Speaker 1: The volume. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show with Baron Davis. I'm all solo tonight. BD
Speaker 1: will be back Wednesday live after Game three. Uh, just
Speaker 1: jumping right in. Obviously it's NBA Finals, tun that is
Speaker 1: the most important thing, although it's not feeling like the
Speaker 1: most important thing. There's this whole debacle with the court
Speaker 1: and liked it. So I'm gonna rewind a little bit.
Speaker 1: Somewhere along the archives you can see me talking about
Speaker 1: like the NBA course and how like it was so
Speaker 1: dope when at the center of the court was the logo,
Speaker 1: but the big Larry O'Brien trophy, like that was so dope,
Speaker 1: it was fire. What happened to that? And like sure
Speaker 1: enough we had went to like the side saying the
Speaker 1: finals or trophy somewhere, and like what happened to that?
Speaker 1: You know? And so we come into this year where
Speaker 1: by all intensive purposes, everybody's kind of been writing off
Speaker 1: this NBA Finals, you know, and in large part because
Speaker 1: it's like a two new cast of characters. Okay, see
Speaker 1: in Indiana. But when I said also newcast of characters,
Speaker 1: it's not bron it's not Steph. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: like Jason Tatum or you know guys who you've seen
Speaker 1: in it over and over and over and again. It's
Speaker 1: not that it's different. It's young. It's young gossip. So
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people have been writing this.
Speaker 1: This spinals off and so with that going on, the
Speaker 1: last thing I would expect it is like no trophy
Speaker 1: be on the court. Like I'm a fan of the
Speaker 1: trophy being at center court, big as hell, and like,
Speaker 1: there's no trophy on the court, and you know, I
Speaker 1: saw everybody going crazy about the flag waving, flag is waving,
Speaker 1: and then the trophy appears on the court. I saw
Speaker 1: some funny memes on Instagram. One of them there they
Speaker 1: gave us the here n word here trophy. I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, here, get out here, get out here.
Speaker 1: Here you go, like the internet is undefeated. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was really shocked by that, and so, you know,
Speaker 1: and saying that getting back to the game game two,
Speaker 1: we have a one to one NBA Finals, Okay, see
Speaker 1: even that out winning the game one twenty three to
Speaker 1: one oh seven, kind of getting back to their dominant
Speaker 1: way as although it's crazy, man, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to make of this series. You know, you watch this
Speaker 1: series and it's crazy because okay, see that's two times
Speaker 1: now where you see them building up that big leading
Speaker 1: you think they're about to like and it just kind
Speaker 1: of floats around twenty nineteen, seventeen, eleven, twenty two seventeen,
Speaker 1: like it's kind of flowing. You ain't necessarily seeing them
Speaker 1: put them away how they've put teams away. And to me,
Speaker 1: that's interesting because you always know, like with Indiana, what
Speaker 1: they've shown is that they're always in striking distance. You
Speaker 1: get them a puncher chance, they taking the chance, and
Speaker 1: so they've shown that and so this series is just
Speaker 1: a little weird to me. I think when I watched
Speaker 1: this series, when I'm taking away after a couple of games,
Speaker 1: is like, who are the most important players in this suities?
Speaker 2: Like who?
Speaker 1: When you watch this series, Who's like, oh man, this
Speaker 1: guy has to play well in order for this team
Speaker 1: it went Obviously Holly has to play well. No, Holly
Speaker 1: had I think twelve points in the fourth quarter end
Speaker 1: up finishing with seventeen. But I must tell you the
Speaker 1: hot and I said it last time, Holly, that I
Speaker 1: thought the helly that I thought would come out. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that guy right, Like I think he came out
Speaker 1: like like you gotta understand, See, this is where experience.
