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Speaker 1: And when I talk about you, I mean either way.
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Speaker 1: don't get give me a break, give a break. What's burning, Jack?
Speaker 1: What's happening cooling? My brother? How you out there on
Speaker 1: the west side? Man, I'm doing good. I'm doing good,
Speaker 1: man stretch second half of the season, Man, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about this. Jack pushing p towards the playoffs. Let's touch
Speaker 1: on that Western Conference first. What's team or teams do
Speaker 1: you think benefit the most from CP three being down
Speaker 1: for six to eight weeks. I gotta go with the Warriors.
Speaker 1: They're getting healthy and I think this is a chance
Speaker 1: to get the number one seed. You know a lot
Speaker 1: of people talk about homecourt advantage is not that important,
Speaker 1: but having the number one, see, there's a lot. It
Speaker 1: means a lot, and having home court all the way
Speaker 1: through the playoffs, especially in the Western Conference. I think
Speaker 1: every team on the West Conference wants that. So for
Speaker 1: them to be getting healthy and to be able to
Speaker 1: gain some ground on Phoenix, why CP is hurt? I
Speaker 1: think that's big for the Warriors to go out and
Speaker 1: try to get a good field going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I love this Phoenix team, but they go as far
Speaker 1: as CP three takes them. Obviously, big fan of book
Speaker 1: and what they're building over there, but CP is that leader,
Speaker 1: in that voice, that calming sense, um when when needed
Speaker 1: and um, you know, guys are still putting up nice numbers,
Speaker 1: but it's just you know, with CP, is is so
Speaker 1: much to that team that obviously his numbers are great,
Speaker 1: but that that that the day to day fan doesn't see.
Speaker 1: But who do I feel benefits the most? I just
Speaker 1: think teams that are injured, that have important guys injured,
Speaker 1: Golden State being one of them, um, Draymond Green and
Speaker 1: Wiseman coming back. Um. And then Denver being another team
Speaker 1: where Jokers had an incredible season numbers surpassed what he
Speaker 1: had last year in his MVP season. Um, but he's
Speaker 1: got Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr. Coming back. Crazy
Speaker 1: thing about it is Phoenix only needs to go five
Speaker 1: d to be a sixty win team, which is which
Speaker 1: is crazy. But also what worries me about Phoenix is
Speaker 1: CP three has had had hand hand problems and you know,
Speaker 1: he's broke this thumb, this is his second time. But
Speaker 1: he's had other hand problems too. He had something clipped
Speaker 1: uh in l A with me and the Clippers. So
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see, man, you know those hands
Speaker 1: and and and how aggressive he is on defense and
Speaker 1: the place he'd be making. Man, it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see me and if if like I said, Phoenix has
Speaker 1: a good shot to represent the Western Conference, but without
Speaker 1: cp uh they don't go anywhere. So well, what about
Speaker 1: eight and two? What about eight and two? He ain't
Speaker 1: got paid? Yeah, this is still year. Still ain't got paid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is his year, but you also got to think
Speaker 1: like he more than anybody to me exactly but now,
Speaker 1: but but I I don't say that disrespectful to me
Speaker 1: Aiden and and he's played with a lot of and
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of big page I'm talking about CP.
Speaker 1: But Aiden is the most skilled by far. I mean
Speaker 1: he's got offense and defense, mid range, he can do
Speaker 1: it all. But he just benefited and looked like it
Speaker 1: was a whole different player when CP was out there
Speaker 1: on the floor. Man. So definitely going into a contract
Speaker 1: year for him. Uh, he needs that voice CP out there.
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, James Harden and Joel embed I want to
Speaker 1: hear what you have to say first, um about this,
Speaker 1: But there to a scary are the only being two
Speaker 1: games a scary two games start? Yeah, definitely scary two
Speaker 1: games start, um. And it was the right two teams
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Next to start off with, you know, perfect
Speaker 1: two teams to get it to get a good feeling.
Speaker 1: You know what it would it be in his first
Speaker 1: two games? Definitely the nixt though, I gotta reiterate that.
