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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: We're back from All Star break, which means there was
Speaker 1: a game last night versus the Lackers, uh Doves, guys win.
Speaker 1: A couple more things we'll talk about on this episode,
Speaker 1: But first, I hope you all checked out the Jamal
Speaker 1: Crawford episode. They're released earlier this week. We recorded that
Speaker 1: at All Star Weekend at the great legendary Hinkle Fieldhouse
Speaker 1: on Butler University's campus. Thank you to Butler coaches Coachtadmada
Speaker 1: Mariy's Joseph John Diebler for allowing us to use the facilities.
Speaker 1: It was great to step in there. You know, hinklefield
Speaker 1: House is one of those basketball places that when you
Speaker 1: go there, you just feel the magic in there. Actually
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to watch the game, go check out
Speaker 1: Butler versus Creighton. Creighton ended up taking the game, which
Speaker 1: was a big game for Butler's type playoff or NCAA
Speaker 1: tournament hopes. But like I said, just to fill that environment,
Speaker 1: to be in in an arena like that and then
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to shoot our episode there with Jamal
Speaker 1: was great and very fitting because that was a high
Speaker 1: level basketball conversation and in a setting like that, it's
Speaker 1: only right. So if you haven't checked that out, go
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Speaker 1: It is boom. So make sure you all go check
Speaker 1: that out, go subscribe. We're waiting on you. Let's do it. Then,
Speaker 1: after we get into a couple of topics, we will
Speaker 1: have a mail back section where we will take some
Speaker 1: of your questions. Jackson will fire them away. I will
Speaker 1: fire some answers before we get out of here. But
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Only right that we talk All
Speaker 1: Star Break, coming out of All Star Break or All
Speaker 1: Star Weekend, the All Star Game in particular, and Saturday
Speaker 1: coming out of All Star Weekend. Number one There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of fuss about. I saw Steven A. Smith
Speaker 1: say Lebron James killed the single handedly killed the dunk contest,
Speaker 1: And as you all know, we love Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: It's those statements that just does not sit well with me.
Speaker 1: It's just like so far fest Like, hey man, there's
Speaker 1: one guy who did not participate in the dunk contest
Speaker 1: single handily killed the dunk contest, and that just can't
Speaker 1: be factual because the reality is when Lebron James would
Speaker 1: have been in the dunk contest, which was like twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, literally twenty years ago. There has been several
Speaker 1: great dunk contests since. So for Stephen A to say
Speaker 1: Lebron James single handedly destroyed the dunk contest, it's quite
Speaker 1: the reach and it's not quite accurate because that means
Speaker 1: we doesn't get Zach Lavine dunk contest performances. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, he won three dunk contests. But I'm for
Speaker 1: sure too. We don't get Dwight Howard in a dunk contest.
