Speaker 1: John rees MAXI, he's on fire. Thank God for coming out.
Speaker 2: We appreciate y'all. Welcome to Maxie on the Mic. This
Speaker 2: is my first time doing this live. This is this
Speaker 2: is really cool. I'm kind of nervous, nervous. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: let's see my new cuts already helping me out. This
Speaker 2: is the best anyway. I'm seriously but welcome to Max
Speaker 2: on the Mic. You know, this is our heart radio.
Speaker 2: They've been great. You can listen to this podcast on
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Speaker 2: Whenever you're boarding the car, dropping the work, if you
Speaker 2: go on a road trip, or if you just sit
Speaker 2: in the house doing absolutely nothing and you feel like
Speaker 2: hear me talk about you know, life in general, and
Speaker 2: it'd be cool.
Speaker 1: But I just want to welcome coach Nurse. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a great coach man. Give it up. Thanks everybody.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm glad that he's on our side now instead
Speaker 2: of him, you know, been on the other side to
Speaker 2: come up with these crazy schemes and I just have
Speaker 2: to run around and guard the offense to break the
Speaker 2: ice a little bit. I want to ask a question,
Speaker 2: So you wear glasses in the game. But when you're
Speaker 2: off the court, I've never seen you. You always have like
Speaker 2: a contact sit Why is that? He's like you get
Speaker 2: in costumers something.
Speaker 3: I don't wear contacts. Oh, this is a story to this.
Speaker 3: Those glasses are just for fashion. No, I'm just.
Speaker 4: Kidding, kidding, just kidding, you get into forms, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: So my first year in the NBA was about ten
Speaker 4: eleven years ago. I was an assistant coach and in
Speaker 4: my very first practice, I wear glasses for about twenty years.
Speaker 4: My very first practice out there garden playing boom, My
Speaker 4: glasses break and go all over the place. So I said, okay,
Speaker 4: no more of this. So I went got Lasik. Okay,
Speaker 4: I got Lasik surgery. Got to the first preseason game
Speaker 4: and my mom was calling me after the game saying,
Speaker 4: how come you weren't at the game.
Speaker 3: I said, I was there.
Speaker 4: She was, I didn't see its sitting on the best
Speaker 4: So I didn't have my glasses off because I had
Speaker 4: las And she said, you put those glasses back on
Speaker 4: so I can see you on TV.
Speaker 3: Oh, so I went and got a pair of glasses.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's why I were Okay, Wow, I was.
Speaker 2: I was so curious, like like when you you know,
Speaker 2: we talked and I saw you, you know, in your
Speaker 2: fresh conference, like doesn't have his glass though, but every
Speaker 2: time you got like they use coaching, They're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: glasses back on. I wanted to know the difference. But wow,
Speaker 2: that's cool. But no, I just want to say one,
Speaker 2: I appreciate you coming out and I appreciate you being
Speaker 2: on the podcast. You're a very very very decorated coach.
Speaker 1: Man. I just like.
Speaker 2: A two time g League, two times overseas time the British.
Speaker 1: League, right one time NBA.
Speaker 2: Trying to make that two times, you know, or multiple
Speaker 2: stay stay hot, I get another one.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, I will.
Speaker 2: And one thing I want to talk about though, seriously
Speaker 2: today is like, you know, your mind, Like everybody said,
Speaker 2: you think so differently than everybody else.
Speaker 1: So what do you think?
Speaker 2: What is one thing that you can say before I
Speaker 2: get into the Philly question and before we start I
Speaker 2: get into some fun stuff, I want you to just
Speaker 2: talk about your mind and how do you come up
Speaker 2: with some of these things?
Speaker 4: Well, it just comes from one basic statement of sometimes
Speaker 4: I think there has to be a better way, right
Speaker 4: right right, Like sometimes I look at a situation on
Speaker 4: the court, and for thirty years or forty years, all
Speaker 4: the coaches I ever studied said it has to be
Speaker 4: done this way, and it doesn't make quite that much
Speaker 4: sense to me or the team I'm coaching, and I say,
Speaker 4: let's let's dream up something new and we just try it.
