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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Our next our guests for this week h is an
Speaker 1: exciting one and electrified one. UM none other than well
Speaker 1: let me rewind fifth pick in the NBA draft in
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen. Brother just got a nice contract not
Speaker 1: long ago. I need a loan, so I'm already putting
Speaker 1: my call in. I know the cars really start coming
Speaker 1: in when the bag hit. I need a loan. I'm
Speaker 1: putting my asking right now. A guy who I look
Speaker 1: at and UM thinks he will and should be a
Speaker 1: future All Star and I'm looking forward to seeing that happened.
Speaker 1: Honored to have our next guest de aon Fox with something,
Speaker 1: my brother, what's something? Man? I appreciate you having me dog. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Just just before we um actually started filming this, you
Speaker 1: just mentioned your new coach, Mike Brown, who I had
Speaker 1: the pleasure of playing for I think six years. Um,
Speaker 1: Mike Brown was here and you know so I understand
Speaker 1: Mike Psyche, I understand how he coached, but just for starters,
Speaker 1: how has that been adjusting to a new coach and
Speaker 1: specifics Mike Brown? Well, when you got on, I just
Speaker 1: told you, I'm like, these practice has been long, but
Speaker 1: this is something I feel like we've just that we've needed.
Speaker 1: Like I said this, I think at the end of
Speaker 1: last year, obviously knowing that we need a new coach,
Speaker 1: I'm like, we just need structure, Like we need somebody
Speaker 1: that's gone pay attention, that's gonna be real attentative to
Speaker 1: every little thing and he something will be good, he'll
Speaker 1: stop and he'll nitpick, And I'm like, that's that's something
Speaker 1: that we needed. Because you already know y'all could have
Speaker 1: a terrible game. You could win. So it's like, what
Speaker 1: did we learn? And I think that's what Uh, that's
Speaker 1: what he's brought to us. You know, from from day
Speaker 1: one it could be good, but it could always have
Speaker 1: been better. Absolutely, No, that's that's absolutely incredible. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously we have Mike as an assistant coach, UM, and
Speaker 1: you could still feel his imprint on on things like
Speaker 1: imprint on drills. The drills start to go along, very
Speaker 1: detailed oriented. But Mike, we could get a little long window.
Speaker 1: But I love Mike, but film can get long. You
Speaker 1: got to tell we have had a day where film
Speaker 1: went the right amount of time. It's going over. Every
Speaker 1: day of training camp is going over. Gotta love it,
Speaker 1: gotta love it. But no, I agree with you. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, to have someone that's bringing that structure uh
Speaker 1: to you guys, like you all have a lot of
Speaker 1: young talent, you know, and like you're just now starting
Speaker 1: to tap into your talent, uh, you know, bringing over
Speaker 1: Sabonis who's still a fairly young dude, Kevin Herder, Um,
Speaker 1: Davean Mitchell, the list goes on and on. You guys
Speaker 1: have a lot of young talent, and so I think
Speaker 1: adding that structure, Um, and especially what he's going to
Speaker 1: bring on the defensive end. I think, you know, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike Brown is a defensive genius. I would have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to pick his brain and we toss ideas back
Speaker 1: and forth. So I'm actually happy, uh, for you and
Speaker 1: for y'all moving forward because I think it would be
Speaker 1: a really good thing for y'all. Yeah, for sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the most talented team I've I've had since
Speaker 1: I've been in the league, and it's not even close. Um,
Speaker 1: But one of our problems is and we've been terrible defensively,
Speaker 1: and like we know what, you know what, everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: We've been horrible. So to bring in somebody like that,
Speaker 1: it's definitely gonna gonna help us and just push me
Speaker 1: personally to be a better defender, like I I know
Speaker 1: absolutely and he knows I could be it. Absolutely, No,
Speaker 1: that's incredible. At the deadline last year, you guys made
Speaker 1: a few trades, but obviously the big one being bringing
Speaker 1: in Uh Sabonas and I think, uh, you know that
Speaker 1: was a great value add for you guys with just
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table on a nightly basis,
Speaker 1: I think it's incredible and like I said, still a
Speaker 1: fairly young guy. What what did that trade? What did
Speaker 1: that message send to you as as the frenchise guard um?
