WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: G League Ignite forward Tyler Smith 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to this League Uncut in the world of twenty 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:09.639 four hour NBA news. This is you, Chris Haynes. It's 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:18.040 so telling Bert Stein, it's so time This League Uncut 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:19.800 is underway and on fire. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.960 It should be a good one. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.720 Everybody, welcome to another episode of this League on Cut 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.960 feature and myself Chris Haynes and my brother Mark Stein. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.360 You know, every now and there on the show, we 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.560 like to highlight new talent, new up and coming talent 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.800 that you're probably gonna be familiar with within the NBA 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.400 as early as next season, probably two years from now, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.559 you never know. But this kid that we're bringing on 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.240 right now, he's definitely on the cuts of doing something 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.960 special and it's gonna be a name that you're going 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.480 to hear about in the near future. And without further ado, 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.800 I like to introduce to you Tyler Smith, who played 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.880 in the Overtime Elite this past few years and now 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.200 he's taking his talents to the g League Ignite. And 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.520 you know about that program that's produced some of the 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:18.480 top NBA rookies and future NBA stars, you know over 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.240 the last I don't know, four or five years, and 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.880 now Tyler has taken his talents there and he's he's 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.679 one more step away from being in the NBA, a 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.560 league that me and Mark Stein has covered for countless 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.920 decades between the both of us. So, Tyler, I want 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.800 to say thank you for having us, I mean thank 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:38.520 you for having us on like this is Joe Show, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:43.680 thank you for coming on our show. Tyler, just first 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:44.880 of all, we want to get to know you, want 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.320 to get to know your background, so you know, when 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.400 you do make that lead to the NBA, you do 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:54.480 hear your name called, people will have a clue of 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.080 where you came from and what you're about. So Tyler, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.040 tell me just a little bit about your path to 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.680 getting to this point. And congratulations by the way. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.720 Oh appreciate it. Appreciate it. So started off in Houston 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.760 High School at Georgia Bush. Then I went to overtimeing 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.679 lead for the last two years and played good over 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.560 there my last season, and I'm here with Ignite. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.120 So can you tell me about you know you've taken. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:23.000 This is two unconventional paths by a top prospect like yourself, 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.840 choosing to go to overtime and then G League at night. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.400 Can you tell me take me back to high school? 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.000 At that point. So you're what fifteen or sixteen when 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:33.840 you made that decision. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.320 Yeah, got over yep, sixteen. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.680 Tell me about the thought process of making that move. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.560 The thought process was planning for the NBA scouts early, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.079 like just so I could showing my skill set and 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.560 stuff like that. The stuff that was telling me, like 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.000 NBA scouts at practices at games, so you wasn't gonna 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.880 get them high school because they really couldn't come to 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.359 our games unless you went to a campus some and 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.320 the caupsil just during the summer, so all season I'll 0:02:59.360 --> 0:02:59.880 said why not? 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:06.160 So obviously the basketball reasons to go the overtime route 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.119 and now to join the ignit. I mean, we could 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:12.640 list twenty five basketball reasons. But when you're fifteen and 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.480 you're leaving high school, just how hard is that to 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.920 do and leave the social part of high school behind. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.920 It wasn't really that hard for me because I was 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.920 in the COVID year, so I was already used to 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.680 being like away from everybody. So at that time, I 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.880 was just like, man, we have to wear masks in 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.760 the games and stuff. So I'm like, nah, I just 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:33.400 got to do something. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:39.960 Nelse and what age were you when you kind of knew, 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.320 you know what, I don't want to go to college route. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.320 I want to try these other avenues to get ready 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.960 for the NBA draft. How old you would you pinpoint 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.120 yourself is when you knew that you were going to 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.680 go these new modern paths that are available to young 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:56.720 players like yourself. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.920 I remember ninth grade. I was like fourteen, I'll see 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.840 Ignite then come out. That's what I said I wanted 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.600 to do instead of college. So I've been to I 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.920 wanted to go to Ignite. So when I was fourteen 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.640 to ninth grade, that's when I really wanted to go. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.000 And people in your life, what did they say when 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.200 you're like, hey, at fourteen, I mean that that that 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.880 probably works in your favor that you knew at such 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.520 a young age what you what you wanted to do. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.240 But like, how did people react when you told them? 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.240 It was just with me, Like my mom, she was 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.880 always with me in that situation. Like I was doing 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:27.440 good in my game and stuff. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:28.360 I was going like. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.880 Developing at a high rate. So it was already like, man, 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.640 I don't want to go to college, I want to 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:33.960 go pro. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:39.159 So so Tyler tell let everybody know, like what's what's 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.600 your height right now? What's your height weight? If you 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.400 want to, but give everybody the physical tools of yourself 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:47.120 right now. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.400 I'm six ' ten twenty two, well like with a 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:51.520 seven one wing spand. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.960 Wow, you know what they say, Chris Haynes. You know, 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.120 he this young man is a Texan and he's a lefty. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.560 I do you're gonna say that? I know you, I 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:02.599 know you were going there. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.880 You know who they compare him to. I mean, you know, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.159 and it's you know, it's it's obviously it's a great thing, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:10.960 but also it's a you know, it's a tough thing. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.360 But you know, the Chris Bosh comparison gets thrown around 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.719 a lot. How how have you dealt with that? I 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.080 mean that that you know, I'm sure you're it's flattering 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.160 on some levels and then it's probably challenging on some 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:23.840 levels too. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.279 Yeah, I mean I like it. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.200 You know, I've been watching him since junior year, just 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.640 people realizing that. Uh, I take bits and parts of 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.760 his game and I'm showing them in the games and 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:35.360 they realize it. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.240 So it's pretty good for me, that comparison. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:38.720 I like it. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.800 Have you had a chance to meet him yet? 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.800 Not not yet. Hopefully one day though. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.479 And I'm sure you'll I'm sure you'll cross paths with 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:45.920 him soon. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.440 Yeah, you'll get there eventually, uh, Tyler. So when you 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.800 look at again, we're here with Tyler Smith playing, going 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.279 to be playing with the G League to night. He 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:59.080 will be NBA Draft eligible for the twenty twenty four 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.720 NBA d And just for context, Stean like this G 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.279 League in nineteen you know, I was speaking speaking with 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.080 some people from the G League. Tyler is going to 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.200 be one of seven players that are going to be 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.680 draft eligible for next draft. So this is the deepest 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:20.400 talented pool they've had since, you know, since this program 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.680 has started. So, Tyler, when you when you made your decision, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.960 like what went into like because you're playing against you're 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.960 playing with I gat other players that had the same 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.440 goals as you, and you know it coulde it could 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.480 get kind of competitive too. So how do you expect 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.359 this season to to shape up for you and your teammates? 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.839 I mean, this season should go really good for everybody. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.160 You know, Coach puts is in the right positions. Not 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.000 too many of us really play the same position. We 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.880 do different things on the court, so our uses are different, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.040 so I mean it's been working out good. We went 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.560 to Singapore and we've seen all the young guys play 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.800 because some of our events was hurt or like not playing, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.800 so that stuff worked out good for us. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.719 Everybody was eating, everybody was eating. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.280 It was something you said about the G League Knight 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.960 and Stein and Tyler. I have to admit, like whenje 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.200 Leaguan Knight first started, I thought it would take time 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.240 for UH, for players to really consider it and make 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.880 it a legitimate, you know option, But it took off 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.120 right away. And you said yourself like you was fourteen 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.280 when it came about, and he was like, that's where 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.200 I wanted to go. Was so if the G League 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:32.440 Knight didn't, say, say, ge Leagan Knight didn't surface as 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:37.120 an option, you saw players going choosing to go overseas, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.160 Australia and whatever, you know, before they got went to 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.800 the NBA. What what you think you would have done 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.760 if the ge League Knight wasn't an option. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.520 I probably would have went to college or Australia because 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.520 I've seen people like Arjie Hampton and I'm going over 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.040 there in Lamellow ball, So that was another option for. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:58.000 Me too, so this kid, Tyler Stein, Tyler was he 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.440 was about his business. He was He's about whatever it 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.040 takes to get to that NBA as soon as possible. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.800 I was hoping, I was hoping to hear cal State 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.000 Fullerton was on his list. But he went right, he 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.320 went right. I don't think option, Yeah. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:13.640 I don't think he's heard of a school. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.240 That's all right, that's all right. I'm not gonna take 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.720 it personal, Tyler. I actually listened to a couple podcasts 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.120 you did with Rafael Barlow, who's a good friend of 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.440 mine who runs NBA Big Board, and he you told 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.120 him about this summer playing a lot at U C 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.000 l A and not just you, a bunch of the 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.160 ignite guys, And could you just paint a picture for 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.880 us what that was like. Who are some of the 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.080 NBA guys you went up against, and how do you 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.440 think you fared when you were on the floor with 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:43.600 NBA guys. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.280 I think I did really good, like making open shots 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.839 even blown by some of the NBA defenders. It was 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.440 Jalen Green in the gym, Pascal Siakam, Scottie Barnes, Uh, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.520 the seventy six ers, the Clippers teams and the Bucks. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.880 So I feel like I messed up pretty well with them, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.800 especially for my position, blocking shots at people that's at 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.320 the NBA level and do that's in them games. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.440 So yeah, it was pretty good. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.640 How competitive are those games from your perspective? 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.960 Oh, it's definitely competitive, especially we're younger than everybody. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.000 They don't want us to like show them up and stuff, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.400 so they're going hard against us every time, and you know, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.040 they put us and you go to the third court 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.120 over there, everybody trying to get to the main court. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.240 So it's really competitive over there. You got to win 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.240 to get to the next court. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.440 So so that's how it is. So it's there's a 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.560 winning court, so you keep winning, you advanced to that 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:30.439 main I didn't know. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.920 That three three three courts at UCLA every every day 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.240 pretty much in the summer, right. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.240 Yeah, I didn't know. How's the physicality, Tyler? How how 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:40.800 how you manage that? 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:41.400 Well? 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.360 What do you thought about it? 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.120 Going overseas was more physical than here? 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.560 I'm not gonna lie, but like here, I gained like 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.240 twelve pounds, so I mean the physicality hasn't really been 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.360 that like that tough to me out here, but you know, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:55.800 still need some getting. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.240 Used to because they know some tricks and stuff. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.120 They've been the Eleaite for a minute, and people that's 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.800 been here for a minute know what to do, especially 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.319 if somebody that's younger to have had no experience for real. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.160 Stan, I know you love to hear that him say, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.400 is more physical playing overseas. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.160 Actually, I'm really I'm really hung up on this the 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.480 UCLA Summer League because I mean, I haven't lived in 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.120 southern California forever, but you know, in my younger days, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.680 I used to go to some of those games, but 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.600 I haven't been. I haven't been to some you know, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.200 summer pick up at UCLA for ages. I mean, were 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:33.600 there any NBA pros who who helped you, mentored you 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.720 or is it kind of like, hey, the young guys 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.120 really have to prove themselves and just kind of figure 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.439 it out on their own. What what is that dynamic? 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:40.680 Like? 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:41.320 Nah? 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.840 There was definitely helping us after the game, like they'll 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.960 give you respect, especially past Asiakam, Like I was guarding 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.800 on full court the whole game. After the game, he 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.640 was giving me some pointers on what to do and 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.480 why not to do office and defense stuff like that. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:53.720 So pretty good. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.160 Tyler. Who would you patter your game after in the 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.160 NBA if if somebody had to give you a uh, 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.160 if somebody asked you about comparison, who would you say 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.400 your closest line to a. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:07.800 Comparison right now in the league. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:13.200 Yes, I'll say like j Smith something like that, or 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:14.959 Carl any Towns. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.760 Okay, the stretch, that's you know, that's what people talk about, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:23.160 your ability to stretch the floor A stretch five four? 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.320 What do you consider your position? What is your position 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.640 stretch for? Okay, so when you when you're looking at 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.440 when you're looking at I guess trying to prove that 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.160 you can hit that shot on a regular basis, be consistent. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:40.920 I saw defensively man, you know, I looked at you know, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.280 looks at some of your game film from the past 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.200 few years, and you got a quick second jump that 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.880 a lot of people don't have. Like if somebody gets 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.040 you up in the air, they think they got you, 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.120 and you come right back up and get the get 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.760 that block. What do you think is from day one, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.120 like when you're drafted, what do you think day one 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.000 you're going to be able to present present to an 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:05.800 NBA ball club? Uh? 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.719 Definitely my length, defensive impact in spacing. You know in 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.120 the NBA you need that. Now you get paid a 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.560 lot of money and make a corner three and play 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.560 some defense. So I feel like I bring that to 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.520 the table early. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.760 Tyler Smith from the G League Night is our guest 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.079 here on this league. On cut, you know, Chris mentioned 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.079 that you guys have a bunch. There are a bunch 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.080 of players on this year's G League A Night team 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.240 that are hoping to get drafted just this next summer. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.800 So how hard will it be you think for you 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.439 guys to kind of put that aside so you can 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.559 form a team bond and it's not competition amongst yourselves 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.319 kind of worrying about your draft stock. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.760 Nobody really even bring that up because we've been on 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.920 each other for a couple of years now, like growing 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.680 up in high school and stuff like that. The dudes 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.840 that come from overseas, we mess well with them too. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.360 Like everybody's together, so we don't really worry about that. Like, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.240 let's play as a team and trying to win, because 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.280 this year we're trying to make the first thing nineteen 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.640 to make playoffs, So everybody locked in on that. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.400 And then something else that's really interesting about the Ignited 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.640 is that I know, you guys are taking classes and 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:15.520 you know, learning things about the off court life. What 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.800 kinds of things do they work with you when when 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.240 when you're in a classroom setting and they're trying to 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.559 they trying to give you tips about, you know, off 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.600 the court, managing your life off the court. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.280 Yeah, it's just showing the stuff what not to do 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.280 and what to do like some of the stuff that's 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.360 been going with some of the NBA players. Like they 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.200 give us examples of that and not like try not 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.800 to do that or make sure that you keep everything 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.520 low key that you do, don't post it to the public. Uh. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.600 They teach us how to probably speak to people, you know, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.480 because some people don't really learn that in college. They 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.840 just like grow super fast and like just do whatever. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.040 So that's what we learn style. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.600 He says something that that's interesting as well about being 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.000 the first G League Knight team to make the playoffs. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.320 And I guess the reason is it's kind of hard 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.120 to get there from the League Knight because it's mostly 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.960 young players and then you're you got you got veterans 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.439 sprinkled around to kind of show the youngsters the ropes 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.320 and so Tyler, you talk about trying to get to 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.760 the to the playoffs. I mean, that's that's an interesting 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.920 goal right there, Like, that's a team oriented goal in 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.280 a in a probably the most pivotal year for all 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.480 of for a lot of you guys, Like this year 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.119 means a lot up to you guys. To to Stein's point, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.360 how could you how can you try? Like what does 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.960 this team focus come in at at this this upcoming season? 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:44.600 What is the focus? 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.520 Yeah, like how do you how do you come to 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.520 that focus? And this and this crucial part where this 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.720 is like a real pivotal for year for I commend you. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.280 I've been saying, like where where does that come from? 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.640 I mean, we have a lot of good players from 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.800 top to bottom, especially young players that got a lot 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.920 of ask the thing so like once one player gets tired, 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:03.720 we have another. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.960 Player in the same position to come in and cook. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.200 So everybody could score, everybody can play defense, and I 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.240 feel like we have the best team to do that 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:11.760 this year. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.920 Just when you look at your own game, what are 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.440 the one, two three things that you want to do 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.400 better this season than you did last season? 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:22.680 Uh? 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.600 Some more of my defensive presence more I could switch 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.520 on guards and just be more consistent on my jump 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.960 shots and get into the rim. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.040 Yeah, that's one. That's one thing I saw on the 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.440 pick and roll, being able to switch. I've seen a 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.600 lot of people praise you. You for that. You know 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.480 that that'll take you a long way as a guy 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.880 your size that can be able to stay in the game. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.440 You know, regardless of whatever matchup, you can stay in 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.760 the game and you can defend those matchups. What did 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.240 you you played with the Thompson Twist. What is your 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.200 relationship with them? 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:55.520 Man? 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.160 What what do you think? What do you think? How 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.400 you think their game is to transition into the NBA. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:03.960 I mean, you see what they're doing right now. They're 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.240 putting up double dobles and stuff. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.560 Already I managed had like an under the basket winmill yesterday. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.680 I mean, it's pretty easy for their transition. They're athletics, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.520 six seven guards. I can see over defense and stuff. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.960 So their game gonna translate pretty easy. Our relationship with them, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.200 I've been with them for the last two years. Also 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.480 been to the gym at night time to like one am, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.160 sometimes like almost slipping the gym with them. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.560 So yeah, pretty good basketball related mainly. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.280 So I haven't had a I have not had a 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.360 chance to meet the Thompson Twins yet. But when you're 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.480 as old as me, the Thompson Twins, you know that 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.000 that was a that was a whole different thing in 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.560 the eighties. Do you are the are the NBA Thompson 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:47.040 Twins aware of the Thompson Twins banned from the eighties? 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.480 Does that ever come up in giving those guys a 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:50.960 hard time? 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:51.680 I don't think so. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.760 You lost me to even. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.120 You don't know the Thompson Twins. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.120 What Thompson Twins? What? 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.120 Wow? I know, I'm I know I'm old and I'm 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.959 way older than Tyler, but I'm not that much older 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:06.440 than you. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.440 What Thompson Twins? Tell me? Who? 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.400 Who? Forget it? Man, forget forget it. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.560 You're dating yourself style your date yourself. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.399 It's an eighties I mean I said, it's it's an 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.680 eighties man. I know, I mean, I know I'm ancient, 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.399 but I couldn't resent, I couldn't resist asking forget forget that. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.240 I wasted your time with that one. I apologize. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:32.880 I was born as Yeah, I'm unfamiliar with myself. Did 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.600 you Tyler, when you when you were working like the 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.160 Thompson twins. Did you know that they were? Like did 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.080 you know they were this good? Like any of this surprising? 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.960 Or did you did you see a jump in them? 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.360 Like did you see a year like where you say, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.960 my damn, like their development took off? Like what did 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.119 you see about how they progressed to get to that point. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.240 I'm not gonna lie. The our first summer at overtime 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:56.840 like it was real skinny. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.159 Next summer they came back like swall all of and 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.680 then they just got ways stronger doing the same stuff. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.879 So I'm like, dang it, just it's just crazy, like 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.200 they're different. I'm not gonna lie. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.360 In all seriousness watching them both get drafted so high. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.879 I'm sure you tuned into the draft. What what was 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:15.800 that like for you? And I'm sure you're you know, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.320 imagining your own turn that's coming up. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.200 This Yeah, I was actually at the draft this year. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:23.200 I was actually at the draft this year, So that 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.280 gave me motivation just to be able to get invited 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.439 to the green room and just steal my stuff this 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.560 year so I could get invited there. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:32.439 So what do you think? What do you think of 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.439 what do you think of the chaos that is the 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:35.320 NBA Draft. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.000 I mean it's a lot we went in the back 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:43.040 rooms after. It's a lot after like taking pictures, doing interviews. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.520