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Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons even the series up with the Orlando
Speaker 1: Magic ninety.
Speaker 2: Three ninety eight eighty three in Game two.
Speaker 1: The Pistons had lost eleven straight home games in the postseason,
Speaker 1: the drought that started back in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: Game three will be in Orlando on Saturday, Joe. I
Speaker 1: mean the game was forty six, forty six, forty five
Speaker 1: at the hell, Joe, I turned the thing back home
Speaker 1: and that damn. I'm like, hold on, what the hell happened?
Speaker 1: How you At one point they had outscored Orlando thirty
Speaker 1: to three in the third quarter, Joe, How was the
Speaker 1: Pistons able to turn this thing around even the series up?
Speaker 3: I think the Pistons were definitely just more desperate. Okay, oh, Joe,
Speaker 3: knowing and understanding that, man, Listen, Game two, it's a
Speaker 3: must win situation for us. We can't go to Orlando
Speaker 3: down O two thinking we're gonna win on their home floor.
Speaker 3: So I think, you know, they got their morale back.
Speaker 3: I thought they came out and made a huge emphasis
Speaker 3: on defense, just to be physical obviously, and just just
Speaker 3: play a lot harder. I thought, you know, I thought
Speaker 3: they win, They'll caught out the game Ocho to where
Speaker 3: you know, offensively. You know last game what he had
Speaker 3: about nineteen twenty points. I mean, I think the biggest
Speaker 3: factor is man Ca just got to continue to be
Speaker 3: ultra aggressive, ultra aggressive, make plays not only for himself
Speaker 3: but for them guys around him, and he gotta be.
Speaker 3: If he efficient, then they wins will look like this
Speaker 3: because they're a great defensive team. It don't surprise me
Speaker 3: that they held Orlando to eighty three points.
Speaker 1: On thirty three percent shooting from the floor, twenty five
Speaker 1: percent from the three, out reboundling their plus their plus
Speaker 1: seven plus fifteen.
Speaker 2: Excuse me in the rebound of that aspect. You want
Speaker 2: to say something.
Speaker 4: Now, I've been gonna say it was a collective effort
Speaker 4: on on their behalf on the Pistons, obviously ka to
Speaker 4: Cunningham doing exactly what he's supposed to do, obviously leading
Speaker 4: that spad, but going down, oh too. You don't want
Speaker 4: to have to dig yourself out that kind of hole,
Speaker 4: Joe and make it a more difficult. So they knew
Speaker 4: they had to even goddamn series out. And not only that,
Speaker 4: it was a collective effort from everybody. God damn, Tobias
Speaker 4: had sixteen, Robinson had ten. You got eleven from during shit,
Speaker 4: Cunningham did what he did with twenty seven, and god
Speaker 4: damn Thompson had eleven. So everybody including you know he
Speaker 4: had Stuart coming off the bench, you know, he had ten.
Speaker 4: He has some other people contribute a little bit as well.
Speaker 4: But listen, they got to play like this. They got
Speaker 4: to play like this the rest of the series, or hell,
Speaker 4: it could be a goddamn upset.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be an upset.
Speaker 2: Oh jo.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, you know, Detroit hadn't really been tested,
Speaker 3: so we don't really know if they're a championship caliber
Speaker 3: team yet. We just know they number one in the
Speaker 3: Eastern Conference, you know what I mean. So now if
Speaker 3: they are championship caliber team, now they got to show
Speaker 3: it because you gotta go out on the road and
Speaker 3: you gotta go get you one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So we'll see if them guys can step up, step
Speaker 3: on to the challenge, and obviously still want an Orlando.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's the difference between playoff basketball and regular season basketball,
Speaker 1: and we see that a lot. There's a difference, and
Speaker 1: there's a difference between regular season and postseason and anything,
Speaker 1: be it football, basketball, baseball, hockey, whatever whatever team sport is,
Speaker 1: if you have a postseason, there's a difference the intensity level.
Speaker 1: There's greater expectations, especially on higher seeds, because you got
Speaker 1: that higher seed by playing good basketball during the season. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, when it matters the most, where
Speaker 1: we need to get stops, where we need to be
Speaker 1: efficient and clutch situations, we don't.
Speaker 2: Get that done.
Speaker 1: So anybody that says they don't, you, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you absolutely know what it is.
Speaker 2: And Detroit knows.
Speaker 1: They basically had the best record in the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: damn near from start to finish. Even when Cade went out,
Speaker 1: they still found ways to win. And now here they
Speaker 1: find themselves in a Series one one with Orlando. Now
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to do a better job. They did
Speaker 1: a great job on the glass tonight, Joe, they have
Speaker 1: plus fifteen. Detroit was over Orlando. They're gonna even do better.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to shoot the three.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think, necessarily think they're a great three point
Speaker 1: shooting team. They can get streaky like most teams can,
Speaker 1: but some teams are better. The Boston Centers are a
Speaker 1: good three point shooting team. Not They're not better knock
Speaker 1: down somebody damn free throws.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree, they got they gotta shoot better
Speaker 3: from the three un Ojoe. Not only that, I think
Speaker 3: they hang their head on their defense, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like they pride themselves defensively.
Speaker 2: It ain't too many times they gonna get our rebounding.
Speaker 3: No, with during It and Big Boy and Steward down there,
Speaker 3: it ain't many times that they gonna get our rebounding.
Speaker 3: So you know, they come with a tough mindset, hard hat,
Speaker 3: you know, outwork you and do whatever it takes to
Speaker 3: win the game. Now you just hope your stars step up.
Speaker 3: Obviously Cad has been consistent, but man, if you can
Speaker 3: get some consistent productivity from Tobias Harris. Every time I'm
Speaker 3: talking about consistent old I'm saying it ain't gotta be
Speaker 3: about fifteen twenty points a night, But can we get
Speaker 3: that consistently, then I think that will definitely help. Because
Speaker 3: they asking too much for during you know, oh, man,
Speaker 3: he need to give us twenty five.
Speaker 1: Ask can we ask to give us give him? Give
Speaker 1: us what you gave us in the regular season.
Speaker 3: If that asking too much, joke, I don't think it's
Speaker 3: asking too much but here's the problem.
Speaker 2: In a playoff.
Speaker 3: Series, bro we we we're gonna try to expose you
Speaker 3: gotta We're gonna have to play during tough.
Speaker 2: We can't give him nothing easy. See. He known for
Speaker 2: getting them.
Speaker 3: Put back to just being kind of like a junk
Speaker 3: yard dog type of player, to where he kind of,
Speaker 3: you know, feed off miss of misshots. But it's tough, man,
Speaker 3: Hey or Letto got some big bodies that they can
Speaker 3: throw at him, and it's been giving him some problems,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. He hadn't been as effective
Speaker 3: as he's been, you know in the regular season, but
Speaker 3: I expect his play to continue to get better.