Speaker 1: We don't get Nate Robinson winning dunk contest since Lebron
Speaker 1: James one could have been in a dunk contest those
Speaker 1: around Tom Jason Richardson was winning Dunk Contest, and so
Speaker 1: there's been so many great dunk contests. And by the way,
Speaker 1: let me not forget, and I mean this from the
Speaker 1: bottom of my heart, because it's ridiculous the great Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon and dunk contests. Aaron Gordon is still the best
Speaker 1: dunk contest performer we've ever seen to not have a
Speaker 1: Dunk Contest trophy. It's absolutely insane. I know his I
Speaker 1: know he's a bit in his feelings about it, and
Speaker 1: I get it. I would be too, and I know
Speaker 1: he has an ego about it, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I think he should get back in there, though, because
Speaker 1: he needed that crown and there's no zach Lavine, so
Speaker 1: I think he should get back in there. I've already
Speaker 1: said my piece before about g leaguers being in the
Speaker 1: Dunk Contest like a part of being in the Dunk
Speaker 1: Contest and being a part of All Star Weekend, it's
Speaker 1: being in the NBA. Mac mcclum's my guy. As I
Speaker 1: told y'all, he came to camp with us, great, great,
Speaker 1: good dude, But you kind of got to be in
Speaker 1: the NBA. To be in the NBA Dunk Contest. If not,
Speaker 1: then we should just go get like all of those
Speaker 1: guys off of those Dunk squads and all that, and
Speaker 1: like say, hey man, this is just a show we're
Speaker 1: putting on. It's not necessarily All Star Weekend. So we
Speaker 1: got that. Let's get Aaron Gordon back in the Dunk
Speaker 1: contest or because the Dunk Contest is thirty years old,
Speaker 1: and maybe it's time to think a little outside the
Speaker 1: box and come up with some different events, because you know,
Speaker 1: it's just the reality. All things come to an end,
Speaker 1: All great things must come to an end, So maybe
Speaker 1: it's just time to explore that. I don't know that's
Speaker 1: neither here nor there, but the Dunk Contest is pretty bad,
Speaker 1: to say the least. So Aaron Gordon, the Dunk Contest
Speaker 1: needs you. And that's not as far as the reach
Speaker 1: as Lebron James single handedly destroying the Dunk Contest. I
Speaker 1: know it's a slow Dan media. I know, stephen A.
Speaker 1: There was no game, Stephen. They needed to draw some
Speaker 1: people in. I get it. I understand. When I saw that,
Speaker 1: I was just like, WHOA, come on, Steven, It's been
Speaker 1: too many great ones since then. And moving on, the
Speaker 1: All Star Game absolutely pathetic. It's ridiculous. And to see
Speaker 1: guys like and by the way, I have some suggestions
Speaker 1: on ways to fix it, But to see guys like
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, who's a lot of people are helling as
Speaker 1: the next face of the league like blatantly say we
Speaker 1: don't care, we don't want to play, we don't want
Speaker 1: to be there. To me, that was a bit disheartening
Speaker 1: because it's one thing that Steph Curry don't want to
Speaker 1: be there. It's one thing if Lebron James doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be there. That's one thing if even Luca, who
Speaker 1: you know sits on the fence of what I'm about
Speaker 1: to say, but it's been there five times Joker five
Speaker 1: six times. And so in saying all of that, for
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, who was in his first All Star game
Speaker 1: that he was actually voted into last year, was his
Speaker 1: first All Star game playing and he was a replacement
Speaker 1: saying like, ah, we don't want to be here, I
Speaker 1: don't want to play. Like a big deal on guys
Speaker 1: resumes is All Star Game m VP. We've seen Kobe
Speaker 1: win it over years, Ai Shaq, lebron kd Steph, Like
Speaker 1: when you look at the guys. I don't understand why
Speaker 1: a young Anthony Edwards wouldn't want his names sketched in
Speaker 1: stone next to the likes of those guys in anything,
Speaker 1: because anytime you can be next to the likes of
Speaker 1: those guys, I just don't understand why you wouldn't want that.
