.960 --> 1:07:47.000 Believe right that it is this and we have to find. 1:07:46.720 --> 1:07:48.880 Out the hard way. He had to find out on 1:07:48.920 --> 1:07:49.680 that court when he's. 1:07:49.600 --> 1:07:52.320 Asking for the ball. He had to sit there and 1:07:52.360 --> 1:07:53.040 go back. 1:07:53.080 --> 1:07:55.360 Back and forth with Draymond Green, and Draymond Green had 1:07:55.360 --> 1:07:56.000 to let him know. 1:07:56.920 --> 1:08:00.120 We was here before you. We don't need you. That 1:08:00.600 --> 1:08:05.840 hurt it did? Oh we want to finish that season. Uh. 1:08:06.880 --> 1:08:09.760 I don't know how I can come to work knowing 1:08:09.800 --> 1:08:12.320 that you really believe that deep down inside? 1:08:12.400 --> 1:08:14.240 Why amos three? 1:08:14.240 --> 1:08:16.920 People will tell you the truth, Gil Drunks, kids and 1:08:17.000 --> 1:08:19.800 angry people, they gonna tell you the truth. Now see, 1:08:19.800 --> 1:08:22.320 they'll blame it on I just said thing out of anger. 1:08:22.479 --> 1:08:23.920 So I was drunk. I didn't know what I was 1:08:23.960 --> 1:08:26.599 thinking talking about. And kids, you know they say kids 1:08:26.600 --> 1:08:29.120 say the darnest thing. So I got a way to 1:08:29.120 --> 1:08:30.519 brush off either one of those. 1:08:30.680 --> 1:08:31.120 Uh huh. 1:08:31.160 --> 1:08:33.880 But here's the thing, and I'm gonna say something and 1:08:33.880 --> 1:08:37.719 tell me what you think. If you notice, Draymond Green's 1:08:37.720 --> 1:08:41.360 behavior is always when he thinks someone is about to 1:08:41.360 --> 1:08:43.720 replace him as a member of the Big Three. When 1:08:43.800 --> 1:08:47.320 KD came, it's about to be Kad Stephan Clay, he 1:08:47.439 --> 1:08:50.599 says what he says Jordan Poole all of a sudden, 1:08:50.640 --> 1:08:52.559 it's about to be Jordan Poole, Stephan Clay. 1:08:52.920 --> 1:08:55.320 He does what he does. Now, it's gonna be very 1:08:55.439 --> 1:09:02.439 very interesting to see how they handle Commando because does 1:09:02.600 --> 1:09:04.400 that rough with dra because. 1:09:04.120 --> 1:09:08.280 Draymond like, I'm a member of the Big three, and 1:09:08.400 --> 1:09:12.320 Nothing's going to upset that because that's just Look. I 1:09:12.320 --> 1:09:15.719 could be totally wrong, but there's something to be said 1:09:15.800 --> 1:09:20.280 for Draymond and the way Draymond has behaved with KD 1:09:20.880 --> 1:09:22.920 with Jordan Pooh. Now, I don't know, if anything, I 1:09:22.920 --> 1:09:25.960 have not heard anything about Kaminga, but I did hear 1:09:25.960 --> 1:09:28.439 what Minga said because hard to kind of play my 1:09:28.479 --> 1:09:30.280 game because I got to make sure the OG's get 1:09:30.280 --> 1:09:32.880 the ball. So how do I do what I need 1:09:32.920 --> 1:09:34.960 to do to show what I can do and still 1:09:35.040 --> 1:09:37.200 you know, show difference to the Ogs. 1:09:37.439 --> 1:09:40.400 So that's gonna be very interesting moving forward. So Timbo, 1:09:40.439 --> 1:09:40.920 what you think? 1:09:41.520 --> 1:09:44.680 You know, you know there might be a little territorial 1:09:45.240 --> 1:09:50.320 you know thing going on with Draymond, right, and you 1:09:50.360 --> 1:09:52.439 know the one thing you don't want to do is 1:09:52.640 --> 1:09:55.519 you don't want to be forgotten, right, And you know, 1:09:55.600 --> 1:09:57.920 sometimes I think, you know, it seemed like the more 1:09:58.040 --> 1:10:03.120 his game is dwindling, down the more he's acting out. Yes, 1:10:03.560 --> 1:10:05.880 he knows his time is coming and he's going to 1:10:05.960 --> 1:10:09.519 be put on that bench. And that's when all the 1:10:09.560 --> 1:10:10.880 people who don't like him are going to be. 1:10:10.880 --> 1:10:14.000 Able to laugh. Right, I think he's ready for that laughter. 1:10:14.520 --> 1:10:17.679 The four rings, the four rings don't help that ego 1:10:17.720 --> 1:10:19.639 at that moment in time. They don't win. 1:10:19.720 --> 1:10:21.479 Whether they don't win, I don't believe they win any 1:10:21.479 --> 1:10:26.479 of those titles without Draymond. No, but being benched, them 1:10:26.520 --> 1:10:30.519 four rings don't. They don't mean nothing anymore. I can't 1:10:30.520 --> 1:10:32.519 see him on your finger with you on the bench. Yeah, 1:10:32.560 --> 1:10:34.120 now tell me about it. But you can put him 1:10:34.120 --> 1:10:37.160 on it at the conference where you at the podium. 1:10:37.439 --> 1:10:39.760 But right at that point in time, and now you 1:10:39.800 --> 1:10:42.640 give everybody because everybody, oh Draymond is the king of 1:10:42.640 --> 1:10:44.960 the triple single and they're saying all these things. I 1:10:44.960 --> 1:10:47.600 think he's a phenomenal player, I do. I mean I 1:10:47.600 --> 1:10:51.160 think his physicality. Do I think he goes over the line. Absolutely? 1:10:51.360 --> 1:10:51.439 Do. 1:10:51.520 --> 1:10:53.400 I think he's done some things that he didn't need 1:10:53.439 --> 1:10:57.439 to do. Absolutely. But the problem is is that they 1:10:57.479 --> 1:11:00.840 didn't check it before. I can't wait to My dog 1:11:01.240 --> 1:11:03.920 is two years old before I correct him about potting 1:11:03.920 --> 1:11:05.080 in the house, and then all of a sudden he 1:11:05.080 --> 1:11:06.559 potted in the house again. I'm like, what are you 1:11:06.600 --> 1:11:09.000 doing When you didn't correct him when he was a puppy. 1:11:09.479 --> 1:11:13.160 You let Draymond get out of control. And so now 1:11:13.200 --> 1:11:16.360 when you don't win, you accepted it when you were winning. 1:11:16.640 --> 1:11:16.920 Huh. 1:11:17.040 --> 1:11:21.040 You you accepted Draymond's behavior when you was winning. And 1:11:21.080 --> 1:11:23.120 I'm a firm believer, as Mike Shanahan told me in 1:11:23.200 --> 1:11:26.120 nineteen ninety five, you never accepted anything in a win, 1:11:26.200 --> 1:11:29.200 you wouldn't have a loss. So if Draymond's behavior is 1:11:29.280 --> 1:11:33.000 unacceptable when you're losing, it should have been unacceptable when 1:11:33.040 --> 1:11:33.519 you're winning. 1:11:33.760 --> 1:11:37.679 Because when they say winning masks a lot, it does. 1:11:38.000 --> 1:11:41.240 It masked the undercurrent of what was going on in 1:11:41.320 --> 1:11:45.000 Golden State that were just in the moment things don't 1:11:45.040 --> 1:11:49.599 go the way that they think it should. 1:11:49.680 --> 1:11:52.240 Draymond pops his head about the water. Oh yeah, that's 1:11:52.400 --> 1:11:59.439 that's the thing. It's gonna be real interesting because he 1:11:59.680 --> 1:12:01.720 was the vocal point. He was the heartbeat. 1:12:02.160 --> 1:12:07.040 And when they decide to say, all right, Kaminga, this 1:12:07.120 --> 1:12:13.680 is your spot, is the heartbeat gonna stop beating? I 1:12:13.720 --> 1:12:16.240 think this is one of those things where for the 1:12:16.280 --> 1:12:18.040 betterment of the team, he's gonna have to pull a 1:12:18.120 --> 1:12:21.479 rust and he's gonna have to look around and say, 1:12:22.600 --> 1:12:26.000 all right, I did all I can do. It's time 1:12:26.040 --> 1:12:28.880 for me to take a back seat and give all 1:12:28.960 --> 1:12:31.880 my energy to Kaminga and then I can come in back. 1:12:32.040 --> 1:12:34.679 He's gonna have to pull a U D right as 1:12:34.760 --> 1:12:38.080 long as he as long as he wants his name called. 1:12:38.400 --> 1:12:43.400 At the beginning of the gain Draymond Green, the team 1:12:43.479 --> 1:12:47.240 dies because he don't have it like he used to. 1:12:47.760 --> 1:12:50.640 He's not as fast, strong, right, he still got the 1:12:51.280 --> 1:12:54.840 smart the IQ level is very very very high, right, 1:12:55.080 --> 1:13:00.960 but he's gonna have to sacrifice and realize the Big 1:13:00.960 --> 1:13:05.360 three is falling off. Yeah, you're gonna have it. Ain't 1:13:05.400 --> 1:13:07.880 really no big two because Clay is not the same. 1:13:08.640 --> 1:13:11.479 Clay can't get first. But Clay ended up going to 1:13:11.479 --> 1:13:13.920 the bench in the fourth quarter. That'll never been I mean, 1:13:14.360 --> 1:13:18.080 and and look as we start the age and Clay 1:13:18.120 --> 1:13:21.400 had two devastating injuries for promison Lam believe he had 1:13:21.439 --> 1:13:25.200 a mki Lees and an acl and he had him 1:13:25.200 --> 1:13:28.479 in his thirties and commend him for coming back and 1:13:28.520 --> 1:13:30.960 playing at the level. But he's not the same step 1:13:31.400 --> 1:13:35.160 I'm excuse me, the same Clay Draymond is starting to 1:13:35.160 --> 1:13:38.000 get older. He's not the same, he doesn't move the same, 1:13:38.560 --> 1:13:43.360 but the behavior. See Draymond needs to understand the toleration 1:13:43.439 --> 1:13:43.840 until they. 1:13:43.760 --> 1:13:47.280 Can replace you. Yeah, and they tolerated his behavior. 1:13:47.320 --> 1:13:50.760 And because they couldn't replace you now and at some 1:13:50.800 --> 1:13:54.120 point in time, even though you were the heartbeat and 1:13:54.200 --> 1:13:57.519 you mean so much to this team, seven points five 1:13:57.560 --> 1:14:00.439 rebounds in two, three or fourth, siss ain't gonna cut it. 1:14:01.439 --> 1:14:03.080 Yeah, Yeah, I don't know how. I don't know how. 1:14:03.920 --> 1:14:08.559 I don't know how you it's a it's I feel 1:14:08.560 --> 1:14:12.240 bad for Steve Kerr because you don't want to mention 1:14:12.400 --> 1:14:15.960 because Kaminga hasn't taken this spot. 1:14:16.520 --> 1:14:19.840 Correct. But with Kamingo on the floor, he's just a 1:14:19.880 --> 1:14:21.920 different breed of a guy. Right. 1:14:22.000 --> 1:14:26.160 He gives you something that you guys didn't have, right, Right, 1:14:26.200 --> 1:14:31.280 a guy who has bounced at the little right, he 1:14:31.560 --> 1:14:33.280 got his own one on one move. He can create 1:14:33.280 --> 1:14:36.960 his own shot. He's very aggressive steel, which is surprising. 1:14:37.040 --> 1:14:38.439 I mean, you've been there for a couple of years. 1:14:38.520 --> 1:14:40.519 You would think he would have lost his aggression, but 1:14:40.560 --> 1:14:43.839 he's still assion he has the confidence that he can't 1:14:43.840 --> 1:14:48.200 be stopped, right, you need that to play out. That 1:14:48.320 --> 1:14:50.919 is going to be a tough decision for Steve Kerr 1:14:51.160 --> 1:14:58.120 to say, Draymond, you're starting. I wouldn't. I wouldn't right. 1:14:58.240 --> 1:14:59.720 I'd be like, Yodre, You're gonna have to come up 1:14:59.720 --> 1:15:01.360 with the B. I want to see what he's been 1:15:01.400 --> 1:15:03.519 playing very well since you've been on the bench. 1:15:03.800 --> 1:15:06.640 You know, let's let's let's give me a couple more games. 1:15:07.960 --> 1:15:11.000 You know what, Gil, The problem with Golden State is 1:15:11.000 --> 1:15:14.200 that a lot of these problems that Andrew Wiggins isn't 1:15:14.240 --> 1:15:17.559 playing well at the same time Klay Thompson isn't playing 1:15:17.600 --> 1:15:20.880 well at the same time Draymond Green has suspended. Yeah, 1:15:20.920 --> 1:15:22.880 so you kind of got you kind of got like 1:15:23.360 --> 1:15:25.680 a little mini hurricane, a little many earthquake, and a 1:15:25.680 --> 1:15:27.519 little mini tornado all. 1:15:27.360 --> 1:15:30.040 Together and in one spot. 1:15:30.160 --> 1:15:32.960 And the problem is, and this is why being the 1:15:33.000 --> 1:15:38.320 third option feels amazing, because nobody's paying attention to you, 1:15:38.360 --> 1:15:42.960 No old one, No one is talking about Wiggins playing horrible. 1:15:43.600 --> 1:15:46.960 And he bit and he's been good and terrible. Yeah, 1:15:46.960 --> 1:15:48.760 and and and it's it's weird like when you're that 1:15:48.840 --> 1:15:50.200 third option when you don't have no. 1:15:50.240 --> 1:15:52.880 Pressure on you, you get to go out there and 1:15:53.000 --> 1:15:57.120 be trash without any pushback. 1:15:57.880 --> 1:16:00.559 Right, No one's going to write about you, No one cares. Right. 1:16:00.600 --> 1:16:02.840 So the fact that Draymond is being blamed. 1:16:03.960 --> 1:16:07.600 For what's going on in Golden State, it kind of 1:16:07.680 --> 1:16:12.080 let us know how important he was then to the winning. Yes, yes, absolutely, 1:16:12.439 --> 1:16:14.400 And people that don't believe that he was important to 1:16:14.400 --> 1:16:17.160 women winning is in that fact that you don't really 1:16:17.240 --> 1:16:19.760 like draymona you don't really understand the importance of what 1:16:19.840 --> 1:16:21.160 he brought to that ball club. 1:16:21.479 --> 1:16:25.320 Sometimes you just can't measure everything. 1:16:25.000 --> 1:16:28.160 By points, rebounds and assists because he does a lot 1:16:28.160 --> 1:16:31.120 of the dirty work. Everybody can't be the bank president. 