Speaker 1: The goal of that is whether we're winning or losing.
Speaker 1: You want to try to build and maintain winning habits.
Speaker 1: And I played for a team. I mean my whole
Speaker 1: college career, I lost ten games.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a humble flex, Tom.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to the O G S Playmaker Originals by
Speaker 3: Draft Games Corey. Thank you for joining the show, My brother,
Speaker 3: what some boys? How's it going? We covered we covered
Speaker 3: it earlier.
Speaker 4: You never forget who cooked you?
Speaker 3: We covered it.
Speaker 2: I told you that yesterday killing. You never forget who
Speaker 2: cooks you Friday? I know you got your keep it
Speaker 2: keep it clean. He cooked us killing, gave us a
Speaker 2: thirty ball in DC cook us Killing.
Speaker 4: Natty liked that. I took that person. And you never
Speaker 4: forget who cooked you.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: Man got busy on it. He got he got a ratchet.
Speaker 5: Now we're going we're gonna go ahead and rip this
Speaker 5: bandit off quick though. Yeah, let's just rip the bandit off.
Speaker 5: We lost the national championship game unfortunately, Michigan State. You
Speaker 5: guys losing a national championship game to Baylor. But y'all
Speaker 5: were thirty one and oh going into the game. Talk
Speaker 5: about the pain of that.
Speaker 1: I'm just like pressure man, pressure at all time high.
Speaker 1: Like you you don't want to talk about it. It's
Speaker 1: when you're throwing a no hitter, Like you don't say that,
Speaker 1: you don't mention it to the picture. We all knew
Speaker 1: what was going on, We all knew about, you know,
Speaker 1: the pressure that came with and we're looking at each other.
Speaker 3: Like we got to make this happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember the game before, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so like emotional.
Speaker 3: High, feeling great, like on the natty.
Speaker 1: Finally we had to put it behind us and try
Speaker 1: to put our best foot forward against Baylor, and like
Speaker 1: they truly just like hit us in the mouth, and
Speaker 1: like eight minutes into the game we were down by
Speaker 1: like fifteen or twenty and it was just an up
Speaker 1: little slog to get back. We couldn't make it happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it burns man to have that record B thirty two
Speaker 1: and oh would have been like one of the best
Speaker 1: come on accomplishments of my life. One of the best
Speaker 1: teams ever, absolutely ever. Yeah, and now we're just kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, you.
Speaker 4: Talked about that jam and Sugg shot.
Speaker 2: It was interesting because I did on ESPN, I did
Speaker 2: a top five all time college game winners, tournament game winners,
Speaker 2: and that was in my top five.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that was absolutely that was.
Speaker 4: An incredible shot.
Speaker 2: I mean the pressure, the season that you were having,
Speaker 2: the record that y'all had to knock that shot down.
Speaker 4: I mean, everything that came along with that shot was incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we he single handedly kept a lot, kept.
Speaker 4: The run a lot, Yeah, and a dope shot.
Speaker 1: I mean, freshman only year Gonzaga like all that. Like
Speaker 1: he it was awesome.
Speaker 3: Yes, forgive that whole team.
Speaker 1: So it was you, suggs me, sugs, Timmy nim hard.
Speaker 1: He can play me too, he can really play. So
Speaker 1: he trans he transferred in from Florida. Yeah, uh, and
Speaker 1: he transfer. He wasn't supposed to play that year, and
Speaker 1: he had like that. You couldn't transfer without sitting out
Speaker 1: at that point. And he filed the filed the waiver
Speaker 1: and it got accepted. But before I got accepted, he
Speaker 1: was on the scout team. And I didn't know much
Speaker 1: about Andrew. I didn'tatch him play at Florida. And he
Speaker 1: shows up and it's him and four walk ons and
Speaker 1: he's frying us all camp long. He's frying us, And
Speaker 1: like you said, you never forget who fries you. And
Speaker 1: so when cod when Fewy came in and like told
Speaker 1: us the news that Andrew's gonna play, We're like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank god, Like he's on our team now, Like thank god. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he helped us out a ton and
Speaker 1: big reason why we got there, and he's gotten even
Speaker 1: better and now is an amazing nbable What a dope.
Speaker 4: Team I got an I got another analogy though.
Speaker 2: You talked about the knowledge of all us losing, and
Speaker 2: I think I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4: All of us married our.
Speaker 2: College sweetheart, right, all of us just saying that because
Speaker 2: they hear.
Speaker 4: All married that sweethe.
Speaker 3: It's a big part of it.
Speaker 4: Bro, Yeah, we all married co swet House. So we
Speaker 4: all got some sense shout out putting up the show
Speaker 4: for show seeing seeing the potential early. I damn tee
Speaker 4: the titter in that line, you know that line.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's America.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest, thank you, domesticating.
Speaker 5: And so we talked about the end of of Gonzaga.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about the beginning. Obviously, being from Washington, was
Speaker 5: Gonzaga always like that's where I wanted to go?
Speaker 1: No, not even really. I grew up a University Washington fan. Okay,
Speaker 1: I watched Brandon Roy and Isaiah Thomas. Those guys were
Speaker 1: Brandon exact, remember that exactly. And then they recruited me first,
Speaker 1: so that was kind of like the dream for a while.
Speaker 1: But then they had their coach was a about ready
Speaker 1: to move on.
Speaker 3: The coach.
Speaker 1: He was not ready to move on by the time
Speaker 1: I graduated high school was moving into college, so I
Speaker 1: didn't want to deal with a coaching change. But gon
Speaker 1: Zaga kind of stepped in last minute. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, it was between them Notre Dame in Virginia
Speaker 1: and Gonzaga stepped in last minute, and I took the
Speaker 1: visit out there, and.
Speaker 3: Like immediately knew it was a place for me.
Speaker 1: It's close enough to home where family could come watch,
Speaker 1: but far enough away while I wasn't going home for
Speaker 1: dinner every weekend life mom and dad could come to
Speaker 1: the games and support, but I was also free to
Speaker 1: like make my own life.
Speaker 3: Do the same thing.
Speaker 4: Wrote down.
Speaker 3: He rode down the highway down exactly.
Speaker 4: When I if I needed to, but far enough away
Speaker 4: where people weren't showing up at.
Speaker 1: My perfect perfect Yeah, so it was I mean, And
Speaker 1: then the play style was perfect, the team was amazing.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't change it for the world.
Speaker 4: Was it always basketball for you growing up? Or did
Speaker 4: you did you play?
