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Speaker 1: is from the Inside with me Brett Brown, Episode one.
Speaker 1: We've been in the Bubble a month and I feel
Speaker 1: like I have settled into a routine. When you get
Speaker 1: to wherever you're going to go, you try to figure
Speaker 1: stuff out immediately, like what's the environment, what's the parameters
Speaker 1: of the bubble? You know, what shuttles can you take
Speaker 1: um to to to you know, expand sort of just
Speaker 1: living in a hotel room and watching videotape. People need
Speaker 1: to live. So you come into the into the bubble
Speaker 1: and you start to try to learn what are the
Speaker 1: resources that are available to us, you know as NBA
Speaker 1: coaching staff and athletes and for my players, what are
Speaker 1: the resources in the NBA is so far out in
Speaker 1: front of so many things to create, you know, gaming
Speaker 1: devices and gaming areas for the players, you know, the
Speaker 1: being tossed on lawns, there's poolside activities, there's putting greens,
Speaker 1: there's stuff to keep you know, people engaged and connected.
Speaker 1: Like I've uncovered an unbelievable routine where you can get
Speaker 1: up and although it's a confined space. You know, you
Speaker 1: get up really early. I can I can get my
Speaker 1: run and walk in um there's access you know to
Speaker 1: a lake that is connected to another lake through a canal,
Speaker 1: and each team has their own you know boat. It's
Speaker 1: a pontoon boat that goes slow, but it just lets you,
Speaker 1: you know, not feel like you're trapped and have sort
Speaker 1: of cabin fever. And so for me, I try to
Speaker 1: do I try to go out, you know, you make
Speaker 1: phone calls, you think, you try to clear your head
Speaker 1: sometimes get ready for the day because it's in the morning.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have morning activities so it's later in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: But it really, for me has become a part of
Speaker 1: my personal routine where you just you know, try to
Speaker 1: get space, piece clear your head and you know, not
Speaker 1: feel like you're you're you're in a tight bubble. You're
Speaker 1: not like you're out in sort of nature, which I love.
Speaker 1: Now that the seeding games are here, everything is amplified.
Speaker 1: It's it's go time. Now you're in the bubble. You know,
Speaker 1: you're spending a lot of time with the team and
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and video tapes. The reality that you're
Speaker 1: gonna blink in the playoffs are going to be right
Speaker 1: on your doorstep is ever present, and we all feel it.
Speaker 1: You know. Initially you come down here and it's like
Speaker 1: a sophisticated basketball camp. You know, we're all here. You
Speaker 1: feel like you're a little bit back at college in
Speaker 1: some ways, where it is a campus, you know, and
Speaker 1: you bump into people all the time, and you know,
Speaker 1: we all sort of got the same kind of flow
Speaker 1: to our lives in this bubble. There are three areas
Speaker 1: in my bubble. You know, you have teams like Dallas
Speaker 1: and in Oklahoma City and Memphis and so on, and
Speaker 1: so like you bump into those coaching staffs and the
Speaker 1: play is all all the time. And now that like
Speaker 1: the games are starting to you know, be played regular
Speaker 1: season and you know, the playoffs around the corner. Like
Speaker 1: the reality of the serious side, the kind of business
Speaker 1: side of the NBA season is here. And initially, you
Speaker 1: know you didn't feel it like that. You're all trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what's the world look like nowadays as
Speaker 1: it relates to NBA basketball, And I think the dust
Speaker 1: is now settled now you're starting to understand, you know,
Speaker 1: how to navigate our new living environment. And most importantly
Speaker 1: the reality that the playoffs are right around the point.
Speaker 1: At this point, not much with Joel surprises of me.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say no as quickly as I just did
Speaker 1: if I didn't feel that his fitness base coming into
Speaker 1: the bubble, coming here to Orlando was as good as
Speaker 1: it's ever been as it relates to starting, you know,
Speaker 1: a new season. And I think that that because of
Speaker 1: the work that he put in, although he missed you know,
Speaker 1: two games in the preseason games for him to jump
Speaker 1: into the regular season in the way that he has,
Speaker 1: I say no quickly because of that. Like we all
Speaker 1: get his talent level, but his fitness level was a
Speaker 1: thing that has to me mostly allowed him to dominate
Speaker 1: the way that he has dominated. Looking ahead to the
Speaker 1: next week, I mean the number one thing by a
Speaker 1: mile is continuing to learn how to you know, play
Speaker 1: the team. It's we understand, it's part of it. You
Speaker 1: just there are so many bullets that have happened this
Speaker 1: year as it relates to health, you know, only nineteen
Speaker 1: out of sixty five games, I believe that's the number
Speaker 1: in the regular season, did you have you know, your
Speaker 1: starting group and do the math. It's a huge number.
Speaker 1: Of where you didn't and to come in now and
Speaker 1: like I look forward to getting Glenn Robinson back and
Speaker 1: like figuring where does that slot in. You know, we've
Speaker 1: test driven you know, Ben at a fore man and
Speaker 1: then then with the ball a little bit more the
Speaker 1: last game prior to his injury. And so my my
Speaker 1: number one thing, and we're very close, is letting the
Speaker 1: dust settle on the best makeup. I believe that we'll
Speaker 1: go to a rotation of nine. I don't see it
Speaker 1: swelling up to uh, you know, eleven. It could go
Speaker 1: to ten based on you know, foul trouble or matchups,
Speaker 1: but that that is number one. You know. I can
Speaker 1: get into coach speak on parts of our defense or
Speaker 1: parts of our offense, but to me, the bottom line,
Speaker 1: the starting point is rotating playing different combinations the team.
Speaker 1: There is a committed, unified I desire to make people
Speaker 1: aware of all of the issues with Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: that we've discussed. The flashpoints that have happened over the
Speaker 1: past what three four months that bring attention to this
Speaker 1: issue have galvanized you know, the players and the coaches,
Speaker 1: and you've seen it come together in a significant way
Speaker 1: here in the bubble from just an example of how
Speaker 1: we've decided to interact and be unified during a national anthem.
Speaker 1: There is a very sort of defined fraternity that you
Speaker 1: feel a part of just as a member of the NBA.
Speaker 1: And as it relates to to OTI in the seventy
Speaker 1: six is you know they just they're back at college.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like this incredible basketball camp. It's a campus.
Speaker 1: You you know, you eat together, you you live in
Speaker 1: the same building together, you get on the same bus together,
Speaker 1: you have a restaurant that you can go to, a
Speaker 1: team meals together. And there's still enough wiggle room where
Speaker 1: people all of us like your space and your privacy,
Speaker 1: and so I don't have any complaints truly of how
Speaker 1: this whole setup has happened. I feel like because of
Speaker 1: this environment, the peripheral benefit of team stuff, you know, togetherness, stuff,
Speaker 1: interaction where you may not have it as much stuff
Speaker 1: is heightened. It really is an environment that can produce
Speaker 1: those opportunities. This is from the inside with me Brett Brown.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. I'll talk to you next week.