1:16:31.280 --> 1:16:33.640 Somebody got to be the security guard. Somebody got to 1:16:33.640 --> 1:16:37.040 be the cashier. Somebody got to be the custodia. Somebody 1:16:37.080 --> 1:16:38.400 got to clean that place up at night. 1:16:38.600 --> 1:16:40.240 Yeah, he stops light security, all right. 1:16:42.439 --> 1:16:45.800 Arvernham calls our cam reddish and Jared Vanderbilt can't be 1:16:45.880 --> 1:16:50.200 confused with can't be confused with the ball Ham said, 1:16:50.240 --> 1:16:53.439 I was just I'm just not I'm not I just 1:16:53.520 --> 1:16:56.639 think not allowing it to be stacked to stagnate us 1:16:56.880 --> 1:16:59.519 if they're trying to play off. Cam got to step 1:16:59.600 --> 1:17:02.880 up with confidence or eat up space on the drive, 1:17:03.000 --> 1:17:05.880 collapse the defense. Once he touches the bank drive, find 1:17:05.880 --> 1:17:08.160 the open man. Same thank for vandal ball. Hears him 1:17:08.320 --> 1:17:10.520 and he just can't hold it. Be confused. 1:17:12.040 --> 1:17:15.679 He called them out and not himself. You put them Sorry, 1:17:15.680 --> 1:17:16.639 motherfucker's in the game. 1:17:17.160 --> 1:17:19.599 Nobody told you to sub a dude who averages one 1:17:19.680 --> 1:17:20.960 point five and put him. 1:17:20.880 --> 1:17:21.519 As a starter. 1:17:24.080 --> 1:17:26.560 Right, that's that show, like when you're gonna take responsibility 1:17:26.600 --> 1:17:31.679 for the lineups you putting out, like you have the 1:17:31.680 --> 1:17:35.599 the Lakers starting five the way it was, they were 1:17:35.640 --> 1:17:38.439 only averaging eighty two points as a starting five, which 1:17:38.479 --> 1:17:39.000 is low. 1:17:39.800 --> 1:17:42.960 Right, you sub Lebron and Ad averaging fifty. 1:17:43.880 --> 1:17:46.000 So the rest of your team that, like the rest 1:17:46.040 --> 1:17:47.880 of your starters, is only putting up there. That is 1:17:47.920 --> 1:17:52.479 a low starting five. Eighty two points is low. Now 1:17:53.920 --> 1:17:59.240 you sub in Van and take out Russ, which pushes 1:17:59.280 --> 1:18:01.240 you down to sixth. It's the eight points a game, 1:18:01.960 --> 1:18:04.320 just to show you how bad that is. The worst 1:18:04.320 --> 1:18:08.479 team in the NBA, the Detroit Pistons, they're averaging sixty nine. 1:18:08.840 --> 1:18:17.559 You know, they're averaging seventy three points as a starting five. 1:18:17.640 --> 1:18:19.720 So the Detroit Pistons starting five is better than the 1:18:19.760 --> 1:18:28.759 Lakers starting five right now, and per point production, what. 1:18:26.120 --> 1:18:27.840 What defense are you looking for? 1:18:31.280 --> 1:18:33.720 Ain't nobody you need to be in order for them 1:18:33.760 --> 1:18:36.479 to justify the defense is like, oh, they're supposed to 1:18:36.479 --> 1:18:39.120 be defensive guys. They need to be Dennis Johnson. They 1:18:39.120 --> 1:18:41.280 need to be Alvin Robertson, they need to be they 1:18:41.320 --> 1:18:44.559 need to be Dennis Rodman of somebody, somebody on the 1:18:44.600 --> 1:18:45.360 ball like that. 1:18:46.040 --> 1:18:49.160 But you can't. You cannot give me one point. 1:18:49.560 --> 1:18:53.080 Let's just say Vando gives us two, three, and cam 1:18:53.160 --> 1:18:55.120 Reddi gives us. Say come on, bro, that's not enough. 1:18:55.200 --> 1:18:57.320 Eleven points and we got got and you're playing twenty 1:18:57.320 --> 1:19:00.920 five to thirty minutes three and eight points is not enough. 1:19:01.360 --> 1:19:04.720 It's just not you got three got Like a d 1:19:04.920 --> 1:19:07.519 is a defensive player, Lebron is defensive player, but he's 1:19:07.520 --> 1:19:12.120 thirty nine. I got enough defense to put all offense, right. 1:19:13.160 --> 1:19:16.000 I have guys who can block shots to put enough 1:19:16.120 --> 1:19:18.000 offense out there. 1:19:18.600 --> 1:19:18.760 Right. 1:19:18.840 --> 1:19:23.679 This is crazy because their losses, they scored ninety four 1:19:23.720 --> 1:19:27.519 points one on one, ninety four, one on nine, one 1:19:27.560 --> 1:19:31.680 oh eight, one ten, one eleven one fifteen. You're not 1:19:31.880 --> 1:19:36.160 you can't score right, you're not moving fast enough with 1:19:36.280 --> 1:19:39.080 the units you have. You know what, this reminds me 1:19:39.080 --> 1:19:41.120 of what he did right here reminds me of the 1:19:41.200 --> 1:19:46.280 two thousand. It was a two, is it the twenty twenty? 1:19:46.360 --> 1:19:47.040 The two thousand? 1:19:48.880 --> 1:19:54.719 The twenty twenty Clippers team where they. 1:19:54.720 --> 1:19:58.400 Use this is the deepest team. They got the deepest bench. Yeah, 1:19:58.640 --> 1:20:01.479 you got the deepest bench. You'll start in five? Was 1:20:01.520 --> 1:20:05.760 sorry at shit right starting five? You had what could 1:20:05.800 --> 1:20:07.719 you break? Yeah, cause you break, you bring your sweed 1:20:07.800 --> 1:20:10.080 low and trails, and they they played. They playing more 1:20:10.160 --> 1:20:12.679 minutes at reserves than you started. 1:20:12.880 --> 1:20:15.040 Yeah, you got it. Pat Kawaian PG, you. 1:20:15.080 --> 1:20:17.080 Got forty points coming off the bench with two players. 1:20:17.120 --> 1:20:19.479 Of course your bench is deep. So your bench was 1:20:19.560 --> 1:20:22.360 number one in the NBA in scoring. You're starting five 1:20:22.479 --> 1:20:25.920 was twenty fifth. You're averaging sixty nine points because you 1:20:26.000 --> 1:20:29.639 got Zubab, Pat, Bev and Mo who's averaging seven, eight 1:20:29.680 --> 1:20:30.120 and five. 1:20:30.800 --> 1:20:34.360 You're not deep. You got four players. Five, You got 1:20:34.360 --> 1:20:38.000 four players. That's it. You're just trying to trick the 1:20:38.080 --> 1:20:40.679 two of them come off the bench. Yeah, you're trying 1:20:40.680 --> 1:20:42.080 to take two starters. Put them off the bench. 1:20:42.160 --> 1:20:44.400 Oh yeah, we got this this deep team, because you 1:20:44.479 --> 1:20:47.120 know in the NBA, it's hard to blow a team 1:20:47.160 --> 1:20:49.920 out in the first five six minutes, right, so you 1:20:49.920 --> 1:20:51.760 know at the six minute mark you can sub in 1:20:51.840 --> 1:20:54.559 your two and then get the rolling and let these 1:20:54.600 --> 1:20:56.160 guys get a little bit of minutes. 1:20:56.360 --> 1:20:56.519 Right. 1:20:56.520 --> 1:20:58.680 Oh you did, good boys, Now go sit down and 1:20:58.720 --> 1:21:01.000 let the real players get in. I hate, I hate, 1:21:01.080 --> 1:21:03.840 I hate lineups like that, right, you trying, you're just 1:21:03.920 --> 1:21:06.599 trying to trick like your team is good, but knowing 1:21:06.720 --> 1:21:09.080 damn well, if a team got old note and oh 1:21:09.360 --> 1:21:12.040 in the first one minute of the game, get you 1:21:12.080 --> 1:21:15.479 all glasses out, tread get your classes in, right, and 1:21:15.520 --> 1:21:18.680 that happens. That happened a couple of times. But I 1:21:18.720 --> 1:21:21.840 have to have a balanced team. And the fact that 1:21:21.880 --> 1:21:25.960 you have Ruy, Austin and Russell coming off the bench, like, 1:21:26.000 --> 1:21:28.120 oh yeah, we got you know, forty some points coming 1:21:28.160 --> 1:21:28.559 up the bench. 1:21:28.640 --> 1:21:30.160 Yeah, you got forty something coming up the bench. 1:21:30.200 --> 1:21:33.400 But you're starting five is only scoring sixty points, right, 1:21:33.439 --> 1:21:36.360 you got Lebron James and in Ad scoring fifty, and 1:21:36.400 --> 1:21:38.639 you got the other three guys they're putting in ten 1:21:39.439 --> 1:21:44.200 Like the stop stop these dumb ass lineups. Yeah, because 1:21:44.439 --> 1:21:46.639 and hair is the thing, and you tell me these guys, 1:21:46.720 --> 1:21:49.679 but they still can't stop dribble penetration. Guys will still 1:21:49.680 --> 1:21:52.479 getting pass vando, you're still getting past camp and they're 1:21:52.520 --> 1:21:54.479 kicking the ball to the corner for wide open threes. 1:21:54.880 --> 1:21:57.599 So if if you're supposed to be a defensive guy, 1:21:57.800 --> 1:22:00.280 if you're not gonna get hair, if I'm out an 1:22:00.280 --> 1:22:02.840 offensive guy, and this is why I approached it a 1:22:02.960 --> 1:22:06.040 gil when I played football, I've got to be more 1:22:06.080 --> 1:22:08.200 of an asset in the passing game than I am 1:22:08.280 --> 1:22:11.840 a liability in the run game. Yes, So in other words, 1:22:12.320 --> 1:22:14.599 if you are a liab, you've got to be a. 1:22:14.520 --> 1:22:18.040 Tremendous asset in the defensive end. 1:22:18.240 --> 1:22:20.479 If you're a liability on the offensive end, if you're 1:22:20.479 --> 1:22:24.599 a basketball player, and right now you're a liability on both. 1:22:25.040 --> 1:22:27.800 So if basically you're becoming unplayable because I don't know 1:22:27.800 --> 1:22:30.360 how you play, guy's gonna give me two points and 1:22:30.400 --> 1:22:32.760 then he's letting guys get passing and I got to 1:22:32.920 --> 1:22:35.000 slyly ad and the guy's passing the ball and the 1:22:35.040 --> 1:22:37.360 guy's laying it up or some help gotta come. 1:22:37.400 --> 1:22:39.320 And he's kicking it to the corner. Rob, What are 1:22:39.360 --> 1:22:39.759 you doing? 1:22:40.360 --> 1:22:43.679 I never, I never understood that, And it's weird because 1:22:43.760 --> 1:22:47.920 I would love to ask a defensive coach why they 1:22:47.920 --> 1:22:48.920 put these lineups in. 1:22:49.200 --> 1:22:53.840 I'm an offensive player. I bread offense, right. 1:22:55.960 --> 1:22:59.880 The worst player that I wanted to see was so 1:23:00.160 --> 1:23:02.840 one like me that I had to guard you. Right, 1:23:03.760 --> 1:23:10.160 you're gonna you want to face me Patrick Beverly's whoa, Oh, 1:23:10.240 --> 1:23:13.360 it's trouble for you, homeboy, because you're only You're here 1:23:13.400 --> 1:23:16.320 to play defense, not offense. So I'm resting half the time. 1:23:16.560 --> 1:23:20.840 I'm giving you my all. That means it's like boxing, right, 1:23:22.080 --> 1:23:24.920 I get to punch you, but you got your hands tied. 1:23:26.560 --> 1:23:28.760 I get to punch on you while your hands sighed. 1:23:28.880 --> 1:23:31.479 The fact that you you gonna take three four shots 1:23:31.520 --> 1:23:31.840 a game? 1:23:31.920 --> 1:23:33.160 Why am I paying attention to you? 1:23:33.320 --> 1:23:36.479 That is the easiest night for me because there's no 1:23:36.560 --> 1:23:39.880 way you're gonna stop me from taking twenty thirty shots. 1:23:40.160 --> 1:23:41.720 But I don't have to give you no effort on 1:23:41.800 --> 1:23:46.040 the defense I get, I get to say, and the 1:23:46.080 --> 1:23:48.680 worst player I wanted to play with someone scoring like 1:23:48.800 --> 1:23:53.120 me because he's embarrassing me now right, So if I'm 1:23:53.120 --> 1:23:57.840 playing against the Lakers, and I'm Trey Young. Hell y'all, 1:23:57.840 --> 1:24:01.439 I want to play against Cam all day. You ain't 1:24:01.479 --> 1:24:03.880 embarrassing me at you ain't doing nothing. You just get 1:24:03.960 --> 1:24:06.720 to play defense all day. And I don't understand why 1:24:06.760 --> 1:24:10.240 they put these lineups out there, because you're you're helping 1:24:11.560 --> 1:24:15.679 the offensive team, because you're you're handicapping yourself. You're playing 1:24:15.720 --> 1:24:18.680 three on five on offense or two on five on offense. Right, 1:24:19.200 --> 1:24:24.400 and you're not good enough. The rules aren't made. My 1:24:24.720 --> 1:24:29.160 offense of book is one hundred times better than any 1:24:29.320 --> 1:24:33.200 rules you can put in. And that's the difference in 1:24:33.240 --> 1:24:38.960 today's game. Back then, it was sixty forty defense to offense. Right, 1:24:39.080 --> 1:24:40.800 you know, you dribbled a certain way. You only had 1:24:40.800 --> 1:24:45.640 a certain amount of moves. Now the moves today, I 1:24:45.640 --> 1:24:47.439 can hold it a little bit, I can do either 1:24:47.680 --> 1:24:51.599 my creer. So now it's basically ninety to ten. There's 1:24:51.600 --> 1:24:54.160 no rule they can put in that hand checking all 1:24:54.160 --> 1:24:57.040 that them to what people talk, ain't no hand checking 1:24:57.360 --> 1:25:00.880 that can stop these moves today and p in progress 1:25:01.080 --> 1:25:03.920 that is that is that is trash, all of them. 1:25:03.960 --> 1:25:06.719 It was trash when it was in and you got soap. 1:25:06.800 --> 1:25:10.639 I mean guys can shoot the ball better, and guys 1:25:10.680 --> 1:25:13.200 can handle the ball better. You got two or three 1:25:13.240 --> 1:25:16.240 guys on every team that can make you look stupid 1:25:16.320 --> 1:25:20.479 handling the ball. Everybody got that. Everybody got that pool. Yeah, 1:25:20.560 --> 1:25:23.639 everybody got their heads. Okay, I'm going to and one. 1:25:24.160 --> 1:25:26.720 I mean, how many guys we see that? Everybody doing that? 1:25:26.840 --> 1:25:28.840 I mean guys like who the who the l you? 1:25:28.880 --> 1:25:32.320 Where you with that move from? So the likelihood if 1:25:32.360 --> 1:25:35.840 you breaking somebody? Oh he's a defensive stopper, he goes, Man, 1:25:35.920 --> 1:25:37.400 them guys are too good, They too. 1:25:37.200 --> 1:25:39.599 Skilled too that it's it's you you. 1:25:40.080 --> 1:25:43.160 If I want to hunt a lion, I need a lion, 1:25:45.280 --> 1:25:46.679 because zel ain't going. 