Speaker 3: No? I did everything everything. I did everything. I mean
Speaker 3: the seasons would change my favorite small. Were you a pitcher? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I pitched. I pitched a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't play and so I mean I
Speaker 1: stopped playing when I was seventh grade.
Speaker 3: Eighth grade.
Speaker 1: Probably played football, ran track, play golf, all of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and golf. God damn multi sport, multi sport.
Speaker 3: Yeahs overlapping. Oh yeah, No, I was always doing something wow. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good at golf. That's dope at golf. Nothing to
Speaker 4: do with that. I can get your drinks.
Speaker 3: I used to be good. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Stop stop it, stop it. Huh stop, don't listen to that.
Speaker 2: That's the line. That's the hustle line. Yeah, that's the hustle.
Speaker 2: Stop that man. You see the man just got a
Speaker 2: check and you want to hustle.
Speaker 4: Stop that man.
Speaker 3: Congratuations check, but thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Talk about since we're still doing Gonzaga fuse impact on
Speaker 5: your career and where you're at now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tough love first of all, really like yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's on. It was on me.
Speaker 1: It was on me, and like from when I was young,
Speaker 1: Like it took me a long time to earn his
Speaker 1: trust and it was like a lot of like tough love.
Speaker 1: He used to call me the dumbest smart kid he
Speaker 1: knew in the classroom. It was a good student, but
Speaker 1: like I would always like mess up coverages and like
Speaker 1: foul people in the wrong in the wrong situations. Like
Speaker 1: I didn't get the basketball sense. He's like, how can
Speaker 1: you be the smartest um guy, the smartest literally the
Speaker 1: smartest dumb guy or the dumbest smart guy I know.
Speaker 1: But like by the junior year, senior year, like earning
Speaker 1: his trust and like going through the fire, like him
Speaker 1: handing you the keys in that program, and like it
Speaker 1: was the best, but it developed me into the NBA
Speaker 1: player I needed to be.
Speaker 4: So you're laughing, but I'd be saying the same. I
Speaker 4: used to say the same thing to Duncan Robinson.
Speaker 2: I love dunk to death, but I was like, God,
Speaker 2: damn don Like, because for you guys to be able
Speaker 2: to do what you do, there's a basketball IQ there.
Speaker 2: We guys got to be able to get open. You
Speaker 2: gotta be able tonipulate the defense. There's a basketball cute there,
Speaker 2: but then it's like in some places, its like where
Speaker 2: did it just go?
Speaker 3: Like? Where did it just here?
Speaker 4: I know you're about you, That's what am I'm looking
Speaker 4: at you like you know what I'm saying. So that
Speaker 4: I get that.
Speaker 2: Tell me that about shooters because I asked him the
Speaker 2: other day why can't shoot his guard shooters?
Speaker 4: Because they all do the same thing to each other.
Speaker 3: So how the hell does it keep working?
Speaker 2: Yeah, job, if you go over top on the floppy,
Speaker 2: he's gonna bump back.
Speaker 4: Why would you like? How do you guys work? Please?
Speaker 3: Guys? And I want you guys like me.
Speaker 4: How y'all get open on each other? Oh, y'all do
Speaker 4: the same.
Speaker 5: I will say this though, like elite athletes, I had
Speaker 5: a better chance against the shooters. In my opinion, I did,
Speaker 5: like as far as like off screens and floppies and
Speaker 5: white pan downs. Why there was over jealous people were
Speaker 5: easy like as a as a shooter, yes, we get
Speaker 5: beat on certain things, but I was I was I
Speaker 5: had to know what I was doing on the basket
Speaker 5: floor and especially defensively. I was gonna funnel ude some way.
Speaker 5: He was gonna get what No matter what, if you're
Speaker 5: doing wide pin downs, you're doing any high of movement,
Speaker 5: you're gonna get something out of it. What do I
Speaker 5: want him to get? And where's my health?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Like so to me, like if I top side that thing,
Speaker 5: I know he's gonna get that. We're gonna get corner.
Speaker 5: But that's what I want.
Speaker 3: But he was over jealousy. I got both of them.
Speaker 3: If you're getting.
Speaker 5: Very aggressive guy, like I got both, I got off,
Speaker 5: I got that, I got back door, like I got
Speaker 5: all that stuff.
Speaker 3: But like shooters is no shooter. It's hard to guard shooting,
Speaker 3: especially with a motor.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not taking it away from it.
Speaker 1: Guys with motor it's tiring for everybody, no doubt. You know,
Speaker 1: like shooters that are really like you're talking about Duncan,
Speaker 1: Like Duncan's just he doesn't stop moving, right, he just
Speaker 1: doesn't stop. So like doesn't matter how good, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how how good of a shape you're in, Like, it's.
Speaker 3: Hard to run around and guard.
Speaker 5: Got it, you better get about guys like Duncan is like, hey,
Speaker 5: I'm just forcing that way and because otherwise he's gonna
Speaker 5: rat race you.
Speaker 4: Know what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2: And as I'm processing this right now, you guys are
Speaker 2: so elite that all you need is a crack, that's it.
Speaker 4: So I you've seen give you that. All you guys
Speaker 4: need is a crack, because great, if you guys get
Speaker 4: a crack, he's going up. So I got to give
Speaker 4: a credit. What credit do?
Speaker 2: It's been so many times where I just see the
Speaker 2: guys and I'm like, you know, God, damn, well, that's
Speaker 2: what you That's what you would have done.
Speaker 4: How did you let him do it? That's what you
Speaker 4: would have done. You would have done the same thing.
Speaker 5: But it's like in the pick and roll, shooting is
Speaker 5: no different than the pick and roll and creating an advantage, right,
Speaker 5: you got to give him something. You can't take it
Speaker 5: all away, right, So it's ultimately, you know, you play
Speaker 5: with Shane Battier. He's the biggest guy in the world
Speaker 5: that just looking at numbers and just breaking it down
Speaker 5: forty one point two percent here.
Speaker 2: If he can just get take down a half yes
Speaker 2: here the change.
Speaker 5: Ye, shame was nuts with it. He was a leader
Speaker 5: at it. But it's at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: that's what we're doing. Okay, all right, I'm on top
Speaker 5: this dude. The whole game.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 5: But then if you like, at the end of the
Speaker 5: day again, I mean this, aggressive dudes were the easier
Speaker 5: ones to score on on ISOs.
Speaker 3: That's totally different.