Speaker 1: You always hear people talk about experience in these moments,
Speaker 1: this is where the experience take over. Because I said,
Speaker 1: after the last game, I was like, Yo, howly gonna
Speaker 1: come out? He gonna come out firing him have two
Speaker 1: bad games in a row, And to me, it didn't
Speaker 1: feel like he came out forcing the issue and not
Speaker 1: having the bad game. Like because when you when you're
Speaker 1: the guy and you in this situation, it's so For instance,
Speaker 1: they pulled out game one surprisingly shockingly, shouldn't have, couldn't have,
Speaker 1: wouldn't have, whatever you may feel, they pulled out game one,
Speaker 1: putting them in the driver's seat. And guess what the
Speaker 1: reality is, they still in the driver's seat. They won
Speaker 1: one going back home, but if that put them really
Speaker 1: in the driver's sea, Like, there's no better feeling than
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals or the any playoff series. You pull
Speaker 1: into town and you win game one and you free
Speaker 1: rolling for game two, there's no better feeling that having
Speaker 1: a free roll, free swing. You gotta free swing in
Speaker 1: game two. There's no better feeling But when I say
Speaker 1: the experience come, then I saw Holly complain for a
Speaker 1: foul call like try to flop early in the game,
Speaker 1: and I said to my boys, I said, he should
Speaker 1: understand they up one oh, you gotta run through everybody
Speaker 1: chest up one off to get to wear like you
Speaker 1: ain't getting a flop call. You ain't like when you
Speaker 1: up one oh. In that situation, you gotta like, you
Speaker 1: gotta do all that you can to take game two,
Speaker 1: and you gotta show everybody that you mean business. Then
Speaker 1: you have to and even when you show them that
Speaker 1: you mean business, you still gotta go take game two
Speaker 1: and no call, no whistles going your way. That's just
Speaker 1: human nature. That is just not happening. And so when
Speaker 1: I saw that early on, I was like, ah, I
Speaker 1: literally said to my boys, he gotta he better understand what.
Speaker 1: And so that's where I say they experience takes so
Speaker 1: because when you the guy in that situation, you gotta
Speaker 1: come out going for broke because you have to play incredible.
Speaker 1: You got the guys that's across from you pissed off.
Speaker 1: These guys even pissed off that they just felt like
Speaker 1: they gave one away their first ever NBA Finals experience,
Speaker 1: they feel like they gave the game away. Not only
Speaker 1: are they pissed off that they feel like they gave
Speaker 1: him away, but naturally they're down oh one, Like you
Speaker 1: gotta come out pissed off. You cannot go down two,
Speaker 1: and so you're up against that. And I just didn't
Speaker 1: think he came out with the oppressiveness that it would
Speaker 1: have required him to win, Like in order to go
Speaker 1: take that game too, he gotta come out so aggressive
Speaker 1: to where his guys on his sidelight, Hey, that's what
Speaker 1: we own, Like it's almost like and they see it
Speaker 1: and like all right, like, well, I can't leave him
Speaker 1: out there, so I gotta do X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: And I just didn't think I saw that. Saying it's
Speaker 1: the first time all playoffs, I'll say I ain't saw that.
Speaker 1: We've seen them win game one after game went, after
Speaker 1: game won, and game two they came out fire like,
Speaker 1: So it's the first time I'll say that I can
Speaker 1: recall them like not like coming out swinging, and so
Speaker 1: I'll give them that, But I think that's just something
Speaker 1: that you have to understand and experience can't change that,
Speaker 1: you know, So you got okay, see with five players
Speaker 1: with fifteen plus first time in the NBA Finals. Since
Speaker 1: we won't talk about the NBA Finals. Who the fuck
Speaker 1: cares about the NBA finals? You want to know when
Speaker 1: that NBA Finals was, You're gonna look at yourself. We
Speaker 1: want to talk about that NBA Finals And moving on,
Speaker 1: you know, I told y'all I get these rundowns like
Speaker 1: just to help me stay on topic, you know, on
Speaker 1: there so I know what topics I want to hit.
Speaker 1: Boom boom boom, And then I rolled and we got
Speaker 1: Charles over here. But it's the first time since to
Speaker 1: Fineos versus you know, whatever stole my whole or off
Speaker 1: man anyway, just stole my whole, you know what. Moving on,
Speaker 1: SG ain't had thirty four points, eight assist fort steels
Speaker 1: in game two. Wow, you know they have five players.
