WEBVTT - From the Inside, with Brett Brown | Episode 1

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<v Speaker 1>This podcast is part of the seventy sixers podcast Network

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<v Speaker 1>Search seventy sixers podcast Wherever you get your pods. This

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<v Speaker 1>is from the Inside with me Brett Brown, Episode one.

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<v Speaker 1>We've been in the Bubble a month and I feel

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<v Speaker 1>like I have settled into a routine. When you get

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<v Speaker 1>to wherever you're going to go, you try to figure

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<v Speaker 1>stuff out immediately, like what's the environment, what's the parameters

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<v Speaker 1>of the bubble? You know, what shuttles can you take

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<v Speaker 1>um to to to you know, expand sort of just

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<v Speaker 1>living in a hotel room and watching videotape. People need

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<v Speaker 1>to live. So you come into the into the bubble

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<v Speaker 1>and you start to try to learn what are the

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<v Speaker 1>resources that are available to us, you know as NBA

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<v Speaker 1>coaching staff and athletes and for my players, what are

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<v Speaker 1>the resources in the NBA is so far out in

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<v Speaker 1>front of so many things to create, you know, gaming

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<v Speaker 1>devices and gaming areas for the players, you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>being tossed on lawns, there's poolside activities, there's putting greens,

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<v Speaker 1>there's stuff to keep you know, people engaged and connected.

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<v Speaker 1>Like I've uncovered an unbelievable routine where you can get

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<v Speaker 1>up and although it's a confined space. You know, you

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<v Speaker 1>get up really early. I can I can get my

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<v Speaker 1>run and walk in um there's access you know to

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<v Speaker 1>a lake that is connected to another lake through a canal,

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<v Speaker 1>and each team has their own you know boat. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a pontoon boat that goes slow, but it just lets you,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, not feel like you're trapped and have sort

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<v Speaker 1>of cabin fever. And so for me, I try to

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<v Speaker 1>do I try to go out, you know, you make

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<v Speaker 1>phone calls, you think, you try to clear your head

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes get ready for the day because it's in the morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you have morning activities so it's later in the afternoon.

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<v Speaker 1>But it really, for me has become a part of

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<v Speaker 1>my personal routine where you just you know, try to

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<v Speaker 1>get space, piece clear your head and you know, not

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<v Speaker 1>feel like you're you're you're in a tight bubble. You're

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<v Speaker 1>not like you're out in sort of nature, which I love.

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<v Speaker 1>Now that the seeding games are here, everything is amplified.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's go time. Now you're in the bubble. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're spending a lot of time with the team and

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<v Speaker 1>the coaching staff and video tapes. The reality that you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna blink in the playoffs are going to be right

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<v Speaker 1>on your doorstep is ever present, and we all feel it.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. Initially you come down here and it's like

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<v Speaker 1>a sophisticated basketball camp. You know, we're all here. You

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<v Speaker 1>feel like you're a little bit back at college in

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<v Speaker 1>some ways, where it is a campus, you know, and

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<v Speaker 1>you bump into people all the time, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we all sort of got the same kind of flow

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<v Speaker 1>to our lives in this bubble. There are three areas

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<v Speaker 1>in my bubble. You know, you have teams like Dallas

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<v Speaker 1>and in Oklahoma City and Memphis and so on, and

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<v Speaker 1>so like you bump into those coaching staffs and the

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<v Speaker 1>play is all all the time. And now that like

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<v Speaker 1>the games are starting to you know, be played regular

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<v Speaker 1>season and you know, the playoffs around the corner. Like

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<v Speaker 1>the reality of the serious side, the kind of business

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<v Speaker 1>side of the NBA season is here. And initially, you

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<v Speaker 1>know you didn't feel it like that. You're all trying

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<v Speaker 1>to figure out what's the world look like nowadays as

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<v Speaker 1>it relates to NBA basketball, And I think the dust

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<v Speaker 1>is now settled now you're starting to understand, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>how to navigate our new living environment. And most importantly

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<v Speaker 1>the reality that the playoffs are right around the point.