Speaker 2: So even though so even though you guys score on shooters,
Speaker 2: it's actually hard to score on another shoot it and
Speaker 2: it would be over there athletic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because because every shooter thinks the same way.
Speaker 4: Except that's what I was saying, I want to force.
Speaker 3: Him to this if he makes that women, I got
Speaker 3: past that.
Speaker 5: A great shot, dog, But like the over jealous ones,
Speaker 5: like like, man, those guys are way easier now when
Speaker 5: you have to go when they guard you, like on
Speaker 5: some io stuff, and they're up in your like in
Speaker 5: your hips.
Speaker 3: That's totally different.
Speaker 5: But shooters off like why down back ashes, I know
Speaker 5: exactly what that you gonna do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's that's comforting.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm being a little too critically.
Speaker 3: You are. You're looking at us as white dudes.
Speaker 4: It's cool, it's a whole First of all, she said that,
Speaker 4: I got a question, did you know who he was
Speaker 4: before we came in? Absolutely trying to tell me you
Speaker 4: probably don't know who.
Speaker 3: Stop it, You're ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I watched watched that long broke back three pointers. If
Speaker 2: you don't know nothing about Mike, you remember that moment
Speaker 2: he before you got here. He probably don't know who
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I'm al ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I bet you. I should have bet you. I should
Speaker 4: have took the bet too.
Speaker 5: So now that we're talking about that, talk about you know,
Speaker 5: obviously leaving Gonzaga fifteenth pick right, yes or awesome?
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
Speaker 5: Growing up inside this Wizard organization and seeing the chain.
Speaker 5: One thing that you learn real quick is once they
Speaker 5: start paying those paychecks, it's a profession.
Speaker 3: It's a real job.
Speaker 5: What was who did you lean on as a rookie
Speaker 5: there to help you kind of guide you through this?
Speaker 3: And now seeing these changes, you know you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to start helping some of these other young kids. It's
Speaker 3: all yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean you have to. You have to learn how to
Speaker 1: be a pro fast, real quick. And like we've changed,
Speaker 1: We've changed multiple times, we have. I've played for two coaches,
Speaker 1: I've had two front offices, so like change every year
Speaker 1: pretty much, And like you have to separate the business
Speaker 1: and the game, and you have to learn that really fast.
Speaker 1: And so like the two guys that I leaned on
Speaker 1: for that specifically were KCP.
Speaker 3: He was one of my bets. Great, great guy.
Speaker 1: Helped me a lot through the struggles of the first
Speaker 1: year that was the year of me, like trying to
Speaker 1: get on the floor, trying to find minutes make an
Speaker 1: impact in other ways besides shooting, in order to stay
Speaker 1: on the floor longer, Like KCP was my guy for that.
Speaker 1: And then do you guys know the name Anthony Gill Oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of got under our bench, Like you know,
Speaker 1: one of the best teammates I've ever been around, full stop,
Speaker 1: and he works his tail off. He is always in
Speaker 1: the gym. He's in the best shape of anybody on
Speaker 1: our team, bare barely plays. And so I'm shout out
Speaker 1: to Anthony a g If you're listening, shout out to you.
Speaker 1: I got into the gym when I was a rookie
Speaker 1: and I looked around to see who was working hardest,
Speaker 1: and it was him out of all of our guys.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna go hang out with him. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do what he does and I'm gonna learn from him.
Speaker 1: And he's just so happy.
Speaker 5: By the way, tip my cap to you for don't
Speaker 5: understand it as a rookie, as I'm on the side now,
Speaker 5: on the agent side of business.
Speaker 3: When I help these young kids come in. That's probably a.
Speaker 5: Product of obviously playing the amount of years in college
Speaker 5: that you did. The young kids understanding end up having
Speaker 5: that kind of awareness. Okay, who am I gonna identify
Speaker 5: some myself with?
Speaker 3: Who am I gonna learn from?
Speaker 5: That's gonna leave me in the right direction and not
Speaker 5: take me the deep waters and drown me right?
Speaker 3: And how how am I gonna get on the floor?
Speaker 3: That's all to me.
Speaker 5: It was all about and it's about the work in
Speaker 5: routines and habits and man, tip my hat. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean that's a rookie.
Speaker 3: That's impressive.
Speaker 1: I got really lucky with a G two because he
Speaker 1: was like a lot of some older guys are like,
Speaker 1: you're a young dude, you're trying to blow up my spot.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you any help. He was
Speaker 1: the opposite. He was like, I'm here to help you.
Speaker 1: I'm here to make you better. He poured advice into me,
Speaker 1: imported himself into me to help me, and I would
Speaker 1: just all I was there to do is just take
Speaker 1: his advice work as hard as he did, and what
Speaker 1: the cards followed.
Speaker 5: They may people don't understand though, it's a it's a
Speaker 5: it's a business totally because you have a you have
Speaker 5: a situation there where fifteen guys are trying to get
Speaker 5: a spot and what you said right there, and there's
Speaker 5: none of them are unselfish like that. And so the
Speaker 5: we talked about it all the time on the conversation
Speaker 5: obviously our our podcast called ogs. Having real ogs in
Speaker 5: the locker room are super important. It's like it's leading
Speaker 5: and guiding and that without without no and being comfortable
Speaker 5: who we are and what stage of our career we're in.
Speaker 5: And in Washington, you just haven't had that, really, No,
Speaker 5: You've had all young players and they keep and they
Speaker 5: have to that to keep trying to hit in the draft.
Speaker 3: It's part of the deal. It's part of the deal.
Speaker 5: Part of the I gotta give credit to Will and
Speaker 5: them guys with credit where his credits do. They're starting
Speaker 5: to get mature, they're starting to get CJ. Mccos, Marcus Smart's, They're.
Speaker 3: Starting to get some of these dudes in here that
Speaker 3: can help.
Speaker 5: Hopefully, these younger kids are like the trays and the
Speaker 5: and obviously above from last year and saw like they're
Speaker 5: helping these dudes.
Speaker 1: So and it's and it's crazy you. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: been this is your five from gonna be your five
Speaker 1: for me now And I feel like a vet on
Speaker 1: this team even though really not like I'm really not.
Speaker 1: It's like I feel old. But then you like the
Speaker 1: moment and the moment you bring a guy like Marcus
Speaker 1: or guy like CJ or Chris Middleton into our locker room,
Speaker 1: like just their presence and like their presence is like
Speaker 1: everyone kind of like tightens up, you know, And so
Speaker 1: it's only a good thing for them, only good thing
Speaker 1: for us to have them in our locker room. And
Speaker 1: they just for when they got traded at the deadline
Speaker 1: to us last year, Marcus and Chris did and we're
Speaker 1: nothing but helpful.
