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Speaker 1: Welcome to this League Uncut.

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Speaker 2: In the rule of.

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Speaker 3: Twenty four hour NBA News.

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Speaker 4: This you'll.

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Speaker 1: Chris Haynes. It's so time, Mark Stein, it's some time.

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Speaker 1: This League Uncut is underway and on fire. This should

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Speaker 1: be a good one.

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Speaker 5: Welcome in everyone to the latest edition of this League Uncut.

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Speaker 5: Mark Stein and Chris Haynes together again, first time in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, and joined today by our first guest

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Speaker 5: of twenty twenty four. He is a rookie, but you've

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Speaker 5: surely heard a lot about him already. If you follow

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Speaker 5: the Golden State Warriors, think you can expect to see

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Speaker 5: him next month in Indianapolis at All Star Weekend and

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Speaker 5: the Friday night game that features first and second year players.

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Speaker 5: Such has been his immediate impact with his new team,

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Speaker 5: and the best part of all on my scorecard, he's

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Speaker 5: a southpaw, a fellow lefty. We will be talking about

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Speaker 5: that for sure. Brandon Pazemski of the Warriors, Welcome to

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Speaker 5: this league un Cut, and please tell me that I

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Speaker 5: at least came close with the pronunciation of your name.

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Speaker 6: Did I and the ballpark? Did you did a good Yes?

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Speaker 3: Well I cheated.

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Speaker 5: Ray Rider told me just say gem in the middle

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Speaker 5: and you'll get you'll be close. When the season started,

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Speaker 5: you and Trace Jackson Davis, I think the expectation was

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Speaker 5: that both of you guys would be spending a fair

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Speaker 5: amount of time in Santa Cruz. And now here we

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Speaker 5: are and you're both rotation players. How did how did

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Speaker 5: you guys change things so quickly?

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Speaker 7: Well, some of it comes down to, you know, injury suspensions,

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Speaker 7: stuff like that, but I think through camp me and

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Speaker 7: him kind of talked to them. We kind of felt like,

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Speaker 7: you know, we could have a spot on this team

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Speaker 7: just from the different things that we brought that maybe

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Speaker 7: we didn't have on the floor. But like like you said,

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Speaker 7: we spent some time in Santa Cruz, did our thing

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Speaker 7: therein I think are off the court things that we

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Speaker 7: team more often. And then you know, through being with

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Speaker 7: the team, guys who set out sometimes just getting that opportunity,

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Speaker 7: and then we did just kind of taking full advantage

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Speaker 7: of it.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Brian, I want you to I want to take people

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes and kind of go back a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Uh your college careers.

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Speaker 2: You came into the league a little unorthodox path on

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Speaker 2: how you got here? Uh, you started off at Illinois

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Speaker 2: before transferring to Santa Clair, play in one year at

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Speaker 2: Santa Clair and in in the draft and becoming a

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Speaker 2: first round pick. That doesn't happen too often, go from

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Speaker 2: a high major to a mid major. Can you walk

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Speaker 2: me through? I know you probably talked about it before,

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Speaker 2: but can you walk walk our listeners through why you

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Speaker 2: are elected to transfer? I know you didn't get much run,

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Speaker 2: you didn't get much burn your freshman year at Illinois.

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Speaker 2: Can he walked me through that process, because ultimately it

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Speaker 2: looked like it was ended up being a great decision

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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I think obviously the big part of it wasn't playing

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Speaker 7: the freshman year and not wanting to come back, and

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Speaker 7: you know, not having a so called guarantee that I

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Speaker 7: was going to play my sophomore either, And that just

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Speaker 7: means in terms of a draft stock, that I'm a

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Speaker 7: year older and I just wanted to play in the

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Speaker 7: system that was more NBA typical and I feel like

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Speaker 7: Big ten basketball isn't really that, and I still don't

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Speaker 7: think it is now. And so the WCC I think

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Speaker 7: was a perfect spot for me, just because the amount

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Speaker 7: of pro players that they get the underrated pro players

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Speaker 7: that they get, and they all play fast tempo.

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Speaker 6: What's what the NBA is today?

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Speaker 2: Can you go back on that on the big team,

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Speaker 2: what do you see like, explain like their offense, Explain

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Speaker 2: their structure. Why you felt like it wasn't conducive to uh,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you look at a lot of those teams.