Speaker 1: I'm so thrown off right now, Like y'all don't understand
Speaker 1: this is the guy I want. This is like the
Speaker 1: fourth time he's done it where he like throw a
Speaker 1: little job like And by the way, y'all should know,
Speaker 1: this wasn't all my rundown. When I first looked through
Speaker 1: my rundown and wasn't on there. Then you look back
Speaker 1: and their parentzes. It's their first time since twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: NBA Final about the Raptors, Like, that's a very soft
Speaker 1: spot for me if anyone can guess why. And I'm
Speaker 1: not over you never get over these things. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Shaye past Ai for the most points in the first
Speaker 1: career two career finals games. Ai has seventy one. Shay
Speaker 1: has seventy two. The significance of that. Shout out to Ai,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to the OG. Happy fiftieth birthday. Ai turned
Speaker 1: at fifty. It's crazy like Ai is our childhood and
Speaker 1: he turned it fifty. Shout out to the Og, Bubba
Speaker 1: Chuck Man, We love you Ai. Nothing can change that.
Speaker 1: You are a god forever. We appreciate you much. Love
Speaker 1: to Ai. Happy birthday, to the go to the legend,
Speaker 1: nothing but love for Ai. I forgot where I was
Speaker 1: going with my whole thing because that thing threw me
Speaker 1: all the way off. But we're going to move on.
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Speaker 1: back to OKAC having five players with over fifteen points,
Speaker 1: it makes it interesting for me because when you look
Speaker 1: at OKC, who are the most important players on that team?
Speaker 1: And for me, I feel like I struggle with that,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think there's any question that jadb is
Speaker 1: the second most important player, the second best player, however
Speaker 1: you want to script it, it's Jade. I don't think
Speaker 1: any of us have any doubt on that. But I
Speaker 1: think where it gets interesting for me is when I
Speaker 1: watch these things, I try to think about these things
Speaker 1: in terms of like if I was playing against them,
Speaker 1: Like what are you prioritizing right, Because when you go
Speaker 1: in these series, it's an NBA team, it's the best
Speaker 1: NBA teams, and a lot of times in these series
Speaker 1: you have to pick like I'm willing to let that
Speaker 1: thing beat me because in the NBA, like it's hard
Speaker 1: to stop everything, Like you got so much talent, you
Speaker 1: got so many IQs and basketball smarts amongst these coaches
Speaker 1: tasks that that's just how I think about it, like
Speaker 1: what what would I be willing to look at and say,
Speaker 1: all right, that's the thing that's going to be me. Well,
Speaker 1: in turn, that requires you to put into context like
Speaker 1: who's the most important people? You know, like who's the
Speaker 1: And when I look at it, when I take a
Speaker 1: start back and look at this, I always feel like
Speaker 1: it's hard, Like who's the most important person? Right, Like
Speaker 1: in theory you want to say it's check Like in
Speaker 1: theory it looks like it's supposed to be chatted. But
Speaker 1: like when I take a step back, I look at
Speaker 1: this team, ain't chet was out this year a large
Speaker 1: bulk of this year, and they were just fine. Even
Speaker 1: hardstyle was out for quite a bit. In that team
Speaker 1: roll like I think they had like j Dubb at
Speaker 1: the five or Lou at the five and they still
Speaker 1: continue to roll. Then they played Kenrick Williams at some
Speaker 1: five like they just figured it out and continued the row.
Speaker 1: And so it brings you to the point of who's
Speaker 1: like the third most important player on the team, and
Speaker 1: also who's the third most important player on the team
Speaker 1: may not be the third most important player in this series,
Speaker 1: And that's where it gets triggered when you start talking
Speaker 1: about third most important players, third option, because like one
Speaker 1: and two is usually always one to two, that's what
Speaker 1: it is, and then the regular season and third it's
Speaker 1: usually third like it's but when you get to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: thar can be taken out of a series and five
Speaker 1: or six can become more important than three. And I
Speaker 1: feel like when I look at this OKC team, I
Speaker 1: actually think the third most important player is Alex Caruso.
