Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: All right, dub Nason, it's time we look at the
Speaker 2: Houston Rockets matchup. When I would prepare for a playoff series,
Speaker 2: I would basically like create a new playlist I send
Speaker 2: in my room, just watch the games right and viol
Speaker 2: to my playlist and really kind of hole up right,
Speaker 2: start creating my cave. What does your level of preparation
Speaker 2: for a playoff series look like?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, you know what's crazy? Bed.
Speaker 1: So when we start these playoff series, since Steven's been here,
Speaker 1: the level of detail we go through to start the playoffs,
Speaker 1: to start the series off is so intense and like
Speaker 1: like you.
Speaker 3: Gotta dial in.
Speaker 1: And I always tell people when you win a championship,
Speaker 1: it's not the winning the championship moment that you remember,
Speaker 1: because if I'm honest, it's a blur like it happened,
Speaker 1: and it's like what the hell? Man, like what and
Speaker 1: then like it's so crazy, like it's out of body,
Speaker 1: you know, ye, But what you remember the most is
Speaker 1: the journey. And our journey starts with this crazy locking
Speaker 1: on detail and like I played for Time, Izzo and
Speaker 1: the way Time is, oh the film, the level of
Speaker 1: film we used to watch, Like I feel like I
Speaker 1: watched film differently the most even coaches do, because of
Speaker 1: the way Tomizo taught me how to watch film. And
Speaker 1: so the level of preparation that goes into a playoff
Speaker 1: series takes me back to my foundation. After the Clipper game,
Speaker 1: all I could think of I was like, man, we
Speaker 1: gotta win this game because I want that first film session,
Speaker 1: Like that first film session. We have to start a
Speaker 1: playoff series. I want that so bad. I want to
Speaker 1: experience that. And so that's all I can think about.
Speaker 1: Was just like getting too this, Like we got to
Speaker 1: get in so we get this first, like this film session,
Speaker 1: Like I love the start of that.
Speaker 3: And so my level of preparation for a playoff series.
Speaker 1: Like I like I dive in and to this team
Speaker 1: immediately because I want to know everything, Like I want
Speaker 1: to know everything that they do, Like you gotta be
Speaker 1: obsessive with.
Speaker 3: Everything about them, like just obsessed with it.
Speaker 1: And so and that's the beauty of the playoffs, Like
Speaker 1: you get you get the opportunity to play a team
Speaker 1: for seven games straight, Like.
Speaker 3: You get it. You get that opportunity to know a team.
Speaker 1: You just consume yourself with this in basketball, and I
Speaker 1: love basketball, So this is my favorite time of the year, like,
Speaker 1: cause you just get.
Speaker 3: To lock in on what you do.
Speaker 2: That's everything because think about during the season, you get
Speaker 2: cliff notes because you got another game, so make cliff
Speaker 2: notes on the Rockets.
Speaker 3: Cliff notes on the Rockets.
Speaker 2: You don't play them four times, you're familiar with them,
Speaker 2: you know what they do.
Speaker 3: But when them playoffs come, you.
Speaker 2: Get full a full menu, detail, dissertation, white papers, you.
Speaker 3: Get all that. Well, yeah, and you get a.
Speaker 2: Whole week to see the same people every day. So
Speaker 2: there's a level of studying that goes to a whole
Speaker 2: nother echelon and it's like you're checking off all these
Speaker 2: details and notes and the detailed notes.
Speaker 3: When you watching it on tape, you're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's how I stop them because during the regular
Speaker 2: season you're like, damn, dude, I got Sometimes you're like,
Speaker 2: dare hey, I play against this dude?
Speaker 3: He always played play good against you. It's like, why
Speaker 3: is this happening right exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get to really really lucky in man like
Speaker 2: talk about your excitement about I want to just a
Speaker 2: matchup and havey ill had your first film session.
Speaker 1: We'll have our first film session today. But I'm excited
Speaker 1: about the matchup. I think you know this this young
Speaker 1: team is. You know, they've they've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 1: And when I say gotten a lot better, like you
Speaker 1: look at the team last year to the two seats,
Speaker 1: like I think they were like the fourteen seed or
Speaker 1: twelve seat or something like that last year. They're hungry
Speaker 1: and they want what we've experienced before. And so be
Speaker 1: that you've been in that position before, you know exactly
Speaker 1: how they feel, you know, you know, like you can
Speaker 1: always rewind back to like, man, when we were in
Speaker 1: that position, like what that feels like, and you can
Speaker 1: put yourself in those shoes, which can, in a sense
Speaker 1: help you prepare in a different way because you know
Speaker 1: what to expect. And so I'm excited as hell about
Speaker 1: the matchup. You know, we've played email you Doak in
Speaker 1: the playoffs in the NBA finals. You know, we know
Speaker 1: what his teams bring, you know, and so I'm excited
Speaker 1: about the matchup. Hey, just being back in the playoffs, man, right, right,
Speaker 1: being back in the playoffs, having that opportunity to compete
Speaker 1: at the highest level is incredible. But then this is
Speaker 1: a young team, you know, a team that we went
Speaker 1: three and two with this year three and two against
Speaker 1: we played one extra time. Because of the playing game,
Speaker 1: it's always a good matchup, like it requires you to
Speaker 1: lock in if you want to beat them. It requires
Speaker 1: a level of locking in, a level of toughness that
Speaker 1: you have.
Speaker 3: To bring to the game. And you know.
Speaker 1: I love those challenges anytime you can have a challenge
Speaker 1: like that. We are the underdog, you know, they're there's
Speaker 1: we're two seed, they're too sea word seven seas.
Speaker 3: To the underdog. Baby, we have been to play time. Man,
Speaker 3: It's like, okay to seven, let's go absolutely, you know.
Speaker 1: And obviously we don't view ourselves as an ordinary seven seas,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is.
Speaker 3: We're we got to start off on the road, you know,
Speaker 3: and and battle tested. That's always fun when you get
Speaker 3: the opportunity to start on the road, you know.
Speaker 1: And so man, I'm just excited, man, to play playoff
Speaker 1: basketball is back. You're about to see guys eat uh
Speaker 1: a sin to an eligue level, and I'm just excited
Speaker 1: to be a part of that.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: Man, I used to take for granted just making it
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. You know, when you do over and
Speaker 1: over again, you like, oh yeah, that's just how it goes. Like.
Speaker 1: I don't take that for granted, no more like so
Speaker 1: to be in the playoffs with an opportunity to compete
Speaker 1: for Larry, That's what I'm most excited about.
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Speaker 2: Feeling good game one, you always want to steal that
Speaker 2: firest one. Yeah, played good playoff vetter in basketball, but
Speaker 2: y'all did play in spurts. There was a lull right
Speaker 2: of dependency where it's like everybody gotta stay aggressive, right,
Speaker 2: everybody gotta stay aggressive.
Speaker 3: But great game man, great defense.
Speaker 2: I mean your defense was on full display when you
Speaker 2: talk about holding you know, I think it was only
Speaker 2: a couple people, uh that had double figures on their team?
Speaker 3: Was it Van Fleek and Sagoon? Man?