Speaker 1: And and also what did what were y'all able to
Speaker 1: find like chemistry amongst you too towards those last couple
Speaker 1: of months of the season that you all got to
Speaker 1: play together. Yeah, man, when the trade, when the trade happened,
Speaker 1: obviously everybody's talking about, you know, the me and Tyree's dynamic. Um,
Speaker 1: you know who's picking blah blah blah. And when the
Speaker 1: trade happened, for one, he told me and I was like, yea,
Speaker 1: you lying like they didn't trade you? And then what
Speaker 1: was tweeted like two minutes later, I'm like, wow, we
Speaker 1: really we really did that. But obviously seeing that we
Speaker 1: got Domas back, I'm like, every time we didn't match
Speaker 1: up with Bro, He's twenty and twenty twenty and fifteen
Speaker 1: every time we played them, So I'm like, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to play with him, um, but for me just playing
Speaker 1: with somebody in hell. Steph could probably Steph and Clay
Speaker 1: can attribute that to to plan with you having a
Speaker 1: big that can pass the ball the way that y'all
Speaker 1: passed the ball. Is it opens up the world. And Um,
Speaker 1: I mean I was shooting like thirty eight percent from
Speaker 1: three since we got him, So he's he's just helped
Speaker 1: expand my game tremendously. And um, having a big like
Speaker 1: that and then getting shooters around them, I think, is
Speaker 1: it makes our team so much better? And it's it's fun.
Speaker 1: It's fun play with with with guys that can pass
Speaker 1: the ball like that, pass the ball out of the
Speaker 1: high post, pass it out of the low pos, passing
Speaker 1: out the top of the key. He can grab a
Speaker 1: rebound and go like is ask staff for anybody many
Speaker 1: they have fun playing with people like that, Absolutely, no doubt, man, definitely,
Speaker 1: And I think, uh, you know, I want to ask
Speaker 1: um a question also along the same lines of the trade,
Speaker 1: what what message did did it sent to you from
Speaker 1: the organization? Uh that they decided to trade Tyrese? Because
Speaker 1: I know there was you know, once they drafted Tyrese,
Speaker 1: there was like this thing They're like, oh, are they
Speaker 1: planning for Tyrese to be the their franchise point guard?
Speaker 1: Moving forward? Like how does this work? And then a
Speaker 1: year into him being there, a year and a half
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, he gets traded, and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: I think that sends a clear cut message for me.
Speaker 1: It's for me, it's like, yo, they believe in me.
Speaker 1: But two, it's like, we just traded somebody who can
Speaker 1: be a franchise point guard either here or somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So you better get on your ship and you better
Speaker 1: start winning. Like um. So it's like it doesn't add pressure, yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit. But and then the day I've been
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, get us into the playoffs for years,
Speaker 1: so it's a little out of pressure. And ain't never
Speaker 1: heard nobody absolutely, And speaking of the playoffs, I know
Speaker 1: everybody make um this big deal of like playoff drop
Speaker 1: and obviously you guys having the longest playoff dropt. Question
Speaker 1: I want to ask you because I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I catch a lot of flak from people. Are not
Speaker 1: a lot of flat because flat wouldn't be the right word.
Speaker 1: But from from time to time I get people telling
Speaker 1: me like, oh, man, you wouldn't not you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: nothing if you weren't on the Warriors, or um, like
Speaker 1: your success is predicated on the Warriors. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's funny to me because the Warriors didn't have
Speaker 1: success before I got here. So the whole notion I
Speaker 1: didn't go to the Los Angeles Lakers are like the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics are somewhere that like has success. Befo. I
Speaker 1: got to the Warriors. They want twenty three games the
Speaker 1: year before. So I always laugh at that notion and
Speaker 1: saying that, um, you know, people would always just speak
Speaker 1: about Warriors basketball of the past before we got here,
Speaker 1: which wasn't very successful. I think, uh, before we made
Speaker 1: the playoffs in two thousand and twelve, um, that you know,
Speaker 1: or two thousand and twelve thirteen season that that was, Um,
Speaker 1: that was the second time in twenty years the Warriors
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs, and and so you know, people
Speaker 1: would be holding on to that and almost make you
Speaker 1: feel like, as a player, but that's your burden, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's your fault. And I wanted to ask, like,
Speaker 1: do you feel some of that burden being a franchise
Speaker 1: guy of the longest drought or do you just feel
Speaker 1: the burden enough Since I've been here, I mean, I
Speaker 1: want to say since I've been here. But every time
Speaker 1: you see a little Instagram post, should the Sacramento Kings
Speaker 1: ain't been there for sixteen years. I'm gonna face that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna face that. That's on it. Like, I've been
Speaker 1: in the league for sixteen years or so, so now
Speaker 1: you definitely, you definitely feel feel the burden of the
Speaker 1: sixteen years rather than just the five that I've been here.