Speaker 1: And I find it very interesting because hey, come off
Speaker 1: the bench. I think that's always interesting in himself, like
Speaker 1: he's coming off the bench, he's the third most important player.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you run into that in the regular season lou Will,
Speaker 1: for instance, right like you got a coach that's agreeing, like, yo,
Speaker 1: we want you to get this six man award, like,
Speaker 1: but then when he get into the playoffs, he usually
Speaker 1: go out the window. And I think Caruso is so
Speaker 1: important to what they do, and I feel like you
Speaker 1: never gain plan for him. It's so because you don't
Speaker 1: gain plan for him. He coming to these finals and
Speaker 1: he go crazy, But the reality is he's a champion,
Speaker 1: so he actually knows what the expected. If I'm a
Speaker 1: betting man, and not even a betting man. But if
Speaker 1: I am, if I'm a coach, if I'm an opposing coach,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, man, I know this guy, but see, And
Speaker 1: that's where I think playing makes the difference. It's like
Speaker 1: because you understand a little more, and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: Caruso's been in this moment, He's shown us over and
Speaker 1: over again, he can deliver in this moment. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make the guy. I'm going to make him
Speaker 1: so important to our game plan. I'm going to make
Speaker 1: less of it importance in our game plan to the
Speaker 1: guy who hasn't done it, can't do that the shade, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been there, but come on, which Jay duve
Speaker 1: you try to if you want to. We once tried
Speaker 1: to legend Lebron shoot threes in the game. We lost
Speaker 1: by sixty. It's fine. It was just a throw something
Speaker 1: out there and cast it out there. See where it
Speaker 1: didn't work. So don't go for number two, But for
Speaker 1: number three. I actually think Caruso is more important, especially
Speaker 1: for this series, and so place that bet on the
Speaker 1: guy that hasn't done it. And Chet hasn't done it.
Speaker 1: I know Caruso can beat me. He's shown me he
Speaker 1: can beat me on several different points back then when
Speaker 1: he won a championship be showing a drinking beach. And
Speaker 1: so I'm just not sure that that would be the
Speaker 1: bet that I'd be making. And I think that's where
Speaker 1: it gets interesting, Like I think Indiana Styve gonna have
Speaker 1: to take a deep dive, but like importance, like who
Speaker 1: hurts us more?
Speaker 4: Because jay Dove had a pretty average, not great, but decent,
Speaker 4: like decently productive game one and they should have won
Speaker 4: a game, like they blew the game.
Speaker 1: But they should have won the game. But Chet was bad,
Speaker 1: like Chet did not have a good game, and you
Speaker 1: fast forward, jay Dove played better than I. Also Chet
Speaker 1: played better than I. Also everybody played better than I.
Speaker 1: But I'm just not sure that, especially in this series,
Speaker 1: that if I'm not the opposed coach in Indiana, I'm
Speaker 1: not making the bet that our game plan needs to
Speaker 1: be focused on these three guys. What we can do
Speaker 1: to take these three guys out of it, and what
Speaker 1: can I do to take Alice Caruso completely out the game?