Speaker 1: But now Matt all bullshit aside, They look good, bro,
Speaker 1: they look good. Um, I can't wait to see them
Speaker 1: against the top tier Eastern Conference Western Conference team. But
Speaker 1: they look good. We know what in be gonna do.
Speaker 1: Um definitely, you see the leading and be how he's
Speaker 1: embraced it hard into the team, allowed him to come
Speaker 1: in and be the player he's always been. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, having Doc Rivers and staff him selling that
Speaker 1: sideline is making that transition easier for them. They're gonna look.
Speaker 1: They're looking good, man, They're gonna be there. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: people can say what they want about James when he's unhappy.
Speaker 1: You know, some people say he handsled the situations wrong,
Speaker 1: but we know when he's motivated, he's one of the
Speaker 1: best players in the world. And and bead is having
Speaker 1: been having an m VP season James since coming over
Speaker 1: to averaging fourteen assists in high and rebounds. So when
Speaker 1: this dude wants to play, he's one of the best
Speaker 1: to do it. Something that sparks me with Philly is
Speaker 1: I've kind of doubted them because Harris is not a
Speaker 1: consistent third option, but I think the youngster Tyrese Maxie
Speaker 1: has jumped into that third role. Third score, third consistent score,
Speaker 1: but can also drop thirty for you young active. You know,
Speaker 1: he handled the ball most of the season. He's slidding
Speaker 1: over now and and and transition well with playing with
Speaker 1: James Harden. And one thing Embat has been saying too
Speaker 1: is playing with hard and he's never had so many
Speaker 1: open looks. You know. Obviously embiad and and Simmons had
Speaker 1: some work, you know, had some good runs, but James
Speaker 1: Harden is clearly the best player and Beat has ever
Speaker 1: played with. And he's just saying that is making his
Speaker 1: game so much more open. You know, the James ability
Speaker 1: to score and assist um scary. But I think Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like we've been waiting on him. He
Speaker 1: got all that money, We've been waiting for him to
Speaker 1: be you know, they chose him over Jimmy Butler, Jack,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And he hasn't really lived
Speaker 1: up to it. But it's it's not bad now if
Speaker 1: you have to have him as a fourth option, you know,
Speaker 1: because he because he does have the potential to be
Speaker 1: someone who could really score. Thoughts on Kyrie uh and
Speaker 1: and and the nets hopeful uh that he'll be able
Speaker 1: to be cleared. They had some new mandate that was
Speaker 1: just dropped. But they said he can go to games
Speaker 1: but can't play. Like what kind of ship does that make?
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna let it do go to a game
Speaker 1: but not play, but then you're letting players from other
Speaker 1: cities come in to New York and still play, but
Speaker 1: Kyrie can't play. But let's speak to uh Kyrie the
Speaker 1: way he's been playing big window the other night against
Speaker 1: the Bucks, and and the outlook for this team, um
Speaker 1: coming into the stretch run. Well, first, let me say, um,
Speaker 1: when you spoke on Tobias, Max, it can't be the
Speaker 1: third leading score, but who's gonna guard the big three
Speaker 1: guards and power forwards? Tobia's gonna to step his game,
Speaker 1: but they're not gonna have this season that they need to.
Speaker 1: Max is a great small guard, but who's gonna guard
Speaker 1: Katie and the rest of these big guys? And b
Speaker 1: can't do it all? Uh, they got to what I'm
Speaker 1: calling not to cut you off? What's the young boys table?
Speaker 1: He's he's uh, he's he's nice on the defensive And
Speaker 1: I agree that Harris is definitely gonna have to step
Speaker 1: on the up on the defensive end. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean we've you know, we've been waiting, Like I think,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, he is still the highest paid
Speaker 1: player on that team. Man, It's just like damn, Like,
Speaker 1: what's happening. Yeah, something got to change. But I'm but
Speaker 1: I'm happy to see that's a great possibility that Kylee
Speaker 1: will be back on the court at home and away games.
