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Speaker 2: So this question was out of left field, no segue,
Speaker 2: there was no connection to him or the Clippers or anything.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to know it. How do you build
Speaker 2: a roster around Lebron James? If it's you, Jerry West,
Speaker 2: and all you have is Lebron, what do you do?
Speaker 2: How do you best set him up for success? How
Speaker 2: do you build around him in a way that makes
Speaker 2: your team more likely to win a championship but also
Speaker 2: accentuates what makes Lebron's so great? Pretty simple? Awesome stuff
Speaker 2: from Jerry. I'm curious about Lebron and him as a
Speaker 2: style of player, obviously dominant.
Speaker 3: That's been said.
Speaker 4: But if you have Lebron on your team and no
Speaker 4: one else, what do you think is the best way
Speaker 4: to build a roster around someone like him or him specifically.
Speaker 5: Again, yeah, if you look at him, if it makes
Speaker 5: him to even more, he's already missed his game to
Speaker 5: call them he's one of the smartest players have never
Speaker 5: player in that game.
Speaker 3: I think he's better with an open court. I would
Speaker 3: try to have a team that shooting. If you run,
Speaker 3: people can run, and that's flames that you play. It's
Speaker 3: he can attack and.
Speaker 5: Rail and he's going to pick out people.
Speaker 3: On the run. That's beams really dominant.
Speaker 5: And sometimes when you get involved down in a half foot,
Speaker 5: if you have another player playing with him and you know,
Speaker 5: let's say you're because he's so worthily.
Speaker 3: The movie on other players.
Speaker 5: You're playing up front when you win, I think that's
Speaker 5: coach him a little bit.
Speaker 2: You think you would be better in the block?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, yes, right now, heats fates and say
Speaker 5: because the size and he passes ability.
Speaker 3: He's one of the three greatest players in the player.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have frontal figures.
Speaker 5: He's gonna break every record in this layer and he's
Speaker 5: someone that greatly.
Speaker 3: Am pachure I do. Uh, it's hard to do what
Speaker 3: he's done. But he cares about the winning, cares about winning.
Speaker 5: Who's rhythm to take care of himself when you ever
Speaker 5: hear anything bad about him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, him is a constant.
Speaker 2: But it's guys not necessarily point guards because he plays that,
Speaker 2: but combo guards that can shoot the three and also.
Speaker 4: Handle and pass and kind of kind.
Speaker 2: Of that's that long, versatile defender that you guys like
Speaker 2: that the Toronto likes somebody challenge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a challenge because the problem is with the
Speaker 5: team of him, they're usually.
Speaker 3: Drafting very low.
Speaker 5: Yes, right, they don't get in an area that they
Speaker 5: can find on him players.
Speaker 3: If it doesn't have to be in the top ten.
Speaker 5: There can be little bit later than the half or
Speaker 5: any second round they might find a player like that.
Speaker 3: Uh and hopefully that will that will happen because it's
Speaker 3: just a dif roy there. Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Rosters with him on it look different than other rosters
Speaker 2: that people construct just because of all the unique things
Speaker 2: that he can do.
Speaker 5: Well, you put you know, you put him with players
Speaker 5: that are where he didn't Every night just has it,
Speaker 5: doesn't have it a scoring row.
Speaker 3: He knows a lot better than well. And people don't
Speaker 3: realize how wearing and how dependent the people that come
Speaker 3: and go. They just take him granted. And so he
Speaker 3: does it every night and he's you need but some
Speaker 3: might some heights. How hard you try to screw it
Speaker 3: some nights you just can't. You can't make the shots
Speaker 3: if you normally make. And he's only been to score
Speaker 3: because he's gonna dwell files and get into three fo mine.
Speaker 5: But he's a player that he really breted me and
Speaker 5: he's been brilliant and.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Christi, he's had he's had to say, he's
Speaker 3: been breaking all the records.
Speaker 5: He's been there for a number of Yeargan, that's amazing
Speaker 5: tribut if to notts played, but.
Speaker 3: You're doing willing.
Speaker 2: The thing about this clip that was so interesting, not
Speaker 2: only in the fact that the Clippers weakness was passing
Speaker 2: last year and that was the admission, is that when
Speaker 2: describing John Wall, Jerry says that John Wall is a
Speaker 2: great guy, but his reputation around those who cover the
Speaker 2: league is not that he has been known to be
Speaker 2: someone that pundits take shots at for being too self
Speaker 2: focused or who knows. So I wanted to get at
Speaker 2: why John Wall was such a polarizing figure. And another
Speaker 2: thing that came out of this process though, was a
Speaker 2: little nugget and what the Clippers vetting process was like
Speaker 2: in acquiring a player like john and how he also
Speaker 2: thinks the Clippers are the deepest team in the league
Speaker 2: and he wouldn't trade it for anybody else. John Wall
Speaker 2: one of the biggest I would say pickups, one of
Speaker 2: the most interesting pickups that took forever in the day
Speaker 2: to actually come to fruition. A lot of people, I
Speaker 2: think thought that deal would get done or that move
Speaker 2: would get made last year.
Speaker 4: What does he bring to the team, Well, he.
Speaker 5: Fans another guy that looked like to play basketball. He
Speaker 5: can get into the lane you find our three point shooters.
Speaker 3: It's called the weakness in our team last year.
Speaker 5: Passing he would give us in that grade and being
Speaker 5: able to attack with the basket.
Speaker 3: And he's a good guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, he loves to play and we're just hoping that
Speaker 5: he can stay healthy.
Speaker 3: Watching him work out, he looked fantastic. Great Jay he's.
Speaker 5: Bringing who's been looking out out a year. That would
Speaker 5: be a pretty good vacation to make that.
Speaker 3: Kind of money and not get a chance to play.
Speaker 3: I would have liked it much. It would have been
Speaker 3: probably forty four thousand.
Speaker 2: You mentioned great guy, and he's a polarizing figure too.
Speaker 2: There's been people who have said things about him and
Speaker 2: I don't know that they necessarily know him. Well, why
Speaker 2: do you think there's this, like, I don't know, disparity
Speaker 2: in terms of the opinion on him as a as
Speaker 2: a guy.
Speaker 5: You know what, I don't see it any people the
Speaker 5: same thing and what you got and maybe not been
Speaker 5: clear the rumor from.
Speaker 3: An unknown silists we see all the found it. I
Speaker 3: always they would identify the Solson. Sometimes it just has not.
Speaker 3: That's not who he is. Who we've seen that Slayers
Speaker 3: really like him. A lot of our players know him.
Speaker 5: And so with a player comes somewhere, you know, you
Speaker 5: re checked the players and protect he wanted to know
Speaker 5: him and h.
Speaker 6: While we've heard of the good things and all I
Speaker 6: can go and say, just what your I see that
Speaker 6: that moment is how you know know about and who's
Speaker 6: just and then you're really good.
Speaker 3: For us right now. So it's not the start of
Speaker 3: the season. We will we will see one twenty games
Speaker 3: starts because this is a powerful thing. The flipper is
Speaker 3: a powerful thing. The note from one to threent thing.
Speaker 5: I did not play just it's the team for anything
Speaker 5: that they That doesn't mean we're the best team, but
Speaker 5: I would not play for anything.
Speaker 2: You think they're the deepest team.
Speaker 3: That's why I say one three third thing, Ye, yes, yeah,