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Speaker 7: They're really good in the half court p doing specific

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Speaker 7: I mean even now today with Zach Edy, they're really

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Speaker 7: look at guys like Hunter Dickinson, Zach Edy, Kofi Kobur

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Speaker 7: and my teammate at Illinois, all those guys that are

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Speaker 7: like all Americans in college, but it is kind of

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Speaker 7: hard for them to translate their skills to the NBA level.

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Speaker 7: You know, obviously you got the eye man's out like

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Speaker 7: I wanted the ball in my hands a little bit

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Speaker 7: more to show what I could do.

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Speaker 5: I've heard in other interviews you've given where you said

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Speaker 5: that this time of year ago you weren't on draft

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Speaker 3: I am not a draft guy.

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Speaker 5: I am fully focused on the day to day in

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Speaker 5: the NBA, and I've been saying for years that to

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Speaker 5: become like a twenty four to seven, three sixty five gig.

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Speaker 5: But you you really weren't on draft boards a year ago.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Actually around this time, probably like mid January, is

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Speaker 7: when I first saw my name on the draft board,

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Speaker 7: and I think it was like forty six or forty seven.

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Speaker 7: But you know, when I send out that tweet last month,

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Speaker 7: I think I wasn't on any and honestly, going into

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Speaker 7: out after your junior year, and you know, try to

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Speaker 7: be a lottery pick, which I still think if I

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Speaker 7: this year. But yeah, that was my plan. I didn't

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Speaker 7: have any people on their draft boards, but you know,

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Speaker 7: I just fought through it. And controlled what I could control.

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Speaker 5: So when you're in that situation and you obviously have

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Speaker 5: NBA aspirations, how often do you look at the draft boards?

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Speaker 5: And how do you not let it discourage you if

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 7: I look all the time, just you know, a little

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Speaker 7: bit more motivation to see my name on there, and

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Speaker 7: if it's not as high as I want it to be,

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Speaker 7: even more motivation. And just seeing the guys that I

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Speaker 7: even playing. I think, you know, I've always had that

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Speaker 5: And then if we rewind a year and then fast

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Speaker 5: forward six months, now you're a Santa Clara kid drafted

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Speaker 5: by the Warriors on Draft night? Going into the draft,

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Speaker 5: what were you being told? What were your expectations that night?

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Speaker 5: Where did you think you were going to land?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I knew I wasn't going to fall past Brooklyn. I

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Speaker 7: had a really good work out with them, and they

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Speaker 7: I was gonna go there. Atlanta really liked me Toronto,

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Speaker 7: So just anywhere in that range. I know, uh, Sposa

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Speaker 7: and Steve talked like about our picks. If of Miami

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Speaker 7: so really anywhere, it didn't really matter. It was just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was told, you know, V I was told

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Speaker 2: it was around summer league for you guys. You guys,

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Speaker 2: I think you guys had just finished a I don't

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Speaker 2: know if it was a walkthrough, maybe a summer league

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Speaker 2: and I was told like after one of those workouts. Again,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if if it was a summer league

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Speaker 4: Why why was that?

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Speaker 7: Well, just looking past summer league, it was just kind

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Speaker 7: be around, and if I want to play, these are

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Speaker 7: the guys that we'll be playing with and just to

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Speaker 7: see their habits, their routine, even just that one time,

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Speaker 7: I think it was after one of our shoot arounds

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Speaker 7: because we had a game later that night. Uh, just

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Speaker 7: to see their habits and stuff like that. I think

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Speaker 7: it was super important and it's super important to kind

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Speaker 7: of start that relationship early in July. So yeah, I

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Speaker 7: thought it was. It was something I needed to do,

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Speaker 7: something that I'm always willing to do, something I do.

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Speaker 7: You know, every day when Steph forms out before the game,

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Speaker 7: I'm always out there watching them.

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Speaker 6: So I just think it's important.

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Speaker 7: To you know, if you want to be the best,

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Speaker 2: You know, we're insiders here, so we're paid to, you know,

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Speaker 2: also told that you talk about always wanting to uh

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Speaker 2: you fit with those guys. You guys play ones a lot. Uh.

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Speaker 2: I was told that you one for ones everybody. I

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Speaker 2: that involved this. This particular Ones game I think involved

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Speaker 2: Steph Chris Paul think maybe all of them, so you

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Speaker 2: already know what I'm talking about, all of them. I

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Speaker 2: heard I heard you got one. I heard you got one.

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Speaker 2: I think this was a mini cap. Explain explain what happened.