1:25:47.000 --> 1:25:48.960 He ain't going. He lunched me. 1:25:49.120 --> 1:25:52.559 He goes, yeah, exactly, He's lunched me. It's weird, right, 1:25:54.120 --> 1:25:57.040 d Loo said he wanted to be Derek White. We 1:25:57.120 --> 1:26:00.080 all laughed, Please be Derek White. 1:26:00.560 --> 1:26:01.160 God damn it. 1:26:01.200 --> 1:26:03.880 I beg you to be Dereck White now because Derrick 1:26:04.000 --> 1:26:07.080 White didn't want to just be a liability. I'm just 1:26:07.120 --> 1:26:11.720 a defensive player. Right there, you go in Boston, now, right, 1:26:12.160 --> 1:26:14.679 you got you know, you got the unicorn over there, 1:26:14.720 --> 1:26:18.920 which added extra offense. Right, Yes, you would have you 1:26:18.960 --> 1:26:21.160 would have thought that Derek White would be more of 1:26:21.200 --> 1:26:23.160 a defensive player because you don't need to score. He 1:26:23.320 --> 1:26:28.400 upped his scoring up. Yes, Yes, and that's what the Lake, 1:26:28.560 --> 1:26:31.080 that's what the Lakers need, d lo. I need you 1:26:31.120 --> 1:26:35.280 to up your production, not doc ress right right then 1:26:35.400 --> 1:26:38.840 you put up and up not because if you put 1:26:38.840 --> 1:26:41.559 pressure on the opposing team, I mean maybe it takes 1:26:41.600 --> 1:26:43.519 some of that zap out of them and they're not 1:26:43.600 --> 1:26:43.960 able to. 1:26:43.960 --> 1:26:47.800 Give you that work. Listen when you when you're trying 1:26:47.800 --> 1:26:48.120 to score. 1:26:48.160 --> 1:26:50.800 My my, my one thing that I always went into 1:26:50.880 --> 1:26:54.880 games when when I had to play against AI, when 1:26:54.920 --> 1:26:57.200 I had to play against Steve Francis, when I had 1:26:57.200 --> 1:27:06.360 to play against Maulberry, I'm coming at you first. I'm 1:27:06.400 --> 1:27:09.880 gonna come at you so hard that it makes you 1:27:10.520 --> 1:27:13.559 not want to play offense, thinking that if you don't shoot, 1:27:13.560 --> 1:27:15.840 I don't shoot. NBA players really think that's the thing. 1:27:16.200 --> 1:27:17.840 But if I don't shoot against him, he won't shoot 1:27:17.840 --> 1:27:21.840 against me. Okay, that's your fault. And what I did 1:27:21.880 --> 1:27:23.360 when we start off the games and I was playing 1:27:23.360 --> 1:27:28.880 against the high level guards, the Steve Nashes, I'm trying 1:27:28.920 --> 1:27:32.040 to give them buckets early to set the tone. 1:27:32.320 --> 1:27:33.520 I can't let Steve. 1:27:33.320 --> 1:27:35.040 Nash come and pick me to death. If you look 1:27:35.040 --> 1:27:38.000 at my games with Steve Nash, I made him a score. 1:27:39.200 --> 1:27:41.760 Like when you look at our matchups against Steve Nash, 1:27:41.840 --> 1:27:43.880 he wasn't having fifteen to seventeen. 1:27:43.479 --> 1:27:45.240 As sists thirty forty. 1:27:45.400 --> 1:27:47.479 Like, you're gonna have to match me point fer point 1:27:48.320 --> 1:27:50.519 if you want to keep up, You're not gonna be 1:27:50.520 --> 1:27:52.519 able to try to sit there and get your guys. 1:27:52.640 --> 1:27:55.200 I'm scoring too fast. Makes you want to score too. 1:27:56.439 --> 1:28:00.679 Yeah. 1:28:00.960 --> 1:28:02.680 Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, I gotta take 1:28:02.680 --> 1:28:04.479 some of that zapp Like my grandma just say, okay, 1:28:04.520 --> 1:28:05.479 y'all stay out all night. 1:28:05.479 --> 1:28:06.599 You're going to church in the morning. 1:28:06.680 --> 1:28:09.080 Oh yeah, you not. You not fit the lag back there? 1:28:09.200 --> 1:28:11.759 If they ate, Oh uh uh, I'm gonna give you bucket. 1:28:11.760 --> 1:28:14.880 You're gonna get this. You gotta make them work, and 1:28:15.080 --> 1:28:17.759 uh that's not happening. So it's gonna be very interesting 1:28:17.800 --> 1:28:20.439 to see what is starting line out look like tomorrow. 1:28:20.600 --> 1:28:23.639 The Laker players are reportedly frustrated with Darvin Ham's decision 1:28:23.640 --> 1:28:27.439 about starting lineup and their role. Frustration with players rolls 1:28:27.680 --> 1:28:31.640 and fluctuating minutes uncertainly regarding their roles and inconsistency and 1:28:31.680 --> 1:28:35.400 playing time. The communication gap between player between coaching staff 1:28:35.400 --> 1:28:39.640 and players appears to be widening, with players expressing confusion 1:28:40.000 --> 1:28:43.920 over the mixed messages they received. Reports say criticism has 1:28:43.920 --> 1:28:48.160 been directed at Ham's lineup choices and rotation, particularly perceived 1:28:48.280 --> 1:28:53.479 inconsistency and handling struggling struggling players. Some players, like Austin Reeves, 1:28:53.520 --> 1:28:58.880 D'Angelo Russell, Ruy Hachimura reportedly face shorter leashes than when 1:28:58.920 --> 1:29:02.639 incounter difficulties, while other players or in France, Cam Reddish, 1:29:02.960 --> 1:29:07.040 enjoy longer leashes despite struggles on the court. We saw 1:29:07.080 --> 1:29:09.080 that they had no problem putting Austin Reeves on the bench. 1:29:09.160 --> 1:29:11.320 Remember he's struggling to start the season. Yeah, well, we 1:29:11.400 --> 1:29:13.000 talked the All Star and you know, we felt it 1:29:13.040 --> 1:29:14.800 would be bad for him to come out the bench. 1:29:14.840 --> 1:29:16.400 Okay, what about the mother guys. 1:29:16.520 --> 1:29:21.200 Yeah, but him was a defensive player, I think, right, 1:29:21.280 --> 1:29:23.040 I don't know he was on the bench when I 1:29:23.120 --> 1:29:26.880 was playing. He didn't get in the game, but most 1:29:26.920 --> 1:29:28.800 likely he was a defensive player. One of those guys 1:29:28.840 --> 1:29:32.479 that hustled it and that's his mindset. Yeah, right, you 1:29:32.600 --> 1:29:34.400 got a little bit of in you and you looking 1:29:34.439 --> 1:29:36.400 for it on the court, like these guys played the 1:29:36.479 --> 1:29:38.559 right way. Well, it's not the right way if they're 1:29:38.560 --> 1:29:42.240 not winning. Right, of course, Austin, Reeves, Rue and D'Angelo 1:29:42.479 --> 1:29:45.840 would be mad. They're your offense. So seeing this two 1:29:45.960 --> 1:29:48.240 or three shots, you put them on a bench. These 1:29:48.280 --> 1:29:51.240 guys don't even take three shots and they're playing right, 1:29:51.280 --> 1:29:53.760 So now you got Now what ends up happening is 1:29:53.760 --> 1:29:58.960 you start you start looking at the guys as enemies 1:29:58.960 --> 1:30:02.720 instead of teammates. Yeah, okay, right, you start footing the 1:30:02.760 --> 1:30:05.960 division inside the locker room because they're getting minutes that 1:30:06.000 --> 1:30:06.839 they haven't earned. 1:30:08.000 --> 1:30:10.879 Right, he took three shots, he did. 1:30:10.760 --> 1:30:12.559 This, and he plays thirty minutes, And now what does 1:30:12.600 --> 1:30:15.559 that do to someone like D'Angelo? Right, Oh, if I 1:30:15.640 --> 1:30:18.280 don't do nothing, if I don't shoot, if I don't 1:30:18.280 --> 1:30:19.639 make no mistakes, I play longer. 1:30:20.439 --> 1:30:22.679 Right, Because that's what he's doing with this guy. Right. 1:30:22.840 --> 1:30:25.639 The fact that at this point in the season, you're 1:30:25.680 --> 1:30:29.720 still having fluctuation problems, letting you know, you don't know 1:30:29.800 --> 1:30:32.479 what's going on right now, you're still trying to find 1:30:32.479 --> 1:30:36.599 stuff instead of building on that that that championship mid season, 1:30:37.240 --> 1:30:40.400 in season mid season, whatever the season beginning of the season, right, 1:30:40.439 --> 1:30:42.840 you're supposed to be building competent that was supposed to 1:30:43.160 --> 1:30:44.440 boom boom boom boom. 1:30:44.200 --> 1:30:53.200 And take it right, you have Rui, Rui and di'angelo. 1:30:52.680 --> 1:30:58.760 Should be starting, or Reeves and Cam and Cam and 1:30:58.840 --> 1:31:03.200 Prince Bo should be started. No North Van Doo, No 1:31:03.439 --> 1:31:05.880 hell no no, those three, two of those three should 1:31:05.880 --> 1:31:08.200 not be started. Did I didn't even I didn't even 1:31:08.240 --> 1:31:10.120 look at him as a starter. That that that that 1:31:10.120 --> 1:31:13.760 that looks like a friend hook up. You lost the bet. 1:31:14.320 --> 1:31:16.040 He looked like you lost the bet. Like all right, off, 1:31:16.400 --> 1:31:20.000 you know, like I put him in right right, He's 1:31:20.040 --> 1:31:22.519 not He shouldn't even be playing minutes right now. 1:31:23.439 --> 1:31:25.880 They weren't warned, they weren't earned. Right. 1:31:26.040 --> 1:31:28.040 You can't just say all right, we're gonna go from 1:31:28.040 --> 1:31:29.720 averaging one and put me in. And I'm sitting there, 1:31:29.880 --> 1:31:33.080 I'm also like, wait a minute, Matte, I'm averaging fifteen 1:31:33.120 --> 1:31:36.280 points a game, fifteen and you ain't even me. Yeah, 1:31:36.280 --> 1:31:37.960 you ain't thinking about me as a starter. What's wrong 1:31:38.000 --> 1:31:39.559 with you? That happens? 1:31:40.000 --> 1:31:41.720 Like you're getting minutes. Think about it. 1:31:41.720 --> 1:31:44.320 You're getting minutes that you didn't deserve, and you think 1:31:44.360 --> 1:31:45.200 I'm cool with it. 1:31:45.360 --> 1:31:47.280 No, because I'm watching. 1:31:47.520 --> 1:31:49.720 There's not one time that Jared Vanderbilt a shot a 1:31:49.760 --> 1:31:52.160 shot outside and it's done two minute that I actually 1:31:52.160 --> 1:31:54.960 thought it was going in be I'm watching on television 1:31:55.000 --> 1:31:56.479 or I'm actually sitting at the game. 1:31:56.760 --> 1:31:59.559 Not one time does he shoot a shot and I'm like, oh, man, 1:31:59.560 --> 1:32:00.000 that's good. 1:32:00.479 --> 1:32:03.000 So even when he laid the ball, even when when 1:32:03.040 --> 1:32:05.120 he'd like driving the ball or you go flip it 1:32:05.200 --> 1:32:05.920 up left handed. 1:32:05.760 --> 1:32:08.360 I like, so, what is this man doing? No defense? 1:32:08.600 --> 1:32:13.360 Looking at Lebron, looking at Anthony Davis, I got the 1:32:13.479 --> 1:32:13.840 night off. 1:32:14.640 --> 1:32:18.080 Nah, No, your job. Your job isn't the funnel. 1:32:18.360 --> 1:32:21.760 Your job is to d up because you give us 1:32:21.760 --> 1:32:25.599 nothing offensively. Like I said, you've got whatever it is. 1:32:25.880 --> 1:32:28.760 You got to be a bigger asset than a liability. 1:32:29.160 --> 1:32:31.240 So he has to be a bigger asset on the 1:32:31.280 --> 1:32:34.640 defensive end, because we know he's a liability on the 1:32:34.720 --> 1:32:35.719 offensive end. 1:32:36.240 --> 1:32:38.640 But if he gives us nothing on either, now, all 1:32:38.680 --> 1:32:42.280 of a sudden, he's no good. 1:32:42.439 --> 1:32:44.559 If you wasn't playing him at the beginning of the season, 1:32:44.600 --> 1:32:47.200 there was a reason. Don't play his ass now because 1:32:47.240 --> 1:32:50.439 you feel you need to change shit up. No, you 1:32:50.520 --> 1:32:54.080 need to get everybody thinking the right way. You need 1:32:54.120 --> 1:32:56.960 to get everybody in tune with what their game is. 1:32:57.240 --> 1:33:00.360 You think d Angelo is coming off the bench to 1:33:00.520 --> 1:33:01.880 this guy and you think he's happy. 1:33:01.920 --> 1:33:02.680 Yeah, that's the thing. 1:33:02.760 --> 1:33:05.599 Yeah, like Cam, You putting Cam on the bench, what's 1:33:05.640 --> 1:33:07.519 that gonna do? He gonna get he give you five? 1:33:07.520 --> 1:33:11.000 We're gonna give you five coming off the bench, like 1:33:11.200 --> 1:33:12.880 I'm not losing nothing there? 1:33:13.520 --> 1:33:13.680 Right? 1:33:14.160 --> 1:33:17.439 That is something that that that that that bleeds a 1:33:17.520 --> 1:33:20.320 locker room where you're looking at somebody in front of 1:33:20.360 --> 1:33:23.880 you that ain't him, right, so you ain't cheering for him? 1:33:24.160 --> 1:33:24.320 Right? 1:33:24.360 --> 1:33:26.320 You put a guy in that can't shoot the ball. 1:33:26.400 --> 1:33:29.400 He's and I'm sitting here. We sitting here like a 1:33:29.880 --> 1:33:33.280 you know we're gonna play team ball, Like right, you start, 1:33:34.040 --> 1:33:37.559 you start Ruie or Austin, You start Russell or Austin. 