Speaker 5: So I mean, and now is coming in there too.
Speaker 5: I mean obviously lose Jordan, but c is coming in there,
Speaker 5: and it's a it's another one who can help and
Speaker 5: and that's really good.
Speaker 2: You touched on it earlier, but I mean they're rebuild
Speaker 2: after Bradley Bill and different things like that. You doing
Speaker 2: have an opportunity to go four years of college and
Speaker 2: things like that. How does that help because we don't
Speaker 2: see that too much anymore, How does that help the
Speaker 2: maturity of a lot of things that you're gonna deal
Speaker 2: with because we don't see kids go I see them
Speaker 2: when I was with Miami playing at og Road.
Speaker 4: They were coming into eighteen and nineteen.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you about what kind of notion you're using
Speaker 2: where they get the chopsticks?
Speaker 4: Like, hey, man, did you use your Yoda to day
Speaker 4: this morning? Listen?
Speaker 2: I talking about Rogie when they come in they're so young?
Speaker 2: You did four years obviously you skipped that. But you're
Speaker 2: dealing with a whole different set of problems.
Speaker 4: What kind of lotion you use? Your fellow can't come
Speaker 4: in here with your whole face? Drive? Did you wash
Speaker 4: your face this morning?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: That on your face? Like, hold on, man, let me
Speaker 4: get you something. This is what I use.
Speaker 3: This is around you. Come sit down, let me teach
Speaker 3: you something.
Speaker 2: Stick I used my drives hell going through a whole
Speaker 2: process that I didn't even know I was gonna deal with.
Speaker 4: He skipped those phrases? Did for your school? You know,
Speaker 4: you know, you know, lotion like so, but nothing prepares you.
Speaker 2: For the rebuild of losing the star player, the expectations
Speaker 2: of the fans, all that is different. You think four
Speaker 2: years of college helped prepare you somewhat, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, what it prepared me for was, like, you want
Speaker 1: to you're in the rebuild, you're trying, you're trying to
Speaker 1: build in the future. Maybe wins and losses aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: the most important thing right now when we're in the rebuild,
Speaker 1: but you want to the goal of that is whether
Speaker 1: we're winning or losing. You want to try to build
Speaker 1: and maintain winning habits. And I played for a team.
Speaker 1: I mean my whole college career, I lost ten games.
Speaker 6: So like going, coming, in coming in your comy.
Speaker 1: So the goal was to be a part of the rebuild,
Speaker 1: but bring winning habits that I already knew how to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I spent four years winning and know how
Speaker 1: to win. I know what it takes. And so even
Speaker 1: being a part of the rebuild, like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of times where it's super tough and you haven't won
Speaker 1: in a while, but you're trying to maintain the vision
Speaker 1: and keep the goal in mind in the future. But
Speaker 1: you have to be able to stick in to your
Speaker 1: winning habits and do our best to help those young
Speaker 1: guys realize that and bring them along with us.
Speaker 2: And that's great that you had when habits coming into that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's some things you're going to learn, but you had
Speaker 2: for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Of right, a little bit of it, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it is so difficult, like being a part of a
Speaker 1: rebuilding team. Like people talk about it like it's just
Speaker 1: kind of something that happens, which it is, but like
Speaker 1: when you're in the middle of it, it's as a competitor,
Speaker 1: it's really really hard to maintain.
Speaker 2: Food tastes better when you win it. People don't understand, like,
Speaker 2: are weird. I could go to the same restaurant, but
Speaker 2: the next day the food tastes better. If I want
Speaker 2: the next night we lost it don't taste as good
Speaker 2: the same meal.
Speaker 5: It's it's really refreshing to hear you talk like that, though,
Speaker 5: because and I've said this a million times for all
Speaker 5: young kids coming in this league, is easy to lose
Speaker 5: in absolutely, yeah, because it's now it's like, Okay, the
Speaker 5: checks are really really big. We lost it because you're
Speaker 5: gonna play again in another day, right, Like, and so to.
Speaker 3: Keep keep that petitive spirit.
Speaker 5: Absolutely keep that because it's gonna it's only gonna help
Speaker 5: not only the organization but yourself because reality situation is
Speaker 5: it's so like you can't It's not like college. You
Speaker 5: don't choose who drafts you. You don't choose what organization
Speaker 5: or locker room you walk into. But once you get
Speaker 5: in there, like it's it like and we've said this
Speaker 5: on multiple occasions, one of the biggest reasons I went
Speaker 5: to Miami was and nothing against other teams I was
Speaker 5: at every time I laced them up in October, I
Speaker 5: was I knew I wasn't playing for.
Speaker 3: The actual end goal. That's frustrating.
Speaker 5: And so you say, but losing is easy and you're
Speaker 5: gonna have some serious conditioning and endurance for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And it's yeah, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: a unique situation to be in. And you see it
Speaker 1: all the time too, when guys are you know, a
Speaker 1: part of a part of a rebuilding team and they
Speaker 1: can maybe get traded the deadline and like, are you win?
Speaker 1: That's when you that's when you get to show if
Speaker 1: you're winning, if you've been maintaining your winning habits. Is
Speaker 1: if you could put into the spotlight right away, or
Speaker 1: like things change fast in the league, like Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: was a twenty four win team two.
Speaker 3: Years before won the title.
Speaker 1: Yes, crazy, you got to be a winner right away
Speaker 1: and so fast, you know, and if you so things
Speaker 1: things change super fast. And you got to make sure
Speaker 1: that those habits are sharp and you gotta be ready
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 4: And you guys go on in the locker room.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm slow what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And that's that's huge.
Speaker 2: That's you to have guys that have been there and
Speaker 2: knows what it takes every single day because certain things
Speaker 2: where another guy might be like, oh he's a little
Speaker 2: off his game today, it's cool, that's not cool.
Speaker 4: Every day I'm on your ass.
Speaker 2: Every day I'm on your ass because you got to
Speaker 2: act like a champion before you're a champion.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 4: I was that guy my.
Speaker 2: Last five years of the league, for five six years
Speaker 2: of the league, whatever it was, I was that guy.
Speaker 2: I have been one three rings. I know what it's
Speaker 2: supposed to look like every single day. So whether we
Speaker 2: have a good day or a bad day, we're still
Speaker 2: gonna work hard. That's what we're gonna put our working.