Speaker 1: To Joe, if he continues to play like this, they
Speaker 1: going home. If Jalen dur does not pick up that play,
Speaker 1: they're going home. You can't have a situation, Joe, your
Speaker 1: two best player, one of your players that's playing like
Speaker 1: he's supposed to play. Kay Cunningham has elevated his game
Speaker 1: thirty nine in the first game twenty seven, Jalen Durden
Speaker 1: has not. He was as a potend. Joe, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be an all NBA player. He made it all our
Speaker 1: team and he give it a no, no I look,
Speaker 1: the playoffs is about elevating, it's not about decreasing.
Speaker 2: I don't give it damn what you do. Yes, oh yes,
Speaker 2: I understand that.
Speaker 1: But see that's see what you said, Joe, you said, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's make it tough on him. That's how you make
Speaker 1: your name, That's how you become legendary, that's how you
Speaker 1: become iconic, because you know they know what you represent
Speaker 1: and they're gonna do what they can to stop it.
Speaker 2: And guess what, you still go out there and busty pauls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but you're right, that's what the greats do.
Speaker 3: You already you know what we running. We know what
Speaker 3: you're running. Still, I don't care you can't stop it.
Speaker 3: But I think I think we kind of gotta give
Speaker 3: him a little slack. He's just not an offensive guy
Speaker 3: like that. He's just been a hard working dude who's
Speaker 3: put up some great numbers during the regular season, but
Speaker 3: in the postseason. I'm I'm I'm down in on him.
Speaker 3: I see his stress, I see his weaknesses. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, I'm gonna make I'm I'm gonna make
Speaker 3: him music. You feel what I'm saying, And I feel
Speaker 3: like with them just throwing him the ball trying to say, man,
Speaker 3: go get us a bucket.
Speaker 2: That ain't his game, Man, that ain't.
Speaker 1: I guess what, I want you to be that same
Speaker 1: hard working guy in the postseason that you were in
Speaker 1: the regular season, because guess what. You know what's coming
Speaker 1: this way, don't Joe, Joe, you know that Max contract
Speaker 1: coming right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, it ain't gonna be Hey.
Speaker 3: Hey, the one thing about Orlando, they big, they fighting, Bro,
Speaker 3: they ain't gonna be easy. If you supposed to be
Speaker 3: that guy, you're gonna have to show.
Speaker 2: Us you that guy for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and that's that's the way you that's what
Speaker 1: you But you gotta you gotta want to take it
Speaker 1: like you know what, Man, they really count on me
Speaker 1: because you know, Detroit, ever since the bad Boys, what
Speaker 1: are they known for? You ain't finna outscrap us And
Speaker 1: if we gotta, if we got a squabble, we gonna squad.
Speaker 1: But you're not fitning out work because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be out tough for us. It started and then when
Speaker 1: they started bringing in Lambierd and they got Mahrn and
Speaker 1: they got James Edwards and they got sound he dumars
Speaker 1: bro then they got worm.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how they've always been. Fast forward to bass
Speaker 1: Boy Pistons too, when they had Big Bend she Chauncey
Speaker 1: Real Tayshaun. This is always who they being. And now
Speaker 1: that the third edition, the third installment the trilogy. Even
Speaker 1: though Stu come off the bench, he brings that toughness,
Speaker 1: K plays tough.
Speaker 2: Those got This is what you in Detroit.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you play for the Steelers,
Speaker 1: you play for the Ravens, you already.
Speaker 2: Know you got this a mind sets.
Speaker 1: You don't walk no, no, no, no, ain't no for
Speaker 1: next football, No Detroit Pistons, they can't play for them.
Speaker 1: You gotta be physical. This is who y'all are. Y'all
Speaker 1: ain't got no no free y'all know, hey y'all not
Speaker 1: y'all not golden, stay at there, heyday. Y'all ain't pretty,
Speaker 1: y'all dump truck, y'all, truck y'all, pick up trucks, gritty
Speaker 1: and grind me. Yeah, that's how they gotta play. And
Speaker 1: I think I thought, I thought today you know, they
Speaker 1: played like it. But but on another note, I thought,
Speaker 1: Orlando kind of they looked satisfied. To me, I saw that,
Speaker 1: gonna lie to you, and I'm watching Orlando, I'm like,
Speaker 1: they ain't really come with the same they had in
Speaker 1: Game one.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, you know, they were. It seemed
Speaker 2: like they were kind of satisfied that we won in
Speaker 2: there and won one game. Now we'll see what they
Speaker 2: do in Game three.
Speaker 3: But I'm be honest with y'all, I expect the Pistons
Speaker 3: to obviously come back and take.
Speaker 2: Control of this series.
Speaker 1: You know what I thought they I thought they I
Speaker 1: thought they were really really engaged in the first half.
Speaker 1: If you look at them, the way they played the
Speaker 1: first half, Joe, especially the second quarter, I thought, I said, damn,
Speaker 1: I said, Detroit, y'all better be on your best behavior, man,
Speaker 1: cause look at it. They try They greedy, look like
Speaker 1: they try to get sweet. Ye, they trying to split
Speaker 1: the part, They trying to take it off it damn
Speaker 1: to come out there the next thing, I know, a
Speaker 1: thirty to three, it really it really.
Speaker 2: Really blew the game open from that point on. Yeah, Dan,
Speaker 2: Orlando ain't getting no contribution from the bench. I like, how.
Speaker 3: You know Suggs is being aggressive, But I want once
Speaker 3: again Uncle Ocho. When I'm watching Orlando Magic Man, I'm
Speaker 3: watching I'm watching Polo Ben Carrollo. I don't I don't
Speaker 3: want him out there doing all that dribbling, Uncle Ocho.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Bro, I'm talking about free throw lining. Then
Speaker 3: is where he should be. I'm talking about it. Shouldn't
Speaker 3: be a person on the Pistons team who could guard him.
Speaker 2: Bro. He he give us flashes because he showed us
Speaker 2: in Game one he could do it.
Speaker 3: And I just think he got back today handling the ball,
Speaker 3: having a little man set the pick and roll.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: Hey, look, that's part of being great, doing it night
Speaker 3: in and night out.
Speaker 2: Doing it over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: So he got to learn to, you know, stick with
Speaker 3: his bread and butter because them dudes can't guard him
Speaker 3: in the mid post man.
Speaker 1: Everybody nobody shot the ball great to night and and
Speaker 1: you know Black normally gives him great production off the bench.
Speaker 1: Carter didn't play a whole lot, but dose, uh, he
Speaker 1: played twenty. He didn't really give him anything of vox.