Speaker 1: But man, you you walk around and you talk to
Speaker 1: any Kings fan, first thing ain't gonna bring up is
Speaker 1: oh one oh two. So I'm just trying to be
Speaker 1: able to get back to that so that now you're
Speaker 1: bringing up or whatever it may be, rather than we're
Speaker 1: talking about something that happened twenty years ago. Like every
Speaker 1: if if the kingsman is over thirty years old, that
Speaker 1: they're gonna bring up that Laker serious or that year
Speaker 1: at nine times out of ten mm hm. So like
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm getting tired of hearing it, but
Speaker 1: I'm getting tired of hearing it. So you're gonna change that. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's the goal. That's the goal. Since
Speaker 1: I've been here, Like I told people, even with the draft,
Speaker 1: like I kind of knew where I was going. So, um,
Speaker 1: Philly had just traded for the first pick after I
Speaker 1: worked out for him, so they wanted Mark Kale Boston.
Speaker 1: I mean m l A, the Lonzo thing, the whole connection.
Speaker 1: Knew he was going there. New Boston was gonna take
Speaker 1: j T. And then next was Phoenix, and Phoenix at
Speaker 1: the time had just gave They just gave Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: like eighty million Eric BLOODSOE was on a crazy deal.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I was supposed to have a workout
Speaker 1: for him, Like ship should I work out for them?
Speaker 1: Like y'all got a hundred and fifty m s going
Speaker 1: to two point guards. I'm like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. So I cancel my workout, fly back to
Speaker 1: Houston for a little bit, take a little break because
Speaker 1: I was in l a working out and stuff, and
Speaker 1: then I hadn't in Sacramento was number five, So I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's where I'm going, Like, that's where I want to go.
Speaker 1: I know about the history that at the time that
Speaker 1: they had been eleven years. I'm like, I can go
Speaker 1: there and change something. So like I knew, I knew
Speaker 1: that's where my that's where my destiny lie. And so
Speaker 1: you canceled your workout in Phoenix because they had two
Speaker 1: point guards. So I have a question just a follow
Speaker 1: up on that and looking back on that and knowing
Speaker 1: how it played out with Brandon in Phoenix, how it
Speaker 1: played out with Eric Blesso and Phoenix, do you ever
Speaker 1: look back on that with any regret and say, um,
Speaker 1: you know, had I went through with the workout, I
Speaker 1: probably still could have been the point guard the future
Speaker 1: there with a backcourt mate like Devin Booker. Do you
Speaker 1: ever look look back at that or do you kind
Speaker 1: of just keep it for sure, look back at it
Speaker 1: and like I probably could have worked because that's the
Speaker 1: that's the year that uh bled had tweeted, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be here no more. So they
Speaker 1: traded both of them my rookie year, traded both of them.
Speaker 1: And even that year I didn't think about it, But
Speaker 1: like three or four years later, I'm like that, actually,
Speaker 1: me and book would have been a would have been
Speaker 1: a nice backcourt. So I've definitely thought about it before.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely amazing. And just circling back, we were speaking
Speaker 1: on the drive, Um, you guys drafted Keegan Murray, who
Speaker 1: has been impressive. What has been your thoughts of a
Speaker 1: young fell out of Iowa, um and what do you
Speaker 1: think his potential is man. He's it's crazy how good
Speaker 1: he is. Um. But he also has that like Tim
Speaker 1: Duncan demeanor, Like every day I see him like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what's up, Ruth, Like what's up? Fox? I'm like, come
Speaker 1: on down, you gotta like you gotta give me something.