Speaker 2: We only got to be too We only got to
Speaker 2: work for two hours. You got the rest of the day.
Speaker 2: Go lay on South Beach, whatever you want to do.
Speaker 4: We have two hours. We're gonna get somebody of this.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: They clearly don't play football.
Speaker 3: They clearly don't play for I ain't gonna watch you.
Speaker 5: I actually agree with you on that because I don't
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Speaker 4: Yeah, got Chubb coming back from knee injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We had to figure out some situations with our secondary,
Speaker 2: but we got Mika Fitzpatrick back strong in the safety position.
Speaker 2: I love Mika man Tour has to stay healthy. We
Speaker 2: shall see a Shane comes back after having a thousand
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Speaker 4: Got pieces. That's just disrespectful.
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Speaker 4: I got a fan question. Okay, even though before we
Speaker 4: get to these.
Speaker 2: Fan questions, and I understand that you guys are rebuilding,
Speaker 2: but you guys got some good pieces. The East is
Speaker 2: wide open. Yeah, it's the expectation issue. What's the vibe?
Speaker 2: I see you guys, it's a little coature being created.
Speaker 2: You're out here not to play, You're out here to
Speaker 2: support your guys. First, these first creating.
Speaker 4: The coaches where you're absolutely it's way easier when you
Speaker 4: play next to your brother as opposed to just a
Speaker 4: guy that you call your teammate, So you create that
Speaker 4: brotherhood connection. So you're out here doing that and buying in.
Speaker 4: How do you see you guys like, Yeah, and be honest.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. I don't want you to
Speaker 4: say like, oh, I think you think y'all gonna get
Speaker 4: a suc seed and you think you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: A Well, I mean to touch on what you said first,
Speaker 1: like playing with your brothers, Like not only are you
Speaker 1: like playing with your brothers makes you lay it on
Speaker 1: the line even more, but also like when you have
Speaker 1: that high quality relationship with the people you're playing with,
Speaker 1: like you can hold people accountable more. You know, you're
Speaker 1: coming from a good place, and like that's kind of
Speaker 1: a role that I'm stepping into now as more of
Speaker 1: a vet on my team, is like create the relationship
Speaker 1: and then hold them accountable to a high.
Speaker 4: Standard perfect just the way you do it and just
Speaker 4: the way you do it.
Speaker 1: With our roster right now, I mean we have we
Speaker 1: have a lot of young dudes and a lot of
Speaker 1: moving parts. We've been pretty active this summer so far.
Speaker 1: So first of all, to see how this team shakes out.
Speaker 1: And then I mean the main goal is like truly
Speaker 1: just to like develop and maintain winning habits, like wherever
Speaker 1: that leads us as far as record goes, Like we
Speaker 1: need to make sure guys get better when they're in
Speaker 1: our room or in our locker room and our our gym.
Speaker 1: Make sure they're having a good time and feel like
Speaker 1: pushed while they're there, and show these fans that, like,
Speaker 1: we're really building towards something that's you're going to.
Speaker 2: Run a team when you're done, no chause, listen. I
Speaker 2: love the fact that he said to create the relationship.
Speaker 2: You are so ahead of the game because when I
Speaker 2: first came into the league, it wasn't about relationship, was
Speaker 2: about a go get my job, go do this. Nowadays
Speaker 2: you have to create these relationships. So when you step
Speaker 2: to these young guys and you want to say something
Speaker 2: to them, they feel comfortable even listening to you. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, because of the relationships that you
Speaker 2: built with you got to take that time, whether you
Speaker 2: playing golf PS three I said, PS three, Yeah, whether
Speaker 2: it be golf, he has five.
Speaker 4: Saying, but those relationships, though, I'm happy you tapped into that.
Speaker 3: Man, run a team with you. It's road sparks.
Speaker 5: Build a player was elite, okay, But then the way
Speaker 5: you're team you know, you're talking about the stuff you're
Speaker 5: talking about identifying man like that is that will always
Speaker 5: be the case.
Speaker 3: It will never change for sure, like it's never changed.
Speaker 2: I think people miss that though, and I think that's
Speaker 2: where that's what the power of the guys in the
Speaker 2: locker room happened.
Speaker 4: Because at the end.
Speaker 2: Of the day, if your coach has to be the
Speaker 2: one to hold you guys accounta with every day you
Speaker 2: guys in trouble, should come from somebody within that locker room.
Speaker 2: Somebody has created a relationship because every one of us
Speaker 2: has heard the coach say something roll I don't want
Speaker 2: to Yeah, I don't want to that. I will kill
Speaker 2: you like you can't play. You still use the exits
Speaker 2: and those guys. But when I come to you and
Speaker 2: say he comes to you and say it's different, that
Speaker 2: makes different.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So I'm happy you're talking about that, because so many
Speaker 2: times people are saying the coach this, and the coach that.
Speaker 4: I'm saying, they ain't even got the right person there.
Speaker 2: Before we start firing coaches, we quick the fire coaches
Speaker 2: name we got the right person in that. Don't even
Speaker 2: look good at you, So mappy you said that that
Speaker 2: accountability in the locker.
Speaker 5: Room in the playoffs, I have a fan question too,
Speaker 5: just hearing you talk right now. I was big on
Speaker 5: routines and habits and work right, So it's the only
Speaker 5: reason I lasted seventeen seasons. Last three I fooled, but
Speaker 5: fourteen I was pretty strong. Yeah, but I want to know, like,
Speaker 5: what's your summer looked like, what's your what are your habits?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: What do you because one thing I will say, and
Speaker 5: I want to tip my hat tea on tuess you've
Speaker 5: completely you've you've grown your game in the four years
Speaker 5: you've been in there, Yes, and I think that's super important.
Speaker 5: But I think the next step for you is going
Speaker 5: to be is okay now once we get to that
Speaker 5: growth side.
Speaker 3: All right, now, how.
Speaker 5: Am I going to want lasts as long as possible
Speaker 5: because you're gonna have phases in his career where you know,
Speaker 5: you used to be on the ball and doing stuff
Speaker 5: and now it's okay. So I want to know what
Speaker 5: you're like, your summer looks like, what your what's your
Speaker 5: daily work looking like?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Treatment lift back back?
Speaker 3: Indeed, where are you at where you live? I live
Speaker 3: in Phoenix? Off? Okay?
Speaker 4: Oh man?
Speaker 3: Nice, Okay, thank you? Yeah, I appreciate.
