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Will be drawn by drafted players, current players, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.800 coaches and analysts and more. Nightcap is the place for 0:02:55.880 --> 0:03:00.560 all your things, for all things NFL Draft Show. We've 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:05.080 got Miami cornerback Keante Scott plus Clemson's cornerback Avion Terrell 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.919 joining us a little later in the show. But first 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.200 the Detroit Pistons even the series up with the Orlando 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:13.440 Magic ninety. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.560 Three ninety eight eighty three in Game two. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.519 The Pistons had lost eleven straight home games in the postseason, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.000 the drought that started back in two thousand and eight. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:27.520 Game three will be in Orlando on Saturday, Joe. I 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.160 mean the game was forty six, forty six, forty five 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.800 at the hell, Joe, I turned the thing back home 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.360 and that damn. I'm like, hold on, what the hell happened? 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:43.280 How you At one point they had outscored Orlando thirty 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.120 to three in the third quarter, Joe, How was the 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.640 Pistons able to turn this thing around even the series up? 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.720 I think the Pistons were definitely just more desperate. Okay, oh, Joe, 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.120 knowing and understanding that, man, Listen, Game two, it's a 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.480 must win situation for us. We can't go to Orlando 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.000 down O two thinking we're gonna win on their home floor. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.960 So I think, you know, they got their morale back. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.960 I thought they came out and made a huge emphasis 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.320 on defense, just to be physical obviously, and just just 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.440 play a lot harder. I thought, you know, I thought 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.640 they win, They'll caught out the game Ocho to where 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.440 you know, offensively. You know last game what he had 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:29.080 about nineteen twenty points. I mean, I think the biggest 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.400 factor is man Ca just got to continue to be 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.200 ultra aggressive, ultra aggressive, make plays not only for himself 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.000 but for them guys around him, and he gotta be. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.880 If he efficient, then they wins will look like this 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.120 because they're a great defensive team. It don't surprise me 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.640 that they held Orlando to eighty three points. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.920 On thirty three percent shooting from the floor, twenty five 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.119 percent from the three, out reboundling their plus their plus 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.360 seven plus fifteen. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.680 Excuse me in the rebound of that aspect. You want 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:57.400 to say something. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.760 Now, I've been gonna say it was a collective effort 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.719 on on their behalf on the Pistons, obviously ka to 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.040 Cunningham doing exactly what he's supposed to do, obviously leading 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.080 that spad, but going down, oh too. You don't want 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.040 to have to dig yourself out that kind of hole, 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.280 Joe and make it a more difficult. So they knew 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.880 they had to even goddamn series out. And not only that, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.479 it was a collective effort from everybody. God damn, Tobias 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.560 had sixteen, Robinson had ten. You got eleven from during shit, 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.480 Cunningham did what he did with twenty seven, and god 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.560 damn Thompson had eleven. So everybody including you know he 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.000 had Stuart coming off the bench, you know, he had ten. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.479 He has some other people contribute a little bit as well. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.320 But listen, they got to play like this. They got 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.120 to play like this the rest of the series, or hell, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.200 it could be a goddamn upset. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be an upset. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:43.240 Oh jo. 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:47.440 I mean, obviously, you know, Detroit hadn't really been tested, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.600 so we don't really know if they're a championship caliber 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.240 team yet. We just know they number one in the 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.160 Eastern Conference, you know what I mean. So now if 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.640 they are championship caliber team, now they got to show 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:57.960 it because you gotta go out on the road and 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.000 you gotta go get you one, you know what I mean. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.559 So we'll see if them guys can step up, step 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.240 on to the challenge, and obviously still want an Orlando. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.599 Yeah, there's the difference between playoff basketball and regular season basketball, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.040 and we see that a lot. There's a difference, and 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.560 there's a difference between regular season and postseason and anything, 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:18.440 be it football, basketball, baseball, hockey, whatever whatever team sport is, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.760 if you have a postseason, there's a difference the intensity level. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.680 There's greater expectations, especially on higher seeds, because you got 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.680 that higher seed by playing good basketball during the season. Now, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.240 all of a sudden, when it matters the most, where 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.040 we need to get stops, where we need to be 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.480 efficient and clutch situations, we don't. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:37.039 Get that done. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.560 So anybody that says they don't, you, oh, you know, 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.560 you absolutely know what it is. 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:42.679 And Detroit knows. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.520 They basically had the best record in the Eastern Conference, 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.159 damn near from start to finish. Even when Cade went out, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.920 they still found ways to win. And now here they 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.320 find themselves in a Series one one with Orlando. Now 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.200 they're gonna need to do a better job. They did 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.880 a great job on the glass tonight, Joe, they have 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.160 plus fifteen. Detroit was over Orlando. They're gonna even do better. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.120 They're gonna have to shoot the three. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:05.200 Now. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.000 I don't think, necessarily think they're a great three point 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.920 shooting team. They can get streaky like most teams can, 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.480 but some teams are better. The Boston Centers are a 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:17.600 good three point shooting team. Not They're not better knock 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.520 down somebody damn free throws. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.000 Yeah, yeah, I agree, they got they gotta shoot better 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.480 from the three un Ojoe. Not only that, I think 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.040 they hang their head on their defense, you know what 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.880 I mean, Like they pride themselves defensively. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.400 It ain't too many times they gonna get our rebounding. 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.640 No, with during It and Big Boy and Steward down there, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.760 it ain't many times that they gonna get our rebounding. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.920 So you know, they come with a tough mindset, hard hat, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.320 you know, outwork you and do whatever it takes to 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.920 win the game. Now you just hope your stars step up. 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.680 Obviously Cad has been consistent, but man, if you can 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.680 get some consistent productivity from Tobias Harris. Every time I'm 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.680 talking about consistent old I'm saying it ain't gotta be 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.080 about fifteen twenty points a night, But can we get 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.080 that consistently, then I think that will definitely help. Because 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.200 they asking too much for during you know, oh, man, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:09.800 he need to give us twenty five. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.240 Ask can we ask to give us give him? Give 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:15.840 us what you gave us in the regular season. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.200 If that asking too much, joke, I don't think it's 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.240 asking too much but here's the problem. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:22.600 In a playoff. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.400 Series, bro we we we're gonna try to expose you 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.880 gotta We're gonna have to play during tough. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.480 We can't give him nothing easy. See. He known for 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:31.000 getting them. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.880 Put back to just being kind of like a junk 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.880 yard dog type of player, to where he kind of, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.200 you know, feed off miss of misshots. But it's tough, man, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.280 Hey or Letto got some big bodies that they can 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.560 throw at him, and it's been giving him some problems, 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.880 you know what I mean. He hadn't been as effective 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.560 as he's been, you know in the regular season, but 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.000 I expect his play to continue to get better. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.600 To Joe, if he continues to play like this, they 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.840 going home. If Jalen dur does not pick up that play, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.839 they're going home. You can't have a situation, Joe, your 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.360 two best player, one of your players that's playing like 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.680 he's supposed to play. Kay Cunningham has elevated his game 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.200 thirty nine in the first game twenty seven, Jalen Durden 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.280 has not. He was as a potend. Joe, He's gonna 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.000 be an all NBA player. He made it all our 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.160 team and he give it a no, no I look, 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.559 the playoffs is about elevating, it's not about decreasing. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.200 I don't give it damn what you do. Yes, oh yes, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.120 I understand that. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.160 But see that's see what you said, Joe, you said, Hey, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.640 let's make it tough on him. That's how you make 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.440 your name, That's how you become legendary, that's how you 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:43.400 become iconic, because you know they know what you represent 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.560 and they're gonna do what they can to stop it. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.240 And guess what, you still go out there and busty pauls. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.960 Yeah, yeah, but you're right, that's what the greats do. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.200 You already you know what we running. We know what 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.360 you're running. Still, I don't care you can't stop it. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.880 But I think I think we kind of gotta give 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.200 him a little slack. He's just not an offensive guy 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.000 like that. He's just been a hard working dude who's 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.280 put up some great numbers during the regular season, but 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.760 in the postseason. I'm I'm I'm down in on him. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.000 I see his stress, I see his weaknesses. You know 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.960 what I'm saying, I'm gonna make I'm I'm gonna make 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.400 him music. You feel what I'm saying, And I feel 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.560 like with them just throwing him the ball trying to say, man, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:21.440 go get us a bucket. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.160 That ain't his game, Man, that ain't. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.120 I guess what, I want you to be that same 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.800 hard working guy in the postseason that you were in 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.480 the regular season, because guess what. You know what's coming 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.959 this way, don't Joe, Joe, you know that Max contract 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:32.480 coming right? 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.320 Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, it ain't gonna be Hey. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.679 Hey, the one thing about Orlando, they big, they fighting, Bro, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.680 they ain't gonna be easy. If you supposed to be 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.199 that guy, you're gonna have to show. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:44.920 Us you that guy for sure. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.000 Yeah, that's and that's that's the way you that's what 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.960 you But you gotta you gotta want to take it 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.240 like you know what, Man, they really count on me 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.800 because you know, Detroit, ever since the bad Boys, what 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.640 are they known for? You ain't finna outscrap us And 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.920 if we gotta, if we got a squabble, we gonna squad. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.240 But you're not fitning out work because you're not gonna 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.199 be out tough for us. It started and then when 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.200 they started bringing in Lambierd and they got Mahrn and 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.880 they got James Edwards and they got sound he dumars 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:19.440 bro then they got worm. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.800 Yeah yeah, so. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.920 Yeah, that's how they've always been. Fast forward to bass 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.920 Boy Pistons too, when they had Big Bend she Chauncey 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.679 Real Tayshaun. This is always who they being. And now 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:36.640 that the third edition, the third installment the trilogy. Even 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.320 though Stu come off the bench, he brings that toughness, 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:41.079 K plays tough. 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.600 Those got This is what you in Detroit. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.520 It's kind of like if you play for the Steelers, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.760 you play for the Ravens, you already. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.120 Know you got this a mind sets. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.319 You don't walk no, no, no, no, ain't no for 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:59.960 next football, No Detroit Pistons, they can't play for them. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.000 You gotta be physical. This is who y'all are. Y'all 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.080 ain't got no no free y'all know, hey y'all not 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.640 y'all not golden, stay at there, heyday. Y'all ain't pretty, 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:14.959 y'all dump truck, y'all, truck y'all, pick up trucks, gritty 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.240 and grind me. Yeah, that's how they gotta play. And 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.439 I think I thought, I thought today you know, they 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.080 played like it. But but on another note, I thought, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.240 Orlando kind of they looked satisfied. To me, I saw that, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.040 gonna lie to you, and I'm watching Orlando, I'm like, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.760 they ain't really come with the same they had in 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:32.400 Game one. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.040 It's kind of like, you know, they were. It seemed 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.920 like they were kind of satisfied that we won in 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.160 there and won one game. Now we'll see what they 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.000 do in Game three. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.440 But I'm be honest with y'all, I expect the Pistons 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.640 to obviously come back and take. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:46.439 Control of this series. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.240 You know what I thought they I thought they I 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.920 thought they were really really engaged in the first half. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.680 If you look at them, the way they played the 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.040 first half, Joe, especially the second quarter, I thought, I said, damn, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.520 I said, Detroit, y'all better be on your best behavior, man, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.800 cause look at it. They try They greedy, look like 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.920 they try to get sweet. Ye, they trying to split 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.439 the part, They trying to take it off it damn 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.440 to come out there the next thing, I know, a 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.679 thirty to three, it really it really. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:18.679 Really blew the game open from that point on. Yeah, Dan, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.240 Orlando ain't getting no contribution from the bench. I like, how. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.520 You know Suggs is being aggressive, But I want once 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.240 again Uncle Ocho. When I'm watching Orlando Magic Man, I'm 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:35.080 watching I'm watching Polo Ben Carrollo. I don't I don't 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.320 want him out there doing all that dribbling, Uncle Ocho. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.079 I'm sorry, Bro, I'm talking about free throw lining. Then 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.439 is where he should be. I'm talking about it. Shouldn't 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.199 be a person on the Pistons team who could guard him. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.360 Bro. He he give us flashes because he showed us 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:49.400 in Game one he could do it. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.160 And I just think he got back today handling the ball, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.080 having a little man set the pick and roll. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:55.840 Man. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.480 Hey, look, that's part of being great, doing it night 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.400 in and night out. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.200 Doing it over and over and over again. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.680 So he got to learn to, you know, stick with 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.120 his bread and butter because them dudes can't guard him 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:07.480 in the mid post man. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.560 Everybody nobody shot the ball great to night and and 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.319 you know Black normally gives him great production off the bench. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.680 Carter didn't play a whole lot, but dose, uh, he 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.320 played twenty. He didn't really give him anything of vox. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.000 They didn't, You're right, Joe, they didn't get anything. But 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.280 you know, it was a game that I don't even 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:25.760 know if they were really trying to give him anything 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.640 because at that point in time, the game was a blowout, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.440 right right, But Lindell Carter Junior, you gotta give him 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.480 more than three points. You got to give him more 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.080 than three bro. Yeah, that's an except the finals twenty 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:40.240 nine and twenty four minutes. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:41.920 Mm hmm. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.520 Hey, look, but look, considering what they've done to the 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.400 Hornets for their last play in spot, I think they 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:52.360 gonna play pretty good, sure Orlando that I think they're 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.360 gonna be. They're gonna be a totally different team. So 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.080 I think typically Ben Carroll gonna play better, even I 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.000 don't think he played bad, but I think he'll play 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.440 a lot better. Uh, you'll get more from Whndell Carter. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.720 I think these bench guys like Black, I think these guys, 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.240 they'll be a lot more common and ready. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.600 You know, in Game three, being at. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:17.200 Home, they jettison the other big Orlando did Isaacs him 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.120 and the coach out here did we gotta falling out 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:19.560 of something? 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.760 And yeah I remember that, but I. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.640 Like, I think mostly in that coach name yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.680 yeah him back down. Now, Ben Carroll was trying to 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.640 take a few shots in the media. He's like Hey, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.440 you right back at it. Yeah, Hey, you gotta be. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:40.800 You gotta be like that man. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.480 You can't. You can't be nervous to challenge your guys. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.280 If you want to be great, you gotta be. You 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.560 gotta want to be challenged. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.000 There you go, despite however they may feel you. You 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.600 can't be, you know, timid on challenging them guys, because 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.680 I think more than anything, you'll gain more respect for sure, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.400 you know, than anything. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.840 I say you a most hope they respond the right way. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.440 You almost hope they respond the right way because most 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.120 of them don't don't take kind to being challenge because 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.960 they're sensitive and they don't see it as a challenge. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.080 They take it as something else. So as long as 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.480 they understand, I'm sure they have conversations behind closed doors 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.920 and coaches letting them know. You know, there's certain things 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.000 that you can't say, because I also got to protect 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.920 myself because some of the things you say it reflects 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.280 me who I am as a coach, or I have 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.240 no choice but to say something back. But it's nothing, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.280 nothing directed towards you, nothing personal. But I got to 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:33.520 challenge you to be better. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.360 I think, and even if you don't gain said players 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.760 respect you. You gain this teammates respect because they're gone. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.000 Yeah. Sometimes sometimes you can lose a locker. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.840 Room because how you treat they say that man, hold on. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.160 All you do is get on us late. Yeah, you 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.600 get on us. He blowds and assignment you mad at me. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.240 You lose the locker room. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.040 no no, say something to him. He might not Hey, 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.760 he might do everything he can to probably potentially get 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.520 you up out of there. But at least you got 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.720 to gain this, make the locker room because if you, hey, 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.680 what good is a he let you let him do everything, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.480 and then you ain't got the locker room. You're gonna 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.800 be out of there quicker than that anyway. Yeah, And 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.919 so that that's the thing guys don't get and you 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.280 guys the right guys don't get it. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:24.919 Guys don't want to be challenged because. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.040 When you're great at a young age, you kind of 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.520 get coddle because you're great. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.560 And if you and. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.560 Coaches don't want you to take your ball and go home. Yeah, 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.080 because I think like the NIL program. Now, guess what, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.320 you challenge the guy, now he just go somewhere else. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.720 He gone in the portal, yell at me you if 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.200 in the coach, Yeah, I think I think the most 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:51.560 important thing as a coach. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.159 Okay, both y'all know this. You have to know your 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.080 players who yeah, with thing you have to know. You 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.520 have to know how they'll respond on the same circumstances. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.359 So it may be the heat of the game. Coach 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.800 may already know he can jump down. You know what 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.640 I'm saying. He can jump on me me a game. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.400 You hear what I'm saying. And if he can jump 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.640 on your best player in front of everybody, it does 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.000 weigh heavy because now all these other dudes around when 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.560 he do jump on them, they fall right in line. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.040 So I think as a coach you got the toughest job, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.240 especially when it comes in the NBA. I'm sure the 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.520 same thing in the NFL, because you have to know 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.000 how to deal with different person day to day, and 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:32.920 that's the hardest thing. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.520 I'm gonna treat you all the Bill Davis to tell 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.040 us all the time, I'm gonna treat you all all fair, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.640 but I ain't gonna treat you the same. Now, some 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.840 guys you can ride, like Joe said, some guys, if 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.680 you gotta pad him on the back even with a Yeah, 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.199 some guys you can be factitious with. Damn son, my 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.640 wife could have made that play. Some guys you gotta 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.320 be facious with. Some guys you could ride. You just 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.959 have to know what buttons to push to get what 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:55.800 doors to open. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:58.560 Yeah. Yeah. 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.040 That is the biggest thing about coach is to understand 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.720