Speaker 1: You've seen what he means to Brooklyn. They went in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee and got a big win, you know, with Katie
Speaker 1: and Sam is not even on the court, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And Milwaukee had all they players, they
Speaker 1: had their whole team. I'm pushing of Brooklyn. I actually
Speaker 1: can get a good view of what this team gonna
Speaker 1: look like when it all comes together. And if it
Speaker 1: works out with Kyrie is playing all in all the
Speaker 1: games and everybody's healthy back, you're gonna you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a real dangerous team. And I I actually d m
Speaker 1: and told Katie and Kyrie that that I can see
Speaker 1: it all coming together. No, it's gonna be scary because
Speaker 1: you gotta think. You know, this is the first time
Speaker 1: k D and Kyrie play with the past first point guard,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Kyrie has been a point
Speaker 1: and made decisions, but all Ben wants to do is
Speaker 1: get his teammates off paulse You mean he wants to
Speaker 1: find his teammates and all their spots and he's gonna
Speaker 1: lock down on d. So it's just like I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I I still feel I still like Philly got the
Speaker 1: best player in the trade, but I feel like Brooklyn
Speaker 1: won the trade because they have so much depth. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, you get a start, you know, you get
Speaker 1: Seth Curry who's been shooting the ball well, and then
Speaker 1: I think, uh, big fella is gonna play. Drummond is
Speaker 1: gonna pay major dividends. Although it be is Is, you know,
Speaker 1: had his way with him. I just think his depth
Speaker 1: and size is really gonna help this team. So Katie
Speaker 1: is days away, if not a week. Uh, Simmons is
Speaker 1: probably about ten days. Took two weeks away. Um, But
Speaker 1: when all these pieces come together, man, it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun run, not only to watch them, but
Speaker 1: again to continue to watch Philly run, Chicago get healthy. Miami.
Speaker 1: Victor Olawadipo's on his way back from Miami. I forgot
Speaker 1: he wasn't even out there. Um this Eastern Conference, you
Speaker 1: know the Bucks, it's gonna be a real fun run
Speaker 1: down the stretch. On the radar presented by Draft Kings Jack,
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conferences tight one to six is separated by
Speaker 1: four and a half games. UM. Here are the odds
Speaker 1: on to win the Eastern Conference. Brooklyn Nets are plus
Speaker 1: two seventy five, Milwaukee's at plus three thirty, Philly's at
Speaker 1: plus three seventy, Miami at plus four seventy five. Boston,
Speaker 1: who's kind of flown under the radar all season, but
Speaker 1: it's playing been playing good basketball plus one thousand, and
Speaker 1: the East in conference leader or there one or two
Speaker 1: are plus twelve Hunter, that's the Chicago Bulls. So you
Speaker 1: feel I mean we've touched on this a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, right there, those are I probably say any
Speaker 1: I think Boston in Chicago the two teams that I
Speaker 1: don't have as much confidence in. UM, but any of
Speaker 1: those top four teams, Jack can come out of the East.
Speaker 1: How do you see the ash the East shaking down?
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna come down to it was definitely
Speaker 1: matters were seating, but I would like to see Brooklyn
Speaker 1: and Philly in the Eastern Conference finals. Were Brooklyn taking
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference championship. That would be dope dope, dope jack.