Speaker 1: And so to play defense backwards to shoot left handed threes,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a little outlandish. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a little crazy and, like I said, a little
Speaker 1: disheartening just because of who he is, who we all
Speaker 1: think he is going to be to this league. And
Speaker 1: a part of being the face of the NBA, and
Speaker 1: I keep seeing so many people talk about being the
Speaker 1: face in the NBA. A part of being the face
Speaker 1: in the NBA is also being a steward of the game,
Speaker 1: a steward of the NBA. When you look at Lebron
Speaker 1: James and how long he's been the face of the NBA,
Speaker 1: you look at Steph Curry and being one of the
Speaker 1: faces of the NBA, they're stewards of the game of
Speaker 1: all things NBA. As the face of the NBA, you're
Speaker 1: kind of in direct partnership with the NBA to continue
Speaker 1: to move this thing forward and so, and maybe Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards doesn't want to be the face of the NBA
Speaker 1: because everybody don't want that. And I get it, like
Speaker 1: there's different things that comes with being facing NBA that
Speaker 1: not everybody wants, and he's entitled to want that. But
Speaker 1: if Anthony Edwards is who I think he is, somebody
Speaker 1: needs to be teaching him that. If he is who
Speaker 1: I think he is, which I think he is exactly
Speaker 1: who I think he is, and so someone need to
Speaker 1: tell him it's about more than just being good at basketball, Like,
Speaker 1: you actually have to be a great partner to be
Speaker 1: face of the NBA. And that's just kind of what
Speaker 1: it boils down to. When you're the face of a franchise,
Speaker 1: you have to do more than those that don't At
Speaker 1: media day, you have to do more than those that
Speaker 1: aren't the face of the NBA face of a franchise.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's media day is a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: ours because he is the face of the Golden State Warriors. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what that same thing goes for being the face
Speaker 1: of the NBA. If you ask Adam Silver how great
Speaker 1: of a partner Lebron James has been, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he'd be able to come up with the words to
Speaker 1: explain to you how great of a partner he's been.
Speaker 1: If you ask Adam Silver how great of a partner
Speaker 1: Steph Curry has been, I'm not sure he could come
Speaker 1: up with the words to let you know how great
Speaker 1: of a person, how great of a partner Steph Curry
Speaker 1: has been as far as the NBA goes. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need these young guys to take some notes on
Speaker 1: what it means to be the face of the NBA,
Speaker 1: because it's not just being good at basketball. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of people to be good at basketball come
Speaker 1: through the NBA. Even great come through the NBA and
Speaker 1: has not been the face of the NBA. So understand
Speaker 1: what you're speaking on, Understand what you're asking for, Understand
Speaker 1: what's being asked of you. If you want to drop
Speaker 1: your hat, your name in that bucket. And by the way,
Speaker 1: no one's going to decide that. It just kind of
Speaker 1: naturally happens. No one really decided that Lebron James was
Speaker 1: going to be the face of the NBA. Oh, he
Speaker 1: was the chosen one. And although he had all the
Speaker 1: hype that he had, Lebron James became the face of
Speaker 1: the NBA way faster than everyone thought he would. You
Speaker 1: probably thought Kobe was gonna be the face of the
Speaker 1: NBA when Lebron Jay all of a sudden became the
Speaker 1: face of the NBA. Why because it just happens. Adam
Speaker 1: Silver doesn't come and say, okay, now the face is boom.
Speaker 1: It just don't happen that way. It just naturally happens.
Speaker 1: And it naturally happens is because, or in large part,
Speaker 1: because those guys are stewards of a game. So young
Speaker 1: guys take some notes. As far as the All Star
Speaker 1: Game goes. One thing the NBA should understand is how
Speaker 1: much like, for instance, we have a game today. As
Speaker 1: soon as I finish this, I'm going to start going
Speaker 1: to do game prep, core, activation, flow movement, getting my
Speaker 1: hips and things moving and flowing, little spin on the
Speaker 1: bike just to get the blood flowing. It's ten twenty
Speaker 1: three am. We play a seven. Where are you going
Speaker 1: with this, draight man. It's called game day for a
Speaker 1: reason because everything you do that day is to prepare
Speaker 1: for the game. So it's called game day. The All
Speaker 1: Star Game. You do a million other things before the game,
Speaker 1: including on the court, warming up for fifty minutes, sixty
Speaker 1: minutes warming up, and then you're asking the highest level
Speaker 1: of athletes, which means they understand their bodies at the
Speaker 1: highest level, to then go exert an extreme amount of energy.
Speaker 1: And it's easy to say the guys before you did it.
Speaker 1: Number one, guys weren't training the way we train. All
Speaker 1: the core activations and different things weren't the thing. Because
Speaker 1: all of those things has elevated and grown as time
Speaker 1: has grown. We learn more about the body, we do
Speaker 1: more as time go on. There wasn't so many media
Speaker 1: obligations because media wasn't as big as it is now.