1:33:37.960 --> 1:33:40.800 Trust me, their production is gonna get better because you 1:33:40.800 --> 1:33:43.679 that they should have a six, show confidence in them. 1:33:44.040 --> 1:33:46.879 The fact that you don't there shouldn't be. You shouldn't 1:33:46.880 --> 1:33:50.559 be at this place right now. You shouldn't be right 1:33:50.560 --> 1:33:54.160 here right now. This is this is horrible unless unless 1:33:55.040 --> 1:33:57.160 they putting Vandy in because they need to trade him, 1:33:58.880 --> 1:34:01.559 show him he's healthy. That that's the thing. That's the 1:34:01.560 --> 1:34:04.120 thing right there, the fifteen coming up well, and showed 1:34:04.160 --> 1:34:06.240 him he healthy. All right, he heard that. Look at it, 1:34:06.280 --> 1:34:06.840 Look about that. 1:34:07.280 --> 1:34:09.640 Look at him. Tell y'all he liked. 1:34:09.760 --> 1:34:11.479 He liked that car we got, you know, we want 1:34:11.520 --> 1:34:12.880 to get we want to sell it. So I went 1:34:13.000 --> 1:34:15.400 driving it everybody to see his operational Then I'm gonna 1:34:15.400 --> 1:34:17.519 go put it right back up to eight steak to 1:34:17.560 --> 1:34:18.839 for sales side then in tomorrow. 1:34:19.280 --> 1:34:21.760 And that's what this play looks like. It looks like. 1:34:22.240 --> 1:34:24.599 They want to They want to show that because there's 1:34:24.640 --> 1:34:27.360 no way as a coach you're gonna take a guy 1:34:27.400 --> 1:34:30.160 who's averaging one point finding insert him in the starting 1:34:30.160 --> 1:34:31.719 lineup and he don't even get no minutes. 1:34:32.080 --> 1:34:33.240 All play is. 1:34:33.280 --> 1:34:36.679 I want to show him off so I can package him. Yeah, 1:34:36.960 --> 1:34:39.439 because you know Vando was hurt at the start of 1:34:39.439 --> 1:34:41.080 the season. I think he had a foot injury or 1:34:41.120 --> 1:34:43.280 he has some kind of injury to start the season. 1:34:43.640 --> 1:34:48.559 But for whatever reason, man ay they got to get 1:34:48.600 --> 1:34:49.120 more production. 1:34:49.280 --> 1:34:49.840 They need more. 1:34:49.920 --> 1:34:52.960 They need more than five points three points two points 1:34:52.960 --> 1:34:55.679 from him. Taurrian Prince is like here the mess, but okay, 1:34:56.280 --> 1:34:59.479 he does. I mean, look, more times than not, I 1:34:59.520 --> 1:35:02.040 feel come with him shooting the three ball. But like 1:35:02.080 --> 1:35:05.040 I said, we don't need all three of them. 1:35:05.680 --> 1:35:11.560 Man, I'm sorry. I come from I come from a time. 1:35:11.360 --> 1:35:16.040 Where I did shoot half our threes. Right, we shot 1:35:16.040 --> 1:35:19.880 fourteen threes a game. I shot seven of those. There's 1:35:19.920 --> 1:35:22.600 no way in the game where I'm playing on the 1:35:22.640 --> 1:35:25.000 court where he gets to take thirteen threes. 1:35:26.320 --> 1:35:28.760 Who tore your friends? Hell no, you'd have been seeing 1:35:28.760 --> 1:35:29.080 it out. 1:35:29.400 --> 1:35:31.599 I'm not getting this mofug out of here. Coach, ain't 1:35:31.640 --> 1:35:34.320 no way out of gat. Hey, hey, what was ZU doing? 1:35:35.240 --> 1:35:37.360 If this is not your job? If you're not sitting 1:35:37.400 --> 1:35:40.120 in there, like, what do you think about ray Allen 1:35:40.120 --> 1:35:44.080 didn't shoot these many threes? No, right, you're not Steph 1:35:44.280 --> 1:35:47.160 or Clay Kad don't even shoot these type of threes. 1:35:47.400 --> 1:35:51.960 So for you to shoot these type of threes, you 1:35:52.000 --> 1:35:57.320 better be sitting in the practice facility or the gym 1:35:57.439 --> 1:36:03.640 shooting thousands of shots. And if they get mad that 1:36:03.760 --> 1:36:06.280 I said they shouldn't be shooting, I would bet any 1:36:06.320 --> 1:36:09.160 type of money if we shoot a hundred threes right now, 1:36:09.400 --> 1:36:13.519 I will blow them out. You are you are a 1:36:13.520 --> 1:36:16.120 shoot guy that curly. You're talking about those three guys 1:36:16.120 --> 1:36:17.920 that are shooting on the Lakers right now, you get them. 1:36:18.400 --> 1:36:20.080 I wouldn't even come on them. I'll shoot one hand 1:36:20.080 --> 1:36:23.000 against them. The Lakers, Oh, they want the one hand. 1:36:23.040 --> 1:36:24.760 You're gonna have to be. You're gonna have to be 1:36:24.760 --> 1:36:27.000 a real shooter for me to eat footbath my hands 1:36:27.000 --> 1:36:27.439 on the ball. 1:36:27.840 --> 1:36:29.360 I take three hundred shots a day. 1:36:30.160 --> 1:36:33.880 Still, I take three hundred shots, and I'll wake up 1:36:33.880 --> 1:36:36.040 four thirty five and I go out there and take 1:36:36.080 --> 1:36:40.719 my shots. It's just in me, so I can't look. 1:36:40.760 --> 1:36:43.639 I can't see a player, and I'm sitting here, like, 1:36:44.880 --> 1:36:47.360 what do you do when you in practice? 1:36:47.360 --> 1:36:47.800 What do you do? 1:36:47.880 --> 1:36:51.160 Are you working on your shot? How are you not marksmen? 1:36:52.479 --> 1:36:56.519 You know you got one job. One one job. That 1:36:56.640 --> 1:37:03.200 means if practice starts at eleven, hey, you cam, you prints, 1:37:03.920 --> 1:37:07.280 get in the gym eight o'clock, you shoot nothing but 1:37:07.360 --> 1:37:11.280 threes from these spots from eight to eleven. Then we 1:37:11.360 --> 1:37:15.160 have ten practice. Then after take one more hour of 1:37:15.200 --> 1:37:17.120 shooting more threes, and then that needs you to come 1:37:17.160 --> 1:37:20.080 back later on tonight and shooting more threes. That should 1:37:20.120 --> 1:37:23.680 be your job. You should be a marksman. When I 1:37:23.800 --> 1:37:26.439 pass it, to you. I everybody should be turning around. 1:37:27.200 --> 1:37:29.320 We all turn around, put our hands because we know 1:37:29.360 --> 1:37:32.280 that's in. But what are you doing going to you? 1:37:32.479 --> 1:37:36.040 Just coming in practicing, get fifty fifty something shots up 1:37:36.080 --> 1:37:36.920 and think you good? 1:37:36.960 --> 1:37:37.799 Think you golden? 1:37:38.360 --> 1:37:40.519 Nah? Man, Like there was a year where I took 1:37:40.560 --> 1:37:46.400 one hundred thousand shots in the summer because the calculation was, shit, 1:37:46.400 --> 1:37:48.519 I'm only shooting about thirty some percent. For me to 1:37:48.560 --> 1:37:51.679 go up another percent, I gotta shoot about one hundred 1:37:51.680 --> 1:37:55.960 thousand shots to move up one percent. I shoot one 1:37:56.040 --> 1:38:00.559 hundred thousand shots. That's how the calculation wins. When you 1:38:00.600 --> 1:38:04.000 look at the Steph Curry's and stuff like that, man 1:38:04.120 --> 1:38:04.679 they shooting. 1:38:06.080 --> 1:38:06.719 I watched Steph. 1:38:06.840 --> 1:38:13.560 I watched Steph take four hundred shots in twenty two minutes. 1:38:15.160 --> 1:38:20.920 Moving and that was the warm up. Wow, Warner, that 1:38:20.960 --> 1:38:22.400 was just to show the. 1:38:22.400 --> 1:38:25.760 Crowd this is what I do. Ended that and then 1:38:26.000 --> 1:38:29.479 worked out for two hours. So he took about fifteen 1:38:29.560 --> 1:38:30.400 hundred shots that day. 1:38:31.320 --> 1:38:31.719 Wow. 1:38:32.400 --> 1:38:34.439 The mayor of fact that you know, Steph has to 1:38:34.479 --> 1:38:38.320 be because Steph has to like, it's different for him 1:38:38.760 --> 1:38:42.200 because he's a perpetual motion. So there's very few chances, 1:38:42.240 --> 1:38:44.599 there are very few times that he's getting a wide 1:38:44.640 --> 1:38:47.320 open three. Yeah, coming off a pig, he's back hutting 1:38:47.320 --> 1:38:51.880 and he's flaring, but he's still constantly moving. I don't 1:38:51.960 --> 1:38:54.840 better look here. It's something when you get tired. Now, 1:38:55.200 --> 1:38:58.080 fatigue will make cowards of us. All for him to 1:38:58.120 --> 1:39:01.200 be able to shoot that shot after you know, playing 1:39:01.280 --> 1:39:04.000 twenty five thirty mint, Okay, start the game, we get 1:39:04.000 --> 1:39:07.320 a gill, but he moving like that throughout the entirety 1:39:07.400 --> 1:39:09.320 of the game, and in the fourth. 1:39:09.120 --> 1:39:13.760 Quarter, he's in impeccable shape. Right. That that that that 1:39:13.920 --> 1:39:15.320 shape separates him. 1:39:15.600 --> 1:39:19.800 Like when we talk about the greatest shooter, right, if 1:39:19.800 --> 1:39:23.000 we told everyone to shoot one hundred shots, right, one 1:39:23.040 --> 1:39:27.360 hundred threes, right, it could be close from Yes, I 1:39:27.360 --> 1:39:30.559 believe that Charay Allen a Reggie mil REI Miller. 1:39:30.640 --> 1:39:35.519 Yeah, right, he's we can say he's the best shooter. 1:39:35.600 --> 1:39:38.160 He's the best shooter because he was the best conditioned. 1:39:38.560 --> 1:39:43.679 So his first quarter looked like his fourth quarter while 1:39:43.720 --> 1:39:46.000 the rest of those shooters were tiring out. 1:39:46.560 --> 1:39:48.440 Yes, he's at a ninety. 1:39:50.000 --> 1:39:53.880 You know, stamina level, so he was consistent throughout, So 1:39:53.920 --> 1:39:56.599 he looked like he was the better shooter because he's 1:39:56.640 --> 1:39:59.560 in shape the whole thing versus I mean, you know, 1:39:59.600 --> 1:40:01.599 I'm thirty minutes and I'm sitting here like, oh, can 1:40:01.640 --> 1:40:05.360 we get some water? And he's that's the key to 1:40:05.479 --> 1:40:10.800 all of it. Being in shape. You be the best 1:40:10.800 --> 1:40:13.280 shape of your life. Like when I say life, I 1:40:13.320 --> 1:40:18.240 mean like you run in the three four miles when 1:40:18.280 --> 1:40:20.080 you don't play the game just to get the extra 1:40:20.160 --> 1:40:20.680 cardio win. 1:40:20.880 --> 1:40:23.479 You have to do a lot of stuff to be great. Right. 1:40:25.720 --> 1:40:27.479 Grizzlies are four and oh with Jah. 1:40:27.560 --> 1:40:29.920 The Grizzlies went six to nineteen with our job because 1:40:29.920 --> 1:40:32.440 he started the season serving that twenty five game suspension. 1:40:32.720 --> 1:40:34.920 They're now four and oh with the Western Conference Player 1:40:34.960 --> 1:40:36.880 of the Week on the court. After pulling off a 1:40:36.880 --> 1:40:39.000 come from behind win over the New Orleans on Tuesday, 1:40:39.200 --> 1:40:41.880 The Memphis Grizzlies trailed by fourteen in the fourth quarter 1:40:42.080 --> 1:40:44.080 and chipped away at the lead into the final seconds 1:40:44.080 --> 1:40:44.559 of the game. 1:40:46.120 --> 1:40:47.360 Joh did this celebration. 1:40:49.560 --> 1:40:52.560 I guess it's a New Orleans dance called pistols and Bazuka. 1:40:55.800 --> 1:40:56.400 They're separate. 1:40:58.720 --> 1:41:04.240 Yeah, okay, what I'm being told now, they're saying it's 1:41:04.240 --> 1:41:07.240 two separate things. They say it's the New Orleans dance 1:41:07.520 --> 1:41:15.120 and it's not the celebration pistols and Berzuka and bazukah. 1:41:15.160 --> 1:41:15.720 I just say that. 1:41:15.760 --> 1:41:17.120 When I was showing, I was saying, you know, it's 1:41:17.120 --> 1:41:21.639 the New Orleans dance. It is not pistols in bozuka. Now, yeah, 1:41:21.640 --> 1:41:24.320 it's the New Orleans thens that just happened to have. 1:41:30.600 --> 1:41:32.320 Like it makes you. 1:41:32.479 --> 1:41:35.400 It made it like, I know, like he's gonna irritate 1:41:35.439 --> 1:41:37.120 the older group, but it. 1:41:37.200 --> 1:41:39.000 Kind of got a like as a. 1:41:40.520 --> 1:41:45.519 As someone who thrives on being petty, right, he can't 1:41:45.560 --> 1:41:49.400 help himself, right, right, I mean honest, like right now 1:41:49.960 --> 1:41:53.559 without the celebration. I call him Jahwick because that's what 1:41:53.600 --> 1:41:55.640 he reminds me of, like they killed. 1:41:55.360 --> 1:41:59.160 His dog, right, he going through and he going. 1:41:59.000 --> 1:42:01.680 Through teams like they killed this man doll, right, And 1:42:02.520 --> 1:42:03.400 it's phenomenal. 1:42:03.560 --> 1:42:06.040 It's phenomenal what he's doing. It shows you how great 1:42:06.040 --> 1:42:11.120 he is. And he's so and. 1:42:12.800 --> 1:42:16.360 He's young, right, and I know we're gonna nobody want 1:42:16.400 --> 1:42:16.719 to hear. 1:42:16.600 --> 1:42:19.360 Her excuses of he's young, but he is a kid. 1:42:19.920 --> 1:42:22.240 He's in the culture where it's the dance culture, right, 1:42:22.520 --> 1:42:24.840 Like if you look at Westbrook and the dances he 1:42:25.000 --> 1:42:28.600 was doing during those Okay, See he's no different. Just 1:42:28.640 --> 1:42:31.360 the music he listens to got those type. 1:42:31.120 --> 1:42:32.120 Of reactions to it. 1:42:32.400 --> 1:42:35.840 And when he's doing his dunks and he's feeling great, 1:42:36.160 --> 1:42:38.920 that's when he's showing in like this is not coming 1:42:38.920 --> 1:42:42.760 from an angry place. Like where we're looking at what 1:42:42.840 --> 1:42:46.879 he's doing, it's not coming from an angry place. Everything 1:42:46.920 --> 1:42:49.479 he's done is coming when he's actually happy. 