Speaker 2: That you go ahead it again with that.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So it's treatment, lift and shoot five times
Speaker 1: a week, and you know it's three kind of like
Speaker 1: heavier strength power lifts and two kind of maintenance stuff
Speaker 1: like making sure I'm on top of my body. I
Speaker 1: want to feel really really good and feel really healthy
Speaker 1: all summer. It's not necessarily like pushing yourself, like you're
Speaker 1: in the season and you don't want to be sore
Speaker 1: all the time. You gotta feel really good so you
Speaker 1: can make those games and strides. And like it's starting
Speaker 1: to move a little bit different for me this these
Speaker 1: coming summers versus what they used to be. Like the
Speaker 1: last couple of summers were like how can I add
Speaker 1: to my game? How can I add this? How can
Speaker 1: I add that? How can I get better at this?
Speaker 1: And now I kind of feel like I see the
Speaker 1: vision of the kind of player I'm going to be
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Like there's levels to where I can
Speaker 1: get to, but the but the kind of the picture
Speaker 1: of the player that I can be is already clear.
Speaker 1: So now it's just like how do I tighten the
Speaker 1: screws and how do I just make the little marginal
Speaker 1: games and get better at this or this? Or just
Speaker 1: kind of slightly better here, or like for me personally,
Speaker 1: Like now it's like, how do I change my mentality
Speaker 1: when I come on the floor, Like I need to
Speaker 1: be super aggressive taking more shots, aggressive, confident, Like this
Speaker 1: shot that I'm shooting, it's tough.
Speaker 3: It's this is a tough shot for other people, but
Speaker 3: I can make it.
Speaker 1: I need to take it. It's gonna help our team.
Speaker 1: Like that's the kind of stuff that I'm working on now.
Speaker 3: To your volume will be huge, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, just up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like instead of shooting five threes a game,
Speaker 1: four and a half threes a game and a half.
Speaker 3: Even, Like I.
Speaker 2: Mean, the crazy thing about that is just like even
Speaker 2: if you guys are hotter, you're not how defense reacts
Speaker 2: to you guys and benefit on your team. How defense
Speaker 2: are going to react to the way you guys are
Speaker 2: playing and you guys being aggresive and aggressive level that
Speaker 2: you guys, somebody's gonna benefit from that on you absolutely.
Speaker 3: Little O G advice I'm gonna give you.
Speaker 4: Oh you're taking og advice today.
Speaker 3: No we're not done yet, but I'm a.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 3: You know I can get no.
Speaker 5: But here here's the reality is like having a great
Speaker 5: awareness of your team.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: Once you have a great awareness of your team, what
Speaker 5: you guys have understanding where your shots come from. Like
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, like I tell people
Speaker 5: all the time, like, yes, take those first couple of.
Speaker 3: Years to grow your game. You said it perfect.
Speaker 5: Once you know where your shots are coming from. Now
Speaker 5: it's it's a thousand of them every day because now
Speaker 5: you got to be a master at it. When you
Speaker 5: start going from thirty nine to forty one to forty
Speaker 5: three and then all of a sudden, it's.
Speaker 3: Like, come on, man, yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But but what I always I have an argument with
Speaker 5: the people when they work in the summertimes.
Speaker 3: That's why I asked the question.
Speaker 5: Is once you identify where your shots are, I'm shooting
Speaker 5: that shot ten thousand times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I and now and now.
Speaker 5: When I get in the game, like I'm like, I
Speaker 5: missed that is the hoop move?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean is it actually ten feet? Yeah? It's
Speaker 3: just muscle memory. So understand that.
Speaker 5: So look at your team, Understand your roster, Understand how
Speaker 5: your coach wants to play. Okay, I'm gonna get I'm
Speaker 5: gonna get I should get twelve shots right here this game,
Speaker 5: every game game and now now I'm gonna shoot that
Speaker 5: ten thousand times.
Speaker 2: Translate it for the civilians at home. Yeah, because we
Speaker 2: see it Instagram. Start working on that. I'm tired of
Speaker 2: watching it on Instagram. Watching people work on. They know
Speaker 2: they ain't gonna doing the game. You're going through your
Speaker 2: whole bag and all you do is road to the
Speaker 2: rim of cash love. And it's okay because you can
Speaker 2: make a hundred million doing that. You you said a
Speaker 2: bunch of people working on they're never gonna do in
Speaker 2: the game. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 6: I don't Isn't it funny how you got to show
Speaker 6: that you help somebody win? And then funny how like.
Speaker 1: The higher you get in basketball, like the higher levels
Speaker 1: you go to, the more specialized people become, yes, and
Speaker 1: the more simple it is. Like there's like thirty guys
Speaker 1: in the NBA that get to do whatever they want.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's it hit the game.
Speaker 3: So if you thirty is almost too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so like if you're if you're not
Speaker 1: one of those thirty guys, and like that's truly rare
Speaker 1: and they know who they are Apollo and those guys
Speaker 1: are working on everything every summer.
Speaker 4: They got the road they want. Everybody got the road
Speaker 4: they have.
Speaker 5: After about three years, it was first of all, I
Speaker 5: was team backing g O. Okay, how do I When
Speaker 5: I got that, I told story on the og before
Speaker 5: like I got drafted there I was thank god I
Speaker 5: was a fifth pick. I get in there with T
Speaker 5: mec and G Hill and the first time I played pickup,
Speaker 5: I call my dad, I leave. I said, Holy the
Speaker 5: stuff I was good at. They're way better than yet, Like,
Speaker 5: they're more athletic, they're quicker, they're faster, twick, So like, okay,
Speaker 5: what can they do?
Speaker 3: Okay, let me do that.
Speaker 5: And that's when I went to making a thousand threes
Speaker 5: everyday because I'm like, okay, this is how I much
Speaker 5: to stick.
Speaker 3: And you started realizing that though on Once you start
Speaker 3: realizing the.
Speaker 5: Man, it makes a game a lot of a lot
Speaker 5: easier and it makes you stay seventeen years, twenty three
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty two years. He's literally seventy four years
Speaker 5: old and just retied lest Year's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: But that's a credit. Yeah, it's a credit.
Speaker 1: H I mean yeah, Like, how do you stick that long?
Speaker 1: You have to know it's literally sixty four and retired.
Speaker 3: Lest Yeah, and he practices to stay with the heat.
Speaker 4: He's old.
Speaker 3: Did you practice that with the heat?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I appreciate movie so good. Yeah, gosh, went well, I
Speaker 3: look good. Yeah, lookd hey hey this dope fast hat bro.
Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, okay, last fan question
Speaker 3: for me? What's your handicap on off?
Speaker 1: I'm a one and a half. Oh, you're one point five.
Speaker 6: Oh, I know you don't know what that I was
Speaker 6: gonna you see me looking okay, Yeah, what's that means?
Speaker 3: I know you don't know what that means. That means
Speaker 3: he's hovering around par every time he plays.
Speaker 5: Oh and by the way, he's actually under park quite
Speaker 5: a bit because the handicaps is crazy crazy a little
Speaker 5: bit of this.
Speaker 3: So if you go play them on what are you?
Speaker 3: What do you remember in the Phoenix?
Speaker 1: I'm not a member anywhere in Phoenix. I got a
Speaker 1: lot of friends.
Speaker 4: Remembers I played that kind of you're a pretty.
Speaker 3: Smart coach, coach, Coach, you're pretty smart coach. Yeah, because
Speaker 3: here's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 5: He's gonna he's gonna get all something else's private playing
Speaker 5: he's gonna get golf course.
Speaker 1: Making me sound real cheap now, no realt what I was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got playing here.
Speaker 4: What I told him yesterday.
Speaker 2: If he made one hundred and thirty five men, hes
Speaker 2: gonna die with one hundred and thirty three, he might
Speaker 2: have spent two has been to million out of one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five, he might have spent too the PSD.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's my dog.
Speaker 3: There you go. One more.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get one fan question though, who are your
Speaker 5: top five maybe players of all time?
Speaker 1: My favorite player ever growing up was Ray Allen.
Speaker 3: Okay, we played from Seattle.
Speaker 1: We played with Jesus, Yeah, Jesus from from Seattle. That
Speaker 1: was golden age. Love watching him play. I mentioned Clay earlier.
Speaker 1: He was the one I watched like film of growing
Speaker 1: up as I was getting into high school and college, and.
Speaker 3: He had one of the most beautiful Jon does. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean it's just like linear. It's perfect, simple, compact.
Speaker 4: Graduation Clay, no doubt that given a week way.
Speaker 5: Yes, Clay, what we're talking about, we're talking about it
Speaker 5: is a road sparks segment.
Speaker 4: Boy.
Speaker 3: So that's two Rayla Ray Clay.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like it's all like personal connections
Speaker 1: for me, I guess I have met and worked a lot,
Speaker 1: worked out with and worked a lot with John Stockton.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, the way.
Speaker 5: Legend for all you young that man was one of
Speaker 5: the toughest dudes in the league.
Speaker 1: Absolutely pair perfectly look like bad boy exactly exactly. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to kind of go back a little bit to
Speaker 1: like when I was growing. I would I would probably say,
Speaker 1: like I mean, seeing Katie get better and change throughout
Speaker 1: his career with the injuries and everything, like, he's just
Speaker 1: like a pure hooper.
Speaker 3: You have to admire.
Speaker 5: See Katie, thank goodness, blessings every summer usually, and I
Speaker 5: bring all my I try to bring my my clients
Speaker 5: around him because to see his work and the way
Speaker 5: he takes care of like his work. Yeah, at eighteen
Speaker 5: years in now, whatever it is, he hasn't like it.
Speaker 5: That's that's all he does. That it's all all he does.
Speaker 2: That's a great one the last four years fifty forty
Speaker 2: ninety And the only way he missed ninety because he
Speaker 2: shot eighty seven from the free throw that's.
Speaker 3: Only missing that's missing.
Speaker 4: He shot like eighty six percent from the free throw line.
Speaker 4: In the last one of the four years. If not,
Speaker 4: he's fifty.
Speaker 3: Forty nine years and that counts in my book. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I agree, you know, I agree. Who's your fifth?
Speaker 1: I really another, I mean another one, I feel I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all modern guys, and I feel like I played
Speaker 1: against him, so I feel bad picking them. But like
Speaker 1: just watching watching Luca play and watching him like redefenses
Speaker 1: just like things just so slow, Like I can get
Speaker 1: the game to be as slow as he feels like
Speaker 1: it is. I'm in a really good spot.
Speaker 4: Some of the passes that he makes.
Speaker 2: It's only like two guys that make passes like that
Speaker 2: in the pocket, him and Braun. Like the past they
Speaker 2: make in the pocket, like whipping it all the way
Speaker 2: to the weak side corner with the left hand, Yeah,
Speaker 2: all the way to getting down, all the way.
Speaker 3: In the pain behind his head, Yeah, this way over here.
Speaker 2: Nobody making them passes, man Like, it's crazy to me
Speaker 2: how they make.
Speaker 4: Those pass in the pocket. And that's why they need
Speaker 4: a lot big So good luck Lakers.
Speaker 3: Did they get one coach who Lakers don't do that?
Speaker 4: I'm asking question, But that man want to get to
Speaker 4: his spot and jab and shooting. He's in the ball.
Speaker 4: You as got to roll the catch lobs and play defense.
Speaker 2: The ball is going to Luca, then Bron and Austin
Speaker 2: Reeves and nobody giving him the ball to get in
Speaker 2: the mid.
Speaker 4: Range and do all this.
Speaker 2: And that's not that's not what it's not to say
Speaker 2: he can't do that, But that's not what unlocks the
Speaker 2: best version of their best players. And that's not what
Speaker 2: they need, like the size, because they need size, rimp protector.
Speaker 3: You need that. You said you said one name in there.
Speaker 3: Is he going to be there?
Speaker 4: Hey man, Hey, listen, two things can be true.
Speaker 2: Now he can he can rightfully deserve an opportunity to
Speaker 2: play for a championship his last year.
Speaker 4: But the Lakers also but the Lakers.
Speaker 2: News and he's only got one you left on the deal,
Speaker 2: So I don't know what he does after this ship.
Speaker 2: But this is his last year on his deal, so
Speaker 2: he can rightfully so want to play for a championship.
Speaker 2: That's his right. Le Bron James were talking about the Man,
Speaker 2: say the Lakers, it was fifteen years before they want
Speaker 2: anything until the Man came and they got the bubble ring.
Speaker 4: So let's let's go. Let's give credit. What credit do
Speaker 4: but another thing can be true.