Speaker 1: There wasn't as many partnerships, sponsorship obligations. You know why,
Speaker 1: because the NBA wasn't as big, so there wasn't as
Speaker 1: many partners There weren't as many sponsors. So it's very
Speaker 1: easy to say Kobe took the gethers, and Kobe did.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we all want to see guys
Speaker 1: take the game serious. But it's easy to say Mike
Speaker 1: mj took the game serious. There was four sponsors, there's forty.
Speaker 1: There's forty now maybe more, just throwing a random number
Speaker 1: out there. So if you want the game to be
Speaker 1: a game. Then on Sunday, you need to make sure
Speaker 1: that guys can prepare for what a game, which means
Speaker 1: the NBA should be covering physios being there. Steph Curry
Speaker 1: has a physio that he works with before the game.
Speaker 1: The NBA should be covering that physio's travel, that physio's
Speaker 1: hotel room, that physio being at the arena doing what
Speaker 1: Getting Steph Curry's body ready to play a game, Getting
Speaker 1: Luka Donca's body ready to play a game. Everybody keeps saying,
Speaker 1: oh man, raise it up to a million dollars. That's
Speaker 1: when you're gonna get guys hurt. Because if it's the
Speaker 1: same obligations that it's been, all the things that you
Speaker 1: have to do to where you can't focus on getting
Speaker 1: your body ready for a game, and then you're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a bright, shiny object that is a million dollars. Everybody,
Speaker 1: now go play hard and go get the million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's when you're gonna get guys getting hurt. Why because
Speaker 1: they are exerting energy to get a million dollars and
Speaker 1: not properly prepared to exert that energy. Bodies aren't prepared
Speaker 1: to go that hard. So then you start talking about injuries.
Speaker 1: That's when guys are gonna get hurt. So if we
Speaker 1: want this to be a real game, let's make this
Speaker 1: a real game day. Let's allow these guys to prepare
Speaker 1: for a proper game day, if that's what we're asking.
Speaker 1: If that's what we're asking, you can't say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you get no time to go through your game routine,
Speaker 1: but then we need you to go play like you're
Speaker 1: playing in the game. That never works. Anybody who knows
Speaker 1: anything about preparing for an NBA game knows what goes
Speaker 1: into preparing for the game, and it's an All Star
Speaker 1: does not allow you to do that. So if we
Speaker 1: want the big show, if we want the corporate sponsors
Speaker 1: and all of those things, if those things are going
Speaker 1: to continue to be what's of most importance, then let's
Speaker 1: not say we're sick of the All Star game being bad.
Speaker 1: But if we want the game to be what's most important,
Speaker 1: then those are a couple of the changes that we
Speaker 1: need to make. Yes, it'll be great to up the money.
Speaker 1: You got all these sponsors coming in saying hey, they
Speaker 1: want to be a part of All Star Weekend. You
Speaker 1: look at all Star weekends. Thence that's not an Indiana crowd,
Speaker 1: that's a crowd full of corporate sponsorships, which takes me
Speaker 1: to another point. Having these All Star All Star Weekend
Speaker 1: used to be a draw. All Star Weekend used to
Speaker 1: be a big thing. Not quite the super Bowl. Nothing
Speaker 1: is the super Bowl, but All Star Weekend was a thing.
Speaker 1: It was a thing culturally. It was a thing for
Speaker 1: the NBA like NBA fans, it was a big thing.
Speaker 1: It's all just corporate stuff now. And so I said
Speaker 1: all that to say, we give these teams home court
Speaker 1: per se stink A where the All Star Games has
Speaker 1: been the last three years. Those aren't fun places to go.