Speaker 4: It's like, it's like experimenting if it. If it works,
Speaker 4: we keep it, put it in our playoff toolbox. If
Speaker 4: it doesn't work, we crumple it up and throw it
Speaker 4: away quick.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: It's just it's just experimenting and trying to do it
Speaker 4: a different way.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: It's funny being on the opposite side of that and
Speaker 2: having to go through a seven game series of it.
Speaker 1: Like I remember one time, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Joelle, it's funny because you know, he talks about
Speaker 2: you all the time, like we play against you, and
Speaker 2: my first time playing against y'all, he goes up to
Speaker 2: me because like that's what me and Joe pretty cool.
Speaker 1: He says he's gonna he's gonna track me when I past.
Speaker 2: Half court, and I was like, what do you mean
Speaker 2: by that? And then like the scheme that you used,
Speaker 2: I mean it worked, and that he was It was funny.
Speaker 2: Because will you know, it's cool to have him, you know,
Speaker 2: on our side down because I know he's.
Speaker 1: Happy, because he's like, I can't stand playing against the rapping.
Speaker 4: A lot of that with Joel is just out of
Speaker 4: sheer necessity, right, we got we gotta have everybody that
Speaker 4: can stop him one on one, so we gotta we
Speaker 4: gotta dream up this, and then he beats that, we
Speaker 4: throw another one and throw another one, and just keep
Speaker 4: trying to figure out a way.
Speaker 3: To stop him.
Speaker 2: So but he said, man, this is not just warb
Speaker 2: on the top of Joe. I mean, he's a he's
Speaker 2: a funny guy.
Speaker 1: I know, you got time to sit down. So he's
Speaker 1: a funny guy. You know.
Speaker 2: Everybody sees him like quiet and you know, like you know,
Speaker 2: he just out there play, just plays.
Speaker 1: But he talks. He talks, man, Yeah, he actually talks
Speaker 1: a lot like me.
Speaker 4: Well, him and I had a lot of conversations from
Speaker 4: the sideline to the court. He talked about I didn't
Speaker 4: really really remember him, you know that it was that
Speaker 4: big a deal.
Speaker 3: But I was in Philly. I I like, I just
Speaker 3: got the job.
Speaker 4: But they were showing them all all at once, the
Speaker 4: highlights of them all.
Speaker 3: I was like, man, I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm on his side. We're glad that we're glad to
Speaker 1: have you. Man.
Speaker 2: I think that's from the entire organization, all the way
Speaker 2: down to the players. But I think everybody's excited. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be fun. I want to jump into some Philly,
Speaker 2: some Philly stuff. So you know, there we go. Philly.
Speaker 1: Is it is amazing? Huh, It's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: It's coming from Dallas. It's just different. Man.
Speaker 2: It's different one because the weather, the weather. But you
Speaker 2: was in Toronto, so you're gonna be use for the weather.
Speaker 2: I wasn't use to the weather.
Speaker 1: I was. I was that wearing jackets and wearing clothes
Speaker 1: and all that. That was too much for me.
Speaker 2: Like, man, I just want to put some shorts on.
Speaker 2: But I want to talk about the people. The people
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. I think the people they're just they're different people.
Speaker 2: They're amazing, you know, they support the team. I fel
Speaker 2: like they're yes, give it up to the Philly fans here. Yes,
Speaker 2: we appreciate Tom but you know, they're they're different. And
Speaker 2: how do you feel like, you know, your mentality, your
Speaker 2: your drive to the game, how do you feel like
Speaker 2: that you can relate to them, because I feel like
Speaker 2: the way I relate to them is, you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say I came from nothing, but I
Speaker 2: came from a place where I had to work for
Speaker 2: everything I got.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: My mom, my dad, they had to work for everything
Speaker 2: they got. I had to work. I wasn't like I'm
Speaker 2: not six ' eight, I'm like sixty two, sixty three maybe,
Speaker 2: And I had to grind to get to who I am.
Speaker 1: And like Philly fans.
Speaker 2: I tell people all the time, they're so passionate when
Speaker 2: they come out to the game, and that's because they
Speaker 2: work for their tickets, you know what I'm saying. They
Speaker 2: work extremely hard and they root for us to win
Speaker 2: games because you know, that's that's what they pay to see.