Speaker 1: And how can I scheme against Alice Caruso to possibly
Speaker 1: take him completely out the game because he's so important
Speaker 1: to everything they do, Like defensively, he's so important to
Speaker 1: everything they do. Offensively, he give you another guy that
Speaker 1: can handle the ball, that's smart to make decisions, that's
Speaker 1: going to shoot the right shots, and I take the
Speaker 1: wrong shots. So if you can put him in a
Speaker 1: situation where you can figure out how to make him uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: how to make him how to make the coach second
Speaker 1: guest planner, because he's clearly not all the way bought
Speaker 1: in on him. He's we'd be starting them, like you
Speaker 1: understand the importance of that. So how can I put
Speaker 1: him in a position where he have to think me
Speaker 1: and Mark diagno how you think, and he may go
Speaker 1: the wrong way. I think that's what the indre the
Speaker 1: Pacers has to be figuring out, Like this has to
Speaker 1: be a matchup game for them, Like they got to
Speaker 1: get so diabolical down to each matchup, each person on
Speaker 1: the floor. How can we exploit any weakness that Okay
Speaker 1: he has because obviously okayse he's the better team, but
Speaker 1: they don't have the experience. And because they don't have
Speaker 1: the experience, you have to exploit those things while they
Speaker 1: don't have the experience and that's where this series gets
Speaker 1: really interested for me, is can Rick Carlile and his
Speaker 1: staff exploit Okay sees you exploiting their youth means a
Speaker 1: multitude of things, but simply put put in them in
Speaker 1: situations that they have not seen, that they can be
Speaker 1: uncomfortable in, and that it's going to take a little
Speaker 1: while to figure out because you already stole one game.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden you get to a certain
Speaker 1: point in the NBA Finals where you still wink get another,
Speaker 1: you put doubt anything you need to creep in for
Speaker 1: you to win this series is what has to happen.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see if they make some
Speaker 1: of those adjustments to make them more uncomfortable, because ultimately,
Speaker 1: right now, I think even with OKC losing Game one,
Speaker 1: they were comfortable, like they felt like they should have won.
Speaker 1: They came out, they played hard, they got it done,
Speaker 1: and that's that. So what can you do to make
Speaker 1: this group uncomfortable? As I think, what and obviously that's
Speaker 1: everybody's like thought, right, but like them more so than other, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you make them uncomfortable to where you can
Speaker 1: play at their news? Because the only way you can
Speaker 1: play at their youth is to make them uncomfortable and
Speaker 1: then play at it. Right now, if you just lead
Speaker 1: them comfortable as irrelevant, If you can make them uncomfortable
Speaker 1: and then pull their youth streets, I think that's how
Speaker 1: you ultimately gotta beat this scene. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what Indiana has to do. But going back, you know
Speaker 1: to Holle, like I said, Holly, gotta be gotta be
Speaker 1: more aggressive and you gotta come out swinging because the
Speaker 1: guy's gonna follow you. That's just what it boils down to.
Speaker 1: So well, see, okay, See's bench was a was great.
Speaker 1: You had Carusso twenty off the bench. You had Aaron
Speaker 1: Wiggins with eighteen threes eighteen points five threes off the bench.
Speaker 1: And now the show goes on the road and it
Speaker 1: gets more interesting. You know why because role players play
Speaker 1: better at home and now on the road, and all
Speaker 1: the role players stepping up is what one for OKC today.
Speaker 1: But I can see what Indiana's theory is. We're gonna
Speaker 1: try to take everyone else out, make it tough on
Speaker 1: everyone else, and make sure beat us one on one.
Speaker 1: Problem in Shaye had thirty four and eight and everybody
Speaker 1: else got off. So if that's going to be the thing.
Speaker 1: You guys actually stop everybody else, and they did not
Speaker 1: do that tonight. So you know, I think if I'm Indiana,
Speaker 1: I think you gotta throw more zone. Okay, see packed
Speaker 1: to paint a little more. Sometimes you gotta dare them
Speaker 1: to shoot. But I think what just like with any
Speaker 1: NBA team, like especially at this level, you gotta switch
Speaker 1: it up, like sometimes you gotta be Darren in the shoot,
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta be flying at the close, and like
Speaker 1: you just got to keep these guys off Damans once again,
Speaker 1: playing at that youth, I think if you can do that,
Speaker 1: that's ultimately what wins you the game. I saw something
Speaker 1: that Mark Diagno said that after the game. He said,
Speaker 1: Indiana's an acquired taste. We haven't played them a lot.
Speaker 1: They play a distinct style on both ends. I just
Speaker 1: thought the guys did a good job of just improving,
Speaker 1: which is important going from game one and game two.
