WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: Warriors G Brandin Podziemski 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.960 Welcome to this League Uncut. 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:04.080 In the rule of. 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:05.480 Twenty four hour NBA News. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:06.840 This you'll. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.880 Chris Haynes. It's so time, Mark Stein, it's some time. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:21.799 This League Uncut is underway and on fire. This should 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.720 be a good one. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:29.640 Welcome in everyone to the latest edition of this League Uncut. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:35.600 Mark Stein and Chris Haynes together again, first time in 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.280 twenty twenty four, and joined today by our first guest 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.680 of twenty twenty four. He is a rookie, but you've 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.560 surely heard a lot about him already. If you follow 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.879 the Golden State Warriors, think you can expect to see 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.479 him next month in Indianapolis at All Star Weekend and 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.440 the Friday night game that features first and second year players. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.560 Such has been his immediate impact with his new team, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.760 and the best part of all on my scorecard, he's 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.559 a southpaw, a fellow lefty. We will be talking about 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:11.880 that for sure. Brandon Pazemski of the Warriors, Welcome to 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.480 this league un Cut, and please tell me that I 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.080 at least came close with the pronunciation of your name. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.919 Did I and the ballpark? Did you did a good Yes? 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:21.919 Well I cheated. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.880 Ray Rider told me just say gem in the middle 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:29.080 and you'll get you'll be close. When the season started, 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.040 you and Trace Jackson Davis, I think the expectation was 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.199 that both of you guys would be spending a fair 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.560 amount of time in Santa Cruz. And now here we 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:43.800 are and you're both rotation players. How did how did 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.280 you guys change things so quickly? 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.800 Well, some of it comes down to, you know, injury suspensions, 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.040 stuff like that, but I think through camp me and 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.360 him kind of talked to them. We kind of felt like, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.520 you know, we could have a spot on this team 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.200 just from the different things that we brought that maybe 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.680 we didn't have on the floor. But like like you said, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.240 we spent some time in Santa Cruz, did our thing 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:15.320 therein I think are off the court things that we 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.000 brought to the table allowed us to be with the 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.600 team more often. And then you know, through being with 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.320 the team, guys who set out sometimes just getting that opportunity, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.359 and then we did just kind of taking full advantage 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:25.519 of it. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.400 Uh, Brian, I want you to I want to take people 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.639 behind the scenes and kind of go back a little bit. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.400 Uh your college careers. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.560 You came into the league a little unorthodox path on 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.200 how you got here? Uh, you started off at Illinois 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.520 before transferring to Santa Clair, play in one year at 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.880 Santa Clair and in in the draft and becoming a 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.280 first round pick. That doesn't happen too often, go from 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.280 a high major to a mid major. Can you walk 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.560 me through? I know you probably talked about it before, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.760 but can you walk walk our listeners through why you 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.919 are elected to transfer? I know you didn't get much run, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.400 you didn't get much burn your freshman year at Illinois. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.720 Can he walked me through that process, because ultimately it 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.880 looked like it was ended up being a great decision 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:11.160 for you. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:12.280 Yeah. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.919 I think obviously the big part of it wasn't playing 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.120 the freshman year and not wanting to come back, and 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.880 you know, not having a so called guarantee that I 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.480 was going to play my sophomore either, And that just 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.919 means in terms of a draft stock, that I'm a 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:31.360 year older and I just wanted to play in the 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.880 system that was more NBA typical and I feel like 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.119 Big ten basketball isn't really that, and I still don't 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.520 think it is now. And so the WCC I think 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.760 was a perfect spot for me, just because the amount 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.000 of pro players that they get the underrated pro players 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.880 that they get, and they all play fast tempo. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.560 What's what the NBA is today? 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.720 Can you go back on that on the big team, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.480 what do you see like, explain like their offense, Explain 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.080 their structure. Why you felt like it wasn't conducive to uh, 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.320 you know, being able to hit the NBA path. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.240 Yeah, I think you look at a lot of those teams. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.920 They're really good in the half court p doing specific 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.520 I mean even now today with Zach Edy, they're really 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.640 good in half court offense, and it's just slow. You 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:23.320 look at guys like Hunter Dickinson, Zach Edy, Kofi Kobur 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.600 and my teammate at Illinois, all those guys that are 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.960 like all Americans in college, but it is kind of 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.080 hard for them to translate their skills to the NBA level. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.400 You know, obviously you got the eye man's out like 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.520 the j Navies, the Sumus guys like that, the guys 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.080 from Michigan State because they play fast. But I just 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.080 felt like I didn't want to, you know, be in 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.800 the corner as much as I was at Illinois, and 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.760 I wanted the ball in my hands a little bit 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.359 more to show what I could do. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.800 I've heard in other interviews you've given where you said 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.200 that this time of year ago you weren't on draft 0:04:59.200 --> 0:04:59.800 boards at all. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.280 I am not a draft guy. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.360 I am fully focused on the day to day in 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.160 the NBA, and I've been saying for years that to 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.520 cover the draft properly now you really need to be 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.120 fully focused on the draft because that in itself has 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.120 become like a twenty four to seven, three sixty five gig. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.560 But you you really weren't on draft boards a year ago. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:22.120 Yeah, Actually around this time, probably like mid January, is 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.960 when I first saw my name on the draft board, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.760 and I think it was like forty six or forty seven. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.880 But you know, when I send out that tweet last month, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.520 I think I wasn't on any and honestly, going into 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.440 Santa Clara and my goal was to play two years 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.600 there and kind of do what Jaylen Williams did come 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.919 out after your junior year, and you know, try to 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.240 be a lottery pick, which I still think if I 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:46.840 went back this year, I would be allowed to pick 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.719 this year. But yeah, that was my plan. I didn't 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:55.280 have any people on their draft boards, but you know, 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.479 I just fought through it. And controlled what I could control. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.680 So when you're in that situation and you obviously have 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:08.760 NBA aspirations, how often do you look at the draft boards? 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.920 And how do you not let it discourage you if 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:15.040 what you're seeing is not what you want to see? 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:15.520 Oh? 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.520 I look all the time, just you know, a little 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.920 bit more motivation to see my name on there, and 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.440 if it's not as high as I want it to be, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.919 even more motivation. And just seeing the guys that I 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:34.040 was behind going into the draft process and to see 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.359 where I am now playing and which guys are actually 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.479 even playing. I think, you know, I've always had that 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.920 full belief in myself that you know, I'd be a 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:44.640 top five rookie in this draft class. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.839 And then if we rewind a year and then fast 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.800 forward six months, now you're a Santa Clara kid drafted 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.840 by the Warriors on Draft night? Going into the draft, 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.480 what were you being told? What were your expectations that night? 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.200 Where did you think you were going to land? 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:03.640 Yeah? 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.400 I knew I wasn't going to fall past Brooklyn. I 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.760 had a really good work out with them, and they 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.200 had picks twenty one and twenty two, So I wish 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.360 I was gonna go there. Atlanta really liked me Toronto, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.520 so I knew it could have been as high as 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.120 thirteen at Toronto and as far back as twenty two. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:25.240 So just anywhere in that range. I know, uh, Sposa 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.880 and Steve talked like about our picks. If of Miami 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.760 would have chose me, they would have chose how may 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.280 so really anywhere, it didn't really matter. It was just 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.080 a matter of opportunity and best fit for me. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.680 Yeah, I was told, you know, V I was told 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.880 it was around summer league for you guys. You guys, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.400 I think you guys had just finished a I don't 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.280 know if it was a walkthrough, maybe a summer league 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.960 practice in Vegas, and Chris Paul and Stephen Curry were there, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.000 and I was told like after one of those workouts. Again, 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.280 I don't know if if it was a summer league 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.520 practice or walk through, but you stayed around to watch 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.080 those guys. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:07.880 Why why was that? 