Speaker 1: So how do you think it can relate to that?
Speaker 3: I love it. First of all, grew up probably similar
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 4: I got eight brothers and sisters and and we kind
Speaker 4: of all living in a small house together. My dad's
Speaker 4: delivering mail and painting houses on the weekend to try
Speaker 4: to feed nine kids, and we're all out working in
Speaker 4: the I grew up in Iowas while working in the
Speaker 4: in the fields and all that stuff in the summertime.
Speaker 3: So strong work ethic is like.
Speaker 4: Really what I believe in and the environment I.
Speaker 3: Grew up in. So that's awesome. I feel you on
Speaker 3: the passion.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've been there getting booed in Philly plenty
Speaker 4: of times, so I'm ready for that. If that ever
Speaker 4: happens in reverse, I'll try to not make it happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, but I could.
Speaker 4: I can tell you, like the difference, Uh, when I
Speaker 4: was like in Toronto interviewing for the job, or I
Speaker 4: just taken the job, and uh, the Raptors fans will
Speaker 4: be in the airport and they they maybe passed by
Speaker 4: once and then they turn around, come back.
Speaker 3: I coach, you know, I coach you know that.
Speaker 4: And I get to Philly and Land and they'd be like,
Speaker 4: straight up, coach, are you gonna do this and that?
Speaker 3: And they're coaching me right off the bat? So what
Speaker 3: to do?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 1: It was good.
Speaker 3: But I love it, man.
Speaker 4: I mean I'd rather have them caring about the team
Speaker 4: than a lot of other things.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I'm ready to get in their
Speaker 3: in battle.
Speaker 2: They for sure care and I think that's what they care.
Speaker 2: They're going to show up and they're going to strike
Speaker 2: every single night, it doesn't matter who we're playing, no
Speaker 2: matter what's or play. And that's one thing I can
Speaker 2: really appreciate them for because no matter what's going on,
Speaker 2: they're going to show up. And that's why you know,
Speaker 2: I know us as the team as an organization, and
Speaker 2: that myself included trying to go out there every single
Speaker 2: night and play show me hard from them, and I
Speaker 2: know that you know, you seem like the way we've
Speaker 2: talked and and you know you've expressed openly that you
Speaker 2: get prepared, and I think that's one thing that they
Speaker 2: will appreciate to as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I always I always say like if people say, oh,
Speaker 4: what do you know?
Speaker 3: What do you want? What do you want to happen?
Speaker 3: Or what do you want your team to be?
Speaker 4: Like I think about this a lot, Like when those
Speaker 4: fans are walking up the stairs at the end of
Speaker 4: the game, they ought to be saying, man, those guys
Speaker 4: play their backsides off, you know, like if they say
Speaker 4: that no matter really what happened, and then I think
Speaker 4: that our coaching staff has done this job, so you're
Speaker 4: ready for it.
Speaker 2: The times that I play I've only been in the
Speaker 2: lead for three years, but every time we play against
Speaker 2: the Raptors, we always know, oh, they're gonna play hard.
Speaker 2: It's whether that's offensive rebounded, whether that's scrambling on defense,
Speaker 2: whether that's the communication, and how y'all play offensively with
Speaker 2: the with the pace and the speed they're going to
Speaker 2: attack you.
Speaker 1: So how how do you think you.
Speaker 2: Can bring that same type of philosophy into you know,
Speaker 2: this this organization and this team.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's what I believe. I think.
Speaker 4: I think we like to be aggressive just in general.
Speaker 4: Like you know, we want to try to dictate. We
Speaker 4: want to try to get you back on your heels.
Speaker 4: You know, we want to come at you both sides
Speaker 4: of the ball. That's kind of just like a mentality,
Speaker 4: and that that takes, uh, you know, that's our vision.
Speaker 4: It takes a little planning. It obviously takes a tone
Speaker 4: in practice. You know, from day one we try to
Speaker 4: set that tone right and and and then we just
Speaker 4: try to hold you guys accountable. You know what I'm
Speaker 4: saying when I say, hey, terevery so, I want you
Speaker 4: to pressure the ball tonight.
Speaker 3: We're gonna you know, you're gonna have a ball pressure
Speaker 3: score the next door next.