Speaker 1: You just give me something. But like he doesn't. He
Speaker 1: comes in. Man, he's the most dificient guy I've ever
Speaker 1: been around. Like you look over, if he's just shooting,
Speaker 1: he's not missing, then you we played pick up a
Speaker 1: little bit before training camp. He doesn't miss. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have any waste motion. Like everything he does is just
Speaker 1: efficient defensively, offensively, grabbing rebounds, boxing out. He he kind
Speaker 1: of really just makes the game look easy. And if
Speaker 1: he has some facial hair, I would have thought Bro
Speaker 1: was like in his thirties, but he think he just
Speaker 1: turned twenty two. He he walks around and like the
Speaker 1: demeanor is just always calm and this he he's gonna
Speaker 1: be He's gonna be really good, Like he's gonna show
Speaker 1: the world with what he can do. That's that's incredible
Speaker 1: to hear UM. And I think for for our listeners
Speaker 1: out there, I think one thing that you should take
Speaker 1: away from that and really understand is if he has
Speaker 1: facial hair, I think he was thirty years old, because
Speaker 1: that's saying a lot. And you know, um one reason
Speaker 1: and you not as well, Fox run reason guys come
Speaker 1: in the league and struggle. It is not necessarily from
Speaker 1: the offensive end. Most guys can't pick up the defensive end.
Speaker 1: They can't pick up the rotations, they can't pick up um,
Speaker 1: you know, when a guy should be asking out or
Speaker 1: you know when your bottom low man, or the communication
Speaker 1: and getting the pick of switching pick and roll coverages
Speaker 1: based on who who do people are in the you know,
Speaker 1: in the pick and roll action people everything is just
Speaker 1: like like somebody might night might not be fast in
Speaker 1: terms of like speed getting up and down the court,
Speaker 1: but in that half court, everything moving like that. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where that's for sure where people where
Speaker 1: people come in this league and start to struggle. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So that's that's really saying a lot, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's you know, I got high expectations for the young fella.
Speaker 1: I obviously, being a big ten guy, watched him against
Speaker 1: my spark is quite a bit over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, So I got high expectations for him. In
Speaker 1: the way he's shooting the ball, with the way the
Speaker 1: league has turned to guys stepping out of shooting it,
Speaker 1: y'all running pin downs for him, different stuff like that,
Speaker 1: like for most foremants and having to chase a pin down.
Speaker 1: It's not territory that you used to be in absolutely,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's you know, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: really cool to see that development. I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Um when when when you look at your game, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, as a as a basketball fan, like who
Speaker 1: do you model your game after? You know, coming in
Speaker 1: I remember in high school, everybody used to tell me
Speaker 1: Nick van Exel. Right, So I'm like I'm doing at
Speaker 1: this time, like yo, I don't Nick the quick So
Speaker 1: I'll start looking at highlights. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: like I do kind of move like him when I'm
Speaker 1: coming up and um, so I kind of started watching
Speaker 1: more film on him. Uh, little film on like John
Speaker 1: when he was younger, like how he got to the basket,
Speaker 1: how he was playmaking, and then a lot of like
Speaker 1: young CP and uh and Tony Parker. I started watching
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys like Chris Paul New Orleans
Speaker 1: to me, like so I'm from New Orleans. I was.
Speaker 1: I watched him growing up a little bit. Um, going
Speaker 1: back and watching obviously from the way he plays now
Speaker 1: and the way that he was playing in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: it's like night and day. It was. I still even
Speaker 1: before games, I still watched a lot of film on
Speaker 1: on on a young CP. Wow, that's impressive. That's impressive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and New Orleans man with those series that he had
Speaker 1: and was San Antonio and stuff like that. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was due. Was amazing. He was actually amazing. Absolutely. Um.
Speaker 1: I spoke about you being the fifth pick in the
Speaker 1: two seventeen draft, and I wanted to ask you question.