Speaker 1: They didn't, You're right, Joe, they didn't get anything. But
Speaker 1: you know, it was a game that I don't even
Speaker 1: know if they were really trying to give him anything
Speaker 1: because at that point in time, the game was a blowout,
Speaker 1: right right, But Lindell Carter Junior, you gotta give him
Speaker 1: more than three points. You got to give him more
Speaker 1: than three bro. Yeah, that's an except the finals twenty
Speaker 1: nine and twenty four minutes.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Hey, look, but look, considering what they've done to the
Speaker 3: Hornets for their last play in spot, I think they
Speaker 3: gonna play pretty good, sure Orlando that I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna be. They're gonna be a totally different team. So
Speaker 3: I think typically Ben Carroll gonna play better, even I
Speaker 3: don't think he played bad, but I think he'll play
Speaker 3: a lot better. Uh, you'll get more from Whndell Carter.
Speaker 3: I think these bench guys like Black, I think these guys,
Speaker 3: they'll be a lot more common and ready.
Speaker 2: You know, in Game three, being at.
Speaker 1: Home, they jettison the other big Orlando did Isaacs him
Speaker 1: and the coach out here did we gotta falling out
Speaker 1: of something?
Speaker 2: And yeah I remember that, but I.
Speaker 1: Like, I think mostly in that coach name yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah him back down. Now, Ben Carroll was trying to
Speaker 1: take a few shots in the media. He's like Hey,
Speaker 1: you right back at it. Yeah, Hey, you gotta be.
Speaker 1: You gotta be like that man.
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't be nervous to challenge your guys.
Speaker 2: If you want to be great, you gotta be. You
Speaker 2: gotta want to be challenged.
Speaker 3: There you go, despite however they may feel you. You
Speaker 3: can't be, you know, timid on challenging them guys, because
Speaker 3: I think more than anything, you'll gain more respect for sure,
Speaker 3: you know, than anything.
Speaker 4: I say you a most hope they respond the right way.
Speaker 4: You almost hope they respond the right way because most
Speaker 4: of them don't don't take kind to being challenge because
Speaker 4: they're sensitive and they don't see it as a challenge.
Speaker 4: They take it as something else. So as long as
Speaker 4: they understand, I'm sure they have conversations behind closed doors
Speaker 4: and coaches letting them know. You know, there's certain things
Speaker 4: that you can't say, because I also got to protect
Speaker 4: myself because some of the things you say it reflects
Speaker 4: me who I am as a coach, or I have
Speaker 4: no choice but to say something back. But it's nothing,
Speaker 4: nothing directed towards you, nothing personal. But I got to
Speaker 4: challenge you to be better.
Speaker 1: I think, and even if you don't gain said players
Speaker 1: respect you. You gain this teammates respect because they're gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes sometimes you can lose a locker.
Speaker 1: Room because how you treat they say that man, hold on.
Speaker 1: All you do is get on us late. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get on us. He blowds and assignment you mad at me.
Speaker 1: You lose the locker room. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, say something to him. He might not Hey,
Speaker 1: he might do everything he can to probably potentially get
Speaker 1: you up out of there. But at least you got
Speaker 1: to gain this, make the locker room because if you, hey,
Speaker 1: what good is a he let you let him do everything,
Speaker 1: and then you ain't got the locker room. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be out of there quicker than that anyway. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so that that's the thing guys don't get and you
Speaker 1: guys the right guys don't get it.
Speaker 2: Guys don't want to be challenged because.
Speaker 1: When you're great at a young age, you kind of
Speaker 1: get coddle because you're great.
Speaker 2: And if you and.
Speaker 1: Coaches don't want you to take your ball and go home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I think like the NIL program. Now, guess what,
Speaker 1: you challenge the guy, now he just go somewhere else.
Speaker 1: He gone in the portal, yell at me you if
Speaker 1: in the coach, Yeah, I think I think the most
Speaker 1: important thing as a coach.
Speaker 3: Okay, both y'all know this. You have to know your
Speaker 3: players who yeah, with thing you have to know. You
Speaker 3: have to know how they'll respond on the same circumstances.
Speaker 3: So it may be the heat of the game. Coach
Speaker 3: may already know he can jump down. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. He can jump on me me a game.
Speaker 3: You hear what I'm saying. And if he can jump
Speaker 3: on your best player in front of everybody, it does
Speaker 3: weigh heavy because now all these other dudes around when
Speaker 3: he do jump on them, they fall right in line.
Speaker 3: So I think as a coach you got the toughest job,
Speaker 3: especially when it comes in the NBA. I'm sure the
Speaker 3: same thing in the NFL, because you have to know
Speaker 3: how to deal with different person day to day, and
Speaker 3: that's the hardest thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna treat you all the Bill Davis to tell
Speaker 1: us all the time, I'm gonna treat you all all fair,
Speaker 1: but I ain't gonna treat you the same. Now, some
Speaker 1: guys you can ride, like Joe said, some guys, if
Speaker 1: you gotta pad him on the back even with a Yeah,
Speaker 1: some guys you can be factitious with. Damn son, my
Speaker 1: wife could have made that play. Some guys you gotta
Speaker 1: be facious with. Some guys you could ride. You just
Speaker 1: have to know what buttons to push to get what
Speaker 1: doors to open.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That is the biggest thing about coach is to understand
Speaker 1: your players. I'm telling you. You try to do everybody
Speaker 1: the same. Okay, yeah, think about it. Okay, look all
Speaker 1: your YEA coach coach of the players, because I seen it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I seen him. I've seen h squab. I seen
Speaker 2: him squab. They ain't throw no blow.
Speaker 4: I square hold on Joe, hold on Joe. You see
Speaker 4: who squabbed a coach and the player.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, coach of the player in the NBA. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, without saying those names, can I can I
Speaker 4: get that story? Don't say no names?
Speaker 2: Uh uh.
Speaker 3: It was my first year here in Atlanta, making like okay, okay,
Speaker 3: it was my.
Speaker 2: First year here in Atlanta. Not mind you.
Speaker 3: They just came off winning nine games the season before,
Speaker 3: so the environment, you know, wasn't you know, it was shaky.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the best.
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying, so it was probably already
Speaker 3: tension built up from last season, right, it just kind
Speaker 3: of carried over. And this was like early in the season,
Speaker 3: Like I say, we started off here three and twenty nine.
Speaker 3: Hell boy, way it was almost fighting. Yeah, Hey, that's
Speaker 3: p J Carblissimo. Can you coach everybody the same?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: Hold up though, ax, Phil Jackson, Look how he had
Speaker 3: to coach the Warren knowing that man were gonna get
Speaker 3: out of line. George let with him, Joe, you got
Speaker 3: you got some players. But because you know, bro, you
Speaker 3: know they especially especially the ones that's great. It's certain
Speaker 3: stuff you're gonna have to deal with and you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to try and minimize, you know, the punishment to
Speaker 3: some degree. Because if Dennis Rodman was doing that and
Speaker 3: he wasn't who he was, like, he'd be out the lead.