Speaker 2: That was just that was a great playoff basketball game.
Speaker 2: I just want to see more more aggression on the
Speaker 2: offensive end, especially from you, for sure, you know, especially
Speaker 2: from you, because like they throwing you the rod and
Speaker 2: then it's like, all right, Jimmy Butler's stuff. And then
Speaker 2: in a wind up in podhands, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I want to see Moses Moody. He came in
Speaker 2: some big clutches.
Speaker 3: He did shout out to young Mo money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta remember y'all play Everybody on the on
Speaker 2: the floor is a playmaker when it's hot, like that
Speaker 2: when they double teaming.
Speaker 3: But overall, great game, man. I appreciated my dogs. By
Speaker 3: the way, how are you feeling at the game? One?
Speaker 1: I feel great, man. You know, after the playoffs, you're
Speaker 1: doing everything recovery. I was doing recovery stuff and watching
Speaker 1: film til three thirty in the morning, and so I
Speaker 1: feel incredible. I feel absolutely incredible. And then I got
Speaker 1: up this morning, got another treatment session in, got you know,
Speaker 1: some some core work and stuff in in.
Speaker 3: The weight room. So body feel amazing.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a very physical game, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's extremely physical. But what I will say
Speaker 1: is I thought our defense was on point. We gave
Speaker 1: up eighty five points. That's where that's what fourteen turnovers,
Speaker 1: I think fourteen turnovers and twenty two offensive rebounds, and
Speaker 1: we gave up eighty five points, you know, so you
Speaker 1: gotta feel really great about the defense because this is
Speaker 1: a great offensive rebounded team like that is that one
Speaker 1: of their specialties? Ins So I think, you know, it
Speaker 1: makes me think back to like Steph Clay Katie them
Speaker 1: years where like we were the best three point shooting
Speaker 1: team and teams would come into the game and be like, yo,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna completely take the three away from them, and.
Speaker 3: We would still end up getting three. That's them with
Speaker 3: offensive rebound.
Speaker 1: We're not going to stop them from getting the offensive
Speaker 1: rebounds like it's like, but what we do have to
Speaker 1: do is there were maybe seven of them, eight of
Speaker 1: them that we get our hands on it. You gotta
Speaker 1: have you know what I'm saying, those are the ones.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, twenty two ain't twenty two
Speaker 1: and it is fourteen. That's a totally different situation, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, yeah, I think we can
Speaker 1: clean up, you know that stuff like that, some of
Speaker 1: the turnovers we had, we can still clean up. But
Speaker 1: holding that team to eighty five points, and I don't
Speaker 1: think we had a great offense to night, you know,
Speaker 1: so holding that team eighty five points, I think was
Speaker 1: a big deal.
Speaker 3: I think that's something we can build up on in
Speaker 3: this series for sure.
Speaker 2: And a team that offensive rebound like that, I think
Speaker 2: a bit A big counter to that is you get layups.
Speaker 2: So being able to fast break get out, like you said,
Speaker 2: if you can track some of those rebounds, long rebounds,
Speaker 2: get out on the break, and the way your defense
Speaker 2: has been stad fast, it's going to result. And I
Speaker 2: mean that's how you get the league, right, that's how
Speaker 2: you get to twenty. And I think when they start
Speaker 2: cutting away was offensive rebounds right, offensive rebounds a three
Speaker 2: yar tip offense of rebound another three a tip and
Speaker 2: you know in the playoffs it's just hard to overcome
Speaker 2: a lot of that. But this is that teams get
Speaker 2: to the basket, you know, shoot the ball, get on
Speaker 2: the glass, try and get tip ends, kickouts for wide
Speaker 2: open shots.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, they lead it for sure, So we got to
Speaker 1: be better at it. But also understanding that that is
Speaker 1: one of their strengths. They're gonna do that well man
Speaker 1: taking other stuff away, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So that the hell hell of a game, No, Bro,
Speaker 3: that was the hell of a game.
Speaker 2: Was It's gonna be a fun series, all right, dumb nation,
Speaker 2: you know what time it is, and you're one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty eight playoff of parents and your.
Speaker 3: One hundred playoff win with Steph. How do you feel
Speaker 3: about that finish?
Speaker 1: It's crazy number one, one hundred and fifty eight playoff games.
Speaker 1: I just want to give some perspective. At one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty four, that will be officially two more seasons
Speaker 1: of NBA basketball that I've played in playoff games.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna clap it up myself with out. I
Speaker 3: gotta give you that longevity is crazy longevity.
Speaker 1: I think I've missed, if I'm not mistaken, I think
Speaker 1: I've missed one playoff game, and that was Game six,
Speaker 1: I mean Game five for the NBA Finals in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: So I'm proud of that. You talk one hundred wins,
Speaker 1: one hundred wins with Steph, like man, that's that just
Speaker 1: said so much. And you know, I'm never gonna leave
Speaker 1: this man out. But I think ninety nine of them
Speaker 1: is probably with Clay as well, you know, So sinsame
Speaker 1: man to win that many, that amount of games together,
Speaker 1: had that type of longevity. But the finish to That
Speaker 1: game was crazy, man. You know, obviously we had a
Speaker 1: league they you know, they battled back. I think they
Speaker 1: cut it all the way to two of them, not mistaken,
Speaker 1: and we just made plays down the stretch. Everybody made plays.
Speaker 1: I made plays on the defensive end. Jimmy made a
Speaker 1: couple of plays defensively. Jimmy made plays offensively. He came
Speaker 1: over some big offensive rebounds. Moses hit two big shots
Speaker 1: that fade away to put us up seven, and then
Speaker 1: he hit the three in the corner BPS drive picking
Speaker 1: up that file. He split the pair on the free throws.
Speaker 1: But that allowed us to get our defense set. Obviously
Speaker 1: we saw what the what the chef chef got cooking.
Speaker 1: So it was a huge game down the stretch. Man,
Speaker 1: everybody who was in their main plays GP was when
Speaker 1: he was in their main place.
Speaker 3: We closed that game all crazy. That was. That was
Speaker 3: big time, big time closing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Outland, the fact that you and Jenemy were in
Speaker 2: sync on defense. What is your assessment on your first
Speaker 2: real playoff Jimmy basketball game.
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy because it feels like we've been
Speaker 1: playing playoff basketball for longer than one game, just because
Speaker 1: all these games been so meaningful. But what I will
Speaker 1: say is he had been saying, like, yo, I get it,
Speaker 1: just way more aggressed in the playoffs, and he does
Speaker 1: the shots that he looks to take, that he's looking
Speaker 1: to get to. It's just a completely different person, you know,
Speaker 1: the focused level the film, watching the study and the preparation.
Speaker 1: I'm impressed with the whole thing. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: good having him out there on the floor because on
Speaker 1: the court, offensively, we obviously are seeing his greatness, but
Speaker 1: defensively we're able to play off of each other, you know,
Speaker 1: and we're able to switch matchups and different things.
Speaker 3: Like he can guard anybody like I never you know,
Speaker 3: he's strong as hell, so he can guard to defend.