Speaker 1: I see what he's getting at, Like they're a little
Speaker 1: they're a little unconventional for sure. Uh, winning balls down
Speaker 1: to it. You gotta go out there and beat me
Speaker 1: and tonight, okay, so you just did that. So I
Speaker 1: think this series is interesting. Okay, see, could very much
Speaker 1: so go win the next two games. Indiana, as we know,
Speaker 1: could very much so go on and win these next
Speaker 1: two games. And I think it's going to be like ultimately,
Speaker 1: Rick Kyle ale Hast to undoubtedly out coach Mark Dana
Speaker 1: in order for the Spacers to win this series. I
Speaker 1: think Rich Carlos is a great coach. I think he's
Speaker 1: capable of I'll coaching someone, so we'll see if you
Speaker 1: do it.
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Speaker 1: we get out of here. What is your reaction to
Speaker 1: wenby the Monk. I saw a meme that said, Wendy
Speaker 1: went bald already is over for the league now. Much
Speaker 1: respect to anybody who's following their religion, who's following their beliefs,
Speaker 1: whatever it is that they believe. Much respect to anybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he's a little surprised by the photo out,
Speaker 1: but I guess in twenty twenty five. He can't be
Speaker 1: surprised by any photo oup but yeah, when I saw
Speaker 1: the first thing I thought was like, is he in
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Speaker 1: remember he left with a blood cut, so I've been
Speaker 1: keeping my fingers crossing, sending up my prayers to the
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Speaker 1: me for my pre drift workout was Jordan I. Jordan
Speaker 1: was a video guy video coordinator at Michigan State. UH
Speaker 1: he had been in GA before then he left and
Speaker 1: took the video job at Penn State, came back and
Speaker 1: took it at Michigan State and trained me for the
Speaker 1: NBA Draft. Jordan I becomes the head coach of the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Sons. Shout out to j I. Jay I came
Speaker 1: into the NBA with the Hawks, worked under Bud super
Speaker 1: tight with Kenny, went to Brooklyn with Kenny, worked on
Speaker 1: the staff with Darvar Ham the Lakers when it's Kenny's
Speaker 1: top assistant, Kenny Atkinson at Cleveland, and yesterday or two
Speaker 1: days ago was named head coach of the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 1: And man to watch somebody like come from a video
Speaker 1: coordinator at Michigan State GA to like becoming a head
Speaker 1: coach in the NBA. So special. Uh. So I'm happy
Speaker 1: at hell for Jordan, mat Hbo, Brian Gregor, all Spartan's,
Speaker 1: Paul Rivers Spartan, happy as hell for them. So congratulations Jordan.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Jordan. I think Phoenia's got a great one.
Speaker 1: Shout out to George's wife, Jordan. They are the best
Speaker 1: known no since sixteen years old. And uh to see
Speaker 1: him become a head coach in this league and just
Speaker 1: grind his way up, it's absolutely incredible. And I know
Speaker 1: Phoenix got a great one. When you're talking x's and
Speaker 1: oh is one of the best of the business. Not
Speaker 1: a guy who's fraidy to hear his own voice. Absolutely
Speaker 1: incredible to see. So I'm happy as hell for Jordan.
Speaker 1: I and like I said, shout out to him, Shout
Speaker 1: out the Mats, Shout out to the Phoenix Suns. There
Speaker 1: locking in a great coach that I think he'll be
Speaker 1: there for the next twenty years if we want to
Speaker 1: be Speaking of trainers, uh, Bron discuss is how the
Speaker 1: next generation are relying more on basketball trainers instead of
Speaker 1: just playing the game. I heard what Bron said. I
Speaker 1: know he said, like yo, I just wouldn't to hoop,
Speaker 1: and I agree with that, Like growing up, I actually
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't learn how to do a proper
Speaker 1: individual workouts. I got to college. It's growing up like
Speaker 1: I'm going to hoop, Like where is the nearest run
Speaker 1: dropped me off? I'll play all day Like that's what
Speaker 1: we did. We hooped all day. So I think there's
Speaker 1: a huge benefit to that because you just learned to
Speaker 1: see the game, like you learn to see the game.