Speaker 1: As long as production, you're sure as tolerance, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: tolerance will never be higher than production.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk about in professional sports in job, regular job.
Speaker 1: Look at the guy that's producing his quota or his
Speaker 1: or her quota is through the roof that come late,
Speaker 1: they eating at the dash. They might not have the
Speaker 1: right of tower on.
Speaker 2: Now you.
Speaker 1: You show up on time, you do everything right, but
Speaker 1: your quote where it needs to be the first time
Speaker 1: you get you get rid of and you got to go.
Speaker 2: First time they call your ass down to hr you
Speaker 2: up out of there.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but I aint you gotta be careful how
Speaker 1: you talk to people because everybody don't respond to the
Speaker 1: same stimuli. So that yelling and screaming, that's a trigger
Speaker 1: for somebody and to tear your ass up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, but a trigger from from some uh uh,
Speaker 3: some trauma that happened early in life.
Speaker 2: You never know. That's what I now.
Speaker 1: We had a conversation kind of like our first year Joe,
Speaker 1: and that's like when you date somebody, you're not just
Speaker 1: dating that person, you dating the trauma that they dealt
Speaker 1: with before you got there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's what you're dealing with. You don't know.
Speaker 2: You don't know. Same thing.
Speaker 1: You go, you go to the power, you get your like,
Speaker 1: oh it's a gorgeous dog, but you don't know what
Speaker 1: led that dog to be there.
Speaker 2: Now, you might do something that is.
Speaker 1: Previous owner did and trigger it and you will get
Speaker 1: why he ended up where it ended up, why it
Speaker 1: was same thing in a relationship you might say something
Speaker 1: someone has said in their past, his or her I
Speaker 1: just don't want you.
Speaker 2: I'm just not women because I know how y'all are.
Speaker 1: Oh you just it's just no. You might say something.
Speaker 1: He or she might say, something might trigger him or
Speaker 1: her from a previous situation or previous situations, or even
Speaker 1: by the fact childhood me, I was a guy. I
Speaker 1: didn't do well to yelling because I got yelled at
Speaker 1: a lot when I younger. So I was just like, man,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get grown. I don't like being yelling.
Speaker 1: Tell me what I need to do, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do everything I possibly can to do it right that yelling.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you a look first. I give you
Speaker 2: a look first. Yeah, you hear me? Son, You about
Speaker 2: to feel me, don't. I don't. I don't do well
Speaker 2: with that. Joe, just terrible.
Speaker 1: It seems like I'm trying to mess it up right
Speaker 1: right A A tell me something that did you raise
Speaker 1: your kids like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know what I mean. You have times you
Speaker 2: may yell at them, but I'm like, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: honest with you.
Speaker 3: I ain't you ain't. None of my kids had their ass.
Speaker 3: Oh no, but but just but just by me raising
Speaker 3: my voice, that'll be enough for some tears to come down.
Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Yeah, when to the movies, Me and my girl, we're
Speaker 1: going to see one movie. They going to see another movie.
Speaker 2: What you want? You know how kids are? Everybody big
Speaker 2: slushy on? Come on camp?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, okay the movie. They're gonna be close
Speaker 1: in time. I said, don't get y'all. Don't y'all lead
Speaker 1: this movie.
Speaker 2: Y'all.
Speaker 1: Let me come back in here and get you okay,
Speaker 1: damn okay, our movies in I think I was in
Speaker 1: it my by the bed, like probably like two or
Speaker 1: three minutes after There's I'm go, I'm gonna go get
Speaker 1: them because I was down in the hall. We had
Speaker 1: Fifth Joe the movie. We down the hall on the left,
Speaker 1: and they like in the front. I see them looking,
Speaker 1: I hear them, I see them, I see them and
Speaker 1: I hear them talking. I think they went to see
Speaker 1: this movie right here. I said, where y'all going? I
Speaker 1: didn't want it was he I didn't want to lead
Speaker 1: the don't worry about it. I got some funny when
Speaker 1: you get home. So we got home. Everybody tried to
Speaker 1: put it on everybody. I said, why you just didn't
Speaker 1: stay well? I didn't want to, I said, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all sticking together, but you should have stuck
Speaker 1: your ass together in the movie where I told you
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: I told the ass up now, I said that listen,
Speaker 2: I'm going to work out. Don't y'all lead it. Don't
Speaker 2: y'all lead these rooms.
Speaker 1: I said, if the house on fire and the fireman
Speaker 1: come get you saying hell no, get out, shut their
Speaker 1: ass out.
Speaker 2: I say.
Speaker 1: My daddy said, don't leave this room bad, please, cause
Speaker 1: you don't you don't know, you don't.
Speaker 2: I listen with the kids.
Speaker 1: I look, I'm very particular, and I don't want nobody
Speaker 1: because I don't want to have to hurt somebody behind
Speaker 1: my kids because I will.
Speaker 2: But from and that, and this was the.
Speaker 1: First time they I've ever done this. I used to
Speaker 1: take the kids to the mall and and and and
Speaker 1: white people would ask me, how do you get them
Speaker 1: to do that? I'm like, I thought they were doing
Speaker 1: tricks and turning backflips or something. I said, do what man?
Speaker 1: She was like, they're so well man, or they're not
Speaker 1: running off in front of you. They're not yelling at screaming.
Speaker 1: Oh you must have got me confused with you.
Speaker 2: I don't play that.
Speaker 1: I wish I would be running around these people, mam,
Speaker 1: people looking at me like I'm a damn food.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The first thing they gonna say, man, I saw Shannon
Speaker 1: sharp boy his kids a mess. They was running all
Speaker 1: through the mall. No, sir, y'all infing to go on
Speaker 1: this store.
Speaker 2: And be all that.
Speaker 4: No sir, yeah, she Hey, hey Joe, I don't know
Speaker 4: about you. You know, I don't really have no problem,
Speaker 4: especially having as many as I have. Obviously, every every everybody,
Speaker 4: everybody grown now except three. I'm talking, you know, twenty
Speaker 4: seven two. I mean, everybody grown now. But I'm trying
Speaker 4: trying to think of some time when they were little.
Speaker 4: But their mother's rule was such an iron fist. Unc
Speaker 4: when they are with me, I never have no problems.
Speaker 4: And I try to get him to understand is when
Speaker 4: you with me, it's okay to be free. You out
Speaker 4: that prison you got to give you at home. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm a little bit more lenient. I'm not the one
Speaker 4: that does the discipline unless necessary. I had one encounter,
Speaker 4: only one encounter that I can remember. I swear for God.
Speaker 4: It was with my son and we you know, we
Speaker 4: all we all in the back of the in the
Speaker 4: back of the car and they I told him, y'all
Speaker 4: stopped playing around and put your seatbelts on.
