WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: Bucks F Bobby Portis 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.360 Welcome to this League Uncut in the world of twenty 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:09.640 four hour NBA news. This is you, Chris Haines. It's 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:18.079 so telling Mark Stein, it's so time This League Uncut 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:19.840 is underway on five. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.599 It should be a good one, Yes, sir, this will 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.880 be a special episode. This will be a good one 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:33.120 of this League Uncut podcast with Chris Haynes and Mark Stein. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.840 Mark Stein's not able to join us today is having 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.159 mechanical issues, so uh, it's all good. The show is 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.200 going to keep on rolling on. And I told you, 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.800 I told you guys, this week we're going to have 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.920 a special guest, and I told you. I gave you 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.720 a little clue. So it's going to be Bucks related. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.280 So without further ado, I want to introduce to you 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.760 a member of the Milwaukee Bucks, one of the most 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.520 efficient players on that team. When the top reserves in 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.440 the entire association in the running for the sixth Man 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.840 of the Year award. This guy has the smooth turnaround jumper, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.480 you can't stop it to back it up, he got 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.680 the pivots, he brings the energy. And lastly, you might 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.440 know him from a k a big bob on that 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:28.319 ass You know, I'm talking about the energizer buddy for 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.400 the Bucks. Mister Bobby Porters, how you doing, brother? 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:37.440 I'm sorry, man, that's one of the best introductions I've had. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:40.840 I want. 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:43.640 I wanted to make you feel special, brother, you be. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:50.360 Man, Yeah, but he made me feel pretty pretty damn good. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:53.320 You should, man, you have. You're having a phenomenal season. Man, 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.680 Like I said, you know, I wanted to put emphasis 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.960 on efficient because by you know, you know I played 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.960 college basketball, didn't you know? Obviously I didn't go to 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.160 the NBA. But one thing I've been noticing. I've watched 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.840 every single Bucks game. One thing I notice about you, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.399 and it doesn't always start that way, but a lot 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.480 of times you end up when you coming to the game, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.440 you end up a lot of times I don't I 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.480 haven't looked at the stats, but you end up hitting 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.240 your first shot every you know, most of the time 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.720 when you come in the game. Can you tell me, like, 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.560 when you come in the game and hit that first one, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:29.880 how do you feel. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:33.320 So it's been like a thing since I was like 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.840 a kid, bro, Like, if I see just one go in, man, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.760 that's all I really need. That's really all Hoopers do 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.919 around the world. Though, like, no matter how the game going, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.239 no matter how you know, if you ozer for five, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.359 oh for six, like you see worst shot go in, shoot, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.400 it's just it's it's game time. And I think all 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.880 Hoopers can have tested is like you know, if you 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.680 see your first shot go in, man, you auto made 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.640 thinking there's gonna be a good night. So for me, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.360 I just try to come in and just be efficient 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.799 as I can and to shoot the same size every night. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.200 Now you've definitely been doing that. Man, That's one thing 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.080 I noticed. I'm like, man, every time he come in, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.480 he hit that first one and from there, from there up, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.359 you know, that opens up the game. And I'm like, man, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.720 you know you ended up going on your runs and 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.560 you may hit seven or nine straight points and getting 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.920 stills and playing d And I just wanted to know, like, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.960 how did every talk me about this role? This this 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:34.639 six man role, because most players don't they don't dream 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.000 of being a six man, right. Everybody wants to be 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.560 a starter and then you know, be a star in 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.080 that role. Usually you have to a coach has to 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.960 usually convince you to get into that role. And a 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.800 lot of times, even if they convince you to accept 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.720 that role, the player doesn't really accept that role and 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.320 it just never works out. How tell me about the 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.760 the maturation process you've had with that role, because it 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.440 seems like, man, you just it seemed like it just 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.840 fits you or you just know how to just fib 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.040 and he's talking about that. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.960 So like, Man, obviously, coming to the Bucks, you know, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.320 the lineup was really kind of already set for real. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.760 Man, you got Jannis, you know, you got Chris, you 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:22.480 got Brooken. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.359 Then at the time when I first came here, you 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.279 had d'Arte DiVincenzo and Drew how Today as a starter. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.640 So just being a pro man, you gotta find you 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.160 gotta find a way to impact. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.039 Winning, to help the team win. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.640 You know, not gonna lie like my role has grown 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.640 over the years. But when I first came to the Bucks, Man, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.599 I didn't really like feel like a six man for 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.320 I just felt like one of the other guys. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.359 You know. You know Coase Budd used me a little different, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.600 and uh, you know he was he was hard on me, man, 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:52.839 he was. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.800 He was great for me though, because he was always 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.919 hard on me, making sure I did all the little 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.440 things to stay on the court, you know, like getting 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.480 extra possession office of rebounding or boxing out or playing defense. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.600 He won the first coach really just hard to buy 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.160 my defense and playing defense and being acting with your hands, 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:12.480 moving your feet. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.040 Things like that. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.440 But as my time has progressed with the Bucks, like 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.200 the trust has grown, the camaraderie has grown, and guys 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:24.839 trust me enough to go out there and do what 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.920 I do. So it just makes it that much easier 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.560 for me to just come in just BEBP. I got 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.840 good teammates man, that believe in me. We all work 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.920 hard and they know how hard I work. So when 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.520 I come in, man, I just try to come in 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.320 and impact the game. And what better way than coming 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:40.960 in and trying to give a team an extra lyft 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:41.480 with's going. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.239 Yeah, and you've been doing that from start to finish 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.360 this season. I know things might start off a little 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.479 bit slow for you earlier in the season, and you 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.479 just seem like you picked it up. I want to 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.839 say around to my knowledge, it seemed like around January 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.960 is when you really started to just like hit your stride. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.279 What was it about. I know it's a different team, Dame, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.360 and you know some new pieces. What was it about 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:11.000 that time? Were you able to turn the corner, you know. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.039 To get back to the basics for real. Man, You know, 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.359 every season is different in the league. You like, like 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.000 every year I played in the league has been some 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.440 different adversity at some point, Like every year is different. 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.839 So this year from last year, you know, we were 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.560 the best team in the league. You know, we cruised 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.280 through the cruise through the regular season and then get 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.920 to the playoffs. We first round exit. You feel me like, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.040 did we come to the new season? I mean, I'll 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.280 get back from Team USA, playing with them over the 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:44.080 summertime and get back to Milwaukee, and then suddenly I 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.640 got new We got a whole new team. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.080 You feel me like it just it just changed. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.240 And obviously adding the top seventy five player like Dame 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.400 changes everybody role kind of a little bit. To start 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.719 the season, we had to figure it out just a 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.560 little bit and figure out how we're gonna you know, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.200 I just to implement him with us and then how 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.680 we're gonna you know, be with him and find out chemistry. 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:08.839 You know. Obviously we start off the season pretty. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.920 Good, but it was kind of hard just to find 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:16.360 the find a groove, find the rhythm and inconsistency at first, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.960 and then once January came. Man, just get back to 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.480 the basics. I just got back to the gym, get 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.200 my form, shots up, and just saying, hey man, it's 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:24.800 just trying to hoot. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.320 Man, stop all that thinking. Man. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.520 I think when you're a basketball player, when you think 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.240 too much and think the game and try to do 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.440 all the right things throughout the game, you kind of 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.280 mess with the game a little bit and being who 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.160 you are. And I'm just a guy that goes out 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.360 there and plays point five basketball. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:41.840 If I got a shot, I take it. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.040 If I don't, d h O, I try to get 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.920 to rempenetrating, piss to a teammate, just pay point five ball. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.000 Getting back to that for real. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.840 How challenging has this season been? You know, you've been 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.960 around the league and you face adversity, different, yeah, trials 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.960 that may come your way. In the eighty two game season, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.000 you got a coach and change, which shocked a lot 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.880 of people because, believe you, guys were records pretty good. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.520 I can't remember what it was at the top, but 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.960 it was good enough to get you to get to 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.000 have the Bucks coaching staff be the coach of the 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.760 Eastern Conference All Stars. So how challenging has this season 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:19.920 been with all the changes. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.960 I mean, it's been challenging obviously. I think every season 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.200 is a challenge, to be honest. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.640 But you know, just as a fan. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.120 Probably of the game, you know, you probably like, hey, like, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.920 why can't all these players that's you know, great guys, 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.120 great great players in the league just work automatically, or 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.760 why can't this coach, you know, coach these guys up 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:44.720 to a standard or be. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.880 Whatever it is. But you know, it's like it's not 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:47.720 a video game. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.040 You feel me like we are real life people, Like 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.960 we are people in real life. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.559 Sometimes things take time. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:54.080 You know. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.160 Adversity isn't always a bad thing, you know, adversity is good. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.040 And I know with US, man, I don't know which 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.480 team in the league has went through more adversity than 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.160 US this season. Like we've been injured most of the years, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.199 some guys been out in and out the lineup. And 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.800 we had three different coaches obviously, we had Adrian and 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.840 Doc and Joe even coached two or three games as well, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.400 Joe Prunty. So you know, I don't think many teams 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:21.719 been through as much as versity to the US. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.240 So that could be a could be a. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.720 Great thing in the long run for US Man, especially 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.480 when playoffs coming. You know, you can hit with their 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.560 first hate maker and then you got to respond. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.319 That's a good way to look at it. And my 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.559 producer Ryan just sent me a text that you guys 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.760 were thirty and thirteen when Adrian Griffin was dismissed as 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.280 brought in since has brought in Doc Rivers. But yeah, 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.199 it was that was a shock to many at that time. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.640 But BP, I want to ask you. I want to 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.280 get back to the team, but let me ask you 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.240 about this six man real quick. So you know, I 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:58.760 watched again. I watch every BUS game and I see 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.880 the contribution. It's like all these awards out there, right, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.240 It's like a lot of voters don't get to see 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.360 watch these guys every day and they don't understand the impact. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.400 They don't understand how vital it is. Like sometimes like 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.560 you have you may have a six man candidate, right VP, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.240 but they play like real starter minutes, like they may 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.840 play like thirty five plus like they're playing starter men. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.679 They may play more than some of the starters. And 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.280 then you have six men who come in and they 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.520 have you know, your cap on your limits you know 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.080 your your limit cap. You got to get to it exactly, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.640 you get to it. So the names that we're hearing, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.320 you know obviously your name, Bobby Porters, and then a 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.040 lot of people show a lot of love for Malik 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.560 Monk with Sacramento. And I'm not trying to ask you 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.080 to discourage any other candidates out there, but for people 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.640 who don't get to see or who choose not to 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.400 watch a lot of New Bus games, tell me what 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.960 it is that you provide. If you got to explain, okabp, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.080 what is your role on this team? What do you 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.080 do for this team on a day to day basis? 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.360 Explain your season in a nutshell to people who probably 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:16.280 aren't informed. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.480 Man, if I could just say one word for real, man, shit, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:27.320 just just availability. I'm I'm ready every night, bro, Like 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.360 I play every game. I think the Bucks have played 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.560 eighty one games this season. We got one game left 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.320 them all. And I think Barby Reporters has played eighty 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.400 one games as well. Like I'm here, bro, like hurt 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.719 whatever it is I'm feeling tired or feeling sluggish, or 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.800 my elbow hurting, my knee hurting, Like I'm out here hooping, Bro, 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:51.080 like for real. And you know last year I got 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.040 you know, criticized a lot for starting a lot of games. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.160 So I didn't win the award last year. So this 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.760 year I've only started three games. You know, I come 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.959 off the bench every night. You know, I don't talk 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.320 about the other candidates. Other guys are great, they do 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.720 great for their teams and whatever. But you know, I 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.440 just think my impact on my team. Man, It's just 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:13.520 a lot more different. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:13.640 Man. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.080 I'm like a heart and soul. You feel me like 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.440 I work my heart on my sleeve every single night. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.400 You know, No coach gotta worry about trying to get 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:22.559 number nine hyped up. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.920 He come in already hyped. You feel me. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.760 BP. Has there been a situation where, uh, the team 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.000 might have wanted you to start to start a game 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:33.880 or two, You be like, nah, no, leave me on 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.720 the bitch. I gotta get this. I'm going for the 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:36.440 sixth Mad of War. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:38.959 Nah, I think. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.480 I think like in years past, I tried to do 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:47.720 that and Coach Budd still won't going. Yeah, like years past, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.800 this year I just set up. I really want to 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.959 worry about no award or nothing like. I talked about 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.600 it a lot last year. And once I fell up 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.280 short last year kind of like I ain't gonna say discouraged. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.400 But it was like, dang bro I like average double 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.280 double off the bench, you say, the dude win. Yeah. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.839 But this year I've just been trying to just take 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.440 it a day at a time. Man, it's been a 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.480 long season, up and down a lot of adversity. So 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.240 just trying to be available for my team every night, 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.120 no matter who's playing, and try to stack as many 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.679 games and stack the camaraderie you going into a postseason. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.040 But nah, I ain't never really just been like, hey man, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.360 hey doc I don't. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.679 Want to start doc Na. I ain gonna tell them. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:28.520 I'm gonna tell him that. 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.800 For those who don't know, BP's playing an average of 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.760 twenty four minutes a game, averaging just a shade under 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.960 fourteen points a game, shooting fifty percent from the field 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.840 and shooting forty percent from three with seven point four boards. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.560 That's crazy. So you think if he's averaging starter minutes, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.920 that's a double double easy. And the season he talked 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.160 about last year where he averaged let me see, it 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.680 was fourteen point one, shot forty nine percent from the field, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.240 thirty seven percent from three and he averaged nine point 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.600 six rebound and he played almost close to two minutes 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.120 more last season per game. So that's what he's speaking 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.960 on when he's talking about just the shortcomings. And so BP, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.720 let me let me ask you this. So we're recording 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:18.360 this on a Saturday and it's going to air Monday morning, 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:24.000 so you guys will already know your pecking order in 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:28.160 the standings, and you talk about availability, BP, and I'm 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.240 not trying to persuade you, but just hear me out. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.760 So you talk about availability here. So if I'm looking 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.920 at the standings VP, and if I'm thinking because you 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.280 guys ain't been playing well over the last few weeks. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.760 So if I'm looking at the standings, you guys as 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.960 the number two seed, you know you could potentially go 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.200 against Philly or Miami in that first round depending on 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.680 the play. In situation, right, you're at the three seed, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:04.640 potentially Orlando or Indianna. So BP, if Doc Rivers comes 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:09.520 to you and says, BP, I'm sorry, I know availability 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.360 is important to you, but uh, I think I think 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.160 I like our chances better at number three seed, and 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.680 so we gotta sit you. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.640 No, I'm probably if that's the case for real. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.120 I'm gonna I'm gonna check in and check out like did. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:33.040 Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I gotta get my eighty that's fair. 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.720 But BP, you know, I gotta get this. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.760 You get that, Don and I and I commend you 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.640 on that, BP, but you know, but BP, you know 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.760 you come in and out. Now your your points per 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:44.640 game is dropping. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.320 Yeah, it's all about being healthy. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.760 It's all about being healthy going into the postseason and 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.040 being a pro man. That's part of the gig man 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.920 is being able to be coachable, being able to understand 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.560 situations and being under and being able to to understand 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.960 the bigger picture man, like the bigger picture and this 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.480 is that you know, we're trying to get to June 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.200 and it is April, and that is two months away. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:16.160 So being smart about the things and being coachable to 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.000 what the coaches and training staff and front office has 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.720 already scouted for us, they'll be the smart thing. But 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.920 I think were hooping them all though, for sure, I 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.640 think we think Yeah, I think we. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.240 So b How do you how do you guys view 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.920 the standards? Like, how do you guys look at those matchups? 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.800 Because I love it, bro, I love it. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.320 I love it this year because you got to think 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.200 about it like, no matter if your first, second, third, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.320 or fourth, like whoever you get, man like, you're getting 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:43.960 a good opponent. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.520 You feel me. So it's not like like you've a 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.160 duck somebody or we're. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.400 Gonna lose this game in that game because we don't 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:51.480 want to play such and such. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.520 No, if you're three, you still play Indiana. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.600 They nice. If you four, you still play the Magic. 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.480 They're gonna play hard to give you a great game. 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.080 If you want, you might Miami, if you wanted to, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.760 you may play Miami or Philly, no matter where you're at, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.120 Like like you you're gonna get a get a great opponent. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.119 And it's only this this this playoff is gonna be 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.439 lit man like for TV purposes, for matchup purposes, the 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:16.439 storyline that's. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:17.920 Gonna get built. I'm a fan of the game. 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.439 I love basketball, So this playoff is gonna be jumping 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.720 man like. It's gonna be some great matchups, and it's 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.840 gonna be some mussy TV like think about it, like 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.200 the Clippers and the Clippers of Dallas, Like that's already 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.359 locked up, Like that's a lot of buckets. Bro like 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.320 you know what I'm saying, Like that's must ce TV. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.560 Like it's just as a fan of the game, speaking 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.040 as a fan, like this. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.399 This playoff is gonna be jumping man. Who wanted more? 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.440 That's always gonna be this year who wanted. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.080 So you got the elephant in the room? Is Gianni 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.360 out with the cap injury miss the remains in three 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.480 games of the regular season. Uh, how how optimistic are 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.960 you that you have the big fella back when when 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:08.680 the playoffs start. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.480 I really haven't heard much about the situation obviously, Like 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.680 nobody ever wants to see, like nobody get hurt, whether 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.480 it's your teammate, whether it's somebody like on another team. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.600 Like, you know, this game is beautiful. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.720 We all play it to provide and play it to 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.280 uh you know, obviously because we love the game. But 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.360 you know, obviously it sucks to you know, not have 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.840 one of the best players in the league obviously available. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.919 Uh we don't know the situation and in entirety, but 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.480 can only send thoughts and prayers out to him for 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.720 a speedy recovery, however long it takes. And our main 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.919 job is to keep the main thing, the main thing, 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.360 basketball stay of the same man, you know, go out 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.480 there and play, play the game the right way, trust 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.560 each other and all the things we went through all season. Uh, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:58.679 you know it's time to you know, just put it 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.000 on display in these playoffs. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:00.480 Man. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.160 But like I said, I don't know much about the situation, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:09.280 haven't heard much. But hopefully everything all right. Hopefully everything 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.240 all right with big fella. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.680 What there's a lot of people who have jumped off 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:22.040 the Bucks bandwagon, especially over the last few weeks. Why, obviously, 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.959 you guys will still believe, you know, you guys are competitors. 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:30.240 But what gives y'all hope, you know, especially what happened 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.359 all season long has never really been you know, you 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.639 guys have had spurts, but never really clicked for a 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.600 long periods of time. And then the way you're ending 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.280 the season is not not you know, the optimal way. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.080 What gives you, guys hope that you guys can make 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.160 a run and not just a run because this team 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.359 is built to win a championship. What gives you guys 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.600 hope that you guys still can pursue and accomplish something 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:53.040 like that. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.680 I would say, like just as a fan of the game, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.400 like like nobody really talked about like Denver last year 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.760 when they I was like eight out of fifteen games 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.920 in the season, like they lost, like nah the sixteen 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.440 eight out of fifteen games, and to see nobody like. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:08.520 Ever brought it up. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:10.280 So it's like with us, like we just take it 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.840 with a grain of salt for real, Like that's the 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.639 outside world's you know, views and. 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:17.600 How they view us whatever it is. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.399