Speaker 4: Day, you know, yeah, you're gonna have You're gonna have
Speaker 4: a score how many times out of ten you did
Speaker 4: it well, or how many times out of eight, or
Speaker 4: whatever the case may be, and.
Speaker 3: You'll start taking pride in that.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, if it's a score, and
Speaker 2: that means that this is a competition at that point,
Speaker 2: and uh, that's that's that's a you know, people always
Speaker 2: ask me how like you motivate? How do I get
Speaker 2: stay motivated, or how I can motivate others. That's just
Speaker 2: a tool of motivation that you just use right there.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to flip the script, but like the way
Speaker 2: you just motivated me. And I'm not even I'm not
Speaker 2: even playing yet, but we're not. I'm like, I want
Speaker 2: my score to be the highest, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That's that's a that's a skill that we got a
Speaker 2: Summer League game tomorrow. If you want to you want
Speaker 2: to stay next you of.
Speaker 1: Course I would love to stay in Vegas.
Speaker 3: I would love to stay.
Speaker 1: That's the job. Let me play, gotta let me play.
Speaker 2: But uh, but yeah, that's that's a skill, man, That's
Speaker 2: a real skill that I feel like is uh is
Speaker 2: lost art Man to be able to motivate people.
Speaker 4: Well, people use the word accountability a lot, right, right,
Speaker 4: and say, oh, we're gonna hold you accountable, But that
Speaker 4: also has to have some meaning.
Speaker 3: And that's what it means to us as a coaching staff.
Speaker 4: Is like, here's what we're gonna here's what we're gonna
Speaker 4: infected you to do, and then we're gonna inspect what
Speaker 4: we expected and see what we're at right and learn
Speaker 4: learn from that.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's I want to flip a little bit now.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Because I want to talk about like the culture of
Speaker 2: Philly a little bit more. Okay, So did you have
Speaker 2: you Okay, I know you talked to the Philly fans.
Speaker 2: Have they gave you any recommendations for cheese steaks?
Speaker 1: Yet? I have some in the back of my mind,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you first before you go.
Speaker 3: Only one.
Speaker 4: So I'm just staying at a hotel now, right because
Speaker 4: I'm still in transition to moving. And the first guy
Speaker 4: I met there right off the bat said, hey, yep,
Speaker 4: in these Angelo's Angelo's Yeah, Okay, that's.
Speaker 3: That's the only one.
Speaker 4: And I've had what you think it was very good,
Speaker 4: very goovery good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what are you gonna what are you gonna
Speaker 3: get me? Okay?
Speaker 2: So been with me here all right. So when I
Speaker 2: when I touched down in Philly.
Speaker 1: It was during like COVID and everything.
Speaker 2: Right, so you know, they tell you, all right, the
Speaker 2: Pats and Gino is a tourists or whatever. So I
Speaker 2: went to you know, I to Rich my agent. He
Speaker 2: was saying, like, all right, go to uh Iscabibbles and
Speaker 2: Incabibles is on South Street. So like when I first
Speaker 2: got to Philly, I do it sometimes still. When I
Speaker 2: first got there, I would walk the walk the street
Speaker 2: of South Street like it's a big street where they
Speaker 2: have shopping and they have food, and like people would
Speaker 2: always come up to me and I'll take pictures of stuff.
Speaker 1: It was a big deal.
Speaker 2: And I would stop always when I go over to
Speaker 2: the shop, I would stop at Iscuabibbles and get a
Speaker 2: cheese steak.
Speaker 1: So I think you should try that one. That one's
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 2: And then I just had one and it's by Temple
Speaker 2: and it's called Maxis. Anybody from Philly out here, I
Speaker 2: don't know Phi, y'all know what Maxis is.
Speaker 1: If you don't know.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's a spot. It's it's really cool actually,
Speaker 2: and I'm over there. I went out, I went over
Speaker 2: there after the season. This is funny, and there's just
Speaker 2: another testimony to the Philly fans.
Speaker 1: They I go over.
Speaker 2: There and they just tell me about how what we
Speaker 2: should have did and what we should have did it
Speaker 2: in the playoffs and it was amazing and I got
Speaker 2: to I got to talk to them and laugh at them.