Speaker 2: And here he go.
Speaker 4: He done jumped out the seat and I had to
Speaker 4: hit the brake and he went flying and flew past
Speaker 4: me and almost hit his head on the dashboard. Boy,
Speaker 4: I turned around and grabbed that and grabbed that collar
Speaker 4: and said, man, if you don't and I lost it
Speaker 4: a little bit. Now, obviously I had to I had
Speaker 4: to apologize. I had to apologize later because that's the
Speaker 4: first time they ever seen me get out of character. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and that was the only time. I ain't had that
Speaker 4: problem since helly a sophomore in high school. Now, I
Speaker 4: ain't had no problem since then.
Speaker 1: I think the thing is, guys, what I had to learn,
Speaker 1: o yo, is that they were getting away with stuff.
Speaker 1: I'll let them get away with stuff because I wasn't
Speaker 1: there every day, and they started to take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: So I had to put my foot down. So I
Speaker 2: put my foot down.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, now what you do at your mom's
Speaker 1: house as long as you're not disrespectful. Your mom called
Speaker 1: me and say, well, you said this, and you said that,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fly down. I'm gonna tell your ass up.
Speaker 1: You want to say, if your mom wants you to
Speaker 1: let you jump on the bed, let you run on
Speaker 1: the couch, put your feet on the dinner table.
Speaker 2: That ain't got nothing to do. I don't run your
Speaker 2: mom household. But when you hear yeah, I wish I
Speaker 2: would catch y'all jumping on the bed. I wish I
Speaker 2: would catch you walking on the couch. I wish I
Speaker 2: would oh all that said.
Speaker 1: You know how women like to sit with their feet
Speaker 1: crossed up and on the couch, Your damn feet on
Speaker 1: the Yeah, yeah, it's sitting up on it. You know,
Speaker 1: sitting up on the counter. Bohy wouldn't even my food
Speaker 1: that you got your ass up on that counter. Boy,
Speaker 1: you would get your gun. You would get your ass
Speaker 1: off that counter. I won't play that.
Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, it's like by It's like my grandpa when
Speaker 3: we were little, he would never let us sit in
Speaker 3: his bed.
Speaker 2: He said, y'all make my bed hot, make my sheets hot.
Speaker 2: When I go to.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, he and Joe, y'all knew it was a
Speaker 4: such thing as editutt school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, okay, okay. Man had to have the nerd
Speaker 4: and hit me, tell about talk about French fries and
Speaker 4: to go to Edicut school all the way in front. Man,
Speaker 4: if you don't get if you don't, get off my
Speaker 4: phone and stop playing with me, stop playing. No, no,
Speaker 4: don't don't play me. I think maybe maybe it was
Speaker 4: just to get a reaction, you know, just to see
Speaker 4: what you got to say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it. I don't know what you know, your.
Speaker 4: Yay edits we will watch you. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: We're learning about etiquette on YouTube, but a.
Speaker 2: Lot of that because that's how it was with us.
Speaker 1: And see, people thought I was lying when I said
Speaker 1: that at the dinner table we didn't talk. And people asked, well,
Speaker 1: why you eat so fast? Because I wanted to be
Speaker 1: able to talk. You couldn't talk at the dinner table party.
Speaker 1: Mary wasn't playing that. It wasn't no, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: because we only had one TV now a kitchen, I
Speaker 1: mean slide back from the table to try to see
Speaker 1: the TV. So you try to ate one to the other,
Speaker 1: the gold watch TV. You'll eat this damn food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: damn talking at the table.
Speaker 4: But hey, hold on, Hey, hold on, hey, Joe, hold on.
Speaker 4: The best conversation, especially family oriented conversations.
Speaker 2: Happened.
Speaker 1: Up. The best ass whipping you would have got, were
Speaker 1: it at the dinner table. You, I know, I know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. But I know OO talking about
Speaker 1: some old Thanksgiving Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, But at the table.
Speaker 1: That's grown people at the table. We on the porch
Speaker 1: eating out of pop pans. You ain't at no damn
Speaker 1: table with all the grown folks sitting at the table,
Speaker 1: eat at the good plate.
Speaker 2: You drinking.
Speaker 1: They got the good they got the good glasses. You
Speaker 1: drinking out of jelly jars, mayonnaise jars. That's what you drinking?
Speaker 4: Oh what you know about that jelly?
Speaker 2: You leave that thing in that song? The order for
Speaker 2: you straight.
Speaker 1: You could scrape the the jelly thangise out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you not, man, you're not. They weren't playing that.
Speaker 1: Kids didn't sit at the dinner table. Kids got their
Speaker 1: plate and they went on the front porch. We could
Speaker 1: talk in the front ports. All the grown people were
Speaker 1: in the kitchen talk. They could talk, but you couldn't
Speaker 1: talk grown people talking like how you see kids pulling
Speaker 1: on their parents' leg and stuff.
Speaker 2: Lord have mercy now this shoot that? Why not that?
Speaker 2: Ain't us that?
Speaker 4: Ain't us doing that? Oden Old m m, well you
Speaker 4: you bringing back good memories. But hey, Joe, remember cream
Speaker 4: and wheat?
Speaker 2: Yes, we had grits. We didn't eat cream oatmeal?
Speaker 4: Oh you ain't had Okay?
Speaker 2: What about tang tang ta? What's than? What's tang like?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like it's probably like an orange drink.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be like a kind of like
Speaker 1: an orange juice. Yeah, I know, I know tang Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even know. You probably get you can get
Speaker 1: anything off the internet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, little little drink, Joe. It was powder, but you
Speaker 4: mix it with water and it turned orange and you
Speaker 4: put too much water.
Speaker 2: You weren't getting. But those were day Those were the days. Man.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at these kids now, all the how them
Speaker 2: kids be?
Speaker 1: Boy, how the kids be so bad that the den
Speaker 1: at the go out to the restaurants and you took
Speaker 1: about sit down public.
Speaker 2: Oh Lord, have mercy. Hanging food on the man.
Speaker 1: Barney Porter said, the first time under the next time
Speaker 1: is lightning I've seen it throw itself on the floor
Speaker 1: the other day.
Speaker 2: Oh tantrum at the marb. I'm talking about square face
Speaker 2: first on the mall.
Speaker 4: On the floor, just acting the fool, I said, Joe
Speaker 4: black Folk, No, no, look here, Hey, hey, grandma favorite
Speaker 4: line wherever you.