Speaker 1: I talked to on Kimra the other night about my son
Speaker 1: and just like watching him play and like how he
Speaker 1: knew how to play it. He like some of the
Speaker 1: stuff I know he pick up on naturally just because
Speaker 1: he's always around basketball. He watched it and so you
Speaker 1: imagine growing up like you did, like we did. You
Speaker 1: playing basketball all day, the nuances and things you figure
Speaker 1: out about the game. It's different when somebody just putting
Speaker 1: you in a position to tell you to do this move,
Speaker 1: Like how do you use your creativity? How do you
Speaker 1: learn like, oh man, I can do this if somebody
Speaker 1: just say do this? How do you know what you're about?
Speaker 1: How do you know what your game is if you
Speaker 1: never tap into it and just figure it out? And
Speaker 1: so I understand, like I think you know there's a
Speaker 1: time and place for a trainer, and I think you
Speaker 1: know with where the game is gone, like you need
Speaker 1: those resourcing or to be successful. I feel like basketball
Speaker 1: used to be a poor man's game, like we all
Speaker 1: played it. Poor kids played it. We were poor, we
Speaker 1: had nothing, and it was our way out. Basketball is
Speaker 1: not a poor kids game no more. Basketball is a
Speaker 1: rich kid game. Like the days of seeing Lebron James
Speaker 1: from acting Ohio from a single mom, those days are
Speaker 1: are our number, like they're not because if you don't
Speaker 1: have the resources these days, like you can't make it,
Speaker 1: Like it's become a rich kids game and basketball didn't
Speaker 1: used to be that. And so I think all of
Speaker 1: that goes into like what the trainers and stuff like.
Speaker 1: But that's I also feel like that's why I you
Speaker 1: don't see as great as basketball as you did before,
Speaker 1: because there's no imaginations. Everybody's doing the same thing, playing
Speaker 1: the same way. And I think a lot of that
Speaker 1: is due sometimes too having trainers. Not that having a
Speaker 1: trainer is a bad thing, but again, if you never
Speaker 1: get to use your imagination, then you just become a
Speaker 1: carbon copy of somebody else the trainer created. And so
Speaker 1: I agree with Broun to a certain extent. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you do got to get out there and play,
Speaker 1: and you got to get out there and just figure
Speaker 1: it out. Because when you get out there on that court,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody to put you in a position. You got
Speaker 1: to put yourself in a position. Ain't nobody there to
Speaker 1: place shoot. You got to get there. So I think
Speaker 1: there needs to be a healthy balance, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that balance is near being found. I did not
Speaker 1: watch the Land Stevenson Michael Beasley one on one. This
Speaker 1: is a fan questions by the way, I did not
Speaker 1: watch it. I didn't know what time it came on
Speaker 1: number one, but I did see like the back and
Speaker 1: forth before and after and saw some of the highlights
Speaker 1: that look very entertaining. One thing is for certain. We
Speaker 1: all know Michael Beasy is one of the best guys
Speaker 1: to ever rippled basketball and like shoot the ball and
Speaker 1: put the ball in the hoop. Michael Beasley is one
Speaker 1: of the best has ever done. I don't think you
Speaker 1: won't get many basketball players to distribute with that. And
Speaker 1: so I heard it was super entertained. I think it
Speaker 1: was dope. I saw some people say it should be
Speaker 1: at All Star Game. I think Kingdom the Hill would
Speaker 1: be fun, but it becomes a dunk contest. A lot
Speaker 1: of people don't want to get embarrassed, So how many
Speaker 1: people really do it? I don't know. We'll see before
Speaker 1: we get out of here. Who wins Game three? You
Speaker 1: got Indiana going home. I'm taking Indiana Game three. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take an Indiana Game three, Kyle, crowd gonna be lectured.
Speaker 1: They haven't played well, so they gotta have a good
Speaker 1: game coming at some point. They ain't just gonna keep
Speaker 1: playing bad, and I'm gonna think I think they saved
Speaker 1: it for Game three, first one at home, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Indiana Game three. We shall see how it
Speaker 1: turns out. But however it turned out, me and b
Speaker 1: D will be right here live after Game three. Check
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