Speaker 2: But I think there's two spots to check out for sure.
Speaker 2: For straight did you have you did the you did
Speaker 2: the Rocky Step check?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you ran up the Rocky steps my first day
Speaker 1: of work, you ran them up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I ran them by the first day of work.
Speaker 1: We could have got a video to that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wish I said that.
Speaker 3: I've done it many times though. I used to do
Speaker 3: it when we played Your Guys a lot by yourself.
Speaker 4: You just get up and run times by myself, sometimes
Speaker 4: with somebody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Big big fan of the movies obviously. It just like
Speaker 3: my era. I hate I hate to tell you make
Speaker 3: you feel man was growing up with that stuff.
Speaker 1: It's funny because my dad, so he sat me.
Speaker 2: Down at a younger age, so to watch those rocky
Speaker 2: movies and my mom, I don't want to watch this time.
Speaker 1: My dad's name, I don't want to watch this. This
Speaker 1: is old. He's not gonna want to watch this. But
Speaker 1: I watched them before.
Speaker 2: I had a pee wee football game, like I was
Speaker 2: in the fifth grade, so he had me watched the
Speaker 2: first one and this is the game bring up the
Speaker 2: Philly culture. It just inspired me and inspired me to
Speaker 2: be like the best version of myself, like I always
Speaker 2: felt like because I was really really small, I was
Speaker 2: still small. I was really really small growing up. I'm
Speaker 2: the smallest kid on the team all the time. And
Speaker 2: it just gave me that underdog feeling. And I feel
Speaker 2: like I have like took off with that. And I
Speaker 2: feel like you've done the same thing, Like you started
Speaker 2: off in like you know, overseas, and then you just
Speaker 2: took off to where you are now.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to imagine you playing football and you ever
Speaker 4: get tackled.
Speaker 3: No, we could catch you.
Speaker 1: That was the thing.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 4: We can't catch you on the basketball court. I know that,
Speaker 4: but it's just like we got everybody chasing you. But
Speaker 4: I can only imagine you just running around everybody. I
Speaker 4: bet you were. My mom made me still but yeah,
Speaker 4: I just to good question. I mean, listen, I love basketball.
Speaker 4: I played at a mid major college, University of Northern Iowa.
Speaker 3: I got a degree in accounting.
Speaker 4: I thought I was going to be an accountant and
Speaker 4: my basketball careend, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: I can't. I can't leave basketball. So I started coaching
Speaker 4: and just took any little job I could get and
Speaker 4: just kept plugging away at It took me about twenty
Speaker 4: some years to get in the NBA. Right coach, small
Speaker 4: college coach, British Basketball League, coach in the D League,
Speaker 4: now the G League, and non assistant none here.
Speaker 2: So I just kept plugging away. Right, You're like you're
Speaker 2: doing trying to for sure, trying to. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 2: It's like the way you said it and the way
Speaker 2: you've been talking and just not just this podcast today,
Speaker 2: but in general. You know, every time I've heard you
Speaker 2: speak as like as I played closer attention because you.
Speaker 1: Know we're as one one unit.
Speaker 2: Now. You always talk about like progressively getting better. You
Speaker 2: know that the days come along and as the season
Speaker 2: come along. And one thing I really thought about is
Speaker 2: like how you say you try new things and like
Speaker 2: you test about like that's crazy. I've never like had
Speaker 2: like a coach like actually, like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: like testing out in the games. And I've seen you
Speaker 2: test it out against us in the game like a
Speaker 2: regular season game. It works, and then you bring it
Speaker 2: back into playoffs and I was like, you know, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I've seen it.
Speaker 2: And the way that you adjust, the way that you
Speaker 2: you come to those conclusions.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you have a.
Speaker 3: Lot of late nights. You get a lot of I
Speaker 3: get a lot of those ideas at night. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 3: but it's crazy. You're gonna I'll give you a little
Speaker 3: like the night before training camp starts.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have you guys all together, obviously everybody
Speaker 4: in the organization, we're gonna be together. I'm gonna ask
Speaker 4: you to have an open mind that that we're gonna
Speaker 4: we're gonna do something. You're gonna look up there and go, man,
Speaker 4: is that gonna work.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's gonna work.