Speaker 1: Show out, that's exactly what you get, sir, my greatest
Speaker 1: shut down down on his ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, hey, you already knew, man, you knew not
Speaker 2: to touch nothing. Don't ask for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or they let you know before you Joe, there
Speaker 4: you go. Hey, we had back in the day. I
Speaker 4: remember on fifty fourth Street. We had a place that's
Speaker 4: called Theirs. Remember there, Yeah, remember that, man, it is
Speaker 4: super old. Before we go in here, don't touch nothing,
Speaker 4: don't ask me for nothing. Before we walk in. She
Speaker 4: stopped at the door.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, hey it so soon as you get by
Speaker 2: something you like, you just staying it so she could
Speaker 2: see it.
Speaker 1: And so she at that one time, see Bartiport, you
Speaker 1: had to have a remember you have to have you
Speaker 1: had to be like an Eliphant. People said, well, man,
Speaker 1: how you remember all that because Bartiporter told you something
Speaker 1: one time? Forget it if you want to. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: heavy head. I pushed the bugget. I ain't no, you know,
Speaker 1: I pushed it. I could barely see over the buget.
Speaker 1: I pushed the bugget man, I ran that bug on
Speaker 1: the back of grandy heels.
Speaker 2: She reached back, and yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 4: I remember them days. You stop. You ain't gonna hey
Speaker 4: when you that, when you're that young uncle and Joe,
Speaker 4: you have no cell phone.
Speaker 2: You have no cellphone.
Speaker 4: That when someone stopping in front of you, obviously you
Speaker 4: gotta stop the buggy. You ain't even paying attention.
Speaker 2: You just.
Speaker 1: But we were I don't even know why we're down
Speaker 1: the hour. We're all gonna get something. You weren't going
Speaker 1: shopping until Grandy got paid. So you're getting hot. You
Speaker 1: get some doughnuts, you get some chicken, she gonna get
Speaker 1: some rice. You ain't but a half of the thing
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. She gonna go up there. It's gonna
Speaker 1: she ain't gonna pay for it. She gonna put it
Speaker 1: on credit, or she might put half of us. So
Speaker 1: the grocery bill might be twenty five dollars. She's gonna
Speaker 1: put ten fifteen on credit, and she gonna put get
Speaker 1: a going there. Because you had the money and a handkerchief.
Speaker 1: You know all people just keep their money in a handkerchief. Yeah,
Speaker 1: trumbled up, she's gonna she ain't probably got me thirteen
Speaker 1: fourteen dollars.
Speaker 2: She's gonna give them the ten dollars she gonna keep.
Speaker 1: Asked for some change, cause she's gonna give me a
Speaker 1: spaking fifty cent because they're gonna pass the plate around
Speaker 1: twice on Sunday.
Speaker 2: And we put a quarter in. What the he burt?
Speaker 2: Look here, he's I had nothing, so tick percent or
Speaker 2: nothing would have been nothing.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, you know you know what you always saying.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, God don't like no, no, Well, bartie,
Speaker 2: Mary ain't had no paper.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 3: Hey look yeah, hey, Grandma gonna make sure you got
Speaker 3: some money. Oh yeah, you go to pump faking you
Speaker 3: want to acting like you put something down up in
Speaker 3: there and you just keep it in your hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some times I saw some dollars and I
Speaker 2: want to take something out. I said, lord you.
Speaker 1: Hey, you gotta be a savage to do that in church? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at it. But there been times I didn't
Speaker 1: want to put that fifty set in there. You know
Speaker 1: what I could have done with back in the day.
Speaker 1: Milk was a nickel of carton. Remember they had the
Speaker 1: little milks. They had chocolate, had white milk and chocolate milk.
Speaker 1: There was a nickel.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I got fifty cent. Oh yeah, you bothering man?
Speaker 4: Please, well you know how much fifty cent was? Yes,
Speaker 4: I do for a little kid. As a shorty man,
Speaker 4: you felt like he was on top.
Speaker 1: I remember what a can of coke was a quarter.
Speaker 1: A twelve ounce can of coat was a quarter. A
Speaker 1: hondred bun was a quarter. A bag of chips was
Speaker 1: a quarter. I remember all that.
Speaker 2: There was penny candy. You get twenty five piece of
Speaker 2: candy for twenty five cent, You.
Speaker 1: Get twenty five, You get the little cookies for twenty
Speaker 1: five cent, or you get like ten of those big,
Speaker 1: those big flywheel cookies.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely remember what it was like.
Speaker 1: Hell I remember, I remember when cigarettes was like thirty
Speaker 1: five forty pack. Now they damned the eight nine dollars
Speaker 1: a pack. People used to say, bad cigarettes. Ever, go
Speaker 1: to seventy five cent. I'm done smoking now, I ain't
Speaker 1: going to seventy five. They went to a dollar?
Speaker 2: What they going on? Dollar? Uncle?
Speaker 4: I remember the days where the price prices and stuff
Speaker 4: used to be used to be so so simple. Hey,
Speaker 4: joe y'all had the Candy Lady House out there where
Speaker 4: you're from, Joe Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a dude on the corner stove and yeah,
Speaker 3: oh tell you go in there and get them little
Speaker 3: Debis snacks.
Speaker 2: You going there with a dollar? Come out of there.
Speaker 4: Oh at the Candy Lady House, frozen cups were nothing
Speaker 4: but a quarter. Yeah, great, frozen cup, watermelon, frozen cup,
Speaker 4: food punch, frozen.
Speaker 2: Killing the strawberry cookies.
Speaker 1: Sister Tillman, she had two boys. She had two sons,
Speaker 1: James and John, and she's they sold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh them some good days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he but see that's why I ain't got
Speaker 1: no patience. Now, granted had more patience papa, and Papa
Speaker 1: had zero patience.
Speaker 2: Zero. He just expected. He just ain't teaching nothing. I mean.
Speaker 1: And libvit, libvit. Libby was the oldest. He believed Livy
Speaker 1: hung the moon. If you told him my sister didn't
Speaker 1: hung hang the moon, you probably had to fight it.
Speaker 1: Libby wrote the checks, Libby signed his name for the
Speaker 1: report cards. Libby did anything that needed to be done. Yeah, everything,
Speaker 1: Libby did it. Because Libby was the old Libby was
Speaker 1: the oldest girl. I mean he trusted Libby. All my
Speaker 1: uncles the same way, Furnil, James, h B. J. Furman,
Speaker 1: all of them. They needed something. Libby read this.
Speaker 2: Just tell me what this say because she understand that
Speaker 2: she had patience.
Speaker 4: Me.
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 1: Y'all, but she she she got patients. Libby got all
Speaker 1: of me us three, She's by far the most patient.
Speaker 1: Then comes thanking y'all already know I ain't got none.
Speaker 1: I ain't even gonna hold it if it hold you none.