Speaker 1: I know Alonso, like you said, Alonso was drafted before you. Um,
Speaker 1: obviously JT was drafted before you. Marquelle Folks market and Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's my question. UM. I know, when I look
Speaker 1: back on early on my career, I think about the
Speaker 1: young guys, and you actually just mentioned one that I'm
Speaker 1: about to speak on. I think Brandon Knight was a
Speaker 1: year before me in the NBA draft. He I'm certain
Speaker 1: he was. Actually Kyrie Irvin would destroy Brandon Knight every
Speaker 1: time they played, and and I had a relationship with
Speaker 1: Kyrie Kyrie was still like, didn't like Brandon Knight because
Speaker 1: everybody thought they were better than him in high school.
Speaker 1: So every time he played Brandon Knight in the NBA,
Speaker 1: he destroyed him. Like if you think back to um
Speaker 1: to the rookie sophomore, you remember you Kyrie made him fault. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so that's going all the way back to high school.
Speaker 1: And what I wanted to ask you is, do you
Speaker 1: feel a personal rivalry with those guys that were drafted
Speaker 1: before you, especially the guards? Do you feel, you know,
Speaker 1: Alonzo Marquelle faults not not necessarily Josh Jackson, not necessarily
Speaker 1: j T, as they are wings, but against those guards
Speaker 1: that were drafted before you, were you like I probably
Speaker 1: should have been a number one pick. I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: point guard. Y'all were looking for a point guard. It
Speaker 1: me you feel that rivalry still when you play those
Speaker 1: guys are not really uh not not really. I think
Speaker 1: the only person that like it would have been a
Speaker 1: rivalry per se would have been Zoe, And that's only
Speaker 1: because we played each other twice in college. Like I
Speaker 1: never got to play I never played Uh, I never
Speaker 1: played JT, I never played Marquel, And then obviously um,
Speaker 1: when we were coming out, you know those popss. You know,
Speaker 1: he was loud at the time, Tom down but he
Speaker 1: got three sons in the league now, but like he
Speaker 1: was loud at the time. So everybody was turning it
Speaker 1: into something that it wasn't. Like me and Zoe was
Speaker 1: cool because we had been to camps together, we had
Speaker 1: been uh to the drafting, like, we did a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff together. Obviously when we stepped on the court,
Speaker 1: like it ain't no brothership, Like it's all competing but
Speaker 1: off the court, and you know, it was never like that.
Speaker 1: But that would have been the only guy. And then
Speaker 1: we were in the same division, like we we both
Speaker 1: got drafted to it, so we was playing each other
Speaker 1: times a year. Um, so that would have been the
Speaker 1: only one that would have been. But even then it
Speaker 1: kind of never really to me, it was never really
Speaker 1: a rivalry. But to some people, you know, they try
Speaker 1: to you know, Kentucky U c l A, Kings Lakers,
Speaker 1: it was it was supposed to be something like that,
Speaker 1: but uh, it never really was. And then um Kel
Speaker 1: was hurt for a while, so I never I probably
Speaker 1: only played Kle probably two or three times in my
Speaker 1: career right now, So were you alone? So are never
Speaker 1: really a rivalry because you just felt like, no, like
Speaker 1: I'm better and it's not a rivalry or or man,
Speaker 1: I think we had such different games that it was
Speaker 1: never really a light go at. Somebody's like me, like,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, it's on me. I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: forty and if you got help, I'm gonna kick it.
Speaker 1: But Zoe is I'm gonna get my guys off first,
Speaker 1: and then you know, my offense comes as it comes.
Speaker 1: So I never really like we never had like the
Speaker 1: same mentality, so it was never kind of a thing
Speaker 1: like that. I know you got married this summer. Congratulations
Speaker 1: number one ring on yours too, Min's not on right now.
Speaker 1: I had to get it fixed. I can dig that.
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm still getting used to wearing this this
Speaker 1: ring all the time. Man, It's it takes them getting
Speaker 1: used to for sure. But uh, congratulations on that number
Speaker 1: one number two. Just like, how do you feel like?
Speaker 1: I think that's that's a huge step in life and
Speaker 1: and you and your your wife has taken that step.