Speaker 1: A lot of big games coming up this week in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. I'll run through them real quick and
Speaker 1: then you tell me who you're most likely are excited
Speaker 1: to see Heat at Bucks on Wednesday, Heat at Nets
Speaker 1: on Thursday, with Katie and and and Simmons close to
Speaker 1: returning Grizz at the Celtics Thursday. Celtics are twelve or
Speaker 1: twelve and three over their last fifteam, like I said
Speaker 1: a second ago, playing good basketball Bucks at Bulls Friday
Speaker 1: and Sixers at Heat Saturday, and to close it off,
Speaker 1: Nets and Celtics, Kyrie back in Boston. Out of those games,
Speaker 1: any of those games intrigue you, Yeah, I mean definitely, Um,
Speaker 1: the Sixers Heat, that's gonna be a good game. But
Speaker 1: the Nets and Celtics on Sunday, you could possibly have
Speaker 1: everybody on the court that that game. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to see Kyrie back in Boston. But the possibility
Speaker 1: of having everybody the old team back on the court
Speaker 1: against Boston would have playing a hot Boston team would
Speaker 1: be a good a good game to watch. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to, like you said, everyone getting
Speaker 1: back take a look of an upcoming episode. This week
Speaker 1: on All the Smoke, we sat down with our brother
Speaker 1: Chandler Parsons enjoy. So, heading into free agency, you were
Speaker 1: looking to possibly stay in Dallas. I'm guessing that's what
Speaker 1: you wanted to do obviously. Yeah, and it didn't really
Speaker 1: work out that way. You in going to Memphis another
Speaker 1: nice deal. What was that experience like? So that was
Speaker 1: I signed a three year deal in Dallas, but I
Speaker 1: had a player option in the third year and talking
Speaker 1: with Mark, talked with my agent, they said, listen, you played.
Speaker 1: I played good that year. You know, we went to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They said, you can get a big deal
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of interest in you. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, great, I'll opt out of my player option
Speaker 1: and he damn thing was like, basically, you're going to
Speaker 1: get a max contract. And you know when he Dan
Speaker 1: says that, I'm fine, I believe you. But Cuban wanted
Speaker 1: me to opt into that third year because I had
Speaker 1: had just had a knee surgery, I had my second one,
Speaker 1: and I was still going into free agency, and so
Speaker 1: I didn't pick up my third year because Mark was like, look,
Speaker 1: just opt in and improve yourself that you can play
Speaker 1: and and then I'll sign I'll sign you to a
Speaker 1: five year max the next year. And I'm like looking
Speaker 1: at it, I'm like and it was like seventeen million,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking at him like he's telling me to
Speaker 1: opt in now for seven team. But Dann Vegan, my agent,
Speaker 1: telling me I got guaranteed like ninety five. Like I'm like, Mark,
Speaker 1: if I was your son, Like, what would you what
Speaker 1: would you tell him? Like? Would you tell me to
Speaker 1: do this and take this guaranteed deal? And they knew
Speaker 1: I had like they knew I had the knee surgeries, right,
Speaker 1: And so that was crazy. And that's another crazy story
Speaker 1: where I had to pitch meetings and I remember it
Speaker 1: was Orlando and New York offered max deal's but like
Speaker 1: two or three years. But the two big four ones
Speaker 1: were Memphis Grizzlies and the Portland Trailblazers. And Paul Allen came,
Speaker 1: Dame came, Terry Stotts came, their front office came, and
Speaker 1: we had a great meeting in Portland. And to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I was all in on Portland. I
Speaker 1: was like, we can cancel the Memphis, Like I'm going
Speaker 1: to Portland like this is play with Dame and c
Speaker 1: J like this, this is great, and I was like yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was like all right, like I'm in JB.
Speaker 1: Bickerstaff and Fizz who are my family? They were he
Speaker 1: had just got the head coaching job at Memphis. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's just take the meeting, like I
Speaker 1: I love them, like let's see. And also they had gasol,
Speaker 1: they had Conley, they zbo t A like they had
Speaker 1: a squad too, So I'll never forget. We're in this meeting,
Speaker 1: right and it's at Dan Fagan's house and we're in
Speaker 1: the Memphis meeting and I see like where Stacks sitting.
Speaker 1: Fagin's getting like red and like kind of getting weird.
Speaker 1: And then like five minutes later he asked, He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's take a break, and like you know, let's uh, well,
Speaker 1: we'll meet back up in five He's like, CP, come here.