1:42:51.400 --> 1:42:53.400 But it's this it's a weird one. 1:42:53.320 --> 1:42:56.240 Because it's the culture when they're dancing and they're doing 1:42:56.280 --> 1:42:59.519 this coming from a happy spot, not an angry spot. 1:42:59.600 --> 1:43:02.040 And I don't think no one's separating the two. They 1:43:02.160 --> 1:43:04.320 just see, oh pistols and he threw the bazooka at 1:43:04.400 --> 1:43:08.400 us right right, and and that's that's gonna be the problem, right. 1:43:08.479 --> 1:43:12.120 And I don't think optics, huh, you know, it's optics. 1:43:12.479 --> 1:43:15.200 You know, in this situation with him, he got suspended 1:43:15.240 --> 1:43:17.840 for gun it was he was you know, he got 1:43:17.920 --> 1:43:20.040 you know, had it one time and he went in 1:43:20.080 --> 1:43:22.040 with the commission and he saw the commission. He never 1:43:22.040 --> 1:43:23.960 put himself in that position again. Then a couple of 1:43:23.960 --> 1:43:25.920 months later he was in that again. I think it's 1:43:25.960 --> 1:43:29.080 just the optics of it. Uh. But like you said, 1:43:29.080 --> 1:43:30.960 I mean, I guess the only dance that he know 1:43:31.040 --> 1:43:33.280 how to do have guns add them things on him. 1:43:33.320 --> 1:43:34.960 So it is what it is. 1:43:36.760 --> 1:43:37.000 You know. 1:43:37.560 --> 1:43:39.840 I'm laughing because as soon as you see that, I 1:43:39.880 --> 1:43:43.439 was like, oh shit, there you go again. He just 1:43:43.520 --> 1:43:45.320 can't you know, you dunk on you. 1:43:45.439 --> 1:43:49.679 But I'm just I'm just glad that, like I'd rather 1:43:49.760 --> 1:43:54.080 see him still having his mental intact, yeah, versus seeing 1:43:54.160 --> 1:43:56.360 some watered down version. 1:43:56.840 --> 1:43:57.040 Right. 1:43:57.160 --> 1:44:01.920 And as the organization of the Grizzlies, I know, I 1:44:01.960 --> 1:44:04.200 know deep down inside they happy as hell. 1:44:05.360 --> 1:44:05.599 One. 1:44:06.400 --> 1:44:09.160 You got one of the future stars of the NBA. 1:44:09.360 --> 1:44:12.120 You have an impact player, you have a player that 1:44:12.400 --> 1:44:16.120 you can sell to your audience. You got a matter 1:44:16.200 --> 1:44:21.400 discounted rate, right, those twenty five games was perfect for 1:44:21.520 --> 1:44:25.439 you to get him for forty million dollars cheaper, right, 1:44:25.479 --> 1:44:27.800 you say forty million dollars with those antics, So in 1:44:27.840 --> 1:44:32.640 your mind you don't care because you got it's like 1:44:32.680 --> 1:44:35.120 getting iverson. It's like you know what I mean, It's 1:44:35.120 --> 1:44:36.800 like getting the I It's like getting the bent lea 1:44:36.960 --> 1:44:41.360 for twenty percent off. Right, You're not gonna complain. You're 1:44:41.360 --> 1:44:43.840 not gonna complain. And and that's and that's what it 1:44:43.920 --> 1:44:46.639 is with joh and you know he's at the he's 1:44:46.680 --> 1:44:51.280 at this this point though, he's at this point where 1:44:55.600 --> 1:44:59.599 it's a god mode thinking my team was so trash 1:44:59.640 --> 1:45:03.839 without right, you're trash without me, and y'all some losers 1:45:03.840 --> 1:45:07.240 without me. I come back with phone and though I 1:45:07.360 --> 1:45:11.479 done hit two game winners, I'm that man. If he don't, 1:45:11.600 --> 1:45:14.480 if he don't settle, if he don't really look at himself, 1:45:15.240 --> 1:45:19.599 his ego can be bigger than it was before, of course, 1:45:20.040 --> 1:45:23.200 And and the issue is going to be now that 1:45:24.600 --> 1:45:30.080 he's injuring that gods zone thought process where he needs 1:45:30.120 --> 1:45:34.519 to protect himself more because now you're four and oh 1:45:34.560 --> 1:45:35.360 you go five. 1:45:35.160 --> 1:45:37.519 And O you you you you? What's the aime of 1:45:37.520 --> 1:45:39.479 the month? You you make the All Star game? 1:45:39.840 --> 1:45:44.200 Oh they go, we gotta come get you, said some 1:45:44.280 --> 1:45:48.960 girls this way we need him to do like you know, 1:45:49.240 --> 1:45:52.000 And this is where now he needs because he has 1:45:52.080 --> 1:45:54.439 this chance where they opened the door for you to 1:45:54.520 --> 1:45:59.240 come back in without any penalty penalty. Right, we penalize you, 1:45:59.280 --> 1:46:01.080 but we got you a lean slavery. You can come 1:46:01.080 --> 1:46:03.960 back and get your crown back. And I think he's 1:46:04.000 --> 1:46:07.800 to really think about where he's at and what he 1:46:07.840 --> 1:46:13.599 can accomplish. He can get more than he lost if 1:46:14.240 --> 1:46:17.479 he plays this right, because the team is horrible without him, 1:46:17.479 --> 1:46:19.360 and if he can get this team to the playoffs, 1:46:19.400 --> 1:46:22.679 he can make that All Star team. He's the dude 1:46:25.280 --> 1:46:27.479 the gift of Gab asked, what do you think about 1:46:27.520 --> 1:46:30.920 Memphis going after Andre Drumming or Busovich from Chicago or 1:46:30.960 --> 1:46:33.639 one of these big from the Pistons, bones holand from 1:46:33.640 --> 1:46:34.240 the Clippers. 1:46:34.520 --> 1:46:35.080 What do you think? 1:46:35.360 --> 1:46:38.080 I mean, because obviously there were a different team without 1:46:38.120 --> 1:46:39.840 with Big Adams. 1:46:39.800 --> 1:46:41.800 And him going down. You know, he missed the last 1:46:41.800 --> 1:46:42.519 half of the season. 1:46:42.760 --> 1:46:44.160 They thought he was gonna be able to come back, 1:46:44.200 --> 1:46:46.280 but he ended up having to have surgery again and 1:46:46.280 --> 1:46:48.720 he's gonna miss the entire season. What do you think 1:46:48.760 --> 1:46:51.479 about going out and getting a Busovitch getting an Andre Drummond? 1:46:52.040 --> 1:46:54.200 I mean that means you got to trade, right, If 1:46:54.200 --> 1:46:56.479 you're just trying to replace one guy, and you're trying 1:46:56.479 --> 1:46:59.560 to replace an enforcer, a hard. 1:46:59.320 --> 1:47:04.200 Body down there, then you might want to go after 1:47:04.280 --> 1:47:05.280 Dwight Howard. 1:47:07.040 --> 1:47:12.880 Right that that is the only player that is cheap, right, cheap, 1:47:13.000 --> 1:47:15.840 willing to to come in for pennies on a dollar 1:47:16.240 --> 1:47:19.200 And because he's been out of the NBA and it 1:47:19.200 --> 1:47:22.920 looks like he's being left behind. He's gonna accept whatever 1:47:23.000 --> 1:47:25.600 role you give him, right. You know he's going to 1:47:25.680 --> 1:47:29.040 be in shape, right. You know he's gonna play defense, right, 1:47:29.040 --> 1:47:31.360 He's gonna he's gonna come to practice. He's gonna be 1:47:31.360 --> 1:47:34.680 a professional. And if you need him to come in 1:47:34.720 --> 1:47:37.760 there and check some players, he can do that, right. 1:47:37.800 --> 1:47:40.640 And you don't have to break up your team to 1:47:40.760 --> 1:47:42.840 go out there and get those guys. Right, you can 1:47:42.880 --> 1:47:45.639 just sign as a free agent. When Adams comes back, 1:47:45.760 --> 1:47:47.800 you can cut him if you want. Well, Adam then 1:47:47.880 --> 1:47:49.960 coming back this year, so you MA, you'll probably geld 1:47:49.960 --> 1:47:52.000 have him on the and he'll be just what Adams was. 1:47:52.040 --> 1:47:55.960 I believe if you played him, say twenty five twenty 1:47:56.000 --> 1:47:57.880 seven minutes, I believe he can give you the kind 1:47:57.920 --> 1:48:00.800 of rebounds that Adams give you. Oh yeah, he'll give 1:48:00.800 --> 1:48:03.439 you a double double. Yeah, because you know he'll give 1:48:03.439 --> 1:48:05.519 you a double double. He's gonna get physical. He's gonna 1:48:05.520 --> 1:48:07.680 get physical down there, and that's going to open up 1:48:07.720 --> 1:48:10.559 a lot of stuff for Jahn Moran because now you 1:48:10.680 --> 1:48:13.360 have a real enforcer down there where no one is 1:48:13.360 --> 1:48:15.920 going to be trying to hit you right, and you 1:48:15.960 --> 1:48:18.000 know that's the one guy I see without you can 1:48:18.080 --> 1:48:21.760 without breaking up what I have, because what I have 1:48:22.000 --> 1:48:25.400 right now is four and oh right, because when I 1:48:25.439 --> 1:48:27.639 look at it, I think Dwhite Howard, even at his age, 1:48:27.680 --> 1:48:30.080 is still more athletic than Steven Adams. 1:48:30.080 --> 1:48:33.560 Oh yeah, facts, facts, facts, So I think that that 1:48:33.560 --> 1:48:34.360 would be a good move. 1:48:34.920 --> 1:48:37.880 Jylen Brown like likes a tweet pushing back at Ud 1:48:38.080 --> 1:48:41.559 your Donna's Haslam comments on Bill Russell. Haslam apparently said 1:48:41.800 --> 1:48:44.639 f Russell after the NBA announced the league wide jersey 1:48:44.760 --> 1:48:48.200 retirement for the Legendar's Celtic star. Haslam said, tell me 1:48:48.240 --> 1:48:50.559 when you're gonna see Miami heat jersey hanging in Boston, 1:48:50.600 --> 1:48:51.200 said HASLM. 1:48:51.360 --> 1:48:52.800 I have to repent. I had. 1:48:53.200 --> 1:48:56.320 I had to repent that I love Bill. No disrespect 1:48:56.360 --> 1:48:56.639 to Bill. 1:48:56.680 --> 1:48:57.160 I love him. 1:48:57.360 --> 1:48:59.599 Will you ever see a jersey hanging in the Boston rafter? 1:49:00.080 --> 1:49:03.200 Why you know what he got to hang in there? 1:49:04.640 --> 1:49:04.960 U D. 1:49:05.080 --> 1:49:08.240 You know, I like you D, But I think the 1:49:08.280 --> 1:49:10.960 thing is what UD is feeling to miss miss. What 1:49:11.040 --> 1:49:16.320 he's missing is sometimes a player is so good and 1:49:16.479 --> 1:49:21.240 so great they transcend the sport because he's more than 1:49:21.400 --> 1:49:24.439 just a basketball player. It's kind of like Jackie Robinson. 1:49:24.880 --> 1:49:29.439 Jackie Robinson, they retired forty two league wide because he 1:49:29.920 --> 1:49:34.400 transcended the sport. Was he the best player in baseball? No, 1:49:35.520 --> 1:49:41.920 but what he did should never be forgotten. Bill Russell 1:49:42.000 --> 1:49:45.040 was the same way what he went through, even in 1:49:45.120 --> 1:49:49.160 Boston as he was winning all those titles. At that summit, 1:49:49.240 --> 1:49:51.160 I think it was sixty seven in which the Summit 1:49:51.200 --> 1:49:55.000 in Cleveland happened, he was there. Bill Russell is a 1:49:55.040 --> 1:50:00.720 civil rights icon. Muhammad Ali is Mamahammed Ali the greatest boxing. No, 1:50:01.320 --> 1:50:05.800 but he transcends the sport, and sometimes when they play, 1:50:05.920 --> 1:50:12.519 when a person is transcendental, I mean, whatever is bestowed 1:50:12.600 --> 1:50:16.240 upon him. 1:50:14.720 --> 1:50:15.400 It's worthy. 1:50:16.040 --> 1:50:23.040 Bill Russell having his number retired across the league, it's worthy. 1:50:24.800 --> 1:50:31.719 Jackie Robinson having his number required retired across baseball, it's worthy. 1:50:32.640 --> 1:50:35.880 So I don't and I get I think he was 1:50:35.960 --> 1:50:39.160 just looking at it, like, man, he's from Boston. But 1:50:39.320 --> 1:50:41.880 you have to look at the other stuff. Hey, the 1:50:41.920 --> 1:50:44.439 basketball is the thing. Obviously, he had to be great 1:50:44.479 --> 1:50:48.320 at basketball, but it's the other things. 1:50:48.800 --> 1:50:55.479 Is the reason why he's hanging across everywhere. Uh, when 1:50:55.520 --> 1:50:59.800 it's playoff times and we beating the enemy. We don't 1:50:59.800 --> 1:51:02.559 care about what you transcended. We're trying to get out 1:51:02.560 --> 1:51:03.040 of this series. 1:51:03.080 --> 1:51:05.559 And I got to tell my team whatever I have 1:51:05.680 --> 1:51:07.439 to tell them to get over this hump. 1:51:07.800 --> 1:51:08.080 Right. 1:51:08.439 --> 1:51:12.200 These two teams been battling for the last three four years, 1:51:12.640 --> 1:51:16.720 right right, and no matter what. 1:51:18.160 --> 1:51:18.960 They trying to do. 1:51:19.520 --> 1:51:22.799 When I see that number at this point in time 1:51:23.880 --> 1:51:25.600 up there while we're playing. 1:51:25.320 --> 1:51:29.720 This team, I don't, I don't. I don't care what 1:51:29.800 --> 1:51:31.759 this history is. We're trying to get out of this series. 1:51:31.760 --> 1:51:34.719 We're trying to get to the championship, and that Boston jersey, 1:51:35.080 --> 1:51:36.800 that legacy is in our way. 1:51:37.560 --> 1:51:38.439 Right. How about this here? 1:51:38.920 --> 1:51:41.880 You do realize the Miami Heat retired Michael Jordan's number, 1:51:42.160 --> 1:51:44.240 So why he ain't say f emj because they ain't 1:51:44.240 --> 1:51:47.960 playing Chicago Bulls. They playing Chicago Bulls. I mean Pat 1:51:48.040 --> 1:51:50.760 Rowley retired that fame before number six. Nomber what I'm saying. 