Speaker 1: But again, you're acting guys to give up the break
Speaker 1: to be in these cities. At least we can do
Speaker 1: is put it in great cities or you know, Miami
Speaker 1: where guys want to go, Los Angeles where guys want
Speaker 1: to go. San Francisco. Everybody doesn't want to quite come
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. San Francisco is a great city. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's looking at going to San Francisco like
Speaker 1: they're looking at going to Utah or to Cleveland or Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: So Phoenix like put the put it back in places
Speaker 1: where people want to go. Vegas, we just saw the
Speaker 1: best Super Bowl I've ever seen in Vegas. Or you
Speaker 1: know what you can say, if Indiana is supposed to
Speaker 1: host this year, it's going to be in the Bahamas.
Speaker 1: Guys want to go to the Bahamas. Guys will take
Speaker 1: their families there and make a whole week out of it. Great.
Speaker 1: Guess what you also get other NBA players that's not
Speaker 1: all stars there m Or say Salt Lake City is
Speaker 1: supposed to host it, then it's in Hawaii. Salt Lake Cities,
Speaker 1: Utah Utah Jazz are still a host, but it's in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: And say it's in Waikiki. Local sponsorship dollars you give
Speaker 1: back to the to the city. God's gonna go make
Speaker 1: a whole week vacation out of it with their families.
Speaker 1: It's a desirable place to go all start weekend becomes
Speaker 1: a draw again. Maybe I don't think that's very far fetched.
Speaker 1: The game is starting at eight forty five, so late.
Speaker 1: The only thing guys can think of is I need
Speaker 1: to get out of here, get to my plane so
Speaker 1: I can get the cobo ho start the game at five.
Speaker 1: I don't know, these are just a couple of suggestions
Speaker 1: and things that I saw with my own eyes. Shout
Speaker 1: out to the Turner family, by the way out the outcast,
Speaker 1: we got great reviews on Taylor Rooks, Charles Barkley, Jamal Crawford, myself.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the team. Great work at All Star.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing, has so much fun. Absolutely incredible. Taylor.
Speaker 1: I think it's great. You always heard me talk about
Speaker 1: that before. Charles Barkley is the easiest person to work
Speaker 1: with in America. He's the best. Jamal Crawford working the sidelines.
Speaker 1: How who's working the interviews that he got amazing. Thank
Speaker 1: you to the Turner family. That was great. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: I keep saying Turner TNT Sports family. That was great.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Also, thank you to all of y'all who
Speaker 1: to him. Then. But back to this All Star game,
Speaker 1: make it a real game. Yes, raise the money because
Speaker 1: if we're making this all about corporate sponsors, then they
Speaker 1: need to put more money in to those players. Reward
Speaker 1: the team that wins, but allow guys to have a
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Speaker 1: In other news, the Duves beat the Lakers last night
Speaker 1: one twenty eight one ten no Lebron Steph thirty two
Speaker 1: and eight six to thirteen from three wigs twenty points,
Speaker 1: continuing to play at a high level. Trady seventeen points
Speaker 1: and five rebounds in fifteen minutes off the bench. Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson name will not show up here, but the impact
Speaker 1: Klay Thompson had on the game was absolutely incredible. Week
Speaker 1: side tags, the drop offs, he's getting, the trace for layups.
Speaker 1: Clay had five assists. I think four of them was
Speaker 1: for dunks and layups to trace. Maybe all five of them.
Speaker 1: Had a great floor game, missed great shots, had great looks.
Speaker 1: We know he'll make those absolutely amazing game played by
Speaker 1: Clay and it won't show up in a statue, so
Speaker 1: nobody will look and be like, wow, Clay played a
Speaker 1: great game. Clay was incredible last night and one of
Speaker 1: the keys to us winning that game. It was great
Speaker 1: to beat the Lakers. Obviously we're right there in the standings.
Speaker 1: I think us beating them last night game and one
Speaker 1: more lost than us, although we haven't played the same
Speaker 1: amount of games, so we're still half game or so
Speaker 1: behind in the standards. But I thought that was a
Speaker 1: pretty good win for us, obviously, to keep a roll
Speaker 1: and win into the break playing really well, and to
Speaker 1: come out the break playing the way we did. It's great.