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<v Speaker 1>At this point, not much with Joel surprises of me.

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't say no as quickly as I just did

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<v Speaker 1>if I didn't feel that his fitness base coming into

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<v Speaker 1>the bubble, coming here to Orlando was as good as

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<v Speaker 1>it's ever been as it relates to starting, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a new season. And I think that that because of

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<v Speaker 1>the work that he put in, although he missed you know,

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<v Speaker 1>two games in the preseason games for him to jump

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<v Speaker 1>into the regular season in the way that he has,

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<v Speaker 1>I say no quickly because of that. Like we all

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<v Speaker 1>get his talent level, but his fitness level was a

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<v Speaker 1>thing that has to me mostly allowed him to dominate

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<v Speaker 1>the way that he has dominated. Looking ahead to the

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<v Speaker 1>next week, I mean the number one thing by a

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<v Speaker 1>mile is continuing to learn how to you know, play

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<v Speaker 1>the team. It's we understand, it's part of it. You

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<v Speaker 1>just there are so many bullets that have happened this

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<v Speaker 1>year as it relates to health, you know, only nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>out of sixty five games, I believe that's the number

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<v Speaker 1>in the regular season, did you have you know, your

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<v Speaker 1>starting group and do the math. It's a huge number.

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<v Speaker 1>Of where you didn't and to come in now and

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<v Speaker 1>like I look forward to getting Glenn Robinson back and

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<v Speaker 1>like figuring where does that slot in. You know, we've

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<v Speaker 1>test driven you know, Ben at a fore man and

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<v Speaker 1>then then with the ball a little bit more the

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<v Speaker 1>last game prior to his injury. And so my my

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<v Speaker 1>number one thing, and we're very close, is letting the

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<v Speaker 1>dust settle on the best makeup. I believe that we'll

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<v Speaker 1>go to a rotation of nine. I don't see it

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<v Speaker 1>swelling up to uh, you know, eleven. It could go

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<v Speaker 1>to ten based on you know, foul trouble or matchups,

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<v Speaker 1>but that that is number one. You know. I can

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<v Speaker 1>get into coach speak on parts of our defense or

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<v Speaker 1>parts of our offense, but to me, the bottom line,

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<v Speaker 1>the starting point is rotating playing different combinations the team.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a committed, unified I desire to make people

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<v Speaker 1>aware of all of the issues with Black Lives Matter

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<v Speaker 1>that we've discussed. The flashpoints that have happened over the

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<v Speaker 1>past what three four months that bring attention to this

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<v Speaker 1>issue have galvanized you know, the players and the coaches,

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<v Speaker 1>and you've seen it come together in a significant way

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<v Speaker 1>here in the bubble from just an example of how

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<v Speaker 1>we've decided to interact and be unified during a national anthem.

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<v Speaker 1>There is a very sort of defined fraternity that you

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<v Speaker 1>feel a part of just as a member of the NBA.

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<v Speaker 1>And as it relates to to OTI in the seventy

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<v Speaker 1>six is you know they just they're back at college.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, it's like this incredible basketball camp. It's a campus.

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<v Speaker 1>You you know, you eat together, you you live in

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<v Speaker 1>the same building together, you get on the same bus together,

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<v Speaker 1>you have a restaurant that you can go to, a

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<v Speaker 1>team meals together. And there's still enough wiggle room where

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<v Speaker 1>people all of us like your space and your privacy,

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<v Speaker 1>and so I don't have any complaints truly of how

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<v Speaker 1>this whole setup has happened. I feel like because of

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<v Speaker 1>this environment, the peripheral benefit of team stuff, you know, togetherness, stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>interaction where you may not have it as much stuff

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<v Speaker 1>is heightened. It really is an environment that can produce

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<v Speaker 1>those opportunities. This is from the inside with me Brett Brown.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for listening. I'll talk to you next week.