Speaker 4: That sounds, but I'm just gonna ask you, like, let's
Speaker 4: try it, you know, and and and uh, like I said,
Speaker 4: if it doesn't work, we're not We're not gonna be
Speaker 4: foolish and just keep doing something that doesn't work. We'll
Speaker 4: just move on and do something else and hopefully we
Speaker 4: can build up some cool stuff over the sun with that.
Speaker 1: M hold on. So we talked about culture.
Speaker 2: We talked about just us in general, where we come from,
Speaker 2: how we came from. We talked about Philly cheese state,
Speaker 2: and talk about food, talk about all that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about something of that.
Speaker 2: Okay, some of us said, the people who want to here, Okay,
Speaker 2: what do you feel like? You know, you had Kawhi right,
Speaker 2: and the way that you used it was was you know,
Speaker 2: it worked, you know what I'm saying. The way it
Speaker 2: worked you had guys coming around and like the guy
Speaker 2: in the ball mood, all those different things. How do
Speaker 2: you feel?
Speaker 1: What do you feel like? A since that we could
Speaker 1: play with you know, differently with Joe or whatever we
Speaker 1: have on our team and it's gonna be good anyway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that from playing against you guys,
Speaker 4: you know, lots of tough games, a couple of playoff series,
Speaker 4: et cetera, that that I hope to play a little
Speaker 4: bit more unpredictable offensively. That's the first thing where it's
Speaker 4: just kind of like, you know, we don't know, like Joe,
Speaker 4: it's going to Joel the block for five straight minutes
Speaker 4: or just a little bit more reading on what's happening
Speaker 4: and taking advantage of mismatches they don't necessarily believe in. Well,
Speaker 4: what I do believe in is going at our best matchup, right,
Speaker 4: what are examples? Examples are like in the finals where
Speaker 4: you know, Siakam scoring thirty even though we had Kauhi
Speaker 4: and Surge and Gasow Kyle, but he had the best matchup,
Speaker 4: you know, so he would get a lot of the
Speaker 4: a lot of the looks.
Speaker 3: Freddie same thing.
Speaker 4: You know, he had a better matchup than Kyle maybe
Speaker 4: in a certain stretch.
Speaker 3: Of the game.
Speaker 4: So just trying to use everybody you know, and looking
Speaker 4: at what's best for the team in that situation. And
Speaker 4: we know everybody is capable build, you know, try to
Speaker 4: get everybody to level up their game a little bit
Speaker 4: so they can step into those big moments.
Speaker 2: And then defensively, we're gonna do a lot, right right.
Speaker 2: I saw I saw some stuff in Summer League. We're
Speaker 2: not gonna we're not gonna talk about, you know, some
Speaker 2: of the stuff I saw, but It's like, that's that's
Speaker 2: that's what's crazy to me, is like, so obviously you
Speaker 2: know I went to the game yesterday and me being
Speaker 2: a back trying to be you know, studying the game
Speaker 2: and in the basketball mind, I'm like, I can see
Speaker 2: us trying to that, you know, and even in the
Speaker 2: summer League, you know, you and probably you know the
Speaker 2: coach staff have putting some things in that you know
Speaker 2: that I wanted to see now that see if it
Speaker 2: works you know later, And that's that's really cool to me.
Speaker 2: How how you're already preparing And it's like, I know
Speaker 2: we all prepared, you know, in the off season for
Speaker 2: for stuff like this, but I can tell that you like,
Speaker 2: he didn't put all your thought into it, because you can't,
Speaker 2: not until the season starts. But like you already you're
Speaker 2: already ready, You're alreadys you know, your mind is already rolling,
Speaker 2: it's already going, it's ready, you're ready to go.
Speaker 4: We've had one, two, three, four, four summer league games
Speaker 4: now already, and we put a whole new offense in
Speaker 4: today today, yep, only because it's something I think that
Speaker 4: we might use, right and I just want to get
Speaker 4: some reps at it and see what it looks like
Speaker 4: and study it.