1:51:51.240 --> 1:51:53.479 He said, ain't nobody should wear twenty three? What I 1:51:53.560 --> 1:51:55.960 want twenty three. But they're now playing Chicago Bulls. In 1:51:55.960 --> 1:51:58.559 the playoffs, they played you if you look it up 1:51:58.560 --> 1:52:00.639 at the RAF through the word about what in Boston 1:52:00.800 --> 1:52:02.760 was hanging across your arena, you already be. 1:52:03.479 --> 1:52:07.320 But who won? Uh huh? 1:52:07.360 --> 1:52:11.720 So it worked whatever the speech was, whatever the speech was, 1:52:12.479 --> 1:52:18.080 who won? They gag but don't but you gotta remember that. 1:52:18.160 --> 1:52:21.439 You gotta remember the Miami Heat. They lost that game 1:52:21.560 --> 1:52:24.040 and the arena they had to go back to the 1:52:24.280 --> 1:52:26.519 I guess they still call it the guard the TV banks, 1:52:26.520 --> 1:52:29.599 the TD TV banks. I think it's TD Banks. So 1:52:29.680 --> 1:52:31.880 they had to end up having to win there. But 1:52:32.040 --> 1:52:33.880 like like I said, I just think the thing is 1:52:33.880 --> 1:52:38.200 is that if you understood uh uh, it's kind of like, 1:52:38.240 --> 1:52:42.400 you know Cleveland, you understand what Jim Brown because he 1:52:42.600 --> 1:52:45.599 was we know he was a historical figure as far 1:52:45.600 --> 1:52:48.000 as running the football, but it was what he did, 1:52:48.400 --> 1:52:51.000 uh in the civil rights movement that gave him the 1:52:51.120 --> 1:52:54.600 added credence and and and and and the cachet. 1:52:55.320 --> 1:52:56.479 So yeah, I don't think. 1:52:56.479 --> 1:52:59.760 I don't think when when U D was, when he 1:52:59.840 --> 1:53:03.160 did hit that speech, none of that really mattered to him, Right, 1:53:03.200 --> 1:53:06.680 He's just trying to figure out as a guy to 1:53:06.360 --> 1:53:09.599 to get these guys over the hum to really try 1:53:09.640 --> 1:53:16.080 to put some type of fire into them. Right in 1:53:16.120 --> 1:53:18.920 times like that, like there there's times where we being 1:53:19.160 --> 1:53:23.000 you know, we got like Larry Hughes, right, were playing Larry, 1:53:23.320 --> 1:53:26.080 and we got speeches that have him. 1:53:26.320 --> 1:53:27.760 He left us boom boom. We got to go in 1:53:27.840 --> 1:53:29.880 and say it like how we felt. 1:53:30.840 --> 1:53:32.679 But we we got to show each other that we're 1:53:32.680 --> 1:53:35.400 willing to do whatever it takes to get through this hump, right, 1:53:35.439 --> 1:53:37.759 and if Larry's in our way, Larry's in our way, and. 1:53:37.600 --> 1:53:41.760 That's that's really you know what that that speech was. 1:53:42.120 --> 1:53:45.799 We're just hearing about it now, right, Wait a minute, 1:53:45.800 --> 1:53:46.800 you can't say. 1:53:46.600 --> 1:53:50.120 That well to get them to do what he needed 1:53:50.120 --> 1:53:50.400 to do. 1:53:50.640 --> 1:53:53.320 I mean, Jalen, if y'all should have got over Game seven, 1:53:53.400 --> 1:53:53.960 y'all should have. 1:53:53.920 --> 1:53:57.320 Said, that's them, right. I think it's a saying. 1:53:57.400 --> 1:53:58.760 I don't know if you've heard about this girl, but 1:53:58.800 --> 1:54:01.240 there's a situation where Sean McDermott, the head coach of 1:54:01.240 --> 1:54:05.680 the Buffalo Bills, he used a reference about nine to 1:54:05.680 --> 1:54:08.439 eleven and it ended up getting out and he had 1:54:08.439 --> 1:54:10.559 to apologize, he had to walk it back. And I 1:54:10.560 --> 1:54:13.160 think this was a situation because, like you said, doing 1:54:14.080 --> 1:54:16.960 a pregame speech or you trying to get somebody motivated. 1:54:17.000 --> 1:54:17.920 You see a lot of stuff. 1:54:18.000 --> 1:54:21.960 Yeah, still a lot of stuff, but sometimes like as 1:54:23.360 --> 1:54:27.519 ass fans or whatever, like, you can't take everything for 1:54:27.640 --> 1:54:29.920 what it is. Like this hell is a different time now, Gil, 1:54:30.560 --> 1:54:34.000 it's a different time, Gil. The stuff, the stuff that 1:54:34.120 --> 1:54:36.400 we would say in the locker room and y'all sit 1:54:36.480 --> 1:54:37.160 in the locker room. 1:54:37.400 --> 1:54:41.000 That ain't gonna fly now. Yeah, no facts, Hey, you 1:54:41.080 --> 1:54:42.880 gonna get canceled. You can get it. 1:54:42.920 --> 1:54:46.400 You'll get canceled. Yeah, And you understand that. And you 1:54:46.560 --> 1:54:48.360 have to be able to you have to be able 1:54:48.400 --> 1:54:52.960 to maneuver. But the thing is, but now everybody's offended 1:54:53.000 --> 1:54:56.600 about everything, and that's and I think that's the problem 1:54:56.600 --> 1:54:59.920 with sports, is that the fact that every group of 1:55:00.200 --> 1:55:05.880 willing to cancel is the reason why everyone's reluctant to 1:55:06.080 --> 1:55:10.480 have certain type of groups inside the organization, right, because 1:55:10.520 --> 1:55:14.440 if something happens right, that's natural how we talk and 1:55:14.480 --> 1:55:17.120 how we prep each other, and you're canceling me, then 1:55:17.360 --> 1:55:19.600 it's easier for me not to accept that person. 1:55:19.640 --> 1:55:19.840 Here. 1:55:20.080 --> 1:55:23.800 We won't we won't say we're discriminating, but we are right. 1:55:23.840 --> 1:55:27.280 But that is easier versus you canceling me for saying 1:55:27.400 --> 1:55:35.840 something inappropriate. Uh Zion got a chest tattoo. I want 1:55:35.840 --> 1:55:39.120 to know I thought that was you busting out there, 1:55:39.200 --> 1:55:42.720 just gorilla. Man, Man, you know, Goodwill, I got no 1:55:42.800 --> 1:55:45.000 stomach like that. I don't know where you got that from. 1:55:45.400 --> 1:55:45.720 It's just. 1:55:47.720 --> 1:55:49.880 I just want to know what thay, Gil, who go 1:55:50.080 --> 1:55:52.080 tell him? If is not centered? 1:55:54.440 --> 1:55:57.360 I listen, listen. Maybe it's supposed to be a little 1:55:57.400 --> 1:55:59.560 over the heart. Maybe that was the way it was 1:55:59.560 --> 1:56:01.520 a zion, a little over the heart. 1:56:02.080 --> 1:56:09.640 Uh, but I want a zion, man, come on, man, right, like, 1:56:09.920 --> 1:56:14.000 like I get the concept right, you want to put uh. 1:56:14.160 --> 1:56:15.600 What was that a real name? Harambi? 1:56:16.760 --> 1:56:20.000 Yeah, you got Harambio on your chest, man. But the 1:56:20.480 --> 1:56:24.839 belly is what stopped me. Man, I'm like, it reminded 1:56:24.880 --> 1:56:26.360 me of what Steven They said. Man, he was at 1:56:26.360 --> 1:56:28.760 the Freto line and he's belly getting the bouncing. As 1:56:28.760 --> 1:56:30.360 soon as I seen him with his shirt off, that's 1:56:30.440 --> 1:56:38.600 all I looked at, Like Stephen as right, that was. 1:56:41.400 --> 1:56:46.640 Mad. Look, I mean you got the tattoos, Gil, whole body. 1:56:47.800 --> 1:56:50.840 I got corporate tax. I coined it. I called it 1:56:50.920 --> 1:56:55.880 corporate tax. That's where I like tattoos. But to get 1:56:56.000 --> 1:56:59.960 my corporate sponsors, not on my nazia, none of my 1:57:00.200 --> 1:57:04.200 sleeves days. Yeah, yeah, so so, so I have tats 1:57:04.240 --> 1:57:08.680 all in where where the jersey covers everything right right, 1:57:08.680 --> 1:57:10.640 So I called it corporate task where I. 1:57:10.480 --> 1:57:12.920 Like the tattoos, couldn't see them. They was just not 1:57:12.960 --> 1:57:14.480 going to score corporate. I'm not going to score. 1:57:14.600 --> 1:57:18.160 Uh scare corporations off packs from having me a part 1:57:18.160 --> 1:57:18.720 of their brands. 1:57:19.280 --> 1:57:23.520 Uh flip. Saint Felix asked, no question. 1:57:23.600 --> 1:57:25.440 Got I just wanted to say, Shannon and Gil, you 1:57:25.480 --> 1:57:27.760 guys are killing the game and watching y'all dominate this 1:57:27.880 --> 1:57:29.600 media is beyond inspiring. 1:57:29.720 --> 1:57:32.720 Thank you, Thank you. We appreciate the support. 1:57:33.160 --> 1:57:37.280 Doctor Shark Monk said, do NBA NFL players a boy 1:57:37.320 --> 1:57:40.280 getting intimate having sex before big game like boxers do 1:57:40.400 --> 1:57:43.480 for weeks or half French legs? Hell no, I don't 1:57:43.480 --> 1:57:45.480 know if I give them. Hell no, hey, the board nothing. 1:57:46.120 --> 1:57:48.520 I mean we're in the hotel night before a game. 1:57:49.000 --> 1:57:51.080 So it makes it a little bit more difficult because 1:57:51.080 --> 1:57:53.560 we have security at the elevators, we have security at 1:57:53.560 --> 1:57:56.040 the end of the hall, so ain't nobody I mean 1:57:56.080 --> 1:57:58.480 once we have and we have bad check. So once 1:57:58.480 --> 1:58:00.440 we have bad check, I mean they locked it down. 1:58:02.600 --> 1:58:06.480 But hell no, weeks man, you I ain't no boxes. 1:58:07.440 --> 1:58:09.160 I mean, I understand they go up to Big Bear 1:58:09.240 --> 1:58:11.280 or they go to you know these places, and they 1:58:11.320 --> 1:58:12.240 in training camp. 1:58:12.000 --> 1:58:15.000 For six eight weeks and then hell not hell to 1:58:15.120 --> 1:58:15.480 the now. 1:58:17.200 --> 1:58:19.120 I'm gonna try to shake the covers Friday night because 1:58:19.120 --> 1:58:22.760 I know I'm about to be locked down on Saturday. No, 1:58:23.160 --> 1:58:28.280 but look, I can only speak to me, guy Shark 1:58:28.360 --> 1:58:31.520 monk that when you ask, I don't know whatever NBA players. 1:58:31.520 --> 1:58:32.320 I don't know what any. 1:58:32.280 --> 1:58:35.880 NFL players do. Maybe some do, maybe some don't, But no, 1:58:36.080 --> 1:58:38.680 I didn't. I'm not going those six weeks or once 1:58:38.720 --> 1:58:40.280 the season start going without sex. 1:58:40.320 --> 1:58:41.080 That ain't gonna happen. 1:58:42.840 --> 1:58:46.440 I mean Friday, I mean twenty four hours, eight hours, 1:58:47.720 --> 1:58:51.280 that's all I got for you. Do we leave communication 1:58:51.360 --> 1:58:56.040 with Gil? I think we lost Gil lost Gil lost 1:58:56.040 --> 1:59:02.120 the signal headquarters. You got us many'll y'all stop. That 1:59:02.160 --> 1:59:05.240 man ain'tbody to get no tattoo or no cheeseburger. He 1:59:05.280 --> 1:59:07.960 ain't getting no neck bone on his neck. Come on, now, y'all, 1:59:08.040 --> 1:59:10.520 y'all do it too much chat, y'all wrong for this. 1:59:11.720 --> 1:59:14.320 The man got a tattoo, Okay, he wanted the tattoo 1:59:14.320 --> 1:59:16.240 on his body. It's a hard and I think it 1:59:16.320 --> 1:59:20.160 got like as a silver back in the in the 1:59:20.480 --> 1:59:25.120 center of the cross. I'm a reader. If Gil joined 1:59:25.160 --> 1:59:30.200 us back, we're gonna we'll go back and revisit that question. 1:59:31.040 --> 1:59:33.360 WD asked Thunk and Gill what y'all think about Rashid 1:59:33.400 --> 1:59:37.120 Wallace isn't an NBA two K because they only wanted 1:59:37.120 --> 1:59:38.960 to pay best ten thousand to be in the game. 1:59:39.240 --> 1:59:41.280 He won one hundred and twenty five thousand, but they 1:59:41.320 --> 1:59:44.360 refused to pay it. Two K makes hundreds of million 1:59:44.400 --> 1:59:49.200 a year. I get it because we're in the same situation, 1:59:49.600 --> 1:59:55.040 and but I think it's nice that I'm a part 1:59:55.040 --> 1:59:57.320 of the game, and I think you look, I think 1:59:57.640 --> 2:00:00.839 sheet I ain't counting that man's pocket. But he feels 2:00:00.840 --> 2:00:04.440 that the adequate and the proper compensation would be one 2:00:04.520 --> 2:00:05.560 hundred and twenty five K. 2:00:05.840 --> 2:00:07.520 I'm not here to tell him he's right or wrong. 2:00:07.920 --> 2:00:09.760 Me I wanted to be a part of it, and 2:00:09.800 --> 2:00:13.400 so you know, Hey, it's not much, but I'm not 2:00:13.520 --> 2:00:14.120 hurt for money. 2:00:14.160 --> 2:00:15.240 I'm doing my own thing. 2:00:16.000 --> 2:00:18.560 I don't think he's hurt for money either, but that's 2:00:18.800 --> 2:00:21.160 he wants to stand on back. Hey guy, you making 2:00:21.240 --> 2:00:24.240 hundreds of million dollars what's one hundred and twenty five K. 2:00:24.760 --> 2:00:26.880 But then when you start paying everybody one hundred and 2:00:26.880 --> 2:00:30.200 twenty five k, I don't think the game is going 2:00:30.280 --> 2:00:31.040 to last too long. 2:00:31.120 --> 2:00:36.600 So for me, I understand him standing on it. 2:00:36.840 --> 2:00:39.800 I also understand two K said, Nah, we're good, bro, 2:00:39.880 --> 2:00:42.640 We're just we'll have the Pistons or the Trailblazers and 2:00:42.680 --> 2:00:43.680 you won't be a part of it. 2:00:44.880 --> 2:00:46.160 Deil you back yet? 2:00:47.200 --> 2:00:52.440 Yeah yeah, yeah, ah bad? 2:00:52.600 --> 2:00:55.880 You a hack the system, doctor shark monk. 2:00:55.920 --> 2:00:59.360 He asked NBA NFL players a boy getting intimate having 2:00:59.360 --> 2:01:02.040 sex before big game like boxers do for weeks to 2:01:02.120 --> 2:01:04.160 have fresh leg, and does that work? 2:01:04.600 --> 2:01:07.879 I was saying, Gil, Nah, Bro, I ain't no boxer. 