Speaker 1: We got some updates, Oh Joe, Joe, Luke and Austin
Speaker 1: Reed from Cham's. Lakers are not expecting Luca to return
Speaker 1: in round one. Reeves is for the long and his
Speaker 1: skill rehab that Luca is Reeves has started one on
Speaker 1: one on court courtwork. It needs to go through three
Speaker 1: on three and five on five. Reeves is tracking to
Speaker 1: return late in the first round our early second round
Speaker 1: if the Lakers are to advance despite Kadi's return. The
Speaker 1: shorthanded Lakers out lasted the Rockets last night one on one,
Speaker 1: ninety four uh Studying two lead the first round Goat
Speaker 1: James twenty eight points, eight rebounds, seven to six.
Speaker 2: I saw you boy, you saw your boy carside joke,
Speaker 2: I see, I see you all they're doing you want.
Speaker 3: Y.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had a good time. You had a good
Speaker 2: good time. You know they like what you being. Man,
Speaker 2: we missed you.
Speaker 4: Did they ask you about me?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: They said, man, why o your Why old you do
Speaker 2: Joe like that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: They where? I mean, that's way out there. It's Southern
Speaker 1: cam asking why you do that?
Speaker 2: Man? Whole world, the whole world.
Speaker 4: No, you know we're famous now, so you know the
Speaker 4: word travel.
Speaker 3: Hey a hey, I like what I've seen from the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm gonna tell you who. They giving him credit,
Speaker 3: but they ain't giving them enough credit if you asked me.
Speaker 3: And that's uh market smart job doing ok market?
Speaker 2: KD?
Speaker 3: I think I know, I know they throwing the double
Speaker 3: teammate KD. But the times that he do get matched
Speaker 3: up with in one on one, he wins more than
Speaker 3: absolutely you know what I mean. He is a he
Speaker 3: is a great defender.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: He he's he's shorter than KD, but he got long homes,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And he has great anticipation
Speaker 3: skills and I think you know, I mean even think
Speaker 3: back through the regular season when when the Lakers played
Speaker 3: the Rockets, they've got the better of them with this
Speaker 3: strategic defensive mechanism that they're doing against them, and that's
Speaker 3: trapping KD, making him a passer, making him a willing passer,
Speaker 3: because they don't believe none of the other guys and as.
Speaker 1: Of right now, they haven't been able to ree Shepherd
Speaker 1: can't get minutes. The other guys are not great enough shooters.
Speaker 1: And at some point in time they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: move the ball because it's like KD had it going,
Speaker 1: and then everybody else want to get involved with it.
Speaker 1: Let me get let me get mine, Let me get mine,
Speaker 1: let me get mine. And it plays right into the
Speaker 1: Lakers hands because they ain't got nobody cutting. They got
Speaker 1: nobody dive into the brim. Everybody standing, I mean, hell,
Speaker 1: they study. I'm like, do any of y'all.
Speaker 2: Want to move? I mean, y'all blocking my view?
Speaker 1: But I appreciated right here because ain't nobody cutting towards
Speaker 1: the rim.
Speaker 2: And it is that Kate. They got. Katie's so hot,
Speaker 2: so far out, he's not a threat, but.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody else moving, And so when he turns his
Speaker 1: back Marcus mart getting the ball, or that's why he
Speaker 1: has nine turnovers. You go back and look at a
Speaker 1: lot of his games, he have seven turnovers. Him play
Speaker 1: the Lakers, he had six turnovers because they're forcing him
Speaker 1: to be a passer. He he, that's not what he is.
Speaker 1: He's a scorer, an elite, one of the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time. Man watching him last night and just watch
Speaker 1: how the effortless. I'm like, man, that's ridiculous. It don't
Speaker 1: matter what. Hey, they trying to cover that shade, Baddy
Speaker 1: and put your hand over his eyes. I think you
Speaker 1: should win his eye. Blow cut it don't even matter.
Speaker 2: Joe, Oh, Joe, he getting that spot. There's a round
Speaker 2: hey once she go up. Hey.
Speaker 3: But when you look at the Lakers game plan, I
Speaker 3: like that game plan, okay, Ojoe? Meaning they got him
Speaker 3: thinking so much now because he wanted to get into
Speaker 3: his bag, but he know as soon as he go
Speaker 3: to getting into it, it's that nobody come into coming.
Speaker 3: So now it's kind of got him off rhythm. That's
Speaker 3: why you see it. What nine turnos because he second
Speaker 3: guesses himself a lot when he goes into his move,
Speaker 3: because it's natural for him now because like every time
Speaker 3: I go into my move, it's another dude. It's another
Speaker 3: dude coming to trap. You know he isn't they're making
Speaker 3: him a willing passer. He's not necessary. I ain't saying, Katie,
Speaker 3: he's selfish, but that's really not his game. You feel
Speaker 3: me like they don't got guys on the team to
Speaker 3: where like you can't play brun like that because he
Speaker 3: got other guys he can kick two, they can play mate.
Speaker 3: I mean Rui's shooting historically from the three. Luke Canard,
Speaker 3: damn mind, I ain't. I've never seen and I've watched
Speaker 3: lu Canard.
Speaker 2: I remember him. He was at Duke Joe, Oh Joe.
Speaker 1: I've never seen this guy put the ball on the
Speaker 1: floor more and attack like he is right now.
Speaker 2: You can run him off the three.
Speaker 1: If you won't, he will put the ball on the
Speaker 1: floor and he'll get all the way to the rim,
Speaker 1: or he'll stop and pop.
Speaker 2: The mid range.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, when I hear him talk, man, it's preparation
Speaker 3: meeting opportunity.
Speaker 2: You know you got you got your too.
Speaker 3: You got two of your best scorers out, two of
Speaker 3: two of your best ball handlers, and now it's an
Speaker 3: opportunity for somebody on that team to step up and
Speaker 3: be a big playmaker, scorer, what have you? And bro,
Speaker 3: he answered the bell both games like he man, I'm
Speaker 3: talking about they ain't just been the playoffs though he's been.
Speaker 1: Since he came boy Atlanta. I don't know what y'all
Speaker 1: was thinking. Y'all gave us Luke Canardi, y'all took, gave Vinson,
Speaker 1: Thank you. It wasn't gonna It wasn't gonna work like
Speaker 1: that over here. Come on, it wasn't gonna work, that's all.
Speaker 1: I don't give it that high will work. Y'all wanted it.
Speaker 1: Gave vinc he gonna help, he gonna he gonna playoff game, but.
Speaker 2: Got DJ Hey hey, hey, oh Joe, he feeling good
Speaker 2: about yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, hey listen, he was hey. He had his
Speaker 4: feet on the wood too, so you know he's feeling
Speaker 4: goody And also you know what we expect this from him.