Speaker 1: So I go to the I go to his room
Speaker 1: with him and he's like, you're going to Memphis and
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you mean? Like he goes, Portland's
Speaker 1: is going to give you a physical and because of
Speaker 1: like Greg Odin and Brandon Roy's injury history you might
Speaker 1: not pass. So I'm like, what do you mean, Bro,
Speaker 1: He's like, trust me, Like you don't want to go
Speaker 1: down that, Like if you do that and they read
Speaker 1: flag you, Bro, you're taking a minimum deal and you're
Speaker 1: smoked at. So I'm like, bro, like what Like in
Speaker 1: my head, I'm I'm on Zillo looking at houses in Portland,
Speaker 1: like I was going, like I love them. I go
Speaker 1: back in there, Bro and I Oscar Performance Gold Oscar.
Speaker 1: I go back in there listening. Guys, I've never I've
Speaker 1: never been more sure of something in my life. Grit
Speaker 1: and grind to day I die. I'm like, I'm in,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get. I was like, we can just stop
Speaker 1: it here. I'm signing. Literally, I'm like Blake Griffin. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't let them leave until I signed the deal. I
Speaker 1: was like, I am going. So that was just another
Speaker 1: damn thing and crazy story where I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I've never told that story and so like that was
Speaker 1: nuts where I was like this man did it again.
Speaker 1: This week, check out the newest podcast to the Showtime
Speaker 1: Basketball Family Forgotten Seasons, as Jack takes dealing back to
Speaker 1: two thousand three in his Sano San Antonio Spurs championship run, Jack,
Speaker 1: What sticks out to you most about that run? Kind
Speaker 1: of where you're at in your career and then how
Speaker 1: big of a role you played on a great team?
Speaker 1: First shout out to Dealing and forgotten seasons. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: so glad he's a part of the family. Man. He's
Speaker 1: going to do some great things, not only for for
Speaker 1: people like us. I, Man, I got a good eye
Speaker 1: for I got a good eye for talent. Bro. Not
Speaker 1: to cut you off, but I got a good eye
Speaker 1: for talent. Bro. Yeah you did, Bro. He's solid and uh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna educate a lot of people that don't have
Speaker 1: education on who But I enjoyed it, Bro. I just
Speaker 1: think the experience and and the education I had was
Speaker 1: it was detrimental to my career, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean I the stuff I learned, the things I've
Speaker 1: been through, the how I was forced to be a
Speaker 1: man and a professional in a short time. Uh. That
Speaker 1: that whole grinding and being around different players and from
Speaker 1: different places, and being around veterans, you know, that being illegal,
Speaker 1: it was just a gumball of everything you need as
Speaker 1: a young player going into the league, you know, and
Speaker 1: that being a part of a wink and winning the
Speaker 1: organization just did that experience along was it was along
Speaker 1: was a big reason why I had a fourteen year career.
Speaker 1: Everything I learned that the real quick um as Pop
Speaker 1: comes up on passing our former coach Don Nelson um
Speaker 1: for the all time winning coach. I know you had
Speaker 1: kind of an up and down relationship with Pop. Can
Speaker 1: you speak to that real quick? Yeah, he basically made
Speaker 1: my career and ruined it at the same time. You know,
Speaker 1: gave me an opportunity to gave me an opportunity to
Speaker 1: start on the championship team where I can make a
Speaker 1: name for myself and have a long career. And when
Speaker 1: I still had time left when I went back to him,
Speaker 1: when I've been back to Sanintown, you cut me right
Speaker 1: before the playoffs, and you know how that looked at
Speaker 1: the end of your career in any every team across
Speaker 1: the league get cut right before the playoffs. So um,
Speaker 1: but but the respect will always be there. Things happen, Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to
Speaker 1: say I'm in Bait champion and I wouldn't have got
Speaker 1: that without him. So he is a legend. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best coaches ever. He's he's going to be
Speaker 1: the winning's coaches ever, and uh, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: congratulate him. Make sure you check out Forgotten Seasons this
Speaker 1: week wherever you get your podcast man closing out Jack,
Speaker 1: the Lakers gets smacked by the Pelicans, broad watched. I
Speaker 1: wanted to watch the Kanye I got done coaching the
Speaker 1: Twins yesterday. I wanted to come home watch the Kanye duck,
Speaker 1: but the Laker game was on ESPN, so I watched it,
Speaker 1: and I really watched the whole game because I just
Speaker 1: wanted to really see I mean able to catch a
Speaker 1: whole game in a minute. That's a bad team, Jack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just the body language, you know. Just they don't
Speaker 1: nobody's like they're playing for each other. I think one
Speaker 1: thing about us, even when we was having games, when
Speaker 1: we wasn't going to state we have games, we wasn't
Speaker 1: playing well, we still played for each other. And they
Speaker 1: got us out of that phone. The reason why they're
Speaker 1: still in the funk is they're not playing for each other.