Speaker 1: Just how do you feel? Um? Like, what feelings did
Speaker 1: that bring over over you? It was great? Well, one
Speaker 1: like y'all y'all actually, uh, because Rosselle worked for y'all
Speaker 1: for a year. Um, but it was probably the best
Speaker 1: best day of my life. You see, I can't stop smiling. Um,
Speaker 1: it was man, it was great. Like we've been together
Speaker 1: for a while, and I mean she was like she
Speaker 1: was a wife to me. She's always making sure I'm
Speaker 1: good before anything else. Um. She played basketball. She played
Speaker 1: basketball at a high level. Two. So it's like I
Speaker 1: got another coach in my ear. But when I come
Speaker 1: home after a bad game or something, she she's not
Speaker 1: gonna say nothing because she's been through it. She's a
Speaker 1: coaches kid. Uh. But it's it's great, man, Like I
Speaker 1: feel like there there's not many better things than getting married,
Speaker 1: especially gett married to the person that you feel like
Speaker 1: you're gonna be with forever. So the look on your
Speaker 1: face says everything. It says everything. And that's amazing, Uh
Speaker 1: to see I love, you know, just just to see
Speaker 1: people find their person. You know, you go through this
Speaker 1: life and it's um, you know, it's you know, for
Speaker 1: every good that it gives, there's some negatives as well.
Speaker 1: You know what I think people always think like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just positive, that's positive. That but to have someone
Speaker 1: to like go through everything with. I think that's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: And I've heard and you just you just said it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know your wife who I've heard about, Like you know,
Speaker 1: she go to your workouts with you. She'll get on
Speaker 1: the court with you. Like how is that sharing and
Speaker 1: that and knowing that, like y'all both have an equal
Speaker 1: passion for the game of basketball. Yeah, and until everything
Speaker 1: like like's official, like during the season, like she's here.
Speaker 1: I'm like, if we got an optional workout or something like,
Speaker 1: she's coming, because for one, is the summertime and this
Speaker 1: is the most time we get to really spend together.
Speaker 1: So we do everything together. Work out, she's in the
Speaker 1: gym getting shots up. Hell, she'll be like, Yo, let's
Speaker 1: go to the gym on Sunday night. Let's let's get it.
Speaker 1: Let's get a hunted makes or whatever is Um, So
Speaker 1: just haven't heard there. Like I've gotten I've gotten better
Speaker 1: as a not only a man, but as a basketball
Speaker 1: player since we've met, since we've been together. So it's
Speaker 1: I say, it's like having another It's like having another
Speaker 1: coach with me, like all the time. That's incredible, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to hear that just looking forward to this season,
Speaker 1: what are some of your goals moving forward? Like, what
Speaker 1: do you think is next for you and your career
Speaker 1: the next thing that you need to prove moving forward
Speaker 1: other than obviously you know, making the playoffs. Man. For
Speaker 1: me personally, it stems to shooting the ball. Like whenever
Speaker 1: I've shot the ball well, the team has done better
Speaker 1: because now you might have to take an extra step
Speaker 1: up and an extra step up guard me. It's probably
Speaker 1: it's a rap. So just being able to shoot the ball,
Speaker 1: I think unlocked so much for this team. Um, we'll
Speaker 1: have shooters everywhere around Domas like it will. I think
Speaker 1: it turns us into a into an entirely different team. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm shooting the ball if I'm shooting the ball the
Speaker 1: way I want to shoot the ball. And for me,
Speaker 1: like it's a lot of film, Like I shot the
Speaker 1: ball well in practice. Now it's like do that ship
Speaker 1: in the game, and like it's I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it's a mental thing for me, but like I
Speaker 1: shoot the shoot the hell out of the ball in practice,
Speaker 1: shoot the hell the ball and workouts all of our
Speaker 1: lives play now it's just getting to that level of
Speaker 1: consistency in the game, and my consistency is the biggest
Speaker 1: is the biggest word for any professional athlete. Really, If
Speaker 1: anybody understand that, brother's me. I think, you know, I've
Speaker 1: had it in my career where I shot the light
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and you know, and then really,
Speaker 1: once Katie came here, it was kind of like, yo,
Speaker 1: I need to get these guys involved, and I stopped
Speaker 1: looking to shoot, you know, and then once I stopped
Speaker 1: looking to shoot, the rhythm of it was messed up.