2:01:08.560 --> 2:01:10.680 I'm gonna shake the cover Friday because I'm gonna be 2:01:10.680 --> 2:01:13.840 locked down Saturday, so no, and my leg should be 2:01:13.880 --> 2:01:16.280 recovered by the time I hit the field on Sunday. 2:01:16.400 --> 2:01:18.480 So no, I'm not going the week. I'm not going. 2:01:18.520 --> 2:01:21.920 I'm not going a month. I'm not doing any of that. Oh, Shay, 2:01:22.040 --> 2:01:26.040 go shake the covers for dark on Friday. 2:01:25.400 --> 2:01:26.960 Like it's ritual. 2:01:27.080 --> 2:01:31.520 So I had a teammate who who got got some 2:01:31.560 --> 2:01:37.760 falatio before the game. Hit five threes where you gotta 2:01:37.760 --> 2:01:40.440 call up back the next game. So you know, every game, 2:01:41.160 --> 2:01:44.080 that's what he had to do. Okay, every game he 2:01:44.160 --> 2:01:46.320 go to the parking lot ready for the chip off, 2:01:46.440 --> 2:01:47.880 and go to the parking lot, get a. 2:01:47.800 --> 2:01:49.720 Little thing done, come on to the game. 2:01:50.160 --> 2:01:56.440 Yeah right, hey, and hey, superstitition is a powerful thing, man, 2:01:57.160 --> 2:01:58.040 most powerful thing. 2:01:59.520 --> 2:02:03.680 I didn't listen. I didn't because I heard the story. 2:02:04.160 --> 2:02:07.160 Magic Johnson back in the day said he didn't have 2:02:07.200 --> 2:02:12.520 sex the night before the game, right, And that's all 2:02:12.600 --> 2:02:15.160 I grew up knowing the night before the game, don't 2:02:15.160 --> 2:02:16.760 have sex. Mass Johnson said, don't have sex the night 2:02:16.760 --> 2:02:19.640 before the game, right, So that's what I always did. 2:02:19.720 --> 2:02:22.240 So there was a certain time nine ten o'clock that 2:02:22.280 --> 2:02:25.040 I stopped. So I didn't do it on game day 2:02:25.120 --> 2:02:27.040 just because that's what I thought. 2:02:27.160 --> 2:02:29.120 But I know it wouldn't affect me. It was just 2:02:29.360 --> 2:02:31.440 it was just that's what you know, So you ain't 2:02:31.440 --> 2:02:33.880 doing nothing the night before we either like r you know, 2:02:34.040 --> 2:02:35.120 to ten eleven twelve. 2:02:35.240 --> 2:02:38.320 Yeah, not on game Oh but see see we had 2:02:38.320 --> 2:02:40.120 security on the floor, so we couldn't. 2:02:40.160 --> 2:02:42.600 I mean, I mean I'm sure some guys were Wait 2:02:43.080 --> 2:02:44.720 it mean security what was security for. 2:02:46.160 --> 2:02:48.560 No women on the no women on the floor. I mean, 2:02:48.600 --> 2:02:50.520 we couldn't have anybody on the floor. We had room chack. 2:02:51.280 --> 2:02:54.000 We had bad chack. Wait as a growl, as a 2:02:54.000 --> 2:02:58.240 grown man, as a grown man. Yea wait wait wait 2:02:58.240 --> 2:02:58.720 wait wait. 2:02:58.640 --> 2:02:59.560 Y'all had curfew. 2:03:00.240 --> 2:03:05.400 Yes, oh no, oh no, no, yeah for sure, no, no, 2:03:05.560 --> 2:03:08.640 we know you damn you need to be an. 2:03:08.640 --> 2:03:10.120 NBA playing for about one good year. 2:03:11.160 --> 2:03:12.720 That's why I said I had to shake the coup 2:03:12.760 --> 2:03:14.960 before dark on Friday, because I know I would gonna 2:03:14.960 --> 2:03:17.240 be locked down either on the road or in the 2:03:17.240 --> 2:03:20.120 hotel cup even at home. We stayed in the hotel 2:03:20.440 --> 2:03:25.200 night before the game. What, Yes, you stayed the hotel 2:03:25.320 --> 2:03:25.840 night before a game. 2:03:26.120 --> 2:03:29.800 We're partying that. Oh no, we party. 2:03:30.920 --> 2:03:32.560 Most of us are coming in at six seven in 2:03:32.560 --> 2:03:36.000 the morning from the club. Yeah, but see y'all games 2:03:36.000 --> 2:03:38.000 that night, so you could do that. See we played 2:03:38.000 --> 2:03:39.640 at one two o'clock in the afternoon. 2:03:40.800 --> 2:03:42.400 Yeah, because we're just going to sleep all. 2:03:42.280 --> 2:03:46.120 Day and were just going to sleep again because Mike 2:03:46.280 --> 2:03:50.280 is telling us Friday and Brian uh was always telling 2:03:50.360 --> 2:03:53.080 us after the Priday, we've done practice around one o'clock 2:03:53.200 --> 2:03:55.800 on Friday, all right, go home, get off your feed 2:03:56.240 --> 2:03:58.080 if you got you know, hey, and when you know 2:03:58.120 --> 2:04:00.640 I did, I got off my feet on I mean, Gill, 2:04:00.680 --> 2:04:04.680 I was off my feet. That that's great. He with 2:04:04.840 --> 2:04:09.200 our others, but I was off bo feet. Y'all y'all 2:04:09.200 --> 2:04:11.960 didn't even get to have fun. We haven't listen. 2:04:12.000 --> 2:04:22.960 Listen if I. 2:04:18.280 --> 2:04:20.840 You can't hang in the basketball player, we might have 2:04:20.880 --> 2:04:21.200 been good. 2:04:21.240 --> 2:04:24.360 I'd have been good. You know. We run them through 2:04:24.360 --> 2:04:26.240 the hotel. You got the same girl going through four 2:04:26.320 --> 2:04:32.440 five rules? What? Oh yeah, I gotta why she coming 2:04:32.480 --> 2:04:34.080 on down hey? And she got a friend. 2:04:34.280 --> 2:04:36.960 Oh yeah, yeah, you know that. You know what the 2:04:37.080 --> 2:04:38.919 traveling pats, Oh yeah, I can't. 2:04:38.680 --> 2:04:40.840 Handle all these girls come on down here. You ain't 2:04:40.840 --> 2:04:42.000 got three folk coming to that. 2:04:42.240 --> 2:04:46.520 That happened in the NFL security big But see now, Gil, 2:04:46.760 --> 2:04:49.640 Gil with I wouldn't want no parts of that now 2:04:50.160 --> 2:04:52.280 with the way it's set up now, or you're gonna 2:04:52.280 --> 2:04:55.280 get it's a simple limit, sha Let me show you 2:04:55.280 --> 2:05:01.040 a simple rule, Gill. No means no, maybe means no, 2:05:01.640 --> 2:05:03.360 and sometimes yes means. 2:05:03.080 --> 2:05:07.879 No tomorrow all that no, nope, nope, leaving along, Gil. 2:05:09.200 --> 2:05:14.360 Cash means yes right, cash means as soon as they 2:05:14.360 --> 2:05:17.640 ain't take that cat, they mean, yeah, right, so we pay. 2:05:17.840 --> 2:05:18.600 We're paying. 2:05:20.520 --> 2:05:22.480 What you say, Oh yeah, go ahead that Yeah, we 2:05:22.480 --> 2:05:24.880 got receipts. Oh, let me cash app you this hug 2:05:25.400 --> 2:05:28.320 cash app. Sin, I ain't got no apps or I 2:05:28.320 --> 2:05:29.880 ain't got no cash apps on my phone. 2:05:30.080 --> 2:05:31.640 But why you got no uber. I ain't got no 2:05:31.760 --> 2:05:35.600 I ain't got nothing. Have you noticed though, the NBA 2:05:35.640 --> 2:05:38.440 players ain't getting called out for that? Yeah? 2:05:39.320 --> 2:05:41.600 Yeah, man, y'all y'all, But see, y'all got a different life. 2:05:41.640 --> 2:05:45.240 See y'all see basketball like basketball and baseball player, y'all. 2:05:45.280 --> 2:05:48.400 That drove the price up, y'all, y'all inflation, So y'all 2:05:48.400 --> 2:05:50.680 done drove the price up to hill. I mean he 2:05:50.760 --> 2:05:53.040 used to be you know, finger near your hair done. 2:05:53.320 --> 2:05:55.560 You know you get your nails done, and you know 2:05:55.640 --> 2:05:57.120 you're playing a little bill here or there. 2:05:57.600 --> 2:06:01.720 Mm hmm mm hm. Oh yeah, we messed the Oh yeah, 2:06:02.120 --> 2:06:02.840 y y'all. 2:06:04.320 --> 2:06:08.000 Yeah, yeah, god man, yeah, we flying were flying private 2:06:08.040 --> 2:06:10.560 private jet. We're gonna give you thousands just to get you. 2:06:12.000 --> 2:06:13.920 See that's what I'm saying. Oh see I need them. 2:06:14.320 --> 2:06:18.920 I needed a pre pandemic prices, see y'all, see see 2:06:19.080 --> 2:06:22.560 pandemic that happened and everything was scarce needed to go 2:06:22.600 --> 2:06:26.360 back to pre pandemic. Yes, I can't, I can yet, 2:06:26.480 --> 2:06:28.960 your your man. I hate the basketball players. I told 2:06:29.000 --> 2:06:31.640 you all, the basketball player, the baseball player, that the belevel. 2:06:33.040 --> 2:06:35.120 Like we we we we buying the burking bag. 2:06:35.200 --> 2:06:37.600 Were gonna put the thirty thousand, forty thousand in there 2:06:37.720 --> 2:06:39.280 just to talk to you. We we're gonna try to 2:06:39.280 --> 2:06:41.160 spoil you, just to get it, just for the ways 2:06:41.200 --> 2:06:47.480 over old on y'all see that a just NFL players. See, 2:06:47.520 --> 2:06:49.080 that's why we ain't got no chance. That's why we 2:06:49.120 --> 2:06:52.960 can't compete with them. Bill already tell y'all don't bring 2:06:53.000 --> 2:06:55.040 your track shoes. Y'all want to keep keep up with 2:06:55.080 --> 2:06:58.840 the NBA player, bring your check book and that and that. 2:06:58.960 --> 2:07:02.400 When people hear me talk and I say, y'all don't understand. 2:07:02.400 --> 2:07:05.840 I got a different playbook, my platebook. I get to 2:07:05.880 --> 2:07:07.920 say whatever I walk because what they're gonna do, I 2:07:07.920 --> 2:07:11.080 can just get a new one, right how I like 2:07:11.160 --> 2:07:13.000 girls like yeah, don't talk to me like that. I 2:07:13.120 --> 2:07:16.880 get you, and then the people above me get you too. 2:07:18.160 --> 2:07:21.760 You know Dave that say Hey, what time you gonna 2:07:21.760 --> 2:07:22.240 be over here? 2:07:22.440 --> 2:07:25.080 You said nine. I'm holding right now. I'm gonna call 2:07:25.160 --> 2:07:30.440 somebody else. I see you later. I get to do that. Oh, 2:07:31.160 --> 2:07:33.280 I'll I'll be over right now. Well, whoever, whoever get 2:07:33.280 --> 2:07:38.480 here first, that's who I'm letting me in. So what 2:07:38.600 --> 2:07:41.800 so what if they show at the same time. Hey, hey, 2:07:41.840 --> 2:07:47.160 y'all like each other. Hey, hey, look the NBA player. 2:07:47.160 --> 2:07:50.920 Look the NBA player. Listen, the NBA player gonna try it. 2:07:51.640 --> 2:07:55.000 We say whatever because we can. 2:07:56.000 --> 2:07:58.840 I'm scared. And that's the problem. Like we really like, 2:07:59.200 --> 2:08:01.880 we we root, we rude, like. 2:08:02.120 --> 2:08:06.800 We we we compromise because we we we we can 2:08:06.840 --> 2:08:10.600 go into d M and then get the talking we 2:08:10.880 --> 2:08:12.520 talk records. All right, Well, then I just holler at 2:08:12.560 --> 2:08:14.240 your friend or ill holler at this person. Y'all are 2:08:14.280 --> 2:08:16.040 all for of y'all to come back. We we just 2:08:16.280 --> 2:08:22.560 were just sitting there just playing mismatch. And that's that's 2:08:22.600 --> 2:08:27.760 that's that's the problem. But and guess what, you ain't 2:08:27.760 --> 2:08:33.600 gonna catch us in public with them. So that means, listen, 2:08:33.640 --> 2:08:37.800 we were treating girls who are high sed diitty, yeah, 2:08:38.120 --> 2:08:40.200 to turn them into three o fo's. 2:08:40.600 --> 2:08:43.160 That's for let's holds backwards. 2:08:44.960 --> 2:08:47.840 You know your your your superstar women, them them stars. 2:08:48.160 --> 2:08:48.400 Yeah. 2:08:48.680 --> 2:08:51.960 Yeah, they they come sneaky in the hotel two in 2:08:52.000 --> 2:08:53.560 the morning and go. 2:08:53.600 --> 2:08:54.320 And leave out. 2:08:55.080 --> 2:08:57.760 So you know, I was wondering, I say, man, why 2:08:57.840 --> 2:09:00.560 everybody got a g wagon? Why they gotta working bag? 2:09:00.600 --> 2:09:02.880 And they got on aps on y'all ain't got no 2:09:02.960 --> 2:09:08.040 job like Oh now it makes sens gil. I was 2:09:08.080 --> 2:09:10.760 wondering every time I go on, I g and I'm looking. 2:09:10.960 --> 2:09:13.640 She got a g wagon, she got a burking bag, 2:09:13.880 --> 2:09:14.560 she got. 2:09:14.320 --> 2:09:20.480 An ap she look. She dated the date the NBA 2:09:20.680 --> 2:09:24.320 player for the luxury. They date the NFL player for 2:09:24.400 --> 2:09:24.880 the love. 2:09:26.080 --> 2:09:30.760 Y'all gonna show them the attention that they need. Oh lord, listen, 2:09:30.920 --> 2:09:33.360 I can. I can fly you out from Miami. We 2:09:33.400 --> 2:09:36.760 go to Miami Club. You you are in town with 2:09:36.920 --> 2:09:38.720 me and I took somebody else home. 2:09:39.600 --> 2:09:43.200 Yeah, I'm just gonna get your new hotel room. She better. Wow, 2:09:44.040 --> 2:09:45.680 I ain't got that guy. I ain't never had that guy. 2:09:45.680 --> 2:09:48.560 I ain't never been that ballsy well, I ain't never 2:09:48.800 --> 2:09:50.320 First of all, I ain't never flew out to him. 2:09:50.520 --> 2:09:52.280 I ain't never went to a party like that like 2:09:52.320 --> 2:09:54.000 y'all be doing it. I guess I'm about to go 2:09:54.040 --> 2:09:56.880 out there and let my hair down. Yes over they 2:09:56.920 --> 2:10:00.200 allay put. Now, don't let me try to look to 2:10:00.240 --> 2:10:02.320 the next celebrity you see, go to the next Celebritcy. 2:10:02.440 --> 2:10:04.760 Hey, listen, I want you for tonight. I got about 2:10:04.760 --> 2:10:09.200 forty five minutes. Hey, what you got for me? You'll 2:10:09.240 --> 2:10:11.000 be surprised. Here's the thing. 