Speaker 4: You know, he's showing how versatility is Lebron Yeah, man, listen,
Speaker 4: being able to defer and allow all some reason Luca
Speaker 4: to do what they did all season long and based
Speaker 4: on circumstance. Now, let me show y'all, I can still
Speaker 4: lead a team even at forty one years old. Let
Speaker 4: me show you my IQ where I can always be
Speaker 4: two or three steps ahead that everybody else. Depending on
Speaker 4: what you want to do. Either I can be I
Speaker 4: can cert myself early, or I can facilitate and let everybody,
Speaker 4: let everybody else get in rhythm, and then pick and
Speaker 4: choose when I want to insert myself in game that
Speaker 4: got them. Lebron a special boy. So honestly, to this point,
Speaker 4: I'm confused how people can still have negative things to
Speaker 4: say when you have to nickpick on someone who's had
Speaker 4: as much success as he's had, not in his prime,
Speaker 4: but still having at forty one years old.
Speaker 1: Because it's easy. Yeah, it's easier. It's easier. It's much
Speaker 1: easier to hate to appreciate someone.
Speaker 4: They won't appreciate till he going though.
Speaker 1: But I just go to show you if Lebron James
Speaker 1: was on a team and he was the number one option,
Speaker 1: this is what he'd be doing if he think about
Speaker 1: it every twenty twenty seven and six as a third option.
Speaker 1: Imagine if he's the first option or even the second option,
Speaker 1: because remember last year the second option he gave you
Speaker 1: twenty four he gave you twenty four, he gave you
Speaker 1: twenty four, he gave you twenty four point nine, seven
Speaker 1: and seven or twenty four, eight and seven as the
Speaker 1: number two option. So just imagine if he's the number
Speaker 1: one option, he still could do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's still consistently. His productivity is great. I think.
Speaker 3: I think he really relished in this moment Uncle Ojo. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you meaning that they were then underdog coming into this series.
Speaker 3: Everybody's talking about they ain't have a chance like him
Speaker 3: coming out playing the way he's been playing, you know,
Speaker 3: asserting himself, taking the initiative to you know, try and
Speaker 3: sit in that chair and guard and playmake and score.
Speaker 3: Hey man, I've been in press, bro I've been in press.
Speaker 3: I want to see him go down to Houston see
Speaker 3: if they can take care of Benness and the thing else.
Speaker 1: Hey Joe, what are you talked about? I don't care
Speaker 1: now about No. Eight for twenty fourteen free throw a team.
Speaker 1: Let me know what, he'll grasp it. There you goss it.
Speaker 3: There you go, putting putting pressure, putting pressure on the
Speaker 3: rockets to be able to try and stop him. If
Speaker 3: not that, it's different when you say Lebron or willing pass.
Speaker 3: I think passing is a is a great attribute to
Speaker 3: his and he does it. He does it better than anybody,
Speaker 3: Uncle Uncle Ojo. And if guys are making shots, then
Speaker 3: it just makes him look good.
Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It's just when they're not making shots now we're like,
Speaker 3: all right, man, you gotta score the ball. But I
Speaker 3: think he does a great job man and figuring those
Speaker 3: guys out making plays for everybody. And still at this
Speaker 3: big age forty one bro still being effected the way
Speaker 3: it is because.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest. They don't got nobody who can
Speaker 1: guard him. He ain't got nobody with no bricks in
Speaker 1: their back pocket. They got limb but they don't have.
Speaker 1: They don't have, they don't have, They don't have the
Speaker 1: size to wait because he gonna back Hey, he gonna
Speaker 1: back up down and say, okay, y'all gonna come to
Speaker 1: the double team. I said, take your time, and you watching,
Speaker 1: hen't coming. He looking around, He studied, going height to
Speaker 1: the left. He comes, Hey, you can't stop that. Nah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be told just about that.
Speaker 3: But boy, listen, if they just so happened be able
Speaker 3: to get up out of this round and Luke and
Speaker 3: them come back.
Speaker 2: Against Okac. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What the difference is is that if you notice yesterday
Speaker 1: Lebron had the ball in his hand, because you want
Speaker 1: Lebron can control the game. He's not gonna let you
Speaker 1: get up and down now, sir, it ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: no quick shots.
Speaker 2: He gotta he wanted to control the game. Hey he was.
Speaker 1: Ay, even if Marcus Mark or Canard break the ball up, Hey,
Speaker 1: go ahead, take it up, flow it down. We got
Speaker 1: Let's not let's not get into an up and down.
Speaker 1: We don't need to get into a up and down.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they they I think he do. He do
Speaker 1: a great job with that basically just playing point guard.
Speaker 3: If you listen, if Marcus Smart gonna give you a
Speaker 3: fishing twenty five points, you ain't got and they probably
Speaker 3: gonna win every game if he gonna play like that, if.
Speaker 2: Luke and Marcus market because you remember Luke Canard had twenty.
Speaker 1: Seven mm hmm, yeah, then Marcus twenty three lands, it's
Speaker 1: because Lebron had twenty eight, I think. But I think
Speaker 1: the thing is what's most impressive is that the job
Speaker 1: that Marcus Smart and that defense did on KD in
Speaker 1: the second half, they only held them to three per
Speaker 1: three points and he got two of the threat with
Speaker 1: about a minute and a half to go in the
Speaker 1: ball game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Marcus Smart has been I think one.
Speaker 3: Of the biggest keys for the Lakers, especially defensively. But man,
Speaker 3: their whole team be on a string. Ok ojo. When
Speaker 3: they go for that double team on KD. You gotta
Speaker 3: see how guys rotate, because when you rotate just for
Speaker 3: a split second, somebody got to take two guys for
Speaker 3: like a split second until you come up out of it.
Speaker 3: And once you know that bro and you and and
Speaker 3: the way they're able to make it effective. It's like
Speaker 3: they making Houston take rough shots, take shots that they
Speaker 3: normally don't take. You got guys trying to go into
Speaker 3: their bag. I don't even know they had a bag.
Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying. So now you got guys
Speaker 3: playing out of character.
Speaker 4: Yea, all that Lakers, all it is is gonna have
Speaker 4: to speed it. Got to speed up KD in his
Speaker 4: thinking process. That's all he speed it up. Once you
Speaker 4: get that ball instead of going into your bag, be
Speaker 4: able to know what's coming before it even comes, already
Speaker 4: know who you're outlet is understanding that the trap is coming.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the only way to beat him. I
Speaker 4: could be wrong, Joe.
Speaker 3: What you think Man's And that's the problem with not
Speaker 3: having the lead guard because listen, once he give it up,
Speaker 3: he know that damn ball ain't coming back to him, right,
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So, he ain't gonna get many many spot
Speaker 3: up shots all his shots. Yeah, he got hot early,
Speaker 3: but you see how hard he got to work to
Speaker 3: get a shot. You feel what I'm saying, Like he
Speaker 3: got to go through Marcus Smart who being physical, and
Speaker 3: then he know when to finess him. You feel what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So, yeah, he might get a couple easy ones,
Speaker 3: but for the most part, he working so hard for
Speaker 3: every shot that he gets.
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