Speaker 3: So I hope, hope it will be okay tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But we just put it because it's it's like like
Speaker 4: you said that, we're we're experimenting for what we're gonna
Speaker 4: do here this winter, right, right, this is this is
Speaker 4: one we're getting our young guys a lot of minutes,
Speaker 4: you know, Jaden and uh Lou and you know some
Speaker 4: of these guys Phillip who's going to be on the
Speaker 4: roster this year.
Speaker 3: But we're also you.
Speaker 4: Know, tactically or X and O wise, whatever you want
Speaker 4: to call it, trying to do it.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, So you know we're kind of starting to
Speaker 2: wrap it up on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I always do this thing, right, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Sorry most people have time to think about it, but
Speaker 2: real lies, So I'm putting.
Speaker 1: You on the spot, that's what all right.
Speaker 2: So there's two questions that I asked, right, I ask
Speaker 2: what were you thankful for in the past week? So
Speaker 2: I'll let you start off with that. What are you
Speaker 2: thankful for in the past week?
Speaker 3: Well, first, I always start with my family.
Speaker 4: I got three sons, amazing, right, amazing, I always I.
Speaker 3: Have I know this isn't a big deal.
Speaker 4: But I always have a five minute straight of gratitude
Speaker 4: every day. Start start my day with a little fifteen
Speaker 4: minute meditation, and I add five minutes of gratitude.
Speaker 3: So I try to go through all those things.
Speaker 4: And come on man like, yeah, family, with unbelievable job, right, people,
Speaker 4: I work with, friends.
Speaker 3: You know, there's there's so much to be to be
Speaker 3: thankful for. I think you got to pay attention to that.
Speaker 1: Very day, right right right now. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 2: And then the next question is, so I have this
Speaker 2: thing where you know, Philly fans know about it, but
Speaker 2: I said it my dad.
Speaker 1: Taught it to me. He taught us me when I
Speaker 1: was young.
Speaker 2: And I told Philly fans after my rookie year, you know,
Speaker 2: I went through the exit interviews or whatever, and they
Speaker 2: were like, what do you you know, what's your goal
Speaker 2: for you know, the upcoming season? And I told her,
Speaker 2: I was like, every time I step on the court
Speaker 2: to work out, or whether it's lifting, whether it's either
Speaker 2: on the basketball courts, whether it's in life in general,
Speaker 2: I want to find a way to get one percent
Speaker 2: better every single day, no matter whether that's in life,
Speaker 2: whether that's just anything in general.
Speaker 1: So what do you if anything, it could be anything.
Speaker 2: In life in basketball and coaching, family, anything, spiritual. What
Speaker 2: do you want to get one percent better at for
Speaker 2: the upcoming week.
Speaker 4: I just I think that I tell you I'm really
Speaker 4: working on is just is I'm always working on just
Speaker 4: being able to really focus in on stuff. So I'm
Speaker 4: really working on the like meditation, being present, mindfulness.
Speaker 3: That kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Like, like that's the hardest part about being a head
Speaker 4: coach is that there's like there's media, there's press conference,
Speaker 4: res this, there's there's a selfie here, there's a there, there,
Speaker 4: there's design and practice and meeting with the coaches and
Speaker 4: talking to the scouts and talking to Darryl.
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, the ball is going up.
Speaker 3: Yeah you're in Philly and they're they're yelling at you,
Speaker 3: you know. But to be able to like zero in
Speaker 3: on the you.
Speaker 4: Know, inside the inside the court for those forty eight minutes,
Speaker 4: because I really take it like super serious that like
Speaker 4: I gotta be at my best every night too when
Speaker 4: the team's out there, Like I gotta be really good
Speaker 4: and all that stuff. So I'm really trying to work
Speaker 4: on just just always seeing if I'm present, mindful and
Speaker 4: and in a good state of mind.
Speaker 1: Really, no, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Hey coach, we appreciate you coming on rightly good at this.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you I'm try. Hey God, I really appreciate you
Speaker 2: all coming out. This is great, This is fun. My
Speaker 2: first live Max to the Mike episode. This is really
Speaker 2: flair Man.
Speaker 1: There is more author but like I said, our Heart Podcast,
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Go anywhere to find it. We appreciate y'all coming out.
Speaker 1: Thank y'all again. Let's thank y'all. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.