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Speaker 2: I heard it was like a hook shot, the last

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Speaker 2: look shot. Can you explain that? That that game right there?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So we were in LA. We had a little

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Speaker 7: We're at u C l A and we had just

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Speaker 7: bigs so maybe Trace, Loon, Dario and Draymond didn't play,

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Speaker 7: and everybody else about eight or nine of us and

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Speaker 7: we played seven spots and it was kind of like

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Speaker 7: first of two wins. And yeah, I hit him with

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Speaker 7: the hook shot for game. I make sure everybody knew

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Speaker 2: That's what I heard about it. Heard he had a

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Speaker 2: fist pump and everything. Who was that game? Who's that

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Speaker 6: I think it might have been Gary Payton.

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Speaker 4: I think okay, GP two GP two.

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Speaker 2: I bring that up because I think everybody they see

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Speaker 2: the fire in the passing that you play with and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, when I heard that story, I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: you know his Teammateshi get it too, you know, so

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Speaker 2: you know, I think that resonated with a lot of people.

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Speaker 5: Oh how did you get a locker next to Steph?

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Speaker 5: I haven't been to Chase Center in a long time,

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Speaker 5: but I was told that your locker stall is right

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Speaker 5: beside number thirties.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. I think maybe just lucky to draw.

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Speaker 7: Obviously we had just traded uh Patrick Baldwin. I think

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Speaker 7: that was his locker before me, and kind of just

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Speaker 7: replaced that I could have been where. I didn't really

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Speaker 5: So you love those big media crowds that probably invade

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Speaker 6: He's just right there.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, So who on the team would be described,

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Speaker 2: I think one thing about what sticks out about you

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So it was after the Phoenix game where Dre

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Speaker 6: As ironic as that might.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so there's obviously a lot of time between Summer

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Speaker 3: How did you not let that mess with you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I think the law of averages work out. I mean

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Speaker 7: Steph did a good job of, you know, inviting me

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Speaker 5: But this I think it's fair to say, has been

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Speaker 5: So to be a rookie thrown into this situation with

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Speaker 5: Steph is almost thirty six and it's still playing at

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Speaker 7: I don't think there's any pressure obviously. You guys know

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Speaker 7: You know, I know what I can do, and I

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Speaker 7: You know, everybody's kind of stepped it up a little

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Speaker 5: You mentioned your confidence, and Draymond Green I think has

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Speaker 5: Where does where does the confidence come in to? Kind

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I just think for me, just you know, trying to

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Speaker 7: And then you know, when you always want to win

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Speaker 2: That was my next question right there, you got ahead

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it just honestly just comes with it,

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Speaker 7: And so when teams see that, like they try to

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Speaker 4: Did you did you you take it as disrespect that

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Speaker 7: I think from a life perspective, first, it was just

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Speaker 6: They don't care. You know, a lot of times they

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Speaker 7: You just can shoot, And I kind of want to

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Speaker 6: I can contribute off fastest to the game just like

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Speaker 7: And I think it's what's got me here and I

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Speaker 5: Do people like the Warriors in Milwaukee because obviously Loun

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Speaker 7: I think I think the Warriors are really a global

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Speaker 7: it's kind of made people a fan by default. A

441
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,640
Speaker 7: lot of people back home, you know, try to run

442
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 7: their offense like Golden State just because it's predicated and

443
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Speaker 7: a ball movement and not just driven them there out

444
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 7: the ball. So just kind of by default, everybody's a

445
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Speaker 7: fan of Golden State.

446
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Speaker 5: So if we had met you at fifteen or sixteen

447
00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 5: and asked you, are you a Bucks fan or a

448
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Speaker 5: Warriors fan? What would you have What would you have read?

449
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 6: I would have said, I'm a Heat fan.

450
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 7: Me and me and Tyler grew up in the same

451
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,119
Speaker 7: city in Greenfield together. He's obviously four years older than me,

452
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Speaker 7: but once he got drafted to the Heat, I just

453
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 7: felt like we were the same kind of athletically, size

454
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Speaker 7: wise play style. So I kind of just try to

455
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Speaker 7: follow what he did in terms of his development, and

456
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 7: I think obviously he won six Man of the Year

457
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Speaker 7: ready could potentially be an All Star soon. So just

458
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Speaker 7: growing up in the same city seeing.

459
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Speaker 8: Him make it, you know, gave me the most conferences

460
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Speaker 8: that Hart can make it too, So shout out to him.

