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426
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427
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446
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447
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449
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451
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452
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453
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454
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510
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Speaker 1: foundation was kind of already set, and then I could

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Speaker 1: I was gonna do some formation of that. Besides like

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Speaker 1: We want to be more uh four out, one in.

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Speaker 1: So like guys that got Exhibit ten contracts that I

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Speaker 1: knew were gonna get cut my two ways, Like I

524
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526
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Speaker 1: he makes the team. He got converted from a two

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529
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Speaker 1: in the rotation. And he was a guy that was

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Speaker 1: planning him possibly being my best player. So then he's gone.

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Speaker 1: So your roster is constantly almost influx in the G league. UM,

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Speaker 1: and that's what makes it one of Um makes you

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Speaker 1: a better coach actually because you have to constantly adjust

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Speaker 1: like how you play your rotation, what you can do

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Speaker 1: the five on your bench because the five on the

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Speaker 1: floor you may cut or may go to the league. Right,

543
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Speaker 1: that's the old rule of rule of five things. So, um, okay,

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Speaker 1: you get your staff. Um, now how did you go?

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Speaker 1: do you go about like how do you go about

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Speaker 1: selecting your team? Figuring out your team? Um? So a

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Speaker 1: bunch of different way. Hey, so first of all, before

549
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Speaker 1: before you're gonna throw out terms, Exhibit ten was an

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Speaker 1: exhibit a tennis. A guy that gets them vibe to

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Speaker 1: training camp. He essentially gets like fifty fifty k to

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Speaker 1: come to training camp and then um, then you can

553
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Speaker 1: get his rights to like playing the G league. But

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Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be the team that he went

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Speaker 1: to camp with to get his rights. Like a guy

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Speaker 1: that goes to camp with the Lakers. You know somebody

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Speaker 1: the Santa Cruz will Warriors. Could they have his rights? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that happened with us last year, Trev Queen, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Trevel and Queen. He ended up being the m v

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Speaker 1: P of the G League. We invited him to camp.

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Speaker 1: Lakers got the fifty k UM and then um, but

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Speaker 1: the Rockets had his rights. The Rockets had the Rockets

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Speaker 1: had his rights, and then we just couldn't We couldn't

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Speaker 1: work out a deal to get his rights. So he

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Speaker 1: went back and played for r gb BI. Person had

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Speaker 1: a great year, was m VP, won the championship and

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Speaker 1: now got a deal with the with the Sixers. But anyways,

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Speaker 1: an exhibited is a guy that gets invited to camp.

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Speaker 1: You give him some money to go to camp. Um

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Speaker 1: if you don't if there's a roster spot, they're competing

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Speaker 1: for a roster spot or two way or whatever, and

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Speaker 1: then if they don't make it, usually they fall down

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Speaker 1: to your team. Okay, we're the other two ways two ways.

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Speaker 1: There's two two ways on every um, every every NBA team. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and so to a does mean that the minor league

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Speaker 1: team of that team has the right. Yeah, we had.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to go play for anybody else. And

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Speaker 1: then the two way means he makes NBA money. When

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Speaker 1: a set uh set number that they make and I

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Speaker 1: But in two ways, it's a non guaranteed deal. So

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Speaker 1: like a two way can be flipped or cut, uh

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Speaker 1: flipped to a roster spot. You can be cut at

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Speaker 1: any time. So two ways are very like it's a

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Speaker 1: flexible Can you only get two of those? You get

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Speaker 1: two of those? Anything? Is there any of the other? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you get there's there. There was a draft. There's a

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Speaker 1: three round draft, and so we have one pick. Last

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Speaker 1: year we chose a young man, but he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: any picks in the GE league draft either, like no

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Speaker 1: big pig, big big big team picks and the little

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Speaker 1: team picks. Yeah, so we'd all go in the Anthony

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Speaker 1: Davids trade or the rest of us. Now we held on.

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Speaker 1: We held onto a couple of ge league picks, so

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Speaker 1: we had the third. We had a third round pick

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Speaker 1: last year. We chose that Eli Kane who played at

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Speaker 1: De Paul and UH and he actually and like it's

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Speaker 1: it's hard for like the draft picks to um to

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Speaker 1: make it. And he's like, like what I was intrigued about.