Speaker 1: Jackson wanted me to talk to y'all about my three
Speaker 1: point percentage. I am not, don't jink Smith. We're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about that. We're going to lead that
Speaker 1: thing floating where it is and keep on putting them
Speaker 1: things up. That's what we're gonna do. Always looking forward
Speaker 1: to playing against Lebron with the matchups that we've had
Speaker 1: over these years. Obviously sucks that he didn't play last night,
Speaker 1: but you gotta play who they suit up, and we
Speaker 1: will take the win. Who knows that win may come
Speaker 1: back and be important for us later, so we will
Speaker 1: take it, and like I said, it's good for us
Speaker 1: to come out to break. Now. We got another game
Speaker 1: tonight versus the Charlotte Hornets, who is playing a lot
Speaker 1: better since the trade deadline. I think, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: they've won four or five games in a row. Four
Speaker 1: in a row, and they went to Utah and got
Speaker 1: a good win last night. It's important for us to
Speaker 1: continue to take care of our home court. Two more
Speaker 1: games on this homestand before we head out on a Washington,
Speaker 1: New York nick Toronto, Boston road trip, four game East
Speaker 1: coast road trip. East coast road trips are never easy,
Speaker 1: so it's important that we take care of home court tonight.
Speaker 1: And then also knowing that Sunday is going to be
Speaker 1: a tough game. It's Denver, always a tough game defending champions,
Speaker 1: so it's important that you handle the ones you're supposed
Speaker 1: to handle. In Tonight is one that we are supposed
Speaker 1: to win. So it's important for us to keep it
Speaker 1: rolling and make sure we close out this home standing
Speaker 1: the right way. And lastly, everybody want me to talk
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Stewart only getting suspended for three games for
Speaker 1: punching Drew u Banks, and everyone wants to know my
Speaker 1: thoughts on this. I'm never in favor of people getting
Speaker 1: suspended and losing money, So you're not gonna get me
Speaker 1: to be like, oh man, he should have got suspended
Speaker 1: for more games. Nope, that's not who I am, it's
Speaker 1: not how I roll. I think the only thing you
Speaker 1: could talk about is consistency. But I don't really even
Speaker 1: care to talk about that because I'm not in favor
Speaker 1: of anybody getting suspended and losing money. It's how we
Speaker 1: feed our families. Not gonna sit here and castraate Isaiah
Speaker 1: Stewart number one, start castrating people and don't be knowing
Speaker 1: the full story on anything. And I don't know the
Speaker 1: full story on that much love to Isaiah Stewart. I'm
Speaker 1: also not about to sit here and say I hope
Speaker 1: he get the help he needs, not the rout Draymond
Speaker 1: is going. I got love for the young fella. He
Speaker 1: is who he is, be who you be, y'all figure
Speaker 1: it out and moving on. Lastly, before we get to
Speaker 1: the mail back questions, JJ Reddit versus Doc Rivers and
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley and Austin Rivers and who else whoever else?
Speaker 1: Things got spicy and JJ went in and the gist
Speaker 1: of it was pretty much him calling Doc out and saying, Doc,
Speaker 1: stop making excuses. You keep making excuses, you keep blaming guys,
Speaker 1: you keep doing this, you keep enough, stop it. And
Speaker 1: I saw JJ apologize and said, listen, my tone I
Speaker 1: looked a little hot in my tone could have been better.
Speaker 1: But I'm not apologizing for what I said. I meant
Speaker 1: every word that I said, and I agree with JJ.