461
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Speaker 2: You mentioned you you looked at draft boards when you

462
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Speaker 2: were coming out of college. Uh, do you, as of

463
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Speaker 2: right now, even though you're excelling, does it still bother

464
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Speaker 2: you about some of the guys that were picked ahead

465
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Speaker 2: of you? Percent I'm saying I could put you on

466
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Speaker 2: the spot. I was about to ask you, don't answer this.

467
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Speaker 2: I was just about to ask you, d K you

468
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 2: do you know the guys on top of your head

469
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Speaker 2: that were that were picked?

470
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Speaker 4: Oh? You do? Okay? All right?

471
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Speaker 2: Where do you feel like, because you said next year

472
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Speaker 2: if you would have if you would have stayed in college,

473
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Speaker 2: you would have been a lot to repick for sure,

474
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Speaker 2: Where do you feel like you should have went? What

475
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 2: do you feel like your reign should have been?

476
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Speaker 6: See, it's kind of tough to say.

477
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Speaker 7: I think if you look at this year's draft, it's

478
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Speaker 7: more of, Yeah, you want to go to the highest

479
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 7: number and make more money, but at the same time,

480
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 7: you want to go to a spot where you're gonna

481
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Speaker 7: have opportunity. And I think Golden State fits me and

482
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,199
Speaker 7: I fit them perfectly. So like if I were to

483
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 7: go to, you know, a top five pick team and

484
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 7: I could play out of minutes, but we're not winning.

485
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 7: I think that kind of as made as well as

486
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Speaker 7: it may look like my numbers are up and all

487
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 7: this and that, I think it kind of prevents my

488
00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,640
Speaker 7: development in the sense of how to win in the NBA.

489
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 7: And I think right now I'm kind of getting the

490
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 7: best of both worlds of veteran team have won four

491
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Speaker 7: championships and I'm getting to play, so I'm learning how

492
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 7: to win while I'm playing, And I think you guys

493
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 7: will see that in the coming years kind of when

494
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 7: you know, you know, Stephen Dray and Clay and CP

495
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 7: they what five six more years left in the tank

496
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 7: and then after that, it's kind of like the young

497
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,480
Speaker 7: guys kind of got to take their lead and run

498
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Speaker 7: with it. So for me to be here in Golden State,

499
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Speaker 7: I think it's a perfect spot for me. Obviously, you

500
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 7: want to go as high as you can as a player,

501
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 7: but it's also about fit because a lot of guys

502
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 7: that are in front of you aren't even playing right now.

503
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 2: And that's what makes what you're doing again remarkably because

504
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 2: a lot of rookies be they wouldn't want to be

505
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 2: drafted in the twenties to a Golden State veteran team

506
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 2: because they're not going to play. That's the way we

507
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: look at it. You know, like I don't want to Kaminga.

508
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 2: I know Kaminga's has had some problems trying to adjust

509
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 2: and he's finally getting his turn now. But you know,

510
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 2: had he if he was drafted by a lottery team,

511
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 2: he's playing right away. And I know for a lot

512
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 2: of guys that that's that's a struggle for For you mentally,

513
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 2: you just always had the confidence that you would crack it.

514
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 2: Like did you go in thinking like, Okay, I'm prepared

515
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 2: to sit a year or two because you know, all

516
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 2: you have to do is look at he's saying no

517
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 2: already started, hold on b before you asked that, hold

518
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: on be old. Look at Kaminga. Look how many years

519
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 2: it took him. Look at what happened to Wiseman didn't play.

520
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,120
Speaker 2: You didn't look at those other rookies and sayment man,

521
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 2: they are not getting on the court with this team.

522
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 2: You still just felt like you would crack it.

523
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Speaker 6: Huh.

524
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

525
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Speaker 7: I mean if I was going to play in the NBA,

526
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 7: and I felt like if I wasn't ready, I just

527
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 7: would have went back to school again and just kind

528
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Speaker 7: of based on feedback I got through the process of

529
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 7: working out with teams, interviewing with teams that I was

530
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Speaker 7: going to be in that ten to twenty five range.

531
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Speaker 7: And for me coming into Golden State, I just I

532
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 7: think my best agibus I just know basketball, and if

533
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,479
Speaker 7: you know basketball, especially with Golden State, you know you're

534
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 7: gonna find you on to the floor. And I think

535
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 7: big questions my playing defense, all that kind of stuff,

536
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 7: and I think I've kind of quieted that noise. And

537
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 7: if you know basketball, you know how to play with

538
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 7: the team's best players.