Speaker 1: And now what I will say is, you know, I
Speaker 1: always thought Jimmy was smart. You know, I didn't know
Speaker 1: he was this smart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's highly intelligent.
Speaker 2: Anybody who get that many breakaway steals, right deflections, things
Speaker 2: like that, block shots. He does a little bit of
Speaker 2: everything else and it goes unrecognized facts.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize he was that smart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he understands time space and disruption to the city.
Speaker 2: And I think that's that's where you and him, you know,
Speaker 2: are Yin and Yang for the Warriors defense. Talk about
Speaker 2: your favorite defensive play from Game one.
Speaker 1: I think my favorite defensive play was it was towards
Speaker 1: the end of the game, like we had a I
Speaker 1: had a couple of favorite ones me to sing, going
Speaker 1: in the middle of the paint where he thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna throw the body and like standing him up.
Speaker 1: That was a fun play just because it's a battle way.
Speaker 3: Hi man like tough man. He's he's mobile the shot
Speaker 3: last night. He was a decent athlete like he and
Speaker 3: he understands the game, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So he's a tough, tough opponent. But then saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought that one right there just kind
Speaker 1: of sent the message at that point in the game.
Speaker 3: That was fun. And then also it's always fun watching
Speaker 3: Jimmy cum around the guy that they looking to get
Speaker 3: those steals, and that one he got towards the end
Speaker 3: where I just outleted it to him for the dunk
Speaker 3: to kind of put the ice the cake.
Speaker 1: That was That was a good one because you know,
Speaker 1: it just kind of took away any hope that they had,
Speaker 1: you know, to make any comeback at that point. So
Speaker 1: you know, like I said it was the cherry on top.
Speaker 1: So that one that one I enjoyed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimmy talked about he loves organized chaos. How do
Speaker 3: you how do you all thrive? And organized chaos?
Speaker 1: Offensively, we have always had this organized chaos because Steph
Speaker 1: creates organized chaos.
Speaker 3: Like you know, Steph does a lot of damage off
Speaker 3: the ball, and but it's.
Speaker 1: Just not like.
Speaker 3: Five guys or four guys running around and like all
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, he just pops open.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like it's organized chaos, Like
Speaker 1: it's chaotic and it's all over the place. But I
Speaker 1: think what Steve did when he first got here was
Speaker 1: he put rules in place. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like if this happened, you do this that happened, you
Speaker 1: make this read. And so it's organized, but it's chaotic
Speaker 1: because it's not like, oh, he just gonna go that
Speaker 1: way every time, you know what I'm saying, Like that's
Speaker 1: just not how our offense work.
Speaker 3: Like you may go this way, you may go that way,
Speaker 3: you may go up, you may go down, Like.
Speaker 1: That's just the way our offense works. And so when
Speaker 1: he speaks of organized chaos, it's like it's chaotic. It's
Speaker 1: all over the place for sure, but there is more
Speaker 1: organization than the neked I may see, but it's just
Speaker 1: not organized.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so it's it's yeah, it's it's a reader.
Speaker 3: It's read and react, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like it's kind of similar to like if you
Speaker 1: remember in football, when the West Coast offense got you know,
Speaker 1: was really big with rib it was like, oh, if
Speaker 1: the they do this, you run this route.
Speaker 3: If they do that, you run that route. It's kind
Speaker 3: of more of that and so.
Speaker 1: And then defensively, it's always been organized chaos because take chances,
Speaker 1: I'll improvise, you know, I'll do And now you got
Speaker 1: two guys that will do that, you know, with myself
Speaker 1: and Jimmy. But the thing is is we don't just
Speaker 1: take risky chances, you know what I'm saying. We take
Speaker 1: like control ritis chances and so opportunities. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: for sure, opportunistic chances.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. So that's what kind of what jim is getting
Speaker 3: at it. I agree. I love organized chaos as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, organized chaos on offense it's so unpredictable. You keep
Speaker 2: the defense off balance, and I think that is the
Speaker 2: beauty to to Steph Curry, Right, sure, that's the beauty.
Speaker 2: To Steph Curry, talk about your favorite three pointer. I
Speaker 2: know you've seen them all, but which one game one
Speaker 2: stands out the most. No, just in game one, just
Speaker 2: in this, just in this last game one, because the
Speaker 2: running thirty footer was sick.
Speaker 3: That was crazy.
Speaker 2: And then the one he hit over Thompson was even crazier.
Speaker 2: And he hit Fred with the boom back that was
Speaker 2: crazy too.
Speaker 1: But I'll say the one over Jalen Green, the degree
Speaker 1: of difficulty, I thought that was Thompson. That was Jalen Green.
Speaker 1: The one on the right wing where he was falling
Speaker 1: out of bounce was over That was.
Speaker 3: Okay. The one where he came in from.
Speaker 1: The back court was over Thompson, but the one where
Speaker 1: he was falling out of bounds was over John.
Speaker 3: I thought that was Thompson. Guard. No, I don't know
Speaker 3: how he got that off. The thing is not problem.
Speaker 3: He actually work on those shots.
Speaker 1: Like it's not like, oh man, he's just this great
Speaker 1: shooter and he get anything to go and like he
Speaker 1: work on those shots. So I would say that was
Speaker 1: my favorite one. Like falling out of the bounce, that
Speaker 1: was crazy. But the one over Thompson was so timely
Speaker 1: and it was so deep. Yeah, it was needed, it
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Speaker 1: Man that was a big win, you know, come back
Speaker 1: home and maintain home court without Jimmy incredible. That's how
Speaker 1: you that's how you hold it down. I love the
Speaker 1: way we showed up. Yeah, yeah, showed up. The defense
Speaker 1: really showed up. It was a big win, especially without Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Steph went crazy. That was probably.
Speaker 2: One of the best Steph Curry packages that I've seen
Speaker 2: from not just killing you with the three, but from
Speaker 2: a league guard perspective, playmaker perspective, controlling the game tempo.
Speaker 2: He put all that together.
Speaker 3: I think he did that. He wasn't turning the ball over.
Speaker 3: That was me turned right, but he was.
Speaker 1: He wasn't turning the ball over, and he made every
Speaker 1: single play when we had nothing going on offensively, he
Speaker 1: just wheeled us because the defense, I think the defense
Speaker 1: was there. Like at one point, I think it was
Speaker 1: maybe six minutes to go in the half, five minutes
Speaker 1: to go and a half and they had thirty seven
Speaker 1: points and we had twenty four to twenty six or
Speaker 1: something like that. But we knew we couldn't hit any shots,
Speaker 1: and so Steve said in that time out, He's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: our defense is holding up. Just make sure the defense
Speaker 1: keep holding up. We will find the rhythm offensively, and
Speaker 1: we couldn't. But Chef got going and he just will
Speaker 1: just there to end that second half, that's second quarter,
Speaker 1: and we went in the high time of three going in,
Speaker 1: I mean down three, going in down three, were like,
Speaker 1: we're good, like because they weren't scoring the.
Speaker 3: Ball and we didn't play well and we're down three.
