WEBVTT - Maxey on the Mic LIVE with Nick Nurse 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:18.880 John rees MAXI, he's on fire. Thank God for coming out. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.639 We appreciate y'all. Welcome to Maxie on the Mic. This 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:24.520 is my first time doing this live. This is this 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:29.360 is really cool. I'm kind of nervous, nervous. Oh my god, 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.240 let's see my new cuts already helping me out. This 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.319 is the best anyway. I'm seriously but welcome to Max 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.160 on the Mic. You know, this is our heart radio. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.760 They've been great. You can listen to this podcast on 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.360 all types of form wherever you want to listen to podcasts. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:45.280 Whenever you're boarding the car, dropping the work, if you 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:46.919 go on a road trip, or if you just sit 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.080 in the house doing absolutely nothing and you feel like 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.640 hear me talk about you know, life in general, and 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:52.360 it'd be cool. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.240 But I just want to welcome coach Nurse. You know, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.280 he's a great coach man. Give it up. Thanks everybody. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.640 I'm I'm glad that he's on our side now instead 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.480 of him, you know, been on the other side to 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.520 come up with these crazy schemes and I just have 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.240 to run around and guard the offense to break the 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.080 ice a little bit. I want to ask a question, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.360 So you wear glasses in the game. But when you're 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.360 off the court, I've never seen you. You always have like 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.240 a contact sit Why is that? He's like you get 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.040 in costumers something. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.480 I don't wear contacts. Oh, this is a story to this. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.840 Those glasses are just for fashion. No, I'm just. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:34.280 Kidding, kidding, just kidding, you get into forms, I'm just kidding. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.080 So my first year in the NBA was about ten 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.920 eleven years ago. I was an assistant coach and in 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.080 my very first practice, I wear glasses for about twenty years. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.840 My very first practice out there garden playing boom, My 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.280 glasses break and go all over the place. So I said, okay, 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.480 no more of this. So I went got Lasik. Okay, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.480 I got Lasik surgery. Got to the first preseason game 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.000 and my mom was calling me after the game saying, 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:02.280 how come you weren't at the game. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:03.160 I said, I was there. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.200 She was, I didn't see its sitting on the best 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.920 So I didn't have my glasses off because I had 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.239 las And she said, you put those glasses back on 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:11.640 so I can see you on TV. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.960 Oh, so I went and got a pair of glasses. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.200 Yeah, and that's why I were Okay, Wow, I was. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.640 I was so curious, like like when you you know, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.920 we talked and I saw you, you know, in your 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.280 fresh conference, like doesn't have his glass though, but every 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.200 time you got like they use coaching, They're like, yeah, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.679 glasses back on. I wanted to know the difference. But wow, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:29.160 that's cool. But no, I just want to say one, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.639 I appreciate you coming out and I appreciate you being 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.200 on the podcast. You're a very very very decorated coach. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:36.040 Man. I just like. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.120 A two time g League, two times overseas time the British. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:41.600 League, right one time NBA. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.120 Trying to make that two times, you know, or multiple 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.320 stay stay hot, I get another one. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:48.679 I agree, I agree, I will. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.040 And one thing I want to talk about though, seriously 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:55.320 today is like, you know, your mind, Like everybody said, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.520 you think so differently than everybody else. 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:58.840 So what do you think? 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.799 What is one thing that you can say before I 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.400 get into the Philly question and before we start I 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.200 get into some fun stuff, I want you to just 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:05.840 talk about your mind and how do you come up 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:06.760 with some of these things? 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:11.399 Well, it just comes from one basic statement of sometimes 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.320 I think there has to be a better way, right 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.880 right right, Like sometimes I look at a situation on 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.639 the court, and for thirty years or forty years, all 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.600 the coaches I ever studied said it has to be 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.040 done this way, and it doesn't make quite that much 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.040 sense to me or the team I'm coaching, and I say, 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:32.120 let's let's dream up something new and we just try it. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.360 It's like, it's like experimenting if it. If it works, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.120 we keep it, put it in our playoff toolbox. If 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.240 it doesn't work, we crumple it up and throw it 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:40.760 away quick. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:41.000 Right. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.360 It's just it's just experimenting and trying to do it 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:44.200 a different way. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:44.680 That's it. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.200 It's funny being on the opposite side of that and 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.000 having to go through a seven game series of it. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.480 Like I remember one time, you. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.360 Know, Joelle, it's funny because you know, he talks about 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.240 you all the time, like we play against you, and 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.520 my first time playing against y'all, he goes up to 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.440 me because like that's what me and Joe pretty cool. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.119 He says he's gonna he's gonna track me when I past. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.680 Half court, and I was like, what do you mean 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.880 by that? And then like the scheme that you used, 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.080 I mean it worked, and that he was It was funny. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.800 Because will you know, it's cool to have him, you know, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.240 on our side down because I know he's. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.560 Happy, because he's like, I can't stand playing against the rapping. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.120 A lot of that with Joel is just out of 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.640 sheer necessity, right, we got we gotta have everybody that 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.599 can stop him one on one, so we gotta we 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.719 gotta dream up this, and then he beats that, we 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.720 throw another one and throw another one, and just keep 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.440 trying to figure out a way. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:31.920 To stop him. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.000 So but he said, man, this is not just warb 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.080 on the top of Joe. I mean, he's a he's 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:37.680 a funny guy. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.960 I know, you got time to sit down. So he's 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:40.680 a funny guy. You know. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.960 Everybody sees him like quiet and you know, like you know, 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:45.919 he just out there play, just plays. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.680 But he talks. He talks, man, Yeah, he actually talks 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:49.680 a lot like me. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.240 Well, him and I had a lot of conversations from 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:57.559 the sideline to the court. He talked about I didn't 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.880 really really remember him, you know that it was that 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:00.600 big a deal. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.400 But I was in Philly. I I like, I just 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:03.039 got the job. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.200 But they were showing them all all at once, the 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:06.120 highlights of them all. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.680 I was like, man, I'm glad. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.760 I'm on his side. We're glad that we're glad to 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:14.200 have you. Man. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.120 I think that's from the entire organization, all the way 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.800 down to the players. But I think everybody's excited. It's 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.640 gonna be fun. I want to jump into some Philly, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.480 some Philly stuff. So you know, there we go. Philly. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.680 Is it is amazing? Huh, It's pretty cool. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:25.840 Man. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.880 It's coming from Dallas. It's just different. Man. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.360 It's different one because the weather, the weather. But you 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.080 was in Toronto, so you're gonna be use for the weather. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.120 I wasn't use to the weather. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.400 I was. I was that wearing jackets and wearing clothes 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:39.600 and all that. That was too much for me. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:41.760 Like, man, I just want to put some shorts on. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.799 But I want to talk about the people. The people 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.120 in Philadelphia. I think the people they're just they're different people. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.839 They're amazing, you know, they support the team. I fel 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.240 like they're yes, give it up to the Philly fans here. Yes, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.960 we appreciate Tom but you know, they're they're different. And 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.560 how do you feel like, you know, your mentality, your 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:02.880 your drive to the game, how do you feel like 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.120 that you can relate to them, because I feel like 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.080 the way I relate to them is, you know, I don't. 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:09.520 I'm not gonna say I came from nothing, but I 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.720 came from a place where I had to work for 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:12.400 everything I got. 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:13.039 You know what I'm saying. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.760 My mom, my dad, they had to work for everything 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.760 they got. I had to work. I wasn't like I'm 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.440 not six ' eight, I'm like sixty two, sixty three maybe, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.400 And I had to grind to get to who I am. 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.160 And like Philly fans. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.080 I tell people all the time, they're so passionate when 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.160 they come out to the game, and that's because they 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:28.920 work for their tickets, you know what I'm saying. They 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.160 work extremely hard and they root for us to win 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.200 games because you know, that's that's what they pay to see. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:35.800 So how do you think it can relate to that? 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.680 I love it. First of all, grew up probably similar 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:39.920 to you. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.680 I got eight brothers and sisters and and we kind 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.880 of all living in a small house together. My dad's 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.040 delivering mail and painting houses on the weekend to try 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.120 to feed nine kids, and we're all out working in 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.320 the I grew up in Iowas while working in the 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.880 in the fields and all that stuff in the summertime. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.520 So strong work ethic is like. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.600 Really what I believe in and the environment I. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.159 Grew up in. So that's awesome. I feel you on 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:05.839 the passion. 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.120 I mean, I've been there getting booed in Philly plenty 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.960 of times, so I'm ready for that. If that ever 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.760 happens in reverse, I'll try to not make it happen. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:16.920 Yeah, sure, but I could. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.960 I can tell you, like the difference, Uh, when I 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.720 was like in Toronto interviewing for the job, or I 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.360 just taken the job, and uh, the Raptors fans will 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.480 be in the airport and they they maybe passed by 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.160 once and then they turn around, come back. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.760 I coach, you know, I coach you know that. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.480 And I get to Philly and Land and they'd be like, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.240 straight up, coach, are you gonna do this and that? 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.120 And they're coaching me right off the bat? So what 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:41.440 to do? 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:43.000 It was? 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:43.360 It was? 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:44.320 It was good. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:45.520 But I love it, man. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.440 I mean I'd rather have them caring about the team 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:48.520 than a lot of other things. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.240 And like I said, I'm ready to get in their 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:52.680 in battle. 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.960 They for sure care and I think that's what they care. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.400 They're going to show up and they're going to strike 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.480 every single night, it doesn't matter who we're playing, no 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.560 matter what's or play. And that's one thing I can 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.240 really appreciate them for because no matter what's going on, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.520 they're going to show up. And that's why you know, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.480 I know us as the team as an organization, and 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.520 that myself included trying to go out there every single 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.600 night and play show me hard from them, and I 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.760 know that you know, you seem like the way we've 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.920 talked and and you know you've expressed openly that you 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.480 get prepared, and I think that's one thing that they 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:23.560 will appreciate to as well. 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.320 Yeah, I always I always say like if people say, oh, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:26.680 what do you know? 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:27.920 What do you want? What do you want to happen? 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:29.080 Or what do you want your team to be? 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.960 Like I think about this a lot, Like when those 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.640 fans are walking up the stairs at the end of 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.160 the game, they ought to be saying, man, those guys 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.880 play their backsides off, you know, like if they say 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.400 that no matter really what happened, and then I think 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.120 that our coaching staff has done this job, so you're 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:45.640 ready for it. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:59.760 The times that I play I've only been in the 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.320 lead for three years, but every time we play against 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.360 the Raptors, we always know, oh, they're gonna play hard. 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.800 It's whether that's offensive rebounded, whether that's scrambling on defense, 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.520 whether that's the communication, and how y'all play offensively with 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.559 the with the pace and the speed they're going to 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:15.240 attack you. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:16.200 So how how do you think you. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.600 Can bring that same type of philosophy into you know, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.280 this this organization and this team. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.520 I mean, it's what I believe. I think. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.280 I think we like to be aggressive just in general. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.240 Like you know, we want to try to dictate. We 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.040 want to try to get you back on your heels. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.360 You know, we want to come at you both sides 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.240 of the ball. That's kind of just like a mentality, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.320 and that that takes, uh, you know, that's our vision. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.920 It takes a little planning. It obviously takes a tone 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:42.880 in practice. You know, from day one we try to 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.720 set that tone right and and and then we just 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.160 try to hold you guys accountable. You know what I'm 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.959 saying when I say, hey, terevery so, I want you 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:51.360 to pressure the ball tonight. 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.400 We're gonna you know, you're gonna have a ball pressure 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.760 score the next door next. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.640 Day, you know, yeah, you're gonna have You're gonna have 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.600 a score how many times out of ten you did 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.280 it well, or how many times out of eight, or 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:01.960 whatever the case may be, and. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:04.520 You'll start taking pride in that. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.040 I was about to say, if it's a score, and 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.040 that means that this is a competition at that point, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.720 and uh, that's that's that's a you know, people always 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.280 ask me how like you motivate? How do I get 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.679 stay motivated, or how I can motivate others. That's just 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.560 a tool of motivation that you just use right there. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.000 I'm sorry to flip the script, but like the way 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.839 you just motivated me. And I'm not even I'm not 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.920 even playing yet, but we're not. I'm like, I want 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.320 my score to be the highest, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.719 That's that's a that's a skill that we got a 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.000 Summer League game tomorrow. If you want to you want 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.000 to stay next you of. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.640 Course I would love to stay in Vegas. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.560 I would love to stay. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.080 That's the job. Let me play, gotta let me play. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.679 But uh, but yeah, that's that's a skill, man, That's 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.880 a real skill that I feel like is uh is 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.080 lost art Man to be able to motivate people. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.000 Well, people use the word accountability a lot, right, right, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.360 and say, oh, we're gonna hold you accountable, But that 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:55.600 also has to have some meaning. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.199 And that's what it means to us as a coaching staff. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.880 Is like, here's what we're gonna here's what we're gonna 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.240 infected you to do, and then we're gonna inspect what 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.559 we expected and see what we're at right and learn 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:06.160 learn from that. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.319 So okay, let's I want to flip a little bit now. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:10.160 I'm thinking about it. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.839 Because I want to talk about like the culture of 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.120 Philly a little bit more. Okay, So did you have 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.040 you Okay, I know you talked to the Philly fans. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.000 Have they gave you any recommendations for cheese steaks? 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.040 Yet? I have some in the back of my mind, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.880 So I'm gonna ask you first before you go. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:25.880 Only one. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.440 So I'm just staying at a hotel now, right because 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.000 I'm still in transition to moving. And the first guy 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.680 I met there right off the bat said, hey, yep, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.040 in these Angelo's Angelo's Yeah, Okay, that's. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:40.360 That's the only one. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.480 And I've had what you think it was very good, 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:44.200 very goovery good. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.520 Yeah, but what are you gonna what are you gonna 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:46.240 get me? Okay? 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.959 So been with me here all right. So when I 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.000 when I touched down in Philly. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.360 It was during like COVID and everything. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.240 Right, so you know, they tell you, all right, the 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.560 Pats and Gino is a tourists or whatever. So I 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.360 went to you know, I to Rich my agent. He 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.880 was saying, like, all right, go to uh Iscabibbles and 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.800 Incabibles is on South Street. So like when I first 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.160 got to Philly, I do it sometimes still. When I 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.720 first got there, I would walk the walk the street 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.920 of South Street like it's a big street where they 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.320 have shopping and they have food, and like people would 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.080 always come up to me and I'll take pictures of stuff. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:20.720 It was a big deal. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.240 And I would stop always when I go over to 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.240 the shop, I would stop at Iscuabibbles and get a 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:25.760 cheese steak. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.040 So I think you should try that one. That one's 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:28.480 really good. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.760 And then I just had one and it's by Temple 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.559 and it's called Maxis. Anybody from Philly out here, I 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.640 don't know Phi, y'all know what Maxis is. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:39.640 If you don't know. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.360 So, yeah, it's a spot. It's it's really cool actually, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.520 and I'm over there. I went out, I went over 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:46.679 there after the season. This is funny, and there's just 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.360 another testimony to the Philly fans. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.440 They I go over. 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.199 There and they just tell me about how what we 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.599 should have did and what we should have did it 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.480 in the playoffs and it was amazing and I got 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.160 to I got to talk to them and laugh at them. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.400 But I think there's two spots to check out for sure. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.719 For straight did you have you did the you did 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:02.520 the Rocky Step check? 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:03.640 Uh? 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.040 Yeah, you ran up the Rocky steps my first day 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.200 of work, you ran them up? 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.920 Yeah, I ran them by the first day of work. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.400 We could have got a video to that. Yeah, I 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:12.040 wish I said that. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:13.440 I've done it many times though. I used to do 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.240 it when we played Your Guys a lot by yourself. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.640 You just get up and run times by myself, sometimes 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:19.360 with somebody else. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:20.280 Yeah. 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.200 Big big fan of the movies obviously. It just like 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.679 my era. I hate I hate to tell you make 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:31.200 you feel man was growing up with that stuff. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.719 It's funny because my dad, so he sat me. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.760 Down at a younger age, so to watch those rocky 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.800 movies and my mom, I don't want to watch this time. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.680 My dad's name, I don't want to watch this. This 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.800 is old. He's not gonna want to watch this. But 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:44.160 I watched them before. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.000 I had a pee wee football game, like I was 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.960 in the fifth grade, so he had me watched the 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.240 first one and this is the game bring up the 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.440 Philly culture. It just inspired me and inspired me to 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.280 be like the best version of myself, like I always 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.400 felt like because I was really really small, I was 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.960 still small. I was really really small growing up. I'm 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.760 the smallest kid on the team all the time. And 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.120 it just gave me that underdog feeling. And I feel 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.520 like I have like took off with that. And I 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.320 feel like you've done the same thing, Like you started 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.040 off in like you know, overseas, and then you just 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:14.560 took off to where you are now. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.600 I'm trying to imagine you playing football and you ever 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:18.240 get tackled. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.160 No, we could catch you. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:21.720 That was the thing. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:22.560 Listen. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.720 We can't catch you on the basketball court. I know that, 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.160 but it's just like we got everybody chasing you. But 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.400 I can only imagine you just running around everybody. I 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.160 bet you were. My mom made me still but yeah, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.520 I just to good question. I mean, listen, I love basketball. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.840 I played at a mid major college, University of Northern Iowa. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.040 I got a degree in accounting. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:44.640 I thought I was going to be an accountant and 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.360 my basketball careend, and I was like, oh my god, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.960 I can't. I can't leave basketball. So I started coaching 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.520 and just took any little job I could get and 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.600 just kept plugging away at It took me about twenty 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.600 some years to get in the NBA. Right coach, small 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.840 college coach, British Basketball League, coach in the D League, 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.480 now the G League, and non assistant none here. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.400 So I just kept plugging away. Right, You're like you're 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.520 doing trying to for sure, trying to. You know, it's funny. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.640 It's like the way you said it and the way 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.280 you've been talking and just not just this podcast today, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.480 but in general. You know, every time I've heard you 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.920 speak as like as I played closer attention because you. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.800 Know we're as one one unit. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:28.280 Now. You always talk about like progressively getting better. You 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.520 know that the days come along and as the season 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.560 come along. And one thing I really thought about is 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.360 like how you say you try new things and like 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.800 you test about like that's crazy. I've never like had 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.160 like a coach like actually, like you know what I'm saying, 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.840 like testing out in the games. And I've seen you 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.000 test it out against us in the game like a 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.400 regular season game. It works, and then you bring it 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.480 back into playoffs and I was like, you know, it's crazy. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:49.960 I've seen it. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.360