539
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 6: That's what a role player is.

540
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 7: And I think for me, just trying to perfect that

541
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 7: until it's my time to, you know, be the best

542
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 7: player on the team.

543
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Speaker 6: I think that's why I'm on the court.

544
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Speaker 5: Well, I've waited long enough to get to this, but

545
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 5: we've saved the best for last, at least what I

546
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 5: consider the best for last. Because I want to talk

547
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,800
Speaker 5: to you about left handedness, one of my favorite subjects.

548
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 5: Raymond Ridder, the world famous Raymond Ridder, who does Warriors pr.

549
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 5: He doesn't put his notebook down long enough to read

550
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 5: anything I write, so I'm sure he hasn't told you

551
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 5: this but every August when International left Handers Day hits,

552
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 5: I put out my all lefty team and there are

553
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 5: only six spots on it. So don't be mad at

554
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 5: me if you don't make it in year one. But

555
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 5: you'll probably take that as a challenge.

556
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 2: He's going to be mad at you. I don't know

557
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 2: why you said that. He's going to be mad if

558
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 2: you leave them.

559
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 3: All his motivation to prove me wrong.

560
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 5: But basically, I pick five guys and a six man

561
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 5: and that's it. And there are usually about fifty lefties

562
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 5: in the league every season, so only six make this team.

563
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 5: But in what I've read about you, and I've heard

564
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 5: some other interviews you've done, I love how much you

565
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 5: talk about Jenobli and Harden. You clearly study other left handers.

566
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:40,479
Speaker 5: So just take us through from your seat, what are

567
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 5: the advantages of being left handed? And just maybe share

568
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 5: with us some of your favorite lefties.

569
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think favorite lefty in the game right now.

570
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 7: Obviously I talk a lot about Mono, but Jalen Brunson,

571
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 7: I think I can have a similar type career as him.

572
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 7: Obviously he's a lot shorter than me, but just see

573
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 7: that he does the full work creating advantages for him

574
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 7: and his teammates. Obviously, you have Daron Sacramento, you have

575
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 7: James Harden still in LA.

576
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 6: But I'm actually curious who's on your list right now.

577
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 5: So last August, when I put out the all Lefty team,

578
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 5: and I did it, I did it like the All

579
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 5: Star ballot. I did two in the back court, three

580
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 5: in the front court, and then I picked a six

581
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 5: man backcourt pretty easy, Jalen Brunson and de Aaron Fox.

582
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 3: Front court, I had to move.

583
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 5: I didn't have a third automatic forward, so Demontes a

584
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 5: bonus Julius Randall were layups.

585
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 3: And then I moved R. J.

586
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 5: Barrett in there as kind of a swing man, so

587
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 5: he became the third starter in the front court.

588
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 3: And then Luke Canard was my sixth man.

589
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 4: So Beacon correct that.

590
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 5: Last year there was no Harden obviously, So I think

591
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 5: Harden obviously is going to be in there this season.

592
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 5: And so yeah, I mean it's it's it's tough competition,

593
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 5: only six spots.

594
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 4: But I have a suggestion. If there's you said there's

595
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 4: about fifty lefties.

596
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, usually around four, usually around forty five.

597
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 2: To fifty per seeds, just switch it to lefty team,

598
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: go twelve, give twelve spots.

599
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 3: No, I want to make it exclusive. You gotta be

600
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 3: it's top six.

601
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 7: If you put the top twelve lefties on a team together,

602
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 7: you think we can win a championship.

603
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I know that I'd be in

604
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 5: the front row watch and I would love to see it.

605
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 5: And there were times where the Knicks in recent years

606
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 5: they almost had five to throw on the court altogether.

607
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 5: What is the most lefties you've ever been on the

608
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 5: court with at the same time, do you remember?

609
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe high school? Maybe two?

610
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like I think the Knicks have had

611
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 5: times where they've had at least so who they.

612
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 6: Have They have Barrett, Randall, Hartenstein, Jalen Brunson.

613
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, and all four of them have played. Trying to

614
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 5: think that they have anyone else.

615
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, they would be in contention, for sure.

616
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 2: We got enough for sure, Bronson, Fox, Sabonis, Randall, Barrett, Brandon, Hardenstein, Harden,

617
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 2: I forgot about Harden, Joe Ingles, Joe Ingles for sure.

618
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 3: Herb Jones is in there in there.