Speaker 1: And so he dominated the game like he completely controlled everything,
Speaker 1: even with the blitz. You know, the blitz is the
Speaker 1: blitz is made to seeze you up, like he was
Speaker 1: making control the ball. Yeah, absolutely, he was in total control.
Speaker 1: He got he got whatever it was that he wanted.
Speaker 1: If he wanted to make the pass and the blitz,
Speaker 1: he made the pass. He wanted to beat the trap,
Speaker 1: He beat the trap like he got whatever it was
Speaker 1: that he wanted when he wanted to it was.
Speaker 3: It was beautiful to see, like you said, especially with.
Speaker 1: Robbins as he calls himself with with with Robin hout Uh,
Speaker 1: it was beautiful to see man just complete domination.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Robin, Jimmy Butler, I g post thanks Batman
Speaker 2: and team excluding Buddy, I would have to agree with that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll be picking on Buddy too. Damn Buddy,
Speaker 1: wake up as well.
Speaker 3: Tonight.
Speaker 1: Buddy showed up in a major way. Buddy hit big
Speaker 1: shots five for eleven for three. He sat down on
Speaker 1: the defensive end. He did like Buddy. Buddy played great
Speaker 1: basketball tonight, and Buddy got into it with Jason Green
Speaker 1: at the end. Yeah, what was out about? You know,
Speaker 1: we just call him Buddy out his name and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't really don't. I don't really rock
Speaker 1: with that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But it is what it is.
Speaker 1: You know, we move on to the next game. The
Speaker 1: game was over, we won the game. We move on
Speaker 1: to the next game. Man, you know how we rocket?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw Jimmy on the bench being vocal, talking
Speaker 2: to Kaminga, talking to Buddy, talk about his presidence out
Speaker 2: there even on the bench with those guys in that
Speaker 2: playoff environment, and what it means having him still as
Speaker 2: a presidence over there on the bench for yourself and
Speaker 2: then for the coamingias and the buddies.
Speaker 3: It was huge because Jimmy just see the game differently,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: And although like, hey, when you're when you're on a
Speaker 1: bench with a coach or your coaching staff, the last
Speaker 1: thing you want is them coaching you up every play
Speaker 1: like you just kind of but when you got a
Speaker 1: teammate right there and they're coaching you up. It's a
Speaker 1: totally different vibe. And so it was just another It
Speaker 1: was just another coach on the bench. Uh that is
Speaker 1: kind of talking every single play. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying that he was locked into the game. He was,
Speaker 1: you know, dropping jewel over there and things that he saw.
Speaker 3: Man, it was it was great.
Speaker 1: Obviously we want him out there on the floor, but
Speaker 1: you know that wasn't possible today. So you take uh
Speaker 1: what he was bringing on the bench. You you you
Speaker 1: bottle that up however you can.
Speaker 3: He walked in.
Speaker 1: Looking like Frank Lucas with the mink coat on and
Speaker 1: started the game. So you knew he was coming. He
Speaker 1: was he was coming to the bench to bring a
Speaker 1: presence and he was definitely that presence of the bench.
Speaker 3: Shout out to my guy, Frank. Shut out to Frank Lucas.
Speaker 3: He had the Alo pass right there. It was fire.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You went with Frank walk in looking like that, gotta
Speaker 1: get it done. He got hot though, was hitting right
Speaker 1: and he came out.
Speaker 3: Of the boy walk out there with a company on.
Speaker 3: They got quick. You got the all. It was like
Speaker 3: a no And I look back up that moment was gone,
Speaker 3: I said.
Speaker 5: He made.
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Speaker 2: All right, dumb nation, y'all know what's up? You and
Speaker 2: Jalen Green. Yeah, I was getting into it. Uh, and
Speaker 2: then Jalen Green said, you know, just talking. He can't
Speaker 2: really do much of anything, so talking is his only way.
Speaker 2: Jayleen Green on Draymond Green.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's cool. I don't do much. That's fine.
Speaker 3: I don't do much. I just do what I have
Speaker 3: to do. But I don't do much, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So he was balling, no problem. I'm happy
Speaker 3: he see it that way. That's incredible. Shout out to him.
Speaker 2: A lot of times those are like blanket statements because
Speaker 2: you can start believing that and then I ain't gonna
Speaker 2: say nothing.
Speaker 3: That's how you get to ask it. That's how you
Speaker 3: get to ask it.
Speaker 2: There's a fine line between respect and disrespect. You gotta
Speaker 2: be careful because they can't translate on the court as
Speaker 2: oh I don't feel like closing out or I ain't
Speaker 2: gonna try and box out or I'm just gonna let
Speaker 2: him drive to the hall, so you know, be careful.
Speaker 2: That's what I would say to the young FEMA, especially
Speaker 2: in the playoffs, because it's just a different level. It's
Speaker 2: a different level talk, and it's a different level of
Speaker 2: talking and backing it up when it comes to the playoffs.
Speaker 2: And we've seen that countless amount of times with really
Speaker 2: talented players going to the media and almost giving that
Speaker 2: energy out to themselves. I mean, you've seen it with PG,
Speaker 2: You've seen it with t MAC. You gotta be careful,
Speaker 2: especially and battle and go be in the series where
Speaker 2: you gotta battle it out.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about this tech. Let's talk about this tech.
Speaker 2: Okay, first, I thought we was gonna be uh more aware,
Speaker 2: oh my technical file.
Speaker 3: I was very aware of that. I was very aware.
Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, you wanted that tech.
Speaker 1: Then that was the third or fourth time somebody walking
Speaker 1: to me while I'm going for a lay up and
Speaker 1: it's not called. I had to get that one because
Speaker 1: clearly you ain't called it yet. You clearly ain't feeling
Speaker 1: my presence. So I'm gonna make sure you feel my
Speaker 1: presence now. I definitely wanted that one and then you know,
Speaker 1: I move on. It was a game changer, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I felt like that one was needed in
Speaker 1: that moment, and I went and I got it, and
Speaker 1: then we move on it. It also turned me up,
Speaker 1: So it was great and did it was great? It
Speaker 1: turned me up, Like I knew I needed that in
Speaker 1: that moment, and I did that and it was incredible.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that one wasn't unnecessary. That one was very necessary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you ran ing down on that one. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: joint one, fat teg. But it did spark a fire
Speaker 1: in the defense.
Speaker 2: Your defense in the fourth quarter, Well, you got some
Speaker 2: really big defensive players, a block bunch of stops to
Speaker 2: flex in the steal on Van Flick. I mean your
Speaker 2: instincts was bubbling, You was covering, right, You was covering. Uh,
Speaker 2: you was an architect on that defense. What were you
Speaker 2: saying out there?
Speaker 3: You know, I think when you that's not our third
Speaker 3: time planner.
Speaker 1: You know, like once you start to get to game three,
Speaker 1: D and four in the series, like there's not much
Speaker 1: that's going to happen that's going to be a surprise,
Speaker 1: you know, like you start to figure out what they
Speaker 1: like to get to what they like to go to
Speaker 1: when stuff ain't going well, you know, like you just
Speaker 1: start to figure different things out.
