WEBVTT - Nightcap NBA Playoff Recap - Part 1: Ant-Man ready for Steph & Warriors 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:02.000 The volume. 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.520 An interview has surface though at Man said he wants 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.439 to face the Warriors in the playoffs, and I want 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.400 to go get the Warriors wherever they're at. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:20.320 I want to get them. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.680 Reporter, why the Warriors aftercause Draymond talked so much trash 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.840 And that's pretty much the only reason I. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:31.440 Like Shee Man. That's that's That's what I'm talking about. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:31.640 Man. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.919 We need we need more of that something everybody. Everybody 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.880 likes to just play the game of basketball. But when 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.000 you bring that entertainment value like that, that makes you 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.920 want and hope that the Warriors and the Wolves have 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:46.120 a series. It's because of something like somebody like that 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.000 can that can talk it and they can walk it. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:49.879 It just makes it. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.440 Makes it that much better. That's why I say I 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.160 would love for him to be the face of the league. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.440 No disrespect to Jason Tatum. Great player, NBA champion, you know, 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.680 NBA Champion, All Star, you know, Olympic team. He has 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.840 all these accolades, but it just doesn't add up to 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.560 that aura and it factor that Ann. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:12.199 Has, Like that's that's man. Listen, Buddy, Buddy raw Man, Hey, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:16.199 hey for for the story. For the story Okay, oh Joe, 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.560 this one here gonna go down in the books. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.480 Uh See, the one team that was at home night 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.160 and cheering was the timber Wolves. They were cheering for 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.000 the Warriors for a number of reasons. They played the Warriors. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.560 They get home court advantage. See the one give to them. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.560 But if if, if the Rockets would have won, they 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.200 would have had to go to Houston. You see what 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.880 I'm saying. So timber Wolves got home court advantage. They 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.640 know and understands, you know, the moment and what it possents. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.240 And like I say, and man got this hit list, 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.280 he's finna as he tried to. He got a couple 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:52.680 of people. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:57.120 He canna ask this. Liszten even to it when they 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:01.120 series started, Joe, Uh, probably Tuesday. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.960 So look think about this, Okay, Ojo, that series is 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.639 gonna start Tuesday. You're just coming out for seven game, 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.440 grueling series against the Rockets. Probably gonna wear you down 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.960 a little bit. Timber Wood's been at home kind of resting. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.679 They got their feed up a little bit. But uh, 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:19.919 they gonna be ready. They probably gonna look a step 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:20.919 of two faster. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.680 Than the Warriors on Game one. Yeah. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.680 Yeah, now watch watching Rudy Gobert, go out there forgetting 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.639 how to play basketball at Dreymond take him completely. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.320 Let out. This is gonna be a wrestled matiw We 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:32.440 were just talking to Bianca. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.399 Uh, we're just talking to Bianca. What about a week, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.560 a week or two ago. Yeah, and they're gonna be wrestlemated. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:44.679 This musty TV. Rudy Gobert and Drakemond Green. Oh yeah, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.880 y'all already know how this thing is gonna go down. Yeah, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.320 And the span of twelve month, the Wolves are sitting 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.120 home Kevin Durratt, Nicola Jokic, Luka Danget, and Lebron James. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.680 A man is looking to ask Steph Curry to his list. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.359 Let me ask you a question. How many games who wins? 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.160 And in how many games? Y'all gonna start with you? 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.160 Who wins the not many games? Oh man, this is 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:04.639 a good one. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:09.400 Listen where Anthony Evers playing the Ways playing Rudy Garbert. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.840 If you can have another game not maybe not twenty 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.400 seven again, but he contributed on both ends of the court, uh, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:21.880 giving him the second chance points, rebounding defensively, everyone else 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:22.880 contributing as well. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.680 I say it's gonna be another seven game series. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.520 And I got a man, I got a man pulling 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.600 it off, adding another one to the hit list. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.600 What you got, Joe, I don't got no seven games series. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.120 I got this. I got the t Wolves winning this 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.240 in about five six games. Damn five to six? Yeah, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:41.720 what's wrong? 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.440 Only only only said the seven because Steph and Draymond 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.320 and them boys are used to playing in this type 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.280 of atmosphere. So I'm saying they're gonna stretch it all 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.040 the way to seven. But if you say five and six, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.160 you know better than me because you played. I just 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:54.320 be in the YMCA. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.720 Hey, this is just this is just my opinion. Oh Jo, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.880 it would to be true. Now allow me to right 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.840 to be wrong, right right, right, right right. But I'm 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.600 in my assessment. I'm thinking of okay, seven game series. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.040 Butler didn't look like he didn't look like you don't 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.120 look like he moved it, even though he played a 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:12.640 decent game. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:13.840 Now he played the game to night. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.200 Him and stuff looked like they kind of hobbled and 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.240 gimbled a little bit. And going into playing against these 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.719 tea walls, they gonna be ready, man, They hungry, They ready. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.560 They sitting and waiting. It's gonna I think they like 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.560 that because my thing is. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:35.640 Who's gonna do who's guarding you ramble right, That's what 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.159 I want to know because if you go bigger, you 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.560 put Cabal Looney in there to deal with because now 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.240 you you mess up your spacy because you put Loon 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.160 in there, and you and you have Draymond, you brag 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:52.159 with ju you random the lower you gotta be ready 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.320 to bang with it. Yeah, it's it's it's gonna be. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.040 It's gonna be a tough uncle. It's it's gonna be 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.719 some nose and nose in this series, you know, because 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.640 Julius Ramland, well, I could definitely see, I could definite 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.560 see rather than dre Bard getting do it. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:04.880 You know. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.200 You know, I think I think one of the weapons 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.320 for the Warriors. Man, they're gonna have to try to 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.039 find a way to get Kamingo back into the fold 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.120 because they gonna need him in this series coming up, man, 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.080 you know, and they kind of it kind of showed 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.039 today they kind of need they needed him early, but 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.839 I think they gonna need him throughout this series. You know, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:29.039 he got he got youth on his side. He's he's 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.760 played in big moments. He knows and he knows what 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.599 he knows what you know he's capable of doing. I 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.640 think they need his productivity, you know, especially coming up 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:38.280 in this series. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.240 He hadn't played in a while. I know they threw him, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:40.600 they've been. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.960 Throwing him out there here and there, but they got 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.080 to try to find some consistent minutes for him. I 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.799 like I like the I like the T Wolves also 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.200 because I don't know when they go to the bench, nods, nods, reed, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.279 who's gonna deal with Because not only can't he shoot 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.479 this free and stretch the floor, he can dad also 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.159 go down and post. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.159 So now you gotta think about it. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.800 That's Moody, that's kaminga, that's trying to deal with a big, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.720 a big, a true big yeah. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.400 And that's why that's why I favor the T Wars, Uh, because. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.080 Of them big bodies that they have, that they can 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.960 throw it, and they big bodies can score, and they 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.360 can play made so and they guard, sit down and 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:24.599 they play deep. McDaniels. It was Alexander and Alexander Walkers, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.440 Devin those you know, those are some guys. You know, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.800 I've soon gonna win you games throughout the series. So 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.520 I get the t Wars the Edge man. I think 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.679 it's gonna be a fun on the watch. Gary Payton 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.680 the Second didn't play the night he was dealing with 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.560 an illness. He's gonna get a lot of minutes on 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.279 a man. They're gonna try to wear at man down. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.240 They'll probably have Kamingo deal with him. They have Moody 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.159 deal with him, They'll have Gary Payton Second deal with him. 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.159 They'll they'll they're gonna try to throw different I don't 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.640 think anybody can stop it. You're gonna try to get 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.640 the ball out of his hand wherever you can make 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.040 somebody else beat you. Uh, Lakers did that and McDaniel's 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.919 had a great series. I was reading knocked down some 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.440 big shots. Obviously Jue Ramble gave you what he gave 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.680 me probably twenty at probably average twenty two and the 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.360 uh for the for that series. Uh, this it's gonna 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.040 be a very very interesting matchup. It's gonna be a 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.280 chest I'm see how fish is what he gonna do 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.640 with with Steph. How he's gonna defend Steph because buddy, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.880 he was like, I'm gonna make y'all play, because y'all 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.520 make it seem like I can't shoot the three. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.120 Y'all know I can shoot these three. Man. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.480 Listen, if you don't scratch in game six, how we 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.480 expect for you to come out and give a thirty 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.240 come in games seven? Come on, man? Yeah you know 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.200 we ain't nobody expect that, Like this man is no 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.880 he out of Hey when you hit that shot, well 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:43.280 that at the end of the half, I said, yeah, things, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.080 you're living right, Uh, you're living. 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.040 Yeah. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.400 Hey for a guy, for a guy who couldn't make 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.000 it shot a game six to hit that, like, yeah, 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.160 that's that's a confidence that's a confidence building list. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.000 So you know. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.840 Now you know he like because he had twenty three 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.120 at twenty three in the first half, he didn't give 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:03.560 you none in the third quarter. I don't think he's 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.160 scored any of the third he's scored the third one. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.440 I think he got his eleven in the four. 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:11.120 He said done. He said, I got, y'all, I got y'all, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:11.400 this lead. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:17.120 I spotted, y'all, So okay, stephibby, y'all, y'all, y'all pars Hey. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.600 I don't I don't know how much the NBA is 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:19.640 a copycat league. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.559 As you watch a series and knowing you you're playing 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.240 up the following team coming up next. Like the NFL 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.200 is you see something work on another team and then 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.520 you just copy that and do the same thing. Well, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.920 you know, you know how to slow Steph down, you know, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.719 maybe not stopping, but contain him and just do the 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.960 same thing the Rockets are doing defensively, the Wolves are 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:36.760 capable of doing that. 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:39.200 Yeah, people are doing the same. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.800 I think I think the Rockets the Wolves might have 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.679 better defenders individual dividers. Jay McDaniels is the individual is 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.600 a better individual individual defense saying than anybody. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.000 That wait, individual defender. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.079 I don't think there's really nobody off the dribble that 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.959 can stay with Steph regardless, regardless who look. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.640 Ain't nobody really dealing with nobody wanting he's the best 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.000 of the best. You just you try to make it 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.319 as tough as possible. So if he gives you twenty 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.839 if he if he averages twenty seven, you try to 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.760 hold him at twenty three, or if he gets his 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.320 twenty seven. You try to make it as an inefficient right. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.840 But you go out there and say, oh yeah, oh 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:15.880 you have age twenty seven. You ain't give a twelve back. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.160 Go Okay, good luck with them. Nah, But I think 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.520 I think I think T Wolves got the defenders to 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.960 to to you know, wear him down throughout the series. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.680 You know, long rangy guys. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.400 You know, yeah, who's gonna be pesty pick him up 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.720 or you know, just don't give him nothing easy. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:33.920 Man. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.280 I watched when I be watching the game, they take 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.920 Steph out of the game. They be playing four and 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.320 four out there. That man be staying at half court. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.080 His man don't even be looking at the ball. But uh, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.520 I got, I got, I got the t Wolves and. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.400 Made made a young fellow legacy continue. 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.240 I think I think, I think, I think he's gonna 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:58.680 be special in this series. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:02.920 And as a big game performer. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.319 I think the best thing that happened to add was 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.760 going to the Bilympics and being around KD, being around Lebron, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.920 being around Steph Curry like, okay, mm hmmm, I'm where 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.600 I belong to do m. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.760 Yeh monster grace. Yes. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.600 And so how they how they approach it, how they 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.240 get themselves prepared, how they go about their business. Now, look, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.000 he's not gonna that's that's not what he is. He 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.320 he hes not gonna be as butting up as Lebron 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.319 and Steaf. But you got you just got accepted for 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.000 who he is. That's who he is, and that was 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.840 and you heard what you just said. Yes, he doesn't 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.920 have to be as button up and he refused to 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:44.320 be there. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.599 He's authentic to himself, which is why he's so relatable 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.160 to everyone else. Why everybody's gonna be a fan. And 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.280 way do you ask some people that to bring up 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.960 stelf that has nothing to do with on the field, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.360 and I mean on the field on the fort Anthony Edwards. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:03.280 But man, I love and appreciate anybody that remained true 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.839 to themselves and who they are without informing how they 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.080 think you should be as an NBA player. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.640 Yeah, but no, don't. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.000 I don't just necessarily think it's an NBA player because 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.000 every player is not held to the same standard as 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.599 Lebron and a Steph Curry. Everybody wasn't held to the 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.000 standard like Jordan. Everybody wasn't held to the standard like 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.880 Bird and back of Kobe. There's difference. But when they say, okay, 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.480 when they talk about the NBA and they have these 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.320 pictures up there and your face is front and center, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.040 when they when when the NBA marketing campaign they want 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:37.360 you front and center. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:38.760 It's just it's different. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:38.960 Now. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.360 You got to realize these guys, like those old guys 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:44.160 they got married. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.640 They you know, they not these guys, oh Jo, they 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.600 playing video games, Jordan, They're playing no video game Magic 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:50.040 Get Bird. 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.360 The old guys wasn't playing on their video game. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.400 Man. These guys now they they playing card and they 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.480 play at Fortnite against somebody else, somebody with a whole 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:00.000 different team. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.040 Hey man, what's your name? What's your tag? All right? 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:02.960 Come on checking fut. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.040 It's a different time now, and I think we have 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.440 to change our way of thinking of what the face 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.360 of the NBA is because the old faces, those guys aren't. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.600 Like that any now now. He Hey, look, whether whether 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.280 he likes it or not. You know, when you chosen, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.240 you're chosen, bro, and you ain't nothing, nothing, nothing you 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:22.839 can do about it. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.959 In the route that he's taking, whether he likes it 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:31.040 or not, he complete this mission right here, it's gonna 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.520 it's gonna happen whether he whether he likes it or not. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.240 And uh, that just comes with the game. It's part 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.760 of it, man, you know what I mean. Yep, Look, 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.880 were you chosen, Joe, you can't run from that. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.880 You remember Jonah, God told him say that you No, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.959 He's like, nah, nah, let somebody else, And so who 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:47.319 what are you gonna do? He gonna get the boaty 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.240 go that where the camera? And when he split his 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:51.679 ass back up on the shore, what do you do? 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.439 He went and did what Jesus asked me to do. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.320 You see where you chosen when you that's your calling. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.320 You can't run from it. Hey, listen, and you might 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.720 not answer the phone. It's your calling. 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.719 You might not answer the phone. Don't worry about it. 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.120 He'll take care of the rest. Yeah, So you can't 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.800 you you can't run from that. I understand because he's like, man, look, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.120 I want to go. I want to be free. I 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.240 want to do what I want to do without y'all 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.400 looking over my shoulder and cameras everywhere I go, because 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.040 I might come out the little hole in the wall, 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.640 and you know, basing the NBA is supposed to be 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:25.000 in the hole. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.800 You know what I'm saying, Joe, You know what I'm saying. Hey, 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:28.439 I understand. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:34.440 But when the universe picky Baby, they picky Yu. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:35.199 Is a man. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.040 The best Big game player in the NBA currently, best 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:43.120 big game player in the game currently. Man, We've had 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.400 some guys play some big games. Uh yeah, I think 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.640 I probably I probably give him a nine. I think 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.880 because he just accepts it. Man. He's a little different 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.360 than than some of the some of the other superstars 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.400 that we have in the league. And I think that's 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.079 why people gravitate to the rawness of who he is 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.160 and how he speaks his mind, and how he carries 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.400 himself and how he talks trash throughout the games. And 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.720 oh yeah, I'm looking. I'm looking to play the warrior 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.520 no matter who you are. Hold on, y'all seen what 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.400 Obama said. He said, look at this guy right here, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:16.960 he can play a little bit. He said, you better 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:17.480 stand down. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.720 I'm the truth. Yeah you're talking about stop playing with me. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.720 So uh, we we love that. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.120 We we gravitate toward it, and we and we all 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.200 want to see him do good man, because he has 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.680 a talent and night in and night out, bro, he 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.640 gives us something spectacularly, you know what I mean, Because 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.920 not only can't he make the three, he can play 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.320 above the rim. He puts your ass on the poster. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.680 Now you go up there, if you want to. If hey, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.240 I'm telling you gonna be on his car, you're gonna 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.440 be on his car. I think the underrated thing. I 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.960 think his underrated attribute is his defense. Okay, oh Joe, Oh, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.360 I'm saying on any level where it's blocking shots, whether 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.120 it's locking down, playing his one on one defense, fighting 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.000 over picks, like he showed me some that Lakers series 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.920 and I was like, yeah, young fella taking the next step, 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.800 And that's what it is. Playing on both fans, being 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.960 a two way superstar, you know what I mean, not 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.720 just a two way player, but here a two ways 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.600 too superstar, because he impacts the game on both fans 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:14.080 of the floor. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.800 Just like in that last closeout game against the Lakers, 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:17.280 he didn't. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:21.400 Play great offensively, but defensively he was disruptive, he made 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.280 plays offensively, and he did enough for them to win, 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.640 like it didn't take for him to you know, while 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.680 you on the stat sheet. So yeah, I think that's 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.040 I think that's the best part where you can tell 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.840 about a player when you can find other ways to 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:41.160 impact the game, even even when you're not doing what 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.760 you're known for, which is scoring. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:43.640 Can I can I. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.160 Impact the game on Joe. If I if I don't 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.440 have ten tracks, how's my blocking? How's my decoy? 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:51.400 Am I getting out of there? 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.560 Make everybody think I'm about to I'm about to get 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.760 this rock when I know I'm just clear for somebody 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.880 else to run the shallow or to run that deep open. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.480 But I didn't make sure I get that safety up 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.040 out of there and pull that linebacker. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:02.320 Is that? 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:02.720 Is that? 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:03.480 Is that? Really? 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.440 So you gotta find way other ways to impact the game, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:11.040 because sometimes guys only see their value if I'm catching 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.960 past Yeah, if I'm scoring posts, you know, you gotta 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.720 find value in other things also, and that's when you 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:27.880 become the greatness. Maybe a May three, it's gonna be 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:32.280 all of that. I call it the Russell Westbrook roller coaster, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.640 and that's what he just laid it out for. Yeah, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.840 I think, Hey, he buys you the airball, he might 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:39.520 turn it over. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.440 You're like, don't run, don't shoot that. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.520 Come on runs and then when you least expected, he'll 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.440 go four or five from the three, he'll get two steals, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.640 he'll make some big points. Go back and look at 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:58.280 the series he played. Unbelievable short term memory. You know 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:05.399 he has it he's short term. He got you know, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.840 just like in football from week to week, you got 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.000 to put it behind your short term in we got oh, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.880 we got another game. Well, in basketball you play every 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.680 other night, or considering in a in a in a 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.160 basketball game and possessions, Russe, if he come down missing, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.920 wind up and layup, he gonna hustle back, try to 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.280 get the block or steal like a lit It's a lie, 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.000 it is, and you have to you have to accept that, dude. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.240 You have to accept. You have to take the good 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.960 with the bad. But just no one thing. He gives 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.120 you everything he got you ain't got. Come on, he Russ, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.159 pick it up a little bit, you ain't. Russ has 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:39.560 never had a coach to tell him to pick it. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.119 You might have to say, sons, calm sell, hey, come on, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.880 do something down you Okay, you might have to tell 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.000 him to settle down or calm down, but you never 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:50.640 have to tell him to pick it up, because he's 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.879 gonna give you that effort and you can appreciate that. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.680 And sometime and and and and trying to give you 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.280 everything he got. He's a little out of control. He'll 0:17:58.320 --> 0:17:59.840 fumble the ball out of it. I mean the other 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.560 He had two point blank layups the boat in Game six. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.159 But he come but he come right back, He come 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.080 right back down. He gonna get you a second, but 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.560 he gonna get your extra possessions because he's gonna battle 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.399 somebody for the rebound. I saw him last night a 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.440 line against He got to get the rebound. He ain't 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.440 got no fishes whatsoever. When you ever see the six 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.280 pot guard in the box trying to get a real 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.280 bits and that's why you got a lover. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.600