Speaker 1: When I been watching these DOC interviews, these guys were
Speaker 1: in Cabo, that guy was here. We didn't something didn't
Speaker 1: go right. It's only been two days. Every interview is
Speaker 1: another excuse, and that just can't work. Like, you knew
Speaker 1: what you were signing up for, DOC, You took over
Speaker 1: a team more than halfway through the season, through the
Speaker 1: halfway mark of the games of the season, if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, three and seven in the last ten, you
Speaker 1: knew what you was getting yourself into. You knew the
Speaker 1: issues that the team had before you got there. You
Speaker 1: knew all of these things. You can't you can't go
Speaker 1: make excuses now because you were actually brought in to
Speaker 1: fix those very thing and so you can't come and
Speaker 1: make the same excuses of the things that we already knew,
Speaker 1: because if that's the case, then you couldn't really accept
Speaker 1: the job with all that money that they gave you. DOC.
Speaker 1: So I totally understand where JJ was coming from. Pap
Speaker 1: Bev understood where JJ was coming from, and Austin Rivers
Speaker 1: understood where JJ was coming from. And the reason you
Speaker 1: know they understood where JJ was coming from is because
Speaker 1: they never said anything about what JJ said. What they
Speaker 1: did was attack JJ's playing career and say Doc saved
Speaker 1: your career. What all Doc did for you for your career? Now,
Speaker 1: if I was watching JJ's hit, it did come off
Speaker 1: as a little like I got a little animosity built
Speaker 1: up from my planning days under Doctor. I'm getting them
Speaker 1: all out now. It did come off a bit that way,
Speaker 1: But I played for tom Izzo, and playing for tom
Speaker 1: Izzo you learned something early, you learn it fast, and
Speaker 1: you get the lesson often, which is listen to what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, now how I'm saying it. So I listened
Speaker 1: to what JJ said, not how he was saying. And
Speaker 1: although again I did get the same gist that you
Speaker 1: all got, JJ might not like Doc. I did get
Speaker 1: that a little bit. But more importantly, I heard what
Speaker 1: JJ was saying, and what he was saying was very active.
Speaker 1: We cannot have the excuses Doc. I love Doc, as
Speaker 1: you all know, I've stated that on this podcast several times,
Speaker 1: nothing but love for Doc. But every press conference it
Speaker 1: cannot be a different excuse. And we all wanted to
Speaker 1: be in Cabo. My Cowbo days got even shortened because
Speaker 1: I had to go to Indianapolis for my TNT Sports family,
Speaker 1: which was great. I wouldn't change it for none in
Speaker 1: the world. Enjoy that had a blast. It was money,
Speaker 1: but we all wanted to be in Cowbo. That is
Speaker 1: your role as the coach to make sure them guys
Speaker 1: ready to play. That is Johannis and Dane's role as leaders,
Speaker 1: to make sure guys are ready to play before the
Speaker 1: also break. So I get where JJ was coming from.
Speaker 1: And nobody disputed the things that JJ said. They almost
Speaker 1: were disputed how it came off, which you mean it
Speaker 1: was facts? So Dot, we can't do the excuses. Dot.
Speaker 1: We love you, man, but you gotta get that team going.
Speaker 1: That's what they hired you for. You knew the challenges
Speaker 1: before you took the job. You took the job. You
Speaker 1: there gotta do what you gotta do to write that ship.
Speaker 1: Dot Jackson before we get out of here, got some
Speaker 1: questions for me I do I do?
Speaker 4: Thank you guys for asking the questions. We're gonna do
Speaker 4: this every time we have a Bleacher Report Live episode.
Speaker 4: First one from at Channing, What do you see Trace Jackson?
Speaker 4: Davis's role on the team being going forward.
Speaker 1: You know as a rookie, uh what you say? His
Speaker 1: name is at Channing. As a rookie, always hard to
Speaker 1: get consistent minutes because things change from time to time
Speaker 1: and you are usually the first one to get your minutes.