Speaker 3: And so for me, like after seeing the team the
Speaker 3: third time in a row, like, you gotta.
Speaker 1: Trust your instincts because more likely than not, your instinct
Speaker 1: is going to be right if you watch him, you.
Speaker 3: Know, if you study your stuff.
Speaker 1: And so I trusted my instincts a lot, but also know,
Speaker 1: I like we needed stops and we needed that win.
Speaker 1: And I knew that I needed to come up big
Speaker 1: on the defense and I couldn't quite find my rhythm offensively,
Speaker 1: So what are you going to do to impact the game.
Speaker 1: And for me, that was like, all right, I'm about
Speaker 1: to go down here. I'm gonna try to get every stop.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get my hand in every play
Speaker 1: in one way or another. And you know I was
Speaker 1: able to cost some have it. You know, that last
Speaker 1: play was probably the most fun, with getting the outlet
Speaker 1: to GP of off the turnover. You know, but that
Speaker 1: was you know, that's just what it boils down to.
Speaker 1: I saw that he had soft Jalen Green open, so
Speaker 1: I saw it. I was, you know, I was the
Speaker 1: last line of defense. You see I just ran away
Speaker 1: from the rem because I saw that he saw him
Speaker 1: open and he turned his back, so I knew he
Speaker 1: thought he'd still be open. I took off out of there.
Speaker 1: I was able to come up with the ball and
Speaker 1: getting off the GP, and that put the finishing touches
Speaker 1: on the game.
Speaker 2: You know, having Jimmy out other players stepping up on
Speaker 2: the guard play in this game was huge. Gary Payton
Speaker 2: second had eleven of a sixteen points in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Talk about his impact.
Speaker 1: Man, I thought GP was huge. He's one of the
Speaker 1: best finishers around the rim in the game for real.
Speaker 1: You know, he he doesn't play the guard position for us,
Speaker 1: and you know, me and Luna always joke with him
Speaker 1: like gu a small ball five, you know, like he
Speaker 1: got every finish around the rim that every big wish
Speaker 1: they at, you know, and like.
Speaker 3: He is extremely impressive.
Speaker 1: Then you know, he was getting those those dives to
Speaker 1: the rim, couple tough finishes and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the trade ball going in and we obviously know
Speaker 1: what he does on the defensive end, you know, so
Speaker 1: when you're getting that type of production from g on
Speaker 1: the offensive end, already knowing what he's doing on the
Speaker 1: defensive end. Like you said with robbing out, it was
Speaker 1: great because you needed that production from somewhere and it
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be one guy. It gives you the production
Speaker 1: that Jimmy gives you. But as a collective, we can
Speaker 1: all do that to make up what he brings, you know,
Speaker 1: as a collective group.
Speaker 3: And that's how it got to be. When you missing
Speaker 3: one of your stars and G was man. G played
Speaker 3: some great basketball.
Speaker 1: He showed up, especially you know with the shoulder bothering him,
Speaker 1: you know, from the no call when he was tripped
Speaker 1: to Houston, showed up in a major way.
Speaker 3: Shout out to GP.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talking about being a superstar in your bro He
Speaker 2: embodied that tonight. The physicality in the three ball, finishing inside,
Speaker 2: like he said, it steals the defense. It amazes me
Speaker 2: someone that small can play, you know, on the defensive end,
Speaker 2: can play with.
Speaker 3: One and switched to five and try and block the shot.
Speaker 2: I mean, his energy is incredib boy, and it's just
Speaker 2: good to see my little dog out there getting busy.
Speaker 2: Another one of my dog's buddy. He showed up for
Speaker 2: us today seventeen points. I know he has a good
Speaker 2: relationship with Jimmy obviously with the tweet what did you
Speaker 2: say the Buddy postgame about his performance Game three? Because Buddy,
Speaker 2: Buddy is a funny personality, man, that's my guy.
Speaker 3: Buddy's hilarious. Man. I know, I was just talking to
Speaker 3: him really throughout the game.
Speaker 1: Buddy used to be like, you gonna say somethingbody like
Speaker 1: he talked so fast and said, and now he's coming
Speaker 1: up to me like a dre. I should have got
Speaker 1: you the ball when Steven Adams was able to get
Speaker 1: to steal I need to And I'm like, wow, Buddy,
Speaker 1: like that is a.
Speaker 3: Huge step in the right direction.
Speaker 1: You're coming to seek me on to talk about this,
Speaker 1: So jim what Jimmy's doing must.
Speaker 3: Be working, because no, but Buddy, honestly, man, he was huge.
Speaker 1: He hit big shots, timely threes, He hit some very
Speaker 1: timely threes, and he was good on the defensive end.
Speaker 1: It was good to see Buddy hout that game. Like
Speaker 1: I said, need a collective guys stepping up, and Buddy
Speaker 1: was right there in the mix for us.
Speaker 3: We're gonna need him continue to play that way.
Speaker 1: Also, shout out to Steve because I know people was
Speaker 1: calling for Steve like, oh why you're still playing Buddy,
Speaker 1: and Steve say, I'm going to continue to play Buddy.
Speaker 1: You saw show that's what his shot making ability. We
Speaker 1: need that shot making ability out there on the floor.
Speaker 1: And a locked in buddy is a very good buddy.
Speaker 1: So we gonna need Buddy continue to stay locked in
Speaker 1: like that. Shots won't fall every single night, but when
Speaker 1: you're a great shooter like he is, they far most nights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he don't get open, He'll get open. And he
Speaker 2: was playing on the defensive end, he was playing scrappy.
Speaker 2: He will get his shots. As long as he don't
Speaker 2: chase him, he gonna get open and have opportunities to
Speaker 2: make shots.
Speaker 3: And he was big, he was huge. I also wanted
Speaker 3: to speak about Jonathan His defense starting off on Jalen
Speaker 3: Green was huge, big time talking.
Speaker 1: Him big talk the game and when you don't allow guy,
Speaker 1: when you don't allow a guy to get a rhythm
Speaker 1: to start the game, that can change the game for
Speaker 1: offensive players.
Speaker 3: So also wanted to speak on that.
Speaker 1: Johnas and Kaminia's defensive pressure on the ball to start
Speaker 1: the game was huge.
Speaker 2: Mongers huge, huge, especially Jalen Green coming off that game
Speaker 2: to performance where he was just having his way to
Speaker 2: establish that at the beginning of the game. It's saying, you, buddy,
Speaker 2: are going to get the attention that you deserve. You know,
Speaker 2: I've been waiting for that for Kaminia. I've been waiting
Speaker 2: for that all year, and so it was a joy
Speaker 2: to see that. So shout out to Jonathan Kaminga for
Speaker 2: stepping up in the beginning and establishing himself on the
Speaker 2: defensive end because now he's going to have a breakthrough
Speaker 2: offensive game. Mark my words, and you got haven't been playing.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been a high scoring series.
Speaker 1: Facts, I think we still got a breakout game for sure, and.
Speaker 2: Just talking about everybody stepping up. Jimmy, Jimmy Butler is
Speaker 2: still questionable for Game four. I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: going to try and play, but if he does, uh,
Speaker 2: you know there's a chance if he plays.