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Speaker 1: He was like a six six he played some point

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Speaker 1: so kind of interesting, yea. And then you have like

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Speaker 1: your returning rights players, so guys that have played in

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Speaker 1: let's say like Andre Ingram league legend. So we had him,

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Speaker 1: you know, we had like him coming back. Um. Like,

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Speaker 1: we actually had the rights to Gary Payton the second.

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Speaker 1: And so what happened, well, he made the he got

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Speaker 1: cut from the Warriors, and we actually thought he was

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Speaker 1: he was gonna come to us, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, we're getting basically an m v P type player.

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Speaker 1: And then the Warriors resigned him obviously, and then he

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Speaker 1: Gary Payton the second returning rights um. And then the

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Speaker 1: other way is like you have like tryouts. So we

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626
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627
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Speaker 1: played a temple and Paris Bats end up being one

628
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Speaker 1: of the best six men in the G leagues. And

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630
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Speaker 1: So you get ready for training camp, yep, how many

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Speaker 1: many get keep? Uh ten? Ten G League spots? And

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Speaker 1: then you have your two two ways, so you basically

635
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Speaker 1: three or four days. Yeah, how long before you knew

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639
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Speaker 1: the last last day. What's that like? Uh? Not easy,

640
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: because like I've I've been there, I know I played

641
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues. I've got cut. I got cut

642
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: from the NBA twice because the Seattle and the Clippers

643
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: as a last cut. And I just know, like how

644
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,239
Speaker 1: hard the path is, like when you're just trying, you're

645
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: trying to make a living. It's it's such as that

646
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: I think, here, here's here's what, here's what I remember about.

647
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: Like I was in the Lakers. I did three different

648
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: like vet mini camps, you know, the camp right before

649
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: the canoe and then I did summer like and niche

650
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,719
Speaker 1: was the GM at the time, and he was great,

651
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: Like he could not have had a better bedside manner.

652
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: But the part that sucks, and you guys still have

653
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: it today is being that facility is amazing, but it

654
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: sucks at the same time because by like day three

655
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, we've we've talked about the

656
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: State Tree players unbelievably well there right, like you feel

657
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: you feel like you're Shack or Kobe. I remember you

658
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: to walk into the old facility and they have the pictures.

659
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: And my first couple of days, I was like, you know,

660
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: like I got goose bumps. You've been thinking about it, right,

661
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: Magic and Jabbar and Jerry West and there's just picture

662
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: and at the time Kobe and Shock are like, what

663
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: the hell am I doing here? Right? But then by

664
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: like day three, like you know, everybody, everybody knows you,

665
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: they treat you great, so you start to like, okay,

666
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: this can happen. Alright, So factor in, like you have

667
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: your G League guys and granted you know they may

668
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: and that you may not be a realistic thought that

669
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: they could be on the Lakers, but you're not to

670
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: this point in your career. If you have all realistic thoughts,

671
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: you're walking in every day and even before training camp,

672
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: those guys can come in and get work in, right.

673
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: And so I think the hardest part is, like you're

674
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: somebody really thought it's not just gonna happen in the

675
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: g like I'm gonna be on the Lakers by the

676
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,959
Speaker 1: mid year. And now you're telling them like yeah, dude,

677
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: or you don't don't see it? Yeah, It's it's hard,

678
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: and I mean, and again that's part of like my

679
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: growth process as a coach. Um. I had to make

680
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: those cuts, um, and I was the one that delivered

681
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: the news. And it's not it's not easy to look

682
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: like you know, with these young men in the face

683
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: and just say, uh, you know, you had a good camp,

684
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: but you know, we're gonna go a different direction, like

685
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: it's hard, and like for some of them they understood.

686
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: And then like a couple of guys they like, you know,

687
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: you could see, you know, their shoulders slumped down and

688
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: I totally get I totally get it. And it's and

689
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: it's hard. And some one bounce back on their feet

690
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: to other other G League teams, um and everything. But no,

691
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: those aren't those those aren't easy conversations and they'll never

692
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: they'll never get easier. You um, in your first days

693
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: of camp, this is your first like real team, real practices.