Speaker 1: Then you start to lose confidence in it. And getting
Speaker 1: that confidence in that shot in the game is a
Speaker 1: totally different thing. I always tell guys like, you know,
Speaker 1: you're coming to gym with me, you come in this Warriors, Jim,
Speaker 1: it's two guys who are gonna I'll shoot me. That's
Speaker 1: Stephane Clay and nobody else. I was shooting me. But
Speaker 1: making that translate to the game is a different thing,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I understand that, you know,
Speaker 1: and then from that standpoint to like to be a
Speaker 1: winner for me, Like the way I've looked at it
Speaker 1: over the years is your point guard has to be
Speaker 1: able to shoot the ball. Like what's the last team
Speaker 1: that's won a championship in the point guard wasn't a
Speaker 1: really good shooter, Like you're probably going back to like
Speaker 1: what two thousand thirteen, whenever the Spurs, whenever the Spurs.
Speaker 1: One was the thirteen four team. One of these years
Speaker 1: when the Spurs went, when it was t P fourteen,
Speaker 1: Like that's the last time, because then it was Steph Kyrie. Uh,
Speaker 1: Drew can shoot the ball, like all these guys all
Speaker 1: YouTube to win at a high level as a point guard,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to shoot the ball. And
Speaker 1: that's why for me, like that's that's that's the biggest,
Speaker 1: most important thing. And I think even when you look
Speaker 1: at Tony Parker, the game was so different than where
Speaker 1: three point wasn't really a prevalent shot or it wasn't
Speaker 1: really a shot that people hunting. And Tony Parker mid
Speaker 1: range was deadly fire that mid range and that was
Speaker 1: a big shot then absolutely, and obviously, like you know,
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you have to be able to get
Speaker 1: to a mid range shot because teams are gonna start
Speaker 1: taking away your first, second, third option. So you have
Speaker 1: to be which I think I can. I'm a good
Speaker 1: mid range shooter. Uh I get to the basket at
Speaker 1: the blink of an eye. So now that next step
Speaker 1: is being able to extend my range. And it's not
Speaker 1: like I have to shoot, it's really just being thirty
Speaker 1: five thirty, like just being respectable from three. And I
Speaker 1: think that opens up the world for us. It definitely will,
Speaker 1: because nobody can stay in front of you, you know,
Speaker 1: and with your speed and just being willing to knock
Speaker 1: that shot down, like I know he's willing to take
Speaker 1: that and he can knock you down. It's going to
Speaker 1: change the game for you. It's gonna open the floor
Speaker 1: for your teammates, and I look forward to to seeing
Speaker 1: you do that. I'm rooting for you. Brother. Always, ever
Speaker 1: needs something for me, got a question for me, I'm
Speaker 1: here and I'm really rooting for y'alls. Mike Brown is
Speaker 1: my guy. I want to see Mike do well. Uh.
Speaker 1: I know you and Luke has built a great relationship.
Speaker 1: Luke was here with us, so you've got some good
Speaker 1: guys on your side, brother, and I hope you know
Speaker 1: that it can turn for y'all. I think it will.
Speaker 1: It's a big year for you and it's I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing you take that next step. You should
Speaker 1: one percent being All Star. If you're not an All Star,
Speaker 1: that ship is on you that ain't know nobody else
Speaker 1: chuck tilent with your skill. If you're not an All
Speaker 1: Star this year, that ain't know nobody else with you
Speaker 1: because you are that damn good. Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And that's that's respect. Man. Uh. Everybody, like I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: I love Drake because one he's gonna he's gonna spit
Speaker 1: the real but like it's always it's always gonna be
Speaker 1: respect at the end of the day. And we all know,
Speaker 1: like this is a brotherhood. Guys gonna get into it.
Speaker 1: But once we step off the court, you know that
Speaker 1: that ship is done, that should have done and and
Speaker 1: we all brothers. So I really apreciate that, absolutely, bro.
Speaker 1: I'll see you soon. Man. As you know we played
Speaker 1: four times a year. I'm looking forward to see you.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate you coming on. Yes, sir, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. Doctor Peace