Speaker 3: You know, you're looking to go up three to one
Speaker 3: going into game four.
Speaker 2: What do you have to improve on for the rest
Speaker 2: of the series, and then especially if Jimmy is out,
Speaker 2: what are the things you guys have to do.
Speaker 3: To better your chances to close this series. I have
Speaker 3: to improve personally.
Speaker 1: I gotta stop turning the god down ball I agree
Speaker 1: that is my self improvement us as a team, I
Speaker 1: think we cleaned up that in the night, we only
Speaker 1: had ten turnovers. As a team, I think we improve
Speaker 1: offensive rebound wise, saying that they still have fifteen, let's
Speaker 1: get that the eleven. Get that to eleven or twelve,
Speaker 1: so I think, and then some of those be like
Speaker 1: two or three offensive rebounds on the same possession. So
Speaker 1: sometimes the numbers can look a little more skew than
Speaker 1: it actually is. But overall, I thought we did a
Speaker 1: great job on the defensive boards. But what I think
Speaker 1: the one thing that I would like to see us
Speaker 1: improve up on as a team is just continue to
Speaker 1: improve our game plan discipline.
Speaker 3: We have a very young team.
Speaker 1: It's there a lot of guys first time in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: first time in this situation, and so as you continue
Speaker 1: to get more and more experienced under your belt in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you hope to see guys continue to take
Speaker 1: those steps. And what I will say through three games,
Speaker 1: for if you come to playing, I've seen guys taking
Speaker 1: those steps. But we all know we can be better,
Speaker 1: and so I'd just like to see us continue to
Speaker 1: improve up on our game plan discipline.
Speaker 3: Just as a team overall.
Speaker 2: I truly believe when the shot clock is running down,
Speaker 2: when the ball is in the non score we meaning
Speaker 2: the three to four on the five scorers on the team,
Speaker 2: y'all got active. And what I mean getting active, you start,
Speaker 2: you shut down the next pass. So a lot of
Speaker 2: those one on one opportunities wind up in the hands
Speaker 2: of a Dylan Brooks right trying to make plays eat
Speaker 2: trying to make plays. And I think that was really
Speaker 2: really that was really balanced and a focused defense when
Speaker 2: you can when you know, like oh, Dylan Brooks got
Speaker 2: the bass eight seconds, make him make the play. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, I also think that when you
Speaker 2: guys do do that and you see people like Dylan
Speaker 2: Brooks or Thompson, you got to be aware and that
Speaker 2: they will miss shots and that's how them offense. The
Speaker 2: rebounds happen because you start, you start looking at the shot,
Speaker 2: looking at the miss, and then that's how they attack.
Speaker 2: But it was great defense at the end of the
Speaker 2: game because you start allowing the ball on the defensive
Speaker 2: side to go to a weekend offensive score. And that's
Speaker 2: why I think you guys were successful tonight.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, that was huge for sure, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: necessarily say that was game plan. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: kind of you filling the game out as you're out there.
Speaker 1: I think anytime you can take first couple options away,
Speaker 1: make teams do what they don't necessarily want to do
Speaker 1: is always going to be good. So yeah, man, shout
Speaker 1: out to our defense again, my guy Jerry Stackhouse. He
Speaker 1: has a certain mentality that he brings to the defense
Speaker 1: and we just try to follow that.
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Speaker 2: Game seven clutch you catch through. Oh man, that was
Speaker 2: the hell of the game. Man on the road Game
Speaker 2: seven and Houston. You had sixteen points, five sist, six rebounds. Defensively,
Speaker 2: it was a master class. This is your fifth time
Speaker 2: winning versus Houston. Was it a celebration because this was
Speaker 2: a tough series? Was it a celebration or was it
Speaker 2: was like was it like, oh man, we just we
Speaker 2: happy we got out of this.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the celebration is goes as far as
Speaker 1: what you see guys doing on the court, the video
Speaker 1: that you may see in the hallway, if there's a video,
Speaker 1: the locker room speech, that's about as much as a
Speaker 1: celebration as it's gonna get out.
Speaker 3: I think you know, like we ain't turning up or
Speaker 3: lit that we want. You gotta move on from it fast.
Speaker 1: But you're you're there's an excitement about as you know,
Speaker 1: and just closing out a series, right like, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: like we never take that for granted because, as you know,
Speaker 1: every series is hard.
Speaker 3: Like I don't care how good you are, I don't
Speaker 3: care if you team.
Speaker 1: It wasn't easy, Like, it's just it's very hard to do.
Speaker 1: And so you share different moments with different people, right,
Speaker 1: like the moment that me and Steph share there and
Speaker 1: Steve this different moment.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Because we've gone in this place five times. I mean
Speaker 1: we've played against this team five times in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and beat them all five times. Like we've won now
Speaker 1: two game sevens in this arena against two different regimes,
Speaker 1: by the way, like two completely different teams.
Speaker 3: Like they were really good and got really really really
Speaker 3: really really really really bad. Yeah, and then just got
Speaker 3: really good, really good. I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So like we've gone through all of that and here
Speaker 1: we are, and so it's like that appreciation for that,
Speaker 1: getting that first playoff win with Jimmy, you know, that
Speaker 1: playoff series win with Jimmy, like and sharing in that
Speaker 1: with him, like obviously you know.
Speaker 3: He's been there, right, but we haven't done that together,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So you got that like that small celebration there, you
Speaker 1: got like the small celebration amongst the guys that this
Speaker 1: is their first time winning the playoff series. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like real small. The ain't no real
Speaker 1: celebration there. I would say there's more of an appreciation
Speaker 1: than a celebration.
Speaker 2: That one felt good. And you know, Houston was my team,
Speaker 2: one of my sleeper teams for the year. I gotta
Speaker 2: give a shout out. You know, I picked them out.
Speaker 2: I have a great season. I think for you guys,
Speaker 2: it felt like like the monkey was off your back.
Speaker 2: Right as an underdog, you jump out, you get the lead.
Speaker 3: In the series.
Speaker 7: But you know this team had a lot a lot
Speaker 7: of fight, right. And I love a quote.
Speaker 2: I think your quote at the end when you found
Speaker 2: the camera saying good night has been real? Like that
Speaker 2: was a bar, right because y'all been going back and forth.
Speaker 2: You know, damn they're fighting.
Speaker 7: It was a scrappy series. So the good night it's
Speaker 7: been real?
Speaker 3: That was a bar. I gotta give you got a
Speaker 3: gee I probb, So now that was a bar.
Speaker 1: That was a straight bar. I appreciate that. Man, that
Speaker 1: felt good. You know, it's like it has been real
Speaker 1: but good night.
Speaker 3: It's a rock. We're moving on to the next one.
Speaker 1: But hard fast series. Man, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: toughest series I've played in. If I'm honest, them boys
Speaker 1: was tough.
Speaker 3: Young boy, Buddy, He'll went off thirty three points nine
Speaker 3: three pointers.
Speaker 5: Bowd time, Buddy, that's my boy. Listen, Buddy was right
Speaker 5: on time, boud time, Buddy, Baby, Yes, he was right
Speaker 5: on time.