Speaker 2: It is time for somebody else to step in and
Speaker 2: take over the realm of the Lakers nation. And you
Speaker 2: make a trade for a god like Luca Doncis, you
Speaker 2: have to build around that. So that's nothing against Bron,
Speaker 2: that's nothing against the that's nothing against the decision that
Speaker 2: the Lakers was making. I wish they'd be able to
Speaker 2: meet in the middle and make both sides happy, but
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's realistic. As basketball players, you
Speaker 2: know this, killer, we want to feel wanted. We want
Speaker 2: to feel appreciated. We want to feel like we're getting
Speaker 2: our value and that you appreciated us. We don't feel
Speaker 2: that way. It's hard to get us back once we
Speaker 2: check out and we don't feel wanted. We don't feel
Speaker 2: appreciated for what we did for the organization in the city.
Speaker 2: Give what you tell us in that movie. It's hard
Speaker 2: to rule us back in it is, bro. And once
Speaker 2: we're not our best Yeah, bro, once we're not our
Speaker 2: best version. Mentally, you ain't gonna get our best version
Speaker 2: on our basketball court. So a disgruntled Lebron's James, knowing
Speaker 2: how much of a connector he is in the locker room,
Speaker 2: how much of a leader he is to his teams.
Speaker 2: They have a disc runder Lebron James to not have
Speaker 2: that part of him, not the full package.
Speaker 4: You're doing yourself a disservice, and you're doing Bron one too.
Speaker 3: One more fan question for me.
Speaker 4: Man, you may have this many fan questions. I'm a
Speaker 4: fan of yours too. He's a fan of yours too.
Speaker 5: What have you seen the game the way the game
Speaker 5: has changed in just the four four years you've been playing.
Speaker 1: I would say, I mean especially more recently, like if
Speaker 1: you watch the playoffs this year, what I noticed the
Speaker 1: most is how much pressure there is, Like I mean
Speaker 1: like guys are picking up full coordinators like you never
Speaker 1: to see that, and it's just like it's not it's
Speaker 1: not like crazy frenetic like intense pressure, but it's like
Speaker 1: just a little bit all game long, and if you're
Speaker 1: not sharp, it's gonna wear on you and wear on
Speaker 1: you and wear on you. And you saw like that's
Speaker 1: how Indy made it to where they did, is they
Speaker 1: had like three or four cards that they could just
Speaker 1: rotate in and pressure about.
Speaker 3: You all game long.
Speaker 5: So physical physicality is most I've ever seen. We just
Speaker 5: talked about just playing basketball, and I'm here for it.
Speaker 3: I think it was great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it was just And we said this,
Speaker 5: it was like hard to get the inbounce passed inside
Speaker 5: out bounce like like that Indiana. Okay, see that was
Speaker 5: the most physical seen in a long time.
Speaker 3: It was crazy.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it. That damn fire beating
Speaker 4: out of here.
Speaker 3: I know you love it.
Speaker 4: I love it. I know you live foul if he ain't, yeah,
Speaker 4: all right, I had but listen.
Speaker 2: I got this from Derrick coleman Man when I first
Speaker 2: got in the lead man, Dereck Coman fied me.
Speaker 4: I looked at it.
Speaker 2: I say, damn, d C, you tried to hurt me,
Speaker 2: They said, young Feli, I tried to hurt you, wouldn't
Speaker 2: been able to get up.
Speaker 4: I say, you know what, d C.
Speaker 2: Respect, If I try to hurt you out, I ain't
Speaker 2: got no more. I have nothing else to say. So
Speaker 2: that's that's that's the era I come from. That's how
Speaker 2: I think if if I wanted to hurt you as
Speaker 2: you would not get up. You're not You're not getting up.
Speaker 2: I know how to hurt somebody that ain't hug that's easy.
Speaker 3: Hey, before we get him out of and give us
Speaker 3: some O G advice og Man.
Speaker 2: I feel like he was already given the O g
Speaker 2: if I shoot the shooter, y'all talk about it. I
Speaker 2: was a powerful I played defense, which I don't know
Speaker 2: what you was doing, but he was on the defensive side.
Speaker 5: I knew were a funnel. Now I'm a funnel you somewhere, yes,
Speaker 5: and now so I'm either got to do his job.
Speaker 3: Everyone's got play man.
Speaker 4: I think he should get O g.
Speaker 3: If I for you today, I'm gonna take from some
Speaker 3: of the stuff you said.
Speaker 5: The biggest thing that and I kind of broke it
Speaker 5: down earlier, is like identifying who you are and what
Speaker 5: team you're on. How do I how do I create
Speaker 5: longevity by doing that one? But I liked what you said,
Speaker 5: man up and volume, understanding where you're at, Like I
Speaker 5: would love to see you shoot eight three is a
Speaker 5: game next year, right, It's gonna up your percentage.
Speaker 3: Is gonna do all those things for you.
Speaker 5: The confidence and coming in there with like understanding that
Speaker 5: and letting these young kids know from the beginning, because
Speaker 5: what happens is everyone understands change, right, And so if
Speaker 5: you come in there and you're passive from day one.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be passive. If you're gonna be passive game
Speaker 3: seventy yep.
Speaker 5: Right, So, because you gotta understand the guys that are
Speaker 5: walking to the locker room now, trays and the buve like,
Speaker 5: they all they're all still trying to learn it too,
Speaker 5: and the veterans that set the standard and the table.
Speaker 3: Right, and it is crazy to say this.
Speaker 5: But you're damn you're a vet on this team now
Speaker 5: because you've been around them and understanding that. Now, if
Speaker 5: you do those if you do those things, man like,
Speaker 5: that's for everybody out there though, because you're you're training
Speaker 5: to be great, but you're training, you're doing smart training.
Speaker 3: I did the same workout.
Speaker 5: For fifteen years because I knew who I was, and yeah,
Speaker 5: these are other things I could have done, sure, but
Speaker 5: what was gonna keep me.
Speaker 3: There for seventeen seasons?
Speaker 5: Yes, And and you know, as you start building your
Speaker 5: career out and understanding your career, those.
Speaker 3: Things are going to change even more.
Speaker 5: Right, hopefully when you're fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years in, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll be a catch sshoe guy. Yeah that's cool. We'll
Speaker 5: just keep building on those habits. And those routines. Man,
Speaker 5: you do those things, bro, you'll you'll be smooth.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I appreciate you coming on here.
Speaker 4: Going on love, respect and everything you guys and all
Speaker 4: the process of rebuilding.
Speaker 3: I'm playing. I ain't playing, you know.
Speaker 4: If you the one that had man, I want to
Speaker 4: see him kick your.
Speaker 5: Advice open man. That's a Draft Kings segment that next time.
Speaker 5: All right, man, oh, geez out. Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1: Thanks boys, Im