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.600 Well, just looking past summer league, it was just kind 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.080 of like, these are the guys that I want to 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.600 be around. These are the guys that I'm going to 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.480 be around, and if I want to play, these are 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.840 the guys that we'll be playing with and just to 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.480 see their habits, their routine, even just that one time, 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.560 I think it was after one of our shoot arounds 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.600 because we had a game later that night. Uh, just 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.800 to see their habits and stuff like that. I think 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.760 it was super important and it's super important to kind 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.240 of start that relationship early in July. So yeah, I 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.079 thought it was. It was something I needed to do, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:40.880 something that I'm always willing to do, something I do. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.080 You know, every day when Steph forms out before the game, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:44.560 I'm always out there watching them. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.640 So I just think it's important. 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:47.800 To you know, if you want to be the best, 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.280 you gotta you gotta seek out, seek out the best. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.880 You know, we're insiders here, so we're paid to, you know, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.840 to get to uh get some information, get get some 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.599 entail about what's going on behind the scenes. I was 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.040 also told that you talk about always wanting to uh 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.160 pick their brain and try to try to see where 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:13.080 you fit with those guys. You guys play ones a lot. Uh. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.880 I was told that you one for ones everybody. I 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.360 believe that's the one on one games and everything that's 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.760 that involved this. This particular Ones game I think involved 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.760 Steph Chris Paul think maybe all of them, so you 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.560 already know what I'm talking about, all of them. I 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.000 heard I heard you got one. I heard you got one. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.160 I think this was a mini cap. Explain explain what happened. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.640 I heard it was like a hook shot, the last 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.080 look shot. Can you explain that? That that game right there? 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.400 Yeah, So we were in LA. We had a little 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:43.600 players only mini camp. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.320 We're at u C l A and we had just 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.439 got down playing fives and I think everybody but the 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.440 bigs so maybe Trace, Loon, Dario and Draymond didn't play, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.800 and everybody else about eight or nine of us and 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.960 we played seven spots and it was kind of like 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.360 first of two wins. And yeah, I hit him with 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.839 the hook shot for game. I make sure everybody knew 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:06.200 about it. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.320 That's what I heard about it. Heard he had a 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.800 fist pump and everything. Who was that game? Who's that 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.040 game with a shotow? 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.559 I think it might have been Gary Payton. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.840 I think okay, GP two GP two. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.040 I bring that up because I think everybody they see 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.480 the fire in the passing that you play with and uh, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.720 you know, when I heard that story, I'm like, Okay, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.280 you know his Teammateshi get it too, you know, so 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.760 you know, I think that resonated with a lot of people. 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:40.280 Oh how did you get a locker next to Steph? 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.000 I haven't been to Chase Center in a long time, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.720 but I was told that your locker stall is right 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.160 beside number thirties. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.640 Yeah. I think maybe just lucky to draw. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.040 Obviously we had just traded uh Patrick Baldwin. I think 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.880 that was his locker before me, and kind of just 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.640 replaced that I could have been where. I didn't really 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.640 get a choice. I just walked in. I saw my 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.559 name next to him, and I was like, it's pretty fitting. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.880 So you love those big media crowds that probably invade 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:11.319 your space? 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:11.880 Or is Steph? 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.840 Maybe Steph is doing completely podium now so you don't 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:15.440 have us media. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.000 Yeah, yeah, he does a good job, but I'm kind 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.079 of giving us our space mostly on the podium now. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.360 But it's definitely a pleasure to have him around just 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.760 to I don't have to walk across the locker room 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:27.440 to ask him something. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:28.240 He's just right there. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.880 So yeah, So who on the team would be described, 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.520 Who of the veterans who would say that's my rook. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.120 Probably Steph early on It was definitely Draymond for sure. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.160 Try to pick it as many things I could from 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.760 him and Gary defensively, and I think I've improved vastly 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.680 since Summer League on the defensive end, and then you 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.920 know Stephan CP obviously my position, just learning the ins 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.319 and outs of the NBA game, just little things that 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.280 maybe you know, traditional rookies don't think about three for twos, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.000 two for ones, knowing time and score, all that kind 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:03.480 of stuff. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.920 So I won't say anybody in particular. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.880 They've all done a good job of letting me know 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.880 about the NBA life, Brun. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.600 I think one thing about what sticks out about you 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.280 obviously your play. You seem like you're always at the 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.320 right place at the right time, hit timely shots. You 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.320 can play with anybody, but this is a Golden State 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.240 Warriors nucleus that has been successful for a long time. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:34.240 And to have you inserted into the starting lineup and 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.599 still playing at a high level, I think that just 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.440 speaks volumes to what you've been able to do to 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.400 this point. But I want you to take me back, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.880 be take me back to the day where you were 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.679 told that you were going to be the starter. Can 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.360 you can you like, give us a story on I 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.400 don't know you woke up that day, did you have 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:53.200 any inkland? 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.240 Did you know? Did it hit you as a surprise? 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.440 Was this a meeting? Can you just take us behind 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.000 the scenes on how that all came about. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.240 Yeah, So it was after the Phoenix game where Dre 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:09.480 got suspended, and obviously before he got suspended, we were 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:14.920 playing pretty bad and halftime at the Phoenix game, Steve 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.480 was like, we're gonna switch it up. At halftime, I'm 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.920 starting to I think it was me, Clay, Steph, Dre, 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:27.280 and maybe Jonathan and that group was working. Obviously what 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.480 happened with Draymond happened with Draymond. We end up losing, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.560 so we fly from Phoenix to La. We have a 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.640 meet in the next morning after they release about Dre's suspension, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.800 and they said we're gonna try to change a different lineup. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:44.520 Then it was me, Steph, Clay, JK, and Lon and 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.160 that was really it. Obviously, you know, we're sadden because 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:49.679 we don't have Dre out there and he's a big 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.400 part of what we do. And that's kind of how 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.040 I found out. Started the next game in La Brooklyn, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:00.600 Portland and so on. And just trying to do my partner. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.920 I think a misconception about me is that, like during 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.319 Summer League, it wasn't so much like I was playing bad. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.880 It was me trying to, you know, show the coaches 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.200 and the gms in the front office how I could 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.520 fit with guys like Steph and Clay. And obviously, when 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.319 you play in Summer League, you don't play with guys 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.400 of that level. So I think instead of trying to, like, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.200 you know, get thirty points here and whatever the case is, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.360 in the summer League, I tried to show, you know that 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:28.760 I could play with them. I could play in the 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.240 system where the ball moves, I screened all that kind 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.600 of stuff and do all the little things. And obviously 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.640 I didn't shoot the best, but you know now I'm 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.720 leading the team in three point percentage. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:40.080 As ironic as that might. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.600 Be, that's crazy on the team with Steph. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.120 Yeah, so there's obviously a lot of time between Summer 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.840 League and training camp. How did you not let summer 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.520 League and maybe it didn't go exactly the way you 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:55.080 wanted it to. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.680 How did you not let that mess with you? 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:57.280 Yeah? 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.960 I think the law of averages work out. I mean 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.520 in summer League was a sample size of six games. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.480 Over the course of thirty two to thirty three college games, 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.240 I shot forty four percent almost, so I know it 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.040 wasn't going to be that much of a difference. And a 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.640 lot of my threes I took in college were from 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.160 NBA range, so I knew I could do it. It 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.440 was just, you know, just keep putting the time and working. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.120 Steph did a good job of, you know, inviting me 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.480 to workouts, just little things here and there that I 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.560 could be a part of to get better throughout the summer, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.680 and you know, going into camp, I fairly confident of 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.600 what I was supposed to do for the team, and 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.800 I think since Camp I've been doing a great job 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:36.040 of it. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.040 But this I think it's fair to say, has been 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.000 an up and down, a rough start to the season 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.120 for a team that is used to playing for championships. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.160 So to be a rookie thrown into this situation with 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.440 all the expectations, and you know, obviously it's a daily 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.640 source of conversation. How much help is Stephan Curry getting. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.120 Steph is almost thirty six and it's still playing at 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.560 such a high level. What is it like to manage 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.280 that pressure and step right in and be expected to 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:06.240 deliver right away. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.920 I don't think there's any pressure obviously. You guys know 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.480 that I have the most confidence in myself out of anybody. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:16.640 You know, I know what I can do, and I 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.000 know what I'm not as good at, and I try 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:19.480 to stay away from things I'm not as good at. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.280 But I also know who I'm on the floor with, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.440 which makes it a lot easier for me. But you know, 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.520 I think each and every one of us, including Steph, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.600 you know, take pride and you know, contributing to winning. 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.080 And you know, we all see when people's like, oh, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.760 Steph has no help this and that, and we you know, 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.160 like's a fire under our bus sometimes too, Like you know, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.680 we're here to contribute as well, and we can. And 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.360 I think, you know, over the course of the last 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.360 ten games, we might think are about six and four. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.720 You know, everybody's kind of stepped it up a little 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.720 bit and Dre's absence, and I think yesterday's game was 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.440 a testament of you know, everybody contributing. I think we 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.520 had seven or eight guys in double figures, and you know, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.200 we're all have to do our part and it's not 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:02.920 just going to be on step shoulders to you know, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.200 well's to victories every night. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.720 You mentioned your confidence, and Draymond Green I think has 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.240 publicly lauded you for your confidence. Where does it come from? 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.640 Where does where does the confidence come in to? Kind 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.280 of I know you don't carry yourself like a rookie. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:21.000 Yeah. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:25.760 I just think for me, just you know, trying to 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.639 show everybody that you know, I do belong and you 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.359 can't belong and can't get props from everybody else if 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.200 you don't believe that yourself. And you know, growing up, 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:41.840 you know, grew up in the African American community, so 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.200 just learning to hoop with those guys, holding my own 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:50.080 and you know, trying to fit in honestly, uh, kind 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.760 of built that confidence. And parents did a good job of, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.280 you know, not letting me win anything growing up, whether 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.439 it was baseball, football, basket or anything like that. Never 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.800 let me win, and so that kind of build my competitiveness. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.000 And then you know, when you always want to win 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.240 us something and you keep progressing, I think that builds confidence. 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:09.600 Bran. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.240 That was my next question right there, you got ahead 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.640 of me, Man, I was going to ask you about 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.600 that it seems like, you know, you talked to Gordon 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.639 Hayward or Tyler Hero, Kevin Love and they all talked 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.320 about being tested by the brothers, playing this game and 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.040 having to prove something. Did you have a similar path 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.480 or even still to this day, have you found in 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.879 the NBA where players are still probably not taking you 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.240 lightly or just testing you, trying to see if you 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:38.480 really really got it? 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.199 Yeah, I think it just honestly just comes with it, 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.879 and sometimes you don't really got a choice. So for me, honestly, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.000 you know, I see a lot of guys like Tyler 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.440 when he first got into the league, or like Austin Reeves, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.520 how they try to test him on defense right away. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.439 And I wanted to make sure that, you know, I 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.840 was known as someone that holds the on on defense 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.840 right away from the jumping and try to be super impactful. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:03.840 And you know, you look at now, a lot of 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.840 times they don't really go at me on the floor 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.000 no more, because you know, I'm willing to take that challenge. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.720 I'm willing to guard the James Harden and Jamal Murray's, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:18.800 you know, all those type of players, and. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:17.760 You know I take pride in that. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.560 And so when teams see that, like they try to 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.520 stay away out I guess now, but I just wanted 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.359 to make it a point from the jump that that 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:26.520 I'm willing to play defense. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.280 Did you did you you take it as disrespect that 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:33.840 they try to? I love this style. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.320 I love it, man, And that's what I'm talking about, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.240 being like when you look at you look a look 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.240 at it. Look at the plays he makes and how 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.600 he gets guys you know, fired up. You don't see 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.040 that from rookies. So that's why I'm knowing. I'm like, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.240