694
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: Everybody has a different style, like Eddy's sudden his first

695
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: week he would let the assistant coaches coach and he

696
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: just hopped in to make little adjustments and you sit

697
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: there and take notes. You know, you want to kind

698
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: of learn about his team from the side. Some guys

699
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: that want to be in on every drill, like what's

700
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: your stuff? Um, well for this year I had for

701
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: that last season, UM, players had to know my voice

702
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: and also I had to find my voice. UM. So

703
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 1: I was very I was very involved high intensity practices. UM.

704
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: I wanted guys to get after it. Like I was

705
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: a little bit what you would say now would say

706
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: like old school, like a lot of one on one

707
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: defensive slides like this is art mentality. Um, you know

708
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: you're coming into work every day, um, big fundamentally like

709
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: sound practice. I went, uh, just one I think one day,

710
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: one day of two days. But I wasn't like making

711
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: them like run like a ton of friends or anything

712
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: at the end of practice, but um, but just finding

713
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: my voice uh in teaching, teaching the drills, UM, letting

714
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: them know like this is what the expectations are and

715
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: what the standards are for South Bay Lakers UM practice

716
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: and going into going into the season. So it was

717
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: it was great, Like I always feel confident. Um. I've

718
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: always been confident like in my ability to teach and

719
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 1: um and communicate with with anyone. So that part it wasn't. UM.

720
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: I thought it might be like a little bit nervous,

721
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: but like it's it's like you know, like when you

722
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 1: play like in big games, so when you're at Oklahoma

723
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: State or how's that Arizona or whatever, you know, you

724
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: get those like initial butterflies, but they're like um, excitement

725
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: butterflies and then as soon as the ball goes up,

726
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: then it's just basketball. And that's what That's kind of

727
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: the way it was. Um, okay, so you getting ready

728
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: for your first game? Who's your first game? Guest? We

729
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 1: played G League atnight? Okay, so you play? I remember?

730
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: Can you text me? We talked after the game? Yeah?

731
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: Um so, uh your attention to detail? Did you tell

732
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: the assistance what to work? You know we all wear

733
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: the same thing? I know, but it was that always

734
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: the case? Did you have to go like, hey, here's

735
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: the deal. I'm one of my assistant coaches to pick

736
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: out the outfits. So that way, that's off my play

737
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: like that? Yeah? So he just did you want to

738
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: wear a suit? Did you want like the breaking No,

739
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I know everybody, I know what

740
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,959
Speaker 1: you can do, but it's you get to. It's you.

741
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: I just want to wear the either half simp or

742
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: poll okay. Um. And the G League times that the

743
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: games are seven right like normal time. Most most time

744
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: are weekend l A weekend games were usually like playing

745
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: five okay, but the it's more in the game day

746
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: stuff right because having been an assistant right game day

747
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: is very very different. Right you have you have walked

748
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: through whatever, and then you get a meal and then

749
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: you got to go to the arena and work guys out. Right,

750
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: like your your day doesn't like the game is a

751
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: very slow faction of your day. What about the G League?

752
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: Like what's your first game day? Are you working guys out?

753
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: What do you guys do? Uh? Well, to go back

754
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: how we talked about your the roster fluctuation. So we

755
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: go into this whole. We have two weeks of training

756
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: camp and my two ways at the time we're Jay

757
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: Huff and Sako Numboya. And when you don't have like

758
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: assignment playing stuff, you're two ways are arguably two of

759
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: your better players. And yeah, so Jay Huff was like

760
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: coming in, you know, rookie from University of Virginia. Saka

761
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: Dumboyo was a former lottery or mid first round pick.

762
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: Um so I'm expecting like play planning out my rotation.

763
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: Uh So the game was on a Saturday, and the

764
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: night before the Lakers take both two ways before my

765
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: first very first game. Um so they take Huff who's

766
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: my starting center and Duboya who's gonna be my call? You?

767
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: Um no, my GM told me um, Nick Mozzella. So

768
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: and I mean you have to know about like this

769
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: is always impossibility. There are two ways for a reason.