Speaker 1: Buddy had like this serious ass demeanor, like Buddy's never serious.
Speaker 1: He had like this serious ass demeanor the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. And when we got off the bus to
Speaker 1: walk into the shoot around, I was walking behind Buddy.
Speaker 1: He was first, and I'm walking in and I could
Speaker 1: see how he's walking like he's walking with like a
Speaker 1: a slide, but it's like a power watch, just like
Speaker 1: serious as hell. And he just kept like he was
Speaker 1: so vocal and everything was just so matter of fact,
Speaker 1: like you think he'd been in this situation a million times,
Speaker 1: Like he.
Speaker 3: Was so dialed in. I'm actually not surprised he had
Speaker 3: that game. He was so dialed in. Well, when I
Speaker 3: saw him walking in, I was dis close, and I
Speaker 3: wish I would have done it. I was going to
Speaker 3: record him walking in because he was walking so powerful.
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised at all that he had that game,
Speaker 3: but it was great to see him have that game.
Speaker 3: I know the amount of work he put in, and
Speaker 3: I know the amount of slander that he's caught all
Speaker 3: year at different times, and so to see him have
Speaker 3: that game on the biggest stage in Game seven, like
Speaker 3: you see how tight guys can get. Look at Dylan Brooks,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like you see Houston was tight, like out there playing
Speaker 1: on the floor against him, like you could feel it.
Speaker 1: Friend Van Bleet wasn't tight, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But they were tight and and and we could fill out,
Speaker 1: we consense it. The arena was tight, like you consisted.
Speaker 1: They knew what was coming. They like not these dudes again,
Speaker 1: and everybody in the gym knew what was happening. It
Speaker 1: was the worst kept secret. And Buddy was the opposite,
Speaker 1: but he was amongst a group that was like whatever,
Speaker 1: like it is what you know, We're good. Like Steve
Speaker 1: come in like it's cool, We're good, a straight you know,
Speaker 1: Steph do the finger roll high up in the layup line,
Speaker 1: and when he made it, he'd go jumping around everybody.
Speaker 1: He made it, everybody out there dancing like we was
Speaker 1: loose and and I think Buddy was able to feed
Speaker 1: off of that as well, whereas opposed to those guys
Speaker 1: they went the opposite way.
Speaker 2: It was, yeah, you just taking seven, Game seven, you
Speaker 2: get you know, Yeah, Game seven is just tough because
Speaker 2: all you're thinking about the night before, if you've never
Speaker 2: been in one, is like, man, I finally get to
Speaker 2: be in the game seven, What am I gonna do?
Speaker 2: And you saw Houston in the beginning, even Sagoon missing
Speaker 2: easy bunnies, Jalen Green missing shots, Stalen Brooks missing easy ones.
Speaker 2: Outside of van Fleet and Thompson, those are the only
Speaker 2: real force they had and they had to scrap. Y'all
Speaker 2: made them scrap for everything. And that's what play off
Speaker 2: Game seven, Championship basketball. It is all about one thousand percent,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Going into that game, we made some adjustments on how
Speaker 1: to dice their zone up, which was genius by Steve Stots.
Speaker 1: We diced that zone up, which then forced them to
Speaker 1: have to take Steven Adams out. And that's the lineup
Speaker 1: they was doing. That's the lineup that was doing the damage.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: We diced that zone up right.
Speaker 1: So and Steve just said it like, yo, we gotta
Speaker 1: get fifty to fifty balls and not turn the ball
Speaker 1: up like, ain't no major adjustments to be made.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna be loose.
Speaker 1: You catching you open fire, Like we're going out there
Speaker 1: loose and they're going to tighten up.
Speaker 3: He the one, so he said, this arena gonna be tight.
Speaker 3: They gonna be tight.
Speaker 1: Everybody gonna be tight, and we're going out there. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be loose. We fired and we're going to get
Speaker 1: this win.
Speaker 3: Man, it was fun. I think you know, like you said,
Speaker 3: Thompson played with a lot of force.
Speaker 1: Uh. He he got a change, special, tough, He live
Speaker 1: in the moment. A lot of respect for young fella.
Speaker 1: He is special. The way he defends, the way he
Speaker 1: get downhill. Yeah, he's certain of himself. He athletic as hell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he relentless. A lot of respect for the young fella man.
Speaker 1: Uh special, he's special. Singo, got a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for him. You know, I've played against played against a
Speaker 1: lot of guys and I always tell people, man, in
Speaker 1: a playoff, series. One of two things happen. You either
Speaker 1: completely lose respect for someone or you gain a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for someone because you see who really real.
Speaker 1: And when these playoffs happen, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you see a lot of people fade.
Speaker 3: You get to see who really real. You also get
Speaker 3: to see how people are after the game, which we'll
Speaker 3: talk about. But Sengoon real man. He ain't back down
Speaker 3: at all. What I would say to him if I
Speaker 3: was his OG, he can take it right from here.
Speaker 1: Flop a little less, embellish, a little less because with
Speaker 1: a defender like me, he doing that my feet off that,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He real He ain't he physical, He ain't backing down.
Speaker 3: He got a bag, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He and he twenty three years old, like I don't
Speaker 1: think you realize you ain't got a young squn. Absolutely so,
Speaker 1: he real a lot of respect for him. The way
Speaker 1: Jabbari played in this series. Obviously, Stephen Adams Brevant, we
Speaker 1: know that the day the Don's over there, you know,
Speaker 1: But Jabbari Smith, he was huge in this series for
Speaker 1: them shots. Uh, he got loose balls, you know. He
Speaker 1: tried to put pressure on our defense. Those guys I
Speaker 1: just named all those guys. A lot of respect for
Speaker 1: those guys, may on how they acted after the game.
Speaker 1: You know, you see a lot about you see a
Speaker 1: lot come out and tell you a lot about a guy.
Speaker 3: And I didn't see. I didn't see Jalen Green after
Speaker 3: the game, but some of the guys told me that
Speaker 3: he was out there. So respect. But Dylan Brooks ran
Speaker 3: off the court.
Speaker 1: So when I say, you see what guys has made
Speaker 1: of he ran off the court like ain't shaking nobody up.
Speaker 3: And you was like you you. You admitted that you
Speaker 3: were trying to hurt steph Hand, which again fine by.
Speaker 1: Me, bro, like get it, we all get it when
Speaker 1: you hoop. You know what I'm saying. So if you're
Speaker 1: gonna be on that type of time on the press
Speaker 1: all the time, you gonna be talking, you're gonna be wolf.
Speaker 1: Don't lose and then not face the music. Don't be
Speaker 1: that guy, because again, you lose a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for guys in that moment. I had a moment with
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks back when he was with Memphis, and I said,
Speaker 1: the dynasty start after you. And the reason I said
Speaker 1: that is because things like that, because bro, you like so,
Speaker 1: then guess what did Tarry Easton do it?
Speaker 3: He lead the court.