619
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Speaker 2: Yes, said we could do it, we could do it.

620
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, I mean, look last year, Zion and Harden

621
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:29,719
Speaker 5: weren't on my team.

622
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 6: Now we could do it. We could win it for sure.

623
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Speaker 7: I mean the writings are tough too, though, I ain't

624
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Speaker 7: gonna say that that's crazy.

625
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: So so a club that sums up to around fifty

626
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 2: guys can beat the rest of the four four hundred players,

627
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: that's pretty No, that'd be a good game. That'd be

628
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 2: a good game. I'm sorry, you gotta start that star,

629
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 2: start the petition on that. I would want to see

630
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: that all lefty squad. The NBA is always trying to

631
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 2: come up with something.

632
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 3: We didn't mention. Kelly Oubray Conley g P two.

633
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 2: Bright, I put that on you. That's your teammate, man,

634
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 2: I put that good.

635
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 6: I mean GP, he's kind.

636
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 7: Of like a like an inverted left, like an inverted left.

637
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, you really don't think there's some lefties out there?

638
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 2: I don't think you don't think you don't think left

639
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 2: handed GP he fits like fits like that as well.

640
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, so, I mean, like you said, though, probably the

641
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 5: most you've ever played with at one time fellow lefties

642
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 5: is just two of you. So, I mean, how weird

643
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 5: would it be if there were four or five or

644
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 5: five of you?

645
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 3: Or would it you think it would be natural.

646
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 6: I think it's I think it would be fun. Honestly.

647
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 7: Uh, for me, I don't really like garden lefties, is

648
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 7: that right? That may sound. I don't really like garden

649
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 7: lefties because I've always grown up just garten right He's

650
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 7: so you know their tennessees.

651
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 6: But Garden Garden Harden for sure was definitely fun.

652
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 4: So now you know how other players feel guarding you.

653
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it's definitely switch.

654
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 5: Up because you're left handed when you have to go

655
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,520
Speaker 5: against a Harden or a Bruns. And do you think

656
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 5: that gives you some sort of advantage that you can

657
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 5: somewhat step into their head and try to anticipate where

658
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 5: they're going.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think for most lefties, not all.

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Speaker 7: Obviously, a lot of lefties like shooting off their right hand,

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Speaker 7: whether it's a step back, going right, floating into their

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Speaker 7: right hand into a shot, spinning over their left shoulder,

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Speaker 7: so you kind of know that, and then when they

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Speaker 7: go left try to get downhill or counter back to

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Speaker 7: the right, so you kind of know that and stuff.

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Speaker 7: But just in terms of your full work and guarding them,

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Speaker 7: you haven't done it a lot, so it's a little

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Speaker 7: bit different.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. Stein like you can have I played cards.

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Speaker 2: I ain't played on NBA obviously, b But no matter

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Speaker 2: what the coach can tell you, he's left handed. You know,

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Speaker 2: his strong hand is the left and somehow most players

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Speaker 2: will still mess it up and still shade them to

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Speaker 2: that left side. You're just not used to it. It's tough, tough,

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Speaker 2: of what it seems.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I'm glad.

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Speaker 5: I'm glad we saved that for the end. And like

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Speaker 5: I said, I wish you great success for the rest

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Speaker 5: of the season. And something tells me that you will

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Speaker 5: end up on that team. I can't tell you exactly when,

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Speaker 5: but it is always great to see another young lefty

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Speaker 5: emerge and play his way into consideration.

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Speaker 3: For again, it's one of six spots.

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Speaker 5: It's difficult, but I know now I've guaranteed Raymond Rider,

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Speaker 5: I've guaranteed fifty phone calls.

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Speaker 3: From him lobbying for you to get on there. So

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Speaker 3: you do have a strong advocate in your corner.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir Bran, we appreciate you having us Man about

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Speaker 2: coming on with us Man. You your treasure, pleasure and

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Speaker 2: treasure and a pleasure to watch man. But equally and

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Speaker 2: more impressive man just sitting here talking and shooting the

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Speaker 2: shit with us. So we appreciate you, brother.

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Speaker 6: Thank you guys for having me. I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 5: All right there he goes everyone, Brandon Pajemski from the

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Speaker 5: Golden State Warriors. That will do it for this edition

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Speaker 5: of This League Uncut. As always, please rate, review, and

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Speaker 5: I back together again very soon, with one more episode

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Speaker 5: to come this week.

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Speaker 3: Talk to you then, and that'll do it for us.

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