770
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,279
Speaker 1: Was it where were you playing the game? Our game

771
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: was home, Lakers were on the road. Okay, so here

772
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: going on a road trip. It the night before you're

773
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: at home and you're I think I would think I

774
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: was still maybe at the practice facility when he comes in, like, hey,

775
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: you'd like tomorrow listen just a little thing here, Jay

776
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: and Sank who they're not going to be with you

777
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: free frist game. Um. Okay, So instantly I have to

778
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: make an adjustment in my mind and my okay, like

779
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: talk to my coaches. Okay, what does our rotation look like?

780
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be my starting centers

781
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: Cam Oliver, who was a very good player. Um. And

782
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: then but just like who's uh? And then also we

783
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: had Frank Frank Mason we had traded for was hurt.

784
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 1: He had hurt his growing like the either third practice

785
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: or second practice. So my starting point guard, who was

786
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: G League mp P like either a year before or

787
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: two years before, was also out. Um, So all these

788
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: adjustments going through my mind have to figure out my rotation, Guys,

789
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: that I weren't a couple as I wasn't expecting to

790
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: play very much. Now we're like heavily thrown into into

791
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: the fire. And uh ELI came started point guard like

792
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: like eighteen or nineteen points. UM. And so that's like,

793
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: so that's like the first thing figuring figuring all that out.

794
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: But then at the game day, to get back to

795
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: your original question, the game day routine was just like

796
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: shoot around, UM, slash walk through, UM, and then I

797
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: just hang at the I just hang at the practice

798
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: facility in my office like, UM, just made sure like

799
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: I had all my like a t O plays like

800
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: written down on my play card that I want to

801
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: get into. UM. My rotation sheet was that my or

802
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: chasing sheet was tight. Uh so I went over like

803
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: double check that with my coaches after shoot around, how

804
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: we feel about that? And then um, and then just

805
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 1: wait till wait till game time. So no, and I

806
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: don't have to work out any players or do anything

807
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: like that. I just just prepare, prepare for what it

808
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: needs to come at. Uh come that night. Okay, you're

809
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: getting ready for your first team. Talk about rotation. UM,

810
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: do you like the idea of a rotation? Do you

811
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: like the idea of just coaching by field, I do both, Okay, So,

812
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: like I start the game with my rotation and like,

813
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: I know who I want to get in, who I

814
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: want like my first couple of subs to be, and

815
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: who you know, who's coming out, and so I use

816
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: my rotation sheet through about the first quarter and then

817
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: on probably midway through the second quarter. Um. But if

818
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: guys are like if you're hot and you've made three

819
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: or four shots in a row, or one group is

820
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: really rolling, then the rotation sheet goes out the window.

821
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 1: You gotta coach on you gotta coach on field, um.

822
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: And that's the way I would expect, Like I want

823
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: my coaches to coach UM. So I mean I can

824
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: look and have a I can have an idea of

825
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: what I wanted to be, but I'm coaching on field, um,

826
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: and how guys and how guys are playing. Like I

827
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: had two of the best guards in the G League,

828
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: and mc McClung and Mason and Mason Owns, and usually

829
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: Mason Jones was my first guard out, and I would

830
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: leave Mac in and put somebody else. But if Mace

831
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: has already hit, like sometimes Mace was hot, and then

832
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: I would just I would come to Mac. I was like, hey,

833
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: he's rolling, I'm gonna get you out and now I'm

834
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: gonna put you back in and they're just gonna flip.

835
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: They're basically just gonna flip their fot um in the rotation.

836
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: So the second half, so feel, uh, second half, I'll

837
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: start to sentence basically start the same way as I

838
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: started the first quarter. Um, so I'll get the guys

839
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: back in the third quarter, so everybody's like, you know,

840
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: getting some run. But then there there's games where like

841
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,479
Speaker 1: we got to the fourth and it's a tight game

842
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: and one group is rolling and then I just roll.

843
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: I just roll with that group until someone's fatigued or

844
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: like the run ends or um. Yeah, a lot and

845
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: feel How do you how do you coach in terms

846
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: of like, obviously you have set plays since that you

847
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: want to get to, but a lot of it I've

848
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: noticed you didn't I don't want to say you just

849
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 1: let him go, but you're they're kind of automatically in

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