Speaker 1: I got love for Tarry east And his mom was talking,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. My mom almost had to
Speaker 1: get out of though, absolutely, you know. And I ended
Speaker 1: up catching him right before he was about to walk
Speaker 1: out there ring and he was like, he was walking
Speaker 1: this way so he ain't have to come by me.
Speaker 1: But I could in my distance, I could see him
Speaker 1: right there. I said to him, I like, wave him now,
Speaker 1: and I went and I adopted him up. And that
Speaker 1: was kind of a little safe. But don't be that
Speaker 1: guy man like you don't like to teach, you lose
Speaker 1: a series teach. But that's who Dylan Brooks is, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And we understand, like you a
Speaker 1: sucker man you like. But but Tari said, he not
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And like I said, his
Speaker 1: mom was talking and saw I love. I don't get
Speaker 1: off into that. I got a lot of love for
Speaker 1: young fella because the way you go about his business,
Speaker 1: the way he play the game, I got a lot
Speaker 1: of love for him. Don't be like that because you
Speaker 1: lose respect when when guys lose respect for you in
Speaker 1: this league, like it don't matter, and it's gonna catch
Speaker 1: you in the end, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks couldn't come through in this series in large
Speaker 1: part because nobody on the court respects you. So anything
Speaker 1: you do the way's gonna be looked at, the way
Speaker 1: it's gonna be received. It ain't beneficial to your team
Speaker 1: when you're trying to winchampionships, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When you're trying to compete at the highest level and
Speaker 1: you that type of guy, it ain't beneficial to your
Speaker 1: team and they catch you in the end.
Speaker 3: So they front office trying to run off and not
Speaker 3: say what's up, you know, like all that.
Speaker 1: Like But like I said, e May ten toes, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Big smile, hug love, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But you know I, like I said,
Speaker 1: I gained a lot of respect for a lot of
Speaker 1: guys over there. Not that I ever had much respect
Speaker 1: for dude, but just show why you don't, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And Tar East and I still got
Speaker 1: love and respect for here a young fella like that
Speaker 1: follow clowns man, be careful, be the almost. I left
Speaker 1: the court one time after losing the series. It was
Speaker 1: right after we lost to uh to the Cavs in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. I left the court, walked to the locker room.
Speaker 1: I got to my seat, and for me, it was
Speaker 1: just such a whirld and I'm like, man, we just lost.
Speaker 3: Man. I got to my seat, I'm like, what am
Speaker 3: I doing? I got out my seat, walks back out.
Speaker 1: There, shook everybody up, congratulated there, and then went back
Speaker 1: to the locker room, like, don't be that guy.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 2: All right, damn Nation, y'all know what's cracking the area.
Speaker 2: Steph Curry showed up in the second half. In the
Speaker 2: fourth quarter. He scored fourteen of his twenty two points.
Speaker 2: He led throughout the game, and he was waiting for
Speaker 2: his moment. Talk about his preparation or what you was
Speaker 2: what you saw with him during the game. It felt
Speaker 2: like he was pacing himself for that time.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was necessarily pacing himself. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, one thing, or being patient or being patient.
Speaker 1: He was definitely patient. But you know, everybody been talking
Speaker 1: about the meeting. You know, I spoke my piece in
Speaker 1: the meeting, and one of the things that Steph said
Speaker 1: in the meeting, he said, controller controllables. That's essentially what
Speaker 1: Raymon understand. Control the controllables. Control what you can control.
Speaker 1: So I know I can control turn not turn the
Speaker 1: ball over. I know I can control what I do
Speaker 1: on the defensive end. I know I can control getting
Speaker 1: loose balls. I'm going to control those things. And so
Speaker 1: in saying that, one of the things that Steve has
Speaker 1: said to myself, and I'm sure he said the things
Speaker 1: same thing to Steph here when when we sat and
Speaker 1: had that conversation that everybody's talking about. One of the
Speaker 1: things he said to me, he said, it's my job
Speaker 1: to tell you what it means for you leading tonight,
Speaker 1: like what we need from your leadership tonight. Is my
Speaker 1: job to emotionally prepare you for that. And he gave
Speaker 1: me some gems over there. But they're saying that Steph's
Speaker 1: job last night was to not turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: and so he played such a patient game because he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to take any risk. He was going to
Speaker 1: not turn the ball over because that's what it required
Speaker 1: for us to win that game. You know, what Don's
Speaker 1: do when it's time to win the game seven. They
Speaker 1: do what's required. You know, when we played a Sacramento,
Speaker 1: you know what was required to him. It was required
Speaker 1: to him to get fifty for us and John when
Speaker 1: it got fifty. Dons do what they have to do
Speaker 1: when it needs to be done. And that's what the
Speaker 1: game called for from Steph. And he was patient, and
Speaker 1: then he took over when it was time to send
Speaker 1: them boys home on their way, he took over and
Speaker 1: he did what he had to do down to stretch
Speaker 1: him and Jimmy buckets, you know.
Speaker 3: So it was, you know, it was. It was beautiful
Speaker 3: to see his floor game. I like watching that version
Speaker 3: of Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: That is my favorite version of Steph Curry. He lent
Speaker 2: the team in rebounds, steals, blocks, but his pace, right,
Speaker 2: his pace, even though he playing at the same high frequency,
Speaker 2: the way he was thinking about the game, the way
Speaker 2: he was involving people, He turned down opportunities for another opportunity,
Speaker 2: knowing that the opportunity was gonna come back. It was
Speaker 2: magical to see super duperstars, right, iconic players operate and
Speaker 2: paint at a different pace.
Speaker 3: Than everybody else.
Speaker 2: Right, fact fact, it was like, who oh, hold on, okay,
Speaker 2: he leaving the team in rebounds. He doing all the
Speaker 2: little things. Yeah that like you say, control that cover
Speaker 2: you gotta cover yourself. And then Jimmy went on his
Speaker 2: own six ho' run in the fourth to put the
Speaker 2: game away. We see the dynamic of what's Steph controlling
Speaker 2: the game and what Steph can do in the fourth
Speaker 2: quarter than that Jimmy dynamic of Hey, you paying so
Speaker 2: much attention to Steph Curry that go Jimmy with the
Speaker 2: mysols I told you about right, He gets big buckets
Speaker 2: because people forget that he's on the floor. For some
Speaker 2: strange reason, they forget that he on the floor because
Speaker 2: he wind up with an iso. They don't double right,
Speaker 2: and he gets to a spot and he's man, he's money.
Speaker 1: Yes, he is now Jimmy's great man offensively and defensively,
Speaker 1: a presence his IQ. Jimmy be out there talking everybody
Speaker 1: through everything, like yo, we do this, just do this,
Speaker 1: this will kill him, just do that thing.
Speaker 3: Do this.
Speaker 1: He diabolical with it. Man, It's so dope to be
Speaker 1: on the side. When you play somebody in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you get to see what's real obviously we never got
Speaker 1: the opportunity to play Jimmy in the playoffs, and so
Speaker 1: to play with him and be in the playoffs, like
Speaker 1: just get to see it.
Speaker 2: It's really exciting Jimmy again. It's real congratulations on game seven.
Speaker 2: Moving right along
Speaker 1: The volume