2:10:11.360 --> 2:10:15.240 I get it, Gil, Look at my age. I'm fifty five. 2:10:15.960 --> 2:10:18.080 I'm a little bit of a celebrity. They're playing in 2:10:18.080 --> 2:10:22.120 the NFL, and I get that at my age because 2:10:22.120 --> 2:10:25.000 of who I am. The dating pool is a lot open, 2:10:25.040 --> 2:10:28.440 a lot more open than say somebody fifty five that's 2:10:28.520 --> 2:10:29.440 not in my position. 2:10:29.520 --> 2:10:32.920 I can get it, but I ain't no food now, Gil. 2:10:33.160 --> 2:10:35.160 It ain't all the way open like if I now, 2:10:35.360 --> 2:10:39.480 if I was twenty five or thirty five, I gotta 2:10:39.480 --> 2:10:45.000 play books. You know you're right, you're right, So you 2:10:45.040 --> 2:10:47.320 know I'm how to stay up my lane, Gill, like 2:10:47.400 --> 2:10:50.280 you don't ade. Hey, you know that new Florid law 2:10:50.360 --> 2:10:52.360 that just about to pass, a law you got to 2:10:52.360 --> 2:10:54.440 be at leave driving at least sixty five in the 2:10:54.480 --> 2:10:56.600 far left lane. 2:10:57.560 --> 2:10:58.800 I ain't all the way to the right. 2:10:59.200 --> 2:11:01.320 I'm in the lane they stood the part right lane, 2:11:01.760 --> 2:11:03.320 and I'm doing like fifty eight. 2:11:03.680 --> 2:11:04.760 Hey, good question up. 2:11:05.120 --> 2:11:08.440 Right, So since you're fifty five, is the problem that 2:11:09.280 --> 2:11:11.160 fifty five year old women don't look good? 2:11:12.480 --> 2:11:14.600 This is that the fifty five year old women don't 2:11:14.640 --> 2:11:18.040 look like kept up like you do? Is that? Is 2:11:18.040 --> 2:11:19.120 that a problem? 2:11:19.440 --> 2:11:27.160 The God, the God's honest truth. Women my age looking 2:11:27.200 --> 2:11:30.040 for guys younger. 2:11:31.880 --> 2:11:33.880 And me. 2:11:34.200 --> 2:11:38.400 I ain't no, said day, me too. So we both 2:11:38.440 --> 2:11:40.800 looking for different we looking over each other, looking for 2:11:40.840 --> 2:11:41.360 something else. 2:11:43.120 --> 2:11:44.360 Here what it is? It is? 2:11:44.400 --> 2:11:48.120 What it is, man, I'm at I'm at photios. 2:11:48.160 --> 2:11:48.800 So I'm good. 2:11:49.920 --> 2:11:54.880 You're the sweek five, they say, like when you date, 2:11:54.920 --> 2:11:58.000 when you're looking for a girlfriend or wife half your 2:11:58.040 --> 2:12:03.720 age plus plus seven, that's supposed to be your cutoff. Okay, 2:12:03.800 --> 2:12:07.000 after your age plus seven, So you're theoretically so from 2:12:07.040 --> 2:12:09.960 twenty seven. I guess all the way to forty is 2:12:10.000 --> 2:12:17.240 in your wheelhouse. Okay, I ain't tell nobody my age. 2:12:17.640 --> 2:12:25.600 I ain't really fifty five thirty seven now, I geel like, 2:12:27.080 --> 2:12:29.640 I just I just love. I just can't. 2:12:29.680 --> 2:12:30.840 I mean, I just I just say. 2:12:30.880 --> 2:12:33.120 I ain't never had that kind of gumption to be 2:12:33.160 --> 2:12:36.280 able to you know, I mean, I will say, you're 2:12:36.320 --> 2:12:37.040 not in I could. 2:12:37.080 --> 2:12:37.400 I could. 2:12:37.440 --> 2:12:40.880 I could sense early on if somebody wasn't feeling me. 2:12:41.480 --> 2:12:42.200 And that's cool. 2:12:42.760 --> 2:12:44.840 I ain't never called nobody out their name because they 2:12:44.840 --> 2:12:46.920 didn't want to holler at me, or they found my 2:12:47.000 --> 2:12:49.560 boy more attractive, or he had somebody had more money. 2:12:49.560 --> 2:12:53.120 I'm cool. I'm good with it. It ain't the end 2:12:53.120 --> 2:12:54.760 of the world. I think my notes. 2:12:54.800 --> 2:12:57.200 Your personality lets me get away with a lot more 2:12:58.440 --> 2:13:03.200 because they already expected, right, they expect they expected. 2:13:03.520 --> 2:13:04.760 Like if I go out there. 2:13:04.720 --> 2:13:09.240 Right now and say, yeah, anybody charging for for you know, vagina, 2:13:09.880 --> 2:13:14.240 I'll have a whole d M full of models and celebrities. 2:13:14.840 --> 2:13:16.880 Are were you playing when you said that? 2:13:17.080 --> 2:13:17.920 Hey, big head? 2:13:22.560 --> 2:13:26.360 Like, sometimes I just say this ship just to say it, right, 2:13:26.960 --> 2:13:29.640 they take it. I don't even leave my goddamn house. 2:13:30.240 --> 2:13:32.120 I just see it just to say it. 2:13:33.600 --> 2:13:34.520 Just for kicks and giggles. 2:13:34.520 --> 2:13:36.240 Since everybody wants to be a good dude, so I 2:13:36.320 --> 2:13:37.800 just want to be a bad dude just to see 2:13:38.080 --> 2:13:40.680 just I hate. Someone has to someone has to talk 2:13:40.720 --> 2:13:46.160 for the slim balls bro and Tony Robinson saying oh 2:13:46.200 --> 2:13:47.880 you got to stop left, Steve, and they get away 2:13:47.880 --> 2:13:48.040 with that. 2:13:48.120 --> 2:13:49.480 Jordan Dad passed an excuse. 2:13:49.800 --> 2:13:53.720 Many people lose loved ones but just didn't quit their job. 2:13:53.840 --> 2:13:59.040 Brian better, Look, I mean we gil, I know you've 2:13:59.040 --> 2:14:04.280 heard everything that was said that there were other extreenuating circumstances. 2:14:04.640 --> 2:14:07.920 Was the reason that Jordan left the NBA. I don't know. 2:14:08.360 --> 2:14:10.080 He said it was a lot of pressure. I know 2:14:10.200 --> 2:14:12.720 the man had a very very close relationship with his dad. 2:14:13.280 --> 2:14:16.440 Uh and that's a lot. That's a lot given the 2:14:17.880 --> 2:14:20.960 tragedy and the tragic manner in which it happened happened, 2:14:20.960 --> 2:14:22.960 and the gravity of what happened. 2:14:23.200 --> 2:14:24.240 So I don't know. 2:14:24.760 --> 2:14:26.680 You know, they said it was other things where that 2:14:26.840 --> 2:14:28.120 led he was suspended. 2:14:28.760 --> 2:14:29.280 I don't know. 2:14:29.720 --> 2:14:31.880 And so all I know is that the man stepped 2:14:31.880 --> 2:14:34.200 away for a year and a half and came back 2:14:34.280 --> 2:14:36.560 and he wasn't quite the same. We're in the forty five, 2:14:36.800 --> 2:14:39.320 but when he showed back up in ninety six with 2:14:39.480 --> 2:14:40.040 that two. 2:14:39.920 --> 2:14:45.920 Three that two three three, Yeah, I mean it was. 2:14:47.480 --> 2:14:51.000 Like we've heard the stories, right, We've heard the whispers here. 2:14:51.200 --> 2:14:56.640 We've I've talked to refs, you know, and you know 2:14:56.680 --> 2:14:59.400 there's some things that went on, but you know. 2:15:00.360 --> 2:15:02.680 Let let. 2:15:03.480 --> 2:15:06.800 It was a mutual step away, right, It was a 2:15:06.880 --> 2:15:10.960 mutual step away, you know right now, you know, as 2:15:11.000 --> 2:15:13.760 they're facing the league. You know, we don't know if 2:15:13.760 --> 2:15:16.280 we can control all this drama. So you step away, 2:15:16.840 --> 2:15:19.200 going on, let the world miss you, and then you 2:15:19.320 --> 2:15:21.480 come back and then we can just talk about basketball, 2:15:22.440 --> 2:15:24.240 right you know, Sometimes you know, things like that have 2:15:24.320 --> 2:15:27.120 to happen, especially when you know who he was at 2:15:27.120 --> 2:15:31.200 the time. Yeah, yeah, I don't you know the things 2:15:31.240 --> 2:15:32.000 we we heard. 2:15:32.040 --> 2:15:34.440 You don't want that that. 2:15:34.160 --> 2:15:37.600 That that type of you know, cloud over the NBA, 2:15:37.760 --> 2:15:39.520 especially for who he was. 2:15:39.920 --> 2:15:42.440 Anybody else has, but not not him. Not him. 2:15:43.000 --> 2:15:46.440 Nicki went underscore ATO four said, hey, there, Gil, being 2:15:46.480 --> 2:15:50.400 from Richmond, Virginia, I'm I'm a Wizards fan because of you, 2:15:50.600 --> 2:15:53.640 and they're only what They're the only team in DC 2:15:54.080 --> 2:15:58.040 I support. So Nicki went underscore eight O four. She's 2:15:58.080 --> 2:15:59.440 a big fan of your Gil. 2:16:00.040 --> 2:16:01.800 The girl. There's only two teams in DC. 2:16:02.520 --> 2:16:06.200 You got the Wizards and you got Gold Georgetown, and 2:16:06.240 --> 2:16:07.200 the Wizard is about. 2:16:06.960 --> 2:16:08.000 To be going to Virginia. 2:16:08.080 --> 2:16:10.440 So I hope you got your bust fed or your 2:16:10.480 --> 2:16:13.320 gas money because that's where you're going where She and Richmond, 2:16:13.400 --> 2:16:18.560 So Richmond, Oh, we loved Richmond like we used to 2:16:18.560 --> 2:16:19.720 have training camp in Richmond. 2:16:19.920 --> 2:16:21.920 Yeah, yeah, that was a good. That was a good. 2:16:21.960 --> 2:16:22.720 That was a good. 2:16:22.440 --> 2:16:25.880 Like there, it was perfect for a training camp, like 2:16:25.920 --> 2:16:27.560 we went down there in George Mason all the time 2:16:27.800 --> 2:16:31.480 the training Raiders Mom twenty four eighty nine. Please shout 2:16:31.520 --> 2:16:34.199 out our son, Raider. He's seventeen months old, was born 2:16:34.240 --> 2:16:37.119 with five holes in his art, fourteen months in the hospital, 2:16:37.120 --> 2:16:40.600 but he's finally home. God is good. Raider's Mom, twenty 2:16:40.640 --> 2:16:46.040 four eighty nine. Congratulations all the best Raider. Hopefully after 2:16:46.080 --> 2:16:48.760 fourteen months in the hospital, he's seventeen months old. 2:16:49.200 --> 2:16:50.120 Finally home. 2:16:50.680 --> 2:16:55.520 Congratulations, and hopefully he has a long, healthy, prosperous life. 2:16:55.560 --> 2:16:58.360 God is good. Thank you, Raider's mom twenty four eighty 2:16:58.400 --> 2:17:02.560 nine for sharing that. Jay his name is Raider, His 2:17:02.680 --> 2:17:04.240 name is Raiders. 2:17:04.680 --> 2:17:06.960 Well, no, we know a team. What football fan he's 2:17:07.000 --> 2:17:07.680 gonna be a fan of? 2:17:08.440 --> 2:17:12.480 Nothing can't be Jay asked, do you think Piston's losing 2:17:12.520 --> 2:17:15.880 streak should be a reminder of to other rebuilding teams 2:17:16.160 --> 2:17:17.600 the risk of getting it wrong? 2:17:20.720 --> 2:17:28.120 No, the losing streak is is more of they found 2:17:29.040 --> 2:17:31.440 they found out how to be bad. 2:17:32.280 --> 2:17:34.440 Yeah, you gotta practice this girl, ain't no way you 2:17:34.440 --> 2:17:36.080 can practice being good and be this bad. 2:17:36.160 --> 2:17:39.120 So you gotta practice being bad. You gotta the habits 2:17:39.640 --> 2:17:42.560 of what you do every day. It's to look like 2:17:42.600 --> 2:17:43.400 when you're talking. 2:17:43.160 --> 2:17:46.600 About what makes a great team great is the little 2:17:46.640 --> 2:17:51.000 things they do when their shots not falling, when you 2:17:51.040 --> 2:17:53.120 know there's they're they're making those extra plays. 2:17:53.160 --> 2:17:55.120 I took a charge here, dove out of the bounds, 2:17:55.280 --> 2:17:56.000 hustled back. 2:17:55.879 --> 2:17:59.279 On defense line. Right, you make those little extra plays. 2:17:59.680 --> 2:18:03.200 That's what the winning teams do. Now the opposite bad 2:18:03.280 --> 2:18:08.480 teams they make all the wrong plays at the right 2:18:08.520 --> 2:18:12.160 time for their opponent taking a bad shot, turning the 2:18:12.200 --> 2:18:14.880 ball over. Right, You know you had five turnovers for 2:18:14.959 --> 2:18:17.720 the game. Four of them was in the last minute, right. 2:18:18.200 --> 2:18:20.600 Yeah, you just find ways to lose. 2:18:20.640 --> 2:18:24.000 And when you're a bad team, it's more mental than 2:18:24.040 --> 2:18:26.320 it is the game itself. 2:18:26.480 --> 2:18:28.199 Right, is they're going to run, they hit. 2:18:28.120 --> 2:18:33.280 Two threes, You look at each other, Oh we lost again. 2:18:33.680 --> 2:18:36.119 Now this is the first everybody hit you down, right, 2:18:36.400 --> 2:18:37.920 And that's what it is like. 2:18:37.959 --> 2:18:41.000 There has to be a moment in time where if 2:18:41.040 --> 2:18:44.480 you think positive, it will happen. You go in and say, hey, 2:18:44.920 --> 2:18:47.600 we're gonna win this game, no matter how many shots 2:18:47.680 --> 2:18:47.960 they make. 2:18:48.000 --> 2:18:49.920 We're gonna cheer, We're gonna stand, We're gonna root. 2:18:50.160 --> 2:18:52.440 I need the bench, I need you guys stand up 2:18:52.480 --> 2:18:54.520 the rest of the game. We're gonna cheer. We're gonna 2:18:54.520 --> 2:18:57.000 do it. We need to be our own battery pack. 2:18:57.440 --> 2:18:59.440 And the day they do that is the day they 2:18:59.440 --> 2:19:03.640 get out of this. But right now they'll lunch me. Wow, 2:19:04.160 --> 2:19:09.360 that's really tough. Please make sure you hit that light button. 2:19:09.360 --> 2:19:11.600 Make sure you hit that subscribe button. Thank you for 2:19:11.680 --> 2:19:14.320 joining us for another episode of Nightcap. You can find 2:19:14.400 --> 2:19:17.120 us at the Nightcap feed, the Club Shay Shape Feed. 2:19:17.160 --> 2:19:21.240 We greatly appreciate that. 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