Speaker 1: Teeter with and saying that Trace has a very good
Speaker 1: connection with Clay, And what young guys should understand is
Speaker 1: that will get you on the floor. When I was
Speaker 1: a rookie, you go watch it, I'd agreeciously, like come
Speaker 1: from anywhere on the floor, like, hey, hunting stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: It's set screens, It created chemistry. It got me on
Speaker 1: the floor. So you gotta understand the things that I
Speaker 1: can get you on the floor. And if I I
Speaker 1: know how important Klay Thompson is to this team, so
Speaker 1: if I can build a connection with him, that gets
Speaker 1: me minutes. So trade should understand that where what his
Speaker 1: role will be is what he is when he's in Florid,
Speaker 1: when he's on the floor, he's a room protector, he's
Speaker 1: a live threat. He's streaming and rolling, rebounding to basketball.
Speaker 1: That's what that's what his role would be. How much
Speaker 1: that will be you gotta talk to Steve Carroll nowl.
Speaker 4: Next question from at t dot underscore dreally, are you
Speaker 4: guys legit title contenders this season?
Speaker 1: I believe that we are legit title title contenders this season.
Speaker 1: I don't see any team out there that we couldn't beat. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Cars got a fall in place. Obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of things gotta go your way. Obviously you need some luck.
Speaker 1: That's just the nature of winning championships. But I don't
Speaker 1: see any team in the NBA that we can beat
Speaker 1: and compete for a title. And Mama, we still got that. Man.
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 4: Staying on the topic of title contenders and sort of
Speaker 4: connecting it back to your conversation about Doc. Do you
Speaker 4: think the Bucks sorry this is from at Jake's Steak.
Speaker 4: Do you think the Bucks have a legit title shot
Speaker 4: this year?
Speaker 1: Do I think the Bucks have a legit title shot?
Speaker 1: They have two great players, and Damian Lillard and Jannis
Speaker 1: Ante the compo that always gives you a chance. However,
Speaker 1: they need a very healthy Chris Middleton. Chris hasn't seemed
Speaker 1: that healthy this year, and because of that, I don't
Speaker 1: think there are title contenders because they're going if they're
Speaker 1: going to have any chance to compete with anybody. Chris
Speaker 1: has to be healthy. He's too important to that team.
Speaker 1: What he brings is something that no one else on
Speaker 1: that roster brings. So they can get Chris healthy and
Speaker 1: I put them in the conversation. If Chris is not healthy,
Speaker 1: no chance.
Speaker 4: Last one we said we would do four today. Since
Speaker 4: we only did three last week, you could do our
Speaker 4: fourth question from at BVD three one three. Do you
Speaker 4: think the judging has killed the dunk contest. I've heard
Speaker 4: a lot of discourse about this before.
Speaker 1: The judging I think is bad. I think number one
Speaker 1: you should probably have some listen. Dominique Human Highlight Reel
Speaker 1: is a stable in the dunk contest, so can't say
Speaker 1: much there. Nicks should always be there, but you need
Speaker 1: like where's the Jason Richardson's where's the you know, Fred
Speaker 1: Jones was there. It was Indianapolis, but like, where's the
Speaker 1: younger guys? Not quite like there were a couple of
Speaker 1: guys on the planel where it's like, ah, like let's
Speaker 1: get some of these Zach Leavie.
Speaker 4: Like I want Zach, I want Vince.
Speaker 1: You know, like, let's get some younger blood in the
Speaker 1: judge in the judge seats on the panel. I think
Speaker 1: that does play a role in it is so inconsistent.
Speaker 1: We saw some dunks and we were like, oh man,
Speaker 1: that dunk was weak, and then it was like a
Speaker 1: forty nine. You're like whoa, Like it's no consistency. You
Speaker 1: don't really know what they're judging. So I think the
Speaker 1: judges do play a role in it. However, it's the dunkers.
Speaker 1: The dunkers has to be better. They can't just be
Speaker 1: on the judge. You do got to get them something
Speaker 1: better to judge. But the judges have not been great
Speaker 1: with love to see some of the guys we just
Speaker 1: named as the judges. I think that helps it take
Speaker 1: a step up in my opinion. That's a rap from
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