Speaker 1: They are playing for self. They're trying to find somebody
Speaker 1: to point the thing and I'm doing my job, but
Speaker 1: he not all all this is going on. With the
Speaker 1: talent you have, you can't blame it on a d
Speaker 1: being out. You still have enough guys to go out
Speaker 1: there and win games. Man, I just think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just all going down here from the
Speaker 1: way they tried to point every us, you know to
Speaker 1: even with us taking the accountability, they still try to
Speaker 1: throw it on him, And I think it's everybody is
Speaker 1: accountable for the way this team has been playing all season.
Speaker 1: This is just a loaded situation, and you know, everything
Speaker 1: is always bigger than basketball and LA But from Clutch
Speaker 1: sports having beef with the Lakers about not making moves,
Speaker 1: but from where we heard Clutch Sports is who brought
Speaker 1: the moves to l A. So it's just like who
Speaker 1: knows is that hearsay or that actual fact. Two, they
Speaker 1: want to make Frank Vogel the scapegoat, And I know
Speaker 1: you're not the biggest fan of him, but you can't
Speaker 1: coach effort and and and and will and energy like
Speaker 1: that ship. You can't coach that's on individual players. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this team is not playing well, but to blame it
Speaker 1: on him for that type of ship, to me is
Speaker 1: is unfair. But at the same time. It looks like
Speaker 1: Jack and tell me if I'm wrong. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: that team. I don't know if he ever really had
Speaker 1: the team, but you can really tell now that he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the respect in the locker room. The motherfuckers
Speaker 1: don't care what he has to say. And I could
Speaker 1: tell by just looking at them. I really don't know
Speaker 1: where this team goes. You know, A D he had
Speaker 1: a terrible, terrible, terrible ankle spring. They're saying he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be back in four weeks. We'll have to see
Speaker 1: about that. I think that is gonna be longer. Um,
Speaker 1: but what's that that the Vogo is not the guy?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean, you can look at this team right.
Speaker 1: You can look at this team right, and Matt, you can.
Speaker 1: They could have put me, you Rose and Gelani on
Speaker 1: that sideline and and we could have We could have
Speaker 1: coached a D and Braun to the championship. If they're healthy,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get to the championship almost every year they're healthy.
Speaker 1: So it ain't too much coaching you can do to
Speaker 1: those two guys. They are already great, right, so we
Speaker 1: could have got them to the championship. So that's why
Speaker 1: That's why I've been saying he's he wasn't the coach,
Speaker 1: and now you see it because great coaches handle things,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and and and in tough times,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And you know pop Is
Speaker 1: is doing something with San Antonio right now. Without Tim
Speaker 1: duncan you have Lebron James still, you have Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: You still have three Hall of Famers on your team.
Speaker 1: So so if you can't control that and keep that together,
Speaker 1: where your season can stay afloat, where as you see
Speaker 1: where your team is still looking respectable with all the injuries,
Speaker 1: and you're not coach that everybody thought you was. And
Speaker 1: I've been saying that. I agree on that part because
Speaker 1: like I said, you can't blame him for effort, energy
Speaker 1: and and just wanting to be out there. That ship
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to slide under your watch like that.
Speaker 1: Many dudes on your team just want to play that way,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So that just shows like
Speaker 1: no one is really over there and everyone has different styles,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone has different styles to motivate people. I
Speaker 1: remember one thing, you know, Magic Johnson said, and then
Speaker 1: you know the way Phil Jackson used to work. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't talk to everyone the same, you can't treat
Speaker 1: everyone the same, and everyone has different buttons. You have
Speaker 1: to press as a leader and as a coach. One
Speaker 1: more thing before we close out on this thing. Jack,
Speaker 1: someone I don't know who it was. It was this
Speaker 1: weekend or maybe on Friday, someone still said that Lebron
Speaker 1: is a great player, but he can't carry your team anymore.
Speaker 1: What is your thoughts on that? I disagree. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's so many, it's so many scrubs in his league,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about Lebron James. Lebron James is gonna
Speaker 1: be a guy that can carry a team and do
Speaker 1: his part, you know, until he's out the league. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say he's gonna be the Lebron that can
Speaker 1: bring a team down from being down three one. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's that Lebron, but he's still good enough
Speaker 1: to carry a team where he can lead him and rebound, rebounds,
Speaker 1: points and assists and get to a championship. I still
Speaker 1: think he's that guy. It's just a supporting cast. There's
Speaker 1: so much negativity going on, so many me, me, me,
Speaker 1: why me? Well, you know, it's just too much finger
Speaker 1: pointing over there. But Lebron still can do it. I
Speaker 1: don't know who said that. Yeah, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is kind of so that was my thing. Like still,
Speaker 1: I don't know who the fox said it. Lebron is
Speaker 1: definitely still doing his job and and and getting his numbers.
Speaker 1: But that's what I mean, Like he's always until he's done,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to do his his job. But
Speaker 1: he was always able to do a lot of motherfucker's
Speaker 1: jobs before. And like I said, get teams through situations
Speaker 1: like this. And I don't think it's a knock at
Speaker 1: Lebron or or anything, but just age is catching up
Speaker 1: and he's had to do probably the one superstar has
Speaker 1: had to do a lot to maybe the most heavy
Speaker 1: lifting throughout a career. I know people are gonna go
Speaker 1: crazy over that, but he's just done a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot for you know, teams. I just don't know
Speaker 1: if he still has that in him. Again, I think
Speaker 1: he's still a great player, a top two or three
Speaker 1: players in the league, but just his it takes a
Speaker 1: lot and I just think he has a lot of
Speaker 1: miles and for him to be able to he he's
Speaker 1: always been able to cover up for the rest of
Speaker 1: the team's funk ups or insufficiencies or inabilities. And I
Speaker 1: just don't know it at thirty six, when you're eighteen,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of heavy lifting to do, and and
Speaker 1: and and maybe the gand it with less na, but
Speaker 1: not at the end. He couldn't even do. Remember when
Speaker 1: when Cole was at the end, the Lakers were dogshit, dogshit?
Speaker 1: Don't he stayed on the ship? No, I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about at this stage in his career. You know, thirty
Speaker 1: six years old, year eighteen, that's a lot to ask.
Speaker 1: I think of Lebron earlier, he's been able to do
Speaker 1: his whole career. But maybe I agree. I agree with
Speaker 1: that man that knock on ship, that's just right. That's
Speaker 1: what I was trying to say. It's not even a
Speaker 1: knock on it. No, hell no, because he was so
Speaker 1: superhuman before, we just expect him to carry any team wherever.
Speaker 1: That ship is hard to do. Man, for what motherfucking
Speaker 1: dude to carry a whole team is a lot. And
Speaker 1: you know you're eighteen and thirty six years old, that
Speaker 1: that that may be a heavier ask. That's what they
Speaker 1: thought bringing in a D would take a lot of
Speaker 1: the heavy lifting off Bron, so you can continue just
Speaker 1: to maximize him. But he's been having to do a
Speaker 1: heavy lifting with a D. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: to the labs. Man, I'm I'm I'm being a word playoff.
Speaker 1: You're heavy lifted. They thought a D was gonna come
Speaker 1: and take some of the heavy lifting off Braun. But
Speaker 1: what he should be is be with Braun to do
Speaker 1: some heavy lifting in the off season. Oh, word played.
